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Music Package, Gajlt's Sequencer<br />
One, Best Home Education<br />
Pockage, Fun School 3; Best Home<br />
Productivity Package, Protext 5<br />
from Amor; and Most Innovative<br />
Peripheral. Newteles Video Toaster.<br />
Our nominations will Join those<br />
from top magazines in nine<br />
European countries to go forward<br />
for the fi nal Judging at the<br />
European Computer Trode Show<br />
with a gettering presentation night<br />
at London's top night spot The<br />
Hippodrome on April 14.<br />
Budget trio<br />
launched<br />
THREE Mies are to receive the bud-<br />
get treatment on Digital Inte-<br />
gration's Action Sixteen label.<br />
Previously issued at full price.<br />
Sherman M4. Kult and North &<br />
South will each sell for E7.99.<br />
Sherman M4 is Loriciers tank<br />
simulation featuring World War<br />
battles, authentic tanks and<br />
weaponry and Kuit is infogrames<br />
<strong>Amiga</strong> helps Gulf effort?<br />
STAFF Sergeant Waugh, of 58<br />
Battery, 12 AD Regiment, Royal<br />
ArtiNery. <strong>Is</strong> a happy man.<br />
He's written to us from the Gulf<br />
where, among other things of<br />
course, he's apparently man-<br />
aged to continue a relationship<br />
with his trusty <strong>Amiga</strong>.<br />
In a letter dated March 12,<br />
written in Kuwait. he expresses his<br />
thanks to Page One Public<br />
Domain who recently sent some<br />
clip art disks to him in the Gulf at<br />
his request, -<br />
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All this, and a successful con-<br />
clusion to the war for the Allies,<br />
SSgt Waugh (we haven't dis-<br />
covered his first name yet - we'd<br />
like him to get in touch with more<br />
Information about the <strong>Amiga</strong> s<br />
precise role in the Gulf) adds:<br />
The disks ore very good and<br />
great value for money, and I<br />
would recommend them to any-<br />
one who requires clip art. -<br />
Take a bow, Public Domain.<br />
WHAT'S<br />
icon-driven adventure which chal-<br />
lenges players to solve puzzles in<br />
The Five Ordeals<br />
Also a former Infogrames hit,<br />
North & South <strong>Is</strong> set in the<br />
American Civil War featuring<br />
battles on a variety of different<br />
levels and scenarios. Action<br />
Sixteen ore on 0276 684959,<br />
Perfectly satisfied<br />
WHILE 199D saw the recession start<br />
to bite for many companies,<br />
WordPerfect report that their total<br />
UK sales lost year were 73 per cent<br />
up on 1989.<br />
The WordPerfect Corporation<br />
achieved sales of $452 million for<br />
1990 - an increase of 61 per cent<br />
on 1989. Since 1979. sales have<br />
now passed the one billion dollar<br />
mark<br />
'Alio 'Allo - French<br />
buy Palace<br />
PALACE Software has gone continental,<br />
Paris-based Leisure<br />
Holding, which owns French<br />
games publisher Titus, has bought<br />
the entire entertainment software<br />
division of the Palace fi lm and<br />
video organisation for an undisclosed<br />
sum,<br />
No immediate changes are<br />
planned at Palace Software.<br />
which publishes titles such as<br />
Dragon's Breath and International<br />
3D Tennis.<br />
There are no plans for a merger<br />
with Titus, best known in Britain tor<br />
games like Crazy Cars.<br />
Palace Group managing direc-<br />
tor Chris Crab says the software<br />
division needed more specifi c<br />
direction than could be given by<br />
Palace, which is concentrating on<br />
the expansion of the movie and<br />
TV production areas.<br />
CDTV set to break<br />
the sound barrier<br />
AMIGA C o m p u t in g h a s h a d co n -<br />
firmation from <strong>Commodore</strong> UK<br />
that their long awaited multimedia<br />
system, CDTV. will be offi -<br />
cially launched at the end of<br />
AO.<br />
CDTV h a s b e e n vict im o f<br />
numerous prelaunch delays and<br />
Using frisk loa f 0:ind bere is)1 0 got into gss French mood - Poloce Sottwor• stott<br />
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WHAT'S<br />
• industry speculation. It would now<br />
appear that <strong>Commodore</strong> are<br />
ready to bring their fl edgling multi-<br />
media product to the market,<br />
The price point has been a<br />
matter of intense speculation over<br />
the last six months, All CBM's tight-<br />
lipped public relations company<br />
were prepared to concede was<br />
that the unit would weigh in with a<br />
sub-c.,600 tag Other Industry<br />
sources have hinted at £399 as a<br />
probable price.<br />
<strong>Commodore</strong> spokesman<br />
Andrew Ball also confi rmed that a<br />
CDTV externol drive for the A500<br />
will be available soon. The unit,<br />
referred to internally at CBM as the<br />
A690, is expected to be available<br />
at the end of May.<br />
The most recent demonstration<br />
of the CDTVrs capability was on<br />
the BBC's Tomorrows World<br />
science programme last month.<br />
A new sound encoding tech-<br />
nique developed by Roland,<br />
called RSS (Roland Sound Stage)<br />
was used during the mix-down of<br />
the Xenon II Megoblosr sound-<br />
track. performed by Bomb the<br />
Bass.<br />
Both Poland and <strong>Commodore</strong><br />
claim that RSS gives the impression<br />
of aural three dimensionality. RSS<br />
places Individual tracks of sound<br />
around the kstener making sounds<br />
appear wider.<br />
The major strength of the system<br />
is that it does not require any addi-<br />
tional hardware to be purchased.<br />
Two standard Hi-Fi speakers are<br />
sufficient.<br />
Making movies<br />
<strong>Amiga</strong> style<br />
TURNING on <strong>Amiga</strong> into the ulti-<br />
mate movie making machine is<br />
the aim of Kailash Arnbwani, presi-<br />
dent of Toronto-based software<br />
developers Gold Disk, with the aid<br />
of their multimedia sequencer<br />
MediaShow,<br />
Aimed specifically at <strong>Amiga</strong> 500<br />
owners bent on creating presenta-<br />
tions and desktop video produc-<br />
tions. MediaShow allows them to<br />
combine animations. graphics,<br />
8 <strong>Amiga</strong> C omputing<br />
music and sound effects. It also<br />
runs on 1000, 2000 or 3000<br />
machines and needs at least 1Mb<br />
of ram.<br />
'The easy-to-use timeline inter-<br />
face arid our patented multitask-<br />
ing engine makes creating long-<br />
running presentations and movies<br />
a reality for every level of <strong>Amiga</strong><br />
user,<br />
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Needing no additional hard-<br />
sa<br />
ware. MediaShow supports fl ies<br />
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from A most point, 3-D rendering,<br />
animation m and music programs<br />
and b sound digitisers. It is Workbench<br />
w 2.0 compatible.<br />
a As <strong>Amiga</strong> <strong>Computing</strong> went to<br />
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press UK distributors HB Marketing<br />
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(0753 686000) said delivery was<br />
Imminent but the price hod not<br />
been fi xed. Gold Disk have<br />
announced a launch price of<br />
S129.95.<br />
Lamont lament<br />
THOSE of you who managed to<br />
wrench yourselves away from<br />
important things like working and<br />
playing on your <strong>Amiga</strong> to listen to<br />
The Budget news on March 19 will<br />
know that the dreaded VAT has<br />
been ir<br />
cent - from Apnl 1. As you'll oppreciate,<br />
creas this <strong>Is</strong> entirely due to circumstances<br />
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beyond our control.<br />
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either<br />
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advertisers or ourselves to<br />
take 5 account of the change in this<br />
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creations from The <strong>Amiga</strong> will<br />
r<br />
undoubtedly notice that our<br />
Gallery feature is missing from this<br />
issue of Amigo <strong>Computing</strong><br />
The good news for AC's ad<br />
appreciation society is that Gallery<br />
is taking a one-month break only. It<br />
WI return in the June issue in all its<br />
colourful, bit-mapped glory.<br />
A tablet for<br />
the mice<br />
GRAPHICS input specialists IDS-<br />
Numonics (0254 676921) have<br />
launched a new low-budget oddi-<br />
tion to their GrophicMaster series<br />
of digitiser tablets aimed at <strong>Amiga</strong><br />
users.<br />
Claimed to be far better than a<br />
mouse, it offers 1000opi resolution.<br />
absolute accuracy to 0.025 cm<br />
and an output rote of 160 pps<br />
making It ideal for DIP, CAD/CAM.<br />
3-D modelling and paint software.<br />
Nurnonlas GIOPhica<br />
GraphicMaster costs E1B5 for a 12<br />
-x 12<br />
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a- cIt<br />
has a choice of tour button<br />
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puck<br />
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or pen stylus with two switch-<br />
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for £75 but comes with <strong>Amiga</strong><br />
usoftware<br />
driver and cabling free.<br />
r Operational features Include<br />
fuser<br />
defi nable origin, metric/<br />
imperial a units, non-volatile memo-<br />
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CURRENTLY doing his bit to bright-<br />
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en up the often serious image of<br />
r<br />
computing <strong>Is</strong> Adolfo Giannini,<br />
managing director of Contriver<br />
(Europe).<br />
"Serious computing does not<br />
mean that computing has to be<br />
boring<br />
- 'At Contriver we have recently<br />
re-designed<br />
,<br />
our packaging in a<br />
h e<br />
way which emphasises the fun<br />
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aspect<br />
a i<br />
of computing, using a<br />
mouse m s of the furry four-legged<br />
kind . pushing a computer mouse<br />
round a desk.<br />
"We are also carrying this<br />
image of fun computing through<br />
to CV advertisements<br />
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. And Amigo people who fancy<br />
walking round with Plug In. Switch<br />
On arid Boot Lip emblazoned on<br />
their chests can take advantage<br />
of another new move from<br />
Contriver ((Y273602622).<br />
The company are offering a<br />
free Tee she printed with this logo<br />
to customers who buy their Five in<br />
One or Multi DPI mice.<br />
Incidentally. Contrivers' Five in<br />
One Mouse missed the deadline<br />
to take Its place with the rest in<br />
the rodent roundup in the March<br />
<strong>Is</strong>sue, but nevertheless it's well<br />
worth a look.<br />
The Contriver is a cute crea-<br />
ture that stands up well against<br />
the opposition for both styling<br />
and smoothness, the excellent<br />
ergonomic design making it a<br />
pleasure to use for bng periods. If<br />
you've ever had to hover over<br />
Wrth very low power consumption,<br />
it is run through the R8232 Interface<br />
Beastly good news<br />
WHEN the people of Portsmouth<br />
go for a dip in the town's new<br />
Pyramid Leisure Pool they can now<br />
enjoy live and recorded broad-<br />
casts, advertisements and public<br />
announcements on a huge video<br />
Adolfo plays for laughs<br />
Adolfo Gia nnini - ft.s computing<br />
people<br />
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The Picbloc wall was installed by<br />
Electrosonic and is controlled<br />
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<strong>Amiga</strong>s keyboard or by an opero-<br />
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Through LimeLlte staff can<br />
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when messages or announce-<br />
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things to the <strong>Amiga</strong> fi tted with a<br />
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Beating up the<br />
opposition<br />
CLAIMING to hove producedthe<br />
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IN ERACTIVL Publishing, the people<br />
behind some of Britain's biggest<br />
computer magazines including<br />
Amigo <strong>Computing</strong>, ate on the<br />
verge of launching a new weekly<br />
title designed to cater exclusively<br />
for games enthusiasts.<br />
Gomes-X <strong>Is</strong> set to be the biggest<br />
ever computer entertainment<br />
publication launch in the UK. Over<br />
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The news-stand launch is<br />
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The publishers claim Games-X is<br />
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Take a look at the preview ISSUe<br />
COMMODORE are making<br />
Inroads into the growing market<br />
of Eastern Europe. and playing a<br />
leading role in this drive <strong>Is</strong><br />
American Gregory Koler. the<br />
product marketing manager of<br />
<strong>Commodore</strong> Electronics.<br />
His efforts are recognised as<br />
one of the the main reasons for<br />
the company's sales increase of<br />
25 per cent lost year,<br />
Outlining his successful brand<br />
of marketing expertise directly<br />
related to good customer ser-<br />
vice. Koier gave an insight into<br />
Eastern Europe at the Computer<br />
Arena conference held in<br />
Marbella,<br />
The going is not always easy,<br />
with lack of cash hampering the<br />
developing Eastern bloc and<br />
leading to such bizarre sugges-<br />
tions as bartering tractors for<br />
computers, but Koler's experi-<br />
ence is winning through.<br />
He's a high flier, or so part of his<br />
career would suggest, since he<br />
bundled with <strong>Amiga</strong> <strong>Computing</strong><br />
arid make up your own mind. The<br />
first Games-X proper Nts the streets<br />
on 26 Aprid 1991.<br />
Screen Gems gets<br />
1 meg boost<br />
COMMODORE UK are heading off<br />
the recession by adding yet more<br />
volue to their top selling Amigo<br />
'Screen Gems buncne.<br />
For the first time, the company <strong>Is</strong><br />
selling the A500 with one<br />
megabyte of memory whilst retain-<br />
ing the attractive £399 price point.<br />
The extra half meg is supplied in<br />
Gregor)<br />
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Kol<br />
aspent r 10 years leading the mar-<br />
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of <strong>Commodore</strong> International,<br />
he is now responsible for interna-<br />
tional marketing programs In oil<br />
the form of <strong>Commodore</strong>'s A501<br />
trap-door ram expansion which<br />
normally retails at £99<br />
The offer commenced on May<br />
1st and runs unl the end of June.<br />
When asked about the prospect<br />
of a 1 meg Amigo becoming the<br />
standard entry level machine.<br />
<strong>Commodore</strong> spokesman Andrew<br />
Ball was reserved, pointing out that<br />
the unexpanded A500 would still<br />
be on sale through the life of the<br />
promotion.<br />
The Screen Gems package<br />
comprises an A500, modulator,<br />
Shadow of the Beast II, Days of<br />
Thunder. Nightbreed. Back to the<br />
Future II and Deluxe Point<br />
the countries not covered by<br />
marketing subsidiaries - Finland,<br />
Turkey, Greece, Malta. Eastern<br />
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Africa. Pakistan and India.<br />
We work closety with our mar-<br />
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lary serviceS Such as servicing,<br />
education and software sup-<br />
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IN a move aimed at luring nine pin<br />
printer users onto 24 pin machines,<br />
Citizen (0895 72621) have cut the<br />
price of their entry level 124D 24<br />
pin printer by 11 per cent. An 80<br />
column model offering speeds of<br />
120 cps in draft and 40 cps in letter<br />
quality. It now costs i:249.<br />
Mice and Scanners<br />
PANDAAL Marketing (0234 855666)<br />
are now offering <strong>Amiga</strong> owners a<br />
new mouse and handheld scan-<br />
ner.<br />
The DAATAscan Pro <strong>Is</strong> a<br />
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300 and 400 dpi resolution and<br />
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A clipboard facility allows<br />
selectable cut, copy and paste<br />
and the scanner also supports the<br />
IF file format. Price, £199.99<br />
The DAATAmouse can be used<br />
with both the <strong>Amiga</strong> and Atari ST,<br />
being converted between the two ).<br />
<strong>Amiga</strong> <strong>Computing</strong> I
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dol. It features two rnicroswitched<br />
buttons with a claimed lifetime of<br />
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ic lightweight ball which can be<br />
removed for cleaning. Price.<br />
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High quality from<br />
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THE new MT730/735 portable print-<br />
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Manneenan Tatty - porta ble printing<br />
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x 300 dol.<br />
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Princing may vary, but as an<br />
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Supplies of Wembley are retaling it<br />
ot 1.684<br />
Pricey Prestel<br />
BRITISH Telecom has dramatically<br />
restructured charges for its view<br />
data information service. Presto'.<br />
The first increase In tariffs since<br />
1988 is a significant one. In o letter<br />
to all Presto] subscribers 13T point<br />
out that infl ation has risen 20 per<br />
cent since the last Prestel price<br />
increase.<br />
Residential off-peak time<br />
Charges cie being increased some<br />
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a 200 per cent increase from ip a<br />
minute to 3p a minute. BT claim<br />
this increase is to bring charges<br />
more in be with costs.<br />
The standing charge for Prestel<br />
also increases, to £20 a quarter.<br />
12 <strong>Amiga</strong> C omputing<br />
The revamped pricing is signifi -<br />
cantty better news for members of<br />
the Micronet closed user group.<br />
The quarterly charge increases to<br />
E30 a quarter but off-peak time<br />
charges ore scrapped.<br />
In effect BT have provided two<br />
different pricing packages for their<br />
viewdata service.<br />
Subscribers can opt to pay E20<br />
a quarter and £1.80 an hour in off-<br />
peak time charges for access to<br />
Presto! Only. Alternatively a<br />
Micronet subscription at £30 a<br />
quarter will provide greater access<br />
to the system, with the added<br />
benefi t of no off-peak charges<br />
Kevin Smith. Micronet marketing<br />
manager commented Our more<br />
canny users will notice how<br />
favourably the costs compare<br />
against rival services, once usage<br />
goes past one hour a month'<br />
The message is simple, if you ore<br />
a Prestel subscriber who currently<br />
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time charges, upgrade to<br />
Micronet and avoid being caught<br />
by a rather expensive British<br />
Telecom April foots joke.<br />
Share a printer<br />
A NEW device from Micro Control<br />
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The Simple-4-Swttch is mailable<br />
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Based on the MCS Simple-2-<br />
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If Other users try to print while<br />
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frozen until the printer becomes<br />
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Simple-4-Switch works with all<br />
kinds of printers and plotters. Price.<br />
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Billiards AD 3,000<br />
PLAYING 1101Mal billiards con be<br />
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complexity of futuristic billiards on<br />
on eight-sided table_ <strong>Amiga</strong> own-<br />
ers won't hove to use their imogi-<br />
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Due soon is Billiards 3D. a simula-<br />
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If that isn't enough. there are<br />
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Billiards 3D re-creates the atmo-<br />
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Games can be saved and<br />
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trolled program allows a fun range<br />
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for infogrames by Spirit Bonanza,<br />
Billiards 3D will be available for<br />
<strong>Amiga</strong> 500, 1000 and 2003 and will<br />
cost E24.99.<br />
Mighty Mo joins<br />
Motormouth<br />
RENEGADE hove now taken to<br />
the small screen. Magic Pockets.<br />
the 131tmap Brothers' offering due<br />
to be launched this summer,<br />
<strong>Is</strong> being used for the phone-In<br />
game section of popular Saturday<br />
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With The Bitmap Kid, quickly<br />
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When Magic Pockets is<br />
launched by Renegade (071<br />
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it will feature music from the<br />
48 walking eyelashes herself - Betty<br />
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One more round<br />
ACCOLADE (071-738 1376) have<br />
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WHEN you have ranked as an<br />
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ing, an obvious outlet is to write<br />
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Chris Whittington has both<br />
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With 20 chess programs under<br />
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est offering recently took the title<br />
World Personal Computer Blitz<br />
Chess Champion.<br />
Running on an enhanced<br />
<strong>Amiga</strong>, the program Chess<br />
Champion 2175X claimed its<br />
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Championship held in Lyon,<br />
France,<br />
Running alongside the World<br />
Championships for human chess<br />
players featuring top Russian<br />
stars, the computer programs<br />
played off against each other,<br />
the only human involvement<br />
being to transmit each move<br />
between the different machines.<br />
Blitz chess is played in the<br />
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moves have to be completed in<br />
10 minutes. so allowing many<br />
games to be played in a short<br />
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'Blitz chess is particularly chal-<br />
lenging as moves have to be<br />
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programs performance.'<br />
In his years of competitive<br />
chess Chris reached a level only<br />
surpossed by the International<br />
Grand Master grading, but gave<br />
up competitions 20 years ago.<br />
If you want to be realty good<br />
at chess you hove to play it all<br />
the time: he said, 'I stopped<br />
playing because it was taking up<br />
too much time when I hod Other<br />
things to do'.<br />
He started CP Software eight<br />
years ago and has progressively<br />
enhanced his programs.<br />
'I used to be able to beat<br />
them but it doesn•1 work like that<br />
any longer,* he said. 'The com-<br />
puter thinks further ahead.<br />
Through the program, it Carries<br />
out relatively simple evaluations<br />
many hundreds of thousands of<br />
times and quite complex con-<br />
cepts emerge.•<br />
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using a Psion Organiser. to<br />
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It will, for Instance, direcity read<br />
and edit files, and automatically<br />
convert a Psion Data File into whot<br />
is known as an ASCII-delimited file<br />
on the Amigo. These ore perfect<br />
for direct Importation Into<br />
SuperBase or any other <strong>Amiga</strong><br />
database<br />
the major problem with PSiOnLirit4<br />
was the inclusion of protocols, most<br />
notably Psion's own protocol for<br />
which there is no available docu-<br />
mentation I decided to pursue this<br />
and to include the same three pro-<br />
tocols used in the Comms-Link's<br />
own software - none, X-Modern.<br />
and Psion. The -<br />
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Dave Westwood finds his <strong>Amiga</strong> can<br />
speek in tongues to a Psion Organiser,<br />
and with a straight face, too<br />
Tower of<br />
Babel<br />
what comes througn tne sera' port<br />
is what you get in your tile. X•<br />
Modem and Psionlink, however.<br />
ore a bit trickier.<br />
The X-Modem protocol works by<br />
splitting the fi le to be sent into o<br />
series of 128 byte Nooks. It numbers<br />
these consecutively and transmits<br />
them along with a checksum (a<br />
special number derived from<br />
adding all the bytes<br />
together), which<br />
the<br />
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Review<br />
receiving machine uses to check<br />
whether the data has arrived<br />
intact if It hos been corrupted. the<br />
transmitting machine is informed<br />
and fresh attempts ore made to<br />
successfully transmit the data until<br />
It arrives in an uncorrupted state.<br />
The Psion protocol was the real<br />
toughie. As mentioned, there is no<br />
published data on its structure,<br />
and Psion were Initially reluc-<br />
tant to furnish the relevant<br />
details. This is a most Impor-<br />
tant aspect of<br />
the pro•<br />
gram, however, and I persevered<br />
until they were kind enough to give<br />
me what I needed. After all, with a<br />
third party already producing the<br />
equivalent ST program, there's no<br />
reason why the some facility<br />
shouldn't be available on the<br />
<strong>Amiga</strong><br />
The Psion protocol allows tor say<br />
eral extremely useful extra features.<br />
You can, for example, transfer<br />
accidentally deleted flies from the<br />
Organiser's DeloPacks to a new<br />
host, and can transfer password<br />
protected Notepods without first<br />
having to de-protect them.<br />
More usefulty, rt allowS the trans-<br />
fer of OPL oblect code to and from<br />
the Amigo so that Orgonser pro-<br />
grams can be developed In the<br />
much larger and friendlier environ-<br />
ment of the Amigo<br />
For programmers looking to<br />
develop software for the Orgcrniser,<br />
the advantages offered by not<br />
having to ruin one's eyesight and<br />
patience squinting at the dimrnu<br />
tive Psion screen cannot be under-<br />
estimated, The chance to use a<br />
decent Amigo text editor when<br />
coding is also a great boon.<br />
For those not interested in programming,<br />
the link allows for the<br />
saving of invaluable data to fl oppy<br />
disk for future use, and relieves the<br />
burden o n over<br />
-DataPock&<br />
populated<br />
Shareware<br />
Unfortunately. I spent so much time<br />
trying to scrounge the protocol<br />
details out of Psion and sweated so<br />
long and hard when oclucily pro-<br />
gramming PsIonlink, the pro-<br />
gram on your May<br />
coverdisk is a<br />
demo version only.<br />
The full version.<br />
including Psion pro-<br />
tocol and my own file<br />
editor, <strong>Is</strong> available if<br />
you get in touch at the<br />
actdress included in the<br />
disk reodmecomms file.<br />
On a fi nal note, I am<br />
currently working on a<br />
developer program which<br />
Should make it possible for<br />
users to write, test, debug,<br />
arid compile OK programs on<br />
the Amigo then bundle them<br />
as a complete Data Pock that<br />
will auto-boot Itself into the<br />
Organiser's lop level menu.<br />
Look out for more about this<br />
future issues of Amigo <strong>Computing</strong>
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especially If you're a GBK (Great<br />
i<br />
Big a Kid) like most of the <strong>Amiga</strong><br />
<strong>Computing</strong> l<br />
staff<br />
y Animation is now beginning to<br />
hit t the micro market with a<br />
vengeance, h<br />
so it <strong>Is</strong> fortunate for<br />
e<br />
those of us with a love of moving<br />
g<br />
pictures that the <strong>Amiga</strong> is eminent-<br />
r<br />
ly<br />
e<br />
well qualified as a machine on<br />
which a to produce home-grown<br />
cartoons. t<br />
eThe<br />
Amy's abilities in this<br />
deportment s seem at lost to<br />
be<br />
t<br />
on the verge of profes-<br />
c<br />
sional recognition. with a<br />
o<br />
variety<br />
n<br />
of commercial<br />
animation t studios<br />
either n exploring the<br />
possibilities - offered<br />
by the <strong>Amiga</strong>, or<br />
already using It in<br />
the production<br />
chciti, /<br />
Of these,<br />
the n a m e<br />
Cosgrove<br />
Hall Productions<br />
stands head and shoulders<br />
above the rest.<br />
,<br />
Cosgrove Hall have been mak-<br />
ing cartoons since 1976. when<br />
Mark Hall and Brion Cosgrove set<br />
up shop with six staff in a convert-<br />
ed warehouse. Since then. anima-<br />
tions such as Wdnd In The Wdidows<br />
and The BFG have helped them<br />
win four BAFTA awards and an<br />
EMMY. and the company has<br />
grown to 130 people, fi ling out a<br />
plush custom studio building Just<br />
south of Manchester.<br />
Meanwhile, Cosgrove Hall's<br />
bread and butter productions.<br />
Dongermouse and Count Duckulo<br />
1 8 <strong>Amiga</strong> C omputing<br />
have been delighting children and<br />
GBKs for the best part of a<br />
decade. Against a background of<br />
almost total U.S. domination,<br />
Cosgrove Hall and a handful of<br />
Other studios have produced car-<br />
toons of a distinctly British fl avour,<br />
offering a refreshing riposte to the<br />
sort of one-way transatlantic traffic<br />
Which has seen 'Masters Of The<br />
Mega-Blasters' clones come to<br />
dominate our tellies.<br />
Cost-efficient<br />
Enough of the banner waving,<br />
what about the <strong>Amiga</strong>?<br />
Cosgrove Hall ore one<br />
of the fi rst<br />
British stu-<br />
dios to look<br />
seriously at<br />
the use or<br />
computers not<br />
only for the<br />
control of cam-<br />
eras but for the<br />
production o f<br />
graphics and the<br />
development of<br />
.• characters cis<br />
well<br />
In their search tar<br />
a cost-effi cient system<br />
offering quality animation<br />
at a decent price they alighted,<br />
not surprisingly, on the <strong>Amiga</strong>. and<br />
It was this decision which sent us<br />
scurrying up the Mo to see how<br />
they were using our favourite<br />
machine.<br />
We spoke to Phil Atack, the man<br />
With the job of assessing the<br />
AmIga's potential, and asked him<br />
what he thought. 'We're looking<br />
Into using the Amigo for line test-<br />
ing,' he told us, hurriedly pushing<br />
F29 Retaliator under a pile of<br />
papers, 'but we're having difficulty<br />
owl<br />
Aringm<br />
with the image resolution.' Line<br />
to life. Normally, a line test would<br />
testing is the animator's jargon for Involve a 5e11e5 of drawings done<br />
rough sketch, and is the first step in manuoNy then fi lmed one at a time<br />
the process Tof bringing characters until the animators had a simple<br />
to loons<br />
u<br />
n<br />
<strong>Amiga</strong><br />
<strong>Computing</strong>'s<br />
big kiddies,<br />
Stevie Kennedy and<br />
Paul<br />
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Austin, take a<br />
look at animated<br />
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linked to a high quality still frame<br />
video camera, the set-up isn't<br />
cheap, and would burn a large<br />
hole in i10,000, but it is for more<br />
attractively priced than anything<br />
previously<br />
available to<br />
the profes-<br />
sional.<br />
Armed with<br />
this array of<br />
desirable<br />
equipment,<br />
Phil was hard<br />
at work on<br />
Cosgrove<br />
Hall's newest<br />
cartoon,<br />
Victor and<br />
Hugo. when<br />
we arrived.<br />
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knocked up the I other day to test<br />
the software a tbit,<br />
he said. The<br />
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pencil-sketched cartoon on video<br />
This is a time-consuming procedure,<br />
and diffi cult to experiment<br />
with.<br />
Lining them up<br />
Using on Amigo, however, line<br />
testers such as Phil can produce a<br />
full line test without recourse to<br />
video, changing as many aspects<br />
sequence showed Hugo smoothly<br />
animated for a fragment of<br />
speech, and amply demonstrated<br />
The advantage of the pencil over<br />
the mouse -<br />
Using<br />
a<br />
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of a nightmare," : we were told.<br />
•especially if you hove to do<br />
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dozens of cells.<br />
- Drawing on-screen, a however,<br />
needn't be carried A out with with a<br />
i<br />
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cheese-chaser, and Phil admitted<br />
to never having tried a graphics<br />
tablet for sketching. The addition of<br />
a tablet could quite easily dispense<br />
altogether with the video camera<br />
at the line testing stage. leaving<br />
the line tester to sketch straight<br />
onto the <strong>Amiga</strong>.<br />
Disney does it<br />
of it as they please before passing<br />
It on to the animators for the paint<br />
bob.<br />
t<br />
We asked Phil for his opinions on<br />
the newly released Wait Disney<br />
At this stage the <strong>Amiga</strong> falls<br />
short of requirements, We end that<br />
Animation Studio (TAS) and his eyes<br />
lit up. The general reaction was<br />
computer graphics can't achieve<br />
the resolution we get with ink and<br />
acetate', said Phil, This isn't a slight<br />
on the <strong>Amiga</strong>, however, as no<br />
other micro tits the bill either.<br />
that although not up to the sob of<br />
creating professional cartoons, TAS<br />
<strong>Is</strong> a much cheaper tool. ideal for<br />
the animator experimenting at<br />
home or for training beginners, 'We<br />
need the four level animation and<br />
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<strong>Amiga</strong> 2000 with hard drive and<br />
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tant to terminate our day out at<br />
Cosgrove HoII, and refused to<br />
leave without on armful or sou-<br />
venirs and a posed photo with Igor<br />
Ond Duckuia himself. After all, the<br />
<strong>Amiga</strong> is at heart a fun machine.<br />
and to see It put to good use by<br />
the company which has brought<br />
so much enjoyment through Its cartoons<br />
was a most welcome treat,<br />
It our Amy is capable of service<br />
at the professional level and with<br />
such an Illustrious crew of anima-<br />
tors, then there's surety some hope<br />
ror those of us at the mere amateur<br />
level who'll be diving with glee into<br />
The Animation Studio.<br />
Paper to pixel<br />
In the world of computer anima-<br />
tion there are two distinct routes<br />
employed to create the moving<br />
pictures we all know and love. Your<br />
approach to the subject is usually<br />
determined by your bockground.<br />
whether it lies either in the hand<br />
draw approach of the illustrator or<br />
the digital trickery of the artistic<br />
techno-lunkle.<br />
The average <strong>Amiga</strong> enthusiast<br />
will no doubt be more at home<br />
with the conventional <strong>Amiga</strong> envi-<br />
ronment or the paint package,<br />
with imagery being provided from<br />
the somewhat less than subtle<br />
touch of the various processing<br />
toot employed. not least of which<br />
<strong>Is</strong> the rather dunky Amigo mouse.<br />
The second approach <strong>Is</strong> a more<br />
traditional one combining the<br />
hard-earned skills of the conven-<br />
tional Illustrator along with the pro-<br />
tut t r i e s<br />
: I Pla ins t litche Lbe<br />
Chroma-Coiour s digitize option shows its pmtessional touch<br />
Walt Disney isn't the first company to attempt a del-<br />
looted low-end <strong>Amiga</strong> animation package - it's just<br />
The latest and most successful. There hove been sev-<br />
, eral previous offerings, including Antic Software's<br />
Zoetrope package,<br />
This suffered originally from being low-refs NTSC<br />
only, and utilising Its own picture format, but was a<br />
hint of what we might expect from the <strong>Amiga</strong><br />
Since we reviewed Zoetrope in the April 1989<br />
issue, there has been a dearth of animation pack-<br />
ages with the notable exception of DPoint III<br />
Programs such as Animagic and Fantavision have<br />
tried to raise an eyebrow, but none have been suffi-<br />
ciently feature-packed to become a mainstream<br />
k: rival for the al-conquering DPaint<br />
D i t<br />
I tite<br />
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What has been missing from nearly all previous<br />
Ark.<br />
animation programs has been an approach which<br />
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cessing power of the computer It's<br />
this approach which Chroma-<br />
Colour's Softoons is designed to<br />
exploit, combining the two talents<br />
with the aid of video digitising<br />
The biggest complaint from free<br />
hand artists when confronted wtth<br />
computerisation <strong>Is</strong> the prospect of<br />
using a mouse. This is a defi nite non<br />
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Exposure sheets ca n be loote d<br />
I,, a town which a ny pro will fe e l<br />
comfortable with<br />
follows along similar lines to that token by the prates-<br />
sional animator. Zoetrope was stuffed with special<br />
effects, such as fades. wipes and shatters, which you<br />
could apply to your graphics, but none of these<br />
were of any particular use.<br />
Clever though they may be. such effects are real-<br />
ly only useful it your animation is designed for a pro-<br />
fessional presentation rather than a cartoon.<br />
Zoetrope was too crude for the former and unsuit-<br />
able for the loiter.<br />
starter with most animators. As a<br />
result on alternative method is<br />
required arid it's here that the digi-<br />
tiser comes into its own, importing<br />
hand drown cels direct from the<br />
Zoetrope was and remains an excellent program<br />
In a technical sense, especially when you remember ;<br />
its age. However, it is also the best example of on<br />
early Amigo package which. white being dreamily<br />
put together, was dismally defi cient In its apprecia-<br />
tion of just which market It was supposed to be<br />
aimed at.<br />
chromo-Colour is<br />
more fle xible in use, if<br />
more difficult<br />
paper to the line-tester for editing,<br />
composition and of course playback.<br />
Its fair to say Sottoons is the<br />
answer to on animator's needs<br />
rather than that of the <strong>Amiga</strong><br />
enthusiast hoping to dabble in a<br />
touch of the Dtsneys. As a re,sult of<br />
the specialised approached and<br />
the consequent limit for potential<br />
sales the Softoons system is not for<br />
the fi nancially toot hearted with a<br />
stoning price of £630 for the software<br />
alone.<br />
If you were to go the whole hog<br />
and invest in the complete system<br />
Of cameras, rostrum stands and<br />
monitors it would add up to just<br />
under £3,000. As I said, It's not<br />
aimed at the amateur.<br />
The system comes in two distinct<br />
formats, either on A500 version<br />
which is designed to suit the needs<br />
of an animator working from home,<br />
or the more advanced and expen-<br />
sive <strong>Amiga</strong> 2000-based system<br />
designed specifically for studio use.<br />
The principle ckfference between<br />
the two systems is the number of<br />
available levels of animation. The<br />
A500 version only manages one<br />
level similar to that of TAS, whereas<br />
the studio version is capable of up<br />
to tots level combinations.<br />
This basically means that al the<br />
elements of the animation pro-<br />
duced on the A500 system must be<br />
drawn arid shot onto a single cel,<br />
the studio alternative being capa-<br />
ble of combining lout individual<br />
drawings onto the some exposure<br />
sheet to form the finished cel. Each<br />
element joins with the rest but still<br />
retains its individuality for editing<br />
purposes.<br />
To be realistic, the price of the<br />
<strong>Amiga</strong> C omputing 2 1
studo version complete with all the<br />
hardware is strictly for the pros. As a<br />
result I'll be concentrating on the<br />
slightly more affordable A500 ver-<br />
sion which might still be within the<br />
reach of the affluent enthusiast.<br />
The do's and don'ts<br />
Perhaps a more accurate heading<br />
might read who/ you can do. and<br />
what you can't. With the Softoons<br />
system you can import block and<br />
white line tests, compile sequences<br />
and oust, improve, and generally<br />
test out your creations prior to<br />
spending heaps of cash on the<br />
phenomenally expensive process<br />
of creating full colour animations<br />
Softoons in effect is an anima-<br />
tion utility rather than a stand.<br />
alone package like TAS.<br />
The idea is to speed up the process<br />
for a pro. As a result there's no<br />
paint package available, no inter-<br />
nal editing and no colours.<br />
Softoons talents are devoted pure-<br />
ly to digitising and running hand<br />
drawn imoges, and this as you<br />
might expect it does well, but cer-<br />
tainly not cheaply.<br />
Flip through<br />
The standard set-up will support up<br />
to 200 individual drawings within<br />
the machine. Considering the<br />
frame rate on certain animations<br />
this is not exactly impressive, but<br />
with the addition of some extra<br />
memory things would become a lit-<br />
tle more acceptable.<br />
The number of drawings<br />
shouldn't be contused with the<br />
number of frames used. It's quite<br />
common for an animation to use<br />
the some drawing on several<br />
frames depending on the effects<br />
required<br />
Once you've cap-<br />
tured a drawing<br />
with the digitiser it<br />
can be played<br />
instantly or cycled<br />
with the other<br />
frames in the<br />
sequence This<br />
can be done at any<br />
rate between and<br />
99 frames per second<br />
The frame rate<br />
can b e<br />
ocljust-<br />
puling<br />
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when composing a<br />
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sequence. When you're happy<br />
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with your creations they can be<br />
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saved to disk or copied direct to<br />
, J<br />
video<br />
h e l<br />
p If fyou're u l slightly nervous about<br />
Dan Silva's DPaint program, especially in its third<br />
incarnation, has been one of the prime movers in The<br />
world of <strong>Amiga</strong> animation for several years, and<br />
there are many who owe It a debt of gratitude.<br />
DPaint III established the now accepted ANN for-<br />
mat and spread the gospel of <strong>Amiga</strong> movies to the<br />
wider audience through myriad PD demos and, in a<br />
very important way, boosted the success of the<br />
iga as a whole.<br />
Its animated brushes were a revolution in <strong>Amiga</strong><br />
grophics techniques which ore only now being<br />
incorporated Into<br />
•<br />
other packages such<br />
as Spectracolor<br />
Animations thus creat-<br />
ed could be saved in IF<br />
or ANIM format and played<br />
back using Electronic Arts'<br />
Play routine.<br />
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Since then, the prolitero-<br />
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ANIM player programs<br />
hos allowed omateur ani-<br />
motors t o<br />
pass their pro-<br />
Definining the Instiet<br />
before importing the<br />
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simple matte, of<br />
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The final anenation,<br />
comple te with<br />
bock wound. shows<br />
how the whole ca n<br />
be gre a te r than the<br />
sumoftheparts<br />
using the system don't worry. Those<br />
thoughtful folks at Chroma-Colour<br />
will tend a helping hand at a doily<br />
training rate of only E250 per day.<br />
It's obvious from the frightening<br />
price list that both Chrorna-Colour<br />
systems are aimed fi rmly at the<br />
The DPaint contribution<br />
commercial marker, but if you're a<br />
red enthusiast who needs to digi-<br />
tise his handy work it's the only<br />
dedicated equipment around.<br />
Cheap alternative<br />
If like me your bottom lip wilt stilt be<br />
trembling at the prospect of<br />
spending all your hard earned<br />
cash on Soft oar<br />
-There<br />
is an alternative method to<br />
is, get your d r y freehand skills into the<br />
y<br />
<strong>Amiga</strong>,<br />
o u<br />
and<br />
r<br />
as a result your onlms -<br />
e y e s<br />
look out for our review of graphics<br />
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tablets soon<br />
Walt Disney<br />
Animation Studio<br />
We tried arid we tried and we<br />
tried, but we found nothing that<br />
comes close to The Animation<br />
Studio in the home animation mar<br />
ket. Chrcena-Colour is on expensive<br />
alternative for the professional mar-<br />
ket, but for cartoon-loving Joseph<br />
Public harbounng a secret desire to<br />
bring Tom & Jerry to Me on the<br />
Amigo there's no real choice,<br />
Disney, as you might expect, has<br />
written TAS entirely from the viewpoint<br />
of an animator. From start to<br />
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The main disk contains two programs,<br />
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The first of these is the line tester<br />
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The user progresses from rough<br />
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Real Things<br />
Representing one of the few commercial attempts to spread the anima-<br />
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The series consists of three packages. Birds. Horses. and Humans, ail of<br />
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The Demo-Reel is a good<br />
example of the overoM<br />
query of the Disney<br />
product This excellent<br />
Donald Duck a nimation<br />
was put together by watt<br />
Disney artists spe cia lty for<br />
The Animation Studio<br />
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advettnement a s you<br />
can ge t for it pote ntia l<br />
er. is prolecteici by copyright and<br />
the animations cannot be tam-<br />
pered with<br />
It you wont to create Britain's<br />
answer to Mickey Mouse you're<br />
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The Pencil Test part of the pack-<br />
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brushes, and the animotions<br />
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ly simple.<br />
tures designed to make animating<br />
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Knows his onions<br />
There <strong>Is</strong> a variable zoom option,<br />
and a group of eel manipulation<br />
devices for copying eels to and<br />
from a buffer, cutting them out or<br />
inserting them anywhere In the<br />
sequence,<br />
By for the most specific options,<br />
however, and those which set<br />
Pencil Test apart, are the three at<br />
the bottom of the toolbox gadget<br />
Oar<br />
The two arrow gadgets are used<br />
to fl ip back and forth through the<br />
sequence of cels at the click of a<br />
mouse button. They ore useful<br />
when the user wants to travel<br />
through a relatively srnall number<br />
of cats, but they really come into<br />
their own when they make It possible<br />
to see the 'onion skin• effect at<br />
Its best,<br />
'Onion skin' <strong>Is</strong> a term and an<br />
effect dating from the earliest days<br />
of animation when eels were<br />
drawn on a series of semi-transpar-<br />
ent layers of paper,<br />
By 'looking through' these layers,<br />
the animator<br />
- outlines c o u of l d the previous three ceis<br />
dor so, i s and c thus achieve a much<br />
e r n<br />
better appreciation of how the<br />
t h<br />
e movement was developing.<br />
d The Animation Studio sim-<br />
iulates<br />
this effect so<br />
m<br />
What unique about the Real Things series is that it is<br />
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motion we've seen since DPaint's remarkable poten<br />
was first realised.<br />
If you're desperate to the point of fi nancial profl iga<br />
Peal Things at E20 a throw is one way to build up an instant<br />
animafi on Nbrary. If, on the other hand, you don't bst set-<br />
ting fi re to tanners among your hobbies. try the public<br />
domain when looking for animated inspiration. Real Things<br />
is good but not that good.<br />
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that the beginner can fl ip forward<br />
without losing sight of the preced-<br />
ing three cals, all of which are visi-<br />
ble as progressively fainter grey<br />
outlines. The effect is simple but<br />
Invaluable, and alone is facility<br />
enough to place The Animation<br />
Studio high on my shopping let.<br />
The bottom left hand gadget is<br />
a simple player which flips through<br />
the existing sequence cot by cel<br />
a loop to make testing the anima-<br />
tion as easy as possible.<br />
It simply doubles up for on<br />
option available via a pull-down<br />
menu, but its Inclusion on the tool-<br />
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thought which hos been put into<br />
this package's design.<br />
Decent exposure<br />
The last gadget, on the bottom<br />
right hand corner, takes the user to<br />
what the pros call the 'exposure<br />
sheet",<br />
This section of the program simu-<br />
lates the real life exposure sheet<br />
you will fi nd at the heart of all car-<br />
toon productions.<br />
It <strong>Is</strong> used to keep track of hm-<br />
ings, frame rates and events such<br />
as music, speech, and special<br />
effects. The exposure sheet <strong>Is</strong> not<br />
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about putting decent cartoons<br />
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nique.<br />
Disney's exposure sheet IS one of<br />
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use it properly, the user has to master<br />
a dozen or so commands and<br />
their syntax. These allow .SMUS<br />
(Sonix) format music scores to be<br />
played, paused, faded out, and<br />
generally mucked about with,<br />
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being played. Altogether, the<br />
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port of the animation process. and<br />
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been incomplete without It.<br />
Ink blots<br />
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later importation to the second<br />
part of the main program. Ink a<br />
Paint, for the fi nd touches.<br />
This is the weakest chink in<br />
Disney's armour, because it's not<br />
really a paint program at all There<br />
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more with dithering, but the only<br />
painting facilities available are a<br />
couple of fi ll and line-drawing<br />
options for touching up any 'leaks'<br />
which threaten to let a colour spill<br />
out of its allotted area.<br />
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already complete and merely<br />
requires colouring, but It would<br />
have been nice to have hod a few<br />
more options even at this late<br />
stage.<br />
That grumble aside, the ink &<br />
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so that backgrounds can be slotted<br />
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Disney's emphasis on their own<br />
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In the professional sector, too.<br />
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The Chroma-Colour software.<br />
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ars ago a couple of<br />
hundred well worn notes<br />
would not hove allowed<br />
you to gather much speed in the<br />
communications race. For that sort<br />
of money most comms freaks<br />
would have been delighted to pick<br />
up on acoustic coupler type<br />
modem with very low speeds and<br />
even lower rehability.<br />
These days though your money<br />
goes a lot further both in terms of<br />
modern speed and features.<br />
Which modem you need<br />
depends very much on what you<br />
want to achieve. The occasional<br />
call to a local BBS service won't<br />
warrant a super speedy modem.<br />
On the other hand the cost sav-<br />
ing offered by high data transfer<br />
rates will be welcome if you are a<br />
frequent caller to the US.<br />
EuroLink<br />
r ElitaLink modem is a perfect<br />
illustration of how comms hard-<br />
ware has become more afford-<br />
able of late. Your hard eorned1:264<br />
delivers a unit which allows com-<br />
munication at a respectable 2400<br />
baud<br />
Like each of the modems<br />
featured In this overview it is entire-<br />
ly software controlled. This means<br />
that rather than pressing buttons<br />
on the front panel to confi gure the<br />
unit. all tweaking is done over the<br />
keyboard via a software com•<br />
mond set<br />
The EuroLink is fully Hayes com-<br />
patible. This <strong>Is</strong> a red boon for any-<br />
one wanting to dabble in comms<br />
without learning the detailed ins<br />
and outs of modem control before<br />
going online.<br />
Popular public domain pack-<br />
ages for the <strong>Amiga</strong> including<br />
NComm. JRComm and Supedext<br />
come pre-confi gured for use with<br />
Hayes compatible decks.<br />
Plug in and go is the order of the<br />
day. The modem also includes<br />
Price<br />
Manufacturer:<br />
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Verdict:<br />
30 <strong>Amiga</strong> C omputing<br />
EuroLlnk<br />
E263.35<br />
Eurolink<br />
0625 878888<br />
Very good value<br />
Hayes Compatible<br />
No power switch<br />
11 C<br />
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Going online<br />
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operan<br />
some useful help screens for those<br />
not content to go with a standard<br />
package<br />
In an effort to provide on all<br />
round package. EuroLink have<br />
bundled a tree subscription to<br />
CompuServe into the price. this is<br />
a truly massive information system<br />
of American origin. On it you will<br />
find messages. news and over<br />
30.000 public domain programs.<br />
Having said a l l that.<br />
CompuServe is not the most user<br />
friendly of places and although<br />
your membership is free, the usage<br />
charges soon mount up.<br />
CompuServe is far too extensive to<br />
do justice to In this article and we<br />
will be covering the service in its<br />
own right at a later date.<br />
As well as getting cheaper.<br />
modems have got smaller and sim-<br />
Modem<br />
The Eurollnk is on ideal modem for anyone wanting to<br />
dabble with comms without having to re-mortgage<br />
their <strong>Amiga</strong><br />
pier to use over the years. At first<br />
glance the EuroLink is nothing more<br />
than a stimline plastic brick with six<br />
lights on the front and no switches<br />
to play with. At second glance It as<br />
much the some. Gone are the<br />
days of twiddling dials. setting DIP<br />
switches and pressing buttons to<br />
get online.<br />
the tuncfi on of each light on the<br />
EuroLink <strong>Is</strong> clearly indicated by<br />
diagonal labels on the front panel.<br />
This commonsense approach to<br />
labelling is most unusual. The bulk<br />
of modem manufacturers usually<br />
insist on using confusing two letter<br />
abbreviations rather than plain<br />
English.<br />
The Eurolink has indicotors for<br />
power, connecting. responding.<br />
transmitting. receiving and auto<br />
answer made Rear panel ports are<br />
provided for power. telephone and<br />
comections.<br />
The only notable omission is that<br />
of a power switch. Removing the<br />
power lead is the only way to give<br />
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Hi-Tec EC2400<br />
If the EuroLink modem can be con-<br />
sidered ideal for the beginner, the<br />
Hi-Tec EC2400 deluxe is well suited<br />
to people wanting to upgrade<br />
from aged manual modems<br />
Like the EuroLink, it is a 2400<br />
baud Hayes compatible unit. The<br />
HI-Tec normally weighs in at f.399<br />
but it is cutentty on offer to Amigo<br />
<strong>Computing</strong> readers at E299.<br />
What you get tor your extra out-<br />
lay is a slightly more robust case.<br />
mote kghts and the MNP error cor-<br />
rection and data compression systems.<br />
Let's tackle each of these areas<br />
in turn, The chassis is a very robust<br />
o<br />
plastic design which is Only let<br />
down by a flimsy front panel mand<br />
two inexcusably tacky go-faster<br />
stripes down the side. The unit<br />
sports a positively psychedelic col-<br />
m<br />
lection of 11 lights giving informa<br />
non on everything from the current<br />
connection status to active speed<br />
Cosmetics aside, the most<br />
impoctant additional feature of the<br />
EC 2400 is the provision of the two<br />
MNP systems. MNP is a three letter<br />
acronym for Mictocom Networking<br />
Protocol. The HI-Tec comes with<br />
two different types of MNP.<br />
C<br />
MNP Level 4 is an error correc-<br />
tion protocol designed to ensure<br />
sore transport of data even if<br />
phonelines are bad, MNP Level 5<br />
On the other hand is a data com-<br />
pression protocol. This is used to<br />
speed up data transmission from<br />
point to point.<br />
With MNP 5 it is possible to<br />
achieve a data transfer rate<br />
increase of almost 100 per cent,<br />
meaning that the EC 2400 has a<br />
maximum throughput of 4800<br />
baud. MNP <strong>Is</strong> only of any relevance<br />
to you if the services you call support<br />
it. Prestel for example does not<br />
although most Other commercial<br />
services do.<br />
One major plus, where the EC<br />
wins hands down over the other<br />
modems on test, is the provision of<br />
a power switch on the front panel.<br />
It is reassuring to have a means<br />
of hard reset within easy reach,<br />
ideal for situations where the<br />
modem is semi enclosed and the<br />
bock panel is tricky to get to. The<br />
HI-Tec doesn't crash, but some-<br />
times a power-off is the easiest way<br />
to reset a line after a tailed connection,<br />
The EC 2400 does not look as<br />
mass<br />
reviewed - within these pages. The<br />
prod<br />
user guide in particular, although<br />
uced<br />
extremely informative, locks the<br />
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Verdict:<br />
Hi-Tec EC2400 Deluxe<br />
t399 (E299 on special offer)<br />
Hi-Tec Modems Ltd<br />
0733 897333<br />
MNP protocols<br />
Front mounted power switch<br />
Unattractive styling<br />
The HI-Tec EC 2400 deluxe should be a senous con-<br />
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tender for your attention it you are looking to upgrade<br />
from an existing slower modem. The provision of MNP <strong>Is</strong><br />
a real bonus, but only if the services you want to use<br />
support rt.<br />
level of presentation offered by the<br />
other three contenders. Don't get<br />
me wrong, Me EC 2400 is a positive<br />
Volkswagen build<br />
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design boys lust need to<br />
quality<br />
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Hayes 9600 +Quad<br />
Just as Hoover have mode a name<br />
tot t h e m se lve s in vOCu t irrt cle a n e rs,<br />
Hayes hove been at the leading<br />
edge with moderns since the<br />
emergence of the technology.<br />
With that sort of introduction you<br />
would be justifi ed in thinking that<br />
the Hayes Smartmodem 9600+<br />
Quad might be something special.<br />
Depending on what you want to<br />
do with comms, you could be right<br />
As the name suggests the Hayes<br />
is a 9600 boud modern. We it is. as<br />
long as you are talking to another<br />
compatible 9600 baud modem<br />
Otherwise the +Quad tagged on<br />
to the end of the name is of more<br />
significance to you.<br />
Quaa relates to the ability to<br />
transmit and receive data using<br />
four universally recognised COT<br />
modulation standards. You will be<br />
iess Mon surprised to know That The<br />
highest speed available with these<br />
is 2400 baud (V 22 bib), The others<br />
are 300 (V 21). 1200 (V 22) and<br />
1275 (V 23) respectively.<br />
Hayes are a key player in the<br />
corporate commits sector, in prac-<br />
tice, fi nding another 9600 baud<br />
modem at the end Of a residential-<br />
ly run bulletin board could prove to<br />
be a little on the tricky side.<br />
This means that to all intent and<br />
purpose you have to assume that<br />
Me bulk Of your calls will ochieve<br />
2400 baud connections. With the<br />
provision of MNP the data through-<br />
put is increased to a respectable<br />
480) baud.<br />
The story doesn't stop there. By<br />
use of special protocols it is<br />
possible to achieve a nippy data<br />
transfer rate of 19.200 baud. This<br />
relies on another Hayes modem<br />
being at The other end of the link.<br />
All of these additional features<br />
invariably mean increased com-<br />
plexity in confi guration The Hayes<br />
goes some way to resolving poten-<br />
tial setup heartache by incorporat-<br />
ing intelligent feature negotiation<br />
software,<br />
Theoretically the Srnartmodern<br />
will automatically establish the<br />
highest speed of connection possi-<br />
ble. The practice is not entirely silky<br />
smooth, but confi guration is significantly<br />
easier than It would be with-<br />
out the artificial intelligence.<br />
The most striking attribute of the<br />
Hayes <strong>Is</strong> its construction. In com-<br />
plete contrast to the other plastic<br />
units, it lives in a smart robust metal<br />
box. The usual compliment of sta-<br />
tus lights is provided, as is a power<br />
switch on the back panel, There is<br />
no question that if build quality is<br />
important to you, this is your ideal<br />
modem_<br />
In line with it distincfiy corporate<br />
price tog of 1,1r19, the Hayes 9603<br />
provides a wide range of facilities<br />
geared to the more serious corrirris<br />
buff. The most notable of these is<br />
<strong>Amiga</strong> <strong>Computing</strong> 37
X25 PAD. The letters PAD stand for<br />
Packet Assembler/ Disassembler.<br />
Using PAD it is possible to have<br />
virtual rather than physical connections_<br />
This means that with a<br />
single modem you can be linked to<br />
more than one online service.<br />
In simple terms a PAD knk works<br />
by taking the information from<br />
each virtual connection estab-<br />
lished (the packets) and assem-<br />
bling them into a single data<br />
stream tot transmission. This stream<br />
is cleassembled at each end of the<br />
link.<br />
PAD has very specifi c applications<br />
and most residential users<br />
hove difficulty fi nding a justification<br />
for connecting to one online service<br />
never mind several simul-<br />
taneously.<br />
Hayes moderns are not cheap. I<br />
don't think if is 100 per cent fair to<br />
say that all you are paying for is the<br />
name, nor is It fair to say you get<br />
what you pay for in terms of fea-<br />
tures genuinely useful to the home<br />
user.<br />
The V-Series Srnartmodem 9600<br />
+Quad has a very specific appeal<br />
to corporate communicators.<br />
Price:<br />
Manufacturer<br />
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There isn't a great deal to sell it to<br />
home hackers though.<br />
the other large market for high<br />
end modems is bulletin board<br />
sysops. I-byes are now promoting<br />
their entire range to this infl uential<br />
bunch by offering a more than<br />
generous 50 per cent discount.<br />
To qualify for this saving, the bul-<br />
letin board concerned must carry<br />
a promotional message for Hayes<br />
modems. The sysop scheme should<br />
go some way to getting more units<br />
Hayes 9600 +Quad<br />
El .148 85<br />
Hayes Microcomputer Products, Inc<br />
081 848 1858<br />
9600 baud<br />
PAD<br />
Against: Expensive<br />
Excellent build quality<br />
Requires some confi guration<br />
Verdict t h e Hayes 9600 +Quad is an excellent modem for seri-<br />
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Price:<br />
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ous comms users. I would be inclined to soy that it<br />
was overkill for domestic users and the Mirocom HST<br />
DS modem revtowed next is a more reoistic proposi-<br />
tion for Sysops It PAD and reliability are important to<br />
you then Hayes is the natural choice,<br />
a d<br />
Miracom Courier HST<br />
User friendly<br />
Na telephone through-port<br />
It you Intend to take comms seriously and money is no<br />
object, this is the modem for you B8S Sysops should<br />
leap at the chance to pick up one of these units at<br />
50% discount. It will be a very long time before a bet-<br />
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Miracom Courier<br />
We wrap up our look at moderns<br />
with the Mitacom Courier HST DS.<br />
This deck combines most of the<br />
features found in the Hayes with<br />
one yen<br />
, ture, HST - an acronym for High<br />
impo Speed Technology. Using the<br />
rtan<br />
t<br />
Miracom it is possible to achieve a<br />
data transfer rate of 14.4k. There<br />
are ciiite a few HSts doing sterling<br />
service at the front end of numer-<br />
ous bulletin boards up and down<br />
the country_<br />
HST is a proprietary protocol<br />
designed by Miracorrfs American<br />
parent company US Robotics<br />
Each of the other modems we<br />
have looked at use the elderly<br />
CCM V standards for data transfer<br />
Talking of the V standards brings<br />
me to the other acronym In the<br />
Mitt:loco<br />
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the Courier is a dual standard<br />
1's modem.<br />
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This represents a best of both<br />
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the widely accepted slower V standards.<br />
If fi rst impressions last, I have<br />
been sold on the Courier. Despite<br />
the unit's immense sophistication,<br />
getting online was just a simple<br />
matter of plugging in a couple of<br />
cables and clicking on my<br />
JRComm icon,<br />
Miracom must be commended<br />
for the user friendliness of the entire<br />
Courier package. the manual is<br />
clear, concise arid easy to foNow,<br />
The built•in help screens and com-<br />
mand summaries are convenient<br />
to access. The level of user support<br />
even extends as far as printing a<br />
complete command summary on<br />
The base of the M sized unit, there<br />
<strong>Is</strong> no excuse for not having the<br />
Information you need close to<br />
hand If you are the proud owner of<br />
a Courier.<br />
On the face of it the Miracorn<br />
does everything that the Hayes<br />
does and more for around the<br />
same price. The only feature the<br />
Hayes can boast over the Miracom<br />
<strong>Is</strong> PAD, The won't be a great loss for<br />
most users.<br />
This is an Ideal modem for<br />
bulletin board sysops. The automat<br />
,lc support of both widely used<br />
communications standards (V and<br />
HST) means that the Courier is<br />
happy to answer the phone and<br />
talk to a wider range of moderns<br />
than any other in Its doss.<br />
Miracom offer a Sysop price<br />
scheme similar to the Hayes one<br />
making these excellent modems<br />
availoble at virtually give-away<br />
prices to established bulletin boards<br />
The only niggling curiosity is that<br />
Mitocom hove not seen fit to pro-<br />
vide a telephone socket on the<br />
back of the Courier. This means<br />
that if you wish to share a line for<br />
voice and data the purchase of a<br />
socket doubler <strong>Is</strong> a pre-requisite.<br />
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samples immediately available for<br />
selection.<br />
There's no more messing about<br />
In MED's tiny file window for one<br />
sample in a list of hundreasi<br />
Synthsound<br />
This feature allows you to design<br />
and create waveforms for use<br />
within your own tunes, then save<br />
them to disk. The waveforms can<br />
use the whole fi ve octave range<br />
and can be made up of 64 individ-<br />
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of wave.<br />
To access this function go into<br />
the !NM panel and click on the<br />
SYNTH gadget<br />
You should now be faced with a<br />
screen mostly taken up by two<br />
panels on which the synthsounds<br />
are created.<br />
Between the two ore con-<br />
trols for adding and<br />
methods, along with more<br />
editing controls.<br />
The preset wavetypes are<br />
handy for standard sounds<br />
and as a starting point for<br />
the editing process.<br />
Users can choose<br />
from sine.<br />
saw, and<br />
triangle<br />
wavetypes, then<br />
go into the panels and edit them<br />
by hand using the freehand or line<br />
drawing tools.<br />
Cut, paste, copy, and other<br />
editing features are also available.<br />
along with the more advanced<br />
TRANSFORM. which will smooth<br />
one wavetype into another.<br />
With p r a c t i c e ,<br />
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How to use The Disk<br />
first of all you must make a bock-<br />
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Workbench, then double click on<br />
the Workbench disk icon, followed<br />
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Now type;<br />
11111COP1 FM Ora ; TO DFO:<br />
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put a blank, formatted disk in<br />
DF1: and type:<br />
1i1ECOPY Fla il OFO: Ta On:<br />
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until the copying procedure has<br />
ended, then put your original disk<br />
away in a safe place. Now switch<br />
off the machine and waft for 30<br />
seconds before re-booting with<br />
the copy. Wait until the<br />
CoverDisk17 icon appears, double<br />
click on it and away you go.<br />
That's all you need do to make<br />
a straight copy of the entire disk.<br />
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to copy IFICkviduoi programs from<br />
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Sample Editor<br />
With the Inclusion of this feature<br />
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the text editor PPmore is in the<br />
current disks C: directory. Therefore.<br />
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new disk you will also have to<br />
copy PPmore to the new C. directory<br />
before you can read them.<br />
Some of the smaller docs will<br />
not have been crunched, so for<br />
these you need only change the<br />
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screen to reflect whichever text<br />
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disk.<br />
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carefully read the documentation<br />
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from disk to disk<br />
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Last month's coverdisk brought<br />
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demos, or games backdrops.<br />
Although not as easy to use as<br />
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relies on the <strong>Amiga</strong> not to wipe<br />
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Although some commercial<br />
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hocking and precisely the sort of<br />
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You're not doing °milting Illegal<br />
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To begin ripping, boot up with<br />
your favourite demo or game<br />
and wart till you're sure the best<br />
graphics are in memory, then reboot.<br />
it would be best to transfer<br />
TGR to a bare bootable disk -<br />
you can make one of these with<br />
Auto-Script - for this purpose as<br />
you ensure that memory is disturbed<br />
as lithe as possible by the<br />
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bltplane manipulation, and<br />
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The ins and Outs of these can<br />
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When you find the graphics<br />
you want TGP will save them to<br />
disk as IFF files - but beware of<br />
screen freezes. If the mouse<br />
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disk.<br />
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which it was apparently modelled.<br />
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Conclusion<br />
MED 3.00 <strong>Is</strong> the best music program<br />
available ii PD for the <strong>Amiga</strong> -<br />
as simple as that The new feature<br />
are excellent, and substantially II<br />
odd to the program's appeal.<br />
Unfortunately constraints of<br />
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you all the MED 3_00 hies, We hod<br />
to leave out the programmer's<br />
notes, demos, and most of the<br />
samples on the new disk, so if yo..1<br />
want these and the all important<br />
source code get in touch with Ray<br />
at <strong>Amiga</strong>nuts United PD on (0703<br />
7851580).<br />
Don't forget that although the<br />
author. Teito Kinnunen, has<br />
retrained from making MED share<br />
ware or going commercial, he is still<br />
not averse to receiving the odd<br />
fiver In the post. You'll fi nd his<br />
address in the documentation on<br />
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If you're a gardener as well as an<br />
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original utility very useful. Even if<br />
you don't have a garden. and<br />
the mere thought of using a fake<br />
brings you out in cold sweats, you<br />
can't fail to appreciate the rare<br />
nature of this particular progrom.<br />
LandScape is a garden gener-<br />
ator which allows a prospective<br />
shovel-wielder to plan the layout<br />
of his or her corner of beautiful<br />
Britain before cutting a single sod.<br />
This is one of the most novel<br />
uses we've seen an <strong>Amiga</strong> put to<br />
for some time. and It's a neat<br />
and Interesting utility for even<br />
non-gardeners_<br />
The program loads to a black<br />
screen with just a menu bar at<br />
the top. By accessing the fi rst<br />
From pla n vie w to pseudo 3 0<br />
simulated garden, LandScape<br />
makes oosigning e a sy<br />
LandScape<br />
Author: Steve Goddard<br />
menu and selecting NEW. the<br />
second menu's garden building<br />
options become available.<br />
From here you simply point<br />
and click with the mouse until the<br />
garden boundary, lawn, path,<br />
ond areas of earth ore set out,<br />
then go on to odd plants.<br />
The list of plants available isn't<br />
huge and merely offers general<br />
types, but as the program alms to<br />
give Just a guide to how the gar-<br />
den will appear this isn't really a<br />
drawback.<br />
It <strong>Is</strong> important at this stage to<br />
bear hn mind the garden's dimen-<br />
sions as chosen at the start of the<br />
procedure. If you try putting a<br />
medium sized fir in a small garden<br />
There won't be much room left<br />
for a washing line missusi<br />
When the design process is fin-<br />
ished the garden <strong>Is</strong> drawn from<br />
whatever viewpoint you select,<br />
This can take qtite some time, as<br />
everything is mathematically calculated<br />
to look as close to real<br />
life as possible.<br />
However, if you're prepared to<br />
go away and have a quick<br />
cuppa. the results on screen<br />
when you get back can be<br />
extremely pleasing. The drawing<br />
algorithms have obviously been<br />
carefully worked out.<br />
The fi nished garden can now<br />
be saved to disk as on IFF file and<br />
touched up in DPaint if you like.<br />
There are only two omissions<br />
which damage the program -<br />
water and stone. We would have<br />
liked to have seen a pond/cas-<br />
code design feature and a way<br />
of Incorporating walls into the<br />
garden, but these are the only<br />
motor moans<br />
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The main prompt for its inclu-<br />
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up to now you should be rea- If you mastered the knack of play-<br />
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<strong>Amiga</strong>DOS as an operating system.<br />
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should find little difficulty here,<br />
Startup-sequences are typicolly<br />
y To do tNs, you'll hove to begin simple scripts executed one com-<br />
to e think of it as a crude programmand at a time from start to finish.<br />
ming f language, and when you use so they usually don't contain any<br />
script o or botch files this is exactly of the more advanced options<br />
what l It becomes,<br />
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look at the sort of trickery one can<br />
d<br />
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You'll notice from using Auto-Script That It uses text effects other than<br />
i<br />
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sthrough<br />
commands within ECHO statements in the form •<br />
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italicised text<br />
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41 background colour I (white)<br />
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Stevie Kennedy<br />
finds he has<br />
batches in his<br />
belfry<br />
PA R T 3<br />
Learningthi<br />
cript<br />
script file most users encounter, and<br />
32 text colour 2 (black)<br />
40 = background colour 0 (blue)<br />
42 = background colour 2 (black)<br />
For example. It you type ECHO -<br />
<strong>Computing</strong>•elOm' •ellmtet3m•et4m•e[<br />
you will get '<strong>Amiga</strong> <strong>Computing</strong>' In bold, underlined,<br />
3 2black m A mitalics, i g aand<br />
text will be switched back to normal.<br />
.1 .•••••<br />
BEGINNERS<br />
GUIDE<br />
Indulge in when using script files<br />
and examine some of the more<br />
complex tasks they can perform.<br />
Pointer power<br />
The script file we'll use as on exam-<br />
ple. Auto-Script, is listed here and is<br />
present on your coverdisk com-<br />
plete with Its own icon. It you dick<br />
once on this icon and use the<br />
Workbench INFO option, you will<br />
see that Its default tool type is set<br />
to ICONX.<br />
This is the routine wtich. If called<br />
as a default tool type, opens a CLI<br />
wI<br />
nturning<br />
it into a crude program<br />
dexecutable<br />
from Workbench.<br />
o<br />
If you choose to write a script file<br />
w<br />
a<br />
of your own, it should be simple<br />
nenough<br />
to copy and rename the<br />
d on for use with your new scnot.<br />
r The AmigoDOS commands high-<br />
ulighted<br />
thismonth are the IF ELSE<br />
n ENDIF group. ASK. LAB. and SKIP.<br />
s<br />
By examining Auto-Script and fol-<br />
t<br />
h<br />
lowing what It does, you should be<br />
e<br />
able to use these commands in<br />
syour<br />
own script files with little has-<br />
csle.<br />
r The IF ENDiF command is one<br />
i<br />
of the most important commands<br />
p<br />
you might use In a script file. tt is the<br />
t<br />
f<br />
i<br />
ISOMERS l —<br />
GUIDE e<br />
,<br />
most common way of testing for<br />
conditions, variables, and program<br />
parometers, and as such is one of<br />
The essential building blocks of any<br />
script. It has the syntax;<br />
(Condition)<br />
Wiled/<br />
ELSE<br />
(Actin?)<br />
MI;<br />
This construction will be familiar<br />
to BASIC programmers, but may<br />
confuse beginners. When encoun-<br />
tered in a script fi le, the IF command<br />
looks to see if the condition<br />
<strong>Is</strong> satisfied, It so. the Action] series<br />
of commands <strong>Is</strong> carried out, then<br />
execution skips to ENDIF<br />
If the condition is NOT satisfied,<br />
the ELSE command forces execu-<br />
tion of the Action2 sequence<br />
instead. The ELSE part is optional.<br />
but Its use renders the whole a lot<br />
more fl exible With no ELSE state-<br />
ment, the execution of the script<br />
file would simply jump to the first<br />
command after ENDIF<br />
The first line of the script concerns<br />
vanables and/or command<br />
parameters. The .key van l line sim-<br />
ply tells the <strong>Amiga</strong> that there is one<br />
program parameter coiled vonl<br />
which will be passed to It. Normally.<br />
If this isn't done in the EXECUTE<br />
<strong>Amiga</strong> C omputing 4 3
command using the form EXECUTE<br />
, the<br />
command in question assumes a<br />
null entry.<br />
Auto-Script doesn't utilise true<br />
variables - well cover those next<br />
month - but It does require certain<br />
yokes to be passed to it in answer<br />
to ASK commands. This command<br />
has the syntax<br />
ASK "
COntains a<br />
with <strong>Is</strong> own<br />
bmiTior with<br />
:e of using<br />
Aries within<br />
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much harder. Later in the game<br />
you'll encounter bouncy platforms.<br />
sticky platforms. angled platforms -<br />
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Graphics<br />
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sound, but gameplay was<br />
practically nonexistent.<br />
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Hierarchy, the scourge of the universe.<br />
Boo. Hiss<br />
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that the more modestly endowed<br />
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On loading, QuickWrite has the<br />
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impressed by larickWrila However.<br />
there's not a great deal there that<br />
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unexpended.<br />
The disk, however, contains a<br />
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during start-up, and transferring The<br />
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and simple enough to do the job.<br />
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than the simple recorder method.<br />
The usual options<br />
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aTrace<br />
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Anyone n wanting to try their hand<br />
at , ray tracing will soon fi nd it often<br />
requires y the loss or an cirri, a leg,<br />
and e a few other fi nancial body bits<br />
before<br />
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you fi nd out if you're really<br />
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red faced DKBTrace could be an<br />
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This complete ray tracer sup-<br />
ports arbitrary quadric surfaces,<br />
which when translated means<br />
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planes and so on. Various shading<br />
models are also available, plus<br />
refl ection, refraction, marble,<br />
wood, and many other familiar ray<br />
tracing favourites.<br />
it also has special case code to<br />
handle spheres, planes, triangles,<br />
and smooth triangles, If you use<br />
these special primiltves• the render-<br />
ing times can be reduced quite a<br />
bit when compared with general<br />
quadrics,<br />
Version 2.0 Includes the source<br />
code written In C. The whole thing<br />
hos being bundled together on to<br />
one disk by the author, David K.<br />
Buck.<br />
If you're the lucky owner of a<br />
68020 or 68030 system with a 68881<br />
or 68882 math co-processor you'll<br />
find a completely separate version<br />
of the software on the disk<br />
designed rust for you and your muscular<br />
machine.<br />
As well as the program itself a<br />
whole range of utilities added to<br />
the package perform various<br />
weird and wonderful tricks of the<br />
trace.<br />
Dump to IFF will convert the raw<br />
24 bit data from the ray tracer files<br />
Paul Austin lends<br />
a helping hand to<br />
pick the best PD<br />
from the rest<br />
into Hi-res HAM images The colour<br />
palette used for the first Image can<br />
then be used with the others.<br />
This is particularly useful for animations<br />
as the entire series of<br />
frames can be forced to use the<br />
same colour palette.<br />
Dump21GB can convert the raw<br />
24 bit output files of the ray tracer<br />
into three separate dump files for<br />
the ability to separate colour <strong>Is</strong><br />
redly useful.<br />
Scuipt2DKB, the next of the<br />
extras, will convert a Sculpt-<br />
Animate 3D scene fi le into<br />
DKBTrace format, At the moment<br />
smoothed triangles ore not sup-<br />
ported and the only information<br />
directly converted concerns the<br />
polygons, colours and textures,<br />
red, green and blue. This might Light sources, viewpoints, other<br />
seem rather pointless to most peo- aspects are ignored but once the<br />
ple, but it you're<br />
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Parma34y the best boashe blaster in the business.<br />
always add these as required from<br />
DKB.<br />
If you're already familiar with<br />
DKB in Its earlier forms a document<br />
included describes the conver-<br />
sions required to use data fi les<br />
from 1,2 with the new improved<br />
2.0.<br />
As you can see from the screen<br />
shots, excellent results are possible.<br />
They're not perhaps the quakty of<br />
some commercial creations, but<br />
considering the price difference<br />
this <strong>Is</strong> a very impressive package<br />
Indeed.<br />
A beginner would be well<br />
advised to give the Instructions a<br />
good read, as ray tracing is not<br />
the sirnpiest of subjects and takes<br />
a little time to master,<br />
In order to squash all the good-<br />
ies on to one disk most of the ele-<br />
ments have been archived and as<br />
a result need to be un-archived<br />
On to a separate disk. I'd recom-<br />
mend at leost 1 meg or more it<br />
you're really interested In serious<br />
production,<br />
MVK V2.0<br />
<strong>Is</strong> your machine sneezing, shiver-<br />
ing, and chewing up disks like<br />
Strepsils? if so it's sure to be suffer-<br />
ing form the curse of modern<br />
computing, viral infection.<br />
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Stefan Ossowski is a fine exam-<br />
ple of a later day Lancelot. with<br />
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condom, Master virus Kier V2,0.<br />
MVK is capable of spotting up<br />
to 105 viruses. on impressive fi gure<br />
and considerably more than<br />
many of its counterparts. It will<br />
86 <strong>Amiga</strong> C omputing<br />
detect both the fi le and boot<br />
block varieties and happily put<br />
them to the sword, whether they<br />
be on a fl oppy or hard drive.<br />
The software does hove one<br />
drawback, or advantage de-<br />
pending on your point of view. It<br />
will not run as a background task<br />
like Kill Do Virus or Zerovirus its<br />
competitors. Both of these sit on<br />
the menu bar and automatically<br />
check memory and disks as they<br />
are inserted.<br />
The advantage of background<br />
checking is that nothing should slip<br />
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The disadvantages arise if you<br />
According to the dm Wonder-<br />
Sound is an addictive harmonic<br />
Instrument design tool which<br />
allows you to create new sounds<br />
by manipulating envelopes, hat.<br />
MONO strengths and phase<br />
angles. These can then be save<br />
for use with other music utilities.<br />
I wasn't convinced with claims<br />
of instant addiction. Trial and error<br />
with a large helping of patient<br />
experimentation would be c<br />
more accurate description.<br />
The main revision to eari<br />
releases , is that all processed<br />
ei<br />
sound is passed through o low-<br />
pass fitter, which lessens the high<br />
pitch distortion or aliasing which<br />
plagued Wondersound in the<br />
past<br />
The sounds created are rather<br />
basic and reminiscent of those<br />
produced with processing software<br />
on the <strong>Commodore</strong> 64 But<br />
if you're a patient soul with an<br />
urge to create new sounds<br />
WonderSound could be for you.<br />
regularly use disks with custom<br />
boot blocks or software which<br />
afters vectors. If you do, you'll soon<br />
become thoroughly sick of can-<br />
celling the alert warnings which<br />
are activated every time you<br />
insert a non-standard disk, even<br />
though you know it to be harmless.<br />
In their defence both KDVIII and<br />
Zerovirus both can be taught to<br />
recognise new boot blocks, so it is<br />
possible to subdue their enthusi-<br />
asm when checking regularly used<br />
disks which you know to be safe.<br />
With MVK it's best to check any<br />
incoming disks and then immedi-<br />
ately wnte protect theca That way<br />
you can be sure they're sore, and<br />
once protected they won't<br />
require any further attention. If you<br />
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background virus killer might be a<br />
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Posh pointers<br />
Any programmer with a passion<br />
for pointers could take a look at<br />
Fred Fish 446 and its collection of<br />
normal and sleeping mouse point-<br />
ers which you can combine with<br />
your own creations. As well as<br />
pointers there's a whole range or<br />
extra goodies available, so check<br />
it out<br />
Both disks, along with rest of the<br />
latest Fish disks, are available from<br />
Softville PD services on 0705<br />
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Softville at: Unit 5, Stratfi eld Park.<br />
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PD playtime<br />
The award for best disk for this<br />
month has to go to number 903 in<br />
the <strong>Amiga</strong>nuts United collection<br />
It's a compilation of four excetent<br />
games bundled on to one disk.<br />
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JEOPARD: First of the tab tour<br />
Involves a favourite subject with<br />
many a game designer - world<br />
domination. The action takes<br />
place on a large map of the world<br />
spread across the screen in glori-<br />
ously flickering Hi- res.<br />
Jeopard is The name, and dam-<br />
motion's the game, with two to<br />
eight players taking part. Each<br />
battles against the next to con-<br />
quer each others territories and<br />
finally rule the world The outcome<br />
is determined by a combination of<br />
clever planning and on element<br />
of luck provided by the roll of the<br />
dice,<br />
This is very similar to the well<br />
established board game Risk.<br />
which has long been available in<br />
the High Street, and more recently<br />
as a commercial release on the<br />
<strong>Amiga</strong>. amongst others<br />
Gameplay is In generally very<br />
Impressive. The only real problem<br />
lies with the screen format, If you<br />
don't ownt a flicker fixture the Infa-<br />
mous Hi-res fl icker can be a real<br />
strain on the eyes.<br />
MIGA MIND: this is the <strong>Amiga</strong> ver-<br />
sion of another smash hit,<br />
Mastermind. it is a popular subject<br />
In the PD and as a result several<br />
versions ore available. This is per-<br />
haps not the prettiest one, never-<br />
theless it ploys perfectly and <strong>Is</strong><br />
useful as a Workbench toy.<br />
Miga Mind is basically a logic<br />
game In which you pit your wits<br />
against the computer and its hidden<br />
code.<br />
You must attempt to decipher<br />
__IIIKANSI<br />
This is one of the utlis, and as the<br />
name suggests will turn any two<br />
colour low-res IFF picture Into<br />
ANSI text which can then be<br />
played on any ANSI compatible<br />
terminal,<br />
rhis could be very handy tar<br />
the code before your limited<br />
opportunities run out and your<br />
Amigo once again reminds you<br />
who's the boss.<br />
PIPELINE: if you're more of an<br />
arcade fan, the graphics and<br />
game play of Fipe/ine will be more<br />
to your taste, being root too dissimi-<br />
lar to Pipe Mania, Even so the<br />
undercurrent of logic still fl ows<br />
Through to Pipeline, and if you are<br />
addicted to Titris and Weflits you'll<br />
certainly love Pipeline.<br />
The Idea <strong>Is</strong> to create a route by<br />
which the oil can fl ow from A to B.<br />
On the left of the screen ore five<br />
pieces of a pipeline. You con con-<br />
trol the cursor position with a joy-<br />
stick, and as you press the fi re<br />
demos or perhaps disk introduc<br />
ASOG's TAD or Art Dept Pro<br />
are perfect for converting virtually<br />
any picture into a low-res one<br />
bitplane two color image which<br />
can then be fed to IFF2ANSI for<br />
conversion,<br />
50k0Syky• a simode but sple ndidly a ddictive logic cha lle nge .<br />
A slighttly flicke ring version of the fa milia r boa rd ga me risk<br />
button tile piece on the bottom of<br />
the pile of five <strong>Is</strong> ploced in the cur-<br />
rent cursor-position, The tour<br />
remaining pieces fall one position<br />
and a new (random) piece will<br />
appear at the top.<br />
After a while black gold starts to<br />
flow, so you've got to get the pipe<br />
in place pretty quickly even on<br />
the early levels. Bonus points are<br />
awarded for complex connec-<br />
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Despite all this extro power, the<br />
<strong>Amiga</strong> is still held bock in its basic<br />
incarnation, Fact is, a single fl oppy<br />
disk and 512k of memory just isn't<br />
enough unless you're happy to<br />
play the odd game (you'll even<br />
find that some games won't work<br />
under the very basic spec).<br />
Radical changes<br />
The key to getting the roost from<br />
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to add extra bits and pieces that<br />
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obscure devices that you can plug<br />
Into your <strong>Amiga</strong> to push its power<br />
further than you'd previously ever<br />
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working grab you?<br />
Then of course there's such<br />
things as touch sensitive screens,<br />
24-bit graphics cards, light pens.<br />
tape streamers, video processors<br />
and a whole host of Other won•<br />
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computer offered such a wide vari-<br />
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Even if you<br />
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smoother computer<br />
to work with.<br />
When you start<br />
adding things like Nord<br />
drives and processor<br />
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a fairly meagre amount of<br />
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form your <strong>Amiga</strong> - just ask<br />
anyone who has already<br />
taken the plunge'<br />
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<strong>Is</strong>sue of <strong>Amiga</strong> <strong>Computing</strong> we are<br />
providing you with what we think is<br />
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don't expect to fi nd details of<br />
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expansion available for the <strong>Amiga</strong>,<br />
Instead we'll be highlighting the<br />
kind of Options available to you<br />
(and perhaps we'. point you in the<br />
right direction when it comes to<br />
making the right buying decision)<br />
Its then up to you to fi nd the<br />
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needed.<br />
Flexible friend<br />
Choosing what hardware to buy is<br />
entirely up to you, but there are a<br />
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external fl oppy disk drive should be<br />
your first purchase - quite a few<br />
more recent games come on two,<br />
sometimes even three diskettes, so<br />
you can save yourself a lot of the<br />
hassles associated with constant<br />
diskswapping with an outlay of little<br />
more than £50.<br />
If you use your <strong>Amiga</strong> seriously.<br />
then an extra drive will prove to be<br />
an absolute must, especially if<br />
you're a CU hacker. ArnkjoDOS is<br />
totally transformed by the oodition<br />
of on extra drive - Indeed, it's<br />
almost friendly! (OK. perhaps I<br />
shouldn't go quite that far).<br />
Once you've strapped on on<br />
external drive, your next purchase<br />
should undoubtedly be a ram<br />
exponsior<br />
Most A500 users go for a half<br />
meg upgrade, but It's worth going<br />
for a larger board test for the extra<br />
room It creates - you may think a<br />
megabyte sounds like a lot of<br />
memory, but you'd be surprised<br />
how quickly the <strong>Amiga</strong> will use It<br />
upi A half meg tom card con be<br />
picked up for as little as 4'25 these<br />
days. so there's no excuse for not<br />
taking the plunge.<br />
The vast majority of games don't<br />
really need the extra ram. but<br />
more and more developers ore<br />
producing games that do take<br />
advantage of expulsion memory.<br />
This usually takes the form of a<br />
few extra sampled effects, better<br />
music and perhaps even a few<br />
extra game options. Some games<br />
actually require at least a<br />
megabyte to run (Dungeon Master,<br />
for example), and it seems certain<br />
that many more will be released in<br />
the future.<br />
Screen scene<br />
Once you've got these two basic<br />
add-ons. your <strong>Amiga</strong> will be a far<br />
more useable system, but that's no<br />
reason to stop there, A worthwhile<br />
upgrade for anyone who uses their<br />
<strong>Amiga</strong> for anything other than<br />
games is a<br />
colour monitor.<br />
<strong>Commodore</strong>'s<br />
own 1084 pro-<br />
vides a pretty<br />
decent deploy.<br />
but it <strong>Is</strong> rather<br />
expensive for<br />
what It has to<br />
offer, The Amigo<br />
boasts both ana-<br />
log and digital<br />
RGB output, so<br />
there's a very<br />
goad chance<br />
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just about any colour monitor can<br />
be wired up (although its best to<br />
get a qualifi ed electrician to do<br />
the neccessary work).<br />
Mousey matters<br />
The Amigo is very heavily mousebased.<br />
but that doesn't mean that<br />
you have to stick with the mouse<br />
supplied with your computer. There<br />
are a fair number of alternatives<br />
available that wHi do exactly the<br />
same job without the<br />
problems assool- --<br />
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<strong>Commodore</strong>s<br />
rodent (clogging<br />
rollers etc).<br />
Indeed, some ore<br />
octualty a much bet-<br />
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because they have been<br />
specifically designed with 0<br />
particulor application in<br />
mind.<br />
One such application that<br />
has earned more than Its fair<br />
share of attention is that of <strong>Amiga</strong><br />
graphics, As a result, <strong>Amiga</strong> artists<br />
are positively spoilt for choice<br />
when it comes to choosing on<br />
alternative input device. By for the<br />
most popular is the touch tablet,<br />
which is basically a fl at.<br />
pressure sensi-<br />
tive pod.<br />
Most touch<br />
tablets also come<br />
complete with some kind<br />
of pen or stylus, which is used to<br />
'draw onto the pad. What's so<br />
great about these tablets is that<br />
you can place a piece of paper<br />
on top of the pad and literally<br />
trace artwork directly into your<br />
Amigo.<br />
Another alternative is the light<br />
pen, which is a device which<br />
allows you to draw by pressing the<br />
pen directly against your monitor<br />
screen.<br />
This has the advantage of being<br />
closer to the conventional pen and<br />
paper than any other device. but<br />
they tend to be rather low resolu-<br />
tion. Whilst they•re great for the<br />
kids. they're for from ideal if you're<br />
after high precision equipment.<br />
Another disadvantage of the<br />
mouse is the amount of free space<br />
that it requires on your desktop. A<br />
better bet is perhaps the trackball,<br />
which is basically and upside-down<br />
mouse. Like the mouse, the tracker-<br />
ball uses a roiterball but. unlike the<br />
mouse, you move the bold directly<br />
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musicians use their Amigos live,<br />
Moving still further away from<br />
the mouse is the Touch Screen, a<br />
device which is still very much In Its<br />
Infancy on the <strong>Amiga</strong>. You've<br />
probably seen them used on 'point<br />
of soles systems - instead of hav-<br />
ing to click on gadgets with the<br />
mouse, you simply press your finger<br />
against the screen to select the<br />
gadget your require.<br />
These are perhaps<br />
rather too specialist at the<br />
moment, but they'll<br />
prove to be an all-<br />
important weapon in<br />
the Amigo's multimedia<br />
arsenal.<br />
\ Finally, a<br />
company in the<br />
States hove lust<br />
released a bar<br />
-- code reading system for<br />
the <strong>Amiga</strong> which allows you to<br />
assign different <strong>Amiga</strong>DOS commands<br />
to bacodes.<br />
You con create your own bar-<br />
codes using the bundled software<br />
and then dump them Out onto<br />
paper. Its far from toeing<br />
an alternative<br />
to the<br />
mouse,<br />
but just think<br />
what a pose it would<br />
be to operate your Amigo in<br />
this fashianl<br />
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If you're interested in ail things<br />
musical, then there's a healthy<br />
selection of associated gadgets<br />
and widgets that will fuel your inter-<br />
est First among these <strong>Is</strong> the sound<br />
sampler, which will allow you to<br />
'digitise' a sound from just obout<br />
any audio source (CD players,<br />
walkmans etc) and then edit it on<br />
your <strong>Amiga</strong><br />
At the moment, oll <strong>Amiga</strong> sound<br />
samplers are 8-bit devices, but sev-<br />
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their intention to produce studio<br />
quality 16-bit samplers which will<br />
make the <strong>Amiga</strong> a viable attema-<br />
five to dedicated samplers such as<br />
those produced by industry heavy-<br />
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Whether you're into DIP. animation or just art for art's soke, a video<br />
digitiser is a worth while investment. A video digitiser is a great way or<br />
obtaining quality artwork without having to mess around with DPaint,<br />
Even for the more talented users amongst you, a video digitiser will<br />
allow you to get the artwork you need in a fraction of the time it<br />
would take if you tried knocking it up yourself.<br />
Amigo video digitisers basically come WI two flavours - realtime<br />
colour and not so reatfi me colour (sorry). With a teatime colour digi-<br />
tiser, you can grab colour Images directly from a composite video<br />
source. These are undoubtedly the ideal choice, but you can<br />
expect to pay through the nose for such a device.<br />
A more affordable solution is a digitiser like Rombo's VIDI Amigo<br />
Although it will grab images in realtime, they are mono only. If you<br />
wish to grab in colour from a pre-recorded video source, you'll need<br />
to invest in a RGB splitter, a clever little device that splits a composite<br />
video signal into its red, green and blue components. Unforktiately,<br />
the source tape has to be paused during digitising. which can cause<br />
problems if your pause facility produces anything short of a rock<br />
steady display.<br />
For grabbing In colour from a 'live' video source, cheaper digitis-<br />
ers use a system of red, green and blue coloured perspex fitters that<br />
must be held infront of your video camera. DigiView mode this<br />
rather quirky method of cligttiseig famous, but It can be a real pain in<br />
good lighting.<br />
Scanners are also a great way of obtaining artwork. Until quite<br />
recently, they tended to be ITIOno only. but it's now possible to pick<br />
up a full colour scanner for just E600 (the Sharp Jk-100). This very<br />
clever device is used extensively on Amigo <strong>Computing</strong> to grab<br />
many of the images within these pages. so there's no greater recommendation<br />
than that!<br />
Music or even Music-X, you can use<br />
a sampler to grab instrument sam-<br />
ples from your favourite records.<br />
If you're lucky enough to own a<br />
synthesiser. then your next pur-<br />
chase should undoubtedly be a<br />
MIDI interface. MIDI interfaces are<br />
very cheap little devices, but they<br />
can totally transform your music<br />
setup. With the right software, a<br />
MIDI Interface will allow you to<br />
directly control a network of MIDI-<br />
compatible musical instruments<br />
Speed freak<br />
The <strong>Amiga</strong> is far from being a<br />
slouch where raw processing<br />
speed <strong>Is</strong> concerned, but there are<br />
still times when things slow down to<br />
an almost unbearable rate<br />
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use your <strong>Amiga</strong> for heavily proces-<br />
sor intensive applications such as<br />
CAD. DIP and ray tracing, but most<br />
applications would oiso benefi t<br />
from an extra spurt of speed,<br />
The solution lies In a processor<br />
accelerator card, which basically<br />
replaces the central processor<br />
inside your <strong>Amiga</strong> with a much<br />
faster unit. To make things really<br />
burn, most processor accelerators<br />
also provide space for a maths co<br />
processor, a dedicated number-<br />
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expansion board at the 16-bit show in<br />
January It has a battery backed up clock<br />
and a switch. but I cannot get it to work. The<br />
extra memory seems not to want to be used,<br />
Con you help?<br />
M Arthur, Leighton Buzzard<br />
Try booting with the switch in both positions,<br />
and if you still don't get the extra memory,<br />
give the board a good shove.<br />
Its often the case that a new Amigo's trap-<br />
door interface can be extremely stiff, and<br />
many people ate nervous of applying too<br />
much brute force to their expansion boards,<br />
Make sure the board is pushed in as much as<br />
possible<br />
If the <strong>Amiga</strong> persists in thinking it'sa half<br />
meg machine, return the board to the retailer<br />
or manufacturer for replacement<br />
Tony revisited<br />
Your response to Tony Williams. a 'Confused<br />
Upgradee in the March Interactive Rescue<br />
column, stated that an <strong>Amiga</strong> 2C00 hard disk<br />
always requires a small <strong>Amiga</strong>DOS partition to<br />
mount the Fast File System(FFS).<br />
This IS just not the case I suggest you run<br />
Fixdisk 1.2 as supplied on your own coverdisk<br />
on a A2091-40 and you will see the following<br />
info deployed<br />
1100: Sandier ; S(Sieffirics<br />
The confusion perhaps arises from the fcicf<br />
that <strong>Commodore</strong>'s original A2090 hard drive<br />
Controller didn't auto-boot. requiring a floppy<br />
to start the boot and then mount it.<br />
The Improved A2090/A. however, WILL<br />
auto-boot under Kickstart 1.3.<br />
As both the A2090 and A2090/A were avail-<br />
able before the introduction of US, they<br />
required the <strong>Amiga</strong> to boot into a standard<br />
ArnigaDOS file system partition before mount-<br />
ing a FFS partition,<br />
In response to the FFS, third party manufac-<br />
turers began to introduce SCSI controllers<br />
which would auto-boot and auto-mount<br />
directly into a FFS partition.<br />
These controllers did not require a standard<br />
ArnigaDOS partition to be mounted first, and<br />
allowed ail disk space to be formatted under<br />
FFS.<br />
The A2091 does not require any mountlist<br />
entry or any details in the expansion drawer,<br />
as under Kickstart 1.3 on Automount flag is<br />
stored on the first two cylinders a<br />
, diskt<br />
h e h o r a<br />
Gordon MacKinnon. Belfast<br />
It's a lair cop! Yes, our reply to Tony's letter<br />
wasn't what it should've been. You know how<br />
it is - Friday afternoon, dog's lust died, gas bill<br />
pending, five or six black coffees too many.<br />
Sigh.<br />
As for FixDisk, it has the annoying habit of<br />
identifying all hard drives with the (FFS) label. I<br />
have a hard drive which is entirely formatted<br />
in the standard AmigoDOS filing system, and<br />
FixDisk insists on calling it 0 FFS device. Bit of a<br />
bug there, methinks,<br />
Oh. and by the way - the problem with the<br />
recoverable RAM drive and RAD: on machines<br />
with a Fatter Agnus and 1Mb of RAM is cured<br />
when you use the 1Mb RAM patch option.<br />
Change the SETPATCH In your startupsequence<br />
to SETPATCH-r and RRD: should work<br />
as well as before. I'm just off to clean the WC<br />
with this toothbrush the Ed just gave me..<br />
Not an A590 fan?<br />
I would like to know of any Maretwore project<br />
which I could use to disable my A590 hard<br />
drive so that any long sessions of game playing<br />
the drive isn't active Naturally it would be<br />
handy If the extra RAM was still accessible.<br />
With the drive connected the <strong>Amiga</strong> won't<br />
power up it the drive transformer is switched<br />
Oft so the only option is to unplug the drive-<br />
from the computer, thus adding wear and tear<br />
to the edge connector<br />
The drive can be stopped from auto-boot-<br />
ing by use of lee rear DIP switch, but I would<br />
like to have total silence.<br />
_Fr<br />
T N Wells, Ipswich<br />
One way of silencing your A590 is to run it with<br />
the cover off, thus allowing you to disconnect<br />
the fan while keeping the drive cool.<br />
With the cover off, you could also com-<br />
pletely disable the drive by disconnecting the<br />
ribbon cable between il and the mother-<br />
board.<br />
This might sound dangerous, but we've hod<br />
it recommended as an option by someone<br />
whose A590 has seldom been used fully<br />
CD<br />
Printer ut of puff?<br />
Computer cracking up?<br />
We are here to help!<br />
Write to <strong>Amiga</strong> <strong>Computing</strong>,<br />
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cased As you say elsewhere in the letter that<br />
your warranty has expired, you wouldn't be<br />
risking financial ruin by giving it a try.<br />
You might like to try putting a plastic guard<br />
over the top of the open drive, leaving<br />
enough airway to cool It while stopping hands<br />
straying into It.<br />
I had a quick look at garden•style wire<br />
mesh with thick plastic coating, which bends<br />
easily into a strong 'fireguard'.<br />
With this firmly glued to the A590, or hooked<br />
under the base, your drive is if anything safer<br />
than in its original plastic case - except for the<br />
dreoded coffee menace, of course.<br />
Another method of stopping an auto-boot<br />
while retaining all the extra RAM is to buy a<br />
switc noble Kickstart 11/1,3 from <strong>Amiga</strong>Direct<br />
on 0E11-891 6704,<br />
With this you could start up in Kick start from<br />
which your drive won't auto-boot, and still<br />
have access to the extra 2Mb. You can<br />
always MOUNT the drive afterwards if you<br />
want it or re-boot with the Kickstart switched<br />
to 1,3<br />
A3000 inquiries<br />
Please give me some answers on tee A3000 os<br />
extracting technical help from <strong>Commodore</strong><br />
seems to be all but impossible, Here goes...<br />
• is it true that the Fast File System can be<br />
used on floppies under Workbench 2,07<br />
• What do all the parameters for the CPU<br />
command do?<br />
• Kickstart 2,0 <strong>Is</strong> currently loaded into Fast<br />
RAM, OCCupying0.5Mb. but will apparently be<br />
available on ROM at a later date. With tricks<br />
like fast 32-bit RAM and ROM shadowing,<br />
<strong>Amiga</strong> <strong>Computing</strong> 101
would the ROM upgrade be faster or more efficient?<br />
• It Fast RAM is expanded to 4Mb. Con the<br />
existing 1Mb selpped with the macnine be<br />
moved across to Chip RAM?<br />
• What's the deference between DIP and ZIP<br />
chips, and what is Static Column Memory?<br />
• Can bridgebeards such as the A2088<br />
designed for the 82000 be fitted to the A3000?<br />
In answer to your questions<br />
Robin Harley, Shoreham-by-Sea<br />
• Yes, the Fast File System WILL work with fl op-<br />
pies under Workbench 2.0. Yum. yurn,<br />
• The CPU command has parameters to con-<br />
trol the management of the 68030's on-board<br />
data and memory caches, the enabling of<br />
burst mode, the copying of ROM based<br />
Kickstarts into Fast RAM, and a check on the<br />
Floating Point Unit used.<br />
To list them all here would take up too much<br />
space, so ail I can do is recommend Mastering<br />
<strong>Amiga</strong>DOS 2, by Bruce Smith and Mork Smiddy,<br />
which contains the best guide to Workbench<br />
2.0 rye seen so far. The publisher, Bruce Smith<br />
Books, can be reached at (0727) 41243.<br />
• The best performance is gained by copying<br />
Kickstart into 32-bit memory, so you might as<br />
well stick to hard drive-based Kickstart. which<br />
also has the advantage of being easier to<br />
upgrade.<br />
• Yes, you can move thal 1Mb over,<br />
• ZIP stands for ZigZag Wine Packet. DIP<br />
stands for Dual InNne Packet. DIP chips ore the<br />
traditional style RAM chips with pins on either<br />
side. ZIP chips have all their pins on one edge<br />
and stand up vertically, thus saving space on<br />
the motherboard<br />
If you closely examine our piccies of the<br />
CSA Mega Midget Racer in last month's cover<br />
story you'll see that the Mega Memory board<br />
on the right contains a row of ZIP chips looking<br />
rather like a row of dominoes (except they<br />
don't have white spots and a row of dominoes<br />
couldn't store 2Mb RAM).<br />
• A5 to the bridgeboards, theoretically yes.<br />
although the 5.25" drive would have to be<br />
mounted externally or replaced with on internal<br />
3.5" drive.<br />
The A3000 has two AT-compatible bus slots<br />
and should be OK with a bridgeboard, though<br />
we haven't teed it ourselves<br />
Drive glutton<br />
nave an A500 with A590 and extra 2Mb. A<br />
few monies ago I bought a Fujitsu 86Mb hard<br />
drive from Althamera Systems and have hod it<br />
installed in my A590 casing. It's a nice fast drive<br />
arid has given me no problems.<br />
However, my old A590 mechanism is now<br />
not in use. is It possible to connect this internally/externally<br />
to my A500? I am a glutton for disk<br />
space.<br />
Glutton's not the wordl You mean you've fi lled<br />
up the 86Mb already?<br />
Seriously, though, you don't have too many<br />
options open. As tar as I know, there are no<br />
third party A590 cases avoilable, so you might<br />
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Peter Coils, Walsall<br />
Loan Ranger v Desperate Dan<br />
I bought my <strong>Amiga</strong> in mid December aria<br />
hove been delighted with It, Unfortunately, I<br />
hove been operating with a portable television<br />
until recently I was loaned a monitor. This is<br />
where my dilemma started.<br />
The monitor is re <strong>Commodore</strong> Ranger 15. seri-<br />
al number 716470, port number 8800-15. It has<br />
two inputs, a 9-pin D-type connector labelled<br />
PG B TIL, and a 15-pin labelled RGB Analog.<br />
I wish to use the analog input, but have<br />
been unable to fi nd anyone who can supply<br />
me with a ready made lead or give me the<br />
wiring details for one I'm desperately in need<br />
of some help.<br />
Daniel Burns, Thundersley<br />
The monitor in question is a 15' multisync<br />
designed for use with a fl icker fi xer or A2320<br />
display enhancer card, and as such is not nor-<br />
mally connected to a standard <strong>Amiga</strong> video<br />
connector<br />
. A2320 cards cost about £287 these days and<br />
can be had at this price from several ot our<br />
advertisers. Try Calco Software on 081-546<br />
7256. You should fi nd little trouble in fi nding a<br />
have to beg <strong>Commodore</strong> for one_ The power<br />
supply is part number 312639-02 (250V/74W),<br />
and you'd have to use a similarly rated unit if<br />
you didn't buy the CBM offering. With a power<br />
supply you might try rigging up a casing of<br />
your own, but I wouldn't recommend it.<br />
The best third-party option is perhaps the<br />
A1500 unit. With the A590 mounting kit and<br />
DUC board you can re-box your A500 and<br />
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Transplanting graphics<br />
I would like to put the <strong>Amiga</strong>'5 brilliant graphics<br />
on an Archimedes (A what? - Ed) to utilise<br />
laser arid inieet printers at school.<br />
I hove been told by my IT teacher that oil I<br />
need do is change a disk to PC format and out-<br />
put the IFF files to that The Archimedes. using a<br />
PC emulator, will then be able to display them.<br />
However, occorcting to the PC Format does<br />
on the Extras 1.2 disk. I need a 5.25' fl oppy<br />
drive which I do not have. <strong>Is</strong> there a 3.5' disk<br />
PC formatter available onywhere?<br />
Andrew Skerty, Salisbury<br />
If you don't have o <strong>Commodore</strong> A1020 5.25"<br />
floppy, you can use a PDPC program such as<br />
MessyDos. or go for something like CrossDos.<br />
which is a commercial product.<br />
Either will write to the Amigo's own 3.5"<br />
drives as if they were PC drives, and will formal<br />
3.5" disks to PC format, which should be use-<br />
able with an Archimedes running its own PC<br />
disk reoding software.<br />
CrossDos is available from several of our<br />
advertisers, including ARK on 0983 79496. and<br />
MessyDos is available from all decent<br />
Kilibraries Just make sure your IT teacher has<br />
suitable off-the-shelf lead for this connection.<br />
If you insist on using the Ranger without a<br />
flicker fixer - and this is a waste of a multisync<br />
monitor - you'll have to make one of your own.<br />
Fortunately the Ranger 15<br />
brother, - will sync all the way down to the<br />
15.6KHz , u nvideo l i k e output frequency obtained from<br />
the<br />
i<br />
<strong>Amiga</strong><br />
t s<br />
23-pin<br />
2 1<br />
video connector. Some<br />
- b i g<br />
multi-sync monitors will only output at frequencies<br />
above 30Klie<br />
You'll find the pin-outs for the Ranger's 15-pin<br />
socket on page 15 of the monitor's manual,<br />
and the pin-outs for the <strong>Amiga</strong> video socket on<br />
page A-6 of the user's manual.<br />
As far as we can see the pin connections<br />
from <strong>Amiga</strong> to monitor are 3 to 1, 4 to 3, 5 to 5,<br />
11 to 13 AND 14, 12 to 15. Then 16 up to and<br />
Including 20 should be joined and go to 2. 4. 6,<br />
and 7 on the Ranger.<br />
Before you attempt this, ask yourself whether<br />
It's worth wasting a multisync monitor on a non-<br />
interlaced standard <strong>Amiga</strong> output.<br />
If there's any hope of keeping the thing on a<br />
long term basis, run out immediately and buy a<br />
flicker fixert<br />
a utility which allows the Archimedes to read<br />
and convert Amigo !FE files to a format it can<br />
display.<br />
Breakdown<br />
I am using an A500 with extra 512Kb memory<br />
and a Pace Unmet Intelligent Modem. I am<br />
using Access software with the baud rate set<br />
at 300, panty at 0, data length 8 bits, stop bits<br />
I, and all other settings I have left at default<br />
(although I have experimented with different<br />
settings).<br />
I am trying to access various bulletin boards<br />
whose numbers I have obtained from your<br />
meg over the months. About 60% of the lime i<br />
get NO CAPRIER. but the other 40% I manage<br />
to get a connection. However, all I seem to get<br />
on screen is garbage and seemingly randomly<br />
generated charocters.<br />
It would be a great help if you could let the<br />
sethngs I will need on Access.<br />
Ken Wooffindin, Leeds,<br />
You are using 8-N-1 defaults - the most com-<br />
mon - so sounds to me as if you're trying to<br />
access at the wrong speed. If you connect to<br />
a Be at 1200 baud, and it tries to talk to you at<br />
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mixture of Greek and Cyrillic characters on the<br />
screen.<br />
Try a bullehn board which supports the most<br />
settings, then play around with your baud rate<br />
until you gel a clean connection. You might<br />
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Eddie will be taking a close look at the first few<br />
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Video in the January issue of<br />
Amigo <strong>Computing</strong>.<br />
Although the article discussed<br />
most of the options for getting into<br />
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of software and hardware to go<br />
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THE GENLOCK With so many now<br />
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THE SOFTWARE Once again, the<br />
software you choose depends<br />
entirely upon your particular needs,<br />
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home videos of granny at the<br />
beach. all you need is a titling<br />
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A good one is the Big<br />
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able from Alternative Imoge on<br />
3533 440341. For just £50 you get 20<br />
high resolution fonts which can be<br />
smoothly scrolled about the<br />
screen. It's not in the same league<br />
as the likes of Broadcast Tiller 2. but<br />
then it is considerably cheaper!<br />
If I had to choose just two pack-<br />
ages for my desktop video work<br />
they would undoubtedly have to<br />
be EA's Deluxe Paint 3 and Zurna's<br />
TV Text Professional,<br />
TV Text allows you to produce<br />
stunning titles from standard Amigo<br />
bltmapped fonts. while DPaint <strong>Is</strong><br />
great for producing logos and<br />
other artwork.<br />
Not only that, but tts powerful<br />
animation focilties allow you to<br />
produce all manner of flash effects<br />
including spinning logos and the<br />
like. DPoint r a<br />
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which <strong>Is</strong><br />
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portant for video<br />
ACTing up again!<br />
If you thought VE•1 o<br />
Enhancer from ACT Dec<br />
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ty special (see lost month's issue for<br />
more), thep you're in for a pleasant<br />
surprise. They've just launched a<br />
feature-packed audio/video<br />
effects processor which offers unri-<br />
valled via processing power .<br />
or<br />
just Catchl S350. rtiol homed the AV13.<br />
the unit was ()Outlay designed with<br />
Camcorder owners in d<br />
However. as ACT like to p<br />
it'll prove to be just os u t o<br />
<strong>Amiga</strong> video enthusiasts. • s<br />
what it has to offer:<br />
COMPATIBILITY: Whether y r e<br />
using rwo home VHS recorders or<br />
the latest 11I8 decks, the AVP-MK3<br />
built with the future in mind. It is tuily<br />
compatible with VHS, VHSC, 8mm,<br />
BETA. U-MATIC, S-VHS, S-VHSC and<br />
Hift.<br />
If you're using S-VHS, S-VHSC or<br />
H18. the AVP-MK3 allows you to<br />
take full advantage of the high<br />
defi nition settings, then edit on to a<br />
standard VCR. therefore allowing<br />
for the highest possible results from<br />
your video setup. As a result,<br />
there's no need to suffer loss of picture<br />
quality just because your dlesti-<br />
notion deck isn't of the same<br />
format as your source.<br />
A built-in Composite + Y/C to<br />
RGB Converter allows you to<br />
obtain the maximum performance<br />
from high resolution video formats<br />
without having to fork out for a 5-<br />
compatible TV set simply by chan-<br />
neling the output Into any<br />
RGB-compatible ry set. According<br />
to ACT, most modern TV sets now<br />
offer this feature,<br />
SIGNAL PROCESSING: The AVP-<br />
MK3 boasts comprehensive RGB<br />
colour correction facilities which<br />
allow you to adjust the red,<br />
green and blue content of the<br />
incoming video signal simultane-<br />
ously.<br />
You can also adjust the bright-<br />
ness, contrast and colour satura-<br />
tion to the levels that you require.<br />
to help you achieve the optimum<br />
settings, the AVP has a video level<br />
Indicator which changes colour<br />
when these selltigs ore achieved.<br />
Obviously you're not restricted<br />
to these settings, but they provide<br />
a useful method of achieving the<br />
best possible results with a minimal<br />
amount of knob-twiddling.<br />
Extra controls Include Lumi-<br />
nance and Chrorninance inversion<br />
Switches which produce a sort of<br />
photographic negative image<br />
effect. Alternatively. these settings<br />
could be used to allow real photo-<br />
graphic negatives to be recorded<br />
to video tape in their true colours.<br />
Just like their VE• 1 enhancer, the<br />
AVP features sync pulse restoration<br />
hardware which helps to reduce<br />
the loss of quality associated with<br />
video signals.<br />
WIPES AND FADES The AVP-MK3<br />
employs ACT's own custom IWEC<br />
technology which allows you to<br />
continuously vary the edge effect<br />
on any chosen wipe pattern, giv-<br />
ing infi nite control over the range<br />
of effects available,<br />
ACT have built in 30 base wipe<br />
patterns which are controlled from<br />
the front panel using the unit's<br />
select switches. You can access<br />
any combination of horoontal, ver-<br />
tical or diagonal wipes and even<br />
modify the supplied wipes using<br />
the AVP's IWEC controls.<br />
AUDIO MIXING: The audio section<br />
of the AVP-MK3 offers a compre-<br />
hensive range of controls which<br />
allow you to work orithe audio<br />
side of your video productions. Its<br />
three channel audio mixer consists<br />
of a microphone level control and<br />
two line level controls for mixing<br />
music and even voice OWNS with<br />
your existing video sound track.<br />
Both bass and treble con be<br />
altered, and an extra headphone<br />
socket allows you to monitor your<br />
audio mix during the editing process.<br />
A visual display of the sound out-<br />
put levels are provided via twin LED<br />
VU meters, and a master audio<br />
fader allows you to adjust the vol-<br />
ume Of the mixed audio signal.<br />
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Lucky C programmers U5e<br />
T h the e story <strong>Amiga</strong> so far •include fi les<br />
to interpret the system data struc-<br />
tures. It may not be generally<br />
known that these goodies are atso<br />
available to Assembler program-<br />
mers after only a very little extra<br />
hassle.<br />
Now read on<br />
Before a Window is opened a<br />
parameter block - or struc-<br />
ture - named New<br />
Window is created for<br />
It and stashed<br />
away In mem-<br />
ory.<br />
Th e<br />
variables<br />
in a struc-<br />
ture ore<br />
always in a<br />
standard Order, the offset of the<br />
BlockPen (say) from the base<br />
Window address <strong>Is</strong> always the<br />
some:<br />
Window on the<br />
world<br />
STRUCTDREET) Nedindov,0<br />
WORD ow_LeftEdge<br />
WORD tu_TopEOON<br />
WORD nu_Vidth<br />
WORD ou_Neight<br />
OTTE ou_DetailPen<br />
OTTE ou_litockPeo<br />
ULONG nu_IDCMPftags<br />
LONG ow_Flags<br />
APTI oujirstGadget<br />
PIN ou_Checkilari<br />
APTI tu_Titie<br />
APTR ou_Screen<br />
PIP no_litNap<br />
WORD roc_Nimilititk<br />
WORD no_Nimlieigilt<br />
WORD no_Nmsitidtb<br />
WORD nvisslielmbt<br />
WORD nm_Type<br />
LABEL no_SIZE<br />
The structure member<br />
nw_BlockPen gives its offset from<br />
the base address of the<br />
NewWindow structure. The<br />
tive addressing:<br />
colour or the BlocirPen -<br />
I hate capital letters<br />
In the middle of a<br />
word! - could be<br />
changed to 3 (say)<br />
usang Assembler's rela-<br />
lea Thelempindou0D<br />
soya.b 13,owilocaPeratin<br />
• •-• oemo n<br />
th • •••<br />
SON<br />
In theory<br />
There is a disc file available<br />
with details of all the intu-<br />
ition structures, together with<br />
the numerical value of any<br />
flags used.<br />
This fi le, intuttion/intultion.l, can<br />
be included in the source code by<br />
a statement at the beginning of<br />
the code. There is a small file called<br />
execitypes.1 that is included first to<br />
interpret the structures in the other<br />
include files. It tells us that a BYTE<br />
Increases the offset by one byte.<br />
and a WORD by two bytes and so<br />
on.<br />
INCLUDE "esecitypes.i"<br />
INCLUDE "imtuition/imtuition.r<br />
That would hove been too easy.<br />
In practice<br />
Unfortunately my assembler used<br />
on an A500 did not have enough-<br />
workspace for the necessary<br />
Include/intuition fie. so I picked out<br />
the structures and fl ags I needed<br />
and added them to the source<br />
code<br />
I included -<br />
the execiex<br />
computer could make sense of<br />
the<br />
eci<br />
reference to MP_SIGBIT in the<br />
-<br />
Window's UserPort.<br />
s o<br />
t h<br />
MADE •elicitypea.1*<br />
INCLUDE a t'eseciesec.i'<br />
I did not need the details of the<br />
Screen or NewScreen structures 0$ I<br />
was not referring to any of the<br />
structure members. I did need the<br />
data itself', with the correct values<br />
to open the screen,<br />
theleoScreen:<br />
dc.0 0 ;LeftEdge<br />
dc.0 0 ;TopEdge<br />
dc,u 320 ;Widtb<br />
dc.0 200 ;Weilist<br />
dc.0 3 ;Ikon<br />
dc.b 1 Oetaitho<br />
dc.b 3 gilociPen<br />
dc.w 0 ;display lodes<br />
dc.v CUSP:IMMO ;screeo Type<br />
dcd 0 ;pointer to custom font<br />
structure<br />
dc.t screentitle ;pointer to<br />
screen tWe<br />
dc.1 D ;pointer to screen<br />
dc,t<br />
;pointer to custom bittap<br />
I needed the data for the<br />
NewWindow, and the data struc-<br />
tures for Window and NewWindow.<br />
For the computer to interpret these<br />
I had to explain the flogs to it<br />
; 11CDP flip used<br />
CLOSEWINDOW equ $00000200<br />
V mdov I legs used<br />
DINDOWSII IR% equ $0001<br />
V1100016 e u $0002<br />
VINDOWIEPTH •qu $0004<br />
1111100PCL05E COU $0008<br />
SUMMIT equ $0010<br />
;NO-Screen flog used<br />
CUSIONSCREED equ $0001<br />
Any structures or flogs could be<br />
defi ned In the source code or in<br />
header files as long as space per-<br />
mits. There is room for creabvtlyi<br />
The include flies directory was<br />
added to the path:<br />
assign INCLUDE:<br />
Lattice_C.0.5:Assembler_Headers<br />
and the option T was used during<br />
the assembly,<br />
elm -ifisseabler_NemdePS/ demo<br />
blink demo.o to demo library<br />
Up and running<br />
The easiest way to open a screen is<br />
to use the intuition Library routine<br />
OpenScreen, with a pointer to a<br />
NewScreen structure (short') which<br />
contains some of the values and<br />
pointers for the screen,<br />
mope .1 intui t on be se<br />
tjsr<br />
_LI011otoScreeniaol fermi<br />
dO,custoastreen<br />
ed<br />
abort<br />
I used the same New Window<br />
structure for each of the three win-<br />
dows.and changed the details<br />
slightly once I had the oddress of<br />
each Windowstructure<br />
Eta TheNeuWinduw<br />
odO,nu_Screenie01<br />
o0 jsr _LOOpenWindouls41 •ove,t<br />
dO,thisoindow<br />
m o v e d<br />
beg abort<br />
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The third window is opened.<br />
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dragged. sized and mode active.<br />
The program only exits when the<br />
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gadget.<br />
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routines from the Intuition library,<br />
but many more ore available,<br />
in the CODECLINIC directory of<br />
the March <strong>Amiga</strong> Comuting support<br />
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intuition librar<br />
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I have listed the input input<br />
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routine<br />
ble) and a short description,<br />
s .<br />
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Studio 24, through its paces<br />
a year and a hat the <strong>Amiga</strong><br />
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exploded,<br />
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and p Master Tracks, it seems almost<br />
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that the <strong>Amiga</strong> was<br />
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considered as something of<br />
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Joining the ranks of such fine<br />
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MIDI i sequencing system from<br />
French t music software publishing<br />
company t Digigram.<br />
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number of years now, but their<br />
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have been previously<br />
unavailable<br />
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to we UK musos. But<br />
now. e in the spirit of 1e92 and ail<br />
that t jazz. UK distribution has been<br />
picked h up by GFA Data Media, a<br />
company a probably better known<br />
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to <strong>Amiga</strong> users for its superb<br />
programming system GFA BASIC<br />
As reported previously in AC.<br />
GFA have taken on the distribution<br />
of a number of Digigram music<br />
products. These include Track 24e<br />
and Studio 24 - both of which are<br />
sequencers - Big Bond and a pow-<br />
erful music scoring pockage called<br />
ProScore<br />
Big Bond and ProScore were<br />
unavailable at the time of going to<br />
press, but you can expect a full<br />
review very soon.<br />
As the name suggests, Studio 24<br />
is a 24 track sequencer. It arrtves in<br />
a vocumn-mouided plastic case<br />
with a single program disk. manual<br />
and a seiection of quick reference<br />
cards.<br />
These unique cards allow you to<br />
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look up many of the program's<br />
major features without the hassle of<br />
flicking through a manual which <strong>Is</strong><br />
certainly a good idea<br />
Key disk protection<br />
Unlike most sequencers these days.<br />
Studio 24 is copy protected. In true<br />
DrI fashion, this takes the form of a<br />
key disk system which requires the<br />
original program disk to be inserted<br />
every time the program is loaded.<br />
even it you Install it on a hard disk! I<br />
think such a system is a real pain.<br />
but there you have it<br />
Once loaded, you'll be greeted<br />
by the first of Studio 24's two<br />
screens. It contains the now familiar<br />
tape transport controls Mat run as<br />
a strip of gadgets along the bottom<br />
of the screen.<br />
These are pretty bog standard -<br />
Play. Record. Fast Forward, Rewind<br />
and so on. but surprisingly there <strong>Is</strong><br />
no Pause button, which is a strange<br />
omission.<br />
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track 23 i • Chord Track which, ..15<br />
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specificcdlif for chords.<br />
When you record chords on to<br />
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and display them complete with<br />
their correct name - C Sharp Moor<br />
or wherever. If you're not too hot<br />
with chords, the chord track also<br />
allows you to enter them with a sin-<br />
gle mouse click<br />
Track 24 is a Melody Track which<br />
can contain Only monophonic<br />
sequences, I can't see any real<br />
point in having it when any one ot<br />
the first 22 could do the job equarty<br />
well.<br />
Most of Studio 24's operations<br />
are pretty standard, but one fea-<br />
ture that is worth mentioning <strong>Is</strong><br />
sequence editing. Studio 24 uses a<br />
score-based editor which displays<br />
your sequences in The traditional<br />
form of minims, crotchets and quavers.<br />
You can edit existing sequences<br />
by moving back and forth through<br />
the sequence using the cursor keys.<br />
You can add notes, delete them,<br />
change the arch and duration of<br />
o selected note and even tie<br />
notes.<br />
Sounds great so far, but for One<br />
major problem - Studio 24 will only<br />
allow you to edit a monophonic<br />
line of notes, not chords. if your<br />
sequence contains chords, the<br />
exit° notes that make them up are<br />
split into their own individual sub-<br />
tracks, or voices as Studio 24 calls<br />
them. Far from perfect. I'm sure<br />
youl agree.<br />
Song editing is even worse. MoSt<br />
sequencers now use some form of<br />
graphical attangement system, but<br />
you'll find no such luxuries within<br />
Studio 24. No sire?. Instead It uses a<br />
rather nett non-graphical system<br />
which is not only afficutt to use, but<br />
also rather inflexible. As a result,<br />
you may well want to stick to the<br />
conventional linear method of<br />
song composition.<br />
Notably missing from Studio 24 is<br />
support for internal <strong>Amiga</strong> samples.<br />
As we all know, the <strong>Amiga</strong> can<br />
produce some pretty stonking<br />
sounds itself, so it's not exactly<br />
unreasonable to expect your<br />
sequencer to support them. As it<br />
you're restricted in your music mak-<br />
ing to those sounds that can be<br />
produced by your MIDI setup.<br />
Sound investment?<br />
Studio 24 definitely shows promise,<br />
but it unfortunately fails to deliver<br />
the kind of sequencing power and<br />
ease of use you'd expect from a<br />
product at this price.<br />
It's got a few nice features -<br />
editing and its unique chord track<br />
spring to mind - but in the end It<br />
cannot hope to compete against<br />
such industry hard hitters as Music-X<br />
and Master Tracks Pro.<br />
If Digigram sold Studio 24 at<br />
something like £50 I could see It<br />
doing well. Unfortunately, there are<br />
just too many other sequencing<br />
systems around that are both<br />
cheaper and tar more powerful. As<br />
It is, Studio 24 <strong>Is</strong> overpriced and<br />
underpowered.<br />
This and the entire range of<br />
Digigram Music software <strong>Is</strong><br />
civcilable tram GFA Data Media<br />
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empty your bank account<br />
Message bases<br />
So what is on offer? By and large.<br />
The most common services around<br />
the world are bulletin boards. These<br />
are computers set up specifi cally<br />
for other computers to call and<br />
exchange Information,<br />
Common topics to be found<br />
online are comms, programming,<br />
sci-fl. television, motoring, religion<br />
and 'adult material', I can't elabo-<br />
rate on the latter. otherwise AC<br />
would be on the top she next to<br />
Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy, but<br />
you can use your imogination.<br />
The information online is gener-<br />
ally split into two categories - mes-<br />
sage bases and file areas,<br />
A message base <strong>Is</strong>, in simple<br />
terms, a series of comments input<br />
by users of the board related to a<br />
particular topic. For example a<br />
base called Red Dwarf would be<br />
the ideal place to muse over how<br />
much you preferred Holly when she<br />
was a man, or how badly treated<br />
poor old Kryten is.<br />
Depending on how advanced<br />
the Elas software is, message bases<br />
can be anything from a simple<br />
series of sequential messages to a<br />
complex web of sub-threads which<br />
can be read or skipped at will.<br />
It is possAole to browse message<br />
bases by following menu options<br />
on screen. Input of messages is usu-<br />
ally via a simple text editor built into<br />
the board.<br />
There ore two different types of<br />
message bases on larger boards:<br />
local ones and the net variety. The<br />
trendy term for a message base is<br />
echo, so If you read someone tak-<br />
ing about an <strong>Amiga</strong> echo they<br />
mean a message area, not some<br />
acoustic phenomenon or a local<br />
newspaper serving the elderly<br />
inhabitants of quaint seaside town<br />
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Local messages are exclusive to<br />
the board you are logged on to,<br />
whereas net echoes go all over the<br />
world. So if you proclaim your love<br />
for Lister in a net echo, the comrns<br />
global village will be asking "What<br />
the heck is Red Dwarf 7' In no<br />
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An <strong>Amiga</strong> 3000 is lost a phone ca ll a wa y<br />
worldwide via an elaborate series<br />
of telephone calls. Each night whiie<br />
the world sleeps, automatic 'net-<br />
ware is busy collecting and for-<br />
warding messages to each board<br />
in the network, Indeed some of the<br />
Inter-net handshaking is positively<br />
masonic at times<br />
Netmall is an exciting concept,<br />
allowing communication with people<br />
all over the world for the cost of<br />
a local call, It's riot in real time, but<br />
<strong>Is</strong> still much faster than writing.<br />
referred to as snail mail by those<br />
with a passion for Jargon.<br />
FOR Alb.<br />
An Interesting point to remem-<br />
ber <strong>Is</strong> that you don't always hove<br />
to be logged on to a board in<br />
order to read and reply to mes-<br />
sages. B e r equipped boards<br />
Often off ec the ability to compress<br />
unread messages into a single the<br />
for you td download beta<br />
ging oft<br />
Using salecial offl ine read -<br />
ware. it is possible to decompress,<br />
read and reply to messages. Ater<br />
keying in replies, the °Mine reocer<br />
software Compresses them into a<br />
packet for uploading the next time<br />
you logon.<br />
When the board receives the<br />
packet from you It unorchives all<br />
your prepared messages and posts<br />
them to 'he relevant people and<br />
echoes 'his type of message reed-<br />
ing is known as blinking, It makes a<br />
great deal of sense, saving you<br />
phone tme and allowing Other<br />
callers to get on to the board.<br />
File AraOS are libraries of com-<br />
puter programs stored on the EBs<br />
for Its callet5 to download andlin,<br />
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Again, these programs can be<br />
about anything and everything,<br />
Files are downloaded using protocols.<br />
These are universal transfer<br />
standards designed to allow reli-<br />
able exchange of data between<br />
two points,<br />
A wide choice of protocols are<br />
mailable. By for the most common<br />
these days are Xmoclem and<br />
Zmodem. The newer the protocol.<br />
the faster your data transfer will be.<br />
The main thing to remember<br />
about protocols is that they have<br />
to match at eoch end of the link. It<br />
is no good attempting to initiate a<br />
file transfer if your comms software,<br />
or the board, doesn't support the<br />
protocol you ore trying to use. The<br />
g-<br />
motto with BBs is most certainly<br />
"give and take',<br />
It's ail very well to phone a few<br />
bulletin boards, read the messages<br />
and download any files you fancy,<br />
but sooner or later you will be<br />
expected to contribute. Not fi nan-<br />
cially, but with a little time and<br />
effort.<br />
Message bases aren't really<br />
much good Without messages. so It<br />
<strong>Is</strong> up to the boores callers to fi ll<br />
them up, Similarly, File areas are<br />
pretty pointless If they are devoid<br />
or files. For this reason most boards<br />
insist that you upload a fi le for<br />
every few you download.<br />
After sampling a few boards, It <strong>Is</strong><br />
more than likely that you will con-<br />
sider staffing one yourself, I have to<br />
be honest and admit that I am by<br />
and large unimpressed with the<br />
standard of most non-commercial<br />
BBs running in the UK<br />
The tile areas tend to consist of a<br />
selection of dog-eared PD and<br />
shareware programs, while the<br />
message bases are more often<br />
than not just a total waste Of lime<br />
Smaller boards<br />
There ore exceptions, of course. A<br />
good large scale setup is London-<br />
based 01 For <strong>Amiga</strong> Tony Miller is<br />
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lent multi-line service. That evasive<br />
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Smaller, single line boards<br />
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With the possible exception of<br />
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most <strong>Amiga</strong> BBS host software is<br />
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ule<br />
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•<br />
C<br />
1<br />
it<br />
Lind<br />
99<br />
After flipping BOBs last month,<br />
Peter Hickman gives SPRITES the same<br />
treatment and looks at interlaced mode<br />
I<br />
S OMAR E<br />
I<br />
'<br />
Y<br />
C<br />
Z<br />
3<br />
1<br />
Levelt3<br />
School 3 (Under Ss only) is<br />
T now complete and should<br />
be n available by the time you read<br />
this.<br />
e<br />
t<br />
I wrote it In AMOS, so if any of<br />
h<br />
you e ore lucky enough to pick up<br />
one C of the little beastles you can<br />
see D just how versatile this language<br />
Treally<br />
is.<br />
V Alter oil, it people are using It to<br />
v<br />
write multimedia applications now<br />
e<br />
r<br />
what will they be doing in another<br />
s<br />
six months?<br />
i While on the subject ot educa-<br />
otional<br />
software. Gary Symons, who<br />
n wrote the AMOS assembler, is cur-<br />
O<br />
rently working on a secret project<br />
t<br />
for Mandarin.<br />
R<br />
I don't know exactly what It wil<br />
V<br />
turn out like, but the ST version <strong>Is</strong><br />
pretty good and could re-defi ne<br />
The standards for learning tools on<br />
all micros.<br />
I would have loved to bring you<br />
a preview of the compiler this<br />
month, unfortunately Francois<br />
Uonet is adding some extra fea-<br />
tures so you will have to wait until<br />
next time.<br />
I have been speaking to<br />
Francois and he says that when<br />
programs are compiled they will<br />
retain all of the multi-tasking capa-<br />
bilities of AMOS. Sounds great.<br />
huh'<br />
Lastly on the news front. TOME<br />
(the TOtal Mop Editor) is now com-<br />
plete. The fi nal package will be<br />
available from mid-March. and the<br />
I<br />
MLevel<br />
41<br />
O<br />
,<br />
2<br />
manual has been written by me. so<br />
lt must be good,<br />
Seriously though, tt is an excel-<br />
lent product and deserves the sw-<br />
port of all programmers, not just<br />
AMOS ones. You can find out more<br />
about TOME by writing to the<br />
AMOS club (the address came<br />
with AMOS).<br />
Now on with the programming<br />
In the last issue we looked at fl ip-<br />
ping BOBs. I hope you all saw and<br />
understood what I was going on<br />
about 'cos I'm gonna start off this<br />
column with examples of fl ipping<br />
SPRITES.<br />
First we must load a SPRITE bank<br />
from the AMOS extras disk, so stick<br />
It in the drive and press escape to<br />
go to direct mode.<br />
Load:<br />
"AMOLESTRAS:SPAIT(.600,SPACE/SNIP1.ABS"<br />
OK. now let's clear the screen<br />
and do some SPRITES. Flash off :<br />
Curs Off : Cts D Get Sprite Palette<br />
Sprite 1,200,1%1<br />
There are two ways to fl ip this<br />
imoge. The first is quite complicat-<br />
ed and involves using BOBs. so I<br />
think we will skip that for the time<br />
being.<br />
The second method is to flip the<br />
Image inside the bank using the<br />
Paste Bob command.<br />
To do this we must use the<br />
Hrev/Vrev in the some way as we<br />
DATABASE<br />
SO- MARE<br />
Poste Bob 500,90,Vrev(1)<br />
Sprite 1,2(10050,1<br />
The infest In<br />
tl •xcenent Fun<br />
School series<br />
saw last month, only we wi;I position<br />
the BOB off the screen<br />
Simple. <strong>Is</strong>n't it? And now we<br />
have a reversed image which we<br />
can move around if we wonted to,<br />
and there is no need to touch the<br />
Paste Bob command ever again<br />
(well, not unless you wanted to flip<br />
It once again)<br />
Anyway, that's the SPRITE5 over<br />
and done with.<br />
Now now about taking a look<br />
at the very latest version of AMOS<br />
1,23 specifically Interlaced mode.<br />
For those of you who don't know<br />
too many technical details about<br />
the Amigo, interlacing is a method<br />
of doubling the amount of informa<br />
lion which can be displayed verti-<br />
cally on the screen.<br />
There is a limit to the amount of<br />
Information which can be shown<br />
on a normal monitor because they<br />
ate actually too slowl<br />
So to double the amount of stuff<br />
that can be shown the <strong>Amiga</strong><br />
takes a single screen and passes<br />
the Information to the monitor in<br />
two sweeps, each encompassing<br />
every other line.<br />
So for the first sweep lines 3, 5,<br />
7, 9. 10. 11. 13 etc. ate shown. fol-<br />
lowed by lines 2. 4. 6, 8, 10, 12, INs<br />
<strong>Is</strong> the reason you get a flicker when<br />
In Interlaced mode - incidentally<br />
the flicker is almost non-existent on<br />
NISC machines 'cos they work<br />
faster. That is simplifying things a<br />
little, but true principle is sound.<br />
If you are lucky enough to own<br />
a Flicker Fixer or an A3000 the<br />
<strong>Amiga</strong> could de-interlace the<br />
screens and pass them to the mon-<br />
itor in one go<br />
Untortunately you need a very<br />
expensive multi-sync monitor to<br />
cope with those sorts of speeds, so<br />
you can see that interlacing is a bit<br />
of a compromise between resolu-<br />
tion and quality (and migraines).<br />
OK. to see what difference there<br />
<strong>Is</strong> to our display when compared to<br />
a normal screen, go to direct<br />
mode and type:<br />
Screen Open 0,321420D,16,Aoures<br />
'AMIGA COMPUTING"<br />
Right. now that we have a normal<br />
sized default screen let's com-<br />
pare it to an interlaced one'<br />
Screen Open D,320,200,16, LAcedeboores<br />
"AMIGA COUNTING"<br />
You will see that I have changed<br />
the last parameter t o<br />
Laced+Lowies. which tells AMOS<br />
that we wont a lowres Interlaced<br />
screen. You will also notice that the<br />
same number of vertical lines as<br />
the first screen are being displayed<br />
in half the space. Also check the<br />
flicker,<br />
Now one problem with this<br />
mode is that when you set up a sin-<br />
gle Interlaced screen all other<br />
screens which you may be display-<br />
ing are automatically -<br />
switched<br />
into interlaced mode These are<br />
-not<br />
true Interlaced screens - they<br />
just flicker tot the hell Of it!<br />
You can display some excellent<br />
quality pictures in this mode, so do<br />
make use of it. But don't even think<br />
about doing a game in interlaced.<br />
It's just too slow.<br />
Something which you might like<br />
to dwell on is that perhaps in the<br />
future FrOnC0115 Uonet will include a<br />
facility to use some of the new<br />
screen modes thought up by com-<br />
panies such as Newtek. the people<br />
who make the fabo digitisers.<br />
• Anyway that's it for this time.<br />
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screens, but it is possible to create<br />
a display using some routines from<br />
the graphics library known as<br />
graphics primitives,<br />
This system gives you more<br />
freedom, more control. and a<br />
little more hassle.it<br />
would be possible<br />
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books on the sub-<br />
ject of how the dis-<br />
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Kemal Manual- Libraries and<br />
Devices.<br />
The <strong>Amiga</strong> coprocessor - or<br />
copper - produces its video dis-<br />
plays on IV screens or moni-<br />
tors using raster display<br />
te<br />
The<br />
ture consists of a<br />
series of horizontal<br />
lines stacked on top<br />
of each other.<br />
Changes can be mode plc-<br />
to the display when the<br />
beam is going from left to right as it<br />
is turned off on the flyback, When<br />
the beam reaches the bottom<br />
right hand corner of the screen it<br />
flies back to the top left hand corner.<br />
In a multitasking environment<br />
each program can have direct<br />
control over the copper and ther-<br />
fore over the whole display or<br />
View.<br />
The View can be divided Into<br />
one or more viewports, each of<br />
which <strong>Is</strong> the equivalent of on<br />
intuition screen. Each viewport has<br />
its own display resolutions, colours<br />
and special features. Unlike<br />
Intuition screens they can all be dis-<br />
played at once.<br />
Because of hardware limitations,<br />
segments of differing display<br />
modes ore confi ned to horizontal<br />
stripes that extend across the com-<br />
plete width of the screen.Each<br />
vlewport completes a horizontal<br />
segment. and they are separated<br />
from each other by at least one<br />
blank line.<br />
Images are created by drawing<br />
Into a computer memory area so<br />
that the system can retrieve the<br />
data for the display.The system<br />
software allows you to defi ne linear<br />
memory as rectangular regions<br />
called bit planes.<br />
It <strong>Is</strong> necessary to tell the system<br />
the dimensions and ioco-<br />
tion of these bitplanes.<br />
This is a pain but there is<br />
the advan-<br />
tage of keep-<br />
ing several<br />
displays i n<br />
memory at the<br />
same time,<br />
The colour of each pixel<br />
is related to the value of<br />
one or more data bits in<br />
memory. To create multicoloured<br />
images, the system must be told<br />
how many bit are required per<br />
pixel.<br />
In my first Viewporffbiue), I have<br />
used eight colours and three bit-<br />
planes, and the system retrieves<br />
one data bit from each bitplane.<br />
For each pixel data bits in the<br />
same horizontal and vertical posi-<br />
tion ore combined by the system<br />
to create a binary value which<br />
determines the display color for<br />
that pixel.<br />
The system uses a structure<br />
called a bitmap which con-<br />
tains the height, width and<br />
which is I<br />
mand in<br />
first vie<br />
Each<br />
default v<br />
eters are<br />
Each<br />
Rosinfo s<br />
taining<br />
sect using the<br />
mond GetColorMap which will<br />
allocate space for a colourtnaP<br />
and retum a pointer to<br />
and linked t<br />
ort <strong>Is</strong> initalised<br />
arid Its own p<br />
d later<br />
art ne<br />
bitmap<br />
plane in ation,<br />
the view has d p<br />
fields the • T o y<br />
0 pointer the R next Rasinto..<br />
which ha<br />
bilmap.<br />
The pi<br />
a<br />
pointer to the<br />
s<br />
i<br />
n in memory c e<br />
larger MI f e screen imag y<br />
creating o op larger than e<br />
siiewport area. c The Rasinfo<br />
o<br />
tie position hastleffset3 a display<br />
n for to the the r e<br />
t<br />
plete picture. In this example e<br />
a<br />
bitpianes are<br />
i<br />
the same size cs e<br />
viewports and n the offsets are<br />
Left to Itself s the system will<br />
default colours. There is a<br />
se<br />
The ccdourmap has a pointe0 to<br />
the coloorroap's colourtable, and<br />
the desired colours can be copied<br />
frit° this data structure.<br />
Each bltmap <strong>Is</strong> initallsed<br />
depth of the bitplanes and<br />
,<br />
where they are in<br />
.<br />
r e q u i r e d<br />
memory.<br />
i<br />
wicith,height<br />
The display is<br />
created from a set<br />
of instructions in<br />
the view structure.<br />
s<br />
i<br />
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I<br />
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and depth as<br />
Inputs. The command<br />
Alloc-<br />
Paster is used to<br />
Height how ffi ltly video lines<br />
t<br />
Width<br />
B<br />
320 pixels in low res, 640 in high res<br />
i<br />
Next pointer to the next Vewport<br />
t<br />
s; EXIALPF for two separately controlled M playfields<br />
PFBA the second playfield atakes<br />
precedence<br />
HIRES more precise horizontally p WO pixels)<br />
LACE interlaced display mode w HAM hold and<br />
modify colours<br />
i<br />
SPRITES<br />
VP-HIDE<br />
t<br />
hardware sprites<br />
h<br />
Obscures the viewport<br />
t<br />
ColortAop nos a pointer to the colour fable hof<br />
up to 32 colours. Three<br />
bitplanes would use colour, registers e 0-7, five bitplanes reg-<br />
1111111,<br />
isters 0-31. Dual playfielcis of three bhplanes each would<br />
Rosinfo<br />
use registers 0-7 for the first playfield and 8-1<br />
. ond.<br />
5 pointer for to the t hPasinto e stucture. s e c -<br />
allocate each bitplane and the<br />
returned e pointers are linked to the<br />
btmop.<br />
Now that all the data structures<br />
are complete the command<br />
MakeVPort asks the system to<br />
make a set of display instruc-<br />
ViewPort.<br />
tions - or copper list -<br />
from the structures in<br />
the Viewport. This has to<br />
be done for each<br />
The command MrgCop<br />
merges these copper lists into a<br />
single instruction list. LoadView<br />
turns on direct memory access<br />
(DMA) and the display will be<br />
shown on the screen. Any fl icker<br />
can be reduced by waiting for the<br />
beam to reach the top of the<br />
ftame.<br />
Each ccea can have its own set<br />
of drawing instructions, or RastPort<br />
structure. InitRastPort puts in default<br />
values and when the RastPort has<br />
been linked to Its bitmap it is possi-<br />
ble to use the Graphics Library<br />
drawing commands.<br />
The listed program first saves the<br />
address of the old view using the<br />
gb-ActiView offset from the graph-<br />
icsbase. The view is initalised and<br />
three viewports produced.<br />
The first viewport is 48 lines high<br />
with eight blue colours and three<br />
bitplanes. The second <strong>Is</strong> 100 lines<br />
high with dual red and grey play-<br />
fields, The third viewport is 48 lines<br />
high with 32 green colours and 5<br />
bltplanes.<br />
The drawing routines have been<br />
used to produce a series of rectan-<br />
gles on the screen. In the second<br />
viewport the grey piayfl eld <strong>Is</strong> domi-<br />
nant except for transparant areas<br />
of colour zero.<br />
There is a short delay before the<br />
first eight colours of each viewport<br />
are cycled, and another delay<br />
before the program releases the<br />
allocated memory, replaces the<br />
old View, and exits.<br />
The support disc Includes the<br />
source and object code for this<br />
program and a list of documented<br />
routines from the graphics library,<br />
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Money for nothing?<br />
How. it you ore riot allowed to sett PEI disks. do<br />
the various PD companies survive? How can<br />
they afford to advertise in your magazine and<br />
send people glossy catalogues?<br />
Are all these things accounted for In the<br />
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Can e anyone start o Pt) service or is there some<br />
kind x of licence?<br />
p<br />
Finally why have you stopped putting in the<br />
e<br />
marks for games that you review'?<br />
n<br />
s Keep up the good work, your magazine is<br />
97 e per cent<br />
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PD a Libraries should not exist to make a profit<br />
r<br />
but it is reasonable to expect a small sur-<br />
e<br />
charge for any disks ordered, to cover<br />
a<br />
postage, , deplication time, administration and<br />
the l like.<br />
i As libraries get bigger they can make<br />
economies, k<br />
buying disks, envelopes and even<br />
postage e in bulk. This somehmes leads to a little<br />
slush<br />
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fund, which can be blown on extrava-<br />
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gances<br />
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like wages and even the odd odvert or<br />
two.<br />
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a You don't need a licence to set up a PD<br />
library, g lust a lot of time and energy to do it<br />
Proem* e<br />
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We fold our games reviewers that they<br />
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could have their ioyshcks back if they started<br />
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putting<br />
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scores on again - seems to do the trick,<br />
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that free software should be free<br />
Everyone f talks about wonderful PD software<br />
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saying that its free, but everywhere you look<br />
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someone<br />
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<strong>Is</strong> selling it for around 9.3 a disk.<br />
. I think this <strong>Is</strong> very wrong. To change this,<br />
myself ? and a few friends have decided to run<br />
a public domain club which will supply PD for<br />
nothing<br />
J Duncan, Kent<br />
It's a very nice Idea, something for nothing.<br />
However, you will have significant expenses to<br />
consider. Where, for example are you going to<br />
find money for disks and posioge?<br />
PO software should be free, that doesn't<br />
mean that the media and handling <strong>Is</strong>. £3 a disk<br />
<strong>Is</strong> a lad on the pricey side though, so shop<br />
around.<br />
Better still, call a bulletin board and the only<br />
cost Involved could be a local phone call. If<br />
you are serious about being a PD supplier.<br />
maybe you should consider starting a board.<br />
Limited edition<br />
I was torn between upgrading my <strong>Amiga</strong> 500<br />
Into an A1500 expansion box with a hard disk<br />
or exchanging my <strong>Amiga</strong> 500 for<br />
<strong>Commodore</strong> <strong>Amiga</strong> 1500.<br />
After talking at some length to a<br />
<strong>Commodore</strong> representative, I was told that the<br />
Al 500 was a brand new machine, idealy suit-<br />
ed for games and business use,<br />
On arriving home and unpacking the sys-<br />
Write to Ezra Surf, <strong>Amiga</strong> <strong>Computing</strong>, Europa House, Adlington Park,<br />
tem, I find on the bock an A2000 label. It<br />
would appear that all <strong>Commodore</strong> hove done<br />
is rebadge an <strong>Amiga</strong> 2000 and put in a second<br />
disk drive.<br />
They have called it almost the same as on<br />
expansion unit developed by a third party to<br />
ensure confusion. Have they done this<br />
because they could not think of casing an<br />
A500 in such a professional way?<br />
I have since returned my <strong>Amiga</strong> 1500/2000.<br />
and purchased an A1500 limited expansion<br />
system, with which I am very happy.<br />
Lorraine FOrlia, Middlesex<br />
You are correct in asserting that the <strong>Amiga</strong><br />
1500 is a rebadged dual fl oppy 2000<br />
<strong>Commodore</strong> have never really claimed otherwise,<br />
The 1500 package is Ideally suited for<br />
games and business use. Al £999 including<br />
colour monitor, it is the bargain of the decade<br />
so far.<br />
The third party A1500 allows you to separate<br />
the <strong>Amiga</strong> keyboard and main processor box,<br />
but you don't have the advantage of several<br />
expansion siots and an up-rated power supply<br />
unit.<br />
Most people are actually pleased to find<br />
that they have bought a 2000 in disguise. You<br />
though obviously feel you hove been conned<br />
by <strong>Commodore</strong>.<br />
The A1500 was a logical name for CBM to<br />
Choose for the package, ills after all In-<br />
between the 500 and the 2000, and the A1000<br />
has been and gone. A1500 sounds more like a<br />
<strong>Commodore</strong> name to me than a third party<br />
one.<br />
I hope you and your A1500 limited expan-<br />
sion have many happy hours together - it too,<br />
is a worthwhile product in its own light<br />
Arresting reading<br />
I've just been into the shop which sells your<br />
magazine As I was glancing through it I decid-<br />
ed I wanted it I searched through my pockets<br />
and realised I didn't have enough money to<br />
buy It, so I stole it,<br />
When I got home I put the disk into my paid<br />
for computer and gasped! Tremendous'<br />
incrediblel<br />
The mag and disk are excellent value for<br />
money. The trouble is my family won't let me<br />
on the computer. Now I'm wondering where I<br />
con get c2.95 for the next <strong>Is</strong>sue.<br />
I shall hove to stop the kids' spending<br />
money for my next issue. Keep up the good<br />
work. And for obvious reasons please don't<br />
print my real name.<br />
Bill Sykes, Bradford.<br />
I assume you realise that if the barcode on the<br />
front cover isn't scanned by your newsagent, a<br />
rattier curious virus is let loose on your system?<br />
II systematically causes you to form an<br />
addiction to the magazine which is so powerful<br />
that you can't help but subscribe<br />
Seriously though, <strong>Amiga</strong> <strong>Computing</strong> is not<br />
<strong>Amiga</strong> computing 1<br />
1 9
public domaini If you did steal us, please<br />
don't try It again.<br />
It <strong>Is</strong> only a matter of time before you get<br />
caught and then it will be more than fi nding<br />
£2.95 you will have to worry about.<br />
Play the game<br />
I read with anger The letter by Chris Webb In<br />
issue 29 of <strong>Amiga</strong> <strong>Computing</strong> concerning his<br />
views on the software industry.<br />
Although everyone is entitled to their own<br />
opinion. I think Mr Webb was totally unfair in<br />
his assessment that 99.9 per cent of <strong>Amiga</strong><br />
games are trash.<br />
True, there is and always will be some rub-<br />
bish on the market, but he has obviously riot<br />
experienced the delights of the classics like<br />
Dungeon Master. Gettysburg and Power<br />
Monger.<br />
It he has played 999 per cent of all games<br />
on the market he is either very rich or a soft-<br />
ware pirate Therefore. I can only assume he is<br />
commenting on games he has never seen<br />
before, let alone played, and thus has no<br />
dear idea of what he is talking about<br />
Stuart Hardy, Sheffield<br />
You don't have to play a game to get on Idea<br />
of whether you will like it Of not.<br />
Some people simply detest games. For<br />
these demented creatures, even the most<br />
technically stunning release will fall to raise<br />
the slightest tingle of emotion in their trigger<br />
ringer.<br />
Of course not all <strong>Amiga</strong> games are trash It<br />
they were people wouldn't be able to tell the<br />
<strong>Amiga</strong> apart from that ST things/.<br />
Excellent review<br />
I enjoyed your review of the wonderful<br />
Excellence! wordprocessing program in The<br />
March issue. Your praise of it was well earned,<br />
but one part of the review was misleading.<br />
You criticise the lock of on overtype facile?,<br />
welch you say is missing from the program. In<br />
fact this is not the case as by simply highlight-<br />
ing the text that you wish to overtype and<br />
then entering the new text, the program<br />
replaces The old with the new.<br />
It must be just about The best worciproces-<br />
sor available on the <strong>Amiga</strong> and readers<br />
shouldn't be put off by the price. there are<br />
some very good mall order deals available.<br />
The only trouble that I have with it is that I<br />
spend time exploring its capabilities that I<br />
should be using for wreirig<br />
D M Fieldhouse, Liverpool<br />
The process of highlighting a text block with<br />
the mouse and then replacing it by typing in<br />
new text isn't strictly speaking an overtype<br />
mode. For example, anyone who uses a<br />
wordprocessor for long periods of time and<br />
who requires speed above all else, the use of<br />
the mouse is a no-no.<br />
When using Protest, for instance, I confi gure<br />
It to Overwrite mode instead of Insert. That<br />
way If I make a mistake in typing, which I<br />
often do and which I usually notice as It's<br />
120 <strong>Amiga</strong> <strong>Computing</strong><br />
Snail mail mouse<br />
I am writing to you to tell my woeful story<br />
about a Naksha mouse.<br />
It all began when I ordered the little<br />
chap from a mail order company called<br />
Microsmart. This was In about November.<br />
1990.<br />
By January this year I had not received<br />
the product, nor any message from the<br />
company, so I wrote to them expressing my<br />
annoyance, and asking them what had<br />
happened.<br />
I tried to contact them by telephone, but<br />
all I got was their ansaphone. Finally. I wrote<br />
them another letter. The result'? Nothing.<br />
What can I do apart from fume with the<br />
POO( quality of the mouse that I got with my<br />
<strong>Amiga</strong> 500 which I bought a year ago.<br />
Yours feeling peeved, to put it mildly<br />
. lain Chambers, Peterborough.<br />
Yours is just one of many mall order gripes I<br />
receive in the postbag every month.<br />
Although we do our best to ensure that<br />
each of our odvertisers is honest, legal and<br />
decent, we cannot really check out the service<br />
offered on an individual basis.<br />
I gave Microsmart a quick ring to see<br />
what the problem was with your order. They<br />
told me that your rodent started scurrying it<br />
way to Peterborough the day before you<br />
called.<br />
Your original order 'tom November last<br />
year apparently got a little lost in the pre-<br />
Christmas stampede, for which they are<br />
sorry.<br />
You have every right to be a bit peeved,<br />
but hopefully similar things won't happen<br />
again. Hope you think the mouse was worth<br />
the watt.<br />
done. I can type straight over the top alit with-<br />
out having to delete or resort to the mouse.<br />
I'm glad you liked the review, and we did,<br />
as you say, conclude that Excellence 2,0 is<br />
one of the best on the market. As tor the price.<br />
we quote the IMP as It would be unfair to a<br />
product to quote the cheapest price we could<br />
find. Hope you continue to enjoy exploring you<br />
wordprocessoes power (and buying our mog •<br />
Ed).<br />
Fair shares all round<br />
I know you regularly print such statements. but<br />
I'd like to make a point about shareware.<br />
Always pay for any shareware you end up<br />
keeping and using. If you don't, the people<br />
who write It will have to find some other way to<br />
make a living and won t be able to update<br />
their programs, or create new ones.<br />
You may save a bit in the short term, but<br />
you'll lose in the end and end up paying for<br />
software you may never use because there<br />
are no good shareware alternatives available.<br />
The UK has a poor reputation for this. Come<br />
on fellow Brits. let's show the Yanks that we're<br />
just as honest as they are.<br />
Finally.i know that you manage to pock as<br />
much quality into your slimmer mog as your<br />
biggest rival, but my latest copy has pages 67<br />
through 101 missing. Con you help?<br />
Bill Dawson, Southampton.<br />
I can't agree more on what you ore saying<br />
about shareware.<br />
Yes we do print letters like yours regularly,<br />
but it is always worth reminding people to put<br />
their money where their mouse is.<br />
I am sure most people intend to cough up<br />
for the software. but never quite gel around to<br />
it. There is no excuse for not going to the bank<br />
and sorting out a money order tomorrow, so<br />
do it people!<br />
As lot the mystery of the missing pages, I<br />
wonder it Bill Sykes uses the same newsagent<br />
as you?<br />
Stealing an entire magazine is utterly<br />
pedestrian compared to the style and nerve<br />
required to make Ott with lust the pages of<br />
interest.<br />
Consider the missing pages in the post. I<br />
might even send a complete magazine.<br />
Trojan Trauma?<br />
I recently purchased a copy of <strong>Amiga</strong><br />
<strong>Computing</strong> issue ed. On the CoverDisk was a<br />
program called •Kill Da Virus'. I installed this<br />
program on al my bootable disks.<br />
Since doing this I have had nothing but<br />
trouble with a virus called 'Smiley Cancer'<br />
which turns the mouse pointer into a face and<br />
has corrupted much of my public domain.<br />
It seems to me that The only place this virus<br />
could have come from is your CoverDisk as I<br />
have had no trouble of this kind before, I<br />
would like to know if you hove received any<br />
other complaints of this nature.<br />
I will not be buying your magazine again<br />
until this matter is sorted out, If I do not hear<br />
from you I wil have to write to another magazine.<br />
Ian Similan, Sheffield.<br />
The Amigo <strong>Computing</strong> CoverDisk was not the<br />
source of the virus you are afflicted with,<br />
Our erstwhile disk editor. Stevie Kennedy<br />
assures me that the AC disks are so clean you<br />
could eat your dinner off them.<br />
We are nol a virus carrier Any allegation<br />
that our magazine distributes these anti-social<br />
beasties will, quite rightly, be taken very seri-<br />
ously by our readers.<br />
It is important to be sure of your facts before<br />
Initiating such grave rumours,
Otters sueiact<br />
to avaiiabiiity<br />
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