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years to the month after Protext version 1 was 

launched Arnor t l ore pleased to present version 5, an enormous leap 

forward in both ease , of use and performance. 

Protext 5.0 introduces a completely integrated system of pull down menus 

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

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

you the best of both worlds. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

earlier versions from 1.0 onwards. 

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

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

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

Format, ST User). 

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

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

27 different languages and has 10 

different national keyboard layouts 

built in (plus the capability to define 

your own symbols and 

keyboard layouts). 

Prices 

The Features 

New fast it easy to use pull down 

menu system with dialogue boxes ond 

alerts; file sector; mouse dragging to set 

.blocks. Menus complement existing 

commands and keyboard shortcuts, do 

not replace them. Menus may be used 

with mouse or keyboard. Amigo version 

folows Intuition guidelines. 

:c Enhanced printing capabilities supports multiple proportional fonts; mixing of 

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

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

centre tabs. Extensive range of printer drivers supplied_ 

.sc Multiple file editing - up ta 36 files may be open; split screen editing. 

A Graphics mode support on PC alows use in virtually any text or graphics mode 

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

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

character. 

Language support includes Albanian, Basque, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English. 

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

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

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

.‘t Index und contents generation. Indexer takes marked words or phrases; contents 

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

of contents output. 

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

fast phonetic lookup. Anogroms and find word patern. Foreign language dictionaries 

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

Many other enhancements including multi-line footnotes and endnotes: automatic 

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

mode support; sentence operations, inter- paragraph spore, much improved expression 

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

- printing; file sorting utility with sped& options for names and addresses; revised manual 

plus new tutorial guide_ 

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

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

undelete; file conversion utility; configuration program; auto reformating: on green 

help; lime and date; typewriter mode; line drawing; disc utilities. 

Protext 5.0 may he purchased from any good computer shop or directly from Amor. Upgrades from earlier versions 

ore only available from Amor and the original discs should be returned with your order. 

P( Amiga ST/TI Archimedes 

Protext 5.0 49.95 049.95 ti 49.95 t I 49.95 

Upgrade from v4.2 

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Protext 4.2 09.95 £99.95 99.95 N/A 

Prodota 1.1 c19.95 E19,95 E79.95 due e1991 

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Protect 5.0 requires at least 640K of memory on all machines 

?rotext 1.2 requires at least 511K of memory on all machines 

Punkt° requires 1MB of memory on the Amiga 

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After Amiga Computing's 3rd birthday party 

with the latest news, including location reports 9 Eddie McKendrick gets nostalgic 3 8 

Public Domain 

Our regular guide to the best In free software. 

Paul Austin sorts out the best from the rest 7 9 

Beginner's guide: CU 

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related correspondence from far St wide 1 4 3 

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The section of Amigo Computing that takes having 

fun seriously! Previews, charts and tips not to mention 

reviews of BRAT, BARDS TALE III, A110 TANK KILLER, 

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The hard stuff 

Our Technical Editor gets knee-deep in the 

latest Amiga hardware offerings 6 7 

Going for Gould 

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quite a bit to say. Don Maple listens in 7 3 

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Jason Holborn continues his quest to 

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The Saxon angle 

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COMPETITION 

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giving away a spectacular competition 

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Amiga Computing 5

KICK OFF 2 greatly enhances the gameplay of KICK OFF, winner of the THE GAME OF THE YEAR in the 

U.K., and similar awards right across Europe. A host of new features have been added to the ones that 

enthralled players the world over. 

• Full size multi-directional scrolling pitch with the players, 

markings etc. in con-ed proportion. 

• 1 to 4 players option. (Amiga and ST only) 

• 2 players TEAM option against the computer or 2 other players. 

Hundreds of players each with a unique combination of 

attributes (stamina, pace. etc.) and skills (passing. shooting. 

tackling. etc.) 

Instinctive Kick Offjoystick controls to dribble, pass. shoot, 

head or chip the ball and do sliding tackles. 

• Set piece FREE KICKS including dummies and the ability to dip 

the ball or bend the ball round a defensive wall 

• 9 types of comer kicks with full control of shot power. Long 

and short throw ins. 

• Team selection from a squad of 16 with substitution and a 

choice of tactics. 

• League and cup competitions with Extra Time, Injury Time 

and sudden death penalty shoot outs. 

Facility to view, edit and save the Action Replays and create 

a Golden Shots disc(Excl. IBM CBM 64) 

Facility to load Player Manager teams and tactics for a single or league game 

• Red and yellow cards. 16 different referees, injury time and a host of features to create an atmosphere for a game which is 

real fun to play 

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An International class player takes charge of a third division dub as Player Manager. His brief is simple 

-Bring Back The Glory Days. 

His success depends on his playing skills on the pitch and managerial skills in devising winning tactics, 

aquiring the right players from the transfer market and building a team worthy of the highest honours. 

• Unique facility to design and implement your own tactics. 

i• Over 1000 individual players, each with a unique combination of attributes and skills 

• A lively transfer market. Haggle for the best deal. 

• 4 division league and a cup tournament with sudden death penalty shoot out. 

The Player Manager brings the every day realities of a manager's life, his talents as a manager and a 

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ST, ACTION - A stroke of pure genius. 

THE ONE - An exceptional football management simulation, Astounding depth. Most involved, rewarding and playable. 

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THE ONE - Ultimate soccer simulation 96% 

THE ACE - Brilliant. Buy, Buy, Buy. 930. 

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ST FORMAT- What a game! Gem to play. Magic 90% 

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GAMES MACHINE - Probably the best sports game ever. 92% 

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Raises the skills required and gameplay of IICK 04 2 to 

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Two extra kits. 

Look at any player stilts, (attributes and skill) before sele 

Totally new comer kicks with full control of the power, height 

the ball. 

Enhanced throw ins and penalty shots. 

Provision to flick the ball in the air and do a blinding hear or a spectacular 

overhead kick 

New two players team mode Player I in position or nearest to the ball and 

player 2 in position or keeper. 

Linesmen and referee on the pitch. 

A new player attribute FLAIR A player with a high level of flair will try a solo 

attempt at the goal 

4 new pitches - Wembley - Icy - Muddy - Non-League 

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Team Yankee is the delimtive action simulation of modern tank warfare. 

'Team Yankee., the critics choice* 

Team Yankee is designed to test your leadership and tactical skills to the 

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Heralded the American computer 

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Commodore finally stop crying wolf 

and unveil a CD player that thinks it's 

an Amiga, as Eddie McKendrick reports 

MONTHS of speculation about 

Commodore's fledgling multimedia 

product CDTV are finally 

over. On Tuesday April 30 

Commodore officially introduced 

their Dynamic Total 

Vision to the world. 

Due to go on sale later this 

year with a price tag of around 

£700, CDTV is similar in appearance 

to a standard compact disc 

player, but it is capable of a vadety 

of Interactive leisure and 

educational applications. 

With the CDTV, users will be 

able to simultaneously call up 

video images, text, graphics and 

stereo audio through a simple 

infra-red remote control unit. 

The greatest potential for 

CDTV lies in the educational 

field where programs are being 

developed which exploit the 

machine's multimedia capability, 

A Commodore spokesman 

explained: "You can call up a 

picture of the African bush containing 

a number of wild animals. 

"Using the control unit you 

can then select one of the animals 

and up on screen comes a 

detailed picture with descriptive 

text and the sound of the particular 

animal or a commentary." 

A pilot scheme underway 

with Derbyshire County Council 

is using CDTV to teach Japanese 

to local schoolchildren. 

As well as hearing the spoken 

language, children are able to 

see pictures depicting Japanese 

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culture. As no keyboard is necessary, 

CDTV can be operated by 

people with no previous keyboard 

experience. 

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Delivering the goods 

Independent research commissioned by Amigo Computing has revealed 

that major High street outlets do not expect to have large stocks of 

Commodore's CDIV home entertainment system until October. 

Despite the official launch our survey showed that CDTV is likely to be a 

slow starter with one retail chain expecting only small stocks by mid-May 

and others still in the dark about availability. 

Information for the buying public is woefully inarkquate. Under the 

guise of a customer keenly interested in buying CDTV, our researchers contacted 

approved stockists Dixons, John Lewis 

and Comet. Sales staff in one major Dixons CUR/ may 

outlet thought COW was 'a sort of television" 

while staff at another branch asked: 'Is 

it some kind of games consoler Neither had 

any knowledge of availability. 

A third Dixons store said they had no idea 

when they would get CDTV but they would 

try and order it while the manager of a fourth 

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storage capacity equivalent to 

around 720 floppy disks our 

about 250,000 pages of text. 

outlet said: 'We've got it in our price list but because of pre 

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I don't think we will have it in stock until October." 

production 

A spokesman at Dixons head office said: "We have no information on 

when this will be available but we hope it will be within the next month. 

We are just waiting for Commodore, but the price has been fixed at 

L599,99." Our researchers drew a complete blank at the John Lewis store 

in London's Oxford Street. Even when given a description of the new 

machine, a senior member of staff said they had no knowledge of it. 

"It's not on our list for this half-year. Maybe 

we will have it next halt" was the reply. 

Over at Comet, staff in two retail outlets 

referred us to head office where a spokesman 

said: "We will have CDTV in some of our selected 

outlets by mid 

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Smooth operator 

ANTIA is a font enhancement utility 

which performs an anti-aliasing process 

on normal Amiga fonts. 

From one original font size, it can 

produce up to nine scaled down versions, 

anti-ahased using four brightness 

levels, 

AntiA runs on all Amigas• It can 

handle type sizes up to 300 points, 

although a 512k machine will be limited 

to sizes of around 200 points. A 

68020130 is useful in speeding up the 

processing of very large point sizes, but 

not essential. AntiA is available now at 

a RRP of E40. Contact ZEN Computer 

Services on 061 793 1 931 

24 bits on the side 

AMIGA screen files can now be converted 

into 24 bit colour slides or 

film of full cinema quality thanks to a 

new development from Amiga 

Centre Scotland (031 557 4242). 

Cine Link is a module for use with 

the company's Image Link package, 

now re-christened Rastar link. It 

drives a number of digital film 

recorders, allowing Amiga files to be 

transmitted to them via the SCSI 

port 

They are then converted into 

2,000 or 4,000 line resolution pictures. 

Cine Link can also be teamed 

with a cine camera to produce cine 

film animations in up to 4,000 line 

resolution and full 24 bit colour. As 

Amigo Computing went to press, the 

price of Cine Link was not definite 

but should be in the region of E230_ 

Raster Link costs fl 55, This provides 

Spurious price cuts 

FOLLOWING reports of price cuts 

for top-end Amigas in the USA, 

Commodore UK spokesman 

Andrew Ball has discounted 

suggestions that the same 

could happen on this side 

of the Atlantic. 

He told Amiga Computing: 

"These are just spurious 

rumours." 

The American price cuts 

take in both Amiga 2000 

and 3000 ranges and vary 

from 10 to 26 per cent. 

10 Amiga Computing 

COMMODORE has escalated its assault on the education 

market by offering education authorities and schools the 

chance to buy an Amiga 500 and one of 14 software 

packages for E299 plus VAT a saving of £100. 

The offer has been made in response to education 

minister Kenneth Clarke's request for computer manufacturers 

to be competitive in their education pricing. 

It includes a 500 with 1Mb of ram and a choice of 

Amiga Logo with Talking Turtle, DPaint II, DPrint II, 

Dpaint III, BBC Emulator, 

Fanta Vision, MaxiPlan 500, 

Superbase Personal, ProWrite 

2,5, Music Mouse, Dr. T's 

Music Recording Studio, 

Infolile, Photon Paint or 

Spritz. 

To ensure that those tak- 

ing advantage of the offer 

are bona fide education 

users, Commodore are dealing 

with all orders them- 

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all the software necessary for the 

conversion but the real shock to the 

wallet comes with the purchase of 

digital film recorders which can run 

into thousands of pounds. 

Under the Spell 

SPELL!, the computerised aid to 

spelling that is now selling in 

record numbers to Amiga users, 

has found a new fan — Minister of 

Education Tim Eggar. 

He has written to Nicholas 

VVinterton MP another admirer of 

the program: "The Government 

welcomes such initiatives as a way 

of raising standards in our schools," 

And he added: "The Secretary of 

State is concerned at the perceived 

decline in the standard of spelling 

among young people and is keen 

that everyone in the world of education 

should take serious steps to 

Improve those standards. Good 

spelling is essential in all branches 

of knowledge". 

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selves - passing them on to accredited dealers in the 

appropriate area. "We are policing this offer very closely 

to make sure that the right people are buying the computers," 

said Commodore's national sales manager for 

education, Peter Talbot. 'So far we have had tremendous 

response from the government right down to the schools 

themselves. We have a growing market share in education 

and there han't been an offer as keen as this one 

before". Commodore spokesman Andrew Ball added that 

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"We have a 

growing market 

share in 

education and 

there hasn't 

been an offer as 

keen as this one 

before" 

Peter Talbot 

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MANAGING director Martin 

Lowe reports that Amiga 

Centre Scotland have 

embarked on a substantial 

change of direction. They are 

now concentrating on 

developing low-cost advanced 

technology for business, 

television, the professions 

and education. 

"We intend to provide an 

environment where a business 

or education customer 

can be shown a complete 

range of computing hardware 

and software, where 

they can examine and try our 

equipment and where technical 

requirements can be identified 

and satisfied," he told 

Amiga Computing. 

in the first month alone, 

sales on the offer had 

totalled £250,000. Schools 

wanting to buy the package 

must provide either their 

DES number or an official 

purchase order and the offer 

closes on May 31. 

Further details can be 

obtained from Commodore's 

education sales desk on 

0628 779677. 

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'Too few people and corporations in the Ilk pare aware of the power 

and price advantages of using the Amiga system. A fully-implemented 

version of AT&T Unix System V, release 4, is now available on the Amiga. 

Internationally, many broadcast and video professionals have already discovered 

the Amiga.' 

The validity of his decision was underlined by the successful appearance 

of AMS's 32-bit graphics board at top European computer 

show CEBIT where it attracted interest land orders from 40 countries. 

'...."'"' 'Commodore displayed tour of our boards on their trade 

Harlequin/Amiga combination displaying images captured with 

their top of the range scanners_ 

"Software developers in Europe and America are already producing 

programs to take advantage of eour technology." 

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WITH a name like the European 

Computer Trade Show, you would 

have thought the number of different 

kinds of software and hardware 

on show at Islington's Business 

Design Centre would have been 

You would have been wrong. 

The order of the day - or rather 

the order of the three days from April 

14 to 16 inclusive - was games, 

games and more games. 

True, there was the odd bit of 

hardware - though mostly joysticks, 

to aid the playing of games, and 

mice, which in many cases serve the 

same purpose — and several purveyors 

of educational and music software 

were in evidence. 

But in the main, games reigned 

supreme. 

How strange to have to report, 

then, that the stand which had the 

most visitors queueing up was NOT 

organised by a games outfit_ 

It was a virtual reality demonstration 

from Divison, a company based 

in Chipping Sodbury, near Bristol, 

and which is involved in the more 

serious side of W. 

Although consistently well populated, 

even the Psygnosis hospitality 

suite, with those inevitable, loveable 

little Lemmings everywhere, could 

not raise the same amount of visitor 

interest. 

Division's main claim is that it has 

made VR a practical proposition. It 

has done this by creating the hard. 

ware and software that has moved 

It was a case of games 

nearly all the way at 

the European Computer 

Trade Show, but Richard 

Williams managed to find the 

more serious side, too 

Hi-Tec sign up Bugs Bunny and C 

HI-TEC Software used the ECT5 platform to announce a prestigiousing with a major carton company. 

The company has signed contracts with giants Warner Bros, throwing 

open the flood gates for a host of popular cartoon stars to appear on 

computer software. 

The characters made world-famous by Warner Bros over the years 

include Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Thudd, Sylvester and Tweetie. 

Hi-Tec has already achieved success with characters from its other 

major licensee, Hanna Barbera. 

this leading-edge area of technology 

away from being an expensive laboratory 

plaything to a product that 

can be quickly integrated into any 

application which generates real 

time images. 

I must confess I didn't actually get 

to don the eye-set for a demo, the 

queues being too long. But I did 

manage a word with one of 

Division's directors, Steve Ghee, who 

told me the company was pushing 

itself at the research market. The idea 

is that Division provide the hardware 

and software with which the cus- 

tomer can write their own pieces of 

VR using a high-level language like 

C. Most other companies involved in 

VR are working on specific games. 

One of Division's customers is the 

Advanced Robotics Research 

Laboratory in Salford, Manchester. 

The ARRL is putting together an 

advanced robotic control system, in 

which a robot is linked electronically 

to a human, and the robot "learns" 

all the actions performed by the person. 

The human hears and sees 

exactly the same things as the robot, 

Steve Ghee says it is very, very 

hard to build an intelligent machine. 

But by using VP to put a human into 

• the loop, you can teach a robot how 

to do certain things very quickly. 

Cheetah and the Tortoise... 

THE results of eighteen months of research and 

development appeared on the stand of joystick 

manufacturer Cheetah. 

Visitors encountered what Cheetah described as 

"the new generation of joystick technology". 

Cheetah is renowned for helicopter-style handgrip 

sticks, and after conducting extensive 

research designed a new and innovative range of 

controllers. 

The Bug is claimed to be "the most comfortable 

controller available", sitting snugly and neatly in 

the palm of the hand, ensuring long-term playabil- 

ity. The Tortoise is a green, ergonomically shaped 

model whose shell acts as the directional move- 

ment control. Aeroskate operates in the same way 

as a conventional skateboard, except that it connects 

to your games system or computer. 

Stick X's control handle sits comfortably in the 

palm of the hand for long-term play, detecting the 

slightest movement of the hand to different directions, 

Finally, the Turbofighter Is a two-handled 

Yoke with multi-directional control, including forward 

and back movement. It comes complete with 

analogue and digital interfaces. 

New software 

promised for 

Phazer 

TROIAN, manufacturers of lightphasers 

for use with the Amiga 

and other computers, and who 

also make lightpens for use with 

the Amiga and Amstrad PCW, with 

Atari ST/STE and PC versions com- 

ing soon, used the show as platform 

for the announcement that it 

has established its own software 

house. 

The idea is "to ensure a continuing 

supply of quality software" to 

support its products. 

Trojan promised new titles for 

all formats of Phazers would be 

released at regular intervals during 

1991 and beyond. Imminent 

releases are The Enforcer, Aliex and 

Fire Star, 

Trojan lightphasers and lightpens 

each carry a rrp of £39.99. 

Anyone thinking of contacting 

Steve or his colleagues at Division for 

a quote on a bespoke system had 

better consult their bank manager 

first. The kind of system being used 

in Salford costs more than E50,000, 

the eye-set and the electronic glove 

being the most expensive parts_ 

But there's hope. A system 

Division will be releasing in August 

will cost fl 0,000,and Steve says 

costs will continue to tumble until VP 

becomes de rigueur for all selfrespecting 

home computer fanatics - 

and not just the game players! 

What are the chances of Division- 

style VP on the Amiga? "You can 

actually attach our box to the Amiga, 

and use the Amiga joystick to control 

things," said Steve. 

Show launch for 

scanner and rodent 

A NEW scanning package for the 

Amiga, and a new mouse which can 

be used with the Amiga or Atari STs, 

were launched at the show by 

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operation. have a lifetime 

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AMOS gets turbo 

charged 

THE AMOS Compiler - the turbo 

booster for the 40,000-selling AMOS 

write-your-own-games program - 

was the big news from Europress 

Software, the new name for 

Database Software as of May 1. 

Europress said the Compiler 

would be on sale from May, and 

would more than double the speed 

of AMOS programs. Some commands 

are seven times faster once 

compiled. Europress were also plugging 

AMOS 3D, which allows Amiga 

owners to create 3D objects and 

manipulate them in real•time, ideal 

for creating games like Starglider and 

Inter-phase. And the next phase 

of the Fun School educational 

series for children, Fun 

School 4, is well under 

way and should be 

launched in the 

autumn. It 

Fun School 

Development team 

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Amiga Computing goes Euro 

Amiga Computing, launched by Database Publications in 1988 and which last year 

11 moved to Interactive Publishing, is now to come under the banner of Europress 

Publications Limited. This is a result of the restructuring of all companies within 

the Europress Group. 

The magazine has been managed by Interactive Publiishing, for the last fourteen 

months, Interactive was formed as the result of a historic deal between 

Caner Publishing and Database Publications. Now all magazines published by 

the group will be united under one name. Chairman Derek Meakin, who founded 

the group 21 years ago, said: "With the creation of new subsidiaries in recent 

years, all with different names, there was a growing danger of the parent group 

losing its identity. From now on all companies forming part of the group will 

appear under the Europress banner'. Richard Williams has been appointed publisher, 

with responsibility for both Amiga Computing and Atari ST User. The Amigo 

Computing editorial line-up comprises Eddie McKendrick (Features Editor) with 

Stevie Kennedy (Technical Editor) and Paul Austin (Deputy Features Editor). The 

art department is headed up by Mike Bailey (Art Editor). 

Behind the scenes, key Amigo Computing personnel are lane Conway (Sales 

and Marketing Manager), Tracy Carroll (Advertisment 

. (Advertisment Manager), Sales), Iohn SBurns i m(Circulation o n Director) and David Wren 

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Richard Williams said: "With a new company structure 

and more staff we are in an ideal position to make Amiga Computing even better 

value in terms of editorial content and free disk programs. It will also boost our 

already great advertising power." Europress Pubilications also produce PC Today, 

The Micro User and Let's Compute! Other companies within the Europress Group 

include Europress Interactive (Amiga Action, ST Action, Games-X), Europress 

Software (Formerly Database Software & Mandarin Software) and Europress 

Trade Publications (publishers of Computer Trade Weekly). 

Michael Meakin becomes Managing Director of the group% holding company, 

Europress Ltd, with Tim Roberts promoted to group financial controller. 


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across three age groups, all in 

line with National Curriculum guidelines. 

The Fun School series accounts 

for a staggering 79.6 per cent of all 

educational software sold by computer 

retailers according to independent 

market research commissioned 

by Europress Software, Managing 

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a quarter of a million Fun Schools 

had been sold and dealers were con- 

vinced the range would continue to 

sell for years to come_ 

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the occasion of the ECTS to 

announce that it is poised to launch 

its European distribution network. 

The firm's products, which are 

made in Taiwan, include a wide 

range of mice, joysticks, disk boxes, 

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distributors for the contriver 

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title for Amiga Vision, 

A mebrile 

Derek Meakin 

Richard Williams 

Lemmings 

walk it in 

eisure awards 

AN alternative name for the 

European Computer Leisure 

Awards, awarded and presentod 

during the ECTS 5how, might well 

be the Psygnosis awards, juding 

• the number of honours picked, 

by the games manufacturer al 

on a high with the runaway 

pun intended) success of 

Lemmings. 

Psygnosis picked up the prizes 

for Computer Game of the Year 

(Lemmings), Most Original Game 

(Lemmings), Best Graphics 

(Shadow of the Beast II), Best 

Sound (Shadow of the Beast II), 

and also took the Software 

Publisher of the Year prize. 

Anyone who is wonde 

whether Lemmings deserves 

success should have seen how 

tors who had not seen it b 

were immediately captivated 

visiting the Psygnosis hospitality 

suite and getting some hands-on 

experience of trying to lead the little 

lemms out of peril. 

The 'biggie" award from the 

point of view of Amigaphiles was 

obviously the one for Home 

Computer of the Year, won by 

Commodore for what else but the 

Amiga! 

Commodore also won the 

Multimedia Package of the Year 

' Other awards were: - 4 

Best Animation - Dragon's lair! 

(by ReadySoft Inc); Best Action 

Game - Turrican (Rainbow Arts); 

Best Adventure/Role Playing Game 

- The Secret of Monkey Island 

(LucasFilm); Best Mind Game - 

Klax (Domark); Best Packaging - 

Ultima VI (Origin); Best Simulation 

- F-19 Stealth Fighter 

(Microprose); Console Game of the 

Year -Tetris (Nintendo). 

In the Non-games/Technical 

Excellence Categories, besides the 

two Commodore successes, awards 

were: 

Best Art Package • Deluxe Paint 

III (Electronic Arts); Best Music 

Package - Bars and Pipes (Blue 

Ribbon Soundworks); Best Home 

Eduction Package - Fun School 3 

(Europress Software); Best Home 

Productivity Package, Microsoft 

Works (Microsoft); Most Innovative 

Peripheral - Video Toaster 

(Newtek); Multimedia Package of 

the Year - Amiga Vision 

. (Commodore). 

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in the world. More than 4,500 exhibitors from 41 countries, spread over 

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The • big news, of course, is the 

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contrary • to popular misconception, 

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remote • • control. 

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the U.S. and Europe this spring. 

CDTV • • was to be available in 

Germany 

• 

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over • L500). 

• CDTV is not TV format specific 

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views from CeBIT '91 in Hanover 

and can be used with both PAL and 

NISC. 

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COINCIDING with the 20th anniver 

Isary - of Commodore Germany - the 

!parent company will celebrate 30 years 

tin two years time - Commodore's 

international annual press briefing was 

a very professional affair, 

"This press conference presentation 

was created using the Amiga 3000 so 

you can see what this product can do 

in real life," said Helmut lost, the new 

boss of Commodore Germany. 

He was joined by Irving Gould, the 

chairman of the board and chief executive 

officer of Commodore in the U.S. 

But before we get to meaty stuff, a 

few figures. Commodore continues to 

show healthy growth and, compared 

to last year, the most recent six 

months' sales increased by 23 per cent 

and net profits jumped NINEfold to 

$44 million, But the best financial news 

is that with more than 50 per cent the 

Amiga continues to dominate, 

Europe still accounts for 85 per cent 

of total sales and Germany is again the 

,ASIngle largest world market, 

P. Because of this Commodore is 

building a new factory in 

Braunschweig, Germany - all 

Commodore machines sold in Europe 

are already manufactured there. 

The CM is still selling well in spite 

of it being declared dead five years 

ago, In Germany alone C64 sales 

jumped from 108,000 to 180,000 

mainly due to East Germany, 

And the icing on the cake is 

after reaching the 1,000,000 mark i 

the spring of last year Commodo 

sold its 2,000,000th Amiga I 

November. 

video, text, graphics animation and 

interactivity its application is virtually 

unlimited. 

A few examples are multimedia 

courseware, libraries, point of sales 

presentations, product demonstrations 

and staff training. 

While CDTV is "multimedia for 

the masses', Amiga 3000 is high end 

multimedia. However, the latter has 

also got some new clothes, 

Namely, Commo-dore is branching 

out into Unix with the "Amiga 

3000 Tower' envisaged as a Unix 

server and the "Amiga 3000 UX' 

which runs the latest AT&T Unix 

System 5 Release 4_ 

The Tower Amiga has five 32-bit 

and three 16-bit slots, 

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WHAT'S 

0- The motherboard 

also has a 

200-pin CPU slot. In 

contrast to the Amiga 3000, 

the Tower has the four Zorro III slots 

on the motherboard and not on a 

separate card. The video system has 

its own slot called VDE Video 

Display Enhancer. A SCSI port is also 

included on the motherboard. 

The heart of the machine is a 25- 

Mhz 68030 assisted by a 68882 

floating point coprocessor. 3Mb of 

RAM comes as standard of which 

2Mb is fast RAM. 

Using 4 Mbit chips this can be 

brought up to 18Mb. The machine is 

supplied with either a 100Mb or 

200Mb hard disk with access time of 

19ms. 

The graphic resolutions range 

from 320x256 to 1280x512 and are 

backward compatible with all four 

previous Amiga modes, 

A 'Bicker fixer' chip comes as standard. 

On the software side the Tower 

is delivered with "Amiga-Vision" 

authoring system and the Unix version 

can communicate with other 

machines via an Ethernet card. 

For DOS masochists among you 

Commo-dore also introduced its 

fourth generation of machines which 

to date this year include nine new PCs 

such as slim-line, notebooks, desktop 

and towers featuring 286, 386 and 

486 processors. 

Hands on... 

Now that we're all charged up let's 

lay our grubby little hands on some 

real hardware. The Commodore 

booth was composed of three 

stands: a tiny home computing 

stand, an Amiga stand and a PC 

stand. 

The professional focus was clearly 

reflected in 

divided. 

how the total area was 

The PC area was twice as large as 

the other two combined! In spite of 

this division being the same as last 

year it nevertheless seems contradictory 

to Commodore's statements 

that the Amiga is the main platform 

and that it outsells the PCs by a large 

margin. In contrast to last year's 

"wall of multimedia video" the 

Amiga stand this year was dominat- 

Let's party with Third Party! 

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(that's Germany you're calling so, 

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3998 (about L1,500). Merkens is at 

01049-6196-3026 while the UK distributor 

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"MXM-Chart" from MXM is a 

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addition to fast processing of data 

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of Teletext). The program version 

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"Funlab" - a joint effort by 

Commodore, Karwai and Steinberg - 

is a complete MIDI system incorporating 

both hardware and software. 

Introduced here last year, Kawai 

supplies the 61-key synthesizer 

which is actually an FS-680 with a 

few additional interfacing features. 

The 13-note polyphonic synth 

comes with 100 presets (five software 

modifiable), an on-board 

sequencer and a built-in rhythm 

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Steinberg custom wrote the software 

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The main feature of the package is 

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the notes in the automatically created 

tune but these notes can also be 

defined by the user. 

Funlab also sports a disk based 

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'juke-box' disks, each with up to 

10 songs and including written 

notation. 

Maxon demonstrated their 

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Turbo-version for the Amiga 

3000. The prices are DM 249 

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Both versions support the CRP 

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OK, it may not be virtual reality 

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tions from 640x256 to 10201008. 

Maxon will answer your call at 

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FEET Computer (yup, that's 

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Use your hands and call FEET at 

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Einar Kretzler demonstrated 

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Paul Austin and Eddie 

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"Domain" as "an area under 

one rule." Gel these two definitions 

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which established the PD distribution 

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quality productivity 

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The fundamental concept 

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The world of Public Domain has been gradually gaining a reputation not 

too dissimilar to that of a used car salesmen. 

Yes, I know receive hundreds of irate letters from furious used car 

salesmen threatening litigation for being compared with a business which • 

is as notoriously dodgy as PD, but nevertheless it must be said. 

The problems with the Public Domain usually arrive with the fly by 

night elements that set up overnight and go bust almost as quickly, leaving 

punters in the dark and invariably out of pocket. 

The only real way to avoid the Arthur Daily element is to check out 

their ads in respectable magazines and make sure they're well put together. 

If possible check a few back issues to see if they regularly appear in the 

advertisers' index. 

Another classic demo 

War and PD 

software. A good example of the 

speed and scale of development is 

provided by one of Britain's bigger 

libraries, Wakefield based 17-Bit software. 

Back in February 1988 they boasted 

a library of 40 disks. Now they 

are approaching the 1,500 disk 

mark. Things haven't stabilised yet, 

the library is still growing at an 

impressive rate. 

Looking at 17-Bit now, it is difficult 

to retain perspective and keep 

sight of the original PD ideals. 

The organisation occupies its own 

offices with five staff looking after the 

needs of over 19,000 members. 

There is no disputing that Public 

Domain has developed from more 

As you've no doubt noticed there seems to be something of a \ 

range war in progress with various factions cutting prices like \ 

throats and rustling software faster than a cowboy .with an insa- \ 

tiable desire to poke other people's critters. 

This cut throat mood is not solely the fault of the small opera- 

tors but in fact quite the reverse, The large libraries use their trii. 

formidable market position to corner various new releases with 

Licenceware agreements which vary in detail but invariably result in r • 

the software being tied temporarily or permanently to the library in 

question. 

As a result, what's left for the rest becomes very hot property 

and of course that's when the blood starts to flow. 

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widlaparnpled in the 

PD 

than a back bedroom pursuit. More 

and more people, perhaps dissatisfied 

with existing PD sources, are 

opting to set up their own PD 

libraries. Some do it for fun, others 

aim to make their fortune from sell- 

ing other people's voluntary efforts. 

Martyn Brown has been in PD for 

over three years. Known to his 

friends as 'Spadge', he is one of the 

most influential players on the PD 

circuit. He is reflective on the UK 

Public Domain scene, hankering 

back to the early days when the floppies 

were few but the quality was 

high. 

"Our most popular sellers in the 

early days were utility disks, Sonix 

tunes and the Walker demos," he 

relates, pointing illustratively at a 17bit 

PD catalogue on the table. So 

what sells now? Martyn reveals without 

hesitation: "It is all sampled stuff 

now, graphics and sound." 

No productivity software? 

Martyn breaks the silence pensively: 

'No, not really, it is one of the 

weak spots with Amiga PD. We do 

some utility packs but there is hardly 

anything in the way of decent serious 

software.' 

What we now have is a Public 

Domain software base awash with 

demos , innumerable disk utilities 

and workbench hacks, but few useful 

programs. This is quite a contrast to 

the PD scene of a few years ago. 

Free PD? 

PD libraries charge anything from 

Sop to £5 for disks. As previously dis- pp 

PD the legal language 

For the average newcomer the almost endless variety of legal variations 

beneath the umbrella of the Public domain can make the basically liberal 

philosophy of the business seem very confused. 

To help clear the waters here's a brief guide as to what it all means. 

PD/Freeware 

With this format you're not obliged to send anything to anyone, the 

whole thing is totally free. The only restriction is that the software is not 

sold commercially and if its distributed to anyone the cost of the disks is 

not meant to exceed the amount required for duplication, packaging and 

postage. 

This is by far the most popular format. The idea is to allow you to sample 

the software and if you then use it on a regular basis you're legally bound 

to pay a nominal amount to the author_ 

This will usually have the added effect of making you a registered user, 

which generally means technical support and access to the latest 

upgrades. 

kicenceware 

In most cases this distinction only really applies to PO libraries by restricting 

distribution to the library with the particular software franchise in 

question. 

As far as we the punters are concerned the software Itself is usually 

Shareware with an occasional exception and should be treated 

accordingly. 

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Shareware 

This is a splendidly silly alternative which calls for the donation of 

a six pack of beer to the alcoholic author. Of course if the beer 

monster in question lives in Lapland it could be a lot cheaper 

to send a cheque and a bottle opener. 

CharitYWare 

This is a rare but highly commendable variation on the 

, to the program in question you're required to send a donation 

to the charity of either your or the author's choice. 

If your conscience can stand this particular poke in 

the eye and you still don't donate you've got to be 

i can be classed as a very sad character. 

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Paying 

There is an easy alternative to the 

tangled web of licence agreements: 

simply cough up the cash 

and make the donation like 

you're supposed to. 

This isn't quite as surreal as it 

seems. There are some definite 

advantages to becoming a registered 

user, Perhaps the biggest 

bonus is access to updates as 

soon as they're available, not to 

mention the technical support the 

author will be more than happy 

to supply to his new found friend. 

Another twist in the tale 

employed by many a wiley author 

is to only supply partial versions 

of their software for release within 

the PD. 

Only when you do the decent 

thing and cough up the cash will 

you receive the full-blown all 

singing, all dancing version of the 

software complete with extra 

disks or occasionally even various 

hardware add-ons which will 

allow full use of the software in 

question. 

An alternative method - 

encouragement 11 relies on the 

need 1 for a manual which the 

author 1 will happily trade for the 

appropriate cash incentive. Both 

these methods are becoming 

increasingly popular. 

The only downside for the partially 

complete approach is the 

potential for free advertising that 

has already been spotted by a 

good few commercial companies. 

Occasionally it can be really 

useful to get some hands-on 

experience of expensive commercial 

packages before you hand 

over your hard earned cash, but 

more often than not the PD alternatives 

are just advertisements for 

the next ninja mutant blast-'emup. 


cussed, the actual software 

is free, so where does the • 

money go? Again, Martyn Brown - 

can offer an insight: "We charge 

£1.50 for our disks and all we really 

do is cover our costs," 

Some of the cost can be directly 

accounted for: 35p on postage and 

packing, 30p on duplication and Sp 

on literature. These factors combined 

account for SO% of the cost. 

That may look as if it leaves 70p 

profit on each disk but there is quite 

a lot to read between the lines. 

From that remaining 70p, the 

library has to pay for lighting, heating, 

telephones, five staff and a 

whole range of other day-to-day 

costs. 

Add to that the production of the 

"Update' disk magazine which is 

sold for only El an issue and the cost 

of advertising in magazines. 

With these factors combined you 

won't get much change from 

£60,000 each year. The bottom line 

is, in order to cover costs 17-Bit have 

to sell 85,715 disks annually. 

To assist in the duplication process, 

17-Bit have a professional duplicator 

capable of chucking out 

copied, verified disks at the rate of 

128 an hour. 

So if you have a bedroom big 

enough and you really do enjoy licking 

stamps there is nothing to stop 

you setting up a library. Don't underestimate 

the sheer volume of effort 

required though. 

Direct Connection 

It is possible to get your hands on PD 

software without paying a library for 

it Hundreds of Bulletin Boards exist 

up and down the country providing 

literally thousands of PD programs 

for a wide variety of machines. Up 

until a year or so ago, the Amiga was 

the poor relation online, but we are 

catching up fast. Most BB's don't 

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The Licenceware arrangement is something of a mixed blessing. It actu 

contravenes the spirit of PD in the eyes of most aficionados by restri 

the socialist ideals of the PD concept. 

The trouble with such high ideals is that they are seldom lived up 

and as a result the poor forgotten fouls who created the software rar 

receive the reward they so richly deserve. 

The rewards should come in the form of Shareware donations from 

hoards of punters who regularly make use of the authors' hard 

Unfortunately this very seldom happens and as a result licenceware releases 

are destined to dominate PD in the not to distant future. 

The various forms of PD agreement are explained elsewhere in the article 

but nevertheless it's worth remembering that the vast majority of 

releases are Shareware which leaves you legally bound to contribute 

the coffers of the author if and when you become a regular user of 

software. 

In the eyes of many an author the licenceware approach is an 

answer to the problem of non payment. When a product is ficenced 

particular library the author immediately receives a payment for 

labours. 

At this point the software doesn't usually become copyright material 

the normal sense, but it does mean it can't be legally distributed 

pother library. Nevertheless it can usually still be given away, someth 

ich the average PD library is far from keen on. 

Even though the authors do receive some cash from the library wh 

will be distributing their latest releases, it's by no means enough to r 

on. As a result there's no reason why a Shareware contribution cou 

be made to encourage the authors on to their next minor masterpiece. 

There is a variation on this theme which makes the licenceware c 

tract valid for a limited period. This is perhaps the best of both wo 

allowing the author to see some return, the library to make some pr 

which of course they donate to charity, and lastly for the spirit of 

which can fully embrace the software after the licence period expires. 

The old guard may well be completely died in the wool as far as 

principals are concerned but with the new mood in the market these hi 

ideals are no longer enough to maintain the standard of software wh* 

the average complacent punter has come to expect. 

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charge for downloading software, 

but they usually expect something 

uploaded in return. 

This principal works well, ensuring 

that there is always a fresh 

supply of software available to download. 

It is important to bear in mind 

that depending on where the bul- 

letin board is, how fast your modem 

can go and how big the program 

you are downloading is, it could well 

be cheaper to buy the software from 

a library_ 

If you are determined to spread 

PD to the masses, it might be worth 

taking the plunge and setting up 

your own Bulletin Board. This isn't as 

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Cuh themes like Sta r Trek form an 

Important part of the RI) scene 

)'cheap as it might sound either 

though. 

Firstly you will need a fairly meaty 

Amiga, a fast modem and masses of 

storage space. Next you will have to 

get a phone line and pay the guartedy 

rental. 

You will not be able to hold an 

impressive range of software for 

download on a single floppy Amiga 

500. You really need a hard disk to 

do a board justice, even then it could 

be a struggle. 

As of January this year, the Fred 

Fish library consisted of 530 

megabytes of data spread over 

46,000 separate files. 

If you really do have more money 

and enthusiasm than sense, you 

would do well to consider a CD ROM 

drive. The Fish collection is available 

on a single CD for $69.95. 

The politics 

The Public Domain sector seems to 

have changed quite dramatically 

over the years_ Something which 

owes its success to a group of enthusiasts 

working together to promote a 

machine has turned into a much 

more commercial beast. 

As the collection of available software 

grows, it is obvious that the 

number of distribution outlets and 

methods will increase. At the end of 

the day it is down to Public Domain 

users to keep the industry in check. 

Any library which starts solely for 

profit does not deserve to survive, 

nor will it with the fierce competition 

1 All change 

A quick glance at any author's income, or to be more accurate the 

lack of it, is enough to make anyone understand the disillusionment 

which drives the talented to the tempting allure of licenceware and 

possibly on to do the unthinkable_ 

Yes there's an even darker side to the business which Is beginning 

to appear due to the apathy of the punters. This is the recent 

move by the authors of software such as the massively popular 

PowerPacker series to release their latest versions in the commercial 

sector in a final desperate attempt to make floppies meet. 

This is almost an inevitable move which is brought about solely 

through a lack of support within the PD. As I mentioned earlier the 

complacency regarding quality releases never fails to amaze me. 

PowerPacker is a fine example. When it was in the PD most people 

never considered posting a Shareware donation but neverthe- 

less these same souls were more than happy to cough up the L7_99 

to buy it commercially. Perceivable value is a strange beast.. 

in today's scene. Martyn Brown 

wryly recalls the early days: "We 

would put a lot of effort into compiling 

disks only to find another library 

copying them and selling them for 

1 cheaper.' 

The whole point of Public Domain 

th I d L e UT rumor Domain 

Fred 

If you look at almost any PD column, sooner or later 

the name Fred Fish is bound to make an appearance. 

The Fred Fish or 'Fish disk" collection is the biggest 

and best in the business. 

Good old Fred has been banging out the goods 

since 1985 and as a result it's become the definitive 

collection which covers literally everything to do with 

PD on the Amiga. 

Fred's latest wares are a very hot item in the PD 

world and the best bits soon find themselves in almost 

, every library in the business. If a library boasts a COrn- 

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Feature 

is that it can be freely distributed so 

things all come back to enthusiasm 

and effort. Martyn is not bitter about 

the re-distribution of software from 

17-8it's library. 

He acknowledges that the practice 

can't really be described as pira- 

!pi 

safe to say that you're dealing with a professional 

At the last count Fred's collection came in at around 

the 460 mark so that's the sort of figure you should be 

looking for. The collection was initially compiled from 

sources mostly within the states but as it's grown it's 

attracted contributors world wide. 

d 

tion Tis 

its size and variety, so if you're after specific 

items h a copy of Aquarium is essential. This is the 

database e which gives a guide to the entire collection 

and only should real take you straight to what's required. 

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Hours of ta le nt and hard work 

often combine to produce useless, 

if e nte rta ining de mos 

Back room 

: With the business being 99 per 

cent mail order, the temptation to 

set up a couple of drives in a back 

bedroom and dodge the inquisitive 

eye of the tax man is almost 

:too much to bear for many an 

acne ridden entrepreneur, 

This often ends in some very 

dodgy operators and virus ridden 

results that can cause misery to 

millions of defenceless files. 

Because of the small scale and lim- 

. the software on offer is usually 

p. t afrom 

new and often less than 

• . complete. 

ed A common marketing ploy is to 

abe 

extremely selective when con- 

cstructing 

the disks. For example a 

ccouple 

of useful utils or the odd 

egame 

may be added and then 

sheavily 

featured in the ads but the 

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t 

plete rubbish, merely added to: 

o make up the numbers. 

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cy because there is no copyright on 

the software to start with. 

ff you are looking to buy PD software, 

the message is to shop around, 

A casual flick through this issue of 

Amiga Computing will reveal a myriad 

suppliers eager to provide you with 

their wares. 

See a specialist 

Libraries tend to specialise these days 

in order to cultivate a particular area 

of the market. As Martyn acknowledged, 

17 

-place 

to find productivity software, 

Bit but if iit s is utilities and entertainment 

psoftware e r you are after, the choice is 

hendless. a p 

s Most libraries produce catalogue 

ndisks, 

or hard-copy lists. It makes 

osense t to scan these carefully before 

tcommitting 

to buying a lot of disks 

hfor 

only a few bits and bobs of software. 

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b Often you can find the same pro- 

e 

grams you require, packaged up on 

fewer disks within a different library. 

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The range and depth of software 

available is evident within the pages 

of Amiga Computing each and every 

month. 

Our Public Domain column aims 

to provide the latest gen on programs 

that are unique, of special 

merit or just plain indispensable. 

To make the most of your Amiga, 

you really should make the most of 

Public Domain. 

The new movement 

If it's quality rather than quantity 

you're after take a look at some of 

the long established libraries which 

produce compilation collections of 

the best software in any specific area. 


These are combined to form the 

definitive PD collections in each particular 

field. They can vary from 

games, utilities, home management, 

clip art and so on. 

If you've not yet delved into the 

domain this is an excellent entry 

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point for your first investments. On 

paper it can sometimes appear a 

rather expensive alternative to single 

disks priced at 99p, but it's worth 

remembering that there's very little 

wasted space and of course you're 

sure that the contents will be !vie 

-vant 

to your requirements. 

, 

The plastic press 

Another aspect of the domain not 

yet mentioned is the ever expanding 

market for disk-based magazines. If 

you're not familiar with the medium 

a brief explanation is in order_ 

These disks are usually monthly 

offerings which are either released 

through the individual libraries in a 

similar format to the licenceware 

arrangement applied to PD software 

or are written and released by the 

larger libraries themselves. 

These are then either bought separately 

or sent to registered subscribers 

in a newsletter format. 

If it's literary quality and news 

Even if you prefer a poke in the eye to the average scrolly demo you can 

fail to be impressed with the incredibly clever coding which goes in to 

ducing these amazing combinations of graphics and sound. 

I'm far from a fan of the average scroll routine but I must admit the 

quality of the coding never fails to impress. 

The obvious question is, why aren't these guys and gals making a fortune 

writing the next software smash? 

Well, quite simply that's exactly what they intend to do and a jaw dropping 

demo is just the thing to attract the attention of the software houses. 

Many a scrolly demo expert has moved on to coding classics for the commercial 

sector, 

It's not only coders who benefit from the demo scene. If you're looking 

to break into the serious side of Amiga music, ioining a coding team may 

well be a route to fame and, if you get noticed, perhaps even a bit of fortune. 

L. Private 

collections 

Along with the PD monsters whkh 

are distributed to all such as Fred's 

there are a number of COOKtiOnA 

which ore exclusively distributed 

by individual libraries. 

An exam* of this would be the 

Tbag collection released through 

the Amiganuts United. It's a 

monthly offering that takes the 

pick of the PD from the states and 

combines it onto a single, extremely 

stylish disk. Ws worth enquiring 

with larger libraries about similar 

deals they may have struck with 

other collections. 

you're after it's probably best to go 

for the independent releases, Aside 

from the quality of the contributors 

there's the added advantage which 

the international input lends to the 

magazine. 

As a consequence of their Email 

upbringing they tend to provide the 

latest stories, software, news and 

reviews from literally all around the 

world. 

Of course one of the main selling 

points of most plastic mags is the 

weird and wonderful collection of 

software bundled with every issue. It 

tends to be something of a mixed 

bag but in general the quality is high 

and of course bang up to date. 

If you check out the Public 

Domain section in this issue you'll 

find a guide to the alternatives which 

should point you in the right direction 

towards the best in the plastic 

press. 

Helping hands 

Another commendable talent of the 

PD is its ability to throw a lifeline to 

those poor souls who are stranded, 

lost and alone with their consuming 

passion for some sort of bizarre 

Amiga application. 

If you're one of these poor unfortunates 

try contacting one of the 

larger libraries and they should be 

able to put you in touch with various 

clubs that deal with everything from 

tract& to C programming. 

Most of these clubs release 

monthly newsletters full of hints, tips 

and reviews which cover everything 

to do with their particular passion, so 

even the keenest enthusiast should 

be kept happy for hours, months or 

even years. 

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Directory: Tune-of-the-Month 

little while back, we received a disktul ot samples you could use in a tune it you really wanted to, but 

'ch had our jaws dropping even as we listened to which are mainly just good fun, or of use to those using 

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I (of De-Bugging the Wack, Northampton) was a disk SFX to their cartoons. 

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d decided to supply as many of our favourites as music on your Amiga, load these into last month's 

cc on the disk permits. 

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Seekers are a bit 

more of a pain. They

The Disk that no drive can 

afford to be 

without - 

because it's free! 2 FULL 

GAMES, 2 TUNES, 

and 5 great 

utilities! 

appear at the bottom of the screen 

and look something like SCUD missile 

launchers. The difference 

between these and real SCUDS, 

however, soon becomes apparent 

when they home in on you with 

something approaching accuracy. 

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screen, firing from time to time, and 

force you to hop over them. As this 

can often mean colliding with a pass. 

ing rollerpede, Walkers are about the 

most annoying aliens of all. Avoid 

them until they walk off the edge of 

the screen. 

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Tune of the Month 

OK, we said we'd bring you 

something special to make up for 

the lack of a Tune of the Month 

Author Argon Schumacher 

last month, so we did. In your 

Tune-of-the- 

Month drawer 

you'll find not 111Z., 

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caught our attention 

because they are different 

and because they utilise 

MED's sequencing capabilities 

without falling prey to its inherent 

weaknesses. In other words, 

they may have been written with 

the aid of a sequencer, but they 

don't sound like sequences. 

It is all too easy, when using a 

tool like MED, to fall into bad 

habits and to produce music that 

is repetitious and bland. With so 

many easy exits provided for in 

MID, the overwhelming temptation 

is to give in 

and follow along 

the beaten track 

(no pun intended), 

and just cut 

or paste the same 

block of music, with a few variations, 

until its long enough to 

pass off as a song. 

The user can't be completely 

to blame, because all sequencers 

encourage to a certain extent the 

sort of repetitious techniques 

which are responsible for this 

type of computer music.. 

However, when you hear songs 

like the two we've chosen this 

month, you have to admit that 

there can be little excuse for lazy 

composing. 

How to use The Disk 

of all, you must make a back-up 

• py of the coverdisit To do this, hoot- 

up with your copy of Workbench, then 

double click on the Workbench disk 

, followed by the Shell or CU icon. 

type: 

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formatted disk in WI: and type: 

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w h 

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for 30 seconds before re•hooting 

hvwith 

the copy. Wait until the 

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it and away you go. 

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straight copy of the entire disk.. 

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copy individual programs from your 

copy of the coverdisk to a separate 

disk. In this case ensure that you fully 

understand which related files need to 

go with it. 

For example, all of the document 

files on the disk require that the text 

editor PPmore is in the current disk's C: 

directory. Therefore, if you copy the 

doa to a new disk you will also have to 

copy PPmae to the new Cr directory 

before you can read them. 

Some of the smaller docs will not 

have been crunched, so for these you AI 

need only change the tool types on the 11 

icon's info screen to reflect whichever 

text editor you do have on the new 

disk_ 

As a general rule, you should care- 

fully read the documentation for any 

program you copy from disk to disk. 

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Treasure Island 

Treasure -1Island 

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text-only adventure in 

the classic mould. 

Where it differs from 

many others, however, 

is that you could write 

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of utility, and might even • have routine which converts what you 

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regretted the lack of such 6 a program 

on the Amiga. . 

type into commands the computer 

can act on, and the HatRack sys- 

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You might be asking 6 yourself 

who on earth still plays text E adventem's 

parser is as flexible as the best 

of them. 

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tures these days, but I remember 

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reading a debate on the . issue in 

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that excellent, if short-lived, • com- 

It relies on the usual Verb-Noun 

double act ("GET SWORD", for 

example) but can also cope with 

puter mag Micro Adventurer back in adverbs, adjectives, and pronouns 

1984 or thereabouts, and even then ("GET THE BIG SWORD AND HEAVIthe 

pundits were concluding that LY THRASH THE SLIMY EDITOR 

the genre's days were numbered. WITH IT", tor instance). The begin- 

As far as major commercial ner should thus be able to get his or 

releases go, that's more or less true her wishes across to the computer 

today, but there are still a huge with relatively little fuss. 

number of adventure fans out there, Treasure island is a demo adven- 

and if the number of lovingly-craftture, and is therefore quite small 

ed PD text adventures is anything with only sixteen locations. It is a 

to go by, they enjoy writing and complete game in itself, however, 

playing them as much as ever. The and contains a tricky problem 

text adventure is nowhere near as whose solution you'll have to pon- 

dead as they were predicting seven der for a while. If nothing else it 

years ago. 

should give latter day gainers a 

Just in case you're completely taste of what they missed when 

new to computer games, and Infocom 

wouldn't know a Zork if it sat up closed its 

and bit you in the nether regions, doors 

here's a quick guide to get you 

started. 

You move around your textdefined 

world either by entering 

the directions as keyboard commands 

or by clicking on 

the graphical compass 

which the HatRack system 

uses for all games. Apart 

tom this, communica- _ 

(sigh) 

touch, they are the player's passport 

to power-ups. Shoot a spider and 

one of four types of power-up 

appears ready to be collected, and 

let me assure you that success is 

These unmissable utilities can all be 

found in the UTILITIES directory. You 

can't miss it — it's the big set of tools 

in the disk's main window. • 

ImageED and 

PasteGadgets 

Author: Olaf Leimann 

These two utilities work best in combination, 

and give the user freedom 

to mess about in any way he or she 

chooses with the Amiga's 'system 

gadgets'. 

System gadgets are the gadgets 

you click on to re-size a window, 

push it to the background, pull it to 

the foreground, or close it. You're 

normally stuck with the bland standard 

gadgets, but with ImageEd, the 

user can load up the existing system 

gadgets, alter them at will, and save 

them as either raw binary or C source 

code. 

Using PasteGadgets, the customised 

gadgets can then be loaded 

In as part of a disk's startupsequence, 

lending your favourite 

disks an air of customised quality. 

ImageEd's limitations are that it 

cannot utilise IFF images, so that all 

systemgadgets must be defined with 

Its restricted single pixel drawing 

mode, and its failure to use a file 

requestor. These bugs (if you can call 

them that) aren't really all that damaging, 

however, as ImageEd and 

PasteGadgets remain easy and fun to 

use. Fuller documentation for both 

can be found on the coverdisk. 

Encrypt 

Author: Steve Meredith 

Have you ever stored files of a sensitive 

nature on your Amiga and 

wished there was some way of protecting 

them from prying eyes? You 

may have stored financial information 

in an address book program or 

database, or may simply wish there 

was some way to protect your love 

letters from discovery. Privacy can be 

precious! 

Have you tried the AmigaDOS 

command PROTECT R 

SUB? This would remove the READ 

bit from the filename's flag set so 

that the file's contents could not be 

examined until the flag was reset. 

Not a bad defence against Amigailliterate 

snoopers, but hardly of use 

against the prowler with a knowledge 

of AmigaDOS. 

By using Encrypt, you can make 

impossible in this game without a 

healthy supply of them. 

The most useful power-up, as with 

all arcade games, is the one which 

grants extra firepower. Rollerpede's 

version takes the simple expedient of 

sensitive files resistent to all but those 

who know the pass-code, thus rendering 

them infinitely safer. 

To protect a file using Encrypt. 

simply type the following: 

Encrypt [obi code2 

The Encrypt routine will then jumble 

the file according to the two codes 

and overwrite the original file. To 

decypher the file, just use the same 

passwords and the file will be 

restored to its original form. 

The big drawback with Encrypt is 

that it is not a 'runtime' encoder. 

PowerPacker is a good example of a 

runtime program because it compresses 

a file, then attaches a header 

to it which sets out how it will decompress. 

To use an Encrypted file, 

however, the user would have to go 

through the CLI prior to every file 

access. 

This means that Encrypt could be 

too time-consuming for the casual 

user who happens to be security-conscious, 

and makes it of more use to 

those with a real need for privacy on 

his or her system. 

„Menu 

Author: Jim Collins 

'Menu is a PD program designed to 

allow any average Amiga owner with 

no knowledge of C or Assembler to 

generate professional looking menus 

from his or her own script files. 

It requires the burning of a few 

brain cells to use, but the results are 

worth the effort. To see it in action, 

click in the CLI window at the bottom 

of your screen to activate it, 

then type 

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You may get error 20: out of memory 

when using an unexpanded Amiga 

500. If so, reboot your coverdisk • 

interrupt the startup by pressing 

CTRL-D as soon as boot-up begins 

then type in the lines as above. 

IMenu works as a command with- .110 

in a script file. When it is executed, it 

calls its own special script file defin- C 

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and what actions the Arniga should p 

take in response. 

Once the user makes a choice by 

clicking on the mouse, the response 

is carried out and control is passed 

back to the original script file. This 1•11 

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doubling the player's rate of fire, 

which can have a dramatic effect on 

your greenie-totalling ability_ It 

should be gobbled up as soon as it 

appears on screen as all power-ups 

disappear after a few seconds if not 

would enable you, for instance, to 

call a menu from your startup. 

sequence to offer a variety of startup 

options, such as a NoFastMem startup, 

or a stripped-down Workbench. 

More usefully, the program gives 

average owners the ability to define 

menus which hold simple click-andgo 

'macro' style operations of their 

choice. The possible uses are restricted 

only by your imagination and 

requirements. 

The documentation supplied with 

jMenu is rather brief, so you might 

find a few words on its technical 

aspects of some help. Syntax is of the 

form 

Jlenu rscriptnamea iseriahtename) 

where scriptname is the file containing 

information on the menu itself, 

and variablename is the variable 

which will hold the user's response. 

The scriptname file is made up of 

three main types of information. 

Every menu is made up of TITLE 

lines, which the user can use as he or 

she likes, MENU lines which hold the 

choices which will actually be displayed, 

and EXEC lines which hold 

the AmigaDOS actions to be carried 

out as a result of the user's choice, 

To define a menu, you must create 

a script file listing your MENU choices, 

then the corresponding EXEC 

responses in the same order. 

As long as you put a space 

between the keywords (MENU and 

EXEC) and the text IMenu will read 

these and execute them accordingly. 

See the example below as an illustration. 

TITLE This Is is maple menu 

TITLE jolt to tat you sea bow 

TITLE Meng worts 

MENU Print silly message 

NMI Print in even sillier smog. 

NECU Print an absurd message 

EXEC Echo "I like PCs' 

MC Echo 'I like the Archimedes' 

IOC Echo "I like the DC Nitro" 

The menu defined above would be 

caled by a line in a script file something 

like this: 

JIIMUJ sillyseample sinl 

and would display the menu shown 

in the IMenu screen shot. 

One last thing to remember about 

;Menu is that it treats the EXEC 

AmigaDOS command as an environ- 

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collected. 

The second most useful is the 

'extra man' power-up. These appear 

less frequently than most, but are a 

quick and easy route to survivability. 

The problem with very desirable 

A silly exam ple m enu - b u t yo u cars h e 

serious if you like / 

ment variable, and will attempt tr 

write to the ENV: device, which i 

,where all environment variables ail 

stored. 

Normally, ENV: is set up either as 

real directory on your disk or, moil 

commonly, is assigned in the startupsequence 

as being the RAM: disk. 

This has already been done in 

CoverDisk 20'5 startup-sequence, bul 

if you move the program to a new 

disk, you will have to put the line 

ASSIGN ENV: RAM: 

in its startup-sequence or type it into 

CU before using 'Menu. 

Finally, feel free to experiment 

with IMenu. There are quite a few 

example scripts and menus in the 

'Menu directory, not all of which will 

work from your coverdisk becaus 

they require AmigaDOS commands 

not in the disk's C: directory, but all 

of which will work if you transfer 

IMenu to a Workbench disk. 

Colourkwik 

Author: Adam Lock 

ColourKwik is one of those time-saving 

utilities which is only really appreciated 

by those who have tried the 

alternatives, It makes it easy for the 

user to alter and save to disk any single 

set of Workbench colour preferences, 

and can save a great deal of 

messing about. 

For example, if you're one of 

those people (Dennis Norden not 

included) who have booted up a PD 

disk or a cmerdisk, and enjoyed the 

Workbench colours it used enough to 

try to emulate them, you'll already 

know how hellish a task it can be to 

fiddle with the colour settings in 

preferences. 

Now all you Reed do is run the 

ColourKwik program and then save 

your palette to disk. The obvious 

advantages are that you can ship 

colour palletes from disk to disk without 

the pointer and other preferences 

information contained in the 

system-prefemces file, and that by 

using ColourKwik you can easily alter 

the colours on a disk which doesn't 

contain the Preferences program. 

power-ups such as this is that you 

often get yourself killed in the overeager 

rush to collect them! 

The other two are not as exciting, 

but Shield can come in very handy, 

and Boost will earn you a welcome 

few extra points. Don't bust a gut to 

reach these amidst a swarm of roller- 

pedes, but pick them up if you can. 

We're sure you'll like Rollerpede, 

even if you have seen its like befere. 

It's fast, fun, and addictive. Enjoy! 

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enough, the Amiga purchaser seems 

j growing Amiga community. younger, with the exception of those 

uAnd 

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narrived 

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such as video production." 

e The pages in between have seen Steve was certainly right to pin- 

1 Amigo Computing cover virtually point video production as an area 

9every 

aspect of the Amiga. 

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where the Amiga would later establish 

a foothold to be envied by other 

8getting 

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magazine produced by a staff looking at the latest in the series, 

which lives and breathes the 1 Amiga - Bards Tale III, with equal commit- 

from days of careful planning / with 

ment and enthusiasm. 

Superbase to long nights / playing 

Phil South introduced the CLI to 

Arkanoid. If you enjoy your / Amiga eager beginners in issue one. Again a 

as much as we enjoy ours then this is parallel can be drawn. Stevie 

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the magazine for you." 

Kennedy's "Beginners Guide to the 

A flick through our 36 h back issues ar series continues in this issue, 

reveals a community of " computer introducing a new batch of begin- 

enthusiasts growing month " by 

month with their machine. l 

Over the last three years we have 

i 

witnessed the Amiga develop from 

an enthusiast's machine tinto 

a truly 

affordable mass market ehome 

comners 

to the mysteries of the Amiga's 

command line. 

Forgetting the past for a moment, 

here and now in 1991 the Amiga is 

probably the most exciting hardware 

platform to write about. We could 

puter. 

not hope for a more diverse range of 

Amigo Computing has gone users, all trying to sway the maga- 

through exactly the same evolution, zine in different directions. 

widening our scope as the computer Amigo Computing receives letters 

we serve continues to expand and daily from readers: some praise, 

develop its diverse range of features some criticise, but all care passion- 

and capabilities. 

ately about their machines. That fact 

A nostalgic focus on our first issue was only too clearly borne out when 

reveals an uncanny number of paral- I dared to comment on the relative 

lels between June 1988 and the pre- merits of the beloved Amiga 1000 in 

sent day. Take for example our lead a previous article. 

news story in issue one: "Amiga 

catches up with ST." 

The quantity and quality of arguments 

from dedicated 1000 owners 

In that piece, we published the defending their machine was truly 

results of an ad-hoc survey of 100 breathtaking. 

computer dealers. We were pleased The running theme through 

to report that in the Midlands and every issue of Amigo Computing 

South-East, the Amiga was outselling over the last three years has been 

its arch rival, the Atari ST, two to progression. Virtually every expan- 

one. 

sion avenue from hard disks to local 

One of the dealers surveyed, Steve area networking and modems has 

Kingston from Bath Computer 

Shack, offered an interesting insight 

been explored. 

Our features have focussed on 

into the then Amiga market "The ST Amps in the classroom, on the race 

buyer I regard as an XR3 type aged track and even in the tunnels of the 

Back 

to the 

uture 

What does a birthday, a magazine and 

a potato have in common? 

Eddie McKendrick blows the dust off 

our back issues to find out 

London Underground. 

August 1989 saw the launch of 

Britain's first Amiga dedicated 

CoverDisk. Since then, our cover 

mounted media has provided 

megabyte upon megabyte of entertainment 

and utility software. 

The first disk featured two 

playable game demos. Since then we 

have responded to readers views and 

shied away from making our disk an 

advertising platform for software 

houses. 

Instead our Cover- 

Disk has 

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become an integral part of the publication, 

providing support programs 

for articles and stand alone software 

that really make the most of your 

Amiga. 

Other magazines have sinc 

jumped e on the coverdisk bandwagon, 

but none can claim to be as 

diverse or truly useful as those affixed 

to the front of Amigo Computing. 

Over the months our disk has 

been the source of numerous exclusives 

including the excellent 

SID directory utility, MED the 

music editor and even an 

official Commodore 

Workbench upgrade. The 

CoverDisk has proven its 

worth with our readers 

time and time again. 

As an experiment 

we withdrew the disk 

in February 1990 and 

reduced the price of 

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the disk was hastily _returned. 

It hasn't looked back since. 

Around the Amiga 

world in 36 issues... 

It would be impossible to summarise 

all the major events Amiga 

Computing covered in its first three 

years. Instead here is a look at the 

more quirky side of the 

machine. 

JUNE 1988 

A magazine with the 

internal working title 

of "Your Potato' hits 

the news-stands, By 

the time it gets into 

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Computing. The launch issue features 

a look at what lies in store for the 

Amiga. 

JULY 1988 

We herald the arrival of the F/A 18 

Interceptor flight simulation, With a 

score of 96% Simon Rockman confi- 

dently described it as "The greatest 

Amiga game ever, You will believe a 

computer can make you fly." 

AUGUST 1988 

Palace software announce that 

they are doing a 

special version of 

their "Barbarian 

ll" packaging following 

complaints 

from Boots about 

the scanty attire of 

Maria Whittaker. 

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1988 

Amiga with a 68030 being 

used to simulate enemy attacks 

was stolen. Obviously it didn't predict 

that the enemy would come in 

through the bathroom window. 

C• O NIPu T I N G 

SEPTEMBER 

1988 

Hewson Software 

enters the Amiga software 

market with the 

title Netherworld. last 

month the comp 

. was put into voluntary 

any receivership. 

THE 

reEp 

e.:4 The USA Department of 

51 Defense suffered a break-in. An 

NOVEMBER 

1988 

A Commodore 

spokesman said 

that Workbench 

1.3 was "realised 

but not yet 

shipping.' 

DECEMBER 

1988 

II While other computer companies 

are suffering a DRAM 

famine, Commodore are claiming 

to control 40% of the world 

memory market. "We are still 

building PCs and Amigas at a time 

when several other manufactures are 

struggling to keep their plants turning 

over," a bullish Commodore 

spokesman commented. 

JANUARY 1989 

We take a look at the official 

Commodore BBC emulator. A product 

designed to help the Amiga 

break into the classroom. The emula- 

tor won't run games or any program 

which breaks Acorn rules. Slow at 

machine code, but magnificent for 

running educational software. 

FEBRUARY 1989 

A new strain of Amiga virus is discovered. 

The IRO virus is different 

because it corrupts programs rather 

than disks. Also Commodore US 

"strongly disagrees" with a tax bill of 

$74.1m from the IRS. 

MARCH 1989 

The Amiga is fast approaching a 

worldwide user base of 1 million. 

Commodore announce plans to 

ensure that an ongoing supply 

of new hardware and software is 

developed to service this vast array 

of new users. 

APRIL 1989 

Commodore announce the A590 

external hard drive and put it up for 

public inspection at the Which? 

Computer Show. 

MAY 1989 

The John Menzies store chain starts 

to back the Amiga by announcing it 

will be carried in 14 of their outlets. 

At the time of announcing a deemphasis 

of Atari's machine, 

Menzies' merchandising manager 

Bob Shingiton confides: "The volume 

of Atari ST sales certainly did not 

come up to Our expectations" 

JUNE 1989 

In the aftermath of the Lockerbie air 

disaster, an Amiga 2000 is teamed 

with video to reconstruct the site of 

the crash so police can work out 

what happened immediately prior to 

the accident. 

JULY 1989 

WordPerfect corporation in Utah USA 

announce that they have closed their 

Amiga development section, 

It is clear 

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will not be producing any further 

versions of WordPerfect for the 

Amiga_ 

AUGUST 1989 

The Amiga 3000 is on 

the way at last. So is 

Kickstart 1.4, but 

not for a while. Also 

in September, 

Commodore 

warn people to 

be wary of grey 

imports and 

WH Smith 

triples the 

number of 

16 bit 

games it will stock. 

SEPTEMBER 1989 

A Swinton licensee took swift action 

when IASI, the Federation Against 

Software Theft, stepped in to tell him 

an illegal software copying den was 

being run in the back room of his 

pub. "It was so blatant" said a 

spokesman for FAST. 

OCTOBER 1989 

Commodore is,sues a statement con- 

firming that Amiga 1000 owners 

have not been abandoned. In the 

same statement Commodore also 

announces that the ECS will not 

work with the 1000. 

NOVEMBER 1989 

Nick "Green" Vietch joins the 

Amigo Computing team 

One of his first assignments 

is to meet Elvira 

the result of which 

forms our caption 

competition in this 

month's Rock Lobster. 

DECEMBER 1989 

Marketing manager Jeff Earl leaves 

Commodore "to persue his own 

interests". The company famous for 

having more doors marked "exit" 

than 'welcome" does not yet ask 

new recruits to sign the visitors book_ 

JANUARY 1990 

With 45 shopping days before 

Christmas, Commodore rather meek. 

ly announces it has sold out of 

Amiga 500s. The reason for such 

huge success is the simultaneous 

launch of Ocean's "Batman" game 

and the Commodore Amiga 500 

bundle bearing the same name. 

FEBRUARY 1990 

First hints of a 1 mb Amiga 500 come 

to light as Commodore start to ship 

the machine with space for the extra 

512k on the motherboard. Also in 

Feburary, Amigo Computing stops the 

CoverDisk and reduces the price of 

the magazine by El. 

MARCH 

1990 

cm)/ was reported 

to have been shown 

to "favoured" developers 

in California_ Also 

Commodore celebrated 

its 200,000th Amiga 500 

sale in the UK 

APRIL 1990 

Imp I 

Commodore were reported 

to be "furious" at leaks con- 

firming that the Civil Aviation 

Authority would be using Amiga 

2000s to train pilots. Their fury centred 

around a headline in "Computer 

Weeki(, a trade magazine for data 

processing managers. "Flight Con. 

trollers to train on games kit" was 

not appreciated by the company. • 

MAY 1990 

We previewed perhaps the most successful 

utility program for the Amiga 

ever AMOS 

-same 

issue we announced that 

the Amiga Computing would be pub. 

clished r eon apaper t that was "kinder to 

othe r environment." . 

You can sleep 

Isafe in n the knowledge that Amigo 

tComputing h is printed on paper which 

euses 

a chemithermo-mechanical process 

which is greener than older 

methods. 

Ikeature' 

JUNE 1990 

The Amiga 3000 drew closer with a 

confirmed launch pad of the Which? 

Computer Show. "The Tipster" horse 

racing form speculator program fell 

at the first hurdle in the Grand 

National. The only horse tipped by 

the software came in fourth. 

JULY 1990 

Amigo Computing provides the first 

exhaustive look at the long awaited 

Amiga 3000 but we are still waiting 

for CDTV. In the same issue The Last 

Blit relates the woeful tale of Green, 

our then Reviews Editor who was run 

over by a car during an assignment 

in Dublin. 

AUGUST 1990 

Commodore officially announces 

CDT)/ at the CES show in Chicago. 

Staying on the theme of innovation, 

Mandarin software release the eagerly 

awaited AMOS games creator. 

SEPTEMBER 1990 

120 schools in Derbyshire would be 

teaching their pupils Japanese using 

Commodore's CDTV technology. The 

unlikely move is a result of Toyota's 

decision to build a £700m car assem- 

bly plant within the county. 

OCTOBER 1990 

Silica Systems announce the arrival 

of the ATonce PC emulator for the 

Amiga. Thousands of Amiga owners 

are terrorised by the Lamer II virus 

distributed on the now defunct 

rAMpage disk magazine. Ocean software 

admitted that the copy protection 

on F-29 Retaliator caused some 

copies to crash due to problems with 

the tolerance of some disk drive 

units. 

NOVEMBER 1990 

Surprise surprise... Commodore 

announce delays to the launch 

of CDTV. The company is now 

citing a mid-February launch 

as probable. 

DECEMBER 1990 

Amigo Computing veterans 

get a shock as the first 

"new look" issue hits the 

street. The cover features 

a hideously mutated 

creature - even after 

extensive make-up yo. 

can't fail to be 

appalled by the sight 

of Stephen White. 

JANUARY 1991 

The Amiga 1500 hits the streets and 

our reporters hit the floor when they 

encounter a retailer selling "free" 

Commodore I-shirts off his stand at 

the Commodore Christmas Show. 

FEBRUARY 1991 

We report on the worldwide frenzy 

caused by the football simulation 

Kick Off 2. The software was reported 

to have drawn a crowd of 15,000 

players at a league event in Italy and 

caused a police crowd control unit to 

intervene during a German event. 

MARCH 1991 

Commodore announce that they 

sold an amazing 140,000 A500s in 

the UK over the pre-Christmas period 

of October-December. In the same 

issue we start to ask questions about 

software censorship. The letters of 

response are still coming in. 

APRIL 1991 

It's that CDTV thing again... 

Commodore's press guru Andrew 

Ball is still talking about a spring 

launch for the multi-media system. 

In the same issue we report on an 

interactive skateboard launched by 

Cheetah. Aeroskate connects to the 

games system or computer then the 

player jumps aboard using balance 

and leans left or right to avoid being 

zapped during the game. 

MAY 1991 

Amigo Computing receives a letter 

from the Gulf congratulating Page 

One Public Domain on shipping their 

wares to the war zone so quickly. 

CDTV is getting closer with a demonstration 

of its capabilities on the 

BBC's Tomorrows World science programme. 

Commodore announce that 

the Screen Gems package will be 

shipped with 1 mb memory as standard 

for a limited period. 

Which side has 

the rnake•op on? 

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FDA 49 Mayfair Vol.23 no3( 18+) 

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PDA 73 Westcoast Cracker#4(18+) 

FDA 74 Bodea n s Bordelloa 1(1 8+) 

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FDA 110 Bruce Lee Enter the Dragon 

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FDA 114 Noightiours SI dog' ow 

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P DM 5 /ARE lectnc CL1 IV' 

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PDM 38 Msam Vice Theme (4 ithsli) 

POM 40 MA Vangehs Demo 

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PDM 71 Noiseplayer V2 40 

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PDM 82 Freddy Kruger 

POM 83 Kefrens Jukebox 

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You don't need to be an Einstein to have fun with atoms, at least 

that's what Psygnosis would have us believe with their latest release. 

The basic idea is to construct molecules by piecing together atoms. 

Each atom that you place has a certain number of electrons that 

orbit around it, all of which must be linked before you successful 

build up a completed molecule. Expect it really soon for the usual 

Psygnosis price. 

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LEMMINGS 2 Psygnosis 

Lemmings fanatics will be over the moon to learn that DMA programmer 

Dave Jones has already started work on a follow up. It 

still has a very long way to go before we get the chance to save 

even more of those little green-haired fellows from certain death, 

but Dave is optimistic that the game should be ready for some 

time later this year. 

According to Dave, the gameplay format is very similar to the 

original, but there's a greater amount of interaction with the 

background. Lemmings can now pick up objects, move them 

about and even use them to help complete each screen. There 

are also many more tasks that can be assigned to Lemmings. 

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PRO TENNIS TOUR 2 - URI Soft 

Zee french know a thing or two 

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STORMBALL - Millennium 

If you thought rugby was a tough game, just wait until you get a load of the 

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Stormball. Billed as 'the sport of the future', Stormball looks like'a cross 

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battling it out in a split-screen 3D game. Rules seem to be an afterthought too 

- put simply, anything goes so you'd better put on your pads unless you want 

to end up eating hospital food. 

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WRECKERS Audiogenic 

There's nothing more annoying than being woken from a good nap, but 

things are even worse if you just happen to be in suspended animation. In 

Audiogenic's latest release, you've been woken from your deep sleep by the 

ship's computer that informs you that some highly dangerous alien slime is 

heading your way. 

Its up to you to journey 

around the ship, 

preparing for the slime's 

arrival. 

Eventually, all this 

changes to a fight for 

survival as the slime 

invades your ship. Oohl 

Alien eat your heart out. 

BIRDS OF PREY - Electronic Arts 11 

It's been over three and a half years coming, but Jez San's latest blockbuster 

has finally arrived. Combining some of the most realistic depth-cued 

3D objects with fast and furious gameplay, Birds of Prey promises to be 

something very special indeed. 

You can take up a large number of different aircraft, including the Al 0 

Thunderbolt, the F16 Fighting Falcon, F14 Tomcat, Harrier, Soviet MIC-29 

Fulcrum and even the good old British Tornado, If Jez and the rest of the 

gang manage to find enough time between yet another pizza, then you 

can expect a full review very soon.

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You'd bette r be careful that Nathan 

doesn't drop off that round•about 

despite how utterly 

H wretched a child may be, 

the a parents still think that they're a 

little v angel? Whether they're running 

around e the supermarket pelting each 

other y with rice crispies or throwing 

stones o at passing cars, the parents 

always u turn around and try to justify 

the n child's actions by claiming that 

their o child is too young to know otherwise. 

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far c from the truth. fact is, kids are 

pretty e smart characters. Take young 

Nathan, d for example. During the day 

he's t a pretty lovable sort of fellow, 

but h as the sun sets, Nathan changes 

into a something quite terrible - he 

becomes t a brat. As his bodily self 

rests, Nathan's mind goes into overdrive, 

taking him to a land where 

he's a really cool character, complete 

with leather jacket and shades. 

Even in his dreams poor Nathan 

wanders around in a daze, unable to 

look after himself. Scattered around 

dreamland are many hazards that 

will cause Nathan to wake if he runs 

into them. Being a rather young 

chap, he needs as much sleep as he 

can get, so its up to you to ensure 

that Nathan's journey around dreamland 

remains wake-free. 

Unfortunately, you can't directly 

control our little brat hero. Instead, 

you must use the mouse to 

lay down guiding 

arrows that 

will point 

Nathan in the 

right direction. 

These must be laid 

directly in his path. 

As soon as he walks 

over an arrow, he 

changes direction 

depending upon which way the 

arrow points. 

Along the way he can also pick up 

objects with which to make the 

going a little simpler. These include 

dynamite and even stop signs 

which can be used to halt traffic. 

Brat is a lot of fun. 

Although initially frustrating, 

you'll soon find it to be a 

source of many hours of entertainment. 

Once again, it seems 

imageWorks have delivered 

the goods. 

Jason Holborn 

Steer naughty boy Nathan through dreamland 

Publisher: imageworks Price: E19.95 

Nathan grt, r d 

out o n the M o o n base 

Picking up the stick 

of dynamite can 

makes things easier 

on la te r levels 

Here's lookin9 at you punk! 

Graphics 

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ever. 

Bard's Tale III is another of the 

"create a party and go and mash the 

monsters" RPGs, and while it's not 

the best in my opinion, it does have 

a fair amount going for it. 

The quest is simple. The Mad God 

Tarjan is throwing his insane and 

somewhat humungous bulk around 

and not surprisingly the inhabitants 

of the various towns that he laid 

waste to and populated with evil are 

a little narked. 

Ideally you're aiming to kick 

Tarjan's immortal butt out of the 

land but a good place to start is the 

local town of Skara Brae. 

Players of either of the other 

Bard's Tale games will be able to 

directly port their existing character 

party into the latest sequel, so you 

can make best use of the items of 

power that you fought so bravely for 

last time. New players should not let 

this put them off though because 

Fill may be played by beginners to 

RPCs. 

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seem to work, A shame, because it 

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The pa rty s first 

encounter a serpent. 

With teeth like that, it 

should be a wolf! 

Tina party is inside a 

starair banding, 

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This building may look 

derelict, but it contains 

enough equipment to 

make your team a 

formidable force 

Getting into the te mple 

requires a little arcane 

knowledge, obtained 

from the manual 

Down in the dungeons, 

and the pa rty has had a 

bit of trouble with a 

kw monsters. Looks 

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Cameo!will 

Ilard's Tale ill is addictive, 

'merely because I like the 

game type enough to per- 

•vere, and th•re is a 

any challenge in there 

for RPG fans, A pity about 

those niggles though. 

makes swapping of booty and checking 

of condition very tiresome, 

Should the party meet a monster, 

a picture of it is displayed in the top 

left window. 

The name of the monster is told 

and you are given various options. 

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Presentation Is nice but 

not flawless. I particular. 

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runs down the list of 

character names about 

once a minute- This was 

offputting and looks 

amateurish - surely the 

programmers could, have 

debugged It? Graphics 

are especially neat and 

full of character. 

spellcasters in the party they can fire 

from within range but the monsters 

have the same options as you so 

eventually you'll get up close. 

A commentary on what everything 

is doing and how much various 

people are hurt appears in the 

top right window. 

Spels are cast by clicking with the 

mouse on the spell name and then 

pressing a key for the target. I did 

find the game somewhat confusing 

to control as the designers couldn't 

decide whether to plump for the 

keyboard or mouse as a form of control 

and have come to a compromise. 

This means switching between 

mouse and keyboard quite a lot and 

I found it awkward. 

Rolling characters was also tricky. 

You have to select sex and race of 

the character and then a series of 

stats is chosen randomly and displayed. 

If these are acceptable 

(which they often aren't) you then 

press a key for class. If they are not 

you have to press escape and go 

through the whole process again. A 

system similar to other RPGs would 

be better, with a single keypress rerolling 

statistics. 

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Retaliator! Put simply, if you want to 

come back alive, then the Al 0 is the 

plane to fly. 

Star of the Gulf War and West 

country window-shattering 'fly bys', 

the awesome combat potential of 

the MO has been captured within 

Dynamix's latest release_ It's a combat 

flight simulator which puts yol; 

in the hot seat of the aircraft that 

was once described by a US Airborne 

Ranger as 'the only true friend of the 

modern US Infantryman'. 

So, if you feel man (or woman) 

enough for the job, it's time to strap 

on your Biggles flight goggles, wrap 

your white scarf around your neck 

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the game, but for the muscleheads 

among you, there's an option which 

alows you to fly straight into the thick 

of battle, blasting away with your 30 

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There are 

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Al 0 really comes into its 

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lust like in real life however, you 

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effect on the ease of your next, If you 

screw up totally, you may even cause 

the war below you to be lost, forcing 

surrender to enemy forces, 

As you'd expect, gameplay is executed 

in good old solid 3D, but it's 

far from perfect. Most of the time 

things run smoothly enough, but 

the game can slow down to a 

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trouble quickly. Your Al 0 may be 

able to take a fair bit of punishment, 

but it's not indestructible! 

Al 0 Tank Buster is a great game 

which is let down only by the speed 

of its graphics. The attention to 

detail leaves other combat flight simulators 

grounded, whilst the atmosphere 

it generates is second to 

none. It's just a shame Dynamix 

hadn't managed to get things running 

at a slightly faster frame rate. If 

they had, Al 0 Tank Bu5ter would 

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play great, but it looks 

great too. If you thought 

RFC games were dull, 

then you're In for a 

shock! 

Sound 

Sound effects are a little 

thin on the ground, but 

then what did you 

expect? What effects are 

present do a great lob of 

creating atmosphere in 

the game. 

Gameplay 

If you've played Dungeon 

Master, then you'll have 

no problems getting Into 

Eye of the Beholder. Once 

you're in, you'll find It 

practically impossible to 

return to the real world. 

Totally captivating and 

totally addictive. Eye of 

the Beholder Is 130 well 

spent. 


find werewolves, crazeo opera 

ghosts, giant alligators and even 

mutant ninja turtles living happily 

below our feet, feeding on the occasional 

human that is stupid enough 

to venture below ground. 

In this game, you control a band 

of four brave adventurers 

who must journey into 

the sewers below the city 

of Waterdeep to investigate 

the source of evil 

that lurks there. In 

true fantasy style, you 

can choose between a 

variety of different 

races, each of which 

has its own particular 

strengths and inevitable 

J. 1111L 

EYE 

Dungeon 

OF 

Master meets Dynorod 

THE 

BEHOLDER 

Press t h e b u tto n on t h e wa ll and t h r 

door t o th e fa r rig h t begins t o o p e n .. 

Things a re n 't so easy when he b rin g s along h it friends though! 

weaknesses. Negotiating the 

labyrinth-like sewer complex is a 

hefty enough task in itself, but you'll 

also encounter a variety of different 

obstacles along the way. 

There's the usual assortment of 

traps to avoid, puzzles to solve and 

of course a fair helping of 

sewer demons (and 

mutant turtles?) that 

must be dispatched if you 

are to succeed in your 

quest. 

At first appearance, 

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bears more than a 

striking resemblance 

to a game that should be 

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anyone who has even the slightest 

idea of what's hot in the Amiga 

games scene, namely FTL's Dungeon 

Master. 

The similarities are not just cosmetic 

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Dungeon Master was. 

A blatant Dungeon Master rip-off 

it may be, but there's no escaping 

the fact that Eye of the Beholder is 

still one hell of a game. If you only 

intend buying one game this month, 

then this has got to be it. In short, 

Eye of the Beholder is an absolute 

corker. 

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Capturing the city in the bottom right. 

hand corne r has a llowe d you to build ships 

with which to invade the island 

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become more powerful. Anyway, if 

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Graphics 1 

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penalty for inaccurate timing is real- very useful gimmick. The 'camera 

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HORROR ZOMBIES 

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Fancy 99 lives? If so, then get yourself 

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ROBOCOP 2 

Robocop's prime directives probably 

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INTERFACE (with no spaces) on the 

title screen to access the cheat 

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energy by pressing 19 and skip forward 

to the next level by pressing 

Fl O. Your move punk! 

AWESOME 

It may be jolly pretty, but there's no 

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ever, I couldn't discover how this was 

achieved, and can only conclude 

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easy to use, friendly in operation and The only way to avoid text print. 

appears to be almost bug-free. I 

found I needed to consult the manu- 

ing on top of a graphic is to set the 

margin marker by dragging it to the 

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document which included multiple a text wrapping facility. 

columns, imported graphics, a vari- Apart from this gripe, ProWrite 

ety of fonts and styles, and headers 

and footers. 

does everything that's claimed for it, 

and has many useful features which 

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the manual by the packaging's claim about the non-existent text-wrap- 

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However, programs with fewer DTP. 

like features have lost no time before 

waving this particular flag, and 

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with small DIP tasks such as club 

newsletters. 

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imported graphics allows the user to 

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documents, although if you want 

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first glance would have been a big 

selling point, ProWrite concentrates 

on the use of the same eight colours 

which the average colour dot matrix 

printer, such as the Id l 0, uses when 

it tries to reproduce a screen image. 

In this way, ProWrite offers true 

WYSIWYG, because when you import 

a graphic for use in your document, 

it is converted into a dithered image 

made up of the eight colours, and 

should be a very accurate representation 

of what you will see on paper. 

The spell checker suffers from the 

same problems as the one used on 

QuickWrite in that a whole document 

is checked from start to finish, 

one word at a time, and there is no 

option to first sort the words into 

alphabetical order. The process is 

therefore a good deal slower than 

that used by Protext. 

As if to make up for the substandard 

spell checker, ProWrite offers an 

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include over 300,000 cross-references 

and works at great speed. 

The word list could perhaps be a 

little longer (it failed to recognise 

'computer' or 'software'), but when 

used on standard English words, it 

was a joy. When given the word 

'communicate', for example, it 

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verbs! 

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enough to be using Workbench 2.0, 

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ARexx multi-tasking language. If you 

already have this and are familiar 

with its use (Workbench 2.0 incorporates 

it), then ProWrite offers an 

extensive list of macro commands 

which should enable very sophisticated 

operations to be tied down to 

a couple of keystrokes. 

The beginner will find this option 

rather inaccessible, so it would have 

been thoughtful of New Horizons to 

include the simpler 'recording mode' 

macros for the benefit of mortals. In 

an office environment, however, any 

number of machines could be configured 

to run ARexx with a predefined 

set of the most useful 

macros as requested by the users. 

Conclusion 

ProWrite is a wordprocessor which 

deserves to succeed, and should provide 

some much-needed competition 

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and h U.S company I.C.D has often 

been a at the head of the queue. 

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most a A2000 owners, who have been 

enjoying l the company's add-ons for 

that w machine for some time. A500 

users, a however, have had to content 

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side peripherals 

wizards, ICD, and 

discovers techie 

heaven 

into the A500 market with its three 

most recent launches - AdSpeed, 

AdIDE, and Flicker Free Video - all of 

which are aimed at the serious and 

hobbyist user, and all of which are 

attempts to solve a particular problem. 

The approach is unimaginative 

but purposeful, and promises to 

bring success, if only on technical 

merit. 

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Storage 

Not as much of a problem as it 

might have been two years ago, the 

A500's storage needs have been met 

by progressively bigger and cheaper 

hard drives as the market bus 

expanded. The drives we've seen, 

such as the M90 and the GVP units 

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the side of the Amiga and eating up 

valuable desk space. 

Owners of A2000s or Al 500s 

have a much neater time of it 

because their larger machines can 

support hard drives internally on 

card slots, but the A500 has not had 

this option until recently. 

The advance of miniaturisation 

brought about by the boom in the 

portable computer market has now 

made it possible to fit hitherto large 

amounts of storage into a very small 

space, and one result is the AdIDE 

interface and 20Mb hard drive. 

The ICD unit is neat, small, and 

incredibly cute, but for the life of 

me I can't figure out who would 

want one. It fits quite easily into 

the Amiga's case. It will auto-boot 

with reasonable access time and 

can kick up a bit of dust when 

pressed, but the whole ensemble 

smacks of a very desirable technical 

answer to a problem no 

Amiga 500 owner has yet 

asked. 

The ICD engineers have 

managed to bring a 20Mb 

hard drive with a respectable 

25ms access time to A500 

owners, in a space that is 

about one tenth the volume 

of the A590 - the drive will 

literally fit in a cigarette 

packet - but the ICD marketing 

people appear to 

have identified a market of very 

small proportions. 

For those in need of an Amiga 

500 hard drive setup that is more 

portable than other combinations, 

and those whose desk space is 

extremely scarce, the AdIDE and 

hard drive is a timely offering. At a 

retail of £387, however, AdIDE is 

considerably more expensive than 

the A590 which, while being a little 

slower and a lot uglier, is still a solid 

alternative, and one which offers 

RAM expansion possibilities. 

Speed 

Speed! The word is on everyone's 

lips these days, as if life itself depended 

on adding MIPS to your micro. It 

has almost become perceived wisdom 

that the standard Amiga - the 

one the shop assistant told you was 

extremely powerful - is past it as far 

as advanced applications go. 

First of all, it has to be said that 

the 'perceived wisdom' is arrant nonsense. 

The Amiga's 68000 processor 

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is a perfectly good piece of silicon for 

the tasks to which the home user 

puts it. Where it's speed limitations 

show up are in areas for which the 

Amiga was never designed, and in 

which it has always looked a bit 

pedestrian. 

AdSpeed, at E173 (including new 

rate of VAT), is the cheapest accelerator 

so far released, but is also the one 

Dodgy Displays 

The Amiga has one particularly 

annoying drawback that is constantly 

being thrown in the faces of 

its users when in hot dispute with 

Mac and ST aficionados. Quite simply, 

the standard non-interlaced 

Workbench screen modes are insuf- 

ficient for high-end professional 

uses such as CAD and DTP. 

The Amiga user can partly deflect 

such criticism by reminding his or 

her Mac-loving chum that with 

interlace, the Amiga can double the 

number of horizontal lines in its dis- 

play, and achieve a very hi-res display. 

Unfortunately, if the user has no 

flicker fixer, those irritating 

Macophiles usually have the last 

laugh when they realise how 

abysmally painful it can be to operate 

an Amiga in flickering interlace. 

This is where the flicker fixer comes 

in. 

1CD's is one of the few flicker fixers 

available, and the first which will 

fit inside an A500. To fit it, you must 

remove the Denise display chip, 

mount it on the flicker fixer board, 

then plug the board itself into the 

vacant slot in much the same way 

as the AdSpeed plugs into the 

68000 socket. 

It means that fitting Flicker Free 

Video will invalidate your warranty, 

but this is a far more inviting option 

than permanent eye damage, the 

inevitable result of using interlace 

for any length of time. On the plus 

side the board gives a rock-steady 

display, and once fitted should be 

transparent to the user. 

Cathode cardiac! 

It is at this point the user discovers 

the overheads invloved in Flicker 

Free Video or any other flicker fixer, 

and the shock can be quite chilling. 

A decent multisync monitor, without 

which the card is useless, can 

cost up to E600, and there's no way 

of getting round the necessity of 


with the lowest specification. It consists 

of a 68000 processor exactly like 

the Amiga's processor except it is 

rated at 14.33MHz, twice the clock 

speed of the original and an onboard 

'memory cache' which speeds 

up routine processor tasks. 

The chip's clock speed is nothing 

new. Faster-than-normal 68000s 

have been available for a while, but 

buying one. 

Even if you manage to find one 

of the discounted models in our ads 

(and there are some to be found), 

the total cost of Flicker Free Video 

and monitor could quite easily top 

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the screen at the l same time. 

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ber of times the scanning beam traverses the screen in combining them i into one steady display. As this is 

one second) is 1.5.75KHz, and 50Hz vertically. This 

gives the standard 256 pixels high PAL screen. 

When this no longer suffices, the screen must be 

'interlaced' so that one full screen of scan lines is produced 

every cycle, and another is shown half a scan 

line further i down on Pthe 

next scan. This produces a 

high frequency flicker because the two are never on 

impossible at the i original scan frequency, flicker fixers 

must produce their output a twice the frequency, or 

31.5Khz. 

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they have been impractical for general 

use because speed is a more 

complex matter than bare rate of 

knots. 

The Amiga system is designed to 

run with a processor at 7.16MHz, 

and if another speed is used without 

technical fixes, timings will be out of 

order, memory accesses will be out 

of sync, and all communications 

Computing are offering a bundled 

package of card plus NEC monitor 

for £510, but even with this discount 

the user will still have to blow 

a large hole in his or her bank balance. 

The semi-professional or corpo- 

between the fast CPU and the slower 

custom chips will be put at risk. 

Switching in style 

To rule out as many compatibility 

problems as possible, AdSpeed has a 

'fallback' mode, controllable through 

both hardware and software. A 

jumper setting on the board itself 

rate user should find the price tag a 

little more comfortable, but even 

then it raises the price of a DIPcapable 

Amiga system to levels at 

which it would struggle to compete 

against the low-end Macs and 

386sx PC's. 

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which you can run in the background 

from your startup-sequence 

allows the user to switch between 

the two without having to re-boot 

This is more useful than many 

boards, whose fallback modes incur 

a re-boot as the CPU used is 

switched from (for example) a 68030 

to the 68000. As AdSpeed uses the 

same processor for both speed 

modes, it is easier to switch speeds, 

and as even at the faster speed it 

uses exactly the same instruction set 

as a standard 68000, software 

incompatibility is almost non-existent, 

If you find any problem software 

let us know! 

The 32k on-board memory cache 

is what gives AdSpeed its bite. The 

technique of mounting a small 

amount of high speed RAM on the 

processor chip, and dedicating it to 

the most time-efficient tasks has 

been used in 68020 and 68030 chips 

before now, but this is the first time 

it has been used on a cheaper 

replacement 68000. 

Basicaly, 32k of RAM is set aside 

as a data/instruction cache to hold 

common code loops and machine 

code instructions so that they can be 

accessed by programs in the shortest 

possible time. At 14.33MHz, 

AdSpeed can just dump things into 

the cache memory instead of having 

to wait for memory accesses or other 

chips to catch up, and can then get 

on with something else. 

DIY go-faster 

For the new Amiga owner with a 

morbid fear of technical activities 

(let's not be shy - that's a high percentage 

of us!), AdSpeed is unfortunately 

one of those products which 

invalidates the machine's warranty. 

To fit it, the case must be opened 

and the original 68000 chip levered 

out of its socket, an idea which some 

of you might not be too keen on, 

but one which you'll have to live 

with if you want to upgrade your 

Amiga. 

Installation is otherwise a simple 

matter, and the card behaves very 

well once it's in situ. As a no-fuss no. 

frills accelerator, AdSpeed works very 

smoothly and we've so far failed to 

find a single piece of software which 

doesn't like the 14MHz mode. 

If it was selling for £50 less than 

its present retail price, AdSpeed 

Hardware 

AdSpeed uses e xa ctly th e same in stru ctio n set as a standard 

68,000. so software in co m p a t ib ilit y Is alm ost non•existent 

would be an unmissable buy for the 

speed-hungry hobbyist. As is stands, 

however, it falls short of Blue Chip 

status on value-for-money terms, but 

only just. • 

Hard Error! 

Unfortunately, there are two hard 

drive set-ups which don't entirely 

work with AdSpeed. 

When you use a GVP drive that 

has extra memory on-board, it 

makes DMA (Direct Memory Access) 

calls to its own memory without 

telling AdSpeed, thus rendering the 

cache contents out of date. The 

problem only occurs when you use 

both the drive and the extra RAM, 

and GVP has promised to rectify the 

problem with a ROM upgrade. 

Users of Xetec hard drives will also 

encounter problems because the 

A quart into a pint pot 

You can now fit a wide range of 

peripherals into the A500's casing, 

but there is only so much room in 

there, and a large proportion of 

the peripherals are competing for 

the same living space. 

The 68000 slot is currently the 

place to be in a 500, with accelerator 

cards vying with hard drive 

interfaces for the prime spot of 

real estate. The various bits of 

hardware, however, do not have 

to compete directly to cause a 

clash. 

We found, for example, that 

auto-boot sequence on these drives 

does not work properly when used 

with an accelerated processor_ Again, 

this problem will eventually disappear 

when Xetex upgrade their software, 

and the user can always 

auto-boot in 7MHz mode before 

switching to 14MHz. 

Overall, compatibility with hardware 

and software is as good as 

could be expected, though users of 

either of the above systems might 

want to think twice about processor 

accelerators_ 

Conclusion 

ICD has attacked two very real 

problems in the shape of speed and 

display enhancement, and one 

rather ethereal concern with A500 

internal hard drive storage. Their 

solutions are of a quality and level of 

neither of the large accelerator 

boards examined in our April issue 

would fit into an A500 which contained 

an ICD AdRAM board 

because the board connected over 

the Gary chip got in the way. Such 

restrictions on space serve only to 

highlight the fact that cramming 

peripherals into a 500 is mainly a 

crisis measure for those who 

would like to upgrade to a 1500 

or 2000 but can't afford to get 

the cash together, or those who 

love expensive and very clever 

toys. 

technical competence to raise them 

above the products of many other 

companies, and all work very well in 

their own right. 

As consumer products, which is 

how they must be judged, the 

AdSpeed is the most desirable, with 

the flicker fixer coming second by a 

few lengths and the internal hard 

drive struggling along at the back, 

suspect the first two will succeed, 

especially AdSpeed, but I would be 

surprised if too many punters were 

to be found in the act of jumping 

summersaults over the hard drive. 

Product 

Information 

AdSpeed, AdFFV (Flicker Free 

Video), and the AdIDE with 

internal hard drive are all 

products of I.C.D Inc. 

Available: Now 

Supplier: Power Computing 

(0234) 843388 

Price: AdSpeed £173, 

AcIFFV £285 or £510 with VGA 

monitor, AdIDE 

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Q: The Amiga chips were designed in 

the mid-80s. What does the 

future hold? 

IC: There are constant changes. As a 

matter of fact there is a new 

chip set for the Amiga we've 

been working on now, I guess, 

for almost two years that should 

be ready this fall, 

Q: And what will that provide? A better 

platform for the graphics? 

IG: More icing on the cake. More 

colours, more chip RAM and 

that sort of thing... You have to 

stay with the state of the an 

Q: So that's the direction you're taking. 

You're trying to position the 

Amiga for when multimedia really 

takes off? 

IC: Amiga covers the full range. 

We'll give the consumer multimedia 

in the CDTV and the professionals 

or the offices - most 

offices and schools and everybody 

else - are going more and 

more towards interactive, true 

multimedia platform. 

Q: How is it selling in the business 

area at the moment? Hove you 

made many sales? 

IC: Very much so! It's penetrated 

the market (which) so far is 

rather small, but you take North 

America where we're not a 

major factor like we are in 

Germany. But if you take certain 

small markets... NASA uses 

Amiga. The Berkley Linear 

Accelerator, advertising agencies, 

TV studios, graphic artists.., 

they're all using Amigas, 

Q: And the video toaster.. 

IC: The video toaster enhances that 

once again, 

Q: So it's going for the leading edge 

market? 

IC: People who, instead of paying 

5100,000 to do something, can 

pay WOO or 56000 and get the 

same performance. 

Q: Which they thought was impossible 

to do. 

IC: Exactly! 

Q: Do you foresee ticencirtg the technology? 

Will there be Amiga 

clones? 

IC: I don't think we are interested in 

licencing the technology for 

computers. We might be interested 

in licencing the CDTV platform. 

Q: But not the Amiga itself? Third 

party or something? 

IC; I don't think so. I never like to 

use the word never... 

Q: Presumably that's because you 

want to keep the Amiga in-house. 

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Interview' 

You want to be able to 

1 what they'll do for 

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develop it the , A , 

you. Otherwise 

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platform? . Make it o go 

together. To 

more "serious' 

do a certain type 

machine? 

of software you have to have a 

IC: Yes, but it all depends 

platform of that power and the 

who your partner is! It is becom- capability. That's what makes 

ing a serious machine. CDIV what it is because there is 

Computers are only sold for no other platform, no other 

oing for 

Gould 

What does Commodore 

have up its sleeve for 

the future? How will 

it meet the chal- 

lenge of Europe in 

1992? What hopes 

does it have 

pinned on the 

new OPP 

Donald Maple 

went straight to the 

top and asked Irving 

Gould, Chairman of 

Commodore International 

Q 

IC: 

IC: 

technology outside of the Amiga 

that you can do this with at a 

consumer price. 

Off the shelf, and you don't need 

extra hardware... 

And that box - were not telling 

anybody, but it's a full computer 

in there. There are many peripherals 

that will be coming for that 

machine that will astound you. 

How do you see the CON developing? 

What's its next stage? 

(Shrugs his shoulders implying 

"anywhere") Well, first of all the 

next stage will be full motion 

video.

Q: When would you anticipate that? 

IC: let me make this statement. 

They're still trying to decide on 

the standard. 

Whenever they 

set the staIn 

dards we'll 

there. 

la: Are you going to 

use 01/1 chips or 

are you going to 

develop yoi, rr 

own? 

IC: No, they'r 

talking th 

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IPEG stan 

dards. And a. 

soon as IPEC 

is resolved I 

can tell you 

that we will 

either be the 

first or one of 

the first. 

Q: It's not even on paper yet, is it? 

IC: It's getting close. But close 

doesn't count. Only in ghorse 

shoes and hand grenades... 

(Laughter) 

Q: What kind of market do you see 

for CD TV? Who will buy that? 

IC: The consumer! 

Q: Average COn3 urrper? Domestic? 

IC: Wouldn't it be fun, instead of 

having jerky motion, to have lull 

motion. It you get the proper 

compression techniques you can 

do actual movies. 

Q: Would that be at an accessible 

price? 

IC: It has to be! Otherwise you're 

not gonna get the volumes. And 

you know we're in an industry... 

unfortunately prices never go 

up, they only go down. So you 

wanna talk CDTV today and look 

two years out, you're not gonna 

see it as high as it is today. 

That's the nature of our business. 

Q: About networking. You announced 

a special division fast 

year.. 

IC: You need specialists. That's a 

highly specialised area. It's been 

implemented to a much greater 

degree today. We do have a networking 

specialist division that 

we've set up in Denmark that 

handles our R&D. 

Q: About IBM. When Commodore 

decided to make PC compatibles 

it really bugged me... 

IC: Whether we like it or not, or 

whether it's the best or worst 

machine in the world, you can 

decide yourself, I have my own 


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about . MTV as a 

consumer 1 item it 

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educational m tool 

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opinion... But, you can't fight 

City Hall_ Most businesses 

throughout the world today 

have accepted 

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MS-dos 

with all its 

dreariness 

and everygthing 

else... 

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change that-, 

I'm 

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one to admit. 

If Commodore Q: 

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ball the 

MS-dos IC: 

wouldn't be. It 

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been the PET Q: 

standard. We 

were the first... 

We goofed... 

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Q: Last year, after 

hearing how important Europe is 

for Commodore, I asked 

v 

facetiously: 

When are you moving to 

Europe? I'm asking it seriously 

now. Don't you think it would be 

wise to have some sort 

i 

of R&D 

base here in Europe as well as in 

the States to reflect the actUal 

number of users that you have 

here? 

e 

IC: Well, we have always had some 

R&D development i n 

Braunschweig (Germany) and 

we will continue to do it. 

Q: Even though I live in Europe I'm 

actually a Canadian... 

IC: So am I! 

Q: Are you really? 

IG: Of course! Canadian passport. 

Q ON A Connuckt 

IC: "Our! 

Q: in terms of 1992 it would be very 

IC: 

advantageous to have some sort 

of official R&D project here... 

We do! We've constantly had a 

group of engineers in 

Braunschweig married with our 

American (engineers) and we 

give them certain tasks. We 

intend to keep that. 

Especially in terms of 1992. You 

must be aware of that? 

We are! That's why we're building 

the new facility. 

That's certainly good news since 

then you'll be considered a local 

company? 

Commodore has always in 

Germany been considered a 

local company. 

All Amigos sold in Europe are 

actually made in Braunschweig. A 

tot of people clan't know thati 

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the interview, because we wanted to concentrate 

on what we believe our readers will find the most interesting 

parts. However, we simply couldn't resist using the following 

Gould quotations: 

....cm is television that you control, not television that controls 

you..." 

"—all you need to use curl/ is its hand-held remote control". 

"The Amiga for the first time allows (multimedia) at a reasonable 

price and that's the exciting part. CD-ROM prior to this time was 

primarily a data base." 

"It's always been my goal to develop a product that is powerful 

and exciting but accessible to people like me who find it difficult 

to use a computer. CDTV is the answer." 

IC: 

Q: 

IG: 

When you use the word "mak 

you have to use it loosely. 

What sort of company do you see 

Commodore being in five years 

time? 

At my age? I don't know! 

(Hilarious laughter all around) 

You tell me! I think we are on to 

a great thing. Even the CDTV I 

always said that if I gambit I 

always like to have one card 

bent (more laughter). What I 

mean by that is I like a bit of an 

edge. 

If for any reason - and I don't 

think i am - but if I am wrong 

about CDTV as a consumer item 

it is still the greatest educational 

tool that's ever been invented. 

That I'm sure of. It is the great. 

est governmental tool and c(rporate 

tool. Someone asked 

what you can do with a rep, ir 

manual. You can have the Fit- 

tures, It's a real "how to". 

It is also the greatest 'point of 

sale" piece of equipment ever 

invei nted. Experiments hao ve 

beet going on right now in 

Tor( nto, with Canadian Tyre. 

Tho y couldn't wait for 0 

Cl: TV so they've been usii 

th e Amiga knowing th at 

DIV is coming. But y( )u 

ut a touch screen on 0 is 

nd you do anything yo DLI 

want. 

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log the type of people Kei ho 

go to a store 

Canadian Tyre. They ate 

not technically mindi 

at all. 

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sporting goalds 

department. It 

demonstrate 

equipment, it will show a 

salesman! It's got the sounds, it's 

got the pictures... 

A maior US corporation tha t's 

also in the retail • they broug ht 

their chairman over to look at rt, 

They wanted very badly to sel 

at the retail level but they war t- 

ed it internally for what it cox Id 

do for them So, you're just s( 

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And we're gonna have colTi- 

petitors. We're not in this woo Id 

all by ourselves. 

But you have to be at IIhe 

leading edge and that's whe re 

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the right click on your furless friend. Move the pointer 

to the top of the screen and click on the RMS. This 

highlights a selection of pull downs. Most of the options 

are obvious, giving various alternatives for SID's information 

display. 

Along with the various format alternatives there's the 

system menu which gives access to other utilities and 

areas within the Workstation, CU, preferences and so 

on, Perhaps the most useful option in the various menus 


The WorkStation is an easy-to-use 

replacement for Workbench. In the 

first of several support articles, 

Paul Austin explains how to start 

making use of an invaluable friend 

set of options for each device. Size is 

the first option and the one most 

often used, being the format-in 

which SID initially appears. Size for 

obvious reasons is the most conve- 

nient display when transferring files 

from disk to disk. 

Next in the line comes the Date 

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Combining the Date and Time 

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is FIT. This calculates if the files highlighted will actual 

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OK, that's enough back slapping, it's 

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get back to my moral crusade from 

earlier in the column. If you've got 

kids you'll be well used to the "can I 

have a go, please let me try, you said I 

could' syndrome. This is a common 

complaint that most computerised 

parents suffer every time they turn 

on the machine. 

Even the toughest parental tyrant 

cracks eventually and will hand over 

the apple off their eye to the frantically 

keen kid. If you're a PD parent 

this can be a risky business. Some of 

the software available is definitely 

not suitable for the smaller kids in 

the family. 

As a result an alternative collection 

is required and that's exactly what 

the Chaps at A Bit on The Side have 

come up with. 

The Junior PD Club 

It you're looking for material and you 

want to be sure it's clean, The junior 

PO Club could be the answer. 

The title may give slightly the 

wrong impression about the contents. 

The material is suitable for kids 

but not necessary aimed at them. 

The club guarantees the material 

to be clean rather than condescending. 

A fine example of this is a classic 

sample disk containing immortals 

like Pope ye meets the Beach boys. 

To be honest the collection isn't 

that original as far as contents are 

concerned, with most of the material 

lb 

Incredible! Eight talks for MED 

he amazing TO° Kinnunen does the impossible yet 

again and comes up with the next great step for the 

monster he's created, 

OctaMED has arrived and somehow he's managed 

to make it fully compatible with its predecessors. The 

new version will happily take on either eight or four 

• ack The characteristics new version on isn't den PD but considering the great 

- things Teijo has done for the domain in the past It's 

,and.or only fair to give the guy a well deserved plug for his 

first commercial offering. It's available for the pathetically 

small sum of El 0 within Europe and £15 worldwide 

and this includes post and packaging. 

The new version has all of the abilities of our recent 

coverdisk giveaway plus the extra four tracks and a 

new and improved bug free Med player. As I mentioned 

earlier Med has become a real monster and as a 

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put w their latest release. 

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library. The AMOS library doesn't 

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range of material aimed 

specifically at the kids. 

There is a 

small price to be paid 

for the smooth and 

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to PO and that's its ten. 

dency to only offer one 

program on a disk, so 

compared to other compilation 

disks it can work 

As a result Teijo has added a low res option to 

which it will be automatically defaulted when it's run 

on a half meg rpachine. 

Amiganuts United hold all distribution rights for 

OctaMED a and as a result Ray Burt Frost, one on the! 

Amiga's finest nutters, has thrown down the gauntlet 

to the coding community and is offering a full licenceware 

agreement to the first person to create a conversion 

program which will transfer tunes from the four 

to the eight track format. 

If you're an AMOS expert there could be a separate 

licenceware goldmine waiting for the first person to 

provide an AMOS compatible MED player. To add the 

final icing to the cake of OctaMED a manual will soon 

be available to make life a little easier for owners of the 

eight track version of Teljo's masterpiece. 

OctaMED is available exclusively from Amiganuts 

United. For further details contact Ray Burt Frost on 

0703 785680. 

I f bari•Artas Cos t 8 p each, how 

any can you buy for 56 p 

out a little expensive. 

Most of the larger libraries carry 

an ever growing supply of AMOS. 

The very best material tends to be 

licenceware available through PCS 

International on 0942 521 577 or 

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Classy compilations 

While I'm still holding the shovel I 

might as well heap a little more 

praise on the already overburdened 

GTS. 

As well as the series of mags supplied 

GTS also sent an excellent collection 

of compilation packs varying 

from utilities to games. 

Besides the quality of the compilations 

perhaps the most pleasing 

aspect of the packages is the packag- 

ing. Most experienced PD fans are 

no doubt wondering: 'What packaging 

does he mean - the envelope?' 

I know it's hard to believe, but this 

stuff actually arrives nicely packaged 

in a plastic bag with a smart little 

card which documents the entire 

contents of the disks. 

My pet hate with PD is the infuriating 

habit which almost all the 

libraries have of supplying their 

wares with absolutely no way of 

identifying one disk from the next, 


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apart of course from loading them 

up. 

To the novice collector this particular 

inconvenience is hardly noticed 

but if you've got a few hundred disks 

all from the same supplier it can be a 

nightmare to find exactly what 

you're after 

know what you're thinking: why 

don't you scribble on the disk label? 

Well, firstly, it looks a mess and, secondly, 

most labels are already covered 

with logos and phone numbers 

leaving little or no roorn for anything 

else. 

A nice convenient card wouldn't 

cost the earth but would save a hell 

of a lot of wasted time. This alone 

was enough to make GTS an instant 

contender for the column. 

The packs have more of a theme 

rather than just being a collection of 

like minded material. 

For example the printer workshop 

collection doesn't just give the usual 

collection of standard printer drivers 

but rather offers all manner of really 

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If you've just read this month's cover feature 

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latest releases, but as a result of making PD 

our main feature this months column has 

been designed to complement some of the 

issues the feature will no doubt raised. 

One of these issues is the plight of the 

new convert to the ranks of the Public 

Domain. If you're a beginner the huge 

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The first thing to do is contact a likely 

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This usually comes in the form of a disk but 

on occasion you might be lucky enough to 

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These catalogues are rarely over a pound 

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It's always worth searching through a few 

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If you're particularly keen on a specific 

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All their collections can be found by 

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Stevie Kennedy finds out al can 

be environment-friendly 

script files demonstrated, 

A AmigaDOS is a surprising- 

s ly flexible tool when used as a crude 

lprogramming 

language. The AutoaScript 

file on May's coverdisk was an 

sattempt 

to show users a little of the 

t systern's potential to cut out a lot of 

mroutine 

drudgery, but it was left 

ointentionally 

deficient in its use of 

nvariables. 

t This month's column should give 

husers 

a basic appreciation of how to 

'use 

variables in their own ArnigaDOS 

s scripts, and will show how even a 

fsimple 

application such as AutooScript 

can in this way be given a new 

lease of life. 

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ECHO and just do a directory Listing' 

ECHO 'Try to tontain your excitement 

.ECHO 

ECHO 'Ready?' 

D1R DEO: 

variables into two groups — parameters 

and environment variables, A 

parameter is a value which is passed 

to a script file by the user when he or 

she EXECUTES it, and is nowhere 

near as flexible as a true variable, 

Environment variables, on the 

other hand, are a bit more complex, 

much more flexible, and will be 

introduced in the second half of this 

tutorial, 

Let's look again at Auto-Script. It is 

a script file which formats a disk in 

your extra drive, creates the essential 

directories, then copies the relevant 

system files across to make a system 

disk which will auto-boot. 

For the sake of simplicity, the 

script assumes that the second drive 

I xample 

GUIDE 

PART 3 

• .key 

pmH 

iarl 

IF

must expect one parameter, and it 

will attempt to carry out a directory 

listing in accordance with the string 

it receives. If you type EXECUTE 

EXAMPLE2 NO: the script will accept 

the string 'cif0:' as its parameter and 

act accordingly. 

It you don't pass a parameter, the 

IF test will detect that van l is the 

empty string "" and print 'No drive 

specified', then SKIP to the end. 

You will have noticed that 

AmigaDOS places variables in angled 

brackets when they are being operated 

upon. 

This is necessary simply to distinguish 

them as variables and has no 

other technical significance. Try not 

to confuse them with the angled 

brackets we put around the word 

RETURN and others in examples of 

CLI commands. 

Value of variables 

If we turn our attention back to 

Auto-Script, it should be easy to see 

where improvements can be made. 

Instead of all those lines which 

refer specifically to dfl:, such as 

COPY rt? to DF1rc, we ought to have 

lines which refer to the parameter 

, 

These lines would look something 

like COPY #? to c. When 

A2000 users with external second 

drives want to use the script, they 

would then type 

EXECUTE AUTO 

- 

and Auto-Script SCRIPT would know which 

drive was D to U be : used as the target 

drive. 

As long as you are using 

Workbench 1.3 or higher (and if you 

aren't I'd advise you to upgrade 

immediately) you can also test variables 

and parameters using the VAL 

condition to the IF test In Example2, 


715515511EVr- 

.key vanl 

IF VAL EA 0 

SIR DFO: 

SKIP end 

ENDIF 

IF At 0 Ea 

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SKIP end 

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Echo "None s 

the IF tests to see if it is a 

blank string, but it would be just as 

easy to test its numerical value. 

Let's say we wanted to be lazy 

when running the script, and instead 

of typing dfl: we wanted to type just 

the number 1. The result would be 

something like Example3, and you 

would type 

EXECUTE AUTO 

- 

to carry out SCRIPT a DIR of df2:. 

2 

Defaults 

Although, as we have seen, the 

default value of a parameter is an 

empty string if nothing is passed to it 

by the EXECUTE command, it is also 

possible to set a default value from 

within a script. This is achieved by a 

line of the syntax 

.DEF "default string" 

and sets the default for that variable 

or parameter for all succeeding operations. 

In Example2, for instance, we 

could define the default for var 

. "No drive specified" and fix things so 

! that as this is printed when no parame- 

ters are specified. 

Alternatively, you can use a dollar 

sign (S) each time you use a variable 

Variables: Three Golden Itu 

1 Remember the 'key' at the start of every script file which is 

to have parameters passed to it. It must begin with '.key' and 

contain as many entries as there are parameters. 

p . g o r com- 

2 Remember pulsory (e.g a varila). variable You can may be optional need to make (e 'varlik) a variable compulsory 

so that drastic things don't happen when the default 

value is taken. 

Always include the line ASSIGN ENV: RAM: in your startup. 

segu i f you nd using environment variables, 

• 

BEGINNERS 

PA R T 3 

Etiempir 3 

in order to specify the default value it 

should take at different points in a 

script. The line 

ECHO '" 

tells AmigaDOS that you would like 

the string "I like variables" printed if 

the script has not been passed a 

value for van] All text inside the 

angle brackets to the right of the 

dollar sign is treated as the default 

Options 

As a final note on parameters, you 

should be aware that they can be 

either optional or compulsory 

depending on your needs. To make a 

parameter essential, you must add 

7a' to it in the key line at the beginning 

of the script, so it would read 

.key van l /a. 

If a value is not passed to a compulsory 

parameter, the script will 

grind to a halt with an error message. 

This feature would be of most use if, 

for example, it would cause a problem 

when the parameter was given a 

nill value, FORMAT DRIVE DF: 

would cause a bit of concern to most 

people if it took a default value of 

zero and formatted their system disk! 

Optional parameters, to which 

AmigaDOS defaults, are defined by 

the adition of on the key line, and 

can be passed values in the normal 

way. 

SETENV and GETENV 

Environment variables are the true 

AmigaDOS system variables, and 

since the release of Workbench 1,3, 

Amiga users have had an increasing 

amount of control over them, 

The two commands I'm going to 

look at in this brief overview of environment 

variables are SETENV and 

GETENV 

SETENV is used to create a van- 

able and/or alter its definition It 

takes the syntax 

SETENV 

where the string defines the variable. 

GETENV is used to retrieve the 

variable's value or string and uses the 

Syntax 

GETENV 

It will print the variable's contents to 

whichever device the user specifies 

with a redirection (>) character, 

although it defaults to the current 

al window. If, therefore, you wanted 

to keep a running tally of an 

important variable in a program, you 

could quite easily use the line 

GETENV >ART: 

at various points in the listing to redirect 

output to the printer. 

When you define an environment 

variable, AmigaDOS looks for a logical 

device called ENV: which is usually 

set up in your Workbench's 

startup-sequence using the ASSIGN 

statement 

ASSIGN ENV: /AN; 

to store all information concerning 

the variable in the RAM disk. Always 

either make sure you have this line in 

your startup or type it in before 

messing about with variables. 

Environment variables are the big 

brothers of the ASSIGN statements 

and bring a new flexibility to 

AmigaDOS. 

It's all very well being able to 

ASSIGN logical device names as long 

and complex pathnames, but when 

you can use environment variables 

for absolutely any string of text, your 

script files are in danger of becoming 

true programs. 

We don't have enough space to 

go further into environment variables 

in this column, but if there's enough 

interest in the subject, we'll cover 

them in more depth at a later date. 

For the moment, we've received 

many more letters requesting information 

on more down to earth areas 

of AmigaDOS, so we'll be looking at 

them first, 

Next Month 

The difference between Shell and 

al, and how to get the most out 

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This was follwed in our lanuary 

and February issues with a series 

describing how to get the best from 

MED. So check your back issues for 

hints and tips for the soundtracker 

section of the program which is still 

the same. 

This month I'll be concentrating 

on how to get the best from the allnew 

sample editor. 

Exciting 

The editor is by far the most exciting 

addition and it not Only gives you 

the ability to manipulate samples 

you already have but you can also 

sample your own sounds. Using first 

generation samples is by far the best 

approach. Avoiding repetition in the 

music and the sounds is the key to a 

classic. 

It's not essential that you go mad 

and spend a fortune on a sampler, 

just go for something cheap and 

cheerful. The key to using cheaper 

samplers is to really apply some 

power to the input signal. 

The best way is to take your out- 

put from a headphone socket and 

then adjust the volume control on 

the amp until the signal is just below 

the distortion or clipping point. With 

MED you can monitor the input signal 

and adjust it until the waveform 

fits perfectly before you sample the 

sound. 

All Amiga samplers are 8 bit units, 

and as a result even the best are far 

from perfect, so don't worry about 

Hi-Fi quality but rather originality. 

Most samples tend to be ripped 

off from CDs, tapes and so on. 

Again this isn't the most original 

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editor is its ability to add and delete 

space within a sample. 

High levels of hiss between 

sounds often ruin an otherwise excellent 

sample. Minimising this hiss is 

what makes samplers like the Audio 

Engineer so impressive, not to mention 

expensive. 

Even so with a little patience it's 

possible to make even the cheapest 

sampler sound a good deal more 

expensive. First copy your sample to 

the copybuffer or preferably a floppy. 

This is always a good idea if you're 

about to do any form of editing. 

Next, mark out a range between 

two sounds within the sample, but 

make sure you leive some space 

between the range and the sounds 

on either side of it. This space will 

become important later. 

Now click on the CLR gadget. A 

blank space should appear to replace 

the hissing silence of the original. 

Repeat this process right through the 

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each sound. Click in the first window 

after the VOL CHANGE gadget and 

type 1, press return and type 99. 

Now click on the ZOOM IN gadget 

and scroll up to the beginning of the 

first sound using the cursor keys. 

This is where the noise left at the 

beginning and end of the separate 

sounds come in useful. First mark a 

range that includes this section, with 

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What should you do 

if your Amiga's heart 

stops beating? 

Paul I Whiteley 

takes his bedside 

manner to a sick 

machine 

idiosyncratic machine. 

T Commodore bought it from 

a Hteam 

of designers who wanted to 

set E a standard instead of following 

an A existing one. The Amiga shares its 

68000 m series main processor with the 

Apple i Macintosh, Atari ST, the 

Sinclair g QL and One per Desk 

machines. a 

i The main processor chip is where 

similarities s end. At this point you 

enter a a different plane. The hardware 

on w the Amiga allows 4096 colours, 

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stereo sound, sampling, MIDI, and a 

whole host of features brought by 

the foresight of a dedicated chip set 

and open architecture. 

The 1000 was the first Amiga, but 

the majority of machines in the UK 

are 500s• Together with a sprinkling 

of 2000s, a few 1500s and 3000s 

and riot forgetting some interesting 

hybrids like the Checkmate 1500 and 

the Bodega Bay. 

With such a highly specified and 

complicated machine you could be 

forgiven for thinking that there's 

nothing user friendly inside. Take 

care however and you could learn a 

lot about the Amiga and maybe 

even save yourself some money. 

Guaranteed to annoy 

Like all computers and electronic 

products, your Amiga comes with a 

stern warning. "Open me up and 

kiss your warranty bye bye." 

If all you want to do is play 

games, (which is no bad thing to do) 

then leaving your Amiga intact probably 

won't be any great loss. 

Rut if you want to repair or troubleshoot 

inside the machine, you'll 

have to forget the warranty or wait 

until it's run out. 

lithe machine is in warranty and 

it's ceased to proceed, it's probably 

the responsibility of Commodore or, 

more likely, your friendly computer 

dealer to make it work again. If you 

are completely silly and are devoid of 

a functioning brain cell you'll still rip 

your Amiga open anyway. However if 

you have problems with a relatively 

new machine, get it fixed by the 

people responsible! 

Preventive medicine 

No matter what you do to protect 

your Amiga from the rigours of 

human foibles there will come the 

day when a clumsy labrador chews 

the cables or it meets some other 

catastrophe that results in loss of 

function either partial or total. 

Although the Amiga is a tough 

cookie, it will only take so much. And 

while we are talking about repairs 

and problems surely it makes more 

sense to treat your computer with 

care and respect. 

Do not spill anything near it, or 

on it, Remember when you attach a 

peripheral of any kind to the 

machine, secure all fastenings. If you 

don't you could be gazing at an 

invoice. 

Those little thumbscrew things 

on the printer cable are not only for 

decoration. They secure the cable to 

the socket, thus making it more difficult 

for a snagged cable to damage 

the socket. 

The same rule applies for every 

cable or connecter. Peripherals which 

attach to the multiway connector on 

the side can be a danger so if possible 

secure them in such a way that 

they cannot move in relation to the 

work surface. 

A simple tip is to place a sheet of 

Amiga Computing 99

wood or similar laid flat on the work 

surface. Mark out the position that 

your machine covers including all 

cables and peripherals and attach 

batons to the sheet. This will prevent 

the machine and its peripherals moving 

around in relation to each other. 

Another way of avoiding costly 

repair bills is to make sure that all 

cables are secured in such a way that 

they cannot be snagged. 

Make mine a short 

One of the commonest problems 

with the Amiga or for that matter 

any home computer is live or dead 

short circuits caused by strain on 

cables, 

A dead short is the least harmful 

but sometimes the most difficult to 

track. This is caused when a cable, 

wire or track on a printed circuit 

board is broken by a sharp tug or 

strain. 

Normally, the net result is a malfunctioning 

computer that can be 

repaired by re-soldering or tracking. 

The live short is more dangerous. 

This is caused in the same way but 

instead of a line, wire or cable breaking, 

two or more touch together. 

Because the circuit remains live, this 

can damage other components. 

The knock on effect of a live short 

is that several components may be 

unserviceable. In a bad case a live 

short can cause sparking and burning. 

If this happens, insulate yourself, 

and remove the plug from the wall. 

By depriving your machine of its 

power you have assured that the 

damage cannot continue to get 

worse. 

If your problem is within a monitor 

and you intend to open it up and 

attempt diagnosis or repair, remem- 

1 00 Amiga Computing 

No 

If you're determined to try a few repairs or 

upgrades, don't take on a job that's beyond you. 

Most importantly, start with simple tasks that can 

be checked before you blow up your Amiga. 

Leads are an ideal initial repair job. You can fabricate 

or repair a monitor lead and test it without 

plugging it in. The important thing with a lead is to 

check continuity and be sure that there are no live 

shorts. This can be done (but it's a fiddle) with a 

battery and flashlight bulb, a couple of wires and a 

pair of probes made from a steel needle and a mini 

crocodile clip. 

Each line on the lead can be checked and cross 

checked to be sure of the signal integrity. Another 

useful way to learn your way around the inside of 

Toolbox 

F you want to do your own repairs and fault finding you'll need these tools. 

. Pliers 

Solder pump or desoldefing braid 

Screwdrivers 

Multicore cable 

liC inserter-extractor tool 

Multirneter 

Soldenog iron 

solder 

Assortment of pieces of wire, sockets etc 

Rolls of insulating tape 

Wire cuttersisnippers 

Bottle of Tequila 

Salt 

Lemon 

Anadin 

Mica Seltzer 

If you think that repairs are as important as your Amiga and want the ultimate 

posing tool for a technical anorak, you could spend MO on an oscil- 

,loscope confident that no one else would know how to use it either. 

an& •Alir 

her that a monitor can carry a lot of 

'stored' power and even when not 

plugged in can give you a shock big 

enough to stop your heart. If in 

doubt, leave well alone and call a 

professional. 

Bits and pieces 

If your job requires replacement of a 

component or an integrated circuit 

(chip), a few simple rules will make 

the job pass without problem. Work 

with plenty of light so that you can 

see what you're doing. 

Always keep plenty of open con: 

tainers around for screws and other 

bitties to avoid them ending up on 

the floor. Get any documentation or 

other paperwork into a place where 

you can 

easily refer to it. 

Prepare and label the components 

ready for replacement. This may 

sound a little silly but if you've two 

identical processors on the table how 

do you know which is faulty by looking? 

Do the job one step at a time, 

take notes and label everything that 

you have saying what it is and where 

it came from. If it's possible to fit it in 

Feature di 

more than one way as in the case of 

an IC, describe its position. An IC 

won't work if it's in backwards. 

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sights a little further afield and 

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cgenlocks, 

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bits of kit that people seem to 

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you feel lonely when you use 

your Amiga? If so, then a modem 

could be the answer to your dreams. 

Made famous by such scare-mongering 

movies as 'War Games', the 

modem will let you communicate 

with other computer users by linking 

your machine to the standard telephone 

network. 

Using a modem costs money, so 

it's worth investing in the fastest 

modem you can afford, although 

you must also be aware that many 

on-line systems cannot cope with 

certain speeds. Some on-line systems 

support 4800 baud modems, but the 

vast majority won't support anything 

faster than a 2400 baud modem. 

The price of modems has dropped 

considerably in the last two years or 

so, so getting on-line is not quite as 

expensive as you might believe. 

Typically, a fairly well endowed 2400 

baud modem can be picked up for 

around El 80. 

Closer to home, it's also possible 

to connect together several Amigas 

in a network, therefore allowing 

them to share programs and peripherals 

(hard drives, printers etc). In a 

professional environment, networking 

can cut the cost of upgrading 

several Amigas by a considerable 

amount — instead of having to buy 

such things as hard drives for each 

machine, you can buy one 

large drive (which usually 

works out 

cheaper) and 

share i t 

between 

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several machines. Several companies 

now produce network 

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systems, 

although its worth checking Out all 

the options available before splashing 

out. As the old rule stipulates, 

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don't buy the first that you see — you 

may live to regret It! 

Working along the same lines as a 

modem, you can also set 

r 

up your 

Amiga to send and receive facsimile 

(fax) messages. Currently two such 

systems exist - Michtron's FastFax 

and Applied Engineering's 

e 

DataLink 

system. Michtron's product is perhaps 

the better of the two, but it'll 

set you back £600 (a real tax can be 

picked up for just L4001). 

Video visuals 

Video graphics are an all-important 

aspect of Commodore's marketing 

strategy, so it comes as no surprise 

that the video hardware market has 

been flooded with innovative products 

ranging from yenlocks 

and flicker 

fixer cards, to 24bit 

frame buffers 

which offer near 

broadcast quality displays. 

Genlocking is one 

application that really sets 

the Amiga apart from its 

closest rival. For little more 

than a 000, you can overlay 

lcomputer graphics onto a 

posite video source to create 

titles and special effects for your 

home movies, I won't go into too 

much depth about the kind of features 

you should be looking for - 

you'll find these within my Desktop 

Video column elsewhere within this 

issue. 

Moving into the realms of professional 

video graphics, the last six 

months have seen an explosion in 

the number of 24-bit graphics cards 

available for the Amiga. Most are a 

bit on the pricey side (E1500-4-), but 

several companies in the States have 

started to market budget 24-bit 

cards that costs little more than 

a couple 

of hundr 

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pounds. 

Most 

promising of 

all these is the 

HAM-E 24-bit 

RGB card from 

Black Belt Systems. 

Their card runs on all 

Amigas and sells for just 

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including 24-bit IFF, Targa, " ç 

Dynamic HiRes and SHAM formats, p but they have a number of distinct 

plus a load more besides. It comes y disadvantages. For starters, they are 

complete with 24-bit paint and ren- d s0000 st000w — oven relatively small 

dering software, making it an excit- r itiles 

seem to take an eternity to load. 

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in Amiga graphics. Expect a lull e hung drives jug can't handle enough 

review soon. 

s data. They're ok If you're using your 

Interlacing may be a real pain on a Amiga for nothing more than a bit of 

the eyes, but it's just the ticket for r word processing, but you'll soon 

video work. However, if you've tired e 

start to feel held back once you start 

Out the old interlace hop, then you a messing around with 24-bit graphic 

can rid your machine of it forever by l 

and PostScript files. 

fitting any one of a number of flicker l 

Of course what you really need is 

fixer cards. These ingenious devices a mass storage device, the most 

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convert the Amiga display to a rock common of which is the hard drive. 

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steady picture that would put a VGA If you've never used a hard drive- 

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PC to shame. Unfortunately, you also based Amiga, then you simply won't 

l 

need to buy an expensive multisync even be able to comprehend what a 

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montor, so they're very much difference such a device makes to 

restricted to the more affluent Amiga 

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the Amiga. Suddenly everything 

users amongst you. 

d becomes so much smoother and so 

On the horizon is the most excit- g much faster. No more do you have 

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ing video peripheral yet. Currently to mess around with disk swapping 

only available in NTSC format, 

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everything is there on a single high 

NewTek are hard at work on a PAL d speed storage device. 

version of their ground-breaking , Hard drives come in a range of 

VideoToaster effects system. It corn- different sizes, starting at about 20 

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broadcast quality 

genlock and effects 

system, with 24-bit graphics 

capabilities. Don't expect it for a fait 

old time yet, though. 

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in size. Most cheap Amiga 

hard drives offer 20 Mbytes of storage, 

but it's worth spending a little 

more for a higher capacity drive - 

preferably at least 40 Mbytes. You 

may think that 20 Mbytes sounds 

like an awful lot of storage, but you'll 

be surprised how quickly it'll get 

filled. 

With the imminent launch of 

Commodore's CD 

-storage 

device worth considering is 

that TV of CD-ROM. You can't directly 

write system, to a CD-ROM disc (you'll need 

a L3000+ n oWORM t h drive for that!), but 

they e rhave 

one very major advantage 

over hard drives - their sheer size. A 

single CD-ROM disc can store over 

600 Mbytes of data, which is over 30 

times that which Commodore's 

A590 can handle. 

Commodore have announced 

that they will be producing an external 

CD-ROM drive for existing 

Amigas later this year, but US-based 

Xetec have beaten them to it. 

Xetec's drive is fully CD-TV compatible, 

so you'll still be able to take 

advantage of CD-TV software once it 

is made available. 

To keep you going, Xetec actually 

include a free 'Fish Eit More' CD- 

ROM disc which contains the entire 

Fred Fish collection of PD disks - all 

360 of them! 

If you're using a hard drive, things 

can go wrong - read writes errors 

are a regular occurance, but by far 

the worst fear of hard drive users is 

the dreaded head crash whkh usual- 

ly results in you losing everything on 

your drive. 

What you need is a backup 

device. If you're using a high capacity 

drive, then a good bet is a tape 

streamer, a sort of glorified tape 

recorder which backs up an entire 

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Question: When is an Amiga not an Amiga? 

Answer: when it's a Mac, a PC, a Unix system, a BBC 

micro, or even an ST.... 

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With little more than an inexpensive piece of 

hardware and some clever software, you can transform 

your Amiga into a clone of just about any 

major computer you can 

t 

think of. There are emulators 

for all the major 8-bit micros - the BBC, the 

C64, the QL (yes, the QL Is an 8-bit!) and even the 

Spectrum 48k! 

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For the poseurs amongst you, it's even 

possible to transform your Amiga 

into a fully functional clone of 

an Apple Macintosh, 

therefore allowing 

your 

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hard drive onto dedicated tapes that 

look not unlike those of the audio 

variety. 

Once again, Xetec also produce a 

tape streamer which they sell for 

about 5500. These come in two sizes 

- 60 Mbytes and 150 Mbytes - and 

are bundled with all the neccessary 

software to get you started. 

If you can't quite afford a hard 

drive, then a high density floppy 

drive may just be the thing your 

looking for. Applied Engineering produce 

a 3.51n high density drive 

which can pack a whopping 1.52 

Mbytes of data onto a single high 

density floppy. This can be bought 

for about £130. 

Modes rule OK! 

The Amiga SOO is a pretty _ — 

versatile machine as. far 

as expansion possibilities 

go, but it's still not as 

expandable as its big brothers, 

the A2000 and A3000. 

However, spotting a gap in the 

market, several manufacturers 

have come up with 'expansion modules' 

which allow the Amiga 500 to 

use hardware devices designed 

exclusively for the high end-Amigas. 

Undercover Amigas 

The first to arrive was the A1500 

from London-based Checkmate 

Digital. For L2 30, Checkmate's 

expansion console is a solid replacement 

casing for the A500 that makes 

the machine look more like its big 

brother, the A2000. The keyboard is 

brought out of the A500 casing to 

live in its own external steel casing 

which is attached to the main system 

unit via a curly cable. It provides 

space for two drives internally, plus 

an extra kit is available to allow A500 

owners to move the A590 hard drive 

inside the A1500. 

Checkmate are still hard at work 

on an extra 'OverRider' module 

to take advnateg of the vast range of quality productivity 

software (well, DTP software, actually) 

available for Apple's baby. 

Things really'start to hot up when it comes to 

emulating a PC compatible - there are now no 

fewer than four different hardware 

PC emulators available! For the 

A500, the best Is undoubtedly 

Bitcon's KCS Power PC Card, 

although SOL's ATonce is still 

worth a look just because 

of its multitasking capabilities. 

For those of 

you with megabucks 

to spare, then 

Commodore's 

new Unix card 

for the A3000 

is well worth 

checking out. It's a 

complete Unix system on a 

card that's based around the lat- 

• est release of AT&T's multitasking, muttiuser 

operating system. You may not have 

- heard a great deal about it on the home computer 

scene, but Unix is big business in the corporate 

market. 

A1500, This has been in the pipeline 

for over a year no but Checkmate 

recently revealed that the kit is finally 

reaching completion. 

More promising still is the Bodega 

Bay modular expansion console from 

US-based hardware manufacturer, 

California Access. Unlike the 

Checkmate unit, the Bodega Bay 

offers full 2000-card compatibilty as 

standard, split between four A2000 

100-pin slots (for RAM expansions, 

hard drives etc) plus three overlapping 

XT/AT-compatible slots. The 

Bodega bay can handle the 

acclaimed Bridgeboard PC emulator, 

plus there's an option to have an 

which promises to add A2000 A2000 video slot fitted (for such 

expansion slot-cornpatibill- - - - , things as genlocks etc). 

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you to specify parameters - shows 

you a representation of your box 

which changes angle as you select 

different rotation angles, a neat little 

trick which shows you fairly precisely 

of Saxon's requesters boxes which pop up asking you to 

select or write in options is a complete definition of 

parameters for rendering a paragraph, containing all the 

information about font, type size, texture arid spacing. 

Once a type style has been defined, you give it a name 

and it appears in a list on Saxon's sidebar. 

The great advantage is that paragraphs can be formatted 

and reformatted simply by highlighting them and 

clicking on an available tag style, All style togs can be 

saved and retrieved for later use in any document. 

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this large measure of control over 

boxes helps the typesetting process 

from both the user's and the computer's 

perspective. 

Incidentally, not all boxes need to 

be rectangles. You can create freehand 

boxes with any number of corners 

Hardware demands 

Before we go any further, some 

words of caution for the unexpanded 

and the slightly expanded, You either 

won't be able to run the program at 

all, or at least you'll find it very difficult, 

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Saxon's template feature allows pages of any complexity to be saved for later 

retrieval. The pages you save in this way can include bitmapped graphics, 

structured drawings and even text files 

You assign such page designs to function keys by invoking the Page menu 

and moving the pointer to 'Assign F-Key'. A small requester appears, asking 

you to enter a filename of up to 10 characters for the page being assigned. 

After assigning a template called, for instance, AMIGACOMPU to function 

key Ft, the sub-menu item will then read 'Assign F-Key - FLAMIGACOMPU". 

Pages saved in this way are actually stored in a directory within the Saxon 

Publisher program. If you're running the program from a floppy disk, you 

choold be aware of the limited storage space available for assigned objects. 

Assigned pages can be recalled whether or not a document already exists in 

the program environment. Simply hold down the shift key and press the relevont 

function key while in cursor mode. 

Again, it's a case of once you've designed something, you don't have to go 

through the motions again. It's what time-saving, and therefore cost-efficient, 

DTP is off chow. 

ual says you can "theoretically" make 

use of the program with a single 

drive, but "at great inconvenience". 

Unless your system has a hard 

disk, at least two floppy drives are 

needed to make working copies of 

the program. For those producing 

large and/or complex volumes, a 

hard disk is highly recommended. 

Oh, and you'll need at least 1 

megabyte of memory. 

Although Saxon works properly 

with any standard Amiga display, a 

high persistence monitor is recommended 

to reduce the flicker caused 

by the highest resolution mode, 

which is what Saxon runs in. 

Unfortunately, long persistence phosphor 

monitors come very expensive 

compared with standard NTSC 

colour monitors. 

The alternative is to use a flicker- 

fixing device. An inexpensive 

polarised screen can improve the stability 

of the display dramatically. 

The review copy of Saxon version 

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that I used provided direct support 

only to PostScript compatible 

printers and phototypesetters. 

However, I'm assured the released 

version will provide dot matrix support 

as well_ 

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you must either have the bee's knees 

in hardware or be prepared to spend 

a good deal of money, and also want 

to produce quality documents or 

publications. At any rate, this will be 

the assumption for the rest of this 

review. 

The best way to learn about 

Saxon's excellent facilities, and its 

few niggling bits, is to work through 

the Basic Tutorial in the manual and, 

f you survive that, the Advanced 

tutorial which follows it. 

Enter the first niggling bit - there 

are NO illustrations at all in either 

tutorial to show you what you 

should be achieving as you draw and 

manipulate your boxes, import your 

text and graphics and create your 

type styles and templates. The 

author seems to assume that you've 

read and remembered all the other 

parts of the manual. 

I did eventually realise, however, 

that the the results to which the 

tutorials should lead you are included 

on disk, and you could, of course, 

print this out before you begin. 

Unfortunately, the bounding boxes, 

the sidebar containing your tools, 

filenames of imported text and 

graphics etc, are NOT on the finished 

job, so there's still no easy 

answer. 

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- make sure you read the 

Fundamental Concepts and 

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tutorials. The 20 minutes this will 

take will pay handsome dividends. 

If you still have the occasional 

problem identifying what's on 

screen, look it up in the Specific 

Reference, Sidebar or Menu Strip 

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The four modes 

Apart from their lack of illustrations, 

the tutorials adequately demonstrate 

the features of Saxon. There are four 

modes of operation. 

All manipulations to text and 

boxes are performed in Cursor 

Mode, when the pointer, or arrow, is 

the active tool. In this mode, all 

screen display parameters, including 

colour, are in force and it does seem 

to take an age on occasion for the 

screen to redraw itself after a 

change_ 

In Paragraph Mode, you perform 

all operations relating to type styles, 

as well as formatting of paragraph 

styles. Drawings created within 

Saxon Publisher itself, bounding box 

outlines and onscreen colours don't 

appear in this mode, since they are 

not required for text formatting. 

Things happen a lot faster as a consequence. 

Text Mode allows you to manually 

enter characters into bounding 

boxes. You could write the publication 

you are working on in this way, 

though the idea with Saxon, as with 

all DTP packages, is that you import 

pre-prepared text and graphics, with 

only the odd headline, standfirst and 

caption to be written in directly. You 

also have the full range of facilities 

for editing and formatting text, 

n,.the display is a simple one in 

this mode, to keep things moving 

quickly. 

Finally, Drawing Mode allows the 

creation and manipulation of structured 

drawings within your documents. 

A good range of tools 

includes line, bezier curve, connected 

line, rectangle, ellipse, polygon, 

and smooth line (similar to connected 

line but the angles where lines 

meet are converted to smooth 

curves). Rectangle, ellipse and polygon 

have filled versions as well for 

those who want to put textures into 

their drawings. 

Drawing mode only affects drawings 

generated within the program. 

Externally generated drawings can 

only be manipulated while in cursor 

mode. 

When Saxon first loads, the main 

area of interest onscreen is a panel 

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down the left side of screen, called 

the Sidebar. 

This contains gadgets for selecting 

the four modes as outlined above, 

text style gadgets (plain, bold, italic 

and underline), and the screen positon 

gadget showing the portion of 

the document currently displayed on 

screen (magnifications of 30 per cent 

to 300 per cent are available). 

The sidebar also contains the tag 

list, In paragraph mode, this contains 

the names of any text or graphics 

files which were generated externally 

and imported into your document or 

publkation. 

One of the delightful features of 

Saxon is that you can import files at 

any stage, right at the start of document 

creation, if you like, without 

having so much as placed a bounding 

box on a page. 

What happens is that the name of 

the file - the tag - sits in the list in 

the sidebar until you've created a 

box or several boxes for it. Then, 

simply click on the tag and the text 

or graphic appears in whichever box 

Ls selected. If it's text which needs to 

be run into several boxes, clicking on 

the next box to select it, then clicking 

once more on the tag will flow 

the text on from the precise point at 

which it ended in the previous box. 

As you continue to run in text in 

this way, it flows over or around any 

graphic elements according to the 

parameters you have given in the relevant 

requester to the boxes containing 

them. 

In paragraph mode, the tag list 

displays a list of style tags. The 

"New gadget at the bottom of the 

tag list enables you to create a new 

style tag, which initially will be the 

same as whichever tag was highlighted 

when you clicked on "New", 


Add some texture 

Objects in Saxon Publisher can be textured in a variety of ways. Every 

page, box, style tag and internally generated structured drawing has a 

user-definable texture associated with it. 

Options include bitmapped backgrounds, outlining thickness, transparent 

and solid colours. 

As far as text is concerned, outlines, backgrounds and drop shadows 

can have any solid colour hue associated with them. 

In the texture requesters associated with any particular document element, 

users can specify colour as a combination of red, green and blue. 

The Colour Display Window provides a graphic illustration of the selected 

colour. 

Alternatively, you can use the facilities for selecting colours as Printer's 

Ink, giving a more accurate representation of printed output, or CMYK values. 

This latter allows you to to specify exact ink density (as a percentage) 

of each colour separation (cyan, magenta, yellow and black) which comes 

off the output device. 

Texture and colour are close partners when it comes to creating breathtaking 

effects in your documents. Experiment and enjoy is the name of the 

game. 

A goodly range of ready-made pre-set textures is provided with Saxon 

Publisher. The range includes effects such as gradients, stonebricks and 

drop shadows. 

Make the required changes and give 

the style a new name in the relevant 

requesters. 

In drawing mode, the only entry 

in the tag list is the word 

"Retexture. When this is selected, 

the texture requester appears, allowing 

you to define the outline thickness 

and colours as well as the 

background textures for all struc- 

Packed with features 

As you would expect of a DTP package aimed at professionals, Saxon 

Publisher is packed with features. 

Apart from those mentioned in the main part of this review, the notable 

ones include: 

• Page sizes up to 20 X 20 inches • Routines to double or quadruple 

are supported. o u t p u t resolution of bitmaps 

• Page backgrounds rendered in without sacrificing sharpness or 

any user-defined solid colour or detail. 

one of 21 bitmapped textures I Text sizes from 3 to a staggering 

(still more textures can be 2000 points. 

ordered from Saxon Industries). • Support for downloadable fonts. 

• Easily created column guides to • Facilities to directly import and 

assist with layout. p r i n t 24-bit images without need 

• Screen angles and densities for conversion utilities, 

defined to four decimal places. • Support for Encapsulated 

• Ability to variably scale the final PostScript (EPS) and PorVestor 

output scale of any document. fi les. 

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The te xture requester. The 

range and styles of te xture s 

and the control you have ove r 

them are e xce lknt features of 

the Saxon package 

tured drawings attached to the 

active bounding box. 

Style transfer gadgets are also 

provided, allowing you to impose 

the style tag of the currently highlighted 

paragraph onto an entire section 

of text appearing either before 

or after it, either within the active 

box only, or for all boxes in whichever 

direction is selected. 

The remainder of the sidebar con- 

sists of bounding box definition gadgets 

(rectangular or freehand are the 

two options); depth arrangement 

gadgets allowing you to change the 

current layering arrangement of 

overlapping boxes by moving the 

active box to front or back; and the 

self-explanatory delete box, delete 

contents, box moving and graphic 

filling gadgets. 

The menu strip, which runs across 

the top of the opening display, is 

invoked in the usual Amiga fashion 

with a click of the right mouse button, 

and gives full control over document, 

importation of external files, 

pagination, bounding boxes, type 

styles, editing facilities like cut, copy, 

paste, search and replace, and pref- 

erences such as page view and ruler 

(inches, metric or picalpoint rulers 

are available). 

And in conclusion... 

The two tutorials in the manual will 

• quickly get you up to speed with 

Saxon Publisher. After completing 

the second one, I guarantee you will 

be ready, nay positively itching, to 

produce something of your own. 

I don't altogether like Saxon's 

more complex requesters. There's 

not much depth to the little boxes 

you need to click (you should have 

remembered to bring your specs - 

Ed) and the type style requester in 

particular looks very cluttered. 

However, now that we're so close 

to the end, I have to confess to more 

than a passing acquaintance with the 

likes of Quark XPress, Aldus 

Pagemaker, Ventura Publisher and 

even the package specially written 

for the OS/2 on the PC, DeScribe. 

Some of those packages have been 

out quite a few years now, and have 

had a chance to metamorphose into 

something nearer perfection. 

My initial impression of Saxon is 

that it is good - very, very good, in 

fact, for those who can afford it and 

its rather hefty hardware requirements. 

It's bound to improve with subsequent 

versions. With a few more 

things like some more fonts and the 

odd cosmetic improvement, Saxon 

Publisher will make the grade as a 

first rate, professional DTP package. 

I'm certain, however, that it will 

see far more business than home 

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Not so Fast 

I'm in possession of a revision 6 A500 with 

0.5Mb expansion. Some time ago i modified the 

motherboard so I could have 1Mb of Chip RAM_ 

The problem now is that the MS-DOS emulator 

Transformer doesn't work, and when I pull 

down DPaint ill's anim menu, it is ghosted out so 

that none of the options are available. 

Could it be because there's no fastmem any 

more or is it because of a hardware fault? 

If I buy another internal expansion board with 

1,5Mb or more, can I then use my Transformer 

and animate in DPaint III and still have 1Mb of 

chipmem? I would really appreciate it if 

could give me the answers to my quest 

Keep the good work going - I think you're 

is the best there is. 

I Hoogendoorn, Berkel-Enschot, Holland 

As you guessed, the problem lies in your 

machine no longer having access to fastmem, 

at least in the case of the DPaint anim menu. 

I'm not so sure of the Transformer problem, 

but it is more than likely to be the same. 

You can rule out hardware faults - if your 

DIY conversion had any detrimental effects on 

the motherboard, especially the dedicated 

chips, the results would be a lot more obvious 

than they are at the moment. 

Anyone with expanded memory can use 

NOFASTMEM to turn off their fastram and 

then try DPaint ill's anim menu. It won't work 

on a machine with no fastram, so you can rest 

assured that your Amiga isn't damaged. 

The addition of a bigger memory board 

should allow you to use the full 1Mb of chipmem 

along with some extra fastram as long 

as you don't reverse the motherboard conver 

sion. Your problem will then disappear. 

Try before you buy 

I am considering a hard drive for my A500, possibly 

the GVP. However I have a few uncertainties 

as regards hard drives, and I would be grateful if 

you could dear them up for me. 

• How prone is a hard drive to magnetic forces? 

Mine would be sitting near my mini-speakers and 

television. 

• Are there often any procedures to carry out 

during power on/off? (Le head parking etc) 

• What may usually cause a corruption of the 

disk? 

Brett Buckley, Huddersfield 

The GVP series 2 drives are fast and efficient, 

if a bit pricey, and you'll find a review of them 

in our February issue. As for your concerns: 

• Hard drives are quite safe from normal electro-magnetic 

fields of the kind generated by 

TVs and such like. I have a GVP sitting three 

inches from a monitor and ten inches from my 

A500 power supply at this very moment. 

There's no harm in taking precautions against 

EMP, but don't get paranoid. 

• You won't have to park your drive heads 

during normal use The only time this is necessary 

is when you move them from one location 

to another, risking heavy jolts or 

vibrations, Many hard drives these days, 

including CVP drives, will auto-park in any 

case. 

Corruption can be caused by many things, 

and although hard drives aren't as prone to 

physical corruption as floppy drives, they still 

go wrong occasionally. 

Dust and coffee can affect you mechanism, 

but the most common problems come about 

through mangled files and disk validation 

errors. FixDisk 1,2 from the March coverdisk 

will sort out most of these. 

Suffering Seagate 

Due to a fair amount of gross stupidity on my 

behalf I find myself without any software to get 

my hard drive going. I know that I should have 

made several back-ups and all that, but we all 

make mistakes. 

Why didn't I just write to the manufacturer? 

Yes, you've guessed it, I've lost the address. The 

drive is a Seagate ST-225N and the interface is 

manufactured by a company called C Ltd, model 

SCSI-500 Serial No. 85 it 595 Rev 1.2. 

I can't find the manufacturer's address or any 

trace of them. Does anyone out there know their 

address or even know of any software that can 

get my drive going? 

S M Smith, Manchester 

Where did you buy that interface? I can't find 

the company either, but Seagate are easily 

contacted - phone (0628) 890366. 

You should also contact the shop which 

originally supplied you with the SCSI interface 

- there should have been some hard drive 

tools with it. To get the drive up and running, 

Printer out of puff? 

Computer cracking up? 

We're here to help! 

Write to Amiga Computing, 

Europa House. Adlington Park, Macclesfield SK10 4NP 

you'll have to carry out a low level format. 

Seagate's tech support bods tell me they usually 

try memory addresses C800 and CCOO to 

activate the routines for this operation. 

The process involves using an assembly 

debug program to find then address the cor 

rect memory location, so if you're not into 

machine code things could get sticky. 

If you're lucky, the drive might already have 

been prepped and treated to a low level format. 

If this is the case, just turn to pages 5-3 

and A-2 of the Workbench 1.3 enhancer software 

manual for the scanty information supplied 

with your machine. 

If you can construct a mountlist entry and 

FORMAT the drive, it should be easy enough 

to MOUNT it and carry on from there. If this 

isn't sufficient, please send more information 

on your set-up, and the name of the supplier 

in particular, and I'll try to get you a more 

exact answer. 

Picture-popper 

A friend and myself have just started to do a reference 

program using the Workbench set-up. 

The program is self-booting, but what we'd like 

to do is load a picture then have it disappear 

before Workbench loads up. 

We have designed a loading screen and called 

it Monson, but we would be grateful if you could 

tell us the commands to get the screen to work 

during our startup-sequence. 

B Johnson, Rhyl 

There are several WI viewer programs available 

to do what you want. The most common /e 


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Is probably Vilbm, which will display any IFF 

format, including HAM, and will even display 

text One of the most compact is PPShow, 

which will display files crunched with 

PowerPacker. 

The forthcoming WorkStation disk will 

Include PPShow and an example of what it 

does in the startup-sequence, but if you want 

just a viewing program, most PD libraries will 

be happy to supply one. 

They all work in a relatively simple way. For 

example, to use Vilbm in your startupsequence, 

simply include the line 

ViON OictoreName> 

and the picture will be displayed until a key Is 

pressed, then startup will continue. 

Memory Game 

I was interested to read your article on CLI in the 

March issue of Amiga Computing, I have an A500 

with a full megabyte and I shall probably buy an 

extra drive. 

At the moment I am interested in making better 

use of the RAM extension. 

Games such as Monty Python seem to make 

extensive use of disk access, which is quite timeconsuming. 

If you could explain how to run 

games in RAM disk rather than the floppy drive 

you would save me a lot of time. 

Peter Tingle, Kingston upon Thames 

I'm afraid I haven't much good news. The RAM 

disk is fine for a lot of uses, but you can't copy 

commercial games into it. 

Apart from being illegal, it is usually impossible, 

as their copy protection does not usually 

allow for simple AmigaDOS operations. I 

mean, if you could copy a game into the RAM 

disk, you could copy it onto another floppy, 

and that would be piracy. 

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About a year ago, I bought isi a Microbotics 

M501 RAM upgrade and an extra drive. I have 

recently been trying to use ted the Amiga for adding 

titles and graphics to our video films via a 

Rendale 8802 genlock and DPaint III. 

However, I have run into memory problems - 

it seems that my 1Mb is not up to the job. 

To add to the problem, I recently purchased 

the Broadcast Titter 2 program, which I found 

requires a minimum of 1.5Mb to run. 

Please could you help a green newcomer 

with some advice on upgrading RAM, especially 

as more and more of it appears to be needed to 

run the increasingly complex Amiga applications. 

I have considered buying a hard drive, but 

understand that this would mean I couldn't run 

my existing programs, and would require an 

upgraded power supply. I would appreciate any 

help given in simple terms. 

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As you seem to have the money to spend on 

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and 8T2), I would advise you to go for one of 

the larger and more expensive A500 RAM 

upgrades. The ICD AdRam board fits in the 

Now click on OK, then on SAVE when the next 

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Xasperated music lover 

I am a keen music enthusiast who tries desperately 

hard to write music using my A500 (with v1.2 

ROM), MusicV 1_1, and MIDI synth. To add to my 

problems, I have found that strange things happen 

when playing back samples through MusicX 

and PD player programs. 

The samples seem to play at the correct pitch 

most of the time, but every now and then MuskX 

plays a sample at what seems to be a random 

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As you can guess this makes them virtually 

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although I can't recall having the same problem 

with Sonix. 

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The samples are playing at a funny pitch 

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What you need to do is change the sample 

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and A500 and can be expanded can be expanded t o to 8Mb. I 

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Your power supply will be put under an 

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nique required is transposition. Your problem 

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t Sequencer One is the latest 

release ' from Gadjits Music Software, 

the s company gradually beginning to 

dominate b the field of Amiga music 

processing. e They've done it by keeping 

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the art. Gadgits have taken a refreshing 

look at the needs of the average 

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product with their requirements taking 

priority. 

As a result Sequencer One is not 

an all singing and dancing mega 

musk utility. It is however a dedicated 

sequencer which does exactly 

that and with the minimum of fuss. 

MusicX, the market leader, tries to 

be everything to everybody and as a 

result tends to fall a little short in cer- 

tain areas such as the Library and 

Protocol pages, both of which are 

great in principal but difficult in 

practice. 

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prospects of imminent upgrades will 

no doubt make Sequencer One seem 

slightly less appealing, but don't 

despair - the chaps at Gadjits have 

seen the potential problems and 

promise upgrades to registered users 

at very reasonable rates. 

What's on offer 

The software consists of three 

screens, each giving you an individual 

view of your creation. The track list 

is the first of the three and has a 

maximum of 32 tracks available for 

either playback or storage. 

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remaining tracks are very handy for 

storing alternative tracks and those 

slightly dodgy bits you're not quite 

ready to throw away. 

Switching between individual 

tracks is simply a matter of clicking 

the mute icon on or off. Selecting 

channels for recording is just as simple 

- just click on the track and the 

red record icon appears. 

From then on the channel's selected. 

Pick a voice and hit the record 

button and you're off. This makes life 

easy for the beginner and blisteringly 

fast for the experL If you're a reasonable 

pianist you can create a multi 

timbral sequence in minutes and all 

recorded at 192 PPON. 

Recording can be done in both 

standard and overdub formats and 

with optional auto rewind. Any mistakes 

are easily rectified with the 

undo last edit feature, which is great 

if, like me, you need ten attempts at 

even the simplest sequence. Each 

track can be separately marked for 

easy editing and drum machine style 

loops can be applied, saving a lot of 

time and tricky editing. 

Perhaps my favourite aspect of 

the Track list is its potential on 

mixdown_ When you've created 

the next Aggadoo Euro pop 

hokee cokee classic it still 

needs to be mixed and 

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excellent for adding 

the important finishing 

touches to the sound. 

Once a track is highlighted with 

the record icon the volume of an 

individual track can be altered with 

the data volume control on your 

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The second screen is the Step 

Editor and as the name suggests this 

is where you can take advantage of 

the power that a decent sequencer 

can provide, removing notes you 

don't want and adding the really 

clever run that you could never manage 

live. It's this editing ability that 

makes the Keep Music Live lobby 

physically sick, but it also makes creating 

music accessible to almost anyone. 

The editing screen takes the now 

familiar piano roll format. The zoom 

feature varies between full or quarter 

bar magnification which I found 

slightly limiting on occasion. For 

example, when editing drum patterns 

it's sometimes a little tricky to 

alter individual notes at the first 

attempt. 

The info option is particularly 

pleasant and allows you to click on 

any note and receive all the information 

concerning its pitch, duration 

and so on. These various elements 

can then be altered by simply typing 

in a new number for each characteristic. 

The delete icon has an obvious 

function and allows the individual 

deletion of notes. If you want to 

remove larger sections of a track 

you'll probably need to use the block 

option which lets you manipulate 

by simply clicking and dragging with 

the trusty rodent. Most operations 

involve the rodent with the occasion. 

al bit of typing as you add various 

start and stop positions_ 

It's also possible to use step entry 

via the KeyB icon, this brings up a 

miniature keyboard which displays 

If you want 

quality results 

quickly and 

simply you could 

do a lot worse 

various notes as they're depressed. 

The characteristics for these notes 

can be altered as required. 

This is a particularly useful option 

if you're not an ivory tickler by trade 

as it gives you the option to work at 

your own pace. The only problem 

with this method is its tendency to 

lead to rather mechanical end 

results. 

In general editing is reasonably 

simple with the block options being 

a particularly pleasant element. 

When this is combined with the 

overdub function and the tape deck 

controls, editing becomes a little 

more of a pleasure and a little less of 

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Range of options 

To be hones • Bar Editor is a use- 

- ful screen fo _ one, giving a great 

overview of the entire piece and 

showing you exactly what's going on 

where. Again editing is a simple matter 

of clicki - dragging, deleting 

and pasting, can always record 

from here as can from any of the 

three screens with the ever present 

tape recorder controls_ 

As well as the record and play 

controls there's a whole range ot 

options waiting on the menu bar in 

familiar, intuition-style pull-downs. 

All kinds of requesters and off/on 

options are available, some of which 

you can no doubt see from the complicated 

screen shot. 

It's these pull downs which give 

the software the necessary complexity 

to compete with the likes of 

MusicX. It's possible to access and 

alter all kinds of sequence information 

varying from Midi import and 

export control, to block functions 

and the option to work with either (0 

Ex 1) Midi formats. This gives a high 

level of compatibility with many 

other Midi packages. 

The Hit Kit 

For a limited period, Gadiits Hit Kit 

software is being bundled with every 

Sequencer One sold. It usually retails 

at £25 a time but for now it's free. 

The Hit kit is basically a collection of 

various sequences divided up into 

numerous styles with a number of 

options for each. For example, you 

could load a drum pattern from the 

Jazz section followed by a separate 

bass line, middle, lead and so on. 

These are all available in single bars 

but can be pasted in any number 

and combination. 

As a result you can build cornpletely 

new if less than original songs 

by mixing the various component 

parts. I've got to admit it's great fun 

sticking all the bits together, but to 

be honest the end results are a bit 

predictable, not to mention slightly 

silly. 

Having said that though the number 

and quality of the drum patterns 

make the Hit Kit a godsend for even 

the most serious musos. The patterns 

alone make the Hit Kit well worth 

having and the various riffs in the 

many and varied styles can only help 

beginners learn a few tricks of the 

trade. 

As I mentioned earlier Sequencer 

One is ideal For the beginner and to 

cater for that market the Amiga's 

internal voices have been well supported 

within the software. Even a 

separate sample palette has been 

added to make life a little easier_ 

Final thoughts 

II you're new to Midi but not necessarily 

music, Sequencer One could 

well be ideal, featuring a good combination 

of ability and ease of use. To 

support such a sweeping statement I 

can only quote my own experience 

which consisted of creating a complete 

piece in a day without a glance 

at the short and sweet manual. 

This alone should be praise 

enough for any software dealing 

with an area as complex as Midi. I 

doubt I could have done the same 

with MusicX and it I'd dropped the 

manual while trying I would probably 

have been in plaster for a month. 

Sequencer One does not have 

some of the subtleties and skills of 

MusicX but if you want quality 

results quickly and simply you could 

do a lot worse than investing in 

Gadilts latest gadget. 

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machine to own for all things 

T desktop video, but there's no 

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expensive A affair. 

m Even at the most basic level, you'll 

need i at least two video devices - one 

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the e Genlock. These can set you back 

anything up to E2,000, but a fairly 

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For the really skint amongst you, 

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about the only real option. There's 

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features are nothing worth writing 

home about. Picture quality is poor 

and there are no options for such 

things as fading and dissolving 

between video sources. 

There's very good news, though. 

Silka Systems have announced that 

they intend to take on distribution of 

a meaty little genlock from the States 

called RocGen. 

This little unit boasts many of the 

more sophisticated features that 

you'd expect from a genlock costing 

L500+, but all this power can be 

yours for just fl 1 7! 

For your money, you get a 

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Amiga graphics onto any composite 

video source and then record 

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tape. 

You can feed it a source video signal 

from just about any video device 

that can output a composite signal, 

including video cameras, VCRs, cam 

-corders and laser disk players. 

It can be powered either by the 

Amiga itself or via an external power 

supply for those of you who already 

have a large number of add-ons connected 

to your A500. 

Unlike roost genlocks, the RocGen 

features AutoVideo passthru which 

allows the signal from the Amiga or 

external video source to pass 

through the RocGen to the monitor 

or VCR even if either the Amiga or 

external video source is powered 

down. 

But what really lifts the RocGen 

above 'budget' genlocks such as 

MiniGen is its powerful fading and 

overlaying effects. Using a tuning 

knob on the front of the genlock 

hardware, you can adjust the degree 

of both the fade and overlay. 

Fade mode allows you to adjust 

the screen so that it fades from solely 

a computer graphic display to solely 

a video image. In overlay mode, the 

video image is pernamently 

displayed, but you can 'fade in' (and 

out) the Amiga graphics. 

These effects alone will allow you 

to produce much more professional 

:looking presentations. 

This feature alone makes the 

RocGen one hell of a bargain. Very 

few genlocks below the £500 mark 

offer fade and overlay controls, especially 

through a hardware control 

knob. 

The RocGen is available now from 

Silica Systems on 081 309 1111. 

Expect a full review next month. 

Geolock for pros 

At the other end of the pricing spectrum 

comes Magni Systems' new 

Model 4005 PAL genlock for the 

qu(Tln 65jI 

Honor Available) l1dt 

8136496 

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Colour fo n ts can eohance yo u r vid e o presentation considerably. 

Amiga that will set you back a 

L2000• fully compatible with the 

Amiga A3000, it boasts full bmaucast 

quality encoding. 

It also offers comprehensive fades, 

wipes, chroma keys and ovedays, all 

of which are controlled via a sepapte 

remote control. 

As you'd expect from a genloctt at 

this kind of price, the 4005 offerskull 

S-VHS compatibility via Y/C connectors 

and it is fully compatible with all 

Amiga screen modes. For more, contact 

Magni on 0101 800 624 6465. 

Tools for video ! 

Eschalon Developments have just 

announced the release of their new 

Video Toots system, which they claim 

offers 'everything you need for video 

production'. 

For your BOO (it ain't cheap!), 

you get a tool for creating subtitles 

and credits, a telepromter, an image 

presenter (a slideshow to you and 

me), a video pattern generator, 

colour bar and safe-area generators, 

text scroller, nine DPaint 

3-compatible colour fonts 

and even a complete multimedia 

presentation system 

called Ascension. 

Ascension is an 

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gram that employs 

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en operation - 1 

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159( 98> 

purists among you) a powerful 

scripting language. If this sounds like 

the kind of thing you've been looking 

for, then contact Eschalon on 

0101 604 520 1543. 

Fonts galore 

If you need some new colour fonts, 

then there are plenty of new releases 

on the horizon. By far the most common 

source of these fonts is America, 

where such companies as Zuma and 

Kara have been producing both 

mono and colour fonts for several 

years now. 

A new company on the scene is 

Miami-based CV Designs. They've 

just launched a new three-disk set of 

colour fonts in a number of different 

point sizes upto 85 point. 

They're completely compatible 

with packages such as TV*Text Pro, 

DPaint 3 and Calligrapher, making 

them ideal for people who 

wish to produce stunning textbased 

displays without having 

to put in too much effort. 

Each disk costs approx 

E15. CV are on 0101 617 

391 9224. 

Closer to home 

comes the news that 

Checkmate Digital 

Ltd (they of the 

A1500 expansion 

console for 

the A500) 

have taken 

on distribution of the Olo range of 

colour fonts from Swedish company 

Artovinjett. 

As soon as they are made available, 

you can expect a full review in 

this column. Stay tuned until then, 

but in the meantime, you can find 

out more by contacting Checkmate 

on 071 923 0658. 

Next month 

As well as the review of Silica's 

new RocGen genlock, I'll be 

bringing you a comprehensive 

look at what the PD littrades have 

to offer the Amiga desktop video 

enthusiast, including video titters, 

presentation systems and 

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primitive to create a graphics 

display using Assembler 

cussed the video display in 

L great detai, so I will skip 

some a of the preamble and concentrate 

s on creating a Graphics 

Primitives t display using Assembler. 

m 

o 

nGraphic 

description 

The t colour of each pixel is related to 

the h value of one or more data bits in 

memory. ' To create multicoloured 

images, s the system must be told 

how C many bits are required per 

pixel, o 

d In my first Viewport (blue), I have 

used e 8 colours and 3 bitplanes, and 

the C system retrieves one data bit 

from l each bitplane. 

i For each pixel data bits in the 

same n horizontal and vertical position 

are i combined by the system to create 

c 

a binary value. 

d This determines the display color 

for 

i 

that pixel. The system uses a 

bitmap structure which contains the 

s 

height, width, depth and location of 

- 

the bitplanes. 

My view 

The display is created from a set of 

instructions in the view structure., 

This structure is initialised using the 

command InitView, and linked to the 

first viewport. 

Each viewport is initalised with 

default values, and its own para - 

meters are added later:- 

lea sysiempal 

jsr _LSOInttlies(a6) 

tea •yvies,a5 

sove.1 ivtibLve,d0 

•ove.t dO,v_ViesPort(a5) 

Each Viewport needs a Rasinto 

structure containing a pointer to the 

bilmap with the bitplane information. 

If the viewport has 

dual playfields, the first Rasinfo contains 

a pointer to the next Rasinfo, 

which has a pointer to the second 

bitmap. 

The picture in memory can be 

larger than the screen image, by creating 

a bitmap larger than the viewport 

area. 

The Rasinfo structure has the off- 

sets for the relative position of the 

display to the complete picture. 

In this example the bitplanes are 

the same size as the viewports, and 

the offsets are zero. 

Lea 

jsr 

Lea 

save. I 

love. 

tea 

'or 

Lee 

MOVCW 

MOYCM 

NOMN 

MOVO,N 

move.I 

sove.1 

sove.t 

Highly coloured 

Left to itself the system will use 

default colours, There is a command 

GetColorMap which will allocate 

space for a colourmap and return a 

pointer to it. 

sove.1 

jsr 

soves.1 

sove.1 

soves.t 

•ystes,a1 

_LVOInttilies(ae) 

syvits,s5 

tv9li(ue,d0 

40,v_ViewPort(115) 

vpbtue,a0 

_LV0Intt1Porttair) 

vpbtse,a5 

1320,vp_111110(0) 

vpilleight(a5) 

00,vp_Oy0ffset(e5) 

00,vp_Ds0ffset(a5) 

Ovpredandgrey,vejettra5i 

Ortillue,d0 

dD,vp_Resinfo(a5) 

/32,d0 

_LWOGettotorMapta6) 

dO,cotoursap 

dO,a5 

cs_CoLorTableta5),di 

11,coLourtable 

The colourmap has a pointer to 

the colourmap's colourtable, and the 

desired colours can be copied into 

this data structure. • 

•ove.1 131,d0 

tea coLours,15 

sove.t cotourtabie,a4 

Colour Loop: 

move.m (85)*,(aSiv 

cotours: 

116.6 10,100Y,100e,S0Dc 

de.s 100a,1001,1006,1004 

de.m 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0 

deor 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0 

de.s 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0 

All 

Each bit 

InitBitMa 

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12,15 

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320,40 

146,41 

_LVOStiositasterrad) 

dO 

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40,raUt 

45,bluerester 

F cker free 

Now that all the data structures ire 

complete, the command Makelort 

asks the system to make a set 

play instructionsinstructions (or copper list) from 

the structures in the Viewport. 

This has to be done for ea c h 

ViewPort. The command MrgCop 

merges these copper lists into a single 

instruction list. 

loadView turns on direct memory 

access (DMA) and the display will be 

shown on the screen. Any flicker can 

be reduced by waiting for the beam 

to reach the top of the frame, 

resakedispLey: 

tea •yvies,a0 

tea vebtut,a1 

jsr _LVOMakePort(s6) 

Lea •ysies,a0 

Lea vprettandgrev,a1 

ily 

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loed 

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tea 

jor 

tea 

j sr 

j sr 

I ea 

sr 

rti 

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systes,a0 

vpgreen,a1 

_LVONakerPort(a6) 

•yviesoll 

_LVONr9Copta6) 

I./Mit-4146) 

syvies,11 

_LVOL04611440461 

Each area can have its own set of 

drawing instructions, or 

RastPort structure, 

InitRastPort puts in default 

values. When the RastPort 

has been linked to its bitmap it is 

possible to use the Graphics Library 

drawing commands, 

Getting the picture 

The listed program first saves the 

address of the old view using the 

gb_ActNiew offset from the graphicsbase, 

The view is initalised and 

three viewports. 

The first viewport is 48 lines high 

with 8 blue colours and three bitplanes. 

The second viewport is 100 

lines high with dual red and grey 

playlields. The third viewport is 48 

lines high with 32 green colours and 

bitplanes. 

The drawing routines have been 

used to produce a series of rectangles 

on the screen. In the second 

viewport the grey playfield is dominant 

except for transparant areas of 

colour zero. 

There is a short delay before the 

first 8 colours of each viewport are 

cycled, and another delay before the 

program releases the allocated mern• 

ory, replaces the old view and exits. 

Amiga Computing 131

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There's mounting alarm about the appalling standards of spelling 

among Britain's schoolchildren. MPs, teachers, parents and 

employers are all stressing the vital importonce of being able to 

spell correctly. 

Yet most homes have what could be the ideal means of teaching 

spelling - the computer. 

Instead of zapping aliens it could be turned into the best weapon 

of all to deal a body blow to bad spelling. With the help of a 

brilliant new software package that not only makes practising 

spelling painless but also loads of fun as well. 

40 

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FIVE ways to improve your spellin • 

In a Flash: Read the word as it Hashes on the screen, then type it in. 

For practice runs, the word is left on the screen as it is 

Rocket: Hidden words have to be discovered in this hi-tech version of 

the old fcrvourite Hangman. If they are guessed correctly the rocket will 

blast-off. Fail and all that's left is a load of scrap. 

Lunar Buggy: Type kis, for fun. The aim is to key in the word as it's 

pulled across the screen by the buggy. It has to be completed before the 

letters drop down a crater 

All Mixed Up: Jumbled letters have to be sorted out to find the 

scrambled word. To help beginners - and anyone else who is stuck - 

clues can be obtained at the press of a key. 

Conveyor Belt: Words pass by on the 

screen and have to be remembered Then 

they must be t>ped in spelt correctly. 

This is a challenging test of both spelling 

and memory. 

All the programs have several 

options for extra flexibility - like 

a timer with on/off option to 

add that extra challenge. 

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Midi communications. TFMX can 

now be operated via Midi-compatible 

devices such as synthesisers, 

mother keyboards etc. 

Obviously the most immediate 

use is for the input of performance 

data by playing it directly on your 

Midi keyboard, but UNIX also features 

powerful Midi synchronisation 

options. These allow TEMX to tranform 

the Amiga into a dedicated 4channel 

Midi sound module. 

Editing was particularly poor within 

IFMX 1, especially if you were 

used to the more traditional method 

of music composition. Thankfully, 

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TFMX is now a complete one-stop 

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that it Is now enjoying. According 

to a source close to Music-X programmer 

Dave, he has ceased 

development of Music-X in favour 

of products for Commodore's 

forthcoming CD-based Amiga, the 

CDTV. Despite considerable interest 

from users, It seems that 

Music-X version 2 may now never 

see the light of day. 

The new release promised to 

add many of the features that 

MusicX users have been crying out 

for - full score editing, drum editing, 

plus a whole lot more. Unless 

a third party developer decides to 

fill the gap left by David's decision, 

It looks as if MusicX users will be 

left high and dry. 

ing to first load a dedicated ple 

editor_ 

If you've got a sampler connected 

to the parallel port of your Amiga, 

you can even grab samples from 

directly within IFMX and then clean 

them up using its comprehensive 

sample editing tools. 

Med goes pro 

Hot on IFMX 2's heels is a brand 

new release of Teilo Kinnunen's 

acclaimed PD music editor, Med. 

After putting the finishing touches to 

Med version 3 (it's on the 

coverdisk!), Teijo is now beavering 

away on a new release which is not 

only more professional than previous 

ones, but has one major feature that 

leaves most of the competifion 

standing - it is 8-channel. 

OctaMed is fully compatible with 

previous releases, but Teijo has 

pushed the Amiga's sound hardware 

to its very limits to allow a maximum 

of eight different sounds to be 

played simultaneously. Although not 

an original idea (Oktalyser has been 

doing it for months now), OctaMed 

sacrifices nothing in the sound quality 

department. 

Editing has also been tidied up 

substantially. OctaMed will include a 

powerful MusicX-like bar editor 

which employs a sort of 'semi-stave' 

approach to allow you to view your 

musical creation in a more familiar 

format than the usual vertical row of 

numbers. 

Teijo had intended to sell 

OctaMed as a commercial product 

for about £50 to £75, but in a fit of 

generosity this price has been 

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slashed to just f10. Teijo hopes that 

by selling OctaMed at such a low 

price, many more Amiga users will 

be able to afford what will undoubt- 

edly be a major Amiga music release. 

For more info, contact AmigaNuts 

United on 0703 785680. 

More Music-X 

The news isn't all bad for MusicX 

owners, however Microlliusions have 

revealed that a number of new addon 

modules will soon be released. 

Although they are far from being 

major, they further extend the editing 

power of Music-X. Here's what is 

on offer :- 

DEFLAM - Nobody can record a 

complex keyboard part into Music-X 

without a few mistakes creeping in. 

Quantization can correct all the timing 

errors, but what about all those 

little extra notes that seem to appear 

whilst your hands zip around the 

keyboard? You need Deflam. Deflam 

will automatically remove any notes 

shorter than a specified length. 

SCATTER - Sequenced music has 

always been critisised for being too 

'rigid' and perhaps even too 'perfect', 

but you can now inject feel 

(timing errors!) into your music to 

make it sound more human. Scatter 

achieves this by adjusting the parameters 

of a selection of randomly chosen 

notes. 

PRINTEVENT - You don't need a 

brain the size of a planet to guess 

what this does! Put simply, 

PrintEvent er,... prints events. It 

allows you to get a hard copy of the 

sequence data displayed within the 

Music-X Event Editor 

Books for 

musicians 

Prolific author RA Penfoid has 

released a new book that may 

be of interest to Amiga musicians. 

Published by PC 

Publishing, the new book is 

called Advanced Midi Users 

Guide, the follow up to 

Penfold's previous Midi book, 

the Practical Midi Handbook. PC 

Publishing can be contacted on 

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What's more, Quartet is MIDI compatible. so you can 

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Is getting online getting to your 

finances? Eddie McKendrick helps 

calm your bank manager down 

ever else Comms may be, It is 

I not one of the cheapest hobbies 

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c Countless people catch the 

comrns a bug, only to spend more 

cash n than they can afford. Huge bills 

mean n huge hassle, taking the fun out 

of ogetting 

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when b trying to keep costs down; distance 

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It is possible to become even 

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lust as messages and files find 

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With comms perhaps more than any 

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The less time your modern is hooked 

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You can stop the online timer getting 

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If you regularly download files it 

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If waxing lyrical at length is more 

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AMOS Compiler has finally 

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h On my B2000 it compiles the 

average e program (about 60k of 

source w code) in eight seconds! A full 

review . will appear soon. 

. Also in the final stages of completion 

. is the long-awaited AMOS 3D, 

which W should be available within 

days h of reading this (well, maybe a 

couple a of weeks). 

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Mandarin have changed AMOS for 

the German and American versions. 

Instead of being released with the 

Castle AMOS adventure game's the 

package will now contain a simple 

card file program called Dataflex 

(which by the way was written by 

me!). 

AMOS handles animation very 

well, and the theory behind creating 

and moving smooth cartoon-like 

objects in AMAL is very simple (we 

covered this in an earlier AMOS column). 

Of course there are limits to the 

power of AMAL and you really cannot 

have more than about 16 large 

objects animating without things 

slowing down. 

Have you ever wondered how to 

get hundreds of objects on a screen 

without incurring the speed penalties 

that you might expect from any of 

the usual animation methods? 

The answer is simple - page flipping. 

This is a technique where you 

draw objects on different screens 

and then jump between each screen 

to create the illusion of movement or 

animation. It's a bit like drawing little 

matchstick men in the corner of a 

book, each one in a different position, 

and then flicking through the 

pages to create your own little 

movie. 

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then go back to the editor, 

First we hide the mouse, and set 

up two variables. SPNLIM is the 

number of the BOB we will draw 

onto the screen and MXSCREEN is 

the number of screens (+1) we will 

use to do our page flipping. 

Close Editor 

Close Workbench 

Hide On 

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SPNUM.1 

Next we must open up all of the 

screens that we will use in the demo_ 

Half meg owners should just about 

have enough memory to open seven 

screens if they don't have an external 

drive (if you do switch it off!). 

For 1.0 To RESCREEN 

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Flash Off 

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Now comes the interesting bit - we 

first draw a man, flip the screen, 

draw another man (in a slightly different 

position), flip the screen etc. 

We change the BOB we will use by 

incrementing the variable SPNUM. 

When the Amiga bleeps just press 

a key and you will see the next piece 

of animation drawn.. 

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Screen SCR 

Paste Bob 120,70,SPRUR 

Add SPN001,1,1 To 

Bell 

Wait key 

Rut Y 

Now we should have seven screens 

Corning soon 

AM OS 1 0 

in memory, each with the pi o f 

a running man in a slightly d n t 

position. We must animate se 

screens by flipping cons l y 

through the screens. In the p 

below I have chosen to wait for five 

VBls (I explained VI3Ls in an earlier 

article!) before we swap to the next 

screen. If you want to speed up the 

animation just change the WAIT 5 

line to WAIT 3 (or an even lower 

number for ultra speed!). 

For LOP.I To 500 

Screen Nide SCR 

Add SCR,1,0 To RESCREEN 

Screen Show SCR : Screen SCR 

Wait 5 

Nest LOP 

White Screen0-1 

Screen Close Screen 

Wend 

1 

When writing a program which 

calls another AMOS program (a bit 

like the Fun School 3 menu does) 

you sometimes need to close all of 

the screens currently opened. 

Unfortunately you do not always 

know what screens have been 

opened by a previous program, so to 

close every screen just use the following 

lines of code 

If no screens are opened then the 

function SCREEN will always return 

the value -1, otherwise it will return 

the number of the currently chosen 

screen. Simple huh? 

Ok, that example was interesting 

but let's face it, one man running 

about and taking up seven screens in 

• memory is hardly impressive is it? So 

how about a few more, 32 more in 

fact? 

The next program follows the format 

of the previous one except that 

in the middle you will notice that it 

draws a lot more men on each 

screen! 

Hide On 

NESCREER76 

SPNUR.1 

1 Open screens 

For 1.0 To RESCREEN 

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Flash Off 

Curs Ofi 

Cis 0 

Autoback 0 

Get Sprite Palette 

Screen Hide 1 

Nest 

Generate screens 

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Screen Ride SCR 

Add 511,1,0 To MRSCREEN 

Screen Show SCR 

Screen To Front SCR 

Screen SCR 

For LOP1.0 To 160 Step 70 

For LOP.0 To 250 Step 25 

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Next LOP 

Nest LOP1 

Bell 

Wait Key 

Add SPNOR,10 To 7 

Newt T 

• to swaps 

For LOW To 500 

Screen Ride SCR 

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Screen Shom SCR : Screen SCR 

Wait 5 

Next LOP 

' Close scre e ns 

While Screen0-1 

Screen Close Screen 

Wend 

Nifty or what? We've run out of 

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Margaret Stanger 

uses her Intuition and 

goes for a scroll.. 

cribed how to create a 

M screen display using rou- 

y tines from the graphics library. A 

view p and several viewports were 

defined, r and some simple drawing 

edone 

in each one. 

v Each Intuition screen also has a 

iviewport. 

Once the viewport address 

ois 

known the primitive graphic rou- 

utines 

can be used on a screen and its 

s windows. 

a Each viewpon has a Rasinto ARK. 

r ture containing a pointer to the 

t bitznap with the bitplane infor- 

i 

mation. If the viewport 

c has dual playfields, the 

l 

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e pointer to the next 

d 

Rasinfo, which has a 

e pointer to the second bitmap. 

s The picture in memory can 

- 

be larger than the screen 

image, by creating a bitmap larger 

than the viewport area. The Rasinfo 

structure has the offsets for the rela- 

tive position of the display to the 

complete picture. 

It is possible to link an Intuition 

custom screen to a custom bitmap 

when opening the screen. In this 

example the bitplanes (640 x 400) 

are larger than the viewport (320 x 

200), and the offsets are zero to start 

with. 

if the x and y offsets are changed, 

the viewport ( or the window) displays 

a different part of the bitplane. 

A very smooth scroll can be produced 

by increasing or decreasing 

these offsets up to four pixels at a 

time, and updating the display 

instructions. 

It the offset is i, and the Rasrinfo 

structure rired 

scrolle(i) 

Long I; 

eired-etedffsetel; 

Pupdate the t Rallnfn offset 

tesakeeisplay0; 

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changed the display needs to be 

updated using the commands 

MakeVPort, MrgCop and LoadView. 

The command MakeVPort asks the 

system to make a set of display 

instructions (or copper list) from 

the structures in the viewport. 

The command MrgCop merges 

these copper lists into a 

single instruction list. 

LoadView turns on 

direct memory access 

(DMA) and the display 

will be shown on the 

screen. Any flicker can be reduced 

by waiting for the beam to reach 

the top of the frame. 

When using windows and 

screens, the Intuition Library has a 

very convenient RemakeDisplay that 

updates the display in just one command. 

The program produces the display 

by opening a SUPER_BITMAP windowon 

a screen with its CUSTOM- 

SCREEN and CUSTOMBITMAP flags 

set.lt could have been written as in 

last month's CODE CLINIC using 

graphics primitives only, without the 

Intuition Screen. 

strut NewScreen TeekeeScree) 

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are linked to the bitmap (BMred) 

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for(1:11)(41)-100/ scroiieli); 

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screen. 

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redrestpar saindow-siPart; 

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l 

closes the window l and screen, frees 

for(i4;it e ) 

the bitplanes and l exits. 

/*draw $ Vertical Mimi!' The program i uses graphics library 

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routines, and falso 

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Al 0 TANK KILLER 

The design of a page is a ll-importa nt And, no, we don t copy our design tra m somewhere elsel 

typeset the words, write 

H the headlines, choose 

the o typefaces and illustrations, the 

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is vnot 

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of ethese. 

r The easiest way to design a good 

looking c publication is to find something 

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copy it (a technique not 

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l 

its qualities. It does need to be 

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y 

plumbers in the style of Vogue, or a 

y 

job application in the style of Viz. 

o 

The best way is to grasp the fundamental 

u 

principle that underlies 

most modern professional designs. 

The basic concept is that of a grid. 

Once that is mastered (and it 

shouldn't take more than a couple of 

lifetimes), you can approach any DIP 

job with confidence. 

As its name suggests, a grid is 

nothing more than a division into 

measured units of your page. The 

vertical units are set by the margins, 

the columns that will contain your 

body text (that is, the main text of 

your publication excluding headlines) 

and the spaces between the 

tt 

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columns, These are measurements 

set automatically by DTP programs 

from a requester box, which simply 

require you to enter the size of the 

margins and the number and width 

of the columns, when they will be 

shown on-screen. 

Horizontal units will not be shown 

automatically. But DIP programs do 

include an option for a grid to be 

drawn on the page, which can be set 

at whatever measurements you 

need. 

I use a grid of an inch square (or 

its equivilent in centimetres or picas, 

the other normal units of measurement). 

A grid provides a structure on 

which you can build your design. 

The first decision to make is the 

number of columns to a page. Once 

that is set, the other elements - 

headlines and illustrations - slot into 

the overall design. 

Cartoon capers 

A page within which text is set in 

three columns automatically provides 

you with a choice of running your 

graphics or headlines over one, two 

or three columns, depending on the 

prominence you wish to give them. 

The grid structure enables flexibility. 

For example, in a three-column grid, 

you could also run an illustration 

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half-column. 

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dynamic quality by having typographic 

or graphic elements breaking 

out of their space and occupying 

part of a neighbouring column. 

Comics (or graphic novels, if you 

want to be fancy), which adhere to 

the grid approach more stnctly than 

most publications, use a similar technique 

by having figures stepping out 

of their frames to suggest moverhent 

or violent action. 

But it is as well to master the more 

formal approach before breaking the 

conventions. The body copy or text 

provides the rigid structure of the 

design since it is normally placed on 

the page within columns of an equal 

size, 

The text columns provide an overall 

and basically unchanging shape. 

Variety is provided within the 

columns by using type in different 

sizes, styles and more than one type- 

Our guest columnist John 

Walker edits the Amiga area on 

Micronet. This article is part of a 

series on DTP which can be 

accessed by keying •AMIGAP 

online. 

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face, The density of the columns of 

type is lightened by the addition of 

suL -headings, which remain within 

the column setting. 

Vision in Blue 

Designers have usually worked up 

their layouts on special pages printed 

with grids in blue, which will not 

show up when the finished layout is 

photographed. You can follow the 

tradition by printing blank pages 

marked with a grid and designing 

your layouts on them, but it is quicker 

to do it on-screen with DIP pro. 

grams. 

You can specify the columns you 

want, import text, which at this 

stage can consist of anything (I keep 

a file of 1.000 words in Latin for this 

purpose) and have tinted boxes to 

represent the graphics. Using 50% 

magnification in Professional Page 

and PageSetter or the Show Full 

Page option in Pagestream will 

enable you to see the whole page 

on-green, 

With PageStrearn, I usually work 

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that basic unit of design of a book or 

newsletter or similar publication is a 

spread of two pages, which need to 

balance one another. It's a source of 

irritation that neither of Gold Disk's 

DIP programs yet provide this facility. 

You can alter on screen the 

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headlines far more easily than you 

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Both Professional Page and 

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displayed page where you can store 

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while you move things around. In 

PageStream you can keep clip art 

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window. 

Obviously there's no room here to 

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firm structure and disciplined 

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I am writing in reply to the letter headed 

'Commodore Speccy' in the letter pages of issue 

35 of Amiga Comuting. 

The Spectrum Emulator is available from our 

PD Library at a cost of LI for the disk plus f 1 P&P. 

The emulator has a range of features including 

the facility to load games from tape via a sound 

digitiser, which means that your old Spectrum 

games can be transferred to the emulator without 

trouble! 

A complete listing of our offline PD library can 

be downloaded from our bulletin board on 0293- 

884117 (300 - 2400bd) or by post from Runway 

A500 (PD Sales), The Hope, Vicarage Road, 

Crawley Down, Sussex RH10 4II. 

I hope this information is of help to readers 

inquiring about the emulator. 

Steve Sheldon, Sysop Manager, Runway A500, 

Crawley Down, Sussex. 

How's this for starters? 

Judging by some of the recent letters and comments, 

a few of your readers want to know how 

to start in assembly language programming. 

I've wasted quite a few quid on over-technical, 

assume-you-know-the-basics type books, and 

have finally found a good, entry level 68k programming 

book - 68000, 68010, 68020 Primer, 

by Kelly-Bootle and Fowler, published by Sams, 

ISBN 0-672-22405-4 (120). 

Although not specifically for the Amiga, it is an 

excellent book for beginners. 

Keep up the good work on a truly excellent 

magazine and, no, I don't have an interest in the 

book company! 

Michael Ferrier, Louth, Lincs. 

I want to be transformed 

Do any of your readers know of anyone who still 

sells 'The Transformer' PC emulator? I know it is 

slow and is text-based, but most of my PC programs 

are text-based anyway. Can you help? 

I F Jones, Fordingbridge, Hants, 

Is there anybody out there who can advise? 

Call us or write to us, and we'll be happy to 

pass on any glad tidings. 

The creative urge 

I would like to buy AMOS The Creator. However, 

my brothers tell me it is almost impossible to 

learn and start to wave their hands about to indicate 

the size of the manual, 

Personally I reckon I could cope with the 300 

page manual, the only problem being the time I 

would have to spend going through it. 

Are they right in saying it is extremely hard to 

get to grips with, or are they just being sexist? Do 

you know of any demos of AMOS I can get hold 

of to try it Out before I buy it? 

Kate Hall, Wisbech, Cambs, 

Buy it and prove them wrong, Kate There is 

some work involved, as with all applications 

which fall into the more serious category, but 

if you're keen enough to succeed, you'll win 

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Grovelling pays off 

Congratulations on the best Amiga magazine by 

far: the others are only worth a casual flick 

through in the local newsagents. Amiga 

Computing is the only one worth buying. 

I have only had my Amiga 500 for a short 

while but I am already very interested in DIP 

applications. I am contemplating buying 

Pagesetter II, but would like to know more about 

it before I spend my hard-earned money. 

In the March issue I noticed a about in the 

'International Rescue section about an article 

reviewing this program in April 1990. 

Unfortunately I also noticed an item in the same 

issue saying back issues are not available. 

Surely someone at Amiga Computing must 

have a pile of back issues in their personal stock 

because I can't believe such important contribution 

S to Amiga literature would be thrown away, 

certainly not by such intelligent people! (is that 

enough grovelling?). 

Please, please, PLEASE could someone send me 

a photocopy of this article? I know it will be an 

objective and thorough review, and I promise I 

will buy every issue in future. 

Simon Snewin, Stoke-on-Trent 

Back issue availability is unfortunately restricted 

to the last six issues at any one time, and it 

would be an administrative nightmare for us 

to start a general photocopying service. 

However, Simon, because you've grovelled so 

well, and so long as you keep your side of the 

bargain, you will be receiving a copy of our 

objective appraisal of Pagesetter II in the post 

any day now! 

Incidentally, those back issues for the past 

six months should be ordered from Database 

Direct, FREEPOST, Ellesmere Port, South Wirral, 

165 3EB. Back issues include the cover disk and 

the cost is £3.10. Postage is, of course, free if 

you re in the UK. See our Reader Offers near 

the back of this issue for full details. 

The best solution is to place a regular order 

or become a subscriber, then there's no chance 

of missing anything! 

Sexism takes a bashing 

• Stevie Kennedy's artKle calling for an end to sexism 

in computing in the February issue of Amigo 

Computing obviously struck a chord with the writer 

of the following letter. 

lust to fill you in on the background, F A. Mari 

has written to another Amiga magazine, Amigo 

User intnernational, part of Maxwell Specialist 

Magazines (with which we hove no connection) 

complaining about an article plugging on apparently 

overtly sexist computerised jigsaw puzzle. 

In that letter, she says she is 'appalled that you 

evidently felt it worthwhile to celebrate this waste of 

time and intelligence on the part of the (doubless 

male) programmer, and with a picture, too," and 

adds: "It really is about time that some thought was 

Amiga Computing 143

given to the raison d'etre of computing, Would 

YOU like your son/brother/father to buy this jigsaw? 

Do you think it likely that your daughter/sister/mother 

would buy it? Would you like your 

daughter/sister/mother to have been the model for 

this jigsaw?' 

Her letter to us is as follows: 

I enclose a copy of a letter I have sent to Amiga 

User Internatiol, following your back page article 

in the February 1991 issue of Amiga Computing. 

This letter expressed my views on sexist software 

and also on wider issues, Sexism pervades 

the entire computer industry and the possible 

purchase of sexist software is the END of the line, 

rather than the beginning. 

Who sold you your machine? Who have you 

spoken to on the phone about your machine? 

Who writes the maiority of both letters and articles 

in the magazines you read? Who opened up 

your 'box', if anyone ever has? Who are the people 

YOU consider to be most computer literate? 

As you say, Stevie, until this issue is addressed 

by public debate these very serious problems will 

proliferate and girls and women will have less 

and less influence on the very fabric of the soci- 

ety of which they are a legally equal part. 

I regret that neither of my letters are on 

Amiga readable floppies but I am in fact a PC 

user! (Doesn't stop me having views, though!). 

All the best. 

A Mari, Kingsbury, London 

• Do you have a view on sexism in computing? 

If so, why not help to keep the debate 

going by dropping me a line? 

Top of the zaps? 

While browsing through the magazines on the 

shelves of my local newsagent I had an idea 

which, if adopted, could change people's views 

on computer games, 

My idea is the creation of a television pro. 

gramme, much like Top of the Pops, but to do 

with computer software. 

The programme could include features such 

as: 

• Top Ten Games - a list of top games for all formats 

• Interviews - conversations with top programmers 

and graphic artists etc. 

• Previews - in depth view of games currently 

being developed. 

• News - information like game prices and 

release dates 

I believe such a programme would be warmly 

received by the punters. However, perhaps the 

computer magazines - yourselves included - 

may see this type of television series as a threat 

to your livelihood as garnesplayers would not 

have to pay to receive up-to-the-minute computer 

game news. 

What are your views? 

S N Hardy, Sheffield 

I love your idea of a computer games TV programme. 

It would probably be best suited to 

Channel 4, which bravely caters for many different 

interests and groups. It might be an 

even better idea if it covered not only games, 


Chaos and Megadeath... 

I bought my Amiga SOO second-hand about 

three months ago, and for a while everything 

worked perfectly. I received many games with 

the computer which were all copied. When I 

loaded up one of the disks, a message 

appeared on the screen reading: °Chaos and 

Megadeth present another cool spread — 

does this bootblock offend you?? If so then call 

me (find my number and its usage will be 

stopped). 

Examining the bootblock more carefully 

with Killdavirus Ill I found the phone number 

but when I dial it I get the unobtainable tone. 

Examining some of my other disks, I found 

that one was infected with the AlDs virus and 

another with the Northstar virus. I tried contacting 

the person from whom I had bought 

my Amiga but he has moved away. 

Now, for the same reason, I can't save anything, 

or copy or initialise any disks, and thus 

can't move the viruses. 

Sometimes, after the computer has been on 

about 20 minutes, it crashes and a guru meditation 

message appears on the screen. 

Please help. 

Gregor McCarthy, Dundee. 

You are suffering because of the stupidity of 

your machine's previous owner. I'm afraid. 

Using "cracked" software has its price-. 

So what can yo do now? A good start 

would be to consign all your pirated games 

to the formatting pile. If any of your commercial 

software has been damaged run it 

through "Kilidavirus". It may salvage the 

software. It may not. Try to keep these 

infected disks away from your computer and 

it should be fine. 

but some of the other interesting applications, 

too. 

Would we see such a programme as a threat 

to our livelihood? I seriously doubt whether a 

show lasting half an hour or so could ever rival 

the range of coverage we give in Amiga 

Computing. We estimate that to cover all 

aspects of the Amiga like we do would require 

a programme lasting the best part of a day! 

And then, what about the formats covered by 

other magazines? 

School for computer fliers 

I caught Amiga-itis last November when I had 

Sublogic's Flight Simulator 2 demonstrated to me 

at a friend's home. 

A few day's tater, my friend helped me spend 

s around £600 on an A500 and accessories so that I 

could also experience the mysteries of this com- 

puter and satisfy my craving for flight simulation 

programs. 

I am fortunate that, some years ago, I held a 

licence to fly small fan-driven aircraft and also 

gliders, So it was not too difficult for me to get 

these programs airborne and back down on the 

ground in one piece. 

Some of the less flight-experienced people 

who also own Amigas and have flight sim pro- 

grams seem to get disheartened quite quickly 

after a few crashes. So my question is to programmers: 

Why has there not been an instruction 

program written to teach budding computer 

pilots to fly? 

I feel sure it could be done, with instruction 

prompts flashing on the screen, 'talking' the 

trainee around the circuit and then letting one 

'go solo when sufficient experience has been 

gained. 

Has there ever been a glider, sailplane pro- 

gram produced for the Amiga? If not, why not? 

The challenge of one's solo 'Cs' then progressing 

to bronze, silver, gold and the diamonds would 

make an interesting program. 

As with FS2, if scenery disks could be added, 

one could soar over the Alps in wave in an 

attempt to reach record altitudes. The potential 

challenge is almost endless. 

Malcolm lay, Chingford, London 

Sounds like you could become a real high flier 

in the software world, Malcolm. All you need to 

do is learn how to program! Failing that, why 

not present your ideas to some of the software 

companies? Be very businesslike and make sure 

you don't end up parting with an outline for a 

sim program for little or no reward. 

As for glider/sailplane programs for the 

Amiga, we don't know of any existing ones. 

Doesanyone else? 

No show for the Scots? 

Can anyone tell me when there will be a cornputer 

exhibition that will be open to the general 

public in Scotland? 

In Glasgow recently there has been a trade 

only computer exhibition. I am sure the computer 

hardware and software companies would find 

it to their advantage to have an exhibition that is 

suitable to everyone, similar to those held in 

Wembley in December or Hammersmith in 

January. 

Why is it that all these public exhibitions are 

only in the London area? Come on, computer 

companies - there are other areas for you to 

show your merchandise. This also applies to the 

computer press. 

I am sure the readers of Amiga Computing 

and other computer magazines will agree with 

me on the above. 

Robert Daigleish, East Kilbride. 

Yes, Robert, I'm sure they do! Especially the 

many thousands of Scottish ones. The show 

you refer to, which took place in Glasgow at 

the end of February, must obviously be the 

Scottish Computer Show. Unfortunately. this is 

the only major Scottish show we've had any 

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to print details on our news pages.

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any readers who can be bothered 

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Competitions. 

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with horror-star cum computer game celeb 

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be laughed at, then disqualified. 

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Now you NTSC it now you don't! 

Apologies to our thousands of poor ol American buddies who have been having 

problems getting our CoverDisk to co-operate. The reason is a smart little 

utility called ONLYPAL1 which is part of the disk's startup. Its sole purpose in • 

life is to reset the Amy if it chooses to boot up in NTSC mode rather than 

Britain's trusty PAL system. Being American, most USA Amigas take great 

offence to PAL and refuse to boot up in it. This means that our disk just keeps 

rebooting continuously, causing much burring and clicking and little else. 

We will be making alternative arrangements from next month onwards. 

For the moment, if you are a US reader boot with •your normal Workbench 

disk. Making the CoverDisk 'NTSC friendly' is a simple matter of editing the 

Startup-sequence file in the 5: directory and removing the reference to 

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All you techno-junkies might be interested to know what the PAL and 

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PAL represents Phase Alternate Line, the 625 line TV system used in the UK. 

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1 46 Amiga Computing 

Loopy on Lemmings 

20 Things you probably 

didn't want to know 

about Lemmings! 

1 The Oxford Handy Dictionar; 

defines a lemming as a small 

arctic rodent reputed in migration to 

rush headlong onto the sea and 

drown. 

2 The original idea for 

Lemmings was a 

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drawn by DMA programmer 

Mike Dail'''. 

3 The song Syncronicity 2 by the 

Police has a line 'Packed like 

Lemmings into shiny metal 

boxes." 

4 Ideas to include tunes such as 

Mission Impossible, A-Team, 

Scooby Doo, Addams Family etc. 

knocked on the head due to fear of copyright 

problems. 

5 When ST Programmer Brian Watson first saw a lemming exploding he laughed 

so much he fell off his chain 

6 The first cover drawings for Lemmings proved to be too alien and unfriendly 

looking, so designs were altered to the cute furry creatures in the blue jump 

suits we have come to know and love. 

7 The next word in the dictionary after Lemmings is 'Lemon'. 

8 The game will probably never be converted to the Th81. 

9 One level carefully designed by Dave jones to be extremely hard, turned out 

to be so easy it was considered stupid to include it in the game. 

10 Trying to sample high pitched squeaky messages that are easy to understand 

is very difficult. Everyone also felt stupid trying it! 

11 The first person to complete the game was a chap in the States who completed 

all the levels in a 20 hour marathon stint. 

12 Contrary to popular belief, Lemmings do not appear in the film 'High Noon" 

13 No Lemming has ever become President of the United States of America, yet. 

14 There are over 330 animations of the little guys. 

15 The enamel Lemmings badges have become a much sought alter commodity. 

16 There is a special level in each of the four sections of the game. These are all 

from other Psygnosis games. and should be easily recognisable to most Amiga 

owners. 

17 DMA Design are now working with Amiga 3000.s as their development 

machines. These are truly excelent machines dudes. 

18 Watch out for the Lemmings band demo coming soon to an Amiga near you. 

19 Lemmings are not cannibals and do not smoke. The guys on the cover of the 

box are only pretending. 

20 Lemmings is undoubtedly the best game ever written for any computer anywhere, 

probably. 

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Do you crave your very own cutesy Lemming to float proudly next to 

your monitor? Would you like to win one of the much sought after 

Lemming's enamel badges? Do you have a space on your wardrobe for a 

"Save the lemmings" sticker? Act now and all your wildest dreams could 

be realised! 

The first 20 people to have their postcard or a sealed down envelope 

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Lemmings in the post_ 

Send your begging letters to: Lemmings!, Rock Lobster, Amiga 

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