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. p o w e r CONTENTS contents CU AMIGA MAGAZINE • DECEMBER 1995 This Month's Features Public Domain

Programming 26 • PD Scene 89 Fun, fun, fun from the less serious side of the Our incredibly powerful public domain. A m ig a E cover disk is just what you need to get into programming. ePD Utilities 95 Shareware and PD productivity software and utilities come W riting your own soft­ under the spotlight in PD Utilities. ware is one of the most rewarding things you can do w ith your Amiga but where do you start? In plain English we explain the concepts behind programming, • FinalCalc 68 and guide you through Could this be the killer spreadsheet the Amiga has Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMall the available lan­ been waiting for all these years? guages to help you decide which is best for • Blizzard 1230 IV 70 you. W e'll have you The latest revision of Phase 5's 68030 accelerator refines the award-winning design further still. w riting those killer applications in no tim e! • Demo Maniac 74 Amaze and amuse your friends with Black Legend's demo creation tool.

Pedal to the Metal 32 • Info Nexus 2 There's a revolution going on A pretender to the Directory Opus throne gets an in computer game sound­ update, along w ith a bonus database thrown in. tracks. W ith the advent of CD-ROM as the m ost popular • DICE C 3 The shareware C compiler grows up, but can it computer medium, develop­ cut it in the commercial arena? m ent team s are now recruit­ ing professional recording • Amiga M1438S Monitor 83 artists to provide superior The brand new official Amiga monitor has arrived. We give it a thorough testing. audio tracks. Now there’s no lim it to the sounds that a • CD-ROM Round-up com puter game can make - Take your pick from 11 CD-ROMs reviewed and rated n convincing heavy rock tracks are now possible. We venture in this month’s CD-ROM Round-up. ) the studios of one of the Am iga's more exciting development ms to find out just how they do it. Death Becomes Her 35 Ruth Lingford is probably best known for her erotic anim ation "W hat She W ants", which was created on the Amiga using D P a in t 4. Her latest anim ation Death and the M other is to be televised next year w ith a budget of £55,000. She spoke to CU Amiga Magazine about this new project and w hat part the Amiga had to play in it. CONTENTS

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Amiga E 10 You could hardly ask for a faster or more flexible programming language than A m ig a E, and it's on this disk in its entirety. There's also a guide book! Follow in the footsteps of great Amiga programmers and code your very own a pplications, games, utilities and more in Piagiam tout own games aad ulMilies with this moath's caver disk aad FREE guide! O AM IGA Worms 13 They may be squidgy and squashy but don't try any funny business w ith these worms or they'll blast you into next week. The much, much awaited demo of the game that everyone is talking about is here: W orm s. Remember you saw it on CU Amiga's cover disk first. Have hours, no years of fun w ith this excellent snippet of the game, kindly donated to us by O cean a n d Team 17. 4

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PREVIEWS e Hillsea Lido 40 e Flight of the Vulcan Software attempt to emulate Them e P a rk's success w ith the familiar look of Amazon Queen 47 » Tracksuit IVtanager2 40 It's here at last. Warner Interactive's V alhalla sprite s. Alternative say they have made this football graphic adventure has finally made it onto our management game even more accessible. Amigas. Was it worth the wait? k Accessible football manage- e Penguins 41 lament game? Hmm. Two cute little penguins dressed in dinner jackets follow their guide around numerous levels. This • Leading Lap 50 Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMMicroProse's F o rm u la 1 was a great success. Lem m in gs-style platformer has to still to be Now new software company Kellion bring us an Dungeon Master II 56 snapped up by a publisher. up to date version. e Atrophy 41 Intersect Development are a new Amiga Coala 55 Cute furry animal this is not. Rather annoying dedicated company. A tro p h y , a shoot 'em up, flight simulator it is. We wonder whether is their first foray into the wonderful world Empire should have bothered. o f gam es. e Dungeon Master II 56 A sequel to a classic. One would hope for an equal if not better game than the original. Find REVIEWS out if this has happened. • Worms 43 e Thomas the They’re here, at last. W orms. On our cover and on our cover disk. Find out what all the Tank Engine Pinball 59 ^ ^fu s s is about. The stars of a children's TV programme find themselves in pinball game that is aimed at kids but adults can have a bash too. e Team 59 Yet another S e nsi contender throws down the gauntlet. Has the king finally been beaten or is it another one for the 'failed sensi beaters' pile?

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Editorial Advertisers' Index in csiirsni centre ■111-231444 SUUI MULTIMEDIA n: W e lc o m e o CU Am iga Magazine. It you are a n e w reader 11124-M5SS2 •II1-MSH71 w h o has just purchased an Am iga, o r it you are a regular reader nut-iuiss •117-1741142 1111 V44M71 •1121711177 you should enjoy this issue. N ot only d o w e have a review and SI 122-2121II •1I2S-7IIII1 cover disk o t w hat is quite possibly the g am e o t the year (no 1171 172 7417 I1I71IS44U offence to Sens/ fans), w e've also cover m ounted a full and fast C- aismu 11112 US IM •UM-MStTS I I 443-744377 styfe program m ing language and guide book. If y ou are an MHMNI CAM lUCTBOSKS 71 01171 114044 PUISS ME DU I144-IMS14 experienced programmer you should find Amiga E very useful. If you dabble CUMSUOMSMBW6U IIS -Ill 0171-172-1701 POWER CO Will me : 11234-143)08 in program m ing or are n e w to the subject you w ill no d o u b t find it difficult MTU IS b 17 11712-744717 PREMIER MUl ORDER I I 241-7771 72 to use and understand, but spend som e tim e on it and the fruits o f your DOiUKI 41 III1-7II2222 RESPONSE ADVERTISING ■1421-S1MI1 IH CSMPWIR GRAPHICS SS I12U-4111M SIASOfT •IM1IM17I efforts w ill show I MlSAID 12 ■111 HUMS StUCTAIMT II7I7 7I7I1S Last m onth's CD-ROM issue proved exceedingly popular, but if you me MUSI I ISC 41 b M I I 711-410111 PLICA SYSTEMS 7124 It SII1-MS-I111 couldn't get hold o f it try again Because it w e n t on sale a week late w e 71 ■1M7-4S4I}] 71% 71 •117447MM 17 •17SS-S424M I S I H779-6SS784 have had its on-sale date extended b y a w eek so if you w anted one and MSTCMPma tu n a s a •171 2I2US1 • 11V-S444M1 d id n 't get it you should ask your local W H S m iths or M enzies a bout it now. tm m u»— — is fa is •I17-MM4U till They m ay still have som e leftl (MIT COMfUTII a ITU M 1111 711*444 O n one final note, if you are a ne w reader w ith a ne w Am iga A1200. 1111-MS-1211 I I 771-111711 then I hope the C om plete Guide that cam e w ith it (see news) w as useful. If it started you o ff w ith the basics then our aim has been achieved. Alan Dykes. Editor Editorial EDITOR Alan Dykes DEPUTY EDITOR Lisa Collins TECMMCAL EOfTOR: Tony Horgan STAFF WRITER Mat Battinson GAMES CONSULTANT Man Broughton Subscriptions 128 ART EDITOR Helen A Franc* bs> Danby Did you miss out on last month's CD-ROM sdrtion? Yss. w ell if you were a subscriber you would have received a CD-ROM w ith this .TANT issue of the magazine. Don't miss out. Make sure you subscribe CONTRIBUTORS Andrew now, otherwise you might miss the boat on any of future Hickmott, Ed Wllas. Jason promotions, and you wouldn't want that now would you? You PHOTOGRAPHY Mark Gatahousa would? Well, you m utt be reading the wrong magazine then. Buying AdvertisingTVlarketing Et IVlanagement ADVERTISING MANAGER Justina Carlson SALES EXECUTIVE: Marlsnna Mastars AD PRODUCTION: Tina Gynn. Vicky Jacobs and Ryan Boundy PROOUCT MANAGER Fiona Maltoch Buyers Guide 100 SUBSCRIPTIONS MANAGER Kathanna Xlaab 30 ray tracing software is the subject of our buyers guide PUBLISHING DMECTOR: David Kail, Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMthis month Find out which is right for you on page 100. EXECUTIVE PUBLISHMIG DIRECTOR Graham Taylor OctaMED 5.04 102 Contacts The Nightcrawlers have based a whole pop career around Whan contacting CU AMIGA MAGAZINE there ara two golden rulos cut-up vocal samples. Ed Wiles shows you how it's done. 1 Sand vour fatten ate to tha right department end pfaaaa do not send a atamped taH addreeead envelope 2 Pleat* remember that we have to write and produce your favourite magazine avary month, to try to kaop your correspondanee thort and to tha point. Although wa'd lova to. we tlmply cannot reply Image FX 104 personally to tha hundred* of calls, latter*, and faxes w# get An*wer» have to be through the page* As our Image FX cover disk tutorial draws to a close. Tony of the magazine only. Morgan exposes a variety of new visual tricks PageStream 2.2 106 There's so much you can do w ith PageStream 2 2. This month at CU A Larry Hickmott expands our personalised stationery collection. READERS LETTERS AND TECMMCAL PROBLEMS For ,_____ fatter, to Beckchat for techmcel problem. »e*d them to OfrA Both are at CU AMIGA MAGAZINE. Priory Court. JO 32 Farr.ngdon Lana. London EC1R 1AU Phone 0171 S72 S700. FAX 0171 S72 6703 Graphics Masterclass 108 Ptaata remember that we cannot enewer enqutne. in detail by phone If you need advice urgently or Textures, patterns and cosy embroidery effects are on the menu have a problem than do call u* betweon 4 30pm and 5 30pm mon-frl We will try to assist you within in Peter Lee's DPaint V tutorial. ouk Wired World 111 PD SUBMISSIONS We gat hundrada ol new PD program, avary week, but wa re .till hungry for In this month's comms section Mat Bettinson discovers a more If you've written a PO program that you're proud of .end It to the PD ZONE. CU AMIGA 'net voice phone and a graphics-free web browser. MAGAZINE. Priory Court 30-32 Farrtngdon Lana. London EC1R 3AU. COMPETITIONS CU AMIGA MAGAZINE run. competition, almost every faeue To enter on# of the»e AudioMaster IV 114 um ply put your name and addreea on tha book ol poelcard. along wRh the a Powerful sound sampling effects and editing techniques are ue e« the ueualeddres. Competition enmo. ere only accepted by p — ---- Wanner. wSi be notified by post C explained in our AudioMaster IV cover disk tutorial Frequently Asked Questions 121 Animation is the subject under the knife in this month’s question and answer session. Q+A Masterclass 122 Those things called datatypes that crop on cover disks and BBSes COVER DISK PROBLEMS: If you have a faulty cover di.k then write or return your di.k to our 35 inch are explored and explained for you. people CU AMIGA MAGAZINE COVER DISK RETURNS. DISKXPRESS. UNIT 7. WILLOW COURT. BOURTON INDUSTRIAL PARK. BOURTON-ON THE-WATER. GLOUCESTERSHIRE. OLS4 2HO Questions and Answers 124 Tony and Mat put their heads together to solve more of your technical troubles Back chat 126 Opinions from the global Amiga community get the airing the time of going to preas CU AMIGA MAGAZINE attempt, to maintain tha Mghaat standards. but cannot bo hold re.pon.ible they deserve. Plus The Far Side cartoon I for any error*, factual or otherwise which may have inadvertently creeped into tha Mao# Nona of tha Points of View 130 i. free ol any outside encumbrance. "W indows 95 is good news for the Amiga" says ex-CU Amiga Technical Editor Andy Leaning. How so? Turn to page 130... PRINTED IN THE UNITED KINGDOM BY ST IVES PETERBOROUGH ABC: 55.789 Jan - Jun 1995.

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—■nr AMUR A t GUlUt Start programming with Amiga E, the complete professional programming language on this month's cover disks.

hat sets the Amiga just these tw o examples it should apart from the consoles be clear that A m ig a £ is a real, is the fact that you can professional programming create your own pro­ language that is more than capa­ © grams and games, so you areble notof producing spectacular limited to forking out huge wads software. The only lim it is your of cash for someone else’s soft­ own abilities! ware. You can be the designer, T he A m ig a £ v 3 .1 i package on writer and producer of your very this month's cover disk contains a own masterpiece. You already the full, registered compiler. have the programming language, Unlike the PD demo version, this now all you need are some good is not limited in size of the exe­ ideas and a bit of dedication! cutable programs it can produce, so y o u can n o w e n jo y th e fu ll Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMQuick and easy p o w e r o f A m ig a £. A m ig a £ is a superb programming language by W outer van Installation Oortmerssen, designed specifical­ A m ig a E is v e ry e a sy to use. O nce 122 ly for the Amiga. There are a you've unarchived the cover disk n u m b e r o f o th e r la n g u a g e s avail­ onto the three blank disks, all you able for the Amiga, but £ is prob­ really need is the main disk. ably the best for one very good 'Amiga_E_v3.1i', and the modules reason: the compiler works disk, 'EModules'. The third disk extremely quickly! This means contains a lot of example pro­ » 9 a £ you don't have to hang around grams which will help you learn "ith thl'm ll'H 10" - for ages before you can actual­ the language. Hard-disk installa­ o 0 ly run your programs. tio n is ve ry s im p le a n d is Obviously, this has a dramatic described below. effect on the development Boot your Amiga from the first cycle of a typical program. disk and double-click on the disk But it also makes programming a icon to open a window with a lot more fun. since you can see the effect of small changes to your program much more quickly. Your creativity t, is not sapped by having to wait for th e co m p ile r! Key Features A lot of people 9 e • Very user friendly already know the ben­ efits of Amiga E, and • Easy to get to understand some of the more n o ta b le o n e s a re Paul • Compiles quickly Nolan (who wrote the am azing Photogenics • Runs fast in E) and Chad Randall (a u th o r o f th e ic o n 4 jM tf wtat „ ' t„„ „ „ „ o4Hlcll. editor, Ic o n ia n ). From curtesy of Aniga E. Jost try that with AMOS. dhl:Ami gaE/Modules Path BOOPSI (the object-oriented sys­ dhl:AmigaE/Bin add tem for GUI creation), or how to create a Commodity, then the N o w re b o o t y o u r A m ig a fo r the place to look is the 'RKRMSrc' assignment to take effect and try directory. The examples are, compiling the simple example: respectively, 'portl.e' and ■port2 .e" in cd dhl:AmigaE/Src ec ■RKRMSrc/Exec.library/Ports'. HelloWorld.e HelloWorld 'talk2boopsi.e' in ’RKRMSrc/lntuition/Boopsi'. and Learning E ’HotKey.e’ in On the cover of this issue is a 'RKRMSrc/Commodities'. beginners guide which should help you learn the fundamental More E sources aspects of A m ig a E. T he m o re If you've got access to Aminet advanced features are explained (either by the Internet, the in the E Reference Manual, which Aminet CDs or a decent PD is th e A m ig a G u id e file ’E .g u id e ' in House) then you want to look in the ‘Docs' directory on the main the 'dev/e' directory for E-specific disk. This was written by the stuff. Recently, part tw o of the a u th o r o f A m ig a E , W o u te r van RKRM translations has been Oortmerssen, so should be con­ uploaded as 'JRH-RKRM-2.lzh'. sidered authoritative. There's also a small GUI called easy as pe with Amiga E. The programs in the 'Src' direc­ 'E c o n o m ic ' to h e lp c o m p ile E tory on the modules disk and in programs from an A/?exx-friendly S^eJi icon. Double-click on this path and an assignment of 'Src2' on the extras disk are good e d ito r (th e a rc h iv e is con to get a Shell. Make sure the 'EModules:' to the location of the tutorial examples. Some of them 'ECo092b.lha'). Two huge com pi­ modules disk is write-enabled, modules. For example, the follow­ show how to use the various utili­ lations of modules and programs smce we are going to create a ing description shows how to ty modules that come in the are 'capus.lha’ and 'capus2 .lha', program and write it on the disk. in sta ll A m ig a E to a d ire cto ry A m ig a E package. The 'RKRMSrc' and if you speak German there’s If you’ve not got a hard-disk. but ‘AmigaE’ on the hard disk 'dh1:'. directory on the extras disk con­ the EPD series of disks . :u have tw o floppy drives then Using Workbench, the Shell or tains translations of the examples I'epd12.lha' through to you could put the modules disk in your favourite file manager pro­ in the Rom Kernel Reference 'epd21.lha'). the second drive, where you can gram, create the directory Manual (which is the official guide For the Internet-connected eave it. Otherwise you’ll need to ’dh1:AmigaE'. For example, using to programming the Amiga, and is there’s a mailing list run foHow the usual Amiga requests the Shell type: available in four volumes: by Norman Kraft. To join, send a and swop disks a bit. Libraries, Devices. Includes and message with ’HELP’ in the At the Shell prompt, type: Makedir dhl:AmigaE Autodocs, and Hardware). body to ‘amigae-request@ Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMbkhouse.cts.com’. You'll get a cd Emodules:Src Copy the contents of the Here's some I message back telling you how Amiga_E_v3.1i’ and made earlier to subscribe. Now w e can try compiling a sim- ’Amiga_E_v3.1i_extras' disks to The tw o screenshots on these p e program. Enter the following this directory. The 'C' directory is p a g e s s h o w tw o o f th e e xa m p le Upgrades in th e S hell: usually called 'Bin' on a hard disk programs. The first of these was T h e A m ig a E c o m p ile r o n th is installation so you m ight want to written by Michael Zucchi and is a month's cover disk is different •c HelloWorld.e renam e it. made up of spinning donuts as a from the full, registered version Workbench backdrop (using hard­ in only one respect: this version The E compiler, 'ec'. will do its bit Copy Amiga_E_v3.li:#? ly any CPU!). This is 'torus.e' in cannot be upgraded for free. and produce the program dhl:AmigaE all Rename the directory 'Src2/FilledVector/ Upgrade patches are available on HelloWorld on the disk. To run the dhl:AmigaE/C e x a m p le s ' o n th e e xtra s disk. Aminet as they are created, but program type the following: dhl:AmigaE/bin Copy T he o th e r e x a m p le (w ritte n b y you must register v3.1i before Amiga. E_v3.li_extras:#? Wouter) shows how easy it is to you can use them. Once you HelloWorld dhl:AmigaE all create a font-sensitive, resizable have registered, all updates will Graphical User Interface (GUI) in be free. You can register by send­ AJI it does is print "Hello World!" Now create a sub-directory called E, if you use the 'EasyGUT mod­ in g y o u r m o n e y t o Jaso n H ulanc b a ck a t you, b u t th is is ju s t a sim - ‘Modules’ in ‘dhl :AmigaE' and ule. The example is 'all.e' in the (Dept E), Formal Systems (UK) o e example - w e have to start copy the contents of the 'Src2/EasyGui' directory. Another Ltd. 3 Alfred Street, Oxford 0X1 somewhere! If you have ‘EModules’ disk there. You might 'EasyGUT example is a fully-work­ 4EH . P rice: £ 2 6 v ia d is c o r £ 2 3 Workbench 2.0 or better then you then want to move the ‘Src’ direc­ ing file requester which also via E-Mail. can try th e e d ito r w h ic h w as to ry u p t o 'd h l :A m ig a E ‘. s h o w s h o w t o u se A m ig a s yste m designed for use w ith E. It’s functions to interrogate disks and Go and play called ’EE’ and can be found in Makedir volumes. This is 'myreq.e' in the A m ig a E gives you the power to the 'C' directory on the main disk. dhl:AmigaE/Module8 Copy 'Src2/EasyGUI/freq' directory. make your Amiga do exactly T h is g re a t e d ito r b y B arry W ills is EModules:#? 'ShowHunk.e' in the what you want it to. another good example of what d h l :AmigaE/Modules all 'Src2AJtils' directory is one of Programming your Amiga is you can do with E. Read the doc­ Rename those essential utilities. It dis­ something which can be very umentation in 'Tools/EE/Docs’ on dh 1 :AmigaE/Modu1es/Src plays the hunk structure of rewarding, and if you're particu­ the main disk for more details. dhl:AmigaE Amiga binary files like executa­ larly good you could even earn bles and libraries, and also incor­ some money. But don't let this Hard disk Add the following few lines porates a full disassembler. put you off! : is v e ry e a sy to s e t u p A m ig a E to your's:user-startup' or 's:start- If you want to learn things like Watch for the tutorials on this to run from hard disk. All you up-sequence': how to use the Exec messaging excellent package which will be -eed is the compiler, ’ec’, on your Assign EModules: system, how to program using starting from next month. ■

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Your mouse controls the cursor and if you Upon loading click straight onto right click you w ill see a menu selection which Total wormage th e ’pla y g a m e ' o p tio n . You w ill appears at the bottom of the screen. Right clicking a Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMYou w ill need to uncompress your then see a player select screen. second time w ill bring up a second menu w ith more co ve r d is k o n to tw o separate blank The first four teams, 1up-4up. are items on it. For a full explanation of all of these icons flo p p y disks. D o th is b y rebooting hu m a n o p tio n s , th e la s t fo u r (w ith see the review of Worms on page 43. You can select a your machine, inserting disk 121 th e c h ip s p rite b e sid e th e m ) are weapon or object simply by left clicking on the one and following the on-screen computer players. Once you have you desire. prompts, swopping disks as s e le c te d w h o y ou w a n t to play The cursor keys control your worm's movement and instructed. For more information on w ith and against, click on the 'next' the sights you use for aiming his (or her) weapon: loading yo u r d is k tu rn to p age 14. b u tto n th e n o n 'frie n d ly '. T h is w ill O n c e y o u have yo u r tw o s ta rt th e level. • Left: Move your worm left W o rm s d e m o d isks, in se rt Disk on e in to in to th e inte rn a l d riv e o f Oh no ... • Right: move your worm right y o u r A m ig a a n d re b o o t it. A fte r a T h e c o m p u te r te a m s a re rated co u p le o f s e c o n d s a n O cean lo g o from useless to good, with Oh Nol • Up: Move your worm's aiming device up w ill a p p e a r fo llo w e d b y a Team 17 the worst and HRH the best. It's lo g o , th e n it takes a b o u t a m in u te not a good idea to select more • Down: Move your worm's aiming device down or two to load the demo, depend­ than tw o te a m s a t a tim e in th is ing on which Amiga you have. It’s d e m o , if y ou w a n t to fin is h a g a m e • Return: Your worm jumps in the direction he is facing s lo w e r o n a n A 5 0 0 th a n it is o n an that is. Because it cuts out after A1200. If the screen goes blank for fiv e m in u te s th e m o re players • Space bar: hold down the space bar to increase the a while before the loading screen making moves, the more tim e is power bar, release it to stop the power bar and fire appears d o n ’t w o rry e verything w a s te d a n d y o u 'll e n d u p w ith no the weapon. If you're using a blow torch or drill, hit should still be all right. result. Thus, tw o human or one the power bar to start up and hit it again to stop. If you have an A 1 2 0 0 you w ill be hu m a n a n d o n e c o m p u te r player is If you are using a homing missile, an air strike or the ideal mix. You have the teleporter: first select the weapon, then a red o n ly 3 0 s e c o n d s to cursor w ill appear on screen. Place the cursor over c o m p le te yo u r tu rn wherever you want to teleport or bomb and then right o n c e o n e o f your click. This will activate both the teleport and the air w o rm s h as been strike. To launch a homing missile you have to use the se le cte d . You w ill s e e a space key to activate the power bar as normal. little a rro w a b o v e the cu rre n tly activated Ready, Aim, Fire ... w o rm . The o b je c t o f Items like the grenade are trajectory weapons. 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hits 15,000 Perhaps the Amiga's most seri­ ous limitation is its serial port. B y th e tim e you read th is th e Unchanged since the original production of the Amiga A 1000, it's b a re ly c a p a b le o f Magic 1200 will have keeping up with modern day topped 15,000, over half of modems and easily loses data if w h ic h w ill h a v e g o n e on th e CPU is o v e rly ta xe d . To sale here in the UK, We address this problem, HiSoft visited the factory in have announced the 'Surf France where it is being Squirrel' which is an updated made during October and Squirrel SCSI interface featuring witnessed two produc­ a fa s te r a n d m o re e ffic ie n t SCSI tion lines running the c o n tro lle r c h ip a n d a n e w h ig h Amiga alongside PCs speed serial port, priced at £99. a n d o th e r c o m p u te r Capable of up to 300,000 bps, it related kit. Don't worry would be suitable for networks though, you're not like­ a s w e ll a s m o d e m c o m m u n ic a ­ ly to get a Pentium tions w ith the Internet. Review chip instead of your to follow. For more information, Motorola. Solectron, the manufacturers are a multi billion ca ll H iS o ft o n 01525-71818 1. pound company producing components for a wide range of PC. car and other sectors, including Amiga. To add to this good news, your favourite magazine has a special issue going into each UK Amiga Magic pack. Called the Complete Kickstart Guide To Your Amiga it's been written by journalists from CU Amiga Magazine and is the Pleasance Music most comprehensive, yet easy to use starting point for all new ormer Commodore boss David Pleasance has set up his A1200 users. own recording studio in partnership with tw o musicians to produce soundtracks for games, films etc, They will also be recording commercial music, with a band called Passion Caption Compo being their first shot at this. The album will be called Everybody's Girlfriend and is claimed by David to be inspired by the We photographed these towers outside the Solectron Amiga factory Amiga (Amiga meaning girlfriend in Spanish). The songs are written by n France. There are tw o subscriptions on offer as prizes for the peo­ David and his partners and the music is being written and complied Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMple who can 1. tell us what they are actually are and 2. provide a IQ- using an Amiga 4000 with Bars a n d P ipes. For some of the more diffi­ 20 word caption for the picture. Only one sub is available per person, cult and complicated bits they have been reduced to using a Mac but by all means answer both questions. though. "There was nobody able to help us with B a rs a n d P ip e s a t th e Send all entries marked 'Twin Towers Competition' to the usual level we are using it in this country, so because of tim e constraints we a d d re ss b y D e c e m b e r 20th . are using a Mac. But the Amiga remains central to sequencing and recording." The new company is called Tangent Design and they hope to have their first CD out in tim e for Christmas. More news next month.

World Of Amiga Now For Jan As reported some months ago Amiga Technologies and Peter Brameld associates (organisers of last Christmas’ World Of Amiga show) are in the process of organising another one. Although no venue has yet been set and ticket prices have not been announced it now seems clear than it w ill be going ahead in January, provided new Amiga sales pick up between now and then. If you want to get more information on this contact a show hotline on 01369 706356, Investing in AMIGA

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(W e have a lot more planned for the ^ VISA coming months... stay tuned!) Hisoft Announce Charts MPEG Squirrel There are a couple of surprise re-entries in the charts this month. W hether this has to do w ith new Amiga owners buying old (but ack when Commodore were churning out the CD32 in startlingly good) games or not it's difficult to tell but the re-entry on droves, buyers were drooling for the the MPEG cart which Indy, Monkey Island and Syndicate is good news. would allow you to watch Video CDs. However, Commodore went bust and Escom don't appear to have 1. Player Manager 2 Virgin © much interest in the CD32 so MPEG hasn't been widely 2. Sensi World Of Soccer Virgin available on the Amiga. Now though HiSoft have announced a Squirrel MPEG', Not to be confused w ith the Squirrel SCSI, this unit 3. Monkey Island 2 US Gold is a set-top box with a SCSI connector/interface. Attached to some 4. Beau Jolly Compilation Beau Jolly form of monitor or TV and any machine with its own SCSI interface, full motion video can be decompressed from hard drive or memory, 5. Indiana Jones and Fate in fact a computer isn't needed at all since the unit can be linked directly to a Video CD capable CD-ROM and play MPEG video direct Of Atlantis US Gold to y o u r TV w ith th e p ro vid e d re m o te c o n tro l. 6. Formula 1 Domark O f real interest to Amiga users, however, w ill be the ability to com ­ press rendered animations into MPEG files and then display the 7. Ultimate Soccer results at full speed via the Squirrel MPEG. HiSoft plan to release the Manager Impressions Squirrel MPEG before January next year priced between £200 and £300. Call HiSoft on 01525-718181 for m ore information. 8. PM3 Multi Edit Gremlin 9. Sensible Golf Virgin Disk Drive Network lO. Syndicate EA he Canadian based AmiTrix Development have announced a new Amiga networking system call AmigaLink. Bundled with the Envoy 2.0 networking software, AmigaLink doesn't require a Zorro based Amiga as it uses the external floppy The Stateside Column: O disk drive port. This method means that AmigaLink can han­ By Jason Compton dle a transfer rate of 450,000 bits per second via Direct Memory At last, w e have a winner. Service Management Group, the compa­ Access (DMA) which means CPU usage is far lower than parallel solu­ ny that provided warranty service to American Amiga owners during tions. Capable of networking up to 20 machines it is supplied with some of the Commodore years, has been chosen by Amiga Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMAmigaLink 2.0 networking software which is capable of running on OS Technologies as the first direct distributor for new machines in 1.3 machines. Expect a full review soon. North America. In addition. Software Hut. a large North American Also from the AmiTrix stable is a hard drive interface for the A570 mail order house, claims they also have been chosen. As Gilles and the CDTV known as 'SCSI-TV'. Being a full specification SCSI inter­ Bourdin, Marketing Director for Amiga Tech informed an impromptu face supporting the Rigid Disk Block standard. SCSI direct and auto- press conference on IRC. SMG's contract was for non-exclusive dis­ booting. SCSI-TV should be of keen interest to owners of those tribution through the end of 1995. machines. Call AmiTrix Development on +1-403-929-8459 or E-Mail As this issue goes to print, both SMG and the North American them on [email protected] for further information. Amiga Technologies office are waiting for the final word on this situ­ ation. as both seem to feel that the plans will be more long-term. The only comment on Software Hut's status came from a company World Construction Set representative who categorised the agreement as "verbal." On the heels of this news, orders are already being taken for new Amiga litterSoft announced UK distribution of the W orld 4000 Towers, the only machines that will be available on this conti­ C onstruction Set. A package sim ila r to Vista in th a t it creates nent before Christmas. SMG has been told by Amiga Tech that very realistic rendered landscapes as seen below. Reviewed Amiga 1200s, built for NTSC standards, will be available in January. in next month's CU Amiga Magazine, the package retails All new machines will come with the impressive software pack for £119.95. Call BlitterSoft on 01908-261466 for more details. assembled by Amiga Tech UK's Jonathan Anderson. Despite not having any new machines for nearly two years (even before Commodore's bankruptcy, obtaining machines in North America, particularly the US. was incredibly difficult for six months before April, 1994), Amiga users went ahead and celebrated their machines w ith tw o user-organised shows, bringing users, dealers, and celebrities together in Western and Eastern Canada in July and August, respectively. Encouraged by the success of these smaller shows. W onder Computers Inc.. which consists of a dealer chain, distribution unit and software team, is organising the World of Amiga Toronto show. The event will be held, as is tradition, at the Toronto International Centre, from December 8-10. Amiga users always seem to find something to celebrate. The fears that North America would be ignored by the head management seem to have been allayed somewhat. The Amiga market is never a boring place. There’s always someone who's up to something to make life a little easier, a little more interesting, a little more worth cheering about. Here's to their continued success.

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I Matt Broughton's SJOames in view The new Amigas are finally available CHANGE FORMATION f E M IT but are there any games developers V V still making products for our % - W i m beloved machine? You betcha! SUPPORT M*N SHEERER ANCHO R URN * s if I need to tell you. Anyway, Rage sees you as what * i one of the most impor­ Alternative Software's Roger py 1 N* 1 tant things to report at Hulley describes as a robot chap' a - i - 4 r m 4 > f « 1 the moment is the fact flying in an overhead-action kind of O th a t A m ig a 1200s a re fin a llyw back a y a cro ss v arious w e ird ancient in th e UK a fte r s o m e e ighteen alien lands. It's a basic shoot 'em * s months' absence. The only major up. but according to the man in f y £ P f/ B A - " . chain of stores to have supported charge, very atmospheric. Traitor 4 - 3 - 3 W E - E - 3 a - a - a th e A m ig a s o fa r is T a n d y w ith takes the action to a side-on per r- 130 of their 341 stores stocking spective. w ith an RType-ish joy- A Tracksart • T«a> Utoantt I* am It the iu n htiffct I ol lootkall gi aataau th e m ach in e , b u t w e 'll ju s t have to stick-melter of a blast. Both of wait and soe how things go. these games are original titles, one sub-games. Created by the peo­ look forward to. along with all the Just to prove that it's the quiet of which has been written by ple behind Pinball Dream. usual CD32 trimmings. Oh yeah, ones you have to watch out for. Apache, the people who brought Spider Soft, th is w ill b e ava il­ a n d T h o m a s T he Tank E ngine Alternative Software have a y o u Death Mask The double able at £16.99 and promises P inball w ill b e a vailable o n C D fo r­ fine selection of products on their pack, whatever it ends up being 'immense fun for kids and their m a t in N o ve m b e r fo r £19.99. way, headed up by the sequel to called, should be out in November parents.' Apparently. H urrah! I h ear you shout. the popular Tracksuit Manager a t £14.99. S P U D a g a m e previously Team 17 have h a d a n e xce lle n t imaginatively titled T ra c k s u it Rugby League Boss is a n o th ­ k n o w n a s S anta W a rs has, sadly, re s p o n s e to a sha re w a re version Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMManager 2' (H o w d o th e y th in k er Alternative title to look out for in been s h elved a s fa r a s th e A m ig a o ' W o rm s th a t's bee n m a d e avail­ u p th e s e in cre d ib le title s? ) A the future, with a pre-Xmas launch goes, ending up as a PC-CD ROM able on the Internet Apparently, release date has yet to be finalised, planned. Retailing at £14.99. RLB title. However. P e n g u in s a s o rt o f they're currently enjoying some b u t h o p e s are th a t it'll b e o u t on is a mixture of previous manage­ arcade/puzzle affair, is still due for 2 0 .000 v is ito rs a w e e k I’m n o t sur­ the shelves before Christmas. ment game styles, with the added a November release. Retailing at prised - it's a brilliant game, and I There is one version in production element of being able to step in £14.99, the game promises "a mix­ can't wait!! a t th e m o m e n t, w ith th e p ro ­ and get involved in more arcade ture of the best puzzle/arcade Following my flogging B litz g ra m m e bein g sensitive to CPU sections such as taking conver­ g a m e s w e 'v e s e e n ," a c c o rd in g to B o m b e rs to d e a th in T h e O ne. capabilities and adjusting itself sio n s a fte r trie s have been scored M r H ulley those clever guys at L e a d in g accordingly but producing machine- Alternative s Roger Hulley is also Future projects also worth men­ E d g e h a d a lo t o f in te re st, and specific versions is still a future keen to point out that the deci­ tioning include P ro R u g b y although quite a few places turned possibility. TM2 will retail at £25.99. sions you make REALLY DO affect L e a g u e , a full sports simulator it d o w n d u e to lack o f o rig in a lity Rago/Traitor is th e w o rk in g the outcome. Unlike some other featuring huge polygon players, (short-sighted fools that they are!) title fo r a n e w d o u b le pack d u e out g a m e s th a t I can’t m e n ­ a lo n g w ith a ll th e fe a tu re s you th e g u ys have d e c id e d t o join in November, rather unsurprisingly tio n (w e ll, R oger d id. c o u ld p o s s ib ly w a n t! PRL w ill fo rc e s w ith Guildhall Leisure containing two games (weren't k I’m ju s t n o t a llow ed launch in May 1996, just in time (th e c o m p a n y re sp o n sib le fo r th e expecting that were you?) called, to print them!) fo r th e S u p e r League. It's a ctually A c id releases). W e should see the w a it fo r it. R age. and. Traitor. YES! I H ilarious ja p e s aple n ­ being developed as a PC title to A 1 2 0 0 v e rsio n o f th e g a m e o u t in bet you're wondering how I man­ ty. a s T h o m a s beg in w ith , a n d o n c e th e team th e sh o p s in N ovem ber, and a g e to m a ke th e se p a g e s so T a n k sta rt s trip p in g it d o w n fo r the although there's still a little work to in te re s tin g a re n 't you. E n g in e Amiga, they'll decide whether it'll do on the CD32 version (mostly NOR WEB P in b a ll b e A t 20 0 o n ly o r w h e th e r th e y can m u s ic ) th a t s h o u ld fo llo w o n s h o rt­ is at last p ro d u ce o th e r versions. Er. .. oh ly thereafter. A t th e m o m e n t the released, yes. there's also a children's' paint­ guys are looking at a PC port, but featuring ing programme called P la y d a y s d a ta disks fo r th e A m ig a a re a d e fi­ four tables, P a in t, b u t I d o u b t y o u w a n t to nite possibility (with new levels, each o n e th e m e d kn o w a b o u t that. e tc .) a n d th e re 's even talk o f a for a different char­ And finally, for CD32 owners sequel to get in all those ideas acter. James. Percy. there are a number of projects they didn't have time for Other Tilby. and, of currently under development p ro je c ts in c lu d e a 3 D fig h tin g course, Thomas, from Alternative too. w ith the g a m e fo r th e A 1200. co m p le te all have th e ir o w n most imminent still having no with light-sourced graphics Oo-erl tables, e a c h o n e name, but looking to feature a A n d that, m y CU c h u m s, is th e chock-full of fea­ lo t fo r th is m o n th . ■ A Pro Ragfey laafjn: loakiag goad aa PC cooung to aa speed boat that attacks aliens. Amiga aaai you ia M. tu re s and There’s also full video footage to M att Broughton

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Creating your own software is one of the most satisfying things you can do with your Amiga and once you get bitten by the bug you won't be able to stop. You've already got this month's free Amiga E language Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMand manual, now take a look at what else is on offer. ith so many hundreds of Amiga pro­ excuses: I'm no good at maths ... I learnt BBC grams to choose from and a vast reper­ Basic at school and didn't understand a w ord of it toire of public domain software, you ... the list goes on. might be wondering if there is any need The good news, however, is that programming © tor you to slip into an anorak and learn to programhas never been easier Of course if you have a brain at all. W hy bother, when other people w ill do it the size of a planet (like someone M at met recent­ fo r you? ly), you can jum p right into the deep end with Tch, tch you lazy so-and-so. There are plenty of A s s e m b le r code and write yourself the best demo good reasons for getting into programming. First of all since sliced bread. The rest of us w ill want a gentle that amazing program you have been waiting for all introduction.though. and preferably one which isn't these years m ight not actually exist. Unfortunately going to cost a lot of money. your obscure requirements might not apply to anyone Well, you are in luck as there is a language to fit else and so you are the only person who would bene­ every need and every level of experience. You can f i t fro m th e p ro g ra m bein g w ritte n . start off gently with a little A R exx (which is free) or You might also be interested in career in try the more academic approach with Pascal. I f you programming: what better way is there then to want to get some serious work done you can see proceed than to teach yourself at home? what C can do for you, and if you really only want Money always comes into the picture some­ to write games then you could try AMOS or the far where and releasing a good shareware program or s u p e rio r B h tiB a s ic s y s te m coming up with the next big cover disk hit could You don't need to be a mathematical genius to make the cash registers ring with delight. As the learn how to program. All you need is patience, an move continues towards more and more indepen­ e ye fo r d e ta il a n d th e a b ility to visualise p ro b le m s by dent companies making names for themselves in breaking them down into smaller parts. After that you the Amiga market, you might find yourself responsi­ o n ly need s o m e s p a re tim e , s o m e s cra p s o f paper ble for the number one selling game at Christmas. a n d a c o p y o f yo u r fa v o u rite m agazine, o f course. Or you might simply enjoy the intellectual chal­ lenge of problem solving and the artistic delights How Programming and deep satisfaction of actually creating something. Languages Work Don't Be Afraid To understand how a programming language actual­ Many people are put off trying to program because ly works, you need to realise exactly how stupid they glimpse part seven of a programming tutorial computers are. To be blunt, they know nothing you in C and decide that there is simply no way they don't tell them and they usually forget what you tell could even learn to program. Out come the them very quickly. There is nothing 'artificially easy to read and because you can enter and Why The Commotion? run this program yourself if you wish: all you You might be wondering what makes one pro­ need to do is type it into a text editor (such gramming language different from another. If as 'ed') and save it somewhere. Then use the they only perform simple instructions, then s p e c ia l A R e xx command ‘rx’ to run it. w h y a ll th e fuss? /* Example program 1 t Every programming language is a trade off Sequential execution */ between ease of use and speed. It is always a = 1 0 b = 6 c = a+b the case that what is easy for humans to read say "Number 1 plus Number 2 is:" c is difficult for computers and vice versa. For This program may be short, but it demon­ example, although A R e xx is s till o b v io u s ly a strates several important principles of programming language, it's a lot easier to computer programming. The first might be understand than something like: obvious, but it needs to be said: the program add. 1 #l,posl starts at the top and works down, line after move. 1 posl, dO line until it either stops or it is told to cmpi.1 #4, dO A The stunningly powerful Photogenic* was originally writtee with go somewhere. bne SayRoutine Amiga E. as com mounted with this issue of CU Amiga Magarine. Secondly, it introduces the concept of move.1 N0,po8l variables - in this case the variables are the rts intelligent' about computers: they simply fol­ letters 'a’, b' and 'c \ The letters in the pro­ The above is written in A s s e m b le r w h ic h is low the list of instructions they are given. gram are actually locations in the Amiga's definitely not designed for humans. Instead it The list of instructions is what w e call the m e m o ry w h ic h th e A R e xx system has set is designed so that each statement can be computer program and no matter what partic­ aside. It stores the values 10 and 6 into the directly converted into the instructions used by ular language it is w ritten in there are only a locations referred to by the labels 'a' and 'b \ the Amiga's processor. So for each 'add.I’ set number of things which can happen. Notice how the third variable, 'c' is given a there is a single corresponding instruction in Computers only deal with ’input' and 'out­ value which is the sum of 'a' and ‘b\ This the machine code which the Amiga uses. put'. The purpose of a program is to generate value is then display on the screen with a Compare this to A R exx. each line in an output which depends on the input. If the simple message. A R exx program could eventually end up being input is a series of movements of a joystick, /* Example program 2 ; Loops */ translated into hundreds or thousands of these the output could be a game of P a cm a n . If th e do count- 1 to 10 machine code instructions, and each line of input is a list of numbers, the output could be say count end A R exx needs to be converted to machine code a sum total or a bar chart. This program demonstrates the ability of a before it can be processed. An Assembler pro­ Let’s look at a very simple program and program to repeat parts of itself. The purpose gram would therefore run much faster as it's see how it works. This program has been of the program is to display the numbers not slowed down by the translation process. written in A R exx. the language which comes from 1 to 10. and one way to do this would built-in to all Amigas with Workbench 2 or be to use ten different say commands. Two Different Camps a b o v e . I c h o o s e A R e xx because it is relatively However, a short-hand way is to create a All the different languages can be split into 'loop' and that is exactly what is happening two sections: compilers and interpreters. The between the 'do' and the ’end' statements. In difference between compiled and interpreted Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMMaking It Up the example below, the program in the mid­ dle is being executed ten times, because the A Language like C is compiled before variable loop is being forced to count from 1 use: this step can involve lots of to 10. other smaller stages, and takes quite /* Example program 3 : a lot of tim e. Extra large programs Conditional arguments */ can take an hour or so if all compiled do count-1 to 10 a t o n c e . A s s e m b ly language must if count - 1 then say "Number 1" also be converted into machine code if count = 10 then say "Number before programs can be run (and they 10" if count > 1 & count < 10 usually need to be linked as well) but then say "In the middle" this is a lot faster as each A s s e m b ly end language instruction is equivalent to Programs which either run right through or one machine code instruction. An just perform simple loops are rarely useful. interpreted language is converted as We need some decision making, and that is it is actually running: slower but what is happening in this listing. The variable A Skidmarks is regarded as the best eiample ol a game written with easier to do. qount is stepping through the numbers from Blitt Basic, thanks to its tremeadoas speed, graphics and gameplay. 1 to 10 as before, but this tim e the content of the loop is quite different. Each tim e the loop happens, the value of 'count' is checked several times. First of all it Compiler • is checked to see if it is equal to one. If it is. IhKatkfakjca a message is printed. ftoUnl 11 1 Then 'count' is checked to see if it is equal to 10. If it is, a different message is printed. SSHT Finally, 'count' is tested to see if it is greater than 1 and also less than 10 (that is. if it is 2. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. 8 or 9). If this is the case, a third message is displayed. Line-by-line execution, loops and decisions are the only things which computer program­ Assembler ming languages need to know how to do. By * m combining these elements, almost anything is unshed program possible: from the simplest utility to the most A PD demos like Ariel pictnred here are all about speed and poshing machine code) complicated 3D image rendering system. back the boundaries, so Assembly language is essential.

2 8 Which Language Is Best Suited To You? Take Your Pick... Before you even start to Form : high level compiled and applications Speed: fa irly s lo w program you must choose Exam ples: Am iga E Form : medium level, compiled S u ita b le fo r: simple utilities, link­ which language to use. Your E xam p les: SAS/C, Dice ing programs decision w ill depend on the type A S S E M B L E R You can't g e t a Form : high level, interpreted of program you need to create, lower level language than B A S IC BASIC s ta rte d o ff as a E xam ples: AR exx (fre e w ith your experience and of course, A s s e m b le r un le ss you w a n t to teaching language in the 1960s W o rkb e n ch 2 a n d up) how much you can afford. e n te r h e xadecim al n u m b e rs in to a but is still in use today. Originally We've rated each language file b y hand. It w ill ta ke s o m e g e t­ it had many drawbacks and as it PASCAL If the polytechs taught in four categories. They are as tin g used to b u t it is th e m o s t was interpreted it was dog slow. BASIC, the universities taught follows:ease of use, speed, suit­ p u re a n d s a tis fy in g fo rm o f cod­ O ver th e years it h as e volved in to Pascal. It is much more structured ability for various applications, in g a n d is th e o n ly w a y to create various streamlined and compiled than BASIC and teaches a better th e fo rm o f th e la n g u a g e and fa s t a c tio n g a m e s a t a p ro fe ssio n ­ fo rm s a n d is o fte n used a s th e style. The HiSoft implementation finally some examples of al level basis for games programming is s u p e rb a n d can b e u s e d fo r the language. Ease of use: hard languages such as AMOS or Blitz. almost anything C would be used S peed: very fast Purer forms such as HiSoft s for, but is still easier to use. A M IG A E A m ig a E is a c u sto m S u itab le fo r: games, speed BASIC are better for utilities and Ease of use: m oderate programming language which and critical programs Workbench-friendly programs. S peed: fast on ly e x is ts o n th e A m ig a . This Form : low level, assembled. Ease of use: easy S u itab le fo r: utilities, games. means it’s been specifically creat­ Exam ples: H iS oft D e v p a c 3 Sp eed : average (d e p e n d s on applications ed to make programming easier th e version) Form : co m p ile d and faster than other languages C C is a lot more like English Suitable for: simple games Exam ples: H iS o ft H ig h s p e e d which have to remain compatible th a n A s s e m b le r, but it's still and utilities P ascal with other platforms. nothing like English really. C Form : high level, compiled (some A m ig a E is a c o m p ile d lan­ is the choice of many proces­ versions interpreted) OTHERS There are plenty of guage but the ease and speed of sional programmers, for Exam ples: HiSoft Basic. other examples of programming compilation makes it almost as although w ith a good compiler it Blitz. AMOS languages around from versions Quick t o m a ke changes a s w ith provides the kind of speed of FORTH (a language written 'terpreted languages. offered by A s s e m b le r, it also A R e x x It’s fre e , so it can’t b e all to control radio telescopes You can fin d th e fu ll v e rsio n o f manages to cram in excellent bad. In fact. A R exx is v e ry p o w e r­ which has amassed a cult fol­ A m ig a E alo n g w ith a m anual on support for 'data structures' ful. It looks a little like BASIC but lowing) to more structured and th e co ve r o f th is m o n th 's CU (organising information for easy is a lo t le s s fussy. It's e a sy to p ro ­ data orientated environments Amiga Magazine. p ro c e s s in g ) a n d th e a b ility to g ra m a n d b e s t o f all y o u can use such as Oberon. Ease of use: m oderate create code libraries. it to co n tro l th e fe a tu re s o f any Finally, let's not forget FOR­ Speed: fast Ease of use: m o d e ra te application program which has an TRAN. COBOL and LISP: none Suitable fo r: games, utilities S p e e d : fa s t AR exx port. of which, however, are particu­ Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMand applications Suitable for: games, utilities Ease of use: easy larly useful on the Amiga.

hrguages is in the way they are translated to having to re-compile the entire program) and language, think of the AMOS or system. By ■ a c h m e co d e . as interpreters are easier to create they tend including lots and lots of specially written Compiled languages do the conversion all to b e cheaper. commands to create and move graphics, n one go. The compiler program takes the change colours and play animations, AMOS is source code - the lines of text and gobblede- High Vs Low Level a lot easier to use from a human point of view gook you type into a text editor - and con- There are other distinctions to make between If you wanted to write a similar program in C M rts it into machine code. There are usually languages. The difference between some­ o r A s s e m b le r you would need to start from i * e w intermediate steps as it gets converted thing like A R e xx and something like A s s e m b ly scratch with code to open a screen, draw a an object line and then linked w ith extra language is defined as the ’level'. ARexx is pixel, alter the pen colour and so on. Of 'Cranes and so on to produce the finished 'high level' because it is aimed more at course, the C or Assembler version would be a executable code. people, whereas A s s e m b le r is T o w le v e l' lot more flexible and fit more closely to the The advantage of compiling a program is because it is closer to the hardware level of design, but it would also take considerably re t it will execute (run) very quickly: good th e A m ig a its e lf. m o re tim e a n d m o re skill t o w rite . ■ compilers can produce machine code which is As an example of a particular High Level John Kennedy : pecty close to being as good as even a dedi- aced programmer could create by hand The | fcxshed program w ill also 'stand alone' which I Means that no other programs are necessary X use it. and you can sell it or give it away as seu see fit. The disadvantage is that the compilation amcess itself is lengthy and complicated: lexnprlers are not easy to write and so are e s u a U y expensive. Languages such as C a n d E ■ e c o m p ile d . nterpreted languages are different. In this cxse a separate program looks through the rce code line by line, and translates and cutes it on the fly. Obviously this is slight- » sewer but it does make developing pro- ams quite a lot easier (you can make a '*>ge and see what happens without The Amazing Surf The Fabulous Squirrel Interface Squirrel Surf Packs

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e t’s ro c k ! Black Legend's turbo charged ra c e 'e m u p Leading Lap is poised to revolu­ O tionise not just Amiga gameplay b u t A m ig a g a m e s o u n d tra c k s to o . T aking a ra th e r d iffe re n t approach t o th e n o rm , d e ve lo p e rs Kellion are hoping to get heads banging the world over with the game's rock- ta stic a u d io feast. If y o u w e re t o g e t y o u rs e lf a CD-ROM and look through the rock section of its music modules A With rhe computer-coiltolled tmHt|. ■ modest directory, you'd probably come Mackie 87 miser is all Hat's refuiied. a cro ss a m o tle y c re w o f b adly sampled and cliched drum patterns be manipulated and edited until and horrifically out of tune chord th e c o w s c o m e h o m e . combinations. If you're really The upshot of all this is that John ends up w ith a full CD quali­ unlucky, you might stumble across A John Goldiliicki Hurts i l tin ma. respotlHIt lot lap's ke td U k jirij Heme le u . Kiwtam! an a tte m p t to recre a te a Slash ty stereo soundtrack with all the guitar solo using that single note advantages of both live recording guitar sample from taken from the c areer b u ilt o n s o n g w ritin g , banks of knobs and faders. His and MIDI sequencing. So how Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMancient LED Storm game tune. production work and session play­ impressively miniaturised studio d o e s th is m a ke its w a y to th e T here a re e x c e p tio n s, b u t b asically in g fo r th e w o rld 's to p international p a c k s th e p o w e r o f s o m e o f th e Amiga version of Leading Lap? th a t's th e sta te o f ro ck m u s ic on ro ck b a n d s (d id s o m e o n e s a y Bon biggest traditional studios, but Simple, the whole soundtrack is the Amiga. Until now that is. Jo vi? ) Jo h n w a s th e o b v io u s c o s t a hell o f a lo t less a n d o ffe rs sampled into the Amiga, chopped c h o ic e t o p ro v id e th e Leading Lap far greater flexibility. up into loops, fills and one-off sec­ In the Studio soundtrack. When originally Based around an Apple Mac tions. then pasted back together in Big time record producer, accom­ presented with an Amiga, and a combination hardware/ O cta M E D to fo rm a s e rie s o f fu ll plished axeman, and let's face it, O c ta M E D a n d a d is k o f sound software digital recording sys­ bodied cone-rattling rock tracks. blond bombshell John Haines is s a m p le s, th e n asked to cre a te a tem , it merges hard disk digital S o it lo se s s o m e th in g in th e transi­ the main man behind this push for hot rocking soundtrack that fits audio recording with realtime tio n fro m 44.1 kH z in 16 b its t o its musical advancement. W ith a in to 300K a n d plays back o n fo u r MIDI sequencing. So why doesn’t 11 kH z 8 b it A m ig a fo rm , b u t it still tra cks, J o h n 's in itia l re a ctio n w a s he use an Amiga? He didn't know rocks. See it's not all techno you o n e o f d isb e lie f. A fe w h o u rs o f the Amiga could do most of this know! Check out Leading Lap and frustrated keyboard prodding later. (and to be frank, at the moment fo r y o u rs e lf! ■ J o h n to o k a break a n d laid d o w n a the Amiga couldn't quite do few thrashing guitar riffs onto his everything this Mac system can Mac-based hard disk recording do, such as the realtime effects a n d se q u e n cin g s y s te m . It w a s modules that plug into the Mac th e n th a t h e d e c id e d to d itc h th e for instance). The advantage of traditional module creation method this system over a conventional in fa vo u r o f a fa r m o re fle xib le studio setup based on a mixing system. Why not produce the console and a multi-track tape entire soundtrack in the studio, recorder is that audio and MIDI th e n p o rt it t o th e A m iga? music can easily be recorded, edited and played back from one Free at Last integrated mixing and sequenc­ Free o f th e c o n s tra in ts o f standard ing panel on the computer soft­ module composition techniques, ware. MIDI tracks can be Jo h n th e n s e t to w o rk o n a 'real' committed to audio at the drop so u n d tra ck. W h ile fo r s o m e record of a hat, and live vocals and gui­ producers, a mixing desk that tar parts can be recorded via looks like the bridge from the effects units and amp simulators S ta rsh ip E nterprise is th e m a rk o f a alongside the MIDI music. Unlike recording to tape how­ A The silver bit eear the top ef the rack is Jehu's good studio, John knows there's guitar amp simulator - ideal far real grungy sounds m o re t o to p re co rd in g s e tu p than ever, the digitised audio can then F A S T W B COMING AMIGA REPAIRS FAULTY TROUBLESOME SOON! COMPUTER ?? CALL FOR COLLICTION OR

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humble beginnings she has upgraded to an A1500 with a SummaSketch III tablet board and then onto A4000 with a PARcard. Although she has upgraded her equipment her method remains the same: using the lightbox to draw her stills on and then using D P a in t4 to create frame by frame animation. Sex and drugs he recent CineWave her more recent project ’Death Most of Lingford's work has pre­ M e d ia co n fe re n c e in and the M other' is to be tele­ viously been either of a sexual Brighton was the kernel vised next year. Both of these (What She Wants) or social com­ o f a ll so rts o f debates animations and much more of ment nature (she did a 20 minute OI concerning the future of electronicher work were produced solely animation on the perils of glue imiga‘ wore f ->edia and the part it has to play in on the Amiga using D P aint4. sniffing, see top left for some leeding th« rte television industry. The role of With a Fine Art Degree from stills of this project). The atten­ i and mostHi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM n e Amiga was heralded by the Middlesex Polytechnic and a MA tion her animation "W hat She o f features •ecently acclaimed Amiga anima­ in animation from the Royal Wants” received won her place id angle tor. Ruth Lingford. College of Art to her credit. as animator in residence at the ►hies tools The Amiga couldn't have Lingford. a one time occupational Museum of the Moving Image :h commands asked for a better champion of therapist only discovered the joys which involved allowing herself i youi Amig« options •s cause. Lingford's erotic ani- of animation on the Amiga whilst to be observed by the general iphK printers maton "W hat She Wants’ which tinkering about with her chil­ public as she worked. She used fonts FREE! was covered by Channel 4’s dren's A500. She was delighted this time to perfect her new pro­ Fourmation series has earned her to discover what her "trusty little ject: Death and the Mother. i Cine Women nomination and Amiga could do." From these This n e w a n im a tio n w a s a departure away from the usual top­ ics of eroticism and social com­ ment. An adaptation of a Hans C hristian A n d e rso n tale, it is a melancholic story of a mother who decides to surrender her daughter up to death’s spirit once she has

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qu icke r, e a s ie r to seen of it so far, the loading equations and would get around football times seem marginally quicker rather get on w ith the management game and the ability to call up informa­ game instead. is what Alternative tion about any team or player in They have introduced are promising with Tracksuitany part of the menu certainly concepts like O makes it easier to get around. "good, very good, and M a n a g e r 2 . From what we've Whether it will make poor" which saves the game any more tim e having to work enjoyable remains to out percentages b e seen. and performance- A Tracksnt Manager 2 aims I* be w iy user liietily, Baling H As well as having all related statistics. easy to get any information yon need at any point in the game the usual reams of The in-match football management commentary is there although so version. All the usual manage­ game type statistics. far it is a dodgy digitised picture ment game options should also I Alternative have of Alternative's Roger Hulley and be in the final game: buy and sell j spared a thought for Kevin Pickin with badly drawn players, transfers, leagues and so I those of you who don't speech bubbles coming out of on. Expect to see a full review like messing about their mouths. Hopefully, it w ill be very soon. ■ with mathematical tightened up by the release Lisa Collins Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM

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t1 seems as though seaside management simulation. to watch your tourists 7T h e m e pa rk m a y The aim of Hillsea Lido is s im ­ enjoying themselves t c o n ­ ple: you start off w ith a small bit (sunbathing, scuba ttender, in the shape of beach, a promenade and a diving, paragliding) or Hillsea Lido waiting in the theatre. From these humble you can go into other Vulcan Software, the beginnings you've got to build a screens where you who brought you the massive, Blackpool style, thriving w ill be able to buy a n d TimeKeepers seaside resort full of punter- shops and funfair are trying their hand at attracting stuff such as shops rides, hire staff, book new. this time it's a and water sport facilities. or watch a show. Like Them epark So far so good, it you've also got to all sounds fun and the keep the punters graphics look cute happy, providing them though not the same with entertainment standard as and things to do, and T he m e p a rk. We'll just make sure that they have to wait and see go to the show that whether the gameplay you put on in your is up to the mark. theatre at the end of Hillsea Lido w ill be e v e ry w e e k . for all Amigas with So far it all sounds 1Mb. W e should be lik e T hem epark. A bringing you a review parallax scrolling very soon. ■ game you can choose Lisa Collins Atrophy If you H Due For Release: December Publisher: Guildhall Leisure 0 01302 890 000

eadache sir? Ju st le t m e d rill a h o le in \* -r 1 vv'- • a '* ' * . . y O■out head to relieve » e p ain. Thank G od m e tica l s c ie n ce h as ______rrr.yessed since Ben. Intersect Development, A tro p h y w ill b e th e ir firs t release, •oxever. are reviving those davs w h ic h is s c h e d u le d to appear ■ « r th e p lo t b ehind th e ir n e w b e fo re th e e n d o f '9 5 . It w ill be TOOt 'em up A tro p h y. The g a m e published by Guildhall Leisure. . 3* as place in the fevered mind It lo o ks q u ite g o o d s o fa r w ith 3 Saxon Priest, a psychotic smooth scrolling. Borrowing from brain has just been gently Nemesis fantasy art books, the sirred with some incision pre- c o lo u rs a re also im pressive. It w ill rme asers during the course of b e A G A only, th o u g h . In te rse ct are itm e test experiments. q u ite p ro u d o f th e fa c t th a t it has y d * / - / a intersect Development are o n ly ta ke n th e m fo u r m o n th s to aisis developing a w h o le h o st c o m p le te th is gam e. W h e th e r the r ta m e s to be released in ’96, s h o rt d e v e lo p m e n t tim e w ill I Sescr bed as a "fast and frantic re fle c t in th e ga m e p la y re m a in s to i i y w i ■sirct 'e m u p lik e n e ve r seen b e seen. ■ l i F i 1 1 i s i 6 i 1 i k ffc re ' the horizontally scrolling Lisa Collins Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMPenguins ■ Due For Release: January ■ Publishertba

he old adage 'round and round she goes, where she will stop nobody Oknows' applies te s Originally to be published •» ftasoutin. then Alternative. V"e*- rack in the hands of the ■■not Scott Hayne, Penguins «re ree^ bouncing from pub- •s-ie- lo publisher. Hopefully, it buy a • x rrd a permanent home A Peng urns is lookiag good s i lar. There are over ■ ■ d * recause it looks like it’s SB levels pUuired ler this lemnings alike. F -c •: be a stonkingly gam e. of over 60 levels. It's a puzzle different mag. 1 a L e m m in g s style, you've come platform affair where ©ed your band of merry you've got to lead both of your * x r «e*. two penguins any- penguins to safety. If one dies, r'rjrd a maze made up you can't continue with the other It looks good so far, the graph­ ics are OK and it all seems fairly playable. M ost of the early levels involve pressing switches and climbing up ladders. There should be a tw o player option as Coming soon on Amiga well so you can invite a friend around to join in on the fun. ■ Lisa Collins THE WORLD'S

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z68Wl heard, Worms are not the h Inuginc 2.0 m ' t FAST cutest creatures to arc ihLs \*nh \ m w m K>60/50 base a game on. bMc lo I2HMh' They're not furry, they WPS ami Ubn numrinftunt don't jump over cliffs jwv. 1260, 29* 'nvrmntiix&M wrniSmu voluntarily and they're not Norwegian. They are armed RATORS and dangerous though ... A 1200, RANGES nuke YOU! CO as f w as r our free Do You Come Here Often? i how' OK, OK, you should have heard of W o r m s b e fo re the Amiga (we've previewed it often enough) but if not let bauds with me fill you in, briefly, on w hat it's all about. sc have beet W o r m s is based on that old gaming gem us fluiTuated. k on lineHi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM by T a n k s . Basically you and an opponent lob Never that by bombs at each other, which inflict damage ilfd the mar- dependent on how close they land to your ; beyond our character. But in this game you have I ask worms instead of tanks and there are 15 is as lust yet weapons to choose from along w ith six u lower price other items of inventory which are n| pmJudng designed to make life easier and more

oHUw) Is the interesting. These include a teleporter, a aard 1260 o bungy rope and a pneumatic drill. i^hly 6H060 You have a team of four worms and you can >our Amiga name this team whatever you like (up to eight characters in length). You can also name each worm . Then simply select how many human and computer players you w ant to play against, tweak 060 Turbo some game options and start. W o r m s is a turn based game, w ith each player having V-BtFtt the opportunity to move one worm at a tim e, select a weapon and try to kill or damage another player's worm (or worm s, the more the merrier). There a user definable tim e lim it on each turn of 10, 20, 30 o r 6 0 s e c o n d s . And that's it. Simple, effective and damned good L fun. It's addictive 1 too, with the sort I of gameplay that I m a d e L e m m in g s a n d C a n n o n F o d d e r w h a t th e y w e re . ife is never predictable, Angles Of Fire as life insurance com­ Some weapons are direct aiming ones, like the shotgun, the Uzi and the minigun. Others panies never tire of are indirect like the homing missile, grenades, cluster bombs etc. Using grenades is most telling us. One minute lik e t h e Tanks games of old. You need to get the elevation angle right then push the power you're enjoying a full and varied I O bar to the optim um point for a direct hit. You've also got to set the tim er for the grenade existence, with friends, loved ... you don't want it going off in the air half way to its target. ones, milk and honey all around Even homing missiles aren't straightforward. The default setting gives you tw o homing a n d th e n e x t m in u te s o m e plo n ke r missiles and the procedure for launching them is ostensibly simple: select the missile, s w in g s d o w n o n a b u n g e e and point it at w hat you want to hit and press fire. But it's not so easy in practice. The amount knocks you over a cliff Sounds of power you put into a homing missile shot will determine w hat angle it w ill hit its target pessimistic? Well iust be glad at. If you w ant a homer to hit a worm who is hiding underneath an overhang, for instance. you're not a worm. you will need to apply lots of power to get W o rm s is a game we actually it to go further than its intended target and previewed twice. Once way back then curl back underneath the overhang to in F ebruary w h e n Team 17 w e re h it it. still going it alone, had just discov­ But best fun of of all is the bazooka. e re d W orm s (then under the work­ Although generally a direct fire weapon ing title of Total Wormagel and it you can use the bazooka as a powerful was a raw. but exciting game to indirect fire one by using the wind play. Then, tw o months ago, we direction to your advantage. If there is a were presented with an almost strong wind (which is indicated in the left finished version. A lot happened and right bars above the power bar) you in th e in te rim m o n th s . Team 17 can fire your bazooka shell up into the air, had signed a distribution deal with and the wind will curl it back and make it Ocean that not only opened up drop from above like a grenade. This is new international territories for real show off territory: aiming the them, it also paved the way for bazooka using the wind is difficult, but w h a t w a s n o w s im p ly called spectacular if you get it right. W o rm s to be converted onto every conceivable computer and console format there is. This caused big delays though, consid­ many platforms has led to a num­ to work on consoles, which don't also some hidden scenarios ering that, under original plans. ber of enhancements which have h a v e F keys, th e to o l b a r w a s which, with some experimenta­ W o rm s w a s d u e o u t around made the Amiga version more invented. When you become an tion. w ill appear. E a s te r’95. playable. A good example would experienced W o rm s player you Landscapes like Snow and — H as W o rm s benefited from this be the menu tool bar. In the origi­ will no doubt return to the F keys Mars have specific characteristics I delay? Alm ost certainly. Despite nal A m ig a v e rs io n y o u a ccessed and rarely use this feature, but as which suit the terrain: Snow is " w h a t w e n o rm a lly s a y a b o u t o th e r all weapons and aids using the F a beginner it is invaluable in help­ slippery, so worms will slide all Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMg a m e s m a c h in e s th e v e ry fa c t th a t keys. Fair e n o u g h if y o u have a in g you t o g e t to k n o w th e v arious over the place when hit; Mars has I it's been developed across so good memory. But because it had options at your disposal. lo w g ra v ity s o th e y can ju m p The graphics have been much further than normal. The tweaked too. though in fairness to scrolling and parallax are as its inventor and programmer, s m o o th a s sn a ils s lim e to o (I Andy Davidson, they haven't mean this in a complimentary changed much in basic detail. sense) - th e e x tra tim e o n devel- I Various levels like Hell (which has opment really does show. apparently been banned on the Playstation version ’cos Sony did­ The dark side n't want burning crucifixes in the As strategy games go W o rm s can I game), Desert, Forest, Mars and b e a s s im p le o r a s c o m p lic a te d a s I Snow serve up massive variety. you like. It's not just a matter of I » H itt , I * , H>H ■ l, il «»ni< |ran »< u t t i litll' * Ikn >Uc.< ,i.M> imfkl u n b it There are allegedly 4 billion possi­ lobbing bombs at the enemy, it's I wfcrtt c r« « s M th« life •( lfe« h m m Sa*ua i th ... ■ iTl pbcri H|U b le g a m e sce n a rio s. T here are all about how you use hiding

1 Air Drops And Additional Weapons they reckon, and it’s called 'The Dark Side'. O ther Dark Side tac­ t h e r s At times a crate will be dropped somewhere on a tics include hiding a w orm until m o s t andscape by parachute. Hidden in it may be extra standard the end of the gam e and then p o w e r weapons, like dynamite or an air strike. But if you're lucky polishing o ff the opposition by e n a d e • ou m ight just pick up one of the following little bonus em erging and pneum atic drilling weapons of mass destruction. them to death. s m in g All of this m ayhem is accom ­ le, SHEEP Bomb dressed up as panied by ridiculously cute and im o u n t mutton more like! The sheep funny sound sam ples. The ta r g e t is basically a hopping, A500/600 version is a bit short of ita n c e , bleating stick of dynamite. It these, but the A1200 is positively ■ t o g e t might look harmless, but brim m ing w ith fun noises and ■get an d point it in the right direction, statem ents. W o rm s shout 'oy la n g to let it hop to the worm you nutter!', 'revenge' and 'I'll get most dislike and press the you’ regularly and w hen dynam ite space bar and it will cause is dropped they giggle m aniacal­ a p o n immense damage. It also tops ly. A ir strikes and w eapons drops irfu l the hilarity stakes because of are accom panied by jet aircraft its excellent sample. noises and thunder and lightning e is a strikes every now and then. [h e l e f t BANANA BOMBS These are If you w ant a change from the ) y o u roughly based on the cluster English sam ples you could th e a ir, bomb but infinitely more always load up Germ an or French n a k e it destructive. Each banana A This is the Mars scenario. OJ Simpson is. alegedly. versions, w here threats are m ade trying to hide using the Blowtorch to bury himself is is will yield 75 points damage and fun is had in another lan­ and should you be lucky guage. This does not effect it could be as successful. b u t enough to get one it could gam eplay because instructions, It appeals equally to hardened win the game for you - weapons, etc don't change gam es players and com puter vir­ as long as you don't kill language but it adds to the m irth. gins because of its easy to use yourself in the process. OK, it's not Linguaphone, but you interface and im m ediately Thrown like a grenade it is r i o s m ight just pick up som e useful involving gam eplay. If I w as to unaffected by wind. i m e n t a - phrases. O ne thing to be w ary of m ake a m ust have-recom m enda- though is that w hile these tion for a gam e this Christm as, MINIGUN This is, without ' a n d sounds are good fun for those W o rm s is i t ... ■ doubt, my favourite weapon. cteristics p l a y i n g W o rm s they can g et very, A lan Dykes It looks and sounds awesome io w is very annoying if you're in the and really rattles opposing li d e a ll background listening. If the vol­ worms. The big daddy of the M a r s h a s um e is turned up you can expect Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMUzi is rare and much more i m p a thick ear before long. destructive but using it is I. T h e very addictive when you a s Lemmings? finally get one. (Left) Keef, >o (I Som e years ago L e m m in g s t o o k from the Stones, threatens i l a r y the w orld by storm w ith its one of the HRH team. n d e v e l - relatively sim ple but engaging gam eplay. It w as often frustrat­ ing, but alw ays funny and the big Je Diaces, create safe tunnels, use gam e: G ood and Evil. If you're bonus w as that it appealed to all jrm s c a n the bungy. the teleporter and the playing on the side of good you ages and to both sexes. The i c a t e d a s orders. Team 17 have put 1000s don’t play dirty: you don't hide L e m m in g s sprites w ere cute too. i t t e r o f of m an hours into playtesting and you don't dig tunnels or tele­ W o rm s is m ade from the sam e i m y . i t ' s W orm s and they reckon there's p o r t y o u r W o rm s into d ifficu lt to m ould, and given that it is being l i n g tw o w ays of approaching the reach places. Doing this is lazy. distributed w orldw ide by Ocean

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Big name graphic adventures are and thin on the ground these days. Thinner in fact than the ozone layer over the South Pole. Thankfully one has flown in for Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMChristmas though. m agine this: you're a presented itself to m e on a cold sandw ich shop for a stiff cappuci- w inter's m orning at the office. I no and a hard boiled egg. Even had a stinking cold, bad breath, though I don't like eggs. B oeing tri-engm ed pas- m y girlfriend had w alked out on Back at m y desk, psyched up plane and you're m e and I had a dreadful hangover. for the detective task in hand, the m ost gorgeous Just m y luck to have to review an things started to look brighter. ictress in the w orld to the adventure gam e. To top it all N ow up and running off m y hard Amazon jungle for a film shoot, F lig h t com es on 11 disks ... this is d r i v e . F lig h t w as proving to be a ifou'd feel pretty lucky eh? U ntil a one helluva way to im plem ent rather good play. ▲ A Rottweilei it protecting that door Maybe he'd like a copy o( the "Rocket" comic. Probably not. guy called Anderson com es along copy protection. Put this baby on The opening problem - how to and m esses things up. He locks the "net and it w ould cost m ore to get out of the hotel room you in a room , puts it under dow nload it off-peak than it does Anderson has locked you in w ith­ ym ed guard and makes off with to buy the gam e itself! So a hard out being slung back in by his ~ e babe. Sheesh! drive is the only solution. But arm ed henchm en m inus several This w as the scenario that w ait! No installer! I w e nt to the item s of clothing is a good intro­ duction. N ot too d ifficult to get around, but difficult enough to tax your brain and get you in the m ood for the follow ing shenani­ gans in the jungle.

Learning curve was preview ed by us w ay back in The plot gets thicker as you Novem ber 1994, w hen w e did an w a d e i n t o F lig h t. The w hole idea interview w ith John Passfield and of the gam e is that you learn Steve Stam atiadis, otherw ise m ore as you progress through it. know n as Interactive Binary in fact in the spirit of true adven­ Illusions. It suffered a series of ture you rarely know w hat's setbacks on the Am iga, despite going to happen next. The the fact that it originally started acquisition of objects to help out being program m ed on this you further into the adventure platform . It w as originally due out lead to quite an interesting series by E aster '95: and it's here now. of sub-plots. A t the tim e they w ere prom ising • I n a Me of the bigyest surprises in flight 01 the AnAmuon Queer: a beautiful, parallel scrolling panoramic mm rf Om various locations yoo can roach in the jingle. F lig h t O f The A m a z o n Q u e e n a hum ourous adventure, and A Quick Puzzle Solved

W ithout giving much of the game away here's a pretty obvious puzzle which needs to be solved after you've got to Brazil, but before you start the adventure in the jungle. Your plane has crashed in the middle of a

pirhana infested swamp and Oops, the plane s crashed aid it I'm aol mistaken fiayed tempeis and arguments on the plane make you need to get to shore. it's hall Hooded It looks as though they're in real things worse Faye is not happy and Sparky looks B u t h o w ? trouble Help! What are they going to do? somewhat preoccupied

1 3 t : Haim these lily pads look as thoagh they Aha! If it can no longei piopel the plane thiongh Veiy sensible. Bnt not much help to me. Maybe inform ation. Joe's speech menu coeld support a man s weight New il only I could the an maybe I can nse this hit ol the ancialt to Joe can kill them with his baseball bat? Ooh lind something to low with. get Joe and the ciew thiongh the watei What a stupid idea usually contains both straight and funny phrases, and you can seriously annoy a character by saying the w rong thing to them . Luckily you can also talk your w ay back out of sticky situations too.

User friendly C ontrol is by m ouse, using the Maybe Spaiky can help Have a chat with him Aha. this conld be inteiesting I II wagei those And so. the mystery is solved Don! think you're Yes. yes. very well, stop gibbering on about pnhana aie hungry Peibaps some ol Sparky's getting oil lightly hete though, theie s still some left and right buttons to select comics and get to the point! heel will do the trick. moie items missing. and use icons from the m enu bar at the bottom of the screen, w ith the on-screen pointer as a posi­ having m et them I w as in no This w as originally planned for the ground horizons, barely visable, tional aid. O ne thing that really Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMdoubt as to w hat the sense CD32 too but this version has but beautiful nonetheless. In fact p u t s F lig h t up on a pedestal as of hum our w ould be like. Did now been scrapped, w hich is a som e o f the graphic touches far as gam eplay is concerned is they pull it o ff though (no sm ut pity. I've played it on PC and the com e as a very pleasant and the fact that it's not too fussy intended, honest)? voices (w ith Penelope Keith, of all unexpected surprise, breaking about how precisely you point at people, included) turned it into a from the norm and giving you an object. Each scene has a lim it­ A bit funny m uch m ore interactive experi­ m otion or sm ooth scrolling ed num ber o f objects w hich can W ell. yes. F lig h t is in fact quite ence. This is w hy w e all really screens. Q uality stuff. be exam ined and possibly picked funny. It's very com ic book style need CD-RO M drives folks! A lthough voices are absent up and used - not too m any, just hum our, draw ing in-jokes from the D on't get m e w rong though, you do have to do a lot of talking a com fortable am ount. But w orld o f adventure and sci-fi that's about all that's m issing. to other characters to solve this because each object has quite a m ovies, m ixed w ith som e harm ­ The on-screen text is the sam e adventure. A s usual, clicking on w ide selection field you never lessly sm utty rem arks. I say quite as the spoken w ord, and is very the talk icon and then on som e­ have any problem s trying to click funny because unfortunately the funny in places. The situations one (or thing) in the gam e w ill on it. Being too pedantic about A m iga version does not benefit too are gigglesom e as are som e bring up a m enu of phrases. The pixel precise pointing has m arred from the excellent range o f voices o f the very odd characters you type of response you get w ill m any an adventure in the past. playing the parts of the various m eet along the way. Like listen­ depend on w hat you say and you A t the far right-hand side of characters on the PC CD-ROM. ing to B illy C onnolly on a som etim es have to delve really the icon bar is the inventory. This W alkm an and laughing out loud deeply into a conversation to is a strip that holds as m any on a crow ded bus. it's not a pick up an essential snippet of objects as you need, but only good idea to play F lig h t w h i l e other people are present. Your constant sniggering w ill annoy the hell out o f everyone else - as w ill your cries o f frustration at not being able to solve a puzzle. The graphics too are nearly identical to the PC version, and are im pressive. A ll o f the charac­ ters are detailed and the back­ ground scenery is superbly painted (Interactive Binary Illusions originally used DPaint for everything). There are neat, alm ost unnecessary touches too, A The requisite mad scientist. H you're going to write a graphic adventure don't forget to include one of like the provision of distant back- these. They spice np the plot no end.

L 4 8 displays fou r at a tim e. If you Why Not want to m ake use of an object in the inventory all you have to do Talk It Over ... You will meet rather a lot of s select the U se icon, then the characters to interact with object, and point w here you w ant in Flight O f The Amazon to use it. F lig h t w ill tell you w hat Queen, some of whom are you're proposing to do eg. detailed below. Many are T h ro w the chicken at Anderson's very quite forthcoming, but -enchm en", and then right click- there are difficult ones too. ng w ill m ake Joe do the deed. Som e objects in the inventory J O E K IN G “eed to be com bined to produce The 'hero' of the other objects and w hile this is show. He's happy not new in adventure gam es, the J go lucky but it's whole process is m ade sm oother 1 Vour j°b to whip by the U se icon. You sim ply click rrf5£^E23 him into shape. on Use, then on ‘item 1', w here- -pon a m essage appears saying SPARKY ^ 'use 'item 1' on ...". Then you v - Joe's mechanic and friend. He cick on w hat you w ant to use it w ith in the inventory ie, 'ite m 2'. *W loves comics and Tie tw o w ill then be com bined *** id,e banter which and a new object icon w ill r,y > g w he has lots of . 'eplace them . ANDERSON SHVT One of the bad Jazz and jungle guys. Anderson - though there is no voiceover in tries to steal Faye version the m usic is good. (and her money) O nce again though, you'll drive •eighbours m ad if it is turned up afl the tim e. The basic tune FAYE ^■anges w ith situations and loca- f".-■% -' A fiesty lass and ttons, b ut it has a jazzy feel to it. no mistake. She r keeping w ith the 1940's them e I _ , has a sharp of the gam e. The background tongue and an ungle sounds are good too. tfTTitfi W k iron will. In term s o f difficulty F lig h t O f THE LOCAL CHIEF B e Amazon Queen gets it about ' Not very easy to -ght. It's so long since I’ve Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM» I talk to, because :*ayed a decent adventure that I ■ 4 W he only speaks n ought I w as a bit rusty, but the 1 '■« pygmy. But there's ogic and the hum our of the puz- M l f l a way around this. re s brought right back into the lo w of things. Although som e of THE BRAZILIAN BABE 7*e problem s are frustrating they fT T 7rf She's talkative •over get out of hand. A quick I I ’ **u t Y o u ’ ** n e e t * x f f e e break and som e lateral C . more than words tfw iking w ill usually solve the sit- *y ;. f to 9et vvhat you janon. Indeed som e of the solu- need from her. ■ x is are ingeniously w ell panned, so once you've got The ape doesn't T e fe you'll feel really satisfied. yield much in the In an adventure starved w orld, way of intelligent ‘ t g h t is a saviour. I'd rate it as conversation. T e best hum ourous graphic Or does he? ■venture on Am iga since U onkey Island: but the cynics ■ould say that there haven't M en very m any since then any­ Flight of Amazon Queen way To hell w ith them . I like it ■ workbench version...... 3.1 i r e I've a feeling you w ill too. ■ ■ number ol M s ...... -.11 JUan Dykes ■ RAM...... 2Mb ■ hard disk installable .....yes

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The Tracks: The Drivers There are 15 tracks in all. Like all good arcade games Here's a variety of them. The you have the option of landscapes vary and the com ­ choosing which driver you plexity of the tracks means want to play with. The tfiat they don't get dull. choice will influence your driving style, though apart from slight blips in stability and traction it's difficult to tell the difference. Still it's nice to have the choice.

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e all know r.wlhlt lUrndw. It IW5 O nly the basic editing and text t h a t t h e attributes are set from the tool A m i g a is bar, you w on’t find any of the m i l -L _ J- one of the r n ' i u j icons o r flexibility frequently best com puters for lm i i M«*h found in other application tool A FinalCalc pio.ides DTPlYord processor style 7 1 lift* m BT hn L»mtf i»: ©video and graphics bars or even spreadsheets: no sheets, allowing coeimonly used test attributes tt a stored far future use. work. Few other insert date/tim e, com m on form u­ system s have so m any la e , e t c . O ne of the first things you different applications There’s also no w ay to reposi­ notice is that the Project menu I offering such flexibility tion it or tailor it. The user inter­ doesn’t have the usual O pen. and pow er for digital face is certainly w ay behind other Close, Save affair under the first video work. Sadly how ­ Am iga spreadsheets w e've seen m enu. Instead you have the ever, the Am iga has in term s of sim plicity - definitely option to open Projects, each been seen by som e as a m issed opportunity! project containing one or m ore not being able to com ­ O nce you get past the initial sheets. A lthough individual pete w hen it com es to A FinalCalc can sunoand cells with borders, for an sneea table shock of the basic front end and sheets can be opened, in use I | creation It is. however, difficult to set background colours the professional office start exploring things im prove found its Projects approach of Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMm arket because of the lack of pow­ pushed aside com pletely. considerably and there are even storing several related docu­ erful sophisticated spreadsheets, In the last year or so though, a several touches that m ake the m ents together under one namime e | I databases and w ord processors. slow but steady stream of heavy user interface better. But there m ore sensible and easier to w o People w ishing to use these type w eight business program s have are several features crying out w ith. This is obviously very use£ o f applications tend to use PCs or been released: D igita’s for som e of the user interface as it m eans related sheets can M acs and once they’ve started W o rd w o rth and Softwood's tricks found in S oftw ood's latest be kept together, stored as one I using them for these purposes the FinalWriter covering the W P m ar­ version of FinalWriter, b u t m o r e file. For exam ple, a project for I danger is that the Am iga w ill be ket w hile H iS oft's T w is t2 c o v e r s of this in a m inute. household finance m ight contain I the database flank. B ut w hat of spreadsheets? You could w ave CU 3D Graphs -^-,^-.-,-- 1 1 — - A m i g a ' s ProC alc cover disk around, I started o ff this review but by com parison to PC and M ac talking about the Amiga's j ...ttyyr,'.H~~ spreadsheets o f late it looks a bit lead in graphics and 3D j long in the tooth. FinalC alc f r o m im a g e m a r k e ts , so it Mngfafc — sr.I,*------S oftw ood has finally arrived shouldn’t really come as a j i l d - though, w ith the prom ise of super surprise that F in a lC a lc h a s 1 league pow er;so it as good as comprehensive 3D graphics > ""Cj l«l«V.. I w e've been lead to believe? capabilities. W hat's surpris- ^ v y _ , ------■fas. I -jy -l _*s_J —iss!—! ing however is just how — 1 ■ ■ ■ ■ pi-" ■ Messy powerful these capabilities - - ■ O n loading the program , after are and how useful they , installing it to hard are in a business environment. drive, a fairly standard Looking at its features first, F in a lC a lc draws its 3D looking spreadsheet graphs as true 3D objects. This means that whereas P r o C a lc simply showed a graph with a third dimension im n t vitut if appears. Taking a quick look around the drawn for effect, F in a lC a lc creates a 3D world in which the lti»l» rin n/itlt/N K m ta m enus reveals a graph exists, and in which you can move around to see the frightening num ber of graph from different view points. The viewing angle can choices and possible change in all three directions, and it's even possible to com m ands. A fter the change the scale of each axis! k urntrii to itn ti in tM r. sim plified m enus of Perhaps the only thing missing from its 3D capabilities is FinalWriter this cam e the option to export the graph as 3D data so it could be as quite a shock! And rendered in L ig h tW a v e o r Im a g in e . Maybe I'm daydreaming, the icon bar below the but I can't help thinking how impressive it would be to see m enus doesn't help a graph with texture mapped columns, and custom lighting m uch either. effects - other presentations wouldn't stand a chance! -I*.,. -,r ,

Animation In Action! s help showiig (be parameters aid arguments ot the functinn being entered Fina/Calc's anim ation feature is probably one o f its m ost talked about features. A s w ell as being able to m ove around a 3D graph the view these, you can also add borders to m arket for this program w ill com e changes can be recorded to Anim . A s the data in the spreadsheet c e l l s . Fina/C alc also allow s you to from users of these existing that the graph is draw n from changes so to does the graph - nothing clean up the borders of cells and spreadsheets upgrading, yet w ith new there. W hat is new is that the m odifications to the graph over rem ove duplicated lines. O ther the exception of M axiplan tim e can be recorded as an anim ation. You could, for instance, w atch program s duplicate border lines - S oftw ood have done little to help as a graph show ed turnover and profit changes for a com pany hap­ if you've got tw o cells next to each us do so! Yes, there’s an option to pen during the course o f a year, w atching colum ns rise and fall. other, both w ith their ow n borders read Lotus 1-2-3 files so w e could These changes can be com bined w ith sim ultaneous view ing angle - giving thicker lines than w anted. save data out from ProC alc e t c in changes to add im pact o r aid visibility. If during the anim ation for W hile entering the spreadsheet Lotus form at and then im port back exam ple one colum n of a graph dropped behind another one the data there are several further tricks in but are w e using an Am iga or a cam era angle could change to sw ing above o r around the graph to i n t h e Fina/C alc m agic hat. The first P C h e r e ? keep the colum n in sight - clever stuff! is infinite undo and redo, so you Then there's the m anual. As The anim ation is stored as a series o f sequentially num bered IFF can undo every action ever m ade Am iga m anuals go it looks amaz­ files not a true anim file. Although the m anual show s how one can be on a spreadsheet right back to ing. Hard back, glossy cover, ring created using the PD program 'm akeanim ' given the otherw ise pow ­ w hen it w as em pty. The next trick bound - it m ust cost Softw ood a i erful nature of the program surely it couldn't have been too m uch to and m ore useful for beginners is fortune per unit! But as the old include an option to have this done autom atically? com prehensive on-line aids, expression goes, never judge a every function/form ulae is docu­ book by its cover. W hile the layout, m ented w ith both quick one line English, and quality are great I descriptions and m ore detailed found the content and structure M inform ation. Then there's debug­ lacking. There's no step by step rle ging tools to help find problem s, tutorial, although there are Basic lest* to like the find bracket feature w hich O perations chapters showing how finds the closing bracket for an to get going. There’s no open on in a cell - invaluable for breakdow n or listing of the com ­ n u com plex cell com positions. plex m enus of the program it really , If you print spreadsheets out needs, and m ore serious the func­ f i r s i you'll love the program . There's 29 tion lists aren't subdivided into page on printing alone in the m an­ type (m aths, finance, system etc} h ual. am ongst its m any talents are but rather ju st alphabetical - if ) r e auto scaling of the spreadsheet to you don't know a function nam e fit it on a set num ber o f pages, a you've had it! 6 1 huge variety o f variables fo r head­ Its user interface is also lacking o f ers and footers (different date for­ and could have been m uch, m uch Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMm ats, page num bers, total num ber better and definitely lets the pro­ a m e o f pages etc), and the option to gram dow n. It's still a good WO'* m ap the program s screen bitm ap spreadsheet, fast and responsive js e f - fonts to outline fonts for m axi­ w ith som e genuinely innovative a n I m um quality w hen printing. The and useful features and is w ithout 3 n e I * f“ *IC*l« - M l giapki., hnctfeui ol life taifi Ip.f.dital, lull ID |iig ki mute program supports Postscript Type doubt the best spreadsheet cur­ I possible lo change the Hewing eagle in all three directions O f 1 and 3, M ac ATM and Softwoods rently available fo r the Am iga. n ta in ow n outline font form ats. If you're B ut in the final conclusion an looking for the best output for A m iga application that can't direct­ Classic stuff your spreadsheet data you w on't ly talk to other sim ilar A m iga appli­ W hen it com es to producing fin d better. cations and a user interface not up spreadsheets the program There's m ore to this program to current standards (standards set supports a very strong collection than I could possible cover here, ironically by SoftW ood am ongst of presentation aids, functions/for­ it's calculation facilities are very others) can't and w on't get CU m ulae and sheet m anipulation im pressive. N ot only is it fast, but Am iga award. ■ tools. W hen m oving a cell or cells it handles circular references for Andy Leaning around using Fbste the references you autom atically, it understands in form ulae can readjust for you infinity references (think about try­ FINAL CALC autom atically w hile a single cell ing explain w h at infinity is to a sys­ a to change la a different sheel nr project you need can be copied to m ultiple cells. tem that only understands solid, ■ go oia menus and leqaetteis. There's also options to hide, lock real, num bers, you could take for­ and protect cells. A ll classic ever!) and has the capability to «»o sheets one for regular bill spreadsheet stuff. w ork backwards through form ulae calculations and one covering The layout too ls provider are so it can w o rk o ut correct starting can repaym ents. I w as, however, good. Cell w idths and heights can values given a desired result! surprised to find that F ina/C alc be changed, as can the contents M esn't use the tab-access font, colour and attributes (bold, Drawbacks approach, pioneered by italic etc) how ever they aren't very I l i k e d FinalCalc and found it had SoftW ood in Fina/Writer. t o m a k e intuitive. I'm still trying to find out m ost of the features I wanted, but wnping betw een sheets easy. how to do som e basic things - set­ not all. G iven that FinalCalc i s s o Why not have a row of tabs ting a cell background colour for late to the Am iga the chances are •ong the bottom of the screen exam ple. There's also a sim ple that m ost prospective spreadsheet o r each sheet? Instead you need style facility that allow s you to users w ill already have one: c go to a m enu, click on View, define a com m on form at for a cells Maxiplan, ProCalc o r TurboCalc. S o rd select the sheet required. that you can then apply to other w hy doesn't FinalCalc support the H o h u m ! cells later on. cool! A long w ith last tw o file form ats? I suspect the * PRODUCT TEST Blizzard 11IV ■ Price: £179.95 (plus RAM) ■ Developer: Phase 5 ■ Supplier: Gordon Harwoods © 01773 836781

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The direct speed, you can finally run several Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMunit (M M U I, this is as fast as it plied w ith W orkbench but by m em ory access w ould also require applications sim ultaneously w ith I gets before you enter the territory using the jum per sw itch you m uch less CPU tim e for data trans­ little perform ance loss. Before I of the expensive first generation can enable it perm anently if the fer than a PCM CIA SCSI interface. too long you'll take this m assive I 68040 accelerators that are now loss of 512K of your Fast RAM Interestingly, the add-on m odule leap in productivity for granted I appearing. Blizzard products have isn't a problem . also sports an extra S IM M socket W e currently use a Blizzard I alw ays been high quality units A nother new feature of the w hich can accept up to 128Mb M ark III here in the CU Am iga often out-pacing the com petition M ark IV is that if, w h ile booting, S IM M s. It's an excellent idea but if offices and it's given faultless but at a higher price. But now the the '2' key is held dow n, the unit SCSI is all that's required, the £90 perform ance to date. The M ark I M ark IV has com e significantly w ill deactivate entirely. The extra expense for this feature is a little IV providing the sam e quality under the £200 barrier it's m ore m em ory, acceleration and even the t o o h e f t y . coupled w ith these extra features] attractive than ever. SCSI adapter if present, w ill all at a reduced cost can only be a vanish. That's extrem ely handy for To the test good thing as far as w e're con- I Cheaper RAIVI running gam es that m ight object If you're laying o u t £180 for an cerned. The Blizzard 1230 M k IV I A 1200 trapdoor accelerators are to extra RAM or m ore com m only accelerator, you w ant to go faster. is definitely the top 68030 accel- not all m ade equal. The Blizzard the accelerator H ow w ell does it perform ? erator for your A t200 ■ M ark IV is exceptionally w ell con­ W ithout printing ream s of bench­ M at Bettinson structed. sporting a single SIM M 32-bit DM A m arks, the results could be socket that allow s even double Like the M ark III, the IV has a 32-bit sum m ed up by saying that: the sided 72 pins SIM M s to be used. Direct M em ory Access (DM A) Blizzard M ark IV is the fastest U nlike the M ark III. the IV per­ expansion connector to allow a 68030 based accelerator that w e m its the use of cheaper 70nS SCSI interface to be added. This have encountered. In particular the RAM A jum per connection on w ould give a very fast SCSI inter­ m em ory speed is spectacular, faster even than the Falcon 68040 accelerator, and only being beaten by the A4000 Cyberstorm units (also built b y Phase 51, Acceleration If you've never seen an accelerat­ ed A m iga, you're really m issing som ething. Hard drives leap ahead speed wise. 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A ll of this could I this can produce stunning results including fire, w obbly sine patterns also save your creations as be replaced by a single list of w hen a bit o f style and originality is and som e picture distortion rou­ D e m o M a n ia c f i l e s effects and a tim eline to sync Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMthem up to the m usic. The incorv I exercised. So, at ju st £12.99 tines. However, there’s not enough D e m o M a n ia c looks like quite an choice for you to be able to put Call Rentokil sistencies in the user interface alsd attractive proposition. together a really individual dem o. D e m o M a n ia c seem s to be in an com plicates m atters. Soundtracks can be loaded and unfinished state, even though w e D e m o M a n ia c can be used on I Stacked effects played w ith graphics. However, first saw this program a year ago any Am iga if enough m em ory is I D em os are created by selecting D espite claim s that D e m o M a n ia c The softw are refers to the program available' and AGA graphics are I effects and w ipes from a trio of is com patible w ith m usic created a s Demo Mania' w hile the packag­ supported Considering the low I m enus. These can then have their in all m ajor m usic packages, ing likes to call it 'DemoManiac'. price and the im pressive (if sm a® param eters altered via slider bars, O cla M E D is not catered fo r There Curiously the contents page head­ selection o f effects on offer. giving you plenty of options for are 14 variants o f the tracker line reads 'D e m o M a n ia ' w i t h a D e m o M a n ia c would be worth I custom ising the graphics. Som e form at supported but before you lonely letter 'C sitting beneath the checking out if you w ant to effects can only be used on their can load a m odule you need to title on the next line dow n. It m ay try your hand at a bit of dem o I ow n, w hile others can be stacked select the correct player from the seem that I’m being overly picky creation However, be prepared. I up w ith m ore effects to display a list. If you get it w rong, at best the here, but this does seem to reflect the price does reflect the pro- I m axim um of six sim ultaneously. m usic w ill be play incorrectly, at the general state of the program gram 's various shortcom ings ■ Bugs are evident. They’re n ot all Tony Horgan m ajor, such as the one that w rites text outside o f the confines o f its DEMOMANIAC box and all over the slider bar and surrounding screen. You’ll also have to be prepared for a num ber of crashes for no apparent reason. If anything is going to m ake your flkltl* ♦ffwt I A m iga crash, it's routines like I Gmiaki akj| k*t Ik* these that hit the hardw are w ith a bang. If you have an accelerator in a r l u t , ™ - your Am iga then things seem even BlockPrint I f t B t e - m ore likely to crash. D istort jc ird k U lp * DotText SetScree* DotMern FideOui r ia ie t FaSeCress Conclusion 6leezVector FlastFad? The editor has obviously had a fair PlasneGreund l;llB»f«d»1 bit of thought p ut into its design, but it's still n o t as intuitive and GENERAL | | (WFI6 | flEMAY | | M SI* | | ICAIPT | ||' " '" J H b l sim ple as it should be There are too m any stages in the construc­ A this i i Ike amn icrw n and in Ike ceesuncliee el e l i a t [fleets eie ckesee hoet Ike lilt el Ike kotteei letl ef Ike scieee. end tken emkelliiked witk nines knot Ike etkei menus le Ike ligkt tion of a dem o, w ith data banks. 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Fresh Fish X The Global Amiga Experience Fred Fish (real name) is Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMthe original Amiga PD compiler. He released his first 'Fish Disk' in 1985 and was one of the catalysts in the growth of the Amiga PD scene. Fresh Fish X is the tenth edition of the CD series, and con­ tains disk numbers 1000 to 1100 in LHA archive form . All new additions to the Fish library since music, development, learning volume 9 are also included ready to run from the you'll CD, plus a selection of other ready to run soft­ o f them are in ware filed in a drawer called 'useful'. You won't find any Euro demos here - the Available from: PD Soft, 1 Bryant Avenue, emphasis is on the more serious side of things, Southend-on-Sea. Essex SS1 2YD. Tel: 01702 although there are a few games. Like the Aminet 466933. Price: £24.99 plus 75p P+P. CDs, most of the new files are split into cate­ gories such as business, comms, music, pictures, graphics, utilities and so on. While it doesn't seem to be quite as comprehensive a collection Super Autos 94/95 as the Am inet discs, it's still packed with lots of Super A utos 94/95 contains 112 im ages, all of w hich are digi­ useful tools and data. tised photos taken from a car show. Each im age is sup­ plied as a GIF. H A M 8 IFF. PICT and TIFF file. There's Available from : PD also a directory that contains files purporting to be IFFs Soft, 1 Bryant but refused to load on any of our graphics softw are or Avenue. Southend view er utilities. The pictures have been digitised a t high -on-Sea, Essex SS1 res interlaced resolution and are very 2YD. Tel: 01702 clean. If your PicturesO fC ars' directory on your hard 466933. Price: drive needs topping up. here's the solution. £9.99 plus 75p P + P. Available from: PD Soft, 1 Bryant Avenue, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, SS1 2YD. Tel: 01702 466933. Price: £4.99 plus 7 5 p P + P.

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. AGA Experience Phase 1 ------W ith AGA Experience. N othing to do w ith the 17 Bit SadENESS PD have Phase X series o f CD-RO M s, this put together a very Phase 1 is filled m ainly w ith clip accessible com pila­ art. im age and font files for use tion of fun PD in DTP graphics and video w ork. A lthough there are The graphics are split into som e utilities and descriptive directories (cars, tools, the em phasis is anim als, fantasy etc.). Each cate­ on dem os, slideshows gory has its pictures com pressed and gam es. Q uite a onto one or tw o screens of thum bnail pre­ few of the item s can view s. together w ith filenam es for all the be run straight from im ages, so locating the right picture is the CD. although as is no trouble. usually the case, this does cause occasional crashes w hen assigns W hile som e of the colour clip art is very haven't been set properly and so on. It's geared tow ards AGA Am igas fam iliar and has previously appeared on and although you can access the files from any C D-equipped Am iga, sim ilar CDs. the general standard is very m ost of the data is AGA-only. high. The clip art is divided into colour, m ono The m ost im pressive elem ent of the disc is the vast num ber of and EPS form ats, w hile the im ages are all top new dem os, m any o f w hich can be run from the CD. although present in 16. 256 and 4096 H AM colours. DTP artists w ill enjoy unfortunately they w on’t all quit back to your W orkbench when the large num ber o f fonts available in Compugraphic, ProDraw, they've finished. G am es are also here in abundance and there's a Type 1 and IFF form ats. selection of very high quality digitised im ages. A lucky bag o f utilities are on hand to help you out of m iscella­ Far from a cheap shovelw are com pilation, The AG A Experience is neous tight spots. Dem o versions of T ypesm ith 2 . 5 a n d one of the best w ays of catching up on all the latest not so serious P a g e S tre a m 2 are in attendance, along w ith update patches for Am iga PD. This is w ell w orth taking a look at if you w ant a good P a g e S tre a m 2 b 3, O p a M s io n a n d T ypesm ith 2 .5 a . In all, a very cross section of PD com petent clip art and font collection.

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Zero G Datafile 1 LSD 3 Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMZero G D atafile 1 is the C D-RO M version o f the audio sam ple CD of the sam e W hile som e CDs are w m e. You m ay rem em ber it w as this CD that had a big hand in starting the w hole full of shaky files w ith dance sam ple CD m arket a few years ago. W e review ed the original audio disc bugged or non-exis­ and rated it highly. This has all the sam ples from that disc in 16 bit W AV form at, te n t installer utilities. sam pled at 44.1kHz. LSD 3 is sim ultane­ S trictly speaking this isn't an Am iga CD-RO M , but it can be used easily enough ously one of the m ost directly w ith O c ta M E D 6 , or if you use another sequencer, th e sam ples can be useful and user-friend­ converted using one of a num ber of PD utilities. ly discs around. It's W hile the audio sam ple CD m arket has exploded, slow progress is being m ade been put together by .-.hen it com es to CD-RO M equivalents w hich is surprising, considering the the A m iga group LSD. the product of m uch idvances in desktop m usic in recent years. So rather than getting the latest releas­ OYtt m I I 0 ' AJUSA PUtiK DOMAM SOfTWRE! es on CD-RO M . w e have Datafile 1. W hile this w as a great CD w hen it w as data sw opping and -eleased, it has since been sam pled to death, and w hat w ere once fresh sounds net surfing. The are now old hat (a testam ent to its success at least!). em phasis is on the dem o scene, although there are also If you are converting these sam ples to 8 bit IFFs, it's w orth boosting the vol- a few utilities, clip art files and sound sam ples. jm e 50% or so before dow ngrading, as m any of them are fairly quiet (w hich LSD have taken the trouble to m ake as m any of the cartly defeats the advantage of taking the sam ples from 16 bit originals). Even so, dem os run straight from the CD w herever possible (rather it still beats m ost other m usic than storing everything as an LHA archive w hich needs to CD-RO M s by a mile. be unpacked and then run>. Considering the 650M b W hile this disc isn't such an capacity of CD-RO M . this is som ething I'd like to see attractive proposition, it's w orth m ore of. There's also a good selection of anim ations and looking out for other CD-RO M (and pictures w hich can be view ed straight from the audio) releases from Tim e and Am igaG uide index M usic fans are w ell catered for too. Space. G ive them a call and they'll w ith lots of P rotracker a n d Screamtracker m o d u l e s . send you a free catalogue. N ot everything can be run straight from the CD. so in the Archived Files section you'll find another load of Available from: dem os, anim ations, pictures, anim ations and sam ples. Time and Space, Gam es get a look in too w ith Assassins disks 211 to 250 PO Box 306, Berkhamsted, along w ith a few others for good m easure. If you like the Herts HP4 3EP. fun side of Am iga PD. LSD 3 is definitely the one for you T e l: 0 1 4 4 2i 8 7 0 6 8 1 . Available from: 17 Bit P ric e : Software, 1st Floor Offices, £ 1 9 .9 5 2/8 Market Street, Wakefield. p lu s 7 5 p Tel: 01924 366982. Price: P + P. E£P £19.99 plus 75p P + P. 90 \ w m v T fT L E S

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The objective here is to trap the wooglies Buying the average PD disk which is usually only 20% full is a complete annoy­ in the squares which you can move ance. which is why this disk is such good value because it's packed. There are around the screen. However, they move three games on here, the first of which is Vectortraps. You must guide your bug- fairly quickly and can squeeze out of pret­ buster around a maze of circuits to set traps which kill off the virii that have ty tight spots, so you've got to box them infected your system. You can transport to other parts of the maze and the action in. The concept is simple enough, as all gets really frantic at times, especially on AGA machines as AMOS speeds up! It's good games are, but in practice it's totally immense fun! The second game is G r e e n iz and here you have to shoot the bogey­ frustrating. You think you’ve one of the like critters before they reach the left hand side of the screen. It's unplayable on things trapped and it squeezes out! It's a AGA machines because it's way too fast but any ECS system should be fine. really well put together production though, Next up is B o in g , in which you play the part of a bouncy thing which, you have with some good music and graphics, and to keep powering up otherwise it will lose its bounce! So, being careful not to lose the gameplay is set at about the right your spring, you've got to collect the stars that litter each playing area and then level. Anyone can play this game and make your escape. e n jo y it o r, in d e e d , g e t a n g ry a t it. Finally, as a bonus, you get C o s , a funky little utility which makes pictures into strange and wonderful patterns; worth a look, if only for a bit of a giggle. A good Available from : Freestyle PD, 108 disk; highly recommended. Woodside Way, Short Heath. Willenhall, West Midlands W V 1 2 5 N H . Phone: 01922 710985. Price: £1.00 plus 50p PftP.

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'FAC Multi Icons 2 3 OUT Replacement icon pack ads Initially put off by the German installer and documents, I soon realised that Multi Icons isn't just another boring icon package. It has m u ch th e s a m e s o rt o f installer a s M a g ic W o rkb e n ch so it's easy enough to use though unfortunately it doesn’t have a de-installer in case th e ic o n s aren't to y o u r ta ste . T h is is n o t a real p ro b le m though, since it didn't install the icons over my old ones automatically. After installation, the end result is something that looked impressive and quite different from your average Workbench or I just love Roberta Sm ith's disks w ith their nicely printed Magic Workbench set-up. If you're one of those people who likes labels. Since I just happened to need to know the vital strange icon packs for your Workbench or want your machine to statistics of a German .30 Luger bullet, AmmoGuide look original, then I highly recommend this effort. There's seemed set to make my life complete. Not. AmmoGuide no shortage of icons to pick from and they're both colourful will even do a surface 3D render of the desired small and clear. arms ammunition just so you know exactly what one A full set of different picture drawers are provided so your looks like. Technical inform ation is also available includ­ hard drive's root directories can be picturesque as well as your ing the cartridge dimensions, grains of primer and muzzle applications drawers. There's replacement icons for all the stan­ velocity etc. dard Workbench programs including preferences etc. Oh yes. A fair range of guns is covered insuring that it makes a they seem to be designed for non interlaced screens too. which good ammunition reference. There's just one burning is good news for many. Maybe Amiga Technologies could include question that needs asking: w hat's the point in it all? It's one of these packs with new Amigas in the future. not exactly essential bed-tim e reading now, is it.

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Digital Utils LazyBench 1.2 Utility com pilation Application launcher Digital Utils is a collection of four utilities one of which. L azybench is a simple launcher commodity Once run, a user defin­ M agic Clock, is the m other of all clock utilities. It's totally able hot-key brings up a list of your favourite applications. A further configurable down to each hand and time format, and I like click w ill run the selected application, upon which LazyBench auto­ its standard analogue view. D isk Squeeze is a DMS clone matically vanishes. All it needs is the paths saved to a configuration that really uses a host of other utilities to generate a file file which is edited w ith your choice of text editor. Small, simple and image of a disk. It uses LZX for the compression which unobtrusive, it’s definitely worthwhile if you have no applications means it gets pretty good results but is a little complex for launcher at all. This kind of utility is very useful for hard drive owners common use. Big Brother is a 'non-system' monitor (basi­ s in ce a c tu a lly fin d in g th e p ro g ra m y o u w a n t to run, can take a w h ile . cally a hacker's m onitor). It just crashed whenever I tried H ere a t CU A m ig a , w e u s e ToolsDaemon b u t th a t's a fa ir b it m o re it. Lastly, A s s o c ia t e makes icons for any files. You just drop complex and you may not like your Workbench menus cluttered with them on its dock icon and tell it whether the file is a sam­ oodles of programs. Just dragging LazyBench into your WBStartup ple, picture document or whatever and it'll fetch an icon drawer is all that's required and it consumes practically no memory. and plug in the viewer/player into the tooltypes - potential­ You w ill nee d to k n o w h o w t o u s e a te x t e d ito r th o u g h sin ce it's a ly very useful. Overall a 50% hit rate on this pack but the shame that new applications can't be added by dragging and drop­ good stuff is worth it. p in g a s w ith ToolsDaemon If you've nothing like it, get it now. Available from: Pixel Digital _ Available from: P D . U n it 6 . Laurel Business C e n tr e , 15 Laurel Road, Liverpool. Tel: 0151 259 4017 Price: £1.00 + 5 0 p PfrP.

GFXLab-24 RAF Fast Jets Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMImage processor Aircraft database

This French image processor certainly isn't lacking in features. Taking a departure from utilities, RAF Fastjets is an However what is missing includes an on screen preview and a resiz­ encyclopaedia of various aircraft the RAF has used at some able GUI. GFXLab-24's GUI is NTSC size and it won’t change for any­ tim e. Much more than a simple collection of images, thing. Not that it matters since the mam view window is only a text there's diagrams, technical specifications and the history log of each operation performed. On the right is a list view with a of each particular machine. I found the disk quite informa­ selection of processes. As usual it has a convolve function which tive and entertaining having a passing interest in the thoughtfully comes with loads of matrixes but they m ust each be subject myself. All the files are Powerpacked but luckily loaded by hand. Overall, the approach is like a hacker's image the tooltypes of the icons do point to the correct processor, with operations that are slower than Image Studio (rid ic u ­ viewers/readers on the disk that understand the format. lously so at times). Its internal picture viewer is liable to crash but The collection conveys the author's enthusiasm for the thankfully you can drop in a third party viewer. Im a g e S tu d io is s till a topic and it's easy to access it all from floppy. HD installa­ far better option, but this could be useful if you only occasionally tion however, would be a pain due to the icon tooltypes use image processing tools etc. You could, of course, use your own tools to view the information on the disk. Previously from the CLR license- Available from : Pixel Digital PD, Unit 6 Laurel Business ware range, this disk and a collection of other aircraft Centre. 15 Laurel Road, Liverpool. Tel: 0151 2594017 database disks are now available as shareware from P r ic e : £ 1 . 0 0 + 50p PttP. SeaSoft. Definitely worth a look if the topic is of interest.

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Finally as well as FAQ 121 the usual helping Creating anim ations and the problem s you encounter are covered for you in this m onth's com m on question and answer session. of questions and Q£rA MASTERCLASS 122 readers letters W hat are datatypes? They appear every now and then on cover disks and BBSs. W hat can you use them for? Find out in Masterclass. there's the Q+A 124 revelation that Tony and M at sit down, once again, to put their thinking caps on as they peruse this m onth s selection of reader's questions. Windows '95 is BACKCHAT 126 good for the Heated debate and differing opinions are bandied about in the pages which are dedi­ cated to your points of view. Amiga. Well, 0 3 POINTS OF VIEW 130 Andy Leaning W indows '95: good for the Amiga? W e jest? No. Andy Leaning technical editor of PC thinks so ... DC Review explains w hy he thinks the Am iga w ill benefit from the hype around W indows '95 fim r s Guide 3D Rendering software

Amiga 3D rendering software can produce incredibly simplest scenes can take a while, so small test renders are com­ lifelike images and animations. Which package is right monly used to check that every­ for you? Take your pick from the main contenders. thing is in place before the real rendering begins.

D g ra p h ic s is o n e area a n im a tio n s a n d s e q u e n c e s f o r TV wire frame constructions. At this Requirements o l th e A m ig a sce n e programmes and adverts. All the stage the objects have no surface A hard d riv e is e sse n tia l, alo n g that's really kicking off big action movies make exten­ colour information, so they need with plenty of RAM Plenty' can at the moment. All of s iv e u s e o f L ig h tW a v e and similar to be coloured, or for maximum be anything from 2Mb to 100Mb the major 3D rendering packagessystems. CD-ROM games are realism, covered with 'texture or more, depending on the scale O of your projects and the software are constantly being upgraded in also plastered with 3D anima­ maps' which are image files that the race to become the Amiga's tions and you can always gener­ a re w ra p p e d o n to th e s u rfa c e o f you use An AGA Amiga is prefer­ to p 3 D g ra p h ic s s y s te m . W h ile ate sequences and images to th e o b je c ts . O n c e a fe w lig h t able for decent results Perhaps this fierce competition means spruce up your own computer sources have been placed around surp risin g ly. 2 5 6 c o lo u r A G A plenty of hard work for the soft­ and video productions. If you th e s c e n e it's re a d y t o re n d e r in to s c re e n s a re o fte n s h a rp e r and ware developers, it's good news want a job in movie special full colour 3D. This is sometimes more defined than 4096 colour for the rest of us w ho reap the effects, you could do a lot worse called ray tracing, as rays from HAM-6 screens (the best output b e n e fits o f th e e v e r m o re p o w e r­ than send Steven Spielberg a the light sources are bounced off offered by non-AGA Amigas). Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMful software v id e o CV. G e t th e idea? th e su rfa c e s o f th e o b je c ts and AGA's HAM-8 mode is the best of W hy would you want to use a traced around the entire scene to the lot and can be indistinguish­ 3D rendering package? Apart from The basics produce realistic highlights, shad­ able from full 24-bit colour. th e o b v io u s fu n e le m e n t, th e re are All of these packages work along ing and reflections. We've compiled this guide plenty of useful and lucrative uses similar lines. Objects are created Animations are created in the to the prominent Amiga 3D ren­ fo r th e s o ftw a re o n th e s e pages. in a 3 D e n v iro n m e n t o r w ith a same fashion, but movement dering packages to help you A t th e lu c ra tiv e e n d . th e re 's p o ts combination of side, plan and p a th s a re d e fin e d b e fo re th e re n ­ decide which is best for you. of cash to be made from creating fro n t v ie w s a n d in itia lly vie w e d as dering begins. Rendering even the Take y o u r p ic k ...

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C in e m a 4 D is causing quite a buzz at the moment. Reviewed in the November 1995 issue of CU Amiga Magazine, this German developed ray tracer has just received its first translation to English, giving the rest of the world the chance to enioy the Amiga's most intuitive 3D graphics system. C in e m a 4 D manages to offer a wide range of advanced modelling and rendering features without demanding too much from your Amiga. It's possible to use the system in as little as 2M b of RAM, although serious projects w ill require more memory. This is partly due to its modular approach and the way it uses separate interlocking programs for various different tasks. Many of its competitors call for four or five times the amount of RAM just to get started' Everything about the system has been designed for quick and easy use, to the degree that simple scenes can be created before you've even looked at the manual. Although it may not have all the advanced features of some of its rivals. C in e m a 4 D is s till powerful enough to create some excellent scenes and animations. For anyone new to the world of 3D rendering. C in e m a 4 D is an ideal entry point and should also be considered by more seasoned artists.

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- firm favourite among many As the name suggests, realism is the key point here. Although it's long-serving Amiga users, not immediately obvious. R e a l 3 D works in a slightly different way | imagine is regarded by many to m ost 3D rendering software R e a l 3 D objects are 'solid' models, *s the best all-rounder, taking rather than empty shells made from lots of flat surfaces. R e a l 3 D nto account system require- can also render objects with curved edges (referred to as ’B- . ments, features, speed and splines’). Rival systems would have to use many smaller surfaces in -esults. Its main failing is in conjunction w ith smoothing algorithms in order to simulate curves. *s user-friendliness, which Bags of other tricks are employed to make R e a l 3 D scenes and doesn’t score too highly. animations more realistic than the rest. For example, simulations of However, once you get used glass and other see-through materials are accurately created, while to its workings, it can be the there's lots of help in generating living objects including a skeleton fastest way to generate 'kinematics' system and shrink-wrap texturing for clothes and skin Animation is one area in which Im a g in e shines particularly effects. Hardcore power users can even make use of the in-built brightly. Features such as morphing and tweemng take a lot of the programming language. Mainly due to the solid modelling tech­ nard work out of setting up movement paths, while the Bones fea­ niques. rendering times can be long and for the same reason gen­ ture allows objects to be joined together and moved as they would eral operation speed is low. W ireframe screens can take quite a in real life. If value for money is a priority. Im a g in e should rank while to draw when working with complex objects. To use R e a ! 3 D highly on your shopping list, as it offers a heck of a lot for just practically you w ill need a fast Amiga. W e recommend a 68040- £99.95 which is a bit of a bargain in the 3D rendering market based Amiga or better. However, the resulting images and anima­ tions are often streets ahead of those of its rivals. LightWave 4

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Tel: 0171 721 7050 ______Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMP ric e : £8 16.13 The cinematographer's choice: L ig h tW a v e could be held responsi­ ble for getting Amigas installed in countless TV, video and film pro­ duction studios, particularly in the USA. Its creators NewTek. who should be thanked for turning the world onto the Amiga 1000 its early days, used to sell L ig h tw a v e with their Amiga-based VideoToaster (an NTSC-only video effects system). L ig h tW a v e w a s later released as standalone software for all Amigas and has now just reached version 3.5. W hile it requires a big Amiga to run (stacks of memory and hard drive space) it really does the business. No doubt you've heard of the many big-buck productions that have used L ig h tW a v e : Babylon 5, SeaQuest DSV, Michael Jackson's videos and more. Its animation and modelling features are second to none, and if you have an Amiga that's big enough and fast enough to do it justice, you won't want to use anything else. Caligari 24/Broadcast

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C a lig a ri is available in tw o editions: 2 4 a n d B roadcast. N e ith e r ver­ sion offers full ray traced rendering, opting instead for ’scanline' ren­ dering. The advantage of this is that rendering times are much shorter than with the other packages covered here. The other main selling point of C a lig a ri is its user-friendly interface and fast 3D wire­ frame scene previews. Unfortunately the rest of the Amiga's system is temporarily disabled while running C a lig a ri s o y o u c a n 't m u lti-ta sk it with other programs. Caligari Broadcast is th e b ig b ro th e r o f th e pair, a n d o ffe rs e xtra animation tools and 24-bit output (unlike C a ligari 2 4 strangely). If ren­ 1 km made b hxuk \albeis tiank'j/ub. dering speed is your top priority, then C a lig a ri is well worth a look. Innocent sample waveforms are totally destructed in the name of creative expressionism.

e n d it. | s tre tch it. | shape it. © T h e re 's no e n d t o the a m o u n t o f fid d lin g a b o u t y o u can d o w ith a waveform in O cta­ MED . To le t y o u try it o u t fo r y o u rs e lf th e re 's yet another sample on this month's cover disk - TimeForBed in directory CU_l21:Samp!es - Range Start: [ T T B l Range End: [4829 s o load it in . Even better, a d d it to y o u r s am ple lis t firs t (see last m onth). n u m b e rs in to range s ta rt a n d e n d Click Edit Sample (top-right) to open this (see the marking ranges boxout month's focus window, the sample editor. The o ut). Play th e range (play b u tto n ) - b lack s q u ig g le in th e w in d o w is Tim eF orB ed's is it tim e ? - th e n c lic k e ra se (bot­ 'waveform', the sample in picture form. The tom-middle). Play the newly-edited th ru s t o f th e sa m p le e d ito r is m a n ip u la tin g this sample using the keyboard. Next Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMw a v e fo rm : m o v e th is b it t o th e re , cha n g e th e we'll remove 'for Lebanese', the v o lu m e o f th a t b it a n d so o n. B y th e tim e middle two waveform bits. Roughly you've finished the sample can be completely m a rk a range over th e m (b y drag­ m a n g le d ! The w h ite lin e alo n g th e w a ve fo rm 's ging), then referring to the same ce n tre m a rks zero v o lu m e : th e fu rth e r a pa rtic­ box-out. a d ju s t th e le ft s id e (range u la r p o in t is fro m th is lin e , th e lo u d e r the s ta rt) t o 6751 and th e rig h t s id e to p o in t's volum e. 18908. It'll take practice but you can always disp la y? U se z o o m in a n d zo o m o u t (b o tto m T h e sp e e c h s a m p le w e 'll b e s tu d y in g is a type in the positions if your mouse hand's a bit left). N o tic e th e d is p la y b o x value halving w ith good example because shaky! Once marked, play the range, click zoom in and doubling w ith zoom out. Another you can see seven e ra se a n d pla y th e n e w sam ple. way of zooming in is by marking a range, then sep a ra te b its o f N o w a ll y o u nee d to d o is c u t a n d paste m a g n ifyin g th is ra n g e to fill th e disp la y by sp e e ch (d is tin c t squig- 'g o a ts ' t o th e sta rt. The range s ta rt is alre a d y a t gles). Try 'm a rk in g a the start of ’goats', so adjust the right side of Marking Ranges ra n g e ' o v e r e a c h o f the th e ra n g e to th e fa r rig h t o f th e sa m p le (range A range is an area of sample wave­ bits, s e e box-out end should be 15109) and play the range as a form highlighted in w hite. Only one (m a rkin g ranges) fo r a check. C lick c u t (n e xt t o erase) to c u t 'g o a ts’ to range may be marked at once. guide, and play them the copy buffer. Finally, set both range start b y c lic k in g pla y (b o t­ and end to 0 using the box-out’s ctrFx tech­ a Mark a range by dragging the tom-left). Notice the n iq u e a n d c lic k o n pa ste (b o tto m -rig h t). Play mouse over the waveform while marker moving across the whole sample: hopefully it's turned into holding the left mouse button, th e ra n g e a s it's g o a ts fo r be d '. a To adjust the left side of the range played. S ee th e p itch (range start), hold the shift key b o x near th e b o tto m - Zooming in while holding the left mouse button right? T h is is w h y th e ra n g e s s o u n d a b it lo w : The more-than-slightly astute among you may on anywhere to the left of the range. th e p la yin g p itch is s e t to C-2. Set th e c o rre c t have n o tice d th a t, a s a re s u lt o f th e la s t p a st­ Then move the mouse. Similarly for p itc h (C-3) b y h o ld in g th e le ft m o u s e b u tto n on ing, the waveform has been magnified. See the the right side (range end), th e b o x c o n ta in in g C-2 a n d p re ssin g I (th e C-3 b la ck s cro ll bar ju s t b e lo w th e w a ve fo rm ? That a To m ark more precisely, zoom in key). Should be better now. Try setting other s h o w s y o u w h ic h b it o f th e w a v e fo rm is being before marking. Alternatively, type p itc h e s to o . I re c o m m e n d G # 3 b u t p u t it back displayed, roughly the left half. Drag the scroll exact positions into the range t o C -3 w h e n y o u ’re done. bar (to the right initially) to move around the start/end boxes (top-right) - click N o w it's tim e to th o ro u g h ly m e s s u p the w a v e fo rm , o r u se th e le ft/rig h t a rro w keys. O n inside the appropriate box, type a sample: we'll rearrange and remove waveform th e to p ro w . th e b uffsize b o x s h o w s th e le n g th umber, press Return. To quickly set bits until w e have 'goats for bed’ instead. Firstly (in bytes) of the entire sample, the display box box to zero, press Ctrl-X instead of w e'll take out the first waveform bit, 'time'. Its th e le n g th o f th e b it c u rre n tly displayed. ping a number. exact p o s itio n s a re 0 to 4 8 2 9 , so ty p e th e se B u t h o w d o y o u m a g n ify a n d re d u ce th e ■dung show (bottom-left). Click play display settings you thought were perfect turn out to Ifeeside zo o m in) to pla y th e c u rre n t display ruin yo u r creation. So b e fo re o u r n e x t e ffe c t Sample Some Of taren you've (inished, dick Show All (under- (change volume), dick >buffer (bottom-mid­ These Editing Tips seeth p la y d isplay) to s h o w th e e n tire sam ple. dle ) This co p ie s th e w h o le sa m p le to th e c o p y • Use monitor and 'hgiTZl together with a b u ffe r fo r later retneval. sound sampler to do your sampang Tyne Echoes of my mind M o s t e ffe c ts , in d u d in g ch a n g e vo lu m e , the required sample size into buffsoe fvst ^rhaps at this point you'd like to save the affect the marked range rather than the whole (maximum 131072 bytes), then cftcfc more- •o c to re d sam ple. U se a ny s a ve ite m in th e pro- sample. So to affect the entire sample, you to r t o o p e n a w in d o w th a t s h o w s w h a t's ect menu, although raw s the most compact. have to m ark a range o v e r th e e n tire s a m p le (if coming through your sampler Adjust the AFF and MAUD are really for Aura 16-bit sam- y o u g e t m e). T here's a q u ick w a y to d o th is - input signal's volume level until there’s no 96 S . a n d 's a v e s a m p le as' saves a s IFF 8SVX d is to rtio n , th e n c lo s e th e w in d o w a n d •*»ch also stores sample loop information (see click digitize to start sampling (interrupt ater) b u t w e haven't s e t a lo o p , so ... with the right mouse button). The sam­ Special effects time! We'll make the 'bed' at pling rate is controlled by the pitch boxes T e e n d o f th e s a m p le e c h o a w a y to nothing, e A 'sample loop’ sustains instruments by - r s t w e have to a d d extra sp a ce a fte r th e ‘ b e d ’ constantly repeating a certain part of the x a cc o m m o d a te th e ech o e s. S o e x te n d th e sample. To set it. switch loop on (bottom- sample to. say, 40000 bytes by typing 40000 left); tw o loop pointers' appear at either buffsize (just like typing into Range end of the waveform, marking the repeat­ - remember to press Return). Clear ed sample part. Adjust these pointers by wipe the sample out. so dick retain in the dragging their small black triangles across ter that appears. See the extra space? dick range display (above > buffer) now. Next, the display, or by using the loop point gad­ N ext w e m a rk a range o v e r b o th th e b e d ’ ope n th e C hange V olum e w in d o w (e ffe c ts gets. The < > gadgets move one of the th e spa ce b y ty p in g in 11044 to 39999 m e n u ! a n d gaze a t its m y ria d o f fea tu re s. The p o in te rs le ft o r rig h t (s e le c t w h ic h o n e open the echo window (effects menu), start and end sliders are the range start and j'll see there are three settings to Set. end’s percentage volume changes; for exam­ igh we'll ignore volume decrease. Echo ple. 50% and 200% would slide the range's •ate is the distance in bytes between each volume up from half-volume to double-volume. echo; cha n g e it fro m 4 0 0 to 4 5 0 0 . Set n u m b e r However, we’ll stick to the four easy presets of e choes t o 5 a n d fin a lly clic k D o E cho. Som e underneath the Change Volume button. ome later if you have a slow Amiga like mine, C lick th e h alve p re s e t and pla y th e n ew ly- O cla M E D 's n u m b e r cru n c h in g w ill b e c o m ­ half-volumed sample. Click double to reverse plete and you're free to play the newly-echoing the change, then dick double again. Notice the nstrument after closing the echo window. ug ly d is to rtio n ? You can _VJ Loop Low Point i J E C a C E E C ! Now. you'll notice that there's a bit of o n ly c h a n g e th e vo lu m e D is p la y ^ unused extra space at the end. Usually I'd so far before the maxi­ SanplK with the Start/End cycle gadget); < 0 and advise selecting Edit Menu -> Remove Unused m u m lim its a re exceed- 0 > search fo r z e ro v a lu e s w h ic h can be space, but this removes a little too much "extra ed (although Don't Clip prevents this). Close the good loop points. Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMSpace' this time (i.e. the final echo!) So mark C hange V olum e w in d o w a n d recall th e c o p y Alternatively, open the instrument para­ and e rase th e range 3 7 6 0 5 to 39999 b u ffe r b y c lic k in g s a m p le < . ■ m e te rs w in d o w (s e e la s t m o n th ) a n d ty p e Working w ith special effects involves a lot Ed W iles exact positions into the repeat and RepLen of trial-and-error and luckily O c ta M E D provides boxes. Repeat is the loop start position, a 'sn a p sh o t' fe a tu re to save y o u g rie f if th o se RepLen the loop length (not the loop end!). Back in the sample editor, remem-, ber that zooming in allows really accurate pointer positioning. Any constantly repeat- I ing waveform shape in the sample is often Retain existing sanple? a prime target for a loop - the AcGuitar sample on last month's cover disk is a good example. Clear I Cancel • S w itc h F R E E H A N D on (bottom-leftl then draw on the waveform with the mouse, just like D P aint. It's v e ry e xa ct, Do Anything Just For Effect? Take Your Pick though, so you have to be highly zoomed in; the maximum display size is 628 bytes! CHANGE PITCH retunes the sample. For example, to play note G-2 when you press • O th e r ra n g e -a ffe c tin g g a d g e ts s h o u ld the C-2 key, set the source and destination notes to C-2 and G-2 respectively, then dick be self-explaining R E V E R S E is a great Change Pitch. Raising the pitch shortens the sam­ one for speech samples and uncovering ple and vice-versa. dodgy hidden messages! [Effects e M IX mixes the current sample (source) with the And in the Edit menu; copy buffer (destination). The sliders adjust the • IN V E R T turns the range upside-down. . re la tiv e volum es. Change Volune,, GO Find a use for it and I'll be gobsmacked. a FILTER/BOOST reduces noise or brightens C H O P erases the whole sample except Change Pitch,.. the range. Averaging controls the strength. OP the ranged part (like Audiomaster's Keep). Distance controls the number of bytes that will COPY TO SYNTH EDITOR co p ie s Hix...___ OH be averaged. Averaging controls the severity of the first 128 ranged bytes to the synthetic the averaging. sound editor, our tutorial subject in a few a CREATE NOISE adds hiss to the range, m o n th s ' tim e . seemingly useless but use your imagination! Echo... OK PLAY BUFFER CONTENTS and a CREATE CHORD creates two to lour-note DISCARD COPY BUFFER a c t a s a Create Noise,., chords out of the sample; just enter the notes OH m e m o ry jo g g e r a n d a m e m o ry saver and click Create Chord. Saves tracks when (cle v e r eh?). Create Chord,, OH you're composing.. Image FX i

In this, the last of our Image FX cover disk tutorials, we'll be covering a range of ideas and techniques to inspire you to previously unsealed artistic heights.

parts will make the main image lighter and the middle grey tones will leave the s c i a a s i i s p ic tu re a s it w a s Bearing this in mind you can set about creating your alpha channel picture. For the tile effect used here, set up a grid of around 16x 16 pixel squares. W ith grid mode switched on. draw the top and left M o re th a n sides of one square your bikini ... in black with a fairly Why not use Im a g e F X to fu rth e r Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMthick pen size. Now your enviro-political cause? This draw the right and picture started life as a postcard bottom sides in from the tropics. It was then put white, then fill the through a solarise effect to give middle of the square the sky and sea an unreal quality. with grey. Pick up the square as Im a g e F X offers a few colour a brush, click the fill icon with changing options, all available the right button to enter the from the Colour button. If none options and select Fill From of them seem to fit the bill, try Brush. Now you can click using the Custom selection for anywhere on the screen to fill it interesting results. w ith tiles. Save this screen out to The shadow of the radiation disk and quit D P aint. symbol was initially drawn in From within Im a g e F X , lo a d D P a in t (for the sake of speed as your main picture into both the with the tiles in the previous main and swop buffers and load example). This was then loaded th e a lp h a channel u s in g th e A lpha b u tto n from the main control panel Select a filled rectangle from the drawing tools, and double click it to access the options a ve y o u e v e r w o n ­ last month, using a grey pattern Switch the Mode but­ dered what your bath­ as an alpha channel. ton to Rub Through, room would look like T h e a lp h a c h a n n e l is ju s t a Blend to 50% and w ith a picture printed normal picture, created with A lp h a to U s e as I ' S f A O on the wall tiles? No, D P a in l. It could have been creat­ T exture N o w d ra g a n e ith e r h a d I u n til I c a m e u p w ith e d w ith Im a g e F X b u t D P a in t is rectangle from the top this effect. It s quite simple to quicker for simple images like left of the screen to You'll need more create and the theory can be this. To keep things simple, you the bottom right. The used to add other textures to any should set up a palette ranging a lp h a c h a n n e l w ill than your MktnL^ pictures you may have. It works from black through grey to white. affect the main pic­ along the lines of the Break the T h e b la c k p a rts w ill m a k e th e ture and turn it into a ▲ Yea te e th •e U smetbei your imaps ia affects. Sometimes sabtfe Sound Barrier picture we created main image darker, the white set of bathroom tiles. tfcat's aeetfte te «et the aMtsaye acrass

- A This hMotiai mage was •*-» simple la create. The ongiaal image was a desa ep el aa aye takee with a caaicodai aed PreGiab 2ART. This was thee Hipped bsruoatally and pasted hack hesida tha anginal

in to Im a g e F X a lo n g w ith th e camcorder and a video digitiser, Parts of it were then warped with had to be legible, so this was put postcard picture in the swop or alternatively a scanner, you the Wave tool and various other on after the wave affect using buffer. The symbol was cut out can take pride of place on all tweaks were made. Finally it was the text tool. and pasted down onto the your friends' mantelpieces over twisted w ith the Twirl function. solarised postcard using a 40% the festive season by slapping Next up was the foreground Experim ent Blend setting. Finally the text your mugshot on all your cards! mugshot. This was scanned from To fin is h o ff w ith th e g re a te s t was added using the standard The background was made a colour transparency, cut out tutorial cliche of them all. experi­ te x t to o l. w ith a combination of effects. from the background and pasted mentation is the key with Image First of all a small portion of a onto the swirly red backdrop, FX. Some of the best results are picture was cut out, then expand­ with anti-alias turned on to often created by accident and Christmas ed far beyond its original size smooth out the edges’. curiosity. Use your imagination How about sending some using the Smooth scaling mode. The wave effect was simply and dig deep into the menus, personalised Christmas cards This avoids jagged pixelated applied using the Wave option combine multiple effects and Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMthis year? If you've got a edges by blurring the edges. from the Effect menu. The text generally mess around. It’s also fun to take inspiration from the media The chances are, anything you see on a poster, on TV or in a magazine can be recreated with Im a g e F X and your Amiga. Send us your best work for inclusion in our Art Gallery section. ■ Tony Morgan

That's your lot! And so we find ourselves at the end of the Image FX tutorial series. I hope you've enjoyed our monthly jaunts into visual trickery as much as I have. See you around. Pagestream 2.2

With compliments ... This month UAwvTIT 1 we expand your Pagestream stationery set with some compliment slips.

ver ihe last few months I have had We are now going to take the many people writing to me and publishing process a stage further ■■■■■ asking how they can add new by creating some of the textual « fo n ts t o u s e w ith P ageS tream 2 . elements for your compliment | nZZZu © Their question and many more w ill be slips. The design of these should I wjj-fc answered in this month's tutorial showing be very similar to the one used for T you how to make a stationery set without the letterhead last month, with I really trying. only slight changes being neces- I Last month w e looked at several subjects, sary so all the elements can fit _ * including creating pages for our stationery set onto a different shape page. I as well as adding guides, those ever so use­ M ost compliments slips are ful non-printing lines which make the placing made by splitting an A4 sheet of of elements on a page such a breeze. paper into three horizontal strips (one for each slip). Before you go ahead and create the first com plim ent slip, you w ill need ito make a note of the margin required at the bottom of the page. This margin is the one dictated to you by the printer (or printer dri­ ver) and the area on the page it can print to. Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMThis amount w ill vary depending on what printer and printer driver you are using. If [you can only print to within an inch of the bottom of your page, then the bottom margin !on all the com plim ent slips should be at least one inch while if it is only half an inch, you can use this amount as your minimum bottom margin. To begin the tutorial, start by loading or creating an A4 page. As w ith last month and •in common with the government's wishes. I am going to continue to work in a metric unit called millimetres. For three compliment slips, the page has to be divided into three horizontal sections. Managing fonts B Now we can add some fonts. Place a disk containing your fonts in any disk drive. If you are working on a floppy disk based system, this would probably be an external disk drive so you can leave your program disk in DFO. However, the west place for these fonts is in a drawer on your hard drive if you have one. The name of the disk I'm using for this tutori­ al is a highly original: MyFonts'. Click on the text tool and choose Fonts/Points from the Style menu. A panel will appear, at the bottom of which is a but­ ton called Font Manager. Click on it using the left mouse button. A new panel appears. Click on Add and a requester actually will s h o w its e lf. This can be achieved by placing a The type of requester will depend on your guide 99mm down the page and system. Running P a g e S tre a m from the floppy another at 198mm. This gives you a visual idea of how the page is to be divided. Zoom into the top half of the page by choosing 'Show Full W idth’ from the View menu. We can now work on the first compliment slip. Transfer that bottom margin to your first compliment slip by adding a guide above the first dividing line (one of tw o that divides the page into three). It's also a good idea to use more guides to mark out your top. left and right margins as well. For continuity with last month’s rM „ e ^ l0 le tte rh e a d , im p o rt th e sa m e picture for your compliment slip. Jargon Points the fonts automatically. Providing th a t is, th e fo n ts a re th e c o rre c t POINTS: Text and other publishing type like PostScript Type 1 for attributes are measured in a unit called example. If you only want a single points. These are very small (there are font to be added, you would need around 72 of them to an inch). to place it in a drawer of its own TEXT OBJECT A piece of text that and then choose that drawer. can be stretched both horizontally Those looking at normal Amiga and vertically. requesters should have no trouble TEXT COLUMN: Text that is placed in fin d in g th e ir w a y t o w h e re th e y a frame. Frames can be linked and have stored their fonts they want resized without distorting the text to add. Click on OK when you within them. have found your new fonts and then to save this configuration for i disks you'll probably get the P ag e S lre a m ever and a day. click on the Save requester. If an ASL.Iibrary is present in your Default button on Font Manager's Workbench Libs drawer (like it would be if panel. Your fonts should now be you are using a hard drive), a normal re a d y t o use. Workbench requester w ill be used Concentrating on those with floppy disk Text crazy d rive s. I w ill p re s u m e y o u r P a g e S lre a m d is k s W ith your fonts in place, the next step is to are the same as mine. If so. the requester cook up some text. To do this, click on the will have a button on it called Drive. Click on Text tool and then press Ctl-F or choose it and keep on clicking on it until you see the Fonts/Points from the Style menu. Choose name of the disk containing your fonts in the the Font required, the Text gadget at the top of the panel Your and click OK. fonts should also appear in the listview under the disk name. You don't need to choose a I file or a specific font to add - just tell ters or at most a small number of words. P ag e S lre a m the disk name or drawer (plus Once the text has been finished, choose path) of whore the fonts are and it w ill add the Pointer tool and then grab one of the handles on the text object. If you hold the left mouse button down and drt [(using the mouse of course), yyo o u w ill notice that you can make the textte bigger or smaller. Now size the text to susuit your compliment slip. Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMPlaying in the

the example here, where I am placing the text over an image, a custom drop shadow is box. Type out some text such as a name and needed to separate the text from the pictuip ic tu re , address for your compliment slip. If the text To do this, make ssure u re ththe e tetext x t oobject b je c t is sstill till is in the wrong font and/or the wrong size, selected (a clue to this is that its handles wwill select the text by pressing Right Amiga-A (the be visible) and choose the ObjectO b je c t /Duplicat/D u p lic a te equivalent of choosing Edit/Select All) and menu item or press Right Amiga-0 C Click lic k O OK then choose Fonts/ Points from the Style for one duplicate. Drag the duplicate away m e n u You can n o w c h o o s e s o m e n e w a ttrib ­ A S U V A . u n I M i — ~ A . MS* m i n* M » nit Ita from the other text, choose the Text totool o l andar u te s fo r y o u r te x t. c u m i Mil •Met SM.il IM A - M > ....1 ttifM t.is.1 ,M A .. chMse FmA/FmA h w Ac Stria m m . Im act a m I'M la a ft A t click on the text. Press Right Amiga-A or All that's needed now to finish the job is attnfealai lac (oat lait. choose Edit/Select All. to group the objects, duplicate them twice W ith the text selected, choose and place one duplicate on each of the other Object/Fill Style and clickc lic k oon n a tw o compliment slips. c o lo u r lo r y o u r te x t. T h is te x t As usual, there is never enough space to should now be a different colour cover everything, but you can be sure we’ll to ththe e oother th e r tetext x t aand n d ccan a n bbe e be back next month with part three and some placed over the top or behind the more hints and tips on working with old text to create a shadow. Just P a g e S tre a m 2 . ■ make sure Ihe picture is behind Larry Hickmott. b o th p ie c e s o f te xt. The last bit of text w e are going M ail Bag to create is a text column. This is Since the release of PageStream 2.2 text that is contained in a frame on the October issue of CU Amiga, I or box. These boxes are called have had quite a number of people Text Columns in PageStream and writing to me asking for advice. Due are different to Text Objects to the fact I have so little tim e these which we haveh a v e jujust s t flirteflirted d wwith ith a days, I apologise for not having w rit­ m in u te o r s o ago. ten back with detailed answers to To make a text column, choose these people but you can be sure that the Text CColumn o lu m n totool o l anda n d ddraw ra w a the subjects brought up in these let­ box underneath the main text ters w ill be addressed in CU Amiga's A Ta ciaata a caataai flap akaSaw. Aapikalf Aa lait tkftct hr P A 1 I*I SAifl Right heading. Click on the text tool (ga-R aad Aaa ■ing in AMII Alt ■ Aflaiaal eaiMi hr HiKIWg faaA a calaoi aaf atfA tutorials over the coming months. a Aa Objectrtll■ StriaStyle gaff I and stamp it down inside the text DPaint V Simulating embroidery and stone carving on your Amiga may seem far-fetched, but you can bring these ancient skills up to date with hardly a pricked finger or flattened thumb in sight ...

h e m u c h around 60 or 70 point) anticipated from the font a w a ite d requester Type in your additions to text in a bright colour. D e lu x e Now clip out the text A Ik. Hoi.tr On te n aM tl t.jhl limes its Urn use tin t, till O Hipped and rotated te nuke it appeal different tveiy time. The needle is P a in t5 a re n 't a s c o m ­ as a brush and outline a simple grey line aad the thread a freehand yellow swirl. prehensive as many it in red. To d o th is, people were expect­ select red as the drawing colour backing. Note how the red edges ing, however, they do o n c e yo u have th e te x t a s a brush give a nice finish to the effect. expand the program’s and press the 'o’ key twice. This Often you find this kind of useful life and offer will produce a nice edging effect embroidered 'primer', as it was some nice neat o n th e le tte r 's ' and w ill m ake it called, would also have delicate touches to help lo o k a s if th e w o rd s have been ornamentation; that's a doddle in im p ro v e a n y A m iga carefully hand-stitched. Cut out the D P a in t. Move back to the spare Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMartist’s techniques. text as a brush. page, clear it and draw a rough Over the next few Go back to the main drawing outline of a flower, five round issues we'll be brush­ screen Ij again) and paint down yellow blobs for the petals, an ing up on any new your brush. The bright colour you orange blob for the centre and a features which should chose w ill dim as it is painted, thin green stem w ill do. speed up your one of the effect's the minor The reason for this careless­ artistic endeavours. dab hand with a needle and drawbacks, but you should see it ness is because once the flower W e'll kick off this series with a thread, on computer anyway. texturise and it will appear as if it has been cut as a brush and simple project which produces has been sewn onto the blue painted onto the fabric, the great results without having to Em broidery expend too much effort. H e re 's h o w it is d o n e ... Use lo-res, 256 colour mode, and New textures from the effects menu, select Texture, one of version five's new texture/load and load in canvas- features, allows you to paint onto small. Use the filled rectangle a screen which already has a pat­ tool w ith a mid-range blue and tern imposed on it. You can't see draw out a rectangle. You will the pattern until you either paste see the texture applied to the d o w n a b ru s h , o r a p p ly c o lo u r colour - a kind of rough weave. with any of the painting tools but S w itch to th e spare p age {key j), it affects everything you do. and select a large font (anything There are plenty of textures to load in and you can save ones you have created yourself The fabrics and canvas effects are the most useful for general m iII 1 purpose work, as they simulate real-life media. i EY The golden rule is to experi­ ifeS ment with them all, judging for t yourself which work for you. It was during just such a session mmt i that I found a neat way to mimic embroidery stitchwork. Follow A Simple fellow te«t. edged with a red outline gives this tutorial and you'll soon be a all the appearance el hand-embrmdefed stitching when placed on the teitwed hack gionod the bottom and left. The text P lobal been anti-aliased (select High issues from the effects/anti-afcas me Our second tutorial b e fo re ty p in g ) to s m o o th th e takes us further into jagged edges in this low resc the workings of tion mode, and a drop shado D P a in t5 . again using effect added by initially paint texture in a novel way the red text down as black ( a n d in c o rp o ra tin g a F2 with black as the drawing really great piece of colour) then painting down as its miniature animation. If original colour (key FI), offsetting A h im it at ■« An unite taut I auabU abed you want, just follow the tw o images slightly. ■as crMtad isw| a m **1 tartan aad a variety of cataera lor the marble the steps for the static That's all there is to it for image and leave the the main image. But if you feel texture degrades it and makes a animation for another confident enough, we can go no n se n se o f a n y fa n c y d e ta il y ou day: the picture itself m u c h f u r t h e r ... might have used under normal cir­ is s trik in g , th o u g h cumstances. Once you have your the second smallest brush with pretty easy to do and can work flower, paste it down as many the background colour chosen as alone without the movement. times as you like on the embroi­ paint colour, draw out a line The effect resembles a marble dery. F lip it o c c a s io n a lly w ith th e x along each edge. The brush plaque, lit from above. In the an d y k e ys to g iv e d iffe re n t lo o ks w ill b e p a in te d ju s t 2 0 tim e s past, creating a surface such as to th e s a m e o b je ct. throughout the length of the stone required a lot of patience The final touch roughens up lin e , g iv in g th e b lu e fa b ric a and some skill. the edges of the blue material, ragged appearance. H o w e ve r, D P a in t s im p lifie s giving it a frayed and realistic Finally, the w hite cross-stitch­ th is a g re a t d e a l. To c re a te th e look. You could achieve this ing was added by drawing one x- marble effect, load in paper- effect manually w ith a freehand shaped brush, and using the rough as the texture, and with brush, but try the automatic way same line drawing technique, brown as the painting colour first if you want to save tim e and w ith N total equalling 20. draw a rectangle on screen. hassle: call up the line spacing The sewing needle and thread Watch in amazement requester (right click on the line is an optional extra, made up ot a as the underlying tex­ tool), and click on N total, and grey line tor the steel and a free­ ture creates a type 20 in the total box, Using hand line for the thread. realistic marble effect. Forget rough paper - this is realistic The Ins And Outs of Effects s to n e w o rk . The basis of any texture is a brush. You can load any item from The highlighted Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMthe textures directory as a brush and examine it to see how it was bevelled edges, which constructed, and which colours were used to add light and dark give the block sub­ areas to the image overlaid on it. If you're not happy with a partic­ stance, are done in ular texture, or want something more personalised you can create th e s a m e w a y, b u t your own. save it as a brush and load it in via the normal using light and dark texture/load option. g re y s a n d th e fre e ­ Another useful tip is to check out the inverse texture effect: this hand filled polygon switches the image and background ot a texture and in our example tool. Use light greys t t t to n ■ h i MHtA • h M b«a Iba ■ you can see how different your artwork can look. 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PD, except Licenseware, reviewed le c tio n o f A R e xx s c rip ts fo r th e the file names start simply with We've got to stress in CU Amiga Magazine will be 'Spot' Fidonet technology mail ’term'. Internet users can also how can they can surf 'hatched' into tw o Fidonet domain browser via Mama's helpful obtain Term 4.5 from the Darkside file-echos called 'CU-PD UTILS' Aminet upload function. These the world's Amiga BBS on 0181 7719100 and and 'CU-PD_SCENE'. These will scripts range in quality from Backyard on 0181 4242065. ■ resources at will on then be passed to London BBSes the Internet and pick who are free to pass them on up lots of invaluable fu rth e r a fie ld . M o s t o f th e PD Mailing list mix-up software for next to re v ie w e d c a n th e n b e o b ta in e d In the October Surf's Up page, w e printed details of the nothing. They need a from special file areas set-up on CU Am iga mailing lists. Response has been positive with friendly helping hand participating BBSes. 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A Mol« , pretty a i Mosaic. Alyns is. baveavec very last iad«ai and may be jast the shat far brotvsini Ihe WWW while keeping the phone bill f a n to a minimum. k AmiPhones discrete GUI doesn't show elf its impressive ability to taction as an lataraet telephone. and if not, it's enter­ taining at any rate. SOCKETCONFIG Error You need a standard Last month's tutorial on the Internet Relay Chat or IRC helped many parallel port sound users get onto the #Amiga channel. Most of which used t-e ArvRC sampler to be able to client mainly due to one point unfortunately omitted from lest send but anyone months W ired World. The socket library, required to enable the can receive. Grapevine IRC client to function with AmiTCR needs a tiny o n e kne The archive contains config file. This resides in ENV: and an example of which is: an installer, so it’s UID=200 GID=200 USER=mat DOMAIN=cu- best to extract the Am iga.dem on.co.uk UMASK=0 archive to a temporary Enter this line in your text editor making sure to change the user location, run the and domain values to your own. Then save as SOCKETCONFIG in installer and then the ENV: and ENVARC: assigns. Your socket.library should now delete the installer function correctly and Grapevine should work as stated. Apologies data. The Installer for the oversight. d o e s a ll th e w o r k fo r you by inserting lines viewers could be made to open in a fe w o f y o u r A m iT C P c o n fig ACUSeeMe - o n th e A L yn x screen to provide files. W hen it's finished, you'll pretty much the ideal turbo need to re-start A m iT C P to get it internet WWW browser. working. You'll need the address videophone o f a n o th e r A m iP h o n e user AmiPhone - before starting. Fancy a v id e o p h o n e o n yo u r Link up and enter 'AmiPhone' A m iga? H o w a b o u t A C U S e e M e ? internet in the Shell. Select TCP/Connect O n c e a ga in o n th e A m in e t, its fu ll telephone from the menu and enter the p a th IS c o a m / C c p / b c u i m h I address of the other AmiPhone _ 0 2 . l h » . It h as a b a sic installer Also residing in the comm/net user. All being well, super com­ which just copies the relevant CPU d ire c to ry o f th e A m in e t is a brand pressed A D P C M a u d io should be version to its final resting place A M m m , na la i i u u M k l M m kiM iktaXHiH ikwim n e w p ro g ra m c a lle d A m iP h o n e . transferred via the net and you c o m p le te w ith a p h o n e b o o k o f The full path is should hear each other if you both C U S eeM e s ite s k n o w n a s re fle c­ ' comm/nat/AmiPhone have sound samplers. Because of tors. No extra configuration is A m iT C P s c o n fig file s 0 . S B . l h a ■ a n d firs t o f a ll you'll the high CPU load needed for both required. C U S eeM e can receive It's p o s s ib le t o u se A m iS /ate nee d t o FTP th is to g e t started. th e s o u n d s a m p lin g a n d th e exte n ­ video as well as audio but unfortu­ without connecting to another A m iP h o n e is a p ro g ra m th a t sive audio compression routines, nate ly th is A m ig a v e rsio n d o e sn 't A m iS la le o v e r th e In te rn e t so you simulates a telephone conversa­ A m iP h o n e works best on su p p o rt sen d in g a s yet. can try th is firs t. O p e n it a s a w in ­ tio n o v e r a n In te rn e t conn e ctio n . machines with faster CPUs. H o w e v e r th e re a re p le n ty o f dow on the Workbench or a fresh The m a m adva n ta g e to th is is th a t A n A 1 2 0 0 w ith fa s t R A M is interesting sites in the phone scre e n , t o g e t th e available p a lle te Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMy o u can ta lk to a ny o th e r about the minimum system book to look up. Everything from an d s o m e p a in tin g to o ls . If you A m iP h o n e user on the Internet for requirement. Lowering the sam­ universities around the world to w a n t to c o n n e c t to another th e c o s t o f a lo ca l call to yo u r ple rate and using the 'push to the control room at NASA. You machine select the tcp/connect Internet service provider. The dis­ talk’ function will help lower its can drop in and get an animation m e n u a n d e n te r th e a d d re ss o f advantage is th a t a u d io requires a CPU needs and bandwidth in a window complete with another machine with A m iS late constant relatively fast rate and usage. If someone calls your sys­ sound. The frames per second in sta lle d . T h a t o th e r m a ch in e w ill that's difficult to achieve across tem. a requester will appears value is displayed as the video have a requester appear, announc­ the Internet However, if you have asking you if you want to con­ phone functions. It's very heavy in g th e A m iS la le c a ll in m u c h the some friends on the same nect etc. W onderful stuff, have a on bandwidth so if your link is sa m e w a s a s A m iP h o n e . O nce provider, it may just be practical go w ith a friend today. slow, it won't work well It also connected, both users can paint needs to run on a Workbench on the same picture and type in with 256 colours. It also requires small chat boxes at the bottom of MUI to be installed before you th e screen. can run it. A m iS la le 's comprehensive A re xx port is definitely its best fea­ AmiSlate - tu re . W ith th is it's p o s s ib le to design a multitude of toys, games remote paint and applications that tw o connect­ package ed A m iS lates can engage in over th e Internet. W ritte n b y th e s a m e a u th o r a s th e A va rie ty o f e xa m p le Arexx n e w AmiPhone, AmiSlale is an scripts are provided including absolutely wonderful concept It Chess a n d TicTacToe. Armed with a llo w s c o lle c tiv e co-o p e ra tio n in a s o m e k n o w le d g e o f A re xx and a s im p le p a in t package v ia tw o p rin t o u t o f th e A m iS la le d o c u m e n ­ clients running on machines con­ tation, it would be possible to cre­ nected over the Internet. Once ate y o u r o w n s c rip ts th a t c o u ld be aga in o n th e A m in e t. it c a n be run on both connected A m iS lates. found using the path:'comm/tcp/ Definitely w orth haying a look at. AmiSlatel ,3.lha'. The uses need not only be novelty Like A m iP h o n e . it h as an excel­ based but also serious applica­ lent in s ta lle r th a t n o t o n ly co p ie s tions. Here's hoping that plenty of th e file s to th e fin a l re s tin g p lace exce lle n t A m iS la le s c rip ts a ppear but also does the hard work of o n th e A m in e t b e fo re to o long. ■ A CWi i «• w suu n M *«•> It m m n W u n . k u im k »■ .« M it M i l m a kin g s o m e c h a n g e s in a fe w o f Mat Bettinson SOUND LAB

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ast month we looked at the basic operating functions of AudioMaster IV our cover disk from the November issue. However, over the O coming tutorials we ll be concentrating its more specialist editing options that make it stand out from the crowd. This month we'll concentrate on the the effects menu. To begin, load AudioMaster and then load in a sample. If you bought the CD edition of CU decimal places. Now that's precise! Taken to echoes fade away, with lower values leading Amiga last month you'll find plenty to choose extremes it can also be used for special to longer decay times. Number of echoes from in the samples directory. effects. Sample rate, pitch and duration can lets you specify a maximum number of Many of the following effects will be most all be set independently, either from the slid­ echoes. This is initially set to an infinite evident when used on longer samples that ers or the value boxes. Click the resample amount, although this is limited by the contain a range of different frequencies, data button to go ahead with the change. amount of ’workspace’ you currently have. such as drum and rhythm loops. Change volume M ix /fla n g e Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMTune waveform You can change the volume of either the The contents of the copy buffer can be Tune Waveform alters the default plavback whole sample or just a part of it. Select the mixed with the currently edited sample using speed and pitch of the sample. When you required area as a range, and then adjust the this option. This is useful for combining save the sound as an IFF 8SVX sample (the start volume and end volume sliders. For a instrument samples to make richer sounds. Amiga’s standard sample format) these set­ blanket volume change across the whole For example, a piano note could be mixed tings are embedded into the file. The pitch range, make sure that both sliders are set w ith a synthesiser sound and saved out as a can be defined in one of three ways: sample rate, period or note. The upsample button

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IPersonal Paint a ls o s u p p o rts tions on my Amiga with control their movements in the Anim7|. Files stored in Anim7 Deluxe Paint? 30 'space' and decide how an ■ A. Physically connecting mode play back a lot more imaginary camera can track the Amiga to the video recorder smoothly from disk. ■ A. F irst o f all. k e e p th e to ta l their movements. depends on your hardware and n u m b e r o f c o lo u rs In y o u r a n im a ­ The rendering software will the quality you require. An A1200 ■ Q . I have lots of tio n t o a m in im u m . If y o u can, then either generate a series of has a colour composite output different enimatione keep to 16 or less. If you are deal­ still frames or create a single which can be connected to the and titles which I would in g w ith im a g e s w ith lo ts o f Anim file. 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If v e ry w e ll w ith v id e o e ith e r but graphics and ’live’ video also pro­ with Multimedia Software such you have a n A 1200. you s h o u ld fill that's not to say it isn't possible vides a good video signal from a s C a n D o o r S cala T hese yo u r tra p d o o r w ith a s m u c h R AM You w ill need extra hardware the standard RGB monitor port). systems require a little more as p o s s ib le : a to ta l o f 6 M b is a and the cheapest is probably the Recording lengthy animations work, but w ill definitely provide minimum useful amount. Also, VideoMaster from HiSoft, (tel: can be done in three ways: the best results ke e p m o v e m e n t to a m in im u m . 01525 718 181, price: £69.95) 1. Buy about 32Mb of RAM Remember that it is the difference which w ill grab low resolution and store the entire animation ■ Q. Will an FPU b e tw e e n s u cce ssive fra m e s th a t monochrome video and sound in memory (not always feasible, make any difference to will be stored: two identical simultaneously. The quality unfortunately given the price animation speeds? fra m e s o n e a fte r th e o th e r w ill on ly makes it strictly for fun but It's o f m e m o ry ) need enough memory for the first very impressive. 2. Play back the animation in ■ A. No. a Floating Point Unit fra m e , th e s e co n d w ill b e 'free'. The ProGrab digitiser can grab sections, pausing the video w ill make no difference to anima­ Finally, if using a paint program frames quite quickly (especially recorder between each. This tion playback rates or even to a fo r c re a tin g yo u r a nim ation, the PCMCIA version) and like the technique w ill take practice and paint program like Deluxe Paint re m e m b e r th a t th e A m ig a w ill also VlAB Y/C system it will take good timing. o r P e rs o n a l P aint. An FPU will, need to keep the paint program several runs through a video tape 3. Store the animation on hard however, speed up any image its e lf in m e m o ry to make sure all pictures have drive and use a program like rendering or image processing been digitised. V ie w te k to play it back in one go. jobs by a considerable amount Q.. Can I render The best solution is undoubt­ For this to work, you may need and unless you know for certain animations with edly the VLAB M otion card, to take all the individual frames you won't need these applica­ Imagine or Real3D? w h ic h c a p tu re s v id e o a n d which make up your animation tions you should buy an FPU at compresses it with JPEG com­ and turn them into one big Anim the same tim e you get an ■ A . Yes. both these pro­ pression in real tim e to store it file. The best software for this is accelerator card. ■ grams and all other 30 rendering on disk and play it back. This T h e A n D e p a n m e n t P ro fe ssio n a l. John Kennedy Masterclass A new datatype pops up on a cover disk or BBS every few weeks. What the heck they are and what could mean for you? We reveal all.

ver w o n d e re d w h a t hap­ d iffe re n t file fo rm a ts le t it k n o w ro u tin e s w h ic h have b e e n p ro ­ p e n s w h e n a n A m iga about datatypes instead. The spe­ grammed into it: these will usually application doesn't know cific datatype knows how to be faster and more flexible. If the w h a t to d o ? It doesn't d e c o d e an im a g e in IFF, GIF o r application can't load the file in this O |u s t g iv e up: it asks a d a ta tyJPEG p e for format - the application pro­ w ay, it a sks th e s yste m if a data­ help. Datatypes were one of the g ra m o n ly n e e d s to k n o w th a t it type is available. If so, the datatype A lifM i I: *T B in I. M M m l fe w o b v io u s im p ro v e m e n ts w h ich can ask the datatype to do the loads th e file a n d passes th e data ca m e alo n g w ith W o rkb e n ch 3: conversion on its behalf. m , Carroll, llw H e n * . Fr— ty C y o u w o n 't b e a b le t o u s e th e m on T h is te c h n iq u e w o rk s very W o rk b e n c h 2 .0 4 o r o ld e r sy s te m s w e ll, e sp e cia lly a s w h e n a n e w S o * t o

and therefore you'll need to buy a file fo rm a t c o m e s a lo n g it is on ly Okay W o rk b e n c h 3.1 u p g ra d e k it (try a m a tte r o f w ritin g a n e w CU) Okay B litte rs o ft 0 1 9 0 8 2 6 1 4 7 7 o r Brian datatype If we happened to w VI.Mfaults CLP R an Disk. F ow ler C o m p u te rs 01392 4 9 9 7551 in ve n te d a n e w file fo rm a t w ith Q m iphsris.Mp O P Okay which consists of new Kickstart built-in compression called CLP Okay O P Okay R O M S a n d s y s te m so ftw a re . PlopC runch, th e n a ll w e nee d to r£ i.iK.datktypvs/Mf' d stslyw Okay d o is cre a te a P lopC runch u h t r n Dap OtP Okay What are they? d a ta typ e fo r a ll th e e x istin g pro­ R a n Disk: T he idea b e h in d d a ta ty p e s is to grams which support datatypes iru no» disabIM; typs CTRL-E to «nabl* it M >l" Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMd ivo rce a p p lic a tio n p ro g ra m s fro m so it can read the files. data formats. Rather than have an N o rm a lly w h a t h a p pens is th a t r application, a paint program for the application program will first i. this i i m s St ctn tcttk b* aktaf a IMP kalalrpc e xa m p le , w o rry a b o u t a ll th e o f a ll try to u se th e loading A tifBS 2: VI c to th e a p p lic a tio n program . Here's what some readers did with their WB You can see this happening S ince th e la s t p lea, several g e n e ro u s readers have s e n t th e ir b e lo w in a grab o f th e V ie w te k (VT) workbench backdrop into the office. Examining other peo­ image viewing program in action. I p le 's screen s h o ts is a g re a t w a y to g e t ideas to s m a rte n up have used the excellent S noopD os your own system: remember even with no additional soft­ u tility to see w h a t is g o in g on w a re y o u can s till u s e th e P references to o ls to give y o u r behind the scenes. system a totally unique Workbench display. In figure 1 you can see the VT The images this month are provided by Mick Pilgrim program load, look for some fro m W o rk s o p {see le ft) a n d W a yn e O ld h a m (see b o tto m defaults (unsuccessfully) and then rig h t) fro m th e Tony H an co ck A p p re cia tio n S ocie ty (details load the image file spheres.gif. o f w h ic h can b e o b ta in e d fro m 4 2 6 R o m fo rd R oad, Forest The VT program already 'knows' G ate, L o n d o n E 7 8DF). h o w t o lo a d GIF file s a n d d o e s n 't M ick's display uses a coloured backdrop picture (rather need to use a Datatype. than a tiled pattern) in bold colours. He has used a very In figure 2, the image is stored 1960's OCR-style font for the Icon names and a Menu utility in B M P fo rm a t - th e B itM a P fo r­ fo r a 3 D m a t w h ic h W in d o w s u ses. B M P is a p p e a r­ p re tty s lo p p y in th a t it d o e sn 't ance. compress data, but if you deal w ith PCs y o u m a y c o m e a cro ss it. Wayne has also used a single image for the backdrop / 5 s V T loads th e file a fe w tim e s but (this tim e in more subtle colours) and pretty obviously he is a bit of a fan of S cala. Notice also the various utilities cle a rly d o e s n 't have a c lu e h o w to scattered around the display: a clock, calender, trashcan deal w ith a B M P file , so it u se s the B M P da ta typ e . T h e d a tatype program and very sensibly a virus checker. o p e n s a n d th e n it lo a d s th e B M P If you want the world to see what your Workbench looks like, send a grab on disk to W orkbench pieces of file o n V T's behalf. Another program which makes creativity c/o John Kennedy. CU Amiga Magazine. Priory Court, 30-32 Farringdon Lane, London EC1R 3AU. extensive use of datatypes is Multiview: the viewing program Remember to include details of any special utilities you have running, as well as how many colours your display s *r j ? - I : w h ic h c o m e s a s sta n d a rd w ith th e system standard M u ltiv ie w ta k e s up. doesn't know anything but datatypes not to work on OS2 or 1.3 then I'm afraid you won't get much sympathy. If you had a PC you would be falling over yourself to c o u g h u p th e m oney fo r W in d o w s 95. so do y o u rs e lf a fa vo u r and g e t OS3.1 as soon as

Installing datatypes A n 'o u t o f th e b o x' sys­ te m inclu d e s o n ly a fe w A Miltiviiw liny ■■ riiutypes inkin' it u U1 ■■ liugefknuu. datatypes: text, AmigaGuide, sound datatypes, which makes it and some image formats are pro­ extremely flexible. Not only will vided in order to give M u ltiv ie w M u ltiv ie w load a n d d is p la y any so m e th in g to pla y w ith . A Hire Diiactan Obis k iu all the datatypes which I hare aa m> systaai m, latoarila m b baia' tha CDU ■fatal,pe which I usa la play bits heal CDTV CD-ROMS Cbacb aat bylaw fa, aa eaample af ths im a g e you have a d a ta typ e for. but A d d in g s o m e n e w da ta typ e s is it w ill a ls o lo a d a n d pla y anim a­ therefore a good idea and only d a ta ty p e s w h ich tions, sounds, text files and even n e e d s a fe w se co n d s w o rk . T here have been AmigaGuide documents. is n o co n fig u ra tio n to d o : it's o n ly a insta lle d o n m y M u ltiv ie w is a w e ll k e p t s e cre t and m a tte r o f co p yin g s o m e files. system. One of it pays to e x p e rim e n t w ith it, a s it Each datatype consists of two m y fa v o u rite s is is a v e ry p o w e rfu l to o l. parts. T h e firs t w ith have a nam e th e CDXL d a ta ­ B e sid e s s im p le v ie w in g p ro ­ ending in .datatype, for example. ty p e , w h ic h I can grams likes V iew tek. s o m e a rt p ro ­ JPEG.datatype. This file must be u se to pla y s n ip - g ra m s su ch a s P e rso n a l P a in t a lso copied into the Sys:classes/ pits of video support datatypes. Hopefully, datatypes/directory. from old CDTV with the Amiga's future looking T h e s e cond file w ill b e th e one CD-ROMs. Now bright thanks to Escom's market­ w ith a n ic o n a n d it w ill b e sim ply th e re w a s a file ing and pricing policies, more called JPEG o r GIF o r B M P or fo rm a t w h ic h applications will be updated to whatever. This file must be copied w e should all make use of datatypes and other to th e d e v s:d a ta typ e s directory. have heard Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMOS3 specific features. If you feel The screenshot of D ire cto ry more about. ■ tik e c o m p la in in g th a t it is u n fa ir o f O pus a t w o rk , to p rig h t, lis ts th e John Kennedy

n9 Where can I get datatypes? 'e * = OS 3.0 MultiPrint.lha Datatype based printer driver V39.0beta ’ for- cdt.lha Highlights c/c++ keywords PCX datatype V39.2 fo r Am iga OS 3.0 and B M P is V39.1 displays standard out of a cli-command picdt_42_l.lha C= Datatypes for W indows Icons, BMR Mac n't .2 .lha Loads debox images from CDTV/CD32 titles png_dt.lha PNG Datatype v1.0 eal lha Datatype for DFA PostScriptDT.lha PostScript Datatype V39.0 ross it. 9 4 .lha Executable datatype v39.4 fo r > = OS3.0 QRT_DT.lha Datatype for PovRay dum p form at (QRT) s but Datatype for Am iga fonts REKOdt392.lha Datatype for REKO cardsets, needs W B 3.0 io w to l.lha Datatype for Amiga fonts smpDTrl.lha Sound datatype: Samplevision 32Bit/OS3.0 s e s the 1 - lha A datatype for MaxonMagic's .HSN samples SUNdt396.lha V 39.6 of datatype for Sun Raster images a 0 .2 .lha Sim ply the best VOC datatype around! TargaDType.lha Datatype for Targa or TGA images, V 39.2 BMP 40.2.lha Simply the best WAV datatype around! textdtpatch.lha Patches datatype to support searching type-39.lha GIF datatype for OS 3.0 and up TIFF datatype. Convert 24-bit images m akes 4. lha Icon datatype v39.4 for > = OS3.0 ™ T hr lha V40.3 to read TIFF files is DataType for Am iga .info files TPD.lha Tron's PCX DataType 39.7 gram ifif_dtc.lha New JFIF/JPEG datatype (OS 3.0+) txl6wDTr2.lha Sound datatype: Yamaha TX16W 32Bit/OS3.0 ivith the Bugfix for JFIF/JPEG datatype (AGA) WPGdtype.lha Datatype for wpg images, V 39.0 DataType.lha A JPEG datatype, 3.0+ and '020+ required ZGIFDT39.16.lha The fastest gif.datatype there is Logos, meanings Got a problem? Our Amiga experts are on and mysteries: hand to resolve your Amiga queries. Address your technical queries to Q+A, CU Amiga Magazine, 30-32 Farringdon Lane, London, EC1R 3AU. Alternatively email us at [email protected].

Technical editor Tony : also likes to get stuck into Horgan likes a hardware r Amiga-related problems, Plug-in hardware problem to chew on while m we can finally tear him of any kind: he's creating choons. ly from the 'net that its. scanners, disk drives etc.

Thrash about Music bugs? OctaM ED a n d also to perform a few W h e n I g e t a g u ru I'v e ju s t tu rn e d 18 miscellaneous tricks, su ch as trig­ e rro r d u e t o p ro ­ a n d m y frie n d s gering notes a num ber o f tim es on a gram crashing and t j f bought me the single line or delaying notes slightly. I reset th e c o m p u t­ September ssue It's also worth remembering that if ® e r (s o ft b o o t) the o f CU A m ig a a s a yo u load a Soundtracker module hard drive starts birthday present. into OctaMED, some of OctaMED's going absolutely nuts trying to As I am a computer musician. I com mands are temporarily boot up. While this is going on was delighted to notice that disk changed fo r compatibility with messages appear saying 'disk not 115 included with the issue con­ Soundtracker commands. validated’ and ’ram :t not found’, ta in e d O c ta M E D 5.04. A s fo r th e messed up 8 channel or it boots all the way through to I s ta rte d to m a ke a s o n g w ith sound, we couldn 't get our copy to do W orkbench and still continues to it. However, after using it for it, so we're stumped on th a t one. Our access. Even when I cold boot s o m e h o u rs I fo u n d m a n y m a jo r guess is th a t you are setting som e o f after switching off for 30 seconds bugs in it. The speed commands the options in the wrong order. the hard drive still constantly (Fxx) aren't working and the speed OctaM ED 6 is highly recommended, accesses. Sometimes the access­ s lid e rs d o n ’t have a n y e ffe c t jw e ll. as it comes with a printed m anual ing stops of its own accord, and sometimes they do). Also the 9xx and loads o f new features. It's avail­ Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMother times I need to prompt c o m m a n d (s a m p le o ffs e t) m akes able fo r £36 in th e UK, £39 in the Form-feeds. some disk access from the the block scroll slower (it's like rest o f th e EC, a nd £41 in the rest o f page-breaks, W o rk b e n c h w h ic h th e n s to p s it. the Fxx command). The program the world. Payment from overseas preferences and has also g u ru e d th re e tim e s fo r • in the fo rm o f a banker’s lots, lots more! Ben Perry via E-Mail no reason. And when I enter the , payable to [email protected] 8ch mode, samples won't play any more, they just say tick. tick, order to R B F Software, M onitors, TVs. •'s nothing wrong with your tick (snap, crackle, pop). 169 Dale Valley Road, Southampton, m odulators, drive. T his process is quite normal. A ls o th e g u id e w h ic h w a s o n S O I 6QX. screen-modes I f your machine was writing to the the disk doesn't work. Some sec­ I f you're still lost for a solution, and all that stuff hard drive and an errant program tions of it work perfectly but most you can email your problem to RBF caused yo u r m achine to crash, the of them don’t. The article in the software at [email protected]. The magazine didn't tell much either. co.uk. Where can I get full documents fro m ? A n d ... w h e re c o u ld I g e t a Bigger A500 HD working copy of O c ta M E D 5.04 I h a v e a n a n cie n t from? I am disappointed. The pro­ Amiga set-up that gram has great potential. Is the is g re a t fo r m y CU Amiga version the only one n e e d s b u t n e e d s a with those serious bugs? I really s lig h t tu n in g fo r wish you were able to help me. $ perfection. Any is to reboot with help with the following questions held down, Mikko Tuomela via E-Mail would be most useful; with no startup- [email protected] 1 .1 have an A500+ with an A590 sequence' in the early startup 20Mb hard drive. I desperately Everything sequence screen. T hen sim ply wait It’s important to rem em ber that all o f need a larger hard drive. Is the y o u ne e d fo r the drive activity to fin ish (don't OctaM ED's commands are made up best solution an external SCSI answering about run any programs) and then reboot o f two hexadecimal digits, although drive linked to the A590 or to the internet again. Fourth Level Developments' th e first digit o f most o f them is zero. d u m p th e 2 0 M b XT d riv e a n d f it a (tel: 0117 985 4455) Ami-FileSafe The sample offset com mand is 19 larger drive in the A590 case? N ot everything file system doesn't suffer from this rather than 9. 9 on its own will 2 . T h e e x is tin g d riv e in th e A 5 9 0 is fits into a problem, so it may b e a good idea to change the tempo in OctaM ED b u t is very slow (230K/S). Is this the pigeonhole, but get hold o f it if this is happening used to change the sample offset in drive itself or the controller? If I anything you like regularly. AFS will also speed up ProTracker. The OF" com m and is add a 1Gb drive, will I get 2Mb/s fits in here. your drives. used to change the tempo in transfer and 9ms seek? 3 . 1 fin d Im a g e F X (o ff y o u r co v « f yam monitor to the video output of they be used together to capi­ on. your cover disks as a rule are d isk) a fa n ta s tic tim e sa ve r w h e n the video recorder fo r one possible ta lis e o n ShapeShifter s a b ility to very good but I think that this one compiling Imagine renders into solution. Since you’ve shown a keen read recent Mac ROM chips & got away Having worked out a fly animations using the IMP proces­ interest in expanding your A500 Emplant’s ports for AppleTalk? poster for an imaginary club. I sor. Unfortunately you have not based system, we won ’I recommend 5. If used with a Picasso II board, went to print it. done a tutorial on this powerful outright that you upgrade to an would these emulators run the Now correct me if I'm wrong to o l. Is th e re a n y w a y to fin d o u t A1200 (considering the spec of your Mac version of Dark Forces? b u t I th o u g h t th a t p u b lis h in g the commands? A500 already) but unfortunately the programs were for printing. Not 4 . If you send m e th e Im a g e F X AI200 and A600 are the only U n k n o w n , s o th is o n e . A ll I g o t fro m th e manual. I will write a tutorial for Amigas having both buffered RGB West Sussex printer was a load of garbage No publication in your excellent mag­ and composite outputs. nice little sketches I had made, azine. H o w a b o u t it? Fitting the Amiga in a Tower case is n o r w a s th e re a n y o f th e h ead­ 5 .1 am about to upgrade my Dodgy supply an excellent idea. A machine of lines or text. NOTHING OF THE processor to the MC68010 W HI l h a v e a n A 1200 A4000 spec could be created at much SORT. My God the printers given have problems with software fitted with an lower cost. However Ramiga have u p o n m e ' I th o u g h t. O u t w ith compatibility? Surely if programs 80Mb hard drive gone bust so their 7.5 Tower is no Protext again. Everything worked work on the 68020 based Amigas that keeps reset­ longer an option. There are other A O.K. Conclusion, the fault must the will work on a 68010? ® ting itself periodi­ developers reportedly working on lie with Desktop Dreams. 6. I w a n t to s p lit th e o u tp u t fro m c a lly fo r no their own and we at CU Amiga know the RGB port between the apparent reason. This is very there’s a massive market so it’s ju st a U n k n o w n . m o d u la to r (fo r a c o m p o s ite o u t to annoying, particularly if it hap­ question o f who comes out with the a video deck) and an RGB more- pens to do it whilst writing some­ goods first. O h dear. H r think you might have a tor. If I s p lit th e o u tp u t w * I x itro - thing onto the hard drive. What 1. Well, you could put a CD32 in a slight observational problem. The duce noise to the final output? If do you think is wrong w ith it? tower but you still wouldn't be able fact that you missed that the package so what would be the best way to Does it sound expensive? to connect a keyboard or any A1200 Is called PageStream 2.2 1 written in re d u c e th is noise? trapdoor expansion devices. The a 97 point font at the top o f the M r I W illia m s . CD32 doesn’t have those facilities. cover disk instructions) indicates you Sim on Hortop, Nottinghamshire. 2. If you fitted an A1200 mother­ might also have missed the fa d that County Durham. board to a tower, yes indeed you you have to set up your printer in This could be one o f several faults could. However, you would have to PageStream as indeed you have to 1. Both these options ore rioble and but it’s probably down to your power plug the Zorro slot break-out board do in any other DTP package on the we know both to have been success­ supply. Commodore provided a into the trapdoor expansion slot in planet. Protect has either got your fu lly performed in th e past. Which measly 25 watt unit in the last which case your trapdoor is used printer driver set-up correctly or is one is best depends o n the size o f the Amiga batch and these couldn't making it fu ll so you couldn’t use using your Workbench preferences. new drive. I fyou've bought a cheap power their way out o f a soggy an accelerator. We recommend that you purchase 540M b S C SI drive, there would be paper bag. The solution is to pur­ Hopefully, some enterprising the manual from Soft-Logik or fol­ little point in the expense o f housing chase a more capable unit from one developer will create an A1200 low the tutorial closely. it externally ju s t to keep the I slow) of our advertisers. Hotel's Goliath at Zorro break-out board with a Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM20M b unit. £44.99 is a healthy option. You can passthrough for accelerators. If you Wrong images 2. Unfortunately the A590 SCSI reach Date! on 01782 744707. mean with the CD32 motherboard, Using your excellent Im a g e F X controller isn’t very fast either. However, to find out if this is the the answer is definitely no. c o v e r d is k (CU A m ig a J u n e '961. However with a proper drive mecha­ problem, you might like to try and 3. Yes it does. w h e n I g o to s a v e o u t a p ic tu re . I nism you should get about double swop your power supply with that of 4. You could use Fmplant to capture am offered a number of file for­ that transfer rate. S eek rates will be a n o ld A 5 0 0 or even remove the the ROM images but the AppleTalk mats. If I choose ILBM I usually identical. hard drive for a time to see if that pons won’t work with ShapeShifter. e n d u p w ith v e ry la rg e file s . Another factor is that the 68000 helps. If it does, the power supply is O f course if you had an Emplant However, if I select JPEG the files isn ’I capable o f shifting the data at almost certainly to blame. board you have no need of are drastically reduced in size. th e highest rate modern drives ShapeShifter at all and can use its If JPEG files are so much smaller, can handle. A1200 Tower Mac emulation which supports surely the other formats are use­ 3. C heck o u t this m onth’s Im ageFX I w o u ld like s o m e AppleTalk. ShapeShifter does, less? Help? tutorial which this m onth covers the advice before I however, support AppleTalk via any IM P batch processor. splurge out on SAN A-I I driver which comes with Nick Speaker 4. Nice try. some serious any Ethernet Zorro card. Perhaps O xfo rd . 5. You 'll have no problems. Any e x p a n s io n . I have it’ll work via the P U P parallel A 1200 compatible material will run spent more than SANA driver to another Macintosh The reason that the JPEG files are o n the 60010 (so long as it doesn't a re a s o n a b le a m o u n t o f tim e emulator on another Amiga. Any smaller is because the use a 'lossy' need the AGA chipset). This will drooling over the Ramiga Z5 readers who have tried this, please compression technique, so called reduce your rendering times slightly, T ow er fo r lei us know. because some of the definition is lost but perhaps one o f the 60020 boards the A1200. with a view to pur­ 5. Yes indeed you can. In fact we in the process, defined by the quality fo r the A 500 m ight be a worthwhile ch a s in g a P ica sso II b o a rd played this and other doom-a-like setting. ILBM files include all the investment, such as that offered by amongst other bits. games on our A4000 running original data fo r each pixel. ■ Power Computing (see their advert in 1. If I was to install a second­ ShapeShifter - and they said the this issue). hand motherboard from a CD32 Amiga couldn't do such things! NO SAES PLEASE 6. This isn’t really possible o n the instead of my 1200s. would I W t ffQirt that we cannot A 500. The problem is not noise but gainyiose anything other than the A right mix up re sp o n d to rea d ers Q ueoes by rather th a t video signals can't simply AKIKO chip? —r t I u s e a n A 1 2 0 0 be ’split’ into m ultiple outputs. They 2. Could I Install a SCSI2 hard with an 80Mb HD need to be ’buffered’ with special cir­ drive and a Blizzard 1260 acceler­ \ and 6Mb of RAM. cuitry, otherwise the brightness level ator with SCSI controller? I W h e n I s a w yo u r will drop as it’s shared between both 3 . D o e s P a g e S tre a m 3 .1 U T J October cover devices. This is not acceptable for have EPS support? If not it’s disk for desktop driving either an K GB m onitor or a emulator time! publishing I thought 'that is for video recorder. You could connect 4 . ShapeShifter a n d E m p la n t: can me'. Desktop Dreams eh? Dream Welcome to the pages of the magazine that are dedicated you will soon get up to speed with something like solely to your views and thoughts on all things Amiga. Wordworth or Photogenics. As mentioned in the news pages o f this magazine we’ve included a Want to join the party? 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Letter of the month Not Just a games machine Poor man's Doom M o re p o w e r t o E sco m , th e y have an I feel th a t p e o p le a re u n d u ly d is tre s s e d about Thankfully, a fte r th e p re vio u s m o n th s o f u n ce r­ im p o ssib le jo b ahead o f th e m . T hey have th e c o n te n ts a n d p ric e o f th e n e w A 1 2 0 0 pack. ta in ty th e A m ig a is still h ere re a d y a n d w a itin g to cre a te a n A m ig a th a t w ill keep its head T h o se w h o on ly w a n t an A m ig a to pla y gam es to receive the supposed influx of 'great' titles a b o ve w a te r a g a in st in creasingly o n a re p ro b a b ly rig h t in sa yin g it is overpriced, q u e u in g u p to g e t a lo o k in. powerful PCs. b u t th e y m u s t u n d e rsta n d th a t th e A m ig a is a These titles include Gloom, Fears a n d A lie n H ow ever, th e average A m ig a u s e r is part c o m p u te r n o t ju s t a g a m e s m achine. B re e d 3 D and have been heralded as ground of the problem. Joe Amiga seems to be W ith th e in c lu s io n o f p ro g ra m s s u ch as b reaking D o o m beaters. W ell ground breaking co n vin ce d th a t th a t it is p o s s ib le t o create W o rd w o rth 4 an d Photogenics. th e £ 400 price th e y m ig h t be. D o o m beaters th e y ce rta in ly are an Amiga that blows away PCs, MACs and tag is ju s tifie d w h e n y o u co n s id e r th a t you're n o t. I m a y ju s t be n it p ic k in g b u t in th e s e types consoles, has endless memory and hard getting hundreds of pounds worth of software of games a rocket should explode on impact, drive space, for about $500. Please try to a s w e ll a s a to p m achine. and the bad guys should have more life. understand that killer' technology costs However, the general rule seems to be to Instead th e y h o ve r a b o u t a im le s s ly u n til th e y a n d having a to p o f th e lin e c o m p u te r co m p a re th e p ric e o f th e A m ig a w ith th e p rice a re e lim in a te d in a b laze o f a n ticlim a x in an means laying down some dinero. o f th e S aturn o r th e P laystation. T h is is c o m ­ u n im p re ssive tw o fra m e a n im a tio n , a s is th e When the Amiga 1000 was born, it was p le te ly ab su rd to c o m p a re g a m e s c o n s o le s w ith c a se in Fears. miles ahead of the competition, with its co m p u te rs . I m ean, w h e n w ill y o u ever s e e . Alien Breed 3D, however, is a lot better than graphics, sound and price. Your A500 has L ig h tw a v e o r Im a g e F X o r th e m a n y o th e r Fears, though. It has well animated and varying b een a ro u n d fo r a d e c a d e n o w a n d it m ig h t excellent programs on any of these ’next gener­ enemies, unfortunately the graphics are too Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMb e tim e to upgrade. D o n 't g e t m e w ro n g - ation consoles'?! b lo c k y a n d th e g a m e p la y v ie w is co n fin e d to m y s o u p e d u p A 1 2 0 0 w ill s till d o th in g s m y Another bone of contention is the lack of that small window. I haven't played G lo o m so I Pentium won't and I'll take Workbench over games such as Ridge Racer o n th e A m ig a b u t can't comment on that although it was reported Windows anyday but in many respects PCs we already have Pole Position a n d V irtual to have n o save o p tio n , fo rc in g th e player t o fin ­ have p a ssed o v e r th e A m ig a . W h a t w o u ld K a rtin g . W h e n D o o m came out nobody ■ ish th e g a m e in o n s e ssio n o r s ta rt fro m y o u rather w rite a c o o l n e w g a m e o n ? An thought it could be done on the Amiga but scra tch . T h is is rid icu lo u s. I’ve played th e D o o m Amiga, where the standard is still 1-2Mb of lo o k a t Fears, Alien Breed a n d G lo o m . serie s a n d D a rk F orces o n th e PC. T h e y are memory and no hard drive, or a PC, where Someone like Team 17 w ill bring out games something to behold and sadly the Amiga's th e sta n d a rd is a t le a st 4 8 6/33 w ith 4 -8 M b lik e Ridge Racer a n d Virtua Fighting e v e n tu a l­ batch barely scratch the surface. o f m e m o ry a n d a t le a st a 3 0 0 M b H D ! I ly, S o w h a t a re y o u a ll m o a n in g a b out? It's n o t ju s t D o o m clo n e s th a t have w o u n d would be more than happy to spend m e u p, I've bee n w a itin g fo r TFX for two years $1500-$2000+ on a good, powered up Name and address witheld n o w a n d have ju s t read th a t F rontier II is t o be Amiga but the existing market won't sup­ put on hold. It’s sickening, Amiga owners have port it. If you love the Amiga, spend some Beginner's dilemma to p u t u p w ith a lo t o f ru b b is h fro m th e s e p e o ­ money, for heaven's sake. In order to survive, the new Amiga A1200 must ple and it's becoming very boring. F a d e to I'm not saying we should go overboard, have top of the range software like S cala and B lack, th e 3 D sequel to Flashback is n o w avail­ b u t w e re g o in g to have to try harder if w e W o rd w o rth to help sell it. But what about new a b le fo r th e PC a n d it lo o ks stu n n in g . W ill it be expect the Amiga to, once again, surpass users? I remember when I first got my Amiga I available for the Amiga? Fat chance, Why? If th e clones. E ither th a t, o r it is tim e fo r th e d id n 't have a clu e h o w to u se it and, in a ll fair­ d e c e n t s o ftw a re is th e re th e n p e o p le w ill pay A m ig a t o re d e fin e its e lf a s a lo w -c o s t alter­ ness. not even your magazine could help me. fo r it, e v e n upg ra d e th e ir m a c h in e in o rd e r to native to power computing - ie. the 'almost It's all very well having modern, complicated play it. I whole heartedly agree w ith Mat a s g o o d ' c om puter. software but for the Amiga to succeed they B e ttin so n w h o w ro te a n a rtic le (w e lc o m e to You ca n 't e x p e c t th e cu rre n t c ro w d o f need to put in some simple-to-use stuff too. to to m o rro w , CU A m ig a O c t 9 5 p g 130) stating A 500. A 6 0 0 a n d A 1200s to p u s h th o s e pix­ make new and unfamiliar users feel comfort­ people w ill upgrade if they're given a incentive e ls fa s t e n o u g h . I really d o n 't lik e to sound able. No computer is very easy to use from a n d its true. It d o e s n 't c o s t th a t m u c h to th is bitter, I lo ve th e A m ig a b u t it is q uickly scratch but the Amiga has this potential. Who im p ro v e an A 1 2 0 0 considerably, if I can a ffo rd lo s in g g ro u n d a n d w e A m ig a n s a re to really wants to wade through those manuals? to d o it a n y o n e can. blame. Stop treating the Amiga like a toy I h o p e th a t A m ig a te c h n o lo g ie s g e t th e ir act a n d th e n w h in in g w h e n it d o e s n 't p u t the Eamon Mac Anna, Belfast. to g e th e r a n d really try to m a ke th e A m ig a w o rk , other computers to shame. restoring the faith of the consumer and publish­ There is a certain element o f truth in what you say, e r in a m a c h in e w h ic h is b e in g le ft a t th e b ack Norman MacDonald. Spokane. but there is also a limited amount that Amiga o f th e cla ss d u e t o ig n o ra n ce a n d laziness. Washington USA Technologies can supply with the Amiga. Simple T he q u a lity o f s o ftw a re h as t o im p ro v e and software would quickly become useless because, as potential buyers have to know of the Amiga’s you said, the Am iga is easier to use than most so existence through advertising and shop demos. W e 've been sa yin g th is fo r years. It w o u ld b e a machines everywhere, running their own hastily crying shame if the Amiga finally fails after all w ritte n , Sca/a-typ e p ro g ra m s a n d th e ir o w n ver­ T E A M TALK its been through, after so many have worked s io n s o f L ightW ave. November 5th, the annual hard, only for it to be superseded by the current The Amiga's strongest asset was its ability to y c onsoles. t o p e rfo rm m ira cle s a t a fra c tio n o f th e c o s t o f celebration of Guy Fawkes' s im ila r s ys te m s . H ow ever, a t o v e r £ 2 0 0 0 fo r an hot demise, saw the team Jon M ills, Manchester. A4000T and no low-cost A4000 desktops, the I A m ig a is b e in g p ric e d a t a t a ra te th a t m akes it abandoning their Amigas Er what??? o u t o f th e reach fo r m o s t individ u a ls a n d a co st and heading down to a local th a t m ig h t s te e r bu sin e ss u s e rs to th e c o m p e ti­ M y company is currently developing a tio n . C o m e o n E sco m , don’t le t u s d o w n , o n th e hostelry for some liquid networked marine training simulator based on o n e th in g th a t m a y d e s tro y th e A m ig a 's long an A m ig a . C ould you p le a se a d v is e on tenance and stories ... term future. possible contacts for companies or individuals, PH preferably in this area, who could manufacture ALAN DYKES David McLaughlin, Scotland. it custom input devices such as azimuth controls I on ce knew a bloke called Gay favAos for ships' headings etc. He was small, had moesy blond hair m d Attention Matt, Loughton walked with a limp. He said he w a s Michael Maccy, Nutec, Unit 3 Southern Desperately seeking M att from Loughton. related 10 Hie original Guy Fawkes bat Deemouth Centre, South Esplanade East, Yes you. Matt Barlow from Loughton, A chap we (H a l baieee bin eati he Died te Torry, Aberdeen AB1 3PB. Tel: 01224 248 481. called Neil Adams form Norfolk has kindly sent blew ear school up end die coys caught in a c o p y o f th e B BC e m u la to r th a t you w e re him and homed lain at the stake. This is genuine. Iree Honest asking about in Backchat October 95. m >9 Eh? Azimuth controls? Ships' headings? Maybe our readers could help? Contact the above address if Please send in your full address or you can. c o n ta c t u s here a t th e o ffic e , s o w e c a n send USA COLUNS m it o u t to you, I bate Gay Fawkes eight actually. It's the I Crossed wires? fireworks that annoy me most, hr fact I >9 Surely Escom have got their wires crossed Upgrade, why don't you bate plaaes, trails, tubes, ship s. can. are somewhere? As a business user, I use my I totally agree w ith Mat Bettinson's ‘Welcome crowded gabs, epee spaces, dosed e s Amiga for a variety of uses, including video and to tom orrow' points of view in the October •daces, people ceoghiog. sdoaco. scary m u ltim e d ia w o rk a n d during last year, it seem s issue. The reason the PC is so successful at stones, meeahght empty telephone that every tim e I walked into a shop or tele­ the moment is that PC owners are willing to bones, bat most ol o l fresyorts Hut go wboesh-haag aad make me jamp. phoned a computer company, I was told that buy the latest upgrades in order to play th e A m ig a w a s d ead a n d th a t I w a s th ro w in g Doom, Doom II, Bioforge, Dark Forces etc. my money ’down the drain'. I decided to ignore W h e n Q u a ke , w h ic h is D o o m III, appears it TONY HORGAN the comments and put my faith back into the looks like nothing short of a Pentium w ill do. I | When I was a kid we used te create nan only machine capable of performing miracles have a PC 486 DX2 80M Hz 12Mb RAM CD I what were known as smettyworks. This ing o n a sm a ll budget. Rom at the moment and that is quite ade­ I involved finding a large dog turd, stick• Since the Amiga has been out of the picture, quate to play 99% of PC games. ing a fvewoih in it and setting it of. It Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMthe competition have been working on their In total it has cost m e £500 to upgrade used to kill as bat it teas great laa. Bat o I own ’multimedia systems', effectively moving in from a 286 to present. I got the 286 for free. \M don't try this el bene M bs and always on one of the Amiga's strongest markets. Sure, It really upset me when Amiga owners moan rted wear rubber (pores aad gaggles. fin- the Amiga still has a few aces up its sleeve but about paying for more RAMetc just to be able even these are looking shaky There was a time, to play moderately enhanced games. PC torn not so long ago when the Amiga was the only hardware costs a lot more than Amiga stuff MAT small budget computer capable of handling and does just the same job. yet PC owners multitasking and multimedia marvels. L ig h t buy extra hardware in their droves! W ave sh o w e d th e in d u stry ju s t h o w se rio u s a Here's a small tip, 72 pin Simms id machine it was. Today, there are Multimedia advertised for the PC also work 100% okay irs with Amiga RAM expansions, yet are much De THE FAR SIDE By GARY LARSON cheaper. You can pick up a 4M b SIMM for ive only £85 pounds inc VAT and P&R yet some ------, | , , , . u 30- Amiga suppliers charge £139! ail- Julian.smith@ drugnet.co.uk> be HELEN DANBY Here's another small tip. Make sure you know ; I went te l lortooe teller wbea I was whether your expansion board takes single or •y very youeg who predicted thel wbea I 0 double sided SIMMS. If you buy the wrong type it grew ip, I would go to An school and simply won't fit, regardless o f how cheap it is. work with the letter A. I didn't believe her becoose. at the time. I m ated to bo o eurse ood work with childrea. 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h e re c a n b e fe w p e o ­ o u t - th e re s u lt w ill Andy Leaning, ple in the world who n a tu ra lly b e th o u ­ missed the launch of sands and thou­ ex-technical the latest operating sands of eager O system tor PCs. W indows ’95. p e o p le flo o d in g editor of CU Microsoft are spending a reported th ro u g h th e d o o rs o f $700million on the launch and dealers, like Escom Amiga subsequent marketing Every and Silica. major country was subjected to a Invariably su ch peo­ barrage of marketing stunts such p le w ill have a play Magazine and as painting fields around airports with the PC first with the W indows '95 logo. dragging icons current What has this got to do with around, c lic k in g o n you? Surely such an onslaught the infamous Start technical will attract more users to the PC WinUm '85: m im«i oBerai i*r««*8 » * ' i»« Amij. krat .imft b u tto n a n d pressing market, away from Amiga tech­ been doing h i tea years. keys. The tw o repre­ editor of our nologies' home computer. Well the second reason why I suspect sentative stores I named earlier yes and no. Yes, the mass adver­ W indows '95 w ill help the Amiga. w e re ch o s e n b e ca u se th e y a re tw o sister PC tising behind W indows '95 will Take a look at the features list of o f th e la rg e r retailers, w ith s to re s help the PC cause but I also W indows '95: multitasking, plug in m o s t to w n s . B u t th e s e tw o Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMbelieve it will considerably help 'n' play, easier configuration for ch a in s also h a p p e n to ca rry b o th magazine PC th e A m ig a . games, no more MS-DOS th e A m ig a and PC. a s d o m a n y (cough!), icons that can dragged o th e r dealers, s o th e re 's m o re than Review argues A better option a ro u n d th e d e s k to p . a g o o d ch ance th a t n e w users T here a re tw o m a in re a so n s w h y I Heard this before? Of course g o in g in to s u ch s to re s w ill see th e that Windows th in k W in d o w s w ill h e lp th e you have, approximately ten years Amiga, sitting there strutting it's Amiga. First. W indows ’95 will ago to be precise, just about the stuff, doing it better, and doing it '95 is good for initially drive up prices of hard dri­ s a m e tim e th e A m ig a w a s fo r h u n d re d s o f p o u n d s less. v e s a n d R A M , m a k in g th e A m ig a launched,the reason - because th e s e a re ju s t s o m e o f th e te c h n i­ Easily swayed the Amiga. look an even more attractive cost o p tio n . H o w ? A s W in d o w s needs cal advantages that the original Of course millions of people more RAM, 8M b at least, and Amiga had and it had them ten around the world w ill still go for swallows drive space millions of years agol But in the last ten the PC, there are plenty of rea­ W indows '95 users around the years the Amiga operating system sons to do so. I'm not for one world will be upgrading. hasn't stood still, it's undergone m in u te s u g g e s tin g th a t th e A m iga H ow ever, fo r th e im m e d ia te numerous improvements. Today's is a b e tte r c o m p u te r, o r w o rs e fo r future at least, there aren’t m o d e ls a re fin e tu n e d . T h e ir m u lti­ that matter. However there will be enough Simms and hard drives to tasking is highly efficient, the many people who w ill be swayed, m e e t d e m a n d th u s fo rc in g th e plug-and-play equivalent in b y th e c h e a p e r A m ig a o p tio n . price up. It's expected that single AmigaDos near perfect (com­ These n e w u se rs w ill w a n t th e Simms will raise in price by pared to the first PC version in same kind of software that they almost 30% in the next six W indows 95) and works on every could get for the PC and will bring months, making new PCs and PC A m ig a - ra th e r th a n ju s t th e m o re valuable extra spending power to upgrades more expensive. recent models, games almost the Amiga market, encouraging The Amiga, however, with its always work first tim e and, well software houses like Softwood. low overheads, doesn't need huge y o u g e t th e idea. Softlogik, Digita etc to spend more hard drives and memory and will The end result is that the on R8D and produce better titles. b e c h e a p e r b y c o m p a ris o n . Amiga operating system and O f c o u rs e th is c o u ld a ll b e a P e o p le w a n d e rin g in to dea le rs h a rd w a re w ill a p p e a r t o d o a p ip e d re a m , b u t I fo r o n e d o n 't showrooms looking for PCs will much better job of these 'new' think so, and neither do several The opinions express be faced with having to pay more features than the PC and anyone of the larger dealers now stock­ ing the Amiga again after its held by CU Amigo Mi than they expected for a PC and (even those without computing then see a cheaper Amiga doing experience) w ill recognise this. recent sabbatical. See you in pretty similar stuff for much less. Now think of all that expensive the stores. ■ CUAMIGA@cu-Anligr 'Pretty similar stuff': there lies marketing M icrosoft is pumping Andy Leaning 68060

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