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1. CONTENTS 

REGULARS 

What's new 

If it's happening, its here Four pages packed 7 

with the very latest Amiga news 

Beginner's Guide: CU 

Stovio Kennedy s beginner's guide to the 4 3 

Amigos operating system continues 

Public Domain 

Paul Austin's monthly free for ail. The best 

Public Domain and shareware showcased 

Technical f 

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Make Ezra's day and 'say It with wOrds 

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Mother batch of your letters get opened.... 

THE GAMES ZONE 

rrie ..„e.ction of Amiga Con putmg that takes having 

fun seriously is bursting at the seams with many new 

features The official Amiga chart, percentage scores 

and the ultimate 

accolade - The ACJ 

award Get your 

Joystick ready 

to do baltiel 4 7 

Our resident 

AMOS guru 

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FEATURES 

Tower of Babel 

Linking easy with a Psion our CoverDisk Organiser giveaway to your Amiga is 1 4 

Modem operandi 

Eddie proves McKenaricles price is no guide look to at performance 

four modems 3 0 

Getting the message 

8 5 Scala both as isn't Eddie a titer, McKendrick nor is Ito slide reveois show, It's 6 5 

Thrifty titler 

Paul Austin looks at possibly the best value 6 9 

nigh quality titling software available 

The WorkStation 

If you have ever cursed the Amiga 

Workbench, this is an otter you Just can't miss ....70 

Words on one drive 

Word processing is now within easy 

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Amiga Computing 5

Five years to the month after Protext version I was 

launched Arnor ore pleased to present version 5, on enormous leap 

forward in both ease of use and performance. 

Protext 5.0 introduces a completely integrated system of pull down menus 

ond dialogue boxes. The menus are among the mony operations that may now 

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

you the best of both worlds. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

earlier versions from 1.0 onwards. 

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

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

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

Format, ST User). 

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

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

27 different languages and has 10 

different notional keyboard layouts 

built in (phis the capability to . define 

your own symbols and 

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with mouse or keyboard. Amiga version 

folows Intuition guidelines, 

Enhanced printing capabilties supports multiple proportional fonts; mixing of 

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

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

centre labs. Extensive range of printer drivers supplied, 

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and contents generation. Indexer takes marked words or phrases, contents 

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of contents output. 

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fast phonetic lookup. Anagrams and find word patern. Foreign language didionories 

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

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

timed save; add column or row of figures: indent labs; find word at cursor: 40 column 

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

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

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

plus new tutorial guide. 

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

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

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

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

Protext 5.0 may be purchase(' from any good computer shop or directly from Amor, Upgrades from earlier versions 

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

PC Amiga ST/IT Archimedes 

Protext 5.0 £149.95 E149.95 E149.95 

Upgrade from v4•2 E60 E60 E60 

From earlier versions £75 E15 EFS 

Pr °text 4.2 99.95 £99.95 [99.95 

Prodato 1.1 £19.95 E19.95 [79 95 9 

Notes 

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Piotext 4,2 requires at least 5121( of memory on all machines 

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Computer 

of the year? 

TOP computer publications in both 

Greece and Italy have named the 

Amiga 500 as their choice for 

Home Computer of the Year in the 

European Computer Leisure 

Awards 1991. They have also 

chosen Amiga Vision a s 

Multimedia Package of the Year. 

Now in their second year. the 

awards are being run in COniUnC- 

lion with the European Computer 

Tiede Show to be held at London's 

Business Design Centre from April 

14 to 16. 

This year, Amigo ComputMg is 

one of the offi cial UK sponsors of 

the awards and we have now 

made our nominations in the 

Amiga categories, Nominated for 

Best Art Package is Disney 

Software's Animation Studio; Best 

Music Package, Gajlt's Sequencer 

One, Best Home Education 

Pockage, Fun School 3; Best Home 

Productivity Package, Protext 5 

from Amor; and Most Innovative 

Peripheral. Newteles Video Toaster. 

Our nominations will Join those 

from top magazines in nine 

European countries to go forward 

for the fi nal Judging at the 

European Computer Trode Show 

with a gettering presentation night 

at London's top night spot The 

Hippodrome on April 14. 

Budget trio 

launched 

THREE Mies are to receive the bud- 

get treatment on Digital Inte- 

gration's Action Sixteen label. 

Previously issued at full price. 

Sherman M4. Kult and North & 

South will each sell for E7.99. 

Sherman M4 is Loriciers tank 

simulation featuring World War 

battles, authentic tanks and 

weaponry and Kuit is infogrames 

Amiga helps Gulf effort? 

STAFF Sergeant Waugh, of 58 

Battery, 12 AD Regiment, Royal 

ArtiNery. Is a happy man. 

He's written to us from the Gulf 

where, among other things of 

course, he's apparently man- 

aged to continue a relationship 

with his trusty Amiga. 

In a letter dated March 12, 

written in Kuwait. he expresses his 

thanks to Page One Public 

Domain who recently sent some 

clip art disks to him in the Gulf at 

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Gulf, tool 

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All this, and a successful con- 

clusion to the war for the Allies, 

SSgt Waugh (we haven't dis- 

covered his first name yet - we'd 

like him to get in touch with more 

Information about the Amiga s 

precise role in the Gulf) adds: 

The disks ore very good and 

great value for money, and I 

would recommend them to any- 

one who requires clip art. - 

Take a bow, Public Domain. 

WHAT'S 

icon-driven adventure which chal- 

lenges players to solve puzzles in 

The Five Ordeals 

Also a former Infogrames hit, 

North & South Is set in the 

American Civil War featuring 

battles on a variety of different 

levels and scenarios. Action 

Sixteen ore on 0276 684959, 

Perfectly satisfied 

WHILE 199D saw the recession start 

to bite for many companies, 

WordPerfect report that their total 

UK sales lost year were 73 per cent 

up on 1989. 

The WordPerfect Corporation 

achieved sales of $452 million for 

1990 - an increase of 61 per cent 

on 1989. Since 1979. sales have 

now passed the one billion dollar 

mark 

'Alio 'Allo - French 

buy Palace 

PALACE Software has gone continental, 

Paris-based Leisure 

Holding, which owns French 

games publisher Titus, has bought 

the entire entertainment software 

division of the Palace fi lm and 

video organisation for an undisclosed 

sum, 

No immediate changes are 

planned at Palace Software. 

which publishes titles such as 

Dragon's Breath and International 

3D Tennis. 

There are no plans for a merger 

with Titus, best known in Britain tor 

games like Crazy Cars. 

Palace Group managing direc- 

tor Chris Crab says the software 

division needed more specifi c 

direction than could be given by 

Palace, which is concentrating on 

the expansion of the movie and 

TV production areas. 

CDTV set to break 

the sound barrier 

AMIGA C o m p u t in g h a s h a d co n - 

firmation from Commodore UK 

that their long awaited multimedia 

system, CDTV. will be offi - 

cially launched at the end of 

AO. 

CDTV h a s b e e n vict im o f 

numerous prelaunch delays and 

Using frisk loa f 0:ind bere is)1 0 got into gss French mood - Poloce Sottwor• stott 

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WHAT'S 

• industry speculation. It would now 

appear that Commodore are 

ready to bring their fl edgling multi- 

media product to the market, 

The price point has been a 

matter of intense speculation over 

the last six months, All CBM's tight- 

lipped public relations company 

were prepared to concede was 

that the unit would weigh in with a 

sub-c.,600 tag Other Industry 

sources have hinted at £399 as a 

probable price. 

Commodore spokesman 

Andrew Ball also confi rmed that a 

CDTV externol drive for the A500 

will be available soon. The unit, 

referred to internally at CBM as the 

A690, is expected to be available 

at the end of May. 

The most recent demonstration 

of the CDTVrs capability was on 

the BBC's Tomorrows World 

science programme last month. 

A new sound encoding tech- 

nique developed by Roland, 

called RSS (Roland Sound Stage) 

was used during the mix-down of 

the Xenon II Megoblosr sound- 

track. performed by Bomb the 

Bass. 

Both Poland and Commodore 

claim that RSS gives the impression 

of aural three dimensionality. RSS 

places Individual tracks of sound 

around the kstener making sounds 

appear wider. 

The major strength of the system 

is that it does not require any addi- 

tional hardware to be purchased. 

Two standard Hi-Fi speakers are 

sufficient. 

Making movies 

Amiga style 

TURNING on Amiga into the ulti- 

mate movie making machine is 

the aim of Kailash Arnbwani, presi- 

dent of Toronto-based software 

developers Gold Disk, with the aid 

of their multimedia sequencer 

MediaShow, 

Aimed specifically at Amiga 500 

owners bent on creating presenta- 

tions and desktop video produc- 

tions. MediaShow allows them to 

combine animations. graphics, 

8 Amiga C omputing 

music and sound effects. It also 

runs on 1000, 2000 or 3000 

machines and needs at least 1Mb 

of ram. 

'The easy-to-use timeline inter- 

face arid our patented multitask- 

ing engine makes creating long- 

running presentations and movies 

a reality for every level of Amiga 

user, 

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from A most point, 3-D rendering, 

animation m and music programs 

and b sound digitisers. It is Workbench 

w 2.0 compatible. 

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press UK distributors HB Marketing 

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(0753 686000) said delivery was 

Imminent but the price hod not 

been fi xed. Gold Disk have 

announced a launch price of 

S129.95. 

Lamont lament 

THOSE of you who managed to 

wrench yourselves away from 

important things like working and 

playing on your Amiga to listen to 

The Budget news on March 19 will 

know that the dreaded VAT has 

been ir 

cent - from Apnl 1. As you'll oppreciate, 

creas this Is entirely due to circumstances 

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Gallery feature is missing from this 

issue of Amigo Computing 

The good news for AC's ad 

appreciation society is that Gallery 

is taking a one-month break only. It 

WI return in the June issue in all its 

colourful, bit-mapped glory. 

A tablet for 

the mice 

GRAPHICS input specialists IDS- 

Numonics (0254 676921) have 

launched a new low-budget oddi- 

tion to their GrophicMaster series 

of digitiser tablets aimed at Amiga 

users. 

Claimed to be far better than a 

mouse, it offers 1000opi resolution. 

absolute accuracy to 0.025 cm 

and an output rote of 160 pps 

making It ideal for DIP, CAD/CAM. 

3-D modelling and paint software. 

Nurnonlas GIOPhica 

GraphicMaster costs E1B5 for a 12 

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driver and cabling free. 

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managing director of Contriver 

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"Serious computing does not 

mean that computing has to be 

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of another new move from 

Contriver ((Y273602622). 

The company are offering a 

free Tee she printed with this logo 

to customers who buy their Five in 

One or Multi DPI mice. 

Incidentally. Contrivers' Five in 

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to take Its place with the rest in 

the rodent roundup in the March 

Issue, but nevertheless it's well 

worth a look. 

The Contriver is a cute crea- 

ture that stands up well against 

the opposition for both styling 

and smoothness, the excellent 

ergonomic design making it a 

pleasure to use for bng periods. If 

you've ever had to hover over 

Wrth very low power consumption, 

it is run through the R8232 Interface 

Beastly good news 

WHEN the people of Portsmouth 

go for a dip in the town's new 

Pyramid Leisure Pool they can now 

enjoy live and recorded broad- 

casts, advertisements and public 

announcements on a huge video 

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D• wall affectionately known as the 

Beast. the little beauty which controls 

the beast behind the scenes is 

on Amiga 500 running limeLite 

software from Future Software 

Systems (0628 24318). 

The Picbloc wall was installed by 

Electrosonic and is controlled 

either by direct Input from the 

Amigas keyboard or by an opero- 

tor generated schedule. 

Through LimeLlte staff can 

decide the time, the frequency 

and length and even the date 

when messages or announce- 

ments will appear, then leave 

things to the Amiga fi tted with a 

hard disk drive, 

Beating up the 

opposition 

CLAIMING to hove producedthe 

ultimate compilation. Virgin 

Games (071- 727 8070) soy their 

new offering Fists of Fury includes 

the cream of the beat-'em-ups. 

For f.24•99. customers get Ninia 

Warriors, Double Dragon II - The 

Revenge, Shinobt and Dynomite 

Dux. 

X-clusive new 

games weekly 

IN ERACTIVL Publishing, the people 

behind some of Britain's biggest 

computer magazines including 

Amigo Computing, ate on the 

verge of launching a new weekly 

title designed to cater exclusively 

for games enthusiasts. 

Gomes-X Is set to be the biggest 

ever computer entertainment 

publication launch in the UK. Over 

a quarter of a million copies of the 

preview issue are being distributed. 

The news-stand launch is 

backed up with a massive promo- 

tional campaign which includes 

extensive TV advertising and wide 

distribution of the preview issue. 

The publishers claim Games-X is 

0 new concept in computer mag- 

azines. combining 'lifestyles 

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tures with the most in-depth 

games coverage available. 

Take a look at the preview ISSUe 

COMMODORE are making 

Inroads into the growing market 

of Eastern Europe. and playing a 

leading role in this drive Is 

American Gregory Koler. the 

product marketing manager of 

Commodore Electronics. 

His efforts are recognised as 

one of the the main reasons for 

the company's sales increase of 

25 per cent lost year, 

Outlining his successful brand 

of marketing expertise directly 

related to good customer ser- 

vice. Koier gave an insight into 

Eastern Europe at the Computer 

Arena conference held in 

Marbella, 

The going is not always easy, 

with lack of cash hampering the 

developing Eastern bloc and 

leading to such bizarre sugges- 

tions as bartering tractors for 

computers, but Koler's experi- 

ence is winning through. 

He's a high flier, or so part of his 

career would suggest, since he 

bundled with Amiga Computing 

arid make up your own mind. The 

first Games-X proper Nts the streets 

on 26 Aprid 1991. 

Screen Gems gets 

1 meg boost 

COMMODORE UK are heading off 

the recession by adding yet more 

volue to their top selling Amigo 

'Screen Gems buncne. 

For the first time, the company Is 

selling the A500 with one 

megabyte of memory whilst retain- 

ing the attractive £399 price point. 

The extra half meg is supplied in 

Gregor) 

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aspent r 10 years leading the mar- 

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ggrammes h for Qantas Airways in 

flAustraNa. 

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of Commodore International, 

he is now responsible for interna- 

tional marketing programs In oil 

the form of Commodore's A501 

trap-door ram expansion which 

normally retails at £99 

The offer commenced on May 

1st and runs unl the end of June. 

When asked about the prospect 

of a 1 meg Amigo becoming the 

standard entry level machine. 

Commodore spokesman Andrew 

Ball was reserved, pointing out that 

the unexpanded A500 would still 

be on sale through the life of the 

promotion. 

The Screen Gems package 

comprises an A500, modulator, 

Shadow of the Beast II, Days of 

Thunder. Nightbreed. Back to the 

Future II and Deluxe Point 

the countries not covered by 

marketing subsidiaries - Finland, 

Turkey, Greece, Malta. Eastern 

Europe, Middle East. the Gulf, 

Africa. Pakistan and India. 

We work closety with our mar- 

keting partners to ensure that riot 

only is the most up-to-date prod- 

uct always available, but that 

there is an infrastructure of anci- 

lary serviceS Such as servicing, 

education and software sup- 

port', he said 

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Waving a 

24-pin lure 

IN a move aimed at luring nine pin 

printer users onto 24 pin machines, 

Citizen (0895 72621) have cut the 

price of their entry level 124D 24 

pin printer by 11 per cent. An 80 

column model offering speeds of 

120 cps in draft and 40 cps in letter 

quality. It now costs i:249. 

Mice and Scanners 

PANDAAL Marketing (0234 855666) 

are now offering Amiga owners a 

new mouse and handheld scan- 

ner. 

The DAATAscan Pro Is a 

Mitsubishi scanner running on 

DAATAscan software offering 

105mm scanning width, 100. 200. 

300 and 400 dpi resolution and 

choice of either block and white 

or three dither patterns represent- 

ing 64 grey scales. 

Other features include contrast 

contol, real-time scanning display, 

zoom and pixel perfect editing. 

crop, reSue, rotate, fl ip and invert 

images and full printer support, 

A clipboard facility allows 

selectable cut, copy and paste 

and the scanner also supports the 

IF file format. Price, £199.99 

The DAATAmouse can be used 

with both the Amiga and Atari ST, 

being converted between the two ). 

Amiga Computing I

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3.• machines by a slider switch 

beneath the mouse. Offering 280 

dol. It features two rnicroswitched 

buttons with a claimed lifetime of 

one million cycles and on anti-stat- 

ic lightweight ball which can be 

removed for cleaning. Price. 

£39.99. 

High quality from 

portable printer 

THE new MT730/735 portable print- 

er from Mannesmann-Tally uses 

thermal technology to print what 

is claimed to be high quality text 

Manneenan Tatty - porta ble printing 

and graphics at a resolution of 300 

x 300 dol. 

It has1MB RAM as standard and 

features H-P Laserjet and Desieet, 

IBM Proprinter X24 and Epson LQ 

850 emulations. Fonts are Corpora, 

Maths. Swiss and Timor. 

Princing may vary, but as an 

example. Action Computer 

Supplies of Wembley are retaling it 

ot 1.684 

Pricey Prestel 

BRITISH Telecom has dramatically 

restructured charges for its view 

data information service. Presto'. 

The first increase In tariffs since 

1988 is a significant one. In o letter 

to all Presto] subscribers 13T point 

out that infl ation has risen 20 per 

cent since the last Prestel price 

increase. 

Residential off-peak time 

Charges cie being increased some 

10 times higher than infl ation with 

a 200 per cent increase from ip a 

minute to 3p a minute. BT claim 

this increase is to bring charges 

more in be with costs. 

The standing charge for Prestel 

also increases, to £20 a quarter. 


The revamped pricing is signifi - 

cantty better news for members of 

the Micronet closed user group. 

The quarterly charge increases to 

E30 a quarter but off-peak time 

charges ore scrapped. 

In effect BT have provided two 

different pricing packages for their 

viewdata service. 

Subscribers can opt to pay E20 

a quarter and £1.80 an hour in off- 

peak time charges for access to 

Presto! Only. Alternatively a 

Micronet subscription at £30 a 

quarter will provide greater access 

to the system, with the added 

benefi t of no off-peak charges 

Kevin Smith. Micronet marketing 

manager commented Our more 

canny users will notice how 

favourably the costs compare 

against rival services, once usage 

goes past one hour a month' 

The message is simple, if you ore 

a Prestel subscriber who currently 

pays more than £10 a month in 

time charges, upgrade to 

Micronet and avoid being caught 

by a rather expensive British 

Telecom April foots joke. 

Share a printer 

A NEW device from Micro Control 

Systems (0602 391201) allows four 

computers to shore the same printer. 

The Simple-4-Swttch is mailable 

in both serial and parallel versions 

and con be used either automati- 

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Based on the MCS Simple-2- 

Switch, it enters automatic mode 

when first turned on. When data 

comes from a computer if locks on 

and passes it to the printer. 

If Other users try to print while 

the device is busy their data is 

frozen until the printer becomes 

available. 

Simple-4-Switch works with all 

kinds of printers and plotters. Price. 

E129. 

Billiards AD 3,000 

PLAYING 1101Mal billiards con be 

hard enough but imagine the 

complexity of futuristic billiards on 

on eight-sided table_ Amiga own- 

ers won't hove to use their imogi- 

nation for long thanks to French 

games house infogrames (071-738 

8199). 

Due soon is Billiards 3D. a simula- 

tion which includes American 

pool. French pool and Fantasy 

13illiards on an octagonal table. 

If that isn't enough. there are 

two different sets of rules for each 

game and they all come in either 

2D or 3D. For one or two players. 

Billiards 3D re-creates the atmo- 

sphere of a billiard hall in which 

one player CCM vie with any of five 

computer opponents willing to bet 

thousands of dollars on one game. 

Games can be saved and 

resumed and the mouse-con- 

trolled program allows a fun range 

of well-simulated trick shots. Written 

for infogrames by Spirit Bonanza, 

Billiards 3D will be available for 

Amiga 500, 1000 and 2003 and will 

cost E24.99. 

Mighty Mo joins 

Motormouth 

RENEGADE hove now taken to 

the small screen. Magic Pockets. 

the 131tmap Brothers' offering due 

to be launched this summer, 

Is being used for the phone-In 

game section of popular Saturday 

morning TV programme Motormouth. 

With The Bitmap Kid, quickly 

rechristened Mighty Mo for the 

programme, the game has been 

simplifi ed for television and is 

voice- activated by young viewers 

who ring In. First payers of the TV 

version were presenters Andy 

Crane and Steve Johnson and the 

series will last for nine weeks. 

When Magic Pockets is 

launched by Renegade (071 

-9214) 

it will feature music from the 

48 walking eyelashes herself - Betty 

1Boo 

One more round 

ACCOLADE (071-738 1376) have 

released their latest Jack Nicklaus 

accessory disc. Called Great 

Courses of the US Open it includes 

the challenges of Pebble Beach. 

Oakmont Country Club and 

Ballusrol Golf Club, 

Compatible with both Jack 

Nicklaus Greatest 18 Holes of 

Major Championship Golf and 

Jack Nicklaus' Unlimited Golf and 

Course Design, Prlce1 1.99. 

Masterly touch in chess programming 

WHEN you have ranked as an 

International Master in the com- 

petitive world of chess and you 

also have an interest In comput- 

ing, an obvious outlet is to write 

Chess programs. 

Chris Whittington has both 

these attributes and has put 

them to good use through his 

company CP Software and Its 

publishing subsidiary Oxford 

Softworts (099382 3463). 

With 20 chess programs under 

his belt. Chris achieved his greatest 

success to date when his lat- 

est offering recently took the title 

World Personal Computer Blitz 

Chess Champion. 

Running on an enhanced 

Amiga, the program Chess 

Champion 2175X claimed its 

impressive victory at the World 

Microcomputer C h e s s 

Championship held in Lyon, 

France, 

Running alongside the World 

Championships for human chess 

players featuring top Russian 

stars, the computer programs 

played off against each other, 

the only human involvement 

being to transmit each move 

between the different machines. 

Blitz chess is played in the 

usual way except that all the 

moves have to be completed in 

10 minutes. so allowing many 

games to be played in a short 

space of time. 

'Blitz chess is particularly chal- 

lenging as moves have to be 

made very quickly indeed'. said 

Chris. 'Accuracy of calculation, 

Chess knowledge and speed are 

all of prime importance and this 

result is a great measure of the 

programs performance.' 

In his years of competitive 

chess Chris reached a level only 

surpossed by the International 

Grand Master grading, but gave 

up competitions 20 years ago. 

If you want to be realty good 

at chess you hove to play it all 

the time: he said, 'I stopped 

playing because it was taking up 

too much time when I hod Other 

things to do'. 

He started CP Software eight 

years ago and has progressively 

enhanced his programs. 

'I used to be able to beat 

them but it doesn•1 work like that 

any longer,* he said. 'The com- 

puter thinks further ahead. 

Through the program, it Carries 

out relatively simple evaluations 

many hundreds of thousands of 

times and quite complex con- 

cepts emerge.• 

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using a Psion Organiser. to 

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desperate for more storage space, 

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brought s the PsiOn Comms-Link 

package n to connect the pocket 

maestro ' to a PC. but there has previously 

t been no easy way out for 

the 

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Amiga owner. 

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will find a program on this month's 

l Amigo Computing coverdisk 

called o Psionlink which will enable 

you n to transfer tiles to and from the 

Amiga g and Organiser with ease 

. 

Unfortunately, the P5iOn Commisw 

Link is still required to provide the 

h 

hardware 

e 

connection and the 

Psion n COMMUNCOhOnS software aS 

well as the conversion of Psion's 

non 

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RS232 signals 

sta This shouldn't be to much of a 

nda 

problem, because if you're serious 

rd 

about s connecting your Organiser 

to e the outside world. the Cornms- 

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Amiga? 

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Why use a special program? You 

p 

might think that with a Comms-Link 

u 

pock t it would be easy to transfer 

files t to the Amigo with the help of a 

standard o comms program, but 

you'd s be wrong. 

t 

The high occurrence of spurious 

a 

characters you get as a result of a 

n 

straight transfer makes this exercise 

- 

barely worthwhile, so a program to 

iron Out the bugs soon becomes 

more than welcome 

If such a program is to be worth 

the effort put into coding ft, howev- 

er, it must do more than just allow 

for file transfer and conversion. For 

this reason. Psionlink will perform 

several extra functions. 

It will, for Instance, direcity read 

and edit files, and automatically 

convert a Psion Data File into whot 

is known as an ASCII-delimited file 

on the Amigo. These ore perfect 

for direct Importation Into 

SuperBase or any other Amiga 

database 

the major problem with PSiOnLirit4 

was the inclusion of protocols, most 

notably Psion's own protocol for 

which there is no available docu- 

mentation I decided to pursue this 

and to include the same three pro- 

tocols used in the Comms-Link's 

own software - none, X-Modern. 

and Psion. The - 

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Dave Westwood finds his Amiga can 

speek in tongues to a Psion Organiser, 

and with a straight face, too 

Tower of 

Babel 

what comes througn tne sera' port 

is what you get in your tile. X• 

Modem and Psionlink, however. 

ore a bit trickier. 

The X-Modem protocol works by 

splitting the fi le to be sent into o 

series of 128 byte Nooks. It numbers 

these consecutively and transmits 

them along with a checksum (a 

special number derived from 

adding all the bytes 

together), which 

the 

I SS 

4.41,:z 

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Review 

receiving machine uses to check 

whether the data has arrived 

intact if It hos been corrupted. the 

transmitting machine is informed 

and fresh attempts ore made to 

successfully transmit the data until 

It arrives in an uncorrupted state. 

The Psion protocol was the real 

toughie. As mentioned, there is no 

published data on its structure, 

and Psion were Initially reluc- 

tant to furnish the relevant 

details. This is a most Impor- 

tant aspect of 

the pro• 

gram, however, and I persevered 

until they were kind enough to give 

me what I needed. After all, with a 

third party already producing the 

equivalent ST program, there's no 

reason why the some facility 

shouldn't be available on the 


The Psion protocol allows tor say 

eral extremely useful extra features. 

You can, for example, transfer 

accidentally deleted flies from the 

Organiser's DeloPacks to a new 

host, and can transfer password 

protected Notepods without first 

having to de-protect them. 

More usefulty, rt allowS the trans- 

fer of OPL oblect code to and from 

the Amigo so that Orgonser pro- 

grams can be developed In the 

much larger and friendlier environ- 

ment of the Amigo 

For programmers looking to 

develop software for the Orgcrniser, 

the advantages offered by not 

having to ruin one's eyesight and 

patience squinting at the dimrnu 

tive Psion screen cannot be under- 

estimated, The chance to use a 

decent Amigo text editor when 

coding is also a great boon. 

For those not interested in programming, 

the link allows for the 

saving of invaluable data to fl oppy 

disk for future use, and relieves the 

burden o n over 

-DataPock& 

populated 

Shareware 

Unfortunately. I spent so much time 

trying to scrounge the protocol 

details out of Psion and sweated so 

long and hard when oclucily pro- 

gramming PsIonlink, the pro- 

gram on your May 

coverdisk is a 

demo version only. 

The full version. 

including Psion pro- 

tocol and my own file 

editor, Is available if 

you get in touch at the 

actdress included in the 

disk reodmecomms file. 

On a fi nal note, I am 

currently working on a 

developer program which 

Should make it possible for 

users to write, test, debug, 

arid compile OK programs on 

the Amigo then bundle them 

as a complete Data Pock that 

will auto-boot Itself into the 

Organiser's lop level menu. 

Look out for more about this 

future issues of Amigo Computing

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The Don Bluth e pic ga mes ba se d on the c 

onlonuing adventures of DIM the Dont ha ve °note d the MOSI impressive e xa mple of animation sold a s compute ' entertammenr 

aution to Western civilisa- 

p tion to come from °cross 

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Atlantic - that's one way of 

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describing the cortoon industry, 

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especially If you're a GBK (Great 

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Big a Kid) like most of the Amiga 

Computing l 

staff 

y Animation is now beginning to 

hit t the micro market with a 

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pictures that the Amiga is eminent- 

r 

ly 

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well qualified as a machine on 

which a to produce home-grown 

cartoons. t 

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Amy's abilities in this 

deportment s seem at lost to 

be 

t 

on the verge of profes- 

c 

sional recognition. with a 

o 

variety 

n 

of commercial 

animation t studios 

either n exploring the 

possibilities - offered 

by the Amiga, or 

already using It in 

the production 

chciti, / 

Of these, 

the n a m e 

Cosgrove 

Hall Productions 

stands head and shoulders 

above the rest. 

, 

Cosgrove Hall have been mak- 

ing cartoons since 1976. when 

Mark Hall and Brion Cosgrove set 

up shop with six staff in a convert- 

ed warehouse. Since then. anima- 

tions such as Wdnd In The Wdidows 

and The BFG have helped them 

win four BAFTA awards and an 

EMMY. and the company has 

grown to 130 people, fi ling out a 

plush custom studio building Just 

south of Manchester. 

Meanwhile, Cosgrove Hall's 

bread and butter productions. 

Dongermouse and Count Duckulo 

1 8 Amiga C omputing 

have been delighting children and 

GBKs for the best part of a 

decade. Against a background of 

almost total U.S. domination, 

Cosgrove Hall and a handful of 

Other studios have produced car- 

toons of a distinctly British fl avour, 

offering a refreshing riposte to the 

sort of one-way transatlantic traffic 

Which has seen 'Masters Of The 

Mega-Blasters' clones come to 

dominate our tellies. 

Cost-efficient 

Enough of the banner waving, 

what about the Amiga? 

Cosgrove Hall ore one 

of the fi rst 

British stu- 

dios to look 

seriously at 

the use or 

computers not 

only for the 

control of cam- 

eras but for the 

production o f 

graphics and the 

development of 

.• characters cis 

well 

In their search tar 

a cost-effi cient system 

offering quality animation 

at a decent price they alighted, 

not surprisingly, on the Amiga. and 

It was this decision which sent us 

scurrying up the Mo to see how 

they were using our favourite 

machine. 

We spoke to Phil Atack, the man 

With the job of assessing the 

AmIga's potential, and asked him 

what he thought. 'We're looking 

Into using the Amigo for line test- 

ing,' he told us, hurriedly pushing 

F29 Retaliator under a pile of 

papers, 'but we're having difficulty 

owl 

Aringm 

with the image resolution.' Line 

to life. Normally, a line test would 

testing is the animator's jargon for Involve a 5e11e5 of drawings done 

rough sketch, and is the first step in manuoNy then fi lmed one at a time 

the process Tof bringing characters until the animators had a simple 

to loons 

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previously 

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Armed with 

this array of 

desirable 

equipment, 

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at work on 

Cosgrove 

Hall's newest 

cartoon, 

Victor and 

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we arrived. 

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pencil-sketched cartoon on video 

This is a time-consuming procedure, 

and diffi cult to experiment 

with. 

Lining them up 

Using on Amigo, however, line 

testers such as Phil can produce a 

full line test without recourse to 

video, changing as many aspects 

sequence showed Hugo smoothly 

animated for a fragment of 

speech, and amply demonstrated 

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the mouse - 

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to never having tried a graphics 

tablet for sketching. The addition of 

a tablet could quite easily dispense 

altogether with the video camera 

at the line testing stage. leaving 

the line tester to sketch straight 

onto the Amiga. 

Disney does it 

of it as they please before passing 

It on to the animators for the paint 

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We asked Phil for his opinions on 

the newly released Wait Disney 

At this stage the Amiga falls 

short of requirements, We end that 

Animation Studio (TAS) and his eyes 

lit up. The general reaction was 

computer graphics can't achieve 

the resolution we get with ink and 

acetate', said Phil, This isn't a slight 

on the Amiga, however, as no 

other micro tits the bill either. 

that although not up to the sob of 

creating professional cartoons, TAS 

Is a much cheaper tool. ideal for 

the animator experimenting at 

home or for training beginners, 'We 

need the four level animation and 

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Amiga 2000 with hard drive and 

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We were more than a little reluc- 

tant to terminate our day out at 

Cosgrove HoII, and refused to 

leave without on armful or sou- 

venirs and a posed photo with Igor 

Ond Duckuia himself. After all, the 

Amiga is at heart a fun machine. 

and to see It put to good use by 

the company which has brought 

so much enjoyment through Its cartoons 

was a most welcome treat, 

It our Amy is capable of service 

at the professional level and with 

such an Illustrious crew of anima- 

tors, then there's surety some hope 

ror those of us at the mere amateur 

level who'll be diving with glee into 

The Animation Studio. 

Paper to pixel 

In the world of computer anima- 

tion there are two distinct routes 

employed to create the moving 

pictures we all know and love. Your 

approach to the subject is usually 

determined by your bockground. 

whether it lies either in the hand 

draw approach of the illustrator or 

the digital trickery of the artistic 

techno-lunkle. 

The average Amiga enthusiast 

will no doubt be more at home 

with the conventional Amiga envi- 

ronment or the paint package, 

with imagery being provided from 

the somewhat less than subtle 

touch of the various processing 

toot employed. not least of which 

Is the rather dunky Amigo mouse. 

The second approach Is a more 

traditional one combining the 

hard-earned skills of the conven- 

tional Illustrator along with the pro- 

tut t r i e s 

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Chroma-Coiour s digitize option shows its pmtessional touch 

Walt Disney isn't the first company to attempt a del- 

looted low-end Amiga animation package - it's just 

The latest and most successful. There hove been sev- 

, eral previous offerings, including Antic Software's 

Zoetrope package, 

This suffered originally from being low-refs NTSC 

only, and utilising Its own picture format, but was a 

hint of what we might expect from the Amiga 

Since we reviewed Zoetrope in the April 1989 

issue, there has been a dearth of animation pack- 

ages with the notable exception of DPoint III 

Programs such as Animagic and Fantavision have 

tried to raise an eyebrow, but none have been suffi- 

ciently feature-packed to become a mainstream 

k: rival for the al-conquering DPaint 

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Ark. 

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cessing power of the computer It's 

this approach which Chroma- 

Colour's Softoons is designed to 

exploit, combining the two talents 

with the aid of video digitising 

The biggest complaint from free 

hand artists when confronted wtth 

computerisation Is the prospect of 

using a mouse. This is a defi nite non 

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comfortable with 

follows along similar lines to that token by the prates- 

sional animator. Zoetrope was stuffed with special 

effects, such as fades. wipes and shatters, which you 

could apply to your graphics, but none of these 

were of any particular use. 

Clever though they may be. such effects are real- 

ly only useful it your animation is designed for a pro- 

fessional presentation rather than a cartoon. 

Zoetrope was too crude for the former and unsuit- 

able for the loiter. 

starter with most animators. As a 

result on alternative method is 

required arid it's here that the digi- 

tiser comes into its own, importing 

hand drown cels direct from the 

Zoetrope was and remains an excellent program 

In a technical sense, especially when you remember ; 

its age. However, it is also the best example of on 

early Amigo package which. white being dreamily 

put together, was dismally defi cient In its apprecia- 

tion of just which market It was supposed to be 

aimed at. 

chromo-Colour is 

more fle xible in use, if 

more difficult 

paper to the line-tester for editing, 

composition and of course playback. 

Its fair to say Sottoons is the 

answer to on animator's needs 

rather than that of the Amiga 

enthusiast hoping to dabble in a 

touch of the Dtsneys. As a re,sult of 

the specialised approached and 

the consequent limit for potential 

sales the Softoons system is not for 

the fi nancially toot hearted with a 

stoning price of £630 for the software 

alone. 

If you were to go the whole hog 

and invest in the complete system 

Of cameras, rostrum stands and 

monitors it would add up to just 

under £3,000. As I said, It's not 

aimed at the amateur. 

The system comes in two distinct 

formats, either on A500 version 

which is designed to suit the needs 

of an animator working from home, 

or the more advanced and expen- 

sive Amiga 2000-based system 

designed specifically for studio use. 

The principle ckfference between 

the two systems is the number of 

available levels of animation. The 

A500 version only manages one 

level similar to that of TAS, whereas 

the studio version is capable of up 

to tots level combinations. 

This basically means that al the 

elements of the animation pro- 

duced on the A500 system must be 

drawn arid shot onto a single cel, 

the studio alternative being capa- 

ble of combining lout individual 

drawings onto the some exposure 

sheet to form the finished cel. Each 

element joins with the rest but still 

retains its individuality for editing 

purposes. 

To be realistic, the price of the 

Amiga C omputing 2 1

studo version complete with all the 

hardware is strictly for the pros. As a 

result I'll be concentrating on the 

slightly more affordable A500 ver- 

sion which might still be within the 

reach of the affluent enthusiast. 

The do's and don'ts 

Perhaps a more accurate heading 

might read who/ you can do. and 

what you can't. With the Softoons 

system you can import block and 

white line tests, compile sequences 

and oust, improve, and generally 

test out your creations prior to 

spending heaps of cash on the 

phenomenally expensive process 

of creating full colour animations 

Softoons in effect is an anima- 

tion utility rather than a stand. 

alone package like TAS. 

The idea is to speed up the process 

for a pro. As a result there's no 

paint package available, no inter- 

nal editing and no colours. 

Softoons talents are devoted pure- 

ly to digitising and running hand 

drawn imoges, and this as you 

might expect it does well, but cer- 

tainly not cheaply. 

Flip through 

The standard set-up will support up 

to 200 individual drawings within 

the machine. Considering the 

frame rate on certain animations 

this is not exactly impressive, but 

with the addition of some extra 

memory things would become a lit- 

tle more acceptable. 

The number of drawings 

shouldn't be contused with the 

number of frames used. It's quite 

common for an animation to use 

the some drawing on several 

frames depending on the effects 

required 

Once you've cap- 

tured a drawing 

with the digitiser it 

can be played 

instantly or cycled 

with the other 

frames in the 

sequence This 

can be done at any 

rate between and 

99 frames per second 

The frame rate 

can b e 

ocljust- 

puling 

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The OfigirKil lino 

animation 

showing the 

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lo see the Iasi 

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animators like us 

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when composing a 

oration 

sequence. When you're happy 

r u t 

with your creations they can be 

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saved to disk or copied direct to 

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video 

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p If fyou're u l slightly nervous about 

Dan Silva's DPaint program, especially in its third 

incarnation, has been one of the prime movers in The 

world of Amiga animation for several years, and 

there are many who owe It a debt of gratitude. 

DPaint III established the now accepted ANN for- 

mat and spread the gospel of Amiga movies to the 

wider audience through myriad PD demos and, in a 

very important way, boosted the success of the 

iga as a whole. 

Its animated brushes were a revolution in Amiga 

grophics techniques which ore only now being 

incorporated Into 

• 

other packages such 

as Spectracolor 

Animations thus creat- 

ed could be saved in IF 

or ANIM format and played 

back using Electronic Arts' 

Play routine. 

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Since then, the prolitero- 

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Definining the Instiet 

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simple matte, of 

clickingonthe 

colours to be 

m a s k e d citHere, 

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the bla ck of Its 

Outline ha ve be e n 

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The final anenation, 

comple te with 

bock wound. shows 

how the whole ca n 

be gre a te r than the 

sumoftheparts 

using the system don't worry. Those 

thoughtful folks at Chroma-Colour 

will tend a helping hand at a doily 

training rate of only E250 per day. 

It's obvious from the frightening 

price list that both Chrorna-Colour 

systems are aimed fi rmly at the 

The DPaint contribution 

commercial marker, but if you're a 

red enthusiast who needs to digi- 

tise his handy work it's the only 

dedicated equipment around. 

Cheap alternative 

If like me your bottom lip wilt stilt be 

trembling at the prospect of 

spending all your hard earned 

cash on Soft oar 

-There 

is an alternative method to 

is, get your d r y freehand skills into the 

y 

Amiga, 

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and 

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as a result your onlms - 

e y e s 

look out for our review of graphics 

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tablets soon 

Walt Disney 

Animation Studio 

We tried arid we tried and we 

tried, but we found nothing that 

comes close to The Animation 

Studio in the home animation mar 

ket. Chrcena-Colour is on expensive 

alternative for the professional mar- 

ket, but for cartoon-loving Joseph 

Public harbounng a secret desire to 

bring Tom & Jerry to Me on the 

Amigo there's no real choice, 

Disney, as you might expect, has 

written TAS entirely from the viewpoint 

of an animator. From start to 

finish. emphasis is placed solely on 

producing cartoons, such that 

although not of professional stan- 

dards, TAS engenders a profession- 

al feel which carries beginner 

grams around freely, and although sound isn't 

catered for. programs such as Movie will put anims 

through their paces at a very respectable frame 

rate. 

The major drawback when animating with DPaint 

Is that It was designed primargy as a paint program. 

Animation is possible, but it Is obviously an added 

extro rather then the progorn's ran d'etre For this 

reason. DPaint loses out boldly when compared to 

The Animation Studio, but that's not surprising. 

For those who wont a paint package first, and a 

dabble in animation as a bit of fun on the side. 

DPaint is still a very attractive buy. and should contin- 

ue to provide animations for the ever expanding 

public domain demo libraries 

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The main disk contains two programs, 

PencN Test and Ink & Paint, 

The first of these is the line tester 

and it is here that any arvirnation 

begins its Nfe. 

The user progresses from rough 

sketch to fi nished line-art anima- 

tion, then loads the whole thing 

into Ink & Paint for the application 

of colour. The overwhelming 

And I be t you thought wa lking wa s e a sy 

Impression during all this Is IAS's 

extreme ease of use 

Let's face It - how many of us 

can draw'? Not us. Disney, howev- 

er. doesn't simply leave the begin- 

ner to get on with it 

To take as much of the pain as 

possible out of cartoon production, 

there is a Nbrary of sample anima- 

tions on the program disk and a 

second disk packed to the gunnels 

with clips from actual Disney ani• 

motions. 

The library animations can be 

used In the user's own productions 

and loaded Into ink & Paint for 

colouring. The Morgue disk 

containing the Disney clips, nowev- 

Real Things 

Representing one of the few commercial attempts to spread the anima- 

tion word, RGB Studios' Peal Things series Is aimed at providing the 

beginner with the tools he or she needs to begin producing original 

work. 

The series consists of three packages. Birds. Horses. and Humans, ail of 

which contain a diskful of DPaint anims 

and a manual. The latter sets out to dis 

pense advice on all aspects of aran 

brushes. Including their creation, devel- 

opment, and editing. and goes on to 

give hints on bockgrounds and so forth. 

Each disk contains a large number of 

good quality animation sequences 

which the beginner can use in anima- 

tions or as a guide to the techniques of, 

for example, making a horse run without 

making it look Nke a table having a fit, 

• 

The Demo-Reel is a good 

example of the overoM 

query of the Disney 

product This excellent 

Donald Duck a nimation 

was put together by watt 

Disney artists spe cia lty for 

The Animation Studio 

and is a s good a n 

advettnement a s you 

can ge t for it pote ntia l 

er. is prolecteici by copyright and 

the animations cannot be tam- 

pered with 

It you wont to create Britain's 

answer to Mickey Mouse you're 

going to have to put in a certain 

amount of world 

The Pencil Test part of the pack- 

age will be fameor to anyone who 

has used DPaint, as It sports very 

similar menus and all the usual 

drawing gadgets. 

Circles, boxes ond eiipses, fi ned 

or unfiNed, ore all there, as are 

the more advanced brush and 

airbrush facilities. This isn't Just 

on ordinary drawing program. 

however, and it has several fea• 

None of this Is particularty radical 

or new: the DPoint manual pro- 

vides a simiar guide to using °RIM 1 

brushes, and the animotions 

themselves 

a•—•• 

are relative- 

ly simple. 

tures designed to make animating 

as easy as possible. 

Knows his onions 

There Is a variable zoom option, 

and a group of eel manipulation 

devices for copying eels to and 

from a buffer, cutting them out or 

inserting them anywhere In the 

sequence, 

By for the most specific options, 

however, and those which set 

Pencil Test apart, are the three at 

the bottom of the toolbox gadget 

Oar 

The two arrow gadgets are used 

to fl ip back and forth through the 

sequence of cels at the click of a 

mouse button. They ore useful 

when the user wants to travel 

through a relatively srnall number 

of cats, but they really come into 

their own when they make It possible 

to see the 'onion skin• effect at 

Its best, 

'Onion skin' Is a term and an 

effect dating from the earliest days 

of animation when eels were 

drawn on a series of semi-transpar- 

ent layers of paper, 

By 'looking through' these layers, 

the animator 

- outlines c o u of l d the previous three ceis 

dor so, i s and c thus achieve a much 

e r n 

better appreciation of how the 

t h 

e movement was developing. 

d The Animation Studio sim- 

iulates 

this effect so 

m 

What unique about the Real Things series is that it is 

only sustained attempt to °Moot beginners to Amiga 

motion we've seen since DPaint's remarkable poten 

was first realised. 

If you're desperate to the point of fi nancial profl iga 

Peal Things at E20 a throw is one way to build up an instant 

animafi on Nbrary. If, on the other hand, you don't bst set- 

ting fi re to tanners among your hobbies. try the public 

domain when looking for animated inspiration. Real Things 

is good but not that good. 


that the beginner can fl ip forward 

without losing sight of the preced- 

ing three cals, all of which are visi- 

ble as progressively fainter grey 

outlines. The effect is simple but 

Invaluable, and alone is facility 

enough to place The Animation 

Studio high on my shopping let. 

The bottom left hand gadget is 

a simple player which flips through 

the existing sequence cot by cel 

a loop to make testing the anima- 

tion as easy as possible. 

It simply doubles up for on 

option available via a pull-down 

menu, but its Inclusion on the tool- 

box bar is an indication of the 

thought which hos been put into 

this package's design. 

Decent exposure 

The last gadget, on the bottom 

right hand corner, takes the user to 

what the pros call the 'exposure 

sheet", 

This section of the program simu- 

lates the real life exposure sheet 

you will fi nd at the heart of all car- 

toon productions. 

It Is used to keep track of hm- 

ings, frame rates and events such 

as music, speech, and special 

effects. The exposure sheet Is not 

an optionol extra - if you're serious 

about putting decent cartoons 

together you must use this tech- 

nique. 

Disney's exposure sheet IS one of 

the trickier parts of the program. To 

use it properly, the user has to master 

a dozen or so commands and 

their syntax. These allow .SMUS 

(Sonix) format music scores to be 

played, paused, faded out, and 

generally mucked about with, 

Unfortunately, flexibility is limited 

by The insistence on Sonix generat- 

ed music scores, but this Is partly 

offset by the acceptance of any 

JFF sample as a special effect 


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Product information 

Watt Disneys Animation Studio is 

a product of the Wall Disney 

Company 

Available: Now 

Supplier: Entertainment 

International (0268) 

541126 

Price: £99.95 

Softoons Personal Line-Tester and 

Chroma-Colour Animation Line- 

Tester are products of the 

Chromo-Colour company 

Available 

- Supplier: Chroma-Colour 

N o w Animation Supplies & 

Equipment Ltd (081) 

675 8422 

Price: F r o m 9)630 for soft- 

ware alone to SA.000 

for software. A2000. 

Camera, lights. and 

rostrum equipment, 

(iSFX). Musical scores and samples, 

once decided upon, can be 

tweaked in a number of ways. The 

syntax of the 'SEX command allows 

the user to choose sample play- 

back speeds, which channel it will 

play through, whether or riot it will 

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This is the sot ot civil:icie r sheet you should ohvoys (develop to give a cha ra cte r 

SOM. ere D e los his is committe d to cokuisod. Cosgrove Ha ll stiike s again! 

be in stereo, and the number of 

times It WI loop. 

The !SCORE command can be 

used to fade a tune out and set Its 

tempo. and peripheral commands 

such as !TEMPO, !VOLUME, and 

!NOTE offer occasional control of 

any sounds or scores presently 

being played. Altogether, the 

exposure sheet is on indespensabie 

port of the animation process. and 

The Animation Studio would have 

been incomplete without It. 

Ink blots 

Once the pencii animation is com- 

plete and the user is satisfied that 

the exposure sheet is arranged cor- 

rectly, the data is stored on cksk for 

later importation to the second 

part of the main program. Ink a 

Paint, for the fi nd touches. 

This is the weakest chink in 

Disney's armour, because it's not 

really a paint program at all There 

ore up to 32 colours available, 

more with dithering, but the only 

painting facilities available are a 

couple of fi ll and line-drawing 

options for touching up any 'leaks' 

which threaten to let a colour spill 

out of its allotted area. 

The idea is that the animation is 

already complete and merely 

requires colouring, but It would 

have been nice to have hod a few 

more options even at this late 

stage. 

That grumble aside, the ink & 

Paint program does everything 

required of it wIth little fuss. Its best 

feature is the ability to use a 'frisker 

so that backgrounds can be slotted 

in behind the animation with- 

out overwriting any of your hard 

sweat and tears. 

Friskets work by specifying which 

colours cannot be overwritten, so 

all you need do is pull down the 

frisket option, click on the colours 

you've used in your animation, 

then import your IFF background 

behind the relevant cels. 

You can load different back- 

grounds for afferent eels, so there's 

no reason for bland backdrops. 

The major problem with the back- 

grounds is that they can only be 

static - there's no multi-level ani- 

mation such as that found on the 

more expensive Chroma-Colour 

configurations. 

This reinforces the apparent 

Disney ethos that demands all ani- 

mation details be finalised before 

Ink & Paint is used, but there's no 

great difficulty in this. 

If the user plans ahead using a 

storyboard and organises the ani- 

mation before starting, the finished 

product will be better thought out 

and more efficiently reached. 

Disney's emphasis on their own 

methods and the insistence on a 

structured approach are in the last 

analysis a help rather than a hin- 

drance to the beginner. 

Conclusion 

Amiga animation is on the up and 

up - there's no doubt about that. 

With the wide availability of DPaint 

onimations, and the appearance 

of a new low-end dedicated pack- 

age in the shape of Walt Disney's 

Animation Studio, the home mar- 

ket could be said to be buoyant. 

In the professional sector, too. 

the Amiga is establishing Itself as an 

excellent machine for line-testers 

and animators alike. 

The Chroma-Colour software. 

though expensive, has proved its 

ability to meet the demands of an 

expanding user base, and should 

continue to bring the Amiga much 

deserved credit in this new sector, 

With success apparent in both 

areas. the Amiga can only contin- 

ue to improve its standing as the 

only home micro which is both 

great fun and a truly serious buy. 

• All C osgrove H a ll cha ra cte rs. 

Including Count Duckulo e nd Dangermouse. 

ore copyright 1991 Cosgrove 

Hall Productions 

We would sire to take this oopoituolty 

to tha nk Phil Ata ck. Willa rd I 

klitchisn, Chris Philips, C ome t Wilson. 

and a ll a t Cosgrove H a l lOr ite la help. 

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hundred well worn notes 

would not hove allowed 

you to gather much speed in the 

communications race. For that sort 

of money most comms freaks 

would have been delighted to pick 

up on acoustic coupler type 

modem with very low speeds and 

even lower rehability. 

These days though your money 

goes a lot further both in terms of 

modern speed and features. 

Which modem you need 

depends very much on what you 

want to achieve. The occasional 

call to a local BBS service won't 

warrant a super speedy modem. 

On the other hand the cost sav- 

ing offered by high data transfer 

rates will be welcome if you are a 

frequent caller to the US. 

EuroLink 

r ElitaLink modem is a perfect 

illustration of how comms hard- 

ware has become more afford- 

able of late. Your hard eorned1:264 

delivers a unit which allows com- 

munication at a respectable 2400 

baud 

Like each of the modems 

featured In this overview it is entire- 

ly software controlled. This means 

that rather than pressing buttons 

on the front panel to confi gure the 

unit. all tweaking is done over the 

keyboard via a software com• 

mond set 

The EuroLink is fully Hayes com- 

patible. This Is a red boon for any- 

one wanting to dabble in comms 

without learning the detailed ins 

and outs of modem control before 

going online. 

Popular public domain pack- 

ages for the Amiga including 

NComm. JRComm and Supedext 

come pre-confi gured for use with 

Hayes compatible decks. 

Plug in and go is the order of the 

day. The modem also includes 

Price 

Manufacturer: 

Telephone: 

For: 

Against: 

Verdict: 


EuroLlnk 

E263.35 

Eurolink 

0625 878888 

Very good value 

Hayes Compatible 

No power switch 

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some useful help screens for those 

not content to go with a standard 

package 

In an effort to provide on all 

round package. EuroLink have 

bundled a tree subscription to 

CompuServe into the price. this is 

a truly massive information system 

of American origin. On it you will 

find messages. news and over 

30.000 public domain programs. 

Having said a l l that. 

CompuServe is not the most user 

friendly of places and although 

your membership is free, the usage 

charges soon mount up. 

CompuServe is far too extensive to 

do justice to In this article and we 

will be covering the service in its 

own right at a later date. 

As well as getting cheaper. 

modems have got smaller and sim- 

Modem 

The Eurollnk is on ideal modem for anyone wanting to 

dabble with comms without having to re-mortgage 

their Amiga 

pier to use over the years. At first 

glance the EuroLink is nothing more 

than a stimline plastic brick with six 

lights on the front and no switches 

to play with. At second glance It as 

much the some. Gone are the 

days of twiddling dials. setting DIP 

switches and pressing buttons to 

get online. 

the tuncfi on of each light on the 

EuroLink Is clearly indicated by 

diagonal labels on the front panel. 

This commonsense approach to 

labelling is most unusual. The bulk 

of modem manufacturers usually 

insist on using confusing two letter 

abbreviations rather than plain 

English. 

The Eurolink has indicotors for 

power, connecting. responding. 

transmitting. receiving and auto 

answer made Rear panel ports are 

provided for power. telephone and 

comections. 

The only notable omission is that 

of a power switch. Removing the 

power lead is the only way to give 

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Hi-Tec EC2400 

If the EuroLink modem can be con- 

sidered ideal for the beginner, the 

Hi-Tec EC2400 deluxe is well suited 

to people wanting to upgrade 

from aged manual modems 

Like the EuroLink, it is a 2400 

baud Hayes compatible unit. The 

HI-Tec normally weighs in at f.399 

but it is cutentty on offer to Amigo 

Computing readers at E299. 

What you get tor your extra out- 

lay is a slightly more robust case. 

mote kghts and the MNP error cor- 

rection and data compression systems. 

Let's tackle each of these areas 

in turn, The chassis is a very robust 

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plastic design which is Only let 

down by a flimsy front panel mand 

two inexcusably tacky go-faster 

stripes down the side. The unit 

sports a positively psychedelic col- 

m 

lection of 11 lights giving informa 

non on everything from the current 

connection status to active speed 

Cosmetics aside, the most 

impoctant additional feature of the 

EC 2400 is the provision of the two 

MNP systems. MNP is a three letter 

acronym for Mictocom Networking 

Protocol. The HI-Tec comes with 

two different types of MNP. 

C 

MNP Level 4 is an error correc- 

tion protocol designed to ensure 

sore transport of data even if 

phonelines are bad, MNP Level 5 

On the other hand is a data com- 

pression protocol. This is used to 

speed up data transmission from 

point to point. 

With MNP 5 it is possible to 

achieve a data transfer rate 

increase of almost 100 per cent, 

meaning that the EC 2400 has a 

maximum throughput of 4800 

baud. MNP Is only of any relevance 

to you if the services you call support 

it. Prestel for example does not 

although most Other commercial 

services do. 

One major plus, where the EC 

wins hands down over the other 

modems on test, is the provision of 

a power switch on the front panel. 

It is reassuring to have a means 

of hard reset within easy reach, 

ideal for situations where the 

modem is semi enclosed and the 

bock panel is tricky to get to. The 

HI-Tec doesn't crash, but some- 

times a power-off is the easiest way 

to reset a line after a tailed connection, 

The EC 2400 does not look as 

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Hi-Tec EC2400 Deluxe 

t399 (E299 on special offer) 

Hi-Tec Modems Ltd 

0733 897333 

MNP protocols 

Front mounted power switch 

Unattractive styling 

The HI-Tec EC 2400 deluxe should be a senous con- 

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tender for your attention it you are looking to upgrade 

from an existing slower modem. The provision of MNP Is 

a real bonus, but only if the services you want to use 

support rt. 

level of presentation offered by the 

other three contenders. Don't get 

me wrong, Me EC 2400 is a positive 

Volkswagen build 

-Tec's 

design boys lust need to 

quality 

apply a little more in the way of 

w i s e . 

cosmetic surgery before it will look 

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as se xy a s t h e °t h e m in it s cla ss. 

Hayes 9600 +Quad 

Just as Hoover have mode a name 

tot t h e m se lve s in vOCu t irrt cle a n e rs, 

Hayes hove been at the leading 

edge with moderns since the 

emergence of the technology. 

With that sort of introduction you 

would be justifi ed in thinking that 

the Hayes Smartmodem 9600+ 

Quad might be something special. 

Depending on what you want to 

do with comms, you could be right 

As the name suggests the Hayes 

is a 9600 boud modern. We it is. as 

long as you are talking to another 

compatible 9600 baud modem 

Otherwise the +Quad tagged on 

to the end of the name is of more 

significance to you. 

Quaa relates to the ability to 

transmit and receive data using 

four universally recognised COT 

modulation standards. You will be 

iess Mon surprised to know That The 

highest speed available with these 

is 2400 baud (V 22 bib), The others 

are 300 (V 21). 1200 (V 22) and 

1275 (V 23) respectively. 

Hayes are a key player in the 

corporate commits sector, in prac- 

tice, fi nding another 9600 baud 

modem at the end Of a residential- 

ly run bulletin board could prove to 

be a little on the tricky side. 

This means that to all intent and 

purpose you have to assume that 

Me bulk Of your calls will ochieve 

2400 baud connections. With the 

provision of MNP the data through- 

put is increased to a respectable 

480) baud. 

The story doesn't stop there. By 

use of special protocols it is 

possible to achieve a nippy data 

transfer rate of 19.200 baud. This 

relies on another Hayes modem 

being at The other end of the link. 

All of these additional features 

invariably mean increased com- 

plexity in confi guration The Hayes 

goes some way to resolving poten- 

tial setup heartache by incorporat- 

ing intelligent feature negotiation 

software, 

Theoretically the Srnartmodern 

will automatically establish the 

highest speed of connection possi- 

ble. The practice is not entirely silky 

smooth, but confi guration is significantly 

easier than It would be with- 

out the artificial intelligence. 

The most striking attribute of the 

Hayes Is its construction. In com- 

plete contrast to the other plastic 

units, it lives in a smart robust metal 

box. The usual compliment of sta- 

tus lights is provided, as is a power 

switch on the back panel, There is 

no question that if build quality is 

important to you, this is your ideal 

modem_ 

In line with it distincfiy corporate 

price tog of 1,1r19, the Hayes 9603 

provides a wide range of facilities 

geared to the more serious corrirris 

buff. The most notable of these is 


X25 PAD. The letters PAD stand for 

Packet Assembler/ Disassembler. 

Using PAD it is possible to have 

virtual rather than physical connections_ 

This means that with a 

single modem you can be linked to 

more than one online service. 

In simple terms a PAD knk works 

by taking the information from 

each virtual connection estab- 

lished (the packets) and assem- 

bling them into a single data 

stream tot transmission. This stream 

is cleassembled at each end of the 

link. 

PAD has very specifi c applications 

and most residential users 

hove difficulty fi nding a justification 

for connecting to one online service 

never mind several simul- 

taneously. 

Hayes moderns are not cheap. I 

don't think if is 100 per cent fair to 

say that all you are paying for is the 

name, nor is It fair to say you get 

what you pay for in terms of fea- 

tures genuinely useful to the home 

user. 

The V-Series Srnartmodem 9600 

+Quad has a very specific appeal 

to corporate communicators. 

Price: 

Manufacturer 

Telephone: 

For 

There isn't a great deal to sell it to 

home hackers though. 

the other large market for high 

end modems is bulletin board 

sysops. I-byes are now promoting 

their entire range to this infl uential 

bunch by offering a more than 

generous 50 per cent discount. 

To qualify for this saving, the bul- 

letin board concerned must carry 

a promotional message for Hayes 

modems. The sysop scheme should 

go some way to getting more units 

Hayes 9600 +Quad 

El .148 85 

Hayes Microcomputer Products, Inc 

081 848 1858 

9600 baud 

PAD 

Against: Expensive 

Excellent build quality 

Requires some confi guration 

Verdict t h e Hayes 9600 +Quad is an excellent modem for seri- 


Price: 

Manufacturer: 

Telephone: 

For: 

Against: 

Verdict: 

ous comms users. I would be inclined to soy that it 

was overkill for domestic users and the Mirocom HST 

DS modem revtowed next is a more reoistic proposi- 

tion for Sysops It PAD and reliability are important to 

you then Hayes is the natural choice, 

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Miracom Courier HST 

User friendly 

Na telephone through-port 

It you Intend to take comms seriously and money is no 

object, this is the modem for you B8S Sysops should 

leap at the chance to pick up one of these units at 

50% discount. It will be a very long time before a bet- 

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contact the company at the number 

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Miracom Courier 

We wrap up our look at moderns 

with the Mitacom Courier HST DS. 

This deck combines most of the 

features found in the Hayes with 

one yen 

, ture, HST - an acronym for High 

impo Speed Technology. Using the 

rtan 

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Miracom it is possible to achieve a 

data transfer rate of 14.4k. There 

are ciiite a few HSts doing sterling 

service at the front end of numer- 

ous bulletin boards up and down 

the country_ 

HST is a proprietary protocol 

designed by Miracorrfs American 

parent company US Robotics 

Each of the other modems we 

have looked at use the elderly 

CCM V standards for data transfer 

Talking of the V standards brings 

me to the other acronym In the 

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the Courier is a dual standard 

1's modem. 

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the widely accepted slower V standards. 

If fi rst impressions last, I have 

been sold on the Courier. Despite 

the unit's immense sophistication, 

getting online was just a simple 

matter of plugging in a couple of 

cables and clicking on my 

JRComm icon, 

Miracom must be commended 

for the user friendliness of the entire 

Courier package. the manual is 

clear, concise arid easy to foNow, 

The built•in help screens and com- 

mand summaries are convenient 

to access. The level of user support 

even extends as far as printing a 

complete command summary on 

The base of the M sized unit, there 

Is no excuse for not having the 

Information you need close to 

hand If you are the proud owner of 

a Courier. 

On the face of it the Miracorn 

does everything that the Hayes 

does and more for around the 

same price. The only feature the 

Hayes can boast over the Miracom 

Is PAD, The won't be a great loss for 

most users. 

This is an Ideal modem for 

bulletin board sysops. The automat 

,lc support of both widely used 

communications standards (V and 

HST) means that the Courier is 

happy to answer the phone and 

talk to a wider range of moderns 

than any other in Its doss. 

Miracom offer a Sysop price 

scheme similar to the Hayes one 

making these excellent modems 

availoble at virtually give-away 

prices to established bulletin boards 

The only niggling curiosity is that 

Mitocom hove not seen fit to pro- 

vide a telephone socket on the 

back of the Courier. This means 

that if you wish to share a line for 

voice and data the purchase of a 

socket doubler Is a pre-requisite. 

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until the copying procedure has 

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away in a safe place. Now switch 

off the machine and waft for 30 

seconds before re-booting with 

the copy. Wait until the 

CoverDisk17 icon appears, double 

click on it and away you go. 

That's all you need do to make 

a straight copy of the entire disk. 

However, you may also want to 

to copy IFICkviduoi programs from 

ore very small in memory 

terms compared to their sam- 

pled COUSIOS. 

Sample Editor 

With the Inclusion of this feature 

MED has become something 

more than Just one of the better 

Soundtrocker clones The sample 

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your copy ot tne coven:1 

, separate disk. In this case ensure 

5k that tyou o fully a understand which 

related Res need to go with It 

For example, all of the document 

files on the disk reauire that 

the text editor PPmore is in the 

current disks C: directory. Therefore. 

If you copy the does to a 

new disk you will also have to 

copy PPmore to the new C. directory 

before you can read them. 

Some of the smaller docs will 

not have been crunched, so for 

these you need only change the 

tool types on the icon's Info 

screen to reflect whichever text 

editor you do have on the new 

disk. 

As a general rule, you should 

carefully read the documentation 

for any program you copy 

from disk to disk 

This can save a great deal of 

messing about and can help you 

avoid all those infutiat . error , 

messages! 

editor transforms MED into a program 

rivalling commercial products 

like t h e 

Audiomosteriengineer 

packages - and all for a 

couple of quid. 

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Last month's coverdisk brought 

you Hunter for ripping samples 

out of memory. Now we offer The 

Graphics Ripper to do the same 

lob on your favourite piccies. 

demos, or games backdrops. 

Although not as easy to use as 

Hunter, TGP is not too difficult to 

get to grips with, It works on a 

similar basis as Hunter in that It 

relies on the Amiga not to wipe 

memory after a warm restart. 

Although some commercial 

games will do this to prevent 

hocking and precisely the sort of 

graphics grabbing TGR is 

designed for, most leave enough 

around in memory to rip out 

You're not doing °milting Illegal 

if you rip graphics from PD 

demos, and if you grab screens 

from commercial games simply 

to look at and mess about with 

on your own, there's no harm 

done. Just don't try to make 

money Out of 

To begin ripping, boot up with 

your favourite demo or game 

and wart till you're sure the best 

graphics are in memory, then reboot. 

it would be best to transfer 

TGR to a bare bootable disk - 

you can make one of these with 

Auto-Script - for this purpose as 

you ensure that memory is disturbed 

as lithe as possible by the 

re-boot. 

Once TGR Is up and running, 

you will find a selection of search 

controls relating to memory posjtion. 

bltplane manipulation, and 

colour control. 

The ins and Outs of these can 

Author: Peter Edwards 

• 

be found in the comprehensive 

on-disk documentation, but for 

fast results. Just click on the FIND 

button at the bottom of the 

screen and move the mouse to 

scroll through graphics memory. 

If all is wee you should at least 

be able to spot some Workbench 

graphics, Including icons and 

scroll bars. You should come 

across the graphics you're interested 

In If you persevere - 

remember that the PL I to PL6 

controls relate to the six brpiones 

and ore expressed in hexadecimal. 

For owners ot 512K Amigos, this 

means the area of concern Is up 

to memory location $80000. For 

owners of machines with I Mb 

chip RAM, such as A2000s and 

converted A500s. this Is location 

$100000. Don't bother to search 

beyond these locations - graphics 

memory won't be found In 

the areas not directly accessed 

by the custom chips. 

When you find the graphics 

you want TGP will save them to 

disk as IFF files - but beware of 

screen freezes. If the mouse 

seems to freeze while saving, the 

program has run into a problem 

such as a write-protected or full 

disk. 

To release the mouse pointer 

press the left Amiga key and B at 

the same time. This is one of the 

program's quirks, but one you'll 

hove to live with it if you wont to 

rip graphics without resorting to 

the expense of a commercial 

cartridge gadget. 

Amiga Computing 3 5

We guarantee this game will hook 

you faster than Jack Chartton with 

a trawl net' Amiga-Tanx Is a two 

player tank shoot-it-out which we 

just couldn't stop playing. Its 

excellent sound and graphics pro- 

vide Instant appeal, while the 

deceptively simple gameplay is 

sure to keep you playing for hours. 

The game Is so colourful It takes 

up about 400k of chip RAM, so if 

you own a standard A500 be sure 

to run It with as few windows open 

as possible. 

If you have problems, and the 

game runs out of memory, the 

best solution is to interrupt your 

startup-sequence using CIRLD 

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MED 3.00 Is the best music program 

available ii PD for the Amiga - 

as simple as that The new feature 

are excellent, and substantially II 

odd to the program's appeal. 

Unfortunately constraints of 

space meant we could not bring 

you all the MED 3_00 hies, We hod 

to leave out the programmer's 

notes, demos, and most of the 

samples on the new disk, so if yo..1 

want these and the all important 

source code get in touch with Ray 

at Amiganuts United PD on (0703 

7851580). 

Don't forget that although the 

author. Teito Kinnunen, has 

retrained from making MED share 

ware or going commercial, he is still 

not averse to receiving the odd 

fiver In the post. You'll fi nd his 

address in the documentation on 

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you don't have a garden. and 

the mere thought of using a fake 

brings you out in cold sweats, you 

can't fail to appreciate the rare 

nature of this particular progrom. 

LandScape is a garden gener- 

ator which allows a prospective 

shovel-wielder to plan the layout 

of his or her corner of beautiful 

Britain before cutting a single sod. 

This is one of the most novel 

uses we've seen an Amiga put to 

for some time. and It's a neat 

and Interesting utility for even 

non-gardeners_ 

The program loads to a black 

screen with just a menu bar at 

the top. By accessing the fi rst 

From pla n vie w to pseudo 3 0 

simulated garden, LandScape 

makes oosigning e a sy 

LandScape 

Author: Steve Goddard 

menu and selecting NEW. the 

second menu's garden building 

options become available. 

From here you simply point 

and click with the mouse until the 

garden boundary, lawn, path, 

ond areas of earth ore set out, 

then go on to odd plants. 

The list of plants available isn't 

huge and merely offers general 

types, but as the program alms to 

give Just a guide to how the gar- 

den will appear this isn't really a 

drawback. 

It Is important at this stage to 

bear hn mind the garden's dimen- 

sions as chosen at the start of the 

procedure. If you try putting a 

medium sized fir in a small garden 

There won't be much room left 

for a washing line missusi 

When the design process is fin- 

ished the garden Is drawn from 

whatever viewpoint you select, 

This can take qtite some time, as 

everything is mathematically calculated 

to look as close to real 

life as possible. 

However, if you're prepared to 

go away and have a quick 

cuppa. the results on screen 

when you get back can be 

extremely pleasing. The drawing 

algorithms have obviously been 

carefully worked out. 

The fi nished garden can now 

be saved to disk as on IFF file and 

touched up in DPaint if you like. 

There are only two omissions 

which damage the program - 

water and stone. We would have 

liked to have seen a pond/cas- 

code design feature and a way 

of Incorporating walls into the 

garden, but these are the only 

motor moans 

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that we read the steady stream 

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perate to download fi les from 

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A couple of months later than 

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you Doves article and software 

on the process 

YOU apparently 

second only 

to con- 

tinued 

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so many of 

put 

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ckrectories_ 

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PsionLink 

Author: DaVe Westwood 

ony tile transfer through the 

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rote and so on and must be pre- 

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coverdisk, we've included 

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ISSIGN 

Pslorts 

ST 

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to-day list 

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of priorities. 

resini tion for the use of 

Now the 

The program is that you 

Comms_link 

mu st own a Peon 

program allows 

goner with the PC 

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i 

preferences for 

non 

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p 

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PPType k 

Author: Moo Francois 

w 

h 

This isn't exactly a new program, 

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and anyone with a recent drawer to your c Workbench disk 

release of Nico's excellent 

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and use it earn 

h 

there. 

f 

The program i can accept your 

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that PPType. being a realtively and page number. As we said. It 

looks in Workbench prefs for print- 

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r 

AmigaDOS as an operating system. 

y 

but may not have realised its true 

o 

potential. 

u 

foNowing last month's column, you 

should find little difficulty here, 

Startup-sequences are typicolly 

y To do tNs, you'll hove to begin simple scripts executed one com- 

to e think of it as a crude programmand at a time from start to finish. 

ming f language, and when you use so they usually don't contain any 

script o or botch files this is exactly of the more advanced options 

what l It becomes, 

l 

The startup-sequence, which we 

o 

dissected last month. Is the fi rst 

w 

e 

open to script file writers. 

We'll now lake a more in depth 

look at the sort of trickery one can 

d 

t Fancy text effects 

h 

You'll notice from using Auto-Script That It uses text effects other than 

i 

s 

The standard type and colour. These special effects are accessible 

sthrough 

commands within ECHO statements in the form • 

ee(nm 

n is one of wthe hfollowing e r e numbers! 

r 

i 0 • cancels all effects 

1 = bold text 

e3 

italicised text 

4 underline fumed on 

s 

7 = inverted text 

30 • text colour 0 (blue) 

31 = text colour 1 (white) 

33 text colour 3 (orange) 

41 background colour I (white) 

43 = background colour 3 (orange) 

Stevie Kennedy 

finds he has 

batches in his 

belfry 

PA R T 3 

Learningthi 

cript 

script file most users encounter, and 

32 text colour 2 (black) 

40 = background colour 0 (blue) 

42 = background colour 2 (black) 

For example. It you type ECHO - 

Computing•elOm' •ellmtet3m•et4m•e[ 

you will get 'Amiga Computing' In bold, underlined, 

3 2black m A mitalics, i g aand 

text will be switched back to normal. 

.1 .••••• 

BEGINNERS 

GUIDE 

Indulge in when using script files 

and examine some of the more 

complex tasks they can perform. 

Pointer power 

The script file we'll use as on exam- 

ple. Auto-Script, is listed here and is 

present on your coverdisk com- 

plete with Its own icon. It you dick 

once on this icon and use the 

Workbench INFO option, you will 

see that Its default tool type is set 

to ICONX. 

This is the routine wtich. If called 

as a default tool type, opens a CLI 

wI 

nturning 

it into a crude program 

dexecutable 

from Workbench. 

o 

If you choose to write a script file 

w 

a 

of your own, it should be simple 

nenough 

to copy and rename the 

d on for use with your new scnot. 

r The AmigoDOS commands high- 

ulighted 

thismonth are the IF ELSE 

n ENDIF group. ASK. LAB. and SKIP. 

s 

By examining Auto-Script and fol- 

t 

h 

lowing what It does, you should be 

e 

able to use these commands in 

syour 

own script files with little has- 

csle. 

r The IF ENDiF command is one 

i 

of the most important commands 

p 

you might use In a script file. tt is the 

t 

f 

i 

ISOMERS l — 

GUIDE e 

, 

most common way of testing for 

conditions, variables, and program 

parometers, and as such is one of 

The essential building blocks of any 

script. It has the syntax; 

(Condition) 

Wiled/ 

ELSE 

(Actin?) 

MI; 

This construction will be familiar 

to BASIC programmers, but may 

confuse beginners. When encoun- 

tered in a script fi le, the IF command 

looks to see if the condition 

Is satisfied, It so. the Action] series 

of commands Is carried out, then 

execution skips to ENDIF 

If the condition is NOT satisfied, 

the ELSE command forces execu- 

tion of the Action2 sequence 

instead. The ELSE part is optional. 

but Its use renders the whole a lot 

more fl exible With no ELSE state- 

ment, the execution of the script 

file would simply jump to the first 

command after ENDIF 

The first line of the script concerns 

vanables and/or command 

parameters. The .key van l line sim- 

ply tells the Amiga that there is one 

program parameter coiled vonl 

which will be passed to It. Normally. 

If this isn't done in the EXECUTE 


command using the form EXECUTE 

, the 

command in question assumes a 

null entry. 

Auto-Script doesn't utilise true 

variables - well cover those next 

month - but It does require certain 

yokes to be passed to it in answer 

to ASK commands. This command 

has the syntax 

ASK "

COntains a 

with Is own 

bmiTior with 

:e of using 

Aries within 

essential If 

1 to be car- 

cfrfficult to 

atiOn when 

n IF to the 

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again, 

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Lemmings is absolutely brilliant. 

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ploy that will keep you corning 

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between a Bombjack and Audiogenic•s 

d Helfer Skeiter, And, like 

those o great games, it's guaran- 

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teed to literally BOWL you over! 

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In this wildly addictive arcade 

A 

puzzler, L you must guide a little 

bouncing L ball through screen after 

screen S of arcade action, 

! You'll be taken through five time 

zones, starting at the very begin. 

fling of time Itself and then on 

through to the present day and 

the future. 

Each screen consists of a num- 

ber of platforms which you must 

bounce around, collecting arti- 

facts as you go. 

These Increase your score, but 

the object you're really after is the 

Where's Me bioornin .It? Coilleci the key and It will aPPsoll 

progress to the next screen. As 

ever, there are obstacles to dodge 

and traps to avoid, but our little 

exit key - once collected, an exit rubber friend is not without help. which douse burning platforms, 

will appear which wiN allow you to No sireee, for tools ore dotted Keys which allow passage through 

progress to the next screen As around the screen which will certain walls and hammers that do 

POP UP 

the some job as the keys. but In a 

Guaranteed to bowl you over! 

slightly more direct way (who 

needs a skeleton key when you've 

got a 25Ib sledgehammer!) 

Sounds easy doesn't It? But, 

take it from me, things get harder_ 

much harder. Later in the game 

you'll encounter bouncy platforms. 

sticky platforms. angled platforms - 

in fact, just about any type of platform 

you can think of, all of which 

Publisher: Infogrames Price' E19.99 

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help him overcome his little problems. 

These include water drops 

are designed exclusively to hinder 

your progress. 

The moto you ploy this oiorno 

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could prove to 

be hot stuff it 

you don? a void 

those fire ba lls 

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the more you will become deter- 

mined to beat R. 

The controls ore great and 

apart from a deathly dull menu 

screen, Pop Up is on addictive Hite 

number. Defi nitely one for your 

software collection, 

David Johnson 

FINAL JUDGEMENT 

Graphics 

Clean, well defi ned and 

colourful, but not too adven- 

turous. Nevertheless, Pop 

Up's graphics work well. 

I Sound 

going. Boing. Soing. What' 

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worth mentioning - there 

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making them almost indistin- 

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cousin, Flintheart Glomgold 

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the stars of a quacking 

(sorry) a new game from those rriasters 

y of animation. Desney. 

m to old Scrooge and his equally 

tight o cousin Flintheart, money is 

everything, n 

Put simply. they're the 

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grandmothers if they thought 

an o easy profit could be made. 

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astute s they realty are. a challenge 

has n been set - whoever collects 

the ' most money In under 30 days 

wins t the coveted title of 'Duck Of 

The Year' In that illustrious publica- 

tion. Dime Magazine. 

So the scene is set. Duck against 

Duck, a battle where everything 

goes (for the right price, that 

Is). You play the part of old 

)1), Scrooge McDuck - a bad 

. 1 egg on the outside, but 

a nice old 

Publisher: Disney Software Price: uE24.99 

Relaxing the M cn u ck w a y 

chop on the Qnsode. 

With the aid of his nephews 

Huey. Dewey and Louie. old 

McDuck must grab his Indiana 

Jones hat and whip and go in 

search of treasure. He'll find himself 

lost In a network of caves, swinging 

from vines In the Amazon jungle 

and climbing mountains In search 

of treasure. 

Each of these little 

excursions takes the 

form of a separate sub 

game which has to be 

completed If McDuck is to 

add to his already 

bulging coffers. 

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load than actually playing It! 

Although Duck Tales is undoubt- 

edly aimed at a fairly young audi- 

ence, It has the makings of a great 

game. Unfortunately, it's rust far too 

repetitive to be worth more Mon a 

passing glance. It's a shame that 

the programmers didn't spend as 

much time on the gameplay as 

they did on the graphicsi if they 

had, then Duck Tales would have 

been a stunntng piece of software. 

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accompany play, but what 

really makes the game shine 

are the numerous speech 

samples and effects that 

really give it that fun Disney 

feel. 

Gameplay 

- DuckTales reminds me of 

some of the very early 

Cinemaware games - they 

had great graphics, superb 

sound, but gameplay was 

practically nonexistent. 

Unfortunately, Duck Tales 

shares this problem. Sure, it 

looks good, but the game- 

play is simply too repetitive 

to make it the kind of game 

you'll come back to. 

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TREASURE ISLAND 

Enid Blyton's much loved characters come alive in this faithful version 

of the best selling book.Using the "Worldscape" adventure system 

you can play any of the children as they solve the mystery of 

the Treasure Island. Featuring a powerful text parser and many 

graphical locations, this is a game for the young 

and the young-at-heart 

AVAILABLE SOON FOR 

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Fancy yourself 

CONTROL 

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Cheat* your ship a nd then et s on to bceliel 

Graphics - 

Although the graphics are 

generally small, they zip 

around tht screen without a 

Judder in sight. On the 

whole, presentation is good. 

Publisher: Accolade Price: E24.99 

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F C I E 

Nothing worth writing home 

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Gameolay 

enough. However, each ship 

has its own victory tune, 

which is quite a nice touch. 

ta. 

FREE STEWS 

Great, The controls are welt 

laid out and easy to master. 

The gamtplay Is far from 

original, but who carts whtn 

It's so addictive? 

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Captain Kirks, there's 

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bow. l Do not fret, II isn't another Stor 

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Trek game - which is good 

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because 'I dunna think I could 

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take b any more captain.' 

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evil l gin 

a futuristic battle where all is 

t:con• 

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army of various space vehicles 

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can save the known universe from 

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a wcruel, 

evil empire. Wall a mkiute 

... o haven't I heard that story 

somewhere u 

before? 

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bolt 

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shooter to your waist, put your 

b 

genuine Imitation leather hover 

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boots on and tilt your space hel- 

mets 'cos this is gonna be one hel• 

1INCI due l. 

Star Corikol is the latest offering 

from those old reliable Accolade 

boys and its good . vep good. 

Its also big so its for one meg 

Amigos only I'm afrakl. 

It's set in the distant future with 

two legions of seven space ships 

locked in deadly combat. The 

Alliance - figriters for truth, Justice 

and liberty for all - and the evil 

Hierarchy, the scourge of the universe. 

Boo. Hiss 

Gameplay-wise, Star Control 

reminds me of on old arcade 

game I used to play in my wild 

and reckless youth, called Space 

Battle. In that game, two space 

ships flew around the screen blast- 

ing each other and avoiding a 

planet slap bang lit the centre 

Sounds pretty simple I know, but 

Accolade's offering goes a lot fur- 

ther than this archaic game - 

there's a certain amount of strate- 

gy In there too. 

The game offers a few different 

scenarios just to stop it getting bor- 

ing. For starters, you can practice 

at a one-to-one level with any of 

the ships gn offer. This is highly 

recommended as each ship has 

different characteristics Including 

speed, weaponry and shields plus 

- as on added bonus - each of the 

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ships has a special move or trick 

up its sleeve. 

Once you think that you'll be 

more than lust laser fodder for 

some gala dribbling alien, then its 

time to move on to Meele. This 

option cuts out all that technical 

strategy stuff (that comes later) 

and puts you head to head with 

to. 

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Build you empire throughout the universe 

AFIL 

your opposing fleet as you light to 

the death across a space field. 

Oh, and be careful not to crash 

into the planets which hove a 

gravitational pull - this could leave 

you a sitting duck. 

If the tactical side of your nature 

Is lusting for more you can move 

on to the full game options. There 

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are nine different scenarios in all, 

and even an option to create your 

own, but they all work around the 

same principle. 

A moving star map with you at 

the bottom and your opponent at 

the top is laid out and each or the 

armies ships move from planet to 

planet, colonising and fortifying 

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bloody battle which will se e only one 

surAvor. Pla ye r 2 score s a dire ct Pill. 

but the ba lle t not ove r ye t 

them as they go. Movement is lim- 

ited to the planets immediately 

surrounding the one you are on 

and not all planets lead where you 

think. It's a bit like trying to read a 

British Rail timetable at first, but 

you'll soon get the hang of DI 

Once you've sussed out all the 

different options, you'll find Star 

Control to be a source of many 

hours of computer entertainment. 

Irs obvious that a lot of thought 

has gone into Star Control, making 

this a game waith checking out. 

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_And he m it Is In a ll Its glory - tootle mode N ow where did I put my glosses 

pie enough - you must guide Max 

through fi fty levels of puzzling 

arcade action until he is fi nally 

reunited with the love of his life„ 

It yours getting bored, then you con cre a te your own screens with the built 

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Is also a 

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hearts that ore 

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you've collected them 

oll, a quick peck on Mini's 

cheek will send you on to the 

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To make things a little easier 

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strategically positioned to help 

Graphics 

Deliberately small, but quite 

colourful. The game could 

have benefited from a bit of 

animation here and there, 

just to make it visually more 

Interesting. 

Sound 

If you're Into popular music, 

then you'll love the Power's 1 . 

theme tune which Is a very 

well done adaptation of 

Snap's chart storming single, 

'The Power'. Unfortunately, 

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Installing the system is a docidle, 

although it should be pointed out 

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this issue. 

Scala has the rather grand remit 

of being a presentation system. 

Before diving into the mechanics of 

the package it makes sense to look 

at practical applications for It. 

You ore more likely to see the 

output of Scala in a board room or 

shopping centre than an edit suite. 

Presentation systems merge graph- 

ics with text to produce pleasant 

looking information displays. These 

systems convey anything from flight 

=vats at airports to the latest profit 

cmd loss statistics for a multi-nation- 

al company 

Visual impact 

The Scala package allows presentations 

to be formed from three 

components; backgrounds, text 

and symbols. These elements 

come together to form - 

pages* Information, o f 

Complete display sequences 

are built up by using Scabs beau- 

tifully simple presentation manager 

to wipe between these pages. 

that the more modestly endowed 

Amiaas could run Into trouble. In 

order to use the package to Its full 

potential a hard disk is required. 

The manual cites this as recom- 

mended rather than essential but 

bearing in mind the entire pack- 

age comes on no fewer than nine 

floppies it should be taken as a 

very strong recommendation, 

Scala extensively utilises the 

Amigos High-Res graphics mode, 

so stacks of memory is also 

prerequisite. Two megabytes of 

ram Is enough to keep Scala 

happy, although It wouldn't com- 

plain if more was thrown at it 

Scabs backgrounds are high 

resolution IFF riles, The package is 

supplied vitth a varied collection of 

excedent quality Images. 

Everything from artistic abstracts 

to cloud and seascapes are pro- 

vided on fi ve disks cram packed 

with art-library material. 

if even after browsing through 

the supplied images you can't find 

something that fits your application 

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backgrounds, The standard range 

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supplied with Scala can also be 

tweaked, dropping in bar charts 

and graphs where required for 

example. 

Scala uses standard Amiga 

fonts, although those supplied are 

significantly better than the by now 

Immortal Topaz. Seventeen font 

families are bundled with the sys- 

tem. A wide range of authentic 

adaptations of popular display 

faces are provided including 

Futuna, Gill, Garamond and 

Hetvetica 

If you are particulady desperate 

to utilise a font that doesn't cramp 


your style It is Just a simple if tedious 

matter of digging out a PD font 

editor, or dare I suggest even 

Commodores FED Armed with 

such a tool anyone has the poten- 

tial to be a fully fl edged Scala font 

foundry 

As well GS fonts, the package is 

geared up to handle k Pictograms". 

These ate graphic symbols rather 

than characters. Standard sym- 

bols supplied with the art-library 

Include arrows, disabled logos. toi- 

let and utility symbols. This gives 

some clue to the typical applica- 

fions of the package. 

I could not argue if you insisted 

that a pictogram of a gents toilet 

symbol is not a great deal of use 

for the overage wedding video. It 

is however useful in public places 

like shopping and leisure centres. 

The next time you are directed to a 

convenience by a monitor, it could 

well be Scala at the heart of the 

machine 

Again. If you can't fi nd a pic- 

togram that takes your fancy it is a 

straightforward ;ob to create your 

own, providing you have the time 

and a decent ort package. 

External input 

Sado has no built in provision far 

creating pictograms or back- 

grounds Instead it relies on Import- 

ing IF formal files 

Backgrounds can be any stan- 

dard IFF screen and pictograms 

usually start their life off as Deluxe 

Paint brushes. As well as static 

backgrounds. Scala will also cope 

happily with DPaint III animations 

A requirement for Deluxe Point III 

popped up time and time again 

during a cursory test drive of the 

package It would be fair to say 

that in order to take full advantage 

of Scala. DPaint is a virtual necessl- 

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When constructing a presentation 

with Scala. the system associates 

specific text and backgrounds with 

each page of the script. 

Text can either be simply super- 

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wiped on using a wide range of 

predefi ned effects These include 

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After a page has been com- 

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move on to the next in the 

sequence. There is a wide variety 

of options available for page 

changes. Transitions can either be 

Immediate or after a delay defi ned 

in seconds. They con be straight- 

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By and large Scala handles 

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degree of profi ciency. Even in an 

Amigo strapped for memory, the 

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So for I have described how 

Scala copes with presenting infor- 

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It's ability to construct totally inter- 

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multiple-choice selections wtthin 

Scala page. This is achieved by 

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When the system detects a mouse 

click over a button it will proceed 

to display the event which has 

been associated with it. 

The interactive aspects of Scala 

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cations where customers are 

searching for a specifi c product 

within a range. Other obvious uses 

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If you hove something to soy 

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The range and diversity of standard 

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Up to eight separate fonts can 

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its possible to mix all of the avail- 

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on the screen, 

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The actual appearance of a page 

Is sometimes far more important 

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HT is well supported in the page 

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If you want to make an impact, 

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It. HT has four available colours. This 

no doubt seems limited but it's not 

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This process can be applied to 

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HT starts to look like possibly the 

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Movement 

It's all well and good having pretty 

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you might fi nd comfortable, and 

isn't the ideal easy-learner pro- 

gram. 

Kindwords, on the other hand, is 

abysmally slow and only rust about 

wcfks on a machine with less than 

the full megabyte. Indeed, the only 

way to use the latter and remain 

sane is to fit your Amiga with 2Mb 

RAM and an 030 cord! 

For gliite a while, then, there has 

existed a potentially lucrative gap 

in the WordpioceSsing market 

which only Amor. by releasing 

Protext 5 and creating the condi- 

tions for price cuts on Protext 4.3, 

has come close to exploiting. 

Companies in the U.S, however, 

appear to have grown wise to this 

and Quick Write is the first quality 

low-end wordprocessing package 

to hit our shores as a result 

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complete with spell-checker not 

only into 512K but onto a single 

floppy as wet The happy child of 

such a wedding of compactness 

and usability, it It worked, would be 

a program with immense appeal 

to the A500 owner. So does it work? 

On loading, QuickWrite has the 

Immediate visual appeal of the 

American wordprocessors already 

mentioned, and certainly looks 

more professional than the rather 

chunky KindWords. The screen 

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documents open into their own re- 

sizable windows 

In this way multiple document 

editing is possible, but as the pro- 

gram is designed for systems with 

limited memory this otherwise desirable 

function has a limited use in 

QuickWrite. 

If you're one of those people 

who is drawn to the hst of 'features' 

normally found on the back of the 

packoging, you'll initially be 

impressed by larickWrila However. 

there's not a great deal there that 

you can't find in most other WP's. 

QuickWrite is up to the usual 

spec, but it doesn't break any new 

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price/performance barrier repre- 

sented by better but more expen- 

sive programs such as Protext 5, 

and the inferior but generally 

cheaper KiedWords. 

Spell it out 

The spelling checker is the pack- 

age's most impressive feature. Not 

only Is It actually on the same disk 

as the main program, but it con- 

tains a usable 50.000 words and 

can be added to as the user's 

requirements dictate. 

KindWords scores o v e r 

QuickWrite by recognising 90,000 

words, but to use it on lengthy doc- 

uments you need more than 512K. 

and to describe it as sluggish would 

be an understatement. 

The QuickWrtte dictionary, while 

smaller, Is considerabty faster, and 

can be speeded up even more If 

loaded Into PAM, Using it thus will 

take up a full 120K so there may 

not be enough space it your docu- 

ment is lengthy or your Amiga is 

unexpended. 

The disk, however, contains a 

RAMStart program which will open 

the RAM disk if it hasn't appeared 

during start-up, and transferring The 

dictionary to ti Is co simple matter of 

dragging Its icon to the RAM disk 

window. 

The spell-checker searches 

through the text from start to finish 

rather than utilising the more intelli• 

gent aparooch taken by Protext's 

Collins/Proximity Linguibase This 

scans and then sorts the whole text 

into alphabetical order before 

checking it through, and con be 

very smooth in operation. 

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method is less complex. but seems 

to be slower in checking, and cer- 

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misspelt words tall far short of 

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words you could be forgiven for 

thinking are fairly common. 

On the whole, though, it is fast 

and simple enough to do the job. 

In time, the user dictionary would 

no doubt fill up to the point where 

the main dictiorary's shortfallings 

would be mostly offset, and only 

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limiting to start with. 

For those not in the know, macro 

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function key) or combination of 

keypresses which has been pre- 

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guage. QuickVVrite can defi ne ten 

macros. 

This addition should not be 

understated - macros ore more 

than just a gimmick and can cut 

out a great deal of tedious typing. 

For instance. Macro 1 might be 

defi ned to reformat on entire para- 

graph. Indent it. and fully justify it at 

the stroke of a key. Many users will 

find similarly routine operations 

which can be rendered less painful 

in this way. lending QuickWrite 

much more professional touch. 

Unfortuncrtely, it is only the more 

ambitious user who will take 

advantage of the macros, as their 

use requires a bit of thought. In 

contrast with some low-end pro- 

grams, where defi ning a macro is 

simply a case of starting the 

'recorder' and carrying out the 

sequence of keystrokes you desire 

to be defi ned, QuickWrite uses its 

own macro 'language'. 

This is more powerful and flexible 

than the simple recorder method. 

The usual options 

are a va ila ble in 

their usual form - 

nothing to write 

home about, 

but Is much more diffi cult to use 

and, even though well document- 

ed by the manual, Is likely to scare 

off more than a few beginners. 

No Wordprocessor can be 

judged solely by its on-screen abili- 

ties. They are, after all, intended to 

produce hard copy at the end of 

the day. and (;)uickWitte manages 

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rapidly run short of memory, and 

frequently crashes If a problem 

occurs during printing, QuickWitte 

copes well with large printing tasks, 

The mall merge facility is con- 

trolled by only four simple rules to 

defi ne how a merge list should 

look. 

It allows the user to choose 

which records (such as individual 

addresses) are merged, so that let- 

ters may be sent to one portion of 

a long list, rather than the whole lot 

as demanded by KindWords's mail 

merge. 

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File handling es cameo Out by way 

of a Moc-ish fi le requester, which 

most Amiga users will rind painfully 

slow. 

To jump from one drive to the 

next when searching for a file, one 

has to click on a 'drives gadget to 

go through them one at a time. 

On a hard drive-based Mac. 

with Its uncluttered desk top, this is 

fine, but on an Amiga sporting only 

floppies it con cause unnecessary 

rises in blood pressure. I would 

have welcomed an ARP fi le 

requestor or even a standard 

AmigoDOS one, which shows you 

how bad QuickWrite's can get. 

The saving grace in this depart- 

ment is the option to save directly 

In Professional Page as well as standard 

Quick Write and ASCII format 

For users of Gold Disk's DIP 

package, the ability to import text 

files with no extraneous control 

codes or annoying carriage returns 

is a positive boon, and will greatly 

enhance QuickWrite's appeal to 

That particular market 

Conclusion 

On the whole. QuickWrite is a wel- 

come addition to the cheaper end 

of the Wordprocessor market At 

first glance. It Is more expensive 

than KindWords and is missing a 

thesaurus and the ability to import 

graphics files. 

On further investigation, however, 

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at , ray tracing will soon fi nd it often 

requires y the loss or an cirri, a leg, 

and e a few other fi nancial body bits 

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into rendering. 

So if your fi nances are slightly 

red faced DKBTrace could be an 

excellent alternative to spending 

heaps of cash on a commercial 

product. 

This complete ray tracer sup- 

ports arbitrary quadric surfaces, 

which when translated means 

spheres, ellipsoids, cones. cylinders, 

planes and so on. Various shading 

models are also available, plus 

refl ection, refraction, marble, 

wood, and many other familiar ray 

tracing favourites. 

it also has special case code to 

handle spheres, planes, triangles, 

and smooth triangles, If you use 

these special primiltves• the render- 

ing times can be reduced quite a 

bit when compared with general 

quadrics, 

Version 2.0 Includes the source 

code written In C. The whole thing 

hos being bundled together on to 

one disk by the author, David K. 

Buck. 

If you're the lucky owner of a 

68020 or 68030 system with a 68881 

or 68882 math co-processor you'll 

find a completely separate version 

of the software on the disk 

designed rust for you and your muscular 

machine. 

As well as the program itself a 

whole range of utilities added to 

the package perform various 

weird and wonderful tricks of the 

trace. 

Dump to IFF will convert the raw 

24 bit data from the ray tracer files 

Paul Austin lends 

a helping hand to 

pick the best PD 

from the rest 

into Hi-res HAM images The colour 

palette used for the first Image can 

then be used with the others. 

This is particularly useful for animations 

as the entire series of 

frames can be forced to use the 

same colour palette. 

Dump21GB can convert the raw 

24 bit output files of the ray tracer 

into three separate dump files for 

the ability to separate colour Is 

redly useful. 

Scuipt2DKB, the next of the 

extras, will convert a Sculpt- 

Animate 3D scene fi le into 

DKBTrace format, At the moment 

smoothed triangles ore not sup- 

ported and the only information 

directly converted concerns the 

polygons, colours and textures, 

red, green and blue. This might Light sources, viewpoints, other 

seem rather pointless to most peo- aspects are ignored but once the 

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always add these as required from 

DKB. 

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DKB in Its earlier forms a document 

included describes the conver- 

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from 1,2 with the new improved 

2.0. 

As you can see from the screen 

shots, excellent results are possible. 

They're not perhaps the quakty of 

some commercial creations, but 

considering the price difference 

this Is a very impressive package 

Indeed. 

A beginner would be well 

advised to give the Instructions a 

good read, as ray tracing is not 

the sirnpiest of subjects and takes 

a little time to master, 

In order to squash all the good- 

ies on to one disk most of the ele- 

ments have been archived and as 

a result need to be un-archived 

On to a separate disk. I'd recom- 

mend at leost 1 meg or more it 

you're really interested In serious 

production, 

MVK V2.0 

Is your machine sneezing, shiver- 

ing, and chewing up disks like 

Strepsils? if so it's sure to be suffer- 

ing form the curse of modern 

computing, viral infection. 

Fortunately for every idiot with a 

sick sense of humour there seems 

to be a knight in shinning armour 

waiting to leap to our defence 

and combat the bacterial beast- 

Stefan Ossowski is a fine exam- 

ple of a later day Lancelot. with 

his computing equivalent of a 

condom, Master virus Kier V2,0. 

MVK is capable of spotting up 

to 105 viruses. on impressive fi gure 

and considerably more than 

many of its counterparts. It will 


detect both the fi le and boot 

block varieties and happily put 

them to the sword, whether they 

be on a fl oppy or hard drive. 

The software does hove one 

drawback, or advantage de- 

pending on your point of view. It 

will not run as a background task 

like Kill Do Virus or Zerovirus its 

competitors. Both of these sit on 

the menu bar and automatically 

check memory and disks as they 

are inserted. 

The advantage of background 

checking is that nothing should slip 

through the net, as both KDVIII 

and Zerovirus can be run from the 

startup-sequence and remain 

active constantly. 

The disadvantages arise if you 

According to the dm Wonder- 

Sound is an addictive harmonic 

Instrument design tool which 

allows you to create new sounds 

by manipulating envelopes, hat. 

MONO strengths and phase 

angles. These can then be save 

for use with other music utilities. 

I wasn't convinced with claims 

of instant addiction. Trial and error 

with a large helping of patient 

experimentation would be c 

more accurate description. 

The main revision to eari 

releases , is that all processed 

ei 

sound is passed through o low- 

pass fitter, which lessens the high 

pitch distortion or aliasing which 

plagued Wondersound in the 

past 

The sounds created are rather 

basic and reminiscent of those 

produced with processing software 

on the Commodore 64 But 

if you're a patient soul with an 

urge to create new sounds 

WonderSound could be for you. 

regularly use disks with custom 

boot blocks or software which 

afters vectors. If you do, you'll soon 

become thoroughly sick of can- 

celling the alert warnings which 

are activated every time you 

insert a non-standard disk, even 

though you know it to be harmless. 

In their defence both KDVIII and 

Zerovirus both can be taught to 

recognise new boot blocks, so it is 

possible to subdue their enthusi- 

asm when checking regularly used 

disks which you know to be safe. 

With MVK it's best to check any 

incoming disks and then immedi- 

ately wnte protect theca That way 

you can be sure they're sore, and 

once protected they won't 

require any further attention. If you 

need to leave disks writable a 

background virus killer might be a 

better choice 

Master Virus Killer is available 

from' NBS, 132 Gunville 

Newport. I.W., P030 5LH or tram 

the good old Arniganuts united at 

169 Dale Valley rd. Holybrook, 

Southhampton, SO1 60X. 

Posh pointers 

Any programmer with a passion 

for pointers could take a look at 

Fred Fish 446 and its collection of 

normal and sleeping mouse point- 

ers which you can combine with 

your own creations. As well as 

pointers there's a whole range or 

extra goodies available, so check 

it out 

Both disks, along with rest of the 

latest Fish disks, are available from 

Softville PD services on 0705 

266509. or you could write to 

Softville at: Unit 5, Stratfi eld Park. 

Electra Avenue, Waterlooville. 

Hants P07 7XN. 

PD playtime 

The award for best disk for this 

month has to go to number 903 in 

the Amiganuts United collection 

It's a compilation of four excetent 

games bundled on to one disk. 

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JEOPARD: First of the tab tour 

Involves a favourite subject with 

many a game designer - world 

domination. The action takes 

place on a large map of the world 

spread across the screen in glori- 

ously flickering Hi- res. 

Jeopard is The name, and dam- 

motion's the game, with two to 

eight players taking part. Each 

battles against the next to con- 

quer each others territories and 

finally rule the world The outcome 

is determined by a combination of 

clever planning and on element 

of luck provided by the roll of the 

dice, 

This is very similar to the well 

established board game Risk. 

which has long been available in 

the High Street, and more recently 

as a commercial release on the 

Amiga. amongst others 

Gameplay is In generally very 

Impressive. The only real problem 

lies with the screen format, If you 

don't ownt a flicker fixture the Infa- 

mous Hi-res fl icker can be a real 

strain on the eyes. 

MIGA MIND: this is the Amiga ver- 

sion of another smash hit, 

Mastermind. it is a popular subject 

In the PD and as a result several 

versions ore available. This is per- 

haps not the prettiest one, never- 

theless it ploys perfectly and Is 

useful as a Workbench toy. 

Miga Mind is basically a logic 

game In which you pit your wits 

against the computer and its hidden 

code. 

You must attempt to decipher 

__IIIKANSI 

This is one of the utlis, and as the 

name suggests will turn any two 

colour low-res IFF picture Into 

ANSI text which can then be 

played on any ANSI compatible 

terminal, 

rhis could be very handy tar 

the code before your limited 

opportunities run out and your 

Amigo once again reminds you 

who's the boss. 

PIPELINE: if you're more of an 

arcade fan, the graphics and 

game play of Fipe/ine will be more 

to your taste, being root too dissimi- 

lar to Pipe Mania, Even so the 

undercurrent of logic still fl ows 

Through to Pipeline, and if you are 

addicted to Titris and Weflits you'll 

certainly love Pipeline. 

The Idea Is to create a route by 

which the oil can fl ow from A to B. 

On the left of the screen ore five 

pieces of a pipeline. You con con- 

trol the cursor position with a joy- 

stick, and as you press the fi re 

demos or perhaps disk introduc 

ASOG's TAD or Art Dept Pro 

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any picture into a low-res one 

bitplane two color image which 

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conversion, 

50k0Syky• a simode but sple ndidly a ddictive logic cha lle nge . 

A slighttly flicke ring version of the fa milia r boa rd ga me risk 

button tile piece on the bottom of 

the pile of five Is ploced in the cur- 

rent cursor-position, The tour 

remaining pieces fall one position 

and a new (random) piece will 

appear at the top. 

After a while black gold starts to 

flow, so you've got to get the pipe 

in place pretty quickly even on 

the early levels. Bonus points are 

awarded for complex connec- 

tions which all add points towards 

the ultimate goal or entering the 

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Fractals are by far the most 

beautiful creations ever to 

emerge from the Amiga. and if 

you're interested in a combina- 

tion of pure logic and stunning 

grapNcs Its on intriguing subject. 

If you want to know more 

there's a fractal-mad American 

just waiting to lend a helping 

hand. Mr Code ROUX iS a fractal 

fanatic and as a result of his 

obsession he has been and still is 

compiling a multi-disk series deal- 

ing with all aspects of fractois 

arid their creation. 

sound simple but believe me its 

not. You'll soon find its easy to end 

up in a very tricky position. 

Amiga C Club 

IF you're an old C dog or just a 

land lover thinking of taking the 

plunge, a helping hand could be 

just what you need when the C 

turns rough And the Amiga C Club 

cart come to the aid of those lost 

overboard. 

A none profi t making organisa- 

tion devoted to helping and pro- 

moting the language worldwide, 

ACC has only been in existence for 

about a year but nevertheless 

boasts members in 35 countries 

Once you're a registered mem- 

ber it will try to he solve any prob- 

lems you have concerning C. As 

well as practical help, software is 

also available to speed your devel- 

opment. 

The disks contain the fi nest 

examples of fractal Images com- 

piled from Code's huge collec- 

tion. There's also practical help 

from various utilities thrown in 

together with advice and reviews 

of products used in the fractal 

field 

The Amiga fractal eXchange is 

the title of Code's obsession. The 

disks are produced in magazine 

format, three disks being bundled 

for each issue. 

The first two issues are avail 

able now and the third should be 

available soon If you're interest- 

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scene back In 1979. 

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twelve m years. borne computers 

have p developed to such on extent 

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the computers we hove today 

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the computers of yesteryear, 

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memories e fl ooding back. Back 

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that much memory on 

a home computer/ Then of 

course there was colour - If 

your computer could deploy 

more than the standard 

green on black, then it was 

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advanced piece of kit/ As 

for sound, the odd digital 

bleep was about 05 

sophisticated as things 

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Thankfully, those 

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web a computer that 

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just a few years bock Even on the 

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limes the amount of RAM available 

on the most famous 8-bit of them 

all, the evergreen Commodore 

C64 

Despite all this extro power, the 

Amiga is still held bock in its basic 

incarnation, Fact is, a single fl oppy 

disk and 512k of memory just isn't 

enough unless you're happy to 

play the odd game (you'll even 

find that some games won't work 

under the very basic spec). 

Radical changes 

The key to getting the roost from 

your Amigo Is to expand it - that is. 

to add extra bits and pieces that 

will increase your machine's capa- 

bilities, You're probably already 

aware of such things as RAM 

expansions, external fl oppy drives 

and hard drives, but there's so 

much more to expansion than 

these toidy limited pieces of equip- 

ment There's a vast range of more 

obscure devices that you can plug 

Into your Amiga to push its power 

further than you'd previously ever 

thought possible - how does net- 

working grab you? 

Then of course there's such 

things as touch sensitive screens, 

24-bit graphics cards, light pens. 

tape streamers, video processors 

and a whole host of Other won• 

drous devices. Never has a single 

computer offered such a wide vari- 

ety of expansion possibilities! 

You'll be surprised what a differ- 

ence a little bit of expansion 

hardware can 

make t o 

your system. 

Even if you 

add just a half 

meg R A M 

expansion and a 

second fl oppy, 

you'll fi nd your 

Amiga to be o 

much faster and 

smoother computer 

to work with. 

When you start 

adding things like Nord 

drives and processor 

accelerators, the differ- 

ence is astounding! Even 

a fairly meagre amount of 

expansion will totally trans- 

form your Amiga - just ask 

anyone who has already 

taken the plunge' 

In this and next months 

Issue of Amiga Computing we are 

providing you with what we think is 

the most comprehensive guide to 

expanding your Amigo ever writ- 

ten. This isn't a buyer's guide, so 

don't expect to fi nd details of 

every hard drive and every RAM 

expansion available for the Amiga, 

Instead we'll be highlighting the 

kind of Options available to you 

(and perhaps we'. point you in the 

right direction when it comes to 

making the right buying decision) 

Its then up to you to fi nd the 

appropriate equipment - a quick 

scan through the acts within Amiga 

Computing will usually be all that is 

needed. 

Flexible friend 

Choosing what hardware to buy is 

entirely up to you, but there are a 

couple of extra bits and pieces that 

a basic Amiga 5110 is crying out for. 

so these are a good place to start. 

If you play clot of games, then an 

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Thinking about expanding your Amiga? 

If so, then let Jason Holborn detail the 

options available 

external fl oppy disk drive should be 

your first purchase - quite a few 

more recent games come on two, 

sometimes even three diskettes, so 

you can save yourself a lot of the 

hassles associated with constant 

diskswapping with an outlay of little 

more than £50. 

If you use your Amiga seriously. 

then an extra drive will prove to be 

an absolute must, especially if 

you're a CU hacker. ArnkjoDOS is 

totally transformed by the oodition 

of on extra drive - Indeed, it's 

almost friendly! (OK. perhaps I 

shouldn't go quite that far). 

Once you've strapped on on 

external drive, your next purchase 

should undoubtedly be a ram 

exponsior 

Most A500 users go for a half 

meg upgrade, but It's worth going 

for a larger board test for the extra 

room It creates - you may think a 

megabyte sounds like a lot of 

memory, but you'd be surprised 

how quickly the Amiga will use It 

upi A half meg tom card con be 

picked up for as little as 4'25 these 

days. so there's no excuse for not 

taking the plunge. 

The vast majority of games don't 

really need the extra ram. but 

more and more developers ore 

producing games that do take 

advantage of expulsion memory. 

This usually takes the form of a 

few extra sampled effects, better 

music and perhaps even a few 

extra game options. Some games 

actually require at least a 

megabyte to run (Dungeon Master, 

for example), and it seems certain 

that many more will be released in 

the future. 

Screen scene 

Once you've got these two basic 

add-ons. your Amiga will be a far 

more useable system, but that's no 

reason to stop there, A worthwhile 

upgrade for anyone who uses their 

Amiga for anything other than 

games is a 

colour monitor. 

Commodore's 

own 1084 pro- 

vides a pretty 

decent deploy. 

but it Is rather 

expensive for 

what It has to 

offer, The Amigo 

boasts both ana- 

log and digital 

RGB output, so 

there's a very 

goad chance 

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just about any colour monitor can 

be wired up (although its best to 

get a qualifi ed electrician to do 

the neccessary work). 

Mousey matters 

The Amigo is very heavily mousebased. 

but that doesn't mean that 

you have to stick with the mouse 

supplied with your computer. There 

are a fair number of alternatives 

available that wHi do exactly the 

same job without the 

problems assool- -- 

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Commodores 

rodent (clogging 

rollers etc). 

Indeed, some ore 

octualty a much bet- 

ter bet than a mouse 

because they have been 

specifically designed with 0 

particulor application in 

mind. 

One such application that 

has earned more than Its fair 

share of attention is that of Amiga 

graphics, As a result, Amiga artists 

are positively spoilt for choice 

when it comes to choosing on 

alternative input device. By for the 

most popular is the touch tablet, 

which is basically a fl at. 

pressure sensi- 

tive pod. 

Most touch 

tablets also come 

complete with some kind 

of pen or stylus, which is used to 

'draw onto the pad. What's so 

great about these tablets is that 

you can place a piece of paper 

on top of the pad and literally 

trace artwork directly into your 

Amigo. 

Another alternative is the light 

pen, which is a device which 

allows you to draw by pressing the 

pen directly against your monitor 

screen. 

This has the advantage of being 

closer to the conventional pen and 

paper than any other device. but 

they tend to be rather low resolu- 

tion. Whilst they•re great for the 

kids. they're for from ideal if you're 

after high precision equipment. 

Another disadvantage of the 

mouse is the amount of free space 

that it requires on your desktop. A 

better bet is perhaps the trackball, 

which is basically and upside-down 

mouse. Like the mouse, the tracker- 

ball uses a roiterball but. unlike the 

mouse, you move the bold directly 


with your fi ngers. Apart from the 

obvious benefi ts for gaming 

(Marble Madness is great with a 

trackerballt), these are ideal for 

musicians use their Amigos live, 

Moving still further away from 

the mouse is the Touch Screen, a 

device which is still very much In Its 

Infancy on the Amiga. You've 

probably seen them used on 'point 

of soles systems - instead of hav- 

ing to click on gadgets with the 

mouse, you simply press your finger 

against the screen to select the 

gadget your require. 

These are perhaps 

rather too specialist at the 

moment, but they'll 

prove to be an all- 

important weapon in 

the Amigo's multimedia 

arsenal. 

\ Finally, a 

company in the 

States hove lust 

released a bar 

-- code reading system for 

the Amiga which allows you to 

assign different AmigaDOS commands 

to bacodes. 

You con create your own bar- 

codes using the bundled software 

and then dump them Out onto 

paper. Its far from toeing 

an alternative 

to the 

mouse, 

but just think 

what a pose it would 

be to operate your Amigo in 

this fashianl 

Sound advice 

If you're interested in ail things 

musical, then there's a healthy 

selection of associated gadgets 

and widgets that will fuel your inter- 

est First among these Is the sound 

sampler, which will allow you to 

'digitise' a sound from just obout 

any audio source (CD players, 

walkmans etc) and then edit it on 

your Amiga 

At the moment, oll Amiga sound 

samplers are 8-bit devices, but sev- 

eral comparues have announced 

their intention to produce studio 

quality 16-bit samplers which will 

make the Amiga a viable attema- 

five to dedicated samplers such as 

those produced by industry heavy- 

weights Akal arid Roland. 

Samplers con be alot of fun. but 

they also have a serious use. If you 

enjoy tinkering with music pack- 

ages such as Soule] Tracker. Deluxe 

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Visual delights 

Whether you're into DIP. animation or just art for art's soke, a video 

digitiser is a worth while investment. A video digitiser is a great way or 

obtaining quality artwork without having to mess around with DPaint, 

Even for the more talented users amongst you, a video digitiser will 

allow you to get the artwork you need in a fraction of the time it 

would take if you tried knocking it up yourself. 

Amigo video digitisers basically come WI two flavours - realtime 

colour and not so reatfi me colour (sorry). With a teatime colour digi- 

tiser, you can grab colour Images directly from a composite video 

source. These are undoubtedly the ideal choice, but you can 

expect to pay through the nose for such a device. 

A more affordable solution is a digitiser like Rombo's VIDI Amigo 

Although it will grab images in realtime, they are mono only. If you 

wish to grab in colour from a pre-recorded video source, you'll need 

to invest in a RGB splitter, a clever little device that splits a composite 

video signal into its red, green and blue components. Unforktiately, 

the source tape has to be paused during digitising. which can cause 

problems if your pause facility produces anything short of a rock 

steady display. 

For grabbing In colour from a 'live' video source, cheaper digitis- 

ers use a system of red, green and blue coloured perspex fitters that 

must be held infront of your video camera. DigiView mode this 

rather quirky method of cligttiseig famous, but It can be a real pain in 

good lighting. 

Scanners are also a great way of obtaining artwork. Until quite 

recently, they tended to be ITIOno only. but it's now possible to pick 

up a full colour scanner for just E600 (the Sharp Jk-100). This very 

clever device is used extensively on Amigo Computing to grab 

many of the images within these pages. so there's no greater recommendation 

than that! 

Music or even Music-X, you can use 

a sampler to grab instrument sam- 

ples from your favourite records. 

If you're lucky enough to own a 

synthesiser. then your next pur- 

chase should undoubtedly be a 

MIDI interface. MIDI interfaces are 

very cheap little devices, but they 

can totally transform your music 

setup. With the right software, a 

MIDI Interface will allow you to 

directly control a network of MIDI- 

compatible musical instruments 

Speed freak 

The Amiga is far from being a 

slouch where raw processing 

speed Is concerned, but there are 

still times when things slow down to 

an almost unbearable rate 

You'll notice this especially if you 

use your Amiga for heavily proces- 

sor intensive applications such as 

CAD. DIP and ray tracing, but most 

applications would oiso benefi t 

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The solution lies In a processor 

accelerator card, which basically 

replaces the central processor 

inside your Amiga with a much 

faster unit. To make things really 

burn, most processor accelerators 

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Most processor accelerators ore 

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taster version of the standard 68000 

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Installing a processor acceiefa- 

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ever. It you wont to make the most 

of your new acquisition then it's 

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high speed 32-bit ram. 

32-bit ram chips allow both the 

'020 and '030 processors to run at 

full speed (both as true 32-bit pro- 

cessors). Once again, you'll fi nd 

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Memory loss 

I recently purchased an A502 512Kb RAM 

expansion board at the 16-bit show in 

January It has a battery backed up clock 

and a switch. but I cannot get it to work. The 

extra memory seems not to want to be used, 

Con you help? 

M Arthur, Leighton Buzzard 

Try booting with the switch in both positions, 

and if you still don't get the extra memory, 

give the board a good shove. 

Its often the case that a new Amigo's trap- 

door interface can be extremely stiff, and 

many people ate nervous of applying too 

much brute force to their expansion boards, 

Make sure the board is pushed in as much as 

possible 

If the Amiga persists in thinking it'sa half 

meg machine, return the board to the retailer 

or manufacturer for replacement 

Tony revisited 

Your response to Tony Williams. a 'Confused 

Upgradee in the March Interactive Rescue 

column, stated that an Amiga 2C00 hard disk 

always requires a small AmigaDOS partition to 

mount the Fast File System(FFS). 

This IS just not the case I suggest you run 

Fixdisk 1.2 as supplied on your own coverdisk 

on a A2091-40 and you will see the following 

info deployed 

1100: Sandier ; S(Sieffirics 

The confusion perhaps arises from the fcicf 

that Commodore's original A2090 hard drive 

Controller didn't auto-boot. requiring a floppy 

to start the boot and then mount it. 

The Improved A2090/A. however, WILL 

auto-boot under Kickstart 1.3. 

As both the A2090 and A2090/A were avail- 

able before the introduction of US, they 

required the Amiga to boot into a standard 

ArnigaDOS file system partition before mount- 

ing a FFS partition, 

In response to the FFS, third party manufac- 

turers began to introduce SCSI controllers 

which would auto-boot and auto-mount 

directly into a FFS partition. 

These controllers did not require a standard 

ArnigaDOS partition to be mounted first, and 

allowed ail disk space to be formatted under 

FFS. 

The A2091 does not require any mountlist 

entry or any details in the expansion drawer, 

as under Kickstart 1.3 on Automount flag is 

stored on the first two cylinders a 

, diskt 

h e h o r a 

Gordon MacKinnon. Belfast 

It's a lair cop! Yes, our reply to Tony's letter 

wasn't what it should've been. You know how 

it is - Friday afternoon, dog's lust died, gas bill 

pending, five or six black coffees too many. 

Sigh. 

As for FixDisk, it has the annoying habit of 

identifying all hard drives with the (FFS) label. I 

have a hard drive which is entirely formatted 

in the standard AmigoDOS filing system, and 

FixDisk insists on calling it 0 FFS device. Bit of a 

bug there, methinks, 

Oh. and by the way - the problem with the 

recoverable RAM drive and RAD: on machines 

with a Fatter Agnus and 1Mb of RAM is cured 

when you use the 1Mb RAM patch option. 

Change the SETPATCH In your startupsequence 

to SETPATCH-r and RRD: should work 

as well as before. I'm just off to clean the WC 

with this toothbrush the Ed just gave me.. 

Not an A590 fan? 

I would like to know of any Maretwore project 

which I could use to disable my A590 hard 

drive so that any long sessions of game playing 

the drive isn't active Naturally it would be 

handy If the extra RAM was still accessible. 

With the drive connected the Amiga won't 

power up it the drive transformer is switched 

Oft so the only option is to unplug the drive- 

from the computer, thus adding wear and tear 

to the edge connector 

The drive can be stopped from auto-boot- 

ing by use of lee rear DIP switch, but I would 

like to have total silence. 

_Fr 

T N Wells, Ipswich 

One way of silencing your A590 is to run it with 

the cover off, thus allowing you to disconnect 

the fan while keeping the drive cool. 

With the cover off, you could also com- 

pletely disable the drive by disconnecting the 

ribbon cable between il and the mother- 

board. 

This might sound dangerous, but we've hod 

it recommended as an option by someone 

whose A590 has seldom been used fully 

CD 

Printer ut of puff? 

Computer cracking up? 

We are here to help! 

Write to Amiga Computing, 

Europa House, Adlington Park, Macclesfield SK10 4NP 

cased As you say elsewhere in the letter that 

your warranty has expired, you wouldn't be 

risking financial ruin by giving it a try. 

You might like to try putting a plastic guard 

over the top of the open drive, leaving 

enough airway to cool It while stopping hands 

straying into It. 

I had a quick look at garden•style wire 

mesh with thick plastic coating, which bends 

easily into a strong 'fireguard'. 

With this firmly glued to the A590, or hooked 

under the base, your drive is if anything safer 

than in its original plastic case - except for the 

dreoded coffee menace, of course. 

Another method of stopping an auto-boot 

while retaining all the extra RAM is to buy a 

switc noble Kickstart 11/1,3 from AmigaDirect 

on 0E11-891 6704, 

With this you could start up in Kick start from 

which your drive won't auto-boot, and still 

have access to the extra 2Mb. You can 

always MOUNT the drive afterwards if you 

want it or re-boot with the Kickstart switched 

to 1,3 

A3000 inquiries 

Please give me some answers on tee A3000 os 

extracting technical help from Commodore 

seems to be all but impossible, Here goes... 

• is it true that the Fast File System can be 

used on floppies under Workbench 2,07 

• What do all the parameters for the CPU 

command do? 

• Kickstart 2,0 Is currently loaded into Fast 

RAM, OCCupying0.5Mb. but will apparently be 

available on ROM at a later date. With tricks 

like fast 32-bit RAM and ROM shadowing, 


would the ROM upgrade be faster or more efficient? 

• It Fast RAM is expanded to 4Mb. Con the 

existing 1Mb selpped with the macnine be 

moved across to Chip RAM? 

• What's the deference between DIP and ZIP 

chips, and what is Static Column Memory? 

• Can bridgebeards such as the A2088 

designed for the 82000 be fitted to the A3000? 

In answer to your questions 

Robin Harley, Shoreham-by-Sea 

• Yes, the Fast File System WILL work with fl op- 

pies under Workbench 2.0. Yum. yurn, 

• The CPU command has parameters to con- 

trol the management of the 68030's on-board 

data and memory caches, the enabling of 

burst mode, the copying of ROM based 

Kickstarts into Fast RAM, and a check on the 

Floating Point Unit used. 

To list them all here would take up too much 

space, so ail I can do is recommend Mastering 

AmigaDOS 2, by Bruce Smith and Mork Smiddy, 

which contains the best guide to Workbench 

2.0 rye seen so far. The publisher, Bruce Smith 

Books, can be reached at (0727) 41243. 

• The best performance is gained by copying 

Kickstart into 32-bit memory, so you might as 

well stick to hard drive-based Kickstart. which 

also has the advantage of being easier to 

upgrade. 

• Yes, you can move thal 1Mb over, 

• ZIP stands for ZigZag Wine Packet. DIP 

stands for Dual InNne Packet. DIP chips ore the 

traditional style RAM chips with pins on either 

side. ZIP chips have all their pins on one edge 

and stand up vertically, thus saving space on 

the motherboard 

If you closely examine our piccies of the 

CSA Mega Midget Racer in last month's cover 

story you'll see that the Mega Memory board 

on the right contains a row of ZIP chips looking 

rather like a row of dominoes (except they 

don't have white spots and a row of dominoes 

couldn't store 2Mb RAM). 

• A5 to the bridgeboards, theoretically yes. 

although the 5.25" drive would have to be 

mounted externally or replaced with on internal 

3.5" drive. 

The A3000 has two AT-compatible bus slots 

and should be OK with a bridgeboard, though 

we haven't teed it ourselves 

Drive glutton 

nave an A500 with A590 and extra 2Mb. A 

few monies ago I bought a Fujitsu 86Mb hard 

drive from Althamera Systems and have hod it 

installed in my A590 casing. It's a nice fast drive 

arid has given me no problems. 

However, my old A590 mechanism is now 

not in use. is It possible to connect this internally/externally 

to my A500? I am a glutton for disk 

space. 

Glutton's not the wordl You mean you've fi lled 

up the 86Mb already? 

Seriously, though, you don't have too many 

options open. As tar as I know, there are no 

third party A590 cases avoilable, so you might 

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Peter Coils, Walsall 

Loan Ranger v Desperate Dan 

I bought my Amiga in mid December aria 

hove been delighted with It, Unfortunately, I 

hove been operating with a portable television 

until recently I was loaned a monitor. This is 

where my dilemma started. 

The monitor is re Commodore Ranger 15. seri- 

al number 716470, port number 8800-15. It has 

two inputs, a 9-pin D-type connector labelled 

PG B TIL, and a 15-pin labelled RGB Analog. 

I wish to use the analog input, but have 

been unable to fi nd anyone who can supply 

me with a ready made lead or give me the 

wiring details for one I'm desperately in need 

of some help. 

Daniel Burns, Thundersley 

The monitor in question is a 15' multisync 

designed for use with a fl icker fi xer or A2320 

display enhancer card, and as such is not nor- 

mally connected to a standard Amiga video 

connector 

. A2320 cards cost about £287 these days and 

can be had at this price from several ot our 

advertisers. Try Calco Software on 081-546 

7256. You should fi nd little trouble in fi nding a 

have to beg Commodore for one_ The power 

supply is part number 312639-02 (250V/74W), 

and you'd have to use a similarly rated unit if 

you didn't buy the CBM offering. With a power 

supply you might try rigging up a casing of 

your own, but I wouldn't recommend it. 

The best third-party option is perhaps the 

A1500 unit. With the A590 mounting kit and 

DUC board you can re-box your A500 and 

then mount your A590 Internally. 

If you think the extra storage would be worth 

the prohibitive expense contact A1500 Ltd on 

071-637 2281 

Transplanting graphics 

I would like to put the Amiga'5 brilliant graphics 

on an Archimedes (A what? - Ed) to utilise 

laser arid inieet printers at school. 

I hove been told by my IT teacher that oil I 

need do is change a disk to PC format and out- 

put the IFF files to that The Archimedes. using a 

PC emulator, will then be able to display them. 

However, occorcting to the PC Format does 

on the Extras 1.2 disk. I need a 5.25' fl oppy 

drive which I do not have. Is there a 3.5' disk 

PC formatter available onywhere? 

Andrew Skerty, Salisbury 

If you don't have o Commodore A1020 5.25" 

floppy, you can use a PDPC program such as 

MessyDos. or go for something like CrossDos. 

which is a commercial product. 

Either will write to the Amigo's own 3.5" 

drives as if they were PC drives, and will formal 

3.5" disks to PC format, which should be use- 

able with an Archimedes running its own PC 

disk reoding software. 

CrossDos is available from several of our 

advertisers, including ARK on 0983 79496. and 

MessyDos is available from all decent 

Kilibraries Just make sure your IT teacher has 

suitable off-the-shelf lead for this connection. 

If you insist on using the Ranger without a 

flicker fixer - and this is a waste of a multisync 

monitor - you'll have to make one of your own. 

Fortunately the Ranger 15 

brother, - will sync all the way down to the 

15.6KHz , u nvideo l i k e output frequency obtained from 

the 

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23-pin 

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video connector. Some 

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multi-sync monitors will only output at frequencies 

above 30Klie 

You'll find the pin-outs for the Ranger's 15-pin 

socket on page 15 of the monitor's manual, 

and the pin-outs for the Amiga video socket on 

page A-6 of the user's manual. 

As far as we can see the pin connections 

from Amiga to monitor are 3 to 1, 4 to 3, 5 to 5, 

11 to 13 AND 14, 12 to 15. Then 16 up to and 

Including 20 should be joined and go to 2. 4. 6, 

and 7 on the Ranger. 

Before you attempt this, ask yourself whether 

It's worth wasting a multisync monitor on a non- 

interlaced standard Amiga output. 

If there's any hope of keeping the thing on a 

long term basis, run out immediately and buy a 

flicker fixert 

a utility which allows the Archimedes to read 

and convert Amigo !FE files to a format it can 

display. 

Breakdown 

I am using an A500 with extra 512Kb memory 

and a Pace Unmet Intelligent Modem. I am 

using Access software with the baud rate set 

at 300, panty at 0, data length 8 bits, stop bits 

I, and all other settings I have left at default 

(although I have experimented with different 

settings). 

I am trying to access various bulletin boards 

whose numbers I have obtained from your 

meg over the months. About 60% of the lime i 

get NO CAPRIER. but the other 40% I manage 

to get a connection. However, all I seem to get 

on screen is garbage and seemingly randomly 

generated charocters. 

It would be a great help if you could let the 

sethngs I will need on Access. 

Ken Wooffindin, Leeds, 

You are using 8-N-1 defaults - the most com- 

mon - so sounds to me as if you're trying to 

access at the wrong speed. If you connect to 

a Be at 1200 baud, and it tries to talk to you at 

2400 baud, you'll get what appears to be a 

mixture of Greek and Cyrillic characters on the 

screen. 

Try a bullehn board which supports the most 

settings, then play around with your baud rate 

until you gel a clean connection. You might 

also keep on eye on our cornms column - 

Eddie will be taking a close look at the first few 

diffi cult steps into comms 

Our thanks to Jolyon Ralph. Alan Emery. and 

Commodore Technical Support for their help with 

this months letters

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COMMUNICA IONS A .113 

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Eddie McKendrick's eternal 'voyage through the 

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I 've cover had feature quite a on few Desktop readers 

Video in the January issue of 

Amigo Computing. 

Although the article discussed 

most of the options for getting into 

desktop video, quite a few of you 

still seemed unsure about the kind 

of software and hardware to go 

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To he you sort it all Out, here's 

a quick run down of what I consid- 

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THE GENLOCK With so many now 

available choosing a genlock is 

probably the most diffi cult buying 

decision you're likely to encounter. 

Which you pick depends entirely 

upon the video formats you have 

at your disposal. If you have noth- 

ing more than a couple of stan- 

dard VHS decks there's little point 

In paying out for a S-VHS compati- 

ble genlock unless you intend 

upgrading your decks at a future 

date 

Similorty, if you have access to 

higher resolution video devices, a 

standard composite genlock will 

not take advantage of the higher 

picture quality these decks deliver. 

The cheapest geniock available 

is MiniGen from ASAP. but I 

wouldn't really recommend It to 

anyone unless they are completely 

poverty shicken. If you can afford 

it. It's well worth 

OPoint 3 ts giooi toi pioducing 

spending a few pounds more on g 

unit which will almost certainly pro- 

duce higher quality results. Worth 

checking out is the Rendaie 8802 

which offers near broadcast quality 

for around E263. 

THE SOFTWARE Once again, the 

software you choose depends 

entirely upon your particular needs, 

If you just wont to odd titles to your 

home videos of granny at the 

beach. all you need is a titling 

package. 

A good one is the Big 

Alternative Scroller. which Is avail- 

able from Alternative Imoge on 

3533 440341. For just £50 you get 20 

high resolution fonts which can be 

smoothly scrolled about the 

screen. It's not in the same league 

as the likes of Broadcast Tiller 2. but 

then it is considerably cheaper! 

If I had to choose just two pack- 

ages for my desktop video work 

they would undoubtedly have to 

be EA's Deluxe Paint 3 and Zurna's 

TV Text Professional, 

TV Text allows you to produce 

stunning titles from standard Amigo 

bltmapped fonts. while DPaint Is 

great for producing logos and 

other artwork. 

Not only that, but tts powerful 

animation focilties allow you to 

produce all manner of flash effects 

including spinning logos and the 

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work. 

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portant for video 

ACTing up again! 

If you thought VE•1 o 

Enhancer from ACT Dec 

(0637 1381119) was somethi t - 

ty special (see lost month's issue for 

more), thep you're in for a pleasant 

surprise. They've just launched a 

feature-packed audio/video 

effects processor which offers unri- 

valled via processing power . 

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just Catchl S350. rtiol homed the AV13. 

the unit was ()Outlay designed with 

Camcorder owners in d 

However. as ACT like to p 

it'll prove to be just os u t o 

Amiga video enthusiasts. • s 

what it has to offer: 

COMPATIBILITY: Whether y r e 

using rwo home VHS recorders or 

the latest 11I8 decks, the AVP-MK3 

built with the future in mind. It is tuily 

compatible with VHS, VHSC, 8mm, 

BETA. U-MATIC, S-VHS, S-VHSC and 

Hift. 

If you're using S-VHS, S-VHSC or 

H18. the AVP-MK3 allows you to 

take full advantage of the high 

defi nition settings, then edit on to a 

standard VCR. therefore allowing 

for the highest possible results from 

your video setup. As a result, 

there's no need to suffer loss of picture 

quality just because your dlesti- 

notion deck isn't of the same 

format as your source. 

A built-in Composite + Y/C to 

RGB Converter allows you to 

obtain the maximum performance 

from high resolution video formats 

without having to fork out for a 5- 

compatible TV set simply by chan- 

neling the output Into any 

RGB-compatible ry set. According 

to ACT, most modern TV sets now 

offer this feature, 

SIGNAL PROCESSING: The AVP- 

MK3 boasts comprehensive RGB 

colour correction facilities which 

allow you to adjust the red, 

green and blue content of the 

incoming video signal simultane- 

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You can also adjust the bright- 

ness, contrast and colour satura- 

tion to the levels that you require. 

to help you achieve the optimum 

settings, the AVP has a video level 

Indicator which changes colour 

when these selltigs ore achieved. 

Obviously you're not restricted 

to these settings, but they provide 

a useful method of achieving the 

best possible results with a minimal 

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Extra controls Include Lumi- 

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Switches which produce a sort of 

photographic negative image 

effect. Alternatively. these settings 

could be used to allow real photo- 

graphic negatives to be recorded 

to video tape in their true colours. 

Just like their VE• 1 enhancer, the 

AVP features sync pulse restoration 

hardware which helps to reduce 

the loss of quality associated with 

video signals. 

WIPES AND FADES The AVP-MK3 

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technology which allows you to 

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on any chosen wipe pattern, giv- 

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of effects available, 

ACT have built in 30 base wipe 

patterns which are controlled from 

the front panel using the unit's 

select switches. You can access 

any combination of horoontal, ver- 

tical or diagonal wipes and even 

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C Brigade — Margaret Stanger tells you how 

Lucky C programmers U5e 

T h the e story Amiga so far •include fi les 

to interpret the system data struc- 

tures. It may not be generally 

known that these goodies are atso 

available to Assembler program- 

mers after only a very little extra 

hassle. 

Now read on 

Before a Window is opened a 

parameter block - or struc- 

ture - named New 

Window is created for 

It and stashed 

away In mem- 

ory. 

Th e 

variables 

in a struc- 

ture ore 

always in a 

standard Order, the offset of the 

BlockPen (say) from the base 

Window address Is always the 

some: 

Window on the 

world 

STRUCTDREET) Nedindov,0 

WORD ow_LeftEdge 

WORD tu_TopEOON 

WORD nu_Vidth 

WORD ou_Neight 

OTTE ou_DetailPen 

OTTE ou_litockPeo 

ULONG nu_IDCMPftags 

LONG ow_Flags 

APTI oujirstGadget 

PIN ou_Checkilari 

APTI tu_Titie 

APTR ou_Screen 

PIP no_litNap 

WORD roc_Nimilititk 

WORD no_Nimlieigilt 

WORD no_Nmsitidtb 

WORD nvisslielmbt 

WORD nm_Type 

LABEL no_SIZE 

The structure member 

nw_BlockPen gives its offset from 

the base address of the 

NewWindow structure. The 

tive addressing: 

colour or the BlocirPen - 

I hate capital letters 

In the middle of a 

word! - could be 

changed to 3 (say) 

usang Assembler's rela- 

lea Thelempindou0D 

soya.b 13,owilocaPeratin 

• •-• oemo n 

th • ••• 

SON 

In theory 

There is a disc file available 

with details of all the intu- 

ition structures, together with 

the numerical value of any 

flags used. 

This fi le, intuttion/intultion.l, can 

be included in the source code by 

a statement at the beginning of 

the code. There is a small file called 

execitypes.1 that is included first to 

interpret the structures in the other 

include files. It tells us that a BYTE 

Increases the offset by one byte. 

and a WORD by two bytes and so 

on. 

INCLUDE "esecitypes.i" 

INCLUDE "imtuition/imtuition.r 

That would hove been too easy. 

In practice 

Unfortunately my assembler used 

on an A500 did not have enough- 

workspace for the necessary 

Include/intuition fie. so I picked out 

the structures and fl ags I needed 

and added them to the source 

code 

I included - 

the execiex 

computer could make sense of 

the 

eci 

reference to MP_SIGBIT in the 

- 

Window's UserPort. 

s o 

t h 

MADE •elicitypea.1* 

INCLUDE a t'eseciesec.i' 

I did not need the details of the 

Screen or NewScreen structures 0$ I 

was not referring to any of the 

structure members. I did need the 

data itself', with the correct values 

to open the screen, 

theleoScreen: 

dc.0 0 ;LeftEdge 

dc.0 0 ;TopEdge 

dc,u 320 ;Widtb 

dc.0 200 ;Weilist 

dc.0 3 ;Ikon 

dc.b 1 Oetaitho 

dc.b 3 gilociPen 

dc.w 0 ;display lodes 

dc.v CUSP:IMMO ;screeo Type 

dcd 0 ;pointer to custom font 

structure 

dc.t screentitle ;pointer to 

screen tWe 

dc.1 D ;pointer to screen 

dc,t 

;pointer to custom bittap 

I needed the data for the 

NewWindow, and the data struc- 

tures for Window and NewWindow. 

For the computer to interpret these 

I had to explain the flogs to it 

; 11CDP flip used 

CLOSEWINDOW equ $00000200 

V mdov I legs used 

DINDOWSII IR% equ $0001 

V1100016 e u $0002 

VINDOWIEPTH •qu $0004 

1111100PCL05E COU $0008 

SUMMIT equ $0010 

;NO-Screen flog used 

CUSIONSCREED equ $0001 

Any structures or flogs could be 

defi ned In the source code or in 

header files as long as space per- 

mits. There is room for creabvtlyi 

The include flies directory was 

added to the path: 

assign INCLUDE: 

Lattice_C.0.5:Assembler_Headers 

and the option T was used during 

the assembly, 

elm -ifisseabler_NemdePS/ demo 

blink demo.o to demo library 

Up and running 

The easiest way to open a screen is 

to use the intuition Library routine 

OpenScreen, with a pointer to a 

NewScreen structure (short') which 

contains some of the values and 

pointers for the screen, 

mope .1 intui t on be se 

tjsr 

_LI011otoScreeniaol fermi 

dO,custoastreen 

ed 

abort 

I used the same New Window 

structure for each of the three win- 

dows.and changed the details 

slightly once I had the oddress of 

each Windowstructure 

Eta TheNeuWinduw 

odO,nu_Screenie01 

o0 jsr _LOOpenWindouls41 •ove,t 

dO,thisoindow 

m o v e d 

beg abort 

The system flags are set for most 

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The IDCMP CLOSEWINDOW fl og 

is deactivated on the second 

imaginatively named window, the 

title Is changed and the window is 

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The third window is opened. 

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dragged. sized and mode active. 

The program only exits when the 

first window is closed with Its close 

gadget. 

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routines from the Intuition library, 

but many more ore available, 

in the CODECLINIC directory of 

the March Amiga Comuting support 

disc I have Included a list of 

intuition librar 

yone 

I have listed the input input 

, 

registers, output (where applica- 

routine 

ble) and a short description, 

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As reported previously in AC. 

GFA have taken on the distribution 

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Big Bond and ProScore were 

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As the name suggests, Studio 24 

is a 24 track sequencer. It arrtves in 

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look up many of the program's 

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Key disk protection 

Unlike most sequencers these days. 

Studio 24 is copy protected. In true 

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every time the program is loaded. 

even it you Install it on a hard disk! I 

think such a system is a real pain. 

but there you have it 

Once loaded, you'll be greeted 

by the first of Studio 24's two 

screens. It contains the now familiar 

tape transport controls Mat run as 

a strip of gadgets along the bottom 

of the screen. 

These are pretty bog standard - 

Play. Record. Fast Forward, Rewind 

and so on. but surprisingly there Is 

no Pause button, which is a strange 

omission. 

••• 

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15 — 

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You ca • peck any one of the tlist 

22 tracks 

• normal recording. 1 

tracks 23 and - 24 have their own 

special lVtictions. ,ut Studio 24 coils 

track 23 i • Chord Track which, ..15 

the nom; : suggests. Is set aside 

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When you record chords on to 

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or wherever. If you're not too hot 

with chords, the chord track also 

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Track 24 is a Melody Track which 

can contain Only monophonic 

sequences, I can't see any real 

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well. 

Most of Studio 24's operations 

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ture that is worth mentioning Is 

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You can edit existing sequences 

by moving back and forth through 

the sequence using the cursor keys. 

You can add notes, delete them, 

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o selected note and even tie 

notes. 

Sounds great so far, but for One 

major problem - Studio 24 will only 

allow you to edit a monophonic 

line of notes, not chords. if your 

sequence contains chords, the 

exit° notes that make them up are 

split into their own individual sub- 

tracks, or voices as Studio 24 calls 

them. Far from perfect. I'm sure 

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Song editing is even worse. MoSt 

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Notably missing from Studio 24 is 

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As we all know, the Amiga can 

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you're restricted in your music mak- 

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produced by your MIDI setup. 

Sound investment? 

Studio 24 definitely shows promise, 

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It's got a few nice features - 

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spring to mind - but in the end It 

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If Digigram sold Studio 24 at 

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thread, our comms guru Fast Eddie 

hears echoes down the line 

hied comrrts and not taken 

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Do not despair! You could well 

find that directly connecting your 

Amiga to the telephone network is 

a much more effi cient way to 

empty your bank account 

Message bases 

So what is on offer? By and large. 

The most common services around 

the world are bulletin boards. These 

are computers set up specifi cally 

for other computers to call and 

exchange Information, 

Common topics to be found 

online are comms, programming, 

sci-fl. television, motoring, religion 

and 'adult material', I can't elabo- 

rate on the latter. otherwise AC 

would be on the top she next to 

Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy, but 

you can use your imogination. 

The information online is gener- 

ally split into two categories - mes- 

sage bases and file areas, 

A message base Is, in simple 

terms, a series of comments input 

by users of the board related to a 

particular topic. For example a 

base called Red Dwarf would be 

the ideal place to muse over how 

much you preferred Holly when she 

was a man, or how badly treated 

poor old Kryten is. 

Depending on how advanced 

the Elas software is, message bases 

can be anything from a simple 

series of sequential messages to a 

complex web of sub-threads which 

can be read or skipped at will. 

It is possAole to browse message 

bases by following menu options 

on screen. Input of messages is usu- 

ally via a simple text editor built into 

the board. 

There ore two different types of 

message bases on larger boards: 

local ones and the net variety. The 

trendy term for a message base is 

echo, so If you read someone tak- 

ing about an Amiga echo they 

mean a message area, not some 

acoustic phenomenon or a local 

newspaper serving the elderly 

inhabitants of quaint seaside town 

Amiga-on-Seamoss. 

Local messages are exclusive to 

the board you are logged on to, 

whereas net echoes go all over the 

world. So if you proclaim your love 

for Lister in a net echo, the comrns 

global village will be asking "What 

the heck is Red Dwarf 7' In no 

time. 

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An Amiga 3000 is lost a phone ca ll a wa y 

worldwide via an elaborate series 

of telephone calls. Each night whiie 

the world sleeps, automatic 'net- 

ware is busy collecting and for- 

warding messages to each board 

in the network, Indeed some of the 

Inter-net handshaking is positively 

masonic at times 

Netmall is an exciting concept, 

allowing communication with people 

all over the world for the cost of 

a local call, It's riot in real time, but 

Is still much faster than writing. 

referred to as snail mail by those 

with a passion for Jargon. 

FOR Alb. 

An Interesting point to remem- 

ber Is that you don't always hove 

to be logged on to a board in 

order to read and reply to mes- 

sages. B e r equipped boards 

Often off ec the ability to compress 

unread messages into a single the 

for you td download beta 

ging oft 

Using salecial offl ine read - 

ware. it is possible to decompress, 

read and reply to messages. Ater 

keying in replies, the °Mine reocer 

software Compresses them into a 

packet for uploading the next time 

you logon. 

When the board receives the 

packet from you It unorchives all 

your prepared messages and posts 

them to 'he relevant people and 

echoes 'his type of message reed- 

ing is known as blinking, It makes a 

great deal of sense, saving you 

phone tme and allowing Other 

callers to get on to the board. 

File AraOS are libraries of com- 

puter programs stored on the EBs 

for Its callet5 to download andlin, 

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Again, these programs can be 

about anything and everything, 

Files are downloaded using protocols. 

These are universal transfer 

standards designed to allow reli- 

able exchange of data between 

two points, 

A wide choice of protocols are 

mailable. By for the most common 

these days are Xmoclem and 

Zmodem. The newer the protocol. 

the faster your data transfer will be. 

The main thing to remember 

about protocols is that they have 

to match at eoch end of the link. It 

is no good attempting to initiate a 

file transfer if your comms software, 

or the board, doesn't support the 

protocol you ore trying to use. The 

g- 

motto with BBs is most certainly 

"give and take', 

It's ail very well to phone a few 

bulletin boards, read the messages 

and download any files you fancy, 

but sooner or later you will be 

expected to contribute. Not fi nan- 

cially, but with a little time and 

effort. 

Message bases aren't really 

much good Without messages. so It 

Is up to the boores callers to fi ll 

them up, Similarly, File areas are 

pretty pointless If they are devoid 

or files. For this reason most boards 

insist that you upload a fi le for 

every few you download. 

After sampling a few boards, It Is 

more than likely that you will con- 

sider staffing one yourself, I have to 

be honest and admit that I am by 

and large unimpressed with the 

standard of most non-commercial 

BBs running in the UK 

The tile areas tend to consist of a 

selection of dog-eared PD and 

shareware programs, while the 

message bases are more often 

than not just a total waste Of lime 

Smaller boards 

There ore exceptions, of course. A 

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With the possible exception of 

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most Amiga BBS host software is 

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After flipping BOBs last month, 

Peter Hickman gives SPRITES the same 

treatment and looks at interlaced mode 

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six months? 

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software. Gary Symons, who 

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rently working on a secret project 

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for Mandarin. 

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I don't know exactly what It wil 

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turn out like, but the ST version Is 

pretty good and could re-defi ne 

The standards for learning tools on 

all micros. 

I would have loved to bring you 

a preview of the compiler this 

month, unfortunately Francois 

Uonet is adding some extra fea- 

tures so you will have to wait until 

next time. 

I have been speaking to 

Francois and he says that when 

programs are compiled they will 

retain all of the multi-tasking capa- 

bilities of AMOS. Sounds great. 

huh' 

Lastly on the news front. TOME 

(the TOtal Mop Editor) is now com- 

plete. The fi nal package will be 

available from mid-March. and the 

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manual has been written by me. so 

lt must be good, 

Seriously though, tt is an excel- 

lent product and deserves the sw- 

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AMOS ones. You can find out more 

about TOME by writing to the 

AMOS club (the address came 

with AMOS). 

Now on with the programming 

In the last issue we looked at fl ip- 

ping BOBs. I hope you all saw and 

understood what I was going on 

about 'cos I'm gonna start off this 

column with examples of fl ipping 

SPRITES. 

First we must load a SPRITE bank 

from the AMOS extras disk, so stick 

It in the drive and press escape to 

go to direct mode. 

Load: 

"AMOLESTRAS:SPAIT(.600,SPACE/SNIP1.ABS" 

OK. now let's clear the screen 

and do some SPRITES. Flash off : 

Curs Off : Cts D Get Sprite Palette 

Sprite 1,200,1%1 

There are two ways to fl ip this 

imoge. The first is quite complicat- 

ed and involves using BOBs. so I 

think we will skip that for the time 

being. 

The second method is to flip the 

Image inside the bank using the 

Paste Bob command. 

To do this we must use the 

Hrev/Vrev in the some way as we 

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Simple. Isn't it? And now we 

have a reversed image which we 

can move around if we wonted to, 

and there is no need to touch the 

Paste Bob command ever again 

(well, not unless you wanted to flip 

It once again) 

Anyway, that's the SPRITE5 over 

and done with. 

Now now about taking a look 

at the very latest version of AMOS 

1,23 specifically Interlaced mode. 

For those of you who don't know 

too many technical details about 

the Amigo, interlacing is a method 

of doubling the amount of informa 

lion which can be displayed verti- 

cally on the screen. 

There is a limit to the amount of 

Information which can be shown 

on a normal monitor because they 

ate actually too slowl 

So to double the amount of stuff 

that can be shown the Amiga 

takes a single screen and passes 

the Information to the monitor in 

two sweeps, each encompassing 

every other line. 

So for the first sweep lines 3, 5, 

7, 9. 10. 11. 13 etc. ate shown. fol- 

lowed by lines 2. 4. 6, 8, 10, 12, INs 

Is the reason you get a flicker when 

In Interlaced mode - incidentally 

the flicker is almost non-existent on 

NISC machines 'cos they work 

faster. That is simplifying things a 

little, but true principle is sound. 

If you are lucky enough to own 

a Flicker Fixer or an A3000 the 

Amiga could de-interlace the 

screens and pass them to the mon- 

itor in one go 

Untortunately you need a very 

expensive multi-sync monitor to 

cope with those sorts of speeds, so 

you can see that interlacing is a bit 

of a compromise between resolu- 

tion and quality (and migraines). 

OK. to see what difference there 

Is to our display when compared to 

a normal screen, go to direct 

mode and type: 

Screen Open 0,321420D,16,Aoures 

'AMIGA COMPUTING" 

Right. now that we have a normal 

sized default screen let's com- 

pare it to an interlaced one' 

Screen Open D,320,200,16, LAcedeboores 

"AMIGA COUNTING" 

You will see that I have changed 

the last parameter t o 

Laced+Lowies. which tells AMOS 

that we wont a lowres Interlaced 

screen. You will also notice that the 

same number of vertical lines as 

the first screen are being displayed 

in half the space. Also check the 

flicker, 

Now one problem with this 

mode is that when you set up a sin- 

gle Interlaced screen all other 

screens which you may be display- 

ing are automatically - 

switched 

into interlaced mode These are 

-not 

true Interlaced screens - they 

just flicker tot the hell Of it! 

You can display some excellent 

quality pictures in this mode, so do 

make use of it. But don't even think 

about doing a game in interlaced. 

It's just too slow. 

Something which you might like 

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future FrOnC0115 Uonet will include a 

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toned software to produce 

L ast Intuition month windows Code Clinic and con• 

screens, but it is possible to create 

a display using some routines from 

the graphics library known as 

graphics primitives, 

This system gives you more 

freedom, more control. and a 

little more hassle.it 

would be possible 

to write whole 

books on the sub- 

ject of how the dis- 

play system works, 

so I have tried to summarise it 

as best I can. You will fi nd all 

the bits I missed out in the ROM 

Kemal Manual- Libraries and 

Devices. 

The Amiga coprocessor - or 

copper - produces its video dis- 

plays on IV screens or moni- 

tors using raster display 

te 

The 

ture consists of a 

series of horizontal 

lines stacked on top 

of each other. 

Changes can be mode plc- 

to the display when the 

beam is going from left to right as it 

is turned off on the flyback, When 

the beam reaches the bottom 

right hand corner of the screen it 

flies back to the top left hand corner. 

In a multitasking environment 

each program can have direct 

control over the copper and ther- 

fore over the whole display or 

View. 

The View can be divided Into 

one or more viewports, each of 

which Is the equivalent of on 

intuition screen. Each viewport has 

its own display resolutions, colours 

and special features. Unlike 

Intuition screens they can all be dis- 

played at once. 

Because of hardware limitations, 

segments of differing display 

modes ore confi ned to horizontal 

stripes that extend across the com- 

plete width of the screen.Each 

vlewport completes a horizontal 

segment. and they are separated 

from each other by at least one 

blank line. 

Images are created by drawing 

Into a computer memory area so 

that the system can retrieve the 

data for the display.The system 

software allows you to defi ne linear 

memory as rectangular regions 

called bit planes. 

It Is necessary to tell the system 

the dimensions and ioco- 

tion of these bitplanes. 

This is a pain but there is 

the advan- 

tage of keep- 

ing several 

displays i n 

memory at the 

same time, 

The colour of each pixel 

is related to the value of 

one or more data bits in 

memory. To create multicoloured 

images, the system must be told 

how many bit are required per 

pixel. 

In my first Viewporffbiue), I have 

used eight colours and three bit- 

planes, and the system retrieves 

one data bit from each bitplane. 

For each pixel data bits in the 

same horizontal and vertical posi- 

tion ore combined by the system 

to create a binary value which 

determines the display color for 

that pixel. 

The system uses a structure 

called a bitmap which con- 

tains the height, width and 

which is I 

mand in 

first vie 

Each 

default v 

eters are 

Each 

Rosinfo s 

taining 

sect using the 

mond GetColorMap which will 

allocate space for a colourtnaP 

and retum a pointer to 

and linked t 

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arid Its own p 

d later 

art ne 

bitmap 

plane in ation, 

the view has d p 

fields the • T o y 

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bilmap. 

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a 

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larger MI f e screen imag y 

creating o op larger than e 

siiewport area. c The Rasinfo 

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a 

bitpianes are 

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viewports and n the offsets are 

Left to Itself s the system will 

default colours. There is a 

se 

The ccdourmap has a pointe0 to 

the coloorroap's colourtable, and 

the desired colours can be copied 

frit° this data structure. 

Each bltmap Is initallsed 

depth of the bitplanes and 

, 

where they are in 

. 

r e q u i r e d 

memory. 

i 

wicith,height 

The display is 

created from a set 

of instructions in 

the view structure. 

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i 

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g 

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n 

i 

and depth as 

Inputs. The command 

Alloc- 

Paster is used to 

Height how ffi ltly video lines 

t 

Width 

B 

320 pixels in low res, 640 in high res 

i 

Next pointer to the next Vewport 

t 

s; EXIALPF for two separately controlled M playfields 

PFBA the second playfield atakes 

precedence 

HIRES more precise horizontally p WO pixels) 

LACE interlaced display mode w HAM hold and 

modify colours 

i 

SPRITES 

VP-HIDE 

t 

hardware sprites 

h 

Obscures the viewport 

t 

ColortAop nos a pointer to the colour fable hof 

up to 32 colours. Three 

bitplanes would use colour, registers e 0-7, five bitplanes reg- 

1111111, 

isters 0-31. Dual playfielcis of three bhplanes each would 

Rosinfo 

use registers 0-7 for the first playfield and 8-1 

. ond. 

5 pointer for to the t hPasinto e stucture. s e c - 

allocate each bitplane and the 

returned e pointers are linked to the 

btmop. 

Now that all the data structures 

are complete the command 

MakeVPort asks the system to 

make a set of display instruc- 

ViewPort. 

tions - or copper list - 

from the structures in 

the Viewport. This has to 

be done for each 

The command MrgCop 

merges these copper lists into a 

single instruction list. LoadView 

turns on direct memory access 

(DMA) and the display will be 

shown on the screen. Any fl icker 

can be reduced by waiting for the 

beam to reach the top of the 

ftame. 

Each ccea can have its own set 

of drawing instructions, or RastPort 

structure. InitRastPort puts in default 

values and when the RastPort has 

been linked to Its bitmap it is possi- 

ble to use the Graphics Library 

drawing commands. 

The listed program first saves the 

address of the old view using the 

gb-ActiView offset from the graph- 

icsbase. The view is initalised and 

three viewports produced. 

The first viewport is 48 lines high 

with eight blue colours and three 

bitplanes. The second Is 100 lines 

high with dual red and grey play- 

fields, The third viewport is 48 lines 

high with 32 green colours and 5 

bltplanes. 

The drawing routines have been 

used to produce a series of rectan- 

gles on the screen. In the second 

viewport the grey piayfl eld Is domi- 

nant except for transparant areas 

of colour zero. 

There is a short delay before the 

first eight colours of each viewport 

are cycled, and another delay 

before the program releases the 

allocated memory, replaces the 

old View, and exits. 

The support disc Includes the 

source and object code for this 

program and a list of documented 

routines from the graphics library, 

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Limited edition 

I was torn between upgrading my Amiga 500 

Into an A1500 expansion box with a hard disk 

or exchanging my Amiga 500 for 

Commodore Amiga 1500. 

After talking at some length to a 

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Al 500 was a brand new machine, idealy suit- 

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tem, I find on the bock an A2000 label. It 

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They have called it almost the same as on 

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because they could not think of casing an 

A500 in such a professional way? 

I have since returned my Amiga 1500/2000. 

and purchased an A1500 limited expansion 

system, with which I am very happy. 

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You are correct in asserting that the Amiga 

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Commodore have never really claimed otherwise, 

The 1500 package is Ideally suited for 

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The third party A1500 allows you to separate 

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though obviously feel you hove been conned 

by Commodore. 

The A1500 was a logical name for CBM to 

Choose for the package, ills after all In- 

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is a worthwhile product in its own light 

Arresting reading 

I've just been into the shop which sells your 

magazine As I was glancing through it I decid- 

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and realised I didn't have enough money to 

buy It, so I stole it, 

When I got home I put the disk into my paid 

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The mag and disk are excellent value for 

money. The trouble is my family won't let me 

on the computer. Now I'm wondering where I 

con get c2.95 for the next Issue. 

I shall hove to stop the kids' spending 

money for my next issue. Keep up the good 

work. And for obvious reasons please don't 

print my real name. 

Bill Sykes, Bradford. 

I assume you realise that if the barcode on the 

front cover isn't scanned by your newsagent, a 

rattier curious virus is let loose on your system? 

II systematically causes you to form an 

addiction to the magazine which is so powerful 

that you can't help but subscribe 

Seriously though, Amiga Computing is not 

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public domaini If you did steal us, please 

don't try It again. 

It Is only a matter of time before you get 

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£2.95 you will have to worry about. 

Play the game 

I read with anger The letter by Chris Webb In 

issue 29 of Amiga Computing concerning his 

views on the software industry. 

Although everyone is entitled to their own 

opinion. I think Mr Webb was totally unfair in 

his assessment that 99.9 per cent of Amiga 

games are trash. 

True, there is and always will be some rub- 

bish on the market, but he has obviously riot 

experienced the delights of the classics like 

Dungeon Master. Gettysburg and Power 

Monger. 

It he has played 999 per cent of all games 

on the market he is either very rich or a soft- 

ware pirate Therefore. I can only assume he is 

commenting on games he has never seen 

before, let alone played, and thus has no 

dear idea of what he is talking about 

Stuart Hardy, Sheffield 

You don't have to play a game to get on Idea 

of whether you will like it Of not. 

Some people simply detest games. For 

these demented creatures, even the most 

technically stunning release will fall to raise 

the slightest tingle of emotion in their trigger 

ringer. 

Of course not all Amiga games are trash It 

they were people wouldn't be able to tell the 

Amiga apart from that ST things/. 

Excellent review 

I enjoyed your review of the wonderful 

Excellence! wordprocessing program in The 

March issue. Your praise of it was well earned, 

but one part of the review was misleading. 

You criticise the lock of on overtype facile?, 

welch you say is missing from the program. In 

fact this is not the case as by simply highlight- 

ing the text that you wish to overtype and 

then entering the new text, the program 

replaces The old with the new. 

It must be just about The best worciproces- 

sor available on the Amiga and readers 

shouldn't be put off by the price. there are 

some very good mall order deals available. 

The only trouble that I have with it is that I 

spend time exploring its capabilities that I 

should be using for wreirig 

D M Fieldhouse, Liverpool 

The process of highlighting a text block with 

the mouse and then replacing it by typing in 

new text isn't strictly speaking an overtype 

mode. For example, anyone who uses a 

wordprocessor for long periods of time and 

who requires speed above all else, the use of 

the mouse is a no-no. 

When using Protest, for instance, I confi gure 

It to Overwrite mode instead of Insert. That 

way If I make a mistake in typing, which I 

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Snail mail mouse 

I am writing to you to tell my woeful story 

about a Naksha mouse. 

It all began when I ordered the little 

chap from a mail order company called 

Microsmart. This was In about November. 

1990. 

By January this year I had not received 

the product, nor any message from the 

company, so I wrote to them expressing my 

annoyance, and asking them what had 

happened. 

I tried to contact them by telephone, but 

all I got was their ansaphone. Finally. I wrote 

them another letter. The result'? Nothing. 

What can I do apart from fume with the 

POO( quality of the mouse that I got with my 

Amiga 500 which I bought a year ago. 

Yours feeling peeved, to put it mildly 

. lain Chambers, Peterborough. 

Yours is just one of many mall order gripes I 

receive in the postbag every month. 

Although we do our best to ensure that 

each of our odvertisers is honest, legal and 

decent, we cannot really check out the service 

offered on an individual basis. 

I gave Microsmart a quick ring to see 

what the problem was with your order. They 

told me that your rodent started scurrying it 

way to Peterborough the day before you 

called. 

Your original order 'tom November last 

year apparently got a little lost in the pre- 

Christmas stampede, for which they are 

sorry. 

You have every right to be a bit peeved, 

but hopefully similar things won't happen 

again. Hope you think the mouse was worth 

the watt. 

done. I can type straight over the top alit with- 

out having to delete or resort to the mouse. 

I'm glad you liked the review, and we did, 

as you say, conclude that Excellence 2,0 is 

one of the best on the market. As tor the price. 

we quote the IMP as It would be unfair to a 

product to quote the cheapest price we could 

find. Hope you continue to enjoy exploring you 

wordprocessoes power (and buying our mog • 

Ed). 

Fair shares all round 

I know you regularly print such statements. but 

I'd like to make a point about shareware. 

Always pay for any shareware you end up 

keeping and using. If you don't, the people 

who write It will have to find some other way to 

make a living and won t be able to update 

their programs, or create new ones. 

You may save a bit in the short term, but 

you'll lose in the end and end up paying for 

software you may never use because there 

are no good shareware alternatives available. 

The UK has a poor reputation for this. Come 

on fellow Brits. let's show the Yanks that we're 

just as honest as they are. 

Finally.i know that you manage to pock as 

much quality into your slimmer mog as your 

biggest rival, but my latest copy has pages 67 

through 101 missing. Con you help? 

Bill Dawson, Southampton. 

I can't agree more on what you ore saying 

about shareware. 

Yes we do print letters like yours regularly, 

but it is always worth reminding people to put 

their money where their mouse is. 

I am sure most people intend to cough up 

for the software. but never quite gel around to 

it. There is no excuse for not going to the bank 

and sorting out a money order tomorrow, so 

do it people! 

As lot the mystery of the missing pages, I 

wonder it Bill Sykes uses the same newsagent 

as you? 

Stealing an entire magazine is utterly 

pedestrian compared to the style and nerve 

required to make Ott with lust the pages of 

interest. 

Consider the missing pages in the post. I 

might even send a complete magazine. 

Trojan Trauma? 

I recently purchased a copy of Amiga 

Computing issue ed. On the CoverDisk was a 

program called •Kill Da Virus'. I installed this 

program on al my bootable disks. 

Since doing this I have had nothing but 

trouble with a virus called 'Smiley Cancer' 

which turns the mouse pointer into a face and 

has corrupted much of my public domain. 

It seems to me that The only place this virus 

could have come from is your CoverDisk as I 

have had no trouble of this kind before, I 

would like to know if you hove received any 

other complaints of this nature. 

I will not be buying your magazine again 

until this matter is sorted out, If I do not hear 

from you I wil have to write to another magazine. 

Ian Similan, Sheffield. 

The Amigo Computing CoverDisk was not the 

source of the virus you are afflicted with, 

Our erstwhile disk editor. Stevie Kennedy 

assures me that the AC disks are so clean you 

could eat your dinner off them. 

We are nol a virus carrier Any allegation 

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ously by our readers. 

It is important to be sure of your facts before 

Initiating such grave rumours,

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