Issue 97 ■ MarCnm 1996 m £4,50 Overseas price £4.50 Htl 20
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Superb demo af this latest
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The genius of t
Amiga has Iris
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PLUS
• Draco update
~ Granada television
• Biizzdrd1260
• SyQuest EZ drive
Wordworth preview
• Web Design
• IVIIVI Experience
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G V P RAM
68020EC
The Super XI Drive allowi you to store
3.5MB on a high density 6]sk.
MEGACH1P
3.S SUPGfl XL DRIVE
£129,95
VIDEO BACKUP 3
Backup to 520MB onto a 4hf VHS tap«.
Vcriiort 3 haf new backup modes for
ATTnga's, with a 68020 oi higher CPU.
GVP HC-8 SCSI
MEMORY
1.76 XL DRIVE
Tlie XL Drive allows you to store a
1.76MB !jn a high density diik.
1.76 XL DRIVE EXTERNAL .£79.95
T. 76 Xt DRIVE iMTERN-i^ • £'5
1.76 XL DRIVE A4'000 ^7S
PCaSOB EXT.POWER DRIVE £49.9S
PCSai A500 £30.95
PC882 A2000 £35.95
PC883 A6OtWl200 .,.,-.. £35.95
1 GIGABYTE 1-5 SCSI ... £259
1 GtGASYTE 3,5 SCSI EXTERNAL £335
MICBOPOLIS
2 GIGABYTE 3,5 SCSI , £CAU
4 GIGABYTE 3,5 SCSI £CALL
9 GIGABYTE 3,S SCSI fCALL
HITACHI
340Via 2,5 IDE . . ICALL
SliOlvie 2,S IDE , , £CALL
810MB 2.5 IDE £CALi
1 GIGABYTE 2,5 IDE £CALL
OTHERS
130MB 2. SIDE ^^S
VIDEO flACKUP SCART
VIDEO BACKUP PHONO
UPGRADE TO VERSION =
£Gi
£60
£20
FLOPPY EXPAN PER
Save 1.5M9 on a itandard floppy drive
and 3MB when used in conjunction
with the XL Drive 1 75
SCSI hard card whkh can fit SMB o*
RAM on-board,
HC-a SCSI CARD . ^^^
GVP G-LOCK
Award winning Amiga Ssniotk.
CLOCK AMIGA GENLOCK £259
FLOI>PV EXPANDER
£tO
lO-EXTENDER
Zorro H card that provides ar additional
serial port, parallel port jrsd connectiofi
tor optional RS422 and RS232 poft-
Call for details.
HARD DRIVES
M-TEC H D
ixternal IDE hard disk for the ASOO
comes complete with an internal ROM
switcher, and upgradable ta 4MB RAM
M-TEC AT500 BARE ■ - ■ ■
PLEASE CALL FOR HD SIZES
MEMORY' BEQUiaf s SO-CIM HMMS
£99
DISK EXPANDER
Disk Citpander can add upto to %0% to
your bard drive capacity and worki
with all drives including SCSI. IDE,
Ftoppiief and e^en ttie HAM disk. Diik
Expandsr works, on aity Amiga with
any Kickitart.
DISK EXPANDER £19-95
EXTERNAL CASES
SCSI case syltaiile for CD-ROM/HDroAT
and Optica! drives.
5,25'"^ 'SCSI or IDE CASE £79.95
3.S- SCSI or IDE CASE , , , . . .£79-iS
SX-3Z
5X-32 is an internal add-on tafd for your
CD32 and features: VGA port, RGB port.
parallel part, -serial port, enternal disk
drive pflrt (1.76Me), tlock, controller for
2.S" hard disk, and a SIMM socket (up to
QMB}, Turn your CD-32 into a A 1200.
5X-32 MODULE £199.95
CHIPS & SPARES
ioEXTENDEH
£59
GVP RAM
Offitial GVP RAM SIMMs.
4MB GVP RAM .
t6MB GVP RAM , , . . •
£1S9
£549
OVERORI VEHD
External PCMCIA 3,5' IDE harO disk
OVERDRIVE BARE £99
OVERDRIVE 42QiMB , . . £259
ZIP DRIVE lOQMB SCSI .... .£179-95
100MB DISKETTE £15.95
HP Cfiuw nEouiftii squmntL scsi mttftFACE
M ;■■ ';i !^ \l I) u c r
ZIP DRIVE.
The Syquest E2135 drive is an ideali
storage device. The EZ Drive stores
1,35MB on a single 3.5" cartridge
and has a ^eek time of I3.5m5.
Comes complete with one 135MB
cartridge, (A SCSI interfa« 1* required)
SYQU-EST E2135Me £239,95
13SMe CARTRIDQE
A 2 000 6S060
256 * 32 SIMM 72-PIN {1MB) . . , ,£^0
512 X 32 SIMM 7Z-PiN (2MB) . . . .£75
1 v. 32 SIMM (4MB1I £125-9S
2 X 32 SIMM (SMB) £235.95
4 X 32 SIMM (16MB) £499-95
1 X a SIMM 32-PIN (1MB> -£30
4 X a SIMM 32-PI|y (4MB) £139
1 X 4 STATIC COLUMN A30O0 ... .£25
1 X 4 DIP ...,,,,... .£25
2SSX4DIP ' "
1 X 1 DIP ^- '*
CIA £«
GARY - ■*1|
PAULA ,.....,.., .£19
DENISE ' - -.'^1*
SUPER DEMISE - ^25
KEYBOARD IC '12
FAT AGNUS 1MB £19
FAT AGNUS 2MB ,,,..... £29
PRINTER CABLE ^^
RS232 CABLE **
SCSI EXTERNAL . , ■ .£15
WORKBENCH 3.1 ASOOWOOO . , , ,£B5
WORKBENCH 3.1 A300l)f40CO . . .£95
ROM SHARE DEVICE £19
2.04 ROM CHIP *2S'
.fCALL FOR ANY SPAfttS REQUIRED PLEASE CALL
HI-SOFT
SQLflRRELSCSi INTERFACE
AUftA , , . . -
MEGALOSOUND
A 6fl0€0 aecBlerMW b&ard for the A200i'
running at 50MHi and allowing upt'
128MB of user installable memory and a
SCSi-ll hard disk controller.
.A3000 61040 (0MB RAM) . . . £TBA
A20(y0 &S1O6O (OMB RAM) £TBA
4MB STANDARD ADD £125.95
4MB GVP ADD . , iEISS
MODEMS
ACEEX V32 BIS 14.4 not st approved .£99
X-LINK tSuE V3< 3B..8,BTAPPIlDVtD£229i95
TRAPFAX MODEM SOFTWARE . £49
AU MQOEH'i IHCLUDi ^OfTWftRE *Hts CASLES
£59.95
£79.95
£29.95
If
squirrel acsl tnterfice
included yhert you
tie thlt I.09D
Surf Squirrel offe-rs an even higher SCS^
performance, airtO-booting, and yltra-fasi
s&rial port. Surf Squirrel is the ideat
expansior* peripheral fnr your Amig»J
1200. Please call for more informatiofi-
5URF SQUIRREL
.£POA
UlRRE L MPEG
Squirrel MPEG allows you to play VideoCD "
and CDl CD-ROM's, Squirrel MPEG brings
high quality digrtally mastered images and
Ifi'btt stereo -sound to you and you'
Amiga.
SQUIRREL MPEG £POA
RAM EX1»*W5TON ^ POWER SCANNER —I SCANDOUBLER IF
£90
MEMORY CARDS
does ttifs by
own jMa RAM and alfo now
I 2MB Fat Agnus. No soldering is
MCGACHIP RAM
£159. 9S
A500 68020 EC
A 68020 EC procsHOr 9cee^eTato^" card for
'.he A500 and AS5CN-, with an flptS&o to frt
9 68S81 or 68882 Cfl-pfoceswr tPLCC or
PGA). This card tan fit upto 4MB FAST
RAM and is fully airto-configuring.
NOT COMPATeSUE WUH QVf> HAKD DRIVE
A500 6B0J0 EC 0MB RAM - . ,£99,95
ASOQ 63020 EC 4M& RAM . .£239.95
PRINTERS/MONITORS
MICHOVITEC 1438 14' £209
EPSON STYLUS (NC. PAPER £489
EPSON STYLUS PRO XL A34 . £ 1499
l»iaN iTfiUSJPHQ XL INCLUBE STUDIO 11 SOFTWARE
STUDIO II SOFTWARE £49.95
VGA ADAPTOR £1S
VGA ADAPTOR
GLID EPOINT
Intuitl're Cunor control at your finger tips
.Tap' for an instant selection. Connects to
tht Serial port. rni» h not « qraphha tablat)
ALPS CLIOEPOINT
.£S9.9S
POWEft TABLET
Ptn and cunor controlled graphic tsbletj
Including cables and foftware.
POWER TABLET 12 X 12 , .£195.9S
MCL. ftK CU*iOR AND H3WEK ^M HW
GURU'ROM V6
A SCSI driver for all Series II host adaptors
• nd accelerator card; for all Amiga
computera. Tha ROM h^i a v<ery fast trans-
fer rate of up to 3.SMB/J, maximising your
CPU proctising time.. Guru supports all
SCSI device types including! hard drives,
CD-ROM drives, scanners, Syqi^est drives
rtc.Guru ROM \i compatible with Amiga
OS 1.3 through to 3.1 and is SCSI -l/5CS(-2
Compatible. Please call for further
Iftformation.
GlJftU-ROM V6 .£49.95
rwtnnin
iiTcIuotH tK« following f e^ •■ m
24-bit at uptn JOOOP) (all Arin^,.. ,,./. ,ust
AGA)*, Scan in 756 greyscalei at up to
40CDPI (.sil Arr^aas), Thru'port for printer
cDiinftSion Fji V iupports AGA chipset,
Diiplfly HAM:8/24-bit imager on a non-
AGA Amiga (via image conversion), full
editing facilities included. Works wiih 2.04
ROM or above, min 1MB (letoinmervd
2m)
POWER SCAN 4 B/W £89.95
POWER SCAN 4 COLOUR . . .£1^9.95
OCR (SOUGHT WITH SC/.NNtSi| £2Q
OCR SOFTWARE £49.95
POWER SCAN 4 S/W ONLY £20
PC IMTERFACE + COL S/W . . £49.95
PC IMTERFACE + fiW S/W . . £39.95
FLATBED SCANNERS
24-blt A4 flatbed scanners, compjett with
software, cables and manjal.'
EPSON GT-SOOO £4B9.95
l*-in. INC. WWERSCJUI -SOFTWARE
EPSON GT 8500 £579,95
Ji.BIT, INC. Ptrwf P15C*.N SOFTWARE
EPSOrf CT-9OIJ0 £719.95
J*-B1T, INt- iMAGt FKHEV. I.SIOfTWAHf
ADPRO SOFTWARE , .£149.95
IMAGE Fx 3.0 S/W £149.95
SCANNER
Pfutl 24-b
fiitef which aiJtomatFwIly de-interta<« all
AGA screen modes and scan doubles non-
interlaced PAL/NTSC modes to a!!ow VGA
monllofj lo display ihcm. Supports VGA.
S'VGA and Muttiscan monitors, Pi^xel
sharp picture, even at 144(3 hariront^l
resoluiion and has a standard 15-pin VGA
type connector. Comes with composite
vIdeckfS-VHS outputi
SCAN QOUBLER II
!^!^0 (]
£399
MLOC
TBC-ENHANCER
Reduction Of quality loss when copying,
colour and torrtrast conection, suppression
of colour drop'Outs, elimination of
basically any capy protection, The
video signal is edited in professional
4:2:2 studio standard and ii lychronized
entirely new.
reC-ENHANCCR
£919.95
NEPTUNE GENLOCK
Excellent picture guatlty, auto fade
control, Alpha channel and optional
ioftware ccmtrol.
NEPTLJNE GENLOCK
£599.95
SCANNER software™ sifilUS II GENLOCK
FLATBED POWERSCANNER 5/W . .£35
GRAPHICyVIDEO
PICASSO II 2MB RAM . .
...£249.95
IHCLUJ3ING TV PAIMT JMR,
PICASSO II 2MB RAM . .
. £399.95
IMCLUOINO T\ jfftlKT J
VIDEO DAC
£25
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Sysiem news 76
AfKiy Mpddock brings you all that is weird and
wofidefful on the Amiga games scene
Xtreme RAcmc n
GiiildhaSI bring fou a fate- 'em-up for o^
biiddifig boy racers oiA there
Gloom peujxe tO
Guns at the ready, Cfietic out this tatsst update
to this pink and 5we*t game for giris
Super tennis champs 83
short skirts itAJte plmsols Qmi sports bfos,
/Vow we've got yovr atlentiort turn to out
review of thfs latest rennt's sim
Zeewolf 1 84
Tate part in a/) off action hditspter shoot
feit with Binary Asylum's latest
£xiLE 86
Arcade adverrtvre antics from Audiogenic
System put it under tfjs spotlight
SuuHnu 88
featured on our coverdisic this month, HiHsea
Lido gets a full review, covering oil
aspects of promenade totnfoolery
Soccer stars '96 90
He's football craiy, foo^all mad. We zertoinfy
is - he's Andy l^^addock and he likes footy
CAPriAL PUNISHMENT
Blood, guts, gore deluxe in this
forthcoming beat-'em-up
94
Penguins M
Not of the chocolate sort but in fact the
stars of this latest puzzler
PiKiAU PREUIDE 98
Pinball galore so get your dippers at the reody
with to offering from Effigy
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EVIEWS
Ml 438s
In.focus.
Amiga Technologies^ nqplacement for the 1M2
has iff ived, but is it any good^ We investigate
In.Focus' new videc tutorial Lightwave takes a different
stance to th* others we've seen. Find out why
Mm experience IE Draco update
IB
Opionica's new CD authoring system come
in two veftions. We look at Junior first
Paul Austin takes a gander at the latest developmenb
with this Amiga compatible machine
Blitz basic 2.1
Glitz Basic has just gat better than ever and Neil
Mohr is an hand to teJl us just how much bettei it is
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WORDWORTH ^
Neil Mohr takes a first Iciok aft this
world-beating word processor
Datastore 2
Digita's popular liatabse hits a rsewuersion
this mgnth and we pfobe its new feaitures
m
Book reviews _
Three new books frcim the Bruce Smith
Books stable get the once over
iS Blizzard 1260
Ptiase 5's fastest ever Al 200 accelerator is here and
raring to go. Neil Mohr tells us just how fast it is
B
EATURES
Acting the part
The Amiga plays a lar^e part behind ttve scenes at one
of the UK's largest TV companies - Granada Telewion
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Show
REPORT
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Jason
Compton
reports 00
theUVpHdof
Amiga straw
in Canada
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Web design
INIell Mohr looks 3t creating Web pages
on the Amiga, for the Amiga
Reader SURVEY EB Beginner's guide — Bl
ire's time to tdl us what you think of the magaiine.
Fill in the form arid you might win our great priie
Steve White continues to help the less experienced
with the third part of his tutorial series
AiviiCA Computing
MARCH 1996
HE COVERDISKS
NeMAC IV DEMO
Get ready for a bTasti ng frerrzY with this exclusive
Amiga Computing cover disk demo of the latest
Doom clone. Take control of a walking armoury
and blast those evil robots to hell
Utilities unlimited
Another incredibte cotlectiort of useful utHities.
tnciuding:
SysSpeed, XPKantana, MonEd, Lha-Gui, MuttiCX
2.41, MUt MCX Prefs^ ETrashcan, Screen Keys,
konify Gadget UrouHack, XPK Datatype, Move,
Eyes, BioDay and Loves
Q
EGULARS
Comment _
Stevie White ^ves his vteuus
on the piracy situation
News
Rowing reporter Tira Hadtett presents all the news thafs
frt to print... we interrtpt these contenB ftw i newstl^li
Letters
Ezra Surf starts ploughing through the pi?^itiv€
mgi! we received alter our rwiesign
H AcAS
Cot a prcriitem? AOiS can sort it
out witli ease and ^iciency
Public sector
Dawe Ctjsicit, PD rewltmtr ejctraordingire, bol(S
at all that's giQod and great in sharet^are
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OVER
STORY
The IRISH
CONNECTION
Ben Vost takes a trip to Belfast to
visit two proponents of the Amiga
hard at work
A/IIGA GUIDE
Franl( Nord continues his
absolute beginners series
on Workbench's menus
*=* Paul Over^a adwses ijn
uses for Amiga DOS's
Kgment loading routines
Paul Overaa shows how
to get the best out of the
Global tracing facility
Phil South looks, at tlie
last 1 2 months of the Net
and how it has chan^
Frank Nord continues the
theme with a sediort on
creating CQlojr-pogr ads
105
109
Phil South starts a tutorial
on Lsing Amos to create
multimedia presentatigns
Paul Overaa gives us the
run down options for
Amiga-based sequencers
Using camera angles and
lighting to create an
effective animation
Paul Austin r jn* through
how to get the best
from Metaform
Gary W/hitelev Inoks at
'f standards in TV and how
they affect production
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A1200 trapdoof fitting memwy espansmns t^Oture a
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Rtfl InstructXire and sartwafe supplied,
DW' h«d dive 3l$0 >us Dh fadtiiy (0 add 2. 4, 6 or Smb of RANI
^^udeM.
2mb t^d.ua
^ 4nib£l49.9«
^ 8mb 259.M
A500/+ 25Dmb HARD DRIVE £209.99
JUdlthHMt RAM fof «» hard dHlvt £S9.99 ^M
OteOQlogy is the iilimate in di&k aofs^ng power fcr tfie
Anngi TtiB paikage comprisfis the Discology Disk,
manual smt DiaDok^ lartridgi? far making ccpiei^ of
tnsvl^ protedHd pnigrsmis viqth an exteraal di$,H
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Now includes CD ROM drivers and Htttnictions.
The DBtaf]>er iSi a 16 bit SCS) II conWief card f.ha: mnve'i?. ^c sigpab
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Hie Dataflyer SCai+ will operate upon 5 SCSI deviDes sucti as
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72 pin siriwns s«jltabte for Apolfo aocslefators, A4000, A1200 memory
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Imb £39.99
2mb £77,99
4mb £114.99
Bmb 219.99
33inlu 68882 FPU (picc) £49.»9
40mhZ 68S82 FPU (pICC) t69,9<i
SOmlu 68882 FPU (PfiA) £79.s
AT^ fPU's are ^i:pp!mc> wiltt crysta) oscitalc^
^ DATAFLYER SCSI+ ONLY £69.99
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PCMCIA fitting SCSI lotTfitia
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ONLY £234.99
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135inb EZ cartridge £l5.9f
i DAI A J^L/
A4000 SCSI oontjoller expansion rartl Ihat allows up to
? SCSI devices to be connected to the A4000, Includes
lu^l user manual and mstflSlartion software ir^cluding CDROM
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Oiracyf The mere fnertlon of this
mofd leaves Amiga owners
groaning with despiair. The pifaey
debate is alrnost as old as the
Amiga itself and. practically etery starte has
been argueii to the death with the result
that viTf little has actually been done.
The warring factions {.an te split into t/vo
distinct groups - the cnmpjter games
industry and the Amiga user, The industty
blames casual and organised piracy for the
diminishing of Amiga software and lack of
future development, while the user blames
ttie computef games industry for cfiarging
extortionate prices per unit. While both the-
gries can: be considered corfect to some
ertentr there is ir\Qth& slice to the pie that
both sides, and especial If the computer
games industry, have failed to retogniie,
and that is the actual quality of Amiga
software.
tt would seem that the success the Amiga
has bfought hss, in the end, been partly
responsible fof its downfall - as the industry
has become mofe wealthy so they have dis-
tanced themselves from the end user. There
has been very little after-saies support for
Amiga owners and before the demise of
Commodore it seemed oui machine was
being used as a testing ground for PC
conversions and PC futufe development
I NCOM PATI B I LITY
A classic example was &17 from MicroProse,
This game crashed left, fight and centre on
the Amiga while the PC version played like a
dream, When questioned about the incom-
patibility problems, MitroPfose told me that
they didn't support Amiga third-party bard-
ware such as accelerators and FastHAM,
What! The PC has more third-party hardware
than any other computer in existence yet
there were no visible problems with this
wrsionof BT7-
The obvious conclusion to be drawn from
this ejtample is that MicroProse rushed the
Amiga version through, resulting in faulty
goods being released tn the public so they
could spend more time on the PC wrsiion.
Hameirer, MicroProse aren't tlw only ones to
blame. There are other big name companies
who have done exartly the same.
Another good example of rushed soft-
ware was Reach for the Skies from Virgin. I
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Claire Nimhlq'
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actually partici-
pated in the bug
testing of this product (for free) and on
average found ten times as many bugs as
the actual quality crantrol department at
Virgin! When the game was finally released
most of the bugs remained and I completed
it in one day at the hardest level. What
annoyed me most was that I paid £35 for
this game - money I may as well have
thrown down the drain. If I had known
about this I certainly would not have
bought it
As mentioned before, these companies
are simply two examples from a catalogue
too vast to include here but the problem is
•-.>. ■«• H-n
men
Steve White airs
his views on
piraq/ and the
way of the Amiga
spread throughout the computer games
industry. And this is really my point UVhat is
the incentive in buying software that is faulty
when you can get a copy of it foi a fraction
pf the cost? Had someone offered me a
copy of Reach for the Skies I would have
found it very drfficutt to say no.
Obviously, testing a game so that it is
entirely bug-free is not always possible,
However, if you've ever peru&ed the con-
tents of a cover-mounted PC CD you will
have rotked the myriad of bug patches for
PC sofhnrare. Why has the Amiga never beer
supported like this? Because the industry
couldn't give a fig about Amiga owners,
that's why.
When Doom was- released on the K the
computer games industry said it could n''l be
done on the Amiga, yet now they have all
but abandoned our machine we see new
developers springing up al^ the time with
Doom clones galote that are just as gochd as
their PC rivals,
In my opinion the problem really boils
down to ignorince and greed. The computer
games industry as a whole has become so
obsessed with advertising, deadlines and
profits that the end-user has become merely
a statistic - especially If you own an Amiga!
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HRISTMAS SALES DISAPPOINT!
D eparts from retail point to a slow
"* reaction from consumers over what
was hoped would be a bumper tinii; for
Amigd sales- After the many positive
amnciuncennents we've had tateSy from
Amiga Teclinologies, it comes as a blow (or
the: hgpes of a fjll $cale Amiga comeback
JLStyet
Compatlbflity pfoblems, SDL's troubles
and absence of marketing have all betn
bls^med for the lack of enthusiasm from
foniumers.
Amiga Computing talked to Dale
Bradford, General Secretary of the National
Association of Specialist Computer
Retailers. He remarked: The Amiga didn't
ha^ve a good a Christmas as perhaps a lo't of
us had hoped. It's just so unfortunate that
they got hit by the incompatilijlity
problernSr I think this scared retailers off
because although tradttionally they sold a
lot of Amigas, what they don't want is tp
have problems after Chriistmas with people
bringing back machines saying they want
refunds.'
We asked him what Amiga Technologies
should do to get the Amiga back on its feet.
They must get the retailers stocking them
with confidence again and part of that
would be sorting out the iricompaitibility
problem, but also a bit of marketing would
not go amiss either.'
However, another problem is that the
Amiga is only available from multiples like
Tandy and Escom, Bradford agree;, "If they
could get the independents to stock it and
support it again then that would help a
gre^t deal. Thaf s where they [the Amt:gas]
n
came from originally because none of the
multiples would touch them back ir 19S6
or 1937, It was the independents who
helped to push them onto the market
place."
The fart that the Amiga was bought by
Escom is also seen as an obstacle by some
retailers. Bradford said: 'One of the biggest
problems now is that they're owned by
Escom and it may be small-minded but
there are people out there who are saying
Tm not going to help increase the profte of
someone wfio is cutting the arSe out of the
PC markef."
John Smith, General Manager of Amiga
Technologies offered: "At the end of the ,
dafy, \i the Amiga had to survive somebody
had to purchase it. UVe are a totally separate
entity in the way we run. We have to make
our own profits. The Amiga is a great
product and we've brought it baclt, hence,
now, the move into the surfer pack and I
would hope more independeri'ts would take
the view that we all love the Amiga so
much - let's get on and sell it. They will
makeprofit outof it. *
Smith admitted SDL's problems did have
an adverse effect on Christmas sales: "It
definitely did effect our sales which was
inevitable as they were our largest
distributor," He continued; 'There's no
dqubt about it - SDi's demise hurt us, in
the same way that when Commodore went
down we hurt SDL"
Although the actua! Amiga didn't sell as
well as hoped, the software on the other
hand did nicely out of the existing Amiga
users who have shown that they are still
there to buy good games when they are
released.
Bradford pointed to the success of some
Amiga publishers and distributors: Those
who are still supporting the Amiga are
doing very well, such as Guildhall. I was
also talking to Active Distribution and
they're still shipping a lot of Amiga
software."
QiscoRp TO USE Amiga technology
January 17 marked the official agreement
between VISCORP and Escom AG for the
license for VISCORP to use 'Amiga' technologies
within their set-top TV appliance.
VISCORP's chairman of the board, Jerome
Creenberg commented: 'By employing a sophisticat-
ed chip set, such as the Amiga technology, ViSCORP
will have the ability to provide a complex set-top
appliance with multitaiking functions to integrate
afford ably the TV set, phone lire and network service
providers.
This ability has not yet been offered or available
through existing systems.'
The set-top box will allow ttie use of ifie Internet
with access to on-line services like CompuServe or
AOL, bulletin boards, chat programs and Web sites.
This, they intend, can be controlled by a TV remote,
keyboard, microphone Or touch sensitive pen. Other
plans afoot include enabling users to play games,
carry out home shopping, or access electronic bank-
ing. Green berg said: 'by utilising our unif^ue set-top
appliance and incorporating the Arriga technology,
VI5C0RP is able to provide a complete practical
solution for interactive TV services^ and now the
ability to access the Enternet through a standard TV
set with pricing that makes sense for the average
TV viewer."
AjVltCA CoMPUTinc
MARCH 1996
I
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edundancies
Amiga Technologies
Mk mtga Technologic revealed tfits month
^^ Ihat ihey wtfe r^tgc^ting frorn their
offias n Udklenheeid to the Escarr offices in
Stan^ead. Whilst there Wds nothing unex-
pected m this announcement, thi^ fact that
only C«nefal Manager, John Smith and one of
th« technical H$ii were actually relocating
was.
Smith ulked to Amiga
Compuling abojt the rsdjn-
danEJes: "Two of us are relo-
cating to Stanst^ad but we
have over 40 people in
Gefinany and the prublem is
that vve have quite a lot of
duptication oftaski,
Fof example^ there' are
two technical guys baci<
here, apart from
the ones there."
He continued:
*whefi you fook
at produ:r
developiTier i
that also ;
frtainly done n
Germany."
He point!?':"
to the ad van
tagei of thi
move and
that it w$$ always in the pipelines "By mov-
ing to Stanstead I have use of the Escort
personnel-
The officer are larger and more prestigious,
with access to more facilities. We always
maintained that we were just using these
premises to get up and rjnning and we
wojid aEways^ be looking to Stanstead at
some stage,'
He denied that the redundancies
had anything to do with poor
Christmas sales or SOL 'I definitely
lost some sales time but you can't say
that's why you get rid of staff - that's
not true" Smith commented. 'It's very
difficult because not only were we
work colleagues but we are liiends
as well because we all
worked together at
Commodore.
It's an awk-
w.ard time at
the moment"
'^t'a vsrr dlffieutt bmcavmm oat imir
aru trimni/f *■ wm!l &«c«fu«« ht* All
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jT^eant raittindaneittm at 4T
More details^ are now available on
the World of Amiga Show whiich is
set to take place at London's
Hammersmith Ntmrtel between 13-14
April. The event marks the first major
hardware and software launch for twa
years. Featured at the show will be a
Pn«ientation Theatre, Games Aicade and
retail ijea. Peter Bramdd, show organiser
commented: 'I am confident that this is
the dawning of a new age tn Atiiiga
computing. The interest generated by
Amiga Technologies' involvement is
electric and i predict that this will be lh&
best Amiga show ever'
Admission for the show costs £7 for
adults and £5.50 for children. You can
book now through their credit card
hotline on 01369 706346 or by cheque
or postal order made payable to The
World of Amiga which can be sent to PO
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HiSOFT OOPS
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^ Amiga with state-of-the-art PCs.
Called the Siamese System it has been put together to 'supplement the
Amiga's already Impressive features and enhance those are^s where it
has been left to stagnate in tiib fast moving worlds.'
With the Amiga as the
main system It alEows the
use of Amiga, PC and
Macintosh software to run
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relevant emulators.
There are four possibilrties
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SyQuest Technology are set to launch their new removable cartridge
hard drive, a 3.5 inch, 1.3 gigabyte drive they are calling 'SyJET'. Offering
a sustained transfer rate of 4Mb per second and an average seek time
o! 11ms, it will he available in internal enhanced IDE and SCSI
canligufations.
The retail price is likely to ba £3^9 for a drive and one cartridge, and
two removable cartridge options will also be available - a 650Mb
cartridge priced at £39.99' and a 1,3 gigabyte cartridge at £59.99. It will
f)e available in the second quarter ol 1 996,
Amiga Computing
MARCH 1996
Tiinnf ^
Number one
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Mouse, a is a user-friendiy padfoge whi^fi makes
life easier with seven virtual rooms witl> filing
cabinets m eodi.
Timetables, tor example, are tfeated in the
Agenda roam and transactions made with
customers and ap^« irrthe Traders room.
TvirQ versions are available - X^ash' and 'CfJjA
and Credit' versions
features indude an Adcouirft ntutine gensaHog
a Trial Balance, Advertising Gerterotor and Tax
analysis and j'erurns, Both versions require on
Amiga imifft 1Mb of RAW, Kiek^arl 3 ar later, aitd a
hard dislf with GMb of free space. The Caih
ver^rr cosis £59.95 wttereas the Co5h and Ow*
Wfsiian lis £59.95.
D
QPOON BENDERS
A nother novel
^ vtsy Qf yiing
the Internet has been
set up to find out if
psychic powers can
be sent over the
internet. WQjfd-
rerKiwred FH.ych»^ Uri
Celler has issued a
challenge to $ee if
anyone ra(\ bend a
spoon over the Net -
there's 11 million up
Eor grabs if anyone
can da it In Cdler's
f ^ B«nd Bpaoini 0v«r rha JntAm^f
home is a see-through safe with the spooft locked inside and ar?ynne who can bend
the spoon while watching it over the internet will be in^led to be tested further over
the telephone.
A further challenge wiH then be issued at Gelier's home when any contenders will
gM to try it out in person, If successful they will receive g generous Si million iot their
efforts which innll be shared if there's more than orte triumphant psychici Even if more
than one person is acceisirtg the site, the organisefs reckon further tests will be possi-
ble to trace anyone successfLl. Apparently, the hardest part will be to produce a visible
bend in frgnt of the judges but Geiter is confident that someone, somewhere will be
abEe to do it
Qro-SoW pledgTsupport
Starters
ORDERS
Amiga Computing have been told
of i new Internet Starter Kit which
is in development. Aimed at the Net
novice, the package will come an
four dis3!s and will include the
TCP/IP software, a maii/news read-
er, ftp access and a Weh browser,
At the moment, it is pre-configured
for Dynamic IP Addressing which
woufd meari it would not work an
Denic>r, but the developer, Kevin
Kitching, i$ trying to thange this.
Working on any Amiga with
Kickstart 2 or above, it requires Only
two files to be modified by the end-
u^er which is the dial-up number
and serial port speed. He also
hopes to finalise 3 package deal
with a sstvke provider.
n pro-Soft have announced the
' launch of their new User Group
which daims to be a 'cut-down BBS on a
dish'. For all levels of Amiga user, the
gjTDup will operate via a free bi-monthly
disk-mag- Members will be able to find
hints and tips from other users, as well as
buying and selling ,ftniiga goods,
literesterf parties should send a blank
disk and SAE with their name and
address to: Pio-Soft, PO Box CR53, Leeds
L57 IXJ. Pro-Soft have also revealed their
decision to scrap plans for sofhivane on
the PC and continue to develop for the
Amiga due to the 'rapid re-growth' of the
Amiga market.
Ttwy will continue with their range of
gambling programs as well as releasing
six completely new programs for this
year.
This wifl indtjde 3 range of lifestyle
and business applications.
Qet
S GO SURFING NOW
E oEbwing last months revetatians on the new Amiga
Surfer pack, Amiga Computing can now reveal some
more details. The package will now comprise of an Amiga
1200 with 2Mb RAM, a a&OMb Hard Drive, a 14,400 gaud
modem and all relevant software needed to access the
Internet The package also indudes all the software liom: the
Amiga Magic Pack, A country-speciftc telephone cabk wfll be
provided with the modern. As an added bonus, if the user reg-
isters himself at IBM prior to accessing the Internet before
3 1 March they will receive lOOftee access hours.
The cornpiete package will be arvailable for DM 1 T9S which
means it will hit the shops here for around* eeoo.
I
News from
THE Net
Net firsts
A venture backed by First Computer Centre
and Prima Technologies has fUSl been
launched. Called Firstnet, its objectivie is to
become a 'blue ribbon' Internet serwce arnf
World Wide Web provider in the North nl
Eng^nd.
Offering a competitive modem to user
ration and wide bandwidth service, ilwilj
provide internet dialup at«ess actounts to
the g:enerai puUii:;
Contact QUI 2)19444
Porn perv
JAILED
A man found guihy of recefMng dnld pomogii-
phy through the Internet was sentenced lo
three months imprisonment - ttie lir^ tinn
anyone in Britain has ever been jailed br usinj
(he Internet for ihis purpose,
Forty-fogr-yesr old Martin Crumptar^ fadw |
of two, was caught as part of Operation
Starburst, an International inquiry wh\th jtso
caugftt out Christopher 5harp uuha was 9ni
£9000 for possession of indecent phqntogisplii
of children downloaded from the InienKl
Qumpton, a West Midlands mmputer consrf-
tant. admitted to sin charges of being in pos-
session of indecent pictures oF children jiter
his home had been raided on a lip off «id ^
pictin?; found on hb computer.
Bishop's on4
THE 'bahn
A bishop who was banned from Ws See for
his controversial views is ba^ - but this time
he's on the Internet. A year after his eiqjul-
skin tie has set up i Virtual bishopric' fur his
many followers.
As bislmps cannot actually be drsmissad,
'virtual bishoprics' have been used before a
a way of sending iroublesome bishops to
obsolete Sees. Gaiflot has been moved to
Partenia, an obsolete See in the Sahara and
a he has calle^J his new sJte acconJingly,
QCTAMED EVOLUTION
Jl last mmote addition to our news pages arrived this
■■ rrvorning with the annoontement of the Octamed Web
site. The site is replete with information on the new
SourKJStudio package being written by Teijo Kinnunen, and
has contact points both for him and Ray Burt Frost,
Octarrwd's distributor in the UK, You can download patches
to the latest version and find out all about the history of
Octamed, Also useful are the linb to other related sites with
hundreds of mod and med files.
¥q\ anyone interested in 5oundStudii:i here are tiie details:
• Support for up to 64 channels of sound
# Completely new and revised notation editor
• MIX editing
# You can record sound samples directly to hard drive to
avoid RAM problems, so no limits to sample siie like previous
versions of Octamed
• Esrtra MIDI commands
• Full support fof MactoSystenVs Toccata le-twt sampling card
• Clear and precise 200 page manual explaining everything
in easy to understand detail.
• Special upgrade pricing for existing Octanwd users,
SoundStudio is a direct replacement: for Octamed. Version 1
and should be available sometinne in February this year, so
watch out for a review. For more information
contact RBF Software on D1703 785680 or visit the web site
at;
http://www,compu]ink.co.ijk/- octamed/
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Extracting
COVERDISK FILES
To extract the programs off the second
disk you fnuit make iur^ you have
booted your compatef witf] ttte first
cover disk, otherwise your Amiga wiit
not he able to find the c:tr}stailer
program, and frustration wiH soon sef
m, Hard drive users should double
dick on (he Setup- HD icon before
extracting arty of the fifes.
To extract any sirjgie arctiive, simpty
dauble-dick its icon and follow the
on-screen instructions. If you want to
quickly extract the program to RAM,
select the NOVICE /etef on the
welcome screen and press proceed
once on the current screen, and then
again on the r^ext The program can
then be found in your fiAM disii.
You also have the option of using o
floppy disk. If you pick fhfs option,
make sure you have a blank formatted
disk at the ready, and if you only have
one drive get ready for lots of disk
swopping and a long wait
W^rd^
cove'
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I If s not all Doom and GloonUp
■ Have no Fears as this month's
L coverdisks will leave you Breathless
The N€Tiiac IV disk has been compiessed to allow us to
fit more pnpgjams onto the cover disks, so yoit will need
to extract the Nemsc IV program onXoa blank floppy
dbJt. Floppy users need to boot up their macliinre with
cox corerdisk, while hard drive users can. bo&t jp with
their hard driven. To create the Nemac (V game disk,
double-click on the AC97 icon and ihen douHe-didf the
Installing Nemac IV
Nerri6C IV icon. Follow the qn-screen instruclicus and
after a minute or so you will be able t« reset your
machine arJ play Nemac IV,
Wh^ the game fitst loadi, before hitting continue you
need to select the screen mode yOu wafnt the game to
run in. For ECS nnachines yOu are restricted to only two
modes, vuhile ACfl and graphics card oiwnera will be able
to pick many diffierent resdutions in full 256 coloufi If
you have a Picasso s«een, resdutions up to 1280x1024
will be available, but dn ncn, expect it to be too speedy.
Hard drive users can install the game by dragging
the Nemac IV disk icon to where they want the game
drawer creating, You can then run ttie game straight off
your hard drive.
AiUtfior: Martiii S^Jilott
Requires: Workbench 2, 2Mb Ram W02Q
Typical isn't it? The one time humans build
the uitimale computer intelligence and give
it control over al! of Earth's defences it goes
haywire, classifies ail humans as potential
threats, and brings Earth to the edge of
Armageddun. And who is the person that
has to sort the mess out? Vou are,
If you have toW them once, you have told
them a million times. If yflu are going to
build the ultimate computer and give it
control over all tarth's nuclear weapons, fit
an off switch and whatever you do, don't
put it in an impenetrable fortress.
Apparently, the builders of Nemac IV did
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not listen, and guess what? Earths on the
brink of a nudeat holocaust and you've got
to save the day. Well, every game has got to
have a storyline, It might be a little tired but
it is a good excuse to blow lots of things up.
hiemac IV puts you in the role of
ccintrolltng a large multi-gunned robot in a
desperate attempt to save the world fr(.ii'i
total destruction. You have to wander
around eKh lewl searching for the exit but
normally barring your way are various bad-
dies to kill, switches to throw and access
codes to be found. Employing the old
Deom-style, first- person perspective, you
Amiga Computinc
MARCH 1996
atti kilt km
wandef around the maie-like levels
dispatching evil baddies, On your side yoLi
have a double chain gun, a double plasma
gur, a jirenade launcher and a selection of
bombs at your disposal, ard if you find
yourself in a particuEarly nasty spot yau can
fire all four at once.
When the gan^e first loads you can skip
the story line intro by hitting escape- Once
you start a ganu you an move arojnd in
A500 AND
A2000
I bet many of you nofi-ACA Owners m^ust be
g«ning a little ticked off by the- cgmpEete lack
of support for your machine, partJculaily if
you own an accelerator, wtiich used to be in
abundance a few years ago- Well, for a
dtangie, Nemac IV does supiport accelerated
OG and ECS macfiines, as long as ynu have
2Mb d RAM and Workbeneh 2, The only
difference between the AGA and OCS
^rsions is that you have to mn Nemac IV on
a Lo-res 64 edour sueetx, irvstead of the 256
cdour optiori ah/ailable to MJA owners.
Shareware
Many of the programs on the two Cover
disks are what are commonly known as
Shotewtire. Suth w^ti written progmmi
take many fiours to write and a lot of
hofd work and tledkatian on the part of
the programme f. When a program is
tailed sfiareware it means tfie program-
mer has generouily alhweii you to iry
out tfieir program, a lot of ths time inritfi
no reitrittioni, and if yati tfien decide you
like it you are obliged to ieifd the author
the ibarewore fee.
Normally tfiis is no more than ten
pounds and in return the author will
usually keep you supplied with the latest
rersioft of that program, along with their
undying qr<}ttitude of course.
the normal Doom manner and kill things,
and there are a number of handy ir-^anne
optJons regarding the screen display. While
actually pEaying the game, pressing G will
increase the gamma value making the
streen brighter, and return will turn off the
fbor and cellmg textures, giving the screen
update a speed boost.
Pressing escape gives you access to the
main screen preferences, and here you can
Faulty disks
If you should find your Amiga
Computing CoverDisk damiaged
or faulty, please return it to:
TtB Ptc TIB Haute, 1 1 Edward
Street Bradford, W. Yorks BD4
TBH.
Please allow 16 days for delivery
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tci a 2x1 Or 2x2. Having a Idwer chunky
resolution really gives & massive speed
increase, bgt reduces the quality of the
screen, so it Is also possible to siie the
Nemac Screen to whatever ssie yau want.
One feature I reailly like in Nemac IV is
the map So far, no Amiga Doom clone has
fully copied how the map works properly. I
always liked the way you could flick up the
map, zoom in and ciut and still walk around
when you w&e losi;, making it much easier
to find your way amund,
Nemac's map goes even further than this,
tf you hit the hdp key a head display' map
will appear, and by using the + and • keys
you can loom in and out. You can now walk
around wMi the map automatically updating
as you explore new parts of the level, and it
even displays baddies whicfi it pick ups as
little crosses, tf you now hit help again you
can view the map on its ovm
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Amiga Coiviputinq
MARCH S 9 96
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To wse the hiiawittg
pfosram you neerf to
hfsvf the Magic User
Interfate initatfetl ao
yoar fystem. Without it
yoii win not be abfe ta
run any MUi pragrams. MUi is available
from any gtiod PD house.
SysSpeed
Author; AlienOesign
Berchmaflting has alwayi been a thorny
bjsinew, with some people even doubting
the UM of them to compare computere, and i
would be inclined to agree. Even thougin a
program lilte Syslnfo may be used by almost
every Amiga user, the MIPS figure it gives
back IS not eitactly a true figute of a machirw's
speed, particulariiy W you have one with a
maths co-processflr.
SyiSpeed is a re^l woHd' benchmarltins
program, and uses actual Amiiga programs to
produce its benchmark results. This means
the figures it returns reflect how fast your
machine is when performing proper opera-
tions, so is a better reflection of how fast your
machine really is.
Standard system tests such as memory
speedi, Intuition window speeds ar-d Intuition
graphic operations can be used by everyone
and will show how fast your ROM and graphic
systems are. SysSpeed also employs a num-
ber of other Amiga progranns via ARewi, By
getting these programs to do certain tasks you
can get a good indication of how fait your
machine is wf>en using these programs.
DISK 2
ifHiJHl^n
Eyes
Po**lbl¥ ths only HBi*c*ni«rli progrMm to
T*tum <IP*M Tamuttm
ETrashCan
Authflf ; Andrew CcKik
I' Workbench 5
FinsHy we have a reat Mac-style trash can, or should that be
rubbish bin? Another program for your WBStartup,
ETrashCan allows ynu to delete any of your files by drop-
ping them on a trashcan icon that lives on the Workbench
and then selecting empty trash.
The problem with all previous Amiga trashcan s is that
they were either pennanent ones that instantly deleted the
file, or were like the original Amiga ones in tiiat you could
move files into a TrashCan directory and then select to
empty the trash, However, you could only do this for files on
the same partition as the TrashCan directory, and the icon
couid not be left out on the Worlibench. ETrashcan can han-
dle files from any partition and stiti allow you to undelete
the files afterwards.
Jargon
box
CK.'.S - On^nal Cfi'PSet, the
first euSlOfti (hip set ftjunrf jn
. the o!d Amiga ^!000 and
ASOO
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^iighti^ impf^v^ custom
chipi^t lound m l>>i AiOQG.
ASOG* and A^OO- JasI
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AS 200 o!tdA40<iO. Govt She
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and B-^bii dtsploy modri. flSio
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MIPS - kliSlioni Of InzlruclianB
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processor li>eed Many piiC-
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Hif"l - Biiltoni of ImtmctiDns
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cart 4Ji* this
Hof Ksy$ - these life o
Speciaf ccm^natton ofkty
pIfiSSS, issiialiy liiihi^nff She
AfT. flntiga Ot CDfttfol kSffi.
ihot tWiV milmtv some special
action
CodJfy:^! - the nami <^</en to
the tibrory thut creates rhe
nwrnol ktoWttencft piogram
gadgets
XPH - a rthJdu/Of cwnpWS-
iiOft litfory that a}t<iiti tfte
users to tuid ns w compntiiOf
at kftet datr
Author: M«$stmiliar>v HtMt
Wurkbench 3-04
The eyes have it, ho ho. This is a fairly point-
less program but its small and fun. Just dou-
ble-dick on either the plain version or if you
have a co-processor the other, and a small
window wiith two eyes in will appeai that will
tiKk your mouse wherever it may go.
You can run as many copies as you like,
siie them- by clicking on the bottom right d\
the window, and if you insert a disk or click in
the middle of the eyes window, the eyes will
spin around.
BioDay
Author; Marlusi MnszAlalski
Worid>ench2.CM
Biorhythms, If s all a load of stuff and non-
sense shouts our production editor. Enter her
date of birth - it does let you go back that far
- and it says mocd swing;s are common. No
surpnse there then,
Bioday is a really good biofhythms pro-
gram, if you believe in that sort of thing.
Normally, biorhythms programs just give you
a fairly useless sine wave display and leave
you to work out what all those lines mean,
However, Bioday will give you a descriptive
account of what the biorhythm values actua-
lly mean, how physically fit you feel, or if you
are going to be intellectually creative.
Loves
AuHior ardc Soft
Workbench 2,04
This has got to be the most bizarre program
we have put on a coverdisk for a long time.
Those decisions about love are always tiicky
and can lead to many sleepless nights. Well
worry no more. Loves will sort out all your
troubles. By typing in the names of the two
people involved, Loves will tell you how the
two people feel about each other and the
chances of them foritiing a meaningful
relationship.
Yuu ©*n nut varjr, anything tHrown into
I,- , - = ^^* -tid."_
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nuin«9ds ro chafig* rftff way rv*V**l**S looKr
UrouHack
Author: TJnic Urou
Work bench 2,04
You may have noticed recently that there
have been a number of system patches pop-
ping up. ad trying to rectify the aesthetic
problems with the way normal Workbench
gadgets look -the standard window gadgets
and the proportional and gadtool gadgets.
UrouHack is probably the first to patch
every part of the interface. All the gadtool
gadgets get transformed into the MUl-style
Xen buttons, and if you are running on a Ik]
aspect screen then the gadgets get the prop-
er looking thin sides and topSf whilst the
nonnal window gadgets get a new sysihack-
style 30 look. To install UrouHack you need
to copy it over to your C directory, then add;
Run>NIL:<NIL:C:Urouhack
to your startup sequence just after the
SetPalch command.
LhaGUI
Author: Brian Klne
Workbench 2.D4
Lha has always be«n a little tridty to use -
being shell only and having a huge number
of options it can be very confusing for the
novice user. LhaCUl is another in the long
line of Lha front-ends that make using Lha a
much mfjre pleasant affair.
With a resiiable, font sensitive
AppV\findow, IhaGUI provides you with a very
good locking front-end, and by dropping Lha
archives into the M^rKlow you can view and
extract its contents to wherewef you wi^.
MoLTiCX 2.41
Author: Martin Bemede
Workbench: 2.04
Good things do come in small packages, and
MultiOC proves it too. This is a tiny utility that
manages to pack loads of invaluable features
into a tiny program. Window and screen
manipulation, mouse acceleration, screen
blanking, no drive click, new look menus and
sliders, assign wedge, and new edit are just a
few of the many functions MultiCK does.
Just drop the icon in your WBStartup
drawer and read the document to get the
low down on what every function does, Alt
the hjnctlons of MultiQ have to be adjusted
via the icon's tools types which you gel to by
didcing once on the MuHiCX icon and then
pressing the right Amiga key and i.
Amiga Computing
MARCH 1996
To ase the foHowing
pmgram you need to
hwe the Magk User
Ititerfece mitalled on
your iyitem. VfUhout rt
yau wilt not be able to
run any MUi prognims. MUl is availably
frofti aay^iodfSi Aou5&
MUI MuLTiCX
Author: Jurgen Kernpke$
Warkbtnch 2,04
The real proMem with MultO is tliat there
flre » many functiors that you can alter, and
it takes abwlute^ ages to go through every
tooKype m the informa'tion requester and
adjust them to yOLr own taste.
this preference pn)>grarn gives you a Icivety
MUI front "end t^i fiddle vuitli, and is. right up
to date with the latest version of MuttiCX,
also on this month's disk. Consequently, you
can now acce$s every feature of MultiCX
without worrying about having to go through
the horritle information requestefL
XPKatana
Wmfcbondi 2J}4
For anyone who uses XPK you are still pfobabfy
using the xDrop program that came with the
XPK library, of possiWe ipkNighl, to ccmnpfess
yQur programs. Both are perfectly Tine, but have
their own psroblems. JiDrop is quick snd e^y to
use iHJt is very basic, whit? xpliNight is very
powerful, but a little ovs'rfy cornplex if you ju^
need to compress ofw file,
XPIUtana takes the be^t features of both
ami WTips them up in a tiny front-end- With all
the powerful batch processing of xplNight and
with the option to run it icorised, you haw the
simpJidty cvf xDrop-
Disclaimer
Amigo Computing cannot be held respon-
iibie far any damage earned difectly Of
indifectty by tbe use of these prograna
MonEd
Aiithm: Raul Sobon
Workbench 2 J
Trying to get the best out of your monitor is
nevef that easy. If the standard supplied
moritnf drivers do not give you a decent pic-
ture then you have to put up with s poor dis-
pfsy,
MonEd gives you a way around this by
allowing you tq adjust various technical
aspects af tfie AG A chipset that will adjust
the output to your monrtor. With a little play-
ing around this can lead to a better display,
or at the very leasl a properly centred d isplay.
You shiould be warned that di:>ing this Could
permanentty damage your monitor, especial-
ly if you start using silly figurest
XPIC Datatype
Autlior: Mkhal letowsU
Workbench 3
The XPK compression library has been
around for a good few years now, and has
iirmly established itself as the nwin form of
compression on the Amiga along with Lha
and DMS- There are many programs that
hav« direct support for it and the various pro-
grams that allow you to add decornprosion
patches mean many people are using it
This Datatype adds XPK decompression to
the growing list ai supported Dataitypes. Now
if yoL drop an XPK'ed file into MultiView,
instead nf just being ignored, the Files will be
decompressed and MulliView will be able to
handle it as nomval
Move
Amdtor. Jin AAcDf nid
Workbench 2.04
One thing that has always been a really
annoying ombslon from the AmigaDOS conv
mand set is the ta<ck of any move command
- you always had to manually copy and
detete files, ft might seem a little picky but if
you do this sort of thing regularly it does get
quite annoying. Just copy the move
command over to your C directory and away
you go. This command can take inultipk
de^nations if need be.
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ScreenKeys
Author Magnus Holmpen
Workbench 2 m
m
One feature of Intuition that makes the Amiga
such a good machine to worl; on is its ability
to have multiple screens open at the same
time. It helps to keep ttie screens uncluttered
and greaftiy increases the speed of window
and screen updates as there is less to redraw
Screen keys lets you assign individual hot
keys to specific screens. Therefore, if you want
to jump to a screen you can hit the appropri-
ate keys and the screen will magically appear,
without the hassle of having to skip through
loads oi otber screens,
IcoNiFY Gadget
Ainfior Makon Enger
Wofkbench 2.04
Vou may have noticed on all MUI pfograms
that there is a third icon on the title bar of the
program. This allows you turn the program
into an icon on the Workbench,, so unelutter-
ing the screen and letting you access other
programs easily-
This program does the same, but for every
other Workbench pmgram- A third gadget will
appear that looks the same as the MUI one,
but there is an option to give it a sysihack 3D
loolf. This is a commodity, so can be removed
and restarted at any time.
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MARCH 19 96
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Oinally, we
^ an Ml 4385
for rwiew. We unwrap
_^____ ttie box, remnwe the plastit wrap-
piTig and have * iook. Quite a nice looking
monitor, colour matched to our A400D, the
male I EC plug on the end o* the powrer lead is
a nitt toudi (so that you tan plug it intn the
A40OCi's power out socket), and ytw do get 3
fiormal power lead to plug into it, so no
probiem there, The Kreen is pretty standard
looking, with anti-:gl3ie etching, but is Dot PST.
But looidng at the frotit o^ the rr»Dnitor is a Ijad
ided Ixcause it is (tven that yau iwjtke (he dis-
lina lack O^ contiQl over the picture presented
on-scneen^ This monitoi's complete (orrtrols list
comprises: The On/Off switch, vnljme,
horizontal hold, verticaE size, bnghtneis and
contiast There are no pots to adjust on the
back of the monitor and ewen the leads are
imulded, but more on that later.
Picture perfect?
So whaf s the picture like? This is obwotisfy the
most important question on anybody's lips
when they are looking for a monitor, and I
hs« to say that it doesn't loolt good. Hefe at
the office we run on an old 1 942 monitor for
which the M143£S i& a direct repfscerrient and
we thnught the quality of the 1942 was pretty
poor. Unfortunately, it shines compared to Ihe
new monitor. The M143aS gives an image on
a 4D0D that looks as though it is coming
through a modulator, with blurry text and
misconverged colours., 1 thought I had taken
my glasses off
and had h^d a
few pints when I
looked at our Workbench
screen. Now convergence is a proWem
that can be caused by the monitor being
bashed or in extremes of temperature or
humidity, and since it came delivered by a
courier tm sufe that h prohably enperienced aH
those thin,^ so yoor best bet, i*f you are golryg
to buy one, is to make sure you see it in acSon.
in the shop you're goirvg to buy it in if at all
po^ible.
The M1438S doesn't corfte with a disk with
optimised DBLPal drivers designed to fill the
screen as much as possible like the 1942 did,
so it is left up to the end user to decide
whether he or she wants to mess with
hardcore utilities like MonEd or just suffer enor-
mous black borders down the left and right-
hand sides of the screen. Although the M 1 4 385
is billed as bein$ a 1 4" monitor, these black
borders mean you only really get about 1 1 \
inches of viewable area. These problems only
occur if you are usir^g the monitoi in a DBLPal
or DBIWTSC streenmode, of course, and don't
afflict the monitor mnnirtg in standard PAL or
NT^C modes, but what did you buy a multascan
monitor for (f not to run the Amiga's higher
resQJutions on a flicker free screen?
So by now you will probably have worked
out that while the monitof is shoddy for
productivity, it mrght be OK for games players.
To a certain extent this is true, but if you do
both gn a regular basis you will find yourself
constantly fiddling with the horizontal hold
functions to cerrUe the screen when switching
□
LUG PROBLEM
Aithoitgh it might seem nice at fof tftof Amiga TefMnohgies have put p moulded 23-pin
ping on theMJ^ISS, it ytsu need to use it on ai} Amiga oA& than a bog itorrdard A 1200 or
A4000, or even a different maiftine, then you will coine in for proi^femi- If Amiga
Technologies had fitted g plug to the bock of (^e monitor and provided a f 5 -piiVt l/GA^>pe
lead with a 23-pip piug on the snd, then at least Amiga ZOOO owners or graphics card users
could iiave bought a rsphcement VGA-i^ fead (o plug irtto the rnonitOr.
A replacement for the 1942?
They must have learnt from
their mistakes...
behween PAL and DBLPal screenmodes. But
there's more trouble afoot. While the picture
fer Lo-res (the Kreenmode most often leed
for games) is actually quite nice and sharp, ttw
sound that emanates from the monitor's
speakers is nothing short of rubbish. As a te^
we tried Woms and Nemac IV on the Ml 4365
artd the Mund for both games was tinny and
quiet, even on the monitor's highest volume
setting. Even the much maligned 1942
adiieved better results, as did a cheap pair of
personal stereo speakers we had lying around.
Purchasers
So who is supposed to buy this moniitQr? Ttie
only people I can think of who would actually
go out and get one of these things is someone
who is sad enough to value kit with ntatchinj
connpany names on each piece as opposed to-
the h€st possible choice for each item. As such
these are the only people I can recommend
Amiga Technologies' M143a& monitor to,
Caveat emptor,
£j?
BoHmii
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Requirements
RED, .mio/ I BLACK,
A12a0/
A40OO
Product details
Product
Mi43as
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Price
Amiga Tec hnoj^jgs
Available from most Amiga decfers
Scores
Ease of use
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3S>K
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35"*
Overall '
S7%
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Not a review of an old Jimi Hendrix
album, but the latest multimedia
authoring package. Frank Nord
checks out MM Experience
0f course, all of Jimi
Hendfuf's .albums are
old- He'i b«ii dead for a
^^ while row, so s new orie would
come as something of a ^ck. StitI, that hasn't
stopped John Lenron or Freddy Mercyry, so
maybe I should }ust shut up on that hont and
get on with reviiEwirig MM Experience. OK, I
iiesr you, aJTigtit?
Sooo, MME!(perience, eh? Wefl, first impres-
sions with Optonica's program are 'Hmmi,.,
yiKCh.. tufTHi-tum,,- buggef'. Lffs go thraugh
that, shall we? The first expectoraitior was foT
the look cjf the box, manual and disksr Ehe sec-
ond ejaculation was (or the look of the soft-
ware interface; the third was the wait i had
nvhen I loaded a picture and wsitwt for the pk-
ture to remap, even though I hadn't set up a
palette {besides which, all the images I used to
lest MME with use ttte same palette, it's jyst
that MME insists on using the bottom four
colours trf i^f palette); and the last was the
trouble I had trying to get MME to do
something fairly bailc - a slideshow.
ifs TKit a good start is itl Firstly, why do peo-
ple ffBist on creating (heir Mir custom ^B)ets
and interfaces when a) they are really ugfy and
b) the Amiga's own GUI is fine for ary applica-
tion, MME uses the same dark biuey-greys
used by all Optonica's programs with square
buttons fverywhere and great fat borders
around them. I'm sorry, but the whole thintg
makes the program look less
professional and certainly
detracts from its ease of usbl
And then, the fact that
you have to name pages in
upper case only reinforces
the idea that you ane playing with
some sort of PD derriO-maker. Before I'm
inundated wilh letters of righteous indipution
hcim all and sundiy, I would like to say thait, in
my opinion, programs that don't kook nice on
the scneer don't help the Amiga's public irrr^
as anything other than a cheap, low-class
games machine. This b a great shanw because
Qr o b l e m s ?
Here are some of the problems I encijuittered wlien
running MMiE;
M Firstly. (It wq$ awkmrd to set the screen to Hi-res tflrerf
MME always wonts to run in Lores which means
everything looks incredibly bhcky.
m The next pfobtem i eftcountefed was wJtb the Add font
fcuooiT in the fonts tequester. It tooK me do fonts.' but then
dkint do anythirtg further. This meant i couidn't add any
hnts to the three supplied with MME - two s/zes of a
blocky helvsHio and one bolder Ba^iCB, all at a low si^ t
fmaity figured out tfwf it must be because of the CachsFont
program that I run, btd that must mean thai MME grabs a
fontlist m o way rrot thought of by CacheFonfs author, add
Sirrce no other program I hove ever used has had o
problem with it
m My third probiem was wftft the F/X button, t set up the
MME has some definite good pdrts. I proba-
bly shouldn't concentrate on appearances in a
review, but this son of kkldie block interface
really gets on my wick.
Unfortunately, the feel of the software pno
cee^is to get more annoyin& with r>ew projects
requiting the user to input a name which is
then made into a directory in which everytfiirig
b stored, Not a pngislem in itself? No, but then
you c^n't use arything at a lower directory
levd in your production, so you hawe to make
sure you aeate your productions at the root of
wtiatever device you are lunnjng from - even
mare of a pain A you spread your elements
rernctom effect for tfte pages in my project, v\^ich worked
fir\e for the M run through. But t discovered that when the
project has run through once ond is then cycling through
again, the F/X seleded reverts to the default of Fade In. If
doesn't make any difference how often you click on tb?
bloody rofidom feuflion, it still reverts back to fade in.
m Aiii^er problem I encountered was that the tutorial in
the manual referred to files I didn't have include when !
installed the software.
m But by contrast one ofiMMF's really superb features is its
runtime player which is free, smalt (it's only 167724 bytes
and cninched with PowerPocker that goes dowrr to just
33756 bytes) and it runs on any machine. This is incredibly
important because it means that no matter whether you
are creating a presentation for your own use. or creating a
CD that you wilt sell thousands of copies of, you won't have
to pay Optonica a license lee or royalties
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BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU.
/ may seem to ftore iseen wifjKwhat hard on MMC, bui it
does have d qQod pedigt^, toinirtg as A das ftom the i(d-
bfe that prodiKed Intefpfay, the Amiga's oniy dedicated CD
au^oring system. When you consider that Snterptay co£l
oi/er f700, MM£ iertainly seems beUer value for moFfey.
Optonica are ako launching the successor to Interplay -
called MMExperience Pro - shortly and it will buiid on
MMFs base but include far more faciiUJes. admittedly al a
higher price.
Even so, MME Pro wiH be just the product the Amtga
neetfe if it is to get any sort of Encartu-t^ pfoduct Hftft its
database features and indexing ability, MME Pro will
hopefully push the Amir's rm/ltifnedia capabilities to the
fofGr MME Pro wit! also come with ISO buitd mftwore so that
it con be uied by software houses os a one-stop solution for
ueatJrtg, much needed, new CD products for the Amiga.
MMEPro also provides the following features:
M Toucfi screen support
M Automatic file substitution to take account of PAUNTSC
andECS/AGA configurations
M Prt^ed fnonagement so that your target madiine won't
fun out af RAM
MCD{}A support and mudi mom^
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owf mflre- than one device, T^a maJies evien
less sense when you consider that tiMAE
act u ally checks what yojVe created to
male? sure Iffs all in the right pjlice i/vhen you
'publish' your production. By cofrtrest, if you
create a script in Scala and then you want Eo
distribute it or floppy,, Scala will happily move
all the files you used to the floppy for you. I
don't want to^ get irto a slangingmatch with
Seals as MME is very obwausly ainted at a dif-
ferent dudiience, but I wonder i'l Optonica
shouldn't have taken: a leaf or two mpre out of
Scala's book.
I fed air scratchy after that and I really twart
(0 point out MME's better features. If you ever
owned a C07V, youl! probably rerrtember the
World Vista Adas which had a nir^e database
leature where you could look up things like the
CDP dI Ghana and what passes for a folk song
n flJsace. You can oeate such things easJIy (if
at length) in MME
Easy access
Its also possible to create an index which
nien to all the pages you've built so far, aElow-
ng tp easy access to information. The Index
page which is preset doesn't allow the user
miKh controf over the way it looks - always a:
iTUted g^ey affair - but it can be used a» a file
•equester of sorts and also act as a glossary for
which the user needs to build a tert file- This is
*e essence of MME. It doesn't do anything you
Couldn't do quicker, it concentrates solely on
doing stuff that you wouldn't be able to do.
1>ns is the reason why one erf the buttons on
Ac mairt panel will albw ytu 1)0 acc^s a user-
ddined list of programs and rtjn them. So now
]pou wilF be abfe to run ypur pgint package, le)(t
cdMor and module editing package from within
I UME without having to returrt to the
I MtarUiefich first, so that yau cm generate the
I tMuges, ctipart buttons and text you want to
B lae in ycHir production. All the same, rt wpuld
. MiMmiMlJSi
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' MMl'i prmts, iitrlmflttf strmenmaJe, rtt.,
COD be ift Acre, l»if letatla^lff mH juvnf.
provkled with MME, or at least, some fants.
Although MME doem't support datatypes frt
really ought tp, they've been around for over
two years now and are very useful for a multi-
media package. Obviously, the problem w'rth
this is that it Viiouid make the package
Workbench 5 compatible only, which is proba-
bly why they are not supported), it does recog-
nise any sr^rt of IFF ILBM graphic format ir>dud-
ing. iuiprsingly, 24-bit Like 24-bit files it ren-
ders down HAM and HamS files to
EirtraHslliBrite or 256 colpurs where possible,
but you should render these sorts of files
down youRelf using ftDPro or something sirri-
lar if at all possible, as tf» results from using
an image pnocessifyg propam are far superior
to MME's output £jfr
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MARCH J 99 6
"t don't wml to get into a
slangingmatch with Scala as
MME is very obviously aimed
at a different audience, but t
wonder if Optonica shotttdn't
have tal<en a leaf or two more
out ofScata's book"
QlNAL
WORD
MI\AE isn't a bod package, it's just a tittle
odd. ff Drt/y Optonica would drop the stlty
ifjteriace that plagues oil their software i
would be much happier u/ith it.. MME
doesn't provide the met with the snany
text effects tfiat Scala boasts, you can't
scroll text with it. and the page effect hove
no pargrmitefs^ However, Mi^E mil atmosi
certainly replace Cold Dislt's ageing
Hyperbook as the product of choice for
people ireatng mini-encydapoedias about
their favourite topics, whether they be
Worfd War It planes, or Tittgnkhafnun,
because it Is ideally suited to such tasks.
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'Weit - Lowry, Bi>ddini;toii'5
Bitter, Chips and Grmiy. Pea Wet
(ash our Deputy Ed) and Amiga
Computing. But wh^t inDst will associate
wit^ the area ii a TV itudio that hasi crea-
ted some of the moi^t popular dramas,
soap operas and qjii show^ we know
today. Calkd Granada, it produces ^uch
hits as Cracker, Coronation Street and the
Krypton Factor,
Bui (hes« programmes also have anot-
her factor in cDmmon, and rt may come as
a surprise to learn that this is the Amiga.
Okay, it would be an eicagg«ratioiii to sug-
gest that the Amiga has a slaming role in
these first two, but it does have a signifi-
cant walk-on part. Watch Cracker, for
example, anct you will see Fiti (Robbve
Coltrane) tapping away on none other than
an Amiga- Ot Coronation Street where
Curly Watts once had a bit of trouble with
the BettaBuys store computer, played by
an Amiga. Prime Suspect's palice station
sets have also benefited from t^e Amiga.
Howevt^r, in some cases the Amiga,
unfortunately, has to undergo a dramatic
costume chan^^ in the wardrobe depart-
ment and appear as a PC. A PC box sits an
the desk whilst the Amiga sits on the floor
feedir^g the PC'^ monitor (tharrk^ to the 51
KHi flicker-fixed output from the A^OOO).
Eagle-eyed viewers will spot the give-away
clue of a PC with an Amiga keyboard!:
The Amiga's success in this specialised
field (S due to its native 50Klz video frame
rate (exactly twite the speed of a TV f^lrn
Cimera} coupled with its genlock ability
which allows multiple compjters to be
synch roEiisedi together. This eitminates tb»
moving 'roll bar' which norma^i^PHb
when computer saee n* a^ fimm^
But the AmigA'nni'iriendliness
t)ppeal^JlpW*rtin Kay wh« piogfammed
many oMne «i-ure«n computer systems
at Grenada. "Th& Amiga provides a jjerv
versatile programming envlrofmii
ideaf for something like thts," He iff!T9'm
how sometimes the actors don't like hB¥»
irig to type dind act at the same tim^.f
often end up off- screen, typing >
on the Amiga keyboard whilst / v
the actor mimes the actiun /,
in vision on a dummy / -
keyboard." / j
Realism is important / ,
in dramas like Cracker /
and Prime Suspect, so
the Amiga prografns
which Martin writes '
have to appear like
those on other ^
machines (e,g. the
dreaded PCs).Witb much \
of the action involving \
police computer systems, \
Martin was invited to one of ^
the Manchester Pohce comput-
er rooms to see the Mulmes
tnvestigatFOn system and was provi-
ded with authentic screen layouts to
recreate on the Amiga.
Scree N*TEST
The BBC's Sunday Show i« also aided by an
Amiga which plays the Sharkf^th animation
used as a transition throughout the ^how.
The Amiga runs the animation off a PAt
^.,-
f) Tli« contestants oiiBivwnd
quvvtians -il fhc ioucnscivM* ,
The BBC'S Sunday Show n also aided by an system acting as a still-store vvith all the
Amiga which plays the Sharkfiih animation displays which the conies|;aflJ*«w olT
used as a transition throughout the show, Oie*£js»idi«fWB monitors A custom nm-
The Amiga runs the animation off « PAt frol program, written^ SASC, displayed
^tem, started by a GPI trigger via the joy- ft* cpntestagiiSi^cOres and ir/ef*fence
stick port, with an A Rein iCiipt pm¥idiflgaM|f of questions to ensure that the coiti-
^iomatic re-cveing at the end of each
run. As a resutt, one press of B button on
the main vision mixing console triggers the
animation, fires off a 50und effect, and
changes shot - a combination which
would otherwise require a dedicated
Betacam player and operator,
But what perhaps is the mosttinliereSting
use of the Amiga at Granada is in the quit
show. The Krypton Factui^The Amiga
proved invaluable in providing the scoring
and eonirol system used for some of the
rounds- Martin was, again, the man tfehlhd
it all, N)r the Mental Agility and
Observation rounds, the contestants sat at
^Mlf^cr^^x terminals whilst they
answel%(} multiple-choice i^uestions as
«fui4iy as possible.
In control of all this was an Amiga JOOd
fitted with an A1232 multiserial card to
handle the touchscreen inputs, with a par
puter stayed In sync wil^Berdon Burns
asking the questiofwlfiilf Amiga display
was ov^^id ontoHfie PJli( out|||^».a
C2Vn ]^l«ck to pTO V i d c .3j ij^posile
q «n ! iifb n ,■ dms wer/sco r^j^Uy 4[g|» r»t
0f fhe production teri(^H^^^^I^ I
On top of this the Aml^^ffif^^fflnr^
lights on the conte^tanH? desks which
briefly illuminated the first to correctly
answer each question, plus generating s
sound effect to cue the question master to
ask the nejit question. Thfs made for quite
a complicate'd system in which the Amiga's
multi- tasking abilities were exploited to
the full.
The touchscreens work more on the
principle of a touch platform'. As Martin
explained: "The 'Touch mate' System looks
like a set of bathroom scales, but with 9
set of precision sensors at each corne^^
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On the trail o.
how the Amiga has found its rilWe in many different
jtofporate sectors, Tina Hackett investigates its latest
role in tHeNotth-Wesf s top television studio i
works by detecting the minute pressure rfiffef-
ences which occur between the various sen-
SDf? when the screen istnyched/ This ha^the
Advantage tha^ any unmod fied TV or monilor
can be used, provicted it b firmly lofated onto
the platform. After a calibration roirtine, which
involves racking the stfeei ard pressing or
the four comers^ the system tan send out a
stream of ASCII codss E'^i'^S precise
coordinates whenever the screen i& pressed.
«' I For 'A Tatieli trt Fromt' m
. Wf:* *m i w^ r mti wat nMda at t
;er testing
The Amiga was also used in the Krypton
Super-Rgund as part of the Laser Matrit. Four
Amiga 1200s were placed on ^ands for a
rojnd wfiich would te^t the players' mental
afgilily to its limits - and prove very dedsive in
the final! What Martin was asiced to do was
create a program iri which the keyboard was
remapped.
The contestants had to lolve fojr word
dues using the altered keyboard before pro-
ceeding to negotisle their way through the
f«er beams. WTrth a sensor connected to the
joystick port the Amiga would signal a time
penalty if the beam was broken by controlling;
Q
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Aiortin Kay has ftaw set up his own company caSt/sd Zen
Contputer Servitm. They speddise in video worie and
Martin's espefienf:e with tel&dsiofi and computers gives
him an advantage in this field. His other pfp/ects
ttxiude a tukpfompting system whkh he has sold alt
over tfie worfd: I'd $een similof things on (fie PC and
Siefre very expensive. I realist there was a matket fat
a cheaper venion and thai this cotitd be done on the
Astiiga. Most go to Amen'ca u/fters they are used by
ooWe TV sdotions or college medio courses wftefe there
is a need far a coi/effiert^Ve solution.' He has ol$o
pn>dticed o Frendi and Arabic ^raofl.
His Hflft has also proved invahisbte in the world of
teievised sports. Thatjks to his snooicer scoring system,
he hfls made ^Hfeaf graphics operators a lot easier
Bt a gart^e Tviiere H can be dHficiift to keep tip wiWi a
fast potting player mgiting a big break. The Anfig<i pro-
vides a fnendly front-end ftj control' the caption genera-
tor, and Bfte operator hos only to did on the baft which
has /usf been poflecf and (fte cwr^tef keeps tiad of
the score and breck totals.
The Amiga has also been used for Rugby, Ice
Hockey, 9a/ts ar}d Football where it ger^erates the small
"When the series was
being tecorded, the
Amigas were out of
production. Commodore
UK kindiy tent us the
four A J 200s"
the studio lighting system, and playing ai
sound effert. What the contestant had to do
was find th* code to spell out each word. Say,
for example, they typed the letter S, It moLid
come (Hit as a T because the keyboard had
been altered tg m.ake the letter change to the
following letter in the alphabet The
cor>testant wgukl have to wort
this out and break the
pattern.
Martin hoped that
showing the Amiga
onscreen would get
some positive pLblicity
for the machine: "When
the series was being
recorded, the Amigas
were out of production
Commodore UK kindly lent
LIS the four A] 200s. I was
hoping by the time the
series was transmitted, the
Amiga would be back on
the shelves, which is more
or less what
happened.'
Martin uses a number of Amigas (from
AlDOQs to A3000s) and has a collection of
plug-in Zorro boards, He remarked: There
are too many to fit in any one machine at a
time, so I'm frequently swapping boards."
These include ethemet cards^ XSync VTT<VLTC
timecode readers, genlocks. Harlequins and
the PAR playback/capture cafds, Other useful
peripherals include a DAT for backups, vwth
Oiavolo s/w, an HP Scanner, and a Wacom
tablet for use with TM Paint
'The combination of TV Paint and the
Harlequin card is unbeatable at the price'
explained Martin. "It's the onfy system that
giu^s you a genlockable broadcast quality
2-bit RCB display with a linear key output as
well Together vrnth the ZCCi2 caption gener-
ator, s\\ the queSkti on/answer graphics
and leKt for the Krypton Factor were
produced using this system, This is work
which otherwise would have been done on
Quantel Paintbox and Aston
Capgens. Together with PAR,
it opens doors for the
Amiga to do broadcast
work which is r>ot usu^
a^lly associated with
the machine," j^^
ntbbi^ CoHtane pl^fmd Fid
in tlt^ hit dr.-imit. Cfitcker,
Tlin Amifnt was umd /nr
scen<>jt which sliifwod a
narwipfitor screen
!,"> Mmrtin Xay ixpl^iwrw how Ilia Amig* wdi wwi
■r Oraiuda. Hir cwnyuny, Zta Cmnpatrr
Smtvtcmt. Jus alma dvvwhivwd many ethmr
lanovalhtm »■«« for tht ilnttsa In tmf*rlmion
dock and score displays seen at the iop of the saeetr
throughout nwtdies. This sounds eiviai birt life would
be So rnunj^ more complicated if yati came in horti get'
ting another beer from the fridge and you couldn't keep
"W^i
track of tfte score! Martin has found the Amiga ideal for
subMng on programmes' such as Disappearing World
and Creat Railway Journeys. With a timecode reader
providing exact synchronisatimi (o tape, the Amiga con
be used in bath off-line and on-line environments.
Off-line, the regular Amiga output con be genlocked to
proi/ide subatled WiS preview copies, and on-line it can
give broadcast quaiOy output via the Harlequin, or
contfot an Aston Capgen.
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Having nvmed an Amiga for six years now, it h soinetiines
easy to forget the problems that begirnera carl have with
using a new machme. I started using Workbench 1.3 whrqh
seems light years away from the relative lunury that
Workbench 3 users now have. Even so, learrting to use
Workbench can be diWitiilt so a book on the subject could be
useful if ii covers the right areas.
The main thrust of this booit is to go through every aspect
of the Amiga's Workbench, no matter how small, and eisplain
what MS« it is to the user. This goes from the basic roots of b
WIMP system, explaining what icons are for, how you use
each of the menu functions, and windawrs, to explaining the
use for every utility and program you get with the Workbenth
J disks.
If this all SQ'unds strangely farrilisrr then it might have
otal! Amiga
amicados
The other side to using the Amiga is AmigaDOS,
Normally used through the shell, AmigaDOS is 9
much more difficuh beast to master than the
Workbench, but potentially far more powerful and
quick to brjoL The down side is that with an Al 200
there is absolutely no documentBtioni describing
how to use AmigsDOS. So a good learning
reference wouldl b* an extremely good idea.
total! Amiga amigados is just that, taking you
from the basic reasons for using AmigaDOS
over Workbench, how to enter {ommands^ tfirou^
to the beginnings of script writing and a brief
description of flRexx.
The book starts with describing basic disk, file
and drawer operations, giving good clear instruc'
tirans of how and why you would want to use each
function and shell command- There is also an
explanation of the pros and cons of using the
Amiga's very handy RAM Disk.
That other constant pain in the rear for Amiga
users, the Assign, is covered along witli the path
assignment, and chapters detaihng the startup
sequence and user startup are always going to be
of use for the beginner.
Even though this is a book aimed at people
learning about AmigaDOS, there were a gcmd num-
ber of things in there that I found useful to know. A
full list of the Shell's keyboard commands highligh-
ted a number of useful functions 1 did not know
about, along with a good explanation of all the
ArnigaOOS wildcards you can use.
I could not say this book ts essential, but anyone
planning on using their Amiga for anything more
than playing games will gain out of having a copy.
something to do witti the fact that all these things are out-
lined in the original Wor1(beich manuals that come with the
Amiga, in a very familiar fashion, along wirfi the same sort of
screen grabs of the various preference programs and utili-
ties. This is the main problem with the book - it does not
do anything really different from the original Workbench
manuals.
Towards the end of the book tt>ere are a few worthwhile
chapters. An, explanation of CrossDos along with another an
CD-ROMs and Viruses are helpful, but I think what is
covered is a little brief and a general DOSdriver
chapter would have been more useful Overall, this is
firmly aimed at the absolute beginner and even then I
cannot see any real advantage over the standard Amiga
manuals.
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^otalI Amiga assembler
From Paul Oireraa, possibly the gum of Amiga program-
ming, we have the complete beginners guide to
Assennbler programming on the Amiga, d which there
are- two distinctive sides. One is. involved with getting the
absolute perfonnance out of the machine by discarding
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system functions,
This book goes for the last option,, which some demo
coders may scoff aL HoweveTj with games like Breathless
and Nemac R bath very good Doom clones, using
Intuition screens and multitasking with the rest of the
operating system show^ what the Amiga's operating
system can achieve, and there is no real need to sinvply
discard it
As you may enpect from Paul Oveiaa, this book is
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"The all-important subjects d addressing tmds, data
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Am^ OS programming.
Almost 300 pages are ta^en up with describing every
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dix, This is important as all the autodoc examples from
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inclusion, I just wish I had had this book when 1 was
learning assembler.
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Mark Thompson explains how he put the
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with newer u^ersions of LightWave. Thus, with
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morph targets for its animation, Mark
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memory, on the learning curve and on you,
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Humnier (q mititarY tight asicuft vehide) driving through the desert leoving trocki in the sarvi, ixst
be wameii, i didn t hove erwugh flAM on my !8Mb Amiga to tender (/re scene once it fwd hxded.
Next vp lithe Syndesis directory which contains a setertrafl of models from their JD-ZKiM CD. Ai
DR the 3D-R0M, vsry few oldte oifKis have been UghtWin/eisimi, meaning (fiey ore out of scale
with one another, polygons ha^/en't been ra^onafised, and the sijiffinres havent been edited. The
last calledion ofobfecis on the CD is n nice surprise - Viewpoint datosets orfwf than the tired dd
suffboofd, hammefhecd shark ondAlCopone figun? induding the Sydney opera ftotis^ a Mark^
VW Caff and Big Ben. As usual with \^ei^nt objects. ^ havent been surftxed and you mighl
nesddo same edit>ng for single- and iwoiwint polygons, but that ri normai All in alt. tfte CD is
praclKaIfy worth the punJwse price alorte
A new idea in Lightwave
tutorials hits the streets.
Ben Vost investigates
.VERALL
This 's a great tape, provided you are
already experienced with iightWave, and
one you shouldn't miss for the depth of
detail that Mark Thompson goes into. The
CD-ROM included with the tape mokes for
an added irtcentive oj well as a wry sensi-
ble way of taking (fte tutorials further, like
most tutorial tapes that are fifr/f advanced,
the emphasis on having high-powered
eguipmertt it very obviouSr so be warned
that many of the scenes included requift a
really stocked Amiga..
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Amica Computing
MA RCf-i 1996
Oti not often a milestone appears on
the scene, something which simply
redefines your thinking regarding
what's possible with a particular plat-
form, Produtts like the Video Toaster, Scala
LighttfJave and the PAR animatian recOfder hav^
In turri, marked the Amiga as a unique machine
in the eyes of creative media professionals
everywhere,
Needless to say, the Draco fits, if not breaks,
this mould by adding a completely new level of
poweT to the traditipnal equation of Amiga-
tased desktop nndeo. Houvever, as you're pnoba-
bly well aware, the Draco isn't actually an Amiga
at all. In fact "fs a completely new machine
which takes the Amiga basics and expands upon
them, exploiting the talents of the Amiga OS
whilst adding a unique blend of CD quality
sound, digital off-line encoding, editing and play-
back with stateKJ^-Eh-fr-art iMs and a tnje 24-bit ■
display.
Thanks to their efforts as the Amiga's riwist !
proEific third-party supporter, MacroSystem '
Cemiany have built al! the prifKiple elements of
a standalone machine, the keys to thiis being the
Retina 24-lMt display board, wihlch in the Draco
ships with 4Mb d RAM and CyberVision dimefs^
the Toccata sound card, offering stereo. 16-lHt
audio direct to disk recording and lastly, the all-
impgitant digital video skills of a VLab Motion
digital video rscorder/plaiya.
M AN AG E M e NT
With sound, wsion and system management alt
taken care of, there is, i3f craurse, still the small
nattier of the CPU, not to mention the all-impor-
tant I/O connections that make up anfy modem
machine, The solution to this is a 'Draco diTecf
plug-in motherlMjard with all the necessary I/O
[ionnections - such as HD floppy drives, parallel
and seriai ports - combined witti an 040 or 060
CPU, Qfi-board SCSI 11 controlSer and space for up
to 1 28M|J of RAM - uia standard 72-pir SIMMS.
Throw In a few QuickLogic chips for Kickstart btkI
other 05 essentiials and... Ro-berfs yuur mother's
brother - an Amiga on a card!
Fire-up the new machine and on the face ot it
the Draco looks every inch an Amiiga - but vuiitli
one majoir difference. The Draco does not have
ftCA, or in fad any part of the Amiga's custom
chipset, even though a whopping 4Mh of chip
menwr^ does appear on the menu bar courtesy
of the Retina's on-board memory.
Obviously, the lack of ACA does preclude
QOOK
AND
fi BWiMi vMbo at yotr flngvrf^ with VL»b Molfan
MARCH 1996
Oufifig ihe evohsion ol the system H must bf
said retiobtltfy ami uash lesrstance has i^een
an Jssoe regarding l/w VLW arnS MtjviBshop
compenidiii'/n on oormol Amigoi, Bui thanki
to vera/m JO of the MovkShop softwpfe, ^
system is now rock solid, en^ of dfte highest
possible image qualify.
/rr the cose of the ViM card J«fe4 this
translated to an pttaified, and more intpof'
tantiy fjiaintain&i 90 per ^entJpeg compfs-
ii0ft, which in real terms medfls virtuaStf
identical image qruo/Ay fceftween (Cw Cincoderf
and original matsfial.
This evoluHon of ftfi* MovieShop soUmirt
is testament to Maaosystems' growir^j
gwareitess of whgt the: .morAef sfeflWfKfe u*
Amiga Computing
1.
Qraco
DEMOGRAPHI
The bask DV system consists of the following' the VLab
Mcftian, Toccata, Relifta and tfte OfiO CPU and I/O combo, a
/JO fhppy and tas(fy, a quad-speed CD-ROM. The Salter wn-
tains atl the necessary system software in the form of
Woribench 5. h MovieShop, Toccata, Draco and Retina con-
trol and uttty soHwof^, Jcrmfrftoffe ADPiv 2-5, MorphPlus
artdXiPaini
Unfortunateiy, the plan to incorporate Shape Shtfier - fifne
Mk emulation software - as a standard part of the Draco
software saOe hosnt TOrne to fmitiQft. Appk, as. yet, have not
confimied a license agrsemer^ regarding fihe Mac ROM fife
due to concerns regarding their iiaditioncif support potky.
Undaunted, and with the aid of a System 7.5 irrstaltaSon
CD. I set-up a PsGudo Mac on a drive connected to the exter-
nal SCSI port uihich, with the combination of OW and
Retina's blistering^ fast screen update, easily out pedormed
my Quadrn 700 at work Big raspberry to titose grampy guys
at Apple!
certain applications from the Draco, Tiotables
including Dpaint AQA^ Brilliance and, wont of
all, Seals, Basically, any software that requires
the AGA by default, or in Scala's case relies
heavily on Amiga specific RAM calls wont lun..
However, this isn't as catastrophic as it st^unds
- check out the big fwctuf e for more inftj.
Okay, you've got all the elements lor a
world- beating DV machine, but everi at the
basic asking pice a Draco is still a big inviest-
ment ft>r the enthusiast - especially if you've
already Invested in some ol the key elernents-
in the form of plug-ins for your ensuing kit
Fortunately the Draco does offer another
unique feature in a new machine, namely
backwards compatibility. Admittedly, this is a
wdfd coiftcept regarding a new computer, but
wtwn "rt come? to existing MacroSystems' hard-
ware, compatibility ain't a problem. Existing
Toccatas, VLab Motion cards and Retinas all
work perfectfy well in the Dr.3C0, and as a con-
sequence, MacrtiSysfiefTi are offering a mix and
match optioTi tu complete the Draco ectuation.
Q
V DELIGHTS
The real essence of rfte Otocp's appeal is ie abiSty to operate
as a true off-line edkif/digital video effects generator. In that
domom it stands head and Moulders above the opposition
wtfr around 50 DVEe already avaihbSe and more coming on-
line all the time Almost ine*^biy, the PAR card gels a men-
tion when you're talking about flmiga-based digital video.
However, tfw only common ground between the two istiw
fact that bo^ can encode and p^uybadk video. That's where
the similarity ends.-. The Par is an animation recorder,
whereas the Draca can do thai, and an awfui tot more
besides^.
Unlike the combination of the PAff and SunRize AD5 15
direct to disk recofder, the Draco offers a seamless combina-
tion of audio and video mtfi tfie abitity to art 05 a inily digital
AV editing system. The audio and video elements, by default,
are hard-wired together so, as a resak, w^n you cut copy
and paste within MovieShap, eMOcHy ifw some edits apply to
the accompanying stereo or mono sound-
tf the need arises, you're still free to record Of impost addi-
tional sound and then edit, ma, and enpart sound tracks, or
even rnix live vki the Toccata's ffluftrjpte inputs to generate a
perfect cotnbinaiion of sound tnocfe. backing musk and voice-
over, Even when l/w audio has been recorded, you're stfll free
to adjust its length, copy it, reposition it as a separate
EEL
lf» post, much of their software coufd quite
tightly be described as over-engineervd, wtfi
Seemingiy endless user aptians clouding the
m/eral! picture,
forVjnately, a more Mac-like approach to
design is beginning to prevail This doesn't
mean MovieShop is exactly a no-brainer for
the user, kil it does mean tf»e learning curve
is fiattEning out dramaticolfy. You're still free
to adjust with just about everything, but the
mclusion of assorted presets and one click
operations is becoming much more the nonrr.
Orssic examples of this are simple things
He preset window arrangerrjents, whidi go a
hng way towards simpiifying the sea of
requesters that oonfrol the system, Amther is
dement on the Timeline, at transfer it betweery video dips
and scenes. Baier sSII, you also have complete control over
the sound envelopes of (ifte samples you're working with. As
part d MovieShop's Timeline control, you're provided wi^ an
envelope requester whid} enables you to insert multiple edit
points and adjust sound levels appropriate. Consequently,
you can introduce frame accurate volume ctwnges and even
crossrfades between rSfkrenl audio tracks sn different video
clips. In short complete control over the sound dynamics
wi^in the production.
fls finishing touch, there's even a (jullt-in SMFfI time-
code generator wUh which to strip a tope - assuming your
creaSon is to be passed on too third-party productkm house.
(y Ormea^m grmptilemt i
poinH- r*«kt*« in out ertrti
thte escceftent new preview ^ndow Vi/f»cfi can !
generate a mini preview of all your edits and ;
DVEs in a video sequence, thereby offering a i
means of guickiy testing things before you .
commit to generating (Ae M frame infects -
a process vi^ich can be a lengthy procedure .
on a complex produc^n Jhis is a seemingly '.
obvious addition perhaps, but arte that can .
save lots in waited processing time. j
One stop solutions such as slow motion >
and fast motion, either with or without j
accompanying sound, is another example.
These ore now built into software ttn a simple
poifH and dick basis which, again, is jcme- |
tftj'ng mMcA in the past was a real nightmare -.
and invsdved sMd manual kiboijr.
Jargon
Tbox
VM - Vlob Motion, Wscfos System's svpertt
flOft-ZfiWiW video card
DVE - Oi.giSisI wd^o effects, thirty fitt wipes,
dtescn'rei and fades can be considered DVEz, but
mosl pf op'e w^fffe rfiofs !c ir>t I'M of whtiiy
ftimgs thai happen on Top a( Ihe Pops
OS - the OpemSmg Sy^tetrt is the software ffiat
siti in (wriweji the hofdwtfe tind f^e apftlicoiiort
softwafe, and allows the two to work together
DV - ftgiftrf Videa. somettiing thai is becoming
moff and more paisible »wf A sdVwnffls in
Sedmohgy
WW - flieiwse f^fh fiolotion. A btiofft iwy of
represenlmg caluilations that SEems reversed.
!n thii system otWma two IQ seven iWLntf too*
MBe + 2/,
CPU CojJial Processing Uuil, The port at your
comptiler that does must ol the work
AB-Kott - f^tsi-ltme mixing a( two video ^ounre;
for a seemttii fadf ot ]»iipe itesween (fic jvto
Post
production
Assuming atl the real-time grabbing and
hnpDrling is complete, and the various clips
are trimmed, edited, and appended, th«
next step is to drop them info the "Hmeline
and add the all-important special effects
and additional audio.
Building the actual Movi^ is entirely non<
destructive. In reality, the process simply
offers a means of layering and combining
the audio and video into a new sequence,
and the end result of thts is a user-dertned
sequence of all the esilsting scenes, aided
by assarted visual artd audio effects. \
This ability to mix and process multiple
sequences paints to another unique fieature
of VLM, namely its ability to operate as a
dtfHal A/B loll environment wtlh a bulH-in
DVE generator. Needless to say. this is by no
means a realtime prqcess, because t)nce
the scenes are arranged and the operators
positioned, MovieShap still has to set about
processing the video and audio transitions
and effects specified in the timeline using
AOPro-style batch pracesung. Luckily, this n
all done autamatically, but it does take time
even with the aid of the DGD.
Although the DVE pratess may Siound
daunting, after a little practise it becomes
second nature. Beginners are catered for via
I an easy mode but in addition there's a more
complex RPN approach - which can process
an almost unlimited number of sequences
along will) mufti pie layers special effects.
Obviously, doing all the DVEs in software
means there are, inevitably, opportunities
for the odd coffee break if not light lunch,
Mowever., thanks to tlie new preview option,
wasted efforts can bt kept to a minimum at
least and in reality, most DVE productions
lake seconds and minutes, rather than
hours tu generate. Given the complexity of
what the machine is being asked to do, this
is pretty remarkable.-
Amiga Computing
MARCH 1996
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QhTbi^Tcj U R E
One of the biggeit com^ffis of a non-standard chipset and its affect
on compdti&iJify fiords occs55 to the Amiga tttitter. However, thanks
to some clever coding, a iSirGct ond (ransporertf rsplacemsnt has been
made via the Retina's on-boord biftter.
The Retirta was, in fad the fifSt card in the coitection to go 'Draco
direct' - pumping through 35Mb per sei^ond, making a one of the
fastest graphics cards around - and ort& of the only ones whkh can
run Workbench in ftift I't-hit, 64K or 25G cototirs In q variety of
resoiutJons ranging from 320 x 240 up to 1600 x 932
Tht Retina's natura! affinity with Workbench emulation combined
with the ev^f-growing range of software which supports RTG boards is
a key factor in the development of the Draco. UghtWave, ADPro,
ImageFK Wordworth, and PageStream ati support RTCs, and the list
just keeps growing. As a consequence, even without the Custi>m
Chipset, the Oraco remains compatible with the moforrty t>f Amiga
applicatioris.
L^^Jhat happened to^».
During our original Draco preview a whqie host of new add-ons got i
mentidn, namely a Drato friendly TVPaint, a Draw direct VIM, a planned
Det Alpha co-processor, and a new 64-bit Retina.
The good news regarding TVPaint is ihe release of iferHon 3.6 which, at
long last, doesn't require 3 dongle, and therefore will worlt perfectly with
the Draco The Draco Di:rect VLW is now complete and its aflwciated soft-
ware is in beta, so the all new VLU, with a full 02 quality digital data bus
and the ability to mix projects with different data rates will be available
mid April and will debut at NAB, The same applies td the Dec Alpha co-
processor whichi, like the Drato direct VLM, will launch at the NAB and
promises ta deliver real-time DVEs and miuch more beside^-
The rumoured 64-bit replatement of the Retina looks likely to be
appearing wrth the others at NAB and promises full on-screen video pre-
view as, well as generating a genlodable output, MacroSystem are also
working on a minor revision to the Draco Motherboard which will allow a
plug-in 133 MHi PC to become part of the Draco repertoire. Assuming
you add a Mac via ShapeShifter, that makes three machine* in a single
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Impressive figures for a fully-featured
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CD qtiaiity audio, broodca^ quality digital
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more besides, took for oppifsHion with tNs
kindafspe<: at a simiSar price pofVif and you
simf^ wont Snd any.
The only other ipesiion, especially in
reMon to newcomer^ is ease of use ood
system stability. As mentioned earlier.
MaCfoSystems' software is synonymous
mtfi endless reiftsester^ and user-definobk
Option^ but having said that ease of use s
improving all the tme. And after a day i^
two wUh the manual most people would
findffie Draco second nature - speciaify if
Hiey''d used Amigas in the past
On fihe system srdei (here's virtuQlly rw
difference between tfie Draco and tfte
Amiga, so tfiere's nothing to complain
(±outontiiatscofe.
t
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there's a slight chink in the dragon's
ornwuf it's probably Off the dapSay coftBg
side. >1is the old guard may recall, the
Retina was originally loundted as a twin
monitor syst&n - at hast duririg the s^-ap
of certain applications wtfi Helina screens.
Needless to say, ifte Oraco doesn't have an
Airnga flC0 monitor port, and therefore, on
occasion, setting-up new or RTC urriWsndy
software can be a tridcy txssiness.
I leamg Uws minor point aside, perhaps
'the most important point scorer for the
Draco is tiie ejic^lent stability of the system.
Un the Amiga days, VLM and Toccata eom-
rbos were a t^iutrky combination, bat the
Draco is a much more soiid proposition
hvhidt will nin all day bng without incident
*- and for media prof&ssionaISs that alone is
perhaps the strongest selling point of alt
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altiKugh the Draco hoks every inch like a
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However, the Dtaco is primarifyo dedka^
DV engine capable of Broodcasl quality
work.
In short if you're nra planning touseffx
machine in its intended environment you'S
be wasting an awful ht of its potential.
Aitftttugh a rather tired excuse, it's impost-
ble ta appreciate this machine unless you
see it for yourself. Believe me, rf my kniery
balls dropped next Saturday a flrsreo would
definitefy be one of the first things on Ote
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,vous, druTDured cars and h«li-
copters patralUng restlessly around, but
th^se Would tii wroitj unless you were to
venlLre right into the heart of disputed
territory, and «ven ther? the peace accord
and cease-fire has meant a slackening off
at military presence. But I wasn't in Belfast
to report on the troubles, or tbeir possible
canclusioHr hut to visit two, quite
disparate, professional Amiga users.
My visit, coincid«nially, happened to Fall
an the weekend when the first Selfast
CompLtet Show was being held, and the
first people I was in Belfast to see were
exhibiting their talents at the «aid show. It
wasn't a good show lor Amigas overall,
with Arcom Multimedia being ttie sole
prq|ioneiits i>f the machine we spend iQ
mucli tifne writing about there, deman-
strating and compdrin^ Amiga-based mul-
timedia with PC equivalents.
Most of the other stands were either
highly technical, with Siemens Nindorf
having a large stand devoted to LAN/ WAN
networhirg products, or went to the other
extreme with companies like Came siiow-
jng off the Playstation on an enormous TV
and Sielling loads of copies of Rebel
Assault II for the PC {By the way, I had a
look at this supposed pinnacle of PC gam-
ing and was distinctly unimpressed. Yes,
the graphics were lovely and, matclied
with the accompanying soundtrack, very
atmospheric but the gameplay seemed to
consist solely of clicking the mouse at a
particular point on the screen).
As such, the mix was an uncomfortable
one and liie show was more successful for
the serious companies during the week-
Northern Ireland is a hotbed for
jood music, Guiness and also
Amigas, it would seem. Ben Vost
goes beyond the pale to investigate
days It was open and vice versa for the
gamers. Even so, Arcom managed to get
leads from teachers visiting the show with
their children, and from a couple of small
iiusinesses who had an interest in games
visiting the show at the weekend. The
teacher was interested in setting up an
interactive kiosk and the small businesses
were after corporate videos to demon-
strate their facilities tn prospective cus-
t«ners.
Arcom are a fairly new company to the
scene, having evolved from a money-mak-
ing hobby to the point where expansion
into a full-time business was inevitable.
Russell Moore, the hobbyist turned profes-
sionail. is in partnership with his friend
and erstwhile Vince Clarke lookalike, Chris
Astles. As Chris said to me: "I hadn't even
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TTardware galore
Aftom Misltimidia have a hafdware ifwsntory that would be the envy of many an Amiga
enthuiiost but also contains ow of (he devil's macbiftes - a PC. Unforttinately, the PC was
a necessaqf pufchase Jbetouse of its Mpeg encoding and CD mastemg focilities, which
weren't avaiSabfe at the time on the Amiga, but has aho now got a ipat doing ("rtfefartfue
CD otrttormg using pft)dticts like Maaomedia Ditector for PCs, a growing port of Arcom's
business.
This machine is coifed The Beasf ontf joins a menagefie ofAmigas, all named to avoid
coniuiian. frrsl up is. Walter, ako kncnvn as Walter the Warp Engine for the SJMHi Warp
Ef}gine that powers him (her? it?). Walter is an extremely stacked machine. In addition to the
processing power it Can muster, it alio houses the Digital Broadcaster card and its
aaompariying AD5 1 S 1 6-bit sampling card, and is the main Lightwave renden'ng Ration.
Next tip is Peggy, an A4000/030: with one oi Scaia's Mpeg cards, closely Mowed by
Peggy II, a similar machine. Lastly, Runty is the smallest member of the pack. Being only a
moderateiy accelerated A 1 200, ftirnty's main u$e these days is tecreatiottat, but it used to
be Arcom's mainstay. The tow machines are surrounded by CD-ROfi/i recorders, video
equipment, scanners, genlocks and DATdfive$, and there's tiarety enough room in the office
to breathe let alone take photographsl
DigHafVfimtmr - mw vf Taitf't t*ctnt lomgti wat
mpropmied CDvef lata^t f^r Amiga CompuUag
used s Computer befdfe two y^dri ago, but I
saw what Rusself was doing and wanted to
be Involved." Chris gaive up bis [ob a a boat
builder to wgrk (jll-tirrte art the project and
learned how to uw Arcom's two warn pro-
grams - Lightwave and Applied Magic's
□igetal Broadcaster,
The Digitai Broadcaster is e prndutt that
doesn't get miich coverage in Amiga maga-
lines, but it is the only broadcast quality,
non-linear, video editing system in the world
that is available at such a low prite- Ever so,
the Digital S rp 9 d caster is not the kind of
thing v^u pop down to your local shop ta
buy with SOp in your pocket, The main cost
(or the system isn't even the card itself, but
the hard drives required to store broadcast
quality video on, Arcom have 9,4Cb of stor-
age space devoted to the Bnoadcastef, and a
further gigabyte for accompanying 16-bit
sound which is provided by the legendary
AD516 board (which is no longer being
made). This board is at the centre of Arcom's
busine^ and since tlie jab that provided the
money to buy it {5n6 all its attendant hard
drives), it has been in constartt use for
Anatomy of an image
Tony Patrickson tells us in his own words about the
creation of the Stimuloss imagie on this page...
Here, The image started off as a vague idea about
creating a design that merged computer-generated
imagery with material scanned in from the 'real
world'. The original background image of a human
figure was one r}f Q series digitized se^ral months
previously using (he VidiAmiga (14) RJ with live input
from a Betacam, which I'd played around with for o
while using vttrious coiour-mapping routines in
Photoshop to produce this rather lurid 'chameleon'
e:f{^ct Having imported it into litjageFX this was (hen
cropped and resized to the correa resolution and
aspect ratio lor the task in hand. Because (he image
was enlarged to such a degree, it was necessary to
use Gaussian and antialiasing routines within
ImagefX to smooth out pixel differences - which
would have been necessary anyway as I wanted the
background de-focussed ta reproduce the photo-
graphic effects of depth-of-field.
The rfent stage was to get down to designing fore-
ground elements: here's really no substitute on the
Amiga for LightWave wfien it comes to working quidcly
through ideas in three dimensions. I'd already made
preparatory drawings on paper - pre-planning is a
must if you don't want to gei 'lost in the interface' at a
later stage - so adapted these ideas to create forms
similar to blood-vessels in the human body. Again,
with the modeller in LightWave it was a relatively
straightforward process of creating a disc of the
required diameter and using the 'rail extrusion' fea-
ture from the Multiply menu to extrude (he disc along
a Curve sketched in (he background layer Both the
'oriented' and 'segments^^utomatic' functions were
selected in this so as to give a smooth extrusion in
thrse dimensions
Having created a number of these ob/ects in
LighMave I then haded them into PixeljD and saved
them out in JDDD format for use in Imagines. Why
Imagine and not LightWave? Well, in this case I want-
ed to make use of certain procedural textures avail-
able oniy in Imagine (in this case 'peened' and
'CchurHoizl'), plus, although being abysmal as an
animation tool it does produce good quality high-reso-
lution stills (I basically only use it as a rendering
engine lor detailed textures nowadays). Also, I found
out early on in the prt^ect that my 10 megs o! ftAM
wasn't enough to render all the scene-elements in
Lightwave (even with the 'Segment memory' feature
shut way down) at. the resolution I needed for outpta i
Amiga Computinc
MARCH 1996
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Tanr PatHtk*«n bard ot mark aa &imatos%
tht Imogt shitwn In tiim irwA in prv§iwiT bvivW
the Sital renhut of SUniwhisj - an Ima^
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fo print Once I'd ctsffi^ otit a series of test renders to
get the texture parameters right it was a cose of
designing the lighting wOhin the stage editor. As il is
in film, theatre of photography, prababty the biggest
feoion why so many bod computer graphics look tetri-
bte ra in poor lighting desigry - it doesn't matter if ifs
iD Studio, Lightwave, or ony higher-end applicotion
like Softimage, if the lightmg is twd it doesn't matter
how good the other elements are. The temptation is to
wtwck the ombient-fili levels up to try ond show evtry
detail (whiih gives manf i^QfnptJter-grophki on TV
that flashy 'sameness' for example}, but as with cine-
matography, much of the most effective work is dorx
with shadow as much as light itself.
In this case, the lighting requirments were quite
precise hecause the tight if} the background image
hod lieen from a single low-angle spot, so a single
spot was placed in the stage editor to ilhutinate the
objects from beneath in a similar fashion. As well as
acastate placement, the light colour was tweaked to
mimic the effects of the tungsten/artifical lightsource
in the bockground image, with 'diminishing intensity'
seleaed.
??ENQERING
After further tests, all the image components were
finatly rendered at print ra^t than screen resolution.
The final render was then imported into ImageFX for
post-production and checking. Although tfte lighting of
She hack and foreground elements seemed consistent
enough, ! wasn't happy with some aspects - the com-
positing (aoked too sharp in places, like that in the cir-
cled area. This is a common proWem when composit-
ing several elements from different sources, in that
things can look too clean and arifficiaf - our own eyes
are used to a world that hos dirt and shadow in it The
offending areas in the image were selected using the
'freehand' tool in ImageFX, with piKet and shading dif-
ferences then softened using Gaussian, bfur, and dark-
ening routines.
Whilst the lighting and tonal ranges now looked
akay, there were slight colour variations that needed
tweaking to harmoniie the image as a whole. After
small adjustmenls to the CMYK voiues, I played
around with the 'antique' filter from the Colour effects
menu. Vsualfy this just turns everything into a 'ciichi
in sepia', but I found that re-applying it ieverol times
jave the right hue to bring the image toge&er. Finally^
the file was saved-out of ImageFX and archived for
transmission to the magazine,
Amiga Computing
MARCH 1 996
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pnojetts both large and small, Russell iAoate
doesn't realty care about all the doom dnd
gloom currently enveloping the Amiga market,
in fact he almost, approves, of it He likes the
idea thai the Amiga is a 'punlC rischine, *s he
temi^ it. And he sees the Amiga going on long
p>ast jts selF-by date, with people in the krrow
buying up second-hand macihtn'es arid ^av-
enging parts frcnn brokem Amigas - sort of a
Mad Man s^ierarln, if you like. Me thinks ifs
^e^t that thece will be peoplie abandon irtg the
machine in their droves and putting their old
Arnigas up fof sale so that he car buy them
and make them into interactive point of infor-
mation kiosks at a fraction that it wojld cost
for a similai set-up using a PC.
Russell atso believes that the Amiga will
continue to be a creative machine with a hard
core of tledimted users providing the sciftwane
ArtQtn'i
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Tony Patridf^on h an ad hoc iecturer at the
Unfvefiity of Ulster in Betfoit where he takes
up the tfwnWess tost 0/ stigwing the students
{and even some of the tsadiets) tfjere hoi* to
get to grips with ete(tronk medio, Most
univefsities have OMnputet ajifipmenf these
days and Belfast is paftiajfarty well catered
for with a nice mix of PCs, Macs and even a
ifficon Craphia machine, tmt there is some-
thing of a generation gap between the
^dministraiioa the lecturers and the students,
where the administmtors and lecturers are
owore of the new media, but are mare inter-
«(ed iff the fif/efe they learnt at university,
fike painting and sculj^re-.
fCs a similar problem that was faced by
people wonting to study photography as an
art form earlier this century, and it will proba-
bly take longer to overcome awing to the
prejudice agoir^st computer art, which Tony
Pat^ickson thinks he has an explanation for.
There are stiH a lot of people out diere who
view Off as a visible expression of their Health
that is needed tor the work the Amiga is best
at, like muiitimedia, video titling, non-linear
video editing and so on. Like most peop'le
intimately concertved with the Amiga for their
business, he is despcindent about itt
prospects over the nest year, but hopf ■
sorry situ^ticm cdn be turned aroundL 'If s not
a machine that can be sold in shops like
Dixons, or even the Escom shops.' i susgeste-:
that an approach more like the old Appl-
dealerships would be more aippropriate, bt^
ssell wondered if there was even the
market for that
Even so, Arcom aren't averse tij publicising
the Amiga in magazines like Ireland's inlluer
tial trade magaiine, Irish Rlrn & Video, with s
full page article an just haw good LigfitWavt!
is. The only problem with doing this is the
worry that people vuili atrtuailiy believe the artt-
de and go out and buy Amiga: and compete
with the services Aicom provides.
"The Amiga is the world's best-kept secret
and we'd; rather keep it that way,' say.'
Russell. i:*'
ItntttSI Maa/& - The man who toad* tht
mvd mpk lula aa Irttk hma^aU imntatiom
and computer art confounds them because
^ey can never possess it I con mafie doiens
of copies, each exactly the same as the first
and that bugs thetn because they con't hoard
my an"
Tony took roundabout trip into the world
of Amiga. He originally trained in sctilpture
and comes from an orthodoK fine art back-
ground. But he wanted to gel invoh/ed in the
emerging computer arts fidd and, through
speaking to a frierfd working at a produc^n
facility in Belfast carrtei into contact with the
Amiga. Tony's main pfohlem as an artist is
one of funding, so the Amiga's tow-cost
and high quality tornbination made for a
pafticuhrly ottfoctive proposition.
He first got an A 1500 about four years ago
and worked ^th Deluxe Paint and imagine,
pretty standard Amiga tools thai everyone
has {fooess to. But two years ago, the ageing
AllDO was definitely storting to log behind
the current state of the art (to be very kind to
it} and Tony replaced it with an A4000/0i0,
He continued using a mixture of ¥iiho grabs
from his Vidi Amiga frame grabtier and an
evolving mixture of Imagine, DPaint and
tmagef/X.
When Lightwave become available as a
standafone package, Tony got the necessary
money together in order to purchase what
was universally acclaimed as a brilliant
'new' tool for 3D onimatofs. Six montiis ago,
he gave Lightwave the kick in ^ pants it
needed by adding a Cyberstorm OSO board
to his setup, ^anks to a grant from the Arts
Coun^iil, but he has his eye on plenty of
other additions to his setup that he witi
make when he gets further money - itemi
like a VLab Motion come pretty high on his
list As you'll see from the pictures on the
page, Tony uses stark imagery to make his
point He feels that colour can sometimes be
distraction, and that computer art in
particular seems always to be oversaturated
with bright tones that can get in the way oi
Jfte point of the image.
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This next letter was Gddfesseii to our
efstwhik deputy ^itof Ben Vast
Ai s subscriber, 1 always read my flmlgo
Computing pietty comprehensively, but this
month's issue (lanusry 19^6) was particubiiy
apt
From yoiir sombre coloured eover wrth the
rather sinister 'Escom' figure, to the nvell-wrrt-
ten and well- reasoned articles, I think you
have captured the moad exadly artd I would
like to make a few comments of my pwn.
I came to the Amigfl rather later than tnoA.
I wsi forced by an industrial injury tc take
early retirertient, and my younger sort, bf-ess
him, knowing I was in ci lot of pain and
unable to sleep it nigfits, gave me his tnisly
Amiga 500. I quickly became hooked and
sold the 500 to buy an almost new Aliao,
just after Commodore wertt into liqyidation. I
set about upgrading the basic 12O0 and now
have a 1200' working through a HiQ
Workstation, with s trapdoor expansion
card to give me 6A1b RAM, a 170Mb IDE
drive, a Sanyo CD-ROM driw and a ZIP drive,
together with a new Citizen ProJet Colour
pnnter - 3!S you can imagine, I spend a lot of
time and get a lot of enjoyment from my now
buely 1 20D and this is increasing as E gain in
competence!
Gut I live in an idyllic setting miles from
anywhere with far rriore sheep than people.
When I first got the Amiga, there were quite a
few shops at not too great a distance from
where I live that supported it - certainly mast
■ Jfliliiiil
of them also sold mainly PCs, but usually
there was someone with whom you could at
lea^t talk sensibly about Amigas.
Since Escom bought out what was left of
Commodore it is quite noticeable how the
Amiga presence has totally evaporated - car*
tainly, as in your artkle^ there are a few bsKes
with Amiga on them in both Tandy and
Escom shops, but my experience in both wu
far more pronounced than yours. This wA
particularly $g in the nearest E$com shop,
where I was told by one assistant, when I
commented on the 'Commodore' badge cm
an Escom PC "Yes, Escom are marketimf
Commodore now." Yes, says I, I know thK,
but what about the Amigs? "Separate comp-
any", says he, "Amiga Technologies hav«
been set up to do the software, but the
Amiga i^ defunct and nobody is sup-
porting it any more"
- I will not tell you what I
actually said to hirr, but I
will \^aw it to your ima^
nation. Suffice to SSf.
the next time I went
into the shop '
demanded to talk tc
the manager, whom
knew had previously
had an Amiga, and
asked him to explain
company policy about the
machine. He looked reallf
disco fited and more or les$
Will Amiga Technologies ever
get it right? It dosen't seem like it
according to our £50 prize winner
Q it I M S B Y W R I N K L I E S__
1 write on behalf of the 'wrinklies' in our Video
Camera Users Club, wtio try to enjoy the fasci-nating
hobby of viideo linked with the Amiga computer,
About eight of our members have Amigas, mainly
the AllOO, and we hai^e an extra monthly get-togeth-
er to e>:change our knowledge regarding computer
and video programs.
Our complaint is not aimed At Amiga Computing,
or the other Amiga magazines, but at the instructions
giver with coverdisks to get some of these very use-
ful programs working. For tnstartce, the installation
instructions for MainActor on the December 1995
coverdisk include the following: 'Double-click on the
MainActor Jha - to use this you must also have the
installer program in youf C; directory.', and also; 'Vou
will have to add a line to your user-startup, that being
Assign MainActor: . This allows MainActor to locate all
the extra hies it uses.'
This must look straightfonivard to you 7oung 'uns'
using computers, but to us retired 'wrinklies', well,
we haven't a clue where C: is, where the user-startup
iSi or even how to assign anything!
This type of thing happens to us continuously and
we end up playing a stupid game that is easier to
load most of the time. We think it would be a good
idea for you to run a simple, basic instructions page
for us 'wrinklies' at regular intenirab, which leads us
simply and step-by-step through these small
problems that stop us from enjoying these programs.
We do have one or two young members who
come along to the meetings, their fingers working
faster than our brains, to get some of the programs
working. They are like your contributors - they know
their stuff, but cannot translate simply the various
processes needed to get things working.
When we do get these video/computer programs
working we really enjoy the process^ of titling ani-
mations and all the other video-related programs you
include, so perhaps you could recommend a booklet
for 'wrinklies' on the mpst :s,imple basics of getting
things running.
Finally, if there is anyone in the Crimsby district
interested in video and the Amiga who wants to
know more about our club, give me a ring on 01473
877428. The instructions will be very simple, come
and join us to help each other in our hobby.
Phit Barman, Crimsby
First aff, I would like to say sorry for how long it
has taken me to print your letter (it drrived here .at
the enit of last OclDbef), but in answer to your
question, do you regularly get Amiga Compuiittg?
If $D, you will know that there is a regular page at
the back written by one of mir contributors, Frank
Nord, on haw to keep your Ajniga in tip^top condi^
tion. There are always a lot of hints and tips for
the whole range of Amiga users, from beginners
through to advanced in an easy-to-read style. In
addition, this issue contains the third instalment
of Steve White's beginrters guide to the Amiga,
which should also hetp you.
There ai^e plenty of books around to help Amiga
Keep
thtyse fetters
coming! if you
can t be
bothered to find
a bit of paper and a stamp,
why not e-mail us? Simply
point your mailer to:
£SP@ acomp. demon, co, uk
There's a £50 pound prize for the
bsst tetter printed as an incentive
iisers, such as thctse from Bruce Smith, but the rea)
sqtutiofi to your problem is to eiperintent. Make *
backup of your machine before you do anythinf
too drastic and press ahead trying to solve youi^
problems. At least you'll be safe in the knowledge
thai you can always restore your backup and all
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ment, experiment experiment Finally, we will be
running a video feature at some point this year, so
stay tuned and we should have a bumper set of
video-related tools on our dishes to accompany it
An^tCA Con/iPUTiiMC
MARCH 1996
implied that they were orEy selling them
while stoclu iasted and tliat he ejiperted not
to j[et any more, and yes, he was the only
one wlio luiew anything about Amigas in the
shop. He then extusetl himself and went
into his gdiice shutting the door behind him,
Even the big people who also whole-
heartedly supported the Amiga in every wdy
are starting to lose heart in the Face of the
lack of support they are receiving from
Amiga Techtiologie$r ^nd I am afraid it is
Escom's intention to kill of the Amiga in its
presertt fcnti and certainly ngt to support
existing Amiga awners in any meaningful
way.
i suppose that, in a way, i am lucky -
although I really liic^e my Amiga 1200 and
think that it can do virtiially everything I
eojid do un 3 PC but far more eiasily and at
fat less cost and certainly in a more user-
fr»endly way, if all els« fails, jltimat«ly, I
could throw the Al^QO away and convert
my worksta/tion to a PC using the CD, hard
drive and Zip drive as peripherals in what
will then become a PC, after a lew additions
^uch as a PC motherboard.
But isn't it a shame? There are literally
thousands of enthusiastic owners who like
and want to continue using the Amiga,
despite its many limitations, all over the
world. I think Escom ignore ^nd treat us li^e
dirt at their peril, and t fof oiw, would cer-
tainly not buy anything PC from an Escom
shop, iif it came to k, even if it did say
Commodore an Ft in exactly the same way
as my 1200 does Many thanks for all your
interesting articles and may I wish you and
your team a ftappy Christmas and a prosper-
ous and healthy T'996.
fen Afsbitt Bedakf North Yorks
8«n replies: - Tlianhs very much for your
kind words of support I understand from
Ezra thait you are a bit of a regular letter-
writer ta the postba^ so rm glad that he
has i«eii fit to award you the ESQ prize for
l«ttei of the month. As far as the Escom
shops thing goes, since the magaiine
ctme out, I have had several people rirkg
mc up and give me their tale of wq« with
regard to friends and family attempting to
buy Affltgas. I really think that the whole
affair is pretty shabby and that Amiga
Teclinalogies should hdve only allowed
Amigas into Escom shops with some
degree of Amiga experierce.
As for Tandy, I spoke to the guy in therr
shop for p«rhaps the longest time and he
was very sincere in his desire to sell me a
PC but when it came to it, none of the
$hops I visited was interested in taking
ESdf) of my money for an Amiga {apart
from Silica, after some promptingj. They
all wanted me to ga and get more cash at
buy a more expensive machine on the
never never.
TliB makes me woitder how nuny saks
of any soil of computer are beirrg lost
because of this perceived lower budget
limit of about £650, which a lot of people
just can't meet When it conies to your
suggestion that Escom want to kill (he
Amiga, I have to demun. I don't think they
would have spent the money they did
(somewhere in the region of S50 mi II lion
so far) if all they were going to do is dump
the machine. However, their policies
regarding the sales and marketing of
the Amiga do seem decidedly odd, but
as t know very little about big business
advertising budgets or sponsorship
deals, I can only assume that AT are
doirtg what they can with the money they
have.
On the other hand, the lack of support
we seem to be receiving from Amiga
Technologiies is upsetting and curious,
especially since the Amiga magazines are
the only outlet for pubtidsing the Amiga
that AT currently have.
When all's said and done, the Amiga
wilf probably never regain the sort of
stature it had Tive years ago in the home
marftet because of the rfse of the cansotf
kids and people willing to spend the
money on a PC - after alt, if you want
music, graphics, education, the Internet
and business and yOur Only source of
information is the television and the
Sunday papers, the only machine you're
going to know about is the PC, unless
Amiga Technologies get$ very creative iit
the marketing department, which is look-
ing about as likely as it ever did with
Commoitofe.
URASHY NEW
I have a handy tip to dO' with the trashcan on the
Workbench. When I got your CJiri$tm$i$ issue (94), I looked
at the AppTrashcart program you gave away, but you don't
really need all these programs to replace Workbench's
trashcan because you can have orte out on the Workbench
screen withcmt using any of them. It goes like this:
1. Create a rtormal drawer on the boot partition of your
hard drive arKi call it what you like, iike WBTrashcan, for
instarKe.
2. Make sure the icon is selected.
5. Select 'Leave out' from the Icon menu on Workbench.
This will place the icon directly onto the Workbench
screen.
4. Neit, use an icon editing program like the excelfent one
you gaive away in issue 94 and change the drawer's icon
type from a drawer to a trashcan. (You coM tjtsojust use
Swozlnfo to do the same, we gave it away f/te following
month on jsstre 95 - £5}
5. Snapshot the icon to wherever you want it to be and
hey hey hey, you now have a Tfaihean on Workbench.
One last thing before I go to bed {ifs 4:37am as i write
this). I live in north Wales and I am saddened to see that
the towns around here no longer have anything to do with
the Amiga - you can't get a single thing; no Amigas,
no hardware, I can only find one shop that sells games
Ql N A L LY
(and they're all out of date), plus, if yoo ask the shop
attendants anythir^ about the Amiga they go all cocky and
selfish.
I find $11 this very distressing, I have been a proud owner
of an Amiga lor ten yc^ars and while there is a lot I want to
say, I feel I am only repeating wliat other people have said
already. Anyway, (fs a sad situation even though you guys
at Afnfga Computing are doing a great job - if it wasn't fof
yQur magazine I would have no way of knowi^ng what was
happening in the world.
Michael I Owen, Caenaffon
Nice bit of lateral thinking Aere, Mif hael. We tried It
out in the office^ just to check you weren't pulling our
legs, and io and behold it worked! The only problem
with your method that we could discern was if you have
(as we io) more than one hard drive or partition. If
that's the case, you will have tp have a separate trash-
can for each drive you have on Workbench, as only hav-
ing one follows the Workbench mie of 'If it isn't on Hie
same drive copy it rather than moving it.'.
what this means is that if you drag a file from one
place on a hard drive to another place on the sanai
hard drive. Workbench moves the file (i.e. copies the
file to the new location and deletes the original). If,
however., you drag a file to a different partition oi
hard driv«, then Workbench just copies the file, 1
eaving the original copy where it is. The samt
principle applies to the trashcan. Other than that, nice
one!
I
I
I just thought i would write in to say how
much I like the new lopk of the magazine
for 1996 and say tfut 1 thought that it was
the best issue of any Amiga magazine I have
read for the two years I have owr^ed an
Amiga, Although I am now past the begin-
ners stage (I ho|>e), the Beginners guide sec-
tion was well -written and informative and
the set of features about the future of the
Amiga really set me thinking about the
machine i would like to own in 12 to 18
months time.
The coverdisks you supplied this month
were also very handy. Although there was
stuff on them previiously available on yours
and other coverdisks, it was nice to have
them all collected together and to get the
latest versions of things like MuhiCX which
is a bit hard to find if you don't own a
modem.
Anyway, thsfs it I just thought someone
ought to thank you for the great work you
guys do for the Amiga community and I'm
feeEing very meElow because ifs Christmas
and J've had a drink or two.
Owen /ones, Canterbury
Well, Owen, there's nothing we like more
than a bit of unadulterated massaging so
now we're all glowing with pride and
feeling meilow too.
Amiga Computing
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^^ . I decided to spend some money an
J my Amigd so boyght myself a
^ Power Qu^d-speed CD-ROM Do use
_| with fny A120O, along with the CVP
A1230 I alre^d'^ own. I would like to
know if it is possible to u$e 3 CD32 joy pad
on the A1200, as certarn games do not
support keyboand or a loirnal joystick?
As I live in Belg^unrx I am experiencing a
lot of difficjities tiying to find a shop that
sdls Amiga-related pjoduds - why is that,
and will this change with Escom?' Maybe
Other Belgium reader^ cquld contact me so
that we could get in touch, or are there any
Belgium Amiga-refated clubs that i could get
hdp Irgm?
Recently I went to tondon and while
thene bought myself a copy of the Cl^32 ver-
sion of Myth. When I got home ) found the
game did not work whh my CD-ROM. Will it
work \i I buy the program CDBoot? is it wise
to buy tf>is simulation software, or is it just
another name for something that does
exactly the same as the software that came
with the CD-ROM drirwe?
Alsfi, wher are jjost Eden and Megarace
e0'm]ri-,g out for Ehe Ami^a? Tliey are already
advertised as being on sale, but I han* not
received the copies that I have ordered?
SlontfOik Sd/ii, Oosiende Belgium
It is. possible to use CD32 joy pads on
your A12D0^ aind the<y will «v«n function
as a noimal joystick when used with stan-
dard Amiga ganiBs^ The nniy possible
drawback is that some CD31 games mary
not r«i:ognise you have the joy pad
because the CD31 has a tittle more
QS GAMES
I was wondering if ACA5 ccKild shed seme light
^ Jons recent phenomena that seems to be
jf occurring more and more, i'm talking about
I the ever increasing number of OS friendly
^ ^arnes that seem to be hitting the market
particularly all these DOOM clones that mufti-task along
with other programs you have njnnin^. This never used
to be the case, so why th« sudden turn around?
Mortin Copier, Swindon
I J Yoti are rigiht A few year ago it used to
V^/ be the case that you were luthy if a
, 'j^^ game worked on an accelerated
^ \ nucfiine. If a game came ryut ti>day that
refused to work on an 010 processor it
coutd not go on sale as every AllDO' would be
unable to run it 1 remember when I first saw SubWar
20SO - I was quite amaied when I found it was
running oti an Intuition screen. You could pull the
screen down and voilA, Warkberch appears stiti up
and running.
The same applied when we first saw Breathless.
Hit the right Amiga and 'n' keys, and Workbench will
pop to the froitt This chang)e of approach from the
old has cpme about d'ue to a coupie of reasons.
When the Arniiea fir^t came out it had a much sliMver
processor and a quarter of the meirKiry which neces-
sitated that the programmer grab every byte of mem-
ory and every CPU cycle to get the very best out of
circuitry than
the AllOO which
allows It to automati-
calty detect tfut a joy pad
is being used, rather than a nor-
mal joysttcl. Howevei, I cannot see this
belnj a problem as I would think most
programmers should be aware of this.
t cannot tell you if there are any shops
or user groups in Belgium, but there is a
recently farmed ifitemational user group
called A,IH.I.C.A. based in Lnndan that
may be able to help you out. Contact:
AMIGA, ISO Falloden Way, London IVWlt
6JE,Tel: +44 TBI 43S T626.lfany Belgium
leadera want to get in contact witti you we
will be happy to forward their letters.
As for the Eseom situation, they really
onty have enough lesources to concen-
trate on getting distribution to the Amiga's
main selling points, such as England,
Germany and America^ Even if Anigas da
make it into Belgium Escam shops, I doubt
they will be of much help to you. As they
only stock the basic Amiga packs and little
else in the way of Amiga peripherals,
there would be very little of interest for
you. Overall, the CD32 emulation software
Helping you to sleep easier
at night, AC AS will soothe all
your troubles away
you get with the Squirrel interface is abcut
as good as It gets and, unfortunately, if
Miis cannot get a CDJ3 game to run then
you are going to ne«d an actual CD3Z. The
main reason for CDZl software not work-
ing is that it may be directly using the
Akiko eliip. fiowever, I cannot see why
IMyth would need to do this. Anotiher is
due to the CD33 having Woikbench s.l, so
certain graphic routines are not available
on a standard Al^OO and this will also
stop the game from loading.
Apparently, Megarace has been
scrapped while Lost Eden is still due to
come out, even though i:ts release date
keeps being pushed back.
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the machine. However, with modern Antigas having
fastef piocessors and mucfi more memory, the need,
and the excuses, for killing the system off are not
applicable, and when a Power Amiga arrives these
excuses wilt be non-existenL
The reason for not killing the OS off Is that by
actually talking to the OS a program can frnd out all
sorts of us«fuf information about what type of sys-
tem it is running on. This means a game such as
SubWar 3aSD will actually run on a mode-promoted
Anronm rvmninf
Brm»tiilttM» oti » H*Hi
dWHa icfll 1m abim (a <■«
it matti-taakinf away
VGA screen - something that is impossible for a
game that kills off tke OS.
Commodore always said that programs that do not
use the OS will not run on future machines. This
happened when the A 1700 first came out and more
recently with the floppy drive problem in the current
A120DS ~ games usin^ their own track loading
voutines could not cope with the new drives. It will
also be Interesting to see if such OS friendV games
will run on the future Power Amigais.
Amiga Comp^utinc
MARCH 1996
Qnternet beginnings
I would like to know more about the
^^ j Internet as in my coiinlry the local
y mmmunkation system has rtteritiy
I instalJed & stiver to the Internet but
-J I cannot find any Amiga Internet
software on the market
I would like to know what software is
available and how I ear get hold of it for an
Amiga 1 200 vuith l^QMb hard drive. Besides
this I would like to know if modems used in
PC machines are suitable for the Amiga os
should I buy a special kind. If this is the esse,
where can I get itl
Martin Bolestfa, Montevideo Onjguoy
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[ am sure you will talie great
slight in knowing that all
software you need Is
liable on the Internet,
which is r^ot going to be of
much use to you now, is it? Generally, the
Amiga software you need to use bM
aspects of the Internet is freely available^
but the problem with this ts that the only
ready source for Comms suftware is
Aminet So t« get Amiga Comms software
you either have to have internet access
already, or a CP-ROM and the Ami net CD
s«t, which wDu9d then allow you to get the
ri^ht software.
On pur April issue we did a special
Comms coverdis^ whkh supplied you with
all the r^ec^ss^ry Internet software to get
you linked up and accessing e-mail, news-
groups and FTP sites. There was also the
chance for British readers to have ten
hours trial Internet access with Demon.
There aw still April issues available so you
could get onto the Internet this way.
As the whole package is based around
AmigaNQS, an olde/ TCP/IP software pack-
age, the Installaition is very simple as the
installer was especially written for the
Included packages, but you will still need
to know your IP address, your e-mail
addre&s. and the sub net mask. Do not
start worrying too much, as your internet
provider will tell you what you need to
type in.
The only downside is that AmigaNOS is
not supported by any recently written
Internet programs, with just about every
program supporting AmilCP. So in the long
run, getting hold of amd switching to
AmiTCP would be the best move,
Unfortunately, flmilCP is very very difficult
to set up, even for someone that knows
quite a lot about the Amiga already.
This is because for ev«ry program that
you want to work with AmiTCP, you have
to configure AmiTCP separately for each
one, and this can get to be very confiusing,
If AmiTCP came with all the necessary
Internet tools to allow you tti Web browse,
e-mail, use newsgroups and FTP, things
would be far more Straightforward. All you
would have to know is your IP number and
e-mail address which would be provided
for you by your Internet server.
Amiga Technologies have announced
that they will be producing an Intemel
package, based around their ASlIifi TCP
INAL ZOOM
Havir^g owned Final Writer for a while now 1 have
^> k got to grips with its graphic tools and am usiirg
J tlwm fmore to produce diagrams fur my collegie
~^ essays. The problem I have is when trying to
-J precisely position lines w that they fit together. At
the moment, I have resorted to entering the conordinat^
directly into the line requester, but as you can irnagine
this is quite time consuming when dealing with any
more than just a few lines. Have you got any
suggestions?
Sifmn Jones, Manchester
\ Having used Finaf Writer to produce
essays and repom myself, I know how frus-
trating and time consuming it can be trying to set up
diagrams by hand. Luckily, there are a few tricks that
you tan use to help you get along.
In the display preferences there are two DPI
settings, and the primary use for these is to create an
aspect correct document display. This simply means
the printed document will look like it does on the
screen. The DPI value can range from 40 up to 310,
and a side effect of this is that you can get a more
detailed view of your document by using higher DPI
values. Consequently, if you double the DPI you will
z(}om in twice as much. The downside is that because
the computer has more data to process, the screen
update will slow, but having this closer 'look' at your
document will allow you to be more precise with
positioning graphics.
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Do you have o probtem? Do ^ou
sometimei find yourself poised
over your Amiga with aX6 tP
hand, spouting profanity at the
itubbom refusal of yoar ioftvrafe
or hardware to behave properly?
Well, calm down and swap the
axe for pea and paper, fot down
yooF problems, along with a
description of your Amiga ietup,
and s«ncf it off to Amiga
Compaling AdvUe Service, IOC
Media, Media House, Adlington
Park. Macafeifiefd SK10 4fiP.
Alternativefy, e-mait us at
A CAS''ai ai:omp.deman.CO.uk
stacl^ and with all the necessary tools you
need. The full (fetalis have not been con-
firmed yet, but it will initially be hundled
with the A 1300, and will probably be
available separately. So for any would be
Intemet-ers this is the perfect solution.
As for PC modems, you can use any
external modem with your Amiga. ¥au
cannot use the ones that are internal to
PCs as the interface for these are not
compatible wnth the Amiga. Also, yoit can-
not use PCMCIA modems as no Amig«
device drivers have been written to take
advantage of them.
Amiga Computing
MARCH 1 99 5
©hefi Amos came out fat the Amiga
back In 1990 it redefined 1^ wsy
peciple looked at Basla. Until th^n
^ _, they were norinailly considered
simply hi learning toofs, with no real woNd
application becauie fnish'Sd programs would
run too slowly to be of use, and the notkin of
Writing a gjaphit intense game wculd have be
ridiculed. Amos proved this to be wmng, pjo-
viding a command set that couJd perform
amaiing graphical leaits on a stock A500.
Blitz is the same style of high performance
Basic A simple command set hides very power-
fut f jnctigns with which yoj can unleash the
graphkal power cif your Amiga, while not ha\h
ing to go through several year^ of learning how
to use it.
The Blitz pr(3gram<mmg language work^
around a sensible system o'f objects. An object
can refer to atmost any part of the Amiga's sys-
tem, being screens, files, Fonts, Sounds or
Gadgets. All objects can be crested and
removed in the same way, with the Birti lan-
guage hflndting all the ntefno'ry allocation and
other structures associated with each type of
object
IMMAND CONTROL
This obfcct system makes understanding how
cpmrnards work a lot simpler and is very
straighHorward. If you create a new screen
object, any graphical functions ypu now per-
form will all act upon this Kteen object If ynu
then want to use a different screen you just
select the screeri object you wrant
To make your life even simplef, Bliti has
direct stipport for the Amiga standard IFF fifes.
This means you can load JFF pictures, samples,
animation and arim bnjsJws directly into your
programs. These can then be usied with any rel-
evant ilfe object^ such as screen and window
backdrops, game sprites and even as menu and
gadget images.
The majcw addition for Bliti 2.1 is full ACA
support This comes rn the lomi oif a new dis-
play library to replace ttw old screen slice sys-
tem. The new system takes the form of each
screen being given s copper list The Ccipper h
the custom chip that controls how the screen
display will look. The basic form of the corn-
mands simiply allows you to set the resolution
anct how many colours a screen should have,
but more advanced programmers can access
the more cofriple*; copper (unctions.
These new ACA functions will allow you to
use the higher screen resolutions - up to
1280x512 pixels - and the greater screen
□
Neil Mohr finds out
what makes Blitz a
superior Basic
OakaggfT - i7n eaeeiiiai
Amot - BUsr basic direct
fnfarcer - a debuggirrg
tool h' any pmgramming
competitw. Started off as
only svoilabl^ to people
lan^ua^ theit makci Ihc
STOS art the Atari and
wtil) MMUi, Enforcer is
/6b ol tfnchng ckiwn
(voj pan^d 0\^ to the
used ta chedt thai arty
program errgii a much
Aimtga bock in ISSO
multitmkin^ proffrorns one
^mplef titii
nor gomg to crash the
Custom CM^ - gone
machine
MMSK - B^rnn^s AH
the: Ami^a ^aphical ond
purpose Symbolic
atidto iiipahiliiici thai
MMV - UefTKiiy
Instruction Codt, a tisgh
look PC and Macs seven
Momi^emtnt Unit, found
level prcgramming.
yeofi to iaKtt up.
in the full OSO/016A?SO
lan^ai/e Simed al
Unfortunately, 10 yenii of
priXMiJrs. Allows
btigrttncrr la make it
/lej/ert fiavt lift thtftt
odvatKied memofy func-
simpler lo letirn
ocsniated
tions to be ptrfrnmud
deiJths - 256 cOilours or 262,000 in Ham mode
- that AGA allows. Along with this are the &^
pbiel wide sprites that can also be high res.
Another feature of the ACA chipset is its abil-
ity to fetch graphic's data in larger amounts. This
alkjws 12 ot &^bits of soeen data to be fetched
in the same amount of time it took the old chip
set to fetch I S-bits. These h igher fetch speeds
mean rt takes less time to djsptay a screen, sn
on chipRAM-only systems, the processor has
more time available to iL
The only drawbadt with tJw new fetch modes
is that due to how the Amiga's DMA works,
using high fetch modes and screeii depths will
restrict the number of sprites yoti tan have on
screen, the only way around th-is is to work on a
screen wfith reduced width - this gives the
Amiga more DMA lime to sort ttie sprites out
E-BUGGER ME
The new i^/sron giKS for ttie futl MonAm tfeatmenl and
alhws you to view every aspea af your Bti(g progfgm.
Alorrg with the tisu<ff debugger fun^iiofti, mch as skip,
itep, run and viewing, the pmoeisor registen and status
regiitef^ Yqu con odd stop commomfe in your program
which will automatii^aHy iniroke the debugger, aliowir}g
you to view the program status, change registers, custom
chip feguestets and program variable and arrays.
Ail the variotjs Blia objects that your program may
have created can also be ex(!mif\ed, makir^g it a iitrypt^
tasi; to firtd out what ait your screen bitmups, sprites and
pdfeffes are up to.
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mUdwi ]fou ta p«#* 0t mrtry JMtpvtr of
ur*fvi iarictiont, at.
your btitx prAgpam
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The only other major addition to this version of
Bliti is the improved test editor, TED, and its
on-lini help. The edited is now available in a
Workbench 2 version that IooJg and works a lot
better than the old.
Using the new on-fine help, if you watit to
find out mere about any command just press
the right Amiga and help keys and a window
will pop up with a short description of the conv
mand's syntax and wh^ it does.
1 suppose the main qiuestion is whether you
should buy Blila or Amos? I would not hesitate
in recommending Blitz Basic ouef Ames with its
system-friendly editor and deki^er, full AGA
support, and a more straight forward convnand
set There is direct support for intuition pro-
gramming, including specific Blitz commands
for creating gadgets and menus, so Workbench
2 users can use the Gadtqgls com mands for
better looking programs. Also, the ability to
have in-line Assembler is a great feature, which
not only makes Bfitz perfect for learning
Assembler, but anygne cieatirtg a garrte will be
able to optimise parte of their Bliti code with rL
Botloiii
line
Requirements
RED ^ii^iltioi BLACK rt'rommrr^ded
'.Vorkbii'nCh
1 RAM
workbonch disk spa^
Product details
PrmliKt
Bfitz Basic 2.1
Supplier
Guildhall Leisure
Priw
£34,99
Tel
01302 390000
Scores
Ease of use U%b
Implementation QSMfe
Value For
Money 95iM
Overall
»4%
Amiga Computing
MAi^CH 1996
©
hile checking the recent uploads on Amind the other day, 1
noticed an btrigijiryg little 1 2k archivE called RSlbreakJh^ iwhkh
I felt desereed s mention because it's become a pefmatient fin-
ture on my hard dri^ already. RSI B^eak, bry s chap caSled James
jUJIen, is a small commadity that is designed to remind the user to talte reg-
ular breaks when typing so as ta avoid possible RSI pra'bfems. Repetitive
Strain Injury is, gf course, now a recognised condition ^vhich causes tomid-
erable pain to sufferers. It can affect amyone who perforins repetrtive move-
nn^nb re^l^dy, such as piano or guitar plaiyers^ and, af course, computer
users.
RSI Break ftaslies the screen every three cir four minutes to remind y«u
to shake your hands, and every half an hour or so an alert appear^ telling
you to get up and uralk around a little. The fretjuency of these ren^inders '\s
totally configyrabfe via the icon tooftypei.
RSI Break is an eitcellent idea, and is highly recommended. Now let's
take a look at the best of the rest from this month's PD and sharevvare
mailbag.. ^
CQlPEOUT 1 .3
Ptogrammed by: Tefo Lehtonen
Anilablefram: Vgur Choice
Disk m: GA6qo
Dave Cusick's back with another
^ bumper-sized bag of budget stuff
Wipeout is an unassuming bbst-'em-up',
written in asKimbly language for the maxi-
mum possible speed. Your task is tc con-
trol a small spaceship which flies around
"v Thm Lov»ty filtm from
Surrujfi "I'll go fur 9m*tt
Conuiary, pt9m*» Paur."
Buxx*r inMge "Ba-cKwdw-
ffoe." Aodimteti "Ahh...^- ti'm
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trying to destroy every other moving thing.
Each level haiS its own graphical style, and
the visuals throughout are impressive, with
parallax scrolling and well defined sprites.
The sound elfects ate more than adequate
too.
Csmeplsy is fairly tough, mainly
because getting used to the incredibly sen-
sitive controls takes sgrne time. Fractional
joystick movements can resuEt in massive
changes of direction for your little ship, so
a steady hand and a fair bit of patience i$
required to be successfuL
Because the portion of a level' visible at
any one time is relatively small using the
scanner to pinpoint enemy ships is a
necessity. On the early levels you can
afford to toddle around picking off the
enemy one by one, but on higher levels
the baddies don't react kindly to your
,.^nd H'm al»Q svBJIaMt In grw«n
presence and will actively seek you out
and fire at you. Whilst if s scarcely going to
win any awards for originality, UVipeout is
nevertheless a pretty playable game, and is
an excellent way to relieve frustration once
you've cracked the contro! method.
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IDS ONLY
Pragrammed by: Mark Meaney
Available f rwn: Seasoft
Kids Only is a collection of seven linked programs
aimexJ squarefy at youngsters. 1t was originally intend-
ed for commeTcial release but the three disks are now
available for a tenner.
Big kid that I am, I had great fun plarying with the
on-screen musical keyboard in the Music Maker
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program. Six different instruments itt available and
there are some accompaniments too, and whilst it's not
quite on a p^r with the Fun School build-a-band
thingy for sheer entertainment value, it's nevertheless
extremely good,
[>ot 2 Pot is also well implemenied, with a selection
of pictures for completion, which can then be coloured
in. Unfortunately, some of the numbers nert to the dots
can run into one anoths-r on the more complex pat-
terns, but since the program won't let you draw a line
thaTs out of place, this isn't a big problerri.
There's a computerised version ol l-Spy, which uses
Being for
the benefit
OF Mr Kite!
Steve Bye, the nice chap at FT Licenceware whc
(rented the Absolute Beginner's Guide to
Workbench {of which volume J is now available)
has just wrrtten a little bpoMet called First Steps
With The Amiga Al20fl. It contains sectiqns on eat-
ing for floppy disks, loading software, formatting
dnd copying disks, deleting and recovering file$.
Creating boDl^ble disks and detecting and dealirtf
with viruses, The ^D-page booklet is avaiiable free
to anyone who wants one; |ust send an A5 SAE.
colourful pictures absolutely jam-packed with
objects and beasties of all kinds. The object is to
guess a certain number of them in as litfie time a$
possible-
There is one of those fiendishly difficult picture slide
puzzles too, as well as a colouring pad, a word searcK
and a pairs game.
Virtually all the programs have multiple difficulty lev-
els, and the visual appeal of the entire production is
immense. It is practically guaranteed to hdd the atten-
tion of even the most restless of kiddies for some tinne
It kept me busy anyway.
Amiga Computing
MARCH J 996
Qrena
Programmed by: Craig Taylor
Avgiiable firom:
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tlieir hands when they cdme jp vuith cuft sci-
fi classic Trpr, but they were unwittingly
inspiring hordes (if pfogramm^fs wlien they
dreamt up the infamaus light cydes garT>e.
II yoj eiipenefKed a sH ar^ sen» of A^]k
wj reading that paragraph, th«n you've either
got an incredibly gocid memory oi you've
recently be<er looking throygh your back
issues d Afniga Compyfihtj, That's tht enact
same sentence that began my review of
Wired Chaos back in AC79. So why would
anyone bother writing yet another light
cydes game? Well, as it says on the accom-
panying ietter, they dc lend td b* 'chec^ and
cheerful, addictive, and relatively quick
to code.'
Afena is not PD or shamvare, but a com-
mcfdal release, tfs the first game from Ttie
Development Foundation, who have other
products in ihe pipeline whidi they profnise
are "graphically and sonically far superor to
AierUr haive far nrKie complex gameplay, and
fCily quite heavily on LightWave rendered
graphics," But fiisna is pretty good,
Eacelient presentation, a good r^nge of
options and a screen editor are what sets ft
apart from the pack, Tfw gameplay itself is,
well, light cydes really, but in addition to the
'classic' game there is an updated 'arcade'
version with caloijrfuf backdrops, optional
strobe effects, vvalEs and so on.
Up to four. cyclists can participate,
although three of these can be controlled liy
the computer if you don't happen to have
any like-minded chums handy. iCs all good
dean fun, and ifs a quarter of the price of
most commercial games.
Incidentatly, The Dev«lapfinent Foundation
say they are on the look out for graphic
artists, game designefs and programmerst so
(f you think you're what (hey are looking for,,,
t wood vftftf modr moat
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IDICRAFT
MAGAZINES #&
Produced by: The Craft Brothers A readable music magazine which, as
Available from: Seasoft the title suggests is aimed at MiDI
. ...,,._ ..^^____^^^ users. Artides cover subjects such as
the benefits of MIDI, equalizers, ten top
tips fifom the Craft Brothers, and for some reason, a discography for Nkk
Cave And The IBad Seeds. Readers' letters are aSso included, containing
opinions and questions for the writers. There is a review of the public
domain Eagleplayer 1.54, and an Octamed module and a Protracker
module are thrown in too.
There are also some General MIDI format tunes on the disk; five in stan-
dard MIDI format (two original compositiDns, plus Scarlet's 'Independent
Love Song*, Tina Turner's 'River Deep Mountain High' and M People's 'Sight
For Sore Eyes'') and two in OctaMede MIDI format (Take That's 'Back Fof
Good' and Janet Jackson's 'Whoops Hvv/). Tl>e star>dard of these is excel-
EenL Some MIDI utilitis are als-Q thrown in for good measure, such as
General MIDI efnulators for the Roland D-5, D 10 and DUO synths and a
Muslc-X to MIDI 2.1 format file converter-
Whilst there are not a vast amount of things to read, the producers are
boldly attempting to produce an issue each month so it's unreasonable to
expect too much. The range of tunes and utilities help to ensure that this is
a worthwhile addition to any musidan's disk boL
At the same time as e^ch issue is produced, the makers release a sepa-
rate samples disk MIDIcralt Samples #B contains a decent selection of hi^
quality instnjment samples for use in tiacker programs and samplers, and
is recommended for Aitiiga musicians after sorne new sourxJs-
I want to tM^M^^u if yotr haw
any protnCjaiMever its purpose,
which fnu consider worthy of
review. Whfltfi«i it wilf be freety dis-
tributable pubHi doraaiin, shamvare
or licMicewtre, H yqn f «el it's of wf-
frcient quaMty to merit coverage
thtn stfck it IFF 1 jiffy ba^g or padded
envelope and st«d it i'rv witia ail
hastfr. Although PubMc Sector
ref«fv£s too mtmtf fubrniikioni (d
cover them ail I promise ill at least
fijok $i your iwork - evoi W ifs ye(
ar«gther l<»tt€ry prograai or
Klondike c^rds^L It docs, make my
job a lot easier ttwHigh if dislu ace
dearly fabeUed, Pfpase a4» indude
a cover letter detafluig the 3^ con-
tents irtd piiUi. and ffvwf some
basic initruc fffg i , T tffi ^MAa ic
addfifs s Is: IStf-**. V- -> .
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EENY WEENYS
Top pt^tform-pujjling fidics, vaguely reminscent of
a certain classic game starring smdll suicidal rodents.
Your task is to guide the cute little Teeny Weeny
things acioss some treacherous screens using a vari-
ety of objects scattered around. One wrong move can
result in One of our heroes meeting their m^aiker in
some unpleasant way. Swift thinking is required too,
because you are up against a sti ict time limit.
The graphics are lovely and colourful, and the love-
able Irttl'uns move smootfily around the strange land-
scapes. To accompany the action you can select one
of 15 little ditties, of which the cheesy 'New York,
Mew York' tune Is my personal favourite. If the music
starts to get initating after a while, you can choose to
have the excellent sound effects instead. As
with Lemmings, there's a password system so you
won't have to replay the earlier l^evels once you've
completed therrt
Ifs all very well having a blast on something like
Programnied tiy: Malcolm Lavery
Available from: Malcolm Lavery ,
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wipeout, but at the end of the day the most entertaining games in the long temn
tend to be those that tax the brain in some way, and offer a little variety in
the action. Teeny Weenys certainly meets these criteia.
So just to recap: top tunes, silly sound effects, excellent ^aphics,
addictive gameplay. It's hard drive installab^ too. What more could
you want? Well, an AGA Arniga, because it only works on those.
But if your machine is up to it,, this gan^ has got the lot - and
for six quid it's a bargain.
AfHICA COMPUTINC
MARCH 199 6
NLOCK lit
Programmed by: Mike Carter
Available fracn: Roberta Smith DTP Disk No: UT363
If i^j $usp«l unwanted eyes aw taking i peek at some
of the more sensitive files on your hard drive, what can
be done? WelL you totild lock youf Amiga awsf when
not in yse, but that would be a Irttle dfastic ft password
protettjiofi program iwould be a better M.
Ard wfiat if you reckon one of the offspring is using
tfie computer after tfieir bedtime? Perbdicalty ctiecking
the/re not at the computer would beconne a bit
tedious. Better to havie a program which only lets therr
use the machine at certain times of day,
Enfock can do all this and more. After installation
using the supplied script, the prograim can be config-
ured to suit your partitiilai needs without mucb hassle
at ai!, An unlimited number of users can be created,
each with their ciwn user name and password. Each
user can have their own section of a bard drive which
Only they can access, where they can keep whatever
they choose, and because this directory is always
assij^ed as USER: regardless of who is currently using
the machine, word processors and suchlike car be set
CHESS 3.3
Prograrnmed by: Stefan Saleinfiki
Available frofn; Your Choice
Disk No: GA6Q1
When I was at school I always used to get Twrninated by my
classmates or form tutor to enter the a•n^^la^ House Chess
tournament - not because I was. ar^ good, but because Td
been stupid enough to volunteef for a laugh back in the first
year, and I soon tired at protesting when everyone said "EJave
witJ do it. he did it last year* Never having beer a great Chess
fan anyway, the boredom of sitting through lunch times
Jocked in what vkk alt^edly tacttcaE baRles of wit and sUlf
mth irKredibly tedious friendless individuaFs didn't really
endear the game to me. Cm not knocking Chess, you under-
stand; it's just that when everyone else toddled outside at
noon for s game of football, i would have to wearily trudge to
(he 'Flejdble Learning Suite' (i.e. a room wilh a teJf^ and silly
shaped desks) for an hour of slowly munching my butties
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to save files into USER: and files will automatically be
placed in the individual user's private section,
On booting up the machine, every user can have
their own startup-sequences, which can include sam-
pled speech and sound effects to add an extra sparkle.
Enlock car also check memory vectors, acting as a very
basic virus checker. And as well as restricting each
user's access to specified times, Enlock keeps track oJ
ewery attempt to log on, whether successful or not
On the down side, the time restricted accessirg fes-
ture doesn't like it if the 'stop' time is after midnight and
the 'start' time is belfore - you couldn't, fof instance.
specify a time band from 25:00 to 01 ;00. The authqt
points this current limitation out in the accompanying
AmigaGuide file, but it's not a major irritation, and it wl
probably be fixed soon anyway.
This is by far the best hard drive pnjtection program
I've come across, boasting plenty of features
and appeai^ing very reliable and stable. Definitely a
worthwhile investment for security conscious family
members.
whjbt s«iid sad individuals pondered Iheir next move
Of course playing against a computer doesn't present the
same comedy opportunities as the real game. Vou can't del3)-
efatdy lose to the four mqve checkmate if ifs a sunny Friday
and the football is tied at 2-2 for the week, and you can't
lau^ hysterically when you accidentally beat a bloke four
years older than you who devotes his whole life to the game,
Gut it does have sorme advantage; you can limit the computer
!o teri seconds thinking time per rrKive, for instance.
VChess is about as good a shareware chess game as I've
seen. It doesn't go for flashy presentation (in fact, ifs pfptty
honilic to look at) but it plays a line game (or a crap one, if
you so choose). It also has lots of nice features, like a totaJly
resizable board which can be njtated in 9€ degree stages.
Cames can be loaded and saved at any point, and itie com-
puter can be set the challenge of reaching Checkmate within s
couple ol moves.
This version of VChess is not restricted in any way whatso-
ever. If you use it, however, don't take advantage of the
author's generosity - send him the lODM registration fee,
because it's clear that a lot of work has ^ons into this offering.
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Programmed by: Richard Thompson
Available from: Richard Thompson
This sort of thing has been done before,
but it's either been done badly gr done
expensively. It's nice to see that Revision
Master is neither bad nor espensive,
costing a mere fiver for a full registered
version - rather more affordable for
students than the astronomical registration
fee for Student Aid 2 (reviewed in issue
32). There's even a save-drsabled demon-
stration version available from the aruthor
for El. 50,
The main purpose of the program is to
allow the student to create question and
answer quisles, and then use them to te^
his or her knowledge and gauge their
progress from the results,
The simple interface makes designing a
quji a straightfonArard task, although it will
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MARCH ! 996
Qeluxe pacman aga
Programmed by: Edgar M Vtgdai
Available from: Your Choice
Disk No: 6C3
tt's interesting that a lot ot the most playable
PD and shareware games are updated
versions of classics. Featuring tasty ACA
graphics and sfnailfti' nnaies th&n the origl-
naE, this wersiDn of Pacman has lost none d
Itw playabil'ity. Under this r>ew lick of paint,
it's the Same old Pacrmarii, as enjoyable as
ever.
Ntew gameplay features include txtra
bonuses for Pat man to pick up, sjch as
guns with which to stioot the gtiosts, gJue
witli which to sfow them down, shields, and
overdrive pilk Tfi^se only last until th« cur-
rent screen is cleared, howewer, and rather
th^n making the game easier they simply
add a bit of variety tct the proceedings. H
you're really pathetic, the best bet is to alter
the difficulty level, as one of the three levels
is bound to suit.
The mazes, also change subtly as you
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progress, and betore starting a ri«w screen
It's wise to hswe a quick check, because oth-
en^rise you can lir>d yourself fleeing down a
corridor that doesn't actually lead to where
you thought it did.„
There are some decent sound effects to
accompany die action, and rf these prove irri-
tating, hitting E will start a ture - at least
that's the idea, although my copy didn't want
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studying a foreign language, or perhaps sci-
ence students with plenty of technical
terms to learn. This can be presented in the
form of a quii, or mare entertainingly as
anagrams, or a word search, or as a
memory testing game.
The miidly humorous sound effects and
attractive presentation make Revision
Master more interesting than most of its
predecessors tno. If exams are just around
the corner, this could be an excellent
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sound is a vital part of Pacman anyway.
This ertremely addictive and supefbly pre-
sented game is shareware, and Mr Vigdal
most certainly deserves the ten US dollars
registration fee.
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Following a year of uncertainty
in the Amiga community,
Jason Compton reports on the new
enthusiasm shown at the Worid of Amiga
Ifork
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LIME
Ot wai a bad sign when WOA New-"*
Vork 1 994 was canceil ed, bul not
overly surprising as it w^ to take
— pljj-o jp April, the rfittinth df^
Comfneniore's collapse. As it never hap- "
pened North America had to wait twn whole
years far a follow up to WOAs rn Pdsad<&na
and Toronto, and thanks to the efforts of
dojiens, if net iiundreds, of people, WOA
Toronto December '95 ended the long
drought
By the end of July's Calgary AmiJ AM show,
Wonder Computers' CEO, Mark Hablnski,
was convinced that a full-blown, big-budget
Amiga show would be i good thing for the
North American Amiga market Something
that would gun for attendenc? in the
show in Toronto
thousardSj if not tens of thousandSj Mrtth a
large hall and big-name appeal to the mass-
es. S{3inethlng worthy to he stamped a
'World of Amiga', So the right people
(Wonder's InfoTech diinsinn) wene put on the
job, North Amefiean distributors SMG were
bfought onboard to show off the
new Amigas, and even
Petro Tyschtschenko.
top exec at Amiga
Technologies^ was
convinced to
come for a day
snd a hdlf of
the festivities,
'^ aumtt
Paw
Shown h#r* Im
v«raion, which
and to launch the show with 3 keynote.
The speech was virtually the same con-
tent delivered at November's Computer '93
show in Cologne, with references to the new
Amiga slogan, 'Back For the Future', the
upcoming but still slightly nebulous Amiga
1 200+, and the move to PowerPC H lasted
some 40 minutes, but that left over 21 hours
of show time to fill People managed to fill
the time gaps by checking out various
demonstrations ranging from 30 animation
to emulaticin, and by wardering through the
two aisles of the show floor, with Amiga
menchandlse and exhibitors all around thenn,
not to mention the hordes of fellow Amiga
fans. Official counts were not available
but the show seems to have attracted
over 3,000 Amiga users out to Toronto, a
number that eclipses the draw of both
the CaEgary and f^ontreai shows of the
summer. >
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Qhe dealers
This isn't the Consumer £le<:tronks Shmv, wber^ industry pundits gather
to "oooh" and 'ohhh' over new products and make meeting-room
orders for 50,000 units for delivery in six months. Amiga usera get
whipped up into o ftenty atoitnd all of this greet stuff and want a
diafKe to waik out witfi some. Sinte Wonder organised the event, they,
of course, tooic up o good deaS of space in the centre of the show floor
with a retail zone thai also housed the giarit-^screen TV onnoundng the
upcoming events of the day and ttie major exhibitors at the show.
Other dealers didn't quite feef the need to bring a huge TV, but drew
customers afi the same. Companies from the US and Canada such as
Zipperware, Notional Amiga, and Valleysoit, showed off their wares, and
even ijser groups got in on the action, such as the Toronto Pet User
Croup. The tobtes were rarefy quiet and the proprietors rarely tost ^ir
smites ~ two definite plusses if you're fooking for signs of retail svcfjess.
Amiga Computing
MARCH S996
E
[Qew hardware
tt would be a s^ame to overloak, the Amiga
Techroloigies 4000T, 1200, and 143BS. While none are
'new' prodjcts in the strictest sense, they're new
eriDugK and were the items ewivone wanted to see 3S
soon as tNey gat in the building. Wisely, 5MG left an
A4000T Open to show people the guis, and to prove
that they were truly tssi.
It was certainly a crowded house lor nan-linear editing
soiuliOTK for the Ain'%s, with four packages reprewfiteti
- Newtek's Toaster/Flyer combination, the Broadcaster
Elite system, and MacroSystem's VLab Motion for the
Amiga and Draco ncirk-fi.near editing computer.
The Toaster/Flyer setup largely consisted of rolling
videotapes ihowing actual professional animaitidns and
special effects done with the combinalionj but machiiws
were set up to show off the worfc a well Ttie poiish d a
large, proud Video Toaster sign anchored the area arid
grabbed people's attention. Say what you will, Newtek
has seiioLS name recognition in these parts.
Considersbly less name recognition belongs to
CineReal Pro-Video ProductiorB, Canadian distributor^ ftir
the Broadcaster Elite nonlinear package, Unlike
NewTek's system. Broadcaster Elite is NTSC and PAL
Qew software
Ofsgon Research was on hand with (heir
new diitfibutiof} products, iitciuding
HiSoft's Disk Took for the ZIP Dfive and
one Qf the show-stoppers, Cipema4D. The
company has ifuite wsefy opted to publish
their own i*rsjOfi in the States, allowing
them to fill th&T increosing order iiocklog
more effidentt/. Old lavourites including
Termtnus and On the Ball were ako on
disphy.
Loiorus Er^gineering unvdled their first
totally revamped product from Wonder
Computer's buyout of New Horizoas' sctft-
ware. DeiignWorki 2.0, redesigned from
1.0 and Lazarus' f.J, was shown on a
souped-iip A4000. DW 2.0 Is intended to
be a tow-cost solution to cofrrnron
structured drawing and design to$h.
Intangible Assets Manufacturing, in
addition to pushirig the very popvlor
Deathbed Vigil docomentafy, ako brought
a couple of new goodies to the table in the
form of the AFS fik system from FLD of the
UK, oncf MegoBotI 4. For years, MegaBall
was sold by the Mackey brother (Ed and
Al) OS shareware, but Dale Larson, fAM's el
ccinipatible, The manufactuTers have abo taken it upon
themselves tg produce a custom IS-bit sound editing
card for specific use with the card in the wake of Sunfiie's
demisCn Ciretteal's approach to building systems was
interesting. They quite literally want to install a complete
system, including workstation desk. A different sort of
concept, but one very viable in professional markets
w Thv guta of Hrr n**
ilmigfl 40<Wr axpcpv^tf
where time is money and you''d rathej someone take caie
□f the details for you.
The final entries in the nnnrlinear sweepstakes carfw
from Genua n company MacroS^tem, represented by
their North American distributors Noahli's and their
Canadian representative RSVP. Tfieir breakthrough non-
linear card, the VLab Motion, was being shawr, but
"Now sporting more
bricks than you can
shake a stick at,
MegaBall is an Amiga
success story in a
shocking red box''
Ift* Iniangiblv A««v(#
iMnufac taring booth,
having fruirf* mi Ifivlr
own mind
Presidente, was always very fond of the
game. After registering the software years
ago and, mors recentiy, employing Al for a
summer internfhip, he decided to go the
whole hog and publish the work. Now
sporting more bricks than you can shake a
stkk at, MegaBatI is on Amiga success
story In a shocking red box.
Their white T-shirts are unassuming
(they do look good in suits though), but
the team of iohn Basils and Chris Aldi at
Phantom Developrnent are gne of the most
excHing - and eclectic - software design-
ers and publishers in North America, and
perhaps the world at this point. While their
irfitial offerings have not been chortbu$t-
Ing, they have been promising.
Innovation
Digital Quilt is one of the few actively
supported commercial text editors on the
market, and CloisAct is an innovative gad-
get tooikil for developers unhappy with
present CUI-buHding options. The ClossAct
package realises a number of CVl
enhancements far prograrnmers that were
promised in Commodore's CATS represen-
tation of the future (and never completed)
AmigaOS 4.0. WeW Pigs, a Croatian-devel-
oped graphical adventure game, rs still
stated for publicatiorr through Phantom,
but has not yet been completed.
Robokeet! CD32 educaiionat software
was there that may just catch on - it's easy
to use and catchy. You control Robokeet
who needs to spell words correctly in order
to hove enough energy to survive in
arcade action sequences against cats and
their henchmen. Weof stuff.
Soft-Logifc had a large area set up near
the entrance both to promote the latest
revision of PageStream 3.0, and to spread
the word about Digita's products, which
they now distribute Ofl this corttinent
(except for TurboCakf. The very large
monitor set up was interesting - I don't
thirtk I've ever seen a DTP page that
imposing before.
One of the biggest ottractions didrr'tsell
a single copy because it's not done yet
Capital Punishment (see preview in this
month's System) a new beat-'em-up from
clickBOOlif software, was in its third beta
for the show. Despite only pitting identical
warriors against each other, it still brought
in a constant flow of players (on the sever-
al demo A 1 200s set up for duels) and
viewers. Alex Petrovic and his assistant
Sofia, kept order and promoted their soft-
ware, which looks very impressive on a
stock AUOO, with AGA graphics, shading
effects and, of course, lots of violertce and
blood. Ironically, the game was written in
PAL, which is hard to argue with given the
large market outiide North America, Even
without NTSC support, which would cer-
tainly be welcome, the game looks very
promising and could certainty do a great
deal towards reviving confidence in a
North American game market for both
developers ondpfayers.
AnnlGA COMPUTINC
MARCH 1996
I
mainly ir its cd|>adty as a mmpannr to their Draco 060-
based Amiga-compatible rqn-linear editing computer,
Aside from being a computef witii a lot of hyphenated
teims, the Draco is notfiing if not very last and very good
at what ft's intended to do - quicldv, and cheaply, end
digitally, edit videc,
For pure amazement value, visi^nrs didn't have to look
beyond the Mi eraser! be booth. Microscribe is a devet
desk-mounted pen on a rotating aim that is used to digi-
lase 3D objects in UgbtWavE. It doesri't cofne theap, but
for the LighHiVave professional vMt a difficult task ahead
of them, say, "Create 3 different types of roizles by
tomorrow for a presentatior", the device looks to be a
lifesawer.
Line-up
[}KB showed up vvith a jeweller'^ cas« full of their
piisduA line, from Al 200 acceleJators to the new WM\k
050 card for the A2DO0, a fiew SCSI hardcard, and a seri-
al/pdralld additiort card called the; Unk-UP. Their 060 line
is eicpected to be eittended to the A3000, A4000, and
reost likely the Al 20O as weEI.
VUher all was said and don^ even seejng the Amiga
Tech 4000T was l«s Sfgnif leant than what PhaseS's MD,
UUdll Dietfiel% brought to the party - an efiginwrmg pro-
totype of the Power UP card for th* MOOO. After all, the
4000T is at b&st the present and at wors^t the past But
the PmwerK mounted on that card 6 the future d the
Draco O&t'htitrtl Ainlga
erfftjng cotnttutmr, ft'« m
long /idnt«, but * v«fy
piDwarhil mmetiinm
Amiga, which is why poor Mr Diietrich was absolutefy
swamped from open to dpse each day, ewsn though the
card was a nort-hinctiofiing unit in a gEass case- Having an
060 Cyfeerstorm and 64-bit Cyt>erVi5ii3'n card on displary
drew fans as welL
[Miscellaneous and honourable mentions ^
The Toronto Pet User Croup caught my eye
with a Commodofe 65 on display. They're *n
exceptionally rare breed, a late-'SOs/esrly
'go's project to put a new fl-bit machine ir
the gap left open by the 64.
WCi Distribution had a large area set up
which they parcdied out to the aforemen-
tbned MnahJi's and Phantom Development.
What was left over, they used to showcase
their entire product line available for
Canadian and North American dealer sales.
PreSpect Technics didn't have any
thing newer available than they
did at the Montreal show i
August, stiti plugging away
at their MultiFace IV seri
al/parallel card. The
same goes for AmiTrix,
who brought Amiga link
to the party, Still, it was
nice to see familiar
fates-
Bruce Smith Buoks
were repres.ented by iOJ
and Bruce Smith himse
which I imisgine took several
g$ers by surprise. Very few Amiga
books are published and sold in the US.
Uger>dary Design Technologies brought a
numbej of retail items and showcased their
owr line of in-house projects, including the
Link-lt[ parallel cable between Ami^as and
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Amica Computing
MARCH } 99 6
PCs, a new game (not ready for release) from
theif Entertainment division, and dataTAX 95
for North Amenta.
Village Trortic didn't bring anything
exceedingly new to the show, other than
new bojces for Amiga OS 5.1 and AmiTCP 4,
■which they now publish. But they were very
enthusiastic about the upcoming Picasso IV
graphics card.
Eric Schwartz, infamous Amiga animator,
wasn't displaying anything encept his new T-
shirt design- A mean A4D0O setup leers over
a hill with the slogan 'Amiga: We're Back,
And We're Pissed-' A mustMiveat for any true
Amiga tan.
H
T THE END
OF THE DAY
It's been a long^ hard road for North
America, the market fiat never quite seems
to give the Amiga a breaL But the message
from WOA Tofonto was that even on long,
hard roads, there ane bright spots, and turn-
ing points. Developers and retailers world-
wide got together to make the Toronto
show the largest all- Amiga event in years, a
resounding success- UUOA 'Vancouver lune
'96 is on its way.
Contact point
Jason Compton is the Editor-in-Chief of
Amiga Beport Magaiine, Fax (70B) 741-
06S9- You can contact Hiifn at
jcompton^Jtnet.com; AR on Amin^t -
does/nia|s/ar?77.|ha; AR Mailing list -
M^il me, AR on WWW - http://
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E
Neil Mohr takes a
Final Writer's user view of
the forthcoming Word worth
to see how it stands up
think Darwin had something
going: with this evolution buiine».
Sjrviva! of the fittest, oniy the
strong survive, if something
cannot adapt then It ju$t curls up into a tiny
bafi and dies. The same seems to be happen-
ing in the constant w^r th^t is the Amiga
word processing market, but in this case
pragrams haive to be constantly updatted oth-
erwise ihey fall behind and another program
will be more than glad to jump in and take
the top ^o\.
ft shauld be obvious that I am tallting
about the pitched battle between Wordworth
and Final Writef which has been raging for
the last few years. At the start Final Writer
seemed to be ahead nf Wordwortli - it had
AGA support first, was faster and had an
ARexK port. That was until version 4 of
Wordworth came abngp having Digita's text
etfetts and the abifity to produce tables,
something Final Writer users are still waiting
for, and with all of its speed problems
addres&ed, round twn went to Wordworth, Of
course, version four of Final Writer was
recently released with a completely
Jargon
box
rte aid hnt
siisfe") use^iij' the Ami^.
Or^ly spedHc s\ies of any ojie
font OS'S itweii, ant} trying to
Die ot'jpr iA^CS ff st/fc rrt d
blocky looiang t^efare
the stamiafd ovt-
Jiiie ffjr\t format axd by i*Cs
- <j fgiffy mi/efpffod
Amiga graphics board, Dvpr-
ihadoMed tecenify by (he
Cjiwgnap/i«3 System
revamped interface and grammar checker,
but overall it may have been that the
last Final Writer was more aesthetic than
practical.
All of a Sjdden WordwOrth B can be ieen
thundering over the horizon with the cavalry,
packing a good selection of new features, all
read^ to bolster its already tafrly good
defences and redress any advantage Pinal
Writer 4 may have gained.
Interface
Ur^llke the last Final Writer update, current
Wordworth users will not be seeing any
majof changes on the interface side of things,
apart from the addition of a few new buttons
which allow access to sonne of the new fea-
tures added to this forthcoming release. The
Hr^ of these are found along the ribbon bar
at the top of every Wordworth window.
"/ think Softwood are
going to have to puif
their proverbial finger
out, as Oigita have
done themseives
These new buttons add some handy fcrnn^':
ting commands that can make your
documents look a good deal better.
The first three - bullet, indent left an
indent right - have been in Firwl Wrrter for )
Qeature comparison
Li
Seeing the main cotnpetition for
WoT<iwafth 5, when it is released^ will 4e
Finol Writer 4, it may be a good idea to see
how &Kh of these progrumi mom feature
.stand up when compored together.
Drawing tools
when it comes to simple drawing tools, both
Wordworth and final Writer have their own
advantages. The main advantage that
Wordworth has is its much superior line
drawing, For all of Wordworth's shapes, the
requester that eontrcils how they look is
modeless- This means it works separately
from the main program, and when you
adjust a setting this is imrrwdiately reflected
in your document, allowing you see tvnw the
change looks. In Final Writer you have to get
rid of the requester before you can see what
your changes have done.
final Writer only has three drfferent types
of lines - plain, an'owed or curved - and this
pates in comparison to the options available
to Worduvorth users. From the line informa-
tion requester you can add various shapes to
the beginning and ends of lines as well as
apply dash effects and the text, flow.
With either program you can create a
basic number of re-siieable shapes, and fof
any of the shapes you can choose the fill
and outline colours, or leave them as trans-
parefit. Final Writer really wins here because
a number oi new shapes were ^dded for
version four which allowed you to irdepen-
dentJy adjust the po$itiOn of any of the
shape's handles, giving you much greater
flexibility. Also, a blaring omission from
Wordworth for me is any sort of graphic
rotate setting - Final Writer has had
this since it came out so there is no r
excuse,
-I
Amiga Computing
MARCH J 996
II
Tht en-Am Ac/p fctlfftf ii samedilits
fkial It/rH*/ mtft b/* *tllf tnMng tor
good while now, and are very useful when
fTPU want to highlight a njmb^r of points in
a docjmert by ^lEowing you to m^lte theim
stand out Irtwn the- rest of the docuimerit, A
fast forrnat tool is now available that allpws
paiagfsph informatioin to be pasted from
one to another. This goes along with the
majoi additidn of style sheets, and for any
Final Writer user these will' be a fairly well
Itfiow function. The ability to Have pretlefined
styles is an exteientely helpful one because it
allows you to very quickly format a
document or es$ay to your normal styles.
ImportTng
For exarrple, if you impoft soni« plain text
with all the varjous psrgigraphs, headings and
titles as standard text;, Word worth m^kes it
an easy task to format the idocuEoent, Using
your pr$vigM$iy defined set of Styile sheets,
you can just highlight th'e heading and then
select the heading style which is then
applied to yauF Heading text. If you now
select tjie first paragraph of the main body
Th* »*W irtr^ifwth WboTds will
heip jfoii matt tompltsi rfo^uAtanb
text and select the cwrresponding body text
&tyle, the paragraph will be formatted
using the correct Ibnt tab settinp and text
justification,
Wordworth goes even further than Final
Writer in that styles can be copied frorn
paragraph to paraigraph, You can even apply
styles usin;g user-definable hot keys, of which
20 are available,
As a final Writer user there are some very
welcome GUI features rn the Wordworth
interface that I would like to s«e in Final
Writer^ and these are all connected with
manipulating graphics. One annoying prob-
lem in Final Writer is that text and graphics
have to be Ttanipulated with connpletdy
separate 'pointers'. Therefore, when switch-
ing from ediiting text to graphics yOu have to
seFect the correct edit mode from the lools
strip or menu item. When yoy are constantly
doirg this it beconnes a little tiresome:,
particulfffy when compared to the
Wordworth system, where you never haive to
bother with what you are editing, Wofdworth
autoTTiatically detects whethei the painter is
over a graphic or text and will switch to the
correct edit mode.
An offshoot of this is that depending on
what part of a graphic object you are select-
ing, different actions ane available. Place the
pointer nv& a resiie handle and the pointer
changes to the resize pointer, so you know
the next action will be to resiie the graphic
In Final Writer there is always a frttle guess
woflt imifotved rn knowing whether you are
about to select, deselect or resize a graphic's
box, as there is no way of telling if thie point-
er is owef a resiffi handie or not, until it is
too late.
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Arexx support
AReuc was probabiy the last main feature
ttut Final Writer held over Wordwortfi. It was
always the case that Wordworth had no
ARexx port, but whethet this was any majlor
disadvantage is debatable, as I am sure matvy
users do not even touch the function, even
though AResx can be put to very good uses.
For example, Final Writer did not have any
text effects, but they were intrDduced to it by
a third- party ARexx script that allowed you to
spiral ard wave text, rhis ctoes highlight the
sort of complex rr>anipu1ation that is possible
through an AReut port
Digita have already put this ARexx port tO
goad use through the addition of a new fea-
ture calle<f Wizards. These at« basically going
to be interactive tutorials that will guide the
user through various parts of Wordworth
such as mail merging, which can be quite
complex and difficult to explain in a manual
As ARexx can access every part of the
Text effects
As standard, Wordworth comes with its text
effectSj allowing you to apply several effects
\o a section of text, I have never really seen
the point in these because along wrath being
fairly slow^ if you use any more than a
couple of words you start to have siie
problertis, with text overlapping or taking up
to much room.
A third party did write an ARexx script
called Final Wrapper that gave Final Writer
the same sort of abilities. It works very welL
but again it is the sort of thing you use once
and never touch again.
One thing that I was hoping to see in
Tina I Writer 4 was a table function, but it
never appeared. The Wordworth table is
very straightforward and simple to use.
Once you hawe created a new table object
you can adjust any of the cells to whatever
siie you want, and type text directly into
them, applying styles as you would for nor-
mal text Vou will also be able to 'hot-link'
the firul version of Wordworth to TurtwCalc
and import spreadsheets as Wordworth
tables.. This was not implemented on this
beta version but will tie available for the
release version.
Wordworth text boxes show a conceptual
dtflerence to those in Fmal Writer. They act
like a separate movable text window that
you can type directly to and apply different
styles to any part of this text In Final Writer,
once a text box has been created it
becorT>es rrvore or less a standalone graphrc
object that c^n be moved around and
resiled, with the text inside automatiically
resizing to the shape of the box. When a
Wonlwortfi text box is resized tfie text stays
the same. Both styles of text boxes have their
own advantages and disadvantages, and a
choice to create both would be very
welcome.
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WordwDfth pfogram this makes it very simple
to open up and dctivate parts of the pnagram
wliile giving iha user a running carmmentiry of
wiiat is exactly fisppening. This new Wiiafd
iyiiem allcwi for future expansion by both
Digita and third parties.
So it is ail very vvell and good having greait
page iayout on screen, but what about out-
putting it to B prirter. Has this version of
Wordworth got anything new? There are a
couple of Improvements, here: one wtiich will
benefit most people while the other only
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Printing
The ore o^ interest to most people is the back-
grojnd printing, a wonderful function that lets
you print your docurnent without the iMait,
OrKe die printing lias started you are free to
cany on and edit your document, be it another
orv& dr the One you iiv^re just vwrking 0^ and
Wordworth will cany on regardEess. The only
passible downside to this is that printing cari be
quite prM^ssof irstenslve as there can be a lot
of dat3 Involved, particularly when graphics are
being used. It may be that Wordworth becomes
fairly unusable when printing due to the print
process hogging s\\ the processor cycles, so
negating the feature.
H? LaserJet owners will be pleased to know
that WoFdvrarth now supports downloadable
printer fontSv which will speed up printing by
huge amounts. This is because Instead of the
entire page having to be created dot by dot,
which is what Wordworth use to do, the font
description can now be sent to the printer and
only the ASCII text needs to be downloadedj so
speeding up printing no end. The version of
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a beta version, made evident by the
Wordworth 3.1 logos that still adorn the icons
and startup screen. From using the program,
and the helpful rwtes supplied by Digita, it b
apparent that the proigram is almost complete,
with only the interface to the new Wizards and
AReut waiting to be updated.
I have to say 1 am mightily impressed with
this latest version of Wordworth, even in this
beta fonn. I have always dismissed earlier ver-
sions as they seemed to be slower than Final
Writer when It came to move things around
the screen, but this latest version seems to
shift tent and graphics around with oompet^
speed. I tiilnk SoftWood are going to have l
pull their proverbial finger oirt, as Olgita ha
done themselves proud.
Even this beta copy is running fast on
A1200 with no problems. It seems whik
Softwood have been twiddling with Finrf
Writer's interface, Digita have been working
on adding some eonstmctive and useful fea-
tures. It has even been updated specifically for
the Picasso board, and perhaps they may i
even more fof the Tnal version?
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Graphics
With both programs having virtuafly identical
tejct manipulation tools, apart from Final
Writer's grammar checker, the ability of each
pfogram to manipulate graphics is the only
area left that could ditterentiate them, When
doing any type of document it Is always use-
ful to be able to include diagrams of one sort
or anolhei, because nut only do they brighten
up the document but they make it easier to
read and can add darlty to whatever it is you
are writing about
Both programs allow you create baste
geometric shapes that you can then re-scale
and move anound. With a bit of thought and
patience you can create fairly complex
diagrams, and to help you both programs
have similar functions available to manipulate
individual or groups of graphic objects.
Once you have a number of shapes on
screen you will have to start to move them
into position and arrange them In the correct
sequence. Functions avi liable ei^er from the
tool bar or menu optiions let you push graph-
ics to the front or back, locJi graphics in place,
and a group selection allows you to treat a
number of objects as a single group.
I tried to create the same diagram in both
programs to see If there were any noticeable
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differences that showed one program to be
easier to use than the other. The first thing I
found was that Wordworth's tables can be
used very nicely to create grids, but in Final
Writer you have to mess around individually
aligning lines which is very time consuming.
The ability to leave out the scale requester, as
it Is modeless, is also helpful.
Final Writer does have its own advantages.
I was saying that the intelligent way
Wordworth's pointer works is helpful,
but being able to select graphic^only
editing In Final Writer has its own plusses.
Each time you elicited on a graphic in
Wordworth it flicked the screen to the top
left of the screen as it switcfred to tett
mode, and after a while this got to be very
annoying
A major problem for Wordworth was
when 1 came to resiie a group of objects.
The results were a complete mess, esfsecia-
lly when compared to Fmal Writer. The main
problem would seem to be the tent boxes
and tables, as these cannot be scaled, but
even some of the normal objects did not
seem to scale correctly.
AmICA COMPtJTINC
MARCH J996
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Oatasiore 2 is the latest iricsmaticin
cf DJgita's Ami^a database. Before
1 start you should uriderstjirid tti^t
^ Datastore is not a relational data-
base, it basically allowi yoj to stofe, mdripu-
late dnd search through d flat lisit □( data. The
only relational database I know of for the
Amiga is Twist 2, not that being a relatiflnal
databa^ is nec«&ari^ a good thing, since
you really need a degree to be able to design
and create a reliable relational database.
Installing Datgstore is made very simple by
Digita's usual Installer script, allowing ypu tq
install Datastore onto Hopples or a hard drive
partition, The whole Datastore package is fai-
rly compact, taking up le5& than 1 Mb of space.
As I was saying before, Datastore allows
you tcH store lists of data grouped inta
records, each record in a database having tbe
same fietds. Fields are eitlier textual or grap-
hic in nature, and along with the normal user
entered tent and numeric data fields, there
are a riumber of otheir specialised fields that
can be chosen.
A date field ts available along with time
and boolean fields. The lattter is quiet inter-
eslaflg as it allows you to define a list of pre-
set choices, so restricting the user, when
they come to fill in that field,
whatevef entries yoj bawe made.
The graphic fi*ld is very Hexi
bte due to. the fact ttiat i;t sup-
ports picture datatypes
Therefore, ai\ the various
picture Datatypes you
have installed are the
picture formats that
Datastore supports.
When adding a graphic
to a new record, you
click in the picture fidd
and a file requester pops
up allowing you to
choose the picture that
should go into that record's
field. The irnage is then
loaded, remapped to the screen
colours, and scaled for the box.
need to perform operations on many records,
it is limiting-
The new list view organises all your
records into rows, with each column repre-
senting a Teld. The width of each column can
be individually changed, and you can move
fields around by grabbing the field title and
moving it to wherever you wish it to appear
ir the list. The entire list can be quickly
scrolled up and down using the normal
windows scroiler.
By selecting individual or multiple records
you can detete, cut and copy large blocks sA
records. Alongside this a new query mode is
available. By selecting a group of records you
can choo'se to hide thessj and a switch
option will switch the currently selected
records with any hidden ones. Any other
queries rww applied will only take effect on
the visible records.
Other improvements allow you to print
each record graphicaify, so whatever form
design you come up with, you can print this
Out with each record. At the moment, it is
only possible to print either the current
record or every record - there is no way just
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to select a n umber or range of records. Other
minor improvements allow you to have the
find requester constantly out on tfie screen,
making editing records a little easier as the
requester will always be at hand, and finally
you can choose to have Datastore open its
wi ndow on any public screen, ^t^
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Qveralf, Oofosfore is a good straight-
forward dataiMse. To some the abiiity to
design flash'y forfits may seem a Utile
poifttttsSf but the ubilitf to actualiy print
out these graphic fomts give then a pm-
pose beyond just on aesthetic one. Il is
simple eFfougtt to lecm and use and tte
hit Oft tine help wiH help you out of any
diffictil^s.
For current users the main bonus of
upgradiriQ is the new list vssw mode, for
anyone with a large database this is of
genuine use, as a does provide the best
way of viewing large amount of data.
The use of Datastore is split into two distinct
seaions, the first being the design side. Here
you design what the form virilt look like and
where data is entered into the database.
Using a simple point and click interface you
can quickly place entry fields for any of the
supported Datatypes, along with captions
that can be in any Amiga font As for graphics
fields, any supported datatype picture can be
placed on the Jorm and scaled to any size.
Once you are happy with your design you
can then switch to the other side of Datastore
and actually enter data into the database. Vou
can have the database sorted on any of the
fields and car perform searches on any field.
I'm sure current Datastore owners would
like to know what is new for version 7. Well.
the main addition will be quickly recognised
by anyone who has used FinalData. Normally
with Datastore you are only able to individu-
ally view records through the forms you
design. This is fine for just flicking through
records, or if you want to do a search, but if
you wish to view many records at once, or
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MARCH J 996
Ooj just cannot, seem \o e^ away
ff Ofn the Internet As rf the expan-
sive coverage it gets in the normal
fnmpijtflr press and magaiifies e
not enough, the Internet has well and truly
permeated the nmrnal news, even though you
may only ever seem to hear how evil ^nd
corrupting it \i.
With Inlemet fsnatits spouting ciaiy %jres
ibovA how m^riy people are on the Internet,
and new Internet pro^deF^ popping up by the
day, (t looks like ttie it is gciing to be a perma-
nent part of our eveiyday lives. Aniiga users
have always had quite a strong presence on
the IntetTKt, with probiably the mod organised
and expansive software col lection currently
around in the (oon c(f every covendisk editor's
dieam Anvinet to the large number of Amiga-
leJsted new4 groups. This could quite possiWy
be because fiiri^s users have always had the
tools necessary to browse the various parts
that make up the Internet freely available,
induding the curreniiy rswst prominent fotm,
the World Wide Web.
Amiga presence
It used to be that the msin presence of the
Amiga on the WWW came in the fotm o'f itie
very good Amiga home page, stored on
Omnipresence, a Web senrer that il5e)f b mn
on an Amiga. Other than that you weie left to a
few user home pages and any Amiga compa-
nies that wanted to have a Web presence.
Things, houvever. are starting to pkk up, with
almost al? Amiga magazines having a Web site,
TML ENGINE
A new program that has not been rtleased and if ititf in a very early
form rs HTUJi Engine. Tbii ii going to be similar to Web Meker wilh a
single drag and drop intBrface that has o direct link to AMosaic,
aitowing you ta easilf see what the deiigo currei}ll)f tooki tike
Ail the moit common HTML commmds wHl fte readify availabfe
eitiier from bi/ttuns on (Ae intertate 0/ via hot keyi. tf you wi^h to add
linki to other sites there is a Hit of current linki, so yov nan easily odd
them. The mtbor ofao plans for the HTML iide to be only one ftnet of
HTML Engine. He is writing the program so that you cnn create Pert
and AReKM suipls as wsH asiaig the mme interface, with each one
beittg an added module.
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With the World Wide Web exploding
faster than a fast exploding thing,
Neil Mohr takes a look at what is
available for Amiga Web authors
the new Amiga Technologies site, and the
almost daily expanding Amiga Web Directory. It
looks like Amiga Web sJIes ai'e quickly gaining
in number,
This trend looks like it should continue. With
the imminent Amiga Tech Internet package,
the number of Amiga owners on-line could
reaHy take off, man^ of whom will be demand-
ing good Amiga inforniatiDn resources along
with being able to create and maintain their
very own Web sites. So trow would budding
Web authon find more out about Web auttwr-
ing. what Amiga software is [:unentJy ai^ailable,
and how well does it jjerform?
When it comes to the design of HTML
authoring tools there are a number of
apprgaches that can be talien, The simplest,
and curreniiy the only one used on the Amiga,
is to create your Web pages using a nomnat
text editcrfj insetting the HTML wmmands as
^u go along, and then to test these pagei
using a normal Web browsef. All the currert
Amiga tools take fJiis approach because it is
the simplest
Routing
The most obvious other route is to haw a lul
drag and drop graphic interface that alknvs yoii
to position text and pictures, add links <
fonmSi then save off the fflML code. The
son this approach has not been taken
because you might as well write a hill Wa
bnoMiser at the same time. Such a pfOgram i
not even> really available lor any other platfon
Though programs such as PageMill come i
close, it is still necessary to view the Wefr'^
pages with tVetscape.
A fina^ approach, used on the PC and Acorn,
is to allow the use* to ftesig^ Web pages cm a
cunetrt DTP or Word Procesor that allows you
Qtml-heaven
ProAoWy the longest running Amiga HTML
au&tofing toai is HTML-Heaven, curreniiy up
to vetsion f,J, i^s f mentioned before,
Heaven's approach allows you to use your
favourite text editor to create your Web
pages and d'len use AA^oiaic or iBrows€ to
view the Snished version.
Suih into this latest version of Heaven is
an auto-apdate function which will mogica-
ily update AWosoic with any changes you
make to your Web page. Not thai fjaviftg
AMosok running on its own scrwn and fikk-
ing between the /wo was really any pfoWem
before. At! you had to do was then hit the
reload button to see all your new changes.
HTMi-Heaven makes the mcjst of the
Amiga's ARexx atjUities, Four programs let
yoii odd all the various standard HTML
Ixodes along with forms and Netscape's eittra
commands, then ali this ii sent to your fetft
editor wa AfleiOL As many of rte HTML com-
mands r}eed a 'start and finish command to
mark out the biock of text it shaiild effect,
HTML-Heaven olhws you to se/ecf a block of
text as if you were going to wt ii, and then if
you apply the HTML code, the start and fin-
ish codes wifl be placed at the beginning
and end of the marked block. Some of
Weoven's intsrfoces ore a little awkward to
use due to their small size, but all (he HTML
commands are readily accessibfe, so
allowing you to quickly add formatting
commands.
Far WTiMt beginners, Heaven also comes
with a very good AmigaCuide that desaibes
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by the edit areo. which is where ths HTML
commands are odded to any text you
want Thii obviously diifen from Heai^ti
whidi allows you to use your favourite text
editor, but this approacfi does have its own
advantages. The main advantage: is that
the ifstefiacs is an App window which
allows you to drag and drop text, graphics
or any uther type of file into the Web
Maker window and odd tfie correct sort of
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apprehensive about using the built-in text
editor, bat A is quite nice to use, adding a
mure Mac-like editing system. This allows
you to select on area of text and then
delete or replace the whole area with
whatever yati type next. If you do not like
the editor, you could always write the body
text in your normal text editor and import it
to Web Maker.
The drag and drop approach does make
adding graphit:s and links to other sites a
fairly easy business. You just move the air-
sor fo where you wont the new link in your
text, drag the file over, and the oppropriate
HTML command will appear.
COIVIMAND CONTROL
Web Maker does a sifnilar job as tiJML-
Heaven when It comes to adding
commands. You highlight the text that the
effect should be applied to, hit the appro-
priate button, and the start and finish
commands will be placed around the
select text.
Compared to Heaven, probably ihe
biggest probSem with Web maker is that
even though it has all the current HTML
commands, they are only occessible
through Workbench menus. This Is much
slower than having a window witt} each
command having its own button, as HTML
heaven does. Some sort of list view with
the commands in would be a wekome
addition.
With handy list \fiew holding fink
addresses to graphics and any other
sites you may wish, Welt Maker provides
a good integrated HTML authoring
sotutkm.
II
to add graphicsi, mw* the dcwument off, and
then process this ssved document and pro-
duce tfw HTML aide. I ttiink this woold be ani
excellent idea W SdftWood or Oi^ to take
up. tt may even be possil>le to use their ARe»c
ports to intefTiQg^te the currerit document and
generate the HTML code (ram it ^is way. It h
possible to find- out graphic posttioning and
teA st^ informaticin from Firal Wiitef's AReiot
port so it may be possibt^. Unfortunately, no
sudh sokitiar curreiitty exists, and I canrtot see
such a program csr AR^ik ^Kter$ion being
developed as the demand for it & too small
This currently leaves only three Amiiga
options op«n- The first is to manually enter all
the HTML codes. You could speed the pfocess
up by assigning HTML codes to function keiys,
but this is still a iai from perfect solution. So
any ppo^am that can provide a better way to
add HTML code to your propam is going tO' be
very welcome.
Your main three pmblems when tryin^g to
organise a Web sight are going to be format-
ting tert with the HTML command^ adding in-
line graphi£5 and links to other pages or sites.
THe easiest waiy o^ doing this is to pfQ<f uce the
tent you warrt to include in the Web pag^ ftx-
mat this with the HTML commandiSj and then
start to add your in-line graphics and links to
other site& CJonsequently, any program must
albw you to easily add HTML commands. Al"?
Qtiul^ommand
If want to learn bow to create Web pages you need to get hold of some sort of HTML reference manual. A good introduc-
tion AmigaCuide cemes with HTML-Heaven, and eWs is good enough to get you going. For people on the web The Planet
Access HTML page on http;//www.planetnet/paihtmlhtmi has links to loads of HTML references, probably more than
you wHt ever need
The fallomirg are sum^ of (he basic IffML codes that would allow you to produce a basic Web page. Many codes apply
an eflfec^ to a selection of texL To mark oat the text there ore start and finish commands, and tfie finish command is
always the same as the start commarHis but with a /add to the front of it
<mMl><7HTML>
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speed things up
Set the title of the current Web page
Marks the start of the main page text
Where V is i to 6. Marks any text that should be in header tex^ wi^ 1 being the
largest text, E the smallest ^_
Indicates ^at a paragraph should be inserted hefe |^
Replacement for tfve old paragraph marker, allows text alignment such k left, right
and centre
Denotes a link to another document or link, while NAME marks text that you can link
to using HREF
Marks an entry in a list
Plain Eist
Ordered or ivtunnbered list
Dravu5 a horizorrtal line
Adds an in-line image, aking with text formatting
Adds an external link to a file or image
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from u5e;5 Of p ;fljri(rafnan ten rt
uptiatei
fl»*)-£H*f -the piittsfi^rn^ js
your lAixibench to ainwTmnia^
«"ttc Httfi a suitable pjjnlEc drriw
n Dtin'f ba ■ loser.' Mak« tar* ydii bmf?lf up roar hard dWva
rvdurnrJjr othetwtxu yw eould wirf up fosjng pmcloua wdrtt
would type in (he Shell:
> topr IFOiiflifriqtSBls.MbF'trj tn liiprkbeneli:Mb]
You can then make a directory with a suitable
name in a location of your dioice and copy the
artual program file from OFO; into this new
directory. The program should then run okay.
[Qon't die I
Everything sieems fine. You create new draw-
ers, you delete old drawers. You're in perfect
harmony with your machine when suddenly a
psrtictilarly stubborn little drawer refuses to
die, Uo matter how much you try to kill hrm he
still dings on for dear IHe, fl'ashing his obstinacy
ind constantly repeating the message 'Error
while nemoving (202) object is in use', Then
suddenly everything grinds- to ad halt.
The reason why he won't go is simple.
Sorrte drawers (diredohes) have what is called
an Assign made to them which is simply s
label that directs, a particular program to that
directory, A dravuer cannot be ddeted if it has
an Assign attached to it (Assigns are expJained
in more detail later on).
Any Assigns a program needs should
be entered in the file User-Startup in the S
directory. Open the Shell and type;
Fd !iu;cr-it«rtii|» ,i^^^H
Vou should look for a line that begins with
Assign and has the name erf the directory you
are trying to delete at the end of it, For
example;
^^^ ilti1|n MiLlct HurltbtitchilitilliTej ^
Delete ^is lin^ save the new User-$tartyp file,
and then reboot your Amiga. Now the Assign
has been removed you should be able to
delete the drawer.
Amiga Computing
MARCH 1996
U
Qrag and drop
If you are using the Workbench Icons,,, menu command
Copy to duplicate disks you'll be pleased lo know that
thefe iSi a simpler fmetlhod if you are lucky ennugh to own
s second disk drive.
Put the disk ycu wish to copy from into DFO and the
disk yoy want to copy to in DF1 {your second disk drive),
UUhen ihe disk icon for DFO appears on the Wor1(bench
simply click on it once and wiJth the left mouse button held
dgwr^ dr§g and release iit over the disk icon for DFl The
copyirig process will row begin. Simplicity is such s
beautiful thing.
Hou
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HERE
jj
I briefly rnentionerf Assigr^ earlier but this
command is so useful it deserves more of
a mention- Assign is powerful in that it
allows you to access a particular directory
by a single name^ Assigns are ngrnnally
made by programs during installation or
startup and invariably reside in the User-
Ststtup file in the S rfirectoTy.
Some Assigns are made by your
Workbench and can be found in the
Startup-Sequence also located in S-
However, these are required by Workbendi
:to operate properly and should not be
'touched.
Let's imagine a scenario in which you
created a drawer in the Workbench Utilities
difertofy called Pictures which, strangdy
en.!>ugh, contained all your graphics. To
save and load pictures to and from this
drawer you would need to select
UVofkbench, then Utilities, and finally
pictures from your pa^int package's file
requester. Using an Assign such as:
fmign Pictures: ilerkl>iAcl;1JtUitieiJ'Mctur(s
you would be able to select Pictufes;
instead, and you would autofnatically go
straight into the Wofkbench:Uttlities/
Pictures drawer. Vou would put an Assign
like this in your User-Startup file using Ed,
Some programs look for an Assign
which may not be enabled, tl a program
kicVs up a requester stating 'Please
insert volume <name>' you can make an
Assign called <name> to point to the
directOiV you think the program is trying J^
locate, all
Assign is (lexible in that you can remove
(t without having to actually delete it from
tbe User-Startup file. To remove an Assign
open the Shell and enter:
f^isi^n «niiit»: reigvt
tts. ■
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Using Amiga Workbench can be a lot of fun and there are many different ways you can alter
Workbench to suit your own requirements. Apart from the usual graphic changes you can
mjke, ynu tan also alter the way in which your Workbench inf ontis you of errors.
Located in the Prefs drawer is the program Sound. This program allouus. you to change the
alert settings which can either flash the screen or play a sound effect, or even a cnmbination of
both.
The Sound Type: button can be switched between the standard Worfibench beep or a sound
effect of your own choice which you can select with the Select Sample.,, button. The samples
yciu load must be of the eSVX or IFF form. You can get sound samples in this form from
magazine coverdisks and PD (Public Domain) houses.
^^- -I-^IWWPWI
^•"i Flash Disptav
Sound Type :
Sound Volune;
Sound Pitch;
B^efx Length:
Sanple Nane
v<^ I Make Sound
Q| Sanpledl Sound
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Test Sound
Cainggl I
If you find that your £ signs bok awfully
like a t sign, or vice-versa, you probably
have the wrong key map seSected. Run the
Input program in the Prefs directory and
you should see a list of your current
keymaps on the right-hand side. Provided
you have installed the correct keymaps you ,
should see the one for your nationality. '
SimpEy click on it so that it is selected and
then select Save. Open the Shell and you
should now find that your Amiga is printing
the correct keys. |
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m
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make surv r^ti
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[JIQiSSING DRIVER
Although a printer is a fine addition to any home computer, many users shy away from them
due to Iheiir apparent complexity. One of the biggest printer-related prgblents is that of the
stranded printer driver. A suitable printer dmer is. required in order for your llVorkbench to be
able to communicate successfully with your printer.
When you purchase a new printer you may be fortunate enough to get a dedicatee
Amiga printer driver, but in most case^ you must send cfff to the retailer, most of whom are
very obliging.
The real problem comes when installing the printef driver onto youf Workbench. Where do
you put it? Once again, the solution is very simple. Located in the Workbench Devs director,; li
a drawer called Printers, It is here you should copy your printer driver to. You csn then select
your printer driver fnsm the Printer prggrami in the Prefs directory.
Amica Computing
MARCH }996
Dwer were tiie first company out
wJth a 060 -campatrble board,
but Condon Haiwood are first
to place one on oyr desk
lor a tharaugfi good seeing to. Well
this is vAiat all yOL A] 200 speed
fredks have really been waiting
for - an 060 board. The first
tiling ttiat strikes you about ths
boafd is JLSt bow sparse it is,
the 060 chip taking up the
majorrty of the space, but with
only five others chips being
visible. I wmild asstjme this h
9 gDod thing as rt means tes
tg go wrong in thi future. The
sliape of the board is identital to
that of ihe Billiard 1 230 accelera-
tor, with an edge rronnectrsf along
the side d it allowinrg a SCSJ module
to be added at a ladder date.
Fitting tbe board is very straigfitforward
due to the extia space provided by the edge
tmnector, and once in plate there is a graod
centimetre of roofii at the end, aJIpwing the
board to be removed easily, fis the 06O is onfy
a S,3v device a fan is not reeded, and ( had no
ovw healing problems even aftet the computer
was on ail day.
The boiard wSl accept any 70ns or faster, sin-
gle sided 72 pin, 32 or 36-bit Simm, This
restricts the largest Simm the board can take to
Itft^ii I
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a 64Mb Simm - rf that is your Jdea of a restrit'
tion - but apparently tlie latest Mark IV SCSI
connector being produced by Phas* 5 has the
addrtional feature of allownng a second Simm
to be fitted, which can be up to T3aMb. So in
theory the 1 260 can have a total of 1 52Mb fit-
ted to it, 64Mb on the maiin board and 1 28Mb
via the SGI expansion.
migrant pm^ritiva rmaliaile llguta*
b]f utiijs fletuBiT Ainlga pnrgrnimw to
OMPATIBILITY
I have also been inforrtied by Cordon
Harwood that the Marit IV SCSI nwdule works
with the Bliziard 123D accelerator, so any
1230 owners with the mark IV SCSI modules
could upgrade to the 1260 and keep their
current SCSI module.
So how does it perfonti? Wdl vvhat did you
eJipect me 10 say. If you want Ifie fastest Amiga
rn the world get the board. Syslnfo shows it to
be running around twice the speed of a
A4DCI0, but this does not do the 060 justice.
Even reat worid' tests such as Lha and XPK
running around the offices
saying zoom a lot The
Blizzard 12e0 might just
be the reason
crunch times show the OSO to averse three to
four tinrves the speed of an AAQQO, and AJBB
shovvs that the 5 260 board does almost three
tinnes as many M Flops as an A4D00,
Viewflng and sawing Jpegs beconws as feet as
normal ILBMs. You must also remember thait
programs can be compiled especially for the
oeo chip, and these programs can take advan-
tage of the oaj's new superscalar architecture
and gain a further speed increase. However,
whether companies will produce such a ver-
sion remains to be seen. At the end of the day,
fit a Biiiiand 1260, and suddenly an A1200
becomes the peilect rendering nvachine, and
for half the price of an A4000. /y*W
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line
OOM AND GLOO
One mteresUng side eJifect oj" the 060 is that cettain matfts-
mfeflSii* pnjgrams can tjctuatly cause aii manner of prob-
ietni. The probiem with several Ami^a applications on the
63040 and SS060 is that they are compiled for iifte 68SBx
maths co-ptocess6f.
Thii co-processor has more fPU instruaions r/idrt the
G8040 a!}d SS060, mainly complex tfanscendentg! functions
Sixh as jme, cosrne and logarithmic and these instructions
have to be emuhied on the more advanced SSOxO pfocesr
sors. Unknown instructions cause a trap and during the trap
(fie emulation has to find the right emulation ruatirte and run
this function. In a trap the processor is in the Supervisor mode
and no oth&i tasis con run. This effect is visible by the
mouse jerking around. The system will became more
unusable the more tinimplemented instmctions are used by a
program,
Obviousiy this is going to effect the people who will bene^
mast from owning on Q50 machine - raytracers. To get
around these problems, Phase 5 have provided a number of
programs, CyberPatcher, the main one to use, tries to patch
the most ys^d instructions that have to be emulated The
speed up depends on the program but the main job is to pro-
QUrREMINTS
RED esseniial I BLACK recommended'
vide a smooth sys^m where you can work with no annoying
blocked system, fit the moment CyberPatcher strpports t/w
folSowirjg programs:
Mjn{i2000d(hrge speed up)
-SceneryAnimotortflargs speed up)
■lm<}gir\e(large speed up)
-Vista Pra
-UghSfVave
-Real 3d
-Maxon Gi>ema4D
1
A 1200
/#m iiiiftiiBi.ii\
SIMM
4fOMt3
Tjfte difference is t&y noticeable when using Mgnd200Q,
from rendering no faster than a normal Al 200 before han^
to rendering at least 30 times foster after CyherPatcher has
beennm.
One disappointnient is that this problem also seems fo be
effecting most of the current Doom clones for ^e Amiga, t
w«5 tooit/ng forward to trying Breathless out on a full screen^
but the actual redraw speed ends up being worse than a nor-
mal A! 200. t have been told by Cordon Harwood that
CyberPatcher will be updated and they are cunently colfaUng
a list of programs that needed to fee fixed".
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Pindiogenic's souped- up version of
the old classic. System take a look
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il a month for pinball it seems. We have
fwo for you to take a look at —
We've not seer> many puzzlers around for a
while so stop here for ttie latest brain teaser
d|^ We take a sneak preview of 2 1 st Century's
■*' forlti coming pinball sim
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By Andy Maddock
Anyone for tennis?
n friis very Issue vou will be able to
read a review of Audiogenic's latest
tenfiis simulation and one© you've
done ttiat, this little bit of news may
intered"you,
TInere are sortve Super Tennis Chomps data
disks on the way and the first will contain all the
lady competttofs, Also, if you use it with the origi-
nal, you will be able to set up mixed doubles
competitions, etc
It will be avQiilabie soon priced at £7.99 and for
more information you con contact Audiogenic
Customer Services on 01 81 -42 J 2244.
Pit©
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C^ftltal Punishment coalti take figMing gained
into Hw nmirt rnillennfum. We ttop* so
Also in this issue we hove reviewed Capitol
Punishment by Click Boom, so it you want to play
ttie latest version you can RP to your fovourite
Aminet site - for Great Britain It will be located at
Imperial College at srcdoclcacuk and you will
then find It located in the Game /Demo director/.
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Free games and stuff
Recently we've received a couple of letters
regarding games and some cheats. If you have
any queries atDOUt the Amiga games market
then don^t hesitate to put pen to paper or finger
to keyboard and either pos^ or e-mail your prob-
lems to us,, and we'll cto our best to provide some
answers. We may even hand out some free
games In exchange for some decent letters or
cheats.
So get writing - but don't bother calling by
phone. Believe It or not we are pretty busy and If
we had to stop every five minutes to write
down a cheat, we wouldn't have time to
write the magazine I Send your cheats to the
address printed on the comment page of this
JKue.
The Wizards of Oz
Austex Software are q riew
game deveJopers from way
down under in Australia •
wtio hove arrived on the Amiga gomes
scene with a gam© wtiich has been in devel-
opment for quite some time - only ttiey won't
tell us how long!
The title has been confirmed as Llropa2 -
Ttie Ulterior Colony and from what I've seen,
it's looking surprisingly good. Ttie concept
behind the whole idea is boslcoliy space. Tr>e
idea is based on fl^e moon called Europo
which orbits the planet Jupiter. Takang control
of a Tekite Wbrrior means you hove the
respor^lblllty for completing some important
missions, They include rescuing colonists,
destroying communication rooms of the
main network, guiding stranded hover
vehicles and rescuing hostages.
To help you along the way you will be able
to access and log on to computer terminals
to access new weaponry and repair fociiities,
OS well OS becoming a net surfer, downlood-
ing Information to sell giving you some cash
to play around with.
Not only is the gome an arcade/
Th* title fcraen looks p^rtieulariy marvatlous.
Ymi know ait thasfi Jiflfits and things. OriUiaat
TMs screeit^ttAt ivjnjfids *f an oJe* Spocttum
game eittitiet) Namad,.. ajthDugh graphrv^llr
Uropm is imr superior
adventure-like romp tt will also turn into c
shoot" 'em-up when you need to travel some
where else. There are also a couple of sub
missions thrown in to make ttiis slightly more
Interesting- The game is viewed isometricolh
In a 3D fashion, accomponied by some
excellent light-sourced vector 3D graphics.
Uropa2 will feature multitasking, on AG/
enhanced version, will be hard drive Instal
loble. and the developers are still, considering
If ttiey will they do an ECS version with o CD3:
version to follow. If the gameploy can motcf
ttie graphics then we may well see Uropa!
very soon.
MincTHH
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Shopping on a Saturday afternoon
Throughout ttiese post four or five monttis we
have always been slightty unsure abowt the
omount of games System would feature, But
thanks to all those great loyal software hou-
ses out thksre we've been brimming with bel-
ter quality games than ever before, So when
Crfy Cons arrived In the office our hiearts
slumped to our feet. Just when we thought
ttiere was hope of behg aniother excellent
month full of marvellous entertainment for
you to spend your cash or... minutes before
deodline City Cars arrives. What ftmingi
If you can cast your minds bacJK to the
early Spectrum days of gomes like OutRun
and Chase HQ ttien maybe you 11 have an
idea of what City Cors plays like, Atfhough
this effort is actually in colcuji ttie gomeplay is
fairly non-existent.
It features 'two city cars which you'd
GAni0S of th'9 uuality shautd b^ hSrtti^il. I'm
fony U f'jn b^inp SO harsh but it resfiy Is
uttmrty unplnyAb'e
expect your grandparents to drive when
they're off shopping, and what's ironic is the
fact that when you pick up the joystick you
do feel OS though you are a rather slightty
impaired pensior>er becouse you con't even
keep it ini a straight line. Also, when you put
your foot down it seems to go obout 3O0 mph
or something ridiculous - arid thot's where
the similarities between pensionefs and City
Cars toils off, as they usually prefer to go at
3mph,,. on a motorway,
i do feel sorry for Allan Smgess, the pro-
grammer because he's pfobobly spent a
long time on it. But I'm sofry. it just canrwt
compete with the quollty of gomes out thiere
already. Anyway, here ore sofr>e screenshots
Just to pro\^e it, Although I've judged it firom
first looks, we may give it a full review if we've
got enough space.
Trapped inside my cyberpants
W» only r^emlve^ this minutes h&torm dwadline so
we'll try aiid expand on this rather pcwr effort of
ait artiete nexl monthr OK?
Tropped Is a new gorrve by German developers
Oxyron Software and is a Doom/Dungeon Master
like game. It captures ail the thrills of dungeon
exploring as well as all the graphical capabilities
of Doom.
The full trtte of the game te Trapped: The Bicycle
of Death, otherwise known os a Raleigh Chopper.
Nah, we're only kidding.
We downlooded this preview from Aminet and
with its possibilrties of being a brand new Doom
ctone we decided to let you know about it.
Going! back to the dodgy translation of the
title before, ft was octTJolly Das Rad von Telmcif,
Eo from rT«y GCSE exam i remembered that 'Rod'
meant bicycle and we assumed 'Telmar'
must've meant something negotiive such as.,,
death I But, er it doesn't, so, er,., we thought rt was
funny I
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A cheap
Obsession
Hurroti! Thanks to the
January soles ObsessJor> hos
now been reduced by a ten-
ner. If used to be £29.95 and
is now priced at E19.9S. Yep
fhot & It
Here's whst it uton't look iik^ a* tha pfo^fummer
Is intending on changing the graphics comfftetoSy
Doti!
Our friends at Domark are now on-line, joining
the so very few Amiga publishers such as Team
17, Oceon ond MicroProse.
You will now be able to find more information
about Domork's latest offerings including the
most eagerly awaited football management
gome ever - Championship Manager 2,
The site provides links to many different pages
for players and non-players of Champiorvship
Manager as well as an IRC channel for you to dis-
cuss various footballing and Chomplonship
Manoger Issues, it's well worth checking out
even though It's still in development, Vne address
is http://domark.com/
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Q^f month we brought you a preview
and mentioned that this game was
iooking porticuiarly good. 'If you've
ever piaysd Super Mario Kart on tin©
SNES tin en you'li undoubtediy have
on idea of wiiot to expect. Coniideririg Maria
Kart was, and probabiy still is, one of the finest
games Nintendo have ever produced, to
describe this os an Amigo version wouldn't be
straying from ttie truth,
Over the iast few months the gannes side of
the Amiga has aii been pretty similar. For
instance, the games have aii tried to be quicit -
especialiy the Doom clones. To enoble trie best
speed, detgil levels, resolutions and screen sizes
have all been made completely configurable,
leaving it up to the user to play how they prefer.
Extreme Racing, or rathe? Xtreme Racing as iif
has riow decided to call itself, comes corripiete
witti a menu containing o feast of options which
let you chonge more or less everything. You can
change the controls, weapons, car settings end
laps, OS well os the in-gome options which allow
you to tinker with the nnore technical aspects,
namely frames per second, pixel sites, dithering,
and switching between the blitter and C2P
screen modes.
The actual game features three modes of
play - o single roce mode, o cup race or a com-
plete season. TTie first is basically a practice ses-
sion and it won't really matter if you happen to
finish in last place; the cup mode is split up into
three - the Tortoise Cup, Custard Cup and
Xtreme Cup - the latter being the most difficult,
containing awl<ward computer drivers and
Tthe tltfe scjreejt took* apaedyp ttyrmmit:, ef,
«trigM $P it's nat a particularly mt^r^sting
actv^nshats I'm th>in' m« be*t vhief!
Lowering the tone
The only point that may lower ttie ton© is that
even though it may look brilliant and ploy like a
dream, some people may argue that there is a
certoin cheapness, l am, of course, referring to
tti© sheep, lemmings, and men by the side of
the road. I suppose the sheep would have
been okay because it is very funny to' see a
high speed sheep flying on your tail ready to
explode at any moment, Althougti there are
lemmings walking up and down trying to stop
you, o more original idea would probably hove
been better, or not at ail. Younger players may
find it instantly hilarious ond bask in its warm
summer glow that is humour, but oJder piayers
may be a little disappointed with the cheap
jokes, it would have been better to stick
some trees in the way rather than o badly
drawn lemming,
tough frocks with many obstacles. The Season
mode is a complete tour throughout the game,
and in the Sillfunno Grand Prix, depending on
where you actuoliy finish will result in how many
points you will receive.
There are eight other drivers to compete
agoinst ond they all have varied attributes
whicfi you must look out for during o race. Each
character also has its own porticuiar car.
Super Mario Kort boosted an excellent mod©
whereby your kail had three balloons surround-
ing it and the first to pop all three would win.
Viiu cdJt preview the trscki bv prsssiitp
Ihe carT»tpintding k«ys to see wtt^rc
the cdrn«fa and otntaci«» tiro
Pivssinff escape during a raice win tyring
ufj ttte many huntfretls Qf Qption sctvans ■
you can change sverythinsi
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This l» jtetwiiy a tvro-plmy^f fplit
screen with a fracit^f camera showing
th« action from a tlltf«r*nt anglv
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wh»t Ifw pietur» looka iiffe, $-d— er, hero's »
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Xtreme
These could be popped by missiles and carefu-
lly positioned banana skins. Xtfeme Racing con-
tains exactly the some os this, olthough the
banana skins inove been feplaced with sheep.
There ore three levels of difficuity so the
game will last for months. Tt>e computerHijon-
Irolled cars ore extra meSy tough on the easier
Hmr*'E the overview of the entire iritck
showing you wfierv fh£r *ibstacl»» and
cammn are. Han^ on, I'v^ ^Irsaiiy »aid this
This is the smMs&t scre«n you can play Xtrom*
naeing on - in fatter Ihan a Imffet but ^bout a*
Interesting' as our Cov*nli»k Editor
Racing
levels, io I can't Imagine how much practice
you'd have to put in to get up to o winning
itondard,
There are also around 10 different courses,
each with two different tracks. The second Is
usually littered with tight bends and annoying
obstacles which will undoubtedly frustrate you
beyond belief,
The best thing about Xtreme Rocing has to be
the 3D texture mapped graphics which are truly
superb - they even look better than Morio Kart!
The cars are well drawn and there is an Irttinite
amount of ongles you can view your car fj-om.
This all odds up to being nothing short of perfect
in the presenfation department- As mentioned
before, there ore options galore and the
graphical presentotion screens are of a highly
professional standord,
I will point out that you will need either on
AT 200 Of A4000 with at least 2Mb of RA1V1, and
an accelerator is strongly recommended it you
want the best speeds.
S&leetin^ yaur character raffe-cts on yaur
perBonaiity. I chose tll« brg hairy ^p«! Hool
How Ivmy is that? Hoi wry?
6 The best
thing about
Xtreme Racing
has to be the
3D texture
mopped
graphics
which are truly
superb j
Final word
If you have loads of frtends
Qogging for a bit of mutfr-
simultoneous octbn then
there's nothing better ttian
to link two Amigas together
vjo o null modem cable so all
eight people can take part
(four on each screen). Even
with the screen divided into
quarters It still doesn't restrict
your view of the action
which Is quite a surprise,
There is no better multt-
player gome available to
satisfy the needs of eight
people. The graphics are
excellent, the sounds ore
good and It ploys like a
dream. What more could
you possibly ask tor from a
game?
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■wei nil
prrnvrnw
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\)^hat are
going to
make this
different
from tine iost
are almost
certoiniy the
options J
Tti^re wHi aJways be peofti*
wfro immplam ahaut the
Wood, t think it's graatJ
Insight
From whcft I- -have noticed
from the preview version,
the mazes are slightly har-
der - Instead of opening a
door for bore chested
madmen to run out. you
con flick switches which will
open doors etsewherer
making it more puTZllng.
All this could odd up to
being one of the finest
Doom clones we are yet to
see. All I can say is, if you've
got a good machine,
expect o very good. Doom
done soon.
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Andy Maddock
mey, have you noticed anything
different? Look a little horder, Yes,
ttiot's right there's only on© Doom
clone this month, 'So whatl' you're
probab-ly thinking, well If you read the
tast four or five copies of Amiga Compufing then
you'll notice we've been reviewing two or three
every month,
I stIK don't know what the attraction is, what
mokes Doom: so much better than a couple of
seasons on a football management game. Don't
get me wrong, I'll hopplly play oil these Doom-
like games. It's just that I can't see the attraction
In copying the origlrvoi Doom. Why should we
bother nicking their ideas, I'm sure mony Amiga
developers have original Ideas somewhere, so
let's see a game they'll want to copy.
After Oloom received 81 per cer>t ttiree or four
months bock, Guildhall Leisure finaily come home
for tea with their first pseudo-data disk. And
surely not the last.
What are going to moke this different from the
lost are almost certainly the options. They're
managed to squeeze more and more playir^g
options into the game to enable you to chop
and change the features you don't like, for
Instonce, os the Anniga's technology is slowly
improving, more ond more machines are 'being
upgraded to faster, efficient and generoliy better
machines- The games are beginning to move
with the times.
Although there are many people out there
with o standard A12D0 with say, Sensible Soccer,
there are many with either an upgraded A 1200 or
A4000 who oren't really getting good gaming
value for the price of tfieir machine-
Guildhall Leisure ore leading this campaigr^ tor
games players to get the most out of their system
set-up because lost month we saw them releose
a racing game entitled Extreme Racing which
could be completely configured depending on
your own set-up.
For example, if you bought a graphics card
solely for use with an art package, why should it
stop there. If you can buy games that will manip-
ulate and take advantoge of it then why not.
Although these people may be in o minority, they
ore growing very Slowly by upgrading their A500
to either on A 1 20O with an accelerator or eve n an
A4QO0, It moy cost quite a bit, but people are still
doing it - moving with the times that is.
The good thing is, you can Btlil manoge to
play these gomes such os Gloom and Extreme
Racing on a standard A12Da although on an
accelerated machine they ore far more superior
Change of scenery
The opttor>s in Gloom Deluxe include being obte
to change the gome to classic, enhanced or OS
friendly so you can play it as it used to be, graphi-
cally enhanced or in a workbench window. There
will also be support for various graphic cards, as
well as the new and rather expensive Virtual I
glasses.
The whole Doom level system will be com-
pletely re-vamped with new levels, and new
places and stages. All the resolutions and screen
modes will be completely conflgurabte, allowing
you to play Gloom in super Ht-res tor example, so
the graphics will instontly escope that original pixel
look and have a look similar to that of deathless.
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T>avef araund (lt« world in
tint many iouritamonts
ocxJ old tennis, ft conjures nice, ct^&ery
images of Wimbledon, strawberries
and cream and, best of all sunr^mer.
So you can imqgine that getting a
tennis game in the mrddfe of dreary
winter on a drrizly Monday morning was a real
tonic, ImmedrateJy my spirits soared ond I let my
mind wander to inot, summer days playing tennis
in the fresti air - and then |i remembered,. I'm
crop oT tennss, Ahh. well, it was o nice image for
a while. But this wasn't going to be a problem In
Audiogenic's latest simulation as I loter found
out and after a brief flip through the manual.
ttie game con be Immediately dFved into.
What Is instantfy opparent Is the style the
developers have plumped for, and Instead of a
stats-laden, realistic simulation, the cartoon
characters suggest that this gome fs going to b©
fun. Before getting straight into a match you
have a rang© of options to select to set the
game up to your lilting, so everyone Is catered
for - ftom the poor novice (Irk© moil) to buddpng
Champ
Agassi's. Once you've got to grips with the^
basic sl<ills there are a number of different tour-
naments you con take part in, from an Exhibition I
mode to Grondslann, Tournament or League
Exhibition allows you play singles or doubles wH"^'
any players, on any surfoce, in a match of 1, 3 ■;
5 sets. Leagues can also be played as either sin-
gles or doubles and if you have a four-ployer
parallel port adopter, up to four people can
take part. As o budding tennis star, you also get
to see the world through singles tournaments in
Paris, New York, Melbourne or London,
Although It doesn't have tedious, mind-bog-
gling stats, there is still a tocticgi element to it
Players have different skilfs and styles of playing
which add variety ond keep It realistic, Carlos,
for example, is a young Spaniard (ohh,. stereo-
types heh?}. Apparently he tias o flashing bock-
hond supported by speed. Chuck, on the other
hond (American, if you hadn't already
guessed), hos an enormous serve and stunning
forehand. However, os he is cumbersome he
Don't get court out
The mony courts offer a different style of gome-
play (see? outhentic, eh?) that will challenge
your game each time,
Hard - for the more experienced, this court Is a
real challenge as It will be fast-poced and will
make the ball bounce high
Oksm - expect low bolls but still high speed
when you piay on o gross court
Clay ■ high bounces but a slower paced game
ore to be found on a cloy court,
iP As j/ou g^t Ifettme, you pan opt to
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ttesigited and well tmifn^t^il
keeps his rallies short. Control Is either via a one
Of two button joystick or a CD32 controller.
All options work well but I felt the CD32 con-
troller was easier for □ beginner like me because
ttie controls are located on separate buttons,
For example, oriie button is tor a normal shot,
another for topspln, one for lob, and another for
slice, whilst the directional pod controls the
direction and length of sfiot.
Although having sound effects tn this sort of
gome is nothing new - expected, in fact - they
are notable because they are actually rather
good and definitely enhance the atmosphere.
The crowd cheers for the players when they
score but yQu also get a sampted voice of the
umpire which Cfies 'Net* or "Out" as required,
which works welt In adding a touch of authentic-
ity, Grophicoliy, the gam© has also iaeen clever-
Different playing murt»a«a providm
B diM^rent stjflm pf game
Playing to win...
Your competitors ail have different si<fl!s, so take
a look and you'll know vtitiat you're up against;
Buzz - Germ any
He wears down his opponents with
his powerful play.
Roger - English
A tough player but locks invention.
Itiara - Japori
A new player, he has a weok ser-
vice, But with his speed he can turn
a lost cause into a winning shot.
Greg - Australia
The former number one, h© has
excellent agility and a big serve.
6 It's a great
game and
one which
won't fail to
impress ^
Th» cantrai system is fntultlve
mnd aridivs tor a smoatfi game
ly thought Out, The view of the court works well so
that you con see all that is going on and
employs a raised view as If you are looking from
obove the court.
The sprites are Q good size, mainly because
they are easy to control but also because sonn©
animations hove been included which odd
to the fun. The pioyer can be seen jumping up
and down excitedly if he wins, but If he loses he
has o McEnroe-type tontrurrt. Too small a
character ond you can't see whot's going on,
too large and they would look cumbersome
ond slow.
Final word
Super Tennis Champs is a superb garme
which takes two minutes to get into but
ages to master. It's instontly playable
and the intuitive controls make it o
dream to play. Saying that, you can
either ploy with a joystick or CD32
joypad and as a personal preference,
I found the Joypad a great deal
easier. The cartoon-style graphics
work very nicely too and look
□ppeaiing.
Although the ganne can be ployed
tacticolly by weighing up the skills of
the opposition, you can just jump
straight into the gome os a novice and
still get a rewarding motch - until you
con build up your skills to enter one of
the many tournaments. The game sup-
ports a four-play Of adapter which suits
Super Tennis Champs brilliantly (who
says computer games are anti-social?),
and it works especially well when you
pit your skills agairrst a friend with o sim-
ilar level of ability,
All in ail, if you like tennis sims you'll
love this. But you'll also love this even If
you don't! It's a gfeat gome and one
which won't fail to impressi
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All Amigas
|i|PSjr"'" M
hove to odmit that flight simulators or
octi on- packed 'war in the 5i<ies'
games don't reaiiy flppeol to m©. I
can't reciliy give yOu Q reo^on Wliy, it's
just tiiat i don't iike tliem - at ail, I never
actually played the first Zeewdf l^ecouse of
my predicament and therefor© hoven't o ctoe
about what it was like, aittiough i am Informed
thot it wos very good, and If something con
arouse our technical editor other than graphic
cards and accelerators then I knew I was missing
something.
Zeewolf 2 was giiven a full preview a month or
two ago and from then on looked liked it was
go^ng to be on other excellent action game fd-
lowir>g on from the success of the first Zeewoft.
Zeewolf is the name of a helicopter which
belongs to a company called Zenith Research,
and basically you are plunged straight into the
action at a minute's notice because your opposi-
tion Ecliptico, who were defected In the first
Zeewolf, have cteclded to take revenge because
first time around you didn't completely destroy
themi
There ore 32 missions in total and they are all
split up into various phases which are either divi-
ded Into Seek and Destroy, Airlift, Escort. Rescue,
Ttt9 mtatus bmr tit tfre top vf the screen
wilt infortn you of your Mmrmmititfn,
lt»aith, stock* and mission objeoUf^^
Protect Building /Vehicie or Capture t^uilding.
Most of the missions are self-explanatory and.
most of the tlmi& you will find yourself flying about'
blowing up the odd building and picking up peo-^
pi© who come hurtling out- The missions aren't
exactly tough and won't present you with o huge:
chdilenge, although having said that, they aren't
so easy you'll complete them in minutes - you "11
still have to become an accomplished player
and monage to molnfoln steody and constant
control over the helicopter in awkward situcJtions,
Stocking up
Like most war/strategy gomes, reiooding and
refuelling will replenish your vehicle completely,
almost OS if you or© given on extro life. In
Zeewolf, you or© given a stock number and
your frigate will store a number of missiles, rock-
ets or whatever for you, and once oil your stocks
are used up that's it. You're on your own to use
your stocks wisely.
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Luniitng r«'qLrfres «xtr*me pre-cision ms tlt6 cam*l
mu9t bQ clQse tar It to «Kiend its 'tsh^rry plekmr'.
Vtfur hsHcopt0r auHt th*n be rept-enish^d
Although fh& moln ktea behind Zeewolf is to con-
trol a helicopter you can link onto otl^er veliicles
via Q camel. No. not the on© with humps, but a
remote ilnk comei. You can iinl< up to either a
Cougor tank, Kestrei VTOL plane. Barracuda
boat, Of the Transport helicopter, All these are use-
ful In various different missions and you break links
between your two vehicles whenever you wish.
However, you'll have to be careful because
when you run out of fuel, you will have to
bfeok the link and leave because It
will self destruct, purely
because Zenith Research ^
don't wantworklng
v/ehicles left In the
hands of the
opposing side,
namely Ecllptlco.
You stort each
missfon with a co-
nslderoble amount
of ammunition and
by returning to the
frigate, another cornel will
engage with your helicopter
and you will be presented with a
screen to refuel and re-load,
depending on what you hove In
stock. There is a healthy choice
of weaponry at youf disposal
Before you begin your missions you will be
given oil the necessary briefings so you know
where to go fffst and why and what you must do
Your vvtn taajti
tak* off once
There are many diit4trent miss'ons nantalnmd in
Zee^wQll. N&iim of (h«m cocflcf stand aeeusmd of
beiffs overty difficult
when you get there, Before ( began I was
constantly thinking I'd compieted aH the
objectives until I noticed there was a small but
Important building y^t to be destroyed - which
wos quite annoying as my fuel gau^e began to
move towards the empty symbol. It really is a
game that must be mastered corefully and
skilfully, as well as quickly.
Ttifoughout your mission you will be able to
revert bock to your mission briefings in a very
clever way, For instance, in most
games, when you ftick from
the action to o map
screen, the former
tends to remain
paused until you
switch bock. Not
here, though^
bee ause When
you do flick to
the map screen
you will notice it is
split Into quarters.
The bottom right
Quafter contains Oil the nec-
essary briefjr>gs and con be tog-
gled by the press of o key, while
the top left quarter will continue
to show the action in a screen
much smaller. Not only does this feature allow you
to plan ahead while still battling, it also speeds up
the game so you don't have to keep stopping and
starting.
will ail be raady for
th0 mlAKlan begins
^^^^H
'•H
Seek and Dp^trotf
6 The
missions are
reasonably
challenging
and if you're
into war and
guns and
that then
Zeewolf is on
excellent
purchase 5
Evi>» though v^u cAn ftiek b^twe^n rour mission
bttetings antl th^ aciian during the game, you
will atilt receive pn av^ririsw before you b^gln
As you nan am» in the tof) feft corimr of tt»e
s<frB0it, (fw action will continue wMi» you
cfln ititi «hAcfc out your tniisian obiaetives
Final word
Having mentioned at the
beginning of the game that
these games don't really
appeal to me, I'm,,, not
changing my mind, Ho! You
thought I wos go?ng to be
converted into playing simu-
lators all the time. No, how
wrong can you be! It's not
thot Zeewolf 2 isn't any
good - it's actually an
excellent game if you like
this sort of thir^. I'll gladly try
It out and review it - just
don't make me take it
home.
The graphics are eifcel-
lent and the odd viewpoint
works remarkobty well. The
missions are reasonably
chollenging and if you're
Into war and guns ond
that, then Zeewolf is an
excellent purchase - one
that shouldn't be missed.
IS
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I
^ There are
so many little
baddies who
will take
delight in
annoying
you. and to
top it off -
they don't
even kill
you! J
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The grmfttticm arm sHgHtty
enfinnced QV9r the
previous veraian
ttrapping grenades and plckktff
> |jp ^^^^tfn9 anp pretty /nucH
f the risme of the game
The symbafs on tfr* right *■
allow you to parform v^rtQut
actions and iftovomonts
Qefore you soy a word, I know and so
does everybody else in the wortd that
Exile has already been released. In
fact a long time ago - it appeared as
a demo on a coverdisk and I can
remember playing it for absoiutety ages and then
I never recoiled seeing ttie game in the shops. I
don't know why.
You can imagine my surprise when it arrived in
the office just a few weeks ago, I was delighted at
the tact I coukJ now p<ay ttie gam© I had wanted:
to play years ago.
! promptly loaded up the two disks ar^d wliile I
waited I hod a quick look at the manual,
which wasn't reoliy a good idea as it
was pocked full of keyboard short- ^
cuts and in-depth porographs
about each weapon, mon
ster, etc. I didn't really want
to read it as I'd already
played o demo thousands
of times so I wer>t straight
into the game.
I won't explain the
plot completely because
o) I don't want to spoil rt
for you and b) If s far too
long to print hers. If I tell
you some bad guy has
nicked a special device
needed to transport your ship
from galaxy to galaxy and you
need it back, tfien I think you'll get
the gist.
When I started moving my little sprite
about the screen I hove to admit to being slightty
disappointed as the sprites had been revamped
completely and instead of the top little space-
man in his little space suit os before, there was, in
fact, a bionde-hoired geezer who looked com-
pletely out of ploce. Never mind, I thought, at
least the actual game still looks sSmiiar. What I
Exile
Reviewed by Andy Maddock
completely forgot after playing the demo ys
ago is that is was so hard I couldn't even get i
the first level. I erided up going bock to the mc
ual to follow the walkthrough to save me plot
Ing through the other pages, and still it did'"
give me any clues as to what to dc
managed to pick up some
and chuck i^t about a brt and I
even blew things up.
I think wtiat lets It down i
the control system, it's ol i
bit ditficult you see, Vcuj'i
a spaceman and yc
have o Jetpock strapp
to your back and pushii
up and down on the \i
stick will 'thrust' you
that porticular directic
Simple? Not when you'i
trying carefully to plar
grenades using left and rig
on the joystick. In most cc
you will end up banging yc
heod severely against the side
the spaceship.
I suppose after a while you will get the
hang ot the control method, but It is very tricky to
begin wrtti. The worse thing I con say about Exile
is that it's very very frustroting. If you should have
a high stress level, I suggest you stick to something
like Tetris or, better still, sleeping. There are :
many little baddies who will take delight
annoying you, and to top ft off - they dof
even kill youl They'll hopplly knock you ali
over the shop without even having o purpose in
lite.
AttHough the gameplsy stitt r^mmint
th* mtime, rw cen see here that th9
grmphic* have been etthftnued.
I'm not saying Exile is o bad game, it's Just that
the frustration factor is far too high. The puzzles
are excellent, testing your puzzle-solving ability
as well as your octlons, and it manages to sus-
toln o high Interest level. IVlost people will see
the game as It is, but there are a select few
who will find It more troubfe then it's worth.
Although this is the A 1200 version and it
boasts enhanced AGA graphics, I stiti think it's
lost some of Its choracter, and although tech-
nically It's far superior, I still prefer the other
one.
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Previewed by Tina Hackett
fish *n'
Grsphtes ItHtk at a higii
9tmn4mrd with plenty of
Omtrntl
i n b a I I
games and
21 sf Century
- they go
together like
chips, syrup
pudding and custard,
and Frinton cooch hoi-
idays and old people,
Thcrt was until tl^eir last
effort Pinball Mania,
which went togettier
more like Bernard
Manning and Kate
Moss, Well, this time 21st
Century wonf to set tt^e
record straight with a rtew pinballer for f t^e Amiga
which looks set to shine,
Calied Liquid De2ign Cves., correct spelling -
they are Swedish I) fhey ore a
completely new development
teann who took the game to
21st Century as o very brave first
attempt, 2?st Century were
impressed to soy the least and
well, here It is. Well, nearly, ft was
almost complete when we saw
the preview version and a
release date has been set for
April,
Okay, it's yet another pin-
baOer so what does it hove that
is going to make it stand out
from the countless others we've
seen? Firstly, the graphics look
of a pretty good standard but
what immedfotely strikes is the
use of the display panel. This hos
been used before for anima-
tions and the score, but In this
case it forms an integral part of
the gome as well.
From eoch of the four tables
you can occess sub-games
which or© stocked full of differ-
ent animations. For eyonripie on
the Pirate tabie, if you hit one of
the lights you ore mode to walk
the plank, and eoch time you
fall to light a ramp, o rope snaps
and you will fall Into a shark
infested saa. Yes,
sounds nice doesn't
it? However, It prom-
ises to get a iot gorier
(violence in a pinl^ail
game? - mokes you
wonder what the
woFfd Is coming to).
We're talking mon-
sters that tear your
face off, monkeys
that hook the top
of your heod off,
and stobbings or
something: - oil wrth
appropriate squelchy
sound effects,
IVlulti-baii hoe olso been included and instea
of having to mess around yourself changing tfi
screen from Hi- to Lo-res am
back, it automatic a iiy does
for you. IVlissions look to be '
bit more Interesting from
norm, too, whtch will provide
real challenge for even ft
most skilled players.
Different missions
will provide a
Insight
Thm tour tabt^s arm 9SI eompletitly
tlitt^rent and a tham* runs
Slpmtilt Is going to be for thi
Ai200 and looks set to be ii
real hit. I don't know if it w
need a ratings certil'lcat*
because of the violence
included - it's cartoon 1
nature and not porticulai^
graphic so it will be interestinj
to see what hoppens on ttii
point. It certainly looks to b<
that brf different becouse
this and the many sub-go ma
will odd variety to an old foi
mulo. The graphics look gooc
and the music moves alon(
nicely with the pace of th«
game - with enough differen
tunes to keep even the mos
diverse musical tastes happy
We look forward to seeing the:
final version.
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GAMEPLAY
OVERALL
Soccer
The matches took
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Empire Interactive
DEVELOPER
Various
PRICE
£34.99
13
Yes
DISKS
HD INSTALL
Kick Off 3
n my mind the kick Off series was
afwcEys "the laest football game ever
until Sensible Soccer kindly knock&d it
into second pioc©.
Kick Off 3 inevitably followed, as
sequels do, and to everybody's astonishment it
was no longer tfie top viewed quick game - rt
had turned into a side-viewed, 'more realistic'
SUPPORTS
AIF Amigas
Bum ^_
Hendieif
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Jusr f0ol[ at those
can you possibly g»i?
Hot much more than
this I'm sure/
Reviewed by Andy Maddock
ongle. When i looded it up I was eager to see the
changes made from Kick Off 3 to Kick Off 3
European ChQliengs. Am I confusing you'? Vou
see, the Kick Off 3 thot was reteased was fairly
bug ridden ar^d feotured some awkward options.
However, l^ick Off 3 - European Challenge was
released without them. Okay?
As the game loads up you will notice how
many options I! has which is o constderable
odvonce frcrnri' the first two gomes, tnstead of
sticking with Steve Screech's Crystol Palace, you
now have an esrtensive selection from the
European leagues to the international front with
the Nkes of England and Brazil, There is also on
option to play with o two-buttoned joystick or
control pad, nnoking those shots and passes
easily dlsti^nguishabie.
The actual gome does look quite good, but
something is ver^ wrong and I |ust con't seem to
put my finger on it. It could be the fact that
SO
[whomever you play just seems to whack the boll
{down the centre of the pitch all the tim©. and in
jfn you will' too. Thte passing system is very wrong
• if you tend to give it a good smash upfield it wili
lusually arrive at yojr striker's feet and you con
whack it into the net, and a short pass is unbellev-
lobly inaccurate as it wiH almost always be
I titercepted by the opposition.
It's also pretty difficult to score as your star
striker, whether ifs Mark iHughes or Romano, will
usualSy 'donkey it' right over the bar from a
couple of yards out - most unrealistic, well maybe
I" not for Mark Hughes.
If you do play this game for a fong time you wiH
get used to it, and believe me, it does get better.
rf you stick at it, it gets pretty involving, It's not that
tt's o bad game, rt just lacks thought.
Premier Manager 3
Premier Manager has had much
ttte same run of success as the
Kick Off series, Premier Manager
1 was absolutety superb, con-
tolning all the football manage-
merit areas and generally being
OTis of the best in ttie market
Then followed Premier Manager
2 which, in my mind, was slightly
better featuring updoted teams.
JDetter graphics, and an even
easier-to-use control nn.ethod.
Now there is Premier Manager 3
which is slightly disappointing,
although rt feotLires some riew
options for you to moke things
easier and avoid those more
menial tasks of the football
world.
The main difference is the
match sequences, instead of
featuring a scoreboard showng
the action you actually get a
mock-up of a ground stwwn iso-
metrically, ond all 22 players will
run obout or 'flicker' as much as
they can - a good ideo on
paper, although in practice It
didn't really work.
All the teoms have been
updated to the 1994/95 stan-
dard, which is now out of date,
olthough th^re Is an editor you
can purchase If you're really
that bothered,
You con now odd an assistant
H*r»'» another itinn^trlc match screen,
dftry so much happens it's ttto hat^ to 3*»
manager to take care of all ttw
time consuming, less exciting
jobs such as treating ployers,
sponsorship boards, and train-
ing schedules which were espe-
cially boring after a few seo-
sons, Ttie whote game is topped
off with some nicer presentation
screens for building yojr stadi-
um, match reports and, of
course, the match sequences.
One big problem I experi-
enced was that on non-AGA
machines the martches were
incredibly slow, even when ttie
speed was at its fastest, Vr\e
'ultro' speed option hos
disoppeared so there's no
chance of instant results. I'm
sure most people like to play
slowdy so they can watch their
team's performance, but not
me.
Overall apart from the
matches. Premier Manager 3 Is
Incredibly detailed and realistic
and for this to appear on a
compilation is unbeatable.
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'96 is probably
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compilations
and at £34.99
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value for
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FIFA International Soccer
Final word
Soccer Stars '96 is probably
one of the best football
compilations and at £34.99 it
Is excellent volue for money
and should b© odded to
any football fan's list of
games. The entertainment
factor is beyond belief and
as I mentioned before, this' II
keep you out of everybody's
w/ay for forever and a day.
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Before ifi« start you s*^
io tcFss the coin to win
0/lfiAr kick oft Of th«
bmmt dfrvcf wn
Of Oil the many hiundreds of football games I've
ployed across a wide variety of formats, I never
really had ony w^s^ to play this on the Amiga - I
tiaven't really got a reason apart from It just did-
n't appeal fo me. From wtiat I saw and heard,
ttiough. It did sound very slow and slightly
unplayable.
I can remembef playing this game on various
coHiSOle formats and it was very good - ttie iso-
ftietrlc view worked pretty well the only let-dov*/n
being the speed which wos a real dteappoint-
rnent. However, apart from that FIFA was a lot of
fun to ploy.
Vou can only select from the International
teoms and unfortunotely, they all have fake
names so you can't recreote any famous
moments.
There is an extensive amount of options^ as in
On The Ball - League Edition
Kicl< Off 3. ond the presenfation was nothing ihc "
of perfect. The game, however: is a differe^ '
story.
If you're after a realistic game where you co-
think about your attack and pass it out to tr-
wing, or have a nice steady build up, ttien yc
may as well forget the whole thing. This suffers t>
some symptoms os Kick Off 3 - you inevitably kic
It right down the middle of ttie F>ork until your
striker breaks away and scores. One plus point,
though, is that nearly every goal you score (if you
can) looks absolutely brilliant because of the isch
metric angle. Unfoftunately, all the players run
obout OS fast as hungover hedgehogs and the
scrolling Jerks terribly.
As for OS football games go, FIFA is a sure rele-
gation candidate and is the white elephant of
ttie compilation.
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n's amazing that out nf th«
antinf game I've mantig^ ti>
capture a i^r&^ti U/ith t¥/0
players who still play!
The first version to come from
developers Ascon was the World
Cup Edition which, in my mind,
was the only game Vi/hich man-
aged to incorporate a li tl^ mad-
ness of the Internotionoi stage,
This featured a dlar/'llke game
whereby attending meetlrigs
and press conferences all had
an effect on the outcome of
your popularity, so it was up to
you whether to train your team
everyday, give them afternoons
off, have one-to-one talks, send
people home, or laze oround tl^
swimming pool everyday and go
Look at that. 4u9t look at that.
I can't b^li^i/B the tfuality ot
thai stadium. I think it may be
DonaaalBt'a ground...
to ttie pub every night - It was all
possible.
Now comes the League
Edition feotuiing oil the English
teams and thelf respective cup
competithDns. Her© is a warning,
however - if you want the reolism
to be high, you'll hove to edit all
the teams to get them bock up-
tcnJate because there will be
players at your club that have
probably retired!
By far the best thing about On
Thie Bali is the foct that it gives
you an insight into the world of
football from a monger's
rfi# final whistle has gone,
and so tias the player's apMta
quita obviously! Where's yovr
morale?
position, and you get to lae
involved in scandals. Just like the
real thing. Not only do the press
wotch your teom, they also
keep a keen eye on yours ond
your players' private lives. Then,
if you ore successful enough at
the end of your domestic
career, the Internotionoi Jobs will
be made available.
On The Ball is by far the best
gorrie on the compitotion and
it'll keep you going for months
and months, Also, when you've
finished you've got three more
gonr>es to playl It's not oil bad!
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Click B&om st6 a C»a»iU»n
cfeireJopmeJit' tenant ttoeing t0
makm It bis wflh thS» rmlm»a»
I
Tha eoinft»tlion prefHi^
mor# powerful it ttfee'*m
launehad In fh« mtf
Prevtewed by Tina Hackett
punishmeni
fter o recerkt absence
of new fighting games
for the Amiga, o
Conadian team are
answering tlie pieos of
gamesplayers witll Q penciliGint for
oli tl^cit is gory, Called Capitol
Punishment, it already looks to be o
pretty impressive iDsat-'em-up
from- some devefopers coiled CiiC^*:
Boom, who fofm port Of Ci comp
any coiled Pxi Computers, if^,
already bseri on display af the
Wofld of Amiga Sti^ow in Toror>to
wi^ere it was wormly received by
the public and VIPs ollke,
Taking o rattier grim and violent
approach gimii^or to that of Mortal
Kombot, rt certainly won't Oppeose
thie MofY Whitehouses out there, but
offering reoiistic combat and a sotis-
fying ronge of moves* If will definitely appeal to
fans of the genre. The preview version iimpiy
hod o tvi/o-pioyer, one-fighter choice and one
Stsrt Qff if fbe horridly
d*iiths of tb& a«w«rs...
environment duf the full commeri
ciaF version will offer (as wefi as d|
the usual extras you'd expect) ^td
option of fighting another player
over the telephone line via a
modem. The ffghter's moves wi
also be upgraded as you progress.
And unlike some of the more
basic beot-'em-ups, it has an intel-
ligently designed scoring system
which v*'Ori<s like a 'tug-of-war'.
When one player is hit his energy
will go down- while the one who
launched the move's bar will go
up, Oh, and apparently ttie best
bit (according to the developers)
is that if you're losing dreadfully
you still get a chonce to come
back because spikes come out of
the walL and if you're quick ond
catch your opponent unawares,
you can chuck him onto the spikes, Blood w\\\
then ooze out from their impaled torso. Well, they
do warn you at the beginr>lng that the gome is
what's the story
Vou play a muscle-bound war-
rior who Is on o missiori to
dethror>e the evil master of a
huge costle. Vou start in the mis-
erable depths of the castle and
need to make your way to the
very top. Unfortunately, the
master knows you are there and
Intends to foil your plans by
placing a guord on each floor.
Apart from your obvious war-
rior skills you ore helped along
by the spirit of your deceosed
mentor. The fights will test the
Unfits of youf endurance and
shoufc) you lose, a fate worse
than death awaits you - yo4j will
be destined to Spend life in eter-
nity with Bernard Manning after
nine pints and o Vindoloo or
something. Failing that, the
master has the power to moke
you immortal and yOu will have
to serve him for ever.
■int nil
Tfre figMers in action, Ke«p an eye
on your stamina And' filtai'gy fur
.'t recommended for children or ihose who ore
native - oh, Ihat's okay ihen!
You have d stamina bdr that you witi n&ed to
- -sept an eye on too, A pink bar represents tfi©
•■:ad whereos biue lepresents tiT« body, and
; ■":cofding to wtilch area gets hit, the stamina vi/iji
■■";! on the corresponding bar When this is depie-
'ed the warrior wiii foil into a state of fatigue and
'^ left dangerously open to any move from their
opponent. By quickly tapping on the joystick the
player can rejuvenote himself, but the only way
to get the stamina back properly is to stand sHIl,
Depending on the kind of move and which port
of the body is used. It will take
oway different energy levels -
o block could come in useful
OS it will stop valuable energy
being zapped but
not the stamina,
however.
As for OS
the techni-
cal bits go,
the gome
boasts to
a
of'
bob
with
'me
have
'state-
the-art'
routine
real-t
horizontal
Aah, the lovaly throw four apponttni
Vtitif the spikes' movs
flip. This can animate two
large characters covering a
combined area of over
30,000 pixeis at a rate of 25
frames per second. A
semi-transparent 3D
shadow adds effect
and casts Itself on the
choracters and the
floors by
following
the char-
acters' move-
ments at the rate of 25
fromes per second.
And there
have it. As previ^
ously mentioned,
this preview is
only from o two-
layer, one-chor-
cter choice
demo and It will
be interesting to
see how things
shope up. There's
also no Indicotion of
how many char-
octers there will
be in the final
thing, but to
match the likes of
Mortal Kombot it's
' Taking a
rather grim
and violent
approach
similar to that of
Mortal Kombot,
it certainly
won't appease
the Moiy
Wtiitetiouses
ut there j
Ttw b^re-br^ast^a Turartior
woman whose previous
iaii inuolv^ii txanping
«rvund King's Croaa
going to need a fair few - all with special movesi
Atmosphere Is quite effective with a wide
ronge of sound effects such as punches, screams
of agony and crashes - a pumping soundtrack
starts the proceedings and gets you into the
fighting spirit of the game.
I
Insight
Capital fiuniihiwt^iit liOmAd COmpjAf* wUtl a
warning thmt it's not tor chfltlre*t or thm t*naltlifm
CopHal Punishment looks great yy/ith
Irripressive onimated bockdrops and
plenty of detail. Things such as shadows
ond groundshakes odd to the realism
ond ttie characters look good from
what we can ^e on the Introduction
screen (although, the guys in the office
seemed to fovour ttie t?are-breasted
worrior wormian), I hope a few speciot
moves will be Incorporated for the full
release to add voriety to the usuql array
of punches, kicks and throws* ond that
there is sufficient difference in what
each character can do.
There was alio o slight problem in
pi dyers disappearing off the screen
which needs to be rectified as it slows
things down o little. If it does deliver in
these aspects then I see no reason why
this won't be d briiiiont beat-'em-up
which will make a refreshing change
after the many Doom gomes!
■Mil nil
review
PUBUSHER
Scott Hayne
Scott Hoy no
£6.99
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^ This is a good effort which is a bargain for
the price. It's rather hard though, so will
keep you occupied for ages -
providing you don't tear your hair out first J
ins
Revtewed by Tina Hock&tt
m
hen a good puzzle game hits the
shelves. It can sell by the bucket-load -
look at the succe^ of Lemmings for
example. However, there are many
others that just tall by the way-side,, due
mainly to (ack of originolity.
The next In the line of Amiga puzzlers is
Penguins - a brave effort from o chop coiled
Scott Hayne who Is dealing with ttie whole release
by himselt from the development to the publish-
ing, Although a commercial release, he is sellir^g
the game at o snip of a price of £6,99, so to judge
Penguins fairly, this should be kept in mind.
The concept behind It is that you play a fox or
something which looks rather simllai; and you're
mission Is to guide some bewildered penguins
safely through the levels, ([Why this Is a fo>;'s job is
anyorie's guess. What do you want for £7 - real-
ism?). You have various obstacles to overcome,
from conveyor belts to flame jets, and you will
need to negotiate platforms to get each penguin
from one door to the exit-
But the penguins ore not completely helpless.
The one In blue can collect keys whilst ttie other
one can club any baddies that stand in the way.
However, this means you'll oiso have to think
about which penguin you want to move out first,
A map function makes life easier and allows you
to stay stationary and scroll around the level whilst
you plan your next move - and if you find yourself
in a no-win situation your only option will be to
press escape. Fortunately, a code is presented
after each level because It you didn't save I'm
convinced you'd be there for decodes.
Both the graphics and sound work adequately
for the type of gam« it Is - you don't need fancy
effects for a puzzler to work. Ttie backgrounds ore
quite detailed, though, and it's nice to see that
t mmp hntction aflcrws you to t^s a foak
vTAund I'he lev^l and plan yaur nwvo
these change every so often. The sprites also lo:. <
quite nice, olthougti I think they may have
benefited from being a little larger
Final word
Penguins hardly scores highly In the originality
stakes but ft does offer 60 levels for or^ly £7 -
and entertaining levels they ore fool Each pro-
vides a different challenge and they become
progressively harder as you go. introducing you
to each obstacle gradually. However, even the-
beginning levels are tricky and the gome won't:
be for you If you don't have much patience.
This is o good effort which Is a bargain for the
price. It's rather hord though, so will keep you
occupied for ages - providing you don't tear
your hair out first. Ppppick one up todayl (Soriyl)
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Overall Pinball Prelude is a
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standlng graphics and
superb sound effects, It's o
pity thiere are only ttiree
tobies, but withi data disks
coming In the neor future,
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be one of the best pinball
simulators money can buy.
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Pinball
Reviewed by Ar^y Maddcx:k
aver ttie last few monttis I tiave reviewed
two or ttifee Rnball games and to be
honest, none of them have managed
to sustain my Interest at oil - although I
did give Thomas the Tank Engine's
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was good.
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tioned counties times before. However, something
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- elttier I wasn't fully conscious frorn the night
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spring in the middle of tt>e screen. This table oisc
features all the muitiballsv bonus balls, targets one
other strongs extras, but somehow I don't feel ttii
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Frank Nord hits his
stride with the
second part of
his look at
Workbenchs menus
Weltame back tv our world
tour of Workbench's menus.
This month we wilt continue
^^^^^M iour in-dvpfh study af tha
Workbenth menu before tontinving an to
the Window rtieou with iti many and
varied opthm. Nexf menrh wv will be
tovering the kons menu and Took menu
before going on tp distust f?pw ^o
rnprove the productivify "^ '''*
Workbenth menuf-
That About
requester
Wofkberiich'i abouf requasler con be flfiods a !ol
nwre inforfwosive it yew run o commodily lilts MulliCX.
This dwnges the data sHown in flia- winiJow fratTi just
giving the Kickslaft and WorMierieh vefsiofls to giv-
ijng not only riiaf infwnwtiW but alio wfrat CPU y*»
have and iU stolut, ihe amount of memory in your
Mochine and how much oF it is being used, and gives
you bultarti Id flush memory- of nebool ihe mochine -as
wg|L 01 lh« standard C4( buHon,
JSSEL2.
lAfbuld you
like to see
the menu?
The Workbench menu
continued*. •
About... - ihis handy menu ilem will bring up Q window iflling /ou wh<jt intamnl version of Workbench and
Kickjtarl ycm are using, Bflsicolly-j what ihis means is (hat intleod q\ getting *2-04 for your Kicksfarf,
you would end vp with v37.175 ond sa on, This, informorion h flKiinly of usa when giving peopte (ba
configufdHofl of your rfidchin*.
Quit - (his ij one of ihe noil cotnpl&lHly poinfeu Items in Woikberich's menus. If you diooie lliis menu item
you will probably get a message wying that Workbench canflol quif because (here are one or mofs
WoribencHognched programs running [this inclwdes commadities), and if yau don'f gel this, itien youf
Worlhench wilt disoppeor leaving on eimply msnu bar, Tliete ii no way io reskirl your Amiga from ihij, so
the onljr ihing you can do is resel the raochifie which you couW havB done onywoy to wiva yomraelf ihe
trouble al dosing down all your proefami, e*c.
Jhii tnenu and Us itemt only become
avaiiobie if yoii bovn? an attive window
open on tbe Workbench screen. Jf you
don't then oU the options here wHi be
ghosted out to they eannof be used.
New Drawer
3N
New drawer - pfeily self-sxpkanotory this one. A
new direclwy, complete wilK ossocioied icon, will
oppeof in As ocfive windov^ [you cart'l' create a
new drawer without a^ i<:on when using
Workbench's menus). A raname requester w^ill rihan
pop-up Oiking you for o r»ew name for Ihe drawftf
jwJiich, if we're going to be picky, meani ihat ^
New Drower menu it&m really ovghl to have on
ellipsis ofter it as it openi o fsquester windaw), Tlas
icon used for ihij new drower will depend on your
default drawer icon wliich is stored in ENVisyi as
■■def_drawef'. You can change this defoult icon in
two ways. The first is by copying a new drower
icon into ENV^sys ond renaming it Oi def_drawer,
and ifie iacond is to load your desired icon inlo
IconEdit and 50*6 H OJ dsfauil in itie Pfojecl menu.
Open Parent
Open panflt - dead easy this one. All ii dci« is
open ihe pflfent of ths current drower 's window.
The Window menu
Close
OK
CloH - dojei the current window. Even eosier
than ihe previous definition;.
Update
U
Update -ihis item refrethei lh« contents of the
octive window. This csn come in handy when you
□re using o program like DOpus 1o move; file*
around or eKtroCt Qfchivfl* ond you olreody bave
ihe appropriat* windows Open on Workbench,
Bflcouse WorkbencVs fits notificoiion isn't all it
might be,, quite often yew wiK find ihal olffiougli you
have fillad ihe SAM disk with itenfis in DOpus, irs
window an Workbench still oppeors empty. Using
updolfl will save you from having to dosfl the
window down qnd rfropen it.
Select Contents ^ElA
Select contenti - selects all the files in the adive
drower.
Clean Up
Cl«Qn Up - one of the best additions to
Workbench 3's trnnm is the keyboard jhorlcul
assigned to thii item. Previousty you wowld need lo
use the menus to clean up untidy windov,'5, .All ihe
same, it would be gr»d if Wortbanch wos d little
clearer aboul bow it lldies up ihe active window.
Window
All
^71
Snapshot - ihis is a svb-menu ccxisiitirig of Iwq itenu
- window and all. Theae iwo optioAs callow you lo
respectively snapshot ihe positicn and size of iha active
window ond the positions of oH rtw icons in ihe win-
dow ond the window iistlf. If yo« ui* the bodtdrop
item in the 'Workbench mertg explained lasl fflonlh,
iben jrau should use the Snapshot window item 10
malte sure ihot Workbench COr«S up in this slyle.
Only Icons
^ All Files
Show - MOJn, Q sub-menu wiih twa items. These deo
vflth whai the direciofy window on Workbench will
ihow - either just ihe filss that hove icons with ibe ''only
icons' option, or every iingb file wilii Ihe 'dl fibs' item.
View by - This one deter-
mines how [be ic&ns will be dis-
played In a diredlD«y window,
whether by icon Of ds text.
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Name
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Paul Overaa outlines
an unusual use for
the DOS segment
loading routines
Building
bloclcs
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liOAol UM of ^9 L«ldSe^g^] and UnioodSegd
DOS routines is for Iwding and unlmding
'^' blocks of dolQ iuch ai graphic iinaggi,
Nwdlesj Ici ioy, for tfiii to be done iKe Imagas
them selves need to be provided as conyenlioncil
AmigciCHDS-slyl* toad files and, sfnce mtosi groptv
ics start life as IFF files, Ifiii meanj ^hot a certain
Qmouni of pfeliminory conversion work is nee^d
in ordef 1o get tfie graphics, into ffie right form.
The first step then would be lo use, say, Delui^e
Paifii' to cnsate tfie required grophici objscf and
store if as piclura File. &y switching oi* Deluxe
Paifil's. K/Y co-ordinale display O «S*r can aosify
create ob[ecf6 of a given jize io if, say, o grap-
hic imogs 60 pixels by SO pijteli is needed then
a suitable background oreo can ba markBd oul,,
fhe imogei can bs drown, and the bruih fgcilily
used to save ihol parficubf orea of ihe display Oi
an IFF file,
Intvillon'i 'image drawing \i bci$Qd on a
standardised block a\ data known as art Iniage
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Loading and displaying
Oik* on image i* in AmigaDOS toodabiE form it is qtiitt a fimpie matter to reod info
the program using ItKidSegOanti disptay it uiiog tfit Intuition Drawfmag«{} function.
Given a Yaii4 filtnomB, a typital code fragment for doing fNiJ would took somethingi
like thot $hown in tistiog 2, As always, however, to produie a runabie exampie quUtt
a /d# of additionai work n«eds to be d'one.
A window n^mdi to be opened and, if we want to display a uier-specified imagv
file, rather than just use a hard coded fitetiotfie, then that name hot to be coilected
and a proper fite path/name bailt up, I've opted for an Intyltion-bated Workbenth
rvnable exomple that oliows Fhe irser to select and display image fties using rhe as!
requester^ ond n»xt month {'it be giving yoo the tompiete iource and explaining how
ft works J
slrue+UFs, ond Ihis is used primarity in conjunc-
tion with Ofl Ifil'iiiHon library routine coll&d
DiQwImageO. So, having prodw:ed on IFF pic-
ture file it ihen needs lo be converted inlo daio
slaremenls- which represent ihe equivolen!
Intuition Image struciur&. Tliis can be done using
one oF ihe many dedicated public domain con'
verier programs you'll Find arauitd or, altema-
lively, by using o pnogrom, sitch oj 'Idovalronic's
Power Windows, rhat is able lo generate oiisem-
bly longinoge-ilyle source doia state msnis tor
images loaded into gadgets |see listing 1]
When you ore including graphics data in ihis
way it musr, of course, end up in chip memory
orherwise the Amiga's cusrom chips jnamely (he
blitterl will nol be' able ro access i(. This mean* at
rhii poin! in ihe proceedings ii will be naceisnry
lo edil lh« image sFrudure fife in order to add a
cfiip mem&ry section direclive. Ihe*e is, incidtn-
lolly, a minor difference between ihe seciion syn-
tax used by Devpoc and rfiat used by Charlie
Gibb's A6flk ossembler WiFh Devpac chip
memory is specifietl using l^is sort of statement:
HCTIM Illfl«Cll*tJl_£,
where DATA^C is a keyword Indicating chip
memory and IMAGE ^ust an arbitTory section
nome. Ctiarlis Gibb's ASSk osjembler isquires a
slighHy different seci'ian syniox and the sou^rce
code line shown above, which would of course
ne«d to be ploced just before the grapiqic^ data
ilself, must be changed lo:
Thfl A68k ossembler does, of course, also
require t^Ql s«urce hies contain on explicit END
SlQlemenl, so A6flk users will odditionaily need lo
(include such er^d mqirkers in fkeir imoge Files.
Once these modificahoni have been made ihe
imgqa strifclure file can be assembled and passed
ihnaugh the linker to create a bad module ihol lh»
loodSegjj routine will occepi.
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More handy hints
on ARexx script
tracing with the
Rexx meister -
Paul Overroa
Vfithout
a trace?
Lojj month I menlloned hhal ARexjt suppcnls
arv 'Jnteradive' tracing mode which qIIowj
the programmer 1o Jlep through □ pra-
^^H gram, and interact with ft whilst it i} being
traced. Depending on the trace options selecied,
d variety of dalci will ba- shown and il h, in facl^
***"
trace saipl line
4++
command or synftw errofi
>»
sxpression or templale pone result
><>
valus assigned Id a p^ace holder during parsing
>c>
expansion of a compound variable name
»F>
Imcfiofl call reiuli
>0>
res*jll of a ttyadic (two opefond] operafioEi
>P>
rasull of a pnsfix operatian
>v>
value of variable
>l>
a label piierat cornio^"!) value
Tj»W* f
- Symbnir uasif la iifanrJlTy j|R«j[ji: fr*ce iTwni
passible to look at the eontenis &f vorioblej, t6-
e^ecLiie cloiiS€i, and Bvsr\ enter odditional
inslructions.. Because under nofmol circumstances
all tfoce outpui would be inlariacivaij with normal
program output, the best idea whe*? tracing (he
execution of o script is to open ihe ARskx 'global
irocing console'' and this ii done simply by
opening a Shell window ond lyping KO!
Ii is possible to add trace instructions directly
inlo the scnpl that you wish 10 trace, but ARexst
alio moinlainj on 'exlernal tracing flag' that con
bs used to force programs inlo inherociive ifocing
mode. If, in fact, you lypa- T5 □( the Shell window
ofter opening the global trocing console, ihe T5
[Trace 5e)] uiitily will be executed and this will
coMse oli subssquently executed scripts 10 enter
inleroctive tracing mode OMtomaiiically.. The Irac-
ing flog, incidentally, can be cleared by typing
TE (Trace End) and ARe^n's globol treeing con-
sole con be closed by typing TCC [Trace Console
Closfi).
Initeroctive trocing prompts the usaf For input with
! ■■■^■k«_j£i; *•
-~TH
:if 1!*.'
1 W:
i::^:^!^:
1 "..Kifi '
• mr
d
Th9 AftwMw gl^th*' ti^eJinjf ^aaaote In aetionl
Q '>+>' code and at ihese points yau can either
press ihe retwrn Itey ta skip \o the flew breakpoint,
preii '=' to r-frexecwle the previnsus douse, or type
soma executable ARexx stalenv&ni. Table 1 showj
ihe code syrnbob r<'hich ARexs vses to identify the
lype^ of items il displays in tW trace.
TYPICAL TRACE SESSION
rjliei-e'j no doubt at all that the best way to gef
itg grip J with ARexx's tradng (auHtiss ii to
9Xperimant with them ming your dwn stripts,
but to gel you itarttd, here's what happ^rn in
a lypitol inter9<ti¥e trating session whilst
examining this do-eftd hcpi
Ixumpie.rexx
io i-1 [ft JD
s*y '*C Test'
cbi
tf you execute ihe above propnim this h thm
sort of information that wsU appear at the trace
eansele windaWi
»> "t"
3 *■• isr 'K lnV:
Tfi« intmrattlva trace is disptaying tine posi-
timf and tioi/se detaiit os rt exetutes the fint
iteration of the program ^dop. ASexx i$ now
waiting for further instrwttions. Pressing relurft
iets ARexx (enow that it sbouid continue run-
ning up ta the next breakpoint, and on doing
thif thf trace disptay eantinues withi
I *■' dc 1=1 (9 SO;
I
mM
If at this point we new fry lyprirg:
HI f«jp«n«e to iht >*> prompt w^ wtil see that
AReKM prints 3 at thm program's normai output
window. Now, this of course is fhe current
vaive of i being used in the progrartii but if we
then typed 1=49 and continued trocing we'd see
thii dispiay appear:
? •-* ijo id tn 50';
I •■» HI 'lit Test';
>+>
I
Afiexx would have set the i vahe to 49 and
then duly increnrentfd it at the end of fhe loop.
The result? The program terntititttes afttr one
mare iteration because the value of i then
becomtf greater than th£ retfiiifed loop exit
value (ie SO},
tfj instead of chontfin^ the vohe of i tike ihii,
we had typed ottother instruction, this tea
would have been Bxetuted and this of totirse
tan be used to set new trace dispiay options.
To turn off the traiing and let the hop run 05
per normal we could use the commands
trm biclground
or its single letter equivalent:
trace b
Interactive f racing and Command tnhibiiion
Toggies:
A f character ivntd on its own or in front of o
TRACE option} can be used to ahernatety toggh
the troclog mode from normal to interactive
and bacifi again. Hence the instruction.,,, trace ?
errors for its abbreviated farm trace ? ej
would, if rfte current mttde was set to normal
tracing, switch to error tracing in interactive
mode, tf the current mode was intWFOCtive then
the same instruction would switch to error
tracing in non -interactive (ie narrnof) tnode,
A I toggle tharoclir can be used in a similar
fashion to prevent ARexx from sending com-
mands to external hosts or to re-enable the
commttnd communications facility. Tbis is par-
tieularty useful when, say, yov wish to lest
ADDJ?fSS COMMAND instratliatts within pro-
grams that may be specifying potentially dan-
gerous AmigoOOS commands (file deletion and
so pn/.
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A year in
::^the V\feb
You may recall gboul a yiear or so ago I
wrals D piece jn ihi column ahoul lbs
Internet soyirig how the Web was a good
H ideo but i1 was going lo be overitil)-
scribed in a very short lime? Well il"s now 1996,
and lure enough ihe World Wide Web has
become, for rrosf people, ihe Inlernet, or al lenal
fhe bir of i( ihey jee.
Web browsa^i hms all bui reploced lhe pi'her
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Inlerrief, and llis proliferation of Web iiiei ij such
iW by tihe ervd of 1996 we can expect to see mil-
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rtwuwnds. It's confidently pfgiiicted bn^ mme ihof
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pflf 20s30 people oa Eorlh, So what does ttiis mean
in feol terms?
For Q sliorl it mear>5 ifiai ge«ing onle lh« Web
ond novigoting around will get harder a^ the year
goes abng, and you will have lo woii bnger andi
longer for jrour choien Web $(fe to come up onto
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Many mojor sites ore increoiing lhe amount or
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locd wiil continue to grow and the capacity to keep
up will gel iivoller. In effect it will become unu^ble
unless sDntelhJr>g happens.
It ma]r be, ^nd I offer this as one likely scenor^,
thai lhe demand far lhe Web will (all of o; Ifte i^i;
dedicated Nel spidefi give up once the load goes
up lo unfeasible levels. This will, of coursf:, redvce
Ihe load and fherefwe ttie wsobility of tha Web wiil
go up,
This ij the boom and bus! rmodel, which has sev-
erol recent precedenls. Sliatebtxirding in the '70s,
Kung Fu, olao a '70'i thing, and hamt computing
mogo^ines are examples I i:an think of. In ihe
More, bigger, faster
for ^he IntmrnBt to work in any meaningful way
aftmr this year, everything if going to have to go
up an Ofder of magnitude, Modetm ore d^'ng lo
hove to get foster, phone line* ore going to hove
to get foHer and cheaper, and rhe backbone of th«
Internet is going to have to be actessed faitet and
more ffvidly by the JSPj, the peopie who ore
offering what it laughingly catled a aerfiie these
daySi
The WWW was always too slow and a fieh
bay's toy, and it was always under too muek fogd
and wailing for faster tethnofogy. Thv only kind of
people who corn aaess tig graphicaily-ortented
sites in the US art people with a direct connection,
i.e. bvtitieises, people who work for tnternet
companies or magaximt, pectple with more money
than seme, ond nef the unemptoyvd, the hontehssr
and people on tow wages, who etin^t do this and
wiii posiibiy think thot they are misiing out on
sometfiing very important.
I think that the WWW wilt become very impor-
tant, but ot the moment it it stUI obottt 65 per cent
advertising puff, and obovt 5 per tent sifly home
pages with pictures which are too targe to load.
What thv WWW needs is o big that of technology
in the arm, and qvUk, bafore it betomes unysexbie
to thom who liki it and want it to grow sensibly
into a new communications and br&odtest medium
which can compete on a kvef piaying field with
TV, rodia, video games and movies.
mm
beginning the*e is 5 liuge explosion of wsers ond ifie
demand for tfie tiding growj and grows at a logorifh-
mic rote, o porabola ot user* ihooling Up the ysage
gnsph like a little lockel, snd then, just like a roclcet,
the usage diti off as the dobblers and trendies foil
hf lhe woyside. Eventually, lhe mogozines support-
ing lhe hobby die off as lhe dainand falls, oruj titen
the usags ai the thing, whatever it mighl be, falls
back lo us^ible levels,
Tlhis is whot happerud wilh skoteboafding and
Kung Fu 20 years age, and possibly will happen
soon wilfi lhe Iniernel and, of course, the oiher two
greal fads of the rr id '"^Os, ihos* silly Pogs and oSI-
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Ii's possible. Olid indeed from a hobbyist's poini
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by no means certain. Wfiot wilt happen if demand
for lhe Iniefnet grows, !ike thai for TV (that olher
great tfiing which everyone said wovid never catch
on], and we hove on evsf escakiting omouni of peo-
ple Irying to get on. ff you l^ink ii's hard Id get on
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bscome impossible. Unless of course something can
be done.
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rank Nord continues
his look at what
mokes a good ?
layout for an
advert
The art of
advertising
p ort 2
LOif month I slicwed tf*e basKS of layiiig asrt
singte i1#m, single pege, full colour
advert, bul □ bt of potentiol adv«rHseFS
won't hove fhe tujfury of full colour, full
page advertising. Th^re at6 tev«ral h/^ayi 1o
opprHWch limiied budgef. The first is to reduce itie
size of the advaft, the sscond \i lo Icij^ lK& cdour
(or or iMit most d \\\.
ff ytju ore designing your od for o quortef page
layout, rolher than a full page, there ore dii^rent
coniidefoiionj io be riKide, For a itort you won't
even be able to put the amounl ai texl ihat we vimi
in ihe good poge deiig**, ii will need lo be cut
down even further. BecauM quartsr pogs tadvsftis'
ers oren'i considered os imporltini as full page or
sprerid (Kiverlijeri, you will hovt to maite iure your
od will 34ill be efledive whetlwf it is placed on an
ouljide edge, or injide edge of either q left- of
dght4>and page. This., unfortunately, necessitotes a-
feitrided design [unless you arie feeling particularly
boldl wilh much of yotir inbrmation centred in yo<ur
boH.
You're not simply going; to bs able to shrink ywir
fifll poge layout to fit into a quarter page eilher.
This would almost certainly m»an that your \^nf will
be t«o imoll to iee <i<n4 your con tad numbers
wiDuldn't staF>d oul as well □; they might eithar. 5o
whrijt ore we goiivg lo do? Our best bet is no! nec-
essarily to ditch the picture and fill the box with l^xt
- unless, of course, ttve picture is porlicularly boring
- but WB do havB to ggl across the most imporlonl
pjOiniS of our product ond our soles^ speok has Id be
sv^n more concenlvoied, A big price figure is oil
you need if your product is famiiiai to most people,
but if it isn't \h^n o bulleted list of USPs (unique sell-
ing points] and comments from reviewers, can be
very effective, as long as it's shoi. So pick out the
most important fealktres and wark out how to
e,Kplcii(i the 111 sixcincli/, but in as few wofds as
possible.
It's very tricky fc* me to give you examples of
how to do this <js your circumstances cai;ld be
o w much:
if yo^ ore mtifest^6 in adY^rtititig m an Amiga magazine
jrou vfilt ne«d to g^t in eonhftt with th^ Q^vsrii^'mg dvpofi'
ment of whomever magozme yov thooie and oiic them fo
imnd you a media pQ<k whkh incfudp d«taih like the target
feadirlbip of the mogazrne and the rates for advertising in
the mag. Amiga Computmti'i tar^it readenhip are moinfy
a^ir 18 (so they should have iome money} and indeed,
more than 60 per tent iff them earn more than J Ok a year.
The rates to advertise in a magazine like Amiga Computing
range frtHn £10i sit the way up to £2}00. bt/t vary ocfOfd-
iftg to haw many ads you will commit yourseif to and at
what jfze.
In^iirioid by Nwifta BrotlyT ByC, of ciMir99-r,..
completely different from whci 1 om suggesting, but
there are always easy niles, to folfow with r ggord to
conti^jcting text. Things like flowery adjectives and
adverbs, stuff in bracteis and introdvcirons con
always go. What can'l go ore your producl's
odtfcinloges, ordering informolion ond price.
If all that sounds too much like hord worl, you
might won! to reduce the omount of coIouj in your
od. This ii a lot easier For those adverts that have
more ihon 50 prod«ci$ mentioned in ihem, as we
discussed lost month, because you are pretty muchi
fejjricted to o ilrst Formol witlwui pictures or^yway,
but sirvgle colour or spot colour orlverlising o s-ingile
produd is lot border $irice it gives the impression
thot you are beirvg cheap. If at oil pajslMsj try to
moke the foct if^at you hove q restricted colour
polette work for yov witfi grayscole drgpihadows
Odd WOBs [revisrsed text - While On Blact) help
ing to give the impression ibpt a single s^1 colour
was a design decision cm your port rather than a
hnoncial one.
For inspiroHon, try to find some of tfve work of
Neville Brody, the UK's most fajhionoble designer
best-known for his work on iD, Arena oind The
Face. If you look at the icreenjhoi on this page,
you'll recognise the style instantly Irom various
poster compoigni ond film logos. This is o lot
harder to achieve .than simply reducing the size of
jfour Qifvert, bul if you hove the floir for il, the
resiills coin often look more expertsive thon a full
colour ad with a baring design.
iVERYONE'S
A WINNER. ••
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Al bng last vi«'ve decidfld to do Ina draw on the
competirion we ran lost year to wm a copy d one
of EMCwipotergropbic's exoeflent CDs dedicofed
to DTP. The lucky fWe winners are OS follows: |
Bony Cutler from Beckenhom, Kent :j
RF Baird from Edinburgh '
& Robertson from Middlesboraugh i
StevB Taylor from East Denehom, Norfolk T
M Clofke from f|f;i;t«i, Manchester i
Yov should oil conloct EM Computergraphic on
[0]25S) 431389 Ut tsll tjiem wfuther you wont
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PAGESfREAM
PROGRESS
SfiH nothing tonerete thiM monlhf but
Softl0Qik hovt sent us a press refeeise
stating that version 3.0f wili work with
CyberGfaphics-emiipped graphics eetds
becoming the Amiga's ftnf, nor}'graphttS
oriettted Iweil, you Jknow what } meart},
appHeation to work in 24-bit (olavr.
Amka Computinc
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Phil South looks into
the options for
creating interesting
multimedia with
Amos
MulHmedia k a bit of o buzzword wilh
moit people at iKe momept, ond hoi
been h' some limfl. Unfcrlynqlely for
"^^^W Amiga uiBrSj mosf of ihe progrQmJ
which create she muhiuipedw oppliooiions we conjume
are fjojad on PC and Mac plarfomns. Tfi-ii is fer seve-
ft^ good reaiws, or ol l«iit good r-eoions if ^u ene
a PC Of Mac user. Tha Amiga is o imalbr trorket
ffian rtiE PC. so dehiTlopers ote leaning IxkA from ihe
former and creoSng le^s if nol' no muliimedio opplko-
Hons. Scala is a parfecf pkirform for aealing livety
pre-seniQiior^s, and ic \i Diredor, hvt you can do
rtiese kirvds of thing i with Amos, ond hene's how.
If ^u hove an IFF onimaiion you eon u» the
added FunctioiKilify of AMOS PRO lo give you ani-
mations ifi youf programs. Thew ore, of course,
mojily lo* uw os game iniroi, bui i1 is pojsibfe to
make multirredio pnogroms which use this facility.
Imagine am Amos progrom which hos been com-
piled and ii postered onto a CD. Imagine clicking
Onto a piclure ond suddenly il buTsis into life as on
□nj mat ion like, for exompU, an animation (fom
LigihiWave or something iimilai lo thai
Making Amoj use If Fs is easy. Irt com you've
never done if, here's how it'i done. fHoving first
made your IFF fite, using Dpflinl or LightWove,
Real3D or whatever, you con play it straight to a
specified screen number, like so:
Iff mil "kfj.inir Ta D
This ploys aiv onimaiion colled "big.anim" to screen
0. This ii the most direct method of playing an
¥Sfr
Other ideas
Ones' you've maftered piaying batk animations you could
try to sort out how to ploy botk a narration in sync with the
animation, or if not pretiieiy in syni thin at teilit Ot the
some t'ims. This touid be o narration or f^rbops a pi«t9 af
music. (HP: try samphng a snatch of musit and looping it fot
a ionger pitit of music and to keep the sample siie down.)
To piay back an iFF sample while yovr animation is piaying,
first iood fhe sample into bonk {usuaily bank 5} using the
iampie leader supplied with Amot.. Ojxe your sample is in
the bank, you piay it back with SAM PLAY, tike this:
Ut Pliy 1
which piayi baek thi Brsi tample in the sample bank.
At another n^norio, vfhich makes a tat more spnse far
multimedia, you touid play a sample of a voice narration,
teiling everyone' "what a briliiant animator yau are^ plus
have the music supplied by o MOD file played ba^k using the
Track Piay tommand, Thit means you woufd have grophicSf
veicb and music ail moving at ante. VoiiOr moltimedial
Ntfxf manih I'll be going through torn* mare spttifit
oxamplmS for you., 5ih> you ffien....
Using the
buxzvford
Multimodia prsaantarioiu h»v» navar fre«n oa-alar
animotiori in Ainos ond it i\i(\gf\y Kikes the animo-
lioin yw specify and ploys <l. fov can da this:
ijjiti "tfa,trt1i" To Dj5
to fiiKik& il pky a ipecified amount of limes^ which
in this oosB ii fivB tintes. 'V'ou can^ if you like, write
a simple IFF Anim player routine using thfj
command;
many frames Id pkry baci.{ Haw you can ploy tiack
ihe frames from a memory bank, using tHe Frame
Play 00m mond:
F=Fr,i( flay (13,1,1))
D«ubti Buffer
F = FriiE FLart^l)
I
Iff Mil fiillf"') Tu tjM
as the core of ihe code. You could put ihii inlo
nice border or e«fl add ya«r own play and rev^ind
buttons, which well go into in a minute. Now, there
are a number of woys you con monipubte fife to
make it pby back in certain specilisd ways. 'Vou
must firsi lood the onim fife into bonk, using the
Open in command;
t
tfti] It \,*Hi.ie\t'
then use ttie FRAME LOAD command to lood the
frames to a memory bonk:
H^ I^rraic Tg M,\m) ^^0
Mow you have all ihe from** in the aninnation [ony-
ihing up to IQOO frames] in bank 1 0, and you also
have □ na(B ol how many frames wece looded in
the voriobie Z, jThii \i t^seful for knowing how
Notice that Double Buffering i^ not switched an
atftomatfcally ai»d you have to aciiviote it yourseH,
Now you hiJive full control over the Sronjes, ond you
can make ihem step brword and backwards using
mouse^ontrolJed bv'ton. Buttons con be mode
from any graphic and zones con be drawn over
them to make a buHon sensitive tq □ mouse click. So
you must check if ihe mouSe button has been -clicked
and' if the mowse is in the specified jone. Thefl yog
feed the command to the FfiAME PLAY port of the
routirre ond you con move ihe enimatiofl back, ofid
fenh like that.
IMPORTAffT: You hewe 10 uie flogs in your pfo-
grom (of' dljicussed in a recent edition Of this col-
umn) to ensure that only the firs! click is read when
you click on one of theje control buttons. Set Ihe
flag to 1 when the button has been clicked so ony
sub^qi^eiit presses of the button are not read. This
could cause big problems in your pfogrom if yov
don't do this, os the frames of ttte onimalion ■won'l
be ployed back m sequence, and everything could
go horribly wrong. Flogs ore good habit to gef
into anyway, as I said in the prevrous orticle.
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Paul Overaa
provides an
overview of ?ne
current Amiga Mid
sequencing scene.
Do it i
True Midi iaqvencars, as meit of
yifv witi doubtlea know, ar«
designed printanty to rttord, eiiH
-flHH and piay batk Midi dola.
Although alt mth offerings also afiaw
yott to use Amiga internat sounds os
weN fhe reai soitwore, emplmsis is pri-
marity on recording from, and playing
back to M/d'i equipment. What sort of
choke is there as far as reel Amiga Midi
sequenc^rf go? Well four sequentgr
Qackages have stood tht titt of fim*.*
Sequencer One Ply* - SoFtwone TKhnology'i
Saquencer One Plus is on* of lh« few UK (devel-
oped sequencers hhal bos found a safe niche for
ifself Qntidif the rather awejome heo^yweighf
Sla(fliid& compel ili-en. Sequencer One Ptui offers
ci'l )he basic funclions needed k>i Midi ^uencing
aiid (f Supports ihe use of in)eirnol sounds as- well os
Midi oriented Dulpul.
Two edilors are available including e high-level
Bar Editor which showj ihe orrofigenvent of the
song, gfophicolly indicating for eoch Irock ihe bori
which contain data. The moin us* of rfiis editor ii
faf viewing orwf cieottng arrongementj gnd coriy-
ing oul block adiNng opercilioni. More d&toiled
editing is performed using the Step Editor which
provides a piono roll-type dijpbjr,
for a middle range sequencer, Ssquenc&r One
Ptus offefs surpfising number of Midi 'goodies,'
olihowgh ii does, of course, ladt mofiy of the refinfr
menSs foijnd wfth iheovjrweig hi Amiga packages.
You'll Find no Konmofi;^ generators, ioore pfiniing,
or ihe mo^s tjoteric opiions like SMP"TE or Midi
Time Code support, bul it is nevertfieles suitable
fo; moit non-proFesslonal use and it is very well
priced. Software Technology hove eisefitiolly can-
cenirqied on creotirvg and supporting g 'workhorse'
sequencer that offers the g«r just (he bosic facilities
needed for serJous, use.
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Phim ~ m mtH
Muiic-X-tNatator-X - Music X hoi alwoyi been
a powerful sequencer bul when Wusic-X versicm 2
come along, a number of fcciliiies induding ARexx
control and iupport lor muifiple senal poji card
use were added. Th« most imponant (addition,
however, wen the incluiiofl of o very useful score
nofoiion progrom called Nototor-X wi^jclii allows
you to write, edft and print music scores.
Both Music-X ojid NoiQicif-X, incidentally, can
run as standalone progroms, bul if yanf Amigo hoi
n»ore Ifian T .5 meg d memory tfien ywj'll be able
wlo m lot of Muppori
f» fit* t)mw Muaie-X
tci njn both pfogram* logelher and move muiic doio
between them. You can, incideftlfllljf, also use
Ncriafor-X in con[unciion with arty otfier sequencer
pockoge thot supportiMidi file impoft/expart.
Dr T's KC5 - Ihe oifrent Dr T's olWing, known oi
the KCS lewd M, pfovides the KCS ietjuencer, PVG, a
Wqsler Editor, Tiger ( a graphic editor), QuidiScor'e
[which provides fxiiic score/ffonscriptiw and printing
fqcilitiesl ond AutoMisi. All of these compawrvts ore
ifllegroted into Dr T's mulli-program environment
|MPE|. Tl>e trade ediling fncitities are quite sophijliss-
ed - there is fully imp(anten)ed cut and paste ediling,
pitch transposiliofl, frock shifting, Irocfc splitting, no»e
duration ond velocity correctieni functions, Irack
rearrangentent, muliiple cue points, automatic new
ir^k muling (hdphjl when doing multiple lakes), and
some iftte«sh"ng note ond contrdler splitting bciliiiei.
Other goodies- include rennole Midi control of
iian/sfop/recond funcfions, supporl for the Phonksm
SMPlE intiwfqce, controller choiing, time newsfsal, re-
cFwsnneJiling, autcKornection, real-lime ond slep-time
ediSng, inversion QWJ Nie obilily to protect drvm pons
horn tnonspoaition. In short thece's liltfe you con't do!
5aTs & Pipei Profetjtonal Blue Ribbon
Soufidwofi') Bcfs & Pipes Professional is as mydn o
creative lod as o conventionol sequenoer. There ofe
very poweiful song porometei options which lei you
define lyric lines, chofds keys/scoles.. rhylhm data,
global dynamics and so on. There's outomated mix-
ing, dl the uwd stuff lilte Midi-file, Sysei^ ortd internal
sounds support, limeliw scoring (for videq/fih wwi)
and SMPTE fcKilittes. In shorl, BofS & Pipes PVo is a bril-
lioint piece of software wfiich, in practice, suffers from
only one real mog. - the anjo^nt of nvemory needed to
fun it. A leoliitic set up for serious work woukf be a
fast nwchine with aro«yf 2-i ffiiegs of memory ak*^
with hord diik.
Overall
Software Tethnohgy's Sequenter One
Pius is a useful, and very reasonably
pri<fld entry'levei product which ttow hat
quite a large user ba». Both Dr T's KCS
and Biue ftibbon Soitndwork's
Bars&i^ipes ieqvencers, fiowfira^r, are rhe
iavootites amongst most professional
Amiga muskians, Qnd i>oth Or T and Rim
ll^rbbon iovndworks do, incrdentalty, also
offer dozfttf of ofhsr Amiga music pock-
ages - pahh editors, notation software,
iibrarians etc,
f^Usic-X has ai^vays been popuJar but
of late there hat been renewed interest
ifl this package, spetificalty because of
the Notator-X score «4itittg facilihes now
provided. Of )ate it's aho been the
subJBet of a tubsfantial price cvt and is
now very good vafue for money.
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Turn your animation info
a professional movie
with exciting camera
angles and realistic
shadow effects
It's in
the can!
In la SI inonlii's attide I axplqined in detoil
Ae principles of fhe X, Y and Z cxJs and
how ihey ton allow you \o mgnfpylglie ond
•IH animate br^shei wi(h eose and wUh ipec-
iQCukir resulls. I also touched upon how you can
Ui8 Move lo acluolly mimic camera panj tind
Cam-tff} pons and ZDOin& ore important in any
aninfiotion juit as ihey ore in film, and you can
learn a uiefuf f-echniques by itudying ihe loJfei.
Implefflifiniing difFerenf comero ongle* i.s an excel-
lent way of speeding up or il'owing down the
aclion and conveying emotion in wbal i> basica-
lly o 2D Qri form, Howevsr, camera onglei hove
a nvore basic appeal ond lKai is tO' keep iha audi-
ence interesled in whgt i; ocluolly hopp^ning.
Imergine o two hour movie with only one scene
ond with a single camefo ongle -you would be
cwiiuy |M««i, MwHf jHiif AnuUsn
Don't vrmmt* Hhne
^diliitg rtmdowt
and hifhllghtt by
palnf paekmga't
Omrkmn nnc^
BrJJBlitiHi Umctlonm
The right texture
If you ten understand rlre texture of tho ob/cct yov an designing, adding light
sourtef and shodovfS to it th^uidn't b« a prtrbhm. The alien fyottrait shown here eon
be feen from its sefSy bEginttings ro the
finiihed artwork, iff(hditl§ shodowi and
highlighti.
Adding jp mvfh ie^tvte detaii would hwe
been n sdow and laborious task if performed
by hand, bvt using the Bfifihten and Darken
effttts the protea vfas madm infinitely quic-
ker. Using the filled line tool I iimpiy drew in
the shapes M^hiVh W«r6 then avtomoticalty
brigktaned or dofkened as I desired,
Switthiftg on aitti-aliasing aho ensured that
the shadows ami hi§hiights bSandwd in with
the rest af the image.
Vhen treating animations in a 3D program
vch as UghtWave or imagine the designer tan
imply odd fight by inttuding light abjetts in his
eene. The rendering process ifMkes core vf tast-
ng iighf and shadow aifowing the designer
inore timm to toncentrate more on objetls.
There ore no iuth perks wJ^tn treoting atti-
mations in a 2D paint package and fight and
ihodow iQri often make or break yovr ereotion.
arlunalely, with 2D ^duVe ndf re quired to
rt€teote the kind of reaiism ^xpetted from o 3D
program and therefore you tan afford to make
fights more stark and shadows mutk harder.
The first thing to do is make a note of the dif-
ferent lights required en your storyboards, You
can then fketth the general dirttttion of »aeh
light and note where it fails in refetion to the
other oblects in your scene. By understanding
bored after the firsl Five mini^fei, Obviously, your
animations ace aol going to run fq two ho»ifj
which \i why it is. evtn more in^porlani' to uNfise
diFferenl comero angles - frying }q male o
3'0- second onimaNcn exciling lo on audience is
cflrhqinly (he K\m\ difficult aspect of compuiei'-
generoted anrmation.
The knowledge required lo use camara onglei
correclljf can only comfl from conNnued experiT
menfation, so if you ore juit starting oui in com-
puter animation use movies OS SOunire for inspi-
rotion. If ii helps, try and make notei Oi to the
tjrpe of scerts the comero angle is linked to. Not
only will you build a useful colleciion of comero
ongtei b»\ dio tefetence as to which oni
should be used when and wliere.
AaalTiHc n^iOng »rtd mh^t^mr it vftaffr ImporlMJit
ta thm rm^Hvn ot a scene or ankttMtkin. Plan
lightsouTeem ana clMtfOw* al (ft« atoiyboard
Let there be light
where the light is coming from you wifl have a
protty good idea 'where the shadows will be
cast, far a static tight the shadow shoufd be
fairly eosy to place, but if the light is gnimoted
in any way rhe shadow is going to change in
Twiation to the movement of the light and any
structures it passes over*
A iimpfe way af adding light and shadow is
to use the Brighten and Darken effects. For a
light cast on the floor yov cot/ld sitnply select a
filled ellipse with the Brighten effect turned
which you can then draw over the floor where
the tight falls. Y«u couJd even twitch antiglias-
ing on in order to smooth out the edges of the
cast light or shadow^ if you need mare control
over the shape of yovr cast tight or shadow
yov can vse the filled line tool instead,
A quick way of drawing shadows is to tt$e
ihe Shear tool which is normally located in the
Brush j«cltifon of your point package. Using
Shear you ran draw near acrurafe jhadow
castings using the origjinof obfe^l as a template*
You shoufd first grab the obfett which is casting
r^B shadow as a brush and flip it in the T axis
(the direction you flip the brush is dependant
on the position and direction of the lightsovrce
- in this example beiiind and above}.
Using the Shear X option you should shear
the brush in the Dppofi>« direction from where
the fight is coming from. With Darirtn enabled
from the brush effects you ton then paste the
brush down and yov should end up with an
instanlf and accurate, shadow, Yoo may also
need to alter the width and height of the
shadow in relation to the height of the
iightsource*
Amiga Computinc
MARCH } 99 6
Paul Austin delivers
a quick guide to
getting the best
from Lightwave's
funkiest feature
lAetaforni
for the
B
elie^abk organic brms hove bwn iha
holy grail of 3D design for years
PrimiiivM wHh Hwif bitsdcy ongular forms
arB efficienr ond effectWe for the majarity
of jobs, bur aSoi, precious few itiings conform to 5ucK o
rigid design in the reahrarid,
Enlar Metalbnr, ifie 3D desigr>erj dreciin tod. Willi
lhe aid c* this 3D omb, oil soh sculpted fwms ana no
mot« rhon a coupb of dicks away. Na more slruggling
wilfi spline Olives, no more ccHnproinis*, iViis is a seem-
inaly efffifltess jolufon for a muttiiiide of modelling
nightrrarei. UnfHjcturKitisly, like rfto&l panaceas., ihsta's
an ineviicible downside,
For llhe fXff^' players with, 060s and unlimited
RAM, nrvetaform's seeffiingly vnavddaUe si^ effed ii
hcfdfy wiliceable. Howevsr, fcr mere mortals llw mutti-
hjde of poifilj crid pdygoni ihol fre pfocess ge«arahes
can be a real headdchs.
FortumHely, rtiera i.s a rtsy cf bofse in an Msy-to-
swollcrw spluliDn. Due I* lhe simpJ icily oF just hitting lhe
metatorm bullw 10 obtain instant resylti, ifs incredibly
lemplirtg ta i^fst fine and forget. However, if you can
contain youf enthusiasm ond ihint about whol's
TKiiiifed From the metoform effect before you hi! the
button, you could save yourself hundreds if not
ihousandt oF RAM-hungry polygons. .A cfossic example
0* ihii is the now ubiquitous LightWove ro«nd COtnw
cube, famous for its part in ihe lejclures ejoomple scene,
ll^ii opparantly simple objact nenwined o 'Iww did tt«y
do that?' modelling mystery undil the ofikiol Qfrival of
OietofoJ'iii in vEfsion, 3.5.
In our ewmpls imrage, the cube on (he leh bcciJJs
386 polygons wtiibl iis near identicol twin on ttie
Trt-rti l*lt to right, tl>* lrndhh,ni,l pflljfBon-Auiijiry ^(n^ach ta nwbi^siim. tollowwd bv ' combinmttoa of tot™- InJlfal point,
plu> M^m palwon rp*P»«i<»>JlPiS. LBsVr, m ™|h»( of it,* ij,i>tral eubm wm u™»i:M«nf ft^ft^w r^-^^iS C0mpfp(«fy
rfnvititting b»n9lHr (lit
atntlng th« odd iMcb can
ha¥B to nt#raf0rmafJ Hsfrt
angiff, Bmalc atutf, bat
lUverthv^H m-mt&ntlml fttr
thoc* id UM en » budgAt
when It wm** ro availnbtm
RAM
middle wsighs in with jyst 218, Howev«r, even tliii
sssms extreme compared to lbs- cube on the rigiit
which gels tfw job dcm with jnHt 164. loo*, pfelly simi-
lor, don't frtey? Number one Started life with more poly-
goni thon the ottiers, compriiing a standond SaA cube
which was tlien given a single meflalorm pass, b pofT-
ner in lhe middle, tvowevar, started life os 3*3 cube
which enpyed 20 seconds additional sdiHng OS the
inlemol polygon groups within it were drogged to the
eonnars prior to a single metafomn pass. The wbe on
the right started out tlie sama as iti covfltefpart in fte
cflflire, but oflw the metaform pOis all the pdygooj
which mode up the flat bees of the cube were deleted
65 b« faplaced by a single polygon.
Obviously, this oppfMch is mucli nHXe time co(v
sumirig as there's O Id of hiding, reselecting and bwld
of the irrdividvaf Faces - moyte Iwo or three minutsi m
icHol, For tfie addiiionol effort you gel riiofe than a 50
per cent return in pdygon eflitiertcy - and that's o fig-
ure tfiat con jump dnanwtiooUy if you need to employ
more than one rnetafocm pass 1o gel itis desired effect
If you multiply ttie oHwd by having,, lef's soy, l«n, one
hurdrfld, or iflaybe evsn a thousond duplicates of if»
object irt single scene, the extra effoft soon gels pi<
infa perspective.
Smooth angles
hientiaily, metafonn makes ils imo^th'mg iaicuio-
tions kofini Of) the pmxtmitY <jf polygons atid thBir
nhtive angtei - fbe thar thm grouping the more
rounded that parficuiar pari of the mode/ becomes.
As a result, il tnakes sense to u*e the minimum
ntimber of painti ami simply enture thot the amt
you want affected fks most haa the highest
pjvporfion of polygons,
Simpiy moving points ond potygans isn't atways
on opfiofi because it foyW easily deitroy the over-
oH shape you require, so a more precise methoti is
taileii for, Tha simplest sohtion is to sel^t the pre-
cise araa of polygons on the modsl that neeiis
joiootltiiig ond nteto/orm flrese separately,
Spmetimes this ohne wiii do the \ob rsosonably
efficiently.
However, simply setecting existing groups
doasn'f always tieliver the goods Wcouse the
number ondf shape of polygofif present simply
dinnn't deliver the desired resuhs. Vnd*r such
conditions, a technique favoured by the pros ij to
vse a tfomibfnoffen of o fht piain and UghtWave's
slice tunttians to introduce more detail in the form
of additional polygons into o selected ctrea, there-
by enhancing the smoothing affect of the
motoform pass.
Our tlrrto axampl** *• ■**" in mprf»"*J'. Am
fou can SH ' itrw Boeondr *fiont an ulanniog,
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AlWICA COMPUTINC
MARCH 199 6
Gary Whiteley
explains the
principles behind
differing TV
systems
fl*e you evef ^^ondef&d why &fitoin and
Amef ico Kav« dlHereni TV systems, or why
SVHS equipmeni hoi diflereni connKlori
Jo VHS equipmeni? It's oil down to iton^
dards and lormals, cunnrng plans Jo squeeze more
into a pint pd and, of wvne, ftie need ior cwstoni
impfovemisnl arid (nore Miles.
Lei's itoff wilfi video slandords, of which lliere
>3re fhree predofflinanl video ona In us« aroufid thfi
world - PAL, NTSC ami SECAWi. Eacii is slightly dif-
tefenl from ihe dheri ond hence topes recorded
using ons stondnrd cannot be played badi in anot-
her wiihoiit fhe tfse of jiondardi ccm^^riieri, Fqf pro-
fessional qualily film and lope transfers these
nKxhines ore slill very expensive, bui nowodoj^i ii is
pojiibie 10 bt^y a r^lqhively cheap mulli-^tondard
VHS VCR which can play back any tope how atvf-
whefe ift the world utin9 jusi o lingb mochina.
Parhaps as technology odvarKes there will be juSi
one video standard for the whole world, ihougfi ii is
perhaps unlikely if^ the foreseeable future, given the
sheer investment requifed to -convert eyefyOrte'j
«>:isling equipment over.
Standards
The first of three big standards is NTSC INalional
Television Standards Committee, os used in the
LJSA, Japan, Korea, Conado, Me;<ico ond olher
parts of South America, ond the Philippines^. NTSC
runs at 30 frames of 525 lines per seco^id ond (S
often jokingly referred to o^ 'IMever Twice The Same
Colour', but nowadays this iin't riecessarily ihe
case, Whilsi ii's true ttiot NISC equipnneni olio has
a Hue controf in oddition to ihe regular Colour,
Bfighlness ond Contrast controls, I've always
ifiougl^t ihot NTSC bdied pretty good, and because
of the higher frame rote there isn't quite SO much
apparent flicker with cerioin kinds of Image. In fact,
many AmBrioani find PAL TV to be discorrcertingly
The FRENCH OPTION
The s«(or*<i popular staniiard h SECAM iwhUh ttands for
Siquential Couhur A Memaire), whiVb was divehped by the
Frenih from 19S9 onwards of or* alternative to the then Jbsj
itablf NTSC. SECAM runs at 15 frames of 625 lines per sec-
and and is aSsa the adopted fV standard of mony frenth
colonief (turrmrrt and bx'}, Saudi Arsbfa, Iran, traq, igypi,
Russia and same of the other ex-Commumst biw tovntrimt'
Strarygeiy i^ftoijgh, th^u^h, mvth SEC AM materia! if actualiy
fourced on PAL tquipment flnci eniy converted to SEC AM at
the fiftai tranfmiffforf stage, tjritike mott of the rest of
Europe, who were trying to agree on a iingte TV standardf
France decided that it wou'd stick with 5£C>IjM Ao matter
what. After T966 France w6rtt her OWIi way, whilst th*
atternative PAL J^]^$r«m was adoptad by moi» of her
neighbouring tountriet.
The big
three
fllckary until tlieir eyes and brains becoire
accustomed to f At's lowe^r Itome rqie,
I^SC evolved fro'in an already existing mono-
chronw iystem ond was the firsl widespread stan-
dard for colour lelevision broadcasltng, coming
into regubr use in 1953. Aj an histuj^icol aside, il
it soid ihal the Na^is hod both colour TV camera i
and video pc ojectiofl in use lor the 1 934 Olympic
games, though this is hord lo verify, both for politi-
cal reasons and because German companies such
fls Telelwnken |who were at the forefroni of PAl TV
dtvelopmenll are slill neluctont to admit thot they
might have hod any finb with the Noiis.
UK IMPORfANCE
The final standard, and the most important cme for
us, is PAL |Phase Alternate line) ond is if« one usfld
in ihe UK, os wdl qs, much of Europe, sx- artd cur-
rent UK dependencies and colonies, including;
Auitrollo. New Zealand, South Afri:co, Iceland,
Chino ond a number oi AffiCQn ond Arab itaiei,
Like SECAM, PAL runs ai 55 frames of 625 lines
per second ond, like SECAM and NTSC, this
htune/line combinaiiofl Is derived os o division oF
the national domestic mains electricity frequency
ISOHi for PAL ond SECAM,. 60Hz for NT5C).
Of course, as wilh alt standards ifiere are excep-
tions. For instance, B'oiil ums the PAL sysii™, but
with only 525 lines and at 60He [PAL-iy,|, whilst
Cuba,, Haiti ond French Guycina hav^ SECAW, but
wilh 525 lines. There may also be minor differ-
ences between the sound carrying side of iome PAl
systems. So, if you have a tape of Brazilian TV and
you think you can play it bock on a stdndofd PAL
VCR, you'd be mistaken. 1 learnt this ihe hard way,
carrying o tape oil the way bock from Rio only to
Find out that all I could get out cJf it was the sourKl!
Thii is where standards converieri come In, mak-
ing it passible lo translate from one video system to
onofhe*. The trouble is, ll>ere are same fairly tricky
problems ta owsfcome. For mstorce, wfen converl-
ing from NTSC (30 fromes per second, 525 lines) lo
PAl |25 fromes per secondj 62S lines) somehow
live fronvBS have to be bst and 100 lines per frome
goirved. Digliol equipment and processing con solve
most of these problems, but even so it itrll isn'l
powible ta moke up the e«(ro lines From scratcfi.
Profasjionall standards converters, costing many
thousands of poiinds, hove odvoflced elecironics
■which can look ahead by up to four fields j2 frames)
and then interpoloie the results to provide smooiher
viewing. They also Interpoiate the lines in the frame
and add exiro lines lo make up the difference
between NTSC's 525 and PAl's 625. Cheaper stan-
dards converters, for inttonce In the £1000 or so
ronge, os well as the multistondord VCtis, tertd to
have a simpter approach and often just throw Oul
the fe<(Uired five fromes pe^ second and only do lim-
lied line inlerpolotian. The result, especially wfiere
ocjlcin Is moving lost, con be a noticeable stagger-
ing of the images and jagged diogonal lines where
the interpobtion isn't of o high enotrgh quohty to
sntooth the piclure out sulficieritfy. It's the old story of
you get what you pay for,
To COME
Next Mflflth - Video Formots.
Gary W>\iteley can be e-mailed
drgorOclK.compuli nfc.co. uk
Amiga Computing
MARCli 199 6
Main Contents List:
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* EnclusitB *luH from va'I^U*
usH- group* and compsnie^l
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Jces ate. Tha EKcom MvlvaJ »nd mucfi more.
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n« Amiga Hardware
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Vorkbvnch and DOS
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