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Final Copy II produces high quality, and a limited number of sizes. Final professional looking documents. It combines Copy II supports NimbusQ, Compugraphic, nbiect-oriented, structured tools for dra g ancj advanced word processing features and Type-1 outline font formats giving you use page layout capabilities, and access to thousands of commercial and the-art printing technology into one public-domain fonts. Sd^Sb^pp;^hic convenient program. Final Copy IPs word processing features S l n s ^ A S u p p o n le«s you work in While other programs claim to have quality include: 144,000 word speller: 1.4 million screens having up to 256 colors. printing. Final Copy II is the only word response thesaurus; automatic hyphen­ processor on the Amiga that will produce ation: named paragraph style sheets; master Final Copv II now available in American excellent quality printouts on any pages; mail-merge; multiple newspaper style English, British English, German. Frenc , Workbench (1.3,2.0 or higher) supported columns: search and replace; header and and French-Canadian versions is the best graphic printer. If you have a PostScript footer support; left, right, center and decimal selling word processor for the Amiga in the printer, Final Copy II is the only word tabs; paragraph justification; and automatic world. As stated in a recent AmigaWorld processor on the Amiga that has true date, time, and page number insertion. review, "FinalCopy II pulls into the lead of the Amiga word-processing pack. WYSIWYG PostScript print capabilities - Final Copy II s graphic features include: other programs limit you to a few fonts

You want a document that reads well in addition to Final Copy's™ graphic support is the best there is in omu MiL-cis ana master pages are features you can looking good. Final Copy™ comes with a 144,000 any Amiga® word processor. Place IFF 1I.BM pictures really use to ensure your documents are created in a word speller. 1.4 million word thesaurus with defini- and brushes anywhere in a document. Draw boxes, consistent and well-planned manner. Fully editable u'ons, master pages, style sheets, paragraph sorting, ovals, lines, arrows, squares, and circles using Final page views let you work in several levels of reduction math support, mail-merge, automatic hyphenation, Copy’s™ structured drawing tools. Flow text around and magnification. Multiple snaking columns, and user-defined tab stops to assist you in your writing. or on top of any graphic in a document. left/right pages, and title page options are easy to use

SoftW ood, Inc. P.O. Box 50178 • Phoenix, Arizona 85076 1( 8 0 0 ) 2 4 7 - 8 3 1 4 System Requirements: Amiga® with at least 1 megabyte of R A M and either a hard drive or 2 floppy drive To use Compugraphic fonts you must have a hard drive and VVB 2 .1 or greater. ’ Imported by: AmigaOberland (Germany), Gordon Harwood Computers (England). TU Psoft (Australia), and Essonne M ling (France). Circle 87 on Reader Service card Being the Best Didn’t Keep Us From Getting Better.

That’s right—the company that invent­ recording onto a hard drive. S ut- +» j- J-rt T -Tf.r i ■ ! ■ « ■ ■ ed the Personal TBC®just improved die This latest version of our Personal ES-2200 Dual Channel Expansion System best plug-in TBC in the business. TBC continues the tradition of systems. Either way, you’ll get soft­ W hich means they don't get any better features and value that made the ware-controlled proc amp and color than the new DPS Personal TBC IV. earlier versions best-sellers. Priced at balance. Digital chrominance comb just $999, the DPS Personal TBC IV filter. Film-mode strobe, can be used in any Amiga® 2000 - 4000 Series or IBM PC®-compatible G PI freeze. computers. Or use it in one of our ES-2000 Series rackmount expansion

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G-Lock' Makes Your Video Connections With: Video: A Cut Above • Genlock features for crisp overlays of scrolling, or static titles, G-Lock's six video control graphics over live video and recording to videotape with high panels enable you to perform quality results. a wide array of special effects • Simple, intuitive mouse-driven software control panels. Full on still or motion video ARexx, CLI interfaces and Workbench interfaces. including... ► Colorizing for unique visual • Software selection of 2 composite video inputs or 1 Y/C effects. (S-Video) input. LOCK ► Creating your own "classic" • Software selection or mixing of 2 audio inputs with bass and black and white videos using the Colorkill feature treble control. ► Color filter effects. • Software-driven video processing amplifier, (proc amp) offering ► High-quality keying effects with bitplane or complete real-time signal processing control, including hue, chroma keying. brightness, saturation and more. ► Manual or automatic (ARexx triggered) fades • Software-controlled RGB color splitter compatible with video and cuts. digitizers like Newtek's Digi-View™. Audio: Sound Designs • Built-in transcoder converts input video to composite, Y/C, G-Lock's dual-input audio panel switches, mixes and shapes RGB or YU V outputs. sound for effects such a s ... ► Combining stereo channels or separate inputs without a " Y" adaptor. • Full ECS/AG A support for full compatibility with new A 1200 ► Treble and bass equalization. and A4000 systems! ► Plus, add DSS8 or any Amiga created/modified digital audio • Compatible with popular titling software like Amiga Vision™, samples to your final mix! Scala-Multimedia 200™ and Gold Disk's Video Director™. Professional video processing + audio processing + a powerful • Separate versions available for standards around the world. but simple interface + creative special effects, make Compatible with NTSC, PAL and SECAM. G-Lock the cornerstone of your multimedia productions!

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CD-ROM ’93 By John Foust 3 0 SCAPEMAKER (MegageM )...... 1 8 Image-processing program for landscape This update on Amiga CD-ROM shows generators. that better and faster drives, writable discs, and advances in multitasking are FrACTALPrO 6.02 (M egageM ) 19 making CD-ROM a more viable alterna­ Fractal art and animation tool. tive for Amiga users. Studio Printer (MacroSystems) ...20 ARTICLES Top-notch custom printer drivers. I f you've got giga-storage needs, we ve got u Touch Frame (Carroll Touch) ...... 2 2 C r o s s -P l a t f o r m C o m p u t in g mega-assortment oj devices to keep a lid on Touch-screen hardware/software combo. By Bob Lindstrom ...... 3 5 Your data. From cartridges and tapes to '1 ext, graphics, fonts, music and flopticals and optica Is through the latest CD- InVOICE-It! (Legendary Design)...... 6 4 sound... there are a lot o f good files Invoice-creation/report-writing software. floating around out there on other ROM drives, you're bound to find a solution platforms. Here are 40-plus programs— in exactly your size. T r i f e c t a 2000/500 (ICD)...... 64 both commercial and freely distrib­ RAM expansion, hard-drive controller utable—to help you import and convert packages for the A2000 and A500. all kinds of PC/Mac files to your Amiga. VIDEO Suite By Paulo deAndrade . . d 8 Buying used professional video equip­ Q u a r t e r b a c k T o o l s D e l u x e D o u b l e f o r N o t h i n g ment can save you big bucks and set you (Central Coast) AND AMI-BACK TOOLS By Rob H ays ...... 3 9 up with gear that’s better than the latest (Moonlighter)...... 6 6 With the introduction of the newest consumer-level equivalents. Here’s what Two heavy-hitting disk utilities go head Ami gas, it’s more useful than ever to set to look for. to head. up a two-Amiga network for sharing programs and files. With some free software and this tutorial, you can he DEPARTMENTS GAMES networking in no time. O v e r s c a n ...... 8 Crib N otes By Peter Olafson...... 7 4 The European unveiling of the Amiga P r e p p in g f o r V id e o P.O. takes on Mr. Jones and the Fate of CD32, plus more Amiga news, new By Chris Conroy...... 4 3 Atlantis with some intricate footwork in products, and on-line activities. the opening rounds. For improved results on your next video shoot, try this seven-step checklist of tips. H e l p K e y ...... 8 4 VR-SlINGSHOT (Ix io n )...... 7 4 I im’s always on the firing line, so shoot Virtual reality fans will gobble up this COLUMNS him your tech troubles and teasers any sophisticated cybersport creation. time you need help. E ditor’s Drawer By Dennis Brisson. 4 W a l k e r (Psygnosis) ...... 7 7 This month the spotlight’s on CBM: the T h e L a st W o r d ...... 9 6 Militaristic Lemmings in a shoot ’cm-up forces inside the company—which are Feed it backward, forward, or sideways— setting. bringing us the new 32-bit CD-based we’re always ready to listen. Amiga CD32—and outside. R e a l m s of Arkania (Sir Tech) . . . 7 7 Biggest Amiga RPG ever to come down AW P r o d u c t I n f o r m a t io n . . 9 0 A c c e n t o n G r a p h ic s the autobahn. To contact the developer of any product By Joel Hagen ...... 5 4 mentioned in this issue o f AmigaWorld, h o r t a k es Follow Joel’s tips this month and take S T ...... 7 9 advantage of the high-resolution color consult our all-in-one “Manufacturers’/ Capsule reviews of 11 new Amiga games. possibilities of working with 24-bit paint Distributors' Addresses” list. program s. AmigaWorld

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Battles are looming in the games market and Dennis Brisson, Editor-in-Chief in the boardroom. Daniel Sullivan, Executive Editor Vinoy Laughner, Managing Editor Barbara Gefvert, Senior Editor A Light In T he T unnel Tim Walsh, Senior Editor/Reviews Like soggy Midwestern farmlands, the computer industry Ann Record, Assistant Editor has been muddied recently with layoff'notices and red

ink. I he fortunes of giant computer companies can swing Peter Olafson, Games Editor dramatically overnight, but it’s reassuring to know that Joel Hagen, Contributing Editor there are some things you can rely on...as two notewor­ thy events occurring in Amigadom this month illustrate. First. Commodore has maintained its commitment to Howard G. Happ, Art Director excellence with the introduction of a new game machine called the Amiga CD32. Initially unveiled in London (see Laura Johnson, Assistant Art Director report on p. 8), the machine will premiere in the US at the Ann Dillon, Designer World of Commodore Show in Pasadena and will ship the Alana Korda, Manufacturing Manager following month with about 40 software titles available. CBM has always been a features-fixated company intro­ Michael McGoldrick, Advertising Director ducing products that, in many ways, are technologically superior to the competition. This is no exception. Basical­ Barbara Hoy, Sales Representative ly an A1200 with a double-speed CD-ROM drive, it fea­ Heather Guinard, Sales Representative tures ’020 performance with AGA capability, 2MB RAM, Meredith Bickford, Advertising Coordinator and 16-bit CD stereo sound. It includes an 1 1-button Advertising: 1-800-441-4403; 1-603-924-0100 controller uniquely designed for game play and also FAX: 1-603-924-4066 comes bundled with an as-yet-to-be-determined CD game or games. An MPKG option will let you play 74 minutes Giorgio Saluti, Associate Publisher, I Vest Coast Sales of full-screen AGA-qualitv video and audio. 533 Airport Blvd., Fourth Floor, Burlingame, C4 94010 The impressive features notwithstanding, CBM will need to market aggressively the benefits of this new machine to 1-415-375-7018; FAX: 1-415-375-7019 potential customers. With this product, which is compatible with several video and audio formats— including the new Video CD standard, CDXL, audio CD. and CD+G—con­ Wendie Haines Marro, Marketing Director sumers have their audio and video needs in one box, along Marv McCole, Promotion Coordinator with a great entertainment machine that will also handle Lisa Jail let. Desktop Publishing Manager their educational and reference needs. CBM has worked closely with developers in the design Johanna Rivard, Circulation Promotion Manager of the game machine and i'cels it has the backing of enough developers to produce 75 titles by year’s end. At Subscription Services: 1-800-827-0877 or 1-815-734-1109 first, we’ll see many ports, since the machine is A 1200- and CD r\ "-compatible. If developers rally behind this machine TechMedia Publishing to take advantage of its outstanding graphics capabilities, we can look forward to some highly polished games featur­ Dale Strang, President ing interactive fiill-motion video. (Look for a hands-on Susan M. Hanshaw, Director of Operations review of the unit with more details in an upcoming issue.) Monica A. Lougee, Administrative Assistant Second, you think that one person can’t make a differ­ cif Customer Sendee Liaison ences Don’t tell that to Mike Levin, a young firebrand who is spearheading a grass-roots movement to shake up the lead­ William M. Boyer, Director of Credit Sales i f Collections ership of Commodore. We were first alerted to his efforts Kemco Publishers Services, Newsstand Circulation through on-line postings and later through a mailing pro­ claiming that the Commodore Shareholders Movement seeks the ouster—by/ a shareholders’ vote—of current Com- m l D G modore CKO and Board Chairman Irving Gould. Levin INTERNATIONAL DATA GROUP urges Amiga users to purchase Commodore stock, which will enable them to cast a proxy vote at the November meeting. AmigaWorld (ISSN 0883-2390) is an independent journal not connected with Commodore Busi­ ness Machines. Inc. Amigall’orld is published month])’ by TechMedia Publishing. Inc.. an I IX . These two seemingly disparate occurrences represent Company, 80 Kim St.. Peterborough. M l 03158. US subscription rale is $29.97. one vear; attempts—one on the part of a manufacturer and one on S57.97. nvo years; $83.97. three years; Canada. $41.97 (include* GSTj. and Mexico $38.97. the part of users— to revitalize a sluggish market and Foreign Surlace $49.97. Foreign Airmail $84.97. t S funds drawn on US bank. Prepayment is rekindle a spirited involvement in the Amiga community. required on all foreign subscriptions. All foreign rates arc one-year only. Second-class postage paid at Peterborough. M I . and at additional mailing offices. Phone; 603-924-0100. On-line on BIX: Amiga World (in Amiga exchange); CompuServe: 76376.2137; Portal: Go Amiga- World. Entire contents copyright 1993 by TechMedia Publishing. Inc. No part of this public­ ation may be- printed or otherwise reproduced without written permission from the publisher. Postmaster: Send address changes to AmigaWorld, Subscript iot i Sei vices. W > Box 595. Mt. M or­ ris, II. 6I054-j90I. Nationally distributed by Kable News Co. AmigaWorld makes every efTort Dennis Brisson to ensure the accuracy of articles, listings, and diagrams published in the magazine. Amiga- Editor-in-Chief World assumes no responsibility for damages due to errors or omissions. Printed in the USA.

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Six Power Tools for Power Users! The indispensible collection of utilities for Video Toaster users. Version 2 of the Toaster Toolkit breaks all barriers for harnessing creative control over your NewTek Toaster Environment-allowing for presentation professionalism powered only by your imagination. You raved about version 1, break free of the mundane with the powertoois of Toaster Toolkit 2,0. These six powertoois in Version 2.0, allow you to create customized effects and much more. -Toaster Sequence Editor allows users to sequence all Toaster functions and activate sequences easily from within the Toaster. -Toaster Project Editor allows you to create custom Project files, rearrange effects, change effect speeds, delete unwanted effects and add new effects...also create MacroFX to run programs or scripts directly from the Switcher. •AnimtoFX allows users to create their own custom animated effects and organic effects easily from DPaint animations. New features include 2, 4, 8, and 16 levels of transparency to help elimi­ nate jaggies. -FX to ANIM allows users to modify current Toaster effects. -Color Font Conversions, change any full color DPaint graphic for use in ToasterCG. -FrameStore Compressor allows you to compress Framestores with no loss of image quality. New features include faster compression and powerful framestore renumbering facility. Available Now. Suggested Retail Price $ 1 7 9 . 9 5

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Toasiet Too-rk-t 2.0 was developed by The Byie Facto-y. Crouton Tocts was developed by Atomic Toaslet Catalog. Cccocn was developed by ironworker Sludros Serving the Amiga Community since 1985 Now you can create broadcast quality videos with unmatched ease, power, and versatility; OpalVision gives you lots of inputs in multiple video formats, both PAL and NTSC, Revolutionary DVEs never before available ona personal computer. Chroma and Luma Keying. Real-time framegrabbing. Full Audio Mixing and Seeing is Believing Equalization. An advanced character Never before has a system given you all of the necessary tools generator. Compatibility with all of the important Amiga video, graphics and to create video productions with your own individual style. animation software.

OpalVision Main Board The core unit of the modular OpalVision system. A true, RGB, 24-Bit frame buffer, it operates in any Amiga computer with a video slot. It allows smooth fading of pictures, color-cycling effects, and smooth, double-buffered 24-Bit animation. Includes critically-acclaimed OpalPaint image OpalPaint includes an expandable library of Includes connectors for the Video Processor and processing and painting software. Use the power image processing modes, texture mapping, color Scan-Rate Converter/TBC. Includes OpalPaint, of OpalPaint to easily create your own images or and transparency gradients, multiple work Opal Presents and OpalAnimMATE software. enhance and modify existing framestores. modes, nozzle brushes and many other tools.

Opa/Pa/nfsfullrangeoftoolsandcomprehensive Every Main Board includes Opal Presents!, an OpalAnimMATE plays animations at rates of up to controls provides a level of support for artistic icon-driven presentation program offering 60 frames per second. It works in8,12,15,18 and creativity never before available on the Amiga. complete display control of OpalVision images, 24-Bit modes and features selectable screen It’s fast. Reat-time. Full 24-Bit. Amiga graphics and live video. sizes from 32 x 20 to 768 x 286 pixels.

OpalVision Video Processor Plug this card into the Main Board and add a wealth of additional features: a 24-Bit framegrabber which doesn't require a time base corrector, a professional-quality genlocker with definable chroma and luma keying, a 256-level linear transparency key, a video sandwich key for inserting video into 3D screens, real-time color processing of live video and an unlimited number The OpalVision switcher allows easy "drag-and- The Video Processor offers real-time color of transitions and customizable Digital Video drop" groupings of icon-based DVE’s including processing of both live video and framestores. Effects using the included OpalVision Roaster ANIM based effects, chroma and luma effects Create glows, shines, luminance effects, Chip and software. and exclusive OpalVision "Roaster Chip” effects. posterizations, nuclear effects and more.

The 256-level linear keyer (Alpha channel and transparency effects) allows the definition of transparency between two video sources on a pixel-by-pixel basis for excellent vignetting and super-smooth shadow effects. The keyer can be taken from the Video Processor or an external video source, and/or output to another production switcher. The Afpha channel also gives you the ability to create highly realistic soft- edged transitions and organic effects. Superb 32-bit graphics with precise and detailed Alpha channel definitions can be created in OpalPaint. Circle 162 on Reader Service card In addition to the wealth of software included The on-screen editor makes creating your own The Video Processor's broadcast-quality with the OpalVision system, you can access a DVE’s fast and easy. Define the position, size and genlocker allows both Amiga and OpalVision- wide array of OpaiVision-compatible Amiga X or Y rotation and the Roaster Chip will transform generated graphics and animations to be software directly from the switcher screen! any video signal at your command. combined with any video source.

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OpalVision Video Suite A 19-inch, rack-mountable, video/audio mixing, switching and transcoding device which connects directly to the Video Processor. Nine video and ten audio inputs are available simultaneously in A.B end Preview display liD Audio Level YU nre'er: RGB, Y/R-Y/B-Y, Composite and S-Video. Choose two sources from these inputs, assign a transition or special effect provided by the Video Processor, and trigger it manually or automatically. The linear transparency key provides transparency control Audio Inpuli Sound F/X Stereo RGB 4 Compoirte cma Preview Mam Main RGB Key OpclVaion Pcwer between video sources on a pixel-by-pixel basis. or 5th Audio Output or Y/R-Y/B-Y 4 S-Video mputi compoKe composite or Y/P-Y/B-Y Iniout input/ Connector input input* end and and and output The ten audio inputs (five stereo pairs) are fully matter tync S-V<3eo S-Video »ync software-sequenced with smooth fades and full, mput outputi outputi ou*pu‘i 5-band frequency equalization.

Manufactured and Distributed by: Centaur Development The automated audio mixer (shown here in a P.O.Box 3959 detail from the switcher control panel) features Torrance, CA 90503 full audio-follows-video capability, plus an on­ screen panel with sliders for each of the five Phone: (310) 787-4530 stereo audio inputs available on the Video Suite. Fax: (310) 222-5882 Sliders control volume and/or 5-band EQ. Created by: BBS: (310) 787-4540 O p al Tech OpalVision Scan-Rate Converter/TBC Sydney, Australia Add this card and achieve 31 Khz, non-interlaced output of Amiga and OpalVision graphics and any incoming video source in either PAL or NTSC. Includes full time-base correction of incoming For information: 1 -800-621-2202 video. The on-board memory also serves as an OpalVision. OpalPaint. O pal Presents, OpalVision Video Suite. OpalVision Video Processor and OpalVision additional frame-store. Roaster Chip are trademarks of Opal Technology, Ltd. OpalAnimMATE is a trademark of Centaur Development. Inc. Technical specifications subject to ch an ge without notice. OVERSCANNews, New Products and Networks

C o m m o d o r e L a u n c h e s C D 3 2 LONDON, ENGLAND—After months of (GrandSlam)\ all feature CD soundtracks, speculation. Commodore finally an­ freeing up the Amiga's four sound channels nounced its newest Amiga— a console ma­ for in-game effects. Other games are being chine with 32-bit graphics—to British press custom-developed for the machine's capa­ and retailers. The Amiga CD32 promises to bilities, including P s y g n o s is ' Microcosm (a be the world's first 32-bit home multimedia shoot-'ern-up with over 44,000 frames of an­ console: It should be on UK dealer's imation) and Mi/lenium's cutesy strategy shelves by the time you read this (US buy­ game. Diggers. With a concept similar to ers will have to wait until fall). Rockford and Lemmings, Diggers shows off The CD32 (about S450) is basically a key- the advantages of mass storage with over a boardless Amiga 1200; it has 2MB of chip million screens on 34 levels. RAM and a 14 MHz 68EC020 processor. The Even with all this games development, machine features a double-speed CD-ROM CBM 's Am iga CD32: the first 32>bit con­ Commodore will be looking to market the drive, however, instead of a floppy drive sole machine. machine as a multiuse box, citing video {AmtgaDQS is in ROM, with enhancements games as only part of the story. allowing CD-ROM use). The machine has a VideoCD industry-standard discs. hand-held, 11-button game controller with Software developers attending the launch High Power, High Hopes connectors for mice, joysticks, an optional were enthusiastic for the new machine, and Unlike cartridge-based rivals such as Sega keyboard, a TV set/composite monitor, and Commodore expects more than 70 titles to and Nintendo, Commodore does not have video expansion. And finally, CD32‘s cus­ be available by Christmas. Programmers official licenses that can curtail development. tom chip set has been modified to allow seemed determined to take full advantage of David Pleasance, Joint Managing Director faster hardware-based pixel manipulation. the CD32's mass storage and graphic capa­ of Commodore UK, said that the CD32 is The new unit is compatible with CDTV bilities. Still, the first releases will be stan- "destined to be the most significant product and CBM's A590 drive. With the addition of dard-Amiga game conversions. They in­ that Commodore has ever produced." an MPEG-standard full-motion video card clude James Pond II (Millenium), 21st Ironically, Pleasance's statement is also (shown in prototype form, and due to sell Century Entertainment's RoboCod and Pin- reflective of the current market; Amiga sales for about S300), the CD32 will play ball Fantasies, and Nick Faldo's Golf are dwindling and consoles are rising steadi- ►

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A N A 11 E I M , C; A L IF O R N I A — S I G - a half featured NewTekians Tim Jenni- computer tower. Best described as a GRAPH, tlie prominent computer- son and Paul Montgomery busily pre­ super-accelerated hardware rendering graphics show, once again lived up to its senting introductions to a slew of video platform for LightWave 3D. the Scream­ billing this year. There was big news for animations. These included a short by er, said Montgomery, will be the defini­ Amigans who held invitations to a Dale K. Meyer, two music videos by tive rendering machine. Specifications N ew T ek reception midway through the Todd Rundgren, segments from the new heard earlier in the crowd were stated event with promises of a “significant Warner Brothers TV series Babylon 5, officially: “ Four parallel RISC proces­ hardware upgrade” to the Video Toast­ and the opening to Steven Spielberg’s sors... 150 M IPS each... priced under er. More than 1500 people attended the new SeaQuest television series. Naturally, S10,000... available later this vear,” Two NewTek extravaganza hosted at the all were embodied beautiful LightWave hours of anticipation quickly concluded Movicland Wax Museum. animation. Finally,/ the screen flashed with three minutes of vague generaliza­ To get the event underway, Wil such phrases as “The Screamer, 600 tions. Wheaton of Star Trek the Next Genera­ M IPS,” and “T wo times the speed of a NewTek has teased the Amiga com­ tion fame and now bearing the title Cray Super Computer,” as the product munity in the past and, yes, it was worth “Full-time employee of NewTek,” rein­ was unveiled. (RS# 110.) the wait. Let’s hope this teaser leads to troduced those in attendence to the There, in all its glory, sat a beige-and- an equally impressive result. Video Toaster 4000, The next hour and red box resembling a standard desktop — Steven Blaize

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j : ? Lake Havasu City, AZ 86403 (602) 680-9004 Orders only (602) 453-6407 FAX (602) 690-9006 Tech calls (602) 453-9767 BBS EM PLANT running Fractal Painter in full color! ly in popularity. At the very [east, Com­ produce a 32-bit machine at the right price. pectations are high for the success of the modore's timing is right; as recently as June, Certainly, the CD32’s powerful graphics will CD32...so let the games begin! Sega told the British press that it could not give 16-bit consoles a run for the money. Ex- — Stuart Menges

U p g r a d e R o u n d u p Now S h o w in g You’ll find increased compatibility ture that will recreate indexes and a cus­ October is a busy month for Amiga users and more features in this month’s tom-defined sort order that will allow with three shows touting Amiga wares. Call roundup of updates. you to define how to sort scientific or in­ the numbers provided for more informa­ fhe Personal Animation Recorder ternational symbols. Files that were cre­ tion on workshops and seminars. {D igital Processing Systems. R S# 1201 has ated on previous versions are compati­ been modified to offer better compatibil­ ble with SBase. (RS# 135.) Video Expo/Image World ity with the G-Force 040 accelerator Eu ro p ress offers not only better fea­ Oct. 4-6 (Great Valley Products), thanks to joint ef­ tures, but faster ones too, with the AM O S Jacob K. Javits Convention Center forts between the two manufacturers. If Professional Compiler (£34.95). The up­ New York, New York you are experiencing compatibility prob­ grade claims to process programs creat­ 800/800-5474 lems, call D PS’s tech support at 606/371 - ed with AMOS, Easy AMOS, and AMOS 5533. Although G YP continues to manu­ Professional at a much faster rate than Gateway Computer Show facture the 33 MHz '040 G-Force and 40 the original. The Pro Compiler works on Oct. 23 MHz Combo for the A2000, it will no any Amiga with 1 MB of RAM; AM OS Pro Machinist Hall longer produce the 25 MHz and 50 MHz is recom m ended. (R S # 136.) Bridgeton, Missouri 3)30 Combo accelerators for the A2000. Toaster Toolkit 2.0 (SI 79.95, Dev- 314/739-5181 Version 1.3 of the Superbase line W a re ) boasts two new utilities for the (0 m ) offers better support, more fea­ Video Toaster user: the Color Font Micro Expo '93 tures, and a new name: SBase. SBase Converter (which creates full-color CG Oct .29-31 Professional 4 v.1.3 ($299.95) and fonts from Deluxe Paint) and FTXO Place Bonaventure SBase Personal 4 v.1.3 ($149.95) sup­ Anim (which converts a Toaster effect Montreal, Quebec port AGA and Amiga DOS 3.0. New ad­ into an animation that can be edited by Canada ditions to both databases include a fea- DPaint). (RS# 133.) 514/844-0502

T w o copies exist—one fo r 68000/68010 machines, and an ON-LINE optimized version for use with accelerated Amigas. Both pack­ ag es fall under the heading “version 3.4” and consist of six SCAN B y Tim W a ls h separate archives. If you’re al­ ready a Term user, you need Check out this month’s Re­ cue and -recovery operations. vamped to version 3.0. Like only get two archives—the main views section and you'll find two You can now undelete files; un- Disk Salv 2, SuperDuper 3.0 program file (either the accel­ popular options to salvage your format, validate, or repair disks can be found on even- net and erated or non-accelerated copy) hard disk: Quarterback Tools and devices; and generally does not operate under ver­ and a new set of documenta­ Deluxe and Ami-Back Tools. Ac­ undo any damage you or your sions of the OS earlier than 2.x tion. New Term users need to tually, there are three if you in­ equip mem may inflict on data­ With full ARexx support and a download all six archives, which clude Disk Salv 2, Amiga legend storage devices. You also have button-laden conirol-pancl in­ a lso include fonts, ARexx Dave 1 lavnie'sj latest variation on the option of saving the sal­ terface, SuperDuper is easier, scripts, translator libraries, and this once freely distributable vaged data to the device of your faster, and a lot more fun than preference settings. disk-salvage utility. For the price choice. While it's not as ornate copying and formatting disks N ext m onth: W atch for a full of a large pizza ($10), you can as its commercial counterparts, from either the Workbench or page of on-line excitement! use the latest version of Disk Salv it's a lot cheaper and does the Shell. SuperDuper also comes 2 with a clear conscience. An­ job just as well. with a program called Tog- BIX other S40 yields you a printed One final word of advice, if gleClick that stops floppy 800/695-4882 manual, scheduled to be on sale you keep all of your valuable drives from making clicking 617/354-4137 around die time you read this. files on your hard drive, lake a sounds. It seems like an after­ A tireless soldier in the bat­ moment to copy Disk Salv 2 thought, because drives in new­ Com puServe tle for lost data, Haynie pulled onto a lloppy. That way, if your er Ami gas don't click and most 614/457-0802 out all the stops with this ver­ hard disk dies, at least you can older o n e s have utilities in 800/848-8199 sion (11.27) of Disk Salv. For still run the utility to start sal­ place to keep them quiet, too. starters, it now fully supports vaging your lost data. On a completely unrelated Delphi the Amiga style guide, which note, if you’re considering a 800/695-4005 may not be such good news to U p g r a d e d U t il i t ie s change of pace in your telecom­ Workbench 1.2 and 1.3 hold­ While we’re on the subject of munication software, consider GEnte outs since it won't work on their disk utilities, SuperDuper by the newest revision of Term by 800/638-9636 machines. There’s an all-new Sebastiano Vigna, the old Olal Barthel, one of the most graphic interface that lets you standby disk copier and for­ fully-featured telecomm pack­ Portal Communications cycle through various data-res- matter, has been recently re­ ages ever written for the Amiga. 408/973-9111 □ T it l e C r e d it s G r a p h ic s G r a b B a g

Give yourself some credit and add Animators, graphic artists, and videog- network-quality titles and graphics to raphers alike are sure to find something of your video productions with Montage interest in the latest bag of goodies from 24 ($399.95, Innovision Technology), a Activa International (R S# 137). video-titling package for OpalVision You can improve the display of videos (Centaur), Impact Vision (Great Valley with one of Activa's graphic boards. Rain­ Imports, scales bow lit ($2299), Piccolo (from $499), and Products), or AGA-machine owners. Gt anti-aliases: Even if you can't give your name first- Rainbow VideoLayer ($1699) are for Ami- billing, you can give it some eye-catch­ gas equipped with a Zorro III bus (Piccolo ing color with embossing and shadowing also recognizes Zorro II). Piccolo (distrib­ effects with Montage 24. You can create uted by DKB Software) offers 1MB fast backgrounds and import 24-bit IF F and VideoRA M (a 2MB configuration is also available) and resolutions from 320 x 200 Super Hires HAM-8 images. The soft­ You can generate lots of character with through 1280 x 1084, while Rainbow III of­ ware includes eight scalable typefaces, Montage 24. while Montage Fonts I ($199.95) offers fers 4M B VRAM and resolutions up to 1600 an additional ten. The optional Mon­ tage 24 requires 8MB fast RAM, 1MB x 1280; VideoLayer offers 768 x 476/238 tage PostScript module (S I99.95) offers chip RAM, a hard drive with 8MB free, and 2MB VRAM. VideoLayer can drive sev­ real-time scaling of PostScript Type 1 and .AmigaDOS 1.3 or later; a 68020 ac­ eral graphic boards simultaneously and fea­ and 3, and Compugraphic fonts. Mon- celerator is recommended, (RS# 134.) tures an eight-bit alpha channel. All cards offer the same software, which includes ECS (Enhanced Chip Set) libraries, two paint programs (TVPaint Junior and J o in T h e C l u b Painter), DIA (a slide-show program), and Join the Software of the Month Club and SMC will ship original clip-art and fonts drivers for ASDG's ADPro and MorphPlus to your doorstep, not once, but twice each month. There are three membership op* and Realsoft's Real3D. tions— SMC TypeWorks, ArtWorks, and DesignWorks— each of which costs S49.95 to If you are a jack-of-all trades, you can join. TypeWorks members receive four fonts twice a month at $19.95 per volume. Art­ create interactive programs with Media- works members receive 48 IFF clip-art images twice a month, also at $19.95 per vol­ Point 3.0 ($499). The multimedia package ume. DesignWorks members enjoy the benefits of both TypeWorks and ArtWorks at supports three time codes— standard, reduced cost; they receive 48 images and 4 fonts twice a month at $29.95 per volume. MIDI, and SMPTE/EBU—and can control Membership is risk-fee; you can terminate at any time, however, after 30 days neither the Video Toaster, 24-bit cards, Studio 16 the membership fee nor the software is refundable. (RS# 121.} (SunRize Industries), laser discs, and VCRs. You can copy and paste screen objects and sync audio with pictures and animations. MediaPoint 3.0 requires Klckstart 1.3 or lat­ V ideographer ' s C h e c k l is t er, 1MB chip RAM (2MB recommended), Shopping for the latest in video tools and accessories? Read on and you’ll get a 1MB fast RAM , and a hard disk. head start on the latest whatzits for video. W hy not play your video games from the Cocoon ($99.95, D e v W a re ) will load any IF F image and render single image wraps hard disk? With Peggy ($799), an M PEG de­ and dual or sequential morphs. T he morphing software features automatic image coder, the Amiga can read and display 24-bit scaling, transparent color compositing, and virtual memory. Cocoon requires 3MB animation with 352 x 240 resolutions at 30 (SM B for hi-res morphs) and a hard drive. frames per second from the hard disk or CD- Crouton Tools: The Scene Machine Module #1 ($79.95, D e vW a re ) will put your ROM drive at transfer rates of 15MB per sec­ V id eo T oaster in control ofVTRs, paint programs, music, digital audio, morphing ond. The optional M PEG encoding software programs, and more. It requires Workbench 2.0 or later, Video Toaster 2.0, 7MB ($499) lets you produce MPEG bitstreams. of fast RAM, and 2MB of chip RAM; T-Rexx Professional (ASDG) and DevWare’s PowerFonts ($129) converts Agfa Intelli- Toaster Toolkit are recommended. Crouton Tools is the first in a series of mod­ font scalable fonts into 3-D characters for use ules from DevWare; on the way are modules to create storyboards, sequences for in 3-D rendering. You can specify the bevel rotoscoping, and background music. (RS# 133.) width and depth, stretch and italicize, or You can count down to your favorite videos with the VTClock (£30, Zen Com­ extrude characters. PowerFonts requires puter Services), an indent and start clock. The VTClock has six display pages; each AmigaDOS 2.04 or later and Real3D. can be configured as either a 30-seconcl analog clock with seven lines of indent text on the right-hand side for captions, or as a scratchpad with the text covering the User group leaders: Want your orga­ whole width of the screen. The clock can be reset to 10, 15, 20. or 30 seconds and nization to appear m A rnig aW oM s user generates a 1 KHz tone between 25 and 20 seconds, followed by a white flash-frame group listing? Then send your group’s at ten seconds. (R5# 131.) With one of the EditLink 3300 controllers from Future Video you can multitask name, plus a contact person’s name, ad­ three YTRs. Both the EditLink 3300 (S I295) and the EditLink 3300/TC ($1795) dress, and phone number to: User read Sony’s Hi8 RC Time Code (RCTC); the EditLink 3300/TC also reads group list, do Amiga World Editorial, 80 SM PTE/EBU (LTC). 'Hie EditLink 3300 series supports YTRs that are fitted with Elm St., Peterborough, N H 03458. O r either a Panasonic five-pin, or a Sony control-L/LANC terminal. A controller con­ fax us: 603/924-4066, atm. User group nects to the Amiga via an RS-232C interface and activates the Video Toaster list, AmigaWorld Editorial. ■ (NewTek) and other switchers or SEGs via three G PI triggers. Multiple-event A/B roll software is on the way from Future Y’ideo. (RS# 132.) S u p e rG e

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o label Digital Processing Systems’ (DPS) Mounted as device DDR:, the dedicated IDE Personal Animation Recorder (PAR) as just hard drive saves frames that the supplied software another animation device is like saying the automatically converts into a 24-bit compressed Video Toaster 4000 is just another video animation. Once you have recorded it to the hard Tgadget. The PAR is an animation-recording marveldrive, you can play it back in real-time using the unmatched by any product on other computer plat­ VCR-like controls, which include play, stop, forms, and it could conceivably spell the death of rewind, fast forward, frame advance, frame back, si ngle-frame recordi ng. slow play and loop. A drag bar along the bottom As animators will attest, single framing is slow and also allows you to move quickly throughout the an­ tedious, not to mention hardware-abusive. As each imation. A frame counter coupled with a time frame is rendered, the video deck is taken out of counter monitors your exact position in the ani­ standby, the tape is rewound and prerollecl, and the m ation. frame is then recorded. This process occurs dozens Editing an existing animation is last and easy. of times, and the associated wear affects both the tape You can convert an ANIM into its component and the heads. That’s no way to treat an expensive frames or set a range of frames for conversion. You single-frame-capable deck. Should a dropout occur can rename, move, join, split, append, and delete. when you’re rendering directly to tape without first Unlike rendering to tape, replacing a frame in a saving the individual frames, you must rerender the rendered animation takes only seconds. Just split animation from scratch. The same also holds true for the AN IM at the frame you want to change, delete making most frame changes. the offending frame, and append the replacement frame. Lastly, append the rest of the animation. S e q u e n c e o f E v e n t s T h a t’s all there is to it. None of this misery occurs with PAR, which renders You can also loop an animation a specific num­ your animation directly to its dedicated hard drive. ber of times and have it play forward, backward, or Amiga DOS sees the hard drive as a standard stor­ ping-pong. These effects become a part of the ani­ age device, so you can use existing tape-backup soft­ mation rather than just a control over playback. You ware. PAR’s level of seriousness is first apparent in can adjust playback from a high of 29 to a low of the installation process, which is not easy. There’s 0.12 frames per second. Be forewarned, however, no way to attach the hard drive directly to the PAR that the hard drive’s compression scheme coupled card, so you need to mount an internal hard drive with the slow-play option can prove unreliable with and supply it with power. An understanding of the some animations. basics of video termination is also necessary, espe­ cially when you need connections to a Toaster and R e c o r d D e a l a TBC. These are basic video details, but novices To record to tape, you simply connect the record might prefer to let a dealer perform the installation. deck to the PAR’s outboard composite, S-VHS, or Betacam/MII connectors. Press a button, use a G PI To locate the vendors of the products reviewed, see the pulse trigger or an ARexx command, and the an­ "Manufacturers'/Distributors' Addresses" list on p. 90. imation plays while the deck records. If you do get a dropout or similar flaw on the tape, just D i

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replay the animation and record it again. Noth­ ing could be simpler. PAR also provides an easy method to preview an­ imations. Traditionally, animators had to single- frame the animation out to a recorder before view­ ing the results. This typically spelled a long, anxious wait between the creation and the viewing process. Rendering it as a DCTV animation proved to be an alternative, but DCTV (Digital Creations) doesn't always display smooth gradations, and complex an­ imations won’t play at their full speed. You suffer the same problem with AGA animations. To their cred­ it, both DCTV and AGA animations give a rough idea of what the finished product will look like, but the PAR lets you see precisely how the animation will appear on tape. For 3-D animators, this means bet­ ter animations, as frequent viewing and tuning of the results is so much easier. Similarly, it’s easy to convert animations and stills to 24-bit IFF images. Just select the range of frames you want to save in IF F format, choose the directory path to your system’s hard drive, and click cam using the Y R/Y BAr connectors, you get full dig­ The Personal on the Save option. The process requires about 30 ital quality that borders on the incredible. It far sur­ A n im a tio n seconds per frame for the conversion. passes the quality obtained when recording directly Recorder s user Unlike real-time [PEG boards that provide instant from the Video Toaster and its composite output. interface makes access to A N IM frames, the PAR is slower and slight­ 24-bit animation V a r ia b l e C o m p r e s s io n ly more cumbersome for rotoscoping, but it’s a fair creation fast and trade-off, considering the final quality. Since the con­ The animation-compressing process begins when e a s y . version process uses the board’s resources rather than you set a block limit that’s specific to the hard the Amiga's, you can simultaneously run an image drive you’re using. The latest generation of IDE processor to batch-process the incoming images. Us­ hard drives offers a faster built-in ID E controller ing GVP’s ImageFX, you could automatically JP E G that utilizes a new standard. Seagate employs this an image for storage and later manipulation, or com­ new technology with its model 3600A 540MB hard pile the frames into a DCTV- or AGA-format anima­ drive. This is currentlyJ the onlyj ID E hard-drive tion for distribution. You can configure Im ageFX to model tested and recommended by DPS. It can delete each original 24-bit frame after processing, so record from three to five minutes of animation or you don’t have to worry about filling up your hard store up to 10,000 still frames. As other manufac­ drive during the conversion. turers adopt this new standard, you can expect DPS The ability to play 24-bit animations in 752x480 to recommend alternative drives. resolution at a guaranteed 30 frames per second is The next step is to adjust the Q-factor, which de­ truly significant. All of the other animation-play- termines the compression level. For recording 3-D back hardware devices for the Mac and PC that I animations or single frames, you set the Q-factor to have examined require either a sacrifice in quality maximum compression. As each frame is processed, or in playback speed. Nothing on the other plat­ automatic adjustment of the Q-factor occurs. The forms compares to the consistent quality that the more complex the frame, the lower the compression PAR provides. rate, while less complex frames receive a higher The PAR proprietary compression scheme is clos­ compression. This ensures that all animations con­ er to M PEG than JP E G format, but it provides better sistently play at 30 frames per second with no slow­ results than current M PEG implementations, which downs or bottlenecks. are limited to VMS quality. When you record to Beta- Knowing that other boards exhibit discernible

AmigalVarld 15 differences in quality throughout an an­ a special connector that plugs directly F i n a l l y F r e e imation, we took PAR over the hurdles. into the PAR via a ribbon cable, allowing PAR reduces the amount of time need­ This involved throwing everything we the two boards to communicate. Instead ed for single-framing, leaving videogra- could at it, including LightWave of using a serial connection, the TBC-IV phers more time for creative video (NewTek) animations with camera employs the PAR as its connection to the recording. When capturing live video, moves and textures in which every pix­ TBC-IV control software, leaving your you must adjust the Q-factor manually. el was changing. Regardless, the ani­ serial port free for other uses. Because a DPS provides a suggested minimum set­ mations still looked gorgeous, with no T BC is basically a real-time framegrab- ting that works consistently, but you can image degradation. ber, the TBC-IV grabs the video and adjust it upwards for better compression. Using D PS’s all-new time-base correc­ passes it along to the PAR, where it is If you adjust the Q-factor too high (in tor, the Personal TBC-IV, to comple­ compressed into an animation. All of the cases where lots of motion occurs), it ment the PAR, you can do real-time cap­ processing capabilities of the T B C can be won't work, as you cannot then play the tures of moving video. The TBC-IV has used on the video you want to capture. video back at full speed. The program would give up, and you would have to lower the Q-factor and try again. Live video capture offers time-lapse CREATIVE capabilities from 1 to 30,000 seconds per Scenery frame; you can also trigger grabs manu­ IDEAS ally using the mouse. Other options from the main control panel let you for­ COME mat and reorganize the dedicated hard Anim ator drive, and adjust genlock horizontal con­ TO LIFE! trol and subcarrier. Everything you ma­ nipulate h orn the control panel you can also perform through ARexx, It was easy to incorporate 3-D animations and grab live video into an AmigaVision (Com­ modore) presentation using a genlock. I found only one bug in the software. When you attempt to split an A N IM and set the range, canceling the requester does not cancel the operation, but deletes the second half of the animation. Other than that minor flaw, the software is well designed and easy to use. The PAR saves animators lots of time, and if you currently use an outside studio to record single-frame animations to tape, you’ll save considerable money by being able to do your own transfers in minutes. The Personal Animation Recorder is a high-quality product from a well-re­ spected company. DPS’s technical-sup- port people return calls and were gen­ erally quite helpful. 1 can’t find any reason why serious animators should not Using three dimensional data from the US Geological Survey, New in version 4.0: start saving now to buy this package. or its powerful, built-in fractal landscape generator. Scenery — Geoffrey Williams Animator 4.0 lets you create, animate, and explore places both You can import, position, real and imaginary. Position the camera in a landscape by and render user defined clicking over a map on the screen. Then place redwood and oak 3-D objects! trees, lakes, and 3-D objects in your scene. Y ou can set the snow- level, add ray-traced clouds, or simulate a realistic night sky Supports new AGA and C h a r ts & G r a p h s 3 .0 with all the constellations. Then render, or draw a night path on standard Amiga modes. TRSL Software, $99.95. the map and animate! AH Amigas. Manual or automatic tree Hard-drive installable. "... 1 highly recommend this piece of software. Scenery Anima­ placement. Not copy-protected. tor is a versatile, powerful, and extremely satisfying program that w ill bring you many hours o f enjoyment.” 2X faster preview! Accelerator compatible. Amiga World. December 1991 1.3/2.0/3.0 compatible. Undo button Minimum system; IMB.

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Resolution and with landscapes. Only ScapeMaker can aspect would be better maintained than carve gargantuan paw prints into a land­ IFF to landscape processor. in the IFF bitmap format currently sup­ I scape. I loaded a two-color cat's paw into ported, although the IFF format enjoys one of ScapeMaker s windows and a a wider base of support. f all the programs on my hard disk, DEM into the other. The AddDEM but­ One of the advantages of Charts 8c OVistaPro (Virtual Reality Laborato­ ton combined them to give me the af­ Graphs over MaxiPlan 4 (The Disc Co.) ries) is just about my favorite, and as Fm termath of a dinosaur-sized tabbv’s romp is its ability to print charts in landscape continually seeking utilities that enhance through VistaPro. mode. Unfortunately, however, you it, I was anxious to give ScapeMaker a For a kind of “weather map” overlay cannot print the raw data in landscape, try. I wasn’t disappointed. effect, try the Inset button. 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Useful for IFF im­ B l e m i s h e d R e c o r d s and Scenery Animator (Natural Graph- ages packed with color data, ScapeMak- No program is flawless, and Charts & ic$)-compatibIe DEM (Digital Elevation er’s four levels of Smoothing reduce col­ Graphs proved no exception to the Maps) landscape files. or ridges into more aesthetic curves. The rule. Getting it to run from the hard ScapcMaker’s spartan, 2.0-like inter­ program’s remaining controls, such as drive on my A3000 under OS 2.04 or face presents nearly two dozen buttons Add X, Add Y, and Scale, allow /you to 2.1 was not entirely effortless. Attempts atop the screen. If you prefer menus to manipulate the height of scapes. to open a new window resulted in a con­ buttons, alternative controls are there as ScapeMaker is a great tool for merging sole window on the Workbench that in­ landscapes as if they were double-exposed formed me it was “Unable to Open- in a camera lens— such as my example of NewWindow.” However, when I used paw prints in the snow. But because it my wife’s A500 under 1.3 or booted my converts IFFs directly into landscapes (or A3000 from the Workbench 2.1 floppy, combines them with existing scapes), it is all went well. also nifty for creating unusual images. It When I called posing as an end user, permits you to add clearly artificial, inor­ technical support at TR SL was respon­ ganic structures to landscapes, something sive and first-rate at addressing my prob­ not easily accomplished by any other lems. Thev sent mam different versions means. You can add mazes, forts, trench­ and spent hours on the phone trying to es, or even com pany logos to a VistaPro diagnose the ailments. They eventually animation. In fact, ScapeMaker shows developed and sent me version 3.05 of promise as a top-notch logo generator. the program, which performs without a Just bring your logo into ScapeMaker hitch on the A3000, so if your 3000 ex­ from a program like DeluxePaint (Elec­ hibits peculiarities similar to what I ex­ Big "prints" are possible with ScapeMaker. tronic Aits) or Imagemastcr (Black Belt), and then either cane it into the ground program. It provides an easy way to trans­ the discovery of chaotic math can match or extrude it up out of the grass and into form IF F images into DEM s, and it offers the Amiga's preponderance of fractal- the sky. There’s no reason logos must al­ nifty tools for creating unusual effects that engineering tools in both commercial ways look like chrome. would otherwise be impossible, such as and puhlic-domain arenas. Phis market VistaPro logo flyarounds and highly com­ domination continues with MegageM’s H a l f -B a k e d ’S c a p e s ? plicated, inorganic landscapes. Scape­ updated fractal art and animation tool, In some respects, ScapeMaker seems un­ Maker is an outstanding program and a FractalPro, version 6.0. polished, The screen’s odd palette colors "must have” for VistaPro owners. With a large selection of fractal tools give both the A rq 1.78 A m ig aD O S re­ — Dave Johnson to choose from, FractalPro stands apart quester replacement and my FR_Bypass from the rest. It provides AGA compat­ file requester a hard-to-read mono­ ibility, as well as support for all Amiga chrome color. Also, when converting part display modes and direct rendering to of a graphic into a landscape, you must F r a c t a l P r o 6 .0 2 Impulse’s Firecracker 24-bit display board. Throw in a nifty 2.0 interface, select a region no more than 256 or 512 MegageM, S199.95. pixels square, depending on whether you heaps of animation tools, and virtually All Ami gas. use Vista Pro’s Small or Large size option. infinite zooming, and you’re on the road 2.0/3,0/AGA compatible. Furthermore, I would like the option to chaos heaven. Hard-drive installable. to scale a large image down to landscape Not copy protected. F r a c t a l s in M o t i o n size; instead, you now have to process Accelerator compatible. the image into a brush elsewhere or con­ FractalPro offers a wide array of equa­ Minimum system: 1MB and math vert only a small piece of it into a DEM. tions for the rendering process. In ad­ coprocessor or 68040. Finally, the program supports only “tra­ dition to the basic Mandelbrot and its Recommended system: AGA or ditional” Amiga graphics formats. You accompanying Ju lia set, it provides four 24-bit display board, 4MB RAM. cannot, for instance, load a 24-bit IFF, other equations, including cube and HalfJBrite image or AGA format graph­ sine sets of both Mandelbrot and Julia Fractal aVt and animation tool. ic into ScapeMaker. This is the sort of pairs, for a total of ten possibilities. Each program that can someday make great equation base has a unique personality, use of Workbench 3.0’s datatypes. he Amiga is the undisputed champ and the real beauty of FractalPro is its Despite these shortcomings, I love this T of fractal art. No other machine since ability to switch between the Mandel-

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A W a y s T o G o gram automatically saves the coordinates hinking back to the early clays o f the and magnification of your image so you Fractal Pro offers everything a serious TAmiga, who can ever forget the lush, can reload it some time later, much as a artist of the fractal discipline would want unprecedented color graphics and the 3-D modeler would store your scene for or need, yet it is not without shortcom­ jaw-dropping quality of the video? But all future use. Moreover, Fractal Pro saves ings—color control, for one. FractalPro that goodness was marred by images in Vista Pro's (Virtual Reality) initially/ renders yourj creation in mono- pathetically inaccurate and distorted DEM format. chrome green, red, or blue; to modify the printing. Hard copies were usually crude, While the program gives you lots of palette, you have to tweak each of the im­ grainy pixelizations or else streaked with control over the appearance of a single age’s colors individually, using DPaint- thin, white horizontal lines, called hand­ fractal image, that’s nothing compared like RGB sliders. In a 16-color picture, ing. This weakness threatened to exclude to what you can do with the included an­ this isn’t a problem, hut editing a 256- Amiga users from tfie burgeoning desk­ imation tools. You can zoom, pan, cas­ color AGA image is a masochist’s delight. top-publishing revolution. Fortunately, cade, or tween (the last two require some On the plus side, you can save palettes, shareware programmers came to the res­ explanation) around your fractal image hut the program desperately needs more cue and quickly filled the public-domain and let FraclalPro save each frame in a sophisticated color controls of the spread, channels with custom printer drivers that sequence of 16, 32, 64, 128, or more im­ swap, and blend variety. MegageM created high-quality output worthy of the ages that you can later assemble into an should take a lesson from the old stand­ computer. anim ation. by public-domain program, MandelV- Pan n in g is a fast operation here, be­ room. or any number of other popular C areful D rivers cause most of the image is moved paint programs. Commodore made up for its early neg­ around with the blitter and onlyz the Another weakness is in the choice of ligence with some fine printer drivers, new strips of graphics data are calcu­ resolutions. Though most resolutions but the shareware creators continued to lated from scratch each time. Tween al­ are listed in the screen-mode requester, hone their skills until one fine program lows you to load two specific fractal im­ FractalPro doesn’t take advantage of outgrew its public-domain origins. ages, and FraclalPro automatically AGA “doubled” modes or Super72 Studio Printer is the updated commer­ zooms and pans to link the two images 800x600, a very useful screen size. cial version of the old W olf Faust in a specified number of frames. The Hopefully, MegageM will let users pick printer-driver collection. The package cascade command is similar, but it gives a desired resolution in the next version is the best and most comprehensive the motion of Julia sets between two hv simply listing all the screen modes solution to date for most printer-driver specific Mandelbrot coordinates. Cas­ available, in a manner similar to that of problem s. cade animations dance and swirl with­ DPaint IY-AGA. Studio is a total printing package that out ever really moving much— they’re Lastly, there seem to he peculiarities contains drivers for all popular printers, fascinating to watch. with the IFF images that the program supporting all the internal typefaces and the highest resolutions available. It tipage poster— and make the selection idea— this is a lengthy and tedious drives everything From obscure dot­ dynamically with the mouse or by typing process that involves swapping color ink matrix machines to speedy 24- and 48- in precise coordinates. Furthermore, it cartridges or color ribbons. If you only pin printers. You’ll find support and offers the choice of several print densi­ occasionally need color printouts, howev­ control for the popular Hewlett-Packard ties and a wide selection of dither pat­ er, it's a workable solution— and certain­ DeskJet 500 and 500c color printers and terns for fills, as well as allowing you to ly cheaper than buying a color printer. the HP LaserJet series, all the way create your own. Studio really shines in printing graph­ up to the top-of-the-line, 600-dpi HP The only weakness with the print- ics, the quality of its printouts ap­ Lase rJe t 4 m achines. program portion of the Studio package proaching that of the Amiga's video out­ Whereas conventional Amiga printer is that it seizes control of the printer. put. In practice, the Studio drivers are drivers print the standard 16 shades You cannot print from another pro­ faster than the standard Workbench gram while the Studio printer program drivers, and they offer improved print­ of Otjrav i and 4096 colors, the Studio’s drivers provide printer output in 256 is running, even if you are not current­ ing. Although the high-quality print shades of gray and 16.7 million colors. ly printing with it. This is a minor an­ modes are slower than the standard They work with any program that sup­ noyance to people who like to switch drivers, the vast improvement in output ports Preferences printer drivers under between their favorite programs with­ quality is well worth the decrease in Workbench, and, best of all, they are out having to relaunch them, but ii’s speed. Fhe drivers minimize the hand­ reliable. not a major problem. ing that is common with dot-matrix But Studio is more than printer driv­ printers, and they clean up DeskJet- AR e x x S u p p o r t ers; it includes extra software for cus­ generated printouts as well. Moreover, tomizing and fine-tuning text and Studio also provides ARexx support and the laser printouts they produce are less graphics printing. It prints most vari­ compression for faster printing in high- grainy and have a more “even" appear­ eties of IFF graphics (HAMS, IFF8, quality graphics modes. New drivers for ance, making the laser-printed graphics IFF24, and Extra HalfJBrite) straight LaserJet compatibles (H P PCL5 printers) look far more like professional screen from the disk, so you can output pictures and support for printing from shots. even if your system lacks the RAM or PageStream are included as well. A clever i / T h e D r e a d e d D o c s screen resolution to display them. 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tally intuitive. You have to experiment be­ it as an introduction to the nuances of fore they become second nature, and you printcr-driver technolog)', it clearly needs T o u c h F r a m e should expect to make frequent trips to improvement. There's little material Carroll Touch, frame for IDEK monitor the documentation, which, unfortunately, that’s useful for novices; a clear introduc­ S540, controller $135. is the package’s biggest drawback. The tion would help lift this product a few manual provides no easy solutions to rungs up the user-friendliness ladder. A2000/3000/40G0. problems. It also offers no simple, clear Still, Studio is a product I highly rec­ Hard-drive installable software. descriptions of what each program does, ommend. It generally works well, and if Not copy-protected. or explanations of who is most likely to you have both the time and patience Accelerator compatible. need or want it. needed to decipher the manual and fine- 2.0/3.0 compatible. 1 he documentation is not all bad. tune the settings, it will reward vou with t j 4 Installation: EasyJ though. Viewed as technical reference outstanding print quality, Minimum system: 2MB, WB 2,0 material, it is superb, but if you try to use — Daniel Greenberg

Touch-screen hardware.

ci-fi bull’s have long-envisioned the era Sof the touch-screen computer inter­ face; now it’s a reality that’s trickled down We won't to the consumer level. Carroll Touch, a long-time maker of touch-screen hard­ ware, uses a proprietary infrared scan­ let you down! ning technique that makes this space-age technology affordable for Amiga users. Hang on! DKB knows the importance of Its product line includes flat-panel, seal- customer service. If you're having a able displays and standard CRTs with problem or need a questions clip-on Touch Frames, ranging from 13 to 21 inches. You use the appropriate dis­ answered, our Tech Support play for the application. Team is ju st a phone call away. N o t h i n g M o r e T h a n F e e l i n g s A basic system consists of a monitor, the Everyone at DKB is friendly,professional Touch Frame and its power supply, an and know what they're talking about RS-232 controller, and driver software. when it comes to your Amiga . For this review, I evaluated an ID EK 17- inch, high-resolution monitor, a fitted DKB technology remains on the cutting edge as we Touch Frame, and the .Amiga driver. In ­ continue to introduce the stallation of the Touch Frame is ex­ peripherals and tremely simple: Two small, adhesive- expansion boards backed plastic mounting buttons attach you’ve asked for, to either side of the monitor case, and like The CLOCK, the Touch Frame clips on, blending in real time for your Amiga 1200. completely. A telephone-type cord con­ O r the nects the Touch Frame with the equally DKB 1202, to inconspicuous controller box and power speed up math supply, which in turn connects to the in te n sive Amiga’s serial port or multiserial card. operations. The whole set-up procedure takes only about Five minutes. Finally, you can Our innovative install the software— including the products are thoroughly tested before they are touch-screen driver, calibration pro­ shipped. Every DKB peripheral gram, and on/off controls— onto your comes with a full 2-vear warranty. hard disk. The Touch Frame itself blends in Our first commitment has always been completely with the monitor. It performs customer satisfaction. At DKB it’s not its work by means of a grid of infrared just something we talk about, it’s how sensors mounted along the inside we run our business every day. perimeter of the frame. Place your lin­ ger on the screen, and the position Problems or Questions? Please call our Tech Support Team at where the beam is interrupted is trans­ 50240 W. Pontiac Trail lated into an X,Y mouse coordinate, to 313-960-8750 Wixom, ML 48393 which the pointer then moves. The Amiga’s operating system reacts as if you had moved the mouse and pressed the left mouse button. Removing your finger from the screen is the equivalent of re- Circle 26 on Reader Service card. leasing the left mouse button. You can tem. Other possibilities that spring to stallations, another product in the emulate right mouse-button commands mind include educational or reference Carroll Touch line might be more ap­ by holding down the CTRL key on the software (for schools, libraries, small propriate. I’m happy to note that the keyboard and touching the screen. The children in the home) and a commer­ company offers a fiee 30-day evalua­ infrared grid tracks finger movements cial or industrial control system. Imag­ tion of some of its products. 1 would quite accurately and quickly, but the res­ ine an audio/video system’s serially con­ strongly advise developers and entre­ olution is obviously not as fine as that of trolled patching matrix completely preneurs to investigate the Touch a mouse. reconfigured in an instant by simply Frame as the interface for turnkey sys­ T he only software setup, beyond pointing to sources and destinations. tems or any of the above possible ap­ copying a few liles to the system, entails Finally, there are people unable to con­ plications. It is simple and reliable, and running the calibration program. This trol a mouse who need an alternative it works. you can do in less than a minute, touch­ access system. — Michael Hanish ing the upper-left and lower-right cor­ For more physically demanding in­ Continued on p. 64. ners of the monitor screen so that the grid/coordinate translations are scaled to the monitor and display specifica­ tions you have set in Preferences. You

turn the Touch systemJ on and off bv i clicking on an icon; the mouse is not Air disabled.

A d a p t a t io n s f f i Using the Touch System requires ei­ ther a specially-designed application or a little getting used to. The nature of touch screens is peculiar at best. The system/ tracked my / touch flawlessly / in any program 1 ran, including games. I never realized how plump my appar­ ently bony forefinger was until I tried to position the pointer over a small Workbench button. I needed to make a conscious effort to realize a touch not only moves the pointer but is also the equivalent of depressing the left but­ ton. When used with applications soft­ ware for which it is intended, the process gives you a wonderfully liber­ ating feeling. Specialized applications would include a control screen or panel with reasonably sized (quarter-inch square) buttons for all actions. Such an interface could easi­ ly be designed for existing programs by using, for example, AmigaVision (Com­ modore) or Can Do (I NOVAt ionics) and ARcxx. A point-of-sale or information kiosk is a natural application for this sys­

The W ait is Over ... The addition of AMax tl Plus to ReadySoffs acclaimed series of Macintosh emulators brings powerful new ■iT’ capabilities to your Amiga. AM ax li and AMax II Plus are hardware and software combinations that once you ■; '•*j. ■■ supply Macintosh 128K ROMs, run almost all Macintosh productivity software at full speed Including Word, Excel, j ■ - v-**! A i Quarit XPress* and Illustrator*. A*Max II Plus Is an Internal card which may be easily Inserted Into a slot In your i Amiga 2000 or greater series computer. Once Installed, AMax II Plus provides AppleTalk* serial port, MIDI and disk compatlbllty with the Macintosh. v r * The AMax 2.5 software also features: support for Amiga hard drives, mouse, keyboard, disk drives, serial and parallel ports, processor accelerators, RAM, all normal video modes and screen sizes, de-lnteriacers, playback of Macintosh digitized sounds, Apple ImageWriter* emulation for 9 and 24 pin Epson* compatible printers, and access to Macintosh SG I peripherals through a hard drive controller's SG I port. *v & A-Max II and A-Max II Plus are trademark! of ReadySoft Incorporated. Apple. RaedrSon IneoipertM Macintosh. Mac. AppleTal*. LaserWriter. LocalTalk. ImageWriter are registered 30 WMVwim CotfU Uni & ttadenurfcr of Apple Computer, Inc. AH other trademarhi are the property of Richmond HM, Ontario, Cmtdi L4B 1 D» their respective ownert. R e AD Y&OFT Tel: («IC) 711-4173 Fii: (413) 7M-M47 r " \ Press on and touch away with the Touch F ra m e . 24 October 1993 Large capacities, easier to back up, conveniently portable . . . todays removable-media mass-storage devices go a long way towards satisfying users

with insatiable appetites for data.

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ARD D RIVES K ILL up. It’s a fact of life. Sure, they save and load data very quickly. Sure, they’re convenient to use, providing access to your programs and data as soon as you turn on the machine. But no matter how big your hard drive is, no matter how much you compress your data, you can be sure that some day, you’re going ^ - J f c to see that “Volume ‘20Gigs’ is full'’ requester. Storage capacity is only one of the reasons that computer owners have started looking for alternative mass-storage devices. Because fixed hard drives store so much, they are difficult to back up on a regular basis, leaving you vulnerable to catastrophic data loss if anything goes wrong with them. Also, they’re not very portable, which makes it difficult to transfer their contents from one computer to another. If you’re looking for unlimited storage, archival backups, and transportability, you’re in luck. Within the past couple of years, manufacturers have introduced a number of alternative mass-storage devices. All use removable media (sort of like a large-capacity floppy disk), which gives them unlimited storage capacity. Almost all use a standard SCSI interface, which makes them easy to connect to any Amiga.

These devices vaivJ widelv, J however, in the amount of data thev + can store on each disk or cartridge, the speed at which they transfer data, their overall reliability, and the cost of the drive and the media. In the second half of this article, we’ll take a look at four gen­ eral types of mass-storage alternatives— removable-media hard drives, magneto-optical drives, flopticals, and tape back-up systems-—and examine some specific models in each category. As always, it’s up to you to decide which combination of features best suits your needs. (For information on contacting the manufacturers of drives covered in this article, consult the “M anufacturers’/Distributors’Addresses” list on p. 90.) ing if you replace a 121MB dhO: drive with a 60MB Before we do that, though, let’s cover some basic dhO: and a 61MB dhl:). The safest practice is to use facts about removable-media devices. one partition, and the same drive identifier (rhO:, for example) for each cartridge. After writing the partition information, you can use the AmigaDOS “ Format” Using Removable program to format the cartridge, like any other disk. I he latest Amiga SCSI controllers automatically Media Drives sense when a cartridge is removed or inserted, and take the appropriate action to remove or display the disk icon. I used ICD ’s I rifecta controller with a num­ AL I I lOL'GH T H E VARIOUS removable-media dri- ber of drives, and in each case it handled the media ves employ different technologies, you use them just change without problems. Even if you have an older as you would a normal hard drive. First, you must fig­ SCSI controller, you can still use removable-media ure out where to physically install them. Almost all of drives. At worst, you’ll have to use the AmigaDOS these devices are the size of a 5.25-inch or 3.5-inch D1SKCHANGE command to manually indicate a floppy drive, which means that you can mount them change of cartridges. In most cases, however, if your internally if you have an open drive bay of the appro­ controller card does not automatically recognize re­ priate size. Since portability is a big drawing card for movable media, you can buy a ROM update from the these devices, however, you may wish to spend an ex­ card's manufacturer that wijl allow it to do so. tra hundred dollars or so and get an external version with its own case and power supply. That way, you can R e m o v a b l e M e d ia D r iv e s a n d E m u l a t i o n use the same device with more than one computer. To Removable media drives can be very handy for those communicate with the drive, your computer will need who use PC or Macintosh emulators, since you can con­ a SCSI drive controller, such as Commodore’s A2091 vert an Amiga drive to a Mac or PC drive simply by or A4091, or the built-in SCSI controller in the A3000 changing a cartridge. If all you are interested in is a sin­ or upcoming A4000T. gle PC or Mac partition, you will have no problems if Before you use any of these drives, you must prepare you use the drive as if it were a fixed hard disk. You will them just as you would any other hard drive, using ei­ probably not be able to change the media under DOS ther the harcl-drive software that came with your SCSI or the Mac operating system, however, without a PC or controller (it may be called partitioning or formatting Mac driver that understands removable media. software in the documentation) or Commodore's HD- 1 he situation becomes a bit more complicated if you ToolBox program. Although HDToolBox was de­ require media compatibility— the ability to take the car­ signed primarily for Commodore's own controllers, tridge that you wrote on your Amiga and put it into a you can use it with almost any controller by specifying drive connected to a PC or Mac. As long as the drive the SCSI device name as a ToolType in its icon. For follows the IBM hard-drive standard, you should he able to read and write the cartridges using Consultmn’s CrossDOS program. For example, Bernoulli’s 150MB cartridges come formatted for MS-DOS; bv using the CrossDOS installation program, I was able Portability is a bi to read and write them without additional formatting, thus ensuring complete drawing card with these devices. compatibility with PC systems. Some manufacturers of PC-compatible An extra hundred dollars or so will get you SCSI host adapters, such as Corel, do not use standard IBM formatting, which means you won’t he able to an external version that you can use exchange cartridges with systems us­ ing those kind o f controllers. The best with multiple Atnigas, or with way to ensure compatibility is to format the cartridge on the system with which Macs or PCs. you wish to exchange data. It’s a lot more ikelv that vou will be able to read their format than they will be able to read yours. To achieve media compatibility with Macintosh sys­ tems, you must use a Mac emulator, such as example, you can use it with a GYP controller by ReadySof’t’s A-Max or Utilities Unlim ited’s Emplant, adding the ToolType “SCSI_DEVICE_NAM E = and some kind of Macintosh SCSI driver. I've used gvpscsi.device,” or with I CD’s Trifecta bv adding Apollyonics’ SCSI Director program successfully under “ S ( IS I D EY IC E_N A M E=tri fee ta. device.” A-Max with several different removable-media drives. The preparation program will usually determine Unfortunately, you won’t be able to read data you have what type and size of drive you are using by sending written this way under AmigaDOS. The easier way to an inquiry to the drive itself. Once it has this infor­ exchange data between Macintosh and Amiga is to use mation. you can partition the drive. You should parti­ IBM format for both. Like CrossDOS on the Amiga, tion each cartridge exactly the same way, however, to Insignia Solutions’ Access PC, Version 2 allows vou to avoid confusing the computer when you change car­ read and write IBM media on the Macintosh. If you use tridges (AmigaDOS can’t understand what’s happen­ Access PC to read and write IBM-formal data on the Macintosh or Mac emulator, you will also be able to tended to clunk rather loudly), is somewhat faster, read and write that data on the Amiga, using Cross- holds 105MB per cartridge, and costs nearly the same DOS. And, of course, that same data can also be used (around $700) as the combination 88/44MB drive. What this unit gains in speed and size, however, it with IBM svstems./ loses in compatibility, since the cartridges for the old­ er drives are larger than the entire 105MB drive. .-\long with the familiar SCSI version, the SyQuest Alternative 105 is also available with an ID E interface (model Mass-Storage Devices SQ3105A, around $700). We were unable to obtain an ID E version for testing, but SyQuest engineers have tested the drive with Amigas ancl some third-party host NO W TH A T W E know a little about their general set­ adapters. They found direct compatibility with IC D ’s up and operation, let's take a closer look at the four Trifecta and Ad ID E adapters, and with Expansion Sys­ basic types of removable-media drives— and the vari­ tems’ DataFlyer; Pre’spect Technics also claims com­ ations within each category. patibility with its ID E controller. Because the engi­ neers found the A4000‘s internal drive controller to be incompatible with the 3105A, they have created a spe­ cial ROM to ensure compatibility (it was in Beta test­ R e m o v a b l e -M e d ia H a r d D r i v e s ing at the time of this writing). If you purchase a 3105A he most common type of removable mass-stor­ for use with the A4000, you’ll need to get a replace­ T age device, and the one that's been around the ment RO M direct from SyQuest— unless the drive you longest, is a variation on die standard fixed buy is already configured for the Amiga 4000. hard drive. Removable media hard drives divide the Although SyQuest is the most recognizable name in conventional, hermetically-sealed unit into two com­ the removable-media market, it wasn’t the first to mar­ ponents— a fixed unit ket cartridge drives. That distinction belongs to containing Iomega, a company that has been selling its Bernoulli t h e disks since the days when 20MB was considered un- limited storage. Iomega’s patented mechanism elimi­ nates the possibility of the read/write heads colliding with the media (a disaster known as a head crash), making their drive much more reliable than normal hard drives. W hile the SyQuest media is rated safe For a 30-inch drop to a linoleum floor, a Bernoulli demon­ stration video shows one of its cartridges being thrown out of a car going 60 mph with no loss of data! You used to pay a large premium for this reliabili­ read/write ty, but no more. Io m eg a's 90MB 5.25-inch drive costs heads and mo­ about the same as the SyQuest 88-megabyte units, tor, and a remov­ while its new Box 150 drive costs S I225 for the exter­ able cartridge that holds nal unit and S I099 for the internal. The media costs the magnetic media. The resulting drive a litile less than a dollar per megabyte. This Bernoul­ performs like a hard disk, but allows you to remove the li MultiDisk 150MB drive is as fast as most standard disk for safekeeping or transport like a floppy. When hard drives, and it is compatible with a wide range ol you run out of storage, you simply buy more cartridges. previous Bernoulli media— with capacities ranging SyQ uest is one of the most popular manufacturers of from 35 to 90MB. It is also extremely quiet. Iomega removable-media drives. Its original drive used a 5.25- holds another distinction among removable-media inch mechanism with cartridges about the size of a manufacturers. It is the only company that includes stack of 5.25-inch floppy disks, which held 44M B each. .Amiga installation instructions with its drives. The next generation stored 88MB using the same size A few years back, Ricoh came out with a 55MB re­ drive and cartridges (cartridge costs run about S I.25 movable cartridge drive to compete with the SyQuest per megabyte). These 88MB drives could read the 44M B drive. This drive worked well, but never seemed 44MB cartridges, but not write them. Recently, how­ to catch on like the SyQuest and Bernoulli units. You ever, SyQuest has come out with a combination may still find these drives around, and since they have 88/44MB drive, the SQ5110C, that can read and write become a bit outdated by the larger capacities offered both types of cartridges. Selling for about $650, it costs by competitors, you should be able to pick them up for only about S100 more than the previous model (which a couple hundred dollars less— something to keep in sells for about $500 for an internal and $600 for an ex­ mind if you are working on a light budget. ternal drive). The improved compatibility is impor­ tant if you wish to send your data to a company that prints color images to film or videotape for a fee. Many R e a d /W r i t e O p t ic a l D i s k s such companies accept the huge files these images re­ quire on either the 44 or 88MB SyQuest cartridges. ne of the newer mass-storage technologies is SyQuest’s most recent entry, the SQ 3105, uses a 3.5- O the magneto-optical disk. Like a CD-ROM, it inch mechanism and cartridge that resemble miniature uses a laser beam pickup to read the disk, but versions of the originals. Despite the reduced size, this unlike a CD, you can write to the disk. At first, optical drive is much quieter than previous models (which drives were limited to WORM (Write Once, Read ► K i; \! 0 V \ It L K M E D I A - 1

magneto-optical cartridges, and less than a quarter of the cost of hard-drive cartridges. If you use writc-once media for archival storage, costs are even lower. The upshot is that if you plan to store more than three or four gigabytes eventually, and require fast access, the Tahiti may be your most economical solution.

F l o p t i c a l D i s k s M an y) nother new mass-storage option is high-capac­ u n i t s , A ity floppies, the best of which is Insite Periph­ bill this e r a ls ' version, the 1325VM Floptical Disk c a te g o ry Drive ($399). Such drives combine high-density media now includes with optical head positioning to get 20 megabytes of drives that can storage on a single floppy. While faster than floppies, be erased and writ­ these drives are still much slower than conventional ten to many times. Several hard drives, and the media costs a bit more per large manufacturers make magneto­ than normal floppies (currently about $20 optical drives, including Sony, Panasonic, and Ricoh. though industry officials have predicted they On the phis side, these drives otter lots of storage may fall as low as $6 in the near future). As a bonus, space. The standard capacity of a 5.25-inch double- the drives also read and write normal floppies using sided cartridge is (550 megabytes of data, hut some the 1.44 megabyte IBM format. In the Amiga market, manufacturers are starting to otter double-density units AgogA Corporation sells the Floptical complete with that offer 1.3GB (i.e., 1300MB) of storage on a single driver software, I have also used the standard Insite $250 disk. Because of the laser technology, the drives drive without any driver software, using H I) fool Box are extremely reliable and virtually silent when you to install the Rigid Disk Block. read from and write to them. On the negative side, the When the floptical disks were first announced, about full-sized 5.25-inch drives tend to be slow (some oper­ five years ago. they seemed a fantastic bargain. Delays ating only about one-fourth the speed of a normal in bringing the product to market, however, have al­ hard drive) and expensive (costing upwards of $3000). lowed other tech- A newer type of magneto-optical drive sacrifices some of the storage space in order to make gains in the area of performance and price. These drives use 3.5- inch cartridges that are about the same size as a flop­ py disk, but hold 128 megabytes of data. The 3.5-inch drives are much smaller than the half-height or full- heigln 5.25-inch drives and considerably faster— achieving speeds in the low-end range of normal hard drives. In the Amiga market. Digital Micronics sells a version of the Sony drive, the DMI 128MB Read/Write Optical Disk Drive (internal. SI 795; ex­ ternal. $2195). While the drives themselves cost about twice as much as equivalent removable media hard drives, at less than 565 each, however, the 128MB op­ tical disks are half the price of hard-drive cartridges. Therefore, if you plan to store more than a gigabyte, the magneto-optical system actually ends up being cheaper. II you are looking for a combination of really huge cases, to storage capacity and high performance, and price is no pass the flopticals by. At current prices, these units cost object, you will want to look at the 5.25-inch M ax o p tix nearly as much as the 90MB removable hard drives, but Tahiti drives. The Tahiti I (discontinued) and its suc­ are far slower and a bit less reliable. Unless the price of cessor the Tahiti IIM read and wr ite both the standard floptical drives and media drops enough to give them 650MB format and a proprietary 1GB formal. Max­ a significant price advantage over the competition, there optix has recently introduced the T3-1300 drive won’t he much incentive to buy these drives. ($3495), which adds a standard 1.3GB density to the other formats. All these drives perform substantially T a p e B a c k -u p S y s t e m s better than the run-of-the-mill magneto-optical drive. or those whose mass-storage needs tend towards The Tahiti IIM promises an average 35 millisecond F back-up and archival storage, tape back-up sys­ seek time, while the T3 boasts an average seek time of tems have traditionally provided the most cost- 19ms—on a par with most standard hard drives. The effective solution. The drives start in the $500 range, T3 may be pricey, but the Tahiti IIM and even some and 250MB tapes cost about $15. The biggest draw­ Tahiti I drives are still around, for much less (I’ve seen back to tapes is that they are slow and sequential in na­ refurbished Tahiti drives selling for as low as $1000). ture. Unlike disk drives, which allow you to access any Although the initial price of the drive is pretty steep, part of the drive almost instantly, tape drives must the incremental cost per megabyte of storage is under wind the tape to get from one section to another. This 25 cents, less than half of what you'd pay for 3.5-inch means that it may take almost as long to Find a single R E M 0 V ABLE MEDIA — I

The top-of-the-line Exabyte EXB-85Q0 (S2700) is of special interest to those involved in video work. This tape drive holds over 5GB on a single 8mm tape (the same size used in 8mm video), enough for about five minutes worth of video frames, uncompressed. Even with this huge capacity, it takes less than five minutes to selectively restore a file from almost anywhere on the tape. Standard tape backup is not its only function, though. flic Digital disk recorders such as the Abekas A65 use the a t Exabyte tape drive to store digital video data, and the ASDG sells a driver that allows you to store 24-bit im­ end o f ages directly to Exabyte tape in this format. This means the tape as to that you can render a sequence of frames with a 3-D restore a full partition. program like NewTek’s LightWave, store them on Because tape drives are not normal file-oriented de­ tape, take that tape to a studio that has an Abekas dig­ vices, you also need special software to use them for ital disk recorder, and lay the images off to whatever backups. (For a roundup of such software, see “The videotape format you want. For an hour of studio time Great Amiga Back(up) Off,” Feb. ‘93. p. 49). Both New (at a cost of about S I50), you can lay off from one to Horizon’s Quarterback and Moonlighter Software's two minutes of video with true digital quality. Ami-Back provide full tape support, allowing you to Although the Exabyte tape drive, which can he pur­ back-up and restore an entire hard-drive partition, or chased from Amiga vendors like Anti-Gravity Work­ selected files. Both allow you to make multiple shop, goes for about $2500 (with .ASDG software), the sequential backups on a single tape in order to take cost is much less than a frame-accurate V TR and sin­ advantage of the large storage capacities. In addition, gle-frame controller combination. For the money, you Moonlighter has recently announced its TapeWorm not only get a superb back-up and archival storage sys­ file-system software, TapeWorm-FS ($129.95), which tem for your huge animation sequences, but you also will allow you to use tape drives directly with any gain the ability to store your animations in an indus­ Amiga software, as if they were write-once hard drives. try-standard digital-video format. (Editors Note: Fo r a There are a number of different kinds of tape back­ different kind of tape back-up system, and one on the up systems, and almost all of them will work with the low end, check out Lyppens Software's Video Backup Amiga, provided they use a SCSI interface. Avoid the System, which uses your VCR instead of a specialized cheap IBM tape systems, which are likely to be incom­ drive. The system does not fit into this article for sev­ patible, and look instead for Macintosh drives. The least eral reasons, but A W does plan to review it in an up­ expensive are the streaming-tape drives, such as Cojii- coming issue.) modore ’s 3070 ($699, but now discontinued), or N ew H orizon ’$ Touchdown 100 tape system ($499.95). These W h i c h O n e S h o u l d Y o u D r i v e ? units store up to 250MB on a single tape, at speeds of You may find the sheer number of removable-media up to 5MB per minute. Using the Touchdown drive, I solutions to be confusing, but the quality and price of was able to hack up a 100MB partition in about 16 min­ these drives makes it hard for you to go wrong. In the utes, and restore the same partition in about 19 minutes. end, factors tike how much you need to store, how While it only took about a minute to restore a single file much you have to spend, and compatibility will dictate near the beginning of the tape, it took almost 16 min­ which you select. If you need less than a gigabyte of utes to restore live files scattered at various points on the storage space, you will be able to find a removable tape. I also found the tape drive to he much noisier than hard drive or streaming-tape drive for well under other removable media devices, $ 1000. If sending your work to a sen-ice bureau for out­ A newer tape back-up technolog)' uses a computer put to tape or film is a major goal, ask them what for­ grade of Digital Audio Tape (DAT) technology to get mats they accept and buy that brand (most use SyQuest much more data on much smaller tapes. While the drives). If you’re using the drive primarily for your 4mm DAT drives may cost up to twice as much as the own personal system, the cost and reliability of Iomega older streamers, they can get over 2GB of data on a Bernoulli drives can’t be beat. single tape that costs about $17. They are also much If you plan to store more than a gigabyte of data, quicker and quieter than Llie older models. A typi­ magneto-optical or DAT tape is your best bet. Al­ cal example is the Archive Python drive ($750) though magneto-optical drives are more expensive, from Moonlighter Software (the company also sells they give you the fastest access to huge quantities of the Viper streaming-tape drive for $800). Using the data. If you simply want somewhere to store those huge Python, I was able to back up a 100MB hard-drive animation sequences after you finish a video job, how­ partition in under 10 minutes, and restore it in un­ ever, 4mm DAT tape may be more cost effective. If you der 13 minutes. Most of the new DAT drives support wish to combine huge storage with digital-video com­ the SCSI-2 specification, which includes a "fast patibility, the 8mm Exabyte is the only way to go. ■ search” command for tape drives. As a result, the same five files that took 16 minutes to restore from Sheldon Leemon, a computer/video consultant and instructor, the streamer took only about a minute to restore is the author o f two books and scores o f articles covering the from the DAT. If finding a single file quickly is high Amiga. He is also Forum Manager for the Amiga area on the on your list of priorities, you will undoubtedly want National Videotex Network. Write to him c/o Amiga World, a drive (and controller) that is SCSI-2 compliant. Editorial Dept., 80 Elm St., Peterborough, N H 03458.

Recent innovations in CD-ROM technology

are making CD-ROM drives a more viable

alternative for Amiga users.

evelopments in the CD-ROM held over the past 12 pocketbook and your desire for the latest-greatest in hard­ D months are making the technology faster in its delivery, ware. Older drives are much more affordable than the newest more versatile in its uses, and more attractive in its ap­ ones. .Although the older drives are slower, they’re still reliable peal to Amiga computer users. If you followed A W s cov­ transportation l o the realm of gigabytes and gigabytes of data. erage of the state of CD-ROM in 1992 (see die March and Further on in this article, we will look at some detailed August issues), you may be surprised at how much has changed. specifics on adding a CD-ROM drive to the new .Amiga sys­ The past year brought dramatic increases in the speed of tems; for those with older machines, see “The Charge of the CD-ROM drives. The newest crop of drives take half as long CD Brigade,” Aug. ’92, p. 35, for additional information. to move to a new spot on a CD-ROM, and once there, trans­ S p e e d D e m o n s fer data at twice the speed. The new drives take advantage of new software systems, too, such as Kodak’s Photo CD system. The speed of a CD-ROM drive is measured in two ways. New features— such as the furthering of the CD-ROM-XA ex­ Access speed measures how quickly the mechanism can move tensions and the development of “multisession” (writable) from place to place. Ordinary hard disks have access times in discs— are also in the CD-ROM forefront. And, the makers of the range of 10 to 60 milliseconds. CD-ROMs are much Amiga CD-ROM driver software have been hard at work, too. slower— the fastest take 200 milliseconds (ms). CD-ROM technology is making a big splash in every com­ Transfer speed measures how fast data can move from the drive puter marketplace. The Optical Publishing Association predicts to the computer, once the drive is positioned to the right spot. an installed base of nearly six million CD-ROM drives in the At the older “normal” CD speeds, the data transfer rate was United States by the end of 1993. It also expects more than 1.2 consistently clocked at 150K per second. The newest CD-ROM million stand-alone consumer devices that include CD-ROM drives transfer data more quickly by spinning the disc at twice drives, such as Phillips’ CD-I, the Kodak Photo CD player, die the normal speed. Historically, “normal” CD speeds were Tandy M S system, and, last but not least, Commodore’s CDTV. defined by the rate of spin of audio compact discs. The new generation spins the disc faster when reading data. When A d d i n g C D -R O M asked to play audio discs, they return to normal speed. Adding a CD-ROM drive to an Amiga isn’t difficult. First, you The earliest CD-ROM drives, such as the NEC CDR-77, need a SCSI interface. SCSI is built-in to some Amigas, easy (now discontinued) had access speeds of 450 to 1500 ms. to add to most. Only the Amiga 600 suffers in this respect. Unfortunately, Commodore’s A57G CD-ROM drive for the Second, you need a software driver that interfaces the Amiga 500 fits in this category, weighing in at a hefty 500 ms. CD-ROM drive to the system. Fortunately, there are three In the next batch of drives, access times dropped to between choices that do the job at very reasonable prices. 380 (as with C hin on 's discontinued CD-431) and 320 ms (for Finally, you need to strike an agreement between your the Toshiba 3301B and NEC CDR-73). You can generally ►

By John Foust buy these First- and second-generation drives for a the DRM-604X ($1845), but the unit sports only a 350 song. Some places sell refurbished drives for as little millisecond access time. as $200. And Xetec bundles its software with an ex­ Upcoming drives will also hold multiple CDs. Much ternal Chinon 435 for $499. like the consumer audio systems that can switch be­ Beyond raw speed, however, other features come tween several discs, the DRM-604X contains a single into play. The Fine print often mentions “CD-ROM- CD-ROM reader combined with a mechanism for XA." This standard provides a type of multitasking selecting one of six discs stored in a cassette. To the within the drive itself. W hile playing audio, it contin­ Amiga user, six new icons appear on the Workbench. ues to deliver data. For example, CD-ROM-XA can be Click on a disc that isn’t active, and the drive auto­ used to play animations directly from disc while play­ m atically loads it fo r access. ing the soundtrack from disc, too. If six discs at a time isn’t enough, there’s a 100-disc “ Multisession” is the term for the new writable CD- changer from NSM Information Systems. Originally RO M systems. These can add files to recordable discs designed for automating radio stations, the CDR- that can then be read in any CD-ROM system. CD- 100SC contains two racks that hold up to 50 discs each. ROM-XA extensions are also necessary for reading Switching between discs takes as little as 12 seconds. A multisession discs such as Photo CDs. The older ISO- robotic arm moves discs from the racks to an ordinary 9660 standard didn’t consider multisession recordings. SCSI CD-ROM drive at the heart of the system. The There are two varieties of CD-ROM-XA compliance. robotic arm is directed by text commands sent via a se­

Drives labeled as “XA-readv”J can read the extensions of rial port, so it can easily interface to an Amiga. With CD-ROM-XA, but can’t deliver the full interleaved data. an end-user price of $6500, the CDR-100SC delivers .An XA-ready drive can read Photo CD discs but can’t more than 31 gigabytes of on-line storage. deliver audio and data in accordance with the standard. Because all CD-ROM drives have the same basic fea­ tures, your decision will come down to price and your needs in terms of multitask­ CD-ROM Drives at a Glance ing, recording, speed, and so on. Keep in mind, though, DRIVE LIST TRANSFERACCESSXAM Tl- ■ that while the evolution to PRICE1 K/SEC MS SUPPORT2 SE JlON? faster access and transfer rates is significant, in daily

CB M A570 S659.99 153 500 NN use you4 will not likely s see Chinon CD-435 S495 150 350 N N much difference between, Chinon CD-535 $645 300 280 R Y say, a 250 and a 280 ms drive NEC CDR-73 S725 210 320 C N — unless your application is NEC CDR-74-1 $550 210 280 C Y extremely data intensive. For Pioneer DRM-604X $1845 600 350 C Y a comparison of access and Sony CDU-561 $648 300 280 c Y transfer speeds, as well as Texel DM-3024 S499 300 265 R N other features, see the ac­ Texel DM-3028 $499 335 240 R Y companying chart, “CD- Toshiba 3301B $600 150 320 c N ROM Drives at a Glance.” Toshiba 3401B $695 300 200 C Y D ig it a l S a m p l in g 1 Prices are for external versions. Given the similarirv between 2 N = no XA compliance, R=XA ready, C=XA compliant. audio compact discs and CD-ROMs, the perpetually curious often ask if it’s Drives called “XA-compatible" or “XA-compliant” are possible to use a CD-ROM drive to read the digital more expensive, but can perform this multitasking trick. samples of sound directly from an audio CD. Until The newest drives provide CD-ROM-XA and multi­ now, the answer has been “no.” session support— and can access data in 200 to 280 The new Toshiba 3401B can transfer audio data over ms. They also offer greater data throughput by using the SCSI bus, but the answer hasn’t changed to an un­ the new SCSI-2 and SCSI-Fast speciFications. Exam­ qualified “yes.” Audio compact discs still possess the ples of the newest, fastest drives include the Chinon software equivalent of a “read-protect tab” that pre­ CD-535, Texel DM-3024 (which will be superseded, vents them from being copied in this fashion. Although by the time you read this, by the external DM-3028 the new Toshiba drive can and the internal DM-5028), Toshiba 3401B, NEC read the audio data, it CDR-74-1, and the Sony CDU-561, which is rem ar­ continues to honor keted as Apple’s “AppleSOO” CD-ROM drive. These this copy-protec- drives cost between $450 and $550 for internal ver­ tion at a very low sions; unless you buy from an Amiga dealer such as level. A market Vertical, which bundles Texel drives with interface might develop software from Canadian Prototype Replicas, you’ll for audio discs need to purchase driver software separately. that can be Tomorrow’s drives will spin at four times the old legally sampled, rate, transferring data at more than 600 K per second. such as sound- P io n e e r has already introduced a “quad-speed” drive, effects discs. Of course, support for direct sampling would need to be recording a 24-exposure roll of added to Amiga software drivers, too. film takes about 15 minutes, but many Photo CD N e w S o f t w a r e photofinishers still re­ Three vendors offer software to link a SCSI CD-ROM quire several days to drive to the AmigaDOS file system: X etec (CDX D isk process your order. Set, $50), Canadian Prototype Replicas (CDROM-FS, P h o to C D is m uch $39.99), and A s im w a re (AsimCDFS, $79). The three more than a negative- packages are very similar; each now includes support scanning service. It in­ for older High Sierra discs, ISO-9660 discs, and Mac­ cludes a new method of intosh-specific H FS (Hierarchical File System) discs. representing color im­ All three developers have been hard at work. For ex­ ages. Most personal com­ ample, Xetec’s software sports a new installation puters represent scanned im­ utility. It scans the system to choose the SCSI device ages with a system known as and optionally checks the SCSI bus for CD-ROM de­ “24-bit” color, meaning each pixel’s col­ vices. Mounting die drive is automatic under AmigaDOS or is represented as a mixture of values for red, green, 2.0 by way of a “CD X” icon in the “devs/DOSDrivers” and blue. This means three eight-bit bytes for each pri­ drawer, similar to the way CrossDOS is implemented. mary, with each value ranging from 0 to 255. On the Macintosh, files have a dual nature. Instead Photo CD introduces an alternative color system of a single block of data, files have two “forks,” known called PhotoYCC, Reminiscent of the volume knob on as the data fork and the resource fork. Most applica­ Spinal Tap’s amplifier, PhotoYCC effectively extends tions store their information in the data fork, A few the dynamic range of color information, as if RG B val­ store useful information in the resource fork. Without ues could vary from -50 to 5 12 instead of 0 to 255.1 his a way to select which “fork” you want to load, you can’t dramatically improves upon the 24-bit RG B system, access every file on some Macintosh CD-ROMs. Xetec’s which is only an approximation of true color. The software lets you easily choose the data or resource white pixel that results from byte values of 255, 255, forks by appending the sub- and super-script “ I" and 255 is not the same white in the glints o( sunlight on “2” characters to the filename you enter in any Amiga the harbor in your vacation picture. Similarly, the RG B program’s file requester to distinguish them. system won’t adequately represent the fluorescent There are new features for audio, too. Inserting a colors in your Hawaiian shirt. music compact disc into a CD-ROM drive makes a Photo CD shops can use this extra information to “CDDA” icon appear on the Workbench. A simple perform the electronic equivalent of traditional dark­ double-click starts the music playing. room tricks to correct the appearance of your color For programmers, most of Xetec's software includes prints. With the right software, you can do it on your an ARexx scripting interface. It also provides an even personal computer, too, lower-level programming interface to read CDs at the 1 lie Photo CD stores each image in five different res­ block and bit level from within your own programs. olutions, ranging from 128x192 pixels to 2048x3072 Currently, what distinguishes the three packages pixels. The highest-resolution image requires at least 19 most is not so much their functionality, but the CD- megs of RAM for the image alone, not to mention over­ ROMs they come bundled with. The least expensive head consumed by the program itself or a second copy package, CDROM-FS, comes without discs, while the of die image for viewing image-processing results. highest priced, AsimCDFS, provides a disc called Fish Photo CD has unofficial support on the Amiga be­ Market 2.0, which contains all the freely distributable cause of a renegade software effort from the Internet software on Fred Fish disks 100-880, I he CD X Disk network. In the PC and Macintosh worlds, Kodak has Set strikes a balance in price and olferings, provid­ official support. Xetec’s CD-ROM software includes a ing the contents of Fish disks 1-470 on CD-ROM. CLI-based utility called “ PCDtoIFF” that successfully converts Photo CD files to IFF-24 images. Centaur K o d a k P h o t o CD Development's OpalVision display card includes a The past year marked the long-awaited introduction Photo CD loader, and the next version of Asimware’s o f K o d a k fs Photo CD system. If your pocketbook can’t CD-ROM software will include Photo CD support, too. justify the cost of a flatbed scanner or video-capture CD-ROM f o r t h e N e w A m ig a s system, Photo CD may be an affordable alternative. Kodak has elevated its photofinishing shops to the Unlike the A3000, the newest members of the Amiga Age of Computers. These shops can scan your color family are not ready to use CD-ROM out ot the box. negatives at very high resolutions and store the re­ The Amiga 600 has a standard PCM CIA (Personal sulting data on a CD-ROM. The Kodak Photo CD disc Computer Memory Card International .Association) in­ also serves as a “ digital negative,” meaning a photofin­ terface slot. PCM CIA is used on other computer types, isher can make traditional paper prints directly from especially laptops. Although this gives A600 users the the CD. O f course, using Photo CD still requires an in­ freedom to enjoy the lower prices brought on by the vestment in traditional photography equipment, not to economies of scale in these other markets, there’s a mention skill in using a camera plus the regular cost catch. Without software support, these devices are of film processing. useless to the Amiga 600. Several companies make Converting a 24-exposure roll to a Photo CD and a PCM CIA SCSI adapters and software drivers for the contact print is about $50, including a disc. W ith multi­ PC. Although the cards function electrically in an session recording, that one disc can hold another three A600, until a company makes an Amiga driver, they do rolls of film, scanned at about $40 each. Scanning and nothing except fill the PCM CIA slot.^ The A1200 and A4000 use the ID E (not SCSI) stan­ choose this device in the CD-ROM installation soft­ dard for connecting hard disks, and there are no ID E ware, and instruct it to ignore the ID E “scsi.device.” CD-ROM drives. (Like PCMCIA, ID E devices are of­ ten used in the PC market, meaning A 1200 owners S h a r in g H a r d w a r e might enjoy a lower price for hard-disk expansion. It’s easier to justify the cost of a CD-ROM drive if you The AmigaDOS software for these machines includes know you can share it with other computers. It’s easiest the software drivers for accessing these ID E devices.) to share a CD-ROM drive with a Macintosh. Today’s It’s possible, of course, to add SCSI to the Amiga Macs use the SCSI standard for adding peripherals. 1200 and A4000. For the A1200, you can choose be­ Amiga owners may turn a jealous eye toward the tw een Great Valley Products* A1200 SCSI/RAM + , inexpensive CD-ROM kits in the window of the C SA*s Twelve Gauge, IC D *s Viper, and Ex p a n sio n computer store at the local mall. You can pick up a PC- System s' DataFlyer 1200s. Each of these boards offers conipatible system for as little as S250. These low- a different combination of expansion options in addi­ priced units do not use SCSI, however, so they cannot tion to SCSI control; see “A 1200 Expansion,” Sep. ’93, be adapted to the Amiga; they use a less expensive, p. 20, for details. nonstandard interface. On the other hand, these cheap For the Amiga 4000, Com m odore introduced the drives tend to have slow access times and consume a A4091, a Zorro III board with speedy SCSI-2 and SCSI single expansion slot for one task. Proprietary CD- Fast interfaces that can move data at 10MB per second. RO M drive interfaces can be found on many PC sound At a suggested retail price of $379, it in­ cards, such as Creative Lab’s SoundBlaster Pro. duces sticker shock for people accus­ If you have a PC, you can add SCSI to it instead of tomed to the relatively low-priced using a proprietary interface. A SCSI adapter can co­ SCSI adapters for the Amiga exist with die original MEM, RLL, or ID E hard-disk 2000. (For more on the A4091, controller. PC SCSI cards vary widely in price. It’s gen­ see "Mass Appeal,” Sep. '93, erally best to pick a 16-bit card if you have a 386 or p. 28.) 486. Also look for an “ASPI-compliant” label, marking The higher price reflects the cards that meet an emerging standard for software true 32-bit DMA interface and drivers. (Adaptec cards have a good reputation here.) the improvements brought by W ith SCSI, you can add up to seven odier devices with­ SCSI-2 and SCSI-Fast. The out consuming precious slots within your PC. After all A4091 uses an uncommon but in­ these years, the MS-DOS marketplace is acknowledg­ creasingly popular high-density ing the flexibility and speed of the SCSI interface. SCSI connector that looks like a small If you buy a SCSI CD-ROM drive from a mail-order version of the traditional Centronics D- company that usually sells to Mac or PC owners, the shape connector. (This new connector is also price might include driver software. Even if you don’t used on Apple’s portable Macintosh Powerbook.) own a Mac or PC, don’t refuse the software; you might Using an older SCSI adapter designed for the have an opportunity to use it in the future. A2000 is not an option, either. These cards might It’s even possible to share a CD-ROM drive on a function in the new machine, but they will not trans­ single SCSI bus between two computers. If your PC is fer data at the same speeds as they did in an Amiga located near your Amiga, simply add the CD-ROM 2000. The A4000 has a 32-bit data bus. Older SCSI drive to the chain. If your PC is a Bridgeboard, it’s ob­ adapters are 24-bit devices that cannot use 32-bit vious that your Amiga and PC are already quite close. DMA to transfer data into memory. Instead, die cards Make sure that the CD-ROM drive is working properly are forced to use the CPU to transfer ever}7 byte of on each computer alone before you try to combine the data from the disc. Without DMA, the transfer times SCSI bus in this way. Also, this type of network could could double, or worse. amplify any improper termination of the SCSI bus. Two notes of caution about using the the A4091 with Both computers can access the same disc at die same the Amiga 4000; First, because of a bug in the Zorro time, and with a read-only device, there’s no chance III DMA design that went unnoticed back from the that either computer will corrupt the data on die disc. time of the Amiga 3000, A4000 models bought before CD-ROM drives work well with Mac emulators, too. July, 1993, require updating to use the A409L A W re­ ported this problem in detail just last month; refer to While CD-ROM will undoubtedly continue to become “ Mass Appeal,” Sep. ’93, p. 28 for information on what faster, sport new features, and offer greater versatility, to do. The other stumbling block is easier to avoid. At the state of die art in 1993 is already well advanced. With the lowest level, Commodore’s ID E software driver is costs far from prohibitive, diis could be a good year to still called “scsi.device” even though it controls an ID E tap your Amiga into its mind- disk. If you add an A4091 to an Amiga 4000, the time boggling mega-stor­ SCSI device is known to the operating system as the age possibilities. ■ “2nd.scsi.device.” Aside from confusing humans, this also confuses the automatic installation of the CD- Jo h n Foust, presi­ ROM driver software. .After the program makes its dent of Syndesis guess at the SC SI device’s name, you need to prepend Corporation, has the "2nd.” to the device name. been involved in In the case of the A 1200 and third-party expansion the Amiga mar- boards, die new SCSI device uses the device name for ket since 1985 as the particular piece of hardware in question (e.g., a both a journalist GVP’s “gvpscsi.device”), so there is no conflict. Just and a developer. coaputi no

Unlike Duke Ellington, Amiga users can’t always take the A-Train.

Sometimes you have to transfer to the Mac and PC lines to get your hands on the wide and varied assortment o f good files shuttling around on those systems. So grab a token and

latch onto a strap for a tour of interplatform data transfer.

BECAUSE NOT cluded in the EVERYONE has the “Free/Share­ vision to purchase ware Sources” an Amiga, we vi­ box accompany­ sionaries have lo ing this article. deal with their for­ Programs are pre­ eign file formats sented in the box in when we want to the order that they commandeer a appear in the arti­ graphic, music cle. To contact de­ file, font, or velopers of com­ other piece of mercial programs attractive mentioned in the data from the article, consult the PC or the ‘‘Manufacturers’/Dis­ M acintosh. tributors’ Addresses” Being ahle to use PC and Mac files on your Amiga list on p. 90. is typically a two-step process. First, you must get the file into your Amiga; then, you have to convert it to an Amiga-compatible format. Fortunately, a large num­ ber of commercial and freeware or shareware IF YO U W AN T to share data with a PC or Macintosh, (free/shareware) programs are available for both phas­ the first obvious problem is getting the foreign data to es of the process. your Amiga. (I told you this wouldn’t be rocket sci­ By and large, using PC and Mac data files isn’t rock­ ence.) Short of setting up a local area network with PCs, et science. It just requires a little patience, the right Macs, and Amigas, there are two easy solutions. Amiga setup, and knowledge of what programs and The first is the so-called “ sneakernet” ; that is, swap­ utilities are available to address your conversion dilem­ ping disks between computers. The roadblock is that ma of the moment. all three computers have different, incompatible disk YVhat follows is a description of some of the more formats in their native modes. Fortunately, there are useful solutions to PC/Mac/Amiga data sharing, both Amiga programs, utilities, and hardware that will let commercial programs and free/shareware programs. your Amiga read and write PC and Mac disk formats. The free/shareware programs are widely available on The second solution is a subscription to a commer­ many public bulletin-board systems, as well as com­ cial on-line service, such as BIX , CompuServe (CIS), mercial on-line data services. Filenames on some of the CEnie, or Portal, from which you can download major networks for each of these programs are in­ PC/Mac files directly to your Amiga. The obstacle here ►

5 T 5 0 5 LlflDSTDOA is that compression schemes uncommon to the Amiga and Utilities Unlimited’s Em p lan t (from .$279.95), are often used to pack Mac and PC files. However, en­ which functions as a third-party Macintosh Bridge- terprising programmers have provided us with Amiga- board. Generally, die best solution is to add a Mac- based programs that access and decompress those files. compatible drive to your Amiga using one of the avail­ able commercial options. To date, 1 am not aware of U s in g t h e S n e a k e r n e t free/shareware programs that help to address Mac/Amiga disk compatibility. PC COMMERCIAL PROGRAMS Although a Mac drive will get the files to your Ami­ CBM has made it easy to “lire up” a PC-compatible ga, you may still need additional conversion software sneakernet. All AmigaDOS versions since 2.1 have in­ since Mac files contain extensive header information cluded Consultron’s excellent CrossDOS. This Amiga­ that is incomprehensible to the Amiga. Depending on DOS commodity allows you to redefine your dfO: and • j j the type of file you’re accessing, you’ll want to use one dfl: Amiga disk drives as pcO: and pci: PC-compati­ of the converter utilities listed later in this article. ble drives. In short, you can write and read 360K-, A convenient solution for transferring Mac files to 720K-, and (if you have a high-density floppy drive) the Amiga is New I lorizons / Central Coast Software’s 1.44MB-format PC floppy disks with your Amiga. Just M ac-2-DO S ($99.95). The program comes with a small insert a PC disk and you have instant sneakernet. adapter that attaches to the Amiga’s external drive If you don't have or can't run the latest DOS, Consul- port and accommodates a Mac-compatible drive. The tron sells a separate version that works with earlier in­ accompanying program not only accesses the drive, carnations of AmigaDOS. Although CrossDOS is not a but also converts a variety of Mac file formats to PC emulator or file converter (it just allows you to read Amiga-compatible formats. Generally, Mac-2-DOS is and write PC disk files), Consultron bundles the program the best and most cost-effective Mac/Amiga sneakernet. with CrossPC, a PC/XT software emulator, for $59.95. To get much more than simple access to Mac disks, Another PC sneakernet option is New Horizons / A-Max, A-Max II Plus, and Emplant hardware/soft­ Central Coast Software's DOS-2-DOS utility ($55), which ware combinations are full-fledged emulators that per­ moves PC disk-based programs to and from the Ami­ mit you to run Mac software on your Amiga. A-Max ga. While not quite as elegant as CrossDOS, it works. provides a disk-drive port to connect a standard Apple Commodore’s expensive Bndgebaards are probably drive. A-Max II Plus allows your Amiga’s internal drives overkill for the simple task of reading PC disks, but to function like Mac drives. The original A-Max (now these hardware-based PC emulators do give you easy discontinued) also can write a limited disk format that access to PC disk formats, including the addition of a is compatible with Amiga and Mac. Unfortunately, this 5.25-inch floppy drive. A number of other developers, Mini Transfer disk format holds only 272K of infor­ including Vortex, Elite Microcomputers (EM C), mation, a real pain with large files. Emplant enables Supra, and CA’P, also offer hardware-based P C emula­ you to create Mac-formatted partitions in unused tors. For a detailed comparison of all such boards, see Amiga hard-drive partitions (although only up to “The PC Connection,” Jul. ’93, p. 35.) 31MB each), as well as to connect Mac hard drives to A final tip: To insure maximum compatibility, stick the hoard (formatted to their maximum capacities). with 720K PC-format disks for transferring data to an Amiga. While some newer Amiga systems are equipped with the high-density drives that read the 1.44MB G e t t in g D a t a O n -L i n e disks, the vast majority of Amigas are not. Disk incompatibility is swept away when you are down­ loading data from an electronic information service. PC: FREE/SHAREWARE Your Amiga will download whatever you request with­ On the noncommercial front, check out these PC out regard for the computer it came from. sncakernel solutions: The problem with on-line files is data-com press it m technology. To maximize storage space and minimize PC Task 2.0: This shareware is a software-based PC download times, most on-line files are compressed us­ emulator that also reads/writes PC. disks. This demo ing a variety of largely free/shareware programs. On version includes registration details. the Amiga, the common compression programs are P C Patch: With functionally similar to CrossDOS, this A rc, L Z H , L H A rc , and Zoo. You’ll need all of these to utility is a DOS enhancement that adds PC-disk format become an expert Amiga down loader/decomp lessor. capabilities to AmigaDOS versions 1.x. Most decompression programs are easy to use from the CLI. As a convenience, however, I prefer to use M S-D O S to Am iga: An older Fred Fish disk utility that them with commercial file-management programs moves PC disk files to the Amiga. such as Progressive Peripherals’ Disk Master If ($69.95) Twin Express 1.1: Shareware that enables transmission or INOVAtronics’ Directory Opus ($59.95). Both pro­ of files between a PC] and Amiga using a null modem grams allow you to link data-compression programs to cable connected directly to each computer’s serial port. on-screen buttons. Click the file and then the appro­ priate button, and the utility automatically decom­ MAC COMMERCIAL presses the program. It eliminates the tedium of typ­ Sneakernet choices for the Mac are more limited be­ ing commands in the C L I and is a real time-saver when cause it uses a multispeed floppy drive that is incom­ you’ve just completed a marathon download session. patible with the Amiga’s floppy-drive controller. There are two hardware solutions to the problem: PC] F R E E / S H A R E W A R E ReadySoft’s/f-AT/.v I I P lu s ($499.95), which includes a The good news is that one shareware compression pro­ controller to let Amiga drives read/write Mac format; gram reigns on the PC— PKZip— and, happily, there is a version of it available for the Amiga: P K A Z ip . T h e o ri­ graphics processing and conversion are Art Department gins of a ZIP-ed file are transparent to the user. The Professional 2 {$299, ASDG), h n ag eFX ($249.95, GVP), Amiga version of the program effortlessly decom­ and hnagemaster 9.5 ($199.95, Black Belt Systems). All presses files created with the PC version. (Editors Note: of these programs load several file formats and convert A newer version of PKZip for the PC (2.04) became them to common Amiga IFF and other formats. When available this year. Earlier versions of PKAZip for the the number of colors in the source file exceeds the Am i­ Amiga cannot “unzip” files created with version 2.04, ga’s limits, the programs convert to a dithered image The solution? Get infozip. a beta release found in sev­ with fewer colors, or to a 4096-color or higher H AM or eral areas of the public domain— see the “Sources” box. AGA image. (For a complete rundown on these prod­ In the infozip archive are two programs, Unzip 5.1d3 ucts see “The Great Manipulators," May ’93, p. 30.) and Zip 1.9L, to help you decompress later PKZip files.) On the PC, the most common graphics tile formats Although the PC community mainly has moved away are G IF, BM P. and PCX, with an occasional encounter from Arc files, they, too, can usually be decompressed with T IFF or Targa

PC/MAC FREE/SHAREWARE 2. convmmci hles Several quality conversion utilities are available to process graphics from still image to PC and Mac ani­ W ITH A DATA Hie now residing on your Amiga, the mation/movie files: next step is to read it or convert it to an Amiga-read­ G L Player: Plays PC-compatible G L animation/movie able format. Typically, when loading PC files, no con­ files on the Amiga. version is necessary. You need only use a program that Abridge: Converts several animation file formats to can recognize the file format. Mac files, with their cus­ ANIM 5 format. tom file headers, are somewhat more complicated and often require a level of file conversion before you can F lit: Turns PC-compatible ELI animation/movie files read them. Fortunately, many Amiga programs, par­ into ANIM-format files. ticularly graphics-manipulation programs, deal with G IF to SHAM : Converts G IF graphics to SHAM format. Mac-to-Amiga file-format differences transparently. H A M Lab: Transforms several formats to IFF. In the case of cither platform, however, getting from here to there sometimes involves finding just the right T IFF to IFF: Converts T IF F images to IFF files. conversion utility, often written by a programmer who Wasp: This comprehensive processing utility converts was facing the same problem you are facing. As a result, between several formats, including G IF and HAM. you will find many free/shareware utilities listed here. 3-D G r a p h ic s C o n v e r s io n T e x t C o n v e r s io n PC/MAC COMMERCIAL Syndesis holds down the fort in this conversion cate­ PC FREE/SHAREWARE gory. Interchange Plus ($99.95), when enhanced with The no-brainer way to ensure text compatibility is to one of Syndesis’s converter add-ons, provides Amiga save all files in A SC II or text-only format from within compatibility with such 3-D file formats as AutoCAD a PC or Mac word processor. Even that process will DXF, 3D Studio, Wavefront, Topas, and Digital Arts. sometimes leave spurious control characters within a file. To take care of that on the PC front, here are a PC/M AC FR F E/S 11 AR E WA R E few PC-to-Amiga utilities to clean up the results: Im age P C to Am iga: Converts PC-based Imagine files to Amiga Imagine files. Amiga Filter 2.0: Converts between AmigaDOS text and MS-DOS text formats. F ix Text: Automatically strips spurious control charac­ M I D I a n d S o u n d C o n v e r s io n ters from ASC II text files. PC/MAC COMMERCIAL Thanks to the International M ID I Association, M IDI B it m a p p e d -Gr a p h ic s C o n v e r s io n music files have two file-format standards that are ac­ cepted throughout the industry: MIDIO and MIDI1. PC/MAC COMMERCIAL They are supported by most Amiga M ID I sequencing Since bitmapped-graphics conversion is probably die programs and can be imported directly into them, a most common form of cross-computer data sharing, it virtually transparent process for the user. The Mac in­ is no surprise that there are more and better tools for formation header, again, can confuse some programs. this process than for any other. The leaders in Amiga You should check with vendors to verify the level of ► Mac M ID I File compatibility. (Dr. T ’s KCS, for exam ­ tempting Amiga owners to expand their desktop-pub­ ple, easily imported a Mac M ID I file, while The Blue lishing versatility and sacrifice mass-storage capacity. Ribbon Soundworks’ BarsdfPipes Professional 2.0 locked Several commercial programs give Amiga owners up on ilie same file.) the ability to load, convert and/or modify PostScript Digital sound samples are more complicated. At pres­ (PS) fonts for use with Amiga D TP programs, M IF o n t ent, there is no standard digital sample format on any ($105, M irror Image Productions) turns PS fonts into platform. The common formats are the Mac’s A IFF (a Professional Page-compatible fonts. Similarly, Saxon- variant of the Amiga’s IFF sound format) and WAV Script Professional ($130, Saxon Industries) and Type- files on the PC. However, perhaps due to the relative­ Sm ith ($199.95, Soft-Logik) convert PS fonts into Am i­ ly recent appearance of the W AV format on the PC, the ga-compatible versions. (For a complete description of Amiga still lacks digital sample support for that PC these and other font-processing programs, see “The sound format. AW Amiga Fonts Buyer’s Guide— Part 1: DTP Fonts,” Currently, only Synthia Professional from The Other May ’93, p. 43.) Guys supports cross-computer conversion, mainly from Interestingly, although the TrueType format is gain­ the Mac, with support for A IFF, Sound Designer, 8SVX ing ground on both the Mac and PC, Amiga support is IFF, and a few others. Contact The Other Guys for the still lacking for this significant outline-font technolog)-. latest list of format compatibility. MAC FREE/SHAREWARE MAC FREE/SHAREWARE M a c Font: Turns Macintosh-format Adobe PS fonts into MASC: Converts between Mac .AIFF and Amiga IFF, in­ PageStream 2.0-compatible fonts. cluding dealing with the Mac’s file header. Font Convert: Also converts Mac PS to Amiga. P la y M a c k : Plays Macintosh sounds on the Amiga. Armed with file-import/conversion resources like Sound Convert: Converts between M ac A IF F and .Amiga IF F . these— and with many of them available gratis or near­ ly free— you’ll be switching back and forth between computer platforms the way New York commuters o n t o n v e r s io n F C change subway trains! ■ PC/MAC COMMERCIAL You can never have too many fonts—just too little Bob Lindstrom is an award-winning computer journalist hard-disk space to keep them. A wide variety of free­ who writes a nationally syndicated computer column for ware and shareware fonts are available for PC and Mac, Reuter’s News Sendee.

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Amiga (or a CDTV) to your system to share

programs and files on either machine.

Do you own a floppy-based Amiga 1200? Wouldn't it be nice if you could use it with the \hj hard drive on one of your other computers, perhaps your much added-on A3000 or i.jj A500, and achieve a kind of instant 3.0/AGA upgrade with your existing system? But, what do you do if your hard drive isn’t compatible with the new system? You could pur- ; = chase an ID E drive for your A1200, but a more economical solution would be to share Wk-J the drives of both systems via ParNET. For those who are not familiar with ParNET, a short description is in \i = order. ParN ET is a group of programs that operate with a custom soft- ware device placed in die Workbench’s Devs director}7. It establishes i a two-way connection between a pair of Amigas, or between an Amiga and a CDTV unit. The language of networks can be con- ' P |p |K lI fusing and even more so when talking about ParNET. Unlike most \ w j m \ networks where one computer is the master (server or host) ancl the other comput- \ AM ers are subsidiaries (clients), ParN ET operates as a peer-to-peer scheme in which both computers are treated as equals by the network software, lo avoid confusion, I will 9 refer to a host (an A3000) and a client (the A 1200) in this article, even though the re- MMI lationship is arbitrary in ParNET.

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difficulties. The parallel port is controlled by a chip program. Look on that disk for the program, which is called the Complex Interface Adapter (CIA), which is about 61,000 bytes long, and copy that to the C direc­ very sensitive to static electricity and can be easily dam­ tory on your ParBench disk. aged. If you wire the cable wrong, you might blow this chip and your computer will be useless until you re­ G e t t in g S t a r t e d place it. After you have wired the cable, double-check Now you can proceed with installing the software. each pin’s connection with a continuity tester. My cost While the docs included are very thorough, they can’t for the cable and connectors at a local electronic sup­ cover all situations. T he main consideration for flop­ ply house was about $11, and it took me about an hour py-based users is to make enough room for the net flntga workbench graphics nen 8 other nen n software. You should start with a fresh copy of the Workbench disk for your version of DOS, and delete the extraneous files. If you’re using 1.2 through 2.0, see "The Power O f One,” September ’92, p. 37, for tips on optimizing your copy of Workbench. If you are us­ utilities Systen Devs ing 3.0, you have a floppy-only addendum from CBM that covers this topic. In general, you want to make a disk that will allow your client system to boot to the Workbench. If you have any doubts as to whether or not it’s safe to delete a file, reread the startup-sequence on your Workbench disk, and be sure to leave any files called during startup. The software has to be installed on each computer, and the installation script will copy all of the files, in­ cluding scripts for starting both host and client. To \$arNEli '/ParNEI |!v^ParNEI keep things simple, after installing the software, open f —---. - ) a ■ - - ____ the ParN ET drawer, and on the host computer delete WordPerfect SYS syst»3.0 the script called “Boot.Ghent” and on the client com­ puter delete the “Boot.Host” file. It is arbitrary which computer is hooted as host or client, but you can’t boot both as the host or both as the client. When you have the net software installed and run­ ning, each computer will show a new disk icon on its Figure 1. With ParNET installed, you can access another computer's Workbench labeled Network. If you double-click on drives or partitions on the Workbench. this icon, you will open a window that shows a group of drawer icons representing all of the available disk to wire and check. If you are unsure of your abilities, drives or partitions on the other computer. If you save yourself a lot of worry and possibly dam­ double-click on one of these, you will see all of the aged hardware and call a cable supplier drawer or program icons, just as if you were working such as Redmond Cable at 615/478-5760. on the other computer (see Figure 1). For about S24 you will receive an eight- ParNET is not without its quirks. For example, no foot ParN ET cable already wired and test­ disk or partition is visible to the other machine until you ed; for a longer cable, it’s an additional access it. This can be accomplished by using the C L I’s S.75 per foot. You should keep the cable CD (Current Director) ) command to move to the drive length 30 feet or less; if it is much longer or by using the ASSIG N command to name it. Also, for than this problems can occur with capac­ a drive to be visible to the Workbench, it has to have a itance and signal loss. special .info file called node.rinfo, which is included Now a few words on the software in­ with ParBench. Place a copy of this file on every hard­ stallation. Vernon Graner, a Regional disk partition you want to access over the network. An­ Product Specialist for Com­ other quirk affects C LI usage; the AmigaDos command modore, wrote ParBench a se­ Dir won’t recognize the network drives. The solution is ries of scripts to handle the to use the supplied public-domain command IX. movement of files, mountlists, and devices. W o r k (b e n c h ) A s s ig n m e n t s

ParBench (on GEnie as If you* have followed the ParBench documentation, 7 you/ “ PAR BEN C H 3 1 .LIT A ,” should now have a working, two-Amiga network. L’n- #18670), allows you to in­ fortunately, it may not be as functional as you would stall everything needed for hope. The problem comes from the way ParN ET op­ ParNET with the click of a erates, acting as a file-transfer device. When you double­ mouse button. click on a program icon over the network, the program If you received the ParBench is copied over the network into the memory of the ac­ package through a BBS, it proba­ cessing computer, just as if it had been loaded from bly does not include the Com­ that computer’s disk drive. For many programs, this is modore Installer program. If you all that is required; some programs, however, need have a recent piece of software that special fonts or libraries. When such a program starts could be installed on a hard disk, to run on the client machine, it looks in the Fonts you may already own the Installer or Libs drawers on that computer and when it can’t IN' E T W 0 R K I \ (i W I T II P A R IN E T find those files it aborts. The solution is the ASSIGN the new one empty. com m and. Unfortunately for our Using ASSIGN commands entails editing of the project, Commodore does startup-sequence. Commodore discourages changing not supply a disk to install the standard startup-sequence and has made provi­ the System 3.0 files onto a sions for a user-startup file in the S: drawer on Work­ hard disk if you buy a bench 2.0 and later. On the copy of Workbench that floppy-based A 1200. you have installed the ParN ET software on, use ED or You can buy the hard another editor to create a file called User-Startup in pack- the S: drawer, and type: includes the installation Execute DFO:ParNET/Boot.Client disk, or you can Save this file. ask your local This will begin the net booting process as soon as the dealer if you can system software is set up and ready. Next, edit the file copy their System Boot.client inside the ParN ET drawer; near the end of 3.0 installation the file, just before the line that reads disk. If you can't get a copy of this echo "Done." disk, don’t de­ add this line spair; you can still copy the files manu­ Execute DF0:S/Assigns ally from the System and save the file. 3.0 disks. Now create a new file in the S: drawer called Assigns. The installation By editing this file, you can fine-tune the way your net­ script checks for the work operates. For guidance, check out the user-start- presence of Kickstart up file on your host computer, assuming that all of the 3.0 and aborts if it is not found. Since we do not have software is properly installed on the computer that you the Kickstart 3.0 ROM in the A3000, we will make use regularly. For example, if you have CanDo (INO- a small change in the script. On the Install3.0 disk VAtronics) installed on a partition called Prog;, in a di­ you will find a directory called Install, and in this di­ rectory called CD, the CanDo installation added these rectory, a script named Install that is a little over lines to the bottom of your user-startup script: 138.000 bytes long. Load this file into your editor, and use the search function to Assign CanDo: Prog: find the string “V39.” About 78 per­ Assign CanDoExtras: Prog:CD cent of the way through the script you will see the following lines: Assign CanDoExamples: Prog:CD ; make sure we are running under V39 In order for the program to work properly over Par­ N ET, you will need to alter these statements in the fol­ (if l< (/ (getversion) 65536) 39) lowing way:

Assign CanDo: NettProg (abort #bad-kick) Assign CanDoExtras: Net:Prog/CD )) Assign CanDoExamples: Net:Prog/CD Change the end of the second line so that it reads: These lines need to be placed in the S:Assigns file (if (< (/ (getversion) 65536) 37) on your ParN ET boot disk. Note the change in the ob­ ject of the .ASSIGN statement. Instead of CanDo being Now save the file back to the Install3.0 disk, and assigned to the Prog: logical device, it is assigned to the you’re in business. W hat we did is to tell the script that Prog directory on the Net: logical device. Go through any Kickstart version greater than 37 (2.04) is accept­ the user-startup file in the S: directory on your host able instead of version 39 (3.0). Run the script, answer computer and place copies of the altered ASSIGN the questions, and shortly you’ll have System 3.0 in­ statements into the S:Assigns file on your client com­ stalled on your hard disk. puter. This should ensure that programs you try to Once you have the System 3.0 files installed, you’re run over the net will find the special fonts, libraries, almost done. Go back to your .Assigns script in the S: and so forth that they require. directory/ of your / client boot disk and add some more ASSIGN commands. These will duplicate the assign­ S h a r e a n d S h a r e A l i k e ments made during the original hoot process so that Now we come to the real objective of all this prepa­ the client will know to look across the net for such ration: to arrange things so that the client will use the things as Devs:, Libs:, and so on. See Listing 1 for my host hard drive for all of its system files. The first Assigns script for an example to follow. thing to do is to back up your hard disk, because you You will also need to take a close look inside the L:, will have to make a new partition for the System 3.0 I.ihs:, and Devs: directories on your original System files. These will require a little over 2.6MB, so make partition. Any specialized files you find that are re­ your partition at least 3MB, format it, and restore quired by the software you intend to run on the client your backed-up files to the other partitions, leaving machine will need to be duplicated in the appropriate \ E T W 0 R k I .\ G W I T II P A R \ E T

directories on the Sys­ which adds two serial and two parallel ports, and in­ tem 3.0 partition. The cludes the ParNET driver. luplication of a few files is a small price to pay for the S p e e d R e a d i n g added convenience o f the net- Performance is the criterion used by which you judge the results of any kind of software. So, just how fast is this network? NetStat, a piece of software included P r i n t i n g P r o v i s i o n s with the ParN ET package, measures and displays the By now, you’ve probably noticed it has be­ reads and writes over the network in hits per second come less-than-convenient to print something. In­ (bps). Peak speeds I have seen are over 49,000 bps. For stead of being connected to your printer, the paral­ comparison, most modems operate at speeds of 2400 lel port is occupied by the ParN ET cable. There are or 9600 bps. Loading software over the network is several solutions to this problem, depending on your about as fast as a slow hard disk, which is still many hardware and budget. By far the least expensive so­ times faster than any floppy. A 50,000 word document lution is to add a switch box and another cable for a (slightly more than 277,000 bytes) requires approxi­ cost of about $30. Get a cable with a DB-25 connector mately 55 seconds to load from floppy, 19.5 seconds on each end with the proper gender to connect to the over the network, and 7.5 seconds directly from my parallel port oil the host system, and the common or hard drive. input connector on the switch box. Connect the print­ A performance boost you can add to your network

er cable you had been using to one of the switch-box system/ comes in the form of NetKeys,J 1 another inter- outputs and your ParN ET cable to the client’s parallel esting collection of software from Vernon Garner. port and the other switch-box port. W ith a flick of the When activated with a hot-key, this freeware package switch you can connect the host machine to the print­ allows you to use the mouse and keyboard attached to er or connect the two computers through the ParN ET one computer to control the other computer. For ex­ cable. To protect your systems, make certain that the ample, as you move the host’s mouse, the pointer switch in your box is die break-before-make type, or moves on the client’s screen, while the pointer on the that you switch only when power is off on both ma­ host’s screen is motionless. This is extremely handy for chines. Amiga/GDTV connections because you won’t need to If you need to print a file from the client computer, buy the extra keyboard and mouse for the CD TV unit. you will have to copy that file to a physical disk drive There is, however, a noticeable speed penalty incurred (not the RAM disk), and then print it from the host during this type of operation. computer after rebooting. The reason is that ParN ET Certainly, ParN ET will incur some minor effects on takes over the parallel port completely, so that it is no your system’s performance, but the bottom line is that longer available for the printerdevice to use. O f course, it can provide multi-Amiga owners with an upgrade al­ if your printer has both parallel and serial interfaces, ternative. if you want to combine the efficiency of one you could connect die serial port of the client computer computer with die practicality of another, ParNET to the serial input of the printer, and you would he in may be just what you’re looking for. With the ParBench business. If your printer does not have a serial inter­ package, a minimal investment of money, and this ar­ face, you might consider adding serial and parallel ticle, you’ll be networking in no time! ■ ports to your computer. You can add two serial and one parallel port to the A2000, A3000, or A4000 with Rob Hays is a long-time midli-Amiga owner who recently set G VP’s I/O Extender ($299). Another option is the Mul- up a P arN ET network that enables him to use AGA graph­ tiFace Card (Pre’spect Technics) for the A500 or A1000 ics modes on his A 3000. Write to him do Amiga World ($235) and for the A2000, A3000, or A4000 ($195), Editorial, 80 Elm St., Peterborough, N H 03458.

Listing 1.

ASSIGN C: NET:SYSTEM3.0/C ASSIGN DTP: NET:DTP

ASSIGN SYS: NET:SYSTEIVI3.0 ASSIGN FUN: NET:FUN

ASSIGN DEVS: NET:SYSTEM3.0/DEVS ASSIGN PROG: NET:PROG

ASSIGN LIBS: NET:SYSTEM3.0/LIBS ASSIGN TELE: NET:TELE

ASSIGN REXX: NET;SYSTEM3.0/S ASSIGN WORK: NET:WORK

ASSIGN PRINTERS: NET:SYSTEM3.0/DEVS/PRINTERS ASSIGN WORDPERFECT: NET:WORDPERFECT

ASSIGN KEYIVIAPS: NET:SYSTEM3.0/DEVS/KEYMAPS ASSIGN WP: NET:WORDPERFECT/WP

ASSIGN LOCALE: NET:SYSTEM3.0/LOCALE ASSIGN PRINT: NET:WORDPERFECT/PRINT

ASSIGN HELP: LOCALE:HELP DEFER ASSIGN CANDO: NET:PRQG

ASSIGN LIBS: NET:SYSTEM3.0/CLASSES ADD ASSIGN CANDOEXTRAS: NET:PROG/CD

ASSIGN FONTS: NET:SYSTEM2.0/FONTS ASSIGN CANDOEXAMPLES: NET:PROG/CD

ASSIGN S: NET:SYSTEM3.0/S ASSIGN CGFONTS: NET:DTP/PPAGE4.0/CGFONTS A little well-planned preparation for your shoot will not only make for a better

quality video, but it will also save you lots o f aggravation. Study the tips in this

checklist— before you head down the road.

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A K IN G VID EO S CAN be fun, but with a little preparation, you can create productions that are truly satisfying M and professional looking. Let me outline a few points you should keep in mind when planning your next video.

G e t I t D o w n o n P a p e r Writing is a very personal process, so I’m not going to tell you how you should write your script. Remember, however, that no matter what kind of production you have in mind, there are some basic questions you should ask yourself before you even sit down to write a script. Who is your audience? W hat is your budget? How much time can you de­ vote to this project? What are you trying to achieve? Answering these questions realistically up front can save you a lot of hassles later on. Regardless of its content, the normal format for a video script uses the “ two-column” approach: One column is for the audio, and the other is for the video (all pictures and effects/transitions). Some people prefer to include music and sound effects in the audio column, while others like to keep them separate from the spoken words. When pos­ sible. I prefer to keep my music cues somewhere in the middle. 'fhe reason for a two-column script is simple— it's easy to follow. By breaking things down into two columns, your in-points and out-points and your audio and music cues are much easier to find. Imagine trying to find time code on a single-spaced typed page. Then imagine doing this over and over again in the course of an edit session. Talk about headaches! There aren’t many word-processing programs available that provide for two-column scripting. ProWrite (New

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Horizons Software) does support two columns, but the gin to shoot. A storyboard can help you decide what columns wrap from the left side of the page to the transitions to use from one image to another (a dis­ right so that your audio may wind up in your video. I solve, a wipe, some funky tumbling effect) and what or­ find this too difficult to work with. Instead, I prim die der to put them in. script out in the right-hand column and write die video The sequence on the opening page of this article is directions in by hand on the left. I find that I make so an example of a very basic storyboard from a commer­ many changes along the way that this is the simplest cial I did for a local Jeep dealer. It's a simple com­ method to use. mercial, and so is the storyboard (just look at that art­ work!), but it saved me time in the field. Simply by S c o u t I t O u t laying out what shots I wanted and where to shoot Once your script is complete, it’s time to think about them, I was able to figure out just what I needed: two where you’re going to do your shooting. jeeps, each with a driver, one male and one female. Where will you be shooting your production? In your Simple enough. But I also needed a vehicle that I could basement? On the beach? Your buddy’s car? Scout out shoot from while the two jeeps were being driven, and the location where you’ll be doing your shooting. Walk an area where I could drive safely without endanger­ around and pretend you are the camera. Or if you ing the crew and vehicles. can, bring the camera. Look through the viewfinder I was also able to see exactly what graphics I need­ and check out your surroundings. What do you see? ed, where they should go, and how they should look. What’s in the background? W ill the background be I already had some music in mind, but seeing how distracting? Would a better shot result if you faced the quickly the shots followed each other helped to narrow otlier direction? What about angles— low-angle shots, down my choices. high-angle shots? What’s the light like? Is there Story boarding is one area where the Amiga really enough room? Can you lit the camera and your body can be handy. Thanks to the ability of most word i J into that corner and still get a decent shot? Scouting processors to import graphics, you can place your im­ out a location may seem like a waste of time, but it can ageso and text side bv / side for easy / reference. Deluxe- save a lot of “cover-up” later on. Paint IV (Electronic Arts)—or most any other paint program— allows you to create simple graphic repre­ S t o r y b o a r d Y o u r S h o t s sentations of your shots. Revising them later on is a Now that you’ve found a satisfactory location to shoot. breeze. / J it’s time to put the pictures down on paper by creat­ ing a storyboard. O v e r l a p t h e A c t io n A storyboard/ can be a lifesaver. It can be a tedious Okay, you've done your homework, everything’s process (especially if you're purely a stick-figure artist planned, and you’re itching to start shooting. Hold like me), but it is essential. A storyboard is a series of on! Let’s look at a few techniques that you should un­ pictures that show what you will be shooting when you derstand before you go out take your pictures. actually begin production. You plan out what the shots Most video production is done with more than one are going to look like: camera angles, talent (actors) camera. If you can’t afford additional cameras, don’t position, backgrounds, and so forth. A storyboard al­ worry: You can fake it. Think of a simple scene in lows you to visualize what the final project will look like. which a salesman is trying to make a sale. He knocks The idea is to eliminate the number of surprises that on the door, the customer answers the door, they talk, can pop up (and they will, believe me!) when you be- and he leaves. If everything was shot with one camera from the same position, this would be a very boring ex­ change. But by moving the camera to different posi­ tions and then editing at the right points, you can help D.ick the action flow. Overlapping the action is a technique that can real­ ly change the look of your wor k. It requires that you shoot the scene with the technique in mind. In our salesman example, if you shoot the scene from more than one angle, you'll get both sides of the conversa­ tion. It will allow you to show facial expressions and give the scene a much better flow. First we’ll look at how to set np the shots, and then we’ll see how to edit the sequence. Fill Key The storyboard for this example would show six dif­ ferent shots: (shot # l) the salesman approaches the ♦ door; (shot #2) the customer answers the door; (shot #3) the salesman makes his pitch; (shot #4) the cus­ tomer responds; (shot #5) the customer starts closing the door; and (shot #6) the door is slammed in the F : - - salesman’s face. Cam era In order for these shots to work, we have to make sure the action overlaps. To achieve this, simply shoot the entire scene from each of the different angles. In Figure 1. A basic three-pofnt lighting setup. this simple example, there are only two different cam­ era angles in the scene (over the salesman's shoulder P R E P P I IN G FOR VIDE 0

and over the customer’s shoulder). Shoot the scene all Most light coming directly from a light source will the way through twice— once from each different an­ be harsh, which creates strong shadows. This is not gle. You could shoot each shot individually, moving necessarily bad, but if you want to create a softer look back and forth between camera angles, but going with your lighting, diffusing the light makes every­ through the entire scene allows the talent to act more thing look softer. It appears as if the light is coming naturally because the action is not interrupted. from all around rather than from one specific point. In order for the sequence to work, it’s very impor­ Instead of giving you strong, well-focused light with tant to make sure that the actions from each angle strong shadows, diffused light provides even illumina­ match. You don't want the salesman holding his brief­ tion with very little shadow. case in his hand from one angle, and then having him There are many ways to diffuse your light. One of clutching it at his side in the next. Whatever the the more common is to use a frosted gel. A gel (or any talent does from one angle, they must also do it from other type of diffusing material— ask your video deal­ the other. er for advice) is usually placed in front of the light in Now that you’ve shot the scene with this in mind, a frame or a clip, or held in place with good-old editing it should be simple. To get from shot #1 to clothespins. shot #2, you would cut when the customer is opening Reflection is another simple way to diffuse your light. the door. To get from shot #2 to shot #3, you could Many professional lighting kits come with relfective either cut as the salesman starts speaking or cut to the umbrellas that soften the light considerably. You can shot a little earlier and get the salesman’s reaction to get by without an umbrella by bouncing your light, the person who has opened the door. Editing is real­ say, off the ceiling or a wall. This works well if you ly a matter of feel, and as you do more of it, you will have only one light mounted on top of your camera. get a sense of what works and what doesn’t. It will provide you with nice, soft, general illumination. Before we leave the subject of shooting and camera Keep in mind, however, that when you diffuse a light work, here are some other tips to keep in mind when source you cut down the amount of light that it you do actually get out on the shoot: gives off. Make sure that you hold your shots steady for at Don’t think of lighting as a headache that you have least 10 seconds. Sometimes you just need that extra to deal with every time you shoot. Consider it as an­ amount of time. If the shot is too short, you may have other tool that you can use to create a distinctive look. to toss it. If you’re panning or zooming, hold the shot static B e R e a d y t o I m p r o v is e for 10 seconds before zooming or panning and for 10 Okay, the big day has arrived. You have your script, seconds after. This gives you room at the head and tail your storyboard, and your equipment and crew. Your of the shot (in case you need to fill time). first two shots go exactly as you planned. Scouting out Make sure that you get a wide shot (or establishing the location and following the storyboard are really shot) of the area that you’re shooting. You may be able paying off. You’re way ahead of schedule, and you may to use this shot in place of another if something un­ even have time for lunch! Then reality rears its head. expected comes up. It’s good to get a shot to cover Something you didn’t plan for happens and you can’t things— you never know when you’re going to need it. follow your script and storyboard exactly. Relax. Be flexible. Have fun with it. This is just a part L ig h t I t R ig h t of the process. If a certain idea you had doesn’t work Now you know what you want to shoot, where you’re out— and it does happen— then try something else. If going to shoot it, and what you want it to look like. you are willing and ready to do a little revising on the Let’s talk a little about lighting. Essentially, lighting is fly, chances are you can work around your little glitch everything in video because what we see is actually and get back to your original plan within a couple of light being reflected off objects (people, buildings, and shots. Your initial preparation will have provided you so on). The way a scene is lit can make or break a with a good idea of what you need. video. 1’he need to make changes also may arise under The tried-and-true method of lighting is called more fortuitous circumstances. Tilings may be moving three-point lighting because is uses three different along incredibly well and while you’re shooting, you liglu sources: key light, Fill light, and back light. Fig­ notice a camera angle that you hadn’t thought of be­ ure 1 shows a basic three-point lighting setup. fore. Go for it! W ho says you can’t have more than one Flie key light is the main light source. 11 will illumi­ take of a particular scene. 1 recommend trying two or nate the subject and the subject’s immediate sur­ three different takes of certain scenes. Sometimes roundings. The fill light is used to “fill-in,” that is, to things may work out better than you envisioned. You light the areas that the key light has missed. It is gen­ don’t want to be back editing the piece and then say, erally used to soften deep shadows and highlights. The “Gee, I wish I’d shot that other take as well.” backlight is used to add depth to the shot. By rimming the hack of the subject with light, your subject appears Creating a good-looking video— a project that to stand apart from the background. you’re proud of— takes a lot of work. But if you pre­ The key and fill lights are normally placed at about pare, know what to expect, and also anticipate the un­ a 45-degree angle from the the subject on either side expected, the results will be worth it. ■ of the camera. The back light should he placed behind the subject slightly off to the same side as the fill light. Chris Conroy is Production Coordinator for the Massachu­ Three-point lighting is an easy and effective way to setts Institute of Technology's video-production department. light a subject and/or scene. 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Ironically, the Amiga screen horizontal gradient fill served as has not yet integrated 24-bit display an underpainting. OpalPaint allows into its operating environm ent as effec­ you to set complex color gradients and tively as have the Mac and IBM PC to create associated transparency gradi­ platforms, but very good boards and ents, as well. The transparency gradi­ software do exist that allow the Amiga ent allowed an area to be left dark # 5 6 artist to function at the 24-bit level. For where the woman's face would be painting, one of the best options avail­ added later. OpalPaint allows you to able is C entaur’s O palPaint. work on an image larger than the ♦ OpalPaint is included with the same screen. Thus filling the screen in gradi­ company’s OpalVision board. Opal­ ent mode will not necessarily/ (ill the Paint installs to your hard drive from image area. One solution is to use Zap A continuing series floppies, making it easy to upgrade. from the Extras menu. 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to be released bvJ Black Belt as of this recycled as part of a more complex graphics. writing) render an image to the piece. I scanned the small skulls from OpalVision display for 24-bit viewing. an acrylic painting of mine. They were used partly for their visual content and T h e W o r l d o f T r u e C o l o r ♦ partly to experiment with a variety of The power of 24-bit color lies in its image sources. Rub Through was used capacity to represent flawless continu­ in Relative mode to duplicate one skull ous modeling of color, value, and to a new location. transparency over forms. For example, The main image was specified as By Joel Hagen to see the dramatic difference between both source and destination for a Rub HAM and 24-bit color, load a Back­ Through. By selecting Relative instead drop in ADPro, setting the four cor­ of Absolute, I could specify an origin ners to different colors. Render the point of the skull on the source image. screen in FLAM with no dither and the Painting in the desired new location geometric pattern of hard-edged colors with transparency copied that skull reveals the limitations of a 4096-color faintly to the new spot. The skulls were universe. The computer is trying to represent a smooth gradient and can’t. While dithering can eliminate the Using 24-bit painting programs like OpalPaint, you can achieve high-resolution color results just not possible with other tools.

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A W id e R a n g e o f T o o l s , T o o The figure on the right of the illustra­ tion was painted directly to the image using the Chalk tool. Chalk produces strokes with the interesting character of “ real” material. You can even specify different paper textures under the stroke. OpalPaint’s Dynamic Undo allows you to paint with the left button, then “carve” away with the right button to shape an area without affecting I he background. Using Airbrush and Blur finished the figure. A grid motif was beginning to appear, so I applied rec­ tangular area fills at different trans­ parencies to break up the image into The 24-bit painting above, “Chain of Perception, ' uses a variety of OpalPalnt's tools blocks and add color. You may find that and image-processing options. thumbing through the Drawing Mode descriptions in the excellent manual will useful and accurate way to define an painting, or the granular dithering inspire new experiments. For instance, area. Here is a tip for estimating the that characterizes eight-bit or indexed drawing in Mosaic mode added blocky proper tolerance level. Switch to the color representation. OpalPaint’s texture to some areas of the painting. Extras menu to see a feedback display “real material” tools and paper tex­ Choices range from familiar drawing of the RGB and HSV levels under tures allow an artist to simulate famil­ and painting modes to a wide range of your moving cursor. Hold down the iar painting and drawing methods image-processing operations. Alt key and these values become while the range of image-processing Any effect can be applied selectively cumulative. In other words, you can tools extend creative freedom. ■ carefully move the cursor over areas to defined areas of an image. You can J use the standard shape or freehand of the region that you want included Joel Hagen's credits include work in art, tools to define an area, but one of the and maximum values encountered astronomy, science fiction , and software most powerful tools is the Magic Wand. remain displayed. Use those values to development. Write to him at 10512 This allows you to click on a point in set the tolerance sliders for the Magic Sawyer, Oakdale, G4 95561. Please an image and have the software ana­ Wand. In the illustration, the Wand include a stamped, self-addressed envelope lyze the surrounding area. Any adja­ was used many times to create stencils, cent pixels that fall within your defined darken a complex shape, colorize the tolerance range will be selected. A background, and so on. second click then causes whatever Brilliance mode and the adjustable effects you have chosen to be applied Grid allowed bright lines to be laid to that area. A slider allows you to tune over the chalk figure. Finishing touch­ the tolerance of the Wand to include es were added with the airbrush tool colors close to, but not identical to the using various application weights. color of the pixel you select. Painting in the 24-bit mode allowed With a little practice this becomes a repeated reworking of the image without either the accumulation of artifacting that can characterize HAM 9 9 8 0 Consumer Electronics

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These are fram e recording is required? beauty of used pro equipment is that usually called “type C” VTRs, which What NewTek doesn’t say/ in its you will be buying today what was became the standard several years ago Toaster promotions is that to be able network-quality equipment yesterday. after a format war with “type B ” decks. to do the kinds of things shown on its The best used pro gear still delivers Betacam was the first popular 1/2-inch demo tapes, you need a lot of profes­ incredible quality, sometimes equal to broadcast format. It was replaced by sional video equipment. And when you that of brand-new equipment. Choos­ Betacam SP, which delivers an even find a professional equipment dealer ing what to buy is not easy, as there better picture. However, die original and discover how much an entry-level are quite a number of video formats Betacam is quite good, still much better system costs, suddenly you have an in use (see “Video Suite,” Nov. ’92, p. than S-VI IS, and it’s still being used by acute attack of “budgetitis.” 60, for more on formats)— some true many TV stations. M il is another high- Investing a lot of money in video broadcast-quality and some not. Let’s quality' >/2-inch broadcast format used equipment can be a big risk, especially start by taking a look at what you can by television networks and many high- if you are just starting in this business buy in terms of VTRs. end production facilities. When new, and don’t have a big client base. There VTRs of these formats used to cost is a way, however, to get the gear you V T R s : W id e C h o i c e , G o o d P r ic e s around 535,000. But these days you can need for a fraction of the retail price. Just a few years ago, before the advent get a used portable Sony BVW 25 Beta­ The answer is used pro equipment. of digital VTRs, one-inch format used cam that can be connected to any cam­ to be the best video available. To this era for just $3000, or a Sony BVW 40 W h y P r o I s A f f o r d a b l e day, it still delivers top quality for Betacam edit deck for around $7500, If The television and professional video­ analog video and it is used by I V sta­ you would like a variable speed M il edit production industries are very dynamic. tions all over the country. The price for deck— capable o f very stable slow-mo- Every year there are new products that this kind of quality used to be very tion or fast playback— S6500 will buy either make the existing gear obsolete high— from S45,000 to S 100,000 per you a used Panasonic AU-650. And for or have that single extra feature that complete VTR. But a quick look at the just S4800 you can get a JV C KR- every one has been waiting for. 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The 3/4-inch video format, commonly were gradually replaced by chips. Be­ and tend to lose their sharpness. Only known as U-Matic, has been around for cause chip cameras are relatively new, buy used monitors when you know that several years. W hile it used to be you will find a good assortment of tube they have not been used much or if considered broadcast-quality, it lost this cameras on the used market. This is they have been serviced recently. Oth­ classification to the 1 /2-inch formats not necessarily bad, as most broadcast- erwise, save your money and buy new. mentioned above. Yet 3/4-inch has a quality tube cameras perform better The same applies to test equipment, huge base of machines still in opera­ than new industrial-grade chip cam­ such as waveform monitors and vec- tion, and it is not only used by many eras. There are, however, a few prob­ torscopes. They are only useful if prop­ corporate facilities, but also by numer­ lems with tube cameras, such as picture erly calibrated and with sharp tubes. ous small television stations and cable burn-in when they are pointed directly com panies. T h e best 3/4-inch decks at strong lights and fairly frequent How t o L o o k , W h e r e t o L o o k deliver perfect image quality i’or corpo­ alignment adjustments. Buying used video equipment of any rate/industrial applications or even Camera prices and models seem to kind requires caution. Even such items local commercials. Three-quarter-inch be more varied than with VTRs, so I as VTRs and cameras do wear out and SP decks deliver slightly improved will cite just a few examples to give you go out of alignment, requiring fre­ picture quality. an idea of what you may find. Only quent maintenance. And since seivic- W hen new, 3/4-inch edit decks used three-chip or three-tube cameras are ing pro video gear is expensive, you to cost from $10,000 for the industrial considered, as these offer true profes­ want to make especially sure that the units to more than $20,000 for the sional quality. One tube camera, the equipment you buy is in good operat­ broadcast VTRs. Used 3/4-inch decks, Ikegam i ITC-730— w ith a 15x Canon ing condition. If you don’t know what however, are a lot cheaper than new S- high-grade lens and other acces­ to look for in used equipment to make VH S decks and may deliver comparable sories—can be had for only $1900 sure it is in good shape, there are some pictures (some people swear they are used, A current Panasonic 300 C LE ways to increase the odds in your favor. better). You can buy a very reliable, chip camera with lens goes for less O ne trick is to buy equipm ent that is former broadcast-quality Sony BVU 800 than $5000. A Sony DXC-M3A tube * currently in use. Not only will you be 3/4-inch edit deck for only $3000. This cam era is a com m on find for less than able to see it in operation, but also the V T R was built like a tank, designed to S I500, with lens, The newer Sony fact that it is being used usually means withstand the rigors of nonstop editing. DXC-M7 chip camera costs around that it is in good working condition. For $2400 you can find a Sony VO $4500, while a broadcast-level Ikegami Many production facilities follow rigid 8800 portable 3/4-inch S P deck, with HU 791 goes for around $5500. maintenance schedules and will use time code, that you can attach to any only equipment in top shape. camera. A portable Sony BV U 110 3/4- M iscellaneous G e a r : If you are not sure about the condi­ A M ix e d B a g o f B a r g a in s inch V T R can be found for as little as tion of the equipment, or if you live too $500. And, for under $5000— less than In some cases, you can also save money far away to check it out personally, you the price of a top-of-the-line new S- by buying second hand other pieces of can hire a television engineer to test the V H S deck— you can buy a complete 3/4- equipment you will need to complete gear for you. This is not a veiy cheap inch edit system consisting of a Sonv your system. Switchers, monitors, audio service, but I consider it a very wise VO 5850 edit YTR, VO 5800 player, mixers, TBCs, microphones, tripods, investment if your purchase involves and RM-440 edit controller. single-frame controllers, edit serious money. Another way to be safe Super-V H S (S-V H S) is a relatively controllers, and DVEs are all available is to buy from used equipment brokers. young and popular format, and thus on the resale market. However, due to T h ey are usually honest and w ill test the savings on used S-VHS gear are recent technological advances, certain the equipment before selling it. not as dramatic as with older equip­ used equipment may cost more than You can find used pro video gear ment. But you can still find some used today’s newer models. TBCs (time-base advertised in your local newspaper, but S-VHS gear for less than half the price correctors) are a case in point. When you will find a much larger selection if of new units. A Panasonic AG 7500A digital TBCs became available, broad­ you look at the classifieds sections of edit deck goes for less than $2800, cast-quality units used to cost as much specialized trade magazines such as TV while a JV C BR S 811 edit V TR can be as 520,000. Recent TBCs on cards that Technology, Video Systems, Post, A V Video, bought for less than $3000. A Panason­ you plug into your Amiga now cost less Videomaker, and Videography, M ost o f ic AG 7400 portable with extras costs than a tenth of that price. So, you may these are commonly available on the around $1400. find that even used, stand-alone TBCs newsstand or at retail shops specializ­ are quite expensive. If you want to buy ing in video equipment. Also, check C a m e r a s : F o c u s I n o n Sa v in g s used, look for T BC cards. Although out the National Amiga Exchange in You can expect the same kind of sav­ they may be harder to find, it is com­ Chantilly, VA (voice 703/620-9499); ings you get on VTRs when you buy a mon to see them for less than $500. they may have some video-related used pro camera. Actually, you mav be Video switchers also used to be expen­ i . * i J equipment. They will fax you listings if able to find certain television cameras sive, with very few models costing less you have a fax machine with “polling” for as little as one-seventh their origi­ than today’s Video Toaster, while offer­ abilities: 703/222-8799. nal cost. A big advantage when you buy ing only a fraction of its features. Buying used professional video a used high-end broadcast camera is Some items, however, do offer great equipment may be the ticket to the that you get ultra-quality lenses that savings, such as audio mixers, edit system of your dreams—without get­ are usually worth several times the controllers, tripods, and microphones. ting into serious debt. ■ price of the whole package. It is also These units haven’t changed much common to see used cameras bundled over the past few years and don’t suffer Paulo de Andrade is president ofKinema with tripods and other accessories. a lot of wear. 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Granted, you can include on your Legendary Design Technologies, S49.95. state and city, for instance, Canadian res­ layout what is termed a mini-statement, All Amigas. idents can also have their taxes com­ which consists of a customer's current bal­ Hard-drive installable. pound or not, according to the ance, as well as any balance 30,60, and 90 Not copy-protected. specifications of their local tax laws. You days old. All of the needed information is Accelerator compatible, can have the tax structure default to ap­ in the file; there just isn’t any way to print 1.3/2.0/3.0 compatible. plying either tax, both taxes, or neither it in statement form. Minimum system: 512K, to your sales, and you can change this for Legendary has recently released an individual invoices- You can even tell improved version of Address-It!, and I’m Invoice-creation software. Invoice-It! to round off fractional confident that die company will contin­ amounts to the nearest penny. ue to improve Invoice-It! as well. This is nquestionably, the best part of any If you already have a file of customers already an excellent program if your Ubusiness venture is being paid, but for whom you would like to use Invoice- work is within the framework used. With for this to happen, most companies re­ It!, a conversion program is included. minimal enhancements, this could be an quire you to submit an invoice. This is This reads an .ASCII file and generates outstanding and versatile program. where your Amiga and Legendary Design a file that Invoice-It! can use. The man­ — R o b H a ys Technologies’ Invoice-It! come in handy. ual includes details on the format for the The second in a planned series of Ami­ ASCII file. Also included is a program ga business applications from Legendary, that attempts to reconstruct the all-im­ Invoice-It! does for invoices and price portant index file if things go awry. As T r if e c t a 2 0 0 0 ; quotations what the company’s earlier Ad- with all critical files, however, the best dress-It! did for mailing labels. It’s a clean, insurance is frequent backups. T r if e c t a 5 0 0 intuitive way to produce professional- O f course, not everyone needs the ICO, Trifecta 2000EC (IDE version, looking invoices and to make sure your same information on an invoice, so S159.95), 2000LX (SCSI version, $199.95); customers are paying as they should. Invoice-It! includes a layout editor and Trifecta 500EC (IDE version, $199.95), some sample form layouts. This allows 500LX (SCSI version, $249.95). C h e c k ’s i n t h e M a i l you to specify which fields to include, Amiga 2000/500. Invoice-It! follows Address-Itfs lead in their sizes, placement, text styles, and 1.3/2.0 compatible. providing commonly used headings— more. Note that this layout has nothing Amiga 500: External, expansion-port such as Bill To and Ship Via—with gad­ to do with the on-screen representation connection. gets that bring up requesters when of your data, just the printed format. Amiga 2000: Internal, coprocessor clicked. This significantly reduces the Unfortunately, the manual fails to slot. time needed to complete invoices. The make clear that before you can print an Installation: Easy. main screen is a representation of an in­ invoice, you must first enter the layout voice, along with a row of buttons lining editor, load your preferred layout, and Hard-drive controller and the bottom for point-and-click access to then return to the main screen to select RAM expander. common tasks that include recalculation, the invoice(s) you want printed. The first printing, saving, paying, and voiding. version of the program I received, 1.0, ow that die Amiga 2000 and 500 Virtually even’ function or menu choice gave no clue as to why nothing printed. Nhave been forced into early retire­ lias a keyboard equivalent, which makes .An update, L0A, now pops up an alert m ent by the A4000 and A 1200, owners for fast access. box telling you no layout has been of the older machines are becoming in­ Invoice-It! also displays or prints eight loaded when you try to print without creasingly concerned as to whether de­ different types of reports. These include one. Also, if your Amiga has a 68030 or velopment will continue for these “clas­ Invoice and Accounts Receivable details 68040 accelerator, make sure that you sic” Amigas. You should be delighted to and summaries, a trend report, and a have version 1 .QA by checking the read­ hear that IC D has introduced a new line register of current invoices. You can base me file on the disk. The first version of peripherals made especially for these these reports on all invoices or only on crashed whenever I selected the built-in machines. The Trifecta is a combination unpaid invoices, which makes it easier calculator function on these processors; hard-drive controller and RAM ex­ to see at a glance who hasn’t paid yet. If the new one works without a hitch. pander, with versions for both the A2000 you need to find a specific item, you can and A500. search by invoice number or by a string F u d g i n g N u m b e r s of text from the Bill To or Ship To fields. Invoice-It! is a versatile, easy-to-use pro­ A l t e r e d C h a s s i s Unfortunately, you can’t search fora nu­ gram, yet there are some glaring defi­ A few physical differences necessarily dis­ meric amount, such as an invoice whose ciencies. In the layout editor, while you tinguish the two versions. The Trifecta total was, say, S I 15. can choose from the supplied list the Fields 2000, a plug-in card, has space to mount Two versions of the program are in­ you want to include, you cannot define a standard 3.5-inch or 2.5-inch hard cluded on the distribution disk, one for your own fields, nor can you change the drive in a hard-card configuration. Its 512K users and another for those having relationship between fields. For example, counterpart 500 model comes in an at­ a megabyte or more of RAM. The dif­ in my business 1 bill for parts and labor, tractive external case that slides into the ferences are in the maximum number of with the total being the sum of these. side of the Amiga 500 and provides its customers and reports supported— 1000 Invoice-It! lets von put different titles on own external power supply. Functionally, with the 512K version and 5000 with the fields, but the Extended column will however, the two models are similar. 1MB. There is a maximum reporting always be quantity times unit price. Both come with an ID E interface for period of 20 years for both versions. A second shortcoming is that there is use with those inexpensive hard drives Continued on p.65 THIS OPPONENT IS PROGRAMMED TO BE CHALLENGING.

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Indiana Jones and the doesn't commit you in any way.) Fate of Atlantis CRIB NOTES You can talk your way past the We’re in for it now. Even the cred* doorman if you sing Sophia's prais­ its for Indiana Jones and the Fate of room below, have him try to get the in-antiquities, Sophia Hapgood, es, don't insult him, and don't Atlantis (LucasA rts) pose a chal­ rope at the base of the statue. In the who's giving a talk on Atlantean use too many words he doesn't un­ lenge— albeit a very modest one. It library, have him look at the books culture at a theater in New York. derstand. (The poor fellow loves will take some clicking around to get on statues. In the room beneath The show's sold out, but there is Sophia, but he's not too bright.) You the game under way. There’s no that, have him fiddle with the cat that side entrance...and a stubborn can shove some crates around to rush, of course, and you should feel statues. And in the boiler room, sim­ doorman in your path. What to do? clear a path to the fire escape, or you free to amble about, enjoy the de­ ply open all the lockers; it’ll always You've doubtless heard about the could just beat him up. However, be­ scriptions, and not worry about find­ be in the last one. (Hey, this sounds various pathways through this fore you do anything, collect the ing any objects at this stage. more like a Monkey Island game!) game; the point at which they split newspaper from the stand outside. If you’d rather do it yourself, just Back to the office to see Marcus off from one another is still some (No, you can't use the phone.) remember that you’re looking for a and your visitor, Mr....uh...Smith, ways down the road, but the deci­ Back inside, you'll find yourself in statue. Have Indy look at the "pecu­ You'll quickly sort out that he's a sion you make at the theater will the wings, with Sophia in the back­ liar statue" in the garret (which Nazi agent and realize that you'll determine what Sophia suggests ground going on and on and on places him atop the trap door). In the need to warn your former comrade- to you later on. {However, it about Atlantis, and another stub-i

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C R IB NOTES rodent in there that would make a and take the bead of orichalcum which can't be opened. But the urn tasty morsel for a big snake if he you'll find there. You're done here. beside the trapdoor is another mat­ From p. 74. could be persuaded to get close (Just for fun, try the parrot again on ter. Get the ashes it contains, and born Sophia fan preventing you from enough to it. Just use your whip to your way out.) you'll find they conceal a dusty key. hitting the stage. Just keep trying to scare the critter into the path en­ You could move on directly to Climb back down into the stor­ talk to the stagehand, wait through trance at the middle and rear of the Costa and the Azores from here, but age room, where there's not much the two ensuing bits of Sophia's talk jungle area. Watch the wrestling there's really nothing to be done. to do— the rope stays—but grab the and when you can squeeze a word match, then climb the tree. (There's The old man wants something in arrowhead off the shelf at the rear in, offer him your newspaper. He'll another cute bit when you land.) trade for his info on the lost dia­ (it's brown) and use your influence abandon his post and return only to This game is full of stubborn peo­ logue, and you don't have anything on the big crate at the left. Seems intercede if you try to get on*stage. ple. Sternhart won't let you visit the to offer beyond Sophia's necklace there's a dusty chest behind it, and You'll have to find another way, temple without a quiz, Sophia (which she won't part with) and the you just happen to have a dusty key. and, as you might guess, it involves doesn't have any good ideas, and bead (which doesn't interest him). If the dialogue isn't in there, de­ the prop of Nur-Ab-Sal and the ma­ you can't even steal the trinkets So head back to Iceland, where scend to the library and use the rag chine off to the left. This is purely a from the concession stand. But did- you'll discover that Heimdall now on the arrowhead. This creates a trial-and-error affair, so I'll cut to the ja notice how the parrot piped up does a great imitation of a popsicle, makeshift screwdriver—and a less- chase: Pull the left and right levers when Sternhart asked you for the di­ but that the good doctor first man­ likely device I've rarely seen—which and push the button, and off Nur- alogue's title? Talk to the parrot aged to de-ice just enough of the eel you can use to remove the five Ab-Sal goes, slightly ahead of sched­ about "title" (try out the other op­ artifact for you to pop the bead in its screws that hold shut the back of the ule. Here comes Sophia— hubba- tions for a bit of fun), then try Stern­ mouth. The consequent melting bookcase you so unceremoniously hubba—and she's not too pleased, hart again and voila—you're in. frees the artifact, which you can haul tipped over. but you've got her attention. But again, as in Iceland, there back to the Azores to Costa, from There's also another, somewhat The sequence in her dressing doesn't seem to be much to do. One whom you learn that the dialogue less torturous, way to check out the room is virtually automatic—you can of the spiral designs is of special in­ has been right under your nose all bookcase. Head for the boiler room, follow any conversational thread terest—and seems to be takeable— along—in a collection back at Bar­ and use the gum on the coal chute you please—and then it's off to Ice­ but it's gummed up with tarnish and nett College. Indeed, it's in one of for traction. This route puts you in land for a visit with Dr. Heimdall on you don’t have any degummer. Or the same rooms that Indy was bum­ the cellar room with the cat fig­ the subject of Plato's Lost Dialogue. do you? The only thing of note at the bling around in as the game opened. urines. (Curious that there's no oth­ He's full of nonsense— for a good concession stand is a kerosene lamp, Trouble is, not even LucasArts er way to get there, eh?) Throw the laugh, ask him several times about and kerosene just might do the trick. could tell you which room. In a giv­ coal at the book visible just above the eel artifact he's trying to free— However, you'll have to lose en game, it could be in any one of the hole in the ceiling. and there's not really anything to do Sternhart, who keeps following you three places, and all you can do is go And if that doesn't work—well, here (yet!). But if you persevere, he'll around as though he owns the place. through them until you find it. Be­ there's only one more spot to look. drop a couple of names: Sternhart While in the temple, have a chat with fore you set out, you may want to Check out the cat figurines; take the (who is at Tikal in the Yucatan) and Sophia, ask her to keep him busy collect a few items that will smooth wax one back to the boiler room and Costa (who's in the Azores), which is and hustle out to get the lamp when the path: the jar of mayonnaise from put it in the furnace to melt. (This'll all you need to hear for those places they start to chat. the fridge in Indy's office, the rag and sound dumb, but first open the fur­ to turn up on the map. The spiral design can be put to lump of coal from the boiler room, nace door, which looks as though Well, you know you're not on the use immediately; it's the nose for and the wad of gum from under the it's open when it's closed.) "team" path. In Tikal, Sophia won't the elephant sculpture at temple- school desk in the library. Once you find the document, take even a step into the jungle. And left. Use it there, then pull it to re­ While you're in the library, climb meet up with Sophia in your office while Indy will, he's desperately veal a hidden Atlantean tomb. the rope to the storeroom, use the and save your game before you afraid of snakes and can't be coaxed Sternhart will then drop his string mayonnaise on the totem pole so make any big decisions. We've anywhere near the major-league of superlatives long enough to grab you can move it easily and pull it reached the point at which the snake in the tree beside the chasm. the world stone from the alcove twice to bring it under the hole in game's three paths separate, and The solution's pretty simple if you and nip out through a secret door at the ceiling. This lets you back up into you may later want to go back and were observant on your passage the rear; nothing you can do about the attic, where the game began. replay the game from another route. through the bush: There's a jungle that, but do take a look at the tomb Don't waste time with the trunk, Next time: On to Algeria.

To locate vendors of the games reviewed, see the "Manufacturers'/Distributors' Addresses" list on p. 90. play to type out macros for the in-game comments to he sent 1 1 b C S D to your opponent and the function keys to send them.) AA H The VRS I saw was at a beta stage, with play still being tweaked and additional touches contemplated. Nevertheless, i » my only criticism of consequence is that the product as a* planned cuts a rather narrow swath, without additional arenas, aircraft, or entangling Imagine objects. These additions (along with support for head-mounted VR f displays) may well be addressed in future releases-—-an editor is a good bet if VRS does well— and in the mean time their ab­ sence does give the game a happy, uncluttered purity. Schultz wisely has not layered it with features— he’s focused on making the environment feel persuasive-—-and the basic fun always shines through the veil of the interface. The biggest stumbling block will probably he at the user’s D A N G E R \SSsfc. end: All of this good stuff does not come cheap, either in price LOCK o n ) or equipment. VR-Slingshot, which may be available by the time you read this, will list for $149.95 in large part due to the You’ll destroy miniature soldiers in Walker. required adapter box that handles the jacks for the necessary analog joystick and optional 3-D glasses— and your outlay may degrees— vertically and horizontally—with a kind of malevo­ come closer to $200 when you throw in a couple of extras. lent, big-cat smoothness, and it comes on like a regular I -Rex. On the specs end, it requires at least a 68020 processor and My only regret is that you can’t use this baby MechW arrior to 2M B of RAM (of which slightly over 1MB is used), with an '030 trample the enemy. or ’040 recommended for the game’s performance ceiling of There’s not all that much to keep track of, either, which 30 frames per second. And while you can play against four lev­ leaves you free to focus on that one last cannon or the digi­ els of computer opponent, you’ll almost certainly want a mo­ tized tips and orders crackling from your radio. There’s a heat dem—at least 2400 baud, and ideally 9600 baud or a null- gauge, which rises during prolonged fire, and a shield gauge, modem cable. An IBM-compatible analog joystick, much which drops as the Walker takes punishment. (One especially prized among (light-sim enthusiasts, is likewise needed— and nice feature is the lock-on, which means that you don’t have so much the better if you have one that includes a throttle con­ to maintain your aim when firing; great for shooting down trol (like the CH Products Flightstick), as this can be enabled speedy aircraft.) with an optional cable available from Ixion. This expense may This deconstruction of the Lemmings ethic is executed with limit play to a knot of hard-core gamers, but great software can DMA’s usual flair for miniatures— though it seems a bit like lead gamers to improve their hardware— look at Wing Com­ setting up plastic soldiers only to knock them down. Howev­ mander on the IBM —and VR is something that everyone er, it’s quite different from the usual shoot ’em-up fare, and a should have the opportunity to experience. few things may throw you off. Yes, W alker scrolls sideways, but only from set-piece battle to set-piece battle, rather than a continuous flow. The right-to-left movement takes a little get­ ting used to (the convention in side-scrolling arcade games is a l k e r 1.3 ✓ W left-to-right) as are the dual controls (mouse for aiming and 2.0 ✓ H ER E’S A W H O LE new way to © firing, keyboard or joystick for movement). These things do help keep the game fresh, though, as do the game’s four war kill Lemmings: Have a great 3.0 ✓ zones— and after a while Walker could use a bit of freshness. stomping metal monster ma­ Not hard-drive installable. Come the third session. I began to find it sort of monoto­ chine-gun shoot ’em to death. No copy-protection. That’s essentially your task in W alker {Psygnosis, $59.95)— a nous— in essence, it’s just a sophisticated shooting gallery— potent shoot ’em-up from DMA Design in which a sprite from and 1 wondered if the ability4 to move laterally t or some new the impossible game that helped get the developers started weapons might have given playability a boost. takes on the little guys from the impossible game that made It’s also a very long load, especially on a single-drive system, them famous. which would have made this a particularly good choice for Lemmings? Not exactly. More like Lemming-sized soldiers hard-disk installation. But while Walker comes on three Amiga­ running into position ahead of you and behind you, para­ DOS disks and so can readily he copied to hard disk, 1 couldn't chuting from zeppelins, rappelling down ropes from the top find a way to run it from there. (Evidently the loader is in a of the screen, or mounted in the ruins above. They sit behind boot-block.) One would think that, after the HD-installable artillery pieces, drive tanks and trucks, pilot Messerschmitts, Lemmings II, Psygnosis would have learned its lesson. and do not like you one damn bit. A nice game, and an unconventional one, but it could have See, you’re piloting the author of all this chaos: a Walker been better. AG-9— essentially a more substantial version of the two-legged Imperial Walkers from The Empire Strikes Hack. (You may re­ call a variation of it from one of the sprites in DMA’s Blood R e a l m s o f Money in 1989.) 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It even multitasks; in fact, it's chewing up good deal of combat— forgivable in this case, since ROA is around 1.2MB in die background as I type this. At its best, basically cast as a war game—-which takes place from an an­ playing Realms ofArkania is a process of continual discovery. gled-down perspective on its own screen. 1 he animations I've booled die game at least dozen times now, and I've always here are well-done compared to, say, the two-frame ones come away grinning at some nice touch I hadn't noticed be­ used in S S I’s “ gold box" line, but overall it's a rather slow and fore. I haci worried a bit before release that ROA’s Nordic bent formulaic affair. might not thrive on foreign shores, but that proved needless The 1MB barrier that has held since the late '80s is begin­ because only the character names arc a giveaway. ning to erode; you can play ROA with 1 M B, but only by dis­ This is not to say/ it's without a few weaknesses. A bit more abling the music or with degraded graphics in the city scenes. variety in the graphics would have been welcome. There’s a I recommend at least 1.5MB and a hard disk.

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genetics without a license— whipping up weird new critters and placing M o r p h 0 1.3 ✓ them to die, thrive, or fertilize and then twisting the environment to see 2.0 ✓ Morph is easily my favorite game what havoc you can wreak on them. in this month's bunch. This Millenni­ My head liked it a lot but my heart found it wanting. Maxis's sims have 3 . 0 - um release (about $35} is an arcade gotten steadily more ambitious and cerebral since SimCity...and less fun. Not hard-drive installable. puzzler that is every bit as creative as SimLife, which could easily have been made more fun, does nothing to No copy-protection. Putty or Sleepwalker: bright, bold, and intelligent. You try to steer a change that. Pray for SimFarm. (Note: A "standard" version of SimLife for changeable elemental blob— at any given time either solid, rubbery, w a­ older Amiga models is planned.) tery, or gaseous— through a homey environment to an exit. The gimmick: It's permitted a limited number of metamorphoses (hence the title} be­ tween states, and the environment is laden with mechanisms that will T he 17-Bit change him over whether you want it to or not. The puzzles are just tough- ^ 1.3 ✓ minded enough to keep dragging you back without putting you off. The C o l l e c t i o n V / C 9 2.0 ✓ 3.0 Not yet central character is charming (a set of silly eyes is perched on each blob}, The 17-Bit Collection (A/mathera tested. and the whole thing's infected with a solid sense of fun. System s Ltd., about S80) consists of The bad news is that it doesn't run on the A1200— an AGA version's in 2301 Amiga disks compressed onto CD only. the works— and it requires a multisync monitor (like CBM's 1960) to get the two CDs from one of the biggest and best English public-domain software full display. Morph is available only in a PAL version, and even with the houses. This massive collection includes a huge number of demos, music screen jiggered up an inch on the 1084S via the necessary PALboot program, files, utilities, and general fun stuff, as well as an enormous number of the number of times you can switch into each elemental state remains out games. Among the many finds: a non-interactive demo for Ocean's never- of sight below screen-bottom. For me, that wasn't a problem so much as an to-be-released Billy the Kid, another demo for the early Delphine game additional challenge...and I have to say I enjoyed it all mightily. Castle Warrior (which is interesting, but bears no resemblance to that la­ bel's more recent stuff), and the Pugs in Space animation (the basis for Psygnosis's forthcoming Pugsey). Unfortunately, this is a case of terrific substance and lazy presentation. W o r l d s o p L e g e n d : 1.3 ✓ The Collection de-archives the disks just fine— they can't be run directly S o n o f t h e E m p i r e 2.0 ✓ from CD; CDTV owners must have a floppy drive to use them—but it lacks © even the most rudimentary sort-and-search program in the fashion of the This import from Mindscape Inter­ 3.0 ✓ national (about $40) is a very nice Fish CD. Hence, finding what you're looking for is pretty much a matter of Not hard-drive installable. RPG. Trouble is. Worlds of Legend trolling through 2301 descriptions (which are none too complete) until you No copy-prolection. was also a very nice RPG around the same time last year when it was called stumble over it. just Legend (The Four Crystals of Trazere in the US}. Mindscape has given the game an Asian cast and a new story, but with pretty much the same graphics, music, and game system (you're still looking for four pieces of AV-8B H a r r i e r something) without any notable improvements (it still doesn't go on hard A s s a u l t disk). It's a dandy game system—with auto-mapping and that creative 3.0 ✓ spell-builder—but we've seen it before. I'd be more forgiving if this were The IBM world is suddenly laden Hard-drive installable. simply a data disk. with games that incorporate strate­ gy- and war-game elements within No copy-protection. traditional flight sims. Harrier Assault (Dom ark, $59.95) is the first to reach the Amiga, and it's not as awful as you may have been led to be­ S i m L i f e lieve by the UK press. When SimLife, cousin to SimEarth You don't just fly missions in this celebrated vertical-takeoff-and- {Mindscape International, about S70) 3 .0 ✓ landing aircraft, but use it as a key tool in the land war you're also direct­ was released in early July, it became Hard-drive installable. ing on the island of East Timor. (East Timor?) It lends the game great the first Amiga game to be originally No copy-protection. moment when a mission really means something for success in the over­ released in (rather than simply upgraded to) an AGA version. all game— rather than some artificial result or simply your survival or non- And, to be sure, the windows and gadget control panels look very hot— survival— and Harrier Assault can get quite involving both in the pilot's seat especially in hi-res mode— but nice pictures are secondary to mechanism and at the strategic map from which orders are dispatched. here. This "software toy" plucked from the Maxis stable is an electronic Alas, the plane's profile isn't sharp on this lo-res display—it looks like a petri dish that enables you to (among other things) practice recombinant flying fuzzy puppy—and I've seen better explosions on C-64s. It walks, ► MORE SHORT TAKES

rather than runs, on a vanilla A500 fan accelerator or fast machine is a must), clads, dealing with the Sino- and Russo- Japanese wars, and Bismarck, and I found it infuriatingly difficult in the campaign planner to make the map dealing with W W II—are also available.) display do what I wanted. Still, this flies. It's just a bit wobbly.

V i r t u a l R e a l i t y W a r i n t h e G u l f S t u d i o 2 .0 War in the Gulf is another data disk These folks evidently pay atten­ 3.0 ✓ dressed up as a full game. This third 3-0 ✓ tion to reviews, and a good thing, Hard-drive installable. in a series of modern-era tank games Hard-drive installable. too. VRS 2.0 [Domark, S99.95)—the No copy-protection. from Empire ($49.95, distributed by Copy-protection. newest version of Incentive Software's 3-D game-maker—repairs virtu­ ReadySoft)—based on a T995 scenario in which Iraq pokes its nose back ally all of the major shortcomings in the original filled-polygon adventure into northern Kuwait—is more or less Team Yankee III. Or, more to the construction set. It offers new shapes that don't involve straight lines (a point. Pacific Islands II, as it preserves Pi's budgetary elements, (If you sphere, for instance) and transparencies, a second disk full of delightful need persuading, just look at the filenames.) and well-drawn clip art, a slew of new commands and screen borders (and I liked the two earlier games a good deal for the four-way split screen the ability to make animated ones), a useful manual, and a sound-sam­ views, the easy-going mouse controls, and the slick graphics. (The explo­ ple editor. It is generally sharper-looking and somewhat easier to use than sions were pretty slick, too.) That's all here, with new missions in a new its predecessor. desert setting, but without any striking new features, and with an intro that The problem is, with all these features laid on, VRS 2.0 is that much slow­ appears to have been partly nicked from Campaign. This game engine has er, even on an A3000/25. (I didn't get really good performance out of it been recycled one too many times, and seems to have run out of gas. until I put it on a 40MHz A1200.) And where's the sample game? Tanks, Empire, but no tanks. Nevertheless, this has me hungry for the next follow-up: Superscape.

C a m p a i g n S c e n a r i o A r a b i a n N i g h t s 1.2/1.3 1/ D i s k For some reason, I had a torrent of KB 2.0 - Here's a data disk that gives that 3 . 0 - war games this month. I was espe­ 3.0 - whole mission-disk genre a good Hard-drive installable. cially happy when this one from Eng­ Not hard-drive installable. name: 25 new battles from the hand Copy-protection. land's Krisa/is (about S30J moseyed in. No copy-protection. of Cam paign ($29.95) author Jonathan Griffiths for Empire's just-slight­ On one hand, there's no shortage of this sort of game— and the label's forth­ ly-overcomplicated World War ll-era tank game. I hadn't picked up the coming Soccer Kid appears to be in much the same vein. But there's always parent game in months, and right now I can't imagine putting it down. room for a spirited and creative romp. Also, even the most ordinary North Africa, Italy, Normandy, Stalingrad, Leningrad, the Ukraine, and Amiga handles this type of game brilliantly: bold-colored scenes, increas­ those last desperate battles outside Berlin—they're all here, and they're ingly clever puzzles, and breakaway pace. a tough lot as well. Arabian Nights combines elements of classic "cute" console games (jew­ Shame they didn't take this opportunity to make Campaign run under el and key collecting, hacking into hidden areas) with a good deal of vari­ 3.0, however. And the manual's disappointingly brief beside the little en­ ety: our hero in the drink, on a flying carpet, and in a mine car. You'd think cyclopedia that accompanied the original game— not least for its refer­ a kid with a head this big would have trouble moving this fast. AN also ences to "Rommel's North American Campaign." (Now, that I'd like to see.) rewards extra memory and a fast processor— unusual for this sort of game. Fire the proofreader, and bring on Campaign II. Alas, I couldn't trick it into working under 2.0 or 3.0.

D readnoughts P r e y : a n A l i e n 1.2/1.3 ✓ Ever wondered what became of E n c o u n t e r 2.0 ✓ those polygon-based, hilltop-point- 3 . 0 i / Prey (KirkMoreno Multimedia) is a © 3.0 Not yet of-view war games (Waterloo, Hard-drive installable. bug hunt a la Alien II: Mining asteroid tested. Austerlitz, Borodino) that were all No copy-protection. KG-42 is infested with aliens, and CD only. the rage a few years back? Well, Dr. Peter Turcan's still turning them out— you're the cure. Trouble is, you don't have a weapon...and you barely have Gettysburg will be his next—and while they've gotten more sophisticat­ enough oxygen to make it to the next section of the base. ed, they haven't lost anything in the way of playability. For the CDTV or an A570-equipped Amiga 500, this Danish game real­ Dreadnoughts (Turcan Research Systems, about $45) isn't Turcan's first ly isn't too bad. It's enjoyable to have the story unfold via panicky radio sea-based game—that was Armada— but it is his most expansive, with transmissions as you trundle through this silent, half-lit maze (the screen seven scenarios. It focuses on the surface-fleet exchanges in the first three scrolls in 3D between squares) in search of equipment, crew, and the years of World War I—including the colossal slugfest that was Jutland, aliens themselves. And even the typically slow, miserable CD access with 250 ships-of-the-line in action. (Not an undertaking for the impatient.) speed can't interfere with the tension. That's a bold move in itself, and for the most part it works. However, the rectangular maze isn't all that big (though it'll seem un­ Dreadnoughts may not be the jazziest-looking game around—the sys­ conquerable until you have it mapped out). Prey's got this thing for ab­ tem uses modest polygon-ish drawings and updates position in cycles stractly handling elements that should have been rendered in greater rather than animating the ships— but it is very realistic and, with a little detail; there are glowing prone silhouettes when you find the crew and research in the excellent docs, easy to control with the mouse and key­ a bizarre light show for fighting the aliens. What's CD for if not to go board. In this battle, Turcan has scored a definite hit. (Data disks— Iron- over the top? M OWN AN AMIGA 1200 TWICE THE SPEED OF AN A4000/030 OR A3000 SYSTEM! GET TRUE 32-bit WIDE, ZERO WAIT-STATE FASTRAM ACCESS! 'PURCHASE THE MICROBOTICS M1230XA CARD FOR THE AMIGA 1200'

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This month it’s all in the (Trump)cards. What do they say

for AGA-games? AW’s resident sleuth unearths the dirt.

By Tim W a ls h

T r u m p c a r d T ea ser recognize both dfl): and d fl: as destina­ Ralph of Almathera Systems Ltd. This tion drives, then controller incompati­ program has unique functions that Q . Recently, a friend gave me a Trump­ bility might he the problem. disable AA (AGA) chip-set registers, card 500 hard drive (Interactive Video Alternative programs to consider force sprites to standard ECS resolu­ Systems) for my Amiga 500. No documenta­ are the freeware offering by Denis tions, and disable processor caches. tion urn included with the drive; however, Gounelle, ABackup, or the equally Serious gamers well-stocked with their there was a Trumpcard disk. Trying to hoot popular shareware program BackUP long-time entertainment favorites with the disk results in a message that V3.77, by Felix R. Jeske ($15). Commer­ might he happiest with an older Amiga reads: “D E VS:I VS _SC S! .device Not cial hard drive back-up utilities to con­ as their game machine. Found. ” Is there any way to get the A500 to sider include Moonlighter Software’s recognize the Trumpcard? Ami-Back and New Horizons’ Quarter­ Steven P. Scharff back. Among all of these programs, you Henderson, Nevada should find one that works well with the Activating RAM Trumpcard SCSI controller. Q . M y son, Robert, has an Amiga 500 A, Hopefully, a replacement boot disk equipped with a Blizzard board, 7MB of will cure the ills. After several discus­ RAM, a 2.04 Kickslart ROM, and a I M B sions with IYS (14804 Beach Blvd., “fatter” Agnus. In spile of all this upgrading, a r a d ise o st LaMarada, CA 90638; 714/228-2040) P L the computer's Revision 3 motherboard shows staff, they assured me that IYS plans to Q . Since replacing my dying A 1000 with only 5 I2 K of available chip RAM. Is there a continue supporting all of its hard-drive an A4000/040, I've suffered headaches. software fix we can implement to get the controllers, including older models, well Did I overlook something in the manuals, A500 to recognize the I M B of RAM ? into the foreseeable future. or am I left holding a big collection of Also, in the September '92 Help Key (p. impractical software? For instance, virtual­ 86), me? it ion is made o f adding I EE images ly a ll o f my older Psygnosis games seem to to the Workbench via the NickPrefs by Nicola be incompatible with the A4000. As im­ Salmoria. I ’d like to know the /nice and H a r d -D r iv e D o w n e r pressed as I am with the A 4000, some where I can purchase this program. Q . I have not been able to get AmigaDOS downward compatibility is in order. Sandra French 2. I s standby hard-drive back-up program, D a v e N a ve Spring, Texas H D Backup, to work with both my Amiga A tlan ta, Georgia 2000s internal drives. 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Req i 2 M B Contans 5 uniquely specialized database programs tor rack­ (rotate and move in 3 dimensions). Mjsker Du • Colors and run cn Workbench 1 3+ a few require 2 0- ing Videotapes C D s, Magazine Articles. Comic Books and pattern rather than shape in this Tetns esque game. 5 screens DD92: Developer Contains the official Commodore develop­ S p e c i a l P r o d u c t ! Trading Cards' ana 3 levels of difficulty Requires Fat Agnus (1 Meg of Chip) ers kits tor the ArmgaGuide and Com modore Install Utrlites. a Q T l : T h e A64 Package - A very complete W B120: Grinder - a complete graphics conversion package FD67: Arcade - Includes Llomatron a well-done Rcbolron must have for all senous developers. that 5jpoorts GIF's. JPeg. Neochrome. Degas. PCX. Targa. clone. Hate is a ’terrific* Zaxxon clone wtth multiple Commodore 64 emulator. Supports any CPU and is TlFF. H AM -E and IFF tormat pictures. An invaluable tool for alt levelSiWorlds and smooth diagonal scrolling, a 10 ? fully compatible with W B1.3 & 2.0. This version F un D is k s / desktap-videographers and desktop publisners FD69: MindGames Had enough cf shoot-em up games9 includes a special adaptor that will allow you to con­ FD6: G A M ES! - This disk is chock full of gam es including; Relax and let those 2i gam es exercise your mind instead of nect your 64‘s 1541 disk drive lo your parallel port of WB118; Amiga Beginner - You asked fty if' A complete Checkers Clue. Gold - A new slide the pieces puzzle, Leopard y o u r w rist your Am iga for total emulation Two disk set. counts tutorial 1 or the begiflrw O ft us.ng the Amiga. State you oil • An enhanced version of Risk. RushHour - Surprisingly addict F073: Arcade Series Intruder Alert' Is a MULTI-level as two Special price $49 95 - including hardware. a l th e p o w iw -sw ric h a n d r,nk*»« y o u t h r o u g h to tn e C U 'S i a i i mg, and SpacoWar - Best Cescnbed as a cross between Berserk' done Features smooth gamopi.iy. groat graphics 4 and ail points in between. Sonuaf Aim inducted are 16 W S46: Clip Art ■ HignRes dip art with the fotlowng motifs Comoai-Tanks and asteroids digitized sound f * cdor icons to repfac* e v e r y icon to your 2.0. Workbench FD7: Pacm an • This disk contains several pacman type embellishments (bordo*s, dodacs ...). people, & transportation FD74; Arcade Series • R ngWar is an 'Outer Limits' clone W B121: ProPage3 Enhancer - This disk contains over 40 games including PacMan87, MazoMan and Zonix. W B47: Clip Art - Hires dip art Motifs - hair, drafting. Summer, with vectorized graphics MotherLode is a 'Lode Runner* 'G enies' for use with ProPage 3.0, including useful ones like FD10: MackLlte A dungeon adventure game Considered a animals and macfcod done with 50 levels! In BlitzTanks. they're coming at you from Make P e Chan 3rvd Resize Text to lit Box to name a few Also must-have classic This is [he 2nd release of this game. Great W B48: Clip Art - Hires clip art Motifs - Holidays music, medi­ all directions!! Call in air strikes and use your heavy artillery to includes structured & bitmap citpart for unque borders...a m u s t graphic interface Pfay time several w eeks' cal. and misc. su rv iv e ! h a v e for all PPage 3 users FD It: Las Vegas and Card Gam es - Las Vegas Craps - The W B50: Anim ation - Seven of the best eurc-style animations or FD75: Arcade Series - Descender is a clone cl the classic W B 122: System Optimizer KCommodity enhances your Best Las Vegas Craps simulation every written for any com­ "Dem os', including - scientific 451. subway, sunride. thrstde- arcade gam e ‘Tempest*, complete with vectorized graphics system, gives memory meters, mouse keyboard enhance­ pute- Contains extensive HELP features. Also Thirty- mo. tnight. waves, and wocw Tanx is the cassic battle ot trajectories and inertia between ments, online timers plus m a n y others too numerous to list' W B53: Graphics Raytraong programs generate absolutely One VideoPoket and more two lanks— incrod bly well donei Search is a maze game REorg will optimize hard and lloppy-disks tar a big speed FO I2A.FDI2B: Slar Trek, The Game • This is by lar the bos! stunning realistic looking planes, rockets, buildings . and sur­ unlike any other— included is a level editor loo (Tnnx requires increase HD Mem wU allow you to use up to 2 m egs of hard­ Star Trek gam e ever written lor any computer. II features real Images C Light is ihe most powerful EASY-TO-USE cl 1 meg chip memory-Fat Agnus) drive space for virtual memory! (Req 68020+ w MMU) All mouse control, good graphics digitized sound effecis and it s kind we have seen to dale. This rs easily better, and more FD77: Arcade Scries ■ Galaga'92 is a clone cl Iho arcade programs require 2.0*. full leatured. than similar commercial program s costing in the grea: gameplay Counts as 2 disks. Req tMb and two drives gam e with several gameplay enhancemems-wilh smooooth, W B123AB: Flags ol the World ■ same as WB124. but for (or hdj. hundreds ot dollars Also, s Movie - a full featured video text sharp graphics, it's better than the original! Pharaohs Curse is WorkDench 1.3. Req. 1MB 2 disk set. counts as two. FD13: Board Games - contains Monopoly. Domnoes. titter similar io ProVideo. Broadcast Titler. Great video a clone of the original C64 classic. Diplomacy is a beautifully W B124: Flags ol Ihe World - Two modes; click and learn or Paranoids, and others scrolling, wipes special effects, and more... computerized version of the Avalon Hit: board gam e-eonquer a game to test your knowledge Gi£a! graphics- tantastic FD14: Dungeon Master Hints and Arcade Games • DM W B54: Printing - This disk contains several routines to help or be conquered! learning tool Has current Russia 4 Yugoslavia republics maps, spells, item location, and hints and more, also on this with Ihe chore ot printing includes Gofhic - Finally a Banner Req Workbench 2.0+ & 1MB RAM disk. Hball ■ an arkartoid breakout type game, Tnx a Q x type T h e A m i g a W o r l d " B e s t -O f " S e t ! primer lor the P D 1 PriniSludio -a well implemented all-purpose printer-utility wilh a very comfortable graphic interlace and d o n e . FD85ABCO: Am lgnW orld's Best - These four disks con- D e v D i s k s / many advanced features. Lila - with ease, pent ASCII tiles 10 a DDB3: iflM ■ Nnl one, but FW O IBM emulators lha! wrll la ln the h o tte s t p d gam es of '921 Includes Mother Lode, PostScript printer, and more. D054: Compression This disk 13 lo a d e d w ith all Of the b e st allow me tunning of M S-D O S software w ith Amiga pro- Morin. Minefield Poing. Intruder Alert. Deluxe PacMan, W B55: Application XCopylll - a full featured disk copier, life compression programs and aids for the Amiga Many of the gram sl'l Com es complete w lh programs to turn your Amiga Rocky and Super Artillery (see Dec “92 AmigaWorW) Four make backups o! copy protected disks RoadRoute - find the programs Can be used by Ihe new user Includes Arc, Lharc, iloppy drives into 720K IBM compatible drives. disk sat, counts as three quickest route from one city to another, highway description Lhwarp. Pkax PowerPacker a must have by all. Zip. Warp, FD17: Educational Gam es - This disk Indudes several games FD81: SuperGames - Some ot th e best games- Donkey Kong included Diary - a diary program like ‘Dougy Houser M.D*. Cal a n d Z o o for youngsters including geog-apny. math, science, and word is belter than the original with an extra level Frantic Freddie * a calendar program. M ag man ■ a database tailored lor arti­ DD71AB: C Compiler ■ This disk ccnigins DICE, Matthew games, also includes Wheel ot Fortune and TrailBiazer are both fast-paced arcade games Mad cles and publications Dillon's full featured, powerful C compiler 4 environment 2 FD2Q: Tactical Gam es MechForoe; A game that simulates Bomber is the classic game of ‘Kaboom ' redone with an Amiga W B57: Animation - This disk has several ‘Demo‘ style ani­ disks, counts as 2. combat between two or more gianl robots Simple wcrds can t flare Ail of these gam es are e>ce!lenii mations, Including Bitter. Lolly, SunS. vertigo, vortex, and DD86; The Programmer Includes GadTools and REQTools begin to give you the feel ot piloting a 30 ■ 40 loot tali, fire FOB2: Intrepid - In the Arctic ice you control a tank on a m is­ x e n o m o rp h which wilt a tow you to create your user interfaces and then the breathing, eadh shaking colossus that obeys youf every whim sion to rescue hostages m this superbly crafted Amiga original V/B62: Midi Utilities - Several useful midi utilities including, progtam will automatically generate *C‘ source code or FD27: Arcade Gam es ■ This disk is loaded with some great FD84: Gam es! Deluxe Pat Man is belter than the original-- programs to transfer to and from several music programs to Assombly-code Requires, and writes code tor. AmtgaDOS2+ games Includes. Raceotama a great racing car game with ter. 20+ m azes special ’power ups* with oustantfing g r a p h ic s muli, a mid 1 sysex hander, a midi recorder wth timeoase. drS* DD89; UEdil Probably th e most powerful text editor Over dilfe-ent courses. MiniBlast a helicopter gunship type clone. TTunkAmania s the classic gam e of ccrcentraf:on-with b e a u ti­ play midi info. Me sequence piayer, and a lew scores written lor the Amiga Previously commercial, now public Shark In the sam e class as frogger and SBreakout the eng-nat fu lly d ra w n H iR e s im a g e s W B63: Disk Ulitities t3 - Several highly recommended pro­ doman Req 1 MB breakout with fnoro gram s to a.d in removing duplicate t ies from your hard drive, DD91: ParBench Anows you to easily connect network two FD31: Gam es! - Air Traffic Control - a good ATC simulation, W o r k b e n c h D i s k s / performing file backups. Binary editing, fast formatting, file Armgas CDTVs together and share storage devices Req's Biack Jack Lab - a full featured set of card gam es ChessTei - W B4:Telecom munication - This disk contains several excel­ recovery, d sk track recovery, ard forced disk validation of cor­ custom cable (docs to make cable included-easy). play chess wilh your friend in distant and remote places with lent pc commun cation programs' Access 1 42 . C o m m 1 3 4 & rupt d is k s DD9C: Advanced Utilities - CcmpressDisk ooubles the this gam e and a modem, labyrinth * a well done ie«t adventure Handshake 2.12a See also WB102 4 W8t15 WB66: Icons 9 2 Lots cf neat icons Also, several wonderful capacity of your narddnve on n o fly with com pression"1 Also game (like an intocom gamoi, and MouseTrap - a 3d maze W B5: Fonts *1- 35 bitmap fonts Also included are five program s that fo tel you create your own icons, modify and contans dtsk optimizer. S C S I mount utility. Key map cxStors. g a m e PageStream fonts.and ShowFont a lont display program manipulate icons and info structures Enforcer, Undoloter * more Most programs require 2 0* FD32: Flight Simulator An nstrament simulator for a DClO. WB6: Fonts *2 - Show Font allows you to quickly and W B69: M usic ■ 90 muiutes of classical and modern electronic id e o is k s FD33: Arcade Gam es - Ffreddy a Mano Brothers type of painlessly view all 256 characters in a typical font includes m usic for you Amiga V D / game, Gorbtis a target practice game. PipeLine a German large AmigaDos system lonts (many up to 56plS} W B7S: M usic • over ‘00 instruments files ( inst) and sample V05: Modeling - This demo Vertex, allows you to create 3-D interoretat on of Pipe Dreams. Tron a light cycles version, and W B7: Clip Art This disk is loaded with Clack and wn.te cfcp sound Wes (.ss) objects without using the absfrac! X, Y and 2 views Loads W eiroids a wonderful version of asteroids with a hilarious twist art Art includes, trees watches tools, U S and Stale maps, V/B79: Home 4 Business Accounting - Includes Chbaccs - Scuipt-3D'4D. Turbo Silver, imagine. Lightwave. G EO and FD35: Om ega (v 1.3) • An outstanding dungeon and outdoors a n d m ore the most complete checkbook accounting program going, Wavefront formats MagrcTween wilt metamorphasize any two pics and animate tne fin between' frames. See the DevWare ToolChest to mail-in your order or Order Toll-Free (800) 879-0759! Th(" GRAPEVINE GROUP INC. • NORTH AMERICA’S LARGEST SUPPLIER OF AMIGA CUSTOM CHIPS AND SPECIALTY PARTS •

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ecently, Commodore elected to consolidate their stateside operationst thus making them JL financially stronger. One of the first steps taken was to reduce their inventory in both the U.S. and Canada. In doing this, select distributors were given the opportunity to purchase sizable amounts of new and factory refurbished parts at extraordinarily low prices. This section contains new and refurbished itemst which are indicated by the letters “N ” or R ' to the left of each product. Refurbished does not mean used or pre-owned, but simply factory remanufactured. Some units may have minor imperfections such as scratches or, in the case of some monitors, faulty front doors. With the exception of a minor imperfection, if any, most every thing appears “m ini” and of course everything carries a full 90 day warranty. This is your opportunity to purchase Amiga/Commodore parts and equipment at up to 80% less than an authorized dealer pays.

MONITORS MOTHERBOARDS R 1084$ composite/RGB high resolution N A500 (rev. 3) Complete with all chips including \h meg A g nu s...... $89.95 color monitor with cables. This is the N A500 (revision 5 and up) Includes 8372 1 meg Agnus & 1.3 R O M .....$129.95 latest composite video/RGB monitor R A2000 Includes 6372A Agnus & new 2.04 Operating ROM (great for tower Commodore manufactured...,$129.95 units)...... $299.95 R 1802 composite video high resolution A3000 (various revisions)...... CALL color monitor with cables. Production M R S 803 printer motherboard...... $16,50 monitor prior to 1084 series. Works VGA 286 laptop motherboard...... $179.95 on 64/128 series and Amiga. Also 1571 control motherboard ...... $54.95 an excellent VCR or Toaster C64 motherboard (1984-5 version)...... $29.95 monitor...... $99.95 C128 motherboard (with new ROM s)...... $99.00 R 1702 composite video color monitor with cables...... $84.50 C128D motherboard (with new ROM s)...... $110.00 R 1403 composite high resolution monochrome video with cable...... $65.00 C64C motherboard (revision E) ...... $54.50 R 1930 Bisync high resolution VGA color monitor. This companion to PC40 III motherboard...... $140.00 Commodore's PC series works with IBM/IBM compatibles...... $99.95 PC30/40/60 III ...... C A LL R 1950 14" multisync high resolution VGA color monitor with automatic 1750/64 RAM expansion board ; ...... $19.50 scanning. Works with A600/1200/3000/4000 and IBM/IBM compatibles N Slingshot Pro:* G ives A2000 slot for your A50Q. New design with passthrough. (Predecessor to the 1942)...... $249.95 Now take advantage of all A2000 plug in b o ard s...... $42.50 R A520 RF modulator. Allows you to connect an Amiga (A500/2000/3000) to a TV or composite video monitor. The A520 converts the RGB video signal into KEYBOARDS composite color video...... $22.50 N A500 (American version) $27.50 R A2300 Genlock Board (A2000/3000)..... $64.50 R A500 (U.K. version)...... $22.00 N A600/1200 ...... $29.50 COMPUTER SYSTEMS R A 1 0 0 0 ...... $54.50 N C64...... $17.95 N Amiga 500 with power supply and N A 2 0 0 0 ...... $49.50 R C128D...... $25.95 software (late revision) $169.95 R A 3 0 0 0 ...... $49.95 N PC Series...... $49.95 With STARTER PACK software add..$10.00 N Encoder Board (Mitsumi) (A500/2000)...... $19.00 N Commodore C64C with power supply (latest design and revision) $89.95 POWER SUPPLIES R Commodore C64 with power N A500 (110V)...... $29.95 supply...... S69.95 R A500 (240V U.K. & Europe)...... $24.50 Commodore C65 This is a new C64 just released in Europe with a built in 3 Vi" N A500 Big Foot' (A500/600/1200)...... $79.95 floppy drive on the front (PAL or NTSC)...... $95.50 N A2000 (110/220V).... $89.95 PC10III (XT) No hard drive...... $149.95 N A2000 Big Fool' (300 watts)...... $135.00 PC2QIII (XT) 2 0 meg hard drive...... S169.00 N A3000...... $84.95 PC30III (AT-286) 2 0 meg nard drive...... $229.00 R A3000 (220V)...... $79.95 PC40III (AT-286) 40 meg harddrive ...... $299.95 N C64 (sealed/nonrepairable) 1.5 amp...... $9.95 ADDITIONAL OPTIONS N C64 (repairable)' 1.8 amp...... $24.95 Amiga 1930 VGA Bisync color monitor with any of the "PC Series" computer N C64 4.3 amp heavy duty (also used with 1750 RAM expander)...... $29.95 add...... $79.95 N C1541 11/1581 (external) Limited quantity. Going fast...... $19.95 Commodore 1084$ with any "PC Series" computer add ...... $89.95 220 Volt version available for...... $27.50 N C128D (internal)...... $12.95 SPECIAL PRICE PACKAGES N C128 external 4.3 amp...... $29.95 BONUS PACKAGE A: N PC20 (75 watt)...... $83.5 Commodore C64 with 1541 floppy drive and 1084S (stereo) high resolution N 1680 power supply lor A1200RS modem...... $11.95 color monitor. Includes power supply and cables...... $229.95 BONUS PACKAGE B: DRIVES Commodore C64C (latest version made) with 1571 high density tloppy drive N A500 internal 880 K drive Exact drop-in replacement...... $59.95 and 1084S color monitor. Includes power supply and cables...... $299.95 R A590 hard drive (20 megs) with controller & power supply...... $169.95 BONUS PACKAGE C: With extra 2 megs installed add ...... $74.00 Amiga A500 computer with Software Starter Kit and 1084S (stereo) high R A1010 Amiga external SVz" (loppy (predecessor to A1011)...... $49.95 resolution color monitor. Includes power supply and cables (List price of R A1011 Amiga external ZW‘ floppy...... $54.95 package $449.00) Our price...... $284.95 N A2000 high density drive (1.76 megs)...... $91.50 R A2000 internal drive...... S79.95 MISCELLANEOUS N 2090A hard drive controller (no memory)...... $17.95 N A10 Commodore computer speakers with built in amplilier...... $19.95 N 2091 hard drive controller (new ROMs)...... $64.50 N MPS1230 Commodore printer (same as Citizen 120} tractor/friction ...$59.95 R A3070 150 meg tape backup (complete)...... $229.95 R A2300 Genlock Board (A2000/A3000)...... $64.50 R 1541 complete floppy drive with cable...... $64.95 N Amiga 8375 Agnus Chip (390544-01 UK/Europe PAI type)...... S24.95 R 1541 replacement control board only ...... $30.00 N 3Va (880K) Commodore diskette with various software that can be erased. This N A1541 -II complete stand alone floppy drive...... $90.50 is a new disk available at a low price. 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