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To use the following program you need to have the Magic User Interface installed on your system. Without it you will not be able to run any MU programs. MUI is available from any good PD house, SYSSPEED Author: OenDesign Workbench 2.04 Benchmarking has always been a thorny business, with some people even doubting the use of them to compare computers, and I would be inclined to agree. Even though a program like Sysinto may be used by almost every Amiga user, the MIPS figure it gives back is not exactly a true figure of a machine's speed, particularly if you have one with a maths co-processor. SysSpeed is a 'real world' benchmarking program, and uses actual Amiga programs to produce its benchmark results, This means the figures it returns reflect how fast your machine is when performing proper operations, so is a better reflection of how fast your machine really is. Standard system tests such as memory speed. Intuition window speeds and Intuition graphic operations can be used by everyone and will show how fast your ROM and graphic systems are. SysSpeed also employs a number of other Amiga programs via ARexx. By getting these programs to do certain tasks you can get a good indication of how fast your machine is when using these programs. Possibly the only Benchmark program to return users,' results Author: Andrew Cook Workbench 3 DISK 2 Finally we have a real Mac-style trash can, or should that be rubbish bin? Another program for your WBStartup, ETrashCan allows you to delete any of your files by dropping them on a trashcan icon that lives on the Workbench and then selecting empty trash. The problem with all previous Amiga trashcans is that they were either permanent ones that instantly deleted the file, or were like the original Amiga ones in that you could move files into a TrashCan directory and then select to empty the trash. However, you could only do this for files on the same partition as the TrashCan directory, and the icon could not be left out on the Workbench. ETrashcan can handle files from any partition and still allow you to undelete the files afterwards. ad itio h o lMO MMO 11 .h.hhohl pl a t e• • ! • , rl it m a g 3 1 0.410 • • • • a n 11• • • • • • • • • • • IMIM• E S 7 . 7 • 1 1 1.11110.V "• • • 4 7 Jargon b o x OCS - Onginai ChipSer the first custom chip set found in the old Amiga A 1000 and A500 EC5 e nha nce d chipset the slightly improved custom rhymer found in the A3000. A500+ and MOO. Just increoses the amount of ChipRAM AGA Adva nce d Graphic Architecture found rn the A1.200 a nd A4000. Cove the Amiga a true 24-b4 palette and 8-bit display modes Nso iiriown as the chipse t. AfrpS - M illions of rnstructions Per Second A measure of processor speed. M any people consider it a poor way of companng processor speed as it 15 for too simplistic ILO'S - &Ikons of Untrue/ions Per Second coming into use for your old super computer. Amigo users may need to wait a bide while before you can use this kryc - these are a special combination of hey presses, usually encludmg the ALT, Amiga or control keys. that will initiate some special action Godinot - the name given to the library thca creates the normal Workbench program gadgets AT1( a MOdtliaf coMpreS 5000 library that allows the users to add new compressor at ii Meer dote ETrashiCan Contents by V Eye Eye.info PAC.XP212 MOCP2i 2 1110 MuttiCX2 litultiOC211fo NIP AMIGA COMPUTING MARCH 1 9 9 6 EYES Author: Messimiliano Hofer Workbench 2.04 The eyes have it, ho ho. This is a fairly pointless program but its small and fun. Just double-click on either the plain version or if you have a co-processor the other, and a small window with two eyes in will appear that will track your mouse wherever it may go. You can run as many copies as you like, size them by clicking on the bottom right of the window, and if you insert a disk or click in the middle of the eyes window, the eyes will spin around. El s o D A Y Author Marius! Muszalalski Workbench 2.04 Biorhythms. Its all a load of stuff and nonsense shouts our production editor. Enter her date of birth - it does let you go back that far - and it says mood swings are common_ No surprise there then. Bioday is a really good biorhythms program, if you believe in that sort of thing. Normally, biorhythms programs just give you a fairly useless sine wave display and leave you to work out what all those lines mean. However, Bioday will give you a descriptive account of what the biorhythm values actually mean, how physically fit you feel, or if you are going to be intellectually creative. LOVES Author. arde Soft Workbench 2.04 This has got to be the most bizarre program we have put on a coverdisk for a long time. Those decisions about love are always tricky and can lead to many sleepless nights. Well worry no more, Loves will sort Out all your troubles. By typing in the names of the two people involved, Loves will tell you how the two people feel about each other and the chances of them forming a meaningful relationship. Ifl Unidelete Info and file together Empty Al Trash You can rest easy, anything thrown into the trashcan can be rescued later parr, Di O. I H i 1 Cancel 1 IMMIE ..„Al hhanh • thoovao. L — M... • ...1.0 t...... Ohm.. Ol. I am....mi ilohrowh • e * ...ohm.; S o l . . . e l . p u i r k t " O f o h . 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 L E O O Ohm. I mho.. • . • I o r i . o • • mmoo• ... ham. .4. •••••• : rein i . • to.. _ _ _ _ _ _ . . I C h . . . . I • UROUHACK • . Author . Tinic Urou . Workbench n 2.04 o t The la te st Workbe nch ha ck lust a bout manages to cha nge the wa y e ve rything looks You may have noticed recently that there have been a number of system patches popping up, all trying to rectify the aesthetic problems with the way normal Workbench gadgets look -the standard window gadgets and the proportional and gadtool gadgets. tirouHack is probably the first to patch every part of the interface. All the gadtool gadgets get transformed into the MIJI-style Xen buttons, and if you are running on a I xl aspect screen then the gadgets get the proper looking thin sides and tops, whilst the normal window gadgets get a new sysihackstyle 3D look. To install UrouHack you need to copy it over to your C directory. then add: Run >NIL:
To use the following program you need to have the Magic Interface installed your system. Without you will not be able run any Mil programs. WI is avail from any good PD house. Author Jurgen Kempkes Workbench 2.04 The real problem with MultiCX is that there are so many functions that you can alter, and it takes absolutely ages to go through every tooltype in the information requester and adjust them to your own taste. This preference program gives you a lovely MI front-end to fiddle with, and is right up to date with the latest version of Muitia, also on this month's disk. Consequently, you can now access every feature of MultiCX without worrying about having to go through the horrible information requester. 1M111 Author: Eric Sauvageau Workbench 2,04 1111111111111inairr For anyone who uses XPK you are still probably using the xDrop program that came with the XPK library, or possible xpkNight, to compress your programs. Both are perfectly fine, but have their own problems. xDrop is quick and easy to use but is very basic, while xpkNight is very powerful, but a little overly complex if you just need to compress one file. XPKatana takes the best features of both and wraps them up in a tiny front-end. With all the powerful batch processing of xpkNight and with the option to run it iconised, you have the simplicity of xDr op. DISCLAIMER Amiga Computing cannot be held responsible for any damage caused directly or indirectly by the use of these programs LW )1— Cod) CC sti = C D OAP% Cm, Za r c 41 , Nto N E D Author: Raul Sobon Workbench 2.1 •111111111•1•111111.111 Trying to get the best out of your monitor is never that easy. If the standard supplied monitor drivers do not give you a decent picture then you have to put up with a poor dis• play. McmEd gives you a way around this by allowing you to adjust various technical aspects of the AGA chipset that will adjust the output to your monitor. With a little playing around this can lead to a better display, or at the very least a properly centred display. You should be warned that doing this could permanently damage your monitor, especially if you start using silly figures. A d Latowsid Workbench 3 The XPK compression library has been around for a good few years now, and has firmly established itself as the main form of compression on the Amiga along with Oa and DMS. There are many programs that have direct support for it and the various programs that allow you to add decompression patches mean many people are using it. This Datatype adds XPK decompression to the growing list of supported Datatypes. Now if you drop an XPK'ed file into Multi View, instead of just being ignored, the files will be decompressed and Multi View will be able to handle it as normal. 1 MOVE Author Jim McDaniel Workbench 2.04 One thing that has always been a really annoying omission from the AmigaDOS command set is the lack of any move command — you always had to manually copy and delete files, It might seem a little picky but if you do this sort of thing regularly it does get quite annoying. Just copy the move command over to your C directory and away you go. This command can take multiple destinations if need be. WAREHOUSE PRICES/BUY DIRECT.SAVE LELE's MONITOR: Reconditioned Multi-Synch. Will display all Al200/A4000 modes. With speakers and lead £ 1 8 9 MONITOR: Reconditioned compatible with 1084 range of monitors for all Amiga's. With speakers and lead £ 9 9 HARD DRIVE; 1Gb Al200/600 3.5" IDE. With fitting kit £ 2 2 9 HARD DRIVE: Smaller hard drives and 2.5 usually available . . P 0 A MEMORY: 4mb 72pin Simm iA4000/PC's etc) E 1 1 9 MEMORY: lmb 30pin Simmisome A500 products/PC's etc) £ 3 4 WORKSTATION: A500/600 Cream metal/High quality, with shelf £ 2 4 POWER PACK: Al200/600/500 High current, high power £ 3 4 SOFTWARE CLEARANCE Deluxe Paint 3..11.99 Finest Hour...L3.99 Many others.. Please call All wces VAr. Che ut.e s , accepted. Persmal cailets welcome. Phone for opening tne s. Mow apptax I-14 ciao, l-osta clelherf. EgoDE. drie Vol•le rs &locks last. 4 a 4 2 6 Maim (newels pmtnle to ',IPA TRADING Or CO Belted Road. Luton. Beds. Lta P l AMIGA COMPUTING MARCH 1996 SCREEN KEYS Author Magnus Hohngren Workbench 2.04 One feature of Intuition that makes the Amiga such a good machine to work on is its ability to have multiple screens open at the same time. It helps to keep the screens uncluttered and greatly increases the speed of window and screen updates as there is less to redraw. Screen keys lets you assign individual hot keys to specific screens. Therefore, if you want to jump to a screen you can hit the appropriate keys and the screen will magically appear, without the hassle of having to skip through loads of other screens. iCONIFY GADGET Author: Nakon Enger Workbench 2.04 You may have noticed on all MU programs that there is a third icon on the title bar of the program. This allows you turn the program into an icon on the Workbench, so uncluttering the screen and letting you access other programs easily. This program does the same, but for every other Workbench program. A third gadget will appear that looks the same as the MU one, but there is an option to give it a sysihack 3D look. This is a commodity, so can be removed and restarted at any time.
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