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Digital Universe, from Canadian- time, an internal clock is also Universe informed me that a CD- based developers Syzygy quite essential. ROM version is certainly in the Research and Technology is a pipeline and should be available program which provides a view of In the processor stakes. Digital for the second half of this year. the heavens from any point on the Universe isn't fussy, however, a globe at any date. Celestial minimum of a 68030 and 68882 A DIGITAL OBSERVATORY bodies such as stars, planets, co-processor is definitely The depth of detail contained in galaxies, and nebulae are recommended especially when Digital Universe is staggering. represented on your Amigâ s the program displays real-time Digital Universe is a well-crafted monitor as pixels of varying size updates of the sky. Finally, for the work of art, and it is the product of and intensity. Digital Universe sake of detail and realism I would a collaborative effort on a vast shows the positions provide co- also recommend a high resolution scale clearly involving countless ordinates and show the rising, monitor. hours of work and research. setting and motion of the stars in Digital Universe incorporates real-time or at an accelerated rate. Digital Universe was tested on my contributions from many great which has a 25mhz institutions and individuals such Digital Universe also includes an 68040, 2Mb of Chip ram and 8 Mb as the Smithsonian Institute, Yale extensive AmigaGuide of fast ram. University, and NASA. encyclopedia which includes everything you wanted to know INSTALLATION One example of the prodigious about space and astronomy and Installation is performed using the amount of work and the attention which caters for the amateur and standard Commodore Installer. No to detail which this program professional alike. surprises here other than with 14 contains is the use, where disks to install you should have a possible, of mapped surfaces for REQUIREMENTS good book handy. Digital Universe the planets. When you zoom in on With 14 disks, a hard-drive is includes installation options for a planet such as Mars you are essential. Installation requires different processors and for viewing the actual mapped 11 Mb for the economy installation systems with or without co- surface of the red planet, and if and 17Mb for the full installation: processors. running the time advancement quite reasonable considering that feature at an accelerated rate the you effectively have the universe Digital Universe provides the user planet will rotate (unless you contained on your hard-drive. with the option to install the decide to run the time Even prior to installation it is clear complete 17Mb version or a 11 Mb advancement feature in real-time that Digital Universe is a very version which lacks the and wait 24.6229 hours for the comprehensive program. encyclopedia's image and audio rotation to complete!!!) files.. If pressed for space, my Digital Universe requires Magic advise would be to sacrifice For the 'Time Advancement' User Interface 2.3 or greater but something to find the additional feature and for determining the comes supplied with the 6Mb on your hard-drive. location of the stars and planets in rudiments of this program to get it the future and in the past, Digita up and running. Digital Universe For a program of this size Syzygy also requires AmigaOS 2.04 or should consider a CD version. I greater, and a minimum of 3Mb of spoke to Dan Charrois, founder of P12 ram. As Digital Universe works on Syzygy and the creator of Digital ~

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Universe utilizes the current the latitude and longitude to the position; the distance from Earth; VSOP87D theory on planetary second and to key in the altitude, the next rise; the solar elongation; motion and the ELP200-85 temperature, and air-pressure as the brightness and visibility; the theory of lunar motion. variables. These are vital when objects motion in terms of attempting to obtain an accurate arcseconds per year, radial Through the 'Time Control' representation of the heavens as velocity, rotational velocity, and window which is launched from Digital Universe will compensate escape velocity in terms of the 'Projects' menu, the user can for the distortion and refraction in kilometres per second; the select to view the heavens at any the atmosphere caused by such designation and Dreyer time between 999998C and AD environmental factors. description; and the 1000+ 99999. Obviously, the further that database classification and you are away from the present Further options for accuracy of description. Major objects such as date, the less accurate the representation and detail are planets and galaxies have a positions are likely to be. presented in the 'Display/Objects further link to information, images, However, I'm willing to give Digital Preferences' window. Digital and sound-files contained with the Universe the benefit of the doubt Universe also allows the user to hypertext encyclopedia. in these calculated predictions. factor in precession, aberration, Digital Universe also allows the proper motion, and nutation. In With the 'Environmental user to set the time to 'Dynamical layman's terms, Digital Universe Preferences' window or 'Open Time' which is based on the time will factor in the planetary 'wobble' Control Panel' which is a floating kept by atomic clocks. generated by the gravitational pull toolbar the user may enable or of neighbouring objects. disable the various star The second of the card-file menus classifications and names such as in the 'Time Control' window Digital Universe incorporates the the NGC classifications, the controls the time advancement Bayer Designations, the Yale galaxies, the miscellaneous feature. This window allows the Bright Star catalogue, the objects such as comets and user to either manually advance Smithsonian Astrophysical asteroids, the constellation the movement of the heavens by Observatory (SAO) Star groupings, the co-ordinates, and a number of units of time Catalogue, the Messier's Deep the horizon. This floating toolbar measurement. The heavens may Sky objects (the 'M' also contains magnification also be updated automatically in classification), the NGC 2000.0 controls and arrow controls to pan real-time to advancing the motion Database, the 1000+ database the display around the sky. The of the heavens by years in a and detailed information on Open Control Panel provides matter of seconds or minutes. comets, asteroids, minor planets, clear and easy access to Digital Digital Universe also allows the and satellites. With a future Universe's primary features and user to lock onto a particular upgrade, Syzygy hope to also controls. object or region when using the include the Hubble Guide Star 'Time Advancement' feature. This Catalogue. With this information, Digital Universe contains a is particularly useful when you Digital Universe can display number of other useful features wish to track the motion of a according to time and global for star and planetary observation. particular object across the night position, the location of well over The 'Fields of View' window sky. a quarter of a million celestial allows you to preset 20 fields of objects! view: this feature is useful if you In the 'Environmental are observing a particular event Preferences' window, Digital Select any of these seemingly over a series of nights and want Universe allows the user to select innocuous points of light with your to automatically return to that from over 1230 pre-defined mouse pointer and Digital location. locations across the globe in Universe will display an comparison to just 100 in Distant information window containing Suns. In selecting the location of detailed information on the observation, Digital Universe also objects name and various allows the user to manually select catalogue designations; its

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Digital Universe also includes a despite the extensive guide to creating an animation corrupt IFF 'Night Vision' feature which terminology. Moreover, a number and ANIM image files due the way presents the screen display in a of the images seem to be they store screen data. Other than shades of red. This is a handy overused as they pop up this no major problems should be feature when observing the night regularly. experienced. sky as the bright light from a computer monitor affects the LIMITATIONS For inclusions, I would like to see observer's night vision and can I find it difficult to fault Digital Digital Universe include the same interfere with the quality of image Universe. If I have one complaint off-planets views as Distant Suns. received with a telescope. it would be that the images are Moreover, A good idea would be if clearly in HAM or 16 colour format the encyclopedia could be run ENCYCLOPEDIA GALACTICA and therefore often of very through a web browser and Digital Universe incorporates an mediocre quality. Syzygy have contained links to important on-line AmigaGuide, hypertext clearly decided to use these astronomical web-sites. encyclopedia which is sure to image formats in order to allow contain almost everything you Digital Universe to be run on CONCLUSION wanted to know about the OCs, ECS, and AGA Amigas No expense has been spared on universe. The information is alike. May be Syzygy should have detail and accuracy yet for the comprehensive and informative. considered using 24-bit datatype price, Digital Universe is a 'Big The encyclopedia is divided into in the JPEG format thereby Bang' for your Buck. several 'chapters' relating to the allowing Multiview to display the history, principles and laws of images at a resolution that each If you are a professional or astronomy; a guide to the planets, individual machine is capable of. amateur astronomer then Digital moons and other bodies both real Of course however, this would Universe is absolutely indispensable. and speculated in our Solar considerably increase the loading I belong to the latter category and System; a detailed list of time on image files and limit I have found this program so spacecraft, man-made satellites Digital Universe to AmigaOS 3.x fascinating, so absorbing that I and missions; an account of equipped machines. Obviously have decided to buy it for myself. people who were and are too, using 24-bit images would important to the advancement of increase the number of install Registered users can obtain the science; a list of astronomical disks. updates direct from Syzygy or the terms; and a thorough account of from the Syzygy website. objects beyond our Solar System. Digital Universe is reputed to crash on a number of third party Our thanks to Amilight for If any complaint can be made of graphics cards. I spoke to Dan providing Digital Universe for our he encyclopedia is that some of Charrois about this and he review. the information is a little informed me that some cards inaccessible to the lay person, when snapshoting a screen or

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Cloanto have release the latest and 24-bit DataTypes. This large into HTML links. For example, a revision of their palette-based selection makes it the perfect map of Australia could be edited paint program for the Amiga. program for Internet Web page so each of the states is a graphics design. With all the separate area. This would allow The 'Limited Edition" of Personal graphical formats used on the individual links to be assigned to Paint 7.0 comes on a three and Internet today, a program like each area. In this case you could half inch CDROM disk wrapped in PPaint is ideal. Two formats which have a HTML link point to tourist a small cardboard envelope. A are recommended are GIF and information about each state. neat little environmentally friendly PNG - both support transparency package. and progressive display. This Another feature for web page means you can create graphics graphics that PPaint features is There are no old fashion manuals. which blend with background colour reduction. Colour reduction The manual for the program has colours smoothly and progressive is another factor in reducing the been written in the standard display means larger graphics can size of web page graphics and 'Amigaguide" format and is rather be quickly viewed by web ensures quicker transfer. PPaint large. From the manual several browsers in a low resolution then makes this easier with tools animated tutorials can be with greater and greater detail tailored to this task. While I may executed with a dick of a button until the original picture and go on and on about how suitable (or from Workbench using their resolution have been downloaded. PPaint is for the Internet, it has icons). These demonstrations Handy for graphic intensive web other features which enhance the show you features of Personal pages. more traditional applications of Paint and how to use them. paint programs.

Personal Paint 7.0 is packed with Colour Merge is a feature which features. The first you encounter allows the palettes of two or more on start up won't even be noticed. pictures to merge into one. This That's PPaint's autoconfiguring means you can cut and paste set up. It has been designed to pieces of pictures together without examine your system's aUTO resulting in colour palette environment and configure itself conflicts. It has a built in grab to make optimum use of these screen function. It's a handy resources. Some of the things AO ~Pa addition and means there's no PPaint adapts itself to are; the requirement for a separate language set, the screen mode program to do this task. PPaint used, CPU, chip set, graphics also has all the traditional brush system, memory and operating tools for manipulation of brushes. system on your system. All done without a requester or an assign Personal Paint 7.0 incorporates a statement in sight. ‘V .. . . ?`3.sC powerful animation facility. It supports the ANIM-5, ANIM-7 and An important feature which PPaint Another feature PPaint includes to has included is the support of a make creating web graphics vast range of file formats. The easier is a map editor. The map formats it can work with are editor allows a user to designate PhotoCD, GIF, BMP, JPEG, PBM multiple areas of a single graphic fludtaa.ttR.rc o4.atga. g

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ANIM-8 formats. With PPaint's which can be directly accessed there are no pictures to help guide animation °Storyboard" it is from the toolbar and a "plug-in" you through the explanations. possible to manipulate individual library system enabling PPaint to When the tutorials mention a or groups of frames easily with adapt to new input/output formats. function, there's no picture of the this visual interface viewing all the This means hardware like function's icon to help you frames in a thumbnail format. scanners (ScanQuix a commercial recognise it. Nor are there any PPaint has also been scanner has a plug-in library screenshots to show you how the programmed to create more available from RBM) or screens screen should look when working effective animations. It allows can be easily supported by through the tutorials. I would have different palettes between frames loading a new library file. It also preferred some graphics and has improved file allows the replacement of critical embedded into the guides or have compression. code which can exploit future the manual HTML based and system configurations like 68040 viewed with a simple browser. One method PPaint is able to or PowerPC processors. As these Cloanto's alternative is a lengthy compress animation files is by plug-in libraries are created, they description of what the functions removing duplicate frames which will be made available free of look like and where they're are sometimes inserted to ensure charge on Cloanto's web site positioned. Eventually it's made correct timing. PPaint is able to (http://www.cloanto.com/amiga/) clear, but takes a lot more time. strip identical frames and replace or through hardware and software them with a single frame and a vendors. PPaint 7.0 has all the features new timing value. This can reduce you would expect from an Amiga the size of animation files The CDROM edition includes paint program. Those of you who dramatically. documentation for developers, used Dpaint for many years might extra artwork and tutorial want to check this one out. Edited animations can also be animations (as mentioned before). Cloanto's commitment to the stored in FAST RAM which frees I've only discussed some of the Amiga will ensure this product has up CHIP RAM normally used for features Personal Paint 7.0 has to a well supported future. graphic purposes. PPaint can also otter; there are many more just as play animations straight from disk. outstanding included with the One last point. Contact your More features PPaint contains package. dealer and ensure your CDROM are thumbnail pictures that can be drive can handle three and a half created quickly for entire The only negative thing I feel I inch CDROMs. A few very old directories. should mention (maybe its just ones won't. me) is the documentation. It is There is a extensive comprehensive and detailed and Our. thanks to Amadeus interface adding up to 180 environmentally friendly, but its all Computers for supplying the commands, including scripts text based. What I mean is that review copy.

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If you're looking to venture further Some lower priced Genlocks will If you have followed the wireing than our elementary lesson of last only allow you to use colour O - diagram as above you can now month, you'll quickly learn that black(the background colour) as start your titling program. For this AMIGA Desktop Video really the KEYED colour, but the better exercise let's write the words, comes to life with the addition of a and sometimes more expensive AUSTRALIAN AMIGA GAZETTE. Genlock. A Genlock is a relatively Genlocks will allow you to change You can write anything that suits low priced piece of hardware the key colour, giving you greater your needs. Ok, can you see the capable of overlaying your control over your final picture. title on the television or monitor AMIGA graphics over live video Genlocks are available for the screen that is connected to the signals, superimposing moving AMIGA from quite a few different recording V.C.R.? If not, check titles or animations over your live makers and are priced on the your leads and make sure they video footage. variation of features and what they are plugged in correctly and The process of overlaying can do. You will not have the securely. The next step is to computer graphics onto video is same flexability and features with press play on our camcorder or but a minor function of the a $150.00 Genlock, as you would second V.C.R, and press record Genlock. A Genlock carries out with one costing $1000.00. You on the record V.C.R. Now we three basic functions to get the will have to decide on which model should be able to see our video results we see on Our monitors. and price, to suit your own budget picture through the title we can Firstly a Genlock encodes. This and what you want to be able to see on the monitor. If not you will is where the AMIGA'S R.G.B. achieve with it. have to read the Genlock's setting output is converted into the up instructions. Now that we necessary video format that the For our tuturial you will need have seen how a Genlock can Genlock can recognise. the following equipment superimpose your AMIGA In Australia this is the PAL 1.An AMIGA and monitor graphics over our video footage, television format, be it composite 2. Camcorder or second V C R how do we do the opposite, and or S-video. Secondly when the 3. Genlock put the video picture over the AMIGA'S video signal has been 4. Recording V.C.R AMIGA'S graphics? encoded, it is then synchronised 5. Television or second monitor A good example of this is on the together or locked- this is where 6. Correct video cables and leads nightly news program, during the the term Genlocking comes into 7. A blank video tape weather report, when you see the play- the combining of two video weather man pointing at the map signals together at a synchronised WARNING of Australia with the weather pulse level. TURN OFFALL EQUIPMENT BEFORE patterns on it. The Genlock's third function is to MAKING ANY CONNECTIONS This system is called allow the superimposing of one Chromakeying. The weather man video signal over the top of is actually pointing at a plain blue another signal. This works on the background. Its not until his image principle of a KEY colour. is fed through a Chromakey, that The KEY colour is used to the map graphics are added. replace a particular colour in the There are many TV programs and AMIGA picture with a video signal. movies that use the Chromate for

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26 o4a¢ezattaK Amara ryaseete '%'lGaa97 special effects. you want your video production to version mm 400. Another one A fine example of this, is when appear in full colour. good for animating your titles is you see Superman flying across Chromakey systems work by Adorage V2.5. With this program the screen above tall buildings. In adapting both the Chroma and you will be able to create quite a fact Superman is actually Luma content of the video signal varied number of screen positioned on a flat surface in front and removing certain areas of the transitions that really look of a plain blue background and, picture through colour keying professional. with a fan blowing his hair, he (removing a specified colour from This program was reviewed in the simulates flying over the objects the source signal). The word inaugural edition of Australian around him. The image of Chromakey can be translated as Amiga Gazette and was rated an Superman is then Chromakeyed 'colour removal' as this is what a overall 82.5%. Adorage V2.5 is for onto the computer graphic, or film Chromakey system does. It will those people frustrated at slow screen that the director thinks will remove every pixel of a specified animation playback It is truly an look more realistic for the film. colour and replace it with the animation effects program that will In order to understand how a colour and brightness of the video let the budding video director Chromakey works, you need to signal. have, at his or her command, the understand how a video signal is There are some Chromakey necessary tilting effects all at the structured. Video signals are systems for the AMIGA, but they touch of the mouse button. made up of two essential are not stand alone devices, and Well, I'll be back next issue with ingredients, these being need the aid of a Genlock. a tutorial on editing your video, so Chromanence and Luminance. Simply using your Genlock for until then see you later. Paul. The Chromanence carries the still titles and graphics can If any of you have any trouble colour information, and the become a tad boring after a while, with anything about VIDEO and Luminance, the brightness so most video titling programs AMIGA drop me a line to: information. If the luma is removed offer a comprehensive range of from the picture, you end up with a wipes and fades to spruce up your Australian Amiga Gazette, very dark coloured image, and if video production. One of the best Amiga & Video you remove the Chroma, you get video tools as far as titling and Suite 19, 9-11 Abel Street a black and white picture. Both of graphics manipulation is Penrith NSW 2750. these signals are very important if concerned, is Scala, now up to ULTIMA AMIGA 96 Bentinck St, Ba hurst, 2795 PD SOFTWARE Ph. (063) 322611 Fax. (063) 322623 YOUR LARGE RANGE OF AMIGA SOFTWARE AMIGA DEALER PH: (02) 9560 9370 SINCE 1989 WEST OF THE MOUNTAINS IN NEW SOUTH WALES PHONE OR WRITE FOR FREE CATALOGUE ONLY AMIGA SOLD HERE

PO BOX 270 WE SPECIALISE IN AMIGAS PETERSHAM, NSW FOR HOME AND SCHOOL 2049 Hardware, Software, Service Warp factor 5 and don't spare the There has been a lot of discussion promotional video that they were engines Scotty. If you feel the on the Internet about the best ac- broadcasting at the beginning of need for speed, this baby really celerator for Video Editing. Most the year (don't tell them I was flies. This is the latest version of people have been stating that the doing it. All copies have been the Phase Five accelerator for Macrosystem Warp Engine destroyed anyway) I gained the AMIGA 4000's and 3000's. It 68040/40mhz is the fastest option. following results. utilises the current Motorola Not to be mistaken with the Macro 68060 processor giving the Amiga System that makes the Vlab and With the old Cyberstorm capturing 82mips of processing power. Tocatta. The reason the Warp 768x592 Pal overscan video with Equivalent to an Intel Pentium Engine has it supporters is due to 16bit 48khz Dat Quality audio, I 150mhz. The currently available the very high transfer rates that could reliably use 60% motion version is equipped with the the onboard SCSI is capable of. Jpeg quality setting. This is 50mhz external, 100mhz internal slightly less than VHS-Q 220 lines processor and the board is readily When buying a Cyberstorm MKII it quality. Slightly fuzzy but still upgradable to the 66/132mhz ver- is worthwhile getting the Cyber amazing quality coming off the sion when it is released in quan- SCSI module at the same time. hard drive. With the Cyberstorm tities from Motorola. In the future This plug in module gives you MKII I was able to achieve 65% there may even be an 80/160mhz very fast disk access to any SCSI quality. Then I tried the Warp version, approximately 132mips of devices you attach to it. Engine 040/40. Unfortunately the real processing power. Warp engine didn't want to see There have been others on the the JAZ drive that I was using for What can you do with this much internet that have stated that the the Audio partition, so I could only power? Well any sort of graphics Cyberstorm MKI and the old test the video capture side. With processing will fly by, But the one CyberSCSI are faster than the video only I was only able to get thing that works well with the new one. 60% for a short period of time. Cyberstorm MKII is Digital non- 55% was more stable for video linear Video Editing using an Well I have just exhaustively capture. The Audio side adds Amiga equipped with a Vlab- tested all three options, and I can about 15% for stereo 48khz 16bit Motion Video capture card and tell you that the Cyberstorm MKII Audio and about 10% for 32khz Tocatta sound card. comes out in front. While captur- 16bit Audio. So for the Warp ing a two minute Channel Nine Engine to capture Video and Audio It would only achieve about 45%-50% Motion Jpeg quality on high spec video.

The reason for the apparently low quality capture is that the promo- tional video has a lot of colour and motion, with fade between scenes giving the Jpeg a hard time to compress 50 Fields a second. IWa

28 fiscatualta,c "4.Ktga ÿa3cttc 71taa97 When using 65% quality there is reason the 060 doesn't speed up only comes with two little plastic no real visible video faults at 50 some games is that the game pegs to hold it in place. The fields per second. It would qualify uses 68881 mathematics code for Cyberstorm really should have as Broadcast quality, because the the calculations. This is fine for four but as no one makes these video is moving so fast any Jpeg all processors up to the 68030. any more we will have to com- artifacting is invisible. If you The 68040 incorporated the promise. For the people with two freeze frame on any frame you 68882 maths processor and some pegs put them in the two holes will see weird little artifacts that 68881 functions. In the 060 the furthest from the CPU connector. appear pretty horrible. When the 68881 functions are no longer If you have purchased any RAM video is moving there is nothing directly supported. That means if (Strongly recommended) for the you can pinpoint. the CPU is given a 68881 math 68060, install it before installing calculation to do, it stops and the CPU into the machine. The When using the Cyberstorm MKII goes what the hell was that, it MKII auto detects all simms and it to capture Babylon 5 or the Late realises it is an old function that can even use EDO ram. EDO is Show I was able to record them at has to be emulated. So it clears Extended Data Out RAM currently 80% Jpeg quality, as they had no all internal caches and super- used by most Pentium equipped where near the same transitions scalar read ahead buffers. Then it PC's. This makes the price of in colour and size. executes the instruction through Ram really cheap. I have just put The worst thing to capture with an emulator and restarts process- 128mb of EDO ram into the my the Vlab-Motion card is Video of a ing as normal. Now if the game MKII for about $800. I have paid waterfall up dose, uses a lot of these instructions it more for 8mb in the past. EDO is really burying the CPU in use- ram also gives you another 2-3 The Video capture drive I was less emulation. 68060 will run mips in processing power. using on all three system tests slower than a 68030 at 50mhz. was a Seagate Barracuda II high This is not what you paid good The next step is to remove the speed 2gb drive. This drive will money for. Luckily most people hard drive tray that sits between store about 30 mins of video at realise the problems and are 80% Jpeg quality. That is about either releasing patches for the 1.4mb a second for both the video existing programs or programming and audio per second. new games to be 060 aware.

What else is it good for? Well So now that you have decided emulating a Machintosh is ex- you want one, how would you go tremely nice. You have the worlds about installing it? This is fairly fastest Mac below the power simple with the MKII compared to Mac's. In fact the 68060 at 50mhz the MKI as there is a single CPU the power supply and the expan- external is quite a bit faster than board instead of three. sion back plane. Unfortunately I the PPC601 at 110mhz. It may can't tell how to do this for the even equal a PPC603 at 100mhz Before you even open the Amiga 3000 and the manual only except for mathematics speed. machine you must run the states that the jumpers must be You can play DOOM and X-wing Cyberstorm install software as the changed back to their original with no problems. I have used 68060 will not even boot work- positions if another accelerator Netscape gold and internet ex- bench if you have the old 68040 has been previously used in the plorer from Microsoft at blinding library installed. Though you can 3000. The second thing to watch speed. To use the Mac programs run the 060 from boot with No- out for is that on most A3000 and correctly you need a 24bit Startup. Setpatch tries to load A3000T there is a design fault graphics card. specific code for the 68040 and that causes Zorro 3 expansions to the 060 goes nuts trying to be an fail. In order to use the What about the Games? On the 040. CyberSCSI you must have a Amiga side some like the 060 and patch hardwired into you some cause problems. I can't tell You then can remove your old machine. This will allow all Zorro you at the moment which games CPU either the 68030 or 68040 work and which ones don't, or from Commodore or a third party which ones have decent 060 accelerator. Unfortunately I think patches to make them work. The the 68030 CPU from Commodore

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3 expansions to run with the 060. CPU board to be patched and plug in I fall out board for the ram As for the A4000, if you are in- upgraded by software that is sockets. It is upgradable to faster stalling the Cyberstorm MKII with copied into the ROM on the 060's when they become avail- the 060, the motherboard jumper board. Before you can attempt to able and hardware/rom patches must be set to INT (for internal dock). install the CyberSCSI module you can be loaded via software rather must change the only jumper on than the couple of nasty hacks the 060 board to the on position- that can be seen on my this will enable flashrom writing. Cyberstorm MKI. The really big promise that was made for the MKI was an ethernet plugin board. As far as I know this never appeared but it was a nice dream. The 060 equipped machine would really love a 100mbit ethernet card for serious computer users Last but not least is the ROM ver- as they often have more than one sion. You should have Amiga 3.1 machine. When you have multiple roms before installing a Boot the 060 from the CyberSCSI machines with huge amounts of Cyberstorm MKII, but it has been install disk and run the CLI update data being processed you just proven that the occasional 3.0 program supplied. You can then have to wait for the files to be rom works. I have found that the shut down the system and install transferred over 10mbit ethernet, reason this works is that a small the SCSI module. While you are boring. I just wish that Phase 5 number of the last Commodore there change the jumper back so had not dropped this option from 4000's have a hybrid ROM- it tells nothing can accidentally update either the old or new board as it the world it is 3.0 but it has 95% the flashrom. You will have to un- would make the 060 accelerator of the 3.1 ROM code on it. screw the blanking expansion the final word in powerful computing. plate and screw the SCSI-II con- The best way to prove which one nector in place. The SCSI module As a final note, almost anything you have is by going into and the external connector both that can be made to work on an HDToolbox, advanced partition have jumpers for termination and 040 accelerator will work on an options. Change file system, in options. It is best to read the man- 060. The only known exception to here you should see a cycle gad- ual and set these to your this rule is if you use get that is set to File Block Size = requirements. emulation to log into the internet 512. Only 3.1 has this function. with a PPP device driver - the machine will crash. The solution When I did my install I did not to this problem is, before running remove the front cover or floppy Mac emulation goto the CLI and drive trays. Even with 128mb of run the supplied set060 command RAM it was very easy to slip the with the switch NS. This disables CPU board under the 5 1/4" tray, the Superscalar mode. What per- making sure the two or four plas- formance degradation this may tic pegs stay upright and position cause has not yet been tested. the accelerator. Some programs compiled for the old procesors may not be as fast Once again I recommend you buy as expected. Now that Storm C the CyberSCSI at the same time has a native 060 compiler these for simplicity as well as the good problems will fade away. SCSI controller, The first trap for OK what don't I like about the young players is that the Cyberstorm MKII. Not much really. Cyberstorm is now equipped with It now Autoconfigs any type of a Flash-ROM. This allows the memory, it doesn't have a verticle

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located in the 'Links" page. This a link every time you run the in turn is found in the 'GUI" sub- browser. menu which is accessed from the 's 'Bookmark" file is used 'Settings" menu. Add 'file://P to for this purpose. Its filename is the front of the load path. It is a 'Bookmarks. HTML" and is located prefix used by browsers to identify in Voyager's root directory (just Where as our 'Connect to the files which are stored locally on enter 'file:///bookmarks.html" in Internet" articles showed you how your computer. the home page field if you want to to install software for use on the If you want Voyager to start from use it). Internet, this series will look at your home page located on your The 'Bookmark" is a HTML file some of their features. Internet Service Provider's (ISP) created and maintained by server, then enter its web address Voyager. There are a few ways The first program well explore is in this field using the "http://" you can add links to this file. the web browser. Voyager is one prefix. This prefix tells Voyager to The first and quickest is by click- of the first browsers created for load the file from the Internet. ing the 'Add" button which is the Amiga. Its simplicity allows Remember, if you haven't con- located to the right of the quick and ready access to web nected to your ISP and start 'Location" field. pages. Voyager, then it will return a This will add the web address of 'Unknown URL transfer method" the current web page you are While simple, it does have a few error because it couldn't locate viewing to the end of the features I want to describe. the file. Bookmark file. When you start Voyager it loads a The most useful application for Another method is to select 'home page'. This start up page the home page is to store all your 'Open..." from the 'Bookmarks" can be anything you want it to be. favourite web links. When menu which will open the To set the home page of your Voyager starts you can Bookmark window. Clicking 'New choice enter the full load path of instantly click on a link and go. Bookmark" will then activate the your file in the 'Home page." field This saves you repeatedly typing 'Title" and 'Name" fields. The name of the link which is dis- played is defined by the title field. The web address, including the necessary prefix, is entered into the name field. From the Bookmark window you can create 'Groups". These are labels you can give to a group of links. In the Bookmark file these are shown as titles at the top of lists. All the entries in the Bookmark window can be dragged and dropped into different positions using your mouse. This way any new links added to

rludt'radtaK rlMctga gayette 71t a97 31 the Bookmark (which are inserted browsing that Voyager has are the show you in Voyager. Customising at the bottom of the list) can be Fastlink buttons. the Internet will be a small series dragged into a group or another These are a row of buttons of articles which will go on to ex- place using your mouse without located below the Location field plain the handy features in the typing a thing. on the Voyager screen. other programs which AAG had The final method of entering data They are the quickest method of you install for the Internet. in the Bookmark file is using a text telling Voyager where you want to If you have any questions or Sug- editor as this is a plain text file. go. gestions then write to AAG or This shouldn't be required con- The Fastlink buttons are program- email me at:: sidering what Voyager provides to med from the same place you edit [email protected] edit this file. the load path for the home page. A final point regarding the The Fastlink buttons can be Bookmark file. One group can be programmed to access local or selected as a 'Menu". All links in Internet based files, just like the this group, including any sub- home page. Just for your informa- groups will be displayed at the tion URL, which is what the bottom of the Bookmark menu Fastlink address fields are called, and so can be accessed from the stands for Uniform Resource menu bar. Locator. This is the term given to Internet addresses. The other handy feature for web These are the features I wanted to

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The Guru3.0 was compiled to run from the using IFF pictures, but a large I'm sure we have all experienced CLI only. Programs which are range of them including the it at some time or another, using intended for Workbench use popular GIF and PCX file a program that causes your need special startup-code. formats. With this introduction Amiga to crash, giving you that we have also seen the need to red flashing box with a series of The Guru will install onto your be able to convert these images numbers in it that usually doesn't hard-disk easily thanks to a from one format to another. This mean anything to you. Have you simple installer. There is a is where GfxCon enters the ever wondered what those Amiga Guide file included with scene. numbers mean and what caused the utility which covers what your Amiga to crash. If you system requirements you need GfxCon is a utility that lets you have, then this program is for and also a little about what convert one image format to you. The Guru is a utility which Gurus are another. OK so there are a large will tell you what those numbers amount of utilities that will do in that red flashing box mean, Overall the Guru is not an this for you, not to mention that a which is called a Guru exceptional program. The Guru lot of commercial graphic Meditation. could be best described as a packages usually have a built in practical utility to have, but also function which lets you convert The Guru is an easy to use utility one that the less that it is one image format to another, that will decipher those required the better. Not that such as Photogenics. So why meaningless numbers in the red there is anything wrong with the did I choose this one? Of the few flashing box, and tell you what utility, but rather if your Amiga that I have seen and tested I they mean and why your Amiga didn't ever crash you wouldn't preferred GfxCon the most over crashed. Whenever your Amiga need to have such a program. In the others. This is mainly due to crashes simply execute the Guru my humble opinion I think this its ease of use and built in and click on the last button. This type of utility will be around for a features which combined add will list the number that was long time as developing a crash some control to your present in the red flashing box proof environment is becoming conversions. when your machine crashed. seemingly impossible. along with a description of what When you choose a picture to the number means. Programmed by: Lensink have converted in GfxCon you Available From: Aminet must specify the destination path For example did you know that a Requires: WB 1.2 or greater. for the image to be saved. Along Guru number of 87000004 is a with this you must also specify dead end alert, and causes your Gfxton what file type you want the Amiga to crash. The Guru Over the last lew years the image converted to. GfxCon describes the probable source of Amiga has seen the introduction supports a moderate amount of this number to be caused by of graphic data-types being file types, which include GIF, executing a program from a self introduced into Amiga software. PCX, JPG ILBM, Postscript and made icon, when that program No longer are we stuck with just RGB-RAW.

34 f4ucGcaltaa sA.ktga ryagette 11Gaz97 One feature that I like about Programmed by: Dirk Farin the most part stay out of your GfxCon is when the utility is in Available From: Aminet way, but whenever you need it the process of converting a Requirements: WB3.0 or higher. simply use the right mouse picture there is a list window button once again. which lists detailed information Knit v1.1 on what process is taking place This is a interesting program Once this is done you have during the conversion. There is which is for anyone who enjoys several options from these also a progress bar which tells knitting. The Knit is a program menus, which you need to go you how the progress of the which lets you create your own through before you produce a conversion is taking place, which knitting patterns from an IFF final pattern. Some of these can be used as an indication of picture. options include adjusting the how long the conversion will stitch size and creating a block take place. I found the speed of The Knit can be installed onto pattern. This is important as the GfxCon to be relatively fast, your hard disk, by simply moving thickness of the wool can have however the speed of your the program to the directory of an effect on the final pattern. computer and the size of the your choice. There is a guide file The colour menu will let you picture all have an influence on that is included with the modify the colours of the picture how long it will take to convert program, which I did not find to to suit your material. your file. be to helpful, but never the less crucial in this program. It is To find out more information on GfxCon is not only dedicated to important to note that this setting up a pattern consult the converting one graphic format to program requires a printer, so if guide file as it contains another, There is a list of you don't have a printer, it might information which you need to features which can be used to be a good idea to invest in one. follow when you make your modify the converted picture. pattern. Once all of the settings Some of the options you have When you run the program you and options have been selected include the selection of a colour will first be greeted by the title you then have the options to mode, the amount of colours you screen. By the standard save the project for later use or want in the picture, and if you procedure of holding down the print the pattern out. The want the image dithered. You right mouse button and moving can have the size changed and up into the title bar you will see printout resulting from the there are options which let you the first menu. You have the program will tell you how many transform the image by flipping it choice of LOAD or QUIT. stitches per row are needed and or rotating it. All of the above Choosing the latter option will how many rows are used. features are easy to use and once again allow you to look understand. This is done by the upon your WorkBench screen. Overall I spent some time having programmer's intelligent way of a look at this program, which is using list boxes for all options. From the menu options locate easy to use. Unfortunatley I was and load onto the screen the unable to produce a knitted item GfxCon comes with an excellent picture you wish to convert to a generated by this program Amiga.Guide file which I found knitting pattern. It is important to because I do not know how to to be very informative and note that the picture must be in knit. All I can really say about useful. The program can be the Amiga IFF format and must this program is that if you are installed onto your hard disk via not contain more than eight into knitting or you know the installer. colours. Once the picture is somebody who is, then this loaded, the original title/menu program might be worth a look. Overall GfxCon is a versatile bar will disappear. By holding utility which converts graphic down the right mouse button, Programmed by: Don Finlay formats to other graphic formats however, you will find that you Available From: Aminet relatively quickly and easily. The have not been left to your own Requirements: OS 3.0 or higher. single most advantage of this devices. A new menu will utility is that it is small in size so appear with the headings of you don't have to execute large PROJECT, SETUP, COLOR and programs just to convert a few OUTPUT. This menu bar will for images. tFamticaltaa ffattya. 9fagetee 7/Gaz97 35

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everyone wants Hi yet away num or you WHO nave° t seen tile or i- the Firewire bus that is supported the near strangle hold that ginal specs, the PIGS One looked by most vendors who have Microsoft and Intel have on the like an average PC with the Intel graphics capable systems. consumer PC market. The smart CPU replaced with the more The guys at PIGS have found a users are crying out that they powerful PPC. It only had support new third party chip that gives aren't being heard. Well it now for EIDE drives, a Super WO chip PPC hardware manufacturers seems that an amazing number of for PC style 2xSerial, one parallel access to many more ports in- companies are trying to fill this port and one games port. The cluding SCSI-II. This chip called market. Is PIGS just another try machine now includes a plethora Hydra also gives a motherboard hard or do they have what it of ports. Common Hardware Reference takes? Well only time will really The only unfortunate exclusion is Platform (CHRP) compatibility. tell on that issue, but let's see This means that anything written what are they offering. for one (CHRP) will work on all

Psis gSllopts others that have the CHAP spec. Well PIOS was originally going to Expansion of the system is hand- do an AMIGA done in hardware led by PC style ISA 16bit for and OS, but they discovered that cheap expansion and PCI 32bit doing an OS is hard work for little for new expansions. One of the benefit over what already exists. three PCI is used by the standard So they put all their efforts into a new box called PIGS ONE. The OS side is being left up to anyone who wants to write a PPC based ~ operating system. The very first PIGS One boxes will run W MWUM Macintosh PPC OS and most pit's 1 n4reeM wM I Macintosh applications. Future YIDS One urn~ System \ 9CS1 / compatible OS's include , MMize.enewr Mere 1 Diagram ICI Wet e the new BeOS and the new pOS feMM from ProDad. The pOS is an inter- PIC to r,Mn H esting operating system that can ~~n.. n:..::., 3412 run Amiga applications that have iMt Pall I been re-compiled for pOS. Using mvone 1 IOCCIS L—rnM tair the developer kit this can be done ISA in a short period of time. ProDad I dit have stated that it took less than a eeIMY week to get Clarissa compiled for nee b pOS running on a PPC PowerUP e board. Saud MM t-- w As you can see from the System 00 Diagram to the right there is a lot - MNI more included now in PIGS One x OH than the original design. For those LJ mu

36 Matta/earn sFrrrtga. ga.ntta Maa97 Graphics card. This will be a VGA ing in two weeks at Cebit 97. The again, though I feel the final PIGS compatible card from one of the PIGS guys will be using part of One is taking shape, and this little many vendors, but you should be the Motorola stand to demonstr beauty should keep the bastards able to add the card of your ate PIGS One to the world. honest choice to get the graphics speed The first boxes to be released will you desire. Also the external be very much high end $3000- SCSI-II and Midi ports will be an $5000 US. These will be followed option not an inclusion. by a more garden variety costing Is this thing vapourware? Well I in the range of $1000US. Which is think not, unless the PIGS guys not bad for new technology, when are awfully good at graphics compared to nearly four year old manipulation. Below is a photo- Pentium technology being pushed graph of the current PIGS One at us for over $1300. motherboard released on the 24th Once again with all new technol- of February. This board will be in ogy that hasn't yet hit full produc- the box that they are demonstrat- tion, the specs here could change

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