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Phone (03) 9326-0133 Fax (03) 9370-8352 email commagic ma a cid.com.au In business and in AMI A since 1987 • Editorial Dribble 4 • AWorld Wide Web 26 Michael thinks it is about time we Guy Nathan has a talk with web have a new Amiga to play with. designer Colin Thompson. • Amiga News 6 • "The Jay Miner Society" 28 Michael Gruber hosts the Amiga News Michael Gruber starts the first Pages with the latest Amiga action. of a 3 part series on this Society. • AAG97 Show report 10 • Final Writer 5 Reviewed 30 Darren Roberson covered the Grant Regan fires up the trusty Amiga Gathering 97 Sydney show. word processor (the one we use). • Amiga and Video Part 7 13 • The Best of Public Domain ... 34 Paul Graham takes us into the world Daniel Hajduk reviews five more of music, sound effects and visuals. of the best PD programs. • T.A.E.N 18 • Getting Involved 37 Basil Flinter starts up a new column Because of the many inquiries at the covering Amiga and education. show we are rerunning the UG page. • Official Statment from Al .... 22 • Dear Dianna 38 For everyone who didn't make it Dianna helps parents to the show. cope with young ones. • Official Al show report 23 • AAG Information Page 39 The official Amiga International report Where to find us and how on the show by Basil Hinter. you can be involved. tFrsataat6a.c sl.atga ÿa3ette fuly47 3 Editorial Dribble Firstly, I must say thank you very get me wrong, I think the much to everyone who stopped 'Infiniti? is a great case and I at the AAG stand at the show to will get one for our 1200, but all say hello and express their we are seeing is brick-veneer appreciation for our efforts. It being nailed onto an old fribro really makes the frustrating bits house. of organizing a show fade into insignificance. It is not like Amiga users are asking for new cutting edge Overall the show turned out to Technology like a computer that be a great success; so much so has stereo sound, displays 4098 that we are working on a colours on the screen and can Melbourne show for October multitask in only 512K of 1997 - 'AAG MK II" which is memory. No, we would be happy shaping up to be twice as big as with just being up to speed with the Sydney show. the remainder of the world. Well we are finally seeing the Until a company, be it Al or cogs of Amiga International other, comes out with a complete turning. Al has granted licences system in the box ready for the to companies to produce varied average home user to buy over Amiga configurations, one of the counter, take home and plug which Is the 'Infinitiv in (including monitor and printer), Towersystem". Stated in their plus spend some real dollars on press release, The new infinitiv marketing the said system, the towersystem represents a further Amiga market will remain in milestone in the successful suspended animation (iff format). Amiga history'. The timing Is right. The For those who don't know the mainstream PC market has 'Infinitiv" is basically a modified assimilated all of Amiga's PC case that will house a 1200 characteristics to some degree motherboard fitted with a bus and has run out of ideas. Many expansion card. Sorry no PC users have become milestone in Amiga history more disillusioned with mainstream like a yard-pebble. A new Amiga PC and are hungry for a new model with PPC driven (really a redesigned Amiga) motherboard could be platform. considered as a milestone. Don't 4 ,Qua.eut.claa rlaKga 9aiette Rao 7 ' ga 1 ~ Po "4 *AAG* Australian Amiga Gazette Australiann ~ Amiga ~ thering97 0 ~ MK n C6 `Iagopo otaj tilned to thiS pUD e for all the detailiS I'm your host Michael Gruber and here is the news Welcome to another edition of practical features. AAG news. l'm your host Michael Gruber, here to inform you of the The base tower unit can be latest on Amiga from around the expanded vertically with snap and world and at home. click 'top case" expansion modules, adding extra drive bays Then there is the A1300 system First the International news... to the original tower as required. by MicroniK which is an A1200 motherboard fitted into the Infinitiv It's Alive... Alive! The other powerful feature of the Tower System, but without the Towersystem is the Bus-Board. Bus-Board expansion unit. Yet to be confirmed, a company called Alive Mediasoft are The Bus-Board unit expands the Contact G-Soft the Australian involved with Direct Software in original A1200 motherboard, distributer for Micron'K. converting popular game titles providing Zorro slots for standard from mainstream computer Amiga expansion cards. It also Fusion Power platforms. includes an A3000/A4000 compatible CPU slot, allowing the Blittersoft have announced the Direct Software an Amiga dealer use of accelerators normally release of Fusion. The new MAC in the UK who announced the limited to the high-end Amigas. emulator for Amiga. release of the Power Amiga (a A1200 upgrade package) are also In fact MicroniK are releasing While few details were available rumoured to have been involved several models of their to AAG at the time, a full review of with converting popular gable Towersystems. this exciting new product should titles like Doom and Dark Forces be made available soon. to Amiga. Such initiatives started The A1500 will feature the 12-3i" by Direct Software will now version of the Bus-Board which Amiga Access'd apparently be shared with Alive will provide five Zorro II/III Slots, Mediasoft. one PC-ISA slot, two PC-PCI Last issue AAG reviewed the slots, one optional Video slot, one Access Amiga by Index a United Tower above the rest SCSI-2 controller and one CPU Kingdom company. A3000/A4000 slot, plus a pass AAG News have just received through connection to the original News has just come to hand that word that Amiga International A1200 CPU port. Amiga International, following have signed the first license through with their open licensing agreement with MicroniK. The next model down, the A1400, policy, have now licensed Index features the 2-2i" version of the to produce the Access system. MlcroniK, a German Amiga Bus-Board which provides five developer, produce the MicroniK Zorro II slots (no Zorro III cards This agreement allows Index to Infinitiv Towersystem. here), two PC-ISA slots, two PC- use the Amiga OS on their PCI slots, one optional Video slot machines. If or when Access is The Infinitly Towersystem Is a and a pass through to the original made available to retailers rather tower case and expansion system A1200 expansion port. This than just the commercial sector, which houses a A1200 version does not include the motherboard. A3000IA4000 CPU compatible expansion slot. ~ P8 The Infinitiv system offers several 6 fFaxdaatlaa s4a+c6ga 9agette /f ra497 ~ Amiga Hardware Call 10971 368-055 ~ MOTHERBOARD COMPUTERS 42 Manning Street Kingswood NSW 2747 Ph(047) 368-055 [email protected] www.pnc.com.au/ymother more then consumers will have the Showgrounds, home to the Royal presented at AAG'97. security of knowing that these Easter Show for the last hundred machines should be 100% Amiga years.