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C4JV ER STORY 

69AMIGA 

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Making funny noises is something all 

Amigas are good at. They can digitise 

real sounds, compose tunes and even 

play synthesisers. For your delight 

and delectation, Amiga Computing 

checks out the hardware and software 

options. Looking for a new 

sequencer or sampler? Stay cool — 

we're hip to the beat. 

INIIGA SCENE 

7 NEWS ROUND-UP 

The latest news on the CDTV, new 

Amiga bundles, amazing new HAM 

paint program and an incredible ray 

tracing package from Finland. 

These images were created 

on an Amiga supporting 24 

bitplane graphics. The 

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has advice on compilers and editors. 

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AMIGA COMPUTING November 1990 5

The Year 2014 — New York is lost to organised crime. 

Only a valiant few remain loyal to law and order 

— They are THE WARRIORS. 

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AT the beginning of the 

Computer Entertainment 

Show in September the 

usual crowd of computer 

journos were invited to the 

usual Commodore breakfast 

press launch. 

Commodore UK Supremo 

Steve Franklin took centre 

stage and proceeded to spill 

the beans on the current 

state of the CDTV or 

Commodore Dynamic Total 

Vision. 

The Amiga-based CDrom 

machine was originally 

scheduled for a September 

launch, but rumours of 

delays have been circulation 

ever since its unveiling at 

the Consumer Electronics 

Show in Chicago. Inevitably 

THE world of ray tracing 

has been quiet for too long. 

Sculpt once dominated but 

a failure to update the software 

left it commanding a 

stagnant market. Something 

had to change. 

Now the world of ray 

tracing and indeed, graphics 

as a whole, is coming back 

to life. There has been no 

lack of commitment by 

users, as entries to this 

year's Amiga Centre 

Scotland animation competition 

has shown. What the 

world has been waiting for 

is a significant release. It got 

two. 

Last month we covered 

one of those releases, 3D 

Pro. The second emanates 

from a Finnish company 

with the unlikely name of 

Rea'soft. 

Called Real3D, it claims 

to he the "fastest ray tracing 

program with animation 

and solid modelling for 

Amiga users". From what 

we saw, this is no exaggeration. 

Rendering time has 

been reduced from a timeframe 

that could be mea- 

AMIGA SCENE 

CM launch delayed 

there was air of expectancy 

as Franklin outlined his 

plans. 

Commodore UK are initially 

releasing only about 

1500 to 2000 CDTVs to 

selected developers, companies 

and members of the 

media in the next few 

weeks. 

The plan is to let them to 

do the Beta testing and 

major bug fi nding. In 

exchange for their efforts, 

Commodore will give them 

a "generous discount" on 

the price. 

The fi nished product 

should he available from 

"mid February" with more 

than 40 specially written 

pieces of software already 

Real design, real solutions 

sured in cups of tea (in the 

Sculpt era) to one measured 

in mere sips of tea. 

What's more, the rendering 

time is more or less stable 

— that is, it is less 

dependant an the number of 

objects being rendered, with 

a large percentage increase 

in the number of objects, 

the render time in a particular 

mode is not inbreased 

excessively. 

Another great saving in 

time will be made possible 

by rendering only a small 

window in the whole 

image. It will be possible to 

render a whole image at a 

very low resolution and 

then select just a small area 

of interest to be rendered in 

extreme detail. 

For producing animations 

this has the obvious advan- 

available. Commodore are 

hoping to have sold around 

350-500 thousand machines 

within a year. By this time 

they hope that over 140 

titles will be available. 

These do not include 

straight conversions of existing 

Amiga games, rather 

unique CDrom-based items 

such as encyclopedias and 

interactive libraries. 

When asked if the CDrom 

drive would be made available 

for existing Amiga owners. 

Franklin said that it was 

a possibility, depending on 

demand. 

In other words, if you 

want your Amiga to be able 

to support the new optical 

media, you'll have to write 

tage that areas in which no 

change takes place do not 

need to be re-rendered. 

But speed is not everything. 

It is the approach 

which matters most. With 

an engineer in the programming 

team, the result was 

bound to be a very CAD- 

to Commodore and tell 

them. 

The delay in the CDTV's 

launch may disrupt 

Commodore's plans to create 

their own standard for 

CDroms. The rival CDI system 

produced by Philips 

looked set to become the 

world standard, with only 

Commodore's plan to 

swamp the planet with 

machines using their system 

posing any threat. 

Obviously. Amiga 

Computing are hoping to get 

their hands on a CDTV as 

soon as possible. although 

Commodore PR Andrew Ball 

said something rude when 

we told him we needed one 

more than anyone else. 

biased product. 

The inclusion of a wide 

base of primitives and the 

use of Boolean functions on 

these shapes enables the 

easy construction of engineering-style 

drawings. 

Unlike Sculpt there will 

be no vertex editing. In 

Sculpt. objects were all 

made up of small facets or 

triangles. This meant the 

system was fl exible to 

manipulating individual 

points on an object's surfaCe, 

but also led to the dis- 

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tinctive angular effects 

which made Sculpt images 

instantly recognisable. 

The effort here is realism 

above all else. A sphere has 

no points, it is a mathematical 

shape — that is the way 

in which all the objects are 

modelled. 

Other features will 

include full colour texturemapping 

and user definable 

materials. 

These have three sliderdetermined 

properties — 

opacity, refl ectance and 

"speed of light" (refractive 

index). 

There will be many functions 

for the manipulation 

of 2D [Hs for use as backgrounds. 

textures and for a 

technique called "pixelreplace" 

where every pixel 

in the original bitmap is 

replaced by a particular 

primitive object. 

Animation will not be 

neglected. With the inclusion 

of powerful features to 

rotate and move both 

objects and camera, and the 

ability to display a fast 

wireframe preview, the software 

has been seen to knock 

out fairly impressive anims 

in a matter of minutes. 

The Sculpt syndrome 

should not happen again — 

Rea'soft seem to be fairly 

committed to producing 

upgrades. more so since this 

is a product which the programming 

time have spent 

their entire Amiga-lifetime 

bringing to fruition. 

Already on the cards are a 

24-bit colour version and 

routines for importing 

Sculpt files. 

The 24-bit variant will be 

gratefully received by 

Amiga Centre Scotland, 

Real3D distributors in this 

country, as it may be ready 

in time for the launch of 

their own 24-bit board, 

sometime this year. 

For details contact th,e 

Amiga Centre Scotland 6n 

031 557 4242. 

8 AMIGA COMPUTING November 1990 

A1500 winner 

collects 

JOHN Kemp, the winner of 

the Checkmate Systems 

A1500 announced in last 

month's issue, was — to put 

it mildly — chuffed to bits 

when Steve Jones handed 

over his prize. 

"He nearly shook my arm 

off" said Steve, "He was 

really pleased." And so he 

should be. for Checkmate 

even fi tted his A500 into 

the A1500 casing for him. 

Those of us not lucky 

enough to win Amiga 

Computing competitions 

will be interested in the 

Socket to me 

GOOD news for Amiga 

owners with more peripherals 

than connectors: 

Canadian company Prespect 

have released a solution to 

all your problems — the 

MFC NlultiFaceCard. It slots 

into your A2000 or A3000 

and provides another pair 

each of serial and parallel 

ports. 

The supplied software 

makes full use of the 

Amiga's multitasking. so in 

theory you would be able to 

run six separate tasks, each 

having their own serial or 

parallel port. 

Just what BBS owners 

have been waiting for, we 

suspect. 

For more details, contact 

the European branch of 

Prespect in Germany on 89 

154 4962. 

A590 

expansions 

ALTHOUGH undeniably 

good value for money, the 

offi cial Commodore A590 

hard drive has been criticised 

for being both slow 

and a bit on the small side. 

Almathera Systems have 

recognised this failing and 

offer quite an amazing service: 

For a reasonable fee 

they will replace the drive 

mechanism in your A590 

with a newer, faster (sometimes 

up to five times faster) 

unit. 

Just think: If you wanted 

you could have a 180Mb 

drive in your standard A590 

casing, with no external 

new products from 

Checkmate such as the new 

expand bit by bit, 

Checkmate will supply the 

A590 expansion card 

which allows internal fi t- 

keyboard casing only, for 

E60. More exciting things 

ting of the Commodore 

hard drive. 

are coming, but Steve 

would say nothing except 

For the user wishing to "They are very exciting!" 

cables or power supplies. 

Prices start at about E315 

for a 43Mb drive and rise to 

E585 for a huge 180Mb. 

For more details call 

Almathera on 081 668 9605. 

You CED it 

SILICA Systems have taken 

on distribution on the 

ASDG range of products, 

including the rather brilliant 

Cygnus Ed Professional 

2 text editor 

reviewed in the August 

issue. 

CED2 now costs E59.95 

(instead of £89.95) and for 

details on it — or any other 

ASDG products — you 

should contact Silica on 081 

309 1111 

Joystick from 

down under 

BASED on rugged arcade 

machine joysticks, one of 

the first offerings from new 

company Sold Gold 

Marketing (0389 55973) is 

Star Cursor, a heavy duty 

joystick which first saw life 

in Australia. 

Stringent tests have 

shown that Star Cursor will 

stand up to 50 million operations 

without breaking 

down and its manufacturers 

say it will cope with normal 

use for five years without 

failing. 

"It works through direct 

electrical contact instead of 

floating components which 

Commodore goes a bundle 

THE Amiga has been rebundled 

to cash in on the 

lucrative Christmas period 

spending spree. 

The "Screen Gems" 

pack comes with Days of 

Thunder, Back to the 

Future H, Shadow of the 

Beast 11, Nightbreed and 

the ever present Deluxe 

Paint H. 

Commodore are expecting 

sales of around 

130,000 units over the 

Christmas period — an 

exceptional number of 

machines. 

A new educational pack 

called "First Steps" has 

also been announced, and 

is the fi rst bundle to 

include a half meg memo- 

ry expansion as standard 

— which is proof that the 

Amiga is growing well 

beyond its game console 

beginnings. 

For the same reasons, 

Amiga peripherals are 

now being pushed as ideal 

Christmas pressies and 

will come bundled with 

various pieces of productivity 

software. 

As an aside. to 

Commodore's embarrassment 

the C64 is still selling 

in phenomenal 

numbers. 

In fact, this Christmas it 

is expected to sell more 

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Star Cursor costs E29.95 

plus E2 post and packing. 

Conference 

on the line 

MICROLINK, the computerbased 

communications service, 

now have a multi-user. 

real-time chat facility which 

includes many advanced 

features not available on 

other systems. 

Called The Forum, this 

free service allows any 

number of subscribers to 

talk to each other hut also 

offers private computer conversations 

with a facility for 

users to choose who they 

want to communicate with 

and exclude others. 

Subscribers can set up ,,i 

"room" off the main area of 

The Forum so that confi - 

dential conversations can 

take place between two or 

more people. 

Once such a room is created, 

the user has the power 

to admit only the people 

wanted in the discussion. 

There are plans for 

MicroLink staff to he available 

at certain times and 

also for celebrities to make 

guest appearances in The 

Forum. 

Also now on line is an 

improved version of 

WineLink with 84 different 

menu options including 

special beers, lagers, wines, 

brandies and port. 

Subscribers can place 

orders at very competitive 

prices and can also send gift 

packs to friends in a presentation 

box with personal 

message. 

Opting out 

RUMOURS that Word- 

Perfect 5.0 and 5.1 are to be 

made available for the 

Amiga have been denied. A 

spokesman for the company 

told Amiga Computing that 

while it will continue to 

support the Amiga with 

maintenance releases which 

may add new power features, 

there are no plans to 

develop Amiga versions of 

the latest upgrades. 

Colours 

galore 

AMIGA 2000 and 3000 

owners will soon be able to 

display 16 million colour 

images on their machines 

with the new Harlequin 

Framebuffer from Amiga 

Centre Scotland (031-557 

4242). 

More than a year in developoment, 

this tasty offering 

should be available before 

the end of 1990, according 

to the latest word from ACS 

boss Martin Lowe. 

Although he makes no 

promises h e hopes 

Harlequin will have its first 

public showing at the 

Computer Graphics Show at 

Alexandra Palac- luring the 

first week in November. 

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Moving into megabyte land 

BACK in the old days. any 

amount of memory over 16k 

was more than you could 

possibly use and much 

more than you could possibly 

afford. 

In these enlightened days 

of course, the Amiga user 

may be seriously looking at 

expanding his or her computer 

to the dizzy heights of 

several megabytes. 

There are several ways of 

doing this on an A500. and 

the two major systems are 

from ICD and Cortex. 

The ICD AdRAM unit fits 

into the trapdoor, and is 

available in the form of a 

4Mb motherboard, a further 

2Mb daughterboard and 

various steps in between. 

It's small, it's neat and you 

can get one from either 

Third Coast or Silica 

Systems. 

The Cortex unit is an 

externally fitting, externally 

powered box which plugs 

into the side of the A500 

and has a through cornice- 

tor to allow the A590 hard 

drive to be connected. It can 

be expanded in several 

steps to 8Mb. It's also small, 

also neat and you can get 

one from Cortex (051-236 

0480). 

Which is best? Well, 

you'll have to wait until 

next month to fi nd out, for 

at this very moment the 

team are putting them both 

through their paces. 

Exciting. isn't it? 

Besides ram expansions. 

ICD have been busy trying 

to speed things up. The 

AdSpeed processor acceler- 

Pricing has yet to be fixed 

but Martin is aiming to 

bring it in under the E2,000 

mark. 

Harlequin features RGB 

analogue broadcast specification 

output. full 24 

bits/pixel colour giving 

16,777,216 colours, output 

interlace and non-interlace, 

full overseen in all Modes 

and resolutions and is 

Genlockable in interlace 

mode. 

Both PAL and NTSC versions 

are available with 32 

bits/pixel design. software 

to load IFF, Sculpt, 

ScanLab, Digi-View and 

other files and programming 

interface supplied. 

Harlequin comes in four 

confi gurations - a base 

model: base model with 

double huffering; base 

model with Alpha channel 

and base model with both 

double buffering and Alpha 

channel. Other options 

include CCIR 656 for 601 

digital video. PAL encoder, 

Harlequin genlock. Amiga 

Genlock and single frame 

controller. The board is 

ator is rather cunning: 

Instead of just using the 

most expensive member of 

the 680x0 family in place of 

the stock CPU, AdSpeed 

uses what at fi rst might 

seem a rather tame 14,7 

Mhz 68000. 

The clever bit is the 32k 

of Static ram used to cache 

data and instructions, 

which will speed things to 

the extent that AdSpeed can 

run faster than some 68020 

cards. The use of a 68000 

also means that software 

compatibility is as good as 

it can he. Looks nice, 

designed to 100 pin Zorro II 

specification for internal 

use in the Amiga 2000 and 

3 000 and ACS have no 

plans for either A500 or 

1000 versions. 

Harlequin can be used 

without additional hardware 

but since 24 bit image 

files are over 1Mb uncompressed, 

a hard disc is recommended. 

Network 

newsf lash 

PAUL Fleetwood. a dealer 

for the Nine Tiles network 

reviewed in the October 

issue of Amigo Computing. 

has asked us to reiterate that 

the prices mentioned in the 

article were per card. 

Obviously this means that 

for a network of two 

machines, you'll need two 

cards. 

The networks will also 

work best with Amigas 

which have at least 1Mb of 

ram. 

/MEGA COMPUTING November 1 990 9

US sales slump, 

Europe's boom 

THE grass may be greener 

on the other side of the 

fence but this is certainly 

not the case on the other 

side of the Atlantic if 

Commodore International's 

latest figures are anything to 

go by. 

Profi ts dropped from 

$51.3 million last year to a 

mere $1.5 million for the 

year ending June 30, 1990 

although Iota) sales were 

only down from S939.7 million 

to S1387.3 million. 

Meanwhile. Commodore 

UK have preceeded the 

release of their official figures 

with an announcement 

that their turnover for that 

period rose to E75 million 

from the previous year's figure 

of E43 million. Sales in 

France, Italy, Denmark and 

Holland are also said to 

have risen. 

Commodore International 

say their massive drop in 

profits is due to three factors 

— adverse exchange 

rates, rising costs and a six 

per cent drop in sales as 

emphasis was moved from 

the C64 to the higher-margin 

Amiga. 

Following this move, 

Amiga sales are said to have 

shown a 40 per cent 

increase in the last quarter 

with total sales up 10 per 

cent in the same period. 

In the UK, Commodore 

claim to have an installead 

Amiga base of more than 

345,000 machines and predict 

that they will hit the 

LOOKING for the perfect 

gift for an Amiga-using 

loved one? How about the 

1991 Jim Sachs Collection 

Calendar. 

Each month features a 

classic image from this 

renowned Amiga artist, 

along with helpful hints 

and background information. 

Sounds wonderful. If 

you think so too, get in 

touch with Oxxi Inc. 

New HAM 

package 

AEGIS SpectraColor comes 

from those nice people who 

brought us Photon Paint, 

and is the first HAM package 

to support full 

DeluxePaint style Brush 

Animation. 

For those not in the lulow. 

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which allows 4,096 colours 

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to be displayed onscreen at 

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the same time. The only 

d drawback with it is fair 

awhack 

of the available pro- 

ncessor 

time it uses, making 

animation — at best — diffi- 

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cult. 

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Looking through the spec- 

oifi 

cations. Spte traColor 

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half f million mark by the 

end y of the year. 

"Commodore's sales 

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growth in the UK and our 

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other European markets 

shows s the strength of our 

product a range", said UK 

managing s director Steve 

Franklin. 

p 

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this, the UK operation 

has seen a number of 

- 

recent departures including 

financial director Mike 

McGeehan, members of the 

marketing staff and business 

systems products manager 

Jennifer Perry. 

Teaching 

technology 

COMPUTERS are valuable 

in giving physically handicapped 

people or those with 

learning difficulties a better 

standard of life. E.N.S.T. 

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Amiga calendar Christmas is c 

looks as though it will 

become the new standard by 

which all future art packages 

will be judged. for not 

only does it support brush 

(Education And Social work 

Training) now helps the disabled, 

their carers and 

teachers to get more out of 

new technology. 

E.A.S.T, staff undertake 

training courses throughout 

Scotland and the UK. 

Through these courses and 

consultancy, they also aim 

to help shape future policies 

on IT training for the 

disabled. 

They have extensive 

experience in the use of 

computers in a variety of 

settings and have detailed 

technical skills at their disposal. 

Staff are also very 

experienced in putting their 

knowledge across whether 

to people who are complete 

beginners in computers or 

those who are more experienced. 

Courses include 

Computers for Beginners, 

Adult Basic Education, 

anims, but it comes with a 

full set of image tools which 

will do everything from 3D 

extrusions to shadow directions. 

Switch Control, Remedial 

Education, Communication 

and Evaluation. They are 

held for individuals or 

groups. More details can be 

obtained from E,A.S.T. on 

031-669 3916. 

Taking on 

the tutors 

EDUCATIONAL software 

house Kosmos (05255 3942) 

hve now released Amiga 

versions of all of their most 

popular titles. 

Four foreign language 

programs lead the new 

releases. They are The 

French Mistress, The 

German Master, The 

Spanish Tutor and The 

Italian Tutor. They are 

aimed at language students 

from beginners to GCSE 

level and above. 

The programs include 

large ready-made vocabularies 

of foreign and english 

words covering nouns. 

adjectives, adverbs, conjunctijons, 

prepositions, 

phrases and verbs conjugated 

in six tenses. 

Students can choose from 

a wide range of learning and 

test modes and can also create 

their own lessons for 

homework or revision. 

For ease of use, vocabulary 

is arranged under 32 

separate heading such as 

the family, the dwelling, 

vehicles and food and drink 

and cover 2,500 words. 

Price. £19.95. 

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Creator is an astonishing piece of software. Now, for the first time, you can 

exploit to the full the awesome power of your Amiga. Whatever you 

want to create, AMOS will turn your dreams into reality. 

What the press say: 

6 It's open-ended, better than so we that ever any hoped Amiga for. owner It's such can an benefit easy from system it. It's to wonderful get to grips and with, worth but every staggeringly penny. 

Get it - now!" P o p u l a r Computing W'eekly. July 5 

'A must - for Amiga users who would like to be able to develop their own games, but can't lace the 

thought 11 of learning machine code.' A C E , August 

An incredible product that should create more incredible products. It looks like the days of the 

machine-code programmer are numbered.' C o m m o d o r e User, August 

Can AMOS be used to produce commercial-quality games? The answer seems undoubtedly 

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r 'A very impressive package - without doubt the very best Basic available on the Amiga. Incredible 

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David Linacre, Chesterfield 

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The speed for a Basic is breathtaking" D e l u y n Farr, Dukinfield 

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'An excellent job' AMOS is taster than I'd ever dreamed possible!' 

M Barkley, Stone 

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What AMOS owners are going to create: 

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package... flashy scrolling demos - and this is just the beginning! 

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Kosmos are two educational 

quiz programs called 

Answer Back Junior Quiz 

and Answer Back Senior 

Quiz. Including large 

databases of general knowledge, 

each program contains 

750 questions spread over 

15 topics. 

For the six to 11 yearolds, 

topics cover such subjects 

as nature, music, word 

fun, sums and spelling. The 

11 and over topics include 

history, geography, astronomy, 

inventions and sport. 

Answer Back programs 

cost £19.95 and are backed 

by supplementary quiz files. 

Factfile 500, at E9.95 each. 

Is there a 

doctor in the 

house? 

THAT well-known producer 

of music software, Dr T, is 

moving house. The new 

address - still in the US 

we're afraid - is Suite 1B, 

100 Crescent Road, 

Needham, MA 02192, telephone 

617 455 1454. 

That's where to go if you 

want to hassle them about 

any of their products, 

including the intelligent 

music system "M" and the 

forthcoming SMPTE synchroniser 

Phantom. The 

SMPTE device is especially 

interesting, as it will interface 

with software such as 

the imminent Showmaker 

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Big names 

THE Computer Shopper 

Show - the event which 

smashed all previous 

records for pre-Christmas 

computer exhibitions in 

1989 - is all set to retain its 

title of the UK's largest 

Amiga event when it opens 

at Wembley Conference 

Centre on December 6. 

Leading suppliers in the 

Commodore Amiga world 

will be on hand with more 

than 100 of the 280 stands 

offering Amiga related 

products to ensure that 

Shopper lives up to its reputation 

as the ultimate onestop 

shopping venue for 

both hardware and software 

Christmas bargains. 

Household names in the 

Amiga market who have 

already committed to the 

show include Anco 

Software, CDS Software, 

Database/Mandarin 

Software. Delta Leisure, 

Digita International, 

Dowling Computers, 

Time for a 

green re-ink 

THERE are two things you 

should think of every time 

you throw away a printer 

ribbon. The first is that you 

are not throwing it away 

because it is worn out, 

merely because it has run 

out of ink. 

The second is that consequently 

you are wasting 

energy, resources and being 

a bit unfriendly towards 

mother nature. 

The fi rst of these problems 

has been solved 

before. Re-ink your ribbon. 

The fabric is good for several 

complete re-inks 

depending on your printer 

and exactly what you use 

it for. Needless to say that 

compared to the price of a 

new ribbon a bottle of reinking 

fluid is virtually free. 

Unfortunately. up until 

now the re-inking fl uid on 

the market has been manufactured 

into ozone-depleting 

aerosols. This is a Bad 

Thing. 

But now help is at hand. 

line up for THE show 

Evesham Micros, Hi Soft, 

CFA Data Media. 

Impressions, Mindscape. 

Ocean, Real Things: 

Rombo, US Action and 

Virgin Mastertronic. 

The 1990 event will also 

feature a major advice centre 

from where experts. 

including leading Amiga 

exponents, will dispense 

free unbiased guidance to 

visitors seeking to acquire 

the most relevant software. 

hardware or peripherals to 

suite their needs. 

Organised by Blenheim 

Database Exhibitions and 

sponsored by Computer 

Shopper magazine, the 

show runs from December 

6 to 9. 

The move to Wembley 

from its original venue of 

Alexandra Palace and the 

addition of an extra day follow 

the unprecendented 

success of last year's inaugural 

event. 

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at this year's show. 

Computer Shopper will 

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It is open on Thursday 

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2 Unkind 

I HAVE just read the "Word 

Processing — Part 2" article in the 

September issue of Amiga 

Computing and was very surprised 

to find a review of KindWords 2 

not included, 

In the review of Scribble the 

article says "....the inclusion of a 

thesaurus. No similarly priced 

word processor has this facility." 

Wrong! 

Kindwords has a 470,000 synonym 

English thesaurus, likewise a 

100,000 word English dictionary, 

and apart from the fact you cannot 

have multiple files open, a facility I 

have not yet missed, I rate 

Kindwords better than Transcript 

or Scribble! 

It is very easy to use. Although it 

does not use Amiga fonts it does 

come with ll of its own including 

Greek (what use is that?) and a very 

wide set of printer drivers (including 

Superfonts to produce remarkable 

results on even a cheap 9 pin 

dot matrix printer). All in all lots of 

facilities on a three disk •set with a 

nice manual, 

I think the fact the Kindwords 

was not included was a serious 

omission to an otherwise excellent 

article or has the Amiga 

Computing team got something 

against Kindwords? David Sellwood, 

Warrington, 

Cheshire. 

No, we don't have anything against 

Kin dwords. The mason we didn't 

include it in the word processing 

feature with the rest of the packages 

was because we didn't have a 

copy, 

know what you're thinking, 

pretty poor load of hacks that can't 

even be bothered to get hold of a 

few disks of software to review. 

Wrong. 

We go out of our way to make 

sure every single feature in this 

magazine is extensively researched 

before you read it. The lack of 

information is just as serious as 

misinforming our readers. 

There is nothing we would have 

liked more than to include the 

package you mentioned. We 

attempted to obtain one through 

the distributors in this country We 

called Them up and they weren't 

available, we faxed them several 

times and got no reply. 

As I said we go out of our way, 

but there is a point at which that 

has got to stop. Short of buying the 

package in question there was no 

way it could be included. 

So the answer to your question 

is that we wanted to review it, but 

the distributors didn't want us to. 

That's what happens in this business 

when you have a reputation 

for telling the truth. 

I cannot comment on your opinions 

of Kindwords, because I've 

never seen it. The guys that put 

together that feature could have 

written a couple of hundred words 

on Kindwords from press releases 

and adverts, but unlike many other 

publications. We treat manufacturers' 

specifications with a good deal 

of healthy suspicion — I'm sure 

that's the way most of you prefer it. 

Sense and 

sensibility 

BOUGHT our Amiga in June, 

had a tape Amstrad before,and I'm 

really pleased with my choice. 

Since we bought it, my husband 

has got a half meg ram upgrade, a 

second disk drive, a stereo colour 

monitor (the music from Amiga is 

Hi, I'm the mail man, Man. It's my job to sort your scribblin's and spill the beans on 

the problems we all have when DIM starts to whirr. So if you've got something to 

say, say it to me. 

The best letters will be sent prizes of up to 

MO, so get a copy of Protext into your drive 

root°. Drop me a line at Ezra Surf's 

Postbox (ESP), Amiga Computing, Europa 

House, Adlington Park, Adlington, 

Macclesfield SKIO 

fantastic) and a 24 pin colour 

printer. 

My daughter uses the printer 

when she runs DeltorePaint II and 

has become really good processing 

quickly from white sheep with red 

wellies on. 

My son on the other hand seems 

I HAVE been trying to install programs 

on my A590 hard drive 

(thanks to Diamond!) but when I 

click on the icon on some software 

— for example Kindwords 

and DeluxePrint — it asks for the 

disk which the program was 

copied from. 

I am not experienced with 

CLI, but I have been able to use it 

to copy the programs to the hard 

drive. The assign command 

explained in the A590 manual 

does not seem to work. Am I 

doing something wrong? 

Could you please give me a 

by-the-letter description of what 

to do. Hopefully this will help 

somebody else in the same situation. 

Lets see some more mug shots 

of the team! 

Colin Morrison, 

Lisnaskea, 

Fermanagh, 

Northen Ireland. 

More mug shots? Are you mad? 

Tough assignment 

LETTERS 

to be great at mastering arcade 

games. I've got Home Accounts and 

have transferred all my accounts on 

to the disk and Kindwords which 

you have not featured in your article 

on wordprocessing. 

It keeps saying that there are no 

spelling mistakes in the text even 

though I know I'm a lousey speller. 

My husband likes to play Battle 

Chess because of the great effects 

and seeing what Workbench can 

do. 

Myself. I love adventures though 

my mind doesn't seem as logical as 

the programmers! Anyway enough 

of us, you wanted some cut price 

projects. I'm going to try making 

Circulation hasn't recovered 

since the last lot went in. Let's 

face it, Aj and Green are ugly. In 

fact, the ontv handsome chap is 

me, and they can't afford my 

\ 

f OK. The problem with some 

e 

programs is that they always 

look for files on the original disk. 

e 

To counteract this you must cre- 

sate 

a logical device on your hard 

, disk with exactly the same name 

as the original disk. 

For example, supposing you 

had bought the wordprocessor 

Ezra word form Ezrasoft. The 

disk would probably be coiled 

"EzraPror. Make a directory on 

your hard disk called Ezra. Then 

add the following line to your 

startup-sequence: 

assign Ezraprog: 110:Ezra 

If you don't want to clog up 

yoar startup 

-always 

type it in each time. 

sequence 

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Five years to the month after Protext version 1 was 

launched Arnor are pleased to present version 5, an enormous leap 

forward in both ease of use and performance. 

Pretext 5.0 introduces a completely integrated system of pull down menus 

and dialogue boxes. The menus are among the many operations that may now 

be carried out with either the mouse or the keyboard. Protext really does give 

you the best of both worlds. 

Protext 5.0 handles printer fonts flexibly and accurately. You can make full use 

of any number of proportional printer fonts, mix them freely within any line, 

centre them in headers, use automatically formatted footnotes. And Protext 

correctly formats your text as you type it, no matter how many font changes 

you use, showing you line and page breaks exactly as they will be printed. 

Protext 5.0 is still the fastest word processor around. Even though we hove 

made all these major improvements we have token great care to ensure that 

text editing is as fast as ever. The menus work smoothly and quickly even 

with high resolution displays. But of course, you con use Protext's efficient set 

of commands and keys just as before and 5.0 remains compatible with all 

earlier versions from 1.0 onwards. 

Protexi 5.0 is a worthy successor to version 4, which was described as "the 

best word processor at any price", the best text processor on the Amigo" 

and "the most powerful word processor on the Atari ST" (AU!, ST/Amiga 

Format, ST User). 

Protext 5.0 heralds o new era of multi-lingual European software, in time for 

1992 and the opening up of Eastern Europe. Protext may be used in at least 

27 different languages and has 10 

different national keyboard layouts 

built in (plus the capability - to define ? ) .4 

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keyboard layouts). 

Protext 5,0 

Upgrode from v4 2 

from earlier versions 

Protext 4.2 

Prodaia 1.1 

The Features 

A New fast & easy to use pull down 

menu system with dialogue boxes and 

alerts; file selector: mouse dragging to set 

blocks. Menus complement existing • 

commands and keyboard shortcuts, do 

not replace them, Menus may be used 

with mouse or keyboard. Amiga version 

folows Intuition guidelines, 

:fr. Enhanced printing capabilities supports multiple proportional fonts; mixing of 

diferent font sizes on the some line: proportional formating whilst editing; side 

margin, headers and footers independent of main text font. Tabs, decimal labs and 

centre tabs. Extensive range of printer drivers supplied. 

A Multiple file editing • up to 36 files may be open; split screen editing. 

ft Graphics mode support on PE alows use in virtually any text or graphics mode 

including 132 column or 15 line VGA modes: user defined characters and on-screen 

bold, italics and underlining now on all versions; use of 13 different accents on any 

character, 

A Language support indades Albanian, Basque, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, 

Esperanto, Estonian, Flemish, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latin, 

Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese. Rumanian, Serbacraation, Slovak, Spanish, 

Slovene, Swedish, Welsh. (Nate: some printers do not support all languages). 

A Index and contents generation. Indexer takes marked words or phrases,: contents 

entries automaticaly taken from titles wrapped in control codes; many options for style 

of contents output. 

A Spelling checker features completely new 110,000* word Colins dictionary with very 

last phonetic lookup. Anagrams and find word poen. foreign language dictionaries 

(German, Swedish available now, others to follow). 

A Many other enhancements including multi-line footnotes and endnotes; automatic 

timed save; add column or row of figures, indent tabs; find word at cursor; 40 column 

mode support; sentence operations; inter- paragraph space: much improved expression 

evaluator; self incrementing variables; Roman numerals; newspaper-style column 

printing; file sorting utility with special options for names and addresses; revised manual 

plus new tutorial guide. 

A And don't forget Protext still includes background printing; box manipulation; 

macro recording; exec files: headers and footers; find and replace; mail merging,: 

undelete; file conversion utility; configuration program; auto reformating; on screen 

help; time and date; typewriter mode: line drawing; disc utilities. 

Prices 

Prole xt 5.0 may be purchased from any good computer shop or directly from Amor. Upgrades from earlier versions 

are only available from Arnor and the original discs should be returned with your order 

PC A m i g o ST/TT Archimedes 

Moles: 

E149.95 

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otext 41 requires at least 512K of memory on all machines 

Prodato requires IMB of memory on the Amiga 

E149.95 049.95 

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the computer stand, as detailed in 

September's issue. 

Well anyway I haven't any room 

en top of our bench, just enough 

for the computer and gadgets. On 

either side I have drawers. The 

boxes that the disks come in can be 

taped together at an angle to allow 

the drawer to be shut. 

If you are not too fussy you can 

convert an old shoe box. Cut it in 

half lengthwise and slide the sides 

in together until a disk fits, then 

tape or glue together. Get a piece of 

corrugated paper to fit inside the 

bottom of the box with the grooves 

uppermost running across the box. 

It's handy for blank disks or large 

amounts of disks. 

This is my idea for a mouse mat, 

as I haven't any room to move a 

mouse on our bench — use your top 

drawer. Cut stiff cord or hardboard 

to be able to just rest on the sides 

I AM writing to you for advice 

because you have offered me 

much assistance in the past and 

there is a desperate shortage of 

people who are au fait with the 

Amiga in Basingstoke to whom I 

can turn for help. 

I have been following the 

excellent feature on word processing 

and desktop publishing 

in Amiga Computing, and I 

would like to purchase a software 

package which will meet all 

my needs without being too far 

beyond my budget. 

I should first of all like to 

know if I am the only person on 

the face of this planet who is not 

enchanted with Kindwords. I 

find it very claustrophobic to 

use, in the sense that it is very 

slow and does not always execute 

the commands I give it. For 

instance, while I type, entire passages 

of text disappear, only to 

return a few minutes later. 

I always have to press Return. 

Space, and Delete twice in order 

for them to work. On occasions, 

strange messages and symbols 

appear in the text, and I have to 

spend time deleting them, which 

causes me much frustration. I 

often find using this program so 

tedious that I turn to QED 

instead of Kindwords. 

It is for this reason that I am 

considering buying a WP/DTP 

package in the near future. 

However, with so much to 

choose from, I am not sure which 

of the drawer and about thre—quarters 

of the drawer's length (so you 

can lift it up to get at the contents). 

Cover it with Fabian green felt 

and that's it! You can leave the mat 

in the drawer and close it — but 

don't forget to take the poor mouse 

out first! 

I have your free disk with Make 

money fruit machine on, We loved 

to play it, but one day the screen 

flashed and the icon disappeared. 

How can I get it back? 

Then there's the latest disk 

game, 'Grey Slayeave tried three 

times to load it from your instructions 

with no luck. After the words 

"press left button to continue" I get 

"unknown mouse command", 

Help! 

When I bought our computer I 

bought all the Amiga computer 

mags I could get, especially ones 

with disks. They are OK but after 

the novelty is wearing off your 

The perfect word processor 

way to turn. Perhaps, if I give you 

my specifications, you may be able 

to help me in my decision: 

• I am an RSA 3 standard typist 

with a maximum speed of 75 

words a minute on a typewriter 

and 95 wpm on a computer keyboard. 

I am therefore going to 

want a package which is not going 

to have a long delay period 

between the time my fingers hit 

the keys and the point at which 

the characters appear on the 

screen. 

• I am likely to be using the package 

a great deal, so I are going to 

want a program which is aesthetically 

pleasing, if I am going to be 

staring at the screen for long periods 

at a time. 

• I would like to have to use the 

mouse as little as possible, as to 

take hands off the keyboard wastes 

time and is very annoying. 

• I'd prefer the program to have 

graphics handling capabilities. as I 

often need to import illustrations 

into the main body of my text. 

though "flow around" is not essential. 

• As well as bold, italic, and 

underline, justified right margin 

and wysiwyg would be essential 

features, and a wordcount facility 

would certainly make life easier. 

• A spell-checker would probably • 

remain redundant, becoz my speling 

is purfekt, but a thesaurus 

would dispense with the need for 

a paper one taking up room on the 

desk. 

magazine seem to have more interesting 

articles in a more readable 

form. 

My special favourite is the letters 

page, as it seems to answer a 

lot of my questions and I see other 

people have the same queries. 

Also you seem to treat the writers 

with respect. Some other 'nags 

seem to use the reply to slang off 

the writers, 

Patricia Griffin, 

Chester-le-Street, 

Durham. 

Thanks for the tips. 1 used to 

use an old lino tile as a mouse 

mat — it was great and a lot bigger 

than any you can buy 

What do you mean the novelty 

of the disks is wearing off? Don't 

let Jeff hear you say that or he'll 

send his beard to visit. 

I think your missing Make 

Money is just a case of a wander. 

I took my RSA 2 word processing 

exam on an Amstrad using 

Wordstar, which is a practical, if 

not cosmetically pleasing, program. 

Well, faced with this information, 

could you advise me which 

package would be most suitable? I 

quite like the sound of Pen Pal, but 

would its speed deficiency hamper 

me too much? I hope you will be 

able to come to my rescue once 

again, 

Katharine Spencer, 

Basingstoke, 

Hampshire, 

Hi, Katharine. It's always nice to 

hear from you. Unfortunately the 

kind of package you describe does 

not exist yet. although several get 

close. Looking through the word 

processing feature in the 

August/September issues will be a 

close as you get to a thorough 

description of each package. 

For speed, you would be hod 

pressed to heat Protext. 

Unfortunately it has no graphics. 

For laying out pages. you really 

need a DTP package. 

Unfortunately, they ore slow. 

I hate to admit it, but I'm 

stumped. What you really need to 

do is find a dealer who will let you 

ploy around with as many packages 

as possible. 

But you'll have to admit it: 

You're asking for a perfect piece of 

software, something which even 

Ezra, have never seen. (OK, then. 

apart from 3D Monster Maze.) 

111 LETTERS 

ing icon. took in all the drawers 

It's probably hiding. 

Waffle waffle 

complain gripe! 

I'VE just wandered back from the 

Norwich with a copy of Beast 2. 

hoping it is a good game (haven't 

played it vet: Games, as always. are 

low on my priority list). While 

wandering home (if you can wander 

anywhere on an FZ1000) I was 

thinking about reviews and when 

they come out. 

Why can a game like Beast 2 not 

be reviewed, or even extensively 

previewed.and yet suddenly 

appear in the shops. I would have 

expected large previews in the 

Amiga magazines if it was so 

nearly completed. or even the now 

famous Exclusive Review! 

The above point is made more 

curious by a game called 

Supremacy from Virgin. A computer 

mag reviewed this game and 

I must say I was very interested. Is 

this bit of software for sale? Not on 

your nellies, Mr Wulf, 

Why do magazines insist on taking 

the software company's word 

for it? I would have thought that 

because of past experience of the 

computer industry, magazines 

would he a little more sceptical of 

release dates and "final copies" of 

software, 

I am not blaming all magazines, 

Amiga Computing is certainly 

blameless on this count, EFT- 

POTRM. RES 101 and Damocles 

were all reviewed approximately a 

month after everyone else, but at 

about the same time as they 

appeared in the shops. Ah bliss, 

That's the way it should be. 

The search for the exclusive 

'should not be priority number one, 

especially if it doesn't arrive for 

months. And yes, as you've probably 

guessed, I do remember Street 

Hawk! 

Kevin Hall, 

CDC 

Games reviews are an interesting 

subject. It depends a great deal on 

the software houses. Sometimes 

they send someone (usually a 

pretty young woman) to show us a 

preview Sometimes they ask us to 

review this preview. We refrain 

from doing so. and instead we 

write a story for the Amiga Arcade 

section and mention the release 

dates. As to the time after a game

MI LETTERS 

HELP FILE 

Chips with 

everything 

(I WILL soon be getting a memory 

expansion for my A500 end 

wourd like some Information. 

1. Could you please tell me 

what is the new "Chipmem 

Option" that is being offered on 

some of the newer memory 

expansions and will there be any 

soldering needed to use it. 

2. Could you also tell me how 

can tell if my 1.3 Amiga has the 

new fatter Agnuschlp, as I have 

read that newer 1.3s have it fitted. 

My kickstart version is 

34.5. Do I have a fatter Agnus? 

K. L. Paulson. 

Rusholme, 

Manchester. 

These two questions are related, 

so I'd like to answer them backwards 

if you don't mind. First of 

all the fatter Agnus is present in 

ECS (Enhanced Chip Set) 

machines. Run Checkagnus or a 

similar program to determine if 

you have it. Alternatively lift 

the lid and check the version 

number (if it is greater than 

8371 then you have ECS). 

The ECS will give you, among 

other things, the ability to use 

one meg of chip memory. Chip 

memory is the one that can be 

directly addressed by the DMA 

channels of the custom chips and 

is required by sound and graphics 

programs. 

The chipmem option on expansion 

boards will only work if you 

have ECS, but you will have to 

modify your motherboard. Nasty. 

Programming 

triangle 

am a student studying for A 

Level computer science. I need 

to learn Pascal for my project 

work and I would be grateful if 

you could send me a list of any 

Pascal compilers available for 

the Amiga 500. 1 am looking for 

a simple to use program (I use 

BBCs at college) which is, 

preferably, as cheap as possible. 

M. Lott, 

Student villa 

Your luck is in Mr Lott Not 

only is one available, but it is 

so cheap it was in the PD section 

of the August issue. 

hits the shops and when it gets 

reviewed in the mug_ what normally 

happens is the software 

house send us the finished. 

shrink-wrapped game 0 week or 

Iwo before it gets into the shops. 

We decide whether or not to 

review it, and if so the review is 

written in about a week to ten 

days. It then goes into the magazine. 

A worst case scenario means 

that the delay from us getting the 

game to it appearing in a review in 

a shop is about seven weeks, The 

best case is about two weeks. 

Software houses all have their 

favourite mags, depending on how 

they see circulation, readership 

and the independence of the editorial 

team from advertising 

accounts. This is why we 

sometimes don't receive a certain 

game at all, ever. 

Its all very interesting, but 

remarkably petty at times. 

Virus vandals 

THANKS fur the advice on those 

naughty Rampage wallies giving us 

a virus on their disk magazine. I 

checked my copy as soon as I saw 

your warning and, yes, it was 

infected. 

My copy of VirusX4 killed it off 

a treat, however when I read Steve 

Tibbet's dot files on the various 

symptoms of Lamer II it prompted 

me to check all disks that I'd used 

in the past couple of weeks. 

After going through some 50 

disks I found another infected one. 

Stampede 2 disk 2 (Rampage's previous 

name). I definitely hadn't 

used this one since I had purchased 

Rampage 3, so maybe this 

one had originally been the 

infected disk and it had infected 

the later issue. 

I'm telling you so that you can 

pass this on to the rest of our readers, 

though I'm sure most would 

check all their Stampedelampage 

disks "just to be sure". 

This brings we round to the subject 

of virii in general. I've found 

three breeds: The irritating, the 

awkward and the nasty. 

The first kind don't do any damage. 

they just need a swift dose of 

VirusX to clear them up. The second 

kind normally don't do permanent 

damage. 

They also need VirusX, but vou 

will probably have to do a bit of 

repair work. The nestles are those 

that kill your disk's data perma- 

nently, This is vandalism in my 

view and the culprits should be 

punished severely. We have 

enough problems with disk's copy 

protection causing programs to 

crash or hang. • 

This can be caused simply by 

your drives being dirty, misaligned 

or out of tolerance slightly. So 

when creeps start spreading 

destructive programs around it's no 

fun at all. 

Botch of Botch of 

the Month 

YOU were too late with your Botch 

of the Month on "How to install a 

disk". I just assumed my poor 

knowledge of how to use 

Workbench was to blame: I've 

wiped the disk. 

Anyway, it's made me write and 

ask about Amiga Computing doing 

some articles for the likes of me 

who hasn't got a grasp of CLIs. 

I would like to have ago at learning 

how to program, but all the 

books I've looked at and all your 

articles seem too advanced, or al 

least assume a high degree of 

understanding. 

I need a beginner's and intermediate 

level guide to stand any 

chance of grasping what it's all 

about. 

Because of this "tbickie" level 

all the disks you include with the 

mag aren't any use to me because 

I'm system illiterate and don't 

know what possible use any of the 

utilities are likely to have. 

I've only been reading the mag 

for a short while, and it's cost with 

disks I'm not using had made me 

decide to cancel. But I'll hang 

. for a while now I've written to give 

on 

to a chance to help me. S. Heywood, 

Bark, 

N. Yorkshire 

Hey dude, don't put yourself 

down! Anyone can learn to use the 

Amiga: It's not difficult, it just 

takes time. 

By not using the cover disks you 

are denying yourself the best possible 

learning tool - experimenting. 

It doesn't matter if you don't know 

what is going on, but you'll never 

learn if you don't try 

If you are really stuck, the 

Abacus range of books are a good 

place to start, We will be address, 

ing the problem of lqing to appeal 

a bit more to folks new to the 

machine, so stay tuned to this 

channel! 

I wouldn't hold out much hope 

for the "Botch of the Month' 

explanation. Some brainless nerd 

managed to botch them too. Sigh. 

Remove the last INSTALL from the 

last line (INSTALL dlO:) and it will 

work. Probably. 

Coding challenge! 

I HAVE a problem which I want to 

put as a challenge to your readers. 

Basically I am trying to write a 

program which will produce a fixture 

list for any even number of 

players. 

For example, for four people 

A,B,C and D it will give: 

Round I, A vs. B and C vs. D 

Round 2, A vs. C and B vs. D 

Round 3, A vs. D and B vs. C 

Simple you say! However, with 

more players it gets exponentially 

more complex, For eight players 

the solution is relatively simple, 

but after that it gets really hairy... 

I have written a program in 

AMOS that will calculate up to 24 

players relative quickly (three 

hours!) but it merely tries each 

match until it finds one that will 

fit. 

My challenge is: Can anyone 

calculate 26 or more players, or 

better still, find a mathematical 

formula that will give solutions for 

any number of players? It's not as 

easy as it looks! 

Paul Williams, 

Northfield, 

Birmingham 

I had to physically restrain Aj 

from loading his C compiler and 

writing a program here and now 

He had glazed look in his eyes. 

and he kept muttering "binomial 

expansion" over and over. 

However, I'd rather throw tht• 

challenge over to you, the loya: 

readership. Can you write a program 

which will do the trick? 

Pedigree poser 

A CRY for help to you and your 

readers! A disabled relative of 

mine is a keen and successful racing 

pigeon breeder. This has been 

a life time hobby and since 

retirement a lifeline. 

However because of his disabil 

ity, he now finds writing a frustrating 

task, so with me being an avid 

Amiga user I have offered to log 

and record his large and changing 

stock of pedigree birds. Here we 

hit the problem. 

Racing pigeons require a pedigree 

to be sent with the birds to 

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their new owners. This is similar to 

a family tree tracing three to four 

generations and a little detail of 

each bird's successes. 

I am, however, unable to find a 

program that will allow me to 

database the pigeons with their 

details and recall and print them in 

such a fashion. 

Do you or your readers know of 

the existence of such a program 

either commercially or in the public 

domain. Or would a programmer 

be prepared to take the 

challenge and code such a utility? 

I feel sure that with the amount 

of breeders of pedigree animals in 

this country that such a program 

must be a viable proposition and 

can only help enhance the Amiga's 

reputation as a serious home computer 

and not just a games machine 

with "excellent graphics and sound 

capabilities." 

All too often I hear these words 

and it makes me see red, yes, 

alongside Macs and Sun workstations 

the Amiga may pale a little, 

but with the arrival of programs 

such as Pagesetter II, Pro Page, and 

the many and varied accounts, 

spreadsheets and databases now 

I HAVE lust started reading your 

September issue and I must say it 

Is the best magazine on the market. 

The Public Domain, The Code 

Clinic and The Amiga Scene column 

are among my favourites. The 

free disk is a delight (how about 

more assembler code?). 

I have tried reading programming 

magazines such as Transactor 

and I.C.P.U.G., but as you may 

know Transactor went bankrupt 

and I.C.P.U,G, is just damned 

inconsistent (always changing its 

format). Anyway, I have a few 

questions to ask to you which have 

been bugging me: 

1. Can the internal clock, which 

is supplied with ram expansions. 

be accessed with a specific 

address? And if so, is it possible to 

read and write to this location 

using assembly? 

2. Is it true that viruses can be 

stored on the internal clock's memory 

and therefore still be alive 

when switched off? 

3. Can a higher processor be 

installed into a normal 500? Can 

all the custom chips be accessed in 

available in the more "serious software" 

market surely the Amiga 

deserves more credit. 

With the expansion hardware 

now available I feel sure the Amiga 

is more than a games console with 

a keyboard! 

Please print my address (if this 

letter reaches the print room) as I 

would be grateful for any help in 

locating the above program. 

Stuart Doe, 

58 Winchester Rd, 

CnIchester, 

Essex. 

Hamm. It really depends on 

how complicated things are going 

to get. If you want to catalogue 

birds on a large scale vou will need 

a fairly expensive and extensive 

fully relational database (to avoid 

having to fill in the same details 

again and again in different 

records). 

However, I'm sure it would be 

quite possible to adapt one of the 

human genealogy programs to 

your needs. I believe there ore 

some in the public domain and I'm 

fairly sure that some kind Amiga 

owner will get in touch and let us 

all know 

Why, oh why, oh why? 

the normal methods using the new 

processor? Will everyday software 

still load? And how many addressing 

methods does a 68030 have? 

4. Why do people get so scared 

about viruses? My friend is paranoid 

about them. Every time I give 

him a disk he has to analyse it with 

100 different virus checkers! 

have never had any trouble 

with viruses in my entire life. In 

fact I have a couple roaming about 

my disks. Unless they really annoy 

me I wipe them out. 

Why have people slaved over 

making flashy virus killers when 

the Install command on the C directory 

does a better job? It totally rewrites 

the boot—block whether it 

detects a virus or not. Surely this is 

more efficient? 

S. Does the new CDTV from 

Commodore have the option to program 

it and do you think it will 

overrun the Amiga market like the 

Amiga did to the 64? 

6. Do you think I will win your 

prizes? 

Jan Paidermans. 

Rotterdam. 

I HAVE recently changed from 

Spectrum to Amiga and am trying 

to understand AmigaBasic. I 

would like to know whether I can 

use pictures from DPaintil or 

Spritz in the basic programs I am 

writing. If so, I would appreciate a 

simple to understand answer 

please, if that is possible, 

Arthur Dark, 

London. 

Almost all art packages on the 

Amiga, including the two you 

mention, use a system of saving 

graphics files as a standard IFF 

form_ IFF is a standard way of 

transferring information between 

similar applications on the Amiga, 

Softwars 

I AM writing in reply to everybody 

saying that Amiga software is too 

expensive. and I agree. The introduction 

of budget software helped 

a bit, hut due to their bad graphics 

and gaineplav they weren't much 

help. 

I know everyone grumbles about 

the prices. Who wants to pay E19 

Thanks for your comments. Now 

the answers: 

I. Yes, if they couldn't be 

accessed, how would Pmfemnces be 

able to set them? Or your Amiga be 

able to tell the time? I don't know 

the addresses, but ask lolyon to 

mention them in next montli's 

Machine Code column. 

2. No, there isn't enough room_ 

Probably. Some viruses can effect 

the clock's contents, but none will 

live there. 

3. Yes, yes. sometimes. dunno. 

4. You have obviously never had 

a commercial game destroyed by a 

boot-block writing virus. Or a 

month's copy vanish by a file 

destroying virus. Remind me never 

to put any disk you send me into 

my drive. 

5. Hamm. Depends what you 

mean by 'program". I don't believe 

it will overrun the Amiga market. It 

is armed at a different group to normal 

Amiga owners. If it evercatches 

on, 

6. Unlikely. 

IFF only... 

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and is a subject more fully discussed 

in the Almanac. 

It really depends what you 

intend to use the graphics for. but 

for a start you'll want to read them 

in and display them. This is very 

easy indeed. In fact it is so easy 

that OM have already written the 

program for you, you'll find it in 

the Amiga Basic drawer on your 

Extras disk. It's called LoadILBM, 

Simply adapting this program may 

fulfil your requirements. 

If you want to do anything more 

serious I recommend you get a 

proper version of Basic or even 

AMOS. which is quite excellent for 

graphics. 

to E25 for a computer game that 

will probably be completed after a 

couple of weeks, with all the tips 

and cheats in magazines. or given 

up, You might see a scene shot or 

review in a magazine and think 

what a brilliant game then when 

you spend 25 quid and get it home 

it's not entirely like what you imagined 

it to be — less gameplay or the 

screenshot was for another 

machine. 

But then you have to look on the 

programmer's side, I mean when I 

leave school I dream of becoming a 

programmer and having "loads a 

money!" 

Maybe the prices could be lowered 

a couple of quid. but remember 

every time you buy a game you 

are helping some poor destitute 

programmer out there. Nick Wright. 

Thornton Heath, 

Surrey. 

I forget how many times I have 

replied to a letter like this. The 

price of software is one of those 

debates that will go on for as long 

as there are software houses_ Again 

I say. the reason that software is 

priced so high is because that's as 

much as software houses can 

charge and still get people to buy 

the game — if you don't like the 

price don't pay it. 

I would challenge your assumption, 

as I'm sum many professional 

programmers would, that the 

development team make vast sums 

of money out of the sales of their 

games. Although individual con• 

tracts are of course negotiable. 

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growing m importance within the music 

scene. e Steinberg have finally seen fit 

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wordprocessors and databases. 

Contained b within the voluminous 

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folder is a single program disk and a 

fairly comprehensive ring bound 

having to work with a mere 24 tracks 

somewhat restricting, but there are 

several factors you must consider. 

For starters, how many of MusicX's 

250 tracks do you actually use? (I 

never use any more than 20). 

Secondly, what's the point of having 

all those tracks available when 

MusicX will only allow you to play a 

maximum of 20 at any one time? OK, 

it's nice to know they are there, but 

you don't really need them. 

After what seems an eternity of disk 

whirring and cnmching. Pro-24 

springs to life (that is. if you've 

remembered to plug in the dangle). 

Upon loading you'll be greeted by a 

rather crowded tape transport page 

containing a bewildering number of 

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The track arranger 

If you're looking for a 

tried and tested 

music sequencer, 

Ste.inberg's Pro-24 

could be the insect's 

leg joints. Jason 

"Donovan" Holborn 

puts it to the test 

icons and other associated gadgets, 

Closer inspection soon reveals that 

most of the icons are pretty standard. 

Along the top of the screen are a 

row of gadgets that control the 24 

tracks they can be switched on and 

off, assigned to different MIDI 

channels and so forth. 

Below this is a rather empty 

rectangular box that doesn't seem to 

do a great deal — until, that is, you 

strike a key on your MIDI keyboard. 

This handy box acts as a sort of 

monitor that displays MIDI activity 

across all 16 channels. 

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dongles, 

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second joystick/mouse port and must 

always be present while Pro-24 is 

running — if you unplug it while Pro- 

24 is still active, the program 

complains bitterly by locking up 

completely, leaving you with one dead 

sequencer. It's Steinberg's way of 

telling you that you're only allowed to 

run it on a single machine at any one 

time. 

Just like a professional multitrack 

tape machine, Pro-24 offers 24 tracks 

of realtime MIDI recording, In many 

respects. there's not a great deal of 

difference between working with Pro- 

24 and working with a multitrack — 

except of course that Pro-24 records 

MIDI data, not sound. 

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Synthesiser Remote This utility lets 

you send commands to your 

synthesisers using a combination of 

MIDI controllers and SysEx 

messages. By defining a series of 

proportional gadgets you can 

configure the Synth Remote utility 

specifically for your MIDI setup. 

SysEx Filer Save money on synth 

RAM cards by using Pro-24 to store 

all your synth sound patches. The 

SysEx filer can receive and send 

SysEx data from just about any synth 

that is capable of generating such 

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stored on standard Amiga disks. 

MIDI Mixer Similar to the AutoMix 

facility in KCS 3,0, the Pro-24 MIDI 

mixer simulates a conventional, and 

rather expensive, mixing console. 

Echo Generator — Just as the name 

suggests, this echos notes, allowing you 

to create reverb and delay effects. 

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having to mess around playing each 

track in turn. 

Using a system of subtracks, Pro 

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eight 24MIDI 

channels simultaneously. 

Not only that, but you can designate 

where the data from each channel is to 

be sent, making it possible to split a 

multi-channel sequence into several 

tracks automatically as it is playing. 

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within a piece. 

Amiga sequencers have always been 

rather weak where composing 

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MusicX failed to address this problem. 

But now Pro-24 comes to the rescue 

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reference track. To make this task 

somewhat easier, Pro-24 offers an 

Arrange window that does just that — 

it arranges songs. 

Just like the Master Track ,this 

reference track does not include actual 

music data. Instead, it contains cue 

points that specify when Pro-24 

should play particular patterns. 

For the experienced MIDI musician, 

this system will more than adequately 

handle the task of song arrangement, 

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others could easily be overwhelmed 

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MUSIC MATTERS 

MIDI Musicial Instrument Digital 

Interface — the protocol that allows 

you to connect your musical keyboard 

to your computer. Physically it looks 

like a 5 pin DIN plug. 

SYSTEM EXCLUSIVE — Also known as 

Sysa. SysEx is the "loophole" in the 

MIDI protocol that was deliberately 

included to allow individual 

instrument manufacturers to design 

their own extensions to the MIDI 

language. This enables instruments of 

the same type to talk to each other 

through MIDI even when there are 

other incompatible instruments 

connected to the same MIDI network. 

SMPTE (Pronounced "SIM-TEE") — 

The full name is actually SMIYrE/EBU 

(which stands for "Society of Motion 

Picture and Television 

Engineers/European Broadcasting 

Union"). SMPTE is a system which 

allows music to be synchronised to 

film. 

MIDI TIME CODE — Yet another 

synchronising system that is used 

specifically to synchronise MIDI 

instruments. Pro-24 offers support for 

both these synch'ing systems. 

OUANTISATION Most music assumes 

an underlying regular pulse on which 

the timing of each note is based. A 

quantiser corrects any timing errors 

within a sequence by aligning notes 

with this pulse, therefore giving the 

sequence a smoother and more 

regular feel. 

TRANSPOSITION — Transposing a 

sequence allows it to be played in a 

different key from that of which it was 

recorded in. For example, transposing 

a sequence by +12 knocks it up an 

octave. 

MIDI CONTROLLERS — MIDI 

Controllers are a bit like SysEx 

messages, but instead of only being 

able to be understood by instruments 

of the same make and model, they 

can be understood by all MIDI 

instruments. They allow you to 

control such properties as the volume 

or modulation of an instrument and 

the ability to pitch bend notes. 

PPON — Stands for Pulses Per 

Quarter Note. All sequencers use a 

very high resolution clock that times 

each MIDI event as and when it 

happens. A single PPON is the 

smallest possible unit of sequencer 

time. In general, the higher the PPON, 

the more realistic the recording. 

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development have honed itinto one of 

the most capable systems available. 

Combining powerful editing features 

with extensive recording and sync'ing 

options, Pro-24 is a worthwhile 

consideration which should not be 

ignored. 

However, it certainly isn't perfect — 

after all, Steinberg themselves have 

improved upon it drastically with 

their latest ST sequencer, Cubase. 

What really lets Pro-24 down is its 

song composition tools. It would have 

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patterns, therefore freeing up valuable 

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deletes any events that have been 

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some form of graphical Arrange Page 

such as the one they now include 

within Cubase. Even better, perhaps 

Steinberg should have gone all the 

way and produced instead an Amiga 

version of Cubase... 

The company have gone to great 

lengths to try and convince us that 

Pro-24 is a very high resolution 

sequencer. Unfortunately, this just 

isn't true — clocking in at just 96 ppqn. 

it is 100 pulses short of MusicX and 

almost 200 short of the latest version 

of Dr.T's KCS. 

For those of you who haven't used 

such an editor, they basically 

represent the notes within your 

sequence as a series of lines of varying 

lengths — the longer the duration of a 

note, the longer the line. 

By just clicking on the notes you're 

interested in, you can insert, delete, 

copy and paste them to your heart's 

content. You can also alter various 

MIDI controllers from within this 

editor. 

Finally, we come to the score 

display facility — and what a let down 

this is. Amiga musicians have been 

crying out for a decent score editor, 

but Steinberg have reduced the Pro-24 

scoring facility to a point where it is 

practically useless. 

The ST version of Pro-24 included 

rudimentary score editing, but all 

these have been hacked out in Amiga 

Pro-24. As it is, all you can do is view 

your sequence as a score — and that's 

it. If you want to edit your music in 

score format, you're still going to 

have to fork out for a package such as 

Dr.T's Copyist. 

For most of us, such technicalities 

won't make a great deal of difference 

to our music making, but for Steinberg 

to make such a claim is somewhat 

misleading. 

With the news of MusicX 2, the 

choice between Pro-24 and the rest is 

no longer so simple. If Microlllusions 

hurry up and get their new release on 

the streets, I can see Pro-24 having to 

fight hard for sales. 

But gripes aside, Steinberg's system 

definitely delivers — if you're after a 

studio proven system. Pro-24 is 

definitely worth investigating. 

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LIKE most of this month's Amiga 

Arcade, this story has been compiled 

after spending four days at 

the Computer Entertainment Show. 

held recently in Earl's Court. 

London. 

Due to circumstances beyond 

his stomach's control, poor Green 

was forced to miss several appointments 

with software houses. This 

was not due (as several cruel 

rumour-mongers have insinuated) 

to self-induced liquid poisoning, 

rather to some dodgy mince eaten 

the day before, 

But enough about Green's digestive 

system: On with the show! 

Rainbow Arts were one of the 

companies which Green missed 

talking to, and what a missed 

opportunity it was too. The - and 

here I quote the remaining members 

on the Interactive stand - 

REMEMBER Wipe Out? Yes you 

do - we gave it a gong award 'cos 

Aj liked it so much. Well, here's 

some good news: It's hack again. 

(Jr almost, for what we have 

here is a subtle re-work to produce 

Street Hockey. We men- 

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Gonzo games 

"stunningly beautiful" PR person 

Nicola Hemming was going to give 

him the details on all the latest 

games. Poor old Ai had to talk to 

her instead. 

Remember Ballblazer? Remember 

thinking that 8 bit 

machines shouldn't be able to do 

things like that? Well it's back, 

but this time it's on an Amiga and 

it's called Masterblaster. 

Now you can have tournaments 

with up to eight players taking 

part, all accompanied by some of 

the smoothest graphics and most 

amazing sound ever (apparently). 

In fact, according to Nicola its so 

hot, your joystick will melt." 

Some sort of gloves would 

seem to be in order when you rush 

out with your €24.99 later this 

month. 

Also from Rainbow Arts is the 

equally fabby looking Rotator. It 

uses what certainly appears to be 

tioned it last month, but it looks 

so good we thought we would 

mention it again. 

Besides, it gives us an excuse 

to use this silly photo of the guys 

land gall responsible. If 'responsible" 

is the right word. 

a similar, but more advanced, system 

to US Gold's Rotorscope (as 

used in Rotor). 

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level instead of a vector system, 

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company formed from the cumulative 

talents of the BitMap bros and 

Rhythm King Records. 

"The new company treat 

programmers differently", said PR 

person Adele. "Instead of some 

sort of disposable commodity, they 

become artists in their own right. 

They have a say in the packaging 

of their games. They also get a very 

healthy cut of the profits," 

There are two games coming 

soon from Renegade: The first will 

be "Gods" to be released in 

January, closely followed by 

"Magic Pockets". Amigo 

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and there's a couple of maps and a 

keyboard overlay to help you master 

one of the world's most sophisticated 

aeroplanes. 

It may be a complex plane, and 

a ditto game, but getting into the 

air is easy enough so you won't be 

spending three hours reading the 

manual before you can take off, 

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though, otherwise you won't have 

a clue as to what's going on. 

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theatres of operation: That new 

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Iraqi invasion — the North Cape. 

and good old Central Europe. 

Initially you will be offered training 

missions in which the enemy 

cannot hit you and you cannot 

crash, though this can be changed 

straight from the start. There are 

more than 4,000 different missions 

to be undertaken, though just how 

different some of them are is debatable. 

Before taking off the four 

weapons bays of the F-19 need to 

be filled up, and here the program 

scores highly. Virtually every missile 

and bomb you could wish for 

is available. 

The ground crew recommends 

your ordnance, but this can be 

changed to whatever you like. The 

back of the manual contains a welter 

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altitudes the scenery just whistles 

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effects are generally good, but 

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after buying this pretty girl a few 

drinks I realised that this was not 

Leisure-suit Larry I was playing 

here and restarted. 

Although the graphics are not 

exactly what you would expect 

From an Amiga, they are reasonable 

and very colourful. The tropical 

music that drifts across the island 

and the more rock style that's at 

home in the bar is very good and 

you can hear different instrumental 

sounds. 

The beginning became quite 

tedious for me. I found myself 

wasting a vast amount of time 

strolling across three or four 

screens time after time. 

Although Code-Name: Iceman 

requires at least 1Mb of RAM. the 

software doesn't keep many 

screens in memory, and constant 

disk accessing slows things down 

quite dramatically. In fact I got very 

bored waiting for the scenery to 

42 AMIGA COMPUTING Novenrihnr 2990 

change all the time, Many of the 

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the Sierra game-play 

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would have to %Ilk to it first then 

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end of level guardian. all armed 

with a couple of whilly wet fish. 

But don't be fooled. Behind this 

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game which will have even confirmed 

Python haters like me (!) 

hooked. The game is a great send 

up of itself and the whole gaming 

world. 

Frinstance. Have you ever 

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where the head of the character 

you are about to become, opens up 

and his brain makes a dash for the 

wide blue yonder? Have you ever 

played a game where the horrible, 

awesome, powerful end of level 

guardian is a Minister of the 

Church? Have you ever started a 

game with a score of 99,999.999 

and tried to loose as many points 

as possible, in order to earn a place 

on the "extremely silly scores" 

board? Has your dear, sweet Amiga 

ever farted at you before? Thought 

not. 

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will know that this is no ordinary 

game. Gumby's progress under 

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closely by what can only be 

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was up to I have no idea. But I'm 

sure it didn't either. After that, 

things go from zany to zanier. 

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between screens in the usual way. 

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himself in a sort of "preparation" 

zone, where his head is disengaged 

from his body (with a satisfying 

*ink), and attracted to something 

more suitable — a fish, or a spring 

for example. Once the operation is 

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Laughing at yourself is a cathartic 

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Na upon a time there was a 

Viking boy called Brian. 

Brian was a quiet child who 

worked for his master in a small 

village. One day his master 

instructed Brain to visit the planes 

beyond the forest to fetch herbs 

and plants for him, It was a long 

walk to the area where the herbs 

grew but Brain walked on, it was a 

beautiful day. 

Whilst out on his mission a great 

storm brewed over the village. 

Thunder and lightning crashed and 

a huge cyclone ripped through 

tearing houses from their foundations. 

When Brian returned to the village 

he could not believe his eyes. 

He stood and stared at the destruction, 

amazed. He enjoyed nature 

and often went walking in the forest 

and woodland surrounding his 

Viking village, for such was his 

occupation. The village had been 

completely destroyed, its population 

fled or captured. 

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Electronic Zoo. The Viking Child 

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M Glames CIA Field Operative 

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lsafe 

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iout. 

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Paragua Airport a quick trip to the 

toilet soon solved that problem. 

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One of our agents in Santa 

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help with the Stealth affair. I suspected 

that General Manigua, probably 

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as well. 

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darker than the dark side of 

the moon on a very dark night. 

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onceyou've found it! 

The weak point of the 

Cinematique System is persuading 

Mr Glames to walk where you want 

him to. it's easy to confuse him 

into missing a door and even after 

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Tread softly, trust no one 

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quite a lot of practice a slightly 

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John makes the mistake of smiinning in concrete wellies! 

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stuff that's seven years 

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The honest answer to that is no. 

Sure all of the games have already 

done the rounds in one form or 

another but now they're back in a 

form which you've not seen before. 

Future Classics is also quite unique 

in it's play methods. I can't say that 

I've ever found a game before that 

allows so many different methods 

of play. In it's most basic form, 

each game can be played by a single 

player. Expanding upon that 

you can get a friend to take control 

of the keyboard or second joystick 

and play together, either against 

one another in competition or in 

conjunction. If you've not got a 

friend (and let's face it. you are a 

boring SOB!). Future Classics provides 

you with a partner. Three 

computer personalities are 

included for you to while away the 

hours. Two player games can take 

Taking on a similar style to 3D Dtris, Block Avalanche offers 

infuriating gameplav to those who can stand the heat! 

place using a split screen method 

so that play can be simultaneous. 

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Battle, Blockalanche and Lost 'n' 

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fast junk food joints in town. This 

is achieved by collecting all the 

food crates and dumping them in 

the trash whilst avoiding the various 

chunks of tasty menu morsels 

which endeavour to fatten you up. • 

Unfortunately, the fatter you get the 

slower you move and the faster you 

are on your way to a coronary. So 

to work off those calories with 

speed, clamber on to the gym 

equipment and lift those weights. 

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quest to save his data from total 

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conversion. 

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came from. SilkWorm IV - AVIV. 

Got it? Good. 

Out on the Storm label in 

November, by the way. 

This SWIV demo has been specially 

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What you've got are the opening 

CRIBBAGE is an old English card 

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in the 16th century by Sir John 

Suckling. It is a refinement of an 

earlier card game called Noddy. 

To start the game, double click 

on its icon. When the main layout 

appears you will see a scoreboard 

at top-left. Computer is blue, you 

are red. 

There is a grey box at top-right 

showing how many games have 

been won by each player and an 

orange box at top-centre showing 

the total value of the cards which 

have been played. 

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the cards in the crib. This also 

indicates (at the top of the box) 

who has the crib. The crib alter- 

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background graphics re-mapped to 

show off some of the features from 

later in the game. 

swnt doesn't have levels - it's 

one continuous vertically scrolling 

landscape with 12 intermediate 

enemy installations where the 

scrolling stops until you've zapped 

everything in sight. After each 

installation has been wiped out, 

the landscape changes. In the full 

Source code 

THE source code for Cribbage is 

on the cover disk in the 

Cribbage drawer in a crunched 

format. It can be examined by 

double clicking the 

Cribbage.BAS icon. Select the 

Print gadget when viewing to 

get a hardcopy. 

Should you wish tp play with 

or customise the listing, you 

will have to decrtmch it first. 

The program for doing this, 

Decnmch• is in the C: directory 

of the cover disk. 

nates after each hand. The large 

box to the right of the crib holds 

the cards during play. The white 

box on the right holds the com- 

game there will( be a jungle landscape, 

an icy wasteland, a space 

graveyard, a science fiction landscape 

. I don't want to spoil it for 

you, so I'll stop giving the game 

away. 

The demo is single player: the 

game itself will be one or two 

player. 

You'll start off with one player 

in the helicopter and the other in 

Cethage 

puter's cards, the blue area below 

the crib box and the play box will 

hold your cards. 

There is a gadget marked 

REVEAL OFF underneath the box 

which holds the computer's cards. 

Use this if you want to cheat during 

play. 

Prompts and messages are displayed 

in the box at the foot of the 

screen. 

The game starts with a question: 

Do you want muggins rules? If you 

choose “Y" you will have to add 

up and declare the score in your 

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the jeep, but at some time during 

the game you'll be able to change 

vehicles so that you can have a 

two-chopper or two-jeep game if 

you like. 

There's very little thinking 

involved in playing SWIV. The 

idea is simply to blast your way 

from one end of the game to the 

other, leaving behind a trail of 

destruction. 

There will be several power-ups 

to collect, and it will be important 

in certain places which power-up 

you take on board. 

An expert player will take 40 to 

50 minutes to finish the whole 

game, depending on how long it 

takes to finish off the intermediate 

installations, so it'll be no mean 

feat if you get to the big end of 

game sequence, which is really 

something special and a trademark 

of the Random Access development 

team. 

You don't need any instructions 

to play this SWIV demo: Just plug 

in a joystick. 

own hand yourself. 

With muggins rules switched on 

you must input your score using 

the up and down arrow keys, then 

hit Return. Your opponent (the 

computer, in this case) will decide 

what it thinks your score is. If you 

have omitted to score something, 

the computer will draw your attention 

to it and score those points for 

itself, 

hi a game between two humans 

this action is accompanied by a 


loud cry of "muggins" so everyone 

else in the room can hear. 

If you are new to Cribbage you 

should not play muggins rules 

until you are comfortable with the 

scoring system — the computer will 

automatically add up your score 

for you. 

Next we cut for deal. In this 

implementation of the game, whoever 

cuts lowest wins the deal and 

the first crib. 

Six cards are dealt to each 

player. Yours will be displayed on 

the screen face-up, but the computer 

can't "see" them. Your first 

job is to discard two cards into the 

crib. 

The dealer may not look at the 

crib yet, but at the end of the game 

any scoring combinations it contains 

count in his favour. So before 

we go any further with the rules, 

you need to know what scoring 

combinations are allowed. 

The order of cards in each suit 

runs from Ace (low) to King (high). 

Each card has a point value equivalent 

to the number of pips on its 

face. The court cards count as 10 

each. The scoring combinations 

and the amounts they score are as 

follows: 

Fifteen: Any two or more cards 

totalling exactly 15, score two 

points. 

Pair: Two cards of the same rank, 

score two points. 

Three of a kind: Three cards of the 

same rank, score six points. 

Four of a kind: Four cards of the 

same rank, score 12 points, 

Run: Three or more cards in 

sequence. score one point per card. 

Flush: Four cards of one suit in the 

hand, score four points. 

Flush: Four cards in hand and start 

card of same suit, score five points. 

Some examples of a fifteen are 

7-8, 5-1:1 end 2-4-9. 

A hand containing 2-4-4-9 

would count fifteen twice, once for 

2-9 plus the first 4, and again for 2- 

9 plus the second 4; the hand 

would also score two for the pair 

(six in total). But a hand 7-4-4 

counts fifteen only once because 

the two 4's must be used once 

together instead of once in each 

order to make up the total. They 

still count two points for the pair, 

of course. 

If a player's four hand-cards are 

60 AMIGA COMPttTING November 1990 

Tactics 

EN presented with your six two cards the computer discards. 

cords, study all permutations to see If you play first, avoid laving 

which four cards will give you the or a 10. Chances are the comp 

will have either of these also,' 

fib card, the start card, to be make a total of fifteen and peg 

'en into consideration. You will points. Watch out for the comp 

I . y see this once you have dis- 

. carded two cards, so you will have 

I 

to use educated guesswork (luck) 

here. Assume the start card will 

s 

help your scoring. 

c Also take into consideration 

playing first. 

If it plays a 10, chances are 

it also has a 5, so if you lay a 5 

will get two points for fifteen 

the computer will pair it off for 

points itself. 

o who has the crib. If it is the com- 

r puter's crib, try not to throw it too 

e many points. Giving it a pairs of 5's 

would be close to disastrous. 

. 

Unless vou cheat (by selecting 

R 

Reveal On) you will not know what 

e 

m 

Try to avoid making the count 

reach 21 because the computer 

may hold a 10 or a court card to 

peg two points for 31. 

The computer will try very hard 

to make runs during play, be aware. 

e 

of the same suit, he may peg four 

m 

points for the flush, or five points 

bif 

the start card (see below) also 

count 15, at which point he pegs 

two points for bringing the count 

to 15, and another three points for 

ematches. 

forming the three-card sequence 4- 

r A score is credited for each dif- 5-6, even though they did not actu- 

t ferent combination of cards that 

h 

can be made, Any individual card 

may be used in different combina- 

ations 

or more than one of the same 

ally appear in that order. 

If the dealer now adds a 3. he 

would score four points for a run 

of four, extending the sequence to 

t type. So a hand of 7-7-8-9 is 

t scored cumulatively as follows: 

3-4-5-6. 

Flushes do not count in this 

h Fifteen 2, fifteen 4, pair 6 and two 

e 

runs of three 12. Note that the 7's 

r 

not only count together as a pair. 

but also can each be used in turn 

e to score two different fifteens and 

part of the game. 

The play continues so long as 

neither player brings the combined 

count above 31. If you cannot add 

a card without exceeding this 

i two different three-card runs total, you must pass by clicking 

s So that's the points system, now the GO button, whereupon the 

back to the game. 

After the discarding. the non- 

computer must add as many cards 

as it can without exceeding 31. 

dealer cuts the pack and the dealer Whoever plays the last card 

takes the top card of the bottom 

half and lays it face up on the top. 

pegs one point, or two if he brings 

the count to exactly 31. 

This card is known as the start If either player has cards left 

card. If it is a lack, the dealer 

immediately pegs "two for his 

unplayed, those played so far are 

turned face down and a new series 

heels". 

is played with the remaining cards 

Before any combinations are up to 31 as before, the first card 

scored, a little game of cat and being led by the opponent of the 

mouse is played with the four player who played the last card in 

cards each player is holding. 

Starting with the non-dealer, 

each player in turn plays one of 

his cards face up in front of himself. 

As each card is played, the 

cumulative total of the cards 

the preceding series. If this still 

fails to exhaust all the cards, yet 

another series is started. And so on 

until all the cards in each player's 

hand have been played. 

Now we get the main scoring 

played so far is displayed. If either round. Starting with the non- 

player adds a card which forms a 

scoring combination when considered 

in conjunction with the previous 

card or cards consecutively 

dealer, each player scores for any 

combinations his hand contains, 

played. he is entitled to peg the 

• • • • • • ••• 

points value for it. For example: 

Non-dealer plays a 4; dealer 

plays a 6 making the count 10; 

non-dealer plays a 5 making the 

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HiSoft BASIC by 29-year-old 

Kevin Farrow. This program. 

plus its support files and documentation, 

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considering the start card as if it 

were part of his hand. Whoever 

holds the Jack of the same suit as 

the start card pegs "one for his 

nob". 

After the non-dealer counts his 

hand, the dealer does the same. 

Lastly, the dealer turns up the 

cards in the crib and scores it as if 

it were yet another hand, again 

counting the start card as part of it. 

As soon as one player reaches 

the target score of 121 (twice round 

the peg board), play ceases and that 

player has won the game. 

512k users 

THE first thing Cribbage does on 

running is open a couple of large, 

med-res, four bitplane screens. It 

therefore requires a fair amount of 

memory. The game has been tested 

on a vanilla A500, booting from the 

cover disk, and it runs perfectly 

well provided all other windows 

are closed before double clicking 

its icon. 

If Cribbage fails to run and you 

get an error requester, close down 

all windows except the Cribbage 

drawer one (including the main 

disk window), type endcli into the 

CU window, drag the Cribbage 

icon on to the workbench and then 

close down the Cribbage drawer 

window. 

Cribbage will now run correctly 

on a vanilla A500 without problems, 

unless, of course, you have 

run something else previously 

which hasn't given back all of the 

memory it was using. 

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VirusX 

4.01 

IT is a sad fact that more than half 

of the floppies I get sent with cover 

disk contributions on are infected 

with viruses. Mostly Lamer 

There's no excuse for it these days. 

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what with a dozen or more very 

good virus protection systems 

around, all of them free. 

The most famous is Steve 

Tibbet's VirusX, and here's the 

very latest official upgrade, version 

4.01, direct from Canada, 

A lot of changes have been made 

since 4.0, although experienced 

VirusX users will only notice one 

difference in operation. The most 

important change is that the program 

is now compatible with 

AmigaDOS 2.0. New users stay 

around for a wh ile and I'll explain 

the best ways of using the program. 

See the release notes on the cover 

disk for all the details. 

By far the safest way of using 

VirusX is to launch it from your 

startup-sequence somewhere just 

before LoadWB. VirusX first checks 

memory to see if anything is there 

that shouldn't be there, then it will 

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THIS WILL get the old blood corpuscles 

racing round the arteries 

rily 

— Are you a budding musician look- 

a moody little ditty called Marilyn ing for fame and fortune? If so, 

by Steve Cooper of Rochester in perhaps the Amiga Computing 

Kent. 

cover disk can give you a little 

Steve uses Noisetracker v1.0 to push up the ladder, You never 

create his tunes. He's a self- taught know who might be listening to 

musician, playing drums and guitar. 

and has been 'tracking for 18 

months or so now. After a 

rt 

day 

working in the local Nursery (that's 

little plants, not little pests) Steve 

likes nothing more than to sit 

down at his A500 and create tunes tiliol• 11 

using his own sound samples. „ 

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The tune we have here uses 

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fairly standard samples — experienced 

'trackers will no doubt H 

recognise one or two of them — but 1111 

Steve also produces compositions o 

he calls "soundscapes" made up of 1111 

synthesised animal noises and 

snatches from films. 

t 

Marilyn, on the other hand, is an i 

excellent example of how to create o 

a really together tune using very 

few samples. A pulsating bass line 

plus clever slide and echo effects o 

on the guitar solo show off Steve's 

expertise with Noisetracker. One or 

two people I've played it to reckon 

the female gasp spoils it, but I 

guess that's just a matter of taste. 

11111 

1111 

open a small window on the 

Workbench title bar and sit in the 

background twiddling its bytes 

until you stick a disk in any drive, 

whereupon it will check the bootblock 

of said disk and report on 

what it finds. 

If this is what you intend to do, 

and I strongly suggest you do, then 

make sure you copy the VirusX 

program into the C: directory•of 

your everyday boot-up disk. 

The one thing VirusX can't 

check for are viruses that attach 

themselves to files. Which is why 

another program, Kill Virus (abbreviated 

to KV). is distributed in the 

package. 

Again, you should copy KV into 

the C: directory of your boot-up 

disk so the command is available if 

you should need to use it. Unlike 

VirusX, KY cannot be run from the 

workbench, which is why there is 

no icon for it in the VIRUSX401 

drawer. Double click on KVDOC 

for details of how to use Kill Virus, 

The full documentation for the 

previous release of VirusX is on 

the disk and is all relevant to the 

current version. See the 4.01 

release notes to find out about the 

new extras. 

your music. For instance, Howie 

Davies got commissioned by a software 

house after Rock The House 

appeared on the cover disk. 

Original or classical stuff only 

please, preferably in self- con- 

yir •: all• 

, 1111 

,,' ! 

11 

1111 

1111 

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Keep cool 

SOME progrlIns notably those 

that create recoverable ram 

disks, take over the Amiga's 

CoolCapture vector for their 

own use. If you are running 

such a program, like RRD for 

example on last months cover 

disk, then VirusX will immediately 

warn you that the 

CoolCapture vector is not zero. 

Alas, some viruses use this 

vector to hide themselves and 

stay alive through a warm reboot, 

but if you are sure that 

your CoolCapture vector is 

being used by something you 

are running and not by a virus, 

then it is quite safe to click 

"No" when VirusX asks if you 

want to reset it. 

You can prevent VirusX from 

checking the CoolCapture vector 

by using the -c option in the 

command line. 

VIRUSX 4.01 is freely distributable 

but remains 

Copyright 0 

1990 

S t e v 

e 

Mined modules. If you insist on 

sending executable tunes, then try 

not to send the kind that freezes 

the mouse pointer or uses the left 

mouse button to quit: Right button 

or both is better. 

maRieul) 

steve cooper' 

It 

AMIGA GOMPLIT/NG November 1990 61

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urse: v1.1 

CURSOR takes programs that are 

written for the AmigaBASIC interpreter 

and turns them into programs 

that can be run directly from 

al or Workbench. 

In doing so it compiles your 

BASIC programs into machine 

code, which means that the resultant 

program will run faster than 

the original. Not all the 

AmigaBASIC keywords are implemented 

in this version, although 

most are. For a full list of supported 

commands and functions 

look at the file Keywords.DOC in 

the Cursor drawer. 

The best way to use Cursor is to 

copy it into the C: directory of your 

boot-up disk. If you're still working 

from a bog-standard Workbench 

disk you'll need to make some 

room first by deleting some of the 

things you don't use very much. 

You must also copy the file 

bas_runtimelibrary (in the libs 

directory of the cover disk) into the 

LIDS: directory of your boot-up 

disk. All programs compiled with 

Cursor need this library to be present 

in IBS:, and so does Cursor 

itself. Cursor also needs the four 

maths libraries: mathflp.library, 

mathtrans,library, mathieeedoubbas.library, 

and mathieeedoubtranslibrarv, 

which must he in 

LIB& or in rom (mathffp.library is 

in rom on 500s and 2000s). 

Cursor is best operated from the 

CLI— although it is quite feasible to 

Icola it if you want — by supplying 

the name of the BASIC program as 

the parameter. If Cursor finds no 

errors it will create an executable 

file whose name is that of the 

source file without its extension. 

If you boot from the cover disk 

you will be able to play with 

Cursor straight away because 

everything is where it should be. 

After the cover disk has booted 

drag the al window up to the top 

of the screen and open it to its full 

62 AMIGA COMPUTING November 19g0 

height. Then type: 

cd cursor 

to get into the Cursor directory. If 

you're curious, use Dir to see what 

files are there, You'll see a few 

example programs with litAS 

extensions, The one we're going to 

use displays a list of prime numbers. 

So type: 

copy prises.bas ram: 

You can work from floppy if you 

want, but it's quicker from ram. 

Now we've got our BASIC program 

where we want it, type: 

Cursor racprines.bas 

Cursor will load and decrunch, 

then a copyright message will 

appear followed by the filename 

ramprimes•bas automatically supplying 

itself to the prompt. The 

compiler will then make two 

passes of the source code and create 

the program. 

It takes just a few seconds. 

When it's finished type: 

dir ran: 

and you'll see three things. Firstly 

there is a I directory. While it is 

working the compiler writes some 

temporary files into T:, so it is best 

to assign it to the ram disk. The 

cover disk startup- sequence has 

done this for you. 

Next there is the primes,bas file 

we copied to ram, and lastly the 

program Cursor has created, called 

primes. To rim it type: 

ran:primes 

A window will open and lots of 

numbers will scroll past. all the 

prime numbers between 2 and 

1,000 in fact. To finish the program 

at any time, click the window's 

close gadget. 

Not very impressed, are you? 

Well, Primes is just a simple program 

to prove that it works. Now 

you've successfully compiled 

something small, go ahead and 

compile a more complicated program, 

ManSing.BAS, which is a 

Mandelbrot Set image generator. 

Although the compiled ManSing 

may appear to take an age to draw 

its image (about 40 minutes), the 

same thing running under 

AmigaBASIC takes hours and 

hours and hourzzz... 

It is important to remember that 

you can only compile BASIC 

source files which have been saved 

in Ascii format, so make sure you 

use SAVE "filename", A in the 

AmigaBASIC interpreter else you'll 

be getting compiler error messages. 

If you run Cursor without a filename 

as a parameter and press 

Return when asked for the name of 

the source file, you can change 

some options which influence the 

compiled programs. Actually, you 

can do this either in the menu that 

appears when you press Return 

after you have started Cursor, or 

with the OPTION keyword in the 

source file. The following options 

are available: 

NO WINDOW: No window is 

opened automatically when the 

compiled program is started. 

TRYCLIWINDOW: The compiled 

program will try to use the CU 

window as a window with the 

number I. 

If this is not passible — for example, 

if the compiled program was 

started from Workbench — a new 

window is opened. You should not 

use graphics commands in the al 

window because you can inadvertently 

overwrite the windove's border, 

OPENWINDOW: A new window 

with the number I is always 

opened on the Workbench. This is 

the default option. 

ALLPCRELATIVE: Cursor assumes 

that all branches in the compiled 

machine code program do not 

reach further than 32k. The compiled 

program will be shorter if 

you use this option. 

SOMEPCRELATIVE: Cursor only 

assumes that all branches within 

subprograms do not reach further 

than 32k. 

NOPCRELATIVE: All branches can 

reach as far as they want. This is 

the default option because it is the 

safest assumption. 

WRITELINENUMBERS: The line 

numbers of the source file are written 

into the compiled programs. 

They will be displayed if the compiled 

program aborts with an error 

message. But the compiled program 

will also get bigger and run 

slower. 

All programs compiled by 

Cursor are pure. and Cursor sets 

the pure bit of the programs automatically. 

Compiled programs can be 

started from the CU or the 

Workbench (provide your own tool 

icons). 

Parameters passed from the al 

are treated as if the user typed 

them in using the keyboard after 

the program has started, separating 

them with the Return key, so they 

can be read and processed with 

INPUT statements. 

If an error occurs while a compiled 

program is running, an error 

message will be written either to 

standard output (if it exists) or a 

requester will appear. 

You will see additional pieces of 

information in the requester, like a 

more exact description of an I/O 

error or perhaps the number of the 

line in the source file where the 

error occurred.

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Disk Copying! 

WE always say the first thing 

you should do when you get 

your cover disk is to make a 

backup copy for yourself. There 

are good reasons for this as I'm 

sure You'll understand, but this 

month we have an exceptional 

case. 

The wonderful SWIV demo 

uses a special disk format 

which means that a standard 

AmigaDOS copy command will 

not work! That's the bad news. 

The good news is that you 

can copy across all other programs 

in the disk, just by dragging 

their icons. 

I'm telling you this just so 

you don't ring up the editorial 

offices complaining that you 

can't copy the disk. OK? 

CURSOR was written in 

AmigaBASIC and was compiled 

with itself. It is Copyright 

01990 Jurgen Forster. The 

library and small pieces of the 

program were written in 

assembler and compiled using 

A68k from Charlie Gibbs and 

Blink from the Software 

Distillery. 

This program is freeware, 

which means you may use it 

and give it to any your friends, 

but you are not allowed to sell 

it except for a small copying 

fee. 

Please send hug reports. 

suggestions for improvements, 

or anything else to: Jurgen 

Forster, Lintheide 9, 4800 

Bielefeld 17, West Germany 

If he gets enough feedback 

from you Jurgen may well 

implement the few commands 

and functions Cursor does not 

yet support. 

are always looking tor original conibutions 

for the Amiga Computing 

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If we like what we see, it could earn 

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ODRELL Bank is the place to be if 

you're into radio astronomy. I 

went there, just off the MO at junction 

18, as a visiting student partly 

because I was interested in the image 

processing that's involved in making 

all those pretty, false-colour piccies 

that Patrick Moore gets so excited 

about. 

"Basically, we run a VAX cluster", 

said Paul Harrison as we walked into 

the terminal room, "but there's all 

sorts of other machines tied into it. 

We've got terminals left over from 

Systime days. About half are text only 

most are monochrome. Over here are 

our two graphics work stations...." 

I missed what he said next, because 

over on the bench, looking battered and 

well worn, was the familiar form of a 

lowly A500, and sitting next to it was a 

huge 1024 pixels by 740 Ikon monitor 

with a false-colour Quasar on its screen. 

Both light and radio waves form 

part of the electromagnetic spectrum, 

differing only in their wavelength and 

frequency. With the naked eye, 

we can see only in the "optical" 

wavelengths, though many 

Insects can see in ultra-violet 

and infra-red. 

Going up in frequency (and 

down in wavelength) from the visible 

you have ultra-violet rays, X-rays and 

Gamma rays. Going down in 

frequency (and up in wavelength) you 

get radio waves. 

The advantage of looking at things 

in the radio wavelengths is that the 

waves pass more easily through dust 

than light, making objects easier to 

detect. You can also tell what atoms 

make up the object, and basically 

"see" in greater detail than with 

optical telescopes. 

Enough of all that. You want to 

know about computers, so I'll tell you 

about computers. Like all science in 

this country, Jodrell is incredibly 

under-funded. As a result they work 

to an "if it works keep irphilosophy. 

T 

telescope (Mk la) is still used 

with H the original 1955 analogue 

computer, A though the hard work is 

now T done with a digital machine. But 

it mworks: 

The motors driving the dials 

on e the front have to be replaced more 

often 

a 

than the valves that glow away 

to themselves in the heart of the 

machine. n 

s In those days astronomy was a 

t 

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a 

graph paper and ruler affair. 

Nowadays most astronomers would 

give up without at least a Vax to work 

with. 

Why the change? Well the bigger the 

telescope, the finer the resolution. To 

the Mk la, the quasar I first saw was 

nothing but a point. And that 

telescope is just about as big as you 

can get - even so gravity stretches the 

telescope bowl enough to affect its 

performance. 

The way to get round this is to tie 

two telescopes together using a 

Earth 

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As Jodrell Bank has 

been keeping an eye 

on the universe, an 

Amiga has been 

keeping an eye on it. 

Joe Garner 

investigates how an 

A500 has become an 

interstellar graphics 

terminal 

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technique called Interferometry to 

simulate a telescope as wide as the 

"base line" - the distance between 

them. 

Before computers came along you 

couldn't use more than two telescopes 

to do this, and even then the results 

would be meaningless to me and you. 

In Britain we have a Interferometer 

stretching (by the time of publication) 

from Cambridge to West of Jodrell. 

This simulates a telescope hundreds 

of kilometers across. The network is 

called Merlin (it really does stand for 

something) and I've been told that the 

Mk la controlling computer is called 

Arthur because it's Merlin's friend. I 

think the real reason has something to 

do with The Hitch-hiker's Guide To 

The Galaxy... 

When Merlin was designed in the 

mid '70s there were no suitable 

computers in the world to control all 

the telescopes and bring the data 

together. So Jodrell built their own, 

called Circes. 

They have no proper 

1111 microprocessors - the CPU 

is a circuit board, not a 

chip. The most complicated 

e s h i r e component adding chip. on You it is enter: an 

program by selecting an address on 

finger-wheels, and then flicking in the 

binary on a bank of switches. The 

control program was written in Forth 

and then compiled. 

The Micro-Circes are still in place, 

the only change being to replace the 

paper-tape reader with aproms. Each 

out-station (remote telescope) is 

controlled by a Micro-Circe which 

takes commands from Jodrell. The 

received signal from the telescope is 

sent back via a microwave link, 

cooled as near to absolute zero as 

possible to avoid adding noise. 

N you're looking for a signal 

Othat's 

10,000 times weaker than the 

Ibackground 

noise. This is where the 

Sfirst 

piece of really clever hardware 

E comes in (these telescopes are just 

i 

souped-up radios). 

A new version is being built to 

s 

accommodate the latest telescope, at 

iCambridge, 

add extra channels, and 

mimprove 

the data by about 20 per 

pcent. 

It works like this: 

o The analogue signal is converted 

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a two bit binary number between 

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bank of 128 custom chips under the 

control of a 68010. Slightly different 

signals are combined once in each 

chip, read out by the 68010, 

recombined into a single value and 

stored in delay memory. 

Each combination of two telescopes 

has a board like this, and the signals 

from each board must arrive at the 

same time. Some telescopes are 

nearer to Jodrell than others, and so 

signals which arrive at the same time 

at each telescope arrive at different 

times hack at Jodrell. 

All this is synchronised by a 

master 68010 board that collects all 

the signals in step and stores it in ram 

until it's needed. The reason this 

process is so clever is that because 

noise is random and the true signal is 

constant, by combining the signal lots 

of times, the random noise will cancel 

itself out. 

On average, pure random noise will 

fluctuate evenly between positive and 

negative limits, so that if you take 

enough samples it will add up to zero. 

As a result you remove noise and 

amplify the required signal. The two 

bit number does not affect the final 

value because, again, the average 

signal strength will be a multi-bit 

number. 

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The Amiga makes 

the other equipment 

look over priced 

over-simplified for instance. Imagine 

you were timing how long it took a 

stone to drop 22.5 metres and it took 

1.5 seconds. Fine, but what if your 

clock could only measure 1 or 2 

seconds? 

Well if you took lots and lots of 

readings, after a while 50 per cent 

would be 1 and 50 per cent would be 

2, which averages out at 1.5. If you 

still don't get it, don't worry: The guy 

who's building the thing doesn't quite 

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This is the 

raw data 

from the 

telescopes. 

After 

cleaning-up 

it looks a 

lot prettier 

Hi there! My name 

is Eddie and 1 Just 

know we're going 

to get on fine... 

know what's going on either. rust 

remember, there are about thirty 

680108 running in parallel there, so it 

must be good. 

The results are read out by another 

Circe, which is due for replacement 

by a VAX in a month or so. This first 

stage is about 94 to 98 per cent 

efficient. The data is usually dumped 

on to mag tape before processing. 

I two telexes and two terminals on a 

phone N link to Manchester. Data was 

erased 1 whenever disk space was 

needed, 9 there were no graphics 

terminals 

7 

and everyone was tearing 

their hair out and jumping up and 

down. 7 

eThen 

came a Systime 

minicomputer-cum-mainframe. v 

A 

little e later it was replaced by a VAX 

that r took up a decent room-sized 

room. y That was replaced by a VAX 

3400 

t 

mainframe the size of a couple 

of suitcases. Now the VAX cluster 

contains h half a dozen machines. Online 

i disk space is over 2500 Mb. 

nStorage 

is on disk, hard disk, video 

disk, g video tape and mag tape for 

transportability. w 

On-line VAX memory 

is 

a 

around 200 Mb. 

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Before! go on about the hardware 

any 

r 

more. I'll tell you what it needs to 

do. The swirly graph is a picture of 

the 

u 

track each telescope pair traces 

across n the sky (the receiving areas of 

each f telescope are just overlapped on 

the r same area of sky, so that the 

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source is trapped in the overlap). 

The first job is to fill in all the blank 

spaces in the data. You do that by 

working out the way the signal is 

changing and use that rule to guess 

the value in between two known 

values by fitting a smooth line to the 

scatter-graph of readings. 

Even so the picture that comes out 

looks horrible. This is because of the 

errors introduced by the inherent 

nature of the technique and the 

instruments involved. This is just like, 

if you squint at a light bulb,you see 

lines of light appear. Or on film, a 

bright light may be surrounded by 

concentric rings. 

Any radio source will appear to be 

surrounded by such rings. When there 

are hundreds of points in the picture 

you can imagine the mess it makes! 

Luckily you can predict how this will 

happen and then remove the mess to 

produce a clean image. 

T was nowhere to put that clean 

Image H so that it looked pretty. So 

when R Jodrell bought a new Alliant 

FM E mini-supercomputer to cope with 

the E number crunching they also 

bought 

o 

an Amiga as a "crude graphics 

terminal" — thanks for the 

compliment, r Dave. 

f Incidentally, the Alliant uses 

68010120s o for I/O control and 

terminal u handling, and the four main 

parallel r processors use a very 

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A despite the bugs. It's not till you 

Muse 

big machines like the ones at Jodmil 

Ithat 

you realise why AmigaDOS is so 

Cpolished. 

To put it nicely (and not get 

Asued) 

AmigaDOS is a Unixclone. The 

DAmiga's 

CLI is like UNIX's VMS. You 

Ofind 

yourself trying to use CLI 

S commands when you shouldn't. 

i Unix is the operating system used by 

s university and scientific computers. It 

qwas 

developed in a university in the 

u 

USA several years ago (mainly in C), 

i 

and is used by just about everyone. 

Which is, incidentally, why a worm 

t 

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a 

extended n 68020 instruction set, 

making i it the one of the fastest 

running c computers to use a 68000 set. 

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The Alliant logs on under the name 

Zaphod 

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(because it has four brains) 

and the A500 talks to it and the VAX 

O 

cluster, all sharing disk space. The 

S 

graphics terminal emulator ran only 

in . 32 colours, which was odd 

considering that the palettes used are 

perfect for HAM. 

On the other hand. as Dave says, it 

would have been nice, but they 

needed something straight away, and 

It was pointless spending any time 

developing software, seeing the way 

they expected to go hardwarewise. 

Looking around, I kind of see what 

Personal. As tronotli coil Work S tocti on 

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M 

virus brought down a lot of Internet i 

OPn the US a couple of years ago. Internet 

contains, among others, Milnet, 

ARPAnet (Pentagon networks) and 

NASA networks. 

So where does Workbench come 

from? Well, just boot up a Sun 

workstation and you'll see. The whole 

concept and layout is so similar it's 

incredible. In fact I think Amiga 

window handling is more friendly. 

I guess that's not too suprising, 

seeing how — as folklore will have it — 

Amiga software was being developed 

and emulated on Suns before the first 

pre-production A1000 was completed. 

he means. Now the Amiga is used as 

the intelligent end of a two-piece 

graphics workstation. The other end 

is a high definition, 256 colour, Ikon 

monitor with a microprocessor 

thrown in as an afterthought. 

So the pictures made from radio 

waves that had been travelling since 

before life on Earth began were shown 

on an A500. So next time you play 

Elite or Battle Squadron, just think, 

the Amiga that was next to yours in 

the warehouse might just be the one 

that's really been there and back! 

Many thanks to Dave Shone, Tom 

Muxlow, Jean Warren and Paul 

Harrison for making this article 

possible. 

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extensive 

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The Sample facts 

all they need to about sound, It's good. 

It's loud. And it's easy to use. All you 

need is a sampler and some software: 

The Amiga's sound chipperv will do 

the rest.There are several things you 

can do with your sound samples, but 

the most important thing is to have 

fun. There is something immensely 

satisfying about sampling your voice 

and replaying it backwards at half the 

normal frequency. 

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U effect depends on three things: 

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• I The quality of the sampler. It might 

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an obvious point, but be careful 

- G price isn't necessarily a good guide. 

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the reviews in this issue. 

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The quality of the software. All 

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sampling software is not the same. By 

upgrading your software, you could 

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drastically improve your samples. 

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high sample rates, which means users 

p 

with accelerator cards can sample in 

lstereo 

at rates of up to 56Khz. This is 

ebetter 

than most CD players, so the 

r results will be stunning. (Note: CD 

tplayers 

operate at 16 bit resolution, so 

at o the moment you can't sample better 

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Here is a simple 

explanation of how 

samplers work, and 

why different sample 

rates make a difference 

to the overall 

quality of the sound. 

For a more detailed 

look at sampling in 

general, you should 

consult one of the 

many text books 

available. The bad 

news is that most of 

them are beyond A 

Level, so prepare for 

some nasty maths 

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than a CD. Pay attention though, for 

the statement at the moment is likely 

to change in the very near future.) 

• The quality of the input signal. If 

you record all your samples by yelling 

into a cheap microphone, then you 

can't expect them to be top notch. Best 

samples come from CD players, as 

usually the input levels are just right 

and of course, you don't have any 

pops or crackles to contend with. 

What do I do now? 

ONCE you have your sample captured 

on disk, you can start to have some 

fun. 

When you get tired of making silly 

The nice picture above is a 

representation of a sound, in this case 

a simple sine wave. Its the sort of 

thing you would see if you connected 

a microphone to an oscilloscope and 

played a note on a flute. Believe me, it 

is. It is a purely analogue - constantly 

varying - waveform, and there is no 

way that an Amiga could ever start to 

make sense of it. 

Before you can start to play with 

this sound, you'll need to convert it 

into a digital form. To do this, you 

need a digitiser, otherwise known as a 

sampler. 

se them 

voices, you can load them into a 

sound processing package (such as 

TEM on last month's cover disk) and 

perfrom all sorts of nasty 

transformations on them. 

When the sample is exactly how you 

want it to be, you can start to make use 

of it. The easiest way is to load it into a 

SoundTracker clone such as MED and 

compose a few tunes with it. 

The more adventurous amongst you 

can incorporate the sound effects into 

your own programs. Haven't you 

always wanted to say "Game Over" at 

the end of your own game? 

Reviewers: 

Andrew Banner - Budget samplers 

Jason Holborn - Audio Engineer 

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guesses (more scientifically known as 

samples) which the digitising 

hardware has made at certain points 

on the waveform. 

It can only work to a defined 

resolution, which is why the points 

ore not entirely accurate, For example, 

if the Amiga worked with a 16 bit 

resolution instead of an 8 bit 

resolution, the boxes would be placed 

twice as accurately. 

However, 8 bit samples can still 

sound pretty darn good, so let's not 

start complaining. 

A.M.A.S. 

A Sampler is the product of the 

relationship D between Nlicrodeal and 

the V UK's premier sample masters, 2- 

Bit A Systems. 

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hardware comprises of a full 8bit 

C stereo sampler as do most of the 

other E units, but what makes A.M.A.S 

unique D is the built-in MIDI interface. 

Although M MIDI interfaces for the 

Amiga i can be picked up for about E20, 

it's 

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a bonus having it built-in to the 

sampler as you can use it in 

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conjunction with the sample editing 

software. 

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The software is supplied all-in-one, 

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that is to say that one program 

performs g all the functions that are 

available. a It uses a series of icons for 

operation and these are arranged in 

the lower area of the screen. Basic 

sample record and playback controls 

1 

All 

Now we come to the meaning of the 

sample rate. In this example. the 

boxes are a lot thicker: the sample 

rate has been reduced. There are less 

samples, and even though they are 

just as accurate as the previous ones 

when it comes to guessing the level, 

the fact that there are less means the 

Amiga has less information with 

which to constuct its one version of 

the waveform. The less information 

the Amiga has, the more attful the 

sample will sound, From this it 

shouldn't be hard to work out that the 

more samples per waveform the better. 

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and use the kind of symbols you 

would find on a tape deck so that 

initial operation is straight forward. 

Samples are displayed in standard 

form along the top of the screen. Two 

sample windows are used in A.M.A.S, 

one for each stereo channel with each 

channel being selectable so that you 

can operate on it independently of the 

other. Alternatively, you can opt to 

work on both channels 

simultaneously, 

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disk operations, are stored on 

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generated version of the waveform. This 

one was constructed using a fairly high 

sample rate, but you can still see that 

the waveform is no longer nice and 

smooth — it now has "steps". The more 

samples taken, the smoller the steps. 

the closer the sound to the original. 

Mathematicians amongst you will be 

overjoyed to learn that Shannon's 

Sampling Theomm states that to 

digitise a given waveform, you need to 

sample it at a frequency of at least 

twice that of the original waveform. 

Non-mathematicians won't care. 

"buttons" with icons upon them. My 

complaint here is that although some 

of the icons are easily recognisable 

and relate to the function — the fade in 

and filter symbols for example — 

others do not immediately ring a bell 

and so a fair bit of memory work and 

manual reference is required. 

Although the hardware is capable of 

sampling up to 40kHz in stereo and 

90kHz in mono, the software will only 

sample up to 251(Hz in stereo (28kHz 

mono) but is capable of playing back 

at 28kHz, The sound quality of' these 

samples is very good, but at 25Id-lz. 

memory is precious and this sample 

speed is only really suitable for short 

sound effects or for people with an 

8Mb Amiga. 

The MIDI connections to the 

sampler are via standard DIN type 

plugs and sockets while audio input 

can be achieved with two Phono type 

connections or a 3.5mm jack plug at 

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using two fly leads: One goes to the 

serial the other to the parallel port. 

To obtain the correct audio input 

levels, the A.M.A.S software includes 

an oscilloscope display for both left 

and right channels either side of the 

record and playback panel on the 

main screen. These jump to the 

incoming signal. if the signal is too 

strong the peeks of the signals will 

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Techno sound 

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it Nfor 

practical applications, I suggest 

you L spend your money on a budget 

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item instead of spending over E50 on 

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something that might turn out to be a 

five minute wonder. At 3D quid, you 

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box u which plugs directly into the 

parallel ' port of the Amiga. Audio 

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type Phono sockets on the opposite 

end to the 25-way D type computer 

connector. r Unlike Mastersound, 

Techno e Sound is a stereo sampler 

which a makes it a very attractive 

lpurchase. 

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of y the lot and looks very nice. But it 

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matters not how nice it looks, what 

about its quality. Thankfully, for the 

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that r say what they do rather than 

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symbols which must be 

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buttons u that do have symbols upon 

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ldiagrams 

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year A when it first appeared. Although 

Sit's 

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the E best selling Amiga sampler in the 

UK R today. It's pretty easy to see why as 

well. 

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hardware is nothing special at 

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flatten. A nice touch is the spectrum 

analyser display which displays the 

signal in it's frequency form from just 

10Hz to 5.5kHz. 

The MIDI functions allow A.M.A.S 

to be connected to a MIDI keyboard so 

that it may control the software. The 

software can hold up to 10 samples in 

memory (providing you've got 

enough) each of which can be 

triggered by a certain key on the MIDI 

synth. The samples can also be 

triggered from the Amiga's keyboard 

5 and 35kHz and a feature unique to 

Techno Sound allows sound to be 

recorded in either 8 or 4-bit 

resolution. The default is 8-bit but 4bit 

recording will half the length of 

samples but also reduce the sound 

quality. Samples can be made in 

stereo, mono or simulated stereo 

which sound inferior to real stereo but 

saves memory. Samples sound very 

good. with little only slight hiss. 

Files can be stored in IFT or binary 

format for easy file transfer between 

software. An interesting function 

named RAMscan will scan memory 

for any sample data that may have 

been left there by programs previously 

in memory. 

Techno Sound is also the only 

sample in this selection that has any 

kind of effects menu. Effects can be 

added in real-time to the incoming 

audio or to the sample in memory. 

Effects like echos and reverberations 

can make Bros sound quite pleasant. 

The hall effect adds a reverberation to 

make your sound appear as though it's 

in a large room or concert hall. Room 

adds a shorter reverb to the sound to 

make it appear to be recorded in a 

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through the sound changing tonal 

values vamping the sound quite 

dramatically. 

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Sound sports just 10 pages and only 

describes the functions of the software 

and doesn't really give any ideas on 

it's use. However, (another first here) 

the manufacturers have seen fit to 

include an audio tutorial cassette tape. 

This contains a good walk through of 

the software and hardware. I won't say 

that the recording technique is good, 

but the guy speaking on the tape is far 

too close to the microphone and if 

your going to listen to it through your 

hill, turn the bass down! 

Techno Sound provides good 

quality reproduction of the original 

sound and offers features which are 

not available on any of the other 

samplers. The sound quality, to my 

oars anyway, is certainly equal to that 

of Pro Sound Designer and 

Mastersound. 

Amiga in the same way as virtually 

every other sampler: Via the printer 

port. It's small plastic case is colour 

coordinated with the A500 and is 

finished with a sticker displaying its 

logo. The reason why Mastersound so 

popular is its versatile software. 

Besides all of the usual obligatory 

features like record, playback and 

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you to store up to 18 samples in 

memory (if you've enough free ram). 

These can be played in any order by 

pressing the keys that you have 

assigned so that you may record a 

sequence and replay it later. 

The software is controlled by 

pointing and clicking with the mouse. 

If the icons on the buttons in the 

screen shot look familiar, they should_ 

The icons are exactly the same as 

those used in A.M.A.S as it's the same 

group of people behind the product. 

As with all sampling hardware, you 

must achieve the correct input level so 

that you so do not get any clipping at 

the peeks of the sample. Adjusting the 

signal input level can he done with 

the help of a LED style peek level 

meter. If the signal is high it beats to 

the red lights towards the top of the 

scale. The manual suggests that you 

use the oscilloscope to do this, which 

is quite reasonable is you happen to 

have a sine wave generator to produce 

exactly the same frequency all the 

time. Seeing as the kind of stuff 

people usually record are pulsing 

sounds, this can sometimes be a bit 

unreliable. Still it's there to be used. In 

addition a spectrum analyser also aids 

your perception of the incoming 

signal. 

Mastersound is capable of sampling 

from between 3,0kHz to 55.9kHz 

inclusive and has the widest sample 

range of all the products in this test. 

Samples in memory can be reversed so 

that they play backwards, but this is 

the only effect you can impose upon 

the sound. 

Files can be saved in IFF and IFF 

instrument formats in one three or five 

octaves so the sounds can be readily 

loaded into other popular music 

packages such as Aegis Sonix. 

Alternatively, the sample data can be 

stored in it's purest raw data form 

however information such as the 

sample frequency is not stored in raw 

file mode. 

The sounds recorded by 

Mastersound are of a high quality. 

Apart from being mono, which really 

doesn't make a great deal of difference 

with 8-bit samplers anyway, 

Mastersound is a really good package. 

It offers a comprehensive range of 

features which are unsurpassed at this 

price. It's ideally suited to someone 

who wants to dabble, and includes 

software to enable you to play samples 

independently of the main editor 

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it's r well written, it's not too 

informative because of the cost 

cutting layout technique. The 

documentation covers too many 

versions of the product (Pro Sound's 

available for the ST as well) and 

though it's not difficult to sort out 

which bits are relevant to your 

version, it would be nice to have a 

manual for each computer rather 

than one trying to explain the ins 

and outs of both. 

Another point is that it keeps 

referring to Figure 2 to show which 

button does what instead of showing 

the symbol next to the section where 

it's function is described. Later in 

the manual this system is employed 

and it makes operation a lot simpler 

not having to keep turning back 

through the manual. 

You've probably already realised 

that, like all the other products in 

this article, Pro Sound uses the 

button operation technique using 

symbols for identity. In fact, I hate 

these symbols. Many look so similar 

with only a slight difference so it's 

all too easy to press the wrong 

button. However, this is true of all of 

the products in this round-up. 

Pro Sound Designer Gold is a 

stereo sampler however it cannot 

display both left and right channels 

simultaneously — but this is no great 

loss. The beauty of it is that because 

the Amiga has four channel sound, 

Pro Sound allows two stereo 

samples to play at the same time. If 

you're clever with the recording 

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taken between lkHz and 28kHz 

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OK but are not brilliant. Invariably 

samples taken from a stereo source 

sound better when recorded in stereo 

and mono sound better when recorded 

in mono. 

Samples are stored as standard DT 

files so that they can be loaded 

directly into standard software for 

further sound manipulation. If you 

prefer you can save the sample in raw 

format to save space. Basic functions 

allow you to cut and paste sample 

chunks with relative ease using the 

magnify function which give an 

expanded display of the sample so 

that cursor positioning is easier. It is 

possible to double the sample's length 

which usually increases the signal to 

noise ratio to provide a better sound. 

Similarly you can halve the sample 

using another function which has the 

opposite effect. 

MIDI capabilities are included in 

the Pro Sound Designer Gold package 

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Midi. However the package does not 

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your own sounds and then use them 

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Pro Sound Designer Gold is a 

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Stereo Sampler MkH 

T in two forms: With sampling 

software H or without. The software that 

is E sold with Thlogic's second version 

of S it's sampler is Audio Master II from 

the t now defunct Aegis. However, this 

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r Now there's absolutely nothing 

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probably o the best sampling software 

about S but it's expensive. If you are 

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sampling software from one of the 

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numerous public domain libraries and 

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cover disk. 

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some e of the best available. Whether 

you i needed a paint package, a desktop 

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Aegis n had something to offer you. 

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One of the many markets that Aegis 

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sampling. Even though their 

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is generally regarded as the king of 

them a all. In terms of shear sound 

quality t and raw editing power, Audio 

Master e II had no competition. 

Although Aegis are now safely 

under the wing of Oxxi Inc (the people 

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facility to store your data. Therefore it 

allows you to decide which package 

you would like. Whichever one you 

choose, if any, you can be sure that it's 

going to cost you a lot more than PI) 

software. 

The hardware itself, life all the 

others, plugs into the printer port of 

the Amiga and as such completely 

disables parallel printing capabilities. 

Stereo Sampler II overcomes this with 

an optional add- on. The sampler itself 

has a through port on the top which 

connects to this separate unit which, 

in turn, connects your standard 

printer lead. 

There is a good reason why this 

through port is possible though. All 

the other samplers have been 

developed with software and so the 

costs are far greater. Stereo Sampler 

Mk II had not been produced in 

conjunction with any software 

engineers and so the costs are, 

Snare Del 

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that brought you the MaxiPlan 

spreadsheet), AudioMaster II and its 

creator, Peter Norman, left the 

company to find a new home. Peter 

soon resurfaced at an Australian 

company called RamScan. Soon after, 

Audio Engineer was born. 

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introduction. F 

Just take one look at any 

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hardware. This facility allows the 

sampler to be connected at all times 

and so saves annoyance in having to 

fiddle at the back of the Amiga and 

also saves on wear and tear on the 

printer port. For the self same 

reason, 

On the top of the sampler is a knob 

which regulates the input signal 

strength which comes in via a mono 

or stereo 3 5mm jack plug on the 

side. Using the Audio Master 

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different configurations. For those of 

you who already own samplers. the 

Audio Engineer sampling software is 

available as a stand alone software 

package that will happily work with 

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hardware manufacturer. 

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the size of an average hard-backed 

book - which connects to the Amiga 

parallel port via a ribbon cable. G-Soft 

designed their sampler specifically to 

support Audio Engineer's impressive 

56 KHz maximum sampling rate. It 

offers a pair of separate Mic and Line 

inputs, independent level controllers 

for the left and right sampling 

channels and a damned impressive 

audio bandwidth (100Hz to 50KHz+, 

for those of you in the know). Not only 

that, but it even offers a printer passthru 

connector. 

Once you've connected everything 

up, the first thing you'll want to do is 

to actually sample something. 

Provided you've got a suitable sound 

source, Audio Engineer can sample in 

either mono or stereo, Selecting 

Sample from the pull down menus 

brings up the sampling requester. 

From here you can alter the sampling 

rate (up to a maximum rate of 56 kHz) 

and the size of the sample to be 

grabbed. To actually grab a sample, a 

single mouse click on the Sample 

gadget gets things going. 

Amongst the list of new features. 

Audio Engineer allows you to pause 

sampling at any point simply by 

pressing the right mouse button. As 

soon as you release the mouse button, 

Audio Engineer then continues 

sampling. This can be particular 

useful for exclusing sections of a 

sound during sampling, 

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exceptable results. 

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combination of Audio Engineer and G- 

Soft's Audio Imager produced some of 

the cleanest samples I've ever heard 

from an Amiga. The samples showed 

plenty of depth, with sparkling clarity 

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compete with some 12 and 16-bit 

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allows you to alter the pitch of a 

sample. If you're using Audio 

Engineer to produce samples for your 

favourite music package, then you'll 

find the Tune Waveform facility to be 

a true godsend. Like all samplers, the 

process of tuning relies on the trusty 

old ears to carry out most of the hard 

work - by activating a tuning tone, it's 

then up to you to time the sample to 

match. 

Potentially the most useful application 

of sample tuning is the ReSample 

Data option which allows you to 

convert samples between different 

sampling rates without effecting the 

pitch or length of playback: Something 

which even most professional 

samplers can't do! A large amount of 

memory can be saved by sampling 

something at the highest possible rate 

and then knocking it down to a lower 

sample rate for playback, In some 

cases, you gain a better quality final 

sample by using this technique. 

Sample sequencing is nothing new, 

but Audio Engineer takes it one step 

further with a new sequencing system 

that allows complex arrangements to 

be built up in seconds. 

Audio Engineer uses a unique 

system that works by assigning 

multiple loops to a single sample. This 

system works on the theory that most 

music is constructed from a series of 

patterns that are repeated over and 

over again to create the resulting 

music: Intro, melody, chorus, melody, 

chorus and so forth. By simply 

sampling each of these patterns once, 

you can use multiple loops to give the 

impression that the entire peice has 

been sampled. Coupled with Audio 

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of sampled music could be stored on a 

single floppy disk. 

Audio Engineer allows you to assign 

up to 999 of these loops. A fade point 

can also be assigned so that once a 

certain point in a sequence has been 

reached, the sample will then be faded 

out to silence. 

To make the process of finding the 

perfect loop that bit easier. Audio 

Engineer will do the job for you with 

its unique Seek Loop option. Seek 

Loop attempts to find glitch-free loop 

points by searching for a zero 

crossover for both the start and end 

points of the loop. If the loop that it 

creates is not satisfactory. click on the 

gadget again and Audio Engineer 

looks for another set of loop points. 

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As they stand, these samples can only 

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a review of some nice hardware and 

software. However, there was a 

problem: Who could review it for us? 

The solution was obvious. This kit 

allowed anyone to produce magazine 

The Plain 

Man's Guide 

to Publishin 

quality output. Who better to review 

than the magazine itself? In this case, 

that's means me. 

So settle down and let me tell you a 

story about the exciting hi-tech world 

of magazine publishing here at 

Interactive Publishing. Are you sitting 

comfortably? Good, then begin... 

Producing a magazine such as your 

favourite Amiga Computing is a costly, 

labour intensive process. When 

flicking through the pages. you 

probably think of only the writers as 

having anything to do with "making" 

the magazine. 

You probably couldn't be able to 

guess the number of people and the 

man-hours involved in each creating 

each individual page you casually 

glance at. 

If you want to know how a magazine 

works, how it's put together, then read 

on. If not, well just skip this feature 

and go back to the games. Just 

remember one thing: Each page could 

have taken up to four hours to create. 

T magazines produced in this 

building 

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were created in the following 

way. I 

I First the copy was written. This was 

probably S the easiest part of the entire 

process, t so we'll not dwell on it. 

i The words were then put on to a 

floppy m disk and put through a 

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a 

remarkably expensive dedicated typesetting 

computer. This machine ran 

out "bromides": To all intents and 

purposes a very high resolution 

photograph of all the words made up 

with the correct typefaces and sizes. 

This photograph was cut up and 

pasted down on to a large sheet of 

paper. Corrections were often made by 

pasting new strips of paper over the 

top. Gaps were left where any pictures 

where to go. Thus the page was 

designed and laid out. 

Eventually the camera-ready page 

was sent to the printers, where it met 

up with the artwork. In the meantime. 

the artwork had to go to visit a "repro 

house", where it was converted into a 

form the printer could use. 

Finally, the page was printed. It was 

combined with all the others, bound 

into one volume, and hey presto! One 

copy of Amiga Computing. 

T 

enormously since then, due to 

the 

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emergence of the desktop 

publishing I phenomena. Now 

extensive N use is made of the latest 

Macintosh G micros, running DTP 

software S such as Quark Express. 

h Here is how the magazine is put 

together a now. 

v First the article is typed out on an 

Amiga e using Protext. It is saved in 

Ascii c format and converted into a Mac 

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The dream of 

producing a 

full-colour magazine 

on the Amiga has 

become a reality, 

with a combination 

of software, hardware 

and a little American 

know how. John 

Kennedy puts pixel 

to paper and tells all 

readable form, using a utility called 

Mac-2-Dos. 

Meanwhile on the Mac, Eddie, the 

layout person, has created a 

"template" of text columns and 

picture gaps on his screen. He loads 

our text into the Mac, and plays 

around with it until it looks as nice as 

Ty m the art person wants it to. 

Amiga-generated diagrams, game 

shots and digitised pictures are loaded 

into the Mac as well, using specially 

written software to convert the UT' 

images into a form which the Mac 

likes. 

Some non-digital images. such as 

photographs which must maintain 

their very high quality, still have to go 

to the repro house. 

Once on the Mac. further last 

minute editing can take place before 

the complete page is turned into a 

PostScript file. It is sent to another 

wonderful machine which chums out 


films with all the words and pictures 

on them. Four films are needed to 

reproduce a full colour page — cyan. 

magenta, yellow and black. These 

films are sent to the printers, who use 

them to print the pages of the 

magazine. 

At this point you may be saying, 

"What! You use Macintosh computers! 

I thought you were all Amiga 

fanatics!" This is a very valid thing to 

shout. In fact, it can be quite 

embarrassing for us to have to admit 

that our Amiga magazine is produced 

on rival computing hardware. 

There are good reasons for using 

Macs. some of them financial, some 

political but most of them all to do 

with the lack of decent software 

available on the Amiga when the 

electronic revolution started. 

I'm happy to say that this situation 

has changed. There is now enough 

high quality software available to 

allow everything that can be done on a 

Mac to be done on an Amiga. And a 

few other things as well. 

T thing to have on your desk. It's 

Ismall, 

quiet. compact and costs about 

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That's a lot of money to spend 

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have a look at what it can before 

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it's too expensive. 

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rilliterate 

person. there is no way they 

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could ever guess what it's for. There 

are no buttons, no switches: Just a 

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single cable leading away. It looks 

like a slightly larger than pocket- 

a 

sized colour television set which 

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hasn't been finished yet. Then you 

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start using it... 

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this pile of hardware and software I 

have on the desk in front of me. For 

those who can't see it — and that's 

everyone except me.I suppose — I have 

an expanded B2000 Amiga. a Sharp 

IX100 Handy Colour Scanner and a 

copy of ScanLab 100 software. 

The last two items were lent to me 

by Silica Systems, and unfortunately I 

have a nasty feeling they will want 

them back in the near future. 

What I have here is basically the 

capability to produce Amiga 

Computing. here and now. The main 

reason why I'm not going to is that it 

would take me about six months to 

produce each issue on my own. 

However, let me explain how I would 

go about doing it, given the chance 

and a time machine. 

F the copy using Protext So far, so 

Igood. 

How long this takes depends a 

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ASDG: Totally Amiga-friendly 

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program and is a doddle to use. 

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wplacing 

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quickly and painlessly turns it 

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box around the part of the drawing 

eyou 

are interested in. and select the 

"fine scan" option. 

Here a problem becomes apparent: On 

a 1Mb Amiga. you can only scan an area 

about 2 cm's square with the highest 

The Sharp IX100 Colour Handy Scanner 

3 bit colour, 200 dpi, 201k 

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much sleep I had the night before. An 

article like this would probably take 

24 hours, split over the week. 

Once written, I would load up my 

favourite DTP package, Professional 

Page. After consulting my past issues 

of Amiga Computing for house style, 

and Green's series on DTP for lay-out, 

I would create a rough page, leaving 

gaps for any pictures. 

Now to the artwork: My favourite 

bit. Let's say, for the sake of example, I 

want to include a picture of Kilhurn's 

answer to Kevin Schwantz — my friend 

Colin. 

I have the original colour print in 

front of rue, and it's lust the right size 

for scanning, about 9 by 15cms. Time 

to connect the Handy Scanner to the 

Amiga and install the software on my 

hard disk, which incidentally, is very 

easy to do. 

So the photograph is placed under 

the scanner, and a resolution selected. 

On a 1Mb machine — the barest 

minimum useful — I can just about 

scan a grey scale image. 

With my extra memory, I can grab a 

resolution. You really need lots of 

memory. My Amiga has an extra 2Mb, 

but I still can't scan the full window. 

It is recommended you have more 

than 4Mb. Yup, that's a whole lot of 

memory. However, if you are taking 

DTP at all seriously, you probably 

have this amount already. 

From within the fine scanning 

screen you can select between the 

different resolutions and colour 

options. The scanner will work at 50. 

100 and 200 dots per inch. You can 

scan in monochrome, 6 bit grey scale, 

3 bit colour or 18 bit colour. 

Monochrome and grey scale scans can 

all be made in one pass, whereas 

colour scans take three different 

passes: One for red, one for green and 

one for blue. 

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mode, it looks fabulous. Perhaps with 

a very expensive colour digitiser and 

an even more expensive camera I 

could obtain similar results, but I 

doubt it. 

It takes about five minutes to 

complete the scan of the image and 

save it to my hard disk. I can now reload 

the DTP package and place the 

scanned image. Looks good. 

A FINAL check of the document, 

and it's finished. Time for 

output. To help me get the best from 

my graphics. I have a copy of The Art 

Department, also supplied by Silica. 

With it, I can adjust the brightness, 

contrast and colour balance of the 

images, then separate them into their 

four colour components for output, 

using another little ASDG program 

call ReSep to re-combine the ProPage 

document with the illustrations. I 

colour is not recommended, for the 

software will reduce an 18 bit image 

to whatever depth you like with 

minimal loss of detail. The only 

reason for not doing so is a chronic 

lack of memory. 

The highest resolution (200dpi) is 

by no means state of the art, but when 

combined with the 18 bit colour 

depth, it's pretty darn nifty. 

The use of 18 bit planes means an 

awfully large number of colours can 

be produced: Many times more that 

the Amiga can generate using 

standard bitplane methods. Instead, 

you can make use of several "cheats" 

to look at all the colours. 

Viewing the image in normal 

HAM mode will give you lots of 

coloursbut poor edge detail. Viewing 

the image in A-HAM mode will 

6 bit grey, 200 dpi, 4021, 

would have done this from the DTP 

package. but ProPage only separates 

12 bit plane images, and my image 

uses 18 bit planes. 

Rather cleverly, I have — 

theoretically at least — sitting beside 

me a very high resolution PostScript 

compatible laser printer. I send the 

four separations to this expensive 

piece of kit, and once they are finished 

I can rush them down to the local 

printers and have them re-combined 

into a full colour image. 

HI didn't have the printer. I could 

take the PostScript file to a bureau. 

where they would do more or less the 

same thing. For more details on 

bureaux by the way, check out the 

DTP section in the almanac. 

All I need do is repeat the above 

process over a hundred times, and I 

have a magazine. 

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hardware and software will make the 

entire process a Elot 

easier and the 

finished product W of higher quality. 

Because of the • large investment 

ma& in Mac technology at Interactive, 

it is unlikely that this magazine will 

be produced on an Amiga. But you 

can rest assured we do as much as we 

can before handing our text and 

images over to Eddie. 

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to i call it, differs from Page Setter II 

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images ' and output to a PostScript 

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budget which will cover it, then go 

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Amiga screen formats (from line 

drawing to extra halfbrite to HAM to 

32 colours to A-HAM and so forth). 

I'd also use the RIP (remove 

84 AMIGA COMPUTING IVovnizther 

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using the fifth and sixth bitplanes to 

control how the first four planes 

control the individual red, green and 

blue components individually. 

This explains why HAM image 

cannot deal with edges very well: 

Where the colour changes suddenly 

from light to dark, it takes several 

pixels for all the HAM values to 

follow suit. 

There are several cunning ways to 

improve the edge blurring — for 

example, using 16 different starting 

colours which can be substituted at 

any time — but most put quite a strain 

on the poor old Amiga and leave no 

time for a program to run as well. 

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sneaked into the picture. I might also 

need to be able to resize the image, 

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Since all internal calculations are 

carried out using 24 bitplanes. I know 

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their integrity as much as possible. 

Using a series of "Loader" modules, 

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future thinking, and an impressive 

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Professional. It differs by supporting 

Arexx (essential for enabling long and 

boring batch jobs), saving in different 

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scanners, 24 bit frame cards). 

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Stewart C. Russell 

looks at the thinking 

man's version of AM 

furniture - public 

domain software. 

Read the instructions 

carefully and you too 

could be a DIY hero 

with word processors, 

Assemblers and C 

Home 

assembly 

time 

W articles I had hoped to do 

Hspecial 

features on "Build Your Own" 

Esystems, 

such as a Build Your Own 

N Home Business pack, or a Build Your 

I Own Programming system. This first 

stime 

I present the Build Your Own 

tAssembly 

Language Development kit. 

a 

Quite a lot of people want to get into 

assembly language programming, but 

r 

the high cost of an assembler/debugger 

t 

system either puts people off, or turns 

e 

them to piracy. 

d 

I don't (as you know) dig theft, and 

wit 

grieves me to see Kuma's K-Seka on 

ropen 

download from unscrupulous 

iwirlitrc 

bulletin boards. None of these 

tboards, 

I hasten to add, are in the UK. 

i The absolute minimum you need is 

nan 

editor, an assembler, a linker and a 

g debugger. Everyone already has a 

tdebugger 

in the shape of Commodore's 

h 

ROM-Wack burnt into the Kickstart 

eROM. 

Unfortunately, to use ROMsWack 

you need a 9600 baud serial 

e 

terminal and a very large masochistic 

streak. 

You can use Commodore's Ed, Edit 

(yucko !) or MEmacs as your text 

editor, or you can go for a slightly 

better one from the many available in 

the PD collections. Remember, you 

don't need (and often don't want) 

word-wrap, so the tiny Textra we gave 

away yonks ago on a cover disk is 

adequate. 

Assembler-wise, there's really only 

one choice. A68k, written by Charlie 

Gibbs, has been continuously 

upgraded over the last three years. It's 

fast, feature-filled, and free. It's a plain 

68000 assembler, which takes a source 

file on disk and writes a linkable 

Thrn Hex 

gibberish 

into 

mnemonic 

gibbersh 

with Mon 

Workbench Screen 

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object file back. 

You need a linker to convert the 

linkable object file to an executable 

object. There's only one available, and 

that is Blink, by The Software 

Distillery. It's several orders of 

magnitude quicker than the 

Commodore/Metacomco Alink, and 

has a few extra features too. 

The debugger is of extreme 

importance. As long as an assembler 

and linker do actually assemble and 

link, you can create code. But if the 

debugger doesn't have as many 

features as possible, you may never 

find the subtle bug which is stopping 

your program from running correctly. 

limo Rossi's Mon v 

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yet, a symbolic debugger, which 

means that it won't use any labels you 

stored in the executable program at 

linkage time. 

A symbolic debugger is really a 

necessity for large programs, unless 

calculating a lot of hexadecimal offsets 

makes you happy. But everyone writes 

their code in small, easily-tested 

subroutines, so it's not a problem. 

Whaddaya mean you don't use 

small, easily-tested subroutines ? Pah 

— a plague of soft-boiled Minogue CDs 

to rain down on you. 

Like all machine code monitors, 

Mon allows you to set breakpoints, 

and assign values to registers, before 

executing your code. The monitor 

stops at a breakpoint and displays all 

the registers and the next instruction. 

If you're really not sure of your 

program you can walk (single-step) 

through every instruction. It would be 

tedious to walk through a ROM 

routine — they tend to be large and 

fairly incomprehensible — so Mon can 

execute a library routine and then stop 

with the results immediately 

afterwards, 

You can guarantee that if your 

program decides to run off into the 

sunset, you've made a mistake in a 

conditional instruction somewhere. 

Mon is able to execute code at full 

speed then stand on its nose as soon 

as it hits a conditional instruction. 

This makes debugging almost 

enjoyable. 

If you find a rogue instruction in 

your code you don't need to edit the 

hex to replace it. Mon contains a line 

assembler, which will assemble single 

instructions entered at the prompt. 

HERE are a few little utility 

routines to make your day more 

pleasant. Apart from the usual 

memory allocation ones, there is a 

play (chip) memory command to 

check any samples. Disk blocks can be 

read, written and checksummed, so 

it's possible to write custom 

bootblocks directly from Mon. 

I will state now that no 

representative of Finland has ever 

paid me to say very complimentary 

things about Finnish software. Though 

if they want to start, I'm not going to 

complain. Mon is a Finnish product, 


and it really is deeply satisfying to 

use. But then, you'd expect that from a 

country which had the intelligence to 

invent the greatest invention since the 

wheel, the sauna. 

Right — those are the basic tools 

you'll need. To get into programming 

the Amiga, you'll also need one or two 

books, and a linker library file. Can't 

help you with the first field (techie 

books ain't PD, y'know) hut the 

second is a little easier. 

The proper Include files belong to 

Commodore, and they still believe in 

keeping Amiga programming out of 

the hands of the masses. We'll have to 

make do with a library that just 

defines where all the system routines 

live in each library. 

Commodore supply Function 

Definition files with on the Extras 

Oops - 

6B 

I'm going to rabbit on about 

Object E Orientated Programming, I'm 

not. Heck, my idea of structured 

programming is putting a REM 

statement full of asterisks above all 

R 

the GOTOs. 

Nope, the tone here is of deep 

apology. Remember a while back I 

otold 

the world at large that NorthC 

u was the best thing, toasters 

notwithstanding, since sliced bread? 

Well, there's a better C compiler out 

there that I missed, but this one's not 

a 

without itk drawbacks either. 

ZC on Fish Disk 314 is a very 

nearly complete C compiler system. It 

thas 

a Unix-style "cc" front end, a 

Make utility, an optimiser. an 

assembler and a linker. As it stands, 

nyou 

can compile and run programs 

k 

which use simple CLI I/O. with no 

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floating point. 

i 

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NorthC could do that too, but its 

printf() routine was so slow you 

g could see the characters appearing 

like an ancient 300 baud modem. 

NorthC could work with floating 

apoint 

numbers, but couldn't output 

t 

them. The much swifter ZC is quite 

happy outputting floating point 

numbers, but doesn't have the 

support files to work with them. 

The ZC documentation cheerily 

: t 

h 

disk, which actually contain enough 

information to build such a linker 

library. There isn't the space here to 

describe how to do it. 

Alternatively, if you look in the 

Sozobon ZC archive on Fish Disk 314, 

not only will you find A68k and Blink 

— complete with documentation — but 

you'll also find Ami.lib. This file is a 

linker library containing, among other 

things, all the library routines' 

positions. 

So Fish Disks 310 and 314 contain 

all the tools you really need for the 

Build Your Own Assembly Language 

Development Kit. If you have an 

unexpended machine, you may need 

to find someone with more memory to 

unpack the big archive on Disk 314. 

Once unpacked, the programs work 

just fine with 512k. 

tells everyone to send $20 to 

Commodore in the US, who'll send 

the 1.3 Developer Upgrade pack by 

return of post. This wonderful 

package contains everything you need 

to flip the helpless ZC tortoise back 

on to its feet. 

There's just one sandfly in the 

Savlon, though: Commodore UK do 

not sell the 1.3 Developer Upgrade 

pack to non-developers. It costs at 

least E75 to become the lowest form 

of developer, and you'll probably 

have bought an expensive compiler 

before considering that move. 

Commodore do not allow the 

distribution of their Include files — 

the things that compilers and 

assemblers need — unless it's by a 

Commercial Developer. It's a case of 

the old greedhead "Need money to 

make money" vicious circle that 1. for 

one, want no part of. Copying Include 

files off your mates is theft, another 

thing I'm not into. 

I guess I'd better give my Tirade 

Launcher a rest now, lest I start to 

sound like some lowlife student 

politico. But I have met registered 

developers whose opinion of the 

technical support available in the UK 

is on a par with the sensation of 

finding damp chewing gum under a 

desk. Worse still, it's still warm.

What are words worth? 

THE special on word processors in the August and September 

issues of Amiga Computing may have overlooked an option 

now more widely considered — the public domain solution. 

I Edit, Uedit 

B definition, a text editor becomes 

a Y word processor when it has a print 

facility. t By the revised Russell-Walker 

definition, 

h 

the text editor must be able 

to 

e 

print and wordwrap to earn the 

coveted Magimix des Mots d'Or. 

W 

Uedit easily qualifies for that title. 

Although a designed as an efficient text 

editor, l it has slowly evolved to 

become k quite a powerful word 

processor. e It is also a wonderful 

example r of Shareware in action. 

s 

Uedit has undergone at least five 

revisions, all of them at the behest of 

its t users. It costs between $48 and 

S103 a to buy the newest Uedit, the 

lower n price representing the fullyconfigurable 

d Uedit with on-disk 

documentation. 

a 

r The upper price, which is still 

under d E60, will buy you a spellchecking, 

low level programmable, 

Wordstar VI, and Gold Key emulating 

Uedit. complete with neatly bound 

printed user manual. The spelling 

checker dictionary will be American, 

but that's no crime considering that 

current thought has it that American 

English spelling is more correct than 

English English. 

The shareware Uedit has most of the 

features you could ever ask for in a 

text engitThave for spelling check. It 

has particularly good formatting 

facilities, allowing multi-column text, 

and fully adjustable margins, headers 

and footers. 

Speedwise, Uedit is up there with 

the best. Scrolling is particularly 

speedy — the longer you hold the 

cursor key, the faster it gets, right up 

to a full-speed hardware vertical 

scroll. Lovely stuff. 

But there are some slightly odd 

things about Uedit which may not 

endear you to it. First, it assumes you 

have a US keyboard, which mean your 

hashes come out quoted if you don't 

have that keyboard. Most UK people 

; 

Ram Disk I do 

**** DISCLAIMER **** 

can accept no responsibility, if you crash your Amiga or lose text fi les 

th Uedit. No guarantees, either explicit or implied, are made as to 

it's safety. If you use it, it is at your own risk. 

**se ***.****** *es* 

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dit is an editor for technical users. I t has many wordprocessing features. 

deve 

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edit don't have that keyboard. 

or, Secondly, Uedit uses the secondary 

hcursor a keys, that being the numeric 

lkeypad. f Dunno about you, but I use 

-the 

keypad a lot, so I'm not too keen 

Where, oThe 

"real" cursor keys are used 

rto kshunt 

the displayed area around, 

bbut enot 

the cursor. 

nA cneat 

trick of Uedit's that even still 

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Ucan 

double as a second Workbench 

e 

screen. You can open windows on it 

d 

and run programs, but the other 

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is still available. Never 

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found it to be much use myself, but 

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someone Might. 

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h 

e 

I there's only one program which 

s 

t 

bills N itself as a wordprocessor. It's 

called 

ra 

Wordwright, and has some 

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utterly l unique features. 

el 

Wordwright is a old program by 

t 

Amiga standards (1986) but even then, 

some t features have never been 

s 

bettered. h Its most useful feature is a 

built e in text-outliner which works in a 

rather t clever way, 

1 Outlining h a piece of work before you 

start o writing it is one of these 

disciplines 

u 

(like touch-typing) that 

s 

a 

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((See Uedit-Policy for purchasing info.)) 

loping and enhancing Uedit, the aims have been for the user to: 

able to work without bumping into limits of power and capacity; 

able to automate repetitive work, eliminate tedium, save time; 

rid of the irritation of wasted keystrokes and stodgy performance; 

able to customize the environment fu119; 

able to create, on the spot, new capabilities that are needed. 

it is Shareware. You can get a copy from a friend or off a computer 

tvork and try it ouillimerder to decide whether to purchase the real thing 

The latest full shareware 

distribution of Uedit was on Fred Fish 

Disk 286. with an updated main 

program of Fish 301. You'll need Disk 

286 even if you have a look at the 

update, but 286 alone should be 

enough to see whether you like Uedit 

and are willing to pay for it. 

The really neat thing about 

registering Uedit is that you get a 

personalised version of the Shareware 

program. If you spread this version 

and others register after seeing your 

Shareware Uedit, you earn $15 

commission. Definitely Share and 

Enjoy. 

Wordwright for right words 

everyone says is A Good Thing but 

few people ever get round to doing. 

Wordwright makes it so easy that it's 

almost more bother not to outline. 

All you need do is type in your 

headings, and then highlight them. 

After that, you "expand" each heading 

in turn, write your spiel, and then 

"collapse" the section. This hides the 

section text, leaving only the heading 

showing. 

That means that a 20 page document 

could occupy just 20 lines, each 

AMIGA COMPUTING November MO 95

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heading expandable to a full page. 

Each of these sections could have any 

number of subsections, each 

expandable to any size you want. 

This setup would be little more than 

a neat feature without Wordwright's 

index generation facility. Put a 

Contents command at the end of the 

document, and when printed outit 

will have a contents page indexed by 

the headings you defined. 

Wordwright has quite a powerful 

mailmerge facility. Now vou can send 

thousands of really sincere letters to 

people you've never met. 

once tried to use mailmerge to 

write job applications. I got no 

interviews. Mail Merge — it really 

screws you up. 

Wordvvright is pretty quick, with 

reasonable documentation and good 

help facilities. It has menus to 

duplicate the most common 

commands, but you will need to skip 

into command mode for a few 

functions. 

The oddest thing about Wordwright 

is its proportional gadget on the right 

DME 

I USE editorstwordprocessoN, at least three different and text all 

have completely different control keys. 

Pressing the key for "Move to End" on 

one produces a square bracket on the 

others. The keys for "Save Document" 

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words, have I just earned 1.5% of a 

bitmap ? 

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th words, or else It'll look pretty 

II, OK, pretty duller. 

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HAMER I: GETTING STARTED 

BACKUP PROCEEDURE 

MAKING A CLI DISK 

STARTING WORDWRIGAT 

Once you have the CLI running, you can look at the directory of the 

disk which came with Mordwright by using the "DIA" command as shown in 

the "AmigaDOS User's Manual". In addition to the executable fi le which 

is labled "Wordwright", there are also some sample text files to twit 

you get started. Start Wordwright by running the command "Wordwright 

After you type "Wordwright" the computer will respond by opening a 

window labled "UTILITIES". It will then display the copyright notice dnd 

type a prompt (the greater than symbol "Pi). The prompt indicates thdt 

the computer is waiting for user input. 

There are a wide variety of commands available in the "UTILITIES' 

window, but the one of concern at this time is the command "edit". If 

you still remember the name of a text fi le, you may read it into the 

edit buffer and start editting with the command "edit filename" where 

"filename" is the name of the documentation fi le. If you don't remember 

the name, type 'die just as if you were still using the normal ELI. 

Wordwright? No, iiv liinI t ,, 

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hand side of the screen. These are 

meant to display the size of the 

current screen in relation to the 

current document. 

Wordvvright uses the gadget to 

indicate how large the text is in 32k 

lumps. Thus the gadget is not 

proportional, and isn't really a useful 

aid to moving through tbe text. 

on one is the same as the Search key 

combination on another. And none of 

these combinations is exactly the way 

I'd want it. 

So I would like a wordprocessor 

that, no matter which set of keys I 

Mir 

14 unnamed (modifiltilin 

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fonts in a rather 

small window.' 

DME: Lots 

of fun with 

tots of fonts 

It's possible to exit Wordwright 

without being told about modified 

text. This is a major oversight, and one 

which could lose you an entire 

document. If you're careful, though, it 

should never bother you. 

You can find it on the EMPDL and 

KADSoft Home Utilities disks, or on 

Panorama Disk 48. 

pressed. it would know what I meant. 

I would also like a word processor that 

tan like greased lightning on overtime. 

Oh-yeah, and can converse with 

ARexx into the bargain. 

I have found that word processor. It 

is by nature a programmer's text 

editor, which warns that "it has not 

been designed for user friendliness". 

It's called DME, it's Freeware, and 

v1.38 lives on Fish Disk 284. 

LIME is the text editor that Matt 

Dillon wrote when he discovered that 

there wasn't a reasonable 

programmer's editor for the Amiga. 

Matt Dillon is possibly the most 

prolific writer of freely distributable 

Amiga software, with at least 35 titles 

in the Fish collection, ranging from 

small hacks to complete network 

communication systems. 

DIvIE relies on a configuration file to 

read in the key definitions. Any 

printing key or mouse button can be 

redefined to do anything at all. And 

with DME's macro programming 

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C and you may remember a 

Scandinavian A 

Star Trek which 

wasn't S half bad. If you don't 

remember T it, tough, but don't forget 

to 

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reel your mind back in. 

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Some people in high places like 

Star Trek. All the Space Shuttles 

u 

were named after Trek ships, and It 

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is now correct American to say "To 

m 

boldly go". Sheesh — If a low budget 

B-series i like Star Trek can influence 

the n American people, that explains a 

lot. d 

s Tobias "AgaTron” Richter likes 

Star b Trek, and has done a rather 

nice a little game based on Star Trek — 

The c Next Generation. When I say 

little, k I meant only takes up two 

a 

b 

language, i anything is possible. 

As t shipped, DME is a rather basic 

text-editor — no menus, no print 

command, no global find-replace and 

no paragraph reformatting. But if you 

have a penchant for simple 

programming, you can configure DME 

to your exact specification. 

DME can open as many documents 

as you have memory for the text and 

the windows. You can cut and paste 

between them, and each window can 

have a different (fixed-pitch) font. 

These fonts are only for the screen — if 

you create a print command — via 

SaveAs PRT: — it will only use your 

printer's standard font. 

The program automatically searches 

for configuration files in current work 

directories, so the DME configuration 

you use for writing C programs can be 

totally different from the one you use 

to write purple prose. 

DME writes an icon with the Save 

file if you started the program from 

1 

GAME 

OF THE 

MONTH 

Star Trek 

disks, and really likes at least a 

megabyte of RAM. There is a littler 

version which will run in 512k, but 

you sacrifice most of the sound. 

Tobias has spent a lot of time with 

a sampler getting the noises just 

right. All your favourite Trek sounds 

are there, timed just the way you'd 

expect. Most of the game is spent 

managing the Enterprise's affairs, 

dealing with attacks and fulfilling 

missions. That's quite enough to be 

going on with, since the Enterprise 

has all the reliability of an Edsel. 

Scotty (with that marvellous Irish 

accent of his) would be shocked. 

The graphics are neat in extremis. 

but the gameplay is a bit too deep for 

me. Everyone keeps telling me how 

good it is, so far be it from me to 

disagree. 

Star Trek is available from 

primarily from George Thompson 

Services, but other libraries should 

have it. it's "Worthware" — you send 

Tobias what you think it's worth. 

Rotten fish will not be appreciated. 

DME V1..N (Cop pi•ht 1988 by Hattbew Dillen, A]] Rishis Reservtd 

Seasoned DHE users: 

DME 

A Programer's Editor 

Matthew Dillon 

First Tine DIE users: READ THE DOCUMENTATION. There is no online help 

fur IMIE. The editor is designed for programers 

like ne. 

Place DME wherever. place SAMPLE.EDRC as S:.EDRC DME autonatical 

sources S:.EDRC, and the .EDRC in the current directory on startup. 

The end of the documentation contains changes and 

bug fixes to this version. Review the command li 

Matthew Dillon 

891 Regal Rd. 

Berkeley, Ca. 94788 

USA 

...ihncoltucbvaxtdillon USENET 

One of the first uses you can put DME to: Reading its own doe file 

Workbench, but doesn't if it was 

started from the CLI - a neat touch. 

If you like messing about with 

configuration files and want a zero 

wait-state text engine, DME is the 

• PUBLIC DOMAIN E 

business. I'd look elsewhere if you 

don't like staring the CU in the eye. If 

have to give it further 

recommendation, it's the editor I now 

use for all my writing. 


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The first is a strong desire to take 

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the second is a copy of the game 

The latter is available this very 

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Also due to be released in the 

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something we'd really like to see 

on a 50 frames per second 

machine) and a game based on the 

life and times of Paul Gascoigne. 

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YOU meet the nicest people at 

Press launches. A case in point is 

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Edgely, from Domark. 

Domark had several things they 

wanted to tell us about. including 

the host of Atari coin-ops they were 

converting. 

One is the fast and fabby 

Stunrunner which should be available 

shortly, and judging from 

demos we saw will be well worth 

waiting for. 

Atari are helping as much as 

they can with coding by supplying 

actual game graphics. The picture 

shows the outline of a graphic 

which will be filled in by the time 

the game is finished. Other games 

being converted include Hydra. 

Thunder laws and Skull and 

Crossbones. 

The first Russion fighter simulator 

should be with us soon. too. 

The version we saw on the PC 

looked both playable and exciting. 

and the Amiga game is not far 

behind. 

Other neat stuff "coming soon" 

includes what could be the war 

game of the decade, Vietnam. 

Written by a programming historian, 

this will be a complete "laboratory" 

where you can try out ideas 

and strategies. It's accurate, easy to 

play and due out in January. 

The Freescape system used in 

the games Dark Side and Castle 

Master will soon be released to the 

general public. It's true: If you think 

All the latest news on 

the games software scene 

you could do better that the previous 

Freescape games, you'll soon 

be able to have a try. 

Using the three dimension modelling 

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programming language, you'll 

be able to knock up anything from 

an interactive map to an atmospheric 

adventure with ease. 

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THERE certainly seems to be a 

veritable plethora of games on 

the way from this software 

house. As well as Alpha Waves 

which we took the eau out of 

last month, games based on 

Gengis Khan and Bandit Kings 

of Ancient China will be with 

us later this month. 

The game that caught my 

eye was the old novice magician 

plot game Mystical, 

mainly because the Wizard's 

name looks like a typing error. 

The demo certainly looked 

very pretty, so keep an eye out 

for it: It should be here before 

Christmas. 

Glasnost takes to 

the air, and we 

don't mean 

Radio Moscow

HE Amiga's Interchange File 

Format is a wonderful thing. By 

adopting a workable. intelligent 

standard the user is assured a relatively 

easy time when it comes to swapping 

data between programs and even other 

computer systems_ 

So far we have looked at the overall 

structure of the IFF tree, and described 

a few of its many possible uses. We 

now increase the magnification of our 

microscope a little more and focus on 

the contents of the IFF chunks themselves. 

What lies within? 

A PROPERTY is a chunk which 

describes other chunks. It is rather like 

a set of assignments in a program, such 

as: 

width.323; 

height 

, xxord710; 

200: y.cord.10; 

A data. or non-property, chunk holds 

the actual data of a FORM. You could 

think of property chunks as adjectives, 

and data chunks as nouns, so BMHD 

and CMAP are properties, and BODY is 

a data chunk. 

Some chunks are essential in a 

particular type of file. An ILBM file, for 

example, must have a BMHD chunk in 

order to be valid, so BMHD is described 

as a required property_ The CMAP 

chunk, however, is not essential, so we 

call it an optional property. 

A universal chunk is one — such as 

FORM — which is defined in IFF-85, and 

forms part of generic WE The identifier 

'FORM", among others, is reserved for 

all IFF files, so if I develop a new 

supplement I can't invent some new 

type of leaf chunk and call it FORM. A 

FORM will always be a group chunk 

holding a data object. 

A local chunk is one which is 

reserved only within the supplement in 

which it is defined. A CMAP, for 

example, is currently only defined within 

ILBM. 

If I come up with a new supplement, 

say ATLS for an atlas, then there's no 

reason why I can't use CMAP to hold a 

nautical navigation chart, so long as I 

only use it as such within a FORM 

ATLS. 

When an IFF supplement is first 

produced it is asking a bit much to 

expect the designer to think of every 

possible use to which the new FORM 

116 AMIGA COMPUTING Nommtler 1.9go 

type will be put. 

The IFF standard permits developers 

to invent new types of chunk to go into 

previously defined forms. One example 

is CRNG — a chunk introduced by 

Electronic Arts when they developed 

Deluxe Paint. It is inserted into a FORM 

ILBM to describe colour cycling. 

Because it was introduced after ILBM 

first came into use, it is known as a nonstandard 

chunk. As IFF allows nonstandard 

chunks to be introduced, any 

program which reads IFF files must be 

prepared to skip over any chunks it 

does not recognise. 

A "CAT" is a group chunk which is 

used as a mixed bag. It could hold. for 

example, a slide show, with a FORM 

SMUS for music. and a LIST of FORM 

ILBMs to be shown in sequence. 

A LIST is like a CAT, except that it 

allows for properties to be shared 

between chunks inside it. So if a lot of 

pictures all use the same palette, you 

can have a LIST containing a PROP 

with a CMAP inside it, followed by a 

whole sequence of FORM ILBMs 

without CMAPs. 

A PROP is not the same as a 

property chunk — rather it is a group 

chunk which is used for holding one or 

more property chunks. A PROP will only 

ever appear inside a LIST — not a 

FORM or CAT. 

If one or two pictures have a different 

palette from the majority, you can put a 

PROP at the top to set a default for 

FORM ILBMs without CMAP chunks, 

then different CMAP chunks inside the 

ones which differ, to override the 

default. 

• 

TO give you a flavour of how IFF files 

really work, there are two programs on 

this month's cover disk. 

IFFanalyse lets you convert IFF files 

into a human-readable form. You can 

just examine them, or if you wish edit 

them with Your favourite text editor. 

Afterwards you can use the second 

program. IFFsynthesise, to compile 

FORM is universally defined, CMAP is not 

'FORM' 

HAM'. 

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P 

'FORM' 

BMHD' 

A PROP inside a LIST sets 

default properties 

Delot paigetu 

cietst4 

Usti rts awn pal 

them back into the IFF format that 

almost all Amiga applications use. 

In its simplest form, IFFedit would 

simply convert binary !FE files into hex 

listings with chunk names and sizes in 

text. All that recompilation would then 

involve would be a hex lookup, plus a bit 

of backtracking to ensure that chunk 

sizes were correctly set. This is just 

what IFFedit does if an IFF file is not of 

a type that it recognises. In this case I 

will refer to it as generic translation. 

IFFedit does more than this though. If 

a file is of a type that is recognised. 

such as 8SVX or SMUS, then any 

standard data or property chunks will be 

translated in a way that reflects their 

meaning. 

Non-standard chunks will still, of 

course, be translated using the generic 

method, provided that they conform to 

IFF-85 syntax. 

1- 

EACH IFF file contains one FORM, 

LIST. or CAT, inside which may be 

nested other chunks according to the 

concrete syntax below (based on 

"Syntax Definitions", Exec Manual

App,B p.40 - this version sacrifices 

rigour for readability): 

Ounk 

FCRM 

CAT 

LIST 

PROP 

/D 4( uPYTE* ) [0] 

::= 'FORM" 4( Type (Chunk I FORM 

::= 'CAT ' 4( Type (FORM I LIST I 

::= 'UST 4( Type PROP* (FORM I 

u. Type Chunk* I 

Note: 

[01 represents a pad byte which may 

be needed. 

# is a LONG type number stating the 

number of following {braced) bytes. 

* means 0 or more instances (it's not 

a C-language pointer). 

An equivalent syntax for the text 

version would read: 

Chunk 

FORN 

and so on... 

LIST I CAT)* ] 

CATI* ) 

LIST CATI* 

ID 'I' CMAR* 9' 

q. Type (Chunk I FORM Lisr I CAT(' T 

Note that the pad bytes and byte 

counts have gone - alignment is 

unnecessary, and the delimiting braces 

now appear in the actual file, not just 

the syntax statement. Two cosmetic 

features have also been added - 

spaces and comments. They don't 

appear in the syntax diagram because 

they are skipped over at lexical analysis, 

before syntax analysis starts. 

Comments start with a semicolon, and 

extend to the end of the line on which 

they appear. 

This example shows a sample use of 

IFFanalyse on a generic - in other 

words unrecognised - form. This is how 

the example form would appear if listed 

using "list NBRS.iff opt h" 

0000: 464F5240 00000026 4E425253 413594C49 1B1I...iNFIRSKYLI 

0010: 00000008 01234567 89ADCDEF 497C0100 

0020: 4A41534E 00010005 03122937 5900 - 

T A S K i n 

IFFanalyse would show that this file is 

a FORM of type NBRS containing two 

chunks of type KYLI and JASN respectively. 

Chunk sizes are given (in decimal) 

as comments, and an Ascii representation 

of chunk contents is also given. 

FORMI HERS :size=38 

:eize=11 

01234567 89N3CCIEF 497CD1 

rsize=5 

03122937 59 

If you were to edit this text file you 

would only need to concern yourself 

with material before the semicolon in 

each line. IFFsynthesise will calculate 

chunk sizes from the amount of actual 

data between '-{" and ")" braces, so the 

fact that a size comment such as 

;size-38 "or Ascii comment such as' 

may no longer be correct after 

editing a file is unimportant. 

An output like the one above is better 

;.4Eq....II. 

A 

than nothing, but it suffers from one 

drawback - it reflects only the structure 

of the data, not its meaning. If you're 

working with 8SVX 

sampled sound files, or 

SMUS music files, you're 

in luck. 

IFFedit recognises 

these forms, and for each 

one it has a list of standard chunk types 

which receive special treatment. There 

is a separate list for each form type 

because chunk types are only reserved 

within a form type. 

A FORM AUTH chunk happens to be 

the same as an 8SVX AUTH, but 

there's no rule saying it has to be. In 

particular, I might treat an ILBM BODY 

- if I get round to supporting ILBM - 

quite differently from 8SVX 

BODY. Any addition made 

to IFFanalyse must be 

made to IFFsynthesise as 

well, otherwise IFFsynthesise will fail to 

recognise some mnemonic which has 

been used to represent data. 

An 8SVX chunk has eightstandard 

chunk types - VHDR, NAME, Copyright 

("(c) "), AUTH, ANNO, ATAK, RLSE and 

BODY. Descriptions of these can be 

found in the Exec manual App.0 pp.63- 

68, and are not given here. 

NAME, Copyright, AUTH and ANNO 

are treated as text, so a name chunk: 

4E414E145 00000006 73636F72 6532 

MAME_ •score2 

would appear as: 

NAME i ;size=6 ' s c o r e r [ 

ATAK, RLSE and BODY 

are translated generically. 

A future version could give 

mnemonics for ATAK and 

RLSE chunks. 

VHDR has a special format: 

56484452 00000014 00000400 00000001 

00000000 

, 

6E19010 

0 

0 0 0 1 

0 0 0 0 

appears as: 

'VIER ( :size=20 

oneShot 1024 

repeat 0 

PerRi 0 

PerSec 28185 81 

octaves 1 

comp 0 

volune 65536 

Mnemonic names, for example. 

"PerSec" are not case-sensitive, but 

they must appear in the order given 

above, and the decimal numbers after 

them are size checked by 

IFFsynthesise. 

VHDR 

....n ....... 

INJ 

Paul Holmes 

continues his 

look at the 

Amiga's 

unique filing 

system, the 

IFF: This month 

- properties, 

chunks and a 

chance for you 

to experiment 

with file 

formats 

yourself 

Next month Paul looks at more 

examples where IFF can save 

you time and frustration. More 

chunks than a jar of orange 

marmalade! 

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But which is the right one for you? 

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Amiga sequencers. This month we see 

what the market has to offer the 

"professional" musician. And for those 

of you with less demanding 

requirements, next month we'll be 

reviewing the range of budget 

sequencers. 

KCS 3.0/DR.T 

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Dr.T's software offer the most complete 

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Amiga. Their catalogue includes a vast 

range of patch editors, sequencers to 

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software, and even a range of Copyist 

tools for the production of scores from 

sequencer files. 

KCS 3 is available in two versions. 

Levels 1 and 2. Level 2 has an extra 

Programmable Variations Generator 

that applies mathematical techniques to 

create rhythmic cycles. The heart of 

KCS 3.0 is a powerful 48 track realtime 

MIDI recorder providing similar 

recording options to Musick Sequence 

editing is carried using a MIDI data 

stream editor only — there's no fancy 

graphic editors here. 

KCS is indeed a powerful sequencer, 

but it is rather unfriendly to amateur 

users. If some kind of graphic editing 

were included, then KCS would have 

been far more approachable. As it 

stands, it remains a tool for the 

hardened professional. 

KCS - not the easiest to use 

120 AMIGA COMPUTING November MO 

MUSICX/Microlliusions-The 

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musicx is generally regarded as the 

number one sequencer currently 

available for the Amiga. Unlike the rest 

of the pack, MusicX was developed on 

the Amiga specifically for the Amiga, as 

a result it boasts easily the most friendly 

and well designed user interface of all. 

The 250 tracks of real time MIDI 

MusicK's editor takes some beating 

recording offers such features as punch 

in/out, multichannel record, track 

merging and splitting, plus a lot more. 

Editing is via a friendly piano roll-like 

bar editor and a more conventional MIDI 

stream editor. The current release does 

not offer any form of score editing, but 

MicroIllusions have promised both this 

and lots more in a future release. 

Also worth a mention is MusicX's 

powerful filters page which acts like a 

dedicated MIDI patchbay, allowing you 

to redirect MIDI events and even assign 

events to individual keys using the 

keymap editor. 

For those of you with synthesisers, 

MusicX offers a powerful librarian page 

to store synth patch data. Also included 

are a range of patch editors for various 

synths including the Roland D50. 

FOR most programmers, composing 

tunes for their gaming creations meant 

only one thing — Sound Tracker. During 

its brief history, Obarski's music editor 

has become famous among both 

crackers and demo writers. 

Chances are that even the games 

you buy contain tunes produced using 

Sound Tracker, However, due to its 

legal position — nobody seems to know 

whether Sound Tracker is now PD or 

not — the program has been almost 

impossible to obtain. 

A new (legal) contender for Sound 

Tracker's throne is TFMX from the 

German software house of 

DemonWare. As the manual goes to 

great lengths to stress, TFMX was 

designed exclusively for the production 

of music for Demonware's own game 

titles, After realising what a good 

product TFMX was, Demonware have 

kindly made TFMX available to a much 

wider audience. 

It uses a pattern-based editing 

MASTER TRACKS PRO/ 

Passport/E289/071- 724 

4104 

Until recently, Master Tracks Pro was 

Passport's only release for the Amiga. 

Although it is not that well known in this 

country, the Americans love it Master 

Tracks is available on a number of 

different systems, including the Mac, 

Amiga and ST. All share a common, 

graphical-orientated user interface 

based around the Mac Finder system. 

Master Tracks offers 64 tracks of 

realtime recording, complete with some 

of the most powerful editing options 

available within an Amiga sequencer. 

The main workhorse editor is the step 

editor, which is almost identical to the 

MusicX bar editor. The program also 

has a unique song editor which can be 

used to built up songs from patterns. 

Other editing tools include a useful Fit 

Time option which can be used to 

compress or expand a sequence to fit a 

particular time space — very useful 

when providing music for video. Also on 

offer is a humaniser that attempts to 

make sequences more human by 

making them less rigid. 

Master Tracks is a powerful music 

composition system that gives MusicX a 

run for its money — a studio proven 

system that is well worth investigating. 

system very similar to conventional 

drum machines. Songs are constructed 

by building up patterns that are then 

combined to form the final song. 

Individual patterns are constructed by 

entering hex values representing the 

note to be played and the sample 

macro with which it is to be played. You 

can specify both the volume of the 

sample and which channel it is to be 

played through , a handy facility for 

creating stereo bounce effects. 

Directly after a note has been entered 

it is followed by a further command that 

specifies whether another note is to be 

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?MX: A legal Soundtracker?

No sooner do we learn of 

MicroIllusions' plans to develop version 

2 of MusicX than sources close to the 

company have discovered that another 

upgrade is to be released to bridge the 

gap between MusicX 1.1 and 2.0. 

MusicX 1.3 (nobody seems to know 

what happened to 1.2) is now in the 

hands of beta testers, but should be 

available soon. According to our 

sources. there are very few additions 

apart from a number of new libraries for 

the librarian page and perhaps an extra 

page or two to provide extended control 

over the MIDI data flow. 

Homegrown MIDI software is 

something of a rare commodity, but 

Data-Pak software of Rochford in 

Essex want to change all that. Data- 

MUSIC NEWS 

Pak's first product is a powerful MIDI 

diagnostics system written specifically 

for the Amiga. 

What makes this product so 

remarkable is the price - a mere £9.99. 

It's all too easy to get tied up in MIDI 

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you can keep track of your system with 

ease. The program offers 

comprehensive MIDI diagnostic tools 

which include realtime analysis of 

incoming data, a graphical display of 

the amount flowing through a MIDI 

network, lead checking and a facility for 

checking standard format files. 

Can you afford not to have the MIDI- 

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played (and when) and if TFMX should 

wait for the sample to stop playing. Once 

a pattern has been defined, a simple 

STOP command terminates it. 

One of the most impressive aspects of 

TFMX is the amount of control it oilers 

over samples. Using its powerful macros 

facilit you can define whether the sample 

should be looped, its length and so on. 

You can also shape it still further by 

taking advantage of TFMX's sample 

manipulation tools such as envelope 

shaping _which allows you to create 

analog-type LIO effects - portamento and 

even vibrato (who needs an effects unit?). 

Once you've created your game tune, 

you'll no doubt want to use it in your own 

programs - after all, that's the whole 

point of the exercise. 

Unlike programs like Sound Tracker, 

TFMX doesn't include n any source code 

for playing the tunes, instead you must 

call a separate player program from 

within your program. While this is great 

for Basic programmers, it is really 

USE THE AMIGA'S 

MENU TO SELECT 

TOOLRIT MODE 

The best way 

to learn 

about MIDI to 

to use it... 

unacceptable for assembler 

programmers who "hit the metal". But 

then again, all you've got to do is 

dissassemble the player program! 

For a program that claims to be the 

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be all and end all of game music 

creators, it is surprising that 

Demonware didn't include some form of 

MIDI support. Even the PD composer 

Game Music Creator supports MIDI, so 

Demonware would be well advised to 

include it in a future release. 

To be fair, the programmers have 

hinted that they may produce a 

professional version of IFMX that 

includes MIDI support, but that will 

New to the 

world of Midi? 

Superstar 

Jason Holborn 

has a word or 

two of advice 

for anyone 

starting out in 

the music biz 

probably carry a much higher price tag. 

• As it is, TFMX is still a most 

impressive product that makes the job 

of composing music for games a 

considerably easier task. Those of you 

used to Sound Tracker may find the 

editing system initially daunting, but 

you'll soon grow to favour it. Highly 

recommended. 

TFMX 

£44.95 

The Software 

Business 

0480 496497 

Next month: Reviews of Passport's 

new budget sequencer system Trax. 

Pius, of course, even more news 

and gossip from the Amiga music 

scene. 

AMIGA COMPUTING November PSIO 121

F you only use your modem for typing 

out little messages to people, you are 

only skimming the surface. To get full 

use from your deck, you need to get into 

uploads and downloads. 

Imagine you have heard of a really 

cool piece of PD software. You want it. 

Perhaps a PD library will advertise it in 

the magazine, so you post of your dash 

,wait a week and back it comes. 

Wouldn't you rather have the software 

five minutes after deciding you wanted 

it? If you have a modem, you have the 

technology. All you have to do is ring up 

a local BBS and download it in seconds_ 

This is the age of Information 

Interchange and you're part of it. 

MOST bulletin boards have a software 

bank of sorts, where you can make a 

withdrawal or — even better — a donation. 

Some systems make rules about the 

number of withdrawals you can make, 

but if you can manage to stick to one 

upload for every download you'll be Mr. 

Popular. 

To get the software, first find a local 

BBS. Get on-line and leave a nice 

message to the SysOp. He'll check you 

Out, normally within a day, and grant you 

downloading privileges. You're all set. 

Log on, with a blank disk ready and 

waiting to store your new software, Get 

to the section in the BBS where all the 

Protocols 

ANYONE who has been looking at the 

pull-down menus in their comms 

software will have noticed options such 

as X-Modem, Y-Modem and Z-Modern. 

These wonderfully named options 

specify the different protocols which can 

be used to upload and download files, 

You may ask yourself why you actually 

need a protocol in the first place... 

There are to types of data as far as 

Comms is concerned: Text and binary. 

Text files are what you're reading now — 

words. The best way to store the words 

for later perusal is to select a menu 

option such as - 

Ascii spool data to disk or ram, where you can 

C 

examine 

a p t 

it 

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later 

r 

off-line. 

e Binary ' , data is what programs are 

made from. You can't download 

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programs as text files without major 

s 

problems. There must be a better way. 

wThere iis. and l it involves the use of )0' 

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Before you uploac11..•• 

you are uploading a program on to 

BBS there are several points to bear 

mind: 

Do you have permission to do so? If 

u upload a copyrighted program, 

are breaking the law. 

• Have you included all the files 

belonging to a program? This means 

all data, binary and readme files? 

• Have you done a thorough virus 

check on the software you are uploading? 

The consequences of not doing so 

are too horrible to contemplate. 

• Have you archived all the files? 4 

1Doing so means they take less time to 

upload, consume less storage space 

on the host system and take less time 

to download. Everyone is happy, 

files are kept. Select the Download 

option. From a pull-down menu in your 

software, select the Download option 

too. All going to plan, you'll get a box 

with numbers, estimated times and 

sizes appearing. Now wait. 

When you've finished, log off nicely. 

Now get to a SHELL and examine your 

prize. Chances are Ifs been archived. 

This means its been squashed to take 

up less space, and therefore less 

downloading time. Before you can use 

or Z-Modem. All the systems work by 

collecting the binary data into small 

packets, and sending it in bursts. The 

data is automatically checked, to prevent 

even a single byte from being corrupted. 

You might not mind if a letter in a page 

of text if wrong. but if a machine code 

instruction in a downloaded program has 

got muddled, you can say hello to the 

guru. 

Z-Modem is the best system, as it 

works fastest and can automatically 

switch on uploading and downloading_ 

You should always use it if you can. 

All the popular comms packages now 

have a Z-Modem option, though 

JrComm's is the best_ Failing that, either 

of the other two protocols will work fine. 

it. you'll need to un-arc it. 

There are several popular arcing 

formats: .ARC, ,ZOO, and .ZIP and .LZH 

to name four. To un-arc them, you'll 

need the matching software: PD 

programs such ARC, ZOO, ZIP and 

LHUNARC. These programs should all 

be available — in un-arced format — from 

the BBS. They should be the first 

programs you download. 

In the old days some systems made 

the mistake of holding two un-arcing 

programs in their library: each archived 

by the other. Not much use. 

Most of these utilities are CU driven 

user-hostile beasties. Unfortunately, this 

is the way the comms world is. You're 

going to have to roll up your sleeves and 

do some work. 

To get a brief inkling of a clue what to 

do, you use the programs from the CLI 

without parameters or with question 

marks_ Nine times out of ten they will 

give you some helpful info. 

They normally work along the lines of: 

All you have to do is sit next and 

watch as the program is re-constituted 

before your eyes. Of course, you only 

have to un-arc them once. From then on 

they are just like any other piece of 

software. Except you got it so fast. 

ASCII file ends. Stop upload. 

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Comms Gossip I 

OOPS — just as we were going to 

press a few mistakes in last months 

BBS list came to light. Please note 

changes in the listings for the following 

boards: Amiga Connection, Yukon 

Ho!. Alliance (with the sexy Jessica). 

Also Code-o-matic went off the e 

following a nasty encounter with 

scourge of deck-cowboys everywhere, 

Mr. BT. Sysop Oil Smith has done a 

Macarthur and is back on a new line_ 

Coninuing the 01 for Amiga saga we 

must report that both FAST and CBM 

are no longer persuing their fraud 

inquiries. This is due to the lack of any 

hard evidence.

This is by no means intended to be an exhaustive list, but is as accurate 

and complete as was possible in the time available. Sysops are welcome 

to contact the magazine if they have details of further boards or if any 

of the details shown here are incorrect 

AMLINK BBS2 

021-778 51366 

V21.2222023 2 4 H r s 

Birmingham 

Symp. Martin Creighan 

BARNEY'S RUSBLE 

021-441 1801 

1212122023 2 4 h r s 

Birmingham 

7Sysop: Jon Morby 

"SAM S 

021-444 8972 

V21.22T22023 2 4 h r s 

Ben 

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Andy Bain 

BREAKTHROUGH 

051-734 5817 

V212222023 2 4 h r 5 

Liverpool 

Sysop. Jim Hamilton 

Everylhing 

P'S 8 0 

051-236 3105 

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2 4 h r s 

Liverpool 

8 

Syscp• Alan Smith 

Upload bureau lOr typesetting. 

ASPECTS 

061 792 0250 

V21.2222021 2 4 h r s 

Manchester 

Sysop• Dave Gorski 

Esceilent SIG tor Amiga 

D.I.E. 

061-434 9907 

V21.2222023 2 4 I w s 

Manchester 

Sysop. Simon Thornton 

ALLIANCE 

061-339 0337 

V22 

Manchester 

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POLYNET Be 

071-580 1690 

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London 

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Disabled orientated 

AMIGA CONNECTION 0 8 1 - 5 0 3 0593 

V2123 7 p r m g a m L o n d o n 

Sysop: Pad Rottay iNOTE NEW NUMBER] 

London Guest H04.1011 0 8 1 74130974 

V21222202132 

Sysop: ,?? 

2 4 H r s L o n d o n 

Yet another Paragon BBS 

CIX 0 6 1 - 3 9 9 5252 

V21 22220'23 2 4 h r s L o n d o n 

Sysop: Hangout tor poseurs and manufacturers. Subs only 

DOMAIN OBS 0 8 1 773 2422 

V22•2b 2 4 h r s L o n d o n 

Sysop David Boarciman 

HEALTH-DATA 

061-988 4360 

V23v 

Sysop Or Chris Dabbing 

Mecically otentaten 

24hrs London 

DATASELMANDERLAND 

061-680 5330 

V23 

Sysop Ted Greene 

24hrs London 

MUG. Also: 

01-681 8081 W.O: 

24hrs 

LONDON 

METROPOLIS 

081-519 1055 

V21 22•221v23 2 4 1 1 r 5 

Lcmckm 

Sysop: Terry Simla& 

PACKET BBS 0 8 1 - 5 4 7 1479 

V21.222213 2 4 h r 5 L o n d o n 

Sysop. Ted Bans 

Packet Radio orientated 

NO ESCORT REOUIRED 0 6 1 - 2 0 0 3817 

HST 2 4 h r s L o n d o n 

Sysop. John Catlin 

ORGANIC GARDEN 0 1 1 1 - 4 6 4 3305 

V21.2222023 2 4 h r 5 L o n d o n 

Sysop Bob Campo, 

Horticinuraly Orionthlacn 

BIG BANG BURGER BAR 0 6 1 - 4 2 0 6356 

V21.22.220.23 2 4 h L o n d o n 

Sysop: Pate Roberts 

1 ETHELIS 0 6 1 - 3 0 0 7177 

1V231 

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0276 691872 

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0292 671638 

3 20464 

0342 810905 

East &instead 

4Sysop, 

Neil Newell 04azei8 

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Glyn Cornfeed 

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HALO 0 3 9 2 434477 

eHST 

2 4 1 1 r s E x e t e r 

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Stuart Henderson 

NORTH YORKS OBBS 0 4 2 3 868065 

V22,22b7 2 4 1 1 r 5 Niddersdate 

Sysop: Mike Wigmore 

Host or machines supported 

PISTON POPPER 0424 853361 

??? 2 4 1 1 r s Haslings 

SySop. Peter Burnett 

CV OATABASE BB 0 4 2 7 010211 

V22221) 2 4 h r s Ga insborougli 

Sysop: Martin Jones 

JobsCV database 

LOFT 0442 230461 

V21.22.220 2 4 N S .23 H o M e l Hempstead 

Sysop Martin Carter 

SOS ONE 

V22b 2 4 h r s 

Sysop Chris Stone 

0444 236002 

Who knows? 

GAUGONZOLA BBS 0 4 5 3 511112 

V21.22,228 2 4 h r s Sharpness 

Sysop Lawrence Freeman 

Anna Orientated 

BETELGEUSE 5 

0463 231339 RB 

V21.22'22023 2 4 h r % Inverness 

Sysop. Hugh Alan 

True is a board that has been described as zany. 

KASHMIR'S OBS 0 4 7 2 347882 

V21.22.'22b23 7 prn-8 a m Grimsby 

Sysop7 Kashmir perhaps? 

Huns on BBS-PC 

Code-OSAMIc 

V21,2222b 2 4 H r s 0 4 7Grirrksby 2 360811 

Sysop: (Dever Smell 

Origin of the BBS Pub and home to many new ideas 

GOURMET 0 4 7 4 536654 

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Sysop. Joe Lawrence 

Amateur la d* orientated 

HAL BBS 0466 681069 

V21:22.22b2312 2 4 H r s 

Synod: Ned Benjamin 

Another Paragon board 

SIRIUS II 0 4 9 4 778425 

V21:22.228 2 4 1 e 5 Amersharn 

Sysop. Wolin Brown, 

CLIFF'S CORNER 0 5 E 2 5119274 

V21•22.22021 2 4 6 r s Lowestoft 

SyS0p: Call Jones 

END ZONE 0524 752245 

V21.2222823 2 4 h r s Lancaster 

Sysop. Adam Purrein 

V231MGG'23vIN 0 5 9prn Barn 3 L e2 e d s 483563 

Sysop: Russell Green 

PLUS AND MINUS 0 5 5 9 322766 

V2122.22023 2 4 1 1 r 5 Lampeter 

Sysop. Tony Jownrr. 

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 

0602 654329 HST 

248,5 N o t t i n g h a m 

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A Wildcat board 

PCAMIGA BBS 

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II49000 0 6 0 8 83458 

HST 2 4 h r s & r e a l Tee 

Sysop: Clive Wailer 

DEEP THOUGHT 0 6 3 4 6133696 

HST,V32 2 4 h r 5 Rochester 

Sysop. Paul Boakes 

Fklonel 2252.105. 

EDDIE'S DEIS 0 6 3 5 71324 

V21:2220323 2 4 h r s N e w b u r y 

Sysop. Eddie Seymour 

PCSTAingBBC 

WHITE LIGHTNING 0 6 3 5 37259 

V22228 2 4 h r 5 N e w b u r y 

Sysop. Richard Darnel 

FOX'S DEN 0 6 0 9 27085 

V2122.22023 2 4 h r s Orpington 

Sysoty Barry Freeman 

Subs for FULL access 

BIKE SHOP 0 7 0 5 827764 

V22228 2 4 h r s Portsmouth 

Sysop. Dave Horton 

GABBS 0 7 0 5 524805 

V21.22,22023 2 4 h r s Gosport 

Sysop Stephen Cole 

Formedy APO House 

LAMPLIGHT OEMS 0 7 0 5 811531 

V212222023 2 4 h r s Portsmouth 

Sysop. John Larnbol) 

MICRODEAL 0 7 2 6 65422 

V2122,22023 

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2 4 h r 5 S t Austell 

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Sysop: Herbie ilor one reason or another!. 

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!WELLAND VALLEY OBS 0 0 5 9 00594 

HST 2 4 h r s 

Market Haltom' 

Sysop: Eddy Ralphson 

OAR 0 9 0 4 642560 

V21.2323v 2 4 1 1 r S Y o r k 

Sysop: Darren SOuthill 

DIGGERTEL SI 0 9 2 5 411265 

V21,22228.23 2 4 h r s Warrington 

Sysop: John Balshaw 

VIIUNG BBS 0 9 5 0 60434 

V21.22.22023 2 4 h r s Shetland Isles 

Sysop. Graerne Stone 

Special areas for disabled and handicapped 

TREASURE ISLAND 0 9 9 2 - 4 4 7 2 7 3 

V21.0/221/2213.V23.V32 24tirs H e n s . 

Sysop: Jonathan kliOrriS 

Sill nothing to do with arterials 


OMEBODY somewhere once 

said "The secret of comedy is 

timing". I can't remember who, 

but I bet you that Green knows. He 

seems to know all these famous 

sayings and who said them. I also bet 

that Green doesn't actually remember 

them all, but has a little book of famous 

sayings that he refers to in times like 

this. 

Anyway, back to the matter in hand. 

The secret of Amiga coding is timing. 

I've had quite a few people say to me 

recently that they can get a picture on to 

the screen in machine code, but when 

they try and move it, it goes completely 

wrong, glitching all over the place and 

looking like a bad ST impersonation. 

The problem is that on the Amiga — 

and most other computers for that 

matter — the screen is redrawn 50 times 

a second (in Europe, anyway). If you 

move something on the screen while 

the screen is being drawn, you will get 

half of the old picture (before moving) 

and half of the new picture (after 

moving). This leads to the glitches. 

What you have to do is time your 

code so it only changes the screen 

when it is not being displayed. In other 

words, in the time between the end of 

drawing one frame and the begining of 

drawing the next. This is called the 

vertical blank period. 

You don't have much time to play 

with, for your movement routines have 

to be fast enough to execute and finish 

before the end of the vertical blank 

period. Other techniques — double 

buffering, for example — can give you 

more time to play with, but I won't go 

into that now. 

There are several ways of making 

sure your code only runs in the vertical 

blank period. When that point is 

reached is reached the Amiga generates 

an interrupt, telling the 68000 to 

stop what it is doing and go and run a 

routine somewhere else in memory. 

You can set up your own Vertical Blank 

Interrupt (VBI) routine which handles 

the movement for you. This is probably 

the best way to deal with such a routine, 

but setting up interrupts is a bit fiddly, so 

I'll leave that until next month. 

You will be pleased to know there is a 

much easier way to wait for the vertical 

blank period. A pair of hardware 

registers, VPOSR and VHPOSR, if read 

together show exactly where the video 

beam that redraws the screen is. All you 

have to do is read this and wait for the 

last line at the bottom of the screen (the 

305th line down the screen on 

European Amigas). 

The following piece of code will enter 


a loop and wait for the vertical blank 

period: 

VPOS equ Sdff004 

loop: 

MOVE1 VPOS,d0 

18111111I1100000000,d6 

L.L88,d0 

UiP,W $305,d0 

BNE.S loop 

You should put the code to animate 

your graphics after this routine. With a 

bit of luck it should work glitch-free. The 

obvious downside to this routine is that 

it wastes an awful lot of processor time. 

You should run all your non-screen 

updating routines, such as calculations, 

before it, as they don't need to be 

synchronised to the screen. 

Of course, we don't have to wait for 

the bottom line. You could quite easily 

wait for the first line, the 17th, the 182nd 

and so on. 

There aren't all that many useful 

applications of this technique, but here's 

an almost harmless example of another 

use of VPOS. 

It changes the background colour at 

several positions down the screen to 

give a multicoloured background. This 

in itself is pretty pointless, as the copper 

can do a much better job of it, but it's an 

easy example from which to learn. 

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appearing over your screen? If you are, 

you're having sprite problems. Here's 

one way to fix it. Add this instruction to 

the begining of your code: 

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and stick this on the begining of your 

copperlist: 

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DMA, and found that every now and 

then you get a stationary vertical bar 

running down your screen. If you turn 

off sprite DMA at the exact moment the 

sprite is being displayed it will continue 

to display the last line of sprite data 

forever. 

To disable sprite DMA properly you 

have to use — yes, you guessed it — a 

VPOS wait loop. Simply wait for the last 

line, 305, before disabling the sprite 

DMA and you can avoid hitting the 

sprite, as it will never reach that low. 

IF YOU are ever unfortunate enough to 

listen in to a crowd of programmers 

talking, they will sooner or later (usually 

sooner) mention how few raster lines 

their latest routine takes. Raster lines, in 

this particular instance, are a measure 

of time — it's the time taken for the video 

beam to trace one line across the 

screen. As it draws a whole screen of 

over 300 lines every 50th of a second, 

it's not a really large measure of time, in 

fact it's only 63 microseconds. 

It's quite simple to do — turn the 

background colour to red. run your 

routine, and turn the background colour 

to black when it finishes. You will see a 

red flash on the screen. and you count 

the number of red lines. This gives you 

the speed of your routine in raster lines. 

You have to run this routine continuously, 

once every frame, otherwise the 

screen will just flash once — for 1/50 of a 

second — and stop. You'll have to count 

the lines pretty quickly to make use of 

this ploy. 

How do you do it? Yet another 

application for this wonderful VPOS wait 

routine. Here's the basic theory. I'll 

leave the code for you this time (and 

here's one I didn't prepare earlier...) 

WAIT for line 150 (somewhere in the 

middle of the screen, to make it easy to 

see) 

CHANGE BACKGROUND TO RED 

BRANCH TO YOUR SUBROUTINE 

CHANGE BACKGROUND TO BLACK 

WAIT FOR LINE 140 (to make sure 

one whole frame has appeared) 

JUMP BACK TO BEGINING. 

Why do I wait for line 140 before 

jumping back to the beginning? If your 

routine is very fast it may only take a 

fraction of the line to finish. In this case. 

it will jump back to wait for line 150, and 

as it will still be line 150 it will go on to 

execute a second time in one frame, 

giving a misleading raster line time. 

If you're feeling bored you can 

experiment with different colours 

instead of red. You've got 4095 to try 

MOO would be a little pointless). 

There are a few flaws with the raster 

line timing method. You'll still find 

programmers saying "My blitter stack 

interrupt routine takes that' (holding 

forefinger and thumb a very short 

distance apart) 'much time", This is a bit 

pointless, as you don't know whether he 

is using a 9 inch monitor or a 26 inch 

monitor. 

Go up to them and say, "Yes, but how 

many lines is that?". You can look very 

smug and they'll be very embarrassed. 

Ten to one they're using a TV and can't 

count the individual lines without getting 

a migrane. 

THERE IS nothing more annoying than 

a piece of code that just refuses to 

work. It's a really good feeling when a 

routine works first time, but with long 

and complex ones that doesn't happen 

very often. 

A good 80 to 90 per cent of bugs can 

be trapped with a decent debugger. 

such as Monam 2 from HiSoft. but some 

bugs are so cleverly hidden and so 

perfect in design that you have to resort 

to very special tactics to dig them out. 

Here, for the first time. I reveal some 

of these alternative debugging practices: 

Print out your source code: You will 

often find the problem is obvious by the 

time it is completed. This doesn't have 

anything to do with what's printed on the 

paper. it's just that the time taken to 

print out the source gives you time to 

think. 

You really need a cheap old noisy dot 

matrix printer for this, laser printers work 

too quickly, and they don't make the 

right noise. 

Some people have successfully 

debugged by removing the ribbon and 

printer paper on their machine, printing 

nothing. The time delay and the noise 

are still right, but you don't waste 

valuable printer paper and ink. 

Invite a friend round: Every coder 

knows some annoying little person who 

comes round, stands behind you 

looking over your shoulder, who knows 

almost nothing about programming but 

comes out with statements like 

"Shouldn't that be a DO, not an AO?' 

every now and then while your typing. 

What's even more annoying is that 

they are more often than not right. A 

useful debugging technique, but it has a 

high embarrassment factor. 

The kludge: This is the dirtiest of 

debugging techniques. Frowned upon 

by almost every decent programmer — 

but a lot resort to it in a dire emergency 

— it involves logic which goes something 

like this: 

This code is theoretically perfect so it 

should work. It doesn't. If I insert 

something that is theoretically unnecessary, 

or even theoretically wrong, it may, 

with a bit of luck, fix the problem. 

Good examples of kludges are 

Jolyon Ralph 

cures the coding 

blues with his 

previously top 

secret bumper 

bug-busting 

hints 

randomly clearing registers at the 

beginning of a routine, or changing the 

length of a DBRA loop by +1 or -1 "just 

to see what it would do". The whole 

kludge ethic is based on the philosophy 

that 'As long as the program works. 

I don't have to understand why it 

works". 

Naturally, this is rather repulsive to 

most programmers, except when faced 

with a tight deadline involving sums of 

money. A very few programmers code 

purely by the kludge method, leading to 

unbeheveably badly-written code. I've 

seen some of their games. 

The US foreign policy. debugging 

method: This was something I developed 

when programming the Spectrum 

in Z80. I noticed that it was taking 20 

per cent of my time to write a routine. 

and 80 per cent to debug it. I also 

noticed that about 40 per cent of my 

routines worked first time (If only it was 

that way now!). 

So I worked out that debugging was 

a waste of time. All I had to do was 

write a routine, if it worked, great. If it 

didn't, nuke it and start again. 

If I could narrow down the error to a 

certain line, it was a simple matter of 

deleting the line, and the three lines 

above and below it, and rewriting it. 

This technique definitely works, but 

the only problem is it makes your 

fingers ache. 

Next month: More of the same, with 

loads of interesting facts about 

interrupts and copperliste Don't 

you just love it? Answers on a 

postcard please. 

AMIGA COMPL 'MG November 1 990 1 

25

joys of restyling pages of your 

L favourite publications and Amiga 

OComputing, 

you will discover what a 

T severe limitation the lack of a corporate 

lsized 

budget is. 

o 

Picture this. The latest version of the 

nConlig 

gazette lies before you. 

g 

resplendent in hi-res interlaced mode 

on your wonderful monitor. 

a 

Your subscribers, recently reaching 

fthe 

heady heights of double figures, are 

teagerly 

awaiting the next edition 

ecomplete 

with witty insights on the Ring 

r Road and severe condemnations of 

yBangor 

Marina. 

o This is the point at which you realise 

u 

that — short of buying an extra 20 

monitors and becoming the first useful 

d 

cable network — you have to find some 

i 

way of getting it on to nasty old 

sfashioned 

lo-tech paper. 

c Now,' don't know you really well, 

omostly 

we've never met, but I suspect 

vthat 

you're the sort of person who would 

ebe 

only truly happy with at least 300 dpi 

r output ( about the resolution of a laser 

t 

printer) and preferably a lot better. 

Presumably you reckon you can't afford 

h 

this. You may be wrong. 

e 

If your DIP package is capable of 

producing Postscript output — in other 

words you have Pro Page or 

Pagestream2 — you are, as they say, in 

business. 

Postscript is a language. Unlike C, 

For those of you who asked, here is a 

brief glimpse of those wonderful 

scalable fonts from Gold Disks Outline 

Fonts package. 

Not only are they are a useful 

addition to Pagesetterli. Pro Page or 

Prodraw, but they even come with a 

nice conversion program that will turn 

them into a bitmap font (as used by 

almost every art package going and a 

Gold D isk Pa ge Se lie r I I 0 1 1 8 9 Docume nt. U ntitle d = L o a 

, • I 

ar e Gothic book ABCDEFghijk 

Bookman Demi AB CD E Fghl jk 

of Courier Bold CDEFghijmn 

a spot of Courier Bold Obli 

S popular A 13(DEFghijidmix)pqrs 

Medium I alk ABODEFshilkirrtn 

et Triumvirate Condensed ABCefghij1234 

ts *00****c--,/s/x3C)ClUCJOV•ii 

Pascal, BASIC and Swahili it is 

dedicated to the description of shapes. 

All the nice curves of your 72 point 

fonts, all the precise and functional 

beauty of your keylines are just a few 

sentences in Postscript. 

The advantage of Postscript is that 

because it describes the shapes rather 

than the individual blocks that make up 

the shapes, there is much less to it, and 

yet it is more powerful. 

For example. the German word 

Manuskripteinsendung (literally 

translated "manuscript in sending") is 

precise but not as easy to say, write or 

print as the English equivalent 

'submission". Each item of a postscript 

file is likewise the equivalent of 

countless bits of data in a bitmap. The 

information density is greater. This 

means the files are smaller, print faster 

and are unlikely to give your output 

device headaches. 

Of course your output device is 

consequently going to cost twice as 

good number of word-pros) at virtually 

any point size. 

The range includes additional variants 

to the ones included with the Gold Disk 

packages and lots of others besides like 

Avant Garde, Bookman. Century 

Schoolbook, Courier, Palacio, Zapf 

Chancery and the incredibly useful 

Symbol and Zapf Chancery fonts. 

A sample collection is reproduced 

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much to do the same job. 

Sc the alternative to taking out a 

mortgage on your immediate family to 

pay for such a device is to use 

someone else's. Cunning eh? This is 

where the most important feature of 

Postscript comes in — it is a universally 

recognised language — PCs can speak 

it, Macs can speak it — it's like 

Esperanto, only it works. 

Since most of the backward thinking 

outdated publishing in this country is 

done on either PCs or Macs using 

Postscript devices there is wide support 

for this format. Unfortunately at the 

moment you are unlikely to find a DTP 

bureau that will handle Amiga disks — 

most of these silly people haven't even 

heard of Amigas! 

Obviously a high degree of cunning is 

called for. You have to fool these people 

into thinking they are dealing with an 

ordinary PC or Mac file. The best way to 

do this is to select an IBM format 

output, and print your document to disk 

here for your entertainment. I'd like to 

point out that this output — from a 

Panasonic KX-P4420 under HP 

Laserjet emulation — has obviously 

been optically scanned, which will 

undoubtedly introduce some distortion. 

The illustration should be taken as a 

guide to the style and only loosely as 

an indication of the quality of output 

possible. 

ThisisAvantGardeGothicbook ABCDEFghijkp1231"SS8( 

and this is ITC Bookman Demi ABCDEFghtildmp123+here 

is b i t of Courier Bold CDEFghijmno231f$Ec 

followed by a spot of Courier Bold Oblique ABcd 

Palacio is always popular ABCDEFghijklnmopqrs 

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is Zapf Chancery Medium Italic ABODEFghif11lmnop1234561".a& 

123ra% Don't forget you get Triumvirate Condensed ABCefghij1234rEolo& 

And Zapf Dingbats 1:100**ttoivecolt/X3I/CILILIOV• 

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You can 

convert 

the font 

to a 

bitmap 

for 

Inclusion 

Into a 

paint 

program 

such as 

DPaint 

Here are 

the Outline 

fonts, as 

produced 

by a 

Panasonic 

laser 

printer

as an EPSF (Encapsulated PostScript 

File). 

This means it can be read in to many 

applications on lesser computers which 

have a Postscript device attached to 

them. (Important note: When using Pro 

Page don't select the option to include 

bilmaps. This would enable another 

Amiga graphics system to display a 

representation of your file, but will only 

confuse Macs and PCs). 

Once you have the file the only 

problem left is to get it on to a Mac or 

PC disk. Mac disks are a bit tricky 

because their floppy drives are 

designed completely differently. The 

4 only way to get around this problem is 

to buy a Mac floppy drive and the 

excellent Mac-2-Dos (reviewed in the 

June issue). This is a bit on the 

expensive side, 

The easier way is to get hold of a PC 

disk transfer program. There are quite a 

few around, though the most popular 

are Dos2Dos and Crossdos. More 

problematic, but cheaper. is the 

shareware equivalent, Messydos. 

_er Bold CDEFgfajl 

F Courier Bold Ob. 

ABCDEFghijklinnopqr 

ABODEFghijklinn 

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The bureau solution should mean not 

only a professional job at a fairly 

reasonable rate. but also the 

opportunity that no home user could 

hope to do (unless they are really rich. 

in which case they should contact me 

without delay) and still have enough 

cash to buy Amiga Computing every 

month - use colour_ 

Most bureau will be able to output 

colour Postscript files on to film via a 

linotype. To give you some idea of the 

quality of output that gives you, these 

pages were written to film at 1000 dpi, 

before being sent off to the printers. 

This may get a little steep but can save 

a minor fortune if you desperately need 

100 copies of a full colour brochure 

(who knows, the more entrepreneurial 

of you may be subcontracted by 

businesses, colleges or old 

schoolfriends to subsidise your Amiga 

cravings). 

To bring you back to earth though - 

who really needs it? Most of your work 

is going to look OK at laser printer or 

even 24-pin quality_ Using Agfa's 

CompuGraphic fonts, even the lowliest 

9-pin can produce excellent results. 

Don't think that every letter to the 

THE following is a list of bureaux 

that specialise in PC/Mac 

' Postscript, but may be conned into 

outputting your efforts if you can get 

them in Postscript format on a Mac 

or PC floppy. 

Birmingham Typesetting (021-565 

0565) 

Communitype (0533-702270) 

Onset (061-368 5073) 

Printronics (071-240 8301) 

North Computer E.P. (0604-33464) 

If you have a modem you should 

check Out the on-line typesetting . 

bureaux in the Comms section ( P's 

and Qs and Publishing Shop). 

milkman needs to be a masterpiece of 

state of the art printing technology. 

When using a laser printer, or when 

sending off work to be output by a 

bureau on a laser printer, always 

remember that because of the nature of 

these devices a fairly large margin 

around the edges of an A4 sheet are 

unavailable. 

The exact width of these margins 

varies slightly from printer to printer, but 

a rough guide is to leave one inch both 

top and bottom and at each side. 

Also, if you are using a laser printer 

you may have trouble printing out a 

complete page. A great many lasers 

only come with a half meg of memory, 

which isn't enough for complicated 

artwork plus scalable fonts. 

The only ways to get around this 

problem is to reduce the density of the 

printout - the density effects the output 

resolution from around 75x75 to 

300x300 dpi simplify the page, or buy 

more memory for your printer. 

Extensive research into the 

fathomless pits of typesetting bureaux 

led to only two companies who didn't 

say - 

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ega 

w h 

a t OOPS! 

? WHILE " compiling a state of the art t 

w 

dissection of the DIP scene there is 

halways 

the chance that some alien 

eshape-shifters 

will attempt to4 4 

interrupt the flow of information. • 

n 

Such an event happened last month 

c as I was attempting to give you 

odetails 

of HB marketing. official Gold 

n Disk support in this country. 

f Somehow a completely fictitious 4111 

r 

oP 

phone number came to hand, so 

ni 

apologies to all those who tapped in 

ti 

all the digits only to receive the BT 

equivalent of a raspberry. The 

en 

correct number is, of course, 0753 

dv 

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What you 

design is only 

as good as 

you can print 

it. Nic Veitch 

uncovers 

professional 

output for the 

financially 

disadvantaged 

with the dilemma of the Amiga DTPer. 

The first of these highly enlightened 

bureaux is Compuvision (0642- 85079). 

They can only offer output up to laser 

quality, but seem to be quite happy with 

anything you want to throw at them 

(Postscript, Ascii text...). 

The second is Alternative Image 

(0533 440041), who will handle linotype 

output of Amiga files. They will take 

Amiga floppies,but it would be a lot 

easier - and consequently cheaper - if 

you could supply Mac or PC disk. 

Remember, it is always wise to ring 

up these chappies beforehand and let 

them know exactly what you are looking 

for. They are generally quite helpful and 

will tell you what is possible and how 

best to do it. 

There used to be a lot more Amiga 

bureaux. but several seem to have gone 

out of business, If you own or know of 

any others please get in touch. 

THANKS must go to Compuvision, 

DTP Today magazine and the Amiga 

Business Centre who helped track 

down suitable bureaux. This report 

has been compiled under the "Ai 

wants to go home now" reporting 

restrictions. 

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NE of the things the Amiga artist 

has to appreciate, and all too 

often doesn't, is just how easy it 

is for him to manipulate repeated 

shapes — namely, brushes. Every single 

tool in DPaint uses brushes, making it 

not only incredibly easy to paint with, 

but also jolly consistent. 

Let me give you an example of what I 

have just said. Set up a 16 colour lo-res 

screen, pick one of the preset circle 

brushes from the top right of the toolbox 

and then draw a Small Picture with it 

("Smileys" are always popular, although 

some people prefer drawing normal 

faces. Figure I gives an example of a 

"Small Picture"). 

Select 'cut rectangular brush" and cut 

the thing out. Now, ensuring that your 

background colour is black, hold down 

the right mouse button and move the 

brush over the original picture, erasing it, 

This is an important technique to 

remember — holding down the right 

mouse button paints with the brush's 

silouhette, coloured the same as the 

background colour. This is almost 

always true, but for the moment, don't 

worry about the "almost". 

You will have noticed that when you 

cut the brush out the paint mode 

reverted to matte, and the dotted 

freehand tool was activated. This 

happens every time you cut a brush, 

and is worth remembering - it is very 

easy to ruin a picture by cutting out a 

brush and Only realising you're no 

longer in "shade" mode when you've 

slapped a bright yellow circle over the 

past six hours work. I know, I've done it 

many a time. 

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It will be drawn with your picture instead 

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of dots. Although it's very clever, it's not 

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particularly useful. So press ''p'' to bring 

up 1 the palette selector, set the second 

colour / to white (it's normally that 

horrible 0 fleshy colour) and the very last 

one 1 to black. 

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these I shall . discuss now. You will 

require a clean d brush, so draw a new 

one, cutting it Out with a one pixel 

border around it so that the box the 

Click the right mouse button , on the "cut" tool produces touches, but doesn't 

line tool. A requester pops - up, not 

entirely dissimilar from one e of the two in 

go over, the brush. 

Figure II. What we're going J to do is 

break up the line into a series r of dots so 

that the brushes are spaced * out more. 

If you are using DPII, select I 

"Relative", enter an arbitrary number 

into the "number' box use 16 for the 

moment — and select "on". DPIII users 

should select "N Total'' and enter 16 into 

the box next to it. 

Pick "OK" and the requester goes. Try 

drawing a line again — you will notice 

that this time not only is the update 

faster, but also that the line is made up 

of only 16 "points" in total. The 

"Relative" or "N Total" option tells the 

computer to draw only a certain number 

of brushes at roughly equal distances 

from each other. 

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click the right button on the gill" 

tool. Either the top or bottom of Figure 

III 2magically 

appears on screen. Select 

"from , brush" and 'pattern" to set up a fill 

pattern from the current brush, then 

click 0 "OK" and choose a filled shape 

tool, such as a filled circle. 

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your favourite—sized circle on 

screen, 1 and marvel at it's patterned 

texture. On a less sarcastic note, it is 

worth . remembering that the fill pattern 

will fit in with the original brush position. 

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you, understandably, don't grasp 

what 0 I'm trying to explain, try drawing a 

filled shape that partially covers the 

original • brush. You will notice that there 

Now go back to the requester and 

select either "Absolute" or "Every Nth 

is no overlap where the two coincide. 

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wish someone would have invented 

dot" and enter "16'', according to which 

version you're using. Try drawing a line 

of roughly the same length. This time, 

however, instead of having 16 points in 

the line, the computer draws it so there 

is a point every 16 pixels along. 

One of the nicest things about DP, as 

words " to describe all these things — I 

mean, even something as petty as 

pulling a funny face once a year gets 

the word "gurning", so I don't see why 

"the overlap you don't get between a 

patterned fill and the original brush 

pattern" doesn't. 

I have mentioned previously, is its 

consistency. And that means that what 

It's hard to explain — please note that 

the DP manual doesn't bother trying. 

has just worked on the straight line tool Having a word for it would make it so 

should work on the box tool (it does). It 

also works on the polygon, curve, circle 

and ellipse tools. Dan Silva deserves a 

medal. 

For enhanced enjoyment, pick the 

much easier. Grumble, grumble. 

Ha! Got it — what I mean to say is that 

the position of the pattern in the fill is 

relative to the original brush position 

and not to the corner of the fill area. If 

cycle mode — F7 if you have a keyboard 

—and, with either "Absolute" or ''N total" 

set to 16, draw a curve or line on the 

screen. Wow! You now have a completely 

you still don't understand, you'll find out 

one day the hard way. 

The other fill options are not really for 

us at the moment. Leave them be, 

tacky picture which you hope no one will 

ever see (I can't work miracles — this is 

they're not going anywhere. A future 

article will reveal their hidden intricacies. 

only the second month!). 

There are still a few other tricks a 

Meanwhile, back in DPville the more 

perceptive will have noticed a menu

pertaining to brushes (in best Rowan 

Atkinson voice) known as the "Brush" 

menu. Here, all the seemingly tasteless 

brush warping tools are stored. 

It is important to know how to use 

these inside out in order to produce any 

effects that may be considered original. 

First, cut a new brush. It would be 

advisable to make it quite large. about 

200 by 100 pixels, otherwise the effects 

will confuse the image. You should 

paste a copy of this on to the spare 

page so you can revert to it later if need 

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the freehand resize. Everyone has used 

this at sometime or other, and any 

serious artist is going to need to 

eventually. Try it — hold down the left 

button, and move the mouse around to 

change the brush to any size you want. 

The mathematics of the procedure 

are instantaneous, and can be very 

useful in that you know what your 

resized brush will look like. 

Unfortunately. it usually ends up either 

as a cross-section of Legoland or a 

gritty mess. There is, however, a way of 

getting around this. 

Curiously enough, the options for this 

are not in the brush menu — they are in 

fact in the perspective menu, tucked 

away under "extras". 

First the antialias should be set to 

"high" and the perspective centre 

positioned in a clear area of the screen 

— on the spare page if possible. You 

should then select "do" from the 

perspective menu — or enter from the 

keyboard — and position the centre of 

the brush grid over the perspective 

centre. 

Now use the # and ; keys to move the 

brush into or out of the screen. You 

must use the grid to work out when the 

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brush is the right size, and when it is, 

slam the left (Or right!) button. 

The computer draws your brush on to 

the screen. 

This can take up to a minute or more, 

but the result is worth it. The brush 

which you have just created is not only 

resized with correct proportions, but 

also is antialiased so that there are no 

jagged lines and only a minimal loss of 

detail. 

Why not use this all the time? Well, 

first you need some blank space to 

render the brush into. This shouldn't 

pose too many problems. The second, 

and more pressing problem, is that you 

cannot change the palette after using 

this method. 

The reason for this is that antialias 

uses extra colours that may not 

necessarily be used in the original 

brush. What happens is that when two 

pixels need to occupy the same space 

in the resized brush DP looks at their 

combined RGB values and takes the 

average. 

It then looks at the palette and finds 

the closest colour to this, and uses it in 

their place. If you then change that 

colour yourself. wrongly assuming that 

it's not been used. the careful blending 

produced by the smoothing is ruined. 

Also it's slow, and doesn't allow you to 

change the shape of the brush — In 

other words, it's width to height ratio 

must remain equal. 

Another well-used function is rotating 

a brush. However, like resize, it suffers 

from terminal grittiness try rotating a 

stripey brush through 27 degrees! 

However, there is an alternative — 

employing perspective. Use exactly the 

same method as for resizing, but 

instead of using moving the brush along 

the z-plane, try rotating around it. The 

antialias will tidy up the final brush, but 

it still suffers from the same problems 

as resizing. 

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linguistics critic 

and logo vandal 

In the same menu, the shear function 

seems rather limited — after all, it only 

works in one direction and doesn't 

seem to produce anything interesting. 

Its real power lies in using it to create 

brushes for editing, as opposed to 

creating pictures directly. 

It's a tool to make other tools really, 

so don't worry about not using it — it will 

be explained fully 31 days from now 

(assuming you buy next month's issue). 

The last function, bend, is my 

favourite. It is used (surprisingly 

enough) to bend a brush. It is not a true 

bend, as the ends of the brush remain 

parallel to each other, instead of being 

perpendicular to the sides. 

Nevertheless, it's good fun. Let's make 

the Amiga Computing logo a little more 

interesting with it (Oil Leave that alone 

you vandal!). 

First paste the logo down. Then cut a 

small vertical strip from it, choose bend 

vertical, and "push" the centre of the 

brush upwards. 

- Paste it down somewhere, and then 

do the same again with the next strip 

along, but bending it downwards. Do 

this until the whole brush has been 

copied (second illustration in Figure II). 

For a really weird touch do the same 

thing again, but cut and bend horizontal 

strips, alternating left and right. The 

result is a markedly more interesting 

brush (third illustration). 

You may need 

before - final presentation, but with the 

addition to tidy of a small background (fourth 

illustration) i t you can very easily produce 

a rather impressive logo in a matter of 

minutes. 

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rotate and get away with it PLUS 

Dave Mee threatens to use a box! 

Be there or be a rotatedlresized 

polygon. 

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and consists of three separate packages 

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quality graphics (better than a lot of 

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buy all three, not only because they are 

excellent products. but because I wrote 

them! I might as well get my plug in now 

'cos I didn't get a mention in the first 

draft of the manuals. 

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Connection BBS and Big Bang Burger 

Bar BBS run a joint AMOS section 

containing quite a few programs to 

download. It also gives you access to 

other AMOS users and because they 

are both just a local phone call away 

from me, I can be found routing around 

on both at weekends. The two Sysops 

are big AMOS fans and use it regularly, 

so Hi to Paul Roffey and Paul Robert. I'll 

upload some more stuff when I get back 

from my holiday. 

OK, lets do some work. AMAL — the 

AMos Animation Language — is the 

most advanced feature of AMOS. With 

it you can move or animate SPRITEs. 

BOBs, Rainbows and even whole 

screens. 

Its use is not limited to games, you 

could do shop demos, fun demos or 

produce animated titles for your videos. 

We will start by loading a sprite file to 

play with, so press Escape to go to 

direct mode, insert your AMOS Data 

Disk — the one with all of the games on 

it — and type this 

LOAD 'AMOS...DATA :MAGIC JORESIVIESPRITES ARK' 

This will load the sprites from Magic 

Forest into bank number one. You may 

wonder why we are doing this in direct 

mode. It's mainly because we need to 

be able to see immediate results and it 

is not too important to save the files on 

to disk. 

Now we need to set up a nice clean 

screen display 

FLASH OFF : CLS 0 I GET SPRITE pALETTE 

DOUBLE WEER 

Right now to display a bob and set up 

its AMAL channel 

BOB 1,50,50,1 : CHANNEL I TO BOB 1 

We have our little geezer displayed 

on the screen,but we want to move him. 

The first thing to remember when 

dealing with AMOS is that unless you 

are converting a ST program never use 

the STOS compatible MOVE X or 

AMOS 3D - coming to an Amiga neat you 

MOVE Y commands. They are 

nowhere near as flexible as AMAL and 

you will quite often end up with some 

very tacky movement. 

To move this funny little creature we 

have to define an AMAL program. 

AMAL is quite simple to use, a lot of 

people have told me they found the 

manual explanation quite daunting, so I 

won't rush and we'll go through each 

command step by step. 

The first thing to remember is that 

AMAL is a case dependant sublanguage 

— more compterese for 

saying that it can tell if you have typed 

in capitals or lowercase letters. Any 

commands that we enter into our AMAL 

string will have at least one letter in 

upper case and the rest in lowercase. 

Of course this isn't quite true for all 

AMAL commands, because a very few 

require two uppercase letters but we 

won't worry about those for the time 

being. 

To move an object we have to use a 

command called Move (surprised 

huh?), which uses three parameters. 

The first is the number of pixels the 

object should move in the X direction, 

that is across the screen. The second 

is the number of pixels we wish to 

move up (or down) the screen, remembering 

that both these parameters can 

be positive or negative numbers for 

backwards or forwards movement. 

The very last parameter controls the 

amount of steps that AMAL will take to 

move your object in the X or Y direc-

• AMOS Simple sprite 

plotter instructions • 

THIS program is a simple utility that 

allows you to take AMOS sprites and 

paste them onto an IFF screen ready 

for loading into Deluxe Paint, or 

porting over to another computer - 

1 (such MIPas 

the Atari ST)_ The program 

also draws a border around the sprite.. 

iiThe controls are pretty simple — oncel 

you have loaded a sprite bank that ist 

, KEY USE 

+ Moves to next sprite in 

bank. 

Moves back one sprite, 

Changes the sprite border 

colour register (adds one), 

Changes the sprite border 

colour register (decs one). 

Loads a new sprite bank 

(but does not clear the 0 

screen). 

Saves the picture in IFF 

format. 

Clears the screen. 

A simple undo feature. Be 

careful, once pressed there 

is no way of going back. 

o Quits back to AMOS. 

If you press left and right mouse 

button (in that order) the current bot? 

Lill be pasted ACEMMLonto 

the screen. 411 

tions. 

I know it sounds a little complex but it 

really is flexible. Let's try an example — 

remember to type this EXACTLY as 

shown here: 

ANAL 14ove 16,0,1" ANAL ON 1 

You will see that the geezer we set up 

earlier has moved smoothly from his 

origin (50,50) across 16 pixels in one 

pixel increments. Try this one: 

ANAL 1.•5ove 16,0,4* : ANAL ON 1 

It moved a little faster this time 

because we changed the last parameter 

in the Move command. It is a little like 

saying "Move the object 16 pixels, but 

want it done in four separate goes." 

OK, last example for this bit : 

ANAL 1,"Mwe 16,0,16' : ANAL CN 1 

If you have managed to follow what I 

have been saying you will realise that 

our little geezer has just moved 16 

pixels in increments of 16 pixels. 

I hope you have now mastered the 

simple techniques required to produce 

fun moving characters. Remember that, 

as my mate Aaron Fothergill (editor of 

the AMOS club magazine), always 

says: "No program is fixed, you should 

1 

always get lots of people to try it out 

and tweak it accordingly." 

Now we are running out of room for 

this issue, so lets cover a little animation. 

The animation command in AMAL 

has a very simple structure. Type this in 

direct mode: 

AMAL 1, 'Anim 0, (1,4)12,41 (3,4) (2,4) (1,0 • 

ANAL ON I 

Our little geezer should be waving his 

dinky legs like there is no tomorrow. As 

you can see, we first put an Anim 

command in the string (with its first 

letter in capitals) followed immediately 

by the amount of times you wish to 

repeat the animation. If you put a zero 

the animation will repeat indefinitely. 

The next parameters are the actual 

animation numbers, these are stored in 

brackets and consist of the image 

number of the frame stored in the 

SPRITE/BOB bank followed by a 

comma and then the time you wish to 

elaps before the next animation frame is 

displayed. 

Well,' hope that hasn't put you off 

AMAL 'cos next time we are going to 

tackle joystick—controlled animation_ 

The programs on the Cover Disk this 

month are slightly more advanced 

versions of the routines we have been 

looking at here, containing a mixture of 

animation and movement commands. 

Also on there is the moving rainbow 

for our game background (all done 

using AMAL). I didn't quite have room to 

fit it into this month's column so it will 

have to wait. 

As if that wasn't enough for people 

who have got the V1.2 upgrade, there is 

a little program on the cover disk which 

will show you how to save memory by 

using the new SPRITE flipping routines. 

See if you can produce some good 

little demo between now and the next 

issue, if you do why not put then into 

the public domain so that all AMOS 

users can see them? 

Before I go, if anybody from the 

RSPCA is reading this column I would 

just like to report Richard \tanner of 

Database Software for not feeding his 

cat until he got home at 2 o'clock on 

Tuesday September llth. 

This was due to a few last minute 

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part of Fun School 3! 

Peter Hickman 

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takes a look 

at the unique 

animation 

language 

which makes 

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special 

Next month we will cover some of 

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