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Andy Maddock brings you all that is weird and 

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XTREME RACING 7 8 

Guildhall bring you c race-'em-up for all 

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GLOOM DELUXE 8 0 

Guns at the ready. Check out this latest update 

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Short skirts white plimsols and sports bras. 

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SOCCER STARS '96 9 0 

He's football crazy, football mad. He certainly 

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CAPITAL PUNISHMENT 9 4 

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The Amiga plays a large part behind the scenes at one 

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In.Focusl new video tutorial LightWave takes a different 

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DRACO UPDATE 

Paul Austin takes a gander at the latest developments 

with this Amiga compatible machine 

BLITZ BASIC 2-1 _ED 

Blitz Basic has just got better than ever and Neil 

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WORD WORTH _Et] 

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DATASTORE 2 1:33 

Digita's popular databse hits a new version 

this month and we probe its new features 

_ELI BLIZZARD 1260 _In 

Phase 5's fastest ever Al200 accelerator is here and 

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Steve White continues to help the less experienced 

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NEWS 

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Roving reporter Tina Hackett presents all the news that's 

fit to print,. we interrupt these contents for a newsflash 

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Frank Nord continues his 

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on Workbench's menus 

Paul Overaa advises an 

uses for Amiga DOS's 

segment loading routines 

Paul Overaa shows how 

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Phil South looks at the 

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Cot a problem? ACAS can sort it 

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Paul Overaa gives us the 

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iracyl The mere mention of this 

word leaves Amiga owners 

groaning with despair. The piracy 

debate is almost as old as the 

Amiga itself and practically every stance has 

been argued to the death with the result 

that very little has actually been done. 

The warring factions can be split into two 

distinct groups - the computer games 

industry and the Amiga user. The industry 

blames casual and organised piracy for the 

diminishing of Amiga software and lack of 

future development, while the user blames 

the computer games industry for charging 

extortionate prices per unit. While both theories 

can be considered correct to some 

extent, there is another slice to the pie that 

both sides, and especially the computer 

games industry, have failed to recognise, 

and that is the actual quality of Amiga 

software. 

It would seem that the success the Amiga 

has brought has, in the end, been partly 

responsible for its downfall - as the industry 

has become more wealthy so they have distanced 

themselves from the end user. There 

has been very little after-sales support for 

Amiga owners and before the demise of 

Commodore it seemed our machine was 

being used as a testing ground for PC 

conversions and PC future development. 

NCOM PAT. B I LITY 

A classic example was B17 from MicroProse. 

This game crashed left, right and centre on 

the Amiga while the PC version played like a 

dream. When questioned about the incompatibility 

problems, MicroProse told me that 

they didn't support Amiga third-party hardware 

such as accelerators and FastRAM. 

What! The PC has more third-party hardware 

than any other computer in existence yet 

there were no visible problems with this 

version of B17. 

The obvious conclusion to be drawn from 

this example is that MicroProse rushed the 

Amiga version through, resulting in faulty 

goods being released to the public so they 

could spend more time on the PC version. 

However, MicroProse aren't the only ones to 

blame. There are other big name companies 

who have done exactly the same. 

1Another good example of rushed software 

was Reach for the Skies from Virgin. I 

11( team 

EDITOR Pa ul Austin 

DEPUTY EDITOR Be n Yost 

ART EDITOR Tym Leckey 

NEWS EDITOR Tma Hackett 

COVERMSK EDITOR N e il Mohr 

PRODUCTION EDITOR Judith Chapman 

GAMES EDITOR Tina Hackett 

STAFF WRITERS Andre w Maddock 

Dave Cusick 

ADVERTISING MANAGER Lisa Bracewell 

AD SALES la ne Normington 

AD SALES Sue Horsekld 

AD PRODUCTION Ba rba ra Newell 

MARKETING MANAGER C la ire Mawesirry 

PRODUCTION MANAGER Sa ndra Childs 

SYSTEMS MANAGER D a vid Stewart 

actually participated 

in the bug 

testing of this product (for free) and on 

average found ten times as many bugs as 

the actual quality control 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 E35 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 

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I Steve White airs 

his views on 

piracy and the 

0 way of the Amiga 

spread throughout the computer games 

industry. And this is really my point. What is 

the incentive in buying software that is faulty 

when you can get a copy of it for a fraction 

of the cost? Had someone offered me a 

copy of Reach for the Skies I would have 

found it very difficult to say no. 

Obviously, testing a game so that it is 

entirely bug-free is not always possible. 

However, if you've ever perused the contents 

of a cover-mounted PC CD you will 

have noticed the myriad of bug patches for 

PC software. Why has the Amiga never been 

supported like this? Because the industry 

couldn't give a fig about Amiga owners, 

that's why. 

When Doom was released on the PC the 

computer games industry said it couldn't be 

done on the Amiga. yet now they have all 

but abandoned our machine we see new 

developers springing up all the time with 

Doom clones galore that are lust as good as 

their PC rivals. 

In my opinion the problem really boils 

down to ignorance 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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blamed for the lack of enthusiasm from 

oconsumers. 

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tRetailers. 

He remarked: "The Amiga didn't 

ahave 

a good a Christmas as perhaps a lot of 

ius 

had hoped. It's just so unfortunate that 

l they got hit by the incompatibility 

pproblems. 

I think this scared retailers off 

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because although traditionally they sold a 

lot of Amigas, what they don't want is to 

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have problems after Christmas with people 

nbringing 

back machines saying they want 

t refunds: 

t We asked him what Amiga Technologies 

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swith 

confidence again and part of that 

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be sorting out the incompatibility 

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problem, but also a bit of marketing would 

not go amiss either.' 

w 

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 

great deal. That's where they [the Amigasl 

1 anuary I i marked the official agreement 

a between VISCORP and (scorn AG for the 

license for VISCORP to use 'Amiga' technologies 

within their set-top TV appliance, 

VISCORP's chairman of the board, Jerome 

Greenberg commented: "By employing a sophisticated 

chip set, such as the Amiga technology, V1SCORP 

will have the ability to provide a complex set-top 

appliance with multitasking functions to integrate 

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MARCH 1996 

came from originally because none of the 

multiples would touch them back in 1986 

or 1987, It was the independents who 

helped to push them Onto the market 

place: 

The fact 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 

MISCORP TO USE AMIGA TECHNOLOGY 

affordably the TV set, phone line and network service 

providers_ 

This ability has not yet been offered or available 

through existing systems." 

The set-top box will allow the use of the 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 

By Tina Hackett 

Escom and it may be small-minded but 

there are people Out there who are saying 

'I'm not going to help increase the profits of 

someone who is cutting the arse out of the 

PC market': 

John Smith, General Manager of Amiga 

Technologies offered: "At the end of the 

day, if the Amiga had to survive somebody 

had to purchase it. We 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 back, hence, 

now, the move into the surfer pack and I 

would hope more independents would take 

the view that we all love the Amiga so 

much — let's get on and sell it. They will 

make profit out of it. 

Smith admitted SDI'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 

doubt about it — SDL's demise hurt us, in 

the same way that when Commodore went 

down we hurt SDI.: 

Although the actual 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." 

plans afoot include enabling users to play games, 

carry out home shopping, or access electronic banking. 

Greenberg said: 'by utilising our unique set-top 

appliance and incorporating the Amiga technology, 

MCORP is able to provide a complete practical 

solution for interactive TV services, and now the 

ability to access the Internet through a standard TV 

set with pricing that makes sense for the average 

TV viewer."

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Stanstead. h Whilst there was nothing unexpected 

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the technical staff were actually relocating 

was. t 

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Computing e about the redundancies: 

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Hammersmith r Novotel between 13 - 14 

April. e The event marks the first major 

hardware d and software launch for two 

years. e Featured at the show will be a 

Presentation t Theatre, Games Arcade and 

retail a area. Peter Brameld, show organiser 

commented: 'I am confident that this is 

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the dawning of a new age in Amiga 

computing. 

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The interest generated by 

Amiga s Technologies' involvement is 

electric a and I predict that this will be the 

best r Amiga show ever.' 

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Conema4D, l we categorically stated that it had no 

shortcuts for the move, scale and rotate (unctions, 

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that it was always in the pipelines, 'By moving 

to Stanstead I have use of the Escom 

personnel. 

The offices are larger and more prestigious, 

with access to more facilities. We always 

maintained that we were just using these 

premises to get up and running and we 

would always be looking to Stanstead at 

some stage.' 

He denied that the redundancies 

had anything to do with poor 

Christmas sales or SDI_ 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 friends 

as well because we all 

worked together at 

Commodore. 

It's an awkward 

time at 

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"I t's ve ry diffi cult be ca us• not only 

were we work colle a gue • be t we 

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worked toge the r a t C ommodore ." 

John Smith comme nting on the 

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MARCH 1996 

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shown that Wocorn is the largest manufacturer in 

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Apparently, the fastest growing sectors in Europe 

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Wocom lead the market in number of units shipped 

and in revenue 

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Arhvorks ore offering a new studio service which 

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images in full colour or black and white. The 

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either Amigo, Acorn or PC, 

Artworks can be contacted at: 3 Pond Side, 

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Telephone: 01469 588138. 

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compiling day-to-day information. Called Counting 

Nouse, it is a user-friendly package which makes 

life easier with seven virtual rooms with filing 

cabinets in each, 

Timetables, for example, are created in the 

Agenda room and transactions mode with 

customers and suppliers in the Traders room 

Two versions are available - 'Cash' and 'Cosh 

and Creak' versions 

Features include an Accounts routine generating 

a Trial Balance, Advertising Generator and Tax 

analysis and returns, Both versions require an 

Amiga with 3Mb of RAM, Kickstart 2 or later, and a 

hard disk with 5Mb of free space. The Cash 

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version is E99.95.

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can do it. In Geller's C't Bond spoons oleos the ktfornot 

home is a see-through safe with the spoon locked inside and anyone who can bend 

the spoon while watching it over the Internet will be invited to be tested further over 

the telephone. 

A further challenge will then be issued at Geller's home when any contenders will 

get to try it out in person. If successful they will receive a generous Si million for their 

efforts which will be shared if there's more than one triumphant psychic! Even if more 

than one person is accessing the site, the organisers reckon further tests will be possible 

to trace anyone successful. Apparently, the hardest part will be to produce a visible 

bend in front of the judges but Geller is confident that someone, somewhere will be 

able to do it. 

RO-SOFT PLEDGE SUPPORT 

Pro-Soft have announced the 

launch of their new User Group 

which daims to be a 'cut-down BBS on a 

disk'. For all levels of Amiga user, the 

group 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 Amiga goods. 

Interested parties should send a blank 

disk and SAE with their name and 

address to: Pro-Soft PO Box CR53, Leeds 

BET'S GO SURFING NOW 

F ollowing last months revelations 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 260Mb Hard Drive, a 14.400 Baud 

modem and all relevant software needed to access the 

Internet The package also indudes all the software from the 

137 1XJ. Pro-Soft have also revealed their 

decision to scrap plans for software on 

the PC and continue to develop for the 

Amiga due to the 'rapid re-growth of the 

Amiga market 

They will continue with their range of 

gambling programs as well as releasing 

six completely new programs for this 

year. 

This will include a range of lifestyle 

and business applications. 

CTAMED EVOLUTION 

STARTERS 

ORDERS 

Amiga Computing have been told 

of a new Internet Starter Kit wlis 

in development. Aimed at the N 

it novice, the package will come on 

four disks and will include the 

TCP/IP software, a mail/news reader, 

ftp access and a Web browser. 

At the moment, it is pre-configured 

for Dynamic IP Addressing which 

would mean it would not work on 

Demon, but the developer, Kevin 

Kitching, is trying to change this. 

Working on any Amiga with 

Kickstart 2 or above, it requires only 

two files to be modified by the enduser 

which is the dial-up number 

and serial port speed. He also 

hopes to finalise a package deal 

with a service provider. 

Amiga Magic Pack. A country-specific telephone cable will be 

provided with the modem. As an added bonus, if the user registers 

himself at IBM prior to accessing the Internet before 

31March they will receive 100 free access hours. 

The complete package will be available for DM 1198 which 

means it will hit the shops here for around E600. 

A 

morning with the announcement of the Octamed Web 

site. 

A 

The site is replete with information on the new 

SoundStudio ‘ package being written by Teijo Kinnunen, and 

has I contact points both for him and Ray Burt Frost, 

Oclamed's s distributor in the UK. You can download patches 

avoid RAM problems, so no limits to sample site like previous 

versions of Octamed 

• Extra MIDI commands 

• Full support for MacroSystem's Toccata 16-bit sampling card 

• Clear and precise 200 page manual explaining everything 

in easy to understand detail. 

to t the latest version and find out all about the history of 

Octamed. m Also useful are the links to other related sites with 

hundreds i of mod and med files. 

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SoundStudio is a direct replacement for Octamed. Version 1 

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A venture backed by First Computer Centre 

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become a 'blue ribbon' Internet service and 

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England. 

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ration and wide bandwidth service, it will 

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JAILED 

A man found guilty of receiving child pornography 

through the Internet was sentenced to 

three months imprisonment - the first time 

anyone in Britain has ever been jailed for using 

the Internet for this purpose. 

Forty-four-year old Martin Crumpton, later 

of two, was caught as part of Operation 

Starburst, an International inquiry which also 

caught out Christopher Sharp who was fined 

E9000 for possession of indecent photographs 

of children downloaded from the Internet 

Crumpton, a West Midlands computer consultant, 

admitted to six charges of being in possession 

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EXTRACTING 

COVERDISK FILES 

To extract the programs off the second 

disk you must make sure you have 

booted your computer with the first 

cover disk, otherwise your Amiga will 

not be able to find the cInstaller 

program, and frustration will soon set 

in. Hard drive users should double 

click on the Settlp-HD icon before 

extracting any of the files. 

To extract any single archive, simply 

double-click its icon and follow the 

on-screen instructions. If you want to 

quickly extract the program to RAM, 

select the NOVICE level on the 

welcome screen and press proceed 

once on the current screen, and then 

again on the next. The program can 

then be found in your RAM disk. 

You also have the option of using a 

floppy disk. If you pick this 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 

swapping and a long wait, 

The Nemac IV disk has been compressed to allow us to 

fit more programs onto the cover disks, so you will need 

to extract the Nemac IV program on to a blank floppy 

disk. Floppy users need to boot up their machine with 

our coverdisk, while hard drive users can boot up with 

their hard drives. To create the Nemac IV game disk, 

double-click on the AC97 icon and then double-click the 

NEMAC IV DEMO 

Author Martin Schlott 

Requires: Workbench 2, 2Mb Ram 68020 

Typical isn't it? The one time humans build 

the ultimate computer intelligence and give 

it control over all of Earth's defences it goes 

haywire, classifies all humans as potential 

threats, and brings Earth to the edge of 

Armageddon. And who is the person that 

has to sort the mess out? You are. 

If you have told them once, you have told 

them a million times. If you are going to 

build the ultimate computer and give it 

control over all Earth's nuclear weapons, fd 

an off switch and whatever you do, don't 

put it in an impenetrable fortress. 

Apparently, the builders of Nemac IV did 

Now whe re we re the toile ts Aga in? 

DISK 1 

Anothe r e vil swme 

bites the dust 


MARCH 1996 

It's not all Doom and Gloom. 

Have no Fears as this month's 

I coverdisks will leave you Breathless 

INSTALLING NEMAC IV 

Nemac IV icon. Follow the on-screen instructions and 

after a minute or so you will be able to reset your 

machine and play Nemac IV. 

When the game first loads, before hitting continue you 

need to select the screen mode you want the game to 

run in. For EC5 machines you are restricted to only two 

modes, while AGA and graphics card owners will be able 

not listen, and guess what? Earths on the 

brink of a nuclear holocaust and you've got 

to save the day. Well, every game has got to 

have a ston,dine. It might be a little tired but 

it is a good excuse to blow lots of things up. 

Nemac IV puts you in the role of 

controlling a large multi-gunned robot in a 

to pick many different resolutions in full 256 colours. If 

you have a Picasso screen, resolutions up to 1280x1024 

will be available, but do not 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 the game straight 1:Iff 

your hard drive. 

desperate attempt to save the world from 

total destruction. You have to wander 

around each level searching for the exit, but 

normally barring your way are various baddies 

to kill, switches to throw and access 

codes to be found. Employing the old 

Doom-style, first-person perspective, you

wander around the maze-like levels 

dispatching evil baddies. On your side you 

have a double chain gun, a double plasma 

gun, a grenade launcher and a selection of 

bombs at your disposal, and if you find 

yourself in a particularly nasty spot you can 

fire all four at once. 

When the game first loads you can skip 

the story line intro by hitting escape. Once 

you start a game you can move around in 

A500 AND 

A2000 

I bet many of you non-AGA owners must be 

getting a little ticked off by the complete lack 

of support for your machine, particularly if 

you own an accelerator, which used to be in 

abundance a few years ago. Well, for a 

change, Nemac IV does support accelerated 

OCS and ECS machines, as long as you have 

2Mb of RAM and Workbench 2. The only 

difference between the AGA and OCS 

versions is that you have to run Nemac IV on 

a Lo-res 64 colour screen, instead of the 256 

colour option available to AGA owners. 

SHAREWARE 

Many of the programs on the two cover 

disks ore what are commonly known as 

Shareware. Such well written programs 

take many hours to write and a lot of 

hard work and dedication on the part of 

the programmer. When a program is 

called shareware it means the programmer 

has generously allowed you to try 

out their program, a lot of the time with 

no restrictions, and if you then decide you 

like it you are obliged to send the author 

the shareware fee. 

Normally this is no more than ten 

pounds and in return the author will 

usually keep you supplied with the latest 

version of that program, along with their 

undying grattitade of course. 

the normal Doom manner and kill things, 

and there are a number of handy in-game 

options regarding the screen display. While 

actually playing the game, pressing G will 

increase the gamma value making the 

screen brighter, and return will turn off the 

floor and ceiling textures, giving the screen 

update a speed boost 

Pressing escape gives you access to the 

main screen preferences, and here you can 

ORDERING NEMAC IV 

• The full version of Nernac IV costs 1:20, 50 OM, $35 US or the corresponding amount in any other currency. 

• The shipping costs are: 

- inside the European Community - E5 or l ODM 

- other countries - E7, 15DM, 10 USS or the corresponding amount in any other currency. 

• If you order more than one copy the shipping costs are charged just once. 

• To order, send money and your details to: 

Martin Schlott, Ludwig-Thoma-Str. 35, 93051 Regensburg GERMANY 

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Please rush me my copy of Nemac IV 

Please Deliver To: 

Name (Miss/Ms/Mrs/Mr) 

Address 

Post Code C o u n t r y 

I enclose: 

in cash (coming with this letter) 

UI kin kill 

eurocheque (coming with this letter) 


MARCH 1996 

FAULTY DISKS 

If you should find your Amiga 

Computing CoverDisk damaged 

or faulty, please return it to: 

118 Plc 718 House, 11 Edward 

Street, Bradford, W. Yorks BD4 

7BH. 

as foreign cheque (+ $4 US/E2.50 handling charge, or the corresponding amount) 

(coming with this letter) 

Please allow (28 days) for delivery 

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Please allow 28 days for delivery 

switch the chunky screen from a lx1 aspect 

to a 2x1 or 2x2. Having a lower chunky 

resolution really gives a massive speed 

increase, but reduces the quality of the 

screen, so it is also possible to size the 

Nemac screen to whatever size you want. 

One feature I really like in Nemac IV is 

the map. So far, no Amiga Doom clone has 

fully copied how the map works properly. 

always liked the way you could flick up the 

map, zoom in and out, and still walk around 

when you were lost, making it much easier 

to find your way around. 

Nemac's map goes even further than this. 

If you hit the help key a head display map 

will appear, and by using the + and - keys 

you can zoom in and out. You can now walk 

around with the map automatically updating 

as you explore new parts of the level, and it 

even displays baddies which it pick ups as 

little crosses. If you now hit help again you 

can view the map on its own 

Daytime Phone 

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To use the following 

program you need to 

have the Magic User 

Interface installed on 

your system. Without it 

you will not be able to 

run any MU programs. MUI is available 

from any good PD house, 

SYSSPEED 

Author: OenDesign 

Workbench 2.04 

Benchmarking has always been a thorny 

business, with some people even doubting 

the use of them to compare computers, and I 

would be inclined to agree. Even though a 

program like Sysinto may be used by almost 

every Amiga user, the MIPS figure it gives 

back is not exactly a true figure of a machine's 

speed, particularly if you have one with a 

maths co-processor. 

SysSpeed is a 'real world' benchmarking 

program, and uses actual Amiga programs to 

produce its benchmark results, This means 

the figures it returns reflect how fast your 

machine is when performing proper operations, 

so is a better reflection of how fast your 

machine really is. 

Standard system tests such as memory 

speed. Intuition window speeds and Intuition 

graphic operations can be used by everyone 

and will show how fast your ROM and graphic 

systems are. SysSpeed also employs a number 

of other Amiga programs via ARexx. By 

getting these programs to do certain tasks you 

can get a good indication of how fast your 

machine is when using these programs. 

Possibly the only Benchmark program to 

return users,' results 

Author: Andrew Cook 

Workbench 3 

DISK 2 

Finally we have a real Mac-style trash can, or should that be 

rubbish bin? Another program for your WBStartup, 

ETrashCan allows you to delete any of your files by dropping 

them on a trashcan icon that lives on the Workbench 

and then selecting empty trash. 

The problem with all previous Amiga trashcans is that 

they were either permanent ones that instantly deleted the 

file, or were like the original Amiga ones in that 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 

could not be left out on the Workbench. ETrashcan can handle 

files from any partition and still allow you to undelete 

the files afterwards. 

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EYES 

Author: Messimiliano Hofer 


The eyes have it, ho ho. This is a fairly pointless 

program but its small and fun. Just double-click 

on either the plain version or if you 

have a co-processor the other, and a small 

window with two eyes in will appear that will 

track your mouse wherever it may go. 

You can run as many copies as you like, 

size them by clicking on the bottom right of 

the window, and if you insert a disk or click in 

the middle of the eyes window, the eyes will 

spin around. 

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Biorhythms. Its all a load of stuff and nonsense 

shouts our production editor. Enter her 

date of birth - it does let you go back that far 

- and it says mood swings are common_ No 

surprise there then. 

Bioday is a really good biorhythms program, 

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 actually 

mean, how physically fit you feel, or if you 

are going to be intellectually creative. 

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we have put on a coverdisk for a long time. 

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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 forming a meaningful 

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have been a number of system patches popping 

up, all trying to rectify the aesthetic 

problems with the way normal Workbench 

gadgets look -the standard window gadgets 

and the proportional and gadtool gadgets. 

tirouHack is probably the first to patch 

every part of the interface. All the gadtool 

gadgets get transformed into the MIJI-style 

Xen buttons, and if you are running on a I xl 

aspect screen then the gadgets get the proper 

looking thin sides and tops, whilst the 

normal window gadgets get a new sysihackstyle 

3D look. To install UrouHack you need 

to copy it over to your C directory. then add: 

Run >NIL:

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your system. Without 

you will not be able 

run any Mil programs. WI is avail 

from any good PD house. 

Author Jurgen Kempkes 


The real problem with MultiCX is that there 

are so many functions that you can alter, and 

it takes absolutely ages to go through every 

tooltype in the information requester and 

adjust them to your own taste. 

This preference program gives you a lovely 

MI front-end to fiddle with, and is right up 

to date with the latest version of Muitia, 

also on this month's disk. Consequently, you 

can now access every feature of MultiCX 

without worrying about having to go through 

the horrible information requester. 

1M111 

Author: Eric Sauvageau 

Workbench 2,04 

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For anyone who uses XPK you are still probably 

using the xDrop program that came with the 

XPK library, or possible xpkNight, to compress 

your programs. Both are perfectly fine, but have 

their own problems. xDrop is quick and easy to 

use but is very basic, while xpkNight is very 

powerful, but a little overly complex if you just 

need to compress one file. 

XPKatana takes the best features of both 

and wraps them up in a tiny front-end. With all 

the powerful batch processing of xpkNight and 

with the option to run it iconised, you have the 

simplicity of xDr op. 

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for any damage caused directly or 

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Trying to get the best out of your monitor is 

never that easy. If the standard supplied 

monitor drivers do not give you a decent picture 

then you have to put up with a poor dis• 

play. 

McmEd gives you a way around this by 

allowing you to adjust various technical 

aspects of the AGA chipset that will adjust 

the output to your monitor. With a little playing 

around this can lead to a better display, 

or at the very least a properly centred display. 

You should be warned that doing this could 

permanently damage your monitor, especially 

if you start using silly figures. 

A d Latowsid 

Workbench 3 

The XPK compression library has been 

around for a good few years now, and has 

firmly established itself as the main form of 

compression on the Amiga along with Oa 

and DMS. There are many programs that 

have direct support for it and the various programs 

that allow you to add decompression 

patches mean many people are using it. 

This Datatype adds XPK decompression to 

the growing list of supported Datatypes. Now 

if you drop an XPK'ed file into Multi View, 

instead of just being ignored, the files will be 

decompressed and Multi View will be able to 

handle it as normal. 

1 MOVE 

Author Jim McDaniel 


One thing that has always been a really 

annoying omission from the AmigaDOS command 

set is the lack of any move command 

— you always had to manually copy and 

delete files, It 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 multiple 

destinations if need be. 

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SCREEN KEYS 

Author Magnus Hohngren 


One feature of Intuition that makes the Amiga 

such a good machine to work on is its ability 

to have multiple screens open at the same 

time. It helps to keep the screens uncluttered 

and greatly 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 appropriate 

keys and the screen will magically appear, 

without the hassle of having to skip through 

loads of other screens. 

iCONIFY GADGET 

Author: Nakon Enger 


You may have noticed on all MU programs 

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 uncluttering 

the screen and letting you access other 

programs easily. 

This program does the same, but for every 

other Workbench program. A third gadget will 

appear that looks the same as the MU one, 

but there is an option to give it a sysihack 3D 

look. This is a commodity, so can be removed 

and restarted at any time.

get an M14385 

for review. We unwrap 

( 3 inally, we 

_ t h e box, remove the plastic wrapping 

and have a look. Quite a nice looking 

monitor, colour matched to our A4000, the 

male IEC plug on the end of the power lead is 

a nice touch (so that you can plug it into the 

A4000's power out socket), and you do get a 

normal power lead to plug into it, so no 

problem there. The screen is pretty standard 

looking, with anti-glare etching, but is not FST. 

But looking at the front of the monitor is a bad 

idea because it is then that you notice the distinct 

lack of control over the picture presented 

on-screen. This monitor's complete controls list 

comprises: The On/Off switch, volume, 

horizontal hold, vertical size, brightness and 

contrast. There are no pots to adjust on the 

back of the monitor and even the leads are 

moulded, but more on that later. 

PICTURE PERFECT? 

So what's the picture like? This is obviously the 

most important question on anybody's lips 

when they are looking for a monitor, and I 

have to say that it doesn't look good. Here at 

the office we run on an old 1942 monitor for 

which the M1438S is a direct replacement, and 

we thought the quality of the 1942 was pretty 

poor. Unfortunately, it shines compared to the 

new monitor. The M1438S gives an image on 

a 4000 that looks as though it is coming 

through a modulator, with blurry text and 

1misconverged colours. I thought I had taken 

LUG PROBLEMS 

my glasses off 

and had had a 

few pints when I 

looked at our Workbench 

screen. Now convergence is a problem 

that can be caused by the monitor being 

bashed or in extremes of temperature or 

humidity, and since it came delivered by a 

courier I'm sure that it probably experienced all 

those things, so your best bet, if you are going 

to buy one, is to make sure you see it in action 

in the shop you're going to buy it in if at all 

possible. 

The M1438S doesn't come with a disk with 

optimised DBIPal 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 enormous 

black borders down the left and righthand 

sides of the screen. Although the M14385 

is billed as being a 14" monitor, these black 

borders mean you only really get about 11:6 

inches of viewable area. These problems only 

occur if you are using the monitor in a DBLPal 

or DBINTSC screenmode, of course, and don't 

afflict the monitor running in standard PAL or 

NISC modes, but what did you buy a multiscan 

monitor for if not to run the Amiga's higher 

resolutions on a flicker free screen? 

So by now you will probably have worked 

out that while the monitor is shoddy for 

productivity, it might be OK for games players. 

To a certain extent this is true, but if you do 

both on a regular basis you will find yourself 

constantly fiddling with the horizontal hold 

functions to centre the screen when switching 

Although it might seem nice at first that Amiga Technologies have put a moulded 23-pin 

plug on the M14385, if you need to use it on an Amiga other than a bog standard Al200 or 

A4000, or even a different machine, then you will come in for problems. If Amiga 

Technologies had fitted a plug to the back of the monitor and provided a 15-pin VGA-type 

lead with a 23-pin plug on the end, then at least Amiga 3000 owners or graphics card users 

could have bought a replacement VGA-type lead to plug into the monitor. 

A replacement for the 1942? 

They must have learnt from 

g their mistakes... 


MARCH 1 

between PAL and DBLPal screenmodes. But 

there's more trouble afoot. While the picture 

for Lo-res (the screenmode most often used 

For games) is actually quite nice and sharp, the 

sound that emanates from the monitor's 

speakers is nothing short of rubbish. As a test, 

we tried Worms and Nemac IV on the M14385 

and the sound for both games was tinny and 

quiet, even on the monitor's highest volume 

setting. Even the much maligned 1942 

achieved better results, as did a cheap pair of 

personal stereo speakers we had lying around. 

PURCHASERS 

So who is supposed to buy this monitor? The 

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 matching 

company names on each piece as opposed to 

the best possible choice for each item. As such 

these are the only people I can recommend 

Amiga Technologies' M1438S monitor to. 

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stopped John Lennon or Freddy Mercury, so 

maybe I should just shut up on that front and 

get on with reviewing MM Experience. OK, I 

hear you, alright? 

Soo°, MMExperience, eh? Well, first impressions 

with Optonica's program are 'Hmm... 

yecch... turn-ti-turn._ bugger. Lets go through 

that, shall we? The first expectoration was for 

the look of the box, manual and disks; the second 

ejaculation was for the look of the software 

interface: the third was the wait I had 

when I loaded a picture and waited for the picture 

to remap, even though I hadn't set up a 

palette (besides which, all the images I used to 

test MME with use the same palette, it's just 

that MME insists on using the bottom four 

colours of any palette); and the last was the 

trouble I had trying to get MME to do 

something fairly basic - a slideshow. 

Its not a good start is it? Firstly, why do people 

insist on creating their own custom gadgets 

and interfaces when a) they are really ugly and 

b) the Amiga's own GUI is fine for any application. 

MME uses the same dark bluey-greys 

used by all Optonica's programs with square 

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my opinion, programs that don't look nice on 

the screen don't help the Amiga's public image 

as anything other than a cheap, low-class 

games machine. This is a great shame because 

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MME always wants to run in Lo-res which means 

everything looks incredibly blocky. 

• The next problem I encountered was with the Add Font 

button in the fonts requester. It took me to Fonts.' but then 

didn't do anything further. This meant I couldn't add any 

fonts to the three supplied with MME - two sizes of a 

blocky helvelica and one bolder Basen, all at a low size. I 

finally figured out that it must be because of the CacheFont 

program that I run, but that must mean that MME grabs a 

fontlist in a way not thought of by CacheFont's author, odd 

since no other program I have ever used has had a 

problem with it. 

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review, but this sort of kiddie block interface 

really gets on my wick 

Unfortunately, the feel of the software proceeds 

to get more annoying, with new projects 

requiring the user to input a name which is 

then made into a directory in which everything 

is stored. Not a problem in itself? No, but then 

you can't use anything at a lower directory 

level in your production, so you have to make 

sure you create your productions at the root of 

whatever device you are running from - even 

more of a pain if you spread your elements 

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random effect for the pages in my project, 1 which worked 

fine for the first run through. But 1 discovered 1 that when the 

project has run through once and is then cycling through 

again, the FIX selected reverts to the default of Fade In. It I 

doesn't make any difference how often you click on the 

bloody random button, it still reverts back to fade in_ 

Another problem I encountered was that the tutorial in 

the manual referred to files I didn't hove included when I 

installed the software. 

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runtime player which is free, small (it's only 167724 bytes 

and crunched with PowerPacker that goes down to just 

98756 bytes) and it runs on any machine. This is increi ibly 

important because it means that no matter whether you 

are creating a presentation for your own use, or creating a 

CO that you will sell thousands of copies of, you won't have 

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I may seem to have been somewhat hard on MME, but it 

does have a good pedigree, coming as it does from the stable 

that produced Interplay, the Amigo's only dedicated CD 

authoring system. When you consider that Interplay cost 

over E700, MME certainly seems better value for money. 

Optonica ore also launching the successor to Interplay - 

called MMExperience Pro - shortly and it will build on 

MME's base but include far more facilities, admittedly at a 

higher price_ 

Even so, MME Pro will be just the product the Amiga 

needs if it is to get any sort of Encarta-type product With its 

database features and indexing ability, MME Pro will 

over more than one device. This makes even 

less sense when you consider that MME 

actually checks what you've created to 

make sure its all in the right place when you 

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a script in Scala and then you want to 

udistribute 

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ball 

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ma 

surprise to learn that this is the Amiga. 

aOkay, 

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ngest 

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y these first two, but it does have a signifi- 

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oexample, 

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tapping away on none other than 

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tCurly 

Watts once had a bit of trouble with 

hthe 

BettaBuys store computer, played by 

ian 

Amiga. Prime Suspect's police station 

nsets 

have also benefited from the Amiga. 

g However, in some cases the Amiga. 

s unfortunately. has to undergo a dramatic 

tcostume 

change in the wardrobe depart- 

h 

ment and appear as a PC. A PC box sits on 

a 

the desk whilst the Amiga sits on the floor 

t 

feeding the PCs monitor (thanks to the 31 

KHz flicker-fixed output from the A3000). 

Eagle-eyed viewers will spot the give-away 

clue of a PC with an Amiga keyboard! 

The Amigos success in this specialised 

field is due to its native 50111 video frame 

rate (exactly twice the speed of a TV film 

camera) coupled with its genlock ability 

which allows multiple computers to be 

synchronised together. This eliminates the .alo 

moving 'roll bar' which normally results 

when computer screens — ,a_re Hulot 

But the Amiga s user-friendliness 

appealetjaalltarhn Kay who programmed 

many of the oe-screen computer systems 

versatile programming environMe 

ideal for something like this. 

- how Hsometimes e e the actors don't like having 

to type and act at the same time. 1 

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often end up off-screen, typing 

on the Amiga keyboard whilst 

the actor mimes the action 

in vision on a dummy 

keyboard." 

Realism is important 

in dramas like Cracker 

and Prime Suspect, so 

the Amiga programs 

which Martin writes 

have to appear like 

those o n other 

machines (e.g. the 

dreaded Ks).With much 

of the action involving • 

police computer systems, 

Martin was invited to one of 

the Manchester Police computer 

rooms to see the Holmes 

Investigation system and was provided 

with authentic screen layouts to 

recreate on the Amiga. 

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questions a l the touchscre a ns 

The BBC's Sunday Shcais also aided by an system acting as a still-store with all the 

Amiga which plays the Sharklisti animation displays which the cstga 

used as a transition throughout the show. itheir 

louchscreen nib 

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system, started by a GPI trigger via the joy- g 

stick port, with an ARexx script providing i 

automatic re-cueing at the end of each . 

run. As a result, one press of a button on t 

the main vision mixing console triggers the r 

animation, fires off a sound effect, and 

a 

changes shot - a combination which 

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would otherwise require a dedicated 

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it all. or the Mental Agility and 

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r 

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oam* the contestaisf 

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cv aot ina r- e 

asking the questioiRAmiga display 

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of the production 

On top of this the Amiga was controifing 

lights on the contestant? desks which 

briefly illuminated the first to correctly 

answer each question, plus generating a 

und effect to cue the question master to 

k the next question. This made for quite 

complicated 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 louchmate' system looks 

like a set of bathroom scales, but with a 

fitted with an A2232 multiserial card to n 

handle the touchscreen inputs, with a PAR , 

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works by detecting the minute pressure differences 

which occur between the various sensors 

when the screen is touched. This has the 

advantage that any unmod fled TV or monitor 

can be used, provided it is firmly located onto 

the platform. After a calibration routine, which 

involves rocking the screen and pressing on 

the four corners, the system can send out a 

stream of ASCII codes giving precise 

co-ordinates whenever the screen is pressed. 

LASER TESTING 

The Amiga was also used in the Krypton 

Super-Round as part of the Laser Matrix. Four 

Amiga 1200s were placed on stands for a 

round which would test the players' mental 

agility to its limits - and prove very decisive in 

the final! What Martin was asked to do was 

create a program in which the keyboard was 

remapped. 

The contestants had to solve four word 

dues using the altered keyboard before proceeding 

to negotiate their way through the 

laser beams. With a sensor connected to the 

joystick port, the Amiga would signal a time 

penalty if the beam was broken by controlling 

OW AND ZEN 

Martin Kay has now set up his own company called Zen 

Computer Services. They specialise in video work and 

Martin's experience with television and computers gives 

him an advantage in this field. His other projects 

include a teleprompting system which he has sold all 

over the world: •I'd seen similar things on the PC and 

they're very expensive I realised there was a market for 

a cheaper version and that this could be done on the 

Amiga. Most go to America where they are used by 

cable TV stations or college media courses where there 

is a need for a cost-effective solution. 

produced - He a hFrench a s and Arabic version. 

a His l work s has o also proved invaluable in the world of 

televised sports. Thanks to his snooker scoring system. 

he has made the life of graphics operators a lot easier 

in a game where it can be difficult to keep up with a 

fast potting player making a big break The Amiga provides 

a friendly front-end to control the caption generator, 

and the operator has only to click on the ball which 

has just been potted and the computer keeps track of 

the score and break totals. 

The Amiga has also been used for Rugby, Ice 

Hockey, Darts and Football where it generates the small 

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For •A Tooch of Frost' a 

acreengrab was made of a 

PC running Suparbasa 

"When the series was 

being recorded, the 

Amigas were out of 

production. Commodore 

UK kindly lent us the 

four Al200s" 

the studio lighting system, and playing a 

sound effect What the contestant had to do 

was find the code to spell out each word. Say, 

for example, they typed the letter S. It would 

come out as a I because the keyboard had 

been altered to make the letter change to the 

following letter in the alphabet. The 

contestant would have to work 

this out and break the 

pattern. 

Martin hoped that 

showing the Amiga 

Onscreen would get 

some positive publicity 

for the machine: When 

the series was being 

recorded, the Amigas 

were out of production. 

Commodore UK kindly lent 

us the four Al200s. 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.* 

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in the hit dra ma , C ra cke r. 

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innova tive use s for the Amiga in te le vision 

clock and score displays seen at the top of the screen 

throughout marches. This sounds trivrol, but life maid 

be so much more complicated if you came in from getting 

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MARCH I 9 9 6 

Martin uses a number of Amigas (from 

A1000s to A3000s) and has a collection of 

plug-in Zorn, boards. He remarked: 'There 

are too many to id in any one machine at a 

time, so I'm frequently swapping boards.' 

These include ethernet cards, XSync VITGATC 

timecode readers, genlocks, Harlequins and 

the PAR playback/capture cards, Other useful 

peripherals include a DAT for backups, with 

Diavolo s/w, an HP Scanner, and a Wacorn 

tablet for use with TV Paint. 

"The combination of TV Paint and the 

Harlequin card is unbeatable at the price 

explained Martin, it's the only system that 

gives you a genlockable broadcast quality 

2-bit RGB display with a linear key output as 

well. Together with the ZGG32 caption generator, 

all the question/answer graphics 

and text for the Krypton Factor were 

produced using this system. This is work 

which otherwise would have been done on 

Quante' Paintbox and Aston 

Capgens. Together with PAR, 

it opens doors for the 

Amiga to do broadcast 

work which is not usually 

associated with 

the machine," 47.y 

track of the score! Martin has found the Amiga ideal for 

subtitling on programmes such as Disappearing World 

and Great Railway Journeys. With a timecode reader 

providing exact synchronisation to tape, the Amiga can 

be used in broth off-line and on-line environments. 

Off-line, the regular Amigo output can be genlocked to 

provide subtitled VHS preview copies, and on-line it can 

give broadcast quality output via the Harlequin, or 

control an Aston Capgen. 

Zen Computers have also provided computer software 

for Yorkshire television's detective series, A Touch 

of Frost A recent scene involved an investigation into a 

suspect Escort Agency where Frost was looking through 

a database of pictures. However, the Amiga had to look 

like a PC running Windows so a screengrab was mode 

of a PC running Superbase, and the rest programmed 

on the Amiga. Amiga veterans will appreciate that 

Superbase started life as on Amiga program before 

ever becoming a VVindows product 

ZEN Computer Services can be contacted on: 

Telephone: 0161-793 1931 

Email: 1000,46,3675@compuserve.com

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Having owned an Amiga for six years now, it is sometimes 

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using a new machine. I started using Workbench 1,3 which 

seems light years away from the relative luxury that 

Workbench 3 users now have, Even so, learning to use 

Workbench can be difficult so a book on the subject could be 

useful, if it covers the right areas. 

The main thrust of this book is to go through every aspect 

of the Amiga's Workbench, no matter how small, and explain 

what use it is to the user. This goes from the basic roots of a 

WIMP system, explaining what icons are for, how you use 

each of the menu functions, and windows, to explaining the 

use for every utility and program you get with the Workbench 

3 disks, 

If this all sounds strangely familiar, then it might have 

MAL! AMIGA 

AMIGADOS 

The other side to using the Amiga is AmigaDOS• 

Normally used through the shell, AmigaDOS is a 

much more difficult beast to master than the 

Workbench, but potentially far more powerful and 

quick to boot The down side is that with an AI 200 

there is absolutely no documentation describing 

how to use AmigaDOS. So a good learning 

reference would be an extremely good idea. 

total! Amiga amigados is just that, taking you 

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The book starts with describing basic disk, file 

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users, the Assign, is covered along with the path 

assignment, and chapters detailing the startup 

sequence and user startup are always going to be 

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Even though this is a book aimed at people 

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something to do with the fact that all these things are outlined 

in the original Workbench manuals that come with the 

Amiga. in a very familiar fashion, along with the same sort of 

screen grabs of the various preference programs and utilities. 

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 there are a few worthwhile 

chapters. An explanation of CrossDos along with another on 

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, 

From Paul Ovetaa, possibly the guru of Amiga programming, 

we have the complete beginners guide to 

Assembler programming on the Amiga, of which there 

are two distinctive sides_ One is involved with getting the 

absolute performance out of the machine by discarding 

the OS and 'hitting the hardware', while the other takes 

the 'proper programming route via using the operating 

system functions. 

This book goes for the last option, which some demo 

coders may scoff at. However, with games like Breathless 

and Nemac IV, both very good Doom clones, using 

Intuition screens and multitasking with the rest of the 

operating system shows what the Amiga's operating 

system can achieve, and there is no real need to simply 

discard it. 

As you may expect from Paul Overaa, this book is 

excellent It covers the basics of explaining about the 

68000's status, address and data registers right through 

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off by giving the reasons you would want to use 

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or AmigaE, but there are good reasons. 

The all-imponant subjects of addressing modes, data 


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ignored subject of program design are all well covered, 

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Amiga OS programming, 

Almost 300 pages are taken up with describing every 

aspect of Amiga assembler programming. It is quite interesting 

to see a quick overview of C is given in the appendix. 

This is important as all the autodoc examples from 

Amiga Tech are written in C, so it is actually a handy 

inclusion. I just wish I had had this book when I was 

learning assembler. 

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and Tricks' video is a breath of fresh air. For a 

start it is accompanied by a CD-ROM containing 

all the tutorial scenes talked about on the video 

tape and, unusually for Lightiadave-related prod, 

ucts these days, has separate directories for PC 

and Amiga owners along with hundreds of extra 

bits and bobs like motion clips, images, 

benchmarks scenes used by LightWave Pro 

to check the speed of various LightWave platforms, 

and loads and loads of objects from 

both the Syndesis and Viewpoint Datalabs 

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Secondly, the video itself is about 70 minutes 

of very detailed information about only a few 

topics, namely how to composite LightWave 

output with live action successfully, the use of 

inverse kinematics (new to LightWave 4,0, but 

don't worry if you aren't using this version, the 

tape still also deals with bones and morphing 

targets), lighting and how to achieve realistic 

looking neon, amongst other things. Embedded 

in the detailed explanations of how to achieve 

all these targets are little gems of information 

that will come in handy for other things. 

ANIMATIONS 

This tape is presented by, and based around 

the work of, Mark Thompson who created the 

benchmark LightWave animation when he 

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The animation details how Fred Floaty, a sad 

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shark's gaping maw as it is about to devour 

Fred, and he comes back to reality realising that 

his lot isn't such a bad one after all. 

Mark Thompson explains how he put the 

animation together and uses it as an example 

of how to update old animation techniques 

with newer versions of LightWave. Thus, with 

the fact that Fred Floaty originally used a set of 

morph targets for its animation, Mark 

Thompson shows how bones and finally IK 

make the whole process much easier - on 

memory, on the learning curve and on you. 

Mark also lets us into some important 

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which should be familiar to readers of LightWave Pro - it is a very nicely detailed rendition of a 

Hummer (a military light assault vehicle) driving through the desert leaving tracks in the sand but 

be warned, didn't have enough RAM on my I8Mb Amiga to render the scene once it had loaded 

Next up is the Syndff.is directory which contains a selection of models from their 3D-ROM CD. As 

on the 3D-ROM, very few of the objects have been LightWave-isized, meaning they are out of scale 

with one another, polygons haven't been rationalised, and the surfaces haven't been edited The 

last collection of objects on the CD is a nice surprise - Viewpoint datasets other than the tired old 

surfboard, hammerhead shark and Al Capone figure including the Sydney opera house, a Madc3 

VW Golf and Big Ben. As usual with Viewpoint objects, they haven't been surfaced and you might 

need do some editing for single- and two-point polygons, but that is normal. All in all, the CD is 

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the scene, something which simply 

redefines your thinking regarding 

0 what's t's not often possible a milestone with a particular appears plat- on 

form. Products like the Video Toaster, Scala 

LightWave and the PAR animation recorder have, 

in turn, 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 

power to the traditional equation of Amigabased 

desktop video. However, as you're probably 

well aware, the Draco isn't actually an Amiga 

at all. In fact, it's 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 playback 

with state-of-the-art OVEs and a true 24-bit 

display. 

Thanks to their efforts as the Amiga's most 

prolific third•party supporter, MacroSystem 

Germany have built all the principle elements of 

a standalone machine, the keys to this being the 

Retina 24-bit display board, which in the Draw 

ships with 4Mb of RAM and CyberVision drivers, 

the Toccata sound card, offering stereo 16-bit 

audio direct to disk recording and lastly, the allimportant 

digital video skills of a VLab Motion 

digital video recorder/player. 

MANAGEMENT 

With sound, vision and system management all 

taken care of, there is, of course, still the small 

matter of the CPU, not to mention the all-important 

I/O connections that make up any modem 

machine. The solution to this is a •Draco direct' 

plug-in motherboard with all the necessary I/O 

connections - such as HD floppy drives, parallel 

and serial ports - combined with an 040 or 060 

CPU, on-board SCSI II controller and space for up 

to 128Mb of RAM - via standard 72-pin SIMMS. 

Throw in a few QuickLogic chips for Kkkstart and 

other OS essentials and... Robert's your mother's 

brother - an Amiga on a card! 

Fire-up the new machine and on the face of it 

the Draco looks every inch an Amiga - but with 

one major difference. The Draco does riot have 

AGA, or in fact any part of the Amiga's custom 

chipset, even though a whopping 4Mb of chip 

memory does appear on the menu bar courtesy 

of the Retina's on-board memory. 

Obviously, the lack of AGA does preclude 

13 0 K AND 

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said reliability and crash resistance has been 

an issue regarding the VLM and Mavieshop 

compendium on normal Amigos. But thanks 

to version3.0of the MovieShop software, the 

system is now rock solid even at the highest 

possible image quaky. 

In the case of the KM card tested, th' 

translated to on attained and more important')' 

maintained,90per cent Jpeg compression, 

which in real terms means virtually 

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Motion, Toccata, Retina and the060CP1.1 and I/O combo, a 

HD floppy and lastly, a quad-speed CD-ROM. The latter contains 

all the necessary system software in the form of 

Workbench3.1, MovieShop, Toccata, Draco and Retina control 

and utility software, Samplitude, ADPro2.5, MorphPlus 

and XiPaint 

Unfortunately, the plan to incorporate Shape Shifter - the 

Mac emulation software - as a standard part of the Draco 

certain applications from the Draco, notables 

including Dpaint AGA, Brilliance and, worst of 

all, Scala_ Basically, any software that requires 

the AGA by default, or in Scala's case relies 

heavily on Amiga specific RAM calls won't RM. 

However, this isn't as catastrophic as it sounds 

- check out the big picture for more info. 

Okay, you've got all the elements for a 

world-beating DV machine, but even at the 

basic asking price a Draco is still a big investment 

for the enthusiast - especially if you've 

already invested in some of the key elements 

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The real essence of the Draco's appeal ts its ability to operate 

as a true off-line editor/digital video effects generator. In that 

domain it stands head and shoulders above the opposition 

with around5ODVEs already available and more coming online 

all the time Almost inevitably, the PAR card gets a mention 

when you're talking about Amiga-based digital video. 

However, the only common ground between the Mo is the 

fact that both can encode and playback video, That where 

the similarity ends... The Par is on animation recorder, 

whereas the Draco can do that, and an awful lot more 

besides- 

Unlike the combination of the PAR and SunRize ADS 16 

direct to disk recorder, the Droco offers a seamless combination 

of audio and video with the ability to act as a truly digital 

AV editing system. The audio and video element, by default, 

are hard-wired together so, as a result when you cut,, copy 

and paste within MovieShop, exactly the same edits apply to 

the accompanying stereo or mono sound 

If the need arises, you're still free to record or import additional 

sound and then edit, mix, and export sound tacks, or 

even mix live via the Toccata's multiple inputs to generate0 

perfect combination of sound track backing music and voiceover. 

Even when the audio has been recorded, you're still free 

to adjust its length, copy 

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it, reposition it as a separate 

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the past, much of their software could quite 

rightly be described as over-engineered, with 

seemingly endless user options clouding the 

overall picture. 

Fortunately, a more Mac-like approach to 

design is beginning to prevail. This doesn't 

mean MovieShop is exactly a no-brainer for 

The user, but it does mean the learning curve 

is flattening out dramatically. You're still free 

to adjust with just about everything, but the 

inclusion of assorted presets and one click 

operations is becoming much more the norm. 

Clank examples of this are simple things 

Me preset window arrangements, which go a 

long way towards simplifying the sea of 

requesters that control the system. Another is 

software suite hasn't come to fruition. Apple, as yet, have not 

confirmed a license agreement regarding the Mac ROM Me 

due to concerns regarding their traditional support policy. 

Undaunted, and with the aid of a System 7.5installation 

CD, I set-up a Pseudo Mac on a drive connected to the external 

SCSI port which, with the combination of 060 and 

Retina's blisteringly fast screen update, easily out performed 

my Quadra 700at work Big raspberry to those grumpy guys 

at Apple! 

in the form of plug-ins for your existing kit 

Fortunately the Draco does offer another 

unique feature in a new machine, namely 

backwards compatibility, Admittedly, this is a 

weird concept regarding a new computer, but 

when it comes to existing MacroSystems' hardware, 

compatibility ain't a problem Existing 

Toccatas, VLab Motion cards and Retinas all 

work perfectly well in the Draco, and as a consequence, 

MacroSystem are offering a mix and 

match option to complete the Draco equation, 

element on the Timeline, or transfer it between video dips 

and scenes. Better still, you also have complete control over 

the sound envelopes of the samples you're working with. As 

port of MovieShop's Timeline control, you're provided with on 

envelope requester which enables you to insert multiple edit 

point and adjust sound levels appropriately. Consequently, 

you can introduce frame accurate volume changes and even 

cross-fades between different audio tracks in different video 

clips. In short, complete control over the sound dynamics 

within the production. 

As a finishing touch, there's even a built-in SMPTE timecode 

generator with which to strip a tape - assuming your 

creation is to be passed on to a third-party production house, 

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the excellent new preview window which can 

generate a mini preview of all your edits and 

DVEs in a video sequence, thereby offering a 

means of quickly testing things before you 

commit to generating the full frame effects - 

a process which con be a lengthy procedure 

on a complex production. This is a seemingly 

obvious addition perhaps, but one that can 

saw lots in wasted processing time. 

One stop solutions such as slow motion 

and fast motion, either with or without 

accompanying sound, is another example. 

These are now built into software on a simple 

point and dick basis which, again, is something 

which in the past was a real nightmare 

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representing calculations that seems reversed 

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Assuming all the real-time grabbing and 

importing is complete, and the various dips 

are trimmed, edited, and appended, the 

next step is to drop them into the Timeline 

and add the all-important special effects 

and additional audio. 

Building the actual Movie is entirely nondestructive. 

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 this is a user-defined 

sequence of all the existing scenes, aided 

by assorted visual and audio effects. 

This ability to mix and process multiple 

sequences points to another unique feature 

of VLM, namely its ability to operate as a 

digital A (13 roll environment with a built-in 

DV E generator. Needless to say, this is by no 

means a real-time process, because once 

the scenes are arranged and the operators 

positioned, MovieShop still has to set about 

processing the video and audio transitions 

and effects specified in the timeline using 

co-style batch processing. Luckily, this is 

done automatically, but it does take lime 

ess may sound 

daunting, after a little practise it becomes 

second nature. Beginners are catered for via 

an easy mode but in addition there's a more 

complex RPN approach - which can process 

an almost unlimited number of sequences 

along with multiple layers special effects. 

Obviously, doing all the DVEs in software 

means there are, inevitably, opportunities 

for the odd coffee break, if not light lunch. 

However, thanks to the new preview option, 

wasted efforts can be kept to a minimum at 

least, and in reality, most DVE productions 

take seconds and minutes, rather than 

hours to generate. Given the complexity of 

what the machine is being asked to do, this 

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on compatibility regards access to the Amigo bfitter. However, thanks 

to some clever coding, a direct and transparent replacement has been 

mode via the Retina's on-board bktter. 

The Retina was, in fact the first card in the collection to go 'Draco 

direct' - pumping through 35Mb per second, making it one of the 

fastest graphics cards around - and one of the only ones which can 

run Workbench in full 24-bit, 64K or 256 colours in a variety of 

resolutions ranging from 320 x 240 up to 1600 x 992. 

The Retina's natural affinity with Workbench emulation combined 

with the ever-growing range of software which supports RTC boards is 

a key factor in the development of the Draco. Light Wove, ADPro, 

ImogeFX, Wordworth, and PageStream all support RTGs, and the list 

just keeps growing. As a consequence, even without the Custom 

Chipset, the Draco remains compatible with the majority of Amiga 

applications. 

HAT HAPPENED TO... 

During our original Draco preview a whole host of new add-ons got a 

mention, namely a Draco friendly TVPaint, a Draco direct VIM, a planned 

Dec Alpha co-processor, and a new 64-bit Retina. 

The good news regarding TVPaint is the release of version 3.6 which, at 

long last, doesn't require a dangle, and therefore will work perfectly with 

the Dram The Draco Direct VLM is now complete and its associated software 

is in beta, so the all new VLM, 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 to the Dec Alpha coprocessor 

which, like the Draco direct VIM, will launch at the NAB and 

promises to deliver real•time DVEs and much more besides._ 

The rumoured 64-bit replacement of the Retina looks likely to be 

appearing with the others at NAB and promises full on-screen video preview 

as well as generating a genlockable output. MacroSystem are also 

working on a minor revision to the Draco Motherboard which will allow a 

plug-in 133 MHz PC to become part of the Draco repertoire. Assuming 

you add a Mac via ShapeShifter, that makes three machines in a single 

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Add up ... the system performance and price 

tag and the Droco is bound to attract many 

a serious Amiga fan, with the basic 

machine retailing cheaper than the almost 

mythical Amigo 40001 running an identical 

50MHz 060 accelerator. 

Impressive figures for a fully-featured 

digital video box with full off-line editing, 

CD quality audio, broadcast quality digital 

video effects, 24-bit graphics, and much 

more besides. Look for opposition with this 

kind of spec at a similar price point and you 

simply won't find any. 

The only other question, especially in 

relation to newcomers, IS ease of use and 

system stability. As mentioned earlier, 

MacroSystems' software is synonymous 

with endless requesters and user-definable 

options, but having said that ease of use is 

improving all the time And after a day or 

two with the manual, most people would 

find the Draw second nature - especially if 

they'd used Amigos in the past 

. On the system side, there's virtually no 

iga, so there's nothing to complain 

on that *we, 

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Digital Winter - one of Tonys re ce nt images wa s 

a proposed rove r image for Amigo Computing 

ANATOMY OF AN IMAGE 

Tony Patrickson tells us in his own words about the 

creation of the Stimuloss image 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 of a series digitized several months 

previously using the VidiAmiga (24) RT with live input 

from a Betacam, which I'd played around with for a 

while using various colour-mapping routines in 

Photoshop to produce this rather lurid 'chameleon' 

effect. Having imported it into Imagent this was then 

cropped and resized to the correct resolution and 

aspect ratio for the task in hand. Because the image 

was enlarged to such a degree, it was necessary to 

use Gaussian and antialiasing routines within 


MARCH 1 

HARDWARE GALORE 

Arcom Multimedia have a hardware inventory that would be the envy of many an Amiga 

enthusiast but also contains one of the devil's machines - a PC. Unfortunately, the PC was 

a necessary purchase because of its Mpeg encoding and CD mastering facilities, which 

weren't available at the time on the Amiga, but has also now got a spot doing interactive 

CD authoring using products like Macromedia Director for PCs, a growing part of Arcom's 

business. 

This machine is called The Beast' and joins a menagerie of Amigos, all named to avoid 

confusion. First up is Walter, also known as Walter the Warp Engine for the 33MHz Warp 

Engine that powers him (her? it?), Walter is on extremely stacked machine. In addition to the 

processing power it can muster, it also houses the Digital Broadcaster card and its 

accompanying ADSI6 I6-bit sampling card, and is the main LightWave rendering station. 

Next up is Peggy, an A4000/030 with one of Scala's Mpeg cards, closely followed by 

Peggy II, a similar machine. Lastly, Runty is the smallest member of the pack. Being only a 

moderately accelerated Al200, Runty's main use these days is recreational, but it used to 

be Arcom's mainstay. The four machines are surrounded by CD-ROM recorders, video 

equipment scanners, genlocks and DAT drives, and there's barely enough room in the office 

to breathe lei alone rake photographs! 

used a computer before two years ago, but I 

saw what Russell was doing and wanted to 

be involved." Chris gave up his job as a boat 

builder to work full-time on the project and 

learned how to use kcom's two main programs 

- lightWave and Applied Magic's 

Digital Broadcaster. 

The Digital Broadcaster is a product that 

doesn't get much coverage in Amiga magazines, 

but it is the only broadcast quality, 

non-linear, video editing system in the world 

that is available at such a low price. Even so, 

the Digital Broadcaster is not the kind of 

imageFX to smooth our pixel differences - which 

would have been necessary anyway as I wanted the 

background de-focussed to reproduce the photographic 

effects of depth-of-field. 

The next stage was to get down to designing foreground 

elements: there's really no substitute on the 

Amiga for LightWave when it comes to working quickly 

through ideas in three dimensions. I'd already made 

preparatory drawings on paper - pre-planning is a 

must if you don't want to get 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 Light Wave it was a relatively 

straightforward process of creating a disc of the 

required diameter and using the 'rail extrusion' feature 

from the Multiply menu to extrude the disc along 

a curve sketched in the background layer. Both the 

thing you pop down to your local shop to 

buy with sop in your pocket. The main cost 

for the system isn't even the card itself, but 

the hard drives required to store broadcast 

quality video on. Arcom have 8.4Gb of storage 

space devoted to the Broadcaster, and a 

further gigabyte for accompanying 16-bit 

sound which is provided by the legendary 

ADS16 board (which is no longer being 

made). This board is at the centre of Arcom's 

business and since the job that provided the 

money to buy it (and all its attendant hard 

drives), it has been in constant use for 

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Imagine and not LightWave? Well, in this case I wanted 

to make use of certain procedural textures available 

only in Imagine (in this case 'peened' and 

tolourNoiz.2), plus, although being abysmal as an 

animation tool it does produce good quality high-resolution 

stills (I basically only use it as a rendering 

engine for detailed textures nowadays). Also, I found 

out early on in the project that my 10 megs of RAM 

wasn't enough to render all the scene-elements in 

LightWave (even with the 'Segment memory' feature 

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to print Once I'd carried out a senes of test renders to 

get the texture parameters right it was a case of 

designing the lighting within the stage editor. As it is 

in film, theatre of photography, probably the biggest 

reason why so many bad computer graphics look terrible 

is in poor fighting design - it doesn't matter if it's 

3D Studio, Light Wave, or any higher-end application 

like Softimage, if the lighting is bad it doesn't matter 

how good the other elements are. The temptation is to 

whack the ambient-fill levels up to try and show every 

detail (which gives many computer-graphics on TV 

that flashy 'sameness for example), but as with cinematography, 

much of the most effective work is done 

with shadow as much as light itself 

In this case, the lighting requirments were quite 

precise because the light in the background image 

had been from a single low-angle spot, so a single 

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spot was placea ri the stage editor to illuminate the 

objects from beneath in a similar fashion. As well as 

accurate placement, the light colour was tweaked to 

mimic the effects of the tungsterVartificel lightsource 

in the background image, with 'diminishing intensity' 

selected. 

RENDERING 

Tony Putrickson ha rd a t work on Stimiiloss, 

the image shown in the work On progre ts be low 

After further tests, all the image components were 

finally rendered at print rather than screen resolution. 

The final render was then imported into ImagelX for 

post-production and checking. Although the lighting of 

the back and foreground elements seemed consistent 

enough, I wasn't happy with some aspects - the cornpositing 

looked too sharp in places, like that in the circled 

area. This is a common problem when corn posit- 

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The fina l version of StinIlliCIFS - a n image 

created spe cifica lly for Amiga Computing 

ing several elements from different sources, in that 

things can look too clean and artificial - our own eyes 

are used to a world that has dirt and shadow in it. The 

offending areas in the image were selected using the 

'freehand' too! in Image% with pixel and shading differences 

then softened using Gaussian, blur, and darkening 

routines. 

Whilst the lighting and tonal ranges now looked 

okay, there were slight colour variations that needed 

tweaking to harmonize the image as a whole. After 

small adjustments to the CMVK values, I played 

around with the 'antique' filter from the Colour effects 

menu. Usually this Just turns everything into a 'cliche 

in sepia'. but I found that re-applying it several times 

gave the right hue to bring the image together. Finally, 

the file was saved-out of Imagea and archived for 

transmission to the magazine.

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projects both large and small. Russell Moore 

doesn't really care about all the doom and 

gloom currently enveloping the Amiga market. 

in fact he almost approves of it He likes the 

idea that the Amiga is a 'punk' machine, as he 

terms it And he sees the Amiga going on long 

past its sell-by date, with people in the know 

buying up second-hand machines and scavenging 

parts from broken Amigas - sort of a 

Mad Max scenario, if you like. He thinks it's 

great that there will be people abandoning the 

machine in their droves and putting their old 

Arnim up for sale so that he can buy them 

and make them into interactive point of information 

kiosks at a fraction that it would cost 

for a similar set-up using a PC. 

Russell also believes that the Amiga will 

continue to be a creative machine with a hard 

core of dedicated users providing the software 

Chris Adles - No he doesn't pla y ke yboards 

for Erasure 

THE MAIN MAN 

Tony Patrickson is an ad hoc lecturer at the 

University of Ulster in Belfast where he takes 

up the thankless task of showing the students 

(and even some of the teachers) there how to 

get to grips with electronic media. Most 

universities have computer equipment these 

days and Belfast is particularly well catered 

for with a nice mix of PCs, Macs and even a 

Silicon Graphics machine, but there is something 

of a generation gap between the 

administration, the lecturers and the students, 

where the administrators and lecturers are 

aware of the new media, but are more interested 

in the fields they learnt at university, 

like painting and sculpture. 

it's a similar problem that was faced by 

people wanting to study photography as an 

art form earlier this century, and it will probably 

take longer to overcome owing to the 

prejudice against computer art which Tony 

Patrickson thinks he has an explanation for. 

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that is needed for the work the Amiga is best 

at, like multimedia, video titling, non-linear 

video editing and so on. Like most people 

intimately concerned with the Amiga for their 

Russell M oore - the ma n who ma de the 

word e pk into an I rish household sensation 

and computer art confounds them because 

they can never possess it. I can make dozens 

of copies, each exactly the same as the first 

and that bugs them because they can't hoard 

my art" 

Tony took a roundabout trip into the world 

of Amiga. He originally trained in sculpture 

and comes from an orthodox fine art background. 

But he wanted to get involved on the 

emerging computer arts field and, through 

speaking to a friend working at a production 

facility in Belfast came into contact with the 

Amiga. Tony's main problem as an artist is 

one of funding, so the Amiga's low-cost 

and high quality combination made for a 

particularly attractive proposition. 

He first got an A1500 about four years ago 

and worked with Deluxe Paint and Imagine, 

pretty standard Amiga tools that everyone 

has access to. But two years ago, the ageing 

A1500 was definitely starting to lag behind 

the current state of the art (to be very kind to 

it) and Tony replaced it with an A4000/030. 

business, he is despondent about its 

prospects over the next year, but hopes its 

sorry situation can be turned around, it's not 

a machine that can be sold in shops like 

Dixons, or even the Estoril shops. 

- that I an suggested 

approach more like the old Apple 

dealerships would be more appropriate, but 

Russell wondered if there was even the 

market for that 

Even so, Arcom aren't averse to publicising 

the Amiga in magazines like Ireland's influen 

tial trade magazine, Irish Film g Video, with a 

full page article on just how good LightWave 

is. The only problem with doing this is the 

worry that people will actually believe the article 

and go out and buy Amigas and compete 

with the services Arcom provides. 

'The Amiga is the world's best-kept secret. 

and we'd rather keep it that way," says 

Russell 

He continued using a mixture of video grabs 

from his Vidi Amiga frame grabber and an 

evolving mixture of Imagine. DPaint and 

ImageF/X. 

When Light Wove became available as a 

standalone package, Tony got the necessary 

money together in order to purchase what 

was universally acclaimed as a brilliant 

'new' tool for 3D animators. Six months ago. 

he gave LightWave the kick in the pants it 

needed by adding a Cyberstorm 060 boom 

to his setup, thanks to a grant from the Arts 

Council, but he has his eye on plenty of 

other additions to his setup that he will 

make when he gets further money - iterm 

like a Stab 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 

a distraction, and that computer art in 

particular seems always to be oversaturated 

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EISCOM KILL THE 

Th;s next dettcr NOS addressed to our 

erstwhile deputy editor Ben Vast 

As a subscriber, I always read my Amigo 

Computing pretty comprehensively, but this 

month's issue (January 1996) was particularly 

apt 

From your sombre coloured cover with the 

rather sinister 'Escorri' figure, to the well-written 

and well-reasoned articles, I think you 

have captured the mood exactly and I would 

like to make a few comments of my own. 

I came to the Amiga rather later than most. 

I was forced by an industrial injury to take 

early retirement, and my younger son, bless 

him, knowing I was in a lot of pain and 

unable to sleep at nights, gave me his trusty 

Amiga 500. I quickly became hooked and 

sold the 500 to buy an almost new Al200, 

just after Commodore went into liquidation. I 

set about upgrading the basic 1200 and now 

have a 1200 working through a HiQ 

Workstation, with a trapdoor expansion 

card to give me 6Mb RAM, a 120Mb IDE 

drive, a Sanyo CD-ROM drive and a ZIP drive, 

together with a new Citizen ProJet Colour 

printer - as you can imagine, I spend a lot of 

time and get a lot of enjoyment from my now 

lovely 1200 and this is increasing as I gain in 

competence! 

But I live in an idyllic setting miles from 

anywhere with far more 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 most 

AMIGA? 

CRIMSBY 111/11INKLIES 

I write on behalf of the 'wrinklies' in our Video 

Camera Users Club, who try to enjoy the fascinating 

hobby of video linked with the Amiga computer. 

About eight of our members have Amigas, mainly 

the Al200, and we have an extra monthly get-together 

to exchange our knowledge regarding computer 

and video programs. 

Our complaint is not aimed At Amiga Computing, 

or the other Amiga magazines, but at the instructions 

given with coverdisks to get some of these very useful 

programs working. For instance, the installation 

instructions for MainActor on the December 1995 

coverdisk include the following: 'Double-click on the 

MainActor.lha - to use this you must also have the 

installer program in your C: directory.', and also; 'You 

will have to add a line to your user-startup, that being 

Assign MainActor: This allows MainActor to locate all 

the extra files it uses.' 

This must look straightforward to you 'Young 'uns' 

using computers, but to us retired 'wrinklies', well, 

we haven't a clue where C: is, where the user-startup 

is, 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 intervals, 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 

of them also sold mainly PCs, but usually 

there was someone with whom you could at 

least talk sensibly about Amigas. 

Since Escom bought out what was left of 

Commodore it is quite noticeable how the 

Amiga presence has totally evaporated - certainly, 

as in your article, there are a few boxes 

with Amiga on them in both Tandy and 

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 processes of titling animations 

and all the other video-related programs you 

include, so perhaps you could recommend a booklet 

for 'wrinklies' on the most simple basics of getting 

things running. 

Finally, if there is anyone in the Grimsby district 

interested in video and the Amiga who wants to 

know more about our club, give me a ring on 01472 

877428. The instructions will be very simple, come 

and join us to help each other in our hobby. 

Phil Borman, Grimsby 

First off, I would like to say sorry for how long it 

has taken me to print your letter (it arrived here at 

the end of last October), but in answer to your 

question, do you regularly get Amiga Computing? 

If so, you will know that there is a regular page at 

the back written by one of our contributors, Frank 

Nord, on how to keep your Amiga in tip-top condition. 

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 beginners guide to the Amiga, 

which should also help you. 

There are plenty of books around to help Amiga 

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MARCH 1 9 9 6 

A 

Escom shops, but my experience in both 

far more pronounced than yours. This was 

particularly so in the nearest [scorn shop. 

where I was told by one assistant, when I 

commented on the 'Commodore' badge on 

an [scorn PC "Yes, [scorn are marketing 

Commodore now. Yes, says I, I know that 

but what about the Amiga? "Separate company", 

says he. "Amiga Technologies have 

been set up to do the software, but the 

Amiga is defunct and nobody is supporting 

it any more. 

- I will not tell you what I 

actually said to him, but 

will leave it to your imar 

nation. Suffice to say. 

the next time I went 

into the shop I 

demanded to talk to 

Will Amiga Technologies ever 

the manager, whom 

knew had previously 

had an Amiga, and 

asked him to explain 

company policy about the 

machine. He looked really 

disco fited and more or less 

get it right? It dosen't seem like it 

'according to our E50 prize winner 

Keep 

those letters 

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: 

ESPaacomp.demon.cauk 

There's a £50 pound prize for the 

best letter printed as an incentive 

users, such as those from Bruce Smith, but the real 

solution to your problem is to experiment. Make a 

backup of your machine before you do anything 

too drastic and press ahead trying to solve your 

problems. At least you'll be safe in the knowledge 

that you can always restore your backup and all 

you will have lost would be some time. 

Get yourself some sort of file manager program 

like Optonica's InfoNexus which will help you 

explore Workbench's hidden depths, but experiment, 

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 disks to accompany it

th was 

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implied that they were only selling them 

while stocks lasted and that he expected not 

to get any more, and yes, he was the only 

one who knew anything about Amigas in the 

shop. He then excused himself and went 

into his office shutting the door behind him. 

Even the big people who also wholeheartedly 

supported the Amiga in every way 

are starting to lose heart in the face of the 

lack of support they are receiving from 

Amiga Technologies, and I am afraid it is 

Escom's intention to kill of the Amiga in its 

present form and certainly not to support 

existing Amiga owners in any meaningful 

way. 

I suppose that, in a way, I am lucky - 

although I really like my Amiga 1200 and 

think that it can do virtually everything I 

could do on a PC, but far more easily and at 

far less cost and certainly in a more userfriendly 

way, if all else fails, ultimately, I 

could throw the Al200 away and convert 

my workstation to a PC using the CD, hard 

drive and Zip drive as peripherals in what 

will then become a PC, after a few additions 

such 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 [scam ignore and treat us like 

dirt at their peril, and I, for one, would certainly 

not buy anything PC from an Escom 

shop, if it came to it, even if it did say 

Commodore on it in exactly the same way 

have a handy tip to do with the trashcan on the 

Workbench. When I got your Christmas issue (94), I looked 

at the Appflashcan program you gave away, but you don't 

really need all these programs to replace Workbench's 

trashcan because you can have one out on the Workbench 

screen without using any of them. It goes like this: 

1. Create a normal drawer on the boot partition of your 

hard drive and call it what you like, like WBTrashcan, for 

instance. 

2. Make sure the icon is selected. 

3. Select 'Leave out' from the Icon menu on Workbench. 

This will place the icon directly onto the Workbench 

screen. 

4. Next, use an icon editing program like the excellent one 

you gave away in issue 94 and change the drawer's icon 

type from a drawer to a trashcan. (You could also just use 

Swazinfo to do the same, we gave it away the following 

month on issue 95 - ES) 

5. Snapshot the icon to wherever you want it to be and 

hey hey hey, you now have a Trashcan on Workbench. 

One last thing before I go to bed (it's 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 

INV 

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as my 1200 does. Many thanks for all your 

interesting articles and may I wish you and 

your team a happy Christmas and a prosperous 

and healthy 1996. 

Ion Aisbitt, Bedale, North Yorks 

Ben replies: - Thanks very much for your 

kind words of support. I understand from 

Ezra that you are a bit of a regular letterwriter 

to the postbag, so I'm glad that he 

has seen fit to award you the E50 prize for 

letter of the month. As far as the Escom 

shops thing goes, since the magazine 

came out, I have had several people ring 

rne up and give me their tale of woe with 

regard to friends and family attempting to 

buy Amigas. I really think that the whole 

affair is pretty shabby and that Amiga 

Technologies should have only allowed 

Amigas into Escom shops with some 

degree of Amiga experience. 

As for Tandy, I spoke to the guy in their 

shop for perhaps 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 

shops I visited was interested in taking 

E500 of my money for an Amiga (apart 

from Silica, after some prompting). They 

all wanted me to go and get more cash or 

buy a more expensive machine on the 

never never. 

This makes rue wonder how many sales 

of any sort of computer are being lost 

because of this perceived lower budget 

limit of about c650, which a lot of people 

ERASHY NEW YEAR (and they're all out of date), plus, if you ask the shop 

attendants anything about the Amiga they go all cocky and 

selfish. 

find all this very distressing, I have been a proud owner 

of an Amiga for ten years and while there is a lot I want to 

say, I feel I am only repeating what other people have said 

already. Anyway, it's a sad situation even though you guys 

at Amiga Computing are doing a great job - if it wasn't for 

your magazine I would have no way of knowing what was 

happening in the world. 

Michael J Owen, Caenarfon 

Nice bit of lateral thinking there, Michael. We tried it 

out in the office, just to check you weren't pulling our 

legs, and lo and behold it worked! The only problem 

with your method that we could discern was if you have 

(as we do) more than one hard drive or partition. If 

that's the case, you will have to have a separate trashcan 

for each drive you have on Workbench, as only having 

one follows the Workbench rule of 'If it isn't on the 

same drive copy it rather than moving 

What this means is that if you drag a file from one 

place on a hard drive to another place on the same 

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 or 

hard drive, then Workbench just copies the file, I 

eaving the original copy where it is. The same 

principle applies to the trashcan. Other than that, nke 

one! 


MARCH 1995 

just can't meet. When it comes to your 

suggestion that Escom want to kill the 

Amiga, I have to demurr. I don't think they 

would have spent the money they did 

(somewhere in the region of $50 million 

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 I know very little about big business 

advertising budgets or sponsorship 

deals, I can only assume that AT are 

doing what they can with the money they 

have. 

On the other hand, the lack of support 

we seem to be receiving from Amiga 

Technologies is upsetting and curious. 

especially since the Amiga magazines are 

the only outlet for publicising the Amiga 

that AT currently have 

When all's said and done, the Amiga 

will probably never regain the sort of 

stature it had five years ago in the home 

market because of the rise of the console 

kids and people willing to spend the 

money on a PC - after all, 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 gets very creative in 

the marketing department, which is looking 

about as likely as it ever did with 

Commodore. 

131INALLY. 

1 

I just thought I would write in to say how 

much I like the new look of the magazine 

for 1996 and say that I thought that it was 

the best issue of any Amiga magazine I have 

read for the two years I have owned an 

Amiga. Although I am now past the beginners 

stage (I hope), the Beginners guide section 

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 previously available on yours 

and other coverdisks, it was nice to have 

them all collected together and to get the 

latest versions of things like Multia, which 

is a bit hard to find if you don't own a 

modem. 

Anyway, that's it. I just thought someone 

ought to thank you for the great work you 

guys do for the Amiga community and I'm 

feeling very mellow because it's Christmas 

and I've had a drink or two. 

Owen Jones, Canterbury 

Well, Owen, there's nothing we like more 

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now we're all glowing with pride and 

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support keyboard or a normal joystick? 

As I live in Belgium, I am experiencing a 

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and will this change with Escom? Maybe 

other Belgium readers could contact me so 

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Belgium Amiga-related clubs that I could get 

help from? 

Recently I went to London and while 

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of Myth. When I got home I found the 

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Blontrock Stijn, Oostende Belgium 

It is possible to use CD32 joy pads on 

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a machine. If a game came out today that 

t refused to work on an 020 processor it 

could s not go on sale as every Al200 would be 

unable to run it I remember when I first saw SubWar 

e 

2050 

e 

- I was quite amazed when I found it was 

running 

m 

on an Intuition screen. You could pull the 

screen 

t 

down and voila, Workbench appears still up 

and running. 

o 

The same applied when we first saw Breathless. 

b 

Hit the right Amiga and 'n' keys, and Workbench will 

e 

pop to the front This change of approach from the 

h 

old has come about due to a couple of reasons. 

i 

When the Amiga first came out it had a much slower 

t 

processor and a quarter of the memory which neces- 

t 

sitated that the programmer grab every byte of mem- 

i 

ory and every CPU cycle to get the very best out of 

n 

g 

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h 

circuitry than 

the Al200 which 

allows it to automati- 

cally detect that a joy pad 

is being used, rather than a normal 

joyitick. However, I cannot see this 

being a problem as I would think most 

programmers should be aware of this. 

I cannot tell you if there are any shops 

or user groups in Belgium, but there is a 

recently formed international user group 

called A.M.I.G.A. based in London that 

may be able to help you out. Contact: 

AMIGA, 190 Falloden Way, London NW11 

6JE, Tel: +44 181 455 1626. If any Belgium 

readers want to get in contact with you we 

will be happy to forward their letters. 

As for the Escom situation, they really 

only have enough resources to concentrate 

on getting distribution to the Amiga's 

main selling points, such as England, 

Germany and America. Even if Amigos do 

make it into Belgium [scam 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 

the machine. However, with modern Amigas having 

faster processors and much more memory, the need, 

and the excuses, for killing the system off are not 

applicable, and when a Power Amiga arrives these 

excuses will be non-existent. 

The reason for not killing the OS off is that by 

actually talking to the OS a program can find out all 

sorts of useful information about what type of system 

it is running ois. This means a game such as 

SubWar 2050 will actually run on a mode-promoted 

Helping you to sleep easier 

at night, ACAS will soothe all 

your troubles away 


MARCH 1996 

you get with the Squirrel interface is about 

as good as it gets and, unfortunately, if 

this cannot get a CD32 game to run then 

you are going to need an actual CO32. The 

main reason for CO32 software not work- 

ing is that it may be directly using the 

Akiko chip. However, I cannot see why 

Myth would need to do this. Another is 

due to the CD32 having Workbench 3.1, so 

certain graphic routines are not available 

on a standard Al 200 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 its release date 

keeps being pushed back. 

Aim 

Anyone rimming 

Bre a thle ss oft a ha rd 

drive will be a ble to se e 

it mufti-le a king a wa y 

VGA screen - something that is impossible for a 

game that kills off the OS. 

Commodore always said that programs that do not 

use the OS will not run on future machines. This 

happened when the Al200 first came out, and more 

recently with the floppy drive problem in the current 

Al2005 - games using their own track loading 

routines could not cope with the new drives. It will 

also be interesting to see if such OS 'friendly' games 

will run on the future Power Amigas.

DNTERNET BEGINNINGS 

I would like to know more about the 

Internet as in my country the local 

communication system has recently 

installed a server to the Internet, but 

I cannot find any Amiga Internet 

software on the market 

I would like to know what software is 

available and how I can get hold al it for an 

Amiga 1200 with 250Mb hard drive: Besides 

this I would like to know if modems used in 

PC machines are suitable for the Amiga or 

should I buy a special kind. If this is the case, 

where can I get it? 

Martin Balestra, Montevideo Uruguay 

am sure you will take great 

delight in knowing that all 

the software you need is 

available on the Internet, 

which is not going to be of 

much use to you now, is it? Generally, the 

Amiga software you need to use all 

aspects of the Internet is freely available, 

but the problem with this is that the only 

ready source for Comms software is 

Aminet. So to get Amiga Comms software 

you either have to have Internet access 

already, or a CD-ROM and the Aminet CD 

set, which would then allow you to get the 

right software. 

On our April issue we did a special 

Comms coverdisk which supplied you with 

all the necessary Internet software to get 

you linked up and accessing e-mail, newsgroups 

and HP sites. There was also the 

chance for British readers to have ten 

F INA!. ZOOM Mir 

Having owned Final Writer for a while now I have 

got to grips with its graphic tools and am using 

them more to produce diagrams for my college 

essays. The problem I have is when trying to 

precisely position lines so that they fit together. At 

the moment, I have resorted to entering the co-ordinates 

directly into the line requester, but as you can imagine 

this is quite time consuming when dealing with any 

more than just a few lines. Have you got any 

suggestions? 

Simon Jones, Manchester 

/ H a v i n g used Final Writer to produce 

essays and reports myself, I know how frustrating 

and time consuming it can be trying to set up 

diagrams by hand. Luckily, there are a few tricks that 

you can 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 

zoom 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. 

hours trial Internet access with Demon. 

There are still April issues available so you 

could get onto the Internet this way. 

As the whole package is based around 

AmigaNOS, an older TCP/IP software package, 

the Installation 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 

address, 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 AmiTCP. So in the long 

run, getting hold of and switching to 

AmiTCP would be the best move. 

Unfortunately, AmiTCP is very very difficult 

to set up, even for someone that knows 

quite a lot about the Amiga already. 

This is because for every program that 

you want to work with AmiTCP, you have 

to configure AmiTCP separately for each 

one, and this can get to be very confusing. 

If AmiTCP came with all the necessary 

Internet tools to allow you to 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 Internet 

package, based around their A5225r2 ICP 


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but your scre ion re ha sh wilt suffe r 

Do you have a problem? Do you 

sometimes find yourself poised 

over your Amiga with axe in 

hand, spouting profanity at the 

stubborn refusal of your software 

or hardware to behave properly? 

Weil, calm down and swap the 

axe for pen and paper, jot down 

your problems. along with a 

description of your Amiga setup. 

and send it off to Amiga 

Computing Advice Service, MG 

Media, Media House, Adlington 

Park, Macclesfield 51(10 4NP. 

Alternatively, e-mail us at 

ACAS@acomp.demon.couk 

stack, and with all the necessary tools you 

need. The full details have not been con- 

firmed yet. but it will initially be bundled 

with the Al200, and will probably be 

available separately. So for any would be 

Internet-ers this is the perfect solution: 

As for PC modems, you can use any 

external modem with your Amiga. You 

cannot use the ones that are internal to 

PCs as the interface for these are not 

compatible with the Amiga. Also, you cannot 

use PCMCIA modems as no Amiga 

device drivers have been written to take 

advantage of them. 

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RSI Break, 

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Allen, is a small commodity that is designed to remind the user to take regular 

breaks when typing, so as to avoid possible RSI problems. Repetitive 

Strain Injury is, of course, now a recognised condition which causes considerable 

pain to sufferers. It can affect anyone who performs repetitive movements 

regularly, such as piano or guitar players, and, of course, computer 

users. 

PSI Break flashes the screen every three or four minutes to remind you 

to shake your hands, and every half an hour or so an alert appears telling 

you to get up and walk around a little. The frequency of these reminders is 

totally configurable via the icon tooltypes, 

R51 Break is an excellent idea, and is highly recommended. Now let's 

take a look at the best of the rest from this month's PD and shareware 

mailbag.,. 

IPEOUT 1.3 

Programmed by: Tero lehtonen 

Available from: Your Choice 

Disk No: GA600 

Wipeout is an unassuming blast-'em-up, 

written in assembly language for the maximum 

possible speed. Your task is to control 

a small spaceship which flies around 

IDS ONLY 

Programmed by: Mark Meaney 

Available from: Seasoft 

Kids Only is a collection of seven linked programs 

aimed squarely at youngsters_ It was originally intended 

for commercial release but the three disks are now 

available for a termer. 

Big kid that I am, I had great fun playing with the 

on-screen musical keyboard in the Music Maker 

n Kid., e h? One of Ca nnon's nippe ri a ppa re ntly 

drew a picture a nd ca lle d I t 'Lucy I n The Sky 

With Dia monds', inspiring John to write the 

song D o we be lie ve him boys a nd girls? 

C The Love ly R ita from 

Surrey: "I ll go for Se a n 

Connery, Weems, Pout.' 

Buzze r thing, "So.:too-doe - 

duo." Audie nce : "Ahh...." Wit 

Wipeout 

n Ca n you I dt• wha t it is ye t? 

Ira Ge tting Be tte r a ll the time 

program. Six different instruments are available and 

there are some accompaniments too, and whilst it's not 

quite on a par with the Fun School build-a-band 

thingy for sheer entertainment value, it's nevertheless 

extremely good. 

Dot 2 Dot is also well implemented, with a selection 

of pictures for completion which can then be coloured 

in. Unfortunately, some of the numbers next to the dots 

can run into one another on the more complex patterns, 

but since the program won't let you draw a line 

that's Out of place, this isn't a big problem. 

There's a computerised version of I-Spy, which uses 


MARCH 1996 

V 

Dave Cusick's back with another 

bumper-sized bag of budget stuff 

trying to destroy every other moving thing. 

Each level has its own graphical style, and 

the visuals throughout are impressive, with 

parallax scrolling and well defined sprites. 

The sound effects are more than adequate 

too. 

Gameplay is fairly tough, mainly 

because getting used to the incredibly sensitive 

controls takes some time. Fractional 

joystick movements can result in massive 

changes of direction for your little ship, so 

a steady hand and a fair bit of patience is 

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 

a 

t 

i 

..--and it's mime a va ila ble in gre e n 

presence and will actively seek you out 

and fire at you_ Whilst it's scarcely going to 

win any awards for originality. Wipeout is 

nevertheless a pretty playable game, and is 

an excellent way to relieve frustration once 

you've cracked the control method. 

BEING FOR 

THE BENEFIT 

OF MR KITE! 

eve Bye, the nice chap at El Licenceware who 

eated the Absolute Beginner's Guide to 

orkbench (of which volume 3 is now available) 

s just written a little booklet called First Steps 

ith The Amiga MHO. It contains sections on car- 

g for floppy disks, loading software, formatting 

d copying disks, deleting and recovering files, 

eating bootable disks and detecting and dealing 

•th viruses, The 20-page booklet is available free 

anyone who wants one; just send an AS SAE. 

colourful pictures absolutely jam-packed with A 

objects and beasties of all kinds. The object is to 

guess a certain number of them in as little time as 

possible. 

There is one of those fiendishly difficult picture slide 

puzzles too, as well as a colouring pad, a word search. 

and a pairs game. 

Virtually all the programs have multiple difficulty levels, 

and the visual appeal of the entire production is 

immense. It is practically guaranteed to hold the attention 

of even the most restless of kiddies for some timeit 

kept me busy anyway.

A 

RENA 

Programmed by: Craig Taylor 

Available from: • 

The Development Foundation I 

Disney may have had a box-office flop on 

their hands when they came up with cult scifi 

classic Iron, but they were unwittingly 

inspiring hordes of programmers when they 

dreamt up the infamous light cycles game_ 

If you experienced a strange sense of deja 

vu reading that paragraph, then you've either 

got an incredibly good memory or you've 

recently been looking through your back 

issues of Amigo Computing. That's the exact 

same sentence that began my review of 

Wired Chaos back in AC79. So why would 

anyone bother writing yet another light 

cycles game? Well, as it says on the accompanying 

letter, they do tend to be 'cheap and 

cheerful, addictive, and relatively quick 

to code.' 

Arena is not PD or shareware, but a commercial 

release. It's the first game from The 

Development Foundation, who have other 

products in the pipeline which they promise 

are "graphically and sonically far superior to 

Arena, have far more complex gameplay, and 

rely quite heavily on LightWave rendered 

graphics.' But Arena is pretty good. 

Excellent presentation, a good range of 

options and a screen editor are what sets it 

apart from the pack The gameplay itself is, 

well, light cycles really, but in addition to the 

'classic' game there is an updated 'arcade' 

version with colourful backdrops, optional 

strobe effects, walls and so on. 

Up to four cyclists can participate, 

although three of these can be controlled by 

the computer if you don't happen to have 

any like-minded chums handy. It's all good 

clean fun, and it's a quarter of the price of 

most commercial games_ 

Incidentally, The Development Foundation 

say they are on the look out for graphic 

artists, game designers and programmers, so 

if you think you're what they are looking for... 

n A good qua ftty and, moa t 

beeportantry, cheap light credos gam. 

IDICRAFT 

MAGAZINES #8 

Produced by: The Craft Brothers A readable music magazine which, as 

Available from: Seasolt the title suggests is aimed at MIDI 

users. Articles cover subjects such as 

the benefits of MIDI, equalizers, ten top 

tips from the Craft Brothers, and for some reason, a discography for Nick 

Cave And The Bad Seeds. Readers' letters are also 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 standard 

MIDI format (two original compositions, plus Scarlet's 'Independent 

Love Song', Tina Turner's 'River Deep Mountain High' and M People's 'Sight 

For Sore Eyes') and two in OctaMed6 MIDI format (Take That's 'Back For 

Good' and Janet Jackson's 'Whoops Now). The standard of these is excellent. 

Some MIDI utilities are also thrown in for good measure, such as 

General MIDI emulators for the Roland D-5, D 10 and D110 synths and a 

Music-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 musician's disk box. 

At the same time as each issue is produced, the makers release a separate 

samples disk. MIDIcraft Samples *El contains a decent selection of high 

quality instrument samples for use in tracker programs and samplers, and 

is recommended for Amiga musicians after some new sounds. 

EENY WEENYS 

Top platform-puzzling frolics, vaguely reminiscent of 

a certain classic game starring small suicidal rodents. 

Your task is to guide the cute little Teeny Weeny 

things across some treacherous screens using a vari- 

ety of objects scattered around. One wrong move can 

result in one of our heroes meeting their maker in 

some unpleasant way. Swift thinking is required too. 

because you are up against a strict time limit 

The graphics are lovely and colourful, and the loveable 

littl'uns move smoothly around the strange landscapes. 

To accompany the action you can select one 

of 15 little ditties, of which the cheesy 'New York, 

New York' tune is my personal favourite. If the music 

starts to get irritating 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 levels once you've 

completed them. 

It's all very well having a blast on something like 

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Wipeout, but at the end of the day the most entertaining games in the long term 

tend to be those that tax the brain in some way, and offer a little variety in 

the action. Teeny Weenys certainly meets these criteria. 

So just to recap: top tunes, silly sound effects, excellent graphics, 

addictive gameplay. It's hard drive installable too. What more could 

you want? Well, an AGA Amiga, because it only works on those. 

But if your machine is up to it, this game has got the lot — and 

for six quid it's a bargain. 

Ir•orty M oony 

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I want to hear from gnu if you hail 

any programs, whatever its purpose, 

which you O r worthy of 

review. wholti it will be freely distributable 

pub domain, shareware 

or licenceware, If you feel it's of sufficient 

quality to merit coverage 

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Macclesfield-Sal° 4NP

NLOCK 2.1 

Programmed by: Mike Carter 

Available from: Roberta Smith DTP Disk No: U1362 

If you suspect unwanted eyes are taking a peek at some 

of the more sensitive files on your hard drive, what can 

be done? Well, you could lock your Amiga away when 

not in use, but that would be a little drastic. A password 

protection program would be a better bet. 

And what if you reckon one of the offspring is using 

the computer after their bedtime? Periodically checking 

they're not at the computer would become a bit 

tedious. Better to have a program which only lets them 

use the machine at certain times of day. 

Enlock can do all this and more. After installation 

using the supplied script, the program can be configured 

to suit your particular needs without much hassle 

at all. An unlimited number of users can be created, 

each with their own user name and password. Each 

user can have their own section of a hard drive which 

only they can access, where they can keep whatever 

they choose, and because this directory is always 

assigned as USER: regardless of who is currently using 

the machine, word processors and suchlike can be set 

CHESS 3.3 

Programmed by: Stefan Salewski 


Disk No: GA601 

When I was at school I always used to get nominated by my 

classmates or form tutor to enter the annual House Chess 

tournament - not because I was any good, but because I'd 

been stupid enough to volunteer for a laugh back in the first 

year, and I soon tired of protesting when everyone said "Dave 

will do it. he did it last year, 

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hlocked a in v what i n were g allegedly 'tactical battles of wit and skill' 

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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 sampled 

speech and sound effects to add an extra sparkle. 

Enlock can also check memory vectors, acting as a very 

basic virus checker, And as well as restricting each 


MARCH 9 9 6 

Whilst said sad individuals pondered their next move. 

Of course, playing against a computer doesn't present the 

same comedy opportunities as the real game. You can't deliberately 

lose to the four move checkmate if it's a sunny Friday 

and the football is tied at 2-2 for the week, and you can't 

laugh hysterically when you accidentally beat a bloke four 

years older than you who devotes his whole life to the game. 

But it does have some advantages; you can limit the computer 

to ten seconds thinking time per move, for instance. 

VChess is about as good a shareware chess game as I've 

seen. It doesn't go for flashy presentation (in fact, it's pretty 

horrific to look at) but it plays a fine game (or a crap one, if 

you so choose). It also has lots of nice features, like a totally 

resizable board which can be rotated in 90 degree stages. 

Games can be loaded and saved at any point, and the computer 

can be set the chalenge of reaching Checkmate within a 

couple of moves. 

This version of VChess is not restricted in any way whatsoever, 

If you use it, however, don't take advantage of the 

author's generosity - send him the 20DM registration fee, 

because its clear that a lot of work has gone into this offering. 

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doesn't like it if the 'stop' time is after midnight and 

the 'start' time is before - you couldn't, for instance. 

specify a time band from 23:00 to 01:00. The author 

points this current limitation out in the accompanying 

AmigaGuide file, but it's not a major irritation, and it will 

probably be fixed soon anyway. 

This is by far the best hard drive protection program 

I've come across, boasting plenty of features 

and appearing very reliable and stable, Definitely a 

worthwhile investment for security conscious family 

members. 

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Programmed by: Richard Thompson 

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This sort of thing has been done before, 

but it's either been done badly or done 

expensively. Its nice to see that Revision 

Master is neither bad nor expensive, 

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 

82). There's even a save-disabled demonstration 

version available from the author 

for £1.50. 

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answer quizzes, and then use them to test 

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PD and shareware games are updated 

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graphics and smaller mazes than the original, 

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the playability. Under this new lick of paint, 

its the same old Pacman, as enjoyable as 

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guns with which to shoot the ghosts, glue 

with which to slow them down, shields, and 

overdrive pills. These only last until the current 

screen is cleared, however, and rather 

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add a bit of variety to the proceedings. If 

you're really pathetic, the best bet is to alter 

the difficulty level, as one of the three levels 

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: and Toronto, and thanks to the efforts of 

dozens, if not hundreds, of people, WOA 

Toronto December '95 ended the long 

drought. 

By the end of July's Calgary AmilAM show, 

Wonder Computers' CEO, Mark Habinski, 

was convinced that a full-blown, big-budget 

Amiga show would be a good thing for the 

North American Amiga market. Something 

that would gun for attendance in the 

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thousands, if not tens of thousands, with a 

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job, North American distributors SMG were 

brought onboard to show off the 

new Amigas, and even 

Petro Tyschtschenko 

otop exec at Amiga 

Technologies, was 

convinced to 

come for a day 

and a half of 

the festivities, 

LISfiteLL 

1Following a year of uncert inty 

in the Amiga community, 

Jason Compton reports on the new 

enthusiasm shown at the World of Amiga 

show in Toronto 

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portable kit. 

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HE DEALERS 

This isn't the Consumer Electronics Show, where industry pundits gather 

'boor or and "ahhh" over new products and make meeting-room 

orders for 50,000 units for delivery in six months. Amiga users get 

whipped up into a frenzy around all of this great stuff and want a 

chance to walk out with some. Since Wonder organised the event, they, 

1of course, took up a good deal of space in the centre of the show floor 

with a retool zone that also housed the giant-screen TV announcing the 

upcoming events of the day and the major exhibitors at the show. 

Other dealers didn't quite feel the need to bring a huge TV, but drew 

customers all the same. Companies from the US and Canada such as 

Zipperware, National Amiga, and Valleysoft, showed off their wares, and 

even user groups got in on the action, such as the Toronto Pet User 

Group. The tables were rarely quiet and the proprietors rarely lost their 

smiles - two definite plusses if you're looking for signs of retail success. 


MARCH 1996 

and to launch the show with a keynote. 

The speech was virtually the same content 

delivered at November's Computer '95 

show in Cologne, with references to the new 

Amiga slogan, 'Back For the Future', the 

upcoming but still slightly nebulous Amiga 

1200+, and the move to PowerPC. It 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 3D animation 

to emulation, and by wandering through the 

two aisles of the show floor, with Amiga 

merchandise and exhibitors all around them, 

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 Calgary and Montreal shows of the 

summer. Y r -

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(DEW HARDWARE 

It would be a shame to overlook the Amiga 

Technologies 40001, 1200, and 14385. While none are 

'new' products in the strictest sense, they're new 

enough, and were the items everyone wanted to see as 

soon as they got in the building. Wisely, SMG left an 

A4000T open to show people the guts, and to prove 

that they were truly real. 

It was certainly a crowded house for non-linear editing 

solubons for the Amiga, with four packages represented 

- NewIek's Toaster/Flyer combination, the Broadcaster 

Elite system, and MacroSystem's %/Lab Motion for the 

Amiga and Dram non-linear editing computer. 

The Toaster/Flyer setup largely consisted of rolling 

videotapes showing actual professional animations and 

special effects done with the combination, but machines 

were set up to show off the work as well. The polish of a 

large, proud Video Toaster sign anchored the area and 

grabbed people's attention. Say what you will, NewTek 

has serious name recognition in these parts. 

Considerably less name recognition belongs to 

CineReal Pro-Video Productions, Canadian distributors for 

the Broadcaster Elite non-linear package. Unlike 

NewTek's system, Broadcaster Elite is NTS( and PAL 

MEW SOFTWARE 

Oregon Research was on hand with their 

new distribution products, including 

HiSoft's Disk Tools for the ZIP Drive and 

one of the show-stoppers, Cinema4D. The 

company has quite wisely opted to publish 

their own version in the States, allowing 

them to fill their increasing order backlog 

more efficiently. Old favourites including 

Terminus and On the Ball were also on 

display. 

Lazarus Engineering unveiled their first 

totally revamped product from Wonder 

Computer's buyout of New Horizons' software. 

Design Works 2.0, redesigned from 

1.0 and Lazarus' LI, was shown on a 

souped-up A4000. OW 2.0 is intended to 

be a low-cost solution to common 

structured drawing and design tasks, 

Intangible Assets Manufacturing, in 

addition to pushing the very popular 

Deathbed Vigil documentary, also brought 

a couple of new goodies to the table in the 

form of the An file system from FLD of the 

UK, and MegaBall 4. For years, MegaBall 

was sold by the Mackey brothers (Ed and 

Al) as shareware, but Dale Larson, IAM's el 

compatible. The manufacturers have also taken it upon 

themselves to produce a custom 16-bit sound editing 

card for specific use with the card in the wake of Sunrize's 

demise. CineReal'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 

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MARCH 1996 

"Now sporting more 

bricks than you can 

shake a stick at, 

MegaBall is an Amiga 

success story in a 

shocking red box" 

Presidente, was always very fond of the 

game. After registering the software years 

ago and, more recently, employing Al for a 

summer internship, he decided to go the 

whole hog and publish the work. Now 0 

sporting more bricks than you can shake a 

stick at, MegaBall is an Amiga success 

story in a shocking red box. 1 

Their white T-shirts are unassuming 

(they do look good in suits though), but 

the team of John Basile and Chris Aldi 1at 

Phantom Development are one of the most 

exciting - and eclectic - software designers 

and publishers in North America, 1and 

perhaps the world at this point. While their 

initial offerings have not been chartbusting, 

they have been promising. 0 

INNOVATION 

Digital Quill is one of the few actively 

supported commercial text editors on the 

market, and ClassAct is an innovative ogad 

get toolkit for developers unhappy with 

present GUI-building options. The ClassAct 

package realises a number of lGUI 

enhancements for programmers that were 

promised in Commodore's CATS representation 

of the future (and never completed) 

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Ainige Te chnologie s 

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where time is money and you'd rather someone take care 

of the details for you. 

The final entries in the non-linear sweepstakes came 

from German company MacroSystem, represented by 

their North American distributors Noahli's and their 

Canadian representative RSVP. Their breakthrough nonlinear 

card, the VLab Motion, was being shown, but 

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but has not yet been completed. 

Robokeet! CD32 educational 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 have enough energy to survive in 

arcade action sequences against cats and 

their henchmen. Neat stuff. 

Soft-Logik had a large area set up near 

the entrance both to promote the latest 

revision of PogeStreom 3.0, and to spread 

the word about Digita's products, which 

they now distribute on this continent 

(except for TurboCalc). The very large 

monitor set up was interesting - I don't 

think I've ever seen a DTP page that 

imposing before. 

One of the biggest attractions didn't sell 

a single copy because it's not done yet. 

Capital Punishment (see preview in this 

month's System) a new beat-'em-up from 

clickBOOM 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 several 

demo Al200s set up for duels) and 

viewers. Alex Petrovic and his assistant 

Sofia, kept order and promoted their software, 

which looks very impressive on a 

stock Al200, with AGA graphics, shading 

effects and, of course, lots of violence and 

blood. Ironically, the game was written in 

PAL, which is hard to argue with given the 

large market outside North America. Even 

without NTSC support, which would certainly 

be welcome, the game looks very 

promising and could certainly do a great 

deal towards reviving confidence in a 

North American game market for both 

developers and players.

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mainly in its capacity as a companion to their Draco060based 

Amiga-compatible non-linear editing computer. 

Aside from being a computer with a lot of hyphenated 

terms, the Draco is nothing if not very fast and very good 

at what it's intended to do quickly, and cheaply, and 

digitally, edit video. 

For pure amazement value, visitors didn't have to look 

beyond the Microscribe booth. Microscribe is a clever 

desk-mounted pen on a rotating arm that is used to digitise 

3D objects in LightWave. It doesn't come cheap, but 

for the LightWave professional with a difficult task ahead 

of them, say, 'Create3 different types of nozzles by 

tomorrow for a presentation', the device looks to be a 

lifesaver. 

LINE—UP 

DKB showed up with a jewellers case full of their 

product line, from Al200 accelerators to the new Wildfire 

060 card for the A2000, a new SCSI hardcard, and a serial/parallel 

addition card called the Link-UP. Their 060 line 

is expected to be extended to the A3000, A4000, and 

most likely the Al 200 as well 

When all was said and done, even seeing the Amiga 

ISCELLANEOUS AND HONOURABLE MENTIONS.' 

The Toronto Pet User Group caught my eye 

with a Commodore 65 on display. They're an 

exceptionally rare breed, a late-'80s/early 

'90's project to put a new B-bit machine in 

the gap left open by the 64. 

WCi Distribution had a large area set up 

which they parcelled out to the aforementioned 

Noahil's and Phantom Development. 

What was left over, they used to showcase 

their entire product line available for 

Canadian and North American dealer sales. 

ro D N B's WildEire 0 6 0 ca rd. 

featuring onboa rd SC SI -ll 

andEthemet colM rctions. 

DNB pla ns to build 

ti•i'diOnd of the ca rd Sc, the 

Al2 0 0 , A3 0 0 0 , itteterra000 

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Tech 40001 was less significant than what Phase5's MD, 

Wolf Dietrich, brought to the party an engineering prototype 

of the PowerUP card for the A4000. After all, the 

40001 is at best the present and at worst the past. But 

the PowerPC mounted on that card is the future of the 

PreSpect Technics didn't have anything 

newer available than they 

did at the Montreal show in 

August, still 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 

faces. 


were represented by JCV 

and Bruce Smith himself, 

which I imagine took several 

users by surprise. Very few Amiga 

books are published and sold in the US. 

Legendary Design Technologies brought a 

number of retail items and showcased their 

own line of in-house projects, including the 

Link-It! parallel cable between Amigas and 

n Tre vor Kidd a nd 

Ke yne s Eme ruwa ma n 

the WC i D istribution 

booth a nd ha ve a tine 

time doing it. 

The Villa ge Fronk a re a 

with the ir e ntire product 

line a nd cle ve r Ge rma n 

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MARCII 1996 

C Afa crosyste m's 

Dreco 0 6 0 -ba se d Amiga 

compa tible non-line a r 

editing compute r. I t a 

long na me, but a ve ry 

powerful ma chine 

Amiga, which is why poor Mr Dietrich was absolutely 

swamped from open to dose each day, even though the 

card was a non-functioning unit in a glass case. Having an 

060 Cyberstorm and 64-bit CyberVision card on display 

drew fans as well. 

PCs, a new game (not ready for release) from 

their Entertainment division, and dataTAX 95 

for North America. 

Village Ironic didn't bring anything 

exceedingly new to the show, other than 

new boxes for Amiga OS 3.1 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 except his new Tshirt 

design. A mean A4000 setup leers over 

a hill with the slogan 'Amiga: We're Back, 

And We're Pissed.' A must-wear for any true 

Amiga fan. 

T THE END 

OF THE DAY 

It's been a long, hard road for North 

America, the market that never quite seems 

to give the Amiga a break. But the message 

from WOA Toronto was that even on long, 

hard roads, there are bright spots, and turning 

points. Developers and retailers worldwide 

got together to make the Toronto 

show the largest all-Amiga event in years, a 

resounding success. WOA Vancouver June 

'96 is on its way. 

CONTACT POINT 

Jason Compton is the Editor-in-Chief of 

Amiga Report Magazine, Fax (708) 741- 

°689. You can contact him at 

jcompton@xnelcom; AR on Aminet — 

docs/mags/ar777.1ha; AR Mailing list — 

Mail me; AR on WWW — http:// 

www.omnipresence.com/Amiga/News/AR 

• 

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cannot adapt then it just curls up into a tiny 

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ball and dies. The same seems to be happen- 

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processing market, but in this case 

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and Final Writer which has been raging for 

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the last few years_ At the start Final Writer 

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to be ahead of Wordworth - it had 

aAGA 

support first, was faster and had an 

d ARexx port. That was until version 4 of 

sWordworth 

came along, having Digita's text 

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and the ability to produce tables, 

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Final Writer users are still waiting 

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and with all of its speed problems 

addressed, round two went to Wordworth. Of 

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course, version four of Final Writer was 

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Wordworth 5, when it is released, will be 

Final Writer 4, it may be a good idea to see 

how each of these programs moon features 

stand up when compared together. 

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 controls how they look is 

modeless. This means it works separately 

from the main program, and when you 

adjust a setting this is immediately reflected 

in your document, allowing you see how 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 different types 

of lines - plain, arrowed or curved - and this 

pales in comparison to the options available 

to Wordworth users. From the line information 

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-sizeable shapes, and for 

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AmIGA COMPUTING 

MARCH 1996 

Neil Mohr takes a 

revamped interface and grammar checker, 

but overall it may have been that the 

last Final Writer was more aesthetic than 

practical. 

All of a sudden Wordsworth 5 can be seen 

thundering over the horizon with the cavalry, 

packing a good selection of new features, all 

ready to bolster its already fairly good 

defences and redress any advantage Final 

Writer 4 may have gained. 

INTERFACE 

Unlike the last Final Writer update, current 

Wordworth users will not be seeing any 

major changes on the interface side of things, 

apart from the addition of a few new buttons 

which allow access to some of the new features 

added to this forthcoming release. The 

first of these are found along the ribbon bar 

at the top of every Wordworth window. 

Final Writer's user view of 

the forthcoming Wordworth 

to see bow it stands up 

et, aMbIleCO 

any of the shapes you can choose the fill 

and outline colours, or leave them as transparent 

Final Writer really wins here because 

a number of new shapes were added for 

version four which allowed you to independently 

adjust the position of any of the 

"I think SoftWo • re 

going to have to pull 

their proverbial finger 

out as Digita have 

done themselves 

proud" 

These new buttons add some handy formatting 

commands that can make your 

documents look a good deal better. 

The first three - bullet, indent left and 

indent right - have been in Final Writer for a 

shapes handles, giving you mur.h 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 real 

excuse. 

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good while now, and are very useful when 

you want to highlight a number of points in 

a document by allowing you to make them 

stand Out from the rest of the document. A 

fast format tool is now available that allows 

paragraph information to be pasted from 

one to another. This goes along with the 

major addition of style sheets, and for any 

Final Writer user these will be a fairly well 

know function. The ability to have predefined 

styles is an extremely helpful one because it 

allows you to very quickly format a 

document or essay to your normal styles. 

IMPORTING 

For example, if you import some plain text 

with all the various paragraphs, headings and 

titles as standard text, Wordworth makes it 

an easy task to format the document. Using 

your previously defined set of Style sheets, 

you can just highlight the heading and then 

select the heading style which is then 

applied to your heading text. If you now 

select the first paragraph of the main body 

TEXT EFFECTS 

As standard, Wordworth comes with its text 

effects, allowing you to apply several effects 

to a section of text. I have never really seen 

the point in these because along with being 

fairly slow, if you use any more than a 

couple of words you start to have size 

problems, 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 

Final Writer 4 was a table function, but it 

never appeared. The Ittiordworth table is 

very straightforward and simple to use. 

Once you have created a new table object 

you can adjust any of the cells to whatever 

size you want, and type text directly into 

them, applying styles as you would for normal 

text. You will also be able to 'hot-link' 

the final version of Wordworth to TurboCalc 

and import spreadsheets as Wordworth 

tables. This was not implemented on this 

beta version but will be available for the 

release version. 

Wordworth text boxes show a conceptual 

The new Wcwetworth Wiza rds will 

help you make complex documents 

text and select the corresponding body text 

style, the paragraph will be formatted 

using the correct font, tab settings and text 

justification. 

Wordworth goes even further than Final 

Writer in that styles can be copied from 

paragraph to paragraph. You can even apply 

styles using user-definable hot keys, of which 

20 are available. 

As a Final Writer user there are some very 

welcome GUI features in the Wordwodh 

interface that I would like to see in Final 

Writer, and these are all connected with 

manipulating graphics. One annoying problem 

in Final Writer is that text and graphics 

have to be manipulated with completely 

separate 'pointers'. Therefore, when switching 

from editing text to graphics you have to 

select the correct edit mode from the tools 

strip or menu item. When you are constantly 

doing this it becomes a little tiresome, 

particularly when compared to the 

Wordworth system, where you never have to 

bother with what you are editing. Wordworth 

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difference to those in Final 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 

becomes more or less a standalone graphic 

object that can be moved around and 

resized, with the text inside automatically 

resizing to the shape of the box. When a 

Worctworth text box is resized the text stays 

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requester that tuns separately 

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automatically detects whether the pointer 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 selecting, 

different actions are available. Place the 

pointer over a resize handle and the pointer 

changes to the resize pointer, so you know 

the next action will be to resize the graphic. 

In Final Writer there is always a little guess 

work involved in knowing whether you are 

about to select, deselect or resize a graphic's 

box, as there is no way of telling if the pointer 

is over a resize handle or not, until it is 

too late. 

AR EXX SUPPORT 

ARexx was probably the last main feature 

that Final Writer held over Wordworth. It was 

always the case that Wordworth had no 

ARexx port, but whether this was any major 

disadvantage is debatable, as I am sure many 

users do not even touch the function, even 

though ARexx can be put to very good uses. 

For example, Final Writer did not have any 

text effects, but they were introduced to it by 

a third-party ARexx script that allowed you to 

spiral and wave text. This does highlight the 

sort of complex manipulation that is possible 

through an ARexx port 

Digita have already put this ARexx port to 

good use through the addition of a new feature 

called Wizards. These are 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 

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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to open up and activate parts of the program 

while giving the user a running commentary of 

what is exactly happening. This new Wizard 

system allows for future expansion by both 

Digita and third parties. 

So it is all very well and good having great 

page layout on screen, but what about outputting 

it to a printer_ Has this version of 

Wordworth got anything new? There are a 

couple of improvements here, one which will 

benefit most people while the other only 

owners of Hewlett Packard lasedet printers. 

PRINTING 

The one of interest to most people is the background 

printing, a wonderful function that lets 

you print your document without the wait. 

Once the printing has started you are free to 

carry on and edit your document, be it another 

one or the one you were just working on. and 

Wordworth will carry on regardless. The only 

possible downside to this is that printing can be 

quite processor intensive as there can be a lot 

of data involved, particularly when graphics are 

being used. it may be that Wordworth becomes 

fairly unusable when printing due to the print 

process hogging all the processor cycles, so 

negating the feature. 

HP laseftet owners will be pleased to know 

that Wordworth now supports downloadable 

printer fonts, 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 downloaded, so 

speeding up printing no end. The version of 

EATURE COMPARISON 

With both programs having virtually identical 

text manipulation tools, apart from Final 

Writer's grammar checker, the ability of each 

program to manipulate graphics is the only 

area left that could differentiate them. When 

doing any type of document it is always useful 

to be able to include diagrams of one sort 

or another, because not only do they brighten 

up the document but they make it easier to 

read and can add clarity to whatever it is you 

are writing about. 

Both programs allow you create basic 

geometric shapes that you can then re-scale 

and move around. 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 available either from the 

tool bar or menu options let you push graphics 

to the front or back, lock 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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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. 

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Wordworth's pointer works is helpful, 

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when I came to resize a group of objects_ 

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atastore 2 is the latest incarnation 

of Digita's Amiga database. Before 

I start you should understand that 

Datastore is not a relational data- 

base, it basically allows you to store, manipulate 

and search through a flat list of data. The 

only relational database I know of for the 

Amiga is Twist 2, not that being a relational 

database is necessarily a good thing, since 

you really need a degree to be able to design 

and create a reliable relational database. 

Installing Datastore is made very simple by 

Digita's usual Installer script, allowing you to 

install Datastore onto floppies or a hard drive 

partition. The whole Datastore package is fairly 

compact, taking up less than 1Mb of space. 

As I was saying before, Datastore allows 

you to store lists of data grouped into 

records, each record in a database having the 

same fields. Fields are either textual or graphic 

in nature, and along with the normal user 

entered text and numeric data fields, there 

are a number of other specialised fields that 

• can be chosen. 

A date field is available along with time 

and boolean fields. The latter is quiet interesting 

as it allows you to define a list of preset 

choices, so restricting the user, when 

they come to fill in that field, 

whatever entries you have made. 

The graphic field is very flexible 

due to the fact that it supports 

picture datatypes. 

Therefore, all 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 field 

and a file requester pops 

up allowing you to 

choose the picture that 

should go into that record's 

field. The image is then 

loaded, remapped to the screen 

colours, and scaled for the box. 

I SECTIONS 

The use of Datastore is split into two distinct 

sections, the first being the design side_ Here 

you design what the form will 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 form 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. You 

can have the database sorted on any of the 

fields and can perform searches on any field. 

I'm sure current Datastore owners would 

like to know what is new for version 2. Well, 

the main addition will be quickly recognised 

by anyone who has used FinalData. Normally 

with Datastore you are only able to individually 

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 

need to perform operations on many records, 

it is limiting. 

The new list view organises all your 

records into rows, with each column representing 

a field. 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 

in the list. The entire list can be quickly 

scrolled up and down using the normal 

windows scroller. 

By selecting individual or multiple records 

you can delete, cut and copy large blocks of 

records. Alongside this a new query mode is 

available. By selecting a group of records you 

can choose to hide these, and a switch 

option will switch the currently selected 

records with any hidden ones. Any other 

queries now applied will only take effect on 

the visible records. 

Other improvements allow you to print 

each record graphically, 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 

n D a ta store a llows you to spisish gra phics a nd ca ptions 

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special unique 'keys', allam ng 

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degree to find more out about 

this thrilling subject 

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to select a number or range of records. Other 

minor improvements allow you to have the 

find requester constantly out on the 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 

window on any public screen. 

CIINAL WORD 

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hill on line help will help you out of any 

difficulties. 

For current users the main bonus of 

upgrading is the new list view mode. For 

anyone with a large database this is of 

genuine use, as it does provide the best 

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not enough, the Internet has well and truly 

permeated the normal news, even though you 

may only ever seem to hear how evil and 

corrupting it is. 

With Internet fanatics spouting crazy figures 

about how many people are on the Internet, 

and new Internet providers popping up by the 

day, it looks like the it is going to be a permanent 

part of our everyday lives_ Amiga users 

have always had quite a strong presence on 

the Internet, with probably the most organised 

and expansive software collection currently 

around in the form of every coverdisk editor's 

dream Arninet, to the large number of Amigarelated 

news groups. This could quite possibly 

be because Amiga users have always had the 

tools necessary to browse the various parts 

that make up the Internet freely available, 

including the currently most prominent form, 

the World Wide Web. 

AMIGA PRESENCE 

It used to be that the main presence of the 

Amiga on the WWW came in the form of the 

very good Amiga home page, stored on 

Omnipresence, a Web server that itself is run 

on an Amiga. Other than that you were left to a 

few user home pages and any Amiga companies 

that wanted to have a Web presence. 

Things, however, are starting to pick up, with 

almost all Amiga magazines having a Web site, 

TML ENGINE 

A new program that has not been released and is still in a very early 

form is HIM. Engine. This is going to be similar to Web Maker with a 

single drag and drop interface that has a direct link to AMosaic, 

allowing you to easily see what the design currently looks like. 

All the most common HTML commands will be readily available 

either from buttons on the interface or via hot keys, If you wish to add 

links to other sites there is a list of current links, so you can easily add 

them. The author also plans for the HIM side to be only one facet of 

HTML Engine. He is writing the program so that you can create Per! 

and Matt scripts as well using the same interface, with each one 

being an added module. 

- 

1Probably the longest running Amiga HTML 

authoring tool is HTML-Heaven, currently up 

to version 1.3. As I mentioned before, 

Heaven's approach allows you to use your 

favourite text editor to create your Web 

Mpages and then use AMosaic or iBrowse to 

view the finished version. 

Built into this latest version of Heaven is 

an auto-update function which will magica- 

Tlly update AMosaic with any changes you 

make to your Web page. Not that having 

AMosaic running on its own saeen and flicking 

between the two was realty any problem 

Mbefore, All you had to do was then hit the 

reload button to see all your new changes. 

HTML-Heaven makes the most of the 

Amigo's ARexx abilities. Four programs let 

you add all the various standard HTML 

L 

thcucith 

codes along with forms and Netscape's extra 

commands, then all this is sent to your text 

editor via ARexx As many of the HTML commands 

need a start and finish command to 

mark out the block of text it should effect, 

HTML-Heaven allows you to select a block of 

text as if you were going to cut it and then if 

you apply the HTML code, the start and finish 

codes will be placed at the beginning 

and end of the marked block. Some of 

Heaven's interfaces are a little awkward to 

use due to their small size, but all the HTML 

commands ore readily accessible, so 

allowing you to quickly add formatting 

commands. 

For HTML beginners, Heaven also comes 

with a very good AmigaGuide that describes 

the basic WAIL commands very well. 


MARCH 1996 

faster than a fast exploding thing, 

Neil Mohr takes a look at what is 

1 With available the World for Amiga Wide Web Web authors exploding 

the new Amiga Technologies site, and the 

almost daily expanding Amiga Web Directory. It 

looks like Amiga Web sites are 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 

really take off, many of whom will be demanding 

good Amiga information resources along 

with being able to create and maintain their 

very own Web sites. So how would budding 

Web authors find more out about Web authoring, 

what Amiga software is currently available, 

and how well does it perform? 

When it comes to the design of HTML 

authoring tools there are a number of 

approaches that can be taken, The simplest, 

and currently the only one used on the Amiga, 

is to create your Web pages using a normal 

text editor, inserting the HIML commands as 

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using a normal Web browser_ All the current 

Amiga tools take this approach because it is 

the simplest 

ROUTI NC 

The most obvious other route is to have a NI 

drag and drop graphic interface that allows you 

to position text and pictures, add links and 

forms, then save off the HTML code. The reason 

this approach has not been taken is 

because you might as well write a full Web 

browser at the same time. Such a program is 

not even really available for any other platform_ 

Though programs such as PageMill come very 

close, it is still necessary to view the Web 

pages with Netscape. 

A final approach, used on the PC and Acorn. 

is to allow the user to design Web pages on a 

current DTP or Word Processor that allows you 

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Providing a similar solution to HTML• 

Heaven, Web Maker takes a slightly different 

approach. The interface is dominated 

by the edit area, which is where the HTML 

commands are added to any text you 

want. This obviously differs from Heaven 

which allows you to use your favourite text 

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editor, but this approach does have its own 

advantages. The main advantage is that 

the interface is an App window which 

allows you to drag and drop text, graphics 

or any other type of file into the Web 

Maker window and add the correct sort of 

link or HTML command. You may be 

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programming language. a n d 

also allows pmgroms to 

control each other 

apprehensive about using the built-in text 

editor, but it is quite nice to use, adding a 

more Mac-like editing system. This allows 

you to select on area of text and then 

delete or replace the whole area with 

whatever you 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 graphics and links to other sites a 

fairly easy business. You just move the cursor 

to where you want the new link in your 

text, drag the file over, and the appropriate 

HTML command will appear. 

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up. It may even be possible to use their Men 

ports to interrogate the current document and 

generate the I-MML code from it this way_ It is 

r 

;If want to team how to create Web pages you need to get hold of some sort of HTML reference manual A good introduction 

AmigaCuide comes with HTML-Heaven, and this is good enough to get you going. For people on the web The Planet 

Access HTML page on http://www.planetnetlpa2html.Mml has links to loads of HTML references, probably more than 

you will ever need 

possible to find out graphic positioning and 

text style information from Final Writer's AReia 

The following are some of the basic Haft codes that would allow you to produce a basic Web page. Many codes apply 

an effect to a selection of text To mark out the text there are start and finish commands, and the finish command is 

port, so it may be possible. Unfortunately, no 

such solution currently exists, and I cannot see 

always the some as the start commands but with a / add to the front of it 

such a program or ARexx extension being 

developed as the demand for it is too small. 

This currently leaves only three Amiga 

options open. The first is to manually enter all 

the HIM_ codes. You could speed this process 

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However, there are many excellent software 

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To the beginner, the mere prospect of copy• 

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It you own an Amiga with a hard drive you may have never spared a thought to what would happen 

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may think, but one was so fatal I had to purchase a new hard drive, losing all my precious work forever. 

And believe me, when your hard drive gives up the ghost your whole world falls apart - no 

joke! 

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up an entire hard drive to floppy can take hours and can take hundreds of floppy disks. 

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Create a drawer on your hard drive, or better still a partition, called Data. Everything you create with 

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you need to do is back up this directory or partition only - you can always copy the applications 

back Onto your hard drive from the original floppy disks. 

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name in a location of your choice and copy the 

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you delete old drawers. You're in perfect 

harmony with your machine when suddenly a 

particularly stubborn little drawer refuses to 

die. No matter how much you try to kill him he 

still dings on for dear life, flashing his obstinacy 

and constantly repeating the message 'Error 

while removing (202) object is in use'. Then 

suddenly everything grinds to all halt.. 

The reason why he won't go is simple. 

Some drawers (directories) have what is called 

an Assign made to them which is simply a 

label that directs a particular program to that 

directory. A drawer cannot be deleted if it has 

an Assign attached to it (Assigns are explained 

in more detail later on)_ 

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be entered in the file User-Startup in the 5 

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are trying to delete at the end of it. For 

example: 

Aslign Nett.: Workbench:Utititits 

Delete this line, save the new User-Startup file, 

and then reboot your Amiga. Now the Assign 

has been removed you should be able to 

delete the drawer.

68 

RAG AND DROP 

If you are using the Workbench Icons_ menu command 

Copy to duplicate disks you'll be pleased to know that 

there is a simpler method if you are lucky enough to own 

a second disk drive. 

Put the disk you wish to copy from into NO and the 

disk you want to copy to in DF1 (your second disk drive). 

When the disk icon for NO appears on the Workbench 

simply dick on it once and with the left mouse button held 

down, drag and release it over the disk icon for DR The 

copying process will now begin. Simplicity is such a 

beautiful thing. 

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I briefly mentioned Assign 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 normally' 

: made by programs during installation or 

startup 1 and invariably reside in the User-. 

Startup file in the S directory. 

Some Assigns are made by your 

Workbench . and can be found in the:, 

Startup-Sequence also located in S. 

However, these are required by Workbendt! 

to operate properly and should not be 

touched. 

Let's imagine a scenario in which you 

created a drawer in the Workbench Utilities 

directory called Pictures which, strangely 

enough, contained all your graphics. To 

save and load pictures to and from this 

drawer you would need to select 

Workbench, then Utilities, and finally 

Pictures from your paint package's file 

requester. Using an Assign such as: 

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you would be able to select Pictures: 

instead, and you would automatically go 

straight into the Workbench:Utilities/ 

Pictures drawer. You would put an Assign 

like this in your User-Startup file using Ed. 

Some programs look for an Assign 

which may not be enabled. If a program 

kicks up a requester stating 'Please 

insert volume ' you can make an 

Assign called to point to the 

directory you think the program is trying to 

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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 

make, you can also alter the way in which your Workbench informs you of errors. 

Located in the Prefs drawer is the program Sound. This program allows you to change the 

alert settings which can either flash the screen or play a sound effect, or even a combination of 

both. 

The Sound Type: button can be switched between the standard Workbench beep or a sound 

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very obliging. 

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you put it? Once again, the solution is very simple. Located in the Workbench Devs directory is 

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board to be removed easily. As the 060 is only 

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was on all day. 

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maths co-processor. 

This co-processor has more FPU instructions than the 

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such as sine, cosine and logarithmic and these instructions 

hove to be emulated on the more advanced 580.0 processors. 

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1the emulation has to find the right emulation routine and run 

this function. In a trap the processor is in the Supervisor mode 

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mouse jerking around_ The system will become more 

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program. 

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Al200. I have been told by Gordon Harwood that 

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System News 

Andy Maddock takes you on a trip to Amiga games heaven. 

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Super Tennis Champs 

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Zeewotr 2 

Binary Asylum release their eagerly-anticipated 011111 

sequel to their hit game 

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Andy Maddock checks out this bargain 

football compilation from Empire 

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Gloom Deluxe 

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for quite some time - only they won't 

tell us how long! 

The title has been confirmed as Uropa2 - 

The Ulterior Colony and from what I've seen, 

it's looking surprisingly good. The concept 

behind the whole idea is basically space. The 

idea is based on the moon called Europa 

which orbits the planet Jupiter. Taking control 

of a Tekite Warrior means you have the 

Anyone for tennis? 

read a review of Audiogenic's latest 

tennis simulation and once you've 

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vlady ecompetitors. 

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responsibility for completing some important 

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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 facilities, 

as well as becoming a net surfer, downloading 

information to sell giving you some cash 

to play around with. 

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Free games and stuff I 

Recently we've received a couple of letters 

regarding games and some cheats. If you have 

any queries about the Amiga games market 

then don't hesitate to put pen to paper or finger 

to keyboard and either post or e-mail your problems 

to us, and we'll do 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 ore 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! Send your cheats to the 

address printed on the comment page of this 

Issue. 

This scre e nshot re minds of a n old Spe ctrum 

game e ntitle d N oma d... a lthough gra phica lly 

Uropa is ta r supe rior 

adventure-like romp. it 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 this slightly MOtE 

Interesting. The game is viewed isometricall) 

In a 3D fashion, accompanied by SOME 

excellent light-sourced vector 3D graphics. 

Uropa2 will feature multitasking. on AG/ 

enhanced version, will be hard drive instal 

lable, and the developers ore still cortsiderinc 

If they will they do an ECS version with a CD3: 

version to follow. If the gameploy can matct 

the graphics then we may well see Uropa: 

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Throughout these post four or live months we 

have always been slightly unsure about the 

amount of games System would feature. But 

thanks to all those great loyal software houses 

out there we've been brimming with better 

quality games than ever before. So when 

City Cars arrived In the office our hearts 

slumped to our feet. Just when we Thought 

there was hope of being another excellent 

month full of marvellous entertainment for 

you to spend your cash on._ minutes before 

deadline City Cars arrives. What timing! 

If you can cast your minds back to the 

early Spectrum days of games like OutRun 

and Chase HQ then maybe you'll have on 

idea of what City Cars plays like. Although 

this effort is actually in colour, the gameplay is 

tally non-existent. 

It features two city cars which you'd 

Trapped inside my cyberpants 

We only received this minutes before deadline so 

we'll try and expand on this rather poor effort of 

an article next month, OK? 

Trapped is a new game by German developers 

Oxyron Software and is a Doom/Dungeon Master 

like game. It captures all the thrills of dungeon 

exploring as well as all the graphical capabilities 

of Doom. 

The full title of the game is Trapped: The Bicycle 

of Death, otherwise known as a Raleigh Chopper. 

Nab, we're only kidding. 

We downloaded this preview from Aminet and 

Our friends at Doi 

The - so very few Amiga publishers such as Team 

nark 17, Ocean a and r e MicroProse 

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oabout n Domark's - latest offerings including the 

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Manager as well as an IRC channel for you to discuss 

various footballing and Championship 

Manager Issues. It's well worth checking out 

even though its still in development. The address 

is http://domark.com/ 

Games of this quality should be banned. Pm 

sorry if I'm being so harsh but it really 15 

utterly unplayable 

with its possibilities of being a brand new Doom 

done we decided to let you know about it. 

Going back to the dodgy translation of the 

title before, it was actually Dos Rod von Telmat 

So from my GCSE exam I remembered that •Rad' 

meant bicycle and we assumed •Telmar 

must've meant something negative such as... 

death! But, er it doesn't, so, et.. we thought it was 

funny! 

Here's what it won't look like as the programmer 

Is intending on changing the graphics completely 

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 as though you are a rather slightly 

impaired pensioner because you can't even 

keep it in a straight line. Also, when you put 

your foot down it seems to go about 300 mph 

or something ridiculous - and that's where 

the similarities between pensioners and City 

Cars tails off, as they usually prefer to go at 

3mph.., on a motorway. 

I do feel sorry for Allan Surgess, the programmec 

because he's probably spent a 

long time on it. But I'm sorry. it just cannot 

compete with the quality of games out there 

already. Anyway, here ore some soreenshots 

just to prove it. Although I've judged it from 

first looks, we may give it a full review if we've 

got enough space. 

A cheap 

Obsession 

Hurrah! Thanks to the 

January sales Obsession has 

now been reduced by a tenner. 

It used to be £29.95 and 

Is now pnced at f.19•95. Yep 

s it. 

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Here a re the le a gue ta ble s from the fi rst 

round on the Gra ssla nds tra ck. As you 

ca n se e , I 'm not doing too we ll 

ast month we brought you a preview 

and mentioned That this game was 

looking particularly good. If you've 

ever played Super Mario Kart on the 

SNES then you'll undoubtedly have 

an idea of what to expect. Considering Mario 

Kart was, and probably still is, one of the finest 

games Nintendo hove ever produced. to 

describe this as an Amigo version wouldn't be 

straying from the truth, 

Over the last few months the games side of 

the Amiga has all been pretty similar, For 

instance, the games have all tried to be quick - 

especially the Doom clones, To enable the best 

speed, detail levels, resolutions and screen sizes 

hove all been made completely configurable, 

leaving it up to the user to play how they prefer, 

Extreme Racing, or rather Xtreme Racing as it 

has now decided to call itself, comes complete 

with a menu containing a feast of options which 

let you change more or less everything. You can 

change the controls, weapons, car settings and 

laps, as well as the in-game options which allow 

you to tinker with the more technical aspects, 

namely frames per second, pixel sizes, dithering, 

and switching between the blitter and C2P 

screen modes. 

The actual game features three modes of 

play - a single race mode, a cup race or a complete 

season. The first is basically a practice session 

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 awkward computer drivers and 

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Lowering the tone 

The only point that may lower the tone Is that 

even though it may look brilliant and ploy like a 

dream, some people may argue that there is a 

certain cheapness. I am, of course, referring to 

The 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, Although there ore 

lemmings walking up and down trying to stop 

you, a more original idea would probably have 

been better, or not at all. Younger players may 

find it instantly hilarious and bask in its warm 

summer glow that is humour, but older players 

may be a little disappointed with the cheap 

jokes. It would have been better to stick 

some trees in the way rather than a badly 

drawn lemming. 

tough tracks with many obstacles, The Season 

mode Is a complete tour throughout the game. 

and in the Silltunna Grand Prix, depending on 

where you actually finish will result in how many 

points you will receive. 

There are eight other drivers to compete 

against and they all have varied attributes 

which you must look out for during a race. Each 

character also has its own particular car. 

Super Mario Kart boasted an excellent mode 

whereby your kart had three balloons surrounding 

it and the first to pop all three would win. 

Pressing e sca pe during a ra ce will bring 

up the ma ny hundre ds of option scre e ns - 

you ca n cha nge e ve rything!

This is actually a Iwo-player split 

You see this caption here. I can't remember 

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what the picture looks like, so— er, here's a 

the action from a different angle 

picture of Xtreme Racing - phew! 

Reviewed by Andy Maddock 

Racing 

These could be popped by missiles and carefully 

positioned banana skins. Xtreme Racing contains 

exactly the same as this, although the 

banana skins have been replaced with sheep. 

There are three levels of difficulty so the 

game will last for months. The computer-controlled 

cars are extremely tough on the easier levels so I can't imagine how much practice 

you'd have to put in to get up to a winning 

standard• 

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 Racing has to be 

the 3D texture mapped graphics which are truly 

superb they even look better than Mario Kart! 

The cars ore well drawn and there Is an Infinite 

amount of angles you can view your car from. 

This all adds up to being nothing short of perfect 

In the presentation department. As mentioned 

before, there are options galore and the 

graphical presentation screens are of a highly 

professional standard. 

I will point out that you will need either on 

Al200 or A4000 with at least 2Mb of RAM, and 

an accelerator is strongly recommended if you 

want the best speeds. 

Herat the overview of the entire track 

showing you where the obstacles and 

corners are. Hang on, I've already said this 

This is the smallest screen you can play Xtrome 

Racing on - it's faster than a bullet but about as 

interesting as our Cove,-disk Editor 

Selecting your character reflects on your 

personality. I chose the big hairy apel Ho& 

How funny is that? Not very? 

The best 

thing about 

Xtreme Racing 

has to be the 

3D texture 

mapped 

graphics 

which are truly 

superb 

Final word 

If you have loads of friends 

gagging for a bit of multisimultaneous 

action then 

there's nothing better than 

to link two Amigos together 

via a 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 multiplayer 

game available to 

satisfy the needs of eight 

people. The graphics are 

excellent, the sounds are 

good and it plays like a 

dream. What more could 

you possibly ask for from a 

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There will always be people 

who complain about the 

blood. I think it's great! 

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From what I have noticed 

from the preview version. 

the mazes are slightly harder 

instead of opening a 

door for bore chested 

madmen to run out, you 

can flick switches which will 

open doors elsewhere, 

making it more puzzling. 

All this could add up to 

being one of the finest 

Doom clones we are yet to 

see. All I con say is, if you've 

got a good machine, 

expect a very good Doom 

clone soon 

Unlike the first Gloom, the 

deluxe version features 

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The same old soldiers still 

appear with their same old 

screams and yelps 

you'll notice we've been reviewing two or three 

every month. 

I still don't know what the attraction is, what 

makes Doom so much better than a couple of 

seasons on a football management game. Don't 

get me wrong, I'll happily play all these Doomlike 

games, it's just that I can't see the attraction 

In copying the original Doom. Why should we 

1bother nicking their ideas. I'm sure many Amiga 

developers have original Ideas somewhere, so 

let's see a game they'll want to copy. 

After Gloom received 81 per cent three or four 

months book. Guildhall Leisure finally come home 

for tea with their first pseudo-data disk. And 

surely not the last. 

What are going to make this different from the 

4 last are almost certainly the options. They've 

managed to squeeze more and more playing 

options into the game to enable you to chop 

and change the features you don't like. For 

instance, as the Amiga's technology is slowly 

improving, more and more machines are being 

upgraded to faster, efficient and generally better 

machines. The games are beginning to move 

with the times. 

Although there are many people out there 

with a standard Al200 with say. Sensible Soccer, 

there are many with either an upgraded Al200 or 

A4000 who aren't really getting good gaming 

value for the price of their machine. 

Guildhall Leisure are leading this campaign for 

games players to get the most out of their system 

set-up because last month we saw them release 

a racing game entitled Extreme Racing which 

This is a sight that usually 

greets me on a Saturday 

night in the pub 

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 manipulate 

and take advantage of it then why not. 

Although these people may be in a minority, they 

are growing very slowly by upgrading their A500 

to either an Al 200 with an accelerator or even an 

A4000. It may cost quite a bit, but people ore still 

doing it - moving with the times that is. 

The good thing is, you can still manage to 

play these games such as Gloom and Extreme 

Racing on a standard Al200. although on an 

accelerated machine they ore far more superior. 

The options in Gloom Deluxe Include being able 

to change the game to classic, enhanced or OS 

friendly so you can play it as it used to be, graphically 

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-vomped with new levels, and new 

places and stages. All the resolutions and screen 

modes will be completely configurable, allowing 

you to play Gloom in super Hi-res for example, so 

the graphics will instantly escape that original pixel 

look and have a look similar to that of greathiess,

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Travel around the world in 

the many tournaments 

ood old tennis. It conjures nice, cheery 

images of Wimbledon, strawberries 

and cream and, best of all, summer. 

So you can Imagine that getting a 

tennis game in the middle of dreary 

winter on a drizzly Monday morning was a real 

tonic. Immediately my spirits soared and I let my 

mind wander to hot, summer days playing tennis 

in the fresh air - and then I remembered, I'm 

crap at tennis. Ahh, well, it was a nice image for 

a while. But this wasn't going to be a problem in 

Aucliogenic's latest simulation as I later found 

out, and after a brief flip through the manual, 

the game can be immediately dived into. 

What is instantly apparent Is the style the 

developers have plumped for, and Instead of a 

stats-laden, realistic simulation, the cartoon 

characters suggest that this game is going to be 

fun. Before getting straight into a match you 

have a range of options to select to set the 

game up to your liking, so everyone is catered 

for - from the poor novice (like moi!) to budding 

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take part in the many competitions 

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hAgassi's. Once you've got to grips with the 

basic skills there are a number of different tournaments 

you can take part in, from an Exhibition 

mode to Grandslam, Tournament or League. 

Exhibition allows you play singles or doubles with 

any players, on any surface, in a match of 1, 3 or 

5 sets, Leagues can also be played as either sin- 

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gles or doubles and if you have a four-player 

parallel port adapter, up to four people can 

take part, As a 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-boggling 

mOats, there is still a tactical element to it. 

Players have different skills and styles of playing 

which add variety and keep It realistic, Carlos. 

for example, is a young Spaniard (ohh. stereotypes 

blab?). Apparently he has a flashing backhand 

supported by speed. Chuck, on the other 

hand p(American, if you hadn't already 

guessed), has an enormous serve and stunning 

forehand However, as he is cumbersome he 

Don't get court out 

The many courts offer a different style of gameplay 

(see? authentic, eh?) that will challenge 

your game each time. 

Hard for the more experienced, this court Is a 

real challenge as it will be fast-paced and will 

make the ball bounce high 

Grass expect low balls but still high speed 

when you play on a gross court 

Clay - high bounces but a slower paced game 

are to be found on a clay court 

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keeps his rallies short. Control Is either via a one 

or two button joystick or a CD32 controller. 

All options work well but I felt the CD32 controller 

was easier for a beginner like me because 

the controls are located on separate buttons. 

For example, one button is for a normal shot. 

another for topspin. one for lob, and another for 

slice, whilst the directional pad controls the 

direction and length of shot. 

Although having sound effects in this sort of 

game 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 you also get a sampled voice of the 

umpire which cries "Net" or 'Out" as required. 

which works well in adding a touch of authenticity, 

Graphically. the game has also been clever- 

Different playing surfaces provide 

a different style of game 

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Playing to win... 

Your competitors all have different skills, so take 

a look and you'll know what you're up against: 

Buzz - Germany 

He wears down his opponents with 

his powerful play 

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Roger - English 

A tough player but lacks invention. 

lhara - Japan 

A new player, he has a weak service. 

But with his speed he can turn 

a lost cause into a winning shot. 

Greg - Australia 

The former number one, he has 

excellent agility and a big serve. 

The control system is intuitive 

and allows for a smooth game 

ly thought out. The view of the court works well so 

that you can see all that is going on and 

employs a raised view as if you ore looking from 

above the court. 

The sprites are a good size, mainly because 

they are easy to control but also because some 

animations have been included which add 

to the fun. The player can be seen jumping up 

and down excitedly if he wins, but if he loses he 

has a McEnroe-type tantrum. Too small a 

character and you can't see what's going on. 

too large and they would look cumbersome 

and slow. 

Final word 

Super Tennis Champs is a superb game 

which takes two minutes to get into but 

ages to master. It's Instantly playable 

and the intuitive controls make it a 

dream to play. Saying that, you can 

either play 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 

appealing. 

Although the game can be played 

tactically by weighing up the skills of 

the opposition. you can just jump 

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game and 

one which 

won't fail to 

impress 

straight into the game as a novice and 

still get a rewarding match - until you 

can build up your skills to enter one of 

the many tournaments. The game supports 

a four-player adapter which suits 

Super Tennis Champs brilliantly (who 

says computer games are anti-social?), 

and it works especially well when you 

pit your skills against a friend with a similar 

level of ability. 

All in all, if you like tennis sims you'll 

love this. But you'll also love this even If 

you don't! It's a great game and one 

which won't fail to impress! 

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into e ffe ct more tha n e ve r be fore , if the Amiga is 

to live on, pira cy must be stoppe d 

have to odmit that flight simulators or 

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action-packed 'war in the skies' 

games don't really appeal to me. I 

can't really give you a reason why, It's 

just that I don't like them - at all. I never 

actually played the first Zeewolf because of 

my 4predicament and therefore haven't a clue 

about what it was like, although I am informed 

that it was very good, and if something can 

arouse our technical editor other than graphic 

cards and accelerators then I knew I was missing 

something. 

1Zeewolf 2 was given a full preview a month or 

two ago and from then on looked liked it was 

going to be another excellent action game following 

on from the success of the first Zeewolf. 

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 opposition 

Ecliptic°, who were defeated In the first 

Zeewolf. have decided to take revenge because 

first time around you didn't completely destroy 

theml 

There are 32 missions in total and they are all 

split up into various phases which are either divided 

into Seek and Destroy, Airlift, Escort, Rescue. 

Wild Justice 

The status bar at the top of the screen 

wilt inform you of your ammunition, 

health, stocks and mission objectives 

Protect Building/Vehicle or Capture building.. 

Most of the missions are self-explanatory and 

most of the time you will find yourself flying about 

blowing up the odd building and picking up pea-) 

pie who come hurtling out- The missions aren't 

exactly tough and won't present you with a huge: 

challenge, although having said that. they aren't 

so easy you'll complete them in minutes - you'll 

still have to become an accomplished player 

and manage to maintain steady and constant 

control over the helicopter in awkward situations. 

Stocking up 

Like most war/strategy games, reloading and 

refuelling will replenish your vehicle completely. 

almost as if you are given on extra life. In 

Zeewolf. you ore given a stock number and 

your frigate will store a number of missiles, rockets 

or whatever for you, and once all your stocks 

are used up that's it. You're on your own to use 

your stocks wisely,

Landing requires extreme precision as the camel 

must be close for it to extend its 'cherry picker'. 

Your helicopter will then be replenished 

Although the main idea behind Zeewolt is to control 

a helicopter. you can link onto other vehicles 

via a camel. No, not the one with humps, but a 

remote link camel. You can link up to either a 

Cougar tank, Kestrel VTOL plane, Barracuda 

boat, or the Transport helicopter. All these are useful 

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 

break the link and leave because It 

will self destruct, purely 

because Zenith Research 

don't wantworking 

vehicles left in the 

hands o f the 

opposing side, 

namely Ecliptic°. 

You start each 

mission with a considerable 

amount 

of ammunition and 

by returning to the 

frigate, another camel will 

engage with your helicopter 

and you will be presented with a 

screen to refuel and re-load, 

depending on what you have in 

stock. There is a healthy choice 

of weaponry at your disposal 

Before you begin your missions you will be 

given all the necessary briefings so you know 

where to go first and why and what you must do 

Mission 1 - Objectives 

0 few fi eld technicians still require 

evacuation. If vow see anv, transport 

then to our base. 

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Even though you can Ittok between your mission 

briefings and the action during the game, you 

will still receive an overview before you begin 

Your own team will all be ready for 

take off once the mission begins 

There are many different missions contained in 

Zeewolf. None of them could stand accused of 

being overly difficult 

when you get there. Before I began I was 

constantly thinking I'd completed all the 

objectives until I noticed there was a small but 

Important building yet to be destroyed - which 

was quite annoying as my fuel gouge began to 

move towards the empty symbol. It really is a 

game that must be mastered carefully and 

skilfully, as well as quickly. 

Throughout your mission you will be able to 

revert back to your mission briefings in a very 

clever way. For instance, in most 

• Mi games. r when you flick from 

the action to a map 

screen, the former 

tends to remain 

paused until you 

switch back. Not 

here, though. 

bec ause when 

you do flick to 

the map screen 

you will notice it is 

split into quarters. 

The bottom right 

quarter contains all the necessary 

briefings and con be toggled 

by the press of a 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. 

Seek and Destroy 

Find and eliminate 

enemy AFUs. 

As you can see ire the top left corner of the 

screen, the action will continue while you 

can still check out your mission objectives 

The 

missions are 

reasonably 

challenging 

and if you're 

into war and 

guns and 

that, then 

Zeewolf is an 

excellent 

purchase 

Final word 

Having mentioned at the 

beginning of the game that 

these games don't really 

appeal to me, l' m, „ not 

changing my mind. Ha! You 

thought I was going to be 

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lators . all the time. No, how 

wrong c can you be! Its not 

that i Zeewolf 2 isn't any 

good n - it's actually an 

excellent 

v 

game if you like 

this sort of thing. I'll gladly try 

it 

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out and review it - just 

don't r make me take it 

home. t 

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d and the odd viewpoint 

works i remarkably well. The 

missions n are reasonably 

challenging t 

and if you're 

Into o war and guns and 

that, 

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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 absolutely ages and then 

I never recalled seeing the game in the tshops. 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 fact I could now play the game I had wanted 

to play years ago. 

I promptly loaded up the two disks and while I 

waited I hod a quick look at the manual, 

which WaSn't really a good idea as it 

was packed full of keyboard shortcuts 

and in-depth paragraphs 

about each weapon, monster. 

etc. I didn't really want 

to read it as I'd already 

played a demo thousands 

of times so I went straight 

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won't explain the 

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for you and b) It's for too 

long to print here. 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, then I think you'll get 

the gist. 

When I started moving my little sprite 

about the screen I hove to admit to being slightly 

disappointed as the sprites had been revamped 

completely and instead of the top little spaceman 

in his little space suit as before, there was, in 

fact, a blonde-haired geezer who looked completely 

out of place. Never mind, I thought, at 

least the actual game still looks similar. What I 

Although the ga me pla y still re ma ins 

the sa me , you ca n se e he re tha t the 

graphics have been enhanced. 

Dropping gre na de s a nd picking 

up ca nnons a re pre tty much 

the name of the game 

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completely forgot after playing the demo y 

ago is that is was so hard I couldn't even get 

the first level. I ended up going back to the m 

ual to follow the walkthrough to save me pia 

ing through the other pages, and still it didn 

give me any clues as to what to do. 

managed to pick up some s 

and chuck it about a bit and 

even blew things up. 

I think what lets it down 

the control system. It's all 

bit difficult you see. You' 

a spaceman and y 

have a jetpack strap 

to your back and push 

up and down on the joystick 

will 'thrust' you in 

that particular direction. 

Simple? Not when you're 

trying carefully to plant 

grenades using left and right 

on the joystick. In most cases 

you will end up banging your 

heod severely against the side of 

the spaceship. 

I suppose after a while you will get the ! 

hong of the control method, but it is very tricky to 

begin with, The worse thing I can say about Exile 

is that it's very very frustrating. If you should have 

a high stress level, I suggest you stick to something 

like Tetris or, better still, sleeping. There are so 

many little baddies who will take delight in I 

annoying you, and to top it off - they don't i 

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over the shop without even having a purpose in 

life. 

Final word 

I'm not saying Exile is a 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 actions, and it manages to sustain 

a high interest level. Most people will see 

the game as it is, but there are a select few 

who will find it more trouble than it's worth. 

Although this is the Al200 version and it 

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n my nii..J rho Kick Off series was 

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European Challenge. Am I confusing you? You 

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bug ridden and featured some awkward options. 

However, Kick Off 3 - European Challenge was 

released without them. Okay? 

As the game loads up you will notice how 

many options it has which is a considerable 

advance from the first two games. Instead of 

sticking with Steve Screech's Crystal Palace, you 

now hove an extensive selection from the 

European leagues to the International front, with 

the likes of England and Brazil. There is also an 

option to play with a two-buttoned joystick or 

control pad, making those shots and passes 

easily distinguishable. 

The actual game does look quite good, but 

something is very wrong and I just can't seem to 

put my finger on it. It could be the fact that

whomever you play just seems to whack the ball 

down the centre of the pitch all the time, and in 

turn you will too. The passing system is very wrong 

- if you tend to give it a good smash uptield it will 

usually arrive at your striker's feet and you can 

whack it into the net, and a short pass is unbelievably 

inaccurate as it will almost always be 

rtercepted by the opposition 

It's also pretty difficult to score as your star 

striker, whether it's Mark Hughes or Romario, will 

usually 'donkey it' right over the bar from a 

couple of yards out - most unrealistic, well maybe 

not for Mark Hughes. 

If you do play this game for a long time you will 

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rf you stick at it, it gets pretty involving. Its not that 

I's a bad game. it just lacks thought. 

Premier Mana er 3 

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didn't really work. 

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screens for building your stadi- me. 

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Soccer Stars '96 is probably 

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Of all the many hundreds of football games I've 

played across a wide variety of formats. I never 

really had any wish to play this on the Amiga - I 

haven't really got a reason apart from it lust didn't 

appeal to me. From what I saw and heard, 

though. It did sound very slow and slightly 

unplayable. 

I can remember playing this game on various 

console formats and it was very good - the isometric 

view worked pretty well, the only let-down 

being the speed which was a real disappointment. 

However, apart from that FIFA was a lot of 

fun to play. 

You can only select from the International 

teams and unfortunately. they all have fake 

names so you can't recreate any famous 

moments. 

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players who still pla y! 

The first version to come from 

developers Ascon was the World 

Cup Edition which, in my mind, 

was the only game which managed 

to incorporate all the madness 

of the international stage. 

This featured a diary-like game 

whereby attending meetings 

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 around the 

swimming pool everyday and go 

; 

The ma tch scre e n is pla ye d 

isome trica lly a llowing those 

scre a me rs in the top corne rs 

to look even better 

Look at that. Just look at that. 

ca n't be lie ve the qua lity of 

that sta dium. I think it ma y be 

Doncaster's ground... 

to the pub every night - it was all 

possible. 

Now comes the League 

Edition featuring all the English 

teams and their respective cup 

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the teams to get them back upto-dote 

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By far the best thing about On 

The Ball is the fact that it gives 

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Kick Off 3, and the presentation was nothing short 

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story. 

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wing, or have a nice steady build up, then you 

may as well forget the whole thing. This suffers the 

some symptoms as Kick Off 3 - you inevitably kick 

It right down the middle of the park 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 iSCDmetric 

angle. Unfortunately, all the players run 

about as fast as hungover hedgehogs and the 

scrolling jerks terribly. 

As far as football games go. FIFA is a sure relegation 

candidate and is the white elephant of 

the compilation. 

The final whistle has gone, 

and so ha s the pla ye r's spirits 

quite obviously! Where's your 

morale? 

position, and you get to be 

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Click Boom are a Canadian 

development team hoping to 

make it big with this release 

Previewed by Tina Hackett 

The competitors propels 

for a ction - move s a M 

more powerful if they•re 

launched in the 

fter a recent absence 

environment, but the full commem 

of new fighting games 

cial version will offer (as well as oil 

for the Amiga, a 

the usual extras you'd expect) the 

Canadian team are 

option of fighting another player 

answering the pleas of 

over the telephone line via ci 

gamesplayers with a penchant for 

modem. The fighter's moves will 

all that is gory. Called Capital 

Punishment, it already looks to be a 

also be upgraded as you progress. 

And unlike some of the more 

pretty impressive beat-'em-up 

basic beat-'em-ups, It has an intel- 

from some developers called Click 

ligently designed scoring system 

Boom, who form part of a comp- 

which works like a 'tug-of-war'. 

any called Pxl Computers. It's 

When one player is hit his energy 

already been on display at the 

will go down, while the one who 

World of Amiga Show in Toronto 

launched the move's bar will go 

where it was warmly received by 

up. Oh, and apparently the best 

the public and VIPs alike. 

bit (according to the developers) 

Taking a rather grim and violent 

is that if you're losing dreadfully 

approach similar to that of Mortal 

you still get a chance to come 

Kombat, it certainly won't appease Start off in the horrible back because spikes come out of 

the Mary Whitehouses out there, but depths of the sewers.- the wall, and if you're quick and 

offering realistic combat and a satis- 

catch your opponent unawares, 

fying range of moves, it will definitely appeal to you can chuck him onto the spikes. Blood will 

fans of the genre. The preview version simply then ooze out from their impaled torso, Well, they 

hod a two-player, one-fighter choice and one do warn you at the beginning that the game is 

what's the story 

You play a muscle-bound warrior 

who is on a mission to 

dethrone the evil master of a 

huge castle. You start in the miserable 

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 guard on each floor. 

Apart from your obvious warrior 

skills you are helped along 

by the spirit of your deceased 

mentor, The fights will test the 

limits of your endurance and 

should you lose, a fate worse 

than death awaits you you wit 

be destined to spend life in °ter. 

nity with Bernard Manning afte 

nine pints and a Vindaloo o 

something. Failing that, thE 

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not recommended for children or those who ore 

sensitive - oh, that's okay then! 

You have a stamina bar that you will need to 

keep an eye on too. A pink bar represents the 

head whereas blue represents the body. and 

according to which area gets hit, the stamina will 

fall on the corresponding bar. When this is depleted 

the warrior will toll into a state of fatigue and 

is left dangerously open to any move from their 

opponent. By quickly tapping on the joystick the 

player can rejuvenate himself, but the only way 

to get the stamina back properly is to stand still. 

Depending on the kind of move and which part 

of the body is used, It will take 

away different energy levels - 

a block could come in useful 

as it will stop valuable energy 

being zapped but 

not the stamina, 

however. 

As far as 

the technical 

bits go, 

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have a 

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bob 

routine with 

real-time 

horizontal 

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cliche d big, 

sca ry va rie ty 

Capital Punishme nt come s comple te with a 

warning tha t it's not for childre n or the se nsitive 

Aa h, the love ly 'throw your oppone nt 

onto the spike s move 

flip. This can animate two 

large characters covering a 

combined area of over 

30,000 pixels at a rate of 25 

frames per second. A 

semi-transparent 3 D 

shadow adds effect 

and casts itself on the 

characters and the 

floors by 

following 

the characters'movements 

at the rate of 25 

frames per second. 

And there you 

have it. As previously 

mentioned, 

this preview is 

only from a twoplayer,one-charcter 

choice 

demo and it will 

be interesting to 

see how things 

shape up. There's 

also no indication of 

how many characters 

there will 

be in the final 

thing, but to 

match the likes of 

Mortal Kombot its 

The ba re -bre a ste d wa rrior 

woman whose pre vious 

job involve d ha nging 

around King's C ross 

going to need a fair few - all with special moves! 

Atmosphere Is quite effective with a wide 

range 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. 

Insight 

Capital Punishment looks great with 

Impressive animated backdrops and 

plenty of detail, Things such as shadows 

and groundshakes add to the realism 

and the characters look good from 

what we can see on the introduction 

screen (although, the guys In the office 

seemed to favour the bare-breasted 

warrior woman). I hope a few special 

moves will be incorporated for the full 

release to add variety to the usual array 

'Taking a 

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of punches, kidcs and throws, and that 

there is sufficient difference in what 

each character can do. 

There was also a slight problem in 

players disappearing off the screen 

which needs to be rectified as it slows 

things down a little. If it does deliver in 

these aspects then I see no reason why 

This won't be a brilliant beat-'em-up 

which will make a refreshing change 

after the many Doom games!

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 9 

Pengu ns 

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hen a good puzzle game hits the 

shelves. it can sell by the bucket-load - 

look at the success of Lemmings for 

example. However, there are many 

others that just fall by the way-side, due 

mainly to lack of originality. 

The next in the line of Amiga puzzlers is 

Penguins - a brave effort from a chap called 

Scott Hayne who Is dealing with the whole release 

by himself, from the development to the publishing. 

Although a commercial release, he is selling 

The game at a snip of a price of E6.99, 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 similar, and you're 

mission is to guide some bewildered penguins 

safely through the levels. (Why this is a fox's job is 

anyone's guess. What do you want for £7 - realism?). 

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 are not completely helpless. 

The one in blue can collect keys whilst the other 

one can club any baddies that stand in the way. 

However, this means you'll also 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 youronly option will be to 

press escape. Fortunately. a code is presented 

after each level because if you didn't save I'm 

convinced you'd be there for decades. 

Both the graphics and sound work adequately 

for the type of game it is - you don't need fancy 

effects for a puzzler to work. The backgrounds ore 

quite detailed, though. and it's nice to see that 

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Penguins hardly scores highly In the originality 

stakes but it does offer 60 levels for only £7 - 

and entertaining levels they ore too! 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 game won't 

be for you If you don't have much patience. 

This is a good effort which is a bargain for the 

price. Ws rather hard though, so will keep you 

occupied for ages - providing you don't tear 

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his look at 

Workbench's menu, 

tour of Workbench's menus. 

W elcome This month back we to will our continue worh., 

our in-depth study of the 

Workbench menu before continuing on to 

the Window menu with its many and 

varied options. Next month we will be 

covering the (cons menu and Tools menu 

before going on to discuss how to 

improve the productivity of the 

Workbench menus. 

THAT ABOUT 

REQUESTER 

Workbench's about requester con be mode a lot 

more informative if you run o commodity like MultiCX 

This changes the data shown in the window from lust 

giving the Kickstort and Workbench versions to giving 

not only that information but also what CPU you 

have and its status, the amount of memory in your 

machine and how much of it is being used, and gives 

you buttons to flush memory or reboot the machine as 

well as the standard CI( button 

This menu and its items only become 

available if you have an active window 

open on the Workbench screen. If you 

don't then all the options here will be 

ghosted out so they cannot be used. 

New Drawer 

New drawer - pretty self-explanatory this one A 

new directory, complete with associated icon, will 

appear in the active window Iyou can't create a 

new drawer without on icon when using 

Workbench's menus). A rename requester will then 

pop-up asking you for a new name for the drawer 

[which, if we're going to be picky, means that the 

New Drawer menu item really ought to hove on 

ellipsis after it as it opens a requester window). The 

icon used for this new drawer will depend on your 

default drawer icon which is stored in ENV:sys as 

def_drawer'. You can chonge this default icon in 

two ways. The first is by copying a new drawer 

icon into ENV-sys and renaming it as deLdrawer, 

and the second is to load your desired icon into 

iconEdit and save it as default in the Project menu. 

Open Parent 

Open parent - dead easy this one All it does is 

open the parent of the current drawer's window. 

part 2 


MARCH 1996 

Would you 

like to see 

the menu? 

THE WORKBENCH MENU 

CONTINUED... 

About— - this handy menu item will bring up a window telling you what internal version of Workbench and 

Kickstart you are using. Basically, what this means is that instead of getting v2_04 for your Kickstart, 

you would end up with v37.175 and so an. This information is mainly of use when giving people the 

configuration of your machine. 

Quit - this is one of the most completely pointless items in Workbench's menus_ If you choose this menu item 

you will probably get a message saying that Workbench cannot quit because there ore one or more 

Workbench-launched progroms running [this includes commodities), and if you don't get this, then your 

Workbench will disappear leaving on empty menu bar. There is no way to restart your Amiga from this, so 

the only thing you can do is reset the machine which you could have done anyway to save yourself the 

trouble of closing down all your programs, etc. 

ation1111111111F 

THE WINDOW MENU 

Close - closes the current window. Even easier 

ban the previous definition. 

Update - this item refreshes the contents of the 

active window. This can come in handy when you 

ore using a program like DOpus to move files 

around or extract archives and you already have 

the appropriate windows open on Workbench. 

Because Workbench's file notification isn't all it 

might be, quite often you will find that although you 

have filled the RAM disk with items in DOpus, it's 

window on Workbench still appears empty. Using 

update will save you from having to close the 

window down and re-open it, 

'Select Contents A l 

Select contents - selects all the files in the active 

drawer 

. 

_eta 

Clean Up 

Clean up - one of the best additions to 

Workbench 3's menus is the keyboord shortcut 

assigned to this item. Previously you would need to 

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Snapshot- this is a sub-menu consisting of two items 

- window and all. These two options allow you to 

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window and the positions of all the icons in the window 

and the window itself. If you use the backdrop 

item in the Workbench menu explained lost month, 

then you should use the Snapshot window item to 

make sure that Workbench comes up in this style 

Show - again, a submeru with two items. These deo 

with what the directory window on Workbench wil 

show - either just the files that have icons with the 'only 

icons' option, or every single file with the 'all files' item. 

-%/- Icon 

View by - This one determines 

how the icons will be &Splayed 

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Paul Overaa outlines 

an unusual use for 

the DOS segment 

loading routines 

kaA 

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AAt 

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tional use of the LoadSea and UnloadSea 

LOADING AND DISPLAYING 

I DOS routines is for loading and unloading 

m1111 

blocks of data such as graphic images. 

Once an image is in AmigaDOS loadable form it is quite a simple matter to read into 

eNeedless 

to say, for this to be done the images 

the program using LoadSeg()and display it using the Intuition Orawimage() function. 

nthemselves 

need to be provided as conventional 

Given a valid filename, a typical code fragment for doing this would look something 

tAmigaDOS-style 

load files and, since most graph- ulike that shown in listing 2. As always, however, to produce a runable example quite 

ics start life as IFF files, this means that a certain 

a lot of additional work needs to be done. 

i 

amount of preliminary conversion work is needed 

A window needs to be opened and, if we want to display a user-specified image 

o 

Aar to get the graphics into the right form. 

file, rather than just use a hard coded filename, then that name has to be collected 

n The first step then would be to use, say, Deluxe 

and a proper file path/name built up. I've opted for an Intuition-based Workbench 

ePaint 

to create the required graphics obiect and 

runable example that allows the user to select and display image files using the asi 

d store it as a picture File. By switching on Deluxe 

requester, and next month be giving you the complete source and explaining s 

lPoint's 

X/Y co-ordinate display a user can easily ihow 

it works! 

ocreate 

objects of a given size so if, say, 0 grap- 

MEP V I M 

shic 

image 60 pixels by 80 pixels is needed then 

t 

a suitable background area can be marked out, 

structure, and this is used primarily in conjunc- memory is specified using this sort of statement: 

the images can be drawn, and the brush facility 

tion with on Intuition library routine called 

m 

used to save that particular area of the display as 

Drawlmage(). So, having produced on IFF pic- 

SECTION INAGE,ORTA_C 

oan 

IIF file. 

ture file it then needs to be converted into data 

n 

l 

Intuition's 'image drawing is based on a 

statements which represent the equivalent where DATA_C is a keyword indicating chip 

tstandardised 

block of data known as an Image 

Intuition Image structure. This can be done using memory and IMAGE just an arbitrary section 

h 

one of the many dedicated public domain con- name. Charlie Gibb's A68k assembler requires a 

t 

verter programs you'll Find around or, alterna- slightly different section syntax ond the source 

code line shown above, which would of course 

tively, by using a program, such as Inovatronic's 

h 

Power Windows, that is able to generate assem- need to be placed just before the graphics data 

a 

bly language-style source data statements for itself, must be changed to: 

t dimages loaded into gadgets Isee listing 11. 

SECTION INASE,OSTe,CNIP 

o 

When you ore including graphics data in this 

n 

way it must, of course, end up in chip memory The A68k assembler does, of course, also 

e 

otherwise the Areiga's custom chips Inamely the 

require that source files contain an explicit END 

p 

Witter' will not be able to access it. This means at 

statement, so A68k users will additionally need to 

o 

this point in the proceedings it will be necessary 

include such end markers in their image files. 

s 

ito edit the image structure file in order to add a Once these modifications have been made the 

chip memory section directive. There is, inciden- 

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i 

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tax used by Devpoc and that used by Charlie 

b 

11 - 

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Gibbs Ao8k assembler. With Devpac chip 

l 

S 

Morten Erikson's Sha re wa re PicCort progra m is one of a 

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Function Name: Drairlaage0 

number of utilitie s tha t ca n ge ne 

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structures of a porticuLmr Irraulmagen call. 

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tracing with the 

Rexx meister — 

Paul Overraa 

an 'interactive tracing mode which allows 

L ost the month programmer I mentioned to step that through ARexx supports a pro. 

i . gram, and interact with it whilst it is being 

traced Depending on the trace options selected, 

a variety of data will be shown and it is, in fact, 

a 

. 

. 

trace script line 

•++ command or syntax errors 

• expression or template parse result 

3• • ).• value assigned to a place holder during parsing 

>Cs 

, • Function call result 

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x 

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p 

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cexperiment 

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obut 

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to get you started, here's what happens in 

ma 

typical interactive tracing session whilst 

a 

pexamining 

this do-end loop: 

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do IA to 50 

d 

58y 'AC Test' 

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If you execute the above program this is the 

sort e of information that will appear at the trace 

iconsole 

window: 

a 

b 

I t-t 

l 

2 *-* do 1=1 to 50; 

»5. '1" 

e 

>88 '50' 

n 

3 *-* sey 'AC Test'; 

»8 'AC Test" 

a 

m 

e 

lhe interactive trace is displaying line positions 

and clause details as it executes the first 

iteration of the program loop. ARexx is now 

waiting for further instructions. Pressing return 

lets ARexx know that it should continue run- 

ning up to the next breakpoint, and on doing 

this the trace display continues with: 

A TYPICAL TRACE SESSION 

Without 

a trace? 

possible to look ot the contents of voriables, 

execute clauses, and even enter additional 

instructions. Because under normal circumstances 

all trace output would be interleaved with normal 

program output, the best idea when trocing the 

execution of a script is to open the /atm( 'global 

tracing console' and this is done simply by 

opening o Shell window and typing TCO! 

It is possible to add trace instructions directly 

into the script that you wish to troce, but ARexx 

also maintains on 'external tracing flag' that can 

be used to force programs into interactive tracing 

mode If, in fact, you type TS at the Shell window 

after opening the global tracing console, the TS 

(Trace Set) utility will be executed and this will 

cause all subsequently executed scripts to enter 

interactive tracing mode automatically. The roc. 

ing flog, incidentally, can be cleared by typing 

TE (Trace End) and Alfeas global tracing console 

can be closed by typing ICC (Trace Console 

Close). 

Interactive tracing prompts the user For input with 

t *-* end; 

2 *-• do izl to 50; 

s» '2" 

3 •-* 58y 'AC Test.; 

so 

If at this point we 1POV. try typing; 

$ay t 

in response to the ›.os• prompt we will see that 

ARexx prints 2 at the program's normal output 

window. Now, this of course is the current 

value of i being used in the program, but if we 

then typed i=49 and continued tracing we'd see 

this display appear: 

4 *-* end; 

2 11 

-* s» "50" 

d3 

*-* 58y 'AC Test'; 

,f> 

o 

W 

ARexx would have set the o value to 49 and 

I 

then duly incremented t it at the end of the loop. 

The result? The program o terminates after one 

more iteration because 5 the value of i then 

becomes greater 0than 

the required loop exit 

value (le SO). ; 

If, instead of changing the value off like this, 

we had typed another instruction, this too 

would have been executed and this of course 

can be used to set new trace display options. 


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0 '›-t->r code and at these points you can either 

press the return key to skip to the new breakpoint, 

press '=' to re-execute the previous clause, or type 

some executable ARexx statement Table 1 shows 

the code symbols which ARexx uses to identify the 

types of items it displays in the trace. 

To turn off the tracing and let the loop run as 

per normal we could use the command: 

tease backgroond 

or its single letter equivalent: 

Interactive Tracing and Command Inhibition 

Toggles: 

A ? character (used on its own or in front of a 

TRACE option) can be used to alternately toggle 

the tracing mode from normal to interactive 

and back again. Hence the instruction... trace ? 

errors for its abbreviated form trace ? e) 

would, if the current mode was set to normal 

tracing, switch to error tracing in interactive 

mode. If the current mode was interactive then 

the same Instruction would switch to error 

tracing in non-interactive (4 normal) mode. 

A I toggle character can be used in a similar 

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useful when, say, you wish to test 

ADDRESS COMMAND instructions within programs 

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u scribed in a very short time? Well its now 1996, 

mand 

sure enough the World Wide Web has 

become, for most people, the Internet, or at least 

a 

the bit of it they see. 

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rclient 

software that you and I use to access the 

eInternet, 

and the proliferation of Web sites is such 

cthat 

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olions 

of sites rather than thousands or hundreds of 

ithousands. 

It's confidently predicted by some thot 

l by the turn of the century there will be one Web site 

aper 

20.30 people on Earth. So what does this mean 

in real terms? 

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For a start it means that getting onto the Web 

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and navigating around will get harder as the year 

ugoes 

along, and you will have to wait longer and 

t longer for your chosen Web site to come up onto 

a your screen as the load on the network increases. 

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enodes 

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everyone. toiling— 

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after this year, everything is going to hove to go 

up on order of magnitude. Modems ore going to 

have to get faster, phone lines ore going to hove 

to get fatter and cheaper, and the backbone of the 

internet is going to have to be accessed faster and 

more fluidly by the 151 

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up will get smaller. In effect it will become unusable 

unless something happens. 

It may be, and I offer this as one likely scenario, 

that the demand for the Web will fell off as the less 

dedicated Net spiders give up once the load goes 

up to unfeasible levels_ This will, of course, reduce 

the load ond therefore the usability of the Web will 

go up. 

This is the boom and bust model, which has several 

recent precedents. Skateboording in the '703, 

Kung Fu, also a '70's thing, and home computing 

magazines ore examples I can think of. In the 

MORE, BIGGER, FASTER 

companies or magazines, people with more money 

than sense, and not the unemployed, the homeless 

and people on low wages, who can't do this and 

will possibly think that they ore missing out on 

something very important. 

think that the WWW will become very important, 

but at the moment it is still about 65 per cent 

advertising puff, and about 5 per cent silly home 

pages with pictures which are too large to load. 

What the WWW needs is a big shot of technology 

in the arm, and quick, before it becomes unusable 

to those who like it and want it to grow sensibly 

into a new communications and broadcast medium 

which can compete on a level playing field with 

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demand for the thing grows and grows at a logarithmic 

rate, a parabola of users shooting up the usage 

graph like a little rocket, and then just like a rocket, 

the usage dies off as the dabblers and trendies fall 

by the wayside. Eventualy, the mogazines support. 

ing the hobby die off as the demand falls, and then 

the usage of the thing, whatever it might be, falls 

back to usable levels. 

This is what happened with skateboording and 

Kung Fu 20 years ago, and possibly will happen 

soon with the Internet and, of course, the other two 

great fads of the mid '905, those silly Pogs and allboy 

groups who do synchronised dancing which 

looks as though they are trying to dislodge some 

dog mess from their shoes. 

Ifs possible, and indeed from a hobbyist's point 

of view desirable, that this will happen, although it's 

by no means certain. What will happen if demand 

for the Internet grows, like that for TV (that other 

great thing which everyone said wrxild never catch 

on], and we have on ever escalating amount of people 

trying to get on. If you think it's hard to get on 

the Internet now, wait till the load doubles. As it is, 

you can't access any US sites with any ropidity after 

about 3pm in the afternoon, so evening Web surfing 

is out of the question for the most port, unless 

you wont to spend at least 30 minutes of every hour 

waiting while some bozo's 900k GIF tile 

creeps/loads onto your screen. It was never a Fast 

process and if the worst comes to the worst it will 

become impossible. Unless of course something can 

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layout, 

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considerations t to be mode. For a start you won't 

even h be able to put the amount of text that we used 

in I the good page design, it will need to be cut 

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h aren't considered as important as full page or 

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the mag. Amiga Computing's target readership are mainly 

over 18 (so they should hove some money) and indeed, 

more than 50 per cent of them earn more than 10k a year. 

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range from £105 all the way up to £2100. but vary according 

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The art of 

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Inspired by Neville Brody! lot, of courxe.... 

completely different from what I am suggesting, but 

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controcting text. Things like flowery adjectives and 

adverbs, stuff in brackets and introductions con 

always go. What can't go are your product's 

advantages, ordering information and price. 

If all that sounds too much like hard work, you 

might want to reduce the amount of colour in you' 

ad. This is a lot easier for those adverts that have 

more thon 50 products mentioned in them, as we 

discussed last month, because you are pretty much 

restricted to o list format without pictures anyway, 

but single colour or spot colour advertising a single 

product is a lot harder since it gives the impression 

that you are being cheap. If at all possible, try to 

make the fact that you hove a restricted colour 

palette work for you with greyscale dropshadows 

and WOBs [reversed text - White On Black] helping 

to give the impression that a single spot colour 

was a design decision on your port rather than a 

financial one. 

For inspiration, try to hnd some of the work of 

Neville Brady, the UK's most fashionable designer 

best-known for his work on iD, Arena and The 

Face. If you look at the screenshot on this page, 

you'll recognise the style instantly from various 

poster campaigns and film logos. This is a lot 

harder to achieve than simply reducing the size of 

your advert, but if you hove the flair for it, the 

results can often look more expensive than a full 

colour ad with a boring design. 

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Phil South looks into 

the options for 

creating interesting 

multimedia with 

Amos 

most people at the moment, and has 

M been for some time. Unfortunately for 

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A m i g o users, most of the programs 

which l crecte the multimedia applicotions we consume 

are t based on PC and Mac platforms. This is for %eve 

rat i good reasons, or at least good reasons if you are 

a mPC 

or Mac user. The Amiga is o smaller market 

than the PC, so developers ore leaning bock from the 

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format and creating less if not no multimedia applica 

Hans_ d Scala is a perfect platform for creating lively 

presentations, i and so is Director, but you con do 

these o kinds of things with Amos, and here's how. 

i if you have an IFF animation you con use the 

added s Functionality of AMOS PRO to give you anii 

mations a in your programs. These are, of course, 

mostly b for use as game intros, but it is possible to 

make 

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multimedia programs which use this facility. 

Imagine on Amos program which hot been com- 

t 

piled and is mastered onto a CD. Imagine clicking 

onto o a picture and suddenly it bursts into life as an 

animation f like, for example, an animation from 

LightWave a or something similar to that 

b Making Amos use 'Hs is easy. In case you've 

never u done it, here's how it's done. Having first 

made z your 'FE file, using Dpoint or LightWave, 

Real3D z or whatever, you can play it straight to a 

specified screen number, like so: 

w 

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This d ploys an animation called 'big.anim" to screen 

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Once you've mastered playing back animations you could 

try to sort out how to play back a narration in sync with the 

animation, or if not precisely in sync then at least at the 

some time. This could be a narration or perhaps a piece of 

music. (TIP: try sampling a snatch of music and looping it for 

a longer piece of music and to keep the sample size down.) 

To play back an IFF sample while your animation is playing, 

first load the sample into a bank (usually bank 5) using the 

sample loader supplied with Amos. Once your sample is in 

the bank, you play it back with SAM PLAY, like this: 

Soo Ploy 

which plays back the first sample in the sample bank. 

As another scenario, which makes a lot more sense for 

multimedia, you could play a sample of a voice narration, 

telling everyone what a brilliant animator you are, plus 

have the music supplied by a MOD file played back using the 

Track Play command. This means you would have graphics, 

voice and music all moving at once, Voila, multimedia! 

Next month b e going through some more specific 

examples for you. See you then... 

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Using the 

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Multimedia pre se nta tions ha ve ne ve r be e n e a sie r 

animation in Amos and it simply lakes the animation 

you specify and ploys it. You can do this: 

Iff Ani• "Dig.anfr To 0,5 

to make it play a specified amount of limes, which 

in this case is five times, you can, if you like, mite 

a simple IFF Anim player routine using this 

command: 

Iff Amin fooiS( 

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as the core " of the code. You could put this into o 

nice border . or even add your own play and rewind 

buttons, which ) we'll T o go into in a minute. Now, there 

ore a number 0 of , ways 1 0you 

con manipulate a file to 

make it play back in certain specihed ways. You 

must first load the onim file into a bank, using the 

OPEN IN command: 

Open In 1,1im.anle 

then use the FRAME LOAD command to load the 

Ironies to a memory bunk 

Wrist toed 11 To 10,1000) 

Now you have all the frames in the animation (anything 

up to1000frames) in bank 10, and you also 

have a note of how many frames were loaded in 

the variable Z. (This is useful for knowing how 

many frames to play back.' Now you can play back 

the frames from a memory bank, using the Frame 

Play command: 

Willie Key (10,1,0) 

Doubt, Buffer 

F=Frome 9Lay(F,1) 

Notice that Double Buffering is not switched on 

automatically and you have to activate it yourself. 

Now you hove full control over the frames, and you 

can make them step forward and backwards using 

a mouse-controlled button Buttons can be mode 

from any grophic and zones can be drawn over 

them to make a button sensitive to a mouse click. So 

you must check if the mouse button has been clicked 

and if the mouse is in the specified zone. Then you 

feed the command to the FRAME PLAY part of the 

routine and you con move the animation bock and 

forth like that. 

IMPORTANT: You hove to use flags in your program 

(as discussed in a recent edition of this column) 

to ensure that only the first click is read when 

you click on one of these control buttons. Set the 

flag to I when the button has been clicked so any 

subsequent presses of the button are not read, This 

could cause big problems in your program if you 

don't do this, as the frames of the onimation won't 

be played bock in sequence. and everything could 

go horribly wrong. Flogs are a good habit to get 

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equencing scene... 

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I designed primarily to record, edit 

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Although u all such offerings also allow 

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sequencers i go? Well four sequencer 

packages s have stood the test of time: 

e 

Sequencer q One Plus - Software Technology's 

Sequencer u One Plus is one of the few UK devel- 

•ped e sequencers that has found a safe niche for 

itself n amidst the rather awesome heavyweight 

Stateside competition. Sequencer One Plus offers 

c 

all the basic functions needed for Midi sequencing 

and 

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it supports the use of internol sounds as well os 

Midi r oriented output 

sTwo 

editors are available including a high-level 

Bar , Editor which shows the arrangement of the 

song, a graphically indicating for each track the bars 

which s contain data. The main use of this editor is 

for mviewing 

and creating arrangements and carrying 

o 

out block editing operations. More detailed 

editing is performed using the Step Editor which 

s 

provides a piano roll-type display, 

t For a middle range sequencer, Sequencer One 

Plus ooffers 

a surprising number of Midi 'goodies,' 

although f il does, of course, lack many of the refinements 

found with heavyweight Amiga packages. 

You'll find no harmony generators, score printing, 

or the mare esoteric options like SMPTE or Midi 

Time Code support, but it is nevertheless suitable 

for most non-professional use and it is very well 

priced. Software Technology hove essentially concentrated 

on creating and supporting a 'workhorse' 

sequencer that offers the user iust the basic facilities 

needed for serious use. 

Sequencer One 

Plus - a well 

supported entry 

/eve/ se que nce r 

Music-X+Notator-X - Music X has always been 

a powerful sequencer but when Music-X version 2 

come along, a number of facilities including ARexx 

control and support for multiple serial port card 

use were added. The most important addition, 

however, was the inclusion of a very useful score 

notation program called Nototor-X which allows 

you to write, edit ond print music scores. 

Both Music-X and Notator-X, incidentally, can 

run as standalone programs, but if your Amigo has 

more than 1.5 meg of memory then you'll be able 

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Do it in 

ts sequence 

to run both programs together and move music data 

between them. You can, incidentally, also use 

Notator-X in conjunction with any other sequencer 

package that supports Midi file import/export. 

Dr I's KCS - the current Dr I's offering, known as 

the KCS level II, provides the KCS sequencer, PVG, a 

Master Editor, Tiger ( a graphic editor), QuickScore 

(which provides basic score/transcription and printing 

facilities) and AutoMix. All of these components ore 

integrated into Dr T's multi-program environment 

IMPE). The track editing facilities are quite sophisticated 

- there is fully implemented tut and paste editing, 

pitch transposition, track shifting, kook splitting, note 

duration and velocity correction functions, track 

rearrangement, multiple cue points, automatic new 

track muting (helpful when doing multiple lakes), and 

some interesting note and controler splitting facilities 

Other goodies include remote Midi control of 

start/stop/record functions, support for the Phantom 

SMP1E interface, controller chasing, time reversal, rechanneling, 

autocorrection, real-time and step-time 

editing, inversion and the ability to protect drum parts 

from transposition. In short there's little you can't do! 

Bars & Pipes Professional Blue Ribbon 

Soundwork's Bars & Pipes Professional is as much a 

creative tool as a conventional sequencer. There are 

very powerful song parameter options which let you 

define lyric lines, chords keys/scales, rhythm data, 

global dynomics and so on. There's automated mixing, 

all the usual stuff like Midi-file, Sysex and internal 

EtersdPipes An established 

heavyweight Amipa sequencer 

sounds support, timeline scoring (for video/film work) 

and SMPTE facilities. In short, Bois & Pipes Pro is a brilliant 

piece of software which, in practice, suffers from 

only one real snag - the amount of memory needed to 

run it. A realistic set up for serious work would be a 

fast machine with around 24 megs of memory along 

with a hard disk 

OVERALL 

Software Technology's Sequencer One 

Plus is a useful, and very reasonably 

priced entry-level product which now has 

quite a large user base. Both Dr T's KCS 

and Blue Ribbon Soundwork's 

BarsaPipes sequencers, however, are the 

Favourites amongst most professional 

Amiga musicians, and both Dr T and Blue 

Ribbon Soundworks do, incidentally, also 

offer dozens of other Amiga music packages 

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librarians etc. 

Music-X has always been popular but 

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the principles of the X, Y and Z axis and 

how they con allow you to manipulate and 

= n animate brushes with ease and with spectacular 

l results. I also touched upon how you can 

use a Move to actually mimic camera pans and 

zooms. 

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t Camera pens and zooms are important in any 

animation iust as they ore in film, and you can 

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Implementing o different camera angles is an excel. 

lent n way of speeding up or slowing down the 

action t and conveying emotion in what is basically 

h a 2D art form, However, camera angles have 

a s more basic appeal and that is to keep the audience 

a interested in what is actually happening. 

r Imagine a two hour movie with only one scene 

and 

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with a single camera angle - you would be 

Don't waste time 

adding shadows 

and highlights by 

hand. Us. your 

paint package's 

Darken and 

Brighten functions 

If you can understand the texture of the object you are designing, adding light 

sources and shadows to it shouldn't be a problem. The alien portrait shown here can 

be seen from its early beginnings to the 

finished artwork, including shadows and 

highlights. 

Adding so much texture detail would have 

been a slow and laborious task if performed 

by hand, but using the Brighten and Darken 

effects the process was made infinitely quicker. 

Using the filled line tool I simply drew in 

the shapes which were then automatically 

brightened or darkened as I desired. 

Switching on anti-abasing also ensured that 

the shadows and highlights blended in with 

the rest of the image. 

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bored after the first five minutes, Obviously, your 

animations are not going to run to two hours 

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animation. 

The knowledge required to use camera angles 

correctly can only come from continued experimentation, 

so if you are just starting out in cornputer 

animation use movies as a source for inspiration, 

If ii helps, try and make notes as to the 

e 

type of scene the camera angle is linked to. Not 

Try and hoop your animation as visually exciting 

as d possible by adding different camera angles to 

convey i pace, mood and emotion 

Emori, n 

only will you build a useful collection of camera 

angles but also a reference as to which one 

should be used when and where 

Realistic lighting and shadow is vitally important 

to the realism of a scene or animation. Plan 

lightsources and shadows at the storyboard 

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LET THERE BE LIGHT 

When a creating animations in a 3D program 

such i as Light Wave or Imagine the designer can 

simply l odd light by including light objects in his 

where the light is coming from you will have a 

pretty good idea where the shadows will be 

cast. For a static light the shadow should be 

the Shear tool which is normally located in the 

Brush section of your point package. Using 

Shear you can draw near accurate shadow 

scene. The rendering process tpkes care of casting 

light and shadow allowing the designer 

more time to concentrate more on objects. 

There are no such perks when creating animations 

in a 20 paint package and light and 

Fairly easy to place, but if the light is animated 

in any way the shadow is going to change in 

relation to the movement of the light and any 

structures it passes over. 

A simple way of adding light and shadow is 

castings using the original object as a template. 

You should first grab the object which is casting 

the shadow as a brush and flip it in the Y axis 

(the direction you flip the brush is dependant 

on the position and direction of the lightsource 

shadow can often make or break your creation. to use the Brighten and Darken effects. For a - in this example behind and above). 

Fortunately, with 2D you're not required to light cast on the floor you could simply select a Using the Shear X option you should shear 

recreate the kind of realism expected from a 3D 

program and therefore you can afford to make 

filled ellipse with the Brighten effect turned 

which you can then draw over the floor where 

the brush in the opposite direction from where 

the light is coming from. With Darken enabled 

lights more stark and shadows much harder. 

The first thing to do is make a note of the different 

lights required on your storyboards• You 

can then sketch the general direction of each 

Ugh, and note where it falls in relation to the 

the light falls. You could even switch antiallasing 

on in order to smooth out the edges of the 

cast light or shadow. If you need more control 

over the shape of your cast light or shadow 

you can use the filled line tool instead. 

from the brush effects you can then paste the 

brush down and you should end up with an 

instant, and accurate, shadow. You may also 

need to alter the width and height of the 

shadow in relation to the height of the 

other objects in your scene. By understanding A quick way of drawing shadows is to use lightsource.

1 

Paul Austin delivers 

a quick guide to 

getting the best 

from LightWavels 

funkiest feature 

holy grail of 3D design for years 

B elievable Primitives with organic their forms blocky have angular been forms the 

ore efficient and effective for the majority 

of jobs, but alas, precious few things conform to such o 

rigid design in the real-world. 

Enter Metoforrn, the 3D designers dream tool. With 

the aid of this 3D cure, all soft sculpted forms are no 

more than a couple of clicks away. No more struggling 

with spline curves, no more compromise, this is a seemingly 

effortless solution for a multitude of modelling 

nightmares. Unfortunately, like most panaceas, there's 

on inevitable downside. 

For the power players with 060s and unlimited 

RAM, metaform's seemingly unavoidable side effect is 

hardly noticeable. However, for mere mortals the multitude 

of points and polygons that the process generates 

can be a real headache. 

Fortunately, there is a ray of hope in an easy-toswalow 

solution. Due to the simplicity of just hitting the 

metaform button to obtain instant results, it's incredibly 

tempting to just fire and forget However, if you can 

contain your enthusiasm and think about what's 

required from the metolorm effect before you hit the 

button, you could save yourself hundreds if not 

From left to rightz the traditional polygon-hungry approach to tnetafona, followed by a combination of fewer initial points 

plus some polygon repositioning. Lastly, a repeat of the central cube with unnecessary polygons removed completely 

Essentially, metaform makes its smoothing calculations 

based on the proximity of polygons and their 

relative angles - the closer the grouping the more 

rounded that particular part of the model becomes. 

As a result, it makes sense to use the minimum 

number of points and simply ensure that the area 

you want affected the most has the highest 

proportion of polygons. 

Simply moving points and polygons isn't always 

an option because it could easily destroy the overall 

shape you require, so a more precise method is 

called for. The simplest solution is to select the precise 

area of polygons on the model that needs 

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MARCH 1 

Meterform 

for the 

masses 

thousands of RAMhungry polygons. A classic example 

of this is the now ubiquitous lightWave round corner 

cube famous for its port in the textures example scene, 

this apparently simple object remained a 'how did they 

do that? modelling mystery until the official arrival of 

metaform in version 3.5. 

In our example image, the cube on the left boasts 

386 polygons whilst its near identical twin on the 

smoothing and meta form these separately. 

Sometimes this alone will do the job reasonably 

efficiently. 

However, simply selecting existing group 

doesn't always deliver the goods because the 

number and shape of polygons present simply 

doesn't deliver the desired results. Under such 

conditions, a technique favoured by the pros is to 

use a combination of a flat plain and LightWave's 

slice functions to introduce more detail in the form 

of additional polygons into a selected area, there 

by enhancing the smoothing affect of the 

meta form pass. 

A somohs example of the 

smoothing benefi ts that 

adding the odd slice can 

have to metaforened right 

angles. Basic stuff, but 

nevertheless essential tot 

those of us on a budget 

when it comes to available 

RAM 

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middle weighs in with just 218. However, even this 

seems extreme compared to the cube on the right 

which gets the lob done with just 164 Look pretty similar, 

don't they? Number one started life with more poly 

gons than the others, comprising a standard 4x4 cube 

which was then given a single mesaform pass. Its part 

ner in the middle, however, started life as 3x3 cube 

which enjoyed 20 seconds additional editing as the 

internal polygon groups within it were dragged to the 

corn 

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but after the metoform pass all the polygons 

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which mode up the flat faces of the cube were deleted 

to be replaced by o single polygon. 

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r of the individual foces maybe two or three minutes in 

ttotal. 

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a ure that can jump dramatically if you need to employ 

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America hove different TV systems, or why 

H VHS equipment has different connectors 

a to VHS equipment? It's all down to stan- 

vdards 

and formats, cunning plans to squeeze more 

e into a pint pot and, of course, the need for constant 

y 

improvement and more sales. 

Let's start with video standards, of which there 

o 

ore three predominant video ones in use around the 

u world - PAL, NTSC and SECAM. Each is slightly dif- 

eferent 

from the others and hence tapes recorded 

vusing 

one standard cannot be played back in anot- 

eher 

without the use of standards converters. For pro- 

r fessional quality film and tape transfers these 

wmachines 

are still very expensive, but nowadays it is 

opossible 

to buy a relatively cheap multi-standard 

n 

VHS VCR which can play back any tape from anywhere 

in the world using just a single machine. 

d 

Perhaps as technology advances there will be just 

eone 

video standard for the whole world, though it is 

rperhaps 

unlikely in the foreseeable future, given the 

esheer 

investment required to convert everyone's 

d existing equipment over. 

wSTANDARDS 

h 

y The first of three big standards is NTSC 'National 

Television Standards Committee, os used in the 

B 

USA, Japan, Korea, Canada, Mexico and other 

r 

ports of South America, and the Philippines'. NISC 

iruns 

al 30 frames of 525 lines per second and is 

toften 

jokingly referred to as 'Never Twice The Some 

aColour', 

but nowadays this isn't necessarily the 

icase. 

Whilst it's true that NTSC equipment also has 

n a Hue control in addition to the regular Colour. 

aBrightness 

and Contrast controls, I've always 

nthought 

that NTSC looked pretty good, and because 

of the higher frame rate there isn't quite so much 

d 

apparent nicker with certain kinds of image. In fact, 

many Americans find PAL TV to be disconcertingly 

THE FRENCH OPTION 

The second popular standard is SECAM (which stands for 

SEquential Couleur A Memaire), which was developed by the 

French from 1959 onwards as an alternative to the then less 

stable NTSC. SECAM runs at 25 frames of 625 lines per second 

and is also the adopted TV standard of many French 

colonies (current and ex-), Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Egypt, 

Russia and some of the other ex-Communist bloc countries. 

Strangely enough, though, much SECAM material is actually 

sourced on PAL equipment and only converted to SECAM at 

the final transmission stage. Unlike most of the rest of 

Europe, who were trying to agree on a single TV standard, 

France decided that it would stick with SECAM no matter 

what. After 1966 France went her own way, whilst the 

alternative PAL system was adopted by most of her 

neighbouring countries. 

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flickery until their eyes and brains become 

accustomed to PACs lower frame rote. 

NTSC evolved from on already existing monochrome 

system and was the first widespread standard 

for colour television broadcasting, corning 

into regular use in 1953. As on historical aside, it 

is said that the Nazis hod both colour TV cameras 

and video projection in use for the 1936 Olympic 

games, though this is hard to verify, both for political 

reasons and because German companies such 

as Telefunken 'who were at the forefront of PAL TV 

development' ore still reluctant to admit that they 

might have had any links with the Nazis. 

UK IMPORTANCE 

The final standard, and the most important one for 

us, is PAL Phase Alternate Line) and is the one used 

in the UK, as well as much of Europe, ex- and current 

UK dependencies and colonies, including 

Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Iceland, 

China and a number of African and Arab states. 

Like SECAM, PAL runs at 25 frames of 625 lines 

per second and, like SECAM and NTSC, this 

Frame/line combination is derived as a division of 

the national domestic mains electricity frequency 

(50Hz for PAL and SECAM, 60Hz for NISC). 

Of course, as with all standards there are exceptions 

for instance, Brazil uses the PAL system, but 

with only 525 lines and at 60Hz 'PALK whilst 

Cuba, Haiti and French Guyana have SECAM, but 

with 525 lines. There may also be minor differences 

between the sound carrying side of some PAL 

systems. So, if you have a tape of Brazilian N and 

you think you can play it back on a standard PAL 

VCR, you'd be mistaken. I learnt this the hard way, 

carrying a tape all the way back iron', Rio only to 

find out that all I could get out of it was the sound! 

This is where standards converters come in, making 

it possible to translate from one video system to 

another The trouble is, there ore some fairly tricky 

problems to overcome. For instance, when converting 

from NTSC (30 frames per second, 525 lines) to 

PAL 125 frames per second, 625 lines) somehow 

five frames have to be lost and 100 lines per home 

gained. Digital equipment and processing can solve 

most of these problems, but even so it still isn't 

possible to make up the extra lines from scratch 

Professional standards converters, costing many 

thousands of pounds, have advanced electronics 

which can look ahead by up to four fields (2 frames) 

and then interpolate the results to provide smoother 

viewing. They also interpolate the lines in the frame 

and add extra lines to make up the difference 

between NISC's 525 and PAL's 825. Cheaper standards 

converters, for instance in the E1000 or so 

range, as well as the multistandard VCRs, tend to 

have a simpler approach and often just throw Out 

the required five frames per second and only do lin 

ited line interpolation. The result, especially where 

action is moving fast, can be a noticeable staggering 

of the images and jagged diagonal lines where 

the interpolation isn't of a high enough quality to 

smooth the picture out sufficiently. It's the old story of 

you get what you pay for, 

To COME 

Next Month - Video Formats. 

Gory Whiteley can be e-mailed 

drgatikix,campulink.co.uk

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