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Amigas, PCs, M acs,*,0// M y! O v e r s c a n ...... 6 By Dave Johnson ...... 2 0 What’s happening, what's hot, what’s up d ll’went comparison shopping to see how on line? Check it out in this space each stacked up against the PC and month. Assembling three similarly equipped systems—each with a compara H elp K ey ...... 8 2 ble array ol’ popular applications soft If you're helpless in Houston, frustrated in ware—we came up with some figures we Fresno, or just sleepless in Seattle over think you'll lind im interesting, indeed! mechanical infidelities, tune in WTIM for advice. A G A FIXES By Sheldon Leemon 3 8 Suppose you don't have a new AG A model L ist o f A d v e r t is e r s ...... 9 2 Amiga, but you do want to enjoy some of T h e Last W o r d ...... 9 6 that the AGA machines Please, no more letters alx>ut Tonya and I lere’s a comprehensive survey of Nancy—let's slick to Amigas, okay? alternatives available to users of older Amigas to help bring your system up to speed. REVIEWS No, those mice on the cover are not blind—ikes're lending you straight to an inter-platform shopping E G S 28 /2 4 S p e c t r u m (GVP) 12 ARTICLES comparison on p. 20 aimed at determining who's the A 24-hit hi-res display card that blazes the big cheese when it comes to value for your dollar. EGS (Enhanced Graphics System) trail. T h e I ns and O uts o f I/O By Barbara Gefvert...... 2 4 Toaster Toolkit 4000 (DevWare) . . 14 Widgets, doohickeys, thingamabobs, Utilities galore for the new Video Toaster. gadget s . . . whatever you happen to call COLUMNS V i d e o S c a n G e n l o c k V S -525N them, we've got ’em right here. Our E d it o r ’s D raw er buyer’s guide to input/output expansion (CompuVid)...... 16 By Dennis Brisson...... 4 presents 50+ listings for every kind of External genlock with lots of extras. I he editor’s got a computer system under adapter, expander, switch, cable, or inter each of the three thimbles. Let’s see ... face you’ll ever need to get the job done. TY PESM ITH 2.0 (Soft-Logik)...... 19 which one will he pick? New version of the innovative outline-font W h o ’s R u n n in g T h is Sh o w ? editor seems well worth the wait. A c c en t o n G ra ph ics By Geoffrey Williams...... 2 7 By Joel H agen *...... J 8 From sporting events to museum exhibi MEDIAPoiNT 3.6 (Activa Int’l) 6 0 Follow Joel’s tips and tricks this month tions . . . amusement parks to medical Flexible multimedia-prcsentation system. and leant how to save time and avoid conventions . . . business training pro tedium by “recycling” your animation SAS/C 6.50 (SAS)...... 6 3 grams to broadways shows; Amigas are the frames. Full-featured C/C+ + development system. brains and brawn driving interactive- multimedia presentations all over the V id eo Su it e place. 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C o o l M oves W it h H o t L inks AW P r o d u c t By Patricia Zabka Kaszycki...... 313 I n f o r m a t io n ...... 9 0 S h o r t T a k e s ...... 72 "1 lot Linking" your desktop with Soft- To contact the vendors of products Capsule reviews of new Amiga games. Logik’s HotLinks automatic data-iransfcr mentioned in this issue o\AmigaWorld, system will make your DTP operation AGA m es ...... 75 consult our all-in-one “Manufacturers’/ faster, simpler, and more efficient, Here’s Brief rev iews of games specially designed or a hands-on tutorial to warm you up. Distributors' Addresses” list. adapted lor the A1200, A4000, and CD32. EDITOR S DRAWER Amiga World Wanna hear a secret? When you shop around for Dale Strang, Publisher the best value in com puling systems, the Amiga is Dennis Brisson, Editor-in-Chief at the top of the heap. Daniel Sullivan, Executive Editor Barbara Gefvert, Senior Editor Tim Walsh, Senior Editor/Reviews As an Amiga user, you’re undoubtedly familiar with the Ann Record, Assistant Editor following claim: The Amiga represents the best value in the computing market. That’s probably one reason you Peter Olafson, Games Editor purchased it in the first place. But is this claim still true Joel Hagen, Contributing Editor in today’s competitive market, where prices for both the PC and Mac platforms have tumbled? To find out, we decided to sponsor an unprecedented Howard G, Happ, Art Director computer shopping spree that would test the deep pockets of even the most avid techno-shopper. We set loose Laura Johnson, Assistant Art Director AmigaWorkVs roving shopper, Dave Johnson, with tens of Ann Dillon, Designer thousands of dollars in Amiga World play money bulging Alana Korda, Manufacturing Manager from his money belt. The rules of this fantastic buying splurge were simple: Michael McGoldrick, Advertising Director Browse through your favorite computer megastore and purchase roughly similar computer systems— based on the Barbara Hoy, Sales Representative Amiga, Mac, and PC—capable of performing some of the Heather Guinard, Sales Representative most popular computing tasks, including word and image Meredith Bickford, Advertising Coordinator processing, graphics and animation creation, multimedia Advertising: 1-800-441 -4403; 1-603-924-0100 presentation, and desktop publishing. See what system FAX: 1-603-924-4066 you can create for each of the platforms, and then compare the price tags. G iorgio Saluti, Associate Publisher, West Coast Sales
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CD32 R ollout at CES LAS VEGAS— Commodore presented the Marketing the Machine were about 160 CD32 developers. U S edition of its Amiga CD32 games console CBM aims to sell 300,000 to 500,000 CD32s In addition, about 60 percent of the 110- at the Consumer Electronics Show in early in the US in 1994. Geoff Stilley, president and plus titles for CDTV— CBM 's initial, but less- January along with an ambitious marketing general manager of Commodore's US divi than-successful foray into CD— are said to plan and a promising report of its initial sales sion, unveiled a wide-ranging promotions be CD32 compatible, and CBM has singled in Europe. plan, including 30- and 45-second television out 24 CDTV titles as especially worthy of CD32 is expected to list for S399 when it commercials, exposure on home-shopping the new machine. becomes available in the US in late March. channels and talk shows, gaming challenges Commodore's own publishing wing was An MPEG add-on module, which gives the in high-traffic outlets, and a fan club offering slated to release five CD32 titles at the close CD32 full-motion video capability, will be discounts on software and hardware add-ons, of C ES: Jim Sachs' Defender of the Crown offered separately for $249. The module Stilley estimated that $10-15 million II (see review, Dec. '93, p. 80), CD Football, plugs into the large expansion port at the would be required to implement the plan. Insight: Technology, and improved versions rear of the CD32, and enables the machine While he was unable to say how much of of the Grolier's Electronic Encyclopedia and to play video and karaoke CDs. that CBM could actually provide, Stilley ex the Guinness Book of World Records. The CD32 can play audio, CD-fG, and pressed confidence that the company— CD32 titles typically list for S45 to S50, and CD-rMIDI discs. Also, CBM claims that video which took a financial beating in 1993— sell for SB to S10 less on the street. There's CDs designed for Phillips' CD-I machine will would have adequate funds to properly also the prospect that CD32 games will be work on MPEG-equipped CD32s. Software launch the CD32. available for rental (and the unit itself for sale) support for Kodak's PhotoCD format is "All the resellers we're talking to are say in video stores. CBM indicated it is talking to planned for spring. ing, 'Welcome back, we can't wait/” Stilley several of the larger video-store chains, who The machine is "very, very suitable for in said. Early on, the CD32 will be available in say they are "very interested" in the CD32. teractive TV,” said Jeff Porter, CBM's direc software stores at malls, with mass-mer tor of advanced technology. Porter indicated chandising outlets and toy stores to follow. Hooking It Up that Commodore is talking to five major third- A US software bundle had not been final Add-ons may be in the works, as well. party hardware manufacturers about licens ized at press time, but was expected to in The compact unit can be connected to a TV ing CD32 technology for use in the set-top clude two to four game titles. CBM seems to with the included RF modulator cable; it boxes that permit "navigating the ocean of be favoring 21st Century's Pinball Fantasies, also supports S-Video and composite dis information ' available on interactive TV. Ocean's Sleepwalker, and Microcosm from plays (which also permits use of monitors CBM reps said more than 100,000 ma Psygnosis. About 35 CD32-specsfic titles are like the 1084S). However, the machine does chines have been sold in just three months currently available in Europe. About 85 are not currently offer an RGB port or permit di in Europe and that CD32 has outpaced expected to be available in the US when the rect connection of other Amiga peripherals. competing CD consoles by threeto-one. machine hits the streets. At press time, there Continued on p . 8
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Without even usingO a Zorro slot, 7 you/ the 28 MHz Warp Engine card. Also, Don’t let its name fool you—-the A 4000 can now boost your A3000 or A40l)0,s According to MacroSystem, you can G-Force 040-40 may have been devel processing speed, and add RAM and a also realize a RAM speed increase by oped for the A4Q0O, but it also functions SC’S I -2 controller! transferring the memory chips from in A30()0-series machines. GVP’s fastest T h e Warp Engine (MacroSystemUS) your motherboard to the Warp Engine. accelerator ever features a 40 MHz offers ’040 acceleration at 28, 33, or 40 The board's four SIM M sockets allow Motorola ’040 processor. The main board MHz.. The 33 and 40 MHz versions of you to mix RAM module sizes—or you holds up to 32MB of RAM, and a daugh the board ($1599.95 and 1899.95, re can go with 32MB SIM M s for a total of terboard accommodates another 96MB, spectively) provide an '040 processor, 128M B on the A4000 version; the A3000 giving you up to 128 megabytes. Anoth while the 28 MHz model ($899.95) model accepts a maximum of 64MB er optional module provides the SCSI-2 offers a socket for the chip. This means RAM. During SCSI data transfers, the connector. (R S # 121.) A4000/040 owners can simply transfer board will reportedly leave the Amiga’s Both boards promise a SCSI transfer the processor on their motherboard to CPU 909F free. (RS# 120.) rate ol up to 10MB per second!
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Imagine throwing open your refrig ated Amiga 2000s, one A4000, and an But don't rule this out. A half-dozen erator door l o discover a wild party of ’040-based A3000. third-party hardware manufacturers have soda cans twirling and twisting to a The cans were modeled at 3000 poly contacted CBM about making add-ons for
Chubbv4 Checker beat. gons and image-mapped at 3300 lines the new system. Products contemplated Or, instead of imagining it, check out resolution for the tighter shots in the an include extra memory, accelerators, the new Diet Shasta ad campaign for imation. Movement was achieved with floppy drives, and an expansion board— yourself on TV. If your wondering who’s LightWave’s Layout, and then shaped similar to the one made available to throwing this party, give credit to David and enhanced with the Bones function. developers by Commodore— that includes Ebner, Tom Williamson, and Jeff Barnes Soda spray bursting from the cans as a range of ports for hard and floppy drives of Computer Cafe (“Animation Without they popped their tops was rendered and RGB monitors. Were it to catch on, the Attitude”) in Santa Maria, California, separately and blurred with ASDG’s Art such a device could relieve developers of who conceived and produced the color Department Professional. Blasts of con the current storage constraints imposed ful 3-D animation on Amigas. fetti were layered on top of the rendered by the 1K of nonvolatile RAM CD32 uses “To make the greatest impact/ said end tag with the help of a custom ver to store saved games. Shasta‘s marketing agency, West Beach sion of Tindall's SPARKS Particle Ani The machine's two joyports are compati mation program, which builds clusters ble with existing Amiga mouse devices and around modeled objects and creates a joysticks. As with previous AGA machines, motion path. Party balloons were given you can access PAL mode and earlier incar that “real” look with a rendered reflec nations of the custom chip set by holding tion map. After all the finishing touches, down both mouse buttons at boot. These Ebner output all of the shots to DPS’s options may be useful for running older Personal Animation Recorder. CDTV programs or titles designed for the One important step in the process was European version of CD32. communicating progress to the client —Peter Olafson using the W iref rame Preview feature in LightWave. “The Computer Cafe showed us tapes of the wireframe move T im e f o r T a x e s ments as they went along,” said Mark It’s that time of year again and Oxxi Owens of West Beach Marketing, “so we lias updated T a x B r e a k ($79.95) with Have you ever seen a soda can do the could see how the concept was pro the latest tax forms and schedules for limbo? Well, one does (with the help of gressing before the renderings. It was 1993. Simply enter your Figures and LightWave 3D) in the latest TV ad for fascinating, and it gives a client on any Tax Break automatically calculates tax Diet Shasta. budget greater comfort to see some of refunds and payments onto a ready-to- the work in progress.” print form . If you get stuck on a par Marketing, “we needed something Computer Cafe and company pro ticular line, you can access specific in unique. We felt going fully animated duced the full 30-second spot— fade up structions from the IRS via the Help with fun sound effects and exciting to fade down—without ever touching key. Current owners can upgrade for music would give us a breakthrough spot tape until delivery for the sound mix. In $29.95. (R S # 127.) that people will remember.” just 18 days the team completed a 15- Faced with such a tall order and tight second 3-D animated spot for the New deadlines, Computer Cafe chose a non- Year’s weekend Freedom Bowl telecast S t i l l & S a m p l e traditional way of outsourcing the work and then completed a full 30-second VideoMaster from Oregon Research is to freelance animators from all over the spot for the upcoming IA; campaign. a video digitizer and audio sampler rolled country— the team transmitted scenes Additionally, a single frame from the into one. It is availabfe for both the Amiga and test animations via modem. Com animation was rendered at print resolu 500 or 600 (S 109.95) and Am iga 1200 puter Cafe worked with Jim Arthur in tion, then sent via modem to Shasta’s (S119.95). With the hardware/software Colorado Springs on the animation, re art director for billboard advertising. combo, you can sample full-screen color ceived rendering assistance from Mark Certainly, a toast should go to the stills from video cameras and camcorders, Miller in San Diego, and programming Amiga, which was essential for on-the-flv (if you want to lift color stills from video help from Jon T indall in Detroit. The production and for churning out im recorders or laser-disc players, you will animators used two NewTek Video pressive animation in record time on a also need an electronic color splitter.) You Toaster cards, Light Rave (LightWave (diet) slim budget. can sample quarter-screen monochrome emulation software), three ’040 acceler- —Pa trie Hedlund video clips (of up to 30 frames per sec ond) to play back on your Amiga. You can also sample eight-bit sound. VideoMaster E x p r e s s L a n e includes a video sequencer so you can With the V-LAN Express single-device require a V-LAN transmitter or connect to a create multimedia sequences with the frame-accurate video controller (S795, network of VTRs. It attatches to your serial video and sound samples. V id e o m e d ia ), you can bypass the "traffic port and comes with Amiga driver software ColorMaster (sold separately) is an jams" caused by interruptions from other for any RS-2327422 and VISCA-compatible automatic RGB color filter for VideoMaster VTRs on a muitiple-device network. This videotape, videodisc, and digital disk that plugs into the Amiga's parallel port. pocket-size dedicated controller does not recorder that supports the V-LAN standard (R S# 125.) developed by Videomedia (RS# 123). (IBM and Mac disks are also availabfe.) M is s io n t o M a n d e l b r o t D r i v i n g B i g F l o p p i e s
Dare to explore mysterious fractal speed make Mand2000 a state-of-the art You can store twice as much data on regions using your Amiga? You won't program . (R S # 122.) high-density floppies than on standard even need a map. With Mand2000’s ones. The question is, How do you access ($34.95, Cygnus Software) a n im ate d them? DKB (RS# 130) provides an answer, zoom and pan features, you can explore now that it distributes the 1.76MB high- the Mandelbrot and Julia sets and other density floppy drive from Power Com fractals via an intuitive point-and-click puting of Scotland. With the drive, you can interface (you can even use a joystick to even read and write 1,44MB-format PC “drive” through fractals). With the Show floppy disks—with the help of Consultron's Location feature, you can find out where CrossDOS emulation software (included you are just in case you do get lost. with AmigaDOS 2.1 and later), which is Since Mand2000 supports ARexx (a now bundled with CrossPC. External dozen scripts are included), you can ($175) and internal ($170) versions are create animations (zoom, morph, itera available. The external drive works with tion, and Julia seed movies) automati any Amiga running Kickstart 2.04 or later; cally with the help of a program such as the internal model requires that you have ADPro. Multiple windows, a multi-level You can travel to fractal “worlds” with an A2000, A3000, A600, or an AGA “undo” feature, full AGA support, and M and2000. Amiga (A4000 or A1200).
more dynamic files 1 enjoyed greatly was Guitarslinger. For flashy techno-dance music, an ON-LINE impressive MOD called Nicole comes complete with digitized vocals. If you grew up in the SCAN By Tim Walsh ’70s, you might get a kick out of a MOD called Money, which is loosely based on die Pink Floyd Much to the chagrin of those There’s a variety of music for supports roughly 15 different classic. I say “loosely" because it who must sit in proximity to me, mats, the most common being music formats (this is remark starts off with an accurate ren I love Amiga-generated music. Noise l lacker and MusicTrack- able, considering the executable dition of the cash register, but It doesn’t matter whether it's 8- er. These so-called Music Mod is only about 43K in size). An segues into what’s best described or 16-bit, Bach or Biohazard; ules (MODs) have even found other Euro import, Power- as elevator music. any sound that drowns the din their way to other computer Tracker, by Wai Hung Liu, is an The next time you have of my computer’s and laser platforms in recent years. MED even smaller (3 IK) multiformat friends over, put on Eleciric- printer’s cooling fans is good (Music Editor) files, have player that complements Power- Funk from a person who goes music in my book. And the pick slacked a hit in popularity, but Player nicely. Once your music by the name Moby. It won a ings on line have never been new ones still appear. collection grows, you’ll have for prestigious international music better, I might add. MIDI and Deluxe Music Con mats that won’t play on Power- competition, and while it breaks On-line music files evolve so struction Set (DMCS) files don’t Player, but will play on Power- no new musical ground, it's rapidly, 1 couldn't conceivably seem quite as popular as they Tracker, and vice versa. funky electric guitar at its best. evaluate more than a fraction of once were. Stand-alone music Another older, all-purpose The next rising star of the them each month. The network files and digitized sound files MED player and composition music world may be composing writh the most Amiga-specific that don’t require a separate package is MED 3,2 by Teijo MODs and MEDs on an Amiga music files is GEnie, which of player program have fallen out Kiununen. Although it hasn’t right now, and uploading them fers page after page of great of favor over the years, too. been updated in about two to the nets in die hope of get ones. Portal is a close second, Exotic Ripper L27 by Rene years, it remains quite popular. ting recognition. Just think of while CompuServe's Amiga Arts (Turbo) Troll denier has seen a Its compact size, ease-of-use, the “I knew so-and-so when” forum offers significantly less. lot of interest in recent months and great documentation make stories you can tell your kids. So, as nonmusicians often use it to it a favorite for composing what are you waiting for?n F a c e t h e M u s ic “rip" sections from other MODs everything from dance songs to The list of hardware needed for use in their own. game music. Much like a MIDI BIX to play music on your Amiga is Fledglings interested in hear file (the instruments remain 800/695-4882 thankfully short. The Amiga’s ing some great Amiga MODs separate from the program), 617/354-4137 built-in music capabilities are should begin by getting a good, MED is remarkably efficient. superb, though decidedly tame multiformat player. A long-time Functional demos of the com Com puServe when compared to the output of Favorite of mine is Ed Mackey’s mercial program OctaMED, an 614/457-0802 even the lowliest 16-bit sound Edplayer 2.1. It places a black offshoot of MED, have also seen 800/848-8199 cards. A monitor with stereo CD player Faceplate on your an increase in popularity. speakers—such as a I084S or AmigaDOS 2.0 or higher VVork- OctaMED’s most redeeming Delphi 1942—reproduces music in a bench screen, complete with quality is its ability to split the 800/695-4005 pinch. Blit a stereo receiver or most of the CD controls you’re Amiga’s audio channels. boombox with some small already familiar with, and offers GEnie speakers is a definite plus (con MIDI support. So m e P ic k H it s 800/638-9636 nect your Amiga’s audio outputs Another one is Stephan Let's take a look at some hot to the auxiliary input on your Fuhrmann's PowerPlayer, a MOD files of the Iasi 12 months Portal sound machine via phono cable). freeware German import that found on most nets. One of the 408/973-9111 Buy one Timebase Corrector... ..and get a second one FREE!
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O ver the last twelve months or so, Amiga with it can be dangerous (one bad signal can ruin a video-display boards have transformed perfectly good monitor), and there’s really no need themselves from press-release vaporware to write your own. The EGS software includes into hardware reality. For a different twist drivers for Commodore monitors as well as VESA, on a common theme, GVP is hoping that the VGA, and S-VGA spec monitors. Enhanced Graphics System (EGS) will get a Once the software is installed, you may run the foothold in 24-bit graphics and let its EGS 28/24 Workbench in normal Amiga resolutions or in any Spectrum stand apart from the crowd. EG S represents screen mode allowed by the Spectrum board, which retargettable graphics (RTG) for the Amiga, and goes as high as 1600x1280 with as many as 256 software designed around the EGS concept should colors. In practice, you probably won’t exceed run on the Spectrum or any other EGS-compatible 1024x768, after which the resolutions are inter board. Commodore’s own brand of RTG is still laced. Unlike other display boards, the Spectrum some time away, so GVP is in the enviable position displays a 256-color Workbench even if you aren’t of having a living, working retargettable graphics using AmigaDOS 3.0. I found Workbench screens system you can buy right now. of more than 32 colors unacceptably slow on my A3000, though my 4000’s Workbench remained S p e c t r u m S pe c s peppy even at 256 colors. Don’t spend time on the The Spectrum board and its accompanying five disks Workbench, though; the real magic is found in the of software install quickly. The board slides into any custom EGS environment. Z o it o II or III slot, and two external video ports grace the board's backside. Your monitor plugs into the T h e S o u l o f E G S output port, while the second port accepts the signal To whet your EGS appetite, Spectrum ships with a from the Amiga’s video output. The Spectrum board dozen or so utilities and mini-applications, includ passes the normal Amiga signals directly to your ing a rav-tracing 3-D equation plotter, a screen monitor, obviating any need for die second monitor grabber, and various configuration programs. EGS- that older display cards required. However, with more SpectraPaint, EGS’s flagship application to date, than one Spectrum card installed, a Macintosh-like completes the package. single display can overlap multiple monitors. Spectrum’s EGS environment resembles an The software includes one thoughtful "emer attractive cross between Workbench anti Windows. gency" boot disk that allows you to boot back into EGS performs best when all applications open in a native Amiga mode if you find yourselfwithout an windows that share the same EG S screen, much like EGS-compatible monitor. If you have an Amiga having all your Amiga programs open and run on
4000 that suffers from the well-publicized Z o i t o I I I one Workbench screen. This is logical, since an EGS bug, the Spectrum will still operate— albeit in the screen is likely to be large enough (800x600 slower Zorro II mode— after you change the minimum) to display several programs simultane position of a single jumper. ously. Besides, using more than one custom EGS A well-appointed monitor driver editor is screen would consume most of your chip RAM included, but its use is best left to experts. Fiddling before you’ve opened even a single program, EG S has its own set of modular Preferences and To locate the vendors of the products reviewed, see the a standard library of requesters and interface "Manufacturers'/Distributors' Addresses" list on p. 90. objects. One of its most useful surprises is the ability to pull commonly used menus off the title- bar and leave them out in the thick of things for quick access. O f course, you’ll need to be able to launch programs from the EG S screen, so an EGS-specific dock program is included. EGS-Dock is designed to let you run applications from groups of buttons or icons. To my dismay, however, it behaved unpredictably on both of my systems, failing to run at all about half of the time I booted. Another drawback is that although it’s very configurable, you can edit it only from an anachronistic script File.
P o w e r P a i n t b r u s h The decision to buy a display card shouldn’t hinge on the capabilities of its accompanying paint program, but EGS- SpectraPaint is unquestionably the Spec trum’s strongest selling point. Workstation- environment 24-bit painting is rare in Amiga software, but that’s what Spectra - Paint delivers when you’re editing 24-bit images— and it’s remarkably easy to use. The program’s toolbox is both draggable and resizable, and any or all of the menus can be torn off the titlebar and positioned for quick access. L if e B e y o n d E G S EGS-SpectraPaint’s most flashy feature is the While the EGS 28/24 area-selection tool. Called a “magic wand,” it uses Do your homework before choosing a 24-bit display Spectrum's Spectra- a controllable threshold setting to determine how card. Shop around carefully, read all the reviews and Paint displays with many hues around the selected color should be specs, and talk to the experts. Some cards, like the unmatched clarity included in a region. The program boasts the Picasso II (Expert Services) and Retina (Macro- (top), its ability to also ability to load any number of images, memory SystemUS), effortlessly tweak your Amiga into manipulate and move permitting, and to have up to four active views of displaying some software at resolutions far beyond 24-bit graphics clips the same image, each at a different magnification. their intended limits, such as creating 1280x1024 (bottom) is one its In terms of memory, EGS-SpectraPaint (like the Final Copy screens. Spectrum isn’t designed to do true strengths. entire EGS software lineup) works well with the this sort of thing; while it “promotes” the Workbench virtual-mernoiy manager, GigaMem (INOVAtronics). to a high resolution, it needs EGS-specilic software On the other hand, EGS is sadly lacking in anima for use in its native environment. tion capabilities. If the next version supports 8- or 24- A decision to buy Spectrum, then, is a vote for bit animation, there'll be cause for celebration. EGS and an investment in the future of Amiga In spite of its versatility' and power, EGS-Spectra- graphics. Although it will not force some existing Paint is not the ultimate paint program. It does a programs to run at high resolution, the Spectrum is few things very' well, like pantogram, stencil, and an elegantly designed device that does everything it thresholds, but it is not a full-featured paint claims. The board’s potential leaves me optimistic program. A typical working relationship would be about a future brimming with EGS applications. If to use it in conjunction with an image-processing you’re ready for a new-generation Amiga display program, such as GVP’s own ImageFX. Watch for adapter, I recommended this one highly. a greatly enhanced version in a few months. —Dave Johnson sory programs developed for the Video Toaster Toolkit 4000 Toaster. Some time ago, the program DevW are, $179.95 vanished from sight, then made a remarkable comeback, completely Multifunction All Video Toaster-equipped Minimum system: Toaster- revised and renamed for the Toaster utility package Amigas. equipped Amiga. for the Video 4000. Although the product is under a 2.0/3.0 compatible. Recommended system: 4MB T o a s te r. new license agreement, distributor Dev- Hard-drive installable. RAM, AGA Amiga, and Ware allows registered owners of the Not copy protected. hard disk. original package to upgrade for $79.95. Accelerator compatible. Six T o a s t e r T a sk s hen an animal or a plant becomes ware is a little different. A case in point The Toaster Toolkit 4000 offers six sep Wextinct, it's gone. Computer soft- is Toaster Toolkit, one of the first acces- arate programs: Toaster Sequence Editor, Toaster Project Editor, Anim FX, TXToAnim, EraineStore Compressor, and a ColorFont Converter. The most significant of these is the Toaster Sequence Editor, which is used to compile a script of Toaster commands. Run the compiled script, and the commands are executed in sequence, as if you had manually clicked the Toaster Switcher’s YOUR H I P AWAITS buttons. This process works thanks to the Toaster Switcher s ARexx interface, : . lb . i i 331:48
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Following GVP's philosophy of complete feature integration PU - Full Processing Amplifier (ProcAmp) Control for correcting pioneered by our G-Force Combo11' accelerators (used in a majority or adjusting incoming video "on-thc-fiy" quickly and professionally. of Amiga® Video ToasterTW W ork stations), we are proud to present a p L « - 3 inputs [2-composite, 1—Y/C) that can be connected professional TBC with time and money simultaneously and 'Hot-Switched' with softwrare without having saving features. to play with cable connections. You would demand a TBC to be f O l u t - Convert the 2-composite inputs into a single Y/C input, 100% digital, have 4:2:2 throughput, and an integrated ProcAmp. You providing two switchable Y/C inputs. would want it to be under SI,000. We agree. What does the Plus get you? j O L u s - Full SMPTE/EBU encoding/decoding/striping available as an optioa - Real-time 16.7 Million Color Frame-Grabber/FrameBuffer for use as a digital video stillstore or signal generator. Included ImagcFX™ modules - fyutc/ij n x u c h ttxc^c! allow direct editing and manipulation in the framebuffer. T h is is simply the most powerful and flexible video - Full Transcoding between Composite and Y/C (SVHS) Input and stabilization device for the Amiga computer. The TBCPlus makes Composite and Y/C (SVHS) Output. an excellent complement to any GVP IV24 , NewTek Video Toaster . or Centaur Opal Vision v Graphics System. The Plus means it also j O l u A - Real-Time Professional Special Effects Generator featuring offers morel'’ solarization, strobing, pseudo-color, monochrome effects, and more. Cary Cehman, President Magic Bullet Communications. Inc.
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i TBC Plus, G-Fcrce Combo. ImagsFX and IV24 are trademarks of Great Valley P'oducts inc. Amiga is a registered trademark of Commodore Amiga. Inc,. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners, Framestore and ColorFont converters Sequence Editor needs refinement, as against a number of products, such as are wonderful additions for Toaster 2.0 there’s noway to edit a script line. Enter T-Rcxx Professional, ToasterVision, and owners, Toaster 4000 and Toaster 3.0 the wrong Framestore number, and the Deli, all of which have roughly software already* saves Frame stores in you’ve got to delete that line and insert similar attributes. Toaster Toolkit 4000 the compressed format. In addition, it the correct one. Direct support for the offers some unmatched features, such as can incorporate graphics clips directly new Toaster status commands is missing, the ability to launch a script from a into Character Generator pages, making too. A “background” button lets you set Toaster-efFect icon, provide effects with it easy to add a logo to a title page with the background channel to any of 4096 audio accompaniment, and create Color- out creating a ColorFont. colors, but the colors are represented by Fonts. Its capabilities also straddle all meaningless numbers. Also, if the versions of the Toaster. These unique R o u g h E d g e s Toaster-efTect icons were smaller, the characteristics, along with the program's As good as the Toaster Toolkit 4000 is, command buttons could be larger. intermediate price, make it an intelli there's room for improvement. The Toaster Toolkit 4000 competes gent investment for the Toaster owner who wants to customize, automate and simplify many Toaster tasks. — Sheldon Leemon
VideoScan G enlock VS-525N (NTSC v e r s io n ) CompuVid, $1275; optional power, $70 All Amigas. 1.3/2.0/3.0 compatible. Hard-drive installable. Accelerator compatible. Installation: Easy. Minimum system: A500, VCR or cam corder, video applications software. Recommended system: A2000 or better; waveform monitor and vectorscope for video signal adjustments; time- based corrector.
Multifunction external genlock.
. ideoScan, the newest fraternity V member of Amiga video genlocks, is an external device that performs dissolves and simple wipes and can be used for cut switching on the vertical interval. What sets it apart from the genlocking crowd is that it can work as a stand-alone mixer for two synchronized video sources. With the change of a jumper, Selected as the best professional productivity you can also connect it via the RG B port software at the last two North American to an Amiga, even one that already has Amiga Developers’ Conferences, the SAS/C an internal genlock. 'Thus connected, it Development System now includes C++. loops the RG B signal l o your monitor. T h e slim, sturdy unit is designed to sit If you are currently using another atop the A2000/3000/4000 case, and it commercial C compiler, call now for details easily supports a monitor. It draws on our special trade-in offer! power from the Amiga or from an For more information and to order, call optional external power supply, a SAS Institute at 919-677-8000, ext. 7001. feature A500 owners will no doubt find comforting, and one that effectively SAS and SAS/C are registered tradem arks nr trademarks orSAS Institute Inc, SAS Institute Inc in the USA and other countries. ® indicates USA registration. Other brand ‘ ‘ . ' makes the Amiga a peripheral device. and product names arc registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective holders. Gary. I\L 27513 I/O O p t io n s VideoScan has both composite and Y/C Circle 40 on Reader Sen/ice card. K K V lews
(S-VUS, ED-BETA or Hi8) input and easily mix Amiga graphics with any output. Its two inputs and its output stable video source, such as a camera or ports all have BN C and S-Vl IS style 1)1 N time-base-corrected videotape. When connectors. Both 28-pin and 15-pin 1)11 using a second genlockable video source connectors accommodate Amiga R(.ll (camera, video disc, or a TBCed video and multisync monitors. Except when in tape), you can mix between two video Video Mixer Mode, VideoScan can pro sources, Amiga graphics and a black vide simultaneous composite and Y/C signal.u O f course, /vou can mix only / two output. A BNC connector gives you Key at a time, and certain combinations are signal I/O, with the input or output not available. option selected by a dip switch. Three In Video Mixer Mode you can other dip switches allow 75-ohm dissolve, wipe, or both, between video termination of the inputs. sources 1 and 2 and black. In Reference The front panel provides two dissolve Mode, dissolves (but no wipes) are avail sliders and an effects slider for wipes, able between nun-keyed Amiga graphics, which include horizontal, vertical and source 1, and black. Dissolves or wipes in circular, or any combination of the three, Key .Mode (selectable by a rear-mounted plus inverted. The duration of wipes Genlocking with VideoScan. switch) are performed from source 1 to range from two to seven seconds, and keyed Amiga graphics, or dissolves only wipes can he performed either manually and turn potentiometer RV-I8 until the are performed from source 1 or unkeyed or with the auto-wipe button. Also signal reads 7.5 IR E (lor NTSC), using a graphics to black. Finally, Amiga Mode provided are adjustments lor horizontal waveform monitor. lets you perform dissolves and/or wipes position and subcarrier phase shift up to front unkeyed graphics to source 1, but 180 degrees. VideoScan's built-in black M ix e r s , A n y o n e ? you can perform only dissolves (no signal seems to he zero IRK, an indica Four buttons let you choose the video wipes) from graphics or source 1 to tion of the product's European RAL sources and mixing modes and also black. heritage. While there’s no mention double as vertical interval switches for A logical pattern develops as follows: made in the scant documentation, tech cuts. Two more buttons select either You can mix source 1 and black with nically inclined users can open the case composite or S-VHS format. You can either Amiga graphics or source 2, but ►
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EGS 2Br24 Spectrum ts a trademark of Great Valley Products. Inc. EGS is 2 trademark ct Viona Development. All otter tr2demarics are tte property of tteir respective owners Circle 2 on Reader Service card. not with both, Amiga graphics and VideoScan is stackable, whereas mixers button from two to four times to activate source 2 cannot be mixed with one are typically mounted in video consoles.) a function. Save for the LED indicator another at all. While this is not exactly On die unit I received, I found dial the next to each button, there was no indi the same as having a three-input mixer, sliders were not properly set, as the left cation whether or not a function was it makes ample provision for creativity. most and rightmost thirds of their move activated. T he company is in the process ment ranges produced no effect. Only of addressing this problem through T r o u b l e d T u n e r s the middle thirds were responsive, better button design. VideoScan’s cabinet design uses sliders making slow, smooth dissolves a pain to More surprises awaited when I and buttons on the front panel. (The produce. opened the cabinet to change a jum per. more popular flat-cabinet design, with The bubble-panel buttons were also a 1 discovered four Dual In-line Pin sliders and buttons on the top like a major disappointment. In spite of con “ D IP” chips that were almost obscured video-switcher panel, does offer better siderable pressure and feeling a definite with transistors, fixed and variable ergonomics for extended periods, but “snap” each time, I often had to press a resistors, capacitors, and jum per wires, all soldered to the legs of the chips. It doesn’t take an advanced degree in electronics to recognize a patch job , .-TT- Whai b UJ>twuj? . when you see one. T o B u y o r N o t T o B u y ? kte the 24-B il VideoScan’s good features outweigh its shortcomings, however. The external etutdi M ining power option is a nice touch, and the Gtapktc genlock’s stand-alone mixer design is a capital idea that makes for a flexible and UieTItutfe S o t!! functional unit. You can use it upstream or downstream of a Video Toaster or other genlock, providing expanded studio T h e T A L O N capabilities. The front-panel layout is logical, and the blue-and-gray cabinet I^lain Obj ectives blends nicely with other equipment. N e w Lowest Cost Although experienced users will find P r ic e Video Option the abbreviated manual lacking in tech Retargetable Graphics nical details, it is easy to understand. FCC Approved Beginning videographers should be able Paint Program to follow the step-by-step instruction for III Z or ro ll 8< mat and accompanying diagrams with 6M-Brt Display Controller little difficulty. Two pages hill of video MultimonitorSupport terms with definitions should also be of EG5 Workbench Emulation help to beginners. The manual did make Programmable resolution one unfulfilled promise by specifying that a demo disk and S-VHS cable were “supplied.” At least, these did not come with the unit I received. The real test of a genlock is its image quality, and I was very pleased by the visual quality of the VideoScan output, which appears equal to or better than the SuperGen. Chroma crawl was minimal, and color bleed and rainbows were nonexistent in composite. The S-VHS output should be even better than the composite. At its steep list price, the feature-laden VideoScan represents a serious invest ment. Moreover, certain configurations using unstable input sources, such as 50240 W Pontiac Trail composite video, require a TBC. If you VLixom, Michigan 48393 don’t already have one, you need to T V i c E A 5 I e consider the extra cost this will entail. Tech Support (810) 960-8750 Its features, flexibility, and one-year i s t a k i n g warranty make VideoScan a genlock Sales (810) 960-8751 worthy of some consideration. Fax (810) 960-8752 d i / r l / t + f i t —Fred Hurteau fonts. W ith its structured-drawing T y p e S m it h 2 . 0 capabilities, it is substantially more than Soft-Logik Publishing, $199.95; a mere font editor. upgrade from 1.0, $50; free upgrade for D r a w Y o u r O w n purchase of 1.0 after 8/15/93; Registered Font Designer (BSC) owners, $75. Once you’ve used the included Installer to situate TypeSmith 2.0 on your hard All Amigas. disk, an Options menu allows you to 2.0/3.0/3.1 and up compatible. customize the display mode, toolbox Hard-drive installable. position, and so forth. ARexx macros are Not copy protected. included, as are AmigaGuide scripts. Minimum system: 2MB RAM (512K Just hit the Help key and an AmigaGuide chip), AmigaDOS 2.0 or later, dual file appears describing the function or floppy drive. feature positioned beneath the pointer. Topics in the well-arranged manual Recommended system: 1-2MB chip Watch your collection of outline fonts range from a brief history of typefaces RAM, hard drive. grow with TypeSmith 2.0 and the basics of font design to the intricacies of winding number and even- Outline-fonf editor for the Amiga. odd Fills. You’ll also Find a good trouble with Workbench (.type) or with Gold shooting and error-code section. Disk products (.lib). Agfa normally dis E ven if*you’ve never designed a font, TypeSm ith’s font compatibilities are tributes Intellifonts in processor-specif you’ll find the long-awaited Type impressive. PostScript Type 1, PostScript ic FAIS format for MS-DOS and other Smith 2.0 a useful package for working Type 3, Compugraphic Intellifonts (both Intel-based computers. Before using In with graphics, page-layout, or video. Commodore standard and Gold Disk tellifonts with TypeSm ith 2.0, however, Based on the German Font Designer standard), and its own TypeSmith for you need to convert them into Motoro program from Relog, Soft-Logik’s mat (closely related to Soft-Logik out la Intellifont format with the Fountain outline-font editor now includes bitmap- line fonts) are all supported. Intellifonts on the Workbench or Gold Disk’s FA1S- font editing and the ability to convert can have different file extensions, de load program. between PostScript and Compugraphic pending on whether they are for use Continued on p. 60.
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The concept is simple: ImageFX is the only Image Processing package that you will 01 Full 1 Balaoct |Copposit«l Botitt 1 Size I ever need. Period. Toolbox Color 1 Conyolvt llrm ifo m l B tttr I Effect I Some Image Processing packages make a lot of promises, but end up making you do all the work— as they work on your pocketbook! But not ImageFX from GVP; we've done it right the first ImageFX. However, if you're serious now about Image Processing, you need the time,r savingKJ yout time and money.67 JX-100 Scanning...... Regionalized Processing software that was born read} No limitations. No costly The way we see it, Virtual Memory Edge Feathering...... additions! "Professional" means Complete Painting Brush Handling You still want more? OK! Truly Integrated. That's Real-time WYSIWYG Preview With ToasteiFX™ from Byrd's why ImageFX gives you Dual Image Buffers Eye Software, you now can everything up front. We Alpha Channel.. integrate the power of wouldn't think of doing it Undo & Redo...... YUV/YIQ Operation ImageFX™ With your Video any other way! Toaster™. You won't find any ImageFX is Truly Inte other Image Processing software with these inte grated Image Processing... a reality here and now! grated features. Perhaps other Image Processing packages will GREAT VALLEY PRODUCTS, INC. someday catch on to the power ana flexibility of 657 CLARK AVENUE KING OF PRUSSIA, PA 19406 * USA PHONE 215*337*8770 • FAX 215*337*9922 01993 Great Valley Products. Inc. ImageFX and CrneMorph are trademarks of Great Valley Products Inc. ToasterfX is a trademark of Byrd's Eye Sopftware,. Amiga is a registered trademark ct Commodore Amiga, Inc. Circle 7 on Reader Service card.
Amiga War Id 19 I NTER - P L A TF0 RM COMPARISON SHOPPING
AMIGAsy PCsy How do the three major KAY. W H ETH ER IT ’S lions and tigers, apples and oranges, or competing computer 0 platforms—•la everyone knows it’s tough to make direct, m eaningful comparisons between different items. However, since green is a personal-computer platforms common characteristic of the contents of most wallets, people engage in serious comparative evaluations when they shop for almost anything— especially com puter systems. This inter-platform exercise in com parative stack up at the checkout counter shopping is not so much a three-way showdown among computer hardw are. Nor is it really an at tempt to determine which system is better, in s te a d , we’re going to try to evaluate three sim ilarly equipped systems— based on Amiga, PC-compatible, when it comes to providing a and Mac platforms— designed to provide comparable
Editors Note: Shire /trices for the computer systems themselves cun vary averaging prices from three different retail outlets for each of the systems. j pop ular army of applications on a fealure-for-feature basis. See the sidebar “Before You Shop . . . njbrj
capabilities? Let’s outfit three
representative systems with
a comparable arsenal of
software and see which one
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TOTAL $630 your wallet.
L IK E A GOOD house, we’ll want to give our PC-com patible system a solid foundation. That means a power ful and expandable computer, like the Dell Dimension XPS, a 486-powered minitower. Horsepower-wise, it’s roughly comparable to the A4000’s Motorola 68040. Like B Y DAVE JOHNSON most compatibles, it has no sound capability, so w ell have MACs...Oh My!
applications capabilities. The key factor in this equa dows and Apple’s Quicktime have made animation tion then is price. more accessible to non-Amiga users, there are few My selection of applications categories for tools— let alone good ones— for actually creating comparison is, of course, just that: my own. Like those animations. Sim ilarly, while lots of Windows wise, the choice of particular products within each and Macintosh software is quite good, you pay the category is equally subjective— although represen price at the checkout, making even a modest PC or tative, I hope, of popular and reputable offerings Macintosh graphics suite quite expensive. from each market. Others conducting such an ex Our task this month, then, is to wander through ercise undoubtedly would make different choices the nearest computer superstore and build three (and, by all means, readers are encouraged to do just com parable systems that can each do some graphics, th a t). image processing, anim ation, multimedia presentation, What I do think you’ll find, however, in any anc! desktop publishing. The old credit card is pretty comparison-shopping experiment is this: You’re go beat up after the recent Holiday season, so we’ll ing to be able to capitalize on one of the Am iga’s tra have to spend our money wisely. Grab a cart and ditional advantages— high-value, low-price software. we’ll head first over to the aisle where the Blue For instance, although Microsoft’s Video for W in crowd shops. from the manufacturers suggested retail price (Apple doesn't men do an MSRP), a representative street price urn used for each machine based on RP was used for all other products. Also, while every attempt was made to establish systems with comparable capabilities, this is not strictly possible details on comparing the three systems.
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PLUS SOFTWARE PLUS SOFTWARE TOTAL $6112 TOTAL $36 15
T H ERE ARE M ORE Macintosh models on the market F OR AM IGA USERS, the choice of computer is fairly right now than breeds of small dogs, but after consid easy. W e’ll take the 68040 version of the Amiga 4000 erable thought we’ll choose a high-powered 68040 for its unrivaled graphics power and processing speed. model, the Quadra 800. Its formidable audio/video Although the A4000 has both video and sound built in, capabilities— including an audio digitizer— mean we can we’ll add G VP’s DSS8+ audio digitizer to be on a par with proceed directly to the software department. ► the PC and Mac. ► INTER-PLAT F 0 R M c o M |> \ R | S 0 N S
to throw in an eight-bit SoundBlaster card (Creative Labs). We’ll select Adobe’s Photoshop, the king of image pro O ff to the software department. For our graphics needs, cessing, as our primary graphics tool. W e’d like to compile I’d recommend CorelDRAW (Corel Corp.) along with Fractal some animations, as well, so Apple’s Quicktime Starter Kit, Design Painter (Fractal Design Corp.). Together, these with it tools for editing, compiling, and disassembling programs capture the entire spectrum of graphic design Quicktime animations, is just the ticket. For those special from bitmapped painting to animation. W e’ll need to cook morph assignments, we sling Gryphon’s Morph into the up the occasional morph, as well, so we’ll also grab cart. Winlmages: Morph (Black Belt Systems). As fora multimedia-presentation system, we have a num To package this all up on the desktop, we slip in both ber of choices but finally settle on HyperCard. Universally Microsoft’s Powerpoint (a linear slideshow player) and accepted (it’s shipped with every Mac), HyperCard is the Asymetrix’s Multimedia Toolbook (for nonlinear applica very template from which most multimedia-authoring soft tions a la the Amiga’s CanDo or AmigaVision). ware was designed. The Developers Kit (which you do have Since we need to do some desktop publishing, let’s throw to pay extra for) provides us with additional tools and doc in Lotus’ word processor, Ami Pro, and Aldus’ page-layout umentation. software, PageMaker. Finally, because the PC uses a wide Finally, we proceed to the desktop-publishing section variety of graphic formats, we’ll need Inset Systems’ Hijaak where bulky boxes containing Microsoft Word (for word Pro to make everything work together. We wheel the carl processing) and Aldus' PageMaker (page-layout software) up to the register and the salesclerk delivers die news: are lowered into the cart. We roll up to the cash register one more time to assess the new damage: System : Dell Dimension XPS $2799 System : Quadra 800 $3200 Other Hardware: SoundBlaster $99 O ther H ardw are: S oftw are: None C orelD R A W $595 Fractal Design Painter $299 S oftw are: Winlmages: Morph $199 Photoshop $895 Powerpoint $399 Quicktime Starter Kit $139 Multimedia Toolbook $695 M orph $239 A m i Pro $495 HyperCard Developer's Kit $249 PageM aker $595 Microsoft Word $495 H iJaak Pro $129 Aldus PageMaker $895
TOTAL $6304 TOTAL $6112 COMPARISONS
Before You Shop...
A S MENTIONED AT the beginning, one of the pitfalls we tried to avoid on this shopping trip was comparing the digital equivalent of apples and oranges. When we bought the computers, for instance, what did we actually get for our money? While display capabilities and monitor prices are very comparable from one system to another, other factors did not match up so neatly. For example, while the Amiga 4000 comes with a 120MB IDE hard disk and 6MB of RAM, the PC has a 340MB IDE hard disk and 8MB of memory—not to mention a CD-ROM drive. Similarly, the Quadra’s 33 MHz ’040 has a little more horsepower than the Amiga’s 25 MHz CPU, a more robust 230MB SCSI hard disk, and 8MB of RAM. These machines aren’t perfectly matched, but then again, you get what you pay for, and the A4000 is a relative bargain at its $2300 street price. Comparing software is even harder because it is so much more subjective, and it’s often impossible to find a one-for-one match across platforms. Graphics software is a good example. nrnbablv best off with a perennial While no single Amiga package can claim the pow er of Photo favw itf Deluxeplini IV AGA (Electronic Arts), in combi shop, nobody—just nobody—does animation as well as the nation with the l a t e s t version of Black Belt s image proces Amiga. Likewise, the Amiga has never had a word processor sor, Imagemaster K/t. We don't need to buy a separate capable of out-typing Ami Pro or Word, though I’d be willing morphing program; there's an outstanding one inside to bet the farm that the forthcoming version of PageStream can Imagemaster. tackle the likes of PageMaker—at half the cost. We do neecl a presentation system, though, and artei Also, the higher price tag for some PC and Macintosh soft some thought, we choose two of them. Commodore’s ware may not even be the real point. You’d be hard-pressed to AmigaVision is a great multimedia program, best used for find usable 3-D modeling software for under $1000 anywhere sophisticated video presentations. INOVAtronics’ CanDo, but on the Amiga (take Octree’s Caligari 24 at only $399!). And on the other hand, is my favorite tool for authoring inter I’d rather use Real 3D ($699, Realsoft/Godffey) or LightWave active applications. (the entire Video Toaster with software is just $2395) than any We also need some word-processing and page-layout PC equivalent (including the cream of the crop, Autodesk’s 3D tools, so let’s go with the popular ProWrite (New Horizons) and the very-soon-to-be-released PageStream 3.0 (Soft- Studio, $2995). Logik). Regardless of which individual titles come out on top, Still a little gun-shy from our last two trips to the check though, the Amiga’s advantage is still in its cost (not to men out, we gingerly approach the salesclerk and wait for the tion its multitasking). The down-to-earth price tags on Amiga prognosis: programs put entire suites of software w'ithin the reach of or dinary people; comparable software would be prohibitively ex pensive on other platforms. And video businesses operadng on a shoestring budget can afford to purchase a variety of Amiga S ystem : software, getting the best features of several programs, which Amiga 4000 $230Q is a luxury many PC- and Mac-based shops just don’t have. I use both the Amiga and the PC; I have to—there’s no O ther H ardw are: Microsoft Access for the Amiga, nor is there an Amiga word DSS8+ processor that includes tables, charts, and equations. On the $125 other hand, it’ll be a cold day in Lompoc w'hen I give up my S oftw are: Amiga and its many unique and varied programs. □ Deluxe Paint IV AGA -DJ $199 Imagemaster R/t $99 AmigaVision $199 CanD o $199 ProW rite $99 PageStream $395 DaveJohnson, author o f the book The Desktop Studio: Multimedia With the Amiga, is a pan-platform user who unites for several computer publications. Write to him c/o AmigaWorld, Editorial T0TAL $3615 Dept.> 80 Elm St., Peterborough, N H 03458. THE IN5 AND
Dozens of products Amiga computers are, on the whole, a pretty expandable lot. But there are limits, and when you run up against them, you might find yourself wanting more ports or slots— or altogether different connectors that accommodate devices not usually accessible by an Amiga. W e’ve make it possible skipped the usual SC SI controllers and such to present a listing of other kinds of adapters and extenders. (To locate the product developers, see the Man ufacturers '/Distributors ’ Address List, p. 90.)
DP IBM Analog Interface genlock, to access any multi to connect $14.95, DigiPrint sync monitor that runs at 15 Adapts IBM-stylejoysticks to the KHz horizontal scan rate. Am iga so you can take advan tage of analog options in games. Toaster Cozzy more devices $449.95, Heifner Communi DP IBM Bus Mouse Interface cations $14,95, DigiPrint Chassis that lets you add a Lets you connect an IBM- Video Toaster to your A3000 to your Amiga style mouse your Amiga. or 4000. Supplies power and blackburst generator. i KA-1 Keyboard Adapter $29, Top Secret Device Toaster Oven than the standard There's more than one way to Allows you to use an IBM PC $998, Ambitious Technologies input data... XT-style keyboard with any FourZorro II/III slots, six PC model Amiga. Closeout. slots, and one video slot, plus AIR Traffic Controller 11 drive bays in a tower-style ports and slots S 39,95, Advanced Integration Pyramid Mouse Master case (with power supply) for Research $39.95, Micro R&D your A4000. A dual video slot Allows you to plug both a Automatic switch lets you upgrade is in development, mouse and a joystick into a keep two devices plugged as is a version for the A3000. allow. single port into a single mouse port. Video Slot Box AKC-1000 Keyboard Adapter about $ 1100, Digital Creations $9, Top Secret Device Adds four video slots and three Lets you connect an A2000 or power-onlv PC/AT bus slots to 3000 keyboard to an Amiga your A2000, 3000, or 4000. 1000. Closeout. VOPEX-3A12H Amiga Smart Port $2100, Network Technologies $52.95, InterACTIVE Digital Runs up to 12 monitors from Devices the RGB port of a single This auto-switching interface computer. A variation lets provides connectors for you drive multiple VGA mouse, plus digital and analog monitors from a computer joysticks. Software lets you video with a VGA port, such as an adjust values. A3000 or 4000, or an A2000 Monitor hookups and video- with a flicker reducer. Auto Mouse/Joystick Switch related options. $34,95, AlfaData X-pander Built VSLOT Plug a mouse and joystick Sync Strainer $99-180, CeV Design into the same port; the $59.95, PreVue Techologies Video-slot expansion for any switcher automatically detects Connecting to the Amiga’s Amiga except CD 'IV. Accom- Compiled b v which device you are using. video port, Sync Strainer Bahbaka Geiviki allows you, while using a 0UT5 OF I/O
modates genlocks and flicker- G-Force 040 Combo Slingshot reducers; OpalVision and $1199, GVP $39.95, Micro R&D Toaster compatibility under Yes, this card is intended Transforms your/ A1000 or development. Available with mainly for acceleration and A500 bus into a slot capable or without a case; attaches via RAM expansion, but it also of accepting Zorro-II cards RGB and parallel ports. provides an extra parallel and designed for the A2000. A serial port lor your A2000, professional version ($59.95) 3000, or 4000. also provides a bus pass through; another model I/O Extender ($74.95) is designed for use S I 25, GVP with MacroSy stem US’s Retina One serial and one parallel display card. port for A2000, 3000, or BUS AND JlOT 4000. An option that is now in Toaster Toolbox the works will provide a 422 [XPANDERA/ADAPTERS $369.95, DTV Systems interface for controlling such Eight PC-style slots and a things as video decks. Use more and different cards on power supply in a flat case your Amiga. (suitable for rack mounting) MuItiFace II Card or mini-tower for your A2000 Serial and Parallel from $235, Pre’spect Technics 2 to 3 IDE or A3000. Designed for use This half-length card for the $50, Elite Microcomputers with TBCs, SFCs, and so on. ports; Cadies A2000, 3000, and 4000 adds Turns your A1200’s single Supports DPS’s TBC IV in two serial and two fast parallel IDE port into a pair of IDE conjunction with that firm’s Keep in mind that many boards ports. Comes with cables and connectors. Personal Animation Recorder designed for A2000, 3000, and software that supports multi (fitted in an Amiga) while 4000 machines can he attached ple boards in a single .Amiga. ATTO SCSI Expander providing an extra serial port. to A500s and 1000s with devices $995, A TTO Technology listed in the “Bus And Slot MuItiFace III Card Need to run more than seven X-pander Built Chassis Expanders/Adapters " category. $119.95, AlfaData devices from your SCSI con $99-290, CeV Design Full-length card supplies two troller? This adapter maps Cases, in versions for both the Assorted cables and adapters serial and one parallel port each SCSI bus ID to seven A500 and A1000 (an A1200 Benetech Electronic Supply for A2000, 3000, and 4000. devices, thus expanding the m odel is in the works), that Redmond Cable Software supports multiple device limit to 49. Supports add one, two, or three Zorro II These companies sell special cards in a single machine SCSI-1 and-2. slots, plus a power supply. ized cables and adapters for Some provide extra drive all sorts of connection needs. Multiport Card NakeD-Up bays. With modification, $199, Micro R&D $49.50, Pre’spect Technics cases can accept graphics Comports 8 RS-232 Interface Two parallel and two serial Lets your A 1000 o r A500 run cards (such as MacroSystem- $479, Amigo Busittess ports for A2000,3000, or 4000. virtually any Zorro-Il card de U S’s Retina) and serial boards. Computers signed for die A2000. Includes This eight-channel serial PPA-1000 a pass-through connector. Zorro Extender Card expander for the A2000, $15.95, Luna Tech Special versions of the board $39.95, Overland Engineering 3000, and 4000 provides two Parallel port gender changer. allow you to run ReadySoft’s Designed for use with the ver outputs directly and six more Allows use of' A500, A2000, A-.Max II Mac Emulator, tical Zorro slots on the A2000, via a breakout cable ($99). and A3000-sty!e peripherals MacroSystem’s Retina display this adapter raises your Zorro on A 1000. board, and any of the several connection about five inches Dual Serial Board serial-port boards. out of the machine, making S299, ASDG PPA-2000 it more accessible for hard Adds two serial ports to vour S 15.95, Luna Tech ware design purposes. ► A2000, 3000, or 4000. Lets you use A1000 parallel peripherals on an A500 or A2000. INPUT/OUTPUT
and 12 switchable out/thrus. version of the Triple Play Plus AIR ROM-Made ($149) to achieve 48 M IDI $49.95, Advanced Integration Deluxe MIDI Interface channels out. Research $89.95, Western Custom Promises to work with any Manufacturing The Phantom Amiga model up to A3000. Provides one in and thru, two $89.95, Dr. T s ROMs switch via mouse. switchable thru/outs, plus a M ID I output plus sync in and serial-port pass-through. out jacks that read and write Auto Kickstart ROM Switch Plus standard SM PTE formats. $39.95, AlphaData DM Music Plus Lets A500 and A2000 users S I 29.96, 3D Video Pro MIDI Plus access a second Kickstart ver- One in, two out, and two thru $49.96, 3D Video sion by pressing the left M ID I connectors, plus a pass One M IDI in, out and thru mouse button while booting. through for both the serial for any model Amiga (sepa NIDI Interfaces and parallel ports. Includes rate version for A 1000). Multistart II audio-digitizing capabilities. $24.95, DKB Most of these interfaces are serial- ProMidi Interface Allows A500 and A2000 users connected devices offering M IDI MIDI for the Amiga $39.95, Oregon Research to choose between two ROMs ins, outs, thrus, and even some S49.95, Skyles In, thru, and two outs for all via the keyboard. serial-port pass-throughs. One in, two outs, and one thru models except the A 1000. for any Amiga except A 1000. Qwicka Switcha Custom MIDI Interface Pyramid MIDI Interface S29.95, Better Concepts from S I74.95, Western One-Stop Music Shop $59.95, Micro R&D Lets A500 and 2000 owners Custom Manufacturing S649, Blue Ribbon SoundWorks For all Amigas except A 1000. select among a full four oper Designed for simultaneous This Proteus synthesizer-on- One M ID I in, two outs, and ating system versions. output to multiple M ID I a-card for the A2000, 3000, two thrus, plus a push-button devices. Order the configura or 4000 includes an in/out controlled serial pass-through. Pro ROM Switcher tion you need, from 1 in and M ID I interface and allows $39.96, 3D Video 4 out/thrus to 2 switch able ins you to attach a specialized Triple Play Plus Select one of two ROMs via $ 179, Blue Ribbon SoundWorks keyboard. Promises to work One M ID I in, one thru, and with all A500s and 2000s. three separately addressable outs designed especially to Pyramid ROM Switch work with the Bars&Pipes Pro $29.95, Micro R&D sequencing software. YVorks as Lets A500 and 2000 owners X -CALIBUR a regular interface with one alternate between two ROMs. out. SwitchStart $39.95, Expert Services Switch between two Kickstarts from an A500, 2000, or an A 1000 equipped with Expert Services’ now-discontinued Rejuvenator board.
There’s more? Yes. Amigo Business Compu ters, you may recall, recently Unlock The Potential Of Your A-4000/040 announced an adapter that With The X-CAL1BUR. The X-Calibur turns your A 1200 or A600’s Provides An Impressive 80% Increase In PCM CIA slot into a serial port Computing Speed And Four SIMM Sockets ($ 199). T h e design is done, but That Allow RAM Expansion Up To 128 Amigo is not in production mode because of low de MEGS! The X-CALIBUR Installs Onto RON SWIICHERS mand— so call if you’re Your Existing CPU Board, No Slot interested! Meanwhile, Macro- Required, By Plugging Into The 68040 Add two or more operating-system System U S is working on a Socket. The X-CALIBUR Is A Must For Management ROMs (1.2, 1.3, 2.0) to your modular device that plugs into The 3D Animator, Videographer And All Montreal, Quebec Amiga ’s single ROM socket. both the Retina and Amiga; it Power Users. See Your Dealer Now! Canada will let you switch between dis A600 Kickstart ROM Switch plays and send R G B output di "Hats Off To RCS!!". Jim Drew Utilities Unlimited On GEnie. $49.95, AlfaData rectly to videotape. Finally, for "This Thing Is Really Cooking". John Chang. SCALA. WOC Lets you add a 1.2 or 1.3 R O M those who need to trouble Toaster Texture Example: Stock A-4000/040 - 2 min 44 sec. to your Am iga 600 so you can shoot the operation of their W/X-Calibur 25Mhz- 1 min 32 sec. play games that are incom ports, 3D Video offers its Pro In U S C i 11 M k fo R A D (800) 5 2 7 - SW . (308) ’ 45-1246 FAX. INTERNET- g g n iliu m patible with Kickstart 2.05. Port Analyzer kit ($99.95). ■ In C .m jil.1 CiH RCS r?14)926-3753.<5l4)926-3l3lFAX Circle 99 on Reader Service card. Who’s Running This Show?
You may be surprised to learn
that Amigas are at the forefront of interactive-multimedia presentations
all over the place. So let’s
sneak a peek behind the scenes
and find out just what’s going on.
TH E AM IGA IS the hard-working engine running site of the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. Working countless multimedia systems, but in this profile we’ll with the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Multimedia focus primarily on interactive multimedia— on-screen Technology Laboratory under the supervision of G IT s events in which the presenter or the viewer can president, John Patrick Crecine, the Atlanta Olympics control the computer’s display. Unlike standard video, Planning Board created an interactive display so com interactive multimedia can be customized in real time pelling, the city became the first ever to win approval for each presentation or individual. This is the true from the IOC on an initial bid. This laser-disc power of multimedia— and it is becoming increasingly presentation combined digitized voice, 3-D animation, important in the way that information and entertain and video into a multiscreen interactive event in which ment is being made available today. viewers can take a virtual tour of the entire Olympic So let’s take a scroll through such diverse worlds as village. The same data has also played a role in the sports, the arts and entertainment, business, the news preparation of storyboards and the production of media, education, medicine— and more— to see just commercials for the 1996 Olympics. what your favorite computer is up to behind the scenes of so many leading-edge presentations. T h e N a m e o f t h e G a m e Commodore has licensed the Amiga for a number of P lay B a l l arcade games, but the machine has also been incor Today’s live sporting events require fast and efficient porated into a number of state-of-the-art interactive interactive multimedia systems for displaying infor games. For example, one popular arcade game called mation on giant screens to the fans. A number of teams Mad Dog McCree (American Laser Games), set in a and organizations have turned to the Amiga and small town in the Old West, challenges you to save the various third-party programs, including the Atlanta mayor and his daughter from an outlaw gang. Featuring Braves (Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium’s Sports live video of shoot-outs and fight scenes, it uses a laser Display), the California Angels (Anaheim Stadium), disc controlled by a genlock-equipped A500. the Miami Dolphins (Joe Robbie Stadium’s Jumbo- The Amiga has also been a pioneer in the emerging tron), the Philadelphia Phillies (Veterans’ Stadium’s world of virtual reality. The first full-scale virtual-reality Phanavision), and the Harlem Globetrotters. game premiered as BattleTech, at the BattleTech One of the Amiga’s more-interesting sports appli Center in Chicago, Illinois, where Amiga computers cations is an interactive visual model of the proposed generated displays and kept track of scoring as indi-
By Geoffrey Williams viduals in tank modules slugged it out on a giant Similarly, Amiga-based kiosks help customers find virtual playing field. their way around the Franklin Mill Shopping Mall, a Today, the latest addition to the lineup is Dean huge outlet complex in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Friedman’s series o f In Video Systems games (see photo, Interactive kiosks have also become an effective way previous page). Eat-A-Bug, created originally by Fried to disseminate medical information. Network One, a man for Nickelodeon’s popular 'IV game show Total company based in Chandler, Arizona, has developed Panic, became the first coin-operated virtual-reality game a system for dentists’ offices. Sixteen modules, each installed in a traditional arcade—the Family Fun Jungle three to four minutes long, combine animation, photo in Peny Hall, Maryland. The object of die game is to “eat" graphy, and full audio narration to provide patients as many small flies, mosquitoes, and gnats as possible while with reports on topics ranging from oral surgery to avoiding the centipede, die giant spider, and die killer bee. anxiety. Network One has also created a similar system Eat-A-Bug is the first in a line of games and sports simu for optometrists’ offices. lations (many ofwhich are currently in museums, profiled below in “Partnership of Old and New”) that InVicleo A Partnership of O ld and New hopes to install in arcades across the country. Some of the most-popular venues for interactive What makes the InVicleo games different from tradi displays are museums. One featured attraction at tional virtual reality is that you play them without peri Miniature World in Victoria, British Columbia, is Space pherals— no helmets, visors, or goggles— eliminating 2201, a full-size mock-up of a star cruiser of the future. the associated problems of discomfort, hygiene, safety, A viewport gives you a window on space as you “ orbit” and limited vision. You watch yourself on a large monitor; above Jupiter, which is illuminated by black light. To your image is keyed into the virtual playspace, so that one side is a mysterious vortex of pulsing radiance; this your body becomes part of the game, capable of effect is created by incorporating an Amiga RGB mon interacting with on-screen objects. You can grab an itor into the starfield background, where the phos object, move it, and then shake it off’; you can hit an phors on screen glimmer like heavenly bodies. Color Iw fs t te tl m m m node: live cycling animates the vortex; thanks to a little blending along the edges of the monitor, it melts into the space i% a — m i l l 1234567851111111111222222 (PfPPPP 8123456783*12345 background. An Amiga provides the background I e a s fe&4567 A HO EDIT CUE A sound of the ship’s engines, as well. Another Amiga functions as a general information l I j _16a ______i ] [ M J ® console, triggered by placing your hand on a glowing HASIE GROUP Jl-i-l-P handprint. A third Amiga provides a genlocked view of flight through the vortex, with additional sound effects and imagery. Miniature World was created by ijjjtt Peter Locke, a designer of traditional astronomy ' - I I IB models, and Paul Marcano, an Amiga artist. It lias been running 12 hours a day for a year and a half
I^TT 3 “ A touch-screen-based exhibit at the Anchorage, Alaska, — — — Museum of History and Art has been up and running 111-1-1® continuously for more than three years. Using Amiga -a 3 a U i j 14B Vision and a laser disc, it presents nine three-minute v i l l segments on native culture. Terry La Grone of Video- r t l a plex reports that the system does require some main tenance: Once a year, they dust the laser disc. Amigas are an important part of the Lasers, Holo Dkunto I Intro Music Fad* grams and Virtual Reality Exhibition, a special Command/Cue’s live screen provides an operable mimic of audio, lighting, presentation created by the Center for Science and and motion hardware. ARexx and CD-ROM support are recent additions. Industry, based in Columbus, Ohio, and scheduled to tour eight other science centers in the US. Among the object and watch it bounce away. You can also animate exhibit’s displays is Virtual Volleyball, created by Dean any of the screen objects, accompanied by music and Friedman of In Video Systems as an example of virtual- sound effects. You are literally inside a video game. reality gaming. Using the same technology as Eat-A- Bug, Virtual Volleyball supports up to four players per H e l p K ey side. Just as in regular volleyball, the object of (he Thousands of Amiga-based interactive kiosks function game is to keep the hall in the air without letting it as everything from airport information systems touch the net or the floor. Participants view themselves around the world to paint displays in hardware stores. in a virtual environment on a 120-inch monitor; they Twenty-four-bit Amiga-based kiosks at eight brandi can hit and serve a virtual ball, which leaves rainbow es of the Bank of China in Hong Kong (a country streaks of color as it sails through ihe air. where Amigas are not even sold) provide customers InVicleo Systems has also designed two other museum with basic financial information. This system uses demonstrations of virtual reality. Dreams, a popular AmigaVision, Centaur’s OpalVision, animated se and award-winning exhibit at the Brooklyn, New York, quences, and two hours of digitized audio in Can Children’s Museum, offers six play environments tonese and Mandarin. illustrating the premise that “anything can happen in Visitors to die Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s your dreams.” Included among these are opportunities CBC Broadcast Center in Toronto use Amiga-based for children to fly through the clouds and pop balloons, kiosks to locate studios and offices in the large facility. swim underwater and tickle the fish, fly through space The W orld’s F irst M ulti-Platform E m ulation System !
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Mac, Macintosh. Mac llci. Mac llx, Quadra 700, QuickTime, Apple ][/+/e & AppleTalk, are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. Atari 400/800, & MegaST, are trademarks of Atari Computers, Inc. C64/f28, i s iare EKS"!??? 0^ ?mS lS ? 1r? ^ a a ' lnc- Genes,s 1 s,a trademark of Sega, Inc. SN ES is a trademark of Nintendo, inc. PhotoShop is a trademark of Adobe. Inc. SoftPC is a trademarktra of Insignia, Inc. EMPLANT and the EMPLANT logo are trademarks of Jim Drew & Utilities Unlimited, Inc. and juggle planets, and even jump around outside Magic Kingdom, also in Orlando, use the Amiga/ while it rains cats and dogs. Letters, Numbers, and Command Cue setup to synchronize the audio for each Shapes, installed at the Children’s Museum in Laredo, float as it proceeds through specific areas in sequence, Texas, the Eureka! Children’s Museum in Halifax, Disney is so sold on Command Cue that it’s even used England, the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, Penn to run die fireworks show' at Disneyland in Tokyo. sylvania, and the North Carolina Museum of Life and Science in Durham, offers young children the oppor T h e G l o b a l V il l a g e tunity to step inside a virtual alphabet book. They can One of the newest applications of multimedia is the touch a letter and change it into an object beginning distribution of current news and information via with that letter, accompanied by amusing animations network or modem. At present, the leading program for and silly sounds; they can grab the number 5 and distributed multimedia is Scala’s InfoChannel, It’s change it magically into five starfish. They can also similar to that company’s Multimedia 200/300, but with interact with a variety of simple geometrical forms to one one critical difference: It can be remotely updated. reinforce shape recognition, and they can use their There are hundreds of InfoChannel installations bodies as virtual paintbrushes, drawing in thin air with around the world. Among them is Channel 4000, bright colors. InVideo is also working on a dental- distributed by the Desktop Video Wizard’s Network. hygiene presentation, featuring musical teeth, for the Five days a week, DVW downloads a new multimedia Science Place museum in Dallas, Texas. presen-tation to participating Video Toaster dealers across the country, providing updates on the Toaster L iv e o n S t a g e * and desktop-video technology. Each edition is 10 to 12 Just as NewTek brought about a technological revolu minutes long, with seven or eight segments focusing on tion in the video industry with its Toaster, Richmond technical information, dealer information, product Sound Design— a small and virtually unknown com news, and sales and business advice. D VW hopes to add pany— has done the same thing in the theatrical world more interactivity to the system— incorporating
with its Command Cue system./ Command Cue is a features such as instant polling— and expand it to sophisticated, interactive MIDI-based sound, lighting, include dealers of other desktop-video systems. and special-effects control system, and it’s used in some InfoChannel also provides up-to-the-minute weather of the biggest and most-expensive shows in the world. information in a variety of formats to the ready rooms, The Command Cue unit plugs into the Amiga and control tower, and remote-radar installation at the takes advantage of the machine’s multitasking capa Oceana Naval Air Station in Virginia Beach, bilities to provide programmable control of more than Virginia, and to March Air Force Base in Moreno 4000 audio channels, 8000 lighting channels, and Valley, California, where weather information is <8000 separate analog or digital switches for special- distributed across the entire base. Many large corpo effects and other devices. It even offers programmable rations, including die Ford Motor Company, JC Penney, motion control with regulation of duration, value, and McDonnel Douglas, use InfoChannel to distribute acceleration, and deceleration. It can do everything news and company information to employees. from synchronizing all of the audio and lighting cues Ironically, even IB M uses the Amiga for multimedia. in a show to moving the scenery in and out on time. The IBM niainfram computr factory in Rochester, This is multimedia on a grand scale. Minnesota, has used Scala for internal presentations In Las Vegas, the Command Cue system manages a and training for over a year. Also, last June, a Toron number of shows, including Enter the Night at the Star to-based company called FilmClips used Scala for pro dust Hotel and Brasilia at the Rio Hotel. It is also used moting an employee event through informational in the Buccaneer Bay pirate-ship show at the Treasure video displays at the Don Mills IBM Lab in Toronto. Island Hotel, in the Volcano attraction at the Mirage The Scala presentations were credited with increasing Hotel, in the Bacchanal animated-statue show at attendance from less than 100 at the previous year’s Caesar's Palace, and in Siegfried and Roy’s magic-show sessions to a record 600 attendees in 1993. And finally, extravaganza at the Mirage Hotel— the most-expensive at last year’s C eBIT convention in Hannover, live theatrical show ever produced. Germany, the IBM OS/2 Multimedia Presentation used Command Cue is also involved in some of the the InfoChannel multimedia software running on— biggest Broadway hits, including the upcoming Disney what else— an Amiga! version of Beauty and the Beast and the touring produc tions of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Whether it sports AmigaVision controlling an inter Miss Saigon, Will Rogers’ Follies, and Tommy. The system active kiosk, InfoChannel distributing news updates also manages the Canadian production of Phantom o f across the country, or a specialized Command Cue the Opera, as well as the Hollywood version of Andrew hardware/software system managing a Broadway show, Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard, where it controls a the Amiga has proved itself to be a major contender in $100,000 special effect in which a set piece of a the world of multimedia entertainment and education. building flies in with animated shutters and windows Next time you see a multimedia presentation, take a performing in sync to the music. peek at the hardware running it. Thanks to its multi A number of amusement-park attractions use Com tasking power and cost effectiveness, there’s a good mand Cue, as well. The system controls audio, lighting, chance you’ll find an Amiga behind the scenes. ■ and special effects for the Wild, Wild, Wild West stunt shows at the Universal Studios Tour in Orlando, Florida, Geoffrey Williams is director of Creative Business Presentations and Anaheim, California, and audio and special effects and a frequent contributor to computer-video publications. The for the Indiana Jones Stunt Spectacular at Disneyland/ author extends special thanks to David Tiberio for his Internet M OM Studios in Orlando. All of the parades at Disney’s expertise and personal help in preparing this article. Our three-part series on mining the secrets of AmigaDOS continues
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TH E AMIGA'S OPERATING system packs a wallop application required you to add a statement to your right out of the box, with utilities to satisfy all but the S:Startup-Sequence or S:User-Startup file. User-Startup most sophisticated and demanding users. But Amiga was programmed into AmigaDOS 2 to give you a users are a sophisticated and demanding bunch, and central script where you could make all your additions invariably they figure out something they’d like to do without altering the standard startup-sequence. If that’s not a one-step operation. That’s where scripting you’re still running AmigaDOS 1.3, you can append comes in: harnessing AmigaDOS’s powerful built-in this feature by plugging in these three lines before the script capabilities to turn even complex procedures EndCLI command in your startup-sequence: into simple, straightforward commands. Script files (also called batch files) are just text files that If Exists S: User-Startup contain a list of commands your system will execute in Execute S:User-Startup order. You can write scripts with any text editor, such Endrf as the ED editor included with AmigaDOS, or with your word processor if it offers an option to save text in plain Examine the startup scripts and other files in your S: A SC II format with no special codes. Although a script directory to get a good idea of how scripts are structured. file can be located anywhere, the system reserves the S: directory (usually found on your bootup disk) for scripts O n e -L i n e r s and will look there for them automatically. Why bother writing your own scripts? Scripts simplify There are two ways to run scripts. Early versions of your working environment; they can even let you AmigaDOS require the Execute command to launch perform elaborate Shell operations with a single mouse them; type Execute followed by the name of the script. click. The time you spend learning to write scripts will AmigaDOS 1.3 and later add a special ftle-protection likely be paid back tenfold in the amount of time you’ll bit marking a file as a script and sending it automati save by not having to type multiple commands or look cally to the Execute command when you run it. up rarely used command-line arguments. To set the script bit, use the Protect command. For Scripts can be simple one-liners or structured pro example, to set the script bit on a file called MyScript, grams with conditional jumps and interactive input. (If you’d type you’re going to dig that deep, though, I’d suggest tak ing the time to learn ARexx, which is easier to use and PROTECT S:MYSCRIPT +S more powerful than the AmigaDOS script language.) One-line scripts are handy for complex commands To check whether a file’s script bit is set, use the List that require a number of command-line arguments or command. Along with the file’s name, size, date, and switches, or those that follow an obscure, hard-to- comments, List also shows you its protection bits. remember syntax. They’re functionally equivalent to Check for an S in the protection-bit listing. It will look Aliases (see “Part 1: Shell Secrets,” Mar. ’94, p. 41); something like this: I use a script instead of an Alias for less-frequent commands. Aliases have the advantage of executing MyScript 56 -s—rwed 01-Mar-94 15:41:00 instantly without disk access, but each Alias eats up a couple dozen bytes of memory, unlike scripts, which Now that the script bit is set, you can run the script by take up only disk space. simply typing MyScript. Scripts are particularly handy for operations Even if you’ve never created a script from scratch requiring multiple steps. Consider the simple example before, you’ve probably dealt with scripts when an of launching a program that requires a larger stack ►
B Y D F. N N Y A T K I X value than your Shell normally uses. You’d type a CD it as a Project, rather than Tool or Drawer, icon. Click command to change to the program’s directory, once on the icon, and select Information from the followed by the Stack command; then you’d type the Workbench Icon menu. Switch the Default'Fool setting program’s name to launch it; afterwards, you’d reset to C:IconX, and save your changes. Now you can just the stack to its previous value and type another CD double-click the icon you created to execute the script. command to return to the original directory. A script You can run almost any script from the Workbench by automates this process— reducing it to a single step. creating a Project icon for it and setting the icon’s Suppose you have a program called ProStream that Default Tool to C:IconX. requires a stack of 50,000 bytes. To create a script called PS to launch it, type ED S:PS and then enter the M a k e M y D ay following commands in the editor: As we've seen so far, scripts are veiy useful for complex, hard-coded (unchanging) tasks. But what if you want CD Work: ProStream to create a script that will perform an operation on any Stack 50000 file? No problem, thanks to AmigaDOS’s support for Run ProStream command-line arguments in scripts. Stack 8192 To add an argument to a script, you use the .Key CD Work: command to set up a variable to hold the name of the file on which you want to operate. Suppose you want rkbtnch S cr?5 S to create a command to display the contents of a text Copyings I Prefect) file and its size on screen. Type ED S:TSIZE to set up the script (lie and enter die following script:
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. nui HiiiHi ir un raw • ■ Save the script. Then set the script bit with the Protect f a t l i t 11 inunt RflO: if nat exists RHD:Uni*ji command, and type TSIZE S:STARTUP-SEQUENCE cd dh0:Hin« nakcdlr RHPiWings to try it out. When your system executes the script, it echi "copying file*** copy It? RHD:Qings a ll dene substitutes the filename S:Startup-Sequence for any occurrence of
.Key TextFile In ED type Esc and then X to save your document and quit. Then type PRO TECT S:PS + S at the Shell .Bra { prompt to set the script bit. Now you can launch the .Ket 1 program by typing PS. Type {TextFile} List {TextFile} F a l s e I c o n s Thanks to the IconX command, you can take advan H o l d i n g A l l t h e W i l d c a r d s tage of scripts even if the Workbench is your interface Scripts can also handle multiple files. The List of choice. If you use the Shell only occasionally, you command’s LFormat option, for example, lets you may want to “ iconize” your command-line applications write scripts that perform the same operation on and execute them from the Workbench instead. similar files, even when the command you’re using Suppose, for example, that you keep your rarely doesn’t support wildcards. used, decorative fonts on a floppy and copy them to Suppose you want to view all the M PEG animation your RAM disk whenever you need them. You can files in a directory, for instance. The public-domain create an icon to automate that procedure. Start by M PEG viewer, MP, doesn’t support wildcards. (You’d typing ED SYS:TOOLS/COPYFONTS to create the have to list each filename individually before execut script file. Then type in the following script: ing the operation.) Using the List command, however, you can create a script file that will show each M PEG MakeDir RAM:Fonts file in sequence. Copy DF0:Fonts RAM:Fonts all In addition, LForm at lets you specify the formatting Assign Fonts: RAIVLFonts add of List’s output. You can customize it with a variety of variables, but the one that’s important in scriptwriting Now from the Workbench load IconEdit and create a is the % S% S combination, which inserts the path- and Project icon (or just choose the default) for this script. filenames of selected files into List’s output. For Save it as SYS:Tools/CopyFonts.info; make sure you set instance, to create a script displaying all the M PEG ►
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M A I L T O : Am igaW orld, P.O. Box 595, Mt. Morris, IL 61054. Or for faster service, call 1-800-827-0877 or F A X 1-603-924-4066 Amiga is a trademark of Commodore-Amiga, Inc. A44AW animations in your Work:Anim directory', selecting the save space, for instance), you can use the Copy com H AM S display option for each one, issue the following mand to create (but not edit) scripts. Type CO PY * TO com m and: SCRIPTNAM E, press Return, and then start typing your script, (Be careful to get each line exactly right Ust >RAM:ShowMPEG Work:Anim/#?.MPG before hitting Return.) When you’ve finished entering LFORMAT="MP -dither HAM8 %S%S" the script, press Ctrl \ to close the file. If you make any This line creates a text file called ShowMPEG on your mistakes, though, you’ll have to start from scratch. RAM disk; it contains a number of lines like this: L o w -C o s t S o l u t i o n s MP -dither HAMS Work:Amm/Jessica.mpg To wrap up this installment and get a little practice, MR -dither HAMS Work:Anim/Twins.mpg we’ll look at a few simple but practical scripts. If you MP -dither HAMS Work:Anim/Dawn&Jim.mpg ever use the List command, for instance, you’ll notice that Filenames appear in seemingly random order. Now you can just type Execute RAM:ShowMPEG (or Let’s create a script called SList to display the directory set the script bit and just type RAM:ShowMPEG) to in alphabetical order. Type ED S:SLIST and enter the view all the M PEG animations in that directory. following in the editor: This technique is a real time-saver when you want to operate on only some of the files that match a wildcard •key DirToLlst pattern. Suppose you wanted to convert about half the .bra { 1FF24 files in your PICS: directory to JP E G format. .k e t} You could use a command like this to create a script: Ust >RAM:Temp {DirToList} Sort RAM Temp L is t> RAM:JPConv PICS;#?.1FF24 LFORMAT More RAM:Temp ="IFF2JPEG %S%S 75" Delete RAM Temp Now when your system executes it, this script file will use the IFF2J PEG command to convert all your IFF24 Don’t forget to set the script bit. Now you can type pictures to JP E G format. Since you want to convert SList, followed by an optional disk or directory name, only some of the pictures, you’d ty pe ED RAM JPC onv to get a sorted tally. The script first sends the output to edit the file, then delete the lines containing names of the List command to a temporary file in your RAM of pictures you don’t want to convert. This step gives disk; then it uses the Sort command to arrange it you a degree of flexibility you can’t get using wildcards alphabetically and the More command to display it on to operate on multiple files. screen. After you’ve finished viewing the list, your system deletes the temporary file. It's a simple script, T r ic k s o f t h e T r a d e but it comes in handy. A number of AmigaDOS commands are particularly You can also use a script to get around another useful in scripts. When you’re creating a script and it’s AmigaDOS limitation: the MakeDir command, which not working properly, for example, you’ll find Echo creates a directory but no Workbench icon for it. W e’ll handy for debugging. Echo writes the string following program a command called M klDir to create a direc it to the Shell, Simply add an Echo line before each tory with an icon, or to just add an icon if a directory command in your script so that you can trace on screen already exists. exactly what’s happening as your system executes it: First, come up widi an icon for the drawers you’ll create. Load IconEdit and load or create a drawer icon, Echo "Delete old backup files" then save it as S:drawer.info. Now type ED S:M K ID IR Delete Work:backups/#?.doc and enter the following script into the editor: Echo "Copy current files to backup directory" .Key DirName Copy Work:Documents/#?.doc to Work:Backups .Bra { If your Amiga has voice-synthesis libraries (not .K e t} included with AmigaDOS 2.1 or 3.0, but if you If Not Exists {DirName} upgraded from an earlier version you might still have MakeDir {DirName} them in place), you can replace the Echo command EndH with Say to get verbal feedback on your script’s Copy S:drawer.info {DirName}.info progress. Once your script is working properly, add a semicolon to the beginning of each Echo or Say line Save the file, and set the script bit. Now you can use to convert it to a nonexecuting file comment. M klDir instead of MakeDir whenever you need a Earlier we looked at using the Protect command to Workbench icon for a new drawer. set the script bit on a batch file. Beginning with AmigaDOS 2, Protect accepts wildcards, so you can Next month, we’ll finish up by taking a look at using type PRO TEC T S:#? to set the script bit on every file the Shell to give your Amiga new printing prowess. In in that directory'. Although some applications use the die meantime, die more scriptwriting you do, the more S: directory to store data, setting the script bit won’t creative you’ll become. ■ hurt those files; if you try to execute them, your system will merely return an error message. Editor and uniter Denny Atkin is the author of Denny Atkin *s If you ever find yourself without an editor at hand Best Amiga Tips and Secrets, a collection o f hints on every (using a machine with the ED command deleted to thing from using AmigaDOS 3.0 to expanding your system. C ool gjovej
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CHANGE IS IN EVITA BLE. But it doesn’t have to be HotLinks; in addition, Soft-Logik’s font editor, Type- painful. Soft-Logik’s HotLinks automatic data- Smith, offers supports for the protocol. What’s more, exchange protocol lets you make difficult Black Bek's Imagemaster R/t image processor changes easily—-without exiting appli and the ProWrite word processor from New cations or manually transfering items Horizons, are also HotLinks compatible. between them. We Win No Oscars This tutorial will demonstrate how U p A l l N ig h t HotLinks can maximize your desktop- If you’re an experienced desktop publisher, publishing performance. You can ben you are painfully aware that even after efit whether you are an experienced you’ve stayed up all night to meet a client’s PageStream pro or a novice. If you deadline, AAs (Author’s Alterations) and don’t already own it, upgrading to PEs (Production Errors) mean more work PageStream 3.0 will bring for you. Thankfully, HotLinks can make this HotLinks to you. The new work easier to handle. I’ll illustrate the PageStream release will process with a recent project of mine. include all the pro My client was a writers’ group; the grams used in project was an 8-l/2xl 1-inch, 64- this project that page literary magazine with were previously artwork throughout. sold separately: If you want to follow Not only Hot along with the process, Links, but also you will need Soft-Logik’s b o t h a r t ^ Win No Oscars BM E (Bit Map w o r k a n d Editor), and text. For the PageLiner text art, any bu processor. rn a p p e d T h e se are graphics will not die only do. For text, applications you can use that support* a n y A S C II-
ILLUSTRATED BY ISTVAN BANYAI AmigaWorld format file, including the public-domain document your bitmapped graphics within the BM E program. Lorem Ipsum (a Latin-like text that works great for When you’re ready with the layout, collect all of the dummying layouts). and text elements. Organize them in directo- Before you do anything else, gather details from with logical names such as Text, Logos, Line Art, your client: How many pages? What kind of art? How Photos, and so on. Then make sure HotLinks is installed and running on your Amiga (it will launch automati cally with PageStream 3.0).
B e g in W i t h B it m a p s I like to begin by cleaning up and cropping my bitmapped graphics within BM E, so 1 open that program next. Follow your thumbnails for an easy guess at the overall scale for graphics. When you are satisfied with your clean, cropped graphics, select Publish from the HotLinks menu. (Publish is the powerful command that creates the linked copy of your graphics 01* text; this linked copy is referred to as an edition.) In the Enter Edition Information requester, type a distinct name for your “published” graphic (see Figure 1) and select OK. Now select Save As from the Project menu and type in the
: C a n c q I [ name of your File. This will be an original “unpub lished” copy of your art. The copy that you have published will allow you to make and then update changes. If you change and update a published edition, however, you’re stuck with it. There is no Undo function that will get you back to the original Figure 1: Give your published edition a name that’s distinct from your published edition after you have updated it. Protect original Hie. yourself and always back up a published edition with an unpublished copy. (If you lack the RAM necessary' H i ® to run B M E and PageStream at the same time, you can
Style fomat Text Ub i K t U I o b a close BM E at this point.) Undo r « VX Open PageStream, select New from the File menu, iSSi <: v and indicate the appropriate specs for your project; my sf.-b r Pine Valley document is 8-1/2x11, Portrait, and r. iio h] Select RH Double Sided. From the Layout menu select Create Search \ext K«i* I O l e T e jct Columns. For my project, the margins are one inch on Rei T h e M o r e T h in g s C h a n g e .,. , 3fe quite the sane W ith my Pine Valley project the client said, “The layout looks great, but we would like you to erase the bottom N branches on the trees [in the logo]. And can you add a ______few more pine needles in some of these open spaces?” HotLinks helped me make the changes with ease, Figure 3: A helpful feature in PageLiner lets you format text before you Here’s how to do it: Open BM E and “subscribe” to go ahead and publish it. the project. Adjust the view for comfort, and select the Eyedropper tool. Pressing the left mouse button, move the eyedropper icon around on the graphic until you find the correct editing color. Click, select the paint icon, and then click or drag until the corrections are made. Now select Update from the HotLinks menu. From the Project menu select Save As to create an unpublished master of the edited art— again, just as a backup. In PageStream, open the project file and all the copies of the graphic will be automatically updated. My client loved the trees, and said, “Great. And one other thing we forgot to tell you about in our original specs. Our name needs to be put on all the pages that begin new stories. See. Just about right here. And just about this big. The Pine Valley Writer’s Group.” Back in my studio I opened PageLiner, typed the name of the group and then published it, I then opened PageStream, subscribed to the Name line, and placed it on the required pages. Just as I finished, the client called. “W e hope it’s not too late. There’s a misspelled word in the information we gave you. The apostrophe in the word Writer’s should come after the letter s.” Figure 4: Thanks to HotLinks, you can mind your Ps and Qs—and your Because I had published the Name line in Page apostrophes—automatically. Liner and subscribed to it in PageStream, fixing the typo was easy. I simply opened PageLiner, subscribed to the Name line text and typed the corrected spelling. from frustration. Once you use it you won’t know how Then I selected Update from the HotLinks menu and you got along without it! ■ saved the file. Back in PageStream, 1 opened the project and watched as HotLinks flew through the Pat Kaszycki, a freelance graphic designer and illustrator; has changes (see Figure 4). a Masters degree in Fine Art from the University o f Hartford. Although she is Mac fluent, her tool o f choice is the Amiga. She F a s t W o r k has just placed her book Amiga Desktop Publishing with an O f course, more AAs came throughout the next two agent; all the illustrations for her second hook, Tates From The weeks. But because of the user-friendly format of Purple Jungle, were done using Soft-Logiks Art Expression PageStream, PageLiner, and BM E, and the remark program. Write to her at PO Box 232, Eastford, C T 06242. You can’t get A GA chips to work in older machines, it’s true. But if you try, you just might find third-party products with the AGA-type features you need. r o many Amiga owners, the introduction of the 1200 and 4000 models, with their Advanced Graphics Architecture (AGA) chips, was both a great high and a terrible low. It was exhilirating because, for the first time, you could display more than the original 4096 colors on an Amiga. But it was also a real downer because, also lor the first time, you could not transfer the benefits of a new Amiga chip set to any of the existing machines; if you wanted AG A graphics, you had to have an Amiga 1200 or 4000. AGA Featires Window Icons More than a year later, there is still Largrsize display no way to install the AGA chip set in your Am iga 1000, 500, 2000, or -5000. High-resolution color But there are ways to get some of the Real-time full-color animation benefits of the new AGA computers Ram Disk Photorealistic gameplay without giving up your beloved old machine. Is one of these alternatives Custorrscreen mode promotion right for you? Think about why you want A G A : * You may be a graphic artist who is looking for more colors and a bigger canvas. * Perhaps you’re a power user who wants a higher-resolution display for applications such as page-layout programs, database managers, word processors, or spreadsheets. AMIGA * If you’re a filmmaker, you may see AGA as a way to create realistic 3-D animations that play back right from the computer. • And although most of us view computers as serious tools, some users arc honest enough to admit that all they m want to do is to play AGA- specific games. -— Fortunately, AGA alterna- tives— affordable hardware/ software combinations— exist B y Sh e l d o n L e e m o n for each type of user. Let’s look at the options—by distinguished in its own right. It was the first Amiga user type. paint program with brush textures such as chalk and pencil and paper textures such as canvas; it was also A r t is t ic L ic e n s e the first to include brush tolerances, letting you pick One of AGA’s main attractions is more colors; for the up an area of similar, but not identical, colors. Both TV graphic artist, that translates to more-realistic displays. Paint and OpalPaint also support pressure-sensitive The AGA chip set can display up to 256 colors simulta drawing pads. neously (out of a possible 16.7 million) in all of the old In addition to offering more colors, most of these palette-mapped modes. It also includes an eight-bit boards let you display a larger drawing area as well, H AM mode that can display up to 262,144 colors at the given an appropriate monitor. The Picasso II and EGS same time. That’s pretty close to 24-bit color, the Spectrum can produce 24-bit displays in sizes up to current standard for photo-quality (“true” ) color. 800x600. M erlin’s 24-bit display allows up to 680 Owners of non-AGA machines need not settle for horizontal resolution, and the 4MB version of the close, however. These days, a number of reasonably Retina card provides a 24-bit display as large as priced display cards for the Amiga 2000 and 3000 1024x768. Most of these cards also provide even series can give you hill 24-bit color (in theory, up to 16.7 larger displays using 16-bit color (65,536 hues). This m illion hues simultaneously). Choices include extra screen size can come in very handy when you are C en ta u r's OpalVision ($699), the R etina fro m preparing artwork for print, where resolutions are MacroSystemUS (from S599), Expert Services' Picasso typically much higher than the standard computer II (from $549), GVP's EGS Spectrum (from $499), and display; it is not uncommon to work with images as the Merlin board from Spectronics ($799). (Note that large as 2400x3000 pixels. D KB no longer provides US distribution of the Piccolo You can convert the output of most of the 24-bit board, which also Fits this criteria. D KB does, however, display boards to a television signal by using an plan a spring release of its own low-cost board that will NTSC or PAL encoder. Video updates or options are use the same EGS software as Piccolo and Spectrum.) promised for several of these boards, including Each o f these products comes with its own custom 24- Retina and OpalVision. bit paint package. Because these programs are designed Artists whose main interest is creating television specifically for their respective boards, they are not avail graphics, however, may want to consider a video-only able for stock Amigas— not even AGA machines. device. On the low end of the price scale, there is In fact, the most highly acclaimed 24-bit paint Digital Creations' DCTV (about $300), a box that packages for the Amiga require one of these boards. converts the Amiga video signal to television-style T e c so ft's TV Paint Professional ($399 from composite video with millions of colors, which you MacroSystemUS), the most widely known of the 24-bit can record directly on your VCR. Because DCTV is paint programs, is available for the Retina, Picasso II, an external box that plugs into the 23-pin video port, and EGS Spectrum cards. It features a wide it works with any Amiga model, including the 1000, variety of drawing styles, splendid paint-mixing and 500, and 600. DCTV comes with DCTV Paint, an transparency options, full ARexx control, and lots of excellent program that lets you either create images gradient and stencil options. from scratch or modify video images you capture with And although TV Paint won’t run with OpalVision, the unit’s built-in digitizer. the OpalPaint program that comes with the board is For professional video artists (or those for whom price is no object), there is the Video Toaster. bench screen is guaranteed to work with these boards. N ew T ek’s hardware/software combination (about Fhe Retina board actually goes one step further in $2400) is more than just a display board, of course, but mode-proniotion. Its program includes an AGA- among its many talents is the ability to provide a emulation option that fools applications into think broadcast-quality video display of computer art. The ing you have the AGA chip set. It is one of the few ToasterPaint program that comes with the package is boards that can run DeluxePaint IV on its 256-color a bit dated, but still sufficient for creating art from screens— albeit fairlyi slowly. * scratch or for modifying images captured with the Since not all programs will open on the Work Toaster’s built-in frame grabber. bench, however, most of these boards provide a way In any case, artists wanting lots of colors can get to coax existing applications to open on their screens. more through third-party products on an older The Spectrum and Picasso II boards, for example, Amiga than from an AGA system alone. To decide come with software that registers their screen-mode which of these options makes the most sense, consider information with the system’s display database, so the type of output you want and the amount oi money that newer applications that let you use the standard you can spend. Printed output, for example, uses the requester (like the one in AmigaDOS’s Preferences biggest bitmaps, so a board like the 4M B version of the Screen Mode program) to select a screen mode can Retina, which gives you the most colors at the larger take advantage of whatever new inodes these boards screen sizes, would be the obvious choice. For televi offer. sion art, you’ll want a solution that provides an output In addition, most 24-bit boards include software that you can tape on your VCR, which means either DCTV functions like the Mode Promotion option in Amiga lor a couple of hundred dollars, the Toaster for a DOS’s Preferences [Control program. Simply put, couple of thousand, or OpalVision for somewhere in whenever an application tries to open a screen of a between (assuming that Centaur makes its composite particular mode, the promotion program steps in and adapter available in the near future). If you are changes it to another mode. That way, you can get a primarily interested in the type of computer pictures desktop-publishing program to open a screen on a that can be displayed on your screen, however, any of 1024x768 display, or a 1024x768 scrolling screen on the boards mentioned in the following section should an 800x600 display. do nicely. You may want to review their proprietary Mode promotion doesn’t work with all applications, paint software as a way of choosing. since some programs, particularly those that are graphics-oriented, react badly to surprises such as a P o w e r P lay bigger screen or more colors. But for the most part, For the power user, too, AGA means more color on recent business software works well on ihese larger a larger screen. Where business software is concerned, custom screens. the 24-bit boards provide everything AGA does, and Some applications support 24-bit boards directly. then some. That’s because in addition to the 24-bit Likewise, most of these boards come with drivers for displays at lower resolutions described above, the image-processing programs such as ASD G 's Art Retina, Picasso II, Merlin, and Spectrum boards can Department Professional and GVP’s Image/FX, as also provide displays at sizes upwards of 1280x1024, well as 3-D graphics software, including Real 3D with up to 256 colors. (Reahoft). Even the Macintosh emulators Emplant Unlike the first generation of 24-bit boards, the (Utilities Unlimited) and A-Max (Ready Soft) support latest models don’t need these boards for use as 24-bit Macintosh displays. specially designed Amiga users can actually get larger displays using : ' V'v productivity soft the alternatives as opposed to AGA. All of the recent ware. They can 24-bit boards function pretty similarly, and all do an e t 'T* ru n a w id e excellent job. This makes choosing between them 1 hihere are r a n g e o f tough, but it also means that you probably will be e x is t in g satisfied with whichever one you select. W e’ll provide a p p lic a more details on these boards in a roundup next mm ways to get some I ■ tions on month, after we’ve had a chance to compare them in h i - r e s depth. B screens, A M o v e a b l e F e a s t of AGA without giving m thanks if to so m e One of biggest selling points of the AGA machines is system their ability to animate near-photographic displays at M up your old computer. soft w are a speed approaching 30 frames per second, at a time tricks. Work when even the hottest ’486 PCs are stuck with anim bench emula ating 256-color images in quarter-screen windows at 10 tion plays a big part or 15 frames per second. The secret lies in AGA’s in the strategy. All of FIAM8 mode, which uses hardware compression to the 24-bit boards mentioned give you 18-bit color for only eight bits of data. This here come with software that lets you open the Work built-in feature gives the AGA chip set a distinct bench in any of their expanded screen modes advantage over 24-bit boards. While some boards come (though all but the Retina restrict you to 256 colors with animation software, none can animate as large a on the Workbench). This means that any word window as AGA can, at as fast a frame rate. processor, spreadsheet, desktop-publishing program, But if you don’t mind having recordable composite or database manager that can open on the Work video (as opposed to computer RG B) output, there are two alternative methods for producing real-time that’s not a difficult job, the result isn’t pretty. Since animations. you cannot screw the motherboard down to the case, The inexpensive option is Digital Creations’ DC TV . you’ll have to settle for double-sided tape. It isn’t the Since this box takes its display data from the standard most mechanically stable arrangement, either, and Amiga video system, it can show both pictures and plugging cables into the machine’s rear ports is hard. ANIM s stored in standard Amiga File formats. D C 'IY’s Nor is the unit properly shielded, because you cannot hardware transforms medium-resolution, low-color fit the metal RF panel back on after installing the animation data into a low-resolution, high-color new motherboard. (The FCC would definitely not animation of television quality that plays back at rates approve.) of up to 30 frames per second. .Although Copperhead states that D C IV comes with software that converts single 24- you can use both the A 1200 bit frames (such as those produced by 3-D animation “trap-door” expansion port software) to its own compressed format, and you will and the internal hard-drive also find both commercial and shareware programs connector, it isn’t as easy that can compress a series of 24-bit frames into a as with an A1200. You D C IV animation file. Because of the low cost of both can probably find space DCFV and the Amiga systems on which it will run for a 2.5-inch hard (even an A500 with enough memory will work), this drive inside the case, device is a favorite among animators looking for but there’s no really acceptable results at a rock-bottom price. secure place to mount For those with lots more money to spend, there is it. And when I tried to Digital Processing System's Personal Animation plug the DKB 1202 Recorder (PAR), an animation system that provides a memory board into far better solution than even AGA .ANIMs. This plug the expansion port, it in card plays back 24-bit animations from a dedicated bumped into the hard drive at 30 frames per second. The board comes mounting post for the with its own high-quality composite-video output, and floppy drive—more even offers component video output for professionals surgery would be required using digital and Betacam formats. When combined to make it fit. with DPS’s TBC IV card, PAR can also capture Still, some owners may be sequential frames from an external video source. This able to live with the drawbacks opens up the possibility of creating moving morphs in order to save $100 to $150. and other exotic special effects. (The upgrade kit is $273 with ship Although PAR is not inexpensive (about $3000 with ping, or $248 if you trade in your A500 motherboard, the special high-speed drive required), it still costs far while a new Amiga 1200 runs just under $400.) For less than other high-quality solutions, including frame- those who prefer the neater solution of an Amiga 1200 accurate VCRs and single-frame controllers, digital in an A1200 case, it may make more sense just to sell disk recorders, and recordable laser discs. your A500 for $100 and buy the new computer. For professional animation work, an older Amiga Or, instead of selling your old system, how about equipped with PAR is better than an AGA system. With buying a complementary game machine? By the time its fast processor and bus, however, AG A is a better low- you read this, Commodore’s CD32 should be widely cost solution than a pre-AGA machine with DCTV— available. For about the price of an A 1200, the CD32 unless you’ve already invested in an accelerator. will give you not only AGA capability, but a CD-ROM drive as well. Though it’s still a little early to start talk F u n a n d G a m e s ing about expansion products for CD32, you’ll proba The latest 24-bit graphics cards, as we have seen, may bly be able to hook the unit up to your computer and be pretty good at running AGA productivity software, share the CD-ROM drive between machines. but, alas, they do not fare as well with AGA-specific games. The reason is that many arcade-type games While Commodore has been busy updating the Amiga boot right from the floppy disk, without ever loading product line, third-party manufacturers haven’t been up the Workbench environment. Well-behaved games sleeping— they’ve been bringing out lots of products that you can install on a hard drive and load from a that help older Amigas keep up with “ new-generation” Workbench icon may run on the 256-color screens of AGA machines. Besides those mentioned, we’ve even some graphics cards, but AGA games that need to heard of a freely/ distributable software AGA emulator boot from a floppy don’t stand a chance of working called Soft AGA. We could not track down a copy to on non-AG A machines. If you want to run these kinds test, but sources say it is not yet viable. Still, with all of AGA games, you’ll simply have to have the AGA of the various expansion and update alternatives chips. available, the question is no longer “Can I do it?” but Still, there are a couple of alternatives to selling your “What shall I try first?” ■ old machine and buying a new one. Amiga 500 owners, for example, may want to consider Copperhead Sheldon Leemon, a computer/video consultant and instructor, Technologies' AGA Upgrade Kit— an Amiga 1200 is the author o f two books and scores o f articles covering the motherboard, specially modified to work with your Amiga. He is currently writing a third book, concerning the Amiga 500 keyboard. Video Toaster, and is Forum Manager Jar the Amiga area on To gel the motherboard to lit, you’ll have to trim National Videotex Network. Write to him c/o AmigaWorld, away various parts of the A500’s plastic case. Although Editorial Dept., 80 Elm St., Peterborough, N H 03458. 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Stretching Your Anim ation Mileage O NE OF T H E limiting factors in pro By modifying a reciprocal motion ducing animations against a deadline is you can add character to a sequence. the large number of frames required For example, the bird might look more for even a few seconds of running time. realistic if its downward llap was faster ON This beginner’s column will explore than its upward flap. Pick up the six- some basic principles that can help you frame upward flap as an animbrush extend the mileage of your animation and then create a blank eight-frame efforts, making ten frames do the work animation. Stamp the six cels of the of a hundred. animbrush in place on the first six animation frames. For the next two R e c y c l e T h o s e F r a m e s ! frames, manually locate two inter Understanding the concept of creating mediate cels of the animbrush to create cy clic motion is fundamental. For a swifter downward movement. (In example, to animate a spinning planet DPaint, the 7 and 8 keys move you you need only create one full rotation. backward and forward through the cels # 6 2 That motion cycle can then be played of the animbrush.) You now have a in an endless loop. The time invested cyclic eight-frame animation that can be in a few frames can yield many seconds picked up and used as an animbrush. of animation. These basic techniques are effective From the standpoint of the number ways to stretch the running time of of original frames required, reciprocal your work, but repeated motion can A continuing series motion is even more efficient than have a predictability that loses the cyclic motion. One complete reciprocal viewer’s interest. You can address this motion consists of a sequence of frames problem either by interrupting a loop of tips, techniques, run forward then backward in what is ing cycle or by having a repeating cy cle often called a ping-pong motion. For a affect its surroundings. .As an example waving cartoon character, you might of interrupting a loop, you could have and tricks for draw only six frames of the arm mov the flapping bird fly across the screen ing from left to right. You can play as described but insert a glide in the those same frames in reverse to have middle of the sequence. This could be creating more the a I'm wave from right to left. Then as simple as repeating a single cel from loop that cycle for as long as needed. the middle of the flap cy cle for several Computer artists can take advantage frames before returning to the flap imaginative Amiga of animbrushes in DeluxePaint (Elec loop. No extra drawing is required and tronic Arts) and other programs to the character of the animation is further increase animation mileage. enhanced. graphics. A brief motion cycle can be used as a repeating animated brush in a longer I f I H a d a H a m m e r . . . animation, even moving through space To experiment with the idea of a cyclic as it loops. Applying animbrushes to loop affecting its surroundings, you the concept of cyclic motion, you might might go t hrough die stages of creating create a single walk cycle for a charac the “Sculptor” animation as shown in ter in 10 frames. You can then use it as the accompanying illustration. The an animbrush in a 100-frame anima plan is to create a reciprocal motion of B y J o el H agen tion to have the character walk smoothly a sculptor striking a chisel. Repeated across the screen. Applying the same blows gradually transform a large block idea to reciprocal motion, you could of stone into a finished sculpture. have a bird flap its wings as it Hies If you have a digitizer, you might try across the screen. You might draw only “rotoscoping” the character by drawing six frames of the wings moving from directly on successive photographs. their down position to their up posi You could pose a model for each posi tion. Then set this animbrush automat tion of the movement and digitize ically to “ ping-pong” for the full up- straight into the computer. Lacking a and-down cycle. model, I posed in front of a video These sure-fire tips will help you get more out of your animations while spending less time and effort. camera using cardboard props for hammer and chisel. Later, I used G VP’s IV24 to capture the frames from tape as shown in # l in the illustration. Black-and-white is adequate for roto- scope reference. If you have numbered your frames sequentially, they can be batch loaded from DPaint’s Picture Load menu and then saved later as an ANIM , Create a line drawing directly on each image, as shown in #2, using a bright color not present in the photos. Next, using the Stencil feature, lock the line color and then clear all frames to leave clean outline drawings as in #3. Use Fill and Draw tools to color the character. As described for the flapping wings, you can reuse a few of the backswing frames to create the faster striking swing. Saved as an anim- brush, this sequence will eventually be added to a background as shown in #4. Before adding the character to the background, create the sculpture. Draw, scan, or digitize both a finished sculpture and a raw block of stone. In "Sculptor" (above), rotoscoping is used in 1-4 to create a cyclic motion of a Next calculate how many hammer sculptor at work. DPaint's brush morph transforms the unfinished block into the blows you will use to complete the finished statue. Only 20 frames were used to create 10 seconds of animation. sculpture. This may be dictated by the desired run-time of the sequence. As a and creates a 10-cel animbrush from two frames each time a blow is struck. simple example, if you want 10 your two keyframes. A translucent shadow helps fix the seconds of animation at 15 frames per Set up a new animation with just figure and sculpture to the ground. second and there are 15 frames in one your background image. It should have This visually complex 10-second hammer cycle, you need 10 hammer the same number of frames as there animation required only 12 original cycles. You need one modification of are cels in the sculpture morph (10 in frames— 10 hammer positions and 2 the block for each hammer cycle, with our example). Stamp the sculpture- sculpture keyframes. The morph the final modification being the morph animbrush into the scene to provided 8 additional frames. finished sculpture. create a 10-frame animation. Next, Variations on this idea could be An easy way to do this is to morph modify that animation to accommodate used to reveal rendered 3-D logos the block of stone into the sculpture. the repeating 15-frame animbrush of and titles. You could use any of the specialized the hammer cycle. To do this, add 14 morphing programs, but you may find frames to each of the 10 frames of the Developing a clear methodology is that DPaint’s own brush-morphing sculpture animation. Now place the critical to becoming a skilled animator. capabilities are adequate for this hammer cycle animbrush in the scene You can increase your productivity if project as long as both objects have so that the chisel appears to strike the you learn to analyze a project at the distinctly different shapes. Pick up the block of stone. Using DPaint’s Move outset. Look for innovative ways to use stone block as a brush and press Alt-n requester with all settings at zero, you cyclic motion and devise your own to move it to the “spare-brush” buffer; can stamp the animbrush in place over techniques for stretching animation then pick up the sculpture as the sec all 150 frames. mileage without sacrificing visual ond brush. Press Alt-m for the morph Playing the animation, you’ll see that interest or quality. ■ requester. Enter the total number of the sculpture changes a little at each desired cels (in our example enter blow of the hammer until it is com Write to Joel Hagen at 10512 Sawyer, 10— one for each hammer cycle). The plete. As a final touch, add a little Oakdale, G4 95361. Include a stamped, computer now acts as your assistant spray of dust with the airbrush tool for self-addressed envelope for a reply. From p. 19. unfilled. You can use Amiga or Soft- dingbats and other particulars. Compos Logik bitmap fonts, a PostScript screen ites cannot be edited, however; rather, A F o n t I s B o r n font, or any IFF ILBM file as a template. you must edit the base parts. TypeSmith 2.0 lets you create the actual TypeSmith 2.0 can make a “best-guess” font outlines and font metrics (character at fitting a character into the window, M i n o r M a l a d ie s widths and spacing) simultaneously. If and you can open multiple windows, TypeSmith originally produced unex you prefer, you can create the outlines displaying a character at any stage of pected results on my laser printer. The only, then merge them with a previously design. A Type Preview window displays Type Preview menu produced tiny out created metric file. The AutoMetric text using the current font, character put, while the Print Preview feature didn’t feature does most of the dirty/ work of' spacing, and kerning tables. Selecting work at all. However, a quick switch from metric-lile creation for you. Update from the Project menu updates PostScript to the HP printer driver in You can decide between proportional the preview window. Preferences produced flawless output. and nonproportional spacing for You can work with subsets of a com While TypeSmith 2.0 supports many numerals, set the width of the space plete character set with the Character of the outline-font standards, licensing character, and determine the percent of Overview panel, and TypeSmith 2.0 fees make it cost-prohibitive to support tracking between characters. To make opens a new edit window for any char the popular PC-compatible TrueType changes to individual character metrics acter on which you double-click. You can format. .Also, support for the IF F .D R 2 D and kerning, use the Metrics requester. cut, copy, and paste characters and standard is laudable, but how about You can create and preview kerning manipulate them in a variety of ways, some other common structured-drawing pairs from scratch or load them from a with the Undo command as a handy or CAD formats, like those of Pro Draw? previously saved file. toggle that flips between the current and Additional keyboard equivalents The Font Attributes requester sets last edited version. wouldn’t hurt, either. everything from assigning the font name Amiga font designers and those with a unique ID to the position and thickness P a t h s T o C h a r a c t e r s an occasional need for outline-font edit of character underlines. The Font Outline-font design requires the use of ing and conversion will be in font heaven Dimensions requester lets you set the structured-drawing-like Bezier curves, with TypeSmith 2.0. It stands alone in its bounding-box dimensions and charac lines, ellipses, and boxes. Once a basic market niche, but more importantly, it is ter guides. shape is drawn, it becomes a path that genuinely well crafted in nearly ever)' You load Soft-Logik outline fonts you can move, skew, scale, rotate, flip, respect. directly, while with PostScript Type I and duplicate. Structured-drawing rules —Rick Manasa and Compugraphic Intellifonts, you apply to font design, as you can con import and then convert them to Type strain the Box and Ellipse tools to Smith's native format for editing. You squares and circles by holding the Shift M e d ia P o in t 3.6 load and save all fonts separately from key while dragging. When you’re using Activa International, S499.00 their metric files, except for Intellifonts bitmaps as templates, all font-character and PostScript Type 3 fonts, which main paths must be closed to ensure that all All Amigas. tain all font information in one file. characters in a typeface can be filled. 2.0/3,0 compatible. TypeSmith 2.0 loads PostScript Type TypeSmith 2.0’s point-editing toots Hard-drive installable. 1 Hybrid fonts as well, giving you the remain ghosted until two points have Not copy protected. option to open the font in hi-res or been selected. You can then insert and Accelerator compatible. lo-res. You can export in three formats: delete control points, join two previously Minimum system: 1MB chip RAM plus Type 1 fonts using TypeSmith or Adobe unconnected points, and convert a 2MB fast RAM or 2MB chip RAM, Standard encoding (including those with straight line to a curved line (or vice hard drive. hinting) and accompanying MS-DOS, versa). The option to change the path Recommended system: 6MB or more Amiga, or Windows metric files; Post from clockwise to counterclockwise (or RAM, 2MB chip RAM, hard drive, Script Type 3 format; and Intellifont the opposite) ensures proper orientation format (with or without Gold Disk .dat for filling fonts. You can cut and paste AGA system, accelerator. and .metric files). paths and points in the same way you TypeSmith 2.0 loads and saves indi edit characters. General-purpose multimedia vidual characters— in addition to full Bitmap fonts can be generated in presentation system. font sets— in the IFF DR2D format stan Amiga, Soft-Logik and PostScript dard for structured drawings. A Print formats. Ediiing bitmaps is a matter of hen it comes to presentations, Preview menu prints the character that clicking in squares in a grid to approxi W MediaPoint is further proof that you are working on in any resolution mate the shape of the character, then the Amiga remains an institution in that your printer supports. It can appear saving in any of the supported formats. multimedia circles. A multipurpose pre as an outline or filled character, in any TypeSmith 2.0 composite-character sentation package, MediaPoint brings point size or orientation. support allows you to reference individual a new way of thinking to the Amiga. When it comes to designing fonts, characters and combine them into a new Words like “flexibility” and “innovative” j options and aids abound. Rulers, char character without actually loading and spring to mind when using MediaPoint. acter guides and a user-definable grid combining the referenced parts. Through Most importantly, it simplifies the task are there to help. 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To create a presentation, New Xapps can be easily added, too. you simply drag icons that represent such MediaPoint has a second interface multimedia tools as graphics, sounds, and that lets you create “pages” to add to laserdisc tracks into a listbox displaying scripts. The page editor allows you to die order in which they’re accessed. Some design custom screens of graphics and of the icons represent gadgets called text. Each page can have any number of Xapps (pronounced “zaps”). These are draggable, resizable windows. Windows external applications that MediaPoint can become buttons for interactive calls on for capabilities that aren’t in the presentations or can move around the main program. Xapps allow you to screen using transition effects. control such devices as CDTV (and Pages are saved independently of juris tumni C D XL animations), IV-24, M ID I, Studio scripts, so you can incorporate a page or 16, and a variety o f laserdisc players. group of pages into any number of MediaPoint's presentation assembly line is largely point-and-cllck work. Display Modes, Scanner Reviews. (AW9306) different scripts. Likewise, graphics and July 1993.3-D Graphics On Your Amiga! sound aren’t embedded in presenta October 8 PC Emulators. Video Troubleshooting. tions, which means the script files stay 1992. Virus Killers For Hire. Reviews on VistaPro 3.0 quite small. If you need to copy the pre Sneak Preview: and Pro-Board 3.0. (AW9307) sentation to another system, MediaPoint The New Amiga 600 August 1993. Full Coverage of Video Toaster includes a “mover” utility to copy the Revealed. Video 4000. Programming Special! Easy Morphing Tips. script’s related data to a new location, Special! 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Despite all these features, SIGNATURE MediaPoint falls somewhat short of June 1993. Special Review Issue. The AW Fonts being a definitive CO solution through Buyer’s Guide— Part 2: Video Fonts. Amiga NAME its inability to do a credit roll. A tech- nical-support representative indicated, AmigaWorld Back Issues ADDRESS however, that a credit-roll feature will CfTY STATE ZIP 80 Elm Street, appear in future versions. Peterborough, NH 03458 A3DBI M a d e f o r T V MediaPoint was clearly designed for the needs of cable-IV information channels. first program I've seen of any kind that A sophisticated scheduling option allows supports Workbench 3.0's datatypes. SAS/C Development yon to run a script between any two System with C++, dates, on arbitrarily chosen days of the W h a t ’s t h e X f e r ? week, during any block of time. You can Despite the wealth of transitions, there’s V e r s io n 6.50 even segment a script into different time no preview button. To see the effect of a SAS, $395 ($69 upgrade from SAS/C 6.x; slots, so that certain pages will be transition, even just a minor change near other upgrade offers available) displayed only on specific days. the end of a presentation, you must Hard-drive installable. Users of earlier versions of Media- highlight the page and then press F to Not copy protected. Point couldn’t leave their script unat play forward. I discovered that you can 1.3/2.0/3.0 compatible. tended, because a presentation couldn’t disable every event in a script except the Accelerator compatible. recover from a crash or power outage effect in question by scheduling every on its own. A ten-second delay in Media- thing else into the past or future— not M inim um system (C): 1MB RAM, Point 3.6 offers a partial solution and a elegant, but another solution. Also, it is dual-floppy drive. forthcoming remote access module will possible to assign sounds to a presenta Recommended system (C): 2MB RAM, fully correct this shortcoming. tion, but button-dicks have only a single hard drive. MediaPoint is brimming with conven default beep. An “Xfer” menu on the Minimum system (C++): 4MB RAM, iences: The file requester offers thumb script-editor screen is undocumented— hard drive. nail views of graphic images; a time- MediaPoint says it’s for a soon-to-be- code tweaker automatically distributes released remote-access module. Development system for C, C + + and script events along a timeline; and tools These problems aren’t crucial, but they assembly-fanguage programmers. in the page editor make it easy to are signs that the program is not fully duplicate windows and position them mature. T o be honest, 1 was astounded by miga programmers have seen SAS/C precisely on the screen. MediaPoint the power MediaPoint offers: Rarefy does A (originally called Amiga C and even lets you advance pages at the press a program perform so many things flaw Lattice C) evolve with the Amiga since of a key— like Elan Performer—and lessly. Despite its shortcomings, I can’t the beginning, when it was a PC-based records your timing, making it easy to think of a better single tool for video and cross-compiler. As testimony to its synchronize a presentation to the down multimedia presentations. versatility and power, Commodore’s beat of a musical score. Lastly, this is the — Dave Johnson software engineers used SAS/C as the ► I TP— 11 __ EXCLUSIVE DISTRIBUTION: Anti Gravity Products 'p Is proud to announce the exclusive distribution of the If ANTI GRAVITY Digital Broadcaster! 6 and the Digital Broadcaster32. fliWB M*b*. 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It has proven to be a reliable environment through Workbench, or, if through the code by double-clicking the program that generates correct and you prefer, in a more traditional text- debug icon. Smfind, which is new to efficient executables from C source, and based Shell environment. Under the 6.50, allows you to search any files for a the manufacturer provides excellent graphical environment, which has pattern and displays instances of that support through phone, fax, and improved with each subsequent release, pattern in the scmsg window. Again, you electronic mail. you use SCSetup to create a new project can open your editor and jump to the drawer. This drawer contains icons to set right spot by just double-clicking one of P r o g r a m m i n g P l e a s u r e s compiler options (scopts), to debug the displayed items. I thought that such The package includes a C compiler, (CPR), to build (smake), to edit, and to a graphical environment wasn’t suitable C + + translator, assembler, linker, text find. After you use the editor to enter a for professional development work, but editor, debugger, make utility, find program, double-clicking on "Build” Version 6.50 changed my mind. utility, and many other tools. More than runs the compiler or assembler and T h e SAS/C C l a s s r o o m 1500 printed pages and over a megabyte linker on your new File(s). of AmigaGuide files document the com SAS has significantly improved SE, its Although the graphical interface is easy pressed contents of six floppy disks. A text editor, but if you’d rather use to understand and to use, I experienced handy script for Commodore’s Installer another editor, you can configure some difficulty. With Chapter 1 of the program makes installation easy. I SAS/C accordingly. Included packages SAS/C manual as your mentor, you’re noticed, however, that while the default of macros and configuration files can led through the process of starting a pro process is to install upgrades to the same integrate ASDG’s CED or Oxxi’sTurbo- ject, entering a program, compiling the location, page 4 of the manual advises: Text in place of SE. You can set com code, debugging it, and so on. Both the “ If you are upgrading from a previous piler options so that errors in compila procedures for the graphical and Shell version, you should install Version 6.50 tion bring up a scmsg (SAS/C message) interfaces are covered. Unfortunately, it in a separate location from previous window with a list of the errors. Double skips back and forth between how to do versions of the compiler.” clicking on one of the errors invokes things in general and how to do them for The level of integration between the your editor and brings the cursor to the an example program. major tools, especially in the graphical line containing the error. At several points, I went ahead and environment, is impressive. Since Ver When you have a successful build, you performed a procedure, only to realize We will attempt to beat any legitimate price US Dealers Only. Please note that prices FACTORY AUTHORIZED advertised by Canadian dealers do not include any import tariffs . Also be advised that| Amiga products purchased from Canada are not covered by Commodore US warranty. AMIGA SERVICE CENTER WHEN YOUR AMIOA COMPUTER NEEDS SERVICING DEPEND ON US TO QUICKLY BRING YOUR COMPUTER BACK TO LIFE . CALL later that I should have done it differ package. Viewed as a bonus, this is great, earlier version of SAS/C, you should have ently. The example should stand alone but if C++ is your primary interest in received notice of the upgrade, along as a list of steps to follow. Further, the 6,50, you may be disappointed. with a description of the enhancements. on-disk example programs don’t exactly The documentation bills the translator You can use that to decide whether the match the text of the manual. Finally, I as “AT&T CFront 2.1 compatible,” upgrade is worthwhile. If you are plan had to tangle with a serious bug that That means that 6.50 lacks templates ning to do any professional work in C on appears in the 6.50 version of SCSetup. and except ion■-hand 1 in g— advaneed the Amiga, you should have the current As its name implies, SCSetup sets up a C++ language features. A bug in 6.50 version of SAS/C. If you are thinking new project in its own drawer; but I prevents it from automatically recog about learning C or are already using C discovered that while it works fine from nizing .cc files as C++ source (you have as a bobby, you’ll have to decide whether the Shell, it does not work from the to give them .cxx extensions). The doc you can afford the tool used by the pros Workbench. SAS recommends the 6.3 umentation for 6.50 contains scattered or simply use one of the freely redistrib version of SCSetup for the Workbench references to C + + , most of which utable compilers available in the public environment. appear almost as alter thoughts. More dom ain. Like most development systems, examples and a list of compiler options If you want to Fiddle with C++ and SAS/C lacks a programming tutorial, so specific to C++ would be a marked don’t mind the growing pains that some if you don’t know how to program in improvement. times accompany new products, you’ll be C/C++, you must look elsewhere for Comeau C++ is a licensed port of satified with 6.50. It’s likely to improve help. The SAS/C manual recommends A T & T ’s cfront, and it requires, but does as your demands grow, and SAS’s several reference books on C, C++, and not include, a compiler. An Amiga commitment is clear— it has a member M680x() assembly language, but does version of the compiler supports current on the ANSI C++ committee. If you not recommend suitable material for C++ standards. Several programs that want to do serious work with C+ + now, learning programming. work correctly with Comeau won’t work however, I suggest that you purchase under SAS/C. In SAS’s defense, some of Comeau C++ in addition to SAS/C 6.50. C f r o n t P r o p e r t ie s these programs are buggy, but they Freely distributable patches continually The 6.50 upgrade is worth buying just happen to work under Comeau. appear on networks, and these should for its enhancements as a C development address many of the problems I environment. On top of that, though, R ecommendations encountered. ■ SAS has added a C++ translator to the If you are already a registered user of an —Dale L. Larson Ixiendly Knowlegable? Authorised Amiga Dealer for 6 Years! Computer Answers (306) 764-2888 L o w o v e rh e a d I jOW markup = Cireal prices! 9:30 AM-6;(K) PM (Central Standard Time) 9 1 7 . CVwr.il Avenue. Prince Albert. Sask.. Canada .W V-lV? Dedicated to delivering the best possible values! 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G am e Preserve By Peter Olafson, A W Games Editor L i b e r a t i o n CD32 ✓ CONVENTIONAL WISDOM A 1 2 0 0 - suggests a perpetual stand-off Other Amigas - between software publishers and new hardware developers. The former typically won’t publish hot new games for the latter without a significant installed base. And said base is unlikely to develop in the absence of hot new games. If this were entirely tine, of course, no game machine would ever survive its infancy. Eventually, a forward-thinking publisher sees the potential of the technology and sponsors a game that helps generate a market. Hence, in 1985-86, games like Sundog and Dungeon Master helped get the Atari ST out 4 do yov mran of the blocks. In 1987, Dragon's Lair was probably single- handedly responsible for selling thousands of A500s. And in 1990, Wing Commander was in large part responsible for the development of a 386 games market. Until now, the CD32 hasn’t had such a game. Oscar and Diggers— the games initially packaged with the machine in It's every droid for itself in the futuristic world of Liberation. Europe—were lukewarm rather than hot, and the current Dangerous Streets/Wing Commander bundle offers nothing pastiche of bitmapped walls— BladeRunner there, marbled unique to the CD32. Too many of the games released for the here, art-deco there, shelves over there— and interior detail. new console have been platformers, which often look nice but You move about in a style similar to Space Hulk’s hybrid of push neither the machine nor our expectations. square-to-square shuffle and smooth scroll. W hile it doesn’t Well, prepare to have your expectations pushed: Liberation have the freedom of action of the latter, when you get going (Mindscape UK, about $45) may well be the CD32’s Dragon’s at a good clip in a straight line, you won’t know the difference. Lair. Designed expressly for C BM ’s new console (and likely to The other characters— thousands of them— move smoothly remain CD32-only for some time), this vast futuristic role- as well. They all talk, too, in digitized human voices, sometimes play er— a sequel to the celebrated Captive— is the first game in tones and terms none too flattering— my droids were called that takes genuine advantage of the machine’s abilities. If "drekhead” an awful lot— and sometimes at great length and there’s an adventure that will compel people to buy the CD32 to little point. (Reportedly, there are six hours of speech buried simply to play it, this is it. in the game.) You may remember Captive. That Tony Crowt her creation The initial challenge here may be getting used to an RPG was among the first Dungeon Master clones when it appeared that isn’t a one-way street. This is a dark world well supplied in 1990 and was instantly embraced by an audience starved for in directions to follow, taxis to grab, signs of all description, tunnels, monsters, and insidious puzzles. They left fat with and operating computer terminals. I’ve only touched on a few them if they left at all. (Captive had something like 64,000 of its major facets, and part of its charm is discovering the levels.) The only problem was that the docs were shorter than minor ones: reconfigurable screens (you can customize your Ross Perot behind a podium— a situation rectified this time display), onscreen mapping, or the ability to look in any odd with a solid 64-page manual. angled direction in which you can’t turn. The premise (touched upon in a lengthy and excellent Liberation has weaknesses, to be sure. Too many characters animated intro) once again has you controlling four droids— look like extras from a sillier-than-usual Lost in Space episode: this time in an effort to release innocent people framed for polygonal gowns topped with animal-like heads. Despite that murders committed by security droids-gone-haywire. vast pool of digitized speech, the NPCs (non-player characters) And the size will be familiar as well. It’s a monster. Libera have a tendency to undergo accent and gender changes, which tion is a Frontier among RPGs. You can’t even begin to imag doesn’t do much for continuity. The 3-D view is very crisp, but ine the far edge. There are almost 4 100 missions spread across some of the supporting graphics are a bit muddy. its life-sized 3-D cities, which are rendered in a gorgeous And the interface isn’t really suited to the CD32’s button- ► A—Wow! Exquisite. A must for your games library. C—Meets expectations. Good, solid, performer. B—Great fun. Plenty of entertainment value here. D—Disappointing. Lots of room for improvement. F—A real stinker. Don’t waste your time. * You may encounter some problems under this operating system and/or require a PAL/NTSC adapter. r //> The GRAPEVINE GRO UP INC. • NORTH AMERICA S LARGEST SUPPLIER OF AMIGA CUSTOM CHIPS AND SPECIALTY PARTS • 3 Chestnut Street Order Lines: 1 - 8 0 0 - 2 9 2 - 7 4 4 5 Order Status Line: Suffern, n .y . 10901 ^ 357.2424 / (g14) 357-2607 / (914) 357-3060 / (914) 357-7498 (914) 368~4242 CUSTOM UPGRADE CHIPS MISCELLANEOUS US — EXCLUSIVE UPGRADE AGNUS 8372A/8375 1MB KIT A501 original Commodore (512K) for A500...... $24.50 Recently, Commodore elected to consolidate thfir stateside Includes Agnus, Goliath Agnus chip puller, step-by-step instructions, A601 memory expansion for A600...... $54.95 operations, thus making them financially stronger. 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And the maze-like levels and enemy 3 .0 ✓ ingenuity and camouflage hold many surprises; there’s nothing Not hard-cfrlve installable. as treacherous as searching the deep recesses of a forest or the Copy-protection. farthest ice flows for that last packet of holdouts. Cannon Fodder is also much spiffier graphically; it’s like a T h e a t r e o f D e a t h 1.3 ✓ Lemmings landscape seen from a helicopter. Theatre is olive 2.0 ✓ drab next to these stars and bars, but l found it a quicker play. CHEMISTRY IS EVERY © The turnaround time between missions is far shorter— T H IN G . It weds beauty to beast. 3 .0 ✓ Cannon Fodder doesn’t permit ready loading of saved It’s the fizzy froth between Not hard-drive installable. games— and the reinforcements, tanks, personnel carriers, baking soda and vinegar. It Copy-protecfion. land mines, and air strikes give the game more variety. makes one game king, and its absence sends the other to the On the other hand, while Cannon Fodder’s play is very chopping block. nearly spit-shine perfect, Theatre of Death’s appears at roll call Consider the case o f Cannon Fodder (Virgin UK, about $35) with sleep crusting its eyes and shirt tail out. It’s a sloppy Joe: and Theatre of Death (Psygnosis UK, about $35). Cannon You can play the second part of one two-part mission before Fodder has that chemistry, and one day it’s bound to be counted completing the first. Mission descriptions intended to be terse among Amiga classics; its special status is written on its brow come off as just messy— “ Rescue and neutralize enemies”— almost from the moment this arcade wargame takes the screen. and supplies sometimes are placed in inaccessible positions at And Theatre of Death.. .well, it doesn’t. Despite being very screen borders. When moving troops, the screen scrolls freely much the same sort of game, and even superior in some only to a point— you’ll think you’ve reached the edge of the respects— not to mention arriving a few weeks earlier— it lacks playfield— and you'll have to use the satellite views to center the charged atmosphere and the happy self-awareness of the perspective before you can continue. Cannon Fodder. But you can work within these constraints, and you’ll want At the root, the two games are similar: You tool about large to, because Theatre of Death is essentially a good game. It’s battlefields seen from an angled-down view, using the mouse just lost in the huge shadow of Cannon Fodder. to target— and open fire upon— enemy soldiers about the size of Lemmings (or, more to die point in Cannon Fodder’s case, AW S h u c k s ! Sensible Soccer players). Once the mission’s accomplished, you move onto the next level— in TO D with a whole new crew, In the review of Combat Air Patrol (Feb. ’93) we incor and in Cannon Fodder with only those men who survived the rectly stated that the game’s rotating point-of-view feature earlier levels. was a first for the Amiga. Actually, it first appeared as In Cannon Fodder the campaign element and the Big mouse-panning in Jaeger Software’s Fighter Duel. Picture thinking it requires is a decidedly Lemmings Il-Jike SHORT TAKES CD32-specific versions are in the works, but I can't imagine how they'll S t a r d u s t © 1 .3 ✓ * improve on this. 2.0 ✓ * Wow. No, Eet me try that again. WOW. No, that still doesn't quite say 3 .0 ✓ * it. Can we roll a bigger typeface in Not hard-drive installable. D r e a m W e a v e r here? W -O -W . Copy-protection. Asteroids was never remotely tike this. Hell, even Blasteroids was Lots of ways exist to create do-it- never like this. 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But, I probably won't put this mixed bag in my Amiga again soon. far more than anyone's likely to use—with no limit on the number of For one thing, as in games like The Plague and Under Pressure, the objects, and you'll be pleasantly surprised at the thoughtful features character is a little too large for the allotted space and thus winds up included and the ease with which they're put to use. inevitably and unfairly getting hit by unfriendly fire he should by rights have The only potential snag—aside from a somewhat too brief 20-page been able to avoid. The scrolling occasionally compensates for its general manual—is that DW isn't open-ended. That is, the game you create is smoothness with sudden shuddering updates. And was this a sideways- distinctly a Dream Weaver game, with that system's general configuration scrolling shooter in a previous life? The oblong structure and floating and requirements. However, that's no great loss, as it's a very nice system, enemies suggest so. and if you're just starting out, it's probably not even an issue. This Dream Weaver will get even a novice through the night. B lo b © 1 .3 ✓ 2.0 ✓ Wonderful game. Blob (Core w ak © 1 .3 ✓ Q Design, distributed by EtD; 549.95) 2.0 ✓ 3 .0 ✓ Team 77 returns to greatness with gives you control over a bouncy little Not hard-drive installable. this exquisite Bubble Bobble clone af blue sphere trying to escape from a 3 .0 ✓ Copy-protection. ter a couple of so-so releases. Qwak Not hard-drive installable. collection of ragged levels by collecting objects, throwing switches and so on. Before you tune out, here's the rub: The levels are viewed from the top (about $20) is the old grab-all-the- Copy-protection. keys-and-points-you-can-and-then-scoot static-screen platformer last seen down and when Blob jumps to those above or plummets to one below, to best advantage in Rainbow Islands, and it's in all respects just ducky we're treated to a neat 3-D effect of nearby levels gradually materializing (Including an obvious one: It has ducks in the featured roles). It's also out of or vanishing into the murk. wonderfully appointed in sounds and tunes, has a textbook two-player It's a superb hook, and lends a new dimension of cautious steering and mode, and whisks along at a great pace. Playability at its zenith. (I quick reflexes to the puzzles. (If you fall, you may still be able to direct your especially like the bit where players trigger an avalanche of huge pieces of self to a lower platform. And if you hit a tile too hard too many times, it'll fruit—and not a few spikey mines.} give way.) Some may find Blob's PacMan-after-the-Bomb approach spare com pared to its competition, but I suspect that's a concession necessary to the game's speed. For my own part, I could have wished for a more original C hristm as L emmings character than another little airball-with-eyes in the wake of Putty and It has been a pleasant Psygnosis Morph. But I suppose a blob by any other name is still a blob. And I 3 .0 ✓ custom, since 1991, to release annual wouldn't be making these excuses unless I was good and hooked. Hard-drive installable. Lemmings Christmas disks as a little No copy-protection. present to their fans. Part-demo and pan-collector's item, these four-level mini-Lemmings were a charming way H u c k l e b e r r y H o u n d © 1 .3 ✓ to reacquaint yourself with the little guys just when you thought you'd 2.0 - heard your last "Oh, no!" in H o l l y w o o d 3 .0 - Something changed last year: The Lemmings Christmas disk suddenly C a p e r s Not hard-drive installable. went bigtime. It's gained 28 levels (for a total of 32, all new), acquired a No copy-protection. pricetag (a budget 529.95} and tw o tiers of difficulty (flurry and blizzard), This budget platformer (A lterna and turned into a bona fide Psygnosis product. tive, about 515) finds the slow-talking, pale-blue hound on the trail of Otherwise, this is very much The Same Old Thing. The Lems, green hair stolen diamonds. The graphics starve from hunger, there's no digitized invisible beneath little Santa Claus caps, get slaughtered and saved while sound from the cartoons—which would have given the character a little trekking across progressively more treacherous arctic landscapes hung character—and the animation is pathetic. (When Huck jumps, he revolves with colored lights and populated with gingerbread-like houses, waggling in place.) I don't know whether to rate it—or scrape it off my shoe. dolls-on-a-stick, and bounding snowmen. The rescuing is as fun as it ever was, and one can't really hold it against Psygnosis for trying to make a little seasonal dosh off its best-known characters. D o g f ig h t However, fun as it may be, if they were determined to charge us for the pleasure, they might at least have brought the Lemmings up to date. Well, I reckon it's better than B-17. 3.0 ✓ Despite having released Lemmings II within the last year, with its winter Dogfight {MicroProse UK, about 545) Hard-drive installable. skills obvious candidates for inclusion here, Psygnosis has nevertheless is an efficient and to-the-point air Off-disk copy-protection. gone back to the original 1991-92 Lemmings data set for these levels. combat simulator—a conversion of Guess that was the easier route, but the winter setting -here adds zip to Air Duel from the IBM—that allows you to fight it out without all the gameptay, and this is basically Oh No!, once more. preliminaries of having to take off, search for, and fly to an opponent. It's serviceable but rather barracks-like in construction—sort of an abridged version of one of MPS's full-fledged sims—except for the ability to pit planes from three different eras against one another in "what if" scenarios. e e p o r e © 1 .3 ✓ D C However, I'm not really sure what the point of that is, except possibly 2.0 ✓ This Psygnosis-lrke big-sprite plat- for handicapping bouts between opponents of unequal standing. In my former {ICE, about S35) is fovely to look experience these matches tend to be flagrant mismatches from the get-go. 3 .0 ✓ at. (Come on in, the water effect is And, unbelievably, they left out modem play. How can you convert a Not hard-driveCopy-protection, installable. great.} I'd hang it on my wall without game called Dogfight and leave out the modem play? To locate vendors of the games reviewed, see the "Manufacturers'/Distributors' Addresses" list on p. 90. SIDELINE SOFTWARE GAME PRESERVE orders 1- 800-888-9273 only 840 N.W. 57th Court. Ft. 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Many videograpliers use the A good C D player is essential as it no speed variation between machines. Amiga to generate a 1 KHz tone for enables you to play the music or sound DAT offers excellent frequency level reference together with color bars. effects you’ll be adding to your produc response, outstanding dynamic range, (The shareware program Bars ’n’ Tone tion. (By the way, don't forget about and superior signal-to-noise ratios. does this for you.) copyright laws. Using commercial Almost every professional recording The Amiga can also be used in some music in a production without paying studio today uses DAT, so having your cases as an electronic narrator; its royalties or obtaining authorization can own machine lets you share high- “ robotic” voice might spice up futur get you into serious trouble. That's why quality custom music or narration with istic presentations, for example. Also, buy-out music and sound-effects industry pros. the Amiga’s internal voices can be used libraries arc available.) Professional-level DAT recorders to play music, although a board such as Most CD players offer very good offer some very nice features, such as The Blue Ribbon SoundWorks’ One- sound quality, and this is an area SM PTE time code and editing capabil Stop Music Shop (which contains where you can easily get away with ities, but they are expensive. Consumer instruments and sound effects) delivers consumer-grade equipment. If you can DAT gear should be of high enough much better quality. afford a pro-level CD player, however, quality for your studio. 1 particularly An inexpensive M ID I interface allows you will gain professional audio con favor the portable DAT units. These you to connect a variety of professional nectors, special remote controls, and operate on batteries and are extremely sound modules and synthesizers to your other features that make life easier. small and lightweight; most are the size Amiga. One such module is the very Another common source of audio, of compact 35mm photo cameras. You popular Roland Sound Canvas. A virtual die compact cassette, is usually not can comfortably cany a portable DA T orchestra-in-a-box, it contains more ideal for quality sound. Only the best unit and microphone virtually any than 300 first-rate instruments and cassette decks offer good frequency where. The tapes measure only a few sounds, including several sound effects. response and proper signal-to-noise inches and can record up to two hours Using MIDI-sequencing software such ratio. But because audio cassettes are in the highest quality modes and up to as Rars&Pipes Professional (Blue Ribbon) so common, consider having a good four hours with minimum degradation. or Music-X (Hollyware), you can even unit for compatibility. You should assemble entire songs with several avoid recording narration on a cassette O t h e r A u d ib l e s instrument tracks. This task, however, deck, however. Because the deck’s W hite 1/4-inch (reel-to-reel) recorders is best left for the musically gifted. speed tends to fluctuate a lot, unless used to be obligator)' in well-equipped you use the same unit for recording studios, they are being phased out by That’s it for sources; next month we’ll and playback, you may end up with D AT as a means of audio distribution. look at the other components in your longer or shorter times. You should invest in such a unit only if audio-for-video chain. Plus, I’ll offer a you receive a lot of material on reels or few tips on making your audio sound D A T’s R i g h t if you want to maintain compatibility good on any TV set, ■ DAT (Digital Audio Tape) lias become with older (still abundant) material. I the choice for professional distribution would not advise buying a new unit, but Paulo de Andrade is president of Digital of high-quality audio. You should have you can find used open-reel professional Reality, an Amiga-based broadcast-video