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On 30 May, MD Manfred Schmidt presented 

Escom's plans for the future of the 

Amiga at a press conference in Frankfurt, 

Assembled members of the press and 

trade industry were told that a new 

company called Amiga Technologies has 

been established to lead the Amiga forward. 

It is to be headed by Petro 

Tyschtschenko, former Director of Logistics 

for Commodore International. 

To the disappointment of the Amiga 

industry in Britain, however. Escom have 

not included David Pleasance. MD of 

Commodore UK, into their future plans_ 

Joint MD. Cohn Proudfoot has also been 

dropped. 

Pleasance and Proudfoot had hoped to 

negotiate a future for the UK subsidiary 

with Escom after the German company 

acquired the remains of Commodore at the 

auction in New York last month. 

Previously, Pleasance's team had looked 

like favourites to win the bidding process, 

but on the day in question they could not 

match the financial muscle of rivals Escom 

and Dell. 

Despite meeting twice with Pleasance 

and Proudfoot, however, Escom's management 

decided not to take over Commodore 

UK in its current form. This was actually a 

global policy of Escom regarding the 

Amiga," explained Gilles Bourdin, the 

newly appointed PR Manager for Amiga 

Technologies. "We decided iust to take the 

trademark, the logos and a few people we 

wanted to work with, but without taking 

over the structure of the former 

News of the Amiga's salvation came too late for 

the huge distribution and retail empire, ZCL. 

Following the decision of the firm's founder, Don 

Carte 

. computer industry has been rocked by the surprise 

, collapse of one of the biggest national forces in the 

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what happened with Commodore in, 

Germany.' 

The news of Pleasance's departure will 

come as a blow to the majohty of developers 

and distributors in Britain who saw him 

as the best man for the lob. Neither 

Pleasance or Proudfoot were available for 

comment at the time Amiga Computing 

went to press. 

Though it appears that Commodore 

UK's Maidenhead offices are being abandoned 

by Escom, the Stanstead unit will be 

retained_ It will be managed by Jonathon 

Anderson, previously head of sales for 

C=UK, as a research and development 

centre. Five other members of the 

Commodore UK team have also been 

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fall of Commodore International. ZCL had been 

one of the biggest distributors of the Amiga and its 

related products, and the sudden absence of the 

popular home computer caused the company to 

experience huge losses. 

The launch of the successful Calibre PC range 

was an attempt to compensate for lost business, 

but ultimately these sales were insufficient to save 

Amiga Computing 

AUGUST 1995 

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Optimism for the future of the Amiga 

was at its highest level in years following 

the revelation of Escom's plans for 

technological developments on the 

platform. The Amiga Technology development 

division is already working 

on the next generation of RISC-based 

computers and a set-top unit that 

will exploit the Amiga's multimedia 

strengths. 

Closer to hand is the promise of new 

machines for early 1996, including 

an 030 version of the Al200 and an 

060 version of the A4000. In the meantime. 

supplies of the current Amiga 

range will start rolling out with the A4000 

Tower unit coming first followed by the 

Al200 which should reappear in 

October 

QUICK RETURN 

According to Petro Tyschtschenko. 

General Manager of the Amiga 

Technologies company, Escom expects 

to make back the $10 million it spent on 

the buy out in as short a period as 

Spring 1996 through sales and licenses_ 

in 1995 alone, a turnover of 100 million 

DM has been predicted — mainly from 

the sales of Al200, A4000 and CD32 

units. 

Whether these estimations will come 

to fruition will be seen in the fullness of 

time, but the announcement that the presentation 

package Scala MM300 will be 

bundled with newly sold Amigas can 

only help to make the Amiga's retail 

position stronger. 

For the full in-depth report on Escom's 

plans for the future, read the cover 

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the company. n ZCL employed a workforce of 137 

people and s incorporated the Taurus wholesale 

operation, ithe 

Calculus retail chain, and the Indi 

Direct mail dorder 

firm. The business reportedly has 

substantial e assets and a balance sheet surplus, so 

it is hoped t that buyers will soon be found for the 

three divisions which will continue to trade in the 

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Publishers of software containing 

violence or adult content could be faced 

with vastly increased production costs 

following a call for a rise in classification 

charges by the British Board for Film 

Classification. Software products depicting 

human sexual activity or acts of 'gross' 

violence has been subject to BBFC classification 

since the Video Recordings Act, 

1984, and since September 1994 over 40 

software products have been officially 

classified by the BBFC. 

Now, however, the government 

appointed body is claiming interactive 

460ftware takes much longer to asseSIC 

than movies or videos and that they 

should consequently be subject to a higher 

classification fee. This could put the 

charge of new releases up from El .053 to 

E1,755 according to CTW, the industry0 

trade weekly. 

The BBFC claim a price rise is 

necessary because they were running at 

a loss while charging the same rate for 

games as for video. Sections of the 

software industry, however, have seen the 

proposals as potentially damaging. 

Telstar is one software company who 

will be affected. At the moment they are 

focusing their attention on CDs and with 

the establishment of the new adult label 

and the higher classifiaction fee, they feel 

it will be costly. Telstar's Gary Bracey 

understand the BBFC•s problems but 

believes they should look at two price 

bands - one for multimedia products. 

which include a lot of linear content, and 

one for games produtcs which do take 

-, Roger Bennett, General Secretary for 

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nELSPA, 

warned. 'It could undermine the 

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in which this industry is taking a 

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is set to take place between ELSPA and 

the Home Office at which Bennett will vigorously 

defend the software industry's 

position. 


AUGUST 1995 

Aiwa undercut (0 competition 

In what is already a highly contested area of the 

peripheral market, the CD drive competition is set to 

become even more heated following Aiwa's decision 

to drop the price of its SCSI compatible ACD-300 unit 

to lust E149. 

The stated price is not inclusive of VAT, but it 

emphasises the continued downward trend for CD 

drive prices as the medium grows in popularity. Amiga 

users will also be encouraged by the fact that the 

drive is being marketed as an ideal option for the 

Amiga range of computers. 

The verdict on whether quality has been compromised 

to cut cost will have to be reserved until 

Amiga Computing undertakes a full review, 

but the ACD-300 is already a clear winner 

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in the looks department. 

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It will also boast a competitive array of 

facilities. As well as being SCSI compatible, 

which means it can be connected to 

your computer along with six other periph- w••. 

orals, it also features an unusual large LCD 

display that indicates the dnve's SCSI ID and whether 

Silent Paw Production hope to have portable 

Amigas ready for delivery by September this 

year according to MD Shawn Randolph. 

With a name derived from the acronym for 

Portable Amiga Work Station, the PAWS 

product range could give the Amiga market 

the lightweight version of the computer that 

has been missing until now. 

PAWS is set to include an SIN or TFT 

active colour display, a trackball. Link it, 

Cross Dos 6 Pro, and a simple guide to 

assembly. Silent Paw Productions also 

plans to release the Gecko, a small external 

box that will allow for the use of the Amiga 

with any VGA monitor in any Amiga display 

mode. The company will be releasing pricing 

detail in the near future. 

or not it is terminated. The makers claim this will help 

beginners avoid two of the most common oversights 

when connecting CD drives to their computers. 

The drive's facia will boast audio CD-dedicated 

operation buttons that will allow it to be used as a CD 

player without software like Jukebox, while at the 

heart of the machine a dual-speed drive makes the 

ACD-300 fast enough to take on higher priced rivals, 

For more information. call Aiwa on 0181-897 7000. 

".11. 

fimiga portables in MPH crime unit 

pipehne catches 'The NI 

Scottish Trading Standards officers have 

arrested a man on suspicion of involvement 

in a multi-million pound fraud operation 

following a tip off from ELSPA's 

software crime unit. 

Following the arrest of a man from 

Airdrie, the police found over 1,500 counterfeit 

gold CD-ROMs featuring games 

and business software plus duplication 

hardware. The police raid also uncovered 

large amounts of allegedly pirated floppy 

disks. 

According to John Loader. ELSPA's 

chief investigator, the haul represents the 

biggest success for the organisation's 

crime unit to date. 

(omoang check-up5 on net 

The day when mail order via the home computer becomes a normal method of sho. 

ping has come a step nearer following the establishment of the Netcheck Commerc 

Bureau on the Internet. With many net users still wary of buying products over t 

Web, its hoped that such sites will increase consumer confidence by offering ad.' 

consumer protection. 

NetCheck will be a place where potential customers can check up the history of 

company before they make an order. It will also allow consumers to file an 

complaints they may have about less scrupulous net sellers. 

Mr Thomas Abbott. president of the Netcheck Bureau, said: "We felt that a mo• • 

and effective approach to regulating ethical business standards has long been o - 

due. Being interactive allows for lower membership rates for companies that elect 

become members and a more efficient reporting system for the consumer." 

Bona Fide companies should be encouraged to join up with the scheme by the 

that the history files in Netchech will link directly to their homepage. There will a 

,be a monthly newsletter making site users aware of newly-joined members. 

While waiting for similar sites to spring up on this side of the Atlanti- 

UK net users interested in mail order can take a look at NetCheck at http:I/www.m • 

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filmathera'5 top ten 

The Amiga CD market is to be graced with yet 

another bargain following Almathera's release of 

their Ten on Ten package. With the pnce set at 

just £39.99. the bundle comprises 10 CDs featunng 

content that ranges from entertainment to 

serious applications. 

Ten on Ten will include CDPD1 and 2, World 

Atlas Vista, Pandora and Team Yankee, a 3D 

action sim for game lovers. Unsurprisingly for 

The price, some of the matenal has been around 

for some time, but there are three new CDs 

including a Networking and Comms disc that will 

not be published individually. 

Almathera are only producing 3000 units of 

Ten on Ten because they plan to release it as a 

limited edition pack. It can be ordered directly 

form Almathera on 0181-687 0040. 

Fountain of knowledge 

In the month in which Escom outlined plans for the future growth of the Amiga technology. 

there was also good news for the existing range of computers following the announcement 

of a new tool that will build knowledge-based systems on the Amiga platform 

Simply named KBTools, the new development allows complex expertise to be encapsulated 

on computer and then made available for use by non-experts. Bearing similarities to 

systems that have already been used in medical, legal and financial professions, the inventors 

claim KBTools will be able to provide reliable advice to its users on a range of complex 

matters. 

So far the designers have created a system that will guide users through the difficult 

issues involved in planning a building project and writing a contract. Apparently. KBTools 

asks a number of questions guided by its internal models, and then decides which issues 

are important before compiling the text of a draft contract. It's claimed that the technology 

is unusually capable of coping with the grey areas that such matters give rise to, 

Despite scepticism in some quarters about the current Amiga's capabilities, KBTools' 

designers chose to use it in preference to rival platforms. In fact, they're claiming that ease 

of use and speed of KBTools is due largely to the unique strengths of the Amiga hardware 

and operating system. 

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Having offered emotional support to 

members of the public for decades via 

the telephone, the Samaritans moved 

into the 21st century with the decision to 

launch e-mail access to their service. 

The move follows on from the success 

of a pilot scheme run by the organisation's 

Cheltenham Branch. In its first six months 

the experimental project received 526 contacts, 

47 per cent of which were male, 28 

per cent fernale and 25 per cent unknown. 

According to the Samaritans, the 

e-mail scheme has proved to be an 

effective way of reaching young men, a 

group which they say is statistically at 

particular risk. They also suggest that the 

anonymity of the Internet encourages 

openness on the part of the service 

users, with 80 per cent admitting they 

had suicidal feelings. This contrasts with 

the normal telephone helpline where only 

25 per cent express suicidal thoughts. 

The organisation felt a new approach 

was necessary because of the rising suicide 

rate among men of 15-24 and 35- 

44. Sixty volunteers are being trained in 

order to respond to increasing numbers 

of e-mail callers, and as more branches 

come on-line its predicted that response 

limes will quicken. 

it is encouraging that more men are 

calling us, but there is a long way to go 

before we start to reverse the trend of 

male suicide." commented Simon 

Armson. The Samaritans' Chief 

Executive. "E-mail is an effective way of 

reaching a group who are at risk of suicide. 

and difficult to reach out to. We will 

continue to increase accessibility to our 

service.' 

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Optonica's educational CD. Insight 

Dinosaurs, is about to be released at a 

new price of £19.95. Widely acclaimed 

by the specialist press as one of the 

best multimedia titles available for the 

Amiga, Dinosaurs is now even more 

appealing following its fall in price from 

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for the article on PC and Mac emulation 

advertised in last month's issue are also 

owed an apology. Though we intended 

to include it in this August issue, the 

sudden increase in activity on the 

Amiga front meant the feature had to be 

postponed. However, we hope to bring 

you the full guide in next month's Amiga 

Computing. 

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Diskotech have developed a brand new 

collection of animated colour fonts for 

the Amiga and are releasing them at a 

budget price. Named Moviefonts, the 

package features fonts that are compatible 

with paint packages like Deluxe 

Paint 3 and which work in all screen 

formats. 

The series of 12 fonts costs £35 and 

can be obtained from Diskotech on 

01591 620242. 

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Compuserve, the user friendly on-line 

service, has announced its intention to 

introduce v.34 dialup access throughout 

Europe. It's hoped that this will increase 

the speed of access and ease of use to 

its users 

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Amiga Computing is torced again into 

its occasional ritual of eating humble 

pie, following the omission in last 

months TV Paint review of a few 

important details. 

The excellent paint package is available 

from Active (call 0181-402 5770) at 

£495 for the standard version However. 

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, h e company known as young monkey (sic) 

began as the vision of two musicians. Over 

a decade ago, it was just two people, an 

analogue drum machine, two analogue synthesizers, 

a Commodore 64 and lots of hoping and dreaming. 

Now, young monkey studios have grown to include a 

professional audio/video studio that worked on film 

scores, audio recordings. and even two top-ten after- 

. n a t i v e dance songs. young monkey studios still don't 

have any capital letters in their name, but they do 

have a suite of impressive Amiga music programs 

they've decided to polish up and share with the 

Amiga community, 

SIMthesizer is a waveform generator/modifier that 

combines multiple synthesis technologies, includil 

lanalogue, 

digital, wavetable, additive, subtractive, 

granular, ig frequency modulation, phase modulation, 

waves haping, phonetic speech, Ghunga. Re-Haus 

and others. Hardware components used in early 

analogue synthesizers often coloured sounds with 

parasitic variations. 

Though sometimes unwanted, these variations 

could be used to enhance sounds. SiMthesizer has 

a set of parasitic parameters you can use to create 

subtle or extreme variations on existing sounds. 

Noise signature profiles of various commercial synthesizers 

are included as well. One particularly 

handy feature is that every original copy of 

SIMthesizer will have a different internal Parasitic 

factor. This ensures that sounds created on one 

copy ol SIMthesizer will not sound exactly the same 

as those created on another. 

FULL SUITE 

As well as generating new sounds, SIMthesizer's 

extensive waveform modification features can be 

used to enhance existing sound sample data. You'll 

find a full suite of filters, transforms, feedback, echo, 

and delay parameters, as well as fully programmable 

envelopes. A sort of ADPro for sound. SIMthesizer 

will load and save samples from 8 to 32-bits in size, 

in formats including Raw, IFF 8SVX. AIFF, NeXT, 

Sun, Wave, Li-Law. A-Law, AVR, Mac, IRCAM, Voc, 

SampleVision, and more. 

WaveFormer is a waveform editing system 

designed to work as standalone or in conjunction 

with professional sampling hardware and third-party 

audio cards. Support for hard disk recording hardware 

is planned. 

Among the included waveform transformation 

capabilities are morphing, enhanced digital effects. 

Fourier analysis and transforms, free-hand 

edit, algorithrn editing, and cross-fading. An undo 

capability allows you to experiment with your sample 

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adjusts t bad sample data. For example, given a 

sequence of sound levels '0 5 10 32767 10 0.' the 

level 32767 is very likely to be incorrect. To repair it 

simply sdrag ythe 

mouse over the offending sample 

and it is adjusted to '0 5 10 5 10 O.' 

MIDI SYStem EXplorer is an extensively configurable 

. MIDI . exploration system, including a patch 

editor, plibrarian, s control system and much more. 

Features include extensive customisation which 

allows the r user to design standard interfaces for all 

MIDI products y connected to the system; customisable 

layout, fonts, gadgets, images. menus, MIDI 

events, iand 

more; the ability to enter MIDI information 

from a device's user manual and configure a 

custom interface to access parameters; support for 

all MIDI events; ability to edit individual parameters 

on devices that only support patch dumps; and ability 

to make edits without the MIDI device connected. 

Patch/Librarian data is stored in MIDI standard 

format, for easy import in other software. 

Finally, the creatively-named Sampler Utility supports 

Standard MIDI Transfers and will also read and 

write many popular sampler disk formats on standard 

Amiga disk drives. The product allows auditioning of 

waveforms and will display patch/tone lists, parameter 

information, and other vital data. Like all the 

lomega's little Zip drive has taken the computing 

community by storm. This little S199 SCSI 

drive works great on Amigas. Macs. and PCs 

and stores 100Mb on disks available as cheap 

as S15 in quantity. On the Amiga it can be 

used for additional hard disk-style storage, as 

well as for backup and for easily transferring 

huge files to other Amigas, PCs, and 

Macintoshes. 

Although the Zip drive uses 3.5-inch disks, 

they're thicker than standard floppies, and the 

drive can't read normal floppy disks. Also, the 

drive has only been available in an external 

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for the formats mentioned for SIMthesizer. 

As well as operating independently, a special software 

control system will allow integration of these 

programs with each other. For example, you can 

directly read waveform data from a sampler disk (via 

the Sampler Utility module) into a waveform buffer 

within WaveFormer. 

In addition to other software products not listed 

here, young monkey are currently developing lowcost 

DSP and MIDI hardware for integration with their 

software and third-party applications, and as a completely 

unrelated public service, young monkey has 

written a free text-to-Braille conversion program. 

For information on these programs, write to 

infoeyoungmonkey.ca or dhomas@unb.ca on the 

Internet. If you're still corresponding the old-fashioned 

way, young monkey can be reached by writing to 

young monkey studios, 797 Mitchell Street. 

Fredericton, NB. Canada, E3B 3S8. 

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they will address both of these problems with 

new products that will be available this 

Autumn. The first is an internal Zip drive, but 

even more interesting is a combo model that 

incorporates a Zip drive and a conventional 

3.5-inch high density drive and fits in one fullheight 

drive bay. Hopefully, the latter model 

will be adapted to work with Amiga high-density 

disks as well. An !omega spokesman said 

the internal combo drive should sell for about 

the same price as the external Zip.

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EDITORIAL 

hen's an exclusive not an exclusive? 

When somebody else has 

done it already. Along with sexual 

innuendo, the word 'exclusive is a magical 

set of letters that can make customers pull 

out their cash and up a mag's ABC by a few 

hundred - they want the latest and most 

up-to-date information. Misused, abused 

and downright corrupted for many years, 

there would seem to be no readdress for 

those who actually got the story first and 

then are subsequently duped as another 

publication states they have the world-first 

•exclusive.' 

Take, for example, the Cyberstorm 060 

card - a phenomenal piece of kit by any 

standards - that was reviewed in the June 

issue of these pages. The magazine was 

on the shelves by 4 May 1995. One of our 

competitors - bless them - had their June 

issue surface on the 1 I th of that month, 

and they had the Cyberstorm 060 card 

hyped on the cover. 

The difference is obvious, though, 

because plastered above the competitor's 

Cyberstorm hype was that word - 

exclusivel Not true, we'd beaten them to it 

by over a week. Turn to their review of the 

product and again the word 'exclusive' 

beams up at you from the page - it just ain't 

true. 

"Why not plaster that wondrous word on 

your cover as well then" you ask. Unlike 

certain competitors, we'll only use 'exclusive' 

when it is one (witness Lightwave 4). 

We were not in a position to say that the 

Cyberstorm 060 was a guaranteed exclusive. 

Nor were the competition. We didn't 

use the word. They did. 

The principle reason for avoiding the 

word wasn't out of fear that the opposition 

would reprimand us for it, because they 

won't - it's simply that we like to treat our 

customers with some respect and give 

them the honest story. Consumers are 

easily hacked off when they feel they're 

being shafted and they'll take their money 

elsewhere. 

This kind of undercutting the competition 

is typical practice on the road to big ABCs. 

On the release of Doom 2 on the PC, various 

magazines brandished that word as 

they proclaimed they were first. As usual, 

one of our publications got there Iirst, but 

The team 

Pul] fution 

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fin the (=petition — 

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regardless with their 'exclusive' banner. 

Perhaps this all sounds like sour grapes, 

but the overuse of 'exclusive' reveals a 

deeper problem with the current crop of 

Amiga mags - that of making a quick buck. 

When Commodore went belly up last 

year, there was a change to certain competitors 

that may not have been immediately 

obvious to Joe Public. While certain mags 

beat their chests for standing next to the 

Amiga through thick and thin, their actual 

content reveals a different story. 

PAGINATION 

While Amiga Computings pagination (page 

count) has fallen like our competitors, our 

editorial content has stayed pretty much the 

same - the only page lasses have been mainly 

in advertising because of Commodore's 

demise. We could easily fill our editorial with 

games, games and more games like some of 

our competitors have clone - pages of tips, 

cheats and other space-filling devices are 

used to give the customer the feeling that 

they're getting their money's worth when they 

pick up the magazine. 

We, on the other hand, use our pages to 

show the Amiga off to its full extent and to 

inform you, the reader, of the machine's 

potential skill after all this time - special 

effects companies, how to use your Amiga 

to make money, interviews with the movers 

EDITOR Paul Austin CIRCULATION DIRECTOR D a vid Wren CHAIRMAN R ot 

DEPUTY EDITOR 

ART' EDITOR 

NEWS EDITOR 

Darren Evans 

Tim Lecke) 

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the many different screen resolutions 

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programs, Deluxe Paint, with a toolbar 

and menu for accessing the many 

features available. 

There are also the usual and useful 

keyboard shortcuts for quick selection of 

many of the major functions such as 

Save and Load picture. 

For a small incentive, there are some 

example pictures available on the 

CoverDisk for you to load into Personal 

Paint and experiment with. 

Current brush 

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Draw circle 

Draw ellipse 

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Image processing 

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AUGUST 1995 

COVERDISK 

Utilitg heaven 2 

With Powe rSna p, you ca n copy te a t Wa in a nywhere 

on ihe scre e n a nd oa st. it with e a se 

PowerSnan 

Author: Nico trancols 

Workbench! 2.0 

If you have ever used a quality Word processor. 

you probably know how useful it is to be 

able to select a block of text on screen and 

either copy or cut it and then to paste it 

elsewhere. 

Unfortunately, not all utilities and programs 

offer this feature. PowerSnap provides a simple 

solution to this problem by providing such 

cut arid paste features itself. The only limitations 

are that it only works with non-proportional 

fonts up to 24 pixels wide and any 

height. which should cover most users' 

needs. 

To try it out, simply double-click the 

PowerSnap icon and you can then position 

the mouse pointer over a character on 

screen, holding down the left Alternate key 

and press the left mouse button. 

At this point, after a short delay depending 

on the size of the font, the screen will either 

flash, meaning PowerSnap didn't find a character 

at that position, or the character will be 

highlighted. You can then drag the mouse 

while keeping the left Alternate key and the 

left mouse button held down to select further 

characters. 

Once you are happy with what you have 

selected, releasing the Alternate key will copy 

the selected characters into the clipboard. 

You can then paste the copied text by pressing 

the Alternate and V key or by pressing the 

Alternate key and the right mouse button, 

Moue 

Author: Asher Feldman 

Workbench: 2_04 

Move is a simple utility which provides a 

Unix-like move command, allowing you to 

move files from source to destination rather 

than having to copy them and delete the 

originals from the source. 

Those of you with a directory utility will 

probably be familiar with the move feature, 

and Move provides the same function via CLI 

Shell. It can also be used as a rename cornmand 

and supports all standard wildcards•

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Show* 

Author; Andreas Heumann 

Workbench:2.0 

This is a useful utility for 

those 3D addicts who own 

either the Imagine or 

Light Wave 3D software. It is 

a handy object viewer 

which allows you to load 

any Imagine TODD or 

LightWave LWOB format 

object. 

Showobj can display the 

object loaded in three different 

modes - bounding box. 

wireframe or solid. There 

are also four views available 

- front, right, top and 

perspective. 

In perspective view, the 

object can be rotated using 

the mouse with the left button 

pressed, or can be 

zoomed by holding the nght 

mouse button down 

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No doubt many of you have installed MUI given 

away on the July issue Coveroisks. if so, here 

are some more MUI applications for you to 

enjoy. If you didn't gel the July issue (shame 

on you) we still have some back issues, so 

check out the back issues page for details on 

bow to order 

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ITIMProgli5t 

MUIProgList is a simple text file compiled by our 

very own Ben Vast from the Aminet archive list. It 

details the many MUI programs which are available 

and where they are within Aminet. 

Those with access to the Internet can access the 

Aminet archive a t t h e address 

flp://src.docicac,uktaminet. Or. for those who are 

Internet-less, there are many Amine! CD-ROMs 

available through all good PD libraries. 

Solh 

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Author: Mr Boopsi 

(well, that's what the docs say!) 

Workbench:3,0 

This neat hack allows you to alter the sizing 

gadgets and scroll arrows to look nice in 

screen resolutions which have a 1:1 aspect 

ratio. You can also give the gadgets a 3D 

look 

The program is called from the Startupsequence 

rile in your S: drawer, It needs to 

be called before IPrefs. There are venous 

parameters available and are described in 

detail in the Sysihack documentation file, so 

refer to this for further details. 

Quickly vie w your I ma gine a nd LightWa ve obtoots with this ha ndy utility 

MenuPrefs 

Menu 

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useful_ Sc useful in fact that Commodore 

included the CrossDOS driver, However. 

CrossDOS is only really useful for transferring 

files between machines via floppy disk_ 

This is very restrictive when you have very 

large or lots of files to copy, and will usually 

require you to use lots of disks or archive 

the files. 

PC to Amiga allows you to connect 

your Amiga to a PC via a serial cable 

and to access the PC drives like norma 

devices connected to your Amiga. 

Essentially, this is a master-slave system 

where the PC is the slave and the Amiga is 

the master with control over the PCs hard 

drives. 

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between the two machines using the PC: 

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Author: Cyril Debit, 


Although the Workbench 

Screenmode utility in the prets 

drawer does its job, it would 

benefit from a MIA facelift. So, 

here's the latest version of the 

MUI screen mode utility for all 

you MUI addicts to replace the 

drab Workbench version. Simply 

double-click on the install icon 

to update your older version 

Shareware delight5 

Shareware authors produce some excellent 

Amiga software which often enhances your 

Amiga life. If this wonderous slate of affairs 

is to continue, you must support these 

authors or they may disappear along with 

the great software they write. 

So. check out the supplied program documentation 

for the software described here to 

see what the author is requesting in terms of 

payment. Quite often it's free, so just send 

them a thank you note. If there is some form 

of registry payment required, you can bet it 

will be a pittance and well worth it. So send 

off your cash and support the author. 

FOICPICOn 

Author: Kai 'site 


This is a useful utility for those with CD- 

ROMs or networking software of any kind. It 

allows you to snapshot an icon for devices 

which normally don't allow this (such as CD- 

Roms). You can thus set its position or give 

it a much nicer icon than the default used by 

, Workbench. 

Ami••••• HpISpqIt 

Author: Michael Barsoom 


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This excellent utility allows you to alter the default 

keyboard shortcuts for the Workbench menu items, 

What's even more useful is that you can add keyboard 

shortcuts for those items Commodore didn't 

assign a shortcut for, such as Snapshot all. 

Also, users with Workbench prior to version three 

didn't have the very useful and handy Icon cleanup 

shortcut (right Amiga and period key). I am always 

using this to tidy up icons within windows prior to 

quickly saving them with the icon Snapshot key. 

Well, this sorry state of affairs is now history, as 

you can start changing and adding your own keyboard 

shortcuts to your own personal tastes. When 

you run ReKeyit, it will display the currently assigned 

Shortcuts in a scrollable list view. To change or add 

a shortcut, simply select the appropriate menu item 

and then enter the key to be used in conjunction with 

the right Amiga key for the shortcut. 

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They say that watching fish swimming 

around in an aquarium is supposed to 

relax you. Well, life on Amiga 

Computing can be quite stressful at 

times, especially when you have 

Judith 'Deadline or death' Chapman. 

our beloved Production Editor sitting 

next to you. 

So, I was quite relieved to find this 

curious and entertaining little program 

which simulates life in a fishtank. The 

idea is to keep your fish alive by altering 

various parameters in the program 

which control feeding, temperature. 

oxygen levels and other things 

required in such a fishy microcosm. 

So, when you find yourself slowly 

approaching boiling point when using 

your Amiga, fire up Aquasin sit back, 

and watch the aquatic Illeforms go 

about their business, letting the tranquil 

serenity of their little lives wash 

over you. 

newEdit 

Author: Paul Huxham 

Workbench_ 2.0 

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Have you ever wanted to paste something into a 

string gadget box within an interface, or wished 

their were more useful edit functions available? 

Shift cursor right 

Shift cursor left 

Alt backspace 

Alt del 

Right alt cursor up 

Right alt cursor down 

esc 

Right alt c or right amiga c 

Right alt v or right amiga v 

Right alt i or right amiga 

Right alt g or right amiga g 

shift right alt g or shift right amiga 

There a re lots of pa ra me te rs to cha nge a nd de cisions to 

be made to keep your fi shy friends happy and healthy 

next word 

previous word 

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AUGUST 1995 

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NewEdit is very useful when used in conjunction • 

with the Powersnap utility (also on the CoverDisk) 

which provides selection, cut and paste features in 

programs which don't provide it as standard. You 

can thus cut and paste text from one source and 

paste it into a string gadget box from the clipboard. 

go to previous gadget (accepting contents) 

go to next gadget (accepting contents) 

leave gadget (accepting contents) 

copy gadget contents to clipboard 0 

paste contents of clip 0 to gadget 

increments a numbered filename by one 

IlewEdit lunction5 

toggle the case of indicated character 

g toggle the case of characters until eol or alphabetic character is found

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On the foyer of Frankfurt's Park Hotel. 

Although well known for loitering anymemo 

that can provide a drink, this particular 

bunch, myself included, were in a 

serious, and dare I uy even sober mood, 

Alter collecting the obligatory press 

pass, the 100-strong band were ushered 

limo a well-appointed conference room 

ready to hear Escom's vision for an 

Amiga utopia. 

Alongside a huge Scala-controlled presentation 

sat the 11 men who pian to steer 

the Amiga out of the shadows. Centre 

stags was Manfred Schmitt, the youthful 

46-year old founder of the Escorn empire. 

Next to Herr Schmitt, and first to speak, 

was Petro Tyschtschenko• the general 

manager of the new Amiga Technologies 

GmbH, 

Alter the usual pleasantries, business 

started in oarnost by reaffirming the 

details regarding Escom's purchase of 

the former Commodore company 

mcksding all intellectual property rights. 

trademarks, logos, products and licences 

and all for eust 10 million dollars. 

The end result of this is the formation of 

the new Amiga Technologies daughter 

company, which with the aid of various 

third parties will set about restoring and 

perhaps more importantly, expanding the 

Antilga•s position as the ultimate multimedia 

and video graphic platform 

IN PRODUCTION 

latch to the relief of the onlookers, Herr 

Tyschtschenko's first step is to resume 

production of the existing range. But 

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Of both the Al200 and the 440001 

thankfully the standard 44000 

has officially been canned in 

favour of an all new mini 

tower A4000T. Initially, 

the plan is to produce 

1 20,000 Al 200s and 

25.000 A4000Ts, 

10,000 of which 

will ship with 

060s while 

the remainder stick to the traditional 040. 

Assuming things go to plan, the first units will 

be shipping by September/October '95. 

Apparently, all the planned A4000Ts have 

already been pre-sold, no doubt in the form of 

bulk sales to major distributors. Needless to 

say Escom. or should I say Amiga 

Technologies, envisage plentiful supplies of 

both machines for the Christmas penod. 

Okay, the big question has to be What's the 

cost? Given the unbelievable prices of 

Escom's existing PC range, its hard to envisage 

how they hope to produce an Amiga that 

can compete effectively with their PCs. 

Well, although no specific unit costs were 

provided, the new company did deliver a 

breakdown of their projected turnover and 

monthly operating costs for the remainder of 

this year. In total, Escom expect a turnover. 

based on Al200 and A4000T production, for 

'95 to be 100,000000 CM - a figure which 

apparently will ensure break even for the new 

company by the end of the year. 

If you then subtract operating costs of 

600,000 DM per month and divide this figure 

into the number of machines to be produced. 

it doesn't require a genius to figure out a 

rough price per unit. 

Assuming Escom's projections are correct, 

this all points to an Al200 retail price at, or 

about, 300 DM and an A4000T retail of 

roughly 2200 DM. Translate the above into 

sterling using an approximation of today's 

exchange rate and you're looking at C150-ish 

for an Al200 and roughly E1000 for an 

A4000T. 

A rather surprising revelation was the 

announcement that Amiga Technologies also 

plan to go back into production with the CD32 

in time for the Christmas period. However. 

they remained very sketchy when it came to 

actual quantities, although it was stated that 

the CD32 will undergo a major redesign by 

spring '96. 

An obvious stumbling block in the race to 

restart Amiga production is the confusion surrounding 

Commodore's remaining inventory. 

According to Herr Tyschtscbenko, all remaining 

stock in both the UK and Germany has 

been accounted for. Unfortunately, the 

As you may have spotted, the word Commodore has 

been notable only by its absence. As part of Its buyout, 

the entire Commodore empire went under the 

hammer - including the Commodore name. 

As a result, Escom can now add a recognised 

brand name to their own range of PCs. Until the 

Commodore acquisition, Escom had a real problem 

marketing their PC range through any other outlets 

than their own. Now that situation has changed dramatically 

courtesy of the Commodore title, You can 

soon expect to see the Commodore name traverse 

the high street to just about any retail outlet. 

Initially. Escom plan to go into production with a 

range of fully loaded Pentium P75 and P100 multimedia 

PCs which will be assembled at Escon'es 

existing production facilities. The plan is to sell 

between 50.000 and 60.000 before the end of the 

year. with initial production commencing in August. 

As far as Escom are concerned, there is now no 

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rumours regarding large quantities of readyto-ship 

machines are exactly that. In reality, 

any new production will be strictly from the 

ground up. 

It's obvious that the existing stock of 

European components takes the form of 

spares rather than ready-to-assemble 

machines. However, this did prompt the 

announcement of a European spares and 

distribution centre which should be active 

within the next tour weeks. 

A big question mark still hangs over the 

huge inventory still held in the Philippines. 

Apparently, negotiations are still in progress 

with the local trustees regarding, if and when, 

it will be made available. 

With the commitment to future development, 

the obvious question has to be how 

they intend to do it. In reply, Escom 

announced a 50-strong support team at 

Escom's Bensheim headquarters. This central 

team will break down into development, 

developer support, resellers and users, production 

management, marketing, PR and 

administration. 

In addition. the company has also taken 

connection between the Amiga and Commodore, 

The Commodore name and product range will be 

strictly PC and controlled exclusively by Escom, 

whereas Amiga Technologies will be a completely 

separate entity that will only handle Amiga-related 

product lines. 

With the long and painful demise of the old 

empire, it may seem a curios decision to re-badge 

their flagship PC products with the Commodore title. 

However. Escom are obviously confident that the 

decision is the right one. To back the decision Petro 

Tyschtschenko quoted a recent survey, commissioned 

by Escom, which stated that *93 percent of 

all PC owners know the Commodore name.' A figure 

only bettered by IBM. 

However, there was no mention of how this 

impressive percentage actually perceived 

Commodore products in relation to its brand name 

opposition. 

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over Commodore's old development centre 

in Norristown in the US for additional R &D. 

This lavived arm of the Amiga Technologies 

is to be headed by Ed Gott. former vice president 

and general council at Commodore. 

All very positive stuff, but a question still 

remains regarding staffing. Since the 

Commodore demise. many key Commodom 

personnel have been poached by the likes of 

Apple. Let's hope the Escom revival can 

prompt a return to the fold for at least some 

of the key names in Amiga R&D. 

PERSONAL VIEW 

Following the initial scene setting. Manfred 

Schmitt mounted the rostrum to delivei his 

personal vision and to explain why Europe's 

leading PC supplier felt the need to rescue 

Me Amiga from a premature end Above all, 

Herr Schmitt sees multimedia as the future 

for Escom, and therein lies the most compelling 

attraction of existing Amiga 

Technologies. 

With Escom's obvious success with 

assorted multimedia PC solutions. It seems a 

curious decision to risk existing success by 

reviving a machine which quite literally 

coined the phrase multimedia. However. 

when tr comes to mass market multimedia. 

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It's highly unlikely you'll see the standard 

Amiga being marketed as the ultimate desktop 

solution, after all that would directly cut 

that many a black magic box offering all 

manner of interactive home entertainment, 

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information and services will have an Amiga 

at its heart. 

Escom are well aware of the Amiga's natural 

talents, not least of which is its effortless 

multitasking - which still out performs any 

other platform. In addition, the Amiga also 

performs the same tasks as a Windowsbased 

PC with only one eighth of the system 

resources - a factor which of course has 

huge repercussions on unit cost. 

Combine these natural talents with a 

liberal approach to licensing and you have 

all the ingredients for a plug and play 

interactive set top box with a natural affinity 

for video, in either PAL or NTSC. 

Escom see Amiga Technology bringing multimedia to the masses. To that end they've 

already thrown the doors open to all comers by promising "a very flexible and 

open-minded approach to the licensing of Amiga technology. 

- Aside from ttle return of the Amiga. Escom also plan to spread the gospel in the 

form of interactive set-top boxes. The company has already teamed up in partnership 

Esoom see the Amiga, or more accurately its 

with US multimedia specialists VisCorp to produce a ranee of interactive multimedia 

h applications, and plan to launch a range of pay-TV, video on demand, home banking, 

home 

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agreement. Aside from this partnership, Escom will be producing set-top 

f shop boxes in Germany for 400 DM - approximately E200. 

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Aside from the urgent need for new machines, 

arguably the most import aspect of the Escom 

takeover is their approach to future development. To 

that end Escom have appointed Dr. Peter Kittel as 

the head of the product planning group of Amiga 

Technologies. 

In the short term, the plan is simply to get the 

Amiga back into production and expand on the existing 

architecture of both the Al200 and A4000T. In 

the case of the Al200, this means initial pi oduction of 

the basic machine as sold by the former 

Commodore. However, by January '96 the plan is to 

re-launch the Al200 with an ECO30 chip as opposed 

to the existing ECO20. They also plan to aod additional 

FastRAM on board to supplement the existing 

2Mb of chip. The basic machine will ship with 

Workbench 3.1 as standard and will also be packaged 

with Scala MM300 25 a freebie. 

This raises the obvious question of how exactly 

Amiga Technologies expect the standard Al200 to 

run the Scala give-away, given insufficient RAM and 

the 1Ra of a hard disk as standard. 

After a brief silence, the reply came that any 

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mScala 

as part of the overall package. However, any- 

a one starting out with a basic machine will he given a 

c free Scala upgrade when they've added the rbeces- 

h sary enhancements required to run the software_ 

i As you can probably see, the A4000T has not only 

n soon a revival but also a complete redesign. 

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Although the old Commodore empire only ever pros 

,duced 1000 units, Amiga Technologies see the 

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-Machine as the basis on wilich to build their high-end 

o business. 

The new machine takes the form of an all-new mini 

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tower with the inspiration being the machine's tradi- 

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tional markets. The designer, Bjorn Rybakken, made 

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environments, and it must therefore relate to this situ- 

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designed mini tower cases. At the moment it remains 

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uncertain as to whether the new design will be avail- 

u a s 

able for the initial production run_ Only time will tell. 

s o 

Obviously the various decisions regarding existing 

As for pure mechanics r r there's t little change. at least in hardware upgrades and new software add-ens are all 

the short term. The basic e d schematics point to a verti- 

e 

very welcome, but a question still persists regarding 

cally loaded Zorro slot o design with a user-definable the long-term development of the Amiga_ 

array of lights in the f npin 

cushion front panel. all lurk- In that respect. Amiga Technologies has already 

ing below an upper window - - apparently designed to committed to RISC as the first step for the new engi- 

allow users to add utheir 

l own images in an attempt to 

neenng division The first decision is which of the two 

further customise the i machine. 

dominate RISC platforms to opt for, the options being 

As mentioned earlier, r n the basic machine will ship Motorola's PowerPC or the HP PA Risc. Both have 

with either 040 or 060 CPUs, the latter being 

[ e 

advantages and disadvantages. Motorola's being 

designed in combination s with phase 5 - the design- their close association with the Amiga and indeed 

ers of the Cyberstorm 5 e 060 acrelerators. As for Escom, while the HP option does offer the potential 

r 

for superior performance. 

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4. Regardless ot who wins, Dr. Kittel has already 

stated that any future computer should always 

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remain recognisable as an Amiga. and should not 

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simply be assimilated among the amorphous mass of 

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similar computers. 

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- The basic goal is to re-establish the Amiga's position 

as the machine with the best sound. graphics 

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and relative performance of any mass market com- 

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puter by incorporating support for 3D graphics, tex- 

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ture mapping. obiect-oriented design and other cut- 

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ting edge technologies. According to Dr. Kittel, the 

move from CISC to RISC will not be as difficult as 

e 

many imagine due to the basic Amiga concept which 

a 

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has always teen designed with progress in mind. 

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All very optimistic, but the fact remains that the 

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eleveys re ma in re cognisa ble a s a n Amiga 

transition to RISC will take a minimum of 18 months. , 

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regardless of hardware availability, The reason for 

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additional hardware, there are no plans to add a CD- this is that any RISC-based Amiga will require a corn- I 

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ROM as standard until at least until spring •96. In •pletely new operating system and that's what vita 

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addition, there also appears to be some contusion require the 18 months of design and beta testing p 

e 

over the availability of high density disk drives. I only 

to launch. 

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hope that Amiga Technologies manage to source a During this interim period, Its difficult to imagine 

m 

supplier prior to the planned production run. 

how Amiga Technologies plan to maintain the powei 

Another uncertain i element in reference to the end of the market given the existing RISC options on 

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solution such as the system already near completion at MacroSystems as part of t 

pioneering work on the Draco digital video sysern. 

The Draco is essentially a completely new 060-based computer which uses the A 

Operating system running 5oluti 

a Retina 24-la4t display rather than the standard Amiga chOset. 

mid result of this Is a blisteringly fast machine dedicated to VLab Motion and Toccata- 

DV that still runs the majority of Amiga applications. 

However, because on VLM's accompanying MovieShop software generates all its OVEs 

software, special effect's can still take quite some time to generate. As a COn$OgUenCe.. 

expansion slot already awaits a new Dec Alpha-based co-processor which delivers 

astonishing 450 mips. The end result, real-time DVEs in software. 

Obviously, even a partial RISC solution requires Me recompiling of the specific applicat 

_ I plan to lake advantage of it. Nevertheless, the MacroSystems' example does prove t 

-based acceleration system, an 060, and the Amiga's existing OS can live in harmony, 

:Better still, MacroSystems have already offered to license the system to A 

nologes, along with the necessary libraries and compilers required to convert so 

use with the Dec Alpha. 

If Amiga Technologies did adopt the technology as their official high-end Zorro-ba 

reds. I'm sure many a developer would be more than willing to support the move 

. eby keep the Amiga at the forefront in the race for processing power until a comp 

solution is in place. 

licen5ing 

Aside from the obvious availability of cash, 

marketing clout and commitment - courtesy 

of Escom - one of the most hopeful signs for 

the future has to be the long-awaited and 

hberal approach to licensing_ 

To say Escom are open to licensing is an 

understatement. The company have already 

set about incorporating existing Amiga developers 

into the team - phase 5 being an 

example - and it appears that this approach 

will be the norm, with Escom licensing out 

Amiga technology and also licensing back 

- 

n 

sting Amiga repertoire. 

i Obviously, the planned freedom of inforr-- 

dAmiga 

a hardware. In fact, a large pan will no 

-doubt 

ti be in the form of set top box developp-lent 

o and assorted spin-off technologies. 

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the plan to create encapsulated Amiga environments 

for both the PC and Mac. In other 

words. Amigas on a card. And perhaps even 

more ironic is the plan to port ArnigaDos as a 

optional OS on other platforms. This is more 

likely to occur with the arrival of a RISCbased 

OS, at which point the prospect of 

Workbench on a PC, Mac or SGI could be a 

reality. 

The idea is to permeate the Amiga 

Environment through to as many platforms 

as possible and thereby break down the platform 

dependency that all too often restricts 

not only the Amiga but all other computing 

environments, 

The bottom line 

Dun Gilbroa lh; 

CEO of VisC orp 

The rebirth of the Amiga has certainly been a well orchestrated 

affair designed to maximise PR point scoring for both Escom 

and the newly formed Amiga Technologies. 

As it stands, the Escom takeover appears to provide everything 

the Amiga needs to re-establish, expand and improve. 

But given the horrendous mismanagement, money grabbing 

and broken promises of the last year, it's still hard to have 

much faith in anything anymore. 

From what I've seen, however, it's now time to cast the bitterness 

aside and look forward to true Amiga renaissance. It's 

obvious Escom aren't in the business of asset stripping as 

many feared. 

only hope their impressive plans come to fruition sooner 

rather than later, and the new company lives up to the machine 

that bears its name. 


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With the centre of Amiga Technologies 

entrenched firmly in the Netherlands 

and responsible for worldwide distribution, 

there's an obvious question of focal 

support within individual countries. 

According to Bernard Van Tienen, 

Escom plan to port their traditional support 

and distribution methodology to the 

Amiga. In short, this means centralised 

distribution with a minimal support base 

on a local level. In the case of the UK, 

this will translate into a small UK team of 

perhaps three people to handle direct 

Amiga tech support and other local services. 

This is in marked contrast to the 

Commodore approach, which at its 1 

height boasted around 50 Commodore 

personnel based in the UK. 

However, it must be stressed thai the 

Nernard Va n Tiernan; tra ditiona l 

support for the Amiga 

vast majority were concerned with 

administration and management rather 

than direct support for the range - a factor 

which can be verified by anyone who 

looked for tech support in the old days. 

Although a very different approach. 

concentration of resources has obviou- 

sly paid off concerning Escom's aggressive 

pricing on their PC range, and 

almost certainly accounts for the 

massive reduction in the Amiga's new 

pricing policy. 

A major concern of existing Amiga 

distributors was Escom's huge presence 

in the high street and the potential it 

offers to literally out-gun all comers 

when it came to distribution. Fortunately 

for the Amiga's traditional box shifting 

and mail order community, Escom see 

Amiga distribution as a three-pronged 

attack. 

The plan is to sell the machines 

through tho usual computer retail autlets, 

brown goods chains, department 

stores and via mail order. To achieve 

this, Escom will balance their margins in 

their own shops in order to leave a 

suitable margin for the rest. This will 

implement a scatter gun approach, 

taking a smaller margin per unit while 

maximising the spread of distribution 

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prices and superior support. Your 

phone will still be connected to Ors 

exchange for the most part, but the 

omits for your calls will be charged to 

YOU by the alternate provider. 

To give you a bit of background. 

the whole ball started rolling back in 

1984 with the Telecoms Act which 

effectively privatised BT. The relax- ' - 

ation of restrictions on telecommunications 

resulted in the do-it-yourself 

phone extension kits and a 

plethora of third-party telephones 

which suddenly flooded the market 

Until 1990, the only effective competition 

for BT was Cable & Wireless' Mercury 

Communications, so in 1991 there was a duopoly 

review to see what couldbe done to improve the 

overall level of competition. 

This resulted in BT being restricted to only cer- 

'ain areas of commerce - they were locked out of 

Providing entertainment services over a cable netseek, 

for instance. In addition, existing cable corn- 

Ponies were given the opportunity to move into 

communications networks, offering services to 

existing and new customers through their cable 

lebvork. 

Over the past ten years. DT's prices have been 

vonitored by Otte!. the quango responsible for all 

shese changes to our telecommunications system. 

Ind they will be reviewing the state of play in 1998 

it the earliest to determine whether the competition 

$ strong enough to sustain BT's proposed entry 

nto the interactive and cable television arena. So 

ital does the future hold? This weekend. Sec uricor 

tried to sell its 40 per cent stake in Celinet. but was 

denied because it would mean that BT would own 

the company, so even the mobile communications 

market is limited for DI. The future might not lie 

with the cellular phone network, but radio. The DT11 

have just launched an initiative to look into using 

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BT is the company most in the news 

for its phenomenal profits (this year's 

were around Dm per second) and is the 

outgrowth from the privatisation in 1984. 

I spoke to Paul Sharma at BT about his 

thoughts for the next year for BT and he 

was enthusiastic about ISDN, notwithstanding 

BT's E400 installation charge and exorbitant 

quarterly fees for the service. 

When asked about the Internet, he replied that he 

estimated a maximum of 250,000 users in the UK, but 

added that BT would be offering a residential Internet 

service in the fourth quarter of this year. I also asked 

about the upgrade of exchanges to full digital service 

countrywide as several important areas, including 

some parts of central London, still do not have call 

waiting or Caller Line Identification. 

He said that BT plans to have either digital or 

modem electronic exchanges throughout the country 


AUGUST 1995 

the digital FM network in the 2GHz or lOGHz range 

for digital, wireless communications. 

The first part of the next century should see 

most restrictions removed from BT as the alternalive 

companies grow in strength, and this promises 

cheaper calls than ever. But in the mean time, what 

should you do to save cash on your phone bill? 

Well. there are all the obvious things like not phoning 

during peak hours and restricting your calls to 

x amount per day. 

What is really needed is a real world 

comparison of concrete prices, facts 

and figures on exactly how much 

your phone bill will be if you 

• s p e n d so long on the phone. 

etc. All the prices in the 

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by the end of this year. A modem electronic exchange 

would mean that CLI and call wetting, together with all 

the other services, would be available, but you would 

have to change your telephone number. 

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E59,22 E24.68 E24.68 

E123.38 E54_97 E49.35 

E143.12 E88.83 E49.35 

• Installation of a new phone line: E116.33 

• Quarterly rental: E24 78 

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that a local call off-peak is the same as a weekend 

rate. Additional discounts include Option15 (cost 

ETquarter, discount 10 per cent) and Premier Line 

(cost E24/year. discount 15 per cent). In addition, there 

is a family & friends discount available at no extra 

charge which lets you nominate five nu bers (Inc, one 

overseas) for an additional five per can discount.

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Mercury 

Mercury is probably the best-known 

and most successful of the altemarive 

service providers. With their 

One2One service they are certainly 

encroaching on tile market tradi- 

tionally held by the likes of Cel'net and Vodafone, 

especially within the area bouneed by the M25. 

The split figures in the first column of the table represent 

the savings to be made if you subscribe to the daytime 

calling plan. An additional five per cent discount can 

be achieved through the YourCall system if the number 

dialled is one of five nominated numbers. There is no 

charge for this service. 

July 1 sees the start of the single national rate at 7.5p 

per minute for Peak rate and 2.94p per minute at all other 

times, which is still cheaper than 3T's 35 mile rate 

YourCall Plus starts at the same dale and automatically 

works out the Five numbers you have dialled most and 

applies the discount to them. All you have lc do is nominate 

what breakdown of national and international 

NYN 

Nynex is an enormous company. With total 

['abilities and stockholders' equity in excecs 

of $30 billion, they have the financial clout 

to start a large cable company in the UK 

and that is just what they have done_ Nov,. 

one of the three largest cable companies 

in England, Nynex ties been continually 

expanding their operations to 

cover about one fifth of the 2.5 million 

homes and 150.000 businesses cov- 

ered by its 17 franchise areas so far_ 

They have been criticised, as have all 

the cable companies, for digging up the 

roads, uprooting trees and so on, and they 

feel so strongly about it, they send out a 

brochure to anyone who asks explaining 

how they go about laying their cable, and 

dig by hand if the trench needs to be dug 

near trees. Nynex also offers a subscription 

service called commUNITY which entitles 

subscribers to unlimited, free, off-peak 

calls. 

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However, before you rush off to join 

up, there is a catch, or rather a brace of 

catches. Firstly, commUNITY is only 

available as part of a package including 

pay TV channels like Sky Movies Plus, and 

secocidly, it only applies to commUNITY 

subscribers with the same STD betwe •ri 

7pm and 7am_ Still, even with these restrictions, 

Nynex say that over one million calls 

have been made through this service, and 

that number can only increase as Nynex 

improve their coverage_ 

Unfortunately, it still means that unless 

you have a POP with the same STD code 

as yourself, you're going to have to pay for 

your dial-ups to the Internet. Nynex's 

Gemisys 2000 project might see cheaper 

Mercurg, the winged mP55PINI 

numbers you want to use. Mercury gives you the choice 

between monthly and quarterly billing, splitting your 

payments into more palatable chunks, and you can also 

ask for two or three digit 'cost centre codes* which are 

separated on your phone bill, cutting out any arguments 

as to who made what call. Mercury also charges by the 

second, so there are added benefits from not having to 

time your calls to the minute. 

15 minute call Peak , OffPeak Weekend 

Local E130.431E114_56 E43.181 E43.181 

Up to 35 miles C109,281E103.99 £42.3 £42.3 

National El 23.38/E116.33 E70.5 E37.93 

• Annual rental: £1175 (the charge for new users will go 

up to E23.50 starting the 1 July to coincide with the new 

services. Existing users can upgrade to the new service 

for El 1.74 

• Daytime Calling Plan: E3.53 per quarter. 

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Internet access rates, however, but Nynex 

were keeping their cards fairly close to 

their chest and would only reveal that 

Internet access was just one of the facets 

of their new project. 

You can also rent a Premium service 

which includes Call Waiting, three Way 

Calling, Short Code Dialling, Reminder 

Call, Call Divert and Call Barring for C5_87 

per month, or a subset of these facilities 

at a range of prices. You join the 

commUNITY automatically it you 

subscnbe to both Nynex's telephone 

service and at least one Sky Movie 

channel or Sky Sports, or the Asian 

mini pay package. Nynex also offers a 

:_rther 10 per cent discount to all calls 

made in the same month once a minimum 

of £30 worth of calls have been made in a 

month. 

15 minute call Peak Of1Peak Weekend 

Local E55.52 £22.91 £22.91 

Up to 35 miles £88.2 E44.06 E41.07 

National £121.61 E70.5 C41.07 

• Installation: E25 (additional sockets are charged at 

El 0 for the same floor and E15 for different floors) 

• Rental charge: El 0 per month 

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the wag 

Deutsche Telekom offers ISDN2 

installation at roughly £55. with rental 

rates at about the same as normal 

telephone services (for two phone 

lines, obviously). By the end of the 

year. DI plans to have 2.9 million 

ISDN channels in place as a first 

step towards broadband broadcast 

solutions. 

Energis is a company most residenha 

telephone users won't have heard o 

yet. Concentrating mainly on the busi 

ness community at the moment 

Energis is a company wholly owned b) 

the National Grid Company plc, whict 

is. in turn, controlled by the 12 regiona 

electricity companies of England anc 

Wales. 

Rather than using underground cabli 

trenches, Energis has taken advantag( 

of their 7000km of overhead powe, 

, lines to carry the communication! 

cables as well. In central London 

where there are obviously no pylons 

Energis is using London Underground1 

tunnels rather than digging ur 

congested roads. 

Energis' telephone network is one o 

the most advanced in Europe and is tht 

first in the world to be based or 

Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) 

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broadband broadcasting over a 

telecommunications network in this 

! country. Energis provides business 

users with comprehensive telecom,1 

management reports every month 

which detail not only calls made, bui 

also how fast your switchboarC 

answered incoming calls and when the 

busiest penods of the day are for tele 

phone use in your company. The total 

amount of information generated by 

these reports covers three A4 pages. 

Energis told me that although they 

have the ideal sales outlet for telephone 

service in the regional electricity showrocms, 

they weren't planning on jumping 

straight in feet first. They also had 

no firm plans regarding Internet provision, 

either for business customers or 

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it, talking about it and writing 

1 about it. To the alarm of the 

1boffins 

who class themselves as the 

0 founders of Cyberspace. it is becoming 

hmore 

and more accessible to the average 

e person on the street. And now, a new 

ntrend 

is catching on from the major cities 

eto 

country towns, a trend that takes the 

t usually solo pastime of computing and 

iturns 

it into a sociable experience. 

s 'CyberBars' or 'CyberCafes' as they're 

* known, provide Internet access for those 

iwithout 

the necessary facilities or for those 

nwho 

want to turn surfing the net into a 

: Social event. Help is at hand for the new- 

ebies, 

and the experts can chat away about 

v 

the best sites to peruse. 

We take a look at a couple of options 

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available which, although they share the 

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same concept. are as different as chalk 

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Dry 201, Manchester 

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i Situated in Manchester's busy city centre is 

nthe 

Dry 201. A thriving night-spot frequented 

gby 

the young and fashionable, only the trendiest 

lagers are on lap and loud pop music 

blares out from the speakers. 

It's the city's first CyberBar and behind the 

project is Granada TV presenter Anthony H 

Wilson. whose other ventures include Factory 

Records and the Hacienda nightclub, and 

Company Production Manager, John Drape. 

Wilson explains the inspiration behind it: "We 

were looking at multimedia development in 

Manchester and pondering 

what we could 

do with it. We 

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uAnthony Wilson, 

partner of D ry 2 0 1 , 

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inspira tion be hind 

the ba r 

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doing with Cyberia in London, We realised it 

would be perfect for Dry Bar." 

"Dry Bar has never had pinball machines. 

fruit machines or computer games," Drape 

adds it's a great addition and in keeping with 

the bar's ethics." 

They liken it to providing newspapers in 

bars, "It's today' offers Wilson, "It's about 

enthusiasm and that is exactly what life is 

about. 

- Looking around the bar, any preconceived 

ideas of the Internet and the anorak are soon 

dispelled. "It's a much more open culture than 

we think and there is a good cross-section of 

interests' confirms Drape. "It's a social experience 

and we've tried to make the CyberBar 

element blend with the rest of it ." 

This also goes some way to explaining why 

the computer area is designed like it is. There 

is plenty of room around the machines and 

although there are only two PCs at the 

moment, three chairs are available around 

Peah prati5e 

The Peak Art CyberCafe, New Mills 

Situated in the beautiful Derbyshire coun- 

tryside is the sleepy town of New Mills_ 

Hardly renowned as a centre of new technology, 

it's surprisingly forward thinking as 

far as the Internet goes. Walking along the 

main street, you come across the Peak Art 

CyberCale, and those unfamiliar with the 

trend would be forgiven for thinking this 

was simply a rather cosy-looking coffee 

shop. But take a closer look and 

you'll see that there's more 

than just scones and jam on the 

menu. The Peak Art CyberCale, 

although not that far from the Dry 

Bar geographically, is a million miles 

away in culture. 

Towards the back of the cafe, you'll find 

Iwo computers all connected to the 'net. 

and for a nominal lee you can surf away to 

your heart's content. Alternatively, those 

unaccustomed with the technology can 

enrol for a course of tuition. Brazilian 

Amidst the hubbub of M a nche ste r life 

you ca n find Dry 2 0 1 , whe re you ca n pop 

in lot a be e r a nd a surf in C ybe rSpa ce 

each which provides a greater opportunity t 

interact with the other customers. They ha 

gone for a deliberate contrast to ho 

Cyberia have approached it, where the 

have the computers in a line with a chair 

each, which Drape and Wilson believe is t 

formal. 'There are no books on how to bu 

a CyberBar. We've done it the way we thi 

is right" concedes Drape Although th 

The unlike ly se tting of N e w M ills - 

home to the N orth's fi rsl Cybe rCa te 

music is heard in the background and th 

is a distinctly relaxed atmosphere. 

The Peak Art CyberCafe is the brainch 

of proprietors, John Scott and Elean 

Chronnell and technical adviser, Dami 

Lewis. Only seven weeks into its openi 

it's already popular with the local populati 

and with those sight-seeing through t 

picturesque town. 

New Mills may seem like quite a stra 

choice for a CyberCale but as Lewis is 

to point out: 'There are a large group of 

ple who work from home so it's handy 

them, and you'll find there are quite a lot 

technology-minded people who live he

I. In Egber5offe 

erEiar section (incidentally called Wet bar 

cross between Web and Net!) has only 

• -ylopen six weeks, it's already proving very 

ular. Drape continues: it started off fairly 

My at first as there was some phobia sur- 

-- 

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e •se u people do on the net? "Well it's 

•,lchester, en 

so football is very popular. 

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studying via the 'net is also a prevalent 

e 

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ce. 'We've been fairly laid back about how 

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train the bar staff. We've not sat them 

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explore for themselves because a lot is 

ow 

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POP n 

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like this too." 

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7..espite the Net becoming a much more 

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work in Stoke, Sheffield and 

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w:Paintings 

cover the walls for customers to 

i•• 

but a much wider audience is hoped to 

t- 

h :hronnell, e Scott and Lewis hope to set up 

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Gallery where potential buyers can 

and theiE 

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a look at their 'gallery', browse the work 

e hscreen 

and hopefully then buy. "We're 

brainchil t 

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glamorous pastime, it still attracts only a 

small number of women, but with the introduction 

of CyberBars it looks likely that far 

more women will become interested, Drape 

explains their policy: "It's difficult. Cyberia 

have been holding Women-only classes but 

that's just 'right-on' feminism. I don't think 

this will encourage women - it's patronising. 

Likewise we wouldn't charge E2.50 for 

a lad and E2 for a girl. You have to be 

sensitive on how you do this." 

Inevitably, with all the hype surrounding 

change things." Through WebSpace they 

plan to have a 30, walk-in gallery where the 

buyer can see everything in 3D in a more 

realistic fashion. 

Lewis is eager to stress the advantages of 

coming to a CyberCafe 

. social 'It's thing at the moment. We're getting a 

vwide e range r y of people in, from the school kids 

mto the uacademics. c h We see it as taking the 

alocal 

community out into the global community." 

They have also set up links with the 

local schools. 

Apart from popping in to browse such popular 

sights as the X-Files. Nirvana and Pulp 

Fiction, customers can ask for advice on 

buying equipment, getting connected and 

general system tips. They can also purchase 

equipment at a discount. Other facilities on 

The tively atmosphere 

ol D ry 2 0 1 - the 

CyberBar e le me nt is 

in ke dging with the 

bar's e thics 

The Pe a k Art CyborCa to 

wish to se ll loca l a rtwork 

globally via We bSpa ce 

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CyberCates will survive on 

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AUGUST 1995 

FEATURE 

cyberspace there is also a lot of speculation 

over its future. Wilson sees the Internet 

as being the new mail order: - 

People be downloading w music o n They'll ' t be listening 

to a CD, decide they want it, order it and 

it'll arrive the next morning. That will be the 

revolution," 

As to the future of CyberBars, Drape 

hopes to see more of them: - 

There's eration who have a missed out on the com- 

gputer. e Information n - Technology is a key 

thing and this generation must be encouraged 

to pick it up quickly - hopefully 

through bars like this." 

MOI1P1 matter5 

Cruising the net at Dry Bar will cost 

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has three different price bands. Prices 

vary from El for the first ten minutes 

and 14 pence thereafter, with the 

concessionary rate of 10 pence for 

unwaged adults, OAPs, students. 

minors and small business owners in 

the first six months of trading. But 

corporate customers can expect to 

pay £5 for the first 10 minutes and 25 

pence per minute thereafter. 

offer are the use of business toolsigraphics. 

games and Fax. 

New Mills is a popular tourist spot and as 

the tourist season hots up, sightseers will 

not be looking in the local A-Z for information. 

but on the computer. and Peak Art will 

provide the facilities for them to do this. 

As most trends tend to disappear as 

quickly as they have appeared some may 

be sceptical about the future of a 

CyberCafe. but Lewis has a positive Outlook: 

They may be a fad now, but they will 

survive on their own merits. It's our hope to 

have ten machines on site and a server for 

the high peak district to give locals more 

Internet access.' 

"It's also our ambition to sell art worldwide 

on the 'net and become the biggest 

art exhibitor in the world!" Chronnell 

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34 

GRAPHICS 

ince the initial launch of 

Almathera's artistic masterpiece, 

there's already been one revision 

to Photogenics with the release of version 

1_1. However, I think even its authors will 

agree this update was more or less a fine 

tuning exercise. 

Now, Almathera have hit the update trail 

once more, but this time were talking 

about a major revision, rattler than just 

minor tinkering. On the face of it there's little 

obvious change, but when you explore 

the mechanics of the software there are a 

whole host of improvements. 

On the display front there are two major 

enhancements, the first being the arrival of 

true 24-bit painting via the new 

Cybergraphics retargetable graphics standard. 

As you'd expect. this only applies to 

people with RTG boards such as the 

Picasso II, Domino. GVP's Spectrum. 

Retina Z3, Picot° and CyberVision64. 

However, the problem is that I can't confirm 

the program's new found 24-bit performance 

because the necessary Cyber 

More bra nd ne w loa de rs a nd sa ve rs, plus gra d 

trans a nd the much-improve d crop option 

UaIu addPd art 

With the massive array of features and 

new add-ons to the package, Almathera 

could quite easily quadruple the price of 

Photogenics and still have a strong case 

for a value for money award. Needless to 

Say, that's not the case. As a result, I feel 

the company deserves a spine-snapping 

slap on the back for their approach to 

MrfMrs Average and the part both parties 

will need to play in reviving the long-suffering 

Amiga market. 

Not only can you get the complete 

package for less than E60, but any existing 

users can upgrade for a paltry El& 

All you have to do is return your existing 

manual ' and you'll receive 

Phologenics1.2 plus a much improved 

150-page replacement manual. 

In a world of shameless profiteering 

and software piracy, this is a major show 

of good faith for the Amiga community. I 

only hope Almathera's trust is justified, In 

other words, anyone who pirates this 

software deserves a slow and lingering 

death' 

With a ma ssive a rse na l of 5 9 a ssorte d pa int 

and ima ge proce ssing mode s, the re 's no 

compromise whe n I I come s to cre a ting powe r 

A combina tion oh the ne w wa rp 

A cla ssic combina tion of ima ge proce ssing e nd the powe r 

of gra dua te d tra nsitions. Emboss, fa lse colour, ne ga tive 

option plus two of the progra m's ve ry 

targeting 

and more , a ll ble nde d I nto a single ima ge 

own in-built ima ge cre e ting loa de rs 

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graphics drivers aren't commercially available 

as yet, although they should be shipping 

from Almathera by the time you read 

this article. 

As you may know, there is a limited 

shareware version of the CyberGraphics 

system already available, but alas this 

doesn't support the higher resolutions that 

many RTG owners will demand from their 

systems. However, for the vast majority, a 

far more important graphics improvement 

is the arrival of a dithered 256 colour 

mode which will offer huge appeal to both 

AGA and RTG owners alike. 

END RESULTS 

Admittedly, the aforementioned dithering 

is a relatively simply ordered variety, 

but nevertheless, the end result offers a 

massive advance on its predecessor, and 

indeed the existing Ham8 alternative. 

Thanks to the dithering there's no 

unpleasant. and sometimes misleading, 

fringing or stepping within gradients. And 

unlike the Hama preview option, the 

image is razor sharp, thereby providing a 

much more accurate impression of the 24bit 

data it portrays. 

Another big plus on the display department 

is an addition to the pull-downs 

which initiates system redraw routines, 

which when used in conjunction with an 

RTG offers a big improvement on the program's 

already impressive screen update. 

With a little e ffort Photoge nics ca n 

produce r b l e re sults, but it must 

be sa id tha t font ha ndling, in ge ne ra l, 

could stilt do with some improve me nt 

Add to that another new option which 

enables you to assign your preferred 

saver to the FIO key and you have a combination 

of new features which reall 

enhance the program's graphic performance, 

irrespective of the ne 

Cybergraphic support. 

A good example of this is the ability to 

assign the F10 option in conjunction wit 

an RTG board to produce a near insta 

24-bit hotkey preview of your project. 

On the paint application front the goo 

news keeps coming with the arrival of 

new trans grad feature which translate 

into graduated transparencies. As a resul 

you're free to apply paint using a variety 

cross-fades such as top to bottom, left t 

Drop Shadow 

Soft-edged drop sha dow, a fa milia r comme rcia l fa vourite knocke d up in a couple of minute s

which 

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bility to 

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the bn 

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image et 

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used to create it. Unless you're willing to go through a 

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Huh to 1E51(5 

GRAPHICS 

The program's powerful alpha channel 

support put through its paces- Thanks to 

the drag and drop approach, compositing 

images couldn't be simpler 

cropping system. In previous releases, the 

lack of an interactive ADPro-style crop 

option was a major omission. Fortunately, 

this has now been resolved with a fully 

WYSIWYG adjustable box and an associated 

numerical requester - which °I 

course allows user input if absolute 

precision is necessary. 

Aside from the obvious improvements 

on the paint and image processing front, 

the new release also boasts an impressive 

collection of new loaders and savers, 

notables including Tiff, PCX, Ham6• 

Retina and ProGrab. A C W 

the final analoi5 

At the risk of being predictable, 

Photogenics 1.2 is in general a stunning 

update to a package widely 

acclaimed as the ultimate combination 

of price and performance when it 

comes to Amiga art. 

If you don't necessarily want animation 

it stands head and shoulders 

above any other Amiga painting environment, 

the only exception being the 

awesome TVPaint 3.0, which works out 

roughly 13 times more expensive than 

Almathera's latest creation. 

the bottom line 

Product: Photogenocs 1.2 

Supplier Almathera Ltd 

Tel: 0181-687 0040 

Price: E59.95 

Ease of use 9 

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raphical user interfaces (GUIs). 

cycle gadgets, radio buttons, pop-up 

menus. These are just a few of the 

%belie terms which exist in every Amiga 

Ceogrammer's vocabulary. 

Together they describe the many graphical 

oblects which are the backbone behind the 

on why Workbench and nearly all Amiga 

xecatioris look the way they do. 

Even as a beginner, most Amiga owners 

soon find themselves working with menus, 

windows, buttons and other exotic screen 

elements which make navigating your way 

Mrough programs so easy and intuitive. In 

tie dark days of computing, nearly all computers 

had you typing in cryptic and difficult to 

remember commands in order to find your 

way around. 

Some of you may well remember the days 

when a menu used to be a numbered list disayed 

on screen from which you pressed the 

roropriate number key to choose the menu 

-re. Don't get me wrong, command entry at 

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and hr 

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unbearable ad 

t without GUIs. However, a probiem 

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exists in that many of the tools used in 

creating 

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GUIs for the Amiga are very inflexible 

and use built-in fonts and static window 

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a w h ich ca n n o t a d a p t t o t h e h ig h e r 

resolutions attainable nowadays. 

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to produce your own MUI programs, you will be glad 

to hear that MUIBuilder is available. 

MUIBuilder is a tool for creating user interfaces It's 

very easy to use and very powerful, and can produce 

source code for many popular programming 

languages such as C and Module 2, 

MUIBuilder is one tool all budding MUI coders 

shouldn't be without. It's available from all good PD 

hbraries who stock the Aminet CD-ROMs or, if you 

have access to the Internet. you can find MUIBuilder 

and many more MUI related programs and files on 

the ftp site at ftp://soc.cloc.le.ac.ukiaminet 

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should be inserted between the fines of a list 

view, and much, much more. 

So, let's take a quick look at just how cool 

MUI is with a short tutorial. We will be using a 

MUI program called Findit for the examples, 

so make sure you have already extracted the 

program from our CoverDisk - you will find it 

in the MUI-Apps drawer. For details on 

extracting the program, see the CoverDisk 

pages in this month's issue. Fin& is a file 

finding program which helps you track down 

a file's location quickly. 

Of course, you will also need to have MU! 

actually installed on your Amiga, so if you 

didn't buy a copy of the July issue (why not?) 

see the back issues Page for details on how 

to order. If you did buy the July issue then 

you're probably using MUI right now and 

know just how good it is. If you haven't 

already installed it, do it now - you don't 

know what you're missing. 

By the way, something which wasn't mentioned 

about MUI in the July disk pages is 

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up and available from the MUI Preis menu 

bar. Simply choose Presets from the Edit 

menu and select any of the three choices 

waiting for you there. The two XEN presets 

are particularly good. 

Changing the way your MUI programs look 

and feel is done via the MUI Prefs editor, 

which you should find in the drawer created 

when you installed MUI, and there are 

two ways to make changes - globally or 

application specific. 

Any changes made globally will be apparent 

in all MUI applications executed after the 

changes are saved. Application specific 

means that any changes made will only be 

apparent in the chosen application. Choosing 

between global or application specific change 

modes is done via a pop-up menu located at 

the top of the MUI Preis screen, which 

defaults to global mode. To choose a specific 

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application, simply click on the magnifying 

glass to the right of the application display 

box and a pop-up list will appear showing the 

names of any MU programs which have 

been detected. MUI automatically keeps 

track of previously loaded MUI programs and 

adds them to this list, Clever or what? 

So, armed with the knowledge that you 

can make global changes and application 

specific changes, you can start to customise 

your MUI setups. 

You will notice that just below the MUI 

application pop-up bar is a row of six tabs. 

These are the various menus which contain 

all the different aspects ot MUI interfaces 

you can edit. The first of these, Fonts, 

allows you to choose which fonts are to be 

used for such things as lists, title bars and 

other text objects within MUI interfaces. 

Frames is particularly good as it allows 

you to change the way buttons and text 

boxes are displayed. Here you can give 

buttons and text fields a smart 3D look. 

Lists are boxes which have those dinky 

slider bars and buttons that allow you to 

merrily scroll your way around the list contents. 

Here, you can change such things as 

the amount of space between list items, 

whether the list contents scroll pixel by pixel 

in an ultra smooth manner, or whether they 

scroll a character at a time, which looks 

more jerky. You can also change the position 

of the slider buttons, among other 

things. 

The Images menu allows you to change 

many things including the way scroll 

arrows, radio buttons and slider knobs look. 

In fact, a MUI programmer doesn't specify 

any image data regarding how such objects 

should look, he simply says, 'this is a slider 

button so show whatever image is assigned 

muiorogram5 

Changing buttons 

and slide rs is e a sy. 

Here, the acrolibar 

and cycle gadgets 

are ge tting a 

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There are some great MUI programs available now, with more and more 

appearing all the time - here are lust a few of them. We also included some 

MUI programs along with MUI itself on the July CoverDisks, so it you missed 

out check the back issues page, 

BlitzBlanker - this brilliant screen blanking utility is packed to the gills 

with features and has 40 screen saver modules. All modules are configurable 

and most of them are fully compatible with many of the most 

popular graphics cards. 

ReKeylt - do you want to change those standard keyboard shortcuts for 

the Workbench menus to your own personal preference? Well ReKeyit 

allows you to do just that 

Ifitil-Menu - when you have lots of programs you regularly run on your 

hard disk. it can be a pain to have to search out the executable icon and 

run it. Sure, you can leave out the icon on the Workbench, but things c 

get a little cluttered on systems without the benefit of high resolution 

monitors. 

MUI-Menu solves the problem by allowing you to create a list of your 

favourite programs which are assigned to a button. Each button is also 

given a keyboard shortcut so you can run them by simply pressing a key.. 

Ro - want a file manager program to keep your files and directories in 

order? Bo may just be what you're looking for. Similar in design to 

Directory Opus, but with the much more efficient and versatile MUI 

interface system. 

BackMan - as a hard drive owner, you probably already own a disk 

backup utility. BackMan is a feature-packed MI version which will help 

keep your hard disk and its contents sale and sound. 


AUGUST 1995 

to this slider button here please.' It is then 

your choice as to what image is used for 

the slider. 

Other cool changes can be made such 

as having an image as the backdrop for 

the background colour of a pop-up menu or 

list. I currently have my pop-up menus 

appear with a dark marble texture image 

which is much better than a boring white 

background. 

COLOURFUL 

The Pens menu specifies what colours 

are used when drawing user interfaces. For 

instance, you will probably agree that the 

default MUI 'look' is almost of a brushed 

metal design. This is because the pen 

colours are specially designed to give this 

effect. You could, for example, change the 

colours to give a more gold metal look to 

the interface by using various yellows and 

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otittly a nd ham m o f scre e nse ttor 

mock** to choose from 

This I ta rticute r 8 iit, Oi.uffi modute fe a ture s a 

muttitude of coloure d a nd a nima te d worms 

which ve riggie the ir wa y a round the scre e n 

light browns. A little experimentation is 

needed but you soon got the hang of it, and 

the changes can be quite dramatic. 

System lets you change such things as 

how the Amiga re-draws the user interface 

in the event of. say, re-sizing a window. 

allows you to specify what public screen to 

use, and also what keys to assign to 

keyboard shortcuts for user interface 

commands. 

Remember, any changes made in these 

menus does not take effect until you either 

save the changes or click on the Test button. 

Saving the changes immediately quits 

MUI Prets, saving all information to a 

configuration file. 

If you just want to test how the changes 

will affect the user interface without making 

them permanent, you can click on the Test 

button. This will immediately re-draw all 

MUI user Interfaces which happen to be 

active at the time (including MUI Prefs 

interface) if in global mode. 

If you are changing only a specific application, 

the application should be memory 

resident at the lime or you will get the message 

'Application (whatever) is not running. 

If, however, the relevant program is 

running, its interface will be brought to the 

front of any obscuring windows with the 

updated changes temporarily in effect. If 

you like what you see, you must then click 

on Save to make the changes permanent. 

You will probably use the test button quite 

often to fine tune your changes until you 

get them just how you want them. 

So let's see how easy it is to tailor the 

way your MUI programs will look. It's all 

very painless and you don't need to be a 

techie. You will need to run the Findlt program 

first and then run the MUI Prets program. 

Once both are up and running. 

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suls of a list on the left showing all the 

illeynces and volume names. Three cycle 

menu buttons allow you to define the 

March parameters and a single button 

mertted Hunt activates the search. All these 

gookiets are drawn by MUI and, unlike sten- 

Owl Amiga GUIs, they are totally resolution 

pendent. 

To see this, re-size the window so it corn- 

Stalely files the screen. You will now see 

▪ SALII recalculates all the buttons' and 

lets' positions so they fit to the screen. This 

et great news for everyone as you can 

lititally arrange your user interfaces to take 

si,4entage of high resolutions. 

MAGNIFICATION 

-,e•size it back to normal so you can see 

• MUI Preis window and let's do some- 

Swig about the rather drab colour of the 

Fine window background. First of all. let's 

Enke sure we only make this change affect 

Findit program. At the top of the MUI 

Pfsts window, click on the magnifying glass 

leen to bring up a list of currently recognised 

MUI programs. From this list, select 

n inth by double-clicking on it. Now, any 

changes made with MUI Fiefs will only 

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iv lo* background and to do this we need to 

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to the Images menu. Click on the lab 

p • :irked Images and you should now see 

i various controls for the Image menu. 

n ' ve the mouse pointer to the scroll bar on 

t -? left and drag it down until you find the 

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e e currently assigned image is for the 

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This ability to change the look and feel of Amiga applications requires 

that the application uses the MUI libraries. There will be no changes 

whatsoever to standard Amiga programs. 

There are hundreds of MUI programs available with more and more 

appearing every day, such is the popularity of MUI. In fact, you will find 

a comprehensive list of MUI-specific applications as a text file on this 

month•s CoverDisk in the MUIApps drawer cleverly titled 

MUIProgList, which was compiled by our very own Ben Vost from the 

Aminet index file. Simply load it into your favourite text editor/browser 

or print it out. 

If you are looking for the latest MUI applications. Aminet is probably 

the best place to look. Those of you with a modem and access to the 

Internet can check out the Aminet FTP site at address 

ftp://sic.doc.ic_ac.uk/arninet. If you don't own a modem. you can get 

hold of the latest Aminet CD-ROMs available from most good PD 

libranes. 

by clicking on it with the mouse. Now we 

have the entry selected for change, we 

need to choose a colour from the Raster 

selection under the cycle gadget. Find a - 

colour you like and double-click on it. You 

should see that the BC Window entry in the 

other list window has changed to your 

selection. 

To test how this looks in the Fin& window, 

click on the Test button and the colour 

will be assigned and displayed. If it doesn't 

look right, simply choose another colour 

and click on Test again. When you find one 

you like, you will have to click on the Save 

button to make it permanent but remember, 

do all your other changes first because 

clicking on save will also quit MUI Frets. 

Things are even better for owners of 

Workbench 3.0 or above. With the 

Tooltypes feature in version 3.0, it's possible 

to use actual pictures for backgrounds. 

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You could then draw your own backgrounds 

and use those instead of merely 

changing the colour. 

Well, that's the background taken care 

of, let's see what else we can do to spruce 

up the Findlt interface. Those cycle gadgets 

to the right of the Name, Date and 

Size buttons could do with a makeover. 

As mentioned earlier. MUI programmers 

don't specify how gadgets will look, they 

simply give information on where and what 

type of gadget should be at a particular 

position in the interface. The image for the 

gadget can be changed by the user. 

While we are still in the Images menu, 

move the mouse to the scrollbar for the 

right list view and move it all the way to the 

top. You are looking for the current image 

for cycle gadgets, which is appropriately 

titled Cycle. Highlight the entry and you will 

find that the list view on the right will 

change to show which image is currently 

active. You should also notice that the 

cycle gadget above the right-hand list view 

has also changed to Brush. 

ENTRY FORMAT 

All the entries in the window are in stan- 

dard ILBM brush format which means you 

can create your own with an art program. 

As you scroll through the right-hand list 

view, you will also notice that some entries 

are printed in white text and have a small 

triangle to the left of them. These signify 

brush groups and clicking on the triangle 

will open up the group and display the 

various brushes within it. 

Let's change the current cycle gadget 

brush to a better one. My favourite collection 

of brushes is found in the 

WD_New_llpt group. Move the scroll bar 

until you find this group and click on the triangle 

to open it. 

Locate the cycle gadget brush under this 

group and double-click it. You should see 

the cycle gadget brush in the left list view 

changes to the new one. Clicking on the 

Test button will allow you to see how 

this new brush looks in the Findit window. 

If it's not to your taste, you can browse 

through the other brush groups to familiarise 

yourself with the brushes currently 

on offer. 

While you're there, you can even 

change the way the scroll bar arrows look. 

One thing to remember is that when you 

select a new brush to change in the left list 

view, the right list view will automatically 

change to display the group within which 

the currently assigned brush can be found, 

so you will have to constantly re-locate the 

group with the brushes you want to use 

every time you select one you want to 

change. 

The MUI Preis utility has many more 

features to make your MUI interfaces look 

ultra-cool, so experiment a little. Take a 

look at the MUI AmigaGuide file in your 

MUI drawer too. This has more detailed 

information on all the features available. 

We will also be sure to keep track of 

the latest and greatest MUI programs 

and will put them on our CoverDisks when 

possible. 

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42 

GRAPHICS 

magePX has been around for a 

while now. People have previously 

regarded it as a poor cousin to 

AdPro. it's added painting features too slow 

to be usable, it's morphing package not really 

being up to scratch. Oh no, if it's image processing 

you want, you'll need AdPro, Morph 

Plus and ProControl. And a 24-bit paint pack- 

age And a graphics card to take advantage 

of the paint package. And lots of cash. 

Maybe you really ought to look at 

imagePX. Ifs really good, honest, and now 

that ASDG (now 

known as knicker 

elastic, or something 

similar) have been lured by 

the bright lights of the PC, Mac 

and SGI worlds, it's really the only alternative 

apart from the still flaky ImageMaster. 

That's not to say it isn't any good. I hardly 

ever use AdPro any more ImageFX has certainly 

shot into the lead and no mistake. 

Anybody who has been lucky enough to have 

been able to get their hands on a Cybervision 

graphics card, or has registered the 

CyberGraphics software for their graphics 

card, should be especially pleased now that 

ImageFX supports the new 15, 16 and 24-bit 

intuition screens created by Cybergraphics. 

That's right, you can now have a high resolution 

24-bit Workbench which ImageFX will 

take advantage of. 

Since I currently only have the 

unregistered version of the Cybergraphics 

What u5e 15 AdPro now? 

ImagePX might have taken over from AdPro as my image processing 

tool of choice, but there are still some things AdPro does better. One is 

cropping. With ImagePX you are limited to your preview screen, while 

AdPro puts the Crop Visual tool (and the scan tool and any other that 

requires high precision) on its own high resolution screen. 

Even with the new Workbench preview modes in imagePX. the resolution 

sometimes isn't high enough to get the accuracy you require. 

Another thing AdPro seems to be better at is scaling images. I've 

noticed that the quality of scaled images appears to be higher when 

run through AdPro's tools rather than ImageFX's. It's only a small difference 

and I may be being picky, but if your image is to appear in 

print, that most unforgiving of media, then scaling accuracy is a must, 

Picture perfect 

The process by which the example image was 

reached may be of interest to readers, so here it 

is step by step 

1. The original image. This picture is one of the sample 

images that come with ImageFX. Rather than simply 

including this in the review, I decided to add to it. So I 

started by creating a new, green buffer at the same 

size and an Alpha channel using the wave generator. I 

set the wave to emanate from the top-left comer of the 

picture and gently faded it away. I then cornposited the 

empty, green buffer with the sample picture using the 

waves for an Alpha channel. This resulted in a gradual 

fading ol the sample image into the green buffer. 

2. Next. I used the new 'Hackney Tile' operator to jig- 

gle the elements of my new, composited picture, 

Hockney Tile allows you to nominate a background for 

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AUGUST 1995 

mage 

software, I can only tell you about running 

ImageFX on a 640x480 16-bit screen, but 

even with these restrictions, 

ImagePX runs like a track star. 

Unfortunately, you still 

don't get the full benefit. 

because ImagePX 

only gives you a preview until 

you let go of the mouse 

and let it redraw the 

screen with the 

changes 

you've made. 

This is still a vast improvement 

over the old 16 colour dithered preview and 

saves you from having to perform numerous 

undo and redo operations to get your 

operation right. 

Still on the subject of graphics cards, versions 

of ImageFX prior to 2 were a bit of a 

pain because ol the overlaid screen method 

ImageFX used. Version 2 added the ability to 

use ImageFX on a Workbench screen with a 

preview window in addition to the normal toolbar. 

This, of course, meant that it you wanted 

to get the best quality out of the preview you 

would have to run your Workbench in as 

many colours as possible - 16 or 256 for 

AGA or RTG machines. 

Nova Design have taken the next logical 

step with v2.1 by adding the ability to open a 

public screen for ImagePX to use. thereby 

treeing Workbench from having to run in an 

undesirable number ol colours. 

IFX now also supports more filetypes for 

loading and saving than AdPro - even with 

the Professional Conversion Pack - including 

some really obscure ones like FITS, and still 

the operation which can be a plain colour, or the swap 

buffer. I chose to have the operation take place over 

the original sample image for added interest, 

3. Once I had done this and saved the result. I loaded a 

second picture by Tobias Richter and spent some minutes 

cutting a brush of the lead spaceship from it to 

• 

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supports GIP loading and saving, notwithstanding 

the Compuserve/Unisys conflict 

over licensing fees. More importantly, 

ImagePX now comes with a much better 

batch processing tool, called AutoPX. allowing 

you to manipulate sequences of images 

to create animations in Mpeg or ANIM 

format. 

ImageFX's manual is a vast improvement 

over the AdPro one too. It contains numerous 

examples, illustrations and tutorials, 

although the quality of the images does 

leave a little to be desired. Perhaps the next 

purchase Nova Design should make ought to 

be a better quality printer. 

My only real concern is that, like most 

manuals these days, the ImagePX manual is 

a perfect bound beast - that's to say all its 

pages are glued on to a spine. This means 

you can't lay it out flat on its back without 

severely creasing the spine of this hefty 

tome. Bring back nng binders. I say. 

TIME WASTING 

PaintPX is a really good way of wasting 

the best part of a day in ImageRe You can 

spend literally hours testing a paint effect on 

your picture, using the invaluable undo 

function and just trying a different style. 

Some of the effects can provide an excellent ! 

shortcut to producing abstract backdrops 

with no hint of their origins, with swirls of 

paint strokes, molecular chains, and hair 

playing a large role in the production of a 

wacky backdrop. 

ImageFX 2 also adds a lightning facility. 

giving you the opportunity to artificially mood 

a peaceful night time scene with the addition 

Tow composite d ima ge 

paste into our composite picture. Instead of simply 

pasting it down. I used imageFX's different brush 

modes to create a drop shadow for the spaceship. This 

was done using the Colour mode with black and a 

blend of 75 per cent. Once this was done to my satisfaction, 

I then pasted the ship down at a slight offset

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A list of new features in ImageFX 2.1 should include: 

• Cybergraphics support for 15,16 and 

2443it preview screens. 

• Improved Video Toaster support for 

previews directly on a toaster buffer. 

taut who cares?) 

• Added support for the HP Scanjet 

series of scanners. 

• The image browser has now been 

updated to Include CyberGraphics and 

Retina screens. 

• ImageFX can now open its own Public 

screen for use with the Workbench 

preview method. 

• In case you weren't aware of them, 

ImageFX added the following new 

features in v2.0: 

• a bloody great thunderbolt. All the new 

1.ntFX tools, as well as some of the more 

!miker ones, use a previewing system to 

Jin you to have at least a vague idea of 

,..nat is going to happen to your image. 

However, while the new operators with 

tier previews are very nice, it is hard work to 

hove to create new lightning, lens flares and 

Other effects inside a 64 x 40 pixel thumbnail. 

Perhaps in future versions, Nova Design 

might consider putting the tools directly onto 

Itle preview window. 

With all these new tools and facilities. 

including the Amiga's only simple solution to 

creating Mpeg animations, imageFX should 

win a lot of converts from the AdPro/Momh 

Pkis stable. It will take AdPro users a lot of 

time getting used to the new interface 

ais Mingo by Tobias Richter. I applied the 'Vellum' textute 

4- Nearly finished. I thought I rrught like 10 add a bit of 

Wmt to show IrriageFX can handle that too, so I got my 

Dusty FuturaX font and wrote the words 'ImageFX 

I2,1 ' I started by pasting this down on a plain white 

but% r, then I used the 'Gaussian High* convolution 

which resulted in the text being extremely blurred. I 

• PaintFX. Simulated painting tools to 

add a paint texture to your images. 

• Textures to make your image look as 

if it has been painted on canvas or 

vellum, etc. 

• Lightning effects, Crystallise. 

Hockney Tiling and other postprocessing 

effects. 

• Improved font handling with multiple 

lines of justified text. 

• AutoFX. New batch processor to 

replace IMP with improved features. 

There are plenty more features to 

imageFX v2.x than I have the space to 

list here. 

imageFX presents them, but the effort is 

worthwhile and made a lot simpler with the 

presence of the numerous tutorials in the 

manual and the AmigaGuide-based on-line, 

context-sensitive help. 

If people like Amblimation could find a use 

for ImageFX back in version 1.5, they should 

be even more impressed by the current 

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Previous versions have frustrated me (arid 

probably every other graphics card owner) 

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Ow base image with the spaceship edded 

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tinted the blurred letters a laded green to look like a 

glow and picked them up as a brush. 

5. I pasted the brush down on my original picture but 

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I just wanted to write into your magazine and say what a good job Gareth 

Loithouse is doing reviewing the current flood of CD-ROM titles for the Amiga_ 

After buying my Squirrel and CD-ROM drive I made a few mistakes when it 

came to buying software to work on my machine, but now I wad patiently every 

month for Gareth's sage advice. 

Bnan Penile, Hove 

This letter is such a refreshing change. Mr. Fentle gets the Star Letter for not even 

mentioning the covermounted CD-ROM. Even as I type, Gareth is sitting at his desk 

preening. Soon his head won't fit through the doors of our office and he'll have to 

stay here 24 hours a day reviewing CDs. 

medium, or large? 

I just had to write and thank you for the 

excellent CD-ROM on the front of your 

magazine. However, even though I have 

an Al200 with CD-ROM I would not like 

you to concentrate on one medium only. 

There are countless youngsters with 

an Amiga who are unable to afford the 

asking price of a CD-ROM drive, so I 

(15 who? 

Its not often I see an Amiga mag with a CD 

around here tin fact it's the first time), so 

when I saw the May issue of Amiga 

Computing I just had to buy it, especially as 

it had many files which are not Amiga spedfic• 

Let's face it, as a PC user there's not 

much I can do with Amiga programs, but on 

the other hand some Adobe fonts are 

always a useful addition to OS/2. and so is 

a lot of other stuff on the disc. 

I was also pleasantly surprised to find PC 

utilities on the disc. While I find it strange 

that the picture utifilies could display everything 

but Jpeg and HAM images, the MOD 

player utility was nice, even though it didn't 

work under OS/2 

Anyway, d's a really nice CD and a good 

excuse to buy an Amiga mag, I hope you'll 

have more of these useful CDs in the 

future. 

teter@ cs.huji.ac. 

I'm glad you liked the CD. By the way, as 

I'm pretty sure you won't be reading this 

I • • because we don't have a cover-mounted 

CD this issue. I would just like to say 

j-sho1 that as far as I understand it. OS/2 would 

appear to mean an operating system 

S d i v i d e d by two, or half an OS. How does 

it feel to have to pay extra to get a multibutor. 

tasking operating system, especially as 

Yet more (0 orane 

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Gm est t edition of Amiga Computing. I always 

T3 c o nd s i d e r it to be the best of the Amiga 

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would be very happy if you continued to 

appeal to both mediums. Thankyou once 

again. 

P W Morey. Sidoup 

Have no fear Mr. Morey, Amiga 

Computing will be continuing to support 

floppy disk users. However, we 

will continue to bring you the best 

cover-mounted material whatever the 

format, so keep reading. 

magazines. I have just purchased a Power 

CD-ROM which uses Squirrel SCSI interface 

and was feeling a bit lost with not 

much to try out on it. 

I had a disk from CD32 Gamer but had 

to use the CLI to get at most of the 

available software - there is some I don't 

think I can get at all. So I was beginning 

to wonder if I would have been better 

buying a modem, when along came your 

May edition with a CD-ROM freebie. All 

great stuff and I haven't looked at half of it 

yet. 

If this is the future the prospects are 

good. I appreciate that you will not be able 

to provide so many goodies every month, 

but please more CDs in the future. Well 

done! 

F Nunn. West Sussex 

11•11111111111 

I have been a reader of Amiga Computing for many 

years now and have had nothing but praise for your 

iournal, What I don't understand, after having read 

the latest issue, 87, which tilled me in on the demise 

of Commodore and tells me that the most successful 

model produced was the A500. is why, oh why do 

your CoverDisks contain less and less usable 

software for the most popular Amigas ever sold. 

Like me. I am sure there are many A500 and 

A500+ users that have upgraded their machines. at a 

great expense, yet how are we now being treated? 

Last month's issue included a CD that is unusable 

by an upgraded A500. this month's issue a floppy for 

Al200 only and a floppy that requires the LightWave 

program - not an inexpensive bit of software. What 

are we to be treated to next issue? I realise that the 

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AUGUST 1995 

LETTERS 

Cool I don't think I can make another 

original reply to yet another letter praising 

our CD covermount. I'm glad you 

like it. 

[5(1M W0lliP5 

I have been following the Commodore liquidation 

process quite carefully and having 

recently read the latest Amiga Report, 

Al200, with its wonderful AGA chip, is probably 

going to be the saviour of the new owners of - 

Commodore and that you must look after your 1 

potential market, but please don't forget the army of 

faithful A500 users who have also been faithful read- 

ers of your magazine. 

M Bates, Half eld 

Dear Mr Bates, I understand your concern, but it 

has to be said that the computer business is one 

of the fastest-moving in the history of industry. 

We have already pretty much stopped supporting 

users that still have Workbench 1.3 machines 

and while we have no intention of dropping support 

for ECS-based machines, you do need to 

realise that A500 owners are eventually going to 

be left completely behind. Today's machines 

overshadow the A500 and we, as a magazine, 

always want to be looking forward, not back, to 

the dim and distant past.

LETTERS 

have to say that I am slightly concerned 

about whether Escom is 

going to provide a good service for 

existing Amiga users. 

It would appear that they are 

very keen to bring back old 

workhorses like the C64 and 

A600. along with brand new 

machines. But how about us 

Al200 owners? Are we going to 

gel left behind in this sudden 

rush to new technology, or will 

Escom continue to support us? 

As a subscnber. I really like the 

fact that you printed a general survey 

recently and the games survey in this 

month's issue. It makes me feel as if I have 

some sort of influence over the way the 

magazine looks and reads, which can only 

be good for the mag in the long run. 

Kevin Anderson, Northwrch 

Dear Kevin, your concerns over the 

future of the Amiga are echoed by a 

great number of people, both end-users 

and developers alike. Escom's main 

objective is to get machines back Into 

the shops as soon as possible and with 

the Amiga 1200 arguably being 

Commodore's best-ever Amiga, I'm positive 

you won't need to worry about 

continued support from Escom. 

As yours is the first of the games surveys 

to come in, were going to send 

you something nice from the games 

cupboard, just for being the first of 

many. Surveys are certainly one of the 

ways you can influence how Amiga 

Computing looks, another is to send us 

large bundles of cash in plain envelopes 

along with your requests, but so far 

nobody has taken us up on that method. 

Safe 5hPPO 5PPII 

5021 5oltware 

Would it be possible to have Amiga 

Computing maintain some sort of file section 

where one could download the PD 

About seven months ago I bought the superb 

MicroproseWargame Fields of Glory and have since 

enjoyed playing it immensely. 

However, I paid almost E36 for it then and now the 

game has been re-released on the new 'Power Plus' 

range for only E17, almost E20 less than it was selling 

for a couple of months ago! 

While I understand that games will inevitably be rereleased 

as budget titles eventually, I'd have thought 

that Microprose would have at least had the decency 

to wait a while longer, say until the game was a year 

old or so, before reducing the price. 

I. and no doubt everybody else who bought this 

game, feel a little cheated knowing that if they had 

leter5 pleme 

You asked for more letters pages, but 

what you don't seem to realise Is the 

fact that you have to write into us. To 

give you a further incentive, we will offer 

E50 from Adam Phillips' wages to the 

best letter written. But please keep 

quiet about it. as Adam doesn't 

know.., he's in Australia at the 

moment sunning himself. 

so he wont miss it. 


AUGUST 1995 

software mentioned in your magazine? I 

do enjoy reading your magazine and 

often come across some interesting 

PO programs reviewed that are 

not available on Aminet. It would 

make life a heck of a lot easier 

for those of us not in the UK. 

Philip McDunnough. 

LakeHaven (Where sheep 

may safely graze...) 

philip utstat,toronto.edu 

Not a bad idea at that. It'll 

take some working out, but 

expect to see a selection of the 

more popular PD reviewed to 

appear on our home page. 

lightiliaue, 

lightillaue, more 

lightillaue! 

I have read your Magazine for over five 

years now and find it interesting and 

informative. However, I have noticed a 

worrying ailment lately: LightWave fever. I 

know that LightWave is a very exciting 

product which does push the Amiga into 

professional circles, but the average 

reader does not have the money or hardware 

to run such a program. Your latest 

cover disk can only be of use to those 

with the memory (about 12Mb recommended 

I believe) and fast enough CPU 

to run LightWave, never mind the E400 to 

buy the program. 

Please do, in future, keep us informed 

about this part of the Amiga scene, but it 

can only put your readers off when one 

coverdisk can only be used by about 1 

per cent of them. Keep up the good work 

and please make sure you badger Escom 

to make the right decisions for the 

Amiga's future. 

Stuart Marsden 

smarsden cs strath ac uk 

A bad month for the coverdisk, then. 

It's so true that you can't please all the 

people all the time, so what should we 

do? As we have said before, 

LightWave is the single most important 

milieu for Amiga developers at the 

moment. Null said 

waited merely a couple of months more then they 

could have got it at less than half the price. In future 

I'll be very dubious about buying new full-priced 

products. 

D O'Connor. South Yorkshire 

Hmm. Probably a poor decision on MicroProse's 

part to re-release it so soon, but then again, what 

tends to happen Is that once sales die off for a 

particular title, it is immediately submitted to 

exactly this sort of treatment. The Only way you 

can look at it and still stay relatively mellow is to 

say to yourself, "Well. I've had seven months 

worth of enjoyment for my extra twenty quid." 

Ilonder5 of thp Web 

Your website is much better than Amiga 

Format's (I thank you) 

Dan War. 

dward@bournemouth ac uk 

Of course it is. And anybody wishing to 

have a butchers at our site should point 

their browsers at: 

http:I/www.demon.co.uk/amigacomp.htm 

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Stuck in the ite 

I am the proud owner of a CD32 

machine which I bought in January of 

this year. One of the games I bought for 

it is Deep Core by International 

Computer Entertainment Ltd in 

Gloucestershire. 

I have enjoyed many weeks playing 

Deep Core and successfully reached 

level three. To do this you have to find 

an elevator key which gives you entry to 

the lifts at the end of each level_ 

Imagine my surprise when, at the end of 

level three, key in hand so to speak, I 

enter the lift and... nothing happens! I cannot 

get out of the lift and the display does 

not change. I have clone this several times 

and each time got stuckin the lift.' 

I wrote to ICE enclosing a stamp for 

reply asking if the CD was faulty, had it 

happened before, etc? I received no 

reply. Several weeks later I wrote again 

— still no reply. 

I am therefore writing to you for help: 

I. Have you or your readers ever had 

this problem? 

2. Is my CD faulty? 

3. Do ICE still exist — are they still trading? 

4. Have I written to their correct address? 

5. If I have, why don't they answer? 

On a separate matter, thank you for 

the CD on your May issue. I have 

my CD32 hooked up to my A500 and 

appreciate the software on the CD. 

I am loath to change my A500 having 

got a large collection of 'serious software' 

and would like to read any articles 

in your magazine about how to actually 

get the software from CD32 to A500. 

There is little guidance when you buy 

the CDs, so an article would be nice, 

G A Course, Dorset 

I'm really pleased we've had such a 

good response from the CO cover• 

mount. As for your problems with ICE 

and DeepCore, we spoke to Stuart 

Bell at ICE arid he assures us that 

there are no bugs in Deep Core_ 

He said that if you have a particular 

problem with a game then you can 

send it back to them and they will 

replace it completely free of charge. 

Lastly, have a look at the Making the 

Connection feature In this very issue 

to find out a bit more about joining 

two machines together.

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Some nights I wake up in a cold sweat, 

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This is the most outstanding disk maga. 

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labours of love. The two disks inside this 

particular jiffy bag were cryptically marked 

only with a giant question mark. 

Unfortunately, the concern for my welfare 

stopped there, and I was lucky to avoid 

being blinded by the fluorescent orange 

disk labels and the accompanying luminous 

yellow letter, 

Still, as the introduction (which takes up 

the entire first disk of the review copy) is 

keen to point out, this predictor is slightly 

different from the rest. For a start, it features 

the same attractive presentation as 

Mr Prior's previous offering 'Pro Gamble.' 

But most usefully, it is capable of producing 

lists of numbers for syndicates, covering as 

many likely winning balls as possible. 

The whole package has an air of professionalism 

about it, although as with all such 

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Pro Lottery is without using it over a 

long period of time. Before making the decision 

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use for them is for organising your accounts, but everything 

from league tables to statistical surveys can benefit 

from the use of one. EasyCalc 2 is perhaps the 

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Programmed by: A. Cashmore 

Available from OnLine PD 

This is a 10-level demo of a cracking 40level 

puzzle game. It's got everything - 

cheesy, chirpy music, cute and attractive 

graphics and gameplay that will have you 

tearing out your hair. The objective on 

two numbers and then hit a button and every number in 

the entire worksheet will be recalculated accordingly. 

EasyCalc lives up to its name, making full use of a 

Workbench 2 interface and providing on-line 

AmigaGuide help for those perplexed by the striking 

array of features. It can produce graphs which can be 

saved out as IFF picture files, it fully supports ARexx, 

and is highly configurable. If you're fed up with 

scribbling figures on scraps of paper, EasyCalc is the 

perfect answer. 

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AUGUST 1995 

PD and SHAREWARE 

@gni bum 44111. 

We want to hear from you if you have any 

program. whatever its purpose, which you 

consider worthy of review. Whether it will 

be freely distributable public domain, 

shareware or licenceware, if you feel it's of 

sufficient quality to merit coverage then 

stick it in a jiffy bag or padded envelope 

and send it in with all haste. I promise I'll 

at least look at your work. Please clearly 

label the disk, and include a cover letter 

supplying a description of the disk contents, 

price and some basic instructions. 

The address to send the disks to is: 

Dave Cusick 

PD submissions 


Media House 

Adlingtort Park 

Macclesfield SK10 4NP 

each level is to reach the exit, clearing the 

screen of tiles along the way. This is 

achieved by walking on the tiles causing 

them to fall away into space below. Some 

tiles must be walked across two or three 

times before they disappear. On later levels 

there are also teleportation tiles to 

make things that little bit more tricky. If you 

get stuck, you have three emergency 

bndges at your disposal - but once these 

have been used, stepping where there are 

no tiles results in the loss of a life. 

The game features a password feature, 

which I can see proving very useful on later 

levels. Considering the full game costs just 

a fiver and includes extra features such as 

two new sub-games and an end-of•game 

sequence, Jump 'Em comes highly recommended 

and is sure to provide hours of 

brainbending amusement. 

Highwatiman 

Programmed by: Dave Kirk 

Available from: Saddle Tramps PD 

Disk No, E88 

I'd guess that driving tests would come 

somewhere between job interviews and 

moving house in the stress-inducing top 

ten. While Highwayman won't sort out substandard 

signalling or pitifully poor parking. 

it should certainly be of assistance to those 

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who struggle with the Highway Code. 

Highwayman is a quiz program featuring a 

total of 150 multiple choice questions, some 

based on pictures of road signs and others 

being text-only, Before beginning the quiz. it is 

possible to select the number of questions of 

each kind you will lace. When you've finished 

struggling to remember the typical car stopping 

distance at 60mph and other such 

details, the program will present you with a 

percentage score. 

It's a very simple idea but one which rrn 

sure will prove immensely popular. If there's 

one criticism I would make it is that often, two 

of the three possible answers to a question 

are so obviously wrong that they stand out a 

mile. Still, even when this is the case the 

actual selection of the correct answer serves 

to aid recall at a later time. If the big day is 

looming and your confidence is a little lacking. 

getting hold of Highwayman would be a good 

move. 

International Calf Demo 

Programmed by: Summit Software 

Available from Saddle Tramps PD 

Disk No. G294 

Golf is a difficult game to simulate effectively, 

which could be why I found a certain something 

lacking in this demo of Summit 

Software's new release. Perhaps I'm being a 

little harsh, but since you'll only get a penny 

change out of fifteen quid for the full commercial 

release, I was a little bit frustrated by 

some of the gameplay limitations. I just can't 

put my finger on it though. The interface is 

don't wa nt to give it too much 

stre ngth or ove rshoot the e re e n 

Even better than the real thing 

gular readers may remember that back in issue 82. the Art Of The 

th accolade was awarded to Simon Lee for some stunning raytraced 

phics. He recently wrote 

am n enclosing a selection 

his latest work, which is 

an equally high standard 

d which he hopes to 

ke available soon through 

24 Bit Club. Meanwhile, 

, on is offering his services 

very competitive prices, for 

Stance he anticipates charging 

around £30 for a highly 

detailed model. Anyone interested 

should contact him at the 

address on the right. 

One of Simon Le e s la te st picture s, 

and typica lly sha ming it is too 

r Solat;rl'aint r 

Programmed by: Pete W Storonskij 

Available from: Roberta Smith DTP 

Disk No. CU107 

I suspect SplatterPaint is aimed at younger Amiga 

users but that does not stop it being an immensely 

entertaining program for children of all ages. That it has 

much in common with the grandfather of paint programs. 

DPaint, is not especially surprising — practically 

every art package does. However, SplatterPaint has a 

special twist — it has a selection of messy drawing tools 

that are the Amiga equivalent of those reception class 

aprons-on slopfests. 

Big coloured polygons can be slapped onto pictures 

with a couple of clicks, and flower shapes are equally 

easily applied. But the real fun begins when you select 

the Spraycan. Scrawl some barely legible letters across 

the screen and they will drip and splatter as if being 

sprayed on a wall. Adjust the nozzle size and shape 

and then have another crack — it's great fun and is sure 

to keep little fingers happily mouse clicking for hours at 

a lime. 

SplatterPaint can also be used for more serious artwork. 

All the normal drawing tools such as dotted and 

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AUGUST 1995 

I've a cha nce for a score in single figure s 

- you ca n te ll this isn't re a l life 

fills are included too. For detailed work there is a basic 

magnification option and it is possible to cut, paste and 

flip blocks. The 64-colour palette is fully selectable and 

colours can be swapped, copied and spread over a 

range shades. 

Admittedly. you are unlikely to produce a masterpiece 

using SplatterPaint, but to be fair I am sure it's 

not aimed at expenenced graphics artists and it's hard 

to find fault with such a diverting program, especially 

when ifs free 

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famous modern 

artist it would fe tch 

millions 

functional enough, so it can't be that. 

Admittedly, sometimes it can be easy to for. 

gel to alter the shot direction because the 

program only does this automatically when 

you are standing on the tee, but to be fair 

this is only a problem because I am used to 

the slightly different control systems of other 

golf games, 

I don't think it was the graphics. which are 

attractive enough, if a little disappointing, 

considering the price tag. It might have been 

the sound effects, although the fact that all I 

got was a high-pitched screeching noise 

may have been due to machine incompatibility 

problems, and these could be ironed 

out by the final version. 

It could be that I was just hurrying too 

much, because the demo only lasts for three 

holes or five minutes. After several re-runs I 

did make it onto the third hole, but the first 

couple of limes I ran the program the five 

minutes was spent deciphering the control 

system anyway. 

The full version boasts two full courses, a 

tournament option and 64 computer controlled 

opponents. Unfortunately. based on 

this demonstration I don't think there will be 

many takers, especially considering the low 

prices of commercial rivals Microprose Golf 

and PGA Tour Golf these days. 

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wrong? Is it time to buy an Al200 now? 

v 

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Coloured screens usually mean a component 

problem. Most of the major chips 

in aan A500 l are socketed. so it's possible. 

but not guaranteed. that one has come 

loose. l Open up your A500 and push all 

the socketed chips down, making sure 

you qhave switched o off the power and 

touched something earthed to get rid of 

any ustatic 

first though. 

111a55at then? 

1 

hand Al200 arid being very new 

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, 

could tell me what the rectangular hole at 

H 

the back of my Al200 (right next to the 

mouse 

a 

port) is for. Has something important 

been v removed? 

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M Timperly, Wamngton 

n 

is 

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their • expansion ' boards if needed. 

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given to bouts of violence, but if I have to lis- 

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when t the drive is empty I will be driven to taking a 

implement l of substantial mass to my newly acquired 

Al200. y Please, please tell me how to stop it before I 

snap. b 

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.4 Cowley. Bedfordshire 

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Save Cancel 


AUGUST 1995 

TECHNICAL 

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AMIGA COMPUTING ADVICE SERVICE 

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TECHNICAL 

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 Amiga software or 

hardware to behave properly? 

Well, calm down and swap the axe for pen 

and paper, jot down your problems, along 

with a thorough description of your Amiga 

setup, and send it off to Amiga Computing Advice Service, MG 

Media, Media House, Adlington Park. Macclesfield SK10 4NP. 

Where are thee 

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your readers could help me find 

the following programs: 

1. Magic User Interface 

2. Any program that can convert IMG 

cliparl to standard IFF clipart 

3. A program that will help me create 

ANIM fi les from a collection of IFF 

pictures, I have tried MakeAnim but could 

not get it to work as it kept crashing my 

system. 

All the programs must run on my 

system which is an A500+, 4Mb RAM, 

40Mb A500-HD+ hard drive and a A570 

CD-ROM. 

0 Elliot, North Hykeham, Lincoln Nan up 

I am 14-years old and have set 

1 

\ my sights on a career in computer 

. programming. I currently have an 

•Amiga 

and would like your thoughts on 

which programming language to choose 

from. 

f r 

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as these seem to be the choice 

for most games programmers. Which one 

would be the one to learn for a games 

programming environment? 

G Watson, Essex 

„" answered and you may even 

have it already if you regularly 

buy Amiga Computing (you do don't 

you?) MUI can be found on the 

CoverDisks of our July issue. It's a 

fully-registered version exclusive 

to Amiga Computing and is simply 

brilliant. 

I think the new owners of 

Commodore - Escom - should have a 

chat with Stefan Stuntz, the author 

of Mill, to incorporate his code into 

a newer version of the operating 

system when they get around to re- 

, I 'have recently lost a disk with some moor- The coffee saw to it that this was not going to be 

• t e n t information on it due to a spillage the case any more and made the slider stick 

dent involving a coffee mug and my way- open and feel as if it was moving over a layer of 

ward elbow. I was wondering if there is any treacle. 

cleaning kit which Can clean the actual magnetic Carefully, I doused the outside of the slider 

media 

n 

inside the disk casing for situations like this? 

L Peters, Somerset 

y 

o 

f 

I'm afraid. The magnetic material inside 

with cleaning fluid and gently rubbed it in to the 

particularly sticky spots, letting it dry. Next, I 

carefully lifted the slider so I could get underneath 

it. Be careful not to bend it too far or it 

won't Ile flat anymore. y causing it to stick in the 

o 

t 

' floppy disks is rather delicate and 

susceptible to scratches. 

However. I recently had a coffee incident with 

disk drive. It could also spring completely off. 

Now that I could get under the slider, I proceeded 

to douse the underside of the slider and 

T my LightWave installation disks but did manage the surface area of the cover which the slider 

h to save them. I shall relate the whole sorry story moves over with cleaning fluid - release the 

e to you, which begins shortly after I recovered slide and try moving it back and forth a number 

r from the shock and managed to stop swearing of times, and keep adding more cleaning fluid 

e profusely. Once upon a time...(lets not get too until the slider starts to move freely. It may take 

a carried away eh? - Ed). 

quite a few minutes to get rid of all the sticky 

r The first thing I did was soak up the excess coffee residue, so be patient. 

e coffee on the exterior of the disks using simple The next nail-biting step was to tackle the cof- 

n kitchen roll. Next, I grabbed the bottle of fee which was actually on the magnetic surface 

o cleaning fluid which comes with the many disk of the delicate disk inside the casing. The first 

s drive cleaning kits on the market. Such fluid is thing to remember is to never touch the magnet- 

u often alcohol based and is good at dispersing ic media with anything that can scratch the 

c unwanted stains, while quickly evaporating. surface - you can't get rid of a scratch. 

h At this point, my coffee-stained disks were Looking at the spots of sticky coffee on the 

c starting to get a little sticky, so I proceeded to magnetic surface of my expensive LightWave 

l put drops of the cleaning fluid on the disk cov- disks made me cringe at this point. So, with 

e ers, rubbing El in with my finger. This seemed to trembling hand, I started to put drops of clean- 

a disperse the sticky coffee residue and, because ing fluid on the disk surface, rotating the disk as 

n most cleaning fluid evaporates quickly and eas- I did so. You will probably notice that the clean- 

i 

ily, it left the disk covers dry and a lot cleaner. ing fluid quickly spreads across the surface. 

in 

lg 

metal slider which protects the magnetic media 

l k 

inside the disk case. As you can probably 

T guess, the slider was not at all well. A healthy 

i 

h 

slider quickly snaps closed when you release il 

t 

e 

thanks to the little spring hidden away inside. 

s 

I then began to turn the disk using a pen on 

the round metal hub at the back of the floppy 

disk. Inside all floppy disk cases is a layer of 

soft white fabric which, I presume, helps keep 

the surface clean. This helps clean up the cleaning 

fluid (and hopefully the coffee stains too) as 

na 

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AUGUST 1995 

mind our language 

Today•s games programmers 

are generally using a mix of the 

two. The core of the game code 

is often written in C to aid portability and 

reduce development time. Then, any 

areas which need to be fast and efficient 

are written as assembler routines and 

incorporated into the main game code. 

Therefore, to have an advantage over 

other people pursuing careers in games 

programming, you should ideally have 

good working knowledge of both. 

establishing Amiga production and 

development. I came up blank on your 

second program for converting IMG 

clip art to IFF. You could try one of the 

many DIP packages around, which 

may let you import an IMG image and 

export ii to the required type, but buying 

a complete DIP package for this 

sole purpose may be a tad expensive. 

Any readers out their know of a suitable 

utility which can do this? Finally, 

the program you need for creating 

ANIM fi les from IFFs is called 

MainActor, which can be found in the 

public domain, 

the disk rotates. Keep doing this until the cleaning 

fluid has dried and there don't seem to be 

any coffee stains in sight. 

Eventually, you should end up with a much 

cleaner disk. The next step is to find Out whether 

it still works. At this point, I must point out that 

there is a risk that any coffee residue still on the 

disks will probably find its way onto your floppy 

disk drives heads. The risk is yours and will 

depend on how desperate you are to retrieve 

your disks, so keep that disk drive cleaning kit 

handy. 

You should now dig Out your best disk copier 

and, making sure the verify option is enabled, 

proceed to back up your disks. During this 

process. you will soon find out whether there 

are problems with your disks because the copier 

will probably display errors, 

However, if you are lucky, the disk will copy 

without problems and you can then try and use 

any programs or data using the backups. In my 

case. I simply ran the LightWave installation 

process to a temporary partition to see if it 

worked. 

And it worked perfectly indeed. Frankly, I was 

pleasantly surprised and would not recommend 

this process unless the data you are trying to 

save is worth the risk of mucking up your disk 

drives heads. I would guess, though, that any 

liquid finding its way onto the heads will easily 

be cleaned with a cleaning kit, and replacement 

disk drives are quite cheap anyway. 

Certain things this incident has taught me is 

that there is hope of rescue should this unhappy 

state of affairs re-occur, that floppy disks are 

best kept in floppy disk cases, coffee best kept 

in the mug, and always to make backups. So 

invest in a good quality disk box and take extra 

care when drinking at your computer. The end.

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new users a everyday, the media have hailed 

the dawn of a new era in which everyone can 

create a page that can then be read by 

anyone else. anywhere else in the world. 

The paper publishers have been keen to 

jump on the bandwagon. and the gravity of 

this cultural change has become many a 

magazines pet subject. Much has been 

claimed on behalf of the Internet, with some 

writers arguing it represents the biggest evolutionary 

step for publishing since William 

Caxton set up his first press in 1471. 

They may well be proven right. Until recently, 

however, the net has lacked the content 

and style necessary to attract the average 

person used to the slick presentation of news 

and features they get horn mainstream media. 

The amount of information avail- 

able was always vast, but finding 

high quality material of interest to 

anyone other than academics or 

computer buffs could be like trying to find the 

proverbial needle in a haystack. 

Things are changing. though. with major 

newspapers and magazines all over the 

world staking out their claims on the Internet. 

From Time magazine to the New York Times. 

the huge monoliths of traditional publishing 

are creating mirror entities in cyberspace. 

and already the standard of news and information 

coverage for net users is on the rise. 

GRAND OPENING 

The event that marked the significance of 

the net to commercial publishers in the UK. 

however, was the opening of The Electronic 

Telegraph's site on the 15 November, 1994. 

The fact that such a powerful and respected 

force in publishing had taken this step was 

enough to make competitors sit up and take 

electronic services seriously. 

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year. The Electronic Telegraph (ET) is a newborn 

babe in comparison to its traditional 

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commercial publishers is that they serve 

merely as tasters to sell subscriptions for 

the original product. But from the outset. 

ET's editorial team had much higher ambitions. 

Hugo Drayton. Marketing Manager 

responsible for the net version of the 

newspaper, was keen to emphasise ET s 

independence. 

'It's very definitely separate," Drayton 

asserted. "To us it's a different brand targeted 

at people who generally wouldn't read a 

broadsheet Monday to Friday." To reinforce 

this claim. Drayton pointed to the market 

research they're currently conducting which 

suggests ET is indeed reaching an audience 

that would not normally read the Daily 

Telegraph. And with 90,000 registered users 

there can be no doubt about the site's 

popularity. 

Currently. ET is a completely free site, but 

as a commercial publication the long-term 

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Considering we're all used to large glossy 

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magazines, it's not surprising if Web sites can 

seem painfully slow to plough through. 

Commonly referred to as the bandwidth problem'. 

the delay in the amount of time it takes to gel 

a desired page on screen is going to have to be 

overcome before Web publications can become 

part of the everyday home. What makes matters 

worse is that the more attractive the product, the 

Information we need to be getting money 

from new revenue services. 

- He continued: 'Longer, longer term we 

don't want to be giving stuff away free. But 

the way things are looking at the moment, 

advertising is the most probable way of 

sustaining a decent product." 

The prospect of having a paper which is 

mainly paid for by the advertisers is obviously 

good news for the readership, but advertising 

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longer it takes to road thanks to the fact 

has more memory consuming graphics. 

Publishers are therefore hoping for liter 

transfer speeds, so when ISDN, a digital ne• 

replaces the analogue network that most In 

users are connected to, there should 

Improvement and expansion in the car 

available. 

In the meantime, publishers are having to 

ance graphics against downloading times, 

best products are giving thumbnail previe 

photographs and images 

the novelty of net ads die down, for example, 

what's going to make people visiting an 

advertising site spend money? And how are 

publishers going to incorporate adverts into 

their products without overburdening web 

pages with time-consuming graphics ? 

Drayton argues that they'll either have to 

be very funny or full of worthwhile information. 

He points to the Barclays' advert, fresh 

on ET that same day, as a good example of 

the latter approach. In the future, however, it 

seems that electronic publishing will require a 

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The future 15 hem 

The Web is currently being flooded with new newspaper and magazine 

sites every month, so by the time this article makes it into print a whole 

batch of new publications will have come on line. Here's just a taste of 

what's available at the time of writing: 

The Guardian 

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Limited to Arts and Archives at 

the moment, it's likely that the 

Guardian's online presence will 

expand in the future. 

The Electronic Telegraph 

httpl/www.telegraph.co.uk 

The first electronic broadsheet in 

the UK, ET is still leading the way 

San Jose Mercury News 

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An excellent service that's charging 

subscriptions for full use - but 

rather heavy on the graphics 

closer collaboration between publishers and 

advertisers, not to mention a more innovative 

approach to exploit the new medium's 

potential. 

Well see a lot more advertising which is 

linked to editorial," says Drayton. if we've 

done an article on a trip abroad we could 

make a link to a company that could 

book you a ticket. It's not neces• 

sarily advertorial b u t 

advertising which relates to what 

you're talking about, so that t;,, 

, people aren't having stuff thrust 

;:, down their face, but there's infor- 

•mation 

available if you want it." 

1 Despite the challenges of setting 

up a major electronic newspaper 

and making it profitable. Drayton 

insists it's a worthwhile venture. He cites 

immediate worldwide distribution with 

reduced costs, and ease of access for 

those working with computers. as just two 

major advantages of electronic publishing 

over the traditional method. 

He also believes electronic publishing presents 

no threat to traditional publications' 

sales for the moment, partly because people 

will always want the lightweight portability of 

papers and magazines. On the other hand, he 

refutes the argument that the traditional paper 

is easier for a reader to browse through and 

select what they want. People who are used 

to using on-line services 

actually find ET just as 

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Soft porn makes it onto the 

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The huge American weekly magazine 

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AUGUST 1995 

convenient." he contends. "Articles are given 

the same weight in terms of space and you 

can cruise inside things you want to road in 

more depth." 

With new readers joining up everyday, the 

confidence at ET so far seems justified, but 

even this high profile 'net service is having to 

cope with its fair share of teething problems. 

Most recently, the introduction of a new password 

registration system pushed ETs computers 

to the limit. This meant even those registered 

previously couldn't get on to the site 

and the whole situation became, in Drayton's 

words, a bit touch and go. - 

I fortable w a s for a a couple of days," he later 

confessed. 

b i t 

u In ncomparison c o mto -most 

electronic publica- 

tions appearing on the 'net, however, ET has 

a wealth of on-line experience behind it. By 

contrast Time Out Net, offspring of the bestselling 

city-listings magazine, is still very 

much in Is infancy. Despite being only a few 

weeks old, however, there's an air of professionalism 

in Time Out's Web pages that 

bodes well for ,the future. Offering features, 

information and events listings with guides for 

seven European cities, the site boasts an 

appealing layout and has already been 

praised as one of the best on-line publications 

by the specialist press. 

Time Out Net's early success, far from 

being a matter of chance, however, is owed 

largely to the fact that the editorial team have 

identified and avoided flaws present in the 

majority of web sites. 

"Everyone wants to get their toe 

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the technology is just one of the challenges 

that electronic magazines have to face. The 

electronic publishers are currently just feeling 

their way into a new market, and what 

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the future is still a matter of uncertainty. 

An issue that they'll certainly have to face 

arises from the international dimensions of 

the Internet. Publications like ET and Time 

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yet their net products are open to 

access from all around the world. ET. for 

example, gets 35 per cent of its readership 

from abroad. some of which are expats but 

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Europeans. 

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readership, and Matthew Collin agreed that 

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Light Horn 

Reviewed back in issue 85, the hist Light 

Rom collection gained the distinction of 

being the only CD (and indeed one of the 

only products in general) to receive full 

marks in almost every category. Compiled 

by Michael Meshew, the high standard of 

objects on show and the accessibility of the 

CD placed it head and shoulders above rival 

offerings for 3D modellers. 

Now, the collection has been updated in 

an attempt to improve on the original, and 

once again Light Rom 2 is pitched purely at 

the LightwaveiToaster market - which is 

more the pity for Imagine users. 

For those who didn't get the first disc, 

what makes the series so appealing to use 

is the fact that all objects are catalogued 

with thumbnail renderings, allowing for 

instant previewing. This is much better than 

having to search the disc by loading each 

object into LightWave. 

Part of the 300Mbs of new material 

should please Toaster users thanks to the 

inclusion of new wipes and a range of CG 

fonts. Everyone, however, will benefit from 

the expanded textures drawer which now 

features a collection of Kevin Ludes backgrounds, 

all of which were originally only 

available commercially. 

As usual, the compiler has added some 

handy utilities to help buyers make the most 

of the CD, including Show Object, a program 

which allows for the viewing of LightWave 

objects in Directory Opus or even on 

Workbench. Since this program has a facility 

for simple wire frame manipulation of the 

object. it's another feature which allows for 

speedy 3D previewing. 

Those who wish to create animated titles 

for their LightWave animations should also 

take a look at Bluff Titter. This useful freebie 

allows for the manipulation of text, with 

explode/implode effects and the ability to 

overlay text on video being just a few of this 

gem's simple, fun features. Thankfully, 

there's a PAL version too. 

Otherwise, this update has maintained the 

quality control of the original and has 

expanded in some useful areas. With 

such high standards at such a reasonable 

price, this series looks set to stay the ultimate 

UghWave CD tool for a long time to 

come. 


Product: Light Rom 2 

Supplier: PD Soft 

Tel: 01702466933 

Price: E39,99 

Ease of use 9 


9 


Overall 9 

Miscellaneous CD collections 

are deservedly 

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alone, the buyer is guaranteed 

to find at least a 

few truly useful or interesting 

files. However, the market is already flooded with 

this type of product, so the Hottest 5 needs to be good to 

make a mark. 

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audience than the unbeatable Aminet CDs. Whereas the 

latter emphasise serious utilities and programs, the 

Hottest collection tries to balance serious computing with 

a healthy selection of games and demos. 

On the serious side, there's Hard Utilities 2000 which 

includes tecchie yet invaluable programs like ABackup, a 

decent PD back up system, and Virus Checker v.6.29, a 

powerful though not quite up-to-date version of the excellent 

virus killer. There's also the latest version of 

SnoopDOS, a program which will log all DOS/library calls 

and more when a program is run. This is useful for locating 

problems, and with the addition of an improved 

interface it stands out as a highlight in the collection. 

Other items in the pick and mix collection include 

Toaster textures by Thomas Dawson, the cheep but 

cheerful graphic convener Image Studio, and a number 

of educational programs like the A to Z Paint Pad. 

There's at least as much fun material for more 


AUGUST 1995 

Here's a double CD collection we were looking forward to 

receiving - the idea of including a library of sounds and 

images in the same package could well have proved an 

excellent CD tool for those looking to save money. 

Sadly. however. this 1000Mb compilation proves to be 

rather disappointing. For starters, the Graphic Workshop 

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lighthearted moments, however, with a number of bizarre 

games (like Roachfarm) and animated demos such as 

The Life of Mr. Pissoff, Unfortunately, this reasonably 

good selection is let down by the common CD problem 

of poor organisation. Finding the more interesting material 

is nowhere near as user-friendly a process as it is with 

the Aminet collection. It's true that a booklet is included 

which summarises the disc's contents, but this doesn't 

seem to work as well as CDs which include proper 

AmigaGuides. Despite these shortfallings, though. 

Hottest 5 is still worth a look for those who want a bit of 

everything.

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kims out to be rather a misleading name, because the 

tOcus of the product is almost exclusively on the audio side 

et things. As far as graphics are concerned, there appear 

to be a number of utilities, many of which are easily 

available elsewhere anyway. 

Even if you ignore this fact and assess the product just 

as a sound collection, however, there are still a number of 

-- 

ack -, of organisation of sound files into easy-to-use groups. 

Basically, n the only sub-divisions are between samples and 

modules. o From there on, finding the type of sound required 

IS u nothing more than ha and miss searching through 

thousands s of files incongruously thrown together. 

f Admittedly, it would take a lot of work on someone's 

behalf, l but categorising sounds into basic drawers like 

Special a Effects'. • House Music'. and 'Metal' is vital if a 

Compilation w like this is going to be of use to most people. 

s In fairness, the samples and mods on offer are better in 

terms . of quality than some of the other sound libraries 

available, 

M 

and dipping into a collection like this is always 

tun. 

o 

Plenty of silly samples, for example, can be found for 

• :velly purposes - Porky Pig's evil laugh turned out to be 

s 

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available, so this CD is only heartily recommended to 

those f r who haven't bought an object collection up to this 

point. Sa 

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Light ne 

Wave, which at least means it's not all Babylon 5 and 

Star d o Trek np offs. 

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57Mb rt 

Jumpgate - which for some reason only appeared 

in ao 

grey scale when we viewed it - and the Space 

Animation co 

by Samuel Rees. 

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More bizarrely, however, there's also a directory full of 

Amiga e Comins tools like NComm and Term. How these 

s 

made r their way onto a graphics CD I'm not sure, but it 

, 

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Tracker, MED and a number of rippers. What's more. 

there's no complaining about quantities of material, as both 

CDs are choc lull. 

Nevertheless, The Sound Library and Graphics 

Workshop only warrants a very lukewarm recommendation. 

It's no worse than many of its rivals, but with a bit of 

organisation it could have been so much better. 


Product: The Sound Library and 

Graphics Workshop. 


Tel: 01702 466933 

Price.' E19.99 

Ease of use 4 



Overall 8 

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seems that sometimes compilers will stick anything on a 

disc to pad out the space. If they had to fill gaps, however, 

a few more animations wouldn't have gone amiss instead. 

Those requiring backgrounds will go to the texture 

drawer, though many of them seem of only mediocre 

quality when compared to some examples on the 

Textures CD also reviewed. All the same, as part of the 

general collection they a worthwhile extra. 

There's nothing particularly fresh or outstanding about 

Graphics Sensation, but it does represent good value for 

anyone who hasn't bought a 3D collection previously. 

the bottom line 

Product: Graphic Sensations 

Supplier: Epic 

Tel: 01793 490988 

Price: E19.99 

Ease of use 8 



8 

Overall 7 


AUGUST 1995 

SOFTWARE 

seems that textures are thrown in to pad 

out almost every new CD put on the 

market, but for anyone who finds them 

regularly useful in their work, here's a CD 

that concentrates exclusively in this field. 

The good news is it's another fish image 

collection done in the style of the Light 

Rom series, which means thumbnail 

images which allow for easy previewing of 

all the pictures on the CD. Flicking through 

this catalogue gives a good impression of 

the wide variety of texture types available. 

Simple brick backgrounds may not be 

fascinating in themselves but they're 

always useful for a wide range of applications. 

and even these basic pictures 

have an air of quality with reasonably I 

professional lighting 

There are also backdrops which have 

obviously been designed with presentations 

in mind. The Brownbox or Diamond 

IFFs, for example, would make good 

backgrounds for bullet points and text. 

One complaint must be aimed at the 

claim that this is a huge double-CD 

collection. The thing is, when you actually 

look at the CD it becomes clear that 

so much space has been taken up 

because the same images have been 

converted across six formats. How many 

Amiga users are going to find SGI format 

textures handy ? 

Otherwise, it's a good quality and highly 

usable CD, though how many people are 

going to pay this price just for backgrounds 

remains to be seen. 

L. 


Product: Textures Gallery 


Tel.' 01702 466933 

Price: E39.99 

Ease of use 9 



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GRAPHICS 

display. The manual, which is provided in 

both English and French, gives a lot of 

good, easy-to-read information on how to 

produce a data file. and the forrnat of the 

file is sensible and easy to rememloer. 

One thing that would be exceptionally 

useful for this package would be an option 

to specify the pixel size of the output. Who 

knows - the author may include it in the 

next version_ 

The most feature-packed software I 

found for displaying data was the JCGraph 

package. Flexibility is paramount with this 

package: graphs can be made in 13 two 

dimensional or 133D formats, colours or 

grey scale values can be set, as can 

labelling size, and oodles more. The resulting 

graph can be saved in DR2D, ILBM, 

EPSF (grey or colour), GEO or DRAW2000 

format - at least one of those should work 

with the package of your choice. 

Again, data is written into a text file then 

loaded into the package. There are a couple 

of bijou quirkettes in the data format, 

however. For example, the number 1003 

must start off every data file for JCGraph. 

Why not the word JCGraph? Who knows. 

Following this is the size of the data array 

which specifies the arrangement of data. 

Four values plotted over 12 months would 

be a 4 x 12 array, requiring 48 data entries. 

Another strange aspect that manifests

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itself is the 'cotation' scale and multiplier 

values that have to be in the data file. I 

seem to recall from my French that this is 

something to do with height, so I guess its 

the height scale and multiplier. It's worth 

mentioning that the manual is again provided 

in French and English. but the English 

can be hazy at times. 

After this, comes the actual data followed 

by the row - and column, it three dimensional 

- names. It's a bit of a fiddle to enter 

the data and the chances are that rows and 

columns will be entered in the wrong order 

for the first few tries, but eventually good 

results can be obtained. 

Once the data file is prepared. this is 

loaded into the program. Then the type of 

graph required is selected trom any one of 

13 different types. The rotation of the graph, 

along with the perspective, can be changed 

through the use of sliders, and a preview 

window shows a sample of the graph type 

in the orientation you have selected. 

ANY SIZE 

Once everything is fine and dandy, click 

on the render button which will render the 

graph to fill the final output window no matter 

what its size. If the graph's appearance 

meets your requirements. you can save it in 

any one of the formats listed before to 

wherever takes your fancy. 

The package has a complete ARexx port 

as well, should you wish to automate your 

graph creation. There's also a brief description 

of how to create your own graph types 

in case you want to make a completely different 

graph with whatever properties you 

require. 

The author of JGGraph has. unfortunately, 

stopped developing the package which 

is a shame. There are a few bugs such as 

not liking more than 16 colours on screen, 

and the manual really could do with a few 

updates- However. tor tree I don't suppose 

we can complain but be thankful that it does 

what it does so well. 

All in all, I reckon JCGraph Is quite easy 

to use. feature packed and well thought out 

- certainly worth having in anyone's suite of 

document processing tools as you never 

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move swiftly on to the other frequently-met 

problem - how to insert something looking 

like a mathematical equation into your 

documents. 

For quite a few years. a typesetting language 

called 'Tex' (pronounced tech for no 

adequately explained reason) has been 

available to perform this very task, and 

there is an Amiga port of the beast 

However, it's not everyone's cup of tea 

because the term WYSIWYG was not 

heard of when the language was conceived 

- however, this doesn't detract from the 

power of the language. The whole idea of 

Tex is to abstract the formatting away from 

the user to produce good-looking, readable 

documents without having to worry about 

layout. 

The Amiga version, called Pastex, is free 

and good However, this is not really the 

solution most people will want, especially 

as many only want a quick equation now 

and then. 

Mang thank5 

The two packages that have been 

looked at in depth here - JcGraph and 

MathScript - both add to the Amiga's 

DTP or document processing suite and 

will, for most people, be used at least 

once or twice. 

With these two packages installed, 

there's no reason to change machine 

as they bring all the functionality you 

could need to the Amiga. A big hearty 

'thank you is deserved by the authors. 

1 

A few weeks ago, a package called 

MathScript version 2.0 was uploaded to 

Aminet by its author, Simon Ihmig, 

Curiosity got the better of me, and I downloaded. 

The first thing to say is that this 

package is a stormer! It really is excellent. 

The author appears to have produced the 

package for the reasons it was needed, 

and as an exercise in programming. It's difficult 

to get excited about this sort of thing 

but it really is that good. 

However. I'll stop prevaricating about the 

bush and tell you what it actually does. 

Double-clicking on the package's icon 

gives a rather nice interface built using 

Magic User Interface, therefore allowing the 

look of the package to be completely 

altered, should the urge take you. 

Residing at the top of the window is a 

bank of 13 buttons, each of which bring up 

a different array of symbols when clicked 

on. Below this is a simple string gadget and 

then the rest of the window is taken up by 

an innocuous looking frame with sliders on 

both sides. Mathematical equations are 

entered into the string gadget with special 

symbols taken from the banks of symbols. 

then the equation is previewed by clicking 

on the large frame. 

Superscript and subscript are catered 

for, as is all the necessary formatting I 

could rack my brains to think of - the size 

of the loot used can also be set to whatever 

is required. Symbols include all standard 

Greek characters and more mathematical 

ones than my humble brain could recall. 

Once happy with the previewed results. 

they can be saved as ILEIM, postscript or 

encapsulated postscript. EPS has a bitmap 

of the results inside the file as well as the 

postscript information; with this format.I 

Pagestream can be coaxed into printing the 

results on any pnnter, 

Final Writer is very much at home when 

dealing with EPS images, and the author 

provides full instructions to get the two 

packages behaving happily together - all! 

that has to be done is remove a couple el 

comments from Final Writer's Postscri 

initialisation file. 

The package has a full ARexx interlace 

and comes with three ARexx scripts - orie 

for the package and two for use in Final 

Writer - and all three automate the passing 

of formulae between the packages_i 

InsertFormula is used from withir 

MathScript to push the EPS result to Find 

Writer (using the size of the current font ea 

Final Writer - a nice touch) whereas thl 

other two open and close MathScript frorl 

within Final Writer. This addition to Find 

Writer makes it closer to how Word is to 

the PC - it's an excellent example of what 

the Amiga and ARexx can do. 

Even if you don't have Final Writer, the 

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A file system describes the way in which 

tracks and sectors are written to a disk when 

it's formatted, and how files are stored and 

retrieved on these disks. So, your computer 

must understand how to read a different 

computer's disk before it can even find the 

file on it. 

The second compatibility problem lies with 

the actual file being transferred. Say, for 

instance, you have a 3000 word document 

you have written with Microsoft Word on your 

Macintosh at work. When you save it to a 

floppy disk, Microsoft Word stores it in its own 

proprietary format, with various special commands 

embedded in the document file which 

signify such things as different fonts, font 

style (bold. italic) and other information. 

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word processor, the word processor must 

know how to read the Microsoft Word format 

file or you will get strange characters on the 

screen which would be about as legible as a 

legal document written in Latin by a dyslexic 

solicitor. 

So, you have disk filing system and file formal 

compatibility issues to consider before 

computers can talk to one another. The latter 

is the easiest to deal with, so I will expand on 

this first. 

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recognised by the computer industry and 

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over the years For example, in 

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market, there are a few universally 

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Interchange). Nearly all word processors can 

save text files in this format and can thus be 

read by other word processors. 

So. why do all word processors commonly 

have their own peculiar way of saving documents, 

why not just use ASCII all the time? 

The reason why this is not the case is that 

ASCII is a pretty old standard and is far too 

simple for today's requirements. 

With today's powerful word processors you 

have the ability to include many different 

fonts, font styles and even graphics and 

tables within a document. Poor old ASCII 

doesn't know about these exotic elements. 

All it knows about are simple letters and numbers 

(with some simple control characters for 

line feeds, carriage return etc). The RIF 

(Rich Text Format) standard is more intelligent 

in that it knows about font styles such as 

bold and italic, and even graphics (depending 

on the application's implementation of RIF), 

Thankfully, lust getting the text content of a 

document is generally all that is required for 

the average user when transferring a word 

processor file to another computer. 

There are still difficulties even between socalled 

ASCII file formats on different computers 

which treat end of line (EOL) and carriage 

returns and line feeds in different ways. 

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modem cable. You will need one 25-pin female D-Sub connector for 

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Saving an Amiga ASCII text file and loading it 

into a Macintosh word processor will result in 

the actual text being leaded, but the layout will 

be terrible, Such problems do not occur if you 

use RTF. 

Things are slightly less developed with 

regards to spreadsheets and databases. The 

only generic format which a few Amiga applications 

support is Comma Separated Values 

(CSV). One example is Twist 2, a database 

from HiSoft which happily accepts data stored 

in CSV format. 

The graphics arena is probably the most 

developed area in terms of the sheer number 

of file formals - I can think of over ten graphic 

file formats off the top of my head. I would 

hazard a guess that relatively little difficulties 

will arise when trying to transfer graphic tiles 

between various computers and if it did, I 

would say it would be down to poor support or 

implementation on the pad of the application. 

Some of the most common graphics file formats 

include True Image File Format (TIFF). 

Targa (TGA) and Graphic Interchange Format 

(GIF), If your graphics application supports 

these, your life will probably be easier, if it 

doesn't, there are many graphics file format 

converters/image processors available both 

commercially (ADPro) and in the public 

domain (Image Studio) to help you out. So, 

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One extremely annoying problem to be aware of 

when transferring files between PCs and Amigas is 

the limit imposed by MS-DOS on the length of 

filenames. 

MS-DOS filenames cannot be longer than eight 

characters with a three character extender. EXAM- 

PLES.TIF, for instance, has the maximum letters for 

the main filename, with the last three letters after the 

period usually denoting filetype, in this case a TIFF 

graphics file. This is quite restrictive and doesn't make 

for clear and explanatory naming at all. 

Now, our humble Amiga not only beats the pants 

off most PCs at multi-tasking. it is also much more 

versatile in terms of filenames. The Amiga quite happily 

accepts filenames up to 30 characters in length 

FU55q fil2naM25 and mi5(onception5 

and herein lies a major problem. If you are transferring 

files from your Amiga to the PC, you have to 

always be aware never to use filenames longer than 

eight characters. If you do, you will probably end up 

overwriting previous files or get lots of duplicate file 

error messages. 

As an illustration, consider the Amiga filename ANI- 

MATION0000.TGA, which is the first frame of a 1500 

frame animation with the last frame being 

ANIMATION1499.TGA_ 

If you were to transfer these files to, say, an MS- 

DOS partition on a hard disk, all the files will be 

unceremoniously chopped to ANIMATIO.N00, overwriting 

previously copied files which will have the 

same name and generally causing a major headache 


AUGUST 1995 

when you are shopping for an Amiga application 

you think will help you with your work, be 

sure to check for file compatibility. Ask the 

person in charge of software installation at 

work about the file formats which the software 

you are using supports. Then, check your 

Amiga application supports a good range of 

various file formats. It's also worth a browse 

through public domain libraries. 

Once you do have a particular file which 

you know your respective Amiga application 

can read and use, you still have to 

surmount the problem of getting it from one 

computer to the other. This is where the different 

file systems found on various computers 

rear their ugly heads in an attempt to thwart 

your efforts. Thankfully, there are solutions to 

the problem, both in hardware and software. 

Essentially, all the Amiga requires is information 

about the other computer's disk structure 

and the way it stores files on the disk. 

One of the Amiga's great strengths is its 

ability to easily incorporate strange and alien 

filing systems via software drivers. 

The Amiga and•PC are already on relatively 

good speaking terms, if you have Workbench 

2.1 or later that is. This is thanks to the small 

and clever driver called CrossDOS. 

CrossDOS allows your Amiga to read and 

wrtte MS-DOS PC disks without the need for 

any hardware. This is really good news 

because it is common knowledge that the PC 

is the most popular computer to be found in 

both large and small businesses. 

DRIVER ACTIVATION 

To activate this driver, simply go into the 

Storage drawer on your boot partition, enter 

the DOSDnvers drawer and double-click on 

CrossDOS. You can also drag it into the 

DOSOrivers drawer in the Devs drawer so 

that it loads automatically at boot time. 

However, Workbench's CrossDOS driver is 

only designed to work with floppy disk drives. 

If you want to access CD-Roms, hard drives 

or other high capacity devices. CrossDOS as 

it stands will not work. 

It is possible to edit the CrossDOS driver 

file and supply it with further information about 

high capacity devices, but this requires a 

great deal of knowledge about the relevant 

device and file systems in general. Thankfully. 

there are commercial packages available 

which take away this burden and supply the 

user with all the tools required to use both 

floppy and high capacity devices across 

different computers with relative ease. 

CrossDOS Professional, reviewed in the 

July issue of Amiga Computing, is an 

enhanced and much faster version of the 

Workbench CrossDOS, and as well as pro- 

viding the ability to read and write MS-DOS 

floppy disks. it also makes connecting and 

configuring hard drives and other high 

capacity devices such as CD-Roms a 

breeze. It even allows you to mix MS-DOS 

and Amiga partitions on a single hard drive. 

If you want to transfer files between a Mac 

and your Amiga, the makers of CrossDOS 

developed CrossMAC. Considering the complexity 

of the Apple disk filing system. 

CrossMAC does an admirable job with some 

restrictions for the Amiga owner If your main 

aim is to transfer files via floppy only, you will 

need a 1.4Mb high density floppy drive 

because low density floppies are not 

supported. 

On the hardware side. you have the option 

of using a modem to transfer hies from your 

work computer to your home computer. Of 

course, this will require you to actually have 

a modem and terminal software such as 

Termite, or one of the many public domain 

terminal applications, not to mention the 

modem required at your workplace too. 

Terminal software can also be used with a 

null modem cable to connect two machines 

together and transfer files as though they 

were actually connected via a modem. The 

advantage of this method, though, is tha! 

phone bills are not creeping ever higher during 

the transfer, and its faster too. A null 

modem cable is a serial cable which has 

been re-wired slightly (see diagram for building 

your own null modem cable) and is available 

from all good computer stores. There 

are also a tow commercial and PD utilities 

which utilise serial or parallel cables which 

often allow you to actually use drives connected 

on one computer as though they 

were connected to the other. 

Link-It is one such commercially available 

utility, while in the public domain, there are 

programs like PC Amiga Transfer, which is 

on CoverDisk 2 of this very issue of Amiga 

Computing for you to try. 

There are various emulators available in 

the public domain, but they tend to be a 

little too unstable and too complex to set up 

for my liking. i z e 

It's easily avoided if you are the one creating the files. 

just use a name with less characters, but there are situations 

where long filenames from other sources will 

be cause for a tedious renaming session. 

A common misconception among many novice 

users is the assumption that if the Amiga can read an 

MS-DOS formatted disk, any programs on there can 

be run on the Amiga. However, although there may 

be many files on a PC CD, such as pictures, fonts 

audio samples and the like, any actual PC programs 

on the CD cannot be executed on the Amiga because 

these programs are written specifically for PC 

processors and hardware. 

PC and Mac emulators are required to run such 

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just makes you realise the amount 

of work the people at Demon, along 

with knowledgeable people who use 

Demon, put in to their ArniTCP installation. I 

can't emphasise enough how complicated 

setting up AmiTCPLIP 4.2 actually is. In fact, 

were it not for the fact that I already had a 

Demon account. I might well have given up on 

the whole enterprise. This is especially so 

seeing that the best bra for help are mailing 

NSDi themselves and the Usenet newsgroup 

comp.sys.amiga_networking, not to mention 

venous mailing lists and FA0s, all of which 

are really only available to someone with a 

working installation ot AmiTCP. 

I will say it again, lest you didn't read my 

Salutary warning: AmiTCP/1P v4.2 commercial 

is a pain to set up. And this is for someone 

who has AmiTCP v3.0b running quite nicely 

on their machine, thank you for asking. 

People who are coming straight to it from 

say. Pamet, are in for a real shock. The problems 

start when you first look into the impressively 

dense manual. It rang warning bells in 

me when I opened it up, moved past the contents 

and a cursory introduction, and was 

looking straight at a section entitled 'The 

Internet Protocol Suite Tutorial.' 

INTRODUCTIONS 

This wasn't a tutorial on how to instaii 

ArniTCP, but an introduction to the OSI reference 

model, routing and subnet masks. Still 

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s AmiTCP comes with not one, but two stan- 

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configure your installation and change your IP 

address, Sana-Il device, etc. 

There is a definite lack of peripheral tools in 

the ArniTCP package. It comes with no e-mail 

or news system built-in and you can certainly 

forget about WWW or Gopher. It does, however, 

give recommendations to pick up copies 

of Elm. GRn and Mosaic, 

ArniTCP doesn't come with a multi-user file 

system either, but this is understandable 

because the amount of configuration work you 

normally have to do with this sort of replacement 

file system would require another manual. 

Actually, in the early sections of the manual 

it warns you that the Amiga"s native file system 

isn't very secure, but gives you no further 

advice on the topic. 

Reading back over my copy, I feel I have 

been a little unfair to AmiTCP. It certainly is a 

nightmare if you are trying to configure the 

setup for use with an ISP, say Demon, for 

instance. But tor use in an internal network 

with one or more Amigas and/or other 

machines connected together via ethernet 

cards, AmiTCP is a much simpler affair. 

Your only problems come if you have set 

up your network so that it works fine at your 

end, but as soon as you connect to outside 

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etc. then quit your comms program and run 

the startnet script. You are advised on how to 

accomplish all this in the manual. 

The only thing they don't tell you is how to log 

off. Oh, and on the connection front, when you are 

configuring AmiTCP using the aforementioned 

Installer script, if you choose to configure a pointto-point 

interface like SLIP, you are given the 

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makes no bones about it. This is not solely a 

problem with AmiTCP, 

Internet-working is going to be a horrendously 

complicated process for some time to 

come and improvements are only going to be 

made in the presentation of configuration 

options and not the configurations themselves. 

AmiTCP is a unix bod's dream, 

though, as most of the config files from a Unix 

box can be transferred as they are to your 

Amiga set-up 

As for speed al operation, well, there are no 

noticeable differences between the version of 

AmiTCP you have to pay for, and the beta 

version 3 which is provided by Demon to 

access the Internet 

AmiTCP/IP v4.2 is a solid networking product 

working under the restrictions imposed 

upon il by the Amiga's operating system 

and file system (most importantly, a lack of 

security measures). However, it is certainly 

not a package that anyone would recommend 

to a beginner in networking. and the manual 

isn't exactly helpful on occasion. 

If you are intending to connect to Demon or 

some other ISP with this product, I strongly 

recommend you get their AmiTCP installation 

first and work with that for a while before 

attempting to configure ArniTCP/IP v4.2. 

Finally, thanks must go to the authors of the 

AmiTCP-FAO; Neil MacRae and Mike Meyer. 

Without thorn, this review would have been a 

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Amiga is rather limited without a 

hard drive. Today's software, even 

some games, are very demanding. 

Workbench itself is a nightmare of disk 

swaps when used with a floppy-based 

system. 

It's hardly surprising, then, that hard drives 

are one of the most popular upgrades Amiga 

users buy. Until recently, Al200 owners 

could only add one internal IDE drive to their 

machine. If it came to the point where a 

bigger drive was needed, it would have been 

a case of selling the existing IDE drive and 

buying a bigger one. 

Now, thanks to such devices as the 

SquirreISCSI. which allows you to easily connect 

up to seven SCSI devices to your 

machine. a peripheral renaissance has 

opened up with faster and bigger hard drives, 

and other more exotic SCSI devices, such as 

CO-ROMs and magneto-optical drives, ready 

and waiting to be connected to your little 'ol 

Al200. SCSI devices also have much faster 

transfer speeds than is possible with an internal 

IDE drive, so there is a performance 

boost too 

Because the SCSI standard allows up to 

seven SCSI devices to be linked together. if 

you run out of space on one drive you simply 

add another drive to your exiting ones. With 

the IDE, you would have had to sell your 

existing drive for a bigger one and then have 

the hassle of transferring data from the 

original drive onto the new one. 

With this much more versatile upgrade 

path allowing you to connect multiple devices 

to your Amiga, the problem of space rears its 

ugly head. Alas, multiple devices usually 

means multiple power leads and data leads, 

so pretty soon your desk becomes a maze of 

cables. 

PROBLEM SOLVED 

Now, thanks to those tidy thinking people 

at Hia a neat, low-cost solution to this 

space problem is available in the torn of the 

PowerStation. 

The idea is very simple. take one PC case 

with a 200 watt power supply and internal 

mountings for various devices, add a little 

wiring specifically to attach it to the Al200 

and voila. you have a single housing for multiple 

devices all running off one power supply, 

with all those messy data cables neatly 

hidden away. 

There are three different case types available 

from Hi0 - multimedia, tower and desktop_ 

The case shown here is the multimedia 

model which comes with built-in speakers, 

Hi0 can also offer various 'bundles featuring 

case/device combinations according to your 

needs. Actual installation of the PowerStation 

is very simple as its merely an add-on to 

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your Al200. Ifs not to be confused with products 

such as the Al200 Tower from Power 

Computing or the Z5 from Ramiga, which are 

completely different products that require the 

Al200 motherboard to be removed and 

placed in the case 

It simply attaches to your Al200 via a standard 

Al200 power lead. Yes, the 

PowerStation is now your Al200's power 

supply too. This is good news as the standard 

Al200 power supply is less than reliable. 

The poor feeble things can have trouble 

feeding the required power to some upgrades 

and is often the cause of system crashes for 

people who have a few add-ons, such as 

accelerator boards. 

At E99.95. it is therefore worth bearing in 

mind that an empty PowerStation case would 

make a viable power supply replacement if 

you find yourself needing a new PSU. especially 

if you are thinking of adding further 

devices to your system in the future. 

The multimedia case can accommodate 

five devices in its bays. Three of these are for 

3 1r2 inch mechanisms such as floppy disks 

and hard drives. The other two bays are 5 1/4 

inch size for CO-ROMs arid other similar 

sized devices. Of these, both 5 1/4 inch bays 

and one 3 1/2 inch bay have external access 

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devices. The other 3 1/2 inch bays are 

useful for fixed-media devices. 

The biggest and most important adva 

tage the PowerStation offers Amiga own 

who are looking to add additional peripher 

to their Al200 is the fact that it will probe 

save you C40-E60 for every SCSI device 

buy. Wow, I hear you say, how come? W 

there are two ways to buy peripherals. Y 

can buy, say, a 500Mb SCSI hard drive, 

cased with dual SCSI connectors, han 

external SCSI ID switch, built-in PSU and 

the electrical innards required to he them 

together and make them work for ab 

£400. 

CASH SAVING 

Now, just take a look at the internal 

drives you can buy to plug into your Al 

- that's what's called a 'bare mechanis 

In other words, it doesn't need a case 

power supply or the other bits you find 

external and fully-cased periphera: 

Buying a bare 500Mb SCSI mechanism 

chop a healthy chunk of cash off the owprice 

because you are not forking ou• 

these extra bits and the cost of assemb 

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Prodigy CD and a software CD player. After the first 

Prodigy track, the speakers did not blow up and, 

although they are not exactly powerful, they are better 

than some external speakers on the market. The Sound 

quality is OK but nothing special. Thumbwheel audio 

controls for volume, balance, treble and bass are 

mounted on the front of the multimedia case for those 

finicky perfectionists who want their sounds sounding 

rust right. 

Other controls on the case include a power switch. 

external speaker switch and an audio mute switch. Two 

Dual =Si ports a nd a udio ple a s a dorn the re a r e t the Po weerStefion 

the op 

those with a SquirreISCSI would have had 

to buy fully-cased peripherals, so that if you 

have added say a CD-ROM and an additional 

hard drive, that's at least an extra 

MO (the price of an empty PowerStation) 

over what you would have had to pay if you 

had bought the bare mechanisms. Cool 

huh? 

So, now you know it will save you lots of 

cash as well as desktop space. you are no 

P1IC2IP55 MILE 

So, are they worth the money then? I would say yes 

they are. Some would say you could buy a PC case 

complete with power supply for E40 to £70 and wire it 

up yourself. Well, yes you could. but when you're fooling 

around with power supplies and a soldering iron 

you could quite easily end up with both a dead power 

supply and a dead Al200. Besides, the saving you 

make is negligible. The cases themselves are very 

sturdy and the desktop versions make great monitor 

stands, bringing the monitor up to a more comfortable 

eye level. 

HiCi offer various system bundlealseturing specific 

devices ready fitted. For instance, the most popular 

Speak to me 

other switches which seemed to be unconnected and 

thus useless are a turbo switch and a reset switch. 

There's even an LED display which, on our review 

model, was displaying the number 120. Pressing the 

turbo switch changed this to 999. Quite useless though. 

Hi0 also offer a much more substantial pair of external 

speakers which give a much higher quality (and 

much louder) sound reproduction, At 80 watts, there 

should be enough power for most. They can be connected 

to the multimedia case via a stereo jack and a button 

to switch the audio from the internal speakers for those 

who want more 'oomph' in their sonics. 

doubt keen to get your hands on one. But 

just how easy is Ito add the multitude of 

juicy SCSI bits to the PowerStation? 

Well, it's a little more complex than 

adding fully-cased devices to your 

SquirreISCSI due to SCSI identification 

requirements. When you can have up to 

seven SCSI devices connected to your 

Amiga via the SquirreISCSI. your Al200 

really does need to know who is who. 

This is where SCSI ID numbers come in, 

Each device connected to your faithful 

SquirreISCSI has to have a unique ID 

number from 0 to 7. But that's eight 

ole 

system is a CD-ROM pack featuring a PowerStation 

case fitted with a CD-ROM complete with a 

SquirreISCSI interface. SCSI lead extension (the 

SquirreISCSI lead is a little short). and a free CD called 

Meeting Pearls 

Other combinations can be made up according to 

user specification. and HiO have a good range of 

quality SCSI devices in stock ranging from simple 

floppy drives right up to 9.1 Gigabyte hard disks 

coming in at a whopping £2000. For those who are 

going to beef up their Al200 with additional peripherals, 

the PowerStation range is the ideal upgrade 

accessory. 


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HARDWARE 

devices I hear you cry, you said we can 

have seven devices on our Squirrel, you 

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called, h but providing you coecentrale on 

understanding a 

the overall themes, rather 

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what's n going on. 

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background c info so the accounts you'll read 

about e in your compiler manuals will, hopetully, 

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outline 

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what happens when you place a call to a 

routine, say. MyFunction(), into a C source 

program. The compiler uses such source 

code statements to generate a reference to 

the named routine and, under normal circumstances. 

SAS C and many other compilers 

tag on an initial underscore to the 

function name. 

The call to the function kilyFunction() 

therefore has the linker searching for a routine 

called _MyFunction and it is this routine, 

if the linker is going to successfully 

resolve the reference, that must be provided 

in the assembly language module! 

The code various C compilers produce 

when they encounter a function call does 

vary, but the conventions to be followed 

will always be detailed in the compiler 

manual. To start with, all you really need to 

be aware Otis that the end result is usually 

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are correct the rest is easy - the C source is COMINIEK1, 

the assembly language code assembled, and then the 

modules are linked together with the startup-code to 

produce a runable program. This month's example' 

(which needs to be run from a Shell command line) 

asks the user to type in a string, and then calls an 

assembly language routine called MyFunction(). 

The assembler routine performs an Exclusive-ORing 

(EOR) of all bytes in the string which are neither the 

NULL terminator nor equal to the mask value itself (thus 

protecting C's definition of a string by ensuring we don't 

produce any NULL values within the body of the string). 

Having done that, the program prints the modified 

string, repeats the MyFunction() process and prints it 

again. The second EORing process does, of course, 

result in the original input string being produced. 

The thing to note is that both the start of the string 

and the EOR mask value are given to the assembler 

routine as parameters. i.e, they are provided as arguments 

of the MyFuriction() function. This, in turn, means 

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the assembler code patch has to retrieve those arguments 

from the stack, so here's a run down on what has 

happened just prior to control entering the assembler 

patch, 

Firstly, the arguments will have been pushed, in right 

to left order, onto the stack. Then, a return address will 

have been placed on the stack Because my assembler 

patch uses a LINK a5.#0 instruction the contents of a5 

are pushed onto the stack as well, so the result is that 

to access the two arguments of the C function we need 

to use positive offsets of 13 and 12 respectively! 

Before you examine the source listings some points 

should be made. To start with, you will notice in the 

piece of assembler code provided that only the scratch 

registers AO and DO are used. This means that for the 

example, it is not necessary to preserve register contents 

on the slack. Despite this, I have included some 

movem instructions to save and restore data registers 

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that any parameters present in the function 

call get pushed onto the stack prior to a call 

being made to the equivalent subroutine. I 

say usually because as just mentioned, 

there are some qualifying conditions with 

compilers which allow register arguments to 

be used rather than the stack. SAS C. for 

instance, then uses an character, rather 

than an underscore, at the start of the function 

name, 

Writing the appropriate C code is easy_ It 

simply involves placing suitably named functions 

calls, with any required parameters. 

into the C source. This is done using normal 

C function conventions - you can even add 

your own ANSI C function prototypes to 

make sure the compiler makes the appropriate 

usage and parameter type checks! 

OBJECT CODE 

The next step involves writing suitable 

assembly language code and assembling it 

to produce linkable object code. A couple of 

assembler directives, called )(DEF 

. XREF. a nhave d to be used to get things running 

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assembly language labels as being 

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hlinker 

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function reference in the C code 

ly. module. 

)(REF goes the other way, i.e. it tells the 

assembler that the information needed 

about the item in question will be imported 

when the assembly language module is 

linked. If you forget these then you'll get 

errors as soon as you try to assemble your 

code because the assembler will not realise

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mechanics of mixed coding are concerned 

and as you'll see when you 

examine the C and assembler code on 

this month's coverdisk, there's nothing 

particularly difficult about it. The 

benefits, however, of using this sort of 

'hybrid code approach can be significant 

- in short, it allows you to harness 

all the speed advantages of 

assembler in the sections of the pro- 

gram where it counts. while allowing 

you to develop the bulk of your code 

rapidly using a high-level language. 

The result is that you get the best of 

both worlds! 

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that labels have been used whose values 

are unknown at assembly time. 

Most assemblers, incidentally, place a 

limit on the number of characters within a 

label that will be regarded as significant. 

The ANSI C compiler standard also only 

requires that the compiler caters for six 

characters with external references, 

although most handle more. Either check 

first, or don't use long names for functions 

and variables whose references might need 

to be passed between modules. 

Function Entry rules: Upon entry to a 

function the stack, under conventional 

parameter passing conditions. contains the 

function arguments placed immediately 

above the long-word return address which 

register A7 (the stack pointer) points to. 

The arguments appear in left-to•right order 

with the leftmost item being the one immediately 

above the return address. Here are 

some standard function entry steps which 

need to be carried out: 

1. Save register AS, which contains the 

previous function's stack frame pointer. 

The best idea is to push it onto the 

stackl 

2. Copy the contents of A7 into A5, 

thereby establishing a frame pointer for 

the current function which allows you to 

access the arguments indirectly using 

the A5 base value, 

3. Subtract any stack work area needed 

from A7. 

These steps can, if the work area required 

is less than 32K, be achieved with the 

68000's LINK instruction. Lattice/SAS 

expects registers D2-D7. A2-A4 and A6 

to be intact on return so if any of these 

registers are to be used, they must be 

preserved. 

Again, it is common practice to place 

them on the stack. The above stackoriented 

procedure forms the basis of a 

powerful general parameter passing technique 

and its well worth learning about. 

Function return values are passed back in 

one or more registers, depending on the 

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Having set up the required return value, 

the routine needs to reverse its entry steps - 

restoring the registers. advancing the 

A7 stack pointer past the work area. and 

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Virocop 

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O h * International Tactical Manger Golf 2 1111,- 

System Analysis 

Beat the System 

Still stuck on APO adventure, Usher 3? 

Take a look at our cheat guide 

Preview i a r Crusader 

We take a sneak preview of Gametek's 

forthcoming space combat simulator 

r'kt.741, t h e e t s p i n 

hang your fluffy dice on the dash and rev your 

engine as we take a look at Black Legend's racer 

Prey ie v, ,ekeepers 

Vulcan Software's puzzler previewed 

System Essa l 

Bargains galore - the latest budgets 

rounded up and reviewed

Rugby special, the World Cup way 

Audiogenic have upgraded their original World 

Class Rugby game with a '95 version. This update 

includes all the squads from the 16 countries that 

made it to the 1995 Rugby World Cup finals. The 

new version also allows you to enter your own 

teams and save them to disk. 

It covers all the major elements of rugby union 

such as line-outs, penalties and conversions, and the 

advantage rule has also been included. You can play 

against a human or computer and a tournament 

mode allows a multi-player option_ 

Two views are available to play the game in 

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Budget bonanza 

Digital Integration have some more bargain buys in store for the penny-conscious. 

First on the schedule is MegaTraveller 2 - Quest for the Ancients. It's an 

RPG adventure where you must save the planet Rhlanor from destruction. A 

toxic slime is pouring Out of the ancient ruins and you have a quest to find out 

what is causing it. 

There are 127 worlds to discover, each having over 500,000 square miles to 

explore. Ten different starships are available and you'll have a good range of 

weapons and armour to choose from. 

Next up is International Sports Challenge, a sports simulation with over six 

different sports and 21 events. One to four players can take part in a variety of 

sports ranging from cycling and clay pigeon shooting to running a marathon. 

MicroProse's submarine simulator. SubWar 2050, is also on the schedule. Set 

in 2050AD, the seas have become a vital source of food and energy, and sabotage 

is commonplace as the battle to defend underwater territory ensues, You 

play a mercenary sub pilot testing your skill in underwater combat and learning 

moves such as Knuckles and Deep Dives. 

SubWar 2050 is priced £16.99, while International Sports Challenge and 

MegaTraveller 2 are f 14.99. 

fraternetional Sports Challenge te rms pa rt of Digita0 Inte gra tion's la te st budge t tilt041p 

Zoom-In allows a close-up view of the action 

whereas Zoom-Out provides a more strategic angle. 

You can also watch replays at any time and then 

save - 

the The game will be available for £19.99 and is com- 

m patible with all 1Mb Amigas. Owners of the original, 

thowever, o can upgrade for £9.99 (+ £1.25 p&p) 

ddirectly i from Audiogenic, enclosing the bar code 

sfrom k the game or by quoting the 13-digit bar code 

. number. Audiogenic are at: Unit 27, Christchurch 

Industrial Centre, Wealdstone, Harrow HA3 8NT. 

Please mark as 'Rugby '95 Offer.' 

Upgrade to World Class Rugby '95 

Sensible Golf - ready, willing 

and able 

The eagerly anticipated Sensible Golf is ready to hit the shops and it's looking pretty 

spectacular! The usual Sensi sprites are used and the overall feel is of a fun, highquality 

title that can either be played as an arcade game or as a realistic sim. Take 

part in full tournaments or for novices to the sport, you can work on your skills on 

the practice holes. 

We'll be bringing you a full review next month, but in the meantime take a look 

at these screenshots. 

Mayer, vtrin v a s t range of courses to choose front, a ll providing va rying challe nges 

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A September release is planned for the 

sequel to one of the most popular football 

management games ever. Oliver 

Collyer's Championship Manager sold 

over 250,000 copies and now Domark 

have taken the suggestions of players of 

the original and incorporated them into 

this new game. 

The follow-up will feature an international 

angle, so as well as being able 

to play in domestic management, you 

can also take part in the European 

Championships or the World Cup and 

the like, and you can manage any 

International side. It also promises to be 

Ascon's excellent football management sim, On the Ball - 

World Cup Edition, is being released this summer on budget. 

This new style of sim replaced all the screens of stats 

usually found in management sims, and replaced them with 

a more visually appealing approach. Different locations, 

shown as scanned watercolours, are used to provide the 

interface, and animations give a realistic match day feel 

Fantasy football 

A highly a uthe ntic, fun management sim On the Ba il is now a va tia bie on budge t 

Totally 

obsessed! 

You will notice later in this section 

a review of a rather nifty 

pinballer called Obsession. Its 

really rather good and has 

earned itself 87 per cent. Please 

note, though, that it can only be 

obtained from Merlin. They can 

be contacted at PO Box 77, 

Stroud, Gloucestershire GI.6 9YD. 

Obsession is priced at £29.95. 

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and real player stats will provide a reference 

source for football enthusiasts. 

On the Ball also concentrates on giving the game a 

human touch, with each player having their own personality 

traits, so you'll have to manage them accordingly. You 

can also choose to play any team you wish in your bid for 

the World Cup. Priced at f12.99, On the Ball will be avail. 

able this summer, 

Thanks for your response to our surveys. After careful consideration we've decided 

to re-design the games section. This way, we can more accurately address the needs 

of our readers in what they'd like to see in System, We are also aiming to bring the 

section more in line with the rest of the magazine. 

Reviews will be more concise and analytical, previews will give you an insight 

into the making of the games and where appropriate, we'll be bringing you more 

technical information. 

As always, our reviews will be of finished products only and we'll also provide 

you with better compatibility information, thus enabling you to make more 

informed choices on buying a game. Get ready for the new look System next 

month. 

Flick of a 

switch 

Another Doom competitor on the 

way This time from Polish te a m 

Union interactive 

After months of Amiga owners 

practically drooling over Doom 

and Doom 2 on friends PCs, we 

can finally have our own version 

- we hope. Up until now, 

there's only been the rather 

disappointing Death Mask but 

things look set to change with 

three, four, possibly five contenders 

on their way - Team 17 

have Alien Breed, Manyk have 

Fears, and Black Magic have 

Gloom. And now a Polish team 

called Union Interactive have 

two games of this genre on the 

horizon. 

One is called Switchworld 

and looks to be the usual big 

gun, gloomy corridors, bill 

monsters thing. The storyline 

revolves around the fact that a 

dictator planned to conquer 

the world with biomutants but 

thanks to the international 

police, he failed. However, he 

was never caught and has 

decided to go back in time to 

create more biomutants. Or 

something. Anyway, it's now 

up to you to travel through 

the five episodes, killing 

everything in sight. 

Their second offering is 

Behind the iron gate, another 

quite similar game that uses 

this 30, first-person perspective. 

It's going to be A500 and 

still promises to run at a fair 

old speed. As well as the 

shoot-'em-up aspect, it also 

will have an RPG/adventure 

angle to

aminv to anyone you may meet enuid fesoft 

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prdirms ammg you garners. Not hr long 

though, as we send out the team to report 

on the many mist= d Igor 3 

o begin with, you must go and see Alstar who is standing opposite, and he 

will indicate where Typhus Mernith's Observatory is on the map. This is your 

first task. Before you set off, buy some lime-blossom tea from the shop a little 

way along the southern ramparts of the rich town. 

In the first street you will encounter some bandits. Go in to the inn to enrol 

some companions before fighting, and when you defeat them, search them for 

money. 

Head towards the rich town. There is only one way in and it is located on the 

Find Typhus a nd give him the lime blossom te a a nd 

recover the pla ying ca rd to advance to the ne xt sta ge 

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big guard at the entrance or you will be 

refused entry. Afterwards, put the necklace 

on. 

Your next step is to find Typhus, give him 

the lime blossom tea and recover the playing 

card. He indicates where Mather Fuchs is on 

the map. Once you arrive at the indicated 

place, take the scroll on the ground and read 

it, then set off towards the mentioned inn. 

On arrival, you must listen. Erich Moittrs is speaking to you, buy him some food and listen 

again, and answer YES to the question. 

At Mather's, don't accept to go out, give him the card when he says OUT Wait to see 

the gate and click on it to go through. 

In the garden, go eastwards to find a passage, but you will have to kill the bear firg 

before you can proceed through the passage. Travel south for a long way and then eag 

when your route is blocked. You will come across a racoon on a rock, Take its scroll. 

then pick up the mushrooms from the forest. Head back towards Mather and give him 

the scroll. You roust then pick up the key. 

Go to the house indicated on the map. Fetch the magic flask and the pendant a 

put the pendant on. Go to the inn, south of the theatre. Listen, then recover I 

Kelonia powder. Buy the other potions in the shops and mix them all together in 

magic flask. Go back to the racoon, give him the potion, recover the talisman and he 

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To move forward in time, simultaneously perss: 

+ + + move mouse completely to the left of the screen 

and click the left mouse button. 

To return life points to the maximum, simultaneously press: 

C'TE11.> + + (V> + move mouse completely to the left of the screen 

and click the left mouse button. 

When you are creating your team, choose this human beings distributed 

as follows: 

3 Knights-errant 

1 scholar (wfth 16 in strength, constitution, agility and wisdom) 

1 Magician (with 15 in strength, constitution, agility and intelligence). 

back towards the town. Go to the theatre in the very south of the rich town and enter 

after 7pm. Listen to Gulnar, give him the talisman you received from the racoon, wait 

for the gate to appear at 2 am. then proceed through. 

In the jungle pick up a crystal. Go south-east and find the tribe with the chief - they 

are called the 'East End Lads'. Fight and kill the chief. In the jungle you may encounter 

several leopards. Kill them and take their skins *filch you can sell for huge amounts of 

money to the shopkeepers of the town. 

Head back through the theatre gate In the jungle, go east then south to find the 

meteor near the North wall. Put the missing piece found in the jungle on it, and a 

gate appears. Go through. 

Before heading towards the mountains you must buy some fur coats to keep warm 

When you get there, find the time machine which is located towards the north-west 

Put the crystal on it and go back into town. There will be many beasts in your way! 

Find a gate which has just appeared in the north-western part of town - go 

through it before 12 noon. Your next task is to free the princess in captivity - she is 

held in the dungeon. In the dungeon there will be a fireball in the very first corridor, 

wait for it to pass, then quickly turn right and then take the first right to enter the 

underground cavern. 

At the fork turn left. You will have to battle against hoards of skeletons to con. 

tinue. Take the third turning on the left to activate a lever in the dead-end. You can 

walk about through the whole cavern to pick up all the main essentials - bread, 

money and weapons. Head back towards the entrance to the cavern and climb the 

stairs to return to the dungeon. There will be more opponent in your way, each one 

becoming stronger as the game goes or These must be defeated. 

GOING DOWN 

You will eventually find the princess in a room with lava, and you must pass on the 

three slabs which cause the cage to go down. If you pass on four, the cage falls, on 

two, it's too high. There will be more opponents in your way once again_ When you 

have freed her enlist her help and head back into town. 

Go and sleep in an inn. In a dream, a character tells you to go to a house which he 

indicates on the map. Go in front of his house and take the key from the fountain. Go 

into the house and you will find five guard's uniforms. Put these on. Head towards thc• 

palace with the disguise on so you can get in, You must remove the helmet in front of 

Zoltar and enlist his help. Return to the forest and Zoltar and Thina will leave. 

Head back into town once again Mather will give you a crystal which you must 

place on the time machine in the mountains. 

Return into town, and you will find yourself in mountains in a different era. You 

will find a belt in the snow. Return once again back into town. Put on the magic belt 

and return to tbe forest. Look for and pick up a magic sword - it will be right in the 

heart of the jungle. 

Go east and at the end, head south. You will find a house with Zoltar's son and his 

wife, a sorceress. She has the powers to protect you from your final enemy - the 

dragon. 

You will find the dragon in an underground cavern. You must walk on the paving 

stones marked with a circle in a certain order - seven stones must be activated to gain 

access, You will eventually reach a door which will lead to the dungeon; go through it 

after 12 noon. To defeat him from a distance, use the maximum number of arrows 

and the ice-cloud spell. If you're up dose, you must position yourself so that the fire 

Protection spell is always active. 

You must give first aid to your companions after each blow struck by the dragon, 

Regeneration potions are indispensable. Eventually you will defeat him, putting ar 

end to Shandar's evil acts. You will then have proved yourself against the greatest 

warrior of all. 

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over the last few months, leaving little 

or no trace at all. The only golf sims 

worth a mention are MicroProse Golf and 

possibly PGA Tour. The others have tried and 

almost succeeded - Nick Ratio's came the 

closest only suffering an awkward control 

system which became very clumsy at times. 

However, Summit Software are a new 

company hoping to bring gaming entertainment 

to your Amiga screen. With bigger companies 

undecided about their future within 

the Amiga market, smaller companies have 

taken the opportunity to steal their limelight 

Team 17 being a fine example. Summit 

Software hope to do a Team 17 and dominate 

the market with quality products. Good 

luck to 'ern. 

To kick off their career, they've penned in 

some releases already, namely Tracksuit 

Manager, Rage and Rugby Boss. Let's hope 

these can rank alongside some of the past 

Amiga greats. We'll see. 

GRAPHICS 

INTROICTION 

International Golf 

Graphically, International Golf is fairly 

good. The action is viewed top-down, with 

well-drawn trees accompanied by the obvious 

golfy scenery, The scrolhng is nice and 

smooth too, leaving me with no particular 

major gripes at all. But - there's always one 

- the overall look and feel gives a very PD 

impression, if you know what I mean. The 

reason behind this is because the actual 

developers are a PD team called 

Saddletramps PD. They will obviously need 

time to make the move from PD up to full 

price, but I'm afraid it shows up a little too 

much for me. 

The graphics aren't as polished as say, 

Sensible Golf, and the whole feel gives an 

impression of being programmed in Amos 

Most newcomers to the market encounter 

these problems and usually move onto 

another programming language to get the 

best results from their particular genre of 

game. However, as Summit Software have 

obviously tried very hard I shouldn't really 

knock them. 

If golf is your game and you like a good 

18 holes of planning what clubs to use, 

power and accuracy all by yourself, without 

any help from the computer, then graphics 

don't particularly come into it. Unless, of 

course, you like to take in the scenery on 

your way to the next hole. 

On the box the game boasts superb 

colour graphics featuring a full rotoscoped 

golfer. Yes, maybe, but it still 

looks like public domain, 

Gr/o 

This time, checked trousers and funny hats are 

the order of the day. Andy Maddock steps up, 

cracking Tarby gags all the way... hof 

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Sound for golf games is fairly non-existent - featuring 

merely the odd swoosh of the dub and a bird 

or two tweeting along in the background. All these 

effects have been included which makes the game 

an absolute pleasure to play. The actual sampled 

tweets of the birds are the best I've heard on any 

game of this genre, beating MicroProse Golf hands 

down - as far as tweets go. 

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Overall then, a nicely presented game which may not have 

the depth of MicroProse or PGA, but the actual gameplay 

is very different by managing to sustain an arcade feel. 

After each shot you have to alter your positioning, club, 

power and height of the shot all by yourself, without any 

help from the computer whatsoever, whereas other golf 

Sims give you a little help by lining you up with the hole 

and selecting a suitable club 

One aspect of the game which became frustrating is 

that it fails to give you the yardage for the clubs. Prior 

knowledge of golf is absolutely essential, which unfortu• 

nately I do not posses. Consequently. I was frequently over 

hitting the ball. 

PLAYABILITY 

Basically, the idea behind Super Loopz is to join the different 

blocks that fall onto the grid to create continuous loops. There 

is a time limit to put down each piece, and if you can't place it 

you lose a life. 

The game can be played by using a one or two-button joystick, 

a CD32 controller or a mouse. The joystick seems to be the 

easiest, and when the piece drops onto the playfield you can 

rotate the shape by pressing fire and right, then when it is in 

the position you want, press fire and left. However, once it is in 

position it is permanent. The bigger the loop you can make, the 

more points you'll get. 

Super Loopz has a variety of different sections to play. The 

arcade game can be played by one or two players, and you 

must make ten loops to progress on to the next level_ Three 

bonus games can be accessed by completing different missions. 

You can also play a challenge game which means you can pit 

your wits against an opponent. You each get a separate grid 

and the winner is the one who scores the most points. 

There is a puzzle option too which involves being shown a 

complete loop with some of the pieces then dropping off one 

by one. You have to watch carefully because you have to 

remember where they go and replace them. 

These a re the 18 hole s of the Rivie ra 

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incre dibly cha lle nging 

Getting the powe r of your 

shot right will ta ke pra ctice . 

Don't e xpe ct a hole -in-one 

on your first hole 

There are two courses included in the game and an 

option to install new ones when they are released, There's 

also a tournament option and a two-player game. It's certainly 

not short of ideas. 

Incidentally, a demo of International Golf is being 

released as public domain by Saddletramps PD. This, 

perhaps, is a better idea than hurrying the process and 

releasing the game at full price. Summit Software should 

have waited for a response on the demo and then acted 

accordingly. 

As it stands, its a good first attempt at full price software, 

and one that shouldn't be overlooked. If you're into 

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The game will be controlled via a mouse and a set of icons that you simply click on according to 

the action you wish your platoon members to carry out. Click on the appropriate icon and then 

paste it on to an empty square on the screen. When a character walks onto to it, he will perform 

this order. 

1. A helpful 'Rubber' feature which allows you to erase a pasted action 

2 to 5. The direction arrows make the character walk the appropriate way 

6. Click on the clock to make your troop wait there for a period 

7. Using the shoe will enable a character to jump over the object in front 

8. Use the spanner to operate an object 

q. Teeth make your character act aggressively 

10. Lightning will allow you to replay a previous level 

11. These icons tell you whether your men are alive, dead or have safely moved on to the next level 

12. Keep an eye on the level indicator to see how many levels have been completed 

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ulcan Software, renowned for their Valhalla 

speech adventure games, are embarking on 

a new series for Amiga owners. Called 'The 

Mini Series' it will consist of a range of quality 

titles at very low prices, from E12,99 to 

f 15.99. Vulcan are concentrating on their 

mail order service which allows them to sell their own 

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brand more cheaply. The 

games will cover a variety 

of genres and each will have 

a data disk shortly after its 

initial release. 

Timekeepers is the first 

of these games and is of 

the puzzler/strategy kind. 

Graphically, it's very reminiscent 

of their Valhalla games, 

and those who've played 

their first foray into Amiga 

gaming will instantly recog• 

nise the distinctive Vulcan 

style which uses a combination 

of dark, murky shades to provide an original, and 

interesting, approach. 

The characters of the game, the rather miniature 

Lemming-esque type race, are the Timekeepers. They 

are a police force who were established to protect the 

4th dimension from a psychotic warlord. His aim is to 

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history. He has hidden four of his most powerful yet 

in four zones - Stoneage, Medieval, Vietnam and 

Space. Commander Seymour of the Timekeepers 

knows of the bombs whereabouts and must send 

teams into the lands to locate and disarm them. 

You take charge of the Timekeepers and have to 

guide the platoon through the levels, avoiding the 

obstacles placed in your way - rivers, minefields, trapdoors 

and 'the enemy' will all prove treacherous. 

When your men find the nuclear devices you will 

have to instruct them to disarm them, and the 

amount of men you need to do this depends on the 

complexity of the device. The number in your platoon 

also depends on how many men survived the last 

level 

ACTIONS 

The characters act independently to given situations 

and while they have a certain degree of intelligence, 

they also act with a great deal of stupidity! 

On the one hand, they will walk into even the most 

obvious disasters, but on the other, if you issue 

them with an impossible order they will look up in 

disbelief and walk in the opposite direction. They 

will also do this if they bump into another member 

of the platoon. 

The game will be controlled via an icon system (see 

boxout) and when all 16 levels have been explored, 

and the four bombs disposed of, the game is finished. 

Fans of the game will then be able to purchase a data 

disk providing an extra 64-level challenge. 

Vulcan Software divided the games-playing world 

with their last releases, so much so that scores ranged 

from the low 20s to an amazing 90. Although a puzzler 

game, it does look distinctively 'Vulcan,' so it will 

be very interesting to see whether Timekeepers has 

the same effect on reviewers and public alike. 

Timekeepers will be available this summer for all 

Amigas and we'll hopefully be bringing you the full 

review next month.

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INTRODUCTION 

irst impressions of shoot-'empup Virocop 

would suggest a fairly young audience. 

However, further investigation of the game 

reveals more to it than first appears. It's a 

mixture of shooteriplatformer - a genre that has 

somehow been neglected on the Amiga of late - and 

has been created with such fine attention to detail 

that it looks set to shine. 

Behind the game are the talented Graftgold team, 

renowned for such hits as UricHum Fire and Ice. and 

Rainbow Islands. 

All the le ve ls a re thorne d a nd conta in 

enemies a ppropria te to the le ve l 

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Vilrocop 

GRAPHICS 

Graphics are of an extremely high 

standard and an excellent 3D environment 

not only looks good but 

enhances the gameplay. Each level 

varies from the Sports zone to 

Military, and all contain enemies 

appropriate to the theme. Sports, for 

example, contains deadly snooker 

balls and animated enemies related 

to the level. There are also men 

bouncing around the zone on space 

hoppers - remember them'? Round, 

plastic bubble creatures filled with 

air that you could hop around on. 

All levels look good but the adventure 

scenario, which is the bonus 

level for the Al200, is particularly 

good and has a mixture of wizards 

and evil robots. Even small details 

such as flame torches burning on the 

walls show the attention to detail 

that has been given. 

The main sprite is fairly basic and 

looks rather like a banana-coloured 

R2D2! Still, he has been rather nicely 

animated despite his small dimensions 

so that, for example, if you 

leave him standing, he lets off steam. 

His moves actually look robotic too 

and as his head moves independently 

to his body, which is the firing part, it 

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As you can imagine, the majority of 

the game involves negotiating platforms 

and blasting the enemies and 

viruses into oblivion_ There are a range 

of 20 different weapons at your disposal, 

from twin missile launchers to 

flame-throwers. The shots you'll need 

to kill an enemy depend on the size 

and strength of it. Some may be killed 

with one straight bullet, others with a 

mortar bomb, for example. 

To finish a level you must exterminate 

a certain amount of viruses, so 

the game can be played in either of 

two ways. One is to rush through all 

the levels, avoiding enemy fire and 

Sound-wise, Virocop is nothing exceptional. You are 

offered the choice between in-game music or just the 

sound effects. The music changes to fit in with the 

levels and varies from the predictable happy-go-lucky 

bounce-along tunes for the Sports level, to the more 

dramatic such as on the Adventure level. 

Stereo sound is available when the music is 

switched off, so the effects are routed to the left or 

right channel depending on the event on screen. 

Most of the sound effects, as you'd expect, are a 

range of shots, bangs and explosions, but apart from 

that it is quite limited. 

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As the le ve ls progre ss, things ge t ha rde r a rid more cha otic

stopping to kill just the viruses, or you 

can go at a more slower pace and kill 

Daddies as you see them. However, 

the more points you earn, the more 

chance you have of earning an extra 

Fife. Bonus lives can be discovered on 

the levels and are also awarded at 

10,000, 40,000 points and so on. 

D.A.V.E. runs on a battery which is 

drained as he is damaged. Pick-ups 

can be collected to replenish it and 

you'll need to be able to judge when 

you need them as you can't collect 

energy you can't use. There's also 

some kind of puzzle angle to the 

game as you have to figure out how 

to move certain platforms and which 

switches do what. 

Each sce n a rio re p re se n t s a d if f e re n t a d ve n t u re 

in the hohda y park, the re fore providing va rie ty 

Virocop comes across as a very polished game and 

what it doesn't have in sophistication, it makes up for 

in gameplay. 

Two-player mode, though, is by far the best 

option, As well as the usual turn-based system, you 

have a team mode where one player takes charge of 

the head and firing while the other controls the body 

and movement. At first this takes some getting used 

to, but as you progress this is definitely one of the 

most fun multi-player methods I've played. 

Virocop is not the sort of game that will grab you 

STONYLINE 

Virocop sets the scenario of a virtual-holiday theme park 

You play DAVI. - Digital Armoured Virus Exterminator 

who has been given the arduous task of ridding the park of 

viruses that have taken over and are causing havoc on the 

game Disk. 

The game zones had been set up on the GameDisk 12 

years ago and the public and press were sceptical about the 

idea of buying virtual time-share experiences in another 

place without having to go there. The concept eventually 

caught on though, and soon imitations were springing up 

everywhere, although none were as big as the GameDisk. 

But then it all goes horribly wrong when something 

breaks into the GameDisk. Giant viruses spread across the 

game zones feeding off the power, and spreading rapidly all 

the time 0.4 V E. the Virocoo is called for 

Usually the best cure for a virus is bed rest, TLC and 

chicken soup. But when a computer gets sick a more 

radical remedy is required. Tina Hackett introduces 

OPINION 

&AXE, the robotic hero of Bralgold's latest 

The m a in sp rit e is p re t t y b a sk b u t 

still p a cks so m e n ice a n im a t io n 

immediately as it isn't particularly 

striking, but play it for a 

while and try the two-player 

team mode and you'll find a 

game that has playability in 

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There isn't really a game 

like Virocop to compare 

it to. It's a cross between 

a shoot-'em-up and a 

platformer, and the 

nearest I can think of to 

describe Virocop is a 

cutesy Alien Breed. 

According to older colleagues, 

there was a similar 

game on the C64 

some years ago - 

although no-one can 

remember its name! 

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each e n e m y re q u ire s a d if f e re n t a p p ro a ch

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than in ma ny othe r ra cing vrnt.da tors 

No one is going to be impressed with Fl World 

Championship from the word go - not unless 

they've only just upgraded from a C64 anyway. 

It's done nothing to build on the racing game 

graphics of years past, and initially it seems to 

offer little more in terms of gameplay either. 

Despite these strong criticisms, however, El 

somehow manages to draw the player back for 

more, thanks to more depth in the gameplay than 

initially meets the eye. 

The fact that the tracks are modelled realistically 

on their real world counterparts is an attractive 

feature that should appeal, particularly to 

Grand Prix fans. Even if you've never watched 

motor sports in your life, however, the variety of 

challenges from simple fast circuits like Brazil San 

Paulo to the tortuous bends of Monaco add an 

extra dimension to the challenge. 

Unlike most racing games - including the stateof-the-art 

arcade hit Daytona Racing - this title 

actually gives some sense of the tactics of motor 

sport. Passing cars, for example, can be a matter 

of bidding your time until the right opportunity 

arises, because on a crowded stretch the player 

simply won't be able to overtake as soon as they 

want to. 

Before the race begins, players are advised to 

consult the weather report and the map of the 

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it come s to choosing the right tyre s 

behind us. and Turbotrax and 

Wheeispin still to come it seems 

Amiga developers have forgotten 

how to program anything other 

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than the overhead racer. Many of 

them boast tried and tested quality 

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same product must be tiring even the most 

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track as this r will affect the way the car should be 

set up. Drivers k can choose different tyres to 

suit weather conditions and varying drag-factors 

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circuits_ 

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the most important T matter when it comes to making 

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reasonably aaccomplished 

in this area. Unlike some 

games which n demand that the player goes flat 

out round d the circuit to even have a chance of 

winning, a Rdriver 

in Fl has to get used to anticipating 

tight o bends by breaking. Other realistic 

touches include a the need to refuel and change 

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Different k game modes allow players to race in 

knockout contests or go for longer-term champi- 

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constructors' scoreboard. This, again, adds a touch 

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some interest. Its certainly not a breath of 

fresh air in terms of originality, but at least it 

marks the return of the long-absent race simulator 

with its realistic on-the-track view. 

Power ups. wacky cars and off-road 

scenery have been abandoned in El World 

Championship in favour of realistic racing 

with pit stop tactics. The question is. can 

Domark make the old formula shine once 

more? 

of strategy to the action, because the thought of 

maintaining points will make players think twice 

about racing on with worn tyres just to snatch 

first place. 

Incidentally, we actually dug out a Logic 

Freewheel and some foot pedals and connected 

them to Fl. Not surprisingly this wasn't a totally 

satisfying experiment, though they 

did work to a certain extent. BO% Pit stops a re vita l to re fue l or cha nge a 

tyre b e f o re it b e co m e s t o o w o rn 

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Racing games just don't seem to inspire the average 

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developer when it comes to audio effects. Providing 

they've got some impression of the roar of the 

engine, they don't seem to bother with much else - 

the only notable recent exception being Roadkill 

Domark's r a c latest release. 

with its more original background sound. 

Fl isn't terrible but the engine noise is more of a 

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buzz than a 'vroom' and crashes sound more like a 

tinkle than the noise of tearing metal. Other effects 

include skidding and a tinny clanking when bumping 

into opposition cars. What is quite satisfying, 

World u l Championship a t has got enough 

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a gear change - trivial it may be, but it actu- 

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t We might have hoped that the Amiga's capabilities would have been squeezed 

to push Fl to the forefront graphically - after all, visuals are fairly important in 

o such an action-dominated genre - but unfortunately, Domark's efforts on this 

front are at best average. 

s The problem is that it all looks rather dated. In the far distance, buildings 

rotate as you turn through bends, and signposts and barriers rush by on the 

n edge of the track, but it fails to give the impression of racing through anything 

remotely like a real landscape. 

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game to run at a high speed. This means that though the scenery is rather basic, 

it blurs by at such a blistering rate that your attention is firmly centred on just 

holding onto the road. 

Initially, it appears that the tracks are going to be flat, but on later levels 

players do get the impression of rising and falling over small hills and dips - 

h though since these are based on proper race tracks this effect is not overly dramatic. 

Furthermore, because the races take place all around the world, the 

p developers have introduced a reasonable amount of variety from location to 

location. 

o There are also appropriate weather conditions for each of the countries, so 

races can take place in bright sunlight driving rain or under overcast skies - but 

l though this works well in terms of gameplay. it's crudely implemented as far as 

graphics are concerned. 

e Another complaint can be levelled at the poorly detailed cars - however, at 

Crashes a re none too spe cta cula r, but the y hold 

drivers ba ck e nough to a dd te nuon to the ga me 

least your driver's hands move on the wheel and it's possible to view the action 

p from within or behind the player's car. 

Two•player mode works using the standard horizontally-split screen and 

o appears to maintain all the pace of the one-player challenge - a quality not to 

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be sniffed at when you consider how important human versus human games are 

s in the racing genre. 

Domark would have done this game a lot more justice if 

they insisted on having the graphics and sound 

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i shows the player's car in red in contrast to all the other cars. This facility gives 

drivers a good idea of how clear they are from the rest of the field - or, more 

t usually, how much work they have to do to catch up. 

The introductions, the pit stops, option screens and all the other wrapping 

i material that surrounds a game in Ft are typically unimpressive too, especially 

when compared to the stunningly rendered introduction accompanying 

o Roadkill. But then at the end of the day, it's the game itself that counts. 

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brought up to date, because deep down there's 

actually an enjoyable game to be played. 

Unfortunately, a lot of people won't bother to 

persevere with Fl because it seems so visually slap 

dash. Those who are unmotivated by the gloss of most 

modern games, however, can find a racing challenge 

that holds more than average levels of tactical depth. 

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of action gaming at the moment, and Fl just doesn't deliver. Beating 

Microprose's similarly-named racing game was always going to be tough, and 

unfortunately Domark just weren't up to it on this occasion 

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INTRODUCTION 

actical Ma e n 

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introduction by a relati p a n y who 

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gameplay and lastability. The idea was to produce 

an in-depth, realistic football management game 

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graphics and sound. A no-frills management game 

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Manager 2, but serve their purpose adequately 

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battle out the match sequences. 

If you wish to set up an entire fantasy 

league of completely fictional teams then 

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option. 

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each players statistics in the Premier League and Division I - their age, nationality, 

morale and fitness are only a few which can be changed, Also, any transfers 

that may take place in the future can be entered with the utmost of ease, 

meaning your version of Tactical Manager will never fall out of date. Overall, 

the graphics are simple and relevant to the action, and display the information 

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The game is already very successful among Play-By-Mail users. This is a 

postal football management game which hundreds of people enter, trying 

to take their team to Premiership glory. This is how it works. 

The author of a Play-By-Mail will recruit managers to play in the league, 

appointing them to various teams. The idea for the public is to transact 

through the author to win the league Once the public has selected their 

team formations and changes they return the information back to the 

author - who inputs all the data on to Tactical Manager 2. The results will 

be determined and then sent back to the public to inform them of their 

position within the game. 

Why? you may be asking. Well, it's a special blend of the love of English 

football and money. Yes, it does cost to take part in these leagues - sometimes 

as little as fl every week. Tactical Manager can be used as a starter 

to help you run one of these leagues. Instead of the usual four-player 

option you find in the football management games of today, 40 people 

can easily be entered to play one game of Tactical Manager 2. 

OPINION 71% 

Although the graphics and sound are of an average standard, 

the sheer depth of the game is where it all begins to 

change. 

The intensity to which Tactical Manager stretches is enormous. 

You'll spend endless hours searching through the 

many menus to change various aspects for your next game. 

Everything you find in real football is here - and very realistically 

too. All the basic aspects of football are obviously 

included, and team selections and transfers are just the tip 

of the iceberg. 

You can select any players on your team to act as either 

ball-winners, playmakers or goal-hangers, and you even get 

to select one of the opposing players to mark - to completely 

put him out of the game. 

One strange feature that has never been included in any 

game of this genre before is the Pools - you can choose 

home wins, away wins and draws to come up with the 

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death. The amount of detail is astonishing, probably the 

most in-depth I've ever seen in any football management 

simulation yet. The presentation may not be as polished as 

say, On The Ball or Premier Manager, but for detail, Tactical 

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ruled the roost as far as Amiga 

pinball games go - some have even 

hailed them as the definitive pinbailers. 

So maybe it comes as a bit of 

a surprise then to learn of a new 

challenger on the market from 

Swedish team. Unique Developments, 

with Amiga development 

from Blade. The game originally 

came out on the ST and I happened 

to review it for St Review magazine. 

Back then I awarded it a massive 98 

per cent, and said it was 'the best ST 

game ever!' so I awaited the Amiga 

version with glee. 

However, the Amiga market is 

another kettle of fish altogether, and 

after being spoilt by Digital Illusions 

previous offerings, I wasn't quite 

sure where Obsession would fit in 

with the state of play. So to be fair 

when marking this game, it has to be 

scored in relation to others available. 

MISSIONS 

INTRODUCTION 

nDesert 

Run: You are racing from Paris 

- to Dakar and to finish a stage you must 

light the pit stop lamps, but to light a 

lamp you have to buy enough fuel units_ 

Money will be given to you at two 

stages - the Hundring Ramp and the 

Speed Passage. To get a really high 

score, though, you must finish each 

stage as either the first or second car, 

and to increase your place in the race 

you need to go through the Place 

Passage. 

Balls and Bats: Two-play modes are 

available for this Baseball-themed game. 

In Normal Mode you just play the ball 

around the table, collecting a score. In 

Pitching Mode you shoot the ball into 

the Pitcher's Box which halts the game 

for a few seconds and the Pitcher throws 

the ball at you, either as a Fast Ball, Slow 

Ball or Curve Ball. You must then use the 

flippers as bats to hit the ball. 

X-Ila Zone: On this table you have a 

series of missions to complete before 

you can go ahead and kill the enemy 

tribe leader. The nine missions are dis- 

played in the middle of the table and to 

complete one you must light 'Death' 

and shoot the ball into the Mission Ball 

Trap. 

Aquatic Adventuro: Try and spell 

'Dive' and then you can go onto to do 

one of two things. You can either 

increase the Bonus Multiplier at the bottom 

of the table or enter a Dive Mission 

where there are five to complete, from 

Deep Dive to Submarine Hunt. The 

Starfish ball trap also gives extra awards 

such as bonus points or an extra ball. 

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Obsession 

To finish a sta ge on De se rt Run you must light the pit stop 

Flippers a t the re a dy a s you ping the ba ll 

lamps, but ma ke sure you've bought e nough fue l units first 

around the Aqua tic Adve nture ta ble 

Obsession, far from being the latest after 

shave from Calvin Klein, is a pinballer from 

Swedish team, Unique Developments. 

Pinball Wizard Tina 

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STORYLINE 

Aquatic Adventure is, believe it or not, a sea-related table and tells the 

story of Bobby Bubble, an adventurer who has escaped from Captain 

Notpolites dungeons, stolen his map and his heading for the Sitnalta 

archipelagos. He ends up on a strange island and takes a dive into the 

waters. He then has to find the treasure before he ends up as fish food. 

But little does he realise that the Captain is watching him from his submarine. 

X-ile Zone, on the other hand, is a futuristic table. It's set in 2058 

after a nuke attack and your mission is to kill the enemy leader, after 

completing a number of missions. 

Balls and Bats has a sporty theme and puts you in the role of a 

world-class baseball player. You are taking part in the World Series - the 

pressure is on and the whole team are counting on you. 

Desert Run deals with life in the fast lane. You must get from Paris to 

Dakar as you leave the roads and try to earn the title 'Desert Runner.' 

Again, these are fitting to the theme of 

the table such as the dark, moody X-ile 

Zone which has a mysterious introduction 

tune and then as the ball sets off 

around the table, a louder beat kicks in. 

A nice range of voice samples have 

also been included, for example, in Balls 

and Bats you get the Americanised baseball 

slogan 'Play Ball' or 'Strike.' Sound 

effects such as the flippers hitting the 

ball and bells ringing when you hit 

certain lights work well too. 

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Other pinball games available for the 

Amiga are from Digital Illusions and 

these have sold in abundance and 

gained many fans. Obsession is an excellent 

game in its own right, but I'm afraid 

it is let down against Pinball Illusions 

because it doesn't have multi-ball. Also, 

an extra set of flippers, even on just one 

table, would made a hell of a lot of difference. 

Music, although very impressive, 

isn't as good. 

Saying that, though, the graphics are 

very impressive for a game of this 

nature, especially as this is isn't the AGA 

version.

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GRAPHICS 

There are four tables available and each 

has a different theme, varying 

immensely from the dark, foreboding 

atmosphere of X-ile Zone to the jovial 

Sports theme. 

Each table is bright and colourful and 

are pieces of artin their own right - well 

in a 'streetwise way! This is because of 

the airbrushed look that is reminiscent 

of graffiti art or even pop art. The overall 

effect is of a very modern style and 

all work brilliantly as backdrops for this 

sort of game. The tracks for the balls 

have been well designed too and provide 

an exciting challenge for the player, 

as well as being clearly set out so as not 

to cause confusion. Animations, lights 

and traps all add to the realism. 

The full tables in all their glory 

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This is a very able pinballer, it has to be said, It 

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Obsession comes across as a very authentic 

pin game. The ball moves at the right 

speed and feels like the correct weight, 

flippers respond well to the keyboard controls 

and the tilt feature - left, right and 

middle - works nicely. 

The eight-player mode allows for some 

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earn you extra bonuses. It all makes the game highly addictive and lasts even 

the pinball wizards a good while. 

This version is available for all Amigas, though a new AGA version is 

promised soon.

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lite started it all off, Back in the early '80s, the forefather of all space combat 

simulators was inspiring awe from anyone who owned the good old BBC 

micro, and to this day its hard to think of a bigger landmark in the history of 

entertainment software. 

unsurprisingly for such a successful game, it spawned so many inferior 

imitations that the formula was in danger of becoming stale. In order to give 

their new outer space flight sim a new edge, therefore, Gametek have aimed to create 

a unique experience that will combine elements of strategy and storytelling 

along with the state-of-the-art 3D technology we've come to expect from the 

genre. 

As the name suggests, Star Crusader is inspired by the medieval crusades. In the 

makers' view, the story of the exhausted, battle-weary Europeans marching towards 

Jerusalem to drive infidels from the Christian Holy Land is one of history's greatest 

tales. The developers have also taken on board the stories behind the rise and fall 

of great empires, and the moral questions that imperial expansionism left behind. 

In contrast to the simplistic cartoon depth of most computer games, Star 

Crusader is making large claims on a more mature form of entertainment with a 

game that sets out to create an experience full of conflict and, would you believe, 

moral choices. 

The moral dimension behind Star Crusade could prove to be a unique feature 

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since the game forces players to make important judgements about the conflict 

they're involved in, In the middle of the adventure, for example, players must decide 

whether to continue to serve the expansionist Gorene Empire, or whether their 

sympathies lie instead with the alliance of alien races struggling to maintain its 

independence. 

The background to Star Crusade is as follows, The Gorene Empire dominates the 

known universe and seeks constantly to expand its influence whenever it encounters 

a new alien race. To some, the Gorenes are seen as conquerors, but they see 

themselves as liberators and educators of the universe. 

The Gorenes have encountered an alliance of aliens in the Ascalon Rift that are 

fiercely protective of their independence. The player begins the game as a pilot in the 

elite Gorene Gold Squadron and is charged with the task of forcing the alien 

alliance's surrender within three months. But the game becomes a good deal more 

complicated as events progress, and the player must eventually decide whether to 

Each of the spa ce ships will ha ve a diffe re nt inte rior - he re 

we vie w the cosmos from within a Gore a n Libe ra tor

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stay loyal to the crusade's cause. What remains to be seen is whether these relatively 

highbrow concepts are actually an integral part of the gameplay, or whether they're 

a rather pompous form of wrapping paper. Certainly, the heart of Star Crusader will 

be more familiar to the average gameplayer, with the good old thrill and action of a 

10 space combat sim providing the main attraction. 

The flight system has been designed with fun and ease of use foremost in mind, 

which will hopefully make it of wider appeal than some of the ultra 

-simulations 

available. With a choke of 13 ships each bearing a unique host of 

realistic weaponry, there fl should, i g hat least, t be plenty of features to keep players returning for 

more battles beyond the stars. 

Those who find games based on real 

technical - flight specs abhorrent will be com- 

forted lifeby 

the fact that Gorene technology sur- 

passes the limitations of normal, work-a-day 

physics - in other words the emphasis is on 

fun and excitement rather than detailed 

authenticity. 

On the other hand, it seems likely that the 

game will still require patience from those who 

normally shy away from the complexities of the 

flight sim. Despite the fact that the developers 

have bent the laws of physics, Crusader has a 

typically vast number of keyboard commands, 

camera views and pre-mission sequences to get 

the hang of. How easy these are to pick up will 

determine how appealing the game ultimately is to action fans unaccustomec to the 

unique challenges of the genre_ 

Though it features the now traditional campaign and mission objectives, Crusader 

does have extra appeal in that it breaks away from a linear plot There are, in fact, 

104 missions that lie along different gaming paths. 

Accordingly, players will have to adjust their style of play and remember that they 

don't have to succeed in every mission to win a campaign. In order to advance the 

overall gameplot, some missions have been designed to be very difficult, and the only 

way to see all of Star Crusader's missions is to lose a battle here and there In other 

words, whereas most games in the genre demand that players save a game and 

replay unsuccessful missions. Star Crusader will reward a more honest approach to 

player failures with interesting developments in the storyline. 

As the game progresses, more space craft will become available to the player to 

take out on their missions. It will be impressive if each of them handles differently, 

but at least the developers have already introduced variety by designing different 

looking cockpits for every type of craft. 

In an attempt to make the intergalactic dogfighting as varied and challenging as 

possible, the developers have given each of the five alien races individual strengths 

and weaknesses that must be understood if the player is going to win. The 

Tancreds, for example, use powerful, durable ships that lack manoeuvrability, so 

getting in close and sticking there will be the player's best hope of victory. 

If the player ends up taking on Gorene 

ships, however, the key to success will be 

team work. Before each mission, players 

choose wingman to support them in an 

action, and in a conflict against a Gorene 

fighter they should be ordered to attack in 

groups of two or three. 

The game makers' concentration on breaking 

away from the tediously repetitive nature 

of some space sim's mission structures will 

hopefully help to distinguish it above the 

norm. On the other hand, a downside to the 

space sim is that its setting doesn't have the 

variety of a terrestrial sim with its day and 

night flying conditions and its climatic 

changes. In what is presumably an attempt to tackle this downfall, however, Star 

Crusade will feature conflicts within nebulas and mine fields. 

A nebula will affect tactics because it interferes with all energy weapons, which 

means the players will have to adapt to shorter targeting ranges to make a kill. 

Fighting in the midst of a mine field presents a different challenge, however, since 

the mines will detect large energy expenditure and hone in on a pilot like a swarm 

of bees. Clearly then, Gametek have taken a tried and tested formula and 

attempted to inject it with a new lease of life. The unusual nature of the storyline, 

with its non-linear development, stands out as the most appealing and fresh attraction 

of the game at this early stage; ultimately, however, much will depend on how r 

well the basic combat engine works on the Amiga. 

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Wheelsolo. Is it guilty or wit pity et Min mother' 

uring the last few months, driving games have completely cluttered up the 

entire office. Skidmarks 2, Fl World Championship Edition and ATR are the 

ones that sit proudly on top of the pile. The top-down view of the action reemerges 

once again - this time Black Legend are the culprits who intend on 

pushing it to the limits once more, 

Racing games are probably the worst type of game to think of an original 

title for, For instance, all car parts have been taken and most motoring terms 

have been pinched. Nearly all of them have been exhaust-ed already. Ho hol What's 

left... Axle Action? Exhaust... Fumes? Nope, I was wrong, there's still one left - 

Wheelspin? 

Set in the not too distant future, Wheelspin intends to blast away the past and 

the competition, leaving its skidmarks in their places. 

I think it's quite safe to say that Skidmarks is the best game of its genre at the 

moment, meaning Wheelspin has its work cut out trying to beat the best. Skidmarks 

gave a distinct cartoony feel, most likely because the graphics were hand drawn or 

done by another suitable method. The whole game felt more like a nice pleasant 

race around a track rather than the distinct sounds of metal clashing and crunching 

as competitors fly past. Wheelspin is most certainly the latter. 

At present, Wheelspin is beginning to look very impressive, boasting superb raytraced 

graphics - cars, tracks and everything. I thought Skidmarks sadly missed out 

Trying to ove rta ke a n oppone nt is one of 

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all these graphical features that could have made it so great. However, it's all irrele- 

vant now as its a strong possibility that the infamous Skidmark crown could be 

taken. 

At the moment. Wheelspin is rather a long way off completion- There are some 

league competitions included, but nothing too challenging as yet. They consist of 

eight racers, each with their own unique name and picture, accompanied by their 

own statistics - reflexes, skill and fighting spirit - which are rated from very high to 

very low. To even the balance, if your reflex skills are good then your fighting spirit 

will be a little less than average. 

UNITED NATIONS 

The racers themselves are all from various nations around the globe, from good or 

blighty to Japan, each wanting to bring the championship home to their respective 

country. The idea is to race against three other contestants and try and win by completing 

five laps. If you finish first you will be awarded driver points which are then 

accumulated as you race other tracks. So far there are four tracks in Wheelspin -

Faking shortcuts in Whorelspin a re possible , only the y're not a lwa ys counte d a s a la p 

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Death, Sea, Desert and the Boh Track. Each 

one has its fair share of corners, bends, jumps 

and obstacles, and the trackside graphics are 

superb, giving a very polished impression. With the 

graphics being ray-traced and it being a reasonably fast scrolling game, I expected 

some kind of slow-clown that would have had a serious effect on the gameplay. 

However, there's no slow-down as yet - it runs as smoothly as Skidmarks! 

Two-players can take part in the action via a split screen. This increases the fun 

immensely by allowing much stiffer competition, as a human player will be twice as 

hard to beat as the computer. 

Although the game is still at a very early stage, I'm sure many features will be 

tweaked to improve it. At the moment, the computer opposition tend to get stuck in 

the walls and take a considerable time to get going again. Also, the collision detection 

hasn't been defined properly, so at present your car seems to crash into objects 

that aren't even there - shadows tool 

I can't knock the game at the moment because its far too early to take an overall 

view_ Having said that, Wheelspin is looking very good - graphically-only though. If 

Black Legend can match the gameplay along with the graphics they'll certainly be 

Onto another sure winner. 

Rashid Owita 

Reflexes: very low 

Skill: very low 

F. Spirit: very high 

Michelle Craton 

Reflexes: low 

Skill: low 

F. Spirit: high 

Klaus KoII 

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Skill: very low 

F. Spirit: very high 

Luca Ruggeri 

Reflexes: normal 

Skill: normal 

F. Spirit: normal 

Andrew Natoli 

Reflexes: very high 

Skill: high 

F. Spirit: very low 

Steve Jones 

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Skill; very high 

F. Spirit: very low 

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Persia, which was released many moons ago, then , A W 

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You take control of the hero, Conrad Hard, in the year 2142. Belonging to a secret 

fraternity, the Galaxia Bureau of Investigation, you are in great danger. Conrad 

exposed a secret piece of machinery that fabricated inhuman beings, and his only 

immediate notion was to warn the authorities. But wait, now your woman has disappeared. 

Immediately suspecting these individuals of abduction, Conrad sets out to 

redeem his fiery-haired temptress, Sonya. 

The establishment behind these foul deeds were well aware of Conrad's intentions 

and instantly set out to capture him. Conrad, being the hero, escaped on a hover bike 

while chased by two of the most fearful of villains. Laser shots were exchanged, 

resulting in Conrad plummeting into a vegetation land covered with trees and rocks. 

WhenConradregainedconsciousness,hethoughthewassafe. 

Flashback arrived courtesy of Delphine Software, landing quite prominently into 

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0 advice oing back about a couple configuring of months, your 

Directory Opus setup. Well, space is always 

the enemy in publishing and there's 

always something more to be said. So 

here's a few more tips to increase your Me 

management productivity. 

First up, you might not know that 

Directory Opus has some internal funcborts 

that aren't immediately obvious. For 

instance, you know how to click the leftmost 

edge of the directory list to move up 

to its parent, but did you know that you 

can click with your right mouse button to 

get straight to the root directory of 

whatever device you are displaying? This 

can certainly save a lot of time if you have 

several layers of directories. 

Another great time saver is the bottomleft 

button in the small cluster of buttons 

at the junction of the two directory 

windows. You know the ones, they are 

marked B R SA. You are probably aware 

that clicking on the B with your left mouse 

button will bring up a list of all the 

directories buttered in memory, but if you 

are running low on RAM:, try clicking on it 

Button edit screen 

Shortcut key 

New entry 

• Dupltcate 

Swap 

Delete 

Foreground 

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Flags... A u t o iconify 

CD destination 

CP source 

Directory Opus 

Do all fi les 

Okay 

Franif ford re-uisits 

the Directorq Opus 

config hie 

with your right mouse button. This will 

free up any buffers held in memory. 

apart, obviously, from the ones currently 

displayed 

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However, the button that's most 

useful, to me at least, is the one labelled 

S. This button lets you select filenames by 

certain criteria if you hit it with the left 

button, but if you use your right mouse 

button on it, it shows you a complete list 

of devices, volumes and assigns. Much 

quicker than having to trawl through the 

drive buttons or typing the path into the 

text field under the directory window. 

As for external applications, there are a 

couple more I didn't mention last time 

around. The first will be of use to anyone 

who owns a copy of AdPro and has 

access to the program 'Splitz; In case you 

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The numbe r of diffe re nt tools you ca n a dd to 1 1 0 pus is only limite d by your inge nuity 

In my never ending quest to help Amiga owners 

everywhere. I sometimes forget that not everyone has 

access to all the latest software and hardware to check 

things out, and most of you will probably not have owned 

an Amiga as long as I have 

So I decided to call your attention to tools and utilities 

that make my job easier but might be a little old, so not in 

the headlines. One of those very utilities is a commodity 

called PowerSnap. The latest version of PowerSnap came 

out early last year, but it has a long history. 

PowerSnap lets you copy text you would not normally 

be able to copy to the clipboard and then paste it in any 

package that supports the standard Amiga clipboard. For 

instance, earlier on in this article I gave you the information 

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aren't familiar with it. Spritz takes a file 

that is too big to fit onto a particular sort 

of media arid splits it into user-definable 

chunks Then you use Splitzs 

companion program. Joinz to rejoin 

the chunks back into a complete file at 

the other end. 

This is mainly designed for people 

who need to move large barnap files 

(well, it does come with AdPro. after All 

from one machine to another. You can 

add Splitz functionality to Directory Opus 

quite simply by creating a button for Spliu 

and applying the following rules: 

AsigalOS AINro:Asiiitt if) IIAR:441 t: 

Commamd C A IAN: 

You should have flags set for Output 

Window. Rescan Source and Rescan 

Destination. What the button will do is 

take any file you have selected and split tt 

into chunks roughly 850k in size. which is 

small enough to fit onto an FFS formatted 

disk with no trouble, If you normally use 

Spritz for transferring stuff on doubledensity 

PC-formatted floppies then you 

should use a value of 710000 Or less 

Now the only problem with Mos setup 

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to set up a Splitz button and you saw the two command. 

needed to get it working. I could have remembered those 

two commands, after all, they aren't exactly complex, but 

with PowerSnap I can just hold down a key and drag my 

mouse over the text on the screen and copy it to the 

clipboard. Then all I have to do is simply paste it back into 

the text editor I am using to write this text and hit the 

Paste shortcut Much easier and probably safer too. 

PowerSnap also comes in real handy if you have set up 

an Aminet Index button in DOpus, as I explained two 

months ago, because it means you don't have to write the 

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just paste them into a document for Batch HP, or as a 

scratch pad while you use your ttp program. 

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have. If it is low, I suggest you change the 

part where it says 'RAM:Splitz' to 

something like 'HDI lemp/Spliu. 

- course, O f you are still going to need enough 

room on your hard drive. 

Another useful button to have is one 

that generates a ReadMe file ready for you 

to edit For this I helve set up a button that 

copies a pre-defined empty text file with 

an Icon which has a text viewer as its 

default tool, something like more or 

multiview would be ideal, into the current 

destination directory. Don't forget to turn 

on the Rescan Destination flag so that the 

readme file shows up. 

One last gizmo is a commodity called 

Cachefont which you should have found 

on last month s CoverDisk. Cachefont 

comes in two parts: There is the cachefont 

command itself, which goes in your 

startup-sequence, and there is the 

MakeFontList command which has to be 

run every time you add or subtract fonts 

from your system. You Can very easily add 

a button to your DOpus palette which 

calls the command up from the C: 

directory. It doesn't take any arguments so 

you should find it pretty simple to set up. 

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you start on something and 

realise the job s more of a slog 

0 than odeling you'd can anticipated, be a real drag can't when it 

We've looked at ways to make models as 

close to reality as possible and the need to 

keep your polygon count down, but there are 

some situations which get complex and 

there's nowt you can do about it. 

On the other hand, sit and think for a 

minute or two and you can at least cut a lot 

of the work out of creating a complicated 

model. LightWave and Imagine are both fairly 

adept at this son of operation, but both differ 

in their approach. 

Cloning, for example, Is a technique which 

can save a great deal of time and which cries 

out to be used in some circumstances. When 

using Imagine, the artist has a lot of control 

over the cloned objects, much more so than 

LightWave users. 

Take the example of a Sherman tank 

model. It's easy to predict that the tank tracks 

and the road wheels are going to be the most 

hassiesome parts of the object to build, and 

Imagine users can thank their lucky stars that 

the cloning process can incorporate automatic 

rotation. 

To create the tracks, just build one link as 

simply as you can safely get away with, then 

build a path in the shape of your tracks and 

use the Mold requester to access Imagines 

Replicate function. When the replKate 

window appears, you'll notice it contains a 

couple of powerful options Objects can be 

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replicated along a straightforward length if 

you need a straight line of them, but our 

tracks will have to be created with path 

cloning. Problem: the closed path means our 

object has to rotate through 360 degrees. 

Imagines answer is the 'align Y to path 

option which will force the object to follow 

the curve of the path as it is cloned around 

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In the lower half of the window are even 

more powerful tools which can be used to 

create almost any spiral or other such effect. 

By simply telling Imagine to rotate various 

amounts in the three axes, it is easy to make 

an object tumble around Its centre as it is 

Big means fewer 

When a model contains parts which need lots of detail but lots of larger areas which don't. 

its usually best to make two copies - one for distant shots and the other for close-ups. For 

example. our tank tracks are replaced in the distant version by a double-sided potygon bent 

into the correct shape and brushmapped to look the part, and our wheels can be 

substituted by a set with fewer polygons. 

When setting up the scene involving the 

tank, it's just a matter of cutting from one 

'take' to another without making it obvious 

that the models are different With a bit of 

deft editing, it's possible to make it look as 

though the fake tracks are going round and 

round pi simple image sequence does the 

trick, then cut to the stationary tank and 

the more complex wheels in all their glory. 

Ke e p the mode l simple a nd use sub. 

stitud• pa rts tor more dista nt shots 

so tha t re nde ring time s a re re duce d 

The mode l be come s ne ce ssa rily 

comple x, but our job is ma de e a ste r 

with a bit of clone a utoma tion 

Our finishe d mode l is good 

enough for a nima tions a nd 

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fame to cre a te 

replicated 

- ideal for all 

sorts of modeling 

jobs. In LightWave, 

the path clone function works with very 

unreliable results and the rad done option 

fusing a curve in a background lawri offers 

no control over axes alignment or rotation. 

The upshot is that creating the Shennans 

tank tracks in LightWave means performing 

the clone operation, then working ones way 

around the long chain of links you 

-created, 

and rotating them al manually. 

ve Ugh. j u s t 

In other ways, however. LightWave makes 

up for this painful omission Using a system 

of eight layers makes it so much easier to cut 

and paste copies of objects around and use 

them more than once, that you'd be mad 

not to take advantage 

The body of our finished Sherman is an 

easy job to begin with, and is nothing more 

You ca n build a n e ffe ctive -looking mode l 

by sta rting with some simple polygons 

and using the mode ling tools inte llige ntly 

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than a 

slightly bashedin 

box with a turret nng 

its most basic form. When you start to 

add a bit of detail. though. it's easy to cut 

right back on the workload. 

For example, in such a symetrical 

arrangement (tracks, wheels. lights, and other 

detail found on both sides of the object. the 

Mirror tool comes into its own. Always add 

the next level of detail in a different layer 

before committing it to your main model 

layer, and never miss an opportunity to use 

Mirror or just good old fashioned cut and 

paste. 

On the front of the Sherman there are a 

number of details added to give the object 

some life among which are a few spare back 

links (copy and paste, no need for more 

modelling), some road lights (mirror one to 

make the other), and hatches. The latter were 

created once, then resized and tarted up to 

make all the other hatches on the tank's body 

and turret. 

Again, the wheels are constructed initially 

from just a few polygons. One was used to 

create the side supports, another was used for 

the suspension struts, then both were 

extruded. The wheels themselves are just 

extruded discs with a slice dniled Out, though 

they use plenty of sides as the object is 

intended for a few close-ups 

Copy this lot a few times, add one or two 

other touches and you can build what looks 

like a complicated set of wheels in about half 

an hour The mirror function takes care of the 

wheels on the other side of the tank, so your 

manual labour is cut to the bare minimum

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underlying mechanism, namely the console 

device control sequence needed to cause a 

change in cursor position. 

In hexadecimal, a general cursor positioning 

sequence takes the form: 9b IRI 13b CI 48, The 

first value. 9b hex. is known as the control 

sequence introducer ICSII and you'll notice in my 

example sequences that I tend to define this value 

as the variable CSI, and then use this term rather 

than the numerical value itself ia convention I use 

for almost all constant terms, since it helps make 

he resulting scripts easier to read'. 

R represents the display row and C the display 

column, while the 3b hex value is a 'separator' 

that allows the console device to distinguish 

between the two real row and column 

parameters The brackets indicate items that can 

be treated as optional and this means that not 

only can either row or column positions be 

omitted, but the 3b hex separator Iwhich is in fact 

an ASCII semicolon character) need only be 

provided when both row and column values are 

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a par of row/column co-ordinates and sends the 

appropriate command sequence to the console 

window Listing I shows a typical function and 

you'll nonce how the actual row (ri and column 

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by using the ARexx 'II' string concatenation 

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than have the window handle explicitly embedded in the function code. Similarly, 

ARexx's Procedure keyword could be used to isolate the workings of the routine from 

the script it will finally be used in. 

Listing 3 shows the results of such changes, and the benefit is that this function can 

now be incorporated and used in your own code without you needing to worry about 

how it works. Simply make a call to the CursorWriteliroutine passing your window 

handle, the row/column screen co-ordinates, and text to be printed as function call 

parameters, and your text will be duly printed at the specified position. 

The program shown in listing 4 should help get you started. Its a runable example 

that opens a window and prints a couple of text messages. took at the overall format, 

run and modify it so that you come to terms with the general ideas, and then copy the 

cursor positioning function to your own scripts and experimentl 

main body of your script will be 'cleaner'. i.e. 

tidier, and therefore more understandable to both 

yourself and anyone else reading your code. 

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here is a lot of Star Trek action on the 

Internet. mostly because the kind of 

people you find on the Internet are 

exactly the kind of people who are into Star Trek I 

have to say that this really excites me, but then 1 

am the kind of sad act who. without the 

restraining influence of my loved one, would be 

off to the next convention with rubber ears and a 

phaser which makes all the right noises when you 

pull the trigger 

You should know that there is a difference 

between a trekkie and a trekker. Trekkres are 

people who are into the series in a passing sense 

They'll always watch it, they might know a bit of 

trivia if asked. They've possibly read William 

Shatner's 'Star Trek Memories 

-are 

amazing for a man who is on record as having 

, no wmemories h i c h of anything. 

i nTrekkers c i dare e nanother t a llevel l of magnitude They 

yhave 

all the episodes on tape. They have bloopers 

on tape. They have all the shows taped from the 

TV in the original edited and unedited forms. They 

have every book. every magazine, every video, 

every newspaper article about Star Trek. They have 

models of all the ships from all the series, a 

costume in their size from all the series. All the 

props, all the latex make-up, all the... well you get 

the idea. 

You need to know this stuff, because once you 

enter the Star Trek zone on the Net you're on your 

own among these people, and you've got to be 

prepared to take it all very seriously. You have 

been warned 

Voyager Home Pages 

http://voyager.paramounrcom/ 

Not to be confused with the Voyager Company. 

filake it 50! 

which is an American company which makes 

CD-ROMs. No, Voyager is the new Star Trek 

series, and it is currently running in the US to rave 

reviews. This is the official Paramount site and 

contains all the information and pictures you 

would need to make sense of the series having 

not seen it yet. Look forward to it soon on UK 

screens 

AsImov's Star Trek Pages 

retpli.wwwintink n t r f fl 

Information about Star Trek. Star Trek. The Next 

Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space 9. and of 

course Star Trek: Voyager I don't quite know 

what Asimov has got to do with it as he is dead, 

but nonetheless, this is a good start for your Star 

Trek Web Voyages 

Luca Sambuces Star Trek Pages 

httpl/wwwunisg.ciV-sombucci/scifi/startrekist-www.html 

An exhaustingly large guide to all the Star Trek 

Info on the Internet. It contains links to the 

Official 'Paramount* sites, Star Trek Clubs on the 

Net. Commercial sites selling Star Trek-related 

merchandise over the Net, various sites 

I Enter the Sta rt Tre k Zone a nd fe a st your 

eyes on the .. de lights.Whothe r you're a 

Theltkie or a Tre kke r, the re 's ple nty to ke e p 

you e nte rta ine d a nd informe d 

watch 

It you hissellty IMPS you want to tell us about then drop us a line at the usual 

address. ISO IMO we have Daniel Garnett who has this to say about his BBS: 

'My BBS is called NIRVANA ZONE ABS and can be 

contacted on (01243) 373596, /pm-lam 

weekdays. 24 hours at weekends. It started in 

January this year, so is new to the BBS way of 

living. Its down in the south near Portsmouth 

and Chichester and is run by me, Daniel Garnett 

- 1 6 years old and still at secondary school. 

I decided to set up this board because one 

night Dad had a go at me because I was on the 

phone too much and the phone bill was going 

through the roof. So I made this board up using 

MAXS 1.54, to get peeps to call me instead It 

worked. I now have 124 users. which I might 

add is growing very fast I'm also on loads of 

different networks - here s a list of them, and my 

address: 

Mininet 16:100/120 

Barnet 

959:100/2 

Quantum Net 424:100/7 

Subspace 95:112/1 

Missing tint 987:987/1 

donet 2:250/145.20 

Internet 2:259/97.3 

Daniel.Gametnanirvanattwarp.exnetcom 

maintained Imainly) by Star Trek fans, articles, 

' papers and reviews, and information about 

games refaced to Star Trek. This is one of my 

favounte kicking all points, and it always has 

sometnng new to offer the really deeply SAD 

trekker. asobll 

British Startieet Confederacy 

hap i/Oeepthougrit arrnory.com.80/-bsc/ 

What is it7 A fan club on all but name_ Members 

of the Eintish Starfleet Confederacy receive a 

certificate of commission. officer's manual, 

identity card. stardate calendar and six bimonthly 

newsletters and crtapter bulletins, as well as 

access to club merchandise, The British Starfleet 

Confederacy is run by the fans of Star Trek for the 

fans of Star Trek in at! ••:, incarnations. 

Klingon Assault Group 

hap .i.•••••••• neti-twistyikag.htrnt 

The KLINGON ASSAULT GROUP is a not-forprofit 

STAR TREK fan organnaDon. Their growth is 

apparently based on - 

communicat 

operation Klingon Uniforms aren't required, but 

ion to advance imthin our ranks a uniform will be 

anecessary. n Promotions d are based solely on merit 

cand level o of invoNement - 'These guys are sick. 

Nightmare Factory Star Trek Costumes 

rittp./AvAra io.comi-nigntime/trek.html 

Well, just when you thought you'd seen 

everything, now you can buy Star Trek costumes 

over the Net_ just k e the ones in the series. For 

example 

. original A Star Trelt1 is 528; Next Generation shirts 

are Cap 545, a gold Next Generation ladles jump-suit 

tis S70: a i a burgundy ladies jump-suit with 

n emblems and belt, as worn by Major Kira in 

KSTD59 i ris 

570 There are also authentic gold 

kcommunicator - pins which replicate those in the 

sseries t yin 

every detail. Same as used on TV. 'Just 

what l e you need to complete the official uniform!' 

gOh 

boy. 

o And so on and so forth. If you want to take a 

voyage l where no one has gone before around 

d the Star Trek sites on the Net, then be sure to set 

aside 

s 

a long time, as the list is growing daily and 

h 

It may take you weeks to see everything. 

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confused about the different sorts of 

fonts and clip art types, I thought Id lay 

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on the topic, so this month I am going to be 

looking at the wide variety of clip art formats 

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We'll start with bitmapped dips. These are 

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You always end up with a degraded image 

whether you scale it down or up. 

Now, the highest resolution, in terms of dots 

per screen inch, attainable by a standard Amiga 

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resolution which is probably around 300dps and 

you can see why some bitmapped clip art is so 

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and, provided your printer has a high enough 

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Why is this the case? Well, it comes down to 

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a matter of switches saying on or off Ii e. black or 

white). A black and white structured drawing. 

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drawings are not pixel representations of the data 

they contain but are defined by a series of 

statements of which the following is an extreme 

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At the time of writing this column, SoftLogik has 

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launched onto a suspecting public in about two 

weeks orne. Mike Loader at Softtogik has told me 

that the new revision of the Amiga's most awaited 

software package will be the biggest update yet. 

This could be represented in Deluxe Paint by 

drawing a circle with a brush that is as close to I 

of an inch in size as possible, six inches from the 

left side of the screen honzontally. and four inches 

vertically from the top of the screen 

The circle should be 2.5 inches in radius. These 

instructions get sent to your printer so that 

rather than using the smaleSt brush' size, it 

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titude of developers committed to providing us with software. 

there was a homegrown choke of he formats. Gold Disk gave us 

the .clip format. Clip files could potentially be a whole bunch of 

rete images saved as one file so you had the opportunity to 

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actually prints the thickness of the circle's line to I 

of an Inch. or as near as it can get to it, depending 

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will also be scaled. The structured version of the 

circle will maintain the .1 inch thick line. As for next 

month, its on to the fonts. 

own Draw 2000, a simple structured drawing program which 

never did very much on this side of the Atlantic. Commodore 

adopted the simple DR2D format as part of IFF which, although it 

gave the format official status, still didn't result in very much 

support from third-party developers, and DR2D is citify supported 

by a few Amiga applications these days. 

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•aht'

ot a day goes by without someone 

e-mailing or writing to roe and saying 

they are having a problem with Arnos 

its not that people are stupid or that Amos is 

buggy, it's more that coding is a specific talent 

and only a handful of people take to it as a 

natural thing. 

It requires a certain sort of mind, a pattern 

recognising mind and a keen mathematical brain. 

Of course, you can do it without either of these 

things, but you can't do it quickly or without 

problems. Most problems are easily solved as they 

are simple problems with the logic of the 

program. The flow of the program is constncted 

or misdirected in some way. 

To help you debug your AMOS programs. here 

is a simple all-points guide to debugging and 

program design. 

I. Check your loops - if there is a FOR/NEXT. 

IF/THEN, WHILENiEND or similar thing in your 

program, check that the loops are nested and not 

crossed:;If 

Then 

For 

Next 

and not 

If 

For 

Then 

Next 

Uncross your loops and you will be flying (Now 

there's a sentence you wouldn t find in any other 

columnsll 

2. Cheek your how - related to loops is 

program flow The best way to debug a program 

is with Computer Number One The bran. Take a 

piece of paper and a pencil and go through the 

program step by step, doing all the calculations 

with a calculator if necessary. checking that each 

bit of the program is in the nght order 

Do the loops and see what happens. Look at 

each instruction carefully and interpret it like the 

computer would. When you've run the program. 

does it stop where it should or does it just go 

r 

o 

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Then run it for a speed test - after you've 

ndone 

the preliminary bug tesi do a run test. 

d some things will look good on paper, but when 

ayou 

are really running, speed becomes an issue. 

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the computer pick up any key presses or 

imouse 

keys, or does it skip them? When you are 

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running at computer speed things happen fast, 

rand 

sometimes•something happens so fast it can't 

obe 

seen or read by the procedures you have put 

u 

,n place. 

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When you ask the computer to sense anything 

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like a key press or a mouse command, the 

? 

computer needs to use a flag. • No, not a big 

fluttery thing on a pole, a variable which flips over 

one way to tell the computer the key has been 

found and there is no need to look for it any 

more For example• 

If Heel) sod ffLAG.0 Then Su Nay I : MAW 

When the fire button is sensed, the sample is 

played, and the flag FFLAG is set to I This means 

Debugging 

nightmare 

ao from if 

30045 00000032 

you can run this loop again and if FFLAG is still I 

then the rest of the line will be ignored. Flags are 

useful habits to get into. 

4 Syntax errors - these will show up generally, 

but sometimes it will not be clear why there is a 

problem. Your first port of call should be the 

manual. Check the syntax in the book against the 

syntax in your program. and see what the 

difference is. It could just be a few commas with 

no figures between them: 

after a command. Some commands allow this 

even when there are no numbers in there - the 

command will still work as of zeros were there. 

Other syntax errors are to do with the way 

listings are published. If you put a long hoe with 

no breaks into a word processor or a DIP 

program (like those used to put this magazine 

together] the chances are the line will break on 

the last convenient space so as not to break up 

any words. For example: 

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will end up like this 

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If these 1000x's 

were commands then you'd be looking 

down IX the sticky end of a syntax error, like the one 

mentioned in a previous column for the Easy 

AMOS tutorials. 

5. Don't be too ambitious - okay so we all 

want everything now, and making do with simple 

programs can really wrinkle our snouts, but don't 

be tempted to take on too big a project in one 

go. I get people writing to me all the time saying 

."I m writing a simple neural network program and 

can't seem to get it to work. Could you supply me 

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I have a basc coon detection routine which 

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the tracker editor itself, and an information 

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The main control window contains the 

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checkboxes. Most of the changes here are self 

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No regrets 

With modern-style windows containing 3D look 

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OctaMED version 6 is a signant advance on 

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While there is little or no doubt that this 

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Other changes include provision for saving modules as executable files, support for MAUD, 

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here's no doubt that without cables and 

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land anything else in your home that uses 

electrical energy) will quickly come to a halt 

though under normal circumstances the cables 

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currents from one place to another to generally 

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or repair yourself. and if you've got the right tools 

and can follow a few basic rules, can read 

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which will obviously require some financial Outlay, 

but if you take care of them then they'll last you 

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Maplin 

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materials to make your leads - in other words the 

connectors and the wiring cable itself. The cable 

and connectors are usually specific to the job in 

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requires a piece of screened single or two core 

cable and comparatively simple connectors, but 

RGB. SCART or modem leads need multicore cable 

and more complex connectors. If you re not sure 

what the name of the connector is that you need 

to replace or repair, take the faulty one to the 

shop with you to show the shop assistant - it 

saves a lot of confusing embarrassment! 

The two most important points when buying 

components for cable-making are that you get the 

right wire and the right connectors. Again, ask if 

you're not sure While a piece of lighting cable or 

bell-wire might look as if you can use it to make 

a video or audio connection, the results you'll 

obtain will never be as good as with the correct 

type of wiring and Me best connectors you can 

afford. 

In my experience, most cable faults can be 

traced to broken or shorted wiring, for instance 

where a cable has come adrift from its connector, 

or when a 'dry' solder Joint has lost its electrical 

conductivity through age. overheating or 

Safety first! 

Never work on equipment which is 

connected to the mains. Switch off and 

disconnect first. If you're rewiring a mains 

plug make sure you know the colour 

codes and follow them. Use the correct 

fuses. Be safe - don't take chances. If in 

doubt, get a professional to do the job. 

Spaghetti 

junction 

A se le ction of M e most smoke toots 

=I re quire d for ma king che a pe r ca ble s 

Basic tool kit 

Soldering Iron 

relectricl 

Solder sucker 

Solder 

Insulating tape 

Long-nosed pliers 

Square-nosed pliers 

Assorted screwdrivers 

Electrical multimeter 

Wire sMpper 

Cutters 

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Cables 

COnneCtOrS 

fracturing. Physical damage can often be located 

visually by removing the cover from the connector 

and checking for loose, frayed. or disconnected 

wiring or short circuits. 

Sometimes the remedy may be as simple as 

using a sliver of insulating tape to separate the 

shorted wires, or it may require a complete rebuild 

of the connector, necessitating its removal or 

replacement, stripping the cable back to new 

wiring core, and making new solder connections 

all round. 

However. not all visual inspections bear fruit 

and it may be necessary to test the continuity of 

each wire in the cable with a multi meter set to 

measure resistance. If a cable has been subjected 

to rough treatment or is getting on in years. it 

might have become fractured in the wire core, 

rather than at the connectors, usually meaning 

Meiliesole cable VA1 have to be replaced. 

SOldenng 6 tautly easy, and with a little practice 

yvu SnOuld become cOnfident about making your 

Win Cables 

widen; , T h e eCn incliAl be at full temperature the 

solder r r wrrelt 

and flow easily with the right heatl 

and l that a pint mg be stronger where the bare 

wire p ocan i be wrapped around its connection tab 

before n t soldering s The connector and wire should 

be t clean and free from grease use sandpaper or a 

rile o if necessary'. and should be kept immobile until 

the n solder sets 

o The easiest and most frustrating mistake to make 

is t to forget to pats the cable through the 

comector e s cover before soldering It up, something 

I aNUN 

do occauonally. All the fiddly work of 

stripping, r trenineN and connecting has to be done 

all e We again -just when you thought you'd 

finished! t 

h So if you've been having doubts about your 

cable-making a ability. don't. Give it a go, learn the 

ropes t and pretty soon you'll wonder why you've 

been t paying full whack for cables which are so 

easy h to make you could do it yourself for far leSS_ 

e 

Contact 

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allows you to connect up to 7 SCSI peripherals to your Amiga Just think of it, CD-ROM. Hard drive, 

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HiSoft products for your Amiga: Squirrel SCSI interface - £69.95. Squirrel Storage Systems • as above. 

Aura 12/16 bit sampler - £99.95. Megaiosound 8 bit sampler • E34.95, ProMidi interface - E24.95, HiScift 

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