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Creative Computers is both a mail order company with a store’s support and three store MINIMUM ORDER: CO showrooms with moil order prices. If possible, drop by a store and you will be Am azedl SHIPPING INFO: 1%surchafift/ge for Viaa and MasterCard; call for shipping rates. INTERNA HONAL PHONE A 1UAJL ORDERS A CCEPTED Store front eddreeeee: RETURN POUCY: Defective merchandise under warranty wil be repaired or replaced. Returned 318 Wilshire Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90401 product must be in original package. We do not offer any refund on defective products or for products Tues. * Sat. 11-7 p.m., Sun. 11-5 p.m. phone: (213)394-7779 that do not perform satisfactorily. We make no guarantees lor product performance. 4453 Redondo Beach Blvd., Lawndale, CA 90260 CONDITIONS: Creative Compute™ reserves the right to limit the sale of any iteme to local in-person Mon - Sat. 11-7 p.m. phone: (213) 542-2292 pick-up only. Prioes subject to change without notico. 2112 E. Thompson Dr., Ventura, CA 93001 WE ALSO RUN A 24 Hr. BBS: Cal (213) 304-5988 with your modem. SCHOOL AND LARGE COMPANYPURCHASE ORDERS ACCEPTED. Tues • Sat 11-7 p.m., Sun. 12-5 p.m. phone: (805) 652-0325______Visit one of our stores soon 11 Circle #119 on Reader Service Card Supra's FD- MUSIG, 212-246-7438 (see address 10 combines list, page 22.) advantages Circle *254 on Reader Service Card o f floppy and hard TELECOM BOOK drives: it The Handbook of Computer-Com- stores up to munications Standards (three volumes, 10 mega $34.95 each) covers the major standard bytes each O protocol topics, providing the introduc on any S ^ D t ' i v e tory and tutorial text material missing number o f from the actual standards themselves. 3 ‘A” disks Howard W. Sams & Company, 317- while offer 298-5400 (see address list, page 22). ing access Circle *255 on Reader Service Card speeds near IC PROJECTS those o f For circuit-building buffs: hard drives. The IC User’s Casebook ($12.95) details more than 100 projects for FLEET FLOPPY up" to the Amiga from other machines, computer hobbyists. Each chapter Announced last year but now avail with an introduction to C programming takes a casebook approach, spelling able for the first time is the Supra FD- and a comprehensive explanation of out all needed steps. The projects en 10 ($995). a 10 meg removable floppy how the machine works in terms of compass linear and digital devices, disk drive for the Amiga. It combines EXEC. AmigaDOS, and graphics. timers, and general devices, and util advantages of floppy and hard drives: Free Spirit, 800-552-6777 or 312- ize readily available parts. it can utilize an unlimited number of 352-7323 (see address list, page 22.) Howard W. Sams & Company, 317- floppy disks which can hold 10 mega Circle *289 on Reader Service Card 298-5722 (see address list, page 22). bytes of data each, and which can be Circle *281 on Reader Service Card accessed at speeds approaching those MORE PD DISKS of hard drives (80 ms. average seek Comp-U-Save has expanded its Ami 50 CMOS IC Projects ($16.95) con time). Up to 1.2 megabytes of data can ga public domain library' to more than sists of digital electronics projects Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMbe transferred per second. The drive, 600 disks available at $4.00 each, in based on the complementary metal- which plugs into the Amiga's SCSI in cluding 14 x-rated collections from oxide semiconductor family of terface, comes with all necessary soft Germany and Scandinavia. A catalog circuits. (The IC’s are popular because ware and cables. is available for a SASE. they are inexpensive and used with a Supra Corporation. 503-967-9075 Comp-U-Save, 516-997-6707 (see wide range of voltages.) Schematics address list, page 22.) and parts lists accompany each (see address list, page 22.) Circle *290 on Reader Service Card Circle *(294 on Reader Service Card project. TAB Books, 717-794-2191 (see ad EXPERT REVISION HELP FOR DROPOUTS dress list, page 22.) The first revision of the Magellan ex Mindscape’s Students at Risk: How Circle *256 on Reader Service Card pert system generator (S195) will sup Computers and Software Can Help pre port the ARexx interprocess commun sents an overview of school- and com CASIO-AMIGA LINK ication standard. The ARexx interface munity-based programs around the C-ZAR-1, an extended version of the will be packaged in the revised edition, country fighting the dropout problem C-ZAR Editor/Librarian software for available in October. and lists appropriate computer software Casio keyboards, controls the top of the (The Magellan software, which runs being used for at-risk students. The line Casio CZ-1 via MIDI hookup with on any Amiga with 5I2K. allows us booklet is available free of charge to the Amiga. The new program simpli ers to build knowledge bases through educators. fies the job of creating operation mem a mouse-and-window graphic interface. Mindscape Inc., 312-480-7667 (see ories, displaying all preferences on Knowledge is stored in an IF-THEN address list, page 22). screen at the same time. The Amiga Circle *251 on Reader Service Card format which allows for easy editing mouse can be used to drag new sounds and correcting.) into setups, or to point and click on Emerald Intelligence, 313-663-8757 M ID I CLASS performance controls. Also supported A six-part class on Building MIDI (see address list, page 22.) are the CZ-ls “Keyboard Velocity” fea Circle *280 on Reader Service Card Programs will be offered for the second tures. with onscreen sliders controlling time this spring in New York City', and the amount of strike velocity routed to AMIGA GUIDE once each spring and fall thereafter. each envelope. C-ZAR-1 is included on Free Spirit will be marketing Adri- Topics covered include mappers and C-ZAR Version 2.0 disks (S195), which adne Software’s ‘Kickstart’ Guide to the simple MIDI processors, building a li include new' sounds and preset opera Amiga (S24.95) in the US. The book, brarian and voice editor, and building tion memory files. 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AMIGA is a registered trademark o f Commodore-Amiga Inc. and manual for $20.00. 1259 (phone: 313-763-9497). olutions are supported, as well as Gen Diemer Development, 818-762-0803 MACUL, 313-595-2493 (see ad lock and PAL. One meg of RAM and (see address list, page 22.) dress list, page 22). two disk drives are required. Circle #291 on Reader Service Card Circle #272 on Reader Service Card Aegis. 800-345-9871 or 213-392-9972 (see address list, page 22.) COLORS MIDI CONVENTIONS Circle #286 on Reader Service Card Star Micronics’ NX-1000 Rainbow New York’s second annual MIDI dot matrix printer ($379) provides mul Expo will be held in the Sheraton Cen WORLD OF COMMODORE ticolor printing capability. Its four-tone tre on December 3-4. At the show The Toronto International Center ribbon allows users to output in black, MIDI enthusiasts will be able to ex hosts the sixth annual World of Com red, yellow, blue, orange, green, and plore the range of digital music instru modore Show December 1-4. Over violet. Text prints at 144 characters per ments, equipment, and services 20.000 consumers are expected to at second in draft mode and 36 cps in through product demonstrations and tend to buy hardware and software, Near Letter Quality. Four fonts are se a seminar program covering MIDI ba both Amiga and non, from a variety lectable from the front control panel: sics, sampling techniques, and other of vendors. Courier, Sans Serif, Orator I, and Or topics. And right in Commodore USA’s ator II. A paper parking function per Expocon Management, 203-259- backyard, at the Philadelphia Civic mits the use of single sheets without 5734 (see address list, page 22). Center, the first annual World of Com moving tractor-fed paper. A cut sheet Circle #273 on Reader Service Card modore Show U.S.A. will take place feeder is available as an option. November 3-6. SLIDE SHOW SOFTWARE Star Micronics. 212-986-6770 (see The Hunter Group Inc., 416-595- Aegis has begun shipping Lights! address list, page 22). 5906 (see address list, page 22). Circle #249 on Reader Service Card Camera! Action! ($79.95), their desk Circle *258 on Reader Service Card top presentation program that combines BOARD OF EDUCATION pictures, animations, sampled sounds, MAKE A SPEECH The Michigan Association for Com and music into slideshow presentations. Don't let what happened to Joe Bi- puter Users in Learning (MACUL) The program uses files from any Ami den happen to you. Based on Robert has opened a teachers’ BBS on the ga product that produces an IFF picture Shelley's Pocket Speechwriter book, University of Michigan’s CONFER (including 4096 color HAM images), Computer Speechwriter ($39.95) allows system. The board serves as a public any ANIM format animation, IFF you to create a quasi-original speech forum for discussion of current trends sampled sounds, and Aegis SonLx mu in minutes on the Amiga. If you have Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMin computer technology. To join CON sic scores. Included are over 40 differ a subject in mind, you call up the key FER, write or call Joan McCoy, ent screen transitions and special ef word index, find appropriate material, School of Education. The University fects. among them nine wipes, flips, and tailor it to your speech; if you have of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109- fades, and block effects. All Amiga res no subject in mind, you can choose from dozens of prewritten speeches on different topics, or combine an open ing line, a theme, a few quips, an ob servation, and a clincher. Included is a speaker’s guide full of tips on deliv ery, timing, preparation, and presen tation, covering topics like sizing up an audience and overcoming stage fright. An unconditional money-back guarantee is offered. Pageant Publishing Co., 514-935- 8273 (see address list, page 22). Circle #267 on Reader Service Card
QUICK FIXE5 Microcomputer Troubleshooting & Repair ($21.95) describes ways of mak ing computer equipment more reliable, and saving time and money on repairs. Basic troubleshooting principles are discussed, along with methods of ap plying them. Along with computers, the book covers printers, modems, monitors, disk drives, and interfaces. Star Micronics’ NX-1000 Rainbow color printer at left, shown with its Com Howard W. Sams & Company (see modore 64 compatible counterpart at right. Speed ranges from 36 to 144 cps. address list, page 22). Circle #270 on Reader Service Card HEWS i C
supports two pairs, a disk full of 3-D The images, and SpaceSpuds, the first game callouses designed for use with the glasses that come (others are under development). from grip Haitex Resources, 214-241-8030 (see ping a hard address list, page 22.) Circle #293 on Reader Service Card plastic joy stick should ACTIVISION CHANGE be fore Activision has adopted a new cor stalled by porate name—Mediagenic —to reflect Wico’s soft, the company’s expansion into diversi rubberlike fied product lines. The Activision Ergostick. name will continue to be used for the The con company’s action and simulation troller is games. form -fit to Mediagenic, 415-329-0800 (see ad the human dress list, page 22). hand with Circle #292 on Reader Service Card finger grooves. CLEAN UP A box of 10 multipurpose office ERGONOMIC JOYSTICK C expressions, and speeding up pro cleaning towels ($5.95 retail) will be included with every specially marked For use with the Amiga among other grams with multidimensional arrays. 10-pack of Fuji MF2HD 3 VS” disks systems, Wico’s Ergostick is form-fit to Hayden Books, 317-298-5400 (see through October 3 or while supplies the human hand with individually sized address list, page 22). Circle #259 on Reader Service Card last. finger grooves. The soft, pliable ma Fuji Photo Film U.S.A., Inc., 800- terial used for the body of the joystick FOR-FUJI (see address list, page 22). makes it easy to grip. A 90-day limi 3-D GLASSES Shades of Elvis, poodle skirts, and Circle #250 on Reeder Service Card ted warranty is included. Joe McCarthy-when used with spe Wico Corporation, 312-647-7500 (see cially designed Amiga software, Hai- PAINT/PRINT PROGRAM Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMaddress list, page 22). Circle #257 on Render Service Card tex’s X-Specs 3D (sic) glasses create The DeluxePhotoLab ($149.99) paint the illusion of a 3-D image. The glass and print program integrates the fea $14.95 SOFTWARE es control what each eye sees indepen tures of a paint program, color proces Two additions to IntraCorp’s line of dently by closing and opening an opti sor, and poster maker, providing artists S14.95 software for the Amiga: cal shutter at 60 frames per second. with more colors, larger canvases, Space Math uses an arcade game to The price is $124.95, for which you get greater graphic flexibility, and power improve math skills. Players 8 and old one pair of glasses, an interlace that ful palette manipulation utilities. er can compete on 8 levels at 27 diffi culty settings. Pro Football Facts and Predictions, 1988 Edition contains five years of gridiron stats, from 1983 through the January 1988 Super Bowl, with an an Hi FUJI FILM alysis program to help predict this MICRO FLOPPY DISK year’s winners. IntraCorp, 305-252-9040 (see ad dress list, page 22). MF2HD“ Circle #266 on Reader Service Card H»<*n D*r*ui, l35rPK«rtn ( THE ABC'S OF C i Advanced C: Tips and Techniques ($24.95) takes a 456-page look at C, stressing portability, execution efficien 10„. 312" cy, and programming techniques. Chapters are devoted to debugging techniques, C’s run-time environment, and arrays and pointers. Techniques are provided from applications like allo Ten anti-static, pre-moistened, lint-free office cleaning towels will be included cating storage for multidimensional ar with specially marked boxes of Fuji disks while supplies last. rays at run-time, working with complex __ Coloi'Lab Ac t i u e :Connand
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From DigiTek, each $34.95: letters, or capturing the elusive Door depicts the final confrontation between Western Games ($29.95) lets you symbol. NATO and the U.S.S.R. Using a data compete in down-home events like DigiTek, Inc., 80-933-8023 (see ad base of more than 100 weapon systems, Armwrestling, Beershooting (fire at dress list, page 22). the player undertakes the role of the tankards held by the town idiots). Quid- Circle #25z on Reader Service Card Commander of NATO’s North Atlantic spitting (expectorate your chew-tobac- Two from Scorpion, each $34.95: Task Force, pitted against the Russians’ co into a pan), Dancing (imitate the Phantasm whisks you, a destitute powerful Northern Fleet headquartered moves of the saloon go-go girl), Milk wanderer, off to a distant moon where in Murmansk. Included are 10 differ ing. and Eating. you have the opportunity to save the ent battle scenarios personally crafted Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMHole-in-One Miniature Golfs two earth. You get to choose which section by Bond. Scheduled for fourth quar disks contain 72 holes divided into four to save first; to complete each section ter release. courses, ranging from the classic you must destroy eight reconstitution Three-Sixty Pacific, Inc., 408-879- Windmill to the inside of a pinball ma installations. 9144 (see address list, page 22.) chine. Up to four players can compete Foundation’s Waste offers the player Circle #104 on Reader Service Card at a time. a chance to defeat his captors and es In Balance o f Power: The 1990 Edi In Powersryx you maneuver an on cape from a hostile planet in a stolen tion ($49.95), the player assumes the screen crystal to cut rectangles and spacecraft. role of the President of the United squares out of an empty screen to ex Scorpion, 201-663-0202 (see address States or the General Secretary of the pose a hidden work of art, while avoid list, page 22.) Soviet Union. His goal is to complete ing monsters and collecting objects that Circle #102 on Reader Service Card eight years in office (1989-1997) with provide various bonuses. You advance Co-developed by Larry Bond, Wash out initiating a nuclear conflict, and to to higher levels by exposing 75% of the ington naval analyst and co-author of accumulate more prestige points than screen, forming words out of captured the novel ‘Red Storm Rising,” Harpoon his opponent. A multipolar level, new
Hole-in-One Miniature Golfs four courses range from the classic Windmill to the interior of a pinball machine. NEWS a 0
from A-Squared It ’s HOT! New games ready from ...real-time LIVE! video on your ReadySoft, Amiga's screen. clockwise from top ■: True Color: just as it comes from left: Rock your video source: camera, VCR, TV, Challenge laser disk. Direct, moving, in your (tests your Amiga's memory...our patented tech nology. music IQ), >throw the cheese at the alien Dragon’s Lair, and TheVSMSA frow Mars suddenly turns <: Fast: video images in black & Scary M u around and stares.at you. For a white, 32-color, and 4,096-color short nonent no thins happens. .fjjt HAM. See 15 new images every tant Space then the alien lets out ^ second in black & white, 12 in color, Aliens from inter-salactic screw, and falls to the floor. 4 in HAM. Mars. <: Save: moving video, play it back, to this sequel, allows the non-super- journey takes you through Singe's cas use it in other programs. Unlimited power countries of the world to pur tle and the caverns below. stills, too. sue active foreign policies, requiring ReadySoft, 416-731-4175 (see address Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMyou to track the moves of your allies. list, page 22.) ': Video Effects: real-time mouse- Circle #101 on Reader Service Card Scheduled for release in November controlled. ..posterization, fades (just when we find out who gets to play Helter Skelter is 80 screens of boun color-keying, strobe, more. the game for real for four years). cing balls and digitized sound effects, Mindscape, 312^4-80-7667 (see ad plus a screen designer that allows play q Roll Your Own: programmer's dress list, page 22.) ers to create 48 further screens. video library, hardware documenta Circle #106 on Reader Service Card Audiogenic Software (see address tion. examples in C. basic. Four new Amiga games from Ready- list, page 22.) Circle #295 on Reader Service Card Soft: ■ : NEW LIVE12000 includes: Dual video source switching with fade/ In Cosmic Bouncer ($29.95) you’re Like its predecessor, Strip Poker II wipe/dissolve: BNC connectors on a tennis ball brought to life, bouncing ($39.95) lets adults enjoy the strategy all input: Selectable Composite or through 20 levels of action. of 5-card draw poker while watching direct RGB input: 640 Resolution: Rock Challenge ($39.95) tests your either of two female opponents disrobe. Advanced video effects — Tiling. knowledge of music from the 50’s to The difference is the updated digitized Mirroring. Keyhole paint. the present, in five categories. Addi graphics which incorporate modern
tional question disks will be made scanning technology. Additional digi LIVEI2000. $ 4 5 0 sug. list available. tized data disks are planned. LIVE! 1000. $ 2 95 sug. list Scary Mutant Space Aliens from Artworx Software Company, 800- LIVEI500. $3 9 9 sug. list Mars ($39.95) is a graphic adventure 828-6573 or 716-385-6120 (see address that presents you with such challenges list, page 22.) See your Amiga Dealer. as finding your way through the Maze Circle #296 on Reader Service Card For more information, contact: of Neptune, operating a Dryfon 3 zap- Originally a text adventure for the ometer, and collecting the right tools C-64 and Apple II, Free Spirit has re to dismantle the Ion-Beam Doomsday leased Sex Vixens from Space for the a 2 device. Amiga, adding over 30 graphic screens A-Squared Distributions Inc. Dragon’s Lair (S59.95), a multidisk and retaining the humor and challenge 6114 La Salle Ave., Suite 326 adaptation to the laser disc arcade of the original version. The player is Oakland, CA 94611 game, lets you control Dirk the Dar Captain Brad Stallion, owner/operator (415) 339-0339 ing on his quest to rescue Princess of a one-man space vehicle called the Daphne from Singe the Dragon. Your Big Thruster. The Federated Govern- Circle #142 on Reader Service Card
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March 1989. Paragon Software. 412-838-1166 (see address list, page 22.) Circle #253 on Reader Service Card From Rainbird: Enlightenment ($24.95) concerns the return of the evil wizard Acamantor to Belorn, 103 years after he was banished by Hasrinaxx the Druid. To defeat him once again. Hasrinaax must make his way through the ten lands of Belom and Acamantor's five level dungeon, aided by the powers of earth, air, water, and
fire. Black Lamp (S24.95) follows Jolly Jack the Jester's quest to win the prin cess's hand by defeating a forest full of skull-dropping buzzards, spitting w'itches, and other beasties. and ulti mately taking the black lamp away from the fire breathing dragon that guards it, The Universal Military Simulator (S49.95) makes it possible to recreate the battles of Gettysburg, Arbella, Hastings, Marston Moor, and Waterloo, Gorbachev and Reagan lookalikes promote Tetris, the first Soviet game soft- with complete and accurate locales, ware available in the U.S. (Maybe they’ll accept Star Wars in return?) geographical features, combat troops, and armaments. A battle can be recre ment has sent him in search of The choose the rules of your favorite gam ated as it occurred, or the original par Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMTribe, a colony of sex-starved female bling center, and even simulate a spe ameters can be altered to explore “what clones believed to be responsible for cific casino. if scenarios. The program’s 3-D repeated raids on the male population, Microlllusions, 818-360-3715 (see graphics system lets you view the ac He must locate the Vixens and destroy address list, page 22.) tion from any angle. their deadly Sex-Ray Gun, Price is Circle #300 on Reader Service Card Carrier Command (S44.95) puts you $39.95; shipping is free. Coming soon is an Amiga adapta at the bridge of a futuristic vessel as Free Spirit Software, 800-552-6777 tion of Tetris, designed by two Soviet you attempt to capture the enemy's is or 312-352-7323 (see address list, pase computer programmers and the first lands and destroy its forces. You're aid 2 2 .) entertainment software from the ed by a squadron of remote fighters and Circle #297 or Reader Service Card U.S.S.R. to be available in the U.S. an amphibious assault division, up to In Bartle Chess ($49.95). each piece Spectrum HoloByte has enhanced the four of each controllable at once. You has a unique method of attacking its basic game with background scenes protect your ship with defense drones foes, and acts it out in three dimension from the Soviet Union. Based on the and a 360 degree turret mounted laser al animation. When a knight takes a arrangement of four squares into var cannon with telephoto tracking. pawn, for example, the mounted, ar ious shapes, the game requires the Rainbird, 415-322-0412 (see address mored warrior sallies forth to slay the player to form solid rows. list, page 22). Circle *264 on Reader Service Card opposing foot soldier. Included is an Spectrum HoloByte. 415-522-3584 opening library of 30,000 moves, and (see address list, page 22.) Adaptations of two Konami arcade Circle #T03 on Reader Service Card a variety of settings to let players com titles: pete against the computer or other play Paragon Software has signed an ex Contra pits mortals against interga- ers, or let the computer play itself. A clusive agreement with Game Design lactic badman Red Falcon in a guer modem capability allows gamers in dif ers' Workshop to bring Traveller, the rilla war in the Amazon jungle. ferent locations to link up. science fiction role playing game, to Rush N'Attack sends you. a guerril Interplay. 714-549-2411 (see address the home computer. The first adven la fighter armed only with a knife, be list, paee 22.) ture in the series will focus on a sparse hind enemy lines to rescue dozens of Circle #299 on Reader Service Card ly settled area of the Imperium called POW’s hidden in an isolated camp. If Craps Academy ($39.95) teaches the the Spinward Marches, surrounded you can't imagine how this is possible, ins and outs of professional dicing, in with cultures often characterized as give Sylvester Stallone a call. cluding payoffs, house percentages, bet "other than friendly.” The computer Konami. 312-595-1443 (see address ting systems, and play strategy. You can game will appear for the Amiga around list, page 22). circle #265 on Reader Service Card Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM
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The former is a head-to-head ecutive think twice about laying out ply reflected the general downturn in race to clear objects off a high-tech, huge sums of money on speculation. computer game sales at that time. scrolling highway, while the latter casts • The Video Game Crash. The tre the player as a monster who ravages the mendous unit sales potential of a hit From Arcade to Home countryside and terrorizes the populace. video game cartridge figured promi The first source of licensing that Mindscape has also announced am nently in many publishers’ calculations. made a comeback was the coin-op in bitious plans. The company, which al Removing that income source slashed dustry. In the mid-1980s, the age dif ready has a deal to bring Atari coin the amount software makers could af ference between the typical computer- ops to home gamers, has inked a sim ford to pay for a license. ist and the average arcade-goer ilar agreement with Sega. According • Licensors made unrealistic de stretched to almost 20 years! Most pub to company president Roger Buoy, mands. As the publishers’ ability and lishers felt that games for one group Mindscape will publish quite a few willingness to pay diminished, licen wouldn’t appeal to the other. programs based on coin-op licenses in sors raised the ante. Sellers pegged ask The late 1987 Video Game Renais the next year. ing prices to video game sales with sance radically changed the situation. out understanding that the computer Suddenly, action and action-strategy Superstars of Sports field draws from a much smaller con games were back in vogue. The sales The sports software field has two sumer base. of cartridges based on arcade hits im types of licenses. In the first category • De-emphasis of Games. Follow pressed computer software companies, are authorizations which permit the ing the video game crash, retailers and so they tried a few coin-op translations, publisher to use logos of authentic distributors cooled on entertainment partly to counter encroachment from teams and/or the names of actual ath software. Companies could not justify video games. Last year, Marble Mad letes in the product. The other is a su paying big fees for licenses when the ness (Electronic Arts) and Gauntlet perstar endorsement placed on a sports market for funware appeared soft. (Mindscape) led a parade of coin-op product as a symbol of its excellence. Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMA few companies continued to pro winners straight from the neighborhood MicroLeague Baseball (MLSA), duce licensed games. Datasoft scored arcade to the software best seller list. NBA (Avalon Hill), Pure-Stat Baseball well with Bruce Lee, Infocom had a hit Technology is especially favorable (Software Simulations), and Full Count with The Hitchhikers Guide to the Gal for converting play-for-pay machines Baseball (Lance Haffner Games) are axy, and Simon & Schuster generated into disks for the Amiga. Many com some of the many games which have six-digit unit sales with Star Trek: The panies use hardware based on Amiga certification from the leagues and Kobayashi Alternative. technology for their coin-op machines, unions of big time sports. APBA Ma Activision (now Mediagenic) also so coding the home edition is a sur jor League Players Baseball (Random bucked the 1985-1987 trend with li prisingly straightforward process. House) has these licenses, plus one censed computer games based on ‘Ali Arcadia is one of the leaders in based on the non-electronic statistical en,” “Labyrinth,” and “The Transfor bringing coin-op designs to the Ami sports simulation, APBA Baseball mers." Labyrinth, a fine design, suf ga market. It recently published the Master Game, published by the APBA Company. M et’s cat cher Gary Earl Weaver Baseball may not have Carter, one been the first sports game with an en o f the most dorsement license, but Electronic Arts’ success seems to have opened the marketable sports fig floodgates. Now many products are ures in the based on both authorization and an en endorse dorsement licenses. ment game, Recent sports games with endorse examines ment licenses include Shirley Mul- The Sport downey’s Top Fuel Eliminator (Cosmi) ing News and John Elway's Quarterback (Mel Baseball bourne House). Neither is available for along with the Amiga at this writing, but both Epyx execu could make their debut on the system tives. during 1989 if demand warrants. A pair of licensed baseball games are THE BEST THERE IS ON THE AMIGA!
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coming from major publishers this Weaver Baseball. This action-strategy Boardgames Go Computer winter. Sporting News Baseball (Epyx) program allows coaches to direct The king of the family/social board should be out just in time for Christ squads of NFL players, whose perfor games is coming to the Amiga. mas. Mediagenic has not yet published mances reflect their statistics in the pre Through an affiliated label agreement the Amiga version of Pete Rose Pen vious season. John Madden is also on with England’s Virgin Games, Elec nant Fe\>er (under the Gamestar label), hand to dispense sage counsel to gam tronic Arts is distributing Monopoly in but first-half 1989 looks feasible. ers who don’t know whether it’s time the United States. The Amiga edition The one- or two-player Sporting for a long pass or a triple reverse. features animated tokens and an unus News Baseball mixes arcade-style ac Not all the forthcoming licensed ual pseudo-3-D view of the board. tion with statistics. The onscreen ath team sports games involve a superstar Scrabble, Risk, and Scruples, also letes hit, field, run, and pitch accord association. Pure-Stat Football (Soft developed by Virgin in Great Britain, ing to their 1987 real-life statistics. Split ware Simulations) and TV Football will be released in this country for the screen visuals, designed to resemble (Cinemaware) will both be in stores in Amiga early next year. the camera angles of televised baseball, time for forming leagues and running Scrabble, playable against human or make Sporting News Baseball less replays this winter. computerized opponents, includes a static and, therefore, more involving Pure-Stat Football is the latest sta 24,000-word dictionary. It even has than games which show the entire field tistical simulation by the reknowned Ed such unexpected frills as the ability to from an unvarying perspective. Daniels, who created Pure-Stat Base juggle the tiles on the rack to make it Pete Rose Pennant Fever, designed ball (Software Simulations) and Super- easier to visualize words. by Scott Orr and the Gamestar team, bowl Sunday (Avalon Hill). It features Computer opponents in Scruples is the latest in the series of action- the most extensive statistic base ever have unique personality profiles which strategy baseball programs which be employed to create a pigskin program, can be studied prior to actual play. All gan with Starleague Baseball and con plus outstanding graphics by the same the original questions from the non tinued with 1987’s Giampionship Base artist who did the visuals on MLSA’s electronic game are incorporated into ball. 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DEFCON 5 Cosmi Amigo with 512K Disk; $39.95 Call it “Strategic Defense Initiative” or “Star Wars,” the satellite-based de fense network is the most controversi al government proposal since the per sonal income tax. Defcon 5 (“Defense Condition 5,” the military term for peace), offers an “inside” look at how such a system might operate if the US deployed it early in the next decade. Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMThis action-strategy game is Cosmi’s latest “computer-computer” game, fol lowing The President is Missing and Chernobyl. This series turns a neces sity into a virtue by making a game out of the player interlace. It’s a thought-provoking concept. The biggest barrier to fostering intense per sonal involvement in computer strate gy games is the computer itself. The player must manipulate the com puter interface to make anything hap pen. Many gamers find it hard to be come totally involved with a fantasy quest or a boxing match while worry-
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acter in electronic gaming, Superman, A game featuring the Darknight De become a tidal wave. Software compan is coming back for another try. Jerry tective previously appeared in Europe, ies have bought dozens of potentially Siegel and Joe Schuster’s Man of Steel but it was not brought to the US. The valuable properties which will not even previously starred in an Atari 2600 car rumored project will probably relate to begin development until late in 1989. tridge and a First Star home computer the forthcoming film with Michael Understandably, these companies game (as well as a coin-op and a pin Keaton and Jack Nicholson as much don’t want to tip their hand to poten ball machine). as to the four-color adventures. tial publishers of non-licensed “me, too” Now Great Britain's Tynsoft is try Another likely source of comics-in- programs. That’s why it is tough to talk ing DC Comics’ flagship hero again. spired games is Disney software. The about specific licensed games beyond Its interactive computer comic book is Walt Disney division has announced no March, 1989. called Superman: Black Monday. Crea specific publication schedule, but it What can be said, however, is that ted by the American Subway Software plans to develop a full line based on the licensed game category will keep design team, the action-strategy game its myriad of company-owned licenses. expanding at least through the end of will be programmed in England for re 1989. So it probably won't be long un lease this month. Coming Attractions til you see your favorite book, movie, Rumors persist that Batman will The games discussed in this article comic book, boardgame, or celebrity soon swing across the computer screen. are only the first ripples of what could spotlighted in a computer game. □
ing about controller or keyboard com tion, the readiness of the station to re SUPERSTAR ICE HOCKEY mand control. The required procedures ceive and send data, the progress of any Mindscape of most gamers bear little relation to missiles toward the US, the number of Amiga with 512K swinging a sword or throwing a right ICBMs detected, and the status of vis Disk; $49.95 cross. ual reconnaissance satellites. It is almost as much of a pleasure Defcon 5, however, transforms the Four buttons, two on each side of the to review Superstar Ice Hockey as it player’s computer into the terminal Station CRT on the Control Screen, is to play it. That is high praise in view which orchestrates the many compo lead to the rest of the game’s screens. of the unalloyed excellence of Ed Ring- nents of the US Ballistic Missile De “PWR” turns the Station on and off, ler’s latest action-strategy sports title. fense (BMD) System as it might be de “Info” displays a menu of available The critic’s joy at seeing a program ployed in the mid-1990s. schedules, “Map” calls up the Opera which advances the art of sports simu Defcon 5’s routine of play is very tion Map menu, and “Help” summariz lation could only be exceeded by the similar to ordinary computer operation. es commands and instructions. puck partisan’s joy over this thorough Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMIt is surprisingly easy to peer at the The player moves the cursor to an and knowledgeable treatment of major multicolored satellite maps and feel the onscreen button with the mouse and league hockey. vicarious excitement of directing the in clicks the left controller button. Other The game’s flexible structure lets tricate defense network. commands, such as recognition codes, computerists play a single game or a The B.M.D. System is a high-tech are entered through the keyboard. full schedule with equal ease, but the gauntlet. Each subsystem stops an at Defcon 5 starts slowly, but it quick greatest appeal of Superstar Ice Hockey tack at a different point between Def ly builds momentum. This is fortunate, is its capacity for extended play. con 5, the initial alert, to moments be because it gives the computerist time A letter from the office of the com fore missiles hit US soil. to learn the control scheme. Things get missioner of the SportTime Hockey The main weapons are a combina hectic during a full-scale attack, so that’s League (SHL) opens the Game Man tion of ground-based chemical lasers no time to forget a command routine. ual. It approves the player’s application and orbiting laser reflectors, free-elec- Defcon 5 strikes a pleasing balance for an expansion franchise in Division tron lasers, neutral particle beams, between strategy and action, though 2 of the Western Conference. Using electro-magnetic launchers which fire quick wits are far more important than joystick-activated onscreen menus, the ultra-high velocity “smart bullets,” and quick reflexes. With any luck, this ab player can pick a name for the fledg the nuclear pulsed x-ray laser launch sorbing simulation is as close as the ling franchise, move it to one of the er. The x-ray system, only activated in world will ever have to come to seeing three other divisions, and select uni the ultimate extremity known as Def this massive defense network do its form colors. con 1, blankets United States air space stuff. Cosmi deserves credit for pub In the full tournament version of Su with enough x-rays to neutralize any lishing an entertainment product at the perstar Ice Hockey, the gamer, as gen enemy missiles. The computer must same time fun and instructive. eral manager, has nine seasons to turn also guard against anti-satellite mines, Cosmi, 431 N. Figueroa St., Wil the expansion team into a SportTime which can be removed by a remote mington, CA 90744 (phone: 213-835- Cup winner. It won’t be easy, because controlled robot. 9687). -Arnie Katz & Bill Kunkel some of the existing 16 clubs have The Control Screen reports the cur Circle #110 on Reader Service Card carved out dynasties during the nine rent status of important elements of the Reviewed Next Month: years prior to the creation of your team. B.M.D. System. The data section at the • F-18 Interceptor The gamer spends “trading points” top of the screen monitors such things to send his squad to training camp, re • Phantasm as the status of the station, the loca cruit a rookie, or trade for an estab • Questron II tion of the currently transmitting sta- lished SHLer. An expansion team starts □ lENTERTfl NMENTa 0
with 250 trading points and earns more blockbuster deals are appropriately rare. coach, participate only as a player, or based on its place in the final stand When the focus shifts to the rink, the put everything hut general managing ings at the end of each season. Finish game allows the player to assume the on automatic. ing last earns 1000 trading points, but role of coach. When there’s a lull in The Main Menu screen shows the winning it all yields just 50, the action, a screen appears which al current standings for all four divisions Since a player transaction costs 150 lows the player to send in new lines and in the SHL. It also gives access to in points, the game automatically curbs defensive tandems and pick a general formation screens and utilities. The any propensity toward going overboard style of play for each unit. player can look up the cumulative won- in the trading mart. A deal can fill a Those who don’t want to watch from lost record on any team or the whole crucial gap for a team on the brink, but the sidelines can take direct control of league, change the composition of on- their team’s center and/or goalie. The ice lines, reset the league to its orig joystick plugged into Port 2 is the de inal starting point, perform team im UES T CONf LHLNCI east conference D IV IS IO N 1 &IV ISIO N 1 1CAJ______u I fault control option, but simple menus provement functions, or proceed to play allow the computerist to change the the team’s next game. configuration. This makes it possible Besides team colors and order en DIVISION DIVISION r t a m ______u for two gamers to play for the same try mode, the Game Set-Up Screen team against a computer-led squad. also customizes the number of players Ice fens who don’t want to do every on a side and the length of each skat VIEW LEAGUE HISTORY VIEW A TEAM HISTORY im p r o v e team thing at once can use the option menu ing period. The computerist can even RESET THE LEAGUE SET UP NEW LINES to assign one or more functions to the uMiigagiima choose to dispense with the offsides computer. The gamer can elect to just rule or make the following game an ex Superstar hibition. Ed Ringler continues to design some Ice Hockey lets the of the most outstanding action sports gamer expe simulations on the market. Superstar rience the Ice Hockey is his finest creation yet. sport from Mindscape, 3444 Dundee Rd., the ice to Northbrook. IL 60060 (phone: 312- 480-7667). -A m ie Katz the GM ’s Circle #111 on Reader Service Card office. You BARD'S TALE II Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMcan take the nine Electronic Arts years allot Amiga with 512K ted to win Disk; $59.95 the Cup, or The little town of Skara Brae need simply play ed saving in Michael Cranford and Bri games. an Fargo’s Bard’s T a le, the all-time clas sic fantasy roleplaying game. In Bard’s Tale II: The Destiny Knight, ultimate evil threatens the entire Realm. Sara- don the Archmage calls on the player, who supposedly defeated Mangar in the earlier game, to confront this new, even greater threat. An invasion party from neighboring Lestradae, led by the evil Archmage Logoth Zanta, have invaded the Realm's capital city of Tangramayne. Even worse, they have broken the fabulous Destiny Wand, which previously pro tected the Realm with its power, and hidden the pieces in seven different lo cations. Logoth Zanta has ringed each 0 4 ! : o s n L . A . P E N A L T Y 1 >ER IQ D U b PENALTY segment with a web of brain-testing t * j______o : o o ------J j » 4 traps. OFFENSE: SETUP S O F F E N S E In game terms, the player must re l n : s t p : 7 * V e p : 6 9 104 : e p 115:tpb:ln trieve the seven sections of the Destiny DEFENSE : FOi PROTECT : d e f e n s e Wand, forge them into a sceptre, and
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= F |yOfTUJflR£ vuiorv Inc. ' P.O. Box 3319, Framingham, MA 01701 ity to the Realm and earns a notable gons," the player creates characters and bine the talents of several specialists. triumph for the player. forms them into six-member parties. For example, Rogues excel at picking As in most computer games inspired Each character class has unique pow locks and hiding in shadows, Bards in some degree by “Dungeons and Dra ers, so most adventuring groups com sing magical songs, and Monks are martial arts masters who are deadly in hand-to-hand combat. Combat is Spellcasting plays a major role in the heart of Bard’s Tale II, as it did in its prede Bard’s Tale cessor. There are five types in the new II. During game, including the newly invented a fight, the Archmage classification. Conjurers player en create objects like fireballs out of thin ters an or air and heal wounds, Magicians can der to each give unexpected powers to ordinary member items, Sorcerers are masters of illusion, with single Wizards summon and control supernat keystroke ural beings, and the Archmage is a commands. master of at least three of the forego The pro ing disciplines. gram then Experience gained during travels reports the through cities, dungeons, and the trea outcome. cherous wilderness of the Realm en ables characters to rise in level and gain greater mastery over their specialty. For example, the Archmage can temporari ly halt a hostile party with a first-level spell, but can smash a whole group of attackers with one casting of the sev enth-level Mangar’s Mallet. As awesome as these talents may Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMseem to the uninitiated, the player needs every bit of this might to keep fledgling characters alive during the first few missions. The manual advis es that characters below 14th level do not have a long life expectancy in the game. There are several ways to obtain the needed high-level party. The easiest is to transfer it from the original Bard’s Tale using the utility included on the game disk. Those without Bard’s Tale experience should stick close to the dungeon beneath the Adventurers Guild. Military This labyrinth is geared to first-level skill is not characters. the only re Once the computerist develops a quirement strong group, he can explore six cities, fo r victory 25 dungeon levels, and a huge wilder in Empire. ness. More than 100 animated monsters The effec provide plenty of opposition. tiveness of Combat is the heart of the game. even the During a fight, the player enters an or most brill der to each member with single-key iant com stroke commands. The program then mander is reports the outcome of that round of limited by the engagement. When a character or the forces monster suffers more damage than he he controls. can absorb, he dies. Bard’s Tale II is a completely wor- □ lENTERTH HHEHTB O
thy successor to the 1986 award-win- planet. The unified and subjugated ices, especially those who don’t often ner. It is at least as good as the first world then becomes a docile cog in the play wargames, might want to try a few title in the series, except where it is Krellan Empire. practice turns and view Interstel’s dem even better. And what fantasy adven To disrupt this insidious procedure, onstration disk. ture fan could ask for anything more? the U.G.A. has embraced the doctrine Empire is a long game. The first Electronic Arts, 1820 Gateway Dr., of counter-insurgency. The Alliance hundred turns are just a warm-up dur San Mateo, CA 94404 (phone: 415- sends advisors to the beleaguered plan ing which players explore the surround 571-7171). -A m ie Katz & Joyce Worley et, where they rally opposition in mi ing territory and get production under Circle #112 on Reader Service Card nor cities. When these dissidents grow way. 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SUPRADRIVE Flexibility is the word for the Supra drive or as a complete hard disk sys Supra Corporation Drive. You can buy their product just tem. The Supra interface card is a Amiga 2000 as an Interface Kit without the hard DMA SCSI controller based on the Price: $799 (20 meg) Supra Corporation has been in the Amiga market since its introduction. I* Their SupraDrive for the Amiga 1000 was one of the first hard drives on the market. Supra is now- putting their ex perience to good use by expanding into the Amiga 2000 peripheral market.
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Suggested retail price $39.95 dual channel Motorola 68440 chip. It The hard drive itself was slightly Also supplied on the SupraDrive is built on a standard Amiga 2000 card modified by Supra to allow for the con utility disk is a copy of CLImate from with both 50 pin and 25 pin SCSI nection of the Amiga 2000’s hard drive Progressive Peripherals. We presented ports. The 50 pin port is located at the LED wires. These wires hang loose in a detailed review of CLImate in the top rear for use with an internally side the computer as supplied by Com June 1987 issue of Ahoy! CLImate is mounted drive. The 25 pin port pro modore. The ability to hook up the one of the easiest to use mouse-oper jects out the back for use with an ex LED wires lets you install the hard ated file management utilities we have ternal, Macintosh style SCSI drive. drive inside the computer’s case with seen for the Amiga. Our only problem To provide for future support of out regard to its external visibility. with CLImate was its reliance on its booting from the hard drive under .fastdir files for disk contents when the AmigaDOS 1.3 or higher, the interface Set Up and Software disk was write protected. This has been card was equipped with a pair of 28 The Supra Drives are preformatted fixed by the inclusion of a gadget which pin sockets for ROM chip installation. at the factory with a copy of the Work lets you toggle the use of the . fastdir Note that to achieve hard drive boot bench disk already installed. The Su- files. However, CLImate still insists on ing you will also have to replace a praDrive boot disk automatically starts creating the .fastdir files if the disk is ROM inside the computer. The inter the system and reassigns all the appro write enabled. We would like to see the face card we received was apparently priate devices to the hard drive. The option for placing the .fastdir files in not the final version, as we found some 20 megabyte drive which was supplied RAM rather than on the disk. last minute changes in the form of with our system was set up with four jumper wires on both the front and partitions of 2, 5.1, 5.1, and 7.9 mega Conclusion back of the board. The circuit board bytes. The use of partitions speeds up As can be seen from the accompany itself is a two layer design with gold the operation of the drive and encour ing chart, the SupraDrive exhibited a plated edge contacts. ages better file organization. slight advantage in operating speed. We received our unit as a 20 mega If you are supplying your own hard The supplied software was well thought byte system complete with a Miniscribe drive, or if you wish to rearrange the out and easy to use. The SupraDrive 8425 3Vi” hard drive. When you buy structure of the one you have, you will system is well worth considering for the complete system you specify its ca use the SupraFormat utility which is your Amiga hard drive needs. pacity; Supra then chooses the hard found in the System drawer of the Su- Supra Corporation, 1133 Commer Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMdrive. If the hard drive does not have praDrive boot disk. SupraFormat is an cial Way, Albany, OR 97321 (phone: an integrated SCSI controller, the sys easy to use mouse- and keyboard-driv 503-967-9081). tem will be supplied with a suitable en utility which lets you adjust the Circle #121 on Reader Service Card SCSI to ST-506 adapter, most likely number and size of the hard drive’s par OVERDRIVE one of the Omti devices. The control titions. It also includes gadgets which Pacific Peripherals ler piggybacks at the rear of the Supra let you format, map, or zero the hard Amiga 2000 interface card. Our system also came drive. Price: $249 with enough mounting hardware to al The format function is the standard Inasmuch as a hard drive is an ex low us to install the hard drive into ei AmigaDOS command. The map func pensive peripheral, it should be bought ther the 5 *4” or 3 Vi” drive bays in the tion marks all defective sectors, mak only after careful consideration. Odd Amiga 2000. ing them inaccessible. The zero func ly enough, this is just what we didn’t As with any other Amiga 2000 in tion effectively erases or reformats the do. It was at the Santa Clara Commo ternal peripheral, installation requires hard drive by deleting all of the disk’s dore convention in May that we spied that you open the computer and get into directory information. Executing the Lee Adams promoting his OverDrive the hardware. The degree of involve zero function is a lot faster than refor SCSI host adaptor for the Amiga 2000. ment depends on whether you are using matting or erasing all the original files. Perhaps it was a desire not to return the 5 Vi” or 3 V5s” drive bay. Supra pro The Format command which will be empty handed after traveling more than vides a photographically illustrated supplied with AmigaDOS 1.3 will in 3000 miles, or perhaps we just couldn’t manual which clearly shows what is in clude the equivalent of a zero option. resist the reviewer’s discount that Mr. volved. The only problem we had was The format function also gives you the Adams offered us. In any event, when identifying the number 1 pin on the 50 option of setting up a partition to ac we left the show we found ourselves pin SCSI connector. Apparently, the commodate the new AmigaDOS fast the somewhat apprehensive owner of positioning of the J2 designation for file system. SupraFormat does not an OverDrive controller card sans hard this connector was also meant to indi seem to use the Amiga Mount com drive. cate the location of pin number 1. The mand and its associated Mountlist file. Upon our return to New York we im hard drive came with a stick-on Supra Instead, the hard drive configuration mediately set out upon a search for a label which clearly marked the posi data seems to be stored in the Supra- suitable SCSI hard drive to hook up to tion of pin number 1. Mount command file itself. our OverDrive. After a while we got
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the distinct impression that SCSI drives The Performance Test each device. could be a scarce commodity at times. The speed at which the disk Direct comparison of these test Once again we invoked our privilege drives transfer data is important in results with similar data published of the press, and called upon our a disk-based operating system. In for other drives should be done with friends at C Ltd. About one month la this regard AmigaDOS’ floppy disk caution. Disk drive speed bench ter we had in our possession a 47 meg activity has not earned a reputation marks are affected by a variety of abyte, Seagate ST-157N hard disk drive for high speed. The use of a hard system parameters including the along with a C Ltd SCSI Controller drive does improve matters substan hard drive in use (in this case a Sea card. Thus, nearly two months after we tially. We ran several tests to mea gate ST-157N with the OverDrive got back from the west coast, we end sure the relative performance of the and a Miniscribe 8425 with the Su ed up with twice as much hard drive OverDrive as compared to other praDrive), buffer size, disk contents, as we started out to get, with twice as systems. The first series of tests con the time of day, and the state of mind many controller cards as we needed, sisted of copying the “C” directory of the system operator. In general, and with twice as much money spent from both hard and soft disks to speed tests should be viewed as a as we had expected. Some things nev RAM: and back again. In our case measure of the relative performance er change. the “C” directory contained 51 files of similar systems. For the above Since C Ltd formats and stuffs ev and occupied 417 disk blocks. The tests the OverDrive had about 7 ery hard drive they sell with 7 or 8 results are summarized in tine fol megabytes of data before we start megabytes of public domain, share lowing table: ed. The SupraDrive was run from ware, and demo programs, we decided to start out tests with the C Ltd con FILE COPY PERFORMANCE troller. After some sporadic operation, (in seconds) during which time we did manage to Copy DH0:C To RAM: All print out about 70 pages of C Ltd’s Copy RAM: To DHOTemp All SCSI manual, the C Ltd controller Copy DF0:C To RAM: All ceased to function. This was something Copy RAM: To DFLTemp All of a disappointment, as the C Ltd SCSI Delete DHOTemp/#? All system looks like it has some really Delete DFUemp/#? All nice features which we would have Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMAll tests were done with the de an empty partition DH2: The source liked to try out. fault number of disk buffers. The floppy (DF0:) was a typical Work Fortunately, we still had the Over test of DH0: was done with about bench disk and the destination flop Drive which we proceeded to install 7 megabytes of data on the disk. The py (DF1:) was empty. The default and which did perform flawlessly. As test of DF1: was with a fresfily for number of disk buffers was used. of now we will tell you about Over matted disk. Perhaps the most sig We also ran the widely used disk Drive. Hopefully in the next issue we nificant result of these tests is con performance test by Rick Spanbau- will be able to discuss the C Ltd SCSI tained in the first line of the table, er found on Fred Fish disk number controller with some greater authority. which shows the total time required 48. The results of our tests were as The OverDrive is a Direct Memory for the complete series of tests on follows: Access (DMA) SCSI host adaptor for the Amiga 2000. For the Amiga 500, DISK PERFORMANCE Over- Supra Pacific Peripherals offers their Subsys Drive Drive DF1: RAM: tem 500 ($249), a two slot expansion Total Test Time in Seconds 471 330 1300 182 chassis with separate power supply. For File Creations per Second 5 7 0 5 the Amiga 1000, they offer the Subsys File Deletions per Second 14 15 1 10 tem 1000 ($299), a three slot expan Directory Scan (Entries per Second) 52 43 36 5 sion chassis with separate power sup Seek+Read per Second 63 65 17 49 ply. Both of these products accept Am Read Speed Bytes per Second iga 2000 style Zorro cards. The Sub- 512 Byte Buffer 23616 30481 11599 187245 System 500 has space for a 3 Vi floppy 4096 Byte Buffer 23831 36921 12423655360 drive, while the Subsystem 1000 can 8192 Byte Buffer 23831 37449 12365655360 accept a 3 Vi" hard drive. We have not 32768 Byte Buffer 23831 - 12365 873813 tested either of these products. Write Speed Bytes per Second The OverDrive is built around a Mo 512 Byte Buffer 12725 17832 4993 131072 torola 68440 two channel DMA con 4096 Byte Buffer 12787 21140 5110 238312 troller. The OverDrive software only 8192 Byte Buffer 12725 20971 5150 262144 uses one of these channels. If you have 32768 Byte Buffer 12663 - 5150 291271
• b B • The OverDrive supports a variety of SCSI hard drives as well as ST-506 drives if used with a 4000 series Adap tec adaptor card. The software, which is supplied with the OverDrive, is de signed to simplify the installation pro cess. The OD UTILITIES program au tomatically queries the disk drive to de termine which type it is. If for some reason the drive fails to respond, you can still identify the drive manually. We received our OverDrive software with parameters for 16 different SCSI de Inside the OverDrive. The large chip at the top left is the two channel DMA vices. Since then several more have controller. The loose wires terminate in a power connector fo r use with an been added. If your hard drive is not onboard mounted 3V2” drive. SCSI connectors are to the right. on the list, contact Pacific Peripherals for instructions on how to update the the time and the talent, you can prob own connecting cable. We installed our installation file. The next release of the ably come up with a use for the sec hard drive in the Amiga’s 5'A” drive bay system software will most likely in ond channel. The OverDrive is in so that we could watch its little green clude your drive’s parameters as well. stalled in one of the Amiga 2000s 100 light flash. While it may not seem like The installation software is menu- pin expansion slots, Connection to a much, that blinking green light lets us driven. Menu selections take you SCSI device is via a SCSI standard 50 know that something is going on when through a low level format of the drive pin connector which is located on the everything else seems to hang up. which is followed by a certification side of the board inside the computer. The question on everyone’s mind which allocates any bad blocks. An A 25 pin Macintosh style SCSI con with regard to hard drive controllers other menu selection is used to update nector is positioned at the end of the is just how they will accommodate the mountlist on the Workbench disk. board so that it is accessible from the booting from the hard drive under Am- When you quit the system the OD Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMback of the computer. igaDOS 3.0 when it is finally released. UTILITIES automatically performs an The board itself has four holes to Pacific Peripherals intends to supply a Amiga format of the hard drive and it ward the rear which can be used to piggyback adaptor board which will in is ready for use. The final step is to mount a 3’A” hard drive. This can ef stall in one of the chip sockets on the copy the overdrive.device driver file to fectively turn the OverDrive into a hard OverDrive. The Adaptor board will the devs directory on your Workbench card for the Amiga 2000. You can buy contain the necessary autoboot code in disk. the OverDrive with or without a hard ROM. Pricing and schedule for the OverDrive is supplied with a prelim drive. If you elect to supply your own adaptor board were not available at inary manual which as of this writing drive you will also have to provide your press time. has not been finalized. Pacific Peri-
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■ pherals may be waiting for Commo by a new form of anxiety-the specter of the wisdom of data backup. How dore to issue AmigaDOS 1.3 before of hard disk failure. Although hard disk ever, when you are dealing with 10. 20, they commit themselves to a final man failure does not bear the social stigma 30 megabytes or more, backing up files ual. The documentation was adequate associated with some personal inade can be an everlasting tedium or at the for setting up and installing the Over quacies, it is nonetheless a traumatic very least a time consuming task. The Drive. The most notable shortcoming experience. In fact we have found that AmigaDOS file COPY command is was a regrettable lack of examples on the magnitude of the trauma is gener not the fastest way to transfer data be how to modify your startup-sequence ally proportional to the square of the tween devices. On top of it all there file transfer control over to the hard capacity of the hard drive. Now, you is the formidable task of keeping track drive on booting. may feel that your hard drive is infal of which files need backing up and Overall, OverDrive is a competent lible and not likely give up the ghost. where to find them once they are performer which deserves to be added Furthermore, you intend to replace it backed up. to the ever-growing list of peripherals with a new one every two years, whe You might say that a large portion for the Amiga 2000 computer. ther you need to or not. Before you let of your hard drive contains software Pacific Peripherals, 1080 Hiawatha yourself sink into the false security of which was transferred from floppies in Court, P.O. Box 14575, Fremont, CA smug self satisfaction, keep in mind the first place. Therefore, you already 94539 (phone: 415-651-1905). that hard drives do not have write pro have an original copy, and possibly a -M orton Kevelson tect tabs! Thus, there is nothing to pre duplicate, from which to restore in the Circle #122 on Reader Service Card vent some natural or person-made dis event of disaster. As a result, only your QUARTERBACK aster from trashing all of your files data files really need to be backed up. Central Coast Software while the functionality of your hard While this may be true, consider for Amiga with hard disk drive drive remains intact. After all, we do a moment how' much time you have Price: $69.95 live in the age of the virus. spent installing all that software on your Once you have your hard disk up and Chances are that you did not need hard drive. Now ask yourself if you running, you may find yourself beset the above bit of advice to convince you really want to go through all that again.
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...... Having firmly established the need go through two sets of disks to archive floppies, RAM:, or other AmigaDOS for an organized backup when dealing a complete retrieval. Note that you have file storage devices. However, be cer with large amounts of data, we present to go through all of the sets of backup tain to pay attention to the total size of Quarterback as a possible solution to disks in chronological order, until the the files to be restored, as shown on the backup woes. Quarterback provides last full backup, with Quarterback. the Quarterback display screen, so as a working environment which makes The second scheme also involves a not to exceed the capacity of the res backing up the contents of your hard full backup, with the archive bits set, toration device. drive a virtually foolproof task. It prac once a month. The incremental back When doing a backup, Quarterback tically takes care of all the bookkeep ups also set the archive bits. The dif lets you choose two and only two of ing which is needed to organize your ference is that each incremental back the four possible Amiga floppy drives. backups. It can also double as a high up must be done to a new set of disks. If you are backing up two floppy drives, performance file management utility The advantage is that the incremental Quarterback automatically keeps track when it is not backing up hard drives. backups take less time than in the first of the drives’ status and prompts you Just how fast is Quarterback? Ac scheme. Of course if a restoration is for all disk swaps. If you are reason cording to Central Coast Software, they required, you will have to go through ably adept at flinging floppies, you were able to back up 20 megabytes in more than two sets of backup disks to should have no trouble at all keeping under 40 minutes using a C Ltd hard complete the job. Quarterback properly fed. In this case. disk. We were not able to confirm this, Ahoy! Access Club members note: Quarterback will be able to automati as we could not get our C Ltd SCSI cally switch to a fresh disk when it fin controller working in time for this re This month’s Clipper (bound into all ishes with the current one. The back subscription copies) includes special view, However, with our Pacific Peri up display and prompt screen positions pherals OverDrive, which is a DMA offers on both Quarterback and an the dfl: prompt/requestor to the left and SCSI controller, we were able to back OverDrive-equipped hard disk drive. the dffi: prompt/requestor to the right. up about 7 megabytes, in 1001 files, in Quarterback uses its own disk for This is the opposite of the physical po about 11 minutes, to eight floppy disks. mat for its backup floppies. The Quar sitioning of the disk drives that you are This works out to well under a minute terback disks can be copied with the likely to have on the Amiga 2000. and a half per floppy, which is faster AmigaDOS diskcopy command; how which could lead to some confusion than the AmigaDOS Diskcopy com ever, AmigaDOS cannot access any of during the heat of backup. Of course mand. Extrapolating to 20 megabytes, the files. Incremental backups must be it is possible to change the hardware we git a bit over 30 minutes. Not bad performed to a new set of disks, or to disk drive devices on the computer, but Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMat all. a set of disks which may be overwrit having the option in the program would Quarterback is easy to use. All op ten. Quarterback cannot add files to be simpler. tions are selected from a series of an existing set of backup disks. When When doing a restore from floppy, screens which prompt you through the Quarterback performs a backup it Quarterback lets you use only one of proper sequence. When making a stores a complete index of the backed- the four possible disk drives at a time. backup you have a variety of ways to up files on the first floppy in the back Central Coast feels that the pressure of choose which files are to be copied. up set. You have the option of sending a forced restore should not be augmen Files may be selected manually, by a copy of the backup report to disk or ted by the user’s need to choose disk date, or by the status of the AmigaDOS printer immediately after Quaiierback drives. We feel that Amiga users are archive bit. AmigaDOS resets the ar completes a backup. You should take a sturdy lot who can be depended on chive bit whenever a file is changed. advantage of this option, as the back to react properly under stress. The Since Quarterback gives you the op up file index cannot be accessed and choice should be left to the end user. tion of setting a files archive bit on all printed out at another time. Quarter Overall, Quarterback looks like a of the files which it copies, it can eas back also gives you the option of send well-designed, dependable product ily identify which files were changed ing a restoration report to the printer which should do the job when the chips since the last backup. or disk after a restoration is complete. are down. We reviewed version 1.4 of The manual presents two schemes We mentioned that Quarterback can the program, which has remained un for backing up your hard drive. The double as a file management utility. changed for over four months as of this first involves a periodic full backup, say Quarterback gives you the option of se writing. At this time Central Coast once a month, setting the archive bit lecting the device to which it will re Software appears to have squashed all of all the files. In between the full back store. This choice is of course essen the bugs which tend to show up in a up intervals, perform an incremental tial if your hard drive has become a new product. At the present time the backup without setting the archive bits. non-drive or is otherwise deceased. company is contemplating revisions The advantage of this scheme is that Quarterback also has a very good cat based only on feature changes and not it needs only two sets of backup disks; alog display and file selection facility. problem correction. however, the size of the incremental As a result it is perfectly feasible to ex Central Coast Software, 268 Bowie backup set tends to grow'. If a restora tract selected portions of a complete Drive. 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MaxiPlan has received source documents • Maintain up to 63 Databases per Amiga User International's Oskar • Export Charts via IFF file format spreadsheet in the Spreadsheet Category. to any Amiga paint program • Create merge files for labels and i MaxiPlan Plus incorporates many form letters <------I The MaxiPlan Spreadsheet time-saving innovations including a • "Find" or Lookup any specific / I features: Macro Language facility similar to record or records f - ««■•■/ / • 512 columns by 32.760 rows 1 1 era r \»*rn I I Microsoft Excel's™ allowing auto • Function key commands W ith MaxiPlan Plus Macros mation of complicated spreadsheet • Ranges or cells reference by you can: UAXIPtMl analysis or data input. tu u m "Name" or cell address • Define up to 64 macros per With MaxiPlan Plus and your • Written or spoken cell notes M a c ro s h e e t Amiga you can: • Password protection • Automatically generate macros • Open multiple spreadsheets and • 11 Chart style s in clu d in g : 3-D u n d e r R ecord M o d e O x x / im t charts B a r 3-D Pie. S tacked Bar. X-Y • Use o v e r 95 different macro P.O. Box 90309 Long Beach. CA 90809 0309 • Link ' data from any number of scatter. Step. Hi-Lo. Area, l.ine. co m m a n d s 12131 4 2 7 1227 spreadsheets Bar. Pie and Exploding Pie • Create templates for data entry • Create a self-running dem o or • U p to 8 Charts per spreadsheet • Incorporate speech to instruct, M axiP lan interactive multiple choice quiz, • Lo tu s 1-2-3 im p ort capability remind, or inform user N am ed Best Amiga Spreadsheet incorporating files from word • Over 70 built-in functions such as • Adapt sample Macros for your of I 986 and recipient o f Am iga s processors and paint programs — Financial (IRR. NPV. FV. PM Tl o w n a p p lica tio n s U ser International I QMS O skar in the Spreadsheet C ategory for its • Automatically create reports — Database llndex. Find LookupI A M IC A is a registered trademark of H i g h l y f l e x i b l e a n d c o m p r e h e n such as invoices and purchase — Presentation IColor. Style. Commodorc-AMIGA. Inc. sive spreadsheet facilities right orders Speech) Excel is a trademark of Microsoft Corp. .across the Am iga range BUSEXPANDER would need more memory and more Comp-U-Save disk drives and a hard drive and other Featured This Month: Amiga 500/1000 neat gadgets and you really believed BusExpander...... 48 Price: $495 Commodore when they said they Zing! Spell...... 54 So you were the first kid on your would support you ail the way and then AC/BASIC v. 1.3...... 55 block to buy an Amiga 1000 and you along came the Amiga 2000 with all Access-64...... 57 found it was fantastic and you soon dis that expansion space and everyone CygnusEd Professional 60 covered that to really make it fly you seems to be making expansion cards for it and nobody is making the old Left: The BusEx Amiga 1000 Zorro cards anymore and pander motherboard now'you’re feeling left out in the cold. in all its glory. At Is that what’s troubling you. friend? the top we have six Or maybe you waited and bought an IBM XT style con Amiga 500 figuring you would try it nectors with circuit out and see what all the shouting was traces fo r two more. about and now you’re hooked and you Across the center can’t live without it and you need more are four IBM AT memory and maybe a hard drive or a extension connec video digitizer board and you’re won tors with traces for dering if you shouldn’t have bought that four more. Across Amiga 2000 in the first place. Is that the bottom are the what’s bothering you, bud? six 100 pin, Amiga Well, don’t despair now, as help is 2000 type connec on the way. If you don’t mind hacking tors. The dual row some hardware, then the BusExpander, headers, adjacent to made by Bill’s Boards and distributed the Amiga slots, are by Comp-U-Save, may be just what Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMfor the terminator you’ve been looking for. In a nutshell, board and the con the BusExpander is an expansion board nection cables. The with no fewer than six Amiga 2000 power supply con style expansion slots and six IBM style nector is at the up expansion slots which is designed to per right. interface with the Amiga 1000 or the Amiga 500. Two of the IBM slots are Below: Left to right eight bit XT types, while the rest are are driver board, 16 bit AT types. The sockets are ar connection cables, ranged to give you a total of nine ex and terminator pansion slots. board. By comparison the Amiga 2000 only has five Amiga slots and only four IBM slots, arranged to give you a total of seven expansion slots. The total num ber of usable slot positions is less than the sum of the Amiga and the IBM slots, since three of the Amiga/IBM slots overlap in the BusExpander and two overlap in the Amiga 2000. This overlap is to accommodate the Bridge- board, which spans one set of the com bination Amiga 2000/IBM XT slots. In the process, the Bridgeboard acti vates the IBM style expansion slots and provides a full-featured IBM XT com puter which functions under the Ami ga’s multitasking operating system. To complete our comparison with the Amiga 2000 we note that the Bus- Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM
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* New Menus for Workbench Access to Tools and Programs in RAM Disk. puter sitting on With the Amiga 500 everything ■ 14 "New" Workbench Tools and 13 Program Source Files top of the AT functioned properly when we used the * Complete System Control through Workbench Icons and Menus case. This may be same initial setup consisting of Bridge ■ Full Inter-Program Communication with "Parameter Passing." ’ Menu Access to Multiple Icon Selection. a bit awkward, as board, OverDrive, and 2 megabyte * Reduced Multitasking Memory Usage. it will elevate the card. We were unable to get the Supra " User Selectable Audio Response. ■ Indexed Interactive Multi-Level Tutorial Screens. keyboard about DMA hard disk controller to work in ■ Full Documentation. Examples, Customizing Suggestions and Glossary six inches above the BusExpander with the Amiga 500. Indeed, WBExtras is an essential for every Amiga User the table. It The BusExpander appeared well- and a necessity (or anyone wilh a Hard Disk System! should be possi made. The motherboard withstood *3995 ble to stand the some pretty rough handling during the Plus S3.00 for Shipping AT case on its installation and testing as we tried the Colorado Res Add Salas Tax P O , 80* 1308 side alongside the various cards in different slots. When Canon City, CO 81212 Amiga 500, re powering up the system, the BusExpan 719 275-5858 Amiga & AmlgaBaiic Workbench TM of Commodore - Amiga, Inc. sulting in an ex der should be turned on first, follow "Dealer Inquiries Invited" pansion tower to ed by the computer. Since reversing VIOLENCE ON THE HIGH SEAS, THE ULTIMATE TEST OF MANHOOD
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La line message as to the next step to be The BusExpander is obviously not ter I became involved with computers, taken by clicking on one of several but the solution for everyone. However, it spending my first year typing in pro tons. Click on the suggested one—OP’ does give you more slots per dollar grams from various magazines. This -and another window opens and you than any other expansion box we have led me to the creation of the term are told to click on the ‘AC’ button in seen. If you can handle the installation, UCR—Useless Computer Routine. that window and then further directed the BusExpander may be just what you What does all this have to do with to open your word processor. have been looking for. One Final word ZinglSpell? Well you might ask. That’s it. Your word processor opens, of advice to users of any Amiga expan Purportedly, ZinglSpell is an online you can type from now till doomsday sion card (this includes the Amiga spelling checker that will work with and make any spelling error you want, 2000): always look for a try before you virtually any word processor, even the and ZinglSpell is never heard from buy policy. As more manufacturers get original version of Textcraft, a program again. into the Amiga peripheral market, the notorious for its inability to multitask. Sure, you can swap screens, sending likelihood is that compatibility prob So far as I can tell, Textcraft remains the word processor into temporary lim lems will increase. notorious and ZinglSpell never shows bo and bringing up Workbench with Comp-U-Save, 414 Maple Ave., up to challenge it. the ZinglSpell window in place. But Westbury, NY 11590 (phone: 516-997- Allegedly, ZinglSpell offers spelling until you click on it, the ZinglSpell 6707, 800-356-9997). help. The kind of help offered is at best window is inactive, and having been —Morton Kevelson spurious and at worst infuriating. Rath inactive it hasn’t done anything while Circle #11B on Reader Service Card er than check strings of the first three you were away-rather like a brother- or four letters, as do most other pro in-law taking a nap. Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMgrams of its type, ZinglSpell checks the Now, Til admit that some of the fail WIN THE first consonant but treats the others as ings I attribute to ZinglSpell may be my wild cards. Vowels are checked so that own failings. Perhaps I’m not using it if you misspell a word like Peterson it correctly, and if that is the case I’ll LOTTO will check for words similar to “Pe* blame it on the documentation-the W ITH YOUR HOME COM PUTER! e*A)*”: instead of getting a list of sug worst I’ve ever seen. Not only does it gestions such as pet, petrified, and so miss several points I would consider Use your home computer and Soft- Byte's amazing new "Lotto Program” to on, you’re more likely to see words crucial —such as how to load the word get more winning tickets. such as peritonitis, pediatrist, or almost processor and what word processors In just seconds this software analyzes anything else. may be used-but it is such a poor past winners and produces a powerful The manual lays claim to hot keys printing that prolonged reading may be probability study on easy-to-read charts. for the program, whereby one key hazardous to your health. With a single press of a key, you'll see stroke can invoke one of the powerful The document was printed on a dot trends, patterns, odds/evens, sum totals, matrix printer with screen dumps to number frequencies, and much more. It features of ZinglSpell. This is rather also includes automatic number wheeling, nice, but only if you like your power provide the illustrations, was apparent instant updating, and a built-in tutorial. ful features randomized. FI is said to ly subjected to a poor photocopy ma Ask your software deaier. activate/deactivate the main window; chine and then printed and stuffed into my conclusion is that it only activates a package for which you paid $79.95. AMIGA ALL MODELS...$29.95 IBM, C64, APPLE $24.95 whatever is already active (in other Even hackers deserve better. words, no change). F2 is supposed to To be fair, there is one part of Zing! Add $2.00 shipping and handling. Credit card move the main window to back or front Spell that does work, else I’d not have orders approved by phone and shipped same day. of screen; in my experience it calls up been able to see how the suggested Make checks payable lo S0FTBYTE and mail lo: the disk directory of the word proces spelling feature works. Whereas Zing! P.O. 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previously created with your word pro and sound capabilities. It even permits iga BASIC program contained in an cessor, and it can be checked in its en access to the lower level operating sys ASCII text file. If you used Amiga tirety. At a misspelling, the program tem routines. But compared to pro BASIC itself to write the program, it will pause and offer you a chance to gramming languages like C and assem must be saved in the ASCII and not the correct the spelling, ignore the occur bly, BASIC is still quite slow and un default format. Moreover, all of your rence, ignore all occurrences, add to suitable for applications which require Subprograms must appear at the end dictionary, or exchange. speed (such as graphic animations and of your program. Absoft has thought Exchange is a rather nice feature, heavy duty calculations). Why? Be fully provided a short program to au and it is akin to what most of us call cause BASIC is an interpretive lan tomatically rearrange your BASIC pro search and replace. Type “par” during guage. This means that every time a gram to meet this requirement. For the writing of your manuscript and la BASIC program is run, the computer purposes of explanation, let’s assume ter change all occurrences to “para checks each program line for errors and that we want to compile a program ti grap h -o r to any other string of up to then translates it to machine language tled “BasicProgram”. From CLI, sim 120 characters. (instructions the computer can under ply type “ac-basic BasicProgram” and ZSRATCH will also, if you like, trap stand) before the line is actually exe you’re off and running. From the Work common errors of punctuation such as cuted. And this takes a lot of time, par bench environment, select the menu questioning whether a space should oc ticularly in long FOR-NEXT loops. item designated as Load and type in cur following a period, whether a par The AC/BASIC compiler from Ab “BasicProgram". In either case, the ticular word should be capitalized, and soft is an easy to use program that es Command Screen will appear shortly. so on. sentially does all the checking and For most applications, you need do no ZSBATCH is the part of the program translating ahead of time. It converts more than click on the “Start” button. that will work not with Textcraft but your BASIC program into a stand-alone But as will be discussed below, Absoft with Textcraft files. It will also work machine language module, and, de has provided a number of advanced op with files made with ProWrite, and is pending on the application, increases tions to produce an even fester running said to work with files from Scribble! the execution time up to 5000%. It also program. Drawbacks are that you’ll never see includes some programming features The compiler will make several pass more than four or five lines of your which are missing ffom Amiga BASIC. es through your program, and if all document with ZSBATCH and that the Now for the good news and the bad goes well you’ll end up with a compiled “suggested spelling” feature works as news. The good news is that the com version saved to your source disk. But described above. piler is 100% compatible with Amiga as we know, all never goes well, and Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMStill, if you are locked into using BASIC. In most cases, it can take a the compiler is quite likely to find some Textcraft, ProWrite or Scribble! 1.0, program written in Amiga BASIC and error in your BASIC program (such as ZSBATCH might be a worthwhile in compile it without vestment-but only if you can buy half any changes what of Zing'Spell for half price, Meridian soever. The bad RENTING SOFTWARE also offers a free thesaurus add-on in news is also that it return for registering your purchase. If is 100% compat ISN’T HARD! you go for this, insist that they also ible with Amiga throw in some coherent documentation. BASIC. Since Meridian Software, Inc., 9361 W. Amiga BASIC It's as easy as picking up the Brittany Ave., Littleton, CO 80123. has numerous phone and giving your order. If —Ervin Bobo bugs and idiosyn- Circle #129 on Reader Service Card cracies, as well as you have a credit card, it's even AC/BASIC v. 1.3 some animation easier. The hardest part may be Absoft routines which do Amiga with 512K not work proper waiting for the mail to come! Disk; $195 ly, these short The BASIC programming language comings were not is quite simple and easy to learn, but fixed but were in We're having a special sale, has consistently been looked down fact preserved by upon by programming pros for two rea Absoft in order to with up to 80% o ff selected sons: it is not very powerful, and pro maintain compati software. Call now for a com grams written in BASIC are very slow. bility. The Amiga computer using Microsoft’s The compiler plete list. Amiga BASIC ameliorates the prob can be used in
lems to a great extent. First, the Am both the CLI and Call toll-free outside Texas: 1-800-433-2938 iga itself is a relatively fast computer, Workbench envi - InsideTexas call: 81 7-292-7396 and second, Amiga BASIC is an en ronments, but you WEDGWOOD RENTAL hanced version of BASIC which utiliz must always start Q6l 5316 Woodway Drive es almost all of the Amiga’s graphics out with an Am Fort Worth, Texas 76133 Circle #127 on Reader Service Card a FOR loop without a NEXT). There turn it off. Another drag on the sys which are simply command lines are several ways errors are handled. tem is constant checks to ascertain inserted in your BASIC program that The default mode lists the errors on whether array variables and numbers tell the compiler what to do during your screen with a portion of the pro are within valid limits. These too can compilation. Using metacommands, gram line where the error occurred. be turned off if you’re certain your pro you can turn compiler options on and This is fine for only a tew errors, but gram won’t encounter any problems. off at selected points in your program, if you have many, there is option to save Absoft has also provided Static Arrays. as well as instruct the compiler to ig them in a text file for printout. The best Technical discussions aside, suffice to nore blocks of your program. Most im but most time consuming option adds say that this type of array will signif portant, however, is the metacommand line numbers to your program and icantly speed up your program. One “Include”, which inserts subprograms saves both the numbered program and valuable addition to BASIC is the Se into your program by reference. For ex errors (referenced to the line) for easy lect Case structure. Similar to the ample, assume you have a subroutine cross reference. ON...GOSUB command, it easily and named “Sort”. To include it in your You are also shown statistics about efficiently executes a block of state BASIC program named “Database”, your compiled program, including its ments based upon the result of a string simply insert the line ‘SInclude “Sort” ’ size and required stack size (which is or numeric expression. in your program. When the compiler important only if your program is be Perhaps the most important option reaches that statement, it will look for ing run from the CLI). As an added is the ability to link the compiler’s run the program “Sort” on your disk and touch, you are told how long it took time library directly to your program. process it as part of your main pro to compile, and the number of lines A run time library is, in essence, a sup gram. Needless to say, this powerful processed per minute. I should men porting program which the compiled command makes compiling a complex tion that the compilation time appears program constandy uses during execu BASIC program with external subrou to be quite rapid, tion. If your compiled program is lo tines quite easy. There are several other options cated on a disk containing the appro All of these capabilities sound great, which will make your compiled pro priate library (which is located in the but the real question is how well and gram run even fester. Certain com L: directory), there is no problem. But fest does the compiler actually work. mands in Amiga BASIC (such as in most cases, you will be using or dis I can only judge in an absolute sense checking the mouse) utilize even trap tributing your program on its own disk since there is no competing product on ping, which slows down your program. which may not contain that library. By the market for comparison. 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Absoft has and other lies. Whether they are word taken sig processing files, certain data files, text nificant downloaded from your favorite BBS or steps in v. information service, assembler listings, 1.3 o f AC/ or untokenized BASIC listings, Ac BASIC to cess-64 will let you exchange files with correct your Commodore compatriots. some known One of the most likely scenarios is bugs and to that buying a new Amiga 500 and a increase the monitor tapped you out. It would be compiler’s nice to have more memory, a second efficiency, drive, and a laser printer, but they’ll just and that have to wait. Access-64 lets you use work has your 15xx drives as Amiga drives, and paid off. it lets you daisy-chain on that Commo dore serial printer. These won’t be the some of the ambiguities found in the AC/BASIC compiler is an invaluable fastest peripherals, but if you already Amiga BASIC manual itself. There are tool, and a necessity for BASIC pro own them, they’re free. And you still many examples, some of which are grams that are intended for commer have your C-64/128 system available good short subroutines, and Absoft was cial applications. when some great old game beckons or thoughtful enough to include all the ex Absoft, 2781 Bond Street, Auburn when your home has more computer amples on the program diskette. There Hills, Ml 48057 (phone: 313-853- users than computers. are even routines to interface BASIC 0050). —Steve King Finally, you may want a cheap way with machine language programs and to store Amiga files. With plenty of to create and display HAM graphics! ACCESS-64 5 V4" disks lying around the house, your The disk, which is not copy protected, Progressive Peripherals & Software 15 xx drive can give you a way to keep also contains a nice spreadsheet pro Amiga 1000 with 512K backups, utilities you never use but gram written in compiled BASIC, and Disk and hardware: $79.95 can’t bring yourself to delete, and other EvEd, a program to modify and cus Access-64 is a combination of hard low-access files. tomize the run time library. My only ware and software that allows your Am Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM(Inti rtltat 13. frt* nmry wish is that Absoft would market an iga to use C-64/128 peripherals-1541, enhanced version of AC/BASIC which 1571, and 1581 (15xx) disk drives and not only “fixed” Amiga BASIC prob serial printers like the 1525 or MPS lems, but also added additional features 801. With Access-64 installed, your found in Macintosh BASIC (such as the Amiga can read, write, and format Button command). 15xx disks in C-64/128 format. It can As long as there is no other product also use those drives as Amiga peri on the market competitive to Absoft’s pherals, with access both from Work compiler, it is impossible to tell whe bench and the CLI. ther it could be better or faster. But in Access-64 comes on a non-copv- comparison to Amiga BASIC, there is protected Amiga disk. Its 25-page no question that it significantly increas manual walks you through the basics, es the speed of your program while at but leaves several things unexplained. the same time preserving the compat Most of the software is written in as ibility and features of Amiga BASIC. sembly language to squeeze in as much While compiled BASIC may never be efficiency' as possible. able to compete with programs writ ten in assembly langauge or C, there What It Can Do for You are many applications which just don’t Access-64 can be a valuable tool in require the speed of those languages. a number of situations. You may have The power and ease of programming many disks full of C-64/128 word pro in Amiga BASIC, in conjunction with cessing files that you want to keep as use of the compiler, now makes BASIC archive copies. Every now and then a viable programming alternative on you’ll want to use one of those old files, the Amiga. In feet, with only machine- but on the Amiga. Access-64, along specific changes, your BASIC program with a 15 xx drive, will give you ready Top: Access- can be processed with Absoft’s com access to individual files. 64 will bring a C-64 device up as an piler for the Macintosh or IBM PC! Or, you may still consider people Amiga icon (see 1541 in upper right cor For serious BASIC programmers who who use C-64s/128s to be friends- ner). Bottom: the 2” square interface. aren’t trying to write arcade games, the occasionally swapping computer files FILE COPY TIMES (1) specifically for the 500/2000 are due out soon. The Access-64 hardware for Fife From dfO: From! 15xx From dfO: From dfO: the 1000 draws too much amperage Size To 15xx To dfO: To dfl: To dfO: (2) from the +5V pin of the Amiga 500/ (using 15xx in iC-64/128 format) 2000 printer port. Connected with a gender changer, it could blow out the -6K 10 sec 14 sec - CIA chip. 3K 25 sec 36 sec — 93K 9.7 min 17.5 min — ■ • A - ...and Soft (using 15xx in Amiga format) Access-64 utilities allow you to use ,6K 8 sec 6 sec 9 sec 1.1 min either the CLI or Workbench to access 3K 12 sec 15 sec 9 sec 1.1 min your C-64/128 files. The files you 93K 4.5 min 3.3 min 31 sec 1.3 min would most commonly transfer would be word processor or data files. Whe TIMES TO LOAD DOS COMMANDS (1) ther you are transferring from a Com Load from 15xx Load from modore disk to the Amiga or the other Command in Amiga format Amiga's dfO: way around, you need to start with clean files, By clean, I mean that word DIR 15 sec 2 sec LIST 17 sec < 3 sec processing files should have been saved WHY 5 sec < 2 sec as “text only” or in ASCII format. That TYPE a 93K file 5 min 2.2 min will rid them of embedded formatting codes used only by the particular word (1) Times for different 15xx drives, which performed within 10-15 processor they were created with. percent of each other, are averaged. The main file transfer tool for users (2) includes 6 disk swaps. who prefer Workbench is a program called BusUtil. Without using any pull TIMES TO FORMAT A DISK down menus, BusUtil displays its op tions on a single screen. Gadgets al (using 15xx in C-64/128) format) low you to select which 15xx drive you Drive type: 1541 2.4 min want, to format or get a directory of 1571 1.6 min Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMa disk, and to transfer individual files (using 15xx in Amiga format with verify) between 15xx and Amiga drives. Bus 1541 13 min Util can automatically create icon files 1571 23 min as it transfers files to the Amiga. You (using QFormat on a previously formatted 15xx disk) also dick gadgets to tell BusUtil whe 1541 16 sec ther the file type is SEQ or PRG and 1571 16 sec whether you want an ASCII filter. The ASCII filter is critical to suc cessful file transfers between the Com ...and What It Can't The Ware That's Hard modore and Amiga formats, While the There are several things that Ac The Access-64 hardware is a two- Amiga uses standard ASCII codes to cess-64 does not purport to be and is inch-square interface with a 25-pin par represent alphanumeric characters, not. Access-64 is not a C-64 emulator. allel port connector on one side and your C-64/128 uses a dialect called Unlike Software Insight Systems’ GO- a 6-pin Commodore serial DIN plug PET ASCII. BusUtil’s ASCII filter will 64! or Ready Soft’s The 64 Emulator, on the other. Because the plastic is convert files between these two ver it does not claim to run C-64 software molded on, this is not a unit you can sions of ASCII. Without filtering, you on an Amiga. And unlike Central have serviced locally. To this interface, could see some strange results of file Coast's Disk-2-Disk, which only trans you can daisy-chain up to two 15xx transfers, with upper case letters turned fers files and requires an Amiga 1020 drives and one Commodore serial into graphics and lower case turned into drive, Access-64 will not flag differ printer. (That’s according to the man upper. ences between C-64 BASIC and Amiga ual. I used three drives and a printer BusUtil does have a couple of short BASIC or handle REL and USR files. with no problem, but PP&S says this comings. First, it will not give you a Access-64 also will not read MS- may draw too much power for some directory of the dfl): or dfl: Amiga DOS disks on your 15xx drive. Even Amigas so they only guarantee two drives. Second, it gives you no way to using the Transformer software, those drives. By comparison, the C-64 bus abort a copy. If you begin to copy a drives just are not compatible with the allows five drives and one printer.) 90K file and then realize that the disk MS-DOS format. Finally, Access-64 The model reviewed here was for an you are copying to has only 80K free, does not let you use a 170! or 1702 Amiga 1000. It is not compatible, us your choices are to reboot or to wait monitor with your Amiga. (That’s a job ing a gender changer, with an Amiga 10 minutes until you get a prompt that for C Ltd’s C-View.) 500 or 2000. New models designed the copy has failed because the disk is □ 1 = REVIEIUSlHO
full. Last, although it displays a “work about 70K of space on your boot disk. CAPACITY OF 15xx DRIVES ing” message during file transfers, it gives you no indication of its progress. 15xx Amiga Drives Drive type: 1541 1571 1581 For users who like the CLI better Besides just transferring files back Storage capacity: 170K 335K 800K than Workbench, Access-64 comes and forth between a C-64/128 and your with the commands DSDir, DSFormat, Amiga, Access-64 lets you use your Printers DSCopy, and DSFilter. These let you 15xx drives as Amiga disk drives, com Any Commodore-compatible printer work with C-64/128 disks in a 15xx plete with Workbench icons, as df8:, (with a 6-pin DIN plug) should work drive. The functions of the first three df9:, and df 10:. AmigaDOS will treat with Access-64. The cuirent version of commands are obvious. The fourth, these just like regular Amiga drives ex the software will not, unfortunately, DSFilter, converts PET ASCII to plain cept that the Amiga will not automati support graphics on such printers. As ASCII. Unlike BusUtil, it cannot con cally notice when you change disks in suming that the printer device number vert in the other direction. Since DS them, You will have to either type is 4, Access-64 provides two printer Filter works with files that have already DiskChange df8: at the CLI prompt, drivers. If the default driver causes been transferred, it does not destroy the or click on the SWAP8 icon in the Ac weird characters to print, you will have original file, but creates a new file with cess-64 Workbench window. to settle for the alternate, which caus a .fit extension. This does not make a 15xx drive es the Amiga to ignore mouse and key The format of the DSCopy com identical to an Amiga drive, however. board input while each line prints. mand is different from AmigaDOS’ If you’re going to buy a new drive for Copy: your Amiga, it should definitely be an Speed Amiga 1010 or equivalent. A 15xx drive Since 15 xx drives and Commodore DSCopy 8:C64FileName,SEQ TO DFO: will be slower (as we will see later) and printers rely on the serial interface, data AmigaFileName will have a more limited storage capa transfer will be slower than on a sys The 15xx drive is referred to with a city. On the other hand, 5 *4” diskettes tem built solely with Amiga peripher number only and you must specify the are cheap and plentiful compared to als. To give you some idea of speed, type of file after the C-64/128 file 3 ’/r diskettes, so a 15xx drive can pro on the facing page are some compari name. Finally, you must type the “TO" vide a cost-effective tool if you have son times for copying files, running filename. DSCopy will not assume that lots of Amiga files to archive. DOS commands, and formatting disks. it is the same as the “FROM” file name. This makes sense because the C-64/128 A POWER SUPPLY THAT WORKS AND and Amiga impose different maxi- Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMWORKS AND WORKS mums on file name lengths and restrict different characters from file names.
Installation Access-64 software is supplied on a Workbench 1.2 disk that you can boot from. If you already have a customized boot disk or hard disk, it can be mod ified easily to accommodate the nec essary Access-64 commands. You’ll need to modify two files and copy up to a dozen others onto your boot disk. CPS-500 The first file you need to modify is • Heavy duty power supports extra RAM Startup-Sequence. It must run three Ac • 3 AC receptacles cess-64 programs, that eat up less than • Transient spike suppression 4K of RAM, to set up the serial port • For Amiga 500 adapter. Then it has to MOUNT and do a DiskChange for each of the new drives (df8:, df9:, and dflO:). The sec CPS-500...... $99.95 ond file to modify is MountList in the DEVS directory. Each 15xx drive must The standard by which all others are measured. be described for DOS. Both files are easy to edit using models on the Ac cess-64 disk. PHOENIX The files you need to copy from the Access-64 disk to your boot disk in ELECTRONICS, INC. clude two device files that go into the P.O. Box 156,314 Court - Clay Center, KS 67432 DEVS directory and a dozen files for PHONE: (913)632-2159 the C directory. These will require □ REVIEWS I B You see that doing an Amiga format of files to share between your Amiga A search (or search and replace) is on a 15xx drive is slow. It is much fest and a C-64/128 (more than are practi just as impressive. When CED looked er to format the disks in C-64/128 for cal for a communications program and for a phrase that occurred near the end mat and then use the Access-64 QFor- a null modem cable), you should con of my file, it took only 2 seconds to mat utility. QFormat converts a previ sider Access-64. find it. ously formatted C-64/128 diskette to a Progressive Peripherals & Software, CED doesn’t expect us all to read format usable by AmigaDOS in a I5xx 464 Kalamath Street, Denver, CO 172K in under a minute though. It pro drive. 80204 (phone: 303-825-4144). vides various ways to control scrolling (1581 drive times will be slightly fest —Richard Herring speed: by using the SHIFT or ALT Circle #132 on Reader Service Card er in many cases than the times shown. keys with the arrow keys, by setting the Formatting a 1581 disk in Amiga for CYGNUSED PROFESSIONAL scroll jump (or smoothness) from 1 to mat will take less than an hour-but ASDG Inc. 8 pixels, and by scrolling faster the not much less. The 1581 drive cannot Amiga with 512K nearer the mouse pointer is to the edge read an Amiga 1010 diskette.) Disk; $99.95 of the screen. CygnusEd Professional is a program You will lose considerable speed if Limitations mer’s text editor for any model Amiga you run CED in a Workbench window Prospective purchasers of Access-64 with at least 512K RAM. It provides rather than in its own (default) full should be aware of several limitations. a fast and flexible means for entering screen display. Also, CED can keep up On the hardware side, the manual rec anything from short batch (command with most typists during text entry, but ommends that you not use IEEE disk sequence) files to assem bly-or other a speed demon can outpace it. If you drives such as the Commodore 8050 -language listings that may run many are inserting lines of text at the begin and SFD 1001 due to differences in thousands of lines. What CygnusEd ning of a long document, however, it timing. Similarly, the manual recom Professional (called CED) is not, and is not hard to get ahead of CED. mends against using IEEE or Centron for good reason, is a full-featured word ics interlace printers. What you'd be processor. It lacks things like fancy The RAM 's the Limit doing in either case is converting the print formatting, spell checking, and If CED has any limitation as a text Amiga parallel port into a C-64/128 footnote generation. editor, it's that text files must be load serial port and then converting that to ed completely into RAM. I know, I just an IEEE (or Centronics) interface. If Speed v. WYSIWYG used that as a plus for speed. But the you have a parallel (Centronics inter CED gains its speed in three ways: other side of the coin is that CED it Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMface) printer and a couple of 15xx by using assembly language subrou self takes about 170K. After it is load drives, Access-64 will create compe tines, by loading text files entirely in ed, you can open up to 10 "views,” tition for your Amiga’s parallel port. memory, and by not bothering to dis which are sort of limited windows. On the software side, there are some play on screen exactly how your docu Each view- can show a different file, limitations on disk copies and file cop ment will look when printed. This is or you can use several views to see dif ies. When transferring files between an appropriate approach for a text ed ferent sections of the same file. It’s easy C-64/128 and Amiga format, you may itor. Its concern should be. and is. with to toggle among different views, and transfer only one file at a time -w ild rapid text input and editing. While there’s even an option to expand the cards aren’t allowed. And during trans some programmers do use full-blown current view as much as possible. fers with either BusUtil or DSCopy, if word processors to develop programs, (Each view always gets at least one line you try to type on your Amiga, you’re they trade speed for features they'll nev of text, and a status line showing the likely to lose characters. er use —like producing an index or in size of the file or its name and your When using a 15xx drive as an Am serting graphics. position in it.) Since CED is fully mul iga drive, you cannot use the Work Since any file you load into CED re titasking, you can see that RAM, as us bench Duplicate command or the CLI sides completely in RAM. CED is able ual, can get pretty scarce. DiskCopy command on a single 15xx to move very quickly through your text, By adding a single parameter when drive. These commands are okay be whether you are jumping to a particular you load CED, you cause it to stay tween two 15xx drives. Finally, you line, doing a search and replace, or tak memory resident. You can quit CED, cannot directly copy a file from one ing a leisurely scroll. As an example then reactivate it with a simple combin 15xx drive, in C-64/128 format, to a of CED’s speed, I loaded a 172K as ation keypress. This is much preferable second 15xx drive, in Amiga format. sembly language listing consisting of to storing the program in a RAM: disk, You must be an intermediate copy to 9000 lines. Jumping from beginning to which loads just as last but requires two a regular Amiga drive or RAM: disk. end was virtually instantaneous. Scroll copies of the program while it is run Access-64 is a cost-effective way of ing through the file a line at a time took ning. One of CED’s many thoughtful expanding your Amiga and maintaining only 2.5 minutes, a darn sight faster features is that it detaches itself from ASCII file compatibility with a C-64/ than I can skim, much less read. 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A Division e l D m / s S ystem s, inc. When you first load CED, you can since the last save. A fully automatic other key. Occasionally you will also load up to 10 text files at the same time save feature would be nice, but given have to hold down the shift key. by specifying their names on the com the speed of floppy access, CED’s save Even better, most non-menu features mand line or by using extended select option is fine. can be controlled from the keyboard from WorkBench. Once CED is resi CED will even create an icon for too. Such as? Such as answering Yes, dent in memory, you can load multiple your file as it is saved and will let you No, Resume, or Quit to a requester and files while you reactivate it with a lit specify a default tool to run and load toggling gadgets in the Search/Replace tle utility that passes filenames to CED. that file when it is selected. requester (case sensitive, search back Loading files into CED once it is ac Another save feature, safe saves, is ward, etc.). tive is a snap. The requester shows all valuable when you save a file that al A feature that can be critical to pro available drives, logical assignments, ready exists on the disk. Rather than grammers is the ability to enter any and volume names. Click on one and overwriting the old file, the new ver ASCII character. The SetMap com its contents are displayed. If the direc sion is saved under a temporary name. mand will control which 256 charac tory is lengthy, you don’t have to wait Only after a successful save is the old ters the Amiga recognizes, but the key for the last file. As soon as the one you file deleted and the new one renamed. board certainly can’t reproduce them want appears, click and it will load, If you have the unreliable power that all. CED allows you to enter any char Saving text is also a treat. The sta occasionally haunts my neighborhood, acter as its ASCII equivalent. tus line at the top of each view will this could be a godsend. There may be points in your text that show asterisks if that file has been Electrical glitches are not the only you refer to. or edit, regularly. CED changed since it was last saved. If you phantoms our Amigas face. There is lets you leave up to three markers and have several views open, CED gives also the dreaded Guru. Although CED jump to any of them instantly. You can you a single command to save all was quite well behaved in all my tests, also jump back to the position the cur changed files. Nice. And my favorite: its multitasking capability could sub sor occupied before the screen was last You can tell CED to regularly pop up ject your text to the poor manners of redrawn. Movement of the cursor is a requester giving you the option to other programs. Once again, CED to easily controlled by combination key save your file. Specify any period from the rescue. A utility program will strokes (like Intuition uses in string five minutes to an hour and a half. This search your RAM after a crash to find gadgets) to jump to the beginning or requester will even guilt trip you by any CED files that were there before end of a line. Or you can move by full noting how many changes you’ve made you rebooted. You select which ones screen, half screen, word, or character. to save. But use Blocks can be marked, cut, copied, Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMcaution before or saved. CED's cut and paste (block) C L I P A R T you overwrite an options let you move not only the hori For AMIGA" existing file, The zontal, full-width blocks we are all fa Over 100 high resolution crash can corrupt miliar with, but also vertical, or col IFF images on most disks. your data. Or if umnar blocks. This gives you an easy you let Startup- way to handle comments in an assem NEWI A Sequence load up bly listing or to create multicolumn Disk# 7 memory on re text. Once you create multiple columns, Antiques boot, it can kill however, you can’t edit much because part of a CED CED does not “see” the columns ex Sea Life file. (I lost 1500 cept when you move them. Gambling lines of a program CED has six ways to delete text. The Nautical in one test.) Delete and Backspace keys do a char Knights acter at a time. Then come delete word, Never Board by block, and line, and delete to end of NEW! This Key line. Five delete buffers are paired with Disk # 8 That CED has the various ways to delete text. (Delete Al! Christmas pulldown menus line and delete to EOL share a buff Graphics! is so common it er.) Undelete commands let you restore isn’t worth men the text from any buffer. In the best of JS19.95 per disk tioning. That all possible worlds, I might like to have there are key more than one deleted block buffer, but Disk 1: Computer, Office, Music, School, Travel, Trans. Disk 2 : Business, Sports, Animals, Party, Religious board alternatives CED’s buffers do give you tremendous Disk 3 : Food, Borders, Medicine, Old West, Newsletter for nearly every flexibility. Disk 4 : Hands, Seasons, Pirates, Tools, Personal, America Disk 5 : Theater, Comers, Zoo, Menu, Outdoor menu command Undelete a single character? Big deal Disk 6 : Adman’s Special: Computer Products is. Most menu you say? In other programs maybe, but Magnetic Images Co. features can be in to CED a single character may be much P.O. Box 17422, Phoenix, AZ 85011 (602) 265-7849 voked by holding more. With CapsLock on, your Ami (Add S2.50 P & H per order) either Amiga key ga's function keys become 40 different and hitting one escape code sequences to control your □ = REVIEWS m c l
printer. If you don’t want these codes string requesters, like loading a new lower case, wildcards in search strings, to display, CED can hide them under file. Since setting up a bunch of mac 1024 characters per line (maximum), the next regular character, which will ros is work, CED lets you save and load auto indent, repeat a character or com appear in reverse video as a reminder. macro files. You might want different mand any number of times, non-break Delete that character and you delete the macro files for C, assembler, and let and visible spaces, paragraph reformat hidden codes with it. Undelete it some ters home. The macro file S:CEDMac- ting, and find matching parentheses, where else and you have successfully ros will load automatically with CED. brackets, and braces. moved them. You can even set up a macro file to So hidden codes don’t become a bug have CED emulate another editor or Accessories and Accomplices bear, CED automatically displays them word processor. (CED comes with just CED is not a word processor. Yet for during a search and replace operation. such a file for MicroEmacs.) entering and revising text it’s wonder Unfortunately, when escape codes are After using CED for awhile, you’ll ful. Does it have a place in the lives visible they will screw up line lengths get all its options set just like you want of people who write rather than pro (with word wrap on) and paragraph re them. You can save this “environment" gram? Maybe. A qualified maybe. The formatting. to a file so you will never have to re manual suggests using CED to enter CED has full macro capability. Com set the same options. Keep several en text and your regular word processor binations or series of keystrokes can be vironment files for different types of to format and print that text. Only in assigned to represent a sequence of programming. Then when you load a a multitasking environment is this rea commands or a string of text. About Modula 2 listing with a filename end sonable for most writers. the only limitation is that the normal ing in .M2 (for example), it will auto For programmers, CED’s print fea alphanumeric keys cannot be repro matically load the environment called tures are acceptable. Print to screen grammed, So A by itself can’t be a CEDdefeults.M2, Environments in (Type or Copy) and you have nice clean macro, though CTRL-A, ALT-A, or clude everything from screen size and text with no special format codes. Print SHIFT-ATL-A can. colors to macros, tab settings, and the to a printer and CED multitasks, let Entering macros is interactive. As placement of the scroll bar. ting you go back to editing right away, you enter commands, they actually take Odds and ends that deserve mention even editing the same file (though print place so you know your macro will are rotate block (for networks like Use- spooling does prohibit you from exit work, No obvious way exists to edit ex Net), strip carriage return (for impor ing CED easily). You can print a file isting macros. Macros will not handle ted files), convert between upper and Continued on page 74 Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM The internal sound capabilities of the Amiga are better than that of any other personal computer. These capabilities mean nothing though, without quality digital sounds, which up till now have been scarce. Sound Oasis gives Amiga owners access to a large library of studio-tested digital samples, by using the Amiga's built in disk drive to read disks made for the Mirage Digital Sampling Keyboard. Sounds can then be played from a MIDI keyboard, the computer keyboard, or saved as an IFF standard file. Mirage is a trademark of Ensoniq Inc.
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Clockwise from top left, facing page: Does she look more like a spaced-out Sally Strothers— or a down to earth Stevie Nicks? You decide about Nightbride by Alisa Uwden (State College, PA), a low-res image; finally on homo video and in the A rt Gallery years after his initial success, ET by Jonathan Joshi (Jamaica, NY); and H at la d y by Greg Wilcox (Mhmeapofis, MN), in low-res on Digi Faint. Top to bottom, this page: the famous Rem brandt self-portrait loses little in the translation tolhe Amiga screen by Terry Imre (Vancouver, BC), in hi-res on Deluxe M a t; Moe lorry Curley by Rog er McVey (Phoenix, AZ) in HAM mode on Photon Paint; and Old Man (have we got a girl for youl), also by Greg Wilcox on Digi-Paint. ABM (A n ti-B a llistic M issile) By John M. Haubrich, Jr. 1800 Maine Street Quincy, IL 62301
This version is called MABM_Home" since it is free from MENU event trapping. This makes it easier to debug!
MENU O FF T IM E R O FF MOUSE O F F highscore = 0 GOSUB InitA rrays GOSUB InitS hapes DEF FNlive - (cityo n (l) l)+(cityon(2)=l)+(cityon(3)=l)+(cityon(4)=l)+(cityon(5)=l)+(cityon (6)-l) GOSUB InitS creen R e s t a r t : boraberflag = 0 CIS Caution! Don’t even think about entering GOSUB Initband this program until you’ve read your Amiga GOSUB InitV alues GOSUB HetnainMis BASIC manual and familiarized yourself GOSUB P loceC ities GOSUB S tartS creen with your computer’s screen editor! actbase = 2 Once you’ve done the necessary back- m a in : ON MOUSE GOSUB Hum anFire ground work, we’ll be glad to assist you with MOUSE ON AnotherRound: any problems. Call 212-239-0855 (if busy or bomberflag = 0 no answer after three rings, 212-239-0855), COLOR 5 , 0 CIS weekdays from 8:30-4:30 EST. GOSUB InitLand GOSUB P laceC ities GOSUB InitR ound GOSUB RemainMis COLOR 7 ,0 :LOCATE 8,I6:PR IN T USING "WAVE ###” ;wavenumber FOR k*l TO 4 :FOR j = 900 TO 600 STEP -40[SOUND j,l,255,0:N E *T j,k FOR i - 1 TO 1500:NEXT i COLOR 5,0:LOCATE 8,16:PRINT " ":C0L0R 5,5 G a m e L o o p : GOSUB RemainMis chbase = VAL(INKEY$):IF chbase > 0 AND chbose < 4 THEN actbase = chbase Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMIF score > highscore THEN highscore = score LOC ATE 1 , 1 PRINT USING " »9f t #A# SCORE HIGH ####### score,highscore GOSUB F ireM issiles GOSUB U pdateM issiles IF (RND > .9995-.005*wavenumber) AND (boraberflag = 0) THEN GOSUB Bomber IF bom berflag 5 0 THEN GOSUB Eom berScroll IF m isle ft > 0 THEN GameLoop FOR i - 1 TO 1000:NEXT i GOSUB Bonus IF score >■ bonusllm it THEN GOSUB BonusCity IF FN live - 0 THEN GameOver wavenumber » wavenumber + 1 level = level + 1:IF level > 8 THEN level = 8 GOTO AnotherRound END
InitScreen: SCREEN 2,320,200,3,1 WINDOW 3 ,",l,(0,0)-(311,185),0,2 WINDOW OUTPUT 3 PALETTE 0 ,0 ,0,0 PALETTE 1,.4,.6,1 ’blue PALETTE 2 ,1 ,.73,0 ’orange PALETTE 3 ,.9 3 ,.2,0 ‘red PALETTE 4,1,1,1 ’white PALETTE 5,0,0,1 'dark blue PALETTE 6 ,1,1,.13 ’yellow PALETTE 7,.3 3 ,.87.0 ’green E ndlnitS creen:RETURN
InitLand: COLOR 5 , 0 LINE (311,157)—f311,185),5 LINE -(0,185),5 LINE -(0,1 57 ),5 LINE -(19,157),5 LINE -(29,175),5 LINE -(140,175),5 LINE -(150,157),5 LINE -(160,157),5 LINE -(170,175),5 LINE -(281,175),5 LINE -(291,157),5 . L IN E - ( 3 1 1 , 1 5 7 ) , 5 Y ou are in command of three powerful mis PAINT (5 ,180),5 ,5 COLOR 0 ,5 :LOCATE 23,1:PRINT"ALPHA";TAB(1 8 ):"DELTA";TAB(3 5 );"0ME&A"; sile bases guarding E ndlnitLand:RETURN six helpless cities StartScreen: from a full-scale attack. Each wave COLOR 7 . 0 of enemy missiles gets faster and LOCATE 1,26:PRINT USING "HIGH "jhighscore COLOR 3 , 0 new alien weapons are introduced LOCATE 3,I8:PRINT"A B M" as time progresses, During these vi COLOR 1 , 0 LOCATE 5,9:PRINT"By John M. Hauhrich, J r." cious attacks, you alone are left to COLOR 6 , 0 defend the remaining traces of your LOCATE 8 ,7 :PRINT"BONUS CITY EVERY 75000 POINTS" COLOR 0 , 1 civilization with primitive anti-bal LOCATE 17,7:PRINT"(C) 1987 John Gop Software" listic missiles (AMBs). You will LOCATE 18,11:PRTNT"A11 R ights Reserved." COLOR 7 , 0 face bombers, laser bursts, and an xsiin = 40:xmax = 280:ymin = 90:ymax = 110 overwhelming number of warheads LINE (xrain,ym in)-(xniax,yinin),1 LINE -(xm ax,yinax),4 in a fight to stay alive. Failure LINE —(xm in,yraax),4 means death! LINE -{xsiin,yiTiin),A LOCATE 13,8:PSINT"Press LEFT BUTTON to begin." ABM is an arcade game based on W H IL E MODS E ( 0 ) 0 0 : WEND the classic Missile Command. It is CheckMouse: IF M0USE(0)=I THEN written entirely in Amiga BASIC GOTO EndStartScreen and runs under DOS 1.1 or 1.2 with ELSE GOTO CheckMouse 512K RAM. Since Missile Com END I F mand is still one of my favorite vid E ndStartScreen:RETURN
eo games, I tried to implement the InitShapes: “real thing” as closely as possible. DIM c ity (112) RANDOMIZE TIMER A few changes had to be made, LINE (0 ,Ll)-(28,11),2 however, to keep the program size LINE (0,12)—128, 12),2 FOR j = 2 TO 26 STEP 2 down and the speed up to par. h = RND*10-2 Just as in the original, you are in c = RND*2+1 LINE {j,1 0 )-(j,h ),c command of three missile bases: LINE (j+ 1,10)-(j+ l,h),c Alpha, Delta, and Omega. Each NE X T j GET (0,0)-{28,12),city Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMbase has a stock of 10 ABMs. Sur CLS rounding the middle base are three DIM Lbombershape(112) COLOR 1 , 0 cities to the left and three to the CLS right. The bases are labeled under AREA (1 ,5 ):AREA <2,5):AREA (6,9):ARF,A (8,9):AREA (2,3):AREA (3,3) AREA (1 1 ,9 ):AREA (1A,9):AREA (17,12):AREA (11,12):AREA (3 ,18):AREA (2,18) neath and the number of missiles AREA (8 ,1 2 ):AREA (2,12):AREA (1,5) remaining appears below the name. AREAFILL GET (0,0)-(18,19),Lborabershape Enemy missiles fall from the top of DIM Rbombershape{112) the screen at different speeds as the CLS AREA (1 7 ,5 ):AREA (16,5 ):AREA (12,9):AREA (10,9):AREA (1 6 ,3 ):AREA (15,3) game progresses. AREA (7 ,9 ):AREA (4,9):AREA (1 ,12);AREA (7 ,1 2 ):AREA (15,18):AREA (16,18) Play starts at Wave 1 with nine AREA (10,12):AREA (16,12):AREA (17,5) AREAFILL very slow incoming warheads. The GET (0 ,G )-(18,19),Rborabershape number and speed of the missiles CLS increase with each wave up to a EndInitShapes:RETURN maximum of 37 missiles with a veloci InitV alues: FOR j = 1 TO 6 ty 8x normal. The game con cityon(j)=l tinues indefinitely at lev NE X T j l e v e l = 1 el 8 till all your s c o r e = 0 cities have score2 = 0 bonuslirait = 750005 been bonusnaultiplier - 750005 wavenumber = 1 EndlnitValues:RETURN
InitR ound: B y actbase = 2 tabase(l,0) -= l:m base(l,l) - 10 nbase(2,0) = l:m base(2,]) = 10 John mbase(3,0) = l:m base(3,l) = 10 eneroymissiles = 5+level*A nucrajissiles = enem ym issiles H aubrich o is le ft = enemymissiles iniscluster = 0 GOSUB M issileSlopes EndlnitR ound:RETURN
Placed ties: FOR j » 1 TO 6 destroyed. IF cityo n (j) = 1 THEN PUT (37*j- (j>3)'*29-4,163),c i ty ,OR END I F GAME CONTROLS N EXT j The mouse arrow serves as your EndPlaceCities:RETURN missile pointer. Simply roil the M isslleSiopes: pointer to a location just ahead of targetCD) = 15:target(1) = 47:target(2) « 84:target(3) = 121 target(4j « !55:target(5) = 187:target(6) = 224:target(7) * 261 the incoming missile and press the target(8) = 295 left button. One of your ABMs will FOR j = 1 TO enemymissiles xtop( j } = RND*300+10 zip to the target and burst into a m istargC j) = !NT(RND*8+.5) white cloud 20 pixels in diameter. xbot(j) = target(m istarg(j)) m ( j ) *• 165/(xbot(j)-xtop(j}) If you score a hit, the incoming NE X T j missile will disintegrate with only EndMissileSlapes:RETURN a vapor trail left behind. The num InitA rrays: ber of missiles remaining in your DIM cityon(6) D IM m ( 4 0 ) current base will be decremented DIM xtop(4ij) ,xbot(40) by one. If you hear a tone when DIM m x(40),iny(40) DIM rais(AO) ’m igsile is active if - 1 your ABM fires, your supply is get DIM rabase(3,l) '(x,0)=active if 1,(x ,l)=nunber abms le ft in base X. ting low and “LOW" is printed un DIM target(8) DIM m istarg(40) der your base. When no more mis EndlnitArrays:RETURN siles are left, “OUT” will be dis
FireM issiles: played, accompanied by a high IF enemymissiles > 0 THEN beep when the left button is IF m iscluster < 6 THEN m iscluster => m iscluster + 1 pressed. Missiles will not fire on m is(eneoiym issiles) = 1 the extreme left or right edges of mx(enemymissiles) = xtop(enem ym issiles) my(enemymissiles) - 10 the screen, nor near the top of your enemymissites = enemymissiles - I bases or cities. END I F END I F To switch from one base to an EndF ire M issile s:RETURN other, hit “1”, “2”, or “3” on the key
UpdateM issiies: board for each of your three bas FOR upj »■ num m isslles TO enem ym issiles STEP -1 es. That is, “1” for Alpha, “2” for IF misCupj) = 1 THEN Delta, and “3" for Omega. (I find Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMnewy * my(upj) + level IF m(upj) O 0 THEN newx = mx(upj) + (nevy-m y(upj))/m (upj) it easiest to use the keypad!) You ]JNE (mx(upj) ,m y(upj))-(new x,newy),7 mx (upj) = newx:m y(upj) = newy can switch freely from base to base IF m y(upj)> 175 THEN GOSUB CheckHit while the computer keeps track of END I F N E X T u p j your expenditures. Of course, if an EndUpdateM issiles;MOUSE ONrRETURN enemy missile hits your base, the entire base, including its stock of C h e c k H it : LINE (xtop(upj),10)-(xboc(upj),175),0 ABMs, is completely destroyed LINE (xtop(upj) , U )-(xbot(upj),175) ,0 during that wave. m is(upj) - 0 xh it = m istarg(upj) Once you have destroyed all in C h e c k H it 2 : IF x h it « 0 THEN basenumber = 1:G0SUB DestroyBase coming missiles, your bases are ful IF xh it « 1 THEN d cit - l:GOSUB DestroyCity ly restocked with ABMs. Also, bo IF xh it » 2 THEN d cit - 2:GOSUB DestroyCity IF x h it = 3 THEN d cit » 3:G0SUB DestroyCity nuses are given for each remaining IF x h it = 4 THEN basenumber = 2:G0SUB DestroyBase missile and city at the end of the IF x h it = 5 THEN d c it = 4:G0SUB DestroyCity IF x h it » 6 THEN d cit = 5:G0SUB DestroyCity wave. Cities are worth 100 points IF xh it » 7 THEN d cit = 6:C0SUB DestroyCity times the wave number (up to 8) I F x h i t h 8 THEN basenumber = 3:G0SUB DestroyBase EndCheckHit: and missiles are worth 5 points m isleft = m isleft - I times the wave number. You are m iscluster = m iscluster - 1 awarded a bonus city every 75,000 RETURN points. If you already have six cities DestroyCity: cityon(dclt) = Cl (which is unlikely), your bonuses ctr ■ target(dcit-(dcit>3)) will be saved for the near future! CIRCLE (c tr,168),15,3:PAINT (c tr,168),3 CIRCLE (c tr,168),15,0:PAINT (c tr,168),0 (Hint, hint.) FOR jl-1 TO 3:FOR j2-150 TO 200 STEP 50:SOUND j2 ,1,255,0:NEXT J 2 ,jl End Dest ro yC i t y :RETURN ENEMY ARSENALS H u m a n F ir e : There are only two types of ene junk = H0USE(O):IF junk >= 0 THEN EndHumanFire abmx = M0USE(5):aboy - M0USE(6) my weapons, but this is two too IF abmy < 10 OR abmy > 145 THEN EndHumanFire many! The missiles are 100% ac IF abmx < 10 OR abrax > 301 THEN EndHumanFire IF mbase(actbase,0)=>0 THEN SOUND 14% ,2 ,255,O:G0TO EndHumanFire curate—they never miss a target un IF m base(actbase, 1 )»0 THEN SOUND 14OD,2,255,0:GOT0 EndHumanFire less you stop them. After each- wave is successfully completed, four ON acthase GOTO alphaflre,deltafire,om egafire more missiles are added to the en a l p h a f i r e : LIN E( 15,15 6 )-( abmx, abmy ) , 1 emy’s arsenal for the next attack, LINE(15,156M abm x,abm y),0 up to a maximum of 37 missiles GOTO explode d e l t a f i r e : (there are nine on the first wave). L T N E ( 1 1 5 , 1 5 6 ) - ( a b m x , a b m y ) , 1 “Now wait a minute, they’ve got 37 I.IN£(155,156)-(abm x,abm y),0 GOTO explode missiles but I’ve only got 30 o m e g a f i r e : ABMs,” you say? Right! That LTNE(295,156)-(abm x,abmy) ,1 LTNEC295,156)-(abm x,abm y),0 means you’ll either have to destroy e x p lo d e : two or more missiles with one shot rcbase(actbase,1) = mbase( act base, 1) - 1 or be selective about the warheads IP m base(aetbase,1) < 4 THEN LOCATE 24,actbase*18-17:COLOR 6,5:PRTNT"LOW";:S0UND 400,5,2 5 5 , 0 you knock out! After all, why pro IF m base(actbase,1) = 0 THEN LOCATE 24,actbase*18-17:COLOR ft,5:PR IN T"0in'"; CIRCLE (abm x,abmy), 10,4:PAINT (abmx,abm y),4 tect empty missile bases or nonex FOR explj = i TO numraissiles istent cities? IF m is(explj) = 1 THEN IF P0IN T(m x(explj),m y(explj)) = 4 THEN If that’s not enough to make you m is(explj) = 0 squirm, take a look at the Bomber. LINE (xto p(exp lj),10)-(m x(explj),my (e xp lj)) ,0 m isleft = m isleft - 1 The Bomber makes frequent visits m iscluster = m iscluster - 1 as you survive more attacks. He en score = score + 10O*level FOR j 1=1000 TO 600 STEP -75:SOUND j l , 1,255,0:NEXT jl ters from either side of the screen END I F accompanied by a high-pitched END I F NF.XT e x p lj chirp, His speed increases with IF (P0INT{bx+8,bombery+9) = 4) AND (bom berflag > 0) THEN each wave. This special plane is bomberflag ■ 0 score = score + 250*level equipped with a laser cannon pow CIRCLE (bx+8,bom bery+9),14,L erful enough to obliterate an entire PAINT (bx+8,bom bery+9),i CIRCLE (bx+8,bom bery+9),14,0 city! The laser burst cannot be PAINT (bx+8,bombery+9),0 stopped by ABMs, so the only de FOR j 1=1000 TO 600 STEP -75:SOUND j l ,I ,255,0:NEXT jl END I F fense against bombers is to get them CIRCLE (abm x,abm v),10,O:PAINT (abm x,abm y),0 before they get you! It’s not really EndHuraanFire :MOUSE" OFF:RETURN
worth mentioning, but after one G a m e O v e r: shot, the Bomber’s energy is so de COLOR 2 , 0 Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMpleted he can’t fire again (until the CLS LO C ATE l l , 7 : P R I N T " G A M E OVER" next visit, of course!) LOCATE 13,7:PRINT"Hit LEFT BUTTON to replay" WHILE MOUSE{0)<> -1:WEND Two more phenomena you may EndGameOver;COTO R estart (or may not) encounter during the B o n u s : game are the Betabomb and the COLOR 1 , 0 Disruptor Cloud. The Betabomb CLS cbcount = 1 looks no different from any other LOCATE 11 ,1 4 :PRINT"BQNUS POINTS" incoming missile. When the bomb COLOR 2 , 0 numcbonus = cityon(l)+cityon(2)+cityon(3)+cityon(4)+cityon(5)+cityon(6) explodes, it shakes the ground and FOR j = 1 TO numcbonus messes up your screen. The con cbonus = cbonus + 100*leveL score = score + 100*level dition is not corrected until the end IF score > highscore THEN highscore = score of the wave. The Disruptor Cloud LOCATE 1 ,1 :COLOR 0,2 PRINT USING " ####### SCORE HIGH score,highscore is caused by a manufacturing error LXATE 14,4:COLOR 1,0:PRINT USING "iW rjcb o n u s in your own missiles. Occasional PUT (4O+30*cbcount,i0 0 ),c ity SOUND 150,5,255,0 ly, when your ABM destroys an en cbcount = cbcount + 1 emy missile, the white explosion FOR i = 1 TO 1000:NEXT i N EXT j cloud will remain on the screen. c b o n u s = 0 This will cause problems if you try □bonus = mbase(L,0)*m base{1,1)+mbase( 2,0)*m base(2,1)+m base(3,0)*m base(3,1) IF mbonus > 0 THEN to fire another ABM into the cloud. mbonuspts = 0 For example, if a missile is falling FOE j = 1 TO mbonus mbonuspts = mbonuspts + 5*level through the cloud toward one of score = score + 5*level your cities, you must wait until it LOCATE 1 6,4;COLOR 1,0:PRINT USINC li####,,;mbonuspts LOCATE 16 ,9+ j :COLOR 3,0:P R IN T"*"; is outside of the cloud. Otherwise, SOUND 1500,1,255,0 your ABM will be totally ineffec IF score > highscore THEN highscore = score tive! LOCATE 1 ,1 :COLOR 0,2 PRINT USING " t m i M SCOFF, HIGH score,highscore A few last words before I give FOK i = 1 TO 25:NEXT i NEXT j you some hints on survival. First, END I F the program uses three bitplanes for FOR i = 1 TO 5000:NEXT i a total of eight possible colors on ftndBonus: RETURN each screen. Second, the PUT and B o n u s C it y : bonusllmit = bonus! imi t. + barmstnulbi ptier GET commands are used in place flag = 0 of animation with BOBs or Sprites citybonus = citybontis 4- 1 since both have serious limitations IF FN'live > - 6 THEN FOR j = 1 TO 6 (BOBs flicker like crazy in Amiga IF (cityon(j) = 0 ) AND (citybonus > 0 ) THEN cityon(j) = I BASIC!). Finally, I added a gener citybonus = citybonus -1 ous helping of sound effects since flag = I END IF most people like to hear their ene SENT j my wailing in pain as well as see it. END IF IF flag = 1 THEN flag =
BomberScroll: from left to right. So any vacancies ON bomberftag GOTO BomberLeft, BociberRight left of Delta Base will be filled be RETURN RomberLeft: fore those on the right. You can use COLOR 1 , 0 this to your advantage by concen LINE (bx,bombery)-(bx+1 9 ,bonnbery+2 0 )/,i1b£ bx = bx + 2* level trating your protection over the left SOUND 2 0 0 0 ,2 ,2 5 5 ,1 half of the screen. To make the IF hx > borcberburst THEN bonberburst = 1 000 game even easier, hit the “3” key brabtarg = INT(RND*8 +.3 ) before you start each wave so your LINE (bx+9 , bomberyF 1 9 )-{targe t ( bmbt arg), 1 7 5 ) ,7 LINE (hx+9 ,bombery+1 9 )-(target(bmbtarg),1 7 5 ) , 0 ABMs will run out on the right side raisleft = mislett t 1 First. That way, after you run out mlsclnster = njiscluster + 1 xhit = bmbtarg of defenses at Omega Base, you GOStlB CheckHlt2 don't have to pay attention to any END IF IF bonberflag > 0 THEN PUT (bx,bombery),Lbomhershape,OR thing heading towards the right side IF bx > 3 15 THEN boirberflag = 0 of your screen! End BomberLe f t:RETURN • BomberRight: I’ve given you every hint I know LINE (bx,bombery)-(bx+2 0 ,bonbery+1 9 ),0 ,bf and use. My high score so far is bx = bx - 2 *level SOUND 2 0 0 0 ,2 ,2 5 5 ,1 589,765. It doesn’t take too long to IF bx < bomberburst THEN get that far, either. If you think bomberburst = - 1 0 0 0 you’re doing bad, remember that I bmbtarg = INT(RND*8 +.5 ) LINE (bx+9 ,borabery+1 9 )-( target( bmbtarg),1 7 5 ) ,7 wrote the game and can’t master it! LINE (bx+9 ,bombery+1 9 )-(target(bmbtarg),1 7 5 ) , 0 misleft = ujisleft + 1 I’m quite pleased with the program, toiscluster * miscluster + I but I’m ready to move on to bigger xhit = bmbtarg and better things. If anyone has GOSUB CheckHit2 END IF something they'd like to see, send IF bomberflag > 0 THEN PUT (bx.bombery),Rbombershape,0 R IF bx < “ 20 THEN bomberflag = 0 me a letter care of Ahoyl’s Amiga- EndBomberRight:RETURN User and I’ll see what I can do. □ 0 IE X IE C 1=11.1= ¥ ! □ Software and Applications for the Small Businessman
ority or superiority. In that case, the business impact ques By Ted Salamene tion should be passed over entirely. Section II reminds you to take down the vital statistics of the candidates: name of the product, publisher, address, I ’d like to thank everyone who’s corresponded with telephone, etc. It also has you classify the product, to help me concerning this column. Your feedback has been clarify the category of products you should be examining. helpful; please keep it coming. Users who requested For example, to edit text you would identify the Word Pro specific programs or applications, take heart—though cessor category. For a database you would check Database. I cannot respond to individual inquiries, the information Yet, you might need a database product with graphics and is passed along to appropriate developers and publishers. need to search both categories. This classification step just Send me tips, suggestions, and anything else relevant to the forces you to consider all the options, to cast your net wide Amiga universe at Salamone & Associates, 42 Canterbury enough. Road, Bridgeport, CT 06606. Other items covered here include a functional checklist. Which features do you absolutely need; which would be TIPS 'IT TRICKS nice to have? Don’t forget to look 6 to 12 months down the This issue we start with the section on software selec road to see if there are items you will require. Get them tion criteria. (Readers joining us in the middle should pick into the functional checklist now! up the August issue.) Minimum and recommended RAM requirements are Section I of the selection criteria asks that you define the touched upon, as are the user interface (menus, command task required of the software, in general terms. It could be lines, command keys, etc.), input methods (mouse, scan anything from word processing or typography to analog-digi ners, bar code readers, etc.), availability of help screens, tal measurement or computerized manufacturing. It shouldn’t copy protection, and security procedures. (The need for be more than 15 words. security is identified in Section I.) What has been the his The next step is to produce an outline of task details. This tory of software upgrades; what software, also of potential is the process which the software must be capable of hand interest, imports or exports data from the package under Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMling or delivering (in case you do not have a predefined review? process). For word processing, a simple outline could be: Hardware comes into play next, to identify the proper a. import XYZ file format, CPU and peripherals. Do you have the hardware (existing), b. allow macros to perform automatic reformatting, or must it be purchased (proposed)? The need to add or c. search and replace on font characteristics, upgrade existing hardware is quickly and succinctly iden d. accept XYZ graphic format, tified by running down the checklist of storage needs (hard e. output to ABC printer. versus floppy, capacity), circuit cards (add-in/on boards), The outline starts to develop parameters for the software printers (speed, carriage, size, color output, Postscript, etc.), needed. Task specifics, which follow, refine the parame monitor(s), and other peripherals. ters in a more quantitative manner. Average size of docu Next issue we will get into documentation and support ments produced, how often such documents are produced, issues. In the meantime, if you want the predesigned forms, and when they are needed (timing) are essential questions send $9.95 in check or money order to Salamone & Asso which must be answered. There will be others, based on ciates at the address listed above. Mark SEC in the lower the particular task you have in mind. left comer of the envelope for immediate service. Task performers must also be identified, so the software selected takes their level of experience into consideration. THUMBNAIL REVIEWS This item also identifies the need for, and extent of, train The early months of 1988 have allowed the time to ex ing if the required software happens to be above current plore a veritable host of products in my office. Here’s the levels of expertise. skinny on many a topic, and why these programs provide Timespan and task complexity also provide useful infor Contact the following com- ___ _ .. t c. ■ % RGB Video Creations mation to the selection process. How long does it take to pames for further informa- 3 m Florida Blvd Suite m get the job done? Is the job simple (a level of 1), or is it tion on products mentioned Palm Beach Gardens. FL 33410 complex (a 5)? 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Deluxe Help does not include DigiPaint, The Cal that of a professional, manufacturer, distributor, or service ligrapher, or DPII. industry. (Due to Ahoyl’s AmigaUser’s instant success, and Working from a menu system and concise screen prompts, subsequent tripling of the number of issues per year, some it takes but a few minutes to set up and load the entire sys of these programs are less than newborn. However, this does tem. It becomes a snap to switch between help and the actual not detract from their value, as noted below. Subsequent program. Draw an arc, flip back for further instruction; columns will include newer releases, as always, viewed from back into the program and finish up. That’s all it takes. You real life use under normal office conditions.) can learn from prepared lessons or access the information Still the best, that’s how I describe Discovery Software’s to brush up on specific points. This flexibility makes De Marauder II. I like the product so much that I've virtually luxe Help programs ideal for novices and advanced users stopped making copies with Workbench. While most of the alike. work is done to produce single copies of unprotected soft Though most of the programs supported by the Help series ware for review trials and tribulations, Mil's multicopy func of tutorials are relatively easy to learn, anything which short tion is great for creating up to four disks of test data at a clip. ens the learning curve increases productivity; and that means Though not necessary most of the time, the ability to align increased profitability! Hence the raison d’etre for these sili track starting positions (index sync) and verify data make con jewels. it much easier to copy finicky disks. Last year, Progressive Peripherals brought us CLImate, Separate utilities add to the program’s value and cost ef a mouse driven DOS shell that intends to simplify DOS fectiveness. For example, Decoder eliminates the need to and command line interfacing. This was one utility that we send additional money to Electronic Arts for unprotected had real doubts about. versions of Deluxe Paint, Deluxe Video, Deluxe Print, In Once the software proved reliable it turned out to have stant Music, Financial Cookbook, and several entertainment a number of timesaving and housekeeping business appli titles. It creates unprotected versions of the source program, cations. Primarily, CLImate helps soften the blow of learning primarily so you can copy them to a hard drive. the ins and outs of the command line interface. Mastering DiskErr reports on unreadable data. The last time we CLI is a process best left to technocrats, not people like usejd it was to identify the faulty tracks on our initial cop you and me who view hardware and software as tools of ies of PixMale and VizaWrite Deluxe. (The originals had the trade. This utility package also makes it easy for tech been damaged in transit, so we wound up testing them as nophobes to quickly and easily become multitasking mavens well as our working copies.) controlling masses of megs and RAM drives. CLImate is Other routines enable you to erase previously initialized the “no tears” shell for AmigaDOS. Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMdisks and to check floppy drive speed. The former tends While there are other functions in CLImate, the most to be superfluous, while the latter is a handy diagnostic useful have proved to be batch file copying, deleting, mov for times when nothing seems to work right. ing, and printing. These alone improve productivity im Marauder II is effective and useful where archived data mensely, especially considering the high degree of print for is essential -grandfather, father, son sets of data disks meant matting allowed. The RAM disk is also beneficial, though to protect against loss of business due to loss of data. Its it is not as easy to implement as it should be (for a point multicopy function is ideal for these scenarios, provided and click utility). you have the proper hardware setup. This feature also makes The ability to support 3Vi" and 5VF drives is a blessing sense where data must be shared between multiple sites; for Amiga 2000 owners, while support for three floppies and the protection removal capabilities translate into true and two hard drives potentially benefits any Amigaphile. hard disk luxury. (Just try running the copy protected ver Though there are ups and downs in this utility, disk for sion of Deluxe Paint II on a hard drive without gaining a matting only works across some of the drives it supports. few extra gray hairs.) For example, it does provide solutions for types of users While we’re talking utilities, there’s a great series of tu outlined above. torial programs available from RGB Video Creations. These Our last utility for this issue is Face II by ASDG, Inc. interactive advanced help routines load first, followed by A floppy drive accelerator with an optional visible control the application they are designed to assist. Current availa panel, Face II improves disk access time through intelli bility includes Deluxe Help for DigiPaint, Deluxe Paint II, gent buffer caching. This ability lessens wear and tear on and The Calligrapher. Topics in the works include Amiga- floppy drives, decreasing the potential need for expensive DOS, Photon Paint, and Pagesetter. repair work and even more costly down time. More impor Rod Molina and Bob Gilbert are working hard to extend tant, improved access time means faster throughput. For the envelope of tutorial technology. Case in point: while most computers, including the Amiga, disk drive access DH for DPII needs only 512K RAM and a single floppy, time is the slowest, most mechanical process in the entire advanced features, including truly useful speech synthesis, system. Face II helps break the bonds. require one meg. Two floppies and a hard disk drive increase Improvements over Face I and typical public domain ac its functionality, just the way they do for almost any other celerators include the ability to address fast memory, to im program. mediately alter the number of buffers allowed, and to remain For DigiPaint, the tutorial requires 1 meg of RAM; the device independent. That is, the buffers are not attached same is true for The Calligrapher. Deluxe Help routines to a particular drive. work with all Amigas, and naturally, the other program is Most first time users will do as I did: load Face II with the control panel to have easy feature control and perfor try and invoicing system on the distribution disk. It makes mance reporting access. After a few sessions, however, it good use of the program’s capabilities and demonstrates the will not be necessary to “touch and feel”; you will have re ease with which small business applications can be deliv fined the parameters needed to get the most out of your ered with MFE Users and developers should take this as system and be confident that Face II is working hard. a working example upon which to build new, even more For users of Face I, this program also retains the orig diverse applications for business or professional use. In es inal elements. Changing horses is up to you. Technically sence, Software Visions has demonstrated the vertical market minded users can go deeper, investigating the potential ties potential of this package, something normally left to the between Face II and their code. likes of Superbase Professional. The manuals are delivered on disk, the least costly and Other bonuses include full support for international char least user friendly way to do so. However, due to the very acter sets and the ability to import text. The former option low street cost of Face II, and its demonstrated ability to is a convenience that becomes a necessity if international improve performance, this is a small price to pay. There clients are a possibility, while the text import function makes is one other aspect which needs to be discussed: Face II mail merge or printed labels an easy reality. takes advantage of additional RAM, up to the Amiga’s theo Businessmen and professionals can benefit immensely by retical limits. Therefore, performance improvement improves adopting the order entry and invoicing system as theirs. Or with the amount of onboard RAM—starting above 512K. with slight modification, they can have a custom system at one tenth (or less) of the cost of a traditionally produced UPDATE custom system. It’s always nice to see a publisher improve an already use Microfiche Filer Plus (see Scuttlebutt, page 81) promises ful product. Gary Samad of Software Visions has done so to be another major step forward. Look for mention of it with Microfiche Filer 1.02. While this is not a revolution in a future column. ary enhancement, it is an end user oriented, evolutionary upgrade to an already revolutionary product. We found the NEXT TIME product still retains its ease of use, remarkable flexibility, Now that we’ve identified a number of utilities which and consumer oriented pricing. Also, Software Visions con should make your everyday existence easier to deal with, tinues to do well on the support side of the coin, offering the next installment will focus on core applications and com unlimited free technical help. plete the software selection guide. Until then, keep the let Of foremost potential, SV has included their order en ters coming. □
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ing a table of contents. But it does so user-definable, pull-down menus, REVIEWS only after you imbed command lines which most programmers will love. It Continued from page 63 in your text. To me, this approach is comes with a 30-day, money-back or block, print to the disk or serial not only clumsy but also means that guarantee if you’re not satisfied. Final port, indent the document, and con my assembler or compiler will choke ly, at $20 less than CED, it includes vert tabs to spaces or vice versa. (With on those imbedded commands unless a utility to speed up disk access. CED two such conversions, you can change I remove them. recommends purchase of Face II ($35), tabs to a different size.) On a more positive note, CED does a more powerful program also from To test CED as a simple word pro support ARexx, a separate $50 program ASDG. for this purpose. cessor, I used it to write this review. from William Hawes. ARexx is an in Features I regularly use that CED sup terpreted programming/command se A Mouse that Roars ported were custom tabs, centered text, quence/string processing/script lan Programs written by people who in italics, underlining, and left and right guage that is capable of integrating sep tend to, and do, use them are often margins (though I had to jury-rig the arate programs if they support it. To works of love where the extra time nec left margin by printing the document my knowledge, the list of supporting essary to get some little goodie just indented 12 spaces). Features I missed, programs includes CED and TxEd Plus right doesn’t have to be justified to the that forced me back to a word proces (text editors), AmigaTex (typesetting), marketing division. The number of sor for final printing, were headers, ZinglSpell, and CAPE68K (assembler), special features and nice touches should footers, page numbering, double spac with MicroFiche Filer and an Amiga tell you something about the care with ing, spell checking, and printing selec Hypercard-type program coming soon. which CED was crafted. ted pages. ARexx allows two supporting pro Though not major program features, To offset its print limitations, CED grams to send commands back and two more nice touches stand out. As includes the public domain program forth. CED can handle over 100 such soon as you hit any key, CED turns off PROFF by Yigit and Tress, accompan commands. Supposedly, you can also the mouse pointer. Touch the mouse ied by its 1984 manual (34 pages) on write any function in ARexx that you and it’s back. No more backhanding the disk. PROFF can accomplish most feel is missing from CED. ARexx de mouse to move the pointer off a vari print formatting tasks, including build- serves its own review, but seems to able. And best, whenever a requester have growing popularity in the pro pops up, it appears under the mouse BACK ISSUES gramming community. pointer, If possible, the cancel option As we consider other programs CED will be directly under the pointer. With The following back issues of Ahoyl's Am igaUser are available at $4.50 each (out supports, let’s not forget all those Am keypad alternatives for requesters, CED Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMside US, add $1.00 per issue): igaDOS commands in your C: direc could easily have omitted this—but it tory, You can run any DOS command, didn’t. FIRST ISSUE-M AY 1988 • Sounds Like...Amiga- a look at Am including executing batch files, from CED’s 98-page manual covers all the iga sound sampling, and five products within CED. CED only tells you it is program’s features well, but does not • The Essential Amiga Entertainment executing your command. You’ll have provide any kind of tutorial approach. Library—buyer’s guide to the 24 best games available to go to the CLI to see the results. Maybe ASDG thinks this isn’t neces • AmigaUserTerm - an Amiga termin Although this is a review of a single sary for programmers, but not all pur al program, ready lo enter and run program, I can't help drawing some chasers will have earned their wings. • Matrix J^ttern—a fill pattern editor with automatic data file creation, ready to comparisons to TxEd Plus. Many of us While the manual has a detailed table enter and run have used TxEd since it first came out of contents, it lacks an index-inexcus as an alternative to AmigaDOS’ ED. able. Support is available from ASDG SECOND ISSUE-AUGUST 1988 • Video Digitizers and Frame Grab TxEd and CED are, not surprisingly, by phone or mail and on BIX, Compu bers-th e optical options available similar in many ways, although CED Serve, and UseNet. CED is not copy • Speech Set—a voice synthesis pro is the feature-laden member of the pair. protected, but I wish there were some gram, ready to enter and run • Desktop Publishing: The Latest Ed (I won’t get into Lattice’s Screen Ed way to disable the copyright notice that itions- a look at the newest DTP programs itor or Metadigm’s Metascribe here.) covers the screen until you hit a key TxEd will load only a single file every time CED is loaded. Send me ____ copies of issue number . Enclosed find my check or money compared to CED’s 10. But at only Although I haven’t had enough time order for S (outside the US add 55K, TxEd can be loaded into mem with CED yet to use it to develop a sig $1.00 per copy). ory several times to support multiple nificant application, I have taken some NAME______file editing. Both programs support old programs and edited/revised them. ARexx, and TxEd Plus also requires the CED has a pleasant mix of easy-to-ac- A DDRESS______included ARP.library (part of the Ami cess features that make me relish the gaDOS Replacement Project). While next big job. Full macro capability, TxEd Plus is quite speedy—maybe as CITY______STATE______ZIP. keyboard and mouse alternatives, print fast as you’ll need—in most of my tests, spooling, auto save, 10 views, and Send to: Ahoyl's AmigaUser Back Issues CED still beat it. Nor does TxEd blinding speed have me sold. Ion International Inc. (without ARexx) provide adequate sup ASDG Inc., 925 Stewart Street, 45 West 34th Street-Suite 500 port for macros. New York, NY 10001 Madison, WI 53713 (phone: 608-273- On the other hand, TxEd has 6585). —Richard Herring □ F L C T S A M D AC/BASIC™ V1.3 - NEW Send your comments pertaining to Amiga comput ing, Dan Quayle’s military service record, or any other Easy to use compiler is very fast with great, graphics. Plus, topic to Flotsam, do Ahoyl’s AmigaUser, Ion Inter AC/BASIC is the only BASIC compiler for Amiga that Is compatible national Inc., 45 West 34th Street-Suite 500, New with the AmigaBASIC interpreter so your existing programs can be York, NY 10001. We can’t print every letter, but we read compiled with no changes and run up to 50x faster. every one, and personally reply to as many as we can. Easy to use documentation is indexed and includes over 200 I enjoyed your second issue. You are maintaining a good examples on disk: plus a full spreadsheet written in AC/BASIC and HAM graphics examples quality, informative style. I was interested to read the letter from Rick Jones (Amiga Friends, Orange, CA). I am en Extensions include: SELECT CASE, BLOCK IF, STATIC arrays. closing my user group’s August newsletter in which the edi Recursive subprograms. Create stand-alone applications (no torial addresses the same subject, namely, the need for redistribution fee) NCPS195. A1000 owners to stand up and be counted on the issue of lmb chip RAM ungradability. If enough of the A1000 own ers write Commodore we will get some action. Even if AC/FORTRAN1*' Commodore declines to make the adapter they may be moved to aid an outside hardware developer to provide it. Mainframe quality, full feature ANSI FORTRAN 77 compiler I would like to urge your readers to support this effort. includes: Debugger, Linker, Library Manager, Runtime Library, Invest in a stamp and write to one or all of the following - IEEE math, and C interface. Supports Complex numbers, Virtual I. Gould, M. Toy, P. Higginbottom, P. 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enjoyed your first two issues of Ahoyl’s AmigaUser. Prod Amiga trademark Df Commodore .'Amiga Microsoft trademark of Microsoft Corp. uct reviews have been so scarce from other magazines, and Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMthe main thing we like to see are hardware reviews. This Circle #146 on Reader Service Card is critical since so many low cost third party vendors have hit the market. We do not have local access to a dealer which will invest in such hardware, so we look to the reviews in the magazines. Please keep up the good work and give us more third party hardware reviews. At this time I would like to take issue with a practice by commercial vendors whose copy protection involves modifying the boot sectors. Eliminating this practice will enable all users to install newly received disks and elim inate the problem of the virus. Since this activity will cut into profits, this will never come to pass. One big complaint from my users group involves deter mining whether a disk contains a virus or has a modified boot block. There is a simple procedure which will give owners a quick answer to their problem. First, make a back up copy of a Workbench disk. Turn the power to your com puter off for at least one minute, to clear out any possibil ity of an existing virus. Next, insert the suspect disk and boot the computer. Take out the suspect disk and warm- Face II is the comprehensive floppy reset the computer with the copy of the Workbench disk. accellerator for al! Amigas.® With It is best to have your virus checker on this copy of the Face II, floppies can run two to six times faster than most hard disk drives currently available. Workbench disk. Run the virus checker and if it states there Face II benefits all Amigas,® but is a non-standard boot block, your virus came from the sus delivers best results on machines pect disk. We have used this procedure numerous times and A S D G Inc. with more than 512K. Ask your it has successfully detected all viruses on commercial pro (608) 273-6585 dealer for a demonstration, grams which contain non-standard boot blocks. ASDG INCORPORATED * (608) 273-6585 — Mark W. Harvey, President 925 STEWART STREET • MADISON, WISCONSIN • 53713 Mississippi Amiga Support Group Biloxi, ME Circle 4145 on Reader Service Card Ahoyl's AmigaUser 75 For the second time this year. I have seen "macro" ex parameters to the “macro.” A good system would even al panded out. as if it were an acronym. I do not recall the low the detection of some types of errors (missing argu name of the publication in which I first found the term ex ments) during the assembly phase, rather than having the panded; this letter is in response to the review of The Works! program abort at run time. A somewhat contrived exam (Analyze! portion) in your August 1988 issue. ple follows (in no specific language, though perhaps of Intel I feel the expansion of “macro” as “microcomputer auto derivation): mated commands, relative order” is greatly misleading. It ignores over twenty years of computing history, and only D0_R EAD PUSH AF serves to perpetuate the impression that computer people PUSH BC form a society with its own cryptic and mysterious language. PUSH DE "Macro” is short for “macro-instruction." Just as the “mi MOV A,UNIT NUM cro” in “microcomputer" indicates a small computer, the MOV BC,GOUNT_EXPECTED “macro” in “macro-instruction” implies a large instruction. MOV DE,DATA_BUFFER Or will someone argue that “micro” is short for “miniaturized, CALL SYS READ internal calculation, register oriented,” or some similar MOV COUNT IN.BC phrase? POP DE As an aside, the 1983 edition of "Webster’s New' Twentieth POP 8C Century Dictionary, Unabridged” gives: POP AF “macro-, macr-, [from Gr. makros, long] a combining VERSUS form meaning long (in extent or duration), large, enlarged DO READ M_READ UNIT,COUNT_ or elongated (in a specified part), as in macrocosm: opposed EXPECTED, DATA_BUFFER,—COUNT IN to micro-.” The earliest appearance of “macros” would be in assem My example(s) used an I/O operation, but other com bly languages in the fifties: a time when invoking an I/O mon uses would include character string comparison and operation may have required setting up several registers and/ search, and extended precision arithmetic. or data regions, before calling a system subroutines. The I hope that this explanation will serve to demystify at least advent of macro-assemblers allowed the programmer to treat one aspect of computing, and supply a little history at the the I/O operation as just a large instruction, supplying the same time. In case some reader should desire justification of my statements, permit me to add that I hold a BS in Com Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMputer Science, and have been a professional programmer June, 1987 (Byte Magazine): for the last eight years, working on mainframes and super- minis. -Dennis Lee Bicber “Although the (CSA) Turbo-Amiga upgrade is somewhat high priced for a microcom Sunnyvale, CA puter, its performance is in the range of a much more expensive mini-computer". A note to Amiga software and hardware developers: I have generally been dissatisfied with advertisements for February, 1988 (Amiga World) Amiga products. Take a look at any of the ads for word "In combination with 32 bit memory, the processing, desktop publishing, CAD, or any other produc CSA 68020 board will let your Amiga burn tivity software in MacWorld and PC World. They’re imag ru b b er". inative, easy to read, and pleasant to look at; not just a list ing of features. Hardware advertisements show real people Septem ber, 19 8 8 : at computers using the light pens, digitizers, graphic ta bles, and the like. CSA PRESENTS THE DragStrip Amiga users need to see two-page layouts with large type faces, screen shots of a program’s interface, and actual, pro AMIGA 2000 RAM ACCELERATOR fessional looking newsletters, memos, proposals, and reports, along with more creative documents that only the Amiga Faster than you can imagine, can do. I’d also like to see more shots with users at Amiga at a price you won’t believe. terminals using software and hardware that you, the devel The leader in hi-tech performance, opers, have put so much time and effort into creating. The and the least expensive way to accel. Amiga community deserves better. P.S. You have created a great mag. Keep it up! -Robert Dean New York, NY Computer System Associates Inc. 7564 TRADE STREET SAN DIEGO CALIFORNIA 92121 See page 50 to find out how you can TELEPHONE (6 19) 666 39 1 1 1 ELEX 333693 get free information about products Amiga is the trademark of Commodore Business Machines, inc. advertised in Ahoy Is AmigaUser.
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Send your short routines and programming or hardware hints to Amiga Toolbox, c/o Ahoyl's AmigaUser, Ion International Inc,, 45 West 34th Street- Suite 500, New York, NY 10001. Include the program and source code on a 3 V5" disk, along with documentation and a printout. If programming in a language other than Amiga BASIC, specify the compiler used and the manufacturer.
PAINT BRUSH drawn so that you can use this as part of your paint brush. Have you ever wondered how Deluxe Paint has the abil Click the left mouse button once and you will see a ghost ity to create a custom paint brush out of any portion or sec border appear. This will indicate that you are creating a tion of a picture that is being displayed? Here is a routine paint brush. By moving the mouse about you can select written entirely in Amiga BASIC that will do the same. how large the paint brush will be. Once you have the de The program makes extensive use of the GET and PUT sired size, click the left mouse button twice, and presto! commands to extract and place bits from the image. You have a custom paint brush. To draw with it, simply After you’ve typed in and run the routine, it will prompt move the brush to the desired screen location and press the you to pick the top left position, You can choose any sec left mouse button. Use the menu to exit the routine. Now tion of the screen. For your convenience, three circles are you can paint to your heart’s content.
1 Paint Brush x2=M0USE(l):y2=M0USE/2) LINE(x2,y2)-(xl,y2),0 C L S : D IM a r % { 1 0 0 0 0 ) GET(xl,yl)-(x2,y2),ar% LINE/xl ,y2)-(xl ,yl)/J CIRCLE(225,80),50,1iPAINT(225,80),1 GOSUB Getit R E T U R N CIRCLE/225,80),35,3:PAINT(225,80),3 IF m<-l THEN Fini F i n i : CIRCLE/225,80), 15,2:PAINT/2 25,80),2 GOSUB Putit PRINT"Ending Coordinates :";x2,y2 PRINT"Point and click left mouse PUT/xl,yl),sr% ,PSET GOSUB Putit PRINT "button for top left position." E N D I F W H I L E 1 x l = l : y 1 = 1 W END m - M O U S E ( O ) W H I L E 1 G e t i t : xloM OUSEU): yl=M0USE/2) m = M 0 U S E ( 0 ) LINE/xl,y1)—(x2,y1) IF ra>0 AND set=l THEN GOSUB Paintit IF xl-1 AND y1=1 AND m THEN LINE/x2,yl)-(x2,y2) PUT/xl,yl),ar% x1=M0USE(1 ):y1=M0USE(2) LINE(x2,y2)-(xl,y2) PUT(xl,yl),ar% PRINT"Starting coordinates;xl,y1 LINE(xl,y2)-(xl,yl) s e t = l Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMPRINT"Point and double click for"; R E T U R N W EN D PRINT" bottom right corner." P u t i t : P a i n t i t : E N D I F LINE/xl,yl)-/x2,yl),0 PUT(xl,yl),ar% ,OR IF x l>1 AND y1>1 THEN LINE(x2,y1)-(x2,y 2),0 RETURN
OBJECT DATA CREATOR N E X T x Commodore was nice enough to include a semi-function N is the number of data items that are going to be read. al BOB and sprite editor on the Amiga Extras disk that was Replace the N with the file size number that is located in supplied with your Amiga. However, the Object Editor pro the first line of the data statements. ObjS is the string that gram saves the shape as a data file, and in order to utilize contains the shape information that will be assigned to an the object it must be loaded off the disk from within your object using the OBJECT.SHAPE command. Once this is program. If you’re like most programmers and like to keep done your program will be completely independent of all the sprite and BOB information within the main program, object files. or if you’re thinking about sending your program off to Ahoyl’s AmigaUser for publication, you’ll need to convert 'Object Data Creator this file into DATA statements. CLS:INPUT"Enter name of Object file:";nflm S OPEN namS FOR INPUT AS 1 This short routine will generate a BASIC listing of DATA obj$=INPUT$(LOF(I) ,1):CL0SE 1 statements from a BOB or a sprite and then save it to disk. nam$=namS+".objdat" To use the program, enter the name of the object File that size=LEN(objS):ps=l OPEN namS FOR OUTPUT AS 1 is in your current directory. The routine will then open a PRINT#!,"'file size ";size;" bytes." file with the same name as the prefix and attach the suffix W HILE/ps<=size) “objdat” to it. Once the program finishes creating the DATA PRINT#1 ,"DATA F O R i = 1 T O 6 statements it will signal “Done! load filename.objdat”. To PRINT#1,ASC(M IDS(obj$,ps,l)); utilize the data file use the MERGE command to incor IF i«6 OR ps=si 2 e T H E N porate the data into your own program. Once you've done PRINT#1,CHRS(13) E L S E this the next step is to read the data into a character string PRINT#1,","; so that you may assign the shape to an object. The follow E N D I F ing lines will do this. ps=ps+l : IF psksize THEN Leave N E X T i L e a v e : FOR x = l TO N WEND READ ob ; 0bjS=0bj$+CHR$/ob) CLOSE 1:PRINT"Done! load ";nam S:"." B !I=YI= ON CM HC
Understanding and Using the Command Line Interface
A Batch of Answ ers
By Richard Herring
T his month we will quickly clear up a problem instance. If, for example, you rename CLI.noicon to cli. reported by a few readers —missing CLIs. Then noicon, Preferences will let you select CLI “On,” but you we’ll begin a discussion that will take a few still won’t have access to the CLI in the System drawer months, and some input front you, to fin because Preferences won’t find your lower case file name. ish—batch files. Get a friend to help you fix your disk so that the system Do you know where your CLI is? If so, skip the next drawer contains a file named CLI.icon. five paragraphs. If not, turn on your computer now. BEGINNING BATCH WHERE OH WHERE From time to time you may feel that your computer is Many of us have our Amigas set up to put us in the CLI using you instead of the other way around. Maybe you can’t when we boot up. But most Antigas are not delivered that remember a particular series of commands or the syntax way. You should find the CLI icon in the System drawer of one command. Maybe you have to do an unusual setup of your Workbench disk. To open a CLI, double click on for a particular program. Amiga DOS provides a simple Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMthe Workbench 1.2 icon. Then double click on the system way for you to get back in the driver’s seat —batch files. drawer icon in the lower left of the Workbench window. Although DOS gives you lots of control, it must take Last, double click on the CLI icon in the upper right of a very general approach to accommodate all its possible the System window. users. You can adapt it to your needs and create your own This will open a CLI window, 8 lines high, in the mid “commands” by combining individual DOS commands into dle of your screen. You can resize and drag it like any batch files. A batch file may be nothing more than a se window. But to close it, you must type EndCLI at the quence of DOS commands that you want to execute. Or prompt. it may be much more and give you control you hadn’t The heinous problem reported by a few users is that the thought could be so easy. CLI icon isn’t there. Some enterprising souls have even The batch file itself is just an ASCII file that contains searched in other drawers. Well, it is there-sort of. Each a series of DOS commands, typically one to a line. EXE program to be selected from the Workbench screen must CUTE this batch file and DOS will carry out the commands have an associated icon file that contains the information one at a time until it reaches the end or encounters an error. necessary to start the program. Whether you know it or not, you have been using batch Some Amigas have been shipped, or set up by dealers, files since the first time you turned on your Amiga. When so that the CLI icon does not show. Lucky for us, turning the Amiga first boots up, it automatically looks for a spe it on is easy—just follow these steps. Write enable a copy cial batch file named Startup-Sequence, found in the S di of your Workbench disk. (That means move the little black rectory of the Workbench disk, tab so you cannot see through the hole in the comer.) Dou Although some dealers will fiddle with the Startup-Se ble click on the Workbench 1.2 icon. Then double click quence batch file, a typical one will look like this: on Preferences at the bottom center of the Workbench win dow. Next click the CLI "On” gadget at the left center of echo “A500/A2000 Workbench disk. Release 1.2 version 33.56*N” the Preferences window. Last, click the “Save” gadget in BindDrivers the lower right. if EXISTS sys:system Now reopen your System drawer and there’s the CLI Path sys:system add icon. If this does not work, somebody has probably tam endif pered with your CLI icon file. What Preferences does when if EXISTS sys:utilities it “turns on” the CLI is to rename the file CLI.noicon to Path sys:utilities add CLI,icon. Although DOS is not case sensitive when it endif comes to matching file names, Preferences will be in this Dir RAM: GET ACCESS TO REAL BUYING POWER... WITH THE \ljOv! ACCESS CLUB!
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REMOTE POSSIBILITIES Also from Honeywell comes the Call-In Control ($79.95), making it possible to tum on or tum off your Amiga (or air conditioner, crock pot, entry light, etc.) from a remote lo cation. You plug the Control into any outlet, and then plug the appliance you wish to operate and a touch tone phone into the Control. Then call home and let the phone ring 6, 9, or 12 times; when it stops ringing, the phone will beep twice if the appliance is on or once if it’s off. By using the buttons on your phone you can start, shut off, or monitor the appliance. Honeywell Inc., 612-542-3339 (see creation, alignment guides, support for foreign key maps and alternate charac ter sets, faster Postscript printing, sup port for 24 pin printers, 16 gray scale printing on black and white printers. Infinity Software, Inc., 415420-1551 (see address list, page 22). Circle #117 on Reader Service Card FOUR FROM OKIDATA Four new printers from Okidata: The nine-pin Microline 320 ($499) and wide carriage 321 ($699) reach a speed of 300 cps in Draft mode. A 250 cps Utility mode and 63 cps NLQ mode are also available. Two resident NLQ fonts are included. The Microline 390 ($699) and wide- carriage 391 ($949) offer 24-pin print ing. Speed is 270 cps in Utility mode and 90 cps in NLQ. Okidata’s new Microlines permit downline-loading of up to 256 characters, All four printers feature bottom feed, providing a wide choice o f typefaces. Shown are the 320 and wide-carriage 321. which prevents paper jams by avoid ing wrapping labels and heavy stock around the platen; front panel selec CALLING ALL COMPUTER RETAILERS! tion of speed, print quality, and pitch; a 23K buffer; and the ability to print Would you like to: on paper as wide as 9Vi" (on the 320 • Get free national advertising? and 390) or 16” (on the 321 and 391). Okidata, 609-235-2600 (see address • increase store traffic? list, page 22). Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM• Acquire the most avid Commodore computer- Circle #271 on Reader Service Card ists in your area as steady customers? PERIPHERALS The following Amiga accessories are Simply offer a 10% discount to members of the Ahoy! Ac newly available from Comp-U-Save: cess Club, comprised of all subscribers to Ahoy! and External drive: $139.95. Ahoyl’s AmigaUser (see ad elsewhere in the magazine). 22 meg unit for 500 or 1000 with pass-through: $580 (32 meg: $699; 48 We’ll list your store name, address, and phone number in meg: $799). the Clipper (our monthly newsletter) and on the Ahoy! Ac Internal 2000 3 'A” drive: $119.99. cess Club BBS. Then, the next time a member in your town SCSI card controller with cable and wants to make a purchase, he’ll pass your competitors by. case for 1000 or 500: $139.99. (Unless, of course, your competitors are listed— in which Heavy duty 500 power supply with case you’d really better be!) surge protector, to support 2 to 3 ex ternal drives and added RAM: $74.00. Comp-U-Save, 516-997-6707 (see ad If an across-the-board discount is not feasible for you, but dress list, page 22). you’d like to offer our members some other incentive to Circle #118 on Reader Service Card shop with you, write us. Space restrictions will prevent us from listing very many individualized offers, but if yours is The December significant enough to warrant the space, we’ll include it. issue of The deadline for inclusion in the February ’89 edition of Ahoyl's the Clipper is November 1. Write or call now! Am igaUser Ahoy! Access Club goes on sale c/o Ion International Inc. h o y f 45 West 34th Street-Suite 500 ceessm Novem ber New York, NY 10001 Phone: 212-239-0855 15 SUBSCRIBE TO Save more than
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