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14 IDEO STAR I ondon company, Connections, have a solution to your MP video making problems. If you can't afford the equipment or you don't know how to make a video, then they are offering a range of services to help. Various training courses are avail• able with free offers for the unwaged. You can also hire the equipment which includes Lights-Sound-2, Machine S-VHS and three Machine Beta Cam Edit facilities, Vision Mixer and Computer Graphics. Connections are based in r Hammersmith and can be contacted on 0181-741 1768. F home or professional video o production, you may like r to know that Diskotech have t announced the release of htheir new collection of animated o titling fonts. Following s on from the original MovieFonts, e it works with all Amigas i with 1Mb using Deluxe n Paint or similar. Available t as a 10 disk pack, MovieFonts e 2 costs E40 and contains r 18 original colour fonts which share the same e palette s for mixing and matching t without colour conflict. The set is available now from Diskotech, e Melin-Y-Garth d Builth Wells, Powys 1D4 4AW i n alovieFonta 2 la now D available for both horn. and profe ssiona l vide o use rs e Find out how to ma ke • vide o at London-ba se st C onne ctions ISKO INFERNO ElSe i F 1111 1 t_ DISRPP I BEND 1110VIEFONTS MINNS 1 TRANS 2 IRONS 3 TRANS 4 ZOOMER APPEAR AMIGA COMPUTING MAY 1996 ••• CORAL ITALICS 111 114 DISAPP APPEAR1 LEAN I r,es,_ k: DRAW STENCIL LINEFILL BUBBLY. WHITE WEBBING The first wedding to be broadcast live on the Internet is about to take place in Istanbul Virtual guests can link up for the ceremony or even chat to guests at the actual reception. Apparently, the site will be running after the event with a Baby Album being promised for the near future! EXPOSED A new initiative has been set up to allow the public to use the Internet as on anonymous way of blowing the whistle on any dangerous or illegal practices that are being covered up. The team behind it, called simply Whistleblowers UK, is made up of journalists and industry people who aim to make the site a safe way of employees speaking Out against employers, where previously they had little protection for doing so. The Internet site is based outside the UK so that the sender cannot be traced. Post your worries and Whistleblowers UK will then investigate. Find them at httal/uk-commerce.com/whistiel OFF THE RAILS W Technologies regarding Escom's shares. After ploughing e through all the jargon, the gist of it is that [scorn have now ' got some more funding but have had to give up some control lb11 vin terms of shares...we think e Apparently, ESCOM AG have increased their capital with a rcash outlay of DM59,994,000. Escom explained: The new 11 eshares have been taken over by Commerzbank AG for the company acquire new resources amounting approximately DM100 million: Manfred Schmitt, the principal shareholder in ESCOM AG, has transferred 16 per cent of the base capital to the BV Beteiligungsgesellschaft GmbH, a subsidiary of the Bayerische Vereinsbank AG, and a further 2.5 per cent of the base capital to Siemens Nixdorf Infotmationssysteme AG. This in effect means that Schmitt's share has been cut by nearly 30 per cent British Rail are joining the Information ,Super Railway by launching their own Web site. Called British Rail International it will have information including major rail networks in Europe with plans to include accommodation and restaurant advice. 4 The pages cover UK, USA, Europe and Rest of World and by clicking on the cissue consortium and will be offered to shareholders at the eearliest possible date after presentation of the 1995 annual Jn report. The company gave this official statement: "By this action shareholders and banks have created the right conditions to give ESCOM AG a more solid financial base and an extension country you are in, you can then access various options to get the required info, whether it's booking details, prices or t The increase in capital is part of an agreement between of its circle of shareholders enabling it to develop its business routes. BR are stationed at httpWwww lthe company, its associates and bankers by which the successfully," britrailcauk Ay r Re &TEST FROM CLOANTO c e r loanto are gearing up their products for the ex/cony/0 io.lha, for CompuServe GO AM1GAUSER, Kara Computer Graphics and is the first time some of this Gi Internet as their Personal Paint 6.4 is induded in Library 8, CIF JULHA material will be available to the public Ideal for pictures, vthe Amiga Internet Surfer Pack They claim that Personal Cloanto have also been busy on new DataTypes to be animations, presentations and titling effects, the collec- ePaint proves ideal for Web publishing as it offers profes- included in the Surfer Pack. The DataTypes which are for tion will house 80 ColorFonts and AnimFonts which can Od sional colour reduction, dithering, quantization and the GIF, Veg. PNG and XBM formats, support 24-bit be used to create animations with any Amiga package a antiafiasing algorithms. The package also supports new DataType tag extensions, and can pass true colour data to that supports Anirn-Brushes. It will also contain Starfields nWeb graphics formats such as PNG. applications like the CyberGraphx software. They can also animations with moving stars from different perspectives N e Check Out the Aminet and Compuserve for Cloanto's process around 99.5 per cent of pictures on the Web -a and Plaquegrounds with textures such as marble and w new CIF I/O module ('personal_sifialibrary' version 5.0) higher percentage than comparable Mac and PC systems. wood. for their Personal Paint package which they've just A new CD-ROM is on the horizon too. Called The Kara For more information e-mai• Cloanto at
Softwood creates new windows fi oftwood, well-known developers of the 'Final series of Amiga productivity software 0 including tions for Final Writer Writer, for Final Windows Data, and 95 computers. Final Calc, recently The first announced release is to plans be free, and with specifica- a S25 registration fee in order to obtain the spell checker, thesaurus, hyphenation, and extra features. The software will be available for download from Softwood's Web site, http://www.softwood.com. Now that Softwood has a Web site, they're putting it to good use. In addition to offering personal Web sites for a fee, Softwood has opened an Amiga Mall at httplAwiwamigarnall.com. Here, commercial and shareware Amiga developers can offer their products from a central Web location. Softwood can be contacted as info@softwood.corn or on (001) 602-431-0949. El BROWSE BY While no confirmation was available at press time, reliable sources within Omnipresence Development, the team behind the IBrowse World Wide Web Browser, indicate that their product will be published by HiSoft of the UK. HiSoft is perhaps best known for their Squirrel SCSI interface for the A600 and Al200 and their Twist database software. They have already made moves to get into network software already, with the announcement of their imminent SUTt tax E M U LC3 kAN NMI Software for the Amiga from HiSoft Systems Cincma0D 14 . 1 [twist 'LV Q b F AMAA.: oildouttic 50 Irf SolOitrtY1 1 %logger SvOetie• 21 s 5 71 q 15 uirrditSI Ingo 17 & 1 Z 13 17 u 1 r 4 " se Atte( an unsuccessful attempt to buy back the assets of the HISOFT company, CEO Mark Habinski will face off against any interested bidders as the assets of Wonder Computers of Canada are auctioned off on 21 March 1996. Before entering bankruptcy in late January. Wonder consisted of a six store retail chain, the Lazarus Engineering _ Squirrel, the PCMCIA interlace with both SCSI and a high-speed serial port for better net access. In addition, their North American development and distribution partner, Oregon Research, is expecting to launch their own network interface suite to go head-to-head with AmiTCP and I-Net Called Termite TCP after their popular terminal program, it is planned to be exhibited at the World of Amiga show this HiSoft S Y S T E M S rho a l brIvzot Som14.13 M3.45 SDE UK - 0F al15/06.17.alm4 1 4a 4. 0. 14 114U1 Porheps wit will bo se e ing inrowe e appearing on tho HiSott hontope g• in the ne a r future CONTACT it POINT You can contact Mson Compton with your American news at icompton4imet.c0m Editor-in-Chief, Amiga Report Magazine (708) 741-0689 FAX AR on AM inet - docsimagsiarMiha AR Mailing list - Mail me WWW - htip://www ommpres- - nce.com/AtnigaiNews/Alt , . s v o w . c u c u & o r g i a r i a r . h t m l ONDER RESOLUTiON IN SIGHT division, and the Information Technology division. Despite the success of their World of Amiga show in December and growing sales due to the availability of Amiga computers in North America, Wonder's loan was recalled by its primary creditor and was unable to continue as a going concern. AMIGA COMPUTING MEW PRICES Warming up for the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) video-related conference, Draco Systems have announced a pricing schedule for the Draw non-linear editing computer from Macrosystem GmbH. The base Draco, an 060-based Amiga compatible computer with the Aftais highspeed graphics card using the Cyber- GraphX system. is USS4750. For USS6995, the unit includes the Zorro-II V-Lab Motion non-linear editing card. (Alternately, current owners of the V-Lab Motion card can transfer their card to the Draco,) On the high end, the Draco with the 32-bit Draco Direct V-lab Motion card is USS8995. Adding a 1 Gig system hard drive and 4 Gigs of video hard drive space is an extra $2000, for a total of USSI 0995. All Dracos will come complete with the AdPro Suite, consisting of AdPro 2.5 (with additional bug (ixes), all available loaders and savers, MorphPlus, the Scanner pack, the Pro Conversion Pack, and additional CyberCraphX and Retina support Draco Systems will be attempting to pierce the hotly contested non-linear editing market, currently courted by such Amiga and former Amiga companies as NewIele PLAY, and CEL
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