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I would' like to introduce myself my name is Gary Colligan, I have if you can bring your AMIGA let us been a member in the A.A.U.A. for over 2 years, with the last 12 months on know NOW. all members that help the committee as Special Projects Officer, I would also like to thank Geoffrey get in free! t Lambert for his contribution to the A.A.U.A during his Presidency and hope Phone Me on 6288922 or Bob on Jeff will continue the good work for the A.A.U.A. 6705659 or Ray on (047) 514143 with the times you can help... A bit about my self, well my first computer was one of the first Vic 20 with 3K cost me about $399 plus Data Cassette, I learnt how to Program Basic on, it as I was not green with Basic having used PetBasic and Tandy Lets get behind the Basic on there machines it came easy. I then got interested in a C64 But My Wife and I opened a Video Library and we got an IBM it was the only one AmiFVR UM and make that did Video hires. (Wish I had an Amiga to do the video hires. then I would it Australia's premier not have to wait for reports each day I could have done them in the back ground as I was hiring out tapes.. Multitasking who needs its Weil I leaned Amiga show.... MsDra and IBM Basic. Then I got MY AMIGA (GREA'T`) with 1 meg, ex drive & 1084 and sold my IBM with the video shop. I now have a video movie wholesale business. The A.A.U.A. Amigaman BBS is now finished I thank Ron Carruthers I had my AMIGA for 3 years when someone came and borrowed it & for all his work on the ixxtrd and my new stereo and damage the front door getting in to get it. I hope to have hope he will continue the good work my new AMIGA 2000 very soon (will glue it to the bench this time) well for the A.A.U.A. that's me, If I can be of any help to you feel free to ring me. The NEW board will be set up very In this Newletter you will find all the Committee Members and there soon with a new bigger Harddrive Phone no:. If you want any information or help then call them and the lastest BBS Sofeware they are a good bunch and will give you all the help they can. running on an AMIGA 500...... It will have a new name Ray the Editor needs lots of articles to put in the Newletters would you like blank pages or lots of reading. so help Ray and send them in on a Tale AmiOZ BBS disk in an ascii file. we will then send you a disk back... If you think you (The Official BBS of the can't write anything why dont you and a mate write an article together, we all Australian Amiga User Association) play games sometime so do an article on the ones you play Utilities you use. Programs the good & the bad ones. WorkBench & CIS hints & tips tell The cost will be FREE to Members us the ones you use. PD Software what the best.. Send in your Pic. too of the A.A.U.A. and have lots of Let's all get in and help to make our A.A.U.A. Newletter the best one of the good stuff on it... there will be a Spe- users groups. cial BBS Disk with a Manual, Comm Program and Utilities all set I hope by now you all know about our AMIGA SHOW in June. it is up to go. cost $1 now call AmiForum iA.A.t T.A. Amiga Computer Show) It will be the . biggest Show we have ever put on, with lots and lots to see and buy. I hope to V4re now offer Payment of PD. Blank see you there. Disks and renewals by Bandcard The date for Am iFORIJM is SAT 30th JUNE and ring Bob for details Place PA TA TOWN HALL. Time 11AM TO 5PM. Cost $5... V4bll that's for now SEE YOU AT WE NEEDYOU!i!1! AmWorum V* need help with the show, can you help say 1/2 day or all day on the Sat GARY • PLEASE LEI' US KNOW NOW WITH THE TIMES YOU CAN HELP and

Page 2 JUNE 90 Well our Ami.Fourm Amiga Com- A Guide to the Exhibitors at AMIFOR1 M puter Show is not far away, by the time you read this it should be in a 1. ARTSCAPE STUDIOS - about 2 or 3 days. Lots of tutorial disks, graphic demo's running The date is Saturday 30th June. The 2. COMPUTER DISCOUNTS (M.A.S.T.) - time we let the public in is 11 am Third party hardware suppliers. See the latest expansion units, Hard The cost to get in is $ 5 to all, MEM- disks and floppy drives. BERS WHO HELP WITH THE 3. GAINRUN - SHOW WILL GET IN FREE SW need lots of help Let me or Bob Authorised Commodore Repair Centre. know if you can help we need mem- 4. HARD DISK CAFE - bers to look after the people that will Sec the latest Software from Pactronics, Questor Mindscape. Demo's come in and man the door, sell tick- of music and Genlocks and Sharp Scanners. ets, set up the tables and lot a other . Sharp has generously donated a $2000.00 Scanner as a give away. th ings. 5. HARRIS HI-TEK - Sick of screen flickers, one of their screens will virtually eliminate this. The Association will be giving away 6.LOGIC'G- a AMIGA 500 and Monitor as a Retail supplier of all major software companies. prize, you must have a ticket to win 7. ROMAL COMPUTERS - We have Software from Ozisoft Re-inking machines for printer ribbons, heat transfer ribbons for print- Sharp is giving up a prize to give away, and lot's of other prizes from ing onto t-shirts. other companies to give away S. STRATEGIC STUDIES GROUP - The cost in stagging this event has Strategy games, major supplier of games worldwide. been great with lot's of things to get 9. UNIVERSITY of WESTERN SYDNEY - as well as LOT'S AND LOT'S OF Peter Shoruck showing the AMIGA's animation abilities using Sculpt TIME FROM YOUR COMMITTEE 4D. TO GET THE EVENT GOING. 10. PELC VIESLAW - As of this time, you will see a list of Developer of third party hardware for the AMIGA. the Software and Hardware people and the other things that will be at We will have a large video screen with video and audio. an Amiga will the show he set up to show Animation and Graphics on the big screen We hope you like our See equipment like floppy drives, hard disks, moderns, printers, gen- NEW CLUB MAGAZINE locks. digitisers, memory expansion plus lots of other things. We now use Professional Page V1.31 See 3D animation made see Sharp color scanners going . the new using Compugraphic fonts. - All set O.C.R.(Optical Character Recongnition) scanner from Pactronics up is done on a Amiga 500 with the Hi-Tek Monitor Filters will be selling at the show for only $30 new Imeg Fat Agnus chip and Educational Software Music software Mast with ther new Harddrive ?.mega of fast memory. At this time The Infenity Machine. The new Canon stili video cameras, kurta we use a Citizen GSX-140 Printer graphic tablets, colour splitters, Viditek Genlock, Vide-Amiga frame The next Magazine will be sent to a Grabbers and lots more ...... so Postscript laser printer.... We have heard on the If you have any ideas to help the SEE YOU AT THE grapevine that Commodore magazine please let us know.. AmiForum SAT 30th JUNE will be at the AmiForum Soar we hope to have Color in it with lots of new hardware to make it the best one Gary. May be a Amiga 3000....

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t However, the GSX-144 has the English, whenever just about any The Citizen GSX-140 is a really facility to move the tractor feed event occurs. Just about every con- "Up-Marker Personal Printer. mechanism to the "pull" position. tingency is covered. Even the paper Having 24 pins and colour is This allows thick stationery or labels lever being in the wrong position for very desirable, but what makes the to be fed from a special opening be- the type of paper in use, is noted! GSX-140 a top printer is the host of low the printer, thus preventing pre- Overheating of the print-bead features it possesses. venting labels from peeling off, displays a message, and stops print- when they go around the platen, and ing until cool enough, then starts For a start. there is not a single jamming. There is s small "optional printing again, all without any inter- "DIP Switch" to be seen. AU func- extra" stand available to allow the vention. tions and settings (of which there are paper to be put underneath the print- Citizen appears to have thought about 75 or so), are easily pro- er to allow this vertical feed mode, of everything. grammed by means of an LCD Dis- but failing this, you would probably One interesting feature is that play Screen. and six key switches on have to cut a slot in the table sup- the percent of the remaining print top of the console. porting the printer, to allow paper buffer is displayed while the printer entry! is "on-line". Paper parking is a standard fea- ture, enabling continuous or single sheet paper to be used, change over The Citizen GSX-140 is a really being accomplished by means of an easily accessed lever. A single sheet " Up-Market" Personal Printer. inserted is automatically pulled in. and set to top-of-form, which may Having 24 pins and colour is very desirable, but be temporarily or permanently ad- what makes the USX-140 justed in small increments, as de- sired. Cut sheet may have a different a top printer is the host of top-of-form to continuous paper, at features it possesses. the same time. Of course this is eas- ily changed as required. The single sheet feed guide is As the standard buffer is $K, The rotation knob for manually made to be laid down and used as a this gives a guide as to how long adjusting the paper, is very seldom separator to prei4ent the possibility printing will take. Note that in the required. due to the excellent control of printed continuous paper feeding 'graphics mode", only data for one available automatically, or by the back into the printer, and causing a line is sent to the buffer until each programming of the printer, or the paper jam. This guide is also marked line is printed, so the percent display console keys, or the application pro- for "Legal' or 'A4" paper. ensuring is not really useful in this mode. For gram in use at the time. By use of correct centring of the print, when big, continuous printing jobs, an op- the console keys, the paper may be used as a single sheet guide. tional 32K buffer extension is parked, ejected, form-fed, aligned to available. However, with the Amiga, the "tear-off bar" or moved up one Access to the print ribbon is by a print spooling program is more de- line ata time. lift-up cover, and replacement is sirable, as this achieves the same ob- simple enough to make it worth- jective, with greater flexibility. Continuous paper is normally while to change from colour to black fed by a "pusher" tractor, rather than ribbons, to save the expensive ($40 The use of four "Macros" is the usual pin-feed, with the resultant each) colour ribbon, when printing available. These macros are simply a accurate feeding and alignment. in black and white. Both black and convenient way of setting or pm- Normally continuous paper is fed in colour ribbons are supplied with the gramming to your own requiremen- from the rear, and when printed, is printer at the time of purchase. ts, and when set up and stored in fed over the top of the incoming pa- permanent memory, are available m per to form a stack behind the print- In operation, error messages will soon as the printer is turned on. Any .er be displayed on the LCD screen, in particular one of the macros may be

Page 4 JUNE 90 .lerk,w. ha ha ha ha the WOMB Ma made to load and run autumna-1 make suit eat tally at power-on, but any other may Printer Preferences have 'Graphic-1 What's black and hops around? be selected as required. All four "set to "Color". Slippy in a bushfire. macros are set to a "standard" set- Why have ducks got flat feet? ting when the GSX-140 is received. Although the GSX-140 has a dot To stamp out burning kangaroos. and may be reset to "standard" using capability of 360 x 360 dpi, the Ep- one of the menu options supplied. son-Q driver supplied with Kick- How do you know when an Irishman Changes may be made only to those Start Rel 1.3 will only go to 180 x has been using a computer ?? settings requiring changes. as other 180 dpi (in mode 3). This will cer- When you rind liquid-paper over the settings will remain unchanged. tainly be corrected in Release 1.4. screen ! ! ! Consequently, most macro changes and together with the "Compu- are quick and simple. For example, Graphic" system, will produce out- After the micro-surgeons conference in Macro-1 may be set to Roman font. put as good or better than the normal New York, the leading surgeons were in This may be changed to "Prestige", 300 x 300 dpi laser printers. the bar and, being drunk. they began to "Courier", "Sans, Serif" or "Draft% reminisce over their greater feats. First the English surgeon said "We had a as you require. without having to Well indexed, beautifully print- chap caught in some machinery at change any other information. ed and edited, the spiral bound Man- British Leyland last month and all that ual is informative and easy to read. was left of him was his little finger. I One point to note is that containing more than adequate in- constructed a new hand built that onto a the 'colour option" is formation, suitably illustrated. For new arm engineered a new body and ul- example. in the section on program- timately he was so efficient he put 5 not fitted to the printer ming macros. each example shows men out of work." when purchased, and the LCD screen for each step. With "That's nothing" said the American sur- comes in a separate this approach. it is hard to make a geon. "We had a worker trapped inside a nuclear reactor and all that was left of package. A change in mistake. Although it may seem difficult him was I hair from his head. I had to construct a new skull. a new torso and the macros is needed at fins, the learning curve is only a new limbs. Now. he is so efficient he before the colour couple of hours. and after this time. has put 50 men out of work." will work reference to the manual will be rare. "I can top that!" said the Australian sur- For quick reference, heavy card- geon. "I was walking down the street board "Quick Reference Guide" is when I caught a fart. I wrapped an arse- If you wish to change any other provided. This ten page foldout hole around it. built a body to match. parameters. such as "Starting Col- seems to have everything you need and it turned into Paul Keating. He has umn" or "Ending Column", this may to know to get the job done. put the whole bloody country out of be done at the same time. Saving the For those suffering under IBM. work!" macro makes the change remain a program disk is provided, with A reporter walked up to Stevie Wonder when the printer is powered off. Not which all printer settings may be and asked him bow it felt to be born saving allows the changes to be used changed from the computer. All the- only temporarily. For temporary blind, Stevie replied: "It could be worse. se software functions are available I could have been born black changes, such as font or colour. a on the printer itself. so the un- "Quick Menu" is provided which al- availability of the Amiga version is Mick has formed a dance band and they lows immediate change, available inconsequent. A section of the man- were working their first gig at the lo- only until the power is switched off. ual specifies the setting up for a few cal hall. Mick was very excited about it popular IBM programs, for anyone all and said to the trombone player. One point to note is that the really interested. "Paddy.. go outside and listen to what "colour option". is not fitted to the it sounds like." The trombonist went out and after a while came back ecstatic. printer when purchased,, and comes With four good looking letter "It's groat!!" he exclaimed. "you in a separate package. A change in quality fonts. colour, colour on de- should hear it' So the whole band the macros is needed before the mand and a powerful operating sys- went onside to listen... colour will work. If the colour is not tem, together with excellent con- Q.How many Irishmen does it take 'installed' in the macros, the only structional quality, the CSX- 140 is to change a lightbulb? colour selectable is black! The Man- incredible value at under $800. ual is clear on how to do this, but it A.Ten. One to hold and nine to turn Citizen, with a two year guaran- the ladder. is not obvious that colour has to be tee on parts and labour, apparently Send in your Jokes to us the best 'installed" to make it work. Also, think so too.a one will win a free disk

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Commodore Sets Course for A3000 uses 512k of ROM to hold the multitasking exec, system li- Multimedia With the braries, and disk operating system. Amiga 3000 Commodore also plans to upgrade the A50() and 2000's ROMS to Imagine the ideal multime- Goodbye, Flicker 512k. dia platform. It would have impres- The heart of the A3000 is The RAM controller dubbed sive graphics and sound. be easy to the new enhanced version of the Ramsey manages access to Fast use. and work transparently with so- custom chips. The enhanced Denise RAM on the motherboard. The phisticated video equipment. Throw chip can output 1280 horizontal pix- A3000 comes with 2 MB of RAM. 1 in a low-overhead multitasking els in four colours, and it sports a MB of Clip RAM and 1 MB of Fast operating system, and you'd have all new 640 by 480 pixel resolution RAM. It also comes with sockets the pieces you need to run sophisti- productivity mode. (Unlike the other that can hold up to 4 MB of Fast cated multimedia applications. high resolution modes, the produc- RAM using 4x256k-bit chips, or 16 You'd also have a Commodor- tivity mode is non interlaced) Being MB using 4x1 megabit ZIPS. There Amiga. programmable, Denise lets you mix is also empty sockets to take another different horizontal and vertical res- 1 MB of Chip RAM to bring it up to See power and price olution and also provides overscan. 2MB. article in this The new Agnus chip doubles the The A3000 doesn't use a issue. Ed. amount of chip ram to 2 megabytes. large external cache to speed Realizing this, Commodore The only chip not upgraded is Paula, memory access by the 68030. It has finally defined a focus for the which provides the Amiga's four does. however, handle both burst- Amiga line and staked its claim to voice sound. mode and page-mode access to Fast the emerging multimedia market. New to the graphics system RAM, A standard memory access to The centerpiece of C'ommodore's is a de-interlacing/scan doubling ca- Fast RAM involves two wait states, strategy is the new 68030 based pability (inbuilt flicker fixer). which while burst-mode can result effec- computer the Amiga 3000. takes interlaced high resolution tively in zero-wait-state perfor- screens and outputs them without mance. Under ideal circumstances, Bits and Pieces flicker to a 31.5 kHz VGA monitor. the page-mode can reach transfer The Amiga 3000 comes in As a result the A3000 produces a rates of over 33 MB per second. The two models. 3000/16, 68030/68881 rock steady high resolution display. Ramsey chip determines which based machine running at 16 Mhz, Unlike earlier Amiga's, which had a mode is appropriate for any particu- and the 3000/25. a 68030/68882 ma- 640 by 200 Workbench screen the lar memory access. chine that runs at 25 Mhz. Except A3000 can effectively use high reso- The A3000 comes with a for clocks and coprocessors lution 644) by 400 without additional staMaYd Amiga 3 l2-inch 880k- (68881.68882) the models are iden- hardware, byte floppy drive and an internal 3 tical. 1a-inch 50 MH 17-ms SCSI hard The Amiga 3000 is the first Motherboard Tour drive. There is also room for another Amiga with a native 32-bit architec- . The A3000 motherboard re- 3 1,2 disk drive, floppy or hard. ture. With the exception of the flects a high degree of inteigration. graphics system which uses a 16-bit In addition to the enhanced chipset, Expanding Your System bus running at 7.14 Mhz, all the in- the motherboard contains eight other The expansion backplane on ternal pathways in the A3000 are 32 proprietary chips. These include a the A3000 attaches to two sockets bits wide and use the processor's bus controller, a RAM controller, on the motherboard. The backplane clock. Commodore has also man- and a DMA controller The DMA supplies four Zone 3 slots. In addi- aged to make the external IID bus controller works in conjunction with tion, the backplane has two AT- capable of 32-bit transfers (Zorro 3) a SCSI (Small Computer Systems compatible slots inline with two of without losing compatibility with Interchange) controller chip to pro- the Zone slots, and a video slot in 16-bit (Zorm 2) cards. vide 32-bit DMA for SCSI I/O de- lime with a third. You can use the AT vices such as hard disk drives. The skits in conjunction widi the Bt}geBoard

Page 6 JUNE 90 card, which provides the r nodore has integrated ARexx into few key markets. The first of these Amiga with XT and AT compatibil- the operating system. ARexx is a is business. where Commodore ity. The video slot can be used with macro language that lets you share hopes the Amiga's multimedia capa- video effects generators and gen- data between two or more programs bilities will provide the kind of entry locks. equipped with ARexx message that desktop publishing gave to the The keyboard and two ports. ARexx allows you to create Macintosh. Central to the Com- mouse ports are located on the right "mega-applications" using stand- modore's business push is Amiga Vi- hand aide of the machine. On the alone Amiga programs. sk n, an icon-based authoring sys- back are a parallel port, a serial port, Amiga OS 2.0 also has a lot tem that lets anyone create interac- a floppy drive port, a SCSI port, two of new goodies for programmers. tive multimedia applications. audio ports (left and right channel), First, Commodore is at last includ- Also. Commodore is fatally a standard Amiga RGB port. and a ing standard file and font requesters acknowledging the importance of net- 31.5 kHz VGA video port. The with the Amiga. There is also a gad- working by providing software and VGA port is connected to the new get toolkit. This lets you integrate hardware solutions, either directly or deinterlace/scan doubling hardware. custom gadgets into the Intuition through third panties, For the short You can disable this hardware or ad- windowing system. It also provides term, this means Ethernet and third just its output with two controls on an object-oriented interface to gad- party X Window System server soft- the back of the machine. get programming Finally. 2.0 pro- ware (X111 from Gfx-Base). By the The most significant expan- vides a "hotlink" service that noti- middle of this year, it will mean sion connector in the A3000 is a fies your program about events of TCPIIP-NFS and NetWare client soft- 200-pin CPU slot. Although its in- interest to it. This is particularly use- ware. Beyond that. Commodore bas compatible with the 86-pin CPU slot ful when you change a Preference plans to support ARC set and FlashTalk on the 2000, it serves the same func- setting that your program must be mare and assorted etwork oper- tion. It permits you to upgrade the ating systems. 3000 with the next generation pro- The good news for Amiga 500 and 2000 Commodore also cessor, in this case the 68040 (Food owners is that they can be upgraded hopes that by in- for thought: The 68040 comes in a creasing its pene- 179-pin package.) and its descen- with the enhanced chip set too, and run tration into busi- dants. OS 2.0 programs written for the 3000. nesses through networking and Cleaning Up Workbench aware of. multimedia. it will attract more main- The A3000 comes with ver- Commodore designed 2.0 to stream developers to the system. sion 2.0 of the Amiga operating sys- be compatible with software written Commodore is also actively tem (1.4 with a new name). With for earlier versions of the operating pursuing the higher education and this version. Commodore has re- system. According to Commodore. government markets. in large part by worked both the look and feel of the programs'that abide by the rules will providing Unix in addition to the Workbench interface by upgrading run under 2.0. However. Com- new networking products. It is ac- or rewriting most of the underlying modore knows that everybody didn't tively porting Unix System V.4 to system. follow all the rules. and Commodore the Amiga. Even with the additional Among the improvements in is working with developers to fix cost of the operating system. the Workbench are Preferences tools for software that may break under 2.0. A3000 will make an inexpensive. setting your system configuration, The good news for Amiga yet powerful. Unix workstation. new Workbench menus, alternate 500 and 2000 owners is that they With a primary focus in window views, Adobe fonts, bit-map can be upgraded with the enhanced multimedia and secondary pushes in font scaling (Compu-graphics), hori- chip set too. and run OS 2.0 pro- education. government, and produc- zontal & vertical scrolling of the grams written for the 3000. tivity, Commodore has at last out- Workbench screen, a new front to lined a strategy that takes advantage back gadget, a new window selec- A New Beginning? of the Amiga's strengths. With the tion procedure, the ability to view The A3000 is an impressive A3000. it has produced the most ca- files that lack .info files, the ability machine, and Commodore is supply- pable multimedia platform you can to execute AmigaDOS commands ing it with strong support. in addi- get in a single box. If the machine without using the Shell, the ability tion to the 3000. Commodore is were the only criterion, I'd already to start an application by "dropping* preparing well over a dozen new call Commodore's strategy a success. a data file into it, and many new and hardware and software products de- improved utilities. In addition, Com- signed to position the machine in a

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seen more rain there than I ever than cyclone Tracy (a REAL blast In this article I make a have here. The sun shines 360 days and it almost brought the house claim to be A.A.U.A.'s a year, my daughter [3yrs] who was down), some of my neighbours were born in Sydney and cant over here not so lucky, But as all good country most isolated member at only four weeks old, screams and Australians we pulled through. and would wish any refuses to go outside when it does We have a choice of 2 tele- challengers to write an eventually decide to rain. vision and 2 radio stations, thank article to disprove And then, as in all deserts, god for satellites and my AMIGA. the wonderful gold and red land- During the summer months you my claim. scape is transformed The spinifex have a choice of watching cricket or blooms and to look across the desert cricket and during the winter you As your most isolated mem- plains you would think that you have a choke of football or football. ber, to find me, you would have to were looking across the Western Actually it is not my AMIGA, I have use a map a Australia (it always Plains of NSW, ( SORRY I AL- to share it with my children, wifes helps if you use a map of Australia MOST SHORTED THE KEY- orders. as you have trouble following direc- BOARD OUT....BRRRartrjustOUT.. tions on anything but), run up the blowing my nose and wiping the The temperature east coast to Mackay and go due tears out of my eyes). Of cause you ranges from a freezing west You will find me nestled into are soon brought back to reality if the western side of the Hamersly you try to walk into this sea of grass. 20 Deg.0 in the winter Ranges. Where the IRON MEN of as spinifex for all you people who (BRRR rrrr....SO RRY..h ad the NORTH W EST mine the all im- have never experienced the deserts to blow my nose again) , portant iron one. of Australia, is comprised of sharp to a brain frying 50 Deg.0 The town has a population needle like spines that can cut an un- of 900 including women children protected leg to pulp in a very short in mid summer. and dogs ( of course this census time ( who said that the only thing does not include the blow-in's. I bil- you can learn about in this newslet- What do I do with my lion flies 2 million snakes and 1 ter is computing. l'Il give you a na- AMIGA. of which I have only had hundred thousand cockroaches_ ture lesson as well). for a couple of months (I upgraded scorpions and other miscellaneous The temperature ranges from a C-64 which I had for 5 Yrs.). insects.). I Know, some of you will from a freezing 20 Deg C in the The initial burst of game playing is be saying that you have less people winter ( BRRRrrrr....SORRY..had to over and I have now settled down to in your town, but I've only just start- blow my nose again) . to a brain fry- the business end of things, studying ed, so give me a chance. All the food ing 50 Deg.0 in mid summer. No, files, exploring start-up sequences ( meat. vegetables. beer, etc.) has to you don't have to break an egg onto and the general way in which pro- be imported from Perth (1500km a rock to cook it, just leave it outside grams are built and executed. I can approx) and to do any more than the for 3 minutes and eat it boiled. I pre- assure you this is much easier than most basic shopping we have to fer boiled to fried as the little pieces with the old 64. I use a collection of drive over 200km to the next nearest of dirt tends to stick in my teeth. public domain and shareware pro- town ( beat that) . h takes approxi- Enough is enough, it's starting to grams in this procedure. The most mately 1 3/4 hours ( not bad for an turn into a script for a nature docu- useful being Dutills II by Mike old bomb), we don't have any Free- mentary. Ted Egan eat your heart (Tup) Hansell, who happens to live ways. just drive 50km to the high- out. in Sydney. I will hopefully be doing way turn rights follow it and take the The towns only other claim a review on his programs in the near first turn to the left and your there. If to fame is that it was hit by the future, I am at the moment waiting you see 3 other cars on the trip then strongest cyclone ever to cross the for the delivery of the latest up- you can be sure that it is peak hour. coast of Australia. Cyclone ORSON grades of his shareware products. The song say's that it NEV- ( ORSON by name and Awesome by ER RAINS ON THE DUSTY DIA- nature), YES. for all you unknowing Continued on page 9. MANTINA, but I tell you that I've it was more destructive, in power,

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A FLStfull oÏFilSts..... of me, it could very well turn out to provide all with coffee, tea & bis- be yet....another first cuita Start time is 7PM, so how First of all, if I am able to By the way, I have it on about it John? So that numbers of achieve what I've set out to do here, good authority (from an associate interested persons can be gauged, then; that will be a first! who had his fingers burnt by the contact: This is my first attempt experience) that it is essential that Tom Bourke on 047-742122. ever, at writing to the AAUA you "SPECIFY" all items of Newsletter, using Kindwords for the COMPUTER EQUIPMENT in your From Page 8 first time and if I am able save this Home Contents Insurance Policy to Just a short note on share- to disk in ASCII format when I've enable you to receive the full bene- ware, Do not begrudge authors of finished, that will be another 1st fit, should you by some misfortune, shareware programs the fee, as Then; if I can print it out, that will happen to lose your beloved, pet many of these products are better be yet one more first AMIGA. A quick phone call to your than commercial programs costing Insurance Company should provide many dollars more, and the more BUT you with the necessary details re- support these authors receive the FIRST things FIRST quired to cover such a loss. harder they will try to give the SO for the sake of your AMIGA. AMIGA community more programs The first meeting of the don't put it off ACT NOW! to use. newly formed Warmdale Cell Group I am also awaiting the deliv- was held on the third Wednesday Hopefully, the attendance ery of some manuals on AMIGA (which is nota first) in May, at the figures may increase by the time the machine language programming ( Warragamba Neighbourhood Centre next Warradale Cell Group meeting occasionally the mail takes a trip Cottage, Warragamba. rolls around, as I am aware of other around the state before eventually About half a dozen keen interested AMIGA users in our area. finding it's way to the post office ), Amiga users turned up. and the Club Membership forms were dis- as I am keen to begin writing a few attendance of AAUA Committee tributed at our first (there's that programs I have ideas for. Having members Colin Barnsley & Ray word again) gathering and impend- decided that although C-language Wilson was appreciated. It is most ing, or dare I say. intending mem- may be an easier programming alter- probable that future meetings of the bers were informed of the gains to native, machine language allows Warradale Cell Group will be held be acquired by attending the Club more compact and cheaper method on the 4TH Wednesday of each orgpinisedAmiFonn at the venue.... of producing code. Any help and month, which should pave the way Parramatta Town Hall. suggestions would be appreciated. for intra-club activities and input Saturday 30TH JUNE 1990. I still claim to be the most from those AAIJA members who are isolated member and I'm sure that particularly skilled in the various as- After the show is over and the editor will have kittens when he pects of the Amazing Amiga. all the shouting has died down reads this article anyway so don't Eg. CLI, Wordprocessors, AND provided that "membership" forget. This is your newsletter help DPaint, Databases, Utilities etc. of the Warradale Cell Group warran- everybody to a better understanding ts it, maybe just maybe, John Good- of the AMIGA. Some of us do not I have no idea what the win could pay us a visit at our have any other way of communicat- deadline is for acribings to reach the venue; in the idyllic surrounds of ing with fellow "AMIGARIANS" ( Magazine, (With in 4 weeks after Silverdale and Warmgamba. Provid- It's a new word I just made up). the last Magazine come's out Ed.) ed, of course, he comes equipped Write an article or just write in and but what with my typing speed (an- with the right "Fish'n" tackle and let others know what you are doing other area that I have yet to brush up accessories, as I am sure he would with your AMIGA, lets turn it into on) and my own thought processing do. That would be the 4TH Wednes- the premier discussion newsletter in skills I'm already beginning to won- day in JULY, at the Warragamba the AMIGA world. der if I will ever get to finish what I Neighbourhood Centre Cottage and Wyly Mohair Jnr started. all visitors would be most welcome. THE DESERT WA If I don't let it get the better A donation of Si-00 per person will Like the New Magazine Now . Ed.

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STOP STOP STOP STOP... Well, I bave just put in the /MUM new lmeg Fat Agnus in a AMIGA WARNING 500, it only takes about 30mins to THIS SHOULD ONLY BE DONE BY A COMPETENT do the change then you power up. PERSON IF YOU DON'T THINK YOU ARE!! As I have only done this modifica- STOP AND GET A TECHNICIAN TO DO IT, IF YOU tion in the last 2 days I have not test- ed all my software to see if they BLOW THE CHIP, THAT'S ONE THING, BUT BLOW work!!!!. YOUR AMIGA THAT'S ANOTHER My son tested most of his THINGS TO KNOW, CHIPS DON'T LIKE STATIC FROM games, I told him to put the one's that did not work in a box, well YOU OR HEAT FROM AN IRON, REMOVAL OF THE when I came back to see how he was FAT AGNUS CHIP FROM ITS SOCKET IS HAZARDOUS going he had 6 games that did not YOU COULD BREAK IT GETTING IT OUT SO THERE work. I checked some of my soft- IS NO GOING BACK WHEN YOU START. ware for compatibility DELUXE PAINT III did not ALL MODIFICATION LISTED 1. Remove the Fat Angus work fully the paint program HAVE BEEN DONE BY ME AND 8371 from its socket. worked but NO ANIMATION, I THEY WORK WELL Removal of this chip use two small called Commodore they said I need I worked on CB radios for sciewchivem at each end or a chip tool. fast ram for some animation pro- over 5 years but am new to comput- gram to run. ers so it was just like putting in more 2. Bend the 41 contact on channnels the socket so it is pointing out. (SEE NOW IF YOU DO FIT ALL MODIFCATIONS PIC 1 & 2) THIS CHIP YOU WILL NEED *Pin 41 of the Agnus socket which SOME FAST RAM TO RUN ARE DONE ENTIRELY is earthed on all REVS boards SOME PROGRAMS (Animation AT YOUR OWN RISK controls whether the A500 starts up package need fast ram) YOU WILL in NTSC (not the same color) or HAVE TO BUY MORE RAM!!! PARTS YOU WILL NEED PAL. When it is earthed it is in NTSC NEW FAT AGNUS CHIP 8372A Mode so we have to unearth it.

I THING 2MEG WILL DO, lm SMALL'S COLOR WIRE (we NM !1K 41 41 NOW II IT IT !0lKT.*Na OKT

I..Y •. as ram chips are going down in price will say black, white, red, green, ..1 you can get 2meg at good prices yellow. (ring stores for there price) This set- 1 DPDT MICRO SATURE row up will gel you lmeg Chip and TOGGLE SWITCH FAT 2ineg Fast (a good AMIGA setup). (Tandy part no 275x626) *GNUS Tu get back to the Fat Agnus chip some of my programs worked some This mod is for the REVS A500 zrxa:uti 100111n» i Ira= Rt don't, what do you do. pull it back Board *(NOT THE NEW REV6A FAT ~~ ~ ~ 1■r MI~ IrTA1MtR AM out or buy another Amiga. I looked A500 BOARD)** AGM'S rtrR r.tfr,iirt bYb at the modification again. By putting 3. Insert the NEW in a switch it is possible to have AGNUS 8372A into the socket pay IMDtWT FOR PIN t compatibilty with evey program, so attention to the layout, Pin 1 is lo- now all works fine even games play FAT cated clockwise from the beveled allright (my son's happy now) AGNUS corner and is marked by a small 8372A dimple. (SEE PIC 21) The chip should be inserted with the dimple TOP VIEW Now for the to the front of the socket and facing modification INDENT FOR PIN i t~~.m a large 1 and the words FAT • COMER . AGNUS on the circuit board.

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4. Locate the jumper JP2 SNITCH on the circuit board to the right of .aMin the 68000 chip. Now cut the trace SOOT sMsaOe ~ ~I r ,_. HISSA between the centre and lower pads Ili vs sumo ..— ~~. l nn MTr1! TOYiItR rr . ao inn .-•• ~ carefully with a sharp blade, solder I WI .-e.MTIiA TO tMITCK a lm lenth of RED wire to the centre ~~TiexrœhON MINK 111.11010.n raamv PART NO ...--*- 11106L441 MIIE pad YELLOW wire to the lower 2,11-0.20. M a ri ran pad, GREEN wire to the upper pad MOW SID! R MON L'Da en u nine Nin To t7fi OMoist fii1T~ nm the 3 tenth's of wire to the tog- a MONT Of âauPh gle switch (SEE PIC 3)you will have to make a hole at the back of the 500 PIC 4 SWITCH to put the switch the best place is PIC 3 JUMPER PADS next to the mouse socket *The switch will allow changing from one SNITCH memory location to other. the new MN 1 AMD QllirYM HI PIS Agnus needs contiguous memory to GARY CHIP OmRY•1 TO 7TIMR •--- give 1 reg block of chip ram MED NIRS

C00000H TO 080000H a.71, A an MN MN r cat lF sltlsirlrwntr Ma rn sr Mr a aNa.1Ga7R4 at i0 ~aRll[ OMM Q MILL IA1lOIIiri ICAO, Mifi -. YELLOW WIRE !Mr ri MEMOS TOM ar•R NA POI •T OCT 5. Solder the RED wire ,Mase. INC MIME « .,. . ir...ir..r.T MIEIyt UM _r'• qTrN Pain from the centre pad to the middle aAttv #oC1lET GARY 7Tir e MOO i ST TO TIC 4.111161 COP pin of the switch then solder the sumont 1~.. ~ tk WI sa MUM 1 MG1 n wren I YELLOW wire to left pin, GREEN I na 116.41ttsla wire to the right pin ON THE SAME ROW (SEE PIC4) PIC 5 GARY CHIP PIC SWITCH.

6. Pin 32 of the GARY 9. CHECK ALL WORK IF YOU HAVE A 2000 AMIGA (NO PUN) Chip located above right AGAIN AND IF EVERYTHING IS AND WANT TO FIT THE NEW 1 of the Agnus clip must be open cir- CORRECT PUT THE AMIGA MEG AGNUS LET ME KNOW cuit. This pin is the earth to the TOGETHER AND POWER UP. AND I WILL SEND YOU THE A501 board. Remove the GARY YOU CAN CHECK THE CHIP LAYOUT FOR FITTING IT TO AN chip from socket. (you will have to MEMORY WITH YOUR WORK- 2000 remove the drive to get to the chip BENCH DISK WHEN IN THE better) and locate pin 32 and CLI TYPE AVAIL YOU WILL SEE IF YOU HAVE A 1000 AMIGA CAREFULLY BEND IT OUT SO CHIP MEMORY MAXIMUM THE ONLY WAY I SEE FITTING THAT IT WILL NOT GO IN IT'S 1040152 'FAST 0 OR IF YOU 1MEG AGNUS IS TO TRADEUP SOCKET WHEN YOU PUT IT HAVE MORE THEN 1M BG TO AN AMIGA 3000 AND BE ON BACK DON'T BREAK THE PIN MEMORY = FAST lots and lots TOP AGAIN

7 PUT BLACK wire in the socket SWITCH YOUR AMIGA TO AGAIN I SAY ONLY DO where the 32 pin of the GARY chip 1MEG CHIP RAM AND RUN THIS MOD IF YOU used to go, put GARY back making YOUR PROGRAMS, IF ONE sure that pin 1 and notch face to the DOES NOT WORK TURN THE THINK YOU CAN DO IT right, next you have to solder the POWER OFF AT THE POWER- IF NOT TAKE IT TO AN WHITE wire to the 32 pin of the PACK SWITCH THE SWITCH TO TECHNICIAN WITH GARY chip you bent out,*(clip a 112MEG CHIP RAM 112 FAST THIS ARTICLE heat sink to the pin before you POWER UP AND USE IT... solder the wire, a small alligator clip will do..)* Run the two wires PS.. IF YOU HAVE MORE BLACK and WHITE to the switch. MEMORY THEN 1MEG YOU ALL MODIFICATIONS (SEE PIC 5) MAY NOT NEED THE SWITCH JUST DO ALL ABOVE BUT PUT ARE DONE ENTIRELY 8. ****SEE PIC6 ON HOW TO A JUMP BETEEN 1P2 CENTER AT OWN RISK WIRE THE SWTTCH**** AND UPPER PAD AND LEAVE OUT THE WIRE...

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SILKWORM 80071 UP SIGNALS drive's directories and files to a file When the game starts. hold down About the colours when you do a on another disk drive, as follows: the HELP key to start infinite jeeps cold boot dark grey means the mi- DIR) 1:files: all and choppers. croprocessor is running find. Light As an alternative to using : 'DATE inaip.111rIpla •11-011a... Grey that the ROMs passed a check- to PRT:' for printing the day, date RUM/NATOR sum test. White that RAM is tested, and time to the printer. use the fol- Here are some level passwords not found wanting, and the system lowing command: Amoeba - Bloop - Cheeki start up. DATE > PRT: Doinok - Enigma Flipme All the above is what should normally Experiment with thea symbol and Gee Gee - Handel - icicle happen. if a glitch occurs, you'll you'll discover its many other uses. probably see: Red for ROM error. ARKANOID REVENGE OF DUH Green for an error in chip RAM COPY C: RAIL' Hold down the left mouse button (NB.if the SCA virus is in memory If you copy c: commands to Ram in while the game is loading to reveal and you hold down the left mouse your startup-sequence you know it the title sceen of ROBOCOPt button while rebooting you'll see take time, try this way. gay you want Rama 4E. 1 ilaapa. ape Green). Blue for an error in the cus- in teat: ARC / DIR / CD / LIST / SPACE ACE tom chips. Yellow for an error before NEWCLI I ENDCLI / DELETE Scene 1: Borf flies in on bis anti- the error-trapping mutines (which you will have to add arc and delete gravity platform with guns dancing. land you with a Gure) are operation. for it work. Arc the files together When he shoots the wall oh Dexter's name it CRAM, now in your left, go RIGHT behind the rock then go The keyboard also has a self startup-sequence add the following: LEFT into the open space again and test routine, and if it fails, the MAKEDIR RAM:C: then go DOWN to duck back behind CAPS LOCK light blinks. COPY CRAM RAM:C the rock to safety. one blinks - a check of keyboard CD RAM:C ROM failed two blinks - keyboard ARC X CRAM FALCON ram is not good. three blinks - the ASSIGN C: RAM:C Pressing CTRL and X together gives keyboard internal timer isn't scan- DELETE ARC you 500 extra cannon rounds and ning the keyboard. four blinks - DELETE CRAM nine sidewinders short circuit in the keyboard. CD SYS: --illinl.—w..... It will unarc your file in ram fast EMPIRE STRIKES BACK DIR it) PRINTER: V7.3 then you will have them there On the title screen, hold down As you may know, issuing the "DIR ------the HELP key and type in ALL" CLI command list all of the D-PAINT ABORT FILL: XIFARGROTKEV. Now by press- current device's directories, subdi- When using the fill, solid or didrd, ing L. C or D during the game you rectories and files to the screen. and you discover right away that it can make Luke, C3PO or Darth Unfortunately. the command syntax is not what you want, press the Vader appear. Also, the number keys needed to send this information to space bar. This will stop and erase will now produce sound effects. the printer is largely unknown, and the fill while it is still in progress, relies on the) symbol, Rather the instead of waiting until it's finished iT CAME FROM THE DESERT following the standard "DIR ALL to and hoping that you can use Undo. Don't ask Buff for the red sample, PRT:" pattern, a "> PRT:" must pre- Press the space bar to stop all most Fires are very hard to put out cede the "ALL" parameters, as fol- ever think... Don't get romanticall involved with lows: DIR . PRT: ALL Jackie. If you do you'll end up in Further expanding on the command, FONTS hospital suffering from exhaustion. the following creates a disk file To use fonts from another disk, name named "file° containing all the the disk FONTS and put the fonts in SIM CITY same directory information: the root dir, then put it in DFI : before Hold space bar down and type FUND you put a program disk in to start. and you will have $10,000 more save DIR } file ALL It will read the Fonts off DFI: your city after every time you do it.. You can even write the current

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Colin Barnaely

Well members this is say your waranty is history anyhow) drive a helping hand by holding it my first letter that I so don't worry about it.Then remove until you turn the computer over the six Allen head type screws found again, now loosen the last philips have written for our along the front and back of the com- head screw on the side of the disk newsletters and I hope puter, then turrn the computer up the drive you can now remove the drive. it is of some interest to correct way and with your finger- Now that was not so bad after all nails pushed into the joining lip was it all those who have around the edge of the upper and Removing the small black suffered from the lower half of the cases gently lever Philips head screw on top of the disk broken disk eject them apart. drive and also the two side screws. button syndrome. You will now see a harness (self tapping type) you will now be of coloured wires that goes into the able to remove it from the steel case. I feel it is very important to metal case grab the harness of wires Every thing now put aside tell you if you are heavy handed close to the metal case and gently you now can work on the drive, at then you had better think twice be- pull upwards to release them from this stage you must be very careful! fore you attack your computer as it the mother board via a 8 pin plug not to be heavy handed. Put the is very easy to do damage to your drive on the table with the Black equiment if you nosh in like the old Plastic side down on the table, as bull...TAKE TT EASY and you will (NOTE THE BLACK DOT ON this is the best way to handle it with be rewarded with the pleasure of 111E SCKJKET WHICH IS ON no damage to the unit knowing that you can do these minor YOUR LEFT) There is two or three ways repairs without having to pay big re- you now can do the repairs but I pair bills.. ,TAKE TT EASY AND Now looking at the metal choose this way, Drill a 5164 hole in THINK A LITTLE. case you will see 4 (four) lugs that the metal plate where the eject but- To those of you who are are bent over, by using a flat screw- ton goes and be very carefull as not prepared to give it a go, first get a driver you can prize them up and get to let the drill go and slide up the nice clean area to work on (kitchen then straight. table..if your game) put a soft blan- There are now 4 (four) printed board and do damage to it. Take the Poprivet and re- ket down so you do not damage the Allen type self tapping screws you move the shank from the rivet, this computer, (What about the Table Ed.) can now remove two in the front and shank will have to be cut to length put your computer face down on the two on the left.You can now remove so as to enter the hole from thepnnt- blanket the top cover of the metal case.Now Now the only tools that you you can see what you have paid for. ed board out once this is done you will need is as follows: Looking at the disk drive you will can bend the shank into a square to see 4(four) wires (one red two black fit up into the button. 1 #6 Philips screwdriver one brawn) which isialso pinged into Once all this done you can mix up a batch of glue. fill the but- 1 #4 Philips screwdriver the mother board, now looking at 1 12mm Allen Key Driver the plug you will see theme is a white ton with glue not quite to the top, 15/64 Drill Bit locking tab by using your fingernail now you can push the button com- Elect Drill again you can pull back on this pletly home malting SURE it is in 1 1/S Poprivet while you are pulling on the plug. the correct place before the glue sets Small quanity of 5min (5 Min). When the glue has turned you can then put some glue around Adhesive Glue Now by lifting up the grey Bull Nose Pliers ribbon a little so you can get hold of the head side of the rivet to make Long Nose Pliers the plug on the end of the ribbon sure it does not come off again. Now Note above screwdrivers are you can now also remove it from the the easy part, do all the above in re- available from Tandy Cat M-1961 board, you will find this plug a little verse and that's it Hope this is of harder to pull on to remove it some help to you to effect some nec- Remove the silver seal on 'nun the computer over essary repairs and to cut costs.. the EDGE of the computer if it is again and now remove the three(3) still there (doing this repair I would Philips head screws, giving the disk

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Gary Colligan

The big names in computers, (IBM and Macintoch), are now starting POWER to do big things in this new media so they say, you think IBM and Mac invented all this when you see all the newspapers, the word Multimedia is in the papers all the time. Yeats ago IBM thought graphics were only for games PRICE: and not for serious work, boy have things changed, and Mac now see the Amiga vs. Mac and IBM world in color, not only b/w, but at a price. I was in Kmart when a man asked for a joystick for his IBM the salegirl got out the only one they had to fit it, and said, have you got a joystick card, the man said what! Oh you need a reprinted from Amiga world card so you can plug it into. Said the girl. What I'am trying to say is if com- panies can't give you a socket to plug your joystick in what else do you have WHEN WE DECIDED to buy to nm this new media to do a price comparison of Amiga video and animation The Amiga has had Video. Animation, Graphics and Multimedia systems versus Apple's Macin- from the start (and don't forget true multitasking) even the kid down the street who plays games on his Amiga500 can draw a stick man color it and tosh and the IBM PS/2, we animate it on DPaint III. The Amiga got an early edge in these markets be- knew who would win. cause it happened to bave the most sophisticated technology in the business for driving graphics and animation at a good price. The Mac has the same Thet's why we did it. The 680(0 processor as the Amiga but in the Amiga there are three custom chips Amiga is, quite frankly, the bargain designed to enhance graphics, sound, and video performance. These chips ex- of the century and the only PC that plain why the Amiga is snappy when processing graphics, while the IBM PC is truly appropriat technically for so- and Macintoch tend to be a bit sluggish. Another big advantage is the phisticated video and animation ap- Amiga's HAM (Hold and Modify), graphic mode, and it ability to genlock to plications. video easy. Price is just one advantage I have been using DPaint for some time now with it animation, and of the Amiga. Specialized graphics bave just brought Deluxe Video III with these two programs I can do mult- chips is another. Other pluses include media presentations combining music. sound., pictures. and animation, with the ability to use large amounts of out buying any more hardware can IBM and Mac say that. read the article RAM (the IBM PC is still largely reprinted from Amiga World and you will see why the Amiga is the Machine restricted to 640K). true multitasking, of and NTSC compatibility. today (PAL TOO ed. )

The Amiga has had these features from the start, while competitors work to cobble together mrore expensiv systems. The Amiga, by virtue of its four year history in these areas, has an impressive array of products. There are literall hun- dreds of software titles that can be used for video and animation, with most price under $100 (American price. in Australia $200 ed.) There are also dozens of hardware products--digitizers. genlocks, and frame buffers at prices far lower then those of similar products in the IBM-PC or Macintosh markets.

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We calculated how much it would cost to create a system capa- F O R SALE ble of both video and animation. •-_=_ -.- _-___ ~= -_ _Dr..• - -- - ---:' - •- - _— a (American Prices, Australian prices --~ would be highered). The prices listed are retail prices, so you should ex- .Diii- - ; =-= This is a NEW section for pect to pay far less, and the products _ _ --- - _ -Y --i - - .. -• ~~es-~~ _l.._ all our Members to use if -~'. chosen are all mainstream offerings. --_-_ _ _ ------ _ ------_ __--_ you have anything sale ~~ ..... - .-. L' _ — advertise here ere A quick surver of IBM-PC TiTiLA:j _ . . . -._. - - - _ _ - - _ _ ~ ~: anything you want to sell ~ related products confirmed our ini- -- _. _ . - --- . __ . - _ . -- _ .,_. _.. -----~-- ~ _ ._~ .:3~~~*- ~;= be it an Amiga, Harddisk. tial suspicions. This stuff is expensive. = ~~ --.._.....~_ _. _ -- _,. - ------_ -- --.:--. .. - . ._._ ...., ~- — - - -- - - -- or TV, let other Members Devices that allow PC-generated __~.__'--- ~ ~ .~~fl0 ~ -_-_--_ know images to be put on vodeotape start —:".:7;17:140.0q)!~= of you want something let at about $495. (American). On the us know, Amiga this generall comes standard Have something to swap... with the genlock. (The Australian I thing you get the pic. Neriki genlock is one of the biggest As of this time we only sellers in America). have one thing to sell So send in details of the Genlocking is also more ex- things you want to sell pensive on the PC. US Video, for example, sells a $799 system for putting PC images on videotape. To genlock, you need that board plus For Sale: Amiga 500 with joystick the $399 Genlock Overlay Module. and games A 1 cond Total price is $1.198. Price $500 Ring Col on The IBM and Apple ma- 047 741115 chines themselves are also more ex- pensive. Many animators and video people can get away with using an Blank Disks Amiga 500. witch starts at well No Name Box 10 under $1,000. After talking with professionals who have also used $14 IBM and Macintosh computers it's Sony Disks clear that only their fastest and most expensive machines can do the job. $2.40 ea For IBM, that means the Intel 80386 PD. Disks based PS/2 Model 70. For Apple, it means the 68020 and 68030 family $4 ea or of Macintosh IIs. 3 for $10

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A.A.U.A. AMIGA AUSTRALIA Page 15 From Paddy. just wont wear it, are the ones sug- Well I have and since then gested from the AAUA. or does he things have been happening. This mean some informal group. don't nice lady took one of these afore At the Committee meeting get me wrong Andrew, I agree with mentioned courses, and was return- on the first Wed in April we decided you. Hear Hear. I wonder if the ing some borrowed notes in a white to hold our Penrith Cell Group writer has perhaps just one little plastic carry bag, which she gave to meetings on the second Wednesdays bitty disk slightly sus ???. ny wife. Well blow me down with of each month, the reason as I put it the papers. 'A Pair of Pantie?. It to the Committee, we are a bunch of A Brian Pettitt was to come took three phone calls to determine unknowing amateurs.led by the un- and see us at Penrith, alas he has a who they belonged to, and when this godly, unwilling and untrained, to little visit to the Hospital, over East- nice lady came to retreive the lost do as much with so little that there's er, get well soon Brian. Brian is a property, I suggested they might be very little left over, when you had games person of mature age. well he her daughters, you see, to save any nothing to start with. So the team must be mature hs has been working embarrasment. "Oh NO their mine", are coming to visit us from the in the same job for over forty years. she voiced rather proudly. I really Committee from time to time. He studies games until he gets every beleive I was the more embarrased. little piece of info he can get. Gross vadanya Tvarich. A Pair of Panties". Which loosely translated means Well now there's this bloke ft took three phone calls sorry maties. Isn't it nice when who runs this little. "Amiga for Be- you've got the pen and can have a to determine who they ginners Course" not for much gain belonged to, little fun. Seriously though Penrith mind you. more for the Public rela- have had ten new members signed in tions Departments of, Grace Bros:, Then on another occasion three days this month, one all the Computerspot, and Commodore, It way from, Pannawonica. W.A. Wel- I was in Super K with the same all started before Christmas you see, loving wife, and this other nice come Terry Nicoll, drop us a line when David from Computerspot lady, says. Paddy, you havn't when you wad this and let us know asked me to help, oh slips, ok so it's what's it like over there in your part called lately. I do love it when you talk me. well 1 was doin it for nothin' dirty on the phone, well its more the of the World. Oh yes and you might and he got hoppin mad about it. I tell us what you do with your heavy breathier: Then still in the same meant you to charge for the assis- breath, "Hello Pat didnt see you there" Amiga. when your at it. tance, "he said". all with the • most beautiful cheeky grin. I ask you what more could go Two points of interest wrong. this month from the I have contacted pages of the: Chris Dunbar from Commodore Amiga Review, Commodore and he will be arranging Page 9. Center column. a night during July, HI)A 506: IBM Hard Drive Adaptor and will bring the for Amiga. looks interesting, has support team anyone got any old spare IBM Hard for a talk. Drives??`r.

Page 12. I really hate it See you at when people accuse and point the finger and can't even give their name. There may be Piracy going AmiForum on. but please be sure there's one Amiga Cell group in Penrith that Paddy....

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John Goodwin.

This column describes a selection of programs which have special appeal, perhaps because of their "DiskSpeed" Version 1.0 "polish" , perhaps they represent the best of their type, from Fish 251 is a performance checking program (or perhaps I just lite them). . for disk drives. It seems to work This particular collection is only from the latest Fish Disks. fairly well, and can be used to check the relative speed of different drives, including hard drives. Note that this 'Ellis 17-1o[11Î1, " l'ro}2,rt1111 ()1 1 11c Muni 11" is kind of program may interfere with " Showl)isk" from Fish 269. the disk driving program itself, so results should be taken as relative I like this program because of its 'cuteness". Not really rather than absolute. As well as this, care should be taken to have no oth- terribly useful, "ShowDisk" will graphically show the physical er programs running at the same position of any file on a floppy disk, together with its control files time, as I feel that this may result in .Selection of a file is made by the usual scrolling directory list. I found an apparent, though false, perfor- this program interesting to check the file fragmentation before and mance degradation. This is, howev- after using the disk optimiser program, "B.A,D". Actually, it showed er, the best of this type of program I that "B.A.D" really did work as it was claimed. have seen so far. "ShowDisk" is a very smoothly operating program, and very cute. The only "bug" I could find was that the first file in the list was often hard to select. Apart from this, a really fine program. Lastly. also on Fish 251 is the latest version of "DiskSalve", that essential utility for recovering "Mackie" Version 1.3 e Calendar" disks with errors. This is Version from Fish 267 from Fish 269 1.42. is a very interesting program. This is is a nice little calendar printing pro- utility which can initiate key gram. With an excellent WorkBench My next offering will macros, but it also has a really inter- interface, this actually a useful pro- probably be from farther back in the esting screen blanking facility. This gram, and is very well presented. A almost forgotten Fish disks, as there works when no input happens to the good help facility is provided. were many, many computer for a period of time. In- really good programs as I recall. stead of simply making the screen go black or dimmed, "Mackie" gen- "PowerPacker" Version 2.3b erates sets of patterns. The useful- Public Domain Disks Prices from Fish 253 $4 each or ness of a screen blanking is that a is data compression utility. "Power- 3 Disks for $ 10 fixed display will eventually become Packer" has an excellent WorkBench permanently visible on a screen, interface, and is well presented. The send order to Box No. even when it is turned off. Even if major purpose of "PowerPacker" is or ring any you don't use a screen blanking pro- save space on disks, thus allowing Committee Member gram, it is a good idea to turn the more files per disk. Files, once to order picture off or very dark when not us- packed, are automatically unpacked Public Domain Disks ing the computer for a time. when used. This program is compat- The A.A_U.A. ible with several other major pack- NOW TAKE Notel that to mea"Mackie" ~ in the Startup ing programs. Documentation is BANKCARD Sequence,. it is necessary to use the complete, and reasonably under- program "RunBaCk", otherwise the AND standable. A packing factor of 60% MASTERCARD Startup Sequence will not complete. is typical, allowing more than twice ON DISK SALES ItimBack" is available on Fish 240. as much data to be part on a disk. MINIMUM SALE $10

A.A.U.A. AMIGA AUSTRALIA Page 17 FISH keycodea. Translation into Mod- Function; 341 to 350 ula-2 of C source (by Fabbian Graphics/Utility G. Defoe, III) an disk 291. Ver- Author Multi Number: 341 construct, support for resident sion 1.0. Includes source. Au- thor. Fabbian G. Dufoe III, Name: Getlmage Function: commands, smaller and faster external commands, and more. Peter Graham Evans An enhanced Wake of "gi" from fer the Programming/Pascal Binary only. disk 14. It now bolas Author Multi Function: GRAB mad=, in the brush fila, in- ■ Name: P2C Documentation tend of aaeuantag drat it is et spe- Function: Printer/HP cific place, sets rep the PlanePi* P2C is a tool for translating Pas- LaserJet Author Commodore value in the Image stoma and cal programs into C. It handles Author. Thomas Lynch Business Machines, Inc. deletes any umtsed bitplanes to the following Pascal dialects: Name: RKMCompanion save memory and chak space. In- HP Pascal, Tiubo/UCSD Pascal, Name: Softfont cludes some. Autism Mile Far- DEC VAX Pascal, Oregon Soft- Commets portrait soft fais for HP two disk set of material created ven, enhancements by Cluck Brand ware Pascal/2. Macintosh Pro- Littneks comble laser printers by Commodore for use with the grammer's Workshop Pascal. tao landscape feanst. This is an up- 1.3 revison of the Amiga ROM Sun/Berkeley Pascal. Modula-2 date do the version included on disk Kernel Reference Manual, Li- Function: Utility/System syntax is also supported. Most 327. Includes source. braries and Devices, published Author. Multi reasonable Pascal proms are by Addison-Wesley. Almost 300 Name: MemFrag files. including C source code converted into fully functional Number: 343 Displays number of memory examples and executables, have C which will compile and run Function: Game chunks/sizes to show memory been packed into two lharac with no further modifications. fragmentation. Chunks are dis- Author. Michael Sinz archives, one for each disk of This is version 1.13 and in- played as 2**N bytes which is a Name: SnakePit the two dish set. These examples cludes source. rough guide but still useful. This A simple, yet addictive game in art not public domain. but may Author Dave Gillespie. Amiga is an enhanced version of which you must get the snake be used and distributed under port by G. R. (Fred) Walter "Frags" from disk 69. Includes (you) off of the screen. There the conditions specified in the source. Author. Mike Meyer, are. however, some rough spots copyrights. Number: 342 enhancements by Gary Duncan and some obstacles that may Function: Icon/Editor need to be overcame. An excel- Number: 345 Author: Peter Kiem lent example of a game that is Function: Function: Game/Strategy Graphic/Mathematics Name: IE as system friendly as possible. Author Multi This is an icon editor which can Includes source. Author. Carmen Arlin Name: CRobots create and modify icons up to Name: Roses A game based on computer pro- 640x200 pixels in size (also du- Function: A program that draws sine ros- gramming. Unlike arcade type a! render!. It can set stack size, BBS Application es. Implements an algorithm games which require human in- position of icon (also free- Author. Mark Wolfskehl given in the article "A Rose is a floating). default Tool. 10 tool put controlling some abject. all Name: SoftSpan strategy in CRobots is condensed Rose ..." by Peter M. Meurer in types ami control over opened American Mathematical Soft Span BBS program. Intu- into a C language program that window. It can also generate the Monthly, Vtol 94, No. 7, 1987, p itive. command-line based you design and write, to control a C source code behind the icon 631. A sine rose is a graph of menu system with message robot whose mission is to Beek for program inclusion . the polar equation "r = sin(n*d)' bases, up/down loads, file credit a track, and destroy other Version 1.0. binary only, source for various values of n and d. system, extensive help system. robots, each running different available from author. nn etc. This is shareware version programs. AH robots are equal- 1.0. binary only. lattice C source ly equipped. and up to four may Function: Unpack/Unix Function: Shell code available from the author. compete at once. This is version Author Eddy Carroll Author. Steve Koren 23w. an update to version 2.2w Name: Unbar Name: SKsh Function: on disk 331. Binary only, source This ppm extracts files from A ksh• like shell for the Amiga. Shares/Application available from author. Unix Aar archives. It scores Some of its features include Author Tarn Poindexter, Author Michael Hanelt over similar programs by being OE remand, substitution. shell frac- Amiga version by David Wright small and fast, handling extrac- Name: StockBruker tions with parameters. aliases, lo- tion of subdirectaries, recogt- s cal variables. local functions. A program that helps you follow Function: Disk/Print lug a wide variety of `sed' sad local aliases, powerful control the recent table of exchange Author Multi 'cat' alar formats, and handling strictures and testa emacs style from one (or more) share(s). Name: Du large files spread across several line editing and history func- But of course you must tell the alar Prints number of disc blocks used files. This is varron 13, an tions I/O redirection, pipes, large Amiga the recent table of ex- update to the version on disk m asiecS files ar &rectories. variety of built-in commands, change every day. Requires 287. includes C source. Unix style wildcards, Unix style AmigaBASIC. Binary only. Modified Goum original voice on disk 48 to make septa mort filename conventions, filename Function: Music/Synth completion. and coexistence Number: 344 readable, and hante AC exit. In- Author. Chuck Brand with scripts from other shells. Function: Keyboard chides source, Author: Joe Mut enhaxements by Gary Name: VcEd Very well documented. Version Author. Multi 1.4, an update to version 1.3 on Duncan A Voice (Tone) Editor for the disk 309. New features include Name: Keyboard Yamaha 4 Operator aeries syn- a "tiny" version, a working case Functions to translate RAWKEY thesizers.Binary only, source Intuition messages into usable

Page 18 JUNE 90 available from author. Function: Utility/System vance to the next level. Every 3 LiBS; dir of a boot disk. Can be used to create a handy installation Author. Oliver Wagner floors completed will entitle Function: Conversion you to a bonus round where ex- prow= (herd disks especially) Name: PatchNTSC for proms that need disk-based Author. Gary Duncan. tra drips cal be won. An extra OS fix to allow the growing drip will also be awarded for libraries. Includes sauce. Name: X2X number of PAL display pro- every 10.000 pointa. Binary only. Cross converts between Motoro- grams to be rain on Km ma- Function: Program- l.flntel/Tektronix ASCII-hex chines. Will patch the Intuition Number: 348 ming] uric files These files are typically OpenScreenO function to assure used for down-line-Ioading into screens with PAL height to be Function: Author Dissidents EPRDMS. or for transmission opened in interlace mode. C Programming Software where binary files cause chase, Includes source in assembler. Author Dissidents Name: SAMP Handles S i . S2, 53, NM- (inc Software An IFF sampled sound format de- USBA records). Tektronix (Inc Function: ANSI/Text Name: ColorReq signed foe professional music use. encoded). Source included. Author. Oliver Wagner Describes the update to the col- It can be used foe 16-bit samples. Name: TextPaint onlibrary and has an example multiple waveforms, etc. Includes Number: 346 Staid major release of the Ansi program. with source, that a SAMP reads writer shared li- Function: Text/Editor editor. All major bugs have been demonstrates its use. beefy, interface routines. and pro- Author Jean-Miehel fixed and a bunch of new options gumming examples. Also in- cludes a program to careen Forgeas have been added. e.g. possibility Function: Editor Demo 85VX to SAM). Name: Az to reload aria files or CLI mod- Author Dissidents ules. 4 color option. optimized A nice little text editor that is Software keyboard layout, new drawing Number : 349 fast, simple to use. and very modes, right mdse button sup- Name: DisEditor Function: Music Editor Amiga'ized. This is version pan (like DeiuxePaiat) and much This is a demo of the dissidents 130. an update to version 1.40 Author. Teijo Kinnunen mare. Binary only. shareware. shareware text editor. Version on disk 228, with lots of new 1.1. binary only. Name: MED features, bug fixes. and other A music editor much lace Sound- improvements. Binary only. Function: C Program- Function: DataBase Tracker. A song cais:ats of up to ming 50 blocks of music. which can be Function: Print/Labels Author. Oliver Wagner Author. Dissidents played in any order. Editing fes - Author. Thorsten Ludwig Name: Timetest Software tures include cut/paste/copy Name: CassEti Working example le show the Name: DisSecretary tracks or blocks. changing the vi brain, tempo. cresxSo. and note Cassette tape label printer. time(. and ¢autisme() functions volume. Other features include Includes source in GFA Basic. of the Lattice C support library. Function: Programming switching of the low-pass-filter Includes source in C. Author Dissidents on or off on a per sung basis, and Function: System/Fix Software Function: a crate little animated pointer of a Author Holger Lubitz Name: FileIO guy doing "jumping jacks" in WorkBench/Utility Name: FME Contains updated files for version time to the music! This is venial Patch to AllocMeinO to allow Author Oliver Wagner 1.6 of the dissidents requester li- 2X10. an update to version 1.12 on badly designed programs which Name: WED brary. There is a bug fix to the li- disk 255. Now includes hill request fast mem without neces- Possibly the smallest utility to brary as well as a new fimctian. source. sity to be ram on 512k machines. set the workbench screen to any See disk 257 for the ccrnpiete Includes source in assembler. depth. Includes source in C. documentation, and examples. Number : 350 Function: Icons Function: Programming Function: SystemiCli Number; 347 Author: Author. Oliver Wagner Function: Author. Dissidents Bradley W. Schenck Name- GoWB Basic/Compiler Software Name: Icons Very small (296 bytes) and effec- Author. Jurgen Forster Name: ILBMLib A large variety of icons for tive replacement for the well Name: Cursor Contains updated files for the dis- many uses, of practically every known AWB" and "EndCLP A 3-pass BASIC Compiler far sidents ilbm.libcary an disk 237. description. Most are animated. command pea This release fixes BASIC programs written in Ami with new lib features and a new a severe bug in the first version gaBASIC, does not yet appal library. Also included is a much Function: WorkBench which used to guru if run out of a all of the BASIC commands but wed (better organized) doc script. Includes source in C. file, and new C examples that Utility is able to compile itself. This is Author. Howard Hull version 1.0. includes source. show how to use the library for Function: any kind of IFF file, See disk 237 Name: MemMometer for other examples. C Programming Function: Arcade Game A program that opens a narrow w•••-M- -we window and graphically dis- Author. Oliver Wagner Author: Art Shies plays your memory usage like a Name: PacketSupport Function: Utility Name: Drip gauge. Based on Wrap, by Author. Dissidents A link library, for use with Lat- Drip is an arcade style game Tomas Rokicki. Version 2.10. tice C, providing a few func- with 15 floors (levels). You Software includes source. tions to handle DOS packet must move along the pipes of Name: InstallLibs postage. Includes source. each floor and rust them to ad- A program to copy files to the Cont Page 20.

A.A.U.A. AM/QA AUSTRALIA Page 19 By by Darryl Sheather

So you've had your Amiga SHAME,SHAME,SHAME. al uses on mast With the poor retail for a while now, played some games showing that we received no wonder. and learnt a little about the operation A glimmer of hope Could you imagine this happening of your new toy.The time has now finally arose with a Mac. or I.B.M. I think not. come you say to get a little bit seri- Until the dealers get their act together ous about things. and you are in the market for soft- After a call to Hard Disk ware a phone call to Hard Disk Cafe, here was someone who amid We came to this conclusion wouldn't go astray. not only tell no about a package a while back and decided to get our but could show us a demo and business accounts Amiga- I cant wait until we set up were even running their business tised.Simple we figured.we'll just our desk top publishing for the busi- on an Amiga. trot down to our local computer ness,can you imagine trying to buy a shop and buy an accounting pro- scanner and postcript laser ever seen The package turned out to gram.Spend a couple of weekends that set up in a shop? What a jour- be EASYLEDGERS the people at setting it up and instant computer ney awaits us [I'll keep you posted.] hard disk were knowledgable and accounts. We made a short list of helpful and their price was the low- what we required from a system and est encounted. started ringing computer shops. From page 19

After a few phone calls it After ringing nearly Function: Sewing Application soon became apparent that either; every computer shop Author Bradley W. Schenck a. Nobody made accounting in Sydney we thought Name: Stitchery software for the Amiga This shareware program loads in IFF images a phone call to and creates charted patterns foam them for b. 1f it wasn't a game it use in counted cross-match and other ferns wasn't worth selling Commodore was in of needlework. It requires o®e megabyte of c. Sales people are totally order. A simple question memory to run, and works best with a good stupid high•r+esoluution printer for printing the pat- was asked of customer The d. All of the above terns. The Stitchery was written with enquiries about what Director and the Projector is included. Version 1.21. After ringing nearly every accounting package computer shop in Sydney we they recommended for Function: Disk Utility thought a phone call to Commodore an Amiga. The answer, Author. Eddy Carroll was in order.A simple question was Name: TrackUtils asked of customer enquiries about 'You should have really No utilities that deal with disk tracks. what accounting package they rec- have bought an I.B.M. TCopy copies one or more tracks from one disk to amotet and is useful for copying ommended for an Amiga. The an- cornpatable. pert of a floppy disk into RAD: during boot- swer, "You should have really have up. Wile creates a dummy file which bought an I.B.M. compatable. Great Easyledgers seems to be "mars' a specified range of tracks. prevent- ing AmigaDOS froom using them and allow- we thought we have bought a dud. quite a good package for the Amiga Back to the shops, the words BEST ing them to be used far raw tnckdisk data.. it's mouse driven with pre-printed Includes C source. and EASYLEDGERS kept coming forms available it seems to be just up in conversation. althought no-one what the small business requires AmlFaerum could show us a demo or tell us any we're still setting it up at the time of PARRAMATTA more than was written on the back writing but its rather easy although of the packet [we'll have to open the time consuming setting up our cus- DOWN HALL package to tell you anymore] after tomer database. I'll write a full road 30th all the program only costs around test in a future issue. JUNE the $600.00 mark. Which opens up llarn to 5pm another question, how can a price In the meantime no wonder differ by up to $ 150.00 over 3 shops Amiga's are not entering proffesion- BE THERE

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