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• Amiga News 5 * Go Forth and program 20 All the latest Amiga happenings Jforth free for the taking. here and over-seas. Why not give it a try ?.

• Amigafest 98 9 • CAOS Original OS (Part 2) .. 23 Melbourne to have Amigafest A trip back in time when Amiga in October (Win a ). was just the new kid on the block.

Amiga Games News 8 * SoundProbe Revisited 26 A full page about new games Geoff with a new version of being released for your Amiga. SoundProbe the sound editor.

CU says "See-You-Later" .... 10 AAG Subscriptions 30 CU Amiga magazine to close. Why not have MG delivered in October to your door each month ?

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The Arsi afen Amiga Welcome back to another thrilling network. If this is your bag let me Otte Is a grassroots instalment of "Editorial Dribble". know. natation aerated for the You may recall in last month's purpose of keeping the Amga dream dye n episode the slightly eccentric Amiga International are Australia and beyond editor fell to his knees with hands expressing their support by clasped asking for help with providing four Amiga 1200HD The apttas expresed n organizing the AmigaFest89 show. packs as prizes for the show and Stales amide, reviens Well the response had been we will have a stack of other and lettes are solely the promising, but. hardware/software goodies to give reponsbity of the authors away. ad do not necessaiy We really need all you Amigans reflect the position of AAG to prise yourself off the keyboard A number of Amigans who are tettes to the editor and lend a hand or two. We need travelling interstate to be at the are invited lettes may be a team of around 10 persons to show have asked if we can help edited to meet editorial help setup on the Friday night out with organizing taaulrenents and Saturday morning as well as accommodation. So Melbourneans packup on the Sunday after the if you have a spare bed/couch let Eakin show. If you can help please let us know and we can pass on the Michael Snit me know. details. Likewise if you need a place to stay over the two days Write Mdnad Btrak During the show we need a crew let us know. Michad Czika to help with organizing the Andy gNtel seminars, contests and I am abit disappointed with the Daniel Heidi miscellaneous stuff. If you can lack of response from the Tony Horgan help in any of the above please usergroups, hey guys where's that Geoff Mia contact in on 02 4736-8055 or Amiga community sprirt? get Marin Randal email to [email protected] involved. If you have a good idea for the show let me know about Amigans unable to attend the it. show in person will be able to Adve'tisixg Adve t sI g rates available on visit via the Internet using video Well its time to wipe the dribble app cation Al copy may be conferencing and irc. We need off the monitor and hit the print edited condensed or refused some net-wise Amigans to help button. "See you at the show: ! for ptbication with maintaining the Amigafest98 website and during the show our

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ArtEffect Upgrade In less than 2 hours, ( at approximately 11:30 (am) Hrs EST Haage & Panner have released a (USA)) the Jforth download site upgrade for ArtEffect 2.6. The new was 'deluged' with hundred's of version has locale support for download requests, overwhelming English, Spanish, French, Italian, the system. A secondary server Portuguese and Czech. Available has now been brought on-line free on their webpage at www.haage-partner.com/e.htm as both it and Amiga Format have The primary site is still :- Haage & Partner are also in the been very supportive of this www.softsynth.comlforth process of moving to a larger company in the UK. As you may location, from Monday, 27th July. be aware we are working with You can also try ftp'ing the • Access Innovations to bring the secondary site :- ftp.calweb.com Their new details are: New SiamesePCl Amiga card, or directory iusersnh/haas HAAGE&PARTNER Siamese v4 to the market. Once Computer GmbH this product is ready I believe it Mike Haas said "I must say, I was Schlo6bomer Weg 7 can rejuvenate the Amiga market surprised that there were enough 61479 Glashuetten Germany into a good niche and take the downloads to max Phil's site° Phone +49 - 6174 - 96 61 00 Amiga OS places it has-never Fax +49-6174.966101 been, i.e. Into PC's and Alpha's. Phil Burk " I'm amazed. I never hope that the Amiga community Imagined their were this many will not fragment and instead keep Amiga-heads (programmers) still in touch via the many great web Jforth Overload out there" sites including ours :) and register Following the official their interest in continuing to announcement of the release of The final 24-hour tally was server support the companies that are JForth as freeware, their logged as 1,649 hits as people left in the market place. Please download site was inundated with continued to try and get on the understand, no dealers, no Amiga. requests from Amigans, eager to site. Likewise, no Amiga customers try out this dynamic programming and no dealers. language most have only read about. Phil Burk "I'm getting Siamese Systems We have also decided to drop the swamped, I'm getting a hit a price of Siamese v2.5 to 69.95 minute" By 11:30, the site had all Limited Continues pounds (around so that when the but stopped feeding the ravenous, Support - new Arladne card hits the streets hungry hoards that had very shortly then our software will Following the events that have descended on it. Effectively, the be cheaper to save you money to been going on, and the changing site was dead between 12:00 and go towards the Ethernet card. Also fortunes of the Amiga market, I 19:00 all Siamese software owners will wish to reaffirm my companies get a discount from their future support for the Amiga platform for It took until 19:05 until some relief upgrade to the Siamese PCI card as long as we are able. Things are came when a secondary (ftp) site and processor. Stephen Jones very difficult obviously and the was announced from Mike Has. news about CU Amiga is very bad, Wn' fluat'cattas fiAsstga ÿagette 1lagaat 9~ 5 Siamese Remote Hutchings, Gary Peake, Sam Stickland, Don Cox, Stephane V2.1 Fix Desrosiers, Carl Sassenrath, Due to a problem with some early Mario Saittim, Flemming versions of the Siamese Remote Steffensen amongst others has Amiga v2.1 software, a patch was offered the channel support. And released a few weeks ago. As it I'm sure many more of the 2. Send this mail. You will receive seems to have cured the prominent Amiga personalities will a confirmation mail asking If you connection problem experienced join the Helpers Crew. are sure you want to join. Follow on some modern PC serial ports, the instructions in this mail and we have now put this file on the you will be added to the aUML. www.siamese.co.uk web site for The official 3. Have fun! Upon joining, you will download. Please go to the receive a post welcoming you, support section for the Amiga amigaUni telling you how to UNsubscribe, Siamese products and follow the and detailing the rules. We look Instructions. mailing list forward to your company and Need to talk? Got something to postings. say, but nowhere to say it? Do you want to talk to other Amiga Amiga Help & News owners? You need to join the Asimware Channel aUML. Aided by my mailing list colleagues Simon "SImD" Dick On friday 31/8/88 the Official Innovations Inc. and Mark "Tecno" Wilson, the list Amiga Help and News IRC is a public list for anyone Releases Channel will be launched in subscribed to it to make postings channel- #Team"AMIGA on and receive answers. In the last MasteriSO v2"1 beyondirc.net. The Amiga half-month, I counted 100 posts, Community Liason Group (ACLG and the traffic can only increase. Asimware is proud to announce made up of representatives of the To become a part of the aUML, the release of MasterlSO v2.1. JMS/TAIICOAIUGN/Ainc) Is proud and join people such as myself, This is a maintenance update for to present the (Ainc) Official Gary Peaks, Alan Crandall, and the MasteriSO v2 package. In this Amiga Help Channel. The Amiga CU Amiga PD.Net reviewer Dave release, Asimware have added Help Team is formed to provide Stroud, just follow these oh so support for the following drives: software/hardware and developer simple, but oh so rewarding - Hi-Val series support of ANY nature for instructions: - HP 7110 CD-RW drive Amigans worldwide. The channel 1. Send an e-mail with a blank - HP 7200 CD-RW drive will also be used for online subject line to -JVC XR-W2010 CD-R drive conferencing with topics ranging majordomo@amigau niverse. ml.org, - JVC XR-W2012 CD-R drive from OASYS to the open Amiga with "subscribe auml" in the body. - JVC XR-W2020 CD-R drive system. These conferences will be If you are subscribing an address - JVC XR-W2022 CD-R drive announced separately. People different to the one you're -JVC XR-W2040 CD-RW drive like: fleecy moss, Dave Haynie, currently using, add that address - JVC XR-W2042 CD-RW drive Joe Torre, Dr.Peter Kittel, Ben on the end. - Memorex CRW-620 CD-RW

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J 1 Eternity Announces Alive Mediasoft New Email-Based Announces ~ Fantasy Game Putty Squad We proudly present our new Putty Squad is coming to the project. ETERNITY will introduce Amiga! Yes that's right - Putty Napalm Demo Out. a new game for Amiga and PC at Squad is finally going to be At last, the moment you have all the Amiga fair in Cologne. You will released courtesy of Alive been waiting for, the Napalm find us in the ACT/ETERNITY Mediasoft. This little platform demo is available. boot. This new kind of strategic- game caused quite a stir in the game has both an innovative Amiga community when it was Weighing in at quite a hefty 6.5Mb concept and design. It's named dropped by its creators upon its most certainly not the smallest "Tales of Tamar". Basically its an completion of the game. Ever demo ever released, however, Internet-Fantasy-Game using since then, Amiga owners have this is such a fine game there is Email to place your moves for the been crying out for someone to no point not doing the game playing rounds. It's a game like take It on and get it justice and releasing a tiny demo. "Kaiser", "Fantasy-Battle", or released....well, their waiting is So, what do you get to see I hear "Hanse" and combines this kind of over! Putty Squad Is 100% you asking? Well, you get 10 game with the Internet. The complete. It will be released on minutes in which to complete technology of the game makes It disk for the A1200 with a what seems a realatively easy possible to play with a nearly possibility of a CD-ROM version. mission, destroy the enemies Infinite number of players within Putty Squad is hard-drive base. Well, let me tell you now its the world named "Tamar" Installable and Is compatible with not that easy and its unlikely you'll controlled by the ETERNITY- 060 and 030 . Testing is complete it in the 10 minutes you Server. You may fight against the currently underway on 040 and are given, however, it does give computer as well as against other PPC. you a good insight to what a good players. The game is fully game this is. compatible to the PC-Version. Like The releâse date of Putty Squad other Fantasy-Worlds "Tamar" depends on the response we get What you have seen of this game knows other races like orks and from the users. We would be so far is nothing, any earlier elves. The player takes control pleased to receive the support of demos or screenshots should be over his own realm and has to anyone who wants us to release it. totally ignored as this game has make It big, strong and wealthy. A simple e-mail saying "yes - I changed so much since they were It's possible to make a would like Putty Squad" or released. As I'm sure you know, progression on to emperor. Other whatever will be great, this way we the game Is playable in two races will be played by the can get a feel for the sort of resolutions, 320x240 and computer. For further information demand there will be. E-malls 640x480. The lower resolution is about our game you will find on should be sent to: good enough in Itself but the our new homepage: [email protected] game really shines when you play etemity.amiga-software.coml using the high resolution. •

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* aqop0 4 Amiga 24th - 25th I200HD to be WON October 98 at the Show of Albert Park pôotsheésPrizkes Check Back Cover For Ticket Details CU Amiga Magazine CU Amiga to close in October Closure FAQ Q: Why Is CU Amiga closing? A: Because it is no longer making a profit and therefore cannot Sorry for the perma-grin. continue to be published. It's not appropriate to this announcement. Q: How can the best selling It is with great regret that I have to Inform you that the October Amiga magazine not make a 1998 issue of CU Amiga will be the last ever published. CU profit when other smaller Amiga Magazine recently dipped into a state of unprofitability, magazines manage to do it? from which it looked unlikely to emerge. The decision to close A: Smaller magazines have the magazine was taken by EMAP in light of the magazine's different publishing set-ups, overall financial performance and the lack of prospects for any different costs and different immediate or short term recovery. distribution channels. Many are run at a slight loss or at break- It is ironic that CU Amiga should close as the world's best even by dedicated people as selling Amiga magazine, but recently its financial returns have extended hobbies. CU Amiga Is started to outweigh its overheads. While it has been published by a major magazine customary for costs to be cut In order to stave off the closure publishing company (EMAP), and of magazines, It was decided that CU Amiga would be laid to as a Publicly Limited Company rest without suffering the indignities of having half its pages (PLC) EMAP must show its removed and the remainder printed on toilet paper in black shareholders that it Is making their and white. Neither will it be sold off to another company to be money work, which means they published on a shoe string and run into the ground. cannot publish magazines that make a loss. EMAP are a multi The CU Amiga editorial team were obviously very sorry to billion pound international hear the news and would like to pass on their sincere thanks corporation; they have stuck with to everyone who has helped make CU Amiga such a success the Amiga as long as they could. and so much fun to work on over its many years of existence. Much smaller firms left years ago claiming the market was too small Tony Horgan for them. Editor, CU Amiga Magazine Q: Why are costs not cut in order to save the magazine? A: That's not what CU Amiga is about. We have always tried to

~ duatutelas deatga galette t1a9.at 98 make CU Amiga a watchword for made by any publisher that would Q: So is it time to pack the quality. The editorial staff and our compromise the magazine so that Amiga away for good? publishers feel it is better to leave it would no longer be the CU A: Nol Keep on keeping on and on a high note than continually Amiga you currently know. EMAP we'll see you soon in happier reduce the size of the magazine, have made the decision that they times. We have been a point of remove the disks, reduce staff and want to close CU on a high rather contact for the Amiga community, investment in the title to keep it than sell the name on to let but we are not the Amiga, just a going regardless of quality. another publisher exploit. magazine about it. New products will go on being available, and Q: Why don't the staff all take a Q: Will CU Amiga return when your old ones will work just as well pay cut? the new Super Amiga Is without CU Amiga in the A: Would you? And where would it released? newsagents. end? A: We hope so, although we cannot make any promises on that Q: How do I contact you about Q: Why have you lead us to one. That decision will be in the anything? believe the magazine would not hands of our (ex) publisher A: Please do not email any of our close? (EMAP). personal mall accounts with your A: We have always been honest comments or queries. We and said that there would come a O: Can I take this opportunity to anticipate a lot of mail coming in time (if things did not pick up) thank the team for their over this, and we still have one when the magazine would no dedication to the magazine and more issue to produce - flooding longer be profitable. No-one knew the Amiga community? our mailboxes will make this when that time would be. We have A: Of course you can. Thank you. harder. You can send us email on been making money until very [email protected] - we recently - this has turned out to be Q: And what about us? will welcome your comments and one summer lull too much for us. A: Well, there's always Amiga will be printing a selection of them Format (as far as we know at this in the last (October cover dated) Q: Will "CU Amiga" be turned point anyway). Nick and Ben will issue. The general@cu- into "CU PC"? look after you. We really are very amiga.co.uk address and the A: No. sorry to have to leave you like this. [email protected] We would all love to go on working addresses will remain for a little O: I have a subscription. What on the magazine well into the while yet, and while we cannot happens now? future but it's just not possible. promise answers in the future, A: You will be refunded for the One way or another we'll be someone will be looking in on outstanding issues. Follow this link around when the Super Amiga those accounts. Obviously our for details. surfaces, even though it most normal section related mail (Q&A, likely won't be a Class of 98 style backchat) will not be dealt with Q: Why Isn't the magazine sold reunion of the whole team under any more. Please do not mail us to a publisher who can make a the old banner. with technical queries in the profit from it? future, there will be no-one to A: Sacrifices would have to be answer them. vFwatt-anew Amiga. ÿa;ette flfrr.tt 9P TI Wordworth 7 Micro _Review by Michael Czajka

Wordworth is the Amiga's WP Wordworth 7's improved How much? favourite word processor. Now RTF is of interest. Unfortunately If you too would like a full It's just moved from version 6 to the "What's new" section was version of Wordworth 7 it will version 7. I was so impressed silent on exactly what the set you back $90. However with v6 that I didn't dawdle and improvements were. even better value is WW6 which hot-footed it down to my local can be purchased for around computer shop and handed $120 as part of the Digita Office over $60 for the upgrade CD. Automatic Spell suite (Datastore2, Organiser2 Checking and MoneyMatters 4). Major improvements are: Correct your mistakes as you • Datastore is now my favourite Improved RTF type. WORDWORTH draws a database because of its ease of (Rich Text Format) little red squiggly line under the use! I do the North West Amiga 'automatic spell checking. problem word to alert you to a User Group membership on it. 'pop-up menus problem. This is a great feature. • Organiser is one of those programs I never imagined to RTF Pop-up menus be useful until I used it. I love RTF can be considered as Double click the right mouse the Address book section in ASCII (American Standard for button to get context sensitive particular. Wonderful value for Computer Information menus. Not bad! Unfortunately money! If you squeeze your Interchange) with the lot i.e. it seems that when this option is local dealer you should be able ASCII is a text only format that used the main menus become to get them to bundle the W W7 can be read by any computer. slightly confused and you can upgrade ($60) with the office Unfortupately ASCII files don't have trouble dragging them pack for a favourable amount. have any formatting Information! down. I've turned the pop-up RTF is ASCII with most of the menus off to avoid this. Where do I get it? formatting information left in: At the moment the only dealer font name, font size, font style, Wordworth combines many of I'm aware is importing WW7 is justification, paragraph indents, the best features of a word Vince at Computa Magic. tabs, footers, headers, processor and a desk top Alternatively ordering direct endnotes and more. publisher. It has a wonderful from the UK over the phone on-line help section in the using your Visa card is Have you ever tried to export or menus. I wish more programs becoming a common import a document from one had a section this informative. occurrence for many Amigans. program to another? Found that Visa is cheaper and faster than your program doesn't have an There are very few bad things a Bank cheque or postal order. export/import feature or if it you can say about Wordworth. Digita can be reached on +44-1- does then it lacks an It didn't handle scanned pictures 395 270 273 or e-mail appropriate export/Import very well. It refused to display a [email protected]. module? Found that what you few formats. It did eventually Remember VISA numbers may get on screen is not what you accept jpegs but, printed them not be securely transmitted over started with? If you use more poorly. I think it may have been the internet unless your using than one Word Processor (WP) experiencing problems with some kind of encryption system. or any of the other computer large graphics file sizes. This platforms (Mac & IBM primarily) has been a problem with both •• •• and want to move files from Final Writer and Wordworth for computer to computer or WP to as long as I can remember.

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The very first issue of Amiga Transactor - spun off from the original Transactor - featured an article by Andy Finkel, then the Software Manager at Commodore-Amiga. Fortunately, the article survived, although Amiga Transactor didn't. It's interesting to contrast the state of AmigaDOS then and now, especially in comparison to the CAOS specs. Thanks to Andy - and an intrepid Amiga owner who typed in the text and sent It to Andy- ViewPort is able to reprint that article in its entirety. So set the WayBack machine for 1988, and read on...

Continued from last month. scatter-loading was not (at the relocatioNcompaction algorithm of time of the spec I'm using) part of the memory manager. Segments I mentioned the package files in the CAOS design, the CAOS also could undergo a crude form the above list. What exactly are memory manager needed a way of swapping: they could be read in they? Simply this: a package file is to cope with fragmentation. If a from or written out to a a method used to describe the sub-region became fragmented, preallocated disk file. Believe it or load and run time memory CAOS would attempt to perform a not, the AmigaDOS SegList gives environment for an application by compaction and garbage almost as much functionality. giving the user a way of binding collection of regions. First, it would Except for the relocation type of application program and data files delete sub-regions as volunteer segment and the associated in an easy to manage form. This is overlay candidates. If this failed to memory manager, you can pretty something we lost when we went regain enough memory, sub- much play these same games with to AmigaDOS, and it's something I regions with no users (libraries Seg Lists. think we should look at putting In and devices with accessor counts Mother important task (sorry) that of zero, for instance) would be Now we get to the hard stuff - the CAOS wa Intended to perform deleted. If this failed, a special . This is the area that was memory management. entry point would be called for should differ most from Looking at the current OS one relocatable and unloadable AmigaDOS. Providing a file may note that Exec has a rich set subregions. If this failed, the user system is the most important goal of primitives for dealing with would be treated to a Guru (or an of a disk . CAOS memory. CAOS added some out of memory requester) used a file concept just like additional functionality that AmigaDOS - a file being an AmigaDOS doesn't have (and When a program needed to abstract data object, with a set of some that it does). manage memory within the access methods, that appears to CAOS-allocated subregions, the the user to be a consistent data CAOS basically provided well- program would think of memory in stream regardless of its underlying managed regions of memory. terms of segments. Segments storage form. Many, many Within this region of memory, the could be marked as relocatable or computer systems have happened CAOS memory manager would fixed, permanent or reusable. The on this concept. reign supreme (somewhat Tike CADS memory manager would grabbing a portion of memory with attempt to compact relocatable CAOS supported four types of the Exec AllocEntry call). CADS segments and delete reusable files: ordinary files, directory files, would then manage the memory segments when memory got tight. image files, and special files. An within that sub-region, allocating Non-relocatable segments would ordinary file is used for data sections for code, data, program be kept together at either the top stack, and so on. Obviously, or bottom of a region, to avoid fragmentation could set in. Since catastrophic failure of the s¢uataal[aK ffrrrlga gayette lrrasyuat 98 23 In the Beginning was Part Two Continued ,10 storage. The data can be anything though. It's one of the clever time, link count, permissions - ASCII, binary, whatever. There is things I wish we had with the (read, write, execute, locked), type no system-imposed structure on current DOS. (Fortunately, I think (directory, printable, non-printable, the contents of an ordinary file. I've got a way to retro-fit this onto and so on), user ID, size, and Ordinary files are typed as well, to AmigaDOS.) Special files are blocks allocated to the file. Image aid CAOS and the user in treated just like ordinary files, but and special files might not understanding the files' content. don't generally represent an maintain all of the information; An ordinary file might be typed as interface to a storage device. They defaults - you know, lies - are containing special graphic are used to provide standard returned when an application information, text, program code or access to I/O devices. CAOS program interrogates the file program data, for instance. In the allows file names of up to 30 system about one of these files. case of an ordinary file of text characters. A path can be Files may be opened for read, type, the only limit imposed Is that specified using the 'P character. write, or append operations. Block no text line shall be longer than Both absolute (from the volume and character operation may be 512 bytes. root) and relative (to the current supported. You can also seek to directory) paths are supported. any particular byte in an ordinary A directory Is a file used to map The reserved file name ':' refers to file. Image and special files file names to actual data. They are the current directory. The reserved disallow this, though. treated differently from ordinary file name'.' refers to the parent of files In that there is a system- the specified or current directory. System directories, like / (the imposed structure for their A path (including file name) root), /dev, and /Exec are special contents, and they are protected couldn't be longer than 255 directories where the system against overwriting. A directory characters. CAOS supports both generally keeps its special files, may contain the name of another hard and soft links. A hard link is Image files and so on. Let's go directory file, and so on - a tree file just a pointer to the internal data right to the proposed limits on the system is supported. structure of a file (actually, a CAOS file system (always a directory under CAOS would be popular means of comparison). Image files provide a symbolic an array of hard links). A soft link Maximum file size is one method of binding to system references a file by using the file megabyte; maximum name size is internal data objects. CAOS would name and doing text substitution. 30 characters. Maximum path size use these files to give file system- (For example, if the file system (including name) is 255 characters style access to internal system was asked by a user program to (but may have been increased to objects like libraries, devices, Open a file called "library", which 512 with enough demand). interrupt chains, etc. This would was actually a soft link to Maximum number of files would have allowed a standard high- "/exec/lib/library", the file system have been one quarter of the level method of dealing with these should substitute the name number of blocks (about 440 on a low-level objects. The file system "/exec/lib/library" before doing the floppy); maximum number of open would have acted as a symbolic Open.) files would have been 16 per address space. process, and the maximum length CAOS maintained useful file of softlink text substitution would Image files were considered an information, like a description field have been the same length as a 'option' - special pseudo-device (up to 255 characters of path. files might have been used information for reference instead. I really like the concept, purposes), creation time, update To Be Continued

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Since my review of SoundProbe a installed were virtually the same soundtracks, the speed has few months ago , I have had the as the new versions so the improved a great deal. In my opportunity to check out the latest software ran correctly. It was only review of SPI, I recommended upgrade - SoundProbell and as after I received SoundProbell with turning off the UNDO function the saying goes,'the best just got a completely NEW set of libraries when dealing with large files but, better'. that I had problems but I am providing you aren't in a rush, you pleased to say that this has now can ignore this with this later been rectified and I must version although obviously it is a DEPRESSED! compliment Dave O'Reilly for his lot faster with Undo switched off. As a 'downer', the version of SPIT persistence in helping get to the Whilst waiting for a 23 meg file to which I received worked fine on bottom of things. This is one of Mix with a smaller one direct from my 030 but crashed every single those times when it isa.oleasur han dri a on the tower, I tested a time I used it on my 060! Thy to netipa of (the ga slig ly mailer fl on the 030 speed of manipulation on t . 030 c{lmmunit , as é support a• d withd t U . ofrj bif nia 15.5 was impressive and I couldn wait (((III. lLier,td!'inessi~s nil totionef keg to .14-YNrper 2 to try a version on m ;6z It 7- *) mi ~1 d r 3 (050 - actually took éliNe~• cut In the the problem\ Ma P_ re DtR k2,5171\~i1~ e ,'•k 20 back and fd -ightl'pown to •busjnes@ SPII is everb author, Qave brilljdlit o0- sNpe ' times as he made use lé r RAM 'them dol ~ drive more ' entu bit of thosAre I traced • libradb t», sugges4 `tit althoug • • ï" any w 1 r+rwtiti file The oiig a ea 9 Soundprobe derft tot me by h d tht• ..rt ' • • :I g- t = y fr • b, the distributors was actually a pre- Graph type, optons for each of software has to find the elevant release version sent by mistake. three different types of g aph, a bit by skimming through it (all This version installed the SP complete set of display op ions to these files appear to be recorded libraries to the system Jibs drawer change virtually EVERY setting sequentially), finding the exact from where it accessed them. within the sample w ndow, range before actually being able to Shortly after, I received the proper completely redesign the colour act upon it is quite some task. release version which actually palette and last but not least, a Soundprobell is a great sets up it's own assigns as it is run Redraw button for the waveform. improvement in this area and, for and uses libraries in the program me at least, now makes it more worthwhile making a soundtrack drawer rather than the system libs. From my last time using it for for video on the Amiga by cutting/ Fortunately, the libraries already intensive manipulation of video

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Edit menu. The second general In sample 1, fade out the last ten noise sample was one where the seconds of the sample by It is possible to mix samples sounds actually decreased after dragging a Range box over the together at varying volume levels someone called for silence. By ten seconds and select Process/ and in different places - If that cutting out everything except for Volume/Fadeout. Make sure you sounds a little complex, let me the decrease in conversation, this leave the Range selected. explain one effect I tried out for a left ten seconds with the sound video I was working on. I needed fading out in the last five. The Select the whole of sample 2 by a track of 1 minute 38 seconds in gavel banging had virtually no dragging a Range box and then duration of general people noises conversation behind it and was Copy it using the Edit Menu. but it had to finish with the comparatively soft so I had to banging of a gavel and then room increase the volume - it is possible Click on the window of Sample 1 silence. This consisted of three again to increase or decrease to select it as the Destination. separate samples:- volume with a single menu item to From the Process Menu bring up Double or Half but there is a the Mix requester and set the 1) General noise Volume requester (from the same Source and Destination sliders to 2) General noise fading down but Menu item) which allows you to 100%, make sure the Limiter and with room ambience in the silence add, say, 50% which is what I did. Max Level tickboxes are off, 3) The gavel banging. The length of thissample is 5 secs. change the Operator to ADD and click on Mix. All three samples were loaded in So, we have three samples now - separate windows - the general general noise for 1m 38secs / The two samples are now noise one was cut down to 1m noise for 5secs followed by a combined with sample 1 fading 38secs by simply dragging a box further 5secs fading / and a gavel. out at the same time as the over the extra and Erase from the overlaid sample two fades to background noise.

Drag a Range box around the whole of sample 3 and Copy as in the earlier example - now drag a 5 second Range box over sample 1 FINISHING ten seconds from the end. It is possible to drag a Range box from right to left as well as the 'normal' way.

Bring up the Mix operator as above and the settings should be just as you left them - click MIX and it's complete.

28 rircabcalta.a Amara 9a3ette rAu9aat 98 \ Load/ Save/ Remove and Hide use it for making up soundtracks 07 M °N_ sample windows. The sample for videos like what I do. (I play as I've tried messing around with windows themselves all have a well though...) other effects and it is possible to size gadget on them as well as a create a 'dream type' sound effect vertical Zoom so re-arranging With quite a lot of the effects it is in around 30 secs on SPIT in the them is quite easy. I should also possible to manipulate a same way as the above example. mention that ALL the windows sound source in real-time - feed in including the tools are floating so the sound from the News, add an Using a single sample, say a short you can position them anywhere effect and play it back through an music clip, select 15 secs at the you like. When quitting, the amp. It's probably about the only end of the sample in a Range box, positions are saved so the tools time you'll get a laugh from the Copy it and using the Copy Buffer windows open in the same place News these days! to New Project, this will open a next time you use SP. new window containing the buffer. Some of the settings are so Range the whole sample and complex you do need to be an Fade IN - select Echo/ Tube from REcoRON. engineer to understand them at the Effects menu and you should With anything less than an 060, it first but, playing around on a fairly have a strange sounding sample! is wise to sample at around 22050 fast machine or using shorter Select Edit/ Copy. cycles as, although SP works at samples can quite quickly give 44100, it does tend to tie your you a good idea of the resulting Go back to sample 1 and Fade machine up and this makes it effect. Out the Range you have selected. impossible to click-stop with the Now Mix as above and listen to mouse. Once recording has been But for simple fun, cutting and the sound as it changes from a completed, however, you can pasting with the odd effect can be normal music clip to a hollow, increase the cycle rate to higher very rewarding and as far as all dream-like effect. than your recorded rates to make the extra effects and processes them compatible with other are concerned, just because they samples. Recording can be are there doesn't mean you HAVE LTERNgo started AND stopped with a noise There Is also a Project Mixer in to use them - pick out the ones level setting from within the the Display menu which will allow you enjoy the results of and use Sampler window but default is to you take make up a fret of samples those. click on Record - what else? open and mix then at varying Turning on the System button levels and varying places with In short, Soundprobell is well within Sampler allows your themselves or new projects using worth the money of either the full machine to multitask but on a all the samples, ranges of version or an upgrade if you vanilla A1200, let the machine samples or user settings for length already have version One - I can have it's own way - it can use all and offset only criticise it for one thing - the power It can get! there's too much in I hope I'm making myself clear FP-'-1- Geoff Milnes. It is possible to open dozens (is Sound sampling and manipulation there a metric equivalent of a can be (and SHOULD be) fun - dozen I wonder???) of sample there are countless effects and windows which can soon cover settings that can be added to the tool windows - so a Projects samples in Soundprobe, including Window can be opened to handle a 128 Band Graphic Equalizer, them atilt, From within this enough to run a proficient home Window you can Open/ Delete/ recording studio - or you could just

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