£2.50 Scantastic! •Scanning Explained •Scanner Review •fxSCAN Review •Scan Quix Review •Scanner Software Roundup News: SEAL-O-RAMA Report OS 3.9 First look Reviews: fxSCAN 3.0 ScanQuix 5 ArtEffect 4 Bubble Heroes PD Paradise Support: ProNet Setup Start-up Problems ArtEffect Tutorial Shell Scripting Issue 7, Winter 2000/01 NEWS NEWS By Clubbed.info Contents Chairman Mick Sutton SEAL-O-RAMA Clubbed is published quarterly by South News his issue of the magazine I and several SEAL Essex Amiga Link. For subscription details would just like to tell you about members intend to see the back page. SEAL-O-RAMA Report ................5 Tour SEAL event “SEAL-O- return the compli- Editor: Robert Williams News Items ..................................7 RAMA” which took place on September ment on the 24th Design: Robert Williams AmigaOS 3.9 Preview..................10 Show Report Contributors: Elliott Bird the 10th. We (SEAL) had been so im- of February when Roy Burton PCI Update ..................................12 pressed with the Kickstart shows (well they are putting on by Gary Storm and Robert Williams AmigaOS 4 PPC? ........................13 Gary Storm done again guys & girls of course!) that a similar style We didn’t know whether our first show Mick Sutton Czech Amiga News Interview......14 we decided to hold one of our own (as I show (go for it). would be a success or not. As far as we Mike Woods mentioned in the last issue), and I can So on reflection, we needn’t have were concerned if we could get around Proof Reading: Sharon Sutton Features tell you that at first we were very ap- worried about getting the com- 150 people coming through the door it Printing: Jeff Martin Scanning Explained .....................16 prehensive about doing it, but we had would be a great start. If we didn’t get any panies/exhibitors to attend at all, now all Cover Art: Robert Williams alot encouragement from the likes of more than a hundred it would probably be we needed to do was to get the punters Contact Us Reviews John from Forematt Home Computing our first and last show :) through the doors, in my opinion that is fxSCAN 3.0 ..................................20 who has helped SEAL from the very If you have any queries suggestions or the hardest bit. We put the announce- As it was we had nearly 100 Amigans rush want to contact us for any reason please Mustek Paragon 600 Scanner .....22 beginnings with offering credit card ment on all the news sites and several the gig in just half an hour after opening. use one of the following: ScanQuix 5 ..................................23 paying facilities for subscribers of companies agreed to send out flyers to At the end of the day the final attendance EMail: [email protected] Scanner Software Roundup.........24 “Clubbed” magazine and distributing our all their customers and of course a big was about 190, which is fantastic for our WWW: http://www.seal-amiga.co.uk/ ArtEffect 4 ....................................26 flyers for both the user-group and maga- first show. Of course this is in no small part The Mediator PCI board got its first bonus was having a news article in UK showing at SEAL-O-RAMA Post: Clubbed, 26 Wincoat Drive, EZMouse PS/2 Adaptor ...............32 zine. in thanks to the brilliant support of Czech AmigActive (thanks guys). BENFLEET, Essex, SS7 5AH, Amiga News, Amiga.org, Amiga Active Bubble Heroes .............................34 Only a few days after announcing the though I am assured it should reach us ENGLAND. But on the day we were pleasantly magazine and everyone else who helped Key to Driving Theory ..................35 show to the world we had several com- fairly soon). Telephone: +44 (0) 1268 569937 surprised when around 180 people to get the show known (I must point out PD Paradise.................................34 panies on board wanting to attend and (19:00 - 22:00 GMT only please). turned up, which I didn’t think was too here that Gary himself and Mick Sutton Blittersoft had a sexy looking Mediator PCI .....................................................40 co-sponsor which was a big relief I can Only Amiga Made it Possible bad for our first ever event. From per- were the guys behind the shows publicity running with a Virge graphics card, which tell you! Thanks to Gary Storm with his sonal comments, articles on mailing lists and obviously they did a great job, Ed.). looked great on a motionless screen. Clubbed is designed and laid out using: Support promotional tactics (I don’t know or and news groups it would seem that Unfortunately there wasn’t any application Hardware: ArtEffect 4 Tutorial........................29 wanna know how he did it), it was only a Setting Up Amiga 3000 most who came along enjoyed them- or game running at the time I was there to Top Tips........................................36 matter of weeks before we had ALL the see how it performed under working con- CyberStorm PPC/060 selves. From feedback I have had from SEAL members and exhibitors arrived at Pronet Step-by-step.....................38 tables booked and were looking to ditions, but it’s very exciting. The excellent CyberVision PPC exhibitors most of them did well enough our venue in Basildon at 10am to set up 64Mb RAM, about 8Gb HDD space. Back 2 Basics - Scripting.............41 reduce the number of tables exhibitors Payback game was on a separate AGA in sales to make it worth their while com- everything for the 12 noon opening. Solving Startup Problems ............43 were able to have (due to our hall not Amiga. Payback looks and plays brilliantly, Software: ing along, and nearly all have stated that Setting up was pretty painless, even PageStream 4 by Softlogik being the largest in the world), not only and it’s not even finished yet. You they would like to come along next year though there were lots of Amiga’s (and a ImageFX 4 by Nova Design that, Gary had managed to “persuade” couple of PCs - cough) being used for definitely have to buy this game if you liked Back Issues..................................46 if we decide to do it all again. Another Photogenics 4 by Paul Nolan all the companies attending to offer us various things. About our only problem Grand Theft Auto in any way. Final Writer 5 by Softwood Next Issue ....................................46 success was the games arena which prizes to give away! was that the parking area was being in- Gallery..........................................48 pulled the crowds and helped sales of Later in the show Bart, the programmer of There are also some essential utilities we vaded by the cars of a junior soccer team’s couldn’t live without: Directory Opus 5, Analogic did us proud by announcing games, particularly Heretic II which com- “Fubar” showed up to demonstrate his parents (who had a match on which we Cannon-Fodder/Command & Conquer- SGrab, MCP, Turbo Print 7, MakeCD. that every subscriber to “Clubbed” at the pletely sold out by the end of the day! didn’t know about), but after we bran- esque game, which looks very promising. Our thanks to the creators of this and all show would receive a free gift (a track- This game sold itself, by being played dished our baseball bats they disappeared the other great Amiga software out there. Eyetech had what I think was one of the Do The ball) which was not to be sniffed at plus people got to see what all the fuss was for some reason. Strange. Clubbed is entirely created on the Amiga, several hard drives. Thanks to them and about which no review or screenshot most interesting tables, thanks to the stock no other machines are used at any stage of Robert Williams (SEAL God and editor of all the companies (nearly all) who can do. This just proves how important they brought with them which included the design or layout process. Clubbed magazine) (BLUSH, Ed.) had donated prizes. Also I would like to men- shows are in an Amiga market where XSurf Ethernet cards, BVisions and their printed loads of posters for the exhibitors, tion that Hyperion gave us a copy of there are no shops demonstrating many A1200 products and the d’Amiga and also some for us to stick on the road- system that was running. Heretic II to give away as a prize for the Amiga wares. signs to show where we were. Mandyleigh Legalese Thing Heretic II competition and Amiga (Petro) Analogic didn’t bring anything to demo, but Write In summary I would like to thank all the (my fiancé www.mandyleigh.co.uk), Dave The views expressed in this magazine are those gave us two A1200 Magic Packs and had a few bargains, including 17” Compaq of the author of each piece, they do not exhibitors for their support and the (not my fiancé) and myself went and il- We’d like to make Clubbed more “in- loads of promotional goodies, even V70 monitors for £120. I grabbed myself necessarily reflect the views of the editor, other people who turned up not knowing what legally plastered the signs up with some contributors or SEAL. teractive” so we need your input! though they didn’t attend the show. one of those baby’s. Yum. to expect. Without doubt the heroes of gaffer tape. We even had a police car drive Please Note: Clubbed is produced by SEAL Crystal Interactive Software brought by us as we were doing it, but they didn’t Got a question you’d like answered the day were the SEAL members who Forematt Home Computing brought along members in their spare time, while we will always along a special SEAL-O-RAMA version stop to beat us up, which was a shame.