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I would like to know more about the
Internet as in my country the local
communication system has recently
installed a server to the Internet, but
I cannot find any Amiga Internet
software on the market
I would like to know what software is
available and how I can get hold al it for an
Amiga 1200 with 250Mb hard drive: Besides
this I would like to know if modems used in
PC machines are suitable for the Amiga or
should I buy a special kind. If this is the case,
where can I get it?
Martin Balestra, Montevideo Uruguay
am sure you will take great
delight in knowing that all
the software you need is
available on the Internet,
which is not going to be of
much use to you now, is it? Generally, the
Amiga software you need to use all
aspects of the Internet is freely available,
but the problem with this is that the only
ready source for Comms software is
Aminet. So to get Amiga Comms software
you either have to have Internet access
already, or a CD-ROM and the Aminet CD
set, which would then allow you to get the
right software.
On our April issue we did a special
Comms coverdisk which supplied you with
all the necessary Internet software to get
you linked up and accessing e-mail, newsgroups
and HP sites. There was also the
chance for British readers to have ten
F INA!. ZOOM Mir
Having owned Final Writer for a while now I have
got to grips with its graphic tools and am using
them more to produce diagrams for my college
essays. The problem I have is when trying to
precisely position lines so that they fit together. At
the moment, I have resorted to entering the co-ordinates
directly into the line requester, but as you can imagine
this is quite time consuming when dealing with any
more than just a few lines. Have you got any
suggestions?
Simon Jones, Manchester
/ H a v i n g used Final Writer to produce
essays and reports myself, I know how frustrating
and time consuming it can be trying to set up
diagrams by hand. Luckily, there are a few tricks that
you can use to help you get along.
In the display preferences there are two DPI
settings, and the primary use for these is to create an
aspect correct document display. This simply means
the printed document will look like it does on the
screen. The DPI value can range from 40 up to 310,
and a side effect of this is that you can get a more
detailed view of your document by using higher DPI
values. Consequently, if you double the DPI you will
zoom in twice as much. The downside is that because
the computer has more data to process, the screen
update will slow, but having this closer 'look' at your
document will allow you to be more precise with
positioning graphics.
hours trial Internet access with Demon.
There are still April issues available so you
could get onto the Internet this way.
As the whole package is based around
AmigaNOS, an older TCP/IP software package,
the Installation is very simple as the
installer was especially written for the
included packages, but you will still need
to know your IP address, your e-mail
address, and the sub net mask. Do not
start worrying too much, as your Internet
provider will tell you what you need to
type in.
The only downside is that AmigaNOS is
not supported by any recently written
Internet programs, with just about every
program supporting AmiTCP. So in the long
run, getting hold of and switching to
AmiTCP would be the best move.
Unfortunately, AmiTCP is very very difficult
to set up, even for someone that knows
quite a lot about the Amiga already.
This is because for every program that
you want to work with AmiTCP, you have
to configure AmiTCP separately for each
one, and this can get to be very confusing.
If AmiTCP came with all the necessary
Internet tools to allow you to Web browse,
e-mail, use newsgroups and FTP, things
would be far more straightforward. All you
would have to know is your IP number and
e-mail address which would be provided
for you by your Internet server,
Amiga Technologies have announced
that they will be producing an Internet
package, based around their A5225r2 ICP
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sometimes find yourself poised
over your Amiga with axe in
hand, spouting profanity at the
stubborn refusal of your software
or hardware to behave properly?
Weil, calm down and swap the
axe for pen and paper, jot down
your problems. along with a
description of your Amiga setup.
and send it off to Amiga
Computing Advice Service, MG
Media, Media House, Adlington
Park, Macclesfield 51(10 4NP.
Alternatively, e-mail us at
ACAS@acomp.demon.couk
stack, and with all the necessary tools you
need. The full details have not been con-
firmed yet. but it will initially be bundled
with the Al200, and will probably be
available separately. So for any would be
Internet-ers this is the perfect solution:
As for PC modems, you can use any
external modem with your Amiga. You
cannot use the ones that are internal to
PCs as the interface for these are not
compatible with the Amiga. Also, you cannot
use PCMCIA modems as no Amiga
device drivers have been written to take
advantage of them.
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