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Features Games The right computer PREVIEWS • The Chaos Aardm an Anim ation's creations have been charm ing the public since Heat Electric's Engine 2 40 Wahoool It's almost h*c* at last! Creature C om fort ads m ade them fam ous to a We dodge bombs and pow«r cuts w ider audience. Their new feature film A Close to bring you this story from Wapping. Shave has already been acclaim ed a classic and, like A Grand Day O ut and The W rong Trousers it • At the was produced using Amigas. crossroads 42 lnt*rsact developments have promised Amiga game miracles: PLAYERS we check out what's in store. GUIDES • Slamtitt Pinball 43 • Vampyra 21st Century Entertainment fights More pearls of advice from the Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMback from the mediocrity of Mania adventure temptress with more w ith some good-looking tables front than the Brighton pavilion. • Snip Tips Snippets faster than your average whippet! W ith more meat on them. Your pedigree chum. M att, is back. • Watchto wer Suspiciously similar to Chaos Engine and none the worse tor it • Zeewotf Tips The level codes are in Snip Tips A short arcade combat freiuy. but H you’re in need of some • World Golf help on level 10 , check this out. Golf for those w ith excellent eyesight. Turn to page 47 to see Virus outbreak 30 what we mean.
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e PD Scene 83 PREVIEW CD-ROMS This month's Public Domain scene is packed with quality software: some of which is on • SoundStudio 69 e CD-ROM Round Up 78 the April CD-ROM. The highlights are a massive OctaMED's latest version is a break Three pages this month, w ith 8 CDs 80Mb demo called DataWorld, a highly rated w ith the past. All new, and previewed. reviewed. Everything from audio to clip art. RPG called Hilt II, sm utty Saturday Night Snooker, and demos from a Danish Christmas demo get-together: The Party '95. Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMREVIEWS e PD Utilities 87 e Toccata 62 Among the bewildering array of odds and Sounds like a brand of Italian ice cream ends sent in for PD utilities there is an odd but in fact it's a 16-bit sound card. Nice. American Max Headroom-style computer character, a strange self-testing program called e SX32 66 Revision Master, some AMOS code and the best A neat and inexpensive way of turning ever set of football icons. Check it out. your CD32 into an A1200. Keyboardtasticl e Aural Synthetica 70 Thinking of using your Amiga as a synthesiser? Aural Synthetica could be the answer. e Limelight Tyro 72 An unusual name, but underneath this flamboyant exterior lies a video titler. e HiQ Power Station 77 Looking for ways of upgrading your Amiga w ithout clutter? See page 77. [Subscriptions 106 |
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f you don't have CD- copy of your Workbench disk and ROM capability and clear some space on the copy. have out floppy disk Rename the copy of Workbench version instead of the so that it is named exactly the O CD-ROM one you won't besame disap as the original. Put the origi pointed. We've got some very nal Workbench disk away and handy utilities on there. work only with the copy for now. Leaving the copy of Workbench Ami File Safe write enabled, delete the Tools Am i File Safe (AFS) is an alterna drawer to free up some space. tive filing system for your floppy Boot from your Workbench disks and hard drives. Disks for copy, insert cover disk 130 and m atted w ith AFS are faster, more double click on its icon. Open the efficient and less prone to errors AFSFIoppy drawer and you'll see than disks formatted and written four icons in a new window with the Amiga's built in filing sys marked install_2.0 and install_3.0. tems. AFS also allows you to fit along with 020 versions of both. more data on your disks. The 2.0 and 3.0 refer to your Cover disk 130 contains two Amiga's operating system versions of Fourth Level (Workbench and Kickstart). while Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMDevelopment's AFS. One is a the 020 versions are for Amigas complete version for use with with 68020 or better processors. floppy drives while the other is for Double click on one of the icons hard drives, limited to a maximum according to your system. partition size of 10Mb. AFS will now be installed onto your copy of Workbench. If you Floppy have just one floppy drive you'll be in for a lot of disk swapping installation but everything will work out in the If you are running a floppy-only end. Time to get a hard drive per system you'll first need to make a haps? Whenever you want to use
HippoPlayer HippoPlayer is an intelligent m usic m odule player w hich is capable of loading and autodetecting the form at of a w ide range o f m odules, including ProTracker, OctaMED, SID, TFM X, Scream Tracker, FastTracker and more. M odules packed w ith XPK, Flm p, PowerPacker, Lha, LZX and Zip com pression system s are supported. The R eqtools.library file m ust be in your Libs: draw er for it to w ork. If you've already installed the rest o f the disk then this should already be the case, and if you have a hard drive, you may have it from som e previous applica tion's installer. Try running the HiP program and if you need the library you'll be told so, in w hich case you can run the lnstall_Vitals script first. Full docum entation is available in the form o f the HiP.guide docum ent. A AFS can vntty improve yaw disk efficiency VirusZ V ir u s Z is a neat virus Install Libs icon. If you have the CD edition you'll find checker that sits in VirusZ in the AntiVirus drawer. We recommend you drag the background ol the VirusZ icon into the WBStartup drawer, or alternatively your Amiga's operat copy VirusZ onto your hard drive and call it from the user- ing system, checking startup sequence. for suspicious activity that could be caused What to do with VirusZ by a virus. It can also Once VirusZ is running you can set a number of options to be used to check configure it to your requirements. Click on the VirusZ bar specified disks and at the top of the Workbench screen so that it becomes files for virus infec active. Now when you hold down the right mouse button tion. We chose to you'll see VirusZ menus appear rather than the usual include VirusZ on disk Workbench menus. 130 as its "brain file’ is Selections from the first menu will carry out tasks, while well up to date and the second menu is used to set the options for the tasks. can detect just about From the Prefs/File Check option w e suggest you click the all the latest viruses. Decrunch Executables button and save the changes. This We can't guarantee will mean that compressed files will be unpacked and that it will catch every checked during a File Check process. To check a disk or a virus, as new ones app directory of files, select the File Check option from the time, but it's the best way to keep Project menu, choose your Amiga safe. your area from the file To run it on a floppy-only requester (use the All system you'll need some space button for speed once free on your Workbench disk. This you’ve selected the is because VirusZ needs a library disk) and click OK. that it expects to find in the Libs: You'll be given a drawer of your Workbench sys progress report as the tem. If you've already installed AFS program checks all the Floppy as described on the page files. If you have opposite you should have enough AmigaGuide installed space on your copy of Workbench on your machine you Boot this and then double click the * i m M h it n>r “ W* can read up on all the Install Libs icon in the VirusZ advanced options drawer. The relevant files w ill be copied to your Workbench disk. You from the VirusZ Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMcan now run the VirusZ program straight from the cover disk. a Coniigvre virisz tovowraqiiraaiMts. English.guide docu Hard drive users should boot the hard drive and then use the m ent on the disk.
AFS disks you will need to boot (capitals where appropriate) and make a suitable partition on your and select the Change button. with this copy of Workbench. make sure you enter AFO: w ith a hard drive. All the data in the Select Ami-FileSafe (AFS\1). zero, n ot a letter O. You can now selected partition will be Use all the default options: Using AFS read and write to and from the destroyed when installing Ami- automount on. block size 512, 2 disk in the internal drive by FileSafe. so make sure you make reserved blocks. Floppy addressing it as AFO:. You’ll notice a back-up. Ami-FileSafe must be If you are using an older ver Now it's installed, you won't actu that an icon called 'afsdisk' has installed in the I: directory. You sion of HDToolBox and there is ally get an AFS disk icon on the now appeared on the Workbench. can do this by double clicking on not a Change button then click Workbench until you have format W hen you form at another AFS the Install o r Install020 (For on Custom File System and then ted an AFS disk. Because there is disk, change the ‘afsdisk' part of 68020+ machines) icon. type 0x41465301 into the no disk icon you can't use the the line above to a different N ow you can install A m i File Dostype field. Change the Workbench menus to format an name. This will become the vol Safe on the RidgidDiskBlock You Buffers field to a value between AFS disk - you'll have to use the ume name of the formatted disk. can use Commodore's HDToolbox 50-200 depending on how much Shell instead. Enter the following which comes supplied with the memory you have free (1 Buffer in a Shell window, pressing Hard drive Workbench software. We assume = IK ) . Return after each line: here that you w ill use HDToolbox. If you are using an IDE drive installation If you use another tool you should then set the Maxtransfer value to cd Bys:system To install AFS onto your hard refer to its documentation. Oxlffff. Now select Ok and the resident format drive, boot from your hard drive Select Advanced Options in Partioning menu will appear and then insert either cover disk the the Partitioning window. A again. Fill in the name you want The above lines will make format 130 or the CD if you have the CD number of extra buttons will the device to have in the Partition ting disks a lot simpler. Now to edition of this month's CU Amiga appear. Click on Add/update... Device Name field (e.g. DH1). Set actually format an AFS disk, insert Magazine. If you w ant to use AFS and then click Add N e w File the the Bootable flag if you want a blank into the internal floppy on both floppy disks and your System. Type in: to boot from this partition. Go drive and enter the following all hard drive, you'll need to run the back to the main screen and save on one line and press Return: floppy installer too. Double click Lt HardDiskAFS the changes. on the relevant icon from the Ami File Safe should now be fo rm at DRIVE a t 0< NAME AFS_Floppy drawer and see the for the name of the file system. installed on the partition. Reboot a f a d is k text above marked Using AFS Set the Dostype field to and format the partition from Floppy for more details. 0x41465301 and then select Ok. Workbench. If you have done In the line above, pay close atten Installation of the AFS HD Go back to the Partitioning win something wrong then go back tion to the case o f the letters demo is more complex. Select or dow, select the desired partition and start again. ■ rid s FA STEST AM IGAS
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Label this new disk "Leading like Leading Lap for you Lap SE” . Put disk 131 in a safe we will. It's not the full place in case of future problems. O commercial release thoughIf - youhow have any difficulty decom would Reflex Interactive survive if pressing or loading the disk then we went around putting their turn to page 23 for advice. bread and butter on our disk? But it is the full game nonetheless, Running Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMwith five tracks, that's why it's the special edition. We'd sooner bear Leading Lap SE the brunt o f bad feeling in the Leading Lap SE is sim ple to load games industry than see you and run, but it'll take some time deprived of it though. to get used to the tracks. It m There are tw o versions on the requires joystick or joypad. and disk, fo r both AGAand ECS. The will not respond to mouse con A500/600 version w ill w ork on the trol. Once you’ve loaded the game At 200 and it'll be faster too. but you’ll enter a menu screen which the AGA version does have more asks you to Start Season or enter These are the main controls: sound effects and more detailed a Grudge Match. If you have a scenery. Needless to say the AGA serial null modem cable you can • Joystick forward: Accelerate version w ill not w ork on an use the grudge match option to A500/600. You w ill need to play against a friend with another • Joystick back: Brake decompress the version of your Amiga More details about this • Joystick left: Turn left choice to a separate single disk. under the heading Serial Play. This is a simple process. 1. Have Pressing the Start Season • Joystick right: Turn right a new. blank formatted disk close option will bring up your choice of to hand and turn off your Amiga. driver. There are five to select • Esc: Quit race/Continue 2 W rite protect disk 131 and from and you can find out more insert it into the internal drive. 3. about them by pressing the driver • P: Pause and options Turn on your Amiga and wait until stats button on the driver select a CU Amiga loading • Space bar: Toggle camera height screen appears. This • FI-FIO: Adjust viewing w ill have tw o disk icons on it. 4. Follow angles/view other cars the instructions to press either F1 or F2 • Return: Return to your car to decompress either the AGA or standard version on Leading Lap to your blank disk. 5. Once all files have been decompressed onto the blank disk simply restart your machine with this disk c o m DISKS Compatibility ... Leading Lap has been tested on Amiga 500, 500*. 600. 1200and 4000. It works even if there is a hard drive present and works w th the Blizzard 1230 accelerator board we use regularly. H o w e v e r if you have problems with Leading Lap it may have som ething to do with the peripherals you have plugged in. If so, test it w it h o u t your RAM or Accelerator, or any other peripherals. It will w o r k ) Believe us! of both Amigas, and then load the five tracks you want to Leading Lap SE. W hen you reach race on. After this the race wifl the first options screen select begin as normal except you’ll Grudge Match and then simulta both be racing against each other neously select either Grudge on different Amigas and League or Single Match from the different screens. next tw o selections. If your link crashes then If you are properly connected restart everything all over the link w ill take about 5 seconds again, having first checked that to establish. After this one of you your null modem cable is should receive a message saying properly connected something like 'link successful, All serial links have a tendency and height, pause or you are the slave". The other will to disconnect from time to time for quit the race, adjust receive a message saying "link no apparent reason, but if you play the complexity of the successful, you are the master". It things by the book it shouldn’t scenery or switch the is important that the slave makes happen too often. ■ tracker on or off. their driver and car Experiment with selection first, other these to g et the wise the link has a fastest and best look tendency to crash. ing set up on your Once the slave has screen. Once you’ve chosen your individual machine. made his or her selec driver press on next. This will tion the master needs bring up your car selection Serial linking ... to select drive, then screen. Here you have a choice If you want to get really competi car, then which one of of three vehicles. Pressing on tive you should find a friend with next after this will bring up the an Amiga and a null modem Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMRacing Championship menu. cable. You can link up two A500s Here you can enter the champi or two A1200s or, say an A500 onship immediately by choosing and an A1200. If you do the latter to Start Next Race, or practice though you must remember any one of the five tracks in the that the person with the A1200 Practice mode. will have an advantage and you must be running the non- Racing controls AGA version on both machines. Leading Lap uses both joystick This type of link will crash more and keyboard during a race. The often than a link between two joystick is the primary control similar machines. device but using the keyboard To link up you need to have the you can adjust the viewing angle cable plugged into the serial ports Problems and the track editor There are two versions of leading lap on both the cover disk and CD you now own. It is fully functioning in all ways: you can enter competitions, you can race against human competition using a ser ial link, you can do everything you could in the,full version of the game we reviewed three months ago, except race on some of the tracks. This is yours to play for as long as you want, for the cover price of the magazine: there are no catches. But Reflex Interactive, who supplied us with the game, are doing an upgrade offer too, I# you have the CD-ROM version of the m ag- the sort of one you usually see with a utility. This gives you seven azine you w ill find Leading Lap already more tracks, extra sound effects, a track editor (AGA only) and an / \ uncompressed in the Floppy folder. To run objects suite fAGA only) which will allow you to make up your own I ' \ it on an A1200 simply double click on the tracks. This is the difference between Leading Lap MPV as I AGA version to run it on an A500/600 reviewed and Leading Lap SE. If you have any problems with \ J double click on the standard version. If Leading Lap SE or you would like to upgrade to the extra tracks \ / you have a CD32 you w ill unfortunately and the editor please w rite to Reflex Interactive at CU Amiga not have enough m em ory to run the full Leading Lap SE, REFLEX INTERACTIVE, 13 Hawley Crescent, AG A version so double click on the standard London NW1 8NR The extra 7 tracks and SFX is available for version. This is faster anyway, so don't w orry. A bonus for A500/600 at £4.99 plus 1.95 P+R while the AGA only track editor, CD32 ow ners is that the joypad operates the various views plus the extra tracks, objects and SFX is £12.99 plus £1.95 P+P via its m ultiple buttons. Try this. 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WILL I 2 J INTERNAL IDE HARD DRIVES IT INVALIDATE WARRANTY I FORAMGAAM0.AI200AN3SX-1.PRE- •LIED WITH PRE-INSTALLED I I 1 R«*99 use th<5 box ko any optional (asl delivery cnarge ■ - ■ INSTALLED SYSTEM SOFTWARE FITTING THESE iigital steKEQ SYSTEM SOFTWARE ■ ------" DRVES MAY INVALIDATE V JCREOrTCARO SWITCH 1 I EXPIRY OATE ______SIGNATURE______(«SSiu€ NO_____> ■ c a u o - m i What's on your Mat Bettinson guides you Magazine through the 650Mb of C ontents: tie-in C files for the follow goodies on this month's ing magazine cover CD. departm ents areas: PD Scene, W ired W orld, Graphics Getting started Masterclass, You can boot this m onth's cover CD on any CD-ROM com Q +A Masterclass patible Am iga or CD32. Alternatively you can boot from a n d m o r e . your hard drive first and access the CD from there. If you The freely distrib choose this m ethod, double click the InitC D icon (this is a utable software from very sm all icon in the bottom right o f the CD w indow ). PD Scene can be This w ill set up the system so that m uch of the softw are found in this drawer. can be run straight from the CD. There's no need to do this All the software here if you booted from the CD. is stored as DMS You'll notice that the icons are rather attractive but the archives because it colours m ay not be quite right. If this is the case, double w ould not all run from the CD. You'll be prom pted for blank disks as click the ColourM e icon. These rather attractive icons you select them. Also see the Misc/The_Rarty 95 drawer for more were kindly supplied by Tom Ekstrom from his demos, some of which run from the CD. Iconographies 3.0 set. Graphics Masterclass contains images for use with this month's A ll o f the m ain areas can be access from the root tutorial, along with a few from previous issues. You'll find some Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMdirectory o f the CD (the m ain CUCD w indow ). In general, more in the Images directory which includes some that were miss if you open a drawer and find som e icons inside, you ing from our previous CD-ROM edition. should be able to click and run them . On the other hand, The Wired World directory contains the newest version of if you are presented w ith a list o f filenam es and no icons, Metatool, the MIME encoding/decoding tool as featured in John it's likely that these files m ust be loaded into an applica Kennedy's Wired World tutorial this month. In order to install to your tion or handled in som e other way (such as the Im agine hard drive, simply drag the directory to an appropriate place. The objects for exam ple w hich can only be used by loading Q +A Masterclass directory contains the ARexx script files as cov them into Imagine). ered by John Kennedy in the Q +A Masterclass tutorial this month. The drawer icons that feature a tick m ark all contain Finally, the Amiga E directory contains virtually all the developers dem os of existing CD-ROM titles and com m ercial pack material for Amiga E as cover mounted on the December edition of ages, w ith a very generous selection o f the softw are for CU Amiga Magazine. A great many archives have been extracted to you to try out. These CD previews are them selves this directory so viewing via Workbench will be messy. A directory contained in drawers m arked w ith CD icons. These CD utility would be best to find the Amiga E support files you need. dem os have their own front-ends that are used to access Documentation for each w ill also be present in the same directory. th eir files. N ow here's a guide to all the m ajor areas o f this m onth's CU Am iga Magazine CD-ROM. F lo p p ie s Contents: ECS (A500) and AGA (A1200) versions of Leading Lop SE full game. VirusZ anti-virus package, AFS hard drive dem o, AFS floppy full version. Leading Lap SE can be found here in DMS archive format, for both ECS | and AGA machines. The ’Tech disk' section contains the complete Pronet system with full docu mentation. For more information on the rest of the programs in this drawer, see the floppy disk instruction pages. Shortly after the CD went to press, we found the VirusZ drawer mistakenly I contains Virus Checker and not VirusZ. This is not a problem since VirusZ is also present in the Antivirus drawer off the root of the CD. Installing Virus Checker isn’t a bad idea either for double protection. Installation is easy. Just boot from your own Workbench and click on the lnstall_Virus_Checker icon. CD-ROM Support C ontents: Iconographies Icon replacem ent set, M UI 3.2 (fixed) support GUI system. Delitracker comprehensive m odule player and Viewtek 2.1 viewer. The Support drawer contains a number of programs that are AntiVirus required by the CUCD and its software. First off. the Iconographies Contents: Virus Checker and package is the top left icon. Click on InstalIJcons to install VirusZ anti-virus package these icons onto your Workbench, or the IGfx_Preview icon to com plete w ith VLIst list of show a picture of an example Iconographies Workbench The fake-virus infected archives Iconlnstaller program is a manual installation method using a drag a n d file s . and drop interface. •To tie in w ith our AntiVirus fea Magic User Interface 3.2 (MUI) is an extension of the Workbench ture in CU Amiga Magazine this system and is required by some software. If you didn't boot the CD. month, the top two virus check you'll have to click on the InitCD Icon in the root directory to tem ers are included so that you may porarily run MUI from the CD. If you intend to install MUI it would rest easy against the threat of a be a good idea to drag the MUI drawer onto your own FID as it will damaging virus attack. It's best to boot from your hard drive if you run m uch quicker. want to install these. To install Virus Checker, click on the The SuperViewCD drawer contains an exclusive CD demo of the lnstall_Virus_Checker icon. wonderful multi viewer/converter package called SuperView. Before you can run VirusZ you'll need to click on the Install SuperView uses special loader and saver libraries to load virtually Libraries icon. Now drag the entire VirusZ directory onto your hard any type of picture and save out as any other type of picture. drive. Now you can What's more, it can display on virtually any display system from the put either or both of Amiga's native ECS and AGA chip-sets to graphics boards and RTG the virus checkers in Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMsystems such as CyberGraphX. Read the docs to gain more infor your WBStartup mation and if you think it suits you. click the lnstall_SuperView icon drawer to have them to install to your FID. perm anently resi DelitrackerJI contains the Amiga's most powerful and compre dent. Check page hensive module playing utilities around. It handles virtually every 10 for further type of module and can play from Fast RAM and even 14-bit play VirusZ instructions. ing and headphone mixing. Reading the documentation is highly recommended. Delitracker is activated by the Johan Alpmar ProTracker and the ScreamTracker jukebox icons in the modules section of the CD. Finally. ViewTek is a picture viewer able to handle most types of files. It's simple to use and downgrades high-colour pictures such as 256 colour GIFs/lFFs and JPegs to ECS FIAM6 screen modes on non-AGA machines. Games Contents: W orm s Special section, Blitzbom bers demo, Guidry and Richard W atchtower demo, Nemac IV demo + many full PD/ Smith for their Shareware games. contributions. To Click on the Worms Special icon and you'll find a number of sup install this set onto port files for Worms and a preview of a forthcoming Worms hard drive, open up Enhancer CD-ROM. The maps contained here and in the Custom your Worms directo directory must be copied to your Worms TWCustom drawer on your ry. Select the hard drive or onto fresh disks if you're playing from floppy. Read the w in d o w and choose documents here to find out more about the Worm map creators. Window/Show/All Next are four large ball icons with CDXL in their names. These are Files fro m the Workbench menu. Find the draw er called TWENGLISFI two of the CDXL animations from CD32 version of Worms. The and rename to TWENGLISFI OLD. Then simply drag the TWENGLISFI CD32 icons should be clicked on only by users of CD32s and CD32 drawer from the Worms Special directory onto your Worms directory. emulating CD-ROMs. The others should be used by those using Please not that floppy drive users will need to format a floppy disk SCSI CD-ROMs. with the name TW2 Then drag the TWENGLISFI directory into this The last directory TWENGLISFI. is a complete replacement floppy disk. When Worms is running and asks for the second disk, sample set made by the CU Amiga team. Some of the samples insert your new floppy disk instead of the original Worms disk two came from smaller replacement sample sets. Many thanks to Jon OK. Now enjoy. Sound Contents: OctaMED A great deal of modules in SoundStudio demo. Audio Lab many formats are included in the 16 dem o, high quality 8 and 16 - modules directory grouped into b it sam ples. ProTracker, ScreamTracker. OctaMED and OctaMED and ScreamTracker ProTracker. The ScreamTracker m odules and jukeboxes. module collection has a special The Sound drawer contains a jukebox icon which will launch save disabled demo of the 16-bit- Delitracker to play from the collec capable OctaMED SoundStudio tion at random. The ProTracker col (see the preview on page 69). An lection has a jukebox dedicated to AudioLab16 2.0 demo is included, module author Johan Almar. All of which can take digital sample data from audio CDs. provide DSP style Johan's works that we could find effects, process 16-bit samples and more. Tony Horgan has returned are included, again the jukebox w ill play from them at random. with another sound sample collection. The drawers are split into 8 and The OctaMED directory contains the entire works of Samuel Gilbert 16-bit samples. The 8-bit sound samples are a varied bunch including AKA Orpheus, plus a few of Tony Horgan's old mods. All these mod loops, hits, effects and so on. Double click on them to hear them. ules have icons to launch DeliTracker. The modules with the '9' postfix U4ia/F8 has supplied some original drum loops. For 16-bit audio users are special 9-bit modules and Delitracker w ill use its 14-bit noteplayer there's a complete TR-909 drum kit and some TR-808 bass drums to render them correctly. Hi-Soft Contents: Demos of Cinema 4D rendering package. M agic Link 3D object converter. Disk M agic directory utility. Term ite comms Graphics term inal package. Tw ist 2 database and more. Contents: Fresh All of the demonstration packages in the Hi-Soft directory at the Fonts I + II CD pre top right of the CUCD root directory, except Termite, can run directly views, Amiga3D from the CD. Termite w ill need to be installed to hard drive. The Im agine objects Twist2-Demo is a demo of the Twist2 database. To activate it click on CD preview, the Run Demo icon w ithin its drawer. The same goes for DiskMagic. Dust utility for a demo of the top rated directory utility. DiskMagic will need the rendering packages. Setup-DiskMagic icon clicked on before the DiskM AG ICDem o icon. The CUCD MagicLink-Demo is a demonstration version of a new 3D object Graphics drawer is converter by Maxon. Again, a simple double-click is all that's required Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMloaded w ith four massive CD previews. Fresh Fonts Vol I contains . Magiclink will happily convert between many different types of many megabytes of DMF fonts suitable for PageSrream (December's objects and even provide a preview picture. Hand in hand with Magic cover disk). The fonts can be loaded straight from PageStream Fresh Link comes the Cinema4D-demo. Be sure to read the Cinema4D- Fonts Vol II contains megabytes of IntelliFonts, support for which is Tutorial.txt file which also details the features missing from the built into Workbench and many other Amiga programs. demonstration version. After running Cinema4D. select Project/Load The Amiga-3D CD preview is an exclusive 20Mb sample of and pick one of the provided projects to give C4D a spin. Imagine 3D objects from the BlitterSoft Amiga-3D CD. The objects have no icons and so you will have to access them directly from Imagine. However, using the Hi-Soft MagicLink's demo might give you a better idea of w hat each object looks like. Misc The IML drawer contains a massive back archive of Internet C ontents: BlitzBasic 2.1 and Dice 3.0 program m ing language Imagine Mailing List archives as large text files and AmigaGuides. You demos, AGA experience CD preview, AIBB benchm arking tool, will need to use a text viewer or Amiga Guide utility to view them. D igital Universe dem o (MUI) and Im ageVision demo. They are an excellent reference for troubleshooting with Imagine. This directory contains two complete demo programming environ The Dust drawer contains a powerful package for producing 'parti m ents for Blitz Basic 2 and Dice C 3.0. Digital Universe is a demo of cle' effects for Imagine and other types of rendering package. Dust an astronomy package similar to Distant Suns and w ill be reviewed w ill run from the CD fine but it’s recommended that you drag the next issue. ImageVision Demo is a demo of a multimedia authoring drawer across to a hard drive partition if you intend to use it regularly. package from BlitterSoft also to be reviewed next issue. Again comprehensive documentation is provided on the CD for the The Everybody's Girlfriend drawer has a compressed audio sample package and in the case of Dust, it’s an essential read. Click on some of David Pleasance. ex M D of Commodore UK. playing flamenco gui of the faces for some example images of what Dust can do tar on the RaraMiAmiga track o ff the album Everybody's Girlfriend. Texture_Portfolio represents the final CD preview, this tim e from The AIBB drawer contains the AIBB benchmarking utility. There are Ground Zero PD, and is a selection of high quality JPegs 24-bit textures lots of modules of various Amiga system benchmarks which can be which can be used for several tasks, such as backdrops for multimedia loaded into AIBB for comparison. The_Party_95 drawer contains a and wrap-on textures for 3D rendenng. The collection has icons for large number of The Rarty 95 demos, each picture which when clicked w ill activated the ViewTek viewer to many of which can be run directly but display the texture concerned. Clicking on the Portfolio Ad icon in the some may need to be copied onto root directory of Texture Ftortfolio w ill reveal ordering information for floppies or hard drive. Playing the the excellent full CD. There are also support utilities for Imagine. DataWorld animation is essential but AlfaTexture contains some new third party mathematical textures you'll need the right libraries installed. for Imagine 3.0 and above, AnimFlare is an example project and tutor Lastly, a CD preview of Sadeness ial for producing animated flare effects and the d2imagine.guide is a Software's AGAi-Experience CD-ROM comprehensive AmigaGuide Imagine tutorial which if used in conjunp is included. To access this simply click tion with the Imagine Mailing List archives and Imagine HTML tutori on the AGA-Experience icon to open al/reference in the Comms/WWW section provides a massive the drawer and then the CUCKMEI reference for this excellent rendering package. icon to activate the GUI front end. Com ms 17_Bit_PD Contents: Zeus BBS demo, Thor mail and Contents: 3 massive CD previews of top news browser, AW eb W W W Browser demo PD/Shareware collections. 17 B it Phase 5. and CU Am iga hom e page + W orld of Info Nothing but GIFs and LSD 3. CD preview. Using the three 17 Bit Software CD previews is This directory is dedicated to communica simple, For 17Bit5, just open the directory and tions and Internet related material but con double click on the Fifth Dimension icon. An tains plenty of interest to non modem users, AmigaGuide document will appear. When you find firstly there's an entire archive of Jason your way to the listings of files, if the filename is Compton's Amiga Report electronic magazine. an AmigaGuide button, the archive is present on You'll find this in the Amiga Report drawer. To CUCD and all you need to do is click on it to view each magazine, sim ply click on the extract to floppy disk. RAD o r any other floppy icons, Next up are a couple of demonstration compatible device. packages which must be installed to your 17BITGIF is a preview of the Nothing But GIFs hard drive. These are the Thor Internet Mail and News browsing CD. Simply click on the WELCOME icon. Each directory of pictures software and the Zeus BBS package. In both cases, opening up the has a number of indexes to give you a quick impression of each pic windows w ill reveal an install icon. This will activate the ture. Just clicking on the index or Commodore Installer the pictures will activate a viewer This drawer marked WWW is dedicated to to the World Wide to display the picture. As with all Web. All you need the 17 Bit PD CD previews, if the do to check out this filename is not an AmigaGuide w onderful entity is to button then the file is not present open the WWW on CUCD but only on the full CD. drawer and click on Click on the 17bitad.iff icon in the the AW eb icon. 17_Bit_PD drawer for ordering Presuming that you information on the full version of have a GIF datatype the CDs installed on your Workbench or you booted from the CD then AWeb should Epic fire up right away Contents: CD previews o f Sci-Fi Sensations and Special-FX vol 1, and you should see Within the Epic drawer is a CD Preview of Epic Marketing's Sci-fi the CU Amiga ban sensations and a preview slideshow of their Special-FX multimedia ner. If you don't see the banner then enter the following commands title. Unfortunately the Sci-Fi Sensations CD preview GUI front end in the AmigaDOS shell, hitting return after each line and being sure w on't w ork if you don't boot from the CD. This can be solved by per to get all the characters correct including spaces: forming the follow ing line in the AmigaDOS Shell before activating Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMcd cucdiworkbanch/deve/datatypea/ Sci-fi Sensations: A ssig n L ib s: CUCD: L ib s add copy #? Devs: DataTypaB/ Enter this line exactly as show, complete w ith all the spaces and hit cd cucdiworhbanch/claaaas/datatypea/ Return at the end. You can now exit the Shell. After entering the SCI- Copy •? Sys iClassos/DataTypaa/ FI_SENSATIONv2 drawer, you'll need to click on the Click M e 1st icon After that, reboot your Amiga and try again. AWeb should now acti and then the vate and display the CU Amiga 'home page' correctly. What you see amiga_menu. If all has is similar to AmigaGuide. You can scroll around the page and where gone according to any text is in blue, this is a link and you can click on this to move plan, a GUI interface g e off to that location. Of course AmigaGuide doesn't give you pictures should appear which tool. in the page either. We've compiled quite a collection of WW W will let you move pages for you to surf around' to give a taster of what you could around the various nviron- experience with a WWW Browser on the Internet where there are material and generally no of millions of WWW pages all around the world and they can be navi just click to view or iwed gated around in the same easy point and click fashion hear the files. oring Further down the CU Amiga home page, you'll see a small index The first 'link' is to the documentation for the demo WWW Browser sample you are using, AWeb. The second is som e pages created by CU coguF Amiga Magazine writer John Kennedy John has included some of his end. previous articles. The third item is deceptively small for the material nete are contained within. a n be It’s another CD pre Many thanks to ... is a view but this time Though there's no icon, if you're interested in the trials and it's a CD entirely tribulations that our cover CD com piler M at Bettinson went made up of HTML through during the m aking of CUCD, direct your text view page - WWW ency er to a text file in the root of CUCD called M at.readm e. M at clopedia. Daniel w ould like to thank all the people that provided the m ateri Amor kindly donated al, knowledge and support w hich enabled CUCD to come the Oceania pages into being. CU Am iga Magazine hopes that a cover-m ount to give a taster of ed CD can becom e a regular event, so if you have any this useful CD m aterial for a future CD or some suggestions o f w hat resource. Ordering you'd like to see on the next CD. drop us a line. 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Not com patible w ith GVP cards 04Q/40Mhz C699.99 060/50Mhz £899.991 From £299.99 _ HOWTO BY POST: Please make cheques and WE ACCEPT ALL BY PHONE: Credit/Debit card DELIVERY Postal Orders payable to MAJOR CREDIT orders taken from 9.30am - 5 JOpm CHARGES “Visage Computers" Please allow 5 CARDS INCLUDING NEXT DAY .£6.95 ORDER Working days for cheques lo clear SWITCH & VISA Monday to Saturday STANDARD..£3.95 CALL (0115) 964-2828 OR (0115) 964-2898 TO PLACE YOUR ORDER 1 ad... Cover disk 131 This month's 'technical' cover disk Leading Lap 130 w ill n ot autoboot. To access the programs you w ill first need to There are both A500 and boot from your Workbench disk or A1200 versions on Ihis disk. your hard drive. See page 9 for You will need lo decompress instructions on installation and either version to a separate use of the software on disk 130. single disk. This is a simple process. (11 Have a new, m m Cover CD blank formatted disk close to The special CD edition of this hand and turn off your m onth s CU Amiga Maga/me Amiga. 121 Write protect disk comes w ith a full Amiga CD- 131 and insert it into the ROM instead of floppy disks internal drive. (3) Turn on Unlike the CD that came with your Amiga and wait until a the November 1995 issue, this CD has CU Amiga loading screen appears. This been designed to work with all Amigas with a CD-ROM drive and will have two disk icons on it. (4) follow the instructions to press the CD32. You can boot directly from the CD by inserting it into the either F1 or F2 to decompress either the AGA or standard version on drive and resting the Amiga or CD32. Leading Lap to your blank disk. (5) Once all files have been decom pressed onto the blank disk simply restart your machine with this disk Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMCD32 Notes in the drive and the game will start. Label this new disk "Leading Lap While this CD w ill boot up on a CD32, due to the limited resources SE". Put disk 131 in a safe place in case of future failure. of a standard CD32, not all of the software w ill be compatible. However, much of the software can be run directly from the CD. [if YOUR DISK WON'T LOAD You w ill need a mouse and preferably a keyboard to get the most . We |0 la r m i trooMe I * ensure that tha CU A-ipa M a puto c o m disks will work oa common Amipa from the CD but you may find you can browse through the . models However. il do espeneece problems follow this simple goto contents using the joypad controller. j Wo also viperon* n m check am coeot Asks oa a brooded sinu checker N some escape oor attaotto J wo comet assome respeesabdity for il Accessibility 1 1 lomooe a l omweossan oppodos aod portphonb. sic* os pritfon aod m o t a Seme vapdoor e*ao- We wanted to make this CD as accessible as possible and so we I stoo cm also came praMems. decided to include most of the software in uncompressed form, 1 2: M o w the - s t r e e t * * oo M s aod peosiois popes e m c * ready to run straight from the CD wherever possible. Archives are | J . I f i e stfl oiporieoce problems leodiog Pm disk cafl the PCWyse beiphoa oo I I U S ) M 505 botwooo the used in some of the demos of commercial CDs. such as the 17 Bit | boors of 11am aid 12ooeo Meoder to Fndoy Phase 5 drawer which contains a number of DMS files that need to I I they adma that tbo disk is faulty. H I o pom details io the fora below, oad sood this form, along with the be expanded to floppies. However, on the whole you'll find the . Ieoh, c o w disk and a 2Sp stamped soM addressed envelope to. software is ready to go with no messing around. ■ CU Amiga Mapazto Disk Retons. PCWyse Dewlah Top Business Park. Dowiais. Merthyr TydH. Anything you see that has an icon can be run. viewed, played or otherwise accessed by double clicking. In contrast, if you open a J Hid Eiamofyao CRIYY drawer and find a list of filenames w ith no icons, this is because they are data files which need to be loaded into some other appli I MM:------cation. The icon depicting a disk and three arrows is used for DMS AMMU ------archives. When you double click on these you'll be asked to insert blank disks into the internal floppy drive, onto which the programs TYPE O f AMIGA OW NER------w ill be expanded. DISK NUMBER:______ Hard drive users DISCRIBE EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENS WHIN YOU TRY TO 10AD THI BISK: H you decide to boot from your hard drive first, remember to double click the InitCD icon in the bottom right corner of the CD window. This will make sure the software knows where to look for all of its support files. Installing the software onto your hard drive is a simple enough K>b in most cases. If there is no hard drive installation icon for the soft ware you want to install, read the documents in the relevant drawers for clues, and if all else fails, simply copy the contents of the drawer across to your hard drive. You may also need to copy some libraries from the Libs drawer of the CD to the Libs drawer of your hard drive. MAKES YOUR AMIGA MORE THAN* 1 I 0 3 0 /4 A1300 40M/ft '#! 2 TIMES FASTER - 2 . 8 8 M IP S NEW PRICES Prm utr AtuittM *J Do 33MM2 FfU & PRODUCTS FfU Omb £4999 £8999 FOR '96 O mb £ 1 3 9 9 9 2 mb £11999 £15999 2 mB £ 1 9 9 9 9 V E L O C i C V 3 3 M H z F P U MAKES YOUR AMIGA MORE THAN 4 mb £15999 £19999 A* FPU CAAMATOa* KBAiTS T * SARD 0» 4 mb £ 2 4 9 9 9 MATHEMATICAL CALCULATION (IT UK TO 127 5 .6 IKES easier - 7-12 MIPS A12QQ I MB 8 mb £24999 £28999 TlABSl) ANO W1 WOULD RECOMMEND IT FOR 8 mb £ 3 4 9 9 9 £2 UJH5 Of GMAHCA* VMATCNS SXH AS Sprd Incwase o f over 5.6 TIMtS n / r I SKCO InCREALSE OF NEAR1V 2 .3 TIMS • AVAILABLE WITH 0 . 2 . 4 OH OF 8MB Image FX. Uo -twa* . Wjta P*0. Iamgm itc. • 680EC30 Processor running of 40MHz | QMB £^#"99 £ . 32-Bit RAM instaued ♦ Uses Stanoaro 72-pin Simms ♦ O ptional PICC Ola FPU »aci ccwrs with t x timng (TRUE 40MHz chip - NOT Overdodced) Ttpe FPU (floating point unit) ♦ BAiieer Backed Clock/Calender CRYSTAL AAO IS COMPAT*tf WITH MOST A1200 providing 7.12mips o f power ♦ Up lo 128 M b of S C S I - I I O p t h m • Finger C utO ut to help Installation • 0-4mb - pcmcia compatible hi Magnum '030/40 Ot RANVPbxqsoe accelerators such AS our RAM con be added ♦ AvoiloWe vwth 0 . 2 , 4 , 8 (FOR USE WITH OVERDRIVE, SQUIRREL ETC.) • ZERO WAITE STATE DESIGN. AKOUO/MaGm a i MSOr. Haw*. BuZZaAO Of 16Mb o f 32-brt RAM Instoiled (coll for higher AND V m . If IOUCHT ir«f»NO€NT Of OLA SIMM sizes) • Kickiforf ReMopping • Optional SCSI-II interface ♦ Con BOARD THtiea a 3 PROCESSOR ANO I occommodote o 72-pin industry stondord SIMM MEMORY FOR UTRA-FAST ACCfSl 5 6 0 ™ £ 4 4 .9 9 • O pfionol PICC type FPU (Floating Po«nt Unit) O u t CONTROUtt IS AtSO 1 COMPATIBLE WITH THE WCR-I (OR £40 MTR AX AI 200 BOARD) ♦ Battery Bocked Clock/Colender ♦ PCMCIA I 3 B U T T O N compatible so you con still use products such as M IC E & MATS OverDrive HD or CD/Zoppo CD-ROM or fir t il AmujA, < A t a r i ST$ ENTERPRISE Squirrel • Zero W oite State Devgn. «7*T® i/< ™ BEIGE £ 1 2 9 9 DIRECTORY BUCK £14.99 MAT £ 2 » OR Cl WITH O P U S s SQ • Mouse A dranctii F ill M ntutgim tnl A ward w in n in g 5 6 0 dpi Resolution • 9 0 % rating in C U Am ig a • M ic r o Sw itc hed Bu ttons • A m ig a/A tari ST Switchabee • A u 3 Software fur d l Amgou BUTTONS CAN BE USEO WITH MANY PROGRAMS SUCH AS DIRECTORY OPUS 5 IDEAL CD MANAGEMENT SYSTEM S a T U R N WITH ADVANCED DIRECTORY CACHING, FILTERING AND ARCHIVE HANDLING C ompatible with ALL Am igas ♦ H ig h Q uality S O N Y D *M ♦ RFOeSlGNlD AND WWRITTEN FROM GROUND I ♦ Ro bust M etal C ase Single W orkstation UP. M u c h fa s te r m ore EFFICIENT ANO MANY I ♦ A nti-C lick as Standard f o r A500/600/1200 NEW REVOLUTIONARY FEATURES. ♦ NEW INTERFACE WITH MORE * • Enable/D isable Sw itc h ♦ L o w Power CONTROL AND USEFUL POWER. ♦ AMIGA STYLE GUIDE COMPLIANT EN Co n s u m p tio n • Thru Port for Extra D rmes t 2 9 w CLEARER COMMUNICATION OF REFORMATION AND GREATER CONTROL. D ouble W orkstation ♦ U nlimited number o f fully independent file display w in d o w s a n o | F R E E DIRECTORY OPUS 4.12 f o r A500/600/1200 BUnON BANKS. BUTTONS CAN BE DEFINED FROM TEXT OR GRAPHICS ♦ M u W WORTH OVER £50 49'. 9 9 Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMPius Extra She u CONFIGURATION EDITORS - WHICH CAN BE USED WHILST PERFORMING OTt £ 3 4 « tasks! ♦ Internal M wtitaskjng a llo w ing y o u t o perform m u l t w I THE BEST DISK BACKUP SYSTEM ON m a u i W idc W orkstation OPERATIONS SIMULTANEOUSLY. ♦ A G G DE ON-LlNE HELP ♦ ADVANCED 4 POWERCOPY THE MARKET. WE HAVE YET TO TYPE RECOGNITION SYSTEM INCLUDING O S 3.X DATATYPE SUPPORT ♦ EXTEN A500/600/1200 with DISCOVER A PROGRAM THAT THIS 'D rag V D rop' th r o u g h o u t the program ♦ Adv anced ARexx s PROFESSIONAL 3 AcomoiH S « Pi«pf«a*s c a n ' t backup. Ideal t o protect ♦ C a n even Replace & Enhance W orkbenchORKBENCHl! jME (Hard D isk ^ F loppy O vf) YOUR EXPENSIVE SOFTWARE LIBRARY. VERStON5.il NOW PlIASJ Non ■ rfRMCSCRv FROM TM Workbench 2 + COe*«GMT MJST M SHIPPING CALL ABOUT ~ © & Hard Disk Required UPDATES FROM 5.0 AND LIOUY POUR T Silent Paws Update Oh Lordy! Its Valhalla 3 If you saw our article on the Silent PAWS laptop Amiga in the February "It's a bird", "it's a plane", "it's a sampled text. Indeed, for those 1996 issue, and were interested, then the World Of Amiga show in door", aggh! Those samples sick of the samples Vulcan is Novotel on April 13th, 14th could be the place to go. Sources in again! The notorious Valhalla now incorporating a full text only America have claimed that Shawn Ralph, the machine's developer is series, with its high and low option. The new game will be hoping to demonstrate one of the prototypes here in the UK during the pitched sample voices, its holes sold at Vulcan's good value show to gauge potential in Europe. If this is the case it will be the first in the floor and its none too logi direct-from-publisher Mini Series time the machine has been displayed outside North America since its cal puzzles was a source of con price of £14 99. Contact Vulcan inception. Although expensive, it does provide Amiga on the move stant amusement, despair and Software on 01705 670269. capability. The A1200 version of the computer seemed bulky from the argument here in the office. You photos we saw: the A600 version was much more PC laptop in size. As either loved the game or hated it far as we can see the best way forward for this machine has to be to - there was no middle ground go as small as possible This means either a custom motherboard has But enough people out there to be designed or. in the short term, to possibly use the comparatively must have loved the original and tiny CD32 motherboard, with an SX32 (see page 66) daughterboard. its follow-up The Lord Of Infinity, This is what we'll be putting to Silent PAWS if they turn up. Why not because a new version, Valhalla Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMjoin us? And The Fortress Of Eve is on its way. The game will follow the for tunes of the young prince of the A World of New Kit original game and promises m ore o f the same in term s of the Terminate TCP (which has gameplay and even more Mat Bettinson in a sweat already) and add ons for the superb Cinema 4D from Maxon. Also displaying new products, Worms, Worms and More Worms including last month's highly rated W ordw orth 5, w ill be Team 17 have announced that they intend doing an AGA upgrade for Digita. Digita will have the cut Worms to take advantage of the A1200's superior graphics display d ow n SE version o f W W 5 on dis system. It will be more colourful and the variety of levels will be play for Amigas with just 2Mb j greater than in the original version. Although the game engine will and a single disk drive, alongside : remain the same the update disks will fall into the £15 bracket and so I The World Of Amiga show in Organiser 2 and Datastore 2. j will still be top value for Worms nuts we reckon. It's due to arrive April seems set to be the launch The Organisers of World Of i around the end of March, at the same time as Alien Breed 3DH: The I pad for a whole range of new Amiga haven't got a full list of j Killing Grounds. Call Team 17 on 01924 267776 for more details. Amiga products. exhibitors for the show just yet, Blittersoft have also announced a Not only will Amiga but Power Com puting, Silica, Worms CD packed with hundreds of Technologies have their Surf Pack Harwoods and other hardware custom levels levels, samples and and the Q-Drive on display (at retailers and developers are all speed updates. It's due in mid long last), they'll hopefully also expected to take part March, so watch their ads for have the first UK A4000Ts and Booking for the show is avail details. Blittersoft are available on possibly news on PowerPC and able on the following phone 01908 261466. the new Workbench. number: 01369 706346 From other developers the For more information see the news is just as good with HiSoft advertisement on page 95. working like mad to display their We'd like to wish the show all Surf Squirrel and Squirrel MPEG. the support it deserves. We Both of these are set to to take intend to be there, so we hope the Amiga by storm like HiSoft's to meet you there. Let's keep original Squirrel did last year. the Amiga alive and support HiSoft will also be demonstrating this show. Blittersoft Go Hard Blinersoft have announced a new range of hardware and software S ta te s id e products for the Spring. These include new tower casings for the A500. The North American scene of late has been one of cautious optimism, A1200, A3000 and A4000 ranges. Equipped w ith Zorro II and III. PCI with the Amiga Atlanta 10th Anniversary Banquet as a high and the slots and other expansion features they will pitch in competition with shutdown of a large Amiga company a low. Let me explain.... writes both the Micronik Tower and Hi-Q's Power Stations (see page 77). for Jason Compton expanding users existing systems. Because of the provision of PCI The Amiga Atlanta user group's party brought Amigans from slots Blittersoft are claiming that PC boards will be available for the across the country to the Terrace Garden Inn in fashionable tower systems giving you both an Amiga and a PC in the one case, Buckhead, Atlanta.Georgia. The meal was standard-issue banquet unlike Hi-Q's Siemese Twin system which uses a separate standalone chicken but the conversation was all Amiga. The banquet brought in PC and SCSI unit connected via a Squirrel to a standard A1200. faces from the group's past and present, just as it brought in luminar Blittersoft have also announced that they've taken over the distribu tion of Canadian company AsimWare Innovations CD-ROM software. ies from the Amiga's history. Dale Luck and RJ Mical from the original The products concerned are AsimCDFS 3.0, a control program for CD- Amiga Corporation kept the audience entertained with tales of the design of the original chips, the legendary joyboard that spawned ROM drives with PhotoCD, music control and sampling and CD32/CDTV emulation and MasterlSO, an Amiga specific CD-ROM mastering pro Guru Meditation, and their own experiences with Commodore. Legends of the industry Dave Haynie and Fred Fish addressed the gram. Call Blittersoft on 01908 261466. crowd on their exploits, and I myself was asked to give a piece on the Amiga's future. But there wasn't anything I could say that the audience couldn't see for themselves, particularly when you take into account who was in the audience. Guildhall Motorola sent a PR contingent, complete with a PowerPC604 machine (running Windows NT, but they were at least fairly apolo NFA Reply getic about this) and loads of consumer and developer goodies to Educational give away. Newtek also sent close to a dozen people, including com Guildhall Leisure has taken over Last month on Public Domain pany president Tim Jenison, who capped off the evening with a rally distribution of 10 out o f 10 utilities page we ran an article ing speech about the future of the Amiga and his personal confi Educational software. 10 out of 10 on some suspected pirate num dence in Amiga Technologies' management. produce educational products for bers and BBSes on a disk that The future isn't w hat it used to be for Canada's Wonder both Amiga disk and CD-ROM for we'd received from NFA and Computers, who as you may recall from our last issue had just come ages 3-16. These include subjects asked them to contact us. We off of two store openings in the summer and the successful World of like Maths. History. Geography promptly received a phone call Amiga Toronto show. Unfortunately Wonder's accounts were called in and a narrow range of languages from NFA and asked them to by their bank and the company is presently in bankruptcy proceed including French. German and, of send in their reply so here it is: ings. It is the hope of Wonder CEO Mark Habinski that he will be able course, English. Up to date nation "I'm sorry you feel NFA are a to raise enough capital to re-purchase the assets from the bankrupt Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMal curriculum is claimed. For more bunch of pirates. Due to the arti Wonder and form a new corporation. While the North American mar inform ation contact Guildhall cle you wrote the morale of sev ket itself will be able to sustain the (at best) stall in Wonder's opera Leisure on 01032 890000. eral members of the group has tions and would survive (at worst) its failure to return, it has been a been seriously damaged. blow to customers who relied on their service, as well as retailers “ The vast m ajority o f NFA who not only relied on their business, but have considerable members are very much against accounts and merchandise behind Wonder's locked doors. piracy. There w ill always be a In the face of AmiTCP's recent move to commercialism and the pirate element in a group no release ofl-Net 225 (and its subsequent bundling w ith Amiga matter how hard you try to keep Technologies' Surferpack), Oregon Research is moving ahead w ith its it clean. plans to release a competing networking system. Dubbed Termite TCP "We do not promote pirate after their popular terminal program. Termite's release date and price BBS sites. There may be mem are as of yet unknown. At the same time, US-headquartered develop bers in the group who are cur ers. Omnipresence, seem to be close to sealing a publishing deal for rently trading pirate software. If their IBrowse Web browsing software. While a firm statement was not there are I would ask them to available at the time of press, latest reports from Omnipresence man- contact our UK HQ for a chat. agement indicate that HiSoft of the UK will get the nod.______Since publication of your article I have received several calls from people trying to obtain "warze" from our main 25p A Megabyte distribution site. "The last thing I need sitting As well as announcing that they installed registered copy of MMe on my hard drive in the morning too w ill be selling the SX32. and other shareware and PD utili is copyright material. Eyetech of North Yorkshire are ties com es at £229.95. For more PageStream 2.2SE ”l really do not have a lot more currently promoting a hard drive information contact Eyetech on to say on the subject, I will be and multimedia authoring kit 01642 713185. Emerald are doing an offer extra careful in future, as when I based around Optonica's MMe on PageStream 2.2SE. which checked my system there were Experience kit. The Hard Drive is a makes it available for £49.95. several archives with cracked slimline 3.5 inch unit that Eyetech Those not already equipped with keyfiles that I had not checked claim will need no modifications this superb package should properly (which were promptly to the standard A1200 to install. investigate it now. removed). All I can say is that we It's a 1.083 Gigabytes (over Upgrades to version 3.0 from do try to keep the group legal 1000Mb!) model and should be this version will be available and will continue to do so." enough for most multimedia soon. Emerald can be contacted Signed NFA management. applications. The drive, an on 0181 715 8866. Matt Broughton's Games in view ello and welcome. Same old picture I'm afraid, but that's what happens J Now you may remem- I ber m e threatening to when you go off on holiday and it snows continually. gloat at you following Still, at least I had the Amiga games scene to look a recent trip to New York but considering the fact that it rained forward to on my return. and snowed for the entire time, it hardly seems worth it. You’ll no stuff like collecting keys and music, improved level designs, more likely than not be doubt also be glad to hear that finding the exit, but should and the facility to customise the processed through an affiliated on returning from my trip, I con add to the longevity as a single main controls. Hurrah. label such as H it S q u a d or tracted pneumonia and spent the player game. There is a demo of the updat K IX X . Still we’ll wait and see. following weeks locked in a Future projects from the boys ed version of Ruffian on the CD- How many times have we heard small room with only a large also look pretty interesting, with ROM coverm ounted on th e CD that from companies only for duvet for company. Still, at least a decent 3D Blitz Bomber engine edition of this magazine. So if them to come back onto the I'm alive. already doing the rounds - giv you have the CD-ROM edition games scene with an Amiga Let’s start with some positive ing the game we know and love cheers, if not you'll have to wait game just a few months later. stuff. Time. I feel, to catch up a more Gloom-like perspective. a bit. A particularly unfortunate bit with the game that I’ve been One problem with this has Some sad news though. This of news this month, comes from looking forward to since before come from not being able to see week, however, sad news con long-time Amiga supporters, w e sold The One ( grrr. g rrr!) Yep, bombs around corners, but the cerning 21st Century Yes, K o m p a rt, where the loss of the Blitz Bombers is s till on its way, team are hoping to compensate though we've been seeing each B lu e B y te label (early last year) and baring a bit of legal ’calm for this with clever use of light other for quite some while now. appears to have done more dam down, calm down!' between the ing effects to 'give the bombs the spark has gone from our age in the longrun than they Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMLeading Edge boys and ’another away’ as well as the possibility relationship, and they've just realised, with the company going company’ - who are a bit wor of being able to see the tops of rung to say that they need a into voluntary liquidation. ried about the similarity between bombs from a distance. bit of time and space to think Kompart have proved Blitz Bombers and one of their Interesting stuff, non? thing s over. extremely important to the major titles - it should be with us The only other major foresee My gut feeling, however, is Amiga's game scene over the within the next two months. able problem is that, while a that they’re about to chuck us. past year, especially with its pub The company in question split-screen is possible, there’s So it’s back down the games lishing arm. Black Legend, who aren't actually being very no way we can expect a four disco to try and pick up a new managed a number of European difficult at all. and with any luck, way cut. This will probably lead chick, but at least there’s still developers and ultimately the most it’ll mean to the final to further developments in the S la m T ilt to look forward to brought us such hits as T a c tic a l game will be a possible one-player game design. before the big heave-ho. M a n a g e r and Football Glory change to the look of the main And finally from the boys, It would appear that the only And there you have it - just ’bomber’ character. having written so many Blitz games we're likely to see from time to glance at the HMV charts Another interesting twist to applications for themselves dur the 21st-erers in the future before turning into a pizza. Be the tale (according to 'M r PhD’ ing the writing of Blitz Bombers, would be budget releases of old seeing you... ■ himself, 'Dr Nigel’ Hughes) is there’s now a good chance that games - and even that would M att Broughton that one of the gang recently they'll be making some of their found a toad of music on an programmes available to the HMV GAMES Aminet CD that they’d previously public. Look out for Blitz support been presented by THEIR musi software in the near future. Amiga Top 10 cal man under the pretence of it Even more good news. Do No TITLE PUBLISHER being his original work! I know - you remember L e g e n d s ? If you some people will try anything! don’t let me recap. K ris a lis 1 Sensi World of Soccer 95/96 Virgin Still, a couple of the actual com planned to release this promis 2 Worms Ocean posers have already been con ing RPG b ut shelved. W ell, it 3 Player Manager 2: Extra Time Virgin tacted and it looks as though the looks like Guildhall Leisure w ill end result of this particular prob be releasing it soon. So we've 4 Alien Breed 2 Ocean lem will just involve writing a got that to look forward to. 5 Super Stardust Ocean couple of new level tunes. Another snippet of good news 6 Project X Ocean Other than that, everything is that despite the recent disap has come along wonderfully pearance of softco R a s p u tin , 7 Kid Chaos Ocean since we last looked, with a one- top-fun platformer R u ffia n w ill 8 Fantasy Manager 95/96 Hit Squad player game element having still be getting a release - albeit 9 Ultimate Soccer Manager Daze been implemented, where each one through mail order - com level has a 'goal' as well as bad plete with a couple of tweaks io PGA European Tour Golf Electronic Arts dies to kill. 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We explore just how big is the problem, how has new technology affected its penetration of Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMthe Amiga market and how to protect against it ... e a rs a g o What is a virus? w e r e For those new to, o r unfamiliar with the r i f ^ term, don't panic. A virus is not alive, disks bull it's only a computer program. However, amount of damage they that's not to say it's not dangerous - or caused was largely limited. A even that it doesn't exhibit lifelike hard reset would solve most symptoms. For example, like a real life problems on a floppy disk based virus, a virus computer program repli system as the viruses could only cates itself at every opportunity, writing Ihrive on disk or in RAM. Now copies of itself to every disk it comes though, hard drives are increasingly into contact with. Each o f these copies commonplace, CD-ROMs come with is the same as the original, and will 650Mb of files and the 'net is a gigan continue to try spreading like wildfire. tic breeding ground. The amount of Some viruses hide in the boot sec damage to be caused has multiplied. tors of floppy disks. The boot sectors A virus can be a big problem, or it are special because when the Amiga can be an insignificant one. In a worst is reset and a floppy disk present, it case scenario, it can destroy your soft automatically loads in these boot sec ware collection, re-format your hard tors and runs the data they contain drive and even potentially damage a as a program. Normally this program video monitor. Plenty of scare stories triggers the loading of the abound and newspapers love to run Workbench or loads a game, but if a half-fact half-myth stories and this high virus is stored there, it will be loaded tech scourge is ideal press fodder. into memory and executed. As the Although viruses were big news on Amiga is an excellent multitasking Amiga some years ago it's now other system it can lurk for ages, waiting system s that are being targeted. Even for a new disk to be inserted so it Bill Gates' new 'safe' operating sys can copy itself to its bootsector. This tem Windows '95 was soon at risk; is how th e y spread. suddenly word processing documents If the newly inserted disk is a game began to act independently and data with a custom bootblock, the virus can bases lost their data. overwrite it and therefore make the r excellent source of software, but can What they %my. also be potential risks. Many boards (personaMy ■ ha** cater for a variety of machines, and only ever c a u g h t many are run on a PC. The PC sysops may not have the tools at his dispos two viruses a n d al to check Amiga format uploads for these were b o th nasty extras, so be extra careful before I was o n th e when using download programs. net. However.r DMS files are risky, as they contain a | having said that. I snapshot of an entire disk, including normally always the bootblock data. have the latest On disks version of VirusChecker run CU Amiga Magazine tests its disks ning in the back thoroughly with Anti Virus software every month and it's just as well. ground. unless I do Although people who supply us with a minimum boot, software for disks have no idea what w h ich is usually soever that they are carrying a virus, only to run some of them do. This is easily con LightWave, and trolled with standard disks, though definitely no Net you do have to make sure that you access, as Rexx have proper up to date software to and Amitcp are not check for brand new viruses. But started either. I game useless. with CD-ROMs it can turn into a think most legiti Unfortunately a virus can do even nightmare. Although Mat checked mate ftp sites run more damage: some are programmed then pop the contents of this month's CD- to perform various nasty acts after a in a disk to do some ROM (see special edition magazines) careful checks on certain amount of tim e. Some viruses thing else, instant infection. It has also as each component was put on the all uploaded will corrupt or format a hard disk for been known for a virus to pop up on disc, when it was fully compiled software, aminet example, some w ill put up irritating magazine cover disks: I was caught another check revealed two viruses: certainly does ... j messages on the screen or make the out once with the Saddam virus when 'Ebola' and ‘Happy New Year 1996’. Laurie mouse pointer vanish. compiling a disk for an Amiga maga VirusChecker, the program. Mat (A Usenet user) zine (not this title, of course) about four normally uses to check for them did A bit sneaky years ago. It was an unpleasant experi not discover these, but after having Some strains of virus don't require ence. I can promise you. some minor problems with various booting though and can sneak into files he checked the disc with Virus Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMyour system in various other ways. On the 'net Z, (on this month's disk) and there Some disguise themselves as normal With the rise and rise of comms in they were. At this stage they had The only problem I programs in your c: directory, some general and the Internet in particular, infected several hundred files, multi have had w ith a misuse the operating system's disk the opportunities for viruses to plying like wildfire. Virus Z located virus was when my validation system. spread is ever greater. The Aminet is and recovered most of the files, parents brought The most common way in which the definitive Amiga software site on clearing up the infection. back some pirated Luckily Ebola and Happy New Year viruses used to be spread was the Internet - if you upload a pro software from gram there, it can be used by thou 1996 are not dangerous, they are not through pirated games and demo Singapore. It was a disks - disks which needed to be sands of users all over the world in intended to do any harm, only to inflate Saddam virus booted. Often, users would perform hours. Needless to say that the keep the egos of their creators. But because which was fairly a warm reset (Control-Amiga-Amiga) ers of Aminet make stringent anti of the way they were programmed easy to get rid of after loading a demo or game and virus tests. Bulletin Boards are an they caused hang ups or gurus in som e of the item s on the disk. w ith VirusChecker. However they could have been worse. I tend not to rush Free love. Safe Hex The trick is to use the most up-to-date off and get th e la t Safe Hex International (SHI) are an international group, dedicated software and even try running your est version of a to trying to atop the spread o f com puter viruses. In their own disks through more than one virus so ftw a re release as words, SHI is a grass roots movem ent, started in 1987 w ith Amiga checker, just to make sure. It's a time soon as it appears ly coincidence that we were running computers. Today they are an organisation w ith around 600 mem and I also lim it bers, w ho are all m ore or less involved w ith the project. It's a non this feature at exactly the same time m yself to A m inet. I profit m aking organisation and their m otto is 'Safe Hex'. The as w e discovered these viruses: w e ’re know that corrupt facilities they provide include a virus bank containing more than always vigilant with our disks and ed software has 1800 Am iga and PC viruses fo r supporting good shareware haven't had any problems for nearly a antivirus program s (helping people get money lost by virus infec- year before this. appeared on , i , . I , hi n— —— i., tion back by program m ing anti Aminet but they ; virus products) and releasing the Good news seem to be pretty newest and the best virus killers The good news is that clearly, the virus good at removing around from well known pro threat has diminished from a few years it when it's pointed grammers worldwide. There are ago. when every magazine Q&A post out to them. ■ bag was full of distraught users asking more than 35 PC and Amiga Ian 'Virus Centers' worldwide where why their disks had been re-named (A Usenet user) you can get virus help by phon 'Lazarus' (a perfect example of how a ing their Hotline, or by contact non-existent virus g ot the blame). game ing them on the SHI W orld Wide Raising the awareness of users and us can Web site at http://www.aal- good anti-virus tools have made a dif [he borges.dk/~i 1 g/SHI.HTM ference and virus related disasters are Here are som e relatively uncommon today Recommended anti-virus programs In a perverse way the lack of new exam ples of These program s make use o f the special SHI anti-virus libraries, viruses on Amig- Amiga viruses can actually be seen to and are therefore recommended. You can obtain them from the be a bad sign about the state o f the Am inet (either the Internet version, the CD-ROMs or any BBS Amiga. No-one is praising virus pro w hich keeps the CD-ROMs on-line) or from public dom ain libraries. ABCAEK/Odie-CC grammers, b ut the fact that most have Virus Checker by Johan Veldthuis turned their attentions to the PC is Virus Scanner by Gabriele Greco W/MicroMaster indicative that the Amiga is not as 'hip' Fides Professional by John Lohmeyer as it once was. Let's just hope that Fides Checker by John Lohmeyer AIDS when things start rolling again w e will DMS by Michael Pendec, ParCon Software HIVAIien leave virus w riters behind. D-Copy by Stefan Bernbo Don't get complacent though. As X-Xopy by Cachet Software (commercial) N ew Beat mass storage media and the ‘net take Disk Ute Copy by Alchem y Software. o ff on the Amiga it the threat is still Xtruder (a BBS!) virus killer by M artin W ulffeld ASS Virus Protector ever present. As 'Happy New Year 96‘ Harboot virus analyser by M artin Harbo proves there are still people out there B ootw riter by Ralf Thanner B a m ig a programming them. An even bigger MT-Copy by Gert-Jan Strik threat lurks on old disks and untested Sector programs from BBS systems. It can only take one virus on a disk you forgot whole, but it is the prime way in which infected files and overwrite your older B e lg iu m to test to infect your entire collection. viruses are spread. (but un-infectedl back-up. BGS9 and potentially wipe out years of work. • Use the most up-to-date Virus soft- • Keep the write protect tabs on your Be vigilantl ware you can find. Use it frequently. If floppies open to stop anything writing BGS9-Mutant you have a hard drive, keep it running to your disks without your knowledge. HOW tO prevent all the time. • Switch your Amiga off between Big BossBlackflash a n a tta c k * Be especially careful about using games, and keep the power off for at The best cure is not to catch a virus in public domain or shareware software least 30 seconds to make sure noth- Blade Runners the first place and the only way to be you have downloaded yourself. Test ing is left lurking in memory, BLFBIizzard safe is to leave your Amiga switched the files with a virus checker • If you use electronic mail, beware of off and never insert a new floppy disk • When using a hard drive you may warning messages about certain B utonic in the drive or use a modem. But hey, want to deactivate it when using soft- viruses (for example. Good Times! it's not an ornament! Everybody uses ware you are wary of. You can do this asking you to spread the word. In this Byte Bandit disks and a lot use modems, so here from the boot-up menu (hold down case, it's the idea of the warning mes- are some handy hits for safer hex. the two mouse buttons!. sage itself which is the virus as it is E r r o r B y te • Don't touch pirated software. Not • Make regular back-ups. Be careful spread around the world by worried only is pirating software illegal and to make several generations of back- users keen to warn their friends. ■ Parasite Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMdamaging to the Amiga market as a ups in case you unwittingly back up John Kennedy B yte Parasite Byte Voyager W hat they say: Byte Warrior Chris Wiles o f Active Software Has the Internet made the future this may change with the CCCP (CD retailer and 'net enthusiast) Q any difference? 're-invention' of the OS and main CPU (RISC), b ut fo r now PC is C enturion Are Am iga viruses as big the target. lls ir/ 0 w orrY as they were? C enturion There are very few virus prob- Q Have CD-ROM com pila lems on the Aminet - not sure tions made the threat of DenizDestructor N ot really - the 'hype' or about the Internet in general. viruses better or worse? Dirty Tricks w orry that surfaced w ith The guys behind the Aminet and the Aminet CD's (and, indeed most CD's!!) virus problems has died in Bizarrely a m ixture o f both. Disaster Master the last tw o years. Beginners and new check and double-check every file for /liK , Better as there is generally users always worry, however. They every kind of virus. There w ill be prob much more control. As stat Disaster imagine that a virus has entered a lem s on the Internet - but if you take ed before, the Am inet CD s (as an disk when they encounter a problem - the recommended precautions - you example) are tested and re-tested for G adaffi be it a read/write error, non-dos disk w ill be safe. viruses, so the chance of finding a G lasnost or simply the fact that a program is virus on one of those CD's will be not installed correctly. Does fewer new viruses minimal. It has made it worse due to Sachsen There is very little chance of find ( i S f ) m e a n t h a t t h e A m ig a is the fact there are SO many files pre ing a virus. Probably about one in doing badly as a computer? sent on the CD and therefore increas Saddam Hussein every 1000 disks you bought may es the chance of finding a virus. have a virus, maybe less. /S ^ I think that the Amiga has For instance, if a company decid Scarlace Despite general opinions, major 'had it's day' from virus mak- ed to throw together a games CD in Sinister Syndicate Public Domain libraries are usually ers. Most are corrupt individ record time (i.e. started in August for very virus-free. Simply because pro uals who like to attack the masses. October release) they will not have grams are checked by BBSes. the They target business users, console time to test the CD properly, never makers etc. I believe 'they' would Internet, submitters and then the mind test and re-test for viruses. StarFire NorthStar library that receives them. love to get a uncontrollable virus That could be a worry. 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ACCESS/VISA welcome. 3 YEAR WARRANTY ON ALL OUR PRODUCTS!!! (DQ4S3 7Qa<3(D(D^LfeiS£ W a l l a c e & T h e right computer hat do the Crunchie Ad, Nick Park's latest Wallace and Gromit Frank the Tortoise and the superb Wallace and animation has won yet another host of Gromit animations all have awards. The Amiga helped make it © in common? Apart from the fact that the all came from the Aardman possible. (We're so proud.) A nim ations stable, they were all done on the Amiga, Not a lot of peo ple know that. We spoke to Glenn ■ Q When did you get involved influence over your w ork in the Hall, Aardman A nim ations’ Technical in w ork on the W ellece end m aking of the W allace and Director to find out more. G rom it aeries? G rom it film s? ■ A In 1986 Nick Park, had joined ■ A In the production of the recent Aardman from the National Rim film A Close Shave. Nick led a whole School, and was trying to get his film team of animators. He wrote the ( It is the Animator's first choice. finished. Peter Lord and David script w ith Bob Baker, the Bristol Sproxton, far sighted folk that they based writer who famously invented Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMWe will stay with the Amiga are, let Nick finish his film in the stu K9 in Dr Who, and drew the story dios. It took another three years, and board. He oversaw every single in the end A Grand Day Out was fin model, animated a huge amount of it just as long as we can keep ished. and subsequently got an Oscar all himself, and spent loads of pre nomination. That year, cious time helping the other anima them going, j also brought the stu- tors to get the look of the film the , dio its first Oscar for same all the w a y through. For Nick it I Creature is total involvement, and I as long as Comforts. have known and worked w ith him , I have never known him loose his cool. ■ Q W h e t He is a great guy to work for, and role does Nick when he and Peter Lord work togeth Perk have in er. really exciting things happen. putting his Yes he has influence, in the same work together way that all the animators in the stu and does he dio do. It is very important that the h a v e equipment and ways of working are I m u c h driven by the animators themselves, so I spend a lot of time finding out what they want, and how they want it to work, then we try to make . t Gromit also fit quality video, can handle composite, S video and beta video. A full set of processor amps gives total control over the signal and the PAR is con in th e nected directly to an associated hard id disc which can support tw o IDE dri ves. This system can thus grab video ! recent in real time, store it in full colour and t whole give im mediate replay. Handily, the the software control can support single stol frame grabbing, and this is the mode vented ■ Q So whet equipment do you the video system sits entirely above w e use. tory-Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMu s e th e n ? the computer bus.This means that the The hard bit for us came when ile ■ A W e use Amiga 4000s with attached PAL video monitor gives a Commodore hit problems. We have unt o f It 230Mb HDD and 6Mb RAM. We also full screen picture. We use tw o cards, bought every new system we could ’ pre- use Microvitec 1438 monitors and both from DPS. The first is a capture get our hands on. and a fair few sec inima- have standardised them for all our card AD 350, which usefully will ondhand. including an old A3000 that i the computers including PCs and some Nick it Apple Macintoshes. The crucial piece ong as I of equipm ent is the Personal Who the hell does Glenn Hall think he is? A right Aardman him. I Animation Recorder from Digital Many thanks to Glenn Hall who after break to shoot the com m ercial. I got nis cool, Processing Systems. We also use several attem pts to avoid being blown up involved and this led to my working on the and Directory Opus and Sunrise 19. w hilst attending recent Government pro seminal pop video for Peter Gabriel, togeth- Also, we've modified the gramme in London took tim e out to Sledgehammer. Believe it or not that was m. Panasonic AVE series frame by fitting answer these questions. shot in six days, w ith the wide angle e same our own set of remote controls, the So How did he get involved in all of this? scenes shot at the university theatre. A fter :he stu- Digipod. These allow the controls to "I started in electronic engineering, that I joined Aardman full tim e in 1986, at the be very robust so they can be actually working m ainly in theatre and television w ith a brief to extend the use of motion ng are placed on the set. lighting and control systems, including the control and com puters in the film making selves, first com puter controlled lighting systems. process. Next up was the creation of the g out I Q Why did you decide to This took me into the area o f working in fam ous skeleton for the Scotch Video l uie Amigas? manufacturing and designing lighting Tape, which saw Aardman working with ■> make ■ A After testing various systems, equipment, and thus into process control Bill Mather, who w ent on am ongst other w e found that the DPS Personal for theatre and manufacturing. Around this wondrous spots, to create those dancing Animation Recorder on the Amiga tim e I was lucky enough to work on fea m ilk bottles." worked best for us. It has its origins ture film special effects, including some The programme Glenn was attending. as a render store for Lightwave and Pink Panther film s. 1980 brought me to Inform ation Society Initiative, is being set the newTek toaster, and as such was Bristol, where I joined the Drama up by the government to help small and a unique combination. It was very Department at University of Bristol, where I medium sized companies get the best ben cost effective and available. Before taught stage lighting and theatre crafts, efits from the new IT and trading on e w e chose the PAR w e also tried out and thon one day I m et David Sproxton W orld Wide Web. The government have put similar products on the Mac. We had from Aardman Animations. I was doing a £35 m illion behind this and Aardman the very first Digital Film from fair am ount o f freelance w ork then, includ Anim ations is featured as one of the five SuperMac Technologies and w e also ing film work and Aardman made a com case studies to show how IT has worked bought a Radius Video Vision studio, mercial. their first, featuring dancing bones for them. We w ill be doing a feature on this which we still use and have just to make a com puter keyboard. They rented soon, meanwhile you can find out m ore on updated. The PAR is different as it is the University theatre in the long summer http://w w w .isi. dti.gov.uk essentially a hardware product, and Oscar, oscar Aardman Anim ations was form ed in 1972, by tw o schoolkids David Sproxton and Peter Lord. Their home made anim ations were spotted by a BBC TV producer who prom ptly gave them a spot on Vision On. From here they developed the unforgettable M orph series. The company grew and grew and, now based in Bristol, has won numerous awards. There are too many to m ention here but some of its m ost noted successes include the Creature Com forts, Crunchie ad. Sledgehammer video, Lurpak ads (little man w ith trom bone) and the infa mous W allace and G rom it series: A Grand Day Out, The W rong Trousers and A Close Shave. A t the recent BAFTA awards, held in London in February o f this year, A Close Shave won a host of awards including: best film over fifteen m inutes, best scenario, public choice award for favourite film and public choice award for funniest film . still does good duty. We also have a ■ A W e set up a model and view it few that are PC based - we had to with a Mitchell 35mm camera which ■ A All sorts really. Nowadays there do this when w e ju st couldn't get is fitted with CCD video assist. We is too much w ork for one person, so any Amigas. grab a single frame into a Panasonic the whole team work together. With frame store then grab a frame into many projects either shooting or in ■ Q How does an anim ation the PAR. Then we move the model development at the same time . it is get from being just an idea to and compare the frame using the anim ated picture? digital frame store, so you can mix ■ A Well it starts off with a script between the current frame being and then taking that script through to worked on and the last frame shot. If ( After testing various systems, a storyboard. We look at the ideas to it is OK on the video screen, we take see how it can be done. When the a PAR frame and then play the storyboard is done, and has been sequence on the PAR in real tim e. If we found that the DPS agreed upon with the advertising all that is OK, then we take the frame agency (if it is a commercial), then the on film and do it all again and again Personal Animation Recorder modelmakers and set builders start and again 25 times per second of fin Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMwork. The technical team begin work ished film. This mostly takes around on Amiga worked best for us.i on special rigs to hold the models, or 10 to 12 minutes per frame. to move pieces. Sometimes I make computer controlled systems to link ■ Q W ill you stick w ith the the whole thing together. Most of our Am iga in future? all a lot of work, and w e have a great work involves motion control, using ■ A it is the animators first choice. deal of fun putting it all together. We computer based systems to move the Until very recently, when DPS also get a lot of visitors, and we try to camera, and this has to be done in brought out a new version the spend time with college students, and small sections. Extra systems, often Perception Video Recorder that runs even on the phone to help budding based around Toshiba PLCs with Windows NT, it remains the animators where w e can. (Programmable Lim it Controllers) are essential tool for us. We will stay ■ used to keep everything in synch. with the Amiga just as long as we Lisa Collins A voice track is recorded and this can keep them going. is broken down into phonetics by a film editor. The animators use this as ■ Q What future projects do a guide to get the lip synch right. 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We find ourselves sandwiched in between Christmas and Easter with this issue and thus our games pages may be described as at best sparse, at w orst rather empty. ' © But we're not complaining. We did get an exclusive look at one of the hottest games of the year, now in the final throes of development: Chaos Engine 2, w hile Lisa travelled to the snowy south west for an exploratory visit to the bustling development basement of Intersect Developments. She came back goggle eyed. Find out w hy on page 42. W atchtower is the lead review this month and by all accounts it's a decent shoot 'em up in the Commando mould, though its looks are definitely all Chaos Engine. World Golf is a miniature Sensible Golf, if such a thing were possible w hile Premier Manager 3 Deluxe updates an already good game. There's also all the usual tips and cheats in Vamp and Snip Tips w ith the added bonus of Previews Z e e w o lf 2 help. News just in from Time Warner Interactive should please SWOS Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMfans: they are doing a special offer on the 95/96 edition of the The Chaos Engine 40 game. Basically if you've bought the first version you can upgrade to the current season's one for £9.99, postage inclusive. All TWI asks At the Crossroads 42 you to do is provide proof of original purchase by sending them the bar code from the old Sensible W orld Of Soccer box along with a Slam Tilt Pinball 43 cheque or postal order for the above amount made out to Time Warner Interactive. Make sure to include your full name, address and postcode printed clearly, otherwise you'll never get your game! Send these to Time Warner Interactive, Customer Service SWOS Reviews Offer, 2 Carriage Row, 183 Eversholt Street, London NW1 1BU. Then ^ ------^^enjoy your game. Watchtower 46 Chaos Engine 2 p40 . World Golf 51 Premier Manager 3 Deluxe 51 Tips & Guides Vampyra Snip Tips S/am Tilt Pinball p43 Zeewolf II Tips T h e C h a o s E n g in e 2 ■ Due: May ■ Developer: The Bitmap Brothers ■ Publisher: TWI © 0171 391 4300 r and Mrs Bitmap must Is your life too calm, too peaceful, too bloomin' boring, have had very active bedtimes in the sixties in fact. You need some excitement, what you want is a and seventies. I count ed at least 15 young men in their bit of chaos to shale things up. Well, you could get it office, mostly around the same sooner than you think... age This puts most Catholic fam ilies to shame in my opinion. To name but a few, there was Simon but the first one w as: Bitmap. Steve and his brother ful, a follow up was Steve Bitmap, Mark Bitmap, inevitable. The plot of Richard Bitmap, even their sister the game revolves Abi Bitmap- And these are just around a chap called the brothers working on Chaos the Baron's quest for Engine 2. Sister Abi set up the Chaos Engine, m y interview. the machine at the But I jest. They are not in fact heart of the first related at all. Despite my disap gam e, w h ich got blow Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMpointment on this score I had a up and spread to the good chat with Chaos Engines' parts of time. Now thi figurehead, the inimitable, and fol- wants it back in one p liclularly challenged, Simon and he has hired men Knight. Bitm ap Brothers' Colonel naries to do the job Saunders without the beard. To fo r him. my immense surprise, when I In the first game arrived in The Bitmap's Wapping two player mode office for my exclusive demo and was a cooperative interview, Simon was showing it affair, fighting side by to somebody else! Another maga side to defeat the zine? Had I been cheated? No. enemy. Even in one pi some geezer had just walked in mode you had assistai off the street and they thought he the computer w ho pla. was Alan Dykes. Haven't they ond character for you. In this and make it to the end of the mode or as a single player. In th« heard it’s dangerous to talk to game however the emphasis is level first. The key to the change latter form you can retain the spd strangers these days (much less on competition The screen is hor in emphasis is that you actively screen, in which case you'll be an Irishman)? izontally split which means that try to kill the other character and able to see the other character s The Chaos Engine 2 was first each character can operate totally steal their keys etc. to defeat movements, or else return to the revealed in Spring 1995. Before independently. The idea is to col them. Each level has to have old style single screen. The corrv this there w ere only rumours that lect pieces of the Baron's puzzle, one winner. puter characters have their own a new version was being done. kill as many baddies as possible This can be done in tw o player advanced intelligence and the Bitmaps claim that this will adapl to the experience and style of each individual human player. The team working on Chaos 2 includes Simon himself who is the game designer, Steve Kelly who has done most of the in- game programming Mark V ick and Dave Trevelyan who have programmed the intelligence fa the computer controlled charac ters, Steve Cargill who has bee« doing support and systems pro A M w m IfCfMI A I M m • » b a t M A t B r a u n >*■ i « i H *T *r la i n H tit Ik* Mkar n if M. ta a i M M ta> Ian i t in Waafiafi gramming, Richard Joseph w h o PREVIEW Alan: What are you p ro g ra m m in g i t in ? S t e v e : In a m ix tu re off C and assembler Rob Trevelyan w ho did the intel ligence for Speedbaii 2 and for Chaos Engine on the SNES programm ed it for us on this one. using C but creating a language of its own which the rest of us could then use and modify. The version I saw was very near completion. We project like Z it would played through two of the four be necessary. We've worlds. Aztek and Future world, been developing and the graphics were great look Chaos Engine 2 on the ing. The new sprite animations A1200, but there is an are pretty impressive too and the A500 version in devel split screen system worked well. opment to. although In total there w ill be five levels on A Brigand beats Nanie in all a it war shocker! In either one er twe player m U t the ehject is te beat yeur opponent to the erit this is lagging behind. each world and each has very was contracted from outside to are the Bitmaps deserting the It looks a bit different because of specific features and enemies. I'm do the m usic and SFX, Gary Carr Amiga like so many others? the graphics, but the gameplay pretty excited about The Chaos who did the monster sprites art S im o n : This project is some and speed are very similar to the Engine 2. so hopefully w e 'll have w ork and Dan Malone w h o did thing new. something out of the A1200 version. a review for you next monthIB the backgrounds and main char ordinary and it is nice to do this A la n D y k e s acters. It's been in development on a machine you're familiar Alan: W hat didn't you like for nearly two years now. so we with. This allows you to experi about the scientist? Why asked Simon and Steve Kelly how ment much more in terms of the have you cut the game they were getting along. game engine and intelligence. down to four characters? You’re not spending your time S im o n : The decision was most Alan: W hat is the object of learning how to control the ly made by Dan, based on the th e g a m e? equipment, you're actual spend graphics, I mean the S im o n : "The object of the ing your time developing the scientist/preacher was an obvi game is to succeed to the detri gam e, which is w hat we really ous one to go because of the m ent of the other player, in all wanted to do. Also, when we similarities. Basically though we Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMaspects, in solving puzzles in started it was at the point when needed the space because of all winning the levels, in getting there wasn't really a clear path, the extra animation frames, we more experience.' so we're happy finishing things needed all the memory available off here, and we’re certainly just to use four characters. Also, A lan: How complicated has the enjoying it. We have looked into in term s of providing a real differ A l b e c o m e ? doing Z on the Amiga (the ence between them it's very diffi S im o n : The original system we Bitmap’s current PC product), cult to get the intelligence right so devised works quite well, but the obviously that they all play differently. hardest thing is to create a it's Doing four enabled us to consistent challenge. It's very give them very differ easy to make him intelligent so ent playing styles. that he can win every time, because he knows the level, the hardest thing is to make him play in a responsive w ay to make it fun even for players that aren't really good’ Alan: It looks similar to quite number one, w hat are the d ifficult big differences? because there's a lot going on in S im o n : The graphics are similar- Z and it was designed as a PC ish, we’ve used the same game from the outset. Basically viewpoint and it's based around this really depends on the state the same characters, but there of the market. are now more animation frames for each character and the bad A lan: If you had to recommend dies have all been updated too. a specification for the new But the game has changed a lot. Amiga, that would allow you to It's changed in pace, it's produce more games, what changed in objective, apart from would it be? the visuals there aren't many S t e v e : More memory, decent similarities at all.' sized internal hard disk and a faster processor. With something A lan: Are you still enjoying like Chaos engine 2, an accelera programming on the Amiga or tor doesn't help at all, but with a PtE VIEWS Intersected Development Problem: no good Amiga games around. Solution: make your own. That's what these guys did ... ouldn't have one [a PC| -i ta a fiS p a in the house," M laughed Intersect only ^ N E T S Development's Frank © Tout at the suggestion m m that he m ight have used PCs at •rd Dec.in-.nc ■ pjalKjKjl some point whilst working on !:• II " -IllJ.i K |® § || their current store of Amiga >r. - stages of develop games Dedicated Amiga enthusi N W m n u t 10 IM 4 I m e "! Tilly A puzzle asts. this two-man team (the other die So we were only T fP lB M i game which will will half being Trevor Mensah) prides too delighted, despite qi comprise of a massive itself on only using Amigas for all the bitter weather, to take our 100 levels and an its work. Intersect Development chances on British Rail and travel editor so when you Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMare an inspiration in these slightly down to their Torquay office fie. A1200 from his flat in Torquay exhaust these you can start on home) to see what w hile Intersect s other half, Trevor, your own. It looks fairly basic, a they had lined up. w orks on the code in Liverpool little spherical chappy races W e're not talking where he is currently studying around a maze set up, teleporting multi-national computing. They exchange ideas here there and everywhere in a software company and material via mail, which is bid to collect as many pick-ups B set up with Intersect how they m et originally. Frank, (the usual sort: treasure chest, Development, but who has been with Commodores pieces o f fruit, cuddly toys, OK they still produce the since the C64 days, started maybe not) as possible. goods anyway. The corresponding with Trevor when The four other games we set up is simple. he wrote to him to get the source talked about; Neyok, Phasic Frank works, on his code for a game that he'd written Distortion. Alternate Futures and for AmigaNuts Dominions are currently in the early stages of development. Games galore Neyok and Alternate Futures will The first project we were shown both be sci-fi based platform was Atrophy. You may remember games. Neyok, Frank says will that we previewed this scrolling be "somewhere along the shoot 'em up in March and were lines o f Shadow o f the impressed by w hat w e saw. It Beast ". It is actually was interesting, therefore to see N ew York in a how it had developed in the later future world stages. The scrolling shoot 'em where the earth up, which will have six levels has been wiped when finished, is now nearing after nuclear burn completion. All it's waiting on is a out and it's up to the tidy up on the collision detection hero to leap through front. Obviously proud of the three "huge" platforms game. Franks states that: "What to save the we like about it |Atrophy| is that it world. Alternate is so smooth, everything happens Futures contin at 50 fifty frames a second com ues along the pared to other games which, same vein, only invariably happen at 25." the story centres around a * harak'i litla itrea* m l laU a iU ia lig h te n * n l the iciaaarhal daaia t da it jastica bara. Sang lolk* Next up, we were given a sneak preview of another game scientist getting lost previews in his tim e machine and being transported back in time rather than forward. Phasic A Tilly is lookiaf like K will be fiaisbed before Atrophy. How em (here Distortion, a triple playfield, eight A Tilly will bare a 100 levels and jasl wbea yoa tbenfbt you'd liaished there's an editar la isn't a publisher far il yet atake even more. w ay scroller, is back to a maze/puzzle-type setup where write a game around it because it ProTracker. OctaMED is too slow you have to race around collecting can do what we want without tak for playing back, we couldn't have prototypes. Finally. Dominions, tte '« A v hey ing up too much time.". put it in the game as it takes too with 256 hi-res graphics, is a How, you might ask do two men, So what other software do much time and we'd end up move tow ards RPGs. It w ill be a one based in Liverpool, the other they use? Lightwave. DPaint, and having glitches and stuff like that." series of three point and click Torquay manage to keep ideas Personal Paint are used for the We left Frank furiously games featuring a hero called and productivity going? It's quite graphics and ProTracker for the working away on getting Gary Somerton caught in a "no simple really, according to Frank: sound. Tony Horgan paled at the Atrophy and Tilly finished so we man's land". "It's all thanks to the unique game suggestion that someone should should a review copies very All these games w ill be AGA engine we have developed which use something other than soon. At the time of going to only as Intersect feel that they makes it simple to get a game OctaMED though. Frank replies press OTM hope to Atrophy on couldn't’ achieve the same quality idea into action. The engine is that: "A guy called Lee Smith did the shelf by April.■ on non AGA machines. central to everything we do. we all the music for Atrophy using Lisa Collins Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM Slamtilt Pinballappears to go much further than ■ Due: March ■ Publisher: 21st Century any other pinball game I've seen before. But I haven't had an Entertainment © 01235 851852 opportunity to te s t it fo r more s there something than an hour, so about Scandinavia can’t comment that encourages on the difficulty great pinball games or effectiveness O on computer? Unless I’m greatly of this approach mistaken they are not very well at the moment. known for their pub pinball into the office a couple of weeks O f course it tables. But. considering how ago w ith Slamtilt. Four tables could be argued cold it gets up there, and how fro m Scandinavia yes, but not that there are expensive pub drinks are, it's from Digital Illusions. The new enough Pinball perhaps not surprising they programmers are Liquid Design games on Amiga already: surely don’t go out. What was and by the look of these tables, there's only so many variations surprising though was that 21st they've matched, if not surpassed you can have on a theme? OK, Century and Digital Illusions Illusion's mastery. so how many platform games parted company after three very The four tables are based have there been? Case rested successful games. 21st then around Demons, Space, Mean I just hope that Slamtilt lives linked up with a company called Machines and Pirates, and the up to the promise it showed in Spidersoft to do Pinball Mania. sheer quality of the graphics this preview, if it does it should This was bundled with the matches Pinball Illusions. appeal not only to the hardened Magic pack but looked unfin This game is much deeper pinball player but to anyone ished, unpolished and generally and faster than Pinball Mania sub games. High scores and interested in a good, new, disappointing. was, but added to the table-top much of the gameplay revolves playable arcade game. 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DE55 7BP FAX: 01 773 831040 Premier Manager 3 Deluxe ■ Price: £TBA ■ Publisher: Gremlin © 081 988 8888 remlin's Premier Manager 3 Multi Edit, a support released last year is included in Manager series has program for the PM3 series. Just this version too. This means been on the go for w hat could this be? you're getting two programs. The donkeys years and is Not to be outdone by SWOS. Multi Edit is not a data or update © one of the most popular footyPlayer Manager and Ultimate disk, it is designed to operate games ever. W e haven't seen any Soccer Manager Premier Manager separately, creating save games thing from this Sheffield based 3 has had the latest teams and for the full program. This it does software house for nearly a year league structures bolted on to well, allowing you to create your now so a parcel thus post marked bring it bang up to date with the own scenarios and even edit the and obviously filled with a box 1995/1996 season. The basic on-screen text and messages. created a bit of a stir. The last game remains the same though Premier Manager 3 stands the item they sent us was Premier and they’ve been good enough to test of time. As a comprehensive supply the original manual. football management sim it is still the mood for an upgrade it's In fact the packaging is one of our office favourites, good value. At £25 or more you pretty comprehensive: it’s alongside On The Ball and might do well to wait and see if nice to see that Gremlin Ultimate. 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If someone The Multi Edit software sells it fo r under £20 and you're in Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM Worid Golf Price: £14.99 ■ Publisher: Apex Systems © see text uote of the month: "I interesting little offering that don't really offe r the played the cover disk comes courtesy of mail order only player much in the way dem os o f Sensible for the bargain price of £15. There of reward, while the Golf, and frankly, I are five famous courses to gameplay is a bit too ® wasn't impressed." So writeschoose Mr from (Castle Pines. basic to warrant any David Kirk of Apex Systems. Of Gleneagles. Little Aston, Muirfield striking comment. It course, the difference between Village, and Wentworth), 63 really is just a straight Mr Kirk and most unimpressed individually skilled computer forward cross between readers, is that he actually opponents to challenge, and the Sensi Golf and the mil did som ething about it - he option of up to four human lions of other golf games we've balls bouncing like ping pong went and wrote his own version. players. There’s also an seen over the past few years. balls either!) Oh yes ... auto-caddie option, where the Because it's so plain, there's As for M r Kirk saying that he It is indeed true, for here computer points you in the right nothing to rave over and, similarly, made this game because he was before us we find World Cup, an direction and selects the correct nothing to really moan about. The disappointed with Sensi, well. I club for you. only possible complaint (and think it’s a 'people in glass houses' The game format is nothing where perhaps Mr Kirk should situation. Should you fancy a copy particularly new, with the good have a look at Sensi) is that the of World Golf, you'll want to send old power-bar making an appear scale doesn't change when you £14.99 to Apex System, 8 Gosling ance and. on the whole, it all get onto the green, making accu Gate Road, Goldthrope, Rotherham. holds together well. The presenta rate targeting and power selec South Yorkshire S63 9LU.B tion is nice and clear, the sound tion a lot less controllable. There's MB effects are as effective as I guess also a problem when, if you are it's possible to be w ith a big right by the hole but technically empty field, and everything works off the green, it defaults to irons, as well as you’d expect. It's just leaving you to misjudge and tonk that it's a b it unremarkable. the ball over the other side The graphics are simple, but again (and I don’t remember golf ■> i r m Advantui r V A M P Helpline She’s mean, m oody and Your walk-through was probably Palace. 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Each tim e I go near a cow’s bum with a banjo while I cannot te ll! lie ,! don't know. the table it revolves and moves the holding its tail or the sights on your Maybe a reader could help if they Sorcerer piece to the opposite side of the gun need adjusting. Let's be charita knew. However, I do know quite a few Can you tell me how to pick table. How can I get to it? ble a nd guess that you haven 7 been clever tricks fo r this game, so I up the woodworms so I can get ■ to the shooting range today and thought at least I would help you as the staff? Jim Laver, Hatfield. adjusted your sights. In fact I ’ll bet m uch as I could. W hen you create a a sloppy kiss to a pint of your blood character and it asks for a name use Lauren Eames, Gillingham. 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Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM 10-1 Ready for lift off. 10-4 Now land on the 10-5 It's a good idea to 10-8 Shoot up some of the Go le ft to the sm all island other side of the Dome, leave some ammo behind: floors w ith your Zeewolf, and collect the shells and just about in his sights. if you get shot down you but use the Pelican to missiles from the Camel He w ill continue to w ill still be able to go shoot out the doors of there. This should get you attem pt to shoot you back and get more. each building, releasing the worried; there's only 17 but the Dome is in the Otherwise you're back to soldiers. Then load 'em up shells and one m issile! way, so he'll blow it up 50 shells and you haven't and a irlift 'em to the carri Now fly right to the main first. It only takes 20 or a hope in hell o f finishing er. If you have ammo left in island and. whatever you so shells to destroy a the level. Now destroy the the Pelican fly northwards do. do not waste shells on Bear so as soon as the domes in the bottom left from the carrier and cause anything. If you are Dome blows up take off, and bottom right hand as m uch damage to the air attacked, lose them . You destroy him and then land corners o f the base. base as possible. Zeewolf cannot afford to spend and pick up 400 or so These w ill reveal more should then still be well any ammo at this point. shells from the Camel. ammunition. armed and ready to kill. 1 0 - 2 Although the mission 10-3 The only way to 10-6 The dome in the top 10-7 Now take out the involves picking up troops stock up on ammo is to le ft corner is also partially three missile emplace from damaged buildings blow up the green domes protected by the four m ents at low level w ith there are rather a lot of on the four corners beside m issile emplacements so, several salvoes of missiles them so you'll want to use the the high rise build- although the m ethod is the and guns blazing. YOU DO the Pelican, not your | ^ ings, but you don't have same, you have to be care- ^ ^ NOT want to get caught in Zeewolf. The surround enough firepower to ful of fire from both sides. any crossfire from those, ings are too dangerous at dostroy even one. The Also this Bear seems they w ill take either first so you've got to take trick is to use the enemy. reluctant to destroy the chopper down in three out the base's defenses, The Camel under the top dome, but persevere and seconds. If you're feeling especially the three AA right dome, contains 600 don't use too much ammo. lucky you could get these emplacements on the edge shells. Go and buzz the The helicopter base you've emplacements to knock of the island. First though Bear guarding it and get got to destroy to complete out a few floors o f the scavenge for more ammo. him to shoot at you. the mission w ill need loads. nearest skyscraper for you. 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IS / C J | Horgan's Organ In te rm s Lim elight Tyro and another SX32 66 o f h a rd solution for A1200 owners w ith * ‘ W ith all that powet under the bonnet of a CD32 it seems a w a r e a n d big ideas in the shape of HiQ's 1 * shame to reduce it to a games machine. W ith the SX32 ► * s o ftw a re Power Station. you can transform it into a virtual A1200 re v ie w s . Only last month I was getting g * th is all dewey eyed about the lack of OctaMED SoundStudio 6 9 m o n th , innovation on the PD demo scene, th e re 's a when what should turn up but a Bringing the state-of-the-tracker art into a new era, definite swing towards sound and corking batch of audio-visual OctaMED SoundStudio could be the best thing to happen music this month, w ith a no-non weirdness from The Party 95 demo to Amiga audio Find out more in our exclusive preview sense test of the Toccata 16-bit competition. 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Price: £299 ■ Developer: MacroSystem © + 4 9 2302 949490 ■ Supplier: White Knight Technology ©01902 822 321 t's been the dream of Give your Amiga the luxury many Amiga users that one day they their of 16-bit audio with a beloved Paula chip w ill nice new Zorro card. Obe superseded by some state of the art audio hardware with a minimum of 16-bit bandwidth to MacroSystem's V-Lab Motion play with, perhaps even 24 or 32 video card to create bits. Until that dream becomes a com plete digi reality there will be a place for tal video edit third party audio upgrades, such ing system. as Toccata from German develop ers MacroSystem. Ins. and Digital video outs Toccata is a card for all Amigas There are four with Zorro slots tunning OS 2 and inputs and one output on above. It can sample and replay a the board. The rear panel has single channel of 16-bit stereo three 6.5mm stereo jack sockets, through the Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMdigital audio at frequencies up to tw o o f w h ich are line level card, so you don't need a 48KHZ, working from Fast RAM inputs, the remaining one is the mixer. The relative levels of the or directly from a hard drive lor line level output. Located on the channels can be controlled frdm Samplitude is the any device with a fast enough inside edge of the card are two a software mixing desk. main editing software. This transfer rate, such as a Zip). It’s 3.5mm jack sockets, one set up allows sampling direct to disk been designed fdr use in multi- for line level input, the other for Supplied and comes with a good selection media and audio mastering work, mic input. There's an option to of basic editing functions, but is in which case the card acts as a mix the input with the Toccata software light on effects processing tools. digital recorder, rather than a sam output. The idea behind this is Two disks of software are sup Fortunately both Samplitude and pler in a musical context. that you can have your Amiga's plied with the Toccata. The basic the Toccata Tools can be used to Specifically it hooks up to standard audio channels piped Toccata control tools include a control the board simultaneously. mixing desk front end that allows For example, you can m onitor an you to set the relative volumes of incoming signal prior to sampling the inputs and output, the sam from within Samplitude, drag the pling rate, and the sample band screen down and adjust the input width (8 or 16-bit). From here you gain levels frem the Toccata can also select A-Law or p-Law Tools panel, with the results tak compression, which allows for ing im m ediate action. There's near 16-bit sound quality using also a playlist section which can roughly the same amount of disk be used to string together a space as an 8-bit sample. For sequence of samples. example, 8-bit bandwidth has a MacroSystem are currently noise ratio of 48dB, 16-bit has working on new software that a noise ratio of 96dB, while A- will feature simultaneous record Law or p-Law can achieve a 70dB ing and playback through the noise ratio. This optional com card, along with 'multiplexing' pression is handled on the fly routines that allo w fo r a number in real time during recording of channels to be output at the and playback. sam e time. Simple recording and replay ing tools are also included which Sound quality can also be remotely controlled On the surface it would seem via ARexx. Finally there are some that the sound quality should be bits and pieces for anyone who equal to a well recorded CD and wants to develop their own soft that is generally the case. If ware to control the card. you’re used to wrestling with the noise and distortion inherent in 8-bit Third party support samples, moving up Although Toccata was designed m ainly for multim edia users rather than m usicians, it is now well supported by to 16 bits is a real OctaMED SoundStudio. One of the new features of pleasure. For example, 16 bits give ample SoundStudio is its ability to retarget its tracks of samples to alternative output devices. Instead of driving the Paula bandwidth for you to chip directly, it can now process all o f the sample data as use subtle effects such as reverb without intro the module plays, mix the com bined result into a stereo signal and push it out through the Toccata's 48kHz ducing a load of 'step 16 -bit output. ping' noise, as the steps are much finer. For the Up to 32 tracks of samples can be played at once and each track can be panned to its own independent stereo same reason, you can sample a long 808 bass position. Realtime Echo effects are also available. The resulting sound quality on an Amiga equipped w ith a drum, filter out any top 50mHz 68030 processor sounds very slightly grainy end noise, and you'll be left with a very clean compared to a high quality standard four channel Amiga module. The quality you get w ill depend on the speed of pure bass sound. Try that with an your Am iga and the am ount of available RAM. 8-bit sample and you'll be stuck with a phasing high frequency SoundStudio also allows you to play a single channel of stereo or m ono 16 bit Toccata samples in normal four- content on the decay tail. channel mode. The Toccata output is m uch cleaner in this Good potential mode. However, in this mode the replay pitches of the Toccata samples are lim ited to those listed in the specifica Frequency response seems to be tions box elsewhere on these pages. In effect this means up to scratch, although in our tests the bottom end of some that in this mode you cannot play melodies w ith Toccata instrum ent samples, as there is not enough flexibility in the samples lacked a little definition replay rates. in places when compared back- Back on the m ultim edia side, there's support from to-back with the source CD M ediaPoint, Scala and Bars and Pipes. The ARexx ports of sound. There is a slight click between to be able to replay a the Toccata software also means that you can use it w ith every tim e the Toccata begins to tuned instrument sample as a programs that don't have built-in Toccata features. play a sample and another melody, although the new straight afterwards. This isn't too SoundStudio works around this. intrusive if you are mixing it with However, with sample rates that multimedia or editing samples Amiga audio and would not include 32000Hz (the same as for use with external MIDI gear. matter too much if you were the Akai S01 entry level MIDI It's capable of handling all of using the card to spool one con sampler), 44100 (the rate used those jobs competently, some Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMtinuous long sample in an audio for mastering CDs) and 48000 better than others. It’s already visual context. This does not (another popular rate) it has p ro v e n its e lf a s a w o rth y c o m happen for each sample when many potential uses for digital panion to V-Lab Motion but its using SoundStudio's mixing mastering and editing samples increasing support from third mode, as the Toccata is only from external sources. This could party software developers has ’opened' at the start of the song be very handy considering the opened up its potential market to and 'closed' at the end. See the editing software on many hard thousands of Amiga musicians Third Party Support panel for ware samplers is very basic. (there's even a Toccata driver more details on this. Overall the available for DeliTracker). While sound quality is excellent. C o n c lu s io n technically it doesn't compare One of the reasons Toccata Toccata is more versatile than it very favourably to the current has n o t b e e n w id e ly u s e d a s a first seems. If you're on the look PC sound card market (dominat musical tool in the past is that it out for a 16-bit sampler you've ed by multitimbral boards with can only replay sounds at one of probably already got a good idea onboard effects and more), in A Taccata cones with a minimal selection ai leads 14 preset sample rates ranging of what you want it to do, which light may look a little over to allow coaaect to your soand source and amplifier from 5513Hz to 44100Hz (CD whether it's hard disk audio mas priced w ith just a single stereo ar n il at rate) and 48000Hz. Therefore tering, realtime music applica output channel, it’s in a very dif there are not enough steps in tions, audio for video and ferent marketplace so direct TOCCATA p ric e t o p o w e r c o m p a ris o n s aren't really relevant. system requirements: A*i§a with Zorro silts. OS 2 or Technical specifications This won't solve all your audio ■hove. 1Mb Chip RAM. 2Mb lost RAM problems overnight but it’s quite hard drive. a c a p a b le s y s te m fo r a n u m b e r I of specific audio applications, ease of use ...... S0% including digital audio mastering for example. For digital video performance...... 80% work it's by far the best value audio solution, and the excellent value for money ...... 70% support from OctaMED SoundStudio also makes it a tempting proposition for musi cians. W ith more powerful soft ware on the way from Competent in a f MacroSystem, the future looks variety of audio 9 very bright. ■ applications. 1 Tony Horgan 1 2 . 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Price: £199/£299 ■ Developer: DCE Computers ■ Supplier: Visage ® 0115 964 2828 hen Ih e CD 32 w a s SX1 shortfalls it plugs onto the side of the serial port is standard Amiga launched it was intend Flowever, it had one other expan CD32, making for a rather awk 25-pin as opposed to the PC ed to be a true blue, s io n : P aravision's S X1. T h is w a s a ward sprawling desktop setup 9-pin standard. s tra ig h t d o w n th e line, large metal box similar in colour The inclusion of a VGA output I n o frills g a m e s console. It wto a sthe 32- CD32, with a socket which SX32 solutions is useful for direct connection to * ] bit, had a CD-ROM drive andcould was be attached to its 72 pin The SX32 is designed by rival VGA monitor but the outputs are J a lle g e d ly th e fu tu re o f g a m inconnector g . But and it was designed to G erm an co m p a n y C DE t o o v e r not buffered which means thathat it w a s s o m e th in g e ls e too. fit flu s h w ith th e b a ck o f th e c o n come these problems and it does it s not really practical to usee tth e I ©Underneath that dark grey exterior, so le , fo rm in g a s o n o f L shape. It so in the most logical way: using RG B a n d V G A o u tp u ts s im u ltaItane- I that toilet seat lid, behind the was a God-send for those who a ll th a t e m p ty s p a c e I talked ously. Technically, if you wanted _I facade o f J o y s tic k o n e and needed a computer as well as a about inside the CD32 It attaches to you could view what's on your I J o y s tic k tw o p o rts lay th e g u ts o f a console, especially those who like to the same port but the circuit CD32 using the composite output I standard. 2 M b A G A A m ig a 1200. their games to look better than board is housed inside the CD32 to o a n d th e RF. On the back of the CD32 there average - it had an RGB pod. It instead of the SXTs external It’s also w o rth n o tin g th a t you I is a little screw-on door. Go on. also had serial and parallel pons, metal casing. Like the SX1 there w ill nee d a PC m o n ito r ca p a b le o f I take a look This door opens to a floppy disk drive pon, facility is also provision for a hard drive h a n d lin g th e A m iga’s horizontal I reveal a large em pty space w ith a for a standard PC keyboard and to be fitted and this is inside too. and vertical scan rates if you 72 pin connector built in. In the space for an internal IDE hard All that sticks out of the back in te n d to u se th e V G A o utput, old days of exuberant optimism drive. However, the SX1 must of your CD32 is a 1 centimetre which, in the case of the AGA this port was most famous for have been designed with the protrudence painted in the usual C D 32 is 15-30 KHz a n d 4 8 73Hz L Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMallowing the Commodore FMV CD lid brand of attractive Commodore respectively This means that many I card to be attached, with all the closed all Grey. This houses the five PC VGA monitors will not work and I Start Trek, Terminator and th e tim e , s o c k e ts th a t c o n n e c t th e y o u s h o u ld b e a w a re o f th is if yo u I Jurassic Park CD film hilarity this b e ca u se SX 32 t o th e o u tsid e o w n o n e and th in k th a t th e SX32 H entailed. Unfortunately the big C whenever you w o rld . T h e s e a re w o u ld s lo t in n ice ly in fro n t o f it. didn't get very far with the FMV perform the Serial. Parallel, Disk card before going bust: it barely simple task of Drive. RGB and. Starting up got past prototype stage. Some flipping the CD lid ^ unusually, VGA. Installing the SX32 is a tad more say this was a good thing, Phil o p e n it jo g s th e SX1 U n lik e th e complicated than the SX1, mainly C o llin s w a s a b o u t t o re le a s e a s lig h tly w h ic h c o u ld , SX1 th e b e ca u se y o u h a v e to Best O f’ album on Video CD cause problems, such as u n s c re w and around the time they went belly instant crashes. The open up the L up. What was that about clouds other disadvan CD32. This ■ and silver linings? ta g e is th a t k v o id s ® the w a r- ■ ra n ty 1 b u t ■ A lte S U Z ' you'll be lucky if you've still got a c c e le ra to rs w o u ld one at this stage, so this is not have b e e n w e lc o m e . much of a problem. Technically But sadly none of this s p e a kin g if y o u w e re o n ly has happened. installing the board w ithout a hard drive, you could just jam it in; but Gettina r th is is n o w a y t o tre a t £ 2 0 0 w o rth connected o f k it. W ith th e c o v e r o ff th e C D 32 I tested the SX32 with it s im p ly a n d e a s ily s lo ts in to the all manner of software, 72-pin connector and the circuit both from CD. disk and iIboard sits on top of the metal Hard Disk. And it | shielding covering the CD32's cir worked perfectly with cuitry. Rubber feet are at both everything. Unlike an ends of the board to allow it to A 1 2 0 0 w ith a C D -R O M rest securely on here. You can d riv e y o u re a lly d o then replace the top of the con have the best of both sole and. hey-presto, everything's worlds here: all CD32 back to normal. and Amiga CD-ROM O ne o f th e o th e r to p cla ss rea titles will work, without s o n s fo r having a n SX32. apart exception. And like an fro m th e keyboard, m o u se and A1200 you can con W o rkbench it g ive s y o u a cce ss to nect a printer, run busi is th a t it en a b le s y o u t o in se rt n e ss s o ftw a re , u s e a RAM and a hard drive. 4-8Mb of modem and surf the 7 2-pin S im m in s id e it w ill n o t on ly net; the choice is h e lp y o u d o w n th e p a th o f pro d u c yours. But the A See bow neatly (be SX32 fits iasifa tbe CD32* bei. Oers bat a bad drive aad 4Mb RAM. which really does make a difference tiv ity b u t it w ill s p e e d yo u r g am es inevitable trade off is te this modified CD32 w. iadeed. an» A1200 Provision lot an accelerator aad PCMCIA wooid have beea real icin, on the cake. u p in a w a y y o u never im agined - that some applications even standard CD32 games. It real do require acceleration to run at SX32 has no separate keyboard Amiga keyboard with the proper ly h e lp s g a m e s like A lie n 8 re e d 3D, an acceptable speed and there is input so you have to use the keymaps and names, not some w h ic h a re a lm o s t to o s lu g g is h fo r only so much speed that extra PS2-style port on the CD32 itself cheap, confusing alternative (an words on the standard CD32. fast RAM will give you. (beside the joypad ports). PC PS2 AT jacked Amiga keyboard will Also, you must remember that keyboards will plug in fine but almost be as expensive as an Accelerator? it’s not just an SX32 you need, won't work, so the only option is A4000's). The difference in price One of ihe biggest improvements you'll also have to invest in a key t o p u rc h a s e a ra re a n d ve ry is, in the final analysis, only one the SX32 could have had over the board, a mouse, an external disk expensive replacement A4000 of around £20-£30. Both SX1 and SX1 w a s p ro visio n fo r a n a ccelera drive and Workbench software. If model. Bummer. SX32 are up to the task of turn Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMtor. You can add up to 16Mb of you already have an Amiga of Luckily Visage intend supplying ing a toy into a valuable comput RAM but there's no substitute for some sort you'll have the mouse the SX32 w ith both an external er tool, the SX32 just does it in a an upgraded processor as well. and Workbench and maybe an drive and a compatible keyboard, n e a te r w a y. ■ This is where an SX32 equipped external drive but the keyboard but not Workbench, which is prov A la n D y k e s CD32 really falls short of its isn't as straightforward as it was ing difficult to source. You can still A1200 cousin. You're limited to in the SX1. W ith that unit you run autobooting disks and many the standard 14MHz 68020 and could use an old standard PC AT CDs boot into Workbench and you there’s no way out. Even taking keyboard. These cost £15-£25 c an co n tin u e to use th is. B u t th e re size limitations into account a new and I've picked one up is no substitute for the real thing motherboard upgrade to the before for a fiver secondhand and so o n e r o r la te r you'll need part 28MHz 020 currently used in 1220 (with a PC believe it or not!). The of the Workbench system that's not on whatever you're booting off. The keyboard and external drive bump the price up to £299, so hunt around for an old A4000 key board firs t if y o u 're serious. So is it b e tte r th a n th e SX1 then? Well it depends on your pri orities. Scanning the ads (and I can o n ly fin d o n e fo r th e SX1 in last month’s mag) I make it slightly cheaper than this unit at the moment. It costs £8 less than Visage are quoting for the SX32 and although a decent disk drive w ill set you back the best part of £50 for either peripheral, using the AT p o rt you w ill save m o re th a n a couple of quid on a cheap PC key board. On the other hand you m ig h t w a n t s o m e th in g th a t a ctu a l ly fits s n u g ly in s id e y o u r CD32. rather than a cumbersome external box. and one which has a standard Amiga serial port as opposed to a PC one. You m ig h t also w a n t a real REPAIRS WHILE-U-WAIT!! r —' T h a t ’ . 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Ml OctaMED SoundStudio A new generation of trackers is about to arrive, bringing Amiga audio bang up to date. starting with SoundStudio. o u n d S tu d io 'l .0 is s e t to s a m p le data is read In: ■ t 'e ease o' a from anywhere in mem next generation of ory, including Fast RAM OctaMED sequencers. and then it's processed I Although it m a y lo o k ju s t th e sam e according to the user's at a glance, the menus have some settings, during which powerful new features. How do th e sa m p le s a re m ixed, you fa n c y 6 4 tra cks o f sam ples, q iven a stereo D3n posi- “ ■■■ ■»>*“ " ■■■»«» • ■■>■■■ »■ «->ftu.«« nm ■no >u . • absence Ire* the Iasi two major OclaMEO revisions. Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMeach with its own stereo pan posi tion, echoes are added when OctaMED morphed from its tion, w ith optional delay and echo if required and then the final stereo now possible, and although at the c u s to m G UI o f version 4 to th e effects? T hat'll d o n ice ly thanks. signal is output to the chosen des- moment this is limited to delays w in d o w s a n d m e n u s o f ve rsio n 5. tination. The destination can be the and echoes, in future this may be A notation display isn't very well Retargetable Amiga's standard audio output expanded to include phase and su ite d t o a tracker e d ito r (m u c h o f audio bonus (both 8-bit and 14-bit output is sup chorus effects. We may even see the tracker information is impossi j T he key to S o u n d S tu d io s s tu n n in g ported). a Toccata 16-bit output, a synthesiser options such as reso ble to display using traditional new features is its own kind of IS-bit Maestix output, or even sent n a n t filte rin g (as already featu re d in stave notation) but some still find it I Tetargetable audio'. In the same stra ig h t to a hard drive a s a co n tin M u s id in e Editor). reassuring to b e a b le to v ie w th e ir I way that retargetable graphics sys- uous ste re o 8 o r 16-bit sam ple. Output quality w ill depend on m e lo d ie s in th is way. It also gives I terns allow you to direct graphic th e s p e e d o f y o u r A m iga. Faster y o u th e c h a n ce to o u tp u t your o u tp u t to a n y o n e o f a n u m b e r o f No limits p ro ce sso rs can m ix the tra cks a t a modules as hard copy via a printer. display boards. SoundStudio sup The advantages of handling the h ig h e r rate, th u s in c lu d in g m o re o f ports six different audio output sample manipulation with software the original sample information So good, so far options. Normal four-channel track routines are manifold. For exam and in tro d u c e le s s n oise . The sys W e had hoped to bring you a full ers traditionally take advantage of ple, the Amiga cannot play sam te m c o m e s in to its o w n o n a fast re v ie w in th is issu e b u t it's s till in the Amiga's built-in sample replay p le s in reverse a s standard. T h is is Amiga (50MHz 030 or better) with d e ve lo p m e n t, so w e 'll have t o w a it functions, using the Paula chip no longer a limitation. Fbssing a 16-bit output device, such as a a little lo n g e r fo r a fu ll analysis. It's lirectly to re p la y sa m p le s fro m sa m p le s th ro u g h e ffe c ts ro u tin e s is Toccata card. A stock A1200 will looking good so far and if author C hip R A M W h ile th is is struggle to achieve good reproduc Teijo Kinnunen can pull it off. it very efficient in terms tio n o f th e h ig h e r fre q u e n cie s c o u ld b e th e b e s t reason y e t to o f speed, barely taxing w h ic h s ta rt t o s o u n d sc ra tc h y a s if keep y o u r A m ig a a t th e h e a rt o f the CPU. it d o e s have low sample rates are being used. your sequencing set-up for years mitations, such as Good news: the notation editor is to c o m e ■ llowing no more than back! It vanished when OctaMED Tony Horgan four samples to be played a t o n ce , w ith two samples sent to ft's on the CD, It is The CD edition of this month's CU Amiga Magazine the left channel and the includes a non-save demo of OctaMED other tw o to th e right. SoundStudio. You can run it straight from the CD SoundStudio gets (you'll find it in the Sound drawer) A generous round these limita selection of multi-channel Screamlracker (3SM) tions b y in se rtin g a modules have also been included, which can be new signal processing loaded into SoundStudio. This is an early preview ver stage b e fo re th e sound sion, so everything won't be fully working at this stage. Have fun! I o u tp u t In e ffe c t, the Aural Synthetica ■ Price: £35.50 ■ Developer: Blachford Technology ■ Supplier: Seasoft Computing © 01903 850378 Turn your Amiga into a sprawling |fluraI M M itiv l.t nii.hf.rdT, modular synthesiser with this new sample generation system. f y o u m ake modules with m t a your Amiga, jlu-ZJ-flae-L-l you're bound to have longed for a synthesiseryou e at n d u p w ith a 16-bit 44kH z one tim e or another. Maybesound you've sample which you can play, even given in and bought one.o r save The o u t to disk as an SAFF, trouble with working solely AIFF,with WAV, M A U D o r IFF sam ple. Osamples is that if you don't have There's an impressive amount the required sample, there's noth o f o p e ra to rs to tin k e r w ith . You can in g m u c h y o u can d o a b o u t it; use up to 18 oscillators along with you'll just have to make do with stacks of other twiddly bits. The what you've got. This is where patch programmer section offers Aural Synthetica comes into the almost limitless possibilities if you picture. It's like a software version want to explore them. If the syn of a module synthesiser, but rather thesis was carried out in real time than working in realtime, it renders it would be quite fun to experi A See. it'* quite simple really! Aural Syethelice allows you to create yeer owe 'patdiei' as K you were esap one ol these old analogue modular synthesisers. I Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMits sounds as samples, which you m e n t w ith a ll th e d iffe re n t se ttin g s, can then use in your chosen track b u t th e tim e it takes th e re n d e r the a lth o u g h th e re are a fe w th a t could interesting and potentially useful I e r o r sequencer. sounds can be off-putting. If you're be used as instruments. On the p ro g ra m . It can cre a te so m e not sure what you're doing you w h o le th e exam p le s are very d e c e n t no ise s and if y ou know Twiddly bits can spend all day generating use impressive, especially if you like what you're doing there's plenty of I Sample synthesis programs have less sounds. Having to wait for abrasive abstract techno sounds. scope for building your own com- I bee n a ro u n d fo r q u ite a fe w years, y o u r c h a n g e s to b e rendered pletely original sample sets. U n le J out none has gone to the same before hearing them, can make C o n c lu s io n you're very patient you'll need a I le n g th s a s A ural S ynthetica. It learning the ropes a slow process. There are a n u m b e r o f im p ro ve fast Amiga though. To give you j gives you a massive range of but O n th e o th e r hand if y ou d o ments and bug fixes I'd like to see some idea, with a 50mHz 030 you I tons and sliders to push and pull know all about modular synthesis, in the program. ’Error in patch' can expect to wait around 30 sec- 1 h o w e ve r you see fit. O n c e you you could generate some excellent messages are common after load onds to render a typical two sec- I th in k yo u 've g o t a re cip e fo r an sounds without too much bother. ing and hitting render, when a re ond sample. Rendering times vary I earthquaking sound, you hit the load proves there was clearly depending on the settings. Hour* I render button and wait for the T h e s o u n d s n o th in g w ro n g . If y ou try to save a o f fu n fo r season synth fans. ■ s o u n d w a ve to w e n d its w a y O n th e d is k th e re a re 51 patches sample to a disk that is full, the Tony Horgan through the sequence of oscilla for use as examples. These are a program gives no indication that it tors. modulators, filters and other big help in understanding the hasn't saved th e file , o r th a t th e AURAL SYNTHETICA 'components'. Once it's all finished workings of the program, as you disk is full. A low grade quick-ren- can m o d ify th e m and d e r o p tio n is also required, d u e to item requirements: compare the originals the long rendering times, even on w ith yo u r versions. fa s t A m igas. M o s t o f th e s e are Even with these faults and over weird sound effects, sights. Aural Synthetica is a very Understanding synths Modular synthesis is a fascinating but baffling subject. 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The first step is to ambitious videographer. e n te r s o m e te xt. T h is c an b e don e Like most video titlers. Limelight via the keyboard or by using the Tyro uses a two-tier screen layout, m o u s e to c lic k o n a grap h ica l re p o n e fo r th e screen you a re p u ttin g resentation of the keyboard that UMEUTE together and another laid over the appears on the control panel bottom which houses the control Although this seems pointless, it panel. This a llo w s y o u t o have an m a y b e u s e fu l in v e ry unusual such inte rla ce d d is p la y screen w ith a as when the program is running on more comfortable non-interlaced a CD32 system with no keyboard, control panel both visible at the o r if y o u r keyboard w a s faulty. sa m e tim e . There’s also a disconcerting time T here a re th re e m o d e s in w h ich lag between you typing the text Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMthe program can be used, from and the letters appearing on the n o v ic e to a dvanced. In novice screen. T h e y d o appear in s ta n tly in mode, the menus only reveal a few th e te x t b o x o n th e c o n tro l panel l n - i l r » l of the total available selections, b u t o n th e m a in scre e n , it takes a Irmh »I Hiin ■ with more on offer in intermediate little lo n g e r to d ra w th e characters, «*Y m m d k p n b f u m u i tin ia i m j riH m u inke i tfcaa it*m | k ■ M tbt lirtiri T a M m o d e and th e w h o le lo t available giving the impression that you've h nnaas harfeaafki lai laaff caaa latlan aak Sf«M» ip advanced mode. It's a kind of misspelled your words. 'blinkering' system that is sup Style changes can be made to ones. 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If all you want is a beefier wo problems face the you use Hi-Soft's Squirrel PCMCIA The most common configuration power supply and a CD-ROM with A600/1200 owner want SCSI in te rfa c e fitte d t o y o u r available from Hi-Q is the Tower, SCSI capability then a Goliath and in g t o e x p a n d th e ir A1200 (or A600 for that matterl as reviewed here, fitted w ith a Hi-Soft CD bundle is £235, which is machine: one concerns and attach the extension cable to Sony 2.4 speed (breaking the tra more than £50 cheaper than the where to store the drives andthe theSquirrel's SCSI connector. dition of drives being even m ulti PowerStation. However, if you other concentrates on howM much ost SCSI devices can be fitted ples of'single speed units). This wanted to add a SCSI hard drive, it I electrical power you'll need.into the tower case, attached to mechanism featured in a pack w o u ld b e d iffic u lt a n d m e ssy to do These worries mainly effect exter the internal ribbon and driven by from Hi-Soft reviewed previously. w ith o u t th e Tower. Y ou'd nee d an Onal devices such as CD-ROMs th e S quirrel. It's proved to have excellent external box and power supply, and other SCSI devices. Hi-Q have The PowerStation has a healthy access tim e and a healthy rate of w h ic h w o u ld p robably c o s t a b o u t partially come to the rescue with 200W power supply in the case. tra n s fe r a s w e ll a s fa c ility to be th e s a m e as th e P ow erS tation but their PowerStation, which. T h is n o t o n ly ru n s a ny SCSI periph able to send audio data down the wouldn't have as many future ! although a simple device, can be erals connected, it has an Amiga SCSI bus Audio freaks will love expansion options. In this case I'd highly useful for those intending cable too. so there's no need to this feature as the highest possi recommend the PowerStation. 1 to connect some real hardware to b uy a G oliath to p o w e r y o u r accel b le q u a lity s a m p le s can b e The PowerStation is an effec th e ir A 6 0 0 /1 200. erator and internal HD. Hi-Q want obtained with no extra hardware. tive highly expandable system p a rt o f th e s to c k p o w e r su p p ly A very respectable and cost-effec that's well constructed if a bit Squirrel driven (AKA The Brick) back in exchange tive mechanism to have built in. large. Although Amiga owners Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM[ The PowerStation consists of a though, since Amiga Power leads HiQ chose well with this Sony just wanting one or tw o SCSI | rather nice PC tower case, a SCSI are in short supply. You simply mechanism. Also included with devices in the foreseeable future extension cable and an internal smip the connector end of the lead th e C D -R O M a re tw o s e ts o f might be better served by an SCSI ribbon which terminates in a and send it to them. The trans R C A /P hono ja c k s w h ic h a llo w th e external box. the PowerStation is connector for the extension cable. former itself can then be used as CD audio to be mixed into your a good option for anyone need The th e o ry is th a t door stop; a task it's more suited Amiga audio through the loop. ing to add several internal SCSI to than attempting to power A n n o yin g ly, th e to w e r h as a devices. Such a set-up with a an expanded Amiga. panel which covers the drive SCSI HD. CD-ROM. Internal ZIP Your monitor bays. This would have to be left (when available! and perhaps can also o p e n to g e t re g u la r a c c e s s t o th e coupled with the forthcoming Hi CD drive. If not concerned with Soft Surf Squirrel (extra SCSI appearance the user might prefer speed and high speed serial) to remove it all together. would be an admirable Amiga The tower, unfortunately, is a system indeed. Recommended. ■ little too deep for m y liking. It will M at Bettinson use quite a lot of desk space but being equipped with 2 full 5.25" drive bays and tw o centred 2 3.5" drive bays, it does at least tower generally have everything that's required. A healthy length of internal SCSI cable with 5 x 50 way SCSI connectors fitted w ill be more than enough for any drives internally. The connector at the rear of the tower also has a passthrough connector so that exter nal devices could still be looped through such as We've gone CD- ROM crazy this month. There's a special bumper edition of choice shiny discs for CD-ROMyou to look at. Round Up FI Licenceware Volume 1 Licenceware soft presented with a non- ware is really cheap DOS disk containing commercial mail software that may order software. The have no quit option 'ware' part of the can be infuriating. name comes from This is an exceptional the idea that it’s like case and much of the pre-registered software can be run shareware. The straight from the CD. range of software but system-friendli- covers games, ness seems not to education and utili have been a high Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMties. along with a few Finally there's the priority in most cases. music-related disks. miscellaneous drawer Available from : FI The games are which is filled Licenceware. generally sub-standard AMOS Graphic Adventure Creator, with disk magazines and 31 W ellington Road. creations but there are a few which is the best of the bunch. quiz programs. E x e te r. highlights, such as Relics of Next there's the sound section While there are some goodies Devon EX2 9DU. Tel: 01392 Deldroneye and Giddy. The which contains some modules on the CD, much of the software 4 9 3 5 8 0 . utilities section is made up of and conversion tools, followed w ill not satisfy Ihe demands of P r ic e : disk magazine creators, a video by the graphics department 'power' users. The need to £ 2 9 .9 9 titler, a game map editor, a data which is made up of kids art unpack to floppies on p lu s base, a picture converter and packages and graphics tools. many occasions and then be 50p P + P. Danny Amor's Online Library Vol 1 If you haven't already checked of stuff. There's also a fu lly fe a tu re d lib ra ry b u t th e re is o u t th e W o rld W id e W e b pages some classic fiction a w id e e n o u g h v a rie ty o f to p ic s . It on this month's cover CD. do so from Charles Dickens. doesn't seem to be aimed at any immediately! Right, now you've Robert Louis one in particular. Maybe a more done that, you’ll be familiar with Stevenson, Tolstoy, focused selection would help aim the idea of using a web browser Mark Twain. Jules the CD at a particular audience. to view documents on a local Verne, HG W ells and Even so, it's quite an impressive drive. It works well and it's a lot Antonella D‘ Addeo. presentation all the same. cheaper than doing it over a Some of the Remember you'll need a web phone linel volumes are text-only browser in order to use this CD. Danny Amor's Online Library but there's also quite Available from : is using the same system to a bit of illustration GTI, Zimmersmuhlenweg present his 200 plus books on to keep your 73. 61440 Oberursel, this CD. The selection takes in a mince pies stimulat Germany (tee adverts range of public domain publica ed (bit of cockney f o r U K tions. including of course The supplies encyclopedic informa thrown in for the Londoners. I s u p p li Bible, along with lots of refer tion on every country in the lik e it - E dl. e r s ) . ence material from various world with population figures, There's not enough room on P r ic e : sources, such as the CIA, which financial status and all that kind the CD for it to be anything like TBA. Nothing But GIFs W h ile s o m e graphics miscellaneous, people, plants, collections are filled out space and transport with scraps fro m the sections. Finally there's bottom o f th e p ublic the rendered area, which domain barrel. Nothing h o ld s a ll o f th e 3 D ray-traced But GIFs offers a wide and fractal-generated images. range of high quality There's an AmigaGuide index im a g e s. A s y o u 've in c lu d e d o n th e d is c t o m ake already guessed, all the viewing as easy as possible. p ic tu re s a re in 2 5 6 GIF T here a re a ls o in d e x p ic tu re s in format. The sizes vary each drawer, made up of thumb b u t m o s t a re around nail versions of the images for 640x512 pixels, which quick reference. If you’re looking is just right for high resolution pictures from demos and what fo r a g o o d p h o to lib ra ry CD, interlaced screens. The pictures look like DPaint doodles. The Nothing But GIFs will do just fine. are se p a ra te d in to th re e m ain largest area of the disc is taken Available from : 17 Bit sections: drawn, digitised up by the digitised pictures, Softw are. 1st Floor Offices. £ 1 9 .9 9 and rendered. w h ic h a re sp lit in to anim als, 2/8 M arket Street. West p lu s 7 5 p The first section is made up of buildings, glamour, landscape. Yorkshire WF1 1DH. Price: P + P . Texture Portfolio One of the best fea they're all very clean tures of this CD is the a n d y o u w o n 't find printed index booklet a n y fille rs . that c o m e s w ith it. Whether you It's a collection of 24- want textures for 3D bit te x tu re a n d back rendering or back drop images, each of d ro p s fo r general which is pictured in g ra p h ic s and the booklet along v id e o w o rk . Texture with its filename. It's Portfolio has plenty high time that CD- t o offer. Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMR O M p ro d u c e rs s ta rt Available from : ed producing proper Ground Zero d o c u m e n ta tio n fo r Software, 4 th e ir d is c s , a s it ■ fire. food, masonry. Chandos Road. Redland. makes using them so H rock, metal, water. Bristol BS6 6PE. Tel: 01179 much easier. H wood and miscella 7 4 1 4 6 2 . The images are neous Although the duplicated in three formats photographs. Each one is segre duplication of the images means £ 2 9 * 9 9 ■ | (JPEG, TARGA and PICT) and gated into one of the following that there aren't as many files as p lu s 7 5 p m ost are digitised from areas: abstract, animal, clouds, there m ight be on rival CDs, P + P. Workbench Add-On The them e here is productivity, this CD is the generous amount or to be more precise, how to of sound samples and music increase it. W orkbench Add-On modules. The samples can be covers most of the areas you'll auditioned straight from the disc find on the Aminet and Fred Fish but unfortunately many of them CDs (comms. mods. text, devel replay at the wrong speed Even opment tools, sound, games, so. the overall quality of this CD fonts, utilities, disk tools, games is exceptionally high and there etc) but in this case it's mostly are quite a few 'original' sam ready to run rather than ples. rather than the same old archived. M agic User Interface is ones that crop up on most CDs. included, and is required to W ell worth a look. make full use of the CD. Available from : GTI, Sensible emphasis has been Zimmersmuhlenweg placed on registering the share addresses and prices, 7 3 . 6 1 4 4 0 ware software on the disc, to in both English and th e e x te n t th a t t h e a c c o m p a n y German It's good to see such a would be no shareware to put G e rm a n y . ing booklet has a number of reg responsible attitude, as without on the CD in the first place P rice istration form s complete with shareware registrations, there One of the best aspects of TBA Aminet 10 Here it is. the latest grab bag from the Amiga's definitive on line shareware archive. It's all here: demos, utilities, software, pictures and a special focus on music modules. The format is just as before, with most of the files stored as LHA archives. Fortunately these can all be accessed from an intelligent AmigaGuide document, which automatically plays modules, dis PD, First Floor O ffices, plays pictures and unpacks C oltsfoot Drive. archives as necessary. Not W aterlooville, Hants P07 everything works straight from 8 D J . the guide, but it's a good sys P r ic e : tem in general. Highly recom £ 1 2 .9 9 mended as always. p lu s Available from : Exclusive 7 5 p P + P. iTTC The Epic Collection Epic have their own unique > is also irri approach to PD and shareware, tating but if you're often compiling their own not used to using themed packs of disks to com W o rk b e n c h then plement the rest of their library. th is m a y n o t b e so The Epic Collection is their PD m u c h o f a prob library compressed into DMS le m . A ll in all. a b it files and put onto a CD-ROM. o f a m ix e d bag but The DMS files must be th e re a re p le n ty o f unpacked onto floppies before g e m s t o b e found, u se . T h is is th e o n ly w a y to whatever your interests may be. Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMarchive some demos, but it's a Available from : Epic pain to have to go via floppies if M arketing, Victoria Centre, all you want is to access some 138-139 Victoria Road, files or utilities. As there are very Swindon, W iltshire few demos or archives with SN1 3BU. Tel: 0500 alternative disk structures, it's 1 3 1 4 8 6 . shame you don't get the chance P ric e : to unarchive to a specified drive. often quite useful. The front end £ 1 9 .9 9 However, the software includ is attractive but uses a system p lu s £1 ed on the disc is varied, fun and of dual selection windows, mak- P + P . Phase 2 image bank has duplicates of all horses, natural, planes, racing, files rendered in 16 colours, renders, reptiles, snow scenes, 256 colours and HAM-6 space. Star Trek, trains and back m o d e . T h e re a re a ls o T yp e 1. drops for video work. Added to CG and ProDraw fonts. that you also get some bonus Subjects covered in the mono bits, including all the clip art are animals, fantasy, PageStream 3 updates, the music, people and religion. Opalvision 2.3b update and utili The colour IFF clips include ties, Typesmith 2.5a update birds, cars, cats, dinosaurs, a n d m o re . dogs, fish, horses. The Lion Available from : EMC King, music, planes and reptiles. Com putergraphic, 8 Edith T h e n th e re 's th e EPS s e c tio n Road, Clacton on Sea, Essex w ith animals, buildings, comput C015 1JU. Tel: 01255 431 ers, food, logos, office, people, 3 8 9 . T h e P h a se s e rie s o f c lip a rt a n d g ra p h ic s w o rk . P hase 2 u s e s th e transport, USA and the world. P r ic e : font CDs has proven itself to be same format as the others, divid As for the images, we get ani £ 2 4 . 9 9 a m ost reliable source of graph ing its clip art into mono IFF, mals, balloons, Blake's 7. cars, p lu s £1 ics for video, DTP and general colour IFF and EPS. w hile its Conan. Dragon Lance, fantasy, P + P. ilt T B Contains Thousands of Compiled over the last 5 years Allows you to Virtually write to Workbench Icons and back th*s CD contains only the very any CD ROM on any drive. COMPLETE drops. Workbench3 recom best quality textures. Quite useful for some things. mended. But genera*y a waist of time. £40 CD-ROM LIST WEIRD SCIENCE CUPART £8 GIFS GALORE £19 PRO PCX-IFF CLIPART VOL1 £8 Over O mb of new materia! all GOLDFISH DISKS1 -1000 £25 6 0 Around 2000 high quality A TEN CD set of colour tex ADULT SENSATION (181 £18 DMSed onto a superb CD. “Girly" pictures. Includes viewer tures. this cdecttons a real MEETING AT PEARLS 2 £10 compiled by Active PD. for Amiga. Adults only bargain. Basically £2 a cd. You C64 SENSATIONS £18 can t go wrong. ^ £17 £18 ZOOM!!! £17 GUINESS DISK OF RECORDS £19 m m n m m ®LLi;p§ PROFESSIONAL UTILITIES 1500 £8 SOUNDS TERRIFIC (2CD) £19 PRO. IFF S PCX CUPART 2 £18 Features around 40,000 clipart I The Gunness Disc of World MEDIA CLIPS (10 CDROMS) £20 images, virtually every subject records « a superb multimeda AMINET 7 £13 LSD COMPENDIUM V0L3 £19 imaginable. Amiga presentation. PRO BACKDROPS & ICONS 2 £10 £16 £19 UGHTROM V0L1 £poa AMIGA TOOLS ONE £20 w m m &i s u p a h i t m m q ? m m a m GFX SENSATION £15 17 BIT COLLECTION (2 CDROMS) £28 ADULT SENSATIONS 2 (18) £19 Complete with CD ROM. floppy Thousands of Adobe. Bitmap Conatains around 1.000 ready UPD GOLD COMPENDIUM £28 disk, and connecting CD32 lead and compugraphic fonts, to run games on one CO ROM. GOLD FISH 2 (2CDROMS) £poa to any Amiga. NEW super fast Theres something for every- excellent value for money. COVERGIRL STRIP POKER(18) £13 transfer version. 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It's sim ple enough to get ------™ Dataworld to grips w ith, you control up to six characters .jl* BtnnrD w ho m ust venture through various worlds in AGA demo Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMs f l . O S r D order to destroy the enem y. To do this you A storm ing 80M bs of anim ation makes up m ust solve puzzles and cunningly use your forces to out this rather tasty dem o. It was an entry in l_K_AX^XflExIjDjq IIGI 3j (1O w it your com puter opponent. Each move consists of any The Party 95 dem o com petition held in com bination of possible actions, such as w alking, using Denm ark at the end of last year, where it com puters, firing weapons and so on. w on second prize in the W ild Dem o section. The range of possibilities w ithin the game seem s to be It's a series of expanded 3D anim ations w ith a techno endless, and there's plenty o f depth, especially w ith the soundtrack. Featuring abstract m orphs, stom ach-churn prospect of extra m ission disks becom ing available. This is ing cam era rolls and loads o f lens flare it's quite a treat. an extrem ely w ell executed gam e - as the polished graph As it's so big you w on't find it listed in PD library cata ics and sound testify - and fully deserves your attention. logues and you're unlikely to w ant to spend all day dow n Available from : 5th Dim ension Licenseware, loading it from the net or a BBS. Here's the good news: 1 Low er M ill Close, Goldthorpe, it's on this m onth's cover CD! If you have the CD edition Rotherham , South Yorkshire S63 9BY. JM o f this m agazine you'll find it ready-to-run in the public Tel/Fax: 01709 88812 7. Price: £3.95 ■ ■ T dom ain section. including P + P. I- Once you've w atched it through a few tim es you can try using the anim player (YP) from the shell to play the anim s. Read the docum ents on the CD for details. Available from : O u r Blobble cover CD. N ot available o n f l o p p y d i s k . -•» game Sim ple gam eplay is the key here. A ll you have to do is guide a spherical chap around tiled areas, collecting tokens, points and letter bonuses. Tiles w ith cracks in them make life com plicated, as do tiles w hich allow m ovem ent in only one direction. The graphics and sound are o f a fair standard and the controls are sensitive enough to keep you busy. — ...... - ...... Available from: Freestyle PD, 108 W oodside Way, Short Heath, W illenhall, W est M idlands W V12 5NH. “ “ Tel: 01922 7 1 0 9 8 5 . JM P r ic e : £ 1 MU 0 plus 50p r i IX Contentious Bomb Mania g a m e g a m e This is one of those split screen tw o-player games This is an interesting tw ist on where you have to find and kill the other player. The Dynablaster, in w hich you playing areas are fairly large, but because the maze is have to kill all the nasties so big, finding your opponent becomes as much a game on the level and collect , Q □ ''I of luck as tactics. You need some breadcrumbs to hand the goodies by laying - „ % -| ^ ' V ' b h l * m m so you can leave a trail. Failing that it's pure luck. bombs over the playing • - __‘______1 Contentious is tw o player only, which lim its its area whilst avoiding - r appeal, but w ith a cool theme tune (that for the life off blowing yourself up! One • j 1..J me I can’t name) and a built-in level construction kit, or tw o players can partic there's loads of longevity for those w ith fellow death- ipate in the various worlds, w ith custom w orlds also wishers they'd care to share the fun with. prom ised shortly. Available from : 5th Dimension Licenseware, 1 Lower M ill Bomb Mania is w ell w orth a look if you're into simple ______Close, Goldthorpe, concept games that offer innovative tw ists on tried and I Rotherham, tested concepts. ' ri I South Yorkshire Available from : Freestyle PD, 108 m 9BY. Woodside Way, Short Heath. Willenhall, ■ ■ W I— I A T e l/F a x : West Midlands WV12 5NH Tel: 01922 fC U% 710985. Price: £1 plus 50p P + P. M U m W Hn rifc te i’. ’ "nil — lA /Price: £2.95 V /including P+ P. Galerie ” A G A d e m o The atm ospheric music contributes a lot to Stellar’s entry to The Party 75 '95, w ith light-sourced terrain spins, including light flares taking the first ' honours. Concentric rings spin in m ultiple planes and Voyage In A Storm then we're taken into warping tunnels and spinning vectors. It's fairly short, but well constructed overall, A G A d e m o ——— i although very noticeable glitches can W ith four disks you'd expect som ething fairly be seen occasionally. Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMbrilliant and that's just about what you get in this Available from : Freestyle PD, 108 production from Impulse. It kicks off w ith a zoom W oodside Way. Short Heath. W illenhall. ing, rotating texture-m apped polygon which is West Midlands sm ooth even on a fairly basic 030 system. The music WV12 5NH. Tel: grabs your attention and syncs in perfectly w ith a 01922 710985. Price: superbly smooth run down an alleyway w ith curved £ 1 p lu s 5 0 p P + P. I I I walls - not so easy to achieve. Complex realtim e Requires hard drive ■ ■ I Gouraud effects follow, w ith some sim ply gorgeous ______and 2Mb Fast RAM. still graphics and another amazing module featuring a m elodic vocal track. A landscape flyover finishes the whole deal, so you can sit back and watch the usual scroller, catching your breath. Crazy Sexy Cool j “ The Party 1995, held at Christm as, seems to have produced a fair selection of demos, and this is certainly A G A d e m o one of the better ones. If you've got the hardware, Einstein's tongue kicks o ff this Essence check it out. production and the superb quality of the Available from Freestyle PD. graphics shown here is maintained through- 108 W oodside Way. Short Heath, out. A laid back acid jazz/trip hop concoction W illenhall, West M idlands WV12 5NH. keeps the action shuffling along at a steady pace, as effects Tel: 01922 710985. such as texture-m apped polygons, Gouraud-shaded torts Price: £4 plus 50p P + P. w ith phong tw ists and light-sourced animated polygons Requires hard drive and sweep across the screen. It doesn't smack you between the 2Mb Fast RAM. eyes but takes you on a relaxing journey through some of the better code currently doing the rounds. Available from : Freestyle PD, 108 Woodside Way. Short Heath. W illenhall. W est M idlands W V12 5NH. Tel: 01922 710985 Price: £1 plus s o p p + p . ------7~~ X. 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Order now i , i- 0a *e ic M x » 1& l asw^astxxv as stocks are bound to go archived versions are also deds k» "c tra tW docunents quickly ■ miludml ICD182) £29.99 NOTHING BUT TETRISicmw )o m ENCOUNTERS C64 GAMES CD SoundFX*!1 Samples, and005’ load* more, (now with Amiga front end) A bargainI PLEASE SUPPLY ITEMS LUCKY DIP Volume 2 icoi«3) a x PRIORITY ORDER FORM NAME______ s t -m c j iV iA FO C S -rji^Jta p \ u i s -j ' f i > \ l j a ) PAYMENT METHOD ■ >cuKen>VstralacrN»v-Zeeltnd>Qucannr*rvpiff£iVBeanyol TOTAL GOODS VALUE 0 » rffxwvr C O R O M nrkyr k o m cx» E*ar>, n m u a a w T O w i SrwM POSTS PACKING AMOUNT ENCLOSED PO UIIII(II s PD Utilities Tony Horgan rummages through his Public Domain mail bag and pulls out a selection of weird and wonderful utilities for you to take your pick from. d o m a i n ] Footy, cookery, music, it's all here. World of Football loons DMC AGA icon pack LkXGTiDL Football crazy, football mad? If to , you'll disk mag creator probably jum p at the chance to plaatar your Nothing to do w ith the Diaco W orkbench w ith thi* aet of footy-them nd Icon*. M ixing Club, th i* DMC atand* Every team from the Engliah League ia included, from for Disk M agazine Creator and the Third D iviaion up to the Prem ierahip. Tfiere are picture* it detigned to help you build of the team *' ahirta, com plete w ith the aponaorahip logo* your ow n floppy publicationa. I You alao get foreign d u b team * and the w orld'* national w at expecting DMC to conaiat of a m ain editor/conatruo team *. There'a nri extra aection called Football By Another tion program from w hich you w ould collate and com bine t Name, which ha* aimilar icon* for rughy Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMthe varioua pagea but it'a not really that kind of a ayatem. fT fH 7 and American football team*. The aerie*, A ll o f your pagea m uat be w ritten in a text editor and Ir ' * include* icon* baaed on Star coded by hand to indicate font coloura and to . Sim ilarly, .t'1 1 ,,1 1 Trak. •tl-fl, .porta, ,jlarn«.ur the article liat* fo r the index pagea m uat be coded from *>» IFF graphica filea. For exam ple, the colour palette it ir - J i- . W2I* ffiUPr '/ 2 W erre ruler defined by a liat of aix three figure hex valuaa that m uat be 1 Creacent, Dunbar, Ea«t entered into one of the configuration text filea, eg. 5A2, OFB. 19E. CCA. B15, 234. Sim ple eh? Yeah, right! E H M 2 H U You can alao uae your ow n graphica fo r the control S E H S I P S l _ n panel. W hen you've arranged all of your filea on the diak « i O 1 rCTT f- Incl.iillnii a c P and named them correctly, DMC w ill load them autom ati cally when it it launched. Filea com preaaed w ith CrunchM ania are autom atically decompreaaed. There'a no place for confuting form atting codea in an authoring package. They are fine a t an optional extra but thia ahould he handled hy an editor program w ith a graphi Steve Headroom cal front end, com plete w ith button* and m enu* for defin talking head ing linka, text atylea and *o on. Acroaa betw een Scala and Here'* a atrange one. Steve Headroom ian't really a utility a DTP package it w hat'a required. However, DMC w ill find but it'* quite intereating all the aarne Steve i* a character rta takera, and aome w ill no doubt put it to uae and pro w ho hear* a atrong raaernblance to Max Headroom , right duce fully-fledged publication*, but don't expect too down to the weird acrolling backdrop* He'* been pro ... . much. gram m ed w ith a vocabulary of digitized w ord*, from w hich he cori«tructa random aentence* DMC GOLD RELEASE INTRODUCTION ftY frfffrrrrrr. that atill make aoma kind of aenee...... 31 Wellington W hat'a the point? There ian't one, apart Road. Exeter. from to keep you entertained at tim e* of ’ I J ,! 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So it's an ASFAQ. helping of SUBSCRIPTIONS 106 • superb tutorials There are pounds to be saved worldwide now. we've introduced special offers across the board. And there’s six month subscription offers as well! including POINTS OF VIEW 120 Imagine and T he CU Am iga M agazine team m ount their collective soapbox. Four opinions fo r the price of one, not bad eh? last month's VideoStage Pro F A Q 1 1 3 cover disk. And Man cannot survive alone but computers can. However, it can be fun if you link two or more Amigas together Your common queries answered, check out our superb new Qf±A MASTERCLASS 114 worldwide cut Arexx is still here Following on from last month's look at its internal workings, this month John Kennedy explores exactly what it does. price subscrip Q + A 1 1 6 tion offers and Just to prove Q&A is a two way street we've got some reader solutions to other the all new six S) readers' problems. 03 month option. BACKCHAT 118 Unbeatable Happy people, sad people, angry people it takes all sorts to make up a universe and it looks like they've all w ritten into our letters page value for all! Imagine .0 Brush maps are a quick and very easy way of including intricate detail in an object. Learn how to incorporate them into yours. ru s h m a p s a re th e s e c re t to your own library of special creating realistic-looking objects. maps for every occasion. W ith brush maps you can swiftly L e t's b e g in ... a d d tin y d e ta ils w ith o u t c a u s in g a huge delay to your rendering times. ForH exam e re 's h o w ple. imagine the tim e it would take to createUsing a paint program the objects necessary to model a computer(here. Personal Paint) draw board full of connecting circuit lines. However,a simple pattern Then cut Ow ith one brush map you can create the entire it o u t a s a b ru s h a n d save object in moments. it. T h in k o f th is im a g e a s a Brush maps can be used to apply wall sheet of wrapping paper: paper to a room or chunky stone tiles to a we are now going to cre swimming pool floor. Once you start creating ate an object and wrap it Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMbrush maps you'll be addicted as they allow so up, Thankfully Imagine can wrap objects a lot Imagine will normally do most of the work in m uch detail to be created in such little time. better than I can wrap presents See figure 1. wrapping but you need to give it a hint about Creating the right brush map takes a lot of Open a new project and go to the Detail the general shape of the object. You can of time, but the end effects will be worth it. W ith Editor. Create a Primitive Sphere. Select the course ignore these settings for special ' lots of experimentation you w ill soon build up S p h e re (c lic k in th e c e n tre o r p re s s F 1) and effects but stick with them for the moment. increase the scale. W hilst it is still selected, The three main shapes are a Cuboid, a pick ATTRIBUTES from the pull-down menu. Cylinder and a Sphere. You can see from the C lic k o n A D D BRUSH. S e e fig u r e 2. diagram which mappings need to be altered Load in the brush that you created with the depending on the shape. paint program. Copy the settings (apart from For example, if you wanted to create a the name) and in particular check that the planet you would draw the surface (or scan it W ra p X a n d W ra p 2 bo xe s a re m arked. See in from a book) and wrap it around a sphere fig u re 3. with Wrap X and Wrap Z switched on See Perform a Quickrender of the object. Notice fig u r e 5. how the pattern is wrapped tightly around the sp h e re , n o t q u ite lik e w ra p p in g p a p e r (w h ic h A bit tricky would be bunched up at the top and bottom) Let's move on to something slightly trickier. but spaced out propedy. This is what the Wrap Let's say. for example, you wish to place a X a n d W ra p Z o p tio n s a c h ie ve d S ee fig u r e 4. mapping onto an object in a particular place: It is essential to appreciate the three main not entirely covering it. A good example ways of mapping a brushmap onto a shape. would be placing an insignia on an aircraft R at X W iapZ Wrc*>X RatZ RatZ WK*>Z A R(m t The top right quarter of the grid represents 2. Reflectivity Map the map image. Use Scale and Move to alter The colours in the brush cause the object to ppiiw iiki«ii the size and shape until it looks something selectively reflect its surroundings. In order to like the image shown here. You can always s e e a n y th in g h a p p e n y o u w ill n eed to in c lu d e a click cancel if you get lost, and then start Global Reflection image - do this from the again. Alternatively you can click on the Global settings in the Action editor. The white ‘Transform Axis' button and enter the new parts of the map cause the reflection to be size and position by hand. Don't forget that strongest, the black parts don't reflect any you can rotate brush maps too if you wish. thing at all. See figure 11. See figure 8. Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMWhen you render it. you'll see that the 3. Filter Map decal has been changed to cover only a small The colours in the brush make the object part of the object See figure 9. transparent. This can be applied to make Mapping techniques So far the maps w e have been dealing with have concentrated on controlling an object's colour. However, as you w ill have seen from A H fn I: fM CM alsi r*UU both u ft k <*• eaat the brush map attribute menu there are sever al other ways in which maps can be applied. wing. This tim e the Wrapping form at isn't q u ite a s im p o rta n t a s th e p o s itio n a n d s h a p e 1. Colour Mop of the image. As we have seen, the colour map simply Creating this effect is possible because paints the object w ith the colour in the map. Imagine treats the brushmaps in much the In this case. I have created a very fetching same way as objects: you can move, stretch repeating square m otif using different shades and manipulate the map in many ways of gray (and some graduated tones too). OK. Paint a small image and imagine this to be it's dull but you w ill see what a difference it the decal' which w e w ill place on our model makes when we apply the other mapping Make it small but detailed so you can tell techniques. See figure 10. which way it should be. See figure 6. Now return to Imagine's Detail editor and cre a te a c o n e o r a n y o th e r p rim itiv e shape. T h is is o u r m o d e l t o w h ic h w ill a p p ly th e de ca l. G e t a s a u c e r o f w a rm w a te r re a d y to make the decal slide off the paper backdrop a n d try n o t t o c o v e r th e fu s e la g e w ith p o ly styrene cement as this makes it go all cloudy (oops... only joking, remember those days all you air fix fanatics out there?). Open the attrib utes requester and add a Brush as before. This tim e we'll be keeping it flat, so don't touch the Wrap buttons. Instead click on the 'Edit Axis' button. You’ll see the window disap pear and instead there will be a grid overlaid on the cone See figure 7. i Rpra It tana * • e d m ■ k ▲ R p n 12: t o B u . a * i i Um I hr a M 9 3 Brush Map Hints •Spend a great deal of tim e working on the brush m aps as they w ill make ail the difference to the final m odel • Use 24-bit images as brush m aps if you can, as they w ill give best results • Use the sm allest im ages you can as each brush m ap needs to be held in m em ory. If your finished render is 3 2 0 by 256 pixels, it m akes no sense to create a 1024 by 1024 24 bit brush map. You'll run out of RAM! • Rem em ber that Im agine3 allows you to apply m any maps to the same object. This m eans you can apply a texture, som e decals and a b u m p m a p all to the same object. • If you can't draw, rem em ber that you can always scan or digitise brush m aps instead. You can also buy disks fu ll of suitable textures in IFF or JPEG f o r m a t . (J P E G s w ill need to be con verted to IFFs before use) • W hen applying bum p maps, try A Film 1 ij ,al rom latt iaa* n. rifbl ba m Mt .... Tba ailitade are, ia where raa caa add laalm. sacb as ia t» ! to aa abject. using the blur feature in m any im age processing packages to smear the details out. This can give better results. • I m a g i n e 3 can deal w ith m ultiple brushm aps. For each fram e in an anim ation you can m ap a different Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMim age onto on object. If you can digitise som e fram es from video this is a great w ay to create a rendering television set. A H|W I It: the reAeclmrr r ip rU s varying reflactieat ta aa abjact 5. Reflection A H| m lit: la create baat|t tbat beats ia asa tba lasarsc (idea. This is very similar to a Reflectivity Map, stained-glass windows for example or to to add texture to an object, although it takes except the brush is treated as though it were control complicated graded transparency experimentation to get it right - particularly in in the space surrounding the object, where it effects. Black areas in the image are opaque, setting the height on the bumps (use w ill be reflected in it if the object is itself whilst white areas are transparent. Notice T ra n sfo rm t o s e t th e Y v a lu e to a b o u t n in e to reflective. Go on, try it for yourself but remem how you can see the other side of the object start with). In this case the square pattern and ber to change the attributes of the object so - you are looking right through it in places. some dots have been used. Placing the light th a t it is re fle c tiv e o r yo u w o n 't s e e a n yth in g ! See figure 12. source in the right place makes a big differ This technique is potentially useful if you need e n c e . a s th e b u m p s w ill s h o w u p w ith shad to add different reflections to different objects 4. (Altitude) Bump Map ing. Use the Inverse Video to provide bumps in a scene: for example, if you are making a The colour of the brush is used to alter the with bump in and bumps which bump out. v e ry fla sh c o m p a n y lo g o e ffe c t. S ee fig u r e 14. height of the object. This is an excellent way See figures 13a and 13b. John Kennedy An exhibition sponsored by Amiga Technologies THE AM IGA IS BACK! 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Making your own video presentations has never been so easy. w ith th e C o lo u r A d ju s tm e n t Using genlocks window, from which you can You can u se a ny A m ig a ge n lo ck h ig h lig h t th e h o t c o lo u rs b y click w ith VideoStage Pro, but there's ing on the Flash button. You can also specific built-in support for the cha n g e a n y o f th e h o t colours GVP G -Lock a n d th e SuperG en using the RGB sliders to reduce from Digital Creations. The pro their intensity. Click on an area of g ra m is n o rm a lly s e t u p fo r u se th e p ic tu re to s e le c t th e required w ith a g e n e ric (norm al) genlock. c o lo u r to b e a lte re d , o r s e le c t it This can be changed to either of fro m th e palette. the aforementioned genlocks from the Settings control panel. ARexx scripts To u se th e sp e cia l g e n lo c k fea If you find that VideoStage tures, drag a Genlock Event icon doesn't do everything you’d like it onto the storyboard and click on it HORNING I I This lunge contain* to bring up its options. The first HOT Video Color* too, you can use ARexx scripts Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMt o re m o te ly c o n tro l o th e r p ro o p tio n w in d o w w ill appear. Free Chip Nenory: 1706584 1631288) grams or video devices from There are two times associated Free Fast Memory: 5798136 5632312) within VideoStage. with a given genlock event, the PRL 328 x 236 x 3 To call an ARexx script all you s ta rt a n d e n d tim e . T h e e n d tim e is OK I HELP I need to do is drag the ARexx th e sta rt tim e plu s a dura tio n . This Event icon onto the relevant part is d u e t o th e fa c t th a t s o m e set * '■a' ckw n SI — M — ■ f yntu ckto t q u l i Ed* toccctb to Winlttp Pm. of the storyboard and then select tings can be altered over a time the ARexx script that you want to interval, g iv in g a s o rt o f tran sitio n ast month we covet Hot colours execute. This means that you between the computer graphics m o u n te d th e exce lle n t S o m e co lo u rs w h e n d isplayed on could, for example, replay a n d th e live v id e o c o m in g in to the visual presentation sys v id e o p roduce a b lu rre d lo o k th a t OctaMED MIDI sequences by genlock. The start and duration te m fo r v id e o w ork, w ill d e tra c t fro m th e appearance o f using an ARexx script to tell the can b e entered in th is w in d o w V id e o S ta g e Pro. W e a lso coveredyour work. These are bright rich OctaMED Player to start playing and/or altered on the timeline. m o s t o f its m ain a ttrib u te sco in loo u rsr su ch a s p u re red. They're the current song. In this case you Bitplane keying (making certain walk through guide to creatingcalled pre h o t' c o lo u rs b e ca u se they would of course need to have areas tra n sp a re n t) is ca rrie d o u t at se n ta tio n s w ith it. T h is tu tose ria e l mw illto b u m in to th e video screen both ARexx (Rexx Mast) and the the start tim e only. You can also Olo o k a t s o m e o f o th e r fe a tu re s th a t and leave a brief after image. OctaMED Player running as well s p e c ify s in g le c o lo u rs o r ranges of w e haven't y e t c o ve re d w ith this T echnically th e y a re co lo u rs w h ich as VideoStage Pro. Check the colours to be made transparent g re a t program . w o u ld re q u ire illegal v o lta g e levels documentation on your ARexx a n d /o r o p a q u e to th e genlock. in order to be represented in NTSC compatible software for specific W h e n m o re th a n o n e c o lo u r is o r c o m p o s ite PAL video details on how to control them involved, the range w ill be made On-line help V ideoS tage Pro ch e cks fo r using ARexx scripts. transparent and/or opaque over On-line help is available at occurrences o f hot colours. For any time when using example, when you load in a pic VideoStage Pro - press the tu re file , a fte r y o u clic k o n th e A dd Help key to call it up. The T ext/O bjects b u tto n , you w ill b e in relevant page of the help th e Text E n try panel. If th e re are document w ill be displayed, h o t co lo u rs in th e im a g e th e H ot depending on which part of Colour indicator in the Text Entry the program you are using panel should display Red, indicat et the time. To view the in g th e pre se n ce o f h o t colours. entire help document, click To see w h ic h c o lo u rs a re h o t. on the Help button at the dick on the Backdrop button or top end then navigate your press F8. Now click on the Palette w ay around it using the b u tto n (near th e rig h t e d g e o f the A > IM to-• (Mkcl CM Mb ra al *• XnxX H«n C-M kr c AmigaQuide controls. panel). You’ll now be presented On the left On the n&ht Coding text files You'll probably remember from last month that you can import taxt files straight Into VideoStage pages. What's mors, you can even include all of tha taxt formatting information within tha taxt file, so as soon as It's Imported it arranges itself neatly on tha screen. Coffee Adding tha formatting codas from within tha your taxt editor can ba a lot quicker whan you're working with large lists of credits. Homebrew PS! The codas you antar in tha taxt document relate to ell a w w ? p a « the taxt on tha lines below. For example, if you wanted to Rartromvite*? change the text to italica, you would enter "AfTALIC 1" on the line above the part you want to italicise. In this case the sign indicates that a code will follow. ‘ITAUC' Is the code, and '1' means 'on' (‘O' would mean 'o ff'). Not all This is centered codas need to be followed by a number. These ara tha available codas for justification (note the A lu l c m b« mtt ntf[ -rft tonMtiMf c r tn wfcicfc inn yw anaafia| tfcMfs l m MnSlifi. American spelling: center). •JUSTXFYLKFT ICygnusEd Professional V3.S CopvrI •JUSTXFYRXQHT i fm n iH ra w e rrT ira sn •jusTxrYcxirrxR •JU8TXFTCC Tha following codes set the X and/or Y location of the text. Note that tha Y value is for the top of the text, not the bot tom nor the baseline. Replace 'value' with the position given in pixels: •SETX value tSCTY value Before you make changes to the fonts, you can select which of tha two fonts you are addressing using the fol lowing code, where a valua of 0 (zero) refers to the left font and 1 refers to the right font. •r value Now you can dafine the style of tha font. All of the follow ing use a valua of 0 to represent off, and 1 to rapresant on. Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM•ITALIC value •SOLO value •ONXKRLXNE value •OUTLINE value hSSS'iSWn. The shadow option can have one of three value settings: 0 (off); 1 (cast shadow); 2 (drop shadow). \m z \iTCENTER •SHADOW valua fhis is centered Font size and nama can ba set with the following code. Size should be specified in 'point' units while the name should correspond to the font name In the fonts drawer A lU i i t tfct arifiaal tu t fiit tkat i Mt* Ik* Im i Malaf wiO ■ tifa I MChaf u t e . Sm tfct p a ri la m i fc u ls m Pa cate. (eg. #FONT 8 Topaz.font). •FONT alee naan the tim e range. This allows you second window gives options for to have a picture gradually specifying the cross fade options Tha three colours of the text can also ba specified. The val changing from opaque to trans of the genlock. This is done by ues correspond to the colours of the palette, so If the third p a re n t. o r v ic e v e rsa . entering the transparency of the colour in the palette w as red, a valua of 3 would lead to If you're using a G-Lock or computer graphics as a percent re d te x t. SuperGen. you'll also see a sec age, both at the start and end The following codes relate to the main colour, outline ond window, which will be differ time, w ith 0% indicating all colour and shadow colour respectively (remember to use ent depending on which genlock computer graphics, 100% the American spelling: color). you have selected. indicating all video, and 50% an •COLOR value T h e G -L o ck w in d o w a llo w s e q u a l m i* o f th e tw o . E n te r a •OCOLOR value you to specify the video and v a lu e o f -1 f o r n o c h a n g e . •SCOLOR value Remember that you can change audio source at both the start These codes can ba usad In any order and embedded and end time. Remember that which part of the Amiga graphics throughout the text, so multiple font changes are possible. your G-Lock software must also a c ts a s t h e b a c k g ro u n d c o lo u r be running for this to work. from the previous window. ■ For SuperGen users, the Tony Horgan That's all folks! That concludes our look at VideoStage Pro. If you still need m ore inform ation, rem em ber that the on-line help is available at all tim es Nent m onth we continue our focus on desktop video w ith a look at Scala, the top presentation • krtaaeiFUdeWS package currently bundled w ith all new Amigas. Graphics Masterclass What do you get when you cross Michelle Pfeiffer's eyes with Jeff Goldblum's face? Find out in this month's bit of graphical wizardy. Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM his month's graphics masterclass moves off in a n e w d ire c tio n , o n a m is s io n t o tu rn y o u r O A m ig a in to a s ta te o f th e a rt graphics workstation. W ith a com bination of hot software like Photogenics and Image FX linked to th e A m ig a 's A G A c h ip s e t o r even a 24-bit graphics board, you can do just about anything and th a t's ju s t w h a t w e a im to prove. UFO sightings on it. I'm sure you large screen and saved out Fact or fantasy? In this case it's could come up with to disk. fantasy. W hether you believe in a photo-realistic Next it was loaded into the possibility or not there's image using the Im a g e FX t o b e a d d e d to the plenty of mileage to be had same techniques. Stonehenge backdrop. Using the w h e n it c o m e s t o m o c k in g There are two main automatic background detection up pictures of UFOs and components in the mode, it was cut out, scaled and o th e r p he n o m e n a . image: the spaceship pasted down onto the backdrop. I’m n o t s u g g e s tin g th a t y ou and the background If you prefer to use Photogenics. u s e y o u r A m ig a to m a ke up p ic tu re . T h e sp a c e th e C o m p o s e fu n c tio n d o e s th e some pictures and sell them to ship was rendered jo b ju s t a s w e ll. a popular publication for pots of w ith Imagine, using F inally it w a s to u c h e d u p fro m A K tri'f M r Stonehenge UFO gettieg reeft to « .> . in M e t II I ell cash, b u t... an object that comes within Photogenics with some The picture w e have here w ith a little spot-light motion blur, blending and a few may not be the most convinc already attached. You'll find this surface. In order to make the d o ts w e re a d d e d fo r th e lig h ts . in g fly in g s a u c e r s h o t y o u 'v e in the Imagine drawer if you have saucer blend into the background All that remains is to send it off ever seen but then again most the CD-ROM edition of this mag as naturally as possible, the light to Gullible Alien Theories of them are usually blurred and azine. This was rendered with no source was carefully aligned to Monthly a lo n g w ith a s to ry a b o u t distorted more than this. fancy textures, but you could add match the lighting of the h o w y o u w e re a b d u c te d ju s t Even so, if you were to take it something like the DeathStar tex background picture. It was then after you took this photo a pagan seriously and spend some time ture for a neat panelled metal rendered in 24-bit colour on a summer solstice ritual. S e x y e y e s W h o d o y o u th in k th is is? The eyes are those of Michelle Pfeiffer a n d re st is th e fa ce o f J e ff G o ld b lu m . T h is is a s im p le e xa m ple of a subtle rub through effect. It was created with Photogenics, although the same result could be a chieved w ith Im a g e FX. T h e tw o so u rc e im ages a re fro m th e Nothing But GIFs CD-ROM and were chosen because both faces fitte d th e fra m e o f th e p ic tu re in a s im ila r way. However, a rub through alone still highlighted the different posi tio n s o f th e features (th e eyes appearing a b o ve th e others). To c o rre c t th is, o n e o f th e pictures w a s c ro p p e d a n d scaled t o m atch th e other. T h is is s im p le to d o w ith P hotogenics, a s y o u can see b o th pictu re s a t on ce , each in its o w n w in d o w Im age FX requires y o u to s w itc h b u ffe rs to co m p a re th e m (use the J key to speed things up). A ll th a t re m a in s n o w is to select a subtle brush type, such as th e d e fa u lt A irb ru sh fro m P h o to g e n ics, d ra w o v e r th e fea tu re s a n d m arvel a s th e se cond fa ce a ppears lik e a s p o o ky g h o st! Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMSpiritual harmony There's no reason hanging, or even used as a software closed down, it to become locked scrolling backdrop in an Amiga performed the fill eventually. into the habit of pro demo or video presentation. As you work, memory gets ducing rectangular Photogenics was the tool fragmented, so sometimes 640 x 512 pixel pic used to create it. The first it 's a g o o d id e a to s a ve yo u r tures, just because Buddha image came from the image, turn the machine off for that's the shape of Nothing But GIFs CD and origi a few seconds, then power your monitor. This nally had a blue sky backdrop u p again. picture, for example, This was painted solid 100% The finishing touch was the could be reproduced b lu e w ith a n u m b e r o f Fill planet in the sky This was a s a p o s te r o r w a ll processes and then saved out added using the Compose func Next a blank page tion. w ith the Brightness Key was created (solid switched on. A few pixels of 100% blue), the the planet image seemed to be s a m e w id th a s th e corrupt, but a quick smoothing Buddha picture but a over w ith the Blur function was lot taller. The Buddha enough to sort them out. was pasted onto the bottom, and then the entire backdrop was filled using the These pictures Gradient Tint option. are on the CD A t th is p o in t y o u m a y If you have the encounter some B CD-ROM edi- problems. Filling the tion of this m a jo rity o f a 6 4 0 x m a g a z in e , 1200 pixel 24-bit you'll find image requires quite a l l t h e s e a lot of RAM and pictures along even on a 10Mb w ith the source machine a few tricks images and 'w ork in had to be employed progress' snapshots in a to g e t it t o w o rk . drawer called M agazine/ W ith undo buffers G raphicsM asterclass. turned off and other f you been using elec utilities. Instead, they tronic mail or lurking o n ly n eed d ra g a file o r around in the Usenet tw o in to a sp e cia l w in ne w s g ro u p s , y o u w ill d o w a n d it is con ve rt p ro b a b ly have c o m e a cro ssed files automatically. Each which have been uuencoded.file is converted into a Uuencoding is a method ofM con im e 'p a rtia l' and verting a standard binary file,included for in the mail Oe xa m p le a p ro g ra m o r IFF im age, message. Even more in to a m ass o f te x t. T h e te x t can im p re s s iv e is w h a t th e n b e se n t v ia E m ail o r in clu d e d ha p p e n s w h e n th e in a n e w s p o stin g . m e ssa g e reaches its Uuencoding is required because de stin a tio n . If s e t up text systems only use 7 bits out of properly, an image will 8 to sto re th e va rio u s le tte rs and a u to m a tic a lly b e d is punctuation symbols. If you sent a played a n d a M E D p ro g ra m a n d m isse d o u t o n e b it in tu n e a u to m a tica lly Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMeight, whatever arrived at the other played, making it the e n d w o u ld b e to ta lly u seless. u ltim a te w a y to exch a n g e d ata b y customer you'll be using the a d d re s s a n d th e h o s t n a m e ie the Multipurpose Internet Mail electronic mail. SendMail program for handling the p a rt y o u c h o se . For exa m p le , m y E xte n sio n s (M im e ) is a n a tte m p t a t m a il transfer. Email address is 'johnk@ infos- making this uuencoding process as A must have B e fo re y o u can s ta rt u sing ys2.thegap.com' and so I set up simple as possible. It too encodes To u s e M im e o n th e A m ig a , you'll MetaTool, you w ill need to make the variables as in figure 1 . b in a ry file s in to te x t fo rm a t b u t th is need a program called MetaTool. su re th a t y o u have s e t u p s o m e If y o u r a d d re ss w a s ‘brian@ toas- tim e uses a s lig h tly d iffe re n t s ta n M etaTool w a s w ritte n b y Ellis environmental variables. These track.demon.co.uk' then you dard called Base64. However, the Pritchard a n d is available fro m th e sound horrendous but it only w o u ld s e t th e v a ria b le s lik e figure im p o rta n t th in g is th e w a y in w h ic h A m in e t, I’m a ssu m in g th a t you m e a n s th a t y o u need the M im e mailing program works. alre a d y have an E m ail s yste m oper to in clu d e th e s e ttin g s a tin g o n th e A m iga a n d th e re fo re fo r y o u r u s e r nam e, The ultimate have exp e rie n ce w ith e ith e r a domain name and host USER John* Unlike the traditional uuencode M a ilkick o r A m iP O P p ro g ra m fo r nam e. T h e u s e r n am e DOHAINNAME th e gap.com way, the user does not need to sending and receiving mail. For w ill b e th e n a m e o f play around w ith messy CLI only example, if you are a Demon your internet postbox HOST ln fo e y e -2 a n d th is w ill b e th e firs t ii Mfee fi«Ms. Her» I'm Itttnf world of Ihe files celled'mefcep’ and ‘mime.types'. Both are in the M etaT ool d ra w e r a n d y o u should e d it b o th w ith a sta n d a rd te x t e<*- tor. Before you start message about with them, it might be a good idea to make a copy. T h e firs t file , m im e .ty p e s . is to h e lp M etaT ool w o rk o u t w h a t s o rt o f file you have ju s t d ro p p e d on to p o f it. B y d e fa u lt it w ill re co g nise many graphics formats, as well the Amiga specific Amiga- G u id e fo rm a t H ere is h o w the AmigaGuide format is included: text/x-aguid guide QUIDS It's nothing too amazing: the file is obviously text based, so the defini tio n b e g in s w ith 'te x t/. It's n o t a standard extension so there is an V added to make this clear. Then w e have th e p o s s ib le file e xte n sio n names in upper and lower case. The m ailcap file te lls M etaTool w h a t t o d o w h e n a M im e file is received Figure 3 s h o w s h o w it re a d y t o se n d a to send the message over m e n tio n s A m ig a G u id e files: F ig u r e 2 Mime message. the Internet. The matching line in the mailcap ■ etenv USER b ria n Press R ig h t A m ig a -N to You can also create parts of file te lls M etaTool th a t w h e n a x- c re a te a n e w m essage. the message manually, without a g u id e file is s h o w n , th e A m ig a ■etenv DOM*INNAME dem on.oo.uk You s e e th e co m p o se dragging and dropping. Click on must use Multiview. That’s what ■etenv BOST toaetrack w in d o w a p p e a r and the NEW button and you can the section 'MultiView % s' means, there w ill already be select the type of the object you a s th e '% s ' w ill b e replaced w ith ^ — w a n t to th e filenam e. F ig u r e 3 se n d . You The last p a rt o f th e lin e te lls text/x-aguldej Hultiview Her label-'An JlmigaOuide (lie-; edit--«maca ke- w ill then MetaTool what to do when the file b e g iv e n a is e d ite d In th is case, th e em acs file re p ro g ra m is sp a w n e d . You m a y n o t Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMth e m in y o u r s :u s e r-sta rtu p file. one element in the list on the left. q u e s te r s o y o u can s e le c t th e file . have e m a cs o n y o u r A m ig a and You m a y fin d th a t th e y have been This is the header' and you should W h e n y o u receive a M im e m es y o u m a y w a n t to e d it th is lin e to created for you when you installed select it and press the EDIT but sage, you can view it in MetaTool re fle c t y o u r o w n c h o ice , s u ch as AmiTCP: you can check by typing to n . N o w y o u can e n te r th e Em ail s im p ly b y c lic k in g o n th e con C ygnusE d o r G oldEd. s e te n v b y its e lf a n d see w a tc h to a d d re ss o f th e re c ip ie n t a n d any s titu e n t p a rts in th e m e ssa g e list. You can e xte n d th is s yste m see if USER, DOMAINNAME and s u b je c t th e m e ssa g e m a y have. B u t h o w d o e s th e A m ig a kn o w y o u rs e lf to b o th co n tro l w h a t appli H O ST w h izz past. w h a t to d o w ith each ty p e o f file? cation is triggered to take card of You'll also nee d t o u s e every D ra g ' r i d ro p T h is is th e tric k y s e c tio n b u t it's a n in co m in g partial a n d to a d d s up one's favourite Graphical User The e a sie st w a y to cre a te a m es th e o n ly w a y t o really harness th e p o rt fo r m a n y o th e r file typ e s. A s Interface. Magic User Interface. If sage is to drag and drop icons into p o w e r o f th e M im e s yste m lo n g a s b o th y o u r s yste m a n d th e you are a heavy Internet user you th e w in d o w . C reate a te x t file and s yste m o f w h o e ve r y o u a re send w ill probably already have MUI save it. Then find the icon and M im e T y p e s ing the message to have suitable installed to let you run AMosic drag it in to th e w in d o w . You can To a lte r w h a t h a p p e n s to e xisting entries in mime, types and mailcap or IBrowse. drag a n d d ro p IFF im a g e s, LHA file s o r to a d d su p p o rt fo r y o u r you should be able to send any Starting MetaTool should be file s o r ju s t a b o u t a n yth in g you can own specific application programs, th in g b y E m a il. ■ painless if you remembered the imagine. MeTatool will package y o u w ill n eed to e n te r th e m u rky John Kennedy rig h t s e te n v c o m m a n d s . You’ll th e m a ll u p a n d w h e n y o u c lic k on see your 'mqjl box' included in SEN D o r DISPATCH it w ill u s e the the list. Open it up and you are mailer program you have running Surf's up! Big, big, big news this month: the Amiga Technologies I Amiga Pack is currently only on Surf Pack is on sale. In Berlin. Don't worry it'll be with sale in Berlin as a marketing exercise us soon. However, it's already whipping up a storm of before it is released to controversy on the net ... the rest of the world. Soon to be released to the rest of us via the Aminet goes down Non MUI WWW wins favour normal Amiga distribu The c h ie f A m in e t s ite a t As the rant on the far left explains MUI has a lot of fans and a lot of tion channels, it's Washington University in St. Louis enemiep. The current crop of W W W browsers on the Amiga, both caused quite a debate. USA has crashed spectacularly on general release and in Beta, use MUI to formulate the complex The main cause for du e t o a h ard d riv e fa ilu re in the GUIs needed for such features as Forms etc. Lately, however, a new concern is because it m id d le o f February, a t th e tim e o f Dutch bowser by the name of AWeb has been in Beta testing. It's consists of a stock w ritin g o f th is a rticle. O rdinarily, a simple non-MUl interface and its stable nature (unlike much of the 2Mb A1200 bundled s im p le fa u lt th a t c o u ld b e repaired crash prone competition) has found favour among many users. An with software largely quickly, it's a different matter when official AWeb demo can be found on CU Amiga's CD complete with reliant on MUI. Anti you're talking about 64 Gigabytes documentation in FITML format. There's also quite a bit of other MUI types moan of hafd drives going down. The WW W pages present so check it out in the Comms drawer if you about the fact that s y s te m w a s s till d o w n a t tim e o f have the CD issue. AWeb's author. Yvon Rozijn, is continuing devel MindWalker (formerly g o in g to press. O n ly w h e n w e a t opm ent on AWeb and hopes to make a general FITML-2 release in the Voyager browser). CU A m ig a a re w ith o u t o u r regular March (the CD version is limited to local access). For further infor Am IRC and AmFTP are A m in e t fe e d d o w e appre cia te mation contact: http://huizen.dds.n l/-a w eb/ all reliant on MUI. e xa ctly h o w w o n d e rfu l a th in g th e Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMWhilst MUI advocates Aminet is. Blank lines are piling up Termite TCP at WOA London p a cka g e a t W O A b u t th is has criticise the decision o n th e re ce n t lis ts a n d A m iga Oregon Research, the company been delayed due to illness. to supply a machine P D /sharew are ju n kie s th e w o rld re sp o n sib le fo r th e T erm ite te rm i with only 2Mb specifi over a re w is h in g W u a rc h iv e a nal package, has announced plans Hl-Soft distribute IBrowse cation. Although I can sp e e d y re covery a t th e earliest to s h o w a n e w TCP/IP package a t The MUI based WWW Browser, see valid points on opportunity. Wuarchive. please th e W o rld o f A m ig a s h o w in IB ro w se , is p ro b a b ly th e m o s t fully both sides I fall Into c o m e back t o us! London on April 13th-14th. Oregon featured browser currently avail the latter group say th e p a cka g e w a s w ritte n fro m able on the net. The authors have (because IMHO MUI is New network provider______scratch to provide a TCP/IP pack a lw a ys a im e d to rele a se it c o m a good thing). IM M S tu d io s have a n n o u n c e d a age which requires no knowledge m e rc ia lly b u t o n ly re c e n tly have However, getting on move into Internet providing. An of networking or communications announced that Softwood will dis the Internet on a 2Mb internet 'Cybermall' is to be and features completely automat trib u te it in th e U S a n d H i-S oft in machine was going to launched soon selling a range of ic installation and connection to th e UK. A d e m o b e ta o f IB row se is be hard enough but Amiga hardware and software Internet services. The ensemble a vailable a t h t t p : / /w w w . with MUI ... Let's just in c lu d in g th e A 4 0 0 0 T th e re b y of provided clients and utilities is om nipresence. com/ ibrowse/B say that I'm eagerly allowing customers to view n o t y e t d e te rm in e d awaiting the software before they buy. After sales tech- n o r h as a retail suite so that I can wit nical support w ill also be on price been set. ness AS225, MUI and offer. The Amiga network con O re g o n s a y th e y Mind Walker actually sists of many Amigas from the originally planned A1200 to an A4000/060 t o re le a se th e memory. It seems to specially used for CD32 Scala me that AT can't presentations which are imple have it both ways. AM A M iC l mented and then pressed onto They can't argue that CDs for interactive touch screen kiosks. IMM say many more pro i t 'l l jects are due to come on-line in function with 2Mb of the next month. At the moment RAM whilst simulta n o d ia l in a c c e s s is available neously bund although users are able to hire web space for personal design or hungry software. The contract IMM to design WWW pages for them. You can contact 4Mb base specifica them on http://w w w .im m stu- tion the better. dios.com/amilon SOUND LAB S o u n d L a h — fflflSpecial We get asked all kinds of questions the original Amiga audio channels which remain available exactly as about Amiga sound. Here are some they always were. of the most common. ■ c l What is the dif ference between a track I Q - Why can't I use bU resolution wUh an extra fou r bUs always get some inter er and a sequencer? stereo samples in Amiga per channels for the volume informa ference. Where does this trackers like OctaMED tion. These bUs are combined result come from and what can ■ A . and Protracker? ing in a total of 14-bit output. I do about ft? A tracker works primarily with Amiga samples. Notes are entered onto a ■ A . ■ Q . Why do none of ■ A . scrolling numeric display, with A sierra sample is two mono samples the Amiga music pro This could be generated by a num optional commands entered to alter and trackers work on the basis o ffour grams allow you to play ber of things: your monitor or TV, the way samples are played. They nor mono channels. The Amiga has only samples in reverse? extra peripherals you may have mally have an integrated sampler and two stereo channels and you can’t play P e g g e d into your A m iga, o r even an sample editor section. Some, such as a stereo sound through a mono chan ■ A . internal hard drive. Disconnect OctaMED, can also play and record nel. However, if different samples are They use the Amiga's buUt-in sample everything and try sampling with the 1MIDI instruments. A sequencer is played on each side o f these two stereo replay functions, which do not include absolute minimum set-up, then add geared towards recording and playing channels, then four different sounds reverse sample replay. However, more to the system until you find MIDI instruments, normally with lim can be produced simultaneously. OctaMED SoundStudio will allow this what is m aking the noise. ited facilities for replaying Amiga Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMwhen U is released. samples. Many ‘traditional’ musicians ■ Q - My Amiga 1200 ■ Q . What's the best find the style of a sequencer much usas 32-bit technology, ■ Q - I want to play sampler to use? easier to use than a tracker. To gener so why can I only play very large sound samples alise, notes are programmed into a 8-bit samples? straight from my hard ■ A . tracker, but played into a sequencer. drive. Is this possible? Most 8-bit samplers are very similar ■ A . in design and there’s little to chose ■ CL What is the best Most o f your Amiga uses 32-bit com ■ A . between them . CU Am iga tracker available? ponents, but the Paula chip, which Yes. Ttchnotound Turbo II Pro will Magazine's preference is handles the sound among other record and replay samples as large as Megalosound from HiSoft. DSS8 ■ A . things, has 8-bit architecture. your spare hard drive space. There Plus, available from Power There are two main contenders: Unfortunately this was not upgraded are also PD tools that do the same Computing, is another good one. ProTracker and OctaMED. There are when the rest o f the Amiga architec thing, such as HD Frequency. Octa also many other similar trackers, all ture jumped to 32-bits. MED SoundStudio also promises this. ■ C L What's the best o f which are PD or shareware, each 16-blt sampler? with its own particular strengths. H CL Why doesn't my H Q . I want to load Amiga appear to slow modules from demos ■ A . ■ Q_ What is the best down, even when it's into my tracker to find The best value 16-bit sampler is Aura sequencer around? playing a high quality out how they were from HiSoft. Toccata (see review this music module? made. Can I do this issue) from MacroSystem is preferred ■ A . with single file exe by m any and has good support from This is another two horse race. In this ■ A . cutable demos or OctaMED SoundStudio. The Sunrize case the horses are Bars and Pipes The audio hardware gets on with the demos that use a AD5I6 is the best you can buy and is Pro and Music X 2.0. Bars and Pipes business o f playing samples without strange disk format? used by many professionals for digital offers a lot more power and flexibility, having to trouble the CPU while it audio-visual work. thanks to its modular system that does so, leaving the CPU free to han ■ A . allows plug-ins to be written for Unk dle all o f Us other tasks, hence there's Yes. You need a ‘ripper’. There are ■ GL Will 1 S-bit sam- ing to a variety o f hardware and soft no noticeable slow down. many rippers available in the public piers replace my Amiga's ware, such as AD5I6, Triple Play Plus domain. You load the demo, then quU four 8-bit channels with (48-way MIDI interface), One Stop 1 Q- Some module or reset and run the ripper program. four 16-bit channels? Music Shop (Proteus synth on a Zorro players claim to play This searches the memory for mod card), Toccata and more. Music X modules in 14-bit ules and saves them out to disk if U ■ A . scores with its relative simplicity, some resolution. How come? finds any. Aura adds a tu rto 12-bil channel. unique working methods and because Toccata add> a stereo 7 6 -A i/ channel, it has been around long enough to ■ A . ■ Q - When I sample and Sunrize ADS 16 adds two stereo build up a large following. ■ The Amiga’s sound channels have 8- sounds from my hi-fi I IS bit channels. This is in addition to Tony Horgan. Com plete your collection of CU Am iga M agazine for just £5.9* Back Issues each (includes p£tp) 1 9 9 5 M a r c h 1 9 9 5 0;i III? OISHS: Directory H M M i r * • ' Oil IH f DISKS Modelei 0*1 IH f DISKS OF! l i l t OISHS: Opus 4 hill progiam M m I l a W 30 full piogram ami f asy MovieSctter. clip art and ProDraw 3. 0ctaM; clip ait b utilities t- ’T ^ — T r y . ledgei. 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It's a ls o p o s s ib le to b u y a know about networking ... G oldenG ate 2 c a rd a n d f it a PC Ethernet card (EyeTech sell the ■ Q. Is there another GG2 in various bundles). ■ Q. What's the ports and use the comma way of linking Amigas easiest way to connect software as before? via parallel ports? two Amigas? ■ Q. Can I use Ethernet B A. No, you can't. Parallel ■ A. Yes, you can use a com on an Amiga without B A. T h e s im p le s t w a y is to p o rts a re n o t d e sig n e d w ith mercial system called Liana. Zorro Biota? use a Null modem cable to link c o m m u n ic a tio n s in m in d and so Liana comes with a special paral up theit serial ports. You can then you w ill need special software. The lel cable but the software sup B A- There are n o A 1 200 run a comms program on each best known system is ParNet and port is offered through 'Envoy'. E th e rn e t c a rd s c u rre n tly a dvertised Amiga (for example. Term or th e b e s t d is trib u tio n is called Blittersoft sell Liana in the UK. in th e UK, a lth o u g h th e re are N C o m m l a n d u s e th e X , Y o r Z RarBench. Setting up ParNet can ru m o u rs o f s o m e a vailable in th e Modem protocol to transmit files. b e ve ry h ard a n d th e ParBench US. Sadly, although PCMCIA and system includes an official I Q. I've heard of Parallel port Ethernet adapters are C o m m o d o re In sta lle r s y s te m to Envoy, what is it? available fo r th e PC, n o o n e has ■ Q. Is this how net m a ke it a lo t easier. A sk y o u r PD c re a te d a v e rsio n fo r th e A m iga. worked games work? library fo r ParBench o r g e t it your B A. Envoy is the standard se lf fro m A m inet. Amiga networking package, writ S A. Yes, nearly all networked ten by an ex-Commodore employ ■ Q- Can I link my g a m e s o n th e A m ig a w o rk u s in g ee. It is a commercial product, Amiga to a PC network? Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMa Null modem cable connected ■ Q. Apart from speed, currently at version 2. It is more between the tw o machines. why is ParNet better advanced than ParNET and offers B A. If y o u have a n E thernet than a serial link? a lo t o f fe a tu re s , s u ch a s th e a b ili card. yes. you can set up both the ty to share printers, full security A m ig a and th e PC t o u s e the ■ Q . Games aside, is ■ A . ParNet provides true and inter-network routing. It also TCP/IP transmission protocol and there a better way? networking features (although is ’hardware independent' in that lin k th e m a ch in e s in th a t w ay. This not terribly advanced ones). This it doesn't mind which hardware m a ke s it p o s s ib le t o ru n Telnet, H A. Yes. The serial port isn't means when the Amigas are the network uses, as long as FTP a n d e v e n X W in d o w s sy s amazingly fast. OK. if you con linked there is a new device on th e re is a s u ita b le driver. te m s . If y o u d o n 't have an E thernet nect two Amiga 1200s fitted each machine called NET: and card, th e re a re s till w a y s to lin k u p with HiSoft's new Surf Squirrel this is a link into the remote hard the Amiga at least in theory. One PCMCIA device, things w ill be a w a re . It m e a n s t h a t o n e A m ig a ■ Q . Is Envoy available a p p ro a ch w o u ld b e to u se a SLIP lot faster but there is still a bet could use the hard drive or CD- for other hardware? or PPP connection into an Amiga ter way of linking the machines: ROM drive of a second Amiga. ru n n in g W in d o w s 9 5 o r a ve rs io n o f the parallel ports for example. ■ A. Yes, a s lo n g a s th e re U n ix s u ch a s Linux. is a su ita b le driver, called a ■ O L What software do ■ Q . What sort of cable SAN A2.driver. T h is is a n A m iga B Q- How advanced is I need for linking Amigas do I need for this? standard for networking support. a TCP/IP network? with the serial ports? For exa m p le , th e A m iT rix n e tw o rk ■ A. You need a special cable ing s y s te m u se s th e flo p p y disk !3§ A- In te rm s o f file syste m ■ A. You can u s e o rd in a ry te rm i and instructions for constructing p o rt a n d it can run E nvoy a s w e ll. support, not very. You can copy nal e m u la tio n s o ftw a re s u ch as it are given in the ParNet archive. Envoy w ill also run over Ethernet. files using FTP but if you have NComm or Termite on the Amiga, You must not connect a standard used this you'll appreciate that it is a n d T em inate o n th e PC. Then set parallel port to parallel port cable, b a sic t o say th e least. O n e possi th e bau d rates a n d o th e r s e ttin g s as this w ill damage the Amigas. B Q. What is Ethernet ble solution is to use a Novel style t o b e th e sa m e a n d u se Z m o d e m You m ust make (or buy) a cable and can I use it? network system, but details of t o c o p y th e file s a cross. You could designed for use on the Amiga. N ovel s u p p o rt o n th e A m ig a is also u se th e p ro g ra m 'Tw inExpress' B A . Ethernet is a fast network sketchy to say the least. More w h ic h is available fro m th e A m in e t ing standard used on PCs and promising is the version of a pro and P D libraries. It m a ke s sending ■ Q. Can I network a o th e r c o m p u te rs . It a llo w s tra n sfe r g ra m called S A M B A w h ic h has file s a lo t s im p le r b y ru n n in g a cus CD32 in this way? speeds of up to lOMbit/second ap peared o n A m in e t. T h is a im s to to m u tility o n each m achine. o v e r va rio u s ty p e s o f ca b le . M a n y m o u n t PC W in d o w s W o rkg ro u p s ■ A. Yes, although there are machines can be linked together o n th e A m ig a a n d v ic e versa, v a rio u s re a so n s w h y th is is tric k y . over Ethernet. It is possible to buy w h ic h w o u ld b e a v e ry fle xib le ■ Q. Can I link two It's b e s t t o b u y a C D -R O M Amiga specific network cards for method of working. ■ Amigas via their Parallel and lead kit already made up, Amigas with Zorro slots John Kennedy or those of you unfortu n a te e n o u g h t o have missed last month's issue let me recap: ARexx is a very useful program ming language. W hat can you do w ith it? W rite p ro g ra m s is th e o b v i ous answer, and by golly that's ©what we'll do. ARexx looks a little like the well-known programming language BASIC, but it is consider ably more flexible. Not only does it include many powerful commands- but it can control other programs and be expanded to include sup ▲ Fifare 1: The best w«y !• gel ta grips with the SAY caaaari is ta m the ahava port for, as an example, standard program with RX. Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMWindows and Menus. won't run. Now we come to six different ways What makes her tick? of putting text on the screen. The first method Last m o n th w e s a w h o w t o in sta ll A R exx and uses n o fo rm o r q u o te s - on ly te x t. You can see ru n a s im p le p ro g ra m . N o w w e 'll lo o k a t s o m e that ARexx displays it as upper case. more programming examples to get an idea as The subsequent examples use quote ,to th e w a y in w h ic h A R exx w o rk s , fir s t, le t’s makes. You can use either single or double, e xa m in e th e SAY c o m m a n d as it can b e s lig h tly as long as you are consistent: the first two tric k ie r th a n you m ig h t e x p e c t. T h e b e st w a y to quoted examples will produce identical d is c o v e r its s e cre ts is to e n te r th e fo llo w in g results. You can also see that splitting the p ro g ra m a n d e x e c u te it. To d o th is , cre a te a te x t words into two and adding quotes to each ▲ Figare 2a: (Oi - Liu). I m art 31 da r»« hut \m a sprite* 27 pun file w h ic h c o n ta in s th e listing, save it a n d th e n automatically adds a space. If you don't want oM ud iaa't yaa target it use 'RX' followed by the filename. Do not sim a space, use the concatenate command ( 11 ) p ly ty p e th is in to a S hell, a s it w o n 't w o rk . which joins the two text strings together to do this is with the PULL command, which (s e e e xa m p le 1) without introducing any extra characters. w a its a t th e Shell fo r s o m e th in g to b e e ntered, Finally, if you want to include quotation (s e e ex a m p le 2 . fig u re 2 a n d 2a) marks, use a different sort - imagine the T h e firs t P U LL ta k e s in a te x t s trin g a n d con Example listing 1 outmost pair being removed. ve rts it in to u p p e r case ( w e d o n 't a s k fo r th is to W ith output mastered, we can now learn happen, it just does). The second PULL takes in how to make programs more interactive my a numeric value. There is no distinction /* Say examples */ getting input from the user. The simplest way b e tw e e n th e te x t a n d n u m b e r PU LLs a s fa r as SAY H a llo w o rld w e a re co n ce rn e d , it ’s u p to A R exx SAY " H a llo W orld" to keep tra c k o f w h ic h is te x t and SAY 'H a llo W o rld' Example listing 2 which is a number. The IF-THEN- SAY " H a llo " "W orld" ELSE statements do a little process SAY " H a llo " ||" W o rld " /* Pull examples in g a n d th a t is a ll th e re is t o it. SAY " 'H a llo W o rld '" SAY " H e llo , w h a t'' a your name?" PULL name Variables SAY "N ice t o m eet yo u" name We can't go much further without SAY "How o ld a r e you?" touching on the concept of vari PULL age ables. Variables are locations in the When you run the program with RX you'll IF age > 28 THEN SAY "Wow, t h a t ' Amiga’s memory which store spe see something like figure 1 (top left): ELSE SAY "T h a t'■ n o t v e ry o l d ." c ific va lu e s a n d a re re fe re n c e d b y a T h e firs t th in g to n o te is th a t th e program , special name. like all ARexx programs, starts with a comment. EXIT For example, when w e asked for If you leave th e c o m m e n t o u t th e program your age using PULL, ARexx creat- ed a variable and stored a number in it. ARexx deals w ith variables in a very flexible way: Example listing 4 when it comes across some text which does n't mean anything to it. it assumes it's a vari /* More Variable examples */ able. If the variable hasn't been used before a g e . ■ "Unknown" (that is, it hasn't been initialised) then it has as age.john * 2 8 a value its own name in upper case. age.brian - 15 This is w hy our very first example, SAY age.mary - 25 Hello world, did w hat it did. ARexx thought age.anne 3 34 "Hello" and "W orld" were tw o variables and so SAY "E n te r a nam e, p le a s e :* printed them. As the.default contents of a vari PULL name able is its own name in upper case, the pro IP age.nam e = 'U nknow n' THEN SAY " S o rry , I d o n 't know gram display "HELLO WORLD". ELSE SAY "That person is" age.name "years old" N o w h e re is a n e x a m p le o f h o w y o u can make variables which store more than one EXIT value. Lets say w e need to store the names of fiv e d iffe re n t ty p e s o f fis h , fo r th e s ta rt o f an excellent Fish Database program. W e could program rather lengthy. It would use five separate variables and get the names also be very hard to expand the like th is : program at a later date to include m o re th a n fiv e fish . .. POLL first-fish A better way is to use a com PULL second-fish pound variable - a variable which POLL third-fish has a single base name but stores POLL fourth-fish different values depending on POLL five-fish .. the associated name appended w ith a full-stop. Erm... here, look at a n d s o o n . H ow ever, th is w o u ld m a ke th e e x a m p le 3. When it is run. you should enter five fishy types. The program Example listing 3 automatically creates variable* are baa*y wbea it cane* le dealiag with lists ol Heat and assigns variables store and maybe add to later. /* Variable examples */ c a lle d " fis h .1 " . “ fis h .2 ". ^l,, SAY "F iv e f i s h p le a s e " "fish.3" and so on because the ”.i“ Example four is an interesting little listing. It DO i - 1 TO 5 is actually the loop counter which creates a miniature database of ages for four PULL fish.i counts from 1 to 50. Notice the people and then asks you to pick a name (see Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMEND second part of the program goes e x a m p le 4). SAY "H ere i s th e l i s t . . . * through the fish names itself, look Of particular interest is the fact that when no DO i - 1 TO 5 ing for a match. Imagine extra reference is given, there is an automatic SAY f i s h . i how hard this would be if there default value p re se n t (w h ich w e call "U nknow n” ) IF f i s h . i * "HADDOCK" THEN SAY "Hah were fifty fish to process... (see and th is can b e te ste d fo r (see fig u re 4). knew you would say Haddock" fig u re 3). Next month, we'll be concentrating on mak END Don't think that you have to ing use of ARexx with existing programs: cre use numbers to reference the val ating your own user-defined Macros to do EXIT ues which a compound variable exactly what you want with minimal effort. ■ can store all the tim e though. John Kennedy It's al there on the CD If you've got this m onth's CD-ROM edition you should be delighted w ith all the top stuff ’ we've managed to cram on there: gam es, utilities, pictures, dem os and lots m ore. W e've also tried our best to include m ost item s relevant to this m onth's w orkshop section. And the Arexx M asterclass is no exception. You w ill find these listings included on the CD-ROM on the cover of this m onth's CD-ROM edition. Go to the drawer called M agazine\Arexx M asterclass and you should find the tutorial stu ff there. You w ill also find som e program s from previous ARexx M asterclass features: please read the text file before running them ! They're back, and they're ready for action. CU Amiga's moderately handsome yet still intelligent dynamic duo are ready to battle with your hardest technical problems and dilemmas. Lisa, tired of chasing On seeing Tony's fate. Mat Tony around the office quickly scribbled down the for Q&A. let him have answers before taking the it. Poor, poor lad ... first plane back to Aussie. Good on ya Workbench C directory to the C asked if a reader could help with I h a v e an A 6 0 0 directory on my Adorage working the various modifications needed with a 40Mb hard disc. I was presented with to increase the Chip memory for t f drive, a Citizen the error message 'As Error Amiga motherboards. I carried ABC p i .1 Occurred Copying IconX DOS out a similar modification on my ■ ■ K C T Power Computing E rro r: D is k is fu ll.' B2000 (rev 4.4) last month, here's quad speed CO- When I checked the i h o w I d id i t ... ROM drive. I've now decided to sp a c e o n th e A d o ra g e * installed the 1Mb take the plunge and upgrade to d is k it w a s 9 6 7 b . T h e I j n e e d t o a lte r tw o an Amiga Technologies A1200.1 however, says it needs ' on the motherboard, so a m g o in g to b u y o n e fr o m a M y 1200 has 240Mb hard disc f A2000 and take off the friend who wants to sell his so and 4M b expansion board. drive m ount once again. he can buy an A4000. What do I Please help. W hat do I do now? find two solder pads need to get to enable my current J500 under where the A600 peripherals to work with R o y F irth PSU would be if you hadn't just the A t 200. No address supplied removed it. There's a trace of sol der joining the two pads and you Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMRichard Jones My, you are demanding aren't you. have to cut it so that the jumper P e rth Firstly let's clear up a slight misun is open. Shame Commodore did derstanding you seem to have. n't put some pins and a jumper The problem you're having is block there. I used a scalpel e a great time that there isn’t enough space on the Next find jumper J101 which tr hard drive, floppy disk that Adorage is on. the is near the power connector and amount o f hard drive space or RAM a load of upright cylinder thin- ark fin e on the AI200 -ju s t follow in your computer will have no bear gies. J101 has three pins tw o of e fitting instructions in our May ing on this. b y a ju m p e r 5 issue. Likewise your Citizen As to your current problem, try re d t o m o v e th e inter just needs to be plugged in ing to fit a I452bfile into a disk that from pins 1 and 2 idyou'U be, only has 967b left won’t work, your to (Sins 2 a n d 3. elutes to . only solution will be delete some of Put your Amiga back together The CD-ROM drive will also your files off the Adorage disk. and. assuming everything went r on the AI200 without To do this use DOpus and try well and you manage to boot up, l, just slide the Squirrel removing the L ogoJF F file from open a shell and type avail' e PCM CIA slot the Images drawer. This will howev You'll now see that the maximum as you do on the A600 and U'U er leave you without a foreground chip ram is now 1047552 bytes (I work fine. file to load into the program when don't know what happened to the creating animations I unless you other kilobytes but there you go). Adorage already have some others) to it's Time for that Hi-Res Interlaced aggravation probably worth copying the file to Overscanned Magic Workbench somewhere on your hard drive first. y o u c o u ld n 't h a v e b e fo re ... Many thanks Again, you can use DOpus to fo r y o u r a n sw e r do this. Martin Bahn t o m y A d o ra g e East Yorkshire SSA demo query. Auntie Agnus 'Adorage blues' in Thanks fo r that handy tip Martin, C U A m ig a . I read w ith great February issue. Unfortunately, I interest your reply point out, however, that we don't am still unable to use the pro in February issue recommend readers follow this gram and shall therefore put it on t o a le tte r fro m course of action unless they're ice until you are able to assist Derek Bailey ask- familiar with the insides of the m e fu rth e r. $ u p g ra d - Amiga and are very careful doing it Using Opus5.1 set about ing an old A2000 fro i 5 1 2 k o f - getting it wrong will clobber your transferring IconX from my chip ram to 1 M b of t tip ram. You Amiga good and proper! M/e do not want to bt held responsible if you 5, FinalCalc etc) make the damage your system, so gel a pro lo products that used to be out The great CD32 FMV debate do If. when I had my A500 look really I would like to thank you for supporting our favourite computer sad b y c o m p a ris o n . over the last couple of very turbulent years. I am pleased to say CIA shock However, this is getting away that CU Amiga Magazine is currently m y favourite magazine. from my real reason for writing, However. I feel that I must put Tony Horgan right on a Q6A let I re c e n tly fin e d a namely, w ill the Lexmark 1050 ter in your February issue. A Mr K Walsh wrote in to say that he new Canon BJC colour printer work on the had a CD32 FMV card w ithout its adaptor. bubble jet to my A1200? A friend is selling his PC On close inspection of the whole module you will find that it A500 and since system when he moves to the actually consists of a shielded circuit board (the metal bit) and a doing so the U S A s h o rtly a n d I c a n b u y th e loopback section w ith the CD32 coloured plastic around it. These m o u s e has printer o ff him cheap. can be separated and hence the loopback is lost. Just to help, the stopped working. It moves left lo o p b a c k h as tw o s tic k e rs o n th e in s id e o f it (o n ly re a lly v isib le and right but no longer goes up Paul W inters with the actual card removed) The first has REV A and a barcode or down. It's really annoying. Can G la s g o w on it while the other has COGS LOOPBACK and a barcode with you give me any hints as to the following number below it; 8515293365480001000565. I have what's gone wrong. H r 're in total agreement with your written to AT about this. comments about the current Amiga. My advice to M r Walsh is to contact them at their new Patrick Divan Although Commodore are no more, address and see if they can source a loopback B ris to l and we’re still waiting on hardware connector for him. news from Amiga Technologies, the It’s very simple, there are two chips software now coming out is certain Sven Harvey, West Midlands. inside your Amiga, collectively ly the highest quality it’s erer been. known as CIA chips and it looks Unfortunately the Lexmark Thanks Sven, it’s always good when readers come up trumps with a bit like they’re dead, no more, kaput! printer needs Microsoft Windows to of handy information. If any other readers out there feel that they can This can happen by plugging in the work properly and as a result won't help out on any o f the other problems that they read in these pages printer while the Amiga is on. These work with the Amiga. However, if please write in. two chips control the mouse port, you look around you’ll fin d many joystick, disk drive, serial interface other printers of equally good quali I'll be back, for sure and printer and by attaching the ty available that will, look out for I am writing in response to my phone call to you about my letter printer without turning the Amiga anything that’s Epson compatible as printed (Q +A February edition ‘CD32 FMV cart') and your reply off you've damaged them. a good starting block for Amiga which you printed and repeated back to me on the phone. I have There are two solutions, one buy compatibility. the FMV card, I rang Amiga Technologies as you said and they anew chip: try calling one o f the said I was right, it is a real one. Amiga repair centres such as Silica: However, it's just that mine does not have the 150-way female when we last checked they cost connector. Anyway they could not help me. I'm not waiting for a about £20. A friend of mine fresh batch of SX1s from the USA. I'm now flogging my card, Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMAlternatively, try swopping the has told me that someone out there with an SX1 w ill do. two CIA chips around. To do this computer CD My only options are to either get a 12" laserdisk player or wait open the Amiga, remove the metal ROM drives are for DVD due out soon! It's a shame I cannot utilise my CD32 to shielding and locate them - they’re v t t V simply normal its potential, what a waste of a good machine. labelled CIA ODD and CIA EVES. Hifi compact disc Gently lift them out and swop them players that have been modified. K. A. Walsh over, i f you’re lucky the mouse will Is this true and if it is how can I L o n d o n work. You may lose some other adapt the compact disc player functions though, the disk drive for on my stereo to work with Okay, fair enough, you seem to have been right all along. Obviously instance, but as you have a hard m y A 1200. what has happened is that the unit you have vui retro-fitted with an drive this might not be a major Does the 'digital out' socket gender adaptor which has since parted company with the main car problem until you get a replacement on the back the unit have some tridge. Had you bought this from a shop, we would suggest that you set o f chips. thing to do with this? If I can return it and demand a refund, but we understand this was bought sec adapt it. which CD drive do you ond hand from a private seller, so you probably won’t have much luck re c o m m e n d I buy? on that score. The future's H is a shame that Ihe CD32 FM V module never really took o ff in a so brig h t ... Adrian Poole big way, but with A T’s plans fo r using CD32 technology in ’set-top’ I'v e ju s t re tu rn e d Staffordshire home video boxes, maybe something will emerge in future. to the Amiga after A s for laserdisks you could buy one, but it’s possible that DVD several years Unfortunately you can’t adapt sour might kill them off in the long run making your investment worthless a w a y fro m it. HiFi CD player to work on the and, unfortunately, although DVD is definitely a very good option offi P re v io u s ly I had Amiga. The digital out port on your cial units either computerised or in a standard TV/HiFi format won’t an A500 Plus, CD is intended for use with amplifiers be released until this autumn, and even then they’ll be well above the now I've just bought an A1200 that support Digital input - producing price you can gel FM V units fo r but H iSoft’s M PEG is on the way too. from my local Escom store, and better quality amplification and sound having had a quick glimpse reproduction. It’s also possible that through the pages of CU Amiga VideoCD boxes will be released that M a g a z in e I have o n ly o n e th in g lake this Digital output and convert it Send your QErA problems to... to say - the Amiga is far from into sound and pictures for displaying You can send your technical problems |or answers - Ed| being on its last legs as some on a TV, although this is becoming to CU Amiga by the following means people seem to think. less likely as time goes by. By letter to Off A. CU Amiga, Priory Court, 30-32 Farringdon The power of the peripherals As fo r the best dedicated now available (SCSI CD-ROM Amiga CD drive checkout Power E m a il: Q + A( The way forward m o n e y a n d b u y an acce le ra to r - w h ic h a re also m akes s e n se . I m ean, w h e re b e tte r to adver This letter is aimed at users who have been dropping in price these days. There are bound tis e y o u r a cc e le ra to r th a n in s id e th e b ox o f a re lu cta n t a b o u t u p g ra d in g a n d w h o c o m p la in to b e s o m e a ffo rd a b le se co n d -h a n d 030s fo r game which would benefit from one? a b o u t th e lack o f in te re s t o f s o ftw a re de ve lo p sale, w ith a lo t o f s e rio u s u se rs lo o kin g fo r Maybe all the magazines and Amiga ers. I bought one of the early A1200s after 040/060s. Even buy 4Mb of Fast RAM. It may Technologies should start a major survey of o w n in g an A 5 0 0 fo r a fe w years. T h e n I sound a little harsh, but when you consider Amiga users. Discover how many have b o u g h t a hard d riv e a w h ile later. The p o in t is, p e o p le s p e n d p ro b a b ly £ 10 0 0 s o n PCs, to expanded systems, and what their configu that one single peripheral completely trans upgra d e a basic A 1 2 0 0 to a v e ry u s a b le A m iga ration is. Things have changed a lot for the formed m y Amiga into a genuinely productive set-up costs around £450 (or much less when Amiga both hardware and software-wise and useful machine. buying second-hand), i.e. a 50MHz 030 + 4Mb since Commodore went under, not to men I used to th in k th a t a hard drive w o u ld ju s t fast RAM + 420Mb 3.5" HD. Even a small sec tion the radical changes in the console and m a ke file a cce ss fa s te r a n d p re ve n t m e fro m ond hand HD, which would cost little more than PC markets. In addition, the survey would stacking up floppy disks, but it is so much th e a verage g a m e , w o u ld m a ke a w o rld o f a d if pool the ideas of everyone who supports more useful. For instance I simply couldn't run ference. although as is often said repeatedly - the Amiga and show to software houses programs like Real 3D, Imagine or play games u p g ra d e to th e la rg e s t y o u can a ffo rd , o r a t that the Amiga is still worth investing in. A like W orms, Alien Breed 3D etc. without one. le a st th re e o r fo u r tim e s a s m u c h H D sp a ce as c a re fu lly d e s ig n e d s u rv e y o rg a n is e d b y AT, A m ig a T echnologies s h o u ld really n o t b e sell you think you need now. You'll regret it other in co-operation w ith the magazines - or in g A m ig a s w ith o u t hard d rive s, a lth o u g h th e w is e . I know , I o u t-g re w m y 1 2 0 M b HD v e ry wider press might benefit the Amiga A m ig a p h ilo s o p h y h as a lw a y s b een o n e o f q u ic k ly a fe w ye a rs ago. immensely - it can't do any harm! I can't a ffo rd a b le e n try m o d e ls w h ic h g ro w gradually N o w th a t g a m e s p ro d u c e rs have sta rte d to remember the last time I saw an Amiga sur with users’ needs. d e v e lo p fo r a cce le ra to rs, th e re s e e m s t o b e a vey, but things have changed so much late Hard drives are essential, if you intend to n e w lease o f life in th e A m ig a ’a s a gam es ly, surely another one is due. u s e yo u r A m ig a fo r a n y se rio u s a pplication machine. The CU demo of XTreme Racing really a n d q u ite a fe w g a m e s rely o n hard drive s to flies along on my 040 and it's great to play Bad attitude m ake th e m playable. I w o u ld s e rio u s ly avoid AB3D in all its glory. I don't think this kind of R ecent s to rie s a b o u t th e a ttitu d e o f s o m e any games which I knew were not HD instal software will continue to be produced for long, E s c o m s a le sp e rso n s co n ce rn in g th e A m ig a lable. Piracy is not an excuse against games un le ss a lo t o f p e o p le upgra d e a n d b u y th e n e w are q u ite w o rryin g . I h o p e AT w ill ta ke s te p s to n o t b e in g installable. If A m ig a flo p p y users software. The 'RAMming it home' article (CU ensure Amigas are promoted properly, espe want more games like Alien Breed they should Feb 9 6 ) m a ke s a lo t o f sense. L e t's h o p e th a t cially sin ce e ve ry o th e r p la tfo rm is o n display. give a hard drive serious consideration. After both users and the industry are listening. S h o p d isp la ys, a re w h a t ca tc h e s th e con all, a 3.5" IDE w ill squeeze into an A1200. su m e r's eye. H o w m a n y m o re p e o p le a re like T here is n o lo n g e r a ny re a so n fo r n o t buy Forces combined ly t o d is c o v e r th e A m ig a if it is n o t o n d isplay? ing a HD. HD prices have fallen by a ridiculous I noticed the interesting Breathless/Fbwer Finally, if software houses make a hard Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMa m o u n t in th e la s t year. Loo kin g th ro u g h y o u r C o m p u tin g o ffe r in y o u r m agazine. I th in k it's drive and extra memory/processor obligatory mag: 850Mb costs less than £200, even tim e software, hardware manufacturers, the for every release from now on (assuming the 4 2 0 M b is o n ly £12 5 - th is is th e sa m e p ric e as m agazines a n d AT th e m se lve s a ll p u lle d to g e th s o ftw a re w a s o f a h ig h q uality, like th e 'D o o m - o n ly th re e o r fo u r A m ig a g a m e s (tw o o r three er m o re t o s tre s s th e upg ra d e issue. It w o u ld clo n e s ' ra tin g 9 0 % + ) and th e re w a s a kin d o f co n s o le gam es). be worth including details of games which ben hardware/ software cooperation, how many To a nyo n e w h o co m p la in s th a t th e A 1200. e fit fro m m e m o ry a n d a c ce le ra to rs w ith th e people could honestly refuse to upgrade w ith its 020 processor is now behind the h a rd w a re a n d d e ta ils o f th e h a rd w a re available th e ir system ? tim e s , th e a n sw e r is s im p le , save u p s o m e w ith th e ga m e s. T h is s o rt o f co -o p e ra tio n Gerard Callaghan, M issouri, USA. Rammed home seem to think everyone reading them already had returned a faulty drive and was having I'd ju s t lik e t o m e n tio n a f e w th in g s a b o u t knows all there is about the Amiga. Your pro difficulty getting either a replacement or a y o u r P o in ts o f V ie w a rtic le in th e Feb 9 6 issue jects have gone a long way to help me under refund. Finally, and only after your interven o f CU. standing the Amiga and computers. Now that tion I received a refund slip. This was only Alan Dykes was going on about the min. the machine is once again in production, I after they had been phoned by your Marianna spec of miggys, pcs and macs. He stated that hope to see more good things from you. Keep Masters. I don’t know what she said to them the min. spec on the miggy was 2Mb RAM u p th e g o o d w o rk . but it did the trick. Thanks. and no hard disk (or thereabouts). However, in Tom Gower, Texas, USA. Ken Dryden, Cambs. m y e xp e rie n c e , I've fo u n d th a t th e m a jo rity o f Amiga users (in comms anyway) have around D o u b le p a t Firm sale? We say NO! 6M b RAM and at least 1/2 Gig HD. It's pretty Since my son had his A600 a couple of As I am on a tight budget. I have been forced ra re t o fin d s o m e o n e th a t h as a base level Christmases ago we have regularly bought to stop reading CU Amiga Magazine as it has machine or at least a base level w/hd. and read various Amiga mags. These are all now gone firm sale. I cannot com m it to pay I to ta lly agree w ith e v e ryth in g A lan said kept in a box under his computer desk. ing out the monthly sum of £4.50 just in case in th a t a rticle . B u t w h y d o n 't d eve lo p e rs just Looking back through the mags it was I'm broke. W hy oh why is it now firm sale? a u to co n fig th e ir s o ftw a re a b it lik e expansion interesting to note that the one we have K Simmons, Bristol. boards. XTR does it w ith no apparent speed purchased most is CU Amiga Magazine. I think lo s s ... a frie n d a n d I ran it o n b o th o u r A 1200s this is probably due to the consistently good Firm Sale means that a newsagent has to buy a a t th e sa m e tim e a n d h a rd ly n o tic e d a n y d iffe r balance and content of articles, reviews, tech magazine and bear the cost if it doesn't sell The ence. He has 2Mb chip no fast and 214Mb HD. nical help etc and the quality and usefulness opposite, SOR (sale or return) means newsagents I have 2 M b c h ip , 4 M b fa s t a n d 1/2 G ig HD. of the cover disk. It is also a change for a mag return unsold copies o f magazines to the distributor. Peter Kirby, Barnet. azine to invite personal contact w ith its read CU Amiga Magazine is distributed by a company e rs ra th e r th a n ju s t ta k in g th e £ 4 o r so w ith a called Frontline, the country's premier magazine dis A pat on the back d o n 't c a ll u s a n d w e w o n 't c a ll y o u a ttitu d e . tributor. They definitely handle CU Amiga Magazine I would just like to thank you for your maga R ece n tly I h a d ca u s e t o c o n ta c t y o u r a dver on an SOR basis. I f you have problems getting the zine CU Amiga. I have found it to be useful as tising department for help with a problem mag write to Mark Cowie, CUA, Frontline, Park well as fun. The magazines here in the USA all regarding one of your previous advertisers. I House, 117 Park Road, Peterborough PEI 2TS. Points of view CD-ROM - saviour of the Amiga scene by Tony Horgan loyal user base, but also thanks to the M a n y p e o p le b o th inside a n d o u tsid e o f fairly recent introduction of affordable th e A m ig a sce n e a re surp rise d a t th e CD-ROM technology which has revolu w a y th e m a rke t h as sto o d up over th e tio n is e d th e A m ig a scene. p a st c o u p le o f years. A m ig a u se rs have C D -R O M is th e p e rfe c t m e d iu m fo r always been a discerning bunch; they m a s s d is trib u tio n o f th e A m iga's unique k n o w w h a t th e y w a n t fro m th e ir c o m sharew are scene. CD is th e internation puter and won’t be taken in by media al standard medium for both computer hype and advertising alone, which data a n d m u sic, w h ic h h as lead to very explains w h y th e y b o u g h t A m ig a s in lo w d u p lica tio n c o s ts th a t m e a n C Ds th e firs t place, and is p a rt o f th e reason can b e s o ld fo r a s little as a fiver, o r th e y have n o t a b andoned th e pla tfo rm . even less. W ith third independent orga n isa tio n s s u ch as th e A m in e t play ing a p ivo ta l ro le in th e com p ila tio n , Every so often, the state of the art m a nagem ent a n d d is trib u tio n o f the best Amiga-specific shareware, backed cmoves on, leaving a wake of washed u p b y hundreds o f th e m e d CD c om pila up and redundant technology. | tio n s fro m o th e r producers, th e A m iga is fre e to e xist, in s o m e fo rm , w ith o r J without support from the established Photogenics, Personal Paint and the commercial software producers. merry band of 3D rendering systems. If Even so, e ve ry so o fte n th e sta te o f However, while this has kept the th e fina n cia l ba cke rs o f th e s e packages Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMth e a rt m o ve s on. leaving a w a ke o f Amiga scene going through what pull o u t o f th e m arket, a ll w ill n o t be washed up and redundant technology, could have been very lean times, we lo st, fo r th e n it w ill b e th e tu rn o f th e w h ic h is w h e re m a n y th in k th e Am iga s till nee d t o c o n tin u e d e v e lo p m e n t o f sha re w a re d e ve lo p e rs to p ic k u p the should be floundering. It's managed to th e c o re c o m m e rc ia l a p p lica tio n s - the gauntlet and keep on keeping on, run sta y o n th e b o a t pa rtly d u e to its very likes o f W ordworth. PageStream. n in g th e s h o w o n th e ir o w n te rm s . S by Lisa Collins if Escom took him up on this gener I am sick and tired of the amount of ous offer. Also, recent rumours that letters w e are starting to receive Escom shops had received a memo which end with those three little telling them to remove all their words: "disgusted and disillusioned". Amigas from their premises were a W hat is causing this heightened little more than disconcerting. level of unhappiness? The apparent Judging from sackloads of mail we la c k o f a v a ila b ility o f A m ig a h a rd w a re receive, there's a huge army of frus and software tra te d A m ig a u se rs o u t th e re arm ed I found tales of incompetent shop with cash to spend on upgrades, new assistants advising Amiga enthusiasts machine and software but don’t know w h e re to g e t th e g oods. In n e xt m o n th 's issu e A la n a n d I w ill Despite rumours to the contrary tra il th e c o u n try to fin d o u t w h a t is g o in g o n , w h o is s to c k in g w h a t and Escom .... are going to continue to where. In the meantime let me try to stock Amigas. ^ c le a r th is c o n fu s io n up. D e sp ite ru m o u rs to th e contrary, Escom have confirmed that they are going to continue to stock Amigas and H M V s O x fo rd S tre e t b ra n ch acco rd in g to b u y a riva l p ie c e o f h a rd w a re and are committed to promoting them in to Trish Saunders "will stock all Amiga little o r n o s h e lf sp a c e fo r A m ig a their shops. Also, although reported to software and. whereas other smaller games very worrying. One man in be stocking Amigas, Dixons and branches will have a limited amount of B u ry S t E d m u n d s e v e n w e n t a s fa r as Currys, however, "do not stock Amiga A m iga p ro d u c ts , y o u w ill b e a b le to to offer his services, for free, to help p ro d u c ts a n d have n o t d o n e so fo r at o rd e r a p a rtic u la r g a m e th ro u g h us ■ika utm n a his local Escom shop display the least tw o years", according to Helen (H M V ) if n o t available." «r i* w A m ig a 's ta le n t. W e 'v e y e t t o fin d o u t Sargent, Corporate Affairs Manager. I h o p e th a t help s, u n til n e x t m o n th ... Cover disks are saving the market not killing it processors, databases, spreadsheets, scores in all the magazines it was rendering software etc, and why? reviewed in. Because we've been promoting them M y indignation is tempered by the a ll th ro u g h th e u p s a n d d o w n s o f th e fact that the tw o markets (games and la s t tw o years. M y th e o ry is th a t if technical) are admittedly different. The people hadn't got this software from technical market is upgrade led. magazines, if they hadn't been offered People with version 1 of a program cheap upgrades from cover mounted in e v ita b ly u p g ra d e t o ve rsio n 2 a n d so software, the market would be in a worse state than it is in at the moment. Buying commercial software Name me more than a handful of o n th e fr o n t c o v e r o f CU A m ig a Magazine (or any of our competitors, £ games where the sequel w as better or in the Amiga Magic pack with its than the original and I'll eat my superb utility suitel. makes you realise just what's available and just how Doctor Martensl J good it is. Programs like PageStream 2.2. Image FX and Imagine have encouraged many, w ho previously by Alan Dykes may not have considered investing in on. They want the improvements and Before Jonathon Anderson left Amiga this sort of software to upgrade, to they want them now! But name me Technologies at Christmas he stated c o n tin u e t o u se th e ir A m ig a s fo r s e r i- . more than a handful of games where his belief that magazines cover o u s a p p lica tio n s. the sequel was better than the origi mounting full commercial software What about games? W e have not nal and I'll eat m y Doctor Martens. h a rm s th e A m ig a . H is p o in t o f v ie w is cover mounted a commercial release The games market is not upgrade led. shared by many in the software indus yet. You have never seen a 'worth so the argument above holds more try and. indeed, by many readers too: tw e n ty fiv e q u id ' b a d g e o n a g a m e s w a te r in th is c lim a te . E very p ie c e o f s o ftw a re w e co ve r disk, on any Amiga magazine I As a magazine we cannot afford mount is supposedly putting a nail in believe. That's because we (and the to pay the full development costs of th e A m ig a 's c o ffin - a p p a re n tly no- other magazine publishers! have an a piece of software, not at £4.50 an one is buying new software because agreement with the games publishers issue. But we do showcase the best they already have all they need from not to do so. This agreement dates new software, either by putting an our front cover. Oh yes. But does any back years and no-one has yet broken o ld e r fu ll v e rs io n o f a u tility o r a one remember whether there was it. But consider this: where has it got demo of some software on the front Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMsome software in the Magic Pack by us? This 'NO COMMERCIAL GAMES!' cover. Don’t forget though, these pro Amiga Technologies? Obviously not. it crusade has not succeeded in saving grammers. publishers and developers could have destroyed the marketl the games market from a situation still have to make money from you Let's straighten this matter out. where a title like Leading Lap was not going out and buying these products B M There is still a healthy market for word going to be released - despite good and upgrades! at Workbench 4 - just begging for rtl other than an exhausting process of controlled by an MMU so that they elim ination. I have fo u n d it d iffic u lt to can not access memory outside the create a reliable complex automatic areas they have allocated. The net In te rn e t s yste m o n a n A m ig a th a t does theory as a task might crash itself n 't cra sh a t s o m e s ta g e in th e n ig h t. but it can't crash the machine. Of course the problem isn't the Interestingly, this is why some Unix Amiga's fault as such and Commodore ports to the Amiga aren't nearly as provided tools to help programmers reliable as this Unix counterparts. In find illegal memory accesses These short. Unix can handle the buggy tools, known as Enforcer and code but AmigaOS can not (AMosaic MungWall, require a Memory M a n a g e m e n t U n it o r M M U to tra p and document errant memory accesses Currently the most reliable operating (crashes a re usu a lly ca used b y p ro gra m s w ritin g to p a rts o f m e m o ry th a t £ system s are Unix variants and for are otherwise engaged). T h e tro u b le is th e A m ig a d o e sn 't this reason they are responsible for come with an MMU as stock, least of running most of the internet. ^ all something like Enforcer built-in. by M at Bettinson Currently, the most reliable operating The c o m m o n e s t p ro b le m s w e hear o f systems are Unix variants and for this are anonymous crashes, gurus and re a so n th e y a re re sp o n sib le lo r running for example). If the future Workbench such forth. AmigaDOS will help out m o s t o f th e Inte rn e t. T h e fe a tu re o f 4 has the strong features ol previous u n d e r s o m e co n d itio n s to indicate U nix th a t m a ke s th is re lia b ility possib le incarnations coupled w ith memory which program is (ailing but conversely is known as Memory Protection, some protection and other modern OS fea th e re a re p le n ty o f errors w h ic h can't th in g th a t th e n e w W o rkb e n ch 4 is tures. it would truly be a force to be l t l | be tracked down with any method b e g g in g fo r. T h is m eans th a t ta sks are re c k o n e d w ith . a * * " - NEXT M O N TH Next Month In a m ig a Magazine Don those virtual flU ' •"* Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMwetsuits ly ^ - i the surfpack is here! 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