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COVERDISK ,,, Images W 500 Han AMIGA Images F , nt a UM 24-bit 500 Hardt 10.011 Cite aft 1 ur Imts 2100 mono lave M A C S 1 : t h e lorto • I IS maw teas 0 1 0 PoalScOpt Audio F l i s t • SIO ' 1 750 math modules . , C o n s a v a p h i c 1 • 2300 seadi iSesslit s o l 0 o 6 stamen Obs al W — ) 1 k m 0 l e l l a p p Weird &iglu e s Multimedia Toolkit Supplier: Weird Science hats this on the cover Of Amiga ComputirPg! Yes indeedy (he says in dubious Ben Elton style), this one's for all you readers out there with CDTVs. CO32s or those nifty PCMCIA SCSI host adapters such as Squirrel. If you check out the adverts in computer magazines, you will no doubt find a lot of CD titles are sprouting up with masses of Amiga gear on them_ Well, we managed to gel our sweaty hands on one, and in conjunction with Weird Science we thought it would be a good idea to give it away, free, to all you wonderful readers because we love you so much. Name game And just what is the name of this CD adorning your beloved Amiga Compuling this month? Well, it's the Multimedia Toolkit with 547Mb of images. fonts, clip art, sound modules and samples. If you dabble in DTP or use a word processor, there are thousands of fonts. Images and clip an to help spruce up your artwork and documents. Or if you're a MEN! LIIIIII (011) 14 ( 0 1 1 1 IS ( D I R rotas (DTI) ICONS ( D R WOES 0 1 1 ICKSIIIII 2.14 IDER THE tinier lii5h5 . 1 50eaffular 1 117d551 Multimedia . log/kit 11115 our 1151131 [filleffil - 11E age5 from the (111771)12te and Pd511-16-115E 5ffidttledint5 program 5/1; 5t711 with a r t ICKSIIII:341 (DIR COIR f 1b o r u f a l l fi m i g a fi l s a w e a t y o u i 1 tieing the Multimedia 1 Toolkit Main Program, you can view and 1 listen to the thousands of 1 G U plc lure and sound Mos I To fi gure out what all Moe. buttons do click e on the blue Help button. You are H then in help mode and can crick on any r l button tor a description MAY 1 1995/ 5 i Amiga Computing music nut who likes to create luckin sound tracks with your favourite music tracker. there are thousands of complete music modules to listen to as well as samples for you to create your own music. You will IlliS bottom' iloCas you t D 1.31/11 to tIle selected NISI( MODULE or SNMPLE. It is possible te alter tbe speed of the ' W W 1 . IFNI! M g lease Select a File also find two top music trackers to use. To top it all off, there's half a megabyte of icons to replace those dreary defaults which Workbench provides you with. To use the CD-ROM you will need EIS INIS ;CONS !NILES ICOSTANT 2.14 ICISTRNT:3.11 tW,no.••,..,1•111111Mm-,..,•..-...a.,......1,t A • - , 41111Ele,• • •••A
either a CDTV, CO32 or an Amiga equipped with an adapter that allows you to connect CD-ROM peripherals, such as the Squirrel and Zappo devices. There are Iwo ways to access the files on the CD-ROM For CD -well as Amiga devices that allow you to TV boot from a n the d CD-ROM, resetting your Cmachine D 3with 2 the , Multimedia Toolkit in the adnve will s automatically load the Multimedia Tootle' program. Once loaded, you are given the choice of what device to use for the program (mouse or joystick), Click on either and you will then find yourself at the Main Menu. From here you can choose to access the Multimedia Toolkit Main Program. or fire up the slideshow to sit back and view the many pictures on the CD. The Main Program provides you with an easy-to-use method of browsing through the files on the CD-ROM. With it you can view both images and clip art files, as well as listen to the thousands of music and sample files - all at the click of a button. Copying It also provides a simple file manager utility which supplies tools for copying files from the CD to your hard disk or floppy drive. Using this, you can transfer files such as the huge collection of fonts to your fonts directory for immediate use by the appropriate programs. To find out what the various buttons on the interface do. simply click on the blue Help button. This puts you in (yes, you guessed it) help mode. Now, clicking on any button will display a description of what that button actually does. With 547Mb of files, I'd call that a wellstuffed CD. So, what are you waiting for? Fire up your CD-ROM drive, jam the Multimedia Tookit CD in it and see how long it takes you to view and listen to everything. Bear in mind that although CDTV and CD32 owners can view and listen to the various images and sound modules on this CD, to transfer the files for use from the CD the appropriate hardware is required. What on earth? So. just what does this huge 547Mb of files consist of then? The following, that's what: • 500 original 24-bit images with HAM8 and HAM Interlace versions • Over 1300 coloured clip art • More than 2100 Mono clip art • 120 standard Amiga fonts • 100 plus coloured fonts • Over 100 Adobe fonts • 00 PostScript fonts • 750 music modules • 2300 samples • Utilities to view and listen to many of the files Er7TITITI-7 1 1-Z M I T NCI - 1 1 0 1 . 1 inU 11 Lir •Iti -It --Lit 1:Z 1 1 1 -3 trIL 1 111 . MOPED 1 1 Prdl; l'0414 1; MI' = E 1 a rict • R I - 111PNIES3 l a Smartgraint Supplier: Chrome 111111LIAMILLMEI _16,,t.11 FLP-r1 tJfai9.0 t , A t tYJO r When it comes to graphics, there's not much that can touch the Amiga's powerful capabilities. That's why you can find the Amiga generating the graphics for such TV series as Babylon 5 and Star Trek. Because of this obvious strength in the graphics department. it's hardly surprising to find that there's quite a lot of graphics software available for the Amiga Most of these packages, you will find, tend to be aimed at users of intermediate or advanced experience, and the demands of such powerful packages also often require an Amiga with lots of memory and powerful add-ons - which are probably beyond the price range of many users. Novice to expert SmartyPaints is different. however. Its an art package that caters for users ranging from a young child, right up to intermediate level, You may ask how such a wide range can be catered for by one art package. and the answer lies in the 'smart menu' feature which allows you to customise Smart/Paints depending on the needs of the user. It can also run on Amiga& with a minimum of 1Mb, although the more memory you have the more screens you can work with. SmartyPaints has evolved from early 1990 where it was available for the Nimbus PC as the Borealis trilogy of schools' art programs, Borealis Jnr was aimed at infants, Borealis was for 7-11 year olds and Borealis Gold was for adults. It is thus a natural progression from these early concepts and now serves all three age groups, thanks to its smart menu facility. This facility allows the owner to tailor the drawing tools icon display according to age groups and abilities. SmartyPaints is not designed to be immediately used by a small child without any adult intervention. It initially loads with all menus, icons and functions set up for a user with intermediate knowledge. It therefore needs to be configured for individual children according to their r4r1 1 Fl - FLIP- / r- 1 r,1_1•11i 0 -1 :; r7- ior45 , - 1 2 ; 4 1 ETIEWT 1111111EM There are lots of tools and features to aid the Amiga artist in the creation of an artistic masterpiece ffin ' 11P. 11L, „ ;:,:r7t-. , I ' .111 It: • AI Usaa 2 r i - J •,AMII -I - III. - • • 0 0 1 1 1 1 • 0 0 0 I •_111Do — .7, -ri 1; ' '..• ;::LE - D i .3c V ' Jf ... -1;. _I r1 , — ,:i c .,, , 1, ii , 1 1- ,, •W . . 1 , O '1 E V A - F J r . . -F 1 . D-?rji J I -I I i ' '.. • .14 9 . M r f fi l l . ... D I ir',/ 1 , ' - f , r 1 -' _I i L . 5J . e 1 At the top of the screen. In a nice shod* o I , of blue, a custom smart menu under con•truction u - - '/ Amiga Computing 1 f r MAY 1995 i 1 El 1 ft 5 1 r COVERDISK abilities before they are given it. Configuring the menus is very simple. To try it out, load up SmartyPaints and read the tutorial that follows. Once loaded, you will see there are many function icons to choose from. In this particular mode, all features and tools are available for the intermediate user. For a small child, you can choose which drawing tools should be displayed by altering the smart menu If you now click the right mouse button you will be taken to the drawing screen and as you can see, there is a selection of tools and palette icons to choose from. This is the smart menu and can be removed while drawing on the screen by clicking again on the right mouse button. Another right mouse click will bring it back again. Depending on the configuration you have set, there will also be a Main menu icon button on the far left of the screen. Clicking on this will take you back to the main menu. If you have a small child, so wish to create a special 'kids version' of the program, you need to decide which tools are appropriate for their age, Indicators Once you have a fist of appropriate tools, It may be a good idea to draw a simple layout design to indicate which tools will be grouped together etc. This needs to be done because when you are choosing tools to be included in your custom menu, they are added from right to left, top to bottom. SmartyPaints doesn't allow you to arbitrarily remove and replace a single icon from within the middle at a fist. Once you have a design for your custom layeut, it's time to configure SmartyPaints, First of all you will have to clear the default smart menu, so click on the light blue icon marked Clear S Menu. After a brief detay, the current smart menu will be displayed in blue at the top of the screen. 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