1 - Commodore Is Awesome

The UK's Biggest e Ing miga agazine 

ember 1991 fi.50•122,500•ASCH235•11f1152 

1111 AIR Link 

Control your home from your Amiga! 

1111•••••El 

p 

i 

I . 

No CD-ROM? 

Ask your Newsagent! 

D-RO : 

OMIlp 

are 

CD•Edition, disk 

version also available 

1 

0 

( 

Map.: 

.0t 4 

A yyoffil 

t games for Our Amide 

6 / 

Epsconl$ ; i Rifoto 

Realistic•Pr 

H 

o 2Revie 

i 

m 4l 

inte-tvecr 

4 

i How n to insid dolilierything T 

t : e F 

' X 

T 

i 

p 

s 

1 

> 

1LP1

tviteetvii, 

NEw 

1 

ADDRESS Q HUMBERSTONE HOUSE, TROON LANE WAY LEICESTER. BUSINESS PARK, LE4 9HA 

AMINET CDs 

ALL ONLY 21 0.99 EACH 

RI MN CO FOR DRY I_ DI _ REAM _ _ BY JOST DENTEN FOR A SUBSCRIPTION AS EAU CO IS 

EASED Mill NNE YOU AND DISPATCH YON NEW WE CO ON I DAY Of U RELEASE 

Comes complete with pOS workbench, Powerful pOS shell, 

easy to use pOS filer and p•OS DOS. 

ROS pre-release needs Amiga Kickstart v 2.0 to run 

Includes demos such as various WB games. fractal demos JF 

and many more. 

1 

frr 

With its impressive visual 

, 

icons this system becomes a 

P USpigiatAsE joy to use for both the beginner and the more advance 

E19.95 

Amiga user. 

Also upgrade this version to the final release without 

having to pay more than the price difference. 

1 

ray r 

% 

r);i) p 

7 

2 

k 

0 

t 

i 

• 

) 

GIGA GRAPHICS GEE( GADGETS GEB GADGETS 2 AMIGA DEVELOPERS CO AMIGA REPAIR JUT 

E9,99 E12.99 M2.99E10.99 E34.99 

4 

4-AL 

MAGIC PESO MSS ANTHOLOGY ERIC SCHWARTZ CO SYSTEM 

" 

- BOOSTER EURO CO VOL 2 

1 

EIP 

1 

A 

E29.99E22 99 El 9 95 E9.99 El 1 99 

ROC 

Phone 0116 246 3800 

Fax 0116 246 3801 

Email sales@weirdscienceicuk 

wwwweirdscience.comk 

me NW= 

Personal Suite CD 

Sounds Terrific 2 

Women of the Web 

WA Light Rom Gold 

w i 17 Bit LSD 3 

C 

a ry 

17 

Amos 

Bit 

PD 

5th 

CD 

Dimension 

d Cr) UPD Gold 

1G 

d• 

a m Multimedia Backdrops 

gr 

m l 

e 

COI . 

I 

Assassins CD Volume 

1 

s m 1,078 Weird Textures 

1. 

C1 

a 

S 

iD. 

g 

c 

m i 

N1 

i 

n 

NFA Utilities Experienl 

i 

i' 

F NFA AGA Experience 

l e 

z3 

i Scene Storm 

; , P 

gcr) 

S Zoom 2 

D0 

D 

EAm 

e 

Oh Yes! More Worms 

e0 

C Oct a m e d 6 CD 

Mn 

m 0 D 

as 

cm 

R 

gJ 

3DCD-2 Images 

CaCla Retro Gold 

o 

ip 

tip 

m 

c e 

iA 

RIAU DETAIL NTERACTNE RIC, SWISS, PO SM. 

Wg 

or 

B T 

nt 

- 

Ee 

s C / 

nx 

2D 

EMMA, ht 

ff'( 

u 

TRADE C REM MINIMS FOR ST1 SDIAINILIE MAE 

VOECAL OPAL WSURE, ANO PAU NIEMAN& 

International Distributor 

1

$ 

PERSONAL PAINT 1.1 KARA COURTIN 

'Um itilh=d1Imitilitall 

El T 

rt 

s 

I 

E 

2 

9 

1 

9 

5 

rt, PORK Pt', 414NA lit pc 

Access all of the PC Drives. 

Read & Write to & from the PC. 

Load Up to files 49kisec directly for Amiga from the > PC. 

Up to 29kisec for PC > Amiga. 

U r i T E M 

Requires Easy Installation WB2.04+ for & Amiga Windows & 95. I r e 

NEW COMPANION CD•ROM NOW INCLUDED 

Network PC includes a 3m Cable. Installation disks for both 

computers, detailed manual and a companion CO 

The - CD contains utilities for the Amiga & PC and the Amiga 

RON. Emulator for Windows 95 with games & demo files. 

EPIC COLLECTION 3 NIA AGA EXPERIENCE 3 MAU PLUG IN 

HARDWARE 

AMY RESOURCE NETWORK CO 2 

gini=1•1111111111111111P 

j 

EPIC ENCYCLOPEDIA 

AWARD WINNERS 

ASSASSINS CD 3 AGA TOOLKIT '97 LEARNING CURVE 

219.95 E9.99 El 9 95 

1 6 

50MHz CO-PRO E39.99 

1 BLIZZARD 

BLIZZARD 1260-50 

1230-50 

E329.99 

E99.99 

CYBERSTORM PPC 200 MHz 

wilaw 

- 

l____ 

11i1 

W 

E279.99 

W I 

T1 

SQUIRREL SCSI E54.95 SURF SQUIRREL E89.95 

H 

6 

8 

0 

6 

0 

5 

0 

E 

- 

INFINITIV 

PICASSO IV GFX CARD AMIGA 

1V/S DOW 

Vttlb SUM 

" 

2 

rho 4C4 

( 

, . 

U 

1 4 g 

S 

oOs 

N 

co DUAL SPEED CD-ROM DRIVE & SQUIRREL E99.99 l e N t WASS 

( 

N 

' 

o 

QUAD SSPEED 

r CD-ROM DRIVE & SQUIRREL £139.99 12gig Hard Drive & 

C 

y 

P 

e 12 SPEED CD-ROM DRIVE & SQUIRREL E199.99 1 0 Speed CD-ROM 

0 

a 

a 

m 2 BUTTON MOUSE E8.99 3 BUTTON MOUSE E10.99 e x t r a E150.00 

0 

. 

, 

g 

COMP. 0PRO. 

JOYPAD a E16.99 CD32 JOYPAD 17.99 INFINITIV TOWER KIT E159.95 

1 

t 

EXTERNAL 1 FLOPPY W £39.99 EXT. 33.6 MODEM E74.99 ZORRO II SLOTS E149,95 

. 

o 

1 

O WHIPPET E44.95 SIAMESE RIG. E179.99 ZORRO III SLOTS E319.95 

AL1FOR A Ril UST OF HARDWARE PCMCIA 

1 

1 

2 

3.5" SNAP ON 

ADAPTER 

BAY E11.95 

E29.95 

0 

0 

KEYBOARD CASE E39.95 

• 

N 

E 

A 

L 

* 

• 

• 

C• 

oo' 

5 

NEMAC IV 

- 

STRANGERS 

ilL 

BIG R3D 

ADViloatikt 

t* 4 

yips- 

Pt.! 

BIG RED ADV. 

teti 

, 

i;t4 

-U 

119.95 

HIDDEN TROTH ENC. Of PARANORMAL 

vommommaz.mi 

41 

, 

LIGHT ROM GOLD LEIB ROM 

11111L-...•oo- 

E2S.95 

Am";:os: 

" 

GAMES 

Fr 

' 

ClIOIrr 

c3r.. 

• • 

roA 01 1 216 af;o 

Contonts 

1919 Adobe 

767 Bitmap 

228 Calamus 

1105 CO Fonts 

244 Coloured 

300 ODos 

175 Iff Picts 

918 Intellifont 

139 Paciestroam 

173 ProlDraw 

1658 Ps Fonts 

1477 True Type 

1562 Type 1 

E9199 

ARCADE ACTION E12.99 MINSKIES E8.99 

ACID ATTACK E12.99 ROADKILL 14.99 

BURNOUT AGA E16•99 ROAD RASH E6.99 

BOGRATS E12.89 SENSIBLE SOCCER E19.99 

BREATHLESS E1199 SUPER SKIDMARKS E8.99 

COLOSSUS CHESS E4.99 TESTAMENT 06.99 

DESERT STRIKE E8.99 TIMEKEEPERS E 12.99 

F15 STRIKE EAGLE E12.99 TIN TOY ADVENTURE E24.99 

F19 STEALTH FIGHTER 11299 UFO 112.99 

F17A NIGHTHAM 1819 VALHALLA 1114.99 

MICROPROSE GRAND PRIX 11249 VALHALLA 2E14.99 

FORMULA 1 MASTERS 09.99 VALHALLA 3E16.99 

HILLSEA LIDO E12.99 VIRTUAL KARTING E8.99, 

IMPOSSIBLE MISSION E8,99 WORMS E24.99 

JET PILOTE16.99 CAP. PUNISHMENT E24.99 

CIVILISATION112.99 X P - 8 18.99 

MARA RATHEM112.99 VENDETTA E16.99 

UK POSTAGE IS MOO FOR ME FIRST rrEm AND 

50p EACH EXTRA REM, OVERSEAS IS DOUBLE. 

ato

CONTENTS 

AMIGA 

NOVEMBER 1997 • CONTENTS 

Editorial 

EDITOR Emmy Horgaa 

ART EDITOR Helen Beaky 

TECHNICAL EDITOR Mat Bettinsoa 

STAFF WRITER Andrew kin 

PRODUCTION EDITOR Russell Can 

CD•ROM COMPILER Noil Bothrick 

TECHNICAL CONSULTANT Jobe Remedy 

ADDITIONAL DESIGN Gordo" Bunch 

CONTRIBUTORS Jesse Campos Tony Gill. tarry 

Hichrott Joss' Bateau. Hari 

Laser, Ohainas Tram 

COVER IIIIISTRATION Roger Harris 

PHOTOGRAPHY Ben Jennings 

SCITEX MANAGER Sarah Best 

SYSTEMS MANAGER Sarah-Jane Leroy 

Advertising, Marketing Es Management 

EXECUTIVE PUBLISHING DIRECTOR Sarah James 

PUBLISHER bib Hattie 

GROUP AD MANAGER Liza Menet" 

SOFTWARE MANAGER Chris Penn 

SENIOR SALES EXECUTIVE Mariam.. lla sta ts 

AGENCY SALES EXECUTIVE Gemene Dick 

SALES EXECUTIVE Justin Wakehar 

AGENCY SALES MANAGER Paul Ianzaratti 

PRODUCT MANAGER Kiirstim Rrtchens 

MAFIRETMG EXECUTIVE Zoe Wham* 

PRODUCTION MANAGER San Lee 

At PRODUCTION MANAGER Erma Mintorti 

AD PRODUCTION EXECUTIVE Natosha George 

ADqRTISING ASSISTANT Wake' Green 

FACILITIES MANAGER Rohn McBride 

CU Amiga Magazine 

37-39 MILLHARBOUR, ISLE OF DOGS, 

LONDON ETA 111, UNITED KINGDOM 

Sill 972 5790 

GENERALPCII-AMIGA.00.1.1K 

WEB SITE: www.cm-aimiga.co,ok 

SUBS INQUIRIES: 11111511 435350 

ADVERTISING PRODUCTION FAX: 0111 972 1755 

Contacts 

READERS U T$ AN TICJBSICAL IIIIIIIMS: lot pool sesechtiut. owl* said 

sea Imon Bos la m dove cloddy %Aid ist PAUCHAT a I 

de* p s moll , i IN n Beano I I N it i lie u Miiin 11 eoft moved oloty met hi untswor I i 016011 Ise 

cod leel in II hatickavgob-aniga.co.A or I + A@otemigatask, 

le 111111III It's mi bloods oil mu el popes eery met int too rl le e r Its NM 0 

n . n I i , M a . 

a u n litaassito. . l M I37-3111Mharbon I 

Isla W I nn. totem, 114 ITT. 

sne tn 

MUM= IN I fl SlU G P10011MB.1 pas ana Is Meow a DI lip bp.. 

P O 

plum emadMalmo Masters on his aims Molest me * ond e lms Callmillomist 

S U 

Boom 

B 

I re 

M 

km a min *mem se * tre mor a DI hew ilmanst 

I l l t I 

l cavti l MSS PROMMIt Bus baa,d Inole one IMna arim or undo rest 

b auficsers C BUS IIPOISS, I WILLOW COUNT BONNTIN INNISTIIII FARL N M 

O 

TIM TN; 1101 111111 

I s 

CONIFTMOOl DJ Mom lisamot sind noir nessurood II tant oss st less eels Su jail 

l i 

mat set aloes co Si UMd Racal Mei oil Si mon DM stel Om Is as P Si owl 

Mini p * tau sitanest sent ill. coessoonl Commoom times me sly impel by pan. 

Qua leg pm porno !km and tlit Ne i s Homo d hail lasers le Delia b ask le r 

nes se it sum/ tom man. toes 

BIM ISSUES. 11151 415350 Solari II outbid*. N lab onus UI. fi ll ins 

kiii ii I ra 11.51 CI ION mous 11 son fi ll Ewalt mi Ira it e e l 11.S1 

Saisoresuss In e lle Ise Mtn Poolarleg. Mew Ions 

Smelt Pet. I fibillowI sUt 

IOW raiment MiisuaUhI 

moo I n somml 11 Imes M a i 04 svma VIII I I I I ERNI 

5IntiAll 1 1 M N , DIN. 1 Mg MOW PM lot UM Fay isi weer Myr 

i y i t i n i s 

IBM Imps INT. It pla it la ogre a r it rerairui I au bre sedsto M om a 

1 5 1 

*mu ma* stneues ii his pslile We Mb nem es 

*lies soda* * it I OWA I sla s* or MI to memo Nat 

1mi poem et Mena of is marls ill. boo it lege b poen Di imp 

S. isesssi gestalt is mumN WI romente a n minis 

it as s a p kill leattellag CV! ii. Iii Ma NM it his 'areas a 

I rim sills lie * * * smalls pad ISI in Ara n ire or immsememi ti lip pus 

an so pospbto CI Imp We a r su sisenfel slierabo dot In Hawn 5 

, 

wenn at 10 mon. hat st de oit tonneau. 

0 

PINTO IN TIE I VO M INIM BY BOUTILIN MINI N il U lla M I L 

, 

COME INS All C1141311 DIPLICATION BY OISICIPINSI 

tust b y o t s 

IBC otasears-Juos I ril 21,311 

Editorial 

Ain't no stopping us now, as a cheesy old disco band once sang. 

Now we've got used to doing exciting new things with CU Amiga 

we just can't stop. Last month it was TFX, and this month we've 

gone and stuck a circuit board on the cover! It's all part of our drive 

to revive your Amiga use, push it to new levels and make it do 

things you never thought were possible. If no-one else is going to do it, we're 

not going to sit around doing nothing but whinge about the situation - we'll do 

it ourselves. If there's anything you'd like from us, however far fetched or daft it 

might seem, let us know and we'll do all we can to make your wish come true. 

Tony Horgan, Editor 

50 Aladdin 4D V5.0 

You might have thought all the big 

applications were being phased out 

of Amiga development, but Nova 

Design have refused to follow that 

well trodden path. Instead, the developers 

of the mighty ImageFX have 

taken over development of Aladdin 

4D, a poweful 3D rendering system 

that was left floundering after its 

original creators jumped ship. With 

Amiga 3D rendering virtually 

polarised into the separate professional 

and hobbyist camps (occupied 

by LightWave and Imagine respectively), 

this could be the package that 

once again unites Amiga artists at all 

levels. A three-pronged attack of professional 

features, a re-vamped user 

interface and a reasonably affordable 

price point could just make this the 

most important Amiga software 

release of the year. 

DIY. Scene 

28 D.I.Y. AIR Link 

You're probably wondering what that circuit board is doing stuck to the front of your mag. It's 

the basis for this month's DIY project 'AIR Link', the best, most versatile and easiest D.I.Y. 

widget ever! This is what it looks like when you've got all the bits and put it together. Cool eh? 

When you plug this little gizmo into your ioystick port, your Amiga will be 

transformed into an intelligent infra red controller and 

receiver, with the ability to respondto 

a 

wide variety of common household 

infra red remote control 

handsets. What's more, it can 

transmit too! So not only can 

you control your Amiga from 

your armchair, you can control 

any other infra red device from 

your Amiga! The possibilities are 

endless, and this project is too easy 

to make, absolutely anyone who can 

touch a soldering iron on a pin can put 

one together in minutes!

News 

16 All the latest developments on 

1 

the Amiga scene, plus Stateside. 

Games 3 5 

Reviews: 

37 Sensible Golf 

37 Blitz Tennis 

38 Street Racer 

40 Trapped 2 

42 Dune 2 

Tips: 

43 IFX Players Guide 

46 Tips Central 

47 Capital Punishment Special 

50 Aladdin 4D 

58 Hydra Al200 Ethernet 

58 Envoy 2.0 

59 OxyPatcher 

61 Visual IFX 

62 Epson Stylus Photo 

64 PD Scene 

66 PD Utilities 

70 CD-ROM Scene 

72 Art Gallery 

Workshop 7 5 

76 Imagine 4.0 

79 Amiga C Programming 

81 Next Month 

82 Wired World 

84 Net God 

85 Surf of the Month 

86 Back Issues 

88 Sound Lab 

90 Desktop Publishing 

94 Reader CD-ROM contributions 

96 CibA and A to Z 

100 Backchat 

103 Subscriptions 

104 Points of View 

Cover 

ii 

Nog* 

8 Draw Studio 2 Lite 

The most versatile and professional illustration 

package the Amiga has ever seen is here 

in a fully useable 'Lite' version, with almost all 

the features from the full commercial release, 

including full project saving and printing, combining 

the best of advanced structured art with 

bitmap graphics. 

32 AIR Link software 

All about the software side 

of this month's brilliant 

DIY. project. 

14 Super 

CD-ROM 16 

Another 100% full CD with 

all the best and latest 

Amiga software. Far too 

much to list here, so check 

out page 14 for more. 

tessi Galt al 

1 

1 

1 

0 

1 

1 

4 

1 

2 

1 

- 

1! 

' 

l 

a 

w 

n 

2 

4 

2

See You Online! 

Get more from CU Amiga with CU Online. Now even bigger and better 

than ever, CU Online is full of all the latest breaking news, features, links, 

downloads, inside information and support for all Amiga users. You can 

contact the team, have your say in our online surveys, take out a sub- 

scription, join the CU Amiga Internet mailing list, probe the all new back 

issues article database and much more. All of this comes in one of the 

fastest, most Amiga friendly sites you'll encounter, so what are you waiting 

for? See you there! 

• Late breaking news 

• Exclusive online features 

• Stacks of downloads 

• Fast Amiga-friendly design 

• Links to quality Amiga sites 

• Contact the team 

• Full back issue database 

Online 

September- a 2 4 7 0 visitors lo dote * 

Favourite 

'Things' 

Favotwite 

Drinks 

Favourite 

Music 

p 

a'Thin 

irtad 

Laa cha nqe d: Tue sda y 1 6 -Se p-9 7 

Nola TV 14 it ot et on et“-,,I CD-ROM 

v 

lance! mt. tangs ta • ppittal tan lot nate 

o 

t ort to 

se t tilt Wt.. It Ow .11..1 II 

, 

l 

41:7 lit pm la 

W 

llat notlidal 

' tit t a 

e 

I developers re cruitment drive a nd de ta ils Of our brand ne w 

lsCusioalata e t 

C 

revnintiOnaty DI Y prote ct in the ne ws se ctor. I f you're looking 

r 

ai t c nd t a 

for soina thiog in pa rticula r 

t 

y 0o 

iUnit 

to and tatillat 'C Ott lat ablate 

ontottont 

E 

M 

, database cha t* We . 'd a lso be gre a tful if you take time to fifire lit out 

n 

4 ot. WM n. tTI 

Ste IteONSI 

a 

, lv p0 1 . The re 's a lso a fa nta stic ne w iZ 

eo 

ia 

TO . alt ” t emit pt. inittais to kg Mt 

1 : d r 1 f t d C 

r 

t 

Nsubscr 

tWie h s n We p il i The e cOltiobe e r I o997 issue f (With TF XI ) is a t 

t, 

iv 

a r , 

. au gsod ne wsa ge nts now, the Ca nte r'', listing can be fount n the conte rts 

o 

, tV 

i 

Mtn Viol tottinenekt 

I a 

1section, 1 " e njoy' 

S 

- 

lz•Mil 

net tom dint Od deldnatn 

l 

d a, 

t t t u n . 

A t i s i g 

n 

Gi 

ahat itd 

e 

a 

tit,. la wee, Tint tnd t et% P.O tettea , 

a 

i 

atr l, 

. olt. l ontnetrout E 11011. MOM I.. 

i 

u n l i n f 

r 

l; 

. r•C 

°COI A ij 

i 

. 

n cny Horgan -Editor o• C li Am ga M a ga rne 

o o, 

SGames 

. . . lk . Entertainment 

. 

. 

T 

. 

C 

Hr 

Ii . L 

• OA( teapot I *totem 

i 

H 

Your guide to CU Online 

a a. 

f' 

• III groin*. OS lett Won 

m 

ti 

, t 

A 

tC 

w • r 

m 

J 

m 

The most upda te t 

He re Vold Carl fi nd the 

ao 

'• 

Cann.. CD ann. 

i 

section Of C u Online , this se ction contents Di the current issue of CU 

n 

C 

l . :==7'11.- 

Il 

I 

reguiwy Plus ne ws a nd Important Amiga alorg with hints on the neid 

o 

t, 

d 

I :f.r.'?7,7Z 

g, 

issue 

s 

e eI 

et 

a v 

nl 

n "" 113MIEZIA1111:21.111 

a OS 

Oe 

....mow& 41.4..•••••• 

e4 

t tw 

n 

a 

t or 

n 

t "'"" 

n 

e 

. o . 

e 

. 

l 

' 

www.cu-amiga.co.uk 

t 

i 

o l 

s 

mn 

na 

oe 

e 

t 

d 

a 

t 

l o 

e 

Ye 

n 

o 

imm 

d 

a 

u 

t 

I 

c 

. 

a 

l 

n 

i 

t 

f 

- 

• 

matters. 

Split scre e n VW va ns, TB 3 0 3 5 (its a 

keyboard), pasta, chips and cheese Not 

to mention Clubbing. 

Non Alcoholic Cream soda 

Alchoholl: Lager, plenty of 

Techno a nd H ouse Lots of te chnoida nce 

la be ls such a s, (H e ca n't think of a ny) 

Mat 13 ettinson - Technical Editor of CU Amiga 

NEWT 

— Contact C onta ct M a t a bout the cove r C D s, C omma 

le 

(including the We b site ) a nt te chnica l 

matters, reviews and freelance 

— 

Favourite Mucking about with Amigos, gadgets and 

'Things' electonice, Online gaming C.m online 

everything Travelling regularly hopefully 

to windsurf a nd dive 

Favourite Non Alcoholic 

. Dstriks P e rpooller c o l a t e powder d 

Alchonclic: Whiskey, Bitter, Stout or G 'n 

c o f f T edepending e on the Mood. 

wFavourite i Varied t h S cm a of which, Mike Oldfielit, 

nMusic S toe v i e Ra5, Vaughan, Pink Floyd. Queen 

etc, female vocalists and melodic techno. 

Andrew Korn -Staff Write( rot CU Am igd 

gazi no — 

Contarl C onta ct Andre w for N e ws, re vie ws a nd 

features, ga me s, public doma in,

ME NEXT D41f DELIVERY* 

ON ALL ORDERS. FOR 1 MONTH ONLY 

i 

i 

& 

r 

l 

d 

i 

t 

I 

a 

l 

l 

3 

0 

f 

o 

r 

S 

u 

r 

f 

S 

q 

u 

i 

r 

r 

e 

l 

1#1: 

alltre 1 

1) 

Fully featured SCSI CD-ROM 

drive for use with the Al2 0 0 

or A600 including: 

Suped) metal enclosure with 

in-built mains power supply 

All software. cat:des and 

instructions for immediate use 

Full CO32 emulation and 

Audio CO playev software. 

Easy PCMCIA fitting Squorel 

interface 

Ado& include Squirrel. 

00 trapdoor fitting memory 

eiparisions feature: 

A battery bac%ed clock 

socKet for a 

, 

acceL 

uator 

Unlike other memory espansions 

that conflict with the PCMCIA 

port, our TOTAL memory expan- 

sions Include unique software that 

enable the maximum a wa it 

) to be used even 

a PCMCIA fitting denfics. 

CDR 

No No7v4/ Etto 

f 

,eev•t 

r 

m - 

4 SPEED ONLY 

7 

8 SPEED . ONLY 

2 

zLLF)-D,DD 

) 

12 aSPEED 

ONLY. 

F 11 D 

. 

, 

) 1: k.',I0 

L . 

- . 

d 1 

J• Jo 

J 

!_ 11* 

..01 

1 - 

, 

1 , 

1 2 

, 

, 3 

- ,: 64 

• r 

..,:bettr,,f 44- 

4MB MEMORY 

EXPANSION 

8MB MEMORY 

EXPANSION 

33MHZ 68882 

FPU (PLCC) 

I 

f 

e 

ALSO AVAILABLE 

11 

) 

01 

1. 

0 

A 

C 

C 

Eaccelerator. 

L 

1 

IL 

1 

1 

,0 1 00._ 

1 

1 

/ 1 

1 

? 1 

1 

1 

APOLLO 1230 LITE 

High quality low cost 68030 accelerator with: 

FPL• all running at 3,3mhz. 

• r y backed clock 

• r fitting. a 

- 

All the features you asked for a t an affordable price 

High performance 68030 with FPO and MMLI running at 40mht. 

Two 72pin SIMM sockets can take upto 32mb each. Simms can 

be mixed li.e.a 4mb and amb will give 12tribl and can be single 

or double sided. 

Fully PCMCIA compatible regardless of how much memory is fitted. 

Easy trapdoor fitting with battery backed clock 

APOLLO 1240/1260 

68040/68060*MMII based Al2 0 0 

Features Include: 

Buttery bucked cixic. 

72 bin socket for a standard 72 

pm 5IMM :sto to 125mbt. 

Full) featured, fan cooled trapdoor fitting 

accelerator. 

high speed 2 .5 ' IDE herd I rise s f o r the Am ig a 

A.1200 & A600 computers come complete with; 

Fitting cable. screws, partition.% software. 

full instructions 

12 monnis guarantee. 

All drives supplied by us are format- 

ted, partitioned and have Workbench 

tWil2 for the A600 and WB3 for the 

Al200 instatled for immediate use 

Fitting is Incredibly simple; If you can plug the mouse into the mouse socke t. 

Ion can plug the hard drive into the hard drive socke t 

B5MB 

„ 

••-•)—• tizi 

VAIIWYOLI-WAIT FITMVG SERVICE MR PERSONAL 

CAUJERS. PLEASE PRUE FOR APPODOWENE 

IKON TO 

RT 

Y O U 

APOLLO 1230 LITE 

APOLLO 1230 PRO 

1 

- 

1 

, 

APOLLO 1240/25r. 

1:1 

APOLLO 1240/40 

APOLLO 1280/50 

99 

4MB SIMM 

_ 

8MB SIMM 

pl6MB SIMM 

32MB SIMM 

I I A 

A600/A1.200 INTERNAL FLOPPY DRIVE 

R D CLOCK CARTRIDGE 

MOUSE 

O R EPIC I ENCYCLOPEDIA CD £ 1 9 . 9 9 

3.5' HARD DRIVE CABLE 

K " 

50mhz FPU (for blizzard 1230) L44•99 

2.5' HARD DRIVE CABLE 

V 

WORLD OF Al200 CD and TOP 100 Al200 

I 

FRESH FONTS CD 

GAMES cot14.99 EACH or both for £19.99. 

D 

AMIGA POWER SUPPLY 

E ANTI-VIRUS & X-COPY f19.99 EACH or 

SQUIRREL 

O both for E24.99 It 

Order NOW for immediate 

& 

despatch 

S 

D 

V 

O 

C 

I 

For enquiries Tel: 0 1 6 1 7 9 6 5 2 7 9 or Fax: 0 1 6 1 7E9 6 3 2 0 8 Access. Visa. Switch, Do ta. Connect etc accepted Send cheques or postal 

orders (made payable to Siren Software) or credit card details to,-SIREN SOFTWARE, R 178 BURY NEW RD, WINTERED, MANCHESTER MAS SEW, ENGLAND. All prices 

include VAT. Postage ane packing will be charged at £3.50 per order 1U.Y. 17.50 Europe an: 112.50 rest of the world. OPEN: Monday to Friday Sam to 6pm Saturday Sam 

to 12pm Personal callers welcome. Please phone first to check availability of any D item. DIRECTIONS: From the M62 Junction 1 

7 right h hand e a d side tafter e wthe athird n set i s of lights. O The u r door , to - our . premises is Wnert to Polar, e I opposite The Masons w Pub. e 

5'Next working 0 day Orders must y be placed a before r 2p.m. d AN s orders will be pieced Son 

o a 24hour delivery n service. Siren Software are not responsible if deliveries take longer 

than 24hours. Only applies to Items in stock. U.K. delivery only 

1)1J 

( 

540MB : 

) 

• 

810MB : 

J 

1000MB 

, 

D 

i 2 

- 1600MB ) 

k 

e 

e 

4 0 4 , t' 

, 

J) 

SURF SQUIRREL 0 9 . 9 9

COVER DISKS 

Draw Studio 2 Lite 

is an exclusive fully 

functional illustra- 

tion and structured 

drawing package 

from the creators 

4 of the excellent 

Image Studio. 

With Draw Studio you can create 

everything from business cards to 

Internet web page graphics. 

Loading instructions 

Installing Draw Studio 2 Lite is straightforward procedure, 

all we need is a hard drive to install to. Insert floppy disk marked 

CU168 and open it via Workbench. Don't try to boot either of the 

disks since they are Only accessible via Workbench. Click on the 

Install_DrawStudio icon and a file requestor will appear. Select a 

place on your hard drive and press OK. The installer will decompress 

the Draw Studio archive on the first disk, then it will prompt 

you to insert floppy dsk CU169. Do so and the installer will continue 

to decompress the Draw Studio components. If you are warned 

that you don't have MUI installed, you'll need to obtain a copy of 

MUI from a PD house or LH Publishing 01908 370 230. To run Draw 

Studio just click on the appropriate FPU or non FPU version. 

Drp• Sivit 

, _ e r 

1 . 1 9 

9 5 

, 

9 S 7 

C : 

f f 

~ 

D 

i 

o 

r 

A 

t 

O 

, 

D 

e 

w 

- 

v 

2 

. 

0 

. 

0 

L 

i 

t 

t 

3 

0 

1 

1 

1 

1 

7 

' 

Pep I r 

± 

_ 

_ 

1 

_ . 

1 1 1 

1 1 1 

1 . 1 

1 1 1 

1 1 1 

1 

11,4F r the xtattga 

, 

A IneStedis lite is a Mr hINAiloills 'pedal dime ds amml minting illustration 

platall, th 1 

1 r - = 

1 l i t u 

i p O 

o d 

1 

1 

1 

. 

1 

1 

1 

1 

1. 

n September of 1996, 

LH Publishing released 

an illustration package 

by Graham and Andy 

Dear Was to receive many 

awart)-. • . 

-press 

Now CU Amiga gives you a 

•_)m 

t h e 

w o r 

l The d 'one 

question which will 

s soon come to mind is "why isn't 

Athere 

an export DR2D or support 

mfor other i structured formats. The 

greasons a are many and varied but 

the main one is down to compatibility. 

Look at all the programs 

on the Amiga and you will see 

that most support different struc- 

io Lite 

Are structured formats the best? 

tured formats and there is only 

one format that is supported 

across the board and that is IFF- 

ILBM 

For those that must use structured 

formats, Metaview will 

soon we are told, support 

DrawStudio's format, so conver- 

sion between many formats will 

be possible but if you want the 

best quality with support for all 

of DrawStudio's awe inspiring 

features, then you use IFF-ILBM. 

You might not know for example, 

but most — if not all — structured 

A Create a boa like this using the Boa Tool. 

Holding down the shift key constrains the 

shape to a square. Click the right mouse 

button while drawing the shape aborts the 

task. 

very special version of this fully 

functioning application. DrawStudio 

Lite requires MU! (Magic User 

Interface). This package provides 

many of the bits and pieces for 

DrawStudio's interface and without 

it, DrawStudio won't run. Once you 

formats do not support bitmap 

fills and transparency. 

So if you created an image 

with those elements, even if 

DrawStudio Lite supported the 

many structured formats avail- 

able, you wouldn't be able to 

have those elements in your 

image. This is why images created 

in DrawStudio should be han- 

dled in two ways. 

One is to print them direct 

from DrawStudio and the second 

is to export the image as a 

bitmap. That way, your image 

can be used in any Amiga (PC 

and Macintosh too) program that 

supports the bitmap format you 

have chosen when exporting the 

image. 

DrawStudio Lite supports by 

the way, most popular bitmap 

formats such as JPEG, IFF-ILBM, 

GIE BMP, PCX andTIFE 

— 

111LI—Lit _ 

A Filth the rectangle selected, cheese the 

Objecvattributes menu item. Click on Bone 

ler Pen Colour. Under Fill Colour, click on 

Bitmap, them on Edit. This brings op the 

Bitmap Fill list. Click on Edit arid in the Edit 

&map Fill requester, click on New and load 

an appropriate bitmap. Give the lump a 

name and click OK and OK on the Bitmap Fill 

list and then OK to apply the attributes.

Converting between graphic formats 

When you want to open structured 

images, the format sup. 

ported by Draw Studio Lite is 

DR2D-IFF You may find though 

that not all your images are in 

that format. You may have a lot 

of Proclips or WMF files. A shareware 

program called Metaview is 

what you need and there is a 

version in the DS_Lite_Extras 

drawer on the CUCD. 

Using Metaview, you can load 

a WMF file and convert it to a 

MD-1ff for use in Draw Studio, 

It can also save out files in CGM 

format, useful for Wordworth 

Owners. I should also mention 

another utility worth its weight 

in gold and that's called Convert. 

It's from those folk at Soft-Logik, 

have MUI installed, you can run 

Draw Studio Lite. 

It is worth noting that MUI is not 

Magic Workbench and will not 

affect programs that do not require 

it. It will also not use any extra 

memory until an application that 

requires the MUI libraries is run. 

Above all, MUI is not a program that 

is run and so anyone who is worried 

about installing MUI should not be. 

All it does is take up a few 

megabytes of disk space and 

because it can be installed on any 

partition, that shouldn't be any reason 

for not installing it. 

Screen modes 

By default, Draw Studio is set to run 

on a High Res screen and if you run 

a screen mode such as Productivity, 

then you will first need to change 

the screen mode before going 

A Use the rectangle tool to place a box 

over three quaners of the main rectangle 

Select it and choose Object:Attributes 

Make Pen Colour None and under fill Colour, 

click on Solid and Edit In the Colour List, 

click on White and them on New. Click on 

Edit and in the Edit Colour requester, change 

the Opacity to 511%. Give the colour a new 

name and then click on OK three times. 

publishers of PageStream 3, and 

converts ProClips from ProDraw 

into DR2D-IFF files which just 

happen to load into DrawStudio 

Lite as well. 

A Metaview is an excellent shareware utili- 

ty for converting between structured lormats 

It supports WMF, DR2D-IFF and CGM among 

other types. 

onwards. Remember that for nonvideo 

modes you will need a capable 

monitor, The change of screen 

mode is achieved by going to the 

Settings menu on the right of Draw 

Studio's screen and choosing the 

Click on the Choose button and 

select the screen mode you want 

DrawStudio Lite to run in. 

A little tip: if Draw Studio's 

screen is initially hard to see 

because of an incorrect screen- 

mode, then go to Workbench and 

drag it down so you can see Draw 

Studio Lite's screen. It will inherit 

the screen-mode of Workbench 

while you make any changes necessary. 

While still on the subject of 

settings, you might also like to 

choose Settings/Prefs to select the 

measurement units, screen dpi, 

JPEG export quality and much 

more, 

• 

A Click on the Text tool and stamp it down 

on the page. Type out some text and choose 

the Null Pointer. Now choose the Text/Font 

menu item and select the low you want and 

the size for your text. Notice hem the 

screen grab you cam have custom sites for 

size and width. Apply the same bitinap fill 

attributes to this text as the rectangle io 

step 

Display tips 

When you open the Display 

requester, you will see a no 

of display types from 24-bit 

bit. If you are working with 

Images containing thousands of 

colours, and you want to see all 

the fancy effects like transparency, 

then select 24-bit. If on the 

other hand, the images you are 

creating are simply black and 

white (no greys), then 1-bit is 

more appropriate. In between are 

8-bit colour and greyscale. 

With 8-bit colour selected, you 

won't see any transparency 

effects and if your imagery is in 

grey, then the best mode is 8-bit 

greyscale. The display can also 

be changed by choosing one of 

the options from View/ReDraw 

Getting started 

There are a number of ways you can 

begin the image making process. 

One is to Open (Project menu) an 

existing structured drawing and 

modify that within Draw Studio Lite, 

Your program supports the Amiga 

standard structured format of 

0R20•IFF. Images in this format can 

be found on Aminet and other 

places or you can use an excellent 

piece of shareware called Metaview 

to convert other formats. 

Draw Studio Lite will also open 

its own files of course, The Draw 

Studio format is the most comprehensive 

of all because it supports 

many things like bitmap fills, transparency 

and so on and that's something 

most structured formats like 

Illustrator 88. WMF, CGM and so on 

do not. 

11111M 

IL"....- 

"' 

•••••., 

• 

A second method of creating an 

A With the test still selected, choose the 

Effects/Rotate lettle. With the text on the 

left of the picture. press Right Amiga.I to 

clone it. Give it a black fill. Repeat and give 

it a white fill. Place the two over the top of 

each other then place the text with the 

bitmap fill over the top. Use cursor keys to 

position the text aid Right Amiga.[ and J for 

shuffling the text objects under one another. 

, COVER DISKS 

Level. These range from Full 

where you see all the effects and 

colours possible under your chosen 

screen-mode to a wireframe 

mode. 

A The type of display you get with Draw 

Studio Lite depends out the redraw level 

selected from the View menu, Here we see 

the wireframe mode. 

image is to Place (Project menu) a 

number of image types onto the 

page. These formats include Draw 

Studio and DR2D-IFF files and many 

bitmap types like JPEG, IFF-ILBM, 

BMP TIFF GIF and PCX. The last 

method for image creation is to use 

the program's drawing and text 

tools to create something completely 

original. To do this, you'll need to 

understand some of the programs 

most important tools. 

In the toolbox 

Down the left of every project is the 

toolbox. This contains a number of 

useful tools for drawing straight 

lines, freehand lines, Bezier curves, 

rectangles with square and rounded 

corners, ovals and arcs. One of the 

most useful tools however doesn't 

require any talent because it lets 

you create text using outline fonts. 

A Create a second piece of text aid give it 

a similar bitmap fill to the last text. Notice 

how this text has been stretched. To do this 

yourself, select the text and grab the middle 

handle along the top or bottom edges. Now 

hold down the left mouse button while the 

pointer is over the handle and pull the 

mouse up or down. When the text is the 

right height, let the left mouse buttes • •

COVER DISKS 

Upgrade information 

An even better Draw Studio? 

You may not think it possible but 

there is an even better version of 

Draw Studio you can upgrade to 

for a pittance. Version 2 of Draw 

Studio is everything your Draw 

Studio Lite is but with some extra 

bells and whistles. 

To start with, Draw Studio 2 

has a Text on a Curve feature that 

is perhaps the most powerful of 

all implementations ever seen of 

this function. Text can be 

wrapped around and inside 

curves, circles, squares and more. 

Like warping in Draw Studio Lite, 

there is a preview as well so you 

know just the effect you are 

A To create full colour images. you can 

upgrade to version 2 of Draw Studio which 

supports 24-bit export. 

At the bottom of the toolbox are a 

number of icons that are attached 

to DrawStudio's unique pop-up 

palettes. These are a little difficult 

to describe so why don't you live 

dangerously and click on one. 

Clicking on a pop-up icon brings 

the palette up while clicking the 

same icon again, closes the 

palette. Clicking on an item in the 

palette also closes it, as well as • 

applying that attribute to the 

selected object. 

A Creole a new piece of text like this. Use 

the fill Colour pop-up to apply the solid 

colour to the text 

e 

going to get. 

There's more though. As you 

will see when you Export or Print 

from Draw Studio Lite, the maximum 

colour depth supported is 8bit 

or 256 colours. With Draw 

Studio 2 you can print in full 24bit 

and if you have TurboPrint 5, 

this output goes direct to 

TurboPrint with no loss of quality. 

This lets you print gradients 

which are nice and smooth. 

And speaking of quality, how 

about exporting images from 

Draw Studio in 24-bit colour with 

the option of anti-aliasing to 

smooth out all those curves for 

the absolute best quality you'll 

- 

F 

e 

- 

V 

i 

e 

- 

e 

a 

s 

e 

- 

•-• Mleee 

'•"' omo 

.0_101 

- mop 

0 

, 

A 

" 

- 

1 

A With the version 2 upgrade of Draw 

0 

Studio, you can print in 24-bit to TurhoPrint 5 

so that gradients print smoothly and hill 

WON images look photomaphic. 

Getting your fill 

This leads us to object fills and outlines. 

Every object, even text (once 

converted to a Bezier object) can 

have a fill and a different outline. 

Create a rectangle for example and 

that objects fill and outline can be a 

solid or transparent colour, a bitmap 

fill, a pattern, a gradient (using solid 

or transparent colours) or no fill or 

line colour at all. 

Once you have an object on your 

page, it can be warped. Draw Studio 

A With the text just created still selected, 

press Right Amiga-1 to create a Clone. This 

can also be done by choosing the Edittione 

menu item. Apply to this text, the He white 

fill used in step 3 and ollset the text as well 

as send it behind using the short-cut Right 

Amiga- I. 

see on a bitmap. Version 2 of 

Draw Studio can handle all this 

and for those bitten by Draw 

Studio Lite's excellent features, 

the upgrade makes perfect sense. 

If you want PostScript support, 

then Draw Studio V2 also 

supports this type of output 

including EPS. There's one more 

vital new feature in Draw Studio 

2 and that is 24-bit display sup- 

port for CyberGraphX users. With 

this, you'll be able to see your 

images in all their glory on screen 

before putting them to paper. 

For £29.95, you can upgrade to 

version 2 and then start to really 

cook with Draw Studio. This 

?OUT 913 weed on CD with LB PablIshe 

A The upgrade to Draw Studio 2 has a really 

powerful tee on a curse lunctioo that allows 

you wrap text around and inside ovals, rectangles 

and curves. 

Lite contains a number of preset 

warping styles with a slider enabling 

you to control the effect. If that isn't 

enough. you can click on Use 

Envelope and mould the object 

using control points. Here's a quick 

look at how to warp an object. 

First make sure the object you 

want to warp is selected. Then 

choose EffectsNVarp menu item 

Next to the label Type is a cycle 

gadget or if you click on the right 

side cf the gadget. you will notice a 

A Using the Straight Line tool, draw a hoe 

and use the Pen Colour Pop-op to give the 

line a colour. Click on the Line Ending pop• 

up to choose am arrow head for the line 

ending. 

includes a printed manual of 

course so you can get to grips 

with all of Draw Studio's great 

features. For a full list of the 

upgrades see the cut-out coupon 

opposite which lists all your 

options. 

One word of note though To 

take advantage of this great offer 

brought to you by CU Amiga 

Amiga Magazine and LH 

Publishing, you do need to return 

either the original coupon, or if 

you don't want to cut up magazine, 

your cover CD/ floppy disks 

with the order as proof of purchase. 

Any disks sent will of 

course be returned. 

A Version 2 of Draw Studio, the upgrade 

available through LH Publishing, supports 

PostScript export as well as the normal 

bitmap formats. This iodides 24-bit export. 

pop-up menu appear. When you 

have the type of warp you want. 

move the slider to get the effect. A 

preview on the right of the 

requester will show you roughly 

what you will see on your page. 

Now click on Warp. lithe effect isn't 

what you want, choose Undo from 

the Edit menu and start again. 

Shapely ARexx 

Okay, pernaps ARexx doesn't have 

the same shapely appeal as Elle 

_ 

A In the top right of the image, draw a rectangle 

and give the box a yellow Pea Woe 

with a six point hoe weight from the Line 

Style tab and then apply a hams fill as 

well.

)roto:tucti; the timiti5-49? Cretin Dm, Ante Z oJI e A 

,, 

.1 9 g e i t ) 

rue I 

amide) 

, 

Ne 

e 

te a 1 

Mt eetcX 

a Ed %re, 

t Mt 

ovoid*" t2.I17,2110 bylm 

n.lormit MI0,400 bred 

Cob, 

leeway 

Gradlit - H O 

Wray we st -ow 

Imre 

- 

n o l 

ctgie_j[ 

'Car 

"the body" McPherson but it 

(ARexx, not Elle!) can create shapes 

for you without you needing to 

sweat on how to create an eightsided 

octagon. It's all done through 

a useful implementation of ARexx 

by the authors of Draw Studio Lite. 

Simply choose the Rexx item 

from the Effects menu and from the 

list of effects, select one and click 

on Execute. The program will do all 

the hard work in creating the shape 

and then all you have to do is to use 

the place pointer to size and paste 

the drawing on your page. Creating 

bursts, triangles and so on need 

never be a chore again. 

Your final steps 

Once you have an image on your 

page, a final step is to save it. This 

is done using the Save item from 

the Project menu. You can however, 

do much more. One of these 

options is to select Print, also from 

the Project menu. The print mode 

A With the bon created in step 10 selected, 

press Right Amige4 to clone it and then 

while holding down the shift key, sire it 

down to fit inside the original. Choose the 

Effectstotate_ men. item and rotate the 

hot. Rotate the object tight or left several 

times to create an effect like this one here. 

121 5toistm troth 1 0 1 1 E 

but vt.At, EAtJa-Loges 

MAT KAN fatra-Low t.vc 

K V 1 S C A N R e , 

Mart5CAN•.** Ree Lead 

lignICAPWalliatihet 

MUT SCAN s'f:).1 1 0 

, PAl.,Ilree 

PA, Air, Laced 

,Ivi La ce d 

adth 640 WWI 495 

A Before doing any work in Draw Studio, select the screen mode you most like to work in Iron 

the Display requester, which is brought on screen by choosing SettingsTisplay, 

neeth 

supports 1-bit for black and white, 

8-bit grey for 256 colour greyscale 

images and 8-bit colour. You can 

also select a range of pages to print. 

This is because, like a DTP package. 

Draw Studio Lite is page based and 

you can create any amount of pages 

for a set project. Another method of 

saving your work is to use the Bitmat. 

Export item from the Project menu. 

As you know, most Amiga applications 

support bitmaps like IFF-ILBMs 

and others. Most do not though support 

structured formats like Draw 

Studio's own and DR2D-IFF 

Because of this, Draw Studio Lite 

lets you export your images at a resolution 

of your own choice, in various 

bitmap formats. This allows you to 

get images from Draw Studio Lite 

into any package you want. You may 

remember that one of the problems 

with ProDraw was that Very few programs 

(ProPage and PageStream) 

would actual(y load images in the 

ProDraw format No such problems 

with Draw Studio Lite! 

The key to exporting images that 

are going to print at the highest 

quality is to choose the resolution 

carefully. If for example, you are 

going to use a full colour image 

from Draw Studio Lite in your 

favourite word processor, then you 

could afford to export it at around 

700 pixels wide for use three or four 

inches wide on the paper. 

If you were exporting a black and 

white line art image, then you would 

choose to export at 1200 or so pixels 

wide and scale down the image 

in your word processor for the best 

printed quality. For more information, 

printed manuals and upgrades 

are available from the publishers, LH 

Publishing 401908 370 2301. • 

Adding fonts to Draw Studio Lite 

Draw Studio Lite uses PostScript 

Type 1 fonts and with that, only 

requires the "_pfb" file. There are 

a number of these outline fonts 

on the CUCD in Draw Studio's 

directory but you can also make 

use of those you may already 

have on your hard drive. Fonts 

can be in different directories and 

can be added one at a time or 

whole directories can be used. 

There is no limit to the number 

you can add. 

Fonts are added by choosing 

Text/Font Manager. This brings 

up a requester showing the current 

fonts installed as well as a 

few buttons for adding and 

removing fonts. Any fonts chosen 

can be saved to the font list so 

they are always loaded to be 

COVER DISKS 

used with Draw Studio ,or you 

can click on Use so the selected 

fonts are only available for that 

session with Draw Studio Lite. 

A By selecting the Tentlf out Manager menu 

item you can add fonts to Draw &mho Lite. 

Just make sure the louts chose. either indi- 

Moony or in a directory are PostScript Type 

I fonts. 

r • Draw Studio Lite Upgrade 

111 Please rush me a copy of Draw Studio V2 at the prices 

I 

l 

iI 

sL 

tH 

eP 

d u 

b 

el 

li 

os 

wh 

Send or fax voucher to: 

Kingdom. Fax: +44 (0) 1908 640 371 

AMIGA 

Upgrade Prices 

Draw Studio CD V2 E 3 9 . 9 5 

Draw Studio Floppy Disk V2 E 2 9 . 9 5 

Draw Studio Printed Manual E 6 . 9 9 

Draw Studio Book/CD f 1 6 _ 9 9 

Draw Studio Book/Floppy disk f 1 3 _ 9 9 

. i Please note: Prices include UK 1st class postage Shipping for other 

n 

g 

countries add... Europe: E3, Americas ES, Australia/NZ £6 

, Name: 

1 

3 Address: 

G 

a 

i 

r 

l 

• Postcode: 

o 

c 

Daytime Contact Phone Number 

h Order Method: (Please Tick Payment Method) 

A 

v 

Cheque C r e d i t Card L Cash L i Postal Order 

e Card Type: 

, 1 Mastercard 9 

ACCESS 1 1 EuroCard O t h e r 

B 

l 

e 

., E J 

VCredit I SCard A Number Eil I I 

t 

c 

h 

Expiry Date I M F Issue No — 

1 

l 

e 

Signature 

y 

M 

K 

Date 

2 Please Note: Cheques/Postal Orders should be made payable to LH 

3 Publishing. Cheques should be in pounds sterling and drawn on a UK 

D 

H 

, 

B 

u 

c 

bank 

II

EPIC CD-ROMs 

World of Caper? Plu s IS 

a double CD-ROM containing 

40,000 mono 

and colour caperl 

images. if includes 

over 100 cetegorte* 

including: anim als. 

People vehiciesitransport, 

loodedrink, zodiac. xm as ca rto o n . 

music, computers. technology, babies_ 

women. men, dogs, cats. b ird s. Ow e 

equipment, trees and dozens more M o st 

clips are I I I 

Amiga Specialists o r 04 C EA 1 •1 4 1 N ALIST L36 

QPENING HOURS 

9:30— - 

Mon - Sat 

POSTAGE COSTS 

El per title 

UK orders 

0500 131 486 

overseas orders 

+44 1793 490988 

general enquiries 

0 1793 514188 

fax line 

0 1793 514187 

email 

epicmarketing@dialinsiet 

posted orders 

Epic Marketing 

Epic House 

43 Akers Way, 

Swindon, Wilts, 

SN2 211F, UK 

41 

, 

OPENING HOURS 

LATE' 

Mon -- 

POSTAGE COTS 

$2 per title 

Australian orders 

02 9520 9606 

posted orders 

Epic Marketing 

36 Forest Road, 

Heathcote, NSW. 

2233, Australia1 

epic@swolde 

Telephone: 

I r . g +49 e-mail: 0 7071 63525 

German office 

Epic - Paul Lechler 

Strasser 4, 72076 

Tubingen, Germany. 

NC 

c 

CREDIT CARD OROtal SataLCOSIC 

etitleCeCI S Q.J Ni 

VIOPLID CF CLIPAIRT AN Amiga's 

too 

wit 

* I I 

Magic Workbench 

Enhancer is a stylish 

Amiga CD-ROM containing 

riot only M agic 

Workbench but a lso 

around 10.000 new 

Workbench icons. 

Backdrops and Desktop 

Enhance Workbench even m ore 

s excellent CD. 

Includes; 

oc Workbench MOOD New 

Icons WB Backdrops 

esktop tools WB Sounds 

WB Games WB Hacks 

42 ea 4•1_ 

! 

, IAK 1 

14 

99 

- 

1A 

04.99 

Amazing New Amiga Games! 

C14.99 

0-ROM tilieS availa 

Encyclopedia - 

96 The 1996 VeiSiOn of 

Epic In te ra ctive 

Encyclopedia. For a 

2mb Am ig a N o w 

collection of toe's, a ll 

taken trove the L SD 

tools collection, p lu s 

more tCD18,. E5 

1 1 1 1 L S D Co m p 1 A su 

Mart LSO Comp Two 

Includes games, LIE••• 

and utilities sa la b le I 

AP• • 

any KS223 Amiga 

:CD78) On ly ES 

sco-Fo Sensations 

Mar APO-E 

2 Cr) s fiAl of Sd-li 

jam 

19 Delete Paint 5 . E1 9 :9 9 

sounde 

2Him 

Mica • 1 :1 9 .9 9 HARD DISK PREP & * * TALLER 

Magic WB 

Rated Over e in 

90 

Blitz Bxsit2.1 - E 19.99 Allows you to parte°, your hae Ore* are instai 

J r 

crullex) Only C. 

! EOpus 55 - E 4 9 

• onto sdhor a 2 5" or 3 5" hard drive £7 (AHD7 Zito, 1593 or 

tSHST 21 1 5 9 2 . 

or 

Essy Ledger 2.0 • 1 :1 1 9 

SCANNER DRIVERS 

gp Far • E4 4 .9 9 

k 

Supports Epson Grxm Howlett Packard. Mirotek Wreak, 

l 

Image Ft la . E1 7 9 Heinscreen "lathed soanriers are many more 

B 

-ni-ig 

MUSil 

The Speccy CD 1997 PC '4 0 1 E- E 6 9 Some divers rewee certain spec Arrugas E5 ISS05 

to , your m u sic od's. 

e 

S includes around 3.000 Oualedlack Tools • E3 4 ATAPI - IDE SOFTWARE 

, V. c i1:14:1) d e o Only E5 

2 

T all-lime cla ssic original Tu rt o Po rt 5- E 4 9 AJlcw , d u lo connect and run any steadied PCIOE CO- 11111Vidso I n i Creator AG 

n 

, 

Spectrum games and I n t e r Office 2 £ 1 9 9 9 ROSA drive AM your Amiga E3 IATPaLl 

o 

p 

2APPO , ARGOS CD-ROM DRIVERS 

• lMovie 

Maur V 

c 

m emulators to run them , p suite CD- E 

Learn the 

Version it 2 otitis LoppeArcos driver SO'llwart 

e a 

h 

. on the Amiga, Th is 1 1 

, SOFINEusurre 

MONK 

E7 1 1 .1 2 7 -2 ) 

m 

1 p p i o n t 7 

Soltmem makes you Amiga re rk it has tonnes ot memory. ll 

t, 

brilliant M M CD 41 

e 

o 

The 19 s e 

The b e lie : 

CCD laSter 

is Da your 

strich 

Am 

- to 

iga 

use. p pageStream2.2 Print E 2 9 CD. . 9E193 riumises pour memoir, to the &We d amount 1 1 (51$55I 

tro 

a e tC131134x) On ly E5 

AMIGA PRINTER DRIVERS 

d 

i 

£ 2 9 9 Amiga Repair CD • ESO 

Inoudes aeouno 100 Punter dryers for use with Epson, HP. 

l y 

Ord" 

9 

. 

s 

IBM. Star C30 

o 

. THE SPECCY CD 1997 My 

. 

h 

Abate , 

C 

71'. 

• u 

r • 

O 

11E. 

P I M P S web Other • Amiglia 

r 

a n d 

O 

The Epic Colle ction 3 

r . 

oli 

t 

is a new Amiga CO 

1 . 3 9 

containing around 

w 

e 

. , 

The Hidden I m b A 

600mb of the ve ry 

m o 

. 

Amin& Set • nC 

D set. E19 99 

best Amiga software, 

r e 

0 

Aminel Set Two - 4 CO set £19.99 

nearly all o f 1 is 

n 

Aminet Set Three n 

1 

- 4 CD set. E34 

usable directly for the 

, 

Aminet Set Fou r - 4 CD set. E34. 

. 

CO. No need to de-corn- 

0 n 

y 3 

Aminet 17 - Games, Tools. E12 N 

1 it to d isk. 

- 1 

Amine' 18 - Games, Tools. f 12 99 

1Oide: 

C OM UK ;DAN M I ST: 

Xi Pa in t 4 - 24bit o graphics. CCALL 

9 

THE EPIC COLLECTION 3 KS IF T H E EPIC ENCYCLOPEDIA 1991 AGA tot Hargsx Amine! 20 Ga m e s. Demos. E12. 

• 

AGA To o llill 1 7 - latest uttlthes. E9 

A 

arir C9262-1 UK II9.99 • AUST. StO 

23 

Aminet 21 - Demos, Tools. ECALL 

L 

The new Arni PC 

The Flash ROM • Emulators. E29 

The Ep ic Interactive Encyclopedia 1997 Edition is a com- 

Into the NET - 

I 

Linkup se t is a powerful 

- Internet software E 

pletely updated product to the extent that il now includes 

S 

new Amiga to PC 

Women o f the Web E' 9 99 

around 16,000 su b le ct s. 1 he n e w 1997 version of the 

T 

Networking packa ge 

Epic Interactive Encyclope dia is available now I t Ma- Geek Gadgets Am ig a t o o k* E19 

171311 5th Dim ension - E5 99 

' 

that allows the Am ig a tures a superb new updated muittme(lia interface, hundreds of ttlm clips, 

to have a cce ss to 

Nothing but Oils , AGA • E5 99 

S 

images, sound samples and subyect information le st The 1997 version now 

ALL ot your PC's dri- 

AGA Experience 2 - £9.99 

X 

supports a multitude ot new features ieluding: Colour images Full-scre e n himves 

including: ZIP. 

APOTCP Vo l: One t lfl Two - E. 

S 

ceps. National anthems and a unique in t e r 

Hard d isk. Jazz.. CD 

Utilities Experience - E2 99 

o 

,ROM e tc. Win'95 

, interact with certain subyects like : Draughts. e tc. A superb re t e r 

-educational .... We ird Scie n" ce Clipart E9 99 

o 

Adr , f e 

title 

a t 

lo 

u 

t 

r 

the 

e 

whole tamale 

recommended o n your PC. but isn 't 

• We ird Science Fonts E9 99 

t essential Th e package includes every- 

w-me, h ai nc d h 

Personal Su it e 8 .4 

s 

Includes Personal Pe e lle & Pe r 

thing yo u need including cables. 

a l l u r e s 

- 

C7tweartl.gre 

e supplied onen A 

y o u 

t. 

1'Unique 

M ie r-AC T' feature 

, 

much more f . 19.99 (CD195k) 

D CQ /7e3sr.ree 

I t e 

ele. N a p p y 

6"Updated 

in t e rla ce supporting co lo u r images 

Kara Fonts Colle ction 

t , Char M KT I N 11719 • M e t $ A" SPECIAL, 

d o A k 

F• 

'Hu , n d re d s o f fi lm clip s sm a ll and large 

A ve ry high quality compilation of 

i c 

• 'Ove 

0 

r 4.000 im a g e s both 113w and corour 

mated fonts • brilliant tor intros or 

l , Ani 

e 'Dozens o t n e w fe a tu re s 

0 

Tree Produchon C 2 9 .9 9 iCO259x 

t , so re 

, 

AP' —lin& a 'Music St yle s fro m country m u sic to ra ve 

0 

Personal Pa int 7_1 

v 

Amiga Desktop Video 

'Updated Exp lo ra p e d ia n o w eight secrions 

t a 

The ve ry latest and without a do 

Z •P 

CD volume 2 contains pp 

r 

"So u n d clip s 3rema)s to famous speeches 

best Am iga 24bi1 paint package 

I 

- 

hundreds o t u 'National An t h e m s o f dozens o r countries 

£29.99 rCD406.1 

C 

t1EURO 

W 

E 

megabytes of Video r 

related backdrops, 

i 

r More Amiga CD-ROMS avao 

l L i 

-*Sound 

m o n ta g e s style s o f music, anim ats e tc 

fonts, samples, a rid e c'Zoom 

in t o An im a t io n s 4 tim es a s large 

i 

0 

Podia 

Ono—unis' ' mom= 

n 

cep images Th e CD land 

m u ch m o re . 

s 

t , • 

also includes a 

emfor 

e 

toll k ve rsio n o l Seale 

t 

• 

s rnaf 

. 4r A 

C.tger COAX, b e . leg9 • LUST t20 

u 

r ffori 

Amiga 

C U 

User 

Armga 

IntematiceIeJ 

91% 

90% 1!!! 

IC 

S Amigo / A M 

r 

Amiga Compiling • 90% , ! 

B 

pAmila ' Desktop Video 2 KSI o o 

Iktimaelt BM MS lit 

o 

a 

C m n 

Aar 

k3 

s 

t AE 

e 

S 

a 

i u r 

. 

Oder 

c 

P 

2 

. 

g 

o 

Arcade Cla ssics Plu s in clu 

h 

pd 

e ' non- 

e 

3 

Cdreos 

o f variations of all t the e 

AMIGA MOUSE a 

cla ssic 

r 

0arcade 

games. such ae s Paernen, 

n e 

Breakout Delender ASletiods Pa cm a n 

• IF• kr 

s 

OFFPC 

7 Invaders. Tron. Gataxians t Fro g g e r. 

I. 

o 

C. 

Tempest, C6 4 conversions. 6 0-Bert, Tra il Blazer. o 

n 

1. 

Scramble. Fo g BoIng XPen 

go. M issile command, Z 

Breakout. &m e m , Donkey , E Kong. Terns and tonnes u more 

Imadrs 

a 

l 

S 

A FOCA XL 

&IO W') 9 • i4.14 

9 

g i 

N 

o t 

h i 

n 

g 

B 

u 

t 

W 

s 

Over 1•000 ol the ve 

best colOte images, 

ering m a n y different 

gores.- (C0197) Ea 

insight Oinosaurs 

an amazing Mutt 

II a Dinosauepedis, 

suitable tor a n y 

Amiga ICDI 1 4x) 1:5 

Adult M ENsarion 

hitIrdrids oi 1,10 

, roiour .0 images o l 

mate bock Ow- 

1C0184x) 

Adult Sensation 2 

sox co lo u r* g irly p 

tures. Ad u lt sampt.ss 

Adult yokee and - 

to :CD1 1 5x) E7 99

eery 

c 

c 

krn 

5 

a La 

2 

plc 

es. 

Cr 

199 

39 

9 

99 

v2 

Pr e 

'99 

ltu 

pi 11 

or 

hi', 

In it) 

99 

E19_ 

9 99 

Sand 

rd 

g a 

x V 

9x) 

:,1171 

61Ia 

.. 

.. 

. 

m 

p 

t 

• 

l 

o 

O 

l 

g 

F 

l 

y 

i 

n 

' 

SixthSense 

Investigations 

is an amazing 

new 

Amiga 

arcade 

adverilure. 

featuring 32 

locations, fu ll character dialog. 

3 &t ie re d worlds, many inter 

active charade's, puzzles and 

more Th is game sets new 

standards for Amiga gaming. 

Look for reviews' 

Oar COUI LAT • E21,19 AUST :SOO 

SixthSenseilnvesti e 

G A 

Ft in h 

1 

A 

ies! a l AGA tools, 

G 

demos. gra pr-r. 

)This, 

A 

, reteese o n ta ltIS 100% 

E 

L. 

I new material rid vial make 

x 

g 

I 

a m e s to a n y 

JAl2 , N O S CO 

i 

e 

col 

t c 

a 

COM Mt (12-90 e T • Ie At e ' 320 

n e 

AGA Ex ermine o a 3 

e 

l 

AGA Amiga 

• t h o u 

3 

UFO ErKo u n le rs contains 

s ai n d s of documents and 

• a 

s 

images that - 

t 

no-one" 

you 10 see lit e C Ove rS 

lh wl aspects a n tof 

Abductions 

e 

s 

and U FO Sightings. 

l Suitable lo t use on any 

Amiga. a 

O'er fOrN IIK • rt41,91 l • M ST !Slid 

- 

UFO Encounters 

WI 

Here ii is. — 

what you've 

all been wa il 

irig for A 

texture 

mapped 3Dracing 

game 

for M iii Amiga' 

9e1 e sboring 

- 

allows 4 you lbdrive over hills, 

mu; , JO tqh .. ._ o ve r ski-ramps I d a lot m c 

U p o t „ o. a" n play SilnIPAIIIOUS by 

using a l 4 . Jrn,slick-adapter 

A Consl,ruchon a Mtl , , , 

Jy follow 

koice v 1 ó4fl C h o s e 4146 F.Strant. 

strio., h o Fun r t l y 6 8, '0 

3 0 running writs SOW t t 

NOT CD440 1 l U S 7 

Any Amiga 

Center's a wealth of sofiware. 

Metuoing 

- RYAS Textuf0S. CI10011. 

Wor Samples, Mulleneo a 

kbe Backdrops. M usic modules 

Business Letters. Te ns 

nch 

Games 3 D Objects Images 

Backdrops 

G a 

To o ls arid rt , • t • 

m e 

Clater. CD4,19 ft9 .9 9 Ausr $40 

s . 

• II II 

o.DS has been developed on 

i 

t cent on rnakeii.1 the ideal 

h',computer 

for setting up a 

e 

A 

\ Eurherrnore, the AM I GA '- 

1 a n d 

M 

p its Am ig a 

- 

possible 

I 

r 

to easily run both 

cperavg OS m systems a k e 

G 

o 

in m itri-tasking r i Th is is wh y 

the development of p .OS has been done a t h 

the usual t o ss on A 

j 

Ara •OS-sid e . Thts is an 

ierLotiant benefit ptor 

e 

any p•OS cievetOper a s 

we 

i 

c 

, eCilviiire that has anot 

t been bother developed 

aureter 

Arre g a t 

l 

s -applioalkee 

with a 

t 

iil 

those innovative leatures 

lOS 

under p OS• Thus, 

o 

kthe 

entry or change to !h F. 

ow 

operating 

h i l e 

system Ic. 

r 

e done ve ry sm o d f"ly 

r 

. 

nComplete r i n p•OS m 

t workbench • p,OS she ll 

ti 

n g p•OS-DOS , , 

- hp.OS 

demonstrations 

Order hn 

n O i 

i 

. e u a t t t 

s 

Cm 

e.OS e re-reiease s 

W513 Recu 

Do 

n 

c 

r 

49 te 

6 , w 

rs 

oNathan 

Ludkin s MIDI red GOLD 

nis 

a professionally comPeed 

. collection of around 3000 

1i 

MIDI files Eve ry MIDI track 

lb 

is categorised into various 

. c 

directories, like : Film , 

9i 

sieme Composec•Artist. Style, etc. 

9 s 01 Groat with Yamaha XG System 

As 

COW " OK 0119 -ALET.$al 

Zh 

Te 

MIDI GOLD 

A Ahmit 

'a 

b 

S i 

as the UK's best loved Amiga CDl 

e 10 my rie vW 

O O be disapoirred with our service 

Arnim 

t ot 

ch o ice and backup Request a copy 

rat our 24 page CD ROM catalogue 

o R 

u M 

O now and we'll semi you a free 1 Love 

• n a ji 

1 

The - Ga m e 

, i 

Room is an original 6 , 

Gambring games it 

i covers everything from 

.Fru it Machines to Card 

cr 

„ 

• 

o 

' uames. including 

4m 

Sol:nave, Bla ckja ck, 

p 

and Rummy. Rouiette, , i ()arts. Bingo. Po o l, 

•l 

0a 

ckaammon. 

C 

t ominoes. Pa tinas 

hi 

Board Ga m e s I ke 

eo 

o leutrocory and Clu e d °. 

Mesier re nd 1 

cn 

-Quiz 

s alscl a wii.itth 01 po 

k 1,t1 

f 

games. 

e) 

. o Order' CD45' UK:1 2 .9 9 • N A! 'PO 

r 

t 

sdThe 

Games Room — Ksszl 

h 

. e 

Ibili 

r 

Ci 

- -- E 

C , 

CO 

ha 

i'" 

Softaare 1 emulators 

k es 

-- 

Mote 1 available_ 'lie 

i ••" 

CC , conturos valuta 

s 

nu 

ml. 

ti3CS cli kV Apple tAao. 

•••• •"'"_ ., PC, 

so 

11 

on 

Spectrum, 

--- 

, r-I 

' 

o 

Co 

e 'emulators, 

t 

se a u supplied ready to run arid 

- m 

t 

I, 0Caine 

complete e t with many games to run. 

i u Easy to use h 

io 

on any Amiga 

B 

i a 

e 

B 

3nter• COM d( Utt" o • PI 99 • Aa r • 530 

ikf 

b 

C 

re 

- o 

e 

and 6 4 

ier 

t 

s 

many , 11110 

n , 

t 

, 

A I The , re-compiled 0 6 4 

L l 

orr e . m 

Games 

P 

CD includes 

o 

V i r t s 

around 15.000 a ll 

k i 

u a l t 

-cla 

ssic Commodore 

. n i 

y 

r 

time 64 games. I ts very 

t 

easy t o use and the 

a 

a 

e 

CD has a complete 

l l d 

d 

index o f every game. 

t 

, 

i 

h 

s 

MEC 013112 .•t2 9 .9 0 • AUST. MO 

e 

C64 GAMES ARCHIVE XV, 3 intb 

Sound Effects 

Sensations Volume 

One includes a ll the 

loots and data you 

need to be able to 

produce either music 

or Sound FX 

sequences. 

1, 

cr Drew, M e t AUST4 2 0 

ia 

SOUND EFFECTS CD AHAtrugis 

la 

s 

e 

Tho ve ry latest 17BIT 

x 

disks specially cdm- 

a 

piled b y Ouartz_ All the 

h 

best titles are here. 

1 

Through an e a sy to 

5 

use interlace you 

have a cce ss to 

, 

arOund 5 600 brand 

now • Am ig a d isks a ll 

, V 

-ic,us 

s the r 

. , e 

. es Order r C0495 t it ( • 1 1 

y, 

v 

. 101 e17BIT 

AL LEVEL I 5 7 6 

-5s4111111•1=E1111111M1=11 

3 0 

i Kid's Games 

g Suitable for any ArnigaA 

e Only 23.75 each (minimum of 2) 

n POSTMAN PAT 

s COUNT DUCKULA 1 or 2 

e BULLY'S SPORTING DARTS 

d HUCKLEBERRY HOUND 

i 

POPEYE 2 

n POSTMAN PAT 3 

t THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE 

o THOMAS' FUN WITH WORDS 

v SOOTY'S FUN WITH NUMBERS 

a other Nies available 

r 

• 

.,1\ DULA' aPgti 

lAL1 and Three for lust E20 

Order Adult Sensation Ons, Two 

or orde r them singula rly for Only 

£7.99 each 

Ord. CD497 

c c 

' 

All sixsix C D s in one st o rn in g ly good p a ck N o rm a l O 

Availiale tor a ve ry limite d lime a t just 1:30. 

v e r £60 

, groa t X m a s 

P r e s e n t ! ! ! 

SVEMi 

CD tt 

Mouse Mot E a • 

Standard Amiga Mouse C 

•Official ', lig e Mouse E t 

' Joysticks • 

it) capacity deikbot 

l I- 

10 Duality Blank DSDO d isks E•". • 

Amiga User Mantels 

Amiga to PC Monitor adaptor E1 0 

VarlOus Cables 

Disk labels 

3•5 

- 

AConsumables 

l 

3500 photos 

2 Mime /lanes - 

digitised for 

0 Speciai 

Edition* is an Adult CD 

exceptional dis 

0 containing th o u sa n d s 

play. These 

prellessione 

• q u a lit y stock 

photos are 

•yours to use in 

any desktoo application that suppers 

JP L G tile s. 

3rder• M OD trk 5 9 9 • ALISVS20 

3500 Presentation Prciurer 

- 

A high quality 

professional 

Texture CD 

ontaining over 

1000 'seem - 

H of h ig h q u a lit y ja p a n - 

a ese M ange type 

r ' 

d l may find this CO 

orrenswe Co n t a rt s 

d i 

images of sexual acts 

i n 

Order. COM UK tr9.99 

s a 

- AllSr • 540 

k g 

Anime BABES SE 

c e 

a , - • • IMP 

Contains 

b S 

500 commissioned 

l o 

high qua ky professional 

Ope n 

e m 

images. a ll of which 

F e 

are royalty free. tt's 

: psupplied 

with a 3 0 . 

less" texture 

2 e page booklet showing 

files great for a 0l 

l othe 

images Eve ry 

3D renderers o r • Ca rto o n image on pthis 

CD is 100% ono,multimedia 

presentations etc. n a l A great value, lhigh 

quality product 

Omer COW ri4 s9 a g5 7 • $30 , C O2 3 6 UK D I A e • AUST 

Mick Davis CARTOONS ''. 

4 

ENCYCLOPLIPAt " OF THE PARANOIA AL MA 

, 4-61. 1 

* 1ga 

Order C0423 Lla • D999 M ASI 540 

The Epic inte ra ctive Encyclope dia of the Paranormal 

is a n exciting new multimedia Am iga based CD-ROM featuring 

high-res AGA graphics throughout. Covering subjects 

like : UFOs Alie ns, Stra nge ille (Big foot, 

Locnness monste r etc), M ysticism, M ind ove r matter, M yths a nd 

Legends arid more, this CO promises lc gow yco A l s o tor 

the first lim e on an Am iga multimedia CO, there are true - 

API Video). Hundreds of colour images. m asses of AVIS, and animations, hun• 

- dreds h of i evoice s ovens. k A over u d40 minutes i o o f presentations & around 400 subject 

synopsis 

. 

, 

-reterenced 

.articles !lire r - 

a n d 

h u n 

d r e 

l g 

d 

o 

f 

s 

• 1 E l , 

' c 

r o 

Features Include 

s 

"H 

s 

undreds a rticle s • 'U pda te d inte rfa ce - 'H undre ds of film clips 

*Hundreds of ima ge s - * Sound clips - 'True API fe a ture 

'Over 400 Synopsis' - 'Full M ultimedia Pre se nta ions 

Amine Se t One & Two 

each se t contaa 4 CD 

images, mod roma - 

set lions with arid mb m ore. s ua 

9 9 

i 

l 

Aminet Set Throe 

l i i t 

A 

s. 

4 CD set containing 

o 

acme 

or tire tatetih im a g e s 

ill 

-, 

O 

t 

Amine d t Se t Four 

a/ o 

A 4 CO set contain 

le 

of 

r 

the latest 

s. 

mocules. • ani 

d 

r - 

i- 

A t £ 

s e 

t alest 4 CD set con- 

2 

taining e th e latest tOolS, 

l9 

images. modules. anima- 

l 

tions . and more E3 4 .9 9 

i 

9 

.10hr O 

n9 

S 

: 

n 

d 

Now you can use any PC 

Trackball or Mouse 

on your Amiga! 

PRIMAX Master Mouse 

!Ns Moat dukibTes Marea 

m a blouse! Suppiled 

oodh , t our o MousipiT mender. end don. 

cle I , This Mode any PC WiSi IT10.10, 

ePackball l y l lad 

pad to be ea.. The 

Arnige e h V. Taal buy Eknioe 

nisi, - T TIwto e E7 OE Or an in fr.. . 

rh IT you 

c wboy k abnIhe aeEflINAX 

- Winer b43.0. I 

" l l 

_ 

m a 

XOOPP Prom 

r 

XCopy Pro is the most 

_ 

advanced Am iga d e li copier 

stele avertable. It 

includes numerous duplication 

m o d e s from standard 

d o s type copy to a 

deep nibble type copy 

a Eve ry Am iga owner should have a co p y' 

Ltk.:f12_93 • AUST • $26 4 0 , ra to 61)1, Two( ore, 

•-mammeaseame xeemetneeetestaiti 

Deluxe Paint 5A 

All the power of Deluxe 

Paint 3 & 4 but far faster, 

Draw, Sketch o r even animate 

in upto 256 colours. 

This software is the e nvy 

of ALL PC users. 

Includes lue previously 

unpublished manuals 

UK ttke t • MIST 

Minn 

Blitz Basic 2.1" 

A next generation BASI C 

with features borrowed 

from PASCAL , C and others. 

Program a n y type o f 

software wit h more power 

than ever before 

09.99 - MAT • $46 

tr.ataki 

Mini Office , SuiteA 

a !AM i\y) t w v t I P1*--ty 

CO:VP/50 Ci 

SOFTWARE EXPLOSlONI - New Release 

r 

. 

. : 

, 

1r 

,/, 

r5 

LA i ?NI 

sale wa ne mit a AMiGA 

internatienel 

i• K I C 

fall211*\ D E T 

guildhall A I L 

gi 

l 

Worth f 

-receive 

t h is CD tree! Contains a wealth o f software, 

including: workbench Ga n t * Fonts,Textures. Cepa.% 

20 

Multimedia BackdropS, Samples, M u sic modules, 

PBusiness l a Letters, Tetri% Games, 3 0 Ob je cts 

c: Backdrops. e 3 D 

images. Colour Clipart, Too ls and m ore. 

a Spend E50 End weii sond you another Mysiery CO twee 

n Speed E75 and we'll send you aneither 2 CD's freet etc_ 

c i 

"ad Ta. 

Recently re-released b y 

Guildhall. this superb easy 

to use office suite is great 

tor the home and small 

business, It includes a 

Word Processor with a 

spell checker. Databuse. 

Speadsheet and more 

•Tfil 29 • Erg 'MO 

— 

FREE 24 PAGE COLOUR CATALOGUE 

AVAILABLE ON REOUEST 

r c 

Z 

l 

r 

n 

o 

e 

- 

P 

L vof 

w 

o 

f 

E 

2 

altnentet 

5 

o 

r memo 

E 

A 

p-rE TOTAL VALUE OF THE GOODS ARE E 

S PLUS POSTAGE OF 

E SO THE TOTAL OF MY ORDER IS 

S MY NAME AND DELIVERY ADDRESS IS— 

E 

m 

o 

r MOW( Set e 

e 

a 

n 

N 

D 

M 

TEl A M 

E WISH TO PAY BY 

I G A MODEL 

d 

E 

4 

& Y 

4 

m 

CHEQUEn POSTAL ORDER 11 CREDIT CARD E 

CARD NUMBER E X P I S S

CD-ROMS 

PIUS 

I * Ai 11110) 

17:J19.11.; 1 ) 1 ; 

M'A 14lit 

- 

t 

4,Almt ao 00.p .00,10 

DI 1 I 1 le $ ••••• ol aaoheirgi teat colt itexpiA kat sitoriectel moo pellet" 

1 1 . 

V, mbytm.m..11, - vele. 411•00•01•111E00•Ei wit•Fdt em. I • bel oolOile to 

Welcome to CUCD15. If you haven't invested in a CD drive yet, read 

this to see exactly what it is that you're missing. 

CUCD15 can be booted from a CD32 or an Al200/4000 with CO32 

emulation. In order to use this CD from your own Workbench, you only 

need to click on the InitCD icon, which will then allow software to run 

from the CD. It initiates MUI, IDer and the Newlcons systems - don't 

be surprised if the look of your Workbench suddenly decides to 

change. The whole thing is only temporary, and it can be removed by 

simply clicking on InitCD again 

To help you in finding your way around, there is a DOCS.GUIDE, 

which will connect you to nearly all text documents, and INDEX which 

is a CD search tool. Just like everything else on the CD, you need to 

click on them to activate them. 

650 Mb of What? 

It's easy to miss the where the 

real contents of a CUCD lies so 

here's a list of how much data 

lies in each directory. • 

CUCD16 is a well balanced 

• 

• 

• 

• 

CDsupport 

7 

CDROM 

Demos 2 0 

Games 

Graphics 

0 M 

M 

B 

21MB 

B 

44MB 

62MB 

CD, packed to the brim with • 

650MB of data. Draw Studio is • 

fantastic as it is but it also • 

comes with 100MB of support • 

files to use with it. Great! • 

Magazine 

Online 

Previews 

Programming 

Readers 

• Sound 3 8 M 

15MB 

72MB 

72MB 

32MB 

9MB 

B 

• Draw Studio 1 1 5 M B 

• IsionaGames 1 2 M B 

• 

• 

Utilities 

WWW4 

2 M 

20MB 

B 

17 

(6 

Draw Studio 2 Lite headlines this 

and over 600Mb of other software. 

11 

month's 1 00% full CLICD16. There's 

also some game demos from Islona 

See bottom left for a breakdown. 

Highlights 

Draw Studio 

The superb high quality and 

easy to use structured 

drawing package, Draw 

Studio 2 Lite, comes from 

the Dean brothers' stable 

responsible for the excellent 

Image Studio. Draw Studio 

2 Lite is a fully functional 

Draw Studio missing only 

24-bit support and some 

other functions over the 

52I 

mi 

Draw Studio 2 package. MO is required but it is included or CLICD16 as 

always. 

More on IDer 

Islona Games 

three killer demos from the new 

games programming house 

Islona. Sixth Sense Investigation' 

V2, Pinball Brain Damage and 

Skimmers. Nothing to do with 

those, the InfraRexx software to 

accompany the AIR Link DIY feature 

in this month's CU Amiga is 

also on the CD. 

Reaction to IDer on CUCDs has been a mixed back of criticism and 

praise. Much of the problems have been caused by a lack of understanding 

of what IDer is for and failure to click on the essential InitCD 

icon. This month we have made some changes to the IDer launcher to 

work around the teething problems so that this system is more fool 

proof. 

For those that missed it, most project icons on CUCDs now have 

IDer as the default tool. IDer allows YOU to choose exactly what view- 

ers and players you wish to use for specific types of files. Graphics 

card users may display all pictures on current and future CUCDs with 

a hi resolution viewer, for example. Your preferences are saved to your 

hard drive, The CUCD preferences program can be found in the top left 

of the CDsupport drawer. 

113

What's in your drawers? 

0 I CUD? I 6, 

10 

11 

0 

1 

InitCD 

DrauStudio IstonaGames 

Root: The CDsupport drawer can 

oe found in the root of CLICD16. 

The standard Workbench drawers 

icons have vanished (though the 

drawers remain) to be replaced 

with the CDsupport drawer and an 

opening Readme file. Draw Studio. 

AIR Link, the IsionaGames demo 

drawer and the main CUCD icon 

can be found here. 

Draw Studio: LH Publishings 

excellent structured drawing package, 

Draw Studio makes an 

appearance on CLICD16 in a fully 

functional 'Lite' version sporting 

most of the features bar 24-bit 

support. It's a superb application 

and it requires MUI. also included 

on the CD. 

AIR Link: InfraRexx. the software 

support suite for AIR Link, can be 

found in this drawer along with a 

collection of available codesets for 

remote controls. See the AIR Link 

DIY feature starting on page 28. 

Isiona games: Three killer demos 

from the new games programming 

••• 

43.3M Free 

._51) 

Important ! CDsupport 

house Islona. Sixth Sense 

Investigations V2 demo, Pinball 

Brain Damage and Skimmers 

demos can be found here. 

CD Support: The vital support 

files for the CD; viewers, players, 

!Der and the obligatory CUCDprefs 

program. 

CUCD: This is where the vast 

majority of the CD hides. What 

wonders can be found within... 

CD-ROM: The latest 

AmiCDFS. Aminet CD 

indexes. CD ID collection 

IDE-fix IDE 

CD-ROM software. 

MakeCO and OuickSampler. 

Demos: AGA and ECS offerings to 

swirl your plasma 

and rotate your 3D 

world. Turn the lights 

low, crank your 

stereo and enjoy! 

Game: Another great collection of 

games, some 16 

playable shareware 

and demo games 

should keep your joystick 

busy. 

Graphics: 3D Objects, IFF 

animations, pictures. 

the latest 

CybergraphX V3, 

Picasso 96 RTG systems 

and more 

>,, 

Rilit s ink 

• 

Magazine: The C source code 

for the tutorial. 

database of issues. 

networking software. 

MCP and 

HiDensity, the 

Wired World network games 

and... MindGuard. 

Online: The Thor news/mail 

package, Eucalyptus 

E-mail client. 

Miami 2.1g, 

Web creation 

helps and more 

superb comms related programs 

and resources. 

Previews: ArtEffect 2 demo. 

Digital Almanac, 

MYST screenshots 

and a bumper 

Hidden Truth CD- 

ROM preview. 

Programming: AMOS. Blitz. C 

and MUI programming 

resources. 

Documentation and 

development 

libraries for coding 

gurus of all kinds. 

Readers: GmPlay GUI, Mods, 

and utilities sent in 

by our readers. 

Keep them coming 

and look out for 

a reader's 

graphics goodies besides. 

special next month! 

\MAKS 

I 'Sir EIT 

E2D I ' 

1 

:1 

- 

c 

1 

1 

1 

1 

1 

1 

c 

: 

n 

Ly_ 

Sound: EaglePlayer 2, the latest 

MPEGA layer III 

audio player, 

modules and a 

bumper collection 

of samples for use 

with Soundtracker or any other 

music package of your choice. 

Utilities: Lots of invaluable utilities 

ranging from 

AddressaAssist to 

ViNCEd with every 

letter inbetween. 

WWW: The big three web 

browsers..AWeb II 

3.0, !Browse 1.12 

and Voyager-NG 

demos. The usual 

on-CD Amiga web 

sites and CU Online! 

Disk doesn't load? 

If your CD does not load contact 

DiskXpress on 01451 810788, If 

they advise that the CD is faulty 

send it along with a SAE to: CU 

Amiga Magazine Disk Returns, 

DiskXpress, 7 Willow Court, 

Bourton Industrial Park, Bourton 

on the ;water, Gloucestershire 

GL54 2H0. 

Please note that some CDs 

will not autoboot on systems 

other than CO32s, so try loading 

it from Workbench first. 

CUCDs will work with almost 

all Amiga configurations and 

filesystems. However, we recommend 

older CD filesystems 

be replaced where possible. A 

non-working program is not 

an indication of a faulty CD!

PowerUP unleashed 

Al 200 PPC gets Graphics Card! 

A tter 

montns of waiting, 

the PowerUp PowerPC 

cards from phase 5 are 

finally available. The 

Cyberstorm PPC200 board for the 

A4000, featuring a 200MHz 604e 

PowerPC processor and a 50MHz 

68060 is now shipping to customers. 

Gordon Harwoods, Weird 

Science and Blittersoft in the UK 

should all be able to provide them. 

A surprise announcement which 

should make Al200 owners very 

happy indeed is that the Al200 

cards have been significantly 

improved. Due to debut at the 

Cologne fair on the 14-16th of 

November, the specifications of the 

Blizzard 603e+ boards have been 

upped to include two SIMM sockets 

and most importantly a direct DMA 

slot which will take a version of the 

CybervisionPPC card called the 

BlizzardVisionPPC_ The Blizzard 

603e+ Power Board will use a 

LIGHT MY FIRE. 

68040 25,33 or 40MHz or a 68060 at 

50 MHz as a companion CPU. It will 

take PowerPC 603e CPUs running at 

160, 200 and now 250MHz. There 

will be a last SCSI-2 implementation 

on board and two SIMM sockets. 

The Blizzard 603e Power Board, due 

at Christmas, will have all the same 

features as the 603e+ but uses 

68030 chips as the companion CPU_ 

The latest benchmark tests of 

real world applications are showing 

some truly excellent performances 

from the PowerUp cards, with 

603e/150s clocking between two 

and three times the speed of current 

060/50 accelerators and the 604/200 

outperforming the old king of the 

chips by between.five and 15 times 

as fast. See the table for some 

examples of the latest figures. Note 

that the 68060 figures quoted are 

based on the performance of the 

CyberstormPPC's companion 

processor, which runs about 8% 

faster than the older Cyberstorm 

060 boards. 

The BlizzardVisonPPC graphics 

card, which will allow Al200 users 

the benefits of a graphics card without 

having to go for Zorro, is similar 

in specification to the previously 

announced CybervisionPPC graphics 

card. They are based on the 

WER 

AMA" GOES POWLRPCTM 

Permedia 2 graphics chip from 

3Dlabs. This powerful chip combines 

3D graphics capability comparable 

to the top of the line 3E)Fx 

chipset with an excellent 2D performance. 

Features of the chip include. 

• 1280x1024 pixels in 24 bit colour 

@85Hz 

• 16-bit Z-buffer 

• 4Mb SGRAM 

• 230 MHz RAMDAC_ 

• 1 million texture mapped poly- 

gons/sec 

• 83 million pixels/sec (textured. 

bilinear filtered, perspective) 

• Hardware Gouraud shading, anti 

allasing. stencil buffers and per 

pixel fogging 

Mandelbrot 'dragon" 8 . 0 2 s 

Mandelbrot "eye" 4 0 . 1 0 s 

Mandelbrot "waves" 350_54s 

Mandelbrot "sun2" 9 4 0 . 3 2 s 

UNshow small, refmap 240.11s 

l_Wshow small, no refmap 314.23s 

LANShow medium. refmap 281.67s 

LIAIShow large, no refmap 408.00s 

phase 5 are hoping to have the 

BlizzardVisionPPC card ready for 

launch at the same time as the 

BlizzardPPC cards, Prices (without 

680x0 processor where relevant): 

CyberstormPPC 

200 MHZ 1795DM, E669 

CyberstormPPC 

150 MHZ 

Blizzard603e+ 

1295DM. E499 

160Mhz 7 4 9 D M Etb 

Blizzard603e+ 

250Mhz 1 1 9 9 D M Etba 

QvisionPPC 4 9 9 D M Etba 

CybervisionPPC 549DM E219 

Contact phase 5 on +49(0)6171 

583787 or phone your local phase B 

distributor for further detalls 

Test: 6 8 0 6 0 / 5 0 603e1150 604e/200 

nigh 

n/a 

n/a 

n/a 

145.48s 

119.38s 

162.71 

170.32s 

0.795 

3.55s 

15.87s 

39.65s 

45.49s 

34.97s 

55.30s 

66.17a

69 

99 

ba 

:ba 

5 

3 

Is 

bis 

aIs 

i 

s 

Fs 

Amiga Inc. Looking fgaf,e, 

for Development 

o 

Things are begirriing to looking very 

tai!,,s 

good indeed on the Amiga front. 

Amiga Inc's hiring is progressing 

to be made on some big name signings. 

With the software OS update 

3.5 ta high priority. Amiga Inc with 

the co-operation of ICOA, the 

Independent Council of Open Amiga, 

are setting up a database of third 

party software and hardware manufacturers. 

i, 

apace with announcements shortly 

Developers are being asked to 

register their details over the 

Internet, initially via the CU Amiga 

website at www.cu-amiga.co_uk, 

and later at the ICOA website when 

it is fully set up. The idea is to give 

them the opportunity to bring 

together the world's most knowledgable 

developers in various 

fields to co-operate on the decision 

making processes which will lead 

to finalising the future direction of 

the Amiga. Amiga Inc hope to 

organise developers into working 

groups, and will be running developer's 

conferences at all the major 

Amiga related shows in the near 

future, starting with the Cologne 

The revival of the Amiga as a 

games platform continues with the 

announcement of another new 

software house. Digital Anarchy 

Studios and Deimos Design have 

joined forces to become the World 

Foundry, a name based on their 

concept for shared world games. 

The first two games from the 

new World Foundry stable will be 

the ultra complex space trading / 

show in early November. The developer's 

conference program will be 

chaired by Nova Design's Kermitt 

Woodall, and is intended to give an 

open forum for the Amiga commu• 

nity to let Gateway and Amiga Inc 

know what they want from the platform. 

Amiga Inc's Darreck Lisle 

assured us that this is just the start 

of the promised openness of the 

new owners of the Amiga, 

commenting that "We will not be 

another Commodore" 

A Epson have stuck a deal to offer developer 

soppon to Amiga In 

World Foundry founded 

war game Explorer 2260 and 

Maim and Mangle, a Gommand 

and Conquer style real-time 

strategy game. The three founders 

of World Foundry, Chris Page, 

George Hornmoen and Ed 

Collins, have promised PPC support 

as a priority, and hope to 

release PPC versions before 68k 

versions of their titles. 

' Promising a richly detailed back- 

In a step which marks the first in a 

number of moves to bring third 

party support for the Amiga back 

En line with other platforms, Amiga 

International have signed up as 

part of the official Epson development 

programme. They will 

recieve documentation, source 

code and technical support to 

ensure that in the future all Epson 

products such as printers, scanners 

and so on will be fully supported 

by the Amiga's new 

operating system. 

Details of 0S3.5 are sketchy at 

the moment, but we can tell you 

that it will be based on the Kickstart 

3.1 ROM chips, being a software 

solution. It is expected within the 

next six months, with a full 054 

including ROM development to follow 

about a year from now, 

Support for retargettable graphics 

and audio will be included. Java 

support has been spoken of as 

something they would like to see. 

but realistically the amount of work 

involved means this is unlikely to 

happen until 0S4. A TCP stack will 

be implemented, and Universal 

Serial Bus (USBI suppport is being 

looked in to. 

Magic User Interface, hailed by 

many as an essential addition, looks 

likely to be left on the sidelines, 

ground universe with complex societies 

and real world extrapolations 

of technological assumptions to go 

with involving gameplay and state 

of the art graphical effects, World 

Foundry have put their aim of producing 

what they hope will be the 

pinnacle of computer gaming 

above immediate financial reward. 

CU Amiga wishes them tFie best of 

luck with their venture. 

NEWS 

News in Brief 

Weird Science Drop Prices'' 

,Weird Science have significantly 

cut the prices of a number of key 

products. Giga Graphics, a four CD 

graphics set drops to E9.99, 

Meeting Pearls 4 drops to E.4.99 

arid System Booster drops to 

E9.99. There are various other 

price cuts, but the most significant. 

is the drop in price of Aminet discs 

to E10.99 for the singles and 1 

E27.99 for the Sets. Sets 1, 2 and 

3 drop even further to a bargain 

El 5.99_ Contact Weird Science for 

more details on +44 (0)116 246 

36000 

Sadeness Get Distributed 

Sadeness software have 

announced a distribution deal with 

Grenville Trading International in 

Germany in partnership with Weird 

Science in the U.K. Their upcoming 

games Foundation and 

OnEscapee, due for release over 

the next few months, will be available 

to retailers worldwide from 

this distribution partnership. 

Sadeness Software can be 

reached on +44 (0)1263 722169 

Epic Moves 

Epic Marketing, one of the major 

suppliers of Amiga CD-ROMs and 1 

parent company of Islona games 

it 

are moving premises for the second 

time in a year due to lack of 

stock space. Their new address is: 

Epic Marketing, Unit 22, Area 50. 

Cheney Manor Ind. Est, Swindon, 

Wilts SN2 2PJ 

According to Epic, they attempted 

to move into Area 51 next door, 

but were repulsed by men in 

black. Ahem. Epic's phone number 

stays the same on 1 44 (0)1793 

514188. 

Where Champ Man2? 

Apologies to anyone who was 

expecting a review of 

Championship Manager 2 this 

month. Yes, it has been delayed 

again, but not for long, and this 

lime it is our fault, not Eidos'. We 

had the game in for review some 

weeks back but asked them to 

make some changes to it as we 

felt it was almost but not quite up 

to scratch. We could have 

reviewed it and panned it, but that 

\ivouldn't have helped anyone. The 

product is now finished, including 

several important modifications. 

Get the full story, and a full review, 

next month.

• 

7- 

C 

ivElectronics 

Boutique, arid have been 

ilpublishers 

Guildhall Leisure this was 

izing 

a close eye on sales to guage 

atbreak 

landmark for future Amiga CD- 

io 

game that's got quite wide ranging 

n 

C 

D 

i 

n 

S 

h 

o 

p 

s 

A number of readers, prompted by 

the news item about Civ CD version 

in the September issue of CU Amiga 

Magazine. have informed us that 

they have had difficulties obtaining 

this title from branches of 

told that the title did not exist and 

would not be stocked. According to 

because of a minor communication 

problem which has now been 

resolved. The Civ CD is now in 

branches of EB around the country, 

and their buying department is keep- 

the demand for Amiga CD releases 

in respect to stocking future titles. 

Sales of Civ CD could be a make or 

ROM games through high street 

chains. Fortunately it's the kind of 

appeal across the Amiga gaming 

community and so with any luck it 

might prove a point or two, to the 

chainstores. However EB are waiting 

to see Amiga users vote with their 

chequebooks for the future of 

Amiga CD titles in the highstreets. 

Microcode Solutions have 

announced the release of Fusion 

2.0, which promises features to surpass 

the famous shareware 

ShapeShifter. Fusion, successor to 

the Ernplant Macintosh emulator, 

will be capable of running the latest 

MacOS 8, which is currently incom- 

patible with ShapeShifter due to - 

design limitations of the emulator. 

II . 

Fusion Still Running r Hot 

••e•-. 

7 

Action ( ho,s not even discove'red 

I>otteTy. - 

to - el(chancre-knowlectge -with us?' 

Do • ) To, we do not need - 

yPottery.' • 'O'K., o u let's , 

O M M , 

clicho,nt e 

o r 

ere 

t 

ORDERS EIOVISORS I M M O CIV)ILOPED 

'. k n o 

w, l e d 

gr e 

_ 

e 

I ,ft2111,110111 t 

, 

$26 Ql 

3tito •Ceo 

11 Roman - 

, Se t 

rI3 

VA,ta 

- 

Pin../es: , o 

Al R•-•••c , 

er

y Jason Compton Jason Compton is Editor in Chief of Amiga Report Magazine 

Back in the US of A 

It's no secret that a lot of 

American Amiga users were upset 

when the Amiga went to Germany 

with Escom. It meant the end of 

an era Sure, the Amiga had 

always been more popular in the 

UK and Germany, but by having 

the "official capital in the US. 

American users still felt they had 

an edge over their international 

counterparts - and of course it 

was true for a time, particularly in 

hardware development, that 

American companies lead the 

field. Users over here got a big 

shock when the change was 

made. Even before, when the market 

was not huge, physical proximity 

to all of the Commodore action 

meant that we had a pretty good 

retail structure for Amiga sales. 

But when the Amiga moved to 

Germany, the UK got an office of 

NEWS 

Stateside News 

Net Spam has shut down 

The most infamous organisation on 

the Net must surely be Cyber 

Promotions and accordingly the 

most infamous person would be the 

president, Sanford WaHance. 

Cyber Promotions is responsible 

for sending millions of unsolicited Emails 

out across the world, naturally 

enough advertising products and 

other schemes. This practice makes 

them highly unpopular on the 

Internet with end users and larger 

Internet providers alike. Cyber 

Promotion obtains E-mail addresses 

from web sites and Newsgroup lists. 

CU Amiga has been at the receiving 

end of unsolicited E-mail from this 

company also 

As we went to press, a US 

judge was expected to rule 

shortly on whether Cyber 

Promotions' Internet 

Service Provider, AGIS, 

must reconnect their server 

as demanded in a lawsuit 

filed by the mass E-mailer. 

AGIS have been unclear 

to the exact reason for 

Shutting down 

of Cyber 

Promotion's 

service but it 

is known that 

Amiga Technologies. Being a 

smaller market, all the US got was 

a distributor who had once been a 

warranty service company. This 

was not a good move. North 

America was pretty officially relegated 

to second-class status, and 

that stung. 

Now the capital has officially 

moved back to the US, and now 

it's the other side of the coin. 

Now more eyes are turning to us 

and Our market is under closer 

scrutiny. It's an interesting sight, 

to say the least, having made 

some major changes in recent 

years. That hardware dominance 

has faded greatly - there are scant 

few companies still aggressively 

researching products, owing to 

the German hardware dominance 

(and certainly in part due to the 

weak DM). No American company 

produces an Al200 '040 or '060 

the provider faced significant criticism 

from other Internet providers 

who peer with the network. Cyber 

Promotions has also regularly been 

subject to a 'ping flood' attack by 

vengeful individuals which degrades 

the AGIS network performance in 

addition to making life difficult for 

the mass [-mailer. 

Whatever the reason, it is not the 

first time that Cyber Promotions has 

been tossed offline. In fact, the 

company's history is rich with tales 

of having being dumped by one Net 

provider after another. 

ISPs have come under intense 

heat when hosting 'spammers' as 

this type of activity is known. 

When Sanford Wallace 

signed a contract with 

AGIS. he thought he 

had found a sure home. 

If nothing else, this 

affair indicates that 

there is no safe home 

for unsolicited mass 

mailers which which can only 

be a good thing for 

card, for example. Only one builds 

an A2000 '060 card, and another 

builds an A4000 '060 card. Both 

target their products at video and 

graphics professionals, not at 

overall power users - although 

these have certainly found out 

about the products. 

NewTek U-turn? 

The video and graphics market is 

the great paradox in America. 

NewIek holds an almost god-like 

significance for so many users, 

and yet relatively few of them Own 

any NewTek products. After all, 

there are only so many Video 

Toasters out there, even if they 

are cheap on the used market 

these days. But when NewTek 

makes noises about cutting all 

Amiga support as they have done 

every week for the past four 

years). someone's bound *.o try to 

Advertisers Index 

start a panic. Similarly when news 

comes in that hints they may be 

returning to the Amiga, everyone 

gets over excited. The news that 

Amiga Inc will be exhibiting at the 

NewTek Expo and the rumours 

that NewTek have asked phase 5 

for a PowerPC board have distract- 

ed attention from a lot of companies 

who are definately sticking 

with the Amiga. Markets are 

always about more than one company. 

After all, the Amiga market 

has survived through the failure of 

two parent companies! 

Sometimes I think my fellow 

Americans need to look a bit fur- 

ther than one company. ne matter 

how big their contribution has 

been. People were similarly upset 

about GVP's disappearance from 

the Amiga market. And what happened? 

GVP came back - now it's 

run by a German. 

Active Software 56,57 01325 35260 

Analogic 60 0181 546 9575 

Care 57 01923 894064 

Classified 92-93 0171 972 6700 

Dart 27 0116 247 0059 

Enterprise Plc 55 01624 677666 

Epic Marketing 12 

0179 3490988 

Eyetech 

First Computer Centre 

53 

- 

13 

78 , 

01642 713 185 

0113 231 9444 

Gasteiner 74 48 

0181 345 6000 

Golden Image 95 0181 900 9291 

Harwoods 22-23,68-69 01773 490988 

HiSoft 106- IBC 01525 718 181 

L H Publishing OBC 01908 370230 

Owl Associates 57 01543 250377 

PD Power 98 0374 150972 

Sadeness 3436 01263 722169 

Selectafont 36 01702 202835 

Siren Software 7 0161 796 5279 

Special Reserve 27 01279 600770 

Weird Science IFC-3 0116 246 3800 

White Knight Technology 87 01920 822321 

Wizard Developments 26 0181 303 1800

a, With games 

like Duke Nuke 

'en 3D Atomic 

Edition (centre 

pic) to choose 

Nom it's well 

worth getting 

yourself a Mac 

emulator and 

swallowing tour 

pride.. 

19efu 

Why limit yourself to playing 

only games that were 

tu 

specifi cally developed for 

the Amiga, when you could 

play all of these and more? What you'll need 

All you need is a decent 

Miggy and a Mac emulator... 

r e 

uriously enough the past few 

months have seen a marked upturn Mac emulation. 

20 

in the amount of new Amiga 

games in development, but it 

you're still finding it hard to seek 

out new gaming distractions for your Amiga, 

you could do worse than cast an eye over 

the Mac arena, No, we're not talking about 

ditching your faithful Amiga in favour of a 

Mac. You can tap into the resource of Mac 

games using nothing but your Amiga. 

The key to it is getting your Amiga kitted 

out with a good Mac emulator, such as 

ShapeShifter or Fusion. Prior to the 

PowerMac generation, all Apple Macs used 

the same Motorola 680x0 processors as the 

Amiga range. As a result, it's a relatively simple 

job to emulate the basics of a Mac on ac 

Amiga. Because the emulation process is a 

lot simpler and more direct than emulation 

of the PC, there's not so much performance 

loss. While for most applications, emulating 

a PC on an Amiga is impractical. Mac emulation 

is a realistic and attractive proposition. 

You're going to need a Mac emulator of 

course, and in order for that to work you'll 

require the appropriate support ROM and 

operating system. Your Amiga must be suitably 

expanded to handle the task. There are 

some general rules you should keep in mind 

for speccing out your Amiga to prepare for 

Both of the emulators require a i 

of a -68020 

and at least 8Mb of fast RAM in 

a single ninimum continuous block. A 68030 can be 

considered a recommended minimum to 

Great expectations 

run most Mac software created in the last 

five years. An MMU (Memory Management 

Unit) is highly recommended. MMUs come 

built in to 'full' (non-EC or LC) 68030s and 

040s, and all 060s. Most if not all models of 

Al200 040 and 060 accelerators on the market 

for Al 200s and big-box Amigas alike fit 

this category. Check your accelerator's documentation 

if you're not sure whether you 

have one. A hard drive is also required. 

System 7.0.1 is the minimum operating 

system you can run on either emulator, and 

conveniently enough, Apple has made it 

free. It's a good idea to upgrade to 7.5 or 

7,6. if you can. However, the new MacOS 8 

is slow, eats up RAM and is incompatible at 

Based on your Amiga, realistically what can you expect to be able to play? Here's a 

quick and very rough guide... 

Al200, 10Mb RAM. 68020 CPU 

Al200, 10Mb RAM, 50MHz 68030 

Big box/tower Amiga, 18Mb RAM+, 

68060, graphics card 

Strategy, adventure and early 80s coinop 

styles 

2D shoot 'em ups and basic 3D games 

Most current games, including new 3D 

styles

SoLanai 

the very least with Shapeshifter. Stay away 

from it for the time being. 

Unless you're planning to draw solely 

from online sources of Apple software (such 

as Info-Mac, the Mac community's poor but 

serviceable attempt at Aminet), you'll need 

some way of loading Mac software onto 

your Amiga. Mac double density disks cannot 

be read by standard Amiga 880K floppy 

drives. You have a few options. 

1. Get a high density floppy drive. Apple 

got sensible and decided to make their high 

density floppies with a more reasonable format, 

so you can read these on an Amiga 

high density drive. 

2. Gel a CD-ROM drive. Most Mac software 

now comes on CD. 

3. If you have access to a real Mac: investigate 

your removable media options (Zip 

disks and so on), 

A CD-ROM drive is definitely recommended. 

You can get by without a floppy drive 

although it's certainly convenient if you plan 

to do something like install the OS. 

Setting it up 

Turning your Amiga into a Mac requires a bit 

more than simply starting the emulator and 

loading some Mac software. The biggest job 

is to give the Mac emulator its own hard 

drive partition. There are three main ways to 

do this: re-format and partition your main 

Amiga hard drive, create a 'filedisk• on your 

hard drive. or format and partition an additional 

hard drive and add that to your system. 

The filedisk option is recommended for 

most situations, but now let's take a quick 

look at what's involved and the benefits of 

each solution. 

Re-partition the drive 

Unforlunately you can't just format part of 

your hard drive as a new Mac partition. 

If you want a Mac partition and you have 

just one hard drive, the only way to do it is 

to re-format arid partition the entire drive 

using HDToolBox or a similar tool. This will of 

course erase all data that was previously on 

the drive, so you'll need a way of backing up 

your data. You should have Quarterback 6.1 

from our July 1997 cover disks. 

This will back up your drive to a mountain 

of floppy disks or a more sensible medium 

such as Zip disks. 

Create a Modish 

This is the easiest way to do it. An enormous 

file is created on the hard drive that acts like 

a_virtual drive partition. The work involved in 

reading and writing to the filedisk makes it 

slower to use than a standard hard drive partition. 

However, this method means you 

don't need to re-format your drive, and if you 

decide you've had enough of Mac emulation, 

CPU -requirements 

When shopping for Mac games you 

need to keep your eyes open for two 

things: the processor and RAM require. 

ments. The good thing about Mac emulators 

on the Amiga is that you can 

generally translate your processor 

speed directly to the Mac equivalent, 

your 030/50 Amiga is about as fast as a 

Mac with an 030/50 in terms of CPU 

that a game will run just as fast on yo 

Amiga as the equivalent CPU-equipped - 

power. This doesn't necessarily mean 1 

Mac due to the Amiga's slow graphics 

bus (see the Graphics considerations 

box) There are also games that have 

been compiled to be PowerMac only, 

meaning that they require a Mac with a 

PowerPC processor. While Microcode 4 

Solutions has promised to make Fusion 

be PowerUP compatible on the Amiga, 

so far that's still in development, so 

stick with software compiled for 680x0 

compatible Macs. 

There was never any such thing as an 

060 Macintosh, so if you're emulating a 

Mac with an 060 card, congratulations: 

your Amiga has joined the elite ranks of 

Macintoshes with 680x0 processors 

faster than Apple ever built! 

41 Fusing 30 

characters and 

static pre-drawn 

30 backgrounds. 

Alone in the Dark 

plays well on a 

relatively low 

specced Amiga 

under Mac emulation.

tn- NJOMERMP* 

AMIGAn 

1 POWER UP YOUR AMIGA... 

G O E 

S Al200 based Toner 5s5 

1 

Pterns O I n d 

VA151020 V E 

0 1 2 

R P 

s y s t e 

AIM the coral $roggls 3 to coalesces mn co th 

Cm, 

6 tit s C P L . 

Ta 

s t o 

aerate 

w i 

IhmerPC 

n g 

eto Owega mafioso 

5 . o n 

" 

A further dimension is being Jaded to A•114.95 with our 

new PowerPC based BLIZZARD POWER BOA ItD5 tot Al200, 

with the new CYBERSTORM PC tot A3D3514503 systems. 

YoulT row be able to beneht from performance many times 

beyond rite speed of the fastest 6804 based boards. 

teagoed iqa de i eustot yeslere, Poor Boards mum& 

metro dual M ime lecholow Mee east Poo* RIK mosso 

6 ocabred oth a 681t Cad. dranuotar tams moors art atom beton 

MO; adskaboos to mode baMmed come * * the PotottPC Chi 6 

backed LI commehowee PP( tar ones stoh P.m.& the luorbfrallit 

Harwoods... always the 

Fastest Amiga Boards and NOW 

PowerPC 

01E0( OUT. 

NEW LOWER 

PRICES 

ACROSS THE RANGE 

OF BUZZARD AND 

lER PRODUCTS! 

Technology 

for Amigas tool 

Software dealocen fie east oenmse lbw ;romans, step Or step. boom 

9 smie tades ° rpm/nerd 

to PcnerK code. OM Pen eta m pa * orth tak tasks 

intiog Mum M om vendors are mom/ Ported Or Maimed 

Of thee Vivo dataran ahee I t as Matted that a lame wane/ of 

software Product 4601ro the PoeterPC aaI ce amtsto scar, 

STILL THE FASTEST, NOW LOWER PRICED, NO ONE ELSE COMES CLOSE! 

POW 

5 

wewirc , le ma as sed as 1vas ( 

- 

60 Mot Doran CAL C comp* iv Poe * inoWnig Wacendel. 

CYBERVISkON 6430 

mARRia060 CYBERSTORM II 

Sn 

Tato 

rem MID moms ad tines with scurCroode hractoto la 

- AMIGA 680400.1 AND 68060 ACCELERATOR') 

the sofftwth. f 

ENGM. 41000000W sERni ]E 

, Ao e s e e s 

Ytoca threla beeiseen dir 61310511 Citerieeden I a lie dere peewee *Deo down Van iou 

Last but ree not Watt, ewe( - - .c.Kuk-co 

COLOUR 

als m o n g 

, 'vERSION 

ACCELERATIO GRAMICS C•%8D LOVo E iii (*seesbrne A 60360 dinTleged to 1061 &IOW. &30031. mite aa WORT atta 

IteSC wood d r MCchrbair t PO. Mio r a r m 

he at &cost are) Tow teary 1200s &halm I baltieres 

t 40, h e r 

2 4 - 8 4 

PRICE ragata a roe oth Mime 2 0 Ohm r eed rrsnaos I totem rat IMO O amulet 

V e r 

Ire Lar, a M. wra" °eat 6 to vtGE (M./WS Ofit Min C) 001,S O 

, T 

9 

s t a 

e 

111123.0•'! 

MUMS' 2031 ()WOW" main c r h 30 holosetto 0 t aMMni b feu e toad & crams b itedeti'l ) met 'keret Fawns a t Sledrnamoo• r, 

AKes) W Ades ea. Mart. oleo of • SC51-2 More* tee 143011)5 &WOhe 5 

e o n 

, 

t 

Poor 

luermiktod 1 .1 

funnel p m *Amadei , line ID hoe r* tem oted eah (mKoarts 3 

Cd 

• I Iwo 12314 steed& SIPA& ten be Mad at ma om Pamir est 72Po 

r i t r a y 

- 

1 

, em e coM -rue of 30 hote tot ass Moan * nom 

9 a Satet Son tea mot M200 snachl alto •Kie we Citeosteert 

b m si 5.2k 5n3e , 

aBoa n t 

1 

21 CyberVISION C a rEA/30 ' n e r C A T ) 

n • etsra5•1 

b 

E 

i 

NM& ISO 2E04112 ' 56200Wep 

, 

c 

SAM 

a 

Decoder 

r 

• Med 

. 

tthefoto Coram piwOt %be MPIS e.o rot mrst dvdra 

. • Cr01 M tn rumor orkman the coe Cebriebm1183•0E3K 

e 

k w• 

- oat, 

k 

6104661•60 Migtfirtsa • siMnisitoss f.Itte sot daston KW% IA • WWIWPW wW005 tbeth:45) ataç 10414 mde, Man Canto*. 

M 9-2 • , pa Mart mime o rate 

to ise 51060 onetime er de ma mier 

d e l 

e SWIM 25.50Mer 254COU • 255011112 n u m 

. 

ntalibasen Streo eak. oval 5 vended so Me vated (MAW ke omit lot Vote to • 

Cybersiorm 

O W O 

It WSW* 

* 

M e t 60515EK test Woman. to 1211.9 

o a 

' 

I 

e o 

£ , 

CyberStorm II 62106050 5(0al0 65091 Olk, Soo 

it PO PrherarKe n• 1751110 i 

• 2011042 • Metrela 5 I Mom 1MCCAW 

SkOcisw soh mooed am Ire &abet Oofro I. In am Ma 

X - 

s 

4 

PIPS b M o n s 192 Accra 210 Mom ISO• &otos M r 1 

-Cyherstoeth 

1La 

min 

' 

It 5E51-2 Weide 

1 

4 

L69 

.*MIS . t a p a s I I 1Angct 35 impu. 7I &coo. 7 1 3 t 

te 

date Cybentorro 

0 s o SIM 1M 2RAM BI E mans A• 4 

. 

e 

15 

, 

1 

Memory w P Ova* M ir 61* 

Mit 61110 Sto if WA Mat 1211113 3rs-, r 

1 h a 

' 

I 

Ata Sodet 

4 4 

dt 

i 

7 M O 0 • 2 

S 

i 

2040ERC TURBO ACCELERATOR MEMORY BOARD 

e 

uh 

Srfe Dn amol i Fa t SC94 fa rt SCS1.11 Me Ode Ultra Pine c 11401 

W 9 a l e 

n u 

T 

d 

o 

P . o Al SiV2C0C TURK 

l 

terea Compobret &M a t A 1101• 

A1502 

Mt 

, Al2X1 • TURBO'AC 1 C UEFA! OR ard MMLAPL 

, 

W AOkiliz , 68540 - 0MbStandlld, expandaote to 12614 

w t 

1 

, 

T 

id A • ewbolt, Storm 17 Smoot 12 

Wort( t7 Suorne hd 

, '1)1 40MHz EK ' 68040 T O - M0Mb EStandard, R expandable to 128,256Mb 

I D 

1i 21100 

a 

e , 

i S ' I 

8littard 503e Power Board • M2001.71 Ste 

TU S T3omies E mill t k60 Planosetdod i SNM lood 

T ACCELE xIHIPS Pei) 609 9611 

Tie 

d m. 

h 

'mid 200.11( 

T 

Asiom (Cree COST 61205 Sato Itocceran ka t Mal ret Moreet m 'Tom CM'. 

E RATOR 'a merlow , DST boot mit Met &I 502(02 coon le comma, 

••• kaparale 

Re nee bizati 3 e Noel Board e n reapetta, 55, 

cleated Its Po 

• 

F st, isre pereonwet o the tleleard 12401,TK load, Leen al *en be atal •33 

Al20 non hoed R8 ne we l M e mo h# miet corranonn a t 611 g•IlWatrs 

a n21 

fi b e d 

eloe 

h Al200 system wars who elated 'at a mead , , h f 50Saisz Ot 

c 

t tdi Al3011340 beam a nel ai late "Oa? ol ball m SC.512 meta Ile It • 

take cooing tap, see Monte do 001 wormed frog t stredad & 

emcee& T 

5.9))3.40.,1 mosso Obese CPUs •ote a paci hfto 

P O 

I 

used re d rya boads rar amid me a rm), had MAO Cels tortoni a Map 

( 

180 

e t*gig 

1 eogwatoes weA The ellettso• .set teie WO 

ath 

E 

e4S01-912 - S tome s A1230A b l I i. 

Pie orriar teitumg Yen a 175Mtz hyearK 603e 

G Mt 

, re 2Cra rEcts eellat• lath Mk" ed 

c 

Maloof) e mir 

M M I L 

'bre 

MSC y CR.1 re board Ms a mit 5 1 :M it WOO eamarr to:Maims 

A Cast 

r e 

, 

t 

o D 6dit Nit VW) memoig and tun erSCSla (oldie ge 

- ,e e 

Bkrzard e ) 2000mc 

A• vibe Vete • s t• L I aid LAM illasot ade, the Swale t230A ;41260 

l i 

Turbo 

Dowiee c R 

t249 

. 

w a L 

—5, Maga* rhe dederdette from ma &IMO Mth the low ost beard' r ) od a, drAlet f MOW inC ilkalf FL, Oblb 139t fest Ma no to I 20Ste 

Blizzard 12403.1e0 d Turbo mOaot WO ovet t MARV Clit 32551101 RAM% 12116156Vb £ 1 9 9 ' 

i 

i 

t 

t o 4a1 

d O 1 i 

LONER 

e d 

W OR aI aReK i e d 

r 

PIKE' 

c o m e 

N 

et* foi 

Ear dw 

o 

IttlatKe e e 

* s * 

A 1260 T TURBO ACCELERATOR MEMORY BOARD 

; • f 

t tyensi fee• 

It the tyke° his a 

atuattfiCh ia- 

a n d 

t 

t 

r o 

No w O R 

•-(t. • •• toms - 43 or 681260 CP cacettthrs up to 6414 t osaceiNtaidot 

e tAl200 t oTURBO 

ACCELERATOR and MMLI5PLI 

o 

n fousiere 

d 1060 TURBO ACCELERATOR MEMORY BOARD 

o 

e 

• K V i l k wild in 't, 

o t w b 

r 

Paha* Imn SOMEtz 68060 - 0Mb Standard, opandable to 661192Mb 

a 

-of - 

J 

v 6 0 0 

M 

rose corm 

No 

• 

Isht esiv•• p u 

( 

l s oAl 

K'Ch'21:0)0 tURBO AC ti BAJOR himIAPIJ 

4p 

O 

le Doom • • Ba t, • ;memo 

a 

( • 

g 38 713A05 

E ) with 9r5;oe WW1 6(070 Narosecond 51ASI 

i * s i v5016ö1z 

68060 - OfAb Standard. expandal* to 328Mb 

• 

S 

o came...v* 

e 

A 

m 

- 

A 

mO 

• 

38.7 IMPS with 6605 tiontnecond 9MM fated 

Yes Aim m Mai 

TWA odorm 

at MOCE ne n Reit 15.ES 114 SPEtt. of m 

y 

•s5 

• 

U. 

Fn:A1C. A150C 2 0 1 

i m, 

1 

anhp y t S IV( M O of r sweat 64050 

CfPers , Asm AISOIOCOO maws tee tare &taxa* as re &ratite limed 1260 taeo 

C O 

a 

e, 

m be LOWER 

tAl %Mali we opera 

, es' keWe tawe tir verd soh re 2Z 

I 

' . pk, clot , • P 

O 

v 

a 

R 

' e -infroloar 

nth Om SCat Crj 05C cased boat M t rat a mit Iv a 

r ) 

PRKE! , KAM M etso triates buti o SO1-2 Medoff 

aaaat ODOM ieO. 

cthO'Oso5 1260 Robe . fOnt-i• C 611.1 I I 

il 

M 

W 

/ 

,.orramoo MAOar 6K60 

' a •-e• r 

CPU. equator (Aube* up to iAMP ol hor . 6! 

'Ruud et t o 2060 tTurbo o 

uLbst 1 ' 

1 2 6 5 

k 

t e 

t a 

M 

Y 

rn,:r,s a 

S 

s'Mee 

MIA mem bat tn Ma-Ode SCSI cottolier oda a high peeinonande . 4• 

A d t ! 

M f g 

' in 

< 

Mmpanstco 

slot Sat evansrat sit 16 Ifie Cstentsm 

. 

F- 

B 1130IV TURBO ACCELERATOR MEMORY BOARD 

- 

LOWER 

1•Sc1ts00 attatt i 

, 

A S 

l i e 

PRKEl 

' u, 

yamci PPC L I accelerMs r t o milt 60040 b oa 69060 a t pantoru soon as the &oat 2540 001 0151NalSON 

4 

e 

' nt 

O 

or Bi2.2ard 2126i omen or 1 . 

43 

• 

S 

c• h 

No totigNA AtE • s p :.•.1203 TLABO a( C i 

P U 

s M a l 

O 

..• 

f' 

f Q 

- 

1 6• 

D FA 

o 

, Mamie at 

0lee 

50%1142 68010 , - DMO Stanool. expandable to 1282561.1t 

I 

o r 

• e i, 

OW A 

r o 

e, 

1• 

beet nA, : i 

t1 

raele 4 I fl h a 

0 

a 

e S 

MOTOROLA MOTIVATED 

• o 

R 

p c 

moments' 

5 i i e LISIOR 

9 91905 Path Salsosocord 5 

. 

% h 

% a W 

— 

zdaerSl'm PTr ifra .1 1 

wm 

• E 

The fiMest miasmal 

3 

eAtt 11kodegita 

110JIa e:se •120b WM is 1 

a n d ) 

9 

Pima ,ed • • , A w n 

m f system 6 

D 

• 

- mt ovroattle (PI slot. &let utt;terra fe:14e Wfirllina - MOT ioi 

. es r 

1 

Artic lie 1344 a re oten 

9 

tc•O Billat •M rsarcarwwOt eR Pna M• 

d iffetft Oki Wth a Melo sail a 191 hang PO 

r 

, w c 

e 

m ran 2 

iau 

nol• 

10 I rtt Wet thar re Mk hated acceerator co sale IMO km* * l 

Ms 

o 0 clock spods cl le o and 20269 

or 

s A 

9 

Vres WA Wto tat 

e _so 

the , 1 I M I J 

, 

d 

Web, 7Ps, 

. , 

l 2V-Pr Foam BA a 

4 4 . . o1.0 

rd 

•ade . 1 g fi 'to to A iv tk tonne .t mimeo 

s. 

4 r e , i o 

r 

0 0 

t 1;mosso 

40 

aczets Met a 60040 6 N6 0 Cti The Wird ponies LA•O mde d 5 

, 

t m, ajg gragAg% Pal tag RAY 0 25644 cer toe 33.3 relon.5 

A n 

o n 

W 

f o r 

a. Mtn*, 

M/ 

2 the lot cmom o mevanocr w n 

w 

e i 

Mr• ; sod mMists a ERMIE % • • e IY EIL www 

d 

, 

b e • 

m o n 

I tdelOn Blizzard 523o4v1wha srobt, ) . 0 . 4 1 3351 Fast Sedit CW. WI/1155W. 

o i3 

LOWER 

M 

& m o t 

s, shoed 

unto 

ts the two 

e t o c k o 

CPUs 

ea t t 

&ditto.* 

s 

Crtte r 

Pa 

ew e 

, m ended at opmto • • ten we ft a Olt • a nolo cwt.. 

e b e r 

•4 . roll) Am.) 

t 

t 0 1 ) 2 C 

io 55 Mier WM 11.1RA S251 crowd* 

r a f el Fast 60 Nanosecond ANA RAM Expansions 1211, re.ht 

PRICES! 

d 

wiret W r w q 

, • 

f 

i 

t t 

B ocsdrAteao 

v 

h 

1 1 1 

Ert* 

ze , on ice te KW 

w 

a t 

F, i 

I 

o , hd oe l 

s mgi 

Motorola ( S o• 

Maths Co 

W 

o 

, 

e 

* O 

69 1, MMt Pe send 

6 

PPF e , (mansion n, , g 

S. 

c 80 , 

c 

contedo 

t1 

o 

s 

m e 

with 

s 

Deste access lo the mom mom n, • 3 - 

I 

r , 

e5t g 

also minded for late ttgratteabees 

1o 

a 

OSt 

oC Pt 

o u l 

t 

B . M wmthe 20:1691: i ot mom dh ol e 

( 

h 

the CseerStoon a PPC nooks perfonance of rove 1t 

- 

( 

U d 

T v M 

E drtmthan)5C e 

A 

re 

a ot 

m 

ht 

0 tr 

i e 

, What the Magazines think_ 

9 

i 

MSS° 

e : 

f ro 

V n dotre, 

Madle . m 

1 Po 

r 

rq l 

, SCSI-2 • 66001ILE For 12)34 • S • • 

116/kMM SOCK! 

Nested pistol> p Mso consalatifi Alumni the NON triagiam i tatakt as.1 AILS' 

. 

teed that goes tie bepSCKI rscl offered by most K SOWS 

o 

* 

5s 

, 

r og 

o 

In to stool 

610 p 

hnli ct N ear. an mantel grapha Mod oil become 

2 

l b5m6 

3o0Btno rC•5you, e Inc, 

" knnan - PAO 

w 

t59. 

f 

o tceatable 

t 5 

r for the C cter9mr• PPC ammo slot * Wog a Adoet of die 1tKBlizzard 

iA lMSCSI-1 

M 

6 

. 

.intea Cneatmelqg e • Ira ite port Amp al me teak41 le.1 mare • 92% BUT rale 

r ormatste (killafteia• calm chch Bt 'song a stand aloe steaM Of the e a 

95 

m s l 

t e , 

, 

1 

aMot N lettael ' . 

o 

a p 

i 

o 

ECTIPILtpay Irst 9 

r ac 

p 

e 

m 

o 

• a. 

m 

6& (apatattes tough hiber Actski-based resthlICOS pew 

w 

C rl 

e r 

s 

Y 

t 

, depths 

r o 

a n d 

t U/ Kit 

1,...,1 

b 

M 

e 

3 

j 

s e s 

n 

m supootet 

a 

a the itrairralet o' the lorchccarm AWOX system e 

W 

gLa I 

• Pm ba k o w t h e o r nab - - tette sotboo 2 

Oe 

C o a 

m , 

e 4l 

MONO AND AVNIABILI151 

d a • ay., • . 

0 

t a k 

Uk 

t i 

l dt°eta& 

0 

i wrth o * rot tek CPA we ribs users to hi the CPU inn that ut 

, • toy taalded maim • ro memo's ,t-art t24VERelateAnie 4 1 OUR RANGE • HAS WON MORE AWARDS THAN ANY OTHER 

R i s a 

i al 

ontat 

1 

e 

/mentor 

a 

Deems of Peon Bort 6 scheduled Iv Sunr.et 1997 'e .1s# 

i 

• • 130.ee 'eau. KA Mt maw alio...13[07a 5(49e UPC t•i) 

% c h 

1 • 

M- 

l 

4 rb 

S 

o a 

s b 

0 

o w 

eN 

o l lf 

r . . l e e c i • i o r • 

V M 

- tl 

P 

s 

ie 

i t 

" S 

g. 

o r 

. a3 

blizzerd 60 3o 

i 

RAH, 

POMP PC s I • JUST COMPARE THE PERFORMANCE FIGURES o FOR YOURSELF! 

A 

E 

a s s t 

• 

9 92 

, wili Imply 030 S•Xs 

lEfS1 

95 

TI C1NOLOGY, cn 

COMpileatrde MIPS performance 

- 

M 

figures s measured M N Sysinto 

C 

Ap 

&Drie. e 

a 1 1with 

Entor, 040..060 Sceltes c 1.371 15 

POPPER PC ce 

• 

Cads board had the aoproptate RPOIM 

o 

fitted Muth as Mooed G to fulls Miyake the attelerators speed 

O 

! e 0 m , D 1 

a f1 

with 6803050,0111 fitted A1321 

95 SPEED and os 

3 • 

p R I 

9 

' e rwith ia . 6. 0f060 t 1419.95 

d P' 

POMER PC a 1 k......d.,1Al20, 

• 

1-1B 

&bout *mein , 

I 

5 

5d 

, With fi utocumootz firte4 t 1459.95 

• 

D 

PERFORMANCE t 1 

101 II ea 

e o 

W 

e 

o. 

25Aitz wth. a htesik'Shhillt l fired 

(614.15 

4aulald %mob- 

n 

M1 

R a 

- fluctuabons 

t 

t n 

• 

d 

wa 

f e n d 

t e 

1 60100 11106its 2 o1isitnusLali 

• l23045'.354015 4mb - 

t i 

flan 

E 

ge 

d 

w 

ts 

• f with 140 PTOCt450 

1479.95 1549.15 1621.95 0 t 1 

-gmall 

_mommoutii 

w 

4 n g 

T 

on 

b f 

,with 

b 

680•01•151A ha feted ES19.95 £519.95 166995 0 u 1 

r o 

w 

2 

t e 

oe 

l f with 

5 

610402401012 fitted 

1919.95 E601 95 1699.95 W i 1. 

• 

9 

, t 

with 6 8 0 6 0 

1109.95 1769.95 1 1e 9 1 95 l 1 o 

e 1 

a 

• a 

, 

a t. 

LAIIIM lo 

t 

s 1 

l s '•••• 

5055it 

oa_ 

th uith :Stat & M b 

• 

n ; 

Mosordetlem tod et Meant 1- na se rt proem co9 

oI 

fi t, t e d Frac 'war , 

b. 

i1.51 

• 

) j 

ol 

%nal C4 AT COW maim a NWT 

O 

..a 

bkn 

, IirlMI.I1I4 ,NrNor• 3 , a 

, 

, yoga Skipper • 1240a oowo ta Wee., I.Alm* . 1 h..* A taw 9 1 % gtml 5mmd 

kW* halt 

itt•Web Stalt and 

FAI oats may ow* 

&ace eocOrr ethe 

Vex to metro;

COMPATIBLE WITH 

ANY STANDARD VIDEO 

SIGNAL AND 5-V KS! 

. 

S-VHS Prefirab 

P 

rXit 

11 

ON) (Gikitit oded images into pOil tua 

r , taped 

. 

inse teconings, 

2 AR 

, 

T 

ee also f tcosts & less than any of es mats. 

'r • -• l'4LP5E(MANTSC 

P h i s 

sashed • 1 4fl 4 tf t otaqe gabbing cn the Aesop and at the same time 

w i t 

recemed n c irase o AVMS u r TEA rts ease al utse and excetent quality 'mutts 

h 

PrOGrat5"' ( rnas aearned w ha ws from rpoz. about tom Amiga magazine 

and Video 

' M e 

g rmagames a r t too t e r 

, n Amiga AM 

t e d 

b d 

, 

r b s e r 

w..a the nght te i 

i 

h te results. h Real 

i 

Tem atter tine. 

PT ei s 

st 

c : G r a f 

i m. o k n 

i 

yoSelect i , any oode° source u 

o sosth S-015 or oynoointe wipat Ple5 (ogle be yet, 

nu-'.arbrceder e P enett t 

dSE 

ART oulpd, sate lite 'Ke w. domestic VCRiplayr C r 

the ertive 

nrstandard ' TV t Kasai Cpas no ethroagh 

dad VCR/player the doe is you's 

SANAA wyids 

MCA Min 

bn 

l i 

of TV in Vela 

ith 

e * l'ikdan 4 1software, 1 i . select 1 -= 

ar wage 1 1 you . wish to capture using the on screen 

;crew* 

a3 

rondo* and a Grab kibecause e the shardware grabs f 'Jinn Vt real tore 

tvet 

n c 

ri reed for , a freeze . Owe t faddy on the source desncel. Once grabbed 

er - id ard 

r z 

h eeri the 114! 'maceon •ca *Ruda screen Prorak ate rrtatles a 'Meted vewN . 

ia e n 

o 

tide ri 

n 

l 

• or 4 

NOW' IftEOP 

e 

o 

sa smth t1pOul 

fastrunte 

: 

no•Z processor, DTP or graphics package ProGrab teat, doer 

• • : lenDe 

( 

g 

elli1 

o 

n 

te 1 

ProGrab. 24R1 Plus_ 

v 

o 

e M 

• sxpits ail recent Amcas 

a 

i 

x rand 

0 5 N'A luly AC,'. Choset Comm! ble • Saltoate has but in mor 

' 

t i n 

c 1 

and crictr a re o • 

0 

2 

roudeq Kara mode 

o 

o 

e famoa . RAM pernmingI 

Number of Oresis clec- •••r 

3 

n 

m 

s 1 

- 

• Saes _ ard Loads mutes in FARM. 

e 

, ' 

R AW, BEG, Pt.l O( • Reebe 25 a schware 

.q 

1 and TARGA fornsts. Pro, 

Additional Teletert .'lh 

a 

either terrestrial satelite 

A Powerful yet simple to use database with 

nc- 

arid a fra 

Ty sIginen 

R 

saya 

-sosta-bOr,. 

b M rsto A AtoroS liWglie s. 4A range oi image crocessno Larger Preview Mock,* - double resolutor and tour limes area extensive features enhancing your potential to 

A 

un 

amrs elects n tOm r ecowman; a t o DARR n AGA Al NW citOcccq method. of :meows FlinGtat so'hore 

M 

store important information EASILY. 

r rs 

mill FeaMaden a Proraib s Waco 2.6A Phorogems fat %mons International Support - now compatible oath cOmpOefie PAL, 

Now in its thrd reease Fetal ( 

eeA 

rPoCirab o uyet 

, a cidom 'loader' to erirtae Tabu drer11.5 Irons wilh• SKAM Lard 475C . straght irccr the boo. 

)AA 

sr- 

ntheorogrr d -hit RTC mit methodriI save Ytt 

Larger Preview Waldo* - double rasolubor and four tries are, anque rnelhod 

3 ' 

of simple data definiton and entry - but, also 

11 r e t a i n s 

cn 

W, 

Atir mom hafdlog woe Oimages D W 

noludes more advanced features too 

m 5 o 

rfir 

l e 

as 

m AliF1 

i t s 

e 

ProGrabrm 24111 Plus costs just f99• ioWIR max 

Eves first a time susers e can prockge thee OM persona; astormahos 

o 

hes drimediretyl 

f 

As you progress, you can 'lake even more 

and 95 is supplied with just about everything you'll need.... u s e 

gM 

adaantage of 

ProGrabTM 24RT Plus Digitiser 

a n 

eI 

1 

Latest ProGrab Version 2.6 x Software 

dRunning 

Cakbratrrs. Multiple line Memos • enter an unfirrded 

s A 

amorant of ten let each record, An ertensta Query Requester 

- Mains Power Supply unit 

n i 

and Final Data 3 features such as fildden Columns, 

an 

• Parallel Pon Connecting Cable 

Redeliniton of Data reg. from Text to a Memo collar* . 

nW 

User Manual 

Graphics, Sound and Animabon IRequres use Di Datatypes 

y f 

Input sockets for Composite and S41 

iound in Workbench 3.0 ct abovel 

Wa 

4 

• A no source - caber." 

ac 

, te oG alltalor inm FAusicuoirsc. cmpoole menace nooe omens are 

• Easy del niton of columns for cetslones of inforrnabon 

r e o a r e d 

de 

15 • Nora* rom NM a SZ Cam onf 

such as name, TiCuSe number. street. town, County, 

ProGeab I n 

: a 

• ginctrd supp_rm M 0.9. • ,.'eh i Lastly / two 

postal code, phone number err. 

, M i t r e 

bn 

4 

• Butt 

N i u r 

UIP,K4 a Milg 

• Pnnfilmail merge with word processors 

ed 

B 

e 

TerresinalSate - 

• 

• 'Memo feature, acting like a "Post.ic owe, to enter 

d e 

Telmed 

ns 

Mm t a T I o f 

, Derodets 

n large I s ot ted nitivri any record 

dr 

t e n t e 5 e M 0 b ramp g a b u n a terminal •x 

, p 

' t nr e en d d 

satelek N n e s Mndi me d rou Jr .irt41(th ict,thfintln , ha rd drvtsr rung* lUirkfunrCh 

• 

sa 

R A M 

*dram e .a u %Videos) operate tin nc rarer a rirdritrurn 1 2 k of free kt It • • 

A s 

ttiZAA KOMI W O the cutote 

cr 

p 

i r 711r, sa rive r 

aLm'dkdhtire 

es *****NEW LOWER mat** ,,- 

• ea ra 

ome sfi pto 

o 'viten the same 

. Men out KM Oro t w , 

f 

et 

r 

f , 

rdlhmI,s - cloorioaded , PnoTel uat 

mu kr nen 09., SoftWood Final Data 3 f 19 95 

e - 

dilieNt mce Yi6s1 par iv 

o C n PrOGra t. titches' a t i e 

o 

n " 3 Stp5 

r e 

r .0110121=1=m1. 

- 

r 

imoni o drect to yo, 

- 

a d 

dm 

theretore ordy Proter. Amiga 

r IF YOU'VE REALLY GOT TO BUY A NEW SYSTEM TODAY... 

iie 

n 

m i i 

• Fre 

c s•rnioa's 

ptOlel 

t f mined try sa l Stand dmispec 

t 

IC xi, Amiga 

a the vv. best Roll to your Amiga coad be an Apple Masnrcels 

fo 

• Soc 

c p•er 

or other cenpneral 

it 

Anstga tsardvoice 

hes in te 

• 

ln 

as ASO ten 

pfil 

T ATM 

tic 

e e 

P 

- Jkt 

i 

, 

rec. m e 

rd Limo* 

z 

ire nycsa word 

i 

equo 

: t h a n slandad n serolers 

WAX .t.h miage - of PowerN: wk. r.,T1.1. for mgrr tow - monk% men 

, 

PCMCIA s d 

t 

n 

A 

pmesscr cr samd as la wadi:. far DIP wi- 

t 

linntliws 

d :rrra Promo i PC4 di IT dioAdar' 

Intertace L- 

(29 

ri 

o s 

' 

f. 

i 

n 

tI 

Protein. Amiga Teletext Decode" f 4 4 lrtr 

Lac dritrdni the o km40. kir, mum &mord it= the uutiel to he an My 

• 

net a TWM fnt wait riser teridleims 

ankonicr l c l 3, 

A 

05 

, d 

1,MM 

socalaraara 

. f o r l r O r n t r d 4 - 

i 

u i a 

T 

Protein' For PC 

a , u l l 

• f u l l , Atinituteri Ant 

r i m * 

, • iho 

s 

pwr Polt•Ir l MIT Novrow - wigwam ix neon -c 

re irre n 

holed l m tan. int. tam nar 

C 

t f itrd i n 

b i 

c 

iMunn* l m i lliana l t I ga. f lb,- fi oP 

Deco* 

bF 

o s . e 

o 

o s 

ue Int d Mire Netiotare ininlir te ex Ann. dotenairpinnmv 

,n1) s endperinnii , c r other s l Pt: Nunn 

Irm.., s q n i 

N 

o A. intura 

n 

, K card 

ehoi 

tam 

o 

m, 

s o r, I . e e . t 

A 

T 

n Pp.1,614. 

A n A n i l a ten (odd Won and. moron hie 

m m 

v r.inOm 24iTfp., ro -• Fundy sottnwe 

f 

Y 

t • 

3 

Ao opua sAAFX . s A r o n O. 

, hi pl • - 

e 

urz 

• - • fe. speeds of M X pages r. 1 trots l -cmonroomM 

premi 

a 

molF 

slcarer there arc user I Tiir tilts 

o 1 1% 1114di ( , fir mGo 14 

tnio• l i i r arid YyprOry tin H 

• yo u 'd taittog • Eass COniirratitin 

re . 

pd4•011,1 m w LEm i n z 

n 

i• 

Sart page Her Asci 11MP Wel tomb' 

o a 

hefI 1,,loatt WAWA fist hmcrPC 

t 

noN,in price 

M. a r a •, 

i 

t 

o 

• wo e 320c imneeosit*Ounce rMIC 

24.1t. 

l 

aka, pkt 

i 

, 

, •Pigrt,t0'. 

t rAiled 

iikApe ideir A n and rnsani Lilo ' 

• Realties ACM PC eel 

A, Ow mow, r o n e ifi M. o 

r 

fltaz RAM 11214 Itat,i. Atiamus • 9S3 I iW, 

pre Por,,urer 

• I 

Li I i•ti 

MAtm 

, 'ow or a I5awn I S4 

qn 

i p Zo 

n 

) tmm,m1, 

•re ontutiliX to 

i 

oi ..1 ,O MC, 3nr 4 r 

ditnly011 3.11, VGA doe" szouse n• 

h r e . i • 

n mN 

O , t 

O 

1min s 

ar4I I !dr Rrt f5A SIX • MITAMAV 

k , 

NAV. 

. , i 

SCI i 

t 

dAi 

t a 

Filesa,. 

l.oin4 Jr i n . 

. tWie r i s v r t ehard 

oti fors• No• R 

Qiutts 

die mow, sedum can bA 

Proter• K teletext Decoder 1 2 5 

- c • .esd rnmy oeit'M TOW bre devekcedfry Macn. 

eb1, c1 n r o o t r u 

i 

Oil 

r 

l 

1 

(ammelq s 

cieS Aen 

r . d n C 

1 

lo 

d . W A / 

. 

5 

rmike 

- oprbinturrt, 

ddla orio rft lit/teed with Mars and pad 

Cw •t 

h e 

Aor P n 

AT GH iA , oVol 

s u SMAKE 

. ' i o EVERYTHING EASY 

g, 

M- e 

inm T 

nw r T . 

T 

Id n 

•Ittirmei hPe i l l 

- ni l l a i = nl y wee Mac,zr um pooNtsAnd Iron-roil Ticanla lam Noce • mini, 

WORE S 6N— 

a 

Te V r , 

n 

We maned P 

aodap ittonnine i et *Or hC 

1 

-• lade lont in modems wid ru larder 

l , 

i 

, riUMIC d D OaN E 

nw n 

1 k, 

TOttstape riC anti a rm.l Alone Fnjl.mO rftnift dr Nct u rauls aarmitde 

s u Ar 

OIDE11P16 IT POST OR En_ 

ise 

Cumnerin na 

r, Ja ual fapartaban rds 

. , 

rem w*to eVarir, d n i m 

l 

K 

A 

ltko - and otemal w sN,onroircr, • ktimg owner, 61,n. Warnein en- 

• me te maxim a 'mown 

w i n 

se, rdild tweevn A *In iito are pf 

r e 

ilealh r rin ping o rma c rF4-is r o t 

AWL rtrm r etd , * TAN Tyatnn in mono* i 

ci r 

d i NON n t • N3 s retakem Genn . isammu commitment 

, 

Ok 

lidiscreen 

o, r o t w 

o a r n t l . l 

c 

i 

and 

d 

biluartment. 

t 

I t o udier suit thr Artnusle of all Ole bin, 

e 

i 

an * be* l Am i i MI M a k. 

Misofrsurc 

Ions 

d 

w 

n s dv, hk-s Darimg M io n in it etc to het wid- 

o La a.dK ca3vren n • oX is roam e 

a 

No Axnali wont IT1%Il4.l 

, ths- •toin t lAniul15n titans skili 

* n d it te a r o 

w kw 

s t k 

X wen FOtti ' lionno• 

oe m Mt io nA Wo rm& r Wit- r the wo6f,• M a h P C S n d m . 

n d , 

- N r 

n 

t 

x t re •i-ae O DELNERL 

If you prefer, you can collect your 

sd 

i t o 

lia 

r K 

n 

PI on. ctotof•OVN0 dr t s eo nMy 

Nf t 

i n o , Men In.nnme 15in Jtinware 

Amiga goods from us_ 

n- 

lime liatuninh &ming !Moult Dom. MYST Itchel kmaul LI. liart 

m o 

i 

AWN. tea e 

t N oredett o r t ont , rt 

res 

mien.;I i t r••• Lenin c3.13 areben 2 

am 

g k 

Dtm-em. nail thronk and many more 

, lie dN 

e • e x e rn x t A e o n 

n Mc *mum_ 

AN EASY DRIVE FROM MOST AREAS, i iali 

IRMO* 1•11. d vs 

— 

l 

d r e n a o wAw 4 

iat 

- 

▪ d x" md A t i 

x oorArtMx 

aiNt or an sw Ceit codonAtionio monad vixen inter in 

l the earth i • )0'4 Tuts wan in nom. conum itarmIxth - in riddi lie C2.• rr 

i n 

• enywrixkr n ti e nplirnErdi API vi $ 

Were open Monday to Saturday 

tli 

0 truly 

dinned ratio dam Arno • ewes...am. as mast 

t 

d t 

• 

Iran sro tank. mpraity sell our Emmy Endre, atoindkin horn 

h 

o 

9.00am until 5.00pm.. 

oA 

d a t i t 

td 

o i n ALL POKES INCUR:* VAT 

1i 

mtb.Notm, ao 

tn.! t rt1WLII e bittS (Stkrtli ni 

l 

ixot 

e Ai dean , tie oWOW 

itled r • r ,•••••• • rdo• wee** ido todnior nun 

1a 

F iat t f O r 

G 

n 

r 

MASE aun TO CONFIRM AVALANUId BETON NAM% 

rn 

at n t e 

i 

A LONG IOURMY TO ItOO us 

5u 

A 

nT 

T 

o 

5u 

l p 

r 

Wit PERFORMANCE OF OUR NEW PLAYER uUP 

MAROS WITH POWER PC PROCESSORS! 

n 

S in 

O pT 

l 

s 

, eA 

l N 

- 

tharwolid 

GH 15TH ANNWERSARY 

We've been providing 

Commodore products 

since 1982 and today 

supply a range of 100% 

Motorola based systems 

including Blizzard and 

Cyberstorm along with 

video products and 

other peripherals... 

Armal 

CL 

For your protection all Cards 

are fully Security Checked 

OffiCIAL ORDERS-. 

We supply Ceotrol, Local Government 

and Education Departments along 

enrei Maier PLCs 

'FAST 

on 01773 - 231040 for a Rapid 

Response FAX'.. to your Quotation 

or Order . Requirements! 

GORDON HARWOOD 

COMPUTERS 

DEPT 0.10d6 • NEW STREET 

ALFRETON • DERBYSHIRE 

DE55 7BP 

Tel. 01773 836781 

FAX: 01773 831040 

e-mail: inf. ; • ficco.uk 

•

Graphics considerations 

I did say that the CPU power of your 

Amiga emulating a Mac would be as 

good or better than an equivalent Mac. 

However, there's still the issue of 

graphical display. You can get an Amiga 

to put out an absolutely stunning 

monochrome Mac display, but because 

of the Mac's chunky graphical format 

(the same thing that keeps Doom 

clones slow on the Amiga), when you 

switch to colours, your native Amiga 

chipset gets a little overwhelmed. 

Fusion comes with a variety of special- 

ly-tailored graphics drivers to try to 

make up the difference. 

Shapeshifter has native support for ECS 

and AGA, but if you find that these are 

not enough for you, there are thirdparty 

video drivers for AGA and ECS 

Amigas, These require a large amount 

of RAM just to use, but you gain in 

graphical output. 

The optimum solution is to run a 

CyberGraphX or Picasso96 graphics 

card. Even an old Zorro II A2410 board 

gives a marked improvement over plain 

Amiga output. 

ShapeShifter vs Fusion 

The two big boys of Macintosh emulation 

must surely be Christian Bauer's 

shareware ShapeShifter and Jim 

Drew's recent commercial effort, 

Fusion. Both packages set out to the 

same end but get there via different 

routes. ShapeShifter has been around a 

lot longer and due to the shareware 

aspect, there are a great deal more people 

using it so there is a host of third 

party support material from documentation 

to video drivers_ 

That said, Fusion boasts a host of 

additional features and performance 

gains that make it ideal for Macintosh 

gaming. Direct draw modes to graphics 

boards is probably the most important 

and makes Fusion a good deal quicker 

at running taxing 3D games. There's 

also a PowerPC version in development 

for phase 5's PowerUp cards. The first 

version of Fusion was plagued with difficulties 

that made it difficult to get up 

and running but an updated Fusion 2.0 

was released to address these issues. 

If you're starting out on Mac emulation 

then you'd be well advised to give 

Shapeshifter a bash first. It won't cost a 

penny and you've a good chance of 

finding some help if things go pear 

shaped. You may find it is enough. 

When ShapeShifter is up and running, 

you can consider upgrading to Fusion 

which will offer serious performance 

gains. Look for a review of Fusion 2.0 

the next issue of CU Amiga 

A Full 3D 

games in the 

Onake style will 

still need plenty 

of horsepower, 

and preferably a 

graphics card, 

but there are 

plenty of decent 

games with 

lesser requirements. 

you car) simply delete the file and use the 

space for Amiga storage once again. 

Add a new drive 

If you're really serious about Mac emulation 

it's probably worth considering the addition 

of a whole new physical hard drive purely 

for the Mac side of things. Hard drives are 

getting cheaper all the time, and even a 

basic Al200 can easily use up to four hard 

drives from the internal IDE connector (with 

the help of a splitter). This is the neatest 

option and you get the best of both worlds. 

good transfer speed. no backing up of your 

existing data, and you can still reformat 

the drive for Amiga use 

if you get fed up with playing 

around with the Mac. 

When your Amiga is 

in Mac mode, it will 

only be able to access 

the Mac partition. 

Accessing your Amiga 

partitions is not possible, 

so make sure you 

have enough space on 

your Mac drive for the 

OS • the software you 

intend to use and also stor- 

age space for saving projects (if 

you get bored of games and get into 

Photoshop for instance). 

There are a few things you should keep 

in mind before setting out to gather as 

many Mac games as you can lay your fingers 

on_ 

Emulator compatibility 

Uverall, both ShapeShitter and Fusion do a 

very reliable job of emulating a modern-day 

Macintosh. This means you can run most of 

the latest software, and it also means that 

the software that wouldn't be compatible 

with a modern Macintosh isn't compatible 

with your emulated Mac either. Such examples 

include software which 'broke' when 

Apple moved from System 6 to System 7, 

and software compiled for the old 24-bit 

memory model. Typically, these are limited 

to 80s titles, usually black and white (from 

before Macs had colour - remember that?). 

Fusion can make a couple of exceptions for 

more modern titles which are 'not quite 32bit' 

- more on that when it comes up. 

Game types 

The Mac market is more suited for certain 

types of games than others, for a few historical 

and practical reasons. There's a 

noticeable lack of beat 'em ups 

and platformers on the Mac 

for two good reasons: 

one, the Mac user base 

is more family and professionally 

oriented 

than the Amiga, and 

two: there's hardly 

anybody with a Mac 

joystick! The Amiga 

was conceived partly as 

a gaming machine and 

_;() it inherited the 

Atari/Commodore 9-pin joystick 

port, making tens of millions 

of joysticks ready to be plugged in. The 

Mac uses a custom bus for input devices, 

making joysticks expensive, rare, and (as a 

result) virtually useless. 'You could probably 

find a pricey flight stick, but getting a cheat> 

le hand-held joystick is almost out of the 

question, and few games would support it. 

So, keep in mind the sort of games you 

can control with keyboard or mouse easily - 

that's what you'll be finding - stuff like strategy 

games. Flashback-style action. 

Breakout/Arkanoid, Doom clones, flight sim 

,illators for example • 

Jason Compton

Real games, real systems 

It's all very well say things like you need a 'fast Amiga to run 'recent' games, but what does that really mean? We tested a range 

of games to find out just what's required to make them tick. The system requirements listed are those we feel are necessary to do 

the game reasonable justice. 

Game Description System requirements Five star rating 

Duke Nuke 'em Atomic 

Edition 

Action packed Doom-alike with added humour 

and a distinct lack of wizards 

Dark Forces Like Duke Nuke 'em only with a Star Wars theme 

and added atmosphere 

Marathon More 3D mayhem, stripped of most of the strategy 

with plenty of action 

Sim City Classic Manage and develop your own metropolis in a 

strictly strategy style 

Leisure Suit Larry 6 Lewd graphic adventure with CD-spool soundtrack, 

verging on childish 

Brain Dead 13 Attractive animated sequences strung together 

with minimal gameplay 

A-10 Attack! Unimpressive combat flight simulator that looks 

very basic next to TFX 

Masterpieces of Infocom Most of the classic Infocom text only adventure 

game back catalogue 

Alone in the Dark Trio Clever and engrossing 3D graphic adventure 

game in three installments 

Arashi Shareware version of the 80s cutt vector-based 

shoot 'em up Tempest 

Rescue Star Trek-based shareware space battle strategy 

game with basic graphics 

Solarian II Shareware Galaxians variant that looks tedious 

but is fun in short busts 

CD-ROM, 50MHz 030 mini- 

mum, graphics card 

CD-ROM, 50MHz 030 minimum, 

graphics card 

***** 

***** 

CD-ROM, 50MHz 030 *** 

CD-ROM, 68030 **** 

CD-ROM, 50MHz 030 minimum 


graphics card 

**Sr 

** 

68040 only *** 

68020 only 


graphics card 

***** 

**** 

68030 only **** 

50MHz 030, graphics card 

***** 

68030 only *** 

FEATURE 

Adventure 

games play very 

well due to the 

lack of large 

graphics being 

thrown around 

the screen.

' 

1 

\ 

" 

. 

. 

11iGA 1200 

, , 

' 

-•‘ 

0 

1 

1 

1 

1 

P 

R 

O 

Am IG A68020/14.3mHz 

. 

2ms RAM 

INTERNATIONAL, INC. No ND 

68020/14.3mn 

6ms RAM E34999 

At LAST, THE AM . Is BACK ON SALE WITH NEW PO/ D 

ALL , MACHINES ARE FULL UK SPECIFICATION AND COME BUNEAED VAIN WORDWORTH V4SE (WORD 

NE5 / H U M A M I L A 

I PERSDNAL V E PAINT R Nv6.4, AORtwasER ' v .1 , PINEALL MANIA, WHIZZ AND KCNO 

L s / I 4 L DIRECTORY OPUS 4.12! 

I N C . 

6- 

ALL HARD DISK MODELS ALSO INCLUDE THE ABOVE SOrIWARE & SOMA MM300 PK-LOADED, 

It-..T 

t 

H E OFFICLAL AMICA HARD DISK MANUAL & HD INSTALL DISC 6 8 0 4 0 / 2 5 m e z 

MONITOR 

OPTIONS 

• s AMIGA 1200 MAGIC PACK" 

1 

4 

9 

9 

10ms RAM 

170ms HD 

1 SCALA MM300 

6 

8 

0 34ms RAM 

3 1.368 HD 

SCALA MM300 

0 

250w PSU 

/ 1 

46 

08 

m0 

41200 Expansion s4 

Cards 

10 

/ 

4 

0 

m 

s 

z 

Dm COST 4" MOWER 

PROf-ES9CKNI. 14" McNiroP 

15164 CNLy 

MaTISNK I 5 - 3 1.5RAu 

TV CAsNiAl 

SCALA MM300 

El 5999 

NEAR FREE CKNAY 

REN0TE CoNivot 

ANGA CNN F SIE1119 

250w P511 

MICA CNTILE SUPINIE1 

C 

E 

S EPA IRS / 

S 

H1 

O 

A tor Me Alou'os Al200 

by &Wiled Ischniciams 

R 

• kt AMIGA COPPUTERS CcAIRED 

1. 

R 

Y 

E 

D ) 

1 

SPEED INT:ITEAR Of UP TO 27 limrs • 68030,EC, 68040 col 68060 PRD.F 

AEA. TO INSTAL]. A HCA.1 CAPADly ) 

• PRICES FROM AS LITTLE AS E2 9 .9 9 

• MAgy REPAIRS BY WIZARD PEOJIPE NO PARTS 

Fool% - AT 33,40 OR 50Mliz • MMU is ALL PReassos trAur 68030E( 7 

3 YEAR MVO VIP WITHOUT REAATIONG PAFTE5 . 

S 

• PRICES INCLUDE /AWNED COWS COLLECTION & 

FFION VOA MACPETTE OilBEKENG YOUR WV:MD MADUAID 

• '040 , riTS .. STmiDARO Al200 'MO PIOILEPA 6 N SLPPLED WI/ A litAINNII 6 FA)/ 

WARRANTY , 

T 

ORNERY, LABOLN. Fit t DCAGMOSIKS SERVICE, SOAK 

D L THE COW OUP MIS (CWE BATH EVERTIFIRIG 

ANEED 

TO INSTAa THE EVE PATO AA Al200, I 

TEST VAT. 

PRICES INCLUDE 

32)43 cc RAM cAN BE ACM • KADESTAPT REMARRIN6 (WWI 68030K NANA) • °moot 

CABLES ECR 

COLLECTION a DELIVERY 

T 

• FAF TuRNARCLIND 

.41EprAL • ',AA AccooTAAODATE A 72-PN SIMM • 6804660 HAVE BUIET-01 EPU • BATTERY BKAID CLCKA/CAEKER • PCM 

I POMP AND DATA, Issnwimoits E 67 DISIS FULL ot KIT SOMME PSON 

AS 

S 

9 

DIECIVY OPUS 4,12 

S 

C IWOPTH E50), MUI 3. MCP, Gq)(AA KA, VIRUS 

, 

4 

• ALL TECHNICIANS ARE FUUY TRAINED ? M U SED 

LANA INF SO you (AN STILL THATCAC5 5o(H NER)Ntif HO 00 CD2APPO CD-ROM 01V %Mott • ZERO PM STATE DE 

K 

• UPGRM:ES BOUCeIT AT SAME TIME FITTED FEE! 

01E001, MORS, Mfr.. I ABACKUP APO MUCK MORE. ALL SCITIVAX MI BE 

• 9 0 OATS WAAVOJTY ON R EPM R S 

SCS(41 INEEREACE FOR THE MA0404 68030168010EC/68040 & 68060 OEM - SLPPuED WIT! Somme - E7 9 .1 4 

KWELLED 

W S 

I 

VII THE SVEN scrumE & moNt 

, 

B 

St 

k 

pus - INURE OTHERS IF 

C 

ALL FOR AIST I 2 9 “ PARTS 

OMB 4me 8ma 16mB 32ml 

pRovIDE THE 

1.3Ge A T E15999 

A 

WAS LIST IN LAW A 

PARTS 

CO 

P 

S 

L 

WE HAVE A LAW RANGE* PARTS PER D - 

Wag WI 10 TOUR KARP DOAlou 

o2• 

C ESGB I E21999 

T 

K1 

1 

VII? CALI FOR MORI 

, 

c M AILS. , 

WPC DETAI6 1 

mC 

I T 

A 

80 

v Pcolli-UF 'UR ASO. 

0 7 

• 

P 

11 

p 5601,foi 

A ' 

R 

3 WITH TAB 

0'030/40 

&FM t993o E119m E13919 E11699e E21 

05 

168030EC CHIP) 

EN)os t 

O 

. • cro At• ESU 

l N3 

BUTTON 

, 

3 

F 

fop VELE I4241F I THAN om 3 1 

tMD 

L & EMATS 

5 

THE PRAZE t OE A NORMAL ?5-30w Amo.PSU I 2c5rionor 0 ••• 

S 

e Sfor All Y Aargau A Atilri 

( DEsOkD , , IFOR 

/ tA500i600 

& 1200 (CD32 

S 

O 

o 0 

EKAsED SI EEI SUBSIVEm, ALI (M I 5 SVPPUER, WPISPff 01 

01 

4 

S AWARD T WINNING I5600P) 

S QJIET F. 

S 

ILEUMPEATED OW/OFF 9EPTCP, WEITON o CAPUT OWBACA CE 

( ERESOLUTION M 90% O RATING IN CU AMIGA P PS1.1. 09otv E Q•unteIDA PSU's uSEO, 3.5" & 

N 

P 

, 5 25" POOR GORES / 

AvAJLABLE p o m p ErErmAl CD- / 30 

1 

e. 

• MICRO SNITCHED BUTTONS • AmIWA1AI31 ST 

A 

E 

E 

Hom ETC, 

pASWITCHABLE 

• ALE L 3 BUTTONS CAN BE USED WITH MANY 

R 

A 

3 

T POWERSTRIP 40 

4 

0 

SPEED INCREASE (I4 2 .3 TIMES - 2.8.8mun • M I M E M N 

L PROGRAMS SIKH AS DIRECTORY OPUS 5 

i t 

0 

S POmEA 4 ,E_SP-1AL PUTAkt DEVCE5 (NCOATOP, 111111F0, 

L 

, 

h FREE 

D 

BEIGE es BLACK E12.99 

s 

SPEAKEE6 ETC) DW I MK 

SAC K OE PEMINBOL 1404 ALL 3 

O 

Two minoa 

ppm 

H 

O 

39„ 0 / 06 

gUR 8MB OF 32-BIT RAM INSTALLED • USES A STANDARD 72 

SWIM • OPTIONAL Pla TYPE H U (ELOATIK POINT 

• BATTERY BACKED CLOCNICALENCER • FINGER CuiOut TO 

eRDRIVER 

DISK MAT 2.99 WITH MOUSE 

P 

, 

& 

E 

tM S 7 

I 5/ 

INSTALLINZN TRAPDOOR - 90ESN'T VC.111 WAPPANTY • 0 

0 

PCMCIA COMPATIBLE (Fill USE WIT 

' 

E 

A 

CALL 

S 

K 

TUROOPRINT f 5 ABOUT F 

A 

1 

i PUS 

o 

UPGRADES I0 

2 

SQUIRREL , ' N ETC) I N • E ZERO . WAITE SI 

/ 

, 

R 

D I R E C T O R Y 5 ) 

Prm, E..eAmmid .ropion 

r t 

P 

t E THE ULTIMATE WORKBENCH , 

k 

IF Y:1,. HAVE A PRINTER - Y01 AE 

5 OMB IIMB A 8m8 

v 

1MUST GET TUITROPRINT. 

SP 

REPLACEMENT & FILE D 

• 

RADICALLY ENHANCES THE U 

R MANAGEMENT SYSTEM A 

H 

PRINTOUTS YOU NORMALLY GET I1& 

0 RAM8 E39.99 E59.9t E79.99 

oE 

copmEs . T O dSE WO01.ABEI10 

I 

i 

BY REPEAL 

l M- 

Of POWER of Om NINE • REPIAll MD VERSION 

1 Emma ENOCAMEN 

A5.6 

l 

PRATER - SYSTEM 11TH THE EC 

3F 

& 

WCPETBEIAGI • ONCE' TO OPEN AN 

u5-FTP 

1 

NOW 

l 

FASTER REG AND VISIBLY BETTER 

sITE A5 A FILE LESTER • 'MEWL WAT- SHIPPING S 

s 

TURBOPEENT TeE &STEN. OPTIONS 1 

A 

T.SANG Sz 

•KLuDc POSTER PRINTIN,G, 

t 

YOU CAN I 

" 

M9 

PF 

& 

l 

E T 

COLOUF D I TH 0 ER I N G, COLOUR BAIAGONIG, ON-SCREEN 

i 

KRIM MULTIPLE fiEE O 

E 

PREVIEW ", M 

OfTRAPONS SIMULTANEOUSLY 

6 OR E_ MOST PRMTERS ART SuPPONTED - CALL 3F 

9U 

PBirdman 

2 - ONLY ASOD 5 1 AhabuRiS 

HOKE, 1 

2,. ek5otp.1.15 100 FM Emmex. 09.94 

- U Ott 1Pam 

TFIl CARA - HUE E119 R A 

R TO CHECK. VIR914 

oD 

1 

5 INCLUDES "GRAPHIC PUBLISHER" TO LOAD 

AGOO Ime RAM Evvuum 0 9 4 4 

, 

(WoNam:) 

MULTIPLE PKTURES, 

SFRIK P,AuXiont MENUS E 

E 

INEAvIDUAL COLOuR CORRECTION. ROTATE. VISE 9 

n 

, ( 

AND MORE, ENHANCED TRIEMATOI COLOUR CORRECTION, NEW 

• Morays* ScRNip46 

s 

I9 

Els 

0041 R&M 140111110 - 11101 M 

EN 

t 

/3Xki K i f 

R F I A 1 

E 

ALL 

w 

INSIDE0 Guce - A • 2C0 

GF AM D*Sod, 

Fun ro A 

m 

u 

N 

v DRIVERS FOR HP. CANON, EPSON STYLUS Ak0 OTIZ9I 

50 257 

Nsout - Al200 NEST STIRS 

AN'T! • ErENsAk Ocu N' DPW 

o 

) TmApotasari • ANAMEED ARM. 1 

MODELS. Am u FORMAT Goa 0,.1 AAwes. 

. 

r 

E 1 sr0 VAAPEA, BEN FAA COMO PEA 

o 

FR 

1 l 

t14.99 MOOR WOE • FtSSFREILER 

APPI WOE PAO PAAP GOU) • MO 

3 

, 

EE :0 2900 Dam & Cita . LARS Moo GUDE - & Betas 

SLPFORT • Pci • 

. 

r 

SomRT , • So r FILE UST5 6 DatAY F IVERSONS N 

L 

1 salruR N OP 9 

S OFLITYPts U N D • CitERGANIIK StivorED 

trion.1 in•ppg PrIrs 

6 17 

ECy•uGm. 

0 EA• CcvimGELE VIcocA 

1 

ONi O E 

t24.99 LVSIDER GUDE - WCPRBEN0 

Rtp„In' 1 .4 1 1 .“ 4 

1 

S4I M 

• 

4 TOTAIJ 3 AMIGA A VICPABEMN T O 3 

IIIINGEFX 2.6 - TE Ws' Enopu if 4 

NT 

& 

E - 

( 

tor oti knob 

IPERMIATIKIT F O 2 

1 'moon 

N 

I I I 

D 

Ca•PAliftE WM ALL AtlicA5 • EIN• 

9 

, 6 

T 

Quitly SORT Gym • Ras/ ME/N CLS4 

01N FtiorKom c3 

9 95 

4 

I4AN D72-PTA 

SIMM £20 ZTow 

Amr.d. ANKABOS 

I 

. 

HA 

7 

TOTPL1 MICA - N E W 

Mo. , ANKA t o w GOLD • DJ MEM 9 

R1BNEs 

I 72-Ns SIM M a40 

IOTA! AMU - ASSEMBLER 

L 

H A r d 

V I E 

N 

T Wic Ona 1•7•ALFF 7 117931 , 

kSO 16A11 72-PIN 9MM a 70 

A 

MAstEloG ANK.; RIVES 

CUE A • filsir,Cto m Simon • EmINVON5JeF 

RARANN 

D E Pg A N E R TASK 4 ASOUT T Smio 

, 6 3 C.04 E 

R • e i 7 

LI KED 'S , a Per PA ti 

NrSonli 

DAarmemi M0 

7 486 PC Sefimm, &Nadel. A 

- 

&RI 

L 

110 

• U 1 

E3999 £ 

1 9 9N 

R 4A 

331filtz FP11 KIT 321•1 72-PIN SIMM 

INIssTERNG NN6A BEGIMRICS 

L 

MASTERING Amfas PRAN 

P MC TEEFPU I.Clasut - u i 11 I • ALL 94% Al! NEW 

, 6 VERSION 4.2 FEATURMG AWAIIID 486 SCITAARI B a 

E 

4.12 m 1 

D F E 

0 9 

, MASTERING AN I G 

9 

1 , 

A7, 

rod,TcITNU11179-09 

c7 

4 

I NOW t u EMIRATOS. DYNAMIC COMPILATION A n E 5 

FOP 

S 4 

9 

P 

0 

l SNIPPING c o 

FASTER EMIkATION., LP To i 61. 

9 

S 

9 o t s 

• 

9 E E. 

/ 

F 

Eas 4MA51E1106 

PROWANIEG SEOV1S 

E 

DOS 3 

A7 

I 

• 

• ANKADOS PAL" 

r 

* 

ORDER HOTLINE NSA 

0181-303-1800 

7' 

d 

L 

! saeSdNIzaro•d.oemon.c.o.uk RTOW EAkoc.4 F E R- 

4m/ADos 6 mo.srualwfi 

A 

ACCESSIBLE 1 UNDER MS-DOS, MDA, CGA, 

E c 

0 

EGA, VGA It SVGA SIPPCIRTED, UP TO 2 5 6 COLOURS ON AN 

9 9 

) o 

m E1 

3s 

A 

E• REFfroa N C EUs•Ao 

E43 94 - SAVE NE 

O 9K 

C 

A 

P 

, 

Al200 BEGONIA PADI, 

P, 

kGA MAGME, CYBERGRANK SuPPDRT, MIATIPLE HARD C 

REES OR P1RTIEICA6 &WONTED, CD-ROM , AND o F Y 0181-3031861 

HIGH DET6TIv M KS SUPPORTED, RLEC MS-DOS P 

9 . 

m 

E2 

96 

O 

2 sx•s lim ns Al200 NEM STEM). A BO Ma 

A• 

1 = 0 

, 

N 

APPLICATIORS IN A RANDOM ON WORM3ENcul H RUN uWE 

ARE OPEN 9AM AND 5.30PPA, MONDAY TO OM( 

W•AocmS 3.1 IN ENHANCED MOCEI MAlly TIMES p 

O SATURDAY, TO PAY BY CREDIT 9 

0 

CARD. TO PAY 13 

9 

1 

A mos ot Pt) IO It "KI K EGonhattOs 

A 

T 

Al 200 nonormai 3 Boosito Pio( 

K 

A 

A 

2 was (D'AS & Rims & YttRIReacn 3 0 0 4 . 

9willy 

WEILER THAN VERSION 3 .1 , 

p 

M 

III 1..lArfohk- li,SVIZAP.:: 

•vG,TF WK.. I Da 1. l 

BY CHEQUE OR POSTAL ORDER MAU SEND 

loo,ofs auver. 2001 AEQ T n 

M9 

. E 

LW C/namlartd. 

Rem" add ES ro 

E 

, 

7 

• ,es , Al 

I 

DEVELOP T EL products d are o l.- sublets to Naha:atty. E6DE • • WV 2 01 MON ISA PROD 

6calon 

o 

WI:an 

...iv charge witt-to nape All sales are 

r 

" AND fel ID% OFF! • • 

'040/40 & FPU E22999 E24999 do% E29999 E3119r 

29 

2SE 170 

m8 SCALA MM300 

H D 

I 8me RAM 

1.3cs HD 

69999

ossoR 

ro.t) 

UP to 

51314 

:MCA 

DE950 

WB 

Sly 

)9t 

,19.90 

199 

,Pht-- 

19 9. 

TTH O. 

72 - 

ro HE 

0-41.43 

4464 

!EARLY 

E3 

1P411JTE 

E 3 

•ucts 

FIXED PRICE ONLY E38.99 Incl.a 

• 

P•9 

0 D a y Parts a n d L a b o u r W a r r a n t y 

r•2 

4 Hour t u r n - a r o u n d on m o s t r e p a i r s 

!,A., 

i•I 

ncludes FULL DIACANOSTIC, SERVICE 

c 

▪ Upgrades fi tted free with r e p a i r 

A 

• 

7 5I 

(add C6• 00 for return C a r r i a g e ) 

i 

f 

n 

d 

c 

r : l 

i 

u 

v 

d 

e 

/ 3s 

k 

P 

e 

A 

y 

R + b 

T 

o 

S 

a 

, 

r 

L 2d 

A 

n 

B 

e 

O 

e 1e: 

U 

d 

R 

s 

& 

r A500 Internal Drive £28.99 

V 

e IY A 4600/1200 Int.Drive E28.99 

AMIGA Al200 Repairs only E48.99 Fully Inclusive 

Repairswhile-you-waitaddE10.00 

COMPONENT SPARES 

We are the largest distributor and retailer of Amiga spares in the 

UK. with an inventory of some 150,000+ parts. Large quantity 

discounts and catalogue available to trade. 

p 

T 

l 

a 

c 

i 

n 

g 

SPECIAL OFFERS 

KichStart 2.05 0 9 . 9 0 

Super-Buster IC E15.00 

4520 Modulator Xclig £18.00 

8520 CIA £ 1 2 . 0 0 

A500/600/1200 PSU E25, 9 

Al200 Keyboard E34.00 

A600 Keyboard E19.00 

A500 M/Board v6 E58.00 

CD42 PSU E 2 5 . 0 0 

CD-32 CDROM Drive E35.00 

AMIGA PC KEYBOARD ADAPTORA112.migas) E25.00 Pt Keyboard El 6.00 

DART Comporlar Sarvicas SALES 

105 London 0 1 

Road lax 161 2470059 *. 

LEICESTER 1.22 OPF 11111 El P I M , 2558643 ( o -„ tAp R. , T'recce - 

SPECIAL RESERVE NEW CLUB SHOP 

UPMINSTER GRAND OPENING OCT 18TH 

209.213 St. Mary's Lane. Upminster. Opposite Somertield 

be Pre-release games to try 6/ Special attractions V Free gifts 

V Competitions p/ Meel Games Master's Dave Perry 

Feel free to come along for a fun day out for all the family j 

A500 Software Al200 DESIGN PACK PLAYSTATION TOP 15 

10140 OHNE REQUIRED DESIGNS PRINT PACK FOR 91200 C7E HARD TRILOGY 93•9 . . . .. . 3599 

IN i I 

, ECODER 2 . . - , , 1399 DELUXE PM9I1 IV AGA PRINT 

M PIONSPIP MANGER 2 2 2 9 9 MANAGER OSCAR& DENNIS 

I 

S 

N 

W 

T L SUPEE7STAR SOCCER PRO . 34 99 

JURASSIC PARK LOST WORLD 3699 

• 

Buy any one item from Our entire catalogue c at the same 

S HFACIAL 

2 itr 

ORATION 1 3 99 O D L I W O H L D S ABE'S DODYSEE 3 1 99 time as joining for a year (E6 DOI Or more t and we'll give you 

A R 

DSSUS , CHESS A 443121 4 9 9 ACID ATTACK COMPILATION P P I E M I E 7 1 MANADER 00 2 9 9 9 

E 

TOTAL SATISFACTION GUARANTEED .. . 

I 

OR 

HT GPI SIME PoKER 9 9 9 GUARDIAN ROATIKILL, R A G E RACER PI% t . . 3499 

WET 

1CAPTAIN 9 ollOPI .. . . ..3.99 SUPER SKICAJARKS ... .. ...... . ...14.99 SOVIET STRIKE 02% . . .. 1 9 99 

ALL YOUR MONEY BACK A 

A ET P9MASTERS 

9 . , .. . _1399 ALIEN BREED ID 9 . 9 9 SYNDICATE WARS eri ... . 35_99 We'll even collect la rg e r ite m s fro m yo u r d o o r free o f 

IY• E KURE A HORSE RACING .....399 ALIEN RREED TO 2 99% ............17.99 TOMB RAIDER 95% .. ... _ 3 5 99 

"RE G PAINT:) C H A O S ENGINE 2 ... ... . 19.90 IWARCRAFF 2 at 

charge It yo u a re not sa tisfi e d 

l 

, PAPAL WI and (menial pecloot COLONIZATION 1 3 119 W0699T5.9/• 

A 2 

AND A FREE COPY OF 

, te e pe 

M . e Wenn, . A . WU . soft, . • ard a FEARS . • . . . , . . . 7 _ 3 IA 

TM MAI all 

9 9 9 

o99,9 0 amp Mara keg And pant.; FIELDS cc GLoErf 1 1 9 9 N 6 4 TOP 15 

EDGE MAGAZINE 

E 

•.=, 

0 

old slurps menace are At G U A R D I A N . .. 6 

AND 

S SOultiletal 

.480 PREMIER MANAGER 3 

4699 

9 9 & A S T C O I - 

5 99 C I POLE POSITS).. 

44 

THE SPECIAL RESERVE 

) o 

IGIO. 2 IBATTLE P FOR S ARAM'S . ..12.99 _999 SLAM ROAD TILT KILL 

5.9g FIFA SOCCER 

9 

_ . . 

2999 

f 

BOOK OF 2001 CHEATS 

LEAGUE MANAGER 2111) _12.99 SUPER STBECTFICHTER E TILBIBO la 99 C 

9 

10, t 

2051( ittElA3RY CARO 'RUM) . - 

9 ' ePS M I N THEME PARK . . 1 4 . 9 9 

AND 

a Ta HK w 

5 2 , 9 9 

FREE AMIGA 

O T 

, STRIA a EAGLE II 1 3 8 9 WORDWORTH spEr.., EDITION E KILL R INSTIACT G O L D NI, . .46.99 . 

HT STEALTH C I r FIGHTER . , 

MEMBERSHIP PACK 

H3WoAnE BE e GLOAT .. 1399 spell decals( • etry easy IS es evelerg . WITH NINO FREE KART PATAATY 64 92 CARD 5 2 99 

, , I 

Zoewolf 1 II 2. Football Glory 

' MLI 

F COLLECTOR VOL 1 a n d (wok. pent02 Nikes. , 9 99 

VS 

9FREE 

MEMORY CARD 5 2 . 9 9 

. oA ETE nI 0 H H 

and Ouicklay tootpedals 

toutDALL GHAT W IAND Tcoulinly. H WOC4C7WORTH ' T I E ' M O W .. N w r r KOMEAT e TRILOGY 4 9 . 9 9 

. , P, 

C, 

'1' , NIL s „ SOCCER „ , . , 1 1 . . 9 Net Mat.. •0 itt• ob., mew., PILOT WINDS 64 909. 4 1 . 9 9 

ALL OFFERS SUBJECT TO STOCK 

eptoted (teeny lode. env APEX X 

. „ A H H AS H , 

E 

SHADOWS OF THE EMEIR 

(3 1 NER OFFERS ARE AVAILABLE. 

. H S O , MTERS I 39g . coperank. meWolnetee, 50 opmpographe WITH FREE Mk MEMORY CARO 52.911 

OVERSEAS 'AMBERS PLEASE A00 

'3.99 tens InmAYHM RIF 1,0poe and Otte 

1. 

r2 POSTAGE 

• D0FRENCH'S M I TO ADULT .. .19.9g evureotents (3MEI RW A . . . . .34 99 SUPER MAPPQ .3.1 WITH 

FREE 259K IN3AORY CARO . 92.911 

. P 0 A E GOLF . H , , 9.99 AtoRla9 . THE EKRECTOEIS CUT .1199 

. „ 1 porous THE AlkitthieR 10 

C . „ . 

!ODE CD32 Games 

TLIROK - DINOSAUR HUNTER 97% 49119 CONTROLLERS E M I AMIGA 

• „ 1 H99 

I C I P(I 

, TYCOON . .. , . I 2 99 ACID ATTACK COMPILATION 

WAVE RACE IN 92% , 4 6 9 9 

OUICKSNOT 1319 

PARTS 

. L •VIIVILD 

I Of YSlACIER 

96197 18.99 GIMACIAN, ROADKIL I 

PYTHON I T N 

72 PIN SPANS FOR PC. A4000. 54-1 

• LAWORLD N DE ASCCCER 

S L P E R SAIDPAARKS 1 4 . 0 0 SATURN TOP 15 

MTh AUTOTITIE 

AND Al200 RAM BOARDS 

. T NDISK 

E 1697M • . 

4 U B 

• 

9 WE 

10 

, S 

I 3.9g D I E HARD TRILOGY 93% (P1.0i .2299 

7Me 7 P72 

PIN SIMM 2 E 9 1 

I LEGENDS FEARS. GLOOM ..14.90 

„ A7 

RSERVICE 3 2 1A 3 . 9 9 D R A G O N FORCE 00% 

1 

NAB 72 PIM SIMPA 

LOGIC 3 ADIPAD 

I N S 

T 

DR1 

THE 

GWSORCERER P R E M I E R MANAGER oe , . .„ ...3I 99 1 CleN 

O L 9 F 

9.90 

I UEXTERNAL N 

DISK OMNI 

, S 1 

1 

TORO Y 

AuTOFIIIE 

, O g 9 % Do P C C D T O P SHINING . THE HOLY 15 RESIDENT EVIL AIN „ 03% A 3 3B 9 999 

. FOR AMIGA OR SX -I 

0 M1PACK 1 

1 - 1 

DO EMARIS. SUPER THIN'SA 

AMIGA EMULATOR . .. . . 1 5 99 SOW jD gON .......................2999 

LOOK 3 

I 

47.99 

. 2 H 7 . , 

1.1.00t2E MAINGER 1 9 9C 0 BRO KEN 59901417 90% 9 9 9 SONIC JAM 92% ...................2999 

SPEDMOUgE S W T 

. 1 29 

2 

T CARMAGLUDO N (I Si 2 0 9 9 SOVIET SINIKE91% . , 2 0 9 9 

991 ; • F. IT• ONS N 

EXTERNAL 33.6 FAX 

t • . 9MD 

7 MARKS 7 9 9 OMMINAISIIIP MANAGER 2 97/99 1790 THINK PANE 925 I S 09 

I 

LEADS 

11130EM 

i HDNAL 9 U I t 99 ChM/ 0 CII4394 REO ALERT . . 2699 TOMB RAIDER 955 2 9 9 0 

SMALL COMPACT DE SON 

O 

JO YST ICK EXTENDER CABLE 

t M. NIETO 9 IRAN) B DRIVE ( A N D I CNOR AFTERMATH V I C T O R Y BOXING 1 6 . 8 0 

COMPLETE WITH CABLES 

N 

(3 MI I LHS'p T i e 

„ LE 199 ITED ALERT DATA CO . . , .. .... . _12 93 ATTILA FIGHTER 

INTERNET BUNDLE AND FREE 

UNKNOE WN i P 

. PD 

? 7 t e % 1 9 9 9 

JOYSTICK SPLITTER CABLE TBI) STARTER GUIDE 

ER 1 1 5 A7 

9 CONGEON KEEPER 98% ... ........ 28 951 NOR' Doenr St1CDE n 4, .4-.• I t lOONITOO LIAO 

, A/ 

ANTI-SURGE 4 WAY 

455E E X T R E M E ASSAULT . .... ... „...,21 99 

faaK,A I 

C 9 

u CM 

woe' memo( tediums IMPEDILIA GALACTICA 90% ... , .. A TN W E ALSO STOCK A HUGE NULL I) IICOEN CABLE 

TRAILMID 1AULMPL LIG 24.90 

K D 

p KA 

&pp. geelot PAABIN V PREMIER U 

MANAGER 97 93% 2 2 99 R A N G E OF BOOKS FOR C I Ph A I 11 METRES 1 0 99 INTERNAL DISK DRIVE 

„ R groom theciong Ver., atey li) SECRET 01 

SCART LEAD 

FOR A 1203(ASIE 

0 8 ) 

3990 

O K 

„ L 1 Mme Coptics( N K E enema Y Iopens S L THEME A N D HOSPIT AL 91% , 2 8 99 C O N S O L E S AND PC 

AMIGA TO SCART TV I 0.99 FOR A590 

3990 

3 

L E 

SCART LEAD 

o A I 4 17 2 

1II 

N99 

XCCAII APOCAL ITSE 95 

CO32 O 

EXTERNAL DISK DRIVE 47.99 

To SCART TV 1 6 . 1 1 9 

w 1 1 2 9 9 90 

, O . 2 9 9 9 

R 

„ 9 

B 

1 

K 

• 7 

A 

0 

E 

. . 

R 

064 1144.99 ..iodioorootroiter 8 

I PLAYSTATION 1129.99 irelWe, io,rrr,ller rind Demo I PLUS save Ile on any other item bought at the same tinsel 

. . 

O 

4 

A 

, . 

N 

5 

3 

BUILD MUSCLES 

FAST! 

NEW! Fastest way to build 

muscles and strength without 

weights - EVER! Just 35 minutes 

daily in the privacy of your home 

will develop an amazing physique. 

MUSCLE DYNAMICS is a new 

body building system based on 

principles developed after years of 

exhaustive research. It is a total exercise 

programme involving the very latest 

scientific breakthroughs in the field of 

muscular development. It is the fastest, 

most effective way to build muscles in 

existence. 

Noticeable results in 28 days guaranteed. 

Send for FREE Information Pack. 

MUSCLE DYNAMICS,I 

3 

Tel: 0624 801023 (24 hrs) 

.0, B O X 

7 

MUSCLE 

0 , 

DYNAMICS.P.O. BOX 70. DOUGLAS. IM99 lEH 

D O U G L A 

Name 

S , 

a L o c s 

I M 9 

9 P L E A S E 

1P oE s 1t c- o d e 

1 . 

(A stamp to( reply appreciated) 

Yes! I want to build mutictiss fast. Please rush me a FREE IntormatIon pack! 

Address C A P I T A L S 

SPECIAL RESERVE 

MEMBERSHIP GIVES YOU 

10 ISSUES OF THE SPECIAL 

RESERVE CLUB MAGAZINE 

Our 48 page fi ll Odour magazine mei 

Dews. remws ard lhousands of prodJct, 

ALL OF THIS • 41 

) otav 

s 

e 

Over 300,000 

people have joined 

Special Reserve. 

The biggest games 

dub in the World. 

tilialanliel 10 pert SNUB 

99aerve it The mem/ lader 

IP mill Pile kW 

on putint wilt I Tiff a 

Special Reserve 

01279 600204 

0 

Olte 4 9,311. To 820 illare•-5,1 II Date PJ 5.1.1 I Ste• 6 Elmm Hotoutl 

, 

We only Wept, Maletese MP ye an MIN TOW pin 

M 

. Trial Membership only SOp 

Tei Notes .2.45. en* holm a I ma club unagatee. Vete to. one prep 

, 

0Annual 

Membership (UK) E6,00 

ANNUAL 1 MEISBERSAP PEAS UK TIDO EC 29,00 WORLD E12.99 

Matealuteete , 

lon mum oil Me cow club newel* elk a hue cppe 

of EDGE, o Ike el lool came aid 

. mN 

e e to pm F toe R Nee E E it r000blielee IS NT MINN 

et • Iltole. 

H e I 

. . . . N W , • romm 

Noss A n &Mese s gs r oe m m 

C V AMA 

n o e t 

e p t b C ( 

a 0 ns i py 

Peewee l 1 e, M a n w No 

2 v 

Eite neestoPP PAN. I *ARAN P 

7 

INEW 4Essa94.46P e ILL IAANJAL US DiAll 

erra 9 e 

7 e 

Mtn 2 p 

lee 6 e 

809110NA4. 

e Name poet ilde P e u lePt 

Fe. 4OPTIONAL 

, 

Pe dolman. Gal Panteve acts frt e0 

ALL 2 PRICES elti.I.WE US PCMTEOP 41 VAT I 

Ce e e le p atemeetsCroadwtogeeslet A 

- 

( 

t 

UFO • , 4.140 P I M P 

te mp met 14,44arL4t, . 4 0 A A ht. 

t 

CNEMEM Ivermez 1290 MP GRIOT Gelb Get 

l 

N N W As 

e 

r 

Special Reserve at 

, 

PO Boa 1 4 7 . H a rlow, C2821 9P11 

r 

o 

C 

We meekly mei tete be et ele hen 

Four Impressive 

C 

O Special Reserve Shops 

IIMML A AKIN 1151 GAGo01,• PE Wel elletedi/Ute. ENO AD 900.764 4L: 

I“, rt991,14 

tem,. Wm gym, Sew o r e A, rove k.e. 

let 17 let4 Sello H A S RCM 

e 

SANII4SINIVOWell 

l 

o Si.?.. Itorn Artotr. t•• • - 

l 

T -4 e , 9117990/019 9 9 1 5 8 8 9 1 0 5 Omelet the 

ALL 

W ean tie am es At. K teto me emu tam Sat eei tt, pewee e 

./4 n ie • 

e t w a t 

IN GUARANTEE TOTAL SATISEACTIONI lowfisbe some melee este 

5 2 

Mee V , a i l 5 

7 e 9 , t 

ezt ch e e p vete 1 1 pre PKWICIOCIPI SAVE - &men EPl lull remeneenOod 

1 . 0 1Mee 1 4Eon, 

to Mem 23997 tree Oteetiskee Emeluded 

y e 

0 eIntePleedielee 5 4 •m 1.93. The Malting. Smemlogreorth. MeMS CPC, 190 

b 1 

4 v 1 4 , 

e 

M e 

e 

s

Armed with your covermounted Printed Circuit 

Board, you're ready to build CU Amiga's latest rev- 

olutionary DIY project: AIR Link. Control your 

entire house from your Amiga and control your 

Amiga from your arm chair. Too good to be true? 

indering what the circuit board 

is on the cover? Its AIR Link. a 

new easy to build DIY project 

that will let your Amiga take 

control. AIR Link is a specially 

redesigned version of an existing project 

called InfrARexx. The completed device 

plugs into the joystick port on any Amiga 

and acts as a general InfraRed receiver and 

transmitter. The 'AIR' in AIR Link, stands for 

Amiga InfraRed_ What can we do with AIR 

Link? The simple answer is, a lot. AIR Link 

and the support software can learn virtually 

any InfraRed command sent by existing 

remote controls. It can also reproduce those 

commands under control from your Amiga. 

AIR Link is capable of controlling any 

device which is controlled by an Infra Red 

controller. TVs, Videos, Hi-Fi's even special 

devices such as light switchericlimmers and 

power sockets. AIR Link also allows your 

Amiga to be controlled by any spare 

InfraRed controller_ There's a mass of applications 

for AIR Link Snd we've goTie to considerable 

trouble to make construction of the 

project as simple as possible. Far easier than 

Project XG, for example. To build AIR Link, 

you will need the following; 

1. The kit of components from ACL Ltd 

2. A Soldering iron. 

3. Enthusiasm. 

AIR Link' 

By providing the Printed Circuit Board (PCB) 

on the cover, the hardest work is already 

done. All you need to do is place the components 

in the holes of the PCB and solder 

them in. This is actually quite easy even if 

you haven't soldered before. In fact we've 

even provided some instructions on soldering 

technique. All you need is item number 

3. in our requirements list and AIR Link can 

be yours. The kit of parts only costs E15. 

ACL will also sell a completed unit if you 

prefer. Either way it's a complete steal for 

what's on offer! 

The ACL AIR Link kit contains all of the 

necessary components, a special ribbon 

with a 9-pin joystick plug on the end arid a 

snazzy small box which the PCB perfectly 

fits in. We're adamant that AIR Link is so 

easy to construct that even if you've never 

done anything like this before, you're virtually 

garanteed to end up with a working . 

unit. 

Building AIR Link 

After you've got your kit of parts from 

ACL, check over the parts to make 

sure they're all there. It should be 

apparent if any are missing since 

they are mounted in foam with 

labelled space for each part. 

In order to build AIR Link, 

make sure you've got a 

well organised workspace. 

Lay some paper 

down so any solder 

splashes don't mark 

your working surface. It 

Nil! aid the speed that 

you can build AIR Link if 

0• 

d e v i c e to hold the PCB 

0 while you mount the components. 

0 

y 

o 

u 

, 

'AIR Link 

PARTS 

cti 

ov 

it) 

1 

4. 

7 

1 

G 

O, 

This could be a vice, a crocodile clip tool, 

pictured here, or some improvised clamp, 

grip. 

You need to drill two holes in the top 

panel of the box for the LEDs. Well, you 

need to if you want to see the LED indicators 

but it's not essential. The easiest way is 

to insert the blank PCB into the top lid, fitting 

over the three long pegs. Next to the 

circles marked D4 and D2 there are two 

holes, You can use these as a guide for a 

drill, a drill bit as close as possible to 3mm 

is ideal. When finished, you can continue 

with populating the PCB. 

Most of the components are physically 

different and you'll be able to tell exactly 

where they are supposed to go_ Some others 

have markings which specify their type 

and/or value. The first parts we should install 

are the resistors. These are the components 

with coloured stripes on them and are identified 

as R1 to R7 on the parts template and 

on the PCB itself. See the box on Resistors 

for an explanation of the colour codes. 

The basic.technique for soldering parts 

into a PCB is as follows. Push the leads of 

the component through the holes. The component 

should be on the same side of the 

PCB as the white markings. Generally, they 

are pushed in as far as they will go unless 

something special needs to be done like the 

LEDs, see later. The resistors can go either 

way around, it doesn't matter. Once the 

leads are through the holes, pulling them 

outwards slightly will stop the part from 

falling out of the PCB when you turn it 

upside down. That's important because we 

need to turn the PCB upside down to solder 

the leads. 

See the soldering box for some tips on 

II 

t 

t 

tt 

F 

V4 

T 

c( 

d 

e) 

ig4 

tir 

lit 

ca 

ha 

th 

fe 

thi 

(g( 

ye 

th4 

ha 

tro 

th( 

wit 

Ac

.] en ng. The basic technique involves 

applying the iron and the solder at the same 

time. This should be done as quickly as possible 

but the solder should flow neatly over 

the metallic pad on the PCB and the lead. 

Generally, all of the leads are soldered and 

then the excess lead is cut off, just above 

the solder joint. 

The idea is to insert a few components at 

a time, solder the leads, cut them off and 

insert a few more components. Repeat until 

the entire PCB is 'populated'. We should 

start off with some resistors, check the resistor 

colours with the parts list and insert the 

correct ones into the three sets of holes for 

R3, R4 and R5. Bend the leads out slightly so 

that they stay in position. 

Reheated joint 

Solder the ieads in. Now you can check that 

the resistors are mounted on or very close to 

the PCB. Otherwise, you can reheat the joint 

very briefly and push the part all the way in. 

This shouldn't normally be needed. After this. 

congratulations, you've performed the most 

difficult thing about constructing AIR Lihk! 

Next, insert all of the rest of the resistors 

R1, -R2, 

R7 and F18. Solder them in with 

exactly the same technique. You should be 

getting good at this now and hopefully getting 

very good at applying as little heat for as 

little time as possible. 

Next try Cl and C4 for the two ceramic 

capacitors. Cl has 103 written On it and C2 

has 104. Don't try to pull the leads right 

through, there's a coating on the legs for a 

few millimeters and this needs to be left on 

the top side of the PCB. 

The little black tin 'electrolytic' capacitors 

(getting interested in this electronics stuff 

yet?) are different, They need to be inserted 

the right way around. Cryptically, the PCB 

has the 'positive' side of the C2 and C3 electrolytic 

capacitors marked where as the parts 

themselves have the negative side marked 

with a stripe with minus symbols in it. 

Accordingly, place the lead towards the 

striped side in the hole opposite the '+' mark 

on the PCB. Getting these around the right 

way is vital, so take care. Next, go for the 

transistor Ql. This is the small black device 

with a flat face that has three legs. The PCB 

clearly has the flat side marked so you 

should have no problem inserting the leads 

in the right way. It's quite important not to 

heat this part up too much so be quick when 

soldering the leads. 

Now it's time to go for the InfraRed LEDs 

These are the large clear purple components. 

One side of them will be slightly flattened 

around the rim on the bottom. This 

matches up with the flattened edge on the 

PCB markings. The trick here is to bend the 

component leads before inserting them, The 

idea is that they lay down flat on top of R1. 

So about 3mm from the end of the plastic, 

Resistors 

Resistors use a colour code which is 

easier to make Out on the small parts 

than actual written values. There's 4 

coloured stripes on the most common 

type of resistors. The last colour will be 

a metallic type colour, gold or silver so 

you know which way to start reading 

from. Resistors values are measured in 

Ohms, we don't have space to go into 

the theory but the higher the number, 

the more difficult it is for electricity to 

flow through. The first two stripes are 

simple digits. Orange and Black would 

be 30 for example. The next stripe is 

the important one. This is the multiplier. 

The easiest way of looking at it is 

that this stripe tells you how many 

zeros to add. Orange (3) Orange (3) 

Brown (1) would make 330. One zero, 

see? R4, for example, is a 4K3 resistor 

on our parts list. That's another way of 

writing 4300 Ohms. So the colour code 

would be Yellow Orange Red. Now you 

can check the values before mounting 

them without a multimeter. Of course if 

you have a multimeter, you need only 

switch it to the Resistance/Ohms scale 

and place the probes on either end of 

the resistor. The meter will tell you 

exactly what value it is. 

Black 0 Brown 1 Red 2 

Orange ...3 Yellow Green 5 

Blue 6 Grey 8 White 9 

Note: The 30K1 resistor is a strange 

electronic value so this is a special component 

which should be black with the 

value written in numerals. 

4 Here's an 

example of the 

ideal workspace 

for constructing 

AIR Link_ You 

certainly don't 

need all of this 

equipment but 

it's fairly typical 

ler building electronic 

projects. 

V Here we're 

inserting the 

green indicator 

LED. Notice the 

way the leads 

are bent so that 

the pan can 

poke through the 

movided hole in 

the PCB.

lo• Here were 

cutting away a 

Fortiori ol the 

plastic lip 

around the box. 

This will allow 

the ribbon cable 

neat exit while 

still being held 

firm 

bend the leads at a right angle. The leads 

should drop into the holes and the infraRed 

LEDs 01 and D3 should lay down facing 

towards the edge of the PCB. Tip: You might 

like to make them face slightly away from 

eachother from side to side to offer a wider 

spread of InfraRed. The next task is to 

mount the red and green indicator LEDs, D2 

and D4. This is slightly tricky as the LEDs 

themselves need to poke through the holes 

next to the lead holes on the PCB. The trick 

is that the leads go up about 5mm, bend 90 

degrees. run Smm and bend 90 degees 

again. So the leads poke 180 degrees back 

towards the direction the LEDs are facing. 

See the accompanying picture of one of the 

LEDs being inserted which has already had 

the leads bent in the correct fashion. 

A tricky point is that the 3mm coloured 

LEDs don't have flattened edges like the 

larger IA LEDs. Instead, the obvious indicator 

is that one of the leads is shorter than the 

other. This one matches with the flattened 

side of the circle marked on 

the PCB. If you get this wrong, don't 

worry. The LED will just not work 

and it can be removed, turned 

around and it'll work fine. Now for 

the the most critical stage of the 

soldering process. We need to add 

the two 14-pin integrated circuit 

chips. There is a notch shown at 

one end of the chip rectangle on 

the PCB. This should line up with 

the small semi-circular indent on 

the end of the chips themselves. 

The chip that goes in the place for 

Ul is clearly labelled 4066 and U2 

is called 4093. You might like to bend leads 

at the end of the IC out to hold it in place 

while you solder. Please note that ICs are the 

most susceptible to heat damage. We've left 

them until near last so your soldering technique 

should be coming along. Switch from 

side to side as you solder the pins, rather 

than in a row. Spend only a second on each 

pin, quickly applying the hot iron and a small 

amount of solder to each 

pin. 

Now there's just the 

large IR receiver with three 

legs. It'll only go in one way 

but again be careful not to 

get it too hot. Lastly, the 

ribbon cable can be 

attached. One end of it 

has a header which will 

plug straight into the 2 

rows of 5 holes. The ribbon 

faces outwards of 

course. Solder the leads 

just as you would IC leads. 

That's it! Yes it really is that painless and 

what's more, beyond a quick check for 

components being soldered in the correct 

way around, we're ready to go straight to 

testing! 

If you're not impatient, you might like to 

perform the finishing touches now. Insert 

the completed PCB into the lid of the box 

The 3 pegs will go straight into the three 

holes on the PCB. You'll see that there's a 

small lip of plastic around the edge of the 

lid. Where the ribbon cable trails out over 

the edge, we must cut this lip so that the 

ribbon can fit through. Mark where the ribbon 

passes with a pencil and then cut off 

the lip, as per the picture here, to the same 

width as the ribbon. 

When the PCB is in the lid of the box, the 

coloured LEDs should poke into the drilled 

holes in the top case. It's not necessary to 

poke all the way through since the label is 

transparent above the LED holes. With the 

PCB fitted, LEDs lined up, ribbon cable trail- 

ing through the gap in the lip around the lid, 

you can fit the bottom part and screw it all 

together. Voila AIR Link! 

Testing AIR Link 

It's quae difficult to put AIR Link together 

incorrectly. Provided that the chips and 

cable header are around the right way, we 

can safely plug the 9 pin plug into the 

SIEMENS309 

SRI 506-36 

InfraRexx Codesets 

There's a good chance that you have 

some IR equipped appliance that isn't 

represented in the provided database of 

InfraRexx IA codesets. No problem, as 

you can teach the codes to InfraRexx and 

save the codeset out as per our instructions 

here. 

If you do create a codeset for a new 

piece of equipment, we'd very much 

appreciate if you could send us the codeset 

to add to our database. Then on the 

following CD well include all of the codesets 

and on our CU Online web site too. 

If we have space, we may even put them 

on the floppy disk issue. If you make a 

codeset, we ask that you name it as follows; 

-_ 

Examples: , Sony-Miniclisc_MU10, 

Panasonic-Video cmodel> Aftli, Fisher- 

Amp_CD3OR Descriptions currently in 

use; CD, TV, Video, Minidisc, DAT, DCC, 

VidProi, Relay, Dimmer, Amp, Tape, 

Turntable, SatDec, CableDec and Multi. 

The last description is a special exam- 

ple where the codeset matches multiple 

models and types of equipment in the 

brand range. Most of the provided 

codesets are already of this type. 

Example: sony-Multi 

We'd ask that the Codeset description 

line lists which models the Codeset has 

been tested with both for single and 

multi codesets. Generally the convention 

for the ARexx Transmit command 

is somewhat like 

1 

iga's joystick 

port. AIR Link is now pow- 

, ational! The quickest test is to 

ered point and a remo opertE control at it and press a key. 

If all goes acciarding 

to plan, the green LED 

should pulse rdicating that AIR Link is 

receiving Infra Red data. 

If this does n't happen, unplug AIR Link 

and check ove r the components. For it not to 

work, something 

should be quite obviously 

wrong in the construction. 

The next step 

is to fire up the software 

and send an IrrfraRed 

signal. Run the program 

Intranet° (Editor. Select Load from the 

Project menu E 

tory and pick cme 

of the files. A list of func- 

tions will appe mar 

in the Infrared Codes lister, 

Double click oid 

1 one of these and another 

window will orgren. 

Pressing the Send button 

underneath thEo 

Code Learner section should 

make AIR Link itransmit. 

The Red LE nD 

should flash as the button is 

pressed. The Ct;reen 

LED will normally also 

flash as AIR Liro 

1k picks up its own InfraRed 

transmission. Ptf 

this all functions correctly, 

congratulation! h;I 

You've built a 100% working 

AIR Link. e 

C 

What is orifralted? 

InfraRed is a todrm 

of electromagnetic radia- 

ton, as is the lieght 

that we can see visibly. 

The frequency sof 

light is perceived by the 

human eye as re:olours. 

The highest are violets 

and blues. t The lowest are deep red. You 

niay have seen dan 

illustration of the light 

which comes oiut 

of a prism. This shows you 

the full spectru rm 

of light components that 

we see. e 

InfraRed is licght 

just like Red light only It's 

of a lower freqt -Jency. 

So low that we can't 

actually see it iut it behaves in the same 

way as normal light. Just as we get LEDs 

that emit green and red light, AIR Link uses 

InfraRed LEDs :hat emit InfraRed which is 

totally invisible to us. It is visible to AIR Link 

which has a deiJicated 

InfraRed receiver. 

InfraRed is irleal 

for remote control appli- 

cations where du have line of site to the 

device you wistt 

to control. This method was 

adopted over thle 

early radio remote controls 

as things were 1rapidly 

going to get Out of 

hand with hauseholds 

using multiple radio 

,transmitters. It't; 

a bad thing if your remote 

can change your 

neighbours TV! 

Its one thin ; to shine and pick up 

Infra Red light tat it its another to convey 

some type of in formation. To do this, tlie 

light is 'modulat ed at a frequency typically 

between 30 ancI 

40Khz. This is done to reject 

interference froi- 

sunlight. The min 

adulated InfraRed is then 

pulsed in a serifii 

nbitstrearn. 

Different bra onds 

use different modulation 

frequencies andrbit 

rates. They also have dif- 

ferent lengths omf 

the bitstreams which identi- 

fy each of the ftamotions. 

We need to 

discover these l ranables on the remotes and 

devices we wisp I to use. It's the job of the 

InfraRexx EditorR 

to learn the codes so that 

we c-an retransn slit 

them. 

o 

u 

r 

c 

e 

Soldering 

r 

Outwits Acceptable 

i 

The art of Soldering isn't a hard one to 

pick up. Not only does it make building 

AIR Link possible but it can come 

extremely handy around the home. 

Soldering can be used to fix metalic 

breaks, wire up special cables or repair 

broken gones. All we need to solder is a 

soldering 'iron' and some solder. 

To solder in safety and with the maximum 

success, it's wise to do it on a covered 

surface so splashes of molten 

solder don't damage the surface. Molten 

metal might sound worrying but solder 

itself melts at a very low temperature for 

metal. It's very capable of burning you 

but we're not talking about red hot 

glowing forges here. 

There's a world of difference between 

something like a plumbers soldering 

iron and an electronic soldering 

iron. The electronic unit will 

have a much smaller bit for fine a 

/ 

work and it will operate at a far s1 

far lower temperature. If you 1 

don't have a soldering iron, they 

can be obtained from Tandy, 

Maplin or ACL, providers of the AIR 

Link parts kit. 

You might even like to consider one 

of the small gas operated irons which 

offer excellent control over the temperature, 

have no trailing wires and can be 

picked up and put down easily on the 

working surface without worrying about 

the power lead dragging it onto the floor. 

The principal of soldering is that the 

heat and solder are applied to a 'joint' at 

the time. There's a chemical called 'rosin' 

in the the solder which melts first. This 

is corrosive and will eat away much of 

the impurities coating the surface of the 

metals to be joined. Seconds later, the 

heat deactivates the rosin which leaves 

brown stains on the PCB joints. The idea 

is that the solder will coat the wire and 

the PCB metal pad evenly. Without too 

much or too little solder and without too 

much heat. Too much heat or for too 

•• 

Er ix. 

4v/411tpr 

Acceptable Defective 

long is the killer for soldering. This can 

damage components and lift the actual 

tracks on the PCB which effectively 

destroys the project. Be cautious and 

test how quickly solder melts on the tip 

of the iron. 

After a few joints are made in quick 

sequence, you'll find that solder tends to 

build up on the tip of the iron. Wipe it 

clean on provided sponge which should 

be lightly moistened. 

The basis for 'populating' a PCB with 

components is that you insert a few at a 

time. Bending the leads outwards to 

hold the components in while the PCB is 

turned upside down to make the solder 

joints. After the installed component's 

joints are made, the leads poking out of 

the joints are clipped off with small 

wire cutters. In this way the PCB 

shouldn't be cluttered with leads 

at any one time and it maximises 

the access of iron and 

solder to each of the joints. 

) , order in which the components 

S are inserted and soldered. 

Specialist p tools like project clamps 

with 

a 

crocodile clips or even mini project 

vices r can make construction easier. 

e 

Definitely worth a look if you'd like to go 

s 

on with building electronic kits. 

o 

Finally, if you're very nervous about 

m 

starting to solder on AIR Link for the first 

e 

time, t here's a handy tip to practice. 

Obtain h any old piece of dead circuit 

board o Out of some non-working equipment. 

u Get some desoldering braid (again 

Tandy, g Maplin or ACL) which allows 

removal h of components. This copper 

braid t comes on a reel and is pushed onto 

the joint f and heated up so that it soaks 

up the 

o 

solder and removes every last 

r 

drop. Remove the old component and 

t 

you have some holes to practice with. 

h 

Chop off a little of the lead of some of 

e 

the components in the kit, insert into the 

holes and have a practice run. Good luck!

o d e Homo 

plov I 

'Ammo' tronimit Commend 

104T-1 

Onamm 1148G.1 

, 

P 

Cod.,. I it..te 

C o m m 4 

zm Om% O t o wa x 4 6 6 

For.:T1 m1.461 4 dtot 

ti PM r VOSPand 

4 

. 

14 

E 

- 

1 

- 

r 

- 

Now you've built AIR Link, your 

next task is to put it to 

good use with your Amiga. 

It's clear that there are a 

i 

g 

4,4 L 146.8 

- 

4 BI.Cts 4 

- 11‘,0*...4 14.'54 

i i r p e 

x. 

r a l, 1i 

k 

e r 

t u ta- a 4 Limy% C hoirmma 

4 , pta 4 Lt.-Art tm, , 

R t m 

i 

e 

ICoup•morvt 

e r e s 

o 

T o o Tson4w5 

v i . . 

M0.41.4 

1 . 1 

c 

1 . 

1 1 1K 1 

M I CI _ 

_ _ 

22-11.443-.441 2 ‘6 2 6 .4 4 1 2 

pil 

from the useful to 

bizarre. We're interested 

r 

- 

4 

in what uses you come up and press the Edit button. The InfraRed Code is the same as what 

e 

i we've put in the ARexx 

itt 

, 

with for AIR Link so CU Editor will appear_ Press the Learn 4F button on Transmit Command box when 440we 

were edit- 

a 

r= 

i 

Amiga t and ACL is running a litthe bottom right of this GUI. Now point your ing the code. 

R6 

Sony remote control at AIR Link 

tle competition. d Send us details of your 

0 and press a T h e most important factor in running the 

button. You should find that InfraRexx 4 has InfraRexx software is that the 

application for e AIR Link which may be 

W 

useful or novel. a 

learnt the code now. You can test this by InfraRexxDaemon must be told which code- 

We'd also like pictures 

Te 

if possible. The l 

pointing AIR Link at the appliant 71the 

remote set to work from. This is accomplished by 

top 3 entries will each 

41 

feature in the o 

control was for and pressing the Send but- the icon tooltypes of the infraRexxDaemon 

magazine and receive a 

- 

f 

ton on the code editor GUI. It should Fr have itself. The FROM= line needs to point to the 

years free subscription to CU Amiga. So 

a 

.a . 

exactly the same result as your remote con- Codeset which we have defined previously. 

get cracking and put AIR Link to work' 

m 

p 

trol_ If not, try learning the code 

Send your entries to; AIR Link compo, 

. again. F o r example; 

p 

We've successfully completed 12 the basic FROM=DH1:InfraRexxiCodesets/Sony. As 

CU Amiga Magazine, 

l 

37-39 Millharbour, 

m. 

Isle of Dogs, 

i 

London, Eltt 9TZ, 

step of teaching InfraRexx a remote ..i control usual, you gain access to the Icon tooltypes 

code. The next step is too d some tah i n g with by clicking on the icon and selecting icon 

c 

” 

i 

a 

AIR Link 

t 

tsoftware 

e v e r y time it picks up a signal matching this T h e trick here is you'll often want to test 

The software suite 

. 

i for use with AIR Link is code, it will execute an ARexx command y o u r IntraRexxDaemon while you're working 

called InfraRexx. 

When 

o There are two main compo- entered in the ARexx Receive Command box from the Code editor. This won't work as the 

nants to InfraRexx, n the InfraRexxEditor and o n 

the 

the Code Editor GUI. The trick here is that Amiga's timing chip (CIA) will be tied up 

the InfraRexxDaemon. s The former allows you it 

I n 

can 

f 

be a direct ARexx command inclosed while the daemon is running. It is a cornto 

edit a codeset that the software will i n 

r a 

quotes 

R 

or it can be an ARexx script. For it modity though, so you can click it again and 

understand. This can be created from 

eto xbe xa 

script it must just a single name_ a requestor will pop up. You should answer 

DInfraRexx a will then look for the script name that you want to quit. Then you can 

scratch or it can be a modification of an 

eplus m 

existing codeset. To use the Codeset from 

the extension ',Irx' in your rexx: path. y o u r changes via the InfraRexx code editor, 

then on, the InfraRexxDaemon commodity 

o'testing' n in the Receive Command box would save them and re-run the daemon. Phew! 

i make InfraRexx look for remtesting.irx. T h e r e ' s a great deal we can do with 

program runs silently in the background 

which receives and transmits under control s On the other hand, we could put in some- InfraRexx and we've only touched the basics 

of ARexx. 

r thin hke 'address HIPPOPL 

ARexx is the key here, there's not a lot of address uA 

part tells ARexx to send the next fi ner points and some practice's of our own 

nYER 

p l a y ' . 

point even touching this software unless you command to the ARexx port called HIP- o n what can be done. In the mean time, 

have ARexx running. This is more normally POPLAYER nT 

h e 

which is the ARexx port for the reading the InfraRexx documentation in full 

i h e r e . 

accomplished by having "run nil: Hippoplayer module player. The 'play' bit is a should set you on the right track. Enjoy! II 

nN 

e x t 

sys:System/RexxMast" in your sAlser-startup command supported by Hippoplayer which M a t Bettinson - matOmats.net 

gm 

o n t 

script. Or RexxMast may simple be dragged clearly starts playing a module. This simple 

to the WBStartup drawer Don't worry if you method , h 

can make any remote control corn- AIR Link credits 

i w e ' l 

can't programming in ARexx, it's not neces- mend send an InfraRed command to any AIR Link is the result of collaboration 

nl 

sary to use the software fully. Here's a quick ARe)(x capable application which is quite a between several parties to bring this 

tutorial on learning a code with a Sony l o t f f 

. See 

o 

the documentation 

l l 

on the applica- exciting device to as many Amiga ownremote 

control, Load up the lotraRexxEditor tions oo 

you w want to use for the specific ARexx ers as possible. The original InfraRexx 

Select Load from the Project menu, Enter the rcommands 

u they support. 

project was created by the Dutch 

Codesets directory and select the Sony T mhp 

e ARexx Transmit Command_works dif- geniuses Leon Woestenberg who creatcodeset_ 

Now the values for Filtrate and awferently, 

you i can put anything you like in 

ed the superb software and Jeroen 

Modulation will be set and we'll have a t there. Tv_oN h would be a good example. 

Steenblik who designed the hardware 

bunch of codes listed under the Inrared i t Make it upper hcase 

for clarity since it's case 

oesensitive. 

Now if we were to save this code originally known as infraJoy. 

Codes heading., 

We,took the hardware design to 

Press the New button and then click on n set, run the InfraRexxDaemon on it and then 

Adrian Jones of Assembly Contracts 

the Unnamed item that will have appeared f type in the shell; 

Ltd. Working closely with ACL, a new 

r 

- 4 , m m m a l a m , _ A I M = 

PCB was created specifically to fit avail- 

o rx "address INFRAREXX

AIR Link technical 

This explanation may well be over your 

head if you have no knowledge of electronics. 

Don't worry about that, it's not 

necessary to build and use AIR Link 

effectively. It's just provided for those 

who want to know a little more about 

what it does 

The receiver 

To receive the IR codes, we use a hybrid 

IR receiver from Siemens, the SFHSO6-36 

series. 36 represents the modulation frequency 

it is most sensitive to. The ACL 

kit uses a 36KHz part which is in the middle 

of what most domestic units offer. 

It will be a little less sensitive to Sony 

remotes which use a frequency near 

40KHz. 

This IC is an integrated IR receiver 

with an amplifier, a filter, a demodulator 

and a TIL driver. As such it removes a lot 

of the electronics otherwise needed into 

a single small 3 legged package. 

It produces clean digital data streams 

when it receives IA information and it is 

very insensitive to ambient light. The 

output of this IC is fed directly into the 

Amiga via the Joy port where it is 

analysed by the InfraRexx software. We 

also use the output to drive the green 

receive LED. 

The transmitter 

This is a bit more complicated. To get 

Order Form 

Name 

Address 

Telephone 

P o s t c o d e 

I authorise you to debit my credit card account for the cost of 

the goods despatched. 

AccessiMastercard/Visal(delete as required) 

Credit card number: _ILLILI J L I 

Expire Dater 

Name on Credit card: 

Signe 

d: 

Please make UK cheques, Eurocheques. Postal Orders payable to ACL Ltd. 

and made out in pounds sterling only. No foreign personal cheques. 

reasonable working distances without 

interference, it's necessary to modulate 

the binary information that is fed into the 

IR LEDs. 

To achieve a greater working distance, 

this design uses a MOS (Metal-Oxide 

Semiconductor) transistor which is capable 

of switching large currents. 

Now, a current limiting resistor is 

needed to protect your Amiga's +5V output. 

To make the most of the output signal, 

a capacitor is added to provide 

larger voltage peaks, therefore enhancing 

the LED's output. 

The signal is modulated using two 

Schmitt-trigger NAND ports with a software 

adjustable RC circuit inbetween. 

The software adjustability is achieved 

by using two other output lines of the 

Amiga joystick port to control two analog 

switches (integrated into the 

HEF4066 IC). These switches can both 

connect a parallel resistor to the RC cir- 

cuitry, thus creating a total of 4 different 

resistor values in the AC circuit. 

This, of course, does provide four different 

modulation frequencies, and con- 

sidering the normal component 

accuracies this is enough to control most 

electronic brands. And there you have it. 

Assembly Contracts Ltd supply the AIR Link kit of parts in a 

built and non-built form They also stock soldering irons and 

some other accessories which are useful to AIR Link. 

UK post Rest of World 

I AIR Link kit of parts £14.95 E15,85 

AIR Link fully built £24.95 E25.55 

Antex 15W Soldering iron E12,50 E13.00 

Low cost 15W Soldering iron E7.49 N/A 

Infra Red mains light switch* E25.75 E26.50 

Remote control extender" E63.40 E64.10 

Send this form and your payment to: 

Department Amiga, Assembly 

Contracts Ltd, Woodfield House, 

Woodfield Road, Altrincham, 

Cheshire, WA14 4AC. 

Web: http://www.acl.coukiamigai 

Orders available online. 

Phone: 0161-6135000 Fax: 0161-6135001 

*(This replaces a normal light switch fitting and allows the light to be 

switched onfolf and dimmed via !Friuli:Wax 240V, no fluorescent lights) 

**(Two mains powered pyramids that receive and retransmit Infralled via 

radio so that devices in separate rooms can be controlled. 240V mains)

F 

Coming Soon from Sadeness 

Software, the ultimate Amiga 

CDROM games! 

ODue for relealg in November 1997 Foundation will set new standards for the Real-Time strategy war/conquest 

games' Featuring many unique features not seen in any game for any platform! 

Combining the very best elements of The Settlers 2, Warcraft 2, Command and Conquor, Megalomania along 

with some totally original ideas and features - Foundation will set new standards for strategy games 

U 

D 

6Release 

Date: November 199 

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: My Amiga • 2 Meg RAM minimum Double-speed CDROM, AGA and Graphics cards fully supported and enhanced 

7 

1 

The Ultimate Amiga Strategy Wargamel 

on all computers. o i r a l l P 

Brief Feature List: 

• ECS, AGA and Cyber0FX tuft supported. 

• 1 player versus 1, 2 or 3 computer controlled players. 

N 

• over 800 frames rendered intro 

• Full control over every friendly unit 

• Random level generator for infinite levels! 

• Custom made 24bit quality mission/menu screens. 

• Advanced enemy Artificial intelligence. 

• Realistic rendered objects such as trees, rocks etc. 

1 Eue for re 

lease 

N 

• Serial and TCP/IP links planned 

• 2 player Split-Screen mode. 

• Over 50 meg of Sound and Graphics. 

• Comes with a Map/Mission editor. 

a Extensive full-colour on-line manual/help. 

a Mug-Shots included from Amiga owners! 

• Advanced Fire/SmoketShadow effects. 

• High-Res graphics-absolutely amazing! 

If you would like to be one of the very first owners of 06 massive new Amiga game, you can fill in the pre-order 

form below (NOTE: No money will be debited until your order is sent!). This will ensure that your order is 

despatched on the very day of release' 

7 b f f p : / 

W W 1 4 

. 

• J . s . d e m 

o n . c o . u k 

t i o u n d a t 

i o n . h i m i 

Incredibly detailed 1-1-Res graphic 

Stunning Mit intro/menu screens! 

Full battle and management control 

, 

NI 

0 

1 

I - 

. 

r some totatly original ideas and features - onEscapee will set new standards for action/adventure games games on 

,. 

o4all 

computers a 2 (PC and Amiga versions under cl 

)e 

mc, 

l o h 

A 

bejpm 

Brief Feature 

r e n t list: ) . 

i 1 

• ACM 

9 

required and CyberGFX support Owed. 'Sera pure assembly language 

• 5 minute long. atmospheric 9meg Intro! 

Thousands of hand-drawn animation frames! 

n9 

7 

• 100°0 multi-tasking system friendly. 

• Can be used on Double-scanned screens. 

i o 

• Incredible, 

n 

atmospheric digital music score! 

• Complex animations are custom-rendered! 

nE 

• Cave. 

s 

Citypilnderwater and space levels • more! • Logical puzzles 

g c• Control a choice of Keyboard, Joystick or Joypact. • Full use of AGA chipset • using 256 colours. 

Full 256 colour AGA graphics 

t p• A egreat 

variety of different enemies with intelligence. a Rippling water, sweeping light beams etc. 

he 

• 4 years in development by a large team! 

• Amazing film-quality cut-scenes! 

e w 

If you would like to be one of the very first owners of this massive new Amiga game, you can NI in The 

v i 

pre-order from below (NOTE: No money will be debited until your order is sent!). This will ensure that 

el 

your order is despatched on the very day of release' 

r l 

f' 1 8 4 : • sadeness.deim klfoundation.htmi 

y s 

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: Any Amiga - 4 Meg RAM MIMMUM. Double•speed CDROM or better. Graphics card support planned for the future. Full atmospheric digital music score 

be 

Pt 

- nW 

YOU WOULD LIKE TO PLACE AN ORDER FOR EITHER GAME OR RECEIVE MORE INFO ABOUT THEM - PLEASE TICK THE CORRECT BOX, AND FILL-NMI, 

SeDETAILS. 

Please send completed form (telephone/email us) to: Sadeness Software - 13 Russell Terrace - Mundesley • Norfolk • NR11 KJ • UK Tel: (01263)72; 

t w Place a Pre-Order for FOUNDATION • Recive further info about FOUNDATION • Place a Pre-Order for onEscapee • Receive further info about onEsceet 

osPlease 

fill in your details in BLOCK CAPITALS. Thanks. 

et 

Name A d d r e s 

ma 

en 

ndCredit 

Card Number C 

s 

. 

Postcode 

rd Es • 

C 

I 

o 

s 

u n 

s 

t 

u 

r 

e 

y 

Number Switch on ) 

t aTelephone 

Number 

s r Your Machines Specs 

m a i l

-fee 

==Milk• 

46 Tips 

46 Capi 

h i l i m 

a l l 

No previews.., things slow- 

ing up? Hardly. We had so 

much in this month we 

could have almost filled the 

mag. Not enough space! 

What we lose on quantity we make up for 

in quality with two top new titles, some 

great re-releases and more TFX. 

Reviews 37 Sensi Golf 

37 Blitz Tennis 

38 Street Racer 

40 Trapped 2 

42 Dun 

e 2 

Tips Et Guides 

43 TFX Tips 

Central 

tal Punishment 

- 

SCREEN SCENE

lel 

Capital Punishment el.1 (1-iDrAGA) E 2 4 . 9 5 

CP has been fated as the best ever Arnya game Now trictudes 

patch (Asa which corrects any preyous proNems. 

Big Red Adventure (CDROM) 

E19..95 

A superb conwslon from the classic PC aate Poet and chicit adventure as a master criminal' mind p 

a master okan to make an ornately iteberyl 

Chaos Engine 2 E 2 4 . 9 5 

Lifting the characters horn me award 1111117Aqg Chaos Engine. you elver a new style of play where 

stealth and cunning must be CrAltAtWKI with macaw speed and Molted shooting. 

MYST (CDROM) E 2 9 . 9 5 

From the producers that brought you Capital Pons/Iowa. hats now cOhiterlett The biggest seang PC 

telle of at time to the Amiga Release ore is tart/tent pieprders are being taken, reserve your 

copy NOW' 

E24.95 

Worms: Directors Cut (AGA) 

Arrly Datndso 

C 1 9 _ 9 5 

, km,twes the •ficuity avapons 255 caw /andscapes graft mole and bads mom. 

mChampionship a d Manager 2 , E 2 9 . 9 5 

cAt last,Champonstip r e a Manager 2 has Malty been missed The superb sequel to the Amigo's finest 

ttoontiat o r management aim Includes all the greatest players of today all the biggest Engloh clubs, big 

o 

money transfers etc 

r 

CD Stock Clearance 

MAIM ION ( 2 4 . 1 1 5 

I V 

AGA 7.2.3Akoi 97 (Ned 

AthAt E Sailsabon r 

1 

t 

1 4 

lik5 

05 

am* Gailreg 

Honor Sonamm. 

onagine POP:r 

. 

. 

. 

Mad 

DAM 

EILlitl 

An Sonsolom 4. 

m s 

t . 2 4 . OS nv Fo4bo-NIK., 

b i 

&Mu n Nees_ g 

Alma* CLankm ,o.._. 

A o simians Gams 3— —....i. 

EAmAtitot Umaillike- 

Epr y Lneyerrogredia 

• 

, 

• 

- 

. 

, - . 

tt 7.115 

rats 

MIS 

ENO 

AhrA anIF C1101001 

, CIUNWIL. 

M 

Mogowchil likwAxims - 

NO Comoect 

N 

Sood Sumba._ 

M 

. 

N 

acts 

..1205 

- oEtAr 

Pannomtail .. 

Son CD Vc4 r L 

. 

I 

CM IS 

CIO Pre Areas 97+ C*4 • C H A S 

Mu 

6. 

I, 

t 

5o 

hC 

iD 

V 

s o 

si 

*mid oi CAgwf M I S 

I 

u 

. 

pt 

eI 

l 

rl 

b i 

ni 

e 

w 

v 

e 

Plc n 

r 

s 

i 

o 

n 

0 

1 

w 

o 

r 

m 

w 

i 

( 

ONE m WAY 

- 

. 

y be tied to taking' Pot Luck 

buying - ClipArt? w h emnNow Y01.I can select your 

own preferences from the comfort of your 

own home. Choose l from over 3000 images, 

-Jr1 over 40 Categories. Give yourself a break - 

d TRY BEFORE YOU BUY! Available 

in Formats-suitable for all Amiga Programs 

(Hi-Res Bitrnapped or Scalleable) 

t 

h 

All images are 8 to 256 Colours ..... suitable 

for both Colour and Mono Printers. All 

t 

clips are artist drawn n o scanned 

o 

a 

d 

s 

O 

f 

Of traced images here! 

n 

e 

w 

kcitot 

INK JET REIM S 

REFILLS (Mierofiltered Noe-Clog Formula) all Colours OUTS from 87p per refill 

CQMPATIBLE CARTRIDGES As good as original,. bui cheaper'. from 14.99 

•e 

We have been supplying our Customers , w 

ith of our Refi sales are ll re-orders. I n We k demonstrate s the quality of our Inks by providing a 

f 

FULL 

o 

COLOUR 

r 

PRINTOUT with every, Information Pack. Who else does this" 

m a n y 

y e a r s , 

TEL: 01263 722169 M 

MOBILE: 0370 766679 

ESS Software, 13 Russell Terrace, Mundesiey, Norfolk, NR11 131-1 

email: UHL: rich@ wvm.sadeness.demon.co.uk 

sedemess.demon.co.uk • 

NRII 

Fusion C 4 9 . 9 5 

Avagaoie NO M The very latest likirantoral emulator has amVed with the redone at Fostcr. 

Works with all ar179.gs that have 1126 or better, Supports Empisre hardware it present System 7 t 

7 6, Virirkl! (*may mit 754. Picasso 96 .5 CybergraphX and more. AArturonl requaernents 

020• 4meg, 20meg HD space, System 7. P.O. High Density floppy drive and 256Y Mac ROM. 

Amin* 20 

Oated August 97 includes aff the retest utrehes, demos, genies. protures mods etc 

. 

Amine! Box Set 5 C 3 2 . S 5 . 

Latest Mune: CCAKtrOrl, commis the Oast 4 in the series. Also included AS the foil stirS109 

Oriented ..,Snundstudo 

Geek Gadgets 2 L W — % 

For programmers, HiLlixtes devekver Immo) ot pOS 

p.OS Pre-Release £ 1 9 . 9 5 

Abraddisk. early &gust A featly conker* operating system at a reduced introductory AV'S. 

Alter purchasing this CDROM, pi re be given the opportunity to upgrade at a chew poor to me 

final version 

Pic'n' Mix 

FONTS 

SPECIAL OM 

E25.95 

including pi 

ter-op. 

UM - es e 10111001(145 HEADHUNTER STEEL 

1rW- EEDLtaria41 lyMli±jITIFDE STAR 

BLOCK AwslirUnlike 

some of the cheap and cheerful Font 11,111Ni M B 

W rittoe OBBLE CDs and Disks doing the rounds, our Fonts STARS 

WORK! Select from over 4000 Fonts in 

ZARRO both COMPUGRAPH1C and ADOBE 

f t 

4'4144'3 formats and leave the rest up to us! POSIcv 

F.lic moneiet For Bulk Buyers we offer some very AttOrl 

t0/1 special deals with Fonts from 7p each 31N5OME 

We have been in business since 1991 and 

- AME 

OREGONINET 

pioneered the Pic n Mix concept. Our 

;•1 service is unique with a TECHNICAL 

eAteleeFe HELPLINE for all of our valued Customers Atiami 

7 

ugicmutt twatima) S. 14 -A 

1 

Mcduaa STENCIL OTIFIETCH 

. 

Ttalrftil 

WASHBOOK1 

c 

o 

PCILIERWIER Of 

. For your FREE 46 Page Information Pack, 

3 , 

, 

either Write, Phone, or Fax us. 

1 

SELECT/FONT (Dept CU) 

13T111401 

84 Thorpe Road, Ilawkwell, Nr Hockley, Essex, SS5 4.11 

0 

100' - 

VISA 

2 FAX: 01702 200062 ''PHONE: 01702 202835

Sensible Golf 

Price: £9.99 • Publisher: Guildhall Leisure © 01302 890000 

dd one, this. Hardly surprising ton again you chose how hard the ball is hit. 

given the track record of The bar then moves down again and enters 

Sensible Software, famed for a red zone. The closer to the middle of this 

their use of tiny sprites and zone the bar is when you hit the button for 

deranged humour. Sensible Golf eschews the third time, the straighter the ball will fly. 

the standards of golf games to make a title Hit the button when the bar is to the left 

which clearly prioritises casual amusement or right of the red zone and you get a certain 

Over sports simulation_ 

amount of slice or hook. Go too far from the 

The idea of Sensi Golf should be immedi- red zone and your swing simply fails to conately 

familiar to those who've ever played a nect and you swing your club vainly like an 

T 

idiot, something you are likely to do continu- 

. shot and hit the fire button. A bar ously for the first few minutes. The red zone 

D'm'es 

along the curved path of a graph- varies in length land therefore the easiness 

m representation of a swing - a 

of the shot) depending on the lie of the 

p,d 

of power meter and by 

ball and the type of club you have. 

u- 

Pretty similar to every other golf 

t : 

game at this stage, but beyond 

e? 

here it starts to get odd. Firstly, 

r o 

the display is from overhead, with 

gs 

Sensible Soccer style sprites 

oi 

instead of the usual first person 

l n 

perspective. Then there are the mes- 

f g 

sages you get when you make the whole 

gw 

Monster Greenie, Hanky Tastic and 

ah 

Flobalobadoberous spring to mind. Then 

me 

there are the greens. From Tarpon Springs to 

en 

Ladbroke grove, Sensible have thrown real- 

. t 

ism out the window with a bunch of courses 

Yo 

oh 

u i • 

pt 

• 

i t Utz Tennis 

ch 

k e Price: E9.99 • Publisher: Guildhall Leisure kt 01302 890000 

1 

yb 

ou 

've always wanted a good ten- Tennis fare? 

ut 

nis game. Maybe it's just a Blitz Tennis is blessed with a wealth of 

r - morbid curiosity, a desire to see options. You can play singles or doubles 

c if anyone would actually ever with all variations of computer or human 

lmanage 

to produce a decent one. The very players. You cart choose grass, clay or indoor 

ufirst 

computer game. Pong, was a tennis courts and you can play tours, tournaments 

bgame, 

while Matchpoint on the Spectrdm and inendhes. There are 100 players to 

, introduced the notion of attempting to look choose from, based on the top 100 ATP 

alike 

actual tennis. International 3D tennis rankings from a couple of years ago. Each 

iintroduced 

true 3D courts and sampled com- player is rated in various skills like stamina, 

mmentary. 

Today there are the the cartoony 

Smash Courts and the ultra realistic 

Actual Tennis on other plat- air 

speed, serve etc. Sampras, the number one 

ranked player has 100% in all stats, 

▪ which seems a little artificial, but this 

forms All have good and bad 

is a good feature which gives all 

so how does Blitz 

4. the players strengths and weaknesses 

which make them unique. 

All that's missing is Sampras 

standing around with his tongue 

hanging out. Apart from the omission 

of any female players (probably 

laziness on behalf of the graphic artists). 

there's pretty much every option you would 

want, Now onto the game itself.- 

Graphically Blitz Tennis is dire. The sprites 

look like they all have rickets or similar leg 

affecting diseases, and the backgrounds are 

messily drawn. Animation is limited and 

crude, poor compared to tennis games of 

It's like 

Cannon Fodder 

in peaceteam. or 

Sensi Soccer the 

day alter Me big 

match. Sens' 

Golf draws on 

the simplicity of 

Gameboy 

and adds that 

unique Sensi 

humour. Fore! 

4 

1hang 

your head 

1 in shame. Sadly 

Ythe 

digitised cut 

oscenes 

say it all. 

u 

m 

a 

y 

w 

GAME REVIEW 

clearly designed for laughs. There are putting 

greens in the middle of lakes and holes consisting 

of small patches of grass in a desert. 

With up to 72 players, cheesy samples, 

balls that pop out of holes and so on this is a 

game with an emphasis on casual fun. There 

are some solid golf game elements (the 

swing bar is one of the best I've seen), but 

this is the kind of game best played in a 

frame of mind that makes you laugh not 

curse when you fail to notice the computer 

has selected a 1 Iron for you 2 yards from 

the hole. If you're looking for an after the 

pub game this is a rather good option. • 

Andrew Korn 

Grubbs NM Wel II% 'AMUR) 13% Plovability 11% 

• Werkhench WEISIEM - 1 / 1 1 

• Minder of dish 

• RAM. • .............. ..... —1111 

• Hod dish 

five years ago let alone the very nice looking 

screenshots we've seen for the upcoming 

Quiet Please Tennis. Sonically it's even 

worse with abysmal samples - are these 

tennis balls filled with glass or something? 

Over simple controls limit the depth of 

play, adopting a 'hit the button when you're 

near the ball to return it' system. You can 

lend aftertouch to the ball of course, but you 

don't really get the feeling that there are a 

wealth of options open to you. All in all this 

seems barely worthy of a licenceware 

release. Ah well, my search continues. • 

Andrew Korn 

Graphics 45% Boned 31% Lastability 511% Plafoodity II 

• Workbench version ...... 

• Number el disks 

• UM 1 

2 

lib 

• Hari isk installable N s 49%

CAME REVIEW 

Street Racer 

• Price: E14.99 • Publisher: Guildhal Leisure • Supplier: Epic Marketing © 01193 514188 

Cross Street Fighter with Bump Et Burn, and you'll have some idea 

chaos that goes off in this long overdue comedy race 'em up. 

IP- Right Here 

we halm the 

basic siogle 

player race 

option. but 

that's only the 

start of it. 

Anyone for 

motorised combat 

football? 

V Below: Take 

your pick (tom a 

range ol alter 

egos with suit. 

ably outlandish 

cars to match, 

including the 

obligatory 

Penelope 

Pitstup 

— 3111 qtilkto 

9 

99 

r c a r a n 

ere's a rarity these days, an 

Amiga version of a hit game. 

Street Racer progressed from 

its SNES origin to be something 

of a hit on the Playstation and PC a little 

while back, and now it is being released for 

our own little slice of gaming heaven by 

Guildhall Leisure on floppy and, thanks to 

their partnership with Epic Marketing, also 

on CD. We are told that the CD version will 

have better music, which wouldn't hurt, and 

the full intro sequence from the Playstation 

version. This version of the gene, programmed 

by Vivid Image for French Static° 

Ubisoft. had been sitting on their shelves for 

a few months until Guildhall got wind of it 

and snapped it up. Something of a cross 

between a racer and a beat 'em up, Street 

Racer is a game firmly aimed at laughs. 

The obvious inspiration for this title is 

Mario Karts. although Amiga users are likely 

to be more familiar with Siltunna's brilliant 

Mario Klone XTR. Comparisons are more in 

gameplay than technology, with Street Racer 

opting for a simpler, more 2D graphics system. 

The tracks don't have the same pseudo 

3D cornptexitv o XTR. adopting a game 

engine which is more 

akin to the traditional 

Pole Position layered 

track. The result is a 

m 

i 

ll 

i 

t 

o 

compromise, the tracks 

significantly simpler, but the 

game moves that much 

faster. Without all the heavy duty 

course rendering to do, Street Racer 

manages to be very nippy indeed on an 

unexpanded 41200. There is added value in 

the wealth of options and extras that Street 

Racer crams in, but does its playability live 

up to the superb XTR? 

)(head: Initially impressive? 

When you fire this up and get a race 

under way, you are likely to find that the initially 

impressive graphics just don't do as 

much as XTR. Being sprite based, Street 

Racer's cars are more detailed, and the artwork 

is very well done, but as the game progresses, 

you will find that the payoff is that 

the tracks are a lot less directly engaging 

than Siltunna's effort. Running XTR on a 

vanilla 41200 means dithered 2 by 2 pixel 

mode, but give it a little extra CPU horsepower 

and it looks gorgeous. Street Racer's 

A 

l 

p 

o 

it 

of the 

parallaxed, full coloured 

backgrounds look very 

nice, but the tracks are 

lot simpler in comparison. 

The camera is locked 

into a track following viewpoint, 

and distancing isn't great 

so you tend to veer off the road a lot, 

This isn't particularly important because as 

long as you are willing to hit the jump button 

every time a roadside object veers into 

view, you can happily drive around on the 

grassy verge. There are no crossovers. 

jumps or shortcuts, so race around the trac 

heedlessly and you'll rapidly find the game 

gets rather shallow. So is that it? Written off 

in 450 words? Luckily not. 

Burning rubber isn't really what Street 

Racer is about. In this game getting ahead 

of the pack blasting down the course as if 

you're trying to break the sound barrier in a 

jet powered car means missing the fun 

Where you really want to be is right there in 

the pack, where you can reach out the side 

of your car and give your opponents a big 

fat slap in the face The tracks are there to

• 

Ifts 

Jred 

ary 

are a 

iked 

w- 

3reat 

a lot. 

as 

, 

unto 

t 

- 

track 

me 

in off 

et 

ead 

is if 

in a 

ere in 

• side 

big 

'e t o 

• 

All you don't mind sharing the screen, you can have 

op to four players racing at once! 

keep the anon going. If you pull to far 

ahead, there is a very fast reverse gear to 

get you back ito the action. Even if you 

don't bother steering, you are held close to 

the track edges, and will keep doing the circuit 

regardless. As you tussle your way to 

the head of the pack, expect to be fighting 

for place quite literally. A quick tap on the 

joystick and your driver will reach out an 

arm and, if timed correctly, send an opponent 

spinning sideways. Another tap allows 

you to jump over your rivals, and if you get 

the right powerups you can use your car's 

special abilities. Depending on which driver 

you have picked, this might result in blades 

coming out from the wheels, powerful bullhorns 

blasting other cars out of your way, 

storms of lightning, or in one case your car 

sprouting a set of wings and soaring over 

the heads of the other racers like a World 

War 1 tri-plane 

There are, as you would expect, all the 

normal options. Cups, head to heads, 'practice 

races and championships. There are 

also a couple of rather unusual options on 

the list which gives Street Racer and entirely 

different sort of challenge. Look down the 

list and you will see that as well as straightforward 

racing you can pick rumble and soccer 

modes. These are quite unlike anything 

XITI has to offer, arid add a lot of extra 

options for the easily bored. 

xhead! Ready to rumble? 

Rumble mode is Street Racer's answer 

to Mario Kart's combat mode, and true to 

form, it is a lot more in your face. In Mario 

Kai is you soend a lot of time thinking tacti- 

01 

10 

11 

% 

''' • e" 

Pt 

cally. The arenas are lull of twists and turns 

and place to hide, and the game is all about 

keeping a close eye on what weapons you 

and your opponent have managed to pick 

up. Here the arena is a very small circular 

course. You race around the course, choos- 

ing an inner lane to go slowly or moving to 

the outside if you want to go fast. With 

everyone packed into a relatively small 

space, the action is pretty intense as you try 

to cut inside the other cars and slap them 

right off the track. Getting the tactics right is 

tricky, as overtaking cars tends to mean 

goirlg on the outside of them, but this puts 

you dangerously close to the edge and vulnerable 

to their attacks. 

Soccer mode is perhaps even more 

manic. A direct head to head, you drive your 

car around a half football pitch, each car tussling 

for posession and position in an 

attempt to force the ball into the goal. Alas 

it doesn't work as well as it might. but it is a 

pretty reasonable distraction for keeping a 

few drunken friends from smashing up your 

furniture. 

All in all Street Racer is a game for people 

who find )(TR too serious. Some people, 

especially those with an Amiga powerful 

r .Enn 

• jot. 

1 

Civilization collapses! 

Evil monkeys trained 

by a Sid Meier hating 

cult appear to have 

sabotaged some of 

last month's games 

reviews. Civilisation' s 

overall score of 88% 

did not tally with the 

comment "one of the 

best games ever" because the score was 

modified by persons unknown. Everyone 

involved has denied responsibility for the 

score and the removal of the Superstar 

award, but the truth will out and here is 

the real scorebox and award. Our apologies 

to all involved. There were also 

some bizarre aberrations on the phone 

numbers and prices front. Gunship 2000 

and Rairoad Tycoon would have scored 

even higher if they really were under E8. 

but they are actually E14.99. They are 

also published by Guildhall Leisure, not 

Epic, although Epic can sell them to you. 

Finally the phone numbr on the Civ 

review was mysteriously not Epic's. 

which was printed correctly on the next 

page. If I find those monkeys... 

CIVILIZATION CD-ROM 

• Workbench version Any 

• Number el disks C D 

• RAM I lab 

1 Hard disk iestallable _Yes 

OWERALI. 

One of the best games ever 

produced 

&maks 

Sealed — ....... 

94, 

enough to get the best out of KIK are 

going to find the simplicity of the tracks 

poor compared to the well designed 3D 

tracks of XTR, Coupled with the facility to 

add in extra tracks, XTR is a much better out 

and out racer. Chuck in Street Racer's extra 

options and lunatic gameplay and what you 

have is something which is less demanding 

but a lot of simple out and out demented 

fun. It is playable, and has a lot of variety to 

keep it going. With what pretty much 

amounts to three games in one and excellent 

multi player arcade action.. Street Racer 

is a more than worthy waste of time for any 

bunch of computer game addicted, 

Andrew Korn 

STREET RACER 

111Woorithesch versin 

• Ihneber 

• RAU 2 k 1 1 

• Herd disk lestilleble _Me 

OMAII 

Fun and varied racer best 

played with a few friends, 

87,

GAME REVIEW 

Trapped 2 

• Price: £19.95 plus fl Op • Supplier: Weird Science () 0116 246 3800 

The fi rst Trapped stunned everyone with its 3D effects 

but the gameplay just didn't quite work. Trapped 2 is 

even more graphically impressive - but has the game 

got better too? 

10,- Right: The 

most impressive 

311I engine the 

Amiga has seen 

features real 

polygon monsters 

(that's a 

bee on the left 

of the screen). 

lighting eflects 

and quite 

impressive 

hame update_ 

efore I go any further, let me 

make a quick point about the 

graphic engine. It's incredible. 

It's not quite up to the standard 

of id's Quake engine or Interplay's Descent 

2 engine, but then you'll tend to see these 

running on dedicated graphics hardware and 

high powered CPUs. The Trapped 2 engine 

can do an awful lot of what these engines 

do, and what's more it will run rather nicely 

on even a medium powered Amiga 

The concept behind Trapped 2 is an interesting 

one. New Generation software have 

taken a formula which was getting rather • 

stale and tried to give it an entirely new 

challenge. The world is full of 'Qoom 

clones', first person shoot 'em ups, and 

frankly it is begining to get a little boring. 

Trapped grafted the Doom concept onto an 

RPG to make something with a bit more 

depth. The problem with Trapped 1 was that 

the impressive game engine just wasn't 

matched by the g5me play. 

There wasn't enough of a depth of challenge 

to the game, with too few puzzles and 

fights in too many corridors_ Fine for showing 

off the clever lens flare techniques but 

not good for long term appeal. The monsters 

really looked like they had been tacked 

on as an afterthought: flat and badly drawn 

sprites which seems to have no spirit for the 

fight. Anyone who has looked at the demo 

of Trapped 2 on the Aminet and on our 

cover CD a few months ago will know that 

Trapped 2 has been a real step up graphically, 

but what is important for a game rather 

than a demo is whether the gameplay 

aspects have improved as well. Fortunately 

they have. 

The game is set in a fantasy realm of the 

type that keeps the trilogy merchants in beer 

and peanuts. You are, as you might expect, 

on a quest. 

The story explains that "about two generations 

ago" your grandfather beat the 

demon Tarnak by locating the wheel of 

Talmar. Unfortunately the Demon escaped, 

killed lots of people and scared everyone 

away from the town of Kaldrion. You have to 

get into the place of Kaldrion and kick this 

demon back to hell, but you'll need to locate 

his eyes before you can get into the palace. 

I'd have thought he would keep his eyes 

inside his head, but some people have funr 

, tastes. If the story sounds painful, be 

, assured that English translation is worth thu 

, read. Fortunately all you have to know to 

play the game is that you want to get to this 

palace place to kill this monster and you'll 

need to find these eye things on the way. 

Making your way around, you will find 

yourself coming across nasties rather more 

frequently than you did in Trapped 2. You 

can fight them with an assortment of 

weaponry or with some of your magic. 

People expecting combat to be like the average 

first person perspective shoot 'em up 

Amnia 

SUPERSTAR 

will be a little disappointed, as Trapped follows 

a more RPG approach_ Each weapon 

has a different amount of power. but also a 

different speed. You won't get an instant 

response from any of them, a limitation to 

your fighting ability representing both the 

weight of the weapon and the level of combat 

skill your character has achieved. 

This concept did not work well in 

Casting runes 

The Magic system in Trapped 2 works 

very nicely. It is very much along the 

lines of those in RPGs, but the transfer 

to a Doom type game comes over very 

well. You start of with a few spells in 

your spell book, and will learn more as 

your journey progresses. Once you 

know the recipe for a spell, you need 

only select the appropriate runes to 

cast it from the spellbook screen, and 

then when you return to play you need 

only hit tab to cast it. As well as the old 

favourites such as healing and fireballs, 

there are a few real oddities such as 

astral projection and levitation which 

work very nicely in this environment.

A There's a range ol options available to get the game running as fast as possible. This shot shows the 

same point in the game at lull screen lull resolution deft) and reduced screen size with chunky pixels (right). 

,.) 

- making combat more of a challenge 

am less 2 of a bloodbath than similar games. 

Of course d if you get bored of hacking things 

to death I with your sword, you can always 

rsst a , spell at them, a ball of fire, perhaps, 

or an bice 

storm. Blasting glowing balls down 

the corridor u at your foes, watching walls 

glow t as the fireball passes and seeing your 

oncoming f enemy rocked back by the 

blast ois 

great fun, but you'll find 

yourself r running out of magical 

energy t rather quickly if you 

do this h too much. 

As e you explore the 

mazes, s you will find a lot 

of scrolls e and potions. 

Many qof 

the scrolls givi: 

you clues u to your quest, 

while eothers 

give you the 

recipies l for spells - for more 

on these t see the boxout. 

The h potions come in four types, 

blue efor 

health, red to renew armour, green 

for strength y and yellow for a five second 

speedup. h If life wasn't hard enough, Trapped 

2 is littered a with puzzles. There are switches 

a plenty v in the game, as you would expect 

from e any doomy sort of game, but there is a 

lot more g ingenuity and invention than you 

normally o find. Expect to come across 

strange t mechanisms, whirling blades, and 

traps a plenty as you make your way 

through the levels. Remember, this is not a 

game for mindless slashing, this game 

requires a lot of thought. 

The presentation of the game is nicely 

polished. There are very nice FMV animation 

sequences, the game starting with a beautifully 

rendered wander around the inside of 

some kind of castle chamber decorated 

with demonic furnishings and coffins, The 

music is effectively atmospheric if not stun- 

ning and the options screens seem to leave 

no stone unturned. It's a pity the cover art of 

the CD is so poor in comparison - a frame 

from the intro sequence would have done a 

much better job. The most obvious omission 

on the presentation side is the lack of a 

manual, You can get the key codes by hitting 

'h' during play for the help keys, but 

there isn't any sort of printed manual, something 

I think professional games ought to 

have. There is even rather strangely 

no readme icon to fire up 

some instructions, although 

there are some text files on 

the disc in a docs drawer. I 

guess most people who 

buy this game will be reaonably 

competent with 

their Amigas. and will no 

doubt be capable of finding 

these, but a click to read icon 

in the root of the disc would 

nave been extremely easy for the 

author to implement and would have added 

extra professionalism. I guess this is the 

result of the demo scene background of the 

coders, something also displayed in the 

presence of the benchmark utility which 

tells you how good your machine is at running 

Trapped 2, 

All in all it sounds pretty good so far, 

huh? Well there are a few down points that 

have to be made, and on the whole they are 

to do with collision detection. Everything in 

Trapped 2 is proper 3D. The monsters are, 

the furniture is, even you are. Making this 

kind of 3D environment totally convincing 

means a lot of work in getting object position 

correct in three dimensional space. You 

will occasionally find that you get stuck 

going around some projection that looks as 

if it is a little distance from you. and objects 

have a tendency to pass through each other 

The game engine. 

41 Left: 

Some of the 

enemies are 

really quite 

good. although 

unfortunately 

the combat 

sequences lack 

excitement. 

• Workbeach version families 

• Herber at disks_ CD /Nut 

• c h i p , 4Nb last lastabitit, 

• Hard isk installable ..1,4 

GAME REVIEW 

The first thing you will notice about T2 is that the 

game engine features a lot of things you will not have 

seen an Amiga do before. Complex lighting effects 

were a feature of Trapped one, although they are 

improved here. More revolutionary is the mip-mapping. 

This technique is designed to stop texture pixels 

going all blocky when you approach a wall, something 

which you would normally expect to see out of a 

Nintendo 64 or a Voodoo 3DFX. Next Generation have 

implemented a clever system of pre-rendered mipmapping 

which makes up to 24 Mb of texture to keep 

the blocky pixels away. Add to that texturing and even 

blurring and you have a pretty sophisticated texture 

mapping engine. Nutters! 

The impressive range of options allows this game 

to run on anything from an '020 with 1Mb chip, 4 fast 

and OCS up to a nice meaty Picasso IV and '060166. 

Full screen mip-mapped play really calls for an '040 

minimum, but drop the size down a little and it is fine 

on an '030 and AGA. If you must have the lot and want 

it to run on your '030/50 you will find it playable even 

if you do not have a graphics card, though rather jerky. 

An 1:160 with AGA nips along at a very pleasant pace, 

not dropping below about 10 fps. A graphics card 

helps things fly, but by keeping the resolution down to 

320 by 256 pixels, the data throughput problem with 

AGA isn't really a problem. 

in a slightly ugly way. The most noticeable 

aspect of this is when you come face to 

face with one of those 3D monsters. 

Combat takes place in a position strangely 

deep into your field of view. When an 

enemy lunges forwards, it is usually quite 

unclear whether they are flailing in your general 

direction or actually hitting you. 

Graphically this isn't actually an easy problem 

to solve, but I feel making the positions 

from which monsters can land a blow on 

you closer to the 'lens' would have been a 

significant improvement. Your own weaponry 

is more visible in effect, often causing 

small spurts of blood, but even here it's 

often unclear if you're close enough to hit 

the monsters or you need to be closer. 

Balancing positive and negative points is 

easy. The combination of a stunning doom 

type engine and a role playing game which 

works, is a winner. It isn't perfect, but nothing 

is. It is one of the most original games 

to come out of an overpopulated genre on 

any computer, and shows that while there's 

coders squeezing this kind of performance 

Out of the Amiga. there's life in it yet. 

Andrew Korn 

I TRAPPED 2 

15% 

12% 

11116 

NEW t 

9 2, 

Sophisticated graphics... plus a 

game! Best Amiga game in ages. 

41

GAME REVIEW 

Dune 2 

Price: El 4.99 1111 Publisher: Guildhall Leisure it 01302 890000 

Another re-release from the Guildhall 

stable. This time we have the father 

of real-time strategy wargaming. 

he word classic is overused in 

game reviewing. Hick through 

any games magazine and you'll 

get the impression that classics 

come along several times a month. Five 

years on from its original release, this budget 

release from Guildhall shows that like 

Civilization reviewed last month, Dune 2 has 

every right to the epithet. 

To deserve classic billing a game should 

be revolutionary, lasting and immensely 

playable, all qualities Dune 2 has in abundance. 

It is telling that Westwood have 

become one of the dominant forces in mod- 

ern gaming with titles like Command Er 

Conquer and CC: Red Alert which are 

clearly updates of this title. The roots of the 

genre may be in games like Civ, but, Dune 2 

was the first true real-time strategy game 

and gives away little to the state of the art. 

Written for an A500, you won't see state 

of the art graphics in Dune 2, The palette is 

noticeably limited and the graphics simplistic 

compared to more modern variants, but 

the gameplay, tactics and involvement are 

there, The arenas are a bit small, and the 

range of buildings and weaponry smaller 

than is standard today, but there is enough 

depth to keep you coming back for more. 

Desert planet 

Basco on Dave Lyncn's 1984 film version of 

Frank Herbert's Sci-Fi novel Dune, Dune 2 

has a richly detailed background. You take 

the role of military commander of one of 

three noble houses vying for control of the 

desert planet Arrakis, also known as Dune. 

The importance of this planet stems from 

the spice Melange, a substance of immense 

value found only on this world, You must 

utilise your resources as efficiently-as possible 

to mine this spice and take control of 

the planet. 

Depending on which of the noble houses 

you choose to join, you will have certain 

unique technological innovations 

available to you. The 

Atreides, for instance, get to 

use powerful sonic disruptor 

cannons, while the 

deranged Harkonnen 

have access to 

heavy infantry 

units and ultra 

destructive 

"death hand" 

missiles and the 

Ordos, masters of 

subterfuge, have 1 

2specialist 1 sabotage units, 

4 Whichever / 1 V house you choose, the basic 

principle is the same. Moving across the 

planet sector by sector you have to bring 

the entirety of Dune under your control. In 

each sector you start with a factory and a 

small number of military vehicles. Building 

on the stony areas of the play field, you can 

build up your settlement by constructing a 

range of facilities from defensive turrets to 

weapons factories and spaceports. The first 

thing to do is to build yourself a spice refinery 

and send your spice harvester into the 

deep desert to collect spice, your source of 

income for further building projects 

Worm alert! 

The two rnin threats to your mining operations 

are the giant spice worms: who have a 

tendency to swallow any passing vehicles, 

and either of the opposing families: who 

have bases and are mining the spice themselves. 

When you confront your opponents, 

hell breaks lose. You'll issue orders to your 

armies to attack the opposing base, stop 

their harvesters getting to those valuable 

spice deposits before you and defend your 

ItENTAT 

&retries Trike. 

A From this 

screen choose 

your next build• 

Mg project. As 

the game progresses 

more 

and more (acilities 

become 

available. 

CrPTIONS 1 Credits 11111•1161E1 

own base from attack. 

You also have to make sure your own 

spice harvesting operation runs smoothly 

and your base is kept in a good state of 

repair_ You will have to keep your factories 

churning out tanks and aircraft, and if you 

have a spaceport you can keep your eyes on 

the interplanetary arms market to look for 

any units you can pick up at bargain prices. 

To make things even more difficult, if the 

galactic emperor thinks that your faction is 

getting too powerful, you can expect some 

of his crack Sardaukar troops to be airlifted 

in and start attacking your base. 

As you progress, challenges get tougher 

and the technology available increases, 

keeping your interest right to the end. Better 

graphics would be nice, and the limit to the 

number of units available at once becomes 

a little frustrating at later stages, but these 

are minor points. 

With the success of CBC on the 

Playstation and PC - not to mention upcoming 

Amiga titles such as Maim and Mangle 

from World Foundry and Forgotten Forever 

from Charm Design - this genres time has 

come and Guildhall's timely budget release 

reminds us that we've a good example of it 

on the Amiga and should be in every Amiga 

garners collection). If you don't have it 

already, go buy this undoubted classic. • 

Andrew Korn 

DUNE 2 

• Workbench 'aerobia...Joy 

• Number el 

▪ RAM 1 1 1 1 1 

• NM did iduallaide Vex 

OVERALL 

Credits 

Absorbing and challenging. An 

outstanding budget release. 

Cost: 400

TFX Players 

Guide 

Last month's awsome cover disk game gets the full tips treatment, 

complete with a guide to all the weapons and those mysterious cockpit 

displays. Watch out for more next month. 

Attacking ground based targets 

You have two basic techniques to learn for ground based attacks: laser 

targetting and HUD targetting devices. The GBU bombs use a laser targetter 

which should be activated with the 'z key. Others use a crosshair 

which appears in your head up display. 

The laser targetter: once this is activated, you can zoom in and out 

with the '

There are actually four different autopilot modes. Just 

above the 24 hour clock at the far left hand side of the 

cockpit you will notice a display with a single number 

in it. Pressing the number keys 7,8.9 and 0 allows you 

to toggle this number from 1 to 4. selecting the type 

of autopilot that engages when you hit the 'a' key. 

These are 

1. Waypoint. Directs your aircraft to the next waypoint 

Here's a reference guide to all the 

missiles and bombs that are 

available in the game. Some can 

only be used with certain planes. 

AIR TO AIR WEAPONRY 

AIM 9S 

Range 16Km Speed Mach 2 

The famous 

'Sidewinder' is the 

standard short to medium range 

weapon of the USAF. It is infrared 

guided. 

ASRAAM 

Range 15Km 

Speed Mach 3 

A close combat 

missile which can 

lock on to a target from any 

angle. 

AMRAAM 


A Beyond Visual 

Range radar guided 

missile, well suited for use 

with the forward looking radar. 

AAAM 

Range 200Km 

radar homing. 

AA-ARM 


An active radar 

fire and forget 

missile. Rides an enemies radar 

beam. 

AIR TO GROUND WEAPONRY 

MK82 

GBU10 GBU 24 

Speed Mach 6 

A long range missile 

with active 

Unguided 500lb 

yield. 

The 'Paveway' series of laser 

guided bombs with various 

amounts of ordinance. 

Using autopilot 

The weapons 

GBU BLU 109 

A varient of the 

* N I & GBU24 which has 

a high penetration head for the 

harder of targets. 

CBU 55 

111111111111111M 

, 

JP233 CMB18 

A laser guided 

fuel-air explosive. 

Heavy runway 

denial weapon. 

Needs to be dropped from low 

altitude. 

CSVII 

Cruise missile 

variant of above 

for long range targetting. Range 

20Km. 

Durandal 

Runway denial 

bomb which can 

easily penetrate 4m of concrete 

before exploding. 

Maverick 

40Km range. 

AGM 

- 

109 

Computer guided 

multiple bomblet 

airfield attack weapon. 300Km 

range. 

AGM 88 

Television guided 

missile with a 

'Beam rider' mis- 

sile for destroying 

radar installation. Can be fired 

blind. Range 18Km. 

AGM122a 

above. 8 Km Range 

AGM84 

defined in the mission brief 

Smaller but faster 

version of the 

'Harpoon': a surface 

skimming 

anti ship missile. 92 Km range. 

2. Heading. Maintains the required heading, altitude 

and speed adjusted with the cursor keys. 

3. Tracking. Allows your craft to follow another craft on 

the radar. 

4. Auto Throttle. Leaves steering and stick movement 

in your hands but controls the throttle automatically to 

keep your speed stable. 

_ 1 1 1 E 

r _ 

. A I M 

9 S 

AIM 91 

ASRAAM 

AMRAAM 

AAAM 

AA-ARM 

Fuel Tank 

)01P- M K 8 2 

GBU10 - GBU 10 

S 

o 

l 

l 

w 

GBU10 - GBU 

- *11111_ GBU10 GBU 

G 

B 

* 

U 

N W G B U BUJ 1 

Anow CBU 

JP233 

CSW 

Dunandal 

Maverick 

AGM 109 

AGM88 

AGMB4 

Running TFX on 

'040 or '060 

7:orne people have had problems 

getting TFX to run properly on 

these more sophisticated processors. 

The '040 version should in 

theory work on these. In practise 

it works on some '040s and no 

'060s. The '040 was rare when 

the game was written, and we 

suspect that version was never 

properly debugged People with 

these processors should try the 

FPU version if they are having 

some trouble. 

The instruction set that the 

FPU version was written for is the 

68138x FPU co-processor for '020 

and '030 processors. As some of 

the commands in this set were 

dropped or altered for the internal 

FPLIs in '040 and '060s, you may 

find that this version does not 

operate too brilliantly. In this case 

you will have to use a patch for 

the code to make it run more effi- 

ciently on your machine. 

The two best solutions we 

have come across are: 

1. Install MCP 

- latest Y oversion u on this month's 

wCUCD i lin l the Magazine drawer. Go 

fito the nMCPPrels 

program arid 

d select the processor function. Set 

tthe preferences h as shown in the 

epicture 

below. This will get you a 

significant speed up. 

2. Get yourself a copy of 

Oxypatcher. It works for us! 

Past ktat. 

haltarartn J rothaI Data Carta.. 

tItambon C Obartt 

*wattParrsaa 

L t 

j D a t a I t Alt 

, A4Map110141 1w1 Lu taattlial 

ltSP to Fkaa a 

- Oranth l C aDian 

A l p i t i t l a t .3611 

MN tot- tvrtmettem r y Date H a l t Data :Wat I 

amgay 

. 

f 

R 

i 

m 

Ottabe F PU I &tort 0101.

The multi function displays 

Each aircraft has three IVITDs (the three computer screens in the dashboard). You can use keys 

1,2 and 3 to cycle through the different functions of these radars. These are: 

Master Warning Panel: 

Shows the status of main systems. Green means fine, 

yellow means slight damage, red means destroyed. 

The abbreviations are: 

ENL 

ENR 

WEP 

FUE 

ABK 

WBK 

UC 

COM 

FLP 

HUD 

RAD 

OIL 

t 

1 

1 1 1 

30 

:+: 

Left engine 

Right engine 

Weapons 

Fuel tanks 

Air breaks 

Wheel breaks 

Undercarriage 

Communications 

Flaps 

Head up display 

Radar 

Oil pressure 

Systems display: 

Details speed, altitude, bearing, fuel, 

range etc. 

Weapons display: 

Diagrams the status of the aircraft'-weaponry 

pylons. 

FUR 

Forward Looking Infra Red shows the 

forward view via the laser target des 

ignator when not targetting a ground 

installation. 

DIIR 

Downward looking IA. as above but 

when a lock is made, the view switches 

to this. 

Ground Target Data 

Shows the target and your current distance 

from its. 

- 

4 

1.173 E 

Radar Symbols: 

Air to air - 

Red dot: Hostile 

RADAR Views. 

The radar has various scan modes. 

Not all are available for all aircraft. 

Horizontal Situation Radar 

360 degree scan around your aircraft. 

Use the key to select 2, 10, 30 or 

50 mile range. 

8VR radar 

Beyond visual range radar gives the 

EFA2000 a long range facility which 

scans a narrow beam at up to 160 

miles allowing ultra long range missile 

launches. 

%MD 

Moving map display. A while line 

indictates the direction your aircraft is 

moving. 

Control MR) 

Displays in flight control info. Includes 

adaptive wing indicator for F-22 and 

EFA 2000 and thrust vectoring on F-22. 

Red square 

- Red flashing diamond 

Hostil - A n 

Air e a ito r ground b o r n- e 

amRed i dot: ir scHostile s i mobile l ground target 

reRed a flashing f t diamond: Airborne missile 

yRed 

flashing dot: SAM radar 

oBlue 

dot: Friendly surface vehicle 

u 

a 

r 

e 

t r 

a c 

Those keys in full 

Engine: 

I E n g i n e 1 on/ oft 

1 E n g i n e 2 onion 

+ I n c r e a s e thrust 

• M U N N * thrust/a fte rburners 

inume rie pod) Incre a se afterburners 1 sta ge 

/ (nume ric pe dl K i l l afterburners 

Autopilot 

A T o g g l e a utopilot 

7 A u t o mode 1 

Auto mode 2 

Auto mode 3 

Auto mode 4 

L - - - - - - 

la b A u t o re cove ry 

Landing 

Turn on ILS 

vs T o g g l e Whe e l bra ke s 

9 T o g g l e la nding gea r 

&Rib D r a g parachute 

It T o g g l e hook 

altil A u t o le nding 

Combat 

Return S e l e c t a ir to a ir we a pon 

backspace Se le ct a ir to ground we e pon 

alloot F i r e we a pon 

c C h a n g e ta rge t 

a A c t i v a t e i ta rge t la se r torge ttw 

a B r e a k la se r target 

< Z o o m la se r torge tte r Out 

> Z o o m lose r te rgette r in 

cursors M o v e ta rgette r 

Oaf once 

0 inume ric pad) C h a f f 

. (numeric pe ril F l a r e 

• E c m 

• S t e a l t h 

esc E l e c t 

altil J e t t i s o n fuel ta nks and bombe 

Systems 

1 C y c l e mfd I 

2 C y c l e mfd2 

3 C y c l e mk13 

I R e p e a t la st message 

m M a p 

r C h a n g e ra dar range 

shiltin N i g h t sights 

alt/h T o g g l e HUD 

Game controls 

P P a u s e 

')above ta b) O p t i o n s 

t l i m e wa rp 

d F l i g h t de ta ils (e xte rnal vie w) 

shiffict . Q u i t 

Views 

fl F o r w a r d vie w 

shift/II F o r w o r d vie w, no cockpit 

12 L o o k le ft 

n L o o k right 

id L o o k behind 

15 E x t e r n a l WOW 

06 F l y - p e s t view 

0 V i e 

fe m 

w 

i 

your a ircra ft and enemies 

s 

Nitwit:el o 

I R missile e ye vie w 

19 T a r g e t vie w 

• 

9 ion numeric pad) L o o k up 

v i e 

w 

TIPS CENTRAL 

3 ion numeric peril L o o k down

TIPS CENTRAL 

Tips 

Centra 

It's time for some more tips and cheats supplied by you, the ever-devious 

CU Amiga readership. So, on with the tips! 

Sensi Soccer 96197 

Tips Central just wouldn't 

be the same without 

some Sensi Soccer 

tips would it? 

Here is a tip that 

you can eat 

between meals 

without ruining 

your appetite, 

which comes 

courtesy of A 

Grubb of Bidford 

on Avon. 

When a penalty is 

Ultimate Soccer 

Manager 

Scribbled on the back of Aussie 

Jim Anderson's Slamtilt tip was 

this selection of crumb-coated 

deep fried nibbles with sour 

cream dip (or cheats as they are 

otherwise known) for Daze's 

Ultimate Soccer Manager. 

First enter your name as 

MAKE BELIEVE, then use the 

following keys to cheat your 

way to victory: 

1: win the match 1-0 

2: win the match 2-0 

3: win the match 3.0 

Escape: finish the game with 

the current score 

G: to score an instant goal during 

the match 

M: get yourself a nice little 

E100,000 bung for no apparent 

reason. 

Dungeon Master 2 

Old Monty's back again with 

some more codes, this time for 

the thinking man's Doom, 

Dungeon Master 2. 

EE OH VEN = Poison Gas 

awarded against your 

side, wait until a player 

steps up to take 

the kick, then 

with the fire 

button held 

Slamtilt 

down (and 

don't let it go), 

press the 

replay key (R) 

repeatedly and 

they will eventually 

get bored and 

then give up. 

Here's a tasty chocolate covered 

tip for all you Slamtilters 

to dunk in your afternoon tea, 

coming again from Jim 

Anderson of Sydney Australia. 

To get five balls, rather than 

the normal three-ball multiball, 

type LONGPLAY before you 

start a game when the table 

scrolls up and down. You'll get 

a message to confirm that it's 

worked, if indeed it has. Jim 

also has these codes which dis- 

play hidden messages: 

DANIEL 

WHIPLASH 

BARRY 

COW 

CHEAT 

IAIN 

KLAUS 

UM FUL = Light 

UM FUL IA Fireball 

LO ZO Open Doors 

UM VI = Healing 

UM VI BRO = Cure Poison 

Theme Park 

It just wouldn't be the same 

without a Theme Park tip would 

it? That sounds familiar.., any. 

way, this everlasting gob stopper 

Teeny Weenies 

This one comes from the 

extremely fleecy and caninesounding 

Daniel Huskie of 

Stenhousemuir, up in Scotland 

He has kindly offered up this 

picnic of codes for Teeny 

Weenies. 

Oh, and we can inform you that 

he's only nine years old, just for 

the record. 

2: YODEL HEEE 

3: SOAPY SPONGE 

4: GREAN CHEESE 

5: CRISPY TOE CHEESE 

6: BARBA PAPA 

7: SPEEDY JEWEL BONUS 

8: HECTORS HOUSE 

9: THE CLANGERS 

10: MARY, MUNGO AND 

MIDGE 

11: THE FUNGUS FEELER 

12: INVISIBLE BONUS 

13: EAR WAX 

14: SMELLY LEFT SOCK 

15: SPOTTY PIMPLE BUM 

16: &RAW PORK CHOP 

17: HAPPY FACED DOG 

18: THE CATS NOSE 

19: THE AIR VENT 

20: SPEEDY BONUS 

- lawiluom 

of a tip comes from Gregory Cox 

of Cardiff. 

When you're making your own 

rides, like rollercoasters, monorails 

and so on, first make them 

as small as possible, so they are 

just a little loop. Obviously that 

won't cost you much, but you 

can then go back and make 

adjustments to expand the ride 

as much as you like. Because you 

are only charged for the initial 

size of the ride, this way you can 

get great big rides for peanuts! 

Charlie J Cool 

Lawrence Montgomery seems 

to be something of a fan of this 

little platformer. Maybe he finds 

an affinity with the main character, 

what with them both hav- 

ing silly names (no offence 

mate!). Anyway, here are 

Monty's most useful tips Pause 

the game and type in the following: 

CURRY AND RICE - 20 lives 

DREAMZONE Invincibility 

WAIT DA MAM - Infinite lives 

BAD BOY - Skip a level 

You need help 

If you would like some help on 

any game - or you have some 

tips that you'd like to share 

with your fellow readers - then 

please write to us at Tips 

Central at the following 

address, remembering to mark 

your envelope Adventure or 

Arcade accordingly: 

Tips Central, 

CU Amiga Magazine, 

37-39 Mil!harbour, Isle of Dogs. 

London EU 9TZ.

Capital 

Punishment 

Capital Punishment, gruesome and quite gory Amiga 

beat 'em up, has given people more trouble than a 

porcupine in a barefoot wine pressing festival. 

Authors ClickBOOM come to the rescue with these 

official hints and tips. 

Cheats 

There is a cheat mode in CP that 

doubles the strength of your fighter. 

Just go to the warrior selection 

screen before the fight and slowly 

mess: 

down , up , up. up , dowr 

(Corben Wedge) 

down • down down , down 

down down (Wakantanka) 

up , down , down , up up up 

(Sermon) 

down up , up , up , down , down 

(Demona) 

There is also a cheat to use Ninja 

who is otherwise only available as 

a computer controlled warrior. 

Press 

-up down , up down , down up 

Beating epic mode 

The Sewers 

Demona; Use whip (fire + up or 

fire r up and back) to keep that 

long-legged monster at a safe distance. 

Try to get it into a corner - 

hard but worthwhile. 

Carbon Wedge: Move back as the 

aken jumps, then before he lands, 

use a mid-kick after pulling back 

(fire + forward) or a jump forward 

and kick (up and forward + fire). 

This jump-kick you can repeat twice 

or maybe even three times if you 

are lucky. 

Whenever alien falls on the ground 

kick him a couple of times, then 

iumo back. 

General tips 

1. Head strikes do maximum dam- 

age, leg strikes do least. Leg strikes 

do no stamina damage, 

2. Blocks stop you losing energy but 

not stamina. 

3. Strikes do 50% more damage 

•Nhen your enemy is in the air. 

4. Strikes do 100Q/0 more damage 

when your opponent is fatigued, 

5. Uppercut is your strongest blow, 

use it on fatigued enemies. 

6. Don't be soft, kick your enemy 

when he is down! 

7. When an opponent gets up from 

the ground he is very briefly invulnerable, 

watch Out! 

8. Fool your opponent by faking 

fatigue... press fire 5 times while in 

The Temple 

Demona is the defender of the 

Temple (unless you choose her at 

the menu, in which case 

Wakantanka is here). Keep her at a 

distance, and whenever she jumps, 

and is about to land, jump forward 

with kick. 

The trap on this level is the trident 

of the statue on the right. 

The Nest 

Your pest bet here is Demona. If 

you didn't choose her in the beginning, 

make sure that you free her at 

the Teacher's, otherwise you will 

need to be the CP master to finish 

this level. Use Demona's fast whipping 

hit (fire + back and up). Get 

alien in the comer and repeat frantically. 

Although you may think this is 

unfair, it does work. 

To the secret room... 

Sermon awaits you here, and he is 

the fastest warrior, so you will have 

to master close combat, or use 

the air and you will appear to be 

fatigued when you land, but you can 

go on fighting! 

9. While your enemy 

is in the air, any 

hit will throw 

them to the 

ground. 

10. 

Don't 

jump with 

your back to 

a trap, or a 

single blow will 

see your 

skewered. 

Demona's T h i s level hides a 

secret room to the right. You enter 

it after uppercutting the enemy 

from a distance to the right. 

Midway 

Corben Wedge awaits you here, 

and you should use either 

Wakantanka or Sermon against 

him. His favourite move is rolling 

kick and triple kick-combo. 

When you put him on the electricity 

move back, he will be briefly invincible 

when he comes down. Also, 

he likes doing the rolling combo 

right after, so stand back and wait 

for another chance. 

The Approach 

Ninja can be stopped by: 

High-kick while he is doing his 

favourite rotational jump. 

Jumping and kicking before he 

reaches the ground. Don't try to 

fight him in the air, and be especially 

careful not to end up in the corner, 

as he will draw his sword. 

TIPS CENTRAL 

1. In factory, player two should 

immediately press uppercut to 

place any 'early jumper' onto the 

meat hook, 

2. Whenever you are in a fatigue, 

switch to auto fire, and you will 

be instantaneously out of it. 

3. In timed fights, if you have the 

most energy near the end, block 

hits - it will take your stamina, but 

not energy. Energy wins the fight! 

4. Throw your enemy to death by 

carefully positioning yourself to 

grab then throw him (forward and 

down) as soon as he gets up. 

5. Corben, Sermon or Demona 

can backf lip (back and up) to hit 

the enemy from behind. 

Demona and Corben should use 

fast low kicks when enemy is in 

the corner. He can't get away, and 

won't fall into fatigue as leg hits 

don't take away the stamina. 

6. Install the CP level cheat file 

from CUCD or download it from 

www.clickboom.com or any 

Aminet site. 

The Master 

If you expecting a regular fight 

here, you are in for a surprise - 

Qwesul has the power to morph 

into animals and objects! 

Bat - use high kicks in order to 

push him back. 

Puma - mid kick. 

Rolling spike ball - get back or 

jump over it. 

Snake - get back or use mid kick. 

Cape - mid kick. 

When he disappears into the 

ground, he usually appears right 

behind you, so whatever you do be 

very careful. 

Combos 

These are the real killer moves. 

Press fire three times without 

moving and then push the joystick 

in any direction. Depending 

on which way you move the stick, 

you get a different combo. Get 

some practice - you need those 

moves if you want to survive...

z.fr 

• , 

• 

t 

r 

d 

D 

e 

g 

r 

e 

e 

F 

r 

e 

e 

s 

t 

y 

l 

e 

K 

u 

n 

g 

F 

u 

B 

l 

a 

c 

k 

S 

40 

, 

- - t•-• 

Do you dare take up the challenge? 

Do you have what it takes to become the 

champion of champions, to become 

MysterX? From living legend Master Neil 

st innovative martial arts simulations ever. Master Axe's 

Ye involvement has produced a game of unrivalled 

y. Learn real menial arts moves as you fight your way 

the top, but be warned - your skill, nerve and 

character will be tested to their limit. 

vvE ElityWendetta 2175 CD 

Take control of a heavily armed 

spaceship with an expandable 

weapon system. 

I or 2 player simultaneously 

through horizontal 2D terrian 

and over super last pre-ren- 

, dared 30 worlds, 

Amiga CD : L'1919 

Fasten your seat belts and be prepared for an 

experience like you've never seen before on 

your Amiga. Flyin• High Is here and it takes you 

to a new dimension of 3D-Racing Games. Step 

on the gas and race over fully textured and 

absolutely crazy tracks, on asphalt. mud, field 

paths and slippery ice. 

On a 68030 Amiga the game is great fun. 

Playing with 4 players on a 68060 is really 

impressive.Req: AGA 6MB ram, Harddrsk. 

.01 

••• 

111. 

billp = 

a lib 

; .44 

a Block Head 

Marblelous 

s ast thinking puzzle game 

h comprising: Intuitive 

, ontrels, Challenging dn. 

ulty curve. Random Level 

c 

mode, dozens of power. 

o ups, Great music. 

m 

e 

100 brain teasing levels 

each more difficult - you 

control a metalic ball using 

your mouse and have to 

find your way to the exit. 

s 

ilk 

o 

BARGAIN CLASSICS 

n 

A Only £2.99 each or 2 for £5 

e 

r Cardin 

o 

Wings Of Death Hostages 

St. t Dragon Cosmic Pirate Targhan 

f i Diabolik International Tennis Gotcha 

Builderland 

c 

Rennalsance Titus the fox 

Hybris Great Glans Sisters Turn It 

t Ziriax Charlie J. Cool Norris! 

, 

Katakis 

••a. 

8 CR ILIZITION 

i Trapped CD 

13 Levels - Furious Sound 

with more than 100 sound- 

Ix, Five different characters 

Masses of spells, weapons 

etc. The lastest 3D engine 

ever on the Amiga. 

Amiga CD: E19,99 

XP -8 

XP-8 is a 256 colour AGA 

vertical scrolling shoot'em 

up, featuring 4 way - 50Ips 

scrolling, wicked music, 

sound effects and amazing 

animated alien space-craft. 

&filki)&/ T 

inment - Epic House 

, 43 

"An addictive and truely original 

golf game". 1-4 players in practice JP 

and tournament modes. 

Five authentic courses from around the World. 

Five skill levels. Select between 1, 2 or 4 lull 

eighteen hole rounds. Auto and manual club 

selection. Ambient sound effects and realistic 

ball actions and far more, 

a 11111i 

Cygnus - 8 

"Sixth sense investigations" is a new graphics adventure for the 

Amiga, based on the classic LucasArts style games. The base 

storyboard tells of a crazy young guy who has the ability to 

communicate with the spirit of a sarcastic man. A friend, who 

thinks ol himself as a detective, profits from the psychic abilities 

of his friend (the crazy psychic guy), by using his skills to 

solve the most bizarre problems ofthe rich, 

Reg: AGA 208 ram. 

Kargon 

Kargon is a completely 

new challenge! Up to 4 

players can compete in 

order to find one thing out: 

Who the greatest magician 

among them is. 

Build An Empire To Stand 

The Test Of Time, 

You could be the one person in history 

that builds an empire that never falls. 

- Discover New Technologies - 

• Build Wonders Of The World - 

ck ensuring fast delivery. Please add a total of ti per title 

ome, All prices listed include VAT. UWE Free Ga 

ues payable to ISLONA - isiona is a pa 

•2•4 

Construct a large scale trad inn 

empire in a rich galaxy of planets 

turn criminal and raid space 

fleets? It's your choice in this 

freedom sci-fi simulation. 

Testament 

When it gets dark, the livin 

dead begin their celebrati 

on the graveyard. Make 

your way through swampy 

monuments. 

• tracks and dark tomb 

31?55I RACER 

An unrivalled racing and fighting 

experience! (its time to 

make some more friends). 

Street racer has been totally revamped 

for release on the newest, fastest 

hardware available, and it shows. 

E14.99. (Amiga CD& Disk) 

se•

50 

In this special extended review. John Kennedy takes a look at Nova 

Design's 

revamped Aladdin 4D version 5. 

58 

Beal A 1200 Ethernet via PCMCIA Mat Bettinson asks if it's worth the 

asking price. 

62 

Epson s latest offering in the Stylus range, This one adds two new 

colour 5 for enhanced printing. Larry Hickmott checks it out. 

66 PD Utilities 

Has ic Note Tutor V2, Tutenkhamun, Directory Opus Help Guide, Class 

HD Ut Is 24_ Andrew Korn gives you the full S.P. 

70 

All of fou lucky CD-ROM owning beggars get to choose from a verita- 

ble least 

of CD delicacies 

72 

Wahoo! We've a monster 

review of Aladdin 40, Al200 

Ethernet, Oxpatcher, Visual 

IFX and the Epson Photo 

printer to sink your teeth in to! 

Aladdin 4D 

Hydra Al200 Ethernet 

58 Envoy 2.0 

The network filesystem to use with Ethernet or any other kind of network. 

How does Envoy stack up after all this time? 

59 OxyPatcher 

finally there's an alternative to Phase S's Cyberpatcher for 68060 accelerator 

owners. Does Oxypatcher deliver better results? 

61 Visual IFX 

A brand new effects based add-on for Image FX falls under the spotlight. 

Just what is it really capable of? 

Epson Stylus Photo 

64 PD Scene 

Jon Brooker looks at a selection of great new Pa-software and manages 

to contain himself for long enough to write about it. 

CD-ROM Scene 

Art Gallery 

Add a much needed splash of colour to your day, with the premium 

choice of your art contributions. 

iliadifin 40 S• 

0101V 

4 

P5i 113 

7 

ie = 

AM OS RR CI 

'„,site_11 

. Elvin 

WM' 

•10 6100, 

• • . 1 6 

TECH SCENE 

CLI 

Ct3 

Col 

CID 

imorn 

4111

PRODUCT TEST 

Here it is... the latest incar- 

nation of an Amiga stalwart.. 

Has it come to solve all of 

our rendering problems? 

Aaddin LID v5 

• Price: $219 Supplier: Nova Design (C) +1-804 2821157 http://www.novadesign.com 

= M k 

1 the old days, there was a 

slew of 3D modelling programs, 

including Imagine, Lightwave. 

Caligari and Aladdin to name a 

tew. Of these, none used the standard 

Amiga system of pull-down menus, 

requesters, windows and buttons. 

Around this time, every programmer 

thought they knew better when it came to 

user interlaces, and consequently abandoned 

the standard Amiga look and were all 

pretty difficult to get to use. This was especially 

true, in my view at least, of Aladdin. 

The latest rendering program released 

was HiSoft's Cinema4D, and thank heavens 

that this time we had the standard menus 

and buttons, and it worked properly with 

graphics cards. There's no need for modern 

Amiga software not to work in this way, and 

at this stage in the Amiga's existence there's 

little point in trying anything else. 

Now, with a change of publisher, it's 

back, We're promised a 100% style guide 

Compliant interface, with full support for 

CyberGraphX compatible graphics cards, 

What's that - an ARexx port? Could this be 

the software you've been waiting for to taki 

advantage of all that expensive hardware 

you've bought? 

Look and feel 

True to their word, or at least, the word on 

the back of the box. Aladdin is a true Amiga

program. Screens, menus 

and requesters are all familiar 

and easy to use. 

The concept of tab lists 

has been pinched from the 

PC. and these make it easy 

to switch from one list of 

options to another. 

Keeping up with Amiga 

developments, there is a 

multitude of possible display 

modes to work in and 

• display renders. Native 

Amiga (including AGA) is 

joined by support for the 

following hardware: DCIV, 

Opa'vision. Resolver, Retina 

Videotoaster. 

"icasso or CyberGraphX 

•rds are not included by 

name, although on my 

Picasso II system the new 

screen modes were listed 

• 

Coro 

&bud, 

dn• 

A The toolbar's 

make common 

features 

accessible, but 

the icons 

t 05.EViter 

tirrer 

under the standard Amiga dri- won't win any 

vers. This will probably be 

ergonomics 

true for any CyberGraphX 

awards, arid 

compatible card. 

dragging them 

Once you have selected around the 

your display modes for the screen caused 

editor, preview and render 

frequent 

screens, you can roll up your 

sleeves and get down to 

crashes. 

some serious 3D work. Aladdin is a poinl 

based program, which classes it alongside 

Imagine and CinemaAD rather than Real3D, 

which is based on primitive solids. 

Open Sesame 

the yograrn opens with a pleasant enough 

textured backdrop, and a single view window 

onto your blank 3D canvas. Two toolbars provide 

access to commonly used editing and 

processing options. 

The single view can be spun around by 

using the numeric keyboard (sorry, A600 

owners - although you would be mad to 

attempt 3D rendering on such a slow 68000 

based machine anyway). This will allow you 

to quickly get a feel for the object that you 

are creating. When it comes to editing, you 

are more likely to require a flat view, that is a 

head on or straight down view. Pressing the 

space bar achieves this, and you can then 

add/move points and polygons simply. The 

view is always wireframe, with no hjddenline 

removal or shading options available. 

! Primitive shapes are often the quickest 

Ay to get started, and there are two fami- 

--:-; of shapes you can create. 'Platonic 

.- 

tetrahedrons, r 

lsosahedron and 

n 

ful itin 

their native form, you can quickly drag 

and i twist them into more interesting shapes, 

v The "Quadratic" primitives include ellip- 

esoid 

and torus shapes: it's from here that 

you s can create a Sphere for example. Or a 

" Flyperboloid. Again, more complex shapes 

aare 

maybe not so useful for everyday objects. 

1 Dodecahedrons. Though not particularly use- 

r An object which will never actually appear 

e 

3 

D 

s 

PorAeoriAral 

Prlytti,o-FIM 

hlralt..-Uum; 

risigiCeimbak 

MUADINetk 

Fkofot 

litintSat* 

in your scenes, but whicn v.ti) nevertheless, 

is a CSpline. 

The "C" stands for Control — exactly what 

the curve does, control other values. Once 

you have defined the curve, it can be used 

for shaping a bevel, or controlling the movement 

of an object over time, 

Textures 

LiKe any good rendering program, every 

object used in Aladdin can have its appearance 

altered in several ways. Firstly, you can 

change the colour and other physical properties. 

Nothing magic about that, and all the 

usual settin6s are here to play with. 

These are all included in an "attributes 

Important features 

• Style-guide compliant user interface 

• CyberGraphX support. 

• ARexx scripting (untested in this 

review copy) 

• AmigaGuide help 

• Thumbnail load/save requesters 

(missing in this review copy) 

• External tools and plugins 

• Spline-controlled camera movements, 

with multiple targets 

• Animate lights, lens flares, textures, 

objects 

• Hierarchial motion paths 

• Gaseous objects 

• Fountain particle system 

• Procedural and bitmapped textures 

• Soft shadows 

• Motion blur 

- r 

old 

PRODUCT TEST 

A With lore. 

proud and 

background 

options, too can 

quickly use 

previously rendered 

scenes to 

create new 

images. Guess 

which part I 

rendered in ibis 

image... 

4 The same 

abject can be 

rotated to produce 

different 

viewpoints, with 

at without perspective. 

Only 

one view can be 

displayed at a 

time. 

Continued on next page to O. Ir.

PRODUCT TEST 

A The Platonic 

objects are 

named alter the 

well-known, 

dead philoso- 

pher Greek guy, 

who used to do 

a lot of 3D ren- 

dering in 

between drink- 

ing Ouzo and 

lying on the 

beach. 

1 

lorido • %I 

Pruniumeo1 %ne w C cior 1 Convolve 1 C 

, 

Voi 

PhoN .0' 1 G m a d 

Toxyet "ei Te tpte mr 

Mugs V I rovion: 

Gam ... 

Utkantrod 1 zeLl %word. 

04 S h I c 

Florairq ,1 

l o * ...... , ' J Ve ile dly. 

1 

' 2 CW.C11104: 11 _ I 

k i d _ la 

a 

P I . 

_ 

_ 

A t t i 

A Tabs make it easy _ to squeeze its oh settings into 

one window I 

r 

o 

i 

t 

frame, and this Eis 

altered using the sliders 

l 

o 

trolling the settings p for time here in the 

attribute window, t but it makes sense. 

l 

q 

list". Each attribute setting can change per 

which control the time line. It's unusual con- 

It's also unusual to separate these attributes 

from the textures, but that's how it's 

done. Probably in order to prevent a gadget 

melt-down, the textures requester is invoked 

separately. From here you can apply both 

procedural Imathematical) and bitmap textures. 

These can define the usual colour or 

bump settings. 

For extreme cases, it's possible to apply 

an Anti-aliasing filter to blur the bitmap 

slightly and avoid chunky pixels appearing 

where you least expect them. It can als6 be 

useful when using bitmaps with few colours 

— a texture with•16 shades will develop many 

more when anti-aliased, and therefore look a 

lot better in 24bi1 renders. 

Animated bitmaps are possible, for use 

both as textures and background and foreground 

images. The usual sequential numbering 

system is used. Annoyingly there is 

no way to preview a bitmap before using it 

There is one more window associated with 

these settings, and that brings up the shading 

options, required to round off the corners 

of shapes such as spheres. 

As all objects are composed of facets, 

this is a required step f yo:r wariI reode' 

realistic objects. 

Animation/ Special effects 

As mentioned, the appearance of the objects 

over time is defined from within the attribute 

and texture requesters. This means that 

objects can completely change how they 

look as time progresses. 

I 

Walkthrough 

%SF 

A The first step to rendering an image is to define a 

model. You might want to cheat, and make use of 

some previously created objects. With coaxing, 

Aladdin will load lightWave objects. 

111• • • ,• • 

A New we can add more objects to the scene: in 

this case a dish for the banana to sit on. and a table 

to hold them all. We'll also need a light source, and 

background to the scene so it's not totally black. 

0/77:71if -117r7111 

17:77:7111P 

111 

— 

or I ar..1 

••••• =SISI .11111i Jill 

= M t M 

• 

.AS ral 

ea 

, 

MP 1 I 

. 

. 

" 

_ 

A Bananas ate mellow. Using the Attribute list vdin• 

= 

dow, assign a yellow colour to the banana object. It 

I 

takes practice to discover the best settings for 'hard- 

= 

ness' and 'specularity', 

S 

r 

- 

1 

Sse 

: 

0 

1..1 

1 .A 

L 

1 L 

%- 

I 1 7. 

1 7. 

o 

1 r • 

r 

MSS& 

4 

- 1 

A Here we apply 24 

a 9 procedural texture to the table 

v r 

top to make a lovely 

10 

1 bright tablecloth. Similarly we 

- . . - - 

apply a texture to , the background. although this time 

21 

1 

a bitmap image 1 of a cloud is used 

A The final image. It looks rather flat because there are no shadows in the scene. Creating the image again 

with shadows switched on increases rendering times considerably, and so you should only use them when necessary 

. 

not 

It's ialso n possible to change an object's posi- even have multiple cameras to make cut' 

tion, a by creating a path and setting up the between different viewpoints possible. 

object n to follow it. 

There are three other effects which 

a n 

Aladdin deals with camera objects to pro- Aladdin is proud of: gases, flares and foun- 

i m 

vide the view. As with other packages, the 

a t 

tains. The gas system makes it easy to cre 

camera i o is locked to a target. However, you ate areas of space which are less 

can n switch the targets mid-animation, and transparent than usual. 

the f camera will pan between them. You can The volume of the gas cloud is contain; 

o 

r 

e 

Continued on page 54 tro• 

x 

• 

I 

- 

1 

r 

, 

k 

m 

(

etechls Autumn Amiga Specials : Accers from £68.95 - Forget 

10/25MHz 

(19 MIPS) for just £138.95, 39 Mips 

030/50's ard 1 simm to 32MB - - £99.95; g DIY-EZ-Tower e t -from 3 £99.95; 8-speed CDPlus £149.95; Al200 high speed 

x serial 060/50MHz port £46.95; t 14.4K £ h 2modems 7e 8 . £24.95; 9 5 ; SX32 from £149.95; RED=Price down, Blue=New product. 

pA o6 w0 0 e r 

SX32Mk2 & SX32Pr0 Internal Expansion for the CD32 

The MI-New Eyetech EZ-TOWER 

STOP PRESS!!! 

$S hat do the reviewers say? 

w3 3 i M t H h z 

Amiga User Intl . 

The Award Winning SX32 Pro 

9Recommen4ed 

a' 0 3 n0 

/ 

own tower." John Kennedy, Amiga Format - July 1997 

is now even more affordable Amiga Computing , 

5-Milt 

Chip Award 

M M U I F P U 

The SX32Pr0 and SX.32Mk2 add 

5 

Amiga Form a t - 

If you can use a screwdriver you could build your own 

5 

40 or 5E6.1Hz '030 tottaU CPU arm) , 

V 

/ 

• A 

Al200 tower system in less than half an hour! 

DC 

FEJ w i t h I 0 drive bet-l 

e 

s t a n d - 

• 

"This definitely one of the easiest solutions to building your 

-"90% - A Dream re Use . 

Noir*" C.oki Award 

Couldn't be Easier! External Squirrel Internal SCSI socket' drive 

adapter' 

Remove the can top 

imd keyboard ribbon 250 Wan PSU and 

able /No shiefd 

AtztO power cables 

matoviltedintedl- 

supplied as standard 

Siol in the ribbon cable 

All Al2110 rear poets 

atm, the optional PCI 

are directly accessible 

driga keyboard 

Nerface_ 

Space for Al200 

Wont existing and 

2orro slate or PC 

we hard and fl oppy motherboard" and cards 

ax standard 

Fully accessible 

, usable PCMCIA 

' CDROM & 

ahead audio out 

socketsaidapier 

Now comes with Of°, 

faceplate and cable 

Adapters" for using 

standard PC fl ood., 

drives as OPO, DPI 

PU (3.311hz sovisel 

PPU socket only on the SX32M62) 

Sewn socket for up to 544,49432 32 be law (607Onsi 

RAM Om to aMB last inns) RAM on the SX3301.31 

Buttered 113E intedoce for interne! 2 5' hard dine 

and seccod hard drive, SyOurest Jaz or even 8 

Weed CDROM (Oltenia extra on the SX32 MIL21 

Sockets for PIGB video 123 pen). VGA rcleo 115 pert 

Parallel port 125 WI Send port 125 einl FlotzdY cask 

Pon 123 pint 

JurapetsSeleCtable hsr PC or Arnqa keyboard .nput 

%tem& adapter On SX325 

to 

0, 

Me CO3.2s existing rrocuse toyabdi kettmare. 

audio 21 RP. comps/no rodeo and SIMS pods, 

SX32Mk2 - sale price - £149.95 

fA 

ib 

ni 

ie 

td 

eu 

lr 

ye 

l 

y 

t 

elves and CDROM 

PortPlue• provides 2 

inc high density PC 

. 

Arts in the bays using extra Sarin & I extra 

and Amiga options 

SX32Pro-50 - sale price - E299.95 

o 

Se screws provided. 

Genuine Amiga 1194tey compact eybOttre r 

Parana pod 

Al200 main board with 

p 

Canned up the chives 

3SX3,2 4 floppy, 9 5 herd drives r 20MB-1 e BOB, RAM ' 

MI-r•rusi It son- The 41200 El-Towe r 

peer and data cables. 

wPlease Special i sCPU e s Last kw - SX32Pro-40SE. A Special Edition SX32 Pro with 

Cid the Al200 

Nn o og w a . . 

NEW! Mk2 EZ-Tower with PSU - still only £119.95 C 

rotherbOantliase into 

ipurchase D 

s m 4 0 M h z '0341EC processor (no NINIt I - Just 1249.95 

s a d 

he oaten) backprinel. LAY option all parts/hers provided - £9.95 

W e e n i e 

e i t t a • • r t e l l o 

lber 

EZ-Key Al2 0 0 adapter lo t PC & Arniga ktid s- just push in Irks ribbon cable! C3 9 _ 9 5 

thHEALTH a e l r e buffered se e IDE interface is essential to avoid overloading o 

, F00 LED adapter and 

7 x Zo rro II slo t s e xp a n sio n b o a rd - including 5 x PC I SA slots for GG2 

iS n e W a u s . b ethe a.41200's 

IDE port when adding extra devices" 

oSit 

Ar200 power 

si st ta nb ae l t a l k 

n cosiector. 

bridgebOard. ethernet etc a cce le ra t o r p a ss 

WARNING a s 

- John Kennedy - Amiga Format. July 1997 

tPot 

back the outer -Single 

Zo rr0 II slo t adapter f o r g ra p h ics ca rd - wiTh sixe s' p a ss 

a , Don't he tempted to skimp. Fit an Eyetech 4-way IDEFATAPI 3-chip buffered 

h 

oat Thais di 

thmugh. - - a s Fabove i t 'with s EZ-Ke m o y M (Bo t h available August 19971 £ 1 3 4 .9 5 r e m i s 

s l a l o 

e 

tthrough EZ-DEO o wAl2e00 Eto r 9we s r 9 OFO; . . 9diske 5 tte d rive with faceplate and interlace E3 .1 .9 5 e 

mV% pander l 

s to s preserve :tour Amiga's Health. The original and best - Just 139.95 

COW You've Got 

p 

CSquirrel 1 adapter 7 9 f o r EZ-To . 9wer - 5with 

in t HD/CDROM & eel Centrs 50w slits £ 1 9 .9 5 

oTower 

Power! 

(2 %II" ar 1h5, I tr 0. 

Collection. fitting and delivery service - Please ring 

v 

.fl Appl 

r 

N 

1 

o y 

2 0 M B exaokap am). J.,0,13 doiteMe 0. 

eOr 

buy a CDPius unit (below) and get an EZ-Tower* for just 09.95 a 

- 

n d 

r 

• , an Armrest in ihe DEO*, CDFlux c•W:i r 

1n 

drive from Eyetech 1 3 . r needed . Owe • bed, aid aymieb SF111 25. iDErix 97 and 00foref.d l'otarfacit en.vy 

i w i t 

a 

, 

, 

l 

A 

p•attbOgy c m o uThe s eAmazing r e lesn A. The AI-Igew LS120 ATAP1 20689 camxiges mar f :54 95 ea& Oi I !omega IDE Zip Drive 

The Top-Rated Eyetech CDPlus for the Al200 

D 

5 

- 

E y e l a c l i 

1 

Another first 

i 

r 

34 95 

i 

fof 

f f 

3 

- from Eyelech _ J 

or 1 

Can be used An Oplace W of - Nor as a werf as' 

- , 

Ibe newer hard 

Awes :; trapdoor free I or accelerators / Memory expansion and the PC MCIA slot tree for digitisers. 

r 

drive 

i n 

"teems 16 samplers etc 

1 2 

uses a lOg 

g 

Vitro - to add additional HD.. CDRoms, SyOuests. ME Zips. JeZ11. SyJuts. krApl tape streamers etc 

0 

eacn r o r lamely member 

t o 

etwereo s born the COPlue unit 

P 

ere 

(jeer tor rransfavrxnp nmfterenia Cato 

tomer p with special Eyetach '060-comparible Iti1i2 4-device SIDE buttered interlace board - easily titled in 

t 

002weem ,45159as 

d 

araltx 

e t a 

boola 

'writes 

e 

with no cutting/drilling (Note that IDE CDROMS must never be directly connected to the 1.1200 

& 

- RN arner in any Amigardeektop/mirtimaer 

i 

p / 

n 

Tier . 1 n 4 8x(Jeoxr F././J1 driveN bie 

othout a buffered interface -ask any qualifi ed electronics engineer!) 

A 

afloppy r r adrive r mbay , 

s Or in erlemai cats 

e 

11}S'Z, Onus t 

c a CAR r I RIVOC CHANGE-8 T e r lilt lax Anse/lard 

3int 

d 

plated audio phono sockets at rear (CD. only) and front panel headphone socket and volume control iltS m, 

, I m 

AUTOMATICALLY 

i g 

i n d 

KOOGNISEPI 

e 

Vhat do e the reviewers Say? Bare 

I g Amazing x Value NEW! 24-Speed -only E199.95 

o o 

g eIDE 

Zip drive iinr Eyeterh 22.0 Ziptools) - Just £119.95 

. , 

100M13 Zip emetticletee lust 04.9611 Or E34.95/3 i• seettlaCC rowed ewes. woo 

t 

Amiga User international c , - 97% 

t h e 

,- 

eB-speed 

- only E149.95 16-Speed -only El 79.95 

w I 

"..• 0 I t a 

r 

ll wo rke 

i 

d f a u lt le ssly Al200 InstantDrives & TowerDrives 

r 

, 

Considering n 

a PowerStation? 

Amiga Format 1 1 d- 196% 

g 

rnstanDrives 

1 e , 

a 

and TowerDrives 

imilus is now atonable with a. 230W. CE- 

rr a lm ilu A t e ly u rp e rb h a o f O.." 

l 

are aray 

N 

prole& C PC Minliower* or Desktop* case (which 

Amiga Shopper D - 90% 

available fro m 

D 

also power your Al200t -for only 120 extra 

R 

"...MI5 L IN a quality 

gm 

Eyetech 

nrodurt_. 

i 

O 

- 

M 

Two ,ttr'M' .11200 Expansion Product, l from Eyetech 'The foxiest drive I have tested on aft p at ornt ..• , 

- 

a 

u 

PorlPius • h ig h speed se ria l and parallel p o rt expansion P Aillim a m m s I f 

nHard-to-fi 

nd parts for your Amiga project 

x evoke/arm bufle.ted eattal parrs earn law• CPU ovemeaer E 

rThinking 

Gil buying a BIG drive' Dont waste your money on ANY MOVE OVER 

1i 

floppy drive CS free and case* 

8 Areskt compliable parallel pod transtemetg up fo 5005 dbytes/me i 

v4.3GB 

35 the Am ga D S cicesni support ill 1 2 

t :,• 1 

Opsonar Npri wood PC-Arincia Amiga-Amide owleorking s softwarek 

o, 

3.5' hard dress - even those oescnbed as 'Sfiro•-• are usually 1 ',25mm high 

i , ',litany bare drive ogres for 2 s 2. 

Eirewee PCROCIA & trapdoor him scoo4evalor ,rms-K5 

Dn 

,Ka ;cow 5 drneen & data cables for ABE0 & 51200E14.96; roll tels 

e t 

n32-1 

and will bnot y tIA ein an s Al200 without Signifi cant moddicabons to the case and 

5PortPlus 

- just I89.95! (WIT1-1 parallel port driver!) 

qy 

) Wenn 6 0 0hard ' , clove . e •case n r EISA* r i 1 3 5 removable drrie case E24 

t e 

, A x r r e e a s y t o 

. a c t metal u ashielding i l y ) - . which risen reduces Ms value of your computer. 

-u 

2 91 5CORCed 1case no 2 peg) 5E 

4 . 9 , 

New! Po rt Jar- 1 h ig h sp e e d se ria l p o rt - ju s st £ 4 5 .9? eatariDnyeo rat:wire no bole dieing. care clipping. or ;reale rein-civet rertossd nit 

5 

n 

nB 

oome inclusive 

e 

01 t 

aairway 

51 

, IDE Cable for 3.5' siD 

tw 

i a r n e d 

l, 

' tOE 5 

31[93 IDE cables to 1 51r55 lantana drawing) E I S A & Apollo Accelerators - Unbeatable pricing 

f e AA drives S a nover g 350M13 also Come with over 45 fop quality Willie.* Mot srovelwarei 

Ii 

COROSA 

F24,15 

Mid The to 525' hay inwnttrog adapters £ 5 . 4 4 At500-3.11AHz '030 wit h MMU I t FPU e xp t o 32MB C99.95 

t8 

terd 

u 5 

drive 

0 

to 

m 

3 

/ 

5* 

2 

bay 

' 

wadi 3.5 

u 

q kand rPlik. i muttrnella autism; software pr,,,,tullee, canlgutort and readyto-ros 

-yi 

- leptsiSiOuostiZip datairocrerer 

x r dives to S 25* bay rnatennrig adapters E16116 25MHz s '030 wit h MMU I t FPLI. (5 M ip s) - Ju st £ 6 8 .9 5 

oinstantDrives: 

a n d 2 . 5 6 G 9 AV(- 3141 Eta) C219.95 

. 1 

c adetachable 1 1 

t i 

, 

e data cable toresierrel 35' HOCCOCION'a E9.95 

9 

33Mitz y '030 wit h MMU I t FPU, (7 M ip s) - Ju st 1 7 9 , 9 5 

f TowerDrives: e a s y - 1 . 7 0 8 E 1 5 9 , 9 5 

C5 

o external d a fl oppyli3E p t eS•i0was5liDE 

Dere:* jar case Eglic 

t 

i 

c Y robleFsway s 'airier> 50oray Centromcs (m) nal) B r o s Power 1 2 2 0 0 '0 4 0 rlia n a rrrie ta lors no tower reird) 

f 2_11GB o - E 1 6 9 . 9 5 3.2GB E 1 8 9 . 9 5 

l c i l o w 

E 

A 

A 

Ecede 50way l Centromosimito 50way Centronics Mil (lest E9.95 25MHz '040 with MAU & FPU. (19 Mips) Only C138.95 

e p4013 i - Take n your Amiga to the limit! - for just E249.95 

- 

n 

1 All &yam come rearlylotuae wan W53 0 wee 

t 

1 )IEarinbecn cab*.- Steeples for 51200 wri Hoppe in lower E12.95 33MHz 

a 

n 

'040 wit h MMU & FPU. (25 M ip s) • On ly E158.95 

l 

- 2..5" o InstantDrives r e for the A000. Al200 SX32 & SX32 Pro 

a 

9 

23p.F external 

5 

Soppy est n cable 0.5r1i E12.16; 2i1 C14,96 40MHz 

pm 

aletata Gebtee NW ministers 

e 

'040 wit h MMU I t FPU, (30 M ip s) • On ly f 198,95 

elated 

- l 

344040 A I •., t 5. Y 1 1 3 2 a 

50MHz 

pn 

Paw rack plug lo 2 x phono blues See CDROME 5 oS 

I '060 wit h MMU I t FM . (39 M ip s) On ly E278_95 

rD- 54091119 e 

iOrr.. t 

n 

A a lasE. 

s 

i l superstim dnve with ample coperuly for mod( users r 1 2 9 . 9 5 

nr 

9 handed 4 pin relatorsI surto connector It 011000piugst9.95 

66MHz c '060 wit h M AU I t FPU. (51 M ip s) - On ly caaasts 

sai810MB t 

cd er rA a 1,11sert l u 

i p t 

I 

Soestarn 

oo 

pkig .2 to prime plugsoniet s 2 aurae mixer leads E 8 95 c Al200 kg rated .11. 

v , 1 tyaug c t bs The ohigh 

parionnance supehhim The is ideal for Know users W e 115 

i 

3 txf d v n 2x Otero plug to 2 x rancho riug 1 11.54' 80116' Melt E4.95 Memory r 07-1.ttn 6 4- Ilk 0 

r t es 

-lc; RAIn - 1 6 M R - 051.S 

i ate9e1allt 

1 BOB the. se 

s 

r n 

e 

i a , i i s t e e & t r 

E se e e ke rs !peal ast,t are 11O5PMPOI It Masai psu r r .1, ' 5 

Amiga Drivers 

1nterface 

Island 

d 

ri - 

AICanada 

5 

d 8 

esspikos, cobtes and PC towerehilesitteme web krone* parrs 

e net s 

Bc 

P SCSI conost case. 40vo PSU, audd & data connects E54145 W h5; fe r 

3e r2your Mo8 Amiga m - does more 1 9 9 . for 9 Epson 

T V dorMenwro i Eyetech v e Group Ltd M o o Workiwide t Der tealisant donvones to EC in oneUS 2-7 cloy. son 

5 

i ie The dA Old el 

Ba n k, 12 We st Green, n a vie s ai lame order end eevrieeffit Osten* 

1 mats! cased PSU tor AEOEVA I 200CD32,C0IRC4,0 4 1200,44000 S non-10v60 

a 

a y S 1 

Printers and 

a 

k a 

Stokesley, l ir o • * 

N Yorks, IS9 SBB. to( ( 

5 

eternal 11) (lit your old lead - inStructions prosidedl 529 

, as 

f 0 0 

Scanners 

y af. 

oE 

us 9 9 ' 8X32 next 5991° NYC t25371 

Ste. 

, 

' 5 Of 1 desktop 4 -case d wadi e v200.W.230W i c e PSU, CO It HD 

I l l 

e 

o 

r e e 

, cables laAsered II ES. 2.5 Owes acceri 

Tel I lk: 0 7 0 0 0 4 AM I GA 

MGM t0 yds Es, 'remise E7, 3.5' entree 

1rovectry 

A ( l Nock 2 resistor, 0 0 cable restraint etc. It NI estrins E39.95 EZ.Aey 

EnPrint f o r th e St ylu s 

d 

w 

r Al200-PCJA2000 Sib ectspli E39.95 

o uf e s d 01642 7 1 3 185 

fla 

maearro pees E9 50. lere CO. l2derric 

3 r b 0032 Lp u replacement bf aty . e PPSU 

r a £ n 1 4 . 9 5 UrtIFO interlace tor Sony fl oppy E14.95 

i 

x 

Range o t p rin t e rs Prim a t 

• 

a ACalnita r et r o 

ns' 

Tel I n t l: .4 4 1642 713 185 

empeamernere tor weer derhary sore 

- 

c 

S 

UP aliens. 7 • I9 1 * 

„Intnaexavable pliolographic ousley output 

D E " 

02-DA8 VI. talth Sony floppy 6 cable E39 

t 

r 

rw 

E 

, ei tomt 4 - I 

dnve d o vcorrnector 1i c o 1 

toe pin 

. 

HCPCDROM 

9 

power 

5 

plug E9-95 oukpeut 0011-10 Amiga It PC 21 F130 

PreitsseseeS & Stent N • , s r 

n 

Fax: +4 4 1642 713 634 

gh 

n c anoose n 

, a d o r e 

St i o 

• for *1200 hard drive IDE pion E 

AMo 

t h 

e 

UK benktvirens woe,• chigoes visa• 

menierowd•. Synch. Units. Connect Pcmin 

eyetelth clitcomis 

I D E r 

hC 

f 5102 r - oistemei 

cooling len • dissipate that extra power 

i 

ScanOuls3 for all Epson scanners r 

- for Al200 clock port E 6 9 95 p l i n t r i g i 

f e 

mx 

m 

ea 

m za , E14,95 

5 

24 p Orr rscanning o g oefth r lull range of setting opbons a sA www.eyelech.co.uki-tryetech 

e l 

ot 

amicable to at Owle care onkra 

114 - tor £4000 9 5DOE 

port E 5 9 . 9 5 

a d e r t a r i a 

, 'Scan-to-disk' 

ai 

P-tayfi t Sewris 

i-iewi tor 520001E001000 

r 

a m whorl in Joao or IFF ?annals i 1 

PorPlus 2. 490Kb5pd ner - 1 x par Etr9.95 

t 

r2 i 0 

d 

1 //red AU Am ig o Compaoty 

s 

Duo In space ',distant sena or re Waco 

o r 

• Stand-alone use or Integrates with your Art g 2 

v n U ts - cap Cada ab le PGA PPU tot 5532P10-51.) . 

eerl.lor 1 I x 4fithesaull 5taltal pad 5 4 5 9 5 

o0 u 

e 

pen a am receive oni9 • Orme niscearte for 

ismer sews Room cheek laves, Wets arta 

A r l O N 

oickage iPnistogenes, imagePX odPro XrPaint U 

a 

iy 

G t - -CDROM 

Nike - our smokier - ' E l 0,00 Amt.° , miser or1e1ee05 for El-Tower 09.95 

s & 

of the Feat i 996/ 

y y 

, 

S 

Pagestradm 3 OPaird5, ArtEtten PPihnti 

dU 

o aprier 

RAM s ...,eelelatette 

boards , (clock. E 5FPU 1 slit . E 2 9 . 9 5 Zorro War E 

' 

Also avatiabfe for HP, Mullett I t Arks urine , aS p X 

7 

II is i 

p 

( n l a c .:u r ^ne n°. Coxes ire 

E E l 2a 9 . 

uo 

en C 

microswitchod 

n 9x O C 

mouse 

O S 

with mooaarnal r e 95 0G2. v • n 12 anis E l 29.95 

F Al3 

i 2 

n 

c 

s 

III I 

EnPrint v2.1.3 - only E24.95 

O corsdect sdnaltax 

5 moderns E49.95. 14.414.4 bowl E24.96 tOEPlus 

t - ta a • 00.140 PC It Amiga 

o 6a1 

t ' 

s , , , crirido no a Mailman. vat re 17 EICE 51. 

i 

a 

elonitierich e r 30 aloes 15 with Yr53.0 4 ober falaillbale E19.95 

ScanQuix 4. - onl E 9.95 0 

itoppre, 

y n nd l • 0 

r 

or w o 

sa 

_ ret seelleable to rico-EC cobart 

a 

C 

0 

CP 

Cl 

a 

t 

E0 

sn 

mf 

0 N , s t 

S1 

sp 

k 

19 

. e 

r u t 

a c 

U t 

, 

e9 

a" 

i 

t 9 

cd

PRODUCT TEST 

A Look at the 

gaseous 

objects and 

lens flair in this 

image if ye. 

need convinc- 

ing as to why 

they are such a 

goad thing. 

v The texture 

settings define 

the bitmop or 

procedural settings 

used to 

cover your 

objects. 

within a shape, such as a sphere. 

How transparent the gas actually appears 

is defined by its 'turbulence', which is a measure 

of how much fractal noise is applied. 

There are many settings to experiment with. 

and with a little effort you can render some 

very realistic planet atmospheres, photon 

torpedoes, galaxies and candle flames. 

Lens flare effects are still all the rage, and 

Aladdin provides these star-shaped flashes 

of light by cunning manipulation of bitmaps. 

It may seem a little like cheating, but the 

approach is flexible flares can be hidden 

behind objects, poking through the detail on 

the top of your star cruiser as it slowly 

moves across the screen for example. 

Fountain objects are really a simple particle 

system, used if you need a spray of small 

objects. Like lens flares, they are actually 

bitmap images. However, their movements 

can be quite complex: affected by wind or 

gravity, but are rarely worth the effort and 

time involved in setting up and rendering. 

File support 

As well as saving and loading projects in its 

own native format, Aladdin is capable of 

loading various file.formats. Files saved in 

the prehistoric VideoScape .geo 

format may be loaded, as 

will DEM files from 

Scenery Animator. 

LightWave objects 

may be inserted into 

your scene, and 

Aladdin will have a 

go at understanding 

EPS Postscript 

files too although 

as this format varies 

wildly from program 

to program, platform to 

platform no promises are 

made. There is no support for Imagine or 

Cinema4D objects or scenes. I tried a 

CDROM of LightWave objects, but only a 

few would load successfully. 

Brush bitmaps can be stored in JPEG format, 

good news, as JPEG maintain 24bit 

colour whilst consuming a fraction of the 

disk space of their IFF cousins. Bad news is 

that some I tried appeared as coloured 

mush, Rendered images can be saved as IFF 

or IFF24 images, though not JPG format, 

Conclusions 

Aladdin's documentation takes the form of a 

250 page manual and some online help. 

The manual is reasonable, although foolishly 

lacks an index. The online help is supposed 

to appear in an AmigaGuide window 

when you press the Help button. It didn't on 

my system, but I read it by loading into 

Multiview. The promised details on ARexx 

were missing, meaning I was unable to test 

these abilities. 

Beneath the fancy displays and standard 

Amiga windows, there's nothing new or startling 

- most of the features are present in 

other rendering software. If you are an existing 

Aladdin fan, then you'll rush to upgrade 

to the latest version Otherwise, it's not 

worth changing from your existing package. 

Aladdin is awkward to use, providing a dozen 

settings when one would suffice. 

You can't create a sphere: you create an 

ellipsoid instead. If you want shadows in 

your scene, you must select the individual 

objects which cast them, and those on 

which they fall. This control is commendable, 

yet close to overkill. 

There are nice touches. Its a pleasant 

change to get away from Imagine's multiple 

editor system, and stringent requirements on 

backdrop image sizes. In many ways, Aladdin 

offers more control over fundamental set- 

A A torus, yesterday. A torus is o quadratic primitive, 

and shouldn't be confused with Lori Amos, a singer. 

tings, and this will make for images which 

would be otherwise impossible. 

In other ways, Imagine still rules - its animation 

system is clearer, and Aladdin's pro. 

cedural textures don't get close. So where 

are the special animation effects? Why omit 

an explosion or melt effect at this stage in 

the game? 

Aladdin isn't a true ray-tracing program, 

although you would be hard pressed to find 

examples which demonstrate this. This 

means, for example, that you wouldn't be 

able to create lens effects. Yes, this really 

isn't an issue, as all the important effects are 

modelled perfectly well. However, rendering 

times are nothing special given all this. 

To speed things up you need to perform a 

lot of manual work, such as creating shadow 

groups. In an ideal world much of this would 

be automatic. It's good to see support for 

batch rendering, meaning you can set your 

Amiga up with lots of work to do whilst you 

make the tea, have a nap. or even head off 

on your holidays. 

It is a bit of a relief to see software like 

Aladdin continue with newer versions, but 

I'm afraid that a tarted-up user interface just 

isn't enough. We need and deserve more 

now more than ever! • 

John Kennedy 

ALADDIN 40 V5 

Developer: Nova Design 

System Requirements: AmigaDOS w2 land up 2111 

of memory Recommended &BIM. 10Mh RAN large hard 

OVERALL 

Waiting this long for an Aladdin 

upgrade, we did expect more. 

11 

TI 

• B 

PLI 

yoi 

far 

In 

0 

,

INTERNET?! 

..so what will that do for me?" 

Latest News 

• News available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year! 

• Latest news available 'realtime' 

• Thousands of topics, including the latest Amiga news - 

latest news about Gateway, new Amiga's, OS development! 

• Receive news and information direct from companies - 

press releases, mailing lists, special online offers 

• Debate news and rumours via newsgroups 

Latest Software 

The Aminet contains over 4 gigabytes of software and is 

.dated daily. You can download as much as you want 

Atenever you want! 

%wriload the latest demos of commercial software 

Bn-test forthcoming software and download patches 

4):ess the millions of files on the Internet covering a 

-agnitude of different subjects. You like Star Trek? Why not 

surf some Star Trek web sites and download images, 

ands, information? 

Access to Unlimited Information 

• Millions of web sites to surf all over the world! 

• Thousands of different subjects - whatever you like, you will 

find information, stories, files and more. 

• Professional companies online - many companies have web 

sites where you can read further information about their 

products and order online (often saving money). You can pay 

for tickets online, book a restaurant, find the latest weather etc 

Play Games Online! 

y multi-player online games 'realtime' such as 

;:undation and FreeCiv. Test your skills against 

ter players live over the Internet 

1ike part in Multi User Dungeons via Telnet - online 

nit-player adventures. 

Ltionload the latest game demos - Internet users are 

to hear and see the latest games developments 

n beta-test forthcoming titles! Offer the programmers your ideas! 

Contact People, Chat Online! 

• Send e-mail to your friends (and organisations) - emails take 

seconds to arrive anywhere in the world! You can even 

'attach' files to your emails! Email can be sent, received and 

read 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. 

• • Chat •realtime' to friends and collegues via the IRC or chat 

channels for the cost of a local call! Why not have a online 

conference with relatives from different countries all over the 

world? Again, all for the price of a local call! 

Instant Worldwide Business! 

tinning a business online can help you find contacts while 

a converse in your own language (the 'standard' Internet 

linguage is English). 

Mediate or quick decisions. Agreements and contracts can 

bagreed or altered almost immediately via the 'net. 

kith of online talent! Need a programmer or artist? Just ask 

sem Internet and ask for some examples to be emailed! 

&les via the Internet - take orders from your web site! 

INTERNET 

'WORMER 

lAutumn 1997- available now! 

, Internet pack call 

I this number now! 

F 

//1_1 

a 

r 

Need m ore information? Want to connect but are 

confused about costs, what is needed etc? Issue 2 

of o u r 'Internet Informer t rie s to address a s many 

questions a s p o ssib le regarding the Internet and 

your Am iga! I t is com pletely tree o t charge! 

(01325) 352260 

NE T 

O L U T O N 

gives 

your 

AMIGA 

the 

World 

iaker 

month 

In association with 

- 01624 677666 

Technical Support: 01325 352260 

http://rmenterprisemet 

Corporate Solutions also available 

able on request 

o online charges 

arks recognised.

1 

All You Need For Internet And Comm! 

,STFax Professional [available October) E29.95 NetConnect v2 01 

Max Professional IS new commercial fax program for the Amiga containing the so rt o f aavanced 

features you would find within commercial PC fa x software STFax has been in the shareware fo r the 

lest rew months, and the brand new commercial "prolessionar version offers even more advanced features 

p lu s voice control for voice modems - use your Amiga a s a digital answer machine, create a fax 

on demand se rvice (Ideal for sm all businesses. Allo ws your customers to contact you at any time and 

use f a x o n demand t o rem otely download fascimole informabon about yo u r p ro d u cts!' a n d create 

advanced Alice control scrip ts. You could even set up your own vo ice answering service a s you find 

when phoning large companies such as British Airways - 

press to an operator 1 press o2 to... n • etc y o u r 

- 

t 

Su 

e 

p p o 

l 

rt 

e 

fo r 

p 

a ll modem 

h o n 

cla sse 

e 

s Cl• 2 . 2 Of 

t 

Phonebook 

o 

(store a ll yo u r favourite 

b 

fax num 

e 

bers) 

p u t 

- Sch e d u le r (Store fax M essages to b e sent a t specified tirrieSt 

- tReports h r o u g h 

ARexx p o rt 

Datatypes su p p o rt for im age conversion 

- Prin te r d rive r to re d ire ct a ll print-outs to a fa x fi le (p rin t from Wordworth. Pagestream e tc!) 

- Vie we r for vie win g outgoingancomong fa x messages 

- Use yo u r Am ig a as a d ig ita l a n swe r machine etc! 

- Ad va n ce d vo ice scrip tin g - create your own vo ice 

network o r fax on demand se rvice 

- Plu s many m ore features 

•i e l e i l , m o L • 

Iran van... 

Owl 

eenael 

Ne swe e e ntil-v 

te rahodine 

Main Win d o w (sh o win g a la x tranSilliSSiOn) 

High Speed Serial Cards 

The htyllf(COeh range Of high-speed senal cares offer your Amiga the fastest connection to the Internet_ 

for cornms and fa x transfers Ava ila b le fo r the Am iga 1200 'these serial ca rd s are placed within the 

internal clo ck expansion port - leaving the PCMCIA port and trapdoor free!), Al2 0 0 Towers and Zorro- 

Will based machines (Zorn) version suitable for A1500.213/4000 o r a Al2 0 0 tower' Ju st lift the aeyboard 

from your Amiga. locate the clo ck port and then 

drop in the ca rd - easy These cards are currently the 

fastest se ria l ca rd s available for the Amiga (allowing 

upto a 460.800bps connection), m aking the Internet 

work faster for yeti! The Hyperoom 1 3 2 ca rd s a lso 

ship with a buffered high speed parallel p o rt which 

will drastically improve printing speeds on a la se r 

or Mighty in k le t printer - the manulaclurer cla im s 

printing ca n be upto 4 tim es faster than the standard 

p o rt The Hypercom 3l3Z cards contain a 9-pin and standard 25pin 

se ria l ports whereas the Hypercom 1 sh ip s yath one 25-pin port 

Serial and parallel drivers included En g lish documention. 

od.lM a c h i n e 

I4yp.rrrrrr1 Al200 

HyperCorn3 A 1202 

. 

1i4ypercons32 ZOrt0-11 

Speceracatione 

Vaporware Software 

if yo u a re n o t interested in p u rcn a sin g NetConnect yo u ca n a lso b u y Vaporware Pro d u ct s inCh- 

vidually either b y d isk o r a ke yfi le sent via e-m ail. 

Miami TCPla sii.s tor the Antal 

Voyager Nest Generation 

Microdot-II 

AmIRC 

AmETP 

Am Talk 

X-Asc 

AmTei net 

Am Term 

AmTelnet • Am Te rm Package Deal 

A m i g a N C P • t o priori 3 

, 

w 

o 

w 

l 

I • 400.800bps peell Ulterad Sahel put 

462,002bps iwghipsed buriarect tend port, 

is 500K talus/sec bufleed parallel purl 

2 a 450SC5Sbee hiohneed buttered ',net ports 

I • 500K lutes• sec huffered parnikti port 

• 5% Dirahuni when 2 

- 

4 V a p o r 

p r o d u c t s 

,Computer e r e '91 - the Amiga Show! 

b o u g 

Curin•I h t ii . Cillo g n e o n the 14-16th o f Novem ber 

l e l 

, once Tha ye e a r at A Cologne m i g in a Germany. Last year's show was more than t wice the 

e • 

et bv ie rn a t 

Haage&Partner, Pro-DAD.. 

size o f th e Wo rld o f Am ig a wit h e xh ib ito rs su ch a s 7 

PIOS, oC icVillagetronic, t c i un rMicro s n ik, Eagle, RBM . Titan, Phase5 and m any m ore companies 

t w h o n e ve r appear a t a UK Am ig a anew. Am ig a In c. (th e n e w com pany based in the St a le s 

,have t already booked a huge stand! Se e u s o n the HaagekeiPartner stand sh o win g NetConnect v2 . 

STFax o Pro fe ssio n a l a n d Voyager v3 - along wit h Javascript a n d other n e w features. M eet Olive r 

r 

Wagner. Mathias M ischier and Stefan Stuntz! With the a b ility to buy more Deutsche M arks than ever 

5 

you - w ill be able to p ick u p some real bargains as we ll a s witnessing the latest Am ig a technology 

, • 

Price 

(44 95 

Elie 95 

£71 95 

Advanced Vo ice Scrip t Ed ito r 

Ry Disk 

E28.130 

E22.00 

E20 00 

E20.00 

E20.00 

E14.00 

E14.00 

E17•00 

E17•00 

£20.00 

E27•00 

from. E44.95 

"Iypercom 3 

KsyilOs By Ettgoll 

E26.00 

E20.00 

£18.00 

Elena 

Ela•00 

E12.00 

E12•00 

E15,00 

E15•00 

£10.00 

E25.00 

PO Box 151, Darlington, County Durham, DL3 8YT 

Tel: 01325 352260 

Fax: 01325 482343 

907 

E-Mail: active@enterprise,net 

1=E1 

NetConnect v2 is even easier t o connect to the Internee Launch the new Wizard GUI. choose yourmodam 

enter a few user details and le t the Wizard d o a ll the rest for you! Simple! With ve rsio n 2 you don't even n 

to worry about the provider - everything is automatic, everything is point and click. Am ig a Form at concl 

about NetConnect vl (June 97 issu e r 'Alm ost the perfect poOkage for the Amiga Internet user", "If you n 

to get online, this is the easiest way to do it " end "I f s geed value for money too - especially the bundle includ- 

ing the 3 3 6 K modern. 

- other W new e features. NetConneci v2 iS available on CD-rom and floppy d isk 

h a v e 

l10 i sCommercial t e n e Programs 

d AMITCP v4.6 DIALUP 

within NetConnect v2I 

VOYAGER-NG 

tru e irce d o a new tut TCP raw*, enhanced and 

Volhi tne brat Anna web Itomotor by 

developed by as nevi NSO r ollit hall OW contrail 

o u r 

uurnes nen elindrant1SI. Ihhe Wieerdl 

N e t C 

1111111111a 

A 

'.icy 

urn 

n, 

ibobrern I AGA suatiort f r a i l lira. Is 

o n n e 

OI 

Poe* anratrai and aeon Jireenceipe ok 

c t 

vMICRODOT-II 

l A ',ewe combined entail and newsreader 

uwe n n ono sOUP 

Contents ell the major textures 

you isuald aranwil - PANE atieschrneMs rapport 

e r 

for POP3IAPOP hat Ate., port and vein. 

s , 

r H o 

- f 

stAMFTP 

h 

oe 

AiriFTP tha ultimate Amapa rip idea 

pr 

Dosinktie ditraloe d progreme front any fra 

ow 

site also support* AOT lb allow you Is 

uw 

saarcnictowaload Mae iron, Oro Amulet 

le 

n o 

e w 

tAMIRCe Se 

d Dusk onio., with friend, about topics, loin con 

formic., t upend. h baa. randirtga The @RC is 

one of the most wraithve element* of the 

e i 

Intranet • AntleC me the best Maga IRO 

r 

c o 

mAMTELNET----•-- m 

) 

- 

A 

T 

0 

M 

A F 

ae 

t mA 

direct carat Sent tor ram Amigo Acts • 

ti 

On ...dine enewerphone service SIN WON 

ox 

Yeettinse• friends on the Internet 

r e 

sd 

e 

t cNETINFO 

into extracted coreptliwes maintain Phan • 

e1Telnet n 

torte s tor your web pops check the IbbtrA 

tvo w moray& s piny online genies 

a 

L K 

b uNeterrilo 

it. cool boot hal analysing then* 

o to rOrr. 

and One people connected bb ii - 

P a r tger 

your there-le In in X OW/ or. 041.•• 

a n i eono 

servers to fond lila relklororr sued 

n 

d a ti 

d AMTERM 

a 

Arnim...I is a ininacunications package which allows you to 

d 

conne ct to BBB to another vein iderect nil trampler files 

draw 

raniai connection iamigeesemegs ArnioavsPC Oct 

e 

e g rs 

aX-ARC 

t 

Y o 

oSatire 

eis 

the Arrogell olosooky YetnZtP'" -tili 

uenracally 

. decode IMAILZAIZIP tile., trat es 

ccO 

n tro - ll sa teat.. archness creete you, ace 

aarch 

n e . Coil integrates wets liinCewasict 

d 

n 

sFree 

Voyager v3 Upgrade On Release (NetConnect t v2 Purchasers Only! 

a 

oNetConnect 

'v2 is a State-of-the-art I n t e rn e t p a cka g e a im e d 

l 

mtowards 

Am ig a u se rs wa n t in g t o co n n e ct f o r t h e fi rst t im e k 

e(absolute 

Internet beginners), those wh o have been connected a 

few m o n th s (n o vice s) a n d M AP d u e t o th e ke yfi le n a tu re o f t h e 

software, is suitable for advanced Internet u se rs who want to use 

the modules contained within NetConnect with their e xistin g TCP 

Stack NetConnect v2 enhancements in clu d e : 

- Ne w Arn iTCP - NetConnect v2 users will be the first people to 

use a version o f the new AmiTCP! We have added a number of 

changes to this new version - the main additions are the new 

Wizard, MUI based dialler, 'events' control and a brand new 

redesigned Am iTCP preferences 

- Am iTCP Wiza rd - makes configunng your ISP a doddle 

Choose your modem, enter some user details and then the rest 

of the process rs completely automatic! Th is is true 

WindowS95" State connectivity! See the example pictures - 

point and click Internet configuration! 

• Ne w program s • ArriTalk. Nutinfo and X-Arc (X-Arc is a brand 

new Win2IPre style archive management to01. Downloads 

lhartzxizip files from Vo ya g e r. 

, them into X-Arc's GUI and allows you to control the flea_ 

- Pro ArriFIPMscrortot-II, 

g ra m s a re n o w ke yfi le based loan be used with any TCP 

astack u - tMiami o -etc: 

- Ext e xras tpre-configured: r a c t s MIME types ICEI only). datatypes (C D 

Only), online help files etc 

• Updated, la te st ve rsio n s o f th e m odules I 

- wrocaot-ii. AmIRC. ArnFTP etc I 

Vinegar-NG, 

- Prie te d installation/introduction g u id e - install NetConnect 

Quickly and e a sily 

- Prin te d manual - using the Internet and NetConnect 

• Plu s m a n y m ore sm a lle r changes and a d d itio n s 

NO le IV 

IMO 10 .0 

N. 4 . 

moo •lo 

oleo am 

• 

torn y 

.IONI 

Wizard - Configuration Complo 

NetConnect v2 CD ,conlains many extras denims MIME types Our envw blowsinC and much morel E52.95 

NetConnect v2 Floppy Disks [only commies the core programs& online help documentsi E54.95 

NetConnect v2 Upgrade from vl /v1.1 trenissered PlelConnect ylly1.1 users onITI feel!! 

, DELIVERY CHARGES 

FlItlfraleat INISW7Iftratelerantritine. 

- £2 00 World delivery 

- £4 fear 2-2 day delivery 

- for nest day delivery 

- fedi for Saturday delivery 

1 - El 50 I Or EU delivery 

Make cheques/PO S payable to Active 

Software and send to the address listed 

opposite. We can accept credit or debit 

card orders. For any additional inhume 

Non cal tin ASAP! 

X-Arc 

AmiTCP 

Wizard 

Wizard - M o d e m Analyse' 

trtarer% " • 

Wizard - En te r Your Inlortnatiot 

Miff , , M m t • 

Illr.•••••• .A.01•••••11 

, 

1•M 

Wizard Loginscript Record 

O r r 

Aa r yogrorarogroa Omoorono 

orror•or r 

ro • r 

or irk 

, 

. 

o r 

e 

WANT MORE INFORMATION? 

We prowide an ne w information pack (Internet Informer 115.21 cove 

,Wig NenConnact and the modules IVoya get M D.2 etc!, the meow.. 

we offer, co n n e ctivity discounts and a set o f trequantely asked we, 

tons e n d a n swe rs. In te rn e t In fo rm e r iss 2 a lso g ive s inkirellatK 

,about the Internet, wh y you should connect etc! 

'You can a lso access the NetConnect hameriaps tor additional info 

motion, latest news and to download a time-limited demo version. 

the so ftwa re . 

http://amigaworld.cominetconnect

tin 

er 

-1 

• h 

led 

)5 

)5 

Latest Technology Modems 

, •••••,iderns a t e h e re 

• , , 2 8 .8 modem 5 6 k modems will operate at 33.6K speeds for uploading but 

:an Dcuot your w nphone l o abd ills d ra stica lly when using the 5 6 K technology! Isn 't it abou! 

line you supgraded o f t that w 14.4 o r 28.8 modem? For further information about Me new 

K56flex aRorckwe e ll developed) technology contact us! 

We o n ly a su p pnly q u a lit y b ra n d e d m o d e m s (D yn e link U K L td o r Dia m o n d 

SupraExpress). d wh ich m a y co st slig h t ly m o re than t h e ir unbranded com petitors, 

he they wship with ea 

lifetim e warranty, the knowledge that a UK com pany offers support/Information 

and you b a re buying a modern with quality fRo ckwe ll based) components 

K56Flex pmodemas n e e d t o co n n e ct t o another K5 6 Fle k m o d e m in o rd e r t o u se 5 6 K te ch n o lo g y 

Make Sure g yo uer p ro vid e r su p p o rts K56Flex technology). Ca ll f o r further technical details 

s 

u 

33.6k External Data/Fax/Voice 

p t 

111Elalesk_ 

• Ouality eremite Supra modem 

o 

• 33600 bps DATPQRAXtV0VCE modem - true 534 

. 

t w 

Throughput to 113.200 ees l. V42 las data 

i c 

S u p r Express a 

• Group 1,2 & 3 serodireceive FAX 11441 

e 

c o m p 

• Voice Commands - 05V0 upbradeabla lby software) 

t 

HasSe n awir • aannint 

r e s s i 

• V 00 rodeo coMerancing) capable 

Maio . 

h 

o n 

0 S 

• Fas on deenend 

e 

M 

• Caller ID and Disbnctive Ring enabled 

• Sernaitaneous voice and data is V D I 

• • • • Uptiraciable Dail Discrimination ROM chip 

• includes hersdphonesamcrophones - kw voice control 

• Lawton,. warranty 

E79,95 • Serial cable included 113yriatink 25isIpin, Supra 25pin 

only 

56k External Data/Fax/Voice 

5p- di tt, 33 hit ext,t w.th 54,1, p•Ivi ,N1 Jltornlat,,n 

The SupraExpress 56 Sp m akes sophrstocated 

tomMunications m ore affordable and easier to use 

Van ever before Wit h f u ll 

, ice mail you ca n now u se a sin g le phone line fo r a ll 

duplex pur communications - voice, fax, and fi le transfer 

sVillats p emore. a kwith e radvanced p h m essaging capabilities, 

oft SupraExpreSS n e 56 Sp m akes it e a sy t o keep in 

aWO even n when dyou're 

a wa y An id e a l solution for 

lone or sm all o ffi ce com m unications. 

uhmk - 

Tired o f waiting for yo u r modem to download 

. T . WSupra 

L ; ; ; NetCornman 

" 

M der 

N 

E 

x 

t 

e 

r 

n 

a 

l 

I 

S 

D 

N 

mi2 

a favourite We b p a g e o r re trie ve Large fl ie s/ 

Imagine su rfi n g th e Ne t a t 128.000 b p s wit h 

the Su p ra Ne t Co m m a n d e r I SD N d ig it a l 

modem, o r n e a rly fi ve tim e s th e sp e e d o f a 

PI. it Siriil1 lii ity1 33.6 Kb p s analog modem. Wit h a n analogue 

1 

i 

port t o rin g st a n d a rd t e le p h o n e s. f a x 

, 

machines o r modems, Supra NetCommander 

; 

has b e e n d e sig n e d t o b e t h e e a sie st a n d 

;, 

most co st -e f f e ct ive ro u t e t o h ig h -sp e e d 

£149.95 access to the Internet and remote L ANs 

1)0 

• 50434i1 11120 0 Kbps connections 

ISDN w o rks o n yo u r st a n d a rd Am ig a in 

• Voiceedata 

b 

on both 13-channels 

conjunction wit h a Hypercorn o r other se ria l 

• Caller ID enabled iwhere available) 

p 

card and Meter! Noteonnect or Wm' You 

• Au...MUNRO appbcation 

• Annan Support s Rings up to 3 telephones 

also n e e d a n I SDN lin e in sta lle d t o u se a n 

• thierossigiond 4 distinctive ranging ISDN m o d e m Ple a se n o t e : I SD N modems 

Votblink PPP 1 

cannot b e u se d a s f a x machines, yo u wo u ld 

• Flee Channel Bandwidth-on-deroarid 

* 

need a cheap analogue modern to handle this 

• PAPiCHAP authenticabon 

" 

1 

Choosing Your " Modem 

. 

graph below should i h e lp you choose the modem for your needs. For the p rice . a 33.61< modem 

best value for money ai s a se ria l ca rd is not absolutely necessary A 561< modem is a good option 

those wanting m axim 

i 

um sp e e d b u t have a lim ite d budget t h e re d b a r sh o ws th e maximum 

lion speed • a s m ost '561< m o d e m s co n n e ct around 44-48K the extended b a r sh o ws the 

connection). You need a se ria l ca rd with a 5 6 K modem. For the true 'n e t surfer, ISDN is 

ultimate option - so lid 6 4 K connections_ constant sp e e d s but higher running co st s No t e that 

teem rates ca n va ry depending on fa cto rs su ch a s lire duality. Ca ll fo r further inform ation 

, 

Modem Comparison Chart* - 

6.07 

5.20 

by va rio u s m o d e m s. 

4.'16 

r1:1 

- 

2 

•• 2.28 

1_14 

14,4 3 3 . 6 5 -1 8 K I S D N I S D N 

Modern Type 6 4 1 < 1 28K 

Various Modem Pack Options 

*Time I sh o wn in m in u t e s) 

taken - in id e a l co n d it io n s 

- t o d o wn lo a d a 1MEI fi le 

,.o.s money saving p a cks are available The se are a ll based on either the 33.6k. 5 6 k o r ISON 

•:•+vn oars a a collection o f extra5 C a l 

, u s f o r o t h e r 

1 CODE P A C K 

p a c k 

0 • P1(01 o p 33.6 t i Modem o n s & STFax 

CONTENTS 

PRICES I 

E 89.95 

iP1(02 33.6 f Modem & NetConnect 

E109.95 

y o u 

hPK03 33.6 a Modem v & e NetConnect & STFax 

£119.95 

y o u 

PK04 33.6 Modem & NetConnect & Hypercoml & STFax 

r 

oPKOS 33.6 wModem 

& NetConnect & Hypercom3Z & STFax 

E149.95 

059.95 

n 

p 

k 

D f o r a 56k Modem (instead of the 33,6k model) 

a c 

D E55 for an ISDN Modem (instead of the 33.6k model) 

iAI packs co d m e wit h oene m o n th f re e co n n e ct io n t o a m a jo r In te rn e t Se rvice Pro vid e r 

aOther o p tio lns 

m a y b e a va ila b le - co n 

Choose b e twe e n t h e CD o r Flo p p y d isk ve rsio n o f Ne t Co n n e ct wit h yo u r m o d e m p a ck 

STFax Pro fe ssio n a l w ill b e d e sp a tch e d o n re le a se 

Alk.CARE QUAl 

• AL l 

4)Naiclill • 05.9 only lop quallt as 

, '1ay 

& 

, 

d 

a . a11505' i l : , 

aSb -W1 V I 

h 

u 

i 

u m 

s Cs mEc c 

a 

black refills tut lit 1.3esigel 501), 51% 554), SOK', SSOC, 560C. 664K 

CANON liC-01, lir I iit-jEJUSX, BC•02. BJXI . Hi 130, a ile d 11.1330 

EPSON STYLUS WV. wo n CI TI ZEN PRRIIUT 011%17711 Je l So. 250, 350. 360 

6 refill 1300 high capacity canidges) kit 120m1, pure Na rk 1:1699 

CANON BIC600, BJC400014100 20 refills pure black 120ml £16.99 

EPSON STYL US 4 re fills 1 20mIL pure black E16.99 

TRICOLOUR REFILL KITS 124.99 

u 

HP DESK-1E7 RANGE. CANON 11.1C210. 600 / 4000 

s 

t 

q 

i- aP 

u 

h 

u 

t 

p 

a 

y 

r 

l 

EPSON STYLUS COLOUR e ll 1 t h / 500 

60m1 EACH OF YELLOW, M AGENTA. CYAN 

Up to 10 refills each colour 

lleaw state type when ordering 

l r 

wiColour i Printer t 5 ribbons & reloads Special Re-Ink 

tni n c 

To p reload a ribbon l is easy. i sat) wont Ins 0 p 

For Panasonic 1080/81, 

nhbon t 

. ar reined a wait a nea one complete one t h e 

c rtkr u u t s t h r 

H 

ribbon reined reins& 1123/24. 2123/80, 2135, 

c h i 

Cnirien e Swift/ARC/IQ etc El 1.93 1:6.99 

Star LC200 9pin, Epson 

1 

a 

L9.99 t6.99 C29 05 

5Parimonic. 

IKXP2135 19.9 IOW 1:29.05 LO100/150. Oki 182 to 

d 

aStar 

LC200 9pen 31.9.90 

/539 1.29.95 

r 

Saar 

R 

390 range. Black bottle 

i•C24.-1132fV2Ofi 3£9.99 

itn99 £29.91 

Star e 

will re-ink 100+ ribbons. 

IC24.3131.C243 I11.90 1.495 1.19.99 

0 

Scikosho c SUM 1.1491 /11 E29,93 to_95 

0 

i 

0 

iBlack 

Printer Ribbon Reloads T Shirt printing ribbons 

1 

, 

1 

c 

Cihren SuUti kli(712431) 0 black reltud 

4 co l r.. 

1, 

Sta 59,94 lu i2 u .s IOU 5 black reloads 14.99 

r 

- 4 cot Panasonic 2123 £24.99 

4 co l PanasoMe 2115 L19.99 

C 

i 

Star LC24 range 5 black reloads 19,99 

ituril 

K 

Seikosha 1900'24(5liS195 5 black £9.99 

4 colour Star LC200 24pin £19.99 

F 

S w ireloads 

fo r above £9.99 

XEpson 

FX110/LQ400 so SOO range 5 black £11.99 

l 

f 4 t colour / Star LC200 9pin £12.99 

Star LC24-301LC240 5 black rrinuds £ 1 4 

4 colour Star I r 10 £10.99 

P 

u 

A B 

99 

reloads for above I 

2 

iT-shirt 

printing is simple, just prim onto 

Black C / Citizen 1 Swift/ARCA 20D E9.99 

1 

dnormal 

paper & iron on. One ribbon g iws lot, 2 4 7,99 

Black Star I,C10 £9.99 

black Sur LC200 gpin /9.99 

2 

- 

of pnnts We can also supply rihbotti in many 0 Black Pan KXP1001J/111 £9.99 

3 

colours 1-thin and normal in k. 

f 

f Black Pan KXPli 230.4 

/ 

o 

1 

1 2Prices 

include VA!' a. postage. To order 

r 

9send 

cheques/POs payable to: 

1 

u 

CARE PRODUCTS 

. 

2 

n 

4 

Dept CITA, 15 Holland Gardens, Watford, WD2 63N 

4 

b 

. 

, 

l 

4 

2 or use Visa/Mastercard 

o 

Tel order line 01923 or Education 894064 order. :NE 

1 

c 

8 

k Fax ORDER MILIWITT21 

0 

i 

n 

g 

n 

o 

r 

A LOWEST O P QUALITY 

i 

RIBBONS, e NIUE N E R S & DISKS 

s 

N 

E 

W BLACK 

Printer Ribbons 

110 Et Et Ilk S L A C K tett 2.t I t t 

ko n o n t DNIP X0930110 

kn and DMP L 9300 

100 1 6 1 2.45 :7.5 

66 3.51 3.11 3.11 

Plawatt. NAP 112101240 Ile 

Panama KAP 1010/1110970912 

5.46 3.31 3.11 291 

129 574 254 2.34 

a wawa ere A orwid124,Q3300 

anvior 1 9 9 1 2 0 0 

t rotes 13300_5P10Swill R 

2409 

203 2.10 130 2.30 

00 313 335 3.03 

243 2.10 130 2.30 

P.m...it 101P 312312110 

Sanwha SI.9103b9a 

Sin It:1 

495 4.10 4.10 410 

170 115 1.51 1 1 

219 J.14 141 1 64 

connoodne CMPS 

122W1230 110 4.35 4.15 3.95 , Sur LC330 

303 2.05 2.65 1.45 

Enna 1 01110 

4 10 3.95 3.21 1 0 Stat LU241001J 

1.06 2.71 241 211 

i 

141 1 3 0 110 2.10 3'2M C01,01.18 WI l e ± 

41MM 1.0201 

, Frio FTET4VRX113CRIS1103 

E 

2 q0 I n 245 2.15 c,-„S.Ire M 21 

11.93 11.00 1100 11.13 

4(W1014110) Upon L31604600 

2 12 1.93 1.25 141 F 

S 

10.61 11340 11111 sea 

1 

Harae so ss Tally 10011 

33in I,C3 533 3.33 lSin 

LC9110010 

000 3.113 5.65 323 

4 

NEC P in0111011 I 

303 i l l 2.61 2.411 

134) 

aSINK-UM 

0.11 9.63 9 . 0 911) 

. OKI W. 1111 

3 17 3.113 2.10 2.62 Stat LE 

961 9.41 9.21 6110 

Z 

t 

221:11 . 

- 

111V1911 E 

w 

These are lust a Wittil StitttiVIL VI our 7.4. 

oRibbons 

- Ring for those not listed 

1911191 N 

W M 

r 

E 

- 

m 

Ring us and WEIVILL REA? ail other itibUn prices 

W 

l 

I 

Disks. ic Disk Boxes 

o 

Balk Brandt(' 

V 

i DDIID L ! P 

10 Disks 1 f.5 HPE6 

E 6 £ 9 

25 . E 1 0 Ell - 

50 Disks 6 Eta 1E18 £24 E36 

100 Disks 9 E29 1E33 E41 E66 

250 Disks 3 E65 1E76 t % 1153 

500 Disks 1 E125 E146 E 2 3 8 

All Disks Certified IMO% ERROR FREE 

& INCLUDE FREE Labels 

a 

PInkjet 

/ Bubblejet 

3 

1 

'sato NJ tetetvai wririfi gr 

2 

awn WC 4000 Mack Refi ll 

1 

swat Sit 4001i Colour RIM 

1 

untausiore 21q1 ta1 

2 

iP 

11,1 

Irjel MO Stria, Stark fartridse 21.00 MAO ICAO 

HI 

11 

, 111166191.09141101 I arerliege H E M 0• • • 10.40 

11 

0S 

0 

u 

1inkjet 

I Bubblejet Refill Kits 

sAnton 

lit,knollar 

s anon 11.1 16109 

eCan 

, o n 111 2012270 

ruir 2 I .211n4 

0.3111w 2. 21irni Renlis 

1350 be 2 x 21104 Refills 

Si g u 

110 Canaci15 It,,s 3 0 0 icr 3.5 

- 4 M e i n 

h Cap Vo.11,1, 3.99 

ik 

P 140 0 4au. . m thus 111.99 t us Little CD Maven 

L1 i t t i u 

_3111 spades 1 1 0 1 

aVarious 

Dust Cow ,so, available from 1.3.99 

p 

la 

sFirma 

9 54,1m 0004101111011 

-t 

, pon stylliai Oskar Shut 

O 

Ritmo 20 Sok. 9 1 9 0 F 

/IP 13 

s 

-III' 

13 

I Je 1Star 

t 3240 

HM 

.kt Rini, For 

. O R i 

0.511 he 2 to 2linit 

140 kir 2 I 12.1 RAI& 

1050 for eon ear% el 

1UM tar 2 s Ring RAW 

I ltin fi r I 2 ..ta •.,i, ( 

- &RI kir I lung Relit" 

a& 

Refill.. not listed 

t 

t 

CS 

o 

b 

o 

oc 

k 

t 

bs 

S e 

, 

l 

i 

1r 

i 

P r ANormal 

UK Delivery £2.90, a 

l 

1' 

s Next Day £7.50 

? 

a1 

T 

i a 

r . 

01543 250377 01543 r 

s 

C 250377 

1i 

. 

‘ m 

a4 

r 

i 

Ring us or send ' cheques to: 

Owl Associates, Dept ta 

547, Owl House, 

l 

. l 

5 The Brambles, Lichfield, 2m 

Staffs WSI4 9SE 

A 

Official 6.engntent di Filtdrationat 2a 

ankm wekome E & OE 

b 

. 

5 

0

PRODUCT TEST 

Hydra Al20 

• Price: E149 • Supplier: Hia Ltd © 01525 211327 

thernet has been sorely 

neglected on the Amiga, the 

main reason being the lack of 

an economical Ethernet adaptor 

for Al200s. Big box Amigas have been 

catered for with overpriced Zorro cards and 

for a period, Interworks created an Al200 

PCMCIA unit but it's now out of production. 

If one wants to network several computers 

with cheap cable and fast transfer rates. 

Ethernet is the ideal solution. At a data-rate 

of 10 megabits. its theoretically capable of 

shifting more than a megabyte per second. 

It turns Out that the creators of one of the 

Amiga's first big-box Amiga ethernet cards. 

Hydra systems, have finally produced a new 

PCMCIA Ethernet for the A 600 and 1200. 

It's not just a problem with drivers, 

apparently the Amiga PCMCIA implementation 

is questionable and for this reason 

Hydra have housed an IBM network card in 

a larger box which has certain electronics to 

'clean up the PCMCIA signals', so Hydra say. 

The box plugs into the side of the 1200 

and an adaptor plugs into the rear which 

Envoy 2.0 

t s one thing getting a TCP/1P 

connection up and running 

between two machines via 

Ethernet, it's quite another to 

do something useful with it. 

Common applications of networking are 

Internet access and cross-machine file and 

printer access. The former is most easily 

accomplished right now by using a PC as a 

gateway to the Internet and then-each networked 

Amiga gets to the net via the PC. 

The next version of Miami is said to con- 

tain this function for the Amiga and its also 

possible to do something like this with 

AmiTCP though you need to be a rocket scientist 

to get it working. That leaves file and 

printer sharing. 

Normally this is happy to work on the 

back of a TCP/IP stack being used over 

Ethernet but there is no Amiga native filesharing 

service that will work in this manner. 

There is, however, the long running Envoy 

system which was originally developed by 

Commodore and then updated to version 

2.0 by IAM. 

provides a connector for either coaxial or 

twisted pair based Ethernet. The former 

would be most common for smaller networks 

but each unit must be in a chain. Like 

a SCSI bus, the devices on the end of the 

chain need to use a terminator with a T- 

piece. If using the twisted pair options, the 

extra expense of Ethernet hubs comes in. 

The software provided is basic but all 

that's really required is a SANAA driver, the 

Amiga's standard driver for network hardware. 

Programs such as AmiTCP, Miami and 

Envoy will use this device to communicate 

with the adaptor. I got the whole shebang 

working with Miami in seconds. A raw file 

transfer via FTP to an FTP server on a local 

machine yielded around 350Kis which other 

tests also backed up as being the maximum 

transfer rate that the Hydra unit is capable of. 

I used the Hydra with Envoy to file share 

with other Amigas. managing 320K/s. I'd 

used Miami successfully to access the 

Internet via EMAP's firewall and via a gateway 

PC also. The Siamese RIG system also 

now runs fully over TCP/IP and worked 

Price: £20.00 U Supplier: LII Publishing 01908 370 230 

Envoy wijj run instead of or as well as, a 

proper TCP/IP stack. It's a proper file and 

printer sharing package so that drives and 

printers on one machine can be accessed 

on another. It also has a full range of security 

options so that users can be given access 

to only particular drives/directories and 

allowed to perform only some operations, 

such as read-only. 

Envoy also handles remote printing and 

reconnection of the 'exported' drives if a 

machine crashes and restarts. This feature 

has been improved dramatically over the 

older Commodore Envoy versions as 

shipped with the Villagetronic Ariadne Zorro 

Ethernet card. 

There's no product on the Amiga that 

does what Envoy does and yet Envoy is an 

extremely good networking suite. The new 

price is a complete steal and anyone considering 

proper filesharing between Amigas 

should consider Envoy. Envoy will use practically 

any SANA-Il driver, so anything from a 

special 'MagPLIP' parallel cable (see CD- 

ROM) to Ethernet or even serial links can be 

Ethernet 

PCMCIA Ethernet with Amiga? 

A little before the Hydra Al200 PCMCIA Ethernet adaptor 

was released, news of a generic PCMCIA Ethernet 

card driver appeared. The driver is known to work 

with a particular brand and model of standard PCMCIA 

card. The driver can be found on the Aminet in the 

hardidrivricnetdevice.lha path or on the cover CD. If 

you test with a particular brand and find that all works 

well, please drop us a line and we'll list them with 

prices and suppliers in the next issue. 

quickly and faultlessly with the Hydra. 

Despite small reservations on 'cleaning up' 

the Amiga PCMCIA port, I would still highly 

recommend this solid performing unit. 

Mat Bettinson 

System Requirements 

Amp with PCIMCIA port and Ethernet cahleVietwoit 

OVERALL 

Goad quality Amiga PCMCIA 

Ethernet at last 

used with Envoy. 

It's a shame that Envoy is Amiga to 

Amiga ()Filly and that to fileshare with PCs, 

the headache of getting Samba (see CD- 

ROM again) installed is still necessary. 

Still, if you are in the situation where 

Amigas need networking. Envoy is the corm 

plete business and you shouldn't think twice 

about picking it up. • 

Mat Bettinson 

System Requirements: 

Awl 

, 

AOVERALL 

m 

p 

w 

i 

t 

h 

O 

The Amigas definitive 

networking software 

92

OxyPatcher 

PRODUCT TEST 

I Price: DM39 • Supplier: hymn © +49 (0)5465/ 99 23 (Available by E-mail only outside of Germany) 

Jason Compton takes a look at some special soft- 

ware that promises to speed up 68060 based 

accelerators. Oxpatcher is go! 

A 

n '040 or '060 system is better 

than any '020 or '030 system 

you could put together. 

One of the reasons is that the 

ifloating point unit) is built right in to the 

n processor. This is very, very important 

you want to do graphics work, particularly 

30, with any sort of speed. 

To incorporate the FPU (the Motorola 

21 into the '040 and the '060, some 

shortcuts were taken. An '040 does not actualy 

have a full 68882 instruction set - it has 

a very fast internal FPU unit which recreates 

most of the functions of the 68882 while 

others are emulated with the help of the 

'68040.1ibrary that comes with Workbench. 

The '040 will handle those FPU functions 

it does support very quickly indeed, using 

less clock cycles to perform each function. 

but those it does not can be a major bottleneck. 

The '060 is quite a similar story. butenother 

layer removed - it is even faster but 

has yet more instructions that need to be 

emJlated. 

Incomplete 68882 

S0 while an '040-based system will beat an 

•030-FPU system in rendering, and an '060based 

system will beat an '040-based system, 

the '043 and '060s are capable of doing 

so much more. The problem is that the vast 

majority of Amiga software is making calls to 

old 68882 instructions, instead of using only 

the remaining FPU instructions. 

Phase 5 was clever enough to recognise 

that customers of their 060 boards expected 

a high level of performance, so they created 

the CyberPatcher. CyberPatcher sits in the 

background of a Phase5 060-equipped 

Amiga and can speed up applications which 

11 What this 

may lack in cinematography, 

it 

makes op for by 

being a good 

benchmark. 

access the FPU by 'patching' the program to 

use existing 060 FPU instructions. This 

results in significant speed gains and an 

advantage over other 060 implementations. 

like those on the Apollo cards. 

This has been limited to Phase 5 cards 

until Oxyron released the OxyPatcher, intended 

to work on all Amiga 040 and 060s. 

Using OxyPatcher 

OxyPatcher requires a special program to be 

run as the first line in your startup-sequence. 

You can configure OxyPatcher to run automatically 

on startup, or you can call it at any 

point during your session. There is absolutely 

no speed advantage to the OS itself but 

unlike CyberPatcher, OxyPatcher comes with 

a configuration and status window which 

you can call from Workbench. It lists the FPU 

instructions currently being patched (by 

whatever program you are running or have 

run that accesses them), and a few user-configurable 

fields. 

OxyPatcher should then be more or less 

transparent, although the documentation 

indicates that if you are using your native 

Amiga display rather than a graphics card, 

you may notice that the screen flashes dur 

ing patched instructions. I didn't encounter 

this during tests and also didn't encounter 

any software that OxyPatcher would not run. 

However, its patch program seems to be 

incompatible with the patch program for the 

new Mac emulator Fusion. Shapeshifter's 

patch program functions properly and SS can 

still be run without difficulty. 

Non-polished patcher 

OxyPatcher is not the most polished of pro 

grams. The GUI and online documentation 

(which is the only kind) features broken 

English, often missing essential points. 

It also provides a set of speed tests 

which, if not actually cooked books, do seem 

to have been staged for Oxypatcher's benefit, 

promising 3-5X or more speedup on your 

3D work. 

For installed users of Phase5 060 boards, 

OxyPatcher doesn't offer a whole lot. For the 

rest of the 040/060 world, however, 

OxyPatcher offers a new way to exploit your 

Amiga's power. In 

Jason Compton 

Test Interpretation 

Benchmarking these patchers is best 

done with real-world 3D rendering performance. 

Three tests were conducted - 

two in Cinema4D 4, one in Imagine 4 

Test 1: C4D Raytrace, R0011600, DS9+ Enterprise 

Unpatched: 9 5 4 sec. 

°Watched: 5 1 3 sec. 

CyberPatch: 4 9 3 sec. 

lest 2: C4D Raytrace. BOOM°, Staircase example file 

Unpatched: 2 1 1 sec. 

°Watched: 1 1 8 sec. 


Test 3: Imagine raytrace, 141a440 rendet 

Uspatched: 3 4 4 sec, 

Orrnatched: 3 2 5 sec. 


If you're a Cinema4D user, these numbers 

should make your eyes boggle. 

While CyberPatcher does have a slight 

edge here, OxyPatcher still offers massive 

gains (nearly a 2X speedup!) 

The Imagine results are curious, notably 

in that they do not match up with the 

results we found using this on the Apollo 

1260/66 board tested last month. Using 

I 

O 

X 

Y 

P 

A 

T 

C 

H 

E 

R 

smaller renders we got the results: 

Unpatched: 1 2 6 sec 

Orypatched: 2 1 sec. 

Clearly the results from last month are 

vastly better, and to be honest we aren't 

sure exactly why. Specifics of the render, 

external patches and the version of the 

'040 library used may have something to 

do with it. However the lesson is clear, if 

you have no patcher yet, you're crippling 

your processor for this kind of work. Oh, 

and it makes IFX go like the clappers. 

Developer: (hymn 


Al Am ip with EBOU accelermor 

Vs 

OVERALL 

speed de the * esiere iiholy to be us 

°Watcher makes the lastest 

go taster. Fast is good. 

*phase 5 010 board. Geed dog. 

904]

AmIGAREPAIRSthe 

UK b 

WHILE-U-WAIT!!! 

m 

mi 

e 

Attention Dealers A500 

t A 5 0 0 + E l 

A 6 0 0 

Ring/Fax Now for best trade prices and terms 

on Repairs, Spares, Floppy Drives, Hard Drives, 

,• FAST 1URNAROUND 

or. 120 DAYS WARRANTY ON ALL REPAIRS 

• E10.00 EXTRA CHARGE FOR WHILE-II-WAIT SERVICE 

us PICK UP Et' DELIVERY CHARGESE705 EACH WAY 

• Al 500/A2000iA4000 ECUOTATION 

• 

A m I G 

A 

2 • 5 " 

COMPUTERS AND MONITORS 

CD Rom Drives and Memory Upgrades. - ease EA 

a bette 

v vIte 

60 

toatEl 

t111 

INTERNAL FLOPPY DRIVES " 

A500/A500 +/A600/A1 200 E 2 4 - 95 

APOLLO ACCELERATORS 

1230 Lite E 6 9 • 9 5 

1230/50 E119•95 

1240125 E139•95 

1240/40 E199•95 

1260/50 E279•95 

Heavy discount on SI M M price s 

when bought volth an accelerator 

4Mb 1 1 5 • 0 0 

1Mb E Z 9 • 0 0 

16Mb E 5 9 

, 32Mb E 1 2 0 • 0 0 

0 0 

COMPUTERS 

All hard &Nes are preformatted, oartztiorked with Work Bench loaded and include cable El? software 

60MB . . . . . . . . . . . — 455.00 540MB ..------,..-..,...—..4122.00 

BOMB ...- - - - . , . . . . - . . . . . .465.00 

170,48 — . . . . . . . — L 6 9 . 0 0 810MB ......— . . ....L159.00 

260MB ...... ...........-----...416.00 141 gig ...... - - - - - - - - - 

MOO With PSU + Mouse + Mat.----.....479.95 6420140 1 9 9 - - - - 4 1 2 0 . 0 0 2.1 gig . 4 2 9 2 . 0 0 

A500+ With PSU + Mouse + Mat----.489.95 

A600 With PSU + Mouse + Mat ......--.....499.95 

• 

2.5" IDE Cable & Software (If bought separately)...---....L9.95 

0 0 

Al200 Magic Pack - - - - - - 4 2 4 9 . 9 5 3.511 IDE HARD DRIVES 

Al200 With BOMB Hard Drive £ 2 7 9 . 9 5 2.1 gig --..—..—.........—.4159.00 4.2 gig 

Al200 With 170MB Hard Drive 4 3 1 9 . 9 5 Please call for other capacities 

Al200 With 810MB Hard Drive------E379.95 CHIPS + SPARES + ACCESSORIES 

Al200 With 2.1gig Hard Drive....—.......--A469.95 Rom 2 .0 1 . E 1 1 3 , 0 0 A6 0 0 1 Al2 0 0 KEYBOARD ........ .. —129.95 

A2000 (Available) _ _ c 

aA4000 

(Available) --------- - - - - C a l l 

RON 2 .0 5 . . 

•A5 

0 0 / A5 0 0 + KEYBOARD 

00 S C A M ' 

. 

E 

L 

2 

E A 

9 

E1 9 

— a. 

D , SQU iR R Et INTERFACE 

EIA.BB 

E14.95 

E50.00 

l 

* HEAVY 

l 

DISCOUNTS ON MEMORY UPGRADES AND 

ACCELERATORS WHEN BOUGHT WITH Al200 

AM IGA M OUSE * M AT E 

1A5 0401'A6 0 0 /Al2 0 0 CI A E 1 2 

. A5 0 0 iA6 0 0 / Al2 0 0 / POwER SUPPLY 

, 0 

M 

0 

O 

A5 2 0 MODULATOR 

N 

E89.00 

E18.00 

E24 95 

ON ALL Al200 COMPUTERS 

9Al 55 0 0 /A2 0 0 0 /A3 0 0 0 IA4 0 0 0 POWER SUPPLY .... I 

S U R 

• All chips ore available T e x 

F 

O 

S-Please call for any chip or spore not listed 

Q U I 

R 

Rs t oRc kE 

L 

C 

A 

B 

L 

E 

. 

. 

Here 

* All price s include VAT * All price s spe cifi ca tions se ct to change without notice * Fixe d cha rge for re pa ir doe s not I nclude disk drive lke yboa rd 

* EXTENDED WARRANTY UP TO 5 YEARS AVAILABLE 

E39•95 

MEMORY UPGRADES 

SCSI CD-ROMS 

Quad Speed SCSI 

+ Squirrel £139.00 

IDE CD-ROMS 

Hitachi 16 max En.% 

I 

D 

E 

H 

A 

R 

D 

D 

R 

I 

n 

Al200d 

e 

d 

14945 

Upgrade loI na g 

MODEMS 

BAST APPROVED 

+ NCOMM SOFTWARE 

+ CABLES 

33.6k....E79.00 

nalogic 

re c 

epair ? Centre in 

In 

y Athnologi 

g 

UNBEATABLE 

PRICES 

moose coil for latest best price 

8Mia 

LOLA 

GENLOCKS 

L1500 6169.95 

1.2000S E349•95 

SIMPLY THE BEST AFTER-SALES SERVICE 

GUARANTEED SAME DAY DESPATCH Subject to availability 

TRADE IN YOUR AMIGA FOR A PC 

WE BUY DEAD OR ALIVE Al200 AND A4000 

RING US FOR A REASONABLE OFFER FOR YOUR Al2001'A4000 COMPUTER OR JUST MOTHERBOARD IN ANY CONDITION 

ANALOGIC Ana* Computes (UK) lid Open Mon-Fri 8•00am•53Opm 

ANALOGIC Unit 6, Ashway Centre, Elm Crescent, 

f Sat 9•00am-5•00pm F a x : 

0 1 8 1 S i l l 

4 6 7 1 

* All sa le sire pa irs a re only a s pe r our te rms a nd conditions copy a va ila ble On re que st. 

ANALOGIC Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey KT2 6HH T e l : 0 1 8 1 5 4 6 9 5 7 5 

E l W e re se rve the right to refuse a ny re pa ir * P&P cha rge s £ 3 5 0 by Royal M a il or E7 .0 5 for courie r * Ple a se a llow 5 working da ys for che que cle a ra nce

Illi 

su 

VisualFX t urns ImageFX into an instant 

t III Price: USS199 II Supplier: Visual Inspirations Inc. t +1-813 935-6410 

• 

eye-popping effects machine, for both 

1 single pictures and frame sequences, 

by just answering a few questions. 

ometimes, software can seem 

ato be almost magical in thu 

things it can do. Visual 

Inspirations VisualFX for 

ImageFX is one of those times. 

Nova Design's ImageFX is, perhaps, one 

of the most capable graphics manipulation 

packages ever released for the Amiga. It 

rivals Wintel and Mac products many times 

its price, and does many things they can 

only dream of doing. 

But all this power comes at the price of 

learning how to use it. While the simple stuff 

!image format conversion, cropping, scaling, 

applying some filters, changing image balance, 

adding text, etc.) is easy, few people 

spend enough time learning what the program 

is capable of, or don't have a large 

enough knowledge of ARexx to be able to 

automate effects and processing over a 

series of images. 

With N./D(1FX, long time Amiga developer 

Jeff White's company, Merlin Software, has 

delivered perhaps the ultimate 'plug-in' for 

ImageFX. Using it, I've been able to achieve 

effects that are at once so beautiful, and so 

(O w WU 

tan IOW 

:::Ln I 

– — 

1 

WP• 1 4 t __I 

, 

0 

1 

. 

0 

1 

. 

1 

I 

IY1 

1111.b 

ibler• 

Ira. 

1.0. 0 

l• • • 

easy to do. It startled me 

*40..1. 

*41.. h004.,tic 

, 

. . . 

FX 

Canine capers 

Jeff is a master of ARexx; that 

much is obvious. His scripts 

make imageFX rear up on its 

hind legs and bark like a dog. 

And yet VFXIFX goes way 

beyond just a pile of scripts. 

VFXIFX is delivered on a CD 

and a floppy disk. The CD 

alone can serve as a demo. 

The floppy contains ingredients to install 

everything to your hard drive and make it 

work. Naturally, you must also own ImageFX, 

a hard drive, and plenty of RAM would be 

extremely useful. AGA and graphics cards 

are not required. Nor is a Video Toaster or 

Toaster Flyer, although MID( is also 

designed to work directly with them. Thus 

it's fine for PAL use in markets where 

Toasters never sold. 

Running VFX1FX also launches ImageFX, 

and presents an attractive interface (in your 

choice of 4, 16. or 256 colours) with thumbnails 

of the transitional effects it can perform. 

Click a thumbnail and see a description 

and an animation of that transition play, You 

don't have to try to remember "what does 

#12 do?" because there , 

and t is, pictures. b o t h 

i n 

A w kind o r of d magic s 

Once you've decided on the effect you want 

to use, click the !set up effect] button and 

VFX will open requesters right on ImageFX's 

screen, prompting you with questions and 

file requesters and waiting for your input. 

Once you've told it what you want to do, and 

on what images to do it, VFX 

has stored the effect ready 

for you to choose another (for 

unattended batch processing! 

or click the !render effecti but 

ton, and just sit back and 

watch it happen like mag..f: 

'It's probably not a coincidence 

that VFXIFX's icon is d 

ct u re of a magic wand tar) 

4,ro ro 

#40.4 

Ang an eye!) 

- 

Your processed frames are 

saved out of ImageFX in your 

chosen format, and after 

that's done you can compress them into animations, 

record them to single frame 

recorders, or whatever else is your goal. 

And what effects they are! How about a 

glowing flame eating it away from the centre 

like the titles of the old 'Bonanza' series, 

over the shoulder 'PIP' shots, animated bubbles 

for an underwater sequence, swirling, 

twirling, tearing, flipping sequences, tons of 

compositing options, scrolling backgrounds, 

letterbox overlays, moving brushes, rack 

and focus, camera zooms, moving spot 

lights, travelling glints, animated lens flares, 

moving magnifying glass... plus a whole 

load more. 

VFX1FX's rendering choices are like open• 

ing a candy box - you can't decide which 

one you want to try first. This is truly a 

superlative add-on for ImageFX from a longtime 

Amiga developer whose products just 

keep getting better and better. • 

Ham Lazer 

VISUALFX 

Developer: Merlin Graphics 

System Requirements: warn Is Ma Gawps, 

Altp.s and 7014 HO space AGA at Grapirocs card recommeeded 

Ease of use 

Ittett mon 

with as nest 

tke taster Ike remits. Am 131 wilt ist 

makes it very viten:aeri•s Wilted! 

Wed el team ceopetere were 

OY[RAIL 

This is the ultimate plug-in for 

ImageFX so fat Fantastic. 

• 

96 

PRODUCT TEST 

A VFXIB's nag- 

nityleg glass 

effect is very 

convincing and 

takes seconds to 

generate.

ii 

PRODUCT TEST 

Epson Sty 

• Price: 080 • Supplier: Epson UK © 0800 289622 http:// www.epson.co.uk 

It may look just like any other of their printers, 

but this time Epson appear to have mastered 

the art of creating life-like reproductions. 

ver the years, printer manufacturers 

have strived to create a 

desktop printer that can produce 

true photographic results. 

Until recently, you either had to pay tens of 

thousands of pounds for such an animal or 

buy a dye sublimation printer. Epson UK 

have changed all that by coming out with the 

Stylus Photo, one of a number of Photo 

Studio products including digital cameras 

and slide scanners. 

The Stylus Photo looks very similar to 

other Epson Stylus printers but instead of 

using four colours it uses six. The two additional 

inks, Light Cyan and Light Magenta, 

are to improve highlight rendering when 

printing photographs and is especially useful 

when dealing with subtle areas like flesh 

tones. I first tested the Stylus Photo from a 

PC along with my own Stylus 1520, The 

Stylus Photo certainly lived up to the hype, 

instead of seeing the dots of colour visible in 

flesh tones from the Stylus 1520. the output 

from the Stylus Photo was almost perfect 

with little or no discernible dithering. 

The Amiga question 

But, will it work with our favourite computer? 

Well, after attaching one to my Al200 for a 

short while, the answer is yes but there are 

some points worth noting. First, I qurrently 

have to use the Stylus 500/Stylus II driver to 

output to the Stylus Photo. This worked with 

both TurboPrint 5 and Studio IL I found that 

the subtle shading I was able to get when 

driving the printer from the PC using a dedicated 

Stylus Photo driver, wasn't reproduced 

when using the Amiga and TurboPrint 5 - the 

better of the two packages I tried, The quali• 

should improve when IrseeSoft 

finish creating a dedicated driver for the 

Stylus Photo, something that shouldn't take 

too long as they now have a Stylus Photo to 

work with. I'm not entirely sure what's happening 

with Studio II on this front or EnPrint 

for that matter. 

That said, the output on the Amiga isn't 

as bad as perhaps I'm making out. In fact, 

for many, the output is stunning, especially 

on the glossy paper. What's missing is the 

subtle shading the extra inks bring and a 

dedicated Amiga driver to take advantage of 

them. Importantly this driver situation was 

the same when I reviewed the Epson 600. 

but it wasn't long before a driver appeared 

for it with the popular TurboPrint 5. 

Dedication 

To conclude, the Epson Stylus Photo is brilliant 

if you are going to be printing photographs 

quite a lot, because, with a 

dedicated driver it performs better than any 

other ink-jet printer this side of C500 that I've 

seen. Those of us using the Amiga will however 

have to wait a short while for that dedi- 

cated printer driver, but I'm sure the delay 

will be worth it. 

The Stylus Photo certainly proves that 

despite a maximum resolution of 720dpi• it 

can produce better quality than its higher 

resolution cousins but this comes at a price. 

I expect those five colour ink cartridges will 

also be a little more expensive to replace 

than their three colour equivalents, 

Personally, if my budget weren't a problem 

I'd go for the Stylus Photo. You really 

have to see its photo quality to believe it. In 

many respects, it produces images better 

than real photos which can often be blurred. 

Yet another winner from Epson. • 

Larry Hickmott 

t a i l 

I N N 

O W A 

4 445M-94- 

M0FAAt 

; 1 

limie r Dime nsion 

1 

x Print D ime nsion 

1 3I 

1 l Dimnsion 

-ll 

KURR s IN J11.18111 I Slor 

E . 

'C- d" 

eriotI l a v e Se tting! C a nce l 

f o 

[ Pe pe r e 

. t e 

:{ g 

RIPl 

] ; y 

: Pw 

l tii us Photo 

Specs in brief 

• 6 Colour Ink-Jet Printer (Black, Cyan, Light Cyan, 

Magenta, Light Magenta, Yellow) 

• MicroPiezo technology with Quick-Dry Inks 

• Resolution - 720 x 720 dpi 

• Interfaces x 2 (Parallel Et Macintosh) 

• Input Butler - 64Kb 

• Print Margins - 3mm Top, Left El Right. 14mm Bottom 

• Ink Cartridges - 1 Black (S020093), 1 Colour (S020110 

• 6x4 Photo Paper (SO41134) 

• Weight 5.2Kg 

• Dimensions - 168mm x 429mm x 275mm 

• Paper Sizes - A4, A5, letter, Legal, B5, 6x4, User 

defined 

• Paper Weight - 64 to 90 gsm. 

• Amiga Printer Drivers - Stylus 500 emulation in place col 

dedicated driver 

• Print Heads - Black x 32 Nozzles, Colour (x5) 32 nozzles 

• Warranty - 1 year Return to Base (Optional 3 year warranty 

available) 

4 Far right: 

Despite having 

drivers for the 

latest Epson 

Stylus printers 

such as the 400 

and 600. 

TuthoPrint 5 

does not have 

me for the 

Stylus Photo, 

' 

E 

P 

S 

O 

N 

S 

T 

Y 

L 

U 

S 

Developer: Vaporware 


Punt Enhancement Package. V1112 oir 

be tinier le operate 

depends on the package 

do on INSPI quick yew Amiga le 

Wail is superb with a dedicalmi driver which obeeldn't be 

toe long in coming far us with Amigas, 

OdES SEEM' pricey, het I'm told prices are being reduced. 

OVERALL 

Does a good job ot photographs 

but lacks a proper Amiga driver.

S 

Au 

s 

1 

11 

11 

11 

11 

0 

1 

* 

, 

4 

t 

e 

i 

v 

i 

, 

Siamese PC for Al200 only E799.95 inc Vat 

Siamese PC with RTG v2.1 features !! 

The Ultimate Al200 

Upgrade from tri 

i 

0 C i 

Will run with Amiga 2000/3000/4000 with Kick/WB34but 

needs Zorro bus Ethernet upgrade E'49.95 

Amiga needs hard drive and 4mb ram. 

• 

••••••;,•. ,•• 

Al200, month:v. camera 

and Lisa not included. 

Case design is diferent. 

Siamese PCs include the following components_ 

Cyrix 166mhz processor, 512k cache motherboard, 16mb EDO ram. 1. 

716bil 

sound card, 4mb s3d 64bit PCI graphics card. Keyboard, Mouse, Windows 95, CE approved Mini 

gb Tower d case. r i v e Amiga , 1 . components:- 4 4 m b Hydra F l pcmcla o p ethernet p y card, Siamese f v2.1 7Software 9(no switcher), 9 . 

d r i v e , 

41 

,____•31 

Software only v2.1 I! 

Supports optional High speed Ethernet network. 

"the diference to the SiameseRTG was astounding" 

Mat Bettinson CU Amiga 

Launch special only E 99.95 

410 Use PC graphics card as an Amiga RTG graphics 

display. Each Intuition friendly program opens in a 

seperate PC Window upto 256 colours 8 1024 x 768 

(higher with 4mb graphics upgrade). You can also 

have 24 bit backdrops & Video on workbench. 

IS*0 Siamese RTG uses Zero Amiga ram for display in 

any resolution. 

41110, Amiga can use the 16bit CD quality sound card in 

the PC, including Wave sound generator. 

IOW High Speed PCMCIA Ethernet card, using TCP/IP 

to transfer Files, graphics. sound, user input etc. 

IOW Use cheap PC drives from the Amiga including 

CDrom, Hard Disk, HOD floppies, Removable drives, 

Tape streamers at very high speed. 

gla, Use any modem (optional) through TCP/IP, use 

IBrowse, Netscape 4, AmiFTP, AmiIRC all at the 

same time and through one Internet connection. 

%.," Runs all Windows/Dos programs and games at 

166mhz processor speed, no slow emulation. 

NO Use low cost Klpeg cards to enhance your Amiga 

multimedia abilities, from E150.00 for VHS quality 

video record/playback. SVHS versions from E500. 

410 Perfect for Video producers moving from Amiga 

based Analogue to Digital production methods. 

All this for only 

inc Vat, ex P&P 

9 5 

Siamese upgrade packs . . C a l l for configuration upgrade options 

for Amiga IPC owners. AMIGA PA9IGA 

CO MPUTING 4 

4 A 1 

1 

0 1 1 

0 

7 

4 

. 

: 

1 

1 

0 

i 

t 

i 

S 

i 

a 

m 

Original Switcher card and cable kit 

for use with the Siamese PC 

pack above and Siamese RTG v2.1 

software only pack. 

E 99.95 

includes Siamese vl.5 software. 

Still not convinced, then take the Video Challenge. 

Buy the Siamese Video or Siamese MPeg CD 

for £5 inc P&P Then if you want to buy the 

•• 

Siamese system we will refund double 

r •• • 

• 

the CD Video price from your Siamese order. 

. 

Don't wait, buy it TODAY! 

411104 411117:' 

Egl ar, ! 

r, • — • ••• 

•••••• •••• " 

Siamese I Hydra Ethernet Card Al200 (pcmcia) - E149.95, A2/3/4000 - El 69.95 

Designed and manufactured by Hi0 Limited software by Paul Nolan. email steve@hiciltd.demon.co.uk 

9 Church Lane, Hockliffe, Bedfordshire, LU7 9NQ, UK. www.siamese.co.uk 

tel 01525 211327, fax 01525 211328 No surcharge for Credit cards. 

glicard

PO SCENE 

Temporarily fi lling Mr Korn's size nines is 

Jon Brooker, who strides his way through 

this month's choicest PD titbits. 

Ami Bee 

Totally blinding 

Good 

Average 

Substandard 

Oh dear 

• Vertical Scrolling Shoot 'em Up 

• Available from: Classic Amiga PO, 11 

Deansgate, Radcliffe, Manchester M26 2SH 

Tel: 0161 723 1638 

• Price: El plus 75p PEW per order 

In this Amiga version of a popular Bee related 

Nintendo game, you are required to guide 

our hero through wave upon wave of nasties. 

A collision with any of them or the 

many bullets they fire at you cause you to 

lose one of your lives. 

Clouds add to your problems as they can 

mask wandering bullets. You can get powerups 

or bonus points by shooting at these 

clouds as they glide happily by. thus releasing. 

naturally enough, a bell, which must 

then be caught. Shooting the bells after they 

are freed from their clouds can cause them 

to change colour. Beware if they turn black. 

as contact with these will cause death. 

Below you, pleasant trees and villages can 

be seen, oblivious to the fighting going on 

above them. 

The action is fast and furious. and your 

bee moves smoothly so complex dodging 

manoeuvres can be achieved. The graphics 

are fine and this is a playable little demo. 

The title screen lists a multitude of additions 

which will be included in future versions to 

make this a more complete garne..Highly 

derivative, but still mildly erter-•ii- 

Scene 

This may be worth looking at, especially in a 

later incarnation. ***** 

Teddy 

• Bomber Man Puzzle Game 

• Available from: Classic Amiga PO, 11 

Deansgate, Radcliffe, Manchester M26 2SH 

Tel: 0161 723 1638 

▪ Price: El plus 75p PEW per order 

One of the best things about the Amiga soft 

ware scene is that it is so international. The 

advantage of this is that you get share-ware 

like this with introductions that are in come- 

dy English. 

The game itself requires you to guide 

Teddy, for whatever reason, through the various 

screens collecting all of the gems before 

making his way to the exit. His path is 

blocked by lots of stone blocks which he has 

to blow up by leaving bombs in the adjacent 

squares. Trying to escape to the exit before 

all of the gems are collected leads to a premature 

loss of life. 

In the pre-game build-up, this is billed as 

iust a bit of fun, which is lucky really 

because its not very good. The screens can 

hardly be described as fiendishly cunning, as 

it's just a matter of blowing up blocks until 

you find the squares that open the doors. 

And as for the baddies who have been left to 

stop you, fiendishly cunning does not even 

get a look in. Their movements are completely 

random which takes a lot, if not all, of 

the skill Out of killing them. When they finally 

realise that you are there lie; when you are 

in the adjacent square). Teddy's movements 

are too slow and cumbersome to allow him 

to escape, meaning death is a certainty as 

both Teddy and baddie alike can walk past 

the primed bombs at will, Vaguely entertaining 

but ultimately slightly dull. ***** 

Brazzle Atkins Collection 

• Old Demo Selection 

• Available from: See below 

This set of revamped A500 demos mark the 

resurrection of the legendary Brazzle Atkins, 

a man with a penchant for all things of a psychedelic 

nature. 

Mr Atkins has gone to a certain amount 

of trouble hacking and fixing these demos so 

they run on your Al200, utilising its 

improved graphics capability, Furthermore, 

by allowing them to be dumped straight into 

RAM, you are now able to view them 

smoothly and without loading delays. As 

befits these masterpieces, they are available, 

in limited quantities only, in a glorious signed 

and numbered boxed set. 

The box contains four digi-movies (Laurel 

6 Hardy. Horror Show. Monty Python and 

Clockwork Orange), which require 2Mb of 

Fast RAM to run, Chaos Rock and Erpland. 

and the marvellous Reincarnation Of Sgt 

Pepper. Thi.s trippy demo plays Lucy in the 

Sky with Diamonds over related pictures, animated 

by the constant colour scrolling. The 

movies are worth a look, but come with an 

advisory notice, particularly the one entitled 

Horror Show (Directors Cut). Computer 

images of Heads exploding can cause 

offence, even in artistic shades of grey. 

We were sent the set in a lovely video 

case collection box which added a nice professional 

touch. These demos can be 

obtained either individually or in the videobox 

(if there are any left), try Classic Amiga 

PD, Saddletramps, or your usual library. Well 

worth a look, particularly if you are of a psychedelic 

disposition. ****

Metal Mayhem 

• Gothic band promo 

• Available from: Saddle Tramps PD. 1 

Lower Mill Close, Goldthorpe, Rotherham, 

S63 9BY Tel: 01709 888127 

• Price: 80p plus 50p PftP 

This disk is a public airing of the works of a 

cheerful bunch of lads and their band which 

is called Genocide. 

The band comprises three members who 

hail from the mythical depths of Tottenham 

in North London. They have added to the 

shroud of mystery which surrounds them by 

giving themselves the Tolkienesque names 

Glorfindel. Turin and Morgoth. Well, I'm 

guessing that these are assumed names. 

but I could be wrong. 

The disk contains seven songs and seven 

pictures which can be accessed by some 

simple mouse clicking action. 

The tunes, which revel under such Tolkien 

inspired titles as Gollum, Riders of Bohan 

and Saruman are aimed at those who like to 

be a bit moody and a bit heavy metal. 

Profiles of the band members include lists of 

their favourite bands, in which recurring 

themes are Iron Maiden, Carcass, Def 

Leppard, Death, Mega Deth and so on. This 

rather morbid list of names (which, rather 

sloppily I feel. excludes Death in June, poor 

work fellas) gives you a taste of the type of 

music you can expect, as do the band photos 

which are shot in graveyards and outside 

of churches. 

As there are only three band members 

and one group shot, the symmetry of seven 

tunes and seven pictures is made by three 

scanned images with a vaguely Tolkienesque 

feel. Perhaps unfortunately, this is quite a 

reasonably put together little showcase for 

the works and interests of this group of IT 

students with a love of dour music. The 

main menu is laid out quite sensibly and the 

music and images are summoned relatively 

quickly and easily. If there is anything at all 

that lets it down, then it has to be the quality 

of the samples. 

But if you share a love of Carcass. Cradle 

of Filth and photos of students hanging 

around in graveyards, you well may want to 

check this out. ***** 

1' 'R V 114111111 

, 

Lipeutiem Firezhone 

91111 

Operation Firestorm 

• Green Beret Clone 

• Available from: Saddle Tramps PD, 1 


563 9BY Tel: 01709 888127 

• Price: E3.95p plus 50p PbP„ 

By straining my memory a bit, I can remember 

when Green Beret was released onto 

home computers such as the C64 and the 

Spectrum amid a blaze of publicity_ I can also 

remember that after loading it up I was left 

wondering why I had bothered, so perhaps I 

am not in the best position to comment on 

this game. But I'm going to anyway. 

Your mission is to guide your single soldier 

Iwho admittedly has more than one life) 

over various crates and barrels, past seemingly 

endless hordes of enemy soldiers 

armed only with his gun and his wits. I forget 

why he's doing this, but I don't think its 

important. His task is made easier by the 

fact that various crates have been left along 

his route which, when shot, collapse to 

reveal weapon power-ups, extra health and 

so on. But beware, some boxes also contain 

bombs which will blow up in his face if he 

gets too close. 

• The game is played out in a bland, twodimensional 

world, where interaction with 

the background is limited to the objects and 

ledges that the writers decide are solid, I 

always want to step around the barrels, not 

jump over them, or go and investigate the 

Metal Mayhem 

.' tliso 

o 

lnie• r 

i 

* 

7 

iI 

liFIZAL I 

2 

L 

t 

i 

t 

16 i 

Sleet 

Shoot 

-•••• r a — 

• Price: 80p plus 50p PftP 

1 

1 

1 

1 

PO SCENE 

truck in the middle distance, but this just is 

not an option in the flat world of Operation 

Firestorm. 

1 

Success in this game is best achieved by 

learning the route and knowing whether I it is 

best to face the next set of baddies from on 

the floor or up on top of the wall. NIts 

fun 

when your weapon gets the flaming I bullets. 

because then it doesn't matter what route 

I 

you take, you are still going to kick arse. 

Clearly time and effort has gone F into creating 

this game, and if it was freely F distributed 

share-ware, I might be more prepared 

to concentrate on its virtues. However even 

from a budget release, I would hope for 

more creativity/onginality. ***lir* 

• Overhead view shooting game. 

• Available from: Saddle Tramps PD, 1 


S63 9BY Tel: 01709 888127 

The aim here is to guide your soldier through 

the enemy base to the HQ, where it ends. 

On your way you must pass several buildings 

which generate endless other soldiers 

who'll try to stop you reaching your target by 

shooting you. Fortunately they only fire one 

bullet every few seconds, whereas you can 

deliver a hail of leaden death, Also, by 

remaining stationary then holding down the 

fire button and rotating, you can strafe the 

immediate area for maximum death action. 

However, your rapid fire advantage suffices. 

The demo opens with a mental picture of 

a soldier and a rousing tune, which filled me 

with great hope. Alas, I began to worry at 

the time it took to draw the screen, and worried 

more at the speed my soldier crawled 

across it. The collision detection is fine, I 

tended to know when a bullet had found its 

arget, apart from occasions when either I or 

the enemy chose to disappear for a few seconds, 

I also found that living enemies could 

effectively disappear in a heap of their dead 

comrades. Given the title of the game is 

'Shoot', I don't expect you're meant to look 

too closely at whether they're alive or dead. 

It's the slow speed at which the characters 

move around that was the downfall. You 

can get all the way to your destination, and 

its fun to kill little blokes, but after a couple 

of minutes. I was quite happy to give up the 

quest and let them shoot me. ***** 

1

PD UTILITIES 

Ut 

t 

Andrew Korn takes a good, long shifty at 

a handful of top-notch utilities.., observing 

a selection which ranges from the 

educational right through to the musical. 

Utility of the Month.- 

Name: Tutenkhemun 

II Type: Educational 

• Available from: Online PD, Unit 5, 

Embassy Building, 51A Piercefield Road, 

Formby, Liverpool, L37 7DG. Tel 01704 

834335. 

• Price: E1.50 2 disks + 75p P&P 

There's a fair demand for decent educational 

software judging by the number of 

people who ask us about it. There's 

actually a fair bit of it around on the PD 

scene, but unfortunately a lot of it is so 

unprofessional it is worrying. 

Tutenkhamun, an ex-licenceware title 

now being carried at normal price by 

Online PD is a happy exception. 

This package impresses nicely, once 

u have got past the Amos installer 

ine (please guys, Amos is about the 

rst possible thing to use to write 

allers with, spare me!). In the July 

ue of CU Amiga you may have noticed 

at I raved over an educational title 

'out the Titanic. This one is basically 

• identical package but about the 

araoh Tutenkhamun and the back- 

und history of ancient Egypt. 

Layout is all nice and straightforward, 

h a big list of on-screen gadgets to 

vigate around by, divided into 

by -subject 

matter (ie. pictures, diagrams, 

background groupshistory 

etc.). You can click 

your way through in pretty much any 

order you like, and view the pictures 

either one at a time as seems appropriate 

to the text or select slide show 

mode. Once you have examined all the 

information available to you, there is a 

quiz for you to test out how much you 

have taken in. 

The pictures are well scanned and relevant, 

the text literate and interesting, 

and all the preferences options ensure 

that the working environment is conducive 

to learning - no irritating music 

here, you can choose from five or have 

none at all. 

Finally, this is very well researched 

and a nicely presented package which 

might not have the gloss and expertise 

of a professional package but is a damn 

fine piece of PD. 

i 

i 

es 

Totally blinding 

Good 

Average 

Substandard 

Oh dear 

Directory Opus Help Guide 

• Type: Book 

• Available from: Christopher Jeffery. 45 

Apollo Drive, Crookhorn, Waterlooville, 

Hants, P03 BAD 

• Price: 0.50 inc KIP 

This is an interesting and unusual offering, a 

self published book instead of a self published 

disk. Christopher Jeffery has directed 

his literary talents at producing an in-depth 

guide to the workings of Directory Opus 4. 

Liberally sprinkled with tips, step by step 

guides and screen shots, depth is impressive. 

The introduction clearly explains the functional 

blocks of Opus 4, which is exactly 

what it needs to do. It then gives a complete 

explanation the configuration of screens and 

how to tune Opus 4 to your liking. 

One of the most useful features of Opus 

is the filetype handling which allows Opus to 

recognise what ought to be done to a file. 

There are a some presets, but you can 

define your own. The guide has a clear 

explanation of the process and step by step 

guides for filetype recognition of Lha, 

Zip, Zoo, DMS. Git, Jpg, Pcx, Fli, May, Mpg, 

Midi and Way types. A similar if briefer set of 

instructions cover adding your own buttons. 

The whole thing comes in 50 loose leaf single 

sided A4 pages. which you'll need to hole 

punch and stick in a folder before all the pages 

disappear. Production quaky is reasonably 

good, with clearly laid out pages and a logical 

progression. The only real downer is the lack of 

•013.1 t 

I PI M , 1 e l t 

• I 

1!..11(34 

• • A EITN112. An 

3illa -- 

- 

.leb 

b Lame,. os 

114 

$ 

- 

blau,/J.0g- Int s 

1394 — 

. it a Lao 

, 

LAN44 .01 

5304 — 

E 

Emil . ill . Ulf o 

u I 311 — 

:.1 I 1 !..1 ' 

co 

— 

2314; --- 

PYS 

Dist-SW 

, 

CM i 

1391 - 

- 

rDnts 

s1 

'crs 

kimr...pg 

11631 — 

1 — 

41qt 1 bs 

f 

iP 

•-• 

i — 

i 

_orate , , 

Entr- 4 tryt ten r 

i owl 

1 

1 i &Ai 

i 

N 

1 — 

9D4u tit 

1111 

s 

o 

14 - 

1 - 

ita v I 

;'• 

4 

d 

46166 — 

Os 

L i 4 

. t . . . ' 1 3 9 4 — 

g 

g .ii• 

j 

J 

p iI . I A PH11111•FcbtoPei 

, rAirr 

P 

p 

(Aimee i 

• 

, 

. 

Dat.estarip3 7 

. - 1 I 1 

L 

1 

Protect 

El 

i 

I - 

tirlilliE • 

.- -1 

i 

Nei El: Rre (le t ( , 

Mr 

i ' 7 

t 

p 

b3 En . - Tr 

K e--s * 

s (11P lit FR I T 1 zNIC N TR I I lk_17 . 

h 

- 11 1 1 •1 •11 

1 1 

a o 

eitecisry i 

o-n,, 

Opts Help hide 

i 

W 

o 

t n 

. 

i t 

NI 

. 

. F 

. i

chapters, which would help navigation. 

Plenty of people need some help on 

Opus 4, since we cover mounted it a while 

ago without a full manual. I think that the 

rather trickier Opus 5, which we cover 

mounted more recently, would be a more 

topical subject, but if it's 4 you want help 

with, this is the monkey for you ***** 

Basic Note Tutor V2 

• Type: The name says it all 

• Available from: Gordon McHendry, 6 

McIver Terrace, Huntly, Aberdeenshire. AB54 

BLE 

• Price: E3 inc P8P 

That's what 1 like to see, software which 

comes clean and tells you what it is all 

about. A delightfully garish purple floppy 

disk with a label on it saying 'basic note 

tutor' and a picture of some music staves. 

When you sort through a crate full of PD 

disks with nothing on them but a cryptic 

name such as Amiborg or YABMWAG, that 

kind of thing stands out. When the software 

stands out, it's even better. 

Basic Note Tutor, thankfully, does stand 

Out Not because it is the greatest software 

on the planet, but because it does the job it 

sets out to do cleanly, competently and without 

any fuss. The idea behind this program 

is to supply an easy and fun route to learn. 

ing the basics of reading musical notation, 

In operation, BNT is very straightforward. 

The main menu screen offers help options, 

high score tables and so forth. Entering the 

main screen you are presented with a bass 

and a treble stave and a number of gadgets 

which at first look confusing but with reference 

to the quick start guide soon become clear. 

The object of the 'game' is to follow the 

program's musical lead. A note plays and 

appears on a stave, and you have to figure Out 

what it is Get it right and you score a point 

and the note turns blue. Get it wrong and the 

program tells you what it should have been. 

You can play on either stave or on both, and 

there is a teach mode which allows you to hit 

the notes and see where they should appear. 

You can set the amount of time you have to 

think about it, so in theory you can keep going 

until you get adept at reading notes, 

BNT may be programmed in Amos Pro, 

but I'm almost prepared to forgive it that. 

You won't earn ttleo 

, 

y pi fILgp 

M Ode tS a nd spe cs 

, 

, 

om t h i s , 

upgrades of sta nda rd mode ls. 

b u t 

v e r y 

I tr 

much along the ic of a decent typing tutor 

it will teach you notation without the traditional 

tedium involved. **** 

Class HD LitIs 24 

'Type: Utilities compilation 

ealriA 1417-it Ali I, ta3 

1 

1 

1 

1 

1 

1 

1 

1 

4 

4 

1 

0 

1 

1 

1 

1 

1 

1 

1 

0 

• Available from: Classic Amiga PD. 11 

Deansgate Radcliffe, M26 2SH Tel: 0161 723 

1638 

• Price: El plus 75p P&P per order 

Contents' _ I nde x 1 _ H _ g r o w • 

Classics compilation disks reach number 24. 

You might think that at 24 they would be 

starting to wear a little thin. Not a bit of it. At 

24 disks, this still represents around 3% of a 

CD, and with 20 CDs worth of Aminet to pick 

from for starters, Classic really ought to be 

able to pick out the cream for their floppy 

disk creations. 

What you'll find on this disk, in short order, 

is AMguide, an Amiga guide about the different 

models of Amiga, the latest issue of 

Jason Compton's excellent Amiga Report 

magazine including a preview of the HTML 

version, Blizzkick, a major bonus for Blizzard 

accelerator owners, Disksafe, which stops 

disks being invalidated by an incautious reset, 

Rxdisk in case you forgot to use disksafe, an 

Amigaguide for hard drives, a GUI bootblock 

installer, a hack to use cd32 controllers as 

mice, yet another password protection thingy, 

NewReqUbs. SuperDuper and Version Copy. 

If you have a CD-ROM drive, then a few 

cover CDs will see you fine on the small utils 

front, but if not these 1Class 

HD utils are a 

good way to go. Another solid collection 

from the guys at Classic Amiga. **** 

These a re the ma in spe cifi ca tlons of e lk gmiga compute rs sold from the M OM S 

to the M e lte rowe r. 1 ha ve n't tnctude d spe c ta t mode ls be ca use most or the n 

Class HD Ms 21 

4 

fl u 

Best of Aminet 

PD UTILITIES 

It's all go on the Aminet again after last 

month's hiatus, and the big Amiga 

revival is happening here as much as 

anywhere else. Even the elusive Lyle 

Zapato has been lured out of hiding to 

release an overdue update of 

Mindguard. If you are one of those people 

who didn't notice that we put this 

excellent package on our coverdisks 

about 6 months ago, you're the ones 

who need this package most. Go to 

utilsimisc/MindGuard.lha (66k) and 

download this psychotronic influence 

jammer at once. The author's own 121 

and 1211 decryption algorithms make 

this about the best psychotronic jammer 

on any platform. 

.. Just to prove the international 

our of the Aminet, here are a couple 

foreign language items. The lovely 

omatic Insults and Flowers 

nchers utiliwb/CdBS_AIFL1.53.1ha 

. k) constructs either insults or flowers 

. mpliments). It will sit happily in the 

kground scrolling its random meses 

across your menu bar at predetered 

intervals. What's more, if 

essages like "Notre copain Billou est 

un protozoaire" aren't your tasse de the, 

you can edit a text file for your own language. 

For German speakers I have 

picked Out docs/hyperismurftvguidelha 

(63K), a guide to those foul blue 

midgets known in Germany as the 

Schlumpfs. Germans with taste may 

wonder why I picked this one out — possibly 

by sense of the absurd, possibly 

my revenge for your attempts to force 

us English to consume your highest 

quality beers instead of our own homebrewed 

sludge. 

You've probably heard of 

Tamagotchi, the toy "virtual pet" craze 

which has been gripping the world. 

Now the Amiga gets in on the act with 

gamelwbitamalha (36K). a Tamagotchi 

Simulator. If you like more sophisticated 

graphics than a mono LCD game can 

provide, check out demo/intro/DKG- 

Crash.lha (63K) where you can witness a 

fearsome looking racing game graphics 

engine. Finally check out Thierry 

Dichtenmuller's recent raytraced 

uploads, including picsitrace/chess.jpg 

(61K), and this month's winning pic•

One day we all hope to see the 

rebirth of the Amiga with a 

PowerPC processor and other 

new features to enable it to 

compete again with today's 

systems. Sadly though, more 

than 2 years since Commodore's 

demise, little of substance has 

actually happened. We've seen 

prototypes and heard promises... 

we all hope to see new Amiga 

developments. 

If you can't wait and need more 

performance today, without 

paying the earth - there's only 

one real alternative to consider._ 

There's never been a better time 

to think Apple! 

• •.'r ;AM 

• H a t DM* 

• 9 ;ite d CD 

• 15 Integral 

Cogm Morigor 

A 

C 

K 

S 

O 

F 

T 

W 

A 

R 

E 

I 

N 

C 

L 

U 

D 

E 

S 

. 

. 

Mr/Mrs/Miss/Ms: e 

Address: 

County or 5 Country: 

Why Apple? 

• _ •-e 

, • , 

P: • 

• .5 0 Hard Droe 

• - L.Deed CD 

• • El" Ih.stSeoc. 

nj tkvInni 

• 28 Rho Modun 

• • 

• Desegn Ke,toard 

,, • • Irt(4 nel 

• •Ja 

, 

01111111111111iel •:• 

nh• 

* 

So 

F • G•ater Stitreda incKlcoaeda • Dit's M ute ttmar BA • e 

lt 

A - • I hntr Thogt 3 • RA None • Polo* * • The 6e51 el E Actqn Scoter 

wa 

M c e • C Va xe s • RipeCtrd Row • krctut ismer • Madre Its • M Ease 

re 

I 

• Apoe etetnet Ecorgyhon Kr, • Appe l•ecoe 3 9 

* 

LPLUS 

XTRA SOFTWARE_ • Apt* Mao( Sothvare :de ca l PiDwee ard • Deste 

Y , 

, IKW 

g 

• 

n 

thed 

K 

tnetrieti 

e • la Internet easily! 

i - I c e tAx Lim 

, •a,anL gnernet access 6xl4y 

b •1 

3 , 

P'. 

a 1 

n T 

d l 

k 

r 

M 

SHOWN BELOW IS JUST A SMALL SELECTION JRO1 THE VAST RANGE OF 

a 

APPLE MACINTOSH 

COMPUTERS WHICH ARE CURRENTLY AVRILABLE_ 

n 

. 

,koe M k t CFI) PAU n D e o P s PRE Priveo POW Mr. Warn %owed ewe Saittax, Part 

PO44400 H o 003e 1 6 1 .2 rb We I S' hI K g x x otior 1 1 1 7 4 

PIA S460 le o 6 0 e 1 6 / 3(.* i - i , r g x V7 8 8 K.g- 

ratalY 4: • 

EVAIY Ekl• 

Pt6Efte 33 2 EiGe ell IS' Kola SAN 2500 V V .136 Dew 11549 

P1019403 /OP 60)t I6 i 

.n. PAW% 0 it 3 Eine 2 

5 

PAte100 324 6 6034 1 2 11111 915 X 

5 

PR96500 2 923 •One D b 3 2 1 Kg ill I S' acilL15 SM ?SO g 

X V 

X 

, P9495013 £ 1 275 9 3 603e 1 32 4.0GIL 912 15' ati VA S 

2PeASSCO 5 4 0 250 8 to:aa• 9 32 4.30k v 1/21 X X g 

1 2 

v L X 

3 

7 1 

•.ze 6 

C 5 

8 

- FAMILY PACE X software el a, denied above , 

s 

1 see 2 5X 4 043 0 0 E7 2 4 

1 a f t91e r : • 

1 

S 

g 

vIR P e w 11119 

9 3 3 6 D e lo 

g Jitroon 13171 

5 C R 22E 

A T I V E 

0 S T6 U D I O 

s o6 f t w a 

c e P 

i 

a 

d 

s 

oe 

s 

s 

r A 

by 

, 

w - s l 

a 1 b l Y 

o 9 t 

p a c k 

6 7 5 0 

0 

7 

4 1 2 

o f f 

e 

• 

r 7 

O S 

O 

E 

M 

O F 

F - 

141Ci961011M1 K 410:fican4S E Ala JAI PIM OP Con 

, s o f 

laYal , 

KM( Of PC 

HOW PEKE : 

HOW CENCI , 

cfrom sILDIO • 

x 

SHOWN BELOW IS JUST A SMALL SELECDON FROM THE 

HUGE RANGE OF POWERBOOK MACINTOSH 

COMPUTERS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE 

1400m1133 15/13DD OS. CD 1 0 9 / 1 1 0 006110 WSU E1505 

1400c 133 16.1300, AM CD E M I 

1400066 lArtoot AM ID E 2 7 6 0 

3400c 

, 3400cf 110 1E11 300, AM. 12 Speed CD, Ethernet E 3 1 2 1 

1313 3400021:0 3212000, AM. 12 Speed CD, (theme E 3 6 4 1 

1 3400010 16,1000, AM_ 12 Speed CD, Ethernet 

6 roar / 1 Patireact 

3 

BUDthe 

0 

Soo Dodo, AAUArgie Maim Deb* 

0 , 

A 

M 

I 

1 4 3 4 6 

Please send the coupon or phone us - rush Mpu 

your FREE '11 

7 

Initial(s): Surname: 

Daytime Phone: 

M 

O 

O 

P 

E 

N 

8 

, 

6 

1 

1 

1 

2 

1 

3 

1 

9 

• POY•P'r • 

• 2790til 

Only Apple offer you both 

desktop and portable computers 

that truly match the ease of use 

the Amiga brought to your 

desktop. Affordable Apple 

Macintosh systems have 

PowerPC RISC processors with 

thousands of off-the-shelf 

programs available in arras 

where the Amiga was always 

previously so strong. 

And, if you need the most 

compatible of all computers, 

Macintosh is currently the only 

system that can run MacOS. 

DOS and Windows applications 

via optional DOS Cards or 

Soft Windows software. 

• 32PA) RAM 

• 4GI)Rtrd 

• 12 Speed CC 

• 15' AV Muli&o: 

tab.! Minify 

• vam & Tyrreo 

ONLY... 

• 33 ebps Modem 

• Design Kepned 

• * •Cream' So/Total 

Just 

*CUATNE STUDIO SOFTWARE INCLUDES. 

• wrftwe p 'stet' 'N olte Pack"' PLUS KIRA SPI N 

- • KArs Powe' Goo • Avid (Iona • Cubase AV • Dabble' 

WARE_ 

• Adobe PageMill • Adobe PhotoDeluxe • 3D World 

• ClickArt • Actua Soccer 

Newton 

Handhelds 

SHOVvN BELOW IS JUST A SMALL SELECTION 

OF NEWTON PIANDHELD MESSAGEPAD 

PRODUCTS/AC C ESSOR1ES AVAIL ABLE 

Newton NM StasapPad 8$18 5 oe 

EOM 

, Popov, 2008 

LM 

212 Newton 2000 LIirr5 AICase TED oat rocr. .. Leatcav 12E 

Newton XCO A: Adagio 

134 

,Newton NCO negro PaA 

I/ 

Newton Ka ) 4Mb f Lash Weide 

1101 

Newton 2000 

AD. current Newton models amiable along weth their 

accetnpaweing wipberats aolsoftwaie tides - CALL US 

L Iarr. 11•11 

- 

.00 a n t 

I . 

l 

m 

a r 

O f g a 

r 

r 

* 

i m p 

Evening Phone: 

,limintosh' b r o c h u r e I 

M 

Current computer and accessories: 

a 

Postcode: 

i 

n 

u 

ut mil the L(oupon dud return FREE to 

s 

GORDON HARWOOD COMPUTERS • FREEPOST MID04091 • Dept. CUA • NEW STREET • ALFRETON • DERBYSHIRE • DE55 9BR • 

e 

Tel: 01773 836781 • Fax: 01773 831040 • e 

- 

( 

mail: 

s 

- r •

Performance! 

All Macs have the knot PowerPC RISC processors 'Elixir 

lid Pentium systems are still C/SC deigns. Even entry 

level desktop Macs run at IHI1MFIz. with 351.1MHz 

powerhouses at the top of the range (Mac 

PowrrThxik portihies offer up to 240MHz1. 

Software choice! 

Over I ROO native software packages I 'AT lien 

specially for PowerPC Processor Macs/ have 

been shipped since Power Macintosh was 

launched in 1994 - phis there are thousands 

of industry standards which can also be used. 

Industry standard programs such as Microsoft 

\Nord and Excel, Pagestream, Wird Perfect. 

FileMaker Pro. Quark Xpress, Photoshop and 

many her were developed for the Mat. 

Why Macintosh? 

ISDN, the Internet & Communic 

• Macs are Internet-e-mail ready and manl, include 

modems with hill send-receive lax and answer ... 

phone. Adding an ISDN connection is easy. 

0.00 

• Industry standard web browsers, Netscape Navigator 

0 

and Microsoft Internet Explorer. %tit developed fin the 

Mac meaning Access to Wiirldwide IiIeb sites is easy. 

• Quicklime_ the Internet's standard format for video 

files, or QuickTime for Windows, are both Apple 

products. Of course Quicklime comes as standard 

with every M.Jc 

Connectivity & Expandability: 

• t Mike other PCs, all Mae, have networking built in as. 

standard. so connecting systems together and adding 

shared printers etc. couldne he easier. 

• All Macintoshes have an external SCSI connector as 

standard- Adding external drives, ZIP!JAZ and other 

cartndgikdrives, scanners etc. really is Plug-and-Play 

• Low-cost digital cameras can be plugged 

into the Mac for instant real image input. 

Creativity: 

• .Macintrish still domimtes the clean\ e 

world with an 801i, market share in 

, publishing. 

• , 

Education & Edutainment: 

ip • initish is the most widely used system for the 

• Ekinu the \Thrlds Not education supplier. quality 

o creation of Internet web pages 

Macintosh tines are widdy avathahic, Dorling Kinderslo 

s• Most t magazines (including the one vc re trading 

pr 

nght rs)ssi s 

o 

rc' - 

Multimedia: 

d 

creat 

u 

• Apple ed is the Worlds No. I Multimedia 4 

Pc. verkkg. 

c 

o 

t 

n 

• All desktop Macs have a fast CD•ROM drive 

io 

M a c 

as standard (many portables have interne CDs tool. 

n • In 

i 

1995, 

n t 

e2 

s 

of the top SO selling CD-ROM titles 

v worldwide k s h . were developed on the Madnuish. 

offer superb packages like The Ultimate Human Body 

and there is a varied supply from other 

leading software publishers too. 

• Because Macintosh is the preferred system 

within many educational establishments, 

high quality software is assured. 

Recreation & Games: 

• Top games like The Ultimate Doom, 

Myst Rebel Assault II, ['Mk Forces, 

i• 

Many Macintoshes have built-in TV with teletext 

Descent, Afterlife, Last Eden, legend 

d so TV clips can be recorded directly to disk as 

of Kytandia, Full Tittle* St The Dig 

e 

Quicklime movies. 

• Many Macintoshes have built•in video in and out, 

o 

for direct recording to VCRs 

e 

• Some Macintoshes have internal digital video editing 

d 

facilities as standard and many others can include 

i 

this facility with an easy upgrade. 

t 

i 

n 

have all been developed for Macs. 

Output & Presentation: 

• Connecting and using cok stir printers (from Epson. 

HP, Apple and others t to Macs is so easy and with 

photo quality output the results are truly outstanding. 

g 411•12=Blow 

moterrois.... i 

GRAPHICS TABLET-. 

• :re 15' As' Aluh5ose s 

1222 Lt,tt-t 

"-rcie 17 lEOS oTCOMunnu• 

f 3134 , Lt 

'r e n 

£526 -STORAGE. 

, 1 

EMI 02 Ltt Otweeten 2 IGO Edema Ht f257 

M 

t7 

tj 

(2290 *west Ome nc, Can (1 6 3 

: LASER 1 PRINTERS_ a 

I 

02 Weer* re Canna? 1 3 0 4 

c, 

t 

c 

e 

:er 441)(IP5 • 44. 600dp (5 a 02 24e0e 16 Soeed CD Orme f 1 7 5 

1 

, 

e HP trut•kq 8660 s• 

AA, 600upt (727 Monne 

0 

N 

24031(0 Dore 1 2 TO 

16licit 

LasorlStmer 12/8400S 6 On . E939 (with 

0 

A 

t 5 great soilwate htirsI 

' V 

b 

INKJET POWERS— 

AT 

COOAMS_ l 

0opore 

C Sts4r6n5kn 7930 AA Colecr 

E t(Itnyt 91ePon mane- Ellfi 

c•'.rtroo 

O BIC 4550 63 Coro, 

E328 i33 f 6 int conh, harslet skure: 

4Epson 

P Stets 6130 Co lo u r 

f234 £ 

e 

Low e Stsnts OM A4 Color, 

£351 Acassooles•- 

1 

Y 

l 

rbison 

Styes h o b 6 Colour 

13117 

1 AP9leNv9n Soluien £58 

o-:ron 

u 

6 

Styrus 1510 A2Coko 

f 704 kiacak kostut 

Oi 

asks 3000 A2Cokes 

1350 telacahr Comma° 

fit 

n t 

nots 

ISO 

85 

CAMERAS_ 

5n 

, Gram Firebni Jointi:t 199 

suit 0o 

eseSIase 20e 

f328 Jetslock 

145 

,,a 

. 

-rt.• DC20 

£163 Apple Dv MP OrrSor 

Pr 

Marderan, kitair4ery 

srAteatelt.„ 

c 

•AAAAAura 6&3 • OhotoShop f 199 LOTS byMORE 

PERIPHERALS • CALL! 

Th 

WOKS StriViAaL 

424PI 3 

aim G 

linbar 7 t 

P,11:54(4, 

On2,4eMbal AMA 

tEr SEIV6 SD* 

tr 11).1 

OKI Goal 

.11.iligt 70 

N. 1 0 

Cover. ',JAN* 

ERMA- 

'Anse te 4 2 

WW1 190o1 6 t 

C Lan WW1 Oka 

Ckin Veyn 42 MS Mee 199 

C64 Endue 20 

Cv0oir 20 

PP% • 

*m Cdrusnctews r 0 KOS 5't 

ono kesS-erns 9S 40 Cr 

6UTLEY 

SOMME 

0Mean 

3 5 

Atar Dolt 10 CP 

kinta. klub* 3 

OtScrormes Wth trr 

WAWA. 20 

SPWitiMill 

, 20 

£74] 

£564 

t32,1 

,t4t1 

• ,IS? 

141 

inS1 

Ill 

1114 

EDI/CARGO SOCTIMAE 

Oar. 1•01240,, 1 1 5 

torn) Ertieni, 

203, Centranawle 

IN Way Moo hVork 10 

Fec ot Spam I 0Unmelt 

ihrker it 9444tn 

UnriaV Paar it 

WWI Rear% - C g ant 

Pew moue a En Eoes' 

PlOt brickamia Ptievrica Salm Ada 2 0E 

l l 

n144 ard TA.t e m 

2.r4o. haat Mame a Peed 

kabog D4wkarroo O f . 

Seal./ 1 bra 

trod Mae :Mae t i t 

1 

UI 

411••ke• 

thrqk I 

4IBM 

UMW_ 

4 441.4 

E514 

a x CD Colersar 1 1 3 

mvore 

l 

u Lanacato 1 4 2 

FA'iI 

Ilo.,l bos 

at 

i0 

t" 

141 

1 

1memo' 

um 

3 

1 

1WOKS 

fa Pm% CalIa.dotai, 

: 

4•81 t5,454 

- 

it'reMe finance pnces are eecht ale 

1:, 

4 MT and a ir kmed 'IN 3joo 

, fixed cusi Appie Commercial 

Crmirt Lease Pr ferorruss no, 

PE IEST MAI FINANCE 

. 

Fet?anCe LS dill/ aiwiltibk fi r 

inarrvelria15 vosirspip .10 

4mm IT.. Ins and parrow 

iNent2i in of (.1* ditpwr 

then. iqrn 

'Deferred Payment Plan' 

• It's cam to hey your Mot- with 

GEt Pemnal FirrAnce Option 

• &eh Inr ku I s of one to sun y 

-• 

Example Kt) 11 

ou , 

Ilatance reser LIM ! and Men ply 

•• D e r K 

Nncthint I for 4 months I sruhrrect to 

o star, n and AN arrangement feel. 

a 

• , 

A 

request 

n 

n 

r 

1 

e 

1 

n 

AT Gir E h t kr [ N G , EASY-. 

1 Why dHarwoods? 

NONI 

ON lokaro N. b 

1 

r 

. 

1 

Gooldn Itamotd Lamputers •As u ickeKini qw,1124.2 I ',arm Oar duel in 

ORDERING IV POST CI FAIL- 

Re and um'', nil wpochng 

%at " wit* mt time m11-6 • 70e,11.1 3ATPIP V6V par iNg atm cr Ia. 

ikerma 

users lodes. Se !noon rgrolyrns 

wte I A , N S * 2 

Macintosh nmeno to 1991 when r h herame clear dot COMMCC131C 14 as faalaat 

04111111d ern 

Jar 

1 4 2 1 i 

to uptake en the lechnoeop)al 

4 I• aim ma'am Nit a• P0 payg • , kna. normal (avant Lam 

e aaluttage d NAL Tv needed to have pttdocts 

us 9 R E V 

a 

Vviegin , A• n 

CIFI MIKESa 

G E S 

- 

dras MA aft ft ,owna, • sur • re .ze W e 0 

• 'soa r with a fume r 

a r t 

a, fv 

2 

ON 

a 

l s Io P 6 

• tiFstene web Latham* perfornume r 

, 

a , e r, 

r m . 

DELIVERY_ 

il 

• St.srette with unsurpassed aCu,'. 

(1 Lek 

m oem No 

i rN norm 

l , 

EstE Ees EsS 

- 

holt,* , it Nide i at ozawq b, , • ow, "motel, rao ge,444ds, 6109) (Nett, Why not osrt our showroom Nur see a range ot 

• scvLcm O•IthilA thr pmbierni r and daudvantages aLsoculed wth 

, ab 

r 

EI A 

i 

r • 

Gil WARRAPart._ 

'Mar.-MS.1 prodads on demonst-atiar I 

DOSIcindowl, which lit a[area 

and Wad* tam even now. 

No.laton 

v . 

o i 

w 

, 

dardni 

' 

mean. aa, r e g r e w win.... N, 

n 

AN , EASY DRIVE FROM MOST AREAS, 

i 

N.AIS waanNied 

w 

; 'or 140116054 Mel 5 1 e o31, tCOP 1, • deo. MAPS* OR Ile. 

k TM* to hl/t IMATI Its nevem. nne ol the Uwe Apple AntiKrnsed linellen in 

M 

i 

a 

y t 

n 

l 

0 . tl 

V 

4 1 0 4 

MI 

• 

REIS INCLUDE VAT 

Were open Mon to Sat 9.00am until 5,00om tEurope 

Oa esteem*. modal kmns kW and Aid swoon fa taw, emnhat, 

a 

Eti 

4 

c SEOPEE k, ono,* L y e , .5'u mast al teime eftti 

W 

MAK CAti TO CONnAM AVALABU WON MAKING cur h wain a are of a select poop of Apple Amholued Service &NITS d.fr•I 

K 

t 

m 

A tte4G ANAINE't TO WW1 US. 

h 

o 

actardtra 

N 

o 

a fipple Huber and hither EluestIon &Lance Brothers 

i 

t 

d n 

N 

i t 

t 

E 

e 

r 

4•h•rnAnntw • 

N 

p aa an wynan.i t Mot ea an la Sri 644/1 41T or SifOrd lOr • Ali Oral .1,Tot.gs50a.es Inv 5011,42 Po 11annwh Trom madmies 434 t it, • nrrt ;4'014 5 Wailote on rapine TRadlrinair oft azisKsiAlkoli k 

e 

t 

o 

OOI e 

O 

u 

tharwciVd 

GH ISM ANNIVERSARY 

_AE 

We've been providing 

ComnuKtore products 

since 1982 and today 

supply a range of 1110% 

Motorola basal systems 

including Blivard and 

Cyberstorm along with 

video products and 

other peripherals., 

177 

1AND OMER 

ALL PRKES IN' t VAT te 1 7 .5 , 

TeDAY Fo • D I 1Y 

TIM -=. 

p , , K UP THE P H 

, • t • A 

3 

FOr your N o s 

are fully Security Cnesited 

OFFICIAL ORDERS 

We wain, rennin Imal GiNtMMIINI 

and Education Deportment" along 

noth /Amor PtCs 

'FAST-FAX'On 0173 631040 for I Rapid 

Response 10 pm, Quotation 

or Order Beetemleentil 

GP 

83 

GORDON HARWOOD 

COMPUTERS 

DEPT. CUAS • NEW STREET 

ALFRETON • DERBYSHIRE 

DE55 7BP 

Tel: 01773 836781 

FAX: 01773 831040 

.m.11

CD-ROM SCENE 

_ 

A multitude Rof Megabytes on 

CD for your complete satis- 

faction. If you haven't invest- 

ed in a ROM drive yet, you 

know what you've gotta do... 

Light Rom 5 

• Available from: Weird Science, 0 

House, Troon Way Business Park. 

Humberstone Lane, Leicester LE4 9HA_ 

a 

• Tel: +44 (0)116 246 3800 

▪ Price: E29 95 + El p&p 

Graphic Detail's Light ROM 

CD collection hits number 5 

with this 3 CD gathering of 

Lightvvave, Imagine, and 3D 

studio objects. The Light ROM 

collection is drawn from contributions 

from 3D artists around 

the world, all contributors accepted 

getting a free copy of the 

next disk. As a result the 

n 

quality of the models varies a bit, 

as does their copyright status. 

The first CD consists of a collection of 

Lightwave objects, a little short of 300 of 

them ranging from a simple extrusion representing 

a barrier to a very detailed model of 

a dragon. There are a collection of scenes 

to go with the objects and the data is represented 

in two forms to make the scene 

structure more compatible with LW3.5 and 

below as well as the more recent versions. 

t 

image maps and studio 3D mesh collection. 

There is a completel collection of thumbnail 

Jpegs so that you can see what the models 

look like before going through the bother of 

a test render. 

The second CD contains a collection of 

1177110:0033:131=trracmrmaratotarmzna3=131=1:10=131C3 

s 

•••• 

0=0_ 

olkeker 

C•. •. . 

Honor t• toput 

Olmk 1.• ' . e A ) 

Light Rom 5 

c 

• Eurr •••• r rm.* 

. . c . • • 1 I 

There are actually a lot more models in this 

collection than there are in the Lightwave 

collection, with plenty of quality models, but 

Amiga users shouldn't feel left out, as 

these will load into Lightvvave. 

Disc three consists of a large collection of 

backdrops and a whole bunch of Imagine 

objects. The 250 or so backdrops are all 

good quality 24 bit images, mostly in the 752 

by 480 pixel resolution most suitable for 

broadcast images, but there are also a few in 

640 by 400 backdrops too, The collections of 

Imagine objects are unlikely to amaze and 

excite any long term imagine users as they 

are on the whole well circulated objects. 

Anyone who bought the Imagine PD 3D disc 

will find this collection very familiar indeed. 

111 

Light Run 5 

rogAL F i t z 

i 

[ 

r1411 — O M 

41, - 

1 0 2 

n 

11 2 

7 

Image Backdraps_G 

.t 

r••• ,App,,, 

1 0 3 

1 3 

It is interesting to compare this collection to 

the Dinosaur ROM disk reviewed last month. 

At a third of the price, this offers a lot more 

objects. The difference is that this is a huge 

object jamboree while the Dinosaur ROM 

disc was a collection of only ten models but 

with a very high attention to detail, while this 

is a mass collection of rather varied objects. 

If you need a high quality Dinosaur model for 

professional work you are a lot better buying 

last month's offerings than searching 

through this. This disk is much more appropriate 

to the amateur or semi pro renderer. 

for whom it offers a very useful and very in 

depth collection. 

If you haven't got enough object yet, you 

won't do much better than this, 89% 

L. .41. 

1 0 4 

• • t 

in • 4 

, 

r • 4 

1 A9 

114 115

MIDINet 

• Available from: Weird Science, Q 

House, Troon Way Business Park, 

Humberstone Lane, Leicester LE4 91-IA 

• 

T• 

Price: El 9 95 plus El p-s-p 

e 

lOne 

of the most useful examples of the 

: Amiga's ability to fit in with the world around 

0it 

is the ease with which PC CD-ROMs can 

1be 

used. 

1 While it's not possible to run PC applica- 

6 tions without an emulator, there's still a 

2whole 

world of data files doing the rounds 

4that 

can quite happily be loaded into your 

6 favourite Amiga applications and put to good 

3use. 

Take MIDI files for example. Like all the 

8best 

file format standards, they were 

0designed 

to be independant of any particular 

0manufacturer's 

equipment, and the system 

works beautifully. This CD, although intended 

for the PC market, is packed with MIDI files 

which can be used on any computer that 

can read the CD, and that of course includes 

the Amiga. 

These days you don't even need a MIDI 

module to play back MIDI files you can do 

it from a standard Amiga using GMPlay but 

realistically this is going to appeal mainly to 

those with some real MIDI gear. There are 

thousands of them here, including hundreds 

of cover versions of well known pop songs, 

national anthems, game theme tunes and 

original compositions. 

Possible uses for these range from backing 

tracks for karaoke systems and cabaret 

performers to inspiration sources for budding 

MIDI programmers, passing through 

the most obvious one of all: a load of beats, 

tunes and riffs to pilfer for your own productions. 

Then of course you could simply use 

them like a collection of mods, purely for 

your own listening pleasure. There's far too 

much on here to comment on the general 

quality of the files, and anyway, they will 

nearly all need some degree of tweaking in 

order to play back perfectly on your particular 

set up. 

Aside from the MIDI files there's also 

plenty of software on the CD that for most 

Amiga users will never be used, as it's all PC 

specific. Still, you never know when something 

on there might come in useful, As for 

whether that PC software is any good, your 

guess is as good as mine, so the overall. rating 

here is based purely on the Amiga-relevant 

content of the disc. Basically if you 

want a massive collection of MIDI files, look 

no further. 78% 

• Available from: Weird Science, 0 House, 

Troon Way Business Park. Humberstone Lane, 

Leicester LE4 9HA. 

• Tel: +44 (0)116 246 3800 

• Price: E10 95 + El p&p 

The Aminet CD Collection hits the big 20. The 

collection is as huge as ever, another gigabyte 

or so compressed down to fit on a CD-ROM. 

As usual, there is a bonus package, this 

month a special registered version of the brilliant 

image processing/animation utility 

Wildfire, with a special upgrade deal for the latest 

commercial version. 

Amongst the archives all the normal areas 

are well represented, from biz/cloan filled with 

the latest locales, patches and upgrades for 

Cloanto's excellent Ppaint to util/wb for all 

those little WorkBench utilities, a directory 

which may be last on the list alphabetically but 

it is always crammed full of goodies. Examples 

this month include the latest Class Action, a 

hack to make gadtools look better on 1 by 1 

ratio screens, the latest Magic Workbench 

archive (well, some people like it!) and a new 

virtual floppy program. 

As you can see from the list below, this is an 

Aminet disc with plenty to keep you entertained. 

The demo collection isn't the best I've 

seen but has plenty of swirling plasmas and raytraced 

tunnels to keep you amused. Broken 

Aminet Set 5 contents 

Promises from the demoiaga 

drawer was a particularly 

CD-ROM SCENE 

choice one with some lovely if 

rather too blurry glow effects. 

The packed game section includes about a 

million dogfight and tanks style games, previews 

of Shadow of the Third Moon and 

Nothingness, a Myst like game from France and 

a huge collection of patches and installers. One 

of the best games is oddly to be found in 

comm/tcp — FreeCiv, the network Civilization 

clone which is taking the Internet by storm. You 

should also find that the pix drawers and the 

mods drawers have been popular places to 

upload to lately with loads and loads of really 

good offerings. 

The more serious user shouldn't feel left out. 

There are all the usual new datatypes, patches, 

hacks and rexxscripts, plus all the oddities we 

have come to expect, from a sieve of 

Eratosthenes prime calculator to a disk port 

based Amiga networking system. Arninet disks 

vary a little, wobbling backwards and forwards 

around the excellent mark. This one is well on 

the upper part of the curve, one of the better 

disks in a while. Unmissable, yet again, 91% 

ram * M O P X 

,Irttorr , • j• rm 

txdcord 

xo 

X ) XX= 

u m n s 

' 

V Xxi axi x, Ix WU 

Amp . , xe i !wee t fi g 

. 

t 

. 

r 

v 

. 

V 

U 

N 

I 

0 

= 

= 

1 

haw .4. 

we . r 

%PR IR r n . r m I 

tte ri %Marl 

RAU 

biz 3 0 M b docs 4 1 M b mods 

246Mb 

comm 4 3 M b game 1 1 8 M b m u s 

25Mb 

demo 6 6 M b g t x 6 6 M b p i x 1 9 4 M b 

dev 2 8 M b hard 3 M b text 3 6 M b 

disk 1 2 M b misc 2 7 M b util 3 4 M b

ART GALLERY 

Art Ca er 

Send pictures to: Art Gallery, CU Amiga, 37-39 Millharbour, 

Isle of Dogs, London E14 9TZ or E-mail them to artgal@cu-amiga-co.uk. 

r 

o 

r 

r 

t 

e 

p 

e 

o 

p 

l 

e 

m 

i 

g 

h 

t 

c 

a 

l 

l 

t 

h 

i 

s 

r 

e 

d 

a 

n 

d 

g 

r 

e 

y 

s 

p 

i 

k 

e 

y 

b 

Music by Alastair Walker 

they just don't get abstract art. Ever since Wassily 

Kandinsky abstract artists have tried to capture the 

essence of music in images. Then Kandinsky was an 

so who knows? 

Zodiac by Mark B. Clarke 

Mark uses Imagine, Dpaint, Photogenics and Image FX in his work. This image 

shows some imaginative use of processing effects and textures. Mark is looking 

. 

f 

. 

. 

o 

r 

w 

o 

r 

k 

i 

n 

t 

h 

e 

c 

o 

m 

p 

u 

t 

e 

r 

g 

r 

a 

p 

h 

i 

c 

The unreal colours and soft edges give this image a dreamlike quality s reminiscent of the city scapes of surrealist genius Max Ernst As for whether 

Dave was following Ernst's theme of the city in the jungle as conciousness i 

submerged in the subconcious, we may never know. 

n 

d 

u 

s 

t

Direct Hit by Steffan Konig 

l'o•me fabfr IAA? 

ART GALLERY 

VICOni5r 

. Month 

This excellent piece of work was produced with Cinema4D, XiPaint, Ppaint and Image Engineer. Steffan doesn't specify that the models are his, 

but even if they aren't this is an impressively assembled image... 

Fighter by Steffan Koilig 

on the other hand if he does do the models himself he's got an T h i s Image was rendered in Cinema 4D by Peter, a Belgian Insurance 

enormous amount of talent. The lighting is well positioned and realis- analysis programmer! The play of shadows is very nice, but I think a 

- not the easiest of tasks but one Steffan has done very well. \ 

\ 

r a n g e r c e n t r e 

o f 

c o m p o s i t i o n 

w o u l d

I 

GASTEINER 

Will fit all makes of RAM 

-33MHz 

68882 plcc 

E8.99 

CARDS 50MHz 68882 & pga 

ACRYSTALS C C E L E R 

E29.99 

E4.99 

A T O R S 

72pin 

2mb 

4mb 

8mb 

16mb 

32mb 

/AIDA TIAN 

Trapdoor fitting clock. FPU socket 

OM B E 2 9 . 0 0 

WITH 4MB E 4 4 . 9 9 1 

WITH 8MB E 5 9 . 9 9 

WITH 4MB & 33Mhz FPU E 5 4 . 9 9 

WITH 8MB & 33Mhz FPU £ 6 9 . 9 9 

EPSON 400 

EPSON 600 

EPSON 800 

CANON BJC4100 

CANON BJC4200 

VPID 

NM 

MICROVITEC 14" 

MICROVITEC 17" 

SHOP SOILED PHILIPS 8833 

• 

We have been selling simms & memory for amiga 

computers for 10 years, we carry large stocks that 

fits all makes of ram cards & accelerators. 

30pin 

lmb £ 1 0 . 0 0 

4mb E 2 5 . 0 0 

it? Mger.riS2 

8 

£5.00 

E12.50 

E59.99, 

E89.99' 

E199. 0 

E339.0 

E27.991 E109.0 

£159 

E249 

E359 

£149 

E169 

B'g 

MOTOROLA 1 3400 PRO 28.8 

DATA/FAX 9Y MODEM 

E39 

33.6 1 DATA/FAX MODEM E59 

55.6 iDATA/FAX N MODEM E99 

g 

1 

ZIP 100MB CARTS 

E12.99 

9 

JAZZ 1GIG CARTS 

E69.99 

Y 

SOUEST 230MB CARTS 08.99 

1 

SOLIEST 135MB CARTS El 2.99 

JAZZ 

N 

DRIVE 

E349.00 

ZIP DRIVE g 

E119.00 

ZIP TOOLS 1 

£20.00 

9 

O 

1 

4 

THIS MONTH'S 

SPECIAL OFFER 

C LC : A R 

WITH SOFTWARE 

FOR AMIGA 

£249.00 

2808 FA. 

TEM FOR ALL 

AMIGA £79.99 

1 

4.5 EWATT 

FOR 

A500-1-A600 

R 

-s-Al 200 

S 

£12.99 

I 

CHAOS , PACK 

FOUR : GAMES L 5 

EXTERNAL = FLOPPY £39 

INTERNAL P FLOPPY £23 

L 

CD-WRF Y 

2X6 £ 3 0 0 

4X6 £450 

MAKECD £39.95 

MEDIA £3.00 

-- 

MINI CASE £29.95 

MIDI CASE £39.95 

FULL CASE £49.99 

W 

E 

R 

E 

£99.00 

MOUSE 

400DPI 

£5.00 

NMI 

IE 

0181 345 6000 AMIG,A LONDON' SAL 

&PEW: 

Facsimile 0181 345 6868 CEN 

TRE 

HIAFID DAP/PA 

or all Al200 & A600 AMIGA COMPUTERS 

.5" IDE Super slim with cables & software 

70mb E59.99 

40mb 029.91 

010mb 029.91 

.8gig 

E199. 

.5gig 

E349.8# 

.5" IDE Super slim fast will fit all Amiga 0200 & 

4000 computers with cables & software. 

Omb 

'850mb 

1.2gig 

1.7gig 

gig 

gig 

gig gm/s 

ktagon 4008 

ulitiface 

sip drive 

azz drive 

IP TOOLS 

quest 230mb 9 . 

( 

- 

i 

r 

) 

L 

1 

- 

7 

1 

© 

1 

1 

SCSI CD-ROM fits A600 & Al200 comes with its 

one power supply & Squirrel 

speed 

E129. 

speed 

E179. 

speed 

E219. 

6 speed 

DE CD-ROM 

E249. 

its A2000 A4000 & Al200 with Alfaquatro (Al2Ct 

needs case) 

12 speed E 5 9 . 0 0 

16speed E 6 5 . 0 0 

speed E 7 9 . 0 

- 

0 

Italuatro E 5 4 . 9 9 

ase for Al200 & A600 only E 3 9 . 9 5 

80watts 

120watts 

300 watts 

E79.99 

£89.99 

E119 

El 49. 

El 69 

El 99. 

E349. 

May need scsi controller work with Al200 & A 

with squirrel, A2000 to A4000 with Okagon 

1.2gig 

E149. 

2gig 

£199. 

gig 

E299. 

4gig 

£499. 

gig 

Epoa 

xternal SCSI Case 45Watt PSU E49.99 

quirrel 

09.99 

urf 

E74.99 

E84.99 

DELIVERY CHARGES 

E119 

E349. 

£20. 

C72.1 E19 

E14.99 

E16.99 

£39.99 

NEXT DAY COURIER FROM ( U K MAINLAND ONLY). WE ALSO OFFER PRE 9:00AM, PRE NOON AND 

SATURDAY DELIVERY SERVICES AT A SURCHARGE POST FROM i 3 SO FOR ITEM S WEIGHING LESS THEN 1.5kg. 

ALL DELIVERY CHARGES ARE EXCLUDING OF VAT, FOR PERSONAL COLLECTION, OUR OPENING TIM ES ARE 

MON•FRI 9:00AM 41;00PM SAT 9 :0 0 AM •2 :0 0 M E&OE PRICES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT PRIOR 

NOTICE. ALL TRADEM ARKS ACKNOWLEDGED. 

TRADERS TERM S & CONDITIONS AVAI LABLE UPON REQUEST. 

WE ACCEPT SWI TCKDELTA, VI SA, M ASTERCARD AND AM EX. WE ALSO ACCEPT OFFICIAL ORDERS BY POST. 

PLEASE ALLOW 3 WORKING DAYS FOR CHEQUE CLEARANCE.

76 Imagine 4.0 

From 3D rendering to image processing 

sound files, this month's Workshop pro- 

vides keen instruction for every genre of 

Amiga computing going. Get stuck in! 

John Kennedy talks about recursive rendering to save time on those 

Imagine 4 created 3D masterpieces. 

80 C Programming 

More coding tips, this month looking at modules, screens and menus. 

Get with the program. 

82 Wired World 

Following the European Computer Trade Show, we temporarily put 

our Net tutorial aside to cover Internet gaming. 

84 Surf's Up 

The Net God offers comment on the latest developments in the 

Internet arena, plus all the hottest news. 

85 Surf of the Month 

Including a plethora of sites which devote themselves to the complete 

annihilation of self built robots in Robot Wars. 

88 Sound Lab 

Dhomas Trenn takes the unique approach of utilising Image process 

ing techniques for audio. 

90 DTP 

The ProPage article editor falls under Larry Hickmott's scrutiny in the 

Desk Top Publishing tutorial this month. 

96 C I Et A 

Readers write in seeking help from our panel of Amiga experts. 

Incorporating tech tips for those DIY oddities. 

99 A to Z 

Our A to Z guide to the Amiga hits the letter B. More thrilling explanations 

of all thing B found here. 

= 

= 

86 Back Issues 

Missed an issue of CU Amiga? Shame on you! Still, all is not 

how to order one from here. 

102 Backchat 

lost since you can find out 

I i s 4.1 1116 

S o d R I n r h P 

Comments, criticisms, suggestions and general information from our dear readers appears 

here. This is the place to see your name in print. 

= I 103 Get CU fast Subscriptions 

and get it cheap' Life is good when you subscribe to CU Amiga, the UK's best 

Cl 

ii 

ll 

s 

e 

l 

l 

i 

104 Points of View 

CU's panel of opinion this month features Mat Bettinson on the DIY phenomenon and 

Andrew Korn on Amiga gaming, or rather the lack of. 

1 

15 

DIP p90 

WORKSHOP 

0111

maIIn 

Wheels within wheels within 

wheels... create your own recursive 

renderings to drive yourself mad. 

on using backdrops, 

and specifically how to 

speed up rendering 

W times by pre-rendering 

the e background, Obviously this technique 

t isn't suitable for every case, 

but o there are times when it can be 

especially u effective - not to mention 

saving c hours of processing times_ 

h The backdrop image used in 

Imagine e doesn't have to consist of a 

static d image. Instead, you can use a 

series l and frames, given names 

which a include a number to keep 

them s in order. This opens the door 

to t all kinds of weird and wonderful 

effects. m Nevertheless, you still have 

to o pick your projects carefully, as not 

all n images will benefit. 

t 

hSkies 

ft Star- 

There fi eare l dtwo s common situations 

when a background animation won't 

be affected by anything in the foreground: 

background skies, and 

space startields. Whatever happens 

in the foreground (barring events of 

cataclysmic proportions) the background 

is unchanged. When your 

The monitor's screen 

spaceship flies past the camera. 

you really don't want the light 

source contained in the engines to 

illuminate a nearby planet. So it's 

practical to pre-render a background 

and use it, maybe even 

several times in one project. 

Here's some important 

tricks for using backdrops 

1. The backdrop, animated 

or not, must be the same 

dimensions as the final project. 

This can be a nuisance, 

especially when 

rendering a preview. There 

is no way round this, if you 

want to render a small file as a preview, 

switch off the backdrop or provide 

a new, correct sized, one. 

2, Backdrops will appear behind all 

objects in your scene and will show 

through transparent materials, however. 

they won't act as accurately 

optically as other objects. You also 

should beware the lack of reflections. 

If you create a shiny sphere 

and place it in front of a backdrop, it 

will look strange because there is 

nothing in front of the camera to be 

reflected in it. You could try using 

the Global Brusn setting with the 

same settings as the Backdrop to 

cure this. 

3. If you're using an image in the 

background, but want to get away 

from using a backdrop, try this. 

Create a rectangle object, the same 

dimensions as your background 

images for example, 320 by 256). 

Apply the background image to it as 

a texture, and make sure the rectangle 

is bright so it won't be shaded or 

have any shadows appearing on it. 

Then position it in your scene, so 

A Here we have a shirty sphere with first the backdrop oily, 

and then the global brush setting switched on as well. 

that its edges cannot be observed 

Brushing up 

In the same way backdrops can be 

animated, so can brushmap textures. 

Not only is it possible to 

morph between various procedural 

texture settings as we've seen in 

previous months, but it's possible to 

animate the very texture itself. Again. 

all manner of neat effects are possible, 

from animated control panels on 

spacecraft to moving television set 

objects and realistic moving people_ 

These are the images which are going to appear on the monitor screen. 

There is no point rendering them any larger than 160 by 128 pixels.

Nichols I nto 

Start rra ne 

6tobat Brush Mane isir.4. "4•11111•111: 

Ba ckdrop Picture liniitilsocts/ ctle llOP 

Mnblent R 

Mhbient 

Nnbient 8 

Star Fie ld 

TIAN H orizon 

1 O. 1111 H orizon 

ICON H orizon 

Fog Botton 8 .8 8 8 8 

Fog Top 8 . 8 8 8 8 

Density C M G F o g Length 0.8808 

Transition front count 8 

OK C a n c e l 

A Feel in the base file name *lasing the numbers) and set the Ma. Sea mime. Imagine will do 

the rest automatically. 

.rOth 0 

rkte ft4 n 0 1.410iiM46 . 

I a, h L e t liNpersadwr.t.totOPS 1 0 • 4 1 

0.6000•101.. 

•••••••• OMM B r a w.1 l t 

tariff Slat. Mr, 0 , 4 1 I0 6n 0 

t P t I t V . 

f O 

1 1 ro t. garalle • 04.0 MOO. 

4 Mew. sp.meOrf • • • • • • • 

4 MtmA400.011 0.160 , 

O EMGR 1 i4.; 6 

. te am" g r . i i m u L e r 

Nor tear? M m a t e m e 

Flit.. route-ammo... 

OS& • • • ChadWiet aoh; 

N.T.tude S h i n v 

• 

R i• deok 

r.,r memo I. 

Ullondpe 

" O . 

•con t a l l Mao& 

ObJe.t1 

Sobove 

So 

•••, 

at Ittna 

I t 

S 

l e - i . . 

Front • • o • 4 1 

One irritating feature of Imagine is a 

contradiction between the names of 

any rendered frames and the names 

required for brushmaps. So although 

the program will create files such as 

9 

pthe 

brushmaps are expected to be 

inamed 

"frame.0001", "frame.0002" 

cetc. 

Unlike other packages, its 

0impossible 

to use the previously 

0rendered 

frame in a currently render- 

0ing 

scene. Instead you need to take 

1a 

few passes. 

" Here is how to create an anima- 

. tion project with two layers of ani- 

" mation:. To begin, there's a table 

pwith 

a monitor on top. Behind, the 

isky 

slowly drifts by. The monitor dis- 

cplays 

a moving image of the same 

0scene, 

with its drifting sky._ 

0 

0Recursive 

2Firstly, 

render the scene which will 

" appear on the monitor. Most impor- 

atant 

is the drifting sky texture, which 

nyou 

can create in various ways, 

d drawing a series of clouds in Deluxe 

" Paint is easiest. I elected to convert 

psome 

video film footage of passing 

iclouds 

into a series of IFF files. This 

calone 

took all morning — I filmed the 

0sky 

then digitised it on a non-Amiga 

0system 

— but there's no reason why 

0I 

couldn't have used VideoMaster or 

3ProGrab. 

The hardware used created 

" an AVI file, but a quick run through 

the Main Actor Broadcast utility 

soon split it up Onto IFF files which 

Imagine was happy with. 

Back to the Scene Editor, where I 

loaded the required obiects and 

positioned the camera etc. Then to 

8 10.98 *Zenith R 

0 4 0 .8 8 * Ze nith G 

8 209.8 •Zenith 0 

Maar M.Btftmd! 

Flat im • Z 

t R e e e o d X 

Cw I Mahar around 

SSSSSS around Z 

In...R. tad. 

time Gunlock 

Moo t • COI tdr• • 

MWM10111 MaNWM114. i l w e r C a n c . . 

A Apply an animated texture to the monitor screen. You cam still 

apply other textures, to create realistic reflections or stIatchts. 

End Frame 

1 

Browse 

Brows• flax Se q. 5 8 

288.8 

280.8 -Zenith 

118.8 -Ze nith 

Fog 

Fog 

Fog 

the Action Editor, in particular 

the Global set- 

ting. It's here the magic 

happens. Use the 

Backdrop setting to 

enter the name of the 

first of the cloud 

images. To keep 

Imagine happy. strip off 

the numbers (so 

cloud0001 becomes 

cloud) and then enter a 

number in the Max Seq 

box. This box should 

contain the number of frames which 

make up the background animation, 

and Imagine uses it to check that all 

frames are used When it reaches 

the last frame, it starts again at 1. 

Small is good 

Now the scene could be rendered 

As this was going to appear 

mapped to an object, there's no 

need to render it as a large file: 320 

by 256 is too much, 160 by 128 is 

sharp enough. After rendering all 

fifty frames, the names "pic0001" to 

"pic0050" have to be renamed. This 

is the sort of thing an ARexx script 

is ideal for, but no matter how you 

do it you should end up with frames 

called "pic.0001" to "plc.0050". 

Now you can render the final animation. 

Use the same objects and 

settings as before, but this time add 

a texture to the monitor screen. This 

is done in a very similar way to 

adding the filename to the backdrop 

requester, with a base name and 

then Max Seq setting. 

Once again, Imagine will cycle 

through all the frames applying each 

in turn. For each frame in the project, 

Imagine will not only load a 

new backdrop pattern, but it will 

also load a new texture for the mon- 

itor object on the table. I also took 

the opportunity to move the camera's 

last position, so that it pans 

around and then zooms into the 

monitor screen. 

The final result is extremely 

pleasing, but there is no reason to 

stop there. Time it right, and the animation 

will loop perfectly when the 

camera has finished 

zooming into the screen. 

the image displayed will 

match the first frame of 

the animation — and so 

the entire sequence will 

replay over and over 

again in some recursive 

nightmare. Or, take the 

last batch of frames, 

rename them as before, 

and use them in yet 

another animation. You 

may want to batchprocess 

the files to blur 

them slightly, or change 

their colours. 

Any art program with an ARexx 

port can be coerced into doing this 

(yet another reason to own an 

Amigal as writing batch control programs 

on other platforms is often 

The final frames 

d-Allmarntalatm-ro 

mo..me m m u m s 

. W . 

A Main Actor is am excellent Amiga utility, which every animation 

fan should have. 

impossible. And don't worry if you 

can't make your only cloud animation, 

I hope to provide it and other 

animations ready for you to use, on 

next month's cover CD-ROM. • 

John Kennedy 

Step 4 

Step 8 

A These frames from the linal animation show the moving hackoround, altering camera 

position and the animated texture on the monitor screen. Cool!

laraOpering 

Wedresday&Thoesday 

w•d1730prn 

Visit us on the Web! - http://www-fi rstcom.demon.co.uki 

LOW COST DELIVERY 

• 2 -4 We e k Da ys I .3 .9 9 T e l : 0 1 1 3 2 3 1 9 4 4 4 

• Next Week Day E S 99 Fax: 0113 231 9191 BBS: 0113 231 1422 

• Saturday Delivery LI 4 99 

04904, 

7 

4 

4 

1 

Showroom Ackire ss 

COMPUTER C EN TR E 

neat 

. 

rare la era., ana 

anew 11411 Frannen harsar mod 

ere IOU 

444 

1wan3 nem Pow 

740 Wed dram earn damn 

Al Amos . MA ••Ailet ha or siArdord 

tans era andiron or me •Art 

/.90.151• 4 ••••• •••••1 E.V1i - , 

• 

kV. 

44141 

41 Amiga Hardware 

7 

E 

Amiga Magic -Packs 

Includes Wordworth V4SE, Datastore. MOrganise 

r. Turbocalc 

3.5. Pe rsona l Pa ini V6.4, Photogenix 1 

a 

2 SE, Pinball Mania, 

l 

& Whizz. Now also includes Diredory Opus 4.12. 

l 

Al200 - 2Mb RAM. No HD : E249.99 d 

Al200 6Mb RAM 210Mb HD S E419.99 

a l 

Al200 - 88030EC/40MHz 10Mb e RAM 260Mb HD £549.99 

Al200 - 68040/25MHz -18Mb s RAM 1.3Gb HD E699.99 

@ 

Al200 88040/40MHz - 18Mb fl RAM 1 .3Gb HD E799.99 

All Hard Drive ve rsions of the Amiga r range come with Sca la MM300 

proloaded. Amiga 68040 machine s include t 250 Watt PSU a s sla nda rd 

A 

c 

o 

r Hard n Drives 

. 

d 

2.5" IDE Hard Drives e 3.5" Bare Hard Drive! 

Includes Installation antiwere, acrewe, andm 

instructions Foe 4.40991200 machines o IDE 

S C S I 

210Mb E64.99 1 6Gb £147.99n 

1.2Gb . E115.99 540Mb El 59,9' 

810Mb C119.99 2.138 £199.99 c 

o 

Build Your Own SCSI Hard Driveu 

k 

• SC SI Case with built in PSU E4 9 99 

• SC SI Hard Drive (Se le ct from right) 

1.6Gb £140.99 

. 

2.1Gb E152.99 

3.2Gb E179.99 

4.3Gb £227.99 

840Mb C199.9! 

2.1 Gb E229.9' 

3.2Gb E253.9' 

4.5Gb £664.9' 

• SC SI Squirrel Interface E4 5 .0 0 3.5" IDE Hard Orive InMall Kit 

• Optiona l Construction E l 9_00 inciacias ser 

, • Includes Full 12 Month Warranty, 

All Cables Softwa re 

nstructions. - See Wow lop Said Orree elves 

uo Only £19.99 

softwa 

Part Exchange 

re, 

c a b Power Units 

l e s 

a 

n 

Money off your new 

hardware purchases! 

pricing now to part exchange 

.sr old Items. and gel real value for 

your unwanted monitors prinle rs, 

memory cornpulers, etc. 

Second User Bargains 

Available Now! 

Totally refurbished units, with a throe 

M01101 nenlintell warranty Call for 

current stocks 

Memo rale. at de mired elan /a Oar. Grade tan 

rear ha evbr • ad.ndel A M Mnd• O ldr ubr aken nr nlhanfi lk 

Memory I Acc. 

91200 8M b RAM E8 1 _ 9 9 

111115=1 

1,190•9 Ball• ely Backed Clock 

Add (2) 11. Fog 3306551 Co-Pro 

Ina . Al2 0 0 4Mb RAM E6 6 .9 9 j 

, lilt 30 Pin il'9 1 7Ors SiMM £ 6 .9 9 

41b 30 Pin /1•9) 70ns SRAM E2 0 , 9 9 

Alb 72 Pin 11•3216ons SOAM E1 5 .9 9 

BMb 72 Pin 1 2 

-16Mb 

72 Pin (4'32) 6Ons SIMM £ 5 7 .9 9 

32) 32Mb 72 Pin 19321 5Ons SRAM £115.99 

e 

256. 

i O 

4 

n 

DRAM 

s 

(DC Type) le a d)) E4.99 

Prima A500 5121c RAM No Clodi E1 9 .9 9 

S 

P8178 

1 

4500. 

M 

1 kt RAM 1 2 9 . 9 9 

M Pnma 9600 1Mt RAM No Clock E2 9 .9 9 

( Al 2 200 7 Accelerator Cards 

. 9 9 

Blizzard 1230-50 E 9 9 . 9 9 

Blizzard 1263-50 

Blizzard SCSI M od& 

Blizzard 200MHz 

V I'.' 42MHz 'et 

, 

p Drmr 

r rya,. ...„ S• r • ' 

tAlt 

949 

A. 

, 

• 

Dept. CU, Unit 3, Armley Park Court 

Stanningley Road, Leeds. LS12 2AE 

£364.99 

E69.99 

(CALL 

771.99,, 

Is1-30 Mono Inkjet E 1 5 9 . 9 9 

20.20) Oh Erin I.011 Pan, 30 Pigs ASi801.in 

EUC-70 Colour intoet E1e5.99 

20 DPI Coto ewer 30 rite kV Wee 

ELIC 

-20 

DPI Sham& co8 COS &speed_ 80 Pep kV 

240 ELIC 

C-20 a oMO 

DPI Etta Ciente Hoare Out leel Poem. 

lFOC 4200 o 

20 1 SO DPI Vet 43 Cabo Pftri; Del Can Preens 

u- r 

CUC-620 o Colour Inkjet E2 4 9 .9 9 

! 455 20.721) On Foy Secwito . 

dl 

o 

0 7 

u r TFIZI•AN 

C.aorinm eIABC 

D no24 

l Pin m Dot a Matrix E1 1 9 , 9 9 

l o 

kTOO t Pei jh 

50 ekV rBetel mOreong 

1roaor rem 11 

Eu(24 

ProJet-IIC r g o E 1 2 9 . 9 9 

1e 

t 

I cc 

3E 

Pnntota , 600C E 2 9 1 . 9 9 

n 1 N .A ...., t r e a r P a. 1.11.11.Wis.• • S . " 1 

51 

• 

Printers 

d PKUMA 

f u 

ATOM l l - 0 

HEAVY DUTY 

. 

PSU 

• High Quality 200 Watt PSLI 

• Colour Co-Ordinated 6 Casing 

• 4 Times Standard Power 

Now Only E59.99 

Standard Arnie a PSU E29.99 

Storage Options 

--• . 

iomega n 

Zip Drive I 

I Only 

" 

E134.99 

• I nclude s One 100mb 8 Cartridge 

• Fa st SCSI Interlace Ve rsion 

• I nclude s Cable & Amiga Zip Tools 

' bp Lane M e e Melte mach) E1 0 .9 9 

Squirrel to Ze, Adapter E 1 7 . 9 9 

A Xt9 Mariam ant ta mane et en arm cor Eon 

[ Swear meson on Ine gage -Mad nyn . 

A5 0 0 / A5 0 0 + Inmate Dew E3 4 .9 9 

A6001Al200 internal Carve E34.99 

A4 0 0 0 inixema co. E 9 9 . 9 9 

Golden Image Externel Drkee £41.99 

1111 

'----; 

- •111 • f,:rAtr ''" • 

111 only E39.99 

- 

CI as 1 

1- 

9,• 

•••• 

IMP 

4 

AIEPSO 

Stylus 400 Colour Inkjet E l 68 

N 

ree 

r 

a 

AlChAir ! t o o /11914 

.,•61. worm El. 9, 

770 O M 4 

;1. Stylus 600 Colour Inkjet E2 3 4 .9 ' 

1'481 

r 720 Ernt Egon Mica loor CdOx 19) Stew 

EStylus 

800 Colour Inkjet £ 3 1 2 .9 1 

11, 1440 72C DPI ftx•-• MeV Cdoo 100 5hars 0.- 

X 

2 M1( 

I2M PACKARD 

= HP-340C 

C - i Portable Colour E l 79.9' 

030 • 300 DM 

8 

lare. 30) ON DPI Color 2pror 

4HP-400C 4 . co lo u r E 1 3 9 . 9 ' 

sco 

1 

stem 

0 , ilom,100 ad) DPI Col Bona Carts Ina 

HP•590C Plus Colour 

0 

ve • ao 1DPI 

Cow, smuc He. Ea r ra w 

SHP-870CXI 

h e1 

Colour E 3 4 9 . 9 

eoc • 500 Del MOW IC 5PPla 0004300 Cabo to en 

r HP 1 

A 

003 - WI ilk 

f tHWM 

n Per Menlo emery 

SL HP-6P Mono Laser E 5 6 9 . 9 

ar t e. ma. flE 

FM K M r • • 

M 

. 1 S fl 

IttlICROVITEC 

170117" 

Multisync 

only 

099.99 

AMIGA 

1438s 14" 

Multisync 

only 

E259.99 

Software 

-ran n rat t-ntra rt, era, 

EOM Baer v2 1 C 1 9 . 9 9 

Devpao 3 £ 5 0 . 9 9 

Directory Opus 5.8 C 4 5 . 9 9 

Disk Expander C 1 4 99 

CliskMAGC ( 3 4 9 9 

GI:4ex E 4 4 119 

Hi-Scel Basic 2 C 5 0 99 

Hi-Speed Pascal £ 6 4 99 

Arrvga C• • E 1 4 9 99 

'Drowse E 2 4 99 

Megeosound E 2 7 99 

Mtn Office E 2 9 . 9 9 

Money Metiers 4 E 4 5 99 

Mel & Web eleS0II) ( 2 9 . 9 9 

Ultra IDE External CDROM) 

For 41200/AbOO Comple te Kit. 

Includes PSI), Cables & Software 

Ultra Drive kittNocoRomt £99.99 

Ultra Drive4x E139.99 

Ultra Drive6x E149.99 

Ultra Drive 10x £159.99 

Ultra Drivel6x E169.99 

Internal SCSI CD-ROM Drives 

Toshiba 4101B 21( Speed E49.99 

Toshiba 5701 12x Speed E105.99 

TEAC 16), spew E 1 3 3 . 9 9 

Toshiba 3801 16.1 Speed £136.99 

Plextor X20205 Speed E165.99 

Squirrel SCSi-ii 

Interlace • E4 4 .9 9 

•Wiln 

u 

boA 

nto. 

11, 

• E7 9 S.SS 

C 

S 

I 

d 

r 

o l 

l . 

SurtSquirrel 

SCS141kaerfane 

'Wean bourn nen oar modern 

dwoino • , ti !torrent tomentiery 

HiSoft 

- 

" 

- 

1 

. 

7 

. 

1 

' 

I 

T 

i 

d 

r 

t 

TiE WHIPPET 

Hop P9f4OrTrAnCA POOL IA sena Prot 

uorez.K.oeces •coNFarwTtlen Starda c 

Flab. Buttered Or Saha &Reliable Data Transfer 

Nee Fame Terteutegy 56& Modem Ready 

only - £49.99 x a• 99 • • • • 994 • • • • • • , 

CD-ROM Software 

1075 T e d . " E 12.99 Epic Cdkahon 3 E l 7 .99 Meeting Perim 4 

Mei & Web 2 IHi 

-Mel 

Connect V2 E 4 9 . 9 9 

S011) fleiwork PC (Weed Soericel E 1 7 . 9 9 

Personal Petal 20 CD Version E411.99 

E 

Pea 

5 9 

• 

. Power 

9 

Scan 

9 

Epson Flatbed Sottorare E49,99 

9 

Pro Mill interlace E 1 9 . 9 9 

Scala MM-400 E 1 4 9 . 9 9 

0• 

Studio 2 Pro 'Prin( Elba/vino Solleme) E49.99 

2SurtWate 

Interned Soft E 9 . 9 9 

9TechnoSound 

Turbo II Pro &woofer E29•91 

1 Termite TCP de-Solt) £ 4 4 . 9 9 

. Tertnee P C 2 9 . 9 9 

a 

TurboCale 4.0 CD-IROM Weston (49.99 

TurboCat 4,0 3_5' VeraOn £ 4 9 . 9 9 

n 

Turbo Pont 511.55. Entetiong Software) E49.99 

t Tele! 2 Reasons Datiobese C 7 4 . 9 9 

7Upper 

Disk Tools ( 1 0 . 9 9 

. Visia Pro 3 Lila ( 4 , 9 9 

0 Voyager V3 E 2 3 1 . 0 0 

V90096041 8 3.5' Version. ( 3 9 , 9 9 

3 

ordwoelb 6.0 CD-IROM Ver1438 E39.99 

. , 

5 Al'oniscm 

294M22 Tools r iF 

Vi 

en 

r 

s Graphics 

o 

ilScanners 

os 

Power Hand Scanner Mono V4 E9 9 .9 9 

n 

256 v gird. eop AGA ancen 54 Gregicele in Ohms 

Eo 

Power Hand Scanner Cceavr E1 2 9 .9 9 

4r 

9 

Hrt Specitaho I 

a 

W. 

Epson GT5000 Flatbed Scanner E249.99 

l 

i6 

? 2400E490.101 t a m 2404 Caw Rewires Cotters* Bete 

l, 

cEpson o o GT8500 " Flatbed Scanner E399,99 

0 . 3290 Del 204/..1 1 1704 OAP.* Fefbese Scalene Bete 

O0Amiga 

4 Epson Scanning Pack E4 9 .9 9 

f5natudes 

c%I aewe 

&avec We re 1 %wad Cable 

fGen 

locks 

r e w 

iLola 

L-1000 Senor* £ 8 9 . 9 9 

b'cotes 

Suss MT- 1C8 Pnworadvvew Sams 

e 

C 

D 

P 

4 MIN? r . . 

1• 

2W 4 Bit Colour Reaitime M e itne r 

0• 

Ea i sy Sa l-Up With Full Software 

1 

0 l i bOnly t E99.99 

( Prt,•GrEit_ 6 4 0 

4, 

9 

P C M 

. 

C I A Cables 

9 

0 

A d 

E5.119 

a p 

Exlension E 4 . 9 9 

h Far E 1 3 . 9 9 

t o r 

.lt. r ' a de p £ 1 4 .9 9 . 

E • 3I'rniel 

Gates 1 BM £ 4 . 9 9 . 

• •• Prole Cable 4 5M ( 1 1 9 9 

- ,r.ale. 

9 . 

Preadr Cable 12M [ 1 9 99 

Parana 9 9ai3O1 

Ponier Came I 11M E 4 , 9 9 

Parrett . Cable 25 Pri 0 Type E l 4_99 

MA Modern Cable 250E-25D1 E 9 , 9 9 

Modern , Cable 250E-25010 £ 9 . 9 9 

F1013 9 Pin Moneor Cable Extension C14 99 

Mute Monk,' Cabe Ext. 4 9 

1 438 2 Pen To .t Pra 0 Adep E l l 99 

'KMTo 

. 

f. c o w 218 E 9 _ 1 2 

IS 10333M5 II E 9 . 9 9 

SoE • 

,..t • •.I.vie . To Female 1M ( 1 4 9 9 

C a 

Male To Male Ili E l 4.99 

SCSI 3 Derice 

• 

inlernel Cable E l 3.99 

$CSI b l7 

Device K!Hemel 

Cable £ 1 9 .9 9 . 

Wert) e D Male aTo 

Micro 0 Male E-32.99 

Micro ( D Male 

l 

To Centronics Male ( 3 2 99 

250 To Centronani Femme E 1 7 911 

C l 

Irian 

. 

a 

-amigo 

5593412043 M 2 5 IDE Cane E9.99 

5de 

3 5' IlDE 

at 

aCable 

1 1 . 9 9 

46005A1 

8 

200 2 5' To 3.5' Cable Set E 

S 

l 

3E00 PEG Temente t 12 99 Epo Ercynopecks 1 997 (25 .99 Ahem E V ' 91 

30 knows 

E6.99 Err Semen,: Anonalcoss (17 .99 Mods Areholdgy VI E21.91 

30 OblectS 

E5.99 Etaa CD Vail ( 1 2 M.'''. SP1101FX 1 117 91 

LSO& 17135 Comp Vol 1 E 17.19 Etta GO Volum. 2 E l 2 .99 teritmede Beritdese (1 4 

LSO & 171311 COM V012 E 17.99 Eionetene 2 E 5 

99 

.119 news% 2 CD 1 1 2 91 

LSO & 1713o1 Comp IAN 3 E 17.99 Fl itercertare Amiga E25 .99 Neon& 2 t 0332 Cabe E33,91 

175. 55113.nertson E 17.99 Garters 0864112 £ 2 9 .99 hlogIng But 701ne 1 9 9 5 

17EAColleceoe 

10.99 Geek Gadgets C 1 7 Alottng Eke Gila AGA E l 7_91 

AGA Experience 1 NFA Ell 99 Geer Gadgets 2 ( 1 7 .19 Ociented &alma Stereo (1995 

AGA Espana/toe 2 MFA (8.99 Graphics Senselons 1 £17 .19 Ott Yes More Wunt• C B 91 

AGA Egenente 3 NFA I 12 99 Gil Sensalon 2CD Set £17 .99 Personal Sone E 1 7 . 9 1 

AGA Toned '97 

C5 99 Giga Gracile 

.19 P0.0-98 PC Entutertur E49.91 

Arne& Desktop Mee 2 (12 - 

Mesa Developers CO E 99 12,99 Golden Demos E 1 4 . 9 9 Scene Sion. E l 2.911 

54CD 

Adige Riper Sit 39.99 Grarinem S M Diso Cil Records E17.99 Sci8 Sensaton 2 C17.91 

AMON 1310 20 

Gl E12.99 2tiertar I Sededloart 1 Wo E17.119 SciodFxSansarian C 1 2 1 1 4 

keret Set 1 to 3 teedli 

ob 17,99 Settee 1 E 1 7 . 9 9 Sands Terrec/Ocarned 8E17.91 

Mew Set 4 5 (eachi E2 a l 5.99 la te e n MID C 5 . 9 9 Spare A Astronomy EI SA 

arcade assets PIA E A12.99 

Image PO CD E1 7 .9 9 Sceurv i157 M e l 

Moen 

nE11.99 

I ne rt Drown E4 1 1 9 Sworn 80Ceter M e l 

Asuman 2 

t 15.99 le-Tu-lbeeel E1 7 .9 9 Uliders 2 !PEG* C 1 7 .9 4 

Meauttne 3 

C134 Sweater* VoL2 E 

o 

17.99 Kara Co/lector, £ 2 9 . 9 9 Utalies Experience M N 

16.95 leerting CUR. c a 7 99 Weed Soon. AMOSPO 2E1994 

Card Games 

s 

12.99 Light 1:1014 4 E 2 4 , 9 9 Went Science Smear. ELM 

Derr Ro. CD 

[ 12.99 Light ROM Gold ' E l i •99 nerd &mete IRO Gold E17.111 

Emukteas Unknima E K17,99 

Maw Publisher C 3 9 99 Workbench Add-ore £29.94 

Encootient 

o12,99 

Maw W.Sanch Entwine.. 11.99 World Iniu 95 E 1 7 . 9 1 

Or The Perarkeirill E 

m17.99 

Meterog Pearls V • 1 (4.99 Zoorn 2 C 1 8 . 9 1 

a 

r Modems . Miscellaneous 

* 

DIAMOND E 

1 Supral.xprass 

0991.1•1119•• 

4 

SupraExpress . 56 Voice 

• BABT & CE Approve 9 d 

• Voice Ca pabilitie s9 

• 5 6 ,0 0 0 Data P 

• 1 4 ,0 0 0 Fax e 

• 5 Year Wa rra nty t 

r 

Only C129•99 o 

ta• r4 

G 

' • 

SupraExpress 36 Voice 

o 

• BABT & CE Approve l d 

• Voice Capabilitiesd 

• 36,600 Data 

E 

• 1 4 .0 0 0 Fax 

1 

• 5 Year Wa rra nty 

7 

Only E69.99 , 

e 

9 

- Andes Surhvare Internet Pock 

te Cue, Sortuter 5Suer 

Era 1 Yarn 

harem 

I n- a r Ac.cF1,6 ncturs191,Dr_. CALL reuprusI 

Only M mE9.99 

Just (5.99 wail any modern) 

• 

e s . 

I 

n Consumables 

a 

Canon J 

• CI 15..10I5J45131talt E l 4.99 

3.5" 

9CO2 elio293 

Black E14.99 

8CO5 cELC21 

execk t ila e g 

Floppy 

• 5.,,C2M0 a %So KO £34.99 

•111 PbEit C4.19 

Disks 

Dart 9JC241 Photo Cad C23.99 • • seed E21.19 

X 

DCO9F 6X248 Fan2611 E23.99 

C0.90 Bulk D SD D 

9C101.120 n Heed & Ink £25.99 

£5.99 10x E3 .4 9 1 0 0 x E2 6 , 9 9 

rem, E 5 . 9 9 

BC11 e11J70 

Meal & Cart £33.99 

£5.99 30x E9 .9 9 2 0 0 x E4 9 .9 9 

9020 aEld4eC0 

Headgear* £23.99 

9C2' 11,14001. Head • Vete t31•99 

Pent,,. vet E 1 3 , 9 9 50x E14.99 5 0 0 x E114,99 

9C22 

t 

BJC4200 Phoio Carl E23.99 

Epson 

Bra nde d D SOD 

902211 F 9.104200 Photo Al E37.99 

Shl Col •Oesoe eiats E1 7 ,9 9 10. E4 .9 9 1 0 0 s E4 1 .9 9 

BC29F ELIC4293 Ft-area £27.99 

Styl Col 409901(00 Col £1199. 

R 

BC110 CUM Beck 3 Pack £10.99 510 Col 9091620 Beck C18,99 

30x El 3.99 2010. E7 6 , 9 9 

E 

9CII1911 8.)70 Bees IPA E7.99 

Howlett Pa cka rd 50. E21.99 5 0 0 x E175.99 

BC111C E 5J70 Cobol 3 Pk E13•99 Laerdin 340 Hi-Lap Mace C18,99 Bulk OSH O 

902168 EUC4000 Back E4.99 Deteltal5x0 Seriee Black E20.99 10x E3 .9 9 1 0 0 x E2 9 , 9 9 

SJC4CO3 CObor £12.99 

Deektel 5411340C Colour E22.99 

9.J120136JC6.40 Black E5.99 

Deskiel 680 Series BIKe E20.99 

30. E10.99 2 0 0 . E5 5 .9 9 

Deekeol 6.0 Stine. Colour E22.99 50. E1 6 .9 9 5 0 0 . E129.99 

Eudec &ca .° Cyan E4 .9 9 De skral a.) SOON EWA (22.11 

CONN 5.)05.0 Magione E4.99 

Brandied DSHD 

Deektel Eir0 Sete Coke, C24.99 

BJI2OY BJC6x0 velkne E X 91 

10. E5 .9 9 1 0 0 . E4 4 .9 9 

0-11112 1.1212.23. Beak E10 99 Paper 

30. E15.99 2 0 0 . E8 2 .9 9 

MO Stews IF 0 

RetillefFlo-Inke 

Reink Abbon Spray E9.99 

, 

1 

50. E23,99 5 0 0 . E189.99 

Black ina Carl Pohl 40.01 (79.9 14.15oget 

( 193 Sheets Epeon 720a,w E12_99 

KC Steel Came i-h-nes £2499 

COW Ink Mete 750n1 (2999 E502 0 Steel 4 . HP 1 Al MagE10.19 

3

Amiga C Programming 

going to look at a number of 

different things, from code 

structure to screens and 

I menus. In some ways we're 

going n to get closer to a real program 

and t move away from toy examples, 

h The first step on this path to a 

proper i program is to break our program 

s into two parts, by acknowledging 

m that the old code to set a 

clipping o region on the window is 

actually n fairly generic and not dependent 

t on our particular program. In 

fact, h we can generalise further to 

allow ' any rectangle to be set as the 

,* s 

, t To do this we've created the files 

,i uclip,h" 

and "clip,c'', which together 

form pt 

a small module providing the 

three io 

functions "setClipSized()", 

"setClipInternallr nr 

and 

"removeCliplr. g i 

These functions are 

ra 

el 

Menu 

gw 

ieA 

textual and/or graphical list of 

o' 

commands and options that 

nr 

invoke and control features of a 

. eprogram. 

The lists pop-up when 

the user presses the menu 

mouse button (usually the right 

button). They are normally 

grouped logically into Project' 

items, 'Edit' items etc. On a 

standard Amiga, you'll notice 

the menus appear on a bar at 

the top of the screen. 

Programatically, a program's 

menus are contained in a menu 

strip. This is an array of menus 

(or menu groups) in "Menu" 

structures, and each menu group 

is an array of menu items in 

"MenuItem" structures. There is 

one deeper level, as each menu 

item can contain a further array 

of menu sub-items (again, in 

"MenuItem" structures). 

The GadTools library provides 

functions for creating menus 

very simply indeed from a 

"NewMenu" structure. 

This time around we delve 

into the world of modules, 

screens and menus... get 

with the program. 

declared in "clip.h" (as prototypes, 

like we've met before) and the definitions 

are given in "chile'. 

In StormC you merely add these 

files to the project window and it 

takes care of the rest. For other 

compilers you'll need to start worry 

ing about creating object files or 

inventing a 'Makefile', since once 

our main program file ("screenlic") 

has been compiled it must be linked 

with the compiled version of "clip.c' 

lie. the "clip.o" object file) in order 

to create a complete executable, 

This month's first example, 

"screen0.c" contains only two 

changes to last month's final exarnple: 

the clipping code has been 

removed to "clip.c" (and slightly 

generalised) and the call to 

"setCliplr has been replaced by a 

call to the new "setClipInternal()". 

Custom screens 

The main two Amiga themes of this 

tutorial are screens and menus. The 

next example, "screeni.c", builds 

on the last by opening a custom 

screen for the drawing window. 

Because of the neat way our example 

has grown, the changes are 

quite subtle. We've replaced the 

-code bracketed by 

"LockPubScreenlr and 

"UnlockScreenfl" with the wrapper 

shown in Example 1 to create a 

new screen. The second change is 

to link the window to this screen, by 

passing "scr" to the window cre- 

'ation function and using the 

"WA_CustomScreen" tag when 

opening the window. 

Example 1 

A Hello to a world of menus 

Example 2 

et 0 r t t 

r d. 

Het to World! 

; 

CHOlo 

l 

o , 

L 

l 

o 

r 

I 

A 

! 

q. 1 

Hello 00r 

c 4 

, 

/* The description of our 

struct NewMenu mymenu[] 

He 

t: 

7 

: 

a 

NM TITLE, "Project", 0, 0, 0, 0,), 

NM ITEM, "Quit", "0", 0, 0, 0,), 

NM END, NULL, 0 , 0, O 

J 0 , ) , 

If you run "screen)" you'll notice 

that the 3D look is missing (on a 

standard Amiga machine, at least). 

The window and gadgets all look 

very flat. This is because of the 

backwards compatibility with the 

older versions of the Amiga OS, so 

to get the 3D effect we need to do a 

little more. 

The thing we should do is add a 

"DrawInfo" specification of the pens 

that can be used for drawing the 3D 

bits. This is an array of pens to override 

the default pens (as set by the 

Palette preference program). The 

n 

, 

) 

I 

n 

i 

m 

a 

l 

v 

a 

l 

u 

e 

f 

o 

r 

0 

' 

, 

0 

1 

d 

1 

L 

O 

W 

O 

t 

menus •/ 

/* Try to open a new screen with 16 colours (four bit-planes 

if(scr OpenScreenTags(NULL, SA Depth, 4, TAG_DONE)) 

/* Rest of the code... */ 

CloseScreen(scr)1 

4 

1 

: 

6 

1 

j 

1 

I 

M 

r 

t 

" 

8irt' 

1 " 7 

Het to Wortd! 

' A 0 t 

4 

6 

7 - - 

J215 

gleton "---0", which specifies no 

overriding of the default pens. The 

third example, "screen2,c", contains 

this change and modifications to 

make the window fill the screen (by 

making use of the "Width" and 

"Height" elements of the "Screen" 

structure). Run "screen2" in order to 

see the difference. 

What's on the menu? 

There are two ways of creating 

menus: the hard , 

way function's) and the easy way (using 

( GadTools u s i nfunctions). g We'll opt for 

Ithe neasy t uway, i tsince i we're already 

o n 

deep) */

Example 3 

case I D OM P M EN U PI C K: 

UWORD menuCode, menuNumber, itemNumber; 

/* Loop over all the menu selections in the menu code */ 

for(menuCode = intuimsg-'code; 

going &fi menuCode != MENUNULL; 

menuCode ItemAddress(win->MenuStrip, menuCode)->NextSelect) 

1 

/* Do something based on what menu item was selected... */ 

break; 

Example 4 

/* Extract the menu number and menu item number from the menu code */ 

menuNumber = MENUNUM(menuCode); 

itemNumber = ITEMNUM(menuCode); 

/* Now decide what to do based on what menu item was selected */ 

/* Only one item: Project=>Quit */ 

if(menuNumber == 0 && itemNumber == 0) 

going • FALSE; 

Example 5 

struct NewMenu mymenu[] = 

( NM_TITLE, 'Project", 0, 0 , 0, 0,), 

( NM ITEM, "Quit", "Q", 0, 0, 0,), 

TITLE, "Pen", 0 , O 

( NM ITEM, o 0 , "Next", "N", 0, 0, 0,), 

( NM ITEM, 

0 , 

"Prey", 

) , 

" P " , 0, 0, 0,), 

( NM ITEM, NM BARLABEL, 0, 0 , 0, O 

F( 

NM ITEM, "Reset", " R " , 0, 0, 0,), 

), 

( N M END, NULL, 0 , 0 , 0, 0,), 

)i 

Module 

A (largely) stand-alone section 

of code, factored into a separate 

compilation unit (ie; a separate 

file), and normally 

containing code that is reusable 

or unaffected by changes 

to other parts of a program. 

In C. this tends to normally 

be a pair of files 

. (ending a in - 

h,h") lending e a in d ".c"). e r The modules of 

fi a program n d l eare 

compiled to 

a object files (ending in ".o") 

cwhich o are linked together with 

dthe main e code (le; the module 

ficontaining 

"main()") to produce 

lan executable. e Factoring code 

sensibly into modules makes it 

easier to maintain the module 

code (since its in its own file) 

and speeds up compilation 

(since the module code needs 

to be recompiled only when you 

make changes that directly 

affect it). 

using GadTools functions_ 

The next example, "screenac" 

shows how to add a very simple 

menu to our program. This menu 

contains just the 'Project' menu 

group with a 'Quit' menu item. The 

menu description is shown in 

Example 2. As you can see, we can 

specify a key for the 'Quit menu 

item, This indicates that pressing 

the right Amiga key together with 

the 'CY key (with or without Shift) 

will do exactly the same as selecting 

the 'Quit' menu item land it's pretty 

much indistinguishable at the programming 

level, too). 

To create the menu we've fac- 

tored the most relevant code (using 

"CreateMenus0" and 

"LayoutMenus0") into a 

"createMenuStrip()" function. This 

function must be passed the 

screen's visual information so that 

the menus can be laid out using the 

correct pens, in just the same way 

that we needed this to create the 

gadget context. 

Once the menu has been created 

Example 6 

it must be set to be the window's 

menu strip. This is performed by 

using "SetMenuStripil" after the window 

has been opened. The 'closing 

bracket' for "SetMenuStrip0" is 

"ClearMenuStrip()", which must be 

called before the window can be 

closed, 

Menus will generate 

"IDCMP_MENUPICK" messages (so 

this is added to the window's 

3D Look 

The 3D look is created by using 

bright and dark colours (specified 

by 'Shine' and 'Shadow' 

pens) to draw borders around 

gadgets and other window furniture. 

The pens used for doing 

this are stored in a "Drawinfo" 

structure for each screen. The 

user can specify a preference for 

the colours using the Palette 

preference program. 

DrawInfo 

A structure associated with each 

screen that contains information 

necessary for drawing the 3D 

look and other Intuition graphics. 

This includes, for example, specifications 

of the shine, shadow 

and menu pens, as well as font 

and display aspect information, 

/* Extract the menu number and menu item number from 

the menu code */ 

menuNUmber = MENUNUM(menuCode); 

itemNumber = ITEMNUM(menuCode); 

/* Now decide what to do based on what menu item was 

selected */ 

switch(menuNumber) 

case 0: /* Project menu */ 

/* Only one item; Quit */ 

if(itemNUmber == 0) 

going = FALSE; 

break; 

case 1: /* Pen menu */ 

switch(itemNUmber) 

case 0: /* Next */ 

eetFgPen(win, pen4.1); 

break; 

case 1: /* Prev */ 

setFgPen(win, pen-1); 

break; 

case 3: /* Reset (item 2 is the bax1)*/ 

setFgPen(win, MYINITPEN); 

break; 

break; 

'WA _IDCMP"), and each one of 

these messages can indicate a number 

of menu selections (this can 

happen when you click the mouse's 

select button on different items 

before releasing the menu button). 

The code to handle 

"IDCMP_MENUPICK" is therefore a 

little more complicated than normal 

(see the outline in Example 3). 

The core of this is the "for" loop,

which has three parts: initialisation, 

loop check, and end-of-loop action. 

The initialisation sets up 

"menuCode" from the "Code" of the 

IDCMP message. The loop check is 

that this code is valid and that the 

program has not been requested to 

quit. The end-of-loop action is the 

update of - 

menuC 

menu selection. 

ode" The result of "ItemAddress0" is 

tthe ''struct o Menultern*" correspond- 

ting to hthe 

current selection in 

e "menuCode". You can use this to do 

nmore eadvanced 

things, but in gener- 

xal you tneed 

only the "NextSelect' 

.item. Again, you might like to treat 

this as an idiom, It's the body of the 

loop that's really important, and the 

one for the simple "screenac" 

example is shown in Example 4, 

As you can see, the menu selections 

are couched in terms of menu 

and itern numbers land maybe subitem 

numbers), extracted from 

"menuCode" by the "MENLINUMO" 

and "ITEMNUMO" macros. These 

numbers relate to the positions in 

Next 

PowerUp 

We told you it was com- 

the menu description (see Example 

2 again). Our single menu item is 

'Quit', which is the first item in the 

first menu group. So, if this item is 

selected the ''menuNumber" and 

"itemNumber" will both be zero_ 

Other values are also possible, so 

even in this fairly simple case we 

don't assume that if we get a menu 

selection it had to come from 'Quit' 

being picked 

More on the menu 

The fifth example. "screen4,c", 

advances further by making a more 

useful set of menus (see Example 

5). A new 'Pen menu group has 

been added, with 'Next', 'Prey' arid 

'Reset' items. A nice bar separates 

the first two items from 'Reset'. 

This requires a more complicated 

body for the "for" loop in the 

"IDCMP_MENUPICK" case, as 

shown in Example 6, To support this 

change we've factored the pen 

changing code (which updates the 

palette gadget) into the function 

"setFgPen0" and made "pen" a glob- 

al variable. The menu selections are 

handled using "switch" statements, 

with comments to remind us to 

which items the numbers relate. 

Take care to note that the bar item 

is counted as an item, so 'Reset' is 

item number three in the "Pen" 

group, not item two! 

It's worth noting at this point 

that this is a very 'raw' way of handling 

menu selections. With larger 

menus it becomes rather unman- 

ageable. and in those cases it's 

worth using the "nm_UserData" 

data item (the last zero in each of 

the "NevvMenu" structures in the 

"mymenu" array) to identify the 

menu item or, for the really 

advanced, to specify the function to 

be called on selection. We'll see this 

in a later tutorial. 

Tidying up 

The final example, "screen5.c", 

tidies up the 'handleIDCMPO' function, 

which is now rather long and 

unwielding_ The main culprits are 

the 'IDCMP GADGETLIP" and 

"IDCMP_MENUPICK" handling code. 

These both depend only on the 

"win" and 'intuimsg" to do their 

work, so we've factored the code 

into the functions "doGadgetUp0" 

and "doMenuPick0". Both of these 

take a ''struct Window*" and "struct 

IntuiMessage*" as arguments, and 

are passed the "win" and "intuimsg" 

that they need. 

These changes again help to 

make the code easier to maintain. 

As the program grows in both complexity 

and in size we will need all 

the help we can get in keeping it 

readable and understandable, but 

still logical. 

This month there's lots of scope 

for incorporating your own menus 

and gadgets. You might also like to 

try out some of the screen attribute 

tags (those beginning with "SA: in 

the header file "inturtioniscreens.h"). 

See if you can work out how to 

make the screen a certain size and 

resolution, or how to set the colours 

of the pens_ See you next month! • 

Jason Hulance 

AMIGA 

I M I A G A Z I N A l 

Further adventures in DIY 

Following this month's fascinating AIR 

ing, and it's fi nally here. 

4, 

phase 5's Power 

4 Project XG, we'll have yet another exciting 

- 

L 

erators bring the process- 

adventure in do it yourself Amiga gear, but 

Lip 

i 

a 

ing 

c 

power 

c e l - 

of the Motorola 

we're n not going to spoil the surprise just 

PowerPC range to your 

yet... k 

p 

Amiga, catapulting it into 

r 

the forefront of personal 11 

TFX o gets serious 

1t 

computing once again. We'll 

Now j you've got the hang of the basics and 

e 

be taking a thorough look at mastered the state of the art weapons systems, we'll be 

c 

the fi rst Powertip cards to taking our TFX 

t 

tips to the next level, with tips and guides 

make it off the production to take you from , Rookie to Top Gun. 

line and onto the shelves. 

t 

h 11111111111111111M1 

e 

p 

o 

r 

t 

a 

b 

l 

e 

Contents are subject to change without notice. A 

m 

81 

i 

December issue on sale 13th November

Wired W 

This month we take a little break 

and look at the lighter side of the 

Net, multiplayer gaming. 

European Computer 

Trade Show is in full 

swing. The ECTS, as 

W hile it's commonly writing this, known, the 

covers every aspect of computer 

and console gaming. 

On this footing, we've decided to 

put the technical Net tutorial on hold 

11•11• 

Tone C1I TC PPP 

1L 

- ItnirTm • "11:311•':NITINI 

Hoot C - a n n O nnwilve do 

f 1117111 

t r I T " 

: 

1 1 1 : 1 1 

F i r 

•__111 

1 1 1 1 

1 1 1 1 

1 J 

11 

1 

0 

1. 

o 

i 

k 

5 

w 

I 

t 

i 

Rano I t l i a t i l l 1J1( 

Victor101 V I D E I 

Powder Jur:Julius Inw Wind 

N40,1 S.1l1 LI DUBOW F1114, 

tor a time and check out the Amiga, 

games and the Internet. 

Gaming on the Net is a big thing 

on the PC and it's even coming to 

consoles with plug in modems etc. 

it's quite obvious that the Amiga is 

ideal for Net games with superb Net 

connectivity and the multitasking to 

hold it together with a game. 

A Foundation promises proper TCP/IP network game playing, we can't wait 

astalDuel V i Clen Co wn .019-1197 JcVlor Toweet Mitneol novbd, MOrtrr Wino 

9dit 1 I 

eiayor Meru J Pre t e n rce i I b lig h ico re l I 

t1 p: 

Move it it I iin I n 0 

.1 m 0 1 

A BattleDuel, fantastic network gaming implementation, hame 1 about 1 the game 

- 1 , 

.,n 

, 

Vict 

ims 

r a 

— 

stout I 

sotwort I 

11 

- 

1; 

1: 

It's also taken until now for people 

to think seriously about Amiga 

games on the Net. Discounting the 

promised but never delivered, Net 

Worms from Team 17. A game 

which is multiple player Internet 

compatible is one of the most entertaining 

possibilities to using the Net. 

This month we'll look at a couple of 

Amiga Internet playable games, how 

to create a Net playable game and 

what's coming for the future. It 

might be an idea to keep an eye on 

Paul Burkey's Amiga Net Games 

co ukinetlinleco.uk 

page NetriS at http://wwwsneech.de7 ) n. 

It had to happen, Tetris gains Net 

support in this simple four player 

Tetris star" d-off that uses AMarquee 

HIGH SCORES 

- Anonymous 

72 (7) 

Hnonvrsous 

* 7 2 (7) 

A Netris in all its graphical glory. 

A 

f N e t support. It's an extremely 

s 

Ia 

screent 

i-does 

show how easily that a net- 

Inode 

work game can be written with 

e oAMarouee. f You can find Netris on 

gythe 

oAminet u in the path 

ar 

comminet/Netris1.11B.lha or on 

mccover 

h CD-ROM o as usual, 

ei 

c e 

, bFreeCiv 

iucommitcv'Freecivl 

0.1ha 

t FreeCiv is a port of a unix clo 

wi 

Microprose's Civilization. It allows 

ot 

to fourteen players to play a game 

nsimultaneously 

over the Net. Sound 

'good, 

well it's not only good but it's 

t free and generating considerable 

einterest 

in the Amiga Net communi- 

vty. 

So what do we need to get 

eFreeCiv 

up and running? 

n You will need a 68020 or better 

OAGA 

or better, AmigaOS 3.0, MUI 

p3.8 

or higher, an AmiTCP compatibie 

eTCP/IP 

stack (Miami). a GIF datatype 

n and the ixemul and ixnet library V46 

oor 

higher. This is fairly straight for- 

nward 

but we also need a 24-bit 

aware picture.datatype commonly 

referred to as V43 compatible after 

the CGraphX picture datatype. Users 

of CGraphX can use the V43 picture 

datatype, Picasso 98 users already - 

nave one and in fact AGA users car 

use the Picasso96 picture datatype 

from the Picasso archive. This can 

be found on the Aminet in • 

gfx/board/Picasso96.1ha. I 

Here's what you need to get 

FreeCiv running and the complete 

FTP(Saths, including the stupidly 

convoluted path to Ixemul 46, 45 is 

the latest on the Aminet. • 

From ftp.ninemoons.com 

Ixamul 46.0 /pubigeekgadgets/970414/amiga-binfixemul6.0bin.lha. 

From the Aminet 

FreeCtv 1.0 commttcp/Freecivialha 

Picasso 96 gfxiboard/Picasso9(.' 

GIF datatype 

utilidtype/ZGIFDT39.18,144111 

MUI 3.8 utittlibsimui38usrlhe 

Naturally all this software can bfound 

on this month's cover CD-

AMarquee 

One of the reasons that Net gaming has been so slow in taking off on 

the Amiga is that games programmers often have no experience of 

accessing the Net via whatever TCP/IP stack the Amiga is using. 

Jeremy Friesner has come to the rescue with a shared library and daemon 

system called AMarquee. This handles the technicalities with 

communicating on the Net and provides a simple communication 

method for games programmers. 

Gaining access to AMarquee naturally requires that the game, or 

parts of it, be programmed in C. Examples are provided and the 

archive itself will install AMarquee into a users AmiTCP or Miami 

quickly and easily. The result being that AMarquee leaves the programmer 

to concentrate on the game and not waste time implementing 

networking code. 

AMarquee is available in the Aminet path, 

comminet/AMarqueel.43.1ha and on the cover CD-ROM, There's 

already some small games using the system, so hopefully it won't be 

too long before some of the larger games catch on. Perhaps 

ClickBoom will consider AMarquee for Net support in their conversions 

of top PC games such as Quake and Red Alert. 

ROM. Once this software is 

installed, ail that remains is to edit 

FreeCiv's icon tooltypes to enter a 

server to connect to you. One 

option to start with is to run the 

'civserver• program locally and run 

FreeCiv without editing the 

tooltypes. Then your client will connect 

to your own server so you can 

play a game by yourself arid get to 

know the ropes. 

When you're ready to connect to 

another server, simply enter in their 

hostname in the SERVER= tooltype, 

save the icon and launch FreeCiv. 

Away you go! FreeCiv has excellent 

online help but it is a complex 

game. If you're not familiar with the 

original commercial Civilization then 

it may be somewhat confusing. 

However, it's definitely worth a bash 

as being turn based it plays perfectly 

over the Internet no matter the 

quality of connection 

Battle Duel 

1 

Battle Duel is an artillery/tank . game 

, 

GingLatic 

that has full CyberGraphX and network 

support, lots of game modes. 

OS compliant GUIs and basically all 

the hall marks of a well programmed 

game. 

Unfortunately the game itself is 

completely rubbish and is so utterly 

simplistic that I can hardly imagine 

anyone wanting to waste time and 

play against someone else on the 

Net, The grapnics are fairly well 

drawn and the Net support is excellent 

but it seems this is where the 

authors ploughed all their efforts. 

It's worth checking out to see 

how a modern Amiga game should 

be implemented in terms of features 

and networking. If only this front 

end was present on top of the 

superb Scorched Tanks or Charr 

AMOS artillery/tank games. Perhaps 

some day, a developer will take one 

of the excellent multiplayer games 

and add networking via•Amarquee,/ 

we can only hope. 

Battle Del implements the Net 

.iommunicatic- •iternally and is 

.1 

, .., oti-u, surtoogre credo! ow. 

6. 

.. 

D 

• 

or 

, mill , 

— 

2 

01,1• • 1-1 •MitiOn 

44 • , 110(1,11 • 

- 

1 . 

E • 

l 1 1 • 

I 

• 1 0 

T 

I 

M 

P 

- 

1 

1 

7 

1 

i 

1 1 

A Gridlock is a quirky halloo same F from Cif s Seundlah contributor. Modem and network game- 

6 

play is on offer so try it out. 

-• 

Vt5oot 5,1 of the 

Lm neror 5c - i once Bar i t5: e n3 oZe r 

Pasoerching 

r _ ( 

Alpha be t 1T3r7Pr 

u a 

Yert 

Bronze wcrkrigI 

L 

- 

, Garm, , Garm, London Is Brion horseback Pidng l 

3 

Year 3560 ec 

I 

3 

Year 3560 ec iron Woricmg i 

Gerrie: I Sr, we cane te 

s 

C1 0 5 0 5 

I 

t 

8 8: 

0 

B BL 

A Here's a game al freeCiv up and running. It's a hassle to install and gel running but when it 

C 

works it's the greatest Amiga network game to date. 

img t- row= I V ow um .M I a - , 4 - s, , , , -- - -,Q,, .4 .0 R -a , .!, .* 7 .L 

— 

a FreieCiv 

PLAYING TH E °AM EN 

u. E i u _ i I 111 N J • 4 = 1 

Thera is kind of a ba sic stra te gy a t 

ONOMO 

the be ginning of the a mine or 

0 

r- 

- 

iO 

t ry 

Freeciv ma in ga me mindow 

1 ;i7a,)L 68,086 Omplz .2 ! 8W1.1 

b ° 

tt 1.„ 

i 

lik7-1 

g 

_ 

- 

1 

E 

l 

— 

rnorovements 

—Aqueduct 

--Bank 

- 

-—Cathedrai 

B- 

iO 

- 

l 

t 

C--Colimeum 

r 

ry 

o 

—Factory 

aW 

e 

da 

s 

bg 

t 

s 

a 

i 

D 

e 

f 

e 

r 

—Courtheme 

o I ci.nc. evert 

I 

IA 

a 

::_ttern le a stbe l most low apla t the ye rs sta # 0rt 1 1 0of W ethe a ch 

Iliame.(clemendine upon se rve r optlonm 

etc) 

D. Whe re to build the fi rst city. 

I. M a pping the countryside 

2. D e fe nding the citie s 

3. U nita to build fi rst 

4. Auriculture improue me nts 

5. lihuro to build 

6. Ta king ca re of citie s 

7. Explore r the world 

W. Ke e p in mind 

9. M a ke your own stra te gy for the 

.... 

V 

r 

v,I.Emt, En ••••1 J e • m e l l ,1_ 

A Thankhdly thero's same il useful online kelp for FreeCis also. 

411 

. 11 

, 

extremely easy to use. You can find 

f 

it on the Arninet at 

r 

eamer2PlaY/BattleDuel,lha or on the 

1 

1 

. 1 1 

cover CD. 110 1 1 ; 1 

1 

GridLock 

GridLock is an older Net link-able 

game which is based on a rather 

unique puzzle style gameplay_ Again 

it is not possible to change the 

screenmode and the program 

defaults to trying to play via a null 

modem link, however by manually 

adding an entry into AmiTCP or 

Miami's !nett) database, Gridlock 

will play via the Internet, 

It's an extremely good game and 

well worth a try between yourself 

and a friend, either locally or via the 

Internet. You can find it located on 

the Aminet at 

gamel2play/GridLock lha 

Foundation 

Paul Berkey's Foundation is coming 

along nicely as we went to press. 

The God's-eye-view action strategic 

war game claims to mix elements 

of Settlers, Warcraft II, 

Command and Conquer, Populous 

and Mega-lo-Mania together along 

IMDlealRM 

with several new ideas. 

Now, we wouldn't even bother 

mentioning this much anticipated 

game if It weren't for the fact that 

TCP/IP network/Internet gaming 

support is being touted as one of its 

major features. 

This could give the game a whole 

new lease of life with competing 

players building their towns, cornmanding 

their subjects and ultimately 

sending them into battle against 

the opposing players. 

Some other features slated in 

addition to the network gaming as 

proper CGraphX, even AHI sound 

card support and the novel idea of in 

game enug-shots from many individuals 

in the Amiga community. 

Foundation could be hot news on 

the Net this Christmas, meanwhile 

we've got FreeCiv to tide us over in 

the meantime. 

Foundation is due to be released 

round about November and you can 

see Sadenesses Foundation web 

site at 

http://Www.sadeness.demon.co.uki 

foundation.html if you would like 

some further information. • 

Mat Bettinson 

#

JO% 04 

, 

• 0 

0 

, 

, 

6 

• Una 

k 

; l,. i a r " 

. 

: Wg 

e 

• O 

• W 

• . 

• . 

• . 

er• " / " . 

Net God speaks 

don't need to remind 

Amiga users that even the 

most powerful 68060 bas 

machines don't compare 

favourably to the latest 

PCs and workstations. At 

least not in the CPU stake 

This in mind, it seems 

strange that there would 

be an Amiga team entered 

into the RC5 Secret Key 

challenge. Until you consider 

that the Amiga RC5 

team is actually a study in 

the Amiga Net community 

and its ability to pool 

resources and organise a 

common campaign. All 

around the world, Amiga 

users are bending 

University and Work main 

frames to the Amiga RC5 

cracking effort. Hundreds 

more Amiga users have 

their Amigas chugging 

away at the RC5 cracking 

client in the background. 

All this is before the Bow 

RCS cracking client is port 

ed to the PowerPC which 

due before you read this. 

If the Amiga can reach 

#6 in the daily stats with 

CPUs that are several yea 

behind, imagine what the 

could do with PowerPCs. 

It's heartening to see the 

Amiga Net community 

stands together for a corn 

mon goal. Give us the ne 

generation hardware and 

they'll be no stopping usi 

84 

Feast your eyes on this months gaggle of websites. 

Lurking below is a cool E-mail client and a groovy 

No Amiga to Waste 

No Amiga to Waste is a brand new 

Web site which is designed to be a 

place where both developers and 

users can come together as one, in 

order to share ideas and comments 

with each other. It appears to work 

on the basis that there are Amiga 

developers who don't know what to 

write and so they go to the No 

Amiga to Waste site to get some 

idea for a new, forward thinking 

super application that the Amiga 

should have. 

No Amiga To Waste plans to 

implement a source code database, 

a development tips database and 

also an on-line help/chat system via 

the web site and IRC. During the 

meantime, Amiga users can 

includetheir own suggestions to a 

variety of different categories of 

applications via the web interface. 

The No Amiga To Waste's home 

page can be found at 

bap ://thunderstorms. ora / NATW/ 

Ifs Up! 

Eucalyptus 

Eucalyptus is a new ClassAct based 

E-mail client which does look 

incredibly impressive for a newcom 

er to the scene_ 

Starting out multi-threaded and 

MIME compliant is a very good star 

but the clean and functional 

ClassAct based GUI also adds to 

the prof essionality of the new program. 

Eucalyptus is in public beta 

as of going to press_ it requires OS 

2.04, the ClassAct GUI classes isupplied) 

and only a single megabyte of 

RAM. 

Recently the POP mail download 

functions of Eucalyptus have beer 

activated so that the package is 

fully operational for standard E-ma,1 

use. If you fancy a crack at a good 

looking new E-mail client and don't 

mind doing a bit of beta testing 

yourself, check out the author's 

home page at 

htto://www.oeocities.com/Silicon 

Vallev/Pines/3517 

co-op. 

Amiga RCS effort 

The RSA Secret Key Challenge is 

a competition from the 

American RSA cryptography 

company to prove that the current 

encryption schemes are 

insufficient for the Net. The US 

government endorsed DEC 

encryption standard was 

cracked early on by the 1997 

Secret Key Challenge. This 

involves RSA offering prize 

money for cracking the key. 

riFrom here, collaborating efforts 

arise on the Net which co-ordinate 

the CPU horsepower from 

many computers towards a 

brute force cracking effort. 

While DEC has been cracked, 

the RC5 algorithm is next under 

attack for a total prize money of 

910,000. The leading effort to 

crack this RC5 key challenge is 

the Bovine group. Bovine is a 

multi-platform, multi-client 

effort which has the Amiga well 

represented. 

There is an Amiga version of 

the cracking client but due to 

the astronomical quantity of 

CPU power required, the Amiga 

RC5 team is more of an exercise 

ln Amiga users pooling 

resources, usually other computers 

with extremely powerful 

'CPUs. 

CU Amiga Magazine has a 

variety of Power Macintosh's 

and 68060 based Amigas contributing 

over 2 million checked 

keys a second. CU Amiga is just 

one 'company devoting CPU 

power to the Amiga RC5 effort, 

greater still is the huge number 

of Amiga individuals which has 

pushed the Amiga up to #6 in 

the daily statistics and 67 overall. 

The Amiga RC5 team was 

still climbing quickly as we went 

to press. 

To contribute yourself, check 

out the Amiga RC5 team home 

page and the other relevant 

pages. Here's a list. 

1

Mat Bettinson roots out 

some of the better Net sites... 

Move, and the teddy gets it! 

First the UK Robotics Club 

home page is a pretty ordinary 

affair with little to recommend 

in it. The 

entertainment lies in the list 

of members where you can teleport 

yourself to their home pages. 

There I found loads of details 

about an American robotiCs competition 

called 'Robot Wars 97', In this 

competition one doesn't compare 

engineering skills, oh no. If your 

robot can summarily dispose of the 

Other robots, you win! There's several 

weight classes, manual, automatic 

and the incredible 

all-against-all melee rounds. 

In addition to The Robot Wars 

Home Page I discovered a whole 

bunch of other cool sites about the 

entries, including the winner of the 

Robot Wars 97 heavyweight class 

Biohazard. For some reason this 

EIMITIONIEMPIR 

lc xi, 

Surf of the Month 

chap's ISP complained 

about his DIY Tactical 

Nuclear Warheads 

pages. Still, stay tuned 

for the next CU Amiga 

DIY scene. 

David R! Woloschuk is a 

Canadian student with 

an exclamation mark in 

his name. 

Obviously studying the 

'Visualisation of Parallel 

Program performance' 

proved too much and so 

he turned to cartoon 

strips in his clearly copious 

spare time. 

The After Life of Bob is 

a sequential comic strip 

story that tells of the 

afterlife of an American student who 

appears to die in the first episode. If 

you'd like to find out how and what 

happens next, then 

check Out the archive at 

this website 

Where has Movie Critic 

been all my life? It 

requires you to register 

by rating at least 12 

movies. Big deal? 

Wrong! After that it will 

present to you a selection 

of moyitil6 which it 

A Top: Wedge of Doom wins featherweight champimship. 

Below: The heavyweight champion 'Biohazard', 

buIrs eye on every count for me 

though I needed to rate 25 movies 

before it became accurate. 

This site is the absolute canine 

nether regions, so check it out for 

yourself. 

On the Amiga front, Mark Wilson 

AKA Tecno, has been threatening to 

fire up an Amiga specific live advertisement 

site for some time. 

He's finally done it at the AmiBench 

Adverts Page, where you can place 

Twe ,ro•otrm 

Almormot.s • 

LIFIUs 

i 

.0. berta.ca 

h/ 

p_intro.html 

t- 

ta 

pd 

ta 

/ v 

tp a //mow .awnriec A i r c o 

httortfthundarstoris.oig/ 

/ 

Amoonch/ 

i 

wd 

mw 

http://www.thosias- 

p/ 

kay.demon.co.uk/ 

A 

L 

ht o 

tB 

http://www.webspawner.com 

pi / 

/ e 

I / 

t 

pw 

r 

s 

http://www.tinweb.com/rob 

w 

ot/index.html 

i 

ew 

. 

p 

r 

ro s 

sht 

/Armor -phobe•comizolA,pit 

b/ 

i 

AMMON& 

os 

b 

tt 

free i 

wr 

live adverts for Amiga equipment 

e 

ar i and software and view various 

other ha; 

adverts. 

a 

Interestingly enough it describes 

z 

CU Amiga as 'One of the most vocal 

a 

magazines left*, Hmm, thanks. 

r 

The database broke when I sub- 

d 

mitted p an advert but it was fixed 

quickly, a and up and running shortly 

after, g It doesn't explain Mark's fixation 

e with Hooch though. IN 

Mat Bettinson - mat@mats.net 

l 

i 

thinks you will love and 

aA 

Scant seconds before teddy meets the business 41e, on the big screen 

l. 

11,006 end rpm diamond o f cutting a saw, these guys play for keeps! 

k 

and small. It hit a golden 

n 

o 

W 

l 

a 

t 

54 

11111111K 

a 

‘o 

v 

, 

i 

0 

Welcome t 

S to Amlbench 

h 

P 

o 

o 

la:e :est ye n. meo arsd SUM Bum& hid m an die* fix a web M a la te We luny suet stetted au re bus 

snikamae lun this petard it the pouter M kw that help and meat I at ;dam & , 

avesaaseta1 nataar-g %rah Lehd yol.• Itoskp, bso please medo toad h •Ebon2,.11, o mri please AD eaml am here ea Ana l anal, or heed deal 

I 

err are 

r 

gong 

a 

to gat gas sole 

b 

ne e ie 

h6WO1 A 

, * i f ,* S 

MAI 

,9 . PAW 011,4',. 

Ad* OV 

hide* ya !da ta .. 

, 

en , , 4 4 7 F 9 

h 

. 

P 

a•at't kra t 111 4 1 

o 

Lnoy 

4r,u.yAr , 

tiss. 

4cneasome 

6 VO 

, 

w 

4 

. 

• 

y r 

, t A e g 

, 

f 

e 

•ea* 

imikai 4,•••• / 

a s•-• '7W e , , A 

. 

o 

6 h"..nett. n. 

0a 

, off•H r 4 

i 

10•Orii 4A 

, 

f• 

A.\ 1 

0a 

m 

I 1"." 

4., 7. 

•• 

, 

t od 

- 

a 

N 

•• 

1 

4 ifus N 

x•4 

y 

r 

• . , ,• • • 6•••) 

1 

, 

o 

4 • 

plAe1f:4411 o 

HE n Y. e 

x Amb 

e o 

, 

m a 

hew) 1A 

t , 

• 

, 

- 

NOW!! 

I• ta! 

• 

Cowles 19%1Dasid R 

Mete Walgfle kx porke410 , 

you Attrkizi 

pmum. 

. I ro Rirooter/ 

crtMe tt. F M , ,,evarts 44 14P 

.1-0", / a 

• Imre b o p So ta rra tfiita Pt , doropooro, ra.ir; 

, I 7 

- 

— - 

I 44 

, . 

' r o 

• 

, a Myr_. 

, 

t shrtm49 

4 

• 

M 

A 

W 

1 

l 

o 

l Anathemas at a Ounce 

y 

r 

n 

u 

l 

21=1;41111AL= Zaxr.biLdigaa hat dorm sts •• 

Ala nd AvaBssach 

i 

• LoLAI LU A 

t 

hatetendefealtsswe hese' 

• Fiov.itU10.1 

A 

• Lyikaw,- s;jettaut, r e n 

,,, traeth 0 A n a t e n cmh end a l the Mame erred **Amara 

K I N 

i 

, 

A Boy and sell Amiga hardware ' 

gaid 

software, instantly, front Amibench• 

• T d u n 

a 

n a l a c t 

T 

, 

e 

" h 

a l 

W 

l 

e 

e 

s 

g a 

n g 

t 

, 

e 

m 

INS • o 

O 

o, 

a 

9,.... 

, 

• 

AwIt toe, L.toof.),11 

1T. 

P1E115101 

7 

A 

lAt 

4i 

A The life and times of Bob, the dead Canadian studeot. , 

2v! 

0 

. , e 

- - 

- t 

- - 

A

Back 

Looking for a specific Amiga article, game review, program, feature, 

tutorial, or even news story? Your search could well be over... 

r 

E 

M 

I 

I 

IC 

= o 

m 

p 

l 

e 

t 

e 

t 

h 

i 

s 

f 

o 

r 

m 

a 

i 

d 

e 

In 

P 

d 

l 

ui 

m t 

Arqqf 

4 

z e I 

AMIGA 

JULY 1996 

Disks XiPand h Primal 

Rage demo 

Features A special report 

en what's happening in 

Europe, b news on Voserp 

b Pres 

Inside Image FX 26. Serf 

Seuirrel. A40110 Tomer. 

Primal bee SINDS Ears 

aid more reviewed. 

NOVEMBER 1996 

Disks. XCAD 2111 - The 

premier 30 CAD linkage. 

plus Chaos Nellie 2, CD- 

ROM or limey edition 

Ii; 

iIi Psion 

ir Insitip Opus 5.5. BeHina 

OSP sower card. Web 

r, 

Browser Plat Alta Dadra 

PCD-ROM 

miter 

a 

lMARCH 

1991 

Disks. m OrtaME1 

SaundStodis t 'loll program' 

o Chaos login 2. 

Chaos p Imre 2 AGA demo 

FA 

einto 

m a pro studio Printers 

aproblems 

i solved 

tInside 

g 

Cluickcam. Cyber• 

vision 30, SMD 100. 

u 

JelPilet a reviewed 

r- 

eJULY 

1991 

s Disks Free Net solware, 

Tamaderback 

6.1 in DB 

etools, 

lig Red Adventure 

rFeatures 

Total Immo' 

n Solutioe. the history el 

ythe 

Amiga Er a look at 

o 

Arthel artist Eric Schwartz. 

Inside Final Writer '97, 

u 

Siamese RIG 2.11. 

r ken It. • 

A 

m 

i 

g 

a 

AUGUST 1996 

Disks EasyCalc led mepawl 

b Valhalla III demo. 

features The future el the 

Amiga with Mama the 

new PIDS machine and the 

second parr of the 

Eviresceoe harem. 

Inside Siamese huh, 

Photogenic' LI, Malik 

III ISM Ti. ley 

DECEMBER 1996 

Disks • Illedworth 3.1 Si, 

Worms demo. CD-ROM or 

floppy edifiers 

F 

efor 

FSI! Amiga and PC 

agames 

no CO-ROM 

tInside 

Draw Stu& 

uApollo 

1231. Storm C. 

r 

Siamese RIG system 

Tiny Troops 

e 

s 

APRIL 1997 

. 

Disks. Directory Opus 

C 

5.11 (lull program) Tiny 

DTroops 

demo 

- enlie Berld your own 

Rlower 

Amiga Part I The 

O50 

best Amiga Games 

M Inside Massive Cinema 

d 

403.1 Review, new DIP 

r 

series. ProGrab Sampler. 

Teletext Decoder 

i 

vAUGUST 

1991 

e 

Disks logligle. Turbo 

Pram 5 Lite, Stem C 

Compiler 

fi'itilies Dower PC is 

COMM!' Crack the Code, 

plus Power Gaming 

Inside Cinema 40• 

Voyager PIG 2.91. 

Browse 112 b Tower 

add-.us. 

Priority Order Form 

• Timer House, Sovereign Park, WWI St Market Harboroueb, Iciest/16 1EF. Tel: 11151 435 350. 

Please rush me the following issues of CU Amiga Magazine 

ssues 

7% 

WILMER 1996 

eisks Vista tile Hull program) 

b a demo ol Brian 

tare Cricket '96 

Femmes The Amami 

exposed Al 6 gigabytes' 

Inside heal Writer S. 

OttaMED SaimdStedie, 

Atapi CD-Rom drive Phis 

a. exclusive preview of 

the NM" AGA Worms. 

JANUARY 1997 

Disks CD-RONI Sr floppy 

edam. Imagine 4.11. 

Underwater Capers. phs 

ever 11111Mb of Imagine 

extras on CD 

IcAturn Get a job. 

graphics, plus Imagine 4.0 

Inside Art Effect, PPerM 

7, SWOS 96-97, Eighths 

Spirit, Chaos Engine 2 

MAY 1991 

Disks Image Studio Hell 

program) Karp. RPG. 

exclusive dead me CD 

Features The Futures 

Baehr Gateway buys 

Amiga! loner Amiga Part 2. 

Inside PageStream 3.2, 

Big Red AM/enure, 

Lightelave 5, Epson Stylus 

618 

St Pli/AB1R 1991 

Ilisic Sixth Seem 

Investigations, Vista Pro, 

MakePate, Geoldemb 

Featares New Faces el 

help Gaming, Amiga 

The Nut Generative, opy 

Sowed Card 

Inside Art Affect 2. Art 

Studio 2. 

5. locks Flying MO 

Micr 

entk 

g e 

o - 

OCTOBER 19e6 

Disks Upper Disk loads 

deal he simile ore those 

'raiment rasis and drives 

1features The Amiga is 

America, Net software 

Inside The speed issue 

or something Three top 

accelerators, a TCP/IP 

stack contparisee b 

Capital Pinishmeat 

FEBRUARY 155 

Disks Design Works. 

Meshes Fin-balls plus 

Wenn — die Director's 

CM mires and Imagine 

extras 1111 the CD. 

Features The new A'Box 

Inside llordviodh 

Office Turbo Cak, 

Mania's Emigrate, 

Boman reviewed. 

JUNE 1997 

Disks Pro Page 41 rfla 

plogLaIni MPEGA 24 

.Sysinspector The Si. 

game b mole' 

CD-It for Auriga 

cut rout own CDs for a 

km hundred ponds pies 

Tower Amiga Pad 3. /ewe 

inside Tirabo Print 5, Net 

Connect, Cyhervision— 

OCTOBER 1997 

Disks TEX, TB 313 

tinelater, Vitas Z. Moe 

Easel, Visual Pres 

Features TEX: Ileickstari 

Garderlechrimes b Tips 

etc.. &dame The 

Portahk Amiga 

Inside Eiden Mac 

Emulator, 01111111410111. 

Pk%tI 

ll 

EWE MIN I M = FEE 

T 

o 

w 

I 

V 

e r 

S 

t 

o 

'Rates: - lit 5 99 hope Ind rest of world: f 6 58 Except for CD-ROM editions: UK ES r 99 Europe sod rest al 

world: f 7 51. Al prices include postage aid packing. Disits'COs are included with all 

m 

orders. CD edition is 

mailable 0 for the April 1996 risme and monthly starling horn the November 1596 issue. 

C 

Method of payment 

1 0 Wm ['I Amin ACC11% L "leers Club cmd 0 Cheque if Sterling I 

8 

5 

8 

4 

3 

5 

3 

5 

0 

(mid.. 

Signature.-- D a t e 

Please make cheques payable to EMAP Images Ltd. 

Tide ..... S u n m a n 

Address 

Domem Weeks' weft (ideal STD cede) 

Expiry date 

Posited'

White Knigh 

ono I 

AM/GA & deo diting Spec 

FREEPOST ANG6387, WARE, HERTS, SG11 • 

We Supply The Entire Range of Accelerators & Graphics Cards From : 

A 

31.1PD 

.11011 

1 1112 ARD 

663•••••1010•10 

cialgagivaErk 

Cvongerzeon 

_ p m 

4PC4 

AI N C A'' C OM PON E:1 PC " 

1 

11E1 

1 

i n 

g 

: 

1 

* 

For Al 50012000 

CYBERVISION 1 

64/3D E 155 

CV 3000M/ 64/3D Scandoubler E 65 

CV 4000(TI 64/3D MPEG Decoder E 125 

Phone 

01920 

822 :321 

9.30 - 5.30 

Mon - 

Hard Drives (3.5") Bare 

EIDE - For Amiga 4000 

TN it 141 _carves are NOT suitable fec41200 

1 6Gb E-IDE 

2.1Gb E-IDE 

2,5Gb E-IDE 

3.1Gb E-IDE 

4.0Gb E-IDE 

E 155 

E 165 

E 170 

E 210 

E 230 

Hard Drives (2.5") Bare 

E-IDE - For Amiga 1200 

1.4Gb E-IDE E 175 

1_8Gb E-IDE E 195 

SMI & Screws E 9 

Only when purchasing drive!' 

CDROM Drives (Bare) 

nternal Fitting - NOT for Al200 

12 x Speed SCSI-2 

SCSI-2 CD Writers " 

E 125 

9.1 8 x Speed E ATAPI/IDE E 75 

212 x 9Speed 9 ATAPI/IDE E 79 

16 x Speed ATAPI/IDE E 85 

Cartridge Drives (SCSI) 

SyJet1.5Gb Ert *CANE, 2 375 

SyJet 1.5Gb Int. • Cable E 285 

SyJet 1.5Gb Cartridges (x 3) E 245 

ZIP 100Mb EA • Cable 2. Term E 135 

ZIP 100Mb NEW Internal E 135 

ZIP 100Mb Disks (x 6) E 75 

JAZ 1Gb Ext, Cable & Term E 375 

JAZ 1Gb interns13.5* version E 285 

JAZ Disks (x 3) E 245 

EZ Flyer 230Mb Exl Cab's E 145 

EZ Flyer 230Mb 0,sks (x3) E 70 

._L DRIVES SUPPLIED WITH ONE Ols 

Networking 

HYDRA Zorro Ethernet E 175 

Ariadne Zorro Ethernet E 179 

1 

A 

l 

2 

Memory SIMMS 

0 

8Mb, 72 pin, 6Ons 

0 

16Mb, 72 pin, 6Ons 

32Mb• 72 pin, 6Ons 

P 

E 40 

E 70 

E 120 

WE ACCEPT 

Mastercard 

Visa. Delta 

and Switch 

2.5% Surcharge 

on Cre dit cards, 

Nol Sestet De lta 

White_Knight_ Tech 

4 1 

, 

C 

Frcfn ' 

Fax 01920 

o 

just 

All Prices Include VAT @ 17.5% 

h 

m 

.. 

p 

1 _ I 1• • 

maru _ urives (3.5") uBate 

GenlOCks 

8SCSI-2 

& ULTRA S 

LOLA 2000 SVHS & VHS 2 349 

2 

e r 

1.2Gb 2 SCSI-2 Quantum E 195 

LOLA 1500 VHS Only E 179 

v e 

2 •1Gb 3 SCFI .2 Seagate E . C235 

3.2Gb 0 SC-2 Quantum E o 299 

2 

SIRIUS M AAS & VHS 

4.1Gb SCI,I-2 Micropolis E 449 

4.3Gb S4.31-2 slow Microp. E 315 

Plus Audio 5 Chroma Key. 

Software contra E 699 

4.5Gb ES,S1-2 microodis E 515 NEPTUN As Sinus, but without 

9,1Gb SCSI-2 Micropolis E 849 

WIDE SCSI DRIVES ON REQUEST 

audio & Chrorna Keyer, E 529 

Now Available Again 

AMIGA 4000T 

With 040/25, fitVlb, NO HD 

E 1,179 

Without GPO, 61Mb, NO HD 

E 1,049 

Add Cyberstonn. Drive & R&M 

Monitors • 

17" Microvitec 1701 

17" Hi-Res SVGA 



E 439 

E 439 

E 199 

E 165 

Amiga Software 

ART EFFECT 2 E 149 

MAINACTOR BROADCAST E 169 

AMIBACK 2 Backup SNV E 30 

TWIST 2 Relational Database E 50 

MULTIMEDIA EXPERIENCE E 40 

TURBOCALC 3.5 &sheet E 25 

INFONEXUS 2 File Manager E 15 

WORDWORTH V5 E 20 

PERSONAL PAINT 6.4 E 10 

CLARISSA Professional V3 E 179 

ADORAGE V2.5 E 109 

MONUMENT DESIGNER V3 E 239 

MONUMENT CREATIVE CD E 69 

ANIMAGE V1 E 99 

ADORAGE MAGIC Movieshop E 79 

ADORAGE MAGIC Casablanca E 79 

Miscellaneous H/IN 

PICAS'S° IV 24-Bit Graphics 

Card with Flicker Fixer E 289 

Specifications ? 

It you need technical details 

on any of our products, call us 

on fi I 'PO ;_t22 32 I 

White Knight Technology 

are renown for excellent product 

knowledge, service & honesty. 

We Still Support The 

AMMit 

Please Call To Verify Price & 

Availability before sending an order. 

Minimum Order Value E 50 + P&P 

Many prices subject to exchange rate 

E & E 17109/97

TUTORIAL 

Sound Lab 

Pfilf2drrJ1')1111,rd 

fffliJiJJIJUB! fill i\adin 

It sounds like we've got our wires cr 

can use image processors to mangle 

edit a sample, you would 

use some sample editing 

software naturally enough. 

N ormally However, if you if you wanted have to 

exhausted the effects and options 

offered by your audio software and 

are still hungry for new ways to customise 

your sounds, here's a suggestion. 

Image processing software provides 

all sorts of interesting func 

tions for manipulating images: 

morphing, rippling, convolutions, etc. 

What if we could apply some of 

these processes to audio files? It is a 

great idea, but if you try to get an 

image processor to load in a standard 

format audio file it is not sur- 

prising that it will fail. But that does 

not mean it is impossible... 

From the computer's point of 

view, image data and audio data are 

no different from each other. It is all 

just numbers to a computer. As far 

as the computer is concerned, you 

could just as easily listen to an 

image file as look at one, 

Unfortunately though very little, if 

any, software allows you to directlydo 

these kinds of things. But, with a 

little creative exploration it can be 

done. 

It works like this... 

Before we get started, it is Important 

to understand some of the inner- 

workings of this process. 

There is one major difference 

between audio and image data. 

Audio files are single dimensional, in 

that they are played back one data 

item (sample) at a time in a continuous 

stream (width). Images, however, 

are two dimensional in that they 

have width and height and are displayed 

as such. In order to relate the 

two, we need to understand how 

audio and image processing software 

handles data differently. 

For discussion purposes, we will 

use a small sampling of raw data 

IFigure 1). As audio data, this is 

processed as a single stream of 

data played back from left to right. 

In order to use this as image data 

though, it needs to have width and 

height. We want to be sure to use 

all the data, so it is necessary to 

choose our dimensions appropriately. 

Figure 1: 

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 

We will start with a simple example 

that simulates the single dimension 

of audio data to recreate a simple 

reverse waveform audio effect. To 

do so, we will use width = 16 and 

height = 1. The image processor's 

equivalent of reverse waveform is 

the flip function. A horizontal (leftright) 

flip of the data in Figure 1 will 

result in the data in Figure 2. 

This gives us the reversed waveform 

that we wanted. Note that a 

vertical flip would not have altered 

the data at all. Alternatively, we 

could have used width = 1 and 

height = 16 with a vertical flip, to 

achieveihe same effect. Read on to 

find Out why. 

Figure 2: 

15 14 13 12 11 10 9876 5 4 3 2 1 0 

That was interesting but not very 

exciting or new. We could do this 

much easier with most audio waveform 

editing software. 

To better demonstrate the useful- 

ness of using image processing in 

this way, we will start again, but 

with width = 4 and height = 4. 

When loading the raw data in Figure 

1, the image processor will arrange 

the data in a table based on the 

dimensions you give it. Data will be 

read in column by column, skipping 

to the next row when the full width 

is reached. If there is insufficient 

data, the remaining will be filled 

with zeroes, 

ossed, but no, you 

your samples! 

If there is too much data, the extra 

will be ignored. In this case. we have 

just the right amount of data, 

arranged as in Figure 3. 

Figure 3 

0 

14567 

289 

10 11 

312 

13 14 15 

Because the data is now arranged 

two dimensionally, a horizontal flip (a 

single dimension operation) will have 

a different effect, resulting in Figure 

4. If we were to then reorganize or 

store this data one dimensionally, we 

would have data as in Figure 5. This 

will cause some interesting things to 

happen to the sound. 

Instead of reversing the whole 

waveform as before, it divides it into 

four separate parts with four values 

in each and reverses each part individually, 

all in one simple step. To do 

the same thing with an audio waveform 

editor would have required four 

reverse processes each with a different 

set range. 

Figure 4: 

3210 

7654 

11 10 9 8 

15 14 13 12 

Figure 5 

3 21 0 7 6 5 4 11 10 9 8 15 14 13 12 

In order to do a proper waveform 

reverse with data organized in two 

dimensions, it is necessary to flip 

both horizontally and vertically. If we 

now flip the data from Figure 4 verti- 

cally (up-down). we get Figure 6_ 

Storing this data gives a reverse 

waveform, again, as in Figure 2. 

Figure 6: 

15 14 13 12 

11 10 9 8 

765 

4 3210 

Now that we have a better understanding 

of what happens internally, 

we will try working with some real 

data. For this tutorial we will use 

ImageFX 1.52 from the coverdisk of 

June 95 CU Amiga cover disk to do 

the data manipulation. 

However, the methods described 

here can be easily applied to most 

image processing programs. We will 

also be using two audio utilities 

included in the SoundLab directory of 

this month's cover CD: Play16 for 

audio playback and SOX for audio 

format conversion. 

STEP 1: Preparing the 

audio file. 

The problem is that it is very unlikely 

that you will find an AIFF, WAV or 

other audio file format loader or 

saver in an image processor. It is also 

unlikely that you will find an image 

data loader or saver in an audio 

processor. Fortunately, there is a storage 

format that is common between 

audio and image data formats and 

that is RAW. 

We have included a sample IFF 

audio file for this tutorial: Piano.ifi 

(seen in Figure 7 as it appears when 

loaded as a RAW graphics file). It is 

an 8-bit sound with a sampling rate 

of 16,780. To begin, we need to con-

••••••• 

..•••••• 

vert the sound file to RAW format. 

SOX is smart enough that it will recognize 

what we want it to do, so 

from the CLI1 

SOX Piano.iff Pianosaw 

is sufficient. This will result in the 

creation of a new file called 

Piano:raw. 

STEP 2: Loading the 

audio file. 

Most image processors do not 

specifically contain a RAW module, 

and ImageFX is no exception, The 

SCULPT image format, however, is a 

RAW data format and ImageFX contains 

two SCULPT modules: 

SCULPT GREY and SCULPT RGB. 

The difference between the two 

is that SCULPT GREY is an 8-bit data 

format while SCULPT RGB is 24-bit. 

Because our sample audio file is 8bit, 

we will be working in greyscale- 

Load Pianosaw. When prompted for 

the format, select SCULPT GREY 

(Figure 8). Because the RAW image 

format does not contain the dimensions. 

ImageFX will prompt you for 

the width and height. 

It is important to use dimensions - 

that are large enough to accommo- 

•••••-• 

STEP 3: Processing 

the loaded data. 

IMP 

- • • • , , . _ 

ar-• 

- 

M 

- 4 1 

E 

M 

To perform a reverse process on the 

sound we need to use the horizontal 

and vertical flip transformations, as 

explained earlier. Select Transform 

(see Figure 11) and then Flip 

Horizontal. Then Transform, again. 

and Flip Vertical (see Figure 11). 

STEP 4: Saving the 

data. 

In order to playback the new 

reversed sound we need to save it 

as a RAW data file_ Select SAVE and 

then SCULPT for the Save Format. 

imageFX knows that this is a 

__--a 

— _ = - 

i 

- • = f 

- 

— — w • • • A C " — m m . , - - - . _ _ _ - - - -•- _ . • 1 

, • . . . - - - . ' ' - - = . - - . - . . . . = . -• - ' - • — — , . . . 

; - - — C 

- - . 

= 

_ • , _ • - - _ i i rp - _ . - . _ 1 1 1 1 1 . , • 

= 

M 

- 

- . . 

I 

- . - 

E - _ _ 4 1 - 

- 

1 

_ 

1 

— 

. . 

, . . . _ . . - - ' _ _ . _ - 1 1 — " " P - - . . . , . • — - " - - - - . . . . _ - 

- ._...„.. . , 

. . • - 

I 

_ . _ 

- 

. , • 

- 

-= R, 

— - 

, 

1 

• _ 

• 

• 

• 

= 

date the entire audio file. Generally, 

we want dimensions such that 

WIDTH • HEIGHT = RAW BYTES. 

Piano.raw is 86,700 bytes so enter 

300 for the width and 289 for the 

height (see Figure 9). 

We have instructed the software 

to load this audio data as an 8-bit 

greyscale image, so the data will be 

represented as shades of grey. 

When loaded as an image, the Piano 

sound looks very different (see 

Figure 10). 

3 

• 4l 

i r 

Okay I I Cancel , 

Image Width - (pixels): 0 

111 IMige Haight 

2891116 

(Pixels): 

Okay I Cancel 

• 

greyscale image so it 

will use the appropriate 

SCULPT GREY 8bit 

format. Select 

SAVE AS and name 

the file Piano- 

Backward.raw. 

STEP 5: 

Listening to 

the modified 

sound. 

We could convert the 

new RAW file to IFF 

format using SOX 

before playing it back. 

but it is not necessary. 

However, 

because the sound is 

in RAW format we 

have to tell the audio 

player what sampling 

rate to play it back at 

Entering the following 

in the Shell will do the 

trick: 

Play16 

FREQ16780 

Piano- 

Backward.raw.grey 

We have used the original sampling 

rate of Piano.iff for reference here, 

but you can try whatever rate you 

want. Note that ImageFX automatically 

appends a suffix ".grey" to the 

name you give it. 

STEP 6: The weird 

and wonderful. 

Earlier we talked about the strange 

effect that happens if we only flip in 

one direction. To hear it, do one 

more FLIP VERTICAL transformation 

and save it as Piano-Horizontal.raw, 

Because we have already done a 

vertical transformation once, we are 

now flipping it back again. 

Effectively, doing just a horizontal 

flip. To hear this weird thing enter 

this in the Shell: 

Play16 FREQ=16780 Piano- 

Horizontal.raw.grey 

111111,IM 

AGE FX 

ORTH ENT 

MMGILle 

- mulmommm 

Avta— 

• R o o m 

• • • t • 101.1.• tr aolow 

• Tycommin 

• i..04,Mal• 

A It you thought you'd got the most Item our ImageFX 1.6 cover 

disk, thilk again: it can be a sample manipulator tool 

We have only touched on the basic 

procedure here. Next time, we will 

delve a little more in depth into this 

process. In the mean time, explore 

this technique further and if you 

come up with anything particularly 

exciting please drop me an email. 

These ideas are presented only 

as a guide to possibilities. Hopefully 

they will be used as a starting point 

to something new and wonderful. • 

Dhomas Trenn 

You can contact Dhomas via E- 

mail at dhomasigyoungmonkey.ca 

Next month 

You've made a funny piano 

sound - so what? Well next 

Flip Horizontal 

month we'll be following up 

the theory with plenty of 

examples of how ImageFX can 

be used to really chew up your 

sounds like nothing else. 

Flip Vertical 

AL Mirror , Horizontal I 

I 

VA 11 

VerticalAllit 

t 

11 

11 

P 

1 

Cancel= E L I

TUTORIAL 

Desktop Publishing 

Protessiokal Page 4.1 

Helping you put words on 

your page is Larry Hickmott 

with a processor that is 

both integral to ProPage as 

well as a standalone utility. 

ord processing ano 

desktop publishing go 

hand in hand and 

Professional Page gives 

you the best of both 

worlds with not only a powerful 

page layout program, but also a very 

useful word processor called Article 

Editor (or AE for short). 

AE can be used in two ways. 

One as an integral part of 

Professional Page where text on the 

page can be sent to AE for further 

editing and spell checking. The second 

way of using AE is as a standalone 

text editor stroke word 

processor. The only function that's 

missing for this latter use is printing, 

but that isn't such a problem as any 

text file produced in AE can be printed 

Out using any word processor or 

DTP application. 

Using AE as a stand-alone program 

also stretches to editing 

scripts and so on for your Amiga. I, 

for example, have AE linked up to 

my file manager so that when I need 

to edit my Start-Sequence and so 

on, I can do so using AE and the 

click of a right mouse button on a 

file, Having suffered from using Ed, I 

can heartily recommend AE for 

adding assigns to the User-startup 

and such like. 

You can do this too, because 

unlike most word processors these 

days. AE is text based with the files 

Dovons tor 1111111ssonsi Page Tar 

Insert Mode 0 

Sums IcsnsG i 

Cursor Flash 0 

Cursor Width 

Numeric Weypad 

Tab Spacing 1-4- 

I ok I 

it produces being ASCII, the most 

basic form of text you are likely to 

use. This also enables you to create 

ARexx "genies" for use in ProPage 

with AE. 

Getting the most from AE 

though does require some knowledge 

of its inner workings and 

although I don't have enough space 

here to explore everything, the following 

should help you get more 

from the program, 

Word power 

Lets start looking at AE from a 

Professional Page perspective. That 

is, using AE from Professional Page 

rather than a stand alone program. 

The idea behind AE is that when 

large amounts of text are required, 

it is generally better to type it into a 

text based environment (like AEI 

rather than on screen in 

Professional Page. This is especially 

so if you're Amiga ienot accelerated 

and your monitor is a single scan 

job (like a.1084) or even a TV set. 

Lets say you have a letter to 

write containing hundreds of words. 

You can create the letterhead in 

Professional Page but write the letter 

in AE before placing it on the 

page to print. The way to utilise AE 

for such a task is as follows. 

Before you can send text to AE, 

you need to create a box on your 

page Make siffe the box is created 

ON T e x t Color 

Page Color 

Border Color 

Title Color 

Style Codes 

Paragraph Symbol 

11111PL"' 1 

1 

:Itt 

DI 

Cancel I 

A Various aspects of how Al works aid looks can he controlled from the Options requester 

which is opened by choosing "Set Options" from the Special menu. 

rru ocv r v nos i j a l i g i v r - m t fl 'tt 

Pr!fl • C 

si 

W 

- 

P 

a 

t 

t 

e 

F 

1 

Cut 

Copp c F 1 

Unmark /Hock . r s 

Save I le a r s 

Select Don F 4 

Select All t r e 

Fled r v 

Replace F 3 

Find N e xt s F 2 

Replace N e xt s F 3 

A to send lext to the Article Editor known as Al on disk, choose from the Edit menu the item 

"Article Editor". The shon-cut for this is "Right Amiga-r. 

using the Box tool which is on the 

top left of your tool box and not the 

Rectangle tool used for creating 

structured boxes. Once a box is created, 

click on the Text tool and click 

once inside the box where you want 

the text. 

You can now starting typing in 

Professional Page or choose the 

"Article Editor" item from the Edit 

menu to take you to AE. I use the 

short cut which is the "Right Amiga" 

key and the "forward slash-question 

mark" key pressed down at the 

WOrtiimoil avow 

I _ 14 

• SP• • . 1 

I 4.0111 I S • %IR. OPE 

444 4 4 4 4 4 4 O.s.r...od 

AE is a 

21:17eful 

rAJAM 

Ma sore - wards found 

4 

1 

r a n i r l fl , # t 

Almiltaliddlit 

0 

1 

1 

same time. This keyboard combination 

works for sending text to AE as 

well as from AE back onto the page 

in Professional Rage. 

Here's looking at AE 

Once you have AE in front ot you 

there are some worthwhile things 

you should know about this application. 

Lets discuss now it looks on 

your screen. Because I run a 

Productivity screen mode, I have AE 

open up on Workbench. This is done 

by choosing Screen 

A AE isn't that font sensitive. However, the importance of this screen shot is to highlight the 

"Guess Spelling" button, which brings up a list of words or word for you to choose Irom. It none 

are correct retype the word in the teat gadget containing the misspelt teat 

A

Vorensochnase. 

, 

r 

m 

a 

t 

p 

t 

o 

I Aos, Se• I I 

I 

lii 

i 

PtI 

1 1 1 , 4 1 . 

-eee 

I bier wit 

, 

A 

1 

e 1 flm 

IP , 

1 

xI , 

a (tor • 

• 

taut. xt ' 1 

soon 1 

&ne , tt 

arry . , 

• 

r 

eilt 1 

0.. 

Amid 

M-Alao 

Kodak .. . 1167: 

6° 

Cr 

Stylus 

i . tt 

( s r 

Dr.. twill 

trod/V 

at 

ie w 

th 

A You will find that many words in common usage are not in the maim dictionary. Ti correct this 

you can create a list of words. get AL to remember to each one as you spell check the file and 

then save that list to disk to be reloaded the next time you use AL. 

FormatANorkbench from the Project 

menu. There are two other choices 

available and when you have the 

one you want, choose 

Environment/Save Configuration also 

from the Project menu. 

Continuing with the look of AE 

on your screen, lets now turn our 

attention to the Options requester 

which can be made to appear by 

choosing "Set Options" from the 

Special menu. From here you can 

set various settings like the colours 

of the background and text for 

example. You can also alter the 

width of the cursor and the speed at 

which it flashes. Icons for text files 

saved to disk can be created or not, 

depending on how you prefer to 

work. Just be sure that you choose 

Save Configuration after you make 

any changes. 

Within AE, there are many other 

features worth mentioning. One of 

the simplest and yet most useful for 

me is the ability to insert a text file 

into your current text file. So many 

word processors do not allow you to 

do this directly but AE does. Most 

of my writing for features like this 

are written in the more powerful 

Protext but even it doesn't allow a 

direct insert text function like AE 

and it can be so annoying. 

Spelling bees 

Text typed into AE can also be 

checked for spelling mistakes. This 

is done by placing the cursor at the 

start of the text and then pressing 

Alt-8 or choosing "Spell check to 

End" from the Commands menu. 

Single words can be checked as 

well by pressing Alt-7. If the word is 

correct, a message 'Spelling is correct' 

will appear in the status bar at 

IND 

the bottom of the AE window. 

You will however, come across 

many words that are not in AE's 

extensive British dictionary Whether 

it's a person's name or the title of 

your favourite city, it can be annoying 

if commonly used words continuously 

come up as not being 

recognised by AE's spell checker. A 

way around this is to click on 

"Accept b Remember" in the 

"Checking Words" requester. You 

can then save all the words you've 

told AE to remember, to disk so they 

can be part of AE's dictionary the 

next time you use the program. 

Saving the words to disk is easy 

Once checking is finished, click on 

the Transpell interface which is a 

small rectangular box and then use 

the right mouse button to choose 

the Dictionary/Save menu item. The 

Dictionary menu is the middle one 

for Transpell. Give the file a name 

.and then each time you use AE, 

load that file and your unique words 

will be there as part of AE's whole 

dictionary of words 

Exceptional 

Also worth a mention is an 

'Exception Dictionary. This again, is 

one you create and is used for compiling 

a dictionary of words which 

are in AE's main dictionary that you 

want AE to stop at when spell 

checking. Lets take the word 'can't'. 

You might have a situation where by 

abbreviations like this are out of the 

question and as AE won't tell you 

about them because the word is in 

its dictionary, you create an exception 

file with the word 'can't' in it. 

This is done by using AE to create 

a list of words you want AE to 

pull Out when spell checking a file. 

Ate dble al &re. 

- 

13_1_ PPOOMIACAli BOGS lam 

riceoStraglim 

RAW 

Cpu 

Rod rodoStroom 

818ohyto 

ak monohyto 

We-Auer (Si 

Stylus 

DP 

Mawr& " 

Toolbox 

GralfiT 

PARINI 

,• 11 

. 

,E111L 

1 IS 10 ,ii_ 

, 

l i i , e e 

J S P : 1 ' 

rt mongol 

Eti 

e 

•-• ,• • e a counniuzinota .drrmit 

: 

London 

" . i m y r 

al * ta d sy 

iGalmical 

k1 

W. , =J =1J =.:J 

s 

"." 

; u w h r 

t 

"' 

a 

o 

n 

m 

o 

A When spell checking a file, you may find AL evedooking words That you see as incited ler 

your work but are immetheless in the main dictionary and therelore deemed to be correct by AL 

This can be avoided by using an Exception file, which is a list ol words saved to disk and then 

loaded into the spell checker "Transpell" when required. 

cf •OroftsommiNes/ext 

I 

s 

won't 

shouldn't 

ait's 

atone* 

awouldn't 

c 

: 

4 

Nee tle 

.1.- 

, 

u .licpt...er 

Jilt e 

s 

giptlin#1 

ri ) 

( ...me . I fi nd) 

lCromer 

ysilo 

) 

n PaVe utt 

11=11 

s, 

Text 

arm 

page. These style codes are normally 

hidden from view but you can 

make AE show you these codes. 

This is done by pressing either 

"Right Amiga-6" to show codes or 

press "Right Amiga-7" to hide them. 

This may not seem all that useful, 

but you can use this once you 

get to know all the codes and how it 

works, to format text within AE. Lets 

say you want a piece of text bigger. 

The code "Vs" tells 

ProPage to make the text 24 point. 

You could change this while editing 

the text in AE to lts and 

the text would then become 12 

points in Professional Page. 

On its own, this revelation may 

not be a lot of use but once you 

know all the formatting codes for 

Professional Page, it means you can 

create a piece of text with all the 

necessary codes in it and when this 

ai 

MOE 

1113=11111 

•A 

Se. I , I I 

-.••• ,14111 D D I S K 1 

141. N N1,1 • 14,••••• v•••.I 

A Press "Right Amiga-R" aid you will see is well as your text, style codes used by Professional 

Page which dictate how a piece ol text looks on the page. Press - 

Right hide these codes. A m i g a - 1 " i n 

o r d e r t o 

Save the file to disk and then use text is placed on the page in the 

the Transpell Exceptions/Load menu main program, the text would 

item to load that file into Transpell_ already be formatted. I used this a 

Now when you check a document lot in my early Professional Page 

which has the word 'can't' in it, AE days when formatting text on slow 

will stop at it and ask you for the machines was a real bind. 

correct spelling. 

Time for one last major feature 

Doing it in style 

and that's 'Search and Replace'. AE 

enables you to look for a word or 

I expect many of you will not be series of words, or if required, 

aware that when you create a piece search for a word and replace it with 

of text in ProPage, that internally. another of your choosing. It can 

ProPage uses style codes to 

even look for a word that not only 

describe how that text looks on the contains the same characters but is 

in the same case lupper/lower). 

Precious time-saving 

This search and replace function is a 

real time saver for many tasks, 

including times when you want to 

format text as explained earlier by 

using search and replace to substitute 

simple code's of your own making 

with the more complicated 

Professional Page style codes. 

Before I go. I want to urge 

ProPage users to look very closely at 

this wonderful editor because I 

haven't seen a DIP program on any 

other platform with an editor that 

comes close and when you think 

how old AE is now, it just goes to 

show how good a job Gold Disk did. 

Don't miss next month's exciting 

tutorial as we'll be looking at using 

pictures with Professional Page. • 

Larry Hickmott 

j

iemzers 

PHONE FOR YOUR FREE 

@ 75P PER DIS 

335 or 834 

39p SAE Fax/ 

(01704) 

e 4 

' I N' e 

s 

At 

C 

MOM Of MOW o n t o INNA110 • 

10 disks ordered choose 1 

Online PD, Dept CUM Unit 5, 

CATALOGUE 

, 

. 

Dept•Cti. PO Box 835. 

Wootton Bassett. Wiltshire SN4 8RX 

TEL: 01793 853802 

Public Domain/Shareware/CD-ROM/Commercial Software/Hardware 

FREE CATALOGUE DISK 

Pt) / Shareware from only 50p/disk 

it Whole" 

- 

orld 

l 

• 

Oam 

ig;S 

oftw 

are 

a 

Embassy Building, 51A Piercefield Roae 

$ Formby. Liverpool, L37 7DG 

SHAC 

SECOND HAND AMIGA CENTRE 

TEL 01983 290003 

Al200's FROM E169 

MONITORS FROM E99 

FREE UK MAINLAND DELIVERY 

ALSO, HARD DRIVES, RAM EXPANSIONS, 

DISK DRIVES SOFTWARE ETC. 

ALL AT REASONABLE PRICES 

WE ALSO PURCHASE PERIPHERALS POA. 

SEND SAE FOR LATEST LIST TO: 

SHAC, 69 KINGS ROAD, EAST COWES, 

ISLE OF 1A1GHT, P032 6SE 

Tel:0410 067525 

Mail Order Only 

e 

C 

c 

' 

COLOUR MONITOR El 

Our custom mode leods 

-:,-5trad Monitor to work 

a crisp R colour picture 

cuality amplified stereo s 

Pickwe Only 

,CIFA644101 Inc Stereo Speakers E3 

- PLUS (CM1.4) Inc Sood E 9 

• 5 ) P.11 ,re Only E 6 

Dept CU, Hogars Electronics, 

127 High Street, Sheerness, Kent MEI 2 IUD 

Tel/Fax 01795 663336 

Mandy bock approval P&P inc. 

CCUPO DELIVERY 2 DAYS 

a l Z O M A 

CREATIVE HOME COMPUTING 

DENL 

SYSTEMS/T CONVERSIONS 

& PC 

INNERS . i 

BUREAU & SCAN SERVICES 

FILE CONVERSION 

MULTIMEDIA & DESI 

Als Pot Promos , , . 30.06 I . . Dimmer. OM 124_oo I r m o r r 

ro b s"' IlluoIro ' - . - INAS O r o own n o . t o a r a notocio 

Nowa.. NNE I . 1.04 . . n , ' a12.31 

v . Ave .......,• • o r . o n . c o . . . s p y \ 

homoolmo ...Log Sio e r r , 21 r 

-1 -M 

- . 0 1 

r l 822• TI2.47•t . . ..- 4 OE- lM a ISELAmoin 0,-- 

. 1 1 • 1IT SO 0 -'• ValloGIA vaitoalsZ 

1 , 

111 omm 

1 1 . . 0 9 __4_16 

solos , M o s Inomoroot MPG 

M-m11 ro g e o r i '' t .. EIt•I 0124 A 

O N T O motel nori 

. 

L o s M o r o 

co,470_ IN Norm. a . . / 

rn 

Poom sumo 

m. 

irtua. .1. . loon LI. . 

T1 

121 . 1 3 0 1 e Sur Norm M A O M a s k . M o 

6 E r 0 . ...Oro . 

1 . M o i r a Itiorm. , 1 4 6 1 o r s Orr 

m 

* 

b o 

I 

s i 

, 

o r s • 

Iblor IAN 

t oor o • 

u4co 

o c. Moir 2 A • r i, 

p_,E4013 lr a "• po rmolomdio o co Trol soollit i 1 -.. - 111.19 111.10 OM M o m *Moo -- „ 

MAroo norm 

ra 

. 

, , 0416 

. . t Ommob Go % . _ _ OAS t o rol NAPO • 

ob roi um* or. 3 2 0 • ormoNS amooMITION - 

i1 

1 4 . w o . r . . 

r, us eMN n , a i ce t n* n - tg i or l t ' 0 7 . 1 6 C N N . . . 

o 1 1 0 l o . . p2 

m 

1mMany 

imore t 

o lia rs I n 

o o. stock 

n • l , 

1 o . 

r o _ o B o o t y 

-- pt. - -- . OWS S Sooloo. 

...Z• t . 110/10 I.. 

O N I N MN p&p por nyder 

0. 

M r 

. m 

0a 

8r 

, W A Szt" 

. I 

t•. 

• FREE 1 01,13,1- 

PHONE FOR FREE CATCHSK 

i1 

FREE . disks p•r 119 • FR EE Dia l Boxes 

t1 

FREE spare 1 : r &e nde d (M ks 

A a. 

FREE :1 glass P&P next day M a ste n 

:r Amended to wort vastly M t toottinert 

A Only best inle t & la tte r vs MUMS 

. 

m• 

L 

r . 

AA 

a3 

Giro 

d1 

123 

7.1 a1 

M o r r o 621 

= 6= 

1 . 

a4 

" HO Clicir 3 

9.011.1. E 1.2 NM 

k1 

.. SO* lbrowse 

• . Xr M r . m No AGA 10% 

trootosonl 

W0 

G e 5 AGA 61% 

00.1. l 2 be ACM 1005. 

M oNomood 

c•.• 5.i1 45 

: 

Vm= 

h n 

• aMori. 

o . o AGA 41 

Itordiewo 

l 0A 

m 

WA2, UTILE 

h. 

G e 

11300 SI MINI 

a0 

G 

J A Irmo Moor 2.2 .112 04 10% 

J u 

l Moo. A Moo 5.3 SI% 

J cPolo. 

i Carol ISM 

l a5.0s3 

d 

a 11 Fisso0/111 o DAMN= mem 

J Oro OrmOot 14 or. 

I 5 Flosmost . Orr Emos 

rPomo...Pro o 

HO trobkor 

OPS Libt sod Tom. 

t a 

. 

2 

▪ Sosibdsoomm lo 

11111 

J hod Moro. I 1. 

J I A mod 004.10 

to. SNOOS. ors .6 

- R 0 inC 

S 

SOMWIffit 

ah n: 

lamo 

lo V 

PM iMN 

UM SA 

wJ 

O 2o 

h s 11 

J MIA Rom 3.2 IA% 

n 

WEA t_GPAIES 

6J 

Moir It rio• io 

1n 

Prouour SO% ' 

J Deb.. Pompon IASI% 

Robouldo . 

Saidot 12% 

...I Tor. 1 

-1 M a l a g a 36 100% 

1 

DIU ETC ANT I le 

% 

TomErsono 8 1.4.8 Om. 

e 

Fools 01 

Sr. Dr.. 

O Moo MOW Octrers 

Pm Prior Miro 

t krUSK tve 

Am. 

t M r s COW 0101 XI 

a Wir 

la 

r *M Stst ton la d ow. s 

e 00 Ocrismod 0 mood 

OAKS 0ri -ANY 119 m 

eJ 

dM 

T . lode 

t p Arrso KM 

J 

e 0Moro 

Mord 11 Ciro 

J Nor. Nor oto 

1 

eJ 

Sop Mrs 

d : 

• 

NItr1 

1 1J 

INS Motor 

o ro b . Orrmial 

U:0 

.4 Mood C. N 

mr 

. Trool Sise 

,isorro 

oT 

Rool Odnoot Motor 

o 

t 

7 

b. 

e1 

1 

t 

( 

t " 

e o 

J Orel 

• Ns. Woad MI 

Cadne Astro 0 IN% 

J Mr.* 

j Omsk Room 

IS 

11 

C.4 

Sons r Morro 

_2 SAM Moor 

1 

EDIJICA0ONA1. • ANY INN 

'J 

SOH Tr. GM. 

27 .5542 To. Nod Goo ONS IS 

r INSTI0.1 Medfla &IMO tit 

Climb CAMigoing 

. J Orson. 6 Tub,' 14 

ICOKSAANGADADININ 

13 

J Moro Mortbroor 13 

oP 

J Norm. 3 0 0 

M All Hooloor 4, III 

111 

2NormAcong 

S• l:kart• 

3 

1Mask 

WO 512055 II 45a l 

1 

0=21Io 

MON Moos 14 

1 .5 1 0 

1 

'5 

Murry ortmo I N 

2loormsrapro 

Moro looro 

, 5. 

• 

0 

1 

T 

0 

r 

0 

o 

1 

t 

1 

M 

o 

7 1El 

fi l i W 

C-7" 

Gerry Broad,,, 

AMIGA PUBLIC EST 1993 DOMAIN 4), 

e ALSO GI/B-PD 

, FREE CATALOGUE DISK. 

AS LOW AS 50.P PER DISK - 

MINIMUM ORDER E5. 

FOR A FREE cA 

- 

. 

NraccuE 

1000s OF DISKS 

1 D PLUS I S20 FREE K LABELS WI TH YOUR FIRST 

I ORDER - SUBJECT TO M ARA Bll ITT 

1 , 

SEND A SAE TO: 

APO.V. 

LBroad U Enterprises, 43 Badger C 

l 

S F - Maidenhead, Berkshire, SI-6-2TE 

LEAVE YOUR NAM E ADD R ES 

SF1050, 

R ON ANSWER M AUI ONE, 

IE1. 

E 

Z a OM 

1 do a 01628 63602C 

E C 1111 I 1 

DF 

1 

I 

1 

S 

1 

K 

1 

L 

1 URE P 

A 

1 

B 

• Highest event" OD rinks 

1 

E 

• Pkw day despcacto. 

1 

• 16,000 Wes Inc 

L 

S 

S 

• Far brandYd drib odd J0p, 

P 

Y 

E 1-9=50p 10-39.40p 40 

E 130* 1 0 DI SK PACKS E3 4 0 

A - 

S 

K 

210 

FRI 4-=35p seedier with 3 disk cats 

S 

0 fret milli 11112 iirder. or , 

I 

F 

D end 3 

R 

WCHOOSE 

UP TO 1000 TITLES ON 

U 

L 

I CD AND/OR BACK UP YOUR 

Y 

A 

& HARD DRIVE. 

B 

° 

E 

L 

L ONLY E19.99 

E 

A 

R 

' 

Please write for full details 

A De pt CUF, 72 Ronworth Rood, OrC11711 

' 

, 

' 

Rotherham, 566 2SH 

CLASSIC AMI 

7 Phone for a 

FREE catalogue disk 

0161 723 1638 

SHOP OPEN 

12-9pm DAILY 

PULL RIME Of CD ROME CDSTs 

HARD DRIVES / MEMORY ECPANSIONS 

CD ROM DRIVES 

L_ GAMES NOW IN STOCK d 

i 1, DEANSGA 

RADCLIFFE 

Manchester 

sOI IA% %RI 

E BEST IN MUT 

SLPPPUED ON 

LEADER • 

ONLY HA LORI 

DIY HELP BY 

POST ft PHONE ANYTIME! 

FREE CLUB MEMBERSHIP 

PRA YOUR OWN PROGRAMS! 

BY NAME, NUMBER AND SIZE! 

ITS EASY! 

5005 Nikon 1 M anilla CAI 

BOOB mitts I noa boated bill 

CATALOGUE WITH FULL DESCRIPTIONS & INDEX ONLY El 

Phone lot INS LATEST PROGRAMS! •-3 1 a skstl.SY, 

4 et mem MA V11,21 

BI tir2 

smith It 'Ira!, don 

sorry', 11t2 s 

'Tel: 0181 AS7 i6i7

11 oh 

NOW OWNED BY QUARTZ PD 

THAT BIT BETTER THAN THE REST 

OVER 4300 QUALITY SOFTWARE TITLES! 

SOFTWARE FOR EVERYONE - GAMES, UTILS, DEMOS, ETC. 

1500 QUARTZ UTILITY TITLES! 

UTILITIES LIBRARY FOR THE SERIOUS AMIGA PROFESSIONAL! 

AMIGA PROBLEM? WE HAVE THE ANSWER! 

POWER GAMES! 

AMIGA GAMES ARE NOT DEAD, AND WE CAN PROVE ITI PICK 

ANY OF OUR KICK ASS QUALITY GAMES FROM OUR CATALOGUE 

AT JUST £1.00 A TITLE! OR PICK ANY 20 TITLES FOR £18.00 

DUICKSTART 1200! 

A SUPERB INTRODUCTION TO THE AMIGA Al2001 SHOWS YOU 

WHAT A POWERFUL MACHINE THE Al200 REALLY ISI IDEAL FOR 

NEW Al200 OWNER! £7.99 

AGA TOOLKIT 97 CDROM! 

GOT A CD ROM DRIVE FOR YOUR AMIGA? THEN GET A LOAD OF 

THIS GROOVY STUFF! THIS CD CONTAINS EVERY TOOL FOR 

EVERY JOB! ITS THE BEST OF OUR QUARTZ UTILS LIBRARY READY 

TO RUN ON CDROM! 921/0 REVIEW IN CU AMIGA! £8.99 

!FREE INTERACTIVE ON DISK CATALOGUE! 

FOR YOUR EXCITING FREE COPY SEND 2 x 1st CLASS STAMPS 

OR YOU CAN PHONE US ON OUR /A HOUR ORDER LINE! 

DEPT CUX, 44 CECIL ST, WALKDEN, MANCHESTER, M28 3LE 

0161 702 6737 

THOUSANDS OF TITLES IN STOCK AT JUST CI .00 

ONE FREE WITH EVERY 10 ORDERED 70P P+P ON ALL ORDERS 

CAT DISK El 

OR FREE WITH 

EVERY ORDER 

FREESTYLE PD 

TEL: 01922 710985 

TWO FREE 02SKS WITH EVERY 10 ORDEREO 

DISK PRICES 

1-20 El EACH 

21* 75i) EACH 

P&P 506 PER ORDER 

121WOHLrgiAllin 

03000503131 01 

, 13.20A Teens 

0801(100 Moot*1 3 

1 Kos 2 ) The C4inves 

CybotacH Corp ( 

2 Mad FiWars 

TO The 00821 

) Ho4 

12110_01121LY.DASIES 

Beetle 

Baza N Rurrl 

Masquerade 122 

Zomba( AoccaYpso 

%Mots 

TOtit Dual 

Jinx RI 

Fe/ponce V2 (2) 

12N044OLLENSELS 

SIN 5 

131 

0Break. 

Barks OHM 

JK KallocAs God 

Foam 

O Bolourst 

RSAIOrnerke 

2 Cars (2) 

a Sawn 

12120S/BILY_DAMES 

ADM* Jock 

Maielcbon (2) 

Excell Card Games 3 

Polowatls 

BloC 14cAPIAM 

TWA DB 

Balm 

Monsters ol Terror 

m 

acia.o.Aatous 

4611112 

▪ tos.. mono' 

o 

isuessusurnals M A I M 

▪ 1 

n 

▪ 

Dmvidno Km 

J am& Conmund 

w4 4s251J00310 

J m u m 2 

-3 as , 034d3 

A 

N babulacs 

▪ Skeoam 

J Owl 

0111110111 

.3 HAIN 133,13133 

▪ 0030043 

G 

o 

9142241vo Wm, 

▪ 004433 $oatfi 

Zacell 

A 

w J BMW= IMW 

▪ 03.3. 000 

- 1616114151 

▪ 13•• 

W.21001 

Pam 0•40•33 J two) Do 

J Ulm krnit 003031400 00,0 inspordas.s 

J Bit , %Fe licah0103 

Puani n 

wait OAKS ▪ 036133 Fo CT' 

DOM 4,0nos 

.3 Moro ihtematt vup mem 

J NM Part 124 

3 2 3 

J 00233 Vart 

J Rah lugo 

▪ 0431 Mul 3 

▪ AZ NA V0104 

0 

301400114 

A 1 

J Soars l 3 gi 

A hiwo 

A Wm PAW 1214.02 - 

, 

thoh how , ▪ 02441 

C8 0 . 0 WA*. 

▪ Dirm o Imp* IS, 

Oan7P• 

4J141-0 

Cad Gar. A P.204. 04420.4 0J 

Supra. VI 42 

m 

4 

1 03313 

.44404 

▪ 414012 

m= 

1 1 1 

, A (wow 

03103ns Sow 0 

J Of Ian, 

1 

0.5. 

, 102711 

i'1.3314 

r▪ 

14101 0 

KAM GUM 

CrSt 

101 04041434 Jam 1 

3oso 

00,0330024II 

4 n 

h 

Ibb 

3 4.1031003 II 

OEM LIAM/I JIMA Olko 

0 

1.4401411 

VI1 

Prg 

A 330*0043• 

.3 hew las 

A Almitt 

310 0004 62 

• .10033 Hod% 

10 

J12003•300, 

NOVN Www 

0 

• bias 

• Eimem ( 5 ) 021 

3, OWN 

Mow SW 

,A Loos 2,4 WAN.* ▪ 1000 3 taMmy Pp/mow 

J Wool War 3 4 56rENW 

1J 

IOW 

.4 Imo Cad 

.3 Maths 

J Sams Elitlaim,•• 92 

.401, Fero VI 

0A 

LPh aLWAN w IA 62 

2 

Tonei 1403 

J COM, 

J Whop* 

•-• DANN 1 Wm 121 .3 0504. 

, 

▪ u 

JIWO Norwar 

• 6tMITIMI MILS 

111.11112ELAWI ▪ 3030303 

24 

Clie413 

1440 Woo 

PLAtKelittal 400 _3 Ted 2 

80100 

011400•• 401301 J WNW. 

4, 

4J 

%Mt* 

1A 

two IX 

lal SO IMO/ 

, Algid S i Ill. a CONN 103 ▪ Ctiekt 

2 

11 COMO 1 M. Paw 0131o41 

4400emeie 204116 

A plow • evaded 

)0040001,513nning 000 Skt 

J Crown 

Cla Q0.04 ir, 

--44 1 0 

42 .3 030 2 

J11034 Stem NW 

tnim 

▪ 013,33 13,0,3 i%003) a0 . 130400 

tie 31330136 03 140010 oi335•4133 

30 200030 

Cmtie Num .405040102 

J Prim Slalt1 

CM Gans him rb 

.3 VOW 4044 •:21 

tws ▪ ok) 

PACANMA J SWUM t3121 1 

▪ Mb VI 

A 04.2 Co. MI 

113011 

.3 .30 143 11113 

Nom.,I og.1 . 

0 

J110.ossi 

A Whn• Ihro 66 

▪ Oropt 

▪ LAs. PA 2 

Com St4/14 

51•0012 ttps 41133 J 44.10, 

114 

▪ 

_I empty.* 

. 4 

J nu Dom 

▪ , 

-I (woo 

a DIU 1413 VI 1 

, IAN* 2 

3 

▪ 0 

▪ 

MIK LIMO 

3J 

' W W 1 %MO 

AMU UMW. 

034 

1J 

30 011000 43 31 no S3ava00g -1 To Ha 14114 

0511121004.3 

3 

0 

31 Dad Et MOO) JI• rapEri 

J 30o 64440331t 

W•Oldy VIIMPW 

0/0430 

▪ Ancoms %Una 

, 

3 

0• .540 Otato 

0.3 

Dow Ng 

▪ 010•3 14•314343 .3 VOW 11.1440 

Sie Camwei lee ,10..1 0▪ 

StI4 

tlat 

3 E. 

3J 

Ohm how 1 _3 moms Omens NA ▪ J 00o. Ammo w ▪ 3 

J Now. CHOP MP 

, A Roww. 01 o IWO 

b-rr 

1 

3 laPP 

C 131.63 4• ▪ 0010 

J Chow 

, A 3haw 

IA ▪ D m 

▪ 103•4 1000. 3 

SON 

333,0 

4 3 

NUMMI , 1110130‘0 3 Conect MJ 

DOOM NYMMit 1 , 

MAIM 

TO 1401010r 

40 

• D 

i, , 

W000 

, DINEWR 

l l 

▪ 10461 F 

144•04; 4311401 

44.4.. Pitt MO 30 

J Mug. W O O 

0.030 

3▪ 

e 

0, 

J OWN* P 0001 r3 

J Makin W o w A 6 

JI• s6 1 0 2 0 2 r , A Sinn* 661Ww 

2 

101•3 000•• 11161 1J 

Lank Row 3 3JIM 

n tOwl 

'Ws I 3 

o A Nwo Cath VW 115 ▪ 11622011 War) 622i 

34 

▪ Coto Wow 

20 

31 

13042443300 

4 

, 13304 Um 1110 , loNli Won 0 NO 010 , 

1 

A Pownihrta002 

CI rivm161 he GUI loosi 

Nwon 12 1 ▪ Gm Imo 1 

▪ 0431101un , 

r 

0Joao 

to 

CAPE TM 

P01 

53333403101 01131 

13 

• 

Ks 23 VI% 

▪ PC 

Ca Mee. f t . . 

A 011 Toki %OA 103811M151 

3 OW 01111.O. 3A 

PN• 0 7/46 

o5 

44 204 WNW 

33 J Saw 04000 310110 

▪ .4141.04.51 4 Om 11126M 

.3 Nom 0, 

21111111.1 etioNEOI1 1 2 1 

w Al Ma w k 

3 We Om 11031 0 

111040 0323 0110 251.4 

4 INECIA 0 MSC -17066 17 NO WM 441245 

3Moos 

(16.1 

A OW 

▪ Om *414611 A Com NOP NO WIN 

W 

A Al Ma 2•••1 

1No 

Usk 

A law 12 

-2 NW 0221664 0211 A 0.120226 0 WIal 

Su TM MG 

w 

10103 02 IMO 1MM 01 wt 

1A 

lAmbin 

.421 (WAS 

056- ma ANI 

3NW. 

0 

w.50.0 

Rh 

A 66 Ow* 

j Do Caol WOW 

) 

30 

w hhp 

0•0 

Jeeeve II 

0600 0 

Eistaa1034 

, 0 

A WNW.. 

A Sme0 FAA Rep A Ph,. Lair 

.110 , 

MOM , to w• 

r 

1 

.41140 

A hi 011 Do Wp• A (Woo 1 

, 033 

1, 

M 

,611 

O P 

4m 

04 

FOR A RAPID RETURN PLEASE MAKE CREMES/POSTAL m ORDERS PAYABLE TO W 

p l 

3 

. 

O 

- FR DEPT EESTYLE CD, 101 WOOOSADE WAY, P 940FITH O , NEATK WILLENNALL, WEST MOUNDS WVI2 

o o 

3 

1 

W 

1 

. 

• 

G 

R 

FREE 

lA EMULATOR E 

E 

T 

, 

ON ALL ORDERS 

FRE 

ON EALL 

ORDERS 

FREE 

PLATFORM GAME6 

MINIS - L 

AANGA , 

AMIGA EMULATION 

obt MAO COW MDT 1.5 • KLACX-TRS .•( j 205 AMIGA - 

J 423 2 DISK SPECTRUM 

3 133100.1104 BONUS J TVON-TRIS TEI1 J1 2 1 0 Lano LUNATIC SIO PC DA 2 DISK 

-1144511CIV GAMES 1J 

293 13 

J 1431 A-GENE VS 

J 327 ACTION REPLAY 

.51543 LANCEOLOT 05 1.4145 

SUPER FOUL EGG J I 564 LOTTERY SYSTEM J 055 DOWN TO A503 

31462 MARL* COOL 1 J ISE PILL -• MANIA J 1882 THE PHYSICIAN 3 313 UP TO kV) PLUS 

J1 0 8 9 Al 2 DANGER DOG MJ 11154 A Al2100 PLUB7 

A /NO MEGADEMOS 

J 414 UP TO Al20) 

.55 

RI 2003 E Al 2 WORIATRIS 

-7 2045 ETERNAL 2 04SK 

orsx COPIERS 

14 J 2008 /112 KICK M 

C 

PACIAAN GAAIES J 463 0 SPICE 2 DSK 2022 COPY & MAD( 254 

11 SPACE 411.AS7ERS 

O.51491 

Al 2 PLAY PAC .52003 TERMINATOR DISK J 727 MOT) TASX OAT) 

4 J 2042 AS200 GOWNS 

OJ 1968 L JACK-MAN 

1270000444 RAVE J 150 X COPY INO 

o.32043 

STAR-BOY 

S 

J I456 PLC MAN 

j 1220 OVA AMAIN 

3 325 LOCK PICKER 252 

n 

J 2028 F-SPtATT 2 

J 1138 Al2 CYBER MAN 

J 1165 VENTILATOR 

HARD ORWES 

M 

911 SOLO ASSAULT 3 1646 All BOBS LEMON 

j 1865 2 OSK JADE 

.4 

006 ONITERATOR 

3 1725 DREAM Yen* FIE 

A 

3220 suPs PAC-IAAPI 

J 400 THE LAST Psuof 

AMIGA MEGADEITO5 

2J 

779 WS 3 S.STALL 

BREAK-OUT A PONG 

N 

.55 

J 2053 SHED TEARS 21001 

0 703 VHS 2 park]. 

5.3 

I 

43 J 1708 THE ASTRO ED 

I 400 TEKNO RAVE 

1) 

490 I DISK MAGIC V1'4 

O 

4 J 1665 Al 2 SPEEDBREAK 00450 

MEGASALL VI 

j 1015 20554 1A2 WED. 4 11802 A BACKUP Y5 

J 1450 CYSERSPHERE 

N 

J 1104 2134854 OXYGENE G 1674 CD A1A441 

S.511404 

CREEPY CRANIA 3 558 MEGA/MALL V3 

D 

J 1715 TECHNO TRACKS AJ 

1775 2 DISK MUI 2.6 

PJ 

1921 MIEN 

E 

mJ 

1704 BORIS BALL j 1115 BATIANY 2 MK MJ 

1770 2 ELBE ERROR TALK 

AJ 

1816 EKASTED 

J 1024 OUTSIDE NOW ▪ 1223 COL0021 CYCLE 

L 

C 

3 2033 Al2 BANANA ISLE E 

E 

PRINTING 

3 2021 BAK-FIGHTER 

Al202 soDE SK/WS 

U EACADE GAMES 

I 

a 243 AMMO MMEER I DISK 

E 

c BOVLDEROASH GAMES • ▪ 740 4 DISK WOW 

Xj 

2093 Al201 GEENIE 

N 

J oft NAGA PONT 70454 

B 

.52527 OE MINE PRO 

5271 PIXEL STORMS 

E 2085 FISHING FUN A 

L 

15145 NEW MINES 

S 

J KO PRINTER DRIVERS 

j 1193 LEMIAINGIONS 

.4275 KELLOGS EXPRESS 

A 

s.5 

3 1141 MISS IMAIGA 

T 

33 048 PRINTING STUDIO 

13.0. ALIENS 

S 

1 1672 UNDER ONES j 1150 STARR EET 3135IE 

A 

J 345 BANNER MAKER 

.2 1338 STRIKE COMMAND o 

j 057 TEXT ENGINE MI 

T 

53 

1873 GOLD IMES 

AMIGA SLIDE SNOWS L 

J 1503 UPD 24 GAMES 

J 394 INVOICE Ppoir 

u 

E 

85.3 

3 2064 4.12 PATIOPIDER L 

3 1937 Al2 BEASTIES 2 

J 744 FORM PRINTER 

R 

0 11 LI IMO EXPERT IMES -1 2046 FAN-CALVE 21391 1 

INO Al2 SIPSTREMA 

J 1158 MAO AND LM3EI 

J 1906 FLY TIGERS 

B17 

LI 1562 CERAM( USES J 744 REVELATENS 2 

3 1142 PRINTIOSTER 

J1946 ASTS-ANTSMITS 

UE 

0 1583 STYX LINES 

.5081 PAT NM)EL'S GiRts 

P VERSIONS G Ma 

1192 SPACE NINES 

J 036 AVIATOR HISTORY 

J 2012 FONT EDITOR 

J 025 HUNTER PLUS IE 

2013 WORMS MINES 

3 ON SEESK LION KING 

AMIGA 603544E55 

.5555 LEMMNGS PACK NR 

PV8.CLu44 GAMES J 1480 NIGEL IAANSELLS 

▪ 2013 *MANAGER 20540 

31 023 FICK DATIGERCUS NA 

.52080 BIALYS OPENS 

1472 AMA BABA DO J 932 DATABASES 2 CASK 

ARTWORK PACKAGE I CO2 AOCOLNI MASTER 

J 1457 TI Fle*TERs EL 

J 2032 PRO POKER 

.2 IWO 13,12 DOPAINOES 

2 1232 CODDLE PAINT J 471 LITTLE OFFICE 

0Z2 THE GODS 

SD 

J 062 ULTRAPANT 

-I 244 SPREADSHEET 

5.3145 Al210 YATZEE 

J 021 ROBOCOP V2 H 

J 340 SPECTRACOLOUR 5.5 535 UK 5 I D CCOES 

U 1304 CHECAIRS V2 

▪ sNOS SOON E 

J 748 ILLUSION PAINT J 14114 CORY 2000 

272 FRUIT MACHINE 

J wNsALL FANTASY A 

14$0 A•Z RANT PAD J 1366 ANNAN (14 

COUBA 

375 CARDS SOLITAIRE 

D 

J 1565 CARTOON STUDIO 1758 DAILY LING 

▪ HI FATAL T SLOWS 

3 1216 AMIGA CRIBBAGE J 1707 PERFECT PAINT J 11176 NOTEBOOK 

.52340 PUS DARTS 104411 

J 930 MARTIAL GA SPRIT 

J 1780 .105 PICASSO 

COIOUP CUPART 

J 200 FIGHT M E WARS 

.5569 WORLD DARTS 

ARTWORK PROGRAMS 

3 83T 8 DISK COL/BRUSH 

J 1238 SWEAPON 

MASTERS 

J 1460 SAT SNOOKER J 20564901 ART PRO 

J 1426 OWIERGMAES 3D5K 

1112 Al203 X CARDS 

.4457 7 DISK CUP ART 

Zi 1202 Al2 MAGNI-CAD 

BOARD GAMES 

901 1 DIN WORLD MAP 

J ISO FIGHT Al200. 

j 071 GRAPHICS CON KIT 

MONO CLIP APT 

3 I 720 Al200 SAMURAI 

.5245 SCRAZZI1 

070 GRAPHIC UT1LS 

CLASSIC GAMES J PIO PEW SOISCPOLY STAT 3 133 FRAC LAND SUED J 172 le GNI PORTFOLIO 

015 asTtpaus 

J1226 PICTURE LAB -I 551 7 DISK OLP APT 

▪ 843 IPSSIE COMMAND 

J 471 CHESS GAMES 

&ANA TONS 

AANGA MODEM 

J 771 OVERLANDER a ICS LFT & LADDER 3 0134 PUGGS IN SPACE 5.32067 AEON VI 4 

▪ 002 SPACE INVADERS 

ADVENTURE GAMES -1651 FMNIGPIT 242 3 702 CORMS moult 

.54145 COOKIE 

J 116 STAR TREK 2 DISK .5431 RED DWARF 

J 4 

303 DONKEY KONG -1N7 NEIGHBOURS 245540 

J 463 PAR POTATO HEAD , J 1032 MAX NS REG 

ORP/ANG GAMES .1 1171 BREED 1196 J 347 NEWTEX VS 2 DISK 3 PROGRAMMERS 

.5451 FLAMING ENGINES J 1753 Al200 12&0351 

J 117 ANINCTION STUDIO I/ J 2M 2-11 

AMIGA VIDEO 

3 481 THE ROAD TO HELL 5.811164 TIME RUNNER 

C1 

J 306 VADERSTAND AMOS 

J 320 WEED SA:SCRIPT 

3 1 07 NANO FENDERS 63 3 INS CUPPOEONS 

OSIC 

1067 AGA OKlerYPES 

3/ 791 ADECITRAMER 5 DISK 

) IA86 Al2 IENOCX OUT 

sTRATEGI GAMES 

RTJ 

1191 U MNORTH 

C 

J 146 9-1.400vIE 

EI42 Al200 EX RACING J 876 GLOBAL NUKE WAR MUSIC MAKERS MO_1 

1764 R ALVA DOS FRAU 

J1705 212 AEA RACERS .4 

"I 1971 SAMPLE MAKER 

S 

DO IT YOURSELF 

J074 Ft EDITOR 

4J 

IMO M2 44e34TIAMPE 

31 220 FUNK KEYBOARDS 

VJ 

2026 Pia MANUALS 2DSK 

SIMULATORS 5 J 1170 Al2 LORDS 2 106K 

J 431 RAVE KEYBOARDS 

3 

a 230 SUDESHOW RACER 

.8924 HELCOPTER 

Ij 

1431 UFO UNCLOTHED 

3 SCO MAKE A CASK 

.4 V32 

J 332 SEALANCESUB N 1547 SOW STAR TREK 

J 242 MENU MAKER 

J 333 RATTLE CARS V2 D 

PUZZLER GAMES 

2J 

729 DRUM MACHINE 

J1 1154 HEDIFYGUCE All 

03 

717 SONIC DOUR KIT 

5.1 1273 All IRON DRIVER -J 

953 CHLARE 

▪ 1903 UNIE A DIEX V2 

SPORT GAMES 

0J 

748 CCTNIED V2 

E- 

.4690 10 PUZZLERS 

VIRUS CONTROL 

.5 

SQUE 

J 1550 PUZZLER 2 prrs 

5a 

130 THE ART CC LED 5.22097 YAW Z VI 30 

1J 

ENTER PIN BOWLING 

PD.4154 

I SEXPERT K BALLS 

0J 

192 THE COMPOSER J 505 Al200 VIRUS 

0.441712 

DSK CRS ANGLER J 1633 THE WOOGLIES 4J 

6113 MUSIC DATABASE ▪ lEOMVIE PLUS 

I 

1.51373 

EIE HOCKEY .41705 BRAIN BALLS 0-1 

NI AUDIO ENGINEER 

AMIGA LITILMES 

4 .11317 Al2 GM FISHING 

O 

1714 ORCGE NUS 6J 

1611 PRSTRACKER 3 ION Al2 DONE TOOLS 

CJ 

1465 All 20554 TEI016 

N 

MANAGER GAMES 3j 

1701 OCTATUTOR V5 a 1112 4 DISK TOD. ET 

R 

.51241 TENNIS TOUR A 

A 

1130 INTER ORICI(ET G 

2176 500rbSH LEAGUE 

2 CLASSIC-POP J 1629 UNORMIVER 

J 32i A/WORT 

J 201 PLANO CLASSES 1913 MUNCHERS 

Z 

.4474) )10 GOLF 9 HOLES E 

J 443 SLAA4 BALL 

J 234 VIVAACI 2 DISK 

DESK 1 SYSTEM 

was a CHEATS 

Y 

3 41/ 1.000 CHEATS 

J 817 BLOOD SALL 

J 342 AMIGA-DEUS 

J 116 SYSTEM TESTER 

G 

.31420 ULTI MANAGER j 213 CAGI CONCERT V2 J 467 FILE LNDELETE 

▪ 031 BACKDOOR 63 

O_1121 

PASSWORD MANIA 

3 1902 PREVER PCS 

620 BAGPIPE MUSIC J 1 

L 493 GAME TOES v4-3 -1 1763 AM TRAFFIC J 240 EXPRESSION 52 04 J 3544 ENoiNessKIT 

F.4400 

MEGA CHEATS 3 1771 OCR° MART 3 j 1367 2 ONO 0403 SI DJ 

245 PIE DIN 

J 031 SIERRA SOLUTIONS 

Cita GAMES J 1792 GUITAR BLUES IJ 

161 HARDWARE MANUA 

1366 GAME SOLUTIOPIS J 1031 TREK Tbri 5 DISK 

J 1757 HEAVY METAL Sj 

1111 HARDWARE MODS 

5.41853 SOLUTIONS 63 5.4715 Ps music CXAZ a 1800 TEKNO MAGE 06 K AMIGA ECKEANON 

J1061 SOLVES 6 DISK J NE2 WHEEL OF FORTUNE 1911 BEARE MAMA OJ 

708 GEOGRAPHY 

OVER It GANES 3.4197 01112 555 

SAMPLES • MOOS P3 

512 MATHS 5044405 

9 

I00 HOLLYWOOD TAW 21235 TAZ JUNGLE SFX Ta 

so ENGLISH 4 DISK 

5.0I001 7 20510 ADVENT V2 

:11170 Al2 DEATH ROW 

2065 TAI SASH SFX Ij 

460 LANGUAGES 4 DISK 

.5101 2 TENOR LINER VI 

LOGIC GAMES 

J 645 ENV 0125 14 DISK MJ 

270 PLANETS 6 DISK 

J 1011 7 ADULT TETRIS 

2 1248 STRIP POKER 

.419440 BLOCK BIASSES -I 0 

I) 

614 ENGINES 5 OM 

J HIS O A t2 NUMBERS VI 

J 1037 MARBLES GAME 41 J119 DRUMS 2 DISK Sa 

ON MAGA tut0e44. 

J 1325 

S 

ADULT DIKES J 111 DRADONS TITLES 0J 

1869 URBAN 6 DISK EJ 

120 MANI 4 TUTOR 

.11533 

X 

DRAGONS BALL .411 

0 1588 DANCE 5 DISK J 037 Al201 SOO TUTOR 

A 

1517 AOuLT BONNER 2 J 1477101410 MANIACS 0 12544 MOVE SAMPLES 3 1361 2 NSA MENET 

J 1654 LEGO BREAKOUT D.42476 

IMARIELLOUS 1J 

144441 mopme PYTHONS J1303 MAGA GUCE 

D 

J 1714 4 DSK Al2 ADVENT Rj 

ISDILE MINNA 

0 1660 ANSWER BACK 3 1916 NINGON TUTOR 

-1 

V 

;906 BLIND DATE AJ 

ION LOGES 

Aa 

18244 NEW WORMS SEX J MN DYNAMIC SIDS 

E 

G 

l 

NDISK 

COST E1.50 EACH, O NO MINIMUM ORDER t ALL VIRUS FREE AND USER FRIENDLY 

T 

AR games ars N 'on 

5 disk and run on ak 2 Amiga's unkass otherwise stated 

V 

PICK AN EXTRA DI S SK FOR FREE WITH EVERY D EIGHT DISKS YOU PURCHASE 

I 

C 

E 

UNDERGROUND PD, M CARNIANIA A CLOSE. SHOEBURVNESS, S ESSEX 553 9Y1. TEL 01702 2060107 

Name: 

Address: 

A 

N 

m 

E 

i g a 

K 

Model: 

Postcode:

Get your work 

published! 

. 

• • . . 4 41 

, 

.Th. 44414, 

4 f 0 

4 

to..• 

. . 

. . 

. . 

• •06,44 4 Amna eemeeileeie.•".t 

• 

How to send your work in 

All entries, including artwork most come to us ea one or more disks. Otherwise they can be 

uploaded to our FIP site as detailed here. 

Make sore you label your disks clearly with your name and address, the name of what you 

are seodimg in and the category it is being sent into (like the one opposite). 

Wpm 

require - tiles which coo be used or run horn the CD-ROM. Please include all the relevant 

details 

toot 

regording system requirements and any usage instructions within an ASCII text 

: 

document with your submissions. 

w 

Please complete the following form and enclose it with your disks: 

e 

c a 

System n requiremeats n for the enclosed files; 

o t 

a 

M . . 4 4 4 4 4 . 4 4 4 • 8 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 . 4 4 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • 

c 

c 

e 

p 

My lame: 

t 

a 

My address u and postcode 

. t 

o 

- 

My phone h number: 

o 

u 

t i 

n 

g 

, 

d 

Do you have 

software, artwork, 

utilities, mods, games or any 

other Amiga creations that you 

think are worthy of inclusion on a 

Super CD? If so, get them to us 

now and give your work a 

worldwide audience. The best 

music module each month even 

gets recorded onto the CD as an 

audio track! 

I hereby acknowledge that the material enclosed is of 

my own creation and:or I own the 

copyright to the material and grant CU Amiga Magazine 

the rights to publish this material on a forthcoming 

cover CD-ROM. 

1 

Said yew 

cormihutions including the lorm NO to: 

CD Contributions CU Amiga Magazine, 

37-39 Millliarbout) Isle of Cogs London. Eld ITZ. 

If you want to sold it to is via our FTP site or E-mail them this is also 

welcome. We would suggest that you include all of the iolormatiou on the postal form left in 

as accompanying doc to make sure your entry is processed properly, 

Our E-mail aid ETI 

1 Weigel ETP: flp.cm-amiga.coAksubinissionsi Its aplud login: cocd password; reader) 

addres 

or E-mail (MIME oalyi: cd-contrilv 

ses -Cooditions 

aF1)ou-amiga.ccuk 1 What r you e send : to us cost be mot ewe elution or you must own the copylight lot it Please Militate 

this Ni the mime' %pace on the low 

2. It will be assumed that any envy we receive, in the ham vie receive it. viill be betty tedistributable 

ooless otherwise stated 

3 The publishing mills lot all noels sent to es marked tot inclositio, whether public domain skatewme 

sr commercially copyrighted will be assomed assigmed to us lot the purposes of plumed op a Cu 

Amiga Magazine CO-11011 Full title and unveil copyright for all items remains with the maim 

4 CU Amiga Magatioe makes no OH of payment whatsoever loi manial marked toi litchis's,' which is 

published inn a CU Amiga Magazine CD-ROM 

S We regret that CV Amiga will not be able to retire your work

Amiga Mice 

Replacement Mice £ 4 . 9 5 

MegaMouse 400 £ 9 . 9 5 

MegaMouse Plus (3 Button) £10.95 

Optical Mouse £ 2 9 . 9 5 

New Golden Image 

'FrackBall £ 1 9 . 9 5 

Pen Mouse L 1 2 .95 

(ideal for CAD) 

New Black Mouse 

for Amigas £ 9 . 9 5 ' 

4 

71/ 

RAM CARDS Al200 

. 

0Al200 

with clock and 4Nib .:Doo 

1vg 

Al200 with clock and 8Mb £ 6 5 . 0 0 

o.imic.L49.00 

Al200 with clock, 8Mb & 33MHz FPU L80.00 

33MHz FPU inc. crystal . . L 1 5 . 0 0 

Catweasel tor Al200 - allows you to 

connect High Density Disk Drives £ 5 5 

Catweasel for A1500/2000/4000 £ 5 5 

Buddha IDE Controller for A1500/2000/4000 £55 

Catweasel plus Buddha tir A1500/2000/4000 179 

Oktagon 2008 SCSI Controller £ 9 9 

Multilace III £ 7 9 

New GI-Quatro Buffered 

Interface for Al200 

(Successfully launched at World of Amiga Show '97) 

Buffered interface for Al200 with 

IDEFIX'97 software allows you to connect 

4 ATAPI devices to Al200 _ C 5 9 . 9 5 

New AlfaQuatro Interface 

Specially made hardware and software 

Allows 4 ATAPI devices, le, 2 IDE hard 

disk & 2 IDE Cl) Rom to Amiga 4000 

internal IDE controller, thonigh Allapower 

on Amiga 500/500+, comes with Rill 

IDEFIX software _ C 5 9 . 0 0 

Amiga Joysticks . L 9 . 9 5 

Amiga Joypads £ 9 . 9 5 

CD 32 Joypad £ 1 4 . 0 0 

\ 

in J ;JJJJJ2J JI'LLt_r1J 

V 

-Best 

pricing on CD ROM Drives & Hard Drives. 

I 

11 L - 

L 

Jmatdi 

any product. 

I 

All J our External IDE CD ROM Drives have built in power supplies 

(they do not draw power from your Amiga) 

Different 1 options to connect CD ROM drives to A600 or Al200 

1 

We can supply CD ROM solutions for ALL Amiga* from A500 to A4000. We will match any genuine 

advertised price and also give tour top titles tree: Nick Faido's Championship Gott; Syndicate; 

Pinball Fantasies & The Chaos Engine on top where we have to pdce 

a) Use Internal IDE port with AlfaDuo if you have 

2.5" Hard Drive Mill be with full !DEM software). 

b) Use Internal IDE port with Alfa-Quatro interface if you have 

3.5" Hard Drive (wilt be with full MUD( software). 

c) PCMCIA external interface option available. 

All CD ROM drives have play CD facility. 

External Internal External' Internal 

A600/Al200 A1500/A2000 A500/A500+ 44000 

Quad speed CD ROM tor 1149.00 1119.00 1129 00 1109,00 

Eight speed CD ROM for 1169.00 1139.00 1149 00 1129.00 

12 Speed CD ROM for 1179.00 1149.00 N/A 1139.00 

16 Speed CD ROM for E189.00 1159.00 NA E149,00 

'itor A500/A500+ Allapower hard drive controller and Hard Drive is required). A15001A2000 supplied with 

10E controller & software. A4000 supplied with Alta0uatro interlace & Full !DEM software. 

Floppy Drives 

External Floppy Drive 

for all Amigas £39.95 

Internal Floppy Drive 

A500/500+ 1,28•00 

Internal Floppy Drive A600/1200+ ....C28.00 

Internal Floppy Drive A1500/2000 ...E28.00 

IDE Hard Drives 1 

HARD DRIVES • BUDDHA CONTROLLER 

FOR Al 500/A2000/A4000 1 . 2 G i g £189.00 

IDE 2_5' Hard Drives 

IDE 2_5" Hard drives come formatted and installed 

with kVorkbench. Cable, screws, software and 

instructions supplied_ (please ringfar availability) 

80Mb ../."69.00 340Mb E A 09.00 

120Mb £ 7 9 . 0 0 420Mb .C119_00 

250Mb 189_00 540Mb L129_00 

IDE 3.5" Hard Drives 

IDE 3.5" Hard drives conic formatted and installed 

with Workbench. Cable, screws, soft 

-instructions 

supplied. (please ring for availability) 

ware 

850Mb 

a 

1 

n 

1 2 

d 

5 . 0 0 2_5Gig L175.00 

1.2Gig ....... .1:135.00 3.0Gis .C200.00 

1.7Gig L I 55.00 5 _OG ig Maxtor .L329.95 

"Amiga Format Gold Award August '97" 

4.Mb Simms _ C I 5.00 I(MI) Simms .160 .00 

81),1b Simms 125.00 32Mb Simms_.,C140.00 

44pin 3 connector cable £ 5 . 0 0 

44p1n 2 connector cable £ 3 . 0 0 

40pin 3 connector cable 90cm 

AlfaDuo 44pin to 40pin Interface & IDE cables.. .L: 

4AlfaQuatro 

3x40pin Interface & IDE cables L.39.95 

20 DI) floppy disks (50) 

meisikr 

5-17) 

y 

.00 DD floppy disks (100) 

need 

mchatong multicamorrei Ault lakic L 2 

(3 lica t 

eeirr 3.5" Hard Drive Kit for A600/1200 

ei mu a ti L 1 5 . 

d 

5 , 

0 

0 

0 

0 

o 

eDiskbox 

to hold 10 discs Animal Jungle design and Dinosaur design _L_ 

k 4Optical 

Mouse Mat £ 5 . 0 0 

l 

2 in 1 Scanner/Mouse Pad 

a 

c..4 be egstei a neemla p.i £ 

b1- 

e.0 

Amiga Power Supply 4.5 amp 

l 

° 

Plain Wristrest 

e 

£ 0Accelerator 

Boards 

3 . 0 0 

,Z15_00 

.0.00 

1() 

1230 33MHz + 4Mb 3 

. 1230 33N1Hz + 8Mb 

£ 

£ 

1 

1 

3 

4 

5 

5 

. 

. 

0 

0 

0 

0 

01230 

33MHz + 16Mb . . 1 1 7 5 . 0 0 

Zip RamstiaaNiiiiii,r A3000 V 

- Obverts 

rseaIsIcA.l 

All prices include VAT. Please ladd e v£3.50 e r y P&P for items under £30.00, £5.00 IO.00 for items over £30.00, 

£8.00 P&P for Scanners, Speakers & 2Hard M Drives, b £10.00 courier for next day. Tax Free Export Orders Welcome. 

Golden Image accepts Access. N'isa. Cheques & Postal Orders. £ EWE. 4 Prices 0 subject . 0to 

change without nonce. Goods subject to availability. Specifications subject to change mithout notice. 

0 

0 

Accelerator for Al200 

Viper MKV 1230 50MHz plus SCSI interface 

with 41vlb _II 59.00 

with 8Mb _1169.00 

with 16Mb.-C199.00 

50MHz FPU £ 3 . 0 0 

Viper MU/ 42MHz + 4Mb 

nri up5rAr.1111,0 £ 8 0 . 0 0 

Accelerator for A600 

Goldenimage(UK)L t d 

t 

a 

r A630 40M147 4; Mb ino op 

5 

U n i t 65,HallmarkTradingEstate,FourthWay,Wembley,MiddxHA9OLD 

Fax: 0181 900 9281 

http://www.reserve.en.uk/gold Talking Pages: 0800 600900 

Our standard terms and conditions apply - available on request. We do not supply on a trial basis. 

r A630 4 0 M H z + 8 M b I TICK thaliPtieJb1C £ 1 2 0 . 0 0 

VISA gle 

LX 11. • 

1 E 7 • 14 

1 In

Logos 

Mysteries and meanings 

SOFTWARE 

;4 1 

(4 

11 

1- 

1 

2• 

11 

e 

. 

, 

PERIPHERALS 

Solutions to 

those everyday 

troubles with 

your Workbench. 

If you need help 

getting more 

from your 

Amiga, just ask! 

All your Internet 

and general 

comms problems 

swiftly solved. 

Trouble making 

your Amiga sing? 

We've got the 

answers here. 

Technical mat- 

ters beyond the 

scope of plug-ins 

and plug-ons. 

Answers to 

queries on 

particular pieces 

of software. 

General queries 

which just don't 

seem to fit in 

anywhere else. 

Specific help 

with CD-ROM 

solutions and 

driver problems. 

Problems with 

art and design? 

Help and advice 

is at hand. 

Printers, monitors, 

we'll solve 

your peripheral 

blues for you. 

Zorro without Towers 

Now that I have seen the 

19 

, 

2 

11;RDWARL 

Zorro circuit board it 

seems possible to me 

that you could have it 

external (for those without Tower 

systems - like mel in a separate box. 

I'm not bothered about a tower. I just 

want a gfx card. 

Jay, E-mail. 

It's certainly a good idea in principle, 

but alas probably impossible. 

The biggest difficulty is that the 

bus boards connect to the accelera- 

tor slot with a pass through leaving 

insufficient space in a desktop 

console style case for the accelerator 

to be fitted as well. There are 

also likely to be problems with reliability 

running all that data down 

long ribbon cables. The only suggestion 

we can give is that you 

contact Eyetech on 01642 713185. 

They have a single slot Zorro board 

which may fit in your case if you 

remove the keyboard and fit a keyboard 

adaptor. 

680x0 for sale? 

I own a Blizzard 1260 

accelerator with 1230 

SCSI. and I am contem- 

EXPANSION plating purchasing a 

603 Power Up card. If I use the 

68060 processor from my 1260 card 

I am left with a lot of redundant hardware.lf 

I could purchase a 68060 

cheaply enough.1 could sell my 1260 

+1230SCSI and defray the cost of 

the Power Up card. 

(a) Where can I buy a suitable 68060 

processor? 

(b) How much will it cost? 

Tony Poole, CyberLeicester 

This is a common question. The 

easiest solution is to buy your 

Powertip card with a 68K processor 

supplied (White Knight: 01920 

822321, for example), offer the 

200MHz Blizzard 603e+ board 

No matter what the level of your 

technical problems, if you put them 

to our experts they'll try their best to 

fathom things out. Also, please 

remember to provide us with as many 

details on your systems and problems 

as possible, to help us in helping you. 

costs E399 without anything, up to 

E649 with an '060/50 

The 68K series chips can be 

bought from Motorola stockists. 

Future components +44 (0)1753 

763000 and EBB +44 (0)1628 

783688 seemed like the best bets 

to us. You may find that buying 

singly isn't such good value we 

were quoted from E100.75p for an 

'040/25, while White Knight only 

put a E50 premium on for this. 

However the stockists mentioned 

will supply you chips if you want 

them, Motorola inform us that 

they have the full range in stock. 

Ask for part numbers 

MC6804ORC?? where ?? is the 

clock speed - for instance 

MC68040RC50 for a 50 MHz job. 

For an '060 ask for XC68060RC50. 

Amiga USA 

I wonder if you could 

help me with a query I 

have. I currently have an 

Amiga 500 4 

A590 20Mb - hard with drive + 2Mb Chip 

RAM (therefore a nI 

have 2 power supply 

blocks). I have a Ferguson MC01 

TWmonitor, and use it via the RGB 

output on the A500+ with the correct 

cable. 

My brother, in America. has an 

Al200 with internal HD. 6Mb of 

RAM, an external HD, external CD- 

ROM drive and a modem. He runs it 

in PAL mode by default. He's bought 

a Pentium 200 with MMX for com- 

patibility with work, and no longer 

uses his Al200 - which he's giving 

me when he visits later on this year. 

My questions are: 

1) Can I use the Al200 here if I use 

my A500+/A590 Power supply ? 

2) If I bought a multi-plug/voltage 

mains adaptor, if they had the correct 

connectors on the end, would 

this be able to power the 

modem/CD-ROM/Ext HD? 

3) Can I use the monitor with the 

same cable on the Al200? 

Fred, Cyberspace 

1. Yes. 

2. Yes. 

3. Yes. 

Gosh, isn't it nice to be able to be 

so positive? 

CDs are too quiet 

Hi! I m a big fan of your 

mag I've been reading 

it for about 7-8 years 

Until now I haven't had 

that much in the way of technical 

trouble with my A4000, but recently 

I have. 

I own a Toshiba internal SCSI 4x 

CD-ROM drive. It all works fine but 

the CD sound is so much quieter 

than the computer chip effects, this 

causes all sorts of problems with 

games and doing serious work 

whilst listening to a favourite CD. Do 

you have any ideas for increasing 

CD output without altering computer 

sfx volume? 

Thanks for a cool mag. 

Chris Brown, virtual reality 

Could be a software issue. Check 

your CDDA player, they usually let 

you change volume levels, and 

tend to default low. If this doesn't 

solve your problems, you have 

another alternative. The output 

from the CD drive isn't anything 

special, you can just connect it via 

a couple of phono leads to a line 

input on a pair of multimedia 

speakers or a hi-fi system. If you 

hav'e a look at the rear of the CD 

player you will see that there are 

four pins for the CODA out. 

The two outside pins are the 

right and left audio channels, the 

two inside pins are ground lines. 

You can rig yourself up something 

or make a trip down to your local 

computer hardware dealer, who 

should be able to sell you a CODA 

to twin phono or CDDA to stereo 

jack connector, whichever is 

appropriate to your equipment. All 

this will cost you is a mere couple 

of quid.

Super Amiga please? 

I recently spotted an 

Amiga 2000 in the local 

press advertised for E50 

so immediately tore the 

guys arm off and bought it. I already 

own an Amiga500 and an Amiga 

1200. I would consider my level of 

knowledge to be intermediate. The 

chap who sold me the 2000 told roe 

that there was a fault on one of the 

boards which limited the RAM, (he 

was a bit vague on this one). 

What I would like to know is, if it 

was your machine and you were 

interested in sound and graphics 

applications. TV and Video, CAD and 

so forth inot games!) what would 

you do to an Amiga 2000 to make it 

an Al supermachine? I would also 

like to use its onboard AT board for 

PC applications. Are there any good 

technical manuals available for this 

machine? Could you recommend 

any suppliers/repair organisations to 

me, who could help me out with a 

low budget? What PC bits and 

pieces will fit into this machine? 

My best regards to you, and 

whatever happens please keep your 

Magazine going!!! 

JLJ Smith, Enterprise.net 

Analogic: 0181 546 9575 or Dart: 

0116 2470059 are reputable repair 

houses with good supplies of 

parts. Start there and make sure 

that your machine works! Fitting 

up the machine to make it a supermachine? 

No budget limitations 

mentioned? Now that sounds like a 

fun question. 

First port of call is a new accelerator, 

that 68000 is far too slow. 

Try a Blizzard 2060 for serious performance. 

It's very fast and comes 

with a SCSI 2 interface. E399 from 

White Knight Technology. You 

might consider for real top of the 

line performance the Blizzard 

2604e 200MHz - that they will sell 

you when it comes out shortly - 

which costs E930 including an 

'060/50. We haven't seen this 

board yet, but it combines the 

speed of the above board with significantly 

improved SCSI 3, and 

most importantly a blazing 

6048/200 processor, which runs at 

seriously Pentium thrashing 

speeds. Software support is limited, 

but will grow. 

When Mac emulation 

hits PPC, you'll be able to 

run QuarkXpress and 

Photoshop at blistering 

speeds. Add at least 32Mb 

of memory - for the more 

serious users it really 

isn't worth buying less pricewise 

these days. 

You'll need to up your ROM -- 

3.1 is a lot nicer than the 1.3 (or 

2.04 if you are lucky) in the A2000 

Phone Power Computing on: 1234 

851500 and they'll sell you the necessaries. 

After that you'd better 

get yourself a graphics card, a 

necessity for serious graphics use. 

The Picasso IV and the Cybervision 

64/3D are the market leaders. The 

CV64 being the cheaper option, 

especially if you don't buy the scan 

doubler, which if you don't want 

games you probably won't need. 

The graphics card will run happily 

on a standard PC style SVGA monitor, 

so buy the biggest one you 

can afford. llyama is a good, quality 

brand but there are many 

decent budget buys. 

CD Rom drive and hard drive 

are of course essential. The SCSI 

link on the accelerator card can be 

used, so get SCSI devices, they'll 

be nice and fast. You'll probably 

want an HD floppy for PC compatibility, 

so ring Blittersoft on 01908 

261466 and get one of the Micronik 

ones, or check Out the tech-tips on 

the subject. 

Micronik compatible? 

I have lust bought myself 

a Blizzard 1240 expansion 

card and I intend to put it 

inside a tower (about to 

convert my computer as per your 

brill tutorials). I saw the Micronik 

adverts for their ready adapted towers 

that the motherboard goes 

straight into, but I remember hearing 

that the Blizzard 

1240 does not 

like the 

1-Lui 

Tech Tip 

A common question 

people ask is how 

they can get a High 

TECH TIPS Density floppy drive 

for their Amiga. It gets pretty 

complex when you get into the 

subject, largely because towards 

the end of the Commodore era 

and during the Escom era, there 

were a lot of rather weird decisions 

on the floppy drive front. 

One of the offshoots of this is 

that a number of Al200s, includ- 

ing all Escom machines, were 

actually shipped with HD floppy 

drives. They don't work as HD 

because there isn't the hardware 

capability to write data to them 

at the correct speed, so data is 

written to them at half speed to 

make them work as a DD floppy. 

One rather nasty offshoot of this 

is that these machines throw a 

wobbler if you feed them HD 

disks. True DD drives will happily 

format HD disks as if they were 

DO, but an HD drive knows they 

are really HD and gets lost. 

A well known trick is to cover 

up the second hole on HD disks, 

it is this the drive uses to identity 

them as HD. It allows the HD 

mechanism to work fine as a DD 

mechanism, but doesn't give us 

HD. Up steps gcrdisk.device, a 

software solution. 

Yep, that's right. Dr Ercole 

Spiteri MD of Malta has written a 

device driver to read and write 

1.44MB of data using these dri- 

Micronik busboard. I know they now 

have several models, is this true or 

just a rumour, and does it persist on 

all models or lust the first one - I 

think), And what is the problem? 

Tom, tungsten@enterprise.net 

There may have been some problems 

with the original form of the 

board, but the current revision is, 

we are told, fully compatible. The 

problem is with the case. The chip 

on the Blizzard 1240 is mounted in 

such a way that the fan fouls the 

plastic support work of the tower. 

You can fix it with a hacksaw, but 

we don't advise making the cases 

less stable than they already are. 

However. Blittersoft claim 

the height to the accelerator 

the Zorro board pass 

through gives, lifts it clear 

of the obstruction, so it's 

only a problem with non 

Zorro'd up towers. 

ves. By just installing his software, 

you get an HD drivel 

Sounds great, but there are 

two drawbacks. One is that it 

only works on some drives, the 

other is that it will not read PC 

formatted disks, If PC formatted 

disks aren't important, then by 

all means, give it a go and see if 

it works on your machine. 

Otherwise you'll have to buy a 

new drive. 

Because of the slightly non 

standard nature of Amiga floppy 

disks, you cannot just plug PC 

HD floppy drives in and expect 

them to work. You have to bodge 

it. There are two types of Amiga 

HD drive, special drives which 

run at half speed and standard 

PC floppies with a buffer. The 

E59.95 Micronik (Blittersoft, 

01908 261466) device is the former, 

the E69.95 Power XL Power 

Computing, 01234 851500) 

belongs to the latter category. 

The final alternative is to scrap 

the whole Amiga floppy drive 

interface and go for something 

more sophisticated. 

This is something we'll probably 

see in any next generation 

Amiga, alternatively jump in and 

get a Catweasel. Ideally you 

would be able to plug an industry 

standard HD mechanism into 

your Amiga and off you go, 

something you can't currently do. 

Perhaps the subject of a future 

DIY article? 

Show me GT 

My kids have discovered 

the Disney web site, and 

decided to download a 

14Mb mov file. God 

knows how long that took! lit'S 

going to be coming Out of their 

pocket money). 

Anyway, could anyone tell me if it 

is possible to view this file on my 

Amiga (Al200/040, 32Mb RAM). 

rvetried dathtypes, but can't 

seem to find one. I have all of the 

CUCD's, 2 through to 12, so if anybody 

could tell me of anything that 

is on them then I would really appreciate 

it. Thanks. 

Mark, via e-mail 

The .mov suffix is an indication 

that the file is a QT or Quicktime 

format movie. The quicktime play- 

er CIT ought to do the trick, and 

you will find it on CUCD10, 

amongst others.

011. 

-• 

••• 

••••••••• 

• - • -• • • 

•-• 

, 

0 

• - • • 

• 14 15510 1TITY! • 

r /1. 

Parallel scanning 

PCMCIA 

• 

o • - • • • • 

•••-•••••• 

I • • • • • 

•••••Min 

A took at the trout left corner of your Al200 motherboard and it will look something like this. 

The two pads marked IP1 and TP2 are test points, we tell you how they can reset your Amiga. 

If I read your article right 

you seem to indicate that 

there is no Parallel driver 

PtRiPHERALS software for the Amiga 

and that the Epson scanner from the 

first computer centre is a SCSI 

device. This is not so! The gt-500 is 

a parallel connection scanner, this 

surprised me as I was expecting it 

to be SCSI, It is also a pain as it 

means disconnecting the scanner 

whenever I want to do a printout, 

The software used for this scanner 

is Powerscan Professional which 

is also from the first computer centre. 

I hope you don't think I am nitpicking 

but every Amiga owner 

needs all the help we can give and 

without your questions and answers 

section I might have thrown my 

Amiga Out of the window long ago. 

Steve Dukes, Information Super 

Highway 

Not at all! We were hoping that 

someone would eventually come 

up with a better answer. After 

looking at about a dozen or so 

scanner drivers that were all indi- 

cating SCSI only we were well and 

truly stumped. 

The GT500 is a parallel or a 

SCSI device, as the three Gtxx drivers 

we looked at worked on the 

SCSI version only. Thankyou for 

the info! 

Reset buttons 

After reading your feature 

on 'Build your own 

tower' I have successful- 

ly placed my Al200 into 

a gorgeous looking (large) midi 

tower Ithe PC Keyboard adaptor was 

bought from dart electronics in 

Leicester - very good indeed) 

Anyway, I was wondering if there 

was any way of hooking up the 

reset button on the front of the 

tower case so that it works? I can 

still reset from my keyboard, but, 

you know... those finishing touches, 

Thanks if you can help me out, if 

not, thanks anyway for showing my 

how to make my Amiga look more 

like a computer! 

Russell Goodman, Information 

Super Hypeway 

This was something that got left 

out of the 'Build your own Tower' 

feature for a simple reason - the 

wiring of a switch to the keyboard 

reset line is actually a complex bit 

of electronics, beyond the scope of 

that feature. One of the nice 

things about the Ateo Keyboard 

Interface we mentioned in the article 

is that it comes with a reset 

line on it that the reset plug on 

the tower can be plugged straight 

into. You can contact Ateo on: 

01705 790211 if you are interested, 

Since writing the article, we 

have come across a solution. This 

requires a bit of soldering, and we 

feel we ought to warn you that 

you do this at your own risk, but 

here's the reset button hack. 

Look at your Al200 motherboard, 

at the front left hand corner 

by the PCMCIA slot you will see 

two rows of solder pads marked 

TP1 and TP2 (see above diagram) 

If the 2 pads on TP1 nearest the 

edge of the motherboard are connected 

together, the computer 

resets. If you are handy with a soldering 

iron you can solder a couple 

of header pins to the pads and 

just slot the reset button connec- 

tor over this. As these pads are 

solder filled, this is a tricky piece of 

work and if you do not know what 

you are doing you might damage 

the PCB. If you don't fancy this, cut 

the connector of the wire, bare the 

wires and carefully solder them 

down onto the pads, making sure 

they don't touch any other pads, 

These pads are test point pads. 

We aren't 100'/0 sure that using 

these pads for a reset is what they 

are intended for, but it works and 

we have done it numerous times 

without damage. Maybe someone 

out there with a repairs manual 

can tell us! 

PPC b CDR 

XPANSI111. 

I have just finished reading 

CU Amiga August edition 

and see that some 

advertisers are showing 

the new PPC. So now I have some 

questions: 

1) Do I need a Tower to PPC 

176MHz 603e Et SCSI-2 for my 

Al200? I already have a Blizzard 

1230 IV accelerator with 4 Mb RAM, 

do I need to remove this card then? 

In the ad there are two prices, one 

with 50MHz 68030 and one without, 

what is the difference? 

50 

P r 

2) I want to buy some more RAM! I 

already have 6Mb but want 16Mb 

RAM totally, what is the best solution 

for that? 

3) I need a CD-ROM, and saw HiSoft 

is selling Squirrel CDR CD-ROM and 

I liked what it could do. Is it true that 

I can write my own CD's and record 

music for use in normal CD players? 

If I buy that CD-ROM does it have 

it's own power supply? If it does can 

I get cables modified so I can use it 

in Norway? I don't know anyone in 

Norway that sells Amiga hardware. 

Trond A Efraimsen, Norway 

1. Yes, basically these are designed 

to fit in towers. It may be possible 

to get away with using one without 

a tower, but it isn't advised. CE 

marking of these boards is, we 

believe, dependent on them being 

sold as tower system boards. 

2. The PPC board replaces your 

current accelerator. The board 

takes a 68K series chip as well as a 

PPC chip to ensure reliability. The 

board is sold without, so you can 

take the chip from your current 

board and slot it in, or with if you 

do 

, 

not currently have an appropriate 

chip. 

per disk 

(DEPT CU) E 5 0 p 

P . 0 Box 1219, Aston, Sheffield S26 2XZ per disk 

Mobile: 0374-150972 • emailT0 POWE8@aol.corri 

BUY 10 DISKS PICK 1 DISK FREE FOR ANY ORDER PLEASE ADO 75P p+p 

FREE C ATALOGU E FREE GAME 

Freebies sent out wIth all font 

F R E E COPIER of IMO 1,110111 

mac unless. or tend a S.A.E to the above address 

A011.11 ONLY G A M L , 

1.1./121-Al142114.. 

OUILI'LDI 1 1 1 7 1 c L L A 1 IEQLLS 

we o . view ore. II 

1 

ye BleeWe 0 

bHO!( 

o I 

ALli 

41!AAlle. 1 2 1 G 

O s Mass) 

dd Giddy 

: 

1. Owl who 

P 

e n e 1 

Ammo Lontieve 

Hig.e , Ca. lulu A s m . . L•bel Fos Monier DIP G e n r e Heil Olt 

A Slid! on 

Cit.e I Isweed 0 1 0 Enc... OM 

KAM Gess • 1 0 1 0 C . 1 . 1 1 1 1 1 V3 06 III 

l- 

Gamy *Ws AGA 31t D o n k e y ..g K i t . 01..83 V a t t i s e t 1 / 1 0 The Titan III 

lwih 

De n. nkeno,. g AGA (11 pently 

mA. 

:11:1w 

s 

4 

iDko 

Bat.% n ilotion,. m A.141 i Co a r d Gme. 

l1n. 

1 Wes Poe. 0 1, A 2 G A 

1 4 

A 

1 

. 

Os. a A 

. Os...a..F 

thele . 

m 

e 

L 

' 

. . Aso 0,57,27;n:wH2• 10, 

m . Ili Weinsted A l l e m Mullet.. 

e e Will I Tem 

a/ 

W k0 essAry o este. . AaNti / S W I M (21 C e s s i n k m i w e e L i t t l e 0.• A n n . . We. ( 

n•M" 

, 3D r. Berman, AGA 131 esegympode •441 G C S E Klein. A I M . ' Vont A m i g a eosins* (II 

Red . not eend w In. n II) enA 

M We 

n. 

e ISin I I poi. in T n . Sheempe e w e s . (eer) M U I l • 

, 

e VB 

tWO . tW. 

Stana AGA 121 2 unloolad Tel,'.A n W e l Land 01 O n Form VI I a C H I C 

" . . . 

'Luny 

( 1LeSee 1 AGA 2101 Meme the Tem. L a w n v 

1I 

. CG l . " D , Lim, I, ' vLose* HeC1r1 m AaA S , 

KOE III Scot, 

A e e 1 

Sq I I 11134 VGO r a) 2 W o o d ! G 

1ILaMD.4.1 

we 

eMe er nh Ninl 

e r , . 

myph y y 4 . 0 . 1 Meeler I,') F l i e r . oF Nee 0 

- 

4S 

l. e . r mESW 

' otw n 

1 ) 

S 

ee r n . 

1 1• 

Fn 

7W 9e o Aveey Ke Pony y pewit p.m pea 62 03 el AGA121 AGA 125 att e Hers, f&mow) o o0l I...7 

Perk eIle) A e g o . Askomnsee Urit.17-1/4 n o m . Socopioe III 

: -1'eEa1 

' m 1 4 

" ... , Ke w peck Ao• AGA m e1151. 

q t Gsmemega Wsvfl, K i d s Cis.. F o e . . Mc. t o c k u n i a to) 

4M1 

erA 

t G . 

7•P0 

ro 7inen o m Boobies • R. • To. A0A Ai:SA e. a Ilmte• Aam i l g a • • Col... I3 121 Mel M W orGr B e l d Si . Mteery . Bonk f 

) I, 

'lDm me110.6 (1) 

" •a '7rady 

' •VIhne • AGA •o T• o • p or lho Lowe W o n Monne O w GriniTei M e n ril 

mI 

a . eO t . s t 

wALo1.• 

Sae. TTye leIAGA 1AGA t r n e(11 D3 rnAo 

mr, m o . 3 . Lo..... L e eK i n d s . Pe. I Pi. 12 F III o Bn i t n Ms. Ie. Ill Pot. W o m e n Ill 

o) 

. ' . e k : a , 

e0 

, 7 

Typing Tens C n i m i n Gwn' e 

t. 

M Ms 

w . i Po •06 AGA i2) 

et•17: 

" G ' . 

o I o t 

e l 1 1 . III 

, 1 1I 

ksty t 1.1. h e AGA e 4 ISI n M e . d Du' 

1 

. ep 

1 e . , 

k, 

Ii " 

rPonino 

. NM I 0•3 e I . 

lOpg 

J T o P 

p/ 

0 tPM1Ba 

al . P.m 6:itielse 

h : e 2 AGA V 

s t i1e r n e 30 WWI. M O Prep e s m e 121 

o 

e 2 . ; 

io 

rList,. 

r Late. r l AAA o w 3 III &MOWN, Heeds INN. II) hiaoraolat r i s k Repos Km B o r d e r s 121 

sM11 Di. Wicloyer Weo I lt s e1 

, 0 0 Games Vecti (71 C o u n t 4 Si.F r e g g e l n l r i m y Goan II. 

T. lo 

o 

eRu 

, 

e 

sI Be ll , ed sweresel e m AGA II) 11• 1• 6 

s( n i 

. eMMay. 19... 

V 

k AGA 12/ Card son. Flak IS) S o o . . III W O Stocker B a w l I My. 151 

tS9. Erection p e Coewlmat . s . e AGA p(II Cow. t Angie, 12) C a l l o w m 1 1 . 0 Gesno inelel V2 7• 

Et1 n 

( MW I 

s 

y r-7 ANoiste 

eCoitacao 

,,,.. 

g h• 

. 

I. 

= 

LAu'n, III. m1a s. 

o w i e s 

ve 

s 

IS 

9. 

/ d e 66 Wo ( -Bag 

2Meow 1 . P 7MI 1 0 G. e M m t . GeWe iIIIII W e e . Got. 13) W E Imeleto. k n o s i S t 

3 m1 

I i' 

4M* XBig Boo. I 02 

M eS 

G e m . Gem. 100.111) Tell lim wens A l l Dios newel es L i o n 

- 

; Key. 131 

r, P kiti I. 

ae 

2 

1i 

r 

eLn1Done letne Glp e1al o14. 

O verawe u to• r r • • • . . F l o 0w • A G.A. 3 A M kiontootoo 

I1 

a 

1So0ne 

e 3 7 s 

) rensty 

1 

;, 

. w• 

0 I r . 

e' 

.1 

b. 

yMYon 

Pan, Amtasson JA,.. 

M , e. II C w62... l omc kI st mi s e• eDos ' e T V e m . 11 r ,2 s '"u" M, . y Mege Kites n • • :21 Flowers (11) 

r4 

G 

o2 

. o , Pern FAnseson e 9 o. s112 t W92s , Dungeon l e Mwe ) i n v 

1 

a7 

o 

o) 

, i, Mega lSlit w g , ot, i n T L I 

e s =ILC""."n 

f f I n t i d . Vcin• C o u c fi hums .71 I n . . . lei 

hism iler 0.111 

) . n 

rV 

eCShamoon L 

D2 

t oeGin• 

A et W s s w. o m" m e P w e l Enpa. A G . Pont. llSr Piehiewle (wl 

, 121 

6 n 

t I 9 U n 

i1 

t l Pelt 

. iAGA mre, Mi 

t e d 

Irrists 

2 

ke 

I 1 1( tE 

o 1, M e n 

3 

1 

l' 

Wotan 1 Hem C o t kodbootorE . I t , 

S u e r * Dolobme (II 7 

i. 

d, 

7 M 0 

oM 

G e o 6 . V 

. 

w . 

eA 

' Sane. o t o r i 7 . 1 4 4 

eA 

hia nge..1 52 el *Gas WY.' 

e. 

4 l . S 

0 Pere 4 Ismedy III P r , i n t e r Orly. A w l . 

s 

. 

1 

s o l a ? 

e' 

i I I I 1 

r Yi 

a AGA l -12a3 onN W112. • Pla ARCS) Al Moo me on ONE Owl wino i °venom. enact on &sae'. 

m. 

1 Wn 

mr 

Y e Is I I , i 

M. 

s o , t i o G, 

Toos le O., I SrNO losclon thes Aswiadnie Morn US lot. l mese Ave.. 

i . 2o 

e. 

y ewi b i b l i v 

eI 

1 1 4 2 . e 

e 

PtEASE I " 1n 

• E, 

1 i a4 

, 

tL 

B WANE e e CREOUESP OA PAYABLE TOP. LLOYD FOR ORDERS Of TWO n POUNDS OR BELOW WE ACCEPT STAMPS I 

wI 

. mn 

l l 

h e. 

7 v 

WI *TOO( OVIR 10,000 DISKS n 

aI 

. 2g 

1 

Cn 

E . s t 

y 

'ADULTS; r) 

. 1 . 0 

. s , LI TI LS; GAM ES; ED U C ATI ON AL; M U SI C AND s n 

e LOTS M OR E TO PI C K FROM !!! 

• . PA 

M T 

1I 

WFR 

EE He EAD C LEAN ER WI TH ALL ORDERS OF gto OR M OR E I N OT I NCLUDI NG p&p) 

Ko 

Ge 

e 

1 I. 

E• 

OE SORE TO ASK FOR ABOVE OFFER WREN IMMO YOUR AURORAS'S? - OR MSS OUTV 

ie 

A d e 

M) 

. 

n 

tm 

0 WE A NOW STOCK OVER 49 COMMERCIAL TITLES FROM ONLY L54,041 

AAY. 

1 

g 

t1 

P1 

I 

X , 1 ol 

. 

o 3e 

. t 

MR 

1 . o 

S3 

. T O 

G . 4 

d 

o1 

Ge 

l 

NI 

0 

M 

nr 

im 

e 

ew 

0 

o 

g. 

lI 

. 

e eP 

t 

s d• 

M 

1a 

o 

o 

1. 

C e 

. ln 

b

3. We haven't been sent one for 

review yet, but yes, it allows you 

to write your own audio or data 

CDs. The power supply will be 

designed for 240v AC supply, 

which as far as we know will work 

across the U. We aren't really 

experts on Norwegian electricity 

supplies, but as far as we know 

you use that too. If not, I'm sure 

that an electrical supplier will sell 

you a voltage converter. 

As for no-one in Norway selling 

Amiga gear, there's a company 

called Applause (tel: 61 19 03 80) 

but unfortunately we don't know a 

lot about them. 

Beginners expansion 

I have just bought an 

Al200 and would like 

to upgrade it as the 

EXPANSIO disks on your magazine 

usually need more than the 

2Mb standard memory. I have no 

knowledge of computers at all, 

could you help me out? 

Firstly, if I fitted a RAM card with 

8Mb and a 33MHz FRI. could I fit 

more memory later? Secondly, could 

I do similarly with an 50MHz FPU? 

T.Graham, Newcaste upon Tyne 

There are some non-standard 

boards available, so remember to 

check that you are buying one 

with a SIMM socket, These sockets 

allow SIMM memory boards to 

be plugged in. If you want to 

upgrade at a later date, then all 

you have to do is just purchase a 

larger SIMM and swap it over with 

the old one. 

You will find that FPUs are a bit 

more complicated than this. You 

can't just drop a new one in and 

have it go faster, as the speed 

derives from a crystal oscillator 

clock. Usually if you buy a new 

FPU you get a new crystal with it, 

and on this occasion it's a matter 

of plugging the new crystal and 

the new FPU chip. This aside, we 

don't recommend getting one of 

these FPU plus memory boards. 

The cost of accelerator boards, 

which speed up everyday functioning 

of your computer, are now 

around the same cost as memory 

only boards. It is possible to get a 

33MHz FPU and CPU for under 

E80. This will speed your machine 

up to around 3-4 times as much as 

the memory board alone would do 

for most functions. A SIMM can be 

bought separately and plugged in, 

and you should expect to pay 

under E30 for an 8 Mb SIMM or 

around E50 for a 16Mb SIMM, 

A to Z 

B is for_ 

B2000 

Once again John Kennedy is your trusted 

guide, assisting you on your journey through 

the great wide-world of Amiga-speak. 

Unofficial name of an improved version 

of the 42000 Amiga, a 68000 

based Amiga in a desktop case 

with separate keyboard. 

Backdrop 

A special type of Window, lacking 

borders. It appears behind all other 

windows open on the current 

screen. The Workbench can open 

as a backdrop window using the 

first item in the Workbench menu. 

Baud 

Measure of the speed of transfer of 

data via the serial ports, close to 

the number of bits per second. 

BCPI 

Programming language, similar to C. 

A lot of the Amiga's original operating 

system was written in BCPL. 

Big Box 

Slang term for an Amiga which 

wasn't integrated into a single unit 

comprising a keyboard and main 

system unit: in other words, the 

A1000, 42000, 43000 and A4000. 

As well as an external keyboard, 

the Big Box Amiga's had Zorro slots 

which made it possible to add extra 

peripherals such as graphics cards. 

Binddrivers 

An AmigaDOS command, which is 

required by hardware which doesn't 

autoconfigure. As most hardware 

does suppprt autoconfig, it is rare 

to need Binddrivers. 

Bindmonitor 

ArnigaDOS command used to create 

new graphics modes and 

assign them names. Rarely used. 

Bit 

The smallest item of storage. A bit 

can only be on or off. which is "1" 

or "0" in binary arithmetic. 

Bitmapped fonts 

Amiga fonts are of several types: 

bitmapped fonts the most basic. 

and are simple graphic images 

which get blocky when enlarged. 

Bitplane 

The Amiga stores graphics in bit- 

planes. The colour a pixel appears 

in depends on the pattern of bits 

spread through the bitplanes. The 

more bitplanes. the more colours 

can be open at once. With a single 

bitplane, pixels can only be one of 

two colours. With eight bitplanes. 

pixels can be of 256 colours. 

Blanker 

Name of the standard Amiga screen 

blanker program. Blanker is a commodity 

program, and may be forced 

to be active all the time by being 

copied to the WBStartup directory. 

Blitter 

Amiga hardware, designed to make 

copying data as quickly as possible. 

Given a source and destination, the 

Blitter could copy data held in Chip 

RAM whilst the 680x0 processor 

did other things. It was ideal for 

creating software sprites. The 

Blitter could also draw lines, and 

was once called the "Bummer". 

Blizzard 

Popular make of accelerator card 

for the 41200. 

Blitz Basic 

Powerful programming language, 

based on BASIC but with many 

additions to make the most of the 

unique Amiga hardware. Latest versions 

include support for the AGA 

hardware. 

Block 

A group of data, for example, a 

block of data on a disk consists of 

512 bytes. 

Boot 

When a computer is switched on, it 

needs to boot or load its operating 

system. The Amiga will boot its OS 

from either floppy or hard disk. 

Boot menu 

Hold down the two mouse keys 

whilst the Al200 or A4000 boots, 

for the boot menu. You can then 

disable hardware, select the AGA 

chipset emulation mode or alter the 

disk drive to continue loading from. 

Break 

An AmigaDOS command used to 

force a running script to halt. 

QtA 

Breakpoint 

A special marker inserted into a 

program by a programmer which 

causes the code under test to 

freeze, This enables the programmer 

to examine the current state of 

the computer and so help track 

down any bugs. 

Bridgeboard 

Hardware used for PC emulation. 

Bridgeboards contained PC processors 

(usually 286 or 386) which 

allowed Big Box Amigas to act as 

true PC compatible systems. Part of 

the functions of the Bridgeboard 

was to bridge the gap to the set of 

ISA slots present, thus allowing the 

use of PC graphics cards. At the 

moment, the GoldenGate 2 card is 

the only bridgeboard available. It 

doesn't include a PC processor. but 

it's possible to use a limited range 

of PC hardware in suitable Amiga& 

BRU 

AmigaDos command. for "backup 

and restore utility". A better-thannothing 

program for making backups 

of important data. 

Brush 

A shape clipped from a larger 

image, usually done from within an 

art program, but often used to refer 

to any small graphic image. 

Buffer 

An area of memory used to temporarily 

store data. For example. 

the disk drives use buffers to store 

data in order to speed up operation. 

When data is read, more than 

is actually requested is read and 

stored, Next time data is requested, 

it's supplied from the buffer. 

Bug • 

An error in software or hardware. 

Buster 

Custom chip in the A4000 responsible 

for looking after the Zorro ill 

slots. First versions were flawed. 

and caused some high-performance 

cards to fail. 

Byte 

Eight bits of data make a byte. A 

byte can store a single character of 

text, or a number from 0 to 255,

Make yourself heard. Send your 

views and opinions to Backchat, 

CU Amiga, 37-39 Mil!harbour, isle of 

Dogs, London El 4 9TZ, UK. Or 

E-mail to backchat@cu-amiga.co.uk 

The kids want Java 

I was one of loose faithful Amiga 

users who was lured away from the 

Amiga to a PC a good while ago by 

the likes of X-Wing. Now I've got a 

few years of PC behind me I can 

quite truly say that I am sick to death 

of the machines. Buggy, bloated and 

slow are three things which spring to 

mind when I think of PCs. 

Anyone who knows anything 

about computers knows that PCs are 

pretty dodgy but everyone uses 

them. So why? Its got to be the soft 

ware support. The first thing I was 

taught about buying a computer on 

my college/university courses was 

"go for the software". So when I saw 

this "20 Ways to Save the Amiga" 

article (CU Amiga September 97) I 

was a little shocked to see so little 

mention of software and that Java 

got two measly sentences Don't you 

realise what a gateway to a whole 

world of software a good Java virtual 

machine would be? 

100 

Without Java you'll have Amiga 

developers working on the Amiga. 

With Java you'll have Amiga, Unix, 

PC, Mac developers, all working on 

applications which run on an Amiga. 

Take advantage and tap these applications 

by writing just one decent 

interpreter. PS: Java has Microsoft 

running scared and anything which 

does that has got to be a good thing. 

Chris Kemp, via E-mail 

Couple of quickies 

I have two questions about the 

September issue (Vista Pro): 

1 Why was the reader drawer so 

bare?! 

2 Why did you not include Terraform 

with Vista Pro? 

That's it for now, I'm looking forward 

to the next issue, and having a 

look at TFX. I just hope that it's 

playable on my 1200. 

rommoso 1 

Stephen Thornber, via E-mail 

A Another picture of TR: not a disappointment and actually a bliodingly good game alter all, 

according to the Hood of comments from bogey-picking readers. 

I 

c at 

1. Basically because reader contributions 

dried up a bit around that 

time. That's summer for you... 

2. Terraform is the same as 

GeoMorph, but NTSC only. 

GeoMorph was on the CD and 

amazingly, the disks as well. 

F117a Stealth mag 

May I too express thanks at the 

impending release of TFX on the 

October cover disk, One thing worries 

me though. My September 

CUCD came minus the CG Fonts for 

some strange reason and given the 

alleged stealth capability of TFX will I 

spend all of September searching in 

vain for it? 

Lastly. I suggested you release 

TFX on a CUCD some months ago in 

the survey. How many other magazines 

would actually sit up and take 

notice of one reader and even con- 

sider a suggestion? 

Cheers! You've proved once again 

it can be done and that you are still 

the Creme de la Creme! With friends 

: like you the Amiga can never die! 

Allan Brown (yes that one) 

via E-mail 

Would that be the Allan Brown 

who said he wouldn't be turning 

up at the World of Amiga Show 

because our promise of displaying 

TFX wouldn't have been kept? Well 

look on the bright side: they say 

egg is good for the complexion. 

Presumably you managed to find 

the TFX issue. If you missed it for 

any reason, contact our back issues 

department pronto before stocks 

sell out 

The march of time 

I remember when I had to tidy up a 

pile of Amiga magazines in the corner 

of the room_ Just looking 

through them made me re-live all 

those years I have been with my 

Amiga (cue the soft-edged, flashback 

effect). 

My oldest CU Amiga is the 

November 1992 issue, announcing 

the launch of the A4000. "Wow" I 

thought, "I'll have to get one of 

those". But as I flicked through the 

issues I noticed the full spread ads 

from Ocean, DMA, Team 17, Core, 

lndi Direct etc, and I felt a pang of 

loss of the Amiga being truly great. 

In those days there was a new 

game out almost every week (or so it 

seemed), new hardware and thick 

copies of CU Amiga. It seemed to 

me that the Amiga has lost something 

which made everyone want 

one. And with mist in my eye I felt 

those days will never come around 

again... But, looking through the features 

one thing struck me. It was the 

'people' using the Amiga in imaginative 

ways that made it what it wasfis. 

Then I realised the Amiga can be 

great once again, to have a new 

influx of Amiga users devoted like 

we are to our beloved machine. It 

needs new software as much as 

hardware, but where from? Years 

ago cheap home computers were 

great, but today if you expect fast 

rendering, cool games and so on, 

don't expect them to be developed 

on a small home micro any more_ 

Developers as much as new 

users have to be attracted back to 

the Amiga. To do this people who 

already own Amigas must upgrade if 

they want the Amiga to have new 

software for the future. And I mean 

really upgrade; hard disks, PowerPC. 

RAM, a graphics card (if you can't fit 

a graphics card stick it into a tower — 

then get a graphics card), CD-ROMs, 

so developers can develop new 

produ6ts for the Amiga. 

If you expect Amiga International 

to deliver a new computer with lots 

of ace software in the next few 

weeks, think again. They need our 

help as much as we need theirs. 

Upgrade and show developers you're 

willing to spend the money and time 

doing so. it might result in the Amiga 

being great again. Even if it doesn't. 

you'll have a great system and you 

can hold your head up high when 

people ask you what computer you 

have. Instead of mumbling, 'Erre..

Letter of the month 

Back from the brink 

rye been interested in computers 

for 15 years now, first a ZX 

Spectrum, C64, Amiga 500, and 

then a couple of years ago I bought 

a Pentium PC as there was so 

much software/hardware for it and 

the Amiga seemed to be dead. I 

have now just bought myself a 

second-hand . 

Al200 well boring. I am now spending 

aevery s waking hour on a great com- 

tputer h that e is so easy to use, has 

Psome excellent C software, and 

idoesn't s require , a degree to use to 

its full potential. I can now read 

decent magazines (like CU Amiga) 

rather than magazines which are 

990 page advertisements and 10 

pages of articles. I shall now be 

an Amiga" and getting a reply 

"what's an amoeba?" you will quietiy 

tell them about the new PowerPC 

you got that can do 230 MIPS, has 

an efficient OS that can run in 512K, 

that is friendly and easy to use. 

Tell them about how good it is for 

"creative" use, and you can run a 

web browser, word processor and a 

paint package and doesn't require 

lots of memory to do this "multitasking". 

and be proud of your machine. I 

know I will. "We shall not go quietly 

into the night..." 

Mark, Engineered Reality, Amiga 

Division 

Earth calling Cumbria 

I am writing to see if you can help, 

live in the South Lakes area of 

Cumbria (Kendal to be exact) and I 

would like to get together with fellow 

Amiga enthusiasts in the area with a 

view to setting up a user group if 

A When the Pi4000 was in shod trousers_ 

see The March of lime tor was it November?). 

adding to my system often (a 

tower case and CD-ROM are immi- 

nent) and I can't wait until Gateway 

start bringing Out some new 

machines! Goodbye MicroSoft... 

Hello Amiga! 

Andy Riding, N London 

Now there's a letter you don't get 

every day, and we didn't make it 

up either. It's stories like these 

that need to be conveyed to the 

masses of confused and unsatisfied 

PC users around the world 

who have never experienced the 

wonders of the Amiga because 

they've never even heard of it. 

Here's a new theory: how about 

promoting the Amiga? Chuckle... 

there is sufficient interest. 

Could you please print my E-mail 

address as detailed at the bottom of 

this mail in your letters page. Well 

done on continually striving to 

achieve a better mag, it gets better 

every month!. I've just read 

September's issue and I really like 

the DIY section. Can't wait till 

October's magazine. Long may CU 

Amiga reign supreme. 

Clive Thomas 

clivet@netcomuk.co.uk 

but not that good 

Just a few lines to congratulate you 

on the quality of your magazine, tern 

pered with one small complaint. 

While I accept that not all software 

will run under 0S2, I have 

noticed a couple of cases of CU 

Amiga claiming that softtvare is 0S2 

compatible when it is not, Recent 

examples include the Storm C demo 

mounted on the cover disk of the 

August issue and the web browser 

round-up in the same issue. 

Fortunately I have Kickstart 3 softkicked 

onto my A500 Plus, so I can 

use these programs using 

Workbench 3 from a second-hand 

Al200 (I have more memory on the 

5001. I hope that this will riot be a 

recurring problem in what is essentially 

a well-advised magazine, 

Your coverage of all things 

Internet-related has spurred me to 

get online, and it's great to see 

things moving in the Amiga scene 

again All the best for the future. 

Vince Hodgson, Leicester 

It's easy to make these mistakes 

when things get busy (and they do 

get very busy around here!) but 

that's no excuse. We'll try harder 

next time. 

The next generation 

No doubt your article on the 'Next 

Generation' Amiga will have opened 

a proverbial can of worms, and 

responses will be coming in thick 

and fast (hey, sounds like a PC I 

know) so keep this brief. 

The so called next generation 

machine has, for most people I suspect, 

been invented already. I am, of 

course, talking about the phase 5 

A\Box_ If Gateway 2000/Amiga 

International were to get together 

with phase 5 and PIOS to convert a 

new improved Workbench 4 to 

PowerPC native code, and take the 

A\Box as the blueprint for the new 

official machine, then the Amiga 

would truly be back for the future 

Such a machine should have a 

PowerPC version of PC-Task/PCx 

bundled with it as well. PowerPC 

chips are far better suited to emulate 

something as backwards as a 

push/pop accumulator x86 Intel chip. 

This way, the potential new owners 

could take their PC software with 

them, as this would be one of the 

largest stumbling blocks any new 

machine would face because of the 

Wintel monopoly (forget Apple 

everyone else has). Once the user 

base is established, the purely native 

Amiga software can be delivered in 

confidence owing to the decent 

sized user base. 

The Amiga needs the 'Wow' factor 

putting back into it. and I would 

think that every Amiga owner agrees 

that the A\13ox is the design to do it. 

With stunning graphics, excellent 

audio, and seriously fast CPUs, it 

sounds like a certain machine did 

way back in 1985 against the competition 

of the day... 

Neil Sanderson, via E-mail 

Amiga: What's that? 

It was good to read in your 

September 97 issue that Guildhall 

Leisure were trying to push the 

Amiga through large chains of software 

suppliers. However, I have 

since visited all three of my local 

Electronics Boutique stores and 

HMV and found nothing!! 

When I asked in the Meadovyhal 

store about them I was greeted with 

the response. - 

there some time ago". Admittedly the 

wyoung a lady s at Doncaster did look at 

a :heir order list for me, but nothing 

Cwas listed_ D 3I 

will contact Guildhall 

2 

1. , 

) tu • the Amiga software in 

the shops , if the staff don't have a 

clue what A, they are selling? I suppose 

we just s. keep pestering them 

H 

Dave Booth, o Chesterfield 

w 

Most of a us will have encountered 

the incredible r amount of ignorance 

there is e in the world concerning 

the Amiga, w and it's a sad fact that 

much of e this comes from staff at 

high street s computer retailers. It's 

up to all u of us to put our case and 

like you p say, keep pestering them. 

Take a -look 

at Andrew Korn's little 

monologue in this month's Points 

of View section for more on this 

particular subject. 

Dodging the issue? 

I'd just like to ask you wny you didn't 

answer the very interesting question 

that JA Ettles asked in the 

September issue? He (or she?i suggested 

that as well as, or even 

instead of, mounting commercial 

software on the CUCDs• you mount 

registered shareware. This sounds 

like an excellent idea to roe and 

would certainly reward some of 

those hardworking authors out there 

that often only ever see a very small 

return, A guaranteed income from 

mag sales would surely allow you to 

negotiate some incredible deals (as 

you already do with the commercial 

covermounts) while still allowing the 

author to make far more money than 

with the normally sporadic shareware 

registration system. 

It sounds like an ideal arrangement 

for all concerned, so why 

aren't you doing it? While I'm here, I 

have another question for you. Why 

don't you include the PD Scene and 

PD Utilities programs on the CUCD 

anymore? I'm sure you did at one 

time but it doesn't seem to be the 

case anymore. At least give us the 

Aminet path so those of us on the 

net can find them a little easier, As 

always, keep up the hard work that 

ensures you remain the best Amiga 

magazine on the market. 

Neil Thurlow 

We have actually put some pretty 

good registered shareware on the 

cover disks. Image Studio is a 

recent example (May 97), while 

Texture Studio, Xi Paint and Easy 

Cale are others If a really cool bit 

of shareware appears that rivals 

the quality of commercial software 

we can cover mount, then we'll 

always show an interest. However, 

Continued evaded 0.0.0.

we won't make any rules about 

only using shareware as that 

would obviously limit the range 

and quality of software we can 

give you each month. As for the 

PD Utilities and PD Scene software 

not appearing on recent CDs... 

Most people who send us disks to 

review here want to make a few 

sales via our pages. If we give 

them away free, there's not much 

point in them sending the software 

to us. 

Games aid recovery 

In my opinion the Amiga may not 

recover from its downfall because 

only two games are being revieweo 

each month, compared to the PCs 

11-15, I don't have anything against 

the Amiga (I'm probably the only 

person in my area to still have onel. 

I myself am upgrading my Amiga 

to a tower, 64 bit graphics card with 

4Mb, PowerPC 603 175MHz processor 

and 4 speed CD-ROM drive. 

Software retailers in my area have 

stopped selling Amiga software 

except for a place in Kingston that 

sells a little supply. This makes me 

mad because it is unfair on us 

Amiga owners that retailers are not 

even willing to stock Amiga games 

in a small corner of the shop. 

John Haydon, via E-mail 

It's all rubbish! 

Some time ago you printed a letter 

complaining about the standard of 

Amiga games being released. which 

I wholeheartedly agreed with. A few 

weeks later I came across a web 

site dedicated to that wonderful 

Amiga game called Gloom 

On these pages was a Gloom 

editor which had been donated by 

Mark Sibly (the original coder) and 

had been used to create the original 

game. My friend and I started to 

make our own maps and before 

long we had enough of them to 

make two new Gloom levels. Both 

levels were E-mailed to the Aminet 

for all to enjoy. I also sent a copy of 

one to CU which ended up on one 'of 

the CUCDs. The response we got 

A Gloom, a laVe 3D shooter tor Amiga garners. 

was great. Many people E-mailed us 

to say how good they thought the 

new levels were and did we have 

anymore. This started me thinking. 

We knew a couple of professional 

graphics designers who were willing 

to make new textures and baddies 

and with this in mind I contacted 

Guildhall Leisure (who published the 

original game) to see if they were 

interested in a Gloom data disk. 

The first response from Guildhall 

was promising. I spoke to a guy 

who said a data disk would be 

viable. He sounded very interested, 

but also said that I would have to 

wait until the guy who makes the 

decisions was in the office. Fair 

enough I thought. so I E-mailed my 

proposal to them and waited a 

week for the reply. Guess what? 

After a week there was no answer. 

So I phoned again and were told to 

E-mail them again which I did. 

Another week passed with no reply, 

and then another. After my sixth 

phone call I gave up. Guildhall are 

obviously either... 

a) Not interested in the game. In 

that case just a simple E-mail saying 

"Get stuffed" would have been 

preferable to weeks of silence or 

b) Not interested in making any 

money. lots of which would have 

been made from the sale of said 

disk land extra copies of Gloom for 

those that didn't have the original). 

You guys at CU could have had 

something to fill up a page with and 

Amiga game players could have had 

an old favourite brought back to life 

and actually had a brand new game 

to play that they hadn't completed 

ages ago. That was the final straw 

for me. I've now bought myself a 

new PC after owning various 

Arnigas for the last teoi years, and 

I'm now having oodles of fun playing 

Quake on the Internet. 

My friend however is still using 

his Amiga and is still working on 

new Gloom stuff. If he finishes it 

(before he buys a PC too) then it will 

be posted to the Aminet for all to 

enjoy and nobody will make any 

money from it. 

Jon Bullard, via E-mail 

It's a shame you didn't get any 

response from Guildhall. 

Fortunately we're not in any desperate 

need of things to 'fill up a 

page with so don't worry yourself 

about that. Let us know when it's 

finished won't you? 

Converted muso 

I get the impression from reading 

your magazine that most Amiga 

users do all kinds of different things 

with their computers. Flicking 

through the pages (often in the 

newsagent I must admit) I always 

felt a little left out of it all, as my 

only real reason for using an Amiga 

for music. It wasn't until I met a 

brick wall when trying to get artwork 

done for my first CD release 

that things changed, and how! 

Basically I was skint, and didn't 

know any artists who could do the 

job for me, so I had a look through 

some old CU Amiga cover disks. I 

was playing with Vista Lite and liked 

what I saw so much that it was 

used for the main cover image. 

Then I realised just how versatile 

Wordworth is (once again, from 

your cover disks) and used that to 

compile the sleeve notes. 

Now I've had a taste of the satis- 

faction that can be gained from 

doing more than just music, I'm 

seriously considering upgrading my 

basic Amiga to make use of the rest 

of the software I have lying around 

(including Vista Pro!). 

Thanks, you've made a skint man 

very happy (if not rich just yet). 

The Mighty Zog, Planet Pog. 

Good to hear it Mr Zog. What with 

this month's Draw Studio Lite 

cover disk, you'll be able to make 

even more professional looking 

CD covers. All the best in your 

route to musical stardom, and 

when you get there, just remember 

who it was that helped you 

out when you were skint! 

Coders required 

I have just formed a small software 

company which is called 

Masquerade Software, and my very 

first project (a top-down graphic 

adventure) is approximately half way 

to completion. 

• The reason I am writing to you at 

the moment is because I'm at the 

preliminary stages of Project 2 

(which is another graphic adventure) 

and I would like to hear from any 

programmers interested in working 

on a commercial game and can 

begin immediately. 

Preferably I would like to hear 

from someone who knows C or 

Assembler. I would consider some- 

thing like Blitz 2 or something similar. 

It is my intention to make top 

quality Amiga software, and support 

the machine through whatever 

changes may occur. 

Paul Thomas, Mid Glamorgan 

• 

I. 

To the Point... 

Stick iem up! 

Now that many of us have converted 

to tower systems, thanks to 

your excellent articles, how about 

giving away some stickers or transfers 

so that we do not get mistaken 

for PC users? 

Anthony Asbury 

That's the second request we've 

had now for Amiga stickers. We'd 

better think some more about it... 

Can I have a plug? 

I thought you might want to read 

the latest story added to my 

Honourable Mention web page. It 

is an interview with a technology 

consultant who motivates big companies 

by showing them how good 

developing technology from potential 

competitors is. One example he 

gives is how he motivates M$ and 

Intel by walking in with an Amiga 

and showing them what it can do 

You can view this story and many 

other Amiga related news items by 

going to 

http://www.rust.neti—mignashihm9 

7.html 

Matthew R. !gnash, via E-mail 

Consider your web site plugged. 

Portable Amiga lust 

That's it! You've convinced me. I'm 

going to have a crack at making a 

portable computer out of the bits 

of dead and abandoned technology 

i gathering dust under my bed. I had 

a little count up and was surprised 

to find quite a bit of potentially use- 

1 ful bits and pieces, including a 

fixed-freguency monitor (too big for 

a portable though), a couple of key- 

.boards, various drives and even an 

!, old brief case I found in the cupboard 

under the stairs. Come to 

•thinle of it, that monitor would be 

portable if I used that shopping 

trolley that's been left outside my 

! house... 

Mick Riley, Milton Keynes, 

Now that's the attitude! Why 

don't you combine it with this 

month's DIV project and then 

make yourself the world's first 

remote controlled portable Amiga 

in a shopping trolley? Well, it's 

just an idea.

M 

. iveilIMO 

, • 0 

" lotal .• r Intel net 

solutiottl 

MI* 

WhAt s V I I 

purrs s Tom •–•••••–•–•••••••,--•— 

01101 

Times las it 

P e4 

rvvellreplortoP , 111 E 

ten 

• Power Gaining 

woo unto, 

" 

ter ,,cier,,r inn * 

die ultimate 

'naiad 

- 

Vista Po 3 ,,,, re et ee e 

- _ t h 

20 W 

e ays Am 

is 

., 

I 

s o 

" 

• r 

• ••••,••• 

112anefback 6.1 

Tower HertInate . 

r loon crprh6., 

i 

57 

Dna_ ttetb 

L.øo In In tapes in I ell 

A-„ 

n 

• ""- 

gni sontUti 4 

L 

1 

. pre lahreetere 0••••••••• 

.•••••••• w.•••••••••••• 

• 

• • • ••• . 

I 

ac, puts • 

3 SSUES FREE! 

k 

e 

l 

k 

i 

e 

n 

B 

l 

e 

e 

d 

8 

T 

I 

" 

P 

" e - 

SUBSCRIBE TO CU AMIGA THIS MONTH AND GET 12 ISSUES FOR THE PRICE OF 9* 

L , 

l l • N u n . 

, 

Complete the form below and send payment to: CU Amiga Subscriptions, 

Lathkill Street, Market Harborough, Leicester LE87 4PA or if you wish to 

pay by credit card call our subscriptions hotline on 01858 435350 quoting 

source and offer codes. Lines are open from 8.30am to 9pm Monday 

to Friday and 10am to 4pm Saturday and Sunday. 

• Save El 8.00 

on the CD issue, 

1E14.00 on the 

disk issue 

....... 

SUBSCRIPTION ORDER FORM: 

• No risk that 

the newsagent 

will be sold out 

of the CD or 

disk edition you 

want 

I wish to subscribe to CU AMIGA and I Name 

enclose a cheque / postal order, 

International money order or by 

Mastercard I Visa payment and made 

payable to EMAP Images Ltd for: 

f 

1 

Return with payment to CU Amiga 

Subscriptions, Lathkill Street, Market 

Harborough, Leicester LE87 4PA or tele- 

phone the hotline on 01858 435 350 

Addresr 

Postcode: 

Date of Binh 

. Teleebear 

Signed: 

• All issues 

delivered to 

your door so 

you'll never miss 

an issue 

• No charge for 

postage and 

packing in the 

UK 

L 

• A money back 

guarantee on 

un-mailed issues 

if you are not 

satisfied 

SUBSCRIPTION HOTLINE 01858 435 350 

Mastercard I Visa or 

Expires: 

&polar 

Date: 

Smuts codes: C D (Idiom 101B Disk Edifies IA21 

Mier cedes: C D Edition CD ROIC Disk Editor! BD IA21.1 

Anneal Subscription Rates: Disk version C D version 

United kingdom + NI Z i £54 — I f7Z 

Air Europe + Eire D fle J fIll 

Rest al world lair J toe 1 : 1 f107 

Ali sokscription will be processed as trembly is possible, be you Ovoid allew 21 days iv dre order to be processed id omen to receive no first mailable issue alter drat From time to time [MAP IMAGES may seed yoo 

loiertneliell mat coeid be oi tvterest to pee_ Tick herr, it you do mot wish to receive sod imlormatiervi • Mier is limited to tie first 1111 sebscribers, and closes on 3001 November 1 997.

POINTS OF VIEW 

Points of Vie 

Never short of an opinion, Mat Bettinson gets another 

long rant all to himself. This time it's about the Amiga 

Do-It-Yourself phenomenon and its repercussions. 

Truthfully we know that most 

Amiga users have departed to PC 

pastures via the Microsoft Gates. 

Why they did so is a complex 

subject which has been done to 

death. The more interesting question 

for us is... Who are those 

people who have opted to stay? 

Cyborg brain 

Staying with the Amiga has automatically 

meant that you must be 

fluent with adding strange bits of 

hardware that poke out ungainly 

in every direction. 

In recent 

times, the mark of a hot Amiga is 

one that has had the most amount 

of the original hardware replaced. 

It's like a cyborg where the bolt-on 

electronics add spectacular features, 

but there's no escaping from 

the core organic brain that drives 

the whole shebang efficiently. In this 

analogy, the brain is AmigaOS itself. 

The irony is that those who left 

for the PC looking for a 'turn key' 

switch-on and go system got a heck 

of a lot more than they bargained 

for Those standard PCI cards that 

we yearn for provide no end of difficulty 

with resource conflicts. 

Windows 95 registry corruption and 

the inevitable, once monthly complete 

reinstall of the Gates 'masterpiece'. 

It's not the fault of PCI cards 

themselves, as some falsely believe, 

but rather that this particular cyborg 

has a terminal case of brain cancer. 

I believe it's a combination of the 

hardware and software upgrades 

necessary to make the Amiga shine 

bright, which make you inherently 

technical people. Or at least willing 

to experiment, try new things and 

be unafraid of getting your hands 

dirty. After all, reinstalling 

Workbench takes less time than 

Windows takes to boot. 

Ungainly 

So when the ungainly protrusions 

from your 

Al 200 were too much, 

it was time to get your 

hands dirty and get the 

oil Amiga into a nice new 

home - a brand new 

exoskeleton for our 

cyborg. There were a lot of 

issues to resolve and we've 

tried to help you with features, 

buyers guides and 

round ups of all the little cyberbits 

that are needed to move 

house. In reality, it was as much 

t learning experience for us, as 

was for you. 

wasn't a massive leap for us to 

"It's like a cyborg where the bolt-on electronics add 

special features, but there's no escaping from the 

core organic brain that drives the whole shebang" 

realise that if you could get your 

hands dirty with a tower, you could 

get your hands dirty with some kind 

of project that allows your Amiga to 

do new and exciting things. 

Project XG was our debut venture 

in this direction and once again, 

it was a learning experience all 

round. The fundamental idea was 

sound, the execution somewhat 

lacking and for that we, and specifically 

I, apologise. Project XG taught 

us that it's time to call in some 

expert help from a company that 

stands to gain by you guys purchasing 

the parts from them. We've 

worked closely with them to create 

a killer DIY project and to do it right. 

Now there must be a very great 

deal of you that thought Project XG 

looks cool but way too difficult to 

build. I don't blame you. Our future 

projects, including AIR Link, require 

you to get your hands dirty but in a 

predictable, well documented way. 

Since you need to buy the parts 

anyway. by using a dedicated supplier, 

they help us conceive hardware 

and produce the necessary framework 

such as the circuit boards 

which make things much easier. 

New skill, low cost 

After building AIR Link, you will have 

learnt a new skill and created some 

unique hardware at an outrageously 

low cost all by yourself. After that, 

it's all tied up with some high quality 

Amiga software that won't cost 

you a penny extra. You can then 

bend this new project to your will 

far more effectively than anything 

like it on the PC. 

Again, maybe you'll get your 

hands dirty with some ARexx scripting 

too and come up with some 

incredibly innovative uses for it as 

Amiga users want to do. 

This is what the Amiga is about, 

getting your hands dirty by experimenting 

and using a flexible, efficient 

system that doesn't assume 

you're stupid from the word go. 

When the new Amigas come, 

as surely they will, the platform 

will adopt the same values of fun 

and experimentation that the 

Amiga has retained since the 8-bit 

days. That's why I use Amiga and 

it sure looks like that's why a lot 

of you do too. With luck, future 

cyborgs designed to run off the 

AmigaOS brain, will come complete 

with some kind of 'geek.' 

port that will allow this tradition 

of hardware hacking to continue. 

Much of what you guys have 

been asking us to do in DIY 

Scene is simply impossible 

because of the limitations of the 

existing ports, and what's likely to 

be unused. Sadly we can't make 

graphics boards, Zorro busses 

and so on_ Even if we could, you 

wouldn't be able to build it with a 

El 0 Tandy soldering iron. 

Hail dirty hands 

What we can and shall do, however, 

will be to create a range of 

inexpensive, highly useful projects 

that will seriously enhance 

yogr Amiga System. We're working 

on some stunning projects 

already and they'll be revealed in 

good time. As always, we're open 

to your suggestions but please 

temper them with the reality of 

what is likely to be possible. AIR 

Link is a superb benchmark of 

what's possible and sets a new 

DIY standard. Hail to the Amiga 

and hail to dirty hands! 

• Mat Bettinson is CU Amiga's 

Technical Editor - matPmats.net

Not as dead as you might think 

The harsh realities 

The recent European Computer 

Trade Show IECTS) was quite an 

impressive experience_ There 

were products on show by the 

thousands. Mostly games, but 

quite a few 3D graphics companies 

were present. Wandering 

around, I got to see a very interesting 

3D scanner product which 

is soon coming in a hand held 

model which allows you to scan a 

shape as a 30 model in seconds. 

There was a realtime motion 

capture VR suit on show and 

there were various companies 

showing the latest 3D graphics 

boards throwing texture mapped 

polygons at breathtaking rates. 

There were great looking games 

like G Police, Quake 2, Outland 

and Worms 2. There was the 

usual assortment of wacky 

stands, only that much wackier_ 

What there wasn't was an Amiga 

presence. The total count for the 

Amiga at the ECTS is as follows... 

Spectravideo Stand 

- one ojoystick, n e one joypad. 

mCompetition o u s Pro e , stand: five joy- 

sticks. 

Guildhall Leisure: leaflets for their 

latest products. 

Not good. Five years ago a show 

like this would have had Amiga 

products in the majority. Here it was 

PC or PlayStation, with Nintendo 64 

coming a very distant third. Even the 

Sega Saturn and Apple Mac had 

more of a showing than the Amiga 

at this show. So is that it? Is it time 

to give in and fork out for one of 

those temptingly cheap PC clones? 

No. not yet. The Amiga is a lot less 

dead than people realise, 

Unfortunately this includes the 

industry in general. 

The most fashion lead aspect of 

the industry is the games sector and 

this is where the Amiga suffers 

most. The funny thing is that if you 

look at the figures, there's no reason 

for the market to be in the stwe 

it is in. When I talked to people at 

ECTS about the Amiga market they 

were all surprised at how healthy it 

is. A lot of people don't realise, but 

both ourselves and the 'other lot' 

sell not much under 30,000 copies a 

month. Let me make this clear. 

65,000 readers 

When you look at those ABC figures 

at the front of the meg, you are seeing 

the number of people who get 

out their wallets and buy a copy of 

the magazine. This isn't how many 

the newsagents get, or how many 

people our marketing bods want to 

guess read the mag, these are people 

forking out E4.50 or £5.99 for an 

Amiga magazine every month. I 

reckon the actual number of readers 

of CU to be somewhere in the 

region of 65,000 or more. That's 

actually not bad. Sure, top console 

titles outsell us, a few of the PC 

leisure titles outsell us, but if maga- 

.zine sales are any guide, the Amiga 

ought to still be a significant force. 

So why isn't it? Because people 

expect it not to be_ According to figures 

I've recently heard the Amiga 

For the attention of the Branch Manager. 

I Dear Sir/Madam... 

POINTS OF VIEW 

"Products are coming. games like Myst OnEscapee 

and Gloom 3 have the potential to get people excited 

again. The question is will they be widely available?" 

A Andy Davidson, creator et Winos, at ECTS to imamate the release of norms2- se the PC. 

games market in the UK is actually 

slightly bigger than the Mac games 

market. 

This despite the fact that the last 

new game to be available in the 

high street stores was WormsDC 

eight months ago. Sure Guildhall 

have released some pretty good 

titles, but the fact is that re-releases 

are never going to sell as well as a 

really top new title. 

Give us a buzz 

The Mac is better represented on 

the shelves of your local games 

shop, but only because those titles 

have more of a buzz about them. If 

the Amiga market is to be revived 

there has to be some products 

widely available over the counter 

with that buzz factor. The products 

are coming, games like Myst. 

OnEscapee and Gloom 3 have the 

potential to get people excited 

again. The question is will they be 

widely available? Not if the industry 

is so convinced there's no life 

in the Amiga market that shops 

will not take the games_ 

So it's down to us to do some- 

thing about it. Tell people what 

you want, be heard. It's no good 

just walking out of the shop mutter 

under your breath. At the bottom 

of the page there is a slip to 

photocopy and hand to shop 

assistants who tell you a product 

you wanted isn't available. If your 

local shop does not stock a title 

you are after, just fill in the form 

and hand it over. Do this as many 

times as you like, distribute 

copies to friends, whatever. 

Better still, actually tell the 

people behind the counter that 

you want their products and that 

they are losing sales by not stocking 

enough Amiga producti 

Andrew Korn is CU Amiga's 

Staff Writer. 

I This is just a short note to tell you that I came to this store hoping to buy the t i t l e for the Amiga, but found 

that you do not stock it. I realise that the Amiga is not as big a platform as it once was, but I feel that you are under-representing 

it in your store. 

The reduction in sales of Amiga products is undoubtedly in part due to the reduction in shelf space given to this line. 

The Amiga market still has an active user base in this country which is estimated to be in the range of 350,000 to 500,000 

users, so there is clearly the potential for significant sales. Added to the fact that numerous Amiga owners have second 

platforms such as N6455. PCs and PlayStations, it can't hurt to keep Amiga owners coming to your store for their purchases 

rather than leaving them to buy by mail order or seek another outlet. 

Thankyou for your time. 

1 

1 

1

REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL 

In these 'interesting times for the Amiga computer, HiSoft would like to express its total commitment to the Amiga and its users. And 

what better way than offering you the best software and hardware products at unbeatable prices! 

.• S CG I U- P I• N • OOOOO ••••••••• 

The Classic Squirrel and the Surf Squirrel have revolutionised the way you use 

your Al200 and A600 computers, making it possible to add up to 7 SCSI 

devices such as hard drives, scanners, Zip drives, CD-ROMs etc. With SCSI 

you get a complete, easy-to-fit and easy-to-use system that is fast, reliable and 

expandable. And now its even more 

affordable than ever! 

As the developers of the famous 

Squirrel SCSI interfaces we have 

been able to shave margins to the 

bone and bring some unbeatable 

CD-ROM deals. lust look at what 

you get in each of our Squirrel CD- 

ROM packs: 

t/ Choice of internal or external CD-ROM drive_ 

1/ Choice of 2-speed, 4-speed or 12-speed drives. M E V " 

6/ Choice of Classic Squirrel or Surf Squirrel interfaces. 

Choice of 3 FREE CD titles to get you started. 

4/ Power lead and cables where appropriate. 

4/ Full manuals on how to set up and use your new equipment 

✓ Extensive after-sales support, direct from HiSoft 

All you have to do is pick up the phone and call our friendly sales staff, free 

of charge - we will advise you on the best choice for your system and put 

together the best Squirrel CD-ROM pack you can buy. 

Squirrel C D 2 X Classic Sclumel. 2-speed Exteroa/ CD-ROM. 

chooce of 3 M R CDs', 

Squirrel CD4Xfas CO2X but with fast quad-speed CO-R03-43 

Squirrel CIDI 2X(a$ CO25 but with oloa.last I 2 •ripmd C:D.RfA0 

Surf Sq u irre l Op t io n flamer 5C31 pfts utua-fast swat tbterfacef 

No Squirrel Option fif you ahead). Own a SCSI interface) 

• • • • OOOOO • O O O 

O O • • 

• • 

• 

• 

• 

• • 

• • 

• 

• • 

£29.95 

C79.95 

• 

• • • 

• • • 

• A u r a 8 Sampler £ £29.95 • • • • 

LIIPMW 1113 

SE En 

£99.95 

E139.95 

.C199_95 

L30_00 

-E40.00 

'Current CD titles include AA Experience 2, Arninet 13, Utilities Experience, Golden Games, 

Grands lam Gamer Gold. Women of the Web & Personal Suite 

Classic Squirrel 

e s s o g g 2-Speed 3 CD Titles CD-ROM 

O O 

O O 

O O 

O O 

O 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• • • • • 

s a u 

l i l 

l i 

• • 

The revolutionary Zip drive • from k)mega is one 

• 

of the major technological • developments of the 

90s, and it works perfectly • on your Amiga with 

our tailor-made Squirrel Zip • kits. 

S Q U I R R E• L 

• 

ZIP100 PACK 

The complete Zip100 pack for any 

SCSI-aware Amiga computer: 

I/ Zip Drive including 1 cartridge with 

PC/Mac Zip Tools, 25-way to 25way 

SCSI lead, manuals etc. 

• HiSoft Amiga Zip Tools software with 

Amiga-specific user manual. 

g/ Special 25-way to 50-way converter 

for use with Squirrel SCSI or other 

SCSI peripherals. 

Z14995 

• 

O O 

O O 

O 

• 

• 

• b 

• 

A 

• 

l 

• 

l 

• 

i f 

• 

i 

• 

r 

• 

d f 

• 

l i 

• 

t 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

The world famous Blizzard 12301IV 50MHz accelerator 

board is now available from HiSoft at a new, even lower 

price. Trust HiSoft to bring you the best 

Amiga products at truly affordable prices 

and with full technical support from 

Amiga experts. 

This is the highest performing 

68030 expansion you can buy 

for your Al200 and we can 

now offer it with a range of 

options to give you maximum 

choice - whichever way you go, 

you can be assured of top quality, fully 

warranted products with complete alter-sales 

service from HiSoft. 

Blizzard 1210-IV ram& 50MH, 68030 PAWL'. 32-68 fast RAH, 

erfsamlabie up to 1 2 8 . 

Blizzard 1230•IV , 4Mb (luk. 606151.MM tuded. hirrxr) L119.95 

Blizzard 1230-IV ElMip 256,46. &sr.. nOns 9MM included (Medi £ 1 3 9 9 5 

Blizzard 1230-P116Mbast, , Ei($s SiMM inctuded. fined) E169.95 

0 9 . 

50MHz FPU Co -Pro 

9 

ce sso ss 

5 

r fwhen purchased with 1230-M E2 9 •9 5 

B L I Z Z A R D 

GOLD PACK 

Blizzard 1230-iv &Mb & FM) & Surf Squl rrei E229.95ll 

SQUIRREL 

ZIP100 GOLD PACK 

The Gold Pack contains everything in the 

standard pack (see left) plus: 

UPPIR DISK I 

✓ 2 extra Zip 100Mb cartridges, a 

total of 300Mb storage in the pack. 

✓ SCSI lead of your choice: 25-way 

to 50-way, 50-way to 50-way etc. 

£179 95 

•Mil IS IRS RIAU UM 

• This amazing-value printer allows truly stunning photo-realistic quality, • 

• with no banding, when used with the •Canon 

Studio software package. • 

• This pack includes BJC-4200, Amiga printer lead, full version of • 

• Canon Studio and free 250-sheets of 100gsm Inkjet Paper. • 

• 

• S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S • 

C229 

95 

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

S 

e 

r 

a 

* 

Make my own CDs? No, too expensive. Well, not any more 

with the brand-new SquirrelCDR system. Combining a 

brilliant, 2-speed write, 6-speed read CDR drive with the 

excellent commercial version of MakeCD, the SquirrelCDR 

system is unbeatable - just look at what you can do: 

sof Backup 650MB of hard disk in under 40 minutes. 

t/ Write up to 100 sessions per disc, 

V Create your own multimedia discs, 

r/ Create your own music discs. 

I, Back-up CD-ROMs. 

o/ Back-up audio discs. 

vl Back-up console games. 

I/ Back-up ANY compact disc! 

t/ Create Mac / PC discs on your Amiga. 

6/ Create mixed audio I data discs, 

V Create bootable CD32 discs-perfect for demos! 

o/ Play CD-ROMs at 900kB per second 

✓ Play CD32 discs. 

4/ Access all sessions of a PhotoCEL 

V Play audio discs. 

Ideally suited for the Squirrel SCSI interfaces on the Al200 

the SquirrelCDR will also work on most SCSI-aware Amigas 

SquirrpiCDR XI (external dnee. MateW, Sod Swittel, sold d6ki £ 4 6 9 .9 5 

Squirrtilt:DIR C T text d e * . Uake(1). gold dna. wIo 931i/facet £ 3 9 9 .9 5 

SquirrelCDR I laniemal tirM., !Waken). gold ch,IL ssdo 924 Axe l £349.95 

MakeCO gut) vetson verb manual. km peNdre tee. 

, C 3 9 . 9 5 

Gold D isk dwity warword. W,usab tapaunt £ 6 . 9 5 

* 

W 

h 

i 

p 

p 

e 

t 

The Whippet is a fully buttered, ultra high 

speed serial port capable of performing up 

to 400% faster than the Al200's serial port. 

Data transfers with The Whippet are 

guaranteed to be much faster, much safer 

and much more reliable than when using 

the standard Amiga serial port. 

The Whippet really comes into its Own 

when surfing the Internet. High speed 

drivers allow the use of web browsers, ftp 

clients, email clients, usenet readers and 

other Internet tool, all at the same time 

without any loss of data—and with full 

multitasking! 

COMPATIBLE WITH s • 

• All Amiga networking software. 

All Amiga Internet software. 

• All Amiga communications software. 

FEATURES 

• High performance serial port, up to 

400% taster than the Amiga serial port. 

• The Whippet is fully buffered for safer 

and reliable data transfer. 

• Up to 230,000 bps data transfer rate. 

£49 95 : 

• 

• 

• • • • • • • • OOOOOOOOOOO 

• 

• 

• 

• 

ciPAIMORP 

We are delighted to announce the immediate availability of the 

CD Edition of the acclaimed CINEMA 4D raytracing package. 

The CD Edition includes a brand-new version of CINEMA 

4D, many more textures, scenes and objects (>200 

predefined materials, >400 bitmap textures) and, 

as a special FREE bonus, CinemaWORLD and 

CinemaFONT are included! 

For those who already know CINEMA 4D, here 

are some of the new features: 

V Direct 68060 support - rendering up to 

100% faster. 

✓ Brand new Material Manager with material 

previews. 

6/ Materials now support colour, luminance, 

transparency, reflectivity, environment, fog, 

bump mapping, genlocking, highlights and 

highlight colouring as separate material attributes. 

t/ Unlimited number of materials on an object. 

to' Lighting system supports visible light, lens flares, 

glows, reflections, soft and hard shadows, conical, 

parallel, decreasing and fixed intensity light, 

t/ Camera supports depth of field blurring and lens adjustment to 

allow fisheye, wide angle or telephoto lenses. 

1/ Internal CyberGraphX support. 

V Palette sharing on 256 colour screens. 

CINEMA 4D has a long history on the Amiga, being used all over the world 

by graphic studios, architects, television companies and enthusiastic amateurs. 

Now its pedigree has been realised by the Macintosh and PC world who have 

raved about it 193% - Mac 

CD £199 

- 

Format), 

C a l l 

u s 

Eve 

f o r 

a 

s p e c i a 

l 

c r o s s - 

9 5 UPGRADE PRICES 

ye. 2 to Co Edition £69 

ye. 3 to CO Edition £29 

p l a t f o r 

Confused m tby all the hype about the internet? We're not surprised. But here is the no-nonsense, 

quickstart pack that pcontains rall you ineed 

to connect, to send and receive email, to transfer files, 

to access those essential c newsgroups e and . to browse the world wide web. The brand-new Enterprise 

Net&Web pack is a breeze to install and a joy to use - here's what you get: 

• ENTERPRISE 

E N T E R P R I S E 

NETAWER PACK 

NETILWEB 

▪ 33.6bps Fax/Voice Modem - cream 

po 

v• Net&Web Software 

FTP file transfer 

aHiSoft Mail email 

/Browse b ro wse r 

1 "wrie r n e wsre a d e r 

Z99 

95 

ge 

6/ Modem & telephone leads 

ti Easy install program 

si Free 30-day trial account 

with Demon Internet 

4 

Everything in the Lnterprise Net&Web 

Pack (see left) plus 

Termitelte 

software that 

supports ppp for 

connection to any 

service provider. 

✓ 71;e Whippet, the superfast 

serial port, a real 

money. saver. 

t1,59 95 

H i S O F T 0500 223 660 

S Y S T E M S — 

Cal/ tree (m a w 

Did School, Greenfield. lie.oloc:1 • nDE, UK 

- crecktidebt card. We accept Madertard, Vim . Sm it h . Delta, 

+ 

4 wwwhlr eso co uk • www oner 

,, , t h e 

,, b14 tot o badman- v 

deksery ti, 

(2n -3 dor goods e l &toad Ail pnte5 mclude UK VAT Call, las Ur 

4 

erna , od a y k 

a 

, n. 

5 , e n aputtilaSe 

Orden. Ct HiSoft 1997 f &Of 

1 

f4/5 ( ac e 

tri ay 

o 

n) 

r 

r T O ORDER

LH Publishing: Supporting you and the Amiga for over seven years (Get a free copy of AmigaEm with your order) 

TA r 

• 

TurboPrint 5: E45 

4 I 

rS4 CI 

eilletr" 

0 Perfect output, simple to use, a must 

1 

-•••• 

have if you own an Amiga. 

" 

4 

1. 

CONNECT YOUR AMIGA: Internet Essential! 

--* 

ImageStudio Networking, the Internet. Comms and more. 

MANUALS All explained in plain English - E12.99 

Get a manual for .01 , 

(14 

1VERSION 2 UPGRADE FROM DRAWSTUDIO LITE 

fl I A 

- UPGRADE TO V2 PLUS CD E39,95 

• ••••••••••••• 

- UPGRADE TO V2 FLOPPY E29.95 

• •••,•••••••••• 

• 1...••••• 

co‘ 

• S O O . 

UPGRADE FROM FULL VERSION V1 

- E9.99 

• •••••.....• •••.••••••••••• •••••••••••••••••• 

a•••••••- ••• ••••• ..•-•••• 

PRINTED MANUALS/BOOKS 

....A. a *Mao. .••• ••••••a•••••0. 

01. S o 

- DrawStudio Printed Manual E6.99 

- DrawStudio Tutorial Book & CD E16.99 

24-BIT CYBER DISPLAY & 24-BIT PRINTING with turboPnnt 5) 

. 

- DrawStudio Tutorial Book/Floppy Disks E13,99 

POSTERS 

; 

* VIDEO TITLING * ILLUSTRATION * MUCH MORE NB: Prices include UK postage, overseas customers see shipping 

charges bottom of page 

TO QUALIFY FOR UPGRADE PRICES, PLEASE SEND COUPON, THIS ADVERT OR CD/FLOPPY 

DISK AS PROOF OF PURCHASE. ALL ITEMS WILL BE RETURNED WITH ORDER 

g1 

Prelusion' 

Pigott 

P R O P A G E M A N U A L S E 

c 

1A N 14 D T U T O R I A L B O O K S E24.99 E29.99 - ProPage Manual, Manual & Book Book and & Floppy CD disks Ct( 

Ring bound 4 for ease of use, written by CU Amiga's ProPage Workshop Feature writer, Larry Hickmott 

..9 

ROM 

EXCLUSIVE - These manuals are not available anywhere else 

11 

9 

11 

NEW 9LOW 

PRICES ON EMC CDS 

9 T 

E4a99 

P 

10 

u 

ro THE Award winning fonts and clip art CDs. 

to available individually or as a package. 

AT THIS PRICE, EVERYONE SHOULD 

te HAVE ONE - HURRY, LIMITED STOCKS 

ri THREE - GET A FREE CD!!! 

s 

mn 

a 

• 

ILA t••••••1 A , . 1 . 

PHASE 4: E12.99 (GREAT PRICE) 

• 

B r a • o m n a 

s 

your copy of DiskSalv 4 only E19.99 

Award winning CD lor multimedia and video work. Stunning back- 

• 

•Wha 

• 

grounds. Utils. ImageStucho now Essential back up and recovery • 

IC.Z• 

i fonts io and lots 

U1 

more at a never before low low price, 

• 

DESKTOP VIDEO DREAMS: SENSATIONAL NEW LOW PRICES!!! - Only E5.99 utility by the legend "Dave Haynie" 

• 

B 

• 

• 

• 

Other n CDs 

• 

• 

o 

• 

* Personal Paint 7 - E29.95 (Superb Paint package) 

• 

• 

a 

PageStream 12. 

• Aminet Set 3 - E25 (Special) 

u 

o 

m 

• Aminet Set 4 - E34.99 

The Best DTP Package is now available ein 

the UK 

m 

l 

m 

FREE- Opus 5.11, 4 CDs packed with useful utils 

o 

k 

Et 25.00: The best DTP package on n the Amiga is 

• Kara Fonts - E25! (Christmas Special!) 

• 

P 

Create colour fonts plus plenty of ready made fonts 

111 1 now available in the UK and at a new low price. A 

* Personal 

f 

killer application with loads of features - masking, 

Suite - E12.99 (Christmas Special!) 

text in shapes and so much more! 

Personal 

a 

Paint 6.4, Superbase 4 Personal and more 

• 3,000 JPEG o 

1 Textures - £9.99 (Special!!!) 

* Epic Encyclopedia g 

- E29.99 

PAGES TREAM 3 EXTRAS (UK Stock) 

r e 

I 

! Specials Apply to Limited Stock 

Christmas Special Offers 

p 

— 

Wordworth Import Filter - E9.99. TextFX2 - E29.99, 

* Envoy Network M software E20 (Christmas Spec,ai) 

GarysEffects - E9.99 True Type Engine- E9.99, 

• MrBackup ro & DiskSalv 4 E25 (Super Bundle- Christmas Speciai) 

JPEG Filter - E9.99, Borders E25 each 

* Torn Shapes a of Desire: Internet Erotica E5 (Special!) 

• Deathbed pVigil 

Video (E12.99) 

DESKTOP PUBLISHING 

n 

LH Publishing a -- 13 Gairloch Ave, Bletchley, MK2 3DH, United Kingdom 

Payment Methods: u Cheque & Postal Order (Payable to LH Publishing) plus 

44 (0)1908 370 230 

Switch and popular credit cards (not American Express) 

g 

UK 

ImageFX• 

Postage/Shipping: 

Deathbed a Vigil Video, 

Ea (DrawStudio, 

Slop-By-Step 

PageStream 

with ProPage. 

3. PageStream 

Other Products 

2, TypeSmith. 

El 

thP 

st 

Europe Shipping: e Add E5. Rest of the World f Add 18 lit in doubt. ring) 

24hr Fax Line -- +44 (0) 1908 640 371 

o-L 

ls 

EMAIL i ORDERS: ianyteempowemetcauk 

ArnigaErn avadable only on request: Limited Stock, first come, first serve)

1 - Commodore Is Awesome

Create successful ePaper yourself

Delete template?

Save as template?