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810MB 2.5 IDE £599
1 GIGABYTE 2.S IDE ,., £719
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ec hd
External IDE hard disk for the A500
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M-TEC AT50Q BARE , , , , , £99
M-TEC ATSOQ 420MB £259
MEMORY REQUIRES 30-PIN SIMMS
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Save 1 .5MB on a standard floppy drive
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£35.95
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External PCMCIA 3.5" IDE hard disk
OVERDRIVE BARE , £99
OVERDRIVE 420MB £259
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4 TO 8 GIGABYTE £899
2 TO 4 CARTRIDGE DL90 £12
4 TO 8 CARTRIDGE Oil 20 ...£19.95
128 OPTICAL £479
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1.3 GIGABYTE OPTICAL £1999
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AURA £79.95
MEGALQSOUND £29.95
VIDEOMASTFR AGA £59.95
VIDEOMA5TERAGARGB . . . .£99.95
VIDEOMASTER £52.95
VLiDEQMASTEfl RGB £89.95
COLOLiftMASTER £52.95
PRO MIDI INTERFACE £19.95
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512 X 32 SIMM 72-PIN (2MB) £75
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2 X 32 SIMM {8MB} £279
4 X 32 SIMM (16MB) £449
1 X 8 SIMM 32-PIN (1MB) £30
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1 X4DIP £25
256 X 4 DIP £5
1 X 1 DIP £5
CIA £12
GARY £19
PAULA £19
DENI5E £19
SUPER DEMISE . . .■ £25
KEYBOARD IC .£12
FAT AGNUS 1MB ....£19
FAT AGNUS 2MB £29
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RS232 CABLE £6
SCSI EXTERNAL £15
WORKBENCH 3,1 A5Q0/20Q0 . , £85
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ROM SHARE DEVICE £19
2.04 ROM CHIP £25
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POWER SCAN 4 COLOUR £169.95
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SCAN DOUBLER II
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A4000 TOWER
£349
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£159
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£15
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System On-line 82
Take a took at the latest events and news unfolding in the
Amiga games world
Preview: Tiny Troop* 91
Direct gangs of vertically-challenged people in Lemmings
meets Cannon Fodder
CD-ROM goes public 92
Millions of games crammed onto single CDs? Andy MaddOCk
decides Hit reslly i$ bargain basement
Preview: Center Court 96
Anyone for tennis? Andy Maddock takes a look at Acid Software's latest
Preview: Citadel 99
T?na Hacketl reveals yet another Boot clone in She pipelines -
this time from Poland
Competition 191
Win yourself some Sensible Golf goodies if* our competition
Budgets
More at the latest chaapies tor the skinfints among you
102
Came Heuieius
Super Street Fighter 2
Gamer Gold
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Its Panasonic's PD Drive reviewed by Ben Vost
StalafllDlDO 23 Panasonic Driue 51
Scala s new Mpeg encoding and
decoding card comes under scrutiny
Laser Guidance 2t
Garettt Lofthouse gives you his guide to
the latest Amiga CDs
Sonnet Doubler 29
Ben Vosl looks at a simple way to double
the speed of your Amiga 4006 046
Tune Builder 3D flet [Wife 53
Paui Austin gives you a full review of
this acclaimed music package
Ben Vost tries out new versions otfibbsac,
ACUSeeMe and he Mbsac -.Hodst
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Garelh Lofthouse and Tina HackeTt iound out some of the speakers tor our Amkjas
fflultimedia Future 50
GareLh Lofthouse reports on the people
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Amiga price shock
Any hopes that the 1200 would be
released lor under £200 have been well
and truly quashed wilh the news that the
relaunched model will cost £399. This
means the machine will reappear at £50
mare than when it left the marketplace in
the summer of last year, The reason given
for such an increase is the cost of higher
charges for rushed manufacturing, casing,
and the increased cost of DRAM.
The 68020-based 1200 is ex peeled to
hil UK high streels al the end of
September with a maximum ol 60,000
allocated to British distributors.
The biggest shock, however, are the
prices rumoured for ihe re-release of fhe
4000T - after an American distributor
announced that they were lo sell the
4DD0T for 53,500, Amiga Technologies
fired back saying that this simply wasn't
the case and no price had been decided
upon yet.
Since then, a meeting has taken place
in Philadelphia where several key figures
Irom Escom/Amiga Technologies including
Petro Tyschtschenko, Senior Vice
President of Escorn and General Manager
of Amiga Technologies, and many distnbu-
tors from round America, attended to
discuss the Amiga's future in the US.
Apparently al the top of ihe debating list
was price.
The rumoured cosl for the 4000T will be
in Ihe J27QQ region - the reason given
was ihe expense of parts being pui
together costing that much.
A surprising plan also unveiled is that
the 4000T wiN receive no advertising from
Ho Rmigas in Escom shops
n has been confirmed by Petro Tyschtschenko,
Senior Vice President of Escom and General
Manager of Amiga Technologies, that the Amiga
will not be appearing in any of the Escom shops
dotted round the country. The reason for this deci-
sion was explained by Tyschtschenko: We used
to stock the Apple range in our shops but it was
unsuccessful. We would need people who were
Amiga educated but the Escom shop staff are very
much geared towards the PC,"
Instead, it looks like the main bulk ot sales
will be made through the Independent retailers
and any chain stores that decide to come on
board.
Amiga Technologies in the States on its
relaunch - Tyschtschenko told Amiga
Computing that any advertising would be
handled by the distributors themselves.
There wilt be some 1200s winging their
way to the US of A, Johnaihan Anderson,
the new general manager of Amiga
Technologies UK, explained: The Slates
will be talking the 1200 in small numbers
but we've found the American consumer
prefers the lower-style type computer and
not the look of the 1200."
As for the 4O00Ts relaunch into Britain,
according to one UK company, White
Knight Technology, they were told by
Silica, the distributors, that the high -end
machine will definitely be released in the
040 version at the confirmed retail price of
ET.900 + VAT. It will come wilh 2 meg chip
RAM. 4 meg FastRAM and a 1.2 gig SCSI
2 hard drive.
The (act that for this price there will be
no monitor or CD drive included in Ihe
setup has drawn gasps of honor from hofh
sides of the Atlantic. Also, the 060 version
to be released later on is rumoured to cost
an estimated £2 : 150 + VAT. No-one at
Amiga Technologies was able to give a
definite answer on pricing al the time of
going to press.
Tyschtschenko also commented that
Ihey still weren't sure how they were going
lo markel the 4000T on its arrival in the
UK: 'The US market is very buoyant and a
good market for Ihe 400OT, but we're still
planning what we'll be doing for Europe -
if s a very niche market for the machine."
Meanwhile, the manufacture of the
new life For UistaPro
machine is taking place in a factory near
Bordeaux in France by a company called
Solectron. For your E399, Amiga
Technologies is throwing in software as
part of a bundle to go along with the
machine. The Scaia MM300 has been
announced as a package (hat will go with
the system, but it's doubtful the package
will ever appear for the tloppy-based 1200.
Anderson commented: "There's no point in
including the Scala system with a floppy-
based 1 200 with no hard drive - il would be
impractical. The 1200 wilh a hard drive
though is much more practical and useful."
Questions are still being asked about trie
size of hard drive that will be provided - a
figure floating around currently is 1 70Mb.
Bad news, though, came in the shape of
the CD32 - apparently there are no plans
presently for resuming the console in !he
States or the UK other than being possibly
used as a key technology for kiosk
displays. This was verified by Jonathan
Anderson, but he hastened to point oul that
there are deals going on with various
companies including a Canadian bank lo
use the CD32 in the commercial arena
The future of the FMV cartridge is looking
decidedly shaky as well if reports are to be
believed.
There was a meeting between the
general managers of all Ihe European sub-
sidiaries on 3 August where many matters
such as pricing, distribution and much mote
were resolved. Any official news will have
lo wait though until the press conference to
be held by Amiga Technologies on 16
August. More news ne*l month.
The much-heralded landscape package has
received a useful airy in Ihe form of GeoMorph. The
utility Is a landscape morphing program that allows
the user to create surrealistic fly-by animations.
There are several types of morph available:
Linear morphs where the entire landscape changes
at a constant rate, accelerated morphs where the
change accelerates or decelerates, and 'wipes'
where ihe change starts at one side or corner of the
landscape and sweeps across.
Grow or shrink trees, amply or fill lakes, change positions of rivers, make clouds that move
and change, plus alter treelines, snowlines and sea levels on the fly. GeoMorph requires
Vista Pro 3 and a system with hard disk and a minimum of 4 meg. Costing S69.95, interested
punters should call Chaocity on 001 80S 925 7732.
GcoMorptv, Bringing nnw life to VistaPrv
Amiga Computing
OCTOBER 199 5
NEWS
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It you're desperate for a sneak preview of the up-
and-coming Amiga machines, the "Internationale
Funkausstellung" fair is being held in Berlin and
Amiga Technologies, together with Escom and
Virtual Products, have booked iheir
own booth. This is the
first time the Amiga wi
be given its official air-
ing since Commodore
crashed,
Held from the 26 August to 3
September, the 1200 and
4000T with different con figura-
tions and several applications will
be on show for Amiga fanatics to
gaze over. Also rearing its head are the much talked
about Virtual i-O's i-glasses. Exclusively distributed
by Escom in Europe, the glasses are a virtual reality
headset that will allow computer images and televi-
sion pictures to be displayed in them,
and is fully compatible with the
Amiga. Apparently, the
glasses have received
positive feedback from
the industry with IBM
and Microsoft committing
themselves to support the
new hardware.
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reality in tome lidci a xltrp c loner
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In a distinctly tongue-in-cheek move, the
Trade Union's Congress are planning to
open its very own Cyber Canteen at the
forthcoming Congress from the 11-15
September in Brighton. They are also
unleashing their own web site as a
forum for debate and information. The
address is: http:tfpoptel.org.uk/tuc
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Amiga Technologies UK team Amiga architecture
Atte* ihe 'ailed attempt by David Pieasance lo buy Commodore
UK as an on-going concern, the new face of Amiga Technologies
based in Maidenhead near ihe aid headquarters of C-UK has
appeared on the second llcor of a high-street rented office.
Heading the team is Jonathan Anderson, ex-Product Markeling
Executive for C=UK, with support from five other former
Commodore employees including national account manager Bob
Bumdge and sales manager John Smith,
Anderson is quick lo point out "that it's a real team effort here,
We're working together to make the Amiga an absolute success
on rts relaunch "
And for those wondering whal happened to David Pieasance
and Colin Proudfoot, former managing directors of the UK sub-
sidiary, Anderson sheds a veiled light on the subject: 'They were
offered a package and subsequently declined the offer."
The Amiga is continuing its saturation of
all walks of lite - this month sees the
merger between Delphus Visuals, a
graphics and animation house, and Visual
Space and Illustration, an architectural
computer modelling consultants.
The end result is a collaboration that'll
produce animated walkthroughs and fly-
bys primarily for the architectural commu-
nity and property developers. Using the
Cyberslorm 060 accelerator, the company
has big plans for the future using the
Amiga.
For more details on how to see your
dream home turned into a virtual reality,
contact Simon Wilson on 01633 613300.
multimedia on the increase
After the announcement of ImageVision from imageLab last month, another company in the form of Optonica are
on the verge ot releasing a multimedia package in September to rival Scalas, There are two versions up for grabs
-MM Experience and MM Experience Pro.
Trie former is aimed at home users allowing the combination of graphics, animations, music modules, text,
5&und samples and CDXL video into standalone presentations or productions. The package comes with a free
{fisiribution player so thai any end results can be circulated among potential viewers.
The MM Experience Pro is suiled to the
professional developer wanting to create
CD-RDM-based projects, point of informa-
tion, and point of sale projects and interac-
tive TV interface systems. Featuring all the
facilities of the standard version, ihe more
advanced additional functions include ani-
mated menus, optimisation for CD, project
management facilities, CD32 controller
support, ISO prep and ISO build functions.
project chaining and more.
The MM Experience retails at £39.95 and
tfie Pro version at £249.95.
Also announced is InfoNexus 2, the file
management system, with a host of
improvements and new functions at £29,95,
For more details on any of these products,
contact Optonica on 01455 558282.
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Tha Imtamt In multimedia proHutti
Visitors to the Museum of the Moving
Image between -the IT and 29 October
are being offered the chance to
contribute to an animated short film
called Going To The Pictures as part of
the Get Animated event being held
there. In conjunction with the Art
Councils web site, The Hub. internet
users will be able to download the film
as it is made. The web address is:
http://www.ace.mdx.ac.uk/Hub/Hub.hl
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The home page
Already receiving a warm welcome from
visitors, Amiga Computing's home page
is waiting to be perused. For the latest
news, previews and reviews, simply type
in:
http ://www.demon .co.uk/a m igacomp
[lew browser on
the waq
While Netscape aren't exactly on the
verge of releasing an Amiga version of
their now world-famous navigator system,
P'Jami is a new browser based on the
still-in-development HotJava which has
been winning some acclaim for its unique
features. Developed by Sun Micro-
systems, they ere making the source code
available to anyone wishing to port the
program over to another format.
To have a chat with the development
leam, send some e-mail to the following
address: ami ga -h otjava & ma il . i MNet.de
I
Oops
In our article on Colchester Zoo last
month, we gave ihe impression that
Optonica's authoring system Interplay
had been written by Premier Vision, This
is not true and the package was solely
created by ihe bods at Optonica.
Amiga Computing
OCTOBER 1995
NEWS
Quad speed far 12DD
Quad speed CD-ROMs are beginning to infiltrate ihe Amiga market, ushered along by
the arrival of Silica's Overdrive Quad Speed unit for Ihe 1200 Connected through the
PCMCIA card slot, the CD-ROM is IDE-based and capable of holding up to 650Mb of
information with a transfer rate of BOOK/sec,
The makers claim that the Overdrive 1$ also compatible with the majority of CD32
software and has Kodak PhotoCD and multi-session compatibility. The kit will set you
back £249 and can be ordered from Silica on 0181 -309 1111.
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compatibility with Mm ma/orily of CD32 ioltwmm
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IDore Amiga
products
This month sees the announcement of a
host of products for the Amiga from Gordon
Harwood, First up is the new PnoGrab Plus
package featuring S-VHS compatibility.
Also included is the new version 2.5 soft-
ware and the real-time colour frame grab-
ber and dkjitiser costs £1 29-95- For existing
users an upgrade is available for £4.95.
For user? wanting more power to their
Amiga, Harwood have also announced
several products for customer perusal. The
new 12 30-1 V board features SQMHz &8C30
technology and the Bliziard 1260 Turbo
Board apparently brings the performance of
the Cyberslorm 060/50 accelerator to the
Amiga 1 200. The prices for ihe former are
£199.95 and for the latter, £599.95.
For more info, contact Gordon Narwoods
Oh 01773 8367S1,
Duer the rainbow
Cybersysiems have a limited quantity of the excellent Rainbow III RTG graphics card
for sale. The Rainbow III comes with 4Mb of super fast VRAM and runs under the EGS
system. These beards are available for only £275 from Cybersystems on 01843 292150,
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H Fresh start
The maker of award-winning monitors
liyama have launched two more in the
new family of redesigned display
units. The 17" and 21" Vision Masters
come with a new sel of controls tea-
luring just three buttons that allow a
variety of differing functions, With an
on-screen display and economically
designed cabinets, the 17"
MF-8617E (available in September)
costs E575 and the 21 H MF-S221E
(available in October) retails ai an
expecled £1229
More details can be obtained from
liyama on 01438 745482,
Twisting qour arm
You should approach friends who are
members of the Special Reserve
Discount Club with care - the Club
has announced its 'Summer
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offering a fiver to any current member
who can Introduce a new member lor
more than a year. The money will be
accredited to their accounts with the
Club and can be put toward aj
purchase.
The offer ends on the 3D
September and for more details, con-
tact Special Reserve on 01279
600205.
1200 BHpansion
CeV Design have announced the
arrival of Zorro 3 Expansion for the
1200 in Ihe shape of Ihe New Model
4B Chassis. Due lo ship this Autumn,
Ihe unit offers five Zorro III slols, two
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lace for an external keyboard lo maka
the 1200 into a full tower case. There
are also two video slots and a CPU
4000 slot plus four PS/2 Si mm
sockets for memory additions.
For more info, contact CeV Design
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Bliteed
For those interested! in Blitz Basic 2, a
new disk magazine has been unveiled
called Slitzarama, Aimed at beginners
and experts alike, a free copy of ihe
first issue can be obtained by sending
a SAE to: Blitzarama, 8 The
Deepway. Quorn, Loughborough,
Leicestershire LE12 8HG.
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NEWS
The price isn't right
KQ
he US Amiga market is cau-
tiously optimistic about E scorn's
prospects lor reviving interest in
the Amiga on this side ol ihe pond-
New Amiga 4000Ts are on the way for
US customers, bul it appears at press
time that Escom don't believe (here's
enough interest in the A1200 over here
10 Justify releasing an NTSG version in
North Amenca. This has a large group
of dedicated Amiga Followers anxious to
upgrade to AGA but unable to justify an
A40C0T upset.
Rumours of a stratospheric $3,500
price for a basic A4000T unit hit the
nets in July and nearly caused wen
high-end Amiga users to panic.
However, Escom issued a statement
that no price had yet been set, and it
appears thai the units, will sell for under
£3000, Even at that price, though, it
appears that Escom views the A4000's
Norlh American market as strictly
Gnawing on a
flGUJ Termite
Oregon Research have updated
their popular Termite comms soft-
ware {distributed in the UK by
HiSoft) to version 1.10, which
sports a number of new features
and bug fixes. Among the
improvements nre built-in ZMotiem
(the program still supports exter-
nal XPH protocols as well), built-in
ANSI and VT102 terminal emula-
tions, as well as KEM-based sup-
port for the RIP graphics terminal
emulation popular on PC BBS sys-
tems, much faster scrolling, and a
multitasking review buffer.
Other enhancements include
chal window history, an improved
dialer, support for multiple
palettes. ARexx support in the
macro subsystem, and an
improved manual and quick-refer-
ence card. Most of the nagging
bugs that plagued the initial
release have been squashed - I
have yet to see a crash in this
version,
The Update price in the US is
S10 tor a new disk and quick refer-
ence card, or £15 wilh the
improved manual as well, For
more information, contact Oregon
Research. 16200 SW Pacific Hwy..
Suite 162, Tigard. OR 97224 USA:
phone (503) 620-4919: fax (503)
624-2940; or e-mail qrres@tele-
port.cpm, (Conlact HiSoft for UK,
update information,)
Bering Bthin reports an the IIS market's —
umeftaintti about the new Amiga —
package and prire —
high-end video. Despite the Amiga's
superior OS, it's hard to justify spending
52995 for a 25-MHz, 6Mb A4QQQT with
a 540Mb hard drive and no monitor,
when the same money will buy a name-
brand 120MHz Pentium system with
16Mb, 1.2Gb of hard dnve space, a 17-
inch monitor, and a quad-speed CD-
ROM drive,
Despite a growing concern that
Escom have not only picked up
Commodore's hardware line, but also
their marketing prowess, a number of
US companies are still working hard to
news
provide new products for Amiga users.
DKB has a 68060 board in the works
{look for details next month). Final Wnter I
4 jusl shipped, and Oregon Research
has updated Termite, the only
commercial terminal program available
m the US.
SoftlllDod branches out
SoflWood, once the tiny publisher of a few top-notch
productivity programs, are branching out to become
one of the big players in the US Amiga market The
company recently purchased the assets of now-
defunct New Horizons, and now they've announced
lhat they'll: be carrying Phase 5 hardware products in
North America, including the Cybervision 64 graph-
ics card. Blizzard 1230-111 accelerator and 1220-4
RAM board, Fastlane Z3 SCSI card, and Cyberetorm
060 accelerator for the A40OO, Other exciting news
is lhat SoflWood have hinted that the company will
be working with Phase 5 to bnng 68060 accelerators
to the At 200. A2000, and A3000 series as well.
In ihe meantime,. Final Writer is seeming to be an
oddly inappropriate name for the company's word
processor. Softwood has now released version 4 of
this 'Final' program. The updated version now sports
an improved: user interface with click-tab access to
pages, sections, and requester areas, making many
functions a click or two away and saving the trouble
of wonting through layers of requesters.
Casual writers will appreciate the addition of a
professional grammar checker to the program, as
well as the ability to pull up readability statistics. And
if you've cursed Final Writer's mechanism; lor select-
ing bold and italic lext, you'll be happy to know thai
it's finally been made simple. The upgrade's only
$30 from any previous version.
In (he US, contact Softwood at <fi00) 247-8330
(voice); fax (602) 431-8361, or e-mail
75300.670@compuserve.com lor more information.
European users should contact iheir local distributor.
Breakup of the [IS
The CompuServe Information Service
(CIS), home to four Amiga forums and the
only US online service wilh easy access
from the UK, has announced dramatic
price cuts. The network's hourly rates
have dropped from $4,80 an hour to $£.95
per hour, and the S9.95 monthly fee now
includes five hours of access to all
services.
Revamped software is on the way for
the Mac and PC, bul It remains to be seen
whether CIS will support Amiga develop-]
ers who want to create front-ends for ouj|
favourite computer. Hopefully they will, i
it appears CIS isn't going to update
text-based portions of its services, b-LrtJ
rather concentrate on building its Mo
like graphical user interface.
CompuServe also announced thall
they're going to create a second service,!
code-named WOWI, that will he geared |
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L DITOHIAL
-^O
onathan Poller says he won't
carry on, Games publishers say
it's the reason they've dropped
(he Amiga. Big Amiga names like ASDG,
Gold Disk, New Horizons and Digital
Creations have all dropped beta* ihe
horizon for one reason or another. It's nol
necessarily all connected with piracy, but
it has to be said lhal piracy on the Amiga
is nio
Sometimes people use piracy as
an excuse because the only way they
can get to see a piece of software in
these Amiga shop-free days is to get a
dodgy copy pf it from a friend, This is par-
ticularly irue of serious software - shops
are pretty much guaranteed to be able
to sell a £25 game, bul a piece
of software retailing si £250? They
aren'l likely lo want to take the chance it
doesn't sell,
The software companies can get
around this to some extent by making
more demo versions of Iheir software, lim-
ited time versions, save disabled ver-
sions, versions where you can only use a
tiny area of the screen. It would help peo-
ple make the decision to buy and would
probably result in increased revenue for
the company. They will, of course, still
have the problem of ensuring a wide dis-
tribution of Ihese demo versions, bul with
magazines panting for new material and
the Internet becoming ever more popular,
only the insular of companies will find
themselves with difficulties.
But the area hit hardest is certainly
games. People rip games off left, right
and centre. It's not just an Amiga
phenomenon - every week in the leisure
Computing trade mag CTW, some
company or other is claiming ihey have
lost millions of dollars (billions in some
cases) in revenue owing to piracy. This is
sometimes because a pirated v sion of a
game is in some way improved jiving the
player endless lives or the ability to install
the game onto a hard drive, and I may
be in a tiny minority, but I won't buy a
game thai won 'l take advantage of extra
RAM, processor power or additional
floppy drives,
I'm also nol keen on games that don'l
install on a hard drive. Perhaps it's about
The RC team
The final uersion
Iflommodore hasn't
hilled ihe Rmiga. perhaps
piracy mill Ben tfnst
Isshs at an euer more
dangerous problem
lime games companies looked to the
somewhat higher end of the market. After
all, who's more likely to buy a gam© - a
person who actively expands their Amiga
and is willing to spend money on it, or
someone whose only investment has
been a joystick'
Escom need to have a concrete
software strategy In place, It's all very well
getting the hardware back in place, bul
without companies like ASDG and
LucasArls back in the fold, serious and
games users of the Amiga may as well
give up now and get that Mac or PC.
Perhaps, like Microsoft. Escom need to
have an in -house software team creating
new word processors, games and image
processing packages, They could afford to
get the best programmers out there, par-
ticularly those in the public domain and
shareware fields, and really bring some
quality software back onto our beloved
platform,
Added revenue from software sales
could help to bolster R&D budgets,
pushing the Amiga back towards the
forefront of computer lechnology - where
tl belongs and was (en years ago. We are
getting faster base level machines with a
greater capacity tor RAM, and hard drives
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fdjfUjW
are becoming more and more common
place, but there are no staggering
advances in the graphics, sound
operating system lechnology that power
the Amiga.
The operating system could definite
stand a little more game-friendliness,
you give programmers the tool?, rhejr
need to rapidly scroll screens, pLyj/bafl
animalions, or manipulate bobs in IN
OS, publishing houses wouldn't need
reinvent the wheel with every game the
write. This won't improve the situation vcl
a vis piracy, but it might attract some rJ
the game publishers back from olher platJ
forms where these things are, or will soori
be, taken for granted.
So who is this Jonathan Potter? He'!
the guy that spent the lasl four year^
developing Directory Opus, only to threa
len lo give it all up because his softwan
is available from every pirate BBS in
world.
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COVER DISKS
Entracting
touEfDish files
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month's CoverDisks, you may
have noticed a slight change to
normal. We are now using Commodore's
installer utility to try and make extracting
the archives as easy as possible for you.
To extract any single archive, simply
double -click its icon and follow the on-
screen instructions.. If you want to quickly
extract the program to RAM. select the
NOVICE level on the welcome screen
and press proceed once on the current
screen, and then again on ihe next, The
program can now be found in your RAM
dtek,
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Address
Author: Dirk Federlein
Workbench; £.04
Everyone has an address book of one
sort or another. Generally they are fairly
tatty things with plenty of scribbles, cor-
rections, and different hand writing
styles, What you need is a program to
keep all your loved ones' and friends'
addresses and phone numbers stored in
a convenient place,
DFA really is the perfect solution. The
program is split into a number of smaller
parts, $0 the main executable is small
enough !c keep in your WBStarlup
drawer, tf you ever need to find some-
one's address DFA has a Applcon. so a
quick double-Click is all thai is needed to
pop up ihe main DFA screen with a list
view of all the people in your address
book.
To install you should really use the
provided installer script as it is a little
complicated and a number of tool types
have to be set correctly. Other than that,
it should be quite painless as virtually all
the DFA files are held together in a
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people into four bulqino address book
single directory. The first thing you will
notice when you run DFA is that is has a
very handy tool bar across the top of us
window. All the more common com-
mands are accessible via this loot bar. If
you are not sure whal each icon means,
just place the mouse pointer over the
relevant icon and its functions will
appear in the information cox at ihe top
right.
Adding new entries is very straight-
forward. Click on the New icon, which is
the little folder icon. This pops up ano-
ther window with a number of fields. The
form is fairly standard allowing you to
enter, among other things, the person's
name, address, phone number and up
to ihree e-mail addresses. You can cur-
sor between each field, and each
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Fran ftBF* you can chang* wftteh columns of
the addrmtm NttWaw display what ini&rmntian
person can be placed in up to eight
different groups.
Once you have a few people erne red
IrUo DFA you can cursor up and down
the list on the main window, A selection
ol their details is displayed in a small
window al the bottom, or you can view
their entire entry by pressing, return or
double-clicking.
DFA comes with a fairly comprehen-
sive preference program, along with the
fairly normal window positioning and a
choice of the fonts it uses. You can
change exactly what information is dis-
played in both the main address hstview
and also the smaller panel Hstview that
Is at the bottom of DFA's window.
A couple of DFA's more unusual fea-
tures is (hat it has been designed with
network use in mind. Therefore, a num-
ber of people can share the same
address book over a network without
any of the usual read/write conflicts.
The other unusual feature is I hat if you
have a modem attached, and then a
phone connected to your modem, you
can get the computer to phone up a
particular person.
epoch uoiiagef
Author: Jack Prltchard
Workbench: 2.04
1$ your life a mess? Never know what you
are meant to be doing next? Always
forgetting about loved ones' birth-
days, weddings or bar mitzvah? Well,
epoch Voyager can help you get beck on
track.
This is a lully-lealurad Personal
Information Manager, so if anyone asks
you know what to tell them, Voyager
allows you to store all your coming
appointments, special events, deadlines or
whatever you need reminding about.
The main screen of Voyager is a diary
which allows you to select a specific day
from which you can enter a Start time,
an end time, a category, an occasion, a
location and up to nine pages of text.
You can also have a daily planner with
up to 50 lines of text in each entry.
Whenever you run epoch Voyager, it
will check the next seven days to see if
you have any entries in your diary.
Along with the plain diary, it is possible
to add anniversaries so every year you
will be warned ot impending birthday or
wedding anniversaries. Along with these
features you can also add simple
reminder messages. By entering a date
and a +- days amount, you can jog your
memory on a daily basis - hopefully
never forgetting some important task.
For a wider view of things, a year
K«ip your life in order, and n««« mi«
.another date with epoch Voyager
planner is provided where every day of
the year Is available. Just click on the
appropriate day and all the relevant
entries for that day can be viewed, If
that was noi enough for you, there are
two separate address books. II is possi-
ble to search between the address book
and you diary for any coincidences,
Consequently, if you wanted to know
what appointments you have with Fred
Bloggs, there is no problem
PlaglB
Author:
Workbench: £.04
When the Amiga first arrived ten years
ago, its custom sound chips were slate
of the art, and even today the sample
quality produced by the Amiga is super-
ior lo the PeeC's basic Sound Blaster
and Ab lib boards.
The fact that other platforms have
realised thai people might actually want
their computers to make some sound
has meant that over the last lew years a
number of incompatible sample formats
have emerged.
Along with Ihe Amiga's own IFF-SSVX
format there is Wave. Voice, Sun Audio,
Maud, AiFF and not to mention plane
raw sample formats - most of which can
handle 8 or 16-hits, mono or stereo, and
additional sample compression,
Play16 will allow you to play all the
above mentioned sample formats and
more. There are a number ol ways lo
use Play16, the simplest being lo run it
and use ihe file requester to choose a
sample. PlaylS will then auto detect the
sample type and play it.
There are some more advanced
options available which can only be
accessed from a shell. Two of the more
interesting ones it provides include
direct Maestro Pro output, if you own
such a board, and also lhal it supports a
new sound driver system called Cyber
Sound,
Amiga Computing
OCTOBER 1995
COVER DISKS
ps3fn
Author: Jamo Paananen
Workbench; 1 ,2
There are more tracker players on ihe
.Amiga than fish in the sea. Well that's
probably not true, as there are not too
many fish lefl in ihe sea, but thal's what
you get for having an unmanaged natural
resource.
Anyway bach, to PS3M - what does it
do I hear you cry? Weil, it could have
been just another typical pro tracker
player. But whal PS3M does is support
the new PC tracker formats, specifically
FS3M 3,110
PS3M Will hxndlm
anything up to 33
channel* - it your
computer can lmkm
the strain
11-channel Scream Tracker 111 nodule:
Fantasn <S3H.Fantasn)
Mixing rate: 16898
VoLune boost:
Playing node: surround
Systen: on
Using 82B+ nixing routines
I BB82 Fantasm
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Scream Tracker 3. and ihe scream
Iracker file extension is S3M'. hence
Ihe name P53M.
Even though trackers were invented
on ihe Amiga, the emergence of high-
end sound cards for PCs has meani
thai PC trackers new support up to 32
channels at IS-bit. It might sound
impossible for the Amiga to reproduce
this feat, but an At 200 wilh fasl memory
will happy manage 16 channels at aboul
24 KHZ,
One of the interesting features is that
you can specify what speed the sam-
ples should be played at, and this
ranges all the way down to 4KHz -
although any thing above 20KHz gives
good results. Afong with the normal sup-
port for Protracker and Scream tracker
modules, PS3M will also handle 6-8
channel Fast tracker, 1-32 channel styJe
Protracker, and finally multiTracker
modules.
You are not just restricted to the
lypical mono or stereo sound output
either. PS3M has support for fake
surround sound, or even real surround
sound for all you people with Dolby
Prologic decoders, and if lhat was nol
enough for you, PS3M can replay at
14-bit qualify, A word ol warning, how-
ever. U you want to use all these
fealures, do no! ex peel lo have much
processor time left.
Uiru5 [hector
Author: John Veidthuls
Workbench 1.3
This Is another favourite that should
reside in everyone's WBStarfup drawer.
Those nasly viruses are always on the
prowl, so a good virus checker is essen-
tial. The latest version adds more of the
nasly hlllters to its armoury, so you
will have even more protection than
before. Sounds like a good under arm
deodorant.
Cyber Sound
Author: Christian Buchner
Workbench: 2.04
If you want to use the 14-bii output of Playl6 you are
going to need the Cyber Sound device, and being
the nice chaps and chappesses that we are, here it
is, Cyber Sound allows your Amiga lo produce sound
output al 14-bit quality, at speeds of up to 60KHz r
depending on what system you have. The drawback
is that if requires mare processor power and is only
really usable with an 020,
This miraculous feal Is achieved by mixing two
channels, one playing al maximum volume. Ihe other
al minimum - so producing a stereo output uses all
four channels, The end resuil is that playing a 16-bit
sample produces a lot less hiss' than the normai
way o\ cropping II down to S-hits-,
To get the best results, a calibration preference
program is provided. This allows you to test the
Amiga's sound chips over its entire sound range, and
Th* Cybnr Sound calibration aHowa
you to tint tun* th* 14-bit ttrpiay
lets Cyber Sound accommodate the slight variations
thai exist in all Amiga sound chips. Doing the calibra-
tion will allow Cyber Sound to produce (he besl
output quality possible
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VHK
Author: Gaal Marzlou and
Philippe Bastianl
Workbench: 2.04
Yet Another Kommodity. as the man sak
Yak is another one of (hose wonderfu
commodities. Commodore did manage to
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provides pionty f usatut functions
Tiff Data Type
Author: Bert. Wynants
Workbench: 3,0
Tiff is a widely-used image formal in trie
computing world, even though if has never
really been used on the Amiga - probably
because IFF is a good all rounder : 1 is!
aboul time someone did a Tiff data type,
because it was about ihe only major
picture format lhat was not supported by j
them.
This is compatible with version 6 of ihe
TIFF specs and supporls 1,2.3 4,5,
6,7,8,24, and 32-bit depth images along
wiih line art, grey scale, palette images. I
24-bil colow RGB. and finally 32-bit colour I
CMYK.
To get the best out of the data type you
really need 2 meg, and a hard drive
store temporary files.
PflC Data Ttjpe
Author.' C loan to®
Workbench: 3.0
Yes, its another data type, and for a file
formal you may never of heard about. This |
is going to be a very imporlanl file ton
in the fuiure because if you did not know,
PWG in th* beat bulfH
picture format around
Amiga Computing
OCTOBER 1 995
COVER DISKS
do a couple of things nght after all.
Yak has been around for a good while
now and works along the lines of
MulliCX. It provides lots of useful little
additions lo Workbench. The main pari of
Yak gives you better control over your
windows. You have all the usual click to
font/back and screen cycling, along with a
very comprehensive hot key function
which allows you lo nwre or less assign
any type of function to a certain key com-
bination - such as Execute a CLt
Command or an Aftexx script, Insert text.
Insert date, Close/Zlp/Shrink/Enlarge
windows, Move/Cycle screens and win-
dows, Activate Workbench, Blank display.
Pop up a palette, or add a Menu shortcut.
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of the neat features of Yak is the way
you define your hot keys or mouse
presses. All you do is press the key
combinations or mouse buttons you
want, and viola, the hot Key definition is
automatically produced for you. This is
very handy, ©specially for some of
the more complicated mouse button
combinations, such as left button double
right.
IUPB
Author: Frank Toepper
Workbench; 3.0
If you knew any French or German, you
would already know what Lupe does, It
is a magnifying glass which will jump
onto any public screen and has
adjustable zoom, all the way to 20x. It
may not sound much more than a
little toy, but they do come in useful For
positioning icons or magnifying parts of
pictures.
LaaU (here, tharm's m piual nut Bt plas*.
What do mean yen cant tell?
Unisys started charging peopk* for the use
of the Lew compression algorithms. This
meant that anyone writing a program that
could read or write GIF files would have to
pay royalties.
This nghtly angered a lot of people, as
GIF is one of the widest used file formats.
So CompuServe got a group of smart pro-
grammers logeiher who went about creat-
ing a new improved, son of GIF file format.
PNG is the fruit ot their labours. It has a
large number of features such as support
of true colour depths ol up to 4-B-biis, and
alpha channels. One of the most important
is thai PNG is thought to be completely
royally free, so hopefully can be freely
used by one and all.
The PNG data type is by those lovely
people al Cloanto, and it supports all parts
of the PNG format. Al the momenl, the
only PNG image you may have is the
test.png lhat came with the archive.
However, this formal will gain a lol of sup-
port - Image Studio and Person Paint
already have external loaders that allow
them lo read and write PNG files, and
more programs will follow.
So install the data type and help PNG
become the defacto loss less image
formal,
lent Data Iqpe
Patch
Author: Stefan Ruppert
Workbench: 3.0
This is fairly straightforward and basically
adds extra functions to the Amiga's Texi
data type. Whenever you read a docu-
ment using Amiga guide or Multiview,
pressing return will pop up a text
requester, inlo wtireh you can enter words
fo search lor. Using tab, you can then
search forwards, and shift and tab will
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Tab (STimEXT^FIELD) , '»' (STrLBRWSEJIEXT) Marches for the next
OCCMrrence of the string.
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welcome addition to
MuJu'Vicw
search backwards,
To get Ihe palch to work insert the line:
-un >nU; t:tttEdtpiuli
into your s: user-startup file, and copy
textdtpatch into the C; directory.
FfUS
Author: Matt Dillion
Workbench: 1.3
Another liny utility for hard drive users, or
for someone with a few megs of RAM.
[onuerter master
Chris Krivlteki
Workbench: 2.04
This is one of those little utilities where you think,
why would any one need that? Then about two
weeks later you will find yourself throwing half the
stuff ott your desk trying to find a copy of It.
Converter Master will convert between all the
more common measurement scales, such as
Celsius and Fahrenheit, feet and meters. All you
do is select the type of measurement you wish to
convert and enter the value into the appropriate
box. All the other values in that category will then
instantly be displayed.
This allows you to create a virtual disk
drive on a hard drive partition. Therefore
you get a disk drive that can be accessed
almost as fast as a hard drive. For people
like ourselves who are compiling disks,
this is an absolute god send, as you are
completely unburdened from the drudgery
of waiting for the disk drive to copy or run
files.
It also makes it possible to DMS straight
lo the hard drive, so if you have a CD full
of DMS files, you can go through them in a
fraction of Ihe time compared to using a
floppy drive. ^^
Converter master will Handle all lh»
normal ■naarurampnl conversions
Amiga Computing
OCTOBER 1995
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OCTOBER 1995
GRAPHICS
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or the majority of Amiga users
Mpeg is generally perceived as
nothing more than a rough and
v anim format. But as the CD32 has
already proven, fulf-screen real-time digital
video is well within Ihe reach of the Amiga,
offering a cost, storage and Iransfer time-
effective means of delivering digital video
at ar about composite quality.
Not surprisingly, Seal a haven't wasted
amy time in recognising Mpeg's potential
far presentalion. As a result, the
Scandinavian multimedia man have fine
tuned Ihe Amiga's only dedicated Mpeg
encoding and decoding card for direct
application within Info Channel,. MM 300
and their latest creation MM4O0,
Although originally known as the Peggy
caret, the same hardware has now been
reincarnated as the MD100, complete wilh
stylish packaging and a degree of ease of
use within both the controls and utilities
thai have made Scale a multimedia giant.
Trie main reason lor incorporating hard-
ware directly into a primarily software-
based system is, of course, to minimise the
demand for even more hardware.. At pre-
sent the expense and hassle involved in
incorporating traditional video into mullime-
dia productions simply doesn't make it an
option; for most mullimedia productions.
PROVISIONS
In the past r Scale off&red provision for
incorporating traditional video end even
laser disks into presentations via their EX
standard. However, both methods had
their limilalion. Laser disks offer little in the
way of interaction as well as being very dif-
ficult to master. Traditional tape offers
many of the same probfems plus the evils
of hardware maintenance, slow interaction
and, of course, degradation of Ihe tape.
With Ihe arrival of the MD100, Scale
finally has full frame or partial digital video
thai will never degrade, unlimited video
clips with no tape swapping, hardware that
is unlikely to need any maintenance, and
it's all in one box.
Once the hardware is firmly entrenched
In the Amiga's video slot and Ihe appropri-
ate cable linked either to a composite
video, S-VHS, or RGB outputs, plus an
Mpeg audio out on the rear of the board,
you effectively have a traditional genlocked
video single directly beneath the Scala pre-
sentation. Unfortunately as it stands, Mpeg
audio is only available via pre-recorded
Mpeg movies, primarily from CD - CDs
being supported directly in the control soft-
ware. As a result, direct encoding Mpeg
Roll ihe credits
Needless to say, MO100 is a product
dedicated to serious multimedia produc-
tion, and if you're looking lor the ultimate
in Scala impact it's arguably Ihe ultimate
addition. Full frame genlocked 24- bit
video at 25 fps. amidst all ihe other good-
ies that Scaia can throw into ihe action -it
has to be tempting for animators and
multimedia types alike.
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video is the only option, although audio
accompaniment is still available thanks to
Scala's sample and mod playing abilities
The ability to connect up to such a wide
variety of display media is a real bonus,
and should provide enough scope for
prelty much any production. Obviously.
quality Mpeg streams doesn't exactly grow
on trees, As a result, after initial set-up,
encoding an Mpeg animalion is likely to be
the first step.
Assuming you've installed the Mpeg EX
software in the Scala start-up drawer, a
quick trip to the system menu wili reveal
the encoding side of M0 100. From here
you simply select a sequence of frames to
import and where to save the new Mpeg
file, adjust the resolution and setting as
required, and click on encode. Now it's
time lo make lots of coffee,
Although the end results are impressive,
it must be said that encoding is a slow
process. The example 300 frame anim
listed took roughly an hour and a half to
encode from full video-res frames.
Originally exported from a PAR card, they
were then scaled and converted into the
Mpeg format and resolution.
Slow Import end the lack of real-time
capture is perhaps the only chink in
MMlOO's armour. Unless you"re lucky
enough to have either a PAR card or a
VLab Motion, your Mpeg productions are
likely to be limited lo traditional computer
AH tho usual Scala gotHtln*
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impre&tilt* by Jtrty standard,
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«ntlr* 300 rranu animation
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graphic animations. After selecting an
existing Mpeg or creating your own, its
addition lo the production simply means
Clicking on the newly acquired Mpeg box In
Scala's mam layout.
A quick click reveals the Mpeg decoder
controller, and it's from here you can con-
trol the Mpeg action. The first step is to
select the file, at which point you're
provided with an impressive array of
customising options.
As you can see from the Screen grab
you can play and pause, add a definable or
infinite loop, apply definable slow-motion,
and even make the Mpeg wail when you hit
the appropriate point in the production.
Tape deck transport controls allow instant
scans of the Mpeg stream and once you're
happy, a simple OK adds the Mpeg and
play sellings lo the production,
During testing I had at least five separate
Mpegs, combined with mods, samples,
wipes and all the other Scala classics with
no appreciable drop in overall performance,
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Product: MD 1 00 Mpeg
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S FT WAR E
Boom
A joint project from
Active Software and
Ground Zero, Zoom
is a new release
that claims to fea-
ture their best PD
from over the past
six months, it distin-
guishes itself from
other general col-
lections, however,
by an impressive
looking interface that promises the sort of ease of use that
Amiga CD needs.
When it comes to the crunch, however, Zoom fails to
beat ihe Aminet CDs that have set the standards in accessi-
bifity. One major reason for this is that most (ir not all) of the
files are archived using DMS. which means they have to be
extracted on to floppy disks.
In practice this means that when it comes to using the file
you Ve extracted you have to leave the mterface and go to
the workbench. Though this 15 not really much of a problem
with files that fit on one fioppy, n becomes off-putting
when dealing with larger programs - especially since it's
impossible to know which are worth the effort.
EXTRACTION
In contrast, Amine! predominately features LHA files
which require less (rouble lo extraci. This weakness on
Zoom's part is a shame because in other respects the pack-
age works very well. It's large contents summary box is one
good idea, for example, thai would make a welcome
addition to other collections in the future.
Unfortunately, the actual contents aren't on a par either.
There are huge amounts of babe pictures padding the CD
out, and though these are obviously popular sellers, they're
of little use for anything computer related. Games take up f i
significant proportion of the disk, wilh around 70 card sets
for use with Klondike ill patience included as part of the col-
lection, Considering the amounl of space available on CD, it
would have been nice if these hadn't been compressed so
they could have all been used direclly from CD.
More serious users will at least find some interest in the
Ground Zero Imagine 3D collection, and there's also some
20Mb"s worth of Magic WB data to choose from. DTP users
will find the addition of themed mono clipart another
worthwhile addition.
What finally undermines Zoom, however, is the fact that
despite its competent interface, the disk contents have not
been organised into helpful categones. In fairness, the CD's
fun emphasis and coiourful front-end do make a welcome
change, but the flaws mean it doesn't make the top league.
G)G A GRAPHIC CD
Giga Graphics
Image collections on CD have
been popular from the outset, but
Giga Graphics gains an instant
edge by virtue of its sheer size. For
just over £30, the package composes
of four CDs packed with more than
10,000 pictures plus a few handy utilities
to allow buyers to make the most of its
contents.
Considenng there's over 2Gb of information
here to search through, it was to be hoped
that there would be proper categonsation of
Ihe images, It's unfortunate, then, that ihe
images are simply organised alphabetically,
which as usual makes for an almost hopeless
mix-up of subject matter,
To give an idea of the problem, out of one
of the randomly chosen 'C drawers came
these pictures which followed one after the
olher: a fantasy painting of a woman, Captain
Kirk from Star Trek, Capital Hill and a ren-
dered car, In other words, finding what you
want isn't always easy; on the other hand,
guessing why some of the pictures are in a
particular location makes for an entertaWn
game when bored.
Thankfully, the collection Is largely
redeemed by the inclusion of a thumbnail |
view catalogue, so though the pictures
ralhcr jumbled, at least skimming through'
disc contents is greatly speeded up.
Given the product's size, a fair assessmt
of all the contents is impossible in the spaed
available However, it quickly becomes clear!
Ihat ihe breadth of subject matter covered is!
very wide ranging indeed, Whereas marj
colleciions have concentrated too much oa|
The bottom line
Product: Zoom
Price: £19.99
Supplier: Active Software
Tel: 0117 9741462
Ease of use
Implementation _
Value for money
Overall
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SOFTWARE
fiareth lotthouse returns with our regular IB column. —
This month melds the latest general collection plus —
3 huge graphics collection and a dusted off —
multimedia encyclopaedia —J
equipment, ray -traced - Ihe list goes on and
on, and only occasionally does the quality
drop to below average. Fans of fantasy artist
Boris Vallejo will be pleased to see a huge
amount of his arguably pornographic but cer-
tainly talented paintings covering a sizeable
section of tbetirsl CD,
One further complaini does need raising
however, lhat being ihe amount of image
duplication in the collection, In tact, the Vallejo
collection is a good case in point, with Ihe
same pictures cropping up three or four limes
in close pronimity.
The images are generally in IFF format. In
addition to all the pictures. Viewtek has been
included so that everything required to look at
the images is inducted with the package. The
inclusion of Personal Paint is also welcome,
since users will be able to load up images and
work on them.
It's a shame, then, lhal it's an untranslaied
German version, making it difficult to use for
the majority of us. The slapdash way in which
some things are Ihrown onto some CO collec-
tions - and this is not an unusual example -
does not bode well tor the Amiga's fulure CD
market,
So overall, Glga Graphics is not short ot
flaws. Anyone who can find uses for a wide
range of imagery, however, cannot help but be
impressed by the value for money such a
huge and far reaching collection offers. In
short, it's should make a worthwhile buy.
science fiction in an area which is already
Depopulated with Ihe same Slar Trek and
Babylon 5 pictures, this collection is more like
a generai image bank.
All the siandard fare is included, but
fortunately mere are many other fields to
choose from, Pictures of supermodels and
swimsuits do. however, crop up all over the
place, but al least there's some fair play
lhanks lo the inclusion of a number of muscle-
bound hunks as well.
Cars, trains, space, planes - as you'd
expect, (here's an abundance of maierial to
keep ihe most avaricious anorak happy. But
there's also a great deal of useful material
loo. Sunseis, world locations and landscapes
are available in huge quantities and often ihe
quality of the photography is high. Similarly,
cto&e-up$ of roses and (lowers could be put to
a number of different uses,
PROS AND CONS
There are numerous painted backgrounds
available, while photographs of slcnes. bricks
and other textures are there for 3D tans to
wrap onto their objects, Considering Ihe size
of ihe colleclion, LightWave and Imagine
users may be disappointed to find it lacks any
actual models; in my view, however, the col-
lection Benefits by concentrating on being a
definitive 2D image bank.
Flags, famous album covers, military
The bottom line
Product: Giga Graphics
Price: £32,99
Supplier: Active Software
Tel: 01 17 9741462
Ease of use
Implementation
Value for money
Overall
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The Hutchinson
Erciiclopaedia
The appeal of having
an entire encyclopae-
dia stored on a single
compact disc is obvi-
ous, so it's no sur-
prise that many sup-
pliers are selling out
of the Grolier CD
reviewed a few
months back In its
place, the equally old
Hutchinson electronic encyclopaedia has resurfaced, so
we decided to see how well it's stood the test of lime-
Though it was originally designed for use with the
CDTV, most new purchasers are likely to be using emula-
tion software on their A1200s, so it's good that Epic have
included alternative keyboard controls. Unfortunately,
however, this is not enough to overcome every compatibil-
ity problem. For example, though the Insl ructions, stressed
thai it was essential to boot from ihe disc, this proved to
be impossible using our Squirrel. We did manage to run it
from workbench, but the text appeared in such a small
font it was difficult to read - on the CD32 Ihe articles are
much more readable.
There are also problems using the encyclopaedia
because the A1200 lacks a control pad, and navigating
the interface requires combinations of Amiga keys, ALT
keys and ihe cursor arrows. Sometimes users can get
stuck in one article and it's not at all clear how to get back
to Ihe main menu.
Basically, this makes it impossible to recommend for
Squirrel users, but it does seem to work perfectly well on
Ihe CD32, With over 25.000 entries plus pictures and
soundclips, for those who own Ihe console the Hutchinson
CD still sounds like a worthwhile product.
In comparison to the Electronic Grolier, however, The
Hutchinson doesn't seem to work so - weU, The first prob-
lem is Ihe peculiarly flickery screen which makes using the
disc painful on the eye.
Though there are 2000 photographs and 250 sound
clips, they are sparsely distributed among all the plain lent
articles. Considering this is supposed to be a multimedia
product, the information is often blandly presented to the
point where most people would rather use the traditional
paper version.
With searching tools that also seem inferior to ihe
Grolier, this CD unfortunately doesn't cut it in the modem
multimedia age, It's only its price, plus the fact lhat the
Grolier is hard to get, thai makes it even worth considenng
these days.
The bottom line
Product: Hutchinson
Encyclopaedia CD
Price: £14.99
Supplier: Epic Software
Tel: 0)793 490988
Ease of use
I m p I e m e nt at ion
Value for money
Overall
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Amiga Computing
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World of (lipart
Desktop publishing is no longer the sole
preserve of people who can afford
expensive packages like Pagestream 3,
with word processors now offering
drawing tools and the option to import
■pictures as standard.
PD collections have always been a
good source of chip art, but finding trie
right material to suit your documents
and, equally importantly, your printer.
was not always, easy. A CD with over
40,000 mono and colour images
therefore holds an insiant and envious
attraction.
World ol Cliparl is particularly large
thanks to the tact it's spread across two
CDs. and there's a huge and diverse
range of subject matter to choose from.
Furthermore, the material appears to
have been well selected to suit the bul-
letins, pamphlets, fanzines and newslet-
ters the CD will probably he most used
for.
There are large drawers dedicated to
business and education, for example, as
well as general symbols that will be use-
ful for just about anybody. There's also
work for computer and technology cate-
gories which should please those who
want to write ahoul their Amigas as well
as use them.
Natural world drawings are always
popular in dip an collections and unsur-
prisingly, this CD has a good range of
dog, cat, insect and see life pictures to
choose from. Transport, Christmas and
people are categories thai are similarly
well represented. Pictures range greatly
Utilities professional
There are some Amiga users that have absolut-
ely no time for games. As a recent survey
proved, Ihe inclusion ol the smallest PD shoot-
'em-up on the cover disks will have some people
criticising what they see as a waste of space
Such serious users might therefore sit up at
the prospect of a dedicated utilities CD, and
that's exactly what ihis PDSoft produd is about.
Business software, graphics production, hard
drive tools, virus killers, DTV - you name it, it it's
anything to do with productivity computing it's
here on the disk.
The CD has been around for a while now.
however, and in some ways it's beginning to look
rather dated. In terms of organisation, it really is
a pain to use in just about every way imaginable.
Basically, the CD consists of 1500 floppies
worth of files and programs transferred onto disc.
Searching through Ihe drawers just brings up
thousands of identical, nameless Icons with no
clue 10 their contents. This means you have to go
to the alphabetic directory in a separate text file,
seek oul items of interest, and then take a note
of the relevant disk number. Even the numbers
on the program drawers are made peculiarly dffl
cull to read. It's another bunch of DMS programs
WOULD
a i Mia
in size, with some of them only suitable
for printing in a very small scale-
Others, however, are about five times
larger than your Amiga's display, mak-
ing them suitable for large scale use
with printers boasling high DPIs.
The standard ol many of the draw-
ings is exceptionally high, with a lot less
hit-and-miss quality control than some
of the product's rivals, Some of the
images are highly accurate and
detailed, but the inclusion of well drawn
bul simpler pictures and charicatures
proves equally important.
WIDE SCOPE
For those who want to print in colour
there's also a huge number of colour
pictures covering almost as many cate-
gories, and once again ihe quality
remains high. In terms ol breadth of
coverage, therefore. World of Clipart Is
hard to fault,
So far so good, but unfortunately
there are a few complaints thai have to
be raised. Categorisations into drawers
has been done consistently, but the
actual file names are inexcusably
unhelpful.. With only numbers distin-
guishing each individual picture, finding
the right picture can be unnecessarily
lime consuming. It was also strange to
find pictures in the IFF drawer had bits
missing for some reason.
Of course the CD is padded out by
duplicating images in just about every
image format available, but Ihis is a plus
pain! when il comes to flexibility What's
more, a program called Transition has
been included to allow Amiga owners to
convert file formats.
The odd flaw aside, this is a high
value, high-quality collection that beats
any of the competition I've yet seen.
Useful for just about anybody, World of
Clipart comes recommended.
The bottom line
Product: World of Cliparl
Price: £19.99
Supplier Epic
Tel: 01793 490988
Ease of use
Implementation-
Value for money
Overall
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music there ere the usual PD music editors plus a
collection of reasonable quality sound samples lo
expand your repertoire. Databases, sports selec-
tors and disks for HAM radio enthusiasts give an
idea of how much material is available.
Frankly, however, I just couldn't be bothered
spending hours trying lo find the good stuff. This
one is reserved purely for the mosl patient of the
tecchies
The bottom line
as well, which leads to the same slow Iransfer on
to floppy you get with Zoom, it's worse here
because you have even less of an idea of what
you're going to get in the end.
This is all a bit of a shame since many of the
contents will please the more serious Amiga
users out there. On the educational side, there's
a Language Tutor that provides an effective
vocabulary tester for French, German and
Spanish. For video (here's a titter program, for
Nftl
Product: Utilities Professional
Price: £19.99
Supplier: PDSoft
Tel: 01702 466933
Ease of use
Implementation.
Value for money.
Overall
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belief Simple in its operation and simple
to install
II arrives in a small cardboard box which
also contains a too! that looks a tnl like a
small comb far removing the &8C4Q chip
from ymir 3640 daughterboard, an earth-
ing strap, a sheet of instructions and Ihe
double? itself The instructions give you
guidelines on removing your existing
68O40, covering all the different setups like
Ihe epoxied heatsink, the dip-on heat sink,
antf the paper-clip type spring clip heat
sink. Once you have tremulously
removed the heart of your
machine and pried the living
soul from it, you can then Insert
IheSonnel Doubler
li consists of a board roughly
twice the width ol one 68040 soc
kel. with pins on its underside at one
end 10 Insert into your now empty
68040 socket, and the new 60Q40 at the
olher end ol the board sitting under a
combination heatsink and fain. There only
appears lo be one chip on the board, other
than the '040 of course, along with a
couple of resistr i
OVER-CLOCKED
Motorola only make 68040s clocked up
to 40MHi as far as I know, so the heatsink
and fan have to work even harder to cope
with an over-docked CPU. The fact that it
n running hotter than the normal L 040
seems to make little difference and cer-
tainly didn't cause our machine to crash
any mare than normal.
Owners of machines olher than A4000s
may have trouble filling the Doubles owing
to She increased height requirements - il
stands about an inch and a hall proud of
the daughterboard You might be able lo tit
ilo a 3000T but, unless they are willing
lo make sehous modifications lo ihe case,
A3000 owners will probably be out ol luck,
What speed does it run at? Well.
Syslnfo, that notoriously unreliable bench-
mark, gives us a rating of about
3B.13MIPS and 9.66MFLOPS. Running it
HIF a dee doo dah
loo warped
to fit?
I asked Blirtersott whether Ihe Sonnet
Doubler would work on any other
68040 accelerator card but il seems
lhat most other accelerators don n t use
the 63040 at 25MHjt, they all over-
clock to 28MHz. This means the
Doubler will unfortunately not work as
it actually relies on there being, a
25WH2 clock rate.
speed for about a grand. Admittedly, that
is over twice the amount Ihe Doubler
costs, but you would also have your origi-
nal 3640 board to sell, and they fetch
somewhere between E30Q and £450 for
the nght buyer,
That brings the cosl of the CyberStorm
down to between £550 and £700, a much
belter proposition, especially when you
consider that you will get belter memory
access and an optional SCSI-2 controller.
Of course, il you can't afford thai extra
dosh then the Doubler does represent a
good way of increasing the speed of your
machine for relatively little outlay. ggf
through AIBB gives us results of around
twice ihe speed of our standard 040
rating. But is £399 too much lo pay for
doubling the speed of your Amiga? It's
certainly on the edge of acceptability as
far as I'm concerned when you could have
a machine thai is at least four limes the
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for the CPU to sit in ZlF Is an acronym for Zero Insertion Force and works by
having a socket with over wide holes in It for the CPU's pins to go into. There is
a lever on the side ol the socket which, once you have inserted your Pentium or j
whatever, you pull over until it locks once more.
This basically locks the pins ot the CPU in contact with a conductive layer
nside the socket. No more fiddling about trying to pry a chip out of its socket,
levering it this way and that with a small screwdriver, hoping you wont bend
any pins - Just flip the lever back and the chip will just lift out.
As to why there aren't any ZlF sockets on Amiga motherboards or accelera-
tors, I can onty surmise that this is because the S&OxO range ot processors isn't
! so swiftly obsolete (either that or the sockets cost too much).
Ts
The bottom line
Product: Sonnet Doubler
Supplier: Btittersoft
Tel: 01908 26 U&6
Price: £399
Ease of use
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or those who missed our initial
preview in Amiga Computing's
July issue, Tune Builder basica-
lly offers a totally unique approach: to
musical production on ihe Amiga. In the
past, producing music to accompany
either video or a multimedia production
was both expansive and time consuming,
and more often lhan not both.
Fortunately with its arrival, custom-built,
pro-quality CD sound, is within the reach
of quite literally anyone. And there's no
need for any musical equipment, talenl or
studio facilities.
As any videographer will (ell you, quality
pre-recorded music is expensive, and
even when you've got the basic working
material you're still looking at a big invest-
ment in lime, money and effort to edit and
incorporate the music into your produc-
tion, Even then you're by no means guar-
anteed that Ihe end results wilf fit perfectly
into toe overall production - cresoendos in
the wrong place, quiet sections where you
wanl a bll of excitement, the list goes on.
Fortunately, Tune Builder puts all ihese
problems to the sword by providing a fully
interactive customising process thai
allows trie user to create music of precise
length, tailored throughout in the style of
your choice. Whether you need a change
of mood or a dramatic crescendo, the
exact slice of music you need can be slot-
led exactly in the nght spot and repeated
as often as necessary.
The question is. how can a combination
The bass line
Aside from Ihe ease of use, lime
saving and all the other point
bonuses for Tune Builder, the over-
riding must tor any library is the
overall quality of the music. All loo
often, libraries consist of Innumer-
able synthesiser specials with the
inevitable chicken in a basket over-
tones that make for more of a nove-
lty item than a serious production
tool.
In Tune Builders* case there is a
slight cheesy feel on Ihe odd Irack.
but in general the collection is truly
excellent with vocals and guitars
blended with believable brass and
impressive percussion. Better slill,
all the major sampling formats,
options and rates are supported
across Amiga, PC and Mac and oth-
ers. There's even a direct support of
the Toccata card.
In short, Tune Builder is nothing
short of essential for anyone
involved in serious video or general
multimedia. It will literally save hun-
dreds of hours of hard graft while
improving your overall production
quality. If you can afford it, and can
envisage a return on your invest-
ment, you can't really afford 1o be
without it.
qualitu, on
ot a musical illiterate, some software, and
TB's accompanying CD's create pro-quali-
ty music that normally would keep a pro-
fessional musician busy for hours if not
days. The simple answer is thai although
you have control over the construction, the
tunes themselves and all the hard graft
thai went into them has been done on
your behalf by a team of professional
musicians.
Obviously, the process ot transforming
a musically inept computer jock into an
insiant impresario all hinges on the skill of
those lovely people who put TB's
Arpeggio CD collection together. During
what must have been a nightmare produc-
tion process, the musos behind the music
built multiple edit points directly into each
tune, which were then picked up by the
accompanying software. As a
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On initial boot-up, the first port of call is
the Library section where you audition
and select from ihe 344 assorted tunes
spread over ihe 12 accompanying CDs.
Needless to say, some form of filtering,
not to mention auditioning, is essential,
but fortunately both areas are
something TB Is particularly adept at.
Initially, the library presents you with
the complete list and you're free to scan
the collection and read the notes
appended to each track - regardless of
whether (he CD is actually in trie drive.
If you find something you like the sound
of, either during a browse or a dedica-
ted search, il can be tagged and will
then always appear in the search win-
dow regardless of subsequent search
parameters.
If time is of the essence, or perhaps
you already have a firm idea of what
you're after, the obvious step is to
consequence, the software can lake
slice out of this digital loaf and cut, copy |
and paste it back in anywhere you need
As any muso will tell you, simply taking .
random slice out of a song and slapping i
down elsewhere is a recipe for disaster
Unless you're either very gifted or
extremely lucky the timing, the key. and
overall continuity will be shot to bits.
LARGE AND SMALL
During testing I dissected and totally
reorganised entire tunes, shrank them to i
lenth of their original size and expande
others from 30 second originals into min
utes. Every lime the end results were per-]
feet, no clicks, no pops, no agonising ke
changes or obvious continuity faufts
perhaps one or two,..
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search. As you've probably gathered
courtesy of ihe screen shots, filtering the
344 tunes is particularly well implement-
ed. The first step is to select a style or
even multiple styles, If this doesn't trim
down the selection sufficiently you can
narrow the selection further by search-
ing by word, defining preferred tempos
and/or a range of beats per minute.
Even track length, using greater, less or
exact parameters is an option.
DELIVERIES
During a complex search a click on
Ihe button will usually deliver three or
four tunes. The next step is to audition
your selection and to do it you'll need to
fire up your CD-ROM drive. As you
select each track the software provide*,
a brief overview in ihe form of an
editable note, the ID of the track, and
the CD on which it's stored.
If you then select the CD Player
preview from the pull-down, a tape deck
control pops-up ready to assist trie
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As a result, actually producing 30 minutes
Of CD quality sound internally would bring
even Ihe best equipped Amiga to ils
knees. Consequently, TB offers a unique
approach lo production by importing the
original 16-bit data for Ihe selected tuna,
and frorn this it creates a more manage-
able 8-bit dummy. And It's this 8-bit clone
which TB uses for preview during
production.
As you'll discover later, you do have Ihe
process on either searches or during
browsing. Alternatively, if you simply
double-click on the selected track the
CO drive will automatically locate it and
start playback direct from the CD.
Obviously there's a chance that not all
your selections will be on the same CD.
Fortunately, if you double-click on a
track that isn't on the current CD you'll
he prompted to insert the correct vol-
ume. And as an added safeguard, each
iracx which is on the current CD will be
highlighted with a star in the selection
window.
Assuming you've found one or more
tracts you're particularly keen on, you
sanpty tag them and click on the project
oulton At this point you'll be asked what
you want to import - either the currently
Wghlkjrited tile or your complete selec-
tion, That done, the software sets about
imps-ting the 16-bit data and generating
its fl-bit doppleganger. Assuming you've
Imported all the tunes you require, sim-
ply select one and click on the all
important Tune Builder burton.
Make your rolwetiona and import, gut few
In mind yen could nomd 60Mb ot disk ip.ico
tor fh* necessary 16 mnd 8-bii data
opportunity to audition Ihe available tunes
in 16-bit prior to ediling, so you should
have a good idea ol the overall quality
beforehand. For Ihe purists, a -hit may
seem like a worrying compromise, bui in
reality Ihe done is more than adequate for
basic edit decisions.
Once your designer tune Is complete,
Ihe software reverts to Ihe imported 1 6-bit
data and compiles your master tune in the
formal and sound quality of your choice.
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Product Tune Builder
Supplier: AirWorks Media
Price: $999 none broadcast
Pries: $18,999 TV and broadcast
rights
Tel: 001 403 424 9922 (Canada)
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with a waveform of the entire tune seg-
mented into numerous individual edits,
and it's these seamless cuts that are
Ihe key to the whole process.
Although the principle is inspired, the
actual production process is embarrass-
ingly simple. Tp audition the tune simply
click on the Play Original button, and it
you're perfectly happy with things as
they are you can export the tune in Ihe
rate and die format of your choice.
The next option is to interact a little
more by specifying a user-defined
length for the lune you require - either
larger or smaller than the original, If you
add the length you need and click on
generate,. TB automatically interpolates
Ihe existing track to produce a custom-
built tune that will fit your time parame-
ter - usually to wilhin one second,
If you don't like this initial mix you can
click again and TB will produce a now
variant- You can repeat the process as
oflen as you like and then toggle
between the variations with the adja-
cent arrow keys. If this still doesn't
quench you thirst for interaction, there's
Still lots of scope. The next option is to
use a combination of shift and mouse
clicks lo select individual sections -
more than once it necessary. The
selection is then played in sequence to
generate a completely custom-built
tune. If you like it, again a simple click-
ing on the Export will generate a new
master.
INTERACTIVITY
The final and, without doubt, the most
flexible method is to opt for a full-blown
edit session by getting interactive with
the Assembler Bar directly below the
waveform. To use it you simply click on
a section you like, drag it across
and drop it on the bar. To create an
entire tune you just keeping clicking,
dragging and dropping until you have
exactly the arrangement and length you
need.
To audition your creation you can
click on the Play New button or shift
and drag over the section you want to
hear. As you select a new block from
the waveform, its counterparts in the
Assembler window light up, so it's easy
to construct repeats or verse/chorus
sections.
Vou" re also free to drop blocks in-
between existing selections and delete
others. In short, complete drag and
drop control. If you need to fade the vol-
ume, a click on the join between any
Iwo blocks evokes the Dynamic
Adjustment Requester which allows you
to add space for voice-overs or fade out
tunes that perhaps slightly overrun the
require run-time.
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r~i rt vogue at the moment. You
\gpr would have a lough time trying
to buy a PC or Macintosh which is not fit-
ted with one, but it's not like Amiga owners
have been leH behind, with Squirrel SCSI 1
CD-ROMS flying off the shelves quicker
Ihan the hottest hot cakes.
The options available for A 1200 owners
are quite straightforward - get yourself a
Squirrel setup. Big box Amiga owner?;
have a much wider choice - slap in a
SCSI interface and take your pick of all
the SCSI CD-ROMS that are out (here
Boih ihe Plextor and NEC drives are
internal drives so require a little more worfc
arv an external one. You connect
both to ihe SCSI board via a 50-way rib-
bon cable, making sure the red wire goes
to pin 1 The CD audio can be piped
trough a four-way connector at the back
end connected internally to your Amiga,
allowing any CD sound lo be mixed with
the normal Amiga audio - even though a
life surgery had to bo performed to make
the provided lead fit at the Amiga end. Alt
thai is left to do is power up the CD with
IDE power connector.
Bom the Plextor and NEC drives use
caddies. I think they are a pain bul they do
you to use Hie drives on their side -
they are external drives - and protect
the discs. They also have the usual array
Cf controls that appear on CD- HO MS -
headphone socket, volume controls, and
meiecl button. All pretty thrilling stuff.
The Plextor drive is a quad-speed unit
aid, when sysinfo is in a good mood,
iBtumr, a transfer rate of more Itian 600k a
second. It appears to be a SCS1 1 device,
but this is no real disadvantage because
flven the fastest CD-ROM is not exactly
pushing SCSM lo Us limits.
INSTRUCTIVE
The manual lhat comes wilh the Plextor
is jam packed wilh installation instructions,
but unfortunately these are for the PC and
Mac, Having said that, a lot of this is rele-
vant stuff, bul probably the only thing you
Ml rteed to know is how lo change the
SCSI ID number.
Arvottier feature the Plextor drive has is
s possible to put it into audio CD-
ROM mode. When you first turn on the
computer, if you hold the eject button
MJown for three secortds the drive can then
ay audio CDs. Any music CD you put in
be played, and you can skip tracks
j tapping ihe eject button. Unfortunately,
• only way you can gel the CD-ROM
ck is by turning your computer off again.
As lor the NEC, it does seems to be of
idjgttfy better construction, and is a sex-
speed, SCSI 2 device, Again, when
is in a good mood you can get a
rale of over 900k a second. The
f other major feature Ihe NEC has over
Plextor is a digital out connector,
i would allow you lo get perfect sam-
! off any CD. If you have the facilities to
s this I am sure rt will be very welcome.
Having said that, the CD door on the
EC can be locked open. This might
sound a really trivial
point, but whon you are
flinging CDs in and out of
it all day, it is actually really
useful not to have to bother
messing about trying to
prop open the CO door
when inserting the caddy.
In practice, there seemed lo be very lit-
tle difference between the two drives, even
though the NEC is a sextuple-speed
mechanism. The Plextor does have a 1 Mb
buffer and a random access time of
220ms, which could be the reason lor the
Plextor beating the NEC drive al the
Aminet Search. It is also difficult to spot
the speed increase of the NEC when
doing directory listings and animation
replays.
At the end of the day, whether you
Choose the NEC or Ptextor will come down
to how much you are willing to spend.
There is a very noticeable difference
between using a quad-speed over a dual-
speed CD-ROM, but whether the extra 70
pounds for the NEC compared lo the
Plextor is worth it is somelhing you will
have to decide. , -^
Speed statistics
For all you stat freaks, a little selection of speed comparisons:
Drive
Sysinfo
Copy File
AminetSearch
Aiwa aCDSOO
305k
20. a sees
5.0 sees
Plextor PX4cx
610k
16 6 sees
3.Bsecs
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12, S sees
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Product: Plextor PX43cx
Supplier: First Computer Centre
Price: 239.99
Phone: 01 13 2379444
E-Mail:
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Ease of use
Implementation
Value for money.
Overall
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Pwduct nec exi
Supplier. First Computer Centre
Price: 312.99
Phone. 0113 2319444
E-Mail:
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Ease of use
Implementation
Value for money
Overall
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8
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RILUH multimedia Hctiuc Speaker Extern
Given Aiwa's reputation lor top-quality
equipment such as thesr latest CD-ROM
drive whicb received a Blue Chip Award
last month, high hopes were held for
their mid-priced speakers.
The Aiwa speakers, although quite
compact, are stylish in design and
because they are slim, fit nicely by the
Side of your monitor without taking up
ME1
too much space. Three control buttons
are Situated at the lop and as well as the
usual power button, there Is a Surround
control which, in theory, gives you more
of a stereo effect due to the Front
Surround Circuitry. However, when
tested it didn't actually alter the sound a
great deal.
From such small speakers you do get
quite a powerful sound, although bass
sounds don't come across all that well,
and unfortunately, although it claims
"Dynamic Super Linear Bass', it still
sounds fairly tinny.
At this price the Aiwa still feels like a
durable, sturdy system, and if you're not
too fussy about deep bass sounds than
the Aiwa provides value for money.
Product: Aiwa SC-C55
Price: £49.99
Supplier; Aiwa
Tel: 0181-897 7000
Sound quality
Features
Build quality
Overall
6
.7
9
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Sony srs-P[sd
Probably the most ugly speakers on the market, the Sonyj
SRS-PC50 are designed to be attached to (he side of your moniton
although rubber feet do allow them to be placed on your desktop.
Featuring built-in amplifiers that give a total of 5W, they are aisoj
magnetically shielded: to
prevent distortion on
your monitor, The con-
trols are placed on the
side of the speaker so
when mounted they
would Face forward
allowing ease of use. A
bass control can be
adjusted to give deeper
sounds and the quality
overall is good.
Product: Sony SRS-PC50
Price: £79,99
Supplier: Gem
Tet: 01279 443842
Sound quality
Features
Build quality
Overall
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Yamaha Y5I-H15 Poiuered fTlonitar 5peaher5
mounted which makes them easy to reach, but
because of the lightness of build you have to
have both hands free lo support the speaker
while you make your adjustments. Their size
also makes them fiddly and even those with the
most nimblest of fingers are going to have
problems.
Feature wise it comes complete with an extra
output socket to allow it to be connected to
something like a very impressive sub-woofer. A
presence dial allows you to change the amount
of treble you get but unfortunately this wasn't all
that responsive. For this sort of price, you're
better off going for the Power Speakers or the
Aiwa which both feel like they should last a lot
longer and provide better value for money.
The cheaper of the Yamaha eat, the YST offers
J wily a lhree Watt per channel output, but as
we've seen before this is usually irrespective of
— I the sound quality you get. However, in this case
the sound is very feeble and reflects the low
wattage.
Design is rather questionable loo, Apart from
looking like an upmarket air freshener, the
speakers don't feet as if they'd survive any
knocks or bumps. The controls are front-
Product: Yamaha YST-M5
Price: £49
Supplier: Yamaha Kembafs
Tel: 01906 366700
Sound quality
Features
Build quality
Overall
5
5
4
5
3qdg[ HV-FI Pro 2
Zydec may not have the brand image thai Sony and
Yamaha products carry, but Ihis arguably accounts for
their lower pricing. The question is, can they mair.li Bit
big hoys in terms of sound quality?
The First noticeable point is their strange, and some
would say tacky, styling, with the pink and wobbly
power button standing out like a sore thumb. However,
- — . — J their upward till makes some sense considering they II
on a desktop well belOW Mr level Unpretentious but comprehensive ronlroh include
volume; baas and treble, though they are rather stiff lo use Combine Ihis fact with the unit s
'i|iilwoighl and not very solid look and feel and the Zydec begins lo look leas durable than
'.rune ol its more expensive rivals.
Sound quallly is nol at all bad. and high volumes
unable without too much distortion. The
bass has impressive depth and mid-range clarity Is
liable considering Ihe price, The tradeoff
benuM md size 4s less impressive, however.
Mi, in wilh Ihe more compact Yamaha speakers.
II you're not bothered about looks and ergonom-
ics - and let's lace it. it's not ha Important for com-
puts* applications as with a hi-li ihcn Ihe Zyli
fillers a perfectly decent sound soluiion for
■ ird Amiga purposes.
Product: Zy-fi Pro 2
Price: £46,99
Supplier: Special Reserve
Tel: 01279600204
Sound quality
Features
Build quality
Overall
8
7
5
7
Sanq [55-BlOu
An all-in-one set designed to fit snugly underneath
your monitor, this unit from Sony is ai the higher end
of the computer speaker market. Magnetically shiel-
ded to prevent distortion ot your monitor picture and
boasting an unusual array of extras, on paper it
already looks like one ol the tidiest audio solutions.
The Sony's large base is designed to support mon-
itors up to 25 kg, and though it looks big when
removed from the box, it actually takes up less desk
space than having a couple of small speakers wired
up nexl to the computer. The only possible problem
might be that when used with big box Amlgas. the
Sony will put your monitor at a neck-straining height.
in terms of sound quality, the Sony was a strong
performer. Of course it suffered from the same limita-
tions you'd expect from cheep midi hi-fis, such as a
lack of depth in the sound, but to expect much more
for under £100 would be unfair. Al least (he bass was
substantial enough to avoid too much tinnyness,
providing the bass booster was turned to full.
A downside of having everything located neatly
beneath the monitor is that the speakers are too close
to properly benefit from stereo. In fairness, though,
few computer users will be overly bothered on this
count.
The Sony scores points for efficiency, for although
it has a low wattage, high volumes can be achieved
with distortion only occurring, at the very highest out-
put - which is a lot more (nan can be said for many of
its rivals,
Connection lo ihe computer Is made using ihe
standard lefi-rlght channel audio jacks, but more
unusual are the secondary set of ports hidden behind
a flap mounted on the unit's front. These allow for the
connection of video, a microphone and a Discman or
Walkman. Not only Is it good lo have ihese available,
but the fact that users won't have to fiddle around
behind Hie unit too much is also a welcome feature.
Finally, it has to be said lhal paired with the right
monitor, the Sony's smart fascia can only make your
kit look more Impressive- Strong on sound and fea-
tures, this sound system is a high calibre contender.
and only its price will make serious users have
second thoughts about buying.
Product: Sony CSS-B10O
Price: £85
Supplier: GEM
Tel: Of 279 442642
Sound quality
Features
Build quality
Overall
8
9
7
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OCTOBER 1995
HARDWARE
Yamaha VSI-fUlD ♦ Submaafer
The Yamaha MIQ5 are a pair of 10
watt speakers from another rep-
utable brand name which boasts
unusual and elegant styling to match
some impressively named spa-cial
features including pure spruce wood
cones and the exclusive Active
Servo Technology.
The latter facility is another way ol
giving the bass surprising depth con-
sidering how compact this pair of
speakers actually is. Having said
that, however, similarly priced
systems m the round-up tared equal-
ly well. Front mounted controls veer
from convention slightly with a knob
to control 'presence" rather than tre-
ble or bass. Roughly speaking, how-
ever, this seems to perform a simiLa*
function to the standard treble con-
trol, whereas bass didn't appear to
be very adjustable at all.
Clarity of sound was highly com-
petitive m its. class, and the inclusion
of a port to allow the connection of a
sub-woofer will make them very
appealing as components of a highly
serious multimedia sound system,
The inclusion of jacks and adapters
make an encouraging bonus since
they allow minimal fuss connection
to be made with anything from your
Amiga to your hi-fi. This is instantly
preferable to having to go through a
monitor headphone jack as is the
case with some of the alternatives.
The only complaint might be that
these speakers ought to be a bit
cheaper, and as standalone s their
sound is not quite on a par with the
Sony's, Still, some buyers won't
mind paying extra for Yamaha build
quality, and when connected to the
Yamaha subwoc-fer this system is so
far unbeatable.
Product; Yamaha YST-M10s
Price: £69
SubwooFer£116
Supplier: Yamaha Kembals
Tei: 01908 3667Q0
Sound quality — 3
Features ■ a
Build quality — 8
Overall 8
HiU Hi-Fi quality speakers
Boasting a hefty 80 watts and priced at only £49.95, these
speakers from HiQ seemed loo good (0 be true, but pulling
ihem to the test we found that our cynicism wasn't in the least bit
justified.
Mounted on (heir own stand, they are a lot bigger than the oth-
ers we looked at and the space conscious may find their bulk off-
putting, Similar in size to the Primax giants, if style is an
important factor then the HiQ ones win hands down.
While the Primax speakers had sturdy lop-mounted switches,
these have some rather flimsy switches situated on the front.
Although they allowed for some accurate alterations to be made
lo the volume, bass and treble, they did feel that any heavy
handling might just snap them off,
Overall (hough, lor the user who requires a good quality sound
at a very affordable price, these come well recommended,
Product: Stereo Speakers
Price: £49.95 (+P&P £7.00)
Supplier: HiQ Limited
Tel: 0181-909 2092
Sound quality
Features
Build quality
Overall
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8
PrimaH 6D matt
considering the price, but like its big brother it tends to
overstretch itself with distortion apparent after the volume
has been raised by just over a third of its capacity.
SliH, they will prove perfectly adequate for gamesplay-
ing and the like, and compared to rival unit's they have a
reassuring weightiness that suggests higher than average
sturdiness. In short, they're a low budget offering that's
worth considering.
Competing at the lower end of the market, the 60 watt
Primax speakers still supposedly have loads more
wattage than far more expensive speakers. By now, how-
ever, you're probably beginning to realise that this doesn't
seem to count for much in terms of sound Quality,
This pair Is very small and simply styled, with magnetic
shielding to prevent picture distortion if they're used in
close proximity to the monitor. Simple controls include vol-
ume and bass, while connection is only possible to the
Amiga via a monitor's headphone socket - unless you huy
an adaptor, that is. Sound quality is perfectly adequate
Product: Primax 60 watt
Price: £39.99
Supplier: Primax UK
Tel: 01235 559922
Sound quality
Features
Build quality
Overall
.6
.6
7
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PrimaH SDundstorm
2iD Watt
The Soundstonn range are a new colleo
lion of computer speakers designed 10
establish their makers. Primax, as a tod
developer of multimedia peripherals]
Boasting 240 watt power, this top of the
range pair promised much in comparison
to the 5-10 watt average in its rivals.
Unsurprisingly, they are rather larofl
and wilt prove an encumbrance on destd
already straining underneath the weight ol
printers, hard drives and CD-ROMs. J
terms of appearance, they bear the eloJ
est resemblance to standard hi-fi speafcj
ers thanks 10 their box-like, basic design. 1
The standard audio-system similarity
are also borne out by the inclusion of «
woofers and 2" tweeters for more convind]
ing bass arvf ireble sounds. Like all goal
computer speakers, however, they indudf
a built-in power amplifier.
The controls are comprised of the slaJ
dard treble, bass and volume but they'll
top mounted which mahes adjustment
slightly more convenient than when knob]
are located at the base of the speakers,, ]
High volumes certainly are artainaMJ
with these speakers - though the mcreasJ
over 10 watt rivals is far less dramatjl
than you might expect, The real problem
however, is that the volume doesn't ha*T
to be pushed up that high before trJ
sound becomes badly distorted, wrikJ
obviously makes that excess powJ
practicably unusable.
Even if volumes are kept within a low J
medium range, the speakers were stil
none too impressive considering the prioa
Amiga owners would be well advised 1
either buy something cheaper or go fe
the Yamaha top-range speakers If the
wanl real power paired with accuracy,
I
Product: Primax Soundstorm 240
Watts
Price: £74.99
Supplier: Primax UK
Tel: 01 235 559922
Sound quality
Features
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Hi
Get writing - so I did
Our first letter this month comes
from an obvious madman who...
welt. Set him tell it in his own
words:
I was prompted to write to you by
the little snippet you placed on
page 46 of issue &&, namely
"GET WRITING " One single let-
ter won't exactly give you your
requested sackful, but if you pnnt
this in its entirety, then, what with your
answers, you'll have at least a couple ol
extra pages to fill!
Firstly, I must thank you for your excellent
magazine which I have followed eareluily
and with pleasure ever since issue one I
am so very glad (as I'm sure are a good
many others) to see from your well- bal-
anced coverage that Esoom are about to re-
Kindle the glowing embers of our old "Friend"
C=s. I am sure they will help...
,,,l nexi got my ilchy fingers on a 1k
Acorn Atom, which was held together, as I
remember, by much black adhesive,,,
...Then al last, I got my eager hands on a
WB1 2 Amiga 5Q0 complete with 'Hi-res'
1084 monitor, bought on the strength of...
,,, Enough of the lovey dovey sentimental-
ity though, and on to my first ever cry for
help from your good selves,.,
I've loved the idea ol computers for as
long as I can remember (I dreamed nightly
of EN I AC and COLOSSUS for months).,.
. I have the ubiquitous 1Mb 3,5" floppy
drive (dfO: Antidick provided courtesy of
Magic Workbench, A replacement lor DF1:
should be on its way by the time you read
this), one 40Mb Quantum P40S SCSI hard
drive I have 1Mb Chip RAM as standard
with 2Mb FastRAM added, plus 4Mb of 32-
bit wide SuperFastRAM on an SSL AS000
66020 accelerator board I also have an
MFM hard drive, formatted to 29Mb, on the
far side of an A2288 bridgeboard...
...I also upgraded to WBS.1 aboul a year
ago, In retrospect, I have found this to have
been quite a wise move, although I some-
times wish I had waited for v3.1 to arrive...
...the MFM drive now acts as my DH2: r
named 'Archive', formatted as a single OFS
partition with the standard WB formal com-
mand (Yes, 1 did see ihe warnings about
IDE drive low level formatting before under-
taking the task!). For a couple of years all
was fine...
...The drive was to all intents and purpo-
ses dead. Finally. I checked it through with
QBTools, again without much success.,.
...I salvaged what was possible and again
re-formatted. AH subsequent system checks
showed up as OK - no read/write errors
being reported. This same failure has now
occurred ihree limes in the last throe
months and happy is no longer my middle
namel Each time the system fails ii reports
a "Read/write error on Lraek xxxx"...
. .use the bay that would free up for an
internal CD-ROM drive. They are
obtainable quite cheaply these
days, arelhey nol?...
. .On the subject ol DTP. I run
ProPage 4,0 bul CacbeEdit gives
me an 'Out of memory' error
when launched from the
Workbench...
...perhaps I should have stuck
with PageStream, 'cos from what
I've seen of WordWorth it's
m.u.c.h. t,,o,.o.. S...I...0...W...1 Mind you
PPage doesn't exactly zip along does H7
Thank heaven for the Article Editor,,.
...Oh how t wish I had my old Star LC10
colour printer back. Considering its age, it
seemed to be able to 'turn its hand' to any-
thing and everything I threw al it - and I
sometimes dkJI
... Finally, if you've read Ibis far, thanks
for bearing with me and I look foiward to a e
doubtless abridged (you're not kidding -
ed), version of this tetter appearing...
Long live the Amiga and Amiga
Technologies GmbH! May their bytes never
fall to bite.
Simon SmatSey. Lincoln
Mr Smalley, who is apparently 60 going
on 15, sent us a total of 2720 words,
accompanied by several sheets of print
out detailing his assigns. Workbench,
Kickstart and DO pus version numbers,
and Sysinfo printouts of the perfor-
mance of his machine in several areas.
In answer to your queries, Mr Smalley, I
only have room for very curt answers
now, so pay attention:
1. It's probably because your MFM drive
is so old that you are having so many
problems. Your best bet would be to
ditch it as soon as possible and get a
sensible size SCSI hard drive for your
machine. I believe you should be able to
use a partition for the bridgeboard,
although it might be a little tough to set
up. You should be able to pick up a
500Mb drive for around £150 these days
and you can never have enough hard
drive space.
2. The MegaChip is good but, yes, I think
you would have problems fining it along
with the asooo.
3. It's been a while since I last used
ProPage, but I thought that CacheEdlt
was part of ProPage 3 and made
redundant in version 4. As you say, try
switching back to PageStream. Frank
Nord tells me the latest version is pretty
impressive.
4. Not much you can do about a print
head for a dot matrix other than replace
it unfortunately.
Lastly, thanks for your letter, it bright-
ened up the office on a dull day and I
hope you will be able to put the £50 prize
money to good use In upgrading your
machine.
e»Sip
CO
r
Vour uiews and ouestinns aired
and answered by our man nf — J I
fetters. feraSurf —
Helping hand I
I have just bought a second-nan
Amiga SOC with hard drive,. Workbera
2.1, etc. and I was given some of yo|
magazines. You gave away Persortl
Font Maker on the cover of your Ml
1994 issue number 73. Do V0u have:
back issue of that number thai I ca
buy?
K Stevens. 8sl(x
You can certainly write in for a bat
issue, we do have Issue 73 In sloe
The address is the same an
cheques or postal orders should I
made payable to IDG Media an
made out for the amount of £4.4
Alternatively, If you have a CD-R0
drive you can buy the Personal Sui'
of programs on CD for only £391
from our Personal Paint coverdli
offer.
Helping hand II
I am the proud owner of an A500V wl
4Mb RAM. a 120Mb hard drive and
PC card as well.
After rearranging my hard dn've diet
managed to lose the software that ru(
Amiga Computing
nrT^neB 1 noi;
the PC card and it's driving me
mad trying to find the correct soft-
ware, so I was wondering if you
could help me in my quest?
The PC card is a product
called the KCS PC
PDwerPacker. I hope either
you; or a fellow reader may
be able to help me.
Julian Sorfleet,
13 KGf&haw Avenue, Little
Lever, Bolton 8L3 1QS
letters please
Hopefully there's a kind reader
out there who would be willing to
help Mr Sorfleel out as KCS seem
to have disappeared into the aether
You asked for more letters pages.
but what you don't seem to real
Is the fact that you have to write Into
us. To give you a further incentive,
we will otter E50 from Adam
Phillips* wages to the best letter
written. But please keep quiet
about it. as Adam doesn't
know
musical instrument doesn't interface
I have spent a lot of lime, effort and money trying to get a good Midi kit
together, only to find that the device meant lo run it ail is incapable of (he
task by design, I don't know if any of your readers has had similar problems
with the CD32/SX-1 but I would like to make them aware that the
CD32/SX-1 module is nol compatible with MIDI interfaces and does not
come with any Workbench disks.
The advertisement plated by Silica stales quite categorically that the SX-1
turns I he CD32 into 'a. fully functioning Amiga 1200 compatible computer.'
This is not 1 he case. I have asked for a refund from Silica and I will get back
to you if I encounter any problems.
Roy Sharp, Liverpool
I am a newcomer to the Amiga having
recently purchased a second-hand
Amiga 500 Plus in "as new" condition
and in its original packaging.
The machine came with a RocGen
genlock wHh a test disk. However, when
this test/demonstration disk is inserted
aflat Workbench 2.04 all goes well with
the colour bars test, but every time I try
the SCRIPT icon! get the message
'Software failure.'
I am unable 10 refer back to the origi-
nal owner who has moved house, so
could you please inform ma who the
agents are for the RocGen genlock
sndtor where I could obtain another
{uneorrupted) demo disk.
Also with this kit, there is a strip of
Amiga fax cards, all with the suffix 3. On
(he Music 3 card it states that other fax
cards were issued with Ihe June and
July issues of Amiga Computing and
Estom aduke
J
While ii is good news thai the Amiga has finally
come out ol limbo (having finally been bought out
by German company Escom) t have some fears
which I would like lo voice:
1. Once Escom begin producing the A120O
again. I hope they will take their time to do so
Instead of just rushing it out. After all, look at
what happened when Sir Clive Sinclair attempted
to meel demand with his Spectrum in the 1980s
- they were nol even tested before hitting the
Shelves and consequently, many machines
included serious faults.
2. Will many of ihe software developers who
Asoded to quit the Amfcga when they believed It
to be a lost cause actually come back to it again?
Some of them seem to have made up their minds
already and Just don't give a damn about the
A1 2Qf>'s future any more,
3. How can we be sure that Esoom don't make
the same mistakes Commodore did with regard
Yep, I've Just checked Silica's ad and it does still say that. I expect the best that
can be hoped for is that you get the refund and that other people can learn from
your example.
that back issues are available. Could
you tell me if that is still ihe ease and if
so what the price would be.
A £ Lott, Reading
Again, any readers who can help Mr
or Ma Lott with their problem should
write into me and Til pass the infor-
mation on. As to the Amiga fait
cards, they were printed a fair while
ago and I'm afraid our back issues
don't go back that far.
fllu; wife won't
let me
I have recently purchased an Amiga
600 upgraded to 2Mb. My problem is
with expanding the system. I was origi-
nally planning to fit a hard drive and an
external floppy, modem and printer.
However, every time I go to the local
computer shops they keep stating that I
would be wasting my money and that I
should buy a PC, What I would like to
know is whether this is true and if nol.
what size hard drive would you recom-
mend as a minimum. Also, is the
Internal accessible to my computer and
Workbench 2.
If you recommend buying an A1200,
that would unfortunately be out of
the question as my wife is already nag-
ging me about wasting money on the
A600,
Andrew Brooks, Rochdale
It might have been better for you to
have bought an A12O0 in the first
place, Andrew, but no you don't
need lo ditch the 600 and buy a PC.
The minimum size for a hard drive is
whatever you can afford, but try to
get as large a drive as possible - it'll
soon fiJI up.
Once you've got a hard drive and a
modem (preferably 14.4k or 2fl.ak)
you will have the minimum setup
necessary for Internet access,
although to be able to use Mosaic to
browse the World Wide Web properly
you will need Workbench 3.x.
£3
to the launching of new machines and keeping its
customer* informed? I hope they do not intend to
blitz the market with a fleet of 'super machines',:
as a more sensible option would be to just create
one and let it be ihe basis of all future develop-
ments. The original A500 is a prime example of
this and even today it is still a grand machine - I
know, a friend of mine still has one!
4. Do Escom intend to fully support the Amiga
with 3 vigorous advertising campaign and per-
haps show it as a 'serious' computer and not just
something lor the kids to play on?
David O' Conner,
Dtnningion, South Yorkshire
We will undoubtedly continue to get a lot of
mall about the Escom situation, so let's go
over David's points one by one,
1. Escom are a very large company with mas-
sive manufacturing resources unlike Sinclair
Research in the days of the Spectrum, so I
think it's unlikely that you'll ever see Amigas
with as many problems as those early
Spectrums. However, I do agree that Escom
shouldn't just rush things through. They
need to pay attention to bundling deals.
packaging and advertising to ensure the
A 1200 and A4000T regain their place in the
computing hierarchy.
2. Certainly you will see the re-emergence of
Amiga developers, distributors and retailers.
As mentioned in this weeks CTW, retailers
are crying out for all things Amiga, but they
can't get new games or serious software to
meet the demand.
3. I think that Escom actually do need to
diversify the Amiga range in order to capture
the niches left for it. The A500 was a great
machine as you say, but it's time to move on.
4. We'll just have to wait and see.
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AMIGA COMPUTING ADVICE SERVICE
BIBS is here to solus all —
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Pinal Writer woes
T»- My situation has now reached
J desperation stakes and I am in
serious danger of taking a ham-
mer to my Amiga 12.00 and the HPS20
that is attached.
I am running Final Writer 2.1, and the
problem is that 1 cannot print past 10,5
inches - anything after this is being
ignored, and not carried over to the next
page, I have exhausted all the options In
the program and in Ihe Workbench
preferences.
Also, I would like to expand my mem-
ory via a trapdoor board, I recently
acquired a 4Mb SIMM from an old 3SS
HBDD tailboard
1 have re
1 600 l
R fired Fife
The A600 has the same type ot ROMs as used in the
- so will support a numeric keypad I do feel,
however, that (he biggest problem is how you will
attach the PC keyboard,
As the A600 uses a ribbon cable the seme as Ihe Ai:
will be quite a task to convert Ihe PC keyboard s 5-pin connec-
tor to the Amiga a ribbon If you do manage M. there is a pro- \
gram on A mi net to help remap PC keyboards for use with the
Amiga Computing
OCTOBER 1995
[0 Dilemmas
i
i» In the near future I am going to upgrade into the world of CD by adding a CD
J drive to my computer. I have taken a fancy to Power Computing's dual!
* drive, but have just noticed ihe price drop in the CD32.
I am now wondering which lo buy, as I know the CD32 can be attached to the I
A1200, Will the CD32 act In ihe same way as a CD drive? I do not want to use Ihel
two separately for CDs and floppies, but want to use the two as one.
I have seen some CDs that are only CD32 compatible, and also know about the I
FMV option, which inclines me to buy the CD 32, i will be using the CD drive for CD32 1
games, audio CDs, public domain, and the odd encyclopaedia. Which would give me
the greatest access to the huge world of CD?
Just one more quick question - how do I gel OctaMED sound files to play Irom my I
startup-sequence?
Afl&t&w. Northamptonshire I
As with most things In life, which ever decision you make will involve
r compromises. If you must have 100 per cent GD32 compatibility, thenj
- the only real option is to buy a CD32. You can then use something like
the Communicator II to allow you to access the CD32 via parnet.
Basically, you get an icon on the Workbench and can access the CD32 Ilka a I
normal device, such as a floppy or hard drive. The major down side to this Is I
you will only he getting around 20 to 40 K a second transfer, which Is not much I
better then floppy access.
Your other option is to go for the Power Computing offering. That consists of I
either a dual or quad-speed CD, and the excellent Squirrel SCSI-It interface The
CD32 emulation might not be perfect, but most recent CD32 games, and hope-
fully all future releases, will be written with these CD32 emulators in mind.
Therefore, future compatibility should be much better.
The other thing you should keep in mind is that with the last option you are
getting a SCSI CD-ROM and a PCMCIA SCSI -I I adapter. This moans that there ia I
a good possibility that they could be used on a future Amiga, or any other com-
puter, with the right software, and the feet you have a SCSI interface means it is I
possible to fit up to another six devices onto the SCSI chain.
Tha biggest benefit, however, is that you can access the CD at Its maximum
transfer rate - 300k a second for a dual -speed drive, That Is around IS times I
faster than the Communicator II, and if you are planning to use PD discs a lot
then this could be quite an important point.
I would go for the Power Computing system. You get a SCSI CD-ROM that
could be used with any other computer with a SCSI interface. The CD access
on the A120O side la infinitely faster, and on top of all that you have got a
SCSI-1 1 Interface,
When you say sound files, do you mean samples or complete modules? To
play e module, edit your user-startup file, found in the S: drawer, and add Run
>NIL: <NIL: Octa MED Player -Path and Module Name-', Make sure a copy of the
OctaMEDPIayer is in your C drawer, or on the path list.
If you mean a sample, do exactly the same but instead of the Octa MED player
you will need to use a sample player.
PC. Could you please tell me it it is possi-
ble lo utilise it in any of the current At 200
memory expansions. Finally, the button,
menu utility you gave away Is marvellous,
but certain programs will not run, even
though the path entered is an exact replica
of opening Ihe program using the mouse.
Why is this?
John Qealor. Liverpool
*f I would be Inclined to say you
iL y do not have enough memory
■ for Final Writer to create the
entire page, but 11 this was the case it
would simply produce an error mes-
sage. All I can suggest is you reduce all
the margin values in the page and sec-
tion menus lo zero. Set the page size to
A4 and draw a couple of boxes, one
Inside the other, In the bottom two
inches, and see how much you are
then losing. I use Final Writer with aii
HP550C and find It will allow me tJ
print up to 11 Inches. After that tfw
printer cuts the rest oft.
Unfortunately, the SIMM you haul
appears to be a 30-pin SIMM, so is onlj
16-bit and cannot be used in any of thi
A1 200 expansion cards.
As for your last query, many pro
grams require what Is known as a
Assign to be made - simply just run
nlng the program Is not enough. The
use the Assign to find other files tti
they require to run. Calage, for exam
pie, uses a Music assign which point
to the directory containing all its musl
modules.
Assigns are not very nicety imple-
mented on a basic Amiga, being hldl
den away and only changeable via tha
shell, A program such as MCP oJ
TECHNICAL
--, Qq you have a problem? Do you sometimes
find yourscll poised over your Amiga with aie
) in hand, spouting profanity at the stubborn
refusal of your Amiga software or hardware to
behave properly?
Well, calm down and swap the axe for pen
and paper, jot down your problems, along
with a thorough description of your Amiga
■: 1 1 u p. and send il off to Amiga Computing Advice Service. IDG
Mnjii. Media House. Adlington Perh. Macclesfield SKID 4NP. Or e-
niasl us al ACflS* flcomp.demon.co.uk
AislgnPrafs gives you a nice GUI
front-end to add, change and remove
assigns, which makes looking after
your assigns a lot easier.
H5DD expansion
T I have an A500 and would like
to know what is involved in
upgrading to OS 2.04 or 3.1. I
know you can buy ROM kits and that
ihey Jome wilh fitting instructions, but
aralhey easy to understand by a com-
plete novice like me? Do they need
apeoal toots, and dc they come with the
Workbench disks as well? Is it also pos-
sible lo use Ihe 3.1 ROMs in conjuno
lion with a ROM switcher?
At some point in the future 1 would
also like lo fit a hard drive, but there
seem to be so many different sons
I don't really know which one would be
best.
Ross Hasted, Oxon
CWith regards to upgrading
, your ASOO's Kickstart
chip, I would suggest you
went for the OS S.I kit. How difficult
this is depends on what revision
your A500 Is. Basically, if your
question;?
Amiga is no more than six-years old
it should be a revision six machine.
The only way to find out for sure is to
open your machine up, remove the
metal shield by carefully bending all
the tabs up. and somewhere on Ihe
mother board, normally on the right-
hand side, there will the revision
number.
If it is an earlier version than six
you are going to have to do a bit of
amateur electronics, and depending
on how adventurous you are it may
be best to get a qualified electrician
to do the Job. If, however, you have a
revision six machine, fitting the ROM
is a case of carefully prising the old
ROM out of its base - a flat head
screwdriver pushed carefully
between the chip and the base at
each end should do the trick - and
then replacing it with the new ROM,
making sura you place It the correct
way around. There are clear markings
on the chip and its base, so this is
obvious.
It is possible to use a ROM switch-
er, but why do want to? I am sure
once you use 3.1 you will wonder
how you ever managed using 1,3,
When OS £ first appeared there was a
legitimate use for ROM switches, but
nowadays every program will run
under OS 3.
As for fitting a hard drive in the
future, five years ago you could not
move for Amiga 500 hard drive
adverts, but now A500 stuff Is getting
pretty thin on the ground. The easiest
way to add a hard drive to an A500 is
to choose any of the ones that fits
into the side expansion slot. You
should also consider getting some
extra memory, as each hard drive
partition uses up some memory and
R12D0 ethernet
T Is there an ethsrnel adapter
available for the A1200
which plugs into the PCMCIA
slot or the parallel port? I know
these are available for Ihe PC, but I
have not seen any advertised for the
Amiga. I hope lo buy an A 1200 when I
go to university and would like to con-
nect to the campus network, if I can.
PNtip Chung, Cambridge
You will be glad to hear that
|r^ there is such a card avail*
\'i able called the i-Card. This
la only half the story, as you
have to find out what type of net-
work the university uses so you
can purchase the correct network
and driver software. Unfortunately,
the card is expensive at £2*9. If
you give White Knight Technology
a cell on 01920 822321, I am sure
they can help.
There is another option, but this
involves more work. You could get
hold of a PC PCMCIA ethernet card,
which is much cheaper, but you
then need the driver software and a
copy of AmiTCP. The problem here
is the driver software for the card.
Apparently, Erik Ouackenbush has
written a driver, but I have been
unable to get hold of him - I'll keep
you informed.
you will be stretching 1Mb to the
limit. You can normally fit extra mem-
ory into the hard drive, hut it is
something worth checking before
you buy one.
Workbench blues
<_ I have an Amiga 500 and a ROM swile-
<t) J her fitted with Kickstart 1,3 and Z.Q5. I
have Jusl increased my hard drive from
40 to 350Mb and have a Megachip
installed. My problem is that on ihe initial start
if I am getting Ihe message 'pure bit not set'.
Wtial is I his pure bit and how do I set it?
II I switch to 2.05 and boot my system, every-
thing becomes very slow and jerky. I am told this
is because it is still booting Workbench 1 ,3. How
can I gel my system to detect which ROM I have
selected, and automatically boot the correct
Workbench?
Finally, when using Pen Pal I find it very use-
ful lo use the CMD function to redirect the output
to my hard drive, and then print later. This
always worked fine, but since changing ihe hard
drive, every time I use it I gel a blank screen and
a redirecting data message. When 1 then quit
Pen Pal I am left with jus! the blank screen and
Workbench cannoi be found.
M Dennett, Somerset
U L>rlHlir-iM It ,-r- I **<*<•
Biggur. btrttar and toiler, Evory atpoct oi Workbench
3.1 it an imprcvgmtnl ovmr thm now d»cr*pid 1,3
Normally, the pure bit error Is associ-
W^ ated with the pure protection bit of a
* file not being set, A quick cure for
this is to simply type from a shell, 'pro-
tect C:#? +p'. This will set all the pure bits of
all the programs In the c: directory. However,
running the 1.3 files under Kickstart 2,05
should not make any difference to the speed
of your computer. The error message you are
getting, and the fact your computer is
running slower, is indicative of a keyboard
problem.
It could be that when fitting the Megaohip
you dislodged the keyboard connector. Does
your caps lock light flash when you boot
your computer? If it does then this definitely
means you have a keyboard problem. All I
can suggest is that you check the keyboard
is correctly connected and make sure none
of your keys are trapped by the computer
casing. As for your problem with CMD, are
you running Pen Pal under 1.3 or 2.05, and
which OS version of CMD are you running?
Earlier versions of Pen Pal do not run under
version 2, but it is possible to upgrade to
either the last version of Pen Pal, or the
much more recent Final Writer.
I do wonder why you are still using 1.3. If
it's just to run Pen Pal then you really should
upgrade and dump all the 1,3 stuff on your
hard drive, if you have to run 1 ,3 then there
are a number of small CLI utilities that can
defect which ROM you have running, and
then execute the correct startup-sequence.
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jfnur hard-tip host Daue
tuskh puts more tow-priced
Imelies under scrutiny
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aving escaped some of the hottest summer
weather in years by clearing off abroad for a
fortnight of quality ctaudbathing. I was greeted
on return by a PD pile of office-swamping propor-
tions. Fortunately, although wading through all the disks
was an extremely lengthy process, the high standard of
mosi ensured ii wasn't too tedious an ordeal.
Better still, ihere were only three Lottery programs
this month - and one of ihem wasn't even a predictor.
Anyway, Public Sector has now received so many
Lottery Predictors that next issue a brief comparative
round-up could be in order - and ihen 111 hopefully be
able to forget about them for a couple of months and
concentrate on more imaginative offerings.
Internet Utilities
Programmed by: Various
Available from; 17 Bit Software
Disk No, 3724 (£1 ptus 50p P&P}
Unsurprisingly given (he title,, five of the
Six programs on this disk wilt only be of
interest to comma" buffs. AmiTALK, for
instance, is a Unix compatible talk pro-
gram: - which to two-thirds of the Amiga
community will mean absolutely nolhing
but should prove useful for the rest.
There's also AmiTCP Helper, written by
Amiga Computing's very own Ben Vost,
and Control Panel which offers a simple
graphical interface for AmiTCP functions.
AmiWatch keeps track of when your
Friends or indeed enemies are logged
on lo the net. and when their name is
Amiga Computing
OCTOBER 1995
Programmed by: David King
Available from: Fl llcenceware
Disk No. F 1-092 (£3,99)
This is a football game with a differ-
ence; it's actually a card game. After
you've selected a Premiership football
learn to guide through a 42-game sea-
son, 13 cards are dealt out. You and
(he computer ihen take turns at select-
ing cards which signify match events
taking place; fouls, free kicks, penal-
ties, substitutions and goals, One of
Ihe cards also brings the halt to an
end.
Whal stops everything being totally
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each telephone omll i* coating you
listed, indicating they are on the net at
that lime, you can click a button to talk
to Ihem. Finally, GUIF is basically a
graphical front-end to the AmiTCP Finger
command,
However, while Contms' fans are the
target of the sixlh program too, its appeal
is slightly broader. Onlinn-o-rneter tells
you the cost of a phone call, tl can either
be used by simply clicking on the call start
and end buttons, or from comms software
using ARexx. II calculates the exact cost
of each call, taking into account factors
such as differing charge zones, minimum
charges and time and cost rounding. It is
supplied with Bntish charge details for BT,
Mercury, and Nynex, so getting the whole
thing set up takes just a couple of mm-
urns. Since this is also a useful program
for anybody who happens to have a tele-
phone near their Amiga, I'd recommend
getting hold of this disk even rf you aren'l
an Internet addict.
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dependent on luck is that prior to et
half, the player gets a chance to sn<
a peek at between one and six of
magic Assistant
Programmed by: Various
Available from: KEW=II Software
Disk No. U1 142
It's all very well, this computerised deslfl
top lark, but doesn't everyone occasion*
II y miss things like notepads, addresl
books and so on? Noi any more, becausl
to the rescue in its very best underpants!
outside-lrousers superhero manner is thjl
collection of six assorted utilities.
Let's start with the least impressive pro-
grams. TolleUhr is a resizable vectofl
clock, with ihe option to twiddle the rathafl
horrific default colours and suchlike!
Slightly more useful is MegaNote, a mult
page notepad which would be a good i
Ouch Dodgers
Programmed by: David Wo rs wick
and Lee Martin
Available from: PD Libra
It's a while since (here's been a go.
PD ptattormer but il was worth th
Fans of tough arcade action will t:<
home hen nty ot taxing levels
Duett has to toddle around eai
screen zapping be :h his freer
gun and then pushing them Into far
before they thaw, fvfiv I
bravery is in order because on son
levels, new creatures are created .:
tasl as you can trap the onginal one
To lop it all, each level has to be cor
Take on Ihe foPu of Duck Dndgnr%,
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cards. This memory (est aspect is what
makes !he game pretty enjoyable and
addictive. Remembering where thai
Goal card was might be simple enough.
but once you've snatched the lead you
won't want (o forget where Ihe Full
Time card was located,
And that, in a nutshell, is Premier
League. The author was apparently
inspired by a PD game called Premier
Picks which worked along the same
lines - or rather, didn't work, having a
tendency lo crash on him with alarming
regularity. Fortunately, far from scoring
such Lee Di*on-rype own goals.
Premier League Is a veritable Paul
Ince of a game - dependable, frequen-
tly impressive and (much like Andrei
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easier to use were it not also still in
German. Shll, you Can jot notes on It and
prim ihem out. and I can'l imagine what
ofter features a notepad program might
need. IconCalendar basically displays the
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Mniii, or nvinc'liing
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present s < excellent
uals are attractive,
ie sound isn't bad either.
tally harsh collision detection
15 slick <md
• Dodgers is quite an achieve-
e specialty considering the fact
programmer lives at one end of
• its graphic artist al the
ugh the two have ai
over a year or so they
■ sending one another stuff in
and Ifw end result is this rather
itl irmer Be warned, H
hallenge I'd heartily recom-
)uck Dodgers
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Kanchelskis, if you happen to be
reading. Fergie) quite hard to live
without.
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date in an Ape Icon. Very nice, bul I'm not
quite sure what the point is - I expect
most people who regularly want to check
the date already have a title bar clock
which displays rt, When | ran it on the 20
July I was informed thai this is the
author's birthday - fascinating, but why?
A calculator program which runs as a
commodity, ACalc is perfectly usable if a
little simple.
Right, that's the moaning over,
because the two remaining programs are
actually pretty good, AddressBook
impresses because of its genera!
simplicity, and because rt is Bniish it talks
about Postcodes and nol Zipcodes. II can
store names, addresses and telephone
numbers, and it can search for a record
by name or address and then dial the
appropriate phone number.
Finally, the most impressive program
on the disk is Assistant, a computerised
diary with the added advantage of being
able to provide daily, weekly or monthly
pages. Again there are no fancy features,
but the emphasis is on functionality and
as a consequence,. Assistant is vary
pleasant to use. Coupled with Address
Book, it should render the conventional
office rather redundant.
lotteri] Plaqer
Programmed by: Don Darden
Available from: Darden Designs
(£4.50)
It appears that these days the world and
his uncle have written Lottery prediction
programs Fortunately tor my sanity's
sake, Don Darden is keen to point out
that this is not a predictor but a harmless
HXegmhfote,
Icon Calendar
ernt TottmUhr
in action
rVou are the
Eueriithing...
I want to hear from you it you have any
program, whatever its purpose, which
you consider worthy of review. Whether
it will be freely distributable public
domain, shareware or I ice nee ware. If
you feel it's of sufficient qualify to merit
coverage then stick It in a jiffy bag or
padded envelope and send it in with all
haste. I promise I'll al least look al your
work.
Please clearly label the disk, and
include a cover letter supplying a
description of the disk contents, price
and some basic instructions. The magic
address is:
Dave Cu&ick
PD submissions
Amiga Computing
Media House
Adtington Park
Macclesfield SK104NP
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bil of fun, being essentially two Lottery
games in one package.
The first game la basically a straight
copy of the National Lottery. Starting
wilhi anything up to £100, each week
you can choose numbers from as many
cards as you like and see whether you
win anything. The Second game woika in
reverse, so after you have selected
seven numbers the computer will
produce sets of six balls and if your
selected numbers match these, you win.
The high score tabie can be saved to
disk and If you aren't winning very often.
Amiga Computing
OCTOBER 1995
PD and SHAREWARE
UTILITY
of the month
MP Lift
Programmed by: Alien Design
Available from: Pixel Digital PD
(El plus 50p P&P)
First there was MultiCX, the commodity that
replaced your usual screen Wanker and workbench
title bar clock while adding numerous features such
as the floppy drive dick stopper, the black work-
bench border, a mouse accelerator, activation of
the front screen, arid SO On. Now from Alien Design
comes Master Control Program, which hopefully
will prove rather tess hostile to other programs than
the MCP of Disney's Tron which presumably
inspired the name,
All of MuiliCX's most useful features are dupli-
cated here, along with plenty of newies, These
include AssignWedge which allows you to Assign
or Mount whenever those "Please insert ??? in any
drive" type requesters appear AppChange, which
MCP <> mMfily configured (nun
its own PrelBmncfff program
allows you to change the workbench Applcons
that some programs cause to appear; and the
option to change the workbench title bar message.
Not all the features on offer are useful, and indeed
I though! the animated Movewindow and
Sizewindow were awful. But the beauty of pro-
grams like MCP and MultiCX is lhat Ihey can be
configured to suit anybody's tastes.
MCP also scores because the authors have
selflessly made it Freeware rather than
Shareware, meaning lhat once you've got it you
MCP is brtmtnrrtg bvbf vjilh options
- thrmm tCf+Onfuls ol them rn fuel
don't have to pay a bean. And singe it was actually!
on last month's Amiga Computing CoverDishJ
regular readers will already have MCP.
It's nol all roses though - it has to be said thall
MCP has caused a couple of crashes during the]
lime I've been using ft, which is something MulhCXl
is not guilty of. But this is only version 1,04. and]
stability is liable to improve in future releases. If the!
authors at the same time implemenl some of the!
features on the To Do list in the ReadMe, MCP|
could become the ultimate Workbench commodity.
you can increase your chances by alter-
ing the number of balls in each draw.
Leave things as they are. however, and
you've got a cost-free National Lottery
simulator which, while perhaps not
matching the real thing for excitement,
will certainly be a lot kinder on the wallet.
Play this lor half an hour, lake a look at
the money spent and money won dis-
plays, and you'll realise, if you haven't
already, that the Lottery is certainly not a
good bet from a gambling point of view. A
better alternative might be to buy this and
give a few quid a week to charity.
mien B35h 1!
Programmed by; Glen Gumming
and Myles Jeffery
Available from; Pixef Digital PD
A shameless copy of Bitmap Bros
classic The Chaos Engine, Alien
Bash II rs undoubtedly one of the
best PD shooters 1 haire ever
clapped eyes on. Although this is
only a one-level demo of what will
eventually be an eight-level epic, at
upgrades and an equipment shop ha*
there is enough here lo see that this Is t
The gameplay is beautifully simple, <
the huge map slaughtering all manner
their prisoners along the way. The well-
in the style of those of The Chaos Ertgi
in this case, forgivable because the i
blasting action is accompanied by s
These are to be further enhanced o
version, but are nevertheless preft
considerably to the experience.
At this stage it doesn't look as rf then-
the final version, which was, in the long
of the Bilmaps' hit. Still, that's a smal
here to keep shooi-"em-up fans Decuple
Th» Chjto* - arm, Allanbatn 2,
a fAp.drnw thootar it avar 1
saw one
id features such as weapon
/e not yet been implemented,
in absolute corker,
insisting of wandering around
of alien beasties and rescuing
drawn graphics are very much
to, but the lack ol originality Is,
quality is so high. The frantic
uilably meaty sound effects.
i AGA machines In (he final
y Impressive here and add
l will be a multi-player option in.
term, a very appealing aspect
omission and there is plenty
d lor a long time.
It's morse than that,
he's dead Jim
Trekkies and Trekkers the world over
seem eager to surround themselves in
anything and everylhing Star Trek rela-
ted, A selection of disks from On Line PD
may therefore be of interest if you have
such an affliction,
The Star Trek Guide (Disks OL7A-F)
is a six-disk extravaganza which requires
a whopping 4.5Mb of hard-drive space
but contains details in AmigaGuide for-
mat of scores of episodes and all
manner of related prattle.
The Magic Trek Pack is a selection of
Star Trek pictures intended for use as
Workbench backdrops. The images
show spacecraft designs and while they
are hardly stunning, they beat a dull grey
backdrop hands down, Finally, the
Starfleet Ships Library {Disks OLI3A-C)
is a three-disk guide lo, erm, Starfleet
ships. Or at least it would be, if I could
gel it to work property. Anyway, fans of
all things Trekful could do a lot worse
than beaming these up. /Z&
Tarn Star Trak Outitm ta luticmliy hundreds ot
murBmnfvIs of iaxt, but It'll exalt* trmkkimm
and Trakkara mvmrywhrra
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miga owners are used to talk. In an Industry ihat seems to
thrive on hoi air and unsubstantiated speculation, no-one
knows better than they thai certain promises should be
taken with a pinch of salt.
So when Manfred Schmitt stood up al the Frankfurt presf
conference to announce the Amiga's new key role at the head
ol his ever expanding multimedia empire. It's not surprising if
everyone's scepticism didn't evaporate ovemighi.
Escom's plan to build on the Amiga's technological superiority
as a multimedia platform was obviously encouraging, but a number
of questions, remained. After all, in the Amiga's absence ihe PC had
been marketed so successfully it was almost synonymous with the term
multimedia in the eyes of the general public. With even Escom ihem-
selves pushing PC multimedia solutions, could the Amiga ever regain
lost ground?
Fortunately the promises seemed infinitely more credible thanks to
Ifie contribution of two companies: Scala and Viscorp. Both could jus-
tifiably claim to have invented their own brand of multimedia, and both
learns have experience Prom long belore PC owners had even
encountered the winning term. If any third parties were needed to
I
I
- n^V^H jP>ey were the ones. But are thj
ly committed. tnfljHist more talk ?
To take Scala 'first, lheir decision last year to mJ
nlo PC development was so shocking to sonj
Amigaphiles II was seen as a death knell. The relief]
having the company that invented computer le
back at Ihe helm of Escom's multimedia drive wi
understandably intense.
As reported In our August issue, the first good rm
was the plan to bundle Sea la's MM 300 package with n«
A1S0GS. The fact that the software won't run on the bag
machine, however, left some commentators puzzled. "Wha -
point," some said, "ol giving away software that most new own!
can't use?"
Barry Thurston, MD of Scala UK. thinks differently: "C
face of it it's a strange package.' he conceded. "But ii's fordl
the A12O0 into the multimedia environment and almost tryinJ
encourage the purchaser to get interested - which is no tf
thing.*
No bad thing indeed, slnue the A1200 ceh" ,■ iseds to ofl
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Amiga Computing
OCTOBER 1995
something different than the similarly priced
super consoles it will he up againsl this
Gtirislmas. But Thurston is aware thai more will
be expected from the Scala-Amiga Technologies
ooflaboration if the Amiga is to become a really
profitable multimedia contender.
Encouragingly, despite their move into the PC
t, Scala believe the Amiga can still lead the
to a future of computer television. Thurston
Jns: In market areas like distributing inter-
onto TVs, which is what we're about, the
will still be the best machine, It's PAL com-
as standard, plug and play like they say
ndows 95 will be, and once Amiga
Technologies start producing the machines they'll
5I1I Le the most cost-effective solution in the
area,"
. || would be fair to wonder, however, how much
mrnitmenl is backed up by new Amiga
developments from Seala, which currently seem
rather ihin on the ground, Thurston explains that
they've only really started pushing MM40Q follow-
ing the buy-out, as they've been building EXs
which expand on the current product's function-
ality - most recently they've creeled drivers for
the PAR card and Sunrize Studio 16,
The key to Scala's vision of the long-term
future, however, is a multimedia standard thai will
thrive on all platforms, including the Amiga. Far
ahead of the faddish approach that some PC
developers have adopted, Scala have designed a
state-of-the-art, object-oriented operating system
called MMOS,
"Object-oriented programming," Thurston elab-
orates, "basically means that each I unction in a
program is a separate object with hooks which
allow ii 10 link with other objects within the pro-
gram. So whereas before with a Scala product
ui5ion
life Amiga has heen promised a new multimedia future bit the — i
mi at fscom, tut they can't deliuer the dream alone. Qareth —
tofttiBUse talked is the third parties that mill lead the way —
/9b 1'
—i v. —
icMti i rntaChanrypt, an Amiga mullimotlim champion
Don't belieuB the tigpe
ie knows the Amiga was Ihe Firstborn mul-
machine If you were 10 believe the hype r
it would seem that it has been left far
- \& PC"s dominant brand of multimedia,
I Magazines have trumpeted PC interactive CD
as if it were the dawn of a new age, with writers
making huge claims along the lines Of CD redefin-
ing the boundaries of entertainment. And if you
. asked the developers ol such software about the
Amiga, the best you could hope tor was a
patronising smile expressing sympathy
white the talk has definitely helped reiailers
Amiga In Jfi
current farm
is too *ktW,
but uaing
Shapashiftvr
ff can run
Mac's
Quick tint*
raster titan a
LClll
push multimedia PCs Into ihe family home, the
actual product is often disappointing. Anyone
who's seen ihe average fare will know there's a lot
of clJched, bland material lurking behind arty
interfaces
II this sounds like ihe bitter whine of someone
who's missed the boat, then you might be interes-
ted to hear a few statistics. According to CTW, Ihe
computer trade weekly, 90 per ceni of the thou-
sands of multimedia CDs that went on sate in Ihe
US last year sold less lhan 100 copies. Mow that
speaks volumes.
Even makers of acclaimed CD titles are finding
it surprisingly difficult 10 survive, with Medio
Multimedia, the makers of the almost benchmark
CD called JFK Assassination, recently having to
announce il was laying off 40 of its 75 employees.
the main menu would be a whole series of things
stuck together, now virtually every item is a sepa-
rate object. It makes il a lot more flexible, pliable
and easier to add to."
in lact, MMOS is so flexible it can grow to meet
new requirements wilh the minimum amount of
difficulty. Thurston gives the example of a cus-
tomer thai wishes to incorporate Scata into an
editing suite: previously Scala would have written
an EX for it, but now the customer could be given
a development pack to create one themselves.
The good news is lhat though MMOS was
developed for the PC, it adapts to the AmigaDOS
environment much more readily, According to
Thurston, the developers one day decided to port
it back to AmigaDOS and were amazed by how
quickly they did it. If we talk in terms of man
years to get it onto PC, it took a day to put it back
T3m future of firtvrwcCf**
fotovfofaft f» Amiga
b»ad -oral least if will
be if Don QJuWatft g»*»
liis way
TTili I* EO, a Vimcerp
set lop currently
doing well in friar* in
djmmcart iiwnei.
QilbnmOi better**
ill Amig»-t»*i**d
Hieeauw will be
even better
With so many of the CD companies being small
start-up businesses, some commentators believe
that many will be hard pushed to survive.
Which all seems lo suggest that a certain
amount of the CD multimedia is not really impress-
ing the public. Dressing encyclopaedias and cook-
ery books up in hi-tech clothing does not neces-
sarily make them into a new and exciting medium.
It's clearly foolish and immature lo be overly
partisan on this issue. The fact remains that many
Amiga owners would jump at the chance of getting
products like Microsoft's Encarta, and both hard-
ware and software developers should be striving
lo match the PC's talents in this -field. But it is
equally important thai we build on the Amiga's
unique strengths, rather than jumping on a
bandwagon heading for tool's gold,
./j..*y
Amiga Computing
OCTOBER 1995
FEATURE
onto Amiga," Thurston explained. "Which
says an awful lot for AmigaDOS as an
operating system."
"What thai means lor us," ho contin-
ued, "is that cross compatibility between
scripts will be easier, and it's highly likely
thai our next generation of Amiga prod-
ucts would be based around MMOS,"
Which, he went on lo point Qui. wilt fit in
very nicely with RISC Amigas that can
emulate MS DOS.
The guestion remains, however, of
what will give the Amiga an edge over
PCs already running the system, but
Thursion is confident. "It will be superior
because it'll run AmigaDOS as well, and
from that there will be a whole new
range of products that are smoother,
faster and more fulfilling."
It appears, ihen, that creative tools
are still the key to Scala's vision. Now
Ihey're involved in the PC market,
however, you'd think they might move
If Scala can lake almost sole credit for
inventing the multimedia software environ-
ment on the Amiga, Don Gilbreath has an
equal claim on pushing the hardware in a
Similar direction. Now Ghief Executive of
the American-based Viscorp. ihe inventor
of the CDTV and CD32 is back with high
hopes,
Following a deal struck shortly before the
Frankfurt press conference, i! is Viscorp
that siand to benefit first from Escom's lib-
eral approach (o licensing by incorporating
Amiga technology into a new set top box,
interactive TV in the US is at a far more
advanced stage of development than in
Europe. Like his numerous rivals, Gilbreath
is hoping to bring video on demand, home
shopping and interactive entertainment into
the family Irving room all under Ihe control
of a TV top unit. Unlike his competitors,
however, he thinks he can do it at an
affordable price - thanks to Ihe Amiga,
Gilbreath explained that using Amiga
Siala 5UHE55
stories
Scala's record of success has put
the Amiga home computer at the
heart of some of the world's biggest
corpcrtions;
Ford, Esso, Trust House Porta SAS
International Hotels and Co-op^
"'"■■I
in on the supposedly booming interactive
CD scene as well. Thurston,
however, is nonplussed by mosl PC
CD-ROM.
-Somebody hit upon the idea of slick-
ing a CD-ROM drive in the PC and
including a sound card, and they •
that was multimedia." he said. "Now, if
ever there was a killer application that
was it, because it's made an awful lot of
companies an awful amount of money.
"But in truth it isn't multimedia," I
continued. "It just means you've golj
large storage device that you ca
relieve information from and you m
play sound files but - oh, by the waw
while you want to access informattl
your sound is going to stop becaul
your PC can only do one Ihing a! a tin
I think ihe general public on the PC ri
been cheated from true mullimedl
because of what various manufacture
have done."
Thurston does concede lhai Ihe m
has certain advantages, the main tm
being the quality of games from which,!
his view, the PC owner gets their oif
taste 01 true multimedia. But it's still rgfl
lively expensive. "The Amiga is still tfl
best machine affordable on the mark*
Thurston emphasised, "It's multimea
lor the masses, if you like. Hopeful
Amiga Technologies will be able!
maintain that"
HMH
jELA
%r &
Efegitnt interface* arr th* kef to information access
Barry Thurs ton, htD of Scala UK ,
outJjn«n hi* virion for the future
technology would cut down costs thanks to
the way it used and encouraged writers to
use memory economically. "What hap-
pened was that a lot of (he entertainment
writers didn't have the luxury of 16Mb main
memory tike you got with a PC* he said.
"In a way It forced them to write efficiently
and it forced applications to be efficient."
He continued: 'That helps us because
memory is the highest componenl cost in
any set top box. You look at some of the
sel (Op offerings in this country: There
were requests for bids for machines to be
made at a certain price, but people were
coming up with units that needed a crazy
amounl of memory - ten times what the
Amiga would need! Which, of course, just
killed ihe whole thing."
In general, it seems the whole issue of
price could be ihe decisive factor in terms
of who wins the race to bring multimedia to
the masses. Outside the set top box field,
Apple Mac's Pippin is just another exam-
ple of an impressive spec machine that's
been indefinitely delayed because they
can'i deliver the goods at an affordable
level for home use.
The lesson is clear to Gilbrealh. To be
successful the initial cost is the key. We
feel that with Ihe Amiga we can readj
these targe! costs "
in Europe, the concept of the set la
box is largely unheard of, so what coul
purchasers of Viscarps model expect!
According to Gilbrealh, the TV-basal
technology will incorporate a void!
phone, a fax, Internet access, plus an m
in-one access point to a variety of diflg*
ent network services with everything am
trolled using icon-based menus via yoJ
remote control,
Clicking on one icon will allow the usJ
to jump into a multimedia, potential!
graphical, vivid world. Since it's AmiJ
based, Gilbreath also forsees the possl
bility of incorporating CD and authorise
synchronised CD-based games,
Up to this point, however, Ihe produi
sounds like an extension on typical corJ
puter-based product's technology. In fad
the project is rather more radical thai
thai. "We see a computer world whicti I
well versed in interactivity," Gilbreati
"ScxJ* Jvtr am piwnolt re-aHyto-vew mutli-
n t mdlm lottitioni. Wacom now turrtt from a I
PC manufacturer and retailer Into a mufti' I
mwJui company - wc ico Ihix mi a key to I
>ucce», H Manfred Schmitt at tt» Frmnkfiam
Prama eentmrmncm
Amiga Computing
OCTOBER 1995
F £ A T U R E
iiM
1 linkGfing with the engine
9 Ihough Viscorp and Scala are about (he Amiga's prospects, line new machines
^^Bome catching up to do with other platforms if they're going lo have a chance of
^Heting. Fortunately, it seems Amiga Technologies are well aware of this - hence Ihe
fiommiimenl to a RISC-based Amiga
In the nearer future, Barry Thurston agreed lhal bundling a CD drive with the Amiga
was going to be important, and he added: "Hopefully it could spawn inje multimedia
producis along the lines ol Encarta, but obviously a lot more accessible and quicker."
;jgh a CD-inclusive package was mooted at the conference, how long before it
jppea's is. antilher matter. Ideally, Escom need lo get rt ready for Christmas, bul by Ihe
of things we could be waiting until Spnng 199G.
If Amiga users are going to gel product:, like Encarta, however, a more fundamental
change would have- to be made at the heart of the Amiga. PCs and Macs are able lo
show video footage running in a small window next to text and olher graphics, whereas
Ihe Armgg would have 10 cut to a different screen.
The reason for (his is thai the other computers use chunky pixel graphics which make
256 cotour images move as fast as two colour images. By conlra uses
^Hne graphics which become slower the more colours you use.
at the Akiko chip, which was tncorporated into the CD32, was a way
i IWs problem, but since nobody has exploited the technology, lhat remains to be
twain Ptiillrpt, the join I MO
ptSc*t*M UK division
explained "Then there's a whole commu-
wly of TV people who may not have a
computer. What we are driving towards is
more TV centric hardware and software."
Thus, Viscorp's previous set lop experi-
ments typically had built-in genlocks to
.itnato rhem very television friendly, And if
l you think TV centric software sounds like
[m more than anolher empty buzz term, it's
1 in eye-opener lo see what Viscorp have
already achieved with a non-Amiga-based
box named ED,
MAX ED-ROOM
For example, ED already has an unusu-
ally convenient on-screen yy entertain-
rranl guide. It differs from a facility like
teletext because users will be able to
wise- programmes lhat interest them, and
automatically set Ihe VCR up to record
them at the same time.
Then l he re's the matter of Viscorp's
fcense to NTN, a company bearing righls
to a number of key sporting events, NTN
ictually transmit live action lo ED and
users are given the opportunity qf betting
'n a What happens next?' game.
IPs a way to get involved with the sport-
ing eveni you're watching, and over Ihe
whole country you could be playing with 20-
30,000 people," Gilbreath said. "We see
that happening with a lot of differenl TV
shows."
All of which sounds impressive, but one
would expect that Ihe new Amiga-based set
top box would be a long way off in develop-
ment lime. According to Gilbreath. however.
making the new product is the easy part.
"Electrically, the Amiga- based product
exists but we've not deployed it yet," he
said. "Before we can do that it's about lining
up a sufficient amount of coll out developers
lo have titles ready. The producl itsell is not
a problem since it's based on a merging of
our previous experience."
Gilbreath has seen radical lechnclogy
Hop before, including his own CD-TV, so he
realises having, a good base product isn't
enough. "This is a very expensive business
to be involved: in," he explained. "II the bat*
lie was |ust about technology this box would
be a very strong winner. Bul it comes down
lo conteni; if you bring ou1 a new player you
need enough supporting software on
launch."
It anything gives Ihe Amiga a fighting
chance, it's not the hardware bul the latent
lhat can exploit it to ihe full - a fact stated
by bolh Scala and Viscotp. Barry Thurston
called the Scala programming team heroes
of Ihe Amiga world. Gilbreath is equally
adamant thai Amiga people are smartest in
the sel top field.
There's a base of software writers thai
Know AmigaDOS and know television and
entertainment," he argues. "We know of
other computer-based companies doing
similar stuff and television is not their nor-
mal playback medium. We think our people
are better equipped to do the job."
A Jot of promises have been made over
the lasi lew years, and tot of promises have
been broken, With teams like Scala and
Viscorp leading the way, maybe this time
things will be different,
Computer
television
wilt b#come
an uvmrdur
part of lite,
and riia
Amiga l*ndf
(he wmjf
Slowcoach mirths
If people moan about one area in
which the Amiga has been super-
seded by its rivals, it's processing
speed. New PCs and Macs are just
so much faster, it won't be possible
to do half the things they're capable
of until Ihe RISC machines come
through - or so they say.
Of course speed is very important,
bul for multimedia the Amiga is a lot
more capable In this area than many
realise. Interestingly enough, the
Shapeshifter Mac emulator ran ani-
mations and video faster on an
Amiga 030 processor than on many
of Ihe Macs in our office.
The fact that Escom have dropped
the IDE-based A4000 desktop in
favour of the SCSI equipped A4OO0T
will also prove a big help. Barry
Thurston points to faster transfer
rates as being vital when planning
for the playback of motion video.
Add lo thai the fact that il allows thn
connection of better quality periph-
erals, and more of them, and this will
give the Amiga access lo some very
powerful multimedia tools indeed.
Amiga Computing
OCTOBER 1995
GRAPHICS
^o
t the start of this year, Panasonic
announced a new dual-function
quad-speed CD-ROM drive. So
what? Well; it was a quad-speed CD-ROM
drive and - this is where it gets good - a
$50 Mb- magneto optical drive all in the
same box, but for not lhal much more than
a standard quad-speed drive. The adverts
started appearing and eventually we got
one to look at for ourselves. So is il any
good?
Let's start with ihe way it is built. The
drive looks like any standard CD-ROM
drive from Ihe outside with the exception of
the PO kxjo on the front panel. When you
open that panel you will notice another dif-
ference. It has a nay within a tray kind of
affair, one for !he PD cartridge and one for
a normal CD. Because of the height differ-
ence between a standard CD and one of
these cartridges, this tray within a Iray
ihingy becomes necessary - the interior
Iray moving upwards when it retracts if
there is a normal CD in it.
The PD can ridge rtsell actually shares
many of the same dimensions StS a CD-
ROM caddy - which you should have
some familiarity with if you own an older
CD-ROM drive.. However, the PD cartridge
will not work in caddy-based CD-ROM dri-
ves which is a great shame as il would
certainty put this drive into my all-time top
ten list of products.
SITTING PRETTY
The drive is nice and easy to install with
lumper-based termination {rather than
resistor packs which can be awkward to
remove and replace) and sits quite happily
in the top bay of my machine. Software
installation is certainly a tot less complicat-
ed than the many disks of installation soft-
ware for the PC and Mac included in trie
box would suggest
If you are using an Amiga with a SCSI
interface built-in like an A300G, nothing
needs changing. However, the drive isn't
particularly happy with all controllers - it
does work on a 6VP controller and also
on our A2091, b-ul rt didn't like the A4Q91
SCSI II controller we use in our A40Q0 at
work, If you do gel it working then all you
need do is load up HD Toolbox, or its
equivalenl on your machine, and partition
the cartridge the same way you would with
any new hard drive. As for ihe CD-ROM
[rjmpdtibilitu.
(r055r0du5
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side of things, using AmiCDRQM
is extremely simple and you can |
sel up the PD drive as a CD-ROM
untt with the same ease that you set up
the cartridge side of things.
How well does ihe drive perform?
According lo Syslnfo the cartridge runs
along at a nice steady meg a second,
although copying files to and from the
drive in DOpus puts the lie to those fig-
ures, in a test I did copying roughly 1 0Mbs
worth of 24-bit pictures, it took six minutes
and 40 seconds to write all 10Mbs lo the
PD drive, and just one minute and 50 sec-
onds to copy them from the PD drive back
onto my hard drive (which, incidentally, is
rated as giving me a liliie over three
megabytes a second).
This obviously means that in real world
terms the drive only writes at about a meg
every 40 seconds, not quite as fast as
Syslnfo suggests. On Ihe plus side it does
mean that the drive reads at about a meg
every eleven seconds - still not a great
speed but at least better than its write
speed, I should point oul, though, that the
Speed (Or reads and writes does vary quite
a lot and is not always as slow as the fig-
ures I have printed, The CD-ROM's speed
is a lot more predictable. Seeing that Ohe
drive is supposed to be a quad -speed
^U^gTffl
drive, you'd expect to get around tha
J 600k a second mark. And, no Surprise
es here, that's exactly what you do get!
In conclusion, I would have to say that I
wouldn't use the Panasonic PD drive as
an everyday replacement for a hard drivel
but if you are going to use il for archrvinJ
or as a final step before mastering a CH
then this unit provides significant value fori
money. For users oul there thai have™
yet bought a CD-ROM drive, it is perhaps*
worth wailing for a bit and Saving up than
extra cash to gel your hands on an addkl
tional 664Mb of hard drive space at thai.
same time. As each additional 664Mb carl
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i shame ^ady said, that the cartridge system isn't a little more
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read a PD cartridge in is Panasonic's own drive. It also has to be hoped that
the PD drive is going to be more compatible In the future with hard drive con-
CSI con' j drive does work with include the
quirrel controller, the embedded SCSI control i
A2091, and the new OataFlyer SCSI
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FEATURE
I*
6cmputer 2D animation has been
having a rough lime of It over Ihe
last few years. After the eye
■~dy rsceties of LightWave. Wavefront
i 3D Studio and its professional users,
is seen as something from the past
it should remain there indefinitely
: oduced by Disney. There's no
I lens flare no 2.400 lights illuminating the
dercamage of a space freight and no
3D chases through 24-bit deep space.
Indeed, computer animation is inheren-
tly seen as a 3D formal of polygons,
aped textures and splining because
ihe medfurn lends itself so well to the
genre and lor the last lew years has been
I seen as the best option for achieving the
impossible. The likes of Jurassic Park and
■lower Man lo Babylon 5 and
SeaQuest DSV have created a myopic
view of computer's potential throughout all
■jaflfl silicon art.
After ttiis initial flux of enthusiasm in
one area. If s now becoming more appar-
at artists and animators from all
| wbUq o' life arc finding ways of turning the
3D iegacy inla something else far, far
■HOved
Amga Computing thought it was lime to
turn ihe spotlight on the unsung heroines
^Hoes who are making real waves m
to animation scene to ask them what
makes their Amiga such a vital compo-
narttn the production process, and what
techniques they use to turn the ordinary
into the extraordinary.
Four animators
anim for all
seasons
Ortists have an image problem.
Judging from Ihe media, it
Bears I hat there are two distinctive
tjpes. The commercial artist who's in it
■ the money (lo eal. clothe, live
rod so on) and Ihe individual artist
■hose work apparently shouldn't be
Wed because it only appeals to a
mnoriiy . While there are extreme cases
i stereotype in both areas that inflame
■pc contempt and do more damage
tin good to the arts scene as a whole
Iwiness Cameiot's award ol £55 million
title Royal Opera House and the sub-
nquent backlash that has people mut-
Hngthat money should be given solely
to Chanties, never mind the Arts
Council!, many artists are genuinely try-
ing iheir best to bring something fresh,
no-'rii and individualistic to ihe small
Bid big screens
Despite the supposed biack-and-
ihite nature to the arts, the majority of
peop't operating in the grey areas in
between are working in bolh arenas and
Waling original and exciting work
Hnultaneously
Take Jonathan Hodgson. He's been
^Hng for the past IS years using a
Wriety ot media. His commercials
fckjde SAAB, Kiimeeden Cheddar and
program intros for
White Heat (BBC1),
Kersplat (Channel
4), Nelson Mandela
(Channel 4) and
Classic Trucks
(Channel 4).
Originally an illusira
lor, Hodgson came
across animation
while studying
at Liverpool arts
school and decided that the
moving image was far more interesting.
As with many art schools, the slant was
very much on 1he experimental - a tradi-
tion that Hodgson still swears by today.
He had his first introduction to comput-
ers, specifically the Amiga, only a year
ago when he applied to the arts council
for funding for a short experimental ani-
mation that'll be screened as part of the
FourMalions series on its completion.
Since that time, the computer has
become a vital part o! his animation
process. He has since produced an intra
animation for Channel Four's Classic
Trucks series (detailed below).
MENTAL GRAFFITI
Meanwhile. Hodgson continues lo
work On his animation. Described as
'mental graffiti', using a variety ot differ-
ent medias from charcoal to video, the
basic theme behind the film is what goes
on inside someone's head while doing
something as mundane as walking to
work. The Amiga is being used as a vital
part of Ihe production with the now
famous PARcard taking centre stage for
After tanking at 38 animation in past
issues, Adam Phillips talks to four SB
artists mho are making Amiga animated art
Ihe management and playback of all
images (detailed below).
So impressed is Hodgson with the
Amiga that he's planning to produce
another film created solely on the
machine. The appeal of using the Amiga
is the speed of adding a variety of
effects: "You can turn a photographic
image into an outline image within sec-
onds. Also, the potential for the likes of
morphing is very exciting" commented
Hodgson,
"While uses so far have been very
obvious, there's lots of stuff yet to be
Amiga Computing
OCTOBER 1995
Hi
done, Take typography - a hundred new
typefaces can be created by rnorphing a
single typeface and crealing subtle dif-
ferences and changes. The same could
be done by mgrphing two pictures
together. There's an endless resource
that's just wailing lo be fully exploited."
Furthermore, the price of the equip-
ment compared to the likes of a Quanlel
paintbox plus the hire charge of an oper-
ator has proved a strong sailing point lo
many animators including Hodgson: "It's
amazing that you can do so much on a
system now. It costs a fraction of trie
high-end systems - it's a crude Harry
(Quanta!) .■
There is a downside to all this enthu-
siasm though - at present, he sees the
use of computer graphics as a little limi-
ted; "There seems to be too much
emphasis on style and techniques and;
how realistic you can make something.
A lol of 3D stuff bores me - there's a
real lack of content usually and the con-
cepts behind the images are generally
science fiction-based."
Like any tool as well, he knows it
lakes time to gel used to the computer:
"There are so many options available
thai you can frequently find yourself dis-
appearing up a blind allay and wasting
time. The good side to this, though, is
the potential for discovery as well."
Despite his own success using the
Amiga, Hodgson can never see himself
moving solety onto a computer platform.
"Personally, ihe future of computer
graphics is how they fit in with other
techniques - that's when things are
going to start getting really interesting."
Sounds like a recipe for mullimedia to
me.
What she always
wanted
0hannel 4's FcurMations series
has shown some of the leading
work produced in the field of animation
and, last month, featured a program
dedicated to the computer animators.
One artisl showcased was Ruth
Lingford, a one-time occupational ihera-
pist turned professional animator. For
those who saw her short animation enti-
tled "What She Wants" they can hardly
have failed to notice the sometimes
shocking and sexually-oriented contenl.
Lingford's uncompromising style has
won her acclaim and work an an
increasingly large scale. Her love for
animation didn't blossom during her
teen years though - while she studied
pn an art foundation course after leaving
school, her career before animation was
dealing with mentally ill old people as an
occupational therapist. One day, she
realised she was simply running out of
care - with a husband and two children
to look out for in the evening on top of
the already stressful day job, Lingford
[lassie Trucks
For anyone who s.iw the Classic
Trucks series on Channel 4,
Hodgson designed the vivid Intro
sequence. He was helped by Dan
Arnnll who works lor Mat jut
Himmenon, also interviewed
here. What follows Is a break-
down of the Intro and how the
various effects were achieved.
Bla CU ot the wheat was (a«*n trom
a photograph. After putting In* paoe
■lit tho computer, (ft* live ac, tien trt m
man climbing Into a truck was
mapped on to the hub cap and wheel
nuts. At! the shots timed in f ft* intra
wew conufrtsO mlo s IE -colour
9r*r*cale instead tt SS6 which
slowed ddWrt the Fj.irif drive and irmd
too much space.
AH the images harm have been token
from different sources. The flyover,
cloud*, and (racks war* tmkan from
various booJis. The man walking
acta** turn frame la a friend of
Hodgson and aa his feet s tea Into the
port-product ton-added pittfdiee,
splashes in formed. Tries* war*
created lit Brilliance and the whole
tctni w» comport ted together using
the package*
The blue In the top right-hand comet
was added frame by frame using
Brilliance's filled chape option to
create the puttalltto palette. That
whole section was masked off to
achieve the effect.
Hodgson took tho shape of the tender
and mapped an the reflection of the
man as he appear* to walk past the
truck. The. actual (rack Image, was
bant slightly to give the illusion of
perspective. The bright palette
was painted afterwards. All the
work was den* with
Briltiancit.
The various areas of different
colours were traced alt separately
and tilled. Brilliance was used to add
more contour and shape to the
splash. Finally, hard edges brought
about by importing images ware
removed the using smear and
smooth options.
Two shots were taken hare - one oum
of-foccis on the window ami the o than
in-forus. After the frame of the win* I
dow had been stencilled out, a uarlet
of transparency layers were added
using Brilliance . a man ordering
inside the cafe, a building, a truck
passing and in the section which
becomes the Classic Trucks logo, a
video ot a ferry approaching [ft*
camera, itx lights painted In and its
number plat* removed.
Hodgson morphed using ktorpb PJi
to the m-tacus shot baoauma he felt
that simply mixing would have
seemed highly unrealistic as a focut
null, da we pull locus, the Classic
Trucks logo cornea Into view. The i
took a week and a half to complete -
there ate seven difteront layors in i
Feeling [Jig Ulan
The film thai Hodgson Is wort
Ing on currently, Feeling M..
Way', is an experimental i
shot on Hi-B and will lest nboi
ven minutes. Charting II
mtel outpourings am I
of b worker on his way to th
office, the whole thing is shoi
from his POV Hodgson know
that the basic premise is hardi,
gripping, but from what I've seer'
of his animation additions It*
piece looks excellent. The
process firstly involves shootw
the Hi-8 material and <
adding Ihe effects on afterwards
What follows is a breakdown o"
thai process.
decided that an alternative and perma
nent career move was needed.
With Ihe financial support of her
husband, she undertook a
Fine Art degree course at
Middlesex Polytechnic in
the mid-80s and came
across animation
quite by accident in
the course syllabus.
"It was one of those
life experiences - I ,
knew what I wanted
10 do when I grew
up. With animation.
you can make things
do whatever you want,
There are no restrictions"
enlhuses Lingford. ^^
Because of her animation work, she
was accepted into the prestigious Royal
College of Art to do an MA in animation
and in 1992, graduated, While there,
she had spent some of her time usiw,
(he high-end Macs and software lo ere
ate work and experiment. The fits
immediate problem on leavrnj
was where lo find a com
puier that could replace
the more costly meth-
ods of traditional
animation.
In 198B. an An*J
500 was bought frjj
the children to do i
spot of word p«
cessing. At Ihe lime,
Lingford had a brie
look at Deluxe Paint
but had not been
impressed initially by itl
aa***^ primitive look and design. On
experimenting further, ihough, slid
realised the Amiga system did offei
enough to make creating animation ad
home a. viable proposition. The new
Amiga Computing
OCTOBER 1995
FEATURE
Yirf*a Icolao/e ■ starting rn a haul* and
Umi en to (he i [reels of London,
Mxfgion has fried to capture exactly
■fiat jumj would so* and' look oul for on
lb* way Id work - passintf shops,
bstarig at your shadow, moving
IhrOugh a hu*y crowd art lhe way (a a
mm. and readme signs. After shooting
ipiii of materia', ft was nil
irjm Irrred en (a the. ..
Mffc.ird - where a Jogging sheet
Iktttory was created with timet at the
(wage's position on each tape nox/t to
lite lilt nam* tar assy reference. Jill
■Aali Bra loaded in a low O factor To
Hn miraiir|i. Hodgjon I original plan
■■■ fa ■hosi on Hint and than gat full
■Of afiofagraphic print* of the
(peruana I o shot*. If proved* Id hr
mataeticat and coatty. He heard about
Ih* P>flcard ana" the raff Is history,
Hff croato* an jjnemhly edi I of aiJ
Um ifreli ha wants to use and than
aesa rfi those chosen ones in on a high
II lie lor. tiling Batch Factory jnd
huje Fflf to organise and convert (ha
fenagsf into lfF/24, ha than uses Studio
Itftware Jo print out each icini (rjmr
sf frame on hi* HPf JI0OC printer. Each
frim» lafces 4-5 minutes to print out
...Animation . with each frame printed
oof ait special punched paper to fit an
jnimj tfon peg bar Ihotds- the (heel in
plata On the rostrum). It's time to .irfrf
the various effects with a variety of
different media. Hodgson wanted to
convey how we sea the world 01 a
series of focal points, fn this example, a
wrftitw xtencil it placed over a road
aeene obscuring everything ether than
the sign. He then draws in, using pencil,
outline! at kmy ob/ec tx in the (CSIW as
passing Impressions - as if wo don't
really take any notice of what wo see
unfaaa locuming diraclly on to> )t. One*
done, (he frame Is recorded by the.
...Hi-B camera - and straight onto the
PAficard, producing (ho finished
anrma too* scene
fr> (his i«™, Ufa >M th. walker loofc-
ing at his shadow aa ft change* and
turns info a bizarre landscape
Jonathan
Hodgson;
"Personalty, the
future of computer
graphics la how
they tit in with
other techniques -
that's when thing*
arm going Jo start
getf inq really
interesting"
Animate!
Anyone interested in possible funding for their animation should contact the Arts
Council. Focusing on innovation in animation. Animate! was set-up six years ago by
the council, wirh support from Channel 4 to fund artists producing risk-taking work.
Curently there are 30 projects either underway or finished, and six of those involve
digital technology - three specifically the Amiga.
For further information, contact Gary Thomas, the assistant film and video officer on
0171 333 0100 ext 410
step was to apply to the Arts Council For
a grant to start work on her first animal-
ed short creaind entirely on a computer.
The application was successful and with
pari of the money, she invested in a
second-hand 1500 and a SummaSketch
; HI tablet board. DP4 was selected as the
package to do all lhe animation on and
What She Wants (detailed below) was
Staled.
The attention the finished piece
received won her a place at the
Museum ot the Moving Image as an ani-
mator in residence. Akin to being put
under a microscope, Lingford sat in a
room working all day while the public
watched in from lhe other side of pane
of glass,
The bonus to the experience though
was a proper commission with real
money and development lime to work
on her up-and-coming project, Death
and The Mother, an adaptation of a
lesser-known Hans Christian
Anderson story. In fact, Channel 4
liked her storyboard so much that
production begins in September with a
budget in the £40,000 area.
Her other work shows the diversity
available to animators. From
producing short animated sequences
for the CD-ROM version of the
best-selling Griffin and Sabine trilogy
now being produced by Peter
Gabriel's Real World multimedia
company, to a 20 minute training
animation on how to deal with the
problems of glue sniffing, her work
is varied but boasts her own individual
style. In the meantime, she
has upgraded to a 4000 and the
PARcard,
With a healthy portfolio of animation
tucked into one video cassette, she
sees computer animation as an Ideal
media: "What's happening now Is very
exciting. Back in the old days, we
were all terribly scornful ol computers.
People at college now find they can do
what they want with computers and
aren'l having their work alfected by
clumsy technology."
FUTURE THOUGHTS
As for the future, Lingford is equally
optimistic: "Anyone will be able to
animate - I don't find that thought
threatening. At the end of the day, it's
all about the idea behind the
animation not the technique, and com-
puters offer an idea! platform to get
started.'
She still believes, though, thai peo-
ple must learn the fundamentals of
animation creation to give them the
necessary knowledge to make a solid
start. Her advice for budding anima-
tors is simple: "I'd just use DF4A5 and
draw using the light box, Draw the
movement first to get a feel of whal
animation is all about, The look can
come later."
She also sees computers as offer-
ing an excellent way ol learning the
ropes. In between her animation work
she has been teaching at the
University of Humberside and some
days at the National Film and
Television School.
-With something like walk cycles,
you're always going to get it wrong to
begin with, it requires lots of practise
and I noticed while teaching that stu-
dents have a tendency to be very
precious when drawing with pencil and
paper" Lingford explains
"It lakes them a long time as they
painstakingly draw out each frame.
The majority, though, end up with a
walk cycle that doesn't work. With a
cumputer, the investment required to
produce a result is so slight that you're
not as precious and can rattle off
example after example. It's a very
good teaming tool."
Amiga Computing
OCTOBER 1995
h»
FEATURE
UJhat She Wants
Oor her first animation, Lingford wanted a chal-
lenging subject matter. The theme behind
What She Wants is twofold. Firstly, she wanted
to create an erotic animation - Ihere has always
been a school of thought that believes it's impossi-
ble to create such a thing because animation
doesn't allow the viewer to become fully involved
with the animated characters. Secondly, it was
reaction against the apparent increase in sexually-
related matenal in the media - she te!t as if she
was being told that everyone should be having sex
and thinking about it, almost as if a form of control.
"It's a paranoid attitude to a certain extent but it
seemed that sexuality was being manipulated to
make us bigger and better consumers."
With this double-edged sword in hand, What She
Wants took nine months to fully complete and
proves lo be an animation that doesn't pull any
punches. Her main process was to put a. series d
seemingly unrelated images together and come uj>|
with new ideas and connections - she feels the
project was successful on the whole. What follows
is a breakdown of the two mam processes featured
in the anim.
Black and white sections
Each im.1gc in this ice I roil tw.ix
copied from a pointing by
Detacroim. The proems it ximpla ■
thla Romanesque man wn
created using the unbroken and
bra hen Jrnr option in OP4...
... and Lingford
drnvj in the
relevant clung*!
fo turn the image
into.,.
... a woman. Lingford didn't want to
cut and copy lit (wlwMn becmu+e the
end result would have appeared jerky.
jIIh, rncrphlng was ruled our simply
*•«"•« it wouJrf devoid the
animation ot any real atyle
The arm and body of the
woman turn into a horae'a neck
and head. The process it vary
aimilmr to the old tradition ot
painting on gtaat - take part*
a way and add new oiw>
Colour sections
The starting paint wflE
on OP4> lltfhiable
facility. The image waa
*»wn up tiling the
thick black tine...
...Linqford then
moved ahead by
two frames and
draw in trim neat
step,,.
...One* done, she'd play the
and roxult to xna it it worked.
It aueeeaatul, aha returned to
the intermediate frames and
drew thmm in
Finmtty, she would add colour
and go over the black lino*
with the relevant background
colour to pro-duo* an uneven
and more hand-drawn effect
Lirrgtord is currently working on the CD-ATOM A preview of Che up-and-coming Death and Tha
version Of the besJ idling Grit tin jnd Sabine trilogy Mother, Lingtard's Channel 4 funded animation fa
being produced by Peter debrief* Real World multi. pre tent iy In pre-production, the vimual %iyio r%
media company - unfortunately, the If fie won't be based on Barman woodcuts ot the early SOth centu.
available Oft the Arrag.» on rfi roleaim in Spring 1 '96 ry note the lines left by the character 1 * movement
imjition, vow
can make
' "'nff s do
-fever you
t. There
frictions.''
Amiga Computing
OCTOBER 1995
FEATURE
Rimminen and son
Qucked away in a London lerraoe house on
the (op floor is an Amiga 4000 and Silicon
Graphics side by side. The- owner, Marjul
fiiwriinen. has been producing animation for ihe
last 20 years. An animation director by trade.
Liters have only just begun taking a very
active roln in tier work. On board is her son Dgn
Amalf, a computer operator and animator whose
expertise has also helped Jonathan Hockjson.
It was in 1974 thai she had her first experi-
incs wilh a computer: "I was in London to shoot
a commercial wilh Electronic Arts and became
involved bacause the media was interesting and
new. Unfortunately at lhat time, the whole
computer operation was in the hands of (he
engineers not the creatrves due to Ihe inaccessi-
Aty of the hardware and soltware" commented
nan*
Subsequently, she didn't return to the comput-
er scene for another 20 years. In (he meantime,
she continued with her commercial work and
has had various animations shown on Channel
4. Her next foray into computers was the Amiga
500, owned by her son, which came with Deluxe
Paint 3. So impressed with the standard possi-
ble, she quickly invested in a 4000 and a
PARcard. The machine is currently being used
on another Channel 4 Four Mations anim in con-
junction with the Silicon Graphics. Wilh the
mrefc-up created on (he Amiga already, the bulk
of Ihe final version is being produced on the SGI.
RISKY BUSINESS
While some Amiga owners maybe fuming at
the nought, Rimminen is quick 1o point out that
one ol the reasons for bringing in the SGI was
Bie cloud of doubt hanging over Commodore's
future' "We had planned to go wilh Amigas sole-
ly, but with such an investment in something lhat
was looking decidedly shaky it was just too
I much of a risk."
Indeed, she sings the Amiga's praises: "I've
worked wilh Macs as well and it has tots of inter-
asting programs but it's still not a great machine.
If Ihe- Amiga was developed in Ihe same way as*
Hie Mac - easy to use in other words - il would
be ideal."
Star of (he show I hough, yet again, is ihe
PARgard. While shooting the live footage at
hired studios, they used a Hi-B video camera
and siored each frame directly onto the card
which was set up nearby. The Amiga has also
helped her puppet skills as well - while shooting
l particular scene, Rimminen needed to Film a
doll rolling out a handbag. Instead of the usual
painstaking set-up required to perform such an
arination feat, she^ simply held Ihe doll in ihe rel-
evarl position for each frame and Ihen look out
her fingers using Brilliance in post production, "I
find the system very tactile whtoh is unusual for a
compuier... it enables me to use my puppel skills
and help in the process" she commented.
While the SGI takes centre stage in this pro-
jtJuctiori, Rimminen is obviously a true enthusi-
ast "While at a show recently, I met dozens of
animators all singing the praises of the machine.
ifter ail ihis time, there's a real community
apint far the Amiga. If Escom succeed. I think the
Mure for (he Amiga in the animation sector is
Bxcellenl."
manij rlappu, Returns
A theme- heavy animation portraying how the
present is both formed Irram the pasl and the
fulure - because of our experiences and
hopes, there's no such thing as objective real-
ity. The anim explores this with a mixture of
computer and live action.
Dan Arnmii and Mar jut
Himminen: "f find tha
Amiga vary tactile
which is unusual tor a
computer... it enable*
me to use my puppet
skiili and help in the
prccetl. "
Bimminun was placed gn a spinning
chair in this shot. The live action
war than altered and turned into an
ar.hnbmmh. The palette was
changed and the final image
stencilled Into the live action tore-
ground with... Brilliance!
In this teens, Ihe birds in the Venetian blind lakm
ott and lly across the screen, Rtmmlnenf face
was put over (he top as a 30 par cent
transparency with Brilliance, Tho birds
Hicmishn started n dirts mapping their flight
plant and then were subsequently drawn in with
Brilliance with a flight transparency.
Other work
< Uorph Plus was used Id distort tha lac
kite a vatnparic image, The tattoos on the:
lace war* sketched an with Brilliance fey
digital artist Jack ScJWeo
in the background, bomhs can be seen
dropping - IMi effect warn achieved by
amply •hooting a book page on video
while tilting ihe camera down. The
(Mouses ot Parliament kve/e composited
over the lop and edges were blurred to
"»m lifelike, Tha broadcasters were
taken from the video recorder and
picked up as an animhrush and plated
V on top of Ifw action
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compositor and drawing an alpha
channel for each live frame of ihe
actor, the rest of tha stint was
image processed with the line art
op lion using Adfro and Muttitram*
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a nice bouncing ball progress animation
(mueri better than the pulsing radio button
or Ihe spinning clock hard) and Netscape-
like gadgets tor progress through the
world wide web. Also included in this latest
version is (he ability to type into the URL
address line, rather than having to open a
requester and a built-in. hierarchically
organsed hotlist
My overall impression is that this ver-
sion is actually ever so slightly slower man
AMosaic 1 .3, but given its. added benefits
fm willing to forego that extra speed.
Funnily enough, given thai AMosaic now
Wudes s injly animated progress button,
graphical navigation buttons and the
•hilly to construct forms, the executable's
sue is actually less than thai ol its
predecessor.
The way AMosaic now supports forms
does seem slightly clunky, but I would
Imagine this is down to the way MUI and
AmigaDOS work. What happens is that
when you get to a URL thai has a form,
aayltie registration form for HotWired, The
Electronic Telegraph or Yahoo, the
Hosatc window disappears to be
id by a little window telling you that
AMosaic is constructing a form. The
AMcsaic window then reappears with ihe
tarn in place, voila!
When you leave a forms page, exactly
same thing happens, Scrolling within a
page is a bil grinding, so some work
fcfeusly still needs lo be done on I hat
front Another thing I miss from using
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CGI script. This lets you click on some-
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d ihem some mail, bul I guess you
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Next up is a related bit of software,
Bstend Qeceri's AMHotlist. This now also
■ppois |he hierarchically arranged hotlist
Mies You can create sub-menus and
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lose sub-menus by clicking on the 'move'
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to display them both and still have ade-
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VERSION UPGRADE
Lastly, there is a new version of the
Amiga's sole videoconferencing tool avail-
able on the net. At the lime of writing,
ACUSeeMe was at version 2.01, bul I
know that version 2.02 at least will be
available by the lime you read this.
CUSeeMe is a standard for Internet videc-
conterencing which gives you 'realtime'
video and audio communicallons with
another machine. This works great if you
have a whole load of Unix boxes with
cameras and mikes linked into an ATM
network, but definitely leaves a little to be
desired over a telephone line.
Because the Amiga doesn't have a
camera or mike as easy system add-ons.
All three of the programs I have lathed about require Magic User Interface - MUI
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the other end of the link, This version
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FEATURE
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ot so long ago, the Amiga
games market was awash
with high-quality, innovative
titles thai soldi in abundance. But after
the collapse of Commodore, software
companies unsurprisingly became very
cautious when it came to releasing
Amiga games. Some, after years of
Supporting Ihe machine, were only too
ready to abandon it and desert to the
PC camp, others took a toe-dipping
policy, releasing g. couple ol titles or
even worse - second-rale PC port-
Overs while many titles were 'put on
hold;
But now, the latest news from E scorn
is that the Amiga is going back Into pro-
duction and an A 1200 is promised lor
September. But with a higher than
expected RRP announced at £399, a
lot of people are going to take a fair
amount of convincing that developing
for Ihe Amiga is once again going to be
a viable option.
And. not only have Esco-m got Iheir
work cut out for ihem in this respecl.
but the vicious circle of developers not
making the games until retailers slock
them, and retailers not making shelf
space available until they see wide-
spread commitment, musl be broken,
GENERAL CONSENSUS
Amiga Computing talked to key
industry sources to get the general
opinion about the future of the Amiga
games market and what they'd like to
see from Amiga Technologies,
The Amiga has always been the
cheap, yet quality home computer that
not only could you buy the latest
games for, but you could also create
music on. compile a database and
write a letter The PC has always been
priced over three times as much as the
Amiga, The consoles, while available
for the same price, were merely toys
that could do no more than play
games. Bui alter a year off the market
has it still got what it takes?
As it stands, the Amiga still has
There has been a lot of speculation about what the new Amigas
will be like and the price at which they will retail. Incidentally,
the interviews were conducted before E scorn announced the
price of the new A12O0. and at £399. it's a tot more than every-
one was hoping for,
Marcus Dyson, Team 17s "A 1200 with an 030, 4Mb RAM (2
fast, 2chip) and a 120Mb hard drive for £299. This may sound a
little unrealistic, but PC's are now so well specified and so
cheap that Amiga has to really offer good value for money."
Andy Jolly, Binary Emotions: "The A12Q0 has to be around
the E2QQ price range."
Michael Crook, Guildhall: "If the A 1200 can re-enter the mar-
ket at C349.99 or less ihey will immediately grab a healthy
chunk at consumer spend this Christmas."
Simon Reynolds, Inter-mediates: "I would like to see a
cheap {sub-C20Q) A 1200 in the marketplace, to kickstart interest
in the Amiga."
Tech spec
many strengths which the supportive
software developers are only too keen
to point cut. A strong and loyal user
base already exists and Escom need to
cultivate this. As Chris Warrender from
Grandslam points oul; "Escom must lis-
ten to Ihe users, both past and present,,
and give them what they want in rela-
tion to the machine rather than telling
them what they need. They have a
ready-made installed base to start from
- they should not ignore these users,
bul should foster the relationship
between user and developer and this
base will, undoubtedly increase "
Amiga users have proved them-
selves extremely loyal, especially with
a generation who have grown up
Ihe machine. Marcus Dyson, ho
Multimedia at Team 17 slates:
great thing about the Amiga was
laughi a whole generation of gs
players ihe fun of graphics, music
ing and coding." Dyson also poil
the Amiga being a user-fri*
machine that is easy, even fo
novice to use.
The Amiga comes out of a ba
is ready to run in seconds. No tire
and troublesome sound cards, gra
accelerators, I/O cards and rnoua
vers to install. And Workbench 3 I
superior to Windows '96, which I;
being steeped in praise becaus
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Amiga Computing
OCTOBER 1 995
combat
Were is a worming trend in the Amiga games
market with fewer titles being released, Tina
Harhett inuestigates whether anything has
(hanged now Isrom haue unuei/ed their plans
use-s have had to tolerate- Windows
SO Iting."
:an Software's Lisa Tunnah
agrees: "The PC has a habit of doing
really scary things when you least
Hit, whereas the Amiga sits there
ying a very friendly looking work-
Unch environment, Running software
Amiga is so easy, whereas you
a degree in computer sci-
titst to Install Windows
01! your average PC."
The Amiga has many
Other positive (actors
Ed having a good
get market eer-
helps matters,
weir as those
able for around
.trie full price titles
i's also competitively
priced With cartridges
tnd PC CD-flOM titles sli
costing around the £40 mark
and with full priced Amiga
les averaging around
Ihe Amiga will still pro-
i value for money on out ot Hu mind"
scare. A triple A title on the Amiga
an slid sell m abundance, and some
awlopers are ready to point the finger
Mary Cmationa. developers at Sperii
l*f*ey, believe that Amiga own*n mrm
tri up at buying poor quality uAwin
at some of the bad-quality games being
released that are giving the machine a
bad name. Jolly believes: "I think
Amiga owners are fed up with paying
out for poor quality software and are
only willing to buy quality. For instance,
Skidmarks 2 sold twice the number of
the top console games in its first
month."
However, distribution always
plays a crucial pan and if the
retailers aren't convinced,
then the software com-
panies' hard work will
go down the drain.
Vulcan Software
have found a way
around this by dis-
tributing their games
themselves through
mail order. "We have
decided to distribute our
own products for several
reasons. One is the declining
Dy.o/i; "Anr company confidence in Amiga prod-
det/eiopina tor thm Amiga ucts at wholesale and
but im't doing coss ituff t* retail level, Vulcan
couldn't change this sad
lact so we simpiy adapted, "
Nell Boote, Head of Non-
Music Product at Virgin
Our Price, defended the
retailers by saying;
"Virgin Retail is commit-
ted to alf games formats
and as such, we stock
Amiga products in the
Mega stores. Amiga was a very
strong format three years ago and
recently had a very successful
Christmas In 1994. Demand has dimin^
fshed since then, and as such we
are keeping a close eye on the
Amiga market and any develop
ments that might affect it. We are
aware that the Amiga still has
over 1.5 million machines in
UK households, and any deci-
FEATURE
sion we make will take this into consid-
eration."
Simon Reynolds for Special Reserve
is rather more pessimistic: "The
demand for Amiga products is dwin-
dling down to the fact that there has
been no new hardware sales for a
year, and after a year out of the mar-
kei, and with the Saturn and
Playstation looming, Escom are going
to have to do something really special
to succeed."
This time factor is also seen as a
major problem that Esoom will have to
overcome. A year out of the market is a
long time and in its absence the PC
has taken the major foothold in the
home computer market- Simon Jeffery.
Vice President of Marketing at Virgin
Interactive states: "Those who require
a future-proof computer for education
and a bit of gaming will be driven
towards a DOS-based PC. Intel
and Microsoft have
increased the profile of
the PC to the non-
hobbyist consumer
to the extent that
people equate the
term computing
with the names of
those two compa-
nies, This delimits
the Amiga to the
hobbyist and design
sectors, plus niche
areas like video. So pricing
Aft*r«m*«(fo*««fhE.c«Tv has to &e extremely
vfrg^n interactive wiit aggressive , "
continue to develop The Amiga is also
tor th* Amiga \\fn, ie<i by being ma j n | y a
European platform - the Super-
consoles will he international: "Their
problem will be that the other platforms
are truly international whereas the
Amiga will be very much a
British/European platform," said
Michael Crook of Guildhall, Jeffery
believes, too, that the Amiga wilt never
be seen as a serious business
machine: "DOS and Windows-
based applications rule
this area, Sixty million
PCs will be sold
this year - and
Wilt other platforms
prove too much
eompotition tor thm
Amiga?
OCTOBER 1995
Hn
FEATURE
lhal's conservative. Sadly, I can't envis-
age the day when Microsoft publishes
Amiga-specific apps." He finishes: "The
Amiga is a wonderful hobbyist machine.
To pretend it's anything more will be its
downfall."
Apart from the hardware not being on
the shelves lor a year, the Amiga has
also faced other problems. Piracy is
cited as one factors thai has led to the
situation- One way around I his would bo
to increase the amount of development
on CD format. As Dyson puts it: "Any
company that is developing for the
Amiga but isn't doing CD32 stuff is out
of its mind. Because CD piracy is still
(relatively) uncommon, Amiga CD soft-
ware sells in larger amounts than the
CD32's marketshare would suggest
More Amiga owners are getting CD-
ROM drives and If companies will
release enhanced CD software, I'm con-
vinced itiey will see lha! effort rewarded
with sales.
"Personally, with faster loading times,
less disk swaps and no need to take up
hard drive space with full installs, I'd
rather see all software issued on CD
only"
ENHANCING
However, the CD32 in its current form
is another bone of contention, Most
games available for the CD32 have
been port-overs from the Amiga with lit-
tle or no enhancements, and the general
feeling seems to be that the machine
needs vastly enhancing and CD-specific
titles need to be developed - especially
with the imminent arrival of the Sony
Playstation. Jolly backs this up: *We
think thai Ihe CD3S in its present design
will have a hard time if it goes back into
production - unless Escom intend to
focus it on a different market, i.e. a
set-top box. They must produce an
upgraded CD32, re-styled and renamed
would be a good move, complete with a
tight development schedule."
What software developers would actu-
ally like to see on the Amiga itself is
wide and varied, but most seem to be In
agreement that they'd like to see
increased specs. Warrender replies: "I
would like to see high-capacity hard dri-
ves, built-in CD-ROM, cross platform
compatibility, a new high resolution
monitor to coincide with a higher stan-
dard video output, a portable version,
Super Skidmark* provmd that
qualify ti !/*s will stiff **ff well
Vulcan Software fwire man** U10 decision ta
distribute thmir <H*n producti through mall order
there has been
no new hard-
oiare sales for a war. and
after 3 m out of the
market and uji Hie Saturn
and Ftoistatioii tootling,
EscDiii are gang til haue to flu
something fealli special Id
nod
In the pipeline
Teavn ITmwm ttill developing lor the Amiga
bcr *u*# they are Mil Hug* Amiga tan*
We take a look al what the software
companies have in store now that
Escom have revealed their plans.
Vulcan: "Our policy is to continue to
develop for the Amiga regardless
of Escom's plans We sincerely
believe there is a strong user base cut
there." In development: 'The Mini
Series',
Grandslam "Our policy on Ihe devel-
opment for the Amiga has only been
strengthened with the Escom news.
We have always been an active sup-
porter of the Commodore range since
the early machines, and will continue
to develop titles as long as Amiga
users are still out there to buy them."
In development: Basejumpers CD 32,
International Test Series Cricket,
Gamer Gold, Ruffian, 7ih Sword of
Mender
Virgin Interactive: "We had an impor-
tant meeting with Escom recently, dis-
cussing our luture Amiga development
plans. Escom have certainly assured
and a newly designed Amiga mouse!"
Binary Emotions' Andy Jolly adds to
this: "I'd like 10 see 2Mb Fast RAM, new
32-bit blitler, fast 3D chip for polygons
and texture mapping. 68030 25MHz
base processor, sound improvement,
and multi-player facilities,"
Another possibility that some would
have liked to have seen is the new
Amiga put together as a complete pack-
age, much like how the PC Is sold,
Tunnah states: The Amiga would bene-
fit from 6Mb of RAM as standard, wilh
an accelerator, CD-ROM and a large
hard drive accompanied with a monitor.
This would provide the end user with a
state-of-the-art machine which could run
the most sophisticated software,"
As wilh all new machines, in-house
development is very important, and
us of a future for ihe Amiga, so app
priate projects al VIE will continue."
development: Sensible Golf, CE
titles and Renegade's Z.
Binary Emotions: Our plans ha
always involved the Amiga simp
because it's such an easy platform
develop lor, so Escom's buyout h
enhanced matters," In developme
Minskies Furr Balls, N;
Syndrome, Spens Legacy 2
Team 17: "Escom's plans haven't i<
lly affected Team 17's altitude to-
Amiga yet. They haven'l approach
us directly, we have had to appro
them, This was always a problem w
Commodore, who really rtad quH
shoddy attitude towards develop
We are still developing for the Ami
mainly because we owe much ofi
success to the machine and hccai
many people here are huge Ami
fans rather than it being a particu
profitable market at present In de*
opment S perls Legacy. Final Ov
Alien Breed 3D, Worms
unless Escom have some soft*
teams in-house then it could be \
damaging for the future of the Am
Jolly stresses this: "You simply cat
rely on third-party development, mi
in the '&Qs it was possible but in th
days of intense competition you haw
be crazy not to release exclus
in-house lities."
Taking all these points Inlo aoco
Escom have a tough job on their ha
and only time will lell il the Amiga i
be born again. What is for sure Irun
is that no-one wants to see the An
go. and for a machine that has been
the market for a year there
faithful following. And as Vulcan 'a 1
Tunnah summarises: "Ttiey jAn
usersl are loyal people and desi
only Ihe best."
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nciting! Inieresting! Two words
lhal really can't be used to
describe fifing systems on the
Amiga. However, Fourth Level
Developments have now released Ami-
FileSafe with the proud daim lhal H's the
newde facto standard for the Amiga-
First off. a brief explanation of what a file
system is: It's a bit of software thai sits in
the system and maps files onto a dish or
suitable medium, servicing requests for
data. The Amiga has used FasiFileSystem
for the past few years bul this has ils faults,
including speed and fault tolerance.
If you reset your Amiga while writing to a
disk you'll know about it when you boot
again - the disk thrashes around irying to
re- validate itself. The bad news is that
occasionally it can't sort ilself out, at which
point it's time to start praying that some
extra utility can recover your files. This can
take an inordinate amount of time and still
fail.
AmiFileSate's main claims are to never
become invalidated and also to be nippier,
which does sound too good lo be true, The
first hurdle I suspected was ihat installation
would be a pain, but thankfuify the manual
is excellent so people who have no expen-
ence of this sort of thing will be fine You'll
need HDTdoIBox lo follow the manual's
instructions but RDPrep can be used to do
the same job - one should have been sup-
plied with your system Due to Ihe nature
of Ihe product, your disks need to be refor-
matted after installing the new filesystem
onto them, but you'll already have a recent
backup of your data, won't you?
STILL WORKING
Once in pface and with data reinstalled , I
was glad to See ihat everything still worked
and that my machine definitely booted
.faster. AFS's claim of improved parallel
access certainly seems to be founded and
Ihe seemingly endless thrashing when
ToolManager and EGS battled for band-
width has pretty much become negligible.
Time for the reliability lesls - close eyes,
copy large file and reset half way through,
No troubles with invalidation. Group delete
files and reset? Nowt wrong. Okay, time tor
the biggie Unplug the SCSI cable while
writing data and up pops a requester say-
ing Write Error. Cancel that a few times.
Aha! Gotcha! Replug the SCSI cable and
the light starts flickering again. Alter a sec-
ond or two. my 3Mb file has been copied
and the disk is valid. No dala had been
lostl Unbelievable, and a possible scenario
for those with an external disk farm.
On the data security side of things, I
reckon it's safe lo say ihat this is excep-
tionally good, but maybe the real word to
describe it is bulletproof.
Over to speed now, AmiFileSafe's other
big claim. Instant Directory Listings' claims
the cover of the manual Maybe I'm just
cynical, but I think I've heard this sod of
thing too many times before so I was
expecting disappointment. | was wrong.
inslanl is the word to use. The first indica-
tion of Ihis was when I typed 'list' and
found Ihat my graphics card was the
Safe as houses
V El
ilih lines tasks at a
fast mm filing system
mmm
mmm.
Jms *
bottleneck in displaying the data, despite
Ihe facl that it's a Zorro III S4-bit card!
Benchmarking with DiskSpeed reveals that
even on my humble A3000. 1837 directory
entries are being thrown at the system per
second, Good old FFS manages a stun-
ning 198 FFS with directory cacheing
manages 1421 bul at the expense of dala
transfer speed.
Transfer speed is up on FFS too. what-
ever size file is being tested. On small
buffers Ihe write speed is up by a factor of
five, yel the CPU availability is still at 44
per cent. Larger buffer sizes manage to
return an increase in speed along with an
increase in CPU availability, too! Suffice to
Testing directory manipulation Speed
File Create
File Open
Directory Scan
File Delete
Seek/Read
1 1 6 filesteee
86 files/sec
1 98 files/sec
344 files/sec
810 seeks/sec
CPU Available: 9%
CPU Available: 29%
CPU Available: 33%
CPU Available: 16%
CPU Available: 12%
Testing with a 262144 byte buffer.
I LOMG-aligned. MEMF FAST)
Create file 605928 bytes/sec
Write to file 8631 57 bytes/sec
Read from fife 90S1 76 bytesysec
Average CPU Available:
CPU Available; 83%
CPU Available: 89%
CPU Available: 88%
CPU Availability index: 754
ruling *n FFS: device on a Workbench J. eB03Q.hmmmd rtraftfn*
Testing directory manipulation speed
File Creale
File Open
Directory Scan
File Delete
SeeURead
1 63 files/sec
283 files/sec
1741 files-'sec
270 files/sec
3 1 UUU Ivor Uu L»
CPU Available: 2%
CPU Available: 0%
CPU Available: 0%
CPU Available: 0%
CPU Available- 74%
Testing with a 262144 byte buffer. (LONG-aligned. MEMF FAST)
Create fi le 970903 bytes/sec
Write to file 11 78647 bytes/sec
Read from file 1 1 94950 bytes/sec
Average CPU Available: 52%
CPU Available: B4%
CPU Available: B9%
CPUAvailabte:89%
CPU Availability index: 714
Testing thm AFS: devic* on m WorVtonch 3. SB03O-han-d machine
Amiga Computing
OCTOBER 1995
say, AFS is significantly faster than FFS:
paper.
The greatest difference. howevw
seen in everyday use as FFS disks |
keep on getting slower, when
keeps up its speed well. This supports
explanation in the manual that fragma
tion 15 kept lo an absolute minimun
fly up all the time, not just on email
disks.
The only benchmark parameter tfi
bekjw FFS for AFS is a seek/read para
ter which is around ten limes slowe
FFS. If this was relevant, I would H
expected it lo manifest itself in gafi^
many small files (such as ENVAfla
RAM), but this operation is faster uij
AFS, reducing from taking three sec
with FFS to one and a half seconds
AFS. Perhaps it was just a spurious (fl
or a parameter lhal really doesn'l mj
much difference?
MISSING FEATURES
At the moment. Multiuser users will
be able to fully work with AFS, bul a
upgrade is promised to version 2.1 it
will suppon this. The only ofheT mis
feature (which the manual draws <*\
attention to instead of trying to hide) is
there is no 'undelete' feature, but ihis|
promised in version 2.2 (released
month and free to registered users al Z
This is an excellent product I love
speed, reliability and complete trans]
ncy of it. As yel un mentioned is [he
that there's a (loppy version and an
mised version for machines with an 020
better The floppy results are stun
(1800 directory entries a second comp
to 37 Willi FFS-DC). but most will be \
ested in hard drive speed.
And now to the price. Seventy
may seem steep, but It's a small
pay for pretty much guaranteed se
New Amigas need this reliability if Ihey
to stand a chance in the commercial
Are you listening Escom?
svsTEm Essmiifiii
HEO - Essential BLACK - Recemmen
2.04
Kickslart
Ihe bottom line
Ease of use
Implementation.
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I^jk ne Amiga doesn't promise to
I be all things to all men, and
1%^ women in these politically
correct limes, but Ft is surprising the
erent uses people put their
ires to. From word processing
i from 3D animation to image
ation, from genealogy data-
to route planners. People even
games on Arrngas, believe it or
his diversity of amplication lor our
urile machine means [here are
ays new spheres for users to
into. New users seem to tend
the if Amiga? solely tor games
ng, but the lure of all that other
software soon takes hold. With the
il of ever cheaper SCSI hard
dnvgs and hard drive controllers, get-
ling nlo the serious side ol the Amiga
ever been easier. Now all we
s a cheap, good quality monitor
^Batibie with all Amiga screen
modes
J Ah. but what of the ideal Amiga? I
' you had an unlimited amount
ney lo spend and an unlimited
Mr of PCMCIA, trapdoor or
Slots, you could get yourself a
amazing bit of kit. But seeing
nasi people are limited to one of
ner and four of the latter, we
t wan! to 90 too crazy.
UTERI A
what criteria shall we apply.
, I'll limit each category of
iir>es to only two choices for
ware and Iwo for software - that
J wa won't be spending excessive
Lints of money.
ssume both our base machines
1 new A400QT-040 and an Amiga
have got an existing hard
: of at leasi reasonable size, and
the A4000T has TOMb RAM.
machines can have a standard
or Microvitec because I'm feel-
enerous, but that's it. No more.
's determine what the cate-
3s are going to be for our
BrAmiga. With only iwo pieces
1 of hardware and software, we
t possibly have the best Amiga of
| worlds, so we try for the best
ilga for. say, DTP, Right, we'
lone category, what about
i others? Hmm, what's
1 Amiga good at
how about
)ries for
hies, video, 3D mod
ig, and music. I
k thai will do for
FEATURE
ll|—
1 let's start looking
categories. We may as
i'l go in ihe order I listed them
'5 my article, ril do what I
r>t>_ So without further ado, let's
a look at the ideal A4000T and
1200 for DTP.
Super DTP Amiga
Unfortunately, our choice of software for the At 200
and A40O0T is rather limited these days. Basically,
you can have PageStream, or there's PageStream
and if you don't like that you could always choose,
emn. PageStream, ProPage is no longer in develop-
ment, although you might be able to find a copy of it
from somewhere. As for the others, none of them
were really up to scratch aparl Irom maybe
PageSetter, on a limited basis,
and yes, you guessed
it, it's no longer in
development eilhor
and is just as hard to
find as ProPage.
So we'll go with
PageStream 3 (perhaps it
wili be version 3.1 by the
time you get to read this) as
our main piece of software for
bolh the A4000T and A1200
We still have another bil of soft-
ware to get for both machines.
I'm going to start a trend that says
AT £00 owners have less money to
spend lhan A4000T owners, a
stereotype? Maybe, but I ihink that if
you are wilting to spend about £2000
on a machine, you're more likely lo be
rolling in it than someone who only
spends E40O.
So for my other piece of super software for an
A1200 I'm going to suggest that Ihe best choice
would be Studio II printer software and an HP Deskjet
660C for hardware, This new version of ihe excellent
Deskjet 5QQC gives very high resolution mono output
and great colour for a price that would have been
unthinkable four years ago. Combine this with the
superb output that Studio is capable of producing and
you'll have a hell of a low-end set up. To top oft my
hardware choice I think a CD-ROM drive would be
the most useful item to take advantage
of the many CD-ROMs
filled with clip
* art that are
Ben Host checks nut the
ultimate Amiga upgrades and
mahes his stun Super Amiga
available. As for the A4000T side of things, how about
a nice HP Laserjet 5MP? This laser printer Is capable
ol 600dpi resolution and has PostScript level 2 sup-
port, What about our other piece of hardware and
software? If I could only have two more pieces ol
hardware I would gel a nice graphics card,
probably a Picasso II - especially as it has
recenlly had a reduction in price - and a
proper monitor like the Idek liyama 17"
mulliscan
^^ But I don't, so my other piece
^ of hardware is going to be the
new Artec Colour scanner.
reviewed a couple of
months ago. This sub-
£400 scanner is an
absolute boon to the
DTPer lurking within you.
As for my remaining
piece of software, whai
about ImageF/X 2.1 to process
those scanned images.
CD-ROM rfriv*
A1200
Software
PageStream 3. £1 74.95 from Emerald Creative -
0161-715 5666
Studio II, £49.95 from JAM - 01895 274449
Hardware
HP Deskjet 660C, £385.99 from First Computer
Centre -01 13 231 9444
Squirrel quad-speed CD-ROM drive, £259 from HiSoft
-01525 718181
Artec
CokwrStalion
A4000T
Software
PageStream 3, £174,95 from Emerald Creative -
01S1-715 8866
ImageF/X v2 1 , £249.99 (but look for special offers)
from Wizard Developments- 01322 272908
Hardware
HP Laserjet 5MP, £914,99 from First Computer
Centre -0113 2319444
Artec ColourStation. £399.99 from easterner -
0181-345 5000
Amiga Computing
OCTOBER 1995
FEATURE
Super Uideo Amiga
If there's one area in which the Amiga excels more than in graph-
ics. It is in video production. We have genlocks coming out ol our
ears and video titling packages to malch. Whether they are the
high-end like Montage 24 or cheap and cheeriul like Big Alternative
Scroller 2, the overriding message is that if you wans a machine for
video use, (hen gel an Amiga.
Our tow-end Amiga is sill a powerful production tool in its own
right, so what are we going to pile onto if? Both our machines are
going to need genlocks, alihough the A1200 does nave a pretty
good composite out. On the genlock front, ihe choice for many a
user has long been Ihe Rendale 8802 and variants, so that's the
kiddie I'll pick (or the A 1200.
As for my other piece of hardware, I think it would have to be
either a frame grabber or a scanner, to incorporate logo's and
images, etc. into video work. So I'm going to go for the ProGrab
again because it really is groovy.
On the software stakes, I (hmk that you'd have to go a long way
to beat the feature list m Deluxe Paint V which is particularly suited
10 creating flying logo animations but nol necessarily scrolling text.
For that I think we II need Big Alternate Scroller 2 which is very
simple but scrolls splendidly.
For the A4QQQT we're going Id seriously bee! up the spec.
Because our machine comes with a fairly good SCSI hard dnve,
we're realty going lo lest it to the limits by chucking a VLab Motion
card into the mi* The VLab Motion is probably one of the best biK
of hardware released (or the Amiga this year. It can grab live video
in realtime and play «i back. With the options! Toccata card you can
add synchronised sound to your animations, bul that tent all.
VLab Motion also comes with a whole series o( special eflecls
and DVEs thai can be applied to a VUb Motion sequence. The
only problem is that they can take quite a while to generate, so the
other piece of hardware I am going to choose te the CyberStorm
060 accelerator card which should ensure thai even the most
complex of effects yets a kick up the backside speed-wise.
This 68060-based accelerator makes sure you have ihe fastest
possible Amiga and even takes the SIMMs from your motherboard
so you won't need to buy new memory. This board should also
guarantee that the two programs I choose tor the software side of
the deal will run as lasl as possible,
For one of those programs I am going to choose LightWave,
possibly Ihe best video pioduction tool the Amiga has in its arsenal.
The olher Is going to have lo be Scale Multimedia 400- This pro-
gram is suitable tor video titling, mullimedia presenialions, and all
manner ot other things, At the price you have to pay tor il, ii offers
one of ihe best deals for sofiware available.
A1200
Software
Deluxe Painl V. £56,96 from Emerald Creative -
0181-715 8866
Big Altemalive Scroller 2. E49-95 Irom Emerald Creative ■
0181-7168
Hardware
Rendale genfocks Irom E149-E299 from Rendale -
01604 790466
ProGrab 24RT Rub, i.'129,95 from Gordon Harwood-
01773 836781
Super Graphics Amiga
A4000
Software
Lightwave 4, £tbc from L-ybersystems - 01.843 292150
Scala MM40Q E299 Iron; Silica Syslems- 0181-309 1111
Hardware
CyberStorm 060 k!995 from White Knight Technology -
01930 822321
VLab Motion, £999 from Cybersystems -01843 2921 50
Graphics is a bil of a loughie. There are so many excellent programs for creating
editing graphics on the Amiga Ihal it's hard to know how to pick two. Right, roll up
sleeves and start on the A 1200, Graphics hardware is definitely going to have to incoi
raid a frame grabber ol some description and the ProGrab 24RT has been very
received by everyone
Following on the heels ot the Vidi range of products, the ProGrab can be used thi
either the parallel port gr PCMCIA slol, It works with all AGA screenmodes for the hi
possible quality grabs and has many built-in image processing features. It now comes
a Plus version including S-VHS mpul tor the same low pnce- I think ihe other piece
hardware should probably be a CD-ROM dnve again, particularly one with Photofi
access, for ail those graphics CDs.
As far as soFtware is concerned, no super graphics Amiga would be complete wrtfw
a paint package, so my nomination would be for Personal Paint. And because Ihis A13
has a CD-ROM drive, I'm going to plump for the Personal Suite CD-ROM which not «
contains Personal Paint, but also Personal Write and the two Personal Font Makers. Ol
each tor mono and colour fonts, along with a whole host ol art and fonts.
Since Personal Painl includes some image processing functions, I'm not going
choose an image processor as my second choice instead I'm going to go for a si
art package, this time Photogenics Phologenics is probably Ihe software lifle of the
for most Amiga users.
In case you've been
ing on Mars this yet
Phologenics is a 24-
paint package which
can even use on
machine without a 1
graphics card by w>
I in HAM-8, Il suppo
wide range of file Ii
' 1 ~h^ - RHU and is ideal tor relouc
cyberViMton 6* graphics *«?-rrf digitised images.
UghtWave. LightWave, LightWave. We've
even had letters of complain! from people
saying we give it far too much coverage.
but when all's said and done, there's
nothing better for general 3D
modelling and animation
on ihe Amiga
Imagine has much
nicer textures and Real
3D is extremely power
ful, but only LightWave
gives ihe user a modicum
ol power for very Irttle effort
11 is ideally suited to commer-
cial work and with all ihe add
ons lhat are available for it, ihere
is a flow of new ways to use it.
However, l hesitate lo recommend it
for use with an A1 200 owing to the
feci that it has pretty high memory
requirements and we haven't included
any memory in with our stock A1200.
I am going lo choose an accelerator tor
the A1200, but I don't think il would be in
the style of this article lo furnish it wilh
more than the fairly standard four megs of
memory. So whai am I going to choose
as my rendering package lor the A1 200? I
think il has to be the latest version of
Imagine which, while overshadowed by its
more famous rival, is still capable of some
stunning renders.
My other piece ol software would have
to either be a paint package for creating
CyberStorm CWO
texture maps or a 3D oojecl transl
Bul seeing that Imagine comes «Mh
many exquisite algorithmic textun
think we can safely go for lha otji
translator instead. Til go with Pixel
Professional v2 which offers the m
facilities, including the ability to 'pu
polygons and import lexi as objects.
On the hardware side of things I Wj
CD-ROM would come in handy again
all those CDs lilled wilh objects l
Amiga Computing
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FEATURE
doesn't have any animation facilities, unlike Personal Paint, but it does have advanced
image processing capabilities like warping and rippling.
That's Ihe A1200 qui of the way then. For the A4000T I'm going to 24-bit. First up on
If* hardware front would have to be a graph-
ics traard •• the GyberVisicmS4 springs to
mnd. Secondly, although it would be nice- to
gel a better monrtor so that full advantage
could be taken of the CyberViston's capabili-
m going to go for a Wacom pressure-
sensitive graphics tablet. This little gem
responds correctly to the amount of pressure
you place on the nib of the stylus so your air-
^B Mow gels more dense and your
^Hti gets more coverage,
This tablet doesn't work with all software,
; going 10 have to. pick a program that
! uH advantage of its facilities. The pro-
gram I'm going to go for is TVPaint version 3
^Hras multiple layers, a superb airbrush,
wl even some image processing functions
- roup mention an ARexx interface,
Hpnk tha choice tor the second piece of
software is a toss-up. Photogenics takes
advantage of the CyberVision's ability to
open 24-bit intuition (Workbench) screens,
^HlhAcior can compile animations in 24-
Kjte n>ost common foreign formats like
Bw .DL. However. I think I'm going to
Kb go for ImageF/X v2.1 again. This is
Hfctir program that fully supports the
^■feion's 24-bil inluilion screens so you
Bk exactly what you are doing to the
are processing without having to
.■ugh ihe render modules required for
flJtef graphics displays,
A 1200
Hardware
Squirrel quad-speed CD-ROM drive,
£259 f rom H iSoft - 1 525 71 8 1 8 1
ProGrah 24 RT Plus, £129.95 from
Gordon Harwood- 01773 8367B1
Software
Personal Swle CD. £39.95 from Amiga
Computing -01625 878888
Photogenics v1 ,2, £59.95 tram
Almathera - 0181-687 0040
A4000T
Hardware
CyberVision64 2Mb. £329.95 from
Gordon Harwood - 01 773 836781
Wacom tablets, £489.95 - £999,95 from
White Knight Technology -
04920 822321
Software
TVPaint 3, £349 from White Knight
Technology (check for bundles with the
Wacom tattle!) -01920 822321
ImageF/X v2.1, £249.99 (but look far
special offers) from Wizard
Development - 01322 272908
-xjr iaps. On the accelerator front, it's
ind Id choose one particular accelerator
(there Lire so many available. Bui in
toepng with our cost-cutting approach for
•M12QQ machine, I'm going to choosy
Iptive newcomer to the field - The
Jpdo - which had, at lime of writing, the
A1200
Software
■the 3.x, £99.95 from Emerald
■be- 0181-715 33$6
^H) Professional 2, £94,95 from
■aid C realive - 01 8 1 -71 5 SB06
are
3 Accelerator, from £99.99-
99 from Visage Computers -
6642628
rel quad-speed CD-ROM drive,
from HiSoft- 01525 718181
privilege of being the cheapest decent card
forlheAl20Q.
Our A4000T is a pretty fast machine to
start off with, but even it could still do with
more processor power. So let's punch in
that CyberSforrn once more and push the
envelope that bit further. Now our
Lightwave renders should just fly out of
the machine, for LightWave is Ihe software
I'm going to choose for our top-end
machine.
But I still need another hit of hardware
and software. LightWave includes several
object translation routines furnished by
Syndq&is, so I think I should concentrate
on an art package. However, because I've
only got one piece of hardware left to me
it's going to have to be a naiive mode
graphics package, so I'm going to go for
Pholggenics again. As for my other piece
of hardware, it might have to be a CD-
ROM as well, an internal one this lime and
NEC do a nice 6-speed number.
Software
Hpeve4, £tbc from Cybersyslams -
|M3292150
snics v1, 2, £59.95 from
WS- 0181-687 0040
hardware
CytoerStorm 060, £995 from White
echnology - 01920 822321
KCGXi CD-ROM drive, £312,99 from
pBt Computer Centre - 01 13 2319444
Super fHu5n Amiga
Music has long been an underrated aspect of the Amiga, hut
the sheer number of mods' available on the Aminet attests to
the musical talents of our machines and their users. Any dis-
cussion of music equipment for an Amiga has lo include
Octamed and a MIDI interface, lei alone a sound sampler.
So well slarl off by including Octamed 6 in the bundle fof
both our machines and a sound sampler. For the A1200 a
Technosound Turbo 2 is in order. A venerable B-bil sound
sampler, Technosound Turbo has been around for a while and
is probably the best-selling Amiga sound sampler outside
StercoMaster, II has buill-in effects, both tor realtime manipu-
lation of sound and for the sounds you have sampled, and
operates in mono and stereo.
Octamed is also anolher long-running product. It was avail-
able first as a shareware product but jl has now evolved into a
full-blown commercial offering. Al only £40 it really does rep-
resent excellent value for money and can bypass the Amiga's
four channel Until for sound by multiplexing to offer eight, 12
or even 16 channels of sound.
Our A4Q00T sampler ought to be something a little more
exclusive, so well go lor Ihe Studio 16 package which con-
sists of 3 sound sampling card thai can sample true 16-bil
sounds at up to and beyond CD quality. It can play back from
a hard drive and offers several channels for the sound.
Our other piece of hardware for bolh machines can he
lhat MIDI interface I mentioned earlier. HiSoft do a nice
one celled the ProMidi interface which comes with a Midi in,
Midi thru and iwo Midi out ports. Our other piece of software?
How about Music X 2 as a sequencer to make the best use
of lhat Midi interface for the A12Q0 and Bars and Pipes
Professional for the A40QQ.
■QeUMEt'PtafititamJ-
J-J »«"B|i«NiiiDBiii wi IU/K intra fibi iinih
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A 1200
Software
Octamed 6, £40 from RBF Software - 01 703 785680
Music X v2, £49.95 from Emerald Creative - 0181-715 8866
Hardware
Technosound Turbo 2, £28.99 from First Computer Centre -
01132319444
Pro MIDI Interface, £24.99 from HiSoft -01 525 7181 81
Apollo Accelerator
A4000
Software
Octamed 6, £40 from RBF Software - 01 703 785680
Bars & Pipes Professional v2.S. £199,95 from Emerald Creative ■
0I81-71S8&G6
Hardware
Studio 16, £999 from Whrte Knight Technology - 01 920 822321
Pro MIDI Interface. £24.99 from HiSoft - 01525 71 81 61
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In a state of
ou've doubtless all seen pro-
grams that start as a collapsed
bar inside a screen or window's
area and (hen open to a full sized win-
do* 1 when the room gadget is activated.
This tnck is often used by utility programs
to sllqw ihem to remain permanently avail-
able For use while not taking up much
screen display space, Luckily, it's not that
rlflicJ'. to do and this month, lor the bene-
fit of those of you new to Intuition coding
a: (tie 660x0 level, I thought it would be'
useful to explain how it is done.
Needless to say, the code used to per-
form this trick is fairly minimal, but in order
to provide a runable example it is neces-
sary to incorporate the various statements
into a fully fledged Intuition program.
Wl find the source for this on dish as
fr* file october.s and it is with the overall
structure ot this code that we need to start
our discussions
Tie program begins by opening the
;n and gadtools libraries using a
loop arrangement, If you end up wonder-
no why I use this method when just two
Rxaries are involved, it's because It's a
awful standard approach since it works
lor any number of libraries. This tech-
nique, incidentally, was first discussed in
(he September '94 issue of Amiga
Computing (and then outlined briefly again
in the April '95 issue). If you find this
section of the code at all mysterious then
I'm afraid you will have to dig out (or beg,
borrow, or steal) one of the above men-
tioned back issues. Failing (hat, you could
always treat yourself lo a copy from our
back issues department
Immediately after the library opening
section comes a set of allocation/dealloca-
tion routines controlled by a series of sub-
routine calls. This code, again, should
have a familiar ring to it since the
approach has been used many times in
past examples, A series of subroutine calls
are made to lock the Workbench screen,
get the Visuailnfo data, open a window,
and attach a simple {two-Hem) menu lo it.
If youVe not seen this type of code before,
here's a brief description of how it works,
ALLOCATIONS
All resource allocation operations (i.e.
things the program needs to set up before
it can be considered as truly up arid run-
ning) are coded in such a way that, provid-
ing they are successful, the address of the
corresponding deallocation routine gets
pushed onto a special 'deallocation Stack'.
When the program terminates, these
addresses are removed and the associa-
ted deallocation functions executed. This
method ensures that deallocation during
closedown is always performed in the
reverse order to that used during program
Assembling the cade
e"s Just a single source file Ihis month. As
doned earlier, it's called october.s and If y~"
t to run it from the Workbench you'll need
to produce linkable object code (oc te-
nd then link this to some startup code,
users will probably opt for using Ihi
tup.obj module for this purpose and t
Blink command line needed in this case si
sly, you'll need to add file paths to reflect
ious locations of Blink and the target files
1 you're used lo doing this, aren'l you?). As
al. I've included a runable version of the
simple program on disk as well, and lo execute
all you need do is double-click on the
ber lestprog icon!
t
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Til* window
attar activating
rh* toom
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Part 14
Bon'twom this isn't bad news—
about [ommodore - just Paul Bums
on his assembly language trail, —
Ibis month he provides Intuition
newcomers with a useful window—
arrangement tip
startup (For full details of this particular
trick take a look at the October '94 issue}.
Once the program is up and running (i.e.
all allocation routines have been success-
fully executed), control passes to an event
handling routine. The sole job of this area
of the code is lo identify the various
classes of events that Intuition has been
asked to send I he program, and take the
appropriate action for each event that is
detected.
Listing 1 constitutes the program's
event handling code. This starts by per-
forming an exec library WailPortQ call
which puts the program to sleep until
Intuition sends us a message saying
something of interest has happened. How
does the program tell Intuition what sorts
of events are of interest? It's all done via
the Window's tag list description - il you
look at the lag entries in listing 2 you'll see
that a WAJDCMP tag is being used like
this... del WA.IDCMP,IOCMP_MENUPIC
K(IDCMP_CLOSEWINDOW. This tells
Intuition we want to receive notification
whenever the user activates the menu or
hits the close gadgel,
Remember, incidentally, that whenever
any IDCMP (Intuition Direct Communi-
cation Message Port) tags like these are
specified in a window definition, Intuition
will set up the appropriate window mes-
sage ports automatically, so this is not
something our program has lo worry
aboul, What we do need to identify,
however, is the address of the window's
The axampim
program's
window in lit
coJJapsed
■tale
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OCTOBER 1995
TUTORIAL
UserPort because Ibis is the message
port at which Intuition IDCMP event mes-
sages will arrive. This address obviously
needs to be available to the event han-
dler and is obtained from the window
structure set up by Intuition by using the
window pointer in conjunction with a
wd UserPort displacement like this
lilting fj
The event
handling
cgd* from
Ihla month's
program
Em n handler
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tiittM
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Within the event handier proper two
events, namely the user hitting ihe win-
dow's "ctose" gadget or selecting a 'Quit lo
Workbench' menu option, result in an exit
flag being set that eventually causes the
program to terminate. You'll see from the
source that a check is also made for menu
events whose code field is set to
MENUNULL. This is important since these
events are generated whenever a
user activates the menu, but then fails to
maJke a selection (such events need to be
recognised in order lo be safely ignored).
The alhcr menu option, incidentally, is just
PlenuNessage
Listing 2:
window
description
tags HJvhHtttt
wct kh*fi:h_p
MJ.*ft,JM
dr. i MJoM
Wt_lHdth,HH
del *iJ(ijht,1D
del mjrigbV.
del ynjssihSiegr-.JCJ:
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de.L «*_: ptlltt
dc . l kOidgtti
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dt.l l*_E»B* f i»0«^d
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del «_HnH«1?hi,i54
del iH.[Pi r IIP J lBC«'_IIEIIltPHK|i:cilP_CLfljEll]MDW
die. I KIJftt«,»tiid«i_iiii|
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lied to a dummy routine so nothing actually
happens when the menu item is selected,
This act of tying a menu option lo a 'do
nothing' routine in this way is actually a
very useful trie*; during development of fully
fledged applications. You may have
dozens of menu options that relate to code
seetiens thai are as yet unwritten, and tying
such options lo dummy routines allows
the event handler and overall structure of
Title bar collapsed windows
With the preliminary program layout discussions now
safely out of the way we can deal with the real topic
of the month - namely, how to produce windows that
initially reside in, or can be made to collapse into, a
window's title bar. Perhaps surprisingly, it is ver^
easy to do because all it takes is a few well chosen
tag list entries in the window definition.
Firstly, provide a zero WA_Top value and sei
WA_LeH to a value which places the "window' al a
Suitable position within the title bar. Then Set the
Window initial witfth and height tags. WA_Width and
WA_Height. to define a window which has only a 10
pixel height (i.e. the height of a window title bar). For
instance:
WA Zoom lag In the window definition to identity a
pointer to a set of alternate window dimensions that
will be used when the window's zoom gadget is
selected. These dimensions have to be provided as
an array of word (16-bit) entries, so In the example
program you'll find Ihis lag entry.
dt.l
W_j5tn,[.:ijc_d=:td
along with this dew directive which identities the cor-
responding set of alternate window co-ordinates:
jooideti
dt,<
,MJ,W«
del
m_ioB,B
dt.l
gi.uft,300
dt.l
injmrt,3*i
BUJeiahtJO
Having done (hat you then just arrange for the real
co-ordinates of your window to be stored as the
' alternate ' zoom gadget set. This involves using a
The result? The window opens initially inside the title
bar and can be expanded to normal use Si?e by
selecting ihe zoom gadget. You will, of course, be
able to see the effect of these statements when you
run this month's example program. To get the
reverse effect, namely initially having the window
open normally, but collapsing into the title bar when
the zoom gadget is activated, you just reverse the
original and alternate sets of window co-ordinates'
the code to be developed, even the ugh
many associated routines may not ye: te
written.
As the corresponding real routine!
become available, you just replar
appropriate call to the dummy routine
a call to the real version. Another benefit
this type of approach is that it automa 1
provides an 'incremental testing' pat)
If, lor example, your program works fii
until you swap, say a... js-r DoNaihmg
wilh a call lo a real routine, then you'll ki
straightaway that any faults that appear
almost certainly connected with Ihe co
present in the newly added routine!
Most of the event handling code shot 1
be easy enough to follow, but it may help
examine the diagram shown in figure
This provides a laitly high-level, genei
description of the code's operation in
chart form.
Figure I: batic program itntcturv
in flowchart form
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SYSTEM
news
By Tina Hackett
Don't give a FAQ
earn 17 have Just become one of
the first UK games companies to
establish a presence on the World Wide
Wet). Following the news last month
that Team 1 1 have just set up their
On-line games division, they have now
announced their new site which can be located
at http;/ www, team 17. com/.
It contains everything from a Team 1 7 sonogra-
phy to The Team 1 7 Times - a newspage contain-
ing details of all their forthcoming releases, It wilt
also have a demos page with both PC and Amiga
demos of old and new Team 1 7 titles, and an FAQ
page which answers all those burning questions
people have always wonted to ask them,
You win also be able to download hints and tips
and view a letters page which allows browsers to
e-mail them and then see the letters on the Team
17 web pages.
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Manga Booh* are
releasing the
Japanese comic book
hits in paper tack
Mortal Manga
Manga Publishing, responsible
for such titles as The X-Files, Tank
Girt and Street Fighter 2, have just
announced the release of their
new monthly comic. Mortal
Kombat For 95p, fans of
the license will be able
to catch up on charac-
ter profiles, fan trivia and
competitions- This has
been timed to coincide
with the film, so followers
of the beat-'em-up
will also be able to
catch the movie this
Autumn starring Chris-
topher Walken.
Also on the subject of
Manga is the latest news
that they are launching Manga
Books, with the first five titles
being, AD Police, Appleseed
Volume One, Crying Freeman
Volume One, Dirty Pair: Bio haz-
ards and Bubbiegum Crisis.
Manga video clips are also
the latest trend to be used in
music videos. Following an
agreement between Manga
Entertainment and record com-
pany TVT (they who launched
Nine Inch Mails), one Of their
American bands, KMFDM, are
using Japanese animation in
their latest video, Paliabor 1 has
■been used, intercut with footage
of the band. Another musician to
use this is Michael Jackson who
used Akira and Vampire Hunter
D in his latest single. Scream,
And over here, the British anima-
tion studio in Newcastle-Under-
Lyme has produced the comic-
book-style animation in U2's
Hold Me, Thrill Me. Kiss Me, kill Me
video
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beat- raw
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Mortal Kombat tana can catch
up on the news in Manga
Publishing'* latest magazine
No business
like show
business
The Industry's bi-annual bosh
Is all set to take place at the
Grand Hall Olympia. Th9
European Computer Tro
Show plays host to mai
exhibitors from all over tb
world who take the opportu-'
nity to show their latest hard* :
ware and software. This
Autumn"s event Is set to:
attract a record number of
visitors, and exhibitors wWJ
include Warner Interactive,
21st Century and Virgin,
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have to take command of the US
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3cfc. Yau must defend your country and at
>some time plan a Counter strike.
Both releases wHt be available this Augusl,
at £9.99.
Bravo Romeo Delta provides
serious war- simulation
Speed freaks
umour mill has ft that yet another Street
sr game is In the pipelines to follow Super
st fighter 2. Called Super Street Fighter 2
it's not actually being developed by US
, the company behind the previous titles, but
rfolly different team Gamete k, the company
fad Frontier, Elite, and other classics have
srtaken the task and this particular edition
| already proved very popular an the PC.
Autumn release is planned and as yet,
lefek are reluctant
reveal too much,
nefore, we can't
! you what the dif-
Jnces will be
graphically iti
sulci be quite
iressive and will
with some
flc speed,
I tequel to Super Street
Fighter JZ wilt follow
Plane spotters
Flight sim fans will be
pleased to learn
of malion's latest
release, Approach
Trainer. Rather than
using all the aspects
of flying, Approach
Trainer, as you've
probably guessed,
teaches the art of
approaching an air-
field. It's not every-
one's idea of heaven,
admittedly, but for
those wha are after
an accurate simulation - Including accurate ILS
Approach Charts - then this is for them.
Piloting the aircraft, you will have many differ-
ent problems to overcome such as day and
night approaches, variable weather conditions,
and long and short approaches. The game is
out at the moment and is avertable for £29.9°.
Approach Trainer won't
suit action tens but
thosG who want an
authentic simulation
should keep an eye out
for it soon
Bug free
The good news for all
Sensible World of Soccer
fans is that if has now been
fixed and the bugs
removed- A bug free ver-
sion of Sensible World of
Soccer will soon be in the
shops and those who
bought the original and
sent off the registration
card should receive their
new copy very soon.
Fantasy football
ark's in-house development team. The
iin ore working on a new football game.
Total Football, it promises to 'look as good
plays. ' and features will include all-weather
es, multi-directional scrolling and action
's. Players can also take their pick from 50
and can take part in International and
Cup Competitions.
isually, it should be quite Impressive with over
player animation frames and over 50 player
ments. An animated crowd and atmos-
sound effects will add authenticity, Expect
ise around Autumn time.
Domark's
TotaS
Football
promises to
be visually
impressive
Weird things in hyperspace
Curious things are happening In Norway. This morning's post contained a letter
from a new Norwegian team called Borderline Developments and screenshots
from their hopeful new offering Wads in Hyperspace' (what "Atads' actually are
is anyone's guess). It's an AGA adventure which will feature a raytraced intra and
will be available for the AT 200, A4000 and CD32, At the moment they are consid-
ering making It CD-ROM only because of Its size. As of yet we no little more than
this about the new team, but hopefully well bring you a full review soon.
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Unfortunately, we don't no much about
the same at this stag* - but a safe bet
is that it takes place In space
SYSTEM
review
PUBLISHER
DEVELOPER
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ollowing hot on the heels of oil the
hype surrounding the film, the latest
addition to the Street Fighter tiMes Is
finally here for the Amiga. Called Super
Street Fighter 2, it features four new
players each with an additional setting- Now you
will also find Cammy (played in the film by kylie
Minogue). Dee Jay, Fei Long and T Hawk, plus ail
the old familiar ones. They have also been
improved with extra moves and new touches.
However, the first thing that strikes you when
you toad up the game is how dated it all looks. A
few years ago this would have been quite
acceptable but now after Mortal Kombat 2 and
Shadow Fighter have passed, it does look its age.
And a very amateur Introductory animation is
quite loughoble. But the gomeplay is what counts
and this, fortunately, works well.
You can either play against the computer,
choosing the level of difficulty, or a human oppo-
nent chosen from a number of characters. Each
has their own set of
special moves
which are sur-
prisingly easy to
execute. The
moves can be
put together
to perform a
number of 'hit
combos' and
each charac-
Move closer
Super Street Fighter allows you to put a
very able combination of moves
together. Each character has a good
range of kicks, punches and special
Dhalism - Ihe stretchy l<rnbs of Dhallsm
allows you to attack your opponent
and keep out of their reach.
Blanko - uses electricity to keep his
opponents at bay
Chun Li - despite being one of the
smaller fighters, this works to her advan-
tage as she can move quicker than,
say. Zangief.
E Honda - uses his sumo size to launch
his powerful weight against his rivals.
Why did thmy
temve this
aopatiing intra in?
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provide varied game-
play. E Honda, for
example, is a large
character who relies
on his bulk, whereas
Cammy is small but
agile and has light-
ening fast reactions.
The gome can also
be dramatically altered
by changing the speed
you play at. The turbo
option can be turned up to high which spee*
everything up - including the music - and meal
you have to think fast and move quickly to aval
the blows from other players.
What ts particularly nice about this gone I
that it supports a joypad. This works a lot betB
than using the one-button joystick as you gsfl
You can putt oft a satisfying
range of movmm
Black borders became
irritating after a while
ttlilir 1115
Battle of the
beat-em-ups
Super Street Fighter 2 os it stands is a good
playable title, but compare it to the likes of
"tgl Kombat 2 with its bloodthirsty graph-
3f Shadow Fighter and it does start to
look rather limp, Mortal Kombat 2 man-
3d to create an authentic atmosphere
anct had some fantastic and original
special motfes.
Shadow Fighter was also a particularly
arding and addictive game, with weli-
gned characters which looked very
cteor and detailed far this type of action.
The static
backdrops tail
to impress
I separate button for either a punch or kick. You
Icon also use a two-burton joystick on this same
| principle.
As l mentioned before, though, the graphics
/ery dated - such as the bland backdrops
h don't do anything to create atmosphere,
-vhat's wprse Is that they look flat and two-
lensional and there's been no attempt to
jke them interesting with the use of animation,
i, so this may have slowed the game down
other games manage this successfully and It
[would certainly have made for a more polished
ng title,
Another flaw is the size and detail ot the char-
peters themselves, I'm sure they've been intri-
.- designed but they're Just too small too
any detail or, sometimes, what Is going on
jperly, Huge black borders around the screen
i't help matters either and although you can
ige the- screen mode from Pal 50 hertz to
Fighte
NTSC 60 hertz to speed things up and get rid
of some of the blackness, it never disappears
comptetely.
Mussc and sound effects don't really enhance
the game either, with feeble death noises and dis-
mal music. Oh, and some of the characters have
some very strange verbal expressions when they
launch an attack, such as 'Had-o-ken' or some
other weird saying which does nothing to
increase the competitive atmosphere, However,
what really let the game down was the amount of
disk swapping involved. Thankfully it is hard disk
installable, otherwise it would be completely
unplayable with a- ridiculous six disks to access
each time.
Final word
Thm many characters available
keep things varied
After reading all this, it may sound like the
game Is a complete letdown This isn't the
case. Ves. It does have quite o few negative
points but when it comes down to the game-
play it works extremely well - especially If you
have a Joypad, Two-player mode works par
tlcularly well too, and there's never a situation
(unlike Rise of the Robots) where you can cor-
ner your opponent and bash them to death
w.th the same tedious move.
An A5Q0 version is also planned, although
this won't support a joypad, We' II bring you an
update on this in a future issue.
Reviewed by Tina Hackett
6 SSF 2 does
have a few
negative
points but
when it comes
down to
gameplay
it works
extremely well
- especially if
you have a
joypad j
IS
SYSTEM
review
PUBLISHER
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DEVELOPER
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Squirrel?
No
6 Nick Faldo's Championship Golf
was released rather a long time ago
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Gamer
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Reviewed by Andy Mad dock
he Gamer Gold Is a compilation cour-
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Faldos Championship Golf, A flight
simulation, racing game and a golf
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Firstly, Jetstrike was released about a year ago
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for selection, Jetstrike is well presented, has good
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CD
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time ago and received a highly creditable a\
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and realistic golf games available. The r
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py version, they weren't that much use.
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golf, There are plenty of challenges and ccun
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Bump 'N Burn isn't that well known annc
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SYSTEM
Doom and Gloom
review
Guildhall Leisure
DEVELOPER
DISKS
2
Yes
HD INSTALL
rom the tftle and the scree nshots, I can
guess what all you readers are expt
Ing, it looks like Doom and sounds like
Doom, but more Importantly, does It
play like Doom?
There's no escaping the fact that the 'in" game
at the moment is Doom.., on the PC, Everyone
seems to want to make o close version of it on the
Amiga - it's rumoured there are many more to
come.
Some people believe Doom on the Amiga is
Just not possible, and I agree with them. Others
believe or hope to believe that Doom will grace
their Amiga screens soon. I feel it will never be
reproduced on the Amiga because of the tech-
nical differences between the PC and the Amiga.
However, if Escorn do produce a PC that's Amiga
based then I'll have to believe It when I see it. Until
then, t won't be holding my breath.
Gloom is basically a 3D shoot- em-up that con-
tains the most violence ever witnessed. There Is an
option to switch it to either meaty or messy. It
messy is selected, as soon as you fire a bullet at
one of the opposing soldiers they will burst into lit-
ile bits and leave an awful mess on the floor
which you will have to walk through. Vou can
Imagine otter shooting quite a few soldiers that
the floor won't remain In its shiny, polished state.
You are basically thrown Into o futurisiic Space
Other games following this genre are Allen
Breed 3D Fears, Behind the iron Gale, one
recently Citadel from the Polish tear
Arrakis Software - previewed in this issue.. Gloor
has a fair amount of competition to getthrougt
and each one is looking excellent. Can Doc
finally be reproduced on the Amiga? Frt
whot we've seen of these efforts already
getting there. I'm beginning to change
mind completely.
These two human players are staring straight at
each other. However, one of them is Invisible
Hulk maze which looks remarkably like
scenery used In the film Aliens, and the Idea is 1
get out - alive. This Is not such on easy k
because there are literally hundreds of foot
diers and bare chested madmen to ptoi
through. These and huge robots will stand in
way, firing bullets ten times the power of
own.
Throughout the game bonuses are avallat
Reviewed by Andy Maddock
SUPPORTS
A 1200
i
Icliler nib
The graphics do appear very biocky
here, although, ihanktutty, the screen
resolution can be changed
Reducing the size of the
window speeds Up the
gwm immensely
four team leader will
advise yott what to
task nut for. Don't
take hts advice,
HWe in a earner
somewhere
instead
£ as soon as
I you fire a bullet
at one of the
opposing
I soldiers they wiil
burst into little
bits and leave
I an awful mess
I on the floor j
flection which can affect your health and
I power. A hug© gun with a full weapon boost
sntial for disposing the bigger robots,
sre are plenty of options to choose from
Dre you begin the game, including a two-
jr split screen where you can chase your
orient around a sealed maze with only your-
id a gun. You can also play Gloom through
i serial link connecting two Amiga's together, so
i can both play using a full screen.
Amiga 1200 has, in the past, been able to
out some auife speedy graphics, although
jthing has to be sacrificed for this. For more
the variety or amount of sprites usually
riorates Immensely, In Gloom's case, the varl-
r of sprites Is lacking and during the later levels
i amount of sprites does affect the speed,
^ere are three main locations and in these
are some sub-missions where you have to
;h the exit. There are no real missions such as
Sjing colleagues which is a shame because it
the game a plot end a storyline, which
im unfortunately hasn't got.
• said before, the level of violence Is quite
You havo to b* v*ry careful when attempting
to Open one of these doors. Lots at bare
chested madmen wilt appear
high After shooting someone with a bullet they
won't be content with falling to the floor and dis-
appearing, but throw themselves violently Into the
air white spreading their various organs Over the
wall. On occasions I have noticed that if you get
too close to an exploding body, it will squirt spots
of blood on to your own face- By the end of a par-
ticularly nasty level you will find that your face will
be covered In blood, partially covering the
action,
Now., the bit that you've all been
waiting for - the speed. Weil, It '
depends you see, During the game,
pressing escape will bring up an option
for you to. change the screen resolution
and size of the actual ploying window, !f you ]
choose a high screen resolution the window
size will automatically be reduced, You can
play with a small window to emphasise
speed, or with a full screen to emphasise
the action. They both work well, so it's up
to you
The actual character sprites
do appear very blocky when
you get reasonably close -
although to increase the
speed, the floor and ceiling
graphics can tie switched off.
The litta screen sets (Ire
scene delicately. Are you
ready to stice some bodies
up and eat their remaining
entrails? Hot here
Final word
Although the whole idea of these
games is to get on a par with Doom on
the PC, as I've said before there's
absolutely no way I am going to com-
pare the two. There's no point In say-
ing "Ooh, If s rubbish, If looks nothing
like Doom on the PC because it's not
supposed to. I'm not going to give it a
low score because it doesn't match
the PC version of Doom - I am going
to mark it purely for Gloom itself, as a
game. The graphics are the best yet
for .games of this genre, Gloom is com-
pletely packed with smooth graphics.
a huge challenge and most of all.
action and excitement. It's certainly
the best attempt yet, although with
other similar efforts only weeks from
completion, only time will fell which
one will rise above the rest.
hUr \m
SYSTEM
pr#vf#w
Phe fun strategy puzzlers are usually met
with pn enthusiastic response from the
games playing public, and you only
hove to look at the success of Cannon
Fodder and the many Lemmings
games to see this. So it is perhaps a little curious
that there hasn't been a whole host of these titles
flooding the market, employing this simple but
highly addictive concept.
That Is until now, with both Gamefek and
Mindscape spotting a potential gap in the gam-
ing world, Garnetek J s title, Baldies, Cpreviewed a
couple of months ago) is near to release and
Mindscape are w/ell Into production of their
Previewed by Tina Hackett
Troops
A two-piayer game should provide
an amusing chaHengp
Control your army ot troops
through the icon-hated interface
Graphics promise to be
colourful and imaginative
I
t Tiny Troops puts
you in charge of a
small army and it's
down to you to
direct them to d
certain tasks j
offering, Tiny Troops, Tiny Troops puts you
charge of a small army and it's down to you'
direct them to do certoln tasks, There are
warring factions, the Klutes and Furfarians,
have been in battle for 450 years, This has caus
serious damage to their planet, so rather ft
continuing to wreck their home they travel
Earth to continue with their dispute,
You are given a top-down view of the
no no, enabling you to see escactly what is golr
on in each battle, To control the game yo
on Icon- based interface, clicking on the relevan
Icon to carry out your orders, To speed things u|
you can access a small map which means
can move your troops around quickly.
Objectives will vary in strategy from com pie
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Assassins
he Assassins hove 'been one of the
premium PD companies around,
producing compilation after com-
pilation of excellent PD games,
Weird Selene© have managed to put
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Supplier: Weird Science
Price: £17.99 CD32; Yes
together a CD full of games and utilities
that have previously been released before.
The floppy disk collections from 1 to 200
ore oil archived on to the CD and require
deorchiving via Workbench - although the
actual games can be run immediately from
easy-to-use menus. There are a bundle of
games all categorised Into sections and
then alphabetical order, and these range
from arcade games to card, puzzle and
quiz games.
The utilities are oil packed as DMS files
which need to be dearc hived on to floppy
disks. A disk masher program is included but
the UNDMS command will still need to slide
into the C: directory on your hard drive. The
utilities are o selected bunch of audio and
graphic disks, featuring mods and anims. As
i
I
mentioned before, there are a tremendous
amount of games on the CD - archived
and otherwise. However, oil of them have
previously been on Assassins floppy disks, so
I must advise you that if you do happen to
own a large quantity of Assassins' PD disks
already, I suggest you look elsewhere,
At £17, 99, the CD is priced quite
high, but if you want quality it looks as i
though you'll have to pay for it.
CD-ROM go
i
Arcade Classics
Supplier: Epic Software
Priest £9.99 CD32: No
can guarantee that you will have
played most games on this CD, as sev-
eral versions of them are still knocking
obout in a dork corner of a pub some-
where in the world- During the '60s these gomes
were flying around all the best arcades in the
country. Oh, how we hate advances
In technology!
Frogger, Space Invaders, Defender,
Tetris, Missile Command and Pocman
are all included on this CD, along with
500 others. Each one is an actual vari-
ation on the original, so it won't be an
exoct arcade copy but a close Amiga
version, Incidentally, o couple of goes
on Galaxian on the arcade would
probabiy have set you back about
lOp. Nowadays, with the addition of
virtual arcades, £3.60 is the set price -
just for one meosly go.
It's astonishing how the games have
advanced so much, yet classics like
Space Invaders still have greater
playabity and challenge than some of the
brand new games in today's market, The best
game in the arcade had to be Frogger, a game
I'm sure you'll remember. Vou had to guide a
small green frog across a very busy road and
then a rushing stream containing floating logs,
One of the premium classics, I'm sure you'll
agree.
As this Arcade Classics CD-ROM Is the first of
many - being Volume 1 - there could be a
whole host of old classics gracing your Amiga
screen-soon. For £9,99 you can't go wrong, and
although If may not appeal to the younger
gamers out there, it will certainly please the
older among you,
Comparing today's market prices, £9.99 seems
like absolutely nothing at all. Five hun-
dred games for absolutely nothing at all
seems a real bonus to me.
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Speccy Sensation
Supplier: PD Soft
Price: £1J99CD32
ooking back over the last ten years - sitting
now with an Amiga 1 200 with a hard drive
and a CD-ROM drive - you can finally for-
give and forget. No more worries about a
P minute loading duration only to find a tape load-
error flashing boastingly across the screen. Oh,
tow those days are forgiven,
ah your old favourites that you'd gladly wait a life-
pi to load are now brought gleefully onto the CD-
M Five hundred titles that will have you remlnlsc-
wlth your friends within minutes. The greats such
i Manic Miner, Skool Daze, ATV Simulator, Saboteur
id Everyone's A Wally are all included - loading up instantty via an easy-to-use menu system-
One problem that can be experienced when running
Spectrum games on the Amiga is that the games are
exceptionally slow. This is because of the different pro-
cessing speeds between the two machines. However,
the games on this CD don't seem to stow down and as.
said before, load In seconds,
People who used to use the Spectrum frequently will
get the most out of this CD. 'What's the point, though?' I
hear you say. People fend to leave these CDs alone,
moybe because their experience with the Spectrum
wasn't a good one, or they still have theirs and claim that
if they want to play the games they'll fish them out from
a box In the corner of the attic.
Don't bother - for EM, 99 you may as well save
yourself the trouble. I can guarantee you'll slide
deeply into old times.
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Reviewed by Andy Maddock
D ower Games
Supplier: PD Soft
Price: £7.99 CD32: Ves
ower Games from PD Soft is another games
CD-Rom containing Public Domain ond
shareware games. Once again they are
categorised into headings, such as sport,
nan and puzzle, etc, There are more than 500
all available fa you through one of the most
sndry menu systems ever, Once you've found a
jme It will take you a while to actually select It
:ause you'll find yourself looking at instructions or
fter information when you thought you'd selected
► game itself
This is because when you select a particular box,
i highlight around the outside is very faint and it's difficult to see whot you've selected, Although the
i claims to be compatible with the CD32, some of the games fail to work which seems very pointless,
Also, you will recognise or have heard of some of the games, but
others you will have no idea what they are - and most of them
aren't really worth the time of day, There are 500 Public
Domain games included on the CD, but there are not many
of outstanding quality - however they are reasonable none-
theless.
The menu system, as mentioned before. Is very unfriendly. It
gives tine game's name and a short description, along with the
creator's name, Although It may seem that a lot of time has
been spent putting this CD together, it Is clearly very rough
around the edges, The unfriendly menu system together with the
exceptionally bad choice of games makes this CD only
just worth its asking price. Having said that, there isn't
much else knocking around for only £7.99.
^
^ It's astonishing
how the games
have advanced
so much, yet
classics like
Space Invaders
still have greater
playability and
challenge than
some of the
brand new
games in
today's market j
SYSTEM
review
PUBLISHER
Gametek
DEVELOPER
Software Sorcery
PRICE
TBA
DISKS
2
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HD INSTALL
SUPPORTS
All Amigas
ike Hollywood sequels, the software
industry will churn out game after
game based on trie same tried and
tested formula, it's not always a bad
thing - after all. some sequels make
vast improvements over the originals - but there
comes a time when repackaging the same
goods is going to leave the audience jaded.
In gaming, no genre is more repetitive in its
content than the beat-'em-up. The popularity of
its most impressive incarnations has lead software
houses to come back for more rich picking with
games that vary little apart from slightly
enhanced graphics and bloodier special effects.
Years after the beat-'em-up's birth, however,
even the laziest developers have been trying to
give their new combat games a vaguely fresh
twist. Spectacular metamorphosising finishing
moves, international locations and a greater
range of bizarre characters have been wheeled
in to inject new fighting spirit into the proceedings.
With robots and streefflghters behind us.
Gametek ore going for o new angle with a game
featuring cute but deadly critters as Its muscle-
bound contenders. Named Brutal: Paws of Fury,
this new title steers away from the realistic visual
approach of Mortal Kombat In favour of more
humorous, cartoon-like charicatures.
The simple storyline bears a Far Eastern flavour
with lots of sayings from bogus mystical teaching
padding out the ten characters' backgrounds.
Choosing from creatures like Kung Fu Bunny, Tai
Cheetah or Kendo Coyote, players fight it out in
a competition to find the world's best fighter.
Graphically. Brutal is only slightly above aver-
age, with redsonably well drawn characters play-
ing out the action against varied but unimpressive
locations. In compensation, however, the game's
contenders have been made more lively with the
addition of characteristic gestures and moves.
Anyone who experienced the ludicrous
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accuracy statistics white commentary
scrolls across the bottom
The Bear may be fat r but it's one of f he
tougher opponents players will face
disappointment of Rise of the Robots will I
that beauty is only skin deep, however. What
ly counts is whether Brutal can provide anythir
terms of a challenge that hasn't already
offered by previous beat-'em-ups,
Thankfully, the cosmetic novelty of fightlr
with furry creatures is not the only differer
about the game. One original touch, for exc
pie, is the fact that players must learn
moves as their character gains in experier
through winning fights,
Whereas it's possible in Mortal Kombat to
all the speciql moves immediately, this gc
Punt her snows off
one of hit lower level
special moves
After two successful lights, the
Kendo Coyote acquires a new
move In the training section
The instigator pjf the whole competition
is the Dali Llama, a creature armed with
some devastating special powers
lEUlir 1111
14
Furry but flawed
Unfortunately, Brutal is let down by some Irrttat-
Raws, one of which occurs in the mountain
scene where characters die if they fall off the
edge of the combat platform. The problem Is
■ rhe Lion opponent that Inhabits this loca-
has the habit of careering off the edge
before the player has had a chance to touch
film - or at least that's so in earlier levels,
The Inclusion of a password system for each
iracter is vital especially when you've
9d access to a good range of special
-as. The fact that this currency doesn't seem
to work gives further cause for concern.
Leon the Lion is
on* of in* better
charicatures
I hanks tQ tOP
addition of iom*
humorous
mannerisms
Paws of
Reviewed by Gareth Lafthouse
ss acquiring them more challenging and sat-
g. After defeating two opponents, players
i rank and enter a training session in which
have three chances to learn a joystick
Uuence. If they successfully imitate it they have
:ess to that move from ther on,
are are a vast number of these moves to be
jmt and greater experience yields more pow-
and spectacular combinations, This
■roach couid do much to give the beat-'env
ithe dura biirty rt traditionally lacks, thanks to the
hterm rewards it provides. Putting the fighting
Final word
Bts game's modest appearance does little to
H« excitement an the first viewing of Brutal
.. The cartoon characters moke an appeal-
. hange in the genre, but the quality of the
graphics doesn't match up to top selling rivals on
rhe Amiga, Surprisingly the game overcomes this
,-Jicap by combining a few Innovations with
•vabfe gam ©play, Training to acquire a
:der repertoire of moves did much to solve
.problem of giving a combat game a long-
challenge, and It's highly in keeping with
lorliol arts'' theme.
A word of warning for those who eat this type
jme for breakfast: I'm no ace gameplayer,
by starting on an easy level I managed to
: Jire all the special moves to progress
moves Into practice is also satisfying. On earlier
levels a few simple kicks will get you far - possibly
too far - but more variety and imagination
becomes necessary on higher levels. Thankfully,
no move is so complex that it's Impossible to string
a series of them together in a fluid attack
sequence.
Of course Its possible to play against a friend
with different characters and alter difficulty
levels, of which there are plenty to choose from.
and there are the usual karate sound effects
accompanying the action.
through the game until I almost finished on Its
highest difficulty - and that was on my first game.
This problem can be avoided by starting the
game on a higher level to start with, because it
then becomes hard to get each of those power-
ful advanced moves. Nevertheless, considering
how experienced most players are in this genre,
the developers should have made Brutal a
bit tougher from the outset. This is not a damning
criticism, however.
What's more worrying Is the fact that the pass-
word system didn't work, which seriously detracts
from the long-term payability, Providing
Gamete k sort this and a few other minor flaws
out, however, this beat-'em-up could be a wor-
thy addition to your game shelf.
6 Brutal Paws
of Fury steers
away from the
realistic visual
approach of
Mortal Kombat
in favour of
more
humorous,
cartoon-like
charicatures j
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SYSTEM
previ
Sampras and Courier
locked deeply into
battle - the number
one and two seed*
m
ow Wimbledon has finally packed up
and gone ham© - the event not the
place - I can finally come out of hid-
ing as I absolutely hate it, more than
anything in the world, Now the foot-
ball season Is underway I'm so much happier.
What really annoys me Is the fact the specta-
tors can lounge In the sun with strawberries and
cream and us football fans have to stand up In
the pouring rain with a bovril every week! Why
don't we switch them around - football in the
summer, tennis in the winter. Ha, let's see how
many of them turn up In the freezing cold,
only to see the match rained oft.
Newcomers Blitzware set out to
hange my mind completely with
their new product Center Court,
a rival for Pro Tennis Tour which
has to be the greatest tennis
gome on the Amiga. I'm sure
you're all familiar with the
gome of tennis, and even if
you don't understand the
rules. I'm sure you've all seen
rt one© sometime. Center
Court isn't merely just a quick
game, there's a huge career
feature involved.
Basically, the idea behind a
career in tennis is to enter as many
competitions as possible and win
them - picking up quite a hefty sum of
money in the process. All the players are
seeded before you begin and their seeding
will change after each tournament - depending
where they finished and how many points they
acquired ,
At the moment Pete Sampras is the number
one seed, but If other players win matches and
trophies they will eventually take over the tap
spot. The most money is won Py coming first in all
the tournaments and staying number one in the
world rankings. That way you can be sure you'll
The tflJa screen in all its glory. H actually
looks quite cartoony, doesn't it?
Graphic enhancemen
The graphics shown in the screenshots are gob
to be enhanced, as the shots here are early fi
fures of the action and don't really reflect
the gameplay yet. Over oil. it's all comli
together quite well, and If trie graphics
match the gameplay then it could becor
another winner.
be top of the prize money league.
You can enter your own name and edit .
own personal characteristics. If you wish to be]
speedy player, you may have to sacrifice yc
accuracy or power, All the characters are n
sonably matched, only appearing distinctive
one or two areas. The other competitors si
far better than you, although offer a few tout
ments your rating will gradually improve.
LIFE-LIKE
From the screenshots you will notice thefl
number of them are digitised and feature actj
Shots from real-life situations, These only appear
you win a particular trophy, but it is quite i
see same pleasant graphics which reflect on voJ
success.
At the moment you can have a single
against the computer or anything up to f
human players at once. This Is an excellent If
because you can all take part in a doul
match. There are over 90 real players inaudal
Th« match options. You can select anything
up to a iouriitay&r game here
Center Ivttks like it's going te
be a bit of a graphical feast
mi DC
another digitised
shot of o real
match. Yhi* time
your choice of
court is day
enter
From the
toummmmnt
scnert ytiu
cart view ait
the different
player's
statistics, to
help you find
their
weikntsui
' Center Court
isn't merely just
a quick game,
there's a huge
career feature
involved j
Previewed by Andy Maddock
I with their own individual statistics and attributes.
I They have also been rnade-up to look like their
■Counterparts,
For Instance, John McEnroe sports a rather
Bjtfty headband, but sadly, he doesn't involve
Bmself in all the fracas he usually gets Into, Andre
The Wimble don.like tennis court - nice Bud
green, but wearing in the centre
Agassi is recognised easily by his rather fetching
cap and Boris Becker by his ginger locks.
Throughout your career you are given the option
whether to take part In a particular tournament
or not, If you do you rnay win it or even acquire
some money for the runners-up spot but if
you don't take part at all, your ranking won't
increase and you'll be left sniffling at the
bottom of the league with a lower rating than o
cabbage,
If you select the career option you will be able
to access all the other players' statistics and their
rankings and also see the points table. These are
all very useful when It comes to playing an oppo-
nent you are unsure about.
The actual match sequences are very addic-
tive and contain oh the various shots contained in
tennis, such as forehands, backhands, smashes,
diving shots and volleys. All of these can be per-
formed very easily with the slightest movements
with the joystick.
Acid Software, the makers behind Skidmarks
are distributing Center Court Tennis. As It is pro-
grammed in Blitz Basic there's no reason why if
can't be of the same quality as Skidmarks, We'll
have to wait and see.
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and gore, it
3lso looks like it
will be quite
successful in
creating a
, mysterious
atmosphere j
Like other games at this nature, (here nrltt
he a liberal spluttering of blood and guts
Citadel
B. he name is fairly new over here but
I Arrakis Software are a company who
usually develop utility products for the
I Polish market. Their latest projects
include a new editor like Final Writer, a
database, and a spreadsheet with versions In
Polish. English, Czech and German planned. But
the reason far their inclusion in this section Is
because of thelf latest title which means a real
change in direction for the Polish team. Called
'Citadel' It Joins the latest in a long line of Doom
clones for the Amiga. It's not the only game in the
pipeline either. 'Diamonds Mine' is the next on the
schedule with three more to follow - although
details are sketchy at the moment.
Citadel, as previously mentioned. Is a Doom-
esque shoot-'em-up. Viewed from the usual first-
person perspective, set in a 3D environment, you
are armed with a gun and the
mission is to shoot anything
thai moves.
A brief plot Summary
casts the player as the only
surviving crew member on
a mysterious plqnet and
their mission is to destroy the
Citadel. The Citadel is the \
army complex placed *
under the surface of the pla-
net D104G51 2. When communi-
cations broke down, your crew -
the XI 6, combative operation unit
- was sent to see what had; gone
wrong. The rest of the crew have now been
destroyed.
When finished the game will contain 20 levels,
varying in difficulty and using different graphical
scenarios. The final version will also have a 2Mb
rendered intro and will have in-game and Game
Over animations.
The pre-production demo we played had
plenty of blood and gore to keep the more blood
thirsty happy. It also looks like it will be quite suc-
cessful in creating a mysterious atmosphere -
something the other clones seem to lack so far.
One thing we weren't too happy with at this
stage was the way you got huh when you
bumped Into walls - a fact which is inevitable
when you play from this view.
The main character of the cyborg is armed
with six types of weapons, all of which are neces-
sary to see off the different types of enemies. The
hero can also get tired,
become injured and even get
drunk. As well as being able to
blast the enemy, the player
will encounter puzzles and
traps such as moving walls
and levers and buttons which
need to be operated,
The recent problem that
the developers of the Amiga
Doom clones face is how to get the game run-
ning smoothly at quite a fast rate, but without
reducing a lot of the detail. Most have overcome
this by making their game configurable to suit the
capabilities of different machines,
Similarly. Arrakls Software have also made this
possible by making the game window a variety of
different sizes and incorporating user-definable
detail levels. So those with an A500 can still
expect a fairly slick game as long as they play on
a small window and without floors. Those with
A 1 200s and above, on the other hand, can freely
choose screen size and level of detail.
Expect a full review of Citadel soon, We'll also
be bringing you a round-up of the best and rest of
the Amiga Doom clones when we've seen all the
contenders in what seems to be genre of the
moment.
Previewed by Tina Hackelt
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Reviewed by Andy Maddock
„ Ishar
Trilogy
Shar 1, 2 and 3 weren't really my most
favourite gomes ever - especially
being a reviewer that detests any sort
of RPG. All this business of wizards and
warriors is just too much for me to han-
dle. These games always seem to Inflict the most
serious effect of boredom ever. If you are one of
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games in one package. Anoraks out everybody I
I suppose as time has passed, each Ishar
game has been superseded either in overall
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supposedly the best of the bunch.
The way Ishar actually plays is the most annoy-
ing factor, with slow, tedious scrolling drudging
Hannon Fodder hardly needs, an intro-
duction as it turned out to be one of
the best games of the year. It's very
unlikely that anyone out there hasn't
actually played it, so I suppose this bud-
get release could be. in fact, quite pointless.
However after such o high profile release with its
success, how could it possibly avoid the inevitable
budget label'?
Cannon Fodder Is, pure and simply, a war
game. The objective of war Is to win - sparing as
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plete the mission objectives along with the sub-
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where you are given five recruits. Each one has a
rank and to begin with you are given the highest
ranks to play with. As you lose a soldier he will be
Th« Sensible Software trade-murk
comes in vary effective ones
again - small but so piaa&urabte.
along only to reveal mammoth beasts that muJ
be disposed of rather quickly. This is achieved torn
aimlessly wandering around, going into shops!
and buying magic potions, and recruiting
ordinary public to join your gang. You can 1henJ
begin the mission to hold on to your islan "
Kendorla.
As mentioned before, the graphics are noli
ing very special and the whole gome may
very in-depth but just doesn't play well, which I
the most important part.
If you are a roleplaying game buff then thred
gomes for the price of one would sound quite a|
bargain. Although, for £29.99 you could also I
yourself three balaclavas, a pair of horn rimr
spectacles, an anorak and a tartan flask.
The choice Is yours,
The most exciting, in-depth, animated adventure
garrie over. Packed with remarkable gameplay
and an amazing challenge, Ooh, that's right!
3nnon
Fodder
replaced by another nervous youngster willing to
risk his life and limbs for his country. Obvio
these young chappies aren't going to be as sharp;
as the rest of the bunch, so the more you cc
keep them in the clear and at distance, the nnc
likely they are to survive.
There are two main strategies to follow on youi
road to victory, These are either hold back ondj
wait for the enemy to make the first move, o
less favoured run towards them at a ridicule
speed with all guns blazing - destroying youn
and a number of the enemy all at once,
The characters themselves are controlled
the mouse using a point and click method, All thai
weaponry such as cannons, grenades and rocfl
ets can be activated using simple clicks on 'ne
mouse.
With the typical Sensible Software character!
tremendous gameplay and a big challenge,
Cannon Fodder will always rank alongside the ran
greats the Amiga has produced. Their rather
cheeky yet uncompromising quote 'Wa
has never been so much fun' is clearly an
understatement, it's more fun than ever!
Id
rim
Home AD92 was released around two or
j three years ago now and adopted the
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J actually became quite popular The
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B
eing a loud American in a quiet village
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Before going heading oft to battle,
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China
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Frank Nord plays around with the
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Three buttons are
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Ohis month I've decided to take
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organisation.and cogitation
and take a look at a handy
product that, although it doesn't really
need a whore page's wonh of review,
deserves some recognition, The item in
question is Gasreiner's three button
400dpi mouse.
Looking just like the original Mega
mouse, this one fits nicely into the palm of
your hand and comes equipped with one
more than the usuaf number of buttons,
But what is the point of having a third
mouse button!'
For a start there are actually several
programs that use a third mouse button
..nrluding Directory Opus, Hisoft's
OiskMagic. and many other directory
managers. But in addition id these
programs there are a host of PD and
shareware utilities that are either
specifically geared Howards using the
middle mouse button, or have middle
mouse button functions built into them.
Some examples that spring to mind
include our CoverDfsk item MultrCX which
lets you use the middle mouse button to
cycle screens, whkh is much easier than
the teft Amiga-m combination o^ going up
to the top-right comer of a big screen.
Most of the other big commodities will
also have some provision for MMB screen
cycling or multi-file selection, where
Instead of having to hold down the shift
key you use a mouse button.
Commodities like YAK have so many
items to configure you could probably do
with a 22 button mouse! Finally, the
easterner three button mouse also comes
with a n*ce long lead and you can t beat it
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Also groovy this month is the latest
version of the aforementioned" Muincx
Virus alert!
It doesn't seem like John Veldthuis
ev?r sleeps, No sooner have you
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his superb VirusChetker program,
there t another version out, This
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possibly not, but if you want to
ensure that your hard drive is safe
(rom even the newest viruses then
get this. More than anything, this
release fixes bugs from earlier
versions but it docs cover 49
different viruses and their relatives.
In a slight change to our normal programming,
Frank fiord rEuiews something
MultiCX'm new improved Workbench tit/9 bur InchMMc whui ohipmml fou an running,
tat. lis. tor Chip mnd Fait fMM, with percentages m*rf AMt Iff* aumherm at txshs,
libraries and screen currently in use
Now I can throw away even more of the
coromoditwi I have in my WBStartup
drawer [hoorayf down to only 16)-
MuitO now replaces AssjgnWedge.
offering the by now famta Retry, assign,
mount, deny, cancel' options to the
'Please insert volume BinkJBonk: in any
drive' requester. MultO also replaces my
murfrfoved NewEdit commodity by
letting you paste copied text Into text
fields. Other improvements include the
rather nifty WEJfltte tooftype which gives
you full information m your Workbench
titlebar. The last three rather crypt* items
refer to the number of tasks, libraries and
screens you have running, The 'About'
Project menu item in Workbench has also
had a facelift with new reboot and flush
buttons and more complete system
information including processor type. etc.
Hopefully there will be enough room on
this month's CoverDisIf, to put on both this
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Amiga Medical Part 9
and the next program I want to tell you
about. The neat program is actually a
patch to the ASLJibrary that comes with
Workbench 3.0 or 3.1. It won't work if
you have an older version of Workbench,
and the authors haven't tested rt with a
processor more humble than a 68020. so
there's no guarantee it will run on a
6S0O0-ba5ed machine. This patch gives
added functionality to the three requesters
ASL provides, namely the standard file
requester, the fonts requester and
screerwnode requester.
Changes are made using the provided
MUl-based preferences program and you
can set such things as having the
requesters centred on your mouse, the
active window or screen, or at the top-left
corner of The active window or screen.
You can also make sure the Tile requester
puts the directories at the top or the file
list, rather than at the bottom which
always seemed strange to me.
Lastly, but not least, a boot utility was
brought to my attention when trawlmg
the net tor stuff for s CyberVisjon card.
The utility in question is designed to show
a picture instead of that boring black
screen as Workbench loads. The utility is
called - p kBool and it handled pretty much
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x 768 images in the blink of an eye.
thanks to the accompanying UnPackJLBM
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an RTG graphics card like, the CyberVisran
or Picasso, it will fade in the picture and
fade rt back out once Workbench is
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is. you also receive an excellent 100-
page manual plus a second demo disk
which highlights the finer points of the
collection. The quality of presentation is
generally excellent throughout the package,
3 classic example being the manual placing
; alongside each macro description to
denote its area of expertise - namefy,
creative, modifier, calculation Information or
special feature, layout rotated, motion
rted, object reiated or text related.
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The manual further enhances ease of use
by following up the basic macro type with a
iiit of icons which denotes what they da
and witl need in order to implement the
chosen macro. For example, the macro may
affect the entire layer or just selected items,
or perhaps n requires a background layer or
an empty spare layer,
USER-FRItnDLV
fnstallatiorT is also a breeze, courtesy of a
direct import of the entire collection wa
models direct command option, Better stifl,
once installed the macros are shown in the
same order as they appear in the manual -
fairly simple but nevertheless a very
welcome user friendly addrtion.
As mentioned earlier, the macros on offer
break down into a number of specific
categories. Given the available space
mentioning each in turn u impossible, so I II
highlight my personal favourites m each
category.
In the auto modelling department the
top three include Modify to sphere or cube,
quick convert, and quick move. The first
option is, in fact, two separate macros, but
A plug for Plug-Ins
As mentioned, Layout macros are an important part of any modeler collection. And true
to form, Plug-Ins does its hit with macros which import entire scenes into modeller, add
multiple lights to selected pomes, automate multiple batch rendering Df scenes, and of
course the alf important targeting of one object to another over an entrre anim or a user-
defined number of frames.
Overall, the Plug-In collection is excellent, although it does suffer from the odd filler to
make up the numbers. However, the realty useful additions are exactly that. Assuming
you ve got to make a choice between Power Macros and Plug-ins, I'd definitely opt for
the latter.
the frnci- [taints
via Mia
impnuin
demo rfiifc
as you'd expect they essentially do the same
job However, for anyone looking for means
of morphing between basic objects and
complex structures it's an invaluable
addition.
The nemt modelling must is the invaluable
quick convert option. Although not as
immediate as the morphing macro. It does
offer a means of converting or automatically
scaling objects from millimetres to metres or
even kilometres - particularly useful for
Mending elements from existing scenes.
Quick move ii another classic example of
a utility macro, which moves alt the selected
points in the layer to a new user-specified
positron. Again not spectacular, but
nevertheless extremely useful on occasion.
Next comes the calculation macros. Here
you couW probably obtain the same
information with the aid of a littie thought
and a calculator, but why bother if Pfug-lns
will do the hard work on your behalf. In this
particular genre my favourites include
calculate time and calculate render time.
The for me* generates the total number of
frames needed to cover s Specific period,
for example I minute ii second;,
translates to 20 7S frames.
Creation tools are the next dement in
Ihe equation, and it must he said the
weakest link in the Plugtns chain. The only
noteworthy macros die the creabe
lightning and create star options, with the
former generating random lightning
objects for import into layout while the
latter provides a simple means of
designing multi paint stars.
The big disappointment in this section is
the fact (hat they repeat many of the basic
options available via UghtUfewe's numeric
input options.
Special feature macros offer a fairly
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UghfWave configuration, and quick macro
generation. The first provides a means of
adjusting the LightWave/Modeler conBg
files on-fine, while the second offers a real-
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actions and then generates a completely
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there's a more involved macro generator
which allows you to select from blocks
of pre-set code and build a macro
step-by-step.
Next comes motion control, with
highlights such as curve to motion and
motion to curve, which as you've probably
guessed converts and saves either sketched
paths or motion Files ready for loading
directly into either Layout or Modeler -
again, retatfvefy simple tasks now with
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^^H n recent instilment! I've been
I discussing a number of coding
I approaches involving console device
| control character sequences and by
tost month, these had found trw way into a
program that set up a screen form. This
allowed date to be entered and collected from
a set of pre-defined 'fields' on the screen, I
drew your attention to the fact that this
preliminary script used Independent statements:
for setting up and collecting data from each
field (see listirtg I \ and hinted that there is a far
better approach available.
The tnek. of course, is to use stem-based
compound variables to represent field names,
raw and column screen position coordinates,
and lengths of reply fields, and it is this
arrangement that J want to deal with this
month. A compound variable data table is
going to be used to store the values required
for the CursorWrite||. Showlnputfieldfli and
CursorfieadH routines of the existing script.
Listing 2 shows the new data table and the
key thing to notice is that the field numbers
It's looking
good but...
Despite the improvements with this
month j script there is, however, still
one ana that provides a potential
trouble spot. It concerns some of the
italic definition! used within the
example code, You'll notice that,
where procedures [i.e. ARexx
(unctions with their own symbol tablet
and execution environments) are
being used, some items (for example,
ESC and CSlf have to be defined in
more than one place.
Despite procedural isolation being,
in the main, a very good thing, the
tact that pseudo-constant definitions,
which are deliberately intended to be
global, aire bloched and have to be
redefined within each procedure th*u
uses them is unfortunate. As always
there is a way around this difficulty,
but f'm afraid you II have to wait until
next month to find out what it is!
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The immediafte benefit here is that do/end type
loops can now be used to perform all forms of
sedng up and date collection operations. Far
example the field names find cleared reply fields
can now be produced using the code shown in
listing 3. Because these loop-based routines,
along with others that you'll find m this month's
example script, can handle any number of ReW
items, this means that no matter how complex
a form definition you decide to use, these
routines will be able to handle it
Input data can also now be collected using
compound variables, with the contents of each
completed form, i-e a complete 'input record',
forming part of a single compound variable set
[repi/J,i| Needless to say this, compared to the
relatively simple approach used last month, is a
org improvement,
when you run this month's example [by
typing r* october_aiample at s Shell window) a
form pretty much the same as that used in the
previous instalment's code is produced, I
chose, incidentally, to keep the form description
the same in order to allow easy comparison
with the field definition approach used last
month. Underneath the surface,
however, you'll see that quite a lot of
code has changed, and as well as
implementing the compound variable
loop mcks already mentioned, some
preliminary code, to allow any number
of form 'records' to be stored, has been
added.
At the moment, however, ad that happens is
that a dummy save" routine gets called and. as
each record is selected for storage, the form
data just gets written bacfc to the Shell w>ndow
|as a sort of Visible prompt' to confirm chat
something is happenmg|l As the entering or
each set of informatiion is completed, the script
will ask if you want to stone the current record
or not. and whether you want to enter further
data, All these things are achieved with fairly
mundane use of a CursorWricej) routine using
these types of statements;
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Another improvement to be found m this;
months offering is that if, at any time while
entering information, you want to scrap the
currently displayed data, you can now just hit
the ESCape key to clear the form and return to
the first data input field again. In order to do
this I've had to modify the CursorRead[| routine
so that it detects when the ESCape key is
pressed. Because of the way the routine was
designed, this was quite easy to do and simply
involved defining an ESC variable (as the value
'l FJ'x| and adding an additional ESC case to the
routine's Select/When statements.
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he other day I saw a posting on OX.
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salt. After all. CEI didn't win the bid, but had
been making big noises that they were
confident of winning. They've been out of the
limelight far a while, so a message from CEI
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during these lean limes
Then came a contradictory message from
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there have been no firm distribution contracts or
agreements signed far Northern America, nor
have pricing levels been set far the A40D0T. So
Just what is going on? Did C£l jump the gun?
Did they dream this A40GOT up themselves?
TURKEY
Let's look more closely at the spec. No
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memory rjnt even enough to run that TV
favourite Lightwave, and other crucial programs
such as Art Department Professional, Imagef X?
and Real 3D are all going to need more memory
for serious TV work.
On top of that it doesn't say whether the
A400DT will have any farm of video output so
an encoder card or good-quality genlock will be
required. This A4Q0OT looks like a machine
which is tailored to run something like Scala
MM400 [not that I'm knocking MM400 - it's a
great application! and not a Veal' video machine
after all,
And then there's the pnee - US$34991 Even
looser/ translated into UK currency that's around
£2190. or £2600 including VAT - and not even
a monitor thrown in, Couple that with the
relatively slow (by high-end standards) 25MHz
'040 processor and the only conclusion I dan
come up with is that CEI have announced a real
turkey
A friend of mine has just bought a Pentium
90 PC costing around £2400. The price includes
a 1 Gb drwe, I S" multisync monitor, 16Mb RAM,
sound card, 24oit graphics card, speakers and a
quad-speed CP-ROMf And it runs JjghtWave like
a dream, knocking off a fulf oversr.in.
anoaliased render with refraction and reflection
in a matter of minutes. In fact, when I phoned
him he was rendering the textures example and
it took less than three minutes to do the
buiinesi I tan t see a 25MHz '040 even getting
close.
Okay, his PC wil need a few more addons to
Upset in
uidealdnd
■ 7-hff &4O0GT
- vrtH If have
any form of video
iryrvt?p
achieve full
video
compatibility, but,
unNke five years ago,
these extras are becoming
more and more accessible to PC
users. There's now a PAR card for the
PC, and genlocks, video processors.
rramegrabbers and edit controllers are all readily
available The A40QQT will also need additional
hardware, which might include a PAR card and
a framegrabber. A 24-bit card would also be
very useful, plus ail the bells and whistles
(memory, CD-ROM, monitor, big hard drive, etc]
which are no longer luxuries far serious video
producers and animators.
Now, let's hope that all thrs is theoretical, and
that the new A4D00T will not only have
reasonably priced bundle options, but that the
base machine itself will not make a Pentium PC
or well-appointed Mac look even more tempting
than they already do. It's one thing relying on
the Amiga's video reputation to sell it, but
Escom/Amiga Technologies are goiing to hawe to
come up with something really special to keep
video folks on tneir side.
After aN, PC and Mac development continues
apace while Amiga R&D appears to have
ground to a halt, developers are still waiting to
be contacted by
Amiga Technologies,
and a new high-end
Amiga will stiil only be
playing catch-up with current
PC and Mac systems by the time it
hits the streets - unless some rapid
behind the scenes developments are
gagng on.
This is not a good state of affairs to
be in, even if you're (he most rabid of Amiga
supporters. If J was in the market for a
video/graphics Amiga I'd want one which could
see off the competition, and at a sensible price.
I'd want a built-in video output which was at
least composite, preferably S-VHS (or even both],
even for lesser machines such as the AT 200 or
rumoured A 1300.
Lmtri Amiga Technologies take a good hard
look, at what Amiga users actually require for
high-end video applfcations and come up with
some solutions, I can only conclude that \hn
A4O00T price and spec certainly isn't going to
cut ft For all our sakes. Jet's just hope that CEI's
message was low on substance and high on
hype. Only time, and Amiga Technologies, will 1
tell.
The source
Thanks to Jeff Walker of JAM for posting the
original messages on C0t
Gary Whlteiey can be e-marted as
drgaz0cix.compulink.co.uk.
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iven the versatility of almost an
synthesizer*, you might well imagine
that it would be quite easy to
produce drum/percussion accompaniment by
just selecting suitable drum sound voices. In
tact, it isn't quite that straightforward because,
set up In the convenbonal way, a mulri-timbral
synth would only be able to play one voice
group setting per channel. So even if you only
wanted a bass drum, a snare, open and closed
hi-hats. a couple of tom-toms and" a cymbal. .
you'd still use up seven Midi channels and
a large chunk of your multi-timbrai
capabilities.
Trie sofutron to this difficulty was
soJved years ago and involves a slightly
different arrangement whereby ail
percussion events are sent on just one Mid
channel with the note value bejng used to
indicate which particular drum/percussion
voice should sound, Mow, newer synthesizers
often have facilities like these built in (usually
on Midi channel 1 0) but many older
instruments wili not, and the best thing to do
in these cases is add a separate "drum machine'
, to your Midi set up.
SOPHISTICATED SOUflDS
Drurm machines nowadays are quite
sophisticated and often use Sampled (i.e.
digitised real percussion se^und5^ as opposed to
synthesized sounds, and even the pitch and
volume of individual drum's races may be
altered. Loads of preset rhythm patterns will
also be provided, rrwiy of which will make
good starting points for creating your own
percussion tracks.
When you start a drum machine piaying
you'll not only hear the percussion sounds via
its audio connections but the unit will be
transmitting Midi data as it plays. The messages
transmitted may include start/stop information,
timing docks, and the drum-note data itself. Of
course, the reverse procedure also applies and
if the drum machine is sent Midi data it will
Rr e you missing
the beat?
• • •
.•_•_•.
play the
appropriate percussion voices.
As far as the recording of percussion tracks is
concerned, it is much the same as recording
ordinary synthesizer data, you start the unit
playing and just record the Midi data
generated at the Midi Out terminal. There is,
however, one thing that you do have to bear
in mind - you must not transpose drum
channel data. Since specific drums and
percussion instruments are represented by
particular Midi notes, any change in these note
values would change the actual percussion
voices being played.
The effect of madvertendy transposing a
Tricks of the trade
It is sometimes said that drum machines can produce monotonous drum parts. They can - but
this is almost always due to how the drum patterns were programmed in the first place. The
big question is... what can you do about it and. most of the bme. it comes down to attention
to detail, A common problem is getting the accents right on hi-hat parts. Some accent pads
have limited capabilities - even though the drum machine may be fully velocity sensitive via
Midi In these cases, it's usually best to drive it from a touch sensitive keyboard but you II find,
by experimenting, that a Tot can also be done by editing the data using your sequencer.
It's been recognised for some time that if you take a perfectly quantised drum pattern and
marginally alter the position of the snare drum, i.e. pull it back or push it forward, then the
whole 'feel' of the pattern can change. Vou can do this son: of thing quite easily via most
sequencers simply by recording each drum on a separate track and Adjusting the individual
Start positions.
As well m altering the feel of a drum pattern track, you can thicken up' weak sounding
drums by taking the drum track (or a part of itj, duplicating it onto a second track, shifting it
along by a small time interval, and playing the resulting tracks simultaneously. F3one selectively
It can be very effective, especially when using hard-left/ha rd-right stereo panned sound
outputs.
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starting to use a drum machine, they are getting excellent results, Yamaha and Roland drum
machines are available at quite reasonable cost, and with many shops offering second-hand
units at bargain prices nowadays, it's never been easier to add extra percussion facilities to your
Midi set up. If you don't believe me, take a walk down to your local music shop and see what's
on offer yourself!
■ Thw mtditi<?n of 9 drvrm msinhino to .in
Amiga uqucitfing it tup will uptfn
many creative doors tor (h* musician
drum part will, on playback, sound disastrous
- recorded bass drums might turn into
cymbals, the snare drum might vanish, and the
overall effect is invariably to make the
drum/perrmsian ttack sound almost
unrecognisable. Obviously, it is something that
is easily fixed by re-transposing the data back
into its original key (thus restoring the original
note values). Some Amiga sequencers |Jrke Or
T"s KCS| allow you to 'protect' a specified Midi
channel from transposition and this is very
convenient because it allows you to carry out
all normal transposition operations knowing
that the note values of the drum/percussion
data rnside your dium tracks will not be
altered.
Drum machines ^and integral synthesizer
percussion faaliries come to that) vary
enormously m the number of different
percussion sounds they can provide.
Unfortunately, pnor to General Midi, there was
little standardisation between different
manufacturers as far as which note numbers
represent which drum sounds. The note,
which on one drum unit plays a crash cymbal.
could well produce a 'High Bongo' sound
when sent to another machine. Needless to
say, this is something which many users just
have to live with and it really only causes
major problems if you are using material that is
either intended for, or created by, someone
else who is using a different drum machine.
As far as creating suitable drum patterns is
concerned, the situation for the beginner is
very good indeed, Firstly, you'll be able to use
the rhythm patterns and styles available on the
percussion unit itself. Secondly, you'll find that
local music stores will stock a number of books
which provide details of popular and useful
drum patterns written in easy-to-understand
block notation' style,
listing
Amiga IDidi
5Et up is
somewhat
lacking in the
percussion
department
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Oueraa has
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answer
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I but 'Net usage is expensive. A lat of
UB stupid companies who don't pay for
their phone bills are rushing onto the Met wrth
Web sues and inviting us to send our cash
down the phone to pay for goods and sendees.
No wayl Think, about it. These admittedly
brilliant sites I've mentioned here can cost you
a couple of quid to visit - even if you visit mem
at off-peak times. It's a pncey business, even
with alt the good deals (hat phone companies
are flinging your way these days to get your
money,
Qbvwusly, faster modems wouJd be a
bonus, and for frequent 'Wet access, or if you
are a 'Net hack like me, then a 28.800 baud or
even ISDN is. a definite good idea. Okay, so you
shell out more initially, but the savings in 'Net
rime are enormous, Vou have to be very careful
when you get fast Net access though, because
it rn.'ght mean you spend a bit longer on-line
than you should, and you just download
bigger files |lt's a bit like real life where your
expenditure expands to fill and even exceed
the available budget- 1
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, avoid those scary phone bills, here is my five-
point plan for more efficient Netting'
flet profit
net loss
1 . Get the fastest modem you tan buy. beg or
steal. The more rapid transfer rate between you
and the host machine will mean faster access to
the Internet, especially useful for graphics*
intensive Web sites.
2. On-line so much people can't get you on the
phone? Get another phone line for your 'Net
access or better yet. get a beeper like the one I
have - the Motorola Lifestyle Plus. It costs £80
and after that there is no charge. People pay
just 20p a time when they diaJ up a premium
rate line and tap in cheir phone number. It's cool
gadget too, and makes people on trains think
you are a doctor.
3. Use a stopwatch. When you log on start the
timer and keep looking at Ft Try to limit your
browsing to half an hour a day, especially if
you're- logging on before 6pm.
4. Save frequently. Save the text of pages if
there's a lot to read, either as text or HTML Read
off-line as often as possible. It's easy to forget
you are connected to Ihe phone when you are
reading something interesting.
5. Do what you've got to do and get out of
there. Irs easy to roam around the Web when
you are bored, and it's just as easy to not really
have any aim in mind. The Web is a tool, and
okay, it's quite good fun too, but it should be
used carefully. So don't just wander around the
Met burning up cash. Look for something, find
it, note any interesting URLs on the way, but get.
out quick.
WoridCiim
http://www.ovd.com
One of the most interesting things
about the Net is its NetCams. that
is to say video cameras which
relay almost live info from their
location to you via the Web. The
most impressive collection of
these cams is WorldCam.
WorldCam has also compiled a list
of the best Cams from around
the world, incfuding The
Falcon Cam at Calgary
University. The Incredible FishCam
(a fish tankj, FogCam and the
amazing wearable WebCam - r T
camera attached to someone who
has a wearable Net-based
computer so you see what they
are doing.
Batman forever
http;//www batmanforever, conV
Net watch
The web srte for the new Batman
f;lm. out now, and very fab it is
too The site has pictures, sounds
|(ive via Real Audio if you have a
PC-based 'Net program running
on your Empiantl and movies far
you to watch, ft also has some
very nice HTML tricks, iike
animated logos
MGM/UA Lion i Den
http://www.mgmua.com/WGfvVi
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The MGM/Umted Artists home
page, with detaifs of aN their
recent filmagc For example
Goldeneye, the new Bond Film.
At the time of writing there
weren't any pictures, but there
was a sneak preview. Presumably
this is because the Rim is in
production and it needs more
doing to it before you tan really
get a look at any sets or anything.
Also, there arc details about
Species, which is a new spooky
fifm with bags of special effects
about a new type of human,
which of course goes haywire
and kills everyone, in the grand
del tradition. There's also lots of
stuff on the new Tank Girl movie,
starring Lon Petty,
Sony Pictures Entertainment
Home Page
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Access to Sony's Entertainment
network, including their movies
through Sony Pictures. All Ihe
upcoming features are here like the
excellent The Net (no relation to
the awful BBC series} starring
Sandra Bullock, the most excellent
"Johnny Mnemonic starring Keanu
tvfl T&r Reeves, and other
bonuses like 'First Knight 1 with Sean
Connery and Richard Gere. Oh,
not forgetting Juha Ormond .. ooh,
how could I forget.
Buena Vista MovicPiex
http://Www.cfi5ney.com/
The very graphics^ieavy Buena
Vista Pictures site has now moved
to the Disney site. It used to be
out on its own but it's been
absorbed into the controlling
company's Web activity. All you
need to know about the new Bv
refeases. including the new Judge
Dnedd picture with Syfvester
Stallone.
Paramount Pictures
hap:/Avww. paramount, torn/
At the Paramount site you can get
a preview of scenes from Michael
Crichton's new film, Congo. Mel
Gibson as Braveheart, and sneaky
previews of the new Star Trek.'
Voyager TV series [coming soon to
a video store near you j
MCA/Universal Cyberwalk
http://www. mca.com/
The MOVUniversal site was one of
the first movie companies on the
Web, and it shows by its slick
presentation. The site has previews
of Tom Hanks in Apollo 13. the
iZDO million Kevin Costner fif-m
Waterwortd. and aiso Spielberg's
Casper, the friendly ghost.
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Ai we said first month this is a screen Info
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info about it. The author describes its usage
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AJItlUHTD $ S C R E ENPIEPI&R T=Vi I f R1 dt( 11,30,7))
this is how we get the information, that is
returned from the procedi
JdEERJUFQEQI
is non silent mode where by the information is
displayed directly on screen"
Okay, here's the second part of the code.
Don't try to njn this on its own as it fs not
complete! Okay, here we go with part 2.
First we open a screen:
Srrstn dps* E5R f n40,12H,1i,mr«
StFIH Display [SSJJ!,-1Da„
We grab the palette of the current screen:
ttt hLttfE _SC«E«_HIIWEt
1 hen we fade in;
rid«1/,IFFF,tFF0,(HIQ,(CCJ,(«JlC,im,IFM,tF,
iBEt,„lt,i!F,H,mc
Con OK : Flask Qfi : fitter 5 t
Hid* : HU VpL
1=0 : T=0 l MIDTH^niO : «IEH}=i20
! Gdsud US-HT3I
1=60 : T-l] : btPlH=56D -, DEI«T«13
: Gosgb LI6HTJD
We then G05UB to the routine that prints the
information:
6«ub INTDPtiRT
lUit Vol
Ink 3 : Flint K+*,l+l,Q ; Jtei print an trtt
of screen, in colour J
J'aper 1 ; Pen 1 : Ltttti ,1 : Ccncre "SerttB
JnfaTtgtisn"
For kj=rj T» 150 Step 14
Ser*«n Display [5M2J r li„
Hit VtlL
l(ltt a
Fof a*15D To tOO Step -4
Serec-n PispUj lM,TiM.,
•*i t Vbl
Rett H
Fur R=1.)0 Ts 150 Step 2
Scrim Hipliy tSR,12t,f„
tait Vbl
Neil V
Tiler=0
Having done all that we set timer to zero and
then we go rnto a irffle repeat/until loop:
Who goes
therE?
Part 3
T-T1l*f
if v-m
it UP-0
R=!+l
If Ri>15D : UP-t ', End [I
If this is the case we will move screen down.
But.,
ELse
MM
If R-<ofl : i)P=D : End If
if this is tine case we wNI move screen up.
fitd M
tttttt Dispuj m r m,*,j
Here's where the decrsions we made earlier
about moving the sc reen up/down come into
effect:
Wait for the next vertical blank and then set up
a mouse key sensor, so if a mouse key is
pressed we will continue, like so:
lint it Rdiik E.t7»D
Next we have a FQMOCT loop, which shows
us the mfo screen;
For RM To *1M Step -14
!:rptn pispliy ]i(,l2§,»„
Wail Vfa>
Rent I
Then we close the information screen and exit
the procedure:
Right now we enter the UghtiD area of the
program. Try thrs proc on its own to see what
happens. X and V hold the x,y positron of the
box, WIDTH and HEIGHT hofd the width and
height of the box. Simple and effect™? huh?
LKIfTJI:
J : U' I,T h lt«iIDTR,T*HEl«HT
This dean the mrddie with the baciiground
cotaur.
Write stuff
If you have a routine you'd tte id share, then please write
to Phil South, flmw Column. Amiga Compuringi Media
House, Wellington Park, Macdesfktt SKI t) A NP
Itl i
dray [+KJ.ITM To S^ipIl.r+kEKHT
Dray To I,U«E[E«1
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Prai To 1,1
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Ink 6
lri« l«*[DTI-1,T+t T* I*H»TH-1,T*HEISHM
tnu To ]t1,rtHHB»I-T
Ink «
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Inl 6
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trn r» i+2,imiehhm
til I
tray Id !*!/♦!
Ptiii To I«MTIH,H!
tcturn
And finally we have the rrVFORPRINT fabel we
referred to eadier:
tt A
UhUt ■ Th( scr«n nuibari'tEt*J(_StBEE" NUM-
BER)
Unti ,5
(inui " Th* screen vfitbi'tltrKJCIEEIJIIlTR)
Loctte ,o
Centre ' Tie screen
htijhl='tSt>i(_SC«E*.HElSHT)
(Ste ,1
Centre "Tee iniui Bwt
cflloun="+strI[Jll]UR_«KII9ER_»FjaLftUI!ti
L3:a!f ,i
Ctrtr* "fit nuig^r $f s Lilts
«iilibli>"4f trill
LW.t ,9
ftnln 'the le(ih*nd side o*. tie si'een li olti-
slirtd it"titr([*DlSPur)
Lncite ,10
Cintri "Th* top it tie tcrttn is disjlajed
it k »ttrNftlil
Lstate ,11
Centre "Tie tctil ittarir rtquiteitnt f»f
({eM*?"*Str*i:TSI)4" iytBi't- »r
K *SlriITSR/|rjZ*)nt[L«BTT!S '
lr«s:t f \2
Ctntra " tnt.*n the cowls buffer sjstti is in
use tilt bj M"
locate ,13
Pen : Centre "Frm fcuse key to MIT"
fl r Cum
HEPBET;
Eie Procltt]
And there you nave rt. All the information you
could wish for about a screen. Handy to be able
to do this kind of thing on the fly. if, for
example, you had an image processing
program,, and you wanted to sense the
parameters of an rncomtng screen file so you
could casually pop them up on the screen after
a menu, for example, then this is the routine for
you, ft is a vemable Swiss Amny Knife of a
routine, so keep it handy.
Back to normal, whatever that is, next month.
and keep those routines and letters coming,
Phil South
looks at part
two of the
screen info
program
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liniltlnlD
gets hi5 mitts
on the new
fflwi
modules for
PageStream 3
m
I n with the latest update |3.0h] I
I received tiiis morning, 1 got the
^^B four new addons for PageStream.
They are: Gary's Effects, a Jpeg filter, a
Wordworth filter, and a font engine for
TrueType fonts. These additional filters can
be bought now from SoftLogik themselves
for between $20 and '525, so get your eredjt
card ready,
Gary's Effects come on a single disk for
instailatipn into BME 2.0. They are a series of
Effects modules that get added tp BME's
Effects menu and give you some of the metre
common operations required for desktop
publishing. These include, but aw not
limited to, a user-editable convolution
matrix, gamma correction, a histogram
graph display (which cannot be edited],
control over hue and saturation and other
such effects.
It's a bit disappointing that there are none
of the really useful DTP-orienfed operators
such as unsharp masking, or that most of
the operators don't seem to work in a
predictable fashion when applied to pictures
in CMfK format, i can only hope that Gary's
Effects evokes into something more like Kai's
Power Tools over a period of time. StiH,
thanks to the new Jpeg filter, at feast you
ran save pictures out from BME as Jpegs.
aiiflllTV SEixinc
There isn't very much to say about the
Jpeg filter for PageStream. It does what it is
supposed to and offers you a quality setting
slider, but really talking about it is going to
sound like one of those Ronseal produrt
ads on the telly: So if you want a filter and
you want it to be Jpeg, then get the Jpeg
filter, ft does exactly what it says in the
docs.
Moving on to the third item in our add-on
collection - the TrueType font engine. Again,
there isn't very much to say about this plug
in It allows you to use TrueType fonts in
PageStream transparently, without needing
to first convert them into Postscript format-
This opens the vast vista of CMOMs made
for people with PCs and windows [which
Plug in and print
uses TrueTypes | . SoftLogik say in the
documentation accompanying the add-on that
the speed and quality of TrueTypes in
PageStream is roughly equivalent to Postscript
fonts. The only thing that would have been
nice to see would have been PageStream
taking advantage of some of those WinPnnters
- printers optimised for windows' use by
hairing TrueTypes built-in. I'm not sure if this is
actually feasible given the printing system in
PageStream, so l don't suppose it's all that
important.
The last add-on seems to be a little
underdeveloped, Although the wordWonh
filter wilf import your wordworth document
it will only do so under fairly strict conditions.
Because PageStream has no Text Effects or
Tables feature, it won't be able to load m any
of those nice layouts you have created in
WordWorth using these Features. PageStream
is also unable to load CGM graphics files like
those used by WordWorth, so that option is
right out too. PageStream's hyphenation
method diFfers rrom vVordvT/orth's so you
might have problems there too, although not
necessarily.
Finally, there are two further problems that
would appear to be in the process of being
sorted out. The first is a problem with extreme
type sizes and the loose' leadrng method
and the other tj a problem with picture
aspect ratios. All in all. it doesn't sound as
though the vVordvVorth filter is going to be
much use for anything but the s imprest
layouts and as such, perhaps R should have
been included with PageStream for nothing,
or they should have at least waited until you
could do a bit more with it.
PageStream progress
After having spent some time with PageStream 3. Oh, I can definitely say that SoftLogik are
pushing forward at a rapid rate towards a finished product Typing speed in the new version is
vastly improved, parwularly in long articles, although SoftLogik say it is stilt not as fast as they
would like for v3.1. Also, you can now quit from the editors without them locking up
PageStream fai last! I can't remember the number of times I hit Amiga S, Amiga Q out of sheer
habitf. In addition, external graphics have finally been rmptomented and you can now revert to
saved
Owners of non-Postscript printers should be pleased that printing has been sped up and that
memory is no longer as important when it comes to printing Hyphenation, both soft and
automatic, has now been incorporated and, at last, your cursor accurately represents where In a
tea article you are. BME also gains two new effects - Emboss and Sharpen.
However, some of the more annoying niggles like PageStream's inability to copy, duplicate or
transform a text box have still not been resolved, neither should you expect PageStream to be
able to do colour separations for EPS files or printing (one aspect which must surely limit
PageStream's appeal for serious use. Perhaps this ought to be attended to before anything else].
Finally, in the readme file they mention release dates for both a Mac and windows version of
PageStream and promise full cross-platform compatibility, so lets hope that a] this doesn't mean
that Amiga development slows down and b) i"vniga users will finally have a hope of going to a
printer with a PageStream file and not get laughed at
Some at the now operator, thai Qaiy'a EflWcIf provide* BME with. Tltey an: the original
picture, Uimd, Laptacian Edge (convolution,, fru» (*23°), JAJ*ri»d, and threshold
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LIGHTWAVE 3D ENHANCER . .£55.95
CDBOOT 1.0 .,,.,, .£29
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THE LIGHT WORKS £34
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CD-WRITE f 39
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