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1 8 The ATonce-Plus, Part 1 45 Programs That Work, by Richard Mataka Part 2 The author says the Plus runs IBM by Dave Spitler business software and plays IBM games Prepare the data base for a quiz game faster than the original board, while along the lines of Star Trek Trivia. multitasking with Amiga software with no Art Department Professional v2.Q problems whatsoever. b yA S D G 2 3 Art Department Professional v2.0 by Merrill Callaway Now you can have WYSIWYG in this update to an indispensable image- processing program.

2 5 RayDance by Frank McMahon 4 8 Producing a Video R ayD ance 3-D rendering Create dazzling scenes with this highly by D.L Richardson from Radiance Software versatile 3-D rendering language from See how a well-known videographer Radiance Software. and self-professed straight man Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMachieved spectacular results and 2 8 Charts & Graphs special effects producing ANIMATION by William M. Frazier 101 on his Amiga. Create more than what a spreadsheet usually can with TRSL’s Charts & Graphs 5 0 Making a Video 3 0 ProWrite by Patrik Beck by Rick Broida With the Amiga and the facilities of A look at the latest update to the popular your local cable TV studio, you can Charts & Graphs word processor from New Horizons. make a music video just like the big b y TRSL guys on MTV! 3 4 ProVector by Jeff James Learn how this professional illustration program compares with similar Amiga programs, and even with programs for other platforms.

3 ATOP's 2286 BridgeBoard Extender by Richard Mataka ProV ector 2.1 Infuse zip and life into your Amiga as you by Stylus Inc. emulate an IBM with ATOP's new extender. in' 1 1 llfurri tmstr Ciitnt Jrjur Hardware Projects 4 0 Foundation Jn tfcr 'Tnl»* k iiliti t» rrtifl Ut f net nil ti riir by Dave Spitler ±J Mt ±J milt (utnl nit 4 3 Building a Multi-Sync Do you know that the concept for this Monitor Adapter -*J "» .Hj fMtkt tkrJriiaii ‘Th fjrtti'jj.I* kiiiiai Ulmti tut \Ut m 111 vtrkitt, tli

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New Products And Other Neat Stuff Editorial...... 6 by Timothy Duarte Amiga products keep piling in! Enter the Screen Maker 2.2 ring and fight your opponent in 4-D Boxing, List of Advertisers. from Digital Graphics Library fly 40 different aircraft in Birds of Prey, or manage your own baseball team in Microleague Baseball. Solve some math problems in Mark's Mathlab, learn about Feedback...... 90 Agfa’s scalable typefaces, or discover Rashumon, a word processor that supports four languages. • V Public Domain Software....94 56 The Video Slot by Frank McMahon Get the most from Imagine using three 3-D / J And Furthermore...... 96 help supplements Surface Master example textures by Frank McMahon 60 ARexx using Im agine by Merrill Callaway from Impulse Master every aspect of pixels and images Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMusing Art Department Pro and ARexx. 62 cli directory by Keith Cameron Program your Amiga’s start-up sequence to reveal your own personality! 72 Medley ARexx and ADPro by Phil Saunders Image aspect vs. pixel aspect This month’s column takes a look at public domain software for the Amiga MIDI musician. Bug Bytes by John Steiner You’ll need to contact Unili Graphics for support of Broadcast Fonts 3D rather than impulse, inc. these days. Find out why Quarterback 4.3 isn’t creating links with 2.0, and discover the existence of and fixes MidiPlay 1.0 for other bugs. by John Rappold 76 Roomers by The Bandito How does the drowning of a publishing Students in Waldoboro, tycoon affect the computer industry? Maine, forecast the 82 Diversions weather with the Amiga Try your hand at Bill Elliot’s NASCAR and satellite image Challenge, a racing simulation from receiving equipment. Konami. As Leander, swat off the enemies and rescue the maiden Lucanna. This Bill Elliott's NASCAR C hallenge expanded coiumn contains eight reviews of from Konami, Inc. the hottest Amiga games. THE FINAL WORD IN RAM EXPANSION m tiG A Amazing Conifmlinf' For The F0RTHEA2000 Commodore AMIGA™ ADMINISTRATION Publisher: Joyce Hicks Assistant Publisher: Robert J. Hicks The best things come Administrative Asst.: Donna Viveiros Circulation Manager: Doris Gamble in small packages! Asst. Circulation: Traci Desmarais The smallest and Traffic Manager: Robert Gamble most compact Marketing Manager: Ernest P. Viveiros Sr. 8MB RAM EDITORIAL Expansion Managing Editor: Don Hicks board for the Associate Editor: Jeffrey Gamble Hardware Editor: Ernest P. Viveiros Sr. A2000. Senior Copy Editor: Paul L. Larrivee Copy Editor: Timothy Duarte Once again Video Consultant: Frank McMahon GVP proves Art Consultant: Perry Kivolowilz Art Director: Richard Hess to be the Photographer: Paul Michael Illustrator: Brian Fox Editorial Assistant: Torrey Adams leader. Production Assistant: Valerie Gamble

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Responding With Readers While the professionals seem to want to concern that his only sure w ay of sending us Describing the Amiga to other people remain tight lipped, creative Amiga users the material would be by mail and promised has been a long time job of mine—both in are very excited about what they are doing to send it the next day. Several days later, the print and in person. After over six years of with their Amigas. These front line Amiga material arrived and the result can be found providing Amazing Computing each m onth, I experts have delved into complex programs, on page 96. am stil! explaining the Amiga to fellow air learned CLI, and even have written And Furthermore w as created for just travellers, friends, bank mortgage officers, programming code—ail to make their Amiga this purpose. We wanted to demonstrate the and sales clerks. W hile it is not as lonely as it perform a task they needed accomplished. Amiga in different formats and in different once was (the last sales clerk i spoke to Who are these masters of the Amiga? They applications that may have missed the owned an Amiga), it still is a job my fellow are people like you. mainstream of computing interest but were brethren in the Macintosh and MS-DOS exciting anyway. And Furthermore has not communities do not need to perform. Finding The Stories been a disappointment. It is not that the Amiga is not gaining This month's Ami Furthermore takes a Several months ago, an alert acceptance. In video and in animation the look at som e spectacular w ork done by Bridgewater State College student called our Amiga outshines other platforms by a great eighth-graders at the D.R. Gaul Middle editorial offices with some important margin. The only problem seems to be that Schoo! in Waldoboro, Maine. The students information which lead us to Mr, Rich these professional markets are not as keen in and their teacher, John Hilker, are using an Gopen and his students at the Burnell Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMshouting the praises of the machine. It Amiga 2000 to track weather systems with Laboratory School at Bridgewater, MA (AC appears that they are worried their competi­ tion or, worse yet, their customers will discover what they are using to create large bodies of work in short time and at little cost. This is not to say that we have not had a few dazzling examples of what tile Amiga can There are a million stories in do. Todd Rundgren enlightened tile world and himself when he created his entire the Amiga, actually there "Change Myself" music video on the Amiga. I say he enlightened himself because the next thing he did was create a video production are over three million. facility with the Video Toaster creators at NewTek called Nutopia. Imagine what may have been created if before this, he had not been a die-hard Macintosh fan. images received from satellites. The story 7.2). Tire elementary school students were would never have happened if Mr. Hilker producing two television shows as part of A Million Stories in The A m iga had not included a one line addition to a their art and video classes using an Amiga There are a million stories in the Amiga, letter he wrote concerning another matter 2000 and Video Toaster and an Amiga 500. actually there are over three million. Every and a printout of one of the student's Randy Lieu and Jim Silks of New York, Amiga is in the hands of someone who has pictures. NY told AC how they utilize their Am iga to made a decision based on the best choices The idea of eighth grade students using help them create architectural views and available to them and has decided to information gathered by Russian weather perspective/anonometric maps. The Amiga purchase an Amiga because it will provide satellites and producing in forma Hon with is the powerhouse behind this illustration/ them with the optimum means to achieve their Amigas was astounding. We contacted design team. (AC 6.11) their goals. Each Amiga owner is the best Mr. Hilker and requested that he send us What about the avant garde photo­ salesperson for what She Amiga can do and more pictures on disk as well as a brief graphic work of Judith Gefter, the Jackson­ what tire Amiga is doing in actual applica­ description of what his students were doing. ville, FL-based artist? (AC 7.1) Judith tions. Being in Maine, Mr. Hilker expressed some incorporated the Amiga into her photogra- 1 / ------OU’LL BUY IMPACT VISION 24 FOR ONE VIDEO NEED AND FIND YOO NEED IT FOB EVERYTHING VIDEO Introducing the IMPACT VISION 24from GVP The All-In-One Video Peripheral for the A3000 and A2000

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On a multi-sync monitor, you can to m odel 3D , 16 m illio n even display 16 million color images in scenes. Use your digitize non-interlaced mode! images as textures to wrap around ► Realtime Framegrabtier/Digitizer. Freeze, any object! The mind is the limit! grab and store (in standard 4096 or 16 • SCALA Titling. Easy-to-leam , video million color IFF format) any frame from a titling package complete with lots of "live" incoming RGB video source. special fonts and exciting special Optional "RGB splitter" required to grab transition effects. Turn your Amiga incoming composite or S-VHS video. into a character generator. ► Ficker-flimmator. Duplicates and enhances • MACROPANT HV24. A 2D , 16 m illio n color the A3000's display enhancer circuitry. It paint program that lets you have fun even de-interlaces live external video! A m ust for any A2000 owner. Ask about our A2000 "genlock slot trade-up" program (in case your genlock slot is already used by something less exciting!) creating or manipulating any 16 million color, 24-bit image. ► Simultaneous Component Video (RGB) Out, GREAT VALLEY PRODUCTS, INC. Composite Video Out and s-vhs Video out. Now, • Control Panel. Provides full software anything you can see on your Amiga control over all Impact Vision-24's num er­ 600 Clark Ave., King of Prussia, PA 19406 monitor can be recorded on video tape, ous features. Use your mouse or simply For more information or your nearest GVP dealer, call today. Dealer inquiries welcome. , world of . Tel. (215) 337*8770 • FAX (215) 337*9922 ' commodore ' AMIGA New York April 24-26 Amiga is a registered trademark of Commodore-Amiga, Inc. phy processes; adding video and computers to produce computography. Stories like these would not have been possible without the help of the members of the Amiga community, In the past, Amazing Computing has done numerous stories about people like you doing Trouble? great tilings with their Atnigas. However, it is important to realize that each of these stories began with a letter telling us what you are doing. Have you ever had a problem with one of our advertisers? If so, A Place To Speak Amazing Computing was created originally as a forum for please let us know. We have Amiga users to talk about what they were doing, question what was devoted the pages of Amazing being done, and learn how to do things better. AC remains that forum and we are extremely interested in everything that the Amiga Computing to bringing you all can be. We want to know what you are doing with your Amiga. All it takes is a simple note to our editorial offices. the information there is on the What could this accomplish? What value could this add to the Amiga. 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If people know what can be done with the Amiga, they will try to do it. we will do our Inspiration, imagination, and creativity will fuel the Amiga to even best to help. better applications. So let us know w h at y ou're doing w ith your Amiga. W e will help you share your experiences with the rest of the community. Amazing Computing is your voice. Wc exist to serve you, the reader. Take fuil advantage of this opportunity and tell the world about your favorite com puter. Who knows, maybe I will be able to talk to a fellow air traveller who owns an Amiga, i have no idea how long it will be before bank Tell us! officers understand the Amiga.

1 1 i a n a Don Hicks -ouu-345-3360 Managing Editor HNKALL’040 ACCELERATORS ARE 1HE SAME? 1HMK AGAIN!

As a high power Amiga13000/3000T user you need a 68040accelerator board for one reason ...and one reason only... SPEED! ^ 0 to SMB of onboard, And once you know what makes one 40ns, non-multiplexed, DRAM 68040 accelerator better than another, Fully auto-configured, user-install- the only board you'll want is the able SIMM m odules lets you expand G-FORCE 040 from GVP. your A3000 to 24MB! WATCH OUT FOR SLOW ORAM BOTTLENECKS ^ DRAM controller design fully supports Yes, all 68040 CPU's are created equal the 68040 CPU's burst memory access this doesn't mean that at! accelerator mode. boards allow yotir A3000 to make the ^ Full DMA (Direct Memory Accessl Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMmost of the 68040 CPU's incredible to/from the on-board DRAM by any jj performance. A3000 peripheral (e.g: the A3000's built- The A3000 was designed to work with in hard disk controller!. low-cost, 80ns DRAM (memory) tech­ ► Asynchronous design allows nology. As a result, anytime the '040 the 68040 to run at clock CPU accesses the A3000 motherboard, speeds independent ol the -FORCE memory lots of CPU mit-states are A3000 motherboard speed. introduced and all the reasons you Allows easy upgrade to 33Mhz bought your accelerator literally come 68040 |over 25.3 MIPS!) w hen available to a screeching halt! from Motoiola. Not true for the G-FORCE 040... ► Hardware support for allowing V2.0 Kickstart ROM to be copied into and SOLUTION: THE G-FORCE 040's FAST, 40ns, ON BOARD DRAM mirrored by the high performance on­ board DRAM. Its like caching the entire To eliminate this memory access bottle­ operating system! neck, we designed a special 1MB, 32-bit wide, non-multiplexed, SIMM module ► Software switchable 68030 "fallback" mode for full backward compatibility using 40ns DRAMs (yes, foity nano­ with the A3000's native 68030 CPU. seconds!). This revolutionary memory mudulc allows the G-FORCE 040 to be ^ Incorporates GVP's proven quality, populated with up to SMB of state-of-the- experience and leadership in Amiga Up to SMB ol high Motorola 68040 CPU art, high performance, on-board DRAM. accelerator products. speed (40ns) dram running at 28 Mhz Think of this as a giant 8MB cache which TRY A RAM DISK PERFORMANCE TEST AND S E A3000 "CPU slot" connector lets the '040 CPU race along at the top FOR Y0URSEF HOW THE G-FORCE 040 OUT performance speeds you paid for. PERFORMS THE COMPETITION SHOP SMART: COMPARE THESE G-FORCE 040 Ask your dealer to run any "RAM disk" per­ SPECS TO ANY OTHER *040 ACCELERATOR formance test and see the G-FORCE 040's amazing powers in action. ► 68040 CPU running at 28Mhz provid­ ■ ——; ; / — ing 22 MIPS and 3.75 MFLOPS! So now that you know the facts, order NOTE: The 68040 incorporates a CPU. your G-FORCE 040 today. After all, the MMU, FPU and separate 4KB data and only reason why you need an '040 accel­ GREAT VALLEY PRODUCTS INC. instruction caches on a single chip. erator is SPEED! 600 Clark Avenue, King of Prussia, PA 19406

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Hideous 4-D Boxing gested retail price: $199, Developer over a sphere through a simple monsters from the past have re­ The next generation of sports System S299, Manx Software Sys­ interface window on the Amiga's turned, Esteroth must be back. gam es is available for the Amiga! tems, P.O. Box 55, Shrewsbury, N/ W orkbench screen. You and your party of brave 4-D Boxing, designed by Distinc- 07702. (800) 211 -0440 or (908) 542- Lissa can also be controlled by warriors—mages,clerics, fighters, tiveSoftware,featuresTru-motion 2121, Inquiry #205 ARexx. Anyone interested in 3-D and druids—go on a journey- technology and captures all the modeling and sculpting In Imag­ through a maze of 20 perilous, combative action and competitive Birds of Frey ine orT urboSi 1 ver can expand thier inter-connected dungeons. Search challenge of big-time boxing. 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Software, import files for most Amiga word 10006 Covington Dr., Huntsville, AL processors. 35803, (205) 881-6297, Inquiry #230 PageSfream 2.2 Five new' AGFA Compugraphic Soft-i.ogik Publishing Corpora­ scalable outline typefaces are also tion released PageStream 2.2 for supplied,fora total of seven type­ the Amiga. It sports many im­ faces. Adobe Type I fonts arenlso proved features and new features. supported and all fonts can be PageStream 2.2 has enhanced its scaled in increments of 0.125 import module and printer driver points. Also, enhanced graphic support to provide users with a handling is provided with a hot wider selection of printers to link to Professional Draw 3.0. Pro­ Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMchoose from. Support for plotters fessional Page 3.0 requires 2MB has been added, allowing sign Professional Conversion of RAM and a hard drive. 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The Power PC Board turns your Amiga into an IBM51' PC 512K RAM disk in Amiga mode c Battery backed-up clock/ compatible, ready to run almost any program from the vast calendar, available in both Amiga & PC modes 3 Supports array of MS-DOS software*. Simply plug the board info your Hercules, CGA, EGA VGA & MGA video formats - Up to io computer's expansion slot, quickly install the Power PC Board colors in CGA, EGA & VGA modes ® Supports most hard disks software, and you're ready to go! You'll never again say, "I • Uses Fast RAM as Expanded Memory (EMS) • Parallel port, wish I could run that program on my Amiga" — because now serial port & mouse emulation c For improved IBM emulation you CAN! performance both the V.30 and the 68000 are active 3 Video The Power PC Board's many features include: V.30 performance exceeds most AT/286 computers e Models 11 Mhz processor (improved 8088) e Compatible with most available for A 500, 500+, 2000, 3000 » Easy software popular IBM PC software due to Phoenix Bios • installation • Rated best PC emulator by Amiga o 1MB RAM in MS-DOS mode Magazin (Germany) — 512K RAM 0 Workbench™ 2.0 expansion + compatible

Supra Corporation 1- 800- 727-8772 7101 Supra Drive SW, Albany, OR 97321 USA • Fax: 503-967-2401 • 503-967-2410 'MS-DOS software not included All trademarks belong fo their respective companies Scan Version 2 and were digitally transferred to Suggested retail price: $17.95, Luna New Products Future Scanning Systems has re­ meet Amiga's 24-bit IFF color Tech inc., 3667 Lahmi Way, Sarasota, G Other Neat Staff leased version 2 of Scan, a combi­ specifications. Suggested retail price: FL 34232, (813) 378-5477, Inquiry nation of hardware and software $99.95, Digital Graphics Library, Inc., #2 21 which allows any Amiga computer 1382 Third Ave., Suite #333, New to control Icom HF/VHF/Ul-IF York, N Y 10021. Inquiry #219 A M A S 2 radio receivers that support Icom’s AMAS 2 is a sound sampler and Cl-V port. Scan brings fully auto­ Vistapro 2.0 MIDI interface. This wedge- mated scanning, logging and re­ Taking virtual reality landscape shaped cartridge piugs into the ceiver control, and provides a simulation another step forward parallel and serial ports and al­ maximum scanning speed of over on the Amiga, V istapro 2.0 allows lows you to analyze sounds. 2000 channels per minute. Power­ the importation of more data into Record sounds from tape players ful scan delays, m onitor time lim ­ each picture frame, greatly in­ or CD players and change the wav its and scan speed settings allow creasing the possible resolution of they sound with the editor. Then, intelligent scanning. the final rendering. Oak, pine, using AMAS 2's MIDI playback Scon can also control a tape re­ palm, cactus, and sagebrush can controls, replay the sample from a corder which has remote control be added to any scene in varying MIDI keyboard. capability. With speech synthesis, mixes and densities. Large and Cut and delete selected sample the A m iga m ay say the frequency small buildings can be added to areas, mix samples with full or of a hit, the time, and the users any scenes along with roads and half volum e, fade in and out w ith comment. Any combination of sunsets. The final effect of these selectabledegree of fade, filter your these m ay be program m ed for in­ functions produces a picture of samples, and more. Other features dividual channels. Hi-res graph­ unsurpassed realism and life. include real-time record/play ics display scan activity, scanning For users of The Video Toaster, ghost markers and full editing and position, locked out channels, Colorburst, or Harleguin boards, control facility for left/right number of hits, frequency, mode, Vistapro2.0outputsin24-bitcolor. channels. Suggested retail price: signal, tape recorder and speech DCTV, Firecracker, HAM-E, and £99.95, Microdeal, P.O. Box 68, St. every aspect—from the Ace Ex­ status, and more. ARexx are also supported. A Austell, Cornwall, England, PL25 pert System, which replicates Scan can multitask and generate simple direct animation utility, 4YB. (0726) 68020, Inquiry #222 combat intelligence characteristics ASCII frequency files. Parameters which is also included, produces of the actual Aces of the time, to such as preferred screen color, an animation from the camera to G-Force 030 Board the finely tuned detail for each baud rate, and more can be stored the target. Other features are A 50MHz 68030 accelerator card Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMairplane modeled after exact in a configuration file for loading wireframe preview,user-definable with a built-in SCSI controller and structural and flight characteris­ during startup. A second version foregrounds and backgrounds, 32-bit wide DRAM on a singl eca rd tics of the originals. of Scan which can control two Icom and more. Coupons for MakePath is now available from GVP. It Players fly for German or Allied radios simultaneously is also a n d Terraform, two other pro­ comesstanda rd w ith a 4MB of 60ns forces, engage in close range dog­ available. Suggested retail price: $149 grams, are packaged with Vistapro RAM and is user expandable to fights, blast enemy balloons, take single radio version, $199 dual radio 2.0. 3MB of RAM is required and 16MB. Icon-based software which on Zeppelins, and go head-to-head version, Future Scanning Systems, an accelerator is recommended. allows the user to switch back to with more than 20 famous aces— P.O. Box 654, Bartlesville. OK 74005, Suggested retail price: S99.95, Vir­ the 68000 mode is included. An including the Red Baron himself! (918) 333-7474, Inquiry m S tual Reality Laboratories, Inc., 2341 optional kit which will allow a Fly single missions or enlist for the Ganador Ct., San Luis Obispo, CA hard drive to be m ounted directly full tour in campaign play with Screen Maker 2.2 93401, (SOS) 545-8515, Inquiry #220 to the board will soon be available. more than 40 back-to-back mis­ Digital Graphics Library an­ Tito G-Force 030 combines excel­ sions w hile the history of early air nounced a re-release of the 100- lent speed, memory, and storage combat unfolds. image 24-bit IFF Screen Maker • Hardware • capabilities on a single board. Other features include a realism background package at a m ore af­ Suggested retail price: $1799, Great menu, which allows complete fordable price. Valley Products, 600ClarkAve., King control over game play complex­ Using compression format tech­ A3000 PAL/NTSC Switch of Prussia, PA 19406,(215)337-8770, ity, difficulty, and realism, and a Inquiry #223 niques, 25MB of data is now stored The A3000 PAL/NTSC Switch al­ mission recorder, which gives on only six disks. The original re­ io ws Am iga 3000 o w ners to choose would-be aces the abili ty to record GVP/PC286 lease of Screen Maker was on 36 between the North American an entire mission to disk, play the This 286 PC emulator allows the disks. video standard and the European m ission back, and then jum p back Amiga 500 to run the MS-DOS When the user chooses an image video standard with the flick of a into the action at any tim e to alter operating system and MS-DOS to display, the file automattically switch. The switch is very useful the missions outcome. 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Kickstart 2.0 is finally a reality! What is also a reality is that a lot of commercial software will not run under OS2.0! This is not the fault of Commodore, the problem lies with the programmer. In any event, you are stuck with software incompatibility. NOT $ 4 9 9 5 ANYMORE! The KickStart+ Board allows you to have two different KickStart ROM's in your machine at the same time! Installation is easy! Just remove your existing ROM from your Amiga and place it on top of the Kickstart Board. Now, plug the KickStart+ Board into where your ROM was originally. NEW electronic switching allows selection of the 2nd ROM by the mouse button(s), keyboard, or joystick (user selectable)! Works with ALL Amigas that have KickStart on ROM.

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Cinde 171 on Reader Service Card hardw are changes, is the new softw are that is provided. The ATonce-Plus is an entirely new, faster, better !BM-emulation board than was VORTEX ever available.

ATonce-Plus Manual The user manual is divieded into three sections: Introduction, Installation, and the The ATonce-Plus Emulator Operation. An important point sometimes over­ IBM Emulator: Part 1 looked even by experienced eomputerists is Ihe README file placed on the ATonce-Plus Amiga System disk. This file should be printed fry Rich Matakn out and thoroughly read by anyone who will be using or installing the ATonce-Plus. It con­ tains all the latest information regarding the installation of the hardware or software that Tn the July 1991 issue of Amazing, 1 w rote creased dramatically as reported to me by was not included in the latest printing of ihe the original review of the ATonce IBM Emula­ Vortex since they have completely re-written m anual, tor board for the Amiga 500 and 2000 family of their BIOS software. As w'ith the original The Installation C hapter of the m anual is computers. Now to arrive on the scene is ATonce, you can still work on a Lotus 1-2-3 well written, containing numerous photo­ Vortex's latest product the ATotice-Plus, For spreadsheet in IBM mode while downloading graphs that should be followed during the the July review, I used the Vortex software a file from a BBS using JR Comm on the Amiga- installation process. This area of the manual revision number 1.27. During the past seven tasking side. Originally, 1 had said that you advises you of the tools that you need to com­ months,Vortex has had only a minor upgrade were now a "superpower user" who employs plete the ATonce-Plus installation. which, as far as T can determine, took care of a single Amiga 500 or 2000 to run simulta­ The manual takes you step by step slowly some hardware and software compatibility neously the excellent software that is available through each phase of the installation process. problems and added no new features. The both for the Amiga and the IBM. However, Included are eight pictures and one drawing latest version of the AT once softw are w as 1,28 now you can ru n both the Am iga and IBM used for reference during the unit's installa­ and w as posted on m any of the major bulletin softw are faster, too. I w ould say that classifies tion. The ATonce-Plus hoard, just like the boards for users to download if necessary. you as a "Mega SuperPow'er user." original ATonce board, is installed directly Now it is clear why only a single software into the 68000 socket after rem oving the origi­ Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMupgrade was made available during this time: ATonce-Plus Hardware Components nal 68000 microprocessor from the computer. Vortex was totally redesigning their ATonce and Features However, it is at this point that all physical hardware as well as rewriting their ATonce When you unpack your ATonce-Plus, you similarities between the two products end. The software. This new' product is known as the will find the Vortex ATonce-Plus PC board, a original ATonce had a 68000 microprocessor ATonce-Plus and is already causing a major 64-pin 1C socket, two 3.5-inch floppy disks, a soldered to its board and could not be re­ stir in the Amiga market. comprehensive user manual and the user moved. The ATonce-Plus does not use this So, what does the new Vortex ATonce- registration card. The ATonce-Plus PC board type of attachment, making it possible to take Plus do? it runs IBM business softw are and it measures 5,25 inches by + inches. This is con­ advantage of accelerator boards, such as the plays some IBM games just as the original siderably larger than the original ATonce. In ICD AdSpeed. ATonce. However, it now does it faster than this particular instance larger is better. If you Vortex listened to its customers upon ever and multitasks with the Amiga software were to compare the differences of the original designing the new board, and now plugs the with no problems whatsoever. Additionally, ATonce, you would see some major improve­ 68000 microprocessor back into a socket on top its compatibility tviih IBM software has in­ ments in the new hardware. In addition to the of the emulator board. This allows for the addition of new products that can be plugged OPERATION TIMES RELATIVE 10 IBH-PC (4.77 Mhz) into the ATonce-Plus. The physical installation of the ATonce board is a simple matte r. I f you a re com fortable 100 Y. with opening your Amiga 500 or 2000 com­ puter and can follow the detailed instructions from the manual, then you should encounter 75 I no problems with the ATonce-Plus installation process. However, if you have any indecision 50 '/, about performing the operation, let a qualified technician perform the installation, 25 y, 1 installed the ATonce-Plus myself in the 17.7571 12,87* Amiga 500 with a Revision 6A motherboard. 0 y. 3,08'/ Following the instructions in the manual care­ MEM, ACCESS BIOS fully, first open the case of the system, unscrew POINT OPS. VIDEO OPS. DISKETTE OPS. the six screws that hold the Amiga 500 to­ gether, and then rem ove the top of the case to expose the shielding. Next remove the cable Type any key to return to DOS for the keyboard and then the metal shielding. The ATonce-Plus gives you IBM compatibility with Amiga power and speed. Gingerly remove the 68000 chi p fro m its socket on the motherboard with a flat head screw driver and then insert the 64-pin 1C socket provided with the ATonce-Ptus into the now ATonce- sparing drive empty 68000 processor socket. This additional Plus socket is needed to raise the ATonce-Plusboard ifhove Uerifging disk structure software Statistics Initializing conpressed disk allows for so that it will clear the Integrated Circuits in the Help Fi Converting existing files easy set­ area of the processor. Now insert the ATonce- Exit Esc Defragmenting compressed disk up. O nce Plus board in the 68000 socket. As with the 64- the drives pin IC socket installed above, take time to h ave been make sure that all the pins are aligned prop­ configured, erly. When this has been accomplished, place you are up steady but firm pressure on the ATonce-Plus a nd board to set it properly into the 64-pin socket. running in The final step is to insert the 68000 micropro­ the MS- cessor, that was originally removed, onto the Defragmentation Completion! DOS world. top of the emulator board. Here again make It;:-;T ;.t t ; v T m lb certain that the pins are aligned, and insert the 68000 processor with firm, but steady pres­ -Status- Hit any key to continue sure. These steps are really very simple and straightforward, and the manual contains pictures as a guide. However, avoid working in an area charged with static energy because you must understand the final section of the about the optional setup areas of the "Install" you could damage the sensitive integrated manual. This section details the Operation of program which configures your ATonce-Plus circuitry in the Amiga. the ATonce-Plus and is the longest chapter of until you are sure that the ATonce-Plus is The final area of the ATonce-Plus Instal­ the manual. Loading the ATonce-Plus Amiga functional and boots your IBM software. lation area deals w ith upgrading the em ulator system software on your computer can be ac­ with an 80C287-12 math co-processor chip. complished in two ways. The first and sim­ Test Run This chip is used to increase the arithmetic plest is to use the Hard Disk Install program First, double dick the left mouse button performance of the ATonce-Plus. Many soft­ supplied with the software. This will auto­ on the ATONCE icon; the system will start to ware programs that take advantage of math matically place all the files that you need in go through a reboot phase. It will boot the co-processors such as Excel Multiplan, Lotus 1- their proper locations. The second option is to Amiga side of the system and then the IBM 2-3, dbase, Autocall or Framework—to name some. copy all the files from the floppy disk to the side. As the 1BM side is going through all of its The ATonce-Plus will also work in an hard drive manually by using a disk utility m em ory testing, vou w ill see the current con­ Amiga 2000 and you no longer need an adapter program such as DiskMastcr 11. 1 chose to in­ figuration of your ATonce-Plus software ap­ Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMboard. As with the Amiga 500, the Vortex stall the software manually, placing the proper pear in a well-organized menu. Once the IBM ATonce-Plus just plugs right into tire 68000 files in the LIBS directory and creating an memory testing has been completed, you will socket of the Amiga 2000, Its software compat­ ATonce-Plus directory for the Amiga operat­ be prompted to install a boot disk into the A ibility is identical to that of the Amiga 500. This ing software because I like to know what soft­ drive. The A drive on the IBM side is equiva­ makes the ATonce-Plus a simple upgrade even ware is being loaded onto my system. Per­ lent to DF0; on the Amiga side of the system. for an Amiga 2000! However, it will not use forming the straight copy method, I encoun­ The next step is to insert the IBM or MS- any of the IBM slots that come w ith the Amiga tered no problems at all with the installation. DOS disk in the drive A to determine if the 2000; this means that you cannot add IBM As a further test, 1 also ran the supplied Hard system will boot properly. It is recommended boards to you r system to take advantage of the Disk Install program and had no problems in the ATonce-Plus manual that you should ATonce-Plus processing. Once the installation with the Amiga system software loading. use MS-DOS versions 3.2 or higher. I had boot of all the hardware is completed and the com­ Once you have completed loading the disks prepared for testin purposes, since 1 did puter is back together again, it's time to load ATonce-Plus Amiga system software, it is a not w ant to begin hard disk installation until I the software to see how it nins. good idea to give your new ATonce-Plus a was sure that the system would boot properly To check out the ATonce-Plus operation, quick test drive. Now is not the time to worry with all the disk versions. The errors displayed are from the IBM DOS "CONFIG.SYS" file attempting to load files that it cannot find. This The is not a major concern for the purpose of our CGA/Oliwetti/T3188 -Text 40x25 16 color adjustable test. color settings. I have successfully tested the ATonce- R- G- B- Plus with MS-DOS3.3,4.0,5.0and Dr. DOS6.0. As you can see, there is much compatibility among the different operating systems that the ATonce-Plus can run. Once we have deter­ mined that the ATonce-Plus has operated properly in its basic configuration, we can begin customizing it for optimum performance. DEFAULT I Rt G+ B+ ■-»#*>,dr»V «b6wi v j - 1- -ttv Configuration The configuration of the ATonce-Plus is really a simple matter once you are sure of the basic operation which was just completed. At this point, it really pays to know the most you possibly can about your hardware configura- tion, especially since it is the hardware con­ data storage device. First 1 configured these that you might expect. Personally, 1 always figuration of your Amiga System that will Syquest devices under die Amiga operating select the Hercules video mode as I have found determine the ATonce-Plus software configu­ system. To perform this function, I used the that most IBM software packages support this ration. GVP FASTPREP (Fig. 4) program that is sup­ m ode of operation. To illustrate how the Amiga hardware plied with the GVP series II A500 HD+. This configuration is related to the ATonce-Plus format program will perform all the main Memory/Mouse/RS232/LPT1 software configuration, I will describe the functions t o get us ready tD prepare our hard Four different functions of the ATonce- hardware setup of my Amiga 500 system. I drives for operation under the ATonce-Plus Plus are configured in the Memory/Mouse/ have a stan d ard Amiga 500 with a 512K expan­ software. RS232/LPT1 menu. These functions are the sion board with battery-backed clock for a Now that the hard drive has been suc­ memory allocation of your Amiga, whether to talo f 1MB of mem ory in my Amiga 500. Iam cessfully prepared under Amiga DOS, drive you will be using the A m iga m ouse as the IBM running the 1 MB A gnus chip—m eaning that I names can be placed in the Hard Disk option mouse, how you will configure the RS232 se­ have no fast memory in my base Amiga 500 section of the configuration software. Looking rial port, and finally, what address will you use System. 1 aiso have the GVP Impact Series II at Figure 4, you will see that the name of the for the LPT1, which is the printer port. All of A500-HD-S with an additional 4MB of memory- deive has been assigned as SYQ8S-1. This is the these selections are very sim ple except for the internal to the GVP unit. Therefore, I ha ve5MB sam e nam e that w e had given the drive w hen m em ory. of autoconfigurable memory available for the it was formatted and partitioned. Starting with the LPT1 address, I have system to use. The GVP unit has a Quantum found that it is best just to leave that alone as 52MB hard drive which when formatted pro­ Graphic Adapter thedefault value. The onlytimethatyou would vides a total of 49MB of Amiga storage. In the Graphic adapter menu selection, w ant to change this is w hen you were going to you can choose the type of graphic card that be printing from the Am iga side of the system Customization the ATonce-Plus will emulate during its op­ while you were running the ATonce-Plus There is also an icon called ''Install" in the eration. We can choose from CGA, Olivetti, emulator. Then you would choose to turn the AT-Emulator+ draw er. It is from this program T310O, Hercules, EGA, and VGA. Be aw are LPT1 off. that all the ATonce-Plus customization is per­ that the EGA and VGA emulations are black Normally 1 leave theRS232disabled since formed. The three menus from which you will and white and not the full color emulations be performing most of the configuration work are the OPTIONS, MODE, and OPERATION menus. The OPTIONS menu is the most im­ portant of the three. This menu controls all the ATonce Plus Features major configuration decisions of the ATonce- Plus. Most of the items can be configured by - CMOS 80C286-16 CPU, runs at full 16MHZ clock frequency using the Options menu. We will look at the Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMmost important features of this Options menu -512K8 Vortex FAST-RAM. Special emulator RAM gives the ATonce-Plus a high system and discuss configurations. performance. - Socket for optional 80C287-12 arithmetic co-processor. Floppy - Highly integrated Vortex CMOS Gate Array which contains an interrupt controller The Floppy O ption allow s you to set the and Memory Management Unit. type of floppy disk drives that you have con­ - Compact SMT (Surface Mount Technology) printed circuit board with very low nected to you system. You can select from DF0 power consumption. to DF3 and they will be assigned only as the - ATonce-Plus is inserted directly into the 68000 CPU socket. Installation is easy and IBM drives A. and B accordingly. You will solder free. The trap door and expansion bus facilities are free to use with other notice that there is a 40-track or 80-track section devices. on this m enu. If you w ere to select the 40-track - AT compatible BIOS. section, this would be for single-sided 3.5-inch - ATonce-Plus offers full 640KB MSDOS base memory without requiring additional disks, which are not used. Theoretically, you RAM expansion (an A500 with 512KB is enough) could add a 5.5-inch drive to the system and - Additional Amiga autoconfiguring memory can be used as IBM Extended or select the 40 track, but 1 have never heard of Expanded Memory. anyone able to use that from the Amiga 500. It - ATonce-Plus runs unrestrictedly in the Protected Mode. may work on the 2000, but I have no way of - ATonce-Plus emulates the following video adopters: testing that option. Since 1 have two 3.5-inch EGA and VGA Monochrome graphics floppy drives connected to my system, I have CGA withh full 16 colors set them both as 80 track. 1 then selected the OK Hercules, Olivetti and Toshiba 3100. button and was placed back onto the main Install Menu. Now we have completed con­ - Fully multitasks with the Amiga computer. figuring the type of floppy disk drives con­ - Complete integration of the internal 3.5' floppy disk drive as a 720 KB MS-DOS floppy nected to our Amiga system. disk drive. - Amiga mouse is available as a serial Microsoft Mouse that is selectable as COM 1 Hard Disk or COM2. Once you have properly configured the -The Parallel interface becomes LPT1 under MS-DOS. Hard Disk for IBM usage, you would choose - ATonce-Plus supports Commodore compatible hard disk subsystems. the Amiga H ard Disk section th at will be used - ATonce-Plus emulates the sound of an PC/AT. by the ATonce-Plus. - ATonce-Plus supports the Amigo real-time clock and the CMOS RAM. T o test my system con figuration, 1 wanted - Runs with all MSDOS versions from 3.2 up to 5.0 as well as Dr, DOS 5.0 and 6.0. to use the new Syquest 88MB storage device as m y IBM boot disk, and the Svquest +4MB as a Q- 500 ReasonsTo Buv An Amiga 3000

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A check for five hundred bucks. The A3000-25/50 has a 50M hard drive That’s what you can get direct from and 2M RAM. Commodore when you buy an Amiga1 3000- All Amiga 3000’s feature four-voice, two- 25/50, or 3000-25/100 before April 30th. channel sound, thousands of displayable Or, you can even use your S500 immediately - colors, AmigaVision'31 (which lets you control right in the store toward the purchase of graphics and video simultaneously), on-site your Amiga. service* and convenient leasing terms. li£ Amiga 3000 series computers set the For more information, call 1-800-66- standard for multimedia platforms, with true AM1GA. Or see your participating authorized 32-bit architecture for demanding video and , Commodore-Amiga dealer before April 30th, graphics applications. The A3000-25/100 ^■^(T erm s may vary in Canada. Call features a 100M hard drive and 5M RAM. W 1 -800-661 -AMIGA.) Cs Commodore?

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© 1992 Commodore Business Machines, Inc Commodore and the Commodore logo ire regKcred trademarks oi Commodore Electronics Ltd Amiga is a regained trademark of Comnodore-Antga. Inc. Not valid with art) other promotional offers ‘Available on systems purchased in the U S through an auihmued Commodore-Amiga dealer Circle 157 on Reader Service card. I use the Amiga side of the marked with a ">," the system for m odem com m u­ execution of the nications w hile running the VI ,98h (Agp 22 lMUHaltll AmigaDOS startup-se- IBM em ulator. H ow ever, if quence is terminated as you would want to use an soon as the emulator per­ IBM com m unications pro­ forms its initial Amiga re­ gram with the emulator, set. L-JJ L|VjtJ select the "COM" port ad­ -. ^ I IF*11- tii'i !S If the sub-menu entry ---- dress that would be used by "ATonce Only"—w hich is If: SQ5118 fe1,1: BEA Si?e: 84HB Mscmed/taKt O the communications soft­ not the DEFAULT-set­ M:TKT ftrtiX I S«to:TTl fflods:-' 1734561 SwtrmwsQ ware. N orm ally, you w ould — — ----- LsttoskO ting—is marked with a choose the default which is MPtiteMfjft tej _ Piflitiw Ware____ M l # O the complete "COM port 2" as the m ouse AmigaDOS side is dis­ would use "COM port 1," Fa-Utiw: r abled as soon as the emu­ This is chosen by default lator performs its initial • IH Ml >I > 5 '-H4H H H »W l4 W * * M i -+M.M rMMMMMMMM+mtt-t hi U » :£ Amiga reset. This means when you select the mouse «*rW+! t t <>$»♦)] {*>.» m»" will indicate an Rick Mataka enabled function. nal board. In the Mode menu area, the choice is c/o Amazing Computing made as to which board will work with the If the sub-menu entry "Stop Amiga P.O. Box 2140 ATonce-Plus software. I have tested this soft­ Boot"—which is the DEFAULT-setting—is Fall River, MA 02722-2140 ware with the original version of the ATonce A SDG's m ajor upgrade to A rt D epartm ent . Professional (ADPro v2.0), their indis­ pensable image processing program, adds A S D G 'S powerful new operators, and the user interface is much improved. Many of the features are now com pletely WYSIWYG (W hat You See Is What You Get). There are too many new fea­ tures to allow a complete discussion of all of Art Department them. We a re going to look at some of the more interesting new features that set ADPro above the competition. Rest assured: Once you get yourhandson thissoftware, you'll get unprec­ Professional v2.0 edented power to manipulate images. Since m y review of the form er version of ADPro was published last October! V. 6.10, p. by Merrill Callaway 23), we will not go over that ground again. Version 2.0 operates in the same modu la r way, taking raw da ta and rendering it in ways which do not affect the data, or operating on it which newcomers only a minute or two to discover the old palette editor. Since ADPro doesn't does change the data. The look and feel are how well the visual requesters work. For ARexx circumvent the Amiga display limitation of a familiar, but just beneath the surface lie some control, the older type operators are also sup­ 16-color palette width, similar colors are dis­ amazing new features. plied. The keyword "Visual" is tacked on the played as the sam e color, b ut the HSV or RGB end of all operators thatgiveyou the WYSIWYG numerical vaIuesare indeed diffcrent,and will The New Interface choice. I w as happy to find that the Com posite affect the data. You may black out the high­ The interface looks the same, except that under Kickstart 2.0, the "requester buttons" for Load, Save, etc. now pop up a requester from which to choose. The old style buttons which cycled through the choices one way if you clicked on the right and the other way if Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMyou clicked on the left rem ain if you run under System 1.3. These "choosers" have a "Most Recent Used" (MRU) button to check. Then, your latest choice remains at the top of the list until replaced by another, which bumps ev­ erything down one place. The choices may also be sorted. You may choose to Accept or Accept and Do Something, depending on the chooser you are in. You may Reset to return everything to the way it was when you opened the chooser.

The New WYSIWYG Operators I'm not the only one who requested Perry K ivolow itz to m ake the old operators visually friendly, but 1 cannot help feeling that ASDG If Andrew Wyeth had visited Ihe indusfrial section... Convolve and Composite cares for me personally. It's a rare thing to be were used on a scanned photograph. The sky was retouched in Deluxe Paint IV. listened to when you contact a software com­ pany, and for them to be receptive to sugges­ Load option shares at least some of this new lights and the sliders using the right mouse tions and then to exceed your WYSIWYG feature. As before, you only see a button to better see a color without adjacent expectations...well, it feels good. My review of rectangular outline of the new picture, but you interference. There are extensive rangecontrols the Epson ES-300C scanner and so f twa re driver may now choose to see a gray scale visual for implicit and explicit ranges in both RGB by ASDG was published last November (V. picture of the original. The manual says that and HSV. Ranges are highlighted in green or 6.11, p. 34). I was overjoyed to discover that all loading the image twice from disk was thought red; red ranges—the ALT key being pressed the operators that require WYSIWYG use a to be too "expensive in term s of your tim e" for during range selection—areunaffected by other version of that sam e draggable box requester. the new image to be shown. In my experience, overlapping ranges. There arc also the usual The image is represented in gray scale. There compositing "blind" is much more time con­ Copy and Swap buttons. are rulers in metric or English, pixel cou n ts a nd suming! My ideal would be the means to choose numeric scale readouts that change dynami­ either option for the new image. JPEG File Compression cally as you change the box. You may keep or A new JPEG loader and saver are in­ ignore size, aspect, or pixels. The new The New Palette Editor cluded. JPEG (joint Photographic Expert WYSIWYG interface is completely familiar to Under Kickstart 2.0, you may edit 256 Group) is a standard in the industry for com­ me, since I have an E pson scanner. It will take colors on screen. Under Kickstart 1.3, you get pression algorithms which can dramatically This im a g e was tween characters (tracking), attributes such as done entirely in italics or bold, and so on. With the exception of ADPro 2.0, using rotating text, everything you can do in a DTP many of the new program is supported in ADPro. You m ay use tools. There was outline fonts, anti-alias or blur the edges, select no painting at all. how transparent the text will be and even give The original it an embossed look, all within the ADPro images were operator. Then, when you're all set, your text is scanned by the placed in a draggable box that has registration Epson ES-300C in lines going out to the rulers at the borders to 24-bit color using insure accurate placement. Once you have the ADPro loader placed the text with the mouse, just click on Accept and the text is painted on to your image exactly where you see it placed over a gray scale likeness of your picture. I found one bug here, tf you have a gray scale picture to start with, and try to "Accept" an "outline scalable font," the screen will freeze up, and you must decrease the size of a graphic file and yet retain tion, biased by the value of the weight. Then, reboot. A version 2.10 is now available free to most of its clarity and detail. There are settings take the new w eighted average value and de­ registered users who already have AdPro 2.0. in ADPro for various amounts of compression cide hovv m uch to mix it into the value of the Perry' Kivolowitz has assured me ail known from around 10 to 1—with minimal image original pixel. Do this for all pixels, and you bugs will be squashed. ASDG is the best loss—-up to -JO to 1 or better. I repeatedly com­ have a convolution operator. That’s the easy company I know when it comes to response to pressed a graphic file and was amazed at how part. Visualizing how a matrix will affect the users! To sum up in a few words, if you work small you can m ake a file and yet be unable to image is where the real expertise comes in! with images, let me affirm that ADPro is essen­ tell m uch difference in the im age quality. This Fortunately, ADPro comes with two dozen tial. ADPro 2.0 is state of the art! •AC* is a welcome addition to (he Amiga, and it proven convolution matrices, with evocative allows one to import files from other platforms names like "BigSharpen" and "DeepPress"and which have been compressed with JPEG into "WoodCut." DeepPress, for instance, makes JFIF format. your image look as if it had been pressed into Art Department Professional 2.0 Price: $299 leather. The combinations of convolutions with ASDG, Inc. DCTV Operator eacli other and with operators like Line_Art Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM925 Stewart St. This operator renders an ADPro image are truly endless; a world to explore. Madison, Wl 53713 directly to your DCTV device and displays it (608) 273-6585 on DCTV's NTSC moni tor, a handy feature for The Text Visual Operator Inquiry #227 testing the affects of ADPro operators on a ADPro2.0 takes full ad vantage of the Sys­ DCTV image. For instance, if you w ish to alter tem 2.0scalableCompuGraphic fonts in its text the balance of one of your DCTV images saved operator. (For more information about scalable in 24-bit or Display format, but not Raw for­ fonts, read about AGFA in this issue's “New Please Write to: mat, you can load the image into ADPro, ad­ Prod nets," p. 16— Ed.) A D Pro's text opera tor is Merrill Callaway just the Balance controls, and then use the as user f ri endly as you can get. There is a stri ng c/o Amazing Computing DCTV operator to render it directly to DCTV. gadget to enter text, and gadgets to select P.O. Box 2140 Fall River, M A 02722-2140 When you like the results you may Apply_Map bitmapped or scalable fonts, sizes, space be­ to change the data, and save the DCTV image as a 16-color image back to disk. The DCTV operator is a great timesaver if you are en­ hancing a DCTV picture. It also allows you to convert another image into DCTV f orma teasi! v.

The Convolve Operator Convolutions open a new universe of images to the computer aitist. The technical explanation of a convolution is dry, but the W H i T E S T O N E results are truly dramatic. Every pixel in the screen is surrounded by other pixels. Pick a S t r I n g E S T O N E TE X T O PERATO RIT r o n t : C G T r t u n v i r r a i e . f o n t pixel, and construct a matrix, a table of rows T y p o : } S e a N i b l«? and columns, around it for, say, 3 x 3 pixels, Tracking: 0 J Inae with the pixel in question at the center. Then C o i o r X O f f s e t : 2 9 9 I | L e f t calculate a weighted average for that pixel. Y O f f s e t : 1 6 9 I I Color values are vectors and can be summed C r n t e r A ccept A b o r t Load Setup J S n u e S e t u p an d averaged. Specify a "convolution m atrix" of weights. Put each color value underlying a The WYSIWYG interface for the TexMfisual Operator. Note the embossed look. weight in the matrix into the average calcula- T o say the competition of 3-D programs is heating up is putting it mildly. In the last 12 months, with the notable exception of the Sculpt-Animate series,every major Amiga 3-D program has gone through or is heading into a RADIANCE SOFTWARE'S major upgrade. Draw 4D w ent Pro, 3D Profes­ sional gave us a powerful ray-trace engine, Imagine and Lightwave went to 2.0, Ctdigari came down to earth with a DCTV/HAM version, RayDance and REAL 3D offered a major update with pixel mapping and morphing. One can easily see that 3-D rendering remains a diverse and im­ portant eiement of the Amiga's multimedia 3-D for Power Users drawer. Common themes prevail; however, the methods from conception to final render­ ing is decidedly different with each Amiga 3-D by Frank McMahon program. Perhaps the most different is the latest entry into this already crowded market entitled RayDance from Radiance Software. RayDance's manual is a hefty 200-page mation, RayDance can render all the frames Although RayDance sports an icon-based spiral-bound book that features large print but they must be assembled outside the pro­ command window, the method of object con­ and includes many thoughtful features such as gram, and an ARexx script for Art Department struction and rendering is primarily script a list of all illustrations with corresponding Professional batch-converting is included. Also driven. Not short of features, it includes 24-bit page numbers. Installation on a hard drive is w orth noting is that the author runs a support output, fractal trees, terrain, mountains, easy, and although the program requires a BBS for the RayDance software. tweening, haze, shadows, videoscape object m inim um of 1MB, I w ould suggest a lot more, importing, object lathing, and more, as well as a fast processor. Even medium- Functions and Features RayDance is basically a highly versatile eomplexity renderings taxed m y 2500. A lso an What can you do with these script com­ 3-D rendering language. Instead of assembling external text editor is required for creation and mands? Well, just about anything from setting scenes with objects using standard Amiga altering of script files, although any of the a object texture to moving a mountain. The windows and icons, you tell the program what Workbench offerings wil 1 work fine. RayDance most basic element of 3-D modeling is the to do via a script. While the instant response generates images in wireframe,8-bitgrey scale, object itself. Statements are used to create Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMand 3-D view ing is lacking, script-driven pro­ or 24-bit color. Even though the program can polygons, up to 100 sides, and the polygons grams can provide far more versatility than generate a H AM-mode preview, you will need can be concave or convex. Holes are allowed Standard icon-based counterparts. A suitable to purchase a conversion program to view and are relatively easy to produce as long as parallel would be the difference between De­ created images in standard Amiga resolutions. they lay on the same plane as the parent luxe Video (Electronic Arts) and The Director If you have a hi-color device, you can directly polygon. They can be a polygon up to 50 verti­ (Right Answers Group). load in the 24-bit rendered frames. As for ani­ ces or a circle with a center position and a

A fairly complex scene featuring reflection and haze. It took 18 hours to render on a 2500 with 5MB in 24-bit mode Hi-res overscan with shadows and haze toggled on. radius amount. Built-in objects like spheres also an option to create mandelbrot objects. and floors (ground) are available with some Objects can be extruded and la thed from w ithin variations of ground surface configurations theprogram. One feature important, especially such as Builseye (concentric rings of alternat­ RayDance is for animating, is hierarchical object grouping. ing colorsand surfaces),Gingham (alternating This al low s one object to be the chi Id o f a pa rent colors on square and rectangle patterns), and a highly object, which comes in handy during motion Texture (a checkerboard of two alternating anim ating. mapped pictures). Videoscape objects can also Replicas (cloning) are nothing new but be imported and used in any scene. Creating versatile 3-D treated differently in RayDance. Although a objects in standard 3-D programs and con­ large amount of replicas will take additional verting them to videoscape could prove to be rendering time, the actual amount of objects a huge time saver. Texture mapping is available rendering takes up little additional memory. Replicas including the ability to map HAM and IFF24 actually just reproduce the main object in a Amiga images. Standard projective mapping different location. The program has only one includes planar, cylindrical and spherical. language. true object in memory, but can repeat it within Texture flags can be added to help smooth the scene from five to h undreds of times. This jaggies in wrapped images. Wrap mode is allows scenes with, as the book says, "millions used for more realistic textu re maps and works Bump-mapping is also available, bu tonly of polygons." The only real drawback is the only with objects created by RayDance, on objects created in RayDance. Also this type replica must be the same size as the "parent"— however. Standard color values can be assigned of bump-mapping, as inother3-Dprogrnms, is it can be a different color or texture—but the with an excellent option tocreatea controllable more simulated bu mp-mapping, as bumps will possibilities are endless with this function and gradient spread based on RGB or HSV not be visible along the outer edges of the ideal for low-memory computers. attributes. Thisrainbow-likepaintingof objects object and will not cast shadows. As for lights, there are three types: am bi­ can prov ide very impressive results. How 1 ight ent, point, and infinite. In addition, there is an reacts to the surface of an object is the key to Object Generation option for turning lights invisible by setting a creating numerous realistic textures. RayDance Objects can alsobe created automatically. flag, meaning that without the flag the lights takes into consideration adjustable variables The best tree generator I've seen in a 3-D pro­ appear in the scene as a sphere. Camera posi­ to create mirror, shiny, diamond, glass, ice, gram comes with 3-D Professional, but the one tions are pretty basic with features such as water, and just about any surface you can w ith RayDance is m ore im pressive. Leaf color, target position, viewing direction, focal length, imagine. Perturbing the surface by a random taper, droop amount (grea t weeping willows!), and /-stop. Animation controls are provided amount is an excellent feature that enhances twig size, trunk-splits, and much more make by the included tweening command, which Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMrealism. Specular, diffuse, refraction, and creating realistic trees easy. Texture mapping al lows interpola t ing key positions, alignments, reflection combine for an infinite amount of of leaf patterns is also possible. Landscape shapes, and settings. (continued on p 39) possibilities. generating com plem ents the trees and there is

Several examples of RayDance's powerful texture and bum p mapping. These were rendered at 320x200 24-bit m ode. “Know a craftsman by his tools.' Whether you are building your fortune, or just your reputation, your Amiga tools should be top-rate.

If yuu use D eluxe Paint IV, you know of Viilm- Cjuide In This is it: The last w ord in A m iga text its many powerful features. Unfortu­ editing. The Amiga Text Editor Quick Ref­ Deluxe Paint IV nately, sometimes it's difficult to know erence is an encyclopedic quick reference which one to use. The Vidia Guide to covering eleven major Amiga text edi­ Deluxe Point IV is a visual reference tors. If you use CygnusEd, TurboText, i l l which shows pictures of results and TxEd Plus, Uedit, DME, MicroEMACS, how to get them. Look at the Smear and Z, LSE, Ed, Edit, o r even N o tep ad , you'Jl Shade swatches, for example, and you'll find a complete quick reference for your know instantly which brush mode to editor's keyboard commands and com­ use. To rotate a brush, look for .1 picture m and language. W ith the Amiga Te.rf that matches what you want. The cap­ Editor Quick Reference, you can find tion tells w hich axes (X, Y, or Z) and obscure functions, write macros more direction (+ or -) to use. There are sec­ easily, compare features, shop for a new tions on gradients, spacing, symmetry, editor, or prove to the heathens that brush transformations, perspective your chosen editor is indeed vastly mode, cyclic moves, and the Move superior. It is eleven products in one, Requester. Also included are keyboard and unique to the Amiga. Your PC and equivalents and the Movie Catalog, a Mac friends will wish they could get one cookbook of animation effects. Over 70 for their machines. 20 pages, 8.5" x 11". diagrams; 4 pages; 8.5" x 11".

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Like all of our quick references, the Fast How about some hardcore graphics? Guide to Amiga CL1 is slim b u t pow erful. Whether you're a cyberpunk, electric It covers both 1.3 and 2.0 and points out art connoisseur, key animator, video differences between them. Every Ami­ producer, 3D sculptor, or rocket scien­ ga DOS command is fully described, tist, a small, powerful map of the Amiga every option, every keyword. We've graphics engine wouldn't hurt. The included many examples, often several Amiga Graphics Reference Card is full of per command, so you can use the com­ all sorts of inform ation on color, Sight, mand quickly. To minimize confusion, pixels, IFF, fonts, halftones, video we've put script commands in their own modes, animation and the keyboard section with a discussion of script argu­ mysteries of Deluxe Paint El, at your ments and directives. Side boxes cover fingertips. I/O redirection, piping, filenames, wild­ cards, and Shell commands. If you’ve 2nd edition; includes screen pixel rulers everHi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM hunted through various books for NTSC and PAL. 4 pages, 8.5" x 11". looking for documentation on Amiga- DOS, you'll appreciate having that far- flung info collected together here. 12 pages; 8.5" x 11".

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The Vidia Guides to PageStream an d Pro­ Why should any Amiga programmer OUOH9 fessional Page are sam ple books that AMIGA have to sift through hundreds of pages PROGRAMMER’S Professional Page show you what you get before you print QUICK REFERENCE of books and manuals to find simple it. See what type and graphics look like information, like printf codes, or the at 300 and 1270 dpi. Features; Samples syntax for bitfield declarations, or the m in i m in i of Adobe, Compgraphic, and Soft-Logik ANSI sequence to turn on boldface? typefaces; halftone fills; pattern fills; You use this stuff constantly; having to combinations of line patterns, weights, look it up slows you down. That's why in ii m u and halftones; text sizes from 1 to 120 we designed the Amiga Programmer's HI a . >!•»» points; line spacing (relative and Quick Reference. It contains a complete leaded): reverse type; baseline shifts; C guide: 68000 assembly instruction list; niiiifi niiiii halftoned text; tracking shifts; text pas­ Guru meditations; ANSI screen codes; sages in various type sizes; keyboard Console device codes; Rawkey codes; codes for Symbols and ZapfDingBats options flags for SAS/Lattice C and and other special characters, Each book Aztec C; a 256-bvte ASCII table w ith also includes a keyboard command binary and the Amiga character set; and summary and other info tailored to the Doobie's Do's & Don'ls, bits of wisdom softw are it covers. VGPP 12 pages, for Amiga programming. 16 pages, 8.5" x 11"; VGPS 16 pages, 8.5” x 11". 8.5" x 11”.

Vidia Guide to PageStream $7.95 Amiga Programmer’s Quick Reference $8.95 Vidia Guide to Professional Page $7.95 ©1992 by Vidia. Vidia and the Vidia logo are trademarks of Vidia. Amiga is a registered trademark of Commodore Amiga Inc. Deluxe Paint is a trademark of Electronic Arts. PageStream is trademark of Soft-Logik Inc. Professional Page is a trademark of Gold Disk Inc CygnusEd is a Vidia books and quick references are available at many Amiga trademark of CvgnusSoft Software. TurboText is trademark of Qxxi Inc. dealers. To order, add 75 cents per copy for postage and send riT lM 11 IT check or money order for U.S. dollars drawn on a U.S. bank to Vidia, P.O. Box 1180, Manhattan Beach, CA 90266. (310) 379-7139. VIDIA III! HI IIIIIIIMIIIIII 1,111 1 l l l l I illMIIIIIII l l l i i The Charts & Graphs program consists of two basic screens. First is the data entry screen, where all data is either entered by hand or imported from another program, such as a spreadsheet or database. The other screen is TRS L'S the charting screen, where you tell the pro­ gram what type of chart you wish to create. There are options to create up to 45 different charts or graphs. You can enhance your graphs by adding legends, text, color, and IFF back­ Charts & Graphs drops, to name just a few of the available options. The data entry screen is similar to what you see when opening a spread sheet program. by William M Frazier The w indow will consist of a num ber of blank columns and rows. Both text and numerical data are entered here. The data you enter is used in the charting window as axis labels and the raw data required to make up the chart, if You're up against the wall. Tomorrow of Charts & Graphs is to provide the Amiga you have existing data in a spreadsheet or data you give your annual budget presentation, but user with "a sophisticated, modestly priced base program, the data can be imported to you just received the data today. Now you charting package.'' TRSL accomplishes their Charts & Graphs. The program will import need to prepare your final notes and produce goal with an easy-to-use, dynamic program. data delimited in three different ways; comma some graphics to simplify the data. C/wrts & Graphs, from TRSL, is just the program you V2.B 6 TRSL 1991 All Rights Reserved, 0:662368 L:6fcl328 P;16668Z4 H P need to quickly produce presentation quality imiData Entry Window: graphics with a minimum of effort. YourCharts YEARS INDEX and Graphs program package includes three 1 *¥&■■! V8, unprotected disks and one comprehensive 2 " y r | manual. The manual includes an extensive 3 79! 4 79. table of contents and index. It begins w ith the 5 8 0 . usual overview and installation instructions, 6 1955 86, 7 88, Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMand jumps immediately into program tutorials before discussion of program operation and menu descriptions. The organization is dif­ ferent from most manuals i've used in the past, hut it allowed me to make productive use of Charts and Graphs quickly and painlessly. Hard drive installation is also easy. Simply click on the Charts & Graphs disk icon and then drag the program and data icons into the Ur hard drived rawer of your choice. The purpose ■■h

V2.9 @ TRSL 1991 A ll Rights Reserved. C 1722848 L : 721888 P : 1698568 delimited, tab delimited, or space delimited. These options should accommodate the export formats of most data bases and spreadsheets. Occasionally, data that you import into the program will be oriented improper!)', with the category titles going down the first col­ umn, and the category values extending off to the right. Charts & Graphs provides a simple menu selection titled TRANSPOSE, which will change the row s into colum ns to properly ori­ ent the data for use in your charts. The data screen also provides simple math operators which will allow you to add, subtract, multi­ ply, or divide the values in any two columns and create a new, third column.

Left: The Consumer Price Index as tracked by Charts & Graphs. Above: The program s data base entry screen. pointer, clean full screen images can be created and saved. The basic operations required are to create and size a graph, and then m ove it to the transfer slate. In this manner, you can create multiple graphs, and then paste them onto tlie same transfer slate, until you obtain the desired effect. As an example, a pie chart could be created showing the breakdown of computer sales in di fferent regions of tlie Uni ted States, and then copied to tlie transfer slate. You could then create a bar chart breaking down computer sales for a single region by computer type and copy it to the same transfer slate. A chart like this is simple to create, if the da ta required was alrea dy a vai labie, you cou I d Create the chart in minutes. Other capabilities of this program are the automatic creation of value labelsnnd legends, the ability' to scale and set the interval of the X Where Charts & Graphs outshines the competition is in its ability to easily create and Y axis vaiues, and use different fonts and complex, multi-part graphs. font sizes. You can change the options and attributes of nearly all text, screen colors, and The charting window provides the toots is less than presentation quality. Output suf­ drawings on your charts. The program enables that allow Charts & Graphs to create your fers from the usual problems associated with you to present a single data set in an endless presentation quality graphics easily and bit-mapped fonts, and diagonal lines produce number of perspectives. quickly. The options available in this screen a jagged appearance. I was unable to test the Tlie question remains, is this ihe program are too numerous to mention them all in this printed output on a PostScript printer, but for you? If you need to create complex charts review, but i will try to cover as m any as I can. Charts and Graphs provides options to print to and graphs for either slide displays or video First, the total number of graphs that are avail­ a PostScript printer or save your output as a presentations, I recommend it without hesita­ able should satisfy your need for nearly every PostScript file to disk. tion. I also recommend it for use in desktop Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMchart type or design you can think of. There are publishing applications where the need to Charts can be displayed in color—with default, user designed, or previously created palettes. Palettes may also be imported from IFF backdrops or brushes created with paint programs.

m ultiple line charts, pie charts, bar charts, and The program provides the basic drawing im port graphs is im portant. It provides m any column charts from which you may select. The tools to add boxes and lines to your charts. The enhancements not available in most spread­ documentation provides a discussion of which boxes can be either filled or hollow, in any sheet graphing modules. I would not recom­ chart type is most appropriate to use with color in your palette. You can draw both solid mend it if yrou just want to print full sheet, different types of data, a welcome relief for or dotted lines, with five different selections black and white graphs on a dot matrix printer. anyone unsure of which chart to choose. The for both the line width and the dotted line Tlie poor font appearance and inability to pro­ type of chart you select can be displayed in 2- pattern. You can also add lines with either left, duce smooth diagonal lines reduces most of D or 3-D perspective. right, or double-headed arrows. If you require the value gained in added capability. Charts can be displayed in color—with serious drawing capabilities, save the chart as •AC* default, user designed, or previously created an IFF file and finish it with your favorite paint Charts & Graphs color palettes. Palettes may also be imported program . Hie tools provided here a re of use for Price: $99.95 from IFF backdrops or brushes created with only the simplest drawing requirements. TRSL paint programs. Charts may also be displayed W here C harts and G raphs outshines the 3950 Koval Lane, Suite 3049 P. O. Box 94263 in a default or user-defined gray scale and in competition is in its ability' to create easily Las Vegas, NV 89193-4263 black and whi te. Thecolor options are effective complex, multi-part graphs. This is accom­ Inquiry #228 w hen creating graphics to be used in video or plished with what TRSL calls the TRANSFER Please Write to: slide displays. The gray scale or black and SLATE. The transfer slate is basically a second Bill Frazier white options work best when you direct the page where images from the charting screen c/o Amazing Computing output to you r printer. Printing to a dot matri x, are copied. By turning off the transfer slate P.O. Box 2140 or even an inkjet printer, results in o u tp u t that screen borders, and reducing the size of the Fall River, M A 02722-OS69 who cares? It seems silly at first, but the Speak­ ing command really makes a great proofread­ ing tool. Try it. You might also try one of ProWrite's new screen options, which benefit NEW HORIZON' S primari ly Amiga 3000 users in that they requ i re AmigaDOS2.0and the enhanced chip set. And the productivity mode, for example, renders a 640 by 480 non-interlaced display, but only if you've got a VGA or multisync monitor. A ProWrite 3.2 super-high resolution mode of 1280 by 400, which displays only two-nnd four-color screens, also needs AmigaDOS 2.0 and the by Rick Broiiln enhanced chip set. Inshort, ProW rite'sstandard display is fine for the majority of users, but those wishing to modify start-up screen options have the leverage to do so.

About a year ago I had the opportunity to option, the Amiga will say whatever you've P.S. it’s Included review New Horizons' QuickWrite, a dim inu­ typed, start to finish. A requester allow s you to Leverage also defines ProWrite's en­ tive word processor ideal for no-frills writing alter the voice's type, pitch and speed, just like hanced printing features. Until version 3.2, tasks. Recently 1 took a peek at QuickWrite's in Workbench's Speak tool. Plus you can set anyone wanting to use ProWrite with a older brother, ProWrite, in its latest incarna­ ProWrite to speak as you type, a cumbersome PostScript-compatible printer needed to pur­ tion: version 3.2. option that significantly slows things down chase New Horizons' ProScript module. Now Although no new word processing but might be useful for those with visual im­ the option has been inconspicuously integrated ground has been broken by this release (hence pairm ents. into the Print requester. 3.2 instead of 4.0), ProWrite is getting better But where's the real payoff? After you've Included on the ProWrite "Extras" disk with age. A host of new and/or improved typed a masterful short story or an enlighten­ are four standard PostScript screen fonts: features make the software a pleasure to work ing Civil War essay, print a copy and have Times, Hclevetica, Courier, and Symbol, each with. Among them: support for PostScript ProWrite read it back to you while you follow tn sizes ranging from nine to 24 points. By printing; improved start-up options and color along. Presto: innovative proofreading! Asany using the included System Mover utility', you handling; a 3-D interface similar to that of writing instructor will tell you, hearing your can quickly' and easily install these fonts on W orkbench 2.0; retrievable docum ent settings; words read aloud makes misplaced commas your system, ProWrite can also make use of Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMand a speak option. and other grammatical errors more conspicu­ Professional Page fonts, so if you're a desktop ous, thus pinpointing spots where corrections publisher, you've got a sizeable font reservoir ProWrite Speaks Up are needed. And though the voice itself sounds ready for use. The latter has quickly become my favor­ like ivan Lendl w ith a head cold, it is adequate I must note that when you select a ite option. While I've always been a fan of the when following along with a hard copy of the PostScript printer, ProWrite's default setup Amiga's built-in speech capabilities, I've never text. addresses the serial port instead of the parallel. believed they had n practical use. ProWrite Who knows if New Horizons had this W hy? Beats me, as m ost printers use the latter. proves otherwise. By selecting the Speak Now idea in mind when they added the feature, but Count on having to make this inane change ProHrite 3,2,1 - 0 1387-91 New Horizons Software, Inc, every time you want to print PostScript, unless you alter and save your Program Settings, as detailed below. Serial ports aside, PostScript compatibil­ ity has been integrated flawlessly. Unfortu­ nately, dot-matrix printing is another storv. ProWrite 3.2 adds a new "high quality" print mode, which the documentation says will pro­ processor My suite duce "jaggie-free" output. Indeed, the end re­ brother,ProWrite,in its sult looks great, but achieving the end result poses problems. Using an Epson EX-800, a Hav Horizons :j solid, reliable nine-pin printer, every' attempt ?it)i a^e. A tost of net features-some of fhich ait admittedly snperflro-iie FraWrite32ajoy to use this mode produced atrocious-looking to vork Titl. Among fa: support for PostScript printing impnmi stait-ap options and color text. I tried every font I could find, from 3 11 20 ProWrite's own to Amiga fonts to Professional handling,! "-D interface similar to that of Workbench .,end a Speak option. Page fonts, and everything came out looking The latter Ms pckly become my favorite. While I've alvays been afan of the Amiga'! tmilt- rotten. Finally 1 resorted to the instruction in speech capabilities,I’ve never believed they could be pit to practical use. Eut ProWrite has done ± manual for help—a move I'm admittedlvstub- bom to make because printing is such a basic just tkt. At first it seemed a silly idea: to listen to the Amiga's built-in Arnold Schvam egger voice ▼ feature of any word processor. Eventually I I* fjl i U ■ discovered the problem; i hadn't adjusted the By selecting the Speak Now option, the Amiga will say whatever you've typed, start to Print Density to achieve the maximum pos­ finish. sible print resolution. Where to make this ad- justmcnt? Not in the Print requester, as one older documents for reference purposes, the rosareexclusively fur "advanced" users. Non­ would expect, but in the Page Setup requester. automatic backup saves you the hassle of sense. ARexx is for advanced users—macros Nevertheless, 1 hiked the Print Density manual renaming. are for all of us. up to maximum and away the printer went— sort of. Because the new high quality print Look It Up Cost Effective mode sends a page of text to the printer as a Like ProWrite's smaller sibling, the main ProWrite 3.2 retails for $175. Those cur­ graphic, print speed suffers. Plus I found that program disk contains a 50,000-word dictio­ rently using versions 3.0 or 3. i can upgrade the Epson's own Near-Letter-Quality (NLQ) nary—small by today's standards. Why the directly through New Horizons for $25. For mode produced cleaner text than the high abridgement? So ProWrite, like QuickWrite, version 2.0 or 2.5 users, the upgrade costs $65. quality mode. Because ProWrite has an Ni.Q can run smoothly from disk drives—a feature As always, ProWrite is quick, easy to use, easy option right in the print requester, that's the those without hard drives should applaud. to set up, and replete with useful features. But one I'd recommend. And it'll still take some What about hard drives owners? Cleverly, a few more days in the shop wouldn't hurt. tinkering with fonts to get good results from a New Horizons hasn't limited you to a paltry Easily accessible macros and keyboard short­ dot-matrix printer. Simply put, ProWrite's new 50,000 words: the "Extras" disk contains a cuts for features like the spelling checker and high quality print mode leaves something to 100,000-word dictionary, whichmakesa much thesaurus are necessary if ProWrite is to be­ be desired—namely a laser printer. better choice for hard drive usage. com e m y w ord processor of choice. The thesaurus, possibly the most valu­ Should it be yours? Consider this: Better and Better able feature of any word processor, has no ProWrite definitelyhasthedistinctionofbeing Pro W rite's interface looks about the sa me, such hardware-based options: one size fits all. the most revised word processor. New Hori- with one appreciable alteration: ruler and re­ ProWrite 3,2,1 - © 1987-91 New Horizons Software, Inc. 7 - 7 quester buttons now have the same 3-D look \ found in Workbench2.0. This facelift has given ProWrite a much slicker look, especially when compared to its plain-wrnpper sibling, QuickWrite. One noteworthy internal improvement is the addition of what ProWrite cnils Program M W U j j Settings. In the past, any basic changes you pracessor ideally j g t a made to, say, screen colors, ruler types and date formats were lost once you exited the program. Loading an old document meant u m m m youHi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM had to make all of these changes again. ¥ith age. A to t jLis t In Font Henu Now, thanks to Program Settings, you can 5 Show Sanple save these preferences and load them again t i when you want them. It's still an extra step that I don't think should be necessary, but it defi­ The latter! The quick brown fox jumps over i nitely beats ma king all of thcalterations manu­ ally. Plus you can now create default settings, so that if you want most of your documents to ju st that. At first it saem ed a sill]! idea: to listen to the Auriga's built-in Arnold Schvaizenegger voice ▼ have the sam e setup, you w o n 't have to d o the A fill' I ^ — preferences mamba every time you begin. Included on the ProWrite Extras disk are four standard PostScript screen fonts: Times, Automatic saves and backups are two Helvetica, Courier, and Symbol. more useful newcomers. Suppose you've been typing along for an hour or so, and suddenly While it features an impressive 300,000 cross zons knows it faces s ti ff competi tion, but they' re the thunderstorm outside rears its ugly head references, it, like the spell checker, suffers trying and will keep trying to make the better and you haven't saved your document lately. from one minor but debilitating flaw: no hot­ product. W hatever comes next, 3.3 or 4.0, keep By setting ProWrite to auto-save your docu­ key. To engage either lexicon, you must stop your eyes open: ProWrite is just a step away ment every so often, power failure fears can be your typing, grab the mouse and pull down a from the brass ring. quelled. Strangely, however, although you can menu. Horrors. •AC* set your automatic save for every few minutes, New Horizons should know better than ProWrite insures that your typing "will not be this, especially with two such prominent fea­ ProWrite 3.2 interrupted" by the function because it waits tures. Tire spell checker and thesaurus aren't Price: S i75 New Horizons Software, Inc. until m ore than 15 seconds have elapsed since alone in this negligence: a number of com­ 206 Wild Basin Road. Suite 109 the last time you touched the keyboard. If monly used features lack keyboard shortcuts. Austin, Texas 78746 you're a quick typist and don' t take long pauses, Also lacking is ProWrite's macro support. A (512) 328-6650 this curious stipulation could be a downfall. macro, for those unfam iliar w ith the term, is a Inquiry #229 Still, the automa tic save feature is valuable and programmable single-key shortcut for fre­ a welcome addition. quently typed words, phrases or commands— Theautomatic backup feature equally so. a very useful word processing feature. ProWrite Please Write to: When enabled, it will prevent any existing has macro capabilities, but they are only acces­ Rick Broida version of your current document from being sible if you're familiar with (and possess) the c/o Amazing Computing erased by tagging it with a ".old" extension. ARexx programming language. Why? Ac­ P.O. Box 2140 Should you wish to keep backup copies of cording to the ProWrite documentation, mac- Fall River, M A 02722-2140 No one covers the With the premiere monthly Amiga magazine. 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After installation, you have the option of using three separate versions of ProVector. All versions require a minimum of 1MB of RAM and AmigaDOS 1.3. The standard version runs S T Y L U S' fine on all Am igas; the "ProVector.FFP" varia­ tion features more precise mathematical op­ eration (using decimal math instead of the integer modet used in the other versions); and "ProVector.020" is optimized for and will op­ ProVector erate only on Amigas equipped with 68020, 68030 or 68040 processors. The advantage of having three specialized versions of ProVector by Jeff James becomes readily apparent when you operate the 020' version on an accelerated Amiga. The speed increase is considerable, easily making ProVector one of the fastest d raw i ng program s When it conies to desktop publishing such as Di tck InternationaI's Di/naCADD— was available for the Amiga. ProVector performed (DTP), the Amiga has definitely come a long analogous to using a flame thrower to light solidlyona variety of hardwareconfigurations way- Back in the dawn of Amiga DTP, Gold cigarettes. Yet just as before. Gold Disk's pio­ running both AmigaDOS 1.3 and 2.04, with D isk's Professional Page was the only choice for neering effort in a new market has been met and without accelerator boards. Amiga users demanding advanced publishing with noteworthy opposition. ProVector, from After clicking the appropriate ProVector features such as color separation and PostScript Stylus, Inc., offers up a powerful set of features icon, thedisplay preferences requesterappears. output. Gold Disk's monopoly of that market that makes it compare favorably with Profes­ This requester allows you to adjust ProVector's soon came under fire from powerful challengers sional Draw. display options, such as selecting an interlaced produced by Soft-Logik (PageStream) and ProVector ships in a sturdy slip case en­ screen, maintaining an open Workbench while Saxon Industries (Saxon Publisher)— such closing a hefty, three-ring instruction manual the program operates, having it run on a competition has helped spur the Amiga page akin to the one found in WordPerfect for the monochrome or color screen, and other vari­ layout software market on to new heights of Amiga. In addition to the program documen­ ables involving colors and resolution. power and flexibility. (See Vol.6.5 of Amazing tation, a registration card and three program Once ProVector has booted, you'll see the Computing for a comparative review of all diskettes round out the package contents. drawing tools grouped on a movable "toolbox" three Amiga publishing packages.) Consisting of a program disk, font disk and an on the left side of the screen. Amiga users Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMA similar situation has long existed in the ex trasd isk, transferring the ProVector p rogra m familiar with Professional Draw or with Amiga structured-drawing software market. files to your hard disk is facilitated by a point- structured drawing packages on other plat­ While several packages for computer-aided and click hard disk installation routine. Once forms, such as Adobe Illustrator for the Macin­ design (CAD) have been available, only Gold installed, ProVector and all of its fonts, sample tosh or CorelDRA W for the IBM PC, will recog­ Disk's Professional Draw offered the features drawings, and other files occupy approximately nize many of the tools and their uses. Tools for Amiga publishers needed. Indeed, using a 1.5MB of hard disk space. ProVector isn't copy creating bczier curves, freehand lines, smooth conventional CAD package for DTP work— protected. and angular polygons, circles, squares and other objects are accessible from the toolbox. ProVector 020 Copyright © 1989-1991 by Stylus, 11 c I Coords £)______LSl Created objects may be left empty or filled with editable fill patterns. Several other tools allow m anipulation of created objects, such as tools to delete,clone, scale, move, rotate, grou p, ungroup and layer objects. Icons to control screen zoom and snap to grid toggle on and off their respective features, w ith both allow ing a substantial degree of customization. Screens can be magnified up to 1200x for precise de­ tailing, while the grid size can be adjusted for fine or course grid spacing. Once you've used ProVector's drawing tools to create your visual masterpiece, you can add a splash of color w ith selectable d ith ­ ered color patterns to simulatecofors on screen. Chosen from an interna! palette of over 16 million colors, color patterns are modified by using either additive (RGB) or subtractive (CMY) color imaging models. Colors can be copied and spread across ranges as well, ProVector'smoreadvanced features allow the creation of intricate and detailed struc­ ProVectors more advanced features allow the creation of intricate and detailed tured objects. True holes, or "hollow" objects structured objects. can be created by using "sub-polygons," a variation of the standard polygon tool. The created object, ProVector's "Text to Path" op­ plotters and sign-cutters. Artwork created in Magnet tool is used to assign "magnetism" to tion allowseven more radical changes to a text ProVector can be saved in standard IFF file selected object points, allowing points from string. Using the Text to Path option in con­ format or as an encapsulated postscript file separate objects to connect perfectly. Useful junction with the circle tool creates a circular (EPS) for use with other packages. As of this for combining a group of small objects into a ring of text, perfect for small logos or stickers. writing, PageStream 2.1 and Saxon Publisher larger one, this tool eliminates the often infu­ ProVector ships with nine separate 1.1 are the only Amiga publishing packages riating task of trying to mesh tiny control points typefaces. Seven of those are what Stylus calls which can directly import ProVector IFF-DR2D with your jittery mouse. My favorite of "stroke fonts,” or fonts which consist entirely format drawings. ProVector's tools is undoubtedly the "undo- of straight lines. Designed particularly for use Possibly thesinglemost powerful feature able" undo feature. Limited by memory, the with plotters, these typefaces includea variety of ProVector is its robust ARexx support. Used undo supports up to a maximum of 255 undo of serif and san serif fonts, as well as fonts for to create time-saving macros, communicate levels, perfect for backtracking several steps to the Old English,Greekand Cyrillic alphabets. with other programs and to alter the operation adjust something in your drawing without Of more use to publishers are the fonts of ProVector itself, the ARexx language has having to delete everything and start over. PVRoman and PVSans, w hich are w hat Stylus been well implemented in ProVector. Nearly Another powerful option, obviously drawn terms "outline fonts," or fonts which include three dozen macros are included, including

ProVector,B2B v2.l: Copyright 0 1989-1991 by Stylus, a I Coorde one which blends intermediate shapes and colors between twoselected objects, one which performs CAD-like line dimensioning, and another which creates gradient color fills. In terms of communication across software ap­ plications, ARexx allows ProVector to be used as a graphic generator by another program. Indeed, I have heard of certain physicists at the Stanford Linear Accelerator who use ProVector to graph out important scientific data, all controlled externally through an AREXX port. Navigating through all of ProVector's features is facilitated by a point-and-click on­ line help system which briefly describes the operation of the tool in question. ProVector's documentation is packed with information, Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMincluding a glossary, index, an overview/tu­ torial, and a substantial amount of reference and technical information. An addendum is from the world of conventional CAD software, varying line weights and line curves. Stylus included which lists the changes made from is ProV ector's layers function. O ld hat to CAD also has included "PGStoPVfont," a utility version 2.0 to 2.1. Although more screenshots users, the use of layers adds immensely to which converts PageStream format outline fonts and tutorials would have been welcome, ProVector's ability to create complex, multi­ (not Compugraphic or Adobe) to ProVector's ProVector's manual makes learning the ropes layered drawings. Analogous to working with font format. fairly straightforward. If the on-line help or a stack of transparent plastic sheets, this IFF-ILBM picture files, ranging from program manual can't help you with a prob­ function allows you to hide,lock or editeachof monochrome to HAM, can be imported for lem, telephone technical support is available. those layers without altering anv other part of manual tracing, as can ProVector native 1FF- The support staff 1 spoke with were knowl­ your drawing. For example, you could use the DR2D format files. Files can be output to pref­ edgeable and friendly, able to answer most of layers function to create a cut-aw ay view of an erences or PostScript devices, and custom HP- my questions about the program. automobile, showing the engine and GL drivers a re included which allow output to mechanicals through the "skin" (uppermost ProVector.020 u 2.1: Copyright © 1989-1991 by Stylus ProVector drawing layers) of the car. In this way, p| C o v o t e _ S u h s e t . p u offers several ProVector allows the creation of intricate and w ays to overlapping drawings without the fear of de­ custom ize leting or altering previous work. n r - .- - ■: ' v- - i b i i p From the pull-down style menu, objecls using ProVector offers several ways to customize O.ffl L1-1-- fills a n d fill objects using fills and fill patterns. Hie "Object patterns. to Fill” command converts objects into struc­ tured fill patterns; "Fill to Object" stamps the currently selected fill pattern onto the workspace as a structured object; and most interestingly, the "Text to Object" option turns a text string into a structured object complete with control points. Thereafter, the text may be manipulated and resized, perfect for creating fancy logoforms and special text effects. When entering text in conjunction with a recently

A p r i l 1992 35 Pro Vector does have some drawbacks. allow importing of virtually any structured EPS need a good structured drawing program. Sty­ Font support, although improved over the pile from Amiga, MAC and MS-DOS formats. The lus had better keep on their toes, however, as previous versions of Pro Vector, is still a weak add-on module will be sold seperately, and will be ProVector's competitors aren't standing still. spot. While ProVector's supply of fonts (and available soon.— Ed.) Soft-Logik's forthcoming Art Expression pro­ those made available by using the included Another curious omission is an autotrace gram is just around the corner, and rum or has PGStoPVFont conversion utility) are adequate utility to convert bitmapped artwork (such as it that Gold Disk is burning the m idnight oil to for most publishing projects, support for standard IFF-1LBM bitmaps) to structured update Professional Draw. All of this com­ Compugraphic and Adobe Type 1 fonts is format. ProVector's excellent drawing toolsdo petitive jostling will be of benefit to Amiga essential when working with predominantly make tracing simple images fairly easy, but publishers everywhere, as more powerful, Mac- and IBM-based service bureaus. I'm cer­ large and/or complicated images arc simply easy-to-useand full-featured products will help tain that most Amiga-using publishers would too time consuming to trace manually. I would push the Amiga closer and closer to the lend­ agree that support for those formats, espe­ like to see support for the Pantone Color ing edge in DTP technology. cially for Adobe type 1 and 3 fonts, is long Matching system (a boon for accurate color •AC* overdue. publishing) in a future version of ProVector, as ProVector's supported input and output well as the ability to import 24-bit IFF files for ProVector 2.1 options, though adequate, seem a little on the tracing. ProVector would also benefit from Price: $299.95 weak side. One can argue that many Amiga being able to perform spot and process color Stylus Inc. publishers rely heavily upon ASDG's excellent separations from within the program, P.O. Box 1671 A rt Department Professional (ADPro) program In its cu rrent incarna tion, ProVector is an Ft. Collins, CO 80522 C303) 484-7321 to resolve (lie confusing jumble of file and impressive piece of work. Its speed, advanced Inquiry #200 image formats between platforms. Without feature set and other aspects undoubtedly make diminishing ADPro's essential place with re­ it the Amiga-using publisher's choice for gards to conversion of graphic formats, I still structured drawing. Although it falls short believe that inherent support for TIFF, EPS, when stacked up against the feature-laden and Macintosh format files such as PICT, PICT drawing heavyweights in the Macintosh and Please Write to: II, and native Aldus Freehand and Adobe Illus­ PC arenas (most notably CorelDRAW and Jeff James trator files would make ProVector much more Micrografx Designer on the PC and A dobe Illus­ c/o Amazing Computing usable to all Amiga publishers. ( Sh/lus has trator and Aldus Freehand on the Macintosh), P.O. Box 2140 announced the development of a module that will it's the closest thing yet for Amiga users who Fall River, M A 02722-2 U0 Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMHas your Amiga read any good books lately?

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Installation Installation of the BridgeBoard Extender is done in a step-by-step approach. If you follow the manual closely, you should encoun­ ter no problems whatsoever. The first step is to remove the daughterboard from the BridgeBoard. This daughterboard can be seen as it is installed on the BridgeBoard. Carefully, very carefully, separate the daughterboard from the main board. This can be done by pulling apart the boards a little from each side at a time. Do not attempt to pull one side counterpart, you need to install sandwich board However, we have not even looked at the elevators so the daughterboard can be rein­ add itionalboardsthatwil! complete our Amiga stalled. power system. These boards, the Bridgeboard Carefully reinsert thedaughterboardonto With the limited AT AnyRAM and the Bridgeboard Multifunction the main board. Be very careful that all of the card, will be examined next month. We will pins are properly aligned. The main board look at what these cards can do to enhance should be placed on a flat surface. Exerting a or XT slots in the your Bridgeboard system and make it the envy firm, but steady pressure, push down on the of any IBM user. daughterboard until the daughter card has Amiga, you must •AC* been reinstalled onto the main board. put as much as Operation and Performance of the BridgeBoard Extender 80386 20MHz BridgeBoard Expander The operation of the 803S6SX BridgeBoard you can in the Price: $449.00 ATOP Extender is transparent. You do not need to 11914 Girdled Rd. change any of the software from its original available space. Painesville, OH 44077 configuration. Whatever worked with the (216)354-0075 original 80286 will also operate with the Inquiry #238 80386SX, but much faster. Operationally, it appears as though you have made no changes whatsoever. ing the Computing Index of the standard AT However, the real change is in the perfor­ BridgeBoard to an 1BM XT, you can see that it's mance of your BridgeBoard system. Most of rated at a 7,7. When the same test is performed these performance tests are IBM Public Do­ with the ATOP 80386SX BridgeBoard Extender main performance comparison tests. However, installed, the Computing Index jumps to a the Norton SI rating test is where the real Please Write to: whopping 20.7. The performance of the AT Rick Mataka system performance measurements are ex­ BridgeBoard system is dramatically improved c/o Amazing Computing amined. The Norton SI ratings are used with the ATOP 80386SX Bridgeboard Enhancer P.O. Box 2140 throughout the industry as a standard mea­ Fall River, M A 02722-2140 product. surement of system performance. In compar- Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM CORRECTION MOVING?

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Please allow four to six weeks for processing — JLAYDA/VCE continued from p. 26 I can't help wondering what market ables, and have complete control over the en­ RayDance is aiming for. Beginners to 3-D may tire 3-D universe via a powerful script-based Graphical User Interface be attracted by the low price but are in for a language, then your 3-D program has arrived! After a script has been created using the surprise. Seasoned pros probably have Imag­ •AC* RayDance programming language, several ine, Li ghtwa ve, or some of the other popula r 3- R ayD ance settings and rendering options are available D Amiga programs and will want to add Price: $99.95 via the graphical user interface. An extensive RayDance to their "stable." But RayDance Radiance Software 2715 Klein Rd. help option allow s getting inform ation on just (version 1.0} is just getting out of the gates and San Jose, CA 95148 about any aspect of the interface. Once a par­ the other programs can probably out-perform (408) 270-7420 ticular script is loaded in, several settings can it with little effort. Is it for budget-conscious Inquiry #201 be ad justed before rend ering. A nti-al i as ca n be Amiga users, perhaps those with a 500? toggled on and off, and also can include a RayDance is inexpensive, but the accelerator Please Write to: depth value. The higher the value the slower and rows of memory to make the best use out Frank McMahon the render though. Wireframe/Ray Trace/ of it certainly are not. I can only assume ch Amazing Computing Phong shadingallow different tracing results. RayDance is for the programmer type. If you P.O. Box 2140 Shadows can be added as well as Haze. Reflect love to tinker around, de-bug, change vari­ Pali River, M A 02722-2140 parameters can be changed telling the pro­ gram how many times a ray can bounce off reflective surfaces. This is a great feature and must be measured against rendering times. In other 3-D Amiga programs, it is either not available or not as easy to change. Rendered images can be saved to RAM or to just about any path, such as to a hard drive. No direct rendering methods to hi-color boards are currently supported; however, there are built in standard resolutions for Impulse's Fire­ cracker board in the resolution presets menu. There is a progress bar that uses a horizontal graph to show the percentage that the current fram e has rendered so far. A set-up file lets the user configure numerous parameters such as picture path, image size, alias depth, and about Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM25 others. This set-up file is checked when the program is first run.

Conclusions One feature I really like is the way nu­ merical input is handled. If you click in the graphical interface on a text input icon, a small screen comes up that looks like a calculator, allowing the input of numbers without using At Last! Peer to Peer the keyboard. It's a sm all feature, b ut one that should be spread to other 3-D programs. The program comes with a ton of tutorial scripts Networking for the Amiga! that can be examined, altered, and rendered. • Share disk volumes, directories, and This is, however, no substitute for real manual Interworks introduces its Ethernet- based Distributed File System,forthe files. Everyone canaccessthesame tutorials, w hich this package sorely lacks. It is Amiga.ENLAN-DFSisan Ethernet common files and elim inate presented more as a reference manual than a based peer-to-peer LAN solution for sneaker-net. user's gu ide. This makes it very ha rd for no vice the Amiga. You get powerful disk, file • Share yourperipherals. That 3-D users. This is not one of the speediest 3-D and peripheral sharing that until now expensive laser printer can now be programs I have used, but part of the reason was only available on other personal shared by everyone on the network may be the numerous options such as ref lective computers. • Assign passwords and/or allow depth, shadows, texture mapping, anti-alising, ENLAN-DFS is just rightforconnecting read-only access to protect system your workgroup of Amiga systems, files and applications. and other calculation-intensive operations. The whether it's two or twelve or more! • ENLAN-DFS is easy to install and gradient spreads, fractal trees, terrain, haze, No dedicated server is required: any use. and object replicating are excellent features system can publish its resources and • ENLAN-DFS istransparentto all not found in all 3-D programs. Picture quality they immediately become available to your application software. is excellent, accurate, and on-par with the the rest of the group. current crop. Cali us at (800) 321-3893 in US and Canada. (508) 476-3893 elsewhere.

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ENLAN-DF5 is c trademark of Interworks. Amiga is a D eder inquiries welcome registered trademark o f Commodore Business Machines, Inc. tion. Soon, the scales began to fall from my eyes. The problem was that, as an Amiga user with very limited Mac experience, I had heard of HyperCard, hut did not understand that it is the watershed of authoring systems and is still IMPULSE INC.'S the standard by which other programs should be judged. This is not to say that Foundation is HyperCard. Foundation does not do all of the same things and it does not really share the Foundation same "look and feel." In addition to possessing a lot of the functionality of HyperCard, Foun­ dation aiso offers a lot of the power and flex­ by Dave Spitler ibility which have endeared HyperCard to its fans over the years. Because of the natural multitasking ability of the Amiga, it can actu­ ally bemore powerful in some very interesting w ays. The first announcements about the new once you begin to understand what it is, you As exciting as that piece of information authoring system. Foundation, sounded inter­ will probably spend alotof timesaying "Wow!" may be, it is important to note that the Foun­ esting. This was not intended to be a me-too Unfortunately, a lot of potential fans might dation which shipped in the initial release has program but a software construction kit which never have that first "Oh, Wow!" experience. a significant shortcom ing in the area of docu­ offered a fresh and exciting approach to its In all honesty, the roots of this problem mentation. The program actually comes with subject, it was also supposed to be an Amiga are not entirely the fault of the program or its two sets of documentation and both are ex­ version of the popular Macintosh product documentation. The program comes complete haustive, b u t I w ould have been a lot happier "HyperCard." When 1 received my copy of with a set of demonstration stacks, a "tour" if one or both of them had spent more time Foundation, I quickly installed it on my hard stack, and a tutorial stack. The demo stacks are making mecomfortable before bothsetsdelved d rive, eager to be overw helmed by the prog ra m. actually quite good, but neither the docu­ into the depths of the program. That first experience left me more frustrated mentation nor the tu torials gave me any clue as The best of the two sets of documents is than overwhelmed. Even after several weeks to how good they are. Hie "tour" stack and the found in two online programs, the Encyclo­ of experimenting with Foundation, I had ab­ tutorial stack appear to have been hastily done pedia and Hyperview. The Encyclopedia is a solutely no idea of what I thought of the pro­ and are not as helpful as they could be. The very complete command index. Its companion, Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMgram . 1 was not even sure thatl fully understood manual was really no help, either, but it did Hyperview, is an interesting and useful online what it was intended to be. I eventually dis­ have a couple of clues in the introduction help stack. Since both of these programs are covered that while I was fiddling around with which ! did not pick up at all. Eventually, I Foundations stacks and since both possess Foundation's mechanics, 1 had allowed most reread the introduction and reread the refer­ Hypertext features, they can be kept up and of its real power and attractiveness to com­ ences to HyperCard, which is the authoring running while you are creating your own pletely elude me. Make no mistake, this is an system on the Macintosh. At last, 1 began to Foundation stacks to help with command incredible program packed with h id d en investigate HyperCard and make gross com­ structure and syntax examples. powers of such magnitude and subtlety that, parisons between that product and Founda­ Foundation comes with a large and very seriousmanualjammed with information. Most of the space in the m anual is given over to the same details of the command structure which are covered so well in the online Encyclopedia, foundation 2.7 Beyond the briefest of introductions and a couple of pages of tutorial material, which could be a lot better, there is little or no help for the new programmer here and this was part of my problem from the very beginning. When you have finished the tutorial, you are virtually on y our own. Foundation may actually be the closest Preferences Open ft Stack Stacks thing we will ever see to software construction kits for other platforms. Everything about the

:r\ ■ ~ design and execution of Foundation points SEP toward HyperCard. A little deeper in the program, you will discover the conventions emmmmmIV which gave HyperCard its power including Iconify Open Other Stack Qui t background and foreground cards, objects, and extensive script control of everything. The scripting language, called "FastTalk," tries to u s e s ■ M U be as easy and intuitive as the HyperTaI k com­ The main interface screen for Foundation. mands it emulates. Anyone who understands

40 Amazing Computing HyperCard should be able to dive into the 1 ...... — Foundation manual, dig out whatever they need and go to work. l r l a 1 But what about the rest of us who have Foundation FoundDex Naiie and Addresses Stack never used HyperCard and, being Amiga buffs, probably never will? The good news is that Copyright (e) 1991, Michael G. Lelinan HyperCard is supported by an impressive li­ Permission is granted for1 Foundation users to extract brary of third party literature. If you have one fron tliis stack. or more of these books, you can read about HyperCard and begin using Foundation right away. I went right to the bible of HyperCard Stack .Entry 1 users, Danny Goodman's The Complete Hyper­ global tab.order Card 2.0 Handbook and found a source book global tab.index global .last,find.string which begins at the very beginning and covers global .output,path every thing so well that I was able to understand alt of the principles w ithout ever going near a put EMPTY into , last.find,string jut "1,2.3,4j5,6,7,8,6" into tab,order Mac. init.tabbing In the course of studying Danny call Get.Canfig.BlockCFOlDDEX,CONFIG",' Goodman's manual,! realized that the authors if it is EHPIY of Foundation are attempting to fill in some targe gaps in the authoring system field on the Amiga. This is not to find fault with the way that other programs go about empowering the Amiga user,but when you look at them closely, none can claim to be The HyperCard of the Amiga. Foundation comes closer than any other authoring systems to being able to make this claim. Organizationally, this begins with the concept of "layering." In Foundation, all of the stacks and all of the frames(cards) which make upHi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM those stacks are built up in layers and these layers have priority settings according to a precise set of rules. All stacks and all of the frames in each stack have a "background" which contains information which does not change. Each of the cards can refer to this "background" information or ignore it as re­ quired. This means that, even after the stack is complete, global changes can be made by sim­ ply changing the background and these changes have the potential to change the stack and every card it contains. Foundation also 28 shown, 1 hidden. Done. gives users a Sot of power and flexibility by Parent allowing everything to function under script Examples control. Everything in a stack can have a script setup attached to it and all of the scripts can be Calendar accessed throughascripteditorfrom the menu Encyclopedia 1 screen. ControlRoon 1 Foundation contains a very workable __ LIBHACS ) CGCache SOURCE ) CGFonts Hypertext scheme, allowing programmers to Ppefejponci I00LMACS ) c l i p s: quickly and easily build text programs con­ LIBRARIES ) DEVS: taining keywords which can be used as door- PALETTES ) 0DF8: ways to distant but related parts of the overall ■ FOUND:STACKS document. The HyperView (help) stack is an excellent example of this and can be used as a F ile | Ic o n ifv template for creating other stacks. O kT Foundation users are also able to build multiple stacks and link them together through scripting and this feature is actually more powerful than its counterpart in HyperCard From Top to Bottom: The Foundation script editor. Hyperview, an on-line help due to the Amiga's native ability to multitask. program which uses Hypertext. Foundation s stack requester. Not only can you link stacks to each other, but you can have all of the stacks you need running dation stack and vice versa. As things stand Foundation is a very worthwhile addi­ on your Amiga at the same time and flip from now, you would have to "port" a stack from tion to any programmer's collection. It works one to the o ther by w ay of the F8 key. one platform to another manually but this well as a stand-alone authoring system while Lastly, developers who are interested in process would be relatively painless because offering an entry into territory w hich w as pre­ cren t i n g programs to be pressed on to CD's and the conventions and the scripting are so simi­ viously the exclusive domain of HyperCard run on CDTV will be gratified to know that lar. I also suspect that it would be possible to and Toolbook programmers. Shortcomings in Foundation contains "hooks" to make this not writeastackwhichwouldbccapableof turning the current documentation can be made up at only possible, but easy. H yperC ard stacks into Foundation stacks and least in part by making use of the extensive There are several im m ediate advantages vice versa. library of third party documentation which to using an authoring system which tries to Foundation makes up for some of the already exists for other authoring programs. follow the conventions laiddown by a program functional shortcomings in its first release by The scripting language, "FastTalk," is both such as HyperCard. In the first place, there is offering two ways for the user to expand the easy to learn and powerful, and the hypertext that m ound of third party literature. If you are program. ARexx programmers can do a lot to features have been badly n eeded in an Amiga learning to use arty of the other Amiga reach into areas which Foundation does not authoring system. Foundation is a well de­ authoring systems, you are forced to re-invent now touch by writing ARexx scripts and ac­ signed and thoughtfully crafted system that the wheel. If you are learning Foundation, you cessing the m th rough their Fo u nd a tion stacks. the Amiga community has needed for a long have access to the entire library of manuals and Foundation has a good ARexx port which time. . _ •AC* how -to books from other sim ilar program s on boasts both synchronous and asynchronous other platforms. In addition, you can create capabilities (meaning that you can run your Foundation programs with Foundation which will be im­ ARexx programs as part of your Foundation Price: $250 mediately familiar to HyperCard users. This stack or in the background), in addition, C Impulse, Inc. 8416 Xerxes Ave. North also means that needed HyperCard stacks can programmers can expand Foundation by cre­ Brooklyn Park. MN 55444 now be ported over to the Amiga without ating "XCode Modules." 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by John Iovine

Multi-Sync Monitor Adapter connector to successfully connect a Multi-Sync monitor. Rather than This month we'll look at a simple interfacing project created to run six fcetof wi rc between these two DB connectors, it is easier to make solve a couple of little computer problems of my own. anadapter. An adapter ispretty much the same thing as a cable, instead The first project involves the com puter m onitor. I had been using using only an inch or so length of wire between the two DB connectors. Commodore's 1084 monitor connected to both my Amiga computer With the adapter connected to the Amiga, we then can use a standard and a IBM compatible. This situation worked out fine since the 1084 DB9-pin cable between the adapter and monitor. The DB9-pin cables monitor had a RGB input for the second computer. However when 1 arc typically used for extending joysticks so they are readily available wanted to enhance the IBM compatible's graphic capability, the video from Radio Shack and other sources, signal wouldn't sync in to the 1084 monitor properly, A scrambled Eigure 1 shows the schematic drawing for the adapter. And the screen would appear for all modes greater than CGA, i.e., EGA, VGA following table shows the pin functions from the Amiga 23-pin DB and SVGA. The solution to the graphics problem is to use a higher connector. resolution monitor, such as a multi-svnc monitor. Space in my computer hovel is a primary consideration for any Amiga Connected to DB23 M pin # Function DB9 M/F pin new equipment. Although it would be nice to keep each monitor connected to its respective computer, it is neater and more practical for 3 Analog Red 1 •5 Analog Green 2 me to use just one, namely the multi-sync. 5 Analog Blue 3 The simple solution to connect the Amiga to this monitor was to 10 Composite Sync 4 20 Ground 5-9 call a few stores that stock the Amiga computer for the appropriate Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMcable. In calling a few Amiga dealers in my area, 1 found that they didn't stock the cable, nor did they want to be bothered ordering it for me. The Amiga has a DB23 male connector at the back and requires a Next 1 called a few national distributors; the ones that could supply the DB23 female connector. The DB9 connector can be either male or proper cable wanted $40 plus postage and handling. That seemed a female, d epending on the gender of the connector on y our m onitor or little too expensive for a simple cable, so I decided to trv to make an of the cable connecting the adapter to the monitor. adapter myself. Surprisingly, I found that connecting an Amiga to a On either the front or back of the multi-sync monitor you'll have multi-svnc monitor to be quite easy. a switch that switches the monitor's function from digital to analog. Set At the back of the Amiga there is a male DB23-pin RGB monitor this switch to analog when using the Amiga. connector. We need just five lines off this connector to a DB9-pin To finish off the project, I purchased a DB9 data switch box that avoided the need to physically switch cables back and forth on the monitor. This adapter should work fur the Amiga 50(1, 2000, and 3000 com puters.

A Little on Data Switches Data transfer switches are simple devices, but very useful. At the back of a typical data swi tch, there are three connectors labeled A, B, and Input/Output. Figurc2 illustratesa typical setup, two computers sharing one de­ vice. The switch is used toconnect either computer to the device. The rcversesituationcanalso be true, where you have two de­ vices connected to one computer. The Amiga computer uses two DB25 connectors, one for the RS- 232 port and the other for the Parallel Port. This type of switch Weil now that I've downloaded a num­ Computer A ber of Amiga-Specific programs onto my IBM, it's time to get them in to the Am iga. This is where the null modem comes in. Using a null modem is very simple. You connect the tw o com puters through their RS-232 ports with a RS-232 Cable and a null m odem adapter. Load up tele­ o communication software on both com­ C om puter B puters and set the telecommunication Data Peripheral parameters equal on each computer. I Switch use 8-bit data length, 1 stop bit, even parity. Have you noticed that we are not using Figure 2: Typical set-up modems on either computer? Well we can use that fact to our advantage. Run using a data switch. the com m unication softw are at the high­ est speed that's compatible with both computers. If both computers can run at 9600 baud (or greater), run itat this speed. can be very useful. For instance, if you wanted to keep both a digitizer There's no reason to use lower speeds; remember there is no modem and printer connected to the parallel port, you could use one data between the computers to slow you down. The null modem and cable transfer switch instead of pulling cables and reconnecting devices. can handle data rates as fast as your software is capable of. For the monitor project, I used a DB9 data transfer switch. It This procedure is useful to anyone wishing to transfer files operates like the DB25, but uses DB9-pin connectors at the back. The (programs and/or text) between any two computers. set-up is illustrated in Figure 2, where the device is the multi-sync To finish off this project, use a DB25data transfer switch between m onitor. the null modem and external serial port. This allows you to transfer files through the null modem or use the serial port for another periph­ Null M odem eral device on the Amiga if you choose. Null modems are useful for transferring files between any two Let me add that some computers use a DB9-pin connector for an computers that have an RS-232 port. The Null Modem is a simple RS-232 port instead of a DB25 connector. If you look again at Figure 3, device. Figure 3 shows the nine lines necessary for RS-232 communica­ you can see that the null modem requires only nine lines. Some tion on a DB25 connector RS-232 port. Null modems are inexpensive so manufacturers use the DB9-pin connect instead of the usual DB25 there's no incentive to build rather than buy. connector to save money on manufacturing cost. There are null- 1 started using a null modem because I have a 1200-baud modem modern adapters that have a DB-9 pin connector on one end and a connected to my Amiga and a 2400-baud modem connected to my IBM DB25-pin connector on the other. So if you have a com puter (IBM AT, compatible. When I'm connected to a BBS service Such as CompuServe, Mac, etc.) that uses a DB9 connector for its RS-232 port, vou can stiil Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMit is more economical to run at the higher baud rate. CompuServe transfer files as described. online time rate for 1200 baud and 2400 baud is the same, $12.50/hour. •AC* If I'm downloading files, 1 can reduce my online time by 50 percent, operating at 2400 baud as compared to 1200 baud. This amounts to Parts List Multi-Sync Adapter and Null Modem saving a considerable sum of money over the course of a month or so, depending on usage. DB23 female connector 54.50 DB9 male or female connector 52,00

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Programs That Work Section 2: Data Base-ics by Dave Spitler

Last month, we talked about ways to What we really wanted to do wascreatea here's a list of things which tha t program does: construct a simple quiz or trivia type game. We program more along the lines of "Star Trek talked about the menus and thesimplc looping Trivia," which could ask a mixture of true/ 1.Know who is playing logic w hich are essential for a program of this false and multi plechoice questions, understand 2. Keep score type. Now, we will discuss some ways to ex­ the difference between a correct answer and an 3. Place questions on screen pand our program and m ake it interact w ith a incorrect one, and keep score. Additional fea­ a. multiple choice data base. tures would include multi-level play and the b. true/false Data bases are neither as mystical nor as ability to save games in progress. 4. Record Selection difficult as they m ay seem to the unitiated. At This program will require a data base of 5. Post a comment on the screen for correct its simplest level, a data base is nothing more questions and answers. AmigaVision and CnnDo and incorrect response than an electronic card file. In data base tech­ offer you ways to construct data bases within 6. Levels of difficulty nology, all of the information on one of those the program . If you use Director, Foundation, or 7. O rganize questions into categories index cards is a record and one separate piece HyperBook, you will have to create a data base 8. Offer entirely different sets of questions of information is a field. Because it is elec­ as a file outside of the program and refer to it in 9. M ulti-level play tronic, however, it is easier to look up informa­ your script. 10. Scramble the order of questions tion in a data base than it w as in your old card Before we can load data into our data base, it 11. Scramble the order of answers to multiple Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMfile. The program "M ath Drills" asked questions would be good to make some decisions about choice questions and collected answers without a data base. We its organization. This is especially important forced the computer to think up simple addi­ with AmigaVision because the structure of an Based on this list, we will need fields for tion problems based on the formula "x+y=z" AmigaVision data base cannot be altered Question Number, Level Number, Category, by telling it to insert a random number for the without ihe loss of all of the information that Question, Answers 1-4, and a field which in­ x and y variables. We then got the correct was entered before the change. Begin by di­ dicates which answer is the correct one. We answer with the statement "z-x+y", We used viding your program into steps that you can will also want to add two fields for comments variable "a" to collect the user answer list. This list can be very helpful in telling you after the question has been answered and fix (responses) and kept score by using an "IF" what fields to include in your data base. thi ngs so tha t we can have true/ fa lse questions statement (IF a=z) to cause the variable "score" For the current project, we are trying to as well as multiple choice ones. I added two to be incremented (score=score+l). mimic the functions of "Star Trek Trivia," so fields, "C o m m en tl" and "C om m ent2" to hold responses for both correct and incorrect an­ swers and a field called "TF" which contains a 1 for true/false questions and a 2 for multiple choice. Tlie next decision involves the length of COMPUTER LITERACY 101 $ SC O R ES each field. The Number, Line, and Category N A M E: KINSEY MILHONE #HELP fields will be tw o or three characters long, but LEVEL: 1 SCORE: 1 6>QUIT we would expect the question, answer, and Software is too high priced. Smart comment fields to be longer. I used tire fol­ people find other ways to get software low ing values: 120 characters per question, 40 and save money for a better computer. characters per answer, and 80 characters per comm ent. Since the longest line of text I could fit into a screen was 40 characters long, 1 used three 40-character fields for the question and tw o 4l)-character fields for each com m ent. After you have made all of the basic deci­ sions about your data base, it is time to start building. Build the basic data base structure, place a few bogus records in it for test pur­ poses, and then create a program to test it and This screen contains all the basic functions that we want to implement in our project. make sure you have all of the fields you need and that your concept works. Once you have tions in your data base which relate to the icon would be used to enter all data including everything working, you can get serious about specified level and, sinceyou haveplaeed a the password and ail information is passed to building up a real data base for your project. loop icon directly in front of the "select the data base by means of a "select record "icon As you are constructing your test pro­ record" icon and made the rest of the icons linked to a "read/write" icon. gram, refer once again to your specification in the question loop the children of the Once w e have established a field (TF) and list. Initially, you want to create a simple pro­ "select record" icon, your program will linked it to a variable, w e can teli the program gram to read the data base and interact w ith it. keep looping back to ask all of the questions whether to expect a true/false or multiple Once that works, you can begin to add other for that level until something happens to question. Use a single "IF-THEN" icon to features. Begin the program with a series of m ake it stop. branch the program. If "TF" equals 1, the ques­ variable statements. AmigaVision uses a "se­ A "Read/W rite Record" icon is now tion will be true/false; multiple choice if the lect record" icon to pick a record and then uses used to get the inform ation out of the d ata value is 2. a "read/write" icon to read the field contents base, and this information is quickly read Random numbers may be used to vary into pre-defined variables. These variables can into variables which you have already es­ the order in which questions are asked, but then be manipulated within the program. tablished. N ow , use a "w aitm ouse" icon to include a filter which excludes the questions

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Let us assume that you have set up the access the "object ed itor" to paste th a t inform a - which have been asked recently. Another pos­ data base with the fields which we have dis­ tion onto the screen. Directly following the sibility would be to come up with three or four cussed. Let us also assume that you have set "Waitmouse" icon is an ’TF-THEN” icon con­ different schemes for ordering the questions the "keys" up to focus on the fields taining the statement "response()=-Cor". and use a variable to decide which scheme to "QuestionNumber" and "Level". (The keys Based on whether the user response and cor­ use. Scrambling the order in which the an­ are the device by which the data base sorts rect answer are equal, a second "Waitmouse" swers appear poses a challenge. As far as I recordsHi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM and accesses the ones you want.) You will offer the "That's Right!" or "Oops" com­ know, there is but one way to accomplish this can now begin the program by creating vari­ ments. The " that's right" waitm ouse is fol towed feat, and that is to assign variables to all of the ables for "N um ber," "Level," question lines 1- by a variables icon with the statement answers and then translate a mouseclick or 3 (Ql, Q2, & Q3), answer lines 1-4 (ansi, ans2, "score=score+l" to increment the score vari­ keystroke into one of those variables. The com­ ans3, ans4), the comment lines, and, of course, able. By linking the score with the level of play, puter cannot know which answers are correct "Cor" (Correct) and "TF" (True/False). Use we can keep detailed statistics for analysis in if you scramble their order of appearance, but the format "namel =" " to establish all of these the "scores" subroutine. it can keep up with variables if they are properly variables. The icon which sets up your vari­ What I have described above is the core used. ables will be followed immediately by a loop programming which must happen if we are to It is a good idea to use separate programs icon followed by a graphic screen. achieve any of ou r goals at all. Get this section (subroutines) to present special parts of your Now, introduce your "seiect record" icon up and running before trying to add in any program such as the scoring analysis, help to access the correct d ata base and look up the other features. The core program is a lot easier screens or hints. The techniq ue here is to estab- record you want. The trick for this program is to debug by itself. lish the subroutine and then "call" it from to use a series of "IF-THEN” statements to Some of the features which we would like wherever you may need it. The great thing specify what level the player is on by declaring to add to our program include a way to save about a well-behaved subroutine is that you the variable "level." You do this in AmigaVision a session, control of progress from level to can call it from anywhere in your program and by using a 'wait mouse’ to set up the choices level, separate question loops for True/False it will take you back there w hen you are done and collect a user response. This 'wait mouse' and multiple choice questions, some way to with it. This also means that you can write a is directly followed by a series of "IF-ELSE" scramble the questions so that they don't al­ piece of special code once, and use it over from icons followed by one "IF-THEN" icon which ways appear in the same order and a way to different places in your program as a subrou­ tests to see what their choice has been. The first scramble the order in which the answers to tine. "IF-ELSE” will contain the script line "re- multiple choice questions appear. Space will A program as well organized and com- sponse()==l" (which reads "If response = 1). not perm it a detailed description of the w ay to pleteas"StarTrekTrivia"willnotbe completed That icon is partnered with a variables icon program all of these features, but here area few overnight, but if you plan your attack carefully containing the statement "level=l." In Direc­ hints: and follow the steps I have laid out here, you tor II script, the code would read as follows: If we want to keep track of the players can put one together more quickly and easily and allow them to save games, w e will have to than vou might have thought. if response=l then level=l •AC* else if responae=2 then level-2 use a separate data base. That would require else level=3 the construction of a data base which allows end Please Write to: the variables "name," "level," and "score" to Dave Spitler Once it has a value for the "level" vari­ be saved as a record in a data base where the c/o Amazing Computing able, your program will select all of the ques­ kev is a user-selected password. The "form” P.O. Box 2140 Fall River, M A 02722-0869 AMIGA

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by D. L. Richardson

D .L Richardson is the creator of the video ANIMATION 101, an instruc­ edited, selected and edited music and sound effects, and, oh yes, did tional video tape for Amiga animation. most of the art and animation. And although I appear on the screen as the instructor, I never forgot that the real star of the show was the Amiga. The instructor was merely the straight man. I have several When 1 was on the staff at Philmont Scout Ranch, we had a saying: theories about instructional videos and computer animation. "There are three steps to learning something. (1) The program should be entertaining and easy to follow, and "1. Som eone teaches you. the interest should build throughout the program. The viewers won't "2. You practice, leani much if they go to sleep. For entertainment value, 1 depended on "3. You teach someone else." action, beauty, a n d hum or, (2) The lesson should cover useful information, not available ! have seen the truth in this statement over and over. You don't anywhere else, certainly not in software manuals. Thirty-five years of really learn something until vou teach it to someone else. Originally I experience in animation has taught me very much about what works studied animation at UCLA—someone taught me—and then worked and what doesn't. I'm always happy to share my hard-learned short­ as an animation cameraman in Hollywood and later as a director of cuts w ith others. films and videos which involved animation—1 practiced. So I must (3) The software should be easy to use so that the animator can know all the answers. Right? Wrong! While producing ANIMATION concentrate on the scene and forget about the m echanics, m ore or less, Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM101 — teaching others— 1 consta n tly d i scovered bet ter ways to a n i ma te i'm not exactly a computer whiz. Deluxe Paint III, PageFlipper Plus and scenes, so each time 1 would start tire scene over again using the Pro Video Post filled the bill beautifully, and were used in 95 percent of improved technique. Some scenes were redone three or four times, the art and animation. In order to have the best possible live scenes on each time with a better method, I learned much while teaching others. location, 1 traveled to four states. The pyramid scene was shot at the ANIMATION 101 isa concentrated course in real-time animation Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado, the weather report at for video, based on the Amiga. It’s about as close to a onc-person Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado, the Loch Teton monster production as it can get. I wrote the script, typed it, directed, acted, scene and mountain scene at Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming, operated the camera, sound and lights, did the make-up and wardrobe, the UFO scenes at Devil's Tower National Park in Wyoming, and the RAP at M ount R ushm ore in South Dakota. Some of the UFO scenes were later reshnt on Mount Scott in Oklahoma. The complete production took almost a year working part time. The rest of my time was spent making otiier videos; even Amiga animators have to pay the rent. The computer used was an A-2000 with a 020 accelerator and 5MB of RAM. Other hardware usedwasSuperGen, Digi-View,ColorSplitterand Perfect Sound. The program was produced on three-quar­ ter-inch U-Matic video tape, and then bumped up to one-inch tape for a duplicat­ ing master. This keeps generation loss to a m inim um . Almost all of the graphics and anima­ tion were first generation. Instead of video

Use the Amiga to create stunning, professional graphics to combine with your video production. taping these scenes and then editing them into the master, which would be a second generation, 1 edited them directly from the computer to tire master. My Sony VO-5850 system allows insert editing from an uncon­ trolled source. When one is writing a script, it's important to know the subject thor­ oughly, to have more information than can be included in a single program. So one of the major considerations is deciding what to leave out. The original script of ANIM A­ TION 101 included several good points that had to be eli minated during ed iting for lack of screen time. The program was limited to one hour for several reasons: U-Matic tape has a maximum play time of one hour per cassette, and thecostof duplicating goes up if the program is longer than that. Some of the points that were eliminated are worthy of mentioning here. (A) Computer screens and TV screens havea daylightcolor balance, which isabout 5900 degrees Kelvin. But indoor, studio lights are normally tungsten which is 3200 degrees Kelvin. Daylight is more bluish, and tungsten is more reddish, It needed all 32 colors, and there w as not enough memory' to do it in hi­ or more accurately, orangish. A video camera will adjust its internal res. There is a problem in recording Io-res scenes on video tape, color balance to match the overall scene, so when a computer screen is because lo-res is not interlaced, but professional quality video must be included in an indoor scene, lit by tungsten light, the computer screen interlaced. The solution is simple: feed an external video signal, from will look m uch bluer than the rest of the scene. There are tw o w ays to a camera, to the genlock and set the sliders for graphics only. The lo-res correct this. The overall color balance can be changed to daylight by scene will come out interlaced. adding dichroic filters to all the lights, but this gets expensive. The Producing the video was only half the battle. The other half was Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMother m ethod is to change the color palette of the com puter graphic till marketing. It's no secret that people are more likely to buy a video if it looks alright, and you have to watch the video monitor to adjust it. they see part of it and like what they see. So I edited a fast-paced, 20- It will look quite reddish on the com puter m onitor. This is the m ethod minute, condensed version to show to user groups, in trade shows and used in the talking computer scenes in ANIMATION 101. even in show rooms. This "Reader's Digest" version was repeated (B) This suggestion does not relate directly to the Amiga, but is three times on a one-hour tape for continuous showing. It is called the useful to anyone using video cameras. Using a video camera, how do DISPLAY TAPE, and is available on a free loan basis, for showing at you zoom in extremely close on small objects? Zoom lenses will usually meetings, seminars, expos, etc. focus as close as one or two inches, but only in the extreme wide angle Color slides and negatives were made of several of the key scenes position. But wide angle lenses distort objects, and when you move a w ith a Polaroid Freeze Frame. The m ost expensive single item w as the camera that close, the lens hood generally places a shadow on the full color cover for the cassette, and I started with 5,000 copies. All subject. And zooming is impossible. The solution is using a close-up typesetting and 1 ay ou t for the cover, flyers, ord er forms, address labels, diopter lens, screwed into the front of the camera lens. Diopter lenses letterhead, etc. were done on the same computer using PageSetter 11. can be purchased at any camera store for a moderate price. They allow Although this is considered an entry-level desktop publishing pro­ you to focus much closer and still have full use of the zoom. This was gram and does have limitations, I find that itdoesan excellent job when used in ANIMATION 101 to zoom in on a small VU meter. used with a Hewlett-Packard Laserjet 11 printer. If you're about to make (C) How can you make an animated object look like it's going your first video production, you're in for a great experience. But be behind an object in a live scene? In 101 the UPO appears to come from informed that the first production always turns out to be a bigger behind the Devil's Tower. The answer is masking. I started by shooting project than expected. The solution is, be patient and stick w ith it. The the live scene of the mountain. The camera was on a solid tripod so it finished program will be very rewarding. It may turn out great, but could not move. I shot about two minutes of this scene to allow more even if it's not as good as expected, the experience is still worthwhile time when creating the mask. Back at the office, 1 played the mountain because we learn from our mistakes. I had great fun making ANI­ scene, feeding the video signal to the genlock. Using Deluxe Paint, I MATION 101 and hope that feeling comes through to f he viewer. Good traced an outline of the mountain while looking at a video monitor. The luck w ith your production. outline was filled and the mask was complete. In picking up the mask as a brush I included the area to the right, lower corner of the screen. •AC* Then by placing the brush handle in the lower right corner, 1 was able to position the mask correctly. Then it was just a m atterof animating the Please Write to: UFO and erasing the mask area from all frames. When the scene is D. L. Richardson played back, with the addition of graphics with the genlock, it really c/o Amazing Computing does look like the UFO is coming from behind the mountain. P.O. Box 2140 (D) All scenes, except one, were done in hi-res. The reason for Fall River, M A 02722-2140 doing one scene in lo-res was that it was along and very complex scene. Making a Video with the Amiga Graphics, animation, titling and editing

by Patrik Beck

Cable television has given us a number of wonderful things, by a committee of volunteers. They had a large array of cameras, tummysizer commercials, 24-hour "Giligan's Island," and public ac­ studios and editing suites. Gathering dust were two Amiga 2500's cess television. Public access to cable channels is arguably the best loaded w ith DeluxePaint II!, Turbo Silver, Photon Paint, etc. The only tool aspect of the three. that they actually used was Broadcast titlers character generator be- Public access puts thousands of dollars of equipment into the ca use nobody knew how to run any thing else. I offered to help them ou t hands of people with grand ideas and minimal training, and then airs but was informed that 1 would need to attend an orientation session their amateur efforts to the public. Shows include such fare as high- and a producers workshop, along with other meetings before I could school pageants, discussions of local interest, and low budget imita­ use the computers, tions of network shows. Results range from lame to bizarre. Most After several fruitless meetings and phone cails trying to set upa facilities have a charter or set of guidelines concerning the content of taping, i finally gave up in frustration. Luckily they weren't the only what is taped. Usually, whatever you produce cannot be sold for a facility around. profit and must be aired at least once. We used the public access facilities to create a promotional video for our band. Take Two A neighboring community also had public access facilities, though Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMRock and Roll on Video smaller and scantily equipped. They were much more amenable and To give an idea of comparable costs, we found that the best deal easier to deal with. Out first meeting was to set up the shoot. It would for having a promotional video professionally produced was a S1000 be a three-camera shoot with the video being mixed in the can as we package. This included studio time to record the sound track, which played live. They showed us examples of their work, bands they had you lip sync when filming. This gives you a high-quality' assembly line recorded previously. The first thing I noticed were the graphics. video that looks and sounds good but has little to distinguish it from the Though they could do some nice A/B rolls and special effect wipes rest of them. Before the band shelled out a month's worth of gig money with the chroma key, the character generator left much to be desired. to pay for the video, we decided to check outsom e alternatives. Several I asked if they would mind if 1 brought in my system to do the credits, local cable companies had public access facilities so I decided to check and they replied, "You got one of them there Omegas? Sure, bring it out what he could be done. One particular public access facility was run in!" As I said, easy to work with.

Figure One Pre-Production With the power of the Amiga, 1 intended to do much more than simply scroll text. 1 toyed with the idea of creating a ray-traced 3-D animation for an opening, going so far as converting the band nam e and logo into a structured object. If I did everything right the first time, I might have finished it in time but I didn't want to risk it. If you're familiar with ray-tracing, you know what I mean. 1 also didn't want the graphic to overwhelm the music we were promoting. Instead I whipped out my trusty DeluxePaint III. I had previously used Digi-View to digitize a black and white caricature we had of the band. I used that as a basis for an animation. The picture consisted of the four members of the band ina classic do- w hop pose (Figure 1). 1 used high resolution in overscan working with only four colors. Working with fewer colors has a lot of advantages, particularly those of us still using the anorexic Agnus. Not only do DeluxePaint III functions perform faster, but I was able also to clip out larger brushes, both conventional and animated. A ben- of reduced bil planes often overlooked is that it reduces disk access When I was satisfied with the picture, I again copied it to the spare time. Saving and loading small pallet animations from disk goes much screen to use it as a reference. I wanted the name to take about four faster. Later, I increased to three bit planes for eight colors. seconds to appear. As I was running at 15 frames per second, that meant 60 frames (4x15 = 60), all of which had the original picture. VVith the The Plan filled rectangle tool and the background color selected, I erased all but I decided the animation would have the four band members run a tiny sliver of the text from the first frame (Figure 3). Methodically I across the screen individually and strike their poses one at a time. Once went to each frame, each time leaving slightly more of the text intact in all fourlined up, the name of the band would sparkle into existence. By matching increments. I ran out of frames before I ran out of text so I making use of the move function and animated brushes, I felt I could added a few extra to complete the sequence. After 1 had finished, I complete it in time for the taping. realized that thejob could havebeen done quicker and more accurately w ith the m ove requester and a color zero brush. Let’s Rock The first thing 1 needed to do was clean and separate the band Figure Two members as brushes, filling in body parts where overlapping on the original picture occurred. 1 then saved as brushes the four complete figures of the members as they would appear in the final frame. My next task was to create an anim.brush of running legs. Here is a hint on legs: draw one leg in a complete cycle (up-forward-down-back) in an even number of frames. Grab the leg as an anim.brush and save it. Forward the leg animation to halfway through and start laying the leg anim.brush down over it for the complete cycle. Your running legs should have perfect bi-lateral movement. If your legs have a slight "galloping" motion to them, you probably didn't start the anim.brush on the right frame. Once I had cleaned up the legs and filled in their outlines with a brush pattern snipped from the original picture, 1 needed to attach them to the band m em bers. O ne by one, I loaded each brush and cut their legs off.! then used the move requester with all the distance and angle settings at zero to lay the brush on top of the animation of the running legs. Having the figures running with their arms outstretched looked pretty ludicrous, so I re-drew the arms bent close to the torso in a more natural running position. I now had two brushesofHi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM each member, a standing pose and a running animated .brush figure. 1 created the final frame first to use as a reference, and kept it as a spare screen. I would need to re-create that picture to the pixel for everything to line up correctly in the final assembly. A couple of tests showed that about 45 frames was a good length for the first figure to ru n on. I stamped the first anim.brush where 1 wanted it to end up, selected the 'goto' button on the move requester, doublechecked the movement first with the preview function, and sat back and let the computer do all the work. I gave the first runner a slight initial forward tilt, as if he wereslowingdowm from running really fast. On the last frame, I erased the running figure and replaced it with the appropriate 'pose' brush, confirming that the figure was perfectly aligned with its counterpart on the spare screen. 1 did the same with the next two figures, shortening their run time as they had a decreasing distance to cross. When I got to the last figure, it struck me that instead of having him run on like the rest, it m ight be amusing to have him slowly rise up from the bottom of the screen as if on an elevator, The casual stance and smirk on his face somehow made this seem appropriate. When 1 had saved the completed animation as 'part.one.anim/1 deleted all frames and loaded my reference picture to Checking and saving the animation showed what I expected— add text. 1 loaded the color font "chrome" from the Kara Fonts collec­ text appearing over the reference picture, preceded by big, ugly, color tion. It was at this point I realized that 1 needed another bit plane for zero erase holes. To fill the gaps, I loaded the first reference picture, on more than four colors if I wanted the letters to look good. After some the spare screen. Then returning to the animation, I used the merge- remapping, I was able to squeeze a chrome color spread out of seven behind function. This filled the area erased when removing the text. If colors (eight minus background which may be transparent) without 1 had the chip RAM of the big-boned Agnus, I could have used a stencil changing the animation previously created. 1 placed the band's name, or lock background while working with the text so that this step would "Master Jack," over the reference picture enlarging the M and the J to have been unnecessary. As it was, the merge function took a few approximate how the name appears on our posters and business cards. minutes. The final touch was to add some sparkles to the appearing I also used the outline function to outline the text w ith black to m ake it text. I used the spray tool set to a narrow area, and sprayed the leading stand out from the background (Figure 2). edge of the appearing text in each frame with a light color. This gave a sparkly effect to the letters as they formed on the screen. With this completed, 1 saved it as part two of the animation. I had had enough time, I would have written a script using The Director to make it run with the hit of any key. Things were going fine when something weird happened. F- BASI C 4 . 0 Murphy s Law A loose connection ora faulty'component somewhere in the video You've Read The Reviews: New In Version 4.0: console gave way and all the colors of the graphics turned to their

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South Dakota 57709-7722 getting late in the day, so L chose the cliche of having the text flipping Send Check or Money Order, or Write For Info Credit Card or C.O.D., Call and spinning in from infinity—old hat to Amigans,butstill impressive. (605) 348-0791 Creating the whole animation actually took less time than making the text screen. 1 merely clipped out the text as a brush, stamped it back F BASiC is a registered Trademark of DNS, Inc. AMIGA is a registered trademark ot Comnodcre/AMIGA. Inc down and cleared the screen. 1 set the frame count to 35 and went to the move requester. I set the brush to rotate on every axis and set the z - Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMdistance at a large negative value. After some fine tuning with preview, Putting It All Together 1 set it to render. After watching the result, 1 set theease-in value to eight ! now loaded part one of the animation. When the requester asked to smooth the final few frames and re-rendered. Total elapsed time was if I wanted to reduce the num berofbitplanes to that of the file, I selected about 20 minutes, most of which was rendering and saving to disk. "no.” This changed it to the sam e form at as p art tw o of the anim ation. I then loaded part two of the animation with the 'append' command. Finishing up Text The two parts flowed together seamlessly. I added a few duplicate This being a public access facility, we were required to air the final frames to improve the pacing and saved the complete animation on a cut as a program, which suited our purpose perfectly. I volunteered to freshly formatted disk. The entire file size came to a hair's byte under do the closing credit screens, which would not appear on our copy, so that a consistent quality' of the graphics would be maintained. This was 801K, just fitting on a single disk. appreciated, as seeing their names on the screen is the only payment Into the Studio m ost of these v olunteers get. I assembled every font disk and graphic program I could possibly Conclusions need and brought it with me, including all the files used in creating the main animation. I foolishly thought that I had all the bases covered. In these days of Toaster-mania and 24-bit miracles, it is easy' to forget that a stock Amiga 500 w ith a little extra m em ory'and a genlock When I started setting up my system in the video studio, 1 was puzzled is still a power house of video machine. When I was put in charge of tire by the flashing of the green drive light. At home 1 have everything plugged into a surge protector power strip and turn on everything graphics, the question wasn't "What can 1 do?" but rather "What do I choose from?” Consider also, the $750,000 video facility that charges from its one switch. Unfortunately, when I had torn down my system, $1000 per video could not quote me a price for a character animation I must ha ve been grogg v w ith fatigue because 1 had left my DeluxePaint like the one that I created because they didn't have the capabilities. 111 disk in the drive and it was attem pting to boot w hile I w as playing Everyone was pleased with the finished video. It had a look and mix and match with the power cords. Needless to say, the disk was personality uniquely our own. Our public access friends were so corrupted. 1 thought to salvage it, since it was probably just the boot­ impressed by our professionalism as a band and the unique graphics up section that was damaged, but 1 had neglected to bring a Workbench that they are planning to enter the video into competition, I hope we disk. Yes, 1 was embarrassed, but I couldn't do a tiring but waste an win! hour and a half running home and getting my backup. With my backup •AC* disk in place, Iloaded and test ran the animation. The composite output of my genlock, a Pro-gen, was fed into the video mixer. A black burst Please Write to: signal was fed into the genlock's input to keep the output stable. Palrik Beck I instructed the person at the board how to run the animation, c/o Amazing Computing since I would be in front of the cameras while it was being recorded. If P.O. Box2U0 Fall River, M A 02722-2140 REVIEWS S ince the Amiga is the premiere computer for video, it would only make sense to create a program that would let you use your computer to control your video edit decks. There have been several solutions in the past GOLD DISK'S year or so, but most require additional hard­ ware and expensive software. If these combi­ nations are out of your budget or pretty much overkill, then Gold Disk has an alternative Video Director avenue. Video Director is a program designed more for the amateur video maker who needs an easy method to assemble his or her tapes into a final production. But make no mistake, Low-cost Amiga Editor Video Director can also operate on a prosumer level with full serial control support for the Sony V-box, Panasonic AG-1960RS (or by Frank McMahon Panasonic AG-1960 with Selectra's VuPort), and NEC's PC VCR, it even allows genlock events and tape library functions. command on your remote, you should be able distinguish one tape from another. The eject Setting Up to program it and use it during your editing button to the right needs to be clicked every For testing purposes, I used a Sony sessions. Before you run the program for the time you switch a tape (it doesn't actually eject Handycam CCD-F35 Camcorder for the source first time, you must also set which drivers you the tape). After you produce a long list of m aterial an d a JVC HR-S6600U SVHS VCR for aregoingto use. A utility allows you to choose events, the program will automatically carry the record deck. If you are not using a serial- wha t type of con trol you wa n t for y ou r sou rce out each edit. When it gets to a different tape, controlled unit for your source, such as the and record deck. After, a driver file is saved to an on-screen prompt will let you know when prosumer models mentioned above, you must disk and is used every time you enter the to swap your source tapes. To the right side of use a Sony camcorder or a LANC (Control-L) program . the screen is the main control buttons for the compatible camcorder or VCR. Sony source and record decks. Standard controls camcorders have a small input on them usu­ Running the software appear above the reset button, which will zero Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMally marked remote, control-L, or LANC. If After loading, you are presented with the out your tape counter, and below are addi­ you have one of these along with an infrared main interface screen (see screen shot). The top tional transport tape controls. The amount of VCR for your record deck, you will not need left is an input window which allows you to additional controls will vary depending on any additional hardware. Two cables come type in the name of your source tape. The your camcorder. Examples would be "still- with the Video Director program: One is a reason for naming your tapes is that if you step" and "slow-motion." Not all camcorders serial cable which connects from the "remote" ha ve a prod uction that was recorded on severa 1 ha ve all features so it's best to try a few differen t input on your Sony camcorder to the serial different tapes, Video Director needs a wav to drivers to see see what works. As a matter of input onthebackof your Amiga, a nd the other is an in fra red cable tha t plugs into you r second Video Director u 1 .8 S 1991 Gold Disk Inc, joystickporttocontrol your record deck. Video Cat. D irector will w ork w ith any A m iga w ith 512K f m Footage EJECT TflPE S, m m ii ► [*►] o r m ore. CLIP 5, Once the connections were made, 1 had to t i l t SlouPanouerLaun Cai. J CLIP Ei RESET "trai n " my record SVHS VCR using Gold Disk's software. A simple program tells you to aim ASSEil ^ 11 your VCR remote at the infrared controller JU------U' ±J itll | (plugged into the joystick port) and follow the prompts. It will set up to learn a "play" com­ *— 11 H I mand for example and when I hit play on my . remote, the program will "sample" the infra­ mi I CLEAR | red beam. After all commands for stop, pause, SCENE» SCENE« * SPLIT OVERLAY play, rewind (plus reverse scan), fast forward (plus forward scan), and record are learned, Footage C: Countdown 80:08:06 66:84:01 1 ] 2 the data is then saved to disk. Testing is done *# OVERLAY ON/OFF: TitieScreen by aiming the infrared controller over to the 3 Footage : OverheadShot,Intro 66184:00 86:17:81 88:94:81 VCR and hitting screen icons such as "Play." » SCENE! Scenel 88:36:80 08:17:83 Since you can program the icons to anything ► 5 Footage : SlouPanouerLaun 80:17:01 you want, I was able to program fast forward footage 1 Zoon intoStacy 68:36:80 63:16:86 08:36:62 to multi-speed forward scan, a command my END SCENE (Scenel) remote has. Each time I hit the fast forward Footaoe : VoiceOver 83:16:80 03:16180 - 66:12:86 83:16!63 a ] button it would increase the scanning speed. Generally speaking, if it is a single button Video Director's main interface screen. fact, I automatically installed the Lanc_2driver In stailD rivers u1.8 (c> 1991 Gold Disk Inc, since the program was for F30-F40 series camcorders (mine is F35). Most additional controls did not work or were not available. I QUIT UideoDirector Driver Installation Utility HELP tried the other ones and even though the Lnnc_3 driver was designed for the Sony V9 series, it Available Drivers worked with my F35 activating non-working controls and giving me additional ones. So test (Click for description) all for best results. In addition to the button RG1960 controls, there is a small triangle, in a bar just Infrared Pick the driver for your source (input) above, which allows you to "slide" through LflttC 1 tape deck fron the list at left, then the commands with the mouse. This is the LfiNC.2 clic k on "INSTALL AS SOURCE DECK DRIVER" software equivalent of a scanning wheel on an LftNC.3 below. Repeat for the record (output) deck editor, w here you can slide to the right to scan flanualJDigit forward, slide toward the center to pause, and flanuai HUS driver, using the “RECORD DECK" button. slide to the left to activate reverse scan. Pretty Manual HHSF handy—although it does take a little getting NEC PC-VCR When finished, click ‘'QUIT'' at top left. used to. UBox.1 To the left of the transport controls is the UBoxJ clip w indow . Text entry lets you type in a clip VBox CTRL-S INSTALL AS SOURCE INSTALL AS RECORD nam e for every edit. There is also a calibration YBox TC DECK DRIVER DECK DRIVER option which lets any edit become a point of Video Director makes installation on your hard disk simple. reference event. If you have several tight edits coming up, it's helpful to precede it with a screen controls and selecting "Set" in the Clip manual calibration. The software simply stops window to the right of start. You r tape position But Video Director's power lies in its and requires tire user to line up exactly where will appear numerically to the left of the set ability to go beyond basic cut editing. You the tape should be according to the time counter. button. Then advance the tape to the end of the have numerous controls over your edit events Long scans and large edit fists can introduce scene and select set for the end point. To re­ once they are added to the event list. For ex­ inaccuracy, so this method can be used to make view your edit points, you can automatically ample there are four icons on the bottom left of sure the edits are as accurate as possible. A shot scan to the positions again using the respecti ve the screen w hich allow cutting, copying, p ast­ of a field would make a pretty poor calibration seek icon to the immediate right. Finally, click ing, and moving within the list. Let's say you Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMreference; however, a close-up of a stop watch on "A dd" just below and y our edit is added to were producing a video and it didn't quite (with seconds) or a camcorder counter, re­ the master event list. Make sure you have a flow as you had hoped. You can easily move corded onto your tape, is much preferred. blank tape in the record deck and hit "As­ scenes around or repeat specific scenes and then re-edit it. You could cut out a scene or Let’s Edit! semble." The edit is then performed auto­ even make one last a few seconds longer. In To start the edi ting process is as si mple as matically—it's that easy! cueing up the source camcorder with the on­ professional circles, this is called an "edit deci­ sion list." What if you were using a regular edit system and you had just edited a commercial TrainRenote v l.0 (c) 1391 Gold Disk Inc. for a car d ealer? The manager of thedealership comes to see the completed commercial and QUIT VideoDirector Infrared Remote Control Trainer says, "Boy, 1 would like the car in the middle to be shown longer, and can we ta ke out the older model?" In the past, it would have meant editing the entire commercial over. But Video INSTRUCTIONS Train T e st Director keeps a decision list of each and every Use the "Train" buttons to edit, automatically saved to disk whenever record the functions on your PLAY you choose "A dd", in the o rder they w ere put ►] renote control unit. on tape. Changing a commercial would be as _■ STOP ■L Use the “Test" buttons to test easy as hitting a few icons to change or delete the t r a i n e d f u n c t i o n s , Hhen events. Then hitting "Assemble" would auto­ ii PAUSE i i they are ail working, click matically reproduce the entire commercial with belou to save the data file. the changes intact. These event lists include many other REHIND functions as well. You can import or export them as standard ASCII text files to be used on FFHD SAVE DATA FILE other computers, or just toexamine. Scenes can be created which contain a nest of edits and RECORD | (VdataiOutDeck.vir) • t these scenes can then be moved or repeated. This is similar in concept to what Deluxe Video ■Train" the buttons on your remote to control the functions of your VCR via Video III does with graplucs. Every edit event is Director, your Amiga, and a special infrared cable. saved in a master file Tape Library which can becallcd up from disk at any time. This includes (frame counts are averaged internally in the not only edits from the current session but Video Director program) the accuracy can slip Put Some every edit made from day one using the pro­ from two up to seven frames. The program gram. If you had a particular sequence from a does a great job with various calibration tech­ few months ago you wanted to use for your niques to compensate though. I'd like to see current production, simply enter the tape li­ more programmable command icons for the in Your Animations brary, choose the scene of edits, and add it to Infrared controller. An additional bank of your current event list. During the automated commands that can be programmed, labeled, With assembly procedure when the scene comes up, and used would be most welcome. There also you will be prompted to insert that specific needs to be an icon for insert editing, video or source tape into your camcorder. In addition audio only, if the VCR remote supports it, since the tape library can be sorted alphabetically by all ed iting w ith the current softw are is d one in tape name or by dip name for easy referencing. assembly mode, combined audio and video, Other features include an option for a using infrared. Auto clip names are needed, synthesized voice to announce important maybe a numbered sequence, since constantly command prompts and gen lock control. Video typing in a name for each editgets tedious real Director currently supports the SuperGen fast. "Seek" needsa userdefinablecompensater Outstanding 30 Object Sets 2000s, allowing you to incorporate a graphic amount for certain camcorders. I found I would * Clarity -Casual event as a regular edit, so adding titles can be set a start time, hit the seek icon, and when it part of the automated process. Commands went to the start time again, it would stop a few -C opper -Paladtum •H elsinki such as fading in and outare available. You can framesafter the actual time, it reminded me of ■£P

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Non-Programmers ReadMe! do we do this? We need to da wha t is ca I led " scale to pixel aspec t" wh iie The v ideographers I know are relative new com ers to the Am iga, simultaneously scaling to fit the screen. Pixel aspect is the ratio of the and for that reason, are not so interested in ARexx, but this month's pixel width dx to its height dy (dx:dy). Aspects generally may refer to column has great utility for users of the Art Department Professional pixels, images, or the screen format itself. We will use different vari­ (ADPro) for processing video images. If you don't program, you may ables to distinguish which one we mean. Some commonly accepted simply copy these programs into your Rexx directory and start using pixel aspects for popular programs are 10:11 for DeluxePaint; 69:80 for them to help in your work. They sport a friendly, Graphical User DCTV (in overscan); and 11:13 for ADPro. The Epson ES300C scanner interface (GUI), and are easy to use— but Jiof to type in! For those w ho uses 1:1 pixels. desire it, I am m aking a disk available w ith all program s, libraries, and documentation for $10 postage paid. I will be upgrading the program (2) Assuming we have a correct pixel aspect, the second problem is to include functionality for the Firecracker 24 formats as well. Second, more common: How do you scale the data so that if you render it in for intermediate level ARexx programmers who are interested in another Amiga screen format, it will look right? Refer to Fig. 1, which graphics on the Amiga, there are some ideas here that you may find shows what we mean by the screen format's "pixel aspect” versus stimulating, particularly how to build a GUI using the "image aspect." Screen format pixels have an aspect of width w to RexxArpLib.library,by Willy Langeveld. This shared library (you may height h (w:h). The red rectangles represent an IMAGE with a constant download it from BIX) gives you ARexx hooks into Amiga Intuition aspect W:H rendered in different Amiga screen formats. Notice that it gadgets, windows, etc. takes different numbers of pixels in the W and H directions to render the "same" image in different screen formats. The "pixel aspect" to do Every Aspect of Pixels and Images with screen formats is not always identical in meaning to the "pixel Four situations recur frequently in Amiga graphics: aspect" in (1) above. This is why people sometimes get confused. "Screen format" pixel aspects aredetermined by doubling, dividing in (1) How do you deal with images imported from a device that uses half, or leaving alone the width or height "image pixel counts". ADPro Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMsquare pixels once they are inside your Amiga? Suppose you have a distinguishes these screen formats accordingly: picture to scan on the Epson ES300C with 1:1 pixel aspect, and you want to fill a 640 x 400 screen. If you scan it according to that pixel count in

the ADPro driver window, it will fill your screen all right, but it will P ick one or the appear too "fall and skinny" compared to the way the original looked, other of these X S C R E E N even though the num ber of pixels rem ains at 640x400. Try scanning a e q u a t i o n s : piece of graph paper with a square drawn on it, It is obvious that we need to scale the height down a bit to get the proportions back, and W_ X_ suppose we do. Now, the image looks OK, but it's too short and no longer fills the screen—not what we wanted do! We obviously need H Y o both to scan a taller height in pixels and also scale the height down New afterwards to fill the screen with an image of the proper aspect. How I m a g e _W X o H Y o j i H Y I HIGH RESOLUTION I INTERLACE X 0 I SCREEN (v:h) 640x400 H J LOW RESOLUTION Y o = - w x NON INTERLACE Original Image SCREEN (w:h)320x200 W HIGH RESOLUTION w NON INTERLACE | rejected size SCREEN (w:h) 640x200 "TT y IF Xo > X THEN U SE X and Yo LOW RESOLUTION INTERLACE IF Yo > Y THEN U SE Xo and Y SCREEN (w:h)320x400 Here is an example of the latter case: We use Xo ana Y for our new image dimen­ FIG 1 THE AMIGA SCREEN H sions. Note: the above are mutually exclusive FORMATS possibilities. The Screen is the heavy dotted line. Rejected size as too large is the light Figure 1, ab o ve, im a g e aspect vs. pixel aspect. Right, Figure 2, dotted line. how to scale an image to fit the screen. Page 61: Bottom left, the program s GUI. Top right, Figure 3, how to scale to a new pixel Fig 2 aspect ratio. How to Scale an Image to Fit the Screen. w 1. High Res Interlace = 22:26 w 1 hold w idlh \ w j n _ 2. Low Res N on-Interlace = 44:52 h 1:1 3. High Res Non-Interlace - 22:52 IT h / h w 4. Low Res Interlace - 44:26 w w Yfactor i l l (2 ) These four values represent the basic four Amiga screen formats, (1)Pixel has w:h aspect. (2)Hold width a even though 1. and 2, have the sam e "pixel aspect" of 11:13 as defined constant value 1. (3) Transform to a 1:1 pixel in (1) above. aspect using Y factor w/h. (3) A related problem is to scale the d ata so that you w ill get as n ear a (A) Scaling to a 1:1 pixel aspect. full screen as possible, and still keep the image aspect correct. Fig. 2 shows the relationship between an IMAGE with an arbitrary aspect W:H and the Amiga SCREEN aspect (X:Y). Solving the tw o equations dx:dy for the tw o unknow ns, XO and YO, w e then com pare XO to X and YO to w Y. We use these inequalities to decide whether to use (X and YO); or {XO w 1 hold width 1 Y fa cto r 1 and Y) as our new dimensions, Only one of the inequalities can hold true for a given image aspect. In the case of an exact fit, then neither h 7T i i \d x h inequality is true. w dy w (1) w (2) (3) (4) A further complication comes when you consider using Overscan. The Amiga Overscan increases the W pixel count by 15% and the H (1)Pixel has w:h aspect. (2)Hold width a cou nt by 20%. There are 128 possible transformations: 4 screen forma is, constant value 1. (3)Transform to a dx:dy plus the same four in Overscan, transformed both to and from each pixel aspect using Y factor dx/dy. other in both the X and Y directions: 128=(4+4)*(4+4)*2. (B) Scaling to a pixel aspect dx:dy. All the resolutions, colors, and screen modes on the stock Amiga (C) Image W by H pixels with aspect w:h 3000add up to 208 possible combinations! This alone is enough to drive will thus scale to X by Y pixels with you bonkers w hen you're trying to get an im age ready for a deadline, aspect dx:dy where: never mind worrying if the pixel aspect—not visible in the displayed (1) X=W image—iscorrect.The final straw: There is also the vertical adjustment (2) Y=(dx/dy)(h/w)H on your monitor to consider! Good old ARexx comes in handy. With a little program m ing, you can scale from any screen resolution w ith or without overscan, to any other with ease, and you can make the pixel Fig 3 How to Scale to a New Pixel Aspect. aspects just right for your application.

Step by Step you should scan nt about 640 x 472 pixels to fill a hi-res interlace Amiga TheHi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM Amiga screen has an aspect, and it varies depending upon where screen. If we use the ADPro hi-res pixel aspect of 22:26, then we need you have set the m onitor's vertical height controls, so the first thing to to m ultiply the nom inal count of 400 by 26/22 w hich com es out to 472. make sure of is the correct adjustment of your monitor. In some Note how we work backwards by using the inverse dy/dx of the Y monitors, this is a small screw inside a hole in the back; in a 1950 it's a factor d x /d v from Fig. 3. (B). In a 1:1 image, h /w = l and d rops out. We knob behind a door in the side. Hike to use DehixePaintlVin "Be Square" see that indeed, (22/26)*472=400, which is what we wanted. The mode, and draw a light colored solid square—hold down the shift arithmetic is not complicated, but it is tedious; and there are a lot of key—and a smaller square inside the first. Then, with a clear plastic transformations to memorize if you do these conversions manually, so ruler—not metal as it will mess up the magnetic field of your screen— we let ARexx eliminate the tedium, measure the squares for accuracy. If they are off, then adjust the monitor's vertical height to make them truly square. Now weare ready. Building a GUI Scaling to Pixel Aspect The RexxArpLib.library is handy for our purposes. ADPro has an ARexx macro capability, but its requesters are limited to just a few Fig. 3 illustrates the arithmetic todo with pixel aspectsand scaling characters, and we have many interconnected decisions to make. A between them. To answrer our question in (1) of how many pixels to w indow w ith logically interlocked gadgets is ultim ately the best solu­ scan at 1:1 in o rder to fill a 640x400 screen, w e find that w ith 1:1 pixels, tion. Press F2 while in ADPro. The F2.adpro program loads libraries if necessary, checks for a large enough Workbench screen, and Lai opens a custom screen if necessary. Then it creates a host ap­ plication complete with I/O port names, opens a window, and builds some gadgets. It also calls guiPostMsg.rcxx to put up our s c a l e : Pixel aspect only (pick) x :y ADPro s c a l e : Pixel 8EP0C! only (DPaintIV) 10:11 image information in its own window. All that RexxArpLib.library s c a l e : Pixet aspec t only CfiDPra) 22:26 Scale Utility gadgetsdo is to send a command string to a host application port s c a l e : Pixel j&pect only CDCTV) 6S : 80 (e>lS32l*MerrlCatowar name of your choice. That's why we program our system, as several smaller ARexx programs which some gadget "calls” SCALE: Rau ft RpntlPPPri Data~ | IHflftF INH1 | J w hen clicked on. The F2,adpro p rogram does its thing and exits, s c a l e : (pick) X:Y I SCALE: CDPalotiv> i b m i I leaving behind a window wired to send particular strings s c r l e : CADPro) 22:26 I Data ID Paint IV/T 1 c tore/bodybuann, 1 & whenever gad gets a re cl ickcd. Notice ho w wecan send arguments s c h l e : CDCTV) 69:AS | Last Saved In*g»! s c h l l : DitplJV Only.1 D*t«:DPaintIV/Plcture/bodvbuano. along with the string; for instance the position of the mouse Inif» Type: COLOR BITPLRHE pointer in the %x %y arguments. Also notice the finicky way in Screen Type: which we must quote long strings to insure that the ARexx High Res 1 Lou Res f 3: IliRu, Interlace Interlace 1 Hon IntL ( com ma nd pa rser in terprets things like I ine conti n u ation commas Standard | Oueracan | or string tokens correctly. The rat's nestof quotation marks is one Pixel Aspect XIY - 1BM 1 Y Ounein [ ResolutIon (X by YJ f 273 by 308 small price we must pay for using typeless tokens (ARexx Width - 648 Height = 480 variables). 15* Y Overscan: Keep Inage Aspect

e xit f (continued on p.66) AMIGADOS l.>cli directory Customizing Your Startup-Sequence

by Keith Cameron

1 < 5 Boot your computer and watch that blue screen pop up command to be executed. For example, if you wish to delete a line, the announcing which version of Workbench you're running. How would letter "d " will be used. Tlius, these com m ands are easier to rem em ber. you like to customize the startup-sequence so that everyone will know Here are some of the more useful commands, with kev letters under­ whose computer it is? Doing so is easy by using a few AmigaDOS lined. com m ands. Wrhen you boot your Amiga, the first activity you see is actually Esc/B Moves cursor to the Bottom of the text a CLI window executing commands contained in a script file called tnot the screen} "startup-sequence," which is located in the 's' directory of Workbench. Esc/BE Marks the end of a klock at the In order to customize the bootup operation of your computer, you must cursor. alter this script file. To do so, you need to open a CLI window. You Esc/BS Marks the start of a hlock at the should also be w orking w ith a backup of W orkbench rather than your cursor, (Note: Marking a original copy. Once your CLI window is open, make the 's' directory block is equivalent to selecting text your current directory. If you have read my recent articles, you will using a mouse-driven word processor.) know that you need to type; Esc/CF. Moves the cursor to the end of the line. Esc/CS moves the cursor to the CD S

Ctrl-B Deletes a line. eaits ED. Ctri-E Moves cursor to either the top or the bottom of the screen. These are not all of the com m ands available in ED. You can refer Ctrl-Y Deletes text from the cursor to the to your manual for more. For someone willing to learn all of the end of the line. commands, I suppose EDcan be quite versatile. Itcnn perform searches, Ctrl-] Moves cursor to either the end or the flip from upper to lower case or vice versa, and perform many other start of the line the cursor is in. functions. It is not user-friendly nor was it intended to be. For writing script files and performing various other short tasks, however, it is Extended mode commands arc more numerous and logical, but more than adequate. If you wanted to make a new file, you would use they take slightly longer to execu te beca u se more keys are involved. To the ED command along with the name of the file you wanted to create. execute them, first press the Esc key and release, then press another key For example, if you wanted to make a new file called MYF1LE, you (or keys) and release, and then hit the return. After pressing the Esc key, w ould type an asterisk will appear in the bottom left comer of the screen, indicating that ED is ready to accept the next key or keys. This key reflects the ED MYFILE After a moment, an empty screen would appear on the monitor, phonemically, which is the way that you think they should be spelled with only the words "Creating new file" in red letters appearing in the according to how they are pronounced. Once again, be sure to save any bottom left comer. You could then begin entering whatever text you changes you wish to make when you dose ED. wanted the file to contain. To open an existing file, such as the startup- Let's play around a little more with the SAY command. If you sequence, you would simply type the na me of that file following the E D have children in your house, they may especially enjoy its capabilities. command, (Remember that those of you using recent versions of You can use SAY to speak any text or script file you may have. Type the AmigaDOS will substitute "user-startup" for "start up-sequence.") following and see what happens: The startup-sequence for an older version of Workbench would look like this: SAY -X S/STARTUP-SEQUENCE echo ■A500/A200Q Workbench disk. Release 1.2 version 33.61*N* The "-X" is necessary in order to indicate that you want the Sys:System/FastMemFirst contents of the fiies/startup-sequence rather than simply the name of BindDrivers the file spoken. Without the "-X", only "s/startup-sequence" would be Addbuffers dfQ: 20 ;this uses up about 10S of memory, but. improves spoken. You can also control whether a male or female voice is used, the disk speed speed at which the script is spoken, and the pitch. If you want a male if EXISTS sys:system voice, type "-M " after the com m and. If you w an t a female voice, type path sys:system add "-F". You can vary the speed by typing "-S" followed by a number endif ranging from 40 to 400, with 400 being the fastest. Be sure that you leave if EXISTS sys:utilities no space between the letter and the number. Type "-P" followed by a path sys:utilities add number ranging from 65 to 320 to set the pitch, with 320 being the endif highest pitch. If you want a robot voice, type "-R"; if you prefer a Dir RAM: natural voice, type "-N" instead. A typical command line might look Path RAM: add something like this: SetMap usal LoadWb SAY -M -S35G -P75 -X SCRIPTFILE eRETURNS failat 30 SetClock >NXL* Opt load Play around and discover various ways toublizethiscntcrtainlng Date command. If my recent articles have led you to use the CLI more, you endcli > nil: may want to customize your Workbench even further. While you have the startup-sequence open, remove "loadwb" and "endcli> nil:". To do To customize this script file, we will use four AmigaDOS com­ so, refer to the ED commands presented earlier. Deleting this line will mands: ECHO, SAY, ENDCLI,and LOADWB. Let'sbegin with ECHO. make you a serious CLI user, for the LOADWB command tells At the top of the file, you w ill notice the ECHO com m and, follow ed by AmigaDOS to load Workbench. If that command is missing, you will some text, all of which is enclosed within quotation marks. If you have have no Workbench icon whatsoever; the Workbench menu bar will read my last article, you may be able to guess the purpose of the also be unavilable. Therefore, you are forced to use the CLI. I must quotation marks. Since there are spaces in the text, or string as it is more adm it, though, that I leave this line in m y com m and sequence, for there properlyHi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM called, the quotation marks are needed. If there were no are m any times w hen I do w an t to use W orkbench. The other line tells spaces, no marks would be necessary. The command itself serves to the CLI window to close so that control is given to Workbench. By print the string to the output device or, as in this case, the screen, To removing it, the CLI window remains open ready for use. Some time more fully understand this command and see how it works, let's begin is saved because you d o n 't have to open any w indow s to get to the CLI customizing your startup-sequcnce. Use the arrow keys to move the icon to open a CLI w indow . For users w ith lim ited RAM, this is useful cursor to the second line of the startup-sequence. There is no reason because some memory is saved by bypassing any windows that you why I selected this place other than it follows the previous ECHO might need to open in order to get to the CLI icon. On a typical command. Once the cursor is on the "S" in "Sys," hit the return once Workbench disk, this amount could be as much as 30K, which is a in o rder to create an em pty space. Then m ove y our cursor back to the substantial amount when you only have 512K of RAM to begin with. beginning of that empty line. Now type the EC HO com mand, fol lowed 1 have removed this line from my startup-sequence so that the CLI by any text that you would like to see printed to the screen. Remember window is the active one upon booting. Then, if I want to use Work­ to include the string in quotation marks if spaces are used. For example, bench oranother disk, Isimply use the front-to-backand resize gadgets you might wish to type the following: and leave the CLI window open in case I want to use it later. Then, when I am ready to use it, it is available with theclick of a mouse. If you ECHO "WELCOME TO KEITH'S BOOT DISK" have a frequently used program, such as a word processor, on a self- booting disk, you might want to further customize your startup- Notice, also, that there is no return at the end of the line. The sequence. Near the bottom of the commands in the startup-sequence, purpose of a return in ED is simp ly to move to the nex 11 ine, not execute type in a RUN command along with the name of the program. For a command as in AmigaDOS. In order to save the changes to the script, exa m pie, if you have a program like Scribble! on a self-booting disk, you hit the escape key, then the "x" key, and finally the return key. Next would type: time you boot your machine, you should see the text that you typed appear on the screen. RUN SCRIBBLE! In addition to adding this string to your startup-sequence, you can also have your Amiga speak to you upon booting. Once again, This, of course, assumes that Scribble! is in the root directory of the open your startup-sequence using ELD. Create a blank line below the hoot disk. Now when you insert the disk, Workbench will be bypassed ECHO command line you have just made. This time, we are going to and you will go straight into the word processor without lifting a add a string that the com puter will speak. We d o so by using the SAY finger. It takes a little longer for the disk to boot because the word command. Unlike the ECHO command, though, it is not necessary to processor is opened, but, overall, time is saved. Some RAM is also use quotation marks if spaces appear in the string. Simply type the SAY saved, for the icons in the windows which would have been opened command followed by any text you would like to hear. For example, from Workbench are once again avoided. If you want to run a clock you might wish to say something like this: upon booting your disk, you can do that as well. Only the amount of RAM which you have limits the number of programs you can run from SAY WELCOME TO YOUR AMIGA your startup-sequence upon booting. In an article I wrote last year, I urged users to run a mouse accelerator, a screen blanker, and a virus One thing you might notice is that some of the words are pro­ checker if spaceallowed. A mouseacceleratorspeeds up the movement nounced rather oddly. To correct this, you need to spell the words (continued on p. 87) H i g h

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/• put ADPro to back */ Environment Variables ADDRESS *ADPro* ADPRO_TO_3ACK The programs use environment variables rather than passing I* arguments all over the place. The program guiTerm.rexx terminates all *• Check for big enough screen; *• if screen too small (i.e. WB1.3) then processes and gets rid of these environment variables. The main screen ** we will open a custom public screen *APS*. calls either guiSPO.rexx (from the top gadget) or guiSPD.rexx {lower *• Otherwise we'll use the interlaced WB gadget) to set up and interlock other gadgets for further operations. ** for our SCALEHOST (the port name) window. V The program guiAddons.rexx makes the gadgets that set the environ­ ment variables of our target screen format and the Y Overscan, etc. It row^SCREENROWS('Workbench') col=SCREENCOLS('Workbench') also makes the "EXECUTE'' gadget that calls the program that does the 1ace=SCREENLACE('Workbench'> w ork in ADPro: guiEX.rexx. The u p p er bank of four gadgets is created IF (rowc400lcol<640lloce=0) THEN DO RESULT=OPENSCREEN(,,'HIRES' 'LACE",r by guiSPO.rexx itself called by the top gadget created by the main “ADPro Scale Utility VI.0","APS',,640,,) END screen program F2.adpro. These all pass their arguments to /• guiStartScOnly.rexx, which takes care of more interlocks, launching *• Create our very own host application. guiScalePixAsp.rexx with appropriate arguments to scale to pixel ** We should use the asynchronous 'AREXX" port. ** This window GETS its messages thru 'SCALEHOST*. aspect in ADPro. In guiEX.rexx, I used two, 2-D transformation matri­ ** This window SENDS its messages to 'REXX'. ces WX. and HY. and absolute scaling instead of percent scaling to ** This window tries to open on public screen "APS*. ** If it cannot, it opens on the 'Workbench' screen. insure exact pixel counts. Gadgets that are not used are "removed" an d /or turned off by the "interlocks." The environment variables G, H, ADDRESS AREXX ■'CALL CreateHost('SCALEHOST'.'REXX',APS)'' and gad are used to tell the programs if the top, the middle, or the /* wait for our new port to come on line */ bottom gadgets have yet been made. The interlocks at each level use WAITFQRPORT 'SCALEHOST'

these to make choices. /* Amiga Intuition parameters for the window and gads */ /* for gads •/

Operation idcmp=“CLOSEWINDOW GADGETUP MENUPICK' In ADPro, press F2 to launch the programs. If you already have /* for window */ another F2.adpro program, then you may safely rename mine. If you use System l .3, and a non-interlaced W orkbench, then a custom screen flags='NOCAREREFRESH WINDOWCLOSE WINDOWDRAG*, ' WINDOWDEPTH WINDOWSIZING SIZEBOTTOM ACTIVATE' will o pen w ith the w indow . If you use System 2.0, then you'll get a full sized Workbench window. Select the top gadget to scale to pixel aspect /* open the window with the parameters we want */

only, and click on the lower gadget to scale to screen size and optionally CALL OPENWINDOW('SCALEHOST*.0,11,640,389,idcmp,flags,, change pixel aspects, too. Each of these gadgets opens another group *F2.ADPro: Select a Scaling Operation...')

of gadgets from which to select. Fig. 4 shows the screen with all gadgets /* what to do if we click on the closewindow gad */ opened. The tower gadgets look for rendered data, so they know what CALL MODIFYHOST(SCALEHOST,CLOSEWINDOW,''CALL guiTerm.rexx''J kind of image you want. If you forgot to render, a requester asks if you want to "Smart Render," an option which will attempt to guess a screen /* Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM** Add the primary gadgets to the window. format based on pixel aspect. To render it manually, exit. Tire gadgets ** If the gad is clicked, the last string is sent to 'REXX*. change their highlights, indicating which data is in the environment ** Here, they are calls to the other programs. variables. They also lock out gadgets not to be used. The "Y O verscan" gadget lets you choose +15% or +20% Y overscan. To keep image CALL ADDGADGET{'SCALEHOST',10,370,"EXIT“,, aspect, the default, 15% is the best choice. To fill the screen with a ' EXIT "CALL guiTerm.rexx") 640x400 image in overscan at 736x480, choose "Fill Screen" 20% Y CALL ADDGADGET('SCALEHOST',275,125,'REN*,, Overscan, The image stretches 5% in the Y direction, filling the screen. ' IMAGE INFO *, " CALL guiPostMsg. rex x " ) In video, the stretch will not be noticeable, but a bottom border would CALL ADDGADGET('SCALEHOST',100,125,'HELP'. , be. The "Help” gadget calls up some useful image information for HELP *, "CALL guiHELP.rexx") A m iga screens. The logo code is com m ented out, since you c an 't copy /* post the image info on the window */ an IFF file in a magazine, but you may include an IFF file (from a brush) IF flag=0 THEN CALL guiPostMsg.rexx in this way. Fig. 4 shows the interface (with logo) ready to scale your CALL ADDGADGET('SCALEHOST',10,20,'SPIX*., images. Now you can take Vinnie's video of Vicky and truly render to - SCALE; To Pixel Aspect Only ',, ''CALL guiSPO.rexx") seize her! CALL ADDGADGET('SCALEHOST',10.125,'SPAD'., ' SCALE; Raw & Rendered Data *,, Listing O ne ''CALL guiSPD.rexx")

/* F2.adpro GUI for guiEX.rexx */ f * set the defaults for the environment vars V /* see note in guiEX.rexx */ CALL SETEHVlgad,0) CALL SETENV(G,0) OPTIONS RESULTS CALL 5ETENV(H,0)

/* flag for message window ■/ EXIT 0 flag=Q

/* if our window is there, post the latest info */ Listing Two IF SHOW< *Pr,'SCALEHOST'} THEN DO CALL guiPostMsg.rexx /* guiAddons.rexx add gadgets for gui f2.adpro */ flag=l OPTIONS RESULTS END /* have we made these before? */ /* setup Loads libraries */ IF GETENV(gad) THEN EXIT 0 libs.1-’rexxsupport.library' CALL ADDGADGET('SCALEHOST*,10,250,'HR',, /* extended functions (DOS,etc.) */ “ High Res ',, *'RESULT=SETENV{xpix,640) libs.2= 'rexxarplib.library' -CALL SETGADGET(SCALEHOST,LR,OFF);', /* intuition, windows, gadgets */ -CALL SETGADGET(SCALEHOST,HR,ON)4') CALL ADDGADGET*"SCALEHOST',120,250,'LR',, DO i=l TO 2 ' Low Res ',, IF 'SHOW('LMibs.i) THEN CALL ADDLIB(libs, i, 0,-30, 0) ''RESULT=SETENV(xpi x, 3 2 0);*, IF -SHOW(*L',libs.i) THEN EXIT 20 "CALL SETGADGET’ (SCALEHOST, LR, ON) ; " , END -CALL SETGADGET(SCALEHOST,HR,OFF)'*) CALL ADDGADGETt'SCALEHOST',10,270,'IL'. S C O = G E T E N V (SCO) scale display only? V * Interlace ■*,, YOSET=GETENVIYOSET) V Overscan percent factor */ # fRESULT=SETENVIL,2};*, -CALL SETGADGETISCALEHOST,IL,ON)j m, /* look for rendered data and act accordingly */ 'CALL SETGADGETISCALEHOST,ML,OFF) " 1 IF DATATYPE(stype) -= *N0M' THEN DO CALL ADDGADGETt'SCALEHOST',120,270,"ML* answer=REQUEST(mx-15,my-45,, ' Mon IntL ".. 'No RENDERED data to scale! Smart Render/Scab? Exit ",APS) ' 'RESULT-SETENVIL, 1 ); ', IF answer= '' THEN DO 'CALL SETGADGET(SCALEHOST,IL,OFF);* , CALL guiTerm.rexx ' CALL SETGADGET I SCALEHOST ,NL,O N) " ) EXIT 0 END SELECT CALL ADDGADGST('SCALEHOST'.10,290,'ST",, WHEN (xaspect/yaspect) > 1,1 THEN DO ' Standard *,, xpix=320 " RESULT-SETENVlOS,0>;*, L=2 'CALL SETGADGETISCALEHOST.ST,ON );', 'CALL SETGADGET (SCALEHOST, OS, OFF) * ') CALL SETENV(xpix.320) CALL SETENV(L,2) CALL ADDGADGETI'SCALEHOST',120,290,'OS',, CALL SETGADGET(SCALEHOST,LR,ON) ' Overscan ', , CALL SETGADGET(SCALEHOST.HR,OFF) -'RESULT=SETENVTOS,1) CALL SETGADGET{SCALEHOST,IL,ON) 'CALL SETGADGET(SCALEHOST,ST,OFF);', CALL SETGADGET(SCALEHOST.NL,OFF) "CALL SETGADGET(SCALEHOST,OS,ON) " ) END WHEN Ixaspect/yaspect) < 0.5 THEN DO /* note how to pass mouse coodinates %x and %y •/ xpix=640 CALL ADDGADGET('SCALEHOST',120,310,'YOSET', , ' Y Ovrscan ', , L=1 "CALL guiSetYOSET, rexx %x ty") CALL SETENV(xpix,640) CALL SETENV(L,l) /* set our environment variables */ CALL SETGADGET(SCALEHOST,LR,OFF) "CALL SETENV(YOSET,1.15)' CALL SETGADGET (SCALEHOST,HR,ON) 'CALL SETENV(gad, 1}' CALL SETGADGET(SCALEHOST,IL,OFF) 'CALL SETENV j xpix,640)' CALL SETGADGET(SCALEHOST,NL,ON) 'CALL SETENV(L,2)' END 'CALL SETENV(OS,0) " OTHERWISE DO /* interlock to set gads on and off V ''CALL S ETGADGETISCALEHOST.HR,ON)' xpix=64Q 'CALL SETGADGET(SCALEHOST,IL.ON)* L=2 'CALL SETGADGET(SCALEHOST,ST,ON) " CALL SETENV(xpix,320) CALL SETENVIL,2) EXIT 0 CALL SETGADGET{SCALEHOST,LR,OFF) CALL SETGADGET(SCALEHOST,HR,ON) CALL SETGADGET(SCALEHOST,IL,ON) CALL SETGADGET(SCALEHOST,NL,OFF) Listing Three END END /* SELECT */ guiEX.rexx This ARexx program scales according to the pixel END aspect entered by the user in the gui F2.adpro. Its main purpose is to properly scale images scanned by an Epson ES-300C which uses /* use in test later */ square (1:1) pixels. X w i d = W This program allows you to re-scale at a pixel aspect Yhi=H suitableHi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM for the final destination of the image: DFaintIV, DCTV, etc. The 1:1 images are too tall and skinr.y if not rescaled. /' dealing with overscan V If an Amiga screen format is chosen, then the program OX=l scales to tit the screen using the pixel aspects and Amiga OY=l Screen formats. You may scale between screen size as well without Y=20Q*L distortion to convert between screen formats and/or overscan. IF OS-1 THEN DO OXsl.15 **• WARNING: THIS PROGRAM ALTERS YOUR IMAGE DATA! **• OY=YOSET Y=Y*1.2 The pixel aspects in the requesters are the ones supported END directly: For (X=High Resolution : Y=Interlaced), DPaintIV uses a 10:11 pixel aspect, ADPro recommends 22:26. /* scaling math & tests */ DCTV overscan images use 69:30. The X and Y values are X=xpix*0X automatically input as double the above values to represent Low Res A=(yaspect/xa3pecc)*(dx/dy) and Non-Interlaced, respectively. You may enter your own pixel IF dx/dy-xaspect/yaspect THEN A=1 aspects in the (pick) requester if you wish to scale to your own IF SCO=l THEN A=1 custom aspect. /* screen size goal * f Y Overscan: Use the 'Keep Image Aspect' choice for most of your images. If you want to fill the screen with a 'normal' image in SELECT 640x400 using overscan, then select the '20% Fill Screen' option with WHEN X=320 & Y=200 THEN DO the 'Y Overscan' gadget. The image will "stretch' 5% in the Y StO=0 direction, but it will fill the screen, useful for video work. In rentype^32 most cases the stretch is not noticeable. END WHEN X=640 h Y=20O THEN DO Author: Merrill Callaway (c) 1992 S t O = l rentype=16 END WHEN X=320 k Y=40Q THEN DO OPTIONS RESULTS sto=2 /* get the mouse coordinates */ rentype=32 PARSE ARC mac my . END WHEN X=640 & Y=4GQ THEN DO ADDRESS 'ADPro* sto=3 /* retrieve our environment variable rentype=16 stype=GET£NV(stype) /* screen type */ END xpix=GETENV(xpix) /* Hi res or Low res? WHEN X=368 & Y=240 THEN DO L=GET£NV(L) /* interlace? */ sto=24 OS=GETENV(OS} /* Overscan? */ rentype=32 dx=GETENV(dx) /* new X Pixel Aspect END dy^GETENV(dy) /* new Y Pixel Aspect WHEN X-736 k Y=240 THEN DO xaspect-GETENV(xaspectI old pixel aspects.. stO=25 yaspect-GETENV(yaspect) rentype=16 W=GETENV(xwide) /* image width and height END H=GETENV(yhigh) WHEN X=368 k Y=480 THEN DO StO=26 rentypes32 WX.24.2 =B END KY.24.2 =E*A WHEN X=736 & Y=480 THEN DO WX.24.3 sto=27 HY.24.3 =E*A rentype=16 WX.24,24=1 END HY.24.24-A OTHERWISE DO WX.24.25=2 EXIT 20 HY,24.25=A END WX.24.26=1 END HY,24.26=2*A WX, 24.27=2 /* how to render if there wasn't any screen type ■/ HY.24.27=2*A IF DA T A T Y P E ( S t y p e J 'NUM' THEN stype=sto WX.25.0 =F HY.25.0 =D*A /* transformation matrices */ WX.25.1 =B /* initialize •/ HY.25.1 =D*A KX. = 1 WX.25.2 =F HY . =1 HY,25.2 =E*A WX.Q.O =1 WX,25.3 =B HY.O.Q =A HY.25.3 =E*A WX.0.1 =2 WX.25.24=0.5 HY.0.1 -A HY.25,24=A W X .0.2 =1 WX,25.25=1 HY.0.2 2 *A HY.25.25=A W X .0,3 -2 WX.25.26=0.5 HY.0.3 -2"A HY.25.26=2-A WX.0.24=1.15 WX.25.27=1 HY.O.24=OY*A HY.25.27=2*A WX.0.25=2.3 WX.26.0 =B HY.O.25=OY*A HY.25.0 =G*A WX.0,26=1.15 WX.26.1 =C HY.0.26=2.4 *A HY.26.1 =G*A WX.0.27=2.3 WX.26.2 =B HY.O.27=2.4"A HY.26.2 =D*A WX.1.0 =0.5 WX.26.3 =C HY.1.0 =A HY.26.3 =D*A WX.1.1 =1 WX.26,24=1 HY,1 .1 =A HY,26-24=0.5*A WX .1.2 =0.5 WX.26.25=2 HY.1.2 = 2*A HY.26.25=0.5*A WX .1,3 =1 WX.26.26=1 HY.1.3 =2*A HY.26.26=A WX,1.24=0.576 WX.26.27=2 HY.1.24=OY*A HY.26.27rA WX.1.25=1.15 WX.27.Q =F HY.1,25=OY*A HY.27.0 =G*A WX.1.26=0.575 MX.27.1 =3 HY.1-26=2.4*A HY.27.1 =G*A WX.1.27-1.15 WX.27 . 2 =F Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMHY.i.27=2.4*A HY .27 .2 =B*A WX.2,0 =1 WX.27 .3 =9 HY.2,0 =0.5*A KY.27.3 =D*A WX.2,1 =2 WX.27.24=0,5 HY.2 .1 =Q.5*A HY.27 .24=0.5*A WX.2,2 =1 WX.27.24=1 HY.2,2 =A HY.27,25=0,5*A MX.2.3 =2 WX.27.26=0.5 HY.2.3 =A HY.27.26=A WX.2.24=1.15 WX.27.27=1 HY.2.24=0.6*A HY.27,27=A WX.2 ,25=2.3 HY.2.25=0.6*A /* transform */ WX.2,26=1.15 H=H*HY-stype.sto KY.2.26=OY*A W=W*WX.stype.sco WX.2.27 = 2.3 HY.2.27=1.15*A /* scale to screen (see Fig 2) V WX.3.0 =0.5 Y0=(X/W}*H HY.3.0 =0.5*A XQ=(W/H)*Y WX.3.1 =1 IF XO > X THEN Y=Y0 HY.3.1 =0.5*A IF YO > Y THEN X=X0 WX.3,2 =0.5 HY.3.2 =A /* see if we really need to act V WX.3.3 =1 IF dx=xaspect & dy=yaspect & X=Xwid Sc Y=Yhi THEN DO HY.3.3 =A CALL REQUEST(120,320,, WX.3.24=0.575 "No differences to scale/aspect!*,," Resume ",,APS) HY.3,24=0.6*A EXIT 0 WX.3.25.1.15 END HY.3.25=0.6rA WX.3.26=0.575 /* do it in ADFro */ HY.3.26=OY*A ADPRO_TO_FRONT WX.3.27=1.15 ABS_SCALE X Y HY.3 -27=OY*A IF SCO~=l THEN OPERATOR * DEFINE.PXL_ASPECT" dx dy ELSE OPERATOR ,rDEFINE_PXL_A£PECT* xaspect yaspect /* make some variables to use...*/ SCREEN_TYPE sto B=l/1.15 RENDER_TYPE rentype C=l/.575 EXECUTE D=l/OY ADPR0_DISPLAY E=1/ .6 ADPROJDNDIS PLAY F=i/2.3 AD PRO_TO_BACK G=l/2.4 ADDRESS SCALEHOST W INDOWTOFRONT CALL guiPostMsg-rexx EXIT 0 WX.24.0 =B HY.24.0 =D*A WX.24.1 =C HY.24.1 =D*A Listing Four

/* guiHELP.rexx posts adpro image info gu: f9.adpro OPTIONS RESULTS BRIDGEB0ARD USERS!

/* to add a logo, make one as a brush and then */ Don’t waste money, slots or desk space buying extra /* put the path name in here Where Rexx:guiPIC.iff i /■ uncomment to make your logo appear in the window IBM-compatible or Amiga floppy drives! The Bridge Drive Commander+ gives you direct access 10 all your internal

CALL IFFImage<'SCALEHOST', , and external Amiga drives from the Bridgeboard, and direct "Rexx:guiPIC.iff",400,20,,,) access to IBM type 360K and 720K drives from Amiga- V DOS. AT Bridge Boards can use 1.44M drives. The Bridge CALL POSTMSG <) Drive Commander* is totally transparent and automatic. /* set the gadgets ON and OFF * i CALL SETGADGET(SCALEHOST,REN.OFF) Put an IBM type disk in any drive and use it just like on CALL SETGADGET(SCALEHOST,HELP,ON) any IBM compatibie! Put in an Amiga disk and return to /* put the message in our window * Amiga use! Just that simple, just that fast! One drive can CALL POSTMSG(275,155,, 'SCREEN FORMAT (pixels) wide high val". use Amiga disks at the same time another is using IBM- compatible disks. Disks are completely usabie by other \ \Low Resolution: X = 320 O'! Amiga and IBM-compatible computers. All hardware: no "\Overscari: X+15% = 368 8*. software drivers to load, no precious memory or cards slots \ NHlgh Resolution: X = 640 1". "\0verscan: X+15% ? 736 8", used up. Plugs onto motherboard at internal drive con­ \ \Non-InterIace: Y = 200 0*. nector. (No soldering or wiring changes.} Compatible with "\Full Overscan: Y+20% = 240 16'. "\Keep Asp Oscar.: Y+15% « 230 16', all Bridgeboards (8088, 80286), accelerator boards (any \ \Interlar:: Y = 400 2*, 680x0), hard disks and other hardware and software. "\FuIl Overscan: Y+20% = 430 16'] '\Keep Asp Oscan: Y+15% = 460 16', Introductory price ends April 3 0 ...... $97.50 "\Top gadget: scale to pix asp only "\Mici gadget: pix asp AND/OR screen. “\EXECUTE button scales according to MJ SYSTEMS 'Mower highlighted gads, Sirsi of vals '\equals screen type. APS) Dept 29A, 1222 Brookwood Road, Madison, Wl 53711

EXIT 0 1-800-448-4564 Listing Five (24 hours MasterCard/VISA) /* guiHakeVar.rexx make up variables for gui £2.adpro Product names are trademarks of their respective companies. OPTIONS RESULTS PARSE ARG N X Y, mx my SELECT Circle 103 on Reader Service card. WHEN N = THEN str= C P WHEN N = THEN str= P C . J* find out what kind of image we have,..*/ Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMWHEN N = THEN str= A P i IMAGEJTYPE WHEN N = THEN str= D C i t ype=ADPRO_RE£ULT OTHERWISE Str= '0 D C A IF IADPRO_R.ESULT - "NONE" I I (AD?RO_R£SULT = 'BITPLANE') THEN DO RESULT REQUEST(10,50,"No Image Data to Scale!'Resume',.APS) END CALL guiTerm.rexx EXIT 0 PARSE VAR str C P A D 0 . END

IF C='C' THEN X=REQUEST(mx,my,'Enter X-Aspect',1,OKAY,CANCEL,APS) IF FIND!itype,BITPLANE)=0 THEN rend=Q IF C='C' U X“='’THEN Y?REQUEST(mx,nY.. -Enter Y-Aspect *,1,OKAY,CANCEL,APS) LAST_LOADED_IMAGE IF X--"jY=" THEN DO IF RC^O THEN lli=ADPRO_RESULT;ELSE lli='none' CALL SETGADGET(SCALEHOST,PC,OFF) LA S ?_S AV ED_IMAGE EXIT 0 IF RC=0 THEN isi =ADPRO_RESULT;ELSE 1 si = ’none' END SCREEN_TYPE -'CALL SETGADGET(SCALEHOST,P'C',ON ) * ' IF RC 0 & rend- = Q THEN styp=AD?RQ_RESULTrELSE styp ’no rendered data' " C A L L SETGADGET (SCALEHOST, P'P',OFF) ' ' ' 'CALL SETGADGET(SCALEHOST.P'A'.OFF)1 * /* make string to display in message window *7 * 'CALL SETGADGET(SCALEHOST, P'D'.OFF) * ■ SELECT "'CALL SETGADGET(SCALEHOST,P'O',OFF) " WHEN sr.yp=0 THEN stext= 'LoRes, Non-Interlace ' WHEN styp=I THEN stext='HiRes, Non-Interlace * CALL SETENV(dx.X) WHEN styp=2 THEN stext?‘LoRes, Interlace ' WHEN styp=3 THEN stext='HiRes, Interlace ' CALL SETENV(dy.Y) WHEN styp=24 THEN stext='Ovrscan X6Y, LoRes, Non-Interlace' IF N='0’ THEN R=SET£NV(SCO,1)rELSE R=SETENV(3CQ,0) WHEN styp=25 THEN stext='Ovrscan X&Y, HiRes, Non-Interlace' EXIT 0 WHEN styp-25 THEN stext-'Ovrscan X&Y,LoRes, Interlace* WHEN styp-27 THEN stext 1Ovrscan X&Y,HiRes, Interlace' Listing Six OTHERWISE stext-'{see page 369)' END /" guiPostMsg.rexx posts adpro image info * /* in its own window on SCALEHOST window */ RENDER.TYPE IF RC -, & rend-=0 THEN ren=AD?RO_RE£ULT;ELSE ren-'no rendered data* OPTIONS RESULTS OPERATOR 'DEFIME_PXL-ASPECT* /* to add a logo, make one as a brush and then * IF RC=0 THEN dpaline=ADPRQ„RESULT;ELSE dpaline-’none' /* put the paLh name in here where Rexx;guiPIC.iff /* uncomment the following for inserting a logo,,, PARSE VAR dpaline Xasp Yasp Xres Yres width height

CALL IFFlmaget'SCALEHOST',, ADDRESS "SCALEHOST* 'RexxrguiPIC.iff*. 400, 20...) /* set environment variables for use by other pgms */ RESULT-SE7ENV(Xaspect,Xasp > RESULT=SETENV (Yaspect, Yasp) CALL POSTMSG0 RESULT=SE7ENV(xwice,width) CALL SETGADGET(SCALEHOST,REN,ONI RESULT® SETENV(yhigh,height) CALL SETGADGET(SCALEHOST,HELP,OFF) RESULT-SETENVtscype,styp) YOSET=GETENV1YOSET) IF -SHOW(' P ‘,'ApPro*) THEN, IF YOSET*l.15 THEN t='lS% Y Overscan: Keep Image Aspect' CALL POSTMSG(275,155,'ADPro Is not running",APS) IF YOSET?1.2 t h e n ts‘20% Y Overscan: Fill Screen'

ADDRESS "ADPro" /* post the message in the window *7 /* get the quotes exactly right' */ Listing Eight 1 - ALL POSTMSG(275,155,"Last Loaded Image: \- 11 i, *\ \Last Saved Image:\'Isi, /* guiSetYOSET.rexx requester for setting YOSET */ 'Image lype: "itype, *\ \5creen Type:\"styp": “stexc, OPTIONS RESULTS * \Render Type:\“ren*-color*, *\ \Pixel Aspect X:Y - *Xasp':"Yasp. /* find mouse coords •/ *VResolution IX by Y)t “Xres* by “Yres, PARSE ARG mx my . " W i d t h - "width* Height ="height, *\ \'t,APS) /* put up requester •/ X-REOUE£T(mx,my(“Set %Y-Overscan*,,, EXIT 0 * 15% Keep Aspect '.* 20% rill Screen ",APS)

/* deal with result string */ Listing Seven IF X=*OKAY* THEN CALL SETENV(YOSET, 1. L5) ELSE CALL SETENV(YOSET,1.2) /* guiScalePixAsp.rexx This ARexx program scales according to the Y-GETENV(YOSET) pixel aspect entered by the user in the gui F2.adpro. Its main IF Y=1.15 THEN t-'15% Y Overscan: Keep Image Aspect' purpose is to properly scale images scanned by an Epson ES-300C which IF Y-1,2 THEN t-'2Q% Y Overscan: Fill Screen' uses square (1:1) pixels. /* put the changes in the message window */ This program allows you to re-scale at a pixel aspect /* notice the syntax \ for skipping lines */ suitable for the final destination of the image: DPaintlV, DCTV, etc. The 1:1 images are too tall and skinny if not rescaled. CALL POSTKSG (,, " W W W V\\\\\\\\\\\\*t, APS)

* + • WARNING: THIS PROGRAM ALTERS YOUR IMAGE DATA! “ * EXIT 0

Author: Merrill Callaway ic) 1992 Listing Nine V OPTIONS RESULTS /* guiSPD.rexx scale pixels and display gui for f2 .adpro */ ADDRESS "ADPro* OPTIONS RESULTS f* get the mouse coords, the new aspect X ar.d Y * / PARSE ARG mx my dx dy . /* interlock to turn gads on and off *7 CALL SETGADGET(SCALEHOS?,SPAD,ON) /* get the rest from the environment */ CALL SETGADGET(SCALEHOST,SPIX.OFF) xaspect=GETENV(Xaspect) yaspeet-GETENV(Yaspect) /* MAKE H GADGETS */ W=GET£NV(xwide) * note the way we pass arguments to the */ K-GETENV(yhighI /* pom that makes the variables */

/* if no need to act...*/ CALL ADDGADGET('SCALEHOS?*,10,145,“PC*,, IF (dx=xaspect & dy=yaspect) THEN DO ' SCALE: (pick) X:Y ADPRO_TO_BACK " C A L L guiMakeVar.rexx *C*,%x %y'"l answer=REQUEST(mx,my,, "Requested Pixel Aspect same as Data!',," Resume Exit CALL ADDGADGET("SCALEHOST*,10,160,*PP',, IF answer=*' THEN DO “ SCALE:(DPaintlV) 10:11 CALL guiTerm.rexx "CALL guiMakeVar.rexx *P* 10 11'•) EXIT 0 END CALL ADDGADGET(* SCALEHOST", 10,1~5,* PA*,, i f answer='o k a y ' t h e n e x i t o * SCALE: (ADPro) 22:26 END "CALL guiMakeVar.rexx "A" 22 26") Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMCALL ADDGADGETt“SCALEHOST",10,190,"PD*,, /* scaling math */ Xm=(yaspect/xaspect) * SCALE: (DCTV) 59:80 Ym=l " C A L L guiMakeVar.rexx *D" 69 80")

IF dx > dy THEN DO CALL ADDGADGET("SCALEHOST",10,205, *PO*,, Xm=(ax/dy}*(yaspect/xaspect) * SCALE: Display Only END "CALL guiMakeVar.rexx *0* GETENV(xaspect) GETENV(yaspect) ") ELSE DO Xm-(xaspect/yaspect)•(dy/dx) CALL ADDGADGETt"SCALEHOST",120,370,"EX*,, END ' EXECUTE *,, IF Xm3 THEN DO CALL S ETGADGET(SCALEHOST,SDOD,OFF} AD PRQ__TG_BACK r=REQUEST(mx,my,, CALL REMOVEGADGET(SCALEHOST,* SDOC *) "Scale Failed!!",,' Resume *,* Exit ",APS) CALL REMOVEGADGET(SCALEHOST,* SCOP* i IF r='' THEN DO CALL REMOVEGADGET(SCALEHOST,"SDOA *) CALL guiTerm.rexx CALL REMOVEGADGET(SCALEHOST,*SDOD“) EXIT 0 END END IF r='OKAY‘ THEN EXIT 0 /* make the rest of the gads */ END CALL guiAddons.rexx X=TRUNC((.75*X)+0,5) Y=TRUNC((.75*Y)*0.5) EXIT 0 N=N*2 SIGNAL SCALE /* go to SCALE: */ END Listing Ten /* guiSPO.rexx scale pixels only GUI F2.adpro */ /* if scaling went OK clean up and redefine the Fix asp */ /• makes the four scale gads for the top screen gad V IF RC = 0 THEN DO OPERATOR DEFINE_ PX L_ASPECT dx ay OPTIONS RESULTS END ADPRQ_TO_BACK /• interlock *7 EXIT 0 CALL SETGADGET!SCALEHOST,SPIX,ON)

/* make gad and pass args in the pgm call */ CALL ADDGADGET(“SCALEHOST*,10,40,'SDOC*,, * SCALE: Pixel aspect only (pick) X:Y *,, "CALL guiStartScOniy.rexx ,%x %y") CALL ADDGADG£T('SCALEHOST",10,55,"SDQP",, Universal Joystick/Mouse * SCALE; Pixel aspect only (DPaintIV) 10:11 Lifetime Warranty “ ’CALL guiStartScOnly.rexx 10 11, %x %y") S w itch CALL ADDGADGET('SCALEHOST',10,70,"SDQA",, ' SCALE: Pixel aspect only (ADPro) 22:25 1 . 9 ? Connect two devices “'CALL guiStartScOnly.rexx 22 26.%x %y'“l $ 3 9 - . 9 ^ to one port. Slop CALL ADDGADGETI"SCALEHOST", 10, 85,"SDOD", , Fumbling Around! “ SCALE: Pixel aspect only IDCTVI 69:80 SL IN G S H O T ™ "CALL guiStartScOnly.rexx 69 80, %x %y*| SINGLE A-2000 SLOT /* cell the environment we have made these gads • CALL SETENV(G,l) FOR THE A-500 CALL SETENV(gad,0)

/* interlock u disable gads we should not use */ The Slingshot allows you to IF GETENV(H)=1 THEN DO CALL SETGADGET(SCALEHOST,SPAD# OFF) attach one A-2000 card to your A-500. The Slingshot works with New Miniature Sire! Can be CALL SETGADGET(SCALEHOST,PC,OFF) CALL SETGADGET(SCALEHOST.PP.OFF) most hard drive controllers, mounted on your monitor or CALL SETGADGET(SCALEHOST,PA,OFF) memory expansion boards, etc. computer stand. Works on all CALL SETGADGET(SCALEHOST,PD,OFF) CALL SETGADGET(SCALEHOST,PO,OFF) Commodore & Amiga Computers, CALL REMOVEGADGET(SCALEHOST,* PC") B IG F O O T CALL REMOVEGADGET(SCALEHOST,"PP") four Satisfaction Is CALL REMOVEGADGET(SCALEHOST,* PA") A-500 POWER CALL REMOVEGADGET(SCALEHOST,"PD“) Guaranteed! CALL REMOVEGADGET(SCALEHOST, "PO"} Now 200 Watts! CALL SETGADGETISCALEHOST,HR,OFF) Visa CALL SETGADGET(SCALEHOST,LR,OFF) CALL SETGADGET(SCALEHOST,IL,OFF) M/C CALL SETGADGET(SCALEHOST,NL,OFF) 0- COD CALL SETGADGET(SCALEHOST,OS,OFF) CALL SETGADGET(SCALEHOST,ST,OFF) tA'ic'0

CALL REMOVEGADGET(SCALEHOST,"HR" A, CALL REMOVEGADGET(SCALEHOST,*LR* fREE CALL REMOVEGADGET(SCALEHOST.'IL* 1-308-745-1243 CALL REMOVEGADGET{SCALEHOST,“NL' CALL REMOVEGADGET(SCALEHOST,"OS' 1-308-745-1246 FAX CALL REMOVEGADGET(SCALEHOST.'ST") CALL REMOVEGADGET(SCALEHOST,“EX“ Power your A-500. extra memory, CALL REMOVEGADGET{SCALEHOST,"YQSET *) Check With Us For The Latest In END accelerators, hard & floppy drives, etc. Trackballs, Mice & Memory with one power supply. Trumpcard, EXIT 0 Expansion. GYP. Supra etc. adaptors available. Dealers/Distributors Welcome

Listing Eleven Circle 126 on Reader Service card. /* StartSeOnly.rexx an external function for GUI to ADPro scaling */ /* called from SPO.rexx to turn on and off gadgets */ Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMListing Twelve OPTIONS RESULTS /* guiTerm.rexx terminate gui for f9.adpro */ OPTIONS RESULTS /* get /* get the info in two arguments: X & Y, mouse coords */ ADPro to front V IF SHOW(*P#,'ADPro') THEN DO PARSE ARG X Y, mx my ADDRESS 'ADPro' /* logic to figure out what to turn on or off •/ AD PRO_TO_ FRONT SELECT END WHEN X = “ THEN str= 'C P A D’ WHEN X = 10 THEN Str= *P C A D' /* address our host */ WHEN X = 22 THEN S t r = 'A P C D' ADDRESS SCALEHOST WHEN X = 69 THEN Str= 'D C P A' /* get rid of all those env vars */ OTHERWISE NOP CALL SETENV(G) END CALL SETENV(H) CALL SETENV(gad) PARSE VAR str C P A D . CALL SETENV(OS) IF C='C' THEN X^REQUEST(mx,my,"Enter X-Aspect" 1,OKAY,CANCEL,APS) CALL SETENV(xpix) IF C='C' & X~=''THEN Y=R£QUEST(mx,my,, CALL SETENV(ypix) "Enter Y-Aspect",1,OKAY,CANCEL,APS) CALL SETENV(L) IF X = " |Y=" THEN DO CALL SETENV(xaspect) CALL SETGADGET(SCALEHOST,SDOC,OFF) CALL SETENV(yaspect) EXIT 0 CALL SETENV(xwide) END CALL SETENV(yhigh) CALL SETENV(cx) f* interlock based on above logic */ CALL SETENV(cy) " C A L L SETGADGET (SCALEHOST, SDO*C*,ON) CALL SETENV(stype) ''CALL SETGADGET(SCALEHOST,SDO’P".OFF)'' CALL SETENV(SCO) "CA L L SETGADGET(SCALEHOST.SDO'A",OFF) " CALL SETENVIYOSET) ''CALL SETGADGET(SCALEHOST,SDO'D",OFF)'' /* get rid of message window */ /* watch it work in ADPro *! CALL POSTMSGO ADDRESS 'ADPro' /■ get rid of window and quit host */ ADPRO_TO_FRONT CALL QUIT(SCALEHOST) /* call the pgm to do the scaling in ADPro */ CALL guiSealePixAsp.rexx nix my X Y /* get rid of screen (if any) */ /* post the results */ CALL CLOSESCREEN(APS) EXIT 0 /* clear the old */ CALL POSTMSGO •AC* /* post the new */ Please Write to: CALL guiPostMsg.rexx /* back to our window */ Merrill Callaway CALL SCREENTOFRONT(APS) c/o Amazing Computing EXIT 0 P.O. Box 2140 Fall River, M A 02722-2740 MUSIC

SysXIoader works like a cham p. The RSX program receives MID! System Exclusive dumps from any synthesizer. You simply en­ ter a destination file using the ARP file requester and start the system exclusive dump from the synthesizer's front panel. You can even select the number of SysEx messages to be recorded in order to accommodate synthesizers which send multi-partSysExdumps. Howard reports that RSX sometimes misses a byte when re­ ceiving a long, fast SysEx dum p, b u t I haven't had problems. TSX performs the opposite function, bringing up a file requester and then sending a SysEx file to your synthesizer. SysXIoader even creates icons for SysEx files, making it easy for Workbe ncli users to manage SysEx files. Using System Exclusive will never be entirely pa inless, but SysXIoader makes it a s SysXIoader The Amiga has alw ays had a good selec­ easy as possible. (CompuServe Amiga Arts Fo­ While the MIDI library utilities are very tion of public domain and shareware software. rum. Library 7, "SYSX.LZH", GEnie Amiga Li­ This is as true for music software as it is for useful, they require users to work with the brary, #13072, "SYSX.LZH") anythi ng else. This month we'll look at a va riety Command Line Interface (CLI). This isn't too of low and no-cost programs that can help hard to do, but can be awkward for Amiga Midiplay 1.0 novices. Several programs have recently ap­ your music making. MidiPlay is a utility that allows users to peared thatadd a mouseand window interface play format 0 standard MIDI files without a MIDI Library to MIDI library utilities. Howard Wooten's MIDI sequencer. It adds a Workbcnch-style programs use X-Icon, MIDI library, A good place to start is with William SysXIoader interface to William BartonJr's"playmf" utility and the ARP library file requester to add a slick Barton jr's wonderful program, MIDI library. from the MIDI library, Midi Play's interface user interface to the TSX (Transmit System MIDI library contains a set of standard MIDI w as program m ed in CnuDo by John Rappold. Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMinput/output routines that can be called from Exclusive) and RSX (ReceiveSystem Exclusive) It can play up to 15 files, and allows saving a utilities found in MIDI library. He intends to BASIC or C programs. MIDI library saves collection of songs along with information programmers the trouble of writing their own distribute SysXIoader to commercial synthe­ about the order to play them in and the number sizer patch vendors so that they will have an MIDI interface routines and can speed up of times to repeat each song. While MidiPlay program development dramatically. It also easy-to-use program to load patch banks from works, it has a couple of limitations. The pro­ includes a variety of u tili ty programs designed the Amiga to a synthesizer. This should en­ gram is picky about where files are located and to handle system exclusive data and play MIDI courage more patch vendors to make their plays only MIDI format 0 files, not the more files. (Fred Fish Disk #280) products available on Amiga-formatted disks. comm on form at 1 files. Nevertheless, since it is a freeware program, it would be useful for distributing MIDI songs to audiences that may or may not have sequencer programs. f 1.1 NfeiUsJtaf 'J — — (CompuServe AmlgaArls Forum, Library 7, -MID1PL.LZH", GEniie Amiga Library #9149, i 2 "PLAYMF.LZH") John Rappold plans to up­ grade M idiPlay to version 2.0 and distribute it 'J 13 with other public domain MIDI programs; he can be contacted by mail at this address: iw.uh! id John Rappold Music Department % j Dawson-Bryant High School Hornet Lane Coal Grove, OH 45638

MFFltoO Since M idiPlay only plays Form at 0 files, you may need a way to convert the more common Format 1 files to Format 0. Cor Dikland has written a convenient utility to perform this conversion. MFFlloO runs in the CLI, but all MidiPlay allows playing 15 MIDI files at a time. you have to do is type "MFF1 toO" followed by

Amazing Computing the name of the Format 1 file and the name for the converted F orm at 0 file. T here's not m uch to say about this program: it does exactly what it says it will. (CompuServe AmigaArts Forum, SysXloader Library 7, "MFF1A.LZH") adds a graphic interface to SMUS2 MIDI Many Amiga users start out with Deluxe Library Music Construction Set (DMCS) or SONIX be­ utilities. fore moving on to a full-fledged sequencer program. They want to use their old files on their new sequencer, but many sequencers either can't import DMCS or SMUS files or requirean extra cost utility. SMUS isastandard Amiga music file format used to transfer music between programs. Wliile it is supported by many multimedia programs, SMUS does not contain as much information as the DMCS or MIDI file formats. Nevertheless, it is much ARP library file requester, but will automati­ once, though the number of notes depends on easier to convert DMCS files to MIDI files via cally use the ASL requester if you are running the processing power of your Amiga. An SMUS than by any other method. DMCS can with Kickstart version 2.0 or later. The pro­ OctaMED demo can be found on CompuServe save a file in SMUS format, but that's only half gram patches five different versions of DMCS, (AmigaArts Forum, Library 7, "OCTA.LZFl"), the problem . You still need a w ay to get SMUS including the relatively recent version that but the actual program is distributed by an files into your sequencer. SMUS2 is a public was updated to run under Kickstart 2,04. As English user group. To obtain the OctaMED domain program bv Cor Dikland that converts always, when using a patch program, be sure program, send an International Money Order SMUS files to MIDI format 1 files. to work on a copy, not on your original pro­ or check for la pounds sterling to: Like MFFltoO, SMUS2 uses the CLI in­ gram disk! FixDMCS does exactly what it prom­ terface. Type in "SMUS2" followed by the ises. I find the ARP file requester to be much AMIGANUTS UNLIMITED name of the SMUS file and tire name for tire easier to use than the original DMCS one, and 169, Dale Valley Road new MIDI file. SMUS2 will then convert the fewer crashes are a nice bonus! Be sure to get Holly brook SMUS file into a MIDI file that can be imported version 1.1 of FixDMCS, dated 12/23/91. The Southhampton into your sequencer. There are a couple of Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMearlier version will not support Kickstart 2.0. SOI 6QXENGLAND caveats. While DMCS can output on any MIDI (CompuServe AmigaArts Forum, Library 7, channel, this information is not saved when "FIXDMC2.LZH",GEnie Amiga Library,#14017, SMUS to Tracker the SMUS file is written. DMCS does save the " FIXDMCS l.LZH") I mentioned the difficulty involved in "Set Instrument" code, which can be used to entering music into the "tracker" programs. indicate the proper MIDI channel. DMCS patch OctaMED Once again, there is a public domain answer. or Instrument changes will not be saved One genre of Amiga music programs that Don Fogg h as w ritten a program called SMUS properly, so you may have to reenter them I haven't discussed are the public domain ft) Tracker which converts SMUS files into a from the sequencer. The SMUS format does "tracker" programs. These programs share a textual printout showing the alphanumeric not save the dynam ics of a second track w hen more or less common file format, and play characters for use in one of the tracker pro­ the DMCS 2 tracks per bar option is used, scores using the Amiga's voices. While the grams. You still have to type them in, but the though SMUS2can correct this problem. These priceof the "tracker" programs is right, entering program will convert the score for you. I'm still warnings aside, the program works very well music for eacii voice by typing in alphanumeric not convinced that the tracker programs are as a means for moving DMCS scores into a values for each note seems like a giant step w orth the extra time they require, but if you're MIDI sequencer. SMUS2also allows you to use backwards to me. I'd generally advise users to using one, SMUS to Tracker is essential. (GEnie DMCS as a front end to enter music using buy SONIX or DMCS rather than spend the Amiga Library, #12644, "SMUS2-TRACKER “) standard notation and then convert it to MIDI. time fighting to convert music into numbers These files can help make the MIDI user's While not perfect, this technique may be useful and then enter it into one of the "trackers." life a little easier, at little or no cost. What is to musicians who prefer to work primarily While Ocf«MEDisndescendantofthe"tracker" especially interesting is that several of them with standard notation but also want full MIDI programs, it offers one interesting feature: the are written using languages like CanDo or control. (CompuServe Amiga A rts Forum, Library ability to play eight sounds simultaneously Amiga DOS scripts. The authors are to be con­ 7, "SMUSTO.LZH") using only the Amiga's internal sounds. The gratulated on making their programs avail­ dem o version I have is very impressive: songs able to the Amiga com m unity. I hope you find FixDMCS play three-note chords, drums, bass, and a them useful. Speaking of DMCS, the program has an melody line simultaneously. While I still have •AC* annoying bug that will cause crashes i f it finds reservations about note entry', the ability to too many instruments in the Instruments di­ play eight notes at a time makes OctaMED Please Write to: rectory or too many files in the Music direc­ worth looking into, especially if your music is Phil Saunders tory. D.J. James has w ritten n short utility that c/o Amazing Computing limited to the Amiga's internal voices. Blue will patch DMCS so that it uses the ARPorASL P.O. Box 2140 Ribbon Soundwork's SuperjAM! also offers file requester, allowing the program to handle Fall River, M A 02722-2140 the ability to play more than four sounds at large directories. FixDMCS norm ally uses the product: Quarterback version product: Digital Sound Studio 4.3 re: Problems with Switchboxes re: Not crea ting links source: Reader Mail source: EMail

In addition to his informa­ Jonas S. Green writes via tion about DPaint, Kelly Portal EMail of a problem with commented that GVP's Digital Workbench 2.0 file links and Sound Studio, a product he likes version 4.3. He very much, has a minor Quarterback writes, "1 have discovered that hardware problem. He writes "It Quarterback version 4.3 does not seems that they (GVP) use pin 25 recognize the new link feature of only for ground {-) signal into 2.0 (makelink command). If a DSS, possibly causing problems link is created to another file, with most of the parallel Quarterback will save two copies switchboxes. Less expensive of that file, instead of one and parallel switchboxes usually the link." don't switch pin 25, but leave that pin open internally, leaving I contacted Mark Thomas of N ew H orizons Softw are for his a missing ground reference to comments. He replied, "The DSS." Kelly provides four is in fact a known problem on problem mentioned by Mr. solutions: 1. Don't use a 68000-based machines that have Green is an unfortunate product: DeluxePaint IV switchbox. 2. Buy an expensive had 2.04 installed. We are aware incompatibility between re: 6800 chip and Workbench switchbox that switches alt pins. of this problem and will be W orkbench 1.3 and 2.2, Let me 2.0 3. Open the switch box and wire addressing it in a future revision explain: Workbench 2.0 added source: EMail all pin 25s together. 4. Open the of the program. I don't have a link support, but in order to be DSS and solder a bus wire from release date for you, but as soon compatible with older 1.3 This month I received pin 20 to pin 25. Though Kelly as I can give you the informa­ programs, the OS has made links Electronic mail from Bill Hogsett assumed that the fourth choice tion, 1 will. We hope Mr. Fahrion invisible to programs that do not via CompuServe EMail. Bill would void GVP's warranty, it is and all other DeluxePaint users specifically ask to see links. So, writes: "Michael Fahrion, a the method he chose. Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMwill be patient with us. Maybe Quarterback 4.3, written under friend of mine in the Cleveland we'll even make a few happy the 1.3 OS, does not look to see if Area-Amiga Users Group, asked product: PageStream and HP with our revision. We ask that a file is a link, as did as other me to send you a message Laserjet any problems that users are programs written at the time. concerning a bug in DeluxePaint re: Printing Problem having w ith D eluxePaint IV be The information on links simply IV. He is a very experienced and source: Reader Mail reported in the form of letters to: wasn't available at the time 4.3 respected Amiga artist. The bog Electronic Arts Technical was written. So what happens is appears only w ith a 68000 chip if Jim Ollick of Bergenfield, Support Dept., 1450 Fashion that 4.3 thinks that links are real Workbench 2.0 is being used. NJ, wrote to offer a suggestion to Island Blvd., San Mateo, CA, files because the OS presents The machine will crash after the James Romick, who had reported 94404. Be as specific as possible them that way. Therefore, when color palette requester is used to a problem with Pagestream and when reporting a problem; you're restoring, these files that change more than one color." on HP laserjet printer in the please be sure to include your were links get stored back as This bug was also reported January 1992 "Bug Bytes." Mr. machine configuration. files. There was no way around in a letter from Kelly Petlig of Ollick had the same problem of CompuServe users can send mail this at the time." Mark also Seattle, WA. Mr. Petlig com­ printing extra characters on an to 76004,237." commented that Quarterback 5.0 m ents that the error generated is A2500/HP Laserjet II com bina­ D eluxePaint IV w as a major should be available by the time the 81000009 Software Error. tion. He replaced the printer upgrade for Electronic Arts, and you read this, and it fully With people everywhere cable and an A/B switch box their reputation for delivering a supports links and restores them upgrading their A2000s and and the problem has not come top-quality product is well correctly. Other feature of QB 5.0 A500s to Workbench 2,0, this back since. He also uses known. Mr. Guzman went on to include streaming tape support, problem is sure to be encoun­ Pagestream on an A2000 say that they are working hard file compression, ARexx support tered often. equipped with a GVP A3501 to complete the next revision as and password protection. The I contacted Electronic Arts accelerator and HP Laserjet III. soon as possible user interface has also been for their comments on this This setup works without As I mentioned above, redesigned. If you want to be problem. Orlando Guzman, problem s. Kellv Petlig also reported this sure to get the Q uarterback 5.0 Assistant Producer of problem . He notes that DPaint III upgrade, send in the registration MultiMedia Products, responds: is handy and works great for card for your Quarterback "The problem reported by Mike simpler jobs that don't require program to New Horizons. Fahrion, by w ay of Bill Hogsett, HAM m ode. New Horizons Software Mr. Green also writes Elite. The fix also corrects a small costs. Those features of QPro Box 43167 regarding the A2232 multiport problem with the record-to-disk which I use that I haven't seen in Austin, TX 78745 serial board. "The feature, when used with Perfect an Amiga spreadsheet are the (512) 328-6650 SERIAL.DEVICE driver supplied Sound 3.0. If you have questions ability to display graphs in the FAX (512) 328-1925 with the board does not about this update, contact middle of a spreadsheet (graphs recognize SERF_EOFMODE technical sup p o rt at: don't have to be viewed (XON/XOFF protocol). C-A (via Deltaware Products separately), and its WYSIWYG product: Easyl Mr. Render of C ustom er 3148 Kingston Rd. interface that uses Bitstream font re: Seeking Upgrade Satisfaction) has stated an Suite 202, Box 395 technology to provide profes­ source: Reader Maii intention to send a later version Toronto, Ontario, Canada sional quality screen, and of SERIAL.DEVICE, b u t the M1M 1P4 printed output with a choice of replacement has yet to be seen." (416)431-2047 many font sizes and styles. Color In the February 1992 "Bug Any comments you might have text is supported on VGA Bytes," Irwin Jahns of Tallahas­ on this problem or the replace­ displays, and its automatic see, FL, w rote requesting m ent driver w ould be appreci­ product: MaxiPlan vs. Quattro recording macro function, along information about Anakin ated. Pro with a Transcript feature that Research's Easy] graphics tablet. re: Question on Preference allows sophisticated abilities to He wants to upgrade his driver product: Broadcast Fonts 3D source: Reader Reaction undo, make spreadsheet to ivork under W orkbench 2.0. re: Distributor C hange manipulation much easier than Richard Day of Madison, WI, source: Developer Notice packages I've seen on the Amiga. responded with a letter which L. A. Beranek of Victoria, Quattro is also a multimedia reports that the Easy! driver for Phil Kestell ofUnili Australia, writes to take me to tool, though I don't use it as such version 1.3 (released in late 1990) Graphics sent a letter announc­ task for commenting that! myself. You can create works fine under Workbench ing that effective D ecem ber 23, preferred Quattro Pro o n the PC slideshows using graphics and 2.0, H e could provide no 1991, Impulse, Inc. will no longer to MaxiPlan or any other Amiga sounds, buttons (hot spots) can information on Anakin's be selling or supporting spreadsheet, for that matter. He be defined on the screen for continued existence. Broadcast Fonts 3D. Anyone who comments, "In my case, I use interactive presentations, and a purchased this package either in Quattro at work where I have library of clips and sound files product: SCSI C ontroller a store or directly from Impulse access only to clones and comes with the program. The re: A3000 “Hang-up" may contact Unili Graphics so M axiPlan at hom e on m y Amiga. functions built into Quattro Pro source: Reader Mail that they can be informed of 1 like both programs for different version 3.0 should all be natural product revisions as well as to reasons and ideally would prefer for Amiga: yet nothing I have Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMEverett Green of Ridgecrest, obtain technical support. to have Quattro on the Amiga, seen combines all of the features CA, writes of a problem Unlli Graphics but w ith some of the MaxiPlan into one package as well as regarding the A3000 SCSI port 143 Lorraine Ave features. I was surprised at your Quattro. and of another problem A2232 Pittsburgh, CA 94565 opinion that Quattro was several That's al! for this month. If multiport card. The SCSI (510)439-1580 times more powerful than you have any w orkarounds or controller on the A3000 appears MaxiPlan. 1 wonder if you could bugs to report, or if you know of to "hang" for no known reason. possibly list the added features any upgrades to commercial He notes problems with both the product: A -S ound Elite of Q uattro, partly for the benefit software, you may notify me by Syquest cartridge drive and a re: Bug Fix of Amiga users and parti}' for w riting to; Tandberg 3600 tape drive. I source: Release Note Amiga spreadsheet program­ would recommend that Mr. mers to have something to aim John Steiner Green contact a local dealer that at." c/a A m azing C om puting has a Commodore service A release note from First, I must comment that P.O. Box 2140 department. A similar problem Deltawarc Products announced there are three versions of Fall River, MA 02722-2140 has been documented on the that they have recently discov­ Quattro out there, I've used A2091 controller, and Commo­ ered an incompatibility between them all, and each has added dore released new ROMs which Aegis' Sound Master audio functionality; I don't know ...or leave EMail to John Steiner fixed that. There m ay be a digitizer and A-Sound Elite which version Mr. Beranek uses. on Portal, or service bulletin on this problem sound editor software. The Further, these comments are not 73075,1735 on CompuServe. when it relates to the A3000, as problem revolves around meant to be pejorative to the Internet m ail can be sent to its SCSI controller circuitry is SoundMaster's microphone Amiga or the currently available [email protected] similar to that found on the input and results in the user Amiga spreadsheet offerings. A2091. My own personal A3000 being unable to toggle between Borland, the developers of has two SCSI hard drives on the the microphone input and the Quattro, can afford to develop bus, and I have not noticed a RCA jacks. Deltaware has software as powerful as QPro similar problem. If you have a completed a fix for the problem because the large u ser base of solution, let me know; I'll pass it which will be sent free to PCs justify the high developm ent along. registered owners of A-Sound •AC* R C : S bv The Bandito

(T/it’sc statements anil projections presented in with a 16 MHz 68030 rather than the 63020. especially A500s. The big nows about CDTV “Roomers" are rumors in the purest sense. The This spells disaster for the highly overpriced is two-fold: it hasn't sold very well up to hits of in formation are gathered bi/ a third-party A2000 and for the bloated pricing on the now, and Commodore is going to try a new source from tvhispcrs inside the industry. At A3000 series. tactic to fix that problem. According to Jim press time, these rumors remain unconfirmed and Wake up, Commodore! Apple is Dionne (the Big D a t the Big C), C om m odore are printed for entertainment value only. gunning for you, and this time they mean realizes that it was a mistake to sell CDTV Accordingly, the staff and associates of Am azing business. Commodore has one chance: an and pretend there wasn't an Amiga inside. C om puting cannot be held responsible for the im m ediate price cut on the existing A2000 N ow they're gonna tell it like it is, as you reports made in this column.] and A3000 computers. The A2000 list price may remember the Bandito suggested Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMneeds to be about $700 to be com petitive recently. Commodore has new videos with these new Apple prices. The 16 MHz pointing out the benefits of CDTV prepared A3000 should be around $1500 to meet these for release; there's a whole new ad campaign new Apple prices. And Commodore has to {which premiered in the CES daily maga­ The New Price Isn’t Right immediately rethink the entire A2000 zines) comparing the expandability of CDTV Now that the Christmas promotions are product strategy. They can't drop the to the non-expandability of CD-I. Also, the product line entirely, not while Video over, Commodore has gone and raised Amiga upgrade kit for CDTV is now prices on the Amiga back to pre-holiday Toasters still w on't work in the A3000 case. shipping. You remember, that's the one the levels. This is causing much consternation at But perhaps they could put an A3000-level Bandito mentioned some time back: it motherboard in the A2000 case and solve the consists of a full-sized A2000 style keyboard dealerships, where people can't believe their problem, for now. Or maybe NewTek will (with a cord),, a disk drive, and a cordless eyes. The Amiga 2000 is around $1700 list finally get that A3000 Toaster out there. But mouse, all in black, and sells for about $200. price, which is just ridiculous these days. something needs to be done, or else Amiga Unfortunately, Commodore is still Didn't anyone at Commodore notice what sales are really going to take a nose dive in being coy about the DCTV add-in to CDTV. happened the last time a computer maker the near future. Apparently, they're still wrestling over a raised prices? You may recall Apple tried contract, and Commodore is still trving to this trick a few years ago, and thev were Fart two of the strategy: get those advanced Amigas out there as fast as figure out all the manufacturing and hammered by the press and their customers, possible—and at reasonable prices. Don't marketing angles. and had to back down a few months later. forget to ensure Toaster com patibility if you Commodore is counting on selling The Bandito has heard that Apple is w an t good sales. G et those new graphics more A690 CD-ROMs than CDTVs, at least cutting prices sharply on its entire Macintosh chips off the drawing boards and into initialiv. The completed A690 goes beyond desktop line. This is very bad news for the hardware ASAP. Otherwise, it's starting to the early prototypes shown before, and now Amiga, especially right after Commodore look grim for the home team. offers complete CDTV compatibility (good has raised the prices on the A2000. The plan, sez the Bandito). If there is no disk in Apple price cuts range up from 17% for the the Amiga's drive, the Amiga/A690 Macintosh Classic to 36% for most of the CES Report combination becomes a full blown CDTV, line. Here's where it really hurts the Amiga: At the Winter Consumer Electronics Show in complete with the special CDTV startup The Macintosh LC, with 4MB of RAM and a Las Vegas, C om m odore w as p ushing CDTV screen. The A690 is also capable of holding a 4DMB hard drive, is being slashed from with renewed vigor. Their booth in the main SCSI controller, a 40MB 2-inch hard drive, S2700 to S1700 retail. With the usual part of the exhibition hall was well-attended. and 2MB of memory internally, with a SCSI discounting, the street price will be under Of course, the emphasis was on CDTV, but port out the back for further expansion. $1500. And as of April, the LC will come they were also showing A3000s, A2000s, and Pricing isn't final yet, blit the Bandito from other companies, anyway? Maybe expects it to be in the $500 range, though it they're not going to come out unless Philips Amigas on Screen oughtta be much less before the end of the actually sells a reasonable number of CD-I The Bandito hears that Amigas have year. units, something which may take a while, if been invading the new Tinseltown in record There is one problem with the A690, ever. numbers. Apparently, the booming video though; it doesn't work with the A590, Meanwhile, Tandy Corp. is officially and movie production business in Florida is Commodore's hard drive and RAM throwing their hat into the CD-ROM ring. using a lot of Amigas to do their production expansion for the A500. You see, there was Tandy's new system, as the Bandito work. Check out the Nickelodeon cable no pass-through on the 590, and there's no described it to you before, is essentially a channel; a new game show (Nick Arcade) pass-through on the 690. Looks like those of very wimpy MS-DOS clone with a CD-ROM uses Amigas to put contestants inside of you who believed in Commodore before are that uses a TV set for a monitor. They’re videogames. Apparently, the folks at out of luck. calling it the Gryphon, which as you may Nickelodeon use a variety of Amiga Commodore’s also trying to push the know* is the nam e of a m ythical m onster. peripherals, including the Video Toaster and A5Q0, creating three different softw are We'll have to see if the hardware lives up to GVP's Impact Vision 24. (For more on Nick bundles for it: a Starter pack, a Productivity that description. Is it mythical? Is it a Arcade, see "AndFurthemore," V7.3, p.96.— pack, and a Deluxe pack. Both the Productiv­ monster?. The Gryphon will retail for £699, Ed.) ity and the Deluxe packs are 1MB A500s; the which is about a hundred clams less than M eanw hile, the Amiga is the star of a Starter pack is a 512K machine. Perhaps this CDTV and $300 less than the CD-I retail newr science fiction show headed for your TV is a test to see which type of software people price. Of course, by the time this thing this fall. "Babylon 5" is about a deep space are most interested in. Hopefully, this will actually ships, CDTV will undoubtedly be station with lots of unusual visitors. Space boost A500 sales, though again the price cheaper: the Bandito hears that the target is a exterior shots (spaceships, station, planets, point is still the most important thing, and it $499 list price by Christmastime. Reportedly, and the like) are being done with Lightwave definitely needs lowering. Tandy is trying to beat out Apple Computer, and the Video Toaster. You can see some of Meanwhile, some distance away at which is expected to introduce a Sony-built the scenes on the Toaster 2.0 demo tape that CES, Phillips had a huge booth displaying all Macintosh CD-ROM/TV machine by NewTek is showung. their consumer electronics; part of it was Summer CES. From all appearances, devoted to CD-I. Their display looked pretty Christmas shoppers this year will be New Business good, but it was obvious that CDTV has a lot confronted with a variety of conflicting CD- Trip Hawkins, founder of Electronic Arts, more software available, most of it more ROM choices. Will a winner emerge? The has founded a new firm called SMSG, Inc. interesting than CD-I. The Bandito has heard Bandito's best guess is that some machine Investors in the new firm include famed an interesting story about CD-I and CDTV not yet built will be the eventual winner in vulture capitalists Kleiner Perkins (investors software.Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM It seems that Phillips got a hold of the CD-ROM race. Who'll build it? Heck, if in Electronic Arts) and media behemoth the rights to put the classic Amiga game you can correctly answer that question you'll Time-Warner. What does the rather Defender of the Crown on CD-I. Not surpris- make millions in the stock market. awkward name SMSG stand for? Nothing, ingly, it looks a whole lot like the original really, according to Hawkins. Kind of lame, Amiga version. But here's where the fun Legal Wars sez the Bandito, especially compared to a starts. Apparently Commodore heard about The Bandito had mentioned this before, snazzy name like Electronic Arts. Perhaps this project and secretly hired Jim Sachs to but now' it's official. Microlllusions is suing loyal Amazing readers can come up with d o Defender of the Crown II for CDTV. Mediagenic for $10 million bucks; the case is some zippy words to go with those initials. Commodore was showing it in an almost scheduled to begin in July of 1992 in San Oh, you also want to know what business completed version. This new version is Francisco. Why the lawsuit? Well, the new company will be in? That's pretty stunning; it's the game that the original Microlllusions products were distributed by cloudy, too. Something to do with multime­ Defender of the Crown was meant to be, both Mediagenic, if you remember; MI alleges in dia; that's about all that Hawkins will state in gameplay and graphics. The new CD their suit that Mediagenic mishandled their for the record. soundtrack is superb, and the narration is account. It all gets rather technical, but done in full digitized sound by an English basically MI is unhappy with their implosive Video Card Wars actor. growTh and blames Mediagenic. Mediagenic, The Bandito has some interesting data Commodore also announced a joint of course, denies the allegation. So it all ends about the latest entrant in the video card effort to form "CDTV Consortium Japan" up in court, w'here the really interesting race: Rambrandt, from Progressive Peripher­ with Mitsui & Co. for the purpose of thing to discover is how Microlllusions als & Software. This wonder card is designed promoting and developing CDTV players expects to get ten megabucks out of a for heavy duty graphics processing, and titles in Japan. Commodore and Mitsui company w'ith a negative net w'orth. Say, Rambrandt has two framebuffers with began inviting other companies to join the m aybe som ebody could m ake a gam e out of adjustable resolutions of u p to 1024 x 1024 Consortium prior to the opening of the it... pixels per buffer in 32-bit color. The Tokyo International Multimedia Expo '91. Meanwhile, in a possibly unrelated Rambrandt uses a Texas Instruments 34020 The Consortium will develop new software move, Mediagenic has changed its name 40 MHz 32-bit graphics processor, with a techniques including motion video compres­ back to Activision and moved the company 34082 graphics/math coprocessor for added sion routines. Already, ASCII and other to LA. Peter Doctorou', formerly of Acco­ muscle. Japanese companies have expressed interest lade, is now in charge. A big job, sez the The board does just about everything in joining. Looks like the Japanese are Bandito. Maybe Peter should have tackled except feed the cat—com posite and RGB hedging their bets in case CD-I doesn't make something a little easier, like being president video input, composite and genlockable RGB it big. Hey, where are all those CD-I players of Commodore. Now there's job stability for video outp u t w ith 16.7 m illion colors you... possible in resolutions up to 1024 x 1024, According to their press release, PP&S Commodore AMIGA™ and Digital Micronics Inc. (DMI), with Repair Services. u r n s * Commodore's cooperation, established this •24 Hour Turnaround* standard at the Amiga Developer's Confer­ A 10 years experience fixing Commodore equipment * 90 day warranty ence in Denver. Standard Amiga Graphics on all pans replaced. • Factory trained service technicians. • Low fiat rale prices. * No Charge For Conmmodore In-Warranty Service. 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Circle 133 on Reader Service card. AmigaDOS 1.3 and 2.0, and com es in NTSC Circle 165 on Reader Service card. and PAL versions; graphics processors (one per LCD panel) real-tim e fram egrabbing at 1024 x 1024 The Bnndito thinks its sounds really along with Ethernet to hook them together. resolution, variable display resolution from neat. But it sure would be nice if Commo­ What's it cost? About 565,000 if you want 320 x 400 to 1024 x 1024, in 8 or 32 bits; you dore would adopt SAGE and a 340x0-driven one in your own home. The Bandito's not can get a 1024x2048 scrollable work area by graphics standard for future Amigas. Now quite ready for that; waiting for the home combining buffers. The hardware also that the high-end Macintoshes have built-in version seems like a better idea. Now when includes hundreds of image-processing 24-bit video, isn't it past time that Amigas can we see a home version of this? Maybe functions. came that way, too? sooner than you think. A lot of companies Rambrandt can do effects like flipping, have been seduced by this vision. Mandala page turns, colorization, solarization, Entertainment Report has steady popularity at trade shows; with a Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMpolarization, up to 8:1 zoom, rotations, This time around the Bandito reports on CDTV version on the way, maybe it can picture-in-picture (PIP), live resizing, digital some interesting developments at Spectrum reach a mass market someday. The cost of graphic overlay, and many real-time 24-bit Holobvtc, the company that gave us the the hardware is dropping with amazing animation and digital video effects. Of amazing Falcon flight simulator. You may speed. course, the software for all of this neat stuff not have been aw are of it, but Spectrum has yet to be vvritten. But PP&S has come up Holobyte is owned by Sphere, which is Blast From The Past with a way to make software support more owned by the ill-starred Maxwell empire, Here's a news tidbit from the past: remem­ likely; along with Digital Micronics, they've which is in the throes of bankruptcy ber Moniterm, the company that made a created a standard set of libraries for proceedings after Robert Maxwell took a large-size Amiga monitor under the Viking supporting 24-bit graphics cards. header off his yacht, thereby revealing that label? Of course, that monitor never seemed he sw iped h undreds of m illions from employee pension funds to keep the empire alive. Anyway, all of this financial hoorah M e m o ry isn't a problem yet, but it could mean Automate difficulties for Spectrum Holobyte in the your Management, Inc. future; perhaps change in ownership may occur as the Maxwell Empire breaks up. Toaster... 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Chuck Rock (Virgin Games) Leander (Psygnosis) 1) Pav attention to where everything is because it's always in the same With the joystick, enter these codes as usual at the option screen: place game after game. SNOW (it will begin to snow) 2) Remember thatalthough rocks make great weapons, they can also be SOTB (for a different effect) used to protect oneself. LUCY (for some cute text and other things) 3) Watch out for inanimate objects which suddenly become animate. LTUS (for unlimited lives) (Courtesy of Miguel Mulet, AC Contributor) LVPT (start w orld 3) Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMZXSP (start world 2) L eander (Psygnosis) (Courtesy of Kenneth Sessions, Troy, AL) 1) Pay attention to the hints that the sirens give you; you may get lost without them. Kenneth is the winner of OH NO! MORE LEMMINGS!, the gam e 2) C ave openings m ay n o t seem obvious at first; look for an o pening a shown in last issue's column. Congratulations, Kenneth! The name of the little larger than your character. winner will he published in next month's issue. 3) You can essentially destroy anything that moves. If you don't get them, they'll get you! To enter, send in y o u r HOT TIPS on y our Am iga gam es to: 4) Giant spiders are more easily destroyed when you're "tailing them 5) Dragons can be destroyed, but they'll take several blows for you to HOT TIPS P.O. Box 2140 destroy them. Unfortunately, it only takes one blow from the dragon to Fall River, MA 1)2722-2140 take y our life. (Courtesy of Miguel Mulet, AC Contributor) Win a free game! Out of this World (Interplay) 1) When you reach the bottom of the waterfall, you must destroy it with your gun and then escape left and up. However, first, you must go down to the right past the falling rocks and hanging killer-tentacles to the locked door. Destroy the door. Then, go back the way you came, via tire sta lac t ites. Destroy the waterfall and you can continue. If you do not do this, you can continue to a point, but eventually, you will come to an unpassable chasm. This chasm will be filled with water if you follow the instructions above and can then be passed. 2) In the room where the guard punches you and picks you up by the neck, the solution is a quick kick to his private parts! When your character's limp body straightensa little,push the fire button to kick the This guard. As he doubles over in pain, run left to your gun and pick it up. month's If timed correctly,you will perform a perfect body roll, pick up the gun, prize: and point it at the guard, who is now firing at you. Return his fire immediately—no shields! You'll win the fight and escape. (Courtesy of Paul Thurrott, Canton, MA) Killing Cloud (bYKoncmo Bill Elliott's The next item to choose is the the 10th or 11th starting position— for qualification. There are four Track Selection. As inactual racing, at tile end of tile race pack. Your more decisions to make—engine NASCAR Challenge the gam e has banking on the high next decision is whether to have type, tire stagger, gear ratio, and speedways or sharp turns. Also, computer or manual gear shifting. Spoiler angle. Again, the decisions each track offers its own unique With computer gear shifting, you you make here are simple, but the by Rich Mntaka challenges to your driving skill as won't achieve the full benefit of combination of the various settings you speed around the raceway. the car's racing speed. Occasion­ make for interesting results. There Then decide how many laps ally, you'll oversteer or drive onto is n o correct w ay to set each item; you wish to race. If you j ust wish to the infield or scrape the outside it depends on your driving stvle. Bill Elliot's NASCAR Chal­ spend some leisurely time with wall on a turn, slowing you down. Practice ru n s come in handy. lenge is the ultimate challenge in the ga me, you can set the lap count When this happens, the automatic Yon con practice on each track and stock ca r racing, with a! mnst eve rv low and race fewer laps than the shifting will not downshift to a tune your car to its optimum per­ facet of this popular pastime being full race. This allows casual play­ lower gear to compensate, result­ formance before qualifying. This simulated in this program. To he a ers to enjoy the game without sit­ ing in longer time to attain maxi­ can be extremely important as you winner in this sport means per­ ting through a 200-lap race. W hile mum speed. However, with learn the game's finer features. fection as a driver and perfection not as challenging as running the manual down-shifting, you must Controlling thecarwith the cursor in the machine. Each track is dif­ full race, a low-tap race can be watch yourtachomoterso that you keys allows finer control than us­ ferent and demands va rious racing m uch fun. don't over rev and blow vour en­ ing the joystick. When you ad vance skills and changes in car setup. to shifting gears yourself instead Setting up your car to run on dif­ of using the automatic shifting, ferent tracks and mastering your you will quickly learn that the re­ driving skills is w h at this sim ula­ Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMturn key shifts up and the space tion is all about. bar down shifts, i felt that learning Following a brief history of to use the arrow keys, left and NASCAR, the manual provides right for steering, up for accelera­ information on car selection, the tion and down for braking, with racing tracks, tuning your car, and manual shift made the game a bit stopping in the pits, the most im­ easier to play than when per­ portant section in the manual. Like forming the same functions with real life NASCAR racing, races are the joystick, often decided in the pits. It's im­ Should vou pass vour oppo­ portant to master these pit skills. nents on the turns or wait till the NASCAR uses a password straightaways?Howshould i tune copy-protection scheme. You must The Race Selection screen of­ gine. It's a good idea to start off the car? Which car should I pick? refer to an included password fers different options concerning with the computer controlling the Am i getting low on oil? H ow high booklet to play the game. You are can I rev my tachometer? Am 1 low the car and the race. Once you've gear shifting until vou become then presented with the main— on fuel? Do 1 pit-stop now or wait entered the driver’s name, you accustomed to the race track. Then where all the decisions on how for a yellow flag? All these ques­ decide if you want to runa Practice progress to manual shi fting so you you will play the game are made. tions arise while driving your car. Session, a Single Race, or compete can experience the full potential of The four main choices are Car Se­ It may sound simple, hut a great in the Championship Season. your race car. Your final choice is lection, Race Selection, Track Se­ deal of action occurs in the game. When you first start out, it's a good the Damage Level. The "no dam­ lection, and Start Racing. It's as if vou're in the seat of a real idea to choose the practice session age" option is just as the phrase Upon choosing the Car Se­ Winston Cup car. so you can get the feel of the track, implies. In "regular damage" lection screen, you are given the The most spectacular item If you do this with ail the tracks, mode, the performance of yourcnr specifications of the cars from a included with the game is the VCR you will quickly become an expert is affected if you should have a choice of three different cars: the option. You can choose from eight driver. mishap of some kind. Even in the Ford Thunderbird, Chevrolet Lu- different views to see the replay of You can choose to have a "no damage" mode, I ended up m ina, or the Pontiac G rand Prix'. the racing action. It's especially qualifying run—determining the hitting a car which stopped in front Later you will see that no matter nice to view the end of the race pole position from which you start of me, causing an explosive crash. which car you choose, there are where you just beat out your op­ the race or be auto qualified. Auto At tlie Start Racing screen, timing options that are available ponent to receive the checkered Qualifying normally places you in you tune your car for the race or to increase its capabilities. flag! Flames of appearances to all the people you Leander will meet among the islands—a DIVERSIONS Freedom great touch!) You can then move by M iguel M ulct on to learning to control the more bi/ L. S. Lichtmanti than 20 modes of transportation, As Captain of the Royal ranging from balloons to buses to Guard, you should try to remain Flames of Freedom, from the minisubs. Other training modes unattached to the family you pro­ terrain. Leander is best described Microplay division of MicroProse, allow vou to become familiar with tect. If the royalty is snobbish or as a platform adventure, with each defies placing into the standard FoF's extensive map data base and conceited, that's easy. When the world progressively more difficult categories. It's part arcade game, the strategic situation. King's daughter is 18 years old than the last. pari flight simulator, part strategy W ithyourbasicskills in place, and beautiful, though, it's a dif­ Leander, I i ke most Psygnosis game, part role-playing game— you can try your hand at several of ferent story, Lucanna is her name, games, has state-of-the-art graph­ and all challenge. the 41 available missions. Finally, and although courting her may ics and music. The screens scroll Flames of Freedom (FoF) you can run a full campaign, in mean your head, the two of you smoothly, while the graphics might be best described as a secret which your missions are con­ are deeply in love. Imagine your themselves are beautifully done. agent simulator. Like I990's Mid­ ducted racing against the calendar anger and surprise when an evil The game lias a distinct Oriental winter (FoF's alternate title is Mid­ to liberate strategic islands before necromancer kidnaps your true fee) to it, in both graphics and winter II), the objective in FoF is to the Saharan armada is launched. love, and takes her away to parts sound effects. The soundtrack is stop an invasion—here, of the is­ Tire key to FoF is successful unknown. Can vou rescue her in excellent, as are the sound effects, land of Agora, its ci t izens valiantly use of interactions with the "non­ time? although you can't have both at holding out against the evil Sa­ player characters'' (NPCs) you There are three worlds the same time. haran Empire. To derail the inva­ encounter during your travels. through which you must guide The three copy-protected sion, you must undertake a series Your attributes of pleading abil­ Leander, using your joystick, Tire disks are supplemented by a well- of m is­ ity , sex Emperor's Wizard provides you written manual, which includes a sio n s o f a p p e a 1, with tliree sirens to help gu id evou short no velln to acqua int the pla yer a g ita tio n b r i b e r y through each level. Armed with a with how Leander has gotten and sabo- skill, etc., sword and light armor, you can himself into his current situation. t a g e a re v ital strengthen both youroffensive and The game can be paused, but not a m o n g in getting defensive positions by collecting saved to disk. To get around this, n e ig h b o r­ the NPCs coins along the way. As you the player is given a password ing islesal- to be progress, there are several when each world is complete, re a d v in h e l p f u l . Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMmercantiles from which you can which allows hi m to start the game thrall. You U 1 t i - purchase improved armor and at the next level. Other game op­ will be re­ m ately, it weapons. The most important tions include selecting the diffi­ q u ire d to is u p to weapons are the Rune bombs and culty level, the type of joystick be­ plan your you to de­ a sword to use them with, as this is ing used, and the option to replay movements, operate a variety of cide what approaches to employ the only weapon that can defeat the title sequence at the beginning land, air, and sea vehicles, elicit and what help from the NPCs will the evil necromancer Thanatos. of each game. cooperation from the islanders, be most useful in moving nearer to Gameplay mainly revolves Leander is amusing and ex­ and destroy Saharan materiel and the achievement of your mission around completing a particular citing to play. Each world pro­ personnel wherever you find them. objectives. task whilea voiding the many traps vides enough challenge to keep Succeed and you'll impede the FoF has some weak points. thatawait Leander. This may mean ga meplay interesting, b u t p ractice progress of the Saharan armada Vehicle control tends to be verv collecting a special key or crown, does allow the player to progress and shrink the forces that you'll touchy—FoF fi refi ghts are a s tough and taking it to another location in in the game at an acceptable rate. have to face in the final, cataclys­ as they come—and travel can get that world. Like most games of Graphics and sound effects are up mic showdown. tedious; these wereproblems with this genre, there is a lot of jumping to Psygnosis' usual high standards, FoF is complex, and a sub­ the original M idw inter. FoF helps over and around many hazards, and when combined with a great stantial investment of time is nec­ by furnishing an automated travel while you try to discover the way gameplay as in Leander, you al­ essary to play proficiently. Fortu­ feature bypassing a good deal of out of a particular cave or over the most can't go wrong. Take a look nately, the manual is a beautiful dull but draining routine. at this one! piece of work, complete, well-or­ A brief description simply ganized, and superbly executed, can't do justice to Flames of Free­ and the designers have included dom. The supporting artwork is all sorts of training modes to ease excellent, and I stand in awe of the the learning process. labor that has gone into providing You start hv creating your the detailed 3-D environment in secret agent alter ego. FoF comes which the missions take place. w ith a sort of operative design kit, Overall, it's the best effort so far at allowing you to customize your the perfect marriage of action and agent's facial, physical, and men­ strategy, and provides a type of tal attributes. (Fol; uses the same excitement I've never experienced face generator to give individual from any other game. source of the enigmatic technol­ Battle Isle play occurs in a series of alternat­ DIVERSIONS ogy which has transformed the ing movement and combat phases. Spemin, those irritating pests from Again most unusually, one side by L. S. Lichtmann the original Starflight, from the will be conducting its movement galaxy's doormat race to its pro­ phase w hile the other is setting lip spective conquerors. attacks. Phases are swapped only Bailie hie, from UBI Soft, is a Veterans of Starflight will when both sides have requested it. quick-to-learn, easy-to-play, but Starflight 2 find the gameplay and mechanics The simultaneous-play fea­ hard-to-master tactical wargame of Starflight 2 almost completely ture works welt and makes for which offers the armchair general by L. S. Lichhnaim familiar. The only significant speedy games. Unfortunately, it an unusual variety of combat units changes concern the a ugmentation has also caused the designers of to p lay with. of the economic system. the game lo bypass the standard The Battle Isle set contains Fund raising inStarflight 2 depends mouse-and-menu Amiga inter­ Do sequels to computer two game and Introduction-instal- critically on canny trading. You face. All Battle Isle commands are games work any better than se­ lation disks. It can be played com­ m ust identify the wa nts of the al ien executed from the joystick. Put­ quels to movies usually do? At f o r ta b ly races you encounter, a nd wha t they ting the least in the case of Starflight 2, the from a can supply you. Purchase or sale c u r s o r folks at Binary Systems and Elec­ two-drive price of each commodity must be over the tronics Arts have produced a wor­ or a w k ­ negotiated in bargaining sessions c o r r e c t thy successor to Starflight, still my w a r d l y worthy of a Slobpvian rug ped­ hex cell all-tim e favorite for science fiction from a dler. Goods must be carried from w ith the computer role playing games one-drive here, where they are cheap, across jo y stic k (RPCs). system ,or the reaches of interstellar space, can be a Starflight 2 requires a 512K from a and disposed of there, where they fru strat­ harddisk. Amiga, runs under both VI .3 and are dear. Compared to Starflight, ing ex- T h ere is V2.0 of AmigaDOS, and can be prosperity is a challenge, since p e r i - no c o p y installed on a hard disk. Thedistri- your home station is no longer a e n c e . bution disks are not copy pro­ p r o t e c ­ handy custom er for anything you While tion. Ac­ tected, but the copy protection sys­ happen to pick up out there. p ro b ­ cording to U B1 Soft, Battle Isle will tem is a step back from Starflight's The playing interface for ably not practical fora two-person run on any Amiga with at least secret decoder wheel, invol vingas Starflight 2 is fairly standard for game, 1 wish the designers had 512K of memory; it works fine on it does counting stars on the rela­ RPGs: a collection of screen gad­ provided a standard interface op­ my 2000 under A migaDOS 2.0. An Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMtively perishable map included gets, a text output/input area, and tion for one-person games. instruction manual, equipment w ith the game. a major view window showing Battle Isle comes with 32 guide, command summary/ the current locale at the appropri­ codeword-selected scenarios in quick-start guide, and a rather ate scale. The screens are nicely tw o sets of 16, each in order of pointless "background" novelette executed, but the graphics have increasing complexity. Only one complete the package. I found the not improved much over the origi­ of the sets is available in one-per­ documentation complete but nal Starflight, and that which was son games. The standard opera­ poorly organized. adequate or a little better two years tion of the game appears to pro­ M ost tactical w argam es con- ago appears a trifle underdone vide the codeword for the next centra teon land combat. Battle Isle now. scenario only after the current one is nearly unique in including land, I found one significant prob- has been successfully completed, Like its predecessor, air, and sea units. Over 20 types lem with Starflight 2: som e of the although the review copy of the Starflight 2 is princi pally a ga me of exist, including robot infantry; exotic lifeformsl'vecollected seem game 1 worked with had a com­ space exploration. You must as­ various grades of tank; air defense to cause some internal check to plete list. I havesom equalm s about semble a crew of six humans, units; mines; land, air, and sea fail, leading to error messages on this. Some of the one-player sce­ aliens, and / or robots, assign crew transport; jets andhe!icopters;sub- the screen and glitches in inven­ narios I examined seemed so un­ beings to fill the vital roles of cap­ marines, battleships, and aircraft tory operations. None of the ir­ balanced that I question the likeli­ tain, navigator, science officer, en­ carriers. Depots with extra equip­ regularities have been fatal, but hood of anv player managing to gineer, communications officer, ment, factories to produce new they have been annoying, and 1 work through all 16. and ship's doctor, and set off into units, energy crystals to fuel pro­ feel users have a right to expect Despite minor problems. the void in search of planets for duction, and a half-dozen land and better from Electronic Arts' qual­ Battle Isle is a wonderful game. colonization and new alien races water terrain types round out the ity control. The rules are simple enough that to trade with. paraphernalia of Battle Isle. If Starflight 2 fails to achieve you can he enjoying your first sce­ Success in trade and exploration Battle Isle can be played ei­ that almost magical blend of play nario w ithin the first half-hour af­ will get you the funds necessary to ther against the computer or an­ elements and plot drive that 1 ter opening the box—not a stan­ train y our crew to the peak of effi­ other human. An unusual split­ found so compelling in the origi­ dard attribute of wargames. At the ciency and to outfit your ship to screen arrangement is used, with nal Starflight, it is nevertheless a same time, the rich selection of better survive thedangers you will each side having access to a com­ highly entertaining game. RPG units and the complex nature of face. Most importantly, you must plete, independently-scrollable fans will find ita worthwhile addi­ some of the later scenarios guar­ be ready, willing, and able to face copy of the tactical map. Game tion to their game shelves. antee long-lasting play value. the challenge of discovering the Wonderland automatically mapsand draws out where you've been. This is the first DIVERSIONS adventure i've ever played where by Miguel Mulct you didn't need a pencil and paper. Main A ccessories Windows The player can open only the windows he wants, and can tailor W hat .1 wonderful way to the game interface to a particular spend an afternoon—sitting idly playing style. The only drawback by a stream, reading books with to this approach is that the screen your older sister. That may seem can getquitecluttered with several great now, but probably sounds w indow s open. pretty boring if you're a young gal Game graphics vary, depend­ with a vivid imagination. Thus, ing upon which screen resolution you fall asleep and begin to dream is chosen at the beginning of the of another w orld. game. There are two 16 color Wonderland is a computer modes, a lo-res and an interlaced adaptation of Lewis Carroll's clas­ hi-res m ode. Both modes show the sic story, Alice's Adventures in color graphics well, but the inter­ Wonderland. The player assumes lace in the hi-res mode can be an­ the role of Alice, on a journey noying. The other two modes in­ through her imagination, which clude a four-color mode, and a starts in pursuit of a white rabbit. monochrome mode without A working know led ge of the story graphics. The most usable intorfnee is helpful, but definitely not re­ seems to be the 16-color lo-res Chuck Rock quired toplay the game. Asa mat­ mode, but the windows and menu bars seem a bit grainy. ter of fact, the game is only loosely by Miguel Mulct sented by the size of your heart at On a stock Amiga 500,1000, based on the story, so if you try to the lower left port ion of the screen. or 2000, gameplay from the disks make the game progress exactly Welcome to the Stone Age! T o restore you r health, capture any is unbearably slow. Installing the like the text, you'l! get yourself Although you won't find Fred and of the pulsating hearts found game on a hard disk greatly in­ into trouble. Wilma Flintstone, Chuck Rock throughout each level. Points are creases the speed of the game be­ The game interface is an in­ lives in a community pretty much accumulated by destroying your cause the graphics can be decom­ terestingHi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM combination of new and like Bedrock. It seems that back in foes, as well as eating many of the old. If you w ant, you can play the pressed prior to playing. The hard the Stone Age, men didn't behave prehistoricculinarv delights found disk installation program which game completely as an old-styled too differently from the way they along the path leading to Ophelia. came with the game didn't work text adventure, Opening other do today. At least, Chuck Rock G raph ics a re fa i rly well done, with my 65MB hard drive until I windows, however, adds other doesn't. Glued to the television with smooth scrolling screens and repartitioned it into two smaller important features. A graphics while his wife does the laundry, fairly good sound effects. The drives. The four-disk set is copy window visually shows what is he barely notices when a fellow soundtrack is modern, hut can get described in the text, while an in­ protected using the "key word caveman kidnaps his wife. So off tedious after a while. You can turn ventory window can show you lookup" system, so keep the Chuck must go, fighting off ptero­ off the soundtrack and select the what you're carrying at a glance. manual handy. dactyls, dinosaurs, and other haz­ sound effects, but there is no pro­ Other windows includea compass Overall, Wonderland is a ards o f 1,00(1,000 B.C., in hopes of vision to completely turn either window which allows you to ma­ great adventure game. Novice rescuing his wife Ophelia. Care to off, aside from turning down the players will enjoy all the niceties neuver Alice around without typ­ join him? volume control on your monitor. ing, along with an excellent of the multiple screens, while Chuck Rock is one of Virgin The game comes on two copy-pro­ hypertext help window which you veteran game players will prob­ Games latest entries into the ar­ tected disks, with a short but ad­ can use to lend a helping hand ably enjoy playing the game as a cade market. You control Chuck equate manual. when you need it most. One of the text ad venture using the excellent Rock, a caveman intent on rescu­ Chuck Rock is a "cute" game. nicest features is the map, which parser. ing his kidnapped wife. Using a It plays m uch like a cartoon, espe­ joystick, you move Chuck through cially when the sound effects are V 1 I 1 n W H M i ■ five levels of Cromagnon dangers, used instead of the soundtrack. Chuck's a big fellow, so not only The game is extremely easy to Beat off can he pick up and hurl rocks at his learn, and it's fairlv easy to ’ * i > - * t V r l :Vjf* the bullies enemies, he can use his large beer progress through each level. As with your belly to "butt" his enemies off the such, the gam e will probably hold beer belly. screen. the interest of beginning Gameplay is rather simple; gameplavers, while advanced r. tWr9 z ■> \ ail the plaver has to do is avoid the gamesters may find it less of a !■ many hazards which hurl them­ challenge. Perhaps younger audi­ V j l - i i v i i 'i f 1 - SJ \ - -A ^ ' M selves toward Chuck. If you're ences would appreciate the game picked on by a dinosaur, your better, but at $49.99, 1 would try health level decreases as repre­ before you buy. a high rating in ingenuity, for ex­ $14.95 plus the original disks or DIVERSIONS ample, knows more about tactics. m anual cover. The u p g rad e is Working only from hints in the w orthw hile on its ow n for the im­ product captains' dossiers, the fleet com- proved interface, revised manual, mandermust properly match cap­ and additional missions. information tains to tasks. Similarly, enemy ROEcomes with21 missions, nations or races each have distinc­ including five with linked Breach Rules of Bill Elliott’s NASCAR C hallenge tive behavioral characteristics, and 2 scenarios. Each can be played at Price: $49.95 Engagement the fleet tactics m ust be shaped to three levels of difficulty. Like Konami, Inc. fit the lim ited inform ation avail­ Breach 2, ROE comes with a 900 Deerfield Parkway by L. S. Liclitftann able. mission buiider. The individual Buffalo Grove, It 60089-4510 As ship captain, the player components of the mission (ships, (708) 215-5111 must direct the flagship in space captains, aliens, and stellar Inquiry #230 Space war games have a long flight, determiriingdestinatioris, or systems) may also be created, and and honorable history on comput­ Flames of Freedom course and speed. ROE handles can be "stockpiled" and re-used as ers. The most recent one to cross Price: $49.95 acceleration, velocity and distance desired in creating new missions. my orbit is Rides of Engagement MicroProse Software in a realistic manner. Communi­ The alien builder is particularly (ROE). ROE is a game of starship 180 Lakefront Drive cation is correctly limited by the entertaining because of its "mix Hunt Valley, MD 21030 fleet combat, with features that speed of light. Over the tremen­ and match parts" facility' for pro­ (800) 879-7529 make it utterly unique. ROE dous reaches of space in which ducing pictu res of new al ien races. Inquiry #231 consists of two floppies and a ROE takes place, message delays Missions which link to Breach 2 dense, 212-page manual. The Leander consequently become a major fac­ scenarios can be produced, al­ manual givesdear instructions for Price: $49.99 tor. The great distances also mean though the Breach 2 scenario all game functions, some Psygnosis that, despite very high speeds, b uilder is not included with ROE. background color on the ROE/ 29 St. M ary's Ct. much time is spent just getting If yxiu have a favorite Breach 2 Brookline, MA 02146 Breach universe, and a "quick places. The ability to accelerate the squad leader, he or she can he (617) 731-3553 start" tutorial. A 1MB Amiga is passage of time on the mission imported into ROE as a fleet com­ Inquiry #232 required. On older machines dock makes this bearable. m ander. having only 512K, all Workbench Starflight 2 The player must also fight As a strategy game, ROE for­ windows will have to be closed to Price: $49.95 the ship. Com bat, like m ovem ent, goes state-of-the-art graphics and run ROE. The game runs perfectly Electronic Arts takes place in real time, rather than sound. However, the interface is under AmigaDOS 2.0, and comes 1450 Fashion Island Blvd. in rounds. Now real-time combat attractive, and a marvel of effi­ San Mateo, CA 94404 Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMw ith its ow n hard disk installation in computer games is a delicate ciency. In theory, it's the interface (800) 245-4525 utility. thing, because a second is a short presented to a captain in the ROE Inquiry #233

D u n tim e to a hum an but an eternity to universe for computer control of Battle Isle the CPU. This has lead to some the ship, w ith touch-sensitive dis­ Price: $49.95 grotesquely unbalanced games. plays replacing mechanical but­ UBI Soft ROE'ssystem of subordinate ships tons. Consistent use of color iden­ 15 Atwood Avenue and captains works to keep play tifies control functions and groups Sausalito, CA 94965 balanced, bv allowing other ships related controls. Aren overlays al­ (415) 332-8749 to support the flagship in combat. low the myriad actions necessary Inquiry #234 Even one-on-one combat, how­ to control ship and game to be Wonderland ever, in ROE appears reasonably managed out of a small set of Price: $59.95 balanced, with opposing ships screens with logically distinct func­ Virgin Games The player takes the role of under the same limits as the tions. Since most of us are unlikely 18061 Filch Ave. fleet commander, doubling as cap­ player's own, and not benefiting to have computers with touch­ Irvine, CA 92714 tain of the fleet flagship, and is excessively from having the rapid screen capability, the mouse (714) 833-8710 assigned a mission, or scenario, reactions of the computer behind pointer substitutes for thecaptain's Inquiry #235 with one or more objectives to be them. finger, There is also set of equiva­ Chuck Rock met. Typical objectives arc the de­ ROE is a module of lents for play from the keyboard. Price: $49.99 struction of a specified fraction of Omnitrend's "Interlocking Game 1 can think of a few things I'd Virgin Games, Inc. an enemy fleet, or the capture of an System." If£>raidi2is present, ROE love to see in future versions of 18061 Filch Avenue enemy base. The commander's will automatically load and run ROE. The ship builder might be Irvine. CA 92714 resources are the fleet's ships and special Breach 2 scenarios to fleshed out into a full ship design (714) 833-8710 Inquiry #236 possib ly one or more friend ly sup­ resolve ship board ing actions and system, allowing one to test cus­ ply bases. To employ these re­ the like. Effectively, ROE and tom fleets in missions. M ore am bi­ Rules of Engagem ent sources, the player issues orders Breach 2 become components of tiously, a two-player modem op­ Price: $59.95 to subordinate captains, for in­ one huge game. However, tion would be great. Nonetheless, M indcraft Software stance, "resupply at outpost." Each according to Mindcraft, only the ROE is a very' good game. 1 rec­ 2341 205th Street, Suite 201 subordinate carries hidden ratings version of Breach 2 distributed by ommend it to strategy' gamers. Torrance, CA 90501 tn ten characteristics, ranging from Mindcraft (V2.0) will work with (800) 525-4933 Inquiry #237 aggressiveness to loyalty, which ROE in this way. Owners of the affect performance. A captain with older versions can upgrade for Availiblc from CORRECTION Only $9.95 or call

A mistake was made when laying out the code in Merrill Callaway's article "Using ARexx to Translate Number Hases and Character Codes". The lines of code for the program called Hex.rexx which can be found on page 53 of the February, 1992 issue will not work in their current form. They wrapped inappropriately and are missing important line breaks. W eapologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. The following listing is the code in its proper form. Product of: Advanced Image 2 Route I 3 Sowh ■ Hex,1 ' N ■ ; ■ • UTACtei crara. it : */ Brookline. NH DO FOREVER 03033 ' nput string optiaft (x or b or a => hex, bin, oct). jRtn) to {juit./ 603-673-0212 PARSE FULL answer option . /* note the forced tokenization (. I */ anti keep it up unci out o f the way. option ::r;- rcicr., I i> /* get the f irst letter, discard rest */ Dealer inquires invited IK option==^r W E N cpticn-'X' /• allow for alternative :npr. to t hex * Circle 134 on Reader Service card. IF answer=” THEM exit 0 DO WHILE cctnum - " IP option^" T IO IF I 'NUM' THEN opticr^'D' /* decimal * PARSE VAR octnum 1 num.k 2 octnum k=k* 1 ik options'X' 1 T O IF -DATMYPEtanswer.'x') then do /* valid hex? v END SAY 'Invalid hex number. Try again.' k=k-t nsk-1 E253 sum=0 IF opcic**='B' THEN IF -DATATYPE(answer, 'binary* I THEN DO r* bina DO i=2 TO k SAY 'Invalid binary number. Try again.' sum=(num.i)*(8■*n>tsum ITERATE n*n-l a m END brnr.uT;-c2b(ci2ctsuiTi)) IF option='0' THEN IF -octal(answer) THEN IX) /* octal? V RETURN birnurr. SAY 'Invalid octal number. Try again,' iterate * convert binary to octal *1 b2o: PROCEDURE PARSE APS binnum SELECT k=l 00 WHILE biimum- =' * WHEN optictfH'D' Tl-B! DO /* decimal * PARSE VAR binntsn 1 num.k 2 birourn cha^dUc (answer) k=k*l hex=d2x (answer I END bin-c2bld2c

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256K x 4*10...... S6.95 experience, then you at least need to stress picture. lmg x 4-80 (ZIP far Supra RX)...»...... $24.95 that there are other programs offering You, as a publication, are most lmg x 4-80 (DIP for Supra XP) ...... S24.95 ...... $24.95 equivalent or alternative features. Otherwise, enthusiatic about the Amiga, hut without a lm g x 4-70 (Static for A300Q)...... $27.95 1.3 R O M ...... $29.95 we readers are misled. serious view to the future, you may well be 2.0 R O M ...... Call 2.0 ROM iFor A 2630)...... $29.95 Since I'm sure it doesn't come through editing a magazine on some other subject, ...... Coll McgAChip 3000...... Call in this letter, I w ant you Amazing folks to and I may end up with a bygone computer ...... $79.00 ...... $99.95 know that you remain my Amiga-mag-of- in my home...... 529.95 choice. Thanks for being there. ECS D eniae...... ,.,..$50,00 ...... $24,95 Ben Stem ...... $24 95 8530 CLA...... $14.95 Denis Darsie Haifa, Israel ...... $39,95 ...... $89.95 Pittsburgh, PA Keyboard for A 2000...... $120.00 Keyboard for A 3000...... $130.00 We're sending a copy of your letter to Commo­ ...... $19.95 ...... $79.00 Benumbed from chasing do;tm solecisms, dore,— Ed...... $189.00 zeugmas, and ...... $249.00 unorthodox orthography while 512K w/clock for A500...... $59.00 facing the dreaded deadline, we let slip the fact Key board for A 100 0 ...... $120.00 ...... $279.00 that PageStream by SoftLogik and other DTP A 1000 PAL Upgrade Kit™...... $19.95 A 1000 Hard Drive K it...... $189.00 and WP programs also do what was claimed for ...... $209.00 DKB 2632 (32 bit RAM Board for A2630)...... Call Professional Page. A/so the release of Final Copy •AC* Supra RAM 8mb card for A2000 w/2mb...... Call vSupra 500X P 52 mb Hard D rive...... Cali was reported in "New Products" of the same Supra Modem 2400 plus...... $134.95 issue, but we have only recently received a copy Readers whose letters are published will receive five Call for more great price* for examination. Your letter, composed with public domain disks free of charge. All letters are dees subject to editing. (Orders Only) (800) 962-4489 Final Copy, indeed show PostScript-quality FAX (404) 263-7852 outout. We do regret omitting in "Perfect Pages" (Information) (404) 263-9190 a description of the capabilities of the other products you've mentioned. Circle 134 on Reader Service card. Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMNot unusually, Denis, yours is the only letter on this article that we've received by press time. PageStream; the program does this for you. Nevertheless, check oui the publisher's axiom Combining PageStream and my HP HIP quoted in this month's editorial for an explana­ laser printer, o r even m y 24-pin dot m atrix, I tion.—Ed. have access to a far wider variety of

PostScript capability than ProPage offers, Data-Processing Amigas with much more flexibility in output. Between what I do at home fooling PageStream's use of custom drivers—one for around with my beloved A500 and all the PostScript printers and for Preference printer interesting articles I read about what others drivers—allows for much of the versatility. do with their Amigas, I've no doubt that we RayDance Mr. Videuira states that one needs a have a wonderful computer. I work as the "PostScript output" and thus a PostScript manager of da ta processing for a large public Advanced script-driven, raj tracing printer, a PostScript cartridge or PostScript utitlity, where we do mainframe computing software for your Amiga! interpreter software if one is "serious about with over 2000 terminals and develop • True texture and bump wrapping for electronic publishing." Then he writes, information systems intended for simulta­ amazingly real surfaces * Built in fractal "...you will not be able to take full advantage neous use by hundreds of users. During the objects: trees, hills, and 3d Mandelbrot mountains ■ Haze and soft shadows * of your DTP program's ability to print past few years, it has become possible to Virtual objects make possible scenes with structured graphics." Huh? Really? Both attach various PCs with downloading and millions of polygons! • Tweening and shape ProPage and PStream will output EPS, uploading possibilities. The future holds the morphing • IFF24 output • Powerful, ProDraw, or AegisDraw files with full promise of many great things—distributed high-level, script language for precision, PostScript quality. Moreover, you can edit systems, workstations, client-server setups, algorithmic, scene construction ProD raw , ProVector, or AegisDraw art and more. But Commodore has completely 1 meg mill, memory. Additional memory, objects within PStream as well as view EPS neglected the institutional workplace. Other and coprocessor strongly recommended. TIFF preview files, not possible in ProPage. firms will sell thousands, even millions, of 68040 compatible! Do you folks edit for accuracy of content or com puters that are inferior to the A m iga b u t Introductory price, only S 9 9 . 9 5 ! just for punctutation and grammar? Such will fit into mainframe svsems. They will Demo version also available. omissions we don’t need! remain in business while Commodore will Send $5.00 (postpaid in USA) to In addition, there was no mention of be selling to only a small market section. ProWrite's ability since version 3.2 to output After all, how can 1 convince my firm to Radiance Software CompuGraphic outline fonts, nor the arrival 2715 Klein Rd., San Jose, CA 95148 of Final Copy, which very inexpensively AMAZING COMPUTING •V ol. fi No. 2, February 1991 ¥ Vol. 7, No. I January, 1992 Back Highlights include: I tighlights Include: "Xetec’s CDx-650," CD-ROM technology for the Amiga, by "M em ories," A5UU m em ory expansion, by Sam Am m ons Lonnie Watson "Help for the Help Key," by Rick Manasa "More Ports For Your Amiga," by Jeff Lavin "Getting the most from your RAMdisk," by Keith Cameron "Medley/" A look at different types of music software "Installing and Using an IBM mouse with Your Amiga," by available, by Phil Saunders Phillip R. Combs "DePuzzle," a puzzle-solving program for brain teasers, by • Vol. 6 No. 3, March 1991 Scott P alm akvr Highlights include: Issue "ZipTcrm," learn how to use Console.device and Serial.dev ice "NewTok's Video Toaster. A New Era in Amiga Video," a while creating a telecommunications program, by Doug Thain complete tour of the Video Toaster, by Frank McMahon ALSO: Coverage of G erm any’s Amiga '91 and London's "Ultrasonic Ranging System/’ the sonar system project World of Commodore shows. continues, by John I ovine "Writing Faster Assembly Language," the discussion on how • Vol. 7, No. 2 February, 1992 to speed up program s w ith assem bly is com pleted, by Martin Highlights Include: F. Com bs "Deduct That Interest with FC CALC," by Rick Manasa Index "Finding the Right Multimedia Fit," by Dave Spitler ¥ Vol. 6 No. 4, April 1991 "Images in Dentistry," b^‘ Ken 1 .arson Highlights Include: "Signmakingan the Amiga," b\ Karen Pringle "DCTV/’ manipulate millions of colors in real time, by Frank "Perfect Pages," how to produce PostScript-quality pages McMahon without buying a PostScript laser printer. What have you been missing? Have "Lauren in Disguise/' workaround to Deluxl’aint 111$ lack of ALSO: Coverage of Toronto’s World of Commodore Show HAM support, bv Merrill Callaway you missed information on How to add ports "M edley/' by Phil Saunders * Vol. 7, No. 3 M arch, 1992 Plus, a special feature on Graphic Word Processors Highlights Include: to your Amiga for under S70, how to work 'The Miracle Piano Teaching System,” by Christopher Piper around lack of HAM support, ¥ Vol. 6 No. 5, May 1991 "DeluxePaint IV," by R. Shamms Mortier DduxePaint's. Highlights include: "Semi-Automatic Painting and Animation," by Kevin Lude how to deal with service bureaus, or how to "The Big Three in DTP," a desktop publishing overview by "Screen Photography," taking pictures of your Amiga screen, by Richard Mataka Pat M urphy put your Super 8 films on video tape, along "The Amiga Desktop Publisher’s Guide to Serv ice Bureaus," Also, a special section on Amiga Graphic Design and a look at by John Steiner some special Amiga Artists. with Amiga graphics? Do you know the "M.A.S.T.'s Parallel Port SCSI Adapter," An inexpensive way to attach a hard disk to your A500, by Dan Michaelson differences among the big three DTP "Ail in One," programs for the beginner, by Kim Schaffer programs for the Amiga? Does the ARexx • Vol. 6, No.fi, June 1991 Highlights include: interface still puzzle you? Do you know "MaxiPlan Plus/ a review by Chuck Raudonis "CDTV," a comprehensive look at Comodore's hottest item when it's better to you use the CLI? Would "HAM-E," a review introducing an excellent 24-bit color video you like to know how to go about publishing board, by David Johnson AC's TECH "Pixel 3D," review by John Steiner a newsletter? Do you take full advantage of "Professional Page 2.0," a review of a complete and truly professional desktop publishing package by Rick Broida m A C s TECH. Vol. 1, N o. 1 your RAMdisk? Have you yet to install an Highlights Include: '¥ Vol.fi No. 7, July 1991 "Magic Macros with ReSource," by Jeff Lavin IBM m ouse to w ork w ith y our bridgeboard? Highlights include: "AmigaDOS, EDIT, and Recursive Programming "Firecracker 24," a review of the latest in 24-bit video boards Techniques,” by Mark Pardue Do you know there's an alternative to high- from Impulse by Frank McMahon "Building the VidCell 256 Grayscale Digitizer,” by Todd cost word processors? Do you still struggle "Proper Grammar/ A review of a comprehensive spelling and Elliott grammar checker by Paul Larrivee "An Introduction to JnterProcess Communication with through your directories? "PageStream/' another entry in the word processing /desktop ARexx," by Dan Sugalski publishing software line, by John Steiner "AmigaDOS for Programmers," by Bruno Costa Or if you're a programmer or technical Also, extensive S um m er CES coverage! — an d m ore! type, do you understand how to add 512K ¥ Vol. 6 No. H, August, 1991 HighlightsHi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM include: * A C s TECH, Vol. 1, N o. 2 RAM to your 1MB A500 for a cost of only "Afterimage," create titling and special effects for your home Highlights Include: videos in minutes, by Frank McMahon "CAD Application Design: Part I," by Forest W. Arnold $30? Or how to program the Amiga's GUI in T h e Jerry Bryant Show," AC interviews Jerry Bryant, whose "Programming the Amiga’s GUI in C: Part I," by Paul secret w eapons for producing four hours of television a week C astonguay C? Would you like the instructions for are the Amiga and the Video Toaster "Intuition and Graphics in ARexx Scripts," by Jeff Giant building your own variable rapid-fire "Understanding Genlocks, " by Matt Drabiek "UNIX and the Amiga/' by Mike I lubbart "Super 8 Meets the Amiga," easy film-to-video transfer with "A Meg and a Half on a Budget," by Bob Blick joystick or a 246-grayscale SCSI interface for the addition of Amiga graphics, by Patrik Beck an d m ore! "Looking Good with B.A.D.," a review of Centaur Software's your Amiga? Do you use easy routines for disk optim izing program by Rick M anasa ¥ A C s TECH, Vol. 1, N o. 3 Also, AC continues the extensive coverage of the Summer Highlights Include: performing floppy access without the aid of COS In Chicago! "CAD Applications Design—Part II," by Forest Arnold the operating system? How much do you * Vol. 6 No. 9, Septem ber 1991 "C Macros for ARexx?" by David Blackwell Highlights include: "VBROM:Assembly Language Monitor" by Dan Babcock really understand about ray tracing? The "Bars&Pipes Professional," a review by Phil Saunders "Programming the Amiga's GUI in C—Part II" by Paul "Frame Buffer Face-Off," an overview of framebuffers, by Castonguay answers to these questions and others can Frank M cMahon —an d m ore! be found in and "DynaCADD," a review by Doug Bullard AMAZING COMPUTING PItis: * A C s TEC H , Vol. 1, N o. 4 AC's TECH. Special reports on Multimedia applications Highlights Include: AND "GPIO—LOw-Cost Sequence Control" by Ken Hall Super show coverage from Australia and Orlando! "Programming with the ARexxDB Records Manager" by Benton Jackson * Vol. 6 No. 10, October 1991 "The Development of a Ray Tracer—Part I" by Bruno Highlights include: Costa "Art Department Professional," a review of ASDG’s powerful program hv Merrill Callaway "The Varafire Solution—Build Your Own Variable Rapid- How to place "ShowMakcr," beyond desktop video, by Frank McMahon Fire Joystick" by Lee Brewer "APL and the Amiga," by Henry Lip per: "Using Interrupts for Animating Pointers" by Jeff Lavin Plus: — an d m ore! your order An ARexx double feature and a special education section ¥ A C s TECH, Vol. 2, N o. 1 ¥ Vol. 6 No. 11, Novem ber 1991 Highlights Include: Highlights include: "Build Your Own SCSI Interface" by Paul Harker "Connecting Your Amiga to the Sharp Wizard," by Merrill "CAD Application Design—Part II!" by Forest Arnold Callaway "Implementing an ARexx Interface in Your C Program" bv "Epson 300c Flat Bed Scanner/’ review bv Merrill Callaway David Blackwell We a cce p t Visa and Master "Impact Vision 24," a sneak preview of GVP's powerful 24-bit "The Amiga and the MIDI Hardware Specification” by board, by Frank McMahon Jam es C o o k Card. Call our toll-free 800 "CSA Mega-Midget Racer," a review of CSA’s powerful — an d m ure! accelerator board, by Mike Corbett "Why Should Y ou (Jse the CL1?" three sound reasons to use number from anywhere in the command line interface, by Keith Cameron ¥ Vol. 6, No. 12 December, 1991 the U.S. or Canada today! Highlights Include: "Audition 4," a review of a great sound simpler package bv Bill frazier "Draw 4D Pro," a look at ADPSEC's latest update to Draw 4D, by R. Sham m s Mortier "Newsletter Basics," a tutorial on how to create professional newsletters using PageStream, by Pat Knszvcki "AmigaDOS for the Beginner," another look at the basics of AmigaDOS, by Keith Cameron 1-800-345-3360 ALSO: Coverage of Ami EXPO Oakland and the Koln, Germany, show! The Fred Fish Collection

Sysinta A program which reports interesting information about BelowisalistingcfthelatesladditionstotheFred become a single larger set ol laces Objects areoutput lot rwe.Comes wiihseven Xpr-transfer libraries the configuration of your machine, including some speed Fish Collection . This expanding libraryof freely in Sculpt scene'format Works with ordinary HAM or {ascu.jmodem.kermii.cu<;kb,imodem,ymodemi comparisons with other configurations, versions of the Eitra-Haifb'itobrusfies Anypafeilecolorscanbe zmodem) and documentation both mGerman and in redistribuiable software is the work of Amiga OSsolTwate.elc- This programhasbeen very popular omiiiedfromconversion andallpalettecolors can be ot English. This is version 1,9c. an update to version w4h man y users and h as been fully updated to include pioneer and award wmningsoftwareanthologisr, differentiaxtures FullIntuihoninterface.Verson 1.5. 1.8a on disk 534. 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Author Stefan Zeiger update to version l. 4ondesk 535, and includes cspyback mode d the 5SC4Q s also supported. The Thais verson 1 ,6. an upda!e!oversionl.5cndisk Wiiardfrter This mcefile requester is an enhanced version of numerous!) jg tues and enhancements; such as 4-34. Incfudeseiamoie source and execut^sie Ti es program can operate from theCLtwrthsir-gtewmultipte Anders B|erins‘ FiJeW(ndcw'fromd-.sk337. It svery n ulacoior mode) I net udes source in C ard assemb’y Binaryonly. Author: JoeSiebenmann paraJT-elersorfroTtWorkfienchviagadgers.ls camfortabieardhasamceWBZ.Odesrgn.Versionl.Ot. languagfl.Autf»t OlafOisenEarthel LAZi A graph c interface for the archive utilities Lhaic. Arc. campat bte with Kickstart I 3orV2.04and requires no Source codeinC included Public Domain. 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The saveacon-tiguraiionlileihathoidsihelocalionsol FuHView Ata>1viewer1halusesgadgetsatthebottomoiihe functional versr0rie«cept1hali|requiresdickingona calculation routineswerewntlsnm '381 assembly yourworkfluect-ones, archive uiihtios.andi’s screen(thuscan display tert80co!umnswide).oper,s contmualicn prompt alter every 15 mmutesof rendering language fo" maximum speed and preosion Also position when icon ified. At least 1 Mbof RAM is up to the luH size ol the Workbench screen, displays time andtne total numbef cl polygons and spheres in a included is a ’ movie mode which alicws generation of recommended-Version 1 0.bma7cnly. Author Mark ANSI color sequences and can lead ft es ccmpressed by scene is liTiteo to a pprcx mately 14C-0. Includes both tang camera z ooms i 0 spo ts «n th e M ande brc I sei. The W. Davis Pc werpacxe r. AJ so snows IFF p ictures (which can also software and hardware float mg point versions, Recu res resulting an mationscan besavedm ANlM-opi-5format. NumbersUp A simple little game where numbers fly into tre be compressed).This isversionJ.OA. an uodateto a minimum p! 1 Mb of ram, Version 1,0. binary only ai'owng to replay mem using MandeiSquare'or playing area tram both sides of the screen. When you version 2.02 on d&k 412. bmary criy. Author; Jonathan Author Charles Com stock standard an.nalHjnsoftware Version i ,3,indudes dick the mousebuMon.iheytiytofhetapof the Potter EttdFMD.i5K596 source in "C and assembly langu age. Author: Olal screen and stckthere The score is determined by StopWatch Aprogramtotimeevents. ncludingintermedialaevents AzMake Awork environmentforAztecC Youcancompile, Olsen Bamei whai numbers ihecurrentrumber lands near, and the wit h a n over a 11 accuracy ot about 250 mi II; seconds (since assemble link print,oicyoutprogramsbyclickinga FredFishDJskifil gameendswhenihesamenumbersendupadjacent thetimingeventsareregrslefedbyhumaninteraction). gadget. Typing intheSheiiisout Version 1.1, Term Agiltwaraieiecommunicationsprogramwriiientor loeacnother. Version 1 2, includes source. Author Version l.O.&maiy only. Author: JoeRattz.Jr shareware.bi nary only. Author:ChrislianFnetSe! ArnigaOSrelease2.x|Kickstaft37.175andWorkbench Jason Lowe SuperLock A very Hexi&iesecurity program that can lockaiy or ail of SackHde Afinieulihtyihatadsiikea'super-trashcan'and adds 37.67 or higher requ ired). Features include total PutticSenhce Ascreenclockinienaedlorihosewh-aseday the device s present in thesy stem, making access lo an appiccn to I h e Workbench backdrop window. As configurability, full ARe * x control, Xpr-|fan5ler support. revolves around a series ol bf eaksilhisone cou nls them impossible. Ucan also optionally locMhe t ey board sudh.3lackHo!eiequresAmgaDOS2.0.Youcanorag Eletype-ider.t if icationalter download, eulipaste point- (Jownlhieminutesloeachbreak.andcomplainsif andthemousfl.Versionl 01 Requiresarp iajrary. fiecrdrawericonsonlatheBackHoleandycuwitlthen ard-d ck cr screen, a jto up load anddown la ao, you re ai the Amiga outside wotkmg hours* All break Binary only. Author: Jonathan Potter be askedifywrealfywanttofleieiethe items. Versqm saol '.able review buffer of urviim tecs'ze.soiidandfuliy- hmes are can!anedinasma!ile«ifi!e(exa.mpie SuperSoet A g loba! spe.l i og checker that checks you r spe: trg np v 0, binary only Author: Parsec SoM Syste m s featured VTI00 VT22D ANStemuiatcn.oofsonaifasl given). Times a'eeipre >sed m words rather than matter wna! progr am you are typing under. Car be used Contour4D Creates colored, aiiitudemappedcb|ectstorSaj1pt4D atomc term, rul emu'at ion. hotkey Support, powerful r-jmtiers includes source Author MichaeiWamer tocheck5peii ngwhen typing ona BBS. mateitedrtor. T wo IF F brushes are used: one to supply the color for phoneoookanfi dialing functions ab;iiTyicsaveandprir« OudiTrans Freely tedisiribuiable replacemem lor cr anywhere else Comes witha90fJ0worflqictOnary. theobiectanda second wfiick.by its color intensity. the ca r ients of t he screen a s IF F - IL BM or ASC 11 f ile. lu 1 malntrans library. conramingfasterversionsQlall 17 whichyoucanediJ.addtoonepiacecompietely.VerSdn g;vesanaltitude1srlheoO;ectatlhafpoini.Cb|ectsar9 overscanardscreenresolut;cnsupport(newECS functions, with almost Ihe same accuracy, 1. t, omary only Author : Jonathan Potter optimised solfiatiargeareasolonecolorandheighl screen modes included). asynchronous opera bon anfi a Trigonometric (unctronsare2to2,5iimesaslast. Lagarrthmic.exponeflliafandhyperboJiCfuflOt>onsare P-Reader An an purpose reader lhaicisplaystexts. pictures. a&out 3 times as Iasi, Version 1 0, binary only. Author animations and sounds, which mayoe uncompressed Martin Combs or compressed with P Compress Teits can include Star Three C lunchons. that you caneasiiy ircof per aie mo enwdded static or ar.irr.ated iflustrations and sounds yourprofiramsiodrawstafs Includes source Author: This is version 5.2. an update to version 5.1 on disk Jason Lowe 543. Freeware.binaryooly.Authof.ChasA Wyndham ErfdFijfiDM533 PWnter AtfcilecMorwilh special ta&iiUesfpr inserting leitcfltor AnafyRm AnmtegfationoUhe AnatytiCalc spreacsneet.C.sk and style changes and lor preparing illustrated te xis for 495) and the RIM • 5 rol atonal database management P Reader. Version 3,2,1 reeware.binaryonty.Author system (disk 143). hfcgratesaspteadsheetwiin ChasA.Wyndham hundreds of functions and 1 SOOOby 18000 cell Fred Fish Disk 596 addressspace.wrthacompletediskbasedDBMS, RayShade RayshadeisaraytracingprogramponedtotheAmiga and lunch ofts pe r m it: i rt g one to it ove r el a i ons or Irom UNIX. Rayshade's features nclude nine types of seiectionsolrslationsineiiherdiredionbelween primitives (box. cone cylinder, height held, pla ne, spreadsheet anddata-base. ln*his«vay.iaige polygon, sphere,superquadric, Haltna ngieandphong- relations can be stored on disk, yet accos sed as shaded Ir angle): composite objects: point, direct-onal. Bigfoot 200 Watt A-500 Power Supply $ 1 2 9 .9 5 needed in the spreacsheei, Irom whence they can oe andeg E Kotb, AmigaPortby MartmHohl Eureka 512K A-501 Clone S 7 4 .9 5 containing I be e *ecu! able and needed *ke ypad' TooGypeWatch Helps youil youarasearchingfctToolType- corrmandliles. and disk 594 conlaimngthe source keywords of a certain application Itpatcheslhe $ 8 9 .9 5 and documentation. Author: Glenn C. Everhart el. al FmdToolTypeO anditieMalchToolVaiuel )hjnct«>nsol Eureka 4MB Ram Expansion Elements Very rice inietactived'spiay ol I he the Pe nodicT able thereon library and records all calls to those functions ol Elements. Includes general row and column a'ongw-ththegivenargumenis. This altowsycuto Eureka Swifty 300 D.P.I. Mouse $ 3 4 .9 5 information, piusaiesi mode wheretlteprogram asks discover alikeywofdssupponedbyanappiicationas specifi cquestio-ns about the selected element or row ToolTypes VefsiQr>0.7,mciudessource,Author:Uwe 3 9 .9 5 co!urrn.Thistsverson2.3b,anupdateioversion2.3 R6nm Eureka Midi (1 In, 2 Out, 2 Thru) $ ondisk384.withsome minorAmigaOOS2,Olixes.a FredFishOnk597 newiccn.andSwedshandGermandaiaMes. Bmary GcLD GameolLile-Duo A'QameoiLle'eidension.This only, shareware. Author: Paul Thomas Miller one usesTWOsuamsofceHs, ai'cwsfreeredetmit«on LhA A very las t archrver Itial « compatible with MS- DO 5 o! the rules.and contains the original game as a Micro R. & D. is pleased to be the North LhArcV! i3andlH AV213 asweilastreArmga subset This is version 1 O.mciudessourcemCand LhArc. LhA is very memory eltcient. hasbeen written asrembiy Author Andreas Neubacher withssabiliyandreiisbti tymmird hascarefu«y tcoiToots Fo j r prog r ams io manage some aspects o! icon* using American representative for optimized compression and decompressor routines I he Intuition nierf ace andaliowrgoneoperate on smu'titasiiingreentrantandpuTe hanclesmuliple many iconsalonce by shifi-cid7 DBMS.ar>d!uncionspflrrmJTirgonetomovereiat«ns atblar>k|ime.andlobuildu!ilitynoduiesthalmay(or through the pr inter drrve*. Version t .O.incfudesC othofsmcludingpower-packed modules' Includes or selections ol retains in #ith«» direct on between maynotlchoose the actual saver Vers:on37 7. source. Author AndrewMartm.SciTechSoftware many sample modules in several of these formats spreadsheet and ea'a - base I n thrs wa y, large mdudes partial source Author Mike Meyer McG A demonstration vers^nof a commercial molecular Thsis version t 5. an update to version 1 2 on disk relations can be stored o n disk. > el accessed as ThrFonis Seven tied width fonts in two designs to get more graphics program Stick representations ot mWscutes 509 Binaryonly.Author:ThomasLandspu^ tieedeo iruhe spreadsheet. from whence they canoe characterson your screen. Made for usage on ha es may be rotated translated and seated on screen and NCode AfastMC680C0 m2O30co«hti<)nalmau'O computed win or plotted Theeommandianguageot interlacedscreensandA2024modes Author.DirkW. changes may be made to structures. Space filing' assembler lor the Amiga Supports both theo’dand RIM isfair- l/cioseto SQL and dccumenisfcr it are Re»sig p-cturesmay also be genera! edusmg quickp'evew. itrenewMoiorqtasyntatforcperandsanaalowsyoj included. Also sup- ports Gnu PlollO provi de f lei idle Fred FishDISH598 shading, or ray-tracing The demonstra-hon version taputstandardparametersin an argument file. plotting. Amintmumof2Mbolmemoryis ANSI AsmallCLIutltitylaconvenCsourcebetweenANSI a'ows only one ol twostruclurestobe Ois- played and NCodecan beused for any cfthefourCPU sand will recommenCed.ot which 750Kmuslbeconiiguous andKermghanandRitchiefunclion definition formats doesnotaiiowspaceiifiing.ihough some sample chockwhetheryourcodemaichesthespeciliedtaigfli B eca us e the fu H di 5h ib ut ion would nol 1i I o n a s ngte Also allows generatiofiolprolotypes. No Amiga space-liiledstrucluresare included Version T.03D, CPU Verslonl 2,bmaryor.lyr.Author: EdgarVisser disk, Hhasbeen split onlolwo disks, with disk593 exlensionsandshou'dbeportab e Versioni .0, binary only. Author: SciT ech SoHwam Paragon Atwoplayorgamowheretheobjectistobuildagiven containlnglheenecutabieflndnefded‘keypad' includes C source. Author Andrew Martin, SeiTech Prlabel A utility topnnt aserprinter labels. Support 3(6.2x8 crown|apattemol5stones)onthepiayboard. command liles .anddisk 594 contammgthe source Solwaro anq2x7A4iaoelsheets.Thepiogiammayeasilybe Includes source in AMOS. Aut hor; Voiker Steppralh a nd documental ion Author; Gtenn C. E verhart et. a l 0X100 Edtor Librananlorth«YamahaDX:oo,DX2t.and modified 'or o'herformats Also serves asa RotheBo ReversiOtheUohkegametfatleaiuresthecptionta Cube-t A3-dtmensionalver$iQnof ’zeros andcrosses’ ona DX27 synthe-sizers. Provides vciceediting and dem snstrabon of using STSL ibf o< gadgets and 5hi It comqtete rows cr columns of the p-ayfield Play a 4 >4x4 scard which can be i nspected trom an sides. I: i borianfeaturessim lartotheFE-Ot Ector Librarian menus. Version 1,1 .mcludesCscufW. Author: human or computer opoonent. Version 1.O. :-s pc ss:b>e to change the skill of the computer game. Ve-S'cn 1 25-Auth.cr:Jame5M.Sradh Andrew Martm ScGech Software sharewa'e. binary only . Author:Mofiael Koepke and take back moves, change sides and abandon, Version FB-Ct Ed tall parameters tprFB-01 Voicesand flti'Shea Asetofroutinesfofcrman adqihcnailayerbetween Roll Herrmann 1.2,1.&naryonfy, Author Joachim Tuckmantel Configurations. H as graphical display ofvoce the programmer and ARexx RxilsheHsitscntopol FiedfisliDjskiiS envelopes lo improve the ed-t-ng process T he librarian m l on disk 299 and contain $ a few changes and bug TcBe Continued CkbSave Asmallhackforsavngtheactualconiertsollhe prcvioesihemeanstoorganizeandstoreabankpf fix es to the rx il rout met. Lfsmg these rputrnes add mg clipboard (unilO)toilile. Itmayonly be used from vocescx configurations on disk-Sendcustomized AReixsupporttoaprogrambecomescomplelely Iti Concly slpf] shell. This is ve rsionj. 1. me J udes so ur ce Au iho r banks lo a Yamaha FB-01 or receivebanksfromthu invial, Vernon i .0, mdudesCsource Author Andrew Toihebestolour knowledge, tha mater aismCus library arefreely UweRohm instrument Print hardcopy of voice and conf ig uration Martin, SoTech Software distributable Tmsmeansthey wore either publicly posted and HOW Agame where the aimis loge! aboil Iromthesiar banks. Version 1.25. Author :JamesM,Smith STSLib Btmkcompatible library required to recompi'ePilabel. placedmthepublicdomainbylheirautiiors.oftheyhaveresiric- squarelotheejilsquare. while trying lolurnafl Parse As mplskeywoidcommandlineparsing routine. ThislibrarysupoliesgatJtools-like3Dlookgaoge!s squares tothesamecolor. Asthoballmoves across a lionspub rshed in their hies lo which we have adhered. Ilyou Supports muedcaseandunambguous abbreviations i including check boxes, radiobuttons and cycle square.the color of mesquare changes inacyctic mlhecommandiine. The parse routine can be used to gadgetslsndmenuswhoselayoitwiilbeafliijstedfor becomeawareolanyvioiationollheauthors’ wishes, please order offourcolors. Also mciudesaieveledtcr add keywordcontrolloany pro-gram man easy differenidetauSscreentexhlorrtsundefAmigaDOS contact usby mail. 1 .2 , program Freeware,bmaryonly.Author:PeletHandel manner Version mcludesCsource.Author; V2.0, Version 1,0, imkhbrary onty. Source and IWPORTANTNOTICE! IcarSwap A small utility, which allowsycu to quickly and easily Andr ew Mart m, SoT ech Sohwar e documentatjort available from the author tor a lee. Tbs list ^compiled and published as a serves to the Commodore SAapihecoiO'SClyounconsbetweeimeofdert.] TX31Z Edior LibfananlpftheYamahaTX8lZandDXll Author Andrew Martn. SciT ech Software Amsgacommumlyforinformatipnalaurposesonly. Itsuseis a,mjihe new2 Ostyte.VersionO M.includes source. syrthesners. Provides votceandibra nan I eat ores FreflFishDisk600 Author: UweRphm restricted to non commercial grDupsoniyf Any duphcalionfor suTiiartotheFfJ-01 EditorLrtxanan Irqludesa Env Austrfnendly toqlloed-l your'environments’. You P- Compress A gim mick ■ freeanflvery easy tpuseprogram for commercial purposes is stnctiy forodien Asapanof Amazmg Pertormance Editor and a Librarian. Verson 1 23 can change, add. copy. rename and delete them with mcstcompres-sion requirements. Uses tnelatest Compunrg!',.!tiislisiis mherentty copyrighted. Any infringement Author: J ames M Smrtn an intuition GUI. instead of using DOS SetEnv LZH compression alow- ithms. Can handle single pn this proprietary copyrightwithojiexpressed written perms- FredFish Disk 599 GrtEnv. Features induce keyboard shortcuts, fortt- Lies. who?e drawers,dsXs,or seiectedhies or types DSuff Sourcecodew inasmall demo, to implsnent double sens rve wmoows. and shell coramanc i ine support sionoithepubSisherSAillincurihefulifprce of legal act ions cffilewithindfawersanddisks. in PACKmodeitcan butfpringbyadid ng asecondViewPorttoan Intuition VefSfonS OS.bnaryonly Au!hor:S!efan Otto consolidate filesintofessspaceinanwhole-dsk screen Verson 1 O.indudesCsource.Author. Memcheck Ananiiwuspackagedesignedtobeusedfor Anynort-oommeroalAmigausefgrouowshir.gtoduplicatethis compressiontoolsorafchivers.Thisisver5ion2,1.an Andrew Marlin, SoTech Software deiectionandanalysisolnewaridoldvlruses It list should contact updaieioversmn 2on disk 565 Freeware, binary 1 IrsputView AsmaiMoollorArnigaDOSl,3torecoratiic input includes a verypowertul bootblockdeiectot. aCLI PiMPuMeatfPn^loc. cnly.Author:ChasA Wyndham.LZHcodeby streamalagiventimeandthen insert the recorded delectcranda Vectors program Thoprograirscheck P,0,Bor369 Barthef/Krekaf avenisagainiater.insteadoftheuser input. Version lorany vnusm RAM and are .nblulokill.nil viruses m FallRiver. MA02722 0 24,1 net udes source, Aut hor: Uvre Rohm RAM. AJilibraries.de vices, interrupts, resetvectors, AC isexl'emely interested irt helping arty Amiga usergroupsm etsarsccmpJetely checkedbytheprcgrams Thisis non-comneroal support for the Amiga. versicm 5.0. Binary only Source cede savalabiefrpm tneautr-cr. 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