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977095996307710 power scanner floppy drives SQUIRREL SCSI INTERFACE . . £59.95 The award winning Power Scanner AURA ...... £79.95 includes the following features: Scan 3.5 super xI drive MEGALOSOUND ...... £29.95 In 24-bit at upto 200DPI (all Amigas The Super XL Drive allows you to store VIDEOMASTER AGA ...... £59.95 not just AGA)', Scan in 256 greyscales 3.5MB on a high density disk. VIDEOMASTER AGA RGB___ £99.95 at up to 400DPI (all Amigas), Thru'port for printer connection, Fully supports VIDEOMASTER ...... £52.95 3.5 SUPER XL DRIVE £129.95 AGA chipset, Display HAM8/24-bi VIDEOMASTER RGB...... £89.95 images on a non-AGA Amiga (via COLOURMASTER...... £52.95 image conversion), full editing facilities 1.76 xI drive PROMIDI INTERFACE...... £19.95 included. Works with 2.04 ROM or above, min 1MB (recommend 2MB). The XL Drive allows you to store a squirrel scsi interface 1.76MB on a high density disk. Included where you see th is logo 1.76 XL DRIVE EXTERNAL . £79.95 1.76 XL DRIVE INTERNAL...... £75 chips and spares 1.76 XL DRIVE A4000 ...... £75 PC880B EXT.POWER DRIVE . £49.95 256 x 32 SIMM 72-PIN (1MB) . . £ 4 0 512 X 32 SIMM 72-PIN (2M B )___ £ 7 5 POWER SCAN 4 B/W £89.95 internal drives 1 X 32 SIMM (4 M B )...... £ 1 3 9 POWER SCAN 4 COLOUR £169.95 2 X 32 SIMM (8MB)...... £ 2 7 9 OCR (BOUGHT WITH SCANNER) . . £20 PC881 A500 ...... £30.95 4 X 3 2 SIMM (16M B )...... £ 4 4 9 OCR SOFTWARE £49.95 PC882 A2000 ...... £35.95 1 X 8 SIMM 32-PIN (1MB) ...... £ 3 0 POWER SCAN 4 S/W ONLY ...£20 4 X 8 SIMM 32-PIN (4MB) ...... £ 1 3 9 PC883 A600/1200 ...... £35.95 PC INTERFACE ♦ COL S/W £49.95 1 X 4 STATIC COLUMN A3000 ___ £ 2 5 PC INTERFACE ♦ B/W S/W £39.95 1 X 4 D IP ...... £ 2 5 256 X 4 DIP ...... £ 5 hard driyes overdrive hd 1 X 1 D IP ...... £ 5 CIA ...... £ 1 2 HEWLETT PACKARD External PCMCIA 3.5“ IDE hard disk GARY ...... £ 1 9 1 GIGABYTE 3,5 SC5I £459 OVERDRIVE BARE ...... £99 PAULA...... £ 1 9 MICROPOLIS OVERDRIVE 4 2 0 M B ...... £259 DENISE ...... £ 1 9 2 GIGABYTE 3.5 SCSI...... £659 SUPER DENISE...... £ 2 5 flatbed scanners; 4 GIGABYTE 3.5 SCSI...... £1099 KEYBOARD IC ...... £ 1 2 9 GIGABYTE 3.5 SCSI...... £2199 FAT AGNUS 1MB ...... £ 1 9 24-bit colour A4 flatbed scanners, 2 TO 4 GIGABYTE ...... FAT AGNUS 2 M B ...... £ 2 9 HITACHI £659 complete with software, cables and 4 TO 8 GIGABYTE ...... £899 PRINTER CABLE ...... £ 6 manual. (Squirrel included with 340MB 2.5 IDE ...... £189 2 TO 4 CARTRIDGE DL90 ...... £12 RS232 CABLE...... £ 6 Paragon flatbed scanner) 510MB 2.5 IDE ...... £299 4 TO CARTRIDGE DL120 . ,£19.95 SCSI EXTERNAL...... £ 1 5 810MB 2.5 IDE ...... £599 8 WORKBENCH 3.1 A500/2000 . £ 8 5 EPSON GT-6500 ...... £539.95 1 GIGABYTE 2.5 IDE ...... £719 24-BIT 120ODPI SCANNER WORKBENCH 3.1 A3000/4000 . . £ 9 5 optical drives PARAGON 600 ...... £399.95 Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMOTHERS I ROM SHARE DEVICE ...... £ 1 9 24-aiT 6O0DPI SCSI SCANNER. tNCL SQUIRREL BOMB 2.5 ID E ., , ...... £70 128 OPTICAL...... £479 2.04 ROM CHIP ...... £ 2 5 120MB 2.5 ID E ...... £95 230MB OPTICAL ...... £719 1.3 GIGABYTE OPTICAL...... £1999 m-tec hd 230MB OPTICAL DISK ...... £29.95 External IDE hard disk for the A500 1.3 GIGABYTE DISK...... £139.95 comes complete w ith an internal ROM switcher, and upgradable to 4MB RAM aga flicker fixer external cases M-TEC AT500 BARE ...... £99 ScanDoubler II is a full 24-bit AGA Ricker SCSI case suitable for CD-ROM/HD/DAT fixer which automatically de-interlaces M-TEC AT500 420M B ...... £259 and Optical drives. MEMORY REQUIRES 30-PIN SIMMS all AGA screen modes and scan doubles 5.25’ SCSI or IDE CASE ...... £79.95 The tow er comes non-interlaced PAL/NTSC modes to allow complete with 6 x floppy expander 3.5" SCSI or IDE CASE ...... £79.95 VGA monitors to display them. Supports 5.25“ drive bays. VGA, S-VGA and Multiscan monitors. Save 1.5MB on a standard floppy drive 5 x 3.5" d rive Pixel sharp picture, even at 144Q and 3MB when used in conjunction bays, 7 x Z orro horizontal resolution and has a standard slots. 5 x PC slots, with the XL Drive 1.76. 2IP DRIVE 100MB SCSI...... £179.95 15-pin VGA type connector. Comes with real time clock composite video/S-VHS outputs. FLOPPY EXPANDER ...... £10 100MB DISKETTE...... £15.95 end a 230 w e tt Zie DRIVE REQUIRES SQUIRREL SCSI INTERFACE power supply. SCAN DOUBLER II . . . £399
disk exparrder video backup 3 A4000 TOWER £349 tandem cd-de Disk Expander can add upto to 50% to Backup to 520MB onto a 4hr VHS tape. your hard drive capacity and works Connect a CD-ROM, Syquest and any Version 3 has new backup modes for octogen sc si-2 with all drives including SCSI, IDE, IDE hd to your A2000/3000/4000. Amiga's with a 68020 or higher CPU. Floppies and even the RAM disk. Disk SCSI-2 controller card for the Amiga Comes complete w ith cable and s/w, Expander works on any Amiga with VIDEO BACKUP SCART...... £65 2000/4000. Upgradable to 8MB RAM ROM 2.04 or above. any Kickstart. VIDEO BACKUP PHONO...... £60 OCTOGEN 2008 . £129 TANDEM CD-DE £69 DISK EXPANDER £25 UPGRADE TO VERSION 3 ...... £20 A award winning amiga peripheral manufacturers emulation
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Power Computing Ltd are a2000 68060 gvp hc-8 scsi EMPLANT MAC BASIC £239.95 now the official joint BASIC MAC EMULATOR owner and manufacturer A 68060 accelerator board for the A2000 SCSI hard card which can fit 8MB of EMPLANT MAC OPTION A . £279.95 of Great Valley Products running at 50MHz and allowing upto RAM on-board. DUAL SERIAL PORT AND APPLETALK Inc For more Information, 128MB of user installable memory and a EMPLANT MAC OPTION B . £279.95 please call 01234 273000. SC5I-II hard disk controller. HC-8 SCSI CARD ...... £99 HI-SPEED SCSI INTERFACE EMPLANT MAC DELUXE . . ,£399.95 A2000 68040 (0MB RAM) . . £TBA gvp g-lock MLn INCLUDES OPTION A AND B a4QQQ 68060 A2000 68060 (0MB RAM) . . fTBA E586 DX MODULE...... £89.95 ...... v Award winning Amiga Genlock. PC EMULATOR MOOULE A 68060 accelerator board for the A4000 4MB GVP ADD ...... £159 running at 50MHz and allowing upto G-LOCK AMIGA GENLOCK . £259 128MB of user installable memory and a D55-8 SOUND SAMPLER ...... £55 SCSi-ll hard disk controller. The board can be configured w ith either 4MB, i o-extender 8MB, 16MB or 32MB industry standard SIMMs. gvp ram Zorro II card that provides an A4000 68040 (0MB RAM) £699 additional serial port, parallel port Official GVP RAM SIMMs. and connection for optional RS422 A4000 68060 (0MB RAM) £829 glidepoint and R5232 port. Call for details 4MB STANDARD ADD . . . £139 4MB GVP R A M ...... £159 Intuitive cursor control at your finger 4MBGVPADD ...... £159 16MB GVP RAM ...... £549 loEXTENDER £59 tips replaces the mouse or trackball and 'Tap' for an instant selection.
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A 68020 EC processor accelerator card for Increase your Amiga 500/2000 chip RAM to A 2MB RAM board for the A500 which fits the A500 and A500+, with an option to fit a total of 2MB. MegaChip does this by in the trap door slot. a 68881 or 68882 co-processor (PLCC or using its own 2MB RAM and also now A500 2MB R A M ...... £90 power tablet PGA). This card can fit upto 4MB FAST includes a 2MB Fat Agnus. No soldering is RAM and is fully auto-configuring. required. MEMORY CARDS Pen and cursor controlled graphic tablet, including cables and software. NOT COMPATIBLE WITH GVP HARD DRIVE MEGACHIP R A M ...... £159.95 512K RAM WITH CLOCK ___ £24.95 512K RAM WITHOUT CLOCK £19.95 POWER TABLET 12 X 12 £195.95 AS0Q 68020 EC 0MB RAM . . .£99-95 A600 1MB R A M ...... £39.95 INCL. PEN. CURSOR AND POWER TAB V W Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMA500 68020 EC 4MB RAM £239.95 VGA ADAPTOR ...... £15 A500+ 1MB R A M ...... £29.95
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Ordering by cheque/PO please make payable to POSTCODE printers/moni to r ® Power Computing Ltd and specify which delivery is required. MICROVITEC 1438 1 4 "...... £289 EPSON STYLUS INC.PAPER...... £ 4 8 9 All Power products come with a 12 month warranty unless otherwise specified SYSTEM OWNED EPSON STYLUS PRO XL A3+ £1499 DESCRIPTION EPSON STYIUS/PRO XL INCLUDE STUDIO II SOFTWARE Help is on hand with a full Technical Backup STUDIO II SOFTWARE ...... £49.95 service which is provided for Power customers.
graphic/video m .'. All prices listed are for the month of publication only, call to confirm prices before ordering. !• v • -Y. . ., V . ... PICASSO II 2MB RAM ...... £249.95 Most items are available at Tax Free Prices to TOTAL AMOUNT (inc. delivery) £ INCLUDING TV PAINT JNR. non-EC residents. Call to confirm prices. BFPO orders welcome. PICASSO II 2MB RAM ...... £399.95 CREDIT CARD NO. INCIUOING TV PAINT 2 EXPIRY DATE SIGNATURE CYBERVISION 6 4 ...... £329.95 All prices Include VAT. Specifications and prices M -8IT GRAPHICS ENGINE. INCLUDES 2MB are subject to change without notice. All trademarks ate acknowledged. All orders In DELIVERY 2-3 DAYS £2.50 NEXT DAY £5 SAT £10 VIDEO D A C ...... £25 writing or by telephone will be accepted only I M r r GRAPHICS ADAPTOR subject to our terms and conditions of trade, MAXIGEN 3 ...... £299.95 copies of which are available on request. MINIMUM DELIVERY £2.SO ALLOW UP TO 7 DAYS FOR CHEQUES TO CLEAR VIDEO GENLOCK
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R e u ie u is SYSTEM* Scala mOlOO 23 P anasonic Driue St r i i i t II Scala s new Mpeg encoding and It's a CD-ROM. and it 's a removable hard drive. decoding card comes under scrutiny It s Panasonic 's PD Drive reviewed by Ben Vost Ihe essential guide to Amiga gaming
Syttem On-line 82 laser Guidance Bt Take a look al Ihe latest events and news unfolding in the Gareth Lofthouse gives you his guide to Amiga games world the latest Amiga CDs
Preview: Tiny Troops 91 Direct gangs of vertically-challenged people in Lemmings Sonnet Doubler 29 meets Cannon Fodder Ben Vost looks at a simple way to double the speed of your Amiga 4000 040 CD-ROM goes public 92 Millions of games crammed onto single CDs? Andy Maddock decides if it really is bargain basement Tune Builder 3D flet flouelties 63 Paul Austin gives you a full review of Ben Vost tries out new versions of AMosaic, Preview: Center Court 96 this acclaimed music package ACUSeeMe and the Mosaic Hotkst Anyone tor tennis? Andy Maddock takes a look at Acid Software's latest Preview: Citadel 99 CDDnues 33 flmi File Safe 68 Tina Hackett reveals yet another Dool clone in the pipelines - Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMNet Mohr reviews two of the latest The defacto replacement for the standard this time from Poland CD-ROM drives to hit the streets Amiga fie system Nik Lines checks it out Competition 101 Win yourself some Sensible Golf goodies in our competition
Budgets 1 0 2 F e a t u r e s More of the latest cheapies for the skinfints among you Speakers' Corner 3t Game Reuieius Gareth Lofthouse and Tina Hackett sound out some of the speakers for our Amiga
Super Street Fighter 2 84 Dultimedia Future 50 Gamer Gold 8 6 Gareth Lofthouse reports on the people bringing you the Amiga's multimedia Gloom 8 8 future 94 fHortal Combat Bt Tina Hackett speculates on the future of the Amiga as a viable games platform
Super nmigaHiluper 7 1 Is it really possible to make a Super Amiga? Ben Vost thinks so
Cloom - m t p o g r 88 Hssembler Collapsing windows form the focus for this month's continuing tutorial M issue on sale SI CDUER September STORY
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Our second disk is jam-packed this month with splendid tools and utilities: Animation: PNG datatype; epoch Voyager; Yak; PS3M; Play 16; Cyber Sound; Tiff datatype; Text datatype patch; Virus The art Checker; Converter Master; Lupe □f the matter Rdam Phillips goes Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMin search o f pure brilliance and finds the genii behind some of todag's Hews g HtflS Ben Vost worries about people walking with parrots on their shoulders 3B Having asked for more letters, Ezra gets swamped by one flfleHH cm Paul Overaa goes loopy in his Amos column this month Uideo um What are CEI up to? Cary Whiteley wants to find out AMIGA 1115 S i m u s ic Paul Overaa examines MIDI drum machines, their pitfalls and advantages 107 Com m 5 Frank Nord looks at bits and m Phil South doles out useful advice for keeping your phone bill down bobs for Amiga productivity i u s H m o 5 The final part of the screen info program courtesy of Phil South 1 0 9 ISO Publishing Paul Austin checks out Plug-Ins A new version of PageStream and some add-ons for it and Co from Hester Associates a^ QUALITY AMIGA PERIPHERALS & SOFTWARE W* EZVIDEO AND GRAPHICS RAM UPGRADES M FLOPPY DISK DRIVES A500 512K (no clock) £20.00 T * M an A500 Horn 512K to l i f t - RAM 0605 £S aMMWflfe GENLOCK A500 512K fine clock) £25.00 1Mb SONY FLOPPY T * « an A5OT from 512K to1W • RAM 0510 V£ uMITEK A M I TEK FOR ALL AMIGA COMPUTERS A500 Plus 1Mb______£30.00 3%" DELUXE EXTERNAL FLOPPY DRIVE FREE Takes an A500 tram tu b to 2w> -RAM 0520 FOR ALL AMIGA COMPUTERS A600 1Mb (no clock) £30.00 SCALA Takes an A600 from tu b to 2ms - RAM 0605 HT100 HOME VIDEO A600 1Mb fine clock) £40.00 TITLING PROG Takes an A600from tw b»2M > RAM 0610 WORTH Hawk 1Mb - No FPU £99.00 S deS 8V# 32-W RAM board, tut. populated £ 4 9 wS and battery too.od dock -RAM l?IQ , L Flop^ di SS .:.v. m m m m m mu 0 ^ £ RAM UPGRADE & MATHS ACCELERATOR OPTIONS FOR THE AMIGA 1200 • High Quality 3 'f Sony mechanism • 75us access tune • Strong metal casing • Daisy c tu in M t vu thru port • BuM-m antt-cKk feature • Low power usage • High gualrty graphics and video mixing desk • Hardware lade between graphtcAwSeo • Swrtchable anti-virus mode • External PSU £ 5 9 • FREE Scab HTIOOpiOOtam disk • RGB thru ■ saving the genlock from • Engabktyfisable switch not required WC VAT o n 111* • Add tides .tnd special effects to videos being unplugged when not m use • ideal tor home and semi-professional users • Optional chroma M y unit amiable September 95 • Supports *V standard Amiga and AGA graphics • Comprehensive £ LOADER INTERNAL FLOPPY • Input and output composite vttto sjgruts 16-page manual i H1«. 3V4" 1 Mb INTERNAL FLOPPY DRIVE • Switches between video only, computer only plus lu« colour £ 9 9 and mixed graphics sleeve INC VAT VIP 2100 FOR AMIGA 500/500PLUS OR AMIGA 600/1200 these internal A m m Loader replacement ■ * ’ drives are deal tor users wfto msh to replace Wttr«Htfito0 infernal t f w i The pack t m m a hrgh aiaWy internal net. 3 t ‘ dnve CD-ROM DRIVE & SOFTWARE • Plugs Straight into A 1200 trapdoor - mechanism for me Amiga SOOrSOOruiS or /Vo soldering required Amiga 600 AX m t you need to f t y m true • upgradeable FAST RAM board to f. 2. is included, plus easy to toKow Xtlmg 4 or 8 u t irsfn/cfrocs and 24 months warranty OVERDRIVE QUAD SPEED CD-ROM • Uses industry standard socketed FOR THE AMIGA 1200 SIMMs tor easy upgrades • Optional Floating Point Unit ■ J 3 iv o o r £ 3 4 £ 4 4 This unit uwtun&s a CD-ROM drivt with the tutu/e to Smart Card interfaces, the INC VAT D«l 383) WC VAT 0W3M8 40uh.- PI CC 66882 co-processor PCMCIA slot This makes tor an incredibly convenient and simple to use CD-ROM • Comprehensive manual won Wustatms dm e system opening up a whole new world of CO/multtmcdm technology. • Works with ah A1200 and A1200HD computers • Does not invalidate your A1200 warranty m i ' T B M M M f • 2 year warranty * Quad speed mechanism >»i SHU' coerNmc* INCREASES snrwiiM SPEED BY * 600K/$ec data U U» 10 Ml SCSI-2 INTERFACE 1 4 " COLOUR transfer rate ______UP TO 3X MMM SQUIRREL MONITOR » PhotoCD FROM FOR A600/A1200 Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMcompatible SSa. FOR ALL AMIGAS £ 9 0 • Multi-session Le^7K compatible ‘=r m km * Runs most CP*software £ 2 4 9 Hawk 2Mb - No FPU £129.00 SEE PAGE 2 FOR FULL OVERDRIVE RANGE INC VAT HAR A t] 8u# 32-b.l RAM board. 2w# pccublod and lianwy b v k W doe* • RAM 1230 Aminet Set 1 £24.95 Light ROM £39.00 Hawk 4Mb - No FPU ... £189.00 4 g fy o ty ln d software - ACA 0500 6 5 W b ol 30 objects. uregcs clc • ACL Q1Q0 Him 32 M RAM ooaro, 4u# popuisM . Aminet 5 £14.95 Meeting Pearls Vol. II __ £9.95 and battery backed d o c*-R A M 1240 1.1 9 g a tr)t« of software - ACA 0610 650Mb o l me finest FD software • ACM 0500 Aminet 6 ______£14.95 T erra Sound Librafy £19.95 Hawk 8md - No FPU £329.00 Himed M e/ f lv famous storage hungry 11 ggabytes of software • ACA 0620 7,800 sound toes • ACT 0400 8w# 32-M RAM board. 8Wb populated anmai the Squinti SCSI-2 mie/lace simply and oattory b a ood dock - RAM 1280 plugs vuo the PCMCIA not (avoiding • 14 ■ 28mm. CGA Stereo Colour Animations Double CD £19.95 The Light Works £39.00 Momtor H u x h d t o/ anmabons ACA 1000 Rayftacng package • ACT 0500 warranty pntdsrn) and atows you ro conn«? FPU 33mrt For Hawk £59.00 up to 7 SCSI devices to your Amga at the • ISKHZ-40KH2 CDBoot 1 .0 £29.00 UPD Gold £29.95 Cysial and FPU tor Miwk • UPG 1250 Use CO* james m A 1 2 » ^ -« »CC 1000 Entire PD lt*ary on 4 COs - ACU 65C0 same nme. Tths could be any combination • Digital RGB & CVBS Giga Graphics £29.00 Zoom ______£19.00 FPU 40mrt For Hawk £99.00 oi hard doves. SCSI • Adaptor tor lOwOrnagaaco'kCmagee cn * COs • ACO 0500 Seiaaon ol PD dsssK» - ACZ 0500 Cysral and FPU tor Hawk - UPG 1255 CD-ROM dmes tape .9 5 Amiga streamers, SyQuest £ 6 9 • Power and itidtc £ 2 9 9 removable drives, etc w c v * i 4000 nc vat mon ws IMAGE MANIPULATION cables PH0T0GENICS V1.2 FOR A1200/A4000 SOFTWARE OFFERS • Manipulate and paint graphics m 24-bit 'Me M JUUBBA P/i P hotogenic • Supports popular image form ats tftv M lp g JPEG. GIF. IFF. PhotoCD and many more H MODULATOR ORGANISER - DIGITAL FIL0FAX • Multiple image editing NEW VERSION FOR ALL AMIGAS The Dig/ta Organiser with its striking Real-time HAMS display interlace superbly emulates the printed tdotax diary It lets you type 'CZ Open design lets you to add your £ 5 4 appointments, tedhdays. lists and moremnn> 333 BC VAT ASP >000 own loaders, savers o r effects A tuh address book calendar and task hst are also included It is the only program o f ______its type on the A n w to d has the l P O Q . 9 9 IMAGE PROCESSING SCALA MULTIMEDIA opfwr? ol printing pages that can be a C O i f inserted into a real m a x la c vat asotw ] IMAGE FX v2.0 MM400 FOR AU AMIGAS • Video tm g and presentation BRILLIANCE V2.0 £49.00 VISTA PRO 3.0 £24.95 mage The Amtck Mamm External Modulator, Advance paint A a ru ro c n toftaaro AS8 791? 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For your £399, Amiga relaunched model will cost £399. This handled by the distributors themselves. Technologies is throwing in software as means the machine will reappear at £50 There will be some 1200s winging their part of a bundle to go along with the more than when it left the marketplace in way to the US of A. Johnathan Anderson, machine. The Scala MM300 has been the summer of last year. The reason given the new general manager of Amiga announced as a package that will go with for such an increase is the cost of higher Technologies UK. explained: “The States the system, but it's doubtful the package Afl charges for rushed manufacturing, casing, will be taking the 1200 in small numbers will ever appear for the floppy-based 1200. and the increased cost of DRAM. but we've found the American consumer Anderson commented: There's no point in UK The 68020-based 1200 is expected to prefers the tower-style type computer and including the Scala system with a floppy- ba hit UK high streets at the end of not the look of the 12 0 0 ." based 1200 with no hard drive - it would be ap September with a maximum of 60.000 As for the 4000Ts relaunch into Britain, impractical. The 1200 with a hard drive He E> allocated to British distributors. according to one UK company, White though is much more practical and useful." The biggest shock, however, are the Knight Technology, they were told by Questions are still being asked about the Cc prices rumoured for the re-release of the Silica, the distributors, that the high-end size of hard drive that will be provided - a B l 4000T - after an American distributor machine will definitely be released in the figure floating around currently is 170Mb. announced that they were to sell the 040 version at the confirmed retail price of Bad news, though, came in the shape of w. 4000T for S3.500, Amiga Technologies £1,900 + VAT. It will come with 2 meg chip the CD32 - apparently there are no plans Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMfired back saying that this simply wasn’t RAM, 4 meg FastRAM and a 1.2 gig SCSI presently for resuming the console in the the case and no price had been decided 2 hard drive. States or the UK other than being possibly upon yet. The fact that for this price there will be used as a key technology for kiosk Since then, a meeting has taken place no monitor or CD drive included in the displays. This was verified by Jonathan on in Philadelphia where several key figures setup has drawn gasps of horror from both Anderson, but he hastened to point out that from Escom/Amiga Technologies including sides of the Atlantic. Also, the 060 version there are deals going on with various Petro Tyschtschenko, Senior Vice to be released later on is rumoured to cost companies including a Canadian bank to President of Escom and General Manager an estimated £2,150 + VAT. No-one at use the CD32 in the commercial arena. of Amiga Technologies, and many distnbu- Amiga Technologies was able to give a The future of the FMV cartridge is looking tors from round America, attended to definite answer on pricing at the time of decidedly shaky as well if reports are to be Aft. discuss the Amiga's future in the US. going to press. believed. on Apparently at the top of the debating list Tyschtschenko also commented that There was a meeting between the -fy, was price. they still weren’t sure how they were going general managers of all the European sub 1 The rumoured cost for the 4000T will be to market the 4000T on its arrival in the sidiaries on 3 August where many matters SOI in the $2700 region - the reason given UK: The US market is very buoyant and a such as pricing, distribution and much more dis was the expense of parts being put good market for the 4000T. but we’re still were resolved. Any official news will have 1 together costing that much. planning what we’ll be doing for Europe - to wait though until the press conference to prc A surprising plan also unveiled is that it’s a very niche market for the machine." be held by Amiga Technologies on 16 CD the 4000T will receive no advertising from Meanwhile, the manufacture of the August. More news next month. tior live fac IIg Hmigas in Estoin shops new life for UistaPro ad> ma It has been confirmed by Petro Tyschtschenko, The much-heralded landscape package has ma Senior Vice President of Escom and General received a useful ally in the form of GeoMorph. The sup Manager of Amiga Technologies, that the Amiga utility is a landscape morphing program that allows pro will not be appearing in any of the Escom shops the user to create surrealistic fly-by animations. 1 dotted round the country. The reason for this deci There are several types of morph available: the sion was explained by Tyschtschenko: "We used Linear morphs where the entire landscape changes > to stock the Apple range in our shops but it was at a constant rate, accelerated morphs where the me unsuccessful. We would need people who were change accelerates or decelerates, and 'wipes' Amiga educated but the Escom shop staff are very where the change starts at one side or corner of the GeoM orph; Bringing now IHe to ViataPro Fo» much geared towards the PC.” landscape and sweeps across. cor Instead, it looks like the main bulk of sales Grow or shrink trees, empty or fill lakes, change positions of rivers, make clouds that move will be made through the independent retailers and change, plus alter treelines, snowlines and sea levels on the fly. GeoMorph requires and any chain stores that decide to come on Vista Pro 3 and a system with hard disk and a minimum of 4 meg. Costing S69.95. interested board. punters should call Chaocity on 001 805 925 7732. Amiga Computing Dew flmigas on show Items briefs If you're desperate for a sneak preview of the up- gaze over. Also rearing its head are the much talked and-coming Amiga machines, the "Internationale about Virtual i-O's i-glasses. Exclusively distributed Funkausstellung" fair is being held in Berlin and by Escom in Europe, the glasses are a virtual reality Amiga Technologies, together with Escom and headset that will allow computer images and televi TU[ on-line Virtual Products, have booked their sion pictures to be displayed in them, own booth. This is the and is fully compatible with the In a distinctly tongue-in-cheek move, the first time the Amiga will Amiga. Apparently, the Trade Union’s Congress are planning to be given its official air glasses have received open its very own Cyber Canteen at the ing since Commodore positive feedback from forthcoming Congress from the 11-15 crashed. the industry with IBM September in Brighton. They are also Held from the 26 August to 3 and Microsoft committing unleashing their own web site as a September, the 1200 and themselves to support the forum for debate and information. The 4000T with different configura new hardware. address is: http://poptel.org.uk/tuc tions and several applications will Virtual i-Os iglasses: Virtual be on show for Amiga fanatics to raallty In homo takes a atop cloaor fllahe a mouie Visitors to the Museum of the Moving Image between the 11 and 29 October Hmiga Technologies UK team Amiga architecture are being offered the chance to contribute to an animated short film Afte' the failed attempt by David Pleasance to buy Commodore The Amiga is continuing its saturation of called Going To The Pictures as part of UK as an on-going concern, the new face of Amiga Technologies all walks of life - this month sees the the Get Animated event being held based in Maidenhead near the old headquarters of C=UK has merger between Delphus Visuals, a graphics and animation house, and Visual there. In conjunction with the Art appeared on the second floor of a high-street rented office. Space and Illustration, an architectural Councils web site, The Hub. Internet Heading the team is Jonathan Anderson. ex-Product Marketing users will be able to download the film Executive for C=UK. with support from five other former computer modelling consultants. The end result is a collaboration that'll as it is made. The web address is: Commodore employees including national account manager Bob http://www.ace.mdx.ac.uk/Hub/Hub.ht Burridge and sales manager John Smith. produce animated walkthroughs and fly bys primarily for the architectural commu ml Anderson is quick to point out "that it's a real team effort here. We're working together to make the Amiga an absolute success nity and property developers. Using the on its relaunch." Cyberstorm 060 accelerator, the company has big plans for the future using the And for those wondering what happened to David Pleasance The home page Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMand Colin Proudfoot, former managing directors of the UK sub Amiga. For more details on how to see your sidiary. Anderson sheds a veiled light on the subject: ‘T hey were Already receiving a warm welcome from dream home turned into a virtual reality, offered a package and subsequently declined the offer." visitors, Amiga Computings home page contact Simon Wilson on 01633 613300. is waiting to be perused. For the latest news, previews and reviews, simply type in : fTlultimedia on the increase http://www.demon.co.uk/amigacomp After the announcement of ImageVision from ImageLab last month, another company in the form of Optonica are flew bmujser on on the verge of releasing a multimedia package in September to rival Scala’s. There are two versions up for grabs - MM Experience and MM Experience Pro. the tuaij The former is aimed at home users allowing the combination of graphics, animations, music modules, text, sound samples and CDXL video into standalone presentations or productions. The package comes with a free While Netscape aren't exactly on the (fistribution player so that any end results can be circulated among potential viewers. verge of releasing an Amiga version of The MM Experience Pro is suited to the their now world-famous navigator system, professional developer wanting to create P'Jami is a new browser based on the CD-ROM-based projects, point of informa still-in-development HotJava which has tion, and point of sale projects and interac been winning some acclaim for its unique tive TV interface systems. Featuring all the features. Developed by Sun Micro facilities of the standard version, the more systems. they are making the source code advanced additional functions include ani available to anyone wishing to port the mated menus, optimisation for CD. project program over to another format. management facilities. CD32 controller To have a chat with the development support, ISO prep and ISO build functions, team, send some e-mail to the following project chaining and more. address: [email protected] The MM Expenence retails at £39.95 and the Pro version at £249.95. Also announced is InfoNexus 2. the file 0OP5 management system, with a host of improvements and new functions at £29.95 In our article on Colchester Zoo last For more details on any of these products, month, we gave the impression that contact Optonica on 01455 558282. Optonica's authoring system Interplay had bean written by Premier Vision. This is not true and the package was solely M M Eaporionco: Tho latest In created by the bods at Optonica. multlmodia productsMM Exporionco: Tho latoat In multlmodia products Amiga Computing duad spGGd for 1BDD f1eiu5 briefs II Quad speed CD-ROMs are beginning to infiltrate the Amiga market, ushered along by the arrival of Silica's Overdrive Quad Speed unit for the 1200. Connected through the PCMCIA card slot, the CD-ROM is IDE-based and capable of holding up to 650Mb of information with a transfer rate of 600K/sec. The makers claim that the Overdrive is also compatible with the majority of CD32 R ffE5h start software and has Kodak PhotoCD and multi-session compatibility. The kit will set you back £249 and can be ordered from Silica on 0181-309 1111. The maker of award-winning monitors liyama have launched two more in the new family of redesigned display units. The 17' and 21" Vision Masters come with a new set of controls fea turing just three buttons that allow a variety of differing functions. With an on-screen display and ergonomically designed cabinets, the 17" MF-8617E (available in September) costs £575 and the 21" MF-8221E (available in October) retails at an expected £1229. More details can be obtained from liyama on 01438 745482. Iiui5ting gour arm You should approach friends who are members of the Special Reserve Discount Club with care - the Club has announced its 'Summer Membership Drive Arm Twister* that is offering a fiver to any current member who can introduce a new member for Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMmore than a year. The money will be accredited to their accounts with the Quad-apecd CD-ROM: Offering fast transfer rates and Club and can be put toward a compatibility with the majority of CD32 software purchase. T h e o ffe r e n d s on th e 30 September and for more details, con* tact Special Reserve on 01279 Aspirations IDore Amiga 600205. Cybcrscribes wanting to be the next products David Mamet. Alan Ackybourn. or 1BDD eHpansion Caroline Churchill, can now visit Allied This month sees the announcement of a CeV Design have announced the Domocq Internet site where informa host of products for the Amiga from Gordon arrival of Z orro 3 Expansion for the tion on its arts initiative can be found. Harwood. First up is the new ProGrab Plus 1200 in the shape of the New Model The international drinks and retailing package featuring S-VHS compatibility. 4B Chassis. Due to ship this Autumn, company has recently set up a compe Also included is the new version 2.5 soft the unit offers five Zorro III slots, two tition for a new playwright somewhere ware and the real-time colour frame grab Zorro II slots, and a keyboard inter to win a C5000 development grant for ber and digitiser costs £129.95. For existing face for an external keyboard to make the most promising script ontlino. users an upgrade is available for £4.95. the 1200 into a full tower case. There After winning, the writer will bo For users wanting more power to their are also two video slots and a CPU given expert advic 6 to complete the Amiga. Harwood have also announced 4000 slot plus four PS/2 Simm | play and then with extra funding, the several products for customer perusal. The sockets for memory additions. script will bo turned into a roality and new 1230-1V board features 50MHz 68030 For more info, contact CeV Design performed on stage. technology and the Blizzard 1260 Turbo on 001 617 942 0209. For more information on the Allied Board apparently brings the performance of Domecq 1995 Playwright Award, the Cyberstorm 060/50 accelerator to the access their site: Amiga 1200. The prices for the former are http //www demon.co.uk/hypcrlntcrnc- £199.95 and for the latter. £599.95. Bliteed ti vc/plnywright. him I For more info, contact Gordon Harwoods For those interested in Blitz Basic 2, a on 01773 836781. new disk magazine has been unveiled called Blitzarama. Aimed at beginners and experts alike, a free copy of the Duer the rainbaui first issue can be obtained by sending a SAE to: Blitzarama. 8 The Cybersystems have a limited quantity of the excellent Rainbow III RTG graphics card Deepway. Quorn. Loughborough, for sale. The Rainbow III comes with 4Mb of super fast VRAM and runs under the EGS Leicestershire LE12 HG. system. 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Despite the Amiga's of dedicated Amiga followers anxious to superior OS. it’s hard to justify spending upgrade to AGA but unable to justify an $2995 for a 25-MHz, 6Mb A4000T with n e w s A4000T upset. a 540Mb hard drive and no monitor, Rumours of a stratospheric $3,500 when the same money will buy a name price for a basic A4000T unit hit the brand 120MHz Pentium system with nets in July and nearly caused even 16Mb, 1.2Gb of hard drive space, a 17- high-end Amiga users to panic. inch monitor, and a quad-speed CD- provide new products for Amiga users. However, Escom issued a statement ROM drive. DKB has a 68060 board in the works that no price had yet been set, and it Despite a growing concern that (look for details next month), Final Writer I appears that the units will sell for under Escom have not only picked up 4 just shipped, and Oregon Research! $3000. 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The upgrade's only HiSoft) to version 1.10, which that they'll be carrying Phase 5 hardware products in $30 from any previous version. sports a number of new features North America, including the Cybervision 64 graph In the US. contact SoftWood at (800) 247-8330 and bug fixes. Among the ics card. Blizzard 1230-111 accelerator and 1220-4 (voice); fax (602) 431-8361, or e-mail improvements are built-in ZModem RAM board. Fastlane Z3 SCSI card, and Cyberstorm [email protected] for more information. (the program still supports exter 060 accelerator for the A4000. Other exciting news European users should contact their local distributor. nal XPR protocols as well), built-in is that Softwood have hinted that the company will ANSI and VT102 terminal emula be working with Phase 5 to bring 68060 accelerators tions, as well as XEM-based sup to the A1200, A2000, and A3000 series as well. port for the RIP graphics terminal In the meantime, Final Writer is seeming to be an emulation popular on PC BBS sys oddly inappropriate name for the company's word tems. much faster scrolling, and a processor. SoftWood has now released version 4 of multitasking review buffer. this ‘Final’ program. The updated version now sports Other enhancements include an improved user interface with click-tab access to chat window history, an improved pages, sections, and requester areas, making many dialer, support for multiple functions a click or two away and saving the trouble palettes. 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Prima Shareware CD-ROM worth £10 |I0 Metre printer cable £12.99 Turbotech realtime clock il port tt«en»ion cable £9.99 P rin te r re p a ir specialists k.r quotr I cartridge £ 17.99 fits any Amiga with every order of CD-ROM software over £30 EDITORIAL onathan Potter says he won't - + 0 carry on. Games publishers say it’s the reason they've dropped the Amiga. Big Amiga names like ASDG, Gold Disk, New Horizons and Digital Creations have all dropped below the horizon for one reason or another. It's not necessarily all connected with piracy, but The final uersian it has to be said that piracy on the Amiga is rife. - f l Sometimes people use piracy as I f (ommodore hasn't — an excuse because the only way they can get to see a piece of software in these Amiga shop-free days is to get a Hilled the fimiga. perhaps — dodgy copy of it from a friend. This is par ticularly true of serious software - shops piracy will. Ben Uost — are pretty much guaranteed to be able to sell a £25 game, but a piece of software retailing at £250? They InoHs a t an euer more — aren’t likely to want to take the chance it doesn't sell. dangerous problem - The software companies can get around this to some extent by making more demo versions of their software, lim ited time versions, save disabled ver time games companies looked to the sions. versions where you can only use a somewhat higher end of the market. After tiny area of the screen. It would help peo all, who's more likely to buy a game - a ple make the decision to buy and would person who actively expands their Amiga probably result in increased revenue for and is willing to spend money on it. or the company.They will, of course, still someone whose only investment has have the problem of ensuring a wide dis been a joystick? tribution of these demo versions, but with Escom need to have a concrete are becoming more and more comm magazines panting for new material and software strategy in place. It’s all very well place, but there are no staggerini the Internet becoming ever more popular, getting the hardware back in place, but advances in the graphics, sound only the insular of companies will find without companies like ASDG and operating system technology that powei themselves with difficulties. LucasArts back in the fold, serious and the Amiga. Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMBut the area hit hardest is certainly games users of the Amiga may as well The operating system could definit games. People rip games off left, right give up now and get that Mac or PC. stand a little more game-friendliness. and centre. It's not just an Amiga Perhaps, like Microsoft. Escom need to you give programmers the tool£ th phenomenon - every week in the leisure have an in-house software team creating need to rapidly scroll screens, pl^i/ ba computing trade mag CTW. some new word processors, games and image animations, or manipulate bobs In t company or other is claiming they have processing packages. They could afford to OS, publishing houses wouldn't need lost millions of dollars (billions in some get the best programmers out there, par reinvent the wheel with every game th< cases) in revenue owing to piracy. This is ticularly those in the public domain and write. This won't improve the situation sometimes because a pirated \ sion of a shareware fields, and really bring some a vis piracy, but it might attract some game is in some way improved, jiving the quality software back onto our beloved the game publishers back from other plat’ player endless lives or the ability to install platform. forms where these things are. or will s< the game onto a hard drive, and I may Added revenue from software sales be, taken for granted. be in a tiny minority, but I won't buy a could help to bolster R&D budgets, So who is this Jonathan Potter? He1 game that won’t take advantage of extra pushing the Amiga back towards the the guy that spent the last four year RAM, processor power or additional forefront of computer technology - where developing Directory Opus, only to thn floppy drives. it belongs and was ten years ago. We are ten to give it all up because his softwai I’m also not keen on games that don't getting faster base level machines with a is available from every pirate BBS in tl install on a hard drive. Perhaps it’s about greater capacity for RAM. and hard drives world. The f l f team EDITOR Pad Austin CIRCULATION DIRECTOR David Wren CHAIRMAN Richard Heasc DEPUTY EDITOR Ben Vo« COMMERCIAL DIRECTOR Denise Wright MANAGING DIRECTOR Ian Bloomfield ART EDITOR Tym Icckey #IDG NEWS EDITOR Adam Phillips DISTRIBUTION COMAG (01195) 444055 MEDI A COVERDISK EDITOR Neil Mohr SUBSCRIPTION 01S1-357 2961 PRODUCTION EDITOR Judidi Chapman We regret Amigo Compuong cannot offer technical For h i years fimiga Computing has been the leadmg GAMES EDITOR Tina Hackett help on a personal basis either by telephone or in magazine for Amiga enthusiasts. As a key member Member of the Audit Bureau of Crcubbonj STAFF WRITERS Andrew Maddock writing. 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Please allow 28 days for delivery D ISK 2 planner is provided where every day of epoch Uoqager the year is available. Just click on the appropriate day and all the relevant Author: Jack Pritchard entries for that day can be viewed. If Workbench: 2.04 needs that was not enough for you. there are Is your life a mess? Never know what you two separate address books. It is possi ble to search between the address book are meant to be doing next? Always forgetting about loved ones’ birth and you diary for any coincidences. Consequently, if you wanted to know days. weddings or bar mitzvah? Well, ■Jkm epoch Voyager can help you get back on what appointments you have with Fred P track. Bloggs, there is no problem. This is a fully-featured Personal m *n j_____ *] Information Manager, so if anyone asks Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMUMN | you know what to tell them. Voyager PlaqlB Hi I*} J ! allows you to store all your coming A uth o r: appointments, special events, deadlines or Workbench: 2.04 whatever you need reminding about. I Bt; ii K c The main screen of Voyager is a diary When the Amiga first arrived ten years 9k C cm*m which allows you to select a specific day ago. its custom sound chips were state of the art. and even today the sample 1 < from which you can enter a start time, ——— 1 an end time, a category, an occasion, a quality produced by the Amiga is super From horo you can change w hich colum ns of location and up to nine pages of text. ior to the PeeC's basic Sound Blaster the address listview display what Information You can also have a daily planner with and Ab lib boards. up to 50 lines of text in each entry. The fact that other platforms have person can be placed in up to eight Whenever you run epoch Voyager, it realised that people might actually want different groups. will check the next seven days to see if their computers to make some sound Once you have a few people entered you have any entries in your diary. has meant that over the last few years a Into DFA you can cursor up and down Along with the plain diary, it is possible number of incompatible sample formats the list on the main window. A selection to add anniversaries so every year you have emerged. of their details is displayed in a small will be warned of impending birthday or Along with the Amiga's own IFF-8 SVX window at the bottom, or you can view wedding anniversaries. Along with these format there is Wave. Voice. Sun Audio. their entire entry by pressing return or features you can also add simple Maud. AIFF and not to mention plane double-clicking. reminder messages. By entering a date raw sample formats - most of which can DFA comes with a fairly comprehen and a +- days amount, you can jog your handle 8 or 16-bits, mono or stereo, and sive preference program, along with the memory on a daily basis - hopefully additional sample compression. fairly normal window positioning and a never forgetting some important task. Play16 will allow you to play all the choice of the fonts it uses. You can For a wider view of things, a year above mentioned sample formats and change exactly what information is dis more. There are a number of ways to played in both the main address listview use Play 16. the simplest being to run it and also the smaller panel listview that and use the file requester to choose a is at the bottom of DFA's window. sample. P!ayl6 will then auto detect the A couple of DFA’s more unusual fea sample type and play it. tures is that it has been designed with There are some more advanced network use in mind. Therefore, a num options available which can only be ber of people can share the same accessed from a shell. Two of the more address book over a network without interesting ones it provides include any of the usual read/write conflicts. direct Maestro Pro output, if you own The other unusual feature is that if you such a board, and also that it supports a have a modem attached, and then a new sound driver system called Cyber phone connected to your modem, you Sound. can get the computer to phone up a K eep your life In order, an d n e v e r mime particular person. another date with epoch Voyager Amiga Computing — Ill COVERDISKS Scream Tracker 3. and the scream tracker file extension is 'S3M'. hence the name PS3M. YAK Even though trackers were invented Author: Gaal Marziou and on the Amiga, the emergence of high- Philippe Bastiani end sound cards for PCs has meant Workbench: 2.04 that PC trackers now support up to 32 channels at 16-bit. It might sound Yet Another Kommodity. as the man said impossible for the Amiga to reproduce Yak is another one of those wonderful this feat, but an A1200 with fast memory commodities. Commodore did manage to will happy manage 16 channels at about 24KHZ. One of the interesting features is that ► you can specify what speed the sam Vj McPorrt ples should be played at, and this J rte Actwt* tottkrws; |F ps3m ranges all the way down to 4KHz - totfartfcliy ■ I although any thing above 20KHz gives Author: Jarno Paananen good results. Along with the normal sup Vj jaws flagon J WyTflFrsnt Workbench; 1.2 port for Protracker and Scream tracker modules, PS3M will also handle There are more tracker players on the 6-8 Itw M r , | Amiga than fish in the sea. Well that's channel Fast tracker, 1 -32 channel style 3 probably not true, as there are not too Protracker, and finally multiTracker Eft M m | iscelrtcus many fish left in the sea. but that's what modules. Sa» I Im I______Owl you get for having an unmanaged natural You are not just restricted to the resource. typical mono or stereo sound output YAK maybe another commodity, but It provides plenty of useful functions Anyway back to PS3M - what does it either. PS3M has support for fake surround sound, or even real surround do I hear you cry? Well, it could have PS3I4 will handle been just another typical pro tracker anything up to 32 sound for all you people with Dolby channels - i t y o u r player. But what PS3M does is support Prologic decoders, and if that was not computer can take enough for you. PS3M can replay at Tiff Data Iqpe the new PC tracker formats, specifically th e s tr a in 14-bit quality. A word of warning, how Author: Bert. Wynants ’S3M3.W IC, ever. If you want to use all these Workbench: 3.0 features, do not expect to have much 11-channel Screan Tracker 1I [ nodule: processor time left. Tiff is a widely-used image format in the I Fantasn [qber Sound PAG Data Iqpe Author: Christian Buchner Workbench: 2.04 Author: Cloanto® Workbench: 3.0 If you want to use the 14-bit output of Play 16 you are going to need the Cyber Sound device, and being Yes. its another data type, and for a file the nice chaps and chappesses that we are. here it format you may never of heard about. This is. Cyber Sound allows your Amiga to produce sound is going to be a very important file format output at 14-bit quality, at speeds of up to 60KHz, in the future because if you did not know, depending on what system you have. The drawback is that it requires more processor power and is only really usable with an 020. This miraculous feat is achieved by mixing two channels, one playing at maximum volume, the other at minimum - so producing a stereo output uses all four channels. The end result is that playing a 16-bit The Cyber Sound calibration allows you to fine tune the 14-bit replay sample produces a lot less ‘hiss' than the normal way of cropping it down to 8-bits. lets Cyber Sound accommodate the slight variations To get the best results, a calibration preference that exist in all Amiga sound chips. Doing the calibra program is provided. This allows you to test the tion will allow Cyber Sound to produce the best Amiga's sound chips over its entire sound range, and output quality possible. PNC is the best lossless picture format around Amiga Computing do a couple of things right after all. \ r Yak has been around for a good while Lupe now and works along the lines of MultiCX. It provides lots of useful little Author: Frank Toepper additions to Workbench. The main part of Workbench: 3.0 Yak gives you better control over your If you knew any French or German, you windows. You have all the usual click to would already know what Lupe does. It font/back and screen cycling, along with a is a magnifying glass which will jump very comprehensive hot key function onto any public screen and has which allows you to more or less assign Dtfrrtcn | CMcm adjustable zoom, all the way to 20x. It any type Of function to a certain key com State: P fcto may not sound much more than a bination - such as Execute a CLI little toy. but they do come in useful for Command or an ARexx script, Insert text. » I positioning icons or magnifying parts of Insert date. Close/Zip/Shrink/Enlarge pictures. windows, Move/Cycle screens and win like using right Amiga d for delete. One dows, Activate Workbench, Blank display. of the neat features of Yak is the way Pop up a palette, or add a Menu shortcut. you define your hot keys or mouse presses. All you do is press the key IrtM W for.ijh^ .TojiA ______L £ J combinations or mouse buttons you want, and violei. the hot key definition is 0». I?, Sir#. ,B;„ J automatically produced for you. This is very handy, especially for some of DMenptan t U f o j u Control LthButton 3 M t x H w f | ' the more complicated mouse button L o o k thore, tharo'a a pixel out ot place. combinations, such as left button double What do m ean you can’t tell? .M ______O w l Canal ll| right. Unisys started charging people for the use IF " 1 ^ U x t d t p a t c h of the Lzw compression algorithms. This NAME meant that anyone writing a program that t*xtdtp»tch - patoh** th* t*xt datatyp* to support search method could read or write GIF files would have to pay royalties. This rightly angered a lot of people, as re q to - GIF is one of the widest used file formats. So CompuServe got a group of smart pro grammers together who went about creat Return PNG is the fruit of their labours. It has a Tab iQ H t Data I m p b Patch This is one of those little utilities where you think, Author: Stefan Ruppert why would any one need that? Then about two Workbench: 3.0 weeks later you will find yourself throwing half the stuff off your desk trying to find a copy of it. This is fairly straightforward and basically Converter Master will convert between all the adds extra functions to the Amiga's Text more common measurement scales, such as data type. Whenever you read a docu Celsius and Fahrenheit, feet and meters. All you ment using Amiga guide or Multiview, do is select the type of measurement you wish to pressing return will pop up a text convert and enter the value into the appropriate requester, into which you can enter words box. All the other values in that category will then to search for. Using tab, you can then instantly be displayed. search forwards, and shift and tab will Amiga Computing READER OFFER Now that you’ve had a chance to play around with Personal Paint 4 on our coverdisk, why not upgrade to the latest version? 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HI 1 ■ •a *- sauu: (iutii)i-soi*.m puux... S U U : N il a e* nothing more than a rough and illM inna; KKiiort i-llll jerky anim format. But as the CD32 has ■a *- - a i n I already proven, full-screen real-time digital a .'I •> video is well within the reach of the Amiga, offering a cost, storage and transfer time- Full i c r M n or in CM: Mi»i:ii iiiicciftm * com ro lltir effective means of delivenng digital video a window, Mpog at or about composite quality. im port has all P la u a ► Ml*t:i1: llii(tiirS iia:illll.iii|M iu I3S2XX8B.PI1LL. r i l o a ► Not surprisingly. Scala haven't wasted tho option*, if m * * > perhaps a little any time in recognising Mpeg's potential I’ u i i s o at millY Limp? < S ► slum-mm inii7 a «s ► slo w to S t ill ill U l a n 7 (IK Cuiinol for presentation. As a result, the im plem ent Scandinavian multimedia men have fine tuned the Amiga’s only dedicated Mpeg encoding and decoding card for direct application within Info Channel. MM300 and their latest creation MM400. Although originally known as the Peggy card, the same hardware has now been reincarnated as the MD100. complete with DU on the desktop stylish packaging and a degree of ease of use within both the controls and utilities that have made Scala a multimedia giant. Paul Hustin euplores uideo The main reason for incorporating hard MD100 in action... ware directly into a primarily software- on demand - Scala style based system is, of course, to minimise the demand for even more hardware. At pre sent the expense and hassle involved in graphic animations. After selecting an incorporating traditional video into multime existing Mpeg or creating your own. its addition to the production simply means dia productions simply doesn't make it an I option for most multimedia productions. clicking on the newly acquired Mpeg box in Scala's main layout. PROVISIONS A quick dick reveals the Mpeg decoder In the past, Scala offered provision for controller, and it's from here you can con incorporating traditional video and even iaf^! kji^iE ss! trol the Mpeg action. The first step is to laser disks into presentations via their EX select the file, at which point you're Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMstandard. However, both methods had provided with an impressive array of their limitation. Laser disks offer little in the customising options. way of interaction as well as being very dif As you can see from the screen grab ficult to master. T raditional tape offers you can play and pause, add a definable or many of the same problems plus the evils infinite loop, apply definable slow-motion, video is the only option, although audio All the usual Scala goodie a of hardware maintenance, slow interaction plus full frame digital video, and even make the Mpeg wait when you hit accompaniment is still available thanks to and. of course, degradation of the tape. im pressive by a n y standard, the appropriate point in the production. Scala's sample and mod playing abilities. With the arrival of the MD100. Scala and only 1.1Mb to store the Tape deck transport controls allow instant The ability to connect up to such a wide entire 300 frame animation finally has full frame or partial digital video scans of the Mpeg stream and once you're variety of display media is a real bonus, that will never degrade, unlim ited video happy, a simple OK adds the Mpeg and and should provide enough scope for dips with no tape swapping, hardware that play settings to the production. pretty much any production. Obviously, is unlikely to need any maintenance, and During testing I had at least five separate quality Mpeg streams doesn’t exactly grow it's all in one box. Mpegs, combined with mods, samples, on trees. As a result, after initial set-up, Once the hardware is firmly entrenched wipes and all the other Scala classics with encoding an Mpeg animation is likely to be in the Amiga's video slot and the appropri no appreciable drop in overall performance. the first step. ate cable linked eithe r to a com posite Assuming you've installed the Mpeg EX video. S-VHS, or RGB outputs, plus an software in the Scala start-up drawer, a Mpeg audio out on the rear of the board, quick trip to the system menu will reveal you effectively have a traditional genlocked the encoding side of MD100. From here video single directly beneath the Scala pre you simply select a sequence of frames to sentation. Unfortunately as it stands. Mpeg import and where to save the new Mpeg audio is only available via pre-recorded file, adjust the resolution and setting as Mpeg movies, primarily from CD - CDs required, and click on encode. Now it’s being supported directly in the control soft time to make lots of coffee. ware. As a result, direct encoding Mpeg Although the end results are impressive, it must be said that encoding is a slow process. The example 300 frame anim Roll the credits listed took roughly an hour and a half to encode from full video-res frames. Needless to say, MD100 is a product Originally exported from a PAR card, they dedicated to serious multimedia produc were then scaled and converted into the tion, and if you’re looking for the ultimate Mpeg format and resolution. in Scala impact it’s arguably the ultimate Slow import and the lack of real-time addition. Full frame genlocked 24-bit capture is perhaps the only chink in video at 25 fps, amidst all the other good MMIQO’s armour. Unless you're lucky ies that Scala can throw into the action -it enough to have either a PAR card or a has to be tempting for animators and VLab Motion, your Mpeg productions are multimedia types alike. likely to be limited to traditional computer Amiga Computing nrm DCD iaoc A joint project from Active Software and Ground Zero, Zoom is a new release that claims to fea ture their best PD from over the past six months. It distin guishes itself from other general col lections, however, by an impressive looking interlace that promises the sort of ease of use that Amiga CD needs. When it comes to the crunch, however, Zoom fails to beat the Aminet CDs that have set the standards in accessi bility. One major reason for this is that most (if not all) of the files are archived using DMS, which means they have to be extracted on to floppy disks. In practice this means that when it comes to using the file you've extracted you have to leave the interface and go to the workbench. Though this is not really much of a problem with files that fit on one floppy, it becomes off-putting when dealing with larger programs - especially since it’s impossible to know which are worth the effort. EXTRACTION In contrast. Aminet predominately features LHA files Image collections on CD have which require less trouble to extract. This weakness on been popular from the outset, but Zoom's part is a shame because in other respects the pack Giga Graphics gains an instant age works very well. It’s large contents summary box is one edge by virtue of its sheer size. For good idea, for example, that would make a welcome Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMjust over £30. the package comprises addition to other collections in the future. of four CDs packed with more than Unfortunately, the actual contents aren't on a par either. 10,000 pictures plus a few handy utilities There are huge amounts of babe pictures padding the CD to allow buyers to make the most of its out. and though these are obviously popular sellers, they're contents. of little use for anything computer related. Games take up a Considering there's over 2Gb of information significant proportion of the disk, with around 70 card sets here to search through, it was to be hoped for use with Klondike III patience included as part of the col that there would be proper categorisation of particular location makes for an entertaining lection. Considering the amount of space available on CD. it the images. It's unfortunate, then, that the game when bored. would have been nice if these hadn't been compressed so images are simply organised alphabetically, Thankfully, the collection is largely] they could have all been used directly from CD. which as usual makes for an almost hopeless redeemed by the inclusion of a thumbnail p«H More serious users will at least find some interest in the mix-up of subject matter. view catalogue, so though the pictures ar® Ground Zero Imagine 3D collection, and there's also some To give an idea of the problem, out of one rather jumbled, at least skimming through the 20Mb's worth of Magic WB data to choose from. DTP users of the randomly chosen ‘C drawers came disc contents is greatly speeded up. will find the addition of themed mono clipart another these pictures which followed one after the Given the product's size, a fair assessment worthwhile addition. other, a fantasy painting of a woman, Captain of all the contents is impossible in the space What finally undermines Zoom, however, is the fact that Kirk from Star Trek. Capital Hill and a ren available. However, it quickly becomes clear despite its competent interface, the disk contents have not dered car. In other words, finding what you that the breadth of subject matter covered is been organised into helpful categories. In fairness, the CD’s want isn't always easy; on the other hand, very wide ranging indeed. Whereas many fun emphasis and colourful front-end do make a welcome guessing why some of the pictures are in a collections have concentrated too much on change, but the flaws mean it doesn't make the top league. The bottom line Product: Zoom Price: £19.99 Supplier: Active Software Tel: 01179741462 Ease of u s e _____ Implementation _ Value for money O v e ra ll______ Amiga Computing The Hutthinson Encyclopaedia The appeal of having an entire encyclopae dia stored on a single compact disc is obvi l i d a n c e ous, so it’s no sur prise that many sup pliers are selling out Gareth lofthouse returns with our regular [0 column. — of the Grolier CD reviewed a few months back. In its I Ihis month welds the latest general collection plus - place, the equally old Hutchinson electronic encyclopaedia has resurfaced, so we decided to see how well it's stood the test of time. a huge graphics collection and a dusted o ff— Though it was originally designed for use with the CDTV, most new purchasers are likely to be using emula multimedia encyclopaedia — tion software on their A1200s, so it’s good that Epic have included alternative keyboard controls. Unfortunately, however, this is not enough to overcome every compatibil equipment, ray-traced - the list goes on and ity problem. For example, though the instructions stressed on. and only occasionally does the quality that it was essential to boot from the disc, this proved to drop to below average. Fans of fantasy artist be impossible using our Squirrel. We did manage to run it Boris Vallejo will be pleased to see a huge from workbench, but the text appeared in such a small amount of his arguably pornographic but cer font it was difficult to read - on the CD32 the articles are tainly talented paintings covering a sizeable much more readable. section of the first CD. There are also problems using the encyclopaedia One further complaint does need raising because the A1200 lacks a control pad. and navigating however, that being the amount of image the interface requires combinations of Amiga keys. ALT duplication in the collection. In fact, the Vallejo keys and the cursor arrows. Sometimes users can get collection is a good case in point, with the stuck in one article and it's not at all clear how to get back Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMsame pictures cropping up three or four times to the main menu. in close proximity. Basically, this makes it impossible to recommend for The images are generally in IFF format. In Squirrel users, but it does seem to worfc perfectly well on addition to all the pictures. Viewtek has been the CD32. With over 25.000 entries plus pictures and included so that everything required to look at sounddips. for those who own the console the Hutchinson the images is included with the package. The CD still sounds like a worthwhile product. inclusion of Personal Paint is also welcome, In comparison to the Electronic Grolier, however, The science fiction in an area which is already since users will be able to load up images and Hutchinson doesn't seem to work so*well. The first prob overpopulated with the same Star Trek and work on them. lem is the peculiarly flickery screen which makes using the Babylon 5 pictures, this collection is more like It’s a shame, then, that it’s an untranslated disc painful on the eye. a general image bank. German version, making it difficult to use for Though there are 2000 photographs and 250 sound All the standard fare is included, but the majority of us. The slapdash way in which Clips, they are sparsely distributed among all the plain text fortunately there are many other fields to some things are thrown onto some CD collec articles. Considering this is supposed to be a multimedia choose from. Pictures of supermodels and tions - and this is not an unusual example - product, the information is often blandly presented to the swimsuits do. however, crop up all over the does not bode well for the Amiga's future CD point where most people would rather use the traditional place, but at least there's some fair play market. paper version. thanks to the inclusion of a number of muscle- So overall. Giga Graphics is not short of With searching tools that also seem inferior to the bound hunks as well. flaws. Anyone who can find uses for a wide Grolier, this CD unfortunately doesn't cut it in the modem Cars, trains, space, planes - as you'd range of imagery, however, cannot help but be multimedia age. It's only its price, plus the fact that the expect, there's an abundance of material to impressed by the value for money such a Grolier is hard to get. that makes it even worth considering keep the most avaricious anorak happy. But huge and far reaching collection offers. In these days. there's also a great deal of useful material short, it's should make a worthwhile buy. too. Sunsets, world locations and landscapes are available in huge quantities and often the quality of the photography is high. Similarly, The bottom line dose-ups of roses and flowers could be put to The bottom line a number of different uses. PROSAND CONS Product: Giga Graphics } Product: Hutchinson 1 There are numerous painted backgrounds Price: £32.99 Encyclopaedia CD available, while photographs of stones, bricks Supplier: Active Software Price: £14.99 Supplier: Epic Software and other textures are there for 3D fans to Tel: 01179741462 wrap onto their objects. Considering the size Tel: 01793 490988 of the collection. Lightwave and Imagine Ease of use ______8 Ease of use 7 users may be disappointed to find it lacks any Implementation 8 actual models; in my view, however, the col Implementation ______5 lection benefits by concentrating on being a Value for money 9 Value for money 7 definitive 2D image bank. O v e ra ll______8 Overall 8 Flags, famous album covers, military Amiga Computing OP.TORFR 1Q95 World of flipart Desktop publishing is no longer the sole has been done consistently, but the preserve of people who can afford actual file names are inexcusably expensive packages like Pagestream 3, unhelpful. With only numbers distin with word processors now offering guishing each individual picture, finding drawing tools and the option to import the right picture can be unnecessarily pictures as standard. time consuming. It was also strange to PD collections have always been a find pictures in the IFF drawer had bits good source of clip art, but finding the missing for some reason. right material to suit your documents Of course the CD is padded out by and, equally importantly, your printer, duplicating images in just about every was not always easy. A CD with over image format available, but this is a plus 40,000 mono and colour images point when it comes to flexibility. What's therefore holds an instant and obvious in size, with some of them only suitable more, a program called Transition has attraction. for printing in a very small scale. been included to allow Amiga owners to World of Clipart is particularly large Others, however, are about five times convert file formats. thanks to the fact it's spread across two larger than your Amiga's display, mak The odd flaw aside, this is a high CDs. and there’s a huge and diverse ing them suitable for large scale use value, high-quality collection that beats range of subject matter to choose from. with printers boasting high DPIs. any of the competition I've yet seen. Furthermore, the material appears to The standard of many of the draw Useful for just about anybody, World of have been well selected to suit the bul ings is exceptionally high, with a lot less Clipart comes recommended. letins. pamphlets, fanzines and newslet hit-and-miss quality control than some ters the CD will probably be most used of the product's rivals. Some of the for. images are highly accurate and There are large drawers dedicated to detailed, but the inclusion of well drawn business and education, for example, as but simpler pictures and charicatures The bottom lino well as general symbols that will be use proves equally important. ful for just about anybody. There's also WIDE SCOPE work for computer and technology cate Product: World of Clipart For those who want to print in colour gories which should please those who Price: £19.99 there’s also a huge number of colour want to write about their Amigas as well Supplier: Epic as use them. pictures covering almost as many cate Tel: 01793 490988 Natural world drawings are always gories. and once again the quality Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMpopular in clip art collections and unsur remains high. In terms of breadth of prisingly. this CD has a good range of coverage, therefore. World of Clipart is Ease of use ______. 7 dog. cat, insect and sealife pictures to hard to fault. Implementation. 8 choose from. Transport. Christmas and So far so good, but unfortunately Value for money- 9 people are categories that are similarly there are a few complaints that have to O v e ra ll______8 well represented. Pictures range greatly be raised. Categorisations into drawers Utilities professional There are some Amiga users that have absolut music there are the usual PD music editors plus a ely no time for games. As a recent survey collection of reasonable quality sound samples to proved, the inclusion of the smallest PD shoot- expand your repertoire. Databases, sports selec 'em-up on the cover disks will have some people tors and disks for HAM radio enthusiasts give an criticising what they see as a waste of space. idea of how much material is available. Such serious users might therefore sit up at Frankly, however. I just couldn't be bothered the prospect of a dedicated utilities CD, and spending hours trying to find the good stuff. This that's exactly what this PDSoft product is about. one is reserved purely for the most patient of the Business software, graphics production, hard tecchies. drive tools, virus killers. DTV - you name it. if it’s anything to do with productivity computing it’s here on the disk. The CD has been around for a while now. The bottom line however, and in some ways it’s beginning to look rather dated. In terms of organisation, it really is a pain to use in just about every way imaginable. Product: Utilities Professional Basically, the CD consists of 150Q floppies as well, which leads to the same slow transfer on Price: £19.99 worth of files and programs transferred onto disc. to floppy you get with Zoom. It's worse here Supplier: PDSoft Searching through the drawers just brings up because you have even less of an idea of what thousands of identical, nameless icons with no you're going to get in the end. Tel: 01702 466933 clue to their contents. This means you have to go This is all a bit of a shame since many of the to the alphabetic directory in a separate text file, contents will please the more serious Amiga Ease of use 4 seek out items of interest, and then take a note users out there. 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Simple in its operation and simple to install Doubler uision It arrives in a small cardboard box which also contains a tool that looks a bit like a small comb for removing the 68040 chip from your 3640 daughterboard, an earth ing strap, a sheet of instructions and the doubler itself. The instructions give you guidelines on rem oving yo u r existing 68040, covering all the different setups like theepoxied heatsink, the dip-on heat sink, and the paper-clip type spring clip heat sink. Once you have tremulously removed the heart of your machine and pried the living I soul from it, you can then insert \ r - * * ' t the Sonnet Doubler. v - It consists of a board roughly twice the width of one 68040 soc ket, with pins on its underside at one Ben Host end to insert into your now empty 68040 socket, and the new 68040 at the other end of the board sitting under a v £ j * . - / , 'v i " thought that a sonnet combination heatsink and fan. There only ^ . • * . v > " appears to be one chip on the board, other than the ‘040 of course, along with a T. '«* *. m s a I t line poem until he idiscouered couple of resistors. k . \ s ^ OVER-CLOCKED this accelerator Motorola only make 68040s clocked up Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMto40MHz as far as I know, so the heatsink speed for about a grand. Admittedly, that and fan have to work even harder to cope is over twice the amount the Doubler wttfi an over-clocked CPU. The fact that it loo uiarped costs, but you would also have your origi is running hotter than the norm al 040 nal 3640 board to sell, and they fetch seems to make little difference and cer to fit? somewhere between £300 and £450 for tainly didn’t cause our machine to crash the nght buyer. any more than normal. I asked Blittersoft whether the Sonnet That brings the cost of the CyberStorm Owners of machines other than A4000s Doubler would work on any other down to between £550 and £700, a much may have trouble fitting the Doubler owing 68040 accelerator card but it seems better proposition, especially when you to the increased height requirements - it that most other accelerators don’t use consider that you will get better memory stands about an inch and a half proud of the 68040 at 25MHz, they all over- access and an optional SCSI-2 controller. the daughterboard. You might be aWe to fit clock to 28MHz. This means the Of course, if you can’t afford that extra A into a 3000T but. unless they are willing Doubler will unfortunately not work as dosh then the Doubler does represent a to make serious modifications to the case. it actually relies on there being a good way of increasing the speed of your A3000 owners will probably be out of luck. 25MHz clock rate. machine for relatively little outlay. / r y j What speed does it run at? Well. Syslnfo. that notoriously unreliable bench through AIBB gives us results of around mark. gives us a rating of about twice the speed of our standard 040 38.13MIPS and 9.66MFLOPS. Running it SVSTEfTl ESSmilHLS rating. But is £399 too much to pay for RED Essential BLACK = Recommended doubling the speed of your Amiga? It’s certainly on the edge of acceptability as BIF a dee doo dah far as I’m concerned when you could have 68040 a machine that is at least four times the Nearly all PC motherboards these days come with what is known as a ZIF socket for the CPU to sit in. ZIF is an acronym for Zero Insertion Force and works by The bottom line Ihaving a socket with overwide holes In it for the CPU’s pins to go into. There is a lever on the side of the socket which, once you have inserted your Pentium or Product: Sonnet Doubler whatever, you pull over until it locks once more. Supplier: Blittersoft This basically locks the pins of the CPU in contact with a conductive layer Tel: 01908 261466 aside the socket. No more fiddling about trying to pry a chip out of its socket, Price: £399 overing it this way and that with a small screwdriver, hoping you won’t bend my pins - just flip the lever back and the chip will just lift out. Ease of use ______9 As to why there aren't any ZIF sockets on Amiga motherboards or accelera Implementation ______9 tors. I can only surmise that this is because the 680x0 range of processors isn’t Value for money------7 so swiftly obsolete (either that or the sockets cost too much). O v e ra ll______9 Amiga Computing OCTOBER 1995 1------■ Hu MUSIC or those who missed our initial preview in Amiga Computing's -Q July issue, Tune Builder basica lly offers a totally unique approach to musical production on the Amiga. In the past, producing music to accompany either video or a multimedia production was both expensive and time consuming, and more often than not both. D Fortunately with its arrival, custom-built, quality cu pro-quality CD sound, is within the reach of quite literally anyone. And there's no of a musical illiterate, some software, and consequence, the software can take a need for any musical equipment, talent or TB's accompanying CD's create pro-quali slice out of this digital loaf and cut, copy studio facilities. ty music that normally would keep a pro and paste it back in anywhere you need it As any videographer will tell you, quality fessional musician busy for hours if not As any muso will tell you, simply taking a pre-recorded music is expensive, and days. The simple answer is that although random slice out of a song and slapping it even when you’ve got the basic working you have control over the construction, the down elsewhere is a recipe for disaster. material you're still looking at a big invest tunes themselves and all the hard graft Unless you’re either very gifted or ment in time, money and effort to edit and that went into them has been done on extremely lucky the timing, the key. and incorporate the music into your produc your behalf by a team of professional overall continuity will be shot to bits. tion. Even then you're by no means guar musicians. anteed that the end results will fit perfectly Obviously, the process of transforming LARGE AND SMALL into the overall production - crescendos in a musically inept computer jock into an During testing I dissected and totall the wrong place, quiet sections where you instant impresario all hinges on the skill of reorganised entire tunes, shrank them to a want a bit of excitement, the list goes on. those lovely people who put TB’s tenth of their original si*e and expanded Fortunately, Tune Builder puts all these Arpeggio CD collection together. During others from 30 second originals into mil problems to the sword by providing a fully what must have been a nightmare produc utes. Every time the end results were per interactive customising process that tion process, the musos behind the music fect. no dicks, no pops, no agonising key allows the user to create music of precise built multiple edit points directly into each changes or obvious continuity faults length, tailored throughout in the style of tune, which were then picked up by the perhaps one or two... your choice. Whether you need a change accompanying software. As a As you may already be aware, one! of mood or a dramatic crescendo, the exact slice of music you need can be slot ted exactly in the right spot and repeated Trickji « i I I ► » ii » as often as necessary. Mil: IMM ll* I V The question is. how can a combination »Ufc»| km | U~1 | fc^.1 j | Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM».v«> p it i t» | • | . | The bass line iL'“fr -V Aside from the ease of use. time i s s S1' saving and all the other point .- • - r ~ F • ;'1 J bonuses for Tune Builder, the over Drag and drop simplicity amidst Introdibia Just about ovary samplo format imaginable riding must for any library is the sound »nd production quality fro m B~blt m ono to fu ll 16-blt C D storoo overall quality of the music. All too often, libraries consist of innumer forego browsing and go straight into a able Synthesiser specials with the search. As you've probably gathered j inevitable chicken in a basket' over dim and match courtesy of the screen shots, filtering the tones that moke for more of a nove 344 tunes is particularly well implement-1 lty item than a serious production On initial boot-up, the first port of call is ed. The first step is to select a style or tool. the Library section where you audition even multiple styles. If this doesn't tnm In Tune Builders’ case there is a and select from the 344 assorted tunes down the selection sufficiently you can slight cheesy feel on the odd track, spread over the 12 accompanying CDs. narrow the selection further by search but in general the collection is truly Needless to say, some form of filtering, ing by word, defining preferred tempos I excellent with vocals and guitars not to mention auditioning, is essential, and/or a range of beats per minute. blended with believable brass and but fortunately both areas are Even track length, using greater, less or impressive percussion. Better still, something TB is particularly adept at. exact parameters is an option. all the major sampling formats, Initially, the library presents you with options and rates are supported the complete list and you’re free to scan DELIVERIES across Amiga. PC and Mac and oth the collection and read the notes During a complex search a click on ers. There's even a direct support of appended to each track - regardless of the button will usually deliver three or the Toccata card. whether the CD is actually in the drive. four tunes. The next step is to audition In short. Tune Builder is nothing If you find something you like the sound your selection and to do it you’ll need to short of essential for anyone of, either during a browse or a dedica fire up your CD-RO M drive. As you involved in serious video or general ted search, it can be tagged and will select each track the software provides multimedia. It will literally save hun then always appear in the search win a brief overview in the form of an dreds of hours of hard graft while dow regardless of subsequent search editable note, the ID of the track, and improving your overall production parameters. the CD on which it’s stored. . quality. If you can afford it. and can If time is of the essence, or perhaps If you then select the CD Player 1 envisage a return on your invest you already have a firm idea of what preview from the pull-down, a tape deck ment. you can't really afford to be you're after, the obvious step is to control pops-up ready to assist the without it. Amiga Computing 30 OCTOBER 1995 MUSIC legato lego I Once inside the editor you’re presented with a waveform of the entire tune seg mented into numerous individual edits, and paste and it’s these seamless cuts that are the key to the whole process. Although the principle is inspired, the Paul Hustin auditions lune Builder - arguably actual production process is embarrass ingly simple. To audition the tune simply the greatest aduanre in Bmiga music in gears click on the Play Original button, and if you're perfectly happy with things as they are you can export the tune in the w m r - s s n z - rate and file format of your choice. I TrackTrack21 211 00:111*j « ln lil >!h]»H>1»I The next option is to interact a little : ______ld more by specifying a user-defined Lm iJn Urn*i in I,ir» I I f- I lito i • tint ______]i\ length for the tune you require - either Irs. II E li ‘I im»» • |* * r J jjH m T T larger or smaller than the original. If you iw » .rT » T : add the length you need and click on iy •— * C Z 3 i Sk 1 generate, TB automatically interpolates the existing track to produce a custom- lune Builder built tune that will fit your time parame ter - usually to within one second. •H I. If j i. U rn , m m h lnut UH, ■ W orauides a fullii If you don't like this initial mix you can L i-O i click again and TB will produce a new interactiue (ustomising protess variant. You can repeat the process as Tbm ultim ate In p ic k a n d m ix. W ith 344 Make your selections and Import. But boar often as you like and then toggle tunes to choose from there's no chanco in m in d you c o u ld n e e d 60M b o i disk space Malta the user to create ol running out o l ideas lor the necessary 16 and 8-bit data between the variations with the adja music of prerise length, cent arrow keys. If this still doesn’t minute of stereo CD quality audio trans opportunity to audition the available tunes quench you thirst for interaction, there’s lates into roughly 14Mb of storage space. in 16-bit prior to editing, so you should tailored throughout in the still lots of scope. The next option is to As a result, actually producing 30 minutes have a good idea of the overall quality style of pi use a combination of shift and mouse of CD quality sound internally would bring beforehand. For the purists. 8-bit may clicks to select individual sections - Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMeven the best equipped Amiga to its seem like a worrying compromise, but in choice more than once if necessary. The knees. Consequently. TB offers a unique reality the done is more than adequate for selection is then played in sequence to approach to production by importing the basic edit dedsions. generate a completely custom-built original 16-bit data for the selected tune, Once your designer tune Is complete, tune. If you like it. again a simple click and from this it creates a more manage the software reverts to the imported 16-bit ing on the Export will generate a new able 8-bit dummy. And it’s this 8-bit clone data and compiles your master tune in the master. which TB uses for preview during format and sound quality of your choice. production. INTERACTIVITY As you'll discover later, you do have the The final and, without doubt, the most flexible method is to opt for a full-blown SVSTEfTl ESSEnilRLS edit session by getting interactive with R E D Essential BLACK Recommended process on either searches or during the Assembler Bar directly below the browsing. Alternatively, if you sim ply waveform. To use it you simply click on double-click on the selected track the a section you like, drag it across CO drive will automatically locate it and and drop it on the bar. To create an start playback direct from the CD. entire tune you just keeping clicking, - m ------= 1 Obviously there's a chance that not all dragging and dropping until you have your selections will be on the same CD. CD-Rom drive Hard drive Speakers exactly the arrangement and length you Fortunately, if you double-click on a need. track that isn’t on the current CD you’ll To audition your creation you can be prompted to insert the correct vol m m click on the Play New button or shift 030 accelerator Audio Mixer ume. And as an added safeguard, each and drag over the section you want to track which is on the current CD will be I hear. As you select a new block from highlighted with a star in the selection T j the waveform, its counterparts in the window. The bottom line Assembler window light up. so it’s easy Assuming you’ve found one or more to construct repeats or verse/chorus tracks you're particularly keen on. you Product: Tune Builder sections. simply tag them and click on the project Supplier: AirWorks Media You’re also free to drop blocks in- button. At this point you'll be asked what Price: $999 none broadcast between existing selections and delete you want to import - either the currently Price: $18,999 TV and broadcast others. In short, complete drag and highlighted file or your complete selec rights drop control. If you need to fade the vol tion. That done, the software sets about Tel: 001 403 424 9922 (Canada) ume, a click on the join between any importing the 16-bit data and generating two blocks evokes the Dynamic its 8-bit doppleganger. Assuming you've Ease of use____ 1 0 Adjustment Requester which allows you imported all the tunes you require, sim Implementation. .1 0 to add space for voice-overs or fade out ply select one and click on the all Value for money — 7 tunes that perhaps slightly overrun the important Tune Builder button. Overall______9 require run-time. 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You 6 would have a tough time trying to buy a PC or Macintosh which is not fit ted with one, but it's not like Amiga owners have been left behind, with Squirrel SCSI CD-ROMS flying off the shelves quicker than the hottest hot cakes. The options available for A 1200 owners are quite straightforward - get yourself a Squirrel setup. Big box Amiga owners have a much wider choice - slap in a SCSI interface and take your pick of all the SCSI CD-ROMS that are out there. Both the Plextor and NEC drives are internal dnves so require a little more work to fit than an external one. You connect both to the SCSI board via a 50-way rib bon cable, making sure the red wire goes to pm 1. The CD audio can be piped trough a four-way connector at the back and connected internally to your Amiga, •flowing any CD sound to be mixed with the normal Amiga audio - even though a little surgery had to be performed to make the provided lead fit at the Amiga end. All that is left to do is power up the CD with an IDE power connector Both the Plextor and NEC drives use caddies. I think they are a pain but they do thm you to use the drives on their side - if they are external drives - and protect the discs. They also have the usual array of controls that appear on CD-ROMS - sound a really trivial headphone socket, volume controls, and point, but when you are an eject button. All pretty thrilling stuff. flinging CDs in and out of The Plextor drive is a quad-speed unit it all day. it is actually really SYSIEfTl ESSEflTIHLS Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMand. when sysinfo is in a good mood, useful not to have to bother RED = Essential BLACK = Recommended returns a transfer rate of more than 600k a messing about trying to second. It appears to be a SCSI 1 device, prop open the CD door but this is no real disadvantage because when inserting the caddy. • • • • • • • • I t even the fastest CD-ROM is not exactly In practice, there seemed to be very lit SCSI controller ^ pushing SCS11 to its limits. tle difference between the two drives, even CD-ROM driver INSTRUCTIVE though the NEC is a sextuple-speed mechanism. The Plextor does have a 1Mb 5' < Inch bay The manual that comes with the Plextor buffer and a random access time of is jam packed with installation instructions, 220ms. which could be the reason for the but unfortunately these are for the PC and Plextor beating the NEC drive at the Mac. Having said that, a lot of this is rele Aminet Search. It is also difficult to spot The bottom line vant stuff, but probably the only thing you the speed increase of the NEC when wi need to know is how to change the doing directory listings and animation Product: Plextor PX43cx SCSI ID number. replays. Supplier: First Computer Centre I Another feature the Plextor drive has is At the end of the day. whether you Price: 239.99 that it is possible to put it into audio CD- choose the NEC or Plextor will come down Phone: 0113 2319444 ROM mode. When you first turn on the to how much you are willing to spend. E-Mail: [computer, if you hold the eject button There is a very noticeable difference sales @ firstcom. demon, co. uk down for three seconds the drive can then between using a quad-speed over a dual play audio CDs. Any music CD you put in speed CD-ROM. but whether the extra 70 Ease of use _____ I will be played, and you can skip tracks pounds for the NEC compared to the Implementation by tapping the eject button. Unfortunately, Plextor is worth it is something you will Value for money the only way you can get the CD-ROM have to decide. back is by turning your computer off again. O v e ra ll______I As for the NEC. it does seems to be of Product: NEC 6Xi t a sightly better construction, and is a sex Supplier. First Computer Centre tuple speed, SCSI 2 device. Again, when Speed statistics Price: 312.99 sysinfo is in a good mood you can get a Phone: 0113 2319444 tansfer rate of over 900k a second. The | For all you stat freaks, a little selection of speed comparisons: only other major feature the NEC has over E-Mail: the Plextor is a digital out connector, sales @ firstcom. demon, co. uk Drive Sysinfo Copy File AminetSearch ! which would allow you to get perfect sam ples off any CD. If you have the facilities to Ease of use ____ 7 Aiwa aCD300 305k 28.8 secs 5.0 secs use this I am sure it will be very welcome. Implementation 8 I Having said that, the CD door on the Plextor PX4cx 610k 16.6 secs 3.8 secs Value for money 6 ; NEC can be locked open. This might NEC 6Xi 910k 12.6 secs 4.1 secs Overall ... 7 Amiga Computing HARDWARE Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM RIlllH multimedia Rctiue Speaher Sgstem sony sRS-PtsD too much space. Three control buttons Probably the most ugly speakers on the market, the SonM are situated at the top and as well as the SRS-PC50 are designed to be attached to the side of your monitoS usual power button, there is a Surround although rubber feet do allow them to be placed on your desktop. I control which, in theory, gives you more Featuring built-in amplifiers that give a total of 5W, they are also! of a stereo effect due to the Front magnetically shielded to n[ Surround Circuitry. However, when prevent distortion on Product; Sony SRS-PC50 tested it didn't actually alter the sound a your monitor. The con Price: £79.99 great deal. trols are placed on the From such small speakers you do get Supplier: Gem side of the speaker so quite a powerful sound, although bass Tel: 01279 442642 when mounted they sounds don’t come across all that well, would face forward and unfortunately, although it claims allowing ease of use. A Sound quality Dynamic Super Linear Bass', it still bass control can be F e a t u r e s _____ sounds fairly tinny. adjusted to give deeper Build quality At this price the Aiwa still feels like a sounds and the quality O v e ra ll_____ durable, sturdy system, and if you’re not overall is good. too fussy about deep bass sounds then the Aiwa provides value for money. Product: Aiwa SC-C55 Price: £49.99 Given Aiwa's reputation for top-quality Supplier: Aiwa equipment such as their latest CD-ROM drive which received a Blue Chip Award Tel: 0181-897 7000 last month, high hopes were held for their mid-priced speakers. S o u n d quality 6 The Aiwa speakers, although quite Features 7 compact, are stylish in design and Build quality 8 because they are slim, fit nicely by the Overall 7 side of your monitor without taking up Amiga Computing •t- Sonq CS5-B1DD Yamaha VSI-dlS Powered (Tlonitor Speakers An all-in-one set designed to fit snugly underneath mounted which makes them easy to reach, but your monitor, this unit from Sony is at the higher end because of the lightness of build you have to of the computer speaker market. Magnetically shiel have both hands free to support the speaker ded to prevent distortion of your monitor picture and while you make your adjustments. Their size boasting an unusual array of extras, on paper it also makes them fiddly and even those with the already looks like one of the tidiest audio solutions. most nimblest of fingers are going to have The Sony's large base is designed to support mon problems. itors up to 25 kg, and though it looks big when Feature wise it comes complete with an extra removed from the box, it actually takes up less desk output socket to allow it to be connected to space than having a couple of small speakers wired something like a very impressive sub-woofer. A up next to the computer. The only possible problem presence dial allows you to change the amount might be that when used with big box Amigas, the of treble you get but unfortunately this wasn't all Sony will put your monitor at a neck-straining height. that responsive. For this sort of price, you’re In terms of sound quality, the Sony was a strong better off going for the Power Speakers or the performer. Of course it suffered from the same limita Aiwa which both feel like they should last a lot tions you’d expect from cheap midi hi-fis. such as a longer and provide better value for money. lack of depth in the sound, but to expect much more for under £100 would be unfair. At least the bass was substantial enough to avoid too much tinnyness, Product: Yamaha YST-M5 Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMThe cheaper of the Yamaha set, the YST offers providing the bass booster was turned to full. Price: £49 only a three Watt per channel output, but as A downside of having everything located neatly we’ve seen before this is usually irrespective of Supplier: Yamaha Kembals beneath the monitor is that the speakers are too close the sound quality you get. However, in this case Tel: 01908 366700 to properly benefit from stereo. In fairness, though, the sound is very feeble and reflects the low few computer users will be overly bothered on this wattage. Sound quality 5 count. Design is rather questionable too. Apart from F ea tu res _____ 5 The Sony scores points for efficiency, for although looking like an upm arket a ir fre sh e n e r, the Build quality .4 it has a low wattage, high volumes can be achieved speakers don’t feel as if th e y'd su rvive any O v e ra ll_____ 5 with distortion only occurring at the very highest out knocks or bumps, The controls are front- put - which is a lot more than can be said for many of its rivals. Connection to the computer is made using the standard left-right channel audio jacks, but more unusual are the secondary set of ports hidden behind a flap mounted on the unit's front. These allow for the TM Zydec may not have the brand image that Sony and connection of video, a microphone and a Discman or ^ 1 B f i l H I Yamaha products carry but this arguably accounts for Walkman. Not only is it good to have these available, their lower pricing The question is. can they match the but the fact that users won't have to fiddle around big boys in terms of sound quality? behind the unit too much is also a welcome feature. The first noticeable point is their strange and some Finally, it has to be said that paired with the right I would saY tacky- styling, with the pink and wobbly monitor, the Sony’s smart fascia can only make your powor button standing out like a sore thumb However. kit look more impressive. Strong on sound and fea ------1 their upward tilt makes some sense considering they'll tures, this sound system is a high calibre contender, !,«• set Oh a desktop well below ear level. Unpretentious but comprehensive controls include and only its price will make serious users have volume, bass and treble, though they are rather stiff to use Combine this fact with the unit's second thoughts about buying. i)htweight and not very solid look and feel and the Zydec begins to look less durable than some of its more expensive rivals. ______iound quality is not at all bad and high volumes Product: Sony CSS-B100 Product; Zy-fi Pro 2 In*- Price: £85 Price: £46.99 d . - p ll. ,111*1 m id i . iin j'- I I.m l y r . ‘ - Supplier: GEM Supplier: Special Resen/e till- lie oft Tel: 01279 442842 , . m il M/I- I iiiipifi'iivi■ however Tel: 01279 600204 • •! •! • I'" - - .iM. r I • ;11. i . |, * ■. ■ k ■ • i ■. ; Sound quality______8 If you're not bothered about looks and crgonom- Sound quality -jj F ea tu res ______9 . and let's lace it. it •. not as important tor com- Features _____ Build quality ______7 utcr applications as with a hi-ti then the Zyh Build quality - lo r Overall_____ Overall______8 standard Amiga purposes. 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Yamaha subwoofer this system is so The Yamaha M10s are a pair of 10 Clarity of sound was highly com far unbeatable. watt speakers from another rep petitive in its class, and the inclusion utable brand name which boasts of a port to allow the connection of a Product: Yamaha YST-M10s unusual and elegant styling to match subwoofer will make them very Price: £69 some impressively named special appealing as components of a highly Subwoofer £116 serious multimedia sound system. features including pure spruce wood Supplier: Yamaha Kembals cones and the exclusive Active The inclusion of jacks and adapters Tel: 01908 366700 The Soundstorm range are a new colleo Servo Technology. make an encouraging bonus since tion of computer speakers designed to The latter facility is another way of they allow minimal fuss connection Sound quality establish their makers. Primax. as a top giving the bass surprising depth con to be made with anything from your Features------developer of multimedia peripherals sidering how compact this pair of Amiga to your hi-fi. This is instantly Build quality Boasting 240 watt power, this top of th speakers actually is. Having said preferable to having to go through a O v e ra ll------range pair promised much in comparisoi that, however, similarly priced monitor headphone jack as is the to the 5-10 watt average in its rivals. Unsurprisingly, they are rather larg and will prove an encumbrance on desk already straining underneath the weight o printers, hard drives and CD-ROMs. In terms of appearance, they bear the clos Hid Hi-Fi quality speakers est resemblance to standard hi-fi speak ers thanks to their box-like, basic design. I Boasting a hefty 80 watts and priced at only £49.95. these The standard audio-system similarities speakers from HiQ seemed too good to be true, but putting are also borne out by the inclusion of 4 Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMthem to the test we found that our cynicism wasn't in the least bit woofers and 2" tweeters for more convinc justified. ing bass and treble sounds. Like all goo< Mounted on their own stand, they are a lot bigger than the oth Product: Stereo Speakers computer speakers, however, they includ ers we looked at and the space conscious may find their bulk off- Price: £49.95 (+P&P £7.00) a built-in power amplifier. putting. Similar in size to the Primax giants, if style is an The controls are comprised of the stan important factor then the HiQ ones win hands down. 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The real pi however, is that the volume doesn’t hav to be pushed up that high before th sound becomes badly distorted, whic Primax GO uiatt obviously makes that excess powe practicably unusable. Even if volumes are kept within a low considering the price, but like its big brother it tends to medium range, the speakers were overstretch itself with distortion apparent after the volume none too impressive considering the has been raised by just over a third of its capacity. Amiga owners would be well advised t Still, they will prove perfectly adequate for gamesplay- either buy something cheaper or go f< ing and the like, and compared to rival unit’s they have a the Yamaha top-range speakers if the reassuring weightiness that suggests higher than average want real power paired with accuracy. sturdiness. In short, they’re a low budget offering that's worth considering. 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O /Access/Mastorcard/Switch/Visa | 9 99 TECHNOPLUS QUALITY ERROR FREE ANO SAITEK MEGAGRIP 2 TP511 PAD SUPPLIED WITH LABELS WITH AUTOFlflE AUTOFIRE WITH PACK OF 10 TDK MF-2DO 3 S' DISKS 11.99 TUR80.FREE PACK OF 50 TDK Mf-3DD 3 5' DISKS OUST COVER PACK OF 10 SPECIAL RESERVE MO CREDIT CARD SW ITC H 12.BB____ AND FREE PLASTIC FUP TOP DISK BOX EXPIRY DATE . _ Get writing - so I did Our first letter this month comes internal CD-ROM drive. They are from an obvious madman who... obtainable quite cheaply these well, let him tell it in his own days, are they not?... words: ...On the subject of DTP. I run ProPage 4.0 but CacheEdit gives I was prompted to write to you by me an ‘Out of memory’ error the little snippet you placed on when launched from the page 46 of Issue 88, namely Workbench... “GET WRITING." One single let ...perhaps I should have stuck ter won't exactly give you your with PageStream, ’cos from what requested sackful, but if you print I’ve seen of WordWorth it’s this in its entirety, then, what with your m.u.c.h. t..o..o.. S...I...0...W ...! M ind you answers, you'll have at least a couple of PPage doesn’t exactly zip along does it? extra pages to fill! Thank heaven for the Article Editor... Firstly. I must thank you for your excellent ...Oh how I wish I had my old Star LC10 magazine which I have followed carefully colour printer back. Considering its age, it £ and with pleasure ever since issue one. I seemed to be able to ‘turn its hand' to any am so very glad (as I’m sure are a good thing and everything I threw at it - and I many others) to see from your well-bal sometimes did! BE anced coverage that Escom are about to re ... Finally, if you’ve read this far. thanks CO kindle the glowing embers of our old ‘friend’ for bearing with me and I look forward to a, CO C=. I am sure they will help... doubtless abridged (you're not kidding - o ...I next got my itchy fingers on a 1k ed). version of this letter appearing... Q_ Acorn Atom, which was held together, as I Long live the Amiga and Amiga e's'sp remember, by much black adhesive... Technologies GmbH! May their bytes never ...Then at last, I got my eager hands on a fall to bits. WB1.2 Amiga 500 complete with ‘Hi-res’ Simon Smalley, Lincoln Vour uieius and Questions aired 1084 monitor, bought on the strength of...... Enough of the lovey dovey sentimental Mr Smalley, who is apparently 50 going ity though, and on to my first ever cry for on 15, sent us a total of 2720 words, and ansuiered bn our man of Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMhelp from your good selves... accompanied by several sheets of print I've loved the idea of computers for as out detailing his assigns, Workbench, letters; tara Surf long as I can remember (I dreamed nightly Kickstart and DOpus version numbers, of ENIAC and COLOSSUS for months)... and Sysinfo printouts of the perfor „,l have the ubiquitous 1Mb 3.5’ floppy mance of his machine in several areas. drive (dfO: Anticlick provided courtesy of In answer to your queries, Mr Smalley, I Magic Workbench. A replacement for DF1: only have room for very curt answers Helping hand should be on its way by the time you read now, so pay attention: I have just bought a second-han this), one 40Mb Quantum P40S SCSI hard 1. It’s probably because your MFM drive Amiga 500 with hard drive, Workbei drive I have 1Mb ChipRAM as standard is so old that you are having so many 2.1. etc. and I was given some of yoi with 2Mb FastRAM added, plus 4Mb of 32- problems. Your best bet would be to magazines. You gave away Person bit wide SuperFastRAM on an SSL A5000 ditch it as soon as possible and get a Font Maker on the cover of your Ma 68020 accelerator board I also have an sensible size SCSI hard drive for your 1994 issue num ber 73. Do you have MFM hard drive, formatted to 29Mb, on the machine. I believe you should be able to back issue of that number that I c« far side of an A2288 bridgeboard... use a partition for the bridgeboard, buy? ...I also upgraded to WB2.1 about a year although it might be a little tough to set K Stevens, Belp ago. In retrospect. I have found this to have up. You should be able to pick up a been quite a wise move, although I some 500Mb drive for around £150 these days You can certainly write in for a bat times wish I had waited for v3.1 to arrive... and you can never have enough hard issue, we do have issue 73 in stoc ...the MFM drive now acts as my DH2;, drive space. The address is the same an named ‘Archive’, formatted as a single OFS 2. The MegaChip is good but, yes, I think cheques or postal orders should t partition with the standard WB format com you would have problems fitting it along made payable to IDG Media an mand (Yes, I did see the warnings about with the A5000. m ade o u t fo r th e a m o u n t o f £4. IDE drive low level formatting before under 3. It’s been a while since I last used A lte rn a tiv e ly , if you have a CD-RO taking the task!). For a couple of years an ProPage, but I thought that CacheEdit drive you can buy the Personal Sui was fine... was part of ProPage 3 and made o f p ro g ra m s on CD fo r o n ly £39.' ...The drive was to all intents and purpo redundant in version 4. As you say, try from our Personal Paint coverdl: ses dead. Finally, I checked it through with switching back to PageStream. Frank offer. QBTools, again without much success... Nord tells me the latest version is pretty ,J salvaged what was possible and again impressive. re-formatted. All subsequent system checks 4. Not much you can do about a print showed up as OK - no read/write errors head for a dot matrix other than replace Helping hand II being reported. This same failure has now it unfortunately. occurred three times in the last three Lastly, thanks for your letter, it bright I am the proud owner of an A500+ wi 4M b RAM, a 120Mb hard drive and months and happy is no longer my middle ened up the office on a dull day and I name! Each time the system fails it reports hope you will be able to put the £50 prize PC card as well. a “Read/write error on track xxxx"... money to good use in upgrading your After rearranging my hard drive ...use the bay that would free up for an machine. managed to lose the software that ru Amiga Computing nrTADCD 1QQR D S H t B l j — the PC card and it’ s d riv in g me mad trying to find the correct soft ware. so I was wondering if you musical instrument doesn't interface could help me in my quest? The PC card is a product I have spent e lot of time, effort and money trying to get a good Midi kit called th e K C S PC You asked for more letters pages, together, only to find that the device meant to run it all is incapable of the PowerPacker. I hope either but what you don’t seem to realise task by design. I don’t know if any of your readers has had similar problems you or a fellow reader may Is the fact that you have to write Into with the CD32/SX-1 but I would like to make them aware that the be able to help me. us. To give you a further incentive, CD32/SX-1 module is not compatible with MIDI interfaces and does not Julian Sorfleet, we will offer £50 from Adam come with any Workbench disks. 13 Kershaw Avenue. Little Phillips’ wages to the best letter The advertisement placed by Silica states quite categoncally that the SX-1 Lever. Bolton BL3 1QS written. But please keep quiet turns the CD32 into 'a fully functioning Amiga 1200 compatible computer.' This is not the case. I have asked for a refund from Silica and I will get back about it. as Adam doesn't Hopefully th e re 's a k in d reader to you if I encounter any problems. out there w ho w o u ld be w illin g to Roy Sharp. Liverpool help Mr Sorfleet out as KCS seem to have disappeared in to the aether. Yep, I've just checked Silica's ad and it does still say that. I expect the best that can be hoped for is that you get the refund and that other people can learn from Helping hand III your example. know is whether this is true and if not, I am a newcomer to the Amiga having that back issues are available. Could what size hard drive would you recom recently purchased a second-hand you tell me if that is still the case and if mend as a minimum. Also, is the Amiga 500 Plus in ’as new' condition so what the price would be. internet accessible to my computer and and in its original packaging. A E Lott. Reading W orkbench 2. The machine came with a RocGen If you recommend buying an A1200, genlock with a test disk. However, when Again, any readers who can help Mr or Ms Lott with their problem should that would unfortunately be out of this test/demonstration disk is inserted the question as my wife is already nag after Workbench 2.04 all goes well with write into me and I'll pass the infor ging me about wasting money on the the colour bars test, but every time I try mation on. As to the Amiga fax A600. the SCRIPT iconl get the message cards, they were printed a fair while Andrew Brooks. Rochdale Software failure.' ago and I'm afraid our back issues don’t go back that far. I am unable to refer back to the origi It might have been better for you to nal owner who has moved house, so have bought an A1200 in the first could you please inform me who the Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMplace, Andrew, but no you don't agents are for the RocGen genlock mu wife won’t need to ditch the 600 and buy a PC. and/or where I could obtain another The minimum size for a hard drive is (uncorrupted) demo disk, whatever you can afford, but try to Also with this kit, there is a strip of let me get as large a drive as possible - it'll Am*ga fax cards, all with the suffix 3. On soon fill up. the Music 3 card it states that other fax i have recently purchased an Amiga Once you've got a hard drive and a cards were issued with the June and 600 upgraded to 2Mb. My problem is with expanding the system. I was origi modem (preferably 14.4k or 28.8k) July issues of Amiga Computing and nally planning to fit a hard drive and an you will have the minimum setup external floppy, modem and printer. necessary for Internet access, However, every time I go to the local although to be able to use Mosaic to computer shops they keep stating that I browse the World Wide Web properly would be wasting my money and that I you will need Workbench 3.x. should buy a PC. What I would like to While it is good news that the Amiga has finally to the launching of new machines and keeping its Research in the days of the Spectrum, so I come out of limbo (having finally been bought out customers informed? I hope they do not intend to think it's unlikely that you'll ever see Amigas ck by German company Escom) I have some fears blitz the market with a fleet of 'super machines', ck. with as many problems as those early which I would like to voice: as a more sensible option would be to just create nd Spectrums. However, I do agree that Escom 1. Once Escom begin producing the A1200 one and let it be the basis of all future develop be shouldn't just rush things through. They again. I hope they will take their time to do so ments. The original A500 is a prime example of nd need to pay attention to bundling deals, instead of just rushing it out. After all, look at this and even today it is still a grand machine - I packaging and advertising to ensure the 15. what happened when Sir Clive Sinclair attempted know, a friend of mine still has one! )M A1200 and A4000T regain their place in the to meet demand with his Spectrum in the 1980s 4. Do Escom intend to fully support the Amiga computing hierarchy. ite - they were not even tested before hitting the with a vigorous advertising campaign and per 95 2. Certainly you will see the re-emergence of Shelves and consequently, many machines haps show it as a 'serious' computer and not just sk Amiga developers, distributors and retailers. included serious faults. something for the kids to play on? As mentioned in this week's CTW. retailers 2. Will many of the software developers who David O' Conner, are crying out for all things Amiga, but they decided to quit the Amiga when they believed it Dinnington. South Yorkshire can't get new games or serious software to to be a lost cause actually come back to it again? meet the demand. Some of them seem to have made up their minds We will undoubtedly continue to get a lot of 3. I think that Escom actually do need to already and just don't give a damn about the mail about the Escom situation, so let's go diversify the Amiga range in order to capture i ith A1200's future any more. over David's points one by one. the niches left for it. The A500 was a great j a 3. 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Just one more quick question - how do I get OctaMED sound files to play from my I startup-sequence? Andrew. NorthamptonshireI As with most things in life, which ever decision you make will involve compromises. If you must have 100 per cent CD32 compatibility, then the only real option is to buy a CD32. You can then use something like I C the Communicatorll to allow you to access the CD32 via parnet. Basically, you get an icon on the Workbench and can access the CD32 like a AMIGA COMPUTING ADVICE SERVICE normal device, such as a floppy or hard drive. The major down side to this is acas you will only be getting around 20 to 40K a second transfer, which is not much better than floppy access. H[US is here to solue dll — Your other option is to go for the Power Computing offering. That consists of either a dual or quad-speed CD, and the excellent Squirrel SCSI-II interface. The[ CD32 emulation might not be perfect, but most recent CD32 games, and hope tjour embarrassing personal — fully all future releases, will be written with these CD32 emulators in mind. Therefore, future compatibility should be much better. The other thing you should keep in mind is that with the last option you are Hmiga problems — getting a SCSI CD-ROM and a PCMCIA SCSI-II adapter. This means that there is a good possibility that they could be used on a future Amiga, or any other com-[ Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMputer, with the right software, and the fact you have a SCSI interface means it is j Final Writer woes — possible to fit up to another six devices onto the SCSI chain. The biggest benefit, however, is that you can access the CD at its maximum ^ My situation has now reached transfer rate - 300k a second for a dual-speed drive. That is around 15 times 1 < desperation stakes and I am in faster than the Communicator II, and if you are planning to use PD discs a lot serious danger of taking a ham then this could be quite an important point. mer to my Amiga 1200 and the HP520 I would go for the Power Computing system. You get a SCSI CD-ROM that that is attached. could be used with any other computer with a SCSI interface. The CD access I am running Final Writer 2.1, and the on the A1200 side is infinitely faster, and on top of all that you have got a problem is that I cannot print past 10.5 SCSI-II interface. inches - anything after this is being When you say sound files, do you mean samples or complete modules? To ignored and not carried over to the next play a module, edit your user-startup file, found in the S: drawer, and add Run page. I have exhausted all the options in >NIL: Amiga Computing TECHNICAL « i - Amiga is no more than six-years old > = -> Do you have a problem? Do you sometimes it should be a revision six machine. E L find yourself poised over your Amiga with axe The only way to find out for sure is to ^ in hand, spouting profanity at the stubborn HIBOO Ethernet open your machine up, remove the -==5 ^ refusal of your Amiga software or hardware to metal shield by carefully bending all Is there an ethernet adapter JR A *'' behave properly? the tabs up. and somewhere on the available for the A1200 Well, calm down and sv/ap the axe for pen mother board, normally on the right- which plugs into the PCMCIA and paper, jot down your problems, along hand side, there will the revision slot or the parallel port? I know with a thorough description of your Amiga these are available for the PC, but I num ber. I setup, and send it off to Amiga Computing Advice Service. IDG If it is an earlier version than six have not seen any advertised for the Media. Media House. Adlington Park. Macclesfield SK10 4NP. Or e- you are going to have to do a bit of Amiga. I hope to buy an A1200 when I mail us at ACASQacomp.demon.co.uk amateur electronics, and depending go to university and would like to con on how adventurous you are it may nect to the campus network, if I can. Philip Chung, Cambridge AssignPrefs gives you a nice GUI be best to get a qualified electrician front-end to add, change and remove to do the job. If, however, you have a flnq You will be glad to hear that assigns, w hich m akes lo o k in g after revision six machine, fitting the ROM your assigns a lot easier. is a case of carefully prising the old ^ there is such a card avail- questions? ROM out of its base - a flat head able called the i-Card. This is only half the story, as you screwdriver pushed carefully H5DD BKpansion between the chip and the base at have to find out what type of net each end should do the trick - and work the university uses so you can purchase the correct network I have an A500 and would like then replacing it with the new ROM, and driver software. Unfortunately, know what is involved in making sure you place it the correct PC the card is expensive at £249. If upgrading to OS 2.04 or 3.1. I way around. There are clear markings you give White Knight Technology know you can buy ROM kits and that on the chip and its base, so this is a call on 01920 822321, I am sure they come with fitting instructions, but o b vio u s. they can help. a?e they easy to understand by a com It is possible to use a ROM switch There is another option, but this plete novice like me? Do they need er, but why do want to? I am sure involves more work. You could get epeoal tods, and do they come with the once you use 3.1 you will wonder hold of a PC PCMCIA ethernet card, Workbench disks as well? Is it also pos how you ever managed using 1.3. which is much cheaper, but you sible to use the 3.1 ROMs in conjunc When OS 2 first appeared there was a then need the driver software and a tion with a ROM switcher? legitimate use for ROM switches, but copy of AmiTCP. The problem here At some point in the future I would nowadays every program will run is the driver software for the card. also like to fit a hard drive, but there under OS 3. Apparently, Erik Quackenbush has seem to be so many different sorts As for fitting a hard drive in the written a driver, but I have been I don't really know which one would be future, five years ago you could not unable to get hold of him - I’ll keep best. move for Amiga 300 hard drive you informed. Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMRose Hasted, Oxon adverts, but now A500 stuff is getting pretty thin on the ground. The easiest g f With regards to upgrading way to add a hard drive to an A500 is L your A500’s Kickstart to choose any of the ones that fits you will be stretching 1Mb to the R ' chip, I would suggest you Into the eide expansion slot. You limit. You can normally fit extra mem went for the OS 3.1 kit. How difficult should also consider getting some ory into the hard drive, but it is this Is depends on what revision extra memory, as each hard drive something worth checking before your A500 is . B a s ic a lly , if y o u r partition uses up some memory and you buy one. Workbench release. of your computer. The error message you are Workbench blues getting, and the fact your computer is running slower, is indicative of a keyboard problem . . i have an Amiga 500 and a ROM switc- It could be that when fitting the Megachip ; 2 her fitted with Kickstart 1.3 and 2.05. I you dislodged the keyboard connector. Does have just increased my hard drive from your caps lock light flash when you boot 40 to 350Mb and have a Megachip your computer? If It does then this definitely installed. My problem is that on the initial start means you have a keyboard problem. All I up I am getting the message 'pure bit not set'. can suggest is that you check the keyboard What is this pure bit and how do I set it? is correctly connected and make sure none If I switch to 2.05 and boot my system, every of your keys are trapped by the computer thing becomes very slow and jerky. I am told this casing. As for your problem with CMD, are is because it is still booting Workbench 1.3. How you running Pen Pal under 1.3 or 2.05, and can I get my system to detect which ROM I have which OS version of CMD are you running? selected, and automatically boot the correct Bigger, b e tto r a n d fmator. Evory a a p o c t of Workbench Earlier versions of Pen Pal do not run under Workbench? 3.1 la an improvement over the now dec rep id 1.3 version 2, but it is possible to upgrade to Finally, when using Pen Pal I find it very use either the last version of Pen Pal, or the ful to use the CMD function to redirect the output Normally, the pure bit error is associ- much more recent Final Writer. to my hard drive, and then print later. This ated with the pure protection bit of a I do wonder why you are still using 1.3. If always worked fine, but since changing the hard file not being set. A quick cure for it’s just to run Pen Pal then you really should drive, every time I use it I get a blank screen and this is to simply type from a shell, 'pro upgrade and dump all the 1.3 stuff on your a redirecting data message. When I then quit tect C:#? +p’. This will set all the pure bits of hard drive. If you have to run 1.3 then there Pen Pal I am left with just the blank screen and all the programs in the c: directory. However, are a number of small CLI utilities that can Workbench cannot be found. running the 1.3 files under Kickstart 2.05 detect which ROM you have running, and M Dennett. Somerset should not make any difference to the speed then execute the correct startup-sequence. Amiga Computing OCTOBER 1995 1 >W TO ORDEI Public Domain Prices Key Each Public Domain Disk 99p [WB2+] Workbench 2+ [WB3+] Workbench 3* [ 2 D ] Number of Disks Postage On All Orders 75p Ausiaoms c u tw o UK Our in £ U add 10% In TOTAL [1MB] Minimum Memory RflsUent* m R est o f IVortd mod 1S% to TOTAL [AGA] For AGA Mach" Catalogue Disk 50p [030] Minimum Pr- Cc*t&m M nm g. Ft U ceneew eif. c o t etc [HD] Hard Drive BUY lO PD DISKS GET 1 FREEII Make all Cheques and Postal Orders Payable to ACTIVE SOFTWARE Lato§t demoB continued...... Mora utilities continued.. 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Fortunately, although wading through all the disks Duch Dodgers was an extremely lengthy process, the high standard of Programmed by: David Worswick most ensured it wasn't too tedious an ordeal. and Lee Martin Better still, there were only three Lottery programs Available from: PD Libraries this month - and one of them wasn't even a predictor. Anyway. Public Sector has now received so many It’s a while since there's been a got Lottery Predictors that next issue a brief comparative PD plattormer but it was worth the wa Fans of tough arcade action will be round-up could be in order - and then I'll hopefully be ...and than you can sma exactly what able to forget about them for a couple of months and each telephone call is costing you home here with plenty of taxing levels concentrate on more imaginative offerings. Duck has to toddle around ear listed, indicating they are on the net at screen zapping beasties with his free: that time, you can click a button to talk gun and then pushing them into larc to them. Finally, GUIF is basically a vats before they thaw. Much be-bilk o graphical front-end to the AmiTCP Finger bravery is in order because on son Internet Utilities command. levels, new creatures are created e fast as you can trap the onginal one Programmed by: Various However, while Comms’ fans are the To top it all, each level has to be cor Available from: 17 Bit Software target of the sixth program too, its appeal Disk No. 3724 (£1 plus 50p P&P) is slightly broader. Online-o-meter tells you the cost of a phone call. It can either Unsurprisingly given the title, five of the be used by simply clicking on the call start six programs on this disk will only be of and end buttons, or from comms software interest to comms’ buffs. AmiTALK, for using ARexx. It calculates the exact cost instance, is a Unix compatible talk pro of each call, taking into account factors gram - which to two-thirds of the Amiga such as differing charge zones, minimum community will mean absolutely nothing charges and time and cost rounding. It is but should prove useful for the rest. supplied with British charge details for BT, There's also AmiTCP Helper, written by Mercury, and Nynex, so getting the whole Amiga Computing's very own Ben Vost. thing set up takes just a couple of min and Control Panel which offers a simple utes. Since this is also a useful program graphical interface for AmiTCP functions. for anybody who happens to have a tele AmiWatch keeps track of when your phone near their Amiga, I'd recommend Take on the role ol b u c k D o d g o rs , friends or indeed enemies are logged getting hold of this disk even if you aren't space-age stamper-out ol those gullly of low! play on to the net. and when their name is an Internet addict. Amiga Computing cards. This memory test aspect is what L ...» makes the game pretty enjoyable and m nmspfpmaus* ■ ■TP . «• . t o ,• t t t u t m u S* 0! . 0 to Vou are tho & r Mn •i 0 ■.e 000 • 1 9 addictive. Remembering where that •1 Ml HU, 0 •'S* .0 0 1 HP M ini i i mm 3 Goal card was might be simple enough, ■> et» a BP 1 0 0 9 t- t vi Hum ■0 0 i 01 HP 0 0 «:-v. euenjthing... K u tub m o . *i 1 & 3 ? but once you've snatched the lead you t< Ml 1:1 HHH ■i jo V 000 u a t. won’t want to fo rg e t w h e re the F ull HP lin IIHHBM 0 0 » W- 0 0 sm I f ; !3 e 9 10f, 0 0 I want to hear from you if you have any •* I'l-HtlUAmW 0 e ? gefi t Time card was located. I P i i vi iff’p p m p •I VP 9 wtt, 0 0 <’ program, whatever its purpose, which isr And that, in a nutshell, is Premier n m c i t v ■ *E» .<0 0 *• 1. 1 9 IR-HIPH Iff <> tar oao eto you consider worthy of review. Whether League. The a u th o r w as a p p a re n tly l b H b ion v i i m 1 i 0 i 0 00, ■ n M- HiuiHmniffl •» i 0 M •> it will be freely distributable public inspired by a PD game called Premier IV. m o rh io t HMI M 0 1 0 9 M • 1' P11CL.MII •J ■ t •>0 0 00. *» domain, shareware or licenceware, if Picks which worked along the same iv h i i m am nO i V0 P II ii »•* voY unnr 01 t g m u 1 a you feel it’s of sufficient quality to merit lines - or rather, didn't work, having a f t m i c t u n n •i re HP ■tc *» HP F MB u .r .n . . . OB nm 0 ) gp . r. a m -• coverage then stick it in a jiffy bag or tendency to crash on him with alarming padded envelope and send It in with all tin m n iM.ivi i m i b j w i j . t » ; regularity. Fortunately, far from scoring haste. I promise I'll at least look at your Manchester United back where they belong such Lee Dixon-fype own goals. work. Premier League is a veritable Paul Kanchelskis, if you happen to be Please clearly label the disk, and Ince of a game - dependable, frequen reading. Fergie) quite hard to live include a cover letter supplying a tly impressive and (much like Andrei without. description of the disk contents, price and some basic instructions. The magic address is: gtxwtm-inmni StOBLSm Li* rrrrrrrrrr I t *1 9 B-D.tt l o t Int. la. Ml I la <1 I'U -'i uHui Dave Cusick I m I t M Im i* n a r t I m3 ' nut: li Mfenirtll fit* w% liti liiri i«i PD submissions Amiga Computing m i m , Media House Adlington Park Macclesfield SK10 4NP itililti rli f i l 1» IIIII i !l M I M egaNote, r — n r r m "I Icon Calendar n n n o n o n i and TollaUhr muwh I Kim.. In a c tio n Planning the week ahead with Aeaietant date in an Applcon. Very nice, but I’m not quite sure what the point is - I expect easier to use were it not also still in most people who regularly want to check German. Still, you can jot notes on it and the date already have a titlebar clock Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMprint them out. and I can't imagine what which displays it. When I ran it on the 20 other features a notepad program might July I was informed that this is the need. IconCalendar basicallv disolavs the author’s birthday - fascinating, but why? A calculator program which runs as a commodity. ACalc is perfectly usable if a little simple. Right, that’s the moaning over, Lottery Player: It's cheaper than the real thing... because the two remaining programs are actually pretty good. AddressBook FORTUNE SEEKER impresses because of its general simplicity, and because it is British it talks m c 22 srrni fan mom (is about Postcodes and not Zipcodes. It can store names, addresses and telephone numbers, and it can search for a record tarn @ >3 $ A by name or address and then dial the i t§ $ $ # # 0 I appropriate phone number. . ci Dodger» : A m ulti-level platform Finally, the most impressive program iir.ivaganza, or som ething on the disk is Assistant, a computerised diary with the added advantage of being c-d within a strict time limit. able to provide daily, weekly or monthly ’he presentation is t excellent pages. Again there are no fancy features, jghout. the visuals are attractive. but the emphasis is on functionality and ...and you can tilt the odds in your favour 1 the sound isn't bad either, as a consequence, Assistant is very casionally. harsh collision detection pleasant to use. Coupled with Address bit of fun. being essentially two Lottery de, the g a m e p la y is s lic k a n d Book, it should render the conventional games in one package. i idictive. office rather redundant. The first game is basically a straight Duck Dodgers is quite an achieve- copy of the National Lottery. Starting ii especially considering the tact with anything up to £100. each week • its programmer lives at one end of you can choose numbers from as many country and its graphic artist at the lottenj Plaqer cards as you like and see whether you r Although the two have apparently Programmed by: Don Darden win anything. The second game works in er met. for over a year or so they Available from: Darden Designs reverse, so after you have selected . e been sending one another stuff in (£4.50) seven numbers the computer will post and the end result is this rather produce sets of six balls and if your It appears that these days the world and jyable platformer Be warned, it’s not selected numbers match these, you win. his uncle have written Lottery prediction isy. However, for gamers after an The high score table can be saved to programs. Fortunately for my sanity's oyable challenge. I'd heartily recom- disk and if you aren’t winning very often, sake, Don Darden is keen to point out nd Duck Dodgers that this is not a predictor but a harmless Amiga Computing -Ill P D a n d SHAREWARE UTILITY o f t h e m o n t h mip Lot Programmed by: Allen Design Available from: Pixel Digital PD (£1 plus 50p P&P) First there was MultiCX, the commodity that replaced your usual screen blanker and workbench M CP is easily configured from M CP is brimming over with options title bar clock while adding numerous features such Its own Preferences program - throo screenfuls of them In tact as the floppy drive dick stopper, the black work bench border, a mouse accelerator, activation of allows you to change the workbench Applcons don't have to pay a bean. And since it was actua the front screen, and so on. 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If th include AssignWedge which allows you to Assign MCP also scores because the authors have authors at the same time implement some of I or Mount whenever those “Please insert ??? in any selflessly made it Freeware rather than features on the To Do list in the ReadMe, MCP drive" type requesters appear, AppChange, which Shareware, meaning that once you’ve got it you could become the ultimate Workbench commodity. | you can increase your chances by alter It’s morse than that, Find the m m ing the number of balls in each draw Leave things as they are. however, and he’s dead Jim within... you've got a cost-free National Lottery simulator which, while perhaps not Trekkies and Trekkers the world over Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMmatching the real thing for excitement, seem eager to surround themselves In will certainly be a lot kinder on the wallet anything and everything Star Trek rela 17 Bit Software Play this for half an hour, take a look at ted. 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The relie conference to announce the Amiga's new key role at the head having the com pany that invented computer televis of his ever expanding multimedia empire, it's not surprising if back at the helm of Escom's multimedia drive everyone’s scepticism didn't evaporate overnight. understandably intense. Escom's plan to build on the Amiga's technological superiority As reported in our August issue, the first good net as a multimedia platform was obviously encouraging, but a number was the plan lo bundle Scala's MM3Q0 package with m of questions remained. After all, in the Amiga's absence the PC had A1200s. The fact that the software won't run on the ba been marketed so successfully It was almost synonymous the term machine, however, left some commentators puzzled. "What is 1 multimedia in the eyes of the general public. With even Escom them point," some said, “of giving away software that most new own« selves pushing PC multimedia solutions, could the Amiga ever regain can't use?" lost ground ? Barry Thurston. MD of Scala UK. thinks differently: "On I Fortunately the promises seemed infinitely more credible thanks to face of it it's a strange package." he conceded. “But it’s fon the contribution of twp companies: Scala and Viscorp. Both could jus the A t200 Into the multimedia environment and almost tryir tifiably claim to have invented their own brand of multimedia, and both encourage the purchaser to get interested - which is no I teams have experience from long before PC owners had even thing." W encountered the winning term. If any third parties were needed to No bad thing indeed sfnc?the iA1 inly needs to i f ■ t u n n g Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM/• I w / > V something d iffe re nt than the sim ila rly priced developments from Scala. which currently seem the main menu would be a whole series of things super consoles it w ill be up a g a in s t th is rather thin on the ground. Thurston explains that stuck together, now virtually every item is a sepa Christmas But Thurston is aware that more will they’ve only really started pushing MM400 follow rate object. It makes it a lot more flexible, pliable be expected from the Scala-Amiga Technologies ing the buy-out. as they've been building EXs and easier to add to." collaboration if the Amiga is to become a really which expand on the current product’s function In fact. MMOS is so flexible it can grow to meet profitable multimedia contender. ality - most recently they've created drivers for new requirements with the minimum amount of I Encouragingly, despite their move into the PC the PAR card and Sunrize Studio 16. difficulty. Thurston gives the example of a cus market. Scala believe the Amiga can still lead the The key to Scala's vision of the long-term tomer that wishes to incorporate Scala into an way to a future of computer television. Thurston future, however, is a multimedia standard that will editing suite; previously Scala would have written explains: “In market areas like distributing infor thrive on all platforms, including the Amiga. Far an EX for it, but now the customer could be given mation onto TVs. which is what we’re about, the ahead of the faddish approach that some PC a development pack to create one themselves. Amiga will still be the best machine. It’s PAL com developers have adopted. Scala have designed a The good news is that though MMOS was patible as standard, plug and play like they say state-of-the-art, object-oriented operating system developed for the PC. it adapts to the AmigaDOS Windows 95 w ill be. an d o n ce A m ig a called MMOS. environment much more readily. According to jTechnologies start producing the machines they’ll “Object-oriented programming." Thurston elab Thurston, the developers one day decided to port still be the most cost-effective solution in the orates. “basically means that each function in a it back to AmigaDOS and were amazed by how area" program is a separate object with hooks which quickly they did it. “If we talk in terms of man I . It would be fair to wonder, however, how much allow it to link with other objects within the pro years to get it onto PC. it took a day to put it back this commitment is backed up by new Amiga gram. So whereas before with a Scala product t h e u i s i o n (he Hmiga has been promised a neui multimedia future bg the Th# future of interactive Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMmen at (scorn, but they can't deliuer the dream alone. Gareth television Is Amiga bas ed - o r a t le a s t It w ill be if Don Gilbreeth gets lofthouse talked to the third parties that w ill lead the wag his w ay This Is ED, a Vlscorp sa t top currently doing well In trials In A m erican hom es. Gilbreath believes Its Amiga-based successor w ill be even better ■'a IntoChannel, an Amiga m ultimedia champion push multimedia PCs into the family home, the With so many of the CD companies being small a c tu a l product is often disappointing. Anyone start-up businesses, some commentators believe who's seen the average fare will know there’s a lot that many will be hard pushed to survive. of cllched, bland material lurking behind arty Which all seems to suggest that a certain i knows the Amiga was the firstborn mul- interfaces amount of the CD multimedia is not really impress i machine. If you were to believe the hype, If this sounds like the bitter whine of someone ing the public. Dressing encyclopaedias and cook er. it would seem that it has been left far who’s missed the boat, then you might be interes ery books up In hi-tech clothing does not neces I by the PC's dominant brand of multimedia, ted to hear a few statistics. According to CTW, the sarily make them into a new and exciting medium. !>M. computer trade weekly. 90 per cent of the thou It's clearly foolish and immature to be overly Magazines have trumpeted PC interactive CD sands of multimedia CDs that went on sale in the partisan on this issue The fact remains that many i if it were the dawn of a new age. with writers US last year sold less than 100 copies. Now that Amiga owners would jump at the chance of getting making huge claims along the lines of CD redefin speaks volumes. products like Microsoft’s Encarta, and both hard ing the boundaries of entertainment. And if you Even makers of acclaimed CD titles are finding ware and software developers should be striving asked the developers of such software about the it surprisingly difficult to survive, with Medio to match the PC's talents in this field. But it is rtiga, the best you could hope for was a Multimedia, the makers of the almost benchmark equally important that we build on the Amiga’s >ing smile expressing sympathy. CD called JFK Assassination, recently having to unique strengths, rather than jumping on a But while the talk has definitely helped retailers announce it was laying off 40 of its 75 employees. bandwagon heading for fool's gold. Amiga Computing ► companies an awful amount of money® onto Amiga," Thurston explained. “Which "But in truth it is n ’t multimedia," ■ says an awful lot for AmigaDOS as an Scala 5UCCB55 continued. "It just means you've got operating system." large storage device that you c “What that means for us," he contin 5toriE5 retrieve information from and you c ued. “is that cross compatibility between play sound files but - oh, by the way Scala’s record of success has put scripts will be easier, and it’s highly likely while you want to access informati the Amiga home computer at the that our next generation of Amiga prod your sound is going to stop becau ucts would be based around MMOS." heart of some of the world’s biggest your PC can only do one thing at a tin Which, he went on to point out. will fit in corportions: I think the general public on the PC h Ford, Esso, Trust House Forte, SAS very nicely with RISC Amigas that can been cheated from true multimet International Hotels and Co-op emulate MS DOS. because of what various manufacturt Superma»1 If Scala can take almost sole credit for feel that with the Amiga we can react inventing the multimedia software environ these target costs." ment on the Amiga, Don Gilbreath has an In Europe, the concept of the set to equal claim on pushing the hardware in a box is largely unheard of, so what cot similar direction. Now Chief Executive of purchasers of Viscorps model expect the American-based Viscorp, the inventor According to Gilbreath, the TV-base of the CDTV and CD32 is back with high te ch n o lo g y w ill in c o rp o ra te a voic hopes. phone, a fax, Internet access, plus an Following a deal struck shortly before the Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMin-one access point to a variety of diffe Frankfurt press conference, it is Viscorp ent network services with everything cot that stand to benefit first from Escom’s lib trolled using icon-based menus via yot eral approach to licensing by incorporating remote control. Amiga technology into a new set top box. Clicking on one icon will allow the use! Interactive TV in the US is at a far more to jump into a multimedia, potential! advanced stage of development than in Barry Thurston, M D of Scala UK, graphical, vivid world. Since it's Am igl Europe. Like his numerous rivals, Gilbreath outlines his vision for the future based, Gilbreath also forsees the possi is hoping to bring video on demand, home bility of incorporating CD and authorisinl shopping and interactive entertainment into technology would cut down costs thanks to synchronised CD-based games. the family living room all under the control the way it used and encouraged writers to Up to this point, however, the produ of a TV top unit. Unlike his competitors, use memory economically. “What hap sounds like an extension on typical con however, he thinks he can do it at an pened was that a lot of the entertainment puter-based product’s technology. In fat affordable price - thanks to the Amiga. writers didn't have the luxury of 16Mb main the project is rather more radical tha Gilbreath explained that using Amiga memory like you got with a PC," he said. that, "We see a computer world which "In a way it forced them to write efficiently well versed in interactivity." Gilbreat and it forced applications to be efficient." He continued: ‘That helps us because memory is the highest component cost in any set top box. You look at some of the set top offerings in this country: There were requests for bids for machines to be made at a certain price, but people were coming up with units that needed a crazy amount of memory - ten times what the Amiga would need! Which, of course, just killed the whole thing.” In general, it seems the whole issue of price could be the decisive factor in terms of who wins the race to bring multimedia to the masses. Outside the set top box field. Apple Mac’s Pippin is just another exam ple of an impressive spec machine that’s been indefinitely delayed because they “Scala lots us promote ready-to-use multi• I can’t deliver the goods at an affordable media solutions. Escom now turns from a I level for home use. PC manufacturer and retailer into a multi• I media company - we see this as a key to B The lesson is clear to Gilbreath. T o be success.' Manfred Schmitt at the Frank fun Elegant interfaces are the key lo information access successful the initial cost is the key. We Press conference Amiga Computing 52 OCTOBER 1995 Tinkering uiith the engine i though Viscorp and Scala are about the Amiga's prospects, the new machines > some catching up to do with other platforms if they're going to have a chance of eting. Fortunately, it seems Amiga Technologies are well aware of this - hence the ent to a RISC-based Amiga. In the nearer future, Barry Thurston agreed that bundling a CD drive with the Amiga was going to be important, and he added: “Hopefully it could spawn true multimedia products along the lines of Encarta. but obviously a lot more accessible and quicker." But though a CD-inclusive package was mooted at the conference, how long before it i is another matter. Ideally, Escom need to get it ready for Christmas, but by the lo f things we could be waiting until Spring 1996. PC ne f Amiga users are going to get products like Encarta, however, a more fundamental in i would have to be made at the heart of the Amiga. PCs and Macs are able to t video footage running in a small window next to text and other graphics, whereas nly (!a- the Amiga would have to cut to a different screen. The reason for this is that the other computers use chunky pixel graphics which make 256 colour images move as fast as two colour images By contrast, the Amiga uses ) graphics which become slower the more colours you use. Ifs argued that the Akiko chip, which was incorporated into the CD32. was a way I this problem, but since nobody has exploited the technology, that remains to be whole country you could be playing with 20- 30.000 people," Gilbreath said. “We see that happening with a lot of different TV shows." All of which sounds impressive, but one would expect that the new Amiga-based set top box would be a long way off in develop ment time. According to Gilbreath, however, Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMmaking the new product is the easy part. “Electrically, the Amiga-based product exists but we've not deployed it yet," he said. “Before we can do that it's about lining up a sufficient amount of roll out developers to have titles ready. The product itself is not C o m p u te r a problem since it's based on a merging of te le v is io n will become our previous experience.” u n o v e rd a y Slowcoach myths Gilbreath has seen radical technology p a rt a t Ilia , an d the explained “Then there's a whole commu flop before, including his own CD-TV, so he If people moan about one area in Amiga leads nity of TV people who may not have a realises having a good base product isn't th e w ay which the Amiga has been super computer. What we are driving towards is enough. “This is a very expensive business seded by its rivals, it’s processing more TV centric hardware and software." to be involved in," he explained. "If the bat speed. New PCs and Macs are just | Thus. Viscorp's previous set top experi tle was just about technology this box would so much faster, it won't be possible ments typically had built-in genlocks to be a very strong winner. But it comes down to do half the things they're capable make them very television friendly. And if to content; if you bring ogt a new player you of until the RISC machines come you think TV centric software sounds like need enough supporting software on through - or so they say. no more than another empty buzz term, it's launch." Of course speed is very important, an eye-opener to see what Viscorp have If anything gives the Amiga a fighting but for multimedia the Amiga is a lot already achieved with a non-Amiga-based chance, it's not the hardware but the talent more capable in this area than many box named ED. that can exploit it to the full - a fact stated realise. Interestingly enough, the MAXED-ROOM by both Scala and Viscorp. Barry Thurston Shapeshifter Mac emulator ran ani called the Scala programming team heroes mations and video faster on an I For example, ED already has an unusu- of the Amiga world. Gilbreath is equally Amiga 030 processor than on many ally convenient on-screen TV entertain adamant that Amiga people are smartest in of the Macs in our office. ment guide. It differs from a facility like the set top field. The fact that Escom have dropped Teletext because users will be able to "There's a base of software writers that the IDE-based A4000 desktop in select programmes that interest them, and know AmigaDOS and know television and favour of the SCSI equipped A4000T atically set the VCR up to record entertainment." he argues. "We know of will also prove a big help. Barry i at the same time. other computer-based companies doing Thurston points to faster transfer Then there's the matter of Viscorp's similar stuff and television is not their nor rates as being vital when planning to NTN, a company bearing rights mal playback medium. We think our people for the playback of motion video. to a number of key sporting events. NTN are better equipped to do the job." Add to lhat the fact that it allows the r actually transmit live action to ED and A lot of promises have been made over connection of better quality periph users are given the opportunity of betting the last few years, and lot of promises have erals. and more of them, and this will n a 'What happens next?’ game, been broken. With teams like Scala and give the Amiga access to some very j It's a way to get involved with the sport- Viscorp leading the way, maybe this time powerful multimedia tools indeed. ng event you're watching, and over the things will be different. Amiga Computing l k t the start of this year. Panasonic ‘ ■ announced a new dual-function CIp r quad-speed CD-ROM drive. So what? Well, it was a quad-speed CD-ROM drive and - this is where it gets good - a 650Mb magneto optical drive all in the same box, but for not that much more than a standard quad-speed drive. The adverts started appearing and eventually we got one to look at for ourselves. So is it any good? Let's start with the way it is built. The drive looks like any standard CD-ROM drive from the outside with the exception of the PD logo on the front panel. When you open that panel you will notice another dif ference. It has a tray within a tray kind of affair, one for the PD cartridge and one for a normal CD. Because of the height differ ence between a standard CD and one of these cartridges, this tray within a tray thingy becomes necessary - the interior tray moving upwards when it retracts if there is a normal CD in it. The PD cartridge itself actually shares many of the same dimensions as a CD- o ROM caddy - which you should have some familiarity with if you own an older CD-ROM drive. However, the PD cartridge will not work in caddy-based CD-ROM dri ves which is a great shame as it would certainly put this drive into my all-time top ten list of products. side of things, using AmiCDROM i drive, you'd expect to get around the SITTING PRETTY is extremely simple and you can W B M I ■ f 600k a second mark. And, no surpris The drive is nice and easy to install with set up the PD drive as a CD-ROM es here, that's exactly what you do gel jumper-based termination (rather than unit with the same ease that you set up In conclusion. I would have to say that I Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMresistor packs which can be awkward to the cartridge side of things. wouldn't use the Panasonic PD drive at remove and replace) and sits quite happily How well does the drive perform? an everyday replacement for a hard drive, in the top bay of my machine. Software According to Syslnfo the cartridge runs but if you are going to use it for archivinj installation is certainly a lot less complicat along at a nice steady meg a second, or as a final step before mastering a CC ed than the many disks of installation soft although copying files to and from the then this unit provides significant value tot ware for the PC and Mac included in the drive in DOpus puts the lie to those fig money. For users out there that haven! box would suggest. ures. In a test I did copying roughly 10Mbs yet bought a CD-ROM drive, it is perhapt If you are using an Amiga with a SCSI worth of 24-bit pictures, it took six minutes worth waiting for a bit and saving up thal interface built-in like an A3000, nothing and 40 seconds to write all 10Mbs to the extra cash to get your hands on an ad* needs changing. However, the drive isn’t PD drive, and just one minute and 50 sec tional 664Mb of hard drive space at the particularly happy with all controllers - it onds to copy them from the PD drive back same time. As each additional 664Mb car does work on a GVP controller and also onto my hard drive (which, incidentally, is tridge only costs fifty quid it remains profr on our A2091. but it didn't like the A4091 rated as giving me a little over three ably the cheapest way of beefing up your SCSI II controller we use in our A4000 at megabytes a second). Amiga at the lowest possible cost £ £ work, If you do get it working then all you This obviously means that in real world need do is load up HDToolbox. or its terms the drive only writes at about a meg equivalent on your machine, and partition every 40 seconds, not quite as fast as the cartridge the same way you would with Syslnfo suggests. On the plus side it does SVSTEfTl ESSmilfllS RED tssential BLACK ■ Recommended I any new hard drive. As for the CD-ROM mean that the drive reads at about a meg every eleven seconds - still not a great speed but at least better than its write speed. I should point out. though, that the [ompatibilitM speed for reads and writes does vary quite SCSI controller a lot and is not always as slow as the fig crossroads ures I have printed. The CD-ROM's speed is a lot more predictable. Seeing that the The bottom line drive is supposed to be a quad-speed Product; Panasonic PD drive It is a shame, as I already said, that the cartridge system isn't a little more Price: £569.95 compatible. If it worked in the same way as standard MO drives there would at Supplier: HiQ Ltd. least be some cross-'platform' compatibility. As it is, the only drive you can Tel: 0181-909 2092 read a PD cartridge In is Panasonic's own drive. It also has to be hoped that the PD drive is going to be more compatible in the future with hard drive con trollers. 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Indeed, computer animation is inheren tly seen as a 3D format of polygons, bitmapped textures and splining because the medium lends itself so well to the and an genre and for the last few years has been seen as the best option for achieving the impossible The likes of Jurassic Park and Ummmower Man to B abylon 5 and SeaOuest DSV have created a myopic view of computer's potential throughout all Amiga areas of silicon art. After this initial flux of enthusiasm in one area, it’s now becoming more appar ent that artists and animators from all wteof life are finding ways of turning the 3D legacy into something else far. far removed Amiga Computing thought it was time to turn the spotlight on the unsung heroines and heroes who are making real waves in (Hb animation scene to ask them what makes their Amiga such a vital compo nent n the production process, and what techniques they use to turn the ordinary program intros for ntothe extraordinary. White Heat (BBC1), Kersplat (Channel Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM4), Nelson Mandela fln anim for all (Channel 4) and Classic Trucks seasons (Channel 4). Originally an illustra rtists have an image problem. tor. Hodgson came Judging from the media, it across animation O while studying appears that there are two distinctive types The commercial artist who's in it at Liverpool arts just for the money (to eat. clothe, live school and decided that the and so on) and the individual artist moving image was far more interesting. ■hose work apparently shouldn't be As with many art schools, the slant was funded because it only appeals to a very much on the experimental - a tradi nhonty While there are extreme cases tion that Hodgson still swears by today. ((stereotype in both areas that inflame He had his first introduction to comput* fitte r looking a t 3D animation in past public contempt and do more damage ers. specifically the Amiga, only a year ton good to the arts scene as a whole ago when he applied to the arts council for funding for a short experimental ani (Mness Camelot's award of £55 million issues; Mam Phillips talks to four SD totfie Royal Opera House and the sub mation that'll be screened as pari of the sequent backlash that has people mut- FourMations series on its completion. tomg that money should be given solely Since that time, the computer has a rtists who are making Hmiga animated art tjfcharities, never mind the Arts become a vital part of his animation Council), many artists are genuinely try process. He has since produced an intro the management and playback of all ing their best to bring something fresh. animation for Channel Four's Classic images (detailed below). Anginal and individualistic to the small Trucks series (detailed below). So impressed is Hodgson with the Amiga that he's planning to produce and big screens. MENTAL GRAFFITI ■ Despite the supposed black-and- another film created solely on the Meanwhile, Hodgson continues to wtiite nature to the arts, the majority of machine. The appeal of using the Amiga work on his animation. Described as people operating in the grey areas in is the speed of adding a variety of between re working in both arenas and ‘mental graffiti*, using a variety of differ effects: "You can turn a photographic ent medias from charcoal to video, the creating original and exciting work image into an outline image within sec basic theme behind the film is what goes pultaneously onds. Also, the potential for the likes of on inside someone's head while doing | Take Jonathan Hodgson. He's been morphing is very exciting" commented something as mundane as walking to iting for the past 15 years using a Hodgson. work, The Amiga is being used as a vital tety Of media. His commercials “While uses so far have been very part of the production with the now hcfcde SAAB. Kilmeaden Cheddar and obvious, there's lots of stuff yet to be famous PARcard taking centre stage for ► Amiga Computing Hu FEATURE done. Take typography - a hundred new typefaces can be created by morphing a single typeface and creating subtle dif [lassie Truths l li) ferences and changes. The same could be done by morphing two pictures For anyone who saw the Classic ■ > T \ 1 together. There's an endless resource Trucks series on Channel 4. Hodgson designed the vivid intro \ I " that's just waiting to be fully exploited." »• \ • S L * Furthermore, the price of the equip sequence. He was helped by Dan ment compared to the likes of a Quantel Arnall who works for Marjut paintbox plus the hire charge of an oper Rimmenen. also interviewed ator has proved a strong selling point to here. What follows is a break Big CU of tho wheel was takon from many animators including Hodgson; “It’s down of the intro and how the Two shots were taken here - one a photograph. After putting the page of-focus on the window and the othst amazing that you can do so much on a various effects were achieved. on tho computer, the live action of a in-focus. After the frame of the win man climbing Into a truck warn system now. It costs a fraction of the dow had been stencilled out, a v. mapped on to the hub cap and wheel high-end systems - it’s a crude Harry of transparency layers were added rtU I*. All th* shots used lit the Intro using Brilliance - a man ordering (Quantel)." were converted Into a 16-colour inside the catA, a building, a truck There is a downside to all this enthu grayscale instead of 256 which passing and in the section which slowed down the hard drive and used siasm though - at present, he sees the becomes the Classic Trucks logo, a too m uch space. use of computer graphics as a little limi video of a lorry approaching the ted: “There seems to be too much camera, its lights painted in and its number plate removed. emphasis on style and techniques and Hodgson morphed using Morph PI how realistic you can make something. to Ihe In-focus shot because he felt A lot of 3D stuff bores me - there’s a th a t sim ply m ix in g w o u ld have real lack of content usually and the con All the images here have been taken seemed highly unrealistic as a focus pull. As we pull focus, the Classic cepts behind the images are generally from different sources. The flyover, clouds, and trucks were taken from Trucks lego comes into view. The i/N science fiction-based." various books. The man walking took a w e e k and a half to complete - Like any tool as well, he knows it across ihe frame la a friend of there are seven different layers In takes time to get used to the computer: Hodgson and as his feet step into the “There are so many options available (>ost-prOduction-addod puddles, splashes are formed. These were The blue In the top right-hand comer that you can frequently find yourself dis created in Brilliance and the whole was added frame by frame using Feeling IDg Ulan appearing up a blind alley and wasting scene was composited together using Brilliance’s filled shape option to time. The good side to this, though, is the package. create the pulsating palette. That The film that Hodgson Is work the potential for discovery as well." whole section was masked off to ing on currently. Feeling M\ achieve the effect. Despite his own success using the Way1, Is an experimental plec. Amiga. Hodgson can never see himself shot on Hi-8 and will last about moving solely onto a computer platform. seven minutos. Charting the Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM“Personally, the future of computer menial outpourings and procos graphics is how they fit in with other of a worker on his way to th< techniques - that’s when things are office, the whole thing is shoi going to start getting really interesting." from his POV. Hodgson know Sounds like a recipe for multimedia to that tho basic promise is hardly me. gripping, but from what I'vo soer Hodgson took the shape of the fender of his animation additions th< and mapped on the reflection of the The various areas of different piece looks excellent. The colours were traced off separately man as he appears to walk past the procoss firstly involves shQQtiw truck. The actual truck Image was and filled. Brilliance was used to add What she alwan5 tho Hi-8 material and thei bent slightly to give the illusion of more contour and shape to the perspective. The bright palette splash. Finally, hard adgas brought adding tho effects on aftorwards wanted was painted afterwards. All the about by Importing Images were What follows is a breakdown o removed tho using smear and work was done with that process. Brilliance. smooth options. hannel 4’s FourMations series has shown some of the leading 0 work produced in the field of animation decided that an alternative and perma she had spent some of her time usinj and, last month, featured a program nent career move was needed. the high-end Macs and software to ere* dedicated to the computer animators. With the financial support of her ate work and experiment. The fir One artist showcased was Ruth husband, she undertook a immediate problem on leavin Lingford, a one-time occupational thera Fine Art degree course at was where to find a con* pist turned professional animator. For Middlesex Polytechnic in puter that could repla< those who saw her short animation enti the mid-’8Qs and came the more costly meth tled “What She Wants" they can hardly across animation ods of tradition have failed to notice the sometimes quite by accident in animation. shocking and sexually-oriented content. the course syllabus. In 1988. an Amigi Lingford’s uncompromising style has “It was one of those 500 was bought fa won her acclaim and work on an life experiences - I j the children to do increasingly large scale. Her love for knew what I wanted spot of word pro animation didn’t blossom during her to do when I grew cessing. At the tim* teen years though - while she studied up. With animation, Lingford had a brii on an art foundation course after leaving you can make things look at Deluxe Paint school, her career before animation was do whatever you want. but had not beer dealing with mentally ill old people as an There are no restrictions" im p re s s e d in itia lly by it occupational therapist. One day. she enthuses Lingford. primitive look and design. On realised she was simply running out of Because of her animation work, she experimenting further, though, sh care - with a husband and two children was accepted into the prestigious Royal realised the Amiga system did offe to look out for in the evening on top of College of Art to do an MA in animation enough to make creating animation the already stressful day job. Lingford and in 1992. graduated. While there. home a viable proposition. The nex Amiga Computing 58 OCTOBER 1995 and The Mother, an adaptation of a lesser-known Hans Christian Anderson story. In fact, Channel 4 liked her storyboard so much that production begins in September with a budget in the £40,000 area. Her other work shows the diversity available to animators. From producing short animated sequences for the CD-ROM version of the best-selling Griffin and Sabine trilogy now being produced by Peter VMm loot ago - starting In a houso and ...Animation - with each frame printed Gabriel's Real World multimedia out on special punched paper to fit an Him on to the atro o ta o f London, company, to a 20 minute training Hodgson has triad to capture axactly animation peg bar (holds the sheet in wfwt you would aaa and look out for on place on the rostrum), It’s time to add animation on how to deal with the to* way to w o rk - p aa aln g shops, the various a t fa c ti w ith a v a rie ty of problems of glue sniffing, her work looking at your shadow , m oving different media. Hodgson wanted lo is varied but boasts her own individual through a busy crow d on tha way to a convey how we see the world as a style. In the meantime, she train, and reading signs. After shooting sarias of focal polnta. In thla example, a a m u of material, it was all white stencil is placed over a road has upgraded to a 4000 and the tHMUnad on to tha... scene obscuring everything other than PARcard. the sign. He then draws in, using pencil, With a healthy portfolio of animation outlines of key objects in the scene as tucked into one video cassette, she passing Impressions - as it we don’t really take any notice o f what we see sees computer animation as an ideal unloss focusing directly on to it. O nce media: “What's happening now is very done, the frame Is recorded by the... exciting. Back In the old days, we were ail terribly scornful of computers. People at college now find they can do what they want with computers and aren't having their work affected by clumsy technology." FUTURE THOUGHTS As for the future. Lingford is equally JPARcard - where a logging sheet optimistic: “Anyone will be able to dkoetory w as c re a te d w ith tim e s o f the animate - I don't find that thought footage's p o sitio n on e a c h ta p e n e x t to to * IH o name for easy reference. All threatening. At the end of the day. it’s Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMitolc are loaded in a low O factor to In this scene, we see the walker look all about the idea behind the taro memory. Hodgson's o rig in al p lan ing et his shadow as It changes and animation not the technique, and com msa to shoot on film and then get full turns Into a bizarre landscape puters offer an ideal platform to get t i t s photographic prints of the appropriate shots. It p ro ve d to be started." Impractical and costly. He heard about Jo n ath an She still believes, though, that peo Iha PARcard and the rest is history. H o d g s o n : ple must learn the fundamentals of Ho creates an assembly edit of all "P e rsonally, the animation creation to give them the l b shots he wants to use and then fu tu re o f com pu ter n lu d i those chosen ones in on a high graphics is how necessary knowledge to make a solid Qloctor. Using B a tch F a c to ry a nd they fit In with start. Her advice for budding anima* Imago FIX to organise and convert the other techniques - tors is simple: “I’d just use DP4/5 and imsgs * into IF F /24, h e then uses Studio that's w hen things draw using the light box. Draw the software to p rin t o u t e a c h sce n e fra m e ...Hl-8 camera - and straight onto the are going to start movement first to get a feel of what bf frame on his HP1200C printer, Each PARcard, producing the finished getting really frame takes 4-3 minutes to print out animated scene Interesting " animation is all about. The look can come later." She also sees computers as offer ing an excellent way of learning the ropes. In between her animation work Animate! she has been teaching at the University of Humberside and some I Anyone interested in possible funding for their animation should contact the Arts days at the National Film and K Council, Focusing on innovation in animation. Animate! was set-up six years ago by Television School. I the council, with support from Channel 4 to fund artists producing risk-taking work. “With something like walk cycles, I Currently there are 30 projects either underway or finished, and six of those invofve you're always going to get it wrong to digital technology - three specifically the Amiga. begin with. It requires lots of practise For further information, contact Gary Thomas, the assistant film and video officer on and I noticed while teaching that stu 0171 333 0100 ext. 410. dents have a tendency to be very precious when drawing with pencil and I step was to apply to the Arts Council for received won her a place at the paper" Lingford explains. I ft grant to start work on her first animat- Museum of the Moving Image as an ani "It takes them a long time as they I ed short created entirely on a computer. mator in residence. Akin to being put painstakingly draw out each frame. I The application was successful and with under a microscope, Lingford sat in a The majority, though, end up with a I part of the money, she invested in a room working all day while the public walk cycle that doesn't work. With a I second-hand 1500 and a SummaSketch watched in from the other side of pane computer, the investment required to I III tablet board. DP4 was selected as the of glass. produce a result is so slight that you're I package to do all the animation on and The bonus to the experience though not as precious and can rattle off I What She Wants (detailed below) was was a proper commission with real example after example. It’s a very I started money and development time to work good learning tool." The attention the finished piece on her up-and-coming project, Death ► Amiga Computing H i FEATURE lllhat She Wants or her first animation, Lingford wanted a chal reaction against the apparent increase in sexually- Wants took nine months to fully complete and lenging subject matter. The theme behind related material in the media - she felt as if she proves to be an animation that doesn't pull any OWhat She Wants is twofold. Firstly, she wanted was being told that everyone should be having sex punches. Her main process was to put a series of to create an erotic animation - there has always and thinking about it, almost as if a form of control. seemingly unrelated images together and come up been a school of thought that believes it's impossi “It's a paranoid attitude to a certain extent but it with new ideas and connections - she feels the ble to create such a thing because animation seemed that sexuality was being manipulated to project was successful on the whole. What follows doesn't allow the viewer to become fully involved make us bigger and better consumers." is a breakdown of the two main processes featured with the animated characters. Secondly, it was With this double-edged sword in hand, What She in the anim. Black and white sections Each Imaga In thl% section was ... and Lingford ... a woman. Lingford didn't want to The arm and body of the copied from a painting by drew in the eut and copy In between because the woman turn into a horse's neck Delacroix. The process Is simple - relevant changes end result would have appeared ierky. and head. The process is very this Romanesque man was to turn the image Also, morphing was ruled out simply similar to the old tradition of created using the unbroken and into... because it would devoid the painting on glass - take parts broken line option in DP4... animation of any real style away and add new ones (olour sections Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM ...Once done, she'd play the Finally, she would add colour on DP4's llghtable moved ahead by end result to see if it worked. and go over the black lines facility. The image was two frames and If successful, she returned to with the relevant background drawn up using the drew in the next the intermediate frames and colour to produce an uneven thick black line... step... drew them In and more hand-drawn effect Ruth Lingford: "With animation, you can make th in g s d o Lingford is currently working on the CD-ROM A preview of the up-and-coming Death and The whatover you version ol the best selling Oriffin and Sabine trilogy Mother, Lingford’s Channel 4 funded animation is want. There being produced by Peter Oabriel's Real World multi- presently in pre-production. The visual style Is are no media company - unfortunately, the title won't be based on German woodcuts of the early 20th centu restrictions." available on the Amiga on Its release in Spring ’96 ry - note the lines left by the character's movement Amiga Computing limminen and son UlanM Happy Returns ucked away in a London terrace house on the top floor is an Amiga 4000 and Silicon A theme-heavy animation portraying how the Dan Am all and Marjut Rimminen: "I find the OGraphics side by side. The owner. Marjut present is both formed from the past and the Amiga very tactile Rimminen, has been producing animation for the future - because of our experiences and which it unusual for a last 20 years. An animation director by trade, hopes, there’s no such thing as objective real computer... it enables computers have only just begun taking a very ity. The anim explores this with a mixture of me to use my puppet skills and help in the active role in her work. On board is her son Dan computer and live action. p r o c e s s .” Amall, a computer operator and animator whose expertise has also helped Jonathan Hodgson. It was in 1974 that she had her first experi ence with a computer: “I was in London to shoot a commercial with Electronic Arts and became involved because the media was interesting and new Unfortunately at that time, the whole computer operation was in the hands of the engineers not the creatives due to the inaccessi b ly of the hardware and software” commented Rimminen. Subsequently, she didn’t return to the comput er scene for another 20 years. In the meantime, ithe continued with her commercial work and has rad various animations shown on Channel 4. Her next foray into computers was the Amiga 500. owned by her son. which came with Deluxe Rimminen was placed on a spinning In this scene, the birds in the Venetian blind take Paint 3. So impressed with the standard possi chair In this shot. The live action off and fly across the screen. Rimmlnen's face ble. she quickly invested in a 4000 and a w a t then altered and turned into an Wat put biter the top as a 30 per cent PARcard. The machine is currently being used ar.lmbrush. The palette was transparency with Brilliance. The birds on another Channel 4 Four Mations anim in con* changed and the final image themselvos started a t dots mapping their flight stencilled Into the live action fore plans and then were subsequently drawn in with junction with the Silicon Graphics. With the ground with... Brilliance'- Brilliance with a slight transparency. mock-up created on the Amiga already, the bulk of the final version is being produced on the SGI. Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMRISKY BUSINESS While some Amiga owners maybe fuming at Other morh If* thought. Rimminen is quick to point out that one of the reasons for bringing in the SGI was < Morph Plus was used to distort the face into a vamparic image. The tattoos on the the cloud of doubt hanging over Commodore’s face were sketched on with Brilliance by Mure: "We had planned to go with Amigas sole digital artist Jack Schulee ly. but with such an investment in something that *B5 looking decidedly shaky it was just too In the background, bombs can be seen much of a risk.” dropping - this effect was achieved by simply shooting a book page on video Indeed, she sings the Amiga's praises: “I’ve while tilting the camera down. The worked with Macs as well and it has lots of inter Houses ol Parliament were composited esting programs but it's still not a great machine over the top and etlges were blurred to seem lifelike. The broadcasters were If f * Amiga was developed in the same way a s * taken from the video recorder and the Mac - easy to use in other words - it would picked up as an animbrush and placed be ideal .” V on top o l the a ctio n Star of the show though, yet again, is the PARcard. While shooting the live footage at hired studios, they used a Hi-8 video camera and stored each frame directly onto the card which was set up nearby. The Amiga has also Wped her puppet skills as well - while shooting particular scene. Rimminen needed to film a rolling out a handbag. Instead of the usual iking set-up required to perform such an feat, she simply held the doll in the rel- position for each frame and then took out fingers using Brilliance in post production. “I the system very tactile which is unusual for a computer... it enables me to use my puppet skills and help in the process” she commented. While the SGI takes centre stage in this pro duction, Rimminen is obviously a true enthusi ast “While at a show recently. I met dozens of After using MultiFrame as a animators all singing the praises of the machine. compositor and drawing an alpha Even after all this time, there’s a real community channel for each live frame of the tfrit for the Amiga. If Escom succeed. 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Amiga net surfers have a graphical world wide web brow ser that is capable of dealing with forms. AMosaic v1.43 was launched onto an unsuspecting public in the early days of July and has a revamped GUI with a nice bouncing ball progress animation cer. ' (much better than the pulsing radio button 'j or the spinning clock hand) and Netscape- like gadgets for progress through the world wide web. Also included in this latest version is the ability to type into the URL address line, rather than having to open a ■ requester and a built-in, hierarchically organised hotlist. My overall impression is that this ver sion is actually ever so slightly slower than A C U S e e M e steadfastly refusing Tho latoat voralona of AMoaaic and AMHotllat looking AMosaic 1.3, but given its added benefits to connoct to a rotloctor alto gorgooua and groovy on a 1024*768 acroan Tm willing to forego that extra speed. Funnily enough, given that AMosaic now Includes a truly animated progress button, graphical navigation buttons and the ability to construct forms, the executable's size is actually less than that of its issor. The way AMosaic now supports forms does seem slightly clunky, but I would imagine this is down to the way MUI and net nouelties wnigaDOS work. What happens is that button and then clicking where you want men you get to a URL that has a form, the entry, No more shuffling through an Ben Uost looks at the latest — say the registration form for HotWired, The endless hotlist trying to find the page you iCtronic Telegraph or Yahoo, the want - stuff them all inside descriptively gismos auailable for net users — saic window disappears to be named sub-menus and all your cares replaced by a little window telling you that simply fly away. saic is constructing a form. The Well, perhaps not, but I do recommend ACUSeeme will probably only appeal to ic window then reappears with the using AMHotlist v2 instead of the hotlist in lurkers because you have no way of Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMin place, voila! AMosaic itself because it is much nicer to replying to anything that is said or done at When you leave a forms page, exactly use and can have a lot more entries visi the other end of the link. This version I# same thing happens. Scrolling within a ble at one time. Of course, if you are hav actually interprets the reflector list that it toms page is a bit grinding, so some work ing to use AMosaic on a native Amiga comes with so you no longer have lo type pviously still needs to be done on that screen, you might not have enough room the addresses of the reflectors into a text front. Another thing I miss from using to display them both and still have ade gadget, you can simply select them from [.Netscape at work all day is the MailTo: quate room for the main AMosaic window. a scrolling list. Reflectors are sites that carry CGI script. This lets you click on some- VERSION UPGRADE ore's e-mail address on a home page and CUSeeMe traffic, be it solely audio or send them some mail, but I guess you Lastly, there is a new version of the both audio and video, and behave some 1't have everything all at once. Amiga’s sole videoconferencing tool avail what like IRC servers in that they act as Next up is a related bit of software, able on the net. At the time of writing, central gathering points for people to call id Ozceri's AMHotlist. This now also ACUSeeMe was at version 2.01, but I into. ACUSeeMe is also written by the irts the hierarchically arranged hotlist know that version 2.02 at least will be prolific Mr Ozceri who seems to have no s. You can create sub-menus and available by the time you read this. end to his talents. j r y / ity put your existing entries within CUSeeMe is a standard for Internet video sub-menus by clicking on the ‘move’ conferencing which gives you ‘realtime’ video and audio communications with SVSIEfll ESSEnilRlS another machine, This works great if you RED BLACK = Recommended have a whole load of Unix boxes with cameras and mikes linked into an ATM network, but definitely leaves a little to be desired over a telephone line. Because the Amiga doesn't have a J d camera or mike as easy system add-ons, MUI RTG card AGA Kickstart three of the programs I have talked about require Magic User Interface - MUI to work, which is why the screenshots always look so groovy, but is also ponsible for slowing down the programs somewhat, Ever since AMosaic was inched. there has been a backlash against MUI slating its size and slowness. The bottom line ? programmers of AMosaic and Mr Ozceri retort that what they created would AMHotUst2_OO.Iha 16k Amiga Computing — Ill FEATURE ot so long ago. the Amiga games market was awash - w - Q with high-quality, innovative titles that sold in abundance. But after the collapse of Commodore, software companies unsurprisingly became very cautious when it came to releasing Amiga games. Some, after years of supporting the machine, were only too ready to abandon it and desert to the PC camp, others took a toe-dipping policy, releasing a couple of titles or even worse - second-rate PC port- overs while many titles were 'put on hold.’ But now. the latest news from Escom is that the Amiga is going back into pro duction and an A1200 is promised for September. But with a higher than expected RRP announced at £399. a lot of people are going to take a fair amount of convincing that developing for the Amiga is once again going to be a viable option. And. not only have Escom got their work cut out for them in this respect, but the vicious circle of developers not making the games until retailers stock them, and retailers not making shelf space available until they see wide spread commitment, must be broken. GENERAL CONSENSUS Amiga Computing talked to key industry sources to get the general opinion about the future of the Amiga games market and what they'd like to Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMsee from Amiga Technologies. The Amiga has always been the cheap, yet quality home computer that not only could you buy the latest games for. but you could also create music on, compile a database and write a letter. The PC has always been priced over three times as much as the Amiga. The consoles, while available for the same price, were merely toys that could do no more than play many strengths which the supportive a generation who have grown up games. But after a year off the market software developers are only too keen the machine. Marcus Dyson, he has it still got what it takes? lech spec to point out. A strong and loyal user Multimedia at Team 17 states: As it stands, the Amiga still has base already exists and Escom need to great thing about the Amiga was I cultivate this. As Chris Warrender from taught a whole generation of ga Grandslam points out: “Escom must lis players the fun of graphics, music There has been a lot of speculation about what the new Amigas ten to the users, both past and present, ing and coding.” Dyson also poil will be like and the price at which they will retail. Incidentally, and give them what they want in rela the Amiga being a user-frii the interviews were conducted before Escom announced the tion to the machine rather than telling machine that is easy, even fo price of the new A1200, and at £399, it's a lot more than every them what they need. They have a novice to use. one was hoping for. ready-made installed base to start from "The Amiga comes out of a boi - they should not ignore these users, is ready to run in seconds. No tire Marcus Dyson, Team 17: “A1200 with an 030, 4Mb RAM (2 but should foster the relationship and troublesome sound cards, gra fast. 2chip) and a 120Mb hard drive for C299. This may sound a between user and developer and this accelerators, I/O cards and mous little unrealistic, but PC's are now so well specified and so base will, undoubtedly increase." vers to install. And Workbench 31 cheap that Amiga has to really offer good value for money." Amiga users have proved them superior to Windows ’95. which it selves extremely loyal, especially with being steeped in praise becaus Andy Jolly, Binary Emotions: "The A1200 has to be around the £200 price range.” Michael Crook, Guildhall: “If the A1200 can re-enter the mar ket at £349.99 or less they will immediately grab a healthy chunk of consumer spend this Christmas.'’ A m ig a Technoloqiet Simon Reynolds, Inter-mediates: "I would like to see a th e ir w o rk cut cheap (sub-£200) A1200 in the marketplace, to kickstart interest for thorn agal in the Amiga." all the tough AMIGA competition Amiga Computing sion we make will take this into consid eration." Simon Reynolds for Special Reserve is rather more pessimistic: "The demand for Amiga products is dwin dling down to the fact that there has been no new hardware sales for a year, and after a year out of the mar ket, and with the Saturn and Playstation looming, Escom are going to have to do something really special c o m b a t to succeed." This time factor is also seen as a major problem that Escom will have to overcome, A year out of the market is a long time and in its absence the PC Were is a warming trend in the Hmiga games has taken the major foothold in the home computer market. Simon Jeffery. market with fewer title s being released. Una Vice President of Marketing at Virgin Interactive states: "Those who require a future-proof computer for education Harkett inuestigates whether anything has and a bit of gaming will be driven towards a DOS-based PC. Intel changed now tscnm haue unueiled their plans and Microsoft have increased the profile of the PC to the non use's have had to tolerate Windows at some of the bad-quality games being hobbyist consumer 31 lor so long." released that are giving the machine a to the extent that Vulcan Software’s Lisa Tunnah bad name. Jolly believes: “I think people equate the agrees: “The PC has a habit of doing Amiga owners are fed up with paying term computing really scary things when you least out for poor quality software and are with the names of expect it. whereas the Amiga sits there only willing to buy quality. For instance, those two compa jtopiaying a very friendly looking work Skidmarks 2 sold twice the number of nies. This delimits bench environment. Running software the top console games in its first the Amiga to the on the Amiga is so easy, whereas you month." hobbyist and design need a degree in computer sci- However, distribution always sectors, plus niche mce just to install Windows plays a crucial part and if the areas like video. So pricing Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMon your average PC.* retailers aren't convinced, tn...matingwliKSKtm, has 10 be extremely The Amiga has many then the software com Virgin Interactive will aggressive." other positive factors panies' hard work will continue to develop The Amiga is also ind having a good go down the drain. for the Amiga limited by being mainly a budget market cer- Vulcan Software European platform - the Super tamly helps matters. have found a way consoles will be international: “Their As well'as those around this by dis problem will be that the other platforms Iwailable for around tributing their games are truly international whereas the HO. the full price titles themselves through Amiga will be very much a are also competitively mail order. “We have British/European platform," said pnced. With cartridges decided to distribute our Michael Crook of Guildhall. Jeffery ind PC CD-ROM titles still own products for several believes, too. that the Amiga will never costing around the £40 mark, reasons. One is the declining be seen as a serious business and with full priced Amiga Dy*on: ^ n y company confidence in Amiga prod- machine: "DOS and Windows- titles averaging around dcveioptng for the Amiga ucts at wholesale and based applications rule but ian't doing CD32 stuff la retail level. Vulcan £25. the Amiga will still pro this area. Sixty million vide value for money on out of fta m ind " couldn't change this sad PCs will be sold mat score. A triple A title on the Amiga fact so we simply adapted." this year - and can still sell in abundance, and some Neil Boote. Head of Non- ipers are ready to point the finger Music Product at Virgin Our Price, defended the retailers by saying: “Virgin Retail is commit- 1 ted to all games formats and as such, we stock Amiga products in the Megastores. Amiga was a very strong format three years ago and Will other platforms recently had a very successful prove too much Christmas in 1994. Demand has dimin com petition for the A m ig a ? ished since then, and as such we are keeping a close eye on the Amiga market and any develop- w ments that might affect it. We are aware that the Amiga still has linary Emotion*, developers of S p a n s Legacy, b e lie v e th a t A m ig a o w n e r * a re over 1.5 million machines in t*d up o l b u y in g p o o r -q u a lity a o ft w a re UK households, and any deci- Amiga Computing >• that's conservative. Sadly, I can't envis age the day when Microsoft publishes Amiga-specific apps." He finishes: “The Amiga is a wonderful hobbyist machine. To pretend it's anything more will be its downfall." Apart from the hardware not being on the shelves for a year, the Amiga has also faced other problems. Piracy is cited as one factors that has led to the situation. One way around this would be to increase the amount of development on CD format. As Dyson puts it: "Any company that is developing for the Amiga but isn’t doing CD32 stuff is out of its mind. Because CD piracy is still (relatively) uncommon. Amiga CD soft Super Skidmarks proved that Vulcan Software have made the decision to ware sells in larger amounts than the quality tltlee will etill sell well distribute their own products through mall order CD32's marketshare would suggest. More Amiga owners are getting CD- ROM drives and if companies will release enhanced CD software. I'm con vinced they will see that effort rewarded In thQ pipeline with sales. We take a look at what the software us of a future for the Amiga, so ap “Personally, with faster loading times, companies have in store now that priate projects at VIE will continue.*] less disk swaps and no need to take up Escom have revealed their plans. development: Sensible Golf. Cl hard drive space with full installs, I'd titles and Renegade's Z. rather see all software issued on CD Vulcan: “Our policy is to continue to only." develop for the Amiga regardless Binary Emotions: “Our plans hi ENHANCING of Escom’s plans. We sincerely always involved the Amiga sim|] believe there is a strong user base out because it’s such an easy platfo However, the CD32 in its current form there." In development: ’The Mini develop for, so Escom's buyout I is another bone of contention. Most Series’. enhanced matters." In developn games available for the CD32 have Minskies Furr Balls. Nemi been port-overs from the Amiga with lit Grandslam: "Our policy on the devel Syndrome, Speris Legacy 2 tle or no enhancements, and the general Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMopment for the Amiga has only been feeling seems to be that the machine strengthened with the Escom news. Team 17: “Escom's plans haven’t n needs vastly enhancing and CD-specific We have always been an active sup lly affected Team 17’s attitude to titles need to be developed - especially there has been porter of the Commodore range since Amiga yet. They haven't approach with the imminent arrival of the Sony the early machines, and will continue us directly, we have had to approa Playstation. Jolly backs this up: ‘We no neuj hard to develop titles as long as Amiga them. This was always a problem « think that the CD32 in its present design users are still out there to buy them." Commodore, who really had quiti will have a hard time if it goes back into ware sales for a gear, and In development: Basejumpers CD32, shoddy attitude towards developi production - unless Escom intend to International Test Series Cricket. We are still developing for the Amij focus it on a different market, i.e. a after a gear out of the Gamer Gold. Ruffian. 7th Sword of mainly because we owe much ol a set-top box. They must produce an m a rke t ami with the Saturn Mendor success to the machine and becai upgraded CD32. re-styled and renamed many people here are huge Ami would be a good move, complete with a anil Plantation looming, Virgin Interactive: "We had an impor fans rather than it being a partial tight development schedule." tant meeting with Escom recently, dis profitable market at present." In dev What software developers would actu i n are going to baue to do cussing our future Amiga development opment: Speris Legacy. Final ally like to see on the Amiga itself is something reallg special to plans. Escom have certainly assured Alien Breed 3D, Worms wide and varied, but most seem to be in agreement that they'd like to see succeed increased specs. Warrender replies: "I and a newly designed Amiga mouse!" unless Escom have some soft would like to see high-capacity hard dri Binary Emotions’ Andy Jolly adds to teams in-house then it could be w ves, built-in CD-ROM. cross platform this: ‘I’d like to see 2Mb FastRAM, new damaging for the future of the Anj compatibility, a new high resolution 32-bit blitter, fast 3D chip for polygons Jolly stresses this: “You simply car monitor to coincide with a higher stan and texture mapping. 68030 25MHz rely on third-party development, rm dard video output, a portable version, base processor, sound improvement, in the ‘80s it was possible but in tlj and multi-player facilities." days of intense competition you hwi Another possibility that some would be crazy not to release exclus have liked to have seen is the new in-house titles." Amiga put together as a complete pack Taking all these points into acco age, much like how the PC is sold. Escom have a tough job on their hi Tunnah states: “The Amiga would bene and only time will tell if the Amiga fit from 6Mb of RAM as standard, with be born again. What is for sure, thq an accelerator. CD-ROM and a large is that no-one wants to see the Ai hard drive accompanied with a monitor. go. and for a machine that has beq This would provide the end user with a the market for a year there's q state-of-the-art machine which could run faithful following. And as Vulcan’s the most sophisticated software.” Tunnah summarises: “They [Ad As with all new machines, in-house users) are loyal people and des T e a m 1 7 are still developing tor the Amiga development is very important, and only the best." b e c a u t e they a n a l l huge Amiga fana Amiga Computing IJMlThD OFFER '060 SPEED FOR YOUR FRFF PHOTOGF-NICS hit Softw are w rni OBEIYIMON Or* A1200/1500/2000 and MR A LIMITED TIME! 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The Amiga has used FastFileSystem The greatest difference, howevi for the past few years but this has its faults, fast new filing system seen in everyday use as FFS disks including speed and fault tolerance. keep on getting slower, whereas If you reset your Amiga while writing to a keeps up its speed well. This sup| disk you'll know about it when you boot explanation in the manual that frag again - the disk thrashes around tiying to tion is kept to an absolute minimum, re-validate itself. The bad news is that fly up all the time, not just on small, occasionally it can't sort itself out, at which disks. point it's time to start praying that some The only benchmark parameter extra utility can recover your files. This can below FFS for AFS is a seek/read par take an inordinate amount of time and still bottleneck in displaying the data, despite ter which is around ten times slower fail. the fact that it's a Zorro III 64-bit card! FFS. If this was relevant. I would AmiFileSafe's main claims are to never Benchmarking with DiskSpeed reveals that expected it to manifest itself in eg even on my humble A3000. 1837 directory become invalidated and also to be nippier, many small files (such as ENVA which does sound too good to be true. The entries are being thrown at the system per RAM), but this operation is faster first hurdle I suspected was that installation second, Good old FFS manages a stun AFS, reducing from taking three sea would be a pain, but thankfully the manual ning 198. FFS with directory cacheing with FFS to one and a half seconds is excellent so people who have no expen- manages 1421 but at the expense of data AFS. Perhaps it was just a spurious transfer speed. ence of this sort of thing will be fine. You'll or a parameter that really doesn't need HDToolBox to follow the manual’s Transfer speed is up on FFS too. what much difference? ever size file is being tested. On small instructions but RDPrep can be used to do MISSING FEATURES the same job - one should have been sup buffers the write speed is up by a factor of plied with your system. Due to the nature five, yet the CPU availability is still at 44 At the moment, Multiuser users wiH{ per cent. Larger buffer sizes manage to of the product, your disks need to be refor be able to fully work with AFS. but matted after installing the new filesystem return an increase in speed along with an upgrade is promised to version 2.1 Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMonto them, but you'll already have a recent increase in CPU availability, too! Suffice to will support this. The only other mi! backup of your data, won't you? feature (which the manual draws Testing directory manipulation speed attention to instead of trying to hide) i STILL WORKING there is no ‘undelete’ feature, but File Create 116 files/sec CPU Available: 9% Once in place and with data reinstalled. I promised in version 2.2 (released File Open 86 files/sec CPU Available: 29% was glad to see that everything still worked month and free to registered users of 2.) Directory Scan 198 files/sec CPU Available: 33% and that my machine definitely booted This is an excellent product. I love; File Delete 344 files/sec CPU Available: 16% •faster. AFS’s claim of improved parallel speed, reliability and complete trans| access certainly seems to be founded and ncy of it. As yet unmentioned is the j Seek/Read 810 seeks/sec CPU Available: 12% the seemingly endless thrashing when that there’s a floppy version and an ToolManager and EGS battled for band mised version for machines with an 0! I Testing with a 262144 byte buffer. (LONG-aligned. MEMF FAST) width has pretty much become negligible. better. The floppy results are stum Time for the reliability tests - close eyes, (1800 directory entries a second coi Create file 605928 bytes/sec CPU Available: 83% copy large file and reset half way through. to 37 with FFS-DC), but most will be Write to file 863157 bytes/sec CPU Available: 89% No troubles with invalidation. Group delete ested in hard drive speed. Read from file 906176 bytes/sec CPU Available: 88% files and reset? Nowt wrong. Okay, time for And now to the price. Seventy the biggie. Unplug the SCSI cable while may seem steep, but it's a small Average CPU Available: 55% CPU Availability index: 754 writing data and up pops a requester say pay for pretty much guaranteed set ing Write Error. Cancel that a few times. New Amigas need this reliability if they j Tatting an FFS: device o n a Workbench 3, 60030-bated machlna Aha! Gotcha! Replug the SCSI cable and to stand a chance in the commercial the light starts flickering again. After a sec Are you listening Escom? Testing directory manipulation speed ond or two. my 3Mb file has been copied and the disk is valid. No data had been File Create 163 files/sec CPU Available: 2% lost! Unbelievable, and a possible scenario svsiEm Esstnimi File Open 283 files/sec CPU Available: 0% for those with an external disk farm. RED Essential B LA C K ■ I Directory Scan 1741 files/sec CPU Available: 0% On the data security side of things. I File Delete 270 files/sec CPU Available: 0% reckon it's safe to say that this is excep tionally good, but maybe the real word to Seek/Read 51 seeks/sec CPU Available: 74% ( describe it is bulletproof. Kickstart Over to speed now. AmiFileSafe's other Testing with a 262144 byte buffer. (LONG-aligned. MEMF FAST) big claim. ‘Instant Directory Listings' claims the cover of the manual. Maybe I'm just Create file 970903 bytes/sec CPU Available: 84% cynical, but I think I've heard this sort of The bottom line Write to file 1178647 bytes/sec CPU Available: 89% thing too many times before so I was Read from file 1194950 bytes/sec CPU Available 89% Ease off use____ expecting disappointment. I was wrong: Implementation _ 10 instant is the word to use. 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Graphics hardware is definitely going lo have to incorjx high-end like Montage 24 or cheap and cheerful like Big Alternative rate a frame grabber of some description and the ProGrab 24RT has been very we Scroller 2, the overriding message is that if you want a machine for received by everyone video use. then get an Amiga. Following on the heels of the Vidi range ot products, the ProGrab can be used throuj Our low-end Amiga is still a powerful production tool in its own either the parallel port pr PCMCIA slot. It works with all AGA screenmodes for the high! right, so what are we going to pile onto it? Both our machines are possible quality grabs and has many built-in image processing features. It now comes going to need genlocks, although the A1200 does have a pretty a Plus version including S-VHS input for the same low pnce. I think the other piece good composite out. On the genlock front, the choice for many a hardware should probably be a CD-ROM dnve again, particularly one with PhotoC user has long been the Rendale 8802 and venants, so that's the access, for all those graphics CDs. kiddie I'll pick for the A1200. As far as software is concerned, no super graphics Amiga would be complete withe [ As for my other piece of hardware. I think it would have to be a paint package, so my nomination would be for Personal Paint. And because this A120 13 either a frame grabber or a scanner, to incorporate logo's and has a CD-ROM dnve. I’m going to plump for the Personal Suite CD-ROM which not or [ SF images, etc. into video work. So I'm going to go for the ProGrab contains Personal Paint, but also Personal Write and the two Personal Font Makers. 01 '.Yl again because it realty is groovy each for mono and colour fonts, along with a whole host of art and fonts. ar On the software stakes. I think that you'd have to go a long way Since Personal Paint includes some image processing functions. I'm not going to beat the feature list in Deluxe Paint V which is particularly suited choose an image processor as my second choice Instead I’m going to go for a seoflj to creating ftying logo animations but not necessarily scrolling text. art package, this time Photogenics Photogenics is probably the software title of the ye sc For that I think we II need Big Alternative Scroller 2 which is very for most Amiga users. simple but scrolls splendidly. In case you've been I For the A4000T we're going to seriously beef up the spec. ing on Mars this yea ^ Because our machine comes with a fairly good SCSI hard drive, Photogenics is a 2 4 ^ —bit we're really going to test it to the limits by chucking a VLab Motion paint package which yc F card into the mix. The VLab Motion is probably one of the best bits can even use on Ira of hardware released for the Amiga this year. It can grab live video machine without a 244 a r in realtime and play it back. With the optional Toccata card you can graphics card by worki M add synchronised sound to your animations, but that isn't all. in HAM-8. It supporta El VLab Motion also comes with a whole series of special effects wide range of file formi "T and DVEs that can be applied to a VLab Motion sequence. The and is ideal for retouchj QC only problem is that they can take quite a while to generate, so the CyborVition 64 graphics board digitised images other piece of hardware I am going to choose is the CyberStorm 060 accelerator card which should ensure that even the most Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMcomplex of effects gets a kick up the backside speed-wise. This 68060-based accelerator makes sure you have the fastest possible Amiga, and even takes the SIMMs from your motherboard so you won't need to buy new memory. This board should also guarantee that the two programs I choose for the software side of LightWave. Lightwave. LightWave We've the deal will run as fast as possible. even had letters of complaint from people For one of those programs I am going to choose LightWave. saying we give it far too much coverage, possibly the best video production tool the Amiga has in its arsenal but when all's said and done, there's The other is going to have to be Scala Multimedia 400. This pro nothing better for general 3D gram is suitable for video titling, multimedia presentations, and all modelling and animation manner of other things. At the price you have to pay for it. it offers on the Amiga. one of the best deals for software available. Imagine has much nicer textures and Real A 1200 3D is extremely power ful, but only LightWave Software gives the user a modicum Deluxe Paint V. £59.95 from Emerald Creative - of power for very little effort. 0181-715 8866 It is ideally suited to commer Big Alternative Scroller 2. £49.95 from Emerald Creative - cial work and with all the add 0181-715 8866 ons that are available for it. there is a flow of new ways to use it. Hardware However. I hesitate to recommend it Rendale genlocks, from £149-£299 from Rendale - for use with an A1200 owing to the 01604 790466 fact that it has pretty high memory ProGrab 24RT P us. £129-95 from Gordon Harwood - requirements and we haven't included CyberStorm QGQ 01773 836781 any memory in with our stock A1200. I am going to choose an accelerator for A 4 0 0 0 the A1200, but I don't think it would be in texture maps or a 3D object trans the style of this article to furnish it with But seeing that Imagine comes witti] Software more than the fairly standard four megs of many exquisite algorithmic textun Lightwave 4, £tbc from Cybersystems - 01843 292150 memory. So what am I going to choose think we can safely go for the obfl Scala MM400 £299 from Silica Systems - 0181-3091111 as my rendering package for the A1200? I translator instead. I'll go with Pixel[ think it has to be the latest version of Professional v2 which offers the i Hardware Imagine which, while overshadowed by its facilities, including the ability to CyberStorm 060 £995 from White Knight Technology - more famous rival, is still capable of some polygons and import text as objects. 1 01920 822321 stunning renders. On the hardware side of things I thirfl VLab Motion. £999 from Cybersystems - 01843 292150 My other piece of software would have CD-ROM would come in handy again,! to either be a paint package for creating all those CDs filled with objectsII Amiga Computing nr.THRFR 1 QPS doesn't have any animation facilities, unlike Personal Paint, but it does have advanced mage processing capabilities like warping and rippling. That's the A1200 out of the way then. For the A4000T I’m going to 24-bit. First up on | Super I t o i t Amiga I the hardware front would have to be a graph ic! board the CyberVision64 springs to A 1200 Music has long been an underrated aspect of the Amiga, but mnd. Secondly, although it would be nice to the sheer number of ‘mods' available on the Aminet attests to get a better monitor so that full advantage Hardware the musical talents of our machines and their users. Any dis could be taken of the CyberVision's capabili- Squirrel quad-speed CD-ROM drive. cussion of music equipment for an Amiga has to include I fm going to go for a Wacom pressure- £259 from HiSoft - 01525 718181 Octamed and a MIDI interface, let alone a sound sampler. itive graphics tablet. This little gem ProGrab 24RT Plus. £129.95 from So we'll start off by including Octamed 6 in the bundle for responds correctly to the amount of pressure Gordon Harwood - 01773 836781 both our machines and a sound sampler. For the A1200 a you place on the nib of the stylus so your air- Technosound Turbo 2 is in order. A venerable 8-bit sound 0< brush flow gets more dense and your Software sampler. Technosound Turbo has been around for a while and charcoal gets more coverage. Personal Suite CD. £39.95 from Amiga is probably the best-selling Amiga sound sampler outside Ths tablet doesn't work with all software, Computing - 01625 878888 StereoMaster. It has built-in effects, both for realtime manipu- i so rm going to have to. pick a program that Photogenics v1.2. £59.95 from lation of sound and for the sounds you have sampled, and takes full advantage of its facilities. The pro Almathera - 0181 -687 0040 operates in mono and stereo. gram Tm going to go for is TVPaint version 3 Octamed is also another long-running product. It was avail has multiple layers, a superb airbrush, A 4000T able first as a shareware product but it has now evolved into a lien some image processing functions full-blown commercial offering. At only £40 it really does rep not to mention an ARexx interlace. Hardware resent excellent value for money and can bypass the Amiga s I think the choice for the second piece of CyberVision64 2Mb. £329.95 from four channel limit for sound by multiplexing to offer eight, 12 are is a toss-up Photogenics takes Gordon Harwood - 01773 836781 or even 16 channels of sound. jbge of the CyberVision's ability to Wacom tablets. £469.95 - £999.95 from Our A4000T sampler ought to be something a little more open 24♦bit intuition (Workbench) screens. White Knight Technology - exclusive, so we'll go for the Studio 16 package which con |0MainAclor can compile animations in 24- 01920 822321 sists of a sound sampling card that can sample true 16-bit bit or the most common foreign formats like sounds at up to and beyond CD quality. It can play back from TIC or DL. However. I think I'm going to 3U | Software a hard drive and offers several channels for the sound. to go for ImageF/X v2.1 again. This is TVPaint 3, £349 from White Knight Our other piece of hardware for both machines can be mother program that fully supports the Technology (check for bundles with the that MIDI interface I mentioned earlier. HiSoft do a nice felon's 24-bit intuition screens so you Wacom tablet) - 01920 822321 one called the ProMidi Interface which comes with a Midi in, see exactly what you are doing to the ImageF/X v2.1. £249.99 (but look for Midi thru and two Midi out ports. Our other piece of software? you are processing without having to special offers) from Wizard How about Music X 2 as a sequencer to make the best use gj> trough the render modules required for Developments - 01322 272908 of that Midi interface for the A1200 and Bars and Pipes graphics displays. Professional for the A4000. Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM■: --aa-QcuMeo-PTQfmiwti- 9 maps. On the accelerator front, it’s privilege of being the cheapest decent card ) choose one particular accelerator for the A1200 |»re are so many available. But in Our A4000T is a pretty fast machine to ) with our cost-cutting approach for start off with, but even it could still do with ) machine. I'm going to choose MM 7 more processor power. So let's punch in H U I *94 70W ttU 'll7 I HHUU putative newcomer to the field * The that CyberStorm once more and push the m i II U l i H H U f lH • lu llin ' M i D0BH0 ) - which had. at time of writing, the envelope that bit further. Now our I III)IIIX N J D0O00 LightWave renders should just fly out of A1200 the machine, for LightWave is the software I’m going to choose for our top-end machine. ie 3.x. £99.95 from Emerald But I still need another bit of hardware -e- 0181-715 8866 and software. LightWave includes several 30 Professional 2. £94.95 from object translation routines furnished by A 1200 aid Creative - 0181-715 8866 Syndesis, so I think I should concentrate are on an art package. However, because I've Software Accelerator, from £99.99- only got one piece of hardware left to me Octamed 6, £40 from RBF Software - 01703 785680 i.99 from Visage Computers - . it's going to have to be a native mode Music X v2, £49.95 from Emerald Creative - 0181-715 8866 !5 9642828 graphics package, so I'm going to go for rel quad-speed CD-ROM drive, Photogenics again. As for my other piece Hardware from HiSoft-01525 718181 of hardware, it might have to be a CD- Technosound Turbo 2. £28.99 from First Computer Centre - ROM as well, an internal one this time and 0113 2319444 A4000 NEC do a nice 6-speed number. Pro MIDI Interface. £24.99 from HiSoft - 01525 718181 A 4000 ive 4, £tbc from Cybersystems - 292150 Software ics vl .2. £59.95 from Octamed 6. £40 from RBF Software - 01703 785680 ra- 0181-687 0040 Bars & Pipes Professional v2.5. £199.95 from Emerald Creative - are 0181-715 8866 torm 060. £995 from White Technology - 01920 822321 Hardware 6Xi CD-ROM drive. £312.99 from Studio 16. £999 from White Knight Technology - 01920 822321 Computer Centre - 0113 2319444 Apollo accelerator Pro MIDI Interface. £24.99 from HiSoft - 01525 718181 Amiga Computing OCTOBER 1995 I (01903)850378 PD PRICE CRASH - TO CELEBRATE OUR 5th ANNIVERSARY WE HAVE SLASHED THE PRICE OF OUR PD TO JUST 80p PER DISK FOR 10 DISKS OR MORE O c ta M E D V i \ LATEST PV/SHAREWARE AURAL ILLUSION1 E S S .0 0 2273 GOL0ED3*A(l) 2307 -OJ SIMPSON CASE (1) 2333-SPACED OUT 6(1) 2360 IMAGINE OBJECTS t (1) £ 2 0 .0 0 Comprenocw# Tart edtor HO required Learn all about the tra* ol the decade Oemo ol two excellent piaiiorm Dinosaurs objects for use wrih imagne 2/3 94° o - CU Arrvg 2279 ENDURANCE GAME *• (1) 2308 - TGP 95 MODULES (3) 2334- NIBBLE 1(1) 2361 MTE BEFORE XMAS CARO SET 8* (1) 8/16 BIT SAMPLE 9 1 ° , - AD I Demo ot graphic 30 Adventure game Eittlonl mods from TGP 95 Cofourlul BouW rnih don* U tt Wfi Kfondk*Wux* C«d Game PROCESSOR 2280 M.A.S.H GAME #A (1) 2312 - FIREMAN SAM CARO SET »A (1) 2335 - EXCELLENT CARD GAMES ■ •* (1) 2362 - MAGIC WB EXTRAS 5 »* (2) 32 brt processing LOitdS A c aucc CM i4irJlftars Out ol IN* wcrtd •Tanks* v 'Spuds* 2313 • ROSIE ANO JIM CARO SET (1) Poker, Cunna. 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Callers by a*appointment only please OF GRAC WITH PRINTED MANUAL - £6,9'i TUTORIAL if In a state of \ collapse 0 ou've doubtless all seen pro section of the code at all mysterious then grams that start as a collapsed I’m afraid you will have to dig out (or beg. bar inside a screen or window's borrow, or steal) one of the above men P o r t 1 4 OHe area and then open to a full sized wintioned back issues. Failing that, you could dow when the zoom gadget is activated. always treat yourself to a copy from our This trick is often used by utility programs back issues department! Don't worm, this isn 't bad news to allow them to remain permanently avail Immediately after the library opening able for use while not taking up much section comes a set of allocation/dealloca screen display space. Luckily, it’s not that tion routines controlled by a series of sub about lommodote - ju s t Paul Oueraa (Moult to do and this month, for the bene routine calls. This code, again, should fit of those of you new to Intuition coding have a familiar ring to it since the on his assembly language trail. at the 680x0 level, I thought it would be approach has been used many times in useful to explain how it is done. past examples. A series of subroutine calls Needless to say. the code used to per are made to lock the Workbench screen, This month he prouides Intuition form this trick is fairly minimal, but in order get the Visuallnfo data, open a window, lo provide a runable example it is neces and attach a simple (two-item) menu to it. sary to incorporate the various statements If you've not seen this type of code before, neuiromers with a useful window into a fully fledged Intuition program. here's a brief description of how it works. You'll find the source for this on disk as arrangement tip the file october.s and it is with the overall ALLOCATIONS Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMstructure of this code that we need to start All resource allocation operations (i.e. things the program needs to set up before cur discussions. startup (for full details of this particular [ The program begins by opening the it can be considered as truly up and run trick take a look at the October '94 issue). intuition and gadtools libraries using a ning) are coded in such a way that, provid Once the program is up and running (i.e. ing they are successful, the address of the bop arrangement. If you end up wonder- all allocation routines have been success corresponding deallocation routine gets ng why I use this method when just two fully executed), control passes to an event pushed onto a special ‘deallocation stack'. Rxaries are involved, it's because it's a handling routine. The sole job of this area When the program terminates, these useful standard approach since it works of the code is to identify the various addresses are removed and the associa lor any number of libraries. This tech classes of events that Intuition has been ted deallocation functions executed. This nique. incidentally, was first discussed in asked to send the program, and take the method ensures that deallocation during ihe September '94 issue of Am iga appropriate action for each event that is closedown is always performed in the t Computing (and then outlined briefly again detected. reverse order to that used during program the April '95 issue). If you find this Listing 1 constitutes the program s event handling code. This starts by per forming an exec library WaitPort() call which puts the program to sleep until Assembling the cade Intuition sends us a message saying something of interest has happened. How ore’s just a single source file this month. As The example rationed earlier, it's called october.s and if you p r o g ra m 's does the program tell Intuition what sorts ml to run it from the Workbench you’ll need to window in Its of events are of interest? It's all done via omble it to produce linkable object code (octo- c o lla p s e d the Window’s tag list description - if you s ta te .0) and then link this to some startup code, look at the tag entries in listing 2 you'll see vpac users will probably opt for using the that a WAJDCMP tag is being used like artup.obj module for this purpose and the this... dc.l WA_IDCMP.IDCMP_MENUPIC ?ic Blink command line neoded in this case will KIIDCMP.CLOSEWINDOW. This tells Intuition we want to receive notification whenever the user activates the menu or IbHftk astirtup.obj October.o to october.testprog library -ta. fc? -GST ‘ hits the dose gadget. jto . Remember, incidentally, that whenever any IDCMP (Intuition Direct Communi :.viously. you'll need to add file paths to reflect cation Message Port) tags like these are e various locations of Blink and the target files specified in a window definition. Intuition out you're used to doing this, aren't you?). As will set up the appropriate window mes iual. I've included a runable version of the ' j e h sage ports automatically, so this is not (ample program on disk as well, and to execute T h e w in d o w something our program has to worry attor activating s all you need do is double-click on the about. What we do need to identify, th a ro o m « JML w JUL ctober testprog’ icon! g a d g e t however, is the address of the window's Amiga Computing -Ill TUTORIAL L is tin g h EventMandler a o v e a . l d0-dA/i0-a2,-li7) preserve registers T h o e v e n t c l r . l d c Clear exit flag UserPort because this is the message h a n d lin g Ev«ntM«ndl G t t d c t i i g c I O V f l . 1 iZ,*0 get port iiddrest ia id aovei.l vindov_p,*1 CALLSTS GetNsg, AbsEiecBiit get the aessige aovei.l udJierPort(»1),i2 u ir pert t s t . l da a d d r e s s blQ.I SetAessageExit did it exist? a o v e i . l d 0 ,< 1 C opr pointer to «1 Within the event handler proper two aove.l Ia_tlisjle1),d3 copy lessage class fiJbde(|l> ,dA copy lessage code events, namely the user hitting the win • o v t . v C A U S t S leplyRsg,_AbsExecBise then send aessige back dow’s close' gadget or selecting a 'Quit to Workbench' menu option, result in an exit c a p i . l HDC*P_ei0$EV!IIMM3 flag being set that eventually causes the t n e . s flenufltssigt program to terminate. You'll see from the aovtq fTIUE,d2 set SUIT signal to exit routine S e t l e s s a g e source that a check is also made for menu b n . i events whose code field is set to KenuRessage capi.l •1ICW JIHUPICM3 check aessige cliss MENUNULL. This is important since these bnt.i fietPessage ignore other aessige types events are generated whenever a user activates the menu, but then fails to c a p i . v «RERUNUU,d4 biq.l Gttflesiige ignore if HENUMUIL make a selection (such events need to be L is tin g 2 : l i r . a 1 5 / d A extract aenu itea nua&er recognised in order to be safely ignored). Tho tag-basod i n d i . b H 3 F , d 4 (n ill be either 0 or 1) w in d o w The other menu option, incidentally, is just beq.s PoRenulteoQ dmscription •oveq fllllEfd? let SUIT signil to exit routine bra.s GetPesiage t i g s d c . l MA.PubScreen vorkbench_p d s . l 1 D o R o t h in g dc.l WA_Left,300 JcdinulttiO j»r GetPessjje check for lore aessiges! dc.l y*_top,fl b n . s dc.l MJH dtb,S40 dc.l M_Heiglit,10 SelRessagtExit f t * 62 holds e iit flag dc.l ¥AJragBar,TME d c . l Mt_B*&thG»dflet,TRUE d c . l BA_{loseGadget,TRUf tied to a dummy routine so nothing actually the code to be developed, even thouj dc.l UA_Sir«Gid9«t,TBUE happens when the menu item is selected. many associated routines may not yet I Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMdc.l UA_Gldgets This act of tying a menu option to a ‘do written. gadtM l.lift d c . l H U LL d c . l VA Zooa,iooa dn* nothing’ routine in this way is actually a As the corresponding real routing dc.l VlMHnHidtMOO very useful trick dunng development of fully become available, you just replace I d c . l VAJIinHeight,10 fledged applications. You may have appropriate call to the dummy routine 1 d c . l M _t|illidtb,640 dc.l UAJnHeight,256 dozens of menu options that relate to code a call to the real version. Another benefit dc.l UJ(CnP,WRPJEHUPl{K|mHPJlQ$milHV sections that are as yet unwritten, and tying this type of approach is that it automa' d c . l VA Title,vindou_niae such options to dummy routines allows provides an incremental testing’ pat" d c . l T M J f f l E f W U the event handler and overall structure of If. for example, your program works until you swap, say a... jsr DoNothing < with a call to a real routine, then you'll kr straightaway that any faults that appear a Title bar collapsed windows almost certainly connected with the 0" present in the newly added routine! With the preliminary program layout discussions now WA_Zoom tag in the window definition to identify a Most of the event handling code s" safely out of the way we can deal with the real topic pointer to a set of alternate window dimensions that be easy enough to follow, but it may help of the month - namely, how to produce windows that will be used when the window's zoom gadget is examine the diagram shown in figure 1 initially reside in. or can be made to collapse into, a selected. These dimensions have to be provided as This provides a fairly high-level, gem- window’s title bar. Perhaps surprisingly. It is very an array of word (16-bit) entries, so in the example desenption of the code's operation in easy to do because all it takes is a few well chosen program you'll find this tag entry: chart form. /I tag list entries in the window definition. Firstly, provide a zero WA_Top value and set dc.l HJooMooiJita WA_Left to a value which places the window' at a suitable position within the title bar. Then set the along with this dc.w directive which identifies the cor Window initial width and height tags. WA_Width and responding set of alternate window co-ordinates: WA_Height. to define a window which has only a 10 150,53,340,203 pixel height (i.e. the height of a window title bar). For instance: The result? The window opens initially inside the title bar and can be expanded to normal use size by d c . l y * . T o p , o d c . l M J . t f t , 3 0 0 selecting the zoom gadget. You will, of course, be d c . l y*Jridth,3*0 able to see the effect of these statements when you d c . l ua_Height,1G run this month's example program. 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Bump ‘N Burn and Jetstrike all make a joint appearance on Grandslam’s latest CD32 package Gametek’s Brutal gives a new dimension to violence. Have you ever wondered if your pets have a violent streak? Gloom Will a perfect Doom copy ever appear on the Amiga? Guildhall hold the best effort yet. Anyone else? those of you who are a bit strapped for cash can check out four new budget releases Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM Features Tiny Troops We preview Mindscape's latest strategy puzzler Will it be as successful as Cannon Fodder? two Doom clones in one issue! Arrakkis Software from Poland are the second guilty party D-ROM Games We give you the low-down on CD-ROM compilations For £20, you could pick-up 500 bargain games Center Court A tennis game? At last, the summer is nearly over and we’ve got a tennis game! * R C « E CLASSICS newsSYSTEM By Tina H ackett Don’t give a FAQ earn 17 have Just become one of f 4 rn MW mm u imiit i mm» mmtms i-i • the first UK games companies to Tk» T««m 1 7 Mom* r*M>! establish a presence on the World Wide iwgoga) i Web. Following the news last month that Team 17 have just set up their On-line games division, they have now announced their new site which can be located at http:/www.team 17.com/. l o w It contains everything from a Team 17 softogra- W elcome lo tW T m u b 17 v»k nte! phy to The Team 17 Times - a newspage contain ^ ! • * i i mn a M M tap Ib tu m o to * ». n t . M ai is « m jo* **•> ing details of all their forthcoming releases. It will also have a demos page with both PC and Amiga Son *■» *»■ "*■ ’ Talk Gndj demos of old and new Team 17 titles, and an FAQ page which answers all those burning questions Oseew m Im alMMl Oa oo*M Tkaa I? people have always wanted to ask them. You will also be able to download hints and tips !«O i> laraii VTI rtx at U aw i u u u a U t* Im a JL Q M and view a letters page which allows browsers to 'RmMonniBWHnBHnnB::! ■ II — — — I e-mail them and then see the letters on the Team 17 web pages. Team 17 are located at httptfwww.team17.com/ Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMMortal Manga No business Manga Publishing, responsible their latest video. Patlabor 1 has like show for such titles as The X-Files. Tank been used, intercut with footage Girl and Street Fighter 2. have just of the band. Another musician to business announced the release of their use this is Michael Jackson who The industry's bi-annual I new monthly comic. Mortal used Akira and Vampire Hunter Is all set to take place at tti Kombat. For 95p, fans of D In his latest single. Scream. Grand Hall Olympia. Tti the license will be able And over here, the British anima European Computer Trc to catch up on charac tion studio in Newcastie-Under- Show ploys host to mar ter profiles, fan trivia and Lyme has produced the comic- exhibitors from all over the] competitions. This has book-style animation in U2's world who take the opp been timed to coincide Hold Me. Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me nity to show their latest hard with the film, so followers video ware and software. This of the beat-'em-up Autumn's event Is set to I will also be able to attract a record number of I catch the movie this visitors, and exhibitors will| Manga Books are Autumn starring Chris include Warner Interactive releasing the topher Walken. 21st Century and Virgin. Japanese comic book Also on the subject of hits in paperback 1 Manga is the latest news that they are launching Manga Books, with the first five titles A being. AD Police. Appleseed Volume One. Crying Freeman Volume One. Dirty Pair: Bio haz ards and Bubblegum Crisis. Manga video clips are also the latest trend to be used in music videos. Following an agreement between Manga Entertainment and record com pany TVT (they who launched Nine Inch Nails), one of their The European Computer Trade Mortal Kombat fans can catch American bands. KMFDM. are Show is the platform for the up on the news In Manga latest software and hardware using Japanese animation in Publishing’s latest magazine Play the Commander ol Cheap thrills an attack submarine Bug free dhail Leisure and CDS have two more The good news for all nes to add to their strategy war games Sensible World of Soccer 9S. One is Subversion, where you play the fans is that it has now been nmander of attack submarine 'Nautilus', fixed and the bugs j have only two ships and by careful man- removed. A bug free ver nent of your resources, must obliterate - sion of Sensible World of p i enemy vessels. Soccer will soon be in the Their other is Bravo Romeo Delta, where c^ oc! ROMEO shops and those who fyou have to take com m and of the US bought the original and Strategic Forces just before a Soviet Nuclear sent off the registration Attack. You must defend your country and at card should receive their the same time plan a Counter strike. new copy very soon. Both releases will be available this August, riced at £9.99. Bravo Romeo Delta provides serious war simulation WAH HA5 BEBI DfClAHD1 Speed freaks Plane spotters rumour mill has it that yet another Street Flight sim fans will be [ fighter game is in the pipelines to follow Super pleased to learn ■Street Fighter 2. Called Super Street Fighter 2 of Thalion's latest I Turbo, it's not actually being developed by US release. Approach ■Gold, the company behind the previous titles, but Trainer. Rather than ptotally different team. Gametek, the company using all the aspects Nnd Frontier, Elite, and other classics have of flying, Approach ertaken the task and this particular edition Trainer, as you've [has already proved very popular on the PC. probably guessed, An Autumn release is planned and as yet. teaches the art of Approach Trainer won't iametek are reluctant approaching an air suit action fans but [ to reveal too much, field. It's not every those who want an therefore. we can one's idea of heaven, authentic simulation should keep an eye out tell you what the dif admittedly, but for for it soon ences will be those who are after graphically it an accurate simulation - including accurate ILS Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMould be quite Approach Charts - then this is for them. xessive and will Piloting the aircraft, you will have many differ ay with some ent problems to overcome such as day and rriflc speed. night approaches, variable weather conditions, and long and short approaches. The game is [4 sequel to Super Street out at the moment and is available for £29.99. Fighter 2 w ill follow Fantasy football Weird things in hyperspace nark's in-house developm ent team. The Curious things are happening in Norway. This morning's post contained a letter nlin. are working on a new football game. from a new Norwegian team called Borderline Developments and screenshots I Total Football, it promises to ‘look as good from their hopeful new offering 'Atads in Hyperspace' (what ’Atads’ actually are j it plays.' and features will include all-weather is anyone's guess). It's an AGA adventure which will feature a raytraced intro and Itches, mulM-directional scrolling and action will be available for the A 1200, A4000 and CD32. At the moment they are consid ys. Players can also take their pick from 50 ering making it CD-ROM only because of Its size. As of yet we no little more than and can take part in International and this about the new team, but hopefully we'll bring you a full review soon. I Cup Competitions. [ Visually, it should be quite impressive with over I player animation frames and over 50 player ements. An animated crowd and atmos- : sound effects will add authenticity. Expect irelease around Autumn time. D om a rk's T o tal F o o tb a ll Atads In Hyperspace Unfortunately, we don’t no much about promises to promises to be visually th e g a m e a t th is s ta g e - but a safe bet be visually a p p e a lin g is that it takes place in space im p re s s iv e SYSTEM Why did they review le a v e th is appalling intro in? ollowing hot on the heels of all the ter is different enough to I hype surrounding the film, the latest provide varied game addition to the Street Fighter titles is play. E Honda, for F [ finally here for the Amiga. Called Super example, is a large Street Fighter 2. it features four new character who relies players each with an additional setting. Now you on his bulk, whereas will also find Cammy (played in the film by Kylie Cammy is small but Minogue), Dee Jay, Fei Long and T Hawk, plus all agile and has light the old familiar ones. They have also been ening fast reactions. improved with extra moves and new touches. The game can also However, the first thing that strikes you when be dramatically altered you load up the game is how dated it all looks. A by changing the speed few years ago this would have been quite you play at. The Turbo PUBLISHER acceptable but now after Mortal Kombat 2 and option can be turned up to high which US G o ld Shadow Fighter have passed, it does look Its age. everything up - including the music - and And a very amateur Introductory animation is you have to think fast and move quickly to quite laughable. But the gameplay is what counts the blows from other players. ln -h o u s © and this, fortunately, works well. What is particularly nice about this ga You can either play against the computer, that it supports a joy pad. This works a lot TBA choosing the level of difficulty, or a human oppo than using the one-button joystick as you nent chosen from a number of characters. Each EDISKS has their own set of 6 special moves HH D INSTALL which are sur Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMY e s prisingly easy to execute. The moves can be A 1200 put together to perform a number of 'hit combos' and each charac- Move closer Super Street Fighter allows you to put a Blanka - uses electricity to keep his very able combination of moves opponents at bay. together. Each character has a good range of kicks, punches and special Chun U - despite being one of the moves. smaller fighters, this works to her advan tage as she con move quicker than, say. Zangief. Dhalism - the stretchy limbs of Dhalism allows you to attack your opponent E Honda - uses his sumo size to launch and keep out of their reach. his powerful weight against his rivals. Black borders become irritating after a while The static backdrops fail Battle of the I to im press beat-em-ups Super Street Fighter 2 as it stands is a good, playable title, but compare it to the likes of Mortal Kombat 2 with its bloodthirsty graph ics or Shadow Fighter and it does start to look rather limp. Mortal Kombat 2 man aged to create an authentic atmosphere and had some fantastic and original •special motfes. Shadow Fighter was also a particularly warding and addictive game, with well- gned characters which looked very clear and detailed for this type of action. uper Street ■separate button for either a punch or kick. You [can also use a two-button joystick on this same principle ■ As I mentioned before, though, the graphics lore very dated - such as the bland backdrops Fighte Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM■Which don't do anything to create atmosphere. |And what's worse Is that they look flat and two- plmensional and there's been no attempt to ■make them interesting with the use of animation. NTSC 60 hertz to speed things up and get rid [Okay, so this may have slowed the game down of some of the blackness, it never disappears [but other games manage this successfully and it completely. Reviewed by Tina Hackett ■Would certainly have made for a more polished Music and sound effects don't really enhance looking title. the game either, with feeble death noises and dis ■ Another flaw is the size and detail of the char- mal music. Oh. and some of the characters have 6 SSF 2 does pcters themselves. I'm sure they've been intri- some very strange verbal expressions when they Kxjtely designed but they're just too small too launch an attack, such as ‘Had-o-ken’ or some [9ee any detail or. sometimes, what Is going on other weird saying which does nothing to have a few properly. Huge black borders around the screen increase the competitive atmosphere. However, [don't help matters either and although you can what really let the game down was the amount of negative tehange the screen mode from Pal 50 hertz to disk swapping involved. Thankfully it is hard disk installable, otherwise it would be completely unplayable with a ridiculous six disks to access points but each time. when it comes Final word down to After reading all this, it may sound like the game is a complete letdown. This isn't the gam eplay case. Yes. it does have quite a few negative points but when it comes down to the game- it works play it works extremely well - especially if you have a Joypad. Two-player mode works par extremely well ticularly well too. and there's never a situation (unlike Rise of the Robots) where you can cor ner your opponent and bash them to death - especially if with the same tedious move. An A500 version is also planned, although you have a this won't support a joypad. We'll bring you an Tho many characters available update on this in a future issue. keep things varied joypad 9 SYSTEM 4 Nick Faldo's Championship Golf was released rather a long time ago and received a highly creditable award in most magazines5 G a m e r Championship Golf was released rather a time ago and received a highly creditable awd in most magazines. On the CD32 format, nothii has changed - it’s still one of the most playatl and realistic golf games available. The ne| GoldReviewed by Andy Maddock instantly recognisable feature Is the cade Although they made an appearance on the I he Gamer Gold is a compilation cour py version, they weren't that much use. PUBLISHER tesy of Grandslam, containing Now though, they will gladly hurl abuse a t1 G r a n d s la m Jetstrike. Bump ’n Burn and Nick or praise your shots extremely vocally. Bill, the | Faldo's Championship Golf. A flight ticularly sarcastic caddie, will do anything Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMDEVELOPER simulation, racing game and a golf make you angry. The actual animation of H Grandslam/Rasputin game? Will it work? Faldo taking the shot has improved too. On tf Firstly. Jetstrike was released about a year ago whole, all the graphics seem to have had ! £29.99 on the CD32 format. It was basically a flight sim tweaking to iron out any glitches. What makes it j that adopted a different way of playing. Instead S q u irrel? pleasure to play Is the fact it does play like of the usual cockpit view, Jetstrike was viewed N o golf. There are plenty of challenges and coursi side on - a lot like Choplifter from many years ago. keep you going. The idea is to select an aircraft from a huge array Bump 'N Burn isn't that well known amc and take it through many different selected mis Amiga owners - I'm sure only a handful have ad| sions. These range from taking recon photographs ally played it. I think it was released when rac of the enemy's positions to landing on the games were in their prime, and because o f1 opposing side's runway to rescue some hostages. Bump N' Burn didn't even get a sniff. The floppy disk version, which was released Basically, it's a racing game whereby you he around two years ago, was very difficult as well as to survive the Bump 'N Burn championships. The being slow and jerky. Fortunately on the CD32. are several tracks of Toonia's seven kingdoms < none of these problems have been resurrected. through these you will be expected to get bettd You can select from a vast amount of planes and better until you are ready to com pete again and helicopters, and every plane you could pos Count Chaos - the unbeaten champion. sibly think of exists within Jetstrike. Spitfires. Falcons, Bump 'N Burn is nothing special. The grapti Vulcans. Bombers, and Apaches are all available don't particularly boast quality, and it doesn't 1 for selection. Jetstrike is well presented, has good as smoothly as it should, but as it's on a comp gameplay and packs a real challenge. Certainly tion with two other great games, you can't rec a good start for a compilation. Nick Faldo's complain - not for £29.99 anyway. 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I'm beginning to change my* mind completely. rom the title and the screenshots. I can guess what all you readers are expect ing. It looks like Doom and sounds like _____ Doom, but more importantly, does it play like Doom? There's no escaping the fact that the 'in' game at the moment is Doom... on the PC. Everyone seems to want to make a close version of it on the ------Amiga - it's rumoured there are many more to come. Some people believe Doom on the Amiga is just not possible, and I agree with them. Others believe or hope to believe that Doom will grace their Amiga screens soon. I feel it will never be reproduced on the Amiga because of the tech nical differences between the PC and the Amiga. w & However, if Escom do produce a PC that's Amiga based then I'll have to believe it when I see it. Until Those two human players are staring straight at then, I won't be holding my breath. each other. However, one of them is invisible Gloom is basically a 3D shoot-'em-up that con tains the most violence ever witnessed. There is an Hulk maze which looks remarkably like ti option to switch it to either meaty or messy. If scenery used in the film Aliens, and the idea is ti messy is selected, as soon as you fire a bullet at get out - alive. This is not such an easy t one of the opposing soldiers they will burst into lit because there are literally hundreds of foot tle bits and leave an awful mess on the floor diers and bare chested madmen to plot Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMwhich you will have to walk through. You can through. These and huge robots will stand in yi imagine after shooting quite a few soldiers that way, firing bullets ten times the power of y PUBLISHER the floor won't remain In its shiny, polished state. own. Guildhall Leisure You are basically thrown into a futuristic Space Throughout the game bonuses are available DEVELOPER In -h o u s e Reviewed by Andy Maddock £29.99 ElDISKS 2 H D INSTALL Y e s SUPPORTS A1200 *5 v. i # The graphics do appear very blocky Reducing the site of the here, although, thankfully, the screen window speeds up the resolution can be changed game immensely •hut ms [jjj Your team leader w ill advise you w hat to look out lor. Don't £ as soon as lake his advice! Hide in a corner somewhere you fire a bullet instead at one of the opposing soldiers they will burst into little bits and leave an awful mess on the floor ^ [ for collection which can affect your health and high. After shooting someone with a bullet they I firing power. A huge gun with a full weapon boost w on't be content with falling to the floor and dis sntial for disposing the bigger robots. appearing. but throw themselves violently Into the (there are plenty of options to choose from air while spreading their various organs over the ore you begin the game, including a two- wall. On occasions I have noticed that if you get poyer split screen where you can chase your too close to an exploding body, it will squirt spots The title screen sets the nent around a sealed maze with only your- of blood on to your own face. By the end of a par scene delicately. Are you Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMfand a gun. You can also play Gloom through ticularly nasty level you will find that your face will ready to slice some bodies Epserial link connecting two Amiga's together, so be covered in blood, partially covering the up and eat their remaining entrails? Not here jean both play using a full screen. action. The Amiga 1200 has, in the past, been able to Now. the bit that you've all been in out some quite speedy graphics, although waiting for - the speed. Well, it Bthing has to be sacrificed for this. For more depends you see. During the game, Bd. the variety or amount of sprites usually pressing escape will bring up an option morates immensely. In Gloom's case, the vari for you to. change the screen resolution ety of sprites Is lacking and during the later levels and size of the actual playing window. If you tomount of sprites does affect the speed. choose a high screen resolution the window [ There are three main locations and in these size will automatically be reduced. You can le are some sub-missions where you have to play with a small window to emphasise jjch the exit. There are no real missions such as speed, or with a full screen to emphasise cuing colleagues which is a shame because it the action. They both work well, so it's up fgives the game a plot and a storyline, which to you. (Gioonn unfortunately hasn't got. The actual character sprites As said before, the level of violence is quite do appear very blocky when you get reasonably close - although to increase the speed, the floor and ceiling graphics can be switched off. Final word Although the whole idea of these to mark it purely for Gloom itself, as a games is to get on a par with Doom on game. The graphics are the best yet the PC. as I've said before there's for .games of this genre. Gloom is com absolutely no way I am going to com pletely packed with smooth graphics, pare the two. There's no point In say a huge challenge and most of all. ing 'Ooh, It’s rubbish, it looks nothing action and excitement. It’s certainly like Doom on the PC' because it's not the best attem pt yet, although with supposed to. I'm not going to give it a other similar efforts only weeks from [i You have to bo very caretul when attempting low score because it doesn't match completion, only time will tell which to open one of these doors. Lots ol bare the PC version of Doom - I am going one will rise above the rest. chested madmen will appear SYSTEM i Tiny Troops puts you in charge of a p r e v ie w small army and it's down to you to he fun strategy puzzlers are usually met direct them to do with an enthusiastic response from the games playing public, and you only have to look at the success of Cannon certain tasks j Fodder and the many Lemmings games to see this. So it Is perhaps a little curious that there hasn't been a whole host of these titles offering. Tiny Troops. Tiny Troops puts yo u ; flooding the market, employing this simple but charge of a small army and It's down to you \ highly addictive concept. direct them to do certain tasks. There are That is until now. with both Gametek and warring factions, the Klutes and Furfarians. Mindscape spotting a potential gap in the gam have been in battle for 450 years. This has cau ing world. Gametek's title, Baldies, (previewed a serious damage to their planet, so rather th couple of months ago) is near to release and continuing to wreck their home they travel Mindscape are well into production of their Earth to continue with their dispute. You are given a top-down view of the Previewed by Tina Hackett nario. enabling you to see exactly what is \ on in each battle. To control the game you 1 an icon-based interface, clicking on the relev icon to carry out your orders. To speed things i you can access a small m ap which means can move your troops around quickly. Objectives will vary in strategy from compl destruction to rescue attempts to Armoured vehicles can also be used which provide variety. The finished game should feature a massive different battles spread over a variety of cc fully designed levels and as well as these mis Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMthe player will also have to face six progres harder end-of-level baddies. As you can see from the screenshots (PC - I the Amiga version will look almost identic graphics opt for a fun feel and by enlarg everyday objects - such as the plugs and so on] you do a get a very appealing style. Expect Tiny Troops around October. Midget gems The usual one-player mode will be available I this sort of action lends Itself nicely to a mu player game. Mlndscape have catered for th so you will be able to link two Amiga's fo r« bigger multi-player game or compete In head-to-head battle on one machine. 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However, all of them have The utilities are all packed as DMS files previously been on Assassins floppy disks, so which need to be dearchived on to floppy I must advise you that if you do happen to disks. A disk masher program is included but own a large quantity of Assassins' PD disks the UNDMS command will still need to slide already. I suggest you look elsewhere. into the C: directory on your hard drive. The At £17.99, the CD is priced quite * M l e n d utilities are a selected bunch of audio and high, but if you want quality it looks as C T E h graphic disks, featuring mods and anims. As though you'll have to pay for it. Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMCD-ROM go Supplier: Epic Software Arcade Classics Price: £9.99 CD32: No ean guarantee that you will have played most games on this CD, as sev eral versions of them are still knocking D about in a dark corner of a pub some where in the world. During the '80s these games were flying around all the best arcades in the country. Oh, how we hate advances in technology! Frogger. Space Invaders. Defender, Tetris. Missile Command and Pacman are all included on this CD, along with 500 others. Each one is an actual vari ation on the original, so it w on't be an small green frog across a very busy road and exact arcade copy but a close Amiga then a rushing stream containing floating logs. version. Incidentally, a couple of goes One of the premium classics. I'm sure you'll on Galaxian on the arcade would agree. probably have set you back about As this Arcade Classics CD-ROM is the first of lOp. Nowadays, with the addition of many - being Volume 1 - there could be a virtual arcades. £3.50 is the set price - whole host of old classics gracing your Amiga just for one measly go. screen soon. For £9.99 you ca n't go wrong, and It's astonishing how the games have although it may not appeal to the younger advanced so much, yet classics like gamers out there, it will certainly please the Space Invaders still have greater older among you. playability and challenge than some of the Comparing today's market prices, £9.99 seems brand new games in today's market. The best like absolutely nothing at all. Five game in the arcade had to be Frogger, a game dred games for absolutely nothing at ail I'm sure you'll remember. You had to guide a seems a real bonus to me. Supplier: PD Soft Speccy Sensation Price: £14.99 CD32: No ooking back over the last ten years - sitting now with an Amiga 1200 with a hard drive and a CD-ROM drive - you can finally for give and forget, No more worries about a f 0 minute loading duration only to find a tape load- error flashing boastingly across the screen. Oh, at those days are forgiven. All your old favourites that you'd gladly wait a life- ne to load are now brought gleefully onto the CD- )M. Five hundred titles that will have you reminisc- 3 with your friends within minutes. The greats such i Manic Miner, Skool Daze. ATV Simulator, Saboteur I Everyone's A Wally are all included - loading up instantly via an easy-to-use menu system. One problem that can be experienced when running Spectrum games on the Amiga is that the games are exceptionally slow. This is because of the different pro cessing speeds between the two machines, However, the games on this CD don't seem to slow down and as said before, load in seconds. People who used to use the Spectrum frequently will get the most out of this CD. 'What's the point, though?' I hear you say. People tend to leave these CDs alone, maybe because their experience with the Spectrum wasn't a good one, or they still have theirs and claim that if they want to play the games they'll fish them out from a box in the corner of the attic. Don't bother - for £14.99 you may as well save yourself the trouble. I can guarantee you'll slide , KltC. - PRESS Scor*- 1 L,n*$ • { KEV TO FLAY deeply into old times. © ^ It's astonishing Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMhow the gam es s public have advanced I Reviewed by Andy Maddock so m uch, yet Supplier: PD Soft Power G am es Price: £7.99 CD32: Yes classics like ower Games from PD Soft is another games Space Invaders CD-Rom containing Public Domain and shareware games. Once again they are still have greater * categorised into headings, such as sport, and puzzle, etc. There are more than 500 playability and 3s all available to you through one of the most sndly menu systems ever, Once you've found a ne it will take you a while to actually select it challenge than cause you'll find yourself looking at instructions or Br information when you thought you'd selected som e of the jgam e itself. | This is because when you select a particular box. b r a n d n e w j highlight around the outside is very faint and it's difficult to see what you've selected. Although the ) claims to be compatible with the CD32, some of the games fail to work which seems very pointless. g a m e s in Also, you will recognise or have heard of some of the games, but others you will have no idea what they are - and most of them aren't really worth the time of day. There are 500 Public today's m arket 5 Domain games included on the CD, but there are not many of outstanding quality - however they are reasonable none theless. The menu system, as mentioned before, is very unfriendly. It gives the game's name and a short description, along with the creator's name. Although It may seem that a lot of time has been spent putting this CD together, it is clearly very rough around the edges. The unfriendly menu system together with the exceptionally bad choice of games makes this CD only just worth its asking price. Having said that, there isn't | much else knocking around for only £7.99. 9AUT.4A SYSTEM PUtfOlLS 001 ACCURACY KlCKS 05 Z HLAT OTMtR 000 BO*Y blocks 000 Lf.CZ review z m RAT COrtPUTLR PUNC4LS 01 9 ACCURACY 006 KlCKS 040 HtAS 001 ike Hollywood sequels, the software CTHLR 000 BO*Y 007 1 industry will churn out game after BLOCKS 005 Lf.CZ 01 A game based on the same tried and L I AVXRACL F iCrtT CAZ SL7TATLS R rtti 3- 1 tested formula, It's not always a bad A t tho end of a fight this screen gives thing - after all. some sequels make accuracy statistics while commentary vast improvements over the originals - but there scrolls across the bottom comes a time when repackaging the same goods is going to leave the audience jaded. In gaming, no genre is more repetitive in its content than the beat-'em-up. The popularity of its most impressive incarnations has lead software houses to come back for more rich picking with games that vary little apart from slightly enhanced graphics and bloodier special effects. Years after the beat-'em-up's birth, however, even the laziest developers have been trying to give their new combat games a vaguely fresh twist. Spectacular metamorphosising finishing moves, international locations and a greater range of bizarre characters have been wheeled in to inject new fighting spirit into the proceedings. With robots and streetfighters behind us, Gametek are going for a new angle with a game featuring cute but deadly critters as its muscle- bound contenders. Named Brutal: Paws of Fury, The Bear may be fat, but It's one of the Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMthis new title steers away from the realistic visual tougher opponents players w ill face PUBLISHER approach of Mortal Kombat in favour of more humorous, cartoon-like charicatures. G a m e t e k disappointment of Rise of the Robots will kr> The simple storyline bears a Far Eastern flavour that beauty is only skin deep, however. What ri DEVELOPER with lots of sayings from bogus mystical teaching ly counts is whether Brutal can provide anything Software Sorcery padding out the ten characters' backgrounds. terms of a challenge that hasn't already PRICE Choosing from creatures like Kung Fu Bunny. Tai offered by previous beat-'em-ups. Cheetah or Kendo Coyote, players fight it out in Thankfully, the cosmetic novelty of figh a competition to find the world's best fighter. DISKS with furry creatures is not the only Graphically. Brutal is only slightly above aver about the game. One original touch, for age, with reasonably well drawn characters play pie, is the fact that players must learn H D INSTALL ing out the action against varied but unimpressive moves as their character gains in locations. In compensation, however, the game's through winning Fights. contenders have been made more lively with the SUPPORTS Whereas it's possible in Mortal Kombat to addition of characteristic gestures and moves. A ll A m ig a s all the special moves immediately, this Anyone who experienced the ludicrous Panther shows off After two successful fights, the The instigator of the whole competition one of his lower level Kendo Coyote acquires a new is the Dali Llama, a creature armed with special moves move in the training section some devastating special powers Ictilir ttfS 0(1 II ■ w Leon the Lion is Furry but flawed one of the better charicatures thanks to the Unforturjnately. Brutal is let down by some irritat addition of some ing flaws, one of which occurs in the mountain hum orous scene where characters die if they fall off the m a n n e ris m s edge of the combat platform. The problem is that the Lion opponent that Inhabits this loca tion has the habit of careering off the edge before the player has had a chance to touch Nm - or at least that's so in earlier levels. The inclusion of a password system for each character is vital, especially when you've gained access to a good range of special moves. The fact that this currently doesn't seem to work gives further cause for concern. Brutal 6 Brutal Paws Paws of of Fury steers aw ay from the realistic visual Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMFuryReviewed by Gareth Lofthouse approach of Mortal Kombat kes acquiring them more challenging and sat- moves into practice is also satisfying. On earlier ng. After defeating two opponents, players levels a few simple kicks will get you far - possibly i in rank and enter a training session in which too far - but more variety and imagination in favour of By have three chances to learn a joystick becomes necessary on higher levels. Thankfully, snce. If they successfully imitate it they have no move is so complex that it's impossible to string more ccess to that move from ther on. a series of them together in a fluid attack There are a vast number of these moves to be sequence. nt. and greater experience yields more pow- Of course its possible to play against a friend humorous, I and spectacular combinations. This with different characters and alter difficulty xoach could do much to give the beat-'em- levels, of which there are plenty to choose from, cartoon-like )the durability it traditionally lacks, thanks to the and there are the usual karate sound effects l-term rewards it provides. Putting the fighting accompanying the action. charicatures ^ The game's modest appearance does little to through the game until I almost finished on its >ire excitement on the first viewing of Brutal highest difficulty - and that was on my first game. vs. The cartoon characters make an appeal- This problem can be avoided by starting the I change in the genre, but the quality of the game on a higher level to start with, because it Dhics doesn't match up to top selling rivals on then becomes hard to get each of those power 5 Amiga. Surprisingly, the game overcomes this ful advanced moves. Nevertheless, considering dicap by combining a few Innovations with how experienced most players are in this genre, tjoyable gameplay. Training to acquire a the developers should have m ade Brutal a der repertoire of moves did much to solve bit tougher from the outset. This is not a damning the problem of giving a combat game a long- criticism, however. irm challenge, and it's highly in keeping with What's more worrying is the fact that the pass i martial arts' theme. word system didn't work, which seriously detracts A word of warning for those who eat this type from the long-term playability. Providing of game for breakfast: I'm no ace gameplayer, Gametek sort this and a few other minor flaws but by starting on an easy level I managed to out. however, this beat-'em-up could be o wor thy addition to your game shelf. r previewSYSTEM ow Wimbledon has finally packed up I ^ I I ancJ gonG home ' the even* not the ^ I I place - I can finally come out of hid- U f c J ! ing as I absolutely hate it. more than anything in the world. Now the foot ball season is underway I’m so much happier. What really annoys me Is the fact the specta The title screen in all its glory. It actually tors can lounge in the sun with strawberries and looks quite cartoony, doesn't it? cream and us football fans have to stand up in the pouring rain with a bovril every week! Why don't we switch them around - football In the Graphic enhancemen summer, tennis In the winter. Ha. let's see how many of them turn up in the freezing cold, The graphics shown in the screenshots are gc only to see the match rained off. to be enhanced, as the shots here are early \ Newcomers Blitzware set out to tures of the action and don’t really reflect » change my mind completely with the gameplay yet. Overall, it’s all comlf their new product Center Court, together quite well, and if the graphics a rival for Pro Tennis Tour which match the gameplay then it could becc has to be the greatest tennis another winner. game on the Amiga. I'm sure you're all familiar with the be top of the prize money league. game of tennis, and even if You can enter your own name and edit' you don't understand the own personal characteristics. If you wish to I rules. I'm sure you've all seen speedy player, you may have to sacrifice yq It once sometime. Center accuracy or power. All the characters are rq isn't merely just a quick sonably matched, only appearing distincti Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMgame, there's a huge career one or two areas. The other competitors start j 'feature involved. far better than you. although after a few toun Basically, the idea behind a ments your rating will gradually improve. /c a re e r in tennis is to enter as many 'com petitions as possible and win LIFE-LIKE them - picking up quite a hefty sum of money in the process. All the players are From the screenshots you will notice before you begin and their seeding number of them are digitised and feature < will change after each tournament - depending shots from real-life situations. These only appe Sampras and Courier where they finished and how many points they you win a particular trophy, but it is quite nice! locked deeply Into acquired. see some pleasant graphics which reflect on ^ battle - the number success. one and two seeds At the moment Pete Sampras is the number one seed, but if other players win matches and At the moment you can have a single me trophies they will eventually take over the top against the computer or anything up to If spot. The most money is won by coming first in all human players at once. This is an excellent i the tournaments and staying number one in the because you can all take part in a dou world rankings. That way you can be sure you'll match. There are over 90 real players inclu The mptch options. You can select anything Center looks like It’s going to up to a four-player game here be a bit of a graphical feast MrtvtM HIS F rom th e to u rn a m e n t s c re e n you can view all the different p la y e r’s statistics, to help you find th e ir w e a k n e s s e s ^ Center Court Another digitised s h o t o f a re a l isn't merely just match. This time your choice of court is clay a quick game, there's a huge career feature involved 5 Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMC o u r t Previewed by Andy Maddock with their own individual statistics and attributes. Agassi is recognised easily by his rather fetching They have also been made-up to look like their ca p and Boris Becker by his ginger locks. nterparts. Throughout your career you ore given the option For instance, John McEnroe sports a rather whether to take part In a particular tournament headband, but sadly, he doesn't involve or not. If you do you may win it or even acquire If in all the fracas he usually gets into. Andre some money for the runners-up spot, but if you d on't take part at all, your ranking won't increase and you'll be left sniffling at the bottom of the league with a lower rating than a cabbage. If you select the career option you will be able to access all the other players' statistics and their rankings and also see the points table. These are all very useful when it comes to playing an oppo nent you are unsure about. The actual match sequences are very addic tive and contain all the various shots contained in tennis, such as forehands, backhands, smashes, diving shots and volleys. All of these can be per formed very easily with the slightest movements with the joystick. Acid Software, the makers behind Skidmarks are distributing Center Court Tennis. As it is pro grammed in Blitz Basic there's no reason why it The Wimbledon-like tennle court - nice and ca n 't be of the same quality as Skidmarks. 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Although, for £29.99 you could also yourself three balaclavas, a pair of horn rim spectacles, an anorak and a tartan flask. The choice is yours. Trilogy* - i l s h 2 L shar 1, 2 ond 3 weren't really my most PUBLISHER favourite games ever - especially Daze being a reviewer that detests any sort DEVELOPER o f RPG. All this business of wizards and S im a rils warriors is just too much for me to han dle. These games always seem to Inflict the most serious effect of boredom ever. If you are one of £ 2 9 .9 9 these people, you'd better skip this bit as Daze bring out their incredibly adventurous Ishar 10 games in one package. Anoraks out everybody! I suppose as time has passed, each Ishar ITT*!H D INSTALL Y e s game has been superseded either in overall quality or in a graphical way. and Ishar 3 is SUPPORTS supposedly the best of the bunch. The most exciting, in-depth, animated adventu A 1200 The way Ishar actually plays is the most annoy game ever. Packed with remarkable gameplay Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMing factor, with slow, tedious scrolling drudging I and an amazing challenge. Ooh, that's right! annon Fodder hardly needs an intro PUBLISHER duction as it turned out to be one of H it S q u a d the best games of the year. It's very Cannon i C unlikely that anyone out there hasn’t Sensible Software actually played it. so I suppose this bud get release could be. in fact, quite pointless. PRICE However, after such a high profile release with its £ 1 4 .9 9 success, how could it possibly avoid the inevitable Fodder DISKS budget label? ¥ Cannon Fodder is. pure and simply, a war replaced by another nervous youngster willing toj game. The objective of war is to win - sparing as H D INSTALL risk his life and limbs for his country. ObvioustyJ D many casualties as possible. The idea is to com N o these young chappies aren't going to be as plete the mission objectives along with the sub as the rest of the bunch, so the more you o SUPPORTS EOT: phases in each scenario. The first is in the jungle keep them in the clear and at distance, the (W A ll A m ig a s where you are given five recruits. Each one has a likely they are to survive. rank and to begin with you are given the highest There are two main strategies to follow on yi ranks to play with. As you lose a soldier he will be road to victory. These are either hold back wait for the enemy to make the first move, or less favoured run towards them at a rtdio speed with all guns blazing - destroying you and a number of the enemy all at once. The characters themselves are controlled the mouse using a point and click method. AH f weaponry such as cannons, grenades and rock^ ets can be activated using simple clicks on tl mouse. With the typical Sensible Software charoct* tremendous gameplay and a big challei Cannon Fodder will always rank alongside the ti greats the Amiga has produced. Their rather cheeky yet uncompromising quote 'War has never been so much fun' is clearly an understatement. It's more fun than ever! ome AD92 was released around two or three years ago now and adopted the Populous-like 3D isometric view which Rome □ actually became quite popular. The idea is to control Hector, a Roman slave who wants to higher his position in society by deception. At the beginning you start as a slave with lower status than the cleaners. Stealing a toga AD92 off one of the people of authority will deceive mgny of the town's residents, enabling you to PUBLISHER order people around. K IX X XL As the volcano that lies on one side of the town DEVELOPER is about to explode, getting off the island is a must. M ille n n iu m With so many people and so few boats, fighting for an escape route is essential, and this entails mug PRICE ging people for their money and purchasing a £ 1 4 .9 9 very sharp dagger. DISKS When Rome AD92 first arrived, the humour ele ment was instantly recognised. It wasn't a strict copy of life in Rome but more of a serious light H D INSTALL hearted look at life back in Roman times. For a N o start, all the characters are humorously named - H&1J;SUPPORTS you are ordered to send a message to Seganus A ll A m ig a s I Megadrivus. of all people. If you can remember Robin Hood from a while I back, it plays just the same. You have freedom of O nce you’ve managed to steal the toga I the entire city so you don't have to do things in any from the fat bloke who's always In the f particular order - you can just roam, talking to swimming pool, you can mug everyone! everyone you meet. Although the graphics don't boast quality, they so much an essential purchase but a fun game for are reasonable nonetheless and do their job more anyone - especially with the humour element. At than adequately. There are six levels to battle a nice cheap price of £14.99. Rome AD92 through, all with fresh challenges, making this not certainly boasts value for money, . eing a loud American in a quiet village PUBLISHER in China means merging in with the Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMcommon public isn't going to be an K IX X XL B Heart of j DEVELOPER J easy task. Making as many friends as possible in this very graphical icon dri- D y n a m ix I ven adventure is an absolute necessity. You are PRICE given your own identity, character and personal £ 1 6 .9 9 ity. and unfortunately you have been graced China DISKS I with Jake Masters, or Lucky to your friends - an I annoyingly loud American with less sensitivity people about other things. This makes Heart of I than a badger. H D INSTALL China probably the most interactive game There isn't an actual plot as such - all is Y e s I revealed as you become more involved in the around - this system is called the Dynamix Game game. This involves plot branches where you can Development System (DGDS). SUPPORTS reach different parts of the game you may never All the usual adventure icons are present such A ll A m ig a s reach again if you restart the game, and picking as talking, picking things up, dropping things and different objects up and speaking to other looking around. However, as you progress and make friends with people, they will join you on your mission objective and you can temporarily take over their actions and objects. There is an enormous amount of depth to Heart of China and the animated effects and atmos pheric tunes are excellent. However, there is a down side. Most of the progression through out the game is made by guess work and trial and error. There isn't so much as a sniff of clues or hints and purely by luck will you end up right in the heart of the game. Having said that, though, if you have got the time to explore the game in great detail, You can fly absolutely it'll certainly be a worthwhile and rewarding anywhere you like in experience. Heart of China is certainly Heart of China, with Before going heading oH to battle, a one of the better graphic adventures the exception of trip to the herb shop is in order to Barbados to bask in purchase those magical remedies around. the hot sun. Pity L COMPUTING A R X ( I L I > OBJ!. Est 1990 Over 13,000 CHiki available COMPUTER (Dept AMC) 23 Stznwefl Close. Wmcobai*. Shefteld S9 IPZ. 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Looking just like the original Mega mouse, this one fits nicely into the palm of MultiCX'f new improved Workbench title Oar includea what chipset yeu are running, and the next program I want to tell you your hand and comes equipped with one totals lor Chip and Fant RAM, with percentages used and tha numbers of tanka, about. The next program is actually a more than the usual number of buttons. librarian and screen currently In use patch to the ASL.Iibrary that comes with But what is the point of having a third Now I can throw away even more of the rather nifty WBTitte tooltype which gives Workbench 3.0 or 3.1. It won’t work if mouse button? commodities I have in my WBStartup you full information in your Workbench you have an older version of Workbench, For a start there are actually several and the authors haven’t tested it with a drawer (hooray! down to only 16). titlebar. The last three rather cryptic items programs that use a third mouse button MultiCX now replaces AssignWedge. refer to the number of tasks, libraries and processor more humble than a 68020. so including Directory Opus, Hisoft's offering the by now familiar Retry, assign, screens you have running. The About' there’s no guarantee it will run on a DiskMagic. and many other directory mount, deny, cancel" options to the Project menu item in Workbench has also 68000-based machine. This patch gives managers. But in addition to these Please insert volume BinkiBonk: in any had a facelift with new reboot and flush added functionality to the three requesters programs there are a host of PD and ASL provides, namely the standard file buttons and more complete system shareware utilities that are either drive’ requester. MultiCX also replaces my much-loved NewEdit commodity by information including processor type. etc. requester, the fonts requester and specifically geared towards using the letting you paste copied text into text Hopefully there will be enough room on screenmode requester. middle mouse button, or have middle fields. Other improvements include the this month's CoverDisk to put on both this Changes are made using the provided Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMmouse button functions built into them. MUI-based preferences program and you Some examples that spnng to mind can set such things as having the include our CoverDisk item MultiCX which requesters centred on your mouse, the lets you use the middle mouse button to active window or screen, or at the top-left cycle screens, which is much easier than comer of the active window or screen. the left Amiga-m combination or going up You can also make sure the file requester to the top-right comer of a big screen puts the directories at the top of the file Most of the other big commodities will list, rather than at the bottom which afco have some provision for MMB screen always seemed strange to me. cycling or multi-file selection, where Lastly, but not least, a boot utility was instead of having to hold down the shift brought to my attention when trawling key you use a mouse button. the net for stuff for a CyberVision card. Commodities like YAK have so many The utility in question is designed to show items to configure you could probably do a picture instead of that boring black with a 23 button mouse! Finally, the screen as Workbench loads. The utility is Gasteiner three button mouse also comes called PicBoot and it handled pretty much with a nice long lead and you can’t beat it every IFF image I threw at it loading 1024 for value at only £12.95. x 768 images in the blink of an eye. Also groovy this month is the latest thanks to the accompanying UnPackJLBM version of the aforementioned MultiCX tool which decompresses IFF picture files, making them load a lot faster. PicBoot is equally at home on an ECS Virus alert! or AGA machine or on a machine that has Set how your Byatom requestors look with ASL Profs. 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In the earty days, macros were almost entirely Modeler oriented, however the latest generation also provide addon power to Layout in addition to the traditional automated modelling tools At the forefront of the new breed is a new collection from Hester and associates Following in the footsteps of Power Macros, unique range of tools including automated the new Plug-Ins and Go! collection offers a LightWave configuration, and quick macro similar, if more basic collection of tools To generation. The first provides a means of make up for the slight lack of technical ment adjusting the LightWave/Modeler config in relation to Power Macros, Plug-In* and files online. while the second offers a real Go! hit back with 53 macros as opposed to time macro option which tracks your the 16 on offer from Power Macros. O n -lin e o x e m p le s o l actions and then generates a completely Perhaps the best way to clarify the the finer point* new custom macro from them. In addition, difference between the two is that Power v ie th e there's a more involved macro generator Macros offer a design special effects im p r e s s iv e which allows you to select from blocks d e m o d is k coiecnon - explode and shatter being of pre-set code and build a macro classic examples - while the Plugin range step-by-step. The manual further enhances ease of use as you'd expect they essentially do the same offers a more utilitarian approach. Next comes motion control, with by following up the basic macro type with a job. However, for anyone looking for means Aside from the disk containing the hKjhlights such as curve to motion and list of icons which denotes what they do of morphing between basic objects and macros, you also receive an excellent 100- motion to curve, which as you've probably and will need in order to implement the complex structures it’s an invaluable page manual plus a second demo disk guessed converts and saves either sketched addition which highlights the finer points of the chosen macro. For example, the macro may paths or motion files ready for loading Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMThe next modelling must is the invaluable collection. The quality of presentation is affect the entire layer or just selected items, directly into either Layout or Modeler - quick convert option. Although not as generally excellent throughout the package, or perhaps it requires a background layer or again, relatively simple tasks now with an empty spare layer. immediate as the morphing macro, it does a classic example being the manual placing added automation icons alongside each macro description to offer a means of converting or automatically denote its area of expertise - namely, USER-FRIEnDLV scaling objects from millimetres to metres or creative, modifier, calculation information or Installation is also a breeze, courtesy of a even kilometres - particularly useful for special feature, layout related, motion direct import of the entire collection via blending elements from existing scenes. models direct command option. Better still, Quick move is another classic example of related, object related or text related. ? once installed the macros are shown in the a utility macro, which moves all the selected same order as they appear in the manual - points in the layer to a new user-specified fairly simple but nevertheless a very position. Again not spectacular, but welcome user-friendly addition. nevertheless extremely useful on occasion. cn As mentioned earlier, the macros on offer Next comes the calculation macros. Here break down into a number of specific you could probably obtain the same Nr uM»j categories. Given the available space information with the aid of a little thought mentioning each in turn is impossible, so I II and a calculator, but why bother if Plug-Ins highlight my personal favourites m each will do the hard work on your behalf. In this Excellent user-friendly design plus category particular genre my favourites include en eguelly Impressive menuel In the auto modelling department the calculate time and calculate render time. top three include Modify to sphere or cube, The former generates the total number of quick convert, and quick move The first frames needed to cover a specific period, SYSIEm E5 5 EI1TIRLS RED BLACK = Recommondod ARexx he* never looked so interesting. option is. in fact, two separate macros, but for example I minute 23 seconds Point end c lick e ll the wey... translates to 2075 frames Geation tools are the next element in LightWave 3.0 or higher the equation, and it must be said the A plug for Plug-Ins weakest link in the Plug-Ins chain. The only noteworthy macros are the create As mentioned. Layout macros are an important part of any modeler collection. And true lightning and create star options, with the £ to form, Plug-Ins does its brt with macros which import entire scenes into modeller, add former generating random lightning The bottom line multiple lights to selected points, automate multiple batch rendering of scenes, and of objects for import into layout while the Supplier: Hester and associates course the all important targeting of one object to another over an entire amm or a user- latter provides a simple means of 13032 Copenhill Road defined number of frames. designing multi-point stars. Dallas The big disappointment in this section is Overall, the Plug-In collection is excellenL although it does suffer from the odd filler to Tx 75240-5302 the fact that they repeat many of the basic make up the numbers. However, the really useful additions are exactly that. Assuming Tel: |214) 991-PLUG options available via Lightwave s numeric you've got to make a choice between Power Macros and Plug-ins. 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The tnck. of course, is to use stem-based M M M t * ...... compound variables to represent field names, P o tted . : SSI Mil . . . row and column screen position coordinates, Ttlir t m i UMOMtM. . . 00 TOO M ill to o tic, nottc 0.1. It's looking now form pan of the compound variable tails. of form records' to be stored, has been good but... The immediate benefit here is that do/end type added. loops can now be used lo perform all forms of At the moment, however, all that happens is Paul Dueraa Despite the improvements with this setting up and data collection operations. For that a dummy save routine gets called and. as month s script there is, however, still example the field names and cleared reply fields each record is selected for storage, the form outlines a one area that provides a potential can now be produced using the code shown in data just gets written back to the Shell window trouble spot. It concerns some of the j listing 3. Because these loop^sased routines, |as a sort of Visible prompt' to confirm that useful trick static definitions used within the along with others that you'll find in this month's something is happerungll As the entering of example code. You'll notice that, example script can handle any number of field each set of mformabon is completed, the script for setting Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMwhere procedures (i.e. ARexx items, this means that no matter how complex will ask if you want to store the current record functions w ith their own symbol tables a form definition you decide to use, these or not. and whether you want to enter further and execution environments) are routines will be able to handle it data. Ail these things are achieved with fairly up AReHH being used, some items (for example. Input data can also now be collected using mundane use of a CursorWritej) routine using ESC and CSI) have to be defined in compound variables, with the contents of each these types of statements: screen form more than one place. completed form. i.e. a complete input record', call Despite procedural isolation being, forming part of a single compound variable set CoriorVr 1t«( rmjii ndo*, 22,4, J) descriptions in the main, a very good thing, the (repfyS.i). Needless to say this, compared to the iS=leadch(ran_vindov,1) fact that pseudo-constant definitions, relatively simple approach used last month, is a if Upp«r(xS)8S,1' then call Savelatal) which are deliberately intended to be big improvement. global, are blocked and have to be When you run this month's example (by Another improvement to be found in this redefined within each procedure that typing rx october_example at a Shell window) a month's offering is that if. at any time while uses them is un fortunate. As always form pretty much the same as that used in the entering information, you want to scrap the there is a way around this difficulty, previous instalment's code is produced I currently displayed data, you can now just hit but I'm afraid you II have to wait until chose, incidentally, to keep the form description the ESCape key to clear the form and return to next month to find out what it is! the same in order to allow easy comparison the first data input field again. In order to do with the field definition approach used last this I've had to modify the CursorReadf) routine month. 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All ( support BBS or DHRYSTONES A4000/40 17,973 DOUBLER 4000 36.126 VAT It is advisable to telephone in confirm f CPU MIPS A4000/40 18.76 DOUBLER 4000 37.72 visit our support availably before ordering E&OE. All trademarks a DISK MBYTE S/SEC A4000/40 1.40 DOUBLER 4000 1.58 conference on EUROPEAN CUSTOMER ORDERS WELCOME DOUBLER m o 50MHz ACCELERATOR UK/EUROPEAN TRADE EN CIX? he other day I saw a posting on CIX heralding the new A4QQ0T. It was attributed to Alex Amor's Creative Equipment International, an Amenean company who d been involved in the bidding for the Amiga before Escom finally snarfed it up. U p s e t in It was headed 7 July 1995 - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - and descnbed how the A4000T will be positioned as a high-end video workstation.' It goes on to describe it as a tower-based model with the Motorola 68040 processor operating at 25MHz. Initial configurations are expected to be u id en lan d 6Mb of RAM and 540Mb hard disk. Introductory pncing is set for a street price Of US$3499. CEI will be offering different configurations.... Furthermore we realize that the price of the A4000T is slightly higher than we all would have wished. At the same token there is pent up market demand.. .' Now. knock me down with a feather but I couldn't help taking this with a very big pinch of salt. After all. CEI didn't win the bid. but had been making big noises that they were confident of winning. They've been Out Of the limelight for a while, so a message from CEI serves, if nothing else, to keep them on the map dunng these lean times. Then came a contradictory message from Gilles Bourdm of Amiga Technologies GmbH in Germany, dated 14 July, which says that as yet there have been no firm distribution contracts or Tho A4000T - will It hava agreements signed for Northern America, nor ■any form of vidao have pricing levels been set for the A4000T. So in p u t ?p just what is going on? Did CEI jump the gun? Did they dream this A4000T up themselves? IUHHEV Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMLet s look more closely at the spec. No monitor or CD-ROM is mentioned; the drive is quite small by high-end standards - 6Mb of be contacted by memory isn't even enough to run that TV Amiga Technologies, favourite Lightwave, and other crucial programs and a new higtvend such as Art Department Professional. lmageFX2 V Amiga will still only be and Real 3D are all going to need more memory playing catchup with current for senous TV work. PC and Mac systems by the time it achieve full On top of that it doesn't say whether the hits the streets - unless some rapid video A4000T will have any form of video output so behind the scenes developments are compatibility, but. an encoder card or goockjuality genlock will be going on. unlike five years ago. required. This A4000T looks like a machine This is not a good state of affairs to which is tailored to run something like Scala these extras are becoming be in. even if you're the most rabid of Amiga more and more accessible to PC MM400 (not that I'm knocking MM400 - it's a supporters. If I was in the market for a users. There's now a PAR card for the great application) and not a real' video machine video/graphics Amiga I'd want one which could after all. PC. and genlocks, video processors, see off the competition, and at a sensible price. framegrabbers and edit controllers are an readily And then there's the price - US$34991 Even I'd want a built-in video output which was at loosely translated into UK currency that's around available. The A4000T will also need additional least composite, preferably S-VHS (or even both), hardware, which might include a PAR card and £2190. or £2600 including VAT - and not even even for lesser machines such as the A1200 or a framegrabber. A 24-bit card would also be a monitor thrown in. Couple that with the rumoured A1300. very useful, plus all the bells and whistles relatively slow (by higlvend standards) 25MHz llnnl Amiga Technologies take a good hard 040 processor and the only conclusion I can (memory. CD-ROM. monitor, big hard drive, etc) look at what Amiga users actually require for come up with is that CEI have announced a real which are no longer luxuries for serious video highend video applications and come up with producers and animators. turkey some solutions. I can only conclude that this Now, let's hope that all this is theoretical, and A friend of mine has just bought a Pentium A4000T price and spec certainly isn't going to 90 PC costing around £2400. The price includes that the new A4000T will not only have cut it. For all our sakes. let s just hope that CEI's reasonably pnced bundle options, but that the a 1 Gb drive. 15" multisync monitor. 16Mb RAM, message was low on substance and high on sound card. 24-bit graphics card, speakers and a base machine itself will not make a Pentium PC hype. Only time, and Amiga Technologies, will or well-appointed Mac look even more tempting quad-speed COROMI And it runs Lightwave like ten. a dream, knocking off a full overscan, than they already do. It's one thing relying on antialiased render with refraction and reflection the Amiga's video reputation to sell it but in a matter of minutes. In fact when I phoned Escom/Amiga Technologies are going to have to The source him he was rendenng the textures example and come up with something really special to keep it took less than three minutes to do the video folks on their side. Thanks to Jeff Walker of JAM for posbng the business. I can't see a 25MHz 040 even getting After all. 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C015 1JU E.U.CO Tel: 01255 431389 Fax: 01255 428666 m i t n i j n n m SB iven the versatility of almost all synthesizers, you might well imagine that it would be quite easy to Gproduce drum/percussion accompaniment Hreby gnu m issing just selecting suitable drum sound voices. In fact, it isn’t quite that straightforward because, set up in the conventional way. a multi-timbral synth would only be able to play one voice t h e b e a t ? group setting per channel. So even if you only wanted a bass drum, a snare, open and closed hihats. a couple of tom-toms and a cymbal... you’d still use up seven Midi channels and a large chunk of your multi-timbral capabilities. The solution to this difficulty was solved years ago and involves a slightly different arrangement whereby all percussion events are sent on just one Midi channel with the note value being used to indicate which particular drum/percussion voice should sound. Now. newer synthesizers often have facilities like these built in (usually on Midi channel 10) but many older instruments will not. and the best thing to do in these cases Is add a separate drum machine’ » to your Midi set up. SOPHISTICATED SDUnOS Drum machines nowadays are quite Tho addition of a drum machino to an sophisticated and often use sampled (i.e. Amiga %oguanclng s e tu p w ill o p e n digitised real percussion sounds) as opposed to play the ■many creative doors tor the musician synthesized sounds, and even the pitch and appropriate percussion voices. volume of individual drum’s voices may be As far as the recording of percussion tracks is drum part will, on playback, sound disastrous altered. Loads of preset rhythm patterns will concerned, it is much the same as recording - recorded bass drums might turn into also be provided, many of which will make ordinary synthesiser data. You start the unit cymbals, the snare drum might vanish, and the good starting points for creating your own playing and just record the Midi data overall effect is invariably to make the Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMpercussion tracks. generated at the Midi Out terminal. There is, drum/percussion track sound almost When you start a drum machine playing however, one thing that you do have to bear unrecognisable. Obviously, it is something that you'll not only hear the percussion sounds via in mind - you must not transpose drum is easily fixed by re-transposing the data back its audio connections but the unit will be channel data. Since specific drums and into its original key (thus restoring the original transmitting Midi data as it plays. The messages percussion instruments are represented by note values). Some Amiga sequencers (like Dr transmitted may include start/stop information, particular Midi notes, any change in these note Ts KCS) allow you to protect’ a specified Midi timing clocks, and the drum-note data itself. Of values would change the actual percussion channel from transposition and this is very course, the reverse procedure also applies and voices being played. convenient because it allows you to carry out if the drum machine is sent Midi data it will The effect of inadvertently transposing a all normal transposition operations knowing that the note values of the drum/percussion data inside your drum tracks will not be altered. Tricks of the trade Drum machines (and integral synthesizer It is sometimes said that drum machines can produce monotonous drum parts. They can - but percussion facilities come to that) vary this is almost always due to how the drum patterns were programmed in the first place The enormously in the number of different big question is... what can you do about it and. most of the time, it comes down to attention percussion sounds they can provide. to detail. A common problem is getting the accents right on hi-hat parts. Some accent pads Unfortunately, pnor to General Midi, there was have limited capabilities - even though the drum machine may be fully velocity sensitive via little standardisation between different Midi. In these cases, it's usually best to drive it from a touch sensitive keyboard but you’ll find, manufacturers as far as which note numbers by expenmenpng, that a iQt can also be done by editing the data using your sequencer. represent which drum sounds. The note, It's been recognised for some time that if you take a perfectly quantised drum pattern and which on one drum unit plays a crash cymbal, marginally alter the position of the snare drum, i.e. pull it back or push it forward, then the could well produce a High Bongo' sound whole feel' of the pattern can change. You can do this sort of thing quite easily via most when sent to another machine. Needless to sequencers simply by recording each drum on a separate track and adjusting the individual say. this is something which many users just start positions. have to live with and it really only causes As well as altering the feel of a drum pattern track, you can thicken up’ weak sounding major problems if you are using material that is drums by taking the drum track (or a pan of it), duplicating it onto a second track, shifting it either intended for, or created by, someone along by a small time interval, and playing the resulting tracks simultaneously. Done selectively else who is using a different drum machine. it can be very effective, especially when using hard-left/hard-right stereo panned sound As far as creating suitable drum patterns iS outputs. concerned, the situation for the beginner is All these sorts of tricks come with practice and most users find that, within a few weeks of very good indeed. Firstly, you’ll be able to use starting to use a drum machine, they are getting excellent results. Yamaha and Roland drum the rhythm patterns and styles available on the machines are available at quite reasonable cost, and with many shops offering second-hand percussion unit itself. Secondly, you’ll find that units at bargain prices nowadays, it's never been easier to add extra percussion facilities to your local music stores will stock a number of books Midi set up. 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No way! Think about it. These admittedly brilliant sites I've mentioned here can cost you a couple of quid to visit - even if you visit them at off-peak times. It s a pncey business, even with all the good deals that phone companies net lo are flinging your way these days to get your money. 1. Get the fastest modem you can buy. beg or browsing to half an hour a day. especially if Obviously, faster modems would be a steal. The more rapid transfer rate between you you re logging on before 6pm bonus, and for frequent Net access, or if you and the host machine will mean faster access to 4. Save frequently Save the text of pages if are a Net hack like me. then a 28.800 baud or the Internet, especially useful for graphics- there's a lot to read, either as text or HTML Read even ISDN is a definite good idea. Okay, so you mtensrve Web sites. off-line as often as possible Its easy to forget shell out more initially, but the savings in Net 2. On-line so much people can t get you on the you are connected to the phone when you are time are enormous. You have to be veiy careful phone? Get another phone line for your Net reading something interesting. when you get fast Net access though, because access or better yet. get a beeper like the one l 5. Do what you've got to do and get out of it might mean you spend a bit longer online have - the Motorola Lifestyle Plus. It costs £80 there. It's easy to roam around the Web when than you should, and you just download and after that there is no charge. People pay you are bored, and it's just as easy to not really bigger files fit's a bit like real life where your just 20p a time when they dial up a premium have any aim in mind. The Web is a tool, and expenditure expands to fill and even exceed rate line and tap in their phone number. It's cool okay. It's quite good fun too. but it should be the available budget.) gadget too. and makes people on trains think used carefully. So don't just wander around the So to help you ehjOy your Net life more and you are a doctor. Net burning up cash. Look for something, find > avoid those scary phone bills, here is my five 3. Use a stopwatch. When you log on start the it, note any interesting URLs on the way, but get / point plan for more efficient Netting timer and keep looking at it. Try to limit your out quick. WorldCam absorbed into the controlling Phil South http//wwwovd.com Net watch company’s Web activity. All you need to know about the new BV mulls ouer the One of the most interesting things MGM/UA Lion's Den Sony Pictures Entertainment releases, including the new Judge about the Net is its NetCams. that http/Avww mgmua com/MGM/i Home Page Dredd picture with Sylvester eHpense of net is to say video cameras which ndex html http://www.spe.sony.com/Picture Stallone. relay almost live info from their s/index,html r » —~ — Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMParamount Pictures usage location to you via the Web. The r v t» r most impressive collection of Access to Sony’s Entertainment http://mM.par3m0ant.com/ • these cams is WorldCam. / network, including their movies WorldCam has also compiled a list through Sony Pictures. All the At the Paramount site you can get f j of the best Cams from around upcoming features are here like the a preview of scenes from Michael the world, including The excellent The Net" (no relation to Crichton's new film. Congo. Mel ( 1 ( <, Fakon Cam at Calgary ; > the awful B8C series) starring Gibson as Braveheart and sneaky University. The Incredible FishCam Sandra Bullock, the most excellent previews of the new Star Trek. (a fish tank). FogCam and the Johnny Mnemonk starring Keanu Voyager TV series (cooing soon to amazing wearable WebCam - a Evil TecT Reeves, and other a video store near you.) camera attached to someone who bonuses like First Knight1 with Sean has a wearable Net-based Connery and Richard Gere. Oh. MCA/Universal Cyberwalk computer so you see what they not forgetting Julia Ormond... ooh. http://www.mca.com/ are doing. how could I forget The MGVUmvenal site was one of Batman Forever Buena Vista MoviePlex the first movie companies on the http//www batmanforever .com/ The MGM/Umted Artists home http://www.disney.com/ Web, and it shows by its slick page, with details of all their presentation. The site has previews recent filmage. For example The very graphics-heavy Buena of Tom Hanks in Apollo 13. the Goldeneye, the new Bond Film. Vista Pictures site has now moved $200 rmlhon Kevin Costner film At the time of writing there to the Disney site. It used to be Waterworld. and also Spielbergs weren't any pictures, but there out on its own but it's been Casper, the friendly ghost. was a sneak preview. Presumably this is because the film is in production and it needs more doing to it before you can really get a look at any sets or anything. The web site for the new Batman Also, there are details about film, out now. and very fab it is Species, which is a new spooky too The site has pictures, sounds film with bags of special effects {live via Real Audio if you have a about a new type of human, PC-based Net program running which of course goes haywire on your Emplant) and movies for and kills everyone, in the grand you to watch It also has some old tradition. 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As we said last month this is a screen info UJho g o e s program which loads a screen and gives you info about it The author describes its usage thus: 'Here is a routine that will give you information on the current screen, from the screen number to the amount of memory the screen is using. th e r e ? mm There are two modes of operation. JCREENJMFOflJ Ink 6 is the silent mode, where by the information is lepeat T=Ti«er/50 Draw l « H IIT N ,T To X+ M ID TH ,W EIG H T returned from the procedure in a string. I f T=>60 Drau To I ,W E I G H T I f UP=0 Ink 4 _SCREENNUHBER=Vll(LrftS(It,1)) Mhl Drau To X,T X=Val(PHd$(It#3 ,4 » I f R=>150 : UP=1 : End If Drau To ItN ID T H ,T UVal(HidS(IS,8,4)) Ink 6 VlOTH=Yil(HidSUS,13,4)) Drau X*VIDTH-1,M To W IITH-1,W EIGHT-1 If this is the case we will move screen down. HEIGMT=Val(HidS(lS,18,4» Drau To 1*1,WEIGHT-1 NUReCI0ftbl0Uit$=Vet End If ,4 Screen Open 1 5 1 ,6 4 0 ,1 2 0 ,1 4 ,Hires Wait Vbl * The screen nuNbirs’tStrJlJCREERJW R- Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMScreen Display ISM,128,*100,, ,5 Wait for the next vertical blank and then set up We grab the palette of the current screen: * The screen u id th = ** S tr l( SCIEER WIDTH) a mouse key sensor, so if a mouse key is ,6 * The screen Get Palette _SCtEEN_RtlHBEt pressed we will continue, like so: '♦StrJt SCREEN HEIGHT) U n til Mouse K e y o Q ,7 Then we fade in: ’ The m i a u i nuaber of ="*$tr$(JW XIUR_NUHBEK 0F_C010URS> Next we have a FOR/NEXT loop, which shows ,8 'The nuaber of planes Fade1/,SFFF,SFFO,SfOO,SCCI/SAAC,S77A,SFOO,SF, us the info screen: le="*Strl(ROPA) SBE8,„SC,SBF,S3,SAAC Curs Off : Flash Off : Paper 5 : For M=R To -100 Step -16 ,* 'The lefthand side of the screen is dis- Hide : Wait Vbl Screen Display ISM,128,M,, itMtrfOtDtSPLAY) 1=0 : T=0 : UIDTHI640 : HE16HT=120 Wait Vbl oca ,1 0 : Gosub IIGHT3I Next l 'The top of the screen is displayed 1=40 : M 3 : liIDTH*560 : REIGHM3 : Gosub LIGHT3D U V II SPLAT) Then we dose the information screen and exit ,1 1 the procedure. ’ The to ta l aeaory r«quireaent fo r th is We then GOSUB to the routine that prints the "♦StrKTSHM bytiiV or TSM/1024)e'KIL08YTES * information: Screen Close ISM : Pop Proc ,1 2 * (When the double buffer systea is in Gosub 1RF0PIIHT End if I by 2 ) ' Wait Vbl (610 REPORT Ink 3 : Paint X U ,T » 4 ,0 : l e i paint an area ,1 3 of screen, in colour 3 Centre "Press Mate key to SUIT" Right now we enter the Ught3D area of the Paper J : Pen 5 : Locate ,2 : Centre 'Screen intonation" program, Try this proc on its own to see what c tis i fo r R=0 To 150 Step 16 happens. X and Y hold the x,y position of the Screen Display ISM,128,H „ box. WIDTH and HEIGHT hold the width and Halt Vbl l e i t H height of the box. Simple and effective huh? And there you have n All the information you For l* 1 S C To 100 Step -4 could wish for about a screen. Handy to be able L16HT3D: Screen Display 1SN,128,R,, to do this kind of thing on the fly. If. for U a it Vbl Ink 5 : Bar X,T To X+MIDTR,WEIGHT example, you had an image processing Rest R For R ilO O To ISO Step 2 This clears the middle with the background program, and you wanted to sense the Screen Display ISM,128,R „ colour. parameters of an incoming screen file so you U a it Vbl could casually pop them up on the screen after Rett N Ti«er=0 a menu, for example, then this is the routine for Write stuff you. It is a ventable Swiss Army Knife of a If you have a roudne you’d B e to share, then please write routine, so keep it handy. Having done all that we set timer to zero and to Phil South, Am os Column. Amiga Computing. Media Back to normal, whatever that is. next month, then we go into a little repeat/until loop: House. Adlington Park MacdesfiekJ SKIO 4NP and keep those routines and letters coming. Amiga Computing ■ n with the latest update |3.0h| I i5 received this morning. I got the I L B ,0ur new ^dd-ons for PageStream. They are: Gary's Effects, a Jpeg filter, a Plug in and print Wordworth filter, and a font engine for TrueType fonts. These additional filters can uses TrueTypes). SoftLogik say in the WordWorth using these features. PageStream be bought now from SoftLogik themselves documentation accompanying the add-on that is also unable to load CGM graphics files like for between $20 and $25. so get your credit the speed and quality of TrueTypes in those used by WordWorth, so that option is card ready. PageStream is roughly equivalent to Postscript right out too. PageStream s hyphenation Gary’s Effects come on a single disk for fonts. The only thing that would have been method differs from WordWorth's so you installation into BME 2.0. They are a series of nice to see would have been PageStream might have problems there too, although not Effects modules that get added to BME's taking advantage of some of those WinPrinters necessarily. Effects menu and give you some of the more - printers optimised for Windows' use by Finally, there are two further problems that common operations required for desktop having TrueTypes built-in. I'm not sure if this is would appear to be in the process of being publishing. These include, but are not actually feasible given the printing system in sorted out. The first is a problem with extreme limited to. a user-editable convolution PageStream, so I don’t suppose it's all that type sizes and the Loose’ leading method matrix, gamma correction, a histogram important. and the other is a problem with picture graph display (which cannot be edited), The last add-on seems to be a little aspect ratios. All in all, it doesn't sound as J control over hue and saturation and other underdeveloped. Although the WordWorth though the WordWorth filter is going to be such effects. filter will import your WordWorth documents, much use for anything but the simplest It s a bit disappointing that there are none it will only do so under fairly strict conditions. layouts and as such, perhaps it should have of the really useful DTP-oriented operators Because PageStream has no Text Effects or been included with PageStream for nothing, such as unsharp masking, or that most of Tables feature, it won t be able to load in any or they should have at least waited until you the operators don’t seem to work in a of those nice layouts you have created in could do a bit more with it. predictable fashion when applied to pictures in CMYK format. I can only hope that Gary s Effects evolves into something more like Kai s Power Tools over a period of time. Still, PageStream progress thanks to the new Jpeg filter, at least you Franh ilord can save pictures out from BME as Jpegs. After having spent some time with PageStream 3.0h. I can definitely say that SoftLogik are pushing forward at a rapid rate towards a finished product Typing speed in the new version is gets his m itts D.URLITV SETTinC vastly improved, particularly in long articles, although SoftLogik say it is still not as fast as they There isn't very much to say about the would like for v3.l. Also, you can now quit from the editors without them locking up Jpeg filter for PageStream. It does what it is PageStream (at last! I can t remember the number of times I hit Amiga S. Amiga 0 out Of Sheer on the new supposed to and offers you a quality setting habit). In addition, external graphics have finally been implemented and you can now reven to slider, but really talking about it is going to saved. Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMplug in sound like one of those Ronseal product Owners of norvPostscript printers should be pleased that printing has been sped up and that ads on the telly: So if you want a filter and memory is no longer as important when it comes to printing. Hyphenation, both soft and modules for you want it to be Jpeg, then get the Jpeg automatic, has now been incorporated and. at last, your cursor accurately represents where in a filter. It does exactly what it says in the text article you are. BME also gains two new effects - Emboss and Sharpen. docs. However, some of the more annoying niggles like PageStream’s inability to copy, duplicate or PageStream 3 Moving on to the third item in our add-on transform a text box have soil not been resolved, neither should you expect PageStream to be collection - the TrueType font engine. Again, able to do colour separations for EPS files or printing (one aspect which must surely limit there isn’t very much to say about this plug PageStream’s appeal for serious use. Perhaps this ought to be attended to before anything else). in. It allows you to use TrueType fonts in Finally, in the readme file they mention release dates for both a Mac and Windows version of PageStream transparently, without needing PageStream and promise full cross-platform compatibility, so lets hope that a) this doesn't mean to first convert them into Postscript format. that Amiga development slows down and b) Amiga users will finally have a hope of going to a This opens the vast vista of CD-ROMs made printer with a PageStream file and not get laughed at. for people with PCs and Windows (which S o m e o f th e n e w operator* that Oary'm Effect* provide* BME with. 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