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Feature The quest for Amiga CD-ROMS e Amiga Surfer 62 e CD-ROM Just how easy is it to find Amigas and Amiga The one stop solution to your 'net software? Are the constant reports we're needs or a vacant blond beach bum? Round Up 79 The m onth's best CD-ROMs rounded bombarded with about its unavailability up and branded. actually true? We sent the Amiga Police into e Ethernet on the nation's high streets to find out. Amiga 66 How to create a fast paced network PUBLIC solution for big box Amigas. DOMAIN e UghtWave 4.0 70 #PD Scene 83 Games The rendering king gets bigger and The latest games, demos and other better. But is it w orth £700? funky items from the shareware world. Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMREVIEWS e Power Tab 72 e PD Utilities 86 Not some sort of pep-up pilll Not on the net yet? Don't w orry there is • Slamtitt Pinball 41 It's a valuable device for artists. a way to get all that lovely free software. 21st Century are back w ith a bang w ith w hat could e Diavolo Backup 74 be the greatest pinball sim ever. Could a backup program ever get ART e Tracksuit Manager 2 46 exciting? M at B thinks so .... e Art gallery 90 Statistic heaven? Manager's manna? Find out If TM2 e I mage Vision 76 Lisa Collins showcases this month's gets to Join the pro squad. selection of readers' art. Fancy some m ultimedia authoring? Then check out this product. e Exile Data Disk 47 Unusual data disk for a popular platformer. But you’ll be glad you got it.
eSuper Tennis Champs Disk 51 Another data disk w ith style: at a bargain price too. This tim e wom en hit the circuit.
• XTreme Racing Disk 51 More tracks and an editor. Value or rip off? Find out on page 51. GUIDES e Vampyra 55 More deep debate and dire puns as the Queen of queries solves your rogue RPGs. e Snip Tips M att Broughton, the Sid James of tips pages, laughs his way through this m onth's Snip Tips. e Odyssey Some top hints to help you through this ever changing platform game. Soundtracker Pro II 9 One of the best trackers to have appeared for ages, this w ill help you get the most music power from your Amiga, whatever system you have. Plus: Dominator MIDI sequencer demo. Tune of the Month and some more exclusive earth-shaking sound samples!
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The New Amiga 20 Welcome to the next generation Amiga! CU Amiga Magazine is proud to present Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMthe future and boy it's bright: CD-ROM as standard, enhanced internal expandability, a fast processor and a decent RAM allocation. All that and a new " version of Workbench. See our extended news feature for more details. Then check out s the superb Amiga Technologies competitions on pages 28 and 39. Imagine 3.0 92 The mysteries, and indeed the raison d’etre of the Action Editor E d ito rial is explained in this m onth's tutorial. The new Amiga arrived in grand Graphics Masterclass 94 style at the Ce8IT show in Hanover and is due to make its second appearance at the World Of Amiga A two-pronged attack: first there's a bluffer's guide to caricatures, then there's a top class 24-bit car picture. in the UK. This is the first new Amiga for nearly two years (after all the A4000 Tower is simply an update Wired World 96 of the original Commodore prototype) and the first All the latest from the ever changing w orld of comma and to be designed from the outset by Amiga Internet, plus this m onth's sermon from Net God. Technologies. The basis of the machine is still the AGA chipset, Paula and the Motorola 68000, but it's the up-to-date approach of Scala MM300 100 providing adequate RAM. a fast processor, CD-ROM drive and hard So you have Scala from the Magic HD pack but no manual? drive that makes this new machine so much more competitive than Never fear, Norman Harris is here to light the way. the ones it will eventually replace. That's not to say that if you own an A1200 it’s out of date though: much of what 'Project Walker', as it Frequently Asked Questions 104 is currently known, will do can be done with your machine if you Find out how to create your own W orld Wide Web pages upgrade it, but those considering the merits of buying a new Amiga using HTML authoring. John Kennedy is your guide. will have more choice as a result of this development. No doubt it will cost more than the A1200, but you get what you pay for and its Q+A Masterclass 112 specification is correspondingly higher. As for its looks ... well it has It's ARexx tim e once more, as John Kennedy continues his its devotees, not least in this office. It also has its detractors - in this programming series. office too. But it's certainly distinctive and that's the way it should be if it is to compete. Let's hope the Walker doesn't lose too much of Questions and Answers 114 this in its metamorphosis from prototype to production. Your technical queries answered by CU Amiga's expert team Alan Dykes, Editor of spanner heads and w ing nuts.
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To get an idea of This version is fully functioning what's on offer, load up the Tune with no disabled features. You of the Month from the same disk are free to save out anything you by clicking the Song button at the •Sound samples: music and create with the program. top left of the screen, then For those few readers still sol selecting the "mod.extension diering on with 1.3 Amigas, this of light” file. To play the tune, sound effects month's disk should be especially click on Edit from the top strip of appreciated, as it offers many buttons, then click the Play Song powerful features not normally button. This is the right-facing tri The first of this month's cover implemented on 1,3 systems, angular button marked with a let including full on-line help at the ter 'S'. The other play button is disks is a musical extravaganza, touch of a button. for playing just one part (pattern) So what's so special about of the song. brought to you by audio master Soundtracker Pro II? First o f all it The song will loop back to the is very small. You could even run start after a while (70 patterns to Tony Horgan. it on a 0.5Mb A500 if you were be precise). Watch the scrolling that hard upl However, even if numeric display in the top right you have plenty more RAM than corner see which pattern is that it's also a very neat little pro currently playing, If you find the Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMgram The interface is a lot easier alpha numeric tracker display at to use than most trackers and the bottom of the screen is rather there are some excellent features confusing, take a look at the available in the sample editor, Trackers section of the free book including a unique three-band included with this month's CU graphic equaliser and a 'mod to Amiga Magazine. sample' option. This is particular ly useful as you can 'bounce' up Sample editor to four tracks down to one at the You'll find there's a built-in touch of a button! Perfect for sample editor with some very those times when you just don't useful and powerful features. To have enough tracks to spare! swop the tracker editor for the o H*Song H*Sample Ptefs Speed Edit Midi Misc. ? © r s SEARCH ??• ?*????*? * REPLACE ??• ?????? . a m i : : PHTLEA:0064*- CUT 1 2 3 *S P 003 0 9 3 “ ” CURRENT ALL C*V 1 2 3 4 P l e n g t h : oto ♦ - OUT HFRF P5T1 2 3 « P t SOUND 94 + - ADD 1 2 3 « P 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 ? I9 A B C D IP 01* ...... SOUND _ _ # » • * - " ! << ■ ►► H • 00 i " ' 2 2 I'u i ■ 1 ►►! »-pl » -s i II □ □ ooooool ooc Ihe main controls are styled on the transport buttons ol a tape recorder The Dolbyslyle button toggles the lowpass lillci ▲ This month's star attraction is Soundtracker Pro II. Although it might lath M s any athor tracker, it has s a w conning tncfcs a# its sJeavs Sound samples Dominator A selection of exclusive, never heard before sound sam Dominator it a MIDI sequencer with support for Amiga ples is included in the Samples directory. These include samples. This is a demo version with save features dis both musical samples and sound effects and they can all abled. If you find you would like to use this program seri be used in any Amiga music program and any other ously you can register for the latest edition of the full Amiga program that can load samples. The musical sam version, which will include more features and the ability ples include loops for dance music, a range of distinc to save your work. Check the Dominator Guide on the tive Rolend TR909 congas and a couple of boss sounds. disk for full instructions and registration details. The The sound effects selection includes crickets, e meaty instructions require the AmigaGuide utility to be present. machine gun, dripping water, a police siren and an elec OS2.04 or higher and a minimum of 1.5Mb of RAM is trical hum, just the job for your own games, demos or required to run the program. Extra RAM is recommended. soundtracks. The Playsound utility is also included in this drawer. This can be used to play IFF samples from th e S h ell. Q l MW o H jtSong H ifSatnple p'* ,s Speed Edit M idi Misc. ? © 5 DIR r^ir? ir^ir rn~TirTim rTiriir^ ir^in^jn?ir^inTinT| L 1 I S D I R DIR rnrnrrirnrrirnrnr^innrnrnrnrnrTim rii S A H P L B S DIR OOMIHRTOR. OMS I 42 ” IV »• It’ It’ It’ It’ It’ It’ II’ HOM TO INSTILL - IRHCKER is n u ;: ID0HJ.SUI120 S LEN«TM;OTO* MOO . EXTENSION — OP—LICHT 1 « n o n e H j S S I LORD LIST SA V E Q* MOD I S O N S PILE HOP. BXTBM SIO M -O F-LieW T.. , Mont |> caNH [noun .1 U|M m i Pra II K n | the Smr M i n X A t w U t cancr *r tk t icreea EM I R | I » L d sample editor, move the mouse right. One of the best features is pointer over the tracker part and the three band graphic equaliser. ■ * 1 ^ 1 then off to the right of the screen The three bars in the bottom right A >IMI» is a mw M ill u y iH C K h bkas m u n wtariacM bat i pa km a mmHaymc ■•■itof v«a c m aKtf die mcm teoltypes la aaha it m n proActm tf aiale - the sample editor will scroll on corner relate to the levels of bass, from the right. From here you midrange and treble frequencies in can sample your own sounds the sample. By setting these to dif Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMdirectly into the program using ferent positions you can drastically Tune of the Month just about any 8 bit sampler car affect the frequency content of the a tracl The long-awaited return of Tune tridge that plugs into the parallel sample. Select Equalize to process To record a track of your of the Month come* with a contri port. the sample with your chosen fre own. select one of the bution from Johan Alpmar. For Various processes and effects quency settings. Use the Sample instruments using the more of Johan's work, see last can be used to alter the current option from this list to sample your numeric keypad or load month's CU Amiga CD-ROM, or sample. To use any of these, own sounds. You can even convert one from the Samples check out the Aminet site or the select a part of the sample by an entire pattern to a single sam draw er on cover disk Aminet CD-ROMs. dragging out a range with the left ple by moving to a blank sample 132. To load a sample, mouse button (or click RNG DISP slot and selecting Mixtracks. This click the Sample button to select everything in view) and means that in effect you can from the top row of buttons and On-line help then click on one of the effects exceed the normal four track limits select your sample file as normal, On-line help is available at any from, the scrolling menu on the with good sound quality. then click th e Edit button. You can time by pressing the Help key or I no w play the sam ple at different clicking on the question mark but- I I a HtfSong HiSSwnpl. Prats Sp««d Edit M idi M f*T T i pitches using the Amiga keyboard ton at the top right of the screen. I /FMREMTD X It This does not use AmigaGuide, • ASS t (or a MIDI keyboard - see the doc ■ ASS2 umentation for details). To put the and so it is available for all OOMGR1 . IFF OOH6R2. IFF program into record mode, click Amigas without the need to boot I OOMGAB. IFF the circular button on the middle from Workbench or a hard drive. I SSYSSS t I" strip. You can now record onto a Consult these documents for CLCOTRIOB OROAM m track in step time or realtime by detailed instructions on the rest of I LOAD CFAST «_ Z S T SAVE ira w * abuse it! ■ 2.5’ HARD SPEEDCOM DRIVES MODEMS s i r e n Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM From the M 62 Junction 17 head towards Bury. We are 50 yards on incredibly powerful trapdoor fitting accelerator based around a 68030 the right hand side after complete witb MMU. 2 SIMM sockets the third set of lights. (72 PIN SIMMS), socket for a floating The door to our premises point unit and battery backed clock. is next to the Runs at just under 9,5 MIPS (million instructions per second!) florists opposite the Masons Pub. APOLLO 1232/50 £199.99 All tree s include VAT. Postage and packing 4mb SIMM £99.99 will be charged at £3.50 per order (U.K.), 8 mb SIMM £159.99 £7.50 Europe and £12.50 rest of the world. 68882 FPU £69.99 Take cover we're going in. Alien Breed has spawned some more dastardly robotic enemies. And we've got it first, ha ha. he Killing G rounds is not expanding in the multi-format just any game, it's the games market like brushfire on last ol a breed; in fact the savannah. The original Breed th e last o f THE Breed. 3D was to be the last but a com OThe story of Team !7's Alien Breed bination of unexpectedly high is a long one and its latter half sales for this game and the abili spans the period over the last two ties and ambitions of its program years where Team 17 have been mer, Andy Clitheroe, meant that Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM The Controls Control methods are very similar to Alien Breed 3D and you're allowed to duck, jump and sidestep. The major new feature is the ability to look up or down, but unfortunately in this demo, although you can do this your gun stays static: you can't aim it at anything. Let's hope this is rectified in the full game! Anyway, here are reference guide to stop you the main controls: travelling around in circles. The map can be scrolled around Game controls using the number buttons on the Up cursor: ...... F o rw a rd numeric keyboard and pressing 5 Down Cursor: ....Backward w ill centre the map back to Left Cursor: ...... L e ft where you are. Right Cursor: ...... R ig h t nigm mu: part two has become a reality. Stingy gun Light and dark Right Shift: ...... Run This demo is for 4Mb AGA OK, OKI The gun is stingy. It’s a Most of the enemies on the level Right Amiga: ...... S id es te p machines only, which is bound to double barrelled shotgun which are of the blue robot variety, wind a lot of people up. For this takes ages to reload and can which are easy to kill with a few /: Sidestep right we are very sorry, but that is how leave you in a difficult situation, well aimed shots. At times ...... D : ...... Duck/crouch it was supplied and that is the but hey. it’s better than your bare though it will look as if a couple L: ...... sort of specification the final fists and you must keep trying to of flashlights are just around the ]: ...... Look up game will be best running on. A replenish it. When the demo has corner. This is the large red alien, ...... # : . ..L o o k d o w n 2Mb version is still a month or loaded up you will see an arrow who can fire faster and is more ...... 0 (on keypad): Jump two away and will be packaged in front of you with green lines difficult to destroy than his little Tab: Toggle map on/off in the same box as the 4Mb ver bordering it. This is the map. You blue brother. Time for you to get F1: ...... Zoom in on map sion, but big brother here is the can toggle this on or off using on with the game. Try to memo F 2 : ...... Zoom out of map genuine article and should give the tab button, and in the bright rise the controls in the box oppo Number keys on keypad: you some idea of the quality of parts of the game it is probably site: you won’t regret it. ■ moves around map the graphics, the silky smooth best to have this toggled off. Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMmovement (if you adjust it to suit Bright pans? Yes. TKG is divided your machinel and the stunning up into bright and dark areas. Viewing controls ( (on keypad): Pixel width lighting effects The bright ones are gorgeous a d ju s tm e n t To load the demo you will and the dark ones are devoid of ) (on keypad): Pixel height need to decompress disk 133 to any feeling or light. a d ju s tm e n t two disks. Do this by inserting it This is where the map comes +/- (on keypad): Increase or into your internal drive, restarting in to play. By using the F1 and F2 decrease the height of the your Amiga and following the on buttons you can increase or screen screen instructions. 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Follow the instructions on Now you can run the program the screen, pressing F1 to uncom by double clicking the Pro2 icon on the cover disk. press the first demo disk. Insert one of the blank disks when Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMInstructions for hard drive installation can be found on the cover disk. prompted to do so. Then uncompress the second disk in a similar way Just double click the hard drive installation icon. This w ill not go using F2. When you have both uncompressed demo disks, insert Disk ahead with the installation, but w ill instruct you how to do it yourself 1 in your Amiga's internal drive, restart the computer and follow the (it's easy really). on-screen instructions. Samples and Tune of the Month IF YOUR DISK WON'T LOAD The sound samples are not compressed. They can be copied or loaded W« go to great troable to oasoro that the CU Amiga Magvine cover disks will work oa common Amiga straight from the cover disk and used in any Amiga program that ■adds. However, if you da experience problems follow this simple guide. supports the loading of IFF samples. This includes music programs, We also vigorously vires check oar cover disks o« a breaded vires cbecfcet If some escape oar attention multimedia packages and programming and development packages. wa cannot assume responsibility ler i t As well as the musical samples, the sound effects are ideal for use in 1: Remove a l nonecessary upgrades aad peripherals, such as printers and modems. Some trapdoor expan- your own games and demos. Tune of the Month has been supplied by Johan Alpmar and is in Soundtracker/Protracker format. This can be 2: Follow the iwtrectiaas oa this and previous pages exactly. loaded into Soundtracker Pro II, OctaMED or any other tracker. You 3 :1 you still experience problems loading the dish call the PCIYyse helpline oa 01 SIS 351505 between the can also play the tune w ith Hippoplayer from last month's CU Amiga hoars ef 11am and 12aaoa Monday to Friday. Magazine cover disk and CD-ROM. If they advise that the disk is faulty, fill in yoar details in the form below, and send this torm. along with the Dom inator Unity cover Ash aad a 2Sp stamped self addressed envelope to: CU Amiga Magirine Dish Returns. PCWyse Dowlais Top Business Park. DowUis. Merthyr Tydfil Dominator is included in the form of a DMS archive. Make sure your Mid Glamorgan CF4ITY cover disk is write protected before you unpack it (move the tab to open the hole). To unpack the archive, double click on the Dominator NAME:______icon and then insert a blank disk (write enabled) when asked to do so. You w ill end up with a disk called Dominator disk, in TYPE OF AMIGA 0WNE0:.. which you’ll find the Dominator program and an DISK NUMBER:...... AmigaGuide instruction file. DESCRIBE EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU TRY TO LOAD THE DISK: You w ill need the Amiga Guide utility on your system to read this. The Dominator disk is not an autobooting disk. You w ill need to boot from your Workbench disk or hard drive before you can access it. Dominator requires OS2.04 or higher and at least |mpiove youl m i se,BBncjnl n* Shd nc« Dominator 1.5Mb of RAM. 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The Amiga announced th a t they Hanover, CU Amiga Magazine's Technologies presence w o u ld display a new Mat Bettinson rushed over to see consisted of demon Amiga at the CeBIT show, this n e w w o nd e r at CeBIT. strations of an A1200, A Amiga Technologies hah a guest position en the Metotola sunk alongside other Power PC supporters. Sspeculation ran wild on CeBIT is an enormous show. an A4000 Tower and the Amiga exactly what it might be. Strong This year it consisted of just under Walker’ accessing the Internet with ru m o urs o f a strange silver 30 halls; each one about the size the Amiga Surfer software. Cheap parts machine or a pizza box Amiga pro of the Wembley conference centre Most computer hardware experts Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMtotype circulated. So. after some which hosted last year's World Of Vader's helmet agree that the days are numbered m anic travel via G erm any's rail Amiga show in London. It is the Having expected little but a wiry for the custom chip set approach biggest indoor sh ow location in bird's nest prototype in a pizza to computer development. The Europe and the stand on which box, the sight of the W alker in all idea is that it's far more cost Amiga Technologies were show its streamlined Darth Vader’s effective to purchase computer ing the new machine was a half Helmet glory (as seen on the front components off-the-shelf than to hour walk away from the cover of this issue) had many research and develop an entirely entrance, This stand was a huge sh ow goers rubbing their eyes as new non-standard chip set. In the Motorola construction hosting a if to remove the illusion. It was not past, of course, computers like number of guest computer manu only a prototype but a full working the Amiga benefited from custom facturers linked by the fact that machine which was actually being hardware (it graphics and sound they use (or in AT's’case. plan to demonstrated. See right for specif hardware allowed it to become use) M o torola's PowerPC (PPC) ic details. Of almost as much the number one games machine importance as the Walker itself of the early 90s), but these days ; were the plans Motorola and other there's such a market of high PPC using manufacturers had for specification cheap parts that this j the future. approach no longer makes sense, i To back track; if the reader is So the idea is that the Amiga, not aware. Motorola and IBM as we know it. will move away form ed an alliance to produce a from being an actual proprietary new CPU for the '90s and beyond. maehine. Instead it will be an Along with the Power PC proces operating system running on a sor they also drafted specification Power PC Platform. Many Amiga for the so-called 'CHRP' or users might gasp in horror at this I Common Hardware Reference revelation but there are big advan Platform. This was recently tages. The PPC chip is far cheaper renamed the Power PC Platform. and far faster than th e 68060. The , The idea is similar to the standard PPC Platform uses a PCI bus for o f 80x86 based PCs in th a t the expansion. Graphics cards with | user can buy whatever brand of specification in excess of even motherboard/computer they like the CyberVision 64 can be bought and then add cards and expan for far less expense. Any number sions as required. The software of graphics and sound cards for the platform should still func could be bought for a fraction of I A Hers i! is! The new Amiga 'Walker'. Yes. H r that black thief ia the mikklr af the pictare. Kate how the tion quite happily (in theory) if what custom Zorro cards cost for herbearl h attached ha a PSZ trpe coaaectar which shoeld allow cheap PC herhaards to be ased. everything follows the rules. the Am iga. "Project Walker" - The new Amiga revealed! ortunately the sm all Amiga of electronics presence on the Motorola would be need stand was not the only ed to be able to place Amiga Technologies sw itch Fwere on display. The huge betw een Escom construction also played th e stock host to Amiga Technologies but Paula/CIA this time the crowd was shoulder floppy con to shoulder. Here again the A m iga troller and the Walker was on display and w e new HD floppy were able to speak w ith Heinz controller. The former would Wrobel, one of the key players in still be necessary if non-OS com the Walker Project. pliant game loaders would have Amiga Technologies stressed any hope of working. The later is that the Walker is a low end essential to retain a full speed machine. This is music to many HD floppy interface instead of people's ears considering its the current expensive half-speed basic specification includes a hacked HD floppies. It's quite a 40MHz 68EC030, 6MB (2 Chip + dilemma and AT weren't sure A John Smith hi (m ill Tochoolofies demonstrates the M X Amiga Bailer using the nee. Amiga Sailer 4 Fast). HD floppy drive, hard software to shim atoned the Botld Wide Weh. how it was going to be handled drive, quad speed CD-ROM drive but did reveal that they plan to Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMand a real tim e clock as standard. Kickstart 3.2 floppy disk controller. An obvious change the lay-out of the Amiga Now Amiga Technologies have Some other specifications tell patch up to the aging Paula/CIA HD floppy to include index sig announced that the big-box Amiga more of the future. The Kickstart combination in the Amiga, at last nals, so it's likely this format is now the base A m iga. In one shipped with the machine will be high speed serial won't result in would not be compatible with example, by including a detach OS 3.2 and it will make the move data loss. The E-IDE interface will earlier floppy disk formats. able keyboard and support for from 512K ROMs to 1Mb. Amiga drive the in-built quad speed CD- One of the most intriguing non Amiga specific keyboards, AT Technologies wanted to make it ROM and internal hard drive as features of the Walker is its have told us all that th e Am iga is clear than the OS upgrade would well as leaving space for another expansion slot located right in going up market to finally co m be minor with big features only to two devices. the middle of the motherboard. pete with PCs whilst also starting be implemented for KS 4.0 on the In fact it's not really one slot but the move to standard parts. Power Amiga '97. Bug fixes and New floppy two slots in line. A card could small enhancements will be the plug into both or one depending o rd er o f th e day such as an format on its function. improved CD file system (hooray!) The new floppy interface proves a The exact details on and removal of the 2GB HD limit sticking point however. Quite a bit which slot would do what were fro m FFS. Developm ent of AmigaOS is being carried out in tandem with the Walker project and Amiga Technologies stated that it would be available as a retrofit upgrade to all machines capable of 1Mb ROMs such as the A1200, A3000 and A4000. They may farm out marketing and distribution to a third party as was done with OS 3.1 and Blittersoft. Another exciting development for Project Walker is the inclusion of a generic PC IO card all-in-one controller chip. AT hadn't decided specifically which one they’d use but largely the specifications are similar; high speed buffered serial port/s. Enhanced Parallel Port (high speed and suitable for the A MMuralA'l m g m s iw stnnd playei hnst tn many compiler companies I liil nsn Ptwei PC tedmelogy in Zip etc), E-IDE controller and HD thuir pioducls. inditing Amiga tectallogieo with tta k forthcoming Pawn Amiga dap ia 1*97. PPC Motherboard The Power Am iga, or ‘PPC A m iga 97‘ as AT are calling it, will be based around a Power PC motherboard such as this. Amiga Technologies are likely to make the machine some kind of hybrid which while essentially a PPC platform machine, will have most of the IO, graph ics and audio functions built in. Though of course they could be expanded upon further via the PCI slots. This would give the user some degree of graphics and sound functionality with the benefits of a sys tem that can be upgraded with all manner of third party add-ons. Economies of scale will mean that both the basic motherboard and any additional cards will offer better value than a custom system. At CeBIT 96 a variety of motherboards were on show, many with a staggering array of IO options. SCSI controllers, SIMM sockets and so on. Such boards could form the basis of a very nice machine if running the Amiga operating system. So far the only operating systems running on PPC platforms are MacOS. AIX (a Unix flavour) and Windoze NT. nector akin to the Motorola staff admitted there was no operating system suitable for the A1200 trapdoor home consumer as yet. I directed them to the small huddle of Amigas connector b u t w ith tucked in a comer and corrected, "Not y e t there isn’t". more signals enabling a simplification of accelerator design. would be well advised to remem existing software base and some Aside from these ber they're getting reasonable serious expansion potential and special features, the performance in the mean time but what do we have? The best Walker is essentially not too much expense to throw Amiga ever made, that's what. Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMan AGA based Amiga away when the PPC upgrade This is all before taking into which will be largely comes along in early ‘97. It's diffi account that this machine should I compatible with the cult to imagine how wonderful a be priced reasonably in the £600- A1200/A4000. Based PPC based W alker w o u ld be. £800 range and is expandable A Amiga Technologies were refreshingly on a 68EC030 running at 40MHz. into the next generation of Power I forthcoming with information on the new Amigas. it's nearly six times faster than a An ideal PC based co m p utin g. stock A1200. Many have argued The Walker is due to be put unavailable but it's most likely that a full 50MHz chip should stepping stone into production in the summer that the rear smaller slot has have been used or even a 68040. Here Amiga Technologies have and on the shelves in the autumn I access to the Amigas video sig Amiga Technologies point out that delivered the ideal stepping in tim e for Christmas. W ith a nals. This would be essential for a accelerators will be available as stone Amiga. The last in the AGA base Amiga that includes a hard I graphics board which would pre will an official Amitja Technologies custom chip-set line with some drive and a CD drive as standard I sent a monitor port to the rear of Power PC 603 accelerator stop gap hardware to fix the with decent RAM capacity and the case. The larger half of the • upgrade containing the new OS to most serious deficiencies. processor power, things are look- I slot would mainly be a CPU con boot. Those serious about speed C ouple co m p a tib ility w ith the ing good. Let's hope that this time there's a good advertising cam- I Project Walker Specifications paign to back it up. Rumours that Amiga CPU STORAGE INTERNAL: Technologies have hired the lady I 68EC030 40MHz Hard drive (size undetermined) Enhanced IDE (EIDE) interface Space fo r FPU. Socket or FPU CD-ROM drive - quad speed supporting 4 drives (2 used by from the 'Shake n Vac' advert to I fitted TBA. HD floppy drive CD-ROM and HD) promote the new Amiga are FRONT: entirely unconfirmed. MEMORY 10 2 joy/mouse connectors. 2Mb 32-bit Chip RAM 1 PC AT style keyboard connector. 1 SIMM socket expandable to REAR: 128Mb RAM fitted w ith 4Mb 23 pin RGB video output. EXPANSION SIMM. Total memory 6Mb. RF output and composite One slot consisting of 2 sub con KS 3.2 (V43) 32-bit 1Mb ROMs. RCA/Phono video output. nectors for video and CPU expan 2 RCA/Phono audio output jacks. sion. Possibly one general IO CHIPSET Extended Parallel Port (EPP). connector fo r simple IO devices. AGA custom graphics chip trio. Standard 8520 CIA driven 'Paula' - Audio & old floppy and parallel port. OTHER serial ports. Hi Speed buffered serial port. Internal power supply. *Tony' - New custom chip w ith Standard Paula/CIA driven Real tim e clock. expansion slot support. serial port. Four Layer circuit board for pro Standard m ulticontroller 10 chip. Full speed HD floppy controller. duction unit. Exact model undecided. 2 8520 Standard Paula/CIA floppy PCMCIA present in prototype, ClAs (in sockets) controller. may be dropped for production. Inside the Walker The Amiga Walker ■ Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMmotherboard retains ’ many of the custom components of the A1200 but also features some new additions, such as the dual expansion slot. 1. ROMs OS 3.2 (V43) ROMs. 4. SIM M socket A standard controller solves serious shortcom New 1Mb capacity contains many 32-bit 72 pin SIMM socket capable ings of the outdated Paula. small bug fixes and optim isations of accepting a SIMM module up to to AmigaOS. 128Mb capacity and double sided. 7. P aula Unchanged since the Will come with a 4Mb SIMM. A1000, Paula handles the four 2. CPU The Motorola 68EC30 CPU channels of 8 bit audio, the serial clocked at 40MHz. Surface mounted 5. 8520 C lA s Part of the original UART and key aspects of the old DD and with no built-in MM U, Walker A1000 design, the 8520 Complex floppy drive interface. owners would have to look to some Interface Adapters are still present kind of accelerator to gain an MMU as socketted units due to the high 8. Chip m em ory Surface useful for virtual memory and devel failure rate of the chips. mounted bank of 2Mb chip memory opers' diagnostic tools. The 68EC030 as required by the AGA chip-set at 40MHz clocks in at about 7.2 MIPs 6. IO Chip The brand new general a n d P a u la . which is around six times the speed of purpose IO chip which provides sev a standard A1200 with no fast RAM. eral new ports including; Enhanced 9, 10, 11. 12. AGA Chip set IDE interface capable of driving four Lisa, Budgie. Alice and Gale respec 3. FPU Amiga Technologies were devices. Two of these are the tively. The AGA chip set unchanged uncertain whether they would fit the CD-ROM and hard drive fitted as from the A1200 and A4000. Walker with an FPU socket or an standard. Enhanced Parallel Port FPU of the 68882 family. If fitted (EPP) and high speed buffered serial 13. Tony New custom chip that such a unit is likely to be a 6 8 8 8 2 ports are also on offer which in handles the expansion bus and vari also clocked at 40M Hz. conjunction with the new HD floppy ous parts of the 'glue logic'. Escom loss fails to halt progress... Zip drive deal ahead According to reports in German who will operate alongside Petro By:Stateside Jason Compton newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Tyschtschenko during the upcoming Zeitung (ABS) and the Economist period of new launches. Escom and With CeBIT and World of Amiga UK occupying Escom recorded a loss of 125 its investors were keen to stress everyone's attention, it could be easy to forget million Deutchmarks (nearly £50 that the company has long term to watch the rest of the world for Amiga happenings. But fortunately. million) for the 1995 financial year. objectives and strategies which will I'm paid to keep a watchful eye on North America for CU Amiga This has resulted in a financial not be effected by the year's loss. Magazine’s readers. restructuring of the company which Other Escom news is that they To try to keep the market on a roll, Amiga Convention '96 will be saw extra shares being sold at the have recently made an agreement held in Montreal, Canada on August 3rd and 4th. No guests or expense of chairman Manfred with Iomega as the first computer exhibitors have been announced yet but the conference organisers are Schmitt's holding, despite reports manufacturer to install Zip drives in iering inexpensive table space to commercial developers and retailers from Amiga Technologies that their their PCs. Iomega have been cele well as free table space for users who bring their machines German operation in fact made a brating their millionth Zip drive sale petitions for 3D graphics, music, and demos will be held with cash p rofit for the year. and the 100Mb, floppy disk sized izes. For m ore information, contact Frederic Tessier, head This w ill n o t effect Amiga format seems set to become a r, at ++514-649-9756, or E-mail him at [email protected] Technologies directly, although an standard. If Escom are planning to of the original and long-committed Amiga application develop new President has been appointed install these in PCs, what about the ers, Softwood, have finally kicked their on-line support and presence to the company, Stefan Domeyer, new Amiga? into high gear. In addition to a graphically impressive Web site at http://www.softwood.com, they are taking steps above and beyond the call of duty to bring innovative services to the net. They have established an "Amiga User White Pages” at http://www. amiganet.com. devoted to listing E-mail addresses and other Web EC law holds up Amiga home pages of Amiga users. Of interest to sellers and buyers alike is New laws which came into force in all EC countries on 1st January iftwood's new Amiga Mall, at http://www.amigamall.com. The Amiga 1996 have been largely responsible for the delay of Amiga products provides links and sales service for Amiga developers and retailers according to industry sources. Giles Harwood of Gordon Harwood to expand their service to online customers. The Mall can be computers has blamed them for the delay of the new SCSI chips for viewed at http://www.amigamall.com, and inquiries about establishing the Blizzard 1260 cards his company distributes. "The new European esence on the Mall should be directed to company president Community CE regulations which came into force at the beginning of Williams, [email protected] or ++602-431-0949. the year have been a nightmare. Under the new law each product has Systems, the company that provides distribution for to be tested with every single possible combination of peripherals and Macrosystem’s Draco non-linear editing computer as well as their line Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMadd ons to make sure that their radiation emissions meet the new set of Amiga products, has announced pricing configurations for Draco guidelines. This is a long, complicated and expensive process and is models to be sold here Low-end systems, without any V-Lab Motion certainly causing delays to products we hoped to have on sale directly hardware, will be US$4750. At the high-end is a Draco with 32-bit after Christmas.” Draco Direct V-Lab Motion editing card and 5 gigs total hard drive These CE or controlled emissions regulations mean that anything space for US$10995. which fails the test by emitting or failing to shield radiation (depending Draco Systems and Macrosystem will be present at the National on what the product's purpose is, with computer peripherals failing Association of Broadcasters (NAB) conference in Las Vegas, Nevada in because of emission) has to be redesigned and tested again to make April In addition to the formal launch of the Draco and by far the high sure it passes The A4000T which was designed in America has had to est profile presentation o f the V-Lab M otion technology to date, the have minor modifications to be sold here because of this, according to companies will preview the new 32-bit Draco Direct V-Lab Motion card. an Amiga Technologies source, and similarly the Q-Drive has had to This V-Lab bypasses the norm al and relatively slo w Zorro II bus fo r a undergo extensive testing before being released with the approved CE custom Draco bus capable of pushing far greater quantities of data and mark. This has caused considerable delay in getting these products allowing for uncompressed video images in higher quality, for crisper to the UK. output and more flexible applications. All in all not a bad month. had several Low cost RAM security years experi ence in the car The problems of computer and , most PC systems and because of industry where chip theft were highlighted at a the Amiga's predominance in the insurance costs conference held by Thames Valley Graphics industry which is RAM have been police in Berkshire at the end of intensive the threat remains high, significantly February. The conference, held in despite thieves potential unfamil reduced thanks Bracknell, the southeast's comput iarity with the system itself. to better er manufacturing capital, concen In terms of keeping RAM safe ty. As the ID- trated on the millions of pounds the conference was the launchpad located using the identity code. BAR becom es m o re com m on the being lost by companies due to fo r a sim ple system called ID-BAR. The bar and a permanent sub insurance industry has indicated theft of RAM, which is small, easily a visible deterrent which is linked scription to the national database that they would look favourably on transportable, in high demand and to a national database. The bar is costs £4.99, but with 16Mb RAM companies that take measures to expensive. In the Thames Valley permanently attached to a RAM SIMMS costing over £300 this is protect their computer equipment. Police area alone com puter crim e SIMM and is marked with an iden a relatively small cost. Perhaps Amiga equipped companies cost £17 million in 1995 tity number. If the SIMM is stolen even more significant will be the with RAM to protect should con Although the conference con and an attempt is made to pass it cost of insurance for small and tact Retainaguard on 0181 870 centrated on PCs. the Amiga uses on a number on the ID-BAR can be large companies. Retainaguard, 2224 for more details on their the same 72-pin RAM chips as called, and the true owner can be the ID-BAR's manufacturer have computer security devices. Matt Broughton's Games in view ello girls and boys! Things are on the up. Lots of nice games publishers Things are on the up for our faithful grey have released their new schedules and it looks like the wonder and thanks to Amiga won't be left out in the cold. So come in, put ©some kind publishers we can be assured of more releases in the those wet things away and warm yourself with the coming months. Time Warner Interactive (who warm glow that this month's games news generates. you'll no doubt rem em ber swal lowed Amiga legends. Renegade, these little beauties will come atmosphere, and even in-game Unfortunately (and no. I'm not a few months back) have just around the end of April, when a commentary provided by BSky8's being the Grim Reaper) there released a new schedule covering double pack is being released at Mick "Stevo” Stevenson and doesn't look like there'll be an releases up until next A utum n and a budget price point. This will Eddie Hemmings. A500/600 version at any point in among those titles mentioned we include two games; Traitor and Exactly how many of these the near future. The price point have a confirmed M ay release Rage. Both promise high-speed features will survive and how for Legends is set at £29.99 date for the excellent Sensible thrills and spills in the standard well they will translate to the April 18th is another date to World of Soccer European shoot ’em up mould, and Amiga is still under investigation, set in your books, as it should Champ Edition, retailing at Alternative's main man, Roger but Alternative are currently sug see the release of Extreme £19.99. We can also look forw ard (which, incidentally, is my gerbil's gesting an Autumn release date. Racing on the CD32, again to the much-delayed dinosaur name - no relation) Hulley is Roger is a major fan of Rugby priced at £29.99. We can also beat 'em up. Prim al Rage, tra m keen to point out that these League and is equally enthusias look forward to a data disk for pling onto your screens through aren't by any means sub-stan tic about this project and has the racing extravaganza at a Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMthe Time Warner Interactive label dard budget twosh, but two wanted to develop a game like later date. in June (£29.99). This w ill be fol excellent romps that they simply this for quite some while. And finally (to close on this lowed shortly thereafter by the thought would work better "With the advent of the Super happy, happy day) the merry long-awaited Chaos E ngine 2 (on together as a budget package. League and the game's much month of May will not only both A1200 and A500/600) at the The third of the Alternative higher profile, I thought it must see a Gloom data disk for the end of June/beginning o f Ju ly for shoot 'em ups is, however, a be the ideal time for my own A1200, but Gloom 2 for the £29.99. stand-alone product. Due in June company to come up with one,” CD32 (on May the 16th to be Following on fro m the release (juice-jangle-jong) Death Angel is said Alternative’s Roger Hulley. ambitiously exact). of Tracksuit Manager 2 (see my described by Roger, as being a More good news comes from So there you are! Hardly any review elsewhere this very issue) 90s version of the popular classic Guildhall Leisure, where the ex- bad news at all and, if anything, Alternative Software have a num River Raid (substitute the word Krisalis product, Legends, is an excellent indication that the ber of titles to sh ow on the Amiga 'old' for 'classic' if you're under nearing completion. Since being Amiga games scene is far in the next fe w m onths, w ith the 16 years old). Howeve’r, w here picked up by the Guildhallers, the fro m dead. first coming in the shape of more the original Activision product Zelda-esque beauty has been Have a good HMV chart. Be management shenanigans. Rugby •had rubbisby-looking craft floun tidied up somewhat and looks to seeing you. Until next month my Boss is touted as a straight for dering up rivers, this promises be with us on A1200 and CD32 little CU chums ... ■ ward management game but sexy graphics and gameplay from March the 28th. Matt Broughton rather than being based upon the ahoy, along with the Raiden/ Tracksuit Manager engine as you Banshee-like option to have two might expect, this has a complete players controlling tw o craft on HM V GAMES ly new engine, w ritte n entirely screen at the same time, from scratch. It's due out some "nay simultaneously. Amiga Top IO time around the end of And finally, as if that wasn't No TITLE PUBLISHER May/beginning of June and will enough for one news report. 1 Sensi World of Soccer 95/96 Virgin retail at the budget price of Alternative also have plans to £14.99. All the usual options, convert their popular PC game. 2 Worms Ocean features and, e r ... things will be Pro Rugby, over to yon humble 3 Premier Manager 3: Deluxe Gremlin available, along w ith the o ptio n to Amiga. This more arcadey 4 Tracksuit Manager 2 Alternative fornicate with members of the simulation game (ie it's NOT royal fam ily even though management-only) features club 5 Ultimate Soccer Manager Sierra you've got an absolutely stunning teams from Australia. England, 6 Tactical Manager Ocean wife. Probably. New Zealand and France, togeth 7 Player Manager 2 Virgin As first reported in these very er with all the top national sides. Virgin pages a fe w m onths back. 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E&OE. email: [email protected]. uk All prices include UK Zip is a trademark VAT @ 17.5% o f Iomega Inc The Amig Needsifo Name the new Amiga and win one of two new A1200 packs! The new Amiga is currently codenamed Project Walker. This is not. however, the name the project is envisaged to end up with when it is launched this summer. You've already seen the impressive specification of the machine on previous pages, but let's give you a summary here . to whet your appetite even further. A • 40MHz 68030 CPU • Double expansion board slol Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM• IO chip with fast serial • HD disk drive • Quad Speed CD-ROM • 5-6Mb RAM • Standard Hard Drive • Future upgradability to PowerPC All this and a completely wacky n e w lo o k ! Amiga Technologies' biggest dilemma at the moment is trying to figure out what the final ■ name of this next generation Amiga will be. 1 And this is where they've asked CU Amiga Magazine's intellectually overendowed readers to help out. Take a look at the computer. Take a look at the specification and then get thinking: they want YOU to give it a name. COMPETITION I receive an Amiga Surfer Pack and the one judged next best will Pack. These superb upgrade packages are being supplied courtes inly placing one restriction on your creativity: no numerics in your 1300's allowed. No AlO.OOO's or A l's either. Not even a Super 3500. n it at all will succeed in getting past the vast litter bin that is the ne will place one more restriction on the deal. No obviously stupid I no doubt have a good giggle at them we won't insult Amiga I them on to be judged. So before you get smart, remember that Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM R u le s 1. The decision of Am iga Technologies w ill be final and no further correspondence w ill be entered into 2. Only one name and explanation w ill be judged on each individual entry 3. The prizes are supplied by Am iga Technologies and no cash alternative is being offered 4. 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BRADFORO, WEST YORKSHIRE BOS 2TN. ENGLAND PLEASE A00 THE CORRECT POSTAL COSTS IN ORDER TO AVOID ANY DELAYS (SEE TOP FOR RATES)-. Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM eading interviews w ith soft arriving and this magazine sells by start off was Oxford Street. Oxford ware publishers and letters th e truckload: h o w can th is be (apart Street has two of the biggest game in B8ckchat you w o uld be from the obvious fact that we're fab)? retailers in London, both occupying forgiven for thinking that W e set o u t to discover th e real level massive amounts of space: HMV and ©there wasn't an Amiga o r an Amiga of retail stocking on the high streets Virgin. These are big companies, they game on sale in a single shop in the of Britain. like to keep up with the times, stay in country. It's been d oom and gloom for As CU Amiga Magazine is based in touch with fashion so obviously (right the last year or so, but gam es are s tilt Farringdon, on the fringes of London's ly or wrongly) the Amiga would be being published, n e w Am igas are west end, the most obvious place to low on their list of priorities. Not so. Just where can you find Amiga software and hardware? By all accounts it's becoming increasingly difficult, so we sent a team out to find out if the allegations are true. Lisa Collins, Alan Bunker and Martin Davies investigate ... ■ Far Left: HMV, Manchester. Centre: Multimedia Discount Shops. Wood Green. Left: Electronic Boutique, letoa. Continued overleaf ► ► ► HMV's Amiga (and CD32) game all-format charts detail sales of every than adequately stocked with new shelves lake up two aisles of a single, other computer game form at... PCs and old. full price and budget stock. large floor in the shop. HMV not consoles and sometimes (but very Virgin too is enthusiastic about Amiga only supplies our charts each month, rarely) Macintosh. At number one was sales though software is only available it also supplies charts for other a PC CD-ROM product, followed by in the bigger stores. publications, some of which are Amiga Sensible World Of Soccer 95/96, while in third place was a The man in Megadrive game. The first of the New’ formats. Playstation, only th e street C It's fine, if I can't find a mustered in at number 9: four slots Just to get an idea of what people on game I want here I just behind Amiga Worms. It’s no wonder the ground think of availability in HMV still give a lot of prime shelf shops like these we collared James get it mail order. 1 space to th e Amiga. Harker in the Virgin megastore. And what of Virgin? VIE (Virgin James. 26. from Cirencester actually Jam a* Harker. Am iga user, London. Interactive Entertainment), as the lives and works in London now and games producing side of the empire although he uses a PC at work still interested not ju s t in A m iga b ut in all is called has not produced and Amiga uses an Amiga at home. We asked other formats too. title for ages now: has this attitude fil him what he thought about tered down to what is stocked in the availability: "It's fine, if I can't find a Chart successes stores themselves? Again no. game I want here I just get it mail According to the HMV chart in the Although the Amiga section in order. There are still plenty of adver March 11th issue of Computer Retail Virgin Games on Tottenham Court tisements for games". Some people News, an industry newspaper, the Road is in a bit of a backwater, unlike think that mail order is unreliable Amiga had entries at number 2, 5 HMV's it still takes up about six though? "I've never had any and 18 of the all-format charts. The metres of shelf space and was more problems". How often does he buy games? "Oh, only about five or six a year, ones the Amiga is good at like Sensible Soccer, I play other games on my PC at work". Aiden McGill, who would rather not say his age. from Slough in Berkshire was in HMV on a shopping trip w ith h is son M ichael, 9. w h ile his wife headed elsewhere "to spend i lo ts o f m o n ey". A ccordin g to him you can only get games in bigger shops Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMnow: "This is great, but there's still I not much variety, not as much as there used to be." Does he visit London for all of his J games? "There's nowhere decent I stocking games out my way so I always come in here whenever I come up to London - except on match days when I’ve got better things to do with my time! I'm not really very interested in games any more, but my son here is mad a! th e m . S om e o f them , like W orm s, an a nd I like him ike him think. a - pack on display and even had one Amiga set up and running (which, according to Alan they didn't have a few months ago). Graham, the Technical Manger there was pleasant and friendly and said that, although sales were not exceptional, they were still going to continue the display for the foreseeable future. A quick call in to Tandys in Wood Green also produced promising results. Although they only sell A1200s (the A4000T is still not avail able in the UK). Tandys' Ms Williams said that, although currently quiet, they (the Amiga A1200I sold well over Christmas. Dixons in Wood Green don't sell Amigas. though the staff there were pleasant and pointed us in the C There's been no serious attempt to actually sell them as opposed to PCs. I Anonymous salesperson, Escom, Islington. / direction of the Escom shop and advised us to "read the Amiga magazines for more information". We told them to tell people to "read CU Amiga Magazine" if they want to find out more. Tee heel Free advertising. So far though, there was no sign Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMof any Amiga software. However, WH Smiths in Wood Green shopping centre put this right. There was quite a lot of Amiga games on display, albeit at reduced prices. Also. Mark Johnson, the new manger there, once an Amiga owner, is planning a shake up, hopefully involving more Amiga games and is "going to find out from head office what is happen information about them. I do know a ing with the Amiga particularly." Elsewhere? bit about the Amiga. They need to Also in Wood Green shopping Next s to p was was north London. develop new models and price them centre, there was a very prominent dis i and W ood Green w here w e . competitively. It’s useless w ith ou t a play of Amiga games in the Multimedia 1 out WH Sm iths for softw are hard drive, it's all right just to boot a Discount Shop. Though the sales I and dived into the infamous game off but to do anything serious assistant there did say that they were i stores, to see if they really you’re just continually swopping disks. planning to move some of them to 8 a s poor at stocking the Amiga as You're better off with an old 486 with make room for PC CD-ROMs. they've been made out to be hard drive for any practical purpose." The first port of call was Escom's So with weary hearts we trudged Out of town l Upper Street, Islington. There . onto Wood Green's Escom shop and lo t an Amiga on display and the and behold our hearts were lifted. In a First stop: Luton ant there who didn't want to complete about turn Islington Escom's We sent Alan Bunker, wrapped up in i name was not exactly opti- bigger brother had the Amiga Magic a trenchcoat, with a flask of hot - "We had a w h ole bunch in gh Christmas but there's been s attem pt to actually sell i a s opposed to PCs. Our shop's t anyway because w e don't I have space. There have been a ■ Let Sint A t SttSnt« law enquiries but not very m a n y I GAME ah tn t Styi null ha* to rA Act At trttl. al k effectively it's dead," he said, ir . When pressed further as to ■ Fartah Haifa itiu a tf e r e hadn't been a serious M A lta daft) a t* aaiti t to sell them he went on to aaaittax Jataa Meharis (rifht) at Lataa'a Silica itera car Aar I haven't really been sent any Ia n A t Haifa. il Creegan I if they can’t help, they'll put you onto Manager of GAME. Maachoster has plenty of opinions on the someone who can." In fa c t Silica’s stock of productivity and games software was excellent. And, of course, machines and joysticks were available too. Whatever you use your Amiga for. these guys would be able to help out. The A1200 set-up near the counter allows poten tial buyers to try out both hardware and software. Then when you’re ready to leave, Silica will provide you with a booklet all about the Amiga which you can take away and read at your leisure. W ell done, Silica. Other stockists of Amiga software in Luton are Beatties. The display is very small, though, and the games were well out-of-date: Defender II. Body Blows and the like. Hmm. not very impressive although the Scalextric set fo r £70 at the back o f the shop chocolate up north to find out what the "Around 15 percent of our sales are held my attention for some time. situation outside London is like. Seeing Amiga-based. As well as software, we No luck at Dixons, unfortunately. that Lorraine Chase almost managed to sell joypads and joysticks. At the And if you want to buy an Amiga at make Luton sound interesting, he moment, we have a lot of people wait Tandy, you'll need a sniffer dog to rum decided his first stop should be this ing for Championship Manager 2." mage under the shelves. This way, you large-ish town. Luton is a commuter And what's been the biggest may find one tucked away in a corner town for London, it has an airport and seller recently? “Recently, Worms was gathering dust. was even featured on Sky One recently big for us. W e were constantly out of The mighty Escom, saviours of the in a police programme - did you know stock of that game. Since I've been Amiga that they are, have a shop in their are 9,000 car crim es com m itted here, Worms has definitely been the Luton. Oh yes, a shop full of PCs. DX. every year in Luton? Fascinating. It is biggest seller." SX. Pentium ... yeah. B ut w a it, a also home to a sizeable indoor shop Well, there wasn't much else hum ble A1200 is set-up at the back of ping centre and this is where our happening here so next on the the shop priced at the far from investigation into the availability of agenda w a s Silica, on th e to p flo o r of humble £399. No software, no acces Amiga software began. Debenhams. And it was with some sories. No salesman prepared to talk Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMamazement that I saw Amiga us through the system . M ention PCs, In demand related stuff aplenty with large though, and the mood dramatically First to appear was Electronics sections set aside for 'productivity' and changes. Don't you just feel that the Boutique, the chain who were once 'gam es' softw are! It was all future of Amiga is in safe hands? called Future Zone. Being quite a small positioned in full view - in the middle shop, we were surprised to see o f the floor - w ith a dem o machine And on to approximately 15-20% o f their shelf set-up and ready to roll. Now this kind of support is more like it! Manchester ... Well, enough of Luton. Let's get big. A bit Breathless get mentally prepared for the long rail t We do well with Amiga. Jason Richards, a Silica sales journey to Manchester. Here's another assistant, enthused: "We do well with interesting fact for you: Apparently. Currently, Breathless is the Amiga. Currently, Breathless is the Railtrack had a six m onth w o rkin g prol best selling game. J biggest selling game." Having it o f £515 million pounds th is year. Wh) interrupted Jason from chatting to a is it, then, that they can't whisk our Jason Richards, Sales Assistant, Silica, Luton. paying Amiga customer, we-nailed the reporter to Manchester and back with browser down and demanded he tell out points on the track failing and rear space given over to Amiga games all: "I have an Amiga 500 modified diesels breaking down? Eventually Alan which was about the same area given with 1Mb of Chip RAM and an addi did arrive at Manchester. A splendid to Playstation and Saturn software. tional 8Mb of memory built in to it. I city where, to fit in, you gorra wear Unfortunately, the three shoppers there have a hard disk. CD-ROM, MIDI inter baggy jeans, have a goatie beard and were perusing the latest in PC CD- faces and I have it directly linked into play thum ping m usic from an XR3i with ROM software which left me talking to a PC. I use m y A m iga fo r editing and a broken exhaust. Only kidding. How the store's Assistant Manager. sampling music which is mainly for would the Amiga fare out though? business. There's a group of us who use Amigas. We all find it very good On the GAME for us. particularly because it's got Market Street is the main shopping hardware scrolling built in and the area of Manchester, where the huge music capabilities are excellent - the A m dale Shopping Centre loom s on PC's only just catching up. I come to both sides. Seeing the attractive ch Silica because I like the service." he out assistant in Boots. Alan found hii continued. "I've been dealing with self drawn inside. In their electrical them since they were originally Amiga section, he found a small array of people. You get great back-up from ing Amiga titles at extortionate prices ■ "Where's our Chanp Manager including Hired G uns fo r £34.99! Thi 2?" cry the staff at Utaa's here; it's not just buying the product Electronics Baatigae. They but the help you get afterwards. And were no games you could consider already have SI advance orders! ■ MaM pictira: Than a m latl af Amiga Magic Aacki and aaaa a long time and has very good programmers - they've all got brilliant ideas. Maybe the way forward is to get a small group of them together and pull their ideas together. The Am iga should be alive and well." W ith th is in m ind. Phil assured us 'new'. Boots sales assistant, Brian to bulletin boards to find a lot of soft that GAME would continue to support Smith, explained: "W e don 't stock a lot ware. And some stores only make a the Amiga for as long as there was the ot anything anym ore. You're better o ff token effort at stocking Amiga games software. From what I could tell from going to GAM E." He was even kind instead of fully supporting the scene". the display and from the few Amiga gh to give me directions! “ I used to w o rk at Virgin w ith their consumers I bumped into around the On the way to GAME, our intrepid Software Buyer and. when I left, the tter stumbled upon a three-storey Amiga was still fairly strong with the WH Smith's. In this huge flo o r space, a likes of SWOS and Cannon Fodder 2 [ mete dozen or so A m iga gam es were being released. There was a lot of sup I Some stores only make a sred which were disturbingly port and people were still )f-date once again - Arabian producing titles. But now look at token effort at stocking S, that kind of thing. Even more Domark, for example, who have put Amiga games ...J sing was the ‘pick a price and back Championship Manager 2 so Phil Creegan. assistant manager, GAME, Manchester. pay' scenario: y'see. many of the many times now - basically, it's s had various price tags on so because they're trying to hedge their you had to scan the box and find the bets. They're trying to see whether stores in Manchester, GAME is the Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMwest price. A gam e could be drasti there's still interest in it. But believe place to go. cally reduced by 50 percent this way! me, Amiga stuff still sells very well. Nineteen year old Steve, a local stu [ And the dippy sales assistant who "The problem is that nothing really dent lurking around GAME, said: "I 1 completely shocked at the men- stands out at the m om ent. N ew in is usually buy my games from HMV or n of 'Amiga' and com puter softw are’ Breathless. And then you've got Speris GAME. They have the best range of S a hilarious sight in itself I Legacy. Some of these titles are good software. I mainly use my Amiga for but, I don't know, others give you the games. The last game I bought was Amiga paradise feeling that someone got Blitz Basic Worms which I was very pleased with. ” 1 faith in Manchester stores at rock for Christmas or something and It's incredible - so playable, it’s unbe ittom, Alan dragged him self in to decided 'Oh. I'll try my first game' but lievable. But I do think the emphasis i/IE. It was a mirage, surely! the y're n ot g re a t... you kn ow what has shifted for the Amiga from games ation from Amiga games had sent I mean?" . to utilities. You can tell this from what I delirious. B ut no, credit w here it's the magazines are now offering on i. GAME had an excellent display pf The in crowd the ir cover disks." II and budget priced Amiga games, Giving Alan tim e fo r a quick nod, Phil Andrew Pepper, 20. whom we l the latest and greatest games continued on in miraculous page filling talked to at Manchester's HMV are to classics of yesteryear, all fashion: "They're trying to do things seemed to sum up a lot of the games- r Amiga software and accessory w ith the A1200 that, really, it's not playing public’s feeling: "I think the S could be found here. Not only designed to do. They're trying to do market's still quite good. I like the new flis but GAME were offering a fantas- these 3D Doom-like games which I games such as Worms, etc, and I also Cdeal: three gam es fo r the special , don't think is the Amiga's strong point use my Amiga for word processing.. | pnce ol £29.99. - you need Fast FtAM and accelerator B ut th e gam es on th e new Offering his personal opinion on the boards to get into that sort of thing. systems, like the Playstation and the a scene. Assistant Manager Phil But how many people have these? And Saturn, are overtaking the Amiga." igan mused: 'T h e reason the. you have to fork o u t a lot of m oney if [ Amiga is having the doo r shut on it is you w a nt them. And so ... use it's been taken over by Escom. "You want to concentrate on what It's good to see the A m iga still has a jl think they'll probably try to support the Amiga does best, what it still does good presence among the specialists. I Fbwer Amiga w hen it com es out better than the Playstation and Saturn On a sadder note though, w e realised r than anything else. They don't - the Playstation's 2D engine is while writing this article that the smaller l to have supported the existing rubbish. You should be developing independent stores, who were more in a at all, whether it be hardware or innovative, two player games. Worms touch with the public, seem to have e. 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Time Warner Super Tennis Champs Interactive have released their new schedule and both Guildhall and Data Disk Alternative Software are promising games by the bucketload. Also, a playable preview ol long awaited Championship Manager 2 arrived just after deadline, so we should have a review or at the Xtreme Racing Data Disk very least a preview ol that next month. Lisa Collins, d e p u ty e ditor. Win a portable TV Super Tennis Champs p51 Tracksuit M anager 2 p46 Tips & Guides Vampyra Snip Tips Odyssey Tips SUPERSTAR ■ Price: £29.99 ■ Publisher: 21st Century © 01235 851 852 Addiction is one of those nasty side effects of playing computer games. Slamtilt should be medically investigated for its effect on people ... high-res table that automatically and the right and smoothly flicks on-screen placed so that it is when extra balls are activated. But than the third flipper on any of there is less flicker and more clari other tables. Examples of the Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMty in the high-res versions of these types of mode in this table tables than Illusions. include Monkey Business, whit The tables are based around four themes. Mean Machines is all parts of a map back about car racing, w ith Rally, Off- ass monkey who tries to distract Road, Formula 1 and other modes you by jumping around making to get into and big bonuses to be smart expressions in the score won either by getting combos, hit box. Another amusing mode ting lit-up areas or timing shots on which is played solely in the the graphic display at the top of scorebox itself involves the machine. Pirates is a sea far ing table, with lots of shoot ing, treasure hunting and sailing to be done. Ace of actually his game caused some Slamtilt is absolutely futuristic, confusion in the office marvellous. If you were unlike say. Future m ode for the first week or two disappointed by Pinball Pinball Prelude, but it's of the schedule: some Mania please read on because exciting enough with probably Oone had mistakenly put it down on this is one game that will warm the largest amount of bonus the monthly plan as Spamtilt. your tapping fingers, if not wear games of any of the tables. The Images o f a potted m eat hero run them to th e bone. I also broke the final table, nestling away on disk ning around vintage World War 2 right Amiga key on my keyboard five, is Night of Demons. This is platforms abounded while I was playing it (the second time I’ve supposed to be scary, but the only aw ay in foreign clim ates on holi done this with a game) but 21st scary thing on it was how low my days wasting (according to my bet Century would not accept respon score was. It's packed with horri ter half) Francs on a ten year old sibility: after all I didn't NEED to hit ble squidgy modes like Bat Indiana Jones pinball table. Things it like a possessed elephant trying Butcher, Exterminate Vampires and w e re cleared up fast on m y return, to record a jungle beat. Grave Digger. but most of the mag were mysti fied. It's a Pinball game. So what? Choices My favourite ... It’s by Liquid Design. Who they? The game consists of four tables, My favourite table is the Pirate Without going into the usual dri each occupying a single disk. Like one, mainly because I'm a sucker vel a bout 21st Century and Pinball its spiritual father. Pinball Illusions, for old sea shanties, but also games let me first explain that it has a multiball function utilising a because there is a lo t to do on it. masterpiece developed Slamtilt for preference, and none of them will English teacher would remind me Amiga first and although other really disappoint anyone. Although that ultimate not only means format versions are on the way it one advantage of Mania was that biggest, best ever, wonderful - it really show s o ff the A t 200's it can be hard disk installed also means last ever. And I would capabilities - much more so than The w o rd ultim ate is overused hate this to be the last pinball Mania, which was developed and easily misunderstood I could game from 21st Century or Liquid backwards and pretty much stayed say this is the ultimate pinball Design. They're just so good backward. Add to this graphic game because it's just so damn at it wizardry some superb music and entertaining and most of you sound effects, with original tracks would get my meaning. But my D y ke s for each table, and all the music volume/FX volume adjustability that made Prelude so pleasurable to listen to and you're onto a winner. The ultimate? Up until now my favourite Amiga pinball game has been Illusions. It took all that was right in Dreams and Fantasies and gave it AGA pol ish, a beautiful hkes multiball mode and cracking sound effects. Now Slamtilt has taken over like a new young pup in my affections. This is not just because Illusions is a year and a half old, it’s because Slamtilt is just that little bit better It's in all areas: music, graphics, gameplay. Plus, there's the bonus of four tables - Illusions only had three for the same price, and was AGA only still superb value. 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Rack your such as th is have been revolu various magazines that will have to have an owner. bags, we're oft to review Tracksuit tionised in recent years by games reviewed the game prior to its This leaves o ne wondering if Manager 2. such as the Premier Manager release (ie "Best thing we've ever the program m ers them selves or The original Tracksuit Manager, series and On The Ball, Alternative seenl" CU Amiga Magazine!. perhaps Alternative Software's game appeared way back in 1989, Software are back, confidently However, considering this is the managing director's mum were boasting a revolutionary 'match tou tin g th e sam e system w ith firs t tim e I've seen the game paid to say whatever the produc and it's already packaged, ers thought might sell the game. that little idea would seem to According to the box. the game have flown out the window. "Plays like a dream fast and ^ B B ut w a it, w h a t's this? The box smooth yet fully detailed" which is] is still coveted in gushing com fine, b ut according to w h o exactl m ents. Let's have a little read shall And finally (before I stop ranting w e ... "The most comprehensive and get on to actually loading the club management simulation yet dam n thing) let us enjoy probal devised" states one. "This will the most entertaining of all the quotes, and that's "This is prol bly the best football managem gam e ever!" Yes, w e ll they wo say that wouldn't they. You see the thing is. I'm writii this in retrospect and happen to know that it isn't the best footl m anagem ent gam e ever. In fact, it’s about as average as things g> without earning a complete sla A Ymi typical manager's allice ccmyele mitt cap a tea. pteae. lealtall, mallckaits, diary and playtr’s lists. Iran tere yaa caa sit back, ralas aad start aiekmy snare ieettaliiny dccisintu. ging. Certainly it’s more up to Tracksuit Manager 2. but I’m also experienced enough to know that quite often, fans of this genre aren't so worried about aesthetics and presentation as they are the finer details. The game DOES have all of the features expected, and DOES do the job. All I can say in closing is that, apart from hav ing a beautifully up to date team database. I've seen many other say. Premier Manager 3. management games do a much Setting the formations and better job. W ith Premier Manager is easy enough, Deluxe and the Euro version of s tables, graph- Sensi threatening. I'd be hard player statistics are pushed to recommend this to 5 and a you. Sorry. ■ date than m ost fo o ty m anage then faced with a lengthy manipulate. The M att Broughton ment games around at the set-up period that, while reck games themselves, however, moment, but then again, that's oned at about eight minutes in a re a b it pap. because it's the most recent the instructions, is actually more Two static digitised commen game available. like twelve. Once into the swing tators sit while speech bubbles Yeah yeah yeah. So Asprilla, of things, all of the options you've come out of their mouths as the Juninho and B ergkam p are all come to know and love are there, machine desperately tries to put in their correct teams, but let’s be so get stuck in on the transfer together some sort of coherent honest, I’d rather play a decent market, check the medical coverage of the game. The only game that's out of date than condition of your team as the problem with this is that, after the opposite. season progresses, and see how about fifteen minutes of a match far you can get in the various you've already encountered all It's all there club challenges and cup tourna of the computer's vocabulary, SMIill, let’s not be negative alone, ments. The presentation through so not only is the commentary s the game does have redeem- out is OK if a bit bland, and repetitive, but it hardly gets the ; features - it's just that things though there are a fair few pho pulse racing. n't start too well. Apart from tographic backgrounds, it's Now I realise that I've had j a fair while to load, you're nowhere near as attractive as. very little positive to say about Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM Price: £7.99 ■ Publisher: Audiogenic © 0181 42 n the past, computer is that there's nothing worse than magazines have oft' getting stuck in a gaijie you're been accused of 'spoil really enjoying - especially when ing things' and 'giving you know that you're only about [the game away' by printing hints. half way through the game. If Its and solutions to games, you've just spent twenty quid, i general a rg um ent suggests well, you've only got ten pounds- [that a player with a solution book worth haven't you! i his shelf won't spend as much Now. having a solution is one trying to work things out thing, but what if the game is just aisK w itn twelve lots ot tignting weira aliens ana imately as he would if there too damn hard to play through? saved games; each one at a dif baddiqs. It was, however, pretty isn't the option to run scream- Simple - Passwords. But then ferent stage of the game, thus tricky in places, so this saved to the relevant page. again, what if there isn't a pass allowing the player to start from game disk (both in A500 versions The counter-argument to this word system? Easy, just release a the position nearest their own and A1200) is a welcome addition. personal problem. And that's It's hard to mark this offering exactly what Audiogenic have as it really depends on how stuck done for the excellent-but-often- you are in the game (if you even tric k y Exile. have it) but I think it’s an excellent If you don't rem em ber Exile idea and one to be encouraged at from its previous release (about a this low price. If you’ve got a year ago) it's actually a remake of copy off Exile and found it hard to an older game, but sharing the get to grips withw ith same excellent playability. It's a then this is straight forward arcade/adventure for you. 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SALES /ENQUIRIES: 0I384 77172 Super Tennis Cham ps ■ Price: £7.99 ■ Publisher: Audiogenic © 0181 424 2244 D a t a D i s k s was very, very disap two player mode it certainly So, if one of the reasons you pointed not to see this deserves more attention. haven't bought Super tennis superb little tennis According to Audiogenic's Peter Champs is rampant feminism, this game topping the Calver "sales were somewhat dis data disk will affirm your rights charts since its launch appointing, but this has more to do and enable you to partake in polit before Christmas. It has with the failure of the Amiga than ically correct games of tennis with fe w tim e s in anything else. When the A1200 other Wimmin of the world. 20 but not enough didn't lift off shops were reluctant Similarly If mixed doubles is your opinion. to stock games, especially at cup of tea then the second data of Christmas. Things are slightly bet disk will fulfill all your fantasies. competition ter now, but people still call us ask The lads in the original were a 16 players to ing when it's being released - and mixed bag of national stereo a great fun it's been in the shops fo r more types; the Englishman looked like than three months now." Jack Charlton, the Brazilian like, The original game is probably well, Michael Jackson did in the and the mixed doubles will certain the easiest to like and learn tennis 1970s (funnily enough, not like ly give those with nagging other game the Amiga has ever had. The Maradonnal while the Americans halves (w atch it - Lisa) the oppor options included world tourna looked like Americans in a flam tunity to play on an equal footing. I ments. doubles tournaments and a boyant, sunglass wearing still highly recommend this very competitive two player mode. American sort of way. And so the In fact, because 16 tennis players theme continues with Penny the were available and a save game prim English woman, Helga the disk could be created you could grim German and Heidi set up a league with a room full of from Switzerland. friends and keep competing week No cosmetic or general game- after week. But all sixteen players play changes are made by these A m tors, tto women ore hero now to tikn you in were men, and some thought data disks, but the addition of new o M of ooo on one nnl m iud donUes. Sensed yet? this was a bit discriminatory. players does give more variety Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM Xtreme Racing -D ata disks ■ Price: £14.99 ■ Publisher: Acid/Guildhall © 01302 890 000 t's funny the way peo obviously this is beyond some ple review games isn't reviewers' capacity, either in it? If you get one terms of equipment or intellect. Amiga, stick a disk in it When we reviewed it we OJand play some games for an hour played it for about a month, in I or so before passing judgement single, two and four player mode | you'll inevitably g e t a com pro- qn everything from a standard I mised score. A s fa r as I can see A1200 to one with a 1230 50MHz I this is w h at happened to X trem e accelerator, 16Mb RAM and a I Racing. The a m o un t o f B litter hard drive, and every combina mode and 2x2 pixel screenshots I tion in between. And our verdict the saw in other magazines w as was based on this. Because of easiest or hardest lev lamazing. In this day and age the amount of disk swops, it was els your imagination you'd think som eone w o u ld have rjjled out as far too frustrating on can come up with. the sense to check a gam e on standard A1200S. W ith a hard The original game ore than one machine, but drive though, even without accel gave you 10 tracks to eration, it was recommended: race on so if you own it you'll no and art skills but are full of stun w ith acceleration and extra RAM doubt have all but exhausted ning ideas they're a godsend. With it was highly recommended. these already. As such the extra a lot of practice you can make a Finally, with a null modem cable, tracks which are included are great game like Xtreme Racing go some of the above and a friend worthwhile in their own right, but on fo r a long tim e. w ith a similar Amiga it is the track editor w ill give this AD absolutely fabulous. And now a game major league lastability. As data disk pack is available. can be seen from Leading Lap These data disks not only give and the forthcoming Alien you more manic tracks but also a Breed 3DII. editors are track editor. 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Log on to the bulletin board 9 67206215 A BIT FAFF W E HAVE AN EXCLUSIVE! Yep, and find Richards Exchange. If it ARCTIC BRILLIANT 1 according to Kevin Coate of isn't there, simply speed up time Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM6 12601132 YEEEEEEEER Somerset, we're the first people until it does appear. 4 0 0 0 0 0 7 5 3 . C.MONSTER to see this cheat he’s just found, Once at the Exchange, look for ALIEN 2171127566 so wrap your thighs round this precious metals and gemstones. z z z z z z z z z z 1233145554 and squeeze. You'll notice that they have minus 6 31137362 C U LATER When you build your first numbers, indicating that you get By changing the digit after the colony, rename it as CHARLOTTE. paid for taking them away. When five zeros (on th e codes starting Zeewolf You will then see a message stat your ship is full of these, go to the 00000... and 400000...) with dif- Binary Asylum ing 'Cheat Mode Active' and find shipyard and buy the cheapest ent numbers you can get curvy More codes arriving for this super at least 50,000 attractive gold ship you can find (not an ■els. The Durrants have also flight sim, this time thanks to co ins in th e bank. Interplanetary Shuttle or Lifter - ind a second set o f player con- Daniel Rutherford of Newcastle. Also, as a bonus the entire preferably another Eagle) and Is. They are: U P =D , DO W N =X , Mission 6 O u r g a n world map is available to view. then sell everything from your EFT=Z. RIGHT=C, JUMP=Ctrl, Mission 8 J m a r g u s Not bad, eh? Cheers Kev! A game ship (engine, etc.) Go back to of your choice from Hit Squad Richards Exchange and fill up should be winging its way to you. your hull once more (again, using the speed-up trick if it doesn't Dogfight appear or if they're out of stock) M ic ro P ro s e and then buy another ship. Terje Karlsen from Norway has a Repeat this until you have enough few tips to share with us for the money to buy a Panther Clipper, old MicroProse air combat offer then fill-your hull one last time, ing. Basically, to win a fight make but this time go to Sol to sell your sure the enemy doesn't have any precious metals. Then buy a missile and then stay high, cut 30MW mining laser and fly to ting your engines. Use air brakes, Mars. Find one of its moons and and when the plane stalls, push keep on firing at it. This will the stick back, turn the air brakes improve your Elite rating and off, and give it full throttle while indeed you shall command the keeping the stick pushed back. entire universe. Or something. ■ The plane should then slowly get Matt Broughton its nose up but keep dropping like a rock. Fortunately, you Keep those sexy tips coming won't die when you hit the in, and don't forget there's ground - unlike the enemy plane a Hit Squad game for every that follows you. Ah-ha! Very lucky contestant who gets nasty indeed. their tip printed. Here's some top tips to whose hero changes his more times than Michael . Island Equus platform you To the left of the first cave there is th e w a ll and a room with a diamond key in it. crash Pick this up and use it to open a square rock door in cave one. Fall down the (you have to hole. At the bottom of the hole g et the there are two floor switches, two speed wall switches and a door. Behind just right). the door there is another wall In the switch which opens the trap door. second cave Hit the left floor switch, which there is a will release an arrow, hit this room below arrow to the left so it hits the wall the red key. In switch (the door above will open), here there is a Quickly hit the right switch which sw itch on the floor, a also releases an arrow and fix it to sw itch on th e wa ll and a trap door. it possible to solve. Here's how. the right so that it hits the wall Hit the switch which releases an There is a w a ll sw itch and a floor switch on the right (the switch arrow at you. Hit the arrow back in switch. Just keep hitting the floor will fit an arrow through the open the direction that it came from and switch and the wall switch and you doorway, hitting the switch.) it will hit the switch on the wall should be able to open the trap Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMWhen you have completed the opening the trap door. door. You'll need 35 pieces of gold first cave and you get to the next to collect the bird crystal, if you and hit it. walk right next to the light bulb go left until you come to Island Empeira can't find them all, don’t give up - wall, an archer. Kill him w ith your sword Go into the first cave, go right until they are there somewhere. and go down and left. Look to the you come to the three floor right of the screen and you will see switches, go across and hit the Island Leo ping you into the bottom trap a wall with some weak rocks in the switch, the door will open below, In the first cave go left, then door with the rock middle. If you look to the left you go back over the switches and down and right to where there are w here it will see some platforms going up walk over to the open door, hit the four tunnels. Go down the bottom the wall in a diagonal fashion to the left. switch so you open the door one and smash the rock. Then go which opens the trap door and _ Go to the top of the platform above then go round again throw back and through the top tunnel, closes the door The rock will fall I and turn into a rock, roll to left th e doo r above. smash the rock again and turn down onto the switches below P under tunnel. Start rolling to the into the grass hopper. Go right up and when you hit the switch i right hitting each platform (push Island Gyps to the edge and jump. When the door will open and the trap forward and up) as you descend. On this island use the green men you're above the platform turn will open. To get the castle key at I When you get to the end of the to open doors. The last puzzle in into the hero, fall down and turn the end you will have to travel into the grasshopper again, through a little maze as th e spi Hint: in this level you will have der. That's your lot. Hope these to use the grasshopper a lot and tips were of help. We'll leave yo his different length jumps - so with some general hints. I get practising. Island Vargula General hints In the second cave there is a sec • Get as many lives as tion with two trap doors one y o u c an . above the other, to the left of the • When you're low on top trap door. There is a switch energy wait for a bit s o which fires an arrow from the it recharges. right towards you. To the right • Save after every there is a switch that opens this completed island, don't top trap door, above this switch try to save until you have there is a rock. Get the rock and completed the island. push it to the left and leave it on • If you are not very good the trap door. Push the switch and at hitting arrows p r a c t i c e the rock will fall onto the bottom at the beginning of the trap door. (Now the hard bit) go castle level with the over to the wall switch to the left two archers. .GDROM...GDROM...GDROM...CDROM...GDROIVI..iCDROM...()DRQl..GDROM...GDi XiPaint V4 rkbench Add-On Meeting Pearls Vol. Ill Iba Meelng Peo-I. Vduma III conlo.ni 650 MB d iba fne.1 '0 kA Volume 1 •« a tp*elal um> interlace. -Web hoi bean created to dlo- yto* to find *• progrom d your choke -■> aaM The ccntenti 10 CDBoot 1.0 MB Pbcler. Crunch*. Arch,.. 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Horgan's Organ Ethernet on Amiga move the Amiga one step closer to the heart of 'the man in Ethernet is king when it comes to networking solutions. t h a t th e re the street'. John Kennedy tests tw o systems for viability. a re s till However, whether the staff in Escom stores are to be briefed on Lightwave 4.0 H sz this new bundle is very doubtful if m a rk e tin g the current state of Escom retail is After lengthy delays, the Amiga's best 3D graphics system d e c is io n s anything to go on. reaches version 4.0. John Allardice checks it out. being m a d e a t A m ig a That aside, we've got a very Technologies. Removing their varied bag of goodies on display Power Tab ‘multimedia' blinkers for a moment for you in our reviews section. For they have realised that the the affluent or professional 3D A graphics tablet is the most natural way of drawing on a Internet is a m ajor growth area artists among you there's the computer. Helen Danby doodles with the Power Tab. Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMnot just for business but for the amazing Lightwave 4.0 reviewed home user too and have by John Allardice (the man Diavolo Backup responded w ith the Amiga Surfer responsible those stunning Team pack, an all inclusive plug-in- 17 CD game intros), a new multi- Corrupt hard drives are no fun. W ith Diavolo Backup and-go Internet solution that media authoring system in the there's no need to worry, as M at Bettinson discovers. doesn't break the bank. It's not form of Image Vision, an Ethernet perfect by any means but it should networking system, a new Amiga- Image Vision converted graphics tablet, a top hard disk backup system and all Multimedia authoring takes another step forward with the latest releases from the land of Image Vision, so says John Kennedy. CD-ROM and public domain. And don't forget the free book - file it somewhere safe. One day it CD-ROM round up might just save your life! More from the land of the shiny silver disc. This month’s include fonts, an atlas and a CD full of Tetris games. Tony Horgan Technical Editor PD Scene Swinging back to a more games orientated month, PD Scene is here with plenty of fun ideas for the cheapskate. PD Utilities • - f - The best and most recent uploads on the Aminet are cov ered, with availability for non-modem users too! Art Gallery - f C & X . : Check out the latest masterpieces from CU Amiga readers as compiled by Lisa Collins. Grab your shorts, sunnies and few tinnies and get ready to ride the internet waves. The Amiga Surfer pack is here promising quick and easy access to the internet. Our resident net expert has picked it apart bit by bit to see what you net hungry dudes will be getting. All your dreams come true or just the beginning? Find out ... Amiga Surfer Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMUnder £600 hardware and software bundle / £90 for software only Developer: Various ■ Supplier: Amiga Dealers see ads in the magazine hile clued-up Amiga World Wide Web browser, to a with the uninspired name of providers who only provide SMTP users have been package made up of an A1200 AS225. This has since been updat delivered E-mail. This includes connected up to the (2Mb RAMI and productivity soft ed and reworked by Interworks Demon Internet Services. The Internet for some time, ware in th e form of Personal Paint, and renamed Inet225. Inet225 Amiga Surfer software will not _ ®a large number have been put off Wordworth. Turbo Calc, Word- forms the basis of the Amiga work with Europe's largest Internet I by the many complexities involved worth Print Manager. Datastore Surfer 'net software. However, the service provider and the most ® in setting up a computer for 'net and Organiser. Photogenics SE and version of Inet225 in the pack is common among Amiga users in access. Now. at last, there's an the two games from the Magic restricted. Even though AT own th e UK. Oh dear. Internet solution for your Amiga pack are not present. The Internet Inet225. they are asking an addi Inet225 needs to talk to your that cuts through most of those software will be available separate tional fee of around £25 for users modem to get on to the Internet. hassles: the official Amiga Surfer ly for existing Amiga owners. This to upgrade to the full version. This There are two protocols in this _ pack. Based around the Amiga review will concentrate on the is puzzling in light of the high cost area: SLIP and PPP Most providers I Magic pack, the Amiga Surfer Internet-specific hardware and of the software-only pack. support the latter and fortunately * adds a 14400 baud modem and software in the Surfer bundle. the Surf pack comes with both. _ Internet software, including a No Demon The only drawback here is that the I Highly complex The version of Inet225 in the driver doesn't support the ’EOF' ■ Pack Contents On any machine, a working Surfer pack has been restricted so mode of the serial device. The Internet system is highly complex. that it cannot run a server. A serv result is that CPU usage is very H ard w are: Before any of the E-mail or Web er could be an FTP daemon that high whenever any data is being _ • Amiga A1200 (2Mb Chip browsing software can do any controls your own FTP site (from sent or received Fortunately it can I RAM) 270Mb Hard drive thing useful, there needs to be an which other 'net users could be replaced with a better driver • 1 4 4 0 0 K b a u d m o d e m interpreter part which handles download files) or it could be a available from the public domain. I S o ftw a re : communication between the World Wide Web daemon to run Now that you have a basic line I • I n t e r n e t s o f t w a r e Internet and any software that is y our ow n W W W pages. Those of communication between the I including a W orld Wide used to access it. This part is aren't major restrictions since few blips coming down the modem I Web browser known as a TCP/IP stack. TCP/IP people o p t to do so. line and your Amiga, it's time to I • P e r s o n a l P a in t 6 .4 is the protocol of the Internet. The only major side effect of set up your client softw are - these I • W o r d w o r t h 4 S E Almost all Amiga users currently this is that it will not work with a are the only parts o f the software I • Turbo Calc 3.5 connected to the 'net use NSDi’s particular server which collects E- you will see and use when surfing I • W ordworth Print Manager AmiTCP to perform this function. m ail via a special protocol called the 'net. The clients provided cover I • D a t a s t o r e 1.1 Commodore developed their SMTP’. This means that the Surf the vital areas of WW W . E-mail, I • O r g a n is e r 1.1 own TCP/IP stack some time ago pack will not work with Internet News. FTP and IRC. Web browser many, the m ost attractive contrasts nicely against AMosiac, ./pect of the Internet is the World the Amiga's first web browser [Wide Web. W ith its mouse- which is known for its tendency ntrolled windows, pretty pic- to c ra s h a t th e w ro n g m o m e n t. \res and foolproof links to mil- Like AMosiac. MindWalker ns of diverse sites around the requires M agic User Interface to 'be, the web is responsible for be running. MUI is a kind of -ging comms and the Internet Workbench/operating system , o the public eye. The Surfer enhancement and development • k c o m e s w ith its o w n w e b tool. The advantage is that ser called MindWalker, for- MindW alker has a nice interface, ~rly known as Voyager. but the downside is that MUI slows things down and consumes Why more RAM. A version of MUI is included in the pack. MindWalker? The usual features are built in m e r-fra m e e q u ip p e d A m ig a such as a comprehensive Address -rans from way back in the Book facility and support for proxy 1000 d a ys m ig h t re m e m b e r a caches to speed things up. Not all modore game called providers offer proxy caches so 'dWalker, in which you play a it's worth asking before you sign a rd ty p e c h a ra c te r w h o w a n up. MindW alker also implements ed around a surreal landscape multiple sockets which means A Here ! Min Walker re all H i |l« y legged rele the Teaet 17 a d MTV NWH s f z a p p in g b a d g u y s w it h b o lts that it w ill open several connec lightning. When AT bought tions to the remote W W W server timodore they also got the in parallel, which greatly speeds updates of MindW alker as it’s still release date. The full MindWalker hts to this game. Although things up compared to a single- very much under development w ill be an extended version of the ' game was w ell over the hill tasking browser. Other than these and improving all the time. These program featured in the Surf Pack decided the name was cool, features, MindW alker is a fairly updates should add better behav and w ill feature full HTML-3 sup their freshly developed basic but solid browser that fits iour when it comes to text format p o rt a s w e ll a s ta b le s a n d fra m e s . ) browsing software well in the pack. ting and so on. Oliver even hinted that Java sup monly known as Voyager However, when compared to p o rt m ig h t b e o n th e c a rd s in th e s renamed MindWalker. the latest versions of the IBrowse Stop Press future. Java is the brainchild of Oliver Wagner, the super pro- demo and the soon to be Just before going to press, Oliver computer giant Sun and looks set Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMnmer who created MindWalker released AWeb browsers (a demo Wagner revealed that MindWalker to become the defacto-standard just three m onths, still secretly o f w h ic h w a s fe a tu re d o n last is indeed due for a release out Internet language making the s to the browser as 'V ' in pri- m onth's cover CD) it's clear that side of the Surfer pack. He added dream of running applications and among beta testers. there's a lot of room for improve that a public demo of the package which only exist on remote servers MindWalker is a good looking ment. Fortunately users of the w ill be available in the future a reality, so don't rush out and buy browser w ith a stability that Surfer pack are entitled to though he couldn't elaborate on a a b ig g e r h a rd d riv e ju s t y e t. Internet relay chart of the most immediate forms Net W edding feature the February Internet com m unication is real- 96 issue of CU Amiga Magazine text-based conferencing, for more on that n a s In te rn e t R e la y C h a t ). It w o rk s like a p a rty lin e Highly polished ! system, on which hun AmlRC is possibly one of the t's of users can exchange text m ost polished Internet clients ments to one another in real- ever seen on any platform let ~. The S u rfe r p a c k c o m e s w ith alone the Amiga. Oliver has also ■ are specifically designed for created an alternative IRC-like net called A m lR C , a ls o w r itte n b y work called Arcnet which is com : W agner. patible w ith AmlRC. Amiga '# A m ig a ' is th e n a m e o f th e Technologies themselves prefer stently busy channel where Arcnet since they can run a server ..y Amiga enthusiasts hang out on their own Amiga 'net box and talk to like-minded people the it doesn't use too much of their d over. IRC c lie n ts a re n 't th a t valuable bandwidth. You can often n in Internet software fin d m e m b e rs o f A T s ta ff o n ‘ as fo r o th e r p la tfo rm s , s o it's Arcnet in the #M AIN channel. hing t o s e e o n e in t h e S u rf AmlRC has already proven 'phone book' could do with the #Amiga to enter the #Amiga IRC since th e IRC is a va lu a b le itself to be the best IRC client additions of 'ircd.bt.net' and channel. More powerful features rce fo r A m ig a o w n e rs . T h e around. W hile going to press. 'stork.doc.ic.ac.uk' for the UK hide inside the comprehensive s people make here can AmlRC 1.0 was released onto the market. Otherwise it's simply a configuration options but these information exchange to Aminet as a shareware product. case of running the program w ill only be of interest diehard IRC hips and further. See the The list of numbers in the server when linked up and typing /join fans (such as yours truly). FTP client The Internet has a standard for lis ts t h e c u rre n t d ire c to ry o n th e tra n s fe rrin g file s (a s o p p o s e d t o E- re m o te m a c h in e t o w h ic h y o u a re mail and W W W pagesl called File connected. Once you click on the Transfer Protocol (FTP). FTP is Receive button AmFTP switches to often used as a verb when talking a download screen with a list of about downloading an FTP file, in selected files and a progress bar. which case, the file would be AmFTP is certainly not unique in 'FT P ed'. T h e m o s t fa m o u s c o lle c this respect. There are other FTP tio n o f file s fo r A m ig a u s e rs is th e c lie n ts b u t A m F T P is w id e ly Aminet. This awesome collection regarded as one of the better of Amiga software is 'mirrored' or examples if not the best available. exists physically in several coun U n like A m lR C , th e re is s o m e tries around the world. The term healthy competition in this field fo r th is c o lle c tio n o f file s is a n ’ FTP b u t A m F T P h as s o m e s tro n g fe a a rc h iv e '. In o ld e r d a y s th e s e tu re s w h ic h a re v e ry u s e fu l in d e e d . archives w ere accessed via a text based interface similar to the Built in Archie A m ig a D O S s h e ll. It d id n 't ta k e lo n g AmFTP contains a built-in 'Archie' before graphical interfaces were client. Archie is a system whereby developed to perform those com you can search FTP archives for m a n d s a u to m a tic a lly . particular files by sending a search A m F T P is th e FTP c lie n t in th e request to an Archie server. Surfer pack user could find any ground. AmFTP also supports s| S u rfe r p a c k a n d ta k e s th is g ra p h i N o rm a lly o n e w o u ld u s e a s e p a publicly available file or program cial 'ADT' servers. W hen logging ca l a p p ro a c h . It lo o k s a little like a rate Archie client but now this can th e y d e s ire d . T h e v a lu e o f s u c h a on to those, a recent list of new miniature Directory Opus. Local a ll b e d o n e w ith in A m F T P T h e resource unimaginably. files w ill be displayed automatic files on hard drive of the user's results are noted and then A t a n y s ta g e A m F T P is h a p p y to w h ic h is a v e ry h a n d y tim e saving machine are displayed in a window retrieved by logging in to the site b e ic o n ifie d s o th a t it w ill c o n tin u e fu n c tio n . A m F T P A v e ry w o rth y on the left, while the right window w h e re th e file s w e r e fo u n d . S o a t o d o w n lo a d th e file s in t h e back addition to the Surfer pack. E-mail client Voodoo is the Surfer pack's E-mail built-in support for private PGP Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMhandling package. Developed encrypted E-mails for the para quite recently, it doesn't depend noid and MIME attached/encoded on MUI like the form er clients but files for swapping those Worms uses a new GUI system called custom levels. ClassAct. Although this is simpler Unfortunately Voodoo is ham b u t fa s te r th a n M U I, A m ig a pered in the Surfer pack by a bug Technologies have taken some which w ill cause E-mails written flak for creating a package with when not linked up (off-linel to be tw o different GUI systems includ lost irretrievably. A representative ▲ Cute. Simple and functional describes Voadae. It may not be the most camplei bat it bandies attacked Hn ed which w ill need to run inside o f A T to ld m e th a t t h is b u g w o u ld nicely and is very easy to use. the tiny 2M b memory available on be fixed soon and that they would a s to c k A m ig a . be looking at the issue of provid on an icon representing the s p e c ific a lly t o m y ta s te it is a This gripe aside, it's otherwise ing SMTP mail support. Voodoo MIME encoded part of the mes quality package which once e a s y t o s e e w h y A T c h o s e has a nice feature of displaying a sage. It would be difficult to find again does the Surfer pack proi Voodoo. It's good looking, easy to' MIME attached picture inside the a more sim ple and easy to use and suits the novice market that use and laden w ith features. It has message lister by sim ply clicking E-mail package. W hile it's not it is aimed at. Heartache ality is going to be serious ham existing Amiga users have to Amiga Surfer (software bundle or cash? pered by memory usage but that's w eigh cash against an installation Amiga Technologies have firmly more the fault of the standard nightmare that can all too easily system requirements: Any Amiga with 2MB of RAM or mare aimed the Surfer pack at novice 2Mb RAM than anything. go horribly wrong. There's noth I d KS 2 aad above users w ho intend to buy an all- As for existing Internet users ing to lose by trying to set up the in-one Internet solution either or more expert Amiga users, an free AmiTCP system first (check c o m p le te w ith a n A m ig a se t-u p alternative is to obtain the the back issues of the Wired and a modem or just the software AmiTCP system, usually found in W orld tutorial for the details). If for an existing Amiga system. the form of an all-in installer on that fails, the Surfer pack is a T h e S u rfe r p a c k d o e s th e jo b many BBSes. more expensive but highly worth very w ell indeed, although there All of the clients in the Surfer while investment. For the less value for m o n e y 72% are flaws such as the bug which pack are available to buy separate experienced, it's the only current loses off-line mail. I'm satisfied ly (or w ill be soon in the case of way of getting on to the Internet that it's as easy as it's going to MindWalker). This means that if and so is an essential purchase get to set up, configure and dial in you are capable of carrying out alongside a modem. OVERALL to one of the many Internet the complex configuration by Well done AT, this is Amiga's m m A step in the Service Providers around (except hand, you could substitute biggest step in the right direction right direction. for Demon). 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It comes from the be as scarce as you would think. same stable as the Picasso video We check out two options card and the only distinguishing Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMfeature is a bank of four red LEDs (light em itting diodes) which flash The Ariadne W indows95. and the transfer rate when data is sent or received and ■Price:£199 was a very respectable 444 so may be useful in tracking ■Developer:Village TronicGmbH Kb/second. It is a very useful down errors in your set-up. A n t h AmiTCP lulling a m Etheiael. yoa caa ate ■Supplier: BlitterSoft card and although priced higher T h e b u s in e s s e n d o f th e c a rd aa Aaiiga (Windows syst»" U « h « AmiWiai ia f » | ■Tel:01908 261466 than its PC equivalents, it is still fe a tu re s th re e c o n n e c tio n s : a play X sessions on remote computers. strongly recommended. standard printer style 25way The Ariadne is a simple, plug- The Ariadne hardware is a sin female connector, a BNC-twist printer port is available on the and-play Ethernet interface which g le Z o rro II c a rd w h ic h c a n be style plug and an RJ11 socket. card as a bank of pins, and thesi works well. As a test I copied a placed into any free socket on an These last tw o are for connection can be brought out to the rear if large file to a PC running A2000. A3000 or A4000. There to th e E th e rn e t le a d s a n d th e you really need three printer port printer-style socket looks like a on one Amiga. printer socket because that is That's really all there is to this The A1200 Ethernet Problem e x a c tly w h a t it is. card. Recommended. ■ Trying to find a way to provide an A1200 with Ethernet is The supplied disk of software John Kennedy extremely hard without resorting to an expensive solution contains several main elements: involving a Zorro slot expansion system. Although the the network drivers, som e net The Ariadne PCMCIA slot on the Amiga is a recognised standard, working software tools, the Envoy no-one seems to have developed the necessary software to network software (vl .6) and soft I system requirements: I Zorro II Alol ISZ drive the PCMCIA Ethernet cards which are available for ware to drive the parallel ports. notebook PCs. The network drivers are totally The AniiLink networking system reviewed in the January SANAJI compliant, which means 1996 issue made use of the floppy disk drive socket and they can be used with any exist presents a standard SANAJI interface. Similarly, Liana is a ing Amiga networking software, SANA II compatible networking solution which makes use including the excellent (although of the parallel (printer) ports. Parallel ports aren't particu Amiga only) Envoy system. larly fast but they are a cheap way of doing things and a The network tools w ill keep an lot better than nothing. Some PD software on Aminet also eye on the number of packets of aims to provide a SANAJI system using parallel ports so data passing by. and the parallel it's worth a search for a program called 'magPLIP'. p o r t s o ftw a re c re a te s t w o n e w All these systems could therefore run Envoy, or alterna printer ports which you can use tively run AmiTCP and connect to another Amiga. This from any program which allows asooo A dedicated Amiga in turn could have an Ethernet card and act as a you to select the printer port by Amiga card bun gateway into a LANs full of PCs, Apples and even a link to name. This includes parallel port AAiio w ith e xcel the Internet. Sounds complicated? Too right! networking software. The second len t so ftw are. What is Ethernet? Ethernet is a com m unication standard which has been around for many years. It's used to create 'LANs' or Local Area Networks from a pool of PC or Apple machines in an office. A LAN allows the machines to share printers, files and send electronic mail messages to one another. There are two cabling standards, 10Base-2 and 10-Base-T. The most commonly used in small set-ups is 10Base-2, which uses low-cost co-axial cable. M achines are all linked to each other in a line and special 'term inator' packs are attached to the each end of the cable. Each card has a unique hardware address and each m achine has its own unique identity as well. Data is sent in packets and each packet contains the i Witt i m p all thiags aia possible! Here is ta ig a CUSeeMe lonniag oa tbe Waitbeacb. being led ria ftbeinet h e a thee PC.P Ja il nho is tbat baadsome cbapt ID of the receiver. Therefore only the data which is m eant for the particular machine is intercepted. Ethernet is said M a n y E th e rn e t c a rd s sw e a r had a data rate of 397 Kb/second. to transfer at 10Mbit/s, which is faster than modems but blind they are NE2000 compatible, T h e G o ld e n G a te 2 is a use fu l isn't the fastest networking technology available. or 'true NE2000 clones'. Be care- item of hardware at the right price full Many cards no longer have and if you have some slots spare jumpers on them to set the IRQ in your Amiga, you should consid and Memory address. Instead they e r it. T h e o n ly s n a g is th a t o ld e r re ly o n u tility s o ftw a re t o m a ke A2000s may not be compatible changes and store them in special a n d a ll s y s te m s m u s t h a v e a memory: this presents problems processor with a M M U included. for Amiga owners. PCTask claims You’ll need to make sure you have to support any hardware on the s lo ts fre e : if y o u a lre a d y h a v e a GoldenGate 2, but programming few Amiga cards you may need to an Ethernet card may be beyond it. s p la s h o u t o n a T o w e r s y s te m . ■ miga Experiments w ith Netware Lite and John Kennedy PCTask 3.1 proved unsuccessful. The GG2 has no support for the The GoldenGate 2 The GoldenGate 2 h a rd w a re a tta c h e d . PC's DMA system. This rules out Ice: £ 1 2 9 .9 5 (£ 1 6 5 in c lu d in g Typically you can use the PC a n y h a rd w a re u s in g D M A a n d th is system requirements: NE2000 Ethernet card) slots present to plug in standard includes Soundcards. Rumours of 0S2, Zorro ll/PC processor with MMU eloper: Software PC I/O cards, modems, and of a driver for PC video cards have Results E n te rp ris e s course, Ethernet cards. In m y sys also been circulating but at this ease of use ...... plier: Eyetech Group tem I have been using the GG2 to stage they seem unlikely ever to Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMITel: 01642 713185 drive a I/O card (providing an extra appear. The serial port driver is serial port for an external modem excellent and w ill drive both inter perform ance.. «ay to cheap hardware? and parallel ports) and a network nal and external modems. I have ) p re m is e o f th e card. The hardware you can use b e e n u s in g it w ith th e s u p e rb nGate 2 card. It works by d e p e n d s o n th e d riv e rs su p p lie d , U S R o b o tic s C o u rie r a n d have value for money j the Amiga and PC expan- and currently support is included achieved excellent data rates. a slo ts p re s e n t in th e 'b ig b o x ' for serial and parallel ports, IDE H o w e ve r, th e a b ility t o u s e a PC gas. Originally these slots were hard drive interfaces and support Ethernet card could be the decid OVERALL i 'Bridge Boards' which had f o r N E 1 0 0 0 (8 -b it) a n d N E 2 0 0 0 (16- ing factor in choosing to buy a A30DU Sounds like a nplete PC com puter on a card bit) Ethernet cards. As PC Ethernet GG2. M y system has been working bit of a bodge s G o ld e n G a te h a s o n ly th e cards are cheap, the GG2 repre h a p p ily fo r m a n y m o n th s , a n d .. but works very tro n ics n e c e s s a ry f o r th e sents a very real way of connect u s in g th e s a m e te s t file a s w ith th e well indeed. ga to s e n d s ig n a ls t o a n y PC in g y o u r A m ig a to a LAN. Ariadne, the GG2 and NE2000 card SANAJI and AmiTCP By default, the Am iga can't network. first class piece of work and provides SANAJI and so it is only a matter of I There is (currently) nothing in the oper- everything from directory security to configuring some software settings to I ating system to support it. It needs help shared printers. Release tw o of Envoy is make use of the Ethernet hardware. and one solution was the creation of available from Blittersoft. With the combination of TCP/IP and the SANAJI networking standard. Although networking two Amigas via Ethernet, your Amiga can slot into an I SANAJI is in the m iddle ground Ethernet is useful, w hy stop there? existing network very well. For exam between software and hardware. If the Ethernet is a cross-platform standard ple, you can connect it directly to a PC I networking hardware comes with so once your Amiga can understand it, running an operating system such as I SANAJI drivers and the networking all sorts of things are possible. To start Windows95 or Linux. You can then use software can support SAN A JI, then w ith though, you'll need to speak using Telnet, FTP and other networking | operation is transparent. a standard protocol. The Ariadne comes tools to send and receive files. A Both the above networking solutions w ith a driver for a Novel Network freely-distributable package called I are excellent examples. Both com e with client, but sadly obtaining the client Samba will even make it possible to SANAJI drivers and will therefore work software itself is difficult as the pro make PC hard drives appear on the I with any software which is SANAJI ducers, Oxxi, don't seem to be with us Amiga Workbench and vice versa. I friendly. If all the m achines you are anymore. A more useful solution is Once of the most impressive things connecting are Am igas. then you may TCP/IP, the networking software often I've achieved is using a XWindows sys I as w e ll u s e t h e e x c e lle n t E n v o y n e t- used for Internet connections. AmiTCP tem on the Amiga to display a game of I working software. Envoy runs on any is the main Amiga implementation (oth Doom running on a Linux box. Only thing which supports SA N AJI and is a ers are available), it fully supports TCP/IP makes this possible ... PLEASE SEW YOUR MDS? 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The first application of this L convinced that CD-ROM is the LightWave and Modeler Therefore we should be able new architecture becomes appar-1 way forward only has to take a (Lightwave's own object building to look forward to things like real ent when you go to save an * look at this. Along w ith the main tool) have been reconstructed world physics, collision detection image and you're presented with LightWave program you get over from the ground up w ith what's and particle systems becoming a huge amount of image forma' 80M b of surfaces, objects, known as an 'open architecture'. an integral part of the LightWave For the real tech-heads out then scenes and images - everything This means that any third party interface, rather than separate. Newtek have also supplied all the from a prehistoric cave complete with flickering campfire, to the „ classic Tyrell Corporation building Welcome to LightWave 3D from Blade Runner. As you can It's a gratifying thought that in these days of Achievement for managing to handle the imagine, installing the system the seemingly unstoppable march of PC graphics for a two-hour big budget pilot from a single CD is a lot less, supremacy, almost every single major net with just eight Amiga 2000s. bother than juggling a stack of work TV sci-fi show in the United States The rest of the world got in on the act 8 0 0 K f lo p p y d is k s ! uses an Amiga-based system as its primary soon after when Lightwave was released graphics tool. As most of us are now aware. from its dependence on the NTSC-based Plug-in extras Babylon 5, X-files, Space - Above b Beyond, VideoToaster by a little third party routine When you fire up LightWave 4.0 SeaQuest DSV and the forthcoming Hyper called LightRave. Newtek, the manufac for the first tim e you could be nauts all rely almost exclusively on the mod tures of the Toaster very quickly retaliated forgiven for thinking you'd started elling and rendering ability of Lightwave 3D. with Lightwave 3.5. Almost overnight, your old version by mistake. On Lightwave first came to the attention of Lightwave became an obligatory piece of closer inspection however, the the mass UK Amiga scene two years ago software for all serious Amiga 3D artists. subtle but very im portant differ when the pilot movie of Babylon 5 won an Now, little over a year later, Newtek has ences start to become apparent, Emmy award for "Outstanding Technical released Lightwave 40. loper documents necessary display resolution, but the addi u to be able to w rite your tion of a much faster 'frontface' p lu g ins. view helps considerably with tracking down those annoying ser friendly flipped polygons. 't let all this techno-babble ive you into thinking that Layout need a degree in software 'neering to be able to use the improvements am. LightWaue still has one The Layout section is where your the most accessible and user models are given surfaces and dly interfaces around. From textures, animated and rendered. ■eption it has always been It's this section that has been igned for ease of use. The given the most thorough over us are simple and concise haul. The Scene menu now has construction of your first ani- a handy little feature that can ■ion can b e a c c o m p lis h e d show or hide all bones, lights or ' in an h o u r, e v e n if y o u 'v e objects instantly, and if you're ■■ animated anything before. working on a complex scene I, its surface sim plicity that can be a boon in clearing up almost lead you to think the interface. it lacks any real depth or The Objects panel has its fu lly fle x ib le 'c ru m p le ', w h ic h can joints, all you have to do is grab lety, but look at your average intriguing new addition of g iv e o n e o f th e m o s t re a lis tic lo o k his hand and pull it and all the Lde of Babylon 5 and Displacement Map Plug-Ins and ing rock textures I've seen outside connecting sections will follow •mber, you are using exactly Object Replacement Plug-Ins but Vista-Pro. Another addition to the along automatically, bending to same piece of software that tons and it w ill be interesting to surfacing functions is the new lim its set by yourself. This Jnplished that. All the tools see what the third-party develop G lo w fe a tu re , w h ic h is lik e ly to powerful new feature doesn't there, and you w on't have to ers com e up with to fill these. become as overused as lens-flares take that long to get to grips, too deep to find them, There are also new Unseen By were. This enables you to give an with and surprisingly, doesn’t e program itself is split into Rays and Unaffected By Fog angelic halo effect to any surface appear to slow down the inter-' separate parts: M odeler and options, which w ill be of most group, which w ill be particularly face that much. t. Modeler is where you use to those power users who useful for enhancing plasma and truct all of your 'hand-made' are dealing with image composit rocket flames. Conclusion -s . This is the one section ing and mapping live video into W hile we're on the subject of Lightwave 4.0 is an upgrade e th e fir s t- tim e a n im a to r their scenes. fun and flashy effects, the lens- aimed squarely at the more expe t find him self a little lost, flares have been given an upgrade rienced animator. M ost of the array of tools at your dispos- Texture too. Hidden in a sub-menu of the features seem to be aimed at Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM-m s almost bewildering at Lights panel, the flares can now be putting Lightwave up against the but the fast and responsive previews fully customised. You now have high end com petition like Alias, *~ce makes experimentation The Surfaces panel now has a th e a b ility to tw e a k th e d e n s ity and W avefront and Softimage. I get y. Modeler seems to have preview option which allows you streakiness of the surrounding the feeling that an essentially ' .'gone very little change to render any texture onto a halos, adjust the level of cinemas Amiga-developed software version 3.5, although there sphere before assigning it to an cope distortion and most impor package w ill be giving the big 't all that much further you object (as seen in Imagine 4 and tantly, rotate the little beggars. This boys some considerable worry in effectively take it. The addi- Texture Studio). This saves a huge means that they can now look far the future. of 'nurbs m odelling’ (a kind a m o u n t o f tim e a s y o u d o n 't n eed more like an integral part of the LightW ave 4.0 is still king of aehand drawing approach to to re n d e r th e w h o le o b je c t o r scene rather than a post-produc- the Amiga rendering scene by a ~t design) w ould have been s c e n e t o s e e th e re s u lts o f y o u r tion process effect for lazy anima long shot. Let’s hope w e see e - maybe we'll see that in the texture settings. Newtek have also tors (we've been guilty of this in the same level of development t version. The solid moving upped the number of procedural the past, m yself included!). com m itm ent continue over the still has trouble working in textures with the addition of the n e x t y e a r. ■ ing except the default disgusting 'veins: and the wonder Kinematics John Allardice Finally w e see the introduction of 'inverse kinematics". This Power Tablet ■ Price: £199.95 ■ Developer: Power Computing ■ Supplier: Power Computing Frustrated by dodgy mice? The Tablet offers a neat alternative. espite the mouse be touching the tablet for it to achieving world domi register. In fact you only need to n a tio n a t h o m e a n d in touch the tablet when you want th e o ffic e , w h e n it to draw or click on an item. The comes to freehand drawingcommunication it's between the ©just not the same as using a pen pen and the tablet is very pre or a brush. Apart from the prob cise. so even the lightest of lems of sticky rollers and slippery touches w ill register. mouse mats, mice were really There’s an alternative to the designed for pushing windows pen in the form of a 'puck'. and icons around the screen, not This is like a three-button fo r c re a tin g 20th century equiva mouse with a crosshair mount lents of the Mona Lisa. W ith this ed on transparent plastic. This in mind. 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I'm a suck d o in g th e ir th in g . direct removable media support o f th e tim e u n til d is a s te r s triker e for s a good looking clean OS Diavolo, like AmiBack. uses XPK and image back-up (block by Oand you're left to pick up the compliant GUI. Diavolo's is gor for compression. It comes with the block back-up) is also only in the pieces. Until recently there was geous. W ho said a back-up pack FAST and NUKE library though the Pro version though you could stilstill also the hassle of backing up a age had to look boring? latter has been superseded by the back-up to a file on removable hard drive to a room full of floppy Diavolo is laid out so logically impressive RAKE library. FAST is media. The Pro version also add! disks or the expense of forking out that it hurts. 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Animations may be replayed from A 8. Return to the Meoo screen end ose the Click EVilor to outline displayed one after the other, either with a time delay or waiting on hard disk if they are large. MPEG and CDXl files can alse be the buttons. Nett associate them with the Tools the? will move to a mouse click. Sonad effects or music can be added, and there are replayed. It's possible to load an image to act as a frame for when clicked. Voile! The linished multimedia presentation, reads lor Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMseveral different wipes to ase. the animation. release or to be recorded onto videotape. ten clicked - which lessens the are allowed, and if you have suit m entioning what it doesn't do: th a n k s t o th e a ttra c tiv e in te rfa c e it te ra ctive e le m e n t. able hardware (Pegger or Scala’s although there are several wipes is tremendously easy to use: it's That's really all there is to it. MPEG replay board), MPEG play to chose from to animate the c e rta in ly a lo t m o re fu n th a n tere is no text-based scripting back too. Animation formats screen displays, there are no Optonica's MultliMedia iguage underneath the graphical A N IM 5 a n d A N IM 8 a re s u p p o rte d built-in animation tools. If you Experience. Here's hoping that ver terface: the active components (no 7 sadly) and playback direct want to create footage of a logo sion 1.1 won't be the last and sub are th e to o ls w h ic h d is p la y im a g e s from hard disk is allowed. or text whizzing around the sequent improvements w ill build and a n im a tio n s , a s w e ll a s trig g e r- screen then you’ll need to create u p o n w h a t is a v e ry im p re s s iv e sound effects and sound mod No can do a stand-alone animation in basic authoring tool. ule playbacks. Anim ation support It's e a s ie r to g e t a c ro s s th e Deluxe Paint or som ething similar ImageVision is perfect for is flexible in that CDXL animations level ImageVision works’at by first. You can create vertically knocking together slideshows, but scrolling text by using the ‘push th e q u a lity o f th e e ffe c ts w ill up' wipe option but there is no depend on your skills w ith existing horizontal alternative. animation packages. ■ John Kennedy Wired for ... Sound effects are easy to add, and a s w ith a n im a tio n s , lo n g samples can be spooled from disk. Modules and samples can be syn chronised to images which makes for snappy slideshows. However, unusually for a multimedia pro g ra m . th e re is n o s u p p o rt f o r M ID I. T h is fla w is c o m p o u n d e d b y a lack of an ARexx port or in fact any method of launching an external program. This makes ImageVision rather a closed shop, and lim its its use in more demanding situations. And so ... 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OR ANY AMIGA BASED COMPANY AT DIS COUNT TRADE PRICES. AND ALSO TO ANY AMIGA OWNING INDIVIDUAL AT THE VERY LOW PRICES. RING US FOR DETAILS. WE ARE AT LEAST 3 TIMES CHEAPER THAN DEDICATED SCANNING BUREAUS. ANY AMIGA COMPANY WHO WISHES TO OFFER OUR SERVICE CAN ARRANGE AN AGREEMENT WITH US FOR SOME SERIOUS DISCOUNTS. SO MAKE THOSE SCANNING DREAMS COME TRUE! REMEMBER ALSO. OUR DIGITISING SERVICE. WHEN ALUED WITH SCANNING. CAN OFFER COMPUTER REPRESENTATION OF ANY OBJECT, ANY PICTURE UP TO ABOUT 4 METERStf) WITH NO LOSS OF QUALITY. PLEASE RING FOR FURTHER DETAILS. 13000-1- titles, that’s more than a library with less than that! P D S C E N E PD Scene Pic It game 'Say w hat you see' is the irritating catchphrase from You want cheap thrills? You got the irksome, in my opinion, ______presenter of the TV quiz i>m< IK1NIH’ 'em! Tony Horgan takes a look at show. That's the basis for . j Pic It. It's a m ultiple choice the latest offerings from the PD general knowledge quiz in which up to four players can goodie bag. take part (there are no computer controlled opponents). A picture board is covered w ith nine squares which flash in a random order w aiting for a mouse click. Depending on which square was highlighted when you click the mouse, you'll get a question based on one of a Lee Majors t o few subjects, such as geography, science, sport and so Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMAdvocates... on. If you answer the question correctly the square disappears to reveal part of the picture behind it. There are tw o sets of pictures: famous faces and phrases. The I've found it! We w ere sent this slideshow KftsooGDo object is to amass as m any points as possible in the quiz some tim e ago but it was sucked into the and put a name to the face or guess the phrase before void of anti-m atter more commonly know as your opponents. my bottom drawer. Now Pic It is one of the better 'pub quiz' style games to it's resurfaced, I have cropped up, and although it probably won't take thought it deserved an I 4A long to exhaust the question banks, it's plenty of fun for airing. It's a slideshow trivia fans while it lasts. An extra disk of questions and in which the great Lee pictures is available from the same address for £3. Majors (of Six Million I * I Dollar Man fame) is H Available from : Rob Massey, depicted advocating a I 9 Yoxall Road. Shirley. Solihull, ■■ number of bizarre West Midlands B90 3SD. I — 1-w c practices, including Tel: 0121 745 1011. Price: £1.50 ■ ■ 'wearing one's pyjamas IvW MOT «> - - - , , UMIVM • * .... | including P + P. 65 during maze navigation', the desert burial of Richard Gere', 'heading them off at the pass' and my personal favourite 'taking on the spirit Boris Ball form and haunting W illiam Shatner'. This is volum e seven I h a v e n 't p la y e d a n i— __ of the series, which by now is probably up to number 1325 Arkanoid clone for a while, or something. Anyway, no Amiga is complete w ithout it! so this was a pleasant trip I | t Get yours now. down memory lane for ten " m inutes or so. If you're a ...... " ■ ■ Available from : saddo sample spotter like B e n ja m in myself, you can glean extra Cowdall, 23 Barn entertainm ent by identify Way, Cirencester. ing the sounds effects which have been grabbed from a Glos. GL7 2LY. diverse range of sources, including Rolling Thunder, the P r ic e : £ 2 classic platform shoot 'em up coin-op of yesteryear. including P + P. Recommended if you need a decent bat and ball game. Available from : F1 Licenceware, 31 W ellington Road, Exeter, Devon EX2 9DU. Tel: 01392 493 580. Price: £3.99 95 in c lu d in g P + P. 77 Teeny Weenys Roswell Crash Slides game slideshow The obvious comparison Yet more alien conspiracy theories, here is w ith Lemmings, this tim e it's the Roswell Incident. because the idea of the The story goes that some aliens game is to guide your crash landed in Am erica some tim e 'Teeny Weenys' to the ago and were captured. A post ^ exit of each level, using a m ortem was carried out and filmed, bank of remote controls which showed an archetypal alien I—^ and any objects you find figure being dissected. W e don't have room here for the along the way. These will debate on its invalidity but it is quite interesting all the help you bridge gaps, same in a kind of 'how do they do that?' kind of a way. blast holes in obstruc The pictures are small greyscale GIFs which are rather tions and so on. slow to load (IFFs would have fitted and would have been Fans of cute and colourful games will find plenty to faster). A useful addition to the collection of any alien fan. fawn over, even if the sprites look like they've come straight out of Lilliput. If you're easily annoyed by intrusive Available from: OnLine PD, and repetitive sounds effects you should turn off the musi 1 The Cloisters, Halsall Lane, Formby, cal option before the effects drive you insane. This is one Liverpool L37 3PX. Tel: 01704 834 335. of those games you can take at your own pace (although BBS: 01704 834 583. there is a short tim e lim it on each level) and as such would Price: £1.50 plus 75p P + P. be well recommended to the younger Amiga gamer - it's more about exploration and logical thought than manual dexterity and reactions. c f n n x a x ii Available from : F1 Licenceware, game 31 Wellington Road, Exeter, Devon EX2 W hat an unfortunate name 9DU. Tel: 01392 493 580. Price: £3.99 for a game in which balls in c lu d in g P + P. feature so prominently. Scrotax is a shoot 'em up of the sim plest order but still maintains an original twist. Liars You control a ball which con AGA demo stantly bounces up and down Talk about conspiracy - all you can do is shift it left or right. I + - . Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMtheories! This demo from Aliens appear from the right of the I______Nerve Axis has enough screen and zoom across to the left. Your to feed the most paranoid objective is to shoot them and avoid bumping into them. im aginations for years. Sad, simple stuff but it may find its takers. Most of the demo is taken up with a trip hop sound track and Available from : Your Choice PD, 39 captioned pictures detailing how Lambton Road, Chorlton, Manchester various Am erican presidents M21 0ZJ. Price: £99p including P + P. have been involved in alien cover ups for the past half a century. Apparently a band of aliens gave the American government the information needed to develop its 'Stealth' aviation technology in exchange for not disclosing details Radar Issue 2 about the aliens' visit. Oh, and John F Kennedy was killed disk magazine p “ (by the driver of his car) because he was going to expose Now get this: Radar is the T)€ RADAR MAGAZINE the whole thing. OFFICIAL Pennine Amiga That's all according to this demo of course, and who am Club International disk .£.!>Tm -H I to question it? As if out of magazine, not just some " ■ •- obligation, there's a short u n o f f ic ia l im it a t io n ! W h a t r..i. . *«r«r»-.r section of wobbly graphics would possess someone to between the conspiracy make an unofficial version is < ••»■*" m™ 'm ' theories and the credits. If beyond me but rest assured: j, you've got video tapes of this is the official mag! every episode of the X-Files It's come on a lot since arranged in alphabetical/ the first issue. There are enough articles to make quite a chronological order on your good read, including reviews of commercial and PD shelves, then this is for you. software, hardware reviews, letters, opinion columns, adverts, a reader survey, news and plenty m ore too. While Available from : OnLine PD, you read there's a choice of three hackneyed modules to 1 The Cloisters, Halsall tap your foot along to. If it's a clubby low-end games and Lane, Formby, Liverpool L37 PD kind of vibe you're after, then Radar is worth a read. 3PX. Tel: 01704 834 335. BBS: Available from : Stephen Parker, 0 1 7 0 4 8 3 4 Hillfoot, 51 Station Road, Baildon, 583. Price: Shipley, West Yorkshire BD17 6HS. £ 1 . 5 0 p lu s Tel and fax: 01274 585 332. 7 5 p P + P . Price: £1.00 plus 75p P + P. Telephone at any tim e and leavej Payment gladly recieved in Cheques, Postal Orders, or by your name and address (Quote tcCu&iae p v Credit/Debit cards. 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Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMCacheCDFS 2.6 (commercial) = 44 seconds. AmiCDFS 2.6 = 35 seconds. How can it be? PD software (even uncrippled) perform ing far better than expensive com mercial alternatives! W hat's more, AmiCDFS even works with the atapi.device for IDE CD-ROMs on Amigas. This W e're pretty sensitive about virus checkers at CU Amiga is most definitely utility of the month and even though Magazine after the scare we had with our last CD-ROM the author doesn't demand a shareware fee, he darn cover m ount. One thing is certain: a virus checker needs w ell deserves it. Only a fool wouldn't use it to read the several essential features before its any good at catching n e x t C U C D . the latest, nasty so-called 'link' file viruses. Firstly it has to be as up to date as much as possible. Available from : Your Choice. Aminet This can be a problem if you get PD and such forth off Path: disk/cdrom/amicdfs26.lha (121K) the 'net, where you're risking attack from a brand new virus. Secondly the program m ust be able to unpack and check compressed files as a virus infected program could otherwise simply be packed and then not recog nised by the checker. Lastly, and this is something Iconian 2.97 which I've only really seen VirusZ and XTruder support, Icon Editor ...... —■------^ „ — the virus checker m ust be able to scan the contents of For creating and editing | LHA or LZX archives. your own icons Iconian is CW^^HZ I Xtruder does all this and while it doesn't have a small simply the best package CI-Ii ^ inoffensive GUI like Virus Z, it is still highly config there is (that I've seen jjB l M urable with a mass of powerful features such as auto anyway). You can zoom in • n,,i~ m atic tim e scheduled virus scanning. This is probably a n d o u t o f t h e e d it o r a n d , * . I < • ^ jL w hat makes XTruder the choice of BBS use any of 15 drawing X— - r r ‘ operators who must always be on guard. It's always a tools. Im porting IFF good idea to have a couple of packages keeping watch pictures and turning them into icons is little trouble. The on your hard drive and as Xtruder is a high quality, menus are packed w ith serious features from colour and feature laden virus checker, it's just about essential to palette options to user macro definitions. Typing text in organise a copy every tim e an update appears. any font and style into the icon, painting, filling and Thankfully you need only update the libraries. including brushes etc is a piece of cake. There's only very m inor restrictions which are lifted by Available from : Your Choice, see box the S15 shareware fee. out on page 87 for details. Aminet path: util/virus/Xtruder24.lha (282K) Available from : Your Choice. Aminet path: gfx/edit/lconian2_97.lha (322K) Everyday Organizer CyberShow 6.0a Personal Organizer Picture Viewer I needed this utility. I need to get organised. So Everyday CyberShow is dif- —■■■■■■■■■»- Organizer was recommended to me by some 'net buddies ferent from your r ______and boy oh boy does it look good. Based on M UI, it m ight standard picture not look like everyone's cup of tea but it's sure got what viewers. Firstly it * ,, j :y f ■ | h M | it takes. There's several different organizer clients in the doesn't support £■■ package. 'Locate' is an essential address book that has a any special custom _j search facility. 'On Tim e' is an event scheduler which is screen modes such p - ’ V shown in the accom panying screenshot here. This can tie as HAM. All it does HWp ■■ in to the next package 'Alarm ist' which w ill be activated is display the cho- ^ on startup and audibly warn of any im portant events. On sen pictures on a poj '-j Time is am azingly comprehensive. I loved the date calcu public screen in a -I lation function which gives the tim e between tw o dates window. The more to get an idea of how far away it is. colours the screen —,. -T", ■■■ Some support programs included 'Talk' which is a has the more accu- — ■■ ■' "■ ■ replacement for the Say command but with many more rately CyberShow can render the picture (if it has a lot of features and 'Sam ' w hich is a datatype sound player. colours). CyberShow was really designed for GFX board Finally 'Coder' encrypts files from prying eyes. Overall a users who run the CyberGraphX RTG system. lovely professional package and 100% freeware. If you This system can actually open standard intuition screens need organising like I do, get it now. in up to 24 bit colour depth. CyberShow will produce a proper true-colour picture in a window of photorealistic Available from : quality. It's very handy and a one of a kind for GFX board Your Choice users, but it's also still very useful as a picture view er for Am inet path: W orkbench. This is because of the staggering array of pic biz/misc/EO10.lha ture types supported, including IFF, PhotoCD, Jpeg, (2 1 5 K ) PPM/PGM/PBM, QRT, Targa.PCX.BMP. TIF, EGS7. DEEP. YUV, VLAB, RGB and a whole lot more, plus any datatypes avail able. It will even busy itself loading the next picture while you're viewing the last in slide show mode. There is a major catch though: it only displays greyscale unless it’s 78 registered which costs 30 German DM or about £15. It could be worth it though. 0 ^ 0 ^ How to contact Your Choice Available from : Your Choice. Am inet Almost everyone has heard of the Am inet archives on the Path: gfx/board/cybershow60a.lha (98K) Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMrnet, the largest collection of Amiga software in the ~d. ’Your Choice PD' has come up w ith an excellent 'on for Amiga users w ith no net access. Your Choice has packed the massive Am inet index file including a StarBlank search utility/browser on to tw o bootable floppy disks. By ing £1.00 plus 70p P+P to Your Choice, you can then Screen Blanker It's a com pilation of screen blankers. I never saw the se the index, select as m any Am inet files as you like problem w ith turning the m onitor off myself. Seriously to fit on as m any floppy disks as you care to order. though, I use the screen dim m er in MCP for functionali Each floppy disk of Am inet files costs £1.50 + 70p P+P r order. Your Choice can be contacted at 39 Lambton ty to avoid the very real threat of phosphor 'burn-in' which can and does leave images permanently on your Rd. Chorlton, Manchester M21 OZJ. Tel: 0161 881 8994. screen if it's left showing a bright display for too long. Blankers (or screensavers)are really for fun and this is an entire collection to have a laugh at including Vark 12 StarBlanker which gives the disk its title. This provides Utility compilation your screen w ith a nice moving starfield. Another Vark util com pilation which packs a lot of stuff on Others include Zodiac, Twilight, Rotor, Spliner, the floppy for your quid. M uch of it is excellent m aterial FracPlank, Star, PBIanker, FancyBlanker (which kept •vhich I've not even seen on the Am inet. Included is anoth guruing on me, so I can't comment on it) and a hell of a er CD filesystem re-written from the AmiCDROM source. lot more. All have their own peculiar graphical effect on Although not as good as AmiCDFS, it's still capable. offer. Some are better behaved than others, most are at There's also an updated screen driver for ShapeShifter least commodities so they can be removed and have which is much faster than the original and the Breathless their preferences appear by talking to them w ith the 1.1 engine update is there too. The excellent FastExec pro Workbench commodities exchange program. gram speeds up machines w ith fast memory and an IFF to The best effort on the disk was BServer which had a ASCI producer plus details to fix the floppy drives on AT's range of blankers which it would choose from random new A 1200s. Also useful are an ASL file requester patch to or by your own preference. It w ill also use you desired make directories appear first, a hard disk RDB back-up pro screen mode and some of the effects are quite neat for gram and the excellent UrouHack utility which makes win pose value. dows look am azingly different. This is a superb. Just one thing though Vark, make it accessible from W B please. 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These tw o were both hand drawn using DPaint V and then reworked DPaint on an A1200 was the package Jon Court using Starburst. America’ picture. WORKSHOP MF The new Walker has been GRAPHICS MASTERCLASS 94 causing a lot of Creating a caricature can be fun and it's very easy to do. W e show you how in Graphics Masterclass. controversy on COMMS 96 • I W ant t o s e t u p y o u r o w n FTP a n d W W W se rve r o n th e 'net. F o llo w o u r g u id e and the net and in you'll soon be webbing it with the best of them. the office. Its NET GOD 98 • The new Walker has been brewing up a storm on the internet. See what our unusual design Comms expert has to say about it and what else is happening on the 'net. is attracting SCALA lOO • comments from Are you the proud owner of an Amiga Magic Pack complete with Scala. but need a manual to use the program? Well this tutorial should help. all quarters. SUBSCRIPTIONS 102 • Points of view [ Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM There’s still lots of savings to be had and it looks like the six month subscription is here to stay. and NetGod CD Q&A IIO • both centre I If you were lucky enough to get a copy of our superb CD-ROM issue last month. here are some queries that you might have had solved for you. around this latest piece of POINTS OF VIEW 116 I It’s the boys club this month. The men of CU Amiga Magazine air their opinions on technology from the Walker amongst other things. AT. When you finished with the FAQ 104 Walker debate Fancy graphics can be tricky to create on your World Wide Web pages, so here are don't forget to your most irksome problems solved. tuck into our Q&A MASTERCLASS 112 usual section of Arexx comes in bandy for all manner of tilings. This month, how to use Arexx in con junction with other programs to automate features and add others. tutorials, Q+A 114 question and The hoys are hack in town and they're ready for some hot brain-teasing action. All your technical hardware and software problems solved. answer pages, readers letters BACKCHAT 118 In response to criticisms of incompetent shop assistants an Escom manager writes in. and top sub Also. NFA reply: all in this month's hotbed of gossip. scription offers. Lights, cameras and the Action Editor Imagine 3.0 The Action Editor is where it all happens with Imagine 3.0. Want to grab some? Here's how ... t may look confusing but the Action Editor display. The first is k e y t o Im a g in e a n im a tio n is the camera, which always needs mastering what happens in to be present otherwise it would th e A c tio n E d ito r. It's w h e re be impossible to view anything at all the m ost subtle and yet rendering tim e. The second is powerfulI options are hidden away. called 'Globals' and it defines the T h e re a re t w o re a s o n s fo r u s in g environment of your virtual world. the Action editor. First of all. it Y ou can o p e n u p th e G lo b a ls defines how the objects loaded object by clicking on its entry in and placed in the Stage Editor the Action Editor Grid. Click on the Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMchange over time. Animations are coloured bar in line with the Actor' fine-tuned here. You can create setting, This should open a roughly what you want to happen re q u e s te r like th e o n e in F ig u re 2. in the Stage Editor and then con from where you can adjust the trol it to incredible accuracy in the various settings. Action Editor. W e 'll n o w g o th ro u g h th e s e t a n d w ill s h o w u p The display is of a grid, w ith the tings one by one. To see anything in e ith e r S can lin e o r Spheros with no objects listed vertically and the s e n s ib le , y o u s h o u ld g o b a c k t o th e Ray Tracing m o d e s . global m apping set frames in the animation listed Stage Editor and load and position C lic k o n th e B ro w s e horizontally. Every attribute of the s o m e o b je c ts in c lu d in g a t le a st o n e b u tto n t o b rin g u p a objects can be controlled individu light source. You can then try file requester a lly f o r e a c h fra m e o r th e o b je c ts adjusting the Globals settings and c a n b e m a d e t o m o rp h fr o m o n e g o b a c k t o th e S ta g e E d ito r f o r a Backdrop setting to another. As Animation is Q u ic k R e n d e r o r m o v e to th e The Backdrop image The global im age map such a huge subject, we'll start our Project Editor to render the scene appears behind all the look at the Action Editor by exam in detail. The Global Brush does objects in a scene. You ining its secondary purpose: con not appear directly in a scene, c o u ld u s e it t o a d d a trolling the global appearance of h o w e v e r if a n y o f th e o b je c ts background, such as t h e w o rld w h ic h y o u a re re n d e rin g . present are reflective you will see clouds or a cityscape. e v id e n c e o f it. Im a g in e y o u w a n t a One trick when making Globals s h in y lo g o t o a p p e a r a g a in s t a animations is to render Every tim e you start Imagine, two black background. W hat would you a backdrop (for exam s p e c ia l o b je c ts a p p e a r in th e see reflected in the shiny material? ple, a detailed planetl U n le s s y o u h a v e a a n d u s e t h e im a g e as global brush, you won't the backdrop. This means you and added to the image. see anything reflected don't need to re-render the back It therefore w on't appear in w h ic h m a ke s f o r a ground over and over again. One reflections and w on't show b o rin g im a g e . U s e a rather irritating thing though is that through transparent objects. If d ig itis e d im a g e o f the backdrop image m ust be the you want a background to show c lo u d s o r e v e n a same size as the image you are through an object, make a plane blurred image of blue rendering in the Project Editor, so and map the texture director and w hite air-brushed remember to set both the same. onto it instead. patterns to make your The backdrop picture will re fle c tio n s m o re completely replace any back ows and so on in interesting. The Global ground 'sky’. It is not a rendering image match the position b ru s h c a n b e a n y size. object, it is simply plonked down lights in the foreground. - N u m b e r o f f r a m e s in the animation 'Cam era object T ^Globals object - F ra m e s It o t iir i scrtMsbM of tkt bcImmi edrtar: now foa know vriwt goti wfctrt. ▲ To crMto ■ realistic g a lur of ttars y«« cat try poiotiii white dots inkle a black sphere. Ambient RGB the mood you are trying to cre effect you have been waiting for. the distance from the camera at Meeting the right positions for ate. In these images, there is Simply enter a number other than which an object is halfway ht sources in a scene is a real only one distant light source and zero into this field and you'll get buried. It takes a lot of experi dll. If you want to know the different ambient light settings. an instant star field. Small num mentation to get the values just best lo c a tio n s , a s k a p h o to g ra p h bers work best - try 0.01 to start right for your scene. This image er get a book from your library, Horizon/zenith w ith. Higher numbers look a bit has the following settings: be A m b ie n t lig h t v a lu e s a re a If you don't want to use a weird. Sadly the stars never Fog Bottom : -100 Fog Top: 100 isure of the am ount of stray Backdrop image, you can still seem to show up well in print, so Fog Length: 500 Fog Red: 25 ight in a scene. Am bient light adjust the colour of the sky. This I've made the sky reddish and Fog Green: 25 Fog Blue: 25 Try is no direct source but it illumi is achieved with the three sets of included a m agnified view. In these settings in your own nes everything. It w ill therefore three light settings: horizon, posi Imagine 3 the stars don’t animate image and then fine-tune them ake shadows less dark and tive and negative zenith. The hori well and so for epic productions as necessary. tcrease contrast. You w ill need zon is the centre of the screen you may wish to create your own set it according to the objects a n d th e z e n ith s a re th e v e ry to p starfield by creating a black Miscellaneous iu Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMare using, the num ber of and bottom of the sky (not the sphere and painting w hite dots The Start/End Frame values are ght sources in the scene and screen). If you move the camera onto the inside. For parallax for when animations are being up and down, the effects: well, that's a different created and so w e'll look at that 1 N o a m b io nt light R = 5, G = 5, B = 5 colours w ill move to story all together. next month. The same goes for re fle c t th e c h a n g e . the 'max seq’ which allows The shading looks backdrops to be animated, and —— Fog settings great and adds a lot to The global setting which adds 'Transition frame count' which a scene with minimal most to the ’atmosphere' of your defines how different global effort. Obviously if you scene, is the Fog feature. There settings merge from one to 1 R = 5 0 , C = 5 0 . B = 5 0 R = 150. G= 150, B= 150 have a Backdrop are six values to set: three of another. Next m onth w e really image selected, you which are the red, green and start to get things moving as we won’t see the cplours. blue colour of the fog. The other look at Imagine's powerful ani settings are vertical dimensions mation facilities. Order your Star field of the fog (for example, set bot accelerator cards and larger hard tackm fate kfkt A m is k Calling all Star Trek tom to -100 and top to 100 fo r a disks now) ■ fans ... yes, this is the bank of fog 200 units high) and John Kennedy iaahtai*|aittkacoleer alttabeck|ieaelratterttaaaaaabacb*a« ine|e.Tacbaaietta A Far laaie enra attaoibhere a t»nr eltect aees la in well la adaeea d ie p a aaal ta le t ail aalaaa: r a t i ta after tte aettia|s: bernee. aaiathe ria itt aa< peartne rewtt. yreee. Mea. tta re n ta l feaaaaiaaa aab tta fetaaca hoar tta camera. Graphics Masterclass Fast cars, strange-looking men. Anything's possible when you know how. And we're here to teach you. Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMfeatures. In the Mel Gibson example his mouth was altered by dragging out a warp area that matched the contours of his shoulders and body of the subject cheeks. Depending on the area Caricatures brash and bold, shy and retiring, but make this much smaller in you are changing you'll need to Creating a caricature from a rough and ready? All of these comparison to the head. This use different warp settings, posi digitised photograph is not only points can be taken into account. a lo n e w ill g iv e y o u r c h a ra c te rs an tive numbers to expand and neg fun but surprisingly easy to do, instant puppet-like appearance. ative to shrink. at least in a rather basic form. How to cheat Due to the amount of cutting Both the George Bush and Caricatures w ork by exaggerat You want to cheat? OK, the easi and pasting that this technique M e l G ib s o n p ic tu re s a re ta ke n ing certain features to comical est and quickest way to make involves you will probably find it from the Nothing But GIFs CD degrees. A skilled artist w ill be your first caricature is to get hold best to use Image FX. DPaint. from 17 Bit Software. See their able to look at a face and see . of a digjtised photo of your PPaint or Brilliance as they advertisement in this issue immediately which features subject and cut the face in half all have good brush handling for details. need m ost attention. Basically horizontally. Try making the cut options. If Photogen- these w ill be the m ost dominant just below the eyes and around ics is your preferred aspects of the face. For exam the bottom of the nose. Now tool you m ight like to ple. if anything is unusually pick up each part as a brush and use the following large, make it much bigger. The expand the top part and shrink techniques instead. same goes for small features, . the bottom part, then paste them T h e w a r p e r to o l which should be reduced. back down again. Hey presto: a is v e ry h a n d y fo r Sometimes it’s not individual basic caricature! quickly expanding or features that are the key - the If y o u w a n t t o d o th e jo b p ro p shrinking individual overall shape of the face or erly you need to cut up head can often be the most the face into its com outstanding aspect of some ponent parts: hair, one's appearance. For example, forehead, eyes, nose, a mouth, cheeks, ears caricature of John Cleese might and chin. Put these extend the height of the entire aside on a spare page. head w ith very little exaggera Now you can set about tion of the individual features. resizing each part and It's also worth taking into putting the face back account the perceived person together. One final trick ality of the character - are they is t o u s e th e o rig in a l S p e e d lim it Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMliis ra th e r s ty lis h Sure of a highly sirable Mercedes iulwing is the result I of a fair bit of w ork ising Image FX and ttogenics. The ginal picture came from the resulting in a very pleasant motion lothing But GIFs CD from 17 blur effect. IBit Software. It’s included on t month's covermounted CD Motion blur |in the CUCD:17_Bit_PD/ 17BIT- Next the car was cut out from the SIF/GIFS/ D IG IT IS E /T R A N S P O R T background. The easiest way to awer and the file is called do this is remove the background 4 .G IF ’ . w ith a big paint brush, then care The idea was to take the sta fully remove the parts around the ll picture and inject some edge of the car. You can then pick I and excitement into the up the car using the Scissors ene. Subjecting the whole icon, clicking it twice to turn on lage to a sim ple m otion blur the automatic background cess is the obvious solution, detection. This is much easier tthe results w ould be a lot than trying to outline the whole i dramatic than this. car by hand in one go. Let’s start off w ith the back- W ith the car isolated it was und. which was created in then loaded into Photogenics and age FX using the Remove subjected to a m otion blur Iture option from the Effects process with an angle setting of nu. The original picture was 2 7 0 d e g re e s ( rig h t t o le ft) a n d a d e d a n d th e n th e le f t h a lf o f length of 50 pixels. This was jtwas deleted by dragging a repeated to emphasise the effect. background was then composed was loaded into the secondary ge black box over the area to The same could still be done from with the blurred car using the buffer and the Compose func B re m o ve d . N o w w h e n th e within Image FX, it’s just a matter Brightness Key option to fade the tion was used once more, move Feature option is of personal preference. Then the tw o together. superimposing the sharp ;ted. the remaining graph- c a r w a s m o v e d in to th e s e c Finally to add some definition detailed image over the blurred i on the right of the screen ondary buffer and the blurred and detail, the original cut out of main picture. ■ B sm e a re d a c ro s s t o th e le ft. background was loaded. The the car (not the blurred version) Tony Horgan Wired W | U j | 1 This month we set up an FTP and WWW sei our Amiga. Now all we need is cheap perm i g9 ) I connections and we're sorted. h e n w e w e re c o ve rin g u p lo a d O N LY t o th is th e FTP c lie n t’s directory. Copying this F ebruary W ire d W o rd , kind of form at is w e promised to explain advised. Lastly, there's how to set up an FTP a c o u p le o f te x t file s serviceW on your own machine. Here which users w ill see is th a t e xp la n a tio n ; th e d a e m o n when the log on. w e’ll use as an example is available Firstly, 'ftpbanner' o n a n y A m in e t m irro r u n d e r th e should be a nice text path commAcp/mlftpd 14.lha. file w h ic h w ill b e d is T h e re a re o th e r FTP d a e m o n s avail p la y e d t o e ve ry o n e able and the techniques are similar who logs on. It should though most tend to be more b e le ft in th e complicated than the one supplied AmiTCPdb directory b y M a g n u s L ilia (o f A m iF T P fam e). again. Secondly, ’.wel T h e firs t s te p is t o c o p y th e ftp d ' come' w ill be shown to executable into the AmiTCP:Serv anonymous FTP users Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMdirectory. Then load the config file and has to be installed inetd.conf into your text editor. This in th e fir s t lin e in y o u r c o n fig u ra tio n file d e ta ils w h a t to d o ftp d ir c o n fig . In th is w ith each service available on your ca se th a t w o u ld be A m iT C P s e t-u p . E n su re th e re is no Main:ftp. You’re ready line that starts with FTP and if there to go! Test it out by is, c o m m e n t it o u t b y p la c in g a logging in via your FTP hash (#) in front of it. Now add the client to ’localhost'. lin e m fig u re 1. W hen you link up users S ave th e c o n fig file a n d th e n A tW CVCS IN* liu p if t t b«M| um d fcf to Aa^a Vht Saw IMFS) MR it hMr mst M Map a should now be able to load your AmiTCP; Serv/passwd file ■•ton tm to rga a KWH nu M |H m M |a Maw al tm awf n a toaaaf haa log into your machine and upload into your text editor. This file into the incoming directory and details the users able to log in to the actual physical drive names on w ith y o u r o w n p riv ile g e s . J u s t download any other files present. your system. It would be a good your system. Always a good c o p y th e ftp u s e rs file fro m th e W h y w o u ld y o u ru n a n FTP s ite idea to add a couple of lines as in ’ s e c u rity p re c a u tio n . mlftpd archive into AmiTCPdb. w ith a dial up account? It’s a lot fig u re 2. N o w tw o m o re te x t c o n fig u ra ’ftpdir’ is a little more involved. It less messy than sending binaries Note that the path embedded tion files have to be created: details all the directories to which via E-mail and such forth and no- between the bar characters at the ’ftpusers’ and ’ftpdir' must be cre anonymous users can gain access one need bother you with the e n d in fig u re 2 is M a i m ft p T h is a te d a n d sa v e d in th e A m iT C P db to. Anonymous users would nor a c c e s s t o y o u r m a c h in e . I ke e p m y should be changed to describe the d ire c to ry a g a in . T h e ftp u s e rs file is m a lly b e e v e ry o n e w h o lo g s in favourite module collection in the location of the root directory of , a lis t o f u s e rs w h o a re e ffe c tiv e ly remotely. An example would be; F T P -d e m o n fo r p e o p le t o a cce ss your own private FTP site. Decide banned from using your FTP and upload any other module they where it will be and fill in your own service. This is another security M a i m ftp th in k I m ig h t like. In p ra c tic e it’s o f path here. You m ight like to make precaution to make sure no-one Main i ftp/incoming W most use when many people know an assign and use this to disguise can lo g o n to a c c e s s a ll y o u r d riv e s you are linked up such as being This means everyone can log present on an IRC channel etc. onto M ain:ftp (which may contain F ig u re 2 directories w hich users can enter). Securityl a n o n y m o u s | • | 3 | 99 | Anon y m o u s F T P Us e r | Ma i m ft p |cl± The second line has a special W One of the configuration files ftp|*|3|99 (Anonymous FTP User | Ka i m ftp | ell flag afterwards which means w ith in A m itc p :d b / is called 'Write’. Anonymous users can inet access and it controls which IP a d d re s s e s h a v e a c c e s s t o w h a t services on your machine. Most people w ill not have many services, daemons or other auto matic systems running on their running a stock AmiTCP set-up, y o u w o n 't h a v e t o w o r r y about that. There is a configuration file which resides in AW Sxonf/ and is simply called ’aws'. The one installed is of no use but there's a A I t ii acctts ta m i SUIT » rl 25 cmU bt i w i ir iu a trp * to M h ti Mai tirecth n n 5m it cmU aha ka laaa aaaty iMrrikMl tr»iaf ta crask oai auchiaa. titte r war tha accaaa taaa BaaiaB. system, why not go the full hog completely commented config file a n d s e t u p o u r v e ry o w n W W W called 'configfile' inside the HTML s ite o n o u r A m ig a ? Yes it's p o s s i directory which you may use for Figure 3 ble and in fact it's not even very reference. Incidentally the HTML smtp 158.152.1.* allow log difficult. The m ost difficult bit will d ire c to ry is th e d o c u m e n ta tio n fo r ■mtp * # * # * B * d e n y l o g be creating the HTML pages them AWS in HTML format. To read it. selves. Check out John Kennedy's lo a d u p y o u r W W W B ro w s e r a n d F AQ th i? m o n th f o r s o m e p o in te rs select 'load local' or the like and to creating HTML pages. p ic k A W S :H T M L /in d e x .h tm l. A n Figure 4 First of all w e need to FTP Mike e x a m p le c o n fig u ra tio n w o u ld b e as ftp 158.152.*.* allow log Meyer's excellent Amiga Web in fig u re 5. ftp * . * . * . * d e n y l o g Server by FTPing to either T h e v ita l b its to c h a n g e a re th e max.physics.sunysb.edu/pub/amig server name on line 2 which would niTCP set up but one very com- logged on you'll see the result in a/amosaic/aws or ftp.phone.net/ be your full E-mail address minus 1 s e n /ic e is a n S M T P d a e m o n the AmiTCP log CON: window. The pub/amiga/aws/ then retrieve the th e u s e rn a m e . T h e s e c o n d is a n E- r Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. reason that they're tw o lines is fo llo w in g file s : mail address for errors and such IThis is the program that waits for b e c a u s e A m iT C P w ill try a n d m a tc h forth. You can make this your own [ SMTP mail if your provider uses each in turn. If Demon accesses a - 0 9 7 . l h a address. Leave everything else as l a service. Those users with y o u r S M T P d a e m o n , it'll re a ch th e html-097.lha it is e x c e p t t h e fin a l e n try w h ic h sir o w n fu ll d o m a in s u c h a s firs t lin e a n d s e e th a t a c c e s s is aws-amitcp-20. lha s h o u ld b e t h e lo c a tio n o f y o u r non users w ill have SMTP mail, allowed. For anyone else the first HTML pages for you site. In this tfortunately the Amiga SMTP lin e d o e s n 't a p p ly b u t th e se c o n d T h e la s t o n e c a n b e s u b s titu te d case it’s Main:W WW. Save the file n o n is n 't 100% fo o lp ro o f a n d does since it matches everyone t o aw s-am itcp-O O .Iha f o r th e 6 8 0 0 0 as AWS:conf/aws. Now all that's i b e c ra s h e d b y s o m e n a s ty per- a n d w ill h e n c e d e n y th e m access. v e rs io n if th a t's th e C P U y o u have. required to run AWS is to run the i w riting illegal characters to This technique could be used to N o w c re a te a n A W S d ire c to ry in server itself. To do this, add this u r S M T P p o rt (TCP p o rt 2 5 fo r lim ite d a n y s e rv ic e s t o a ny your AmiTCP: assign. Next set up line to your Amitcp:bin/Startnet [the technically minded). p ro v id e rs e tc . A c o u p le o f lin e s like an AWS: assign to this newly cre s c rip t a t th e b o tto m o r a c tiv a te it Unfortunately if w e lock every- those in figure 4; would allow a te d d ire c to ry . A d d a n a s s ig n to b y h a n d w h e n n e e d e d ; i b u t th e a c tu a l p ro v id e r o u t o f a n y o n e u s in g D e m o n a s th e ir ser y o u r u s e r-s ta rtu p o r e v e n y o u r i SMTP port, other machines vice provider to access the FTP AmiTCP: Bin/Startnet script. I use Run >nili AWS iAWS Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMo n 't b e a b le t o d e liv e r S M T P m a il d a e m o n w e 'v e ju s t s e t u p b u t no- M C P t o h a n d le m y p re fs s o it's a irectly to you and w ill instead o n e e lse . O f c o u rs e y o u c o u ld simple matter of adding AWS in If all goes according to plan you lave t o ro u te it via y o u r h o s t. T h is c h a n g e th is s o th a t o n ly y o u r the GUI prefs editor. I recommend now have a working WWW site on m't a large problem though and friends have access by entering in such a utility for people using y o u r A m ig a l Test it o u t b y acce ss 9 e xtra s e c u rity m a k e s it an many lines containing all their IP AmiTCP and such forth that ing http://localhost via your W W W ential addition until a rock solid addresses. Assuming that your re q u ire s a lo t o f a s s ig n s t o b e B ro w s e r. W h e n y o u lin k u p , o th e rs Pd c o m e s a lo n g fo r th e friends are using a provider which a s s e s s e d fre q u e n tly . should be able to surf your own niga. An example of locking out gives them a static or non-chang Now via the Shell, change direc site and you'll have a record of eryone but Demon Internet in g IP a d d re s s o f th e ir o w n . M a n y to ry (C D ) t o A W S : a n d e x tra c t a ll o f th e ir a c c e s s e s a n d e rro rs in th e vices via your inet.access file is providers assign IP addresses only the archives in place w ith LHA. tw o logfiles in UUSpool: called 1 in f i g u r e 3 . when the dial-in customer logs-in AWS is basically installed now. If http_access and http_error. Don’t The first entry indicates that w e though so this techniquewill not you’ve attempted to install some forget to check out the HTML I are ta lk in g a b o u t th e s m tp s e rv ic e w o r k in th a t c a s e th o u g h y o u o th e r W W W s e rv e r o n y o u r AWS documentation as there's [ as defined in the Amitcp:dbAnetd. c p u ld a p p ly w ild c a rd s t o th e e n tire m a c h in e , e n s u re th a t a n y p o rt 80 s o m e v e ry n ifty fe a tu re s s u c h as infig file. The next is a simple provider if need be. It's quite com or http entries are deleted from A re x x s c rip ts w h ic h c a n b e d ca rd s y s te m . T h e f ir s t lin e mon to lock out certain American Amitcp:db/services and - employed to great effect. Enjoyl ■ :ified Demon's IP address with providers famous for their quantity Am itcp:db/inet.config. If you're Mat Bettinson I n u m b e r o n th e e n d . A ll o f th e of irresponsible customers. P addresses that match this pat- Fig u re 5 i are Demon themselves. The Amiga server t k e y w o rd is o b v io u s ly t o a llo w O K s o n o w w e h a v e a n FTP p o r t 80 < de n y th e a c c e s s . Lastly, if daemon running on our AmiTCP sarvarnama cu-amiga.damon.co.uk maintainar webmastac0cu-amiga. damon.co.uk indaxfila indax.html h o u r a o f f 0 m~7TEi~F-i~i=m accaaslog uuspoolihttp_accaaa m t= i i t= i s zrz rv i t= maasagalog uuspool :http_arror daftypa taxt/plain typa taxt/html html typa application/postscript ps « < ••• restrictions assl y. typa application/octact-atraam lha typa imaga/gif gif typa imaga/jpag jpg jpag m L 3 ■"h h b i w 11 t y p a i m a g a / x - x b i t m a p xJxn map /null null - » Itaei eel Fit me ...e » | .. .IfIN Ukr. h.led .. k»«r ueli «.« e»lee« .eM I.i wi e»|kl M l m il tte a silv e i at H itfc» | ttey n i|kt wart. Ym iciatck My kack ... map / diractory Main:WWW/ ASurf's new Amiga causes slightly more thanup! a storm in teacup, Hi-Soft release their own surf pack and net training via video. PLQ BBS 1.1 u p d a te HiSoft Internet in DLG's Jeff Grimmett a box re c e n tly a n n o u n c e d a Hi-Soft w ill soon be bug-fix and enhance shipping Squirrel Surf ment update to version Packs, th e ir a n s w e r to 1.1 fre e f o r a ll D LG th e A m ig a Technolo SysOps. The update is Surf Pack. Based on said to contain more A m iT C P 3 .0 a n d the than 150 fixes and commercial release of u p d a te s t o m a k e D LG IBrowse, the 'Squirrel more stable, reliable Surf Packs’ will be a _ and versatile than it high power alternative I has been in the past. to AT's product. What’s f DLG owners looking more the hardware/ L to upgrade should turn software bundle comes to their local support with a ready to run F s ite o r th e a u th o r's one month trial FTP s ite a t ftp .b itn o - A Hi-Salt ibatld. at Hi. time ol publication. bo >biaa>l tto . aKofaa- service with Frontier I va.com/ DLG. The UK support site tive la Aoifi Tachaaio|iot Sari back. Saainal Saif rack Communications. Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMis Tony Miller's 01 for Amiga BBS Each bundle includes on 0171 247-9240 or 2:254/500 live, an actual Amiga monitor a Surf Squirrel w ith its high via Fidonet. along with our experts, getting speed serial port, Internet soft- j on-line from scratch.' ware and the choice of a 14K4 Makers of the the video say it a 28K8 modem. The details of Better Concepts Incorporated, of w ill incorporate tutorials which the other clients, such as mail Garnerville New York, have w ill cover AmiTCR several Amiga and news, haven't been finalisi announced the arrival of a new mosaic programs, Thor and much We w ill print more details whi Internet tutorial video inspiringly more. CU Amiga Magazine will available. So far it looks like Hi title d 'T h e C o n n e c t Y o u r A m ig a To review the video shortly which is Soft's entry, starting at £199. T h e In te rn e t V id e o ’ . available in PAL for Euro Amiga the Internet-in-a-box market will, The 60 minute duration video users. Retailing at US$34.95 with com pare favourably in the UK to is claimed to walk the would-be tw o floppy disks of software, you AT's ow n Surf Pack. Mail Hi-: I'netter through every step can E-mail darkuni@ qed.net. at hisoft@ cix.compulink.co.uk necessary to set up their hard WW W to http://www. qed.net.bci call them on 01525-718181 for ware and software. Better or even fax an order to +1-914- more information. ■ C o n c e p ts s a y th a t th e te a c h in g 786-1708. Finally you can snail mail NetGod is a freelance journalist method w ill involve 'following Better Concepts Inc, 36 Dye Street whose identity is kept secret to along step by step as you watch. Garnerville NY 10923, USA. ensure confidentiality. Frontier mirror Aminet Since the Amiga Surf Pack software will aren't the only choice and says that not function with Demon Internet Service's Frontier Communications have a range of SMTP mail aystem, another provider is other packages available such as a Static IP needed for usera of the Surf Pack. A repre SMTP mail service akin to Demon's servics sentative of Frontier Communications, all the way to BBS and ISDN accounts. Kieron Robbins, pointed out that they offer F ro n tie r. A K A T h e N e t in th e U K , has also a Dynamic I P POP3 mail account for only implemented a Aminet FTP archive mirror £8.50 per month <+VAT) with 512K Web at ftp.thenat.co.uk/pub/amiga/aminet. This space free. Frontier have 100% UK local is a welcome alternative to the sometimes call access and charge a £25 tet-up fee if unreliable Imperial College mirror. Well you're not paying for a year's service done Frontier! u p fro n t. For more information browse to M r Robbins, an Amiga user himself, it http://www.frontier.co.uk or call their sales keen to make it known that Demon team on 01273-795400. Logo 3 Delta Ray Autoftre JY1S0 . Logic J Ouatro OT Autolire JT155. Logc 3 Qjatro JT104______Logic 1 A*me «■» AuMre I---- Kid Chaos . ■ 27.99 QjcKJoy Myperped SV136_...... k***:-...... Qu*c‘ ic> PedaM 8V129 ...... KmgaOueet >----- QuKUoy * Tmtto SV124 _ KmoaOueel' RAUhoM-AinOBn ____ LewteryeS . 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Scala MM30 Did you buy a Magic Pack complete with Hard Drive, only to find that the copy of Scala didn't include a manual? If so, this tutorial will soon get you going. Scala Multimedia / scala Multimedia MM300 SCALA tijip/me FFuENFME WIFE FFOSE SOUND CU Amiga 1 Blue r i 5 0 t R 2 scala I B 5 0 . R 3 Tutorial • B 5 5 A O m m t o > * • al tka O n tn . D M m i 31 ttn fa il MfccOai a c a b * a rt Ikaa ctctaa| aa 4 Directed E 5 5 irs t a fe w b a s ic s a n d e s s e n 5 Effects | 7 5 l l tial moves. Let's begin by creating a plain background to fade a title into. Click Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMonce on 'NEW ' and a stan dardF Scala requester asks you to choose a background page:'. As / uiipe: superimpose w e don't want to load a picture, just click the 'OK' button. A new To end requester appears asking us to i ^ s i m a : : : : = c h o o s e t h e re s o lu tio n o f o u r b a ck ground. Select 'hires-interlaced' set m \ m shorn colours to eight and click 'OK'. T h is ta k e s u s s tra ig h t t o a B E3 *• I «*i| s r s~ — — Speed ^ 5 ► s c re e n w h e re w e c o u ld e n te r te x t, b u t a s w e ju s t w a n t a b la n k screen select 'OK'. You will see that Scala OK has already named this page 'Blank'. Let's change this, so clear Cancel the text requester either by using th e B a c k s p a c e K ey o r w ith a ▲ With th# last k i i m k iviig raMtoa Km m i gsf* aflscts it sbasid leak M araat aack te a . RtAmiga-X and type in 'Blue'. Pressing the Return Key or select top left. The text menu and colour mouse button on the text and it Return at the end of each line: in g 'O K ' w ill ta k e u s b a c k t o th e palette is at the bottom of the will change colour. This indicates Sfcia tutorial will balp mm gwt main screen with the name of our. screen. Try pressing the right that w e can drag it around the started with wy copy of page at the top. You should also mouse button a few tim es and you screen with the mouse. Move it M o v e th e m o u s e t o th e to p left n o tic e th a t a W ip e h a s b e e n s e t w ill find that the menu w ill alter c lo s e t o th e t o p o f th e scre e n of the word This' and, holding the and a M ouse icon appears in the nately disappear and reappear. before releasing the mouse but left mouse button down, drag the P a u se c o lu m n . W e w ill leave th e s e Type in 'S cala MM300'. Click to n . N o w w e w ill m o v e th e te x t to mouse to the bottom left of the a s th e y a re f o r th e tim e b e in g . on the 'Font:' button on the the middle of the screen by click te x t. A s y o u m o v e th e m o u s e a box menu and select 'Compact' font ing on the 'Centre Justify' button, w ill b e d ra w n . M a k e s u re th e b ox is The next step in size 64. We also want to ( th a t's th e m id d le o n e o f th e th re e below the bottom line of text L N o w w e n e e d t o c re a te a se c o n d change the colour of the font, so under the button marked 'Layout'). before releasing the mouse button. | page on which w e w ill enter some click on the yellow colour in the If th e c u rs o r is n 't a t th e e n d o f th e Click anywhere inside this box te x t. R e p e a t th e fir s t f e w s te p s , palette and then on the coloured lin e o f te x t m o v e it th e re u s in g th e and, holding the mouse button keeping the resolution and colours box in the 'Front' button. This w ill m o u s e o r th e c u rs o r k e y s a n d down, move the box toward the the same. You should now be look be our heading. press Return. Notice that the Font, b o tto m o f th e s c re e n . N o tic e th a t ing at our page make-up screen This heading probably isn't in Face Colour and Justification this tim e the block of text within which should have a plain blue the best position so let's move it. remain the same. Now type in the the box moves when you release background with a cursor at the Click and hold down the left following tw o lines of text pressing the mouse button. f SualaMiiliimediaMM300 SCALA Outline 3 3 n T e x t ? 6 0:00 4 C ? 8 f 71 0 :0 0 b 0 0 1 0 :0 0 Shadow 6 I i t I 0 :0 0 7 0 0 T | 0 :0 0 3D Text 8 U 0 i r 0 :0 0 9 r 0 i.r 0 :0 0 10 T h e s e a ie a f e u io f ih ? e ffH o ts 6 0 :0 0 few of the effects that can 1 OUT: O u tlin e 7 6 8 :0 0 2 OUT: S ha d o u i 7 6 0 :0 0 Colour show Delete OK r:aiu;i!l * I n i iMfM a t a i l t u m m i " U r n ' u (IMP M iitun |,|,IM M m « A Sula p n c n u t tka IIm ■ *• arfai Mr m • lit lift W hile this box is on screen, to read ‘CU Amiga'. 'Tutorial by’ to G o b a c k t o th e p a g e w e a re s p lits th e W p e In a n d W ip e O ut any changes w ill affect all the 'Directed by' and 'Norman Harris' working on by clicking on 'OK' and effects. As the effects are text w ithin it. Try this out by t o X XXXX (y o u can p u t y o u r o w n o n c e m o re c lic k o n o u r p a g e fo r a processed in order, we now need changing these last five lines to n a m e here). Leave th e fir s t lin e c u rs o r t o appear. T h is tim e w e a re t o m o v e a ll th e W p e O u t e ffe c ts to white. Select white from the 'Scala M ultim edia' as it is. Select going to type the word 'Colour', th e b o tto m o f th e lis t. F inally m o ve palette and click on the 'Front' 'O K' t o ta k e u s b a ck to th e p age, b u t a fte r e a c h le tte r I w a n t y o u to th e c ra w l lin e s o th a t it is th e la s t o f button colour box. 'O K ' o n c e m o re . R e n a m e th e p a g e p re s s th e 'E n te r' k e y (th a t is th e the 'In' effects and move back to We have now finished w ith this to 'Directed' and select 'OK' to b o tto m rig h t k e y o n t h e ke ypad), our main menu, naming the page page, so click on the first text line return to the main Scala menu. By and select a different Front colour. E ffe c ts ' o n th e w ay. to re c o v e r th e c u rs o r a n d s e le c t n o w w e s h o u ld h a v e fo u r p a g e s Pressing Enter' instead of All w e need to do now is to set ■OK'. N a m e th e p a g e S e a ls’ . a n d set up. let’s do one more before Return' just separates the letters, s o m e W ip e s fo r o u r p a g e s , so click on 'OK and Clear' to create a we're finished. Instead of creating and w e could even select a differ c lic k o n th e W ip e c o lu m n fo r th e new page. This tim e type the fol a new page w e will duplicate an ent font for each. Remember that first page and select a Fade’ wipe. Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMlowing. but instead of pressing existing blank page. The first page in this instance each letter is han N o tic e th a t th e n a m e o f th e w ip e 'Return' at the end of the line use is ideal, so click on the number 1 dled individually, and w e must a p p e a rs a t th e t o p o f th e W p e the down cursor key to move to and a Page Control menu w ill pop draw a box around them if we menu, and that w e don't have to the next line. up. This menu is used to rename, want to move them as a group. select 'OK' until w e have set all the Scala Multimedia Computer copy, move, insert pages and to Select the List screen once wipes and pauses. Amiga Tutorial by Norman switch pages on or off. m o re s o th a t w e can s e t a fe w Set the 'Smooth north' wipe Harris In th is in s ta n c e w e n e e d to effects. Click on the W ipe In' col for the 'Scala' and 'Tutorial' Note that the attributes from c o p y a p a g e t o th e e n d o f o u r umn for line 1 (our long line of text) pages, a 'Superimpose' wipe for the previous page have been car script. W e do this by clicking once a n d s e le c t th e C ra w l' e ffe c t - it's a 'Directed' and a 'Random' wipe ried forward. The first line has yel on 'Copy', change the To after chevron on a black background for the last page. W hen you've low text and the rest white. We page:' to 4. and select OK’. Next click on the W p e In' for line done that click on the Pause' col will make some changes though. D o u b le c lic k o n th is p a g e s o th a t 2 and select a 'Random' effect - um n and set all the pauses to 0 Move the cursor to the second line w e m o v e t o th e e d it s c re e n . Type the question mark. Click on To seconds apart from the 'Tutorial' and, by clicking on the font button, the following words onto the end' and select 'OK'. and 'Directed' pages which we c h a n g e t o C o m p a c t 3 1 . D o th e screen, pressing Return after each Now go to the 'W ipe In’ for the w ill set to 5 seconds. Now all we sa m e f o r lin e fo u r. T h e n m o v e 'Outline' 'Shadow' '3D Text'. Pick first letter 'o' in 'Colour', select the need to do is select 'Run!' to see each lin e t o im p ro v e t h e s p a c in g y o u r o w n fo n ts a n d y o u s h o u ld be 'Link' effect, and again select To the results. As the script loops, between them able to guess which of the various end'. This action links all subse you w ill see examples of fading, When it looks about right, fe a tu re s t o s e t f o r e a c h w o rd . quent lines together with the wipe scrolling, cross-fading and text select 'OK'. Rename the page to s e t fo r th e le tte r 'C '. crawling. The last page appears Tutorial' and this tim e select 'OK New order R epeat th e a c tio n s o n th e W p e diffetent each tim e due to the and Copy'. This duplicates the On the next line type 'These' then o u t' c o lu m n b u t d o n ’t b o th e r a b o u t random wipes. ■ page, as the next one is going to click on the button to take us to our Crawl line. Notice how Scala Norman Harris be very similar. It w ill also give us the List screen. Select '4' so that the opportunity to use another of th e c u rs o r a p p e a rs a fte r th e w o rd Scala running in 2Mb? Scala's features. 'These', and continue typing the Scala won't run on a 2M b Am iga. The reason for this is that Select the ‘List' button and you following: 'are a few of the effects Scala needs Fast RAM and as we all know a 2M b A 1200 only will be taken to another screen that can be achieved with my copy has Chip RAM. Apart from adding extra RAM you could pre which, funnily enough, lists all the of Scala Multimedia 300', before vent your Amiga from knowing that it doesn't have this lines of text in numerical order. pressing return. essential Fast RAM. Move NoFastMem from your System Find the line that reads 'Computer' Now press and hold down the drawer to the W BStartup drawer, add the tooltype DONOT- and click on that line number. A left mouse button over the text WAIT and then re-boot: your Amiga won't even know it's c u rs o r w ill a p p e a r o n th e lin e so you have just typed and move it to missing this RAM. You may need to de-archive Scala manu th a t w e c a n e d it th e te x t. C h a n g e th e to p o f th e lis t. A s w e w ill see. ally but it will now run. Remember to move NoFastMem 'Computer' to read 'Magazine'. 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