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Issue 96 • February • 1996 • E.4.50 Overseas price E4.50 HU 219
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No news is good news, or so they say. There's
not much happening in the Amiga games
world at the moment, but take a look any way
• DUNGEON MASTER 2 8 0
The sequel to the hugely popular Dungeon
Master, you get to collect scrolls, recruit
members and all other things dungeon like
WORMS 8 2
Some might say this is going to
be one of the greatest games ever to
be created on the Amiga. Find out
for your self
SENSIBLE WORLD OF SOCCER 86
svvos is undoubtedly the best game on the
Amiga, and with a new updated version just
released, is it even better?
BREATHLESS 8 8
Another Doom clone arrives an the Amiga,
in this case developed by Italian wizards
Fields of Vision
STAR CRUSADER 9 0
Crusade along with the stars in Gametek's
huge space epic. This I'llast you light years
HILLSEA LIDO 9 2
Featured on our coverdisk this month,
Lido gets a full review, covering all
aspect of promenade tomfoolery
TENNIS CHAMPS 9 6
'You cannot be serious!' as John McEnroe
would screech at the top of his voice,
although Tennis Champs is certainly In:
EXTREME RACING 9 8
Guildhall Leisure grace the Amiga screens
again to provide us with more top quality
entertainment
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AMIATIAS _ E n IMAGE VISION
Neil Mohr cranks up the engine and takes to
You've got the demo, now check out
the road with the Amiga's latest route finder
the finer points of the full version
CANON MC 610.
CINEMA 4D
Frank Nord gets an extra dimension
with the aid of the latest in Amiga 3D
FINAL CALC
The spreadsheet saga takes another twist
thanks to the boys and girls at Softwood
EUREKA!
Tina Hackett explores how the Amiga
is inspiring anew generation
F
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LASER GUIDANCE E l
The CD stream keeps flooding in and we
keep fisihing out the best of the bunch
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the latest object collection for Imagine
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SHAREWARE ROUNDUPAC's shareware guru delivers a first-hand
guide to the ultimate in Amiga freebies
BEGINNER'S GUIDE al
Steve White offers oodles of ideas and
advice for Amiga newbies everywhere

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IMAGEVISIG.II DEMO
Probably the easiest way to create stunning
multimedia presentations. Imagetrision sports
an innovative and intuitive interface that looks
as good as it is to use.
HILL SEA LIDO DEMO
Hillsea Lido is Theme Park for the beach. With all the
parts of the full game, the demo lets you manage
three different shops and two rides, and you can
actually watch your Saturday night theatre show
Also on the second disk:
Tritus, an amazingly addictive,
three-player Tetris-style game
EGULARS
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COMMENT _ 1 0 1
Paul Austin discusses the hype
surrounding the PC explosion
NEWS
Netscape rumours confirmed, plus the
latest on the Quicktirne conversion
A MIGA GUIDE
The conservative approach
with a back to basics look
at Amiga menus
t An insider guide to
scattering with the king
of coding„ Paul Overaa
Paul Overaa goes on a
bug hunt with a guide to
ARexx error correction
Neil Mohr takes a realistic
look at the Internet and
puts it in its place
Ben trost puts the hard
sell into persepctive with a
guide to,effective layouts
The techno kid of the AC office irons out those
annoying wrinkles in Amiga ownership
M PUBLICSECTOR
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LETTERS
Uncel Era checks the post for the latest in punter
opinions and praise
ACAS
The Emperor of PD, the Sultan of shareware.
Dave Cusick delivers the hest in the business
Emulation is the name of
the game. Phil South thinks
Amos could be the answer
Paul Overaa reviews the
latest from the man of
Commodore past
Steve White gets that
syncing feeling with a
guide to anims
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) Gary guide Whiteley for videographers moves from
The unseen resource. We
look to the Internet for
inspiration and add-ons
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NOVER STORY
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The name's Bond, James Bond.
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Pentiums, P6 chips, millions spent
and vast fortunes in the making.
0 indows 95, Warp 0S2, pull 'n' play,
The question is, does the buying
public get a real bang for their buck, or simply
end up engulfed in the aftershock of endless
investment and upgrades?
Given the money and marketing lavished on
the new breed of so called 'user friendly' PCs,
it would seem there's no choice when it
comes to home computing. like a double seat
on the train, you've got to get in first - stocks
won't last, buy or be laughed at. The marketing
pressure is intense.
There's no rest byte, the all powerful PC sits
in shop fronts across the land struggling to
scroll a seemingly endless stream of virtues
before the eyes of any would-be investors. If
you want the best you've got to pay for it_ The
question is, what's on sale here - the machine
or the marketing?
Just six months ago a friend of mine quite
rightly tired of the seemingly endless wait for
the Amiga to get back on its little rubber feet.
After lots of reading and research he opted for
IP a quality PC. Even after a lot of bartering his
new baby still weighed in at a hefty (1400.
PROBLEM CHILD
At the time this new 'all singing all dancing'
sibling was the apple of his daddy's eye.
Unfortunately, just six months on this rapidly
ageing 486 DXII has become something of a
problem child.
The Pentium is now well and truly ruling
the roost, and his train spotting, acne ridden
DX is rapidly becoming a computing wallflower.
The glossy games that added so much
attraction to the initial investment now
demand a Pentium to deliver the promise
so lavishly emblazoned in print and on the
packaging.
Like the average hot-hatch, his former pride
and joy would be lucky to generate a third of
its showroom asking price out on the street
And yes, I know Amiga's depreciate as well,
but the pain of depreciation is directly linked
to the initial investment. And in relation to
the PC, that's one area in which the Amiga
certainly scores some points.
Of course, pride and poverty doesn't entertain
the idea of selling up. After all 'it's still a
serious machine that can run everything a
Pentium can.' The point is, did he really want a
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serious machine, or something that could play
games and still be taken seriously. Man,
machine and marketing in perfect turmoil.
The question of keeping up with the Jones',
Pentiums, P6s is a familiar tale across every
platform, including the Amiga. However, the
forgotten hero does have few distinct advantages
in the dog eat dog wodd of the PC.
Not least of these is a generic background,
Every Amiga sold has a standard architecture
and although this can be expanded upon with
assorted accelerators and ad-ons, the basic
structure remains he same. As a consequence,
developers are forced to work within predefined
guidelines which in the long term benefit
all.
It's true there's a fair amount of diversity
within the platform as a whole, but as a general
rule there is a degree of uniformity which
goes a long way to combating the evolutionary
frenzy that dogs the PC.
The relaunch of the Al200 may not be a
technological breakthrough, but at least it
offers an alternative to confusion, unnecessary
expenditure, and the marketing hype that surrounds
the constantly changing landscape of
the PC market
Perhaps the most important question for
any woulttbe buyer is not which machine is
the most powerful, but which is the most
appropriate. The gloss and glamour of the
Pentium and Microsoft marketing machine
leads many to overlook the real issues.
It's all too easy to fall into the dinner party
bore mentality and justify your investment by
reassuring yourself and others that, if you
wanted too, you could run Photoshop,
Quadapress, Microsoft Word and so on. But in
the cold light of day, are you ever really likely
to? - especially considering that just one of
these blue chip applications could buy you an
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entire Amiga. Admittedly, PC games and
indeed some applications are pulling away
from their Amiga counterparts, but so are their
prices and the cost in hardware required to
run them.
No CHANGE
Don't get me wrong. A 100MHz Pentium with
16Mb of RAM, a quad-speed CD-ROM and 17
inch monitor is a very respectable machine.
But don't expect to get much change out of
E2000. And be warned - this son of spec is
rapidly becoming the entry point for a PC with
more than a six month shelf five.
Contrast that against the E350 asking price
for an Al 2D0 and you have a real incentive to
look long and hard at your reasoning. There
are almost as many reasons for investing in a
computer as there are computers on the market.
However, if you are in the market make
sure you're buying the machine and not just
the marketing that surrounds it_ By the way,
this shouldn't be a problem on the Amiga, as
there isn't any..
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Sunday.
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January. An exact price was not revealed i
although they stated that it would be
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include all the software needed to get on
the Internet bundled with an Al200. a This
would include a PC Slot Modem, TCP/IP
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positive developments for the future of the
Amiga.
for Amiga Technologies, was positive about
the company's forthcoming plans and was
keen to express his delight at the response
to the recent Paris Amiga show held this
December. He remarked: "In spite of the
fact France was in chaos [because of the
strikes] many people still came" It was estimated
that between 3,000 and 4,000 people
turned up to see, amongst other things,
the new Amiga 4000 Tower with the 060
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K months for a competition from Amiga
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Netscape Wd5 being ported over to the
Amiga was denied. Bourdin stated: "There
will be a lot of new software coming Out
for the Amiga soon from companies that
have never developed for the Amiga before
who previously work on PC and Mac products.
There will be some Web Browsers of
very high-quality but we are definitely not
dealing with Netscape."
However, another rumour doing the
rounds was validated at the recent press
conference in Hannover. It was believed
that Apple had offered Amiga Technologies
a port of QuickTime and at the conference
which was attended by Executives from
Apple. Germany, the deal was confirmed.
YETECHS1
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Yorkshire based lyetech have announced the
release of their Endicor Prefs 24 bit driver for
the Epson Stylus Color Printer. The Endicor
driver is supplied as both an Amiga prefer'
ences driver and a standalone printing program.
They offer full 24-bit printing with user
definable colour correction, printing mode
and resolution. From the standard Enpnnt
printing program you can also get image scaling,
positioning and rotation. The driver
retails at E34.95. From what we've seen the
quality is of a high standard - the pictures
were from HAM-8 images at an average
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SoundScope Multimedia, a PC-based educational
company, have confirmed reports that
they have bought out Rasputin Software. This
means that they hove a surplus of ex-Rasputin
stock which they can offer readers at the greatly
reduced price of 19.99. The games available
are Jet Strike and Clockwiser with Amiga.
AGA and CD32 versions and Bose Jumpers
(CO32 and Amiga). For further information
contact SoundScope Multimedia, Suite 4, The
Woodrow Centre, 65-66 Woodrow, London
SEIB 5DH. Telephone: 0181455 3702
BIRTHDAY
CELEBRATIONS
Amiga Atlanta, Inc. are one of the oldest Amiga
user groups on the United States and oil
Saturday 20 January they will be celebrating
theirlOth anniversary. But they are not celebrating
alone as it is also the lOth anniversary
of the Amiga computer, and Amiga Atlanta, Inc
are inviting Amiga users (tarn all over the
world to participate in their celebratory banquet
which is being held at the Terrace Garden
Inn in Atlanta.
Representatives from Amiga Technologies
are expeaed to fly in from Germany to give the
keynote address and other key Amiga figures
such as Fred Fish will be there. Whilst over in
Atlanta, they also suggest that visitors take in
the tour of Olympic Venues!
For more information see the AAi Home
Page: hltpl/www.mindspringcam/-amigaatl;
or Email tarnotamindspfingtam •
VIEWSONIC
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VoewSank. the second largest monitor manufacturer
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themselves in Europe with new head
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I t's been months in development but Ocean have now announced that TEX is going to
1 come out on the Amiga after all. Amiga Computing investigated claims that it wasn't
going to be released when a disgruntled reader called us, angry at having upgraded his Amiga
specifically for the forthcoming Bight sim to be then told that it wasn't coming out at all. We
reviewed the game back in May 1995 from the final AmigaD version and found it to be an
excellent game with the exception of a few bugs. We were also concerned that the game
would not run satisfactorily on a standard Al200 which we reported at the time.
According to a spokesman from Ocean, DID decided it wasn't good enough and despite
problems with the original programmer, pressed on to make a version they were happy with.
We can happily report now that the game will be released in April and we hope to bring you a
re-review as soon as possible.
DID are also continuing to support the platform with another title in the pipeline. Details are
sketchy at the moment but we'll bring you more as we get it
A GA EXPERIENCE
S adeness have announced a special
offer for all owners of their AGA
Experience Volume 1 CD-ROM. By returning
you registration cards you will be entitled
to a E5 discount of their next release,
The AGA Experience Volume 2. The CD
should be released around 13 March but
those wanting to take up this offer must
return their registration cards by
20February. Volume 1 is still available but
quantity is limited. It can be obtained
directly from Sadeness Software, 13
Russell Terrace, Mundesley, Norfolk,
NR11 BI.J. It is priced at E17.99 which
includes post and packaging. Contact
them on 01263 722169.
OFFER
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UMOUR OF NEW AMIGA OS
A The information we have received so far is that it is not WB V4,1 and is a new third-party
OS, m Apparently it's written in 'C and therefore PowerPC native. From the rumour we heard, it
will i 'change the way you will use your Amiga' because of a system that works with 'modules'
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LEGAL
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City law firm Denton Hall are helping to
prevent businesses suffer a pitfall from the
complicated laws surrounding the Internet_
They otter an on-line legal audit to ensure
that the many companies that are starting to
use the Internet can do so legally.
Denton Hall advise companies that it is
important to monitor the Internet to ensure
their corporate image is not at risk_ They can
offer advice on how to monitor the Internet to
watch for rights infringement and defamation.
They also recommend that firms giving their
• employees e-mail and on-line access need an
internal code to regulate its use.
AA ON THE
WEB
Motoring company the AA are now online
with a homepage with all sorts of information
for the motonst You can now access their
history, find out how to become a member,
and general motoring information such as
fuel prices. 'The AA's presence on the Internet
is expected to grow to become more interactive,
with the possibility of buying M products
and services directly through the Internet, and
special pages for M members only, but we
are keen to get feedback on what is wanted
from such a service" said Pete Johnson,
Managing Director of AA Commercial Services_
The AA is at http://wwtheaa.caukitheaa
HELP AT
HAND
Befrienders International, the Samaritan
movement worldwide, alarmed by the growing
number of suicide messages from
laternet users, are hoping to use the Net as
a helpline
Apparently, suicide is the third most common
cause of death in men aged 16-35 who
are in the highest risk group Research has
shown that most users of the Internet are
male and in the younger age group and
Belnenders International befieve they are
most at risk. The recent service by the
Sormititanc which offers an e-mail service to
communicate with Internet users who are in
crisis has shown a big demand for such a
protects.
A recent conference held in London by
the organisation encouraged similar
schemes in other countries and languages
and interest was expressed by USA, Hong
Kong, Japan and Australia, Vanda Scott,
Directar-Ceneral of Befrienders International
remarked.
- pro-suicide "It messages and ensure that
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GENTABHOBES HELPED BY VR
If the thought of the dentists drill instils deep fear in you
then worry no longer because Virtual Products have a new
approach that could take the dentist-day blues away.
Virtual Products, the company behind the virtual reality
headset i-glasses are now installing the headset into dentists
surgeries to take the patient's mind off the treatment they're
having.
The glasses allow the patient to
watch 3D films or listen
to music videos but
because of the
glasses' size and
weight, the dentist
can still access the
patient's mouth easily.
Through the headset
the patient can experience the effect of a two metre
screen with stereo sound. The glasses can display 2
or 3D video, PC games and television. They are
compatible with standard video output and can be
connected to an Amiga, Apple or IBM PC.
Denis Premiski, Virtual Product's General Manager
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D remier Developments, the designers of the range of Centre desktop computer workstations,
have a new solution to keep your computer area as orderly as possible. Called
the Premier 'MU1-T-MEDIA' it is of the same sort of design as the Uni-Centre but is now
bigger to accommodate more peripherals.
Increased shelf space on the top means that a good sized pair of speakers will also fit
comfortably by the side of the monitor. The workstation is suitable for all home computers
and in the case of an A600 or Al 200 the extra room will also allow for the PCMCIA ported
Squirrel or Overdrive to be attached.
It is available for E40,42 and can be found in most computer retail outlets. Contact
Premier Developments on 0I487 823684 for further details.
commented: The i-glasses are extremely adaptable and can
be applied to many different situations, with dentistry as just
another application.' He continued: in this case, it provides
considerable benefits to both dentist and patients, creating a
relaxed environment and satisfied customers.'
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X-SPEED CD-ROM AT E149
D hilips' latest product is a six-speed CD-ROM drive priced at only [149. Although designed
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EXTRACTING DISKS
efore you even think of putting the
over disks anywhere near your cornuter
you should make sure you write
rotect them. By moving the black tab
n the top comer of the disk, so you
an see through the hole, you prevent
ur disks being damaged in any way.
here should be no reason why the
cover disks need to be written to, so
even if the computer asks you to write
enable the disks, don't do it.
To extract the programs off the second
disk you must make sure you have
booted your computer with the first
cover disk, otherwise your Amiga will
not be able to find the c:Installer program,
and frustration will soon set in.
To extract any single archive, simply
double-click its icon and follow the onscreen
instructions. If you want to
quickly extract the program to RAM
select the NOVICE level on the wel
come screen and press proceed once
on the current screen, and then again
on the next. The program can then be
found in your RAM disk.
You also have the option of using a
floppy disk. If you pick this option,
make sure you have a blank formatted
disk at the ready, and if you only have
one drive get ready for lots of disk
swapping and a long wait.
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SCREEN MENU
Author: Stuart MacKinnon
Workbench: 3.0
Screen Menu is a tiny little program that adds a well needed function
to your Amiga's screen bar in the form of a new selectable menu from
the screen cycle gadget, in the top right of the screen. This menu lists
all the currently opened screens and by selecting one you can jump
straight to it. This saves you having to individually flick through each
one - if you have a lot of screens open you can end up flicking past the
one you want and have to cycle through them all over again.
ScreenMenu can be started from either Workbench or the shell
There are a couple of
tooltypes in the information
requester that change
how ScreenMenu works.
Qualifiers can be set to on
or off, and if it is on you
have to press the shift key
before the menu will
appear. There is also a Delay
option so that if you do not
use a qualifier, you can set a
short delay before the menu
appears so that the screen
cycle gadget can be used as
normal.
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Workbench Screen
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FEBRUARY 1996
IMAGE VISION
Requires 3Mb RAM
SPECIFICATIONS
To easily run ImageVision from Workbench you need 3Mb of RAM. Unfortunately, there is not
easy way around this, its just that to get the sort of features that (magaision provides you
need a lot of RAM. Having said that, it is just possible to get ImageVision up and running on a
2Mb machine.
This will still allow you try out the program, but you will not have very much memory
over. 2Mb owners will have to do the following: after you have installed ImageVision into, say,
your Work: partition, reset your machine and hold down both the mouse buttons. This brings
up the Amiga's early startup menu, and here you just click on the boot with no startup button.
This starts your Amiga with the absolute minimum amount of stuff in memory. To run
Image Vision you need to type the following.
asstgn env: enuarc:
assign tibs: sys:classes idd
WurbileageWition (cr whichever directory your instatted
assign le_Teep: Teen
IsegrYision
This will now start ImageVision but you will only have around 350k to play around with. To
get some more memory there are a couple of other things you can do. From within
Imageltision itself you should select a non-interlaced screen mode. You can also remove a couple
of files from the Imagellision directory. If you select show all files from the Workbench
menu and go into the system drawer, delete the pattern drawer and then go into the modules
drawer and delete the two Mpeg module files. This save further memory when you run
ImageVision. You may even want to remove the Anim modules.
it is amazing. We are meant to have this great
multimedia computer with all its specialised
custom chips to provide sprite and bliner
support and what do you get to look at
when you are waiting for something to
finish? If you are lucky you can gorp at
boring old stationary clock symbols - woopydoo-dar.
Well SleepyPointers is to the rescue. This
very well written shareware program will
SLEEPYPOINTERS
Author: Antonio Santos
Workbench: 3.0
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banish those old boring wait pointers to..
well, somewhere else, and instead you can
have the choice of either a lovely spinning
hour glass or the classic spinning watch.
pointers.
To get SteepyPointers up and running j
double-dick on whichever style pointer y
like, and if you want to run it every time y
start your computer, just drop the icon in
your WBStartup drawer.
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You have read the review, now you can try
Out Imagellision for yourselves in this
saved disabled demo - all the functions
and options of the full program are
available for you to try out here.
As in the lull program, you get a tutorial
script that is automatically loaded. If you
run this you will get a feel for what
Imagektision is capable of. If you have trouble
understanding any of the functions you
can hit the help button and the contextsensitive
AmigaGuide help will pop up,
allowing you to read all about the current
functions.
ImageVision has three main windows.
The largest is the main script window
where you construct presentations. Icons
can be dragged into this from the icon win-
1dow allowing you to add another section
to the current script.
To link icons together after you have
brought a new one onto the script window
you must click on the top of the white tail
that comes Out of the top of each icon and
drag it over to the icon you want it
connected to. Menu icons are the only
ones that can have more than one icon
connected to it. To adjust the settings of
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IMAGEVISION
Author: ImageLab Technology
Workbench: 3.0, Hard Drive, 3Mb RAM
any of the icons you should double-click
on that icon. This will bring up a new
requester in which you can modify any of
the settings. As ImageVision internally
multitasks you are able to have as many of
these windows open as you like, and you
can even work on more than one script at
a time.
Once you have set up a script to test it,
just hit the run icon in the tools window
on the right of the screen. Most of the
normal editing tools are available here. If
you want to cut any icon connection you
select the icon and then hit the cut
connection icon.
INSTALLING
IMAGE VISION
Author: ImageLab Technology
Workbench: 3.0, Hard Drive, 3Mb RAM
For you people lucky enough to have an
AGA machine with a hard drive you will be
able to try out this great program for yourselves-
Installing ImageVision is very
straightforward if you follow these simple
instructions.
The simplest and quickest way to do this
is to boot your machine with your hard
drive, and once Workbench has loaded
insert the first coverdisk. For this extraction
VICONS
Return - returns trom a subroutine
Anim - sets up an animation section
Mpeg - sets up a Mpeg video
SlideShow - do a slide show
Sound - lay a sample
Menu - adds a menu section
Jump - jump to a subroutine
Subroutine - start a subroutine
AMIGA COMPUTING
FEBRUARY 1996
FAULTY DISKS
If you should find your Amiga
Computing CoverDisk damaged
or faulty, please return it to:
TIB Plc„178 House,11 Edward
Street, Bradford, W. Yorks 8D4
7BH.
Please allow 28 days for delivery
process to work properly a couple of files
are needed on your hard drive, namely the
Amiga Installer program and Lha. If you
open up the coverdisk window and double-click
on the SetUp-HD icon this will
check if you have these to program, and if
not they will be copied over on to your
system.
Once this has been done you can just
double-click on the ImageVision icon, and
either extract the program to RAM or your
hard drive. After this the program needs to
be actually installed Onto your system. so
double-click on the install icon and follow
the on-screen instructions.
This is an early version of ImageVision
and it can have problems with certain overscan
settings, so if you find some menu
buttons do not respond, try setting your
PAL overscan settings to 720x275, or for
DbIPal to 7201(550, and this should clear
up any problems.
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The easiest way to get the Hil'sea Lido demo up and
running is to reset your computer and then insert the
second coverdisk into the internal drive. Follow the onscreen
commands and when you are asked to insert a
blank disk, remove the coverdisk and place a blank disk
INSTALLING HILLSEA LIDO DEMO
into the internal drive and hit return. Once this has finished,
if you reset your machine you will be able to play
Hil!sea Lido from this disk.
Hard drive users will be pleased to know that the
demo is hard drive installable, as is the full game_ To
HILLSEA LIDO DEMO - THE SEASIDE
MANAGEMENT SIMULATOR.
Your business proposals have been
approved by the local authorities and they
have wished you every success with your
seaside development project. You have been
granted 20 metres of beach and corresponding
promenade, plus full ownership of the
Pier Theatre. You will have the opportunity
to expand your resort up to a maximum size
• o f 200 metres in the future. How you
choose to manage your resort is entirely
your concern, but the authorities maintain
the right to reward or penalise you in areas
that remain under their jurisdiction.
Hillsea Lido is a seaside management
simulator. In effect this means you are given
access to all the elements needed to turn an
empty stretch of beach into a thriving resort.
It sounds easy enough but the reality is far
more complicated. You will need to show
real flair as an entrepreneur in order to use
the different elements of the game to your
advantage.
Hil'sea Lido is a mouse-driven game, and
most of the icons in the game have two or
three functions. For example, when increasing
the selling price of, say, the candy floss,
you can use the left mouse button to
increase the total by one, the right mouse
button to add ten, or both mouse buttons to
add a hundred. Also, the scrolling action
area can be speeded up using combinations
of mouse buttons, If you are in any doubt,
just experiment and you will soon find various
short cuts that allow you to control the
game in the way you want. The first thing
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you see when starting Hillsea Lido is 20
metres of empty Promenade. Behind the
Promenade is your beach which can be
accessed by clicking the LMB on the beach
icon at the bottom of the screen. These two
are known as the Action Areas and are
where the results of all your decisions take
place. When your resort eventually expands
you will then be able to scroll left and right
along its entirety by using the arrow icons
at the bottom of the screen. The main icons
are situated beneath the Action Areas and
allow you to access the different elements
of Hillsea Lido.
CATALOG U E
SeaDreams wares are displayed in a catalogue
which is relevant to whether you are
viewing the beach or promenade when you
choose this icon. You can scroll through
this catalogue of shops and facilities by
clicking on the salesman's hand or the bottom
of the catalogue. Each page shows you
a picture and a description of the shop and
copy the game on to your hard drive, go into
Workbench and drag the Hillsea Lido game disk icon
into the directory window where you wish the game's
drawer to be created. lint open this drawer and double-click
on the Hillsea Lido icon.
facility. If you wish to buy one simply click
on the pile of cash and your mouse pointer
will be exchanged for a rectangle to represent
the size of the shop or facility. You
must then paste this rectangular scaled
down representation at the bottom of the
screen. If you change your mind you can
click on the RMB to escape before pasting.
To purchase more land simply click on
the sand mound and for more information
about SeaDreams Ltd click on their logo.
Once built you can click on the shop or
beach hire facility in the Action Area, and
use the LMB to access their individual
information screens In here you can set
the price of your stock or your rides by
clicking on the arrows, and you can
change the commission paid to the
employee in the same way.
The bleach bar is an indication of how
clean your shop is, or the spanner, in the
case of your beach hire facilities, indicates
how safe they are. You can clean your
shops by clicking on the spanner icon
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which is situated on the right of the screen.
The demolish icon speak for itself.
All the different types of stock you will
ever require for your promenade shops are
displayed here, You can set the amount of
stock you wish to order using the arrow
buttons, and when you are satisfied with
your order click on the sales woman who
will inform you if the stock is available. If it
is, the delivery truck will start off on its
journey.
ENTERTAINMENT
You can book an act for your theatre any
day of the week in readiness for the Sunday
show night Scroll through the acts by clicking
on the arrows on the left of the screen,
and when you have chosen one simply dick
on the cash and the act will be booked, the
ticket price on the right of the screen
changes depending on which act you
choose. On Sunday night you will be automatically
transported to the theatre so you
can see all the people piling into it, along
After the Hil!sea Lido demo has been copied onto a
blank disk you will be able to do the same process for
our demo version of the shareware game Tritus. Just
wait until you are prompted to insert a blank disk and
then hit return.
TRITUS DEMO
Author: Davin Pearson
Workbench2.04
So you think you are a hard Tetris player do
you? Well, as the old saying goes, you ain't
seen nothing yet. Tritus is a bit of a turbo
nutter, fuel-injected Tetris, a power-upped,
monster-infested, multi-player, evil addictive
game. Once you start you cannot stop.
Tritus is a simultaneous three-player
Tetris-style game, but with a twist or two
and the odd surprise up its sleeve. When
you first start the game and get past the
initial intro you will see three game areas
with a press fire message.
Tritus can have up to three players on at
once, but do not worry if you have no
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with all the lovely dosh you will be making.
You can hire various individuals to work
on a casual basis. The left-hand side of the
screen applies to the promenade and the
right to the beach. Find out more information
about each character with the LMB,
and the hire button will do just that - hire
people.
The tourist screen allows you to find out
all sort of information about the people that
come to visit your beach. Each tourist gives
seven ratings on your beach. When they
visit a shop three bars appear rating the
politeness of the staff, pricing, and how
clean the shops and beach are. The other
four at the bottom of the screen relate to
how much they want of the following:
sugar, hunger, thirst and souvenirs. They will
also tell you what they would like you to
build next, and the customer is always right
- so you'd better listen.
If you think you can save money by being
a skin flint and not paying cleaning and
repair bills, think again. Regular health and
INSTALLING TRITUS DEMO
Once this has finished, if you reset your machine you
will be able to play Tritus from this disk. Hard drive
users will again be pleased to know that Tritus is hard
drive installable. To copy the game on to your hard
drive, from Workbench, open up the Tritus disk window
friends, or that no-one is around to play as
the computer will take control of the remaining
players. If you do play against the
computer you can cheat and get a few seconds
head start by quickly hitting your fire C Threeployer action
button - that is if you are the sort of person NOM Tritus
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safety checks will fine lax beach owners over
dirty or dangerous shops and rides. Once a
ride has been fined, the warning never goes
unless you demolish it. If you let things
really slip you could even injure or poison
someone, and then you will be fined even
more.
and then drag the Tritus drawer to whichever destination
drawer you want it to go in. You will then be able
to open up the Tritus drawer and double-click on the
cute icon. It will even quit back to the Workbench.
who does cheat Once you are off the mark
the idea of the game is the same as Tetris,
that by filling up a full horizontal line you will
remove it, but in this game doing that adds a
line to your competitors' areas. If you manage
to do five lines in one go, the most possible,
you are congratulated with a screen shuddering
thud and a flash guitar rift
It does not stop there. Every now and again
a little blue greet* will drop down everyones
screen and start to eat away at your block,
destroying all the hard work you have done.
To stop it just drop a block on its sorry head,
and watch it go squish with all its bodily fluids
dribbling down the screen - mmmmm.
Finally, there are other power-ups available
such as giving your enemies horribly shaped
blocks for a short time, or making all their
blocks invisible.
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veryone knows the shortest route
_T
A line - the Romans knew it, look at
b all their old roads, dead straight If
you wanted e to go anywhere back then you just
got into
t
your two horse powered chariot and
let her rip down Caesar's Way, doing a cool
w
twenty mph. Nowadays, thanks to the
brilliantly
e
planned road building policy things
are not e quite so easy. In fact I hear a couple of
universities n are thinking about starting up PhDs
in trip t planning.
For wanyone
who does not have such a
degree, o AmiAtlas is just what you need. The
only pother
Amiga route planning program I can
think
o
of is GBroute - that was a bit of a half
hearted i port of the PC program. It is also pretty
old now
n
and there really is no comparison,
whatsoever, to AmiAtlas.
AnnAtlas t comes on two disks that contain
the main
s
program and the normal map of
Germany. i As standard you only get the
German s map but a wide selection of
European a countries are available, indud
ing one s for the UK and Ireland. This
may tnot
seem too helpful but if you
ever rventure
out to Germany for a
holiday, a or for whatever reason,
this would i then be very handy.
As
g
this is a German product
the first thing you have to do is
h
change the language to English
from t the 'Verschiedenes' or
Miscellaneous menu. Once
done, all the menus and windows
will appear in English. The
program uses the normal locale
catalogues that were introduced
with Workbench 2.1 but it does not
automatically detect which language
you are using which is a little strange,
but once done you do not have to do it
again.
FUNCTION ICON
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As standard the tool dock that is built in
AmiAllas is turned off so you will probably
want to turn this on as well. This gives you a
lovely scrollable selection of icons at the top of
the map window. From here most of
ArmAtlas's functions are available.
When you first run AmiAtlas it loads up the
last map you were using and it is possible to
set a start location. Therefore, every time it is
run, AmiAtlas will always be centred on your
chosen place. In this case you will be presen•
ted with a map of Germany.
When it conies to how you have the maps
loaded, AmiAtias is very flexible. As long as you
have enough memory you can load as many
maps in as you want. It is also very simple to
add another map to an existing one, and you
LAKING IT WORK
Installation of AmiAtlas is through the standard Amiga Installer so no
problem there. The program and German maps are extracted from the
first two disks into their own drawer and an assign has to be made in
your user-startup. If you then wont to install any other maps these come
separately on another disk, are again installed using the Amiga installer,
which is copied straight into the AmiAtlas directory into a new drawer,
each country having a separate drawer
You ca n a dd e xtra ma ps a s you go a long, so pote ntia lly
you could ha ve the whole of Europe on scre e n
AMIGA COMPUTING
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can merge maps to create a single new map
file, so removing the hassle of having to load
multiple maps in the first place.
Guiding your way around the map is a very
simple business - you can use the cursor keys
to scroll around or for larger jumps the proportional
sliders are available. An elastic band
zoom enables you to get a doser look at which
ever roads or towns take your fancy. Even on a
plain Al200 the map redraws are very quick -
you will have to start twiddling you thumbs if
you load both the UK and German maps and
zoom right out, but then you are being a bit
silly so it serves you right
lithe screen refresh is not quick enough,
due to there being too many roads Of towns
being drawn, there is a comprehensive set of
drawing tools to allow you to precisely choose
Amia tiss'a custom pop up ga dge t ma ke s
se locting re ce ntly use d towns nice a nd e a sy
mst yoar
!EV Li)rnpsa
Ai Mohr longs for the wide aril
rolling open road and finds it with
the route planner, AmiAtlas
what should or should not be shown on the
map. From the point of view of drawing the
land, things like islands and rivers can be
removed, along with the ability to tell AmiAtias
not to bother colouring in the land and sea -
this would also be helpful if you are running in
less than 6 colours.
ROAD MAPPING
AmiAtlas has a fairly straightforward way of
organising the roads and towns, going from
minor back roads up to motorways, and from
capitals to drive through to towns. Using the
Map Detail requester you can specify exactly
which roads and towns should be displayed. It
is also possible to show motorway cross avers
and exits. Other details that can be viewed are
parks, hotels and rivers. Unfortunately, the

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English map that comes with AmiAtlas only
contains the road and towns data. Compared
to the accompanying German map this is fairly
sparse, as the German map has full details on
hotels you can stay at Just ask to view the
hotels and a bunch of little bed symbols will
appear on the German map. Click on one of
them and you get a full run down on that
hotel, including the full address, phone and fax
numbers, how much rooms are, what you get
in the rooms, what other types of functions
they do, and what credit cards they take -
pretty extensive I would say. The same goes
for amusement parks, with AmiAtlas giving
you information about how much it is to get in
and what rides and attractions each park has.
If you wanted, it is possible to enter new
towns and roads, so it new road routes do
appear you can update the AmiAtlas map. This
process is fairly painless. To add a new town
you just have to dick on the map where the
new town should be placed. You then, using
the pop up gadget, select which country and
county the town should be placed in, along
with which roads should run into it The same
process is used to add new roads - you can
just pick the start and destination towns, along
with what the road should be called and
how long it is. The new road is then
added to the map database,
and will be used in any
future route calculations.
The main use of
AmiAtlas is to help you
work out the best route
to take for a certain
Loading multiple ma ps
I. no proble m for ArniAlla s
'7he main use of AmiAtias is
to help you work out the be
route to take for a certain •
journey. AmiAtlas can work
out the fastest, shortest or
most pleasant way for you
to go"
At
Germany plus
France
Austria
Denmark
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picked this option, or you can just enter the
town names straight into the string gadgets.
A good feature here is that you can enter
the start of the town name. Press return and a
Jargon
b o
list of close matching town names pops up,
allowing you to quickly select one of them.
AmiAtlas also stores previously used names in
xan extension available
since Workbench 2.1
that allows any program supposting
Locale to work
the pop up gadgets, again allowing you to potentiolly any language
quickly select a regularly used town. You can
also add stop off points to your route, in the
same manner, allowing you to go via other
towns_
part of the
locale language system. For a
progrom to work in French it
needs all the English text thor
is used m it to be translated
Trip calculation is very quick - even
and stored a French lan-
fairly complicated ones are
completed in seconds_ You
guage catalogue
someone finally
realised that it might be a
then get a breakdown of good idea ro make installing
the route with all the pmgrams onto hard drive a
various road changes,
how long it takes, how
little easier los the uses, so
the Mstalles program was
written
much petrol you use, • a term taken from the
and you can view it on operarong system /Vest:Step
j
used on a computer called
oAmiAtlas
can work out I t u - J
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u
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r„the
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tested it with long icons that gives you a short
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pleasant way for
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. you to go. It can also calcu-
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n late how far and how long it d
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how much petrol you would t h e chosen route was pretty
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and therefore how much the trip ..
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1
the fastest route. Coini
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that u you c give
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AmiAtlas.
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Therefore,
a
depending
t
on what car The ▪ only real discrepancy was the amount
•you
have you can change the Kmiltr value. of time , the trip would take. The time calcula-
• t h e y
•You
also need to set up the correct speed limted by tAmiAtlas
would normally only be
•
•cits
for motorways o n and s dual i carriageways d - or around h2/3
of what the trip would actually
•
• eeuro roads r as eAmiAtlas d refers to them. This is take. For
l
e instance, it reckoned it should take
etmade
a little trickier o as the speeds are all in me 20
•
mminutes
to get to work. Even with good
% bkilometres.
traffic this
•
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figure should be more like 35min-
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When it comes to setting a route, there are utes, but otherwise the planned route was
•
p
• two ways to enter it. Either dick on the start perfect
A
O and finish location, which means that both the As it . is possible to load more than one map
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and finish towns have to be in sight as into AmiAllas, W you can have both the German
t
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cannot scroll around once you have h
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Currently, e eleven other maps other than the standard German map
are available, these are:
Italy
Belgium
United Kingdom
and Ireland
Poland
Hungary
Czechoslovakia
A Spanish map is being worked on and a single European wide map
is also being considered. All these extra maps are 300M, apart from
the extended German map which is 45DM,
AMIGA COMPUTING
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and UK maps visible along with any others you
may add. Unfortunately, you cannot plan routes
from the UK to Germany as there is no French
map to fill the gaps in between, and the
absence of any fern/ routes or a channel tunnel
route would also make it a little difficult It
would be interesting to see if this would be
possible if you did have the French map, and
such things like ferry routes were taken into
account
The main problems with AmiAtlas all come
about because it is a German product if you
were German you would not have any complaints
with the program. but English people
are generally different and can be a little picky
about things. It is a little annoying that you have
to tell it that you are working in English, and
that you also need to state that you want
money to be worked out in pounds. Fair
enough - there are at, least, options to allow
you to change the currency and language, but it
would be nice if it could do this automatically.
ARD TO
FAULT
Any criticisms I have managed to dig up
here are really very minor - things like the
kilometre measurement are a little annoying,
but they do not change the fact that
the program is very useful. If you ignore
these slight niggles, AmiAtlas is nearly
flawless. If the programmer could remove
the leftover foreign words and allow miles
instead of Kilometres I would not be able
to fault it in any way. Currently, the only
other major problem is that the on-line
help has not been translated, but AmiAtias
is so easy to use you do not need it
REQUIREMENTS
RED , %seirtiai I I I ACK .'i,rj
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Implementation
Value For Money
Overall
Bottom
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disk spoor- ,
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6 Mb
Product A m i A t l a s
Developer Andreas, RegulSteinweg,
661462, KOnigstein, Germany
Registration 50DM AmiAtlas Pro
30DM Uk/Other map
20DM Postage
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a stick or rock and thumped it on
something else in order to create
0 • something, ver since mankind we have first been picked fasci- up
nated by building things with our bare hands.
Our tools were at first primitive; flint replaced
wood, bronze replaced flint, iron replaced
bronze, but we used them to help us develop
other useful things such as transport and
shelter.
In recent years our cars, aeroplanes and
buildings have become so complex that we
use computers to help us make them instead
of set squares, axes and magnifying glasses,
and building things has become a more
abstract process. There are people alive today
who could build a complex motorcar or an
office block that have never done so in the
real world. .
COMPUTER WORLD
Their achievements are all based in the virtual
world of the computer. Even films are
being made on computers with silicon actors
replacing the real thing. Films like Disney's
• Toy Story or ITV's ReBoot are paving the way
forward using the latest technology to build
their worlds.
So welcome to the wonderful world of 3D
according to Cinema4D. Ifs a new package
of German origin on offer from HiSoft
Systems and is a low-cost competitor to the
likes of Imagine. Real 303 and LightWave.
But before we start comparing features, let's
have a look at the product. Cinema4D comes
on six disks which have to be installed on a
minimum of a Workbench 2,04 machine with
9Mb hard disk space, but Cinema4D definitely
prefers Workbench 3 and takes advantage
of the AGA chipset to the full.
If, like me, you have an older EC5
machine, but you have a graphics card, then
Cinema4D will happily work on a high resolution
display, but it seems that the current
version isn't overly keen on chunky pixel
screenmodes, so it might be best to run on a
planar screen if your RIG software supports
it.
Usually, the conversion is only run on
CODEL DEPT-
Cinemo4D has a really good attitude towards the display
of your models. If you are running on a slow
machine (aren't we all, even if we have an '060?),
you can change the way your objects get shown to
speed up the display. You can separately alter the
n Fully visible for both a ctive
and ina ctive obje cts...
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way active and inactive objects ore shown in case
you want full detail while you are editing an object
(handy, that), but aren't too bothered by the way it
looks while you are editing other objects. Cinema4D
gives you a range of settings from fully visible to fully
r
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screen with more than a certain number of
bitplanes, so you might be able to get around
it that way - the only thing you'll lose is the
ability to render in a window on the
Cinema4D screen as the interface itself only
relies on a lout colour palette. Other than
that, unlike current versions of LightWave and
Imagine, there are no limitations for graphics
card owners and considerable advantages,
the most obvious of which is the increased
fineness of the vectors used to represent
objects on the screen which is a definite help
when your scene is getting cluttered.
So let's have a look at the software. First
impressions are very good. Here's a piece of
software with a stylish grey interlace, sharp
looking icons in toolbox windows, and a
main window which can show several
invisible, and will even start to perform automatically
when your object database gets too large so that you
don't end up just getting an out of memory warning
(your machine crashes).
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itsa ctive obje ct M a y* you spotte d it?)

n C ine ma s sce ne conta ins the
teady made ma nne quin mode l
different views, all at once or one at a time. If
you want to you can run more than one
main window to give you a number of differeht
views of your scene. To save space, your
toolbox icons are actually pop-up menus
which save further space by doubling up
their functions. This is also a time-saving
feature and one that comes in very handy.
Pop
The - way it works is that if you select one of
up these pop-up options it works using the
defaults set into the program, but if you are
holding down the shift key or using the right
mouse button to pop up the menu, releasing
the mouse button over a pop-up menu item
will open a dialogue window to let you alter
the settings the item will use. For instance, if
you choose the cube item from the 'Create
primitive' pop-up menu, CinematID will
chuck out a cube 200mm across by default
However, if you hold down the shift key
while selecting the cube, you will be presented
with a numeric requester in which to put
the dimensions of your object.
The same principle applies to menu items
as well as the pop-ups, although you are
obviously restricted to using the shift key to
get to the settings requesters as you are
already using the right mouse button to
open the menus in the first place. However,
what is odd is the fact that with all this space
saving, CinemailD still offers you both a disc
primitive and a cylinder object, even though
you could always just extrude the disc.
The same applies for the cube and rectangle
items and it does seem odd that you can
only enter one dimension for a cube (side
length). Okay, so a cube is supposed to have
equal length sides all round, but it would be
more ergonomic to allow the user to enter
all the dimensions of the cube to create
boxes of differing sizes more quickly than
having to scale the cube in different directions
to create the same effect
This is the main problem with Cinema4D
and it also plagues Imagine (to a greater
extent I would say). The way the interface
worts isn't as fluid as it could be, forcing the
user to use an awkward combination of the
mouse and keyboard to achieve what she
nt-eds to. Working with a mouse is great if
"Welcome to the
wonderful world of
Cinema4D - a low-cost
competitor to the likes
of Imagine, Real3D and
LightWave"
0 Since Light wa ve doe sn't come with a
bloke, it's just the ta ble a nd 'tool
you are just starting out with a package -
some people rely solely on their mouse
skills, never touching a keyboard shortcut -
but most people want their work to progress
as speedily as possible, so therefore want to
be able to circumvent the sometimes
lengthy process of moving the mouse to and
Ito to go from the object to the toolbar and
back to the object and so on. Cinema4D has
a number of shortcuts, especially for the
menu items, but needs a method by which
you can select the move, scale and rotate
OFX DEPARTMENT
Just like Imagine, OnemailD can add effects to an actor in its
animation timeline window. This window is very reminiscent
of Imagine's Stage editor but unlike Imagine, its use doesn't
preclude you from doing anything else, Along with the usual
and pretty pedestrian explode effect there are more impressive
ones such as the pulse effect where you can alter the
shape of a range of objects according to a mathematical
formula, such as a sine wave
Objects pulsed in this fashion react in different ways
according to whether you have chosen to include sub-objects
in the wave or not and some pretty interesting results con
develop, especially since you can define a pulse for not only
the size of the object but also its position and direction.
Just like almost every other 3D package I have worked
with, Cinerna4D allows you to morph one object into another,
but again, just like every other 3D package I have used, you
have to make sure that both objects have exactly the same
number of points and edges.
Cinema4D also has two other effects that I have never
seen in a low-end package anywhere, and they ore Vibration
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Cinema4D has so many ancillary features
that it becomes hard to find the
space to mention them all, but ones to
be noted include the separate ray tracer
which can be run on its own, taking
advantage of all available memory (the
other advantage is that versions of the
ray tracer could be written to take
advantage of a co-processor board like
MacroSystem's DEC Alpha board or
Phase5's Powertip without the need to
convert the entire package). Cinema4D
also has an object converter that will
read a wide variety of objects and convert
for use in Cinema411
functions more easily than by using the
mouse.
But I don't want to give you the idea that
Cinema4D isn't any good. It has some
absolutely superb methods of working
including an object hierarchy similar to that
used by Real3D. In fact, if you have used
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and Melt. Melt does exactly what you might think and is
actually a bit limited in its uses. You can almost do exactly
what Melt does by stretching your object vertically down to
nothing over the course of your animation, while stretching
it out horizontally to make it look like o puddle is being
created.
Having said that it is nice that CinemailD provides an
option to do this automatically, saving you the trouble. Of
course, it doesn't do any of the funky things that Dynamation
can do like melting your object so that it pours down a tunnel
or splits in two when melted over a knife, but then the only
machines you can perform these feats on is on SO, and if
you've got the money to buy one of those, and Dynamation,
then you won't be interested in Cinema4D anyway.
The lost effect and one I can think of plenty of uses for, is
called Vibrate. This randomly jitters the selected object in
terms of its size, position or rotation over a length of time. The
effect is completely random and the only parameters you
have to enter are for maximum extents of the jitter in either
direction.
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; Pre pa ring to re nde r a sce ne in Cine rna e Ll. M ote
the a bility to loggia individua l re nde ring options
Real3D (particularly v1.4) and Imagine, you
• swiftly feel at home using Cinema4D. But
Cinema4D has features such as the automatic
determination of units and the ability to
use maths in numeric requesters (if you can't
be bothered to work out the individual
lengths of the walls in a non-rectangular
room this comes in very handy), the background
grid gets scaled with the display and
disappears if it gets too small, unlike
Imagine's, and the ability (if you run your
Cinema4D screen in enough colours) to be
able to render in a window on the
Cinema4D screen is also a nice touch.
On the minus side, Cinema4D won't work
with Postscript fonts (just like old versions of
Real3D, fonts have to be built by hand and are
all separate objects. You are supplied with two
- Helvetica and Diamond - which both look
pretty similar) and has no algorithmic textures
at all, so anything other than solid colours has
to be scanned, grabbed or hand-painted.
Then again, Cinema4D's method of ensuring
that the texture you have applied works prop-
CENERY
DEPT.
As a test I tried to build a pretty simple scene
in Cinema-ID and compared the time it took
to the same scene built in LightWave I constructed
a simple table and a milking stoat
using primitives and boolean operations.
surfaced the objects and rendered the scene
at a low resolution_ From start to finish it took
me over an hour in Gnema4D, but it has to
be said that I am not as familiar with the
package as I am with Light Wove.
The some scene in Light Wave took me
about half an hour to complete (without the
human model), but the important thing was
that even if it had taken me the same time, it
would have been easier because of the way
LightWave is put together. Having said that
also tried the same scene in Imagine 3 and it
took me the same amount of time as
Cinema4D, but it felt harder to create the
scene and am familiar with Imagine.
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FEBRUARY 1996
HERE ARE MY ACTORS
Cinema40 has or) inverse kinematics system built in and very handily comes with a
mannequin object ready to roll at the click of a button. The 1K system that comes with
Cinema4D doesn't have any form of constraints that would be required to stop your elbow
bending backwards, but that notwithstanding is actually damn easy to use and, apart from
the odd hand pointing the wrong way, is pretty accurate. Although this doesn't make
character animation into something as simple as a simple thing, it certainly beats
manually positioning limbs hands down and is so much faster that you'll probably end up
using it all the bloody time.
erly is superb and gives absolute control over
texturing. The way it works is that you edit a
grid which overlays your object which is subject
to all the same tools as the objects themselves,
such as rotate, move and scale
The type of grid that appears depends on
the type of texture wrap you have chosen -
choose a planar map and you just get a flat
squarish grid, but choose cylindrical or spherical
mapping and you end up with a full or par-
the b! isn't tha t assay to se e whoa
extruded, but it re nde rs nice ly
The origina l bilm•so use d for e xtrusion
Here's a pre pa ra tory la yout for my re nde ring of R icha rd Burton
discovering the M ounta ins of the M oon
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tial cylinder or sphere surrounding your object
Back on the positive side, Cinema4D has a
help bar which constantly comments on whatever
item your pointer lingers over, and
Cinema4D's requesters all check your input
and won't let you leave until you enter a figure
which meets the minimum or maximum criteria.
Cinema4D's numeric requesters also
remember what figures you last entered, sav.
ing a lot of time when building a large number
of similar objects.
It also has some funky features like being i
able to set the light for your scene based on
longitude and latitude settings, and a calendar
to accurately recreate daylight, and a mathematical
perturber for objects that allows you to
change a ball into some sort of weird sea
anemone in one easy step. L f f
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Cinema40 is a good package that needs
some tweaking to make it a great package
and is certainly a competitor for Imagine.
With version 3 already looming on the horizon
Onema4D looks set for a bright future.
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While the return of the Amiga to
•
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any company in the market, the absence of
•
any of Softwood's software from Amiga
Technologies' , Magic Pack must have been a
worrying 1 issue for the makers of such well
known 9 programs as Final Writer.
Worse 9 still, arch-rivals Digita International
had 5 a virtual monopoly on the contents of
the pack w as far as the serious applications
were aconcerned.
While the bundle represented
a s reasonably good deal for the consumer,
it must have made rivals wonder if continued
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After all, how many new Amiga own-
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Writer
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if they already have a wordprocessor
supplied h for free 1
Nevertheless, e Final Calc has now been
released k after four years of development, and
the iinitial
comparison with the Magic Pack's
Turbo n Calc looks favourable. The question is,
however, d does it offer enough that's new to
win ea
large user base of its own?
INTERFACE
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To begin with that all important interface,
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Final Calc doesn't look quite so polished as
PC f industry standards like Excel and Lotus
1-2-3, y but essentially the introduction of too
,bars eand
drag and drop data manipulation
follows a their example in creating a userfriendly
r environment, As you'd expect from
any sprofessional
Amiga program, you can
control many functions in a variety of ways,
from using drop down menus to keyboard
short cuts.
Important for the beginner is Final CaIc's
on-line help facility. Whenever you select a
command from a menu it will usually give
you an explanatory option from an
AmigaGuide_ What's more, the instructions to
be found are more helpful than the token aid
you get from too many Amiga on-line help
guides. Remember also that Softwood have a
help forum in which you can get technical
advice on Compuserve_ Equally valuable for a
INA!.
DEMAND
It has to be said thot the price probably
,precludes most casual Amigo users looking
for something cheap to keep track of
their personal finances. It's also a fact that
this is Softwood's most demanding product
as far as your Amigo's specification is
concerned as well.
Though Final Data will work with 2Mb
of RAM, they freely admit that to get a
respectable level of functionality out of it
you realty need at least 3Mb. Not surprisingly,
you'll also need a hard drive with
5Mb of free space since you can't run it
off floppy. AmigaGuide and Affexx
libraries are also highly recommended,
Though the requirements are fairly
high, however, it's probably worth it for
someone who really needs a more professional
spreadsheet to work on at home.
AMIGA COMPUTING
FEBRUARY 1996
technically daunting program like a
Spreadsheet, Final Cak's good quality documentation
makes it worth a few extra bob in
itself. A Ring-binder containing extensive
chapters on every detail of the program you
could possibly want to know about realty sets
an example for Amiga products we can only
hope is followed elsewhere. The only flaw in
my view is the absense of a step-by-step
tutorial, something that makes getting into
the program that bit more difficult_
Fortunately, behind the glossy exterior you
will find a number crunching program of
immense power and flexibility. There's a
comprehensive array of editing functions
you'd expect - for example the ability to edit
formulas and paste filenames, date strings,
Graphs ca n be ge ne ra te d in 3 0 with
countle ss colour options, a nd the y should
print without ja gge d e dge s
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time formats, and cell ranges. There's a
an amazing 178 maths functions wit
comparison and logical operators.
Final Calc uses a 'Recalc System' to cal
late the value of formulas in each project.
Basically, the Recalc scans through the project
looking for formulas that need solving
evaluating the value of the formula in each
cell, and then storing the result back into
each cell. In Final Calc this all occurs auto-
RABS TH
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Final Cale probably has the edge over a
rival in terms of manipulative power, but
its primary selling point is more likely
to be its superiority in terms of data
presentation.
There is on extensive variety of gra L
to chose from, allowing data to be p
sented in numerous different ways - kg
example, there's stacked bar graphs, pie
charts and X-Y-Z scatters. These are presented
in 2D by default but each of them
can instantly be transformed into a more
visually linpressive 3D model at the did
of o button,
Generating a graph from a range a
data really is very easy, but customising
to your requirements is more of a problem,
It's possible to include titles, lege
and notes around the visual data, but

matically in the background and you can continue
to work while it's happening - unless
you prefer to recalculate manually, that is.
If you make a mess of the accounts, however,
Softwood's program has a distinct
advantage in its unlimited undo function.
Final Calc keeps track of all the changes you
make to a projects data, and allows you to
undo any changes made up to the first
change since you loaded or started the project
Even better, if you mistakenly undo one
of your changes you can then redo it under
the same principaL
SMART PRESENTATION
As you will have gathered if you've read the
section on the program's graph generating
capabilities, Final Calc is heavily geared
towards the smart presentation of data. With
this in mind 'Outline Fonts' are used when
printing in order to achieve a better quality of
print from the printer. It supports Postscript
Type 1 and 3 files and Macintosh ATM font
files as well as Softwood font files.
Final Calc will also prove valuable for those
using industry standard Lotus I -2-3.wkl
spreadsheet files at work, and who occasionaly
want to work on them on their Amiga at
home, since the program supports this type
of file_
More common but equally important for
this type of program is the ability to implement
Macros that will automate a series of
operations, with obvious benefits on your
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the results I anticipated. Similarly, you can
alter the colours of just about everything,
7 but again it seems like a surprisingly complex
process. Of course, reading the manual
properly overcomes this, but it's less user
friendly in this particular respect than I hod
hoped for.
Still there's no doubt that spreadsheets
on the Amiga have never looked so good
before, and this is important if you're in the
business of illustrating conclusions about a
set of data.
Another breakthrough is Final Calc's
ability to animate graphs so that changes
through time can be displayed. This is
undertaken using the Edit Animation wins
dow, and once again its not exactly child's
play, so that ring-bound manual will again
"Still there's no doubt that
spreadsheets on the Amiga
have never looked so good
before, and this is important
if you're in the business of
illustrating conclusions about
a set of data."
productivity as a consequence. The toolkd is
also a standard but necessary component of
the spreadsheet, allowing users to import
and export text and perform search and
replace operations. A further strength is Final
Calc's ability to treat data in a project range
as a database.
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AMIGA COMPUTING
FEBRUARY 1996
VERDICT
So how does it shape up against the competition?
Well the good news is that Final Calc
outclasses any other Amiga spreadsheet in
many respects. Its range of mathematical
formulas should be sufficient even for full-time
accountants, and unlimited undo/redo functions
and online help ore the sort of functions
that make daunting programs more tolerable
in use.
Of course, Final Cale particularly shines
because of its presentation tools. This is not
just a superficial benefit either, since a range
of graphs give users valuable choices over
how they present their raw data. VVhether animation
will be worthwhile for many users or
merely a gimmick is unclear, but it's worth
giving people the option to experiment
There are numerous other plus points too,
like the program's support for Lotus I-2-330f I
files. However, though the program can import
ASCII files from Final Data, they've failed to follow
Lotus's example and push Cok as port of
an overall Amiga suite. For years it's been possible
to generate a graph in Lotus 1-2-3 and
then easily incorporate it into on AmiPro wordprocessor
document, so it would make sense
for Softwood to advocate a similar use of 5nal
Cak and Final Writer.
Generally, I think more work needs to go
into making Final Cak a more instinctive, easy
program to use, though no number of pretty
icons are going to make a spreadsheet the
easiest type of software to get to grips with.
The online help Is a good start and the manual
is excellent, but some functions still seem
unnecessarily complicated
Then of course there's the matter of price.
Final Cak isn't cheap, but then it offers a level
of professionalism that justifies it The Amiga
deserves a spreadsheet package for the more
serious user, and this is certainly a good step
in the right direction.
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ordinary museum - it's interactive and is
specifically designed for even the most inquisitive
of children who want to touch, explore or
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me around the museum, that the children
seemed to pick up on new technology far
easier than their bewildered looking parents,
As she spoke we saw one child take a mouse
off their embarrassed technophobic parent
and immediately continue operating the
display.
Eureko believe it is important to reinforce
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how a museum for children is
using the Amiga to bring
interactive exhibits to life
arms to 'touch' the balloons that are flying past,
and the computer system picks up on this and
pops the balloon.
This innovative system is called InVideo and
has been developed by American '70's singer
supremo, Dean Friedman. Alter reaching the
dizzy heights of pop stardom, Friedman turned
his hand to multimedia and tailor-made the
this and from 10 February until 26 March
they are holding a temporary exhibition
called Megaton, with Computers aimed at
increasing children's confidence with
Information Technology. It will house 22
computer and video-based exhibits and children
will be able to try things like starring in
their own video, create soundscapes and
cycle in a 30 city.
Jim WI llia mson e xpia ins why
the Amiga is gma l ine Int
system specifically for Eureka. The project has
been extremely successful and has taken off all
over the world.
InVideo's Neal Fink explained the idea
behind it: 'It's a virtual reality system without
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After Friedman's success with the InVideo system
at Eureka, the project has been developed
for many other venues and other purposes.
The company behind it all is called In Video
Systems, Inc and they describe their system as
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en game and interact in real-time with animated
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ideal in a what needs to be a 'child proof'
museum as there are no extra peripherals or
attachments for a child to damage. It also
makes interacting as simple and fuss-free as
• possible.
The Amiga-based InVideo system can also
be found downstairs in the Panasonic Theatre.
Walking in to the theatre you find a huge
saeen in front of you with all manner of weird
colourful things cast on to it from a video
projector. This time its controlled by an A3000
and once again the InVideo system comes into
es own. A camera picks up the image of the
chid and projects it back in full colour - unlike
tre Dreams exhibit which is in one colour. One
mercise involves letters of the alphabet moving
around the screen - the child can reach
out_ touch it, and it will turn into an object
beginning with that letter - B, for example,
turns into a butterfly. Ibis is great for children
with disabilities" explains Hardcastle. 'It gives
them a chance to interact with something eas-
A similar sort of thing can be done with
numbers too, and helps the younger ,age
group with number recognition and learning.
Mother exercise is called AirPaint which is
like a human paintbox and allows the child to
nidi up colours from a palette and draw them
across the screen with their body.
Jim Williamson is the museum's technical
manager and is very pleased with how well
the Amiga system works: "If we were considerrig
using virtual reality again we would defi-
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machine and suits the task well."
Not related to the Amiga, but also cleated
by Friedman, is the Music Box. Children can
create tunes with different parts of the body
such as walking across the musical stepping
stones or sitting on each stool which then lets
out a honk from one of the giant horns.
Walking around, you realise just how well
designed Eureka is, Each section is geared to
the National Curriculum and because of the
variety, each age and ability seams to be
catered for.
'WARD WINNING
Eureka are certainly on to a winning forrnula
with their lively approach to learning_ Since it
opened in July 1992, it has attracted over one
million visitors and they hope to have this figure
topping 1.5 million before Easter.
Patronised by HRH The Prince of Wales, the
museum has earned itself 15 top awards
including the 1993 Visitor Attraction of the
Year from the English Tourist Board_ In 1994
they also won the National Heritage/IBM
Museum of the Year award for the most imaginative
use of interactive and multimedia technology.
It seems that this new breed of museum
is certainly in demand and people are
favouring them in place of the dusty museums
of the past where noise was frowned upon
and touching the exhibits was definitely out of
order,
If you want to see Eureka for yourself it can
be found in Halifax, West Yorkshire and is situated
next to the railway station. It is open daily
from 10am until 5pm. Prices range from E4_50
for an adult to E3.50 for children aged 3 to 12.
Contact them on 01422 330069 for more
details.
Communication is
stressed in a ll sections
of Eureka
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of an Amiga-based system. The h London i Transport Museum on Covent
Garden is already reaping the bbenefits i using an Amiga and CD32-based
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system. The CD.32s provide touch screen computers Which display
various information such as the Underground hypermap. But what's particularly
impressive is the 1938 Underground train simulator. The front
window of the train has been replaced with a computer screen with
graphics controlled by the Amiga 4000. Two other simulators of on 1890
and 1992 models are controlled by A2000's.
More recently, Amiga Computing covered how the London War
Museum use a similar touch screen system in their building. Scala's
Infochannel is used to convey information about the exhibits on to
screens around the museum, There is also a Scala touch screen display
used for their Civilian Dead exhibit.
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ng up to his latest adventures on the
s screen courtesy of Pierce Brosnan, his
et agent lifestyle and fabulous gadgets
Vbeen
the envy of many a fan. People
scuss their favourite prop - mine is the
Aston oMartin
that first made an appearance
in Goldfinger and reappears for a short time
r Goldeneye s - their favourite baddie -
Itlich for me would defitritely
t have to be
Niles Grays Blofeld - "One of the reasons why
Ind , many other topics we used the Amiga on
0 Take the years
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Goideneye, or rather
the films
Light Wave, is because we
tem a little shorter,
So e1995
was the had used it on Cyberiack.
at that Bond was
it& and n
We knew it as a very, very
this time with good renderer"
smaller budget than V Pver. Instead of traipsg
off oall
over the world, most
Bond's derring do took
lace son
soundstages and 424
location around Britain,
me ton
an even smaller scale than that, as
enes like the radar dish rising out of the
Ater , were 90 per cent modelled (not in 3D
grass, trees and other vegetation are very
ird to - get looking realistic and the waves
Din the lake are practically impossible to
like In 30). All that existed in real life was
the path that
Pierce Brosnan
and Izabella Scorupco were walking along.
The same principle applies to the scene
where Scorupco climbs out of the ruined
radar tower in Siberia and wanders through
the burning ruins, Only the path she took
was actually real, with the remainder being
created in model shops by extremely skilled
craftsmen. And it is in Siberia that the
Amiga's main contribution was made to the
realistic and cheap completion of the film.
Even with the disbanding of the Soviet Union
and the availability of Russian airforce jets to
perform the flying,
how much do you
think it would have
cost the producers of
Coldeneye to rent
three MiG-29's (plus
another to film from)
for the flight past the
radar tower, let alone
the cost of blowing
them up?
Well, I don't know
either, but it was obviously
too much for the producers
who approached Alan Marques
and the Magic Camera Company to
see if they could do it cheaper. You might
remember Alan Marques from a feature we
did last year about the use of the Amiga in
another film - CyberJack - and he and the
Amiga have been very busy ever since. I
caught up with him last
Friday and spoke to
him:
"One of the
reasons why
we used the
t • AIM? M arques burne d the
midnight oil to ge t Goldeneye
linilhe d on time
CI The powe r be hind toghtWove . this Ra ptor
was re sponsible For re nde ring the MAC Frames
Amiga on Goldeneye, or rather LightWave, is
because we had used it on Cyberlack. We
knew it as a very, very good renderer, We
were still using Wavetront as our core system
for some of Goldeneye, but the Wavefront
renderer isn't very good. It doesn't do motion
blur or anything like that So we had to have
a system that does all that There were these
shots in Goldeneye where they wanted the
MiG-29s coming from infinity - a pinpoint -
and moving towards the camera, roaring
over it. We have a motion control rig on M
stage which we used for a lot of the shots in
Goldeneye, but when you have a 2' miniature
of a MiG-29 and you have a 40 motion
control track, you can't get the model to a
pinpoint, you can get it to about an eighth of
a frame, but you just can't get it any smaller.
"So, if you're stuck in that position, the
only thing you can do with the motion control
rig is pick the model up as a DVE digital
video effect - i.e. stop the model at a certain
point, pick it up as a cut-out, then fly the
cut-out off, you probably know, though, that
when you do that there is that nasty point
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when you have to change over and invariably
you'll always get a jump when that happens.
So we elected, because we knew the shots
were high speed and we knew that there
was going to be a lot of blur, to do the shots
as a CG effect.
"So basically, what we did was get a
model of an F-15 off the Internet, a really
cheap and nasty 400 polygon model, and did
some tests with it at video resolution. We got
a load of background stills of deserts and
mountains and Evan (Davies - one of Alan's
team) did some nice texture maps for this
400 polygon model which was very simple -
the hull was literally only eight sides. We did
the textures for it including the cockpit, etc.
and the whole tests were done in one day,
DAWN TO DUSK
We got the model in the morning., did the
texture maps the same morning, and did the
three animations in the afternoon at video
resolution on the backgrounds in LightWave.
We did the renders of the three of them flying
over the camera, rendered them all on
the Raptor by five in the evening, and sent a
tape up to Leavesden by the next morning
and they instantly said, 'Right, do the shots
I asked Alan if he could have done the
shots on an SG1 and he said that it certainly
was possible - if you had the right software,
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only °Oar consoa'ered for the
new lames Bond Other bps
for the Fop job included Mel
Gobson, Loam Neeson, Sam
fell and believe it or no
Hugh Grant
Lynda tat
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Coldeneye's script
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name Goideneye comes
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bFlernong's u holiday home in
stammw y where he wrote the
_tomes Bond novels and
stones_
Since we were on the topic of Light Wove, I asked Alan
what he thought of LightWave compared to the other 30
modelling packages he uses, particularly those on the SG/.
On the whole, Alan is satisfied with how Light Wave is
turning out, but he said for film production there were
definitely some things that needed improvement:
• At the moment LightWave can only display a single one
bitplane image as a background image. What LightWave
really needs is a way to show an animation as a backdrop
so that 3D objects moving across it can be checked for
consistency.
• Although it is good that Light Wave has now got on
inverse kinematics function, it needs to have several
improvements made to it namely the ability to 'stick' part
of an object to another object like a foot to the floor or a
hand to a cup, to make it really useful_
• Another important addition to LightWave's animation
tools would be the possibility to animate a switch between
targets or parent objects so that you could aim a gun at
one object then move the sight onto another in the course
of an animation,
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the plorte 3 could My behind the dish a nd trees
software he didn't have at the time. He also
added that in his opinion, lightWave is one
of the fastest renderers in the world for
motion blur, ray tracing and so on.
"So we used lightWave with the F-15s. At
video resolution with three F-1Ss, 400 polys
each, full motion blur, fully ray traced shadows
and reflections we were getting about a
minute a frame on the Raptor. When they
approved the shots they said they had three
effects for us to do and they ended up using
two of the shots we provided - the third was
• Still on the topic of animation tools, the way motion
paths are edited in the requester leaves something to be
desired. A Bezier method with handles on the control
points would make more sense.
• One of imagine's tools that Light Wave could benefit
from is the ability to 'associate' objects to one another, For
instance, a mllercoaster animation with several carriages
can be animated travelling along the rails in Imagine reasonably
easily, with each carriage following on from the
one in front, but in Light Wove you would have to load the
same motion path in for each carriage and work out an
offset for each key frame.
Overall, Alan believes LightWave's modeller to be pretty
good but adds that there really ought to be a function that
is the opposite of meta form - on intelligent polygon This
would have made the process of simplifying the ViewPoint
MiG-29 dawn from the 10,000-odd polygons it started as
into the 533 polygon object it became. As it was, the original
model had to be loaded into a background layer in the
modeller and traced over - in essence the Magic Camera
Company ended up making a whole new model.
Does this look like a CC e ffe ct to you? these thre e
frames from the Se ve rna ra sce nt show tha t
LightWave's motion blur means re a listic images
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used in Goideneye pla in...
"The biggest problem we
had, and the real killer
because Newrek wouldn't
give me a beta copy of
LightWave 4, was the lack
of a pixel aspect ratio
setting for Light Wave"
a big close-up, very nice, but they didn't
it.
"Basically, we had the three MiGs flyin
over the dish and another shot where the
were flying over mountains_ We had to get
Viewpoint model at that point because
had to have a proper MiG-29 and nobo
had a MiG-29 on the Internet that was art
use, so we bought Viewpoint's model f
about E250. Of course, Viewpoint in thi
country don't have the lightWave CD-ROls
they only have the Wavefront and other
boys' ones, but the nice thing was that the
said it was no problem. We phoned them u
and gave them a purchase order and the
just e-mailed it us the next day from Amerk
in lightWave format, uuencoded, in 11
binmail on CR.
"So we downloaded it, uudecoded it a
edited it. Being a Viewpoint model, one
the things we discovered with it, which
wouldn't think would happen, is that we h
a lot of rendering problems with it - w
couldn't figure out why, when the models
a distance displayed their wings and fins
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detail - and guess what, it's conveited from
another format. There were a lot of single
point polygons in it which, once we had
searched the database
and sorted it out,
caused us no further
problems.
'So we solved that
one, got some nice texture
snaps on them, and animated
them in LightWave over
the background plate, matching
the lighting to the background
frame we had. On the
Raptor Plus we've got, which is a
lx MIP54600 machine, we were
rendering the three M1G-29s at
about 500 polygons each for a total
of 1500 polys - not much, but then
we were using full-on motion blur,
say traced shadows and reflections
and we were getting
about six minutes a frame
which was very good at I k
horizontal.
This was the same trick we
piled on Cyberlack. We never render
it the resolution of a film because
ty time we do that the CGI is too
sharp, it just doesn't even remotely
lit into the background. You
end up blurring
th e
image to go into the background
using filters which
take time to do the work. So
we do it at half resolution and
blow it up.
The biggest problem we
had, and the real killer because
NewTek wouldn't give me a beta
copy of LightWave 4, was the lack
of a pixel aspect ratio setting for
LightWave. It's now in version 4, but it
wasn't in 3.5. If you're doing an
anamorphic film you need to have a
squeezed image. Therefore, you need to be
able to render an image at, say, lk x 860 but
at a pixel aspect ratio that will make the
image deliberately squashed so that it would
be right for anamorphic when its stretched
out.
"We couldn't do that in the version of
LightWave we had, so we had to do the
most bizarre renders in LightWave to get
anamorphic results. We had to render twice
the height, then crop it and cut it out, and
then stretch it to get an anamorphic result It
was very hard,
and NewIek
could have
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hove turned down an offer fo
record the theme song
Goldeneye M a t $28 molt=
rts first wee end in the US
and El§ rmlionn )n ofSfirst
week ln the UK
Goideneye is the first forties
Bond film to have filmed
on locorion inside the
Former Soviet Limon,
the country that
Nonned six.
teen prewous
movies
helped us
out, but... So we
had to be 'creative' and
although it was hard we managed. If you see
the film I would say that nobody would ever
know that they were computer models. On
that point I would definitely agree with Alan.
The Magic Camera Company
had nothing to do with
the VDU displays that are
used throughout the
movie, but he concurred with
my opinion that they looked
like DPaint creations, and when
we discussed the United Artists
logo at the start of the film he
said that he would be 'gobsmacked'
if it wasn't done in
lightWave.

PPURCHASER
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Vk'HAT IS ESCOM THINKING??!! Not enough
interest in an Al200 here in North America?
Those of us with older machines have been
Tsalivating for the last 20 months over the possibility
of upgrading. I sit here typing this on my
maxed out A600 (6Mb RAM, 160Mb hard
drive) angered at every ad in your magazine
Ebecause of the lack of support for this poor
orphan (can't even get an accelerator), frustrated
by too-slow-Brilliance with only 4096
r
colours and DREAMING of an Al200 with a
N1260 Blizzard board, a CD drive and 16 million
colours. Here's my credit card number - (We
didn't think we ought to print it, you know, just
in case - ES) - forward it to Escom and tell
I
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ready!
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Would a monitor (I run in interlaced Euro36
mode not NTSC) allow me to use one of the
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new PAL Al 200s or are there other subtler dif-
Iferences that would prevent me from ordering
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one from the UK?
And one completely unrelated thought. Your
p
screen shots in the mag shouldn't show
Ascreens with the standard Amiga drawers and
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icons - they're ugly. For those of us with IBM
and Mac friends that glance through our mag, it
o
makes the Amiga look out of date.
LFinally, thanks for the lifeline to us in the US.
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Art McMahon, Hemet California USA
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What's happened to the support for the Amiga comms
scene? I can appreciate that the Internet is a massive success
but there is the large number of BBS sites out there
that you seem to have forgotten. Almost all of the public
domain sector software that gets reviewed in your maga-
"P
zine has originated from various BBS sites, not on the
Internet. Granted, some new stuff does come from the
Internet, but the majority of it originates from the private
BBS scene. I know as over the last two years NFA
PO/Productions have had over one hundred reviews in
various magazines,
When you call a private BBS, the sysop has control over
what files are available. The Internet is running wild with
pornography, piracy, and files on how to blow your arms
off. Once a file is on the Internet it is almost impossible to
delete as the file goes to hundreds of sites within a few
days. A private system is also generally used by only two
or three people at a time, so the system doesn't slow
down to a Snaik pace on a Sunday. However, this does
restrict the number of users that can connect in a 24-hour
period, but to compensate for this there are hundreds of
private systems around the world including many eastern
bloc countries.
As far as e-mail goes, the Internet wins hands down.
However, there are some really good mail networks that
connect thousands of users across Europe like the Missing
Unk and Fidonet to name but two. Most private BBSs will
support at least one of these networks.
We should like to see a small area of your magazine
given over to advertise BBS sites because we feel very
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differ from the NTSC ones in only a few
respects. Firstly, the UK Amigas are all
shipped with a 240v transformer for power.
Secondly, you would need to change the
modulator and a timing chip if you wanted
to use your Amiga at any time with video
(including genlodo). Other than that if you
got one of the new multiscan monitors, it
should work alright.
As for ugly drawers and icons, we have a
variety of machines in the office and while
no-one really likes the newicons approach,
we do have a couple of MagicWB-equipped
Amigas and some that still use the standard
four colour icons. All you have to say to your
friends is that they should take note of the
ignored by you and we do reach many hundreds of dedicated
Amiga users every day. We organise meetings of
users and stands at computer fairs, so we do do our bit for
the Amiga scene.
A point worth mentioning to parents who may be reading
these pages is that you shouldn't just buy your child a
modem and give them an hour a day on the phone. Sit
with them and monitor what they are doing as there are
some very strange people out there (people who won't
use their real names for instance - ES). Give them some
of your time - even if you don't fully understand what
your child is doing you will recognise titles like
'randynursejpg', etc.
Well that's enough moaning. I would now like to be
blunt and ask for a plug for our UK bulletin boards. All the
latest issues of The Word are available and people may
wish to upload their articles, etc, if they wish them to be
included. All these sites are open from BPM-BAM and are
mail linked.
All speeds of modem may connect to our sites from
300 baud up as we believe a lot of people buy cheap
modems for a start, and if they enjoy what they see a
faster modem normally follows. We are doing our best to
The Big Hard One
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Warp Speed
Rigsbys BBS
The Hot Rock
AMIGA COMPUTING
FEBRUARY 1996
0116266 1610 NFA HQ
0116 237 5147 NFA Mail distribution site
0151 928 6610 WA Tempest support site
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Keep
those letters
coming! If you
can't be
bothered to find
a bit of paper and a stamp,
why not e-mail us? Simply
point your mailer to:
ESP@acompdemon.co,uk
There's a E50 pound prize for the
best letter printed as an incentive
dassic simplicity of the Amiga's icons and
the lack of extraneous, memory-hungry
hard drive space-wasting, multicoloured,
messy, titchy icons.
provide a good service to our users and most of us have
invested in high-powered machines and large stora
ge devices. We leave them running throughout the night lot
other people to use. All we are asking is for a little suppo
rt from the magazines we buy every month.
Deck the Ripper, NM PO
I'd just like to say that I don't like people using pseudonyms
when writing in to me at Amiga Computing. It
certainly dumped your chances of receiving the €50
prize for best letter this month (who would we make it
payable to?), but anyway, you do have several
good points about BEMs providing more of a sense of
community than the Internet currently does. The
Internet is also still a lot harder to conned to than
OBS, but by the same count it does offer an awful lot•
more.
As for your decrying the net for the smut, piracy and
bomb-making files available on it. I think you are being
a little hypocritical as the vast majority of these files all
originated on BBSs. Still, we want to help support any
use of Amigas and if you are feeling a little left out, its
mainly because we have to cover what's hot
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ELF HELP .ammi
I have owned my Amiga 1200 for about two
years now To start with I used it mostly for
games and DPaint, but since then I have
bought a hard drive, accelerator and monitor
and agree that if the Amiga is to continue
users must keep their machines up to date,
Rut more importantly than that, they must
also know how to use them properly. Since
*grading, my Amiga has become ten times
more usable, but if 1 hadn't spent the time
ring to know the OS, I wouldn't have got
half as much benefit from the upgrades as I
hem.
Naturally, there will always be beginners
. problems, but some of the people who
le in and say that they have been Amiga
rs for years sound like they have never
i n opened a Shell window! I consider
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po a use 'assign'.
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OXPANSION ANGST
Who says that good things can't come from bad ones? With Amiga Worlds demise I am now
blessed with your publication and I believe you are 'Numero Uno'.
I share B Nicholson's concerns in his letter in issue 4 (English readers will have Mr
Nicholson's letter in the November issue - ES). As an A3000 owner I have seen very little A3000
improvements available in the market (I guess Commodore got it right with this design). To go
straight to the point, perhaps this time Amiga Technologies' engineers could be challenged to
design a motherboard for the next generation of Amigas that would have a processor slot
where the CPU would reside and would be easily upgraded but, more importantly, two video
slots where one would be populated by the video display co-processors and video custom
chips on a daughterboard.
Perhaps this would solve the dreaded occasions when an improved video chipset hits the
market and loyal users were forced to keep up and upgrade, or stagnate with their old Amiga&
Perhaps Escom could even gain by manufacturing these video processors and making them
available to other video board manufacturers (maybe they will even make their way into PCs
and Macs thus gaining greater exposure in the market,. Make the Amiga into an open system.
I don't want to put down AGA-equipped Amigas but releasing software solely for these units
actually leaves the rest of the Amiga owners out of the picture. Maybe software libraries and dri-
vers should be produced by Amiga Technologies and provided to Amiga software developers.
These patches would allow software to take advantage of the AGA chipset but also third-party
video boards. Let's face it, many Amiga owners are not going to get rid of their units just to get
AGA machines. They want to add peripherals (CD-ROMs, ZIP drives, etc.) they can share with
another computer, while they wait for the next RISC-based Amigas to hit the market
I sincerely wish the very best to Escom and their Amiga Technologies division. In order to
maintain the loyalty of Amiga fans, Escom must show a dedication to continuously improve and
aggressively advertise and market Amigas. And it's up to the users to spread the word_
Jose A Ferreira, Kingsland, Go USA
Obviously, in the computer world it is a case of move or die. Commodore released some
fine machines and the A3000 was the best of them, but that was five years ago now and it
is time to get with the plan. However, as you say, it would be better for you to wait for the
new PowerAmiga rather than spending money on a machine that will be obsolete in about
12 month's time.
Amiga Technologies face a difficult task over the coming year in persuading people that
buying an Amiga actually makes sense. In order to overcome potential purchasers' worries
about the lack of compatibility the Amiga has with other platforms, I think we will see a
move to a more standardised machine, possibly without the custom graphics chipset that
we have become used to, opening the way for third-party graphics cards to take over the
market.
UBLISHER
PANIC di
Having received your magazine for several
, years now I have built up a large collection
0
1 wish to use regularly is the February 1994
. coverdisk, The Publisher. In that issue of the
0 magazine there was an offer to buy the offi-
f cial manual for the program, so I bought
the manual and just left it on the shelf
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vyou
possibly let me have the serial num-
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for the program so that I can install
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It feels like we get a request for this ser-
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Just a note to ask why publishers on the
Amiga don't look for cross-platform compatibility
in their products. I own copies of both
Final Copy and Wordworth, yet I cannot
transfer files between them and my PC at
work without saving out as ASCII and having
to redo all my layout work.
It just seems like developers live in their
own little worlds and never pay any attention
to what's going on around them. II
I that did in my business, I wouldn't make any
money.
The computing industry is probably the
only one where standards are created by
competing companies which can be used
industry-wide for better all-round performance,
but Amiga software houses seem to
ignore all of it_
R A Bryant. Shepstow
quite agree. The lack of observation
means that companies end up reinventing
everything from scratch each time without
paying attention to what other people
Me doing, meaning the Amiga loses
out on some handy features like PNG
or support for word processor file
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EIROUBLE WITH A PSU
have been an Amiga user for nearly
five years, using an A500. Having
seen all the really good programs
that you give away on your cover
disks, I am now getting an Al200 as I
feel I am missing out all the time. I have two
questions I hope you can help me out with.
Firstly, where can I buy a PSU plug that
goes into the Amiga? I have asked all the
shops in Hull, but keep being told that you
cannot buy them. I would like to make my
own workstation, but I need the plug for the
PC PSU.
My other question is, if I buy an Apollo
1220 for the Al200, can it be turned off by
some sort of command? I have been
informed that some games run too last with
the accelerator in the trap door.
Peter Grainger, Hull
You want to make your own
power supply unit? I personally
wouldn't recommend it,
unless you are 100 per cent
sure as to what you are doing. There is
always the risk that you are going to fry
your Amiga, and normally there is not too
much need for a more powerful PSU.
It is, however, possible to do and there
are a number of files on Aminet that
explain how to convert a PC power supply
for use with an Amiga. The most important
thing is, you must make sure you get
all the power connections correct otherwise
you will be the proud owner of one
ex-Amiga.
The reason you cannot get hold of an
Amiga power plug is that it is a none
standard connection, being used only on
Amigas. The only way you are going to get
hold of one is by cutting the plug off your
old Amiga PSU, and then solder the lead
to the PC power supply.
It would also be advisable to double
check the power output from the PSU
with a multi tester, before actually
connecting it to your Amiga.
As far as I know, there is no way to disable
the Apollo board without actually
removing it from the trap door. The only
EMOTE DEVICES
Hi. I am Diego and am writing from
Argentina. I have an Al200 with 6Mb and
Al200 accelerators I know of that can be
easily disabled are the Blitzard boards -
with the 1230 you just hold down the 2
key when you reset the machine and the
entire board is disabled.
Finally, I have not actually played any
games that suffered from having an accelerator,
and all Doom clones and flight simulators
will benefit with a faster screen
update.
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allow d
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you lknow
of this cable, and does it actually work?
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ROTEXT PROCRASTINATOR
Since using a standard Al200 with a 40Mb hard drive,
Protext v4 has obstinately refused to open its window. tt
intuition has been allowed to reset the Workbench screen
once or more since bootup, due to any of the screen,
palette or font preferences being in ENV:, Protext will
refuse to open its window.
It is possible to get Protext to run by either having
Workbench run in 2 colours - that makes it look really horrible
- or not allowing IPrefs to run in the startup.
sequence. The only other way to get Protext to work is by
using a Workbench screen that is 1900 pixels wide. Protext
will then open a huge window that is not at all practical to
use.
Mr Churchill, Nottingham
Protext is quite an old program, and even version 4 was
written with Workbench 1.3 in mind. Having said that,
there really should be no problems running such an OS
legal program, unless it is doing something naughty.
Marks manner, are pretty rare on the Amiga. The
only one I can think of off the top of my head is
Knights of the Sky by MicroProse. This is a very
good World War 1 dog fighting flight sim
and really zooms along on a Al200, as it was
written with the A500 in mind. Other than that I
cannot think of any others, and even all our game
gurus were stumped.
With regard to what your friend saw, a couple
of devices came out that allowed the CD32 to be
connected to an AI 200. This was via a serial
cable and using something like serNET which lets
you access the CD32 drive like any other
disk from the Workbench. They work well, but the
real problem with all of these is that they are
generally quite slow because of the slow serial
cable.
ACAS is the name, trouble
shooting is the game. You've
got a problem, then we
can solve it
You would normally assume, in this sort of case, that
the program is at fault, but Protext is normally a very
well behaved program, and version 4.3 should run
under Workbench 2 without any problems.
Generally, in these situations you have to assume
that the program is at fault, but as I have said you
should not be having any trouble with Protext. Your first
move would be to check the program tool types. From
here you can normally adjust certain options to do
with how a program works. In this instance, an option
to get Protext to run on its own screen would be nice to
try.
After that, you are only really left with trying to
adjust any window settings from within the program,
or it is always worth checking that some other
background program or hack, as some of them can
turn Out to be, is not interfering with it. Other than
that, it would be worth considering an upgraded to
Protext 6.
MEIPO
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Knights of the sby, about the only other game
on the Amiga that you can play over a modem

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I own an Amiga 4000/030 and have been having trouble with running out of RAM
Do you have a problem?
Do you 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?
Well, 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, IDG Media, Media House, Adlington Park,
Macclesfield SKI° 40,P. Alternatively, e-mail us at
AOLS@acomp.demon-muk
l i virtual memory program from a PD house.
w 1 I followed the instructions which said it will work on any Amiga with Workbench
h
--I 2.x and higher, but I just simply cannot get it to work. All I can get it to do is write a
4Mb file to my hard drive and then crash. I hope you can help.
e
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n
u If things in life were only so simple. Unfortunately, the program instruc-
s tions are lying. To use virtual memory in this way, you have to
i , have a MMU - a memory management unit - fitted to your machine.
n The 030 version of the A4000 is the EC version, so has no MMU, and
therefore, g unfortunately, you will not be able to get the advantages of virtual
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the low price of the
. use 3.5 inch drives which are cheaper. The
OverDrives
big draw back is that you will lose your PC
islot, s so you will not be able to use any
other hardware that uses the PC slot.
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can read any of these CDs but it can only
, sI
am thinking of buying an Al200
a later this year, but there are a num-
m ber of questions I am confused
p
about that I would like answering
before I buy one. I will probably be
l
using the Amiga for scanning and word
processing
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applications.
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I. What a is the difference between 2.5 and
3.5 inch n hard drives?
2. Is there d really enough room to fit and
install done
of the above drives inside the
Al200? i
3, Which g do you recommend - internal or
external?
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4. Does an IDE hard drive mean it is internal?
5. An
t
'Over Drive' hard drive seemed to cost
less and
i
be more convenient, and does not
invalidate
s
the Amiga's warranty by slotting
straight e into the PCMCIA port. Does this
mean rI
cannot use the Squirrel interlace?
6. Using . SCSI CD-ROM drives on the Amiga,
which A CDs can I use? Philips CD-i, CD32 PC
CD-ROMs? f
It would probably have been
easier just to say tell me
s
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IDE drives and the Amiga! IDE
stands for Integrated Drive Electronics, this
means that e the hard drive interface is built
into the
v
drive. So when it comes to fitting
an IDE drive e all you have to do is connect
it with an r IDE cable.
To answer y your first two questions, 3.5
inch drives t are, surprisingly, an inch wider
and generally h a lot larger than 2.6 inch drives.
They i also have a separate power supply
and nare
quite a bit cheaper, due to
them being g easier to make. The Al 200 was
designed
y
to take a single 2.5 inch hard
drive internally, but it is possible to fa a
o
3.5 inch drive inside an AI200, although it
Is quite
u
a squeeze and you need to get
hold of a k special cable to fit it.
I would n opt for the internal drive, mainly
because oit
does not take up any more desk
space, and w as long as the drive is fitted
by an authorised a dealer you will not
run programs which are written for the
Amiga. Therefore, you may be able to look
at file on a PC CD, but you cannot run any
PC programs.
It is a little difficult to directly compare
AGA to a PC system. HAM modes are
unique to the Amiga and can be thought of
as a pseudo 24-bit display that only
requires 8 bitplanes. Therefore, on a display
basis AGA is equivalent to a 2Mb
SVGA graphics card. Where it loses out is
on screen update. If you try to run a 256
colour screen on anything but a low resolution
screen then AGA starts to show the
strain. If you then try a Db11
3screen
in 256 colours, screen update
41. almost ngrinds o to a halt
fl On i PC c systems k e r the effects of running
higher resolution modes are much less
pronounced, as PC video cards use video
RAM. This allows the screen to be updated
by the computer, as well as being outputted
to the monitor for display. The AGA
chipset can only do one of these at a time,
7. How r good are the graphics of the AGA invalidate b your warranty.
and in high resolution screens, displaying
chipset i compared with PCs?
e
n Andrew, a.m.h.wongt@uclon_acuk
d
The OverDrive o hard drives are actually
IDE mechanisms,
u
so IDE drives do not have
to be fitted
t
internally. The main reason for
the screen takes up so much time that
there are very few clock cycles left for the
screen to be re-drawn.
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g I want to add a CD-ROM to my Al200, but the information I am getting
so.
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about CO-ROMs seems to be inconsistent. In reading letters about
si
CD-ROMs, people seem to be having quite a bit of trouble getting them up
and running.
tJ
So, my questions are: Do you have recommendations as to brands that
are ecompatible
with my system?; do I have to get drivers, since I have Workbench
of the AmiCDRom handler software - this is public domain, so is readily
available. The installation is very straightforward - you just have to make
sure you pick the right device name for you SCSI interface and that the
CD is set to the right SCSI ID. This is where people can have problems, but you
just have to check in the manual what the device name is for that particular
interface.
3,0, d from the AmiCDRom handler, or would they be included and be able to work If you are starting from scratch then I would recommend the Squirrel option.
on I the Amiga when I purchase a CD-ROM?; would the Squirrel help in connecting You get a proper SCSI interface, and the supplied software is setup to use a CDthe
s CD-ROM up to my system? Any other pertinent information you might have ROM. If you purchase the CD-ROM with the Squirrel you have a ready-to-use
about e CD-ROMs would be quite helpful to me since I am starting at 'ground zero.' solution. Just install the software, which is very straightforward, and away you
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d
Currently, the only real bind with Amiga CD software is CD32 incompatibility.
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your Amiga. The process should be, and is, very straightforward.
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SCSI
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to run some CD32 games - however, all other Amiga CDs will work fine.
Hopefully, game writers producing CD software will move towards writing
generic Amiga CD titles that simply act like hard drive installed games, but
working from the CD.
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FEBRUARY I 99 6

down, then there is a solution.
O Get yourself a nice warm mug of
tea, snuggle up in a comfortable
f chair, and take a look at some of these low-
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i your accounts more effectively using your
Amiga,
s
but take a look at the software that's
available
g
and you may be put off. It's not
that it's not up to the job; more that you're
e
not up to deciphering iL A good old pen and
paper t are far simpler...
t On this disk are two excellent little programs.
i The first, Ultra Accounts 2,0, is joyfully
easy n to get up and running, and helpful documentation
g speeds up the process still further.
y The screen is uncluttered and the intuition-style
o interface means you'll feel at
home u right away. Setting up your accounts is
relatively painless and then its simply a matter
of sorting out standing orders and timed
events. Then you're ready to start entering
Dave Cusick
I s e 16,
braves the northern
winter to bring to you the
best in Amiga PD and shareware
LTRA ACCOUNTS/FINANCIAL ACCOUNTS
Empire's e tsca lle nt comme rcia l offe rim3 Coa le
makes use of N a viga tor to good e ffe ct
Fiscal a ssosurnonts
ca n be fun kids, tha nks
to Fina ncia l Accounts,
You'd ne ve r gue ss it
was writte n in Amos.
either
- Watch your
titles e e ptode ,
ono of ma ny
impre ssive
effects
Navigator
Titter ha s to
off*,
AMIGA COMPUTING
FEBRUARY 1996
day-to-day transactions, The program also
features graphical analyses of transactions
(either on one day, in a week, or over a
month), lets you enter reminders, and keeps
a log file in case you accidentally alter something
and need to backtrack at a later date.
Also included is Financial Accounts 1.4,
which offers pretty much everything that
Ultra Accounts does, with added extras such
as VAT statements and an investments
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some thing. it's the stunning U ltra Accounts
portfolio. This, too, is a very capable pro.
gram, so the choice between Ultra and
Financial is largely a matter of personal preference.
They're both shareware, and each
costs a tenner to register. As usual, registration
entitles you to future updates and helps
persuade the author to continue to develop
his or her product.
Produced by: Michiel den Outer Navigator is a superb virtual reality design tool which is
Available from: 17 Bit Software ideal for all manner of applications ranging from games to
Disk No: 3927 A/B complex design work, where architectural plans can be
'brought to life' within a computer. It works in real time,
allowing total interactivity and allowing the user to examine objects from every angle.
The first of the two disks contains a fast and effective viewing program, some rather brief
documentation, and numerous examples of what can be achieved. The second disk features
Navigator Titler, an excellent utility for designing flashy effects for use in videos and
presentations. There's also NWipe, which allows texture mapping onto 3D objects, and
can produce some really impressive effects.
To really get the most out of the programs,
a fast Amiga is required. On
my A 1200, running at around five times
the speed of a standard A500, things
can be pretty jerky. This is especially
true if you decide to use Hi-res, interlaced
screens, or fancy texture mapping.
Unfortunately, the programs
use integer maths so owners of
FPUs won't be at any advantage - a
nippy processor and lots of FastRAM
are the only solution.
Navigator is shareware, but at only
a tenner a time it's well worth the
money considering everything it is capable
of, It has something to offer everyone,
and can be put to all sorts of uses, from business
to video work and even game design. Highly
recommended,
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GlIGP-ED V3
Produced by: Oliver Roberts
Available from: Aminet
Geoff Crammond's Formula One Grand Prix
is quite probably the greatest computer
game ever (although admittedly Sensible
World Of Soccer comes quite close). The
problem is that Microprose have not seen fit
to update it in any way whatsoever since its
original release in 1991, with the consequence
that the data contained in the game
is now rather out of date.
To address this problem, and to provide
numerous gameplay improvements, Oliver
Roberts wrote RCP-Ed, an early version of
which made its way onto an Amigo
Computing coverdisk some time ago. It
enabled the editing of team and driver
names, car colour schemes and suchlike,
and allowed less patient drivers to cheat by
employing the driver aids even on the higher
skill levels.
Fl GP-Ed has since developed at a phenomenal
pace. Version 3 enhances the game
in numerous ways. Its now possible to edit,
amongst other things, car set-ups and camera
views, the lap records, arid the frame
rate of the display (producing smoother
graphics on faster machines). There are also
plenty of fancy additions: there's an optional
pit-lane speed limit for added realism, plus
the facility to upgrade computer car performance
on various circuits, and a handy cheat
whereby your car's position can be
snapshotted at any point and then recalled.
The latter function is extremely useful for
'REAR DOWN THE WALL
Produced by: Union P i n k Floyd's Another Brick In The Wall receives the demo
Available from: 17 Bit Software treatment, with a rather scratchy sample of the song
Disk No: 3907 b e i n g accompanied by plenty of fairly fuzzy graphics.
Don't expect Gilmour and co to perform at CD quality:
knackered 70's tape-deck quality is closer to the ma& However, some quite impressive data
compression has obviously gone on to squeeze this whole production onto one floppy disk,
so the low sample quality is excusable. (It also probably helps avoids copyright problems...)
The visuals, if a little less than impressive in definition, are at least a little more imaginative
and impressive than might be expected. They're not stunning by any stretch of the
imagination, but they're passable.
Suddenly, however, Another Brick In The Wall finishes and we're catapulted into a rather
average, highly predictable demo featuring texture-mapped donuts and cheesy tracker musk,
This bizarre turn of events i a little disappointing but unfortunately riot entirely unexpected;
perhaps a sad indictment of Amiga demos in 1995: There are few surprises left these days,
and demo programmers don't seem to be going out of their way to hit us with therm Still, at
least Tear Down The Wall includes some music that's not straight out of the Euro-cheese
dance stable.
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it's origina l, i suppose ...
n Edit pra ctica lly e ve ry a spe ct
ot cla ssic ra ce r Ft GP
practising tricky comers. It's also now possible
to display plenty of useful information
during races, such as the time difference
between your car and the cars in front and
behind when you cross the start/finish line.
You can even change the sound effects and
graphics should you feel the urge.
Fl GP-Ed is shareware, with registration
costing E6. Considering the hours of extra
interest it can add to an already classic
game, this is an absolutely essential
purchase
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FEBRUARY / 99 6
i want to hear from you if you have
any program, whatever its purpose.
which you conaidar Whitby of review.
Whether it oil be freely distributable
public domain, shareware or licenceware,
if you feel it's of sufficient
quality to merit coverage then stick it
in a jiffy bag or padded envelope and
send it in with all baste- Although
Public Sector receives too matey sub.
missions to taint then all. I promise
at least leek at your work - even if
Its yet another tottery program or
kinedike cardset. it does melte my job
a lot easier awash if disks Ere clearly
letter detailing Pleas=n A l o f t and
price, and kgiving
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Amiga Computing, MedicrifeTtre,
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SKID ANP P
REETINGS: A
GALLERY II
Produced by; Jason Jordache
Available from: 17 Bit Software
Disk No: 3921
This is a collection of Jpeg images designed
for greetings cards. The highly stylised
artwork is colourful and attractive and the
quality throughout is excellent.
Some of the designs have vaguely fantastical
themes, whilst there is also a cute
cow and plenty of abstract
images. There are a couple that
you perhaps wouldn't send to
kiddies.
Maybe not the most useful
disk in the world, but
an effective way of showcasing
this artist's talents.
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LI ZONE #1
Produced by: Professional PO
Available from: Professional PD
Another compilation of handy little utilities, in
the mould of the Vark disks, Most are accompanied
by ReadMe files, and those which aren't
are, for the most part, relatively easy to get to
fltiPs with.
There are plenty of useful inclusions: there's
Cachefont, which creates a file listing everything
in your Fonts drawer, allowing programs to scan
its contents far more quickly; ClickNot, which
stops the floppy drive from making that irritating
clicking noise when there's no disk inserted; and
CPalette, which brings up a palette requester on
any screen.
DoubleX forces mode promotion on AGA
machines, even on programs which normally
refuse to be affected. Embedder is a superb AGA
downgrading utility that runs as an Applcon, so
AGA-unfriendly programs can simply be dropped
onto its icon and run instantly. Fakernem is for
Al200 owners, and converts all but 512k of
RAM into FastRAM, and apparently this makes it
possible to run certain applications such as
Caligari, which otherwise would refuse to run.
GIFlist displays useful information about Gil
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really like ly to provide e xciting gra bs
files and can add little notes for future reference.
IdleLED turns the power light into a CPU
load indicator, so that it's possible to tell when
your machine is working hard. Nuke is a 'secure'
deletion program - it physically removes a program
rather than simply telling the machine to
forget about its existence. This means the file
cannot later be undeleted by some curious
individual.
SystemSpeed, unsurprisingly, can tell you
how swift your machine is, whilst Stonecracker
is a crunching utility in the Powerpacker mould
which squishes programs down whilst leaving
them fully executable. Snoopdos, although
included in v1.5 as opposed to the vastly superior
v3, should be on everyone's hard drive. It's
excelent for finding out exactly why a stubborn
program is refusing to work correctly,
There are many more too, although in some
cases it may take a bit of work figuring out how
the authors have compressed the documentation
- PPmore won't recognise several ReadMe
files. The chances are that long time owners will
already own a fair few of these utilities, but with
so many to choose from, it's a fair bet that
everyone will find at least a couple of new
gems.
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AMIGA COMPUTING
FEBRUARY 1996
OWEROIDS
Produced by: Matthias Bock Asteroids is the sort of classic that has spawned many imi-
Available from: 17 Bit Software tations, probably the most famous of which is
Disk No: 3920 Bloodhouse's Super Stardust which boasted stunning
graphics and a difficulty factor which made the legendary
hard Rick Dangerous games seem like a doddle.
Poweroids doesn't offer the same drop-dead gorgeous graphics - in fact, the visuals are
somewhat disappointing. However, there is the added bonus of multi-player blasting action,
because up to four players can participate simultaneously with a four-player adapter. If you
don't own one of those little gizmos, it's at least possible to enlist the help of one chum to help
destroy wave after wave of asteroids. There's also an excellent battle mode where players try to
blast the living daylights out of one another.
Unfortunately though, you'll only get the chance to blast a couple of screenfuls of asteroids
into oblivion with this particular version, because Poweroids is shareware. The full version, with
scores more levels, costs 20DM. Somewhat strangely, Povveroids requires a 68020 and l meg
0002 S
slicioa.22to .10000000UP of chip RAM, but it does
IN000 G o o o
L I e a I i 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 e 1 P multitask happily (so don't
t D o
get worried if the starlield
starts to fade, it's just MCP's
screen saver kicking in).
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Produced by: Professional PD
AUNTED BY YOU Available from: Professional PD
MI Prior has struck again. The latest in his long line of gambling prediction titles is Pro-
Greyhounds. This arrived in the office in a sizeable box, accompanied by a bottle of 'Mans
Best Friend', an allegedly alcoholic product which in fact turned out to be a bottle of Fruits
Unlimited. The program itself features the same friendly interface as its predecessors, and
whilst I won't claim to have any idea as to its effectiveness, it does have all the hallmarks of a
quality product.
MOS AGA EXTENSION
Programmed by: Michael Prince
Available from: Ft Licenceware
Disk No: F1-113
It's flna fly possible to
display a ttra ctive AGA
picture. in Amos
Let's see, the Amiga Al200 has been around for, what, three years
now? And Amos, infamous for refusing to run on any new machine
until a patch is released for it, has never been upgraded to take advantage
of the AGA chipset Until now, that is. Formerly available for f 10
from the now deceased AmigaNuts PD, this extension can now be
obtained for (3.99, and whilst it's still far from completion, it does
finally offer keen Amos programmers some AGA effects.
AGA screens can now be opened, the full range of colours is now
available, and a host of enhanced versions of standard Amos commands
are included. There are plenty of demonstration programs too,
so getting used to the new (and well documented) commands
shouldn't be too much of a chore.
Fully compatible with both 'Classic' Amos and Amos Pro, this has
been eagerly anticipated by many for a very long time.
Poweroids a llows you
to bla st a frie nd into
submisa ion, Of if you
haven't got a ny frie nds,
you ca n a t le a st blow up
some rocks
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select was imminent Garners Delight 2 has now made an
appearance containing 1070 games from different categories.
There are 70 commercial releases, so don't expect Public
Domain, and an example from the 'Jump and Run' category
would be 'Go Kevin Go' - sounds great. There are various
other games called Gardener, Rollerball, Willi Wacker and
Bals, I suppose that sums up the CD quite well.
No CONTEST
It may not be as polished as the Assassins series, but it's different
The games may be unheard of, and they may not be
of outstanding quality, but that's certainly not what you
expect for E26,95.
Although the Assassins compilation is the same price, it's
double the quality. I don't think there's any doubt which one
you should go for.
utilities, documents, text and business software; the second
contains pictures and graphic software, the third contains all
the fun topics such as games and demos along with more
utilities for use with your hardware; and the fourth and final
CD is entirely dedicated to music modules, samples, and
Comms software.
There is 850Mb of music modules that any music fan
would gladly pay E35 for. The Aminet
series is and always will be
the greatest compilations
to date. With its excel-
lent AmigaGuide
database allowing /
you to access /
everything, depacking
and reading
from a click of
a button, this is the
definitive compilation.
Well, until
Decembers comes out
anyway.
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collection covers essential
programs and graphics for
your Amiga. Andy
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The Assassins Ultimate Games is the second
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rnmensely popular first instalment It included
all the Assassins collections packed, and
ready to unpack, onto floppy disks. The first
CD contained a wide variety of excellent
games as well as some compilations of
To /me the A sssss ins CO, a ll tha t's
required is to simply click on the icon.
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The first Network CD arrived
courtesy of Weird Science
some time ago, and now their
latest Networking CD has
finally appeared - faster and
far more powerful than ever
before.
The main idea is to join
together the Amiga and a
CD32 via a cable from the Serial or Parallel port to the
Auxiliary port on the CD32. This will give your CD32 a new
lease of fife as a remote CD-ROM drive. As most CD drives
are operated via SCSI and the PCMCIA slot, the majority
tend to be quad-speed and almost instantaneous. You may
be thinking that because the CD32 is only double-speed,
the file exchange rate won't be particularly good. Well, you
would be right, although on this Network CD there are
many programs to get the most from your CD32 as well as
the fastest speed.
Setting up is made even easier than before - a simple
process of entering the CD, booting up the machine, waiting
for it to be ready, and sending all the relevant information
down the Serial cable. Then a pseudo-device entitled
'Network' will appear on your desktop. Inside here you will
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comple te with the $ I D pa cka ge
utilities. What made this compilation superb
were the presentation and features, an
excellent menu system, bootable or nonbootable
as well as compatibility with the
CD32.
This collection has game disks 1-120, 60
utility disks, and 70 workbench games.
These are all in the usual DMS format and
will need unpacking to floppy disks. You can
access everything from the excellently implemented
AmigaGuide database, and all the
information you require will undoubtedly
feature here, including compatibility with
various machines.
The games contained on the CD range
from shootem-ups to pub quizzes, and if
you're not looking for something specific
then there is something here for absolutely
anyone.
If you're looking for a decent CD with a
whole host of PD games and utilities,
Assassins is undoubtedly the best. It features
art easy-to-use menu system, accompanied
find a CDO and RAM drawer, and you must remember that
they are only drawers and not devices. Once this is setup
you can change the CD in CD32 because it will override the
auto-reset function, then all you have to do is assign it and
away you go - it's as simple as that.
What makes this one of the most delightful packages is
that if you should move the mouse pointer off-screen it will
simply appear to have locked up. Adding another monitor
through the CD32 will reveal your mouse pointer moving
swiftly around on the other monitor. Also, not only can the
mouse be transferred to the other machine, but also the
keyboard, as soon as you move off-screen.
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such as SID, for file transfers and
for viewing various formats,
as well as many other
Internet and access tools.
You can also unpack
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to make the connection
procedure even easier.
The main improvements
over the first are that the CD
boots in around 45 seconds, the
CD32's programs can be run from
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is simplified to only a click of a
button, and you also get many animations,
games and images bundled on the
disk to kickstart you CD-Rom usage - these
can all be viewed or played through SID, so
everything you could possibly think of has
been included.
Anybody with a CD32 and Amiga should
seriously think about getting connected. If
you look at all the CD-ROMs on these very
pages you will see just what you are missing
Out on. This is none other than an essential
purchase.
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ONCOUNTERS: THE UFO PHENOMENON EXPOSED.
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There are so many questions
about ufology that
most people are either
too scared to ask or too
sensible. People are
frightened with the
unknown, and recently,
although having being
around for many years,
aliens are beginning to steal the limelight and become
more believable than ghosts. Or are they the same thing?
One reputed feature of Aliens is that they can take any
form! Apparently.
What does an Alien look like? Does the government
really communicate with them? Was the Roswell incident
a cover-up? Have places like Hangar 18 stored ufology?
Who are the Men in Black? Why do they
drive red Escorts?
All these questions and more are
revealed on this brand new CD
called Encounters: The UFO
Phenomenon Exposed. On the
rear cover it says: This CD contains
information that
NOBODY wants you to know.'
And this is perfectly true.
However, don't take it the
wrong way, thinking they're
stolen classified reports. They are
merely documents people have
managed to lay their hands on. Are
they true? Nobody knows_
If the government did come Out and make
a speech to say that UFOs/Aliens
existed, although there's really nothing
to worry about, there would be a
adobcsENE 2
By now, you probably know about underground
clubs and places where everyone gets
together to 'join as one' and just enjoy life.
No restrictions, no egotistical bigots - everybody
is free to enjoy what they want to enjoy.
Euroscene is more or less an underground
Amiga scene, where various Amiga users get
together for parties and groupings for demo
showings, music and pictures, amongst other
things, and then generally talk about it afterwards
- on demos. That's why you always get
a certain type of text on demo scrollers which,
if you haven't been to a certain venue, you
won't understand. Generally, these venues
are held all around the country, although
mainly in Europe.
This CD contains various files from these
particular get-togethers. Images, demos,
ci Thus picture 15 from the R oswe ll
autopsy. ft wa s brought to light by a
music vide o produce r. N e e d I sa y more —
Strange
pictures e re
the true
nature Of
Euroscono
world panic_ However, if they manage to keep it as one or
those 'believe it or nor subjects, the public would have
no option but to disbelieve it_
According to a document in the CD itself, there are
over 70 recognised species of 'Aliens' or other beings.
The most popular of species has to be the 'Greys.' These
are described as being thin and spindly, have large bald
heads, huge dark eyes, two dots for a nose, and a small
line for a mouth. And of course they are grey.
After having read almost every document on the entire
CD, I now feel as though I'm getting to know quite a bit.
For instance, did you know that the government are carrying
out a coverup as we speak? Well, it's called an
indoctrination, and its a plan to make you disbelieve.
When a UFO sighting is reported, and it's a major one
which the government can't explain, they filter it
through to a popular medium - namely the
tabloids. They will then blow it out of
proportion - such as the 'I was
snatched by Pamela Anderson
look-a-like aliens!' story - so people
laugh it off, and subconsciously
dismiss the whole
thing. Clever? I think so_
This CD covers every budding
ufologist's dreams as there are
documents covering abductions,
origins, cattle mutilations,
crop circles, landings, sightings,
crashed UFOs, and government
conspiracies and cover-ups.
Basically, the entire CD uses an
AmigaGuide and all the documents can be
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translated,
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AMIGA COMPUTING
FEBRUARY 1996
accessed very easily along with a
series of pictures. Most of the CD is
text related - 200Mb - which
music, graphics and all the relative players
and views are included. The main source of
all these various formats come from diskmags
and if you're a keen follower of these, then
they will undoubtedly inform you of various
forthcoming 'bashes.'
CATEGORISATION
The categories are divided up into a listing
which is sorted by the name of the group.
You may recognise some of them if you have
used Aminet or other compilation CDs. Most
of the larger files or demos are compressed
as a DMS format, although there are many
ready•to-run programs and files. There are
also various graphic viewers, mod players,
text resources, programming guides and
many other useful utilities. As you'd expect,
means there are a lot of documents. However, each category
has its own pre-packed [ha file so you can instanni•
unpack it to your hard drive.
All the information on the CD is excelent_ It gives all
sorts of documents that are supposedly 'top secret' and
some of the accounts of abductions will send a shiver
down your spine. The whole CD covers everything to do
with UFOs, especially offering explanations as to why
World War 2 started! Hitler was an alien! Er, I made that
up actually. It does sound like some people take it too
far, but after actually reading the documents, how can
you possibly not believe it? This is the case when
500,000 people have reported abductions in Amerka
and they all roughly follow the same pattern. Spooky!
If you have a keen interest in ufology or you're looking
for some convincing evidence, look no further.
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the quality of the demo/image/module really
depends on the respective quality of the
group. At the moment, the Polka Brothers
seem to have made a big impact of the
demo scene, ranking high in the charts of
many diskmags.
If you are into the demo side and getting
to know other Amiga users, then Euroscene
will manage to satisfy your curiosity into
these underground happenings. It's certainly
good value for money at E9,99.
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. ith Amiga powered sys-
.! drive powerful multi-
\ 33tems being used to
media information
systems at such places as the
Cleveland police force,
Colchester Zoo, hotels,
petrol stations, football
grounds and a multitude of
other areas all over the
world, and at a fraction of
the cost of alternative PC
systems. The Amiga has
more than proved it has the
capabilities to be used in
such systems,
ImageVision is a new product
from a company based in
Sweden, and it is their intention to
produce and develop ImageVision to
be, at the very least, as functional as Scala
MM400, if not better,
The ImageVision package comes in a very
well presented double CD case. The actual
disk is on the front side of the CD case with
the extras CD on the other. You do not actu-
ally need a CD-ROM drive to use the program
because the entire ImageVision program and
basic tutorial are all compressed onto the single
floppy. The CD is just there to hold a far
more advanced demo script and a whole
host of extras.
Some of the extras include a wide selection
of excellent backdrops covering liquids,
stone and some more surreal types, fullscreen
Mpeg animations, along with a few
music modules and a lot of high-quality
sound samples. These are not all installed
with the ImageVision program but will, of
course, still be available off the CD.
Installation is very straightforward using
the standard installer, even though it does
take a while. A basic installation will only
require about SMb worth of hard drive space,
while if you go for the full installation including
the full CD demo script, this requires over
25Mb of hard drive space. Everything gets
copied into a single directory, apart from the
extra fonts and a couple of assigns that have
to be added to your user-startup.
When you start up ImageVision, the first
thing that strikes you is just how good looking
it is. The interface even puts MUI to
shame, but just because something is goad
looking does not particularly mean it is worth
having. This thing is going to have to be quick
Jargon
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u on text should appear as, whether it should be freely posi-
p
any menu icon in the script window you con gain p access tioned or formatted with left/right justification or centred.
e
to the graphics editor from the menu's requester. ,
Along with these, you can also add drop shadows, back-
The graphics editor seems to have been designed t with ground colour, text fill colour, or apply a bevelled effect to
the basic assumption that you will be using a background
h
the text, all of which can take their colour from a scrollable
graphic which will then have your various menu i choices colour selection at the bottom of the requester.
on top of that This is because most of the tools s available Once text has been entered you are free to move it any-
i
are geared towards laying out and presenting blocks of where on the screen you want using the mouse, or enter
s
text over a background screen. Having said that, you are
a
another section of text which you can then apply with a
able to load in brushes over your background and scale different set of effects. My of the current available colours
these to any size you wish and move them to any position. can also be changed by hitting the edit button, and this
The main tool box available on the editor's screen then pops up one of those newish Amiga colour wheel
allows you to change the appearance of the on-screen text gadgets, allowing you to choose a new colour.
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FEBRUARY 1996
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Neil Mohr discovers whether
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to learn, easy to use, and feature packed if it
is going to beat Scala,
The main interface consists of three basic
windows - the script, tools, and icon windows.
Using all three you can easily and
quickly construct complex multimedia presentations.
For each script you are working
on there is a single
.
script window A start
icon will always be the first icon you have
and from this start point you drag in new
icons, each icon relating to the action you
want to take place at that point in the script.
CONSTRUCTION
The actual Script construction is done in a
tree-style format, with Jparent icons in the
tree having 'child' icons connected from
them. As this is meant to represent the linear
sequence that the presentation will take,
only menu icons are allowed to have more
than one 'child' connection.
With a menu icon, each of its child icons
would represent a possible selection in that
menu. All the others have to be connected in
the sequence they should appear in. To
nWith aims to topple Scala
Mnit 00's reign as the
ca ption re quinwd
connect one icon to another, even/ icon has
a small white tail coming out of the top of it,
and you just grab this and drag it to the icon
you want to connect it to. The two icons will
then be linked in the tree.
Once icons have been dragged from the
icon's window into the script window they
can be moved around, selected, cut, pasted,
and if you double-click on them you can configure
the various aspects of that type of icon.
To help distinguish between similar icon
types in the script window, each icon can be
given a name that is shown in the screen
title bar when you place the mouse over it
This way of constructing the script is excellent.
It is possible to see the form that the
presentation will take straight away, and it is
very easy to change the flow of a presentation.
I was a little concerned at first that a
large script would become unwieldy because
the tree could become quite large, but to
prevent this ImageVision has a couple of
tools to help you organise the script into
sections.
The first are the group and ungroup holttions
which help you package a selected area
of icons into a single group icon on the script

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cadger a llows you to control how the
amens icon works, e ithe r pla ying the
sample until it finishe s or the uses, stops
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slay which a llows you to pla y a sa mple
miter the script to continuo, CO you
could pla y a n a nima tion a long with the
sample, or wha te ve r a ction icons you
pl., after the sample icon. You would
then use e ithe r a sa mple icon se t to
stop or stop a ll to e nd the origina l
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Also avaikkie horn a menu kon's requester, the dick editor is where you add the actual active
areas to buttons or hot spots on each menu screen. When you first run the dkk editor for any
ore menu, you are presented with whatever graphic design you have drawn up for that menu,
along with a list view requester with all the possible menu selections for that screen.
The possible selections are to go back to the previous menu from the current one and normaly
this is made passible by pressing the right mouse button anywhere on the screen, and
the others will be all the child nodes from that icon. These are all listed in the 'Action' list view
requester.
To make an area of the screen 'selectable' you have to first mark out the area that you want
the user to have to click on for any one menu selection, This is done by using one of four tools
provided by Image Vision. Currently, buttons can take four shapes - either rectangular, circular,
elipse, or a complex polygon shape. The polygon shape allows you to define any outline shape
using any number of straight lines, so with only a little patience it is possible to build up some
tpite complex button shapes.
was a little .
concer
tree ned q u i
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because the
t e large,
but a ti
s Image Vision
has o f tools to help
you organise the script into
sections -
window_ This will help you tidy up the look
of your scripts. When a section of the script
has been tested, select all the icons, hit the
group option, and you will be left with a single
group icon. This can be given a name in
the normal way so you know what it is at a
Later date.
The other took are the jump, subroutine
and return icons which allow you to create a
new section of the script away from the rest.
By adding a jump icon where the new section
should go and then adding a subroutine
icon, you are able to create part of the script
away from the rest of it. The return icon then
forces the script to return back to the parent
icon of the original Jump command.
This all adds up to a highly intuitive, easyto-use
interface with which it is a doddle to
BUTTONS
Seven icon types ate available at the moment, and each one has different properties,
ollomng you to perform different effects in presentations or to help organise the script
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the only one
that ca n ha ve
more tha n one
link from it. a nd
each link from
the icon re pre -
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From the me nu re que ste r you ca n ga in
access to the click a nd gra phic e ditors
where me nu buttons a re cre a te d a nd
changed. You can also specify the type
of wipe you want to bring the menu onto
the scre e n with, A sa mple ca n be
played a long with the me nu, a nd you
ca n sa y if the right mouse button should
take the use r ba ck to the la st me nu,
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quickly knock up impressive and easy-to-use
presentations. However, in its current form
even the authors admit ImageVision is not
currently on a par with Scala, but it is their
firm intentions to make it so.
The program has been written in a rnodula
form so new icons can be added at any
time, therefore making the program easy to
extend. ImageVision also has the advantage
of being a good deal cheaper than MM400.
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place a slide
show into your
presentation.
Using a file
requester, you ca n a dd single or multiple
picture s to the re que ste r. For e a ch
slide you ca n spe cify the a mount of
time it should be displa ye d for, wha t, if
any, sa mple should a ccompa ny it, a nd
what type of wipe should be use d to
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Image Vision supports D a ta type s, you
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box
a way of storing music
Invented years ago for use with an old
Arntga program, tracker modules have
been with us ever since. The PC hos now
got the most advanced tracker programs,
such as Scream Tracker, a tracker that
allows up to 32 channels. There is,
however, an Amigo player available
• o n obrectmnented extensmn
to AmigaD03 A program supportmg
Datotypes can toad any file you have a
Data type for.
Compared to Scala there is only a paltry number of wipes and fades
available. The scroll gadget to the right of them, however, suggests that
there could be future additions here. The wipes currently available are
fade to black/white and background, slide up/down, bounce up/down,
cover up/over, and card up/down. Wipes can be applied between sections
in the script so menus can be gracefully disposed of and in the
slide shows, with different wipes being applied to each picture.
Only twe lve
wipes a re
currently available,
but more should
come in the future
AMIGA COMPUTING
FEBRUARY 1996
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a ba ckground picture a nd a lso a scre e n
offset. M oe n options a re a little more
limite d, with only the option to ha ve the
sound turne d off, a nd We e r pla y is
controlle d simila rly to sound sa mpte s
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c-o-l-o-u-r printouts for
only , (75 more than the
mono h version of the printer!
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them 'cos the yellow band
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Canon i Ili I0e, wow! Print
quality n technically superior
to t a laser printer, compact
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bijou, fantastic. But
Canon's new baby is as far in
advance r of the 11.110e as that
was s in advance of that sad old
Star. c Apart from the lack of a
Postscript o interpreter on board, you
could m almost mistake it for a colour
proofing e machine. The BJC610 has the
small a footprint innately typical of previous
Canon bubblejet printers and is
beautifully styled. The construction of this
beautifully styled printer isn't half bad
either. When I had my B.110 it was a lot
more rickety and plasticky than this one is,
although Canon still haven't been able to
get rid of the customary grinding noises as
the print head gets cleaned.
Like most other bubblejets you really
only get the best results on special coated
paper, but
unlike
a ELF TEST
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Because the 6JC610 is such a high resolution machine it is
difficult to make sure that the print head is optimally
aligned when it comes out of the box. To remedy this.
Canon hove a hondy little self-test function that prints out
bars onto a sheet of paper along with instructions on what
to do. Simply choose the bar that looks the most solid and
make the lights light up in the right combination and voila,
you've just set your print head correctly. It is features like
this that make awning and running a modern printer light
years ahead of all those old lo-fi models we used to use.
SAMPLES
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AMIGA COMPUTING
FEBRUARY 1996
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some other inkjets currently on the market,
you can print on standard copier bond with
the BJC610. Canon can also supply you
with a variety of specialist papers and films
to meet your needs such as transparencies,
glossy papers and back print film. If you are
going to use it for high-quality DTP do be
aware that running costs, particularly if you
are using the coated paper, are going to be
quite high, but no more so for the BIC610
than for any similar printer.
Canon's own brand coated
paper goes for E22 ex VAT
for 200 sheets, but you
will probably be able
tight Wave re nde rs
printout nice ly too
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where you have a print head and four separate
cartridges for the inks - one black
cartridge that can be double the sire of the
others, and one each of a cyan, magenta
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HAT'S NEW PUSSY CAT?
Tiot indeed. Well, you know that the 8JC610 has a maximum
print resolution of 720dpi, but unfortunately, the only
Way to take advantage of this super printing without
ipending any extra money, at the time of writing, is to
own a PC equipped with Windows. Canon have produced
art extremely high speed driver for Windows that will
output 720dpi prints (after a while - high resolution
pigging takes time), but there is no equivalent for the
Amigo
More sadly, there are no plans to ship this printer with a
driver of any sort for the Amigo owner, although it can be
used with the current BJC610 drivers that are available.
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Canon can also supply you
with a variety of specialist
papers and films to meet
your needs such as
transparencies, glossy
papers and back print film
and yellow cartridge. These can all be individually
replaced so if you're printing off all
those yellow pictures that you never did
when you had a colour dot-matrix printer,
you won't be forced to go out and buy all
four inks in one go.
MASTERPIECE
If you go for a 24-bit 720dpi masterpiece
of printing, don't expect to walk away with
it immediately, unless it's about 5mm
across that is. The 8IC610 is not as fast as
the equivalent Hewlett Packard, as Canon
themselves readily admit. But, as they say,
would you rather wait a minute less for a
print, or have the highest possible quality?
Gars,
However, because these were written for the 8IC600
rather than the BJC610, they only work at up to 350dpi so
you will only be using half the printer's capobilities_
Since Wolf Faust has always had such a good relationship
with Canon there is a possibility that the Windows
software might be reproduced on the Amigo which would
definitely be an improvement as everything is automated
through it As it is, your only option if you want to get the
best results out of this printer (or indeed any printer) is to
buy Studio. The very latest version (23 0) supports the
8lC610 fully and outputs fantastic results thanks to the
unique colour matching system it employs.
No arguments there then. Even so, most of
the prints I did, which varied in size
between a quarter of a page and half a
page, took no longer than fifteen minutes.
The way the paper feeds into the printer is
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the Canon BJC610, but it remains for me to
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of the stick with my mono Postscript laser
printer. However, the results achievable with
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your budget when buying this printer
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nature of the Aminet CDs -
turn your back for one moment
and bang another one flies
Al through the office door and hits
you in the back of the head.
Currently, there seems to be a
net one every month, which is
Li testament to how lively the
Amiga PO scene has been and
s stil very much so.
In amongst all the stuff you
find on Arninet, there is a type
of program distributed under
the title of shareware. This is
the concept where the author
ibis you to test their program,
which they could have spent
years developing, to decide if you
wars to keep it If you do keep the
program you are obliged to send the
author a set fee which can be as little as
Re pounds.
Paying your shareware lee gives the author
an incentive to keep on developing their program,
and gives you direct support horn the author
for that program. This is along with the fact that the author
of a program you have registered for is much more likely
ilD listen to any additions you want to that program.
It you use a shareware program you really should go
Our and pay the fee. Not only will you have that nice
warm glowing feeling that you have done something
righteous and good for once in your life, you will also
OMAGESTUDIO
ImageStudio should be fairly well known to
everyone. Programmed by a couple of local
Macclesfield lads, this is a very well supported
and put together image processing program.
The main improvement for the latest version is
the addition of full colour windowed previews
that let you get a better impression of what
the final picture will be like.
The package comes on two disks and is
instaled using - everyone together now - the
standard Amiga installer. For people that have
never used ImageStudio before, there are a
good few tutorials to guide you through the
different aspects of it. These are in with the
AmigaGuide manual which also doubles as
the on-line help.
You now have the option of the preview
window working in either grey scale or colour
modes, You will be glad to know that the
colour previews seem to be redrawn as fast as
the grey scale ones, but you will need a Hi-res
screen mode with at least 64 colours to get
the best out of it
ImageStudio has the normal array of colour
control effects like balance, gamma and con.
trast, along with the standard image manipulation
tools, such as flip, scale, cut, grey scale,
negative and pixellated. The more interesting
pans of ImageStudio come in the form of its
convolute effects and the comprehensive
ARexx port.
Convolute is a normal image processing
function, and through it you can produce hundreds
of different effects. With ImageStudio
you get a number of standard convolutes
which you can select from the handy convolute
list view. It is also possible to add your
give the author another reason to keep on developing
their program. You also get support from them which
normally includes them sending you the next few updates,
and they are usually very helpful when it comes to
problem solving. So all you people who have unregistered
own to the list and save them for future use.
Some of you might be quite surprised when
you look at the system requirements at the small
amount of memory needed, because normally
image processing programs need as much
memory as possible. ImageStudio gets round
this by implementing internal virtual memory
which allows the image data to be stored on
your hard drive, therefore taking up no memory.
The down side is that all the disk access slows
down the preview redraws. If you do have
enough of RAM then you can tell ImageStudio to
use the RAM Disk as the virtual memory storage
space to gain a large speed increase.
With a good modular program design allowing
you to add your own convolutes and ARexx
scripts at a later date, and regular updates being
he best things in life
are free, well almost.
Neil Mohr looks at some
of the best Shareware on offer
The va st a rra y of
lina ne Studio's functions
are a lwa ys a t ha nd via
its e xce lle nt in e rfa ce
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1-EBRUARY 1996
programs lurking on your hard drive, nip down to the
bank, get your wallet out, and give yourself a huge karma
boost.
All the following programs have demos available on
Aminet, where you can also find full ordering details.
released, ImageStudio is a very well thought
out and written program. Supporting 12 of the
main image formats as well as Datatypes,
imageStudio is going to be able to support
virtually all of your needs.
Bottom
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REQUIREMENTS
RED esseottth BLACK recommendird
5Mb Herd dink
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Overall
RAM Workbench
410"020/
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PRODUCT DETAILS
Product
ImageStudio
Supplier
Graham Dean,
14 Fielding Avenue,
Porton, Stockport, Cheshire.
5K12 1YX England
Registration
E 10, 520 Overseas
SCORE
90%

A MIBROKER
A rather unusual program, ArniBroker is a comprehensive
share manager, allowing you to
study and predict trends in the market and to
maintain a portfolio of shares. Installing is via
the Amiga installer and this copies all the necessary
files in to a single directory and installs a
couple of fonts.
The main interface is wonderfully programmed.
MI the necessary tools are at hand
in icon form, and the list of Shares are displayed
in a scrollable list view. The remainder
of the screen is taken up with a display of the
recent form of the selected share along with
any of the statistical analysis functions you can
choose. One excellent feature is that when you
select or deselect an analysis function, the
remaining windows automatically resize to fit
them all onto the screen.
There are eight technical indicators of which
I know nothing about, but there are good
explanations of them in the AmigaGuide manual,
allowing you to try and predict how your
various shares will perform. This runs alongside
a risk/yield map that allows you to quickly see
which shares give the best return at what risk
One problem with shares is that if you have
a good number of them in your portfolio, or
just want to track a lot of them, there is a lot of
data involved_ Currently, ArniBroker only supports
importing Teletext data from the Polish
stock exchange. The programmer, however, is
willing to modify the program for other countries,
and is working on an ASCII import to
make importing share data much easier.
As with AmiAllas, this is better than many
commercial products, and at $15 is a give
away_ With an excellent complete English
translated manual and a set of comprehensive
features for tracking the stock exchange,
AmiBroker is a brilliant program. It is a shame
that it may not get the wide use on the Amiga
that it deserves.
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Supplier
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PL 51-627 Wroclaw,
POLAND
Registration
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tjaneukki/asicict_piorwroc.pl
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GXECUTIVE
For anyone that is not aware, the
Amiga has a 32-bit multitasking operating
system, and has had since it
first came out ten years ago_ You may
have noticed recently that this was
the cornerstone to IBM's OS Warp
adverts, which seemed to proclaim
this as some sort of amazing feat of
programming genius. Sorry boys -
beat you to it.
Executive compliments the existing
way ArnigaDOS assigns processor
time to each program running on
your Amiga. Normally, the operating
system will share processor time
between the highest priority programs
that are asking for processing
time
What Executive does is to watch
how much processing time every
program is using and shares it evenly.
Therefore, every program that needs
processor time can get some, so no
single program can hog all of the
processor. If you read the documen-
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FEBRUARY 1996
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The Amiga really has got more than its fair share
of image processing software, so any new program
is going to have to be something special to
get any sort of attention. Image Processing
Revelations is a fairly straightforward program to
get up and running - a single half Mb executable
with two extra directories. Containing ARexx and
preference settings.
IPR runs using two separate custom screens.
Brilliance style. The front one contains the control
panel with the other screen showing you a fon
screen preview of any loaded picture.
The main control panel is nicely arranged, with
the various accept, undo and cancel buttons always being available and in the same place, no mater
what function you are using. All the information on the current picture is always available in the
top section, while the middle is used to display all the options for whichever function you have
selected. This gives a good coherent interface
which is quickly learnt and very easy to use.
Another nice touch is if the current image is too
large for the screen, you can either hit the space
key to toggle the control panel on or off, or there
is a small gadget in the top right that allows you
to easily scroll the preview screen around_
Where IPR comes out on top over most other
packages is the extremely good palette control
functions it provides. Fairly normal functions allow
you to adjust the brightness, contrast and gamma
available, but the immediate option allows you to
adjust the palette in real time, so cutting out any
wait for a picture redraw. Only the grey scale and
broadcast colour functions do not allow this.
Other functions provided by IPR are mainly
restricted to warping or flipping the picture in
some way. Nothing too Earth shattering here -
simple flips, rotates quite nice fish-eye and sine
wave effects that do not leave you hanging
around either.
Overall, IPR is a very well presented program,
quick to learn and easy to use. Unfortunately,
other than the colour control of IPR there really is
nothing here that makes IPR standout. There is,
however, a lot of promise and perhaps a new
version would change the situation.
tation that comes with the distribution
archive - which also doubles as
the excellent on-line help - the
author goes into great depth about
explaining the use of different
processor time sharing schemes.
Some are suited to low processor
loads while others handle high load
systems better, and to help tailor
Executive to your system there are six
different schemes for you to choose,
so everyone should be able to find
one to suit.
To your average user just using
Wordworth, this is not going to be
amazingly useful, but for the power
user and people that have a few CPU
sucking programs running alongside
each other, Executive can be of real
value. It sits in the background
diligently polling each task, and
you will never know its there -
apart from the fact that your
programs will be running much
smoother together.
REQUIREMENTS
RED essential BLACK recommendec,
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PRODUCT DETAILS
Overall
Product
IPR
Supplier
Bamie Productions,
PO Box 172,
2270 AD Voorburg, Netherlands
Registration
$180 Europe $200 World
SCORE
REQUIREMENTS_
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1Mb Hard disk
Workbench space
PRODUCT DETAILS
Overall
Product
Executive
Supplier
Petri Nordlund
Vanhamaantie 428800 PORI
FINLAND
Registration
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on the side_ I must have lost days playing
this game with my friends. To be fair, I was a
huge fan of the original Dynna Blaster which
also allowed up to five players and had the
same sickeningly addictive game play. For
ELUXE GALAGA
Another fiendishly addictive game, Deluxe
Galaga is apparently based on an old Vic20
game called Stareattle — can a Vic20 game be
anything but old? As with Master Blaster, the
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ASTER BLASTER
people who do not know, Master Blaster is a
maze type of game. You start off in a grid
maze, trapped by explodable blocks_ By dropping
bombs you create more room to move
around in and when you get the chance you
can blow your fellow competitors to kingdom
come. Along the way you can get power ups
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This new shareware version adds many features
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With extra power ups, team play, three different
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wave of menacing alien meanies-
Each wave swoops down in various initial
attack patterns to form at the top of the
screen, where they deploy in sorties,
Gataxians style. Once you have killed them
all, you're onto the next level. To add another
layer to the game there are power ups to
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SCORE
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money to collect that you can then spend in
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With large end-of-level beasties, simultaneous
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RED essential BLACK recommended
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n the beginning the
earth cooled, the seas
formed, and fife came
to the planet. That life
evolved from single cell animals all
the way up the food chain to the
dinosaurs which eventually became extinct
for reasons still uncertain. Man reached his
ascendancy and inverted the home computer,
for which more men designed the software
Imagine 3. Finally, there came Dinoverse from
a small company called Kryonix and now we
On the story.
Dinoverse is the name of a very cheap set of
objects designed for use with Imagine 3 or
higher based around a variety of dinosaurs.
Thee are four dinosaurs in the package rang.
ing from the highly-detailed Velociraptor design
to the Triceratops. In addition to these four
familiar beasties, there is also a selection of
prehistoric plants and insects, although, given
the differences in scale, you might never end
up using them in the same scene together.
TEXTURE MAPS
The objects themselves are not modelled in
superfine detail, but certainly detail enough for
whole body foreground shots, except for the
selociraptor which fills a disk all by itself, The
texture maps that the author has created for
the models are nice, with larger-than-screen
sized bitmaps for good surface detail, but there
are no separate greyscale bumpmaps for that
authentic pebbly skin look
This is wholly due to Imagine's deficit when
it comes to bump mapping an object with a
texture. The reason for this is that Imagine 3
uses the Y-axis to determine the apparent
extent of the peaks and troughs of a picture
used as a bumpmap, which means that positioning
and sizing a texture in three dimensions
becomes an impossibility, To add insult to
injury, Imagine's fairly groovy states function
don't work properly with bumpmaps, so
though you can set a state you can't
lock it down. This means that instead
of the bumpmap moving with your
object it stays in the same place, so
that your object moves through
the texture. This problem is supposed
to be resolved in Imagine
4, but as Kryonix supply the
object- without bumpmaps, it's all
much of a muchness. In addition
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models, you will
also find several landscapes that
have been saved out of Vista Pro in
two versions as low and very low resolution
(compared to the originals) Imagine
objects which would make a useful background
on which to place your saurian actors.
To finish off the scene, Kryonix have provided
an animated sky map with 120 frames of
animation to overlay onto a cloud object as a
transparency map. The sky animation is
extremely subtle, so don't expect to see major
changes in the sky if you use it. Also, it doesn't
loop, which is a shame, so there's no use making
your animations exactly 120 frames to take
advantage of a loop.
The 10 disk set comes with a printed manual
explaining how to install the disks (simply
copy them all into a drawer and assign it
accordingly) and more importantly, how to
actually use the objects in Imagine. The tutorial
provided is written in a sparky, clear manner
and makes it easy for even the bare bones (if
you'll forgive the pun) beginner to get to grips
with the awkwardness that is the States function.
One thing that must
be pointed Out is
that you
probably
States is a function
Imagine 3.0 and higher
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quality, but the amount of effort that has gone into b creating a decent
skeleton for them is easy to see. Kryonix Design e deserves plenty of
support for this collection and Amiga Computing awaits t his collection of
States-controlled aircraft
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2reyscole), that ate used by
&D rendering programs to
give the impression that an
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or an obiect you have to use
displacement map
shouldn't read the manual if you are one of
those people who get incensed by poor
spelling. Numerous 'their's for 'there's and
bizarre punctuation means that the manual
has a less than professional feel to it, and 1
would urge Jeff (the author) to use a spell
checker before he does his next print run.
Things like this do make a big impression on
people and can spoil a very good product_
However, at a cost of only E24,99, it is hard to
fault the amount of work that has gone into
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ne of the most common problems
most new Amigas have is
with the AmigaDOS command
Instal_ Install allows you write a
bootblack onto a formatted disk so that it
will auto load when the disk is inserted. Your
Workbench disk has a bootblack
However, if you only have a single drive,
using Install can be a nightmare. The problem
anses when you want to install a disk in
DK/ (the internal drive) but your Amiga
reps asking for your Workbench disk which
it then duly tries to install. The Install command
is located in the C directory on your
Workbench disk which means that the
Workbench disk must be in NO at the time
the Install command is executed,
Fortunately, there is a neat way round this
problem by using the Resident command.
Resident simply pre-loads selected files into
memory so that they no longer need to be
loaded from the Workbench disk.
Open the Shell and type in the following:
Ed S:Stirtio-hquttue
Atlas q
Save the Shell-Startup by pressing Esc, x
then Return and finally close the Shell
w. Now open it up again and type in q
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Save the edited Startup-Sequence by
pressing Esc,, x and then Return, then reboot
your Amiga with the Workbench disk in NO.
You should now be able to insert a blank
This will load up ED, the Amiga's text editor disk in DM when Workbench has loaded and
'ong with the text file Startup-Sequence. run the Install command with no problem.
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Thanks to its user-friendliness. Workbench makes formatting disks a painless
procedure. Just insert a disk into NO, click it once, and select Format
Disk from the menus.
If you look in the System drawer on your Workbench you'll notice an
icon called Format as well, By running this program you are not only
restricted to NO but can also format your hard drive, if you have one, or
PC disks provided you have the PCO datatype in the Datatypes drawer
found in Devs (short for devices, which is exactly what disks drives are).
You can still use the same options provided by the menu Format Disk
option but with the advantage of being able to choose a particular device.
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AMIGA COMPUTING
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ISGUISE
When you first get your Workbench the first
thing you want to do is load it up and try out
everything. But being too adventurerous can
have its pitfalls. I, and many other Amiga owners,
have fallen foul of the scrolling Workbench.
In ScreenMcKle you can alter the size of the
Workbench display and scroll to any areas not
visible in the monitor dimensions with the
mouse. Having a Workbench the size of
Wembley Stadium sounds exciting but eats up
precious memory. Whatever you do, don't save
the ScreenMode preferences or you may find
that when you reboot later on, Workbench
won't load because of insufficient memory.
This is not the place for complicated solutions
so avoid it at all costs.
down (cursor) keys Shell will allow you to recall your previously
entered commands so that you can simply edit the
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puter monitor and riot the TV
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Select Edit Text Size and drag the four perimeter
boxes to their outermost limits. Click on use and then
do the same for Edit Graphics Size. Now click on the
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Workbench than before. You may need to alter the
screen settings on your monitor in order to re-position
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When you start to personalise your
Workbench and start designing your own
icons (everyone does it), you'll realise that
the RAM disk can't have a disk icon attached
to it. This is because when you reboot
your Amiga everything in RAM is erased —
including any icons.
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yourself an icon in IconEdit and make sure it
is a disk type. Now save it as RAMIcon to
your S directory. Load your User-Startup file
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following and then save it
copy WI: SAAN1con to 1
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directory to RAM as diskinfo (the name of
disk type icons) when Workbench loads.
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should see your icon on the Workbench
screen with Ram Disk underneath.
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Reviewed
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The best game of 1 the year? We think so, because
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warm sunshine that is the Amiga and,
unfortunately for them, it begins to rain
Sen • o f Soccer 95/96•
The promised update has finally appeared.
No more bugs, no more crashes, and
no more Paul Ince at Man United. Hurrah!
a lido
The Theme Park-like game is here! Can you
possibly compete with the likes of Blackpool?
Dungeon Master 2
Wizards, Warriors and lithe Viking's with small Unicorns.
No, that's Dungeons and Dragons! Oh, lardy!
Previewed
A first-person perspective racing game.
Is it Mario Kart? Is it any good? Does it play
like donkey? All the answers are here...
Tennis Champs
The summer has now gone. That's why we always get a tennis
game. I don't know why? And, more Importantly, I don't care why
Hints and Tips
After many weeks of
intense gameplay we
almost managed to
complete Flight of the
Amazon Queen. Here's
the first part_
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SYSTEM
news
By Andy Maddock
As you can see from this
screenshot, the sequel to Alien
Breed 30 is looking pretty good
people prefer to play fast on
No news shocker
telephone conversations, but which one's best Hopefully
say, although we all I could find when I looked we'll have a definitive Doom
are brimming with was a hairy half-eaten apple. guide sometime during the
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games as usual and
we've even had to
which I forgot all about but finished
without haste,
future when we'll be looking at
every single aspect of each
s leave some outi My god, what
tis happening! r
As far as news is
concerned, we're a little short.
u
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By the end of the month my big
'News' file is usually brimming
. with faxes and transcribed
I
But don't despair! There are
enough Doom clones coming
out over the next few months to
keep us going for ages. There
hove been so many. surely
everybody is losing track of
game-to reveal the champion
of champions. Sounds excitingl
Probably not.
Why don't you tell us what
you Think? Write to us at the
usual address.
'
m
aWeapons
at the ready More Doom. Marvellous
f
We can always rely on OTM for a bit of exclusive
rnews.
Yes, they're back with the latest Informo-
ation
on some new releases they've managed to
ilatch
Themselves onto.
d First up is a game entitled Wotchtower which
tIs
basically a top-down 'Commando'-style
oarcade
war game There'll be a simultaneous
two-player mode, several weapons. three different
types of terrain including desert. jungle
and city, six long and challenging missions,
adjustable skill levels, and end-of-level
guardians. Instead of it sounding like a first in
gaming entertainment, it looks like the old
arcade 'Commando' re-visited, jazzed up and
ready to roll.
The game's being developed by CyberArts.
a name that sounds familiar, but I can't think
why. They ore from Finland and apparently
ore set to thrill and excite games players
everywhere.
Guildhall Leisure have finally got around to releasing
their data disk for Gloom. It's called Gloom
Deluxe and features new levels, beasts and all
sorts of things.
The whole interface has now been re-written.
For example, you can now play via a modem,
choose a screen resolution as well as a screenmode,
and even play in a Workbench window.
You can now use the virtual i glosses as well as various
graphic cards. It is ECS and AGA compatible
and you can basically customise it completely to
suit your own needs. Finally, you can finally play it
in super Hiees.
The whole thing looks like a vast improveme
over the lost and hopefully we'll give it a full
low-down in the next month or two in our Doom
special. Hurrah!
No sooner had Alien Breed 3D hit the shelves than
Alien Breed 3D special edition Is already on its way,
The programmer has managed to re-write the
original 3D engine and managed to get the graphics
up to the level of Breathless and the brand new
Nemoc IV. Like Breathless, Alien Breed 3D will include
minor additions such as being able to look up
and down as well as major additions such as a level
editor.
There will be supports for graphic cards such as
Picasso II. and you will be able to alter the pixel ratio
from 2:2, 2:1 to 1:1. This is essential because some
a small screen, or dismiss the graphics for a full sized
screen. It's all down to a matter of taste and opinion.
You will be able to load all the original levels from Alien Breed 3D into the editor
and twist and change them as much as you like - or even design completely new
ones. Not only that, you will be able to draw your own aliens, add mission text, and
even make new sound effects.
From these screenshots It looks like this Is going to better the original Alien Breed 3D
and that got 91 per cent in our review, Can the best get better? We'll find out next
month when we'll hopefully bring you a full preview.
The whole
interface
is now
completely
configurable,
so you can
finally play it
how you
want to
The sequel
has now
arrived
with more
missions
than ever
before

yen more Doom
s. I'm afraid so. Just when you thought we'd shut the door
• the face of Doom clones comes Nemac IV. We are cur-
Eintly chasing up a review copy so well hopefully bring you a
;review next month. It's by a German team, and pro-
;rammed by Stefan Schlott - a name previously unfamiliar to
; lot of you, including me.
Basically, yes, its another Doom clone, although this one
appears to be slightly
more special then the
rest. For instance the
new virtual i glasses will
be compatible, and vir
tual reality is something
which Doom on the PC
has yet to feature.
We saw this demo on
Vemac IV will be available very
won. Keep watching these pages
br a full review
Gloom competition results
durrah! We are pleased to announce that after
lifting through the many mail bags of entries we
lave found a winner to our Gloom competition.
Admittedly. it did take us around 2 or 3 minutes to
octually find one. And as we promised. we have
printed the winning entry.
We received some excellent entries Including
one from James Stansfield from Jersey who sent
us a disk! Wow, it was a very scary disk - it was a
grey. Clever that. When our Technical Editor suggested
we see what was actually on the disk,
there was another monster! Blimey he's spent
some time thinking up that.
Another good entry was Yorkshire lad, Liam
Walker's Angel of Death. He drew it from all
different angles and for a 3-year old it was a
cracking effort!
Michael Garcia's Aguantos was also very
good. And there were three of the funniest entries
ever. Firstly David Torres from Watford and Javier
OsOno from New York kindly set us in their entry
form without an entry. Good try lads, but the
sheer audacity of it will win you absolutely nothhg
And although Ben Finowski's entry didn't
actually o u t the witty humour. In sec-
Take a note of the weapon you carry.
It's slightly better than the weedy
pistol you always get in Doom
a recent upload from Aminet. Inc graphics ran at a horrific
rate and the sound effects were the best yet on any other
Doom clone. The explosions were pretty graphic and It plays
far better because you have to collect codes from various
computers dotted around the maze to unlock the doors.
Also on Nemac IV you con select the screen size from
absolutely anything as well as the resolution.
Asa
Margott's
'Specie'
ond and third place we shall award Liam Walker
and James Stansfield for their efforts with a copy
of Gloom.
Finally, the winner is... Asa Margetts and his
marvellous Specie. Congratulations - the CD32
and Gloom will shortly be in the post. Be patient
though!
fix,"101...1111110 Duk48ER
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92% Issue 93
s neon a bit of a Doom uver the
last few months aria atter hearing exclu•
SiV8 news that around three are planned
10 be developed over the forthcoming
months. It looks like well have to do
Doom special. ( Only two of the Doom clones hove
•eatly shined so for - Fears and Alien
Breed 30. I feel riot Fears was and still is
the best, although. hot many people
actually ogree with me.
Pure and simply, Fears was the most
- it may have not had the technical
wperiorities over games like AB3D but It
still hod moot the Amigo for a number of
weeks.
Flight of the Amazon Queen
Score: 93% issue 94
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quite a bang, knocking up a highi,
respectable score of 93%. Althougl
many garners still believe that Monke
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you can't help but moke room fc
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,FOTAQ. Featuring superbly animate,'
sequences arid sarcastically pleasurable
dialogue. Flight at the Amazon Queen Is
and always will be excellent fun
Alien Breed 3D
Score: 91% Issue 94
This Doom clone arrived very shortty otte
,Fears and Gloom. The developers wer
,none other than Team 17 so we knev.
this was going to be a quality produr;
This is by far the most Doom-like gar'
on the Amiga
Leading Lap
Score 90% issue 9.2,
After lvticroProse announced Formula
One Grand Prix 2 was only going to be
developed on the PC. a huge Gfe,
cloud covered the sunshine that over
wheimingly shone on Amiga gomespla
ers everywhere - crushing all hopes.
That was until Leading Lao was
released and what a crackerl Featuring
some excellent polygons which shifted
at a horrific rate. leading Lap was the
premium racing game
Coale
Score 91% Issue 95
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Reviewed by Tina Hackett
Spooky heh, this is the foreboding
Skulikeep. a place of adventure etc
equel time again and it's
one that die-hard fans of
role-playing games have
been wetting themselves in
anticipation for for years
particularly Neil, our coverdisk editor -
we've literally been swimming arouna
the office with Neil shouting -
It's here, It's n enearly a r lhere. y Personally, I won-
dered what the attraction was, but nevertheless
I donned my trusty green RPG tights,
wizards wand, and magic potions and
teleported myself into RPG land.
Apparently. the original came out around
1987 as far as anyone in the office can remember,
so those who enjoyed the original have been
waiting a long, long time for this sequel. But their
patience has finally paid off and the game is
here, packed with enhancements and new
challenges.
The original apparently sold in excess of a
Oooh dear, another one bites the dust.
Never mind you can always resurrect him
quarter of a million copies and if this is anything
to go by, it's successor should attract a
huge amount of interest. But we have to
remember that this was nine years ago and
demands of today's gamesplayers have altered
Grab torches while you
can to light your path
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you'll like it... but not a lot...
Magic (sorry, magick) plays a huge part in the
game and you'll hove to put some effort into
learning its ways. First of all you will need Kona.
Each adventurer has a different amount and it is
a good indication of their overall spelicasting
skills. Then, as they say, practice makes perfect
and before you can go off casting your
Choose your team
mates carefully
Check your possessions on
the inventory screen
aromatically. You start your travels in a dingy
dungeon (surprise) and your task is to prevent
Dragoth's minions creating the Zo gate that will
allow him to enter Skulikeep (eh?). First of all you
will hove to check out the Cryochambers. In
each one there is a potential Champion someone
you can select to be on your team. Each
hos particular strengths and weaknesses
ond you will need to choose carefully because
you are stuck with them for the rest of the
adventure.
Setting off along the dimly lit corridors, you
must look carefully for anything that may help
you on your travels. There are the usual problems
to solve like finding a key to get through doors.
You also need to collect and more importantly
read, scrolls which impart vital clues. When you
find your way out of there, watch out because
no sooner you have set off then you are
attacked by hideous monsters which you'll have
Graphics are rather basic but do
conjure the environment well
large spells. you need to practice their weaker
forms.
Magick Maps are also available and lets wizards
and priests check out their surrounding environments.
A basic map shows stationary objects
but the more advanced can show hostile creatures
or mana-laden Items,
It takes a while to navigate
around your setting
Wooh, a spooky
dungeon setting
to destroy. Don't fear, though, if one of your
characters gets destroyed because you can
always bring them back to life In the resurrection
alter but use with caution because every time
you do this, the Champion will be weaker than
before.
And that's just a small slice of the game. There
Es absolutely tons to it and will keep the most
hardened of adventurers happy for a good
while. On top of this, you also have your magic
spells to cast and the many monsters to deal with
which, incidentally, are different from last time
in that you con employ tactics, particularly of the
running away kind (my own favourite when
dealing with such foes)
The final word
I must admit, the game did pleasantly
surprise me and it wasn't as bland as
I'd at first feared. Thrill seekers won't
find the ultimate adrenaline rush here
but a bit of patience pays dividends
and you do feel well rewarded for your
troubles. Some of the battles can be a
bit tedious but you can run away
should you wont to.
The graphics have kept the original
style but this does leave it all looking
rather dated and some of the monsters
are quite laughable. Saying that.
though, the improved atmospherics do
something to increase realism (1'm not
sure what exactly, because no matter
Thrill seekers
won't find the
ultimate
adrenaline
rush here but a
bit of patience
pays dividends
and you do
feel well
rewarded for
your troubles.,
Collect ables
The Scroll - this can provide
hints and instructions for
spells
Keys - hidden in all cunning
places, the key is needed to
get beyond the doors
Weapons - extra arms can
be picked up and can be
used later on the tougher
foes
Coins - money makes the
world go round so the more
you can get, the better
how hard I try I can't convince myself
that I'm a muscle-bound warrior called
forham). Sounds and graphics work
well in portraying the surreal world and
the overall look is effective.
The game is rather more expensive
than usual so you may want to take this
into account. Put is this way if you're
a fan of the genre and have waited for
this for a long lime then you won't be
disappointed, but on the other hand, if
you're little more than a casual admirer,
then think carefully - it's not a modern
game, it takes patience and
appears quite dated. All the same, it's
nice to see an old concept revived.

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DISKS
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All Amigos 1Mb
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91%
for all the hype, it's finally here - the
end product, the final boxed version for
which we saved ourselves Yes, It's
Worms. and after what seems like on
eternity we hove the game everyone's
been wailing for. And we do mean literally everyone
because the game is available on PC, PC CD-
ROM, Mac, Mega Drive, SNES, Playstation, Saturn,
Jaguar, CD32, Gameboy and Amiga - the
machine the game was made on.
Programmed originally by Andy Davidson on
the Amiga, he sent
the game to
Team 17 who
wanted t o
Each weapon works in a different
way and it's best to select
them to suit your chosen strategy.
Here are a selection of
some of the best.
The Sheep - this is In rare supply
and is only available from a
weapons crate which is
dropped onto the ground The
sheep is actually a deadly
Some of the various weapons on offer
weapon that will charge into
your enemy and explode.
Airstrike - an eight-bomb
airstrike can be directed to a
certain area and can wipe out
a number of worms
Kamikaze - if desperate, your
worm can carry out a move
that ends in self-sacrifice. He
charges himself into a crowd of
r
That') you, the one with the arrow
above your head, Now to find a victim...
publish the game multi-format and the
rest is history, so they say. It's certainly
heart-warming to see that these new
generation of high tech machines with
their glossy games are interested in anything
our humble machine has to offer, and
if first impressions are anything to go by It
certainly looks like it won't disappoint.
The idea behind It if you don't already know. Is
that you are placed in control of a team of Worms
and quite simply you have to obliterate the opposition
in all manner of cunning ways. It does
require a fair amount of skill, though, because the
other team are all tying to do exactly the same
thing.
You have a number of different weapons at
your disposal and there are also different ways
you can defend yourself. Each worm is dotted
around the landscape and according to the
Reviewed by Tina hackett
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Gentlemen - choose your weapons
worms which will send them flying,
even though he has to die
for the cause
Homing Missile - ahh, the traditional
are sometimes best.
Launch the missile and watch it
hurl into the sky and towards
The enemy. You need practice
Though to estimate the most
likely path it will take.

CD32 too!
The joys of Worming are also available for the
CD32, It's pretty much the same as above but
has the added bonus of animations, choice of
sound track, and lets you play your own audio
CD's in the background.
You can still save data through the NV-RAM.
Control is via the control panel which works as
well as the traditional mouse and keyboard.
When things aren't going your way
you can always surrender,- coward
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, zehind, m or a cliff face which [eaves you exposed
fto
your e rivals.
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choose a weapon, take aim and
wlie.
If
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you hit a worm or he hits you, you ore trea-
; ted to all kinds of bizarre squeaks and sounds like
,
DStupid'
(if you make a mistake) or 'Fatality' (when
y
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worm meets his doom). It sounds quite bloodthirsty
o
but as you've probably gathered, it's all
y
one u in a light-hearted way, and before any
sfruyalists
c harp on about blood and violence in
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mes. a the whole thing Is In a cartoon style with
c mations, n comical sounds, and some great (if
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t s s d which could be improved. The teams of
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you could tell them apart immediately
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can help or hinder - trees can
i provide d protection or can be an obstacle
d w
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a
Airstrike worm debris scattered everywhere
Yum, an exploding worm - I wonder it they can
join themselves back in the middle?
The cartoon style will bring a
smile to even the most miserable
belong to. but sometimes they overlap on the
screen and make It very hard to read. But apart
from this, it's near to perfection and pretty much
everything you would want from a game.
Final word
Worms doesn't have on intriguing plot.
It doesn't have high-tech graphics, and
neither does it have sophisticated
gameplay. So why is it perhaps one of
the most appealing and addictive
games of all time, and why is it appearing
on so many platforms? What is Its
elusive quality that makes me and
countless others in the office wont to
sneak back for just one more go? It's
hard to fathom out - I mean the gameplay
relies on the age old Scorched
Tanks style and the graphics aren't the
most advanced, but somehow it works,
and works very well Indeed.
The worms have a character all of
their own and there's nothing more satisfying
than watching your opposing
worm being blasted into oblivion, It's
brilliant as a multi-player game too and
perfect party entertainment should you
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Hours of
entertainment
from one
game - who'd
have thought
that a garden
invertebrate
could be so
much fun?,
tire of playing Pin the Tail on the Donkey
as 16 friends can all play at once. You
are also guaranteed variety because
each time you play the land Is randomly
generated, and there are just so
many tactics and weapons to learn to
use that every game will be different
And It doesn't end there. If you have
Internet access you can keep an eye
out for hints and upgrades on the Worm
dedicated site which can be found at
hilp://www.team17.com/t17/t17worm.
Another bonus is that if you get
bored with the backgrounds on
offer you can create your own landscapes
using a package such as
DPaint. Hours of entertainment from
one game - who'd hove thought that a
garden Invertebrate could be so much
fun?
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SYSTEM
hints & tips
The comedy breasts could
come in handy later on
ou play Joe. a dashing young adventurer
and first off you find yourself locked in a
dressing room by arch enemy Anderson
who firmly intends to use the Amazon Queen to
transport the glamorous Faye to her Brazilian film
location. Pick up everything you can find obviously
lying around then use the curtain cord and pick up
the wig which is lying behind it in the recess Pick up
two lots of sheets from the floor and you'll see a
laundry chute. Join the two sheets together to
make a rope and then fix the rope to the radiator.
Use the rope, climb down the chute and drop
into the basement. There's a door over on the right
but it's locked. You can only pick up a few items off
the cupboard so you'll need to move the ladder to
be able to pick up some amusing comedy
breasts and a crowbar from the box
of crowbars.
Head up the stairs to the left but if you
try and get Joe past the heavies by the
door they'll throw him bock in the locked
room upstairs, so only go as far as the
reception and talk to the bellboy about
the key. If you say that you're a friend of Lola the
bellboy will let him have the key so take it and head
downstairs. Use the key on the locked door and
move inside.
When you talk to Lola it becomes apparent she's
dearly an old name of Joe's but now she's seeing
your arch enemy Anderson. Ask Lola for help and
after she's moaned about you for a bit she gets in
the shower and demands that you bring her a
towel before she'll get out. To accomplish this you
need to climb back up the sheet rope into the
locked room and use the crowbar on the chest to
find a lovely, fluffy towel. Take it back down to Lola
and she'll get out of the shower before, somewhat
bizarrely giving Joe a sequined dress. Use the dress
in the basement and, combined with the comedy
brectsts and the wig you can just about pass Joe off
as a woman.
Walk over to the stairs and you should be able to
get through the foyer. Even though they're a bit
thick the doormen will soon realise they've beer
Your first task is to escape the room
you've been locked in by Anderson
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Meanwhile the mad scientist demonstrates his
machine that turns humans into dinosaurs
oJpod and give chase. Change back into your
rormal clothes then find the oil hidden under the
toy. Throw the chicken and then use the oil on
ko's car: splattering the windscreen and making
im crash.
Joe arrives at the airport just in time to stop
Anderson taking Faye away. Whatever you say
u'll end up punching Anderson, so you can have
bit of fun with the insults should you want to get
o slanging match. With the storm brewing it's
to get in the plane and fly over the Amazon
nforest where, predictably, you'll get struck by
tning almost immediately.
When the plane crash lands your main objects
to recover as many useful items as you can
n up the duffle bag and take the lighter and
irufa Look at the waterlogged
seats and you'll
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cnly bit that survived from
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beef jerky.
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walk over to it. The water outside is swarming with
piranhas C so give them the beef jerky and move
Joe o onto the giant lily. Cut the lily free by using the
knife m on the stem then pick up the broken propeller
and m propel the threesome to the bank by using it
cri a the lily.
n Sporky tells you of his need to fi nd a
'Commander d
Rocket versus the Mob' before Joe
sets e off to find a telephone. Head north Into the
screen, r From now on east Is to the right of the
screen, south for the front and west for the lefthand
side. Joe bumps into Wedgewood the parrot
who prattles on about how Princess Azura has
been captured and how Trader Bob Is now her only
hope. As Wedgewood flies off, cut the vine with
Pie knife and carry on down the trail.
Soon Joe's path becomes blocked by a huge
gorilla, so head back past the plane and see
what's to the south The broken bridge can be
repaired using the vine, allowing you to cross to the
other side an get to the banana. Unfortunately the
Gorilla is not interested In the banana so you're
forced to engage it in conversation. Talking to it will
uncover that gorillas live in Africa not South
America at all and then, confused by your argument,
It will have a terrible moment of self doubt
and explode, clearing the path and making a bit of
a mess at the same time. Go up to the pinnacle
from where you can see every location that you'll
be visiting throughout the rest of the game.
However, your main priority is to find civilisation and
work out what on earth the parrot was blathering
on about. You should now head downhill to
Trader Bob's.
In the meantime, Faye has a bit of a tantrum
about being left at the crash site and throws a bottle
of her perfume at Sparky and stomps off into the
trees.
Wander through the pygmy village and into the
shambles that is Trader Bob's. Bob knows a lot
about what's happening in the jungle, including
some rumours about the factory where everyone
seems to think Princess Azura is being held. Most of
what's on display in Bob's isn't for sale although the
records, the nets, the alcohol and the vacuum
cleaner are. Trade the beef jerky with Bob in return
for some money and then buy the battery
powered vacuum cleaner with it.
Talk to Wedgewood the parrot and then to
Naomi. She learned English from the missionaries
and is worried about her date that night with Bob
and would willingly swap her hairdressing scissors for
some perfume. Leave the
village and on the way it
will be worth your while
talking to the Witch
Doctor. You won't understand
what it has to say
yet but when you meet
the missionaries you can
get a translation.
At this point Frank is
have been
in his secret lab chuckling
nd give chase
to himself about turning
amazon women intc
dinosaurs and so on, and you should be climbing
that pinnacle again. The missionaries live in the jun
gle so head off there. Take the north fork in the pan •
then head over the fallen tree and past the three
toed sloth.
When you get to the next clearing Joe meet
Bud , and Skip who're two professional explorers
Talking . to Bud reveals that they're trying to get
recaptured by the tribe of Amazon women as they
were released lost time as a result of Bud's embarrassing
heat rash. He says that he'd pay a fortune
for a cure. Talk to Skip and you'll discover that he's
Into the same comics as Sparky. Sparky wants a
Commander Rocket versus the Mob issue, which
coincidentally is the one Skip has got and he very
kindly gives it to Joe. Read the comic yourself for on
added bonus.
• And that's your lot for now, I'm afraid. We'll be
bringing you the next port sometime in the near
future - we hope so anyway_ just as soon as we get
further ourselves... blast_
Bob knows
a lot about
ti what's
happening in
the Ogle,
including
some rumours
about the
factory where
everyone
seems to think
Princess Azura
is being held
You get to the airport
just in time
...to smack Anderson in
the mouth!
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DEVELOPER
Sensible software
PRICE
£24.99
DISKS
2
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Sensible Soccer has been going for a
long time now. The first version ever seen
appeared on various coverdisks throughout
the industry and to be honest. it was
pretty unplayable.
Then come the first official Sensible
Soccer which was reputed at that time to
be the best Amiga game ever. Then foltowed
version 1.1 which featured a referee
and updated teams. After this came
several bizarre versions - which also
appeared on coverdisks. There was a fruit
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Sensible planning version whereby you could control either
sensi-like oranges and apples, Alongside
this was a Bulldog Blighty version which
pitted England against Germany - not
just in the world cup, but in 1944 as well!
The most recent version is undoubtedly
the best. Sensible World of Soccer
emerged as the ultimate football game
on the Amiga And now it's time to welcome
the flood of data disks. This is now
the second in the series How many
more? Who knows...
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your striker scored. he would still end up at half
value he started at.
Renegade. the publishers of the first edition, are
back with a pseudo-update disk with tots of new
features that will undoubtedly spring the life bock
into your old version of SWOS. The first obvious
update is the new teams. All the clubs from the
'95-'96 season are in their respective divisions, and
all the new signings and values are Included And
unfortunately for some, Eric Contona has returned
There was a version of SWOS that appeared on
some coverdisks, This contained updated information
on teams and most of the bugs had been
fixed. and, of course, when this version hit the
shops, Eric Cantona's sentence was uncertain, so
they left him out. But now he's back - talking
more rubbish than ever before! The most recent
updated signings are Mark Hateley at QPR, P
Gascoigne at Rangers, Roberto Boggio at A S.
Milan and, of course. David Ginoia at Newcastle.
When you begin a career you can enter your
nationality so you know which country should be
approaching you for international management,
Yes, this option is finally here! Even though the original
SWOS manual stated this option could be
obtained, it never appeared. All the new kits have
As you can probably sea, Alan Shearer's on the
ball - his name is presented in the top corner

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session. A nice one-man Wembley session
would've been better!
have a training facility. The idea Is to control your
'A' team against your 'B' team. Your first team
contains all the players that would feature in real
life, and the second team contains mock-up players
to act as reserves, loan, and trial players. These
can be brought into the side at any time during
the season and if they are any good, their value
will begin to increase, so those million pound
youngsters like Robbie Fowler can now successfully
be achieved. You play these games
on a pitch reminiscent of the first
Sensible Soccer - hardly any sound
and no stadium.
There are actual in-game differences
to this new version. but only
small Ones. Your players' names
now appear in the top left-hand
corner of the screen, you can
now head the ball without ridiculously
diving about the place,
the crowd now jump up and
down like proper fans should.
when the players score they will
show their jubilation with their
arms, it's now a lot easier to
run around players, especially
if you're controlling someone
like Alan Shearer: and to top it
all off. with a quick press of
the joystick you can now
inform a player if he should
come and collect the boll,
or wait on the spot so if you
want to pass the ball out to
the wing, it will go to the
wing
The differences ore
merely cosmetic and
affect the gameplay minimally,
although if you
were to return to your
original game you'd miss
these slight changes an
awful lot,
Final word
If you're a real fan of Sensible Soccer. then this
Is an absolutely essential purchase. Please
keep me out of the 'it's not worth it' debate,
because there will always be someone who
believes all these features should hove been in
the original - which is probably true
If you're a
real fan of
Sensible Soccer,
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absolutely
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SYSTEM
review
PUBLISHER
Power Computing
DEV LOPER
Fields of Vision
PRICE
£29.99
DISKS
2
HD INSTALL
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The overhead 'snooker table' lights thankfully don't
turn themselves off when your 10 pence runs Out
reathiess is another game that we first
caught glimpse of from Aminet, and
then it was a 3D engine demo - showing
off the graphics. I must say it looked
absolutely mouth-watering - the
smooth graphics were smoother than a peach,
no. even a baby's bottom, and that's saying
something.
In fanfare-like fashion a demo of the game
arrived. I have to admit that after the previous
Doom-clones, my mind wasn't really on the job as
I was rapidly losing consciousness with sheer boredom,
I mean, all you readers have to do is pick
You have to be really careful because the
bad things will come out behind the walls
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one and play it. I have to play them
and then fill around two pages in exact,
the same way. I think I deserve a medal
describing about six similar games in a
entirely different way, Ahem, OBE? I think so.
Please send your rewards and 'congratulations
not to mention money, to the usual address.
So this looks like my last review of a Do
game either because I haven't noticed anyma
in the pipeline or I shall be handing in my noti
as a doom game reviewer after this. I must aam
it's been nice. I'll miss all you Doom fans, but It
time to go. But not before I've finished with 0,
absolute cracker. Here we go.
Breathless, developed by Fields of Vision.
about the seventh or eighth Doom clone t
appear on the Amiga. There are four worlds, a
each one has five sub-levels _ Each world will hay
Its own password so you are able to continu
where you left off, Also, there are twelve differe
enemies which proves that Breathless is quite
aried.
As with the usual collection there are plenty
As with every
other Doom-like
game, pressing
space opens
doors and
secret passages

The backroom boys
The programmer for Breathless is called Alberto
Longo and has programmed on the Amigo for
a long time. His post projects include I-Racer
which he mode for the Amiga a while ago.
Pieroaolo Di Maio is the team manager. He
works as a musician and worked out the map
and sound effects for Breathless. Finally,
Gianluca Abbate is 15-years old, yep, 15-years
old and designed the 2D graphics and textures.
Sounds like a bit of a genius to mei
collectables, and by that I don't mean Star Wars
figures or Dinky cars. I mean power-ups, weapons,
ammo, and health. What rarely features in most
Amiga Doom clones is the finding of keys which
II let you open the colour correspond
door. In various other clones. yoL,
ually find a switch which will be
red colour and by switching it
een, will open another
or somewhere else in the
maze.
Breathless allows you to
look for credits which act
cash. and when It all
tals up ot the foot of
e screen, you'll be
e to log-on at a comter
terminal and buy
eapon boosts, new
s, health and keys. A bit
e a computerised Tesco.
Another feature which you
easily perform is looking up
r down, Doom on the PC looked
eft/ weird because when you saw a
nster on a top platform high above you'
This is supposed to be night time. That's
why your vision is slightly impaired and
all you can see is the sky light!
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is a screen from the
demo we saw ages ago. We
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boost your weapons, not
to mention keys and
health items
This screen scren looks a lot like Doom, because you
can look outside through a gap in the wall
shooting from your eye-level could
easily kill it - realistically, this isn't possible.
However, Breathless lets you
look up or down at any angle to
see the enemy. Most of the
time you will enter a huge
room and find what looks
like a drained swimming
pool with a number of
beasts In the bottom.
Looking down enables
you to pick them off one
by one.
However. there is a
downside. The view is
quite difficult to toggle
between and It's hard to
shoot everything from the one
angle. This, however, is about
the only niggle I can find. There is
one other but I wouldn't refer to it as
a niggle. You see nearly all the walls are at
right angles, giving the game much of a boxy feel.
but it's only when you actually think about it that
It has any effect on you. By the way, I didn't even
notice until someone else kindly pointed it out.
The final word
Considering this isn't the first Doom
clone, you'd expect it to be at least
above overage after seeing the other
efforts. and Breathless Is above average
In most ways. Whether it will suit
your needs is another matter. Although
There may be four different worlds with
five sub-worlds, It still won't really lost
you that long. Okay. so maybe it is a
challenging game, but you get a pass-
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excellent
graphics and
sound effects,
and it plays
like a dream,
word after you finish a level, letting you
carry on, so you could probably finish in
less than a week.
That's about my only gripe.
Otherwise. Breathless features some
excellent graphics ood sound effects,
and it plays like a dream. This certainly
ranks alongside Fears and Alien Breed
3D - there's absolutely no doubt In my
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PUBLISHER
Gametek
DEVELOPER
Human soft
PRICE
£29.99
DISKS
11
HD INSTALL
Yes
SUPPORTS
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This looks like an alien boardroom - apart from
the fact its not. It's a human boardroom

Manual read
I'm not really the sort of person who'll sift
through the manual to find Mlle bits of information
- well, maybe I should hove but I didn't.
And I knew if I did look in the manual, there was
no way I'd find an option entitled 'Change
game completely: My hopes were dashed! I
was upset, I was glad, because at least I hadn't
spent about £30 on it.
The mouse pointer has turned into a rather
attractive star... Ahhh. twinkle, twinkle
Hurrah, it's all installed! As I double-clicked on the
program icon, I carefully positioned the mouse to
make as little movement as possible, and it gave
me reboot deja vu. "It's going to crash! It is. it is—
It did!!! N0000," To my surprise. It didn't, and without
haste it displayed a requester: 'This will reboot
your machine'. Well thank-you very much.
As soon as the hard drive light stopped flickering
like an epileptic Christmas light. Star Crusader
had landed. Boy, was I happy - relieved too!
There followed some nice introduction screens,
and a very long wait for the game to appear.
Another cup of tea? Oh yes, please.
When I returned, a strange alien-like object
was displayed on-screen and after careful
manipulation of the mouse, a small star highlighted
various options - which to the human eye
1Look, UFOs! Well, they would be apart from the
fact they're actually identified objects. Ho hum
hal word
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expecting a high flying space
epic, accompanied by on
informative, factual review, If
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the game and then said It
was utter rubbish, what's the
point? If a friend told you a
realty boring story, would you
ask him to tell it again, only in
more detail. No? I didn't think
so.
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game until it sounds Ilke the
best thing ever. It is to inform
you of how it plays. If it's worth
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you don't know what you're doing
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and I was escorted to what looked like a mission
briefing room - indeed it was! There were some
digitised faces at the top of the screen announc-
ing something. c They did go on for a while, and to
be completely honest, I didn't take much notice
of the dialogue. If I had, you certainly wouldn't
be reading this now.
After this, a cool guy on a computer-like swivel
chair showed me what looked like some more
mission briefings and led me to some more
options. Blimey, I thought, there's a lot to this -
and I haven't even done anything yet!
When I finally got out into space. I was
actually pretty disappointed. Although there was
a nice ray-traced intro bit that lasted about 0.75
seconds, I was left severely despondent. I didn't
seem to hove much control over the spaceship,
and even after realising the mouse wasn't
plugged In, I still didn't have much control. The
scrolling was extremely Jerky, and I had to check
that a) the accelerator board was in and, b) if it
was working
What mode my misery complete was that I
couldn't even get out of the game when
I wanted to - it was as if it had grabbed me
through the monitor and said 'play me!' I
couldn't put it down. probably because I was in
the hope of it getting better - either that or a
power cut.
the money, and most of all, if
it's any good. And that's what I
believe I have done.
I'm being absolutely straight
with you now - don't believe
the hype. What hype? I hear
you soy. Good point, is my
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SYSTEM
review
HD INSTALL
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SUPPORTS
All Amigos, 1Mb
Let's go to work
During the game you will need to hire
cosual labour to keep the place running
smoothly. You should aim to keep your
beech and promenade as tidy as possible
and to do This you con hire Refuse
Specialists. Don't forget to collect the
money from your shops and facilities -
you con send out your Cash Man and
the money will then be transferred to
your bank. However, it may also be wise
to hire Wideboy Securities to protect him
whilst he's doing this.
The safety of the swimmers is important
too, so a Life Guard can be called
upon to keep an eye out. And when
you've booked one of the many talents
' r your show, it pays to advertise, so
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Reviewed by Tina hackett
h, I ao like to be beside tne seaside.
Oh I do like to be beside The sea.
Traialaleh etc. or so the old ditty went
which nobody can ever remember
the next few lines for. Well, believe it or
not. this is a relevant intro/tenuous link because
software company Vulcan have taken this theme
and used it in their latest game. Called Hill Sea
Lido, It's a seaside management simulator -
sounds a little odd, I mean what possible work is
involved in managing a stretch of beach? Well.
it's a whole lot more complicated than you might
think, and there is plenty of work involved as a
budding business entrepreneur.
You have 20 metres of beach and promenade
to do with what you want, plus the running of the
Pier Theatre, and the aim is to expand your desolate
stretch of beach Into a money-making
resort. You must buy shops, build attractions, and
keep the place tidy. Staff must be hired too, from
the lifeguard to the guy that walks around with a
sandwich board advertising the shows. You need
regularly hire the Advertisers to walk
around the beach to tell everyone
about the weekly entertainment
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do
to keep a constant eye on your stock su,r•
keeping the burger bar filled with burgers, and
keep the price at a rate which will keep he
customers happy and keep you in profit.
Okay, so it's not a serious simulation of businest
life, but then again, why would you want one likf
that anyway? What it does offer is a novel sco
nario which, although fun, is very challenging. It'
actually very hard to get those profits rolling in
You also have to make sure your resort passes tha
high standards of the Health and Satel
Inspector who will fine you a ridiculous amount a
money should he find low standards of hygiene
The promenade - build more stalls
to keep the customers happy
On the beach you can set up attractions
such as the dingy hire

Take your pick from the many shops and
attractions to keep your visitors happy
or safety. At the other end of the scale, though.
if you keep your resort pristine then you stand a
good chance of winning one of the possible
awards which as well as giving prestige comes
with extra money.
Tourists can also be a pain but as usual the
customer is always right. If there aren't enough
refreshments or activities they won't come back.
You can find out who they are by clicking on
them - the screen will tell you how fussy they are,
what they want you to build and for, example,
how hungry they are.
Graphically, it's bright and cheerful and has a
harm of its own. It's probably not as detailed as
me games but the cartoon style works well
th the light-hearted theme of the game. There
re some entertaining animations such as the
orious shows you can book - Michael Jickson
performs his great 'grabbing the crotch routine'
Aah, all the joys of the seaside. Enough candy floss
to make you sick and sand in your sandwiches
Don't forget to stock up at the wholesalers
on the essential products for your shops
Showtime - watch what Basil
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Sound options ore available for this
too and. for Instance. if you want to
order something from the warehouse
the cashier will shake her head to
agree or disagree accompanied by
on 'Uh huhl or "Ahal" - basically yes
or no. The usual seaside noises can
be heard, along with van engines
and whines of complaint from the disgruntled
customers if they see too
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cheerful dittys which keep the whole
thing rolling along nicely
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Final word
Without a doubt, this is one of the most fun
games we've hod over the last few months.
Animations add humour, ployability is
challenging, and the theme is refreshing.
It's not quite as in-depth as Theme Park,
which is another game in this fun managementtype
genre, and maybe it's not up to the same
graphical quality, but It is definitely as addictive
and plays brilliantly. It's Only V 2.99 and stacks
an absolute ton of gameplay into it. Superbly
designed and a real bargain to boot - you'd be
crazy not to buy this.
Things are looking up at long last with the
recent releases Flight of the Amazon Queen,
Breathless and Coda. Along with this title we
could definitely see a revival for the Amiga
games scene A real breath of fresh air.
Superbly
designed and
a real bargain
to boot - you'd
be crazy not to
buy this
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acts
such as the
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The match screen makes Super Tennis
Champs play exactly like Super Tennis
from the SNES, which is no bad thing!
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There are
three courts
you can select
from if you are
playing a friendly
against either the
computer or a human
era games on the Amiga have never
really made an impact on the market.
In fact, the only game I con remember
That was any good was Advantage
Tennis - programmed by a foreign
company I think. It was a sort of 3D simulation/
career game using wire frames.
Recently. I wrote a preview for another new
game called Center Court, and I moaned about
Tennis being one of those less popular sports -
well, at least not as popular as football. And to be
quite frank, It's a bit boring as a spectator sport.
Alright, so it may be good to actually play, but as
a spectator all you can do is watch,
For instance, at a football match, shouting and
jumping up and down like escaped monkeys
seems to have an effect on the team you're
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You can tweak all the options to
make Super Tennis Champs play
how you want it to
Previewed by Andy Maddock •
The character select screen shows
all the characters you can select
from their respective countries
supporting and if they win, it feels like you hel • :
them. If you try that at a tennis game, the bio
sitting in the baby's high chair just tells you to
quiet - just so the players can concentrate. W
that's right you see, because football, cricke
basketball and every other sport in the ent
world requires no concentration crt all! No sirree.
I'm afraid to say, it all comes down to be
absolute wet. Yes, that's what they ore - we
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how well you're doing during
the course of a season

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Fit for anyone,
The first thing you notice about
Super Tennis Champs is its polished
feel. It feels like someone
has actually taken the time to
present an Amiga game the
punters actually will want to
ploy. There wasn't really any
media hype of any description,
it just sort of crept up behind us
when we thought the future
of games was going to be
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The title screen shows some excellent
characters, that are so well drawn and took good
be able to hit a tennis ball really hard! I have to
apologise about my attitude, but surely you can
understand why I feel like this.
Super Tennis Champs by Audiogenic Is
another In the long line of post-
Christmas games. including
Odyssey, which should be out
Row, and Exile - the rejuve-
Roted classic space romp.
To me, Super Tennis
Champs looks extremely
Ike Super Tennis on the
Super Nintendo. and the
way the sprites are drawn
is instantly recognisable.
It also managed to
otch up a credible 90 per
cent and more in most
ogazines.
The characters in the game
I had their own personalities -
t like Super Tennis Chomps has.
r example, there's Buzz from
ermany and Synex from
mad°. You can take part in
standard friendly game,
urnament, or league, or go
II the way and take port in a Grand Slam
goinst many more computer or human comtitors.
You are then ranked in a table and the
rther you get in a tournament, the more points
u get.
The actual playing part of Super Tennis
amps is superb, Firstly, you can choose
!,een two systems of service. The first is sligh-
•1rder - you have to hold the fire button
to oct as power and use a subtle direction
!D plant the ball in the opposing player's court.
disappointing. Audlogenic
could never stand accused of
releasing holf-hearted games
to make a quick buck
As you can see from all their
post products, Audiogenic
have always come up with the
goods and managed to cater
for all types of gamesplayers.
Super Tennis Champs is no
exception, and without delving
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doubles option is there too. Only I forgot
all about it! So this is en singles...
too much into the statistical
side, it will undoubtedly appeal
to everyone because it's one
of those games you can sit
down and play, especially
against a friend. The two-player
enjoyment stretches it to the
limit - in fact many office
arguments have been resolved
with a few sets of Super Tennis
Champs.
You can see who you'd possibly get to play in
the next round via the tournament tree
The second is merely a cross-hair which you
place where you want the ball to bounce. Also.
The players all have their own statistics and attributes
so the player you will pick will have a
varied effect on your success.
The Grand Slam tour takes you
all over the world playing at vari- II
ous venues, and before you
start the tournament you are
split randomly against all the
other competitors from
around t h e world.
Depending on the venue,
you will either play on a
hard, clay or grass court.
Before you begin to get
,vorried, there's an option
for you to save your game so
you can continue at a later
date if things get a little tough.
The options screen allows you
to change settings such as the service,
you can keep all the players on 111
the same skill, and can alter
the scrolling if the ball goes out
of play. You also get an
overview of the players you
get to play with and against, so you can pinpoint
their strengths and weaknesses. Finally, there's
the option to load in more characters from disk.
Final word
You can
take. part in a
standard
friendly game,
tournament,
or league, or
go all the way
and take part
in a Grand
Slam
At the moment It must be about 92 per cent complete - all that's waiting to be
added is the obvious presentational screens. and features such as a manual and
box. The gameplcry is set about right, all the competitions ore accessible, so from
what l've seen it's going to be one of the best games this year - even though it's
hardy started.

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Three players can take part,
giving you more of a view
because the horizon sometime
gets in the way
The track editor is excellent. it
allows you to chop and change
sections easily and efficiently
lel 1 Rac
uildhall Leisure have oeen pushing
releases out like nobody's business. A
few months bock Gloom received 81
per cent from yours truly because
It was one of the first
Four players can play at any one
time. And if you add another
Amiga, eight can play!
',/iewed by Andy Maddock
much better than Mdrio Kart was that four p
could race at the same time on one Amiga
connecting two machines would enable ei
players to bathe it out all at the same time
So if you've got plenty of friends
like some friendly rivalry, Extre
Racing could be just wh
you're looking for.
Although it is still a fair v,
off completion its loo
pretty Impressive.
graphics ore very c
toon like - working
with the backgroun
and track graphics -
the best thing by
about it is the tact
you can customise
.:]ornpletely.
On our preview versi
there was an editor, alio
you to edit the tracks, and it
] comprehensive applicotio
although reasonably simple to
at
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followed Fears.
te although it was slower, was
mexcellent
fun. Hoton the tail
pt
of these two releases Is
s Extreme Racing. a sort of
a
first-perspective view rac-
t
ing game, which looks a
lot like the SNES version of
a
Super Mario Kart - which is
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no bad thing!
o If I remember rightly,
opreviously
saw some
mscreenshots
of this uploaded
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Amine. Back then it wasn't
lsigned
to a publisher or any-
ithing.
and to be honest. It did look
kpretty
good. It was titled 'VP which
e obviously meant Extreme
gRacing
- although it was spelt This may took like a pretty badly drawn Basically, the screen was
aXtreme
Racing. Gosh, how screen. However, don't worry, it's just a into a file-like grid wher
dithered screen
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we manipulate the English I
you could load up obje
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and place them on t
I was always a big fan of Super Mario Kart on screen. I'm not sure whether this will be Ind
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SNES and when I saw the screenshots of •XTR' on the complete package. although they
•I
could see a lot of similarities. However, instead of to have already planned some data disks
•the
excellent Mario characters. Extreme Rocing new tracks and the editor. depending on
featured different cars - a Police car, a VW games success.
Beetle. a Ferrari, and more. What made this so When I mentioned you could customise
in one-player mode Extretne Racing
is at its fastest. it really does play
like Super Mario Karl too!

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The space track is by the far the best, beating
every other in terms of graphics
The yellow car belongs to a certain character
don't exactly know which one though
entire game. I mean you can change resolutions,
camera angles, frames per second, car detail,
background detail, dithering and the screen size.
Almost every key on the keyboard manages to
change something
The actual game will feature a championship
where you win cash in respect for your placing.
and can then upgrade your car to give it better
engines, brakes and tyres. You will be able to
run your car over question marked-shaped
boxes which will randomly present you with a
weapon for you to blow away the opposition
These include missiles, mines and even
ming sheep! Finally, there will be three
La fa la Is— If only I could think of a caption...
Hang on, wait a minute... No, it's gone
The -
JAmiga -was
Turbo Trax, and that was
1 pretty good except it didn't really offer
tanything h new that stood out from the
rest.
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As far as I know, the only game that's
relatively similar to Extreme Racing is
OTM's Virtual Karting - and that's only
This is the logo. Pretty isn't it? Yes very
pretty. And no, I'm not running out of
things to write aboutt
difficulty levels as well as cup races and the
aforementioned championship.
You will be able to race around a series of
themed tracks including water world, radioactive
world, normal roads, and space tracks
where you have to stay on the track,
presumably because you're in orbit.
As with Mario Kart, there's a bathe mode
where you chase your opponent around a
track, with the idea of smashing him up - rather
than completing laps. Its pretty similar to the
Mario Kart version whereby three balloons are
attached to your kart and you must pop your
opponents balloons. As it proudly states on the
In-game Instructions. 'It's Mario Kart - only not
as cute!' Too right mate.
The characters you can choose from are
pretty sketchy at the moment, although from
what I can make out there is a funny bloke, a
kid, a monster, a policeman, a woman, a cool
guy. a Chinese man, and a green monster. They
may change - hopefully, they will.
Hopefully, there will be full race replays so
you can watch where you went wrong and
why, and thankfully, Extreme Racing will be HD
installable.
Final word
Super Mario Kart. was and always will be, one of
the finest racing games on any format - ever. If
Extreme Racing can be half as good, then it
looks like Guildhall Leisure and Black Magic are
going to be riding high in the charts again, so
soon after their success of Fears and Gloom. All
you have to do is wait for the full review, which
should be next month - space allowing.
As for the actual game itself. I played it on a
Al200 with a Blizzard 1220 and it was very
Impressive, especially when altering some
detail and playing around with the frames per
second.
because the tracks are ma -
the same way. Extreme Racing is looking
far more professional than Virtual
Karting, and If a few tweaks are mode
before the full version appears, It could
well be one of the finest multiplayer
games of the year. We'll have to wait
and see.
You will be
able to race
around a
series of
themed tracks
including
water world,
radioactive
world, normal
roads, and
space tracks
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operating systems that most people are familiar
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to click at the top of the screen to get menus to
o
appear, and the fines are there all the time, taking
up space that could be used for something else.
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Although Windows supports three button mice,
e most applications still use the left mouse button to do
geverything,
like the Mac. Menu titles ore also on con-
ostant
display and have to be clicked on to oppear.
t The menus in Windows are even worse when it
acomes
to keyboard shortcuts Both the Mac ond the
nAmiga
use fairly standard keys for commonplace
y operations, like Amigo-0 for quit, while Windows
wiRTA• lk.
puses
the really obvious shortcut Alt•Frt to exit an
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application.
The Mari Sr's operating system is based around
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b
compared to the others. To get at menus on an ST,
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you have to do is move your mouse up to the top
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the screen. But this can be a source of annoyance
The AfTliga'S menu
bar hide s a whe ts,
host of use ful
functions a nd
comma nds
mas
you pop menus open unintentionally and slow
operation. This means you could have a directory
s down your work.
window open on Workbench, then access the
f But where the Amiga molly scores is in its unique
Window menu to show all files, view them by
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to select more than one menu item in a single
name, and select them all in one fluid motion. In
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i Backdrop Al - the backdrop command allows you
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turn on or off the main Workbench window. This
You can type a shell command into the text gadget
that appears and any results will appear in a text
window. You can use this menu item to open a
shell window by typing 'newshell' into the text
gwindow
contains all the drive icons you have gadget that appears.
mounted on your machine including the RAM disk.
When you double-click on an icon it opens a window
in the normal fashion, but you can impress
Redraw All
people with the speed of your machine by opening Redraw all - redraw all and the following item,
a load of windows and then clicking them to the
back of the main Workbench window. Then, when
Update all, ore both rarely used and are for
refreshing the screen display and updating drawer
you double-click on o drive icon whose window contents respectively.
you already have open, the window will pop to the
front of the Workbench window instantly, making
it look as though you have a super fast hard drive.
Update All
If yor want to get rid of the backdrop window Update all -see above.
on a permanent basis, you should turn on the
backdrop item and then, making sure you have
no windows selected on Workbench, use the
Last Message
'snapshot window' item ,
Last Massage - shows the last message that
he Wi
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Command...
d
()tow,. command... AZ -this item opens a window
on o Workbench w that's like a one-shot Shell window.
appeared in the Workbench title bar. This can
be useful if an AmigaDOS error appears and
disappears too quickly to be seen.
• We'll carry this on next issue and move onto the
other menus.
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case you don't know how to perform this fear, ;I E5
simplicity itself.
Try it for yourself by following the example I just
used. Open a window that usually contains files
without icons like the RAM disk, for example. Now
hold down the right mouse button as usual to access
the Window menu, but instead of just letting go ofo
when you are over the right option, click the left
mouse button once instead. Click the left mouse but
ton on the 'show all files' item first, then on the 'view
by name' option. tosHy, let go of the right mouse but
ton when you are on the 'select contents' menu item
and the menu will disappear back up at the top of
the screen. Your RAM disk window will rush about
showing the files, changing them into text, and then
selecting them all.
Now I know that this demonstration doesn't °du. I
ally serve very many useful purposes, but you may
well have programs like PageStream that have menu
options that can have tick marks next to them to indicate
that they hove been selected. You can now
select more than one option at once, rather than
selecting one, waiting for the operation to occur,
going bock to the menu, waiting, going back to the
menu, and so on.
So let's have a good look at the menus provided
by Woiithench and check out what options they provide.
While we are doing this you will notice that
some menu options are 'ghosted' - the text looks
funny. This is a visual indication of a menu item that
cannot be used at the present time. For instance, if
you have no windows open or selected, then there is
little point in using the 'show all files' menu item, so it
is ghosted.

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beneath the surface
of the Amiga's
program scatter
coding routines
Ai
taking a look at the routines that ore used
0 ver to lood the next and few run issues Amiga I am programs. going to The be
illOrce•
to - files used to store an executable program on disk,
• in other words the sacaled Ain igaDOS 'Load Files'.
A load file consists of a number of units known as
sta
'hunks' which, amongst other things, contain program
code, rtin static data such as graphics and text, and
details g of any uninitialised space needed by the pro-
ppm. oWhen
a user runs such a program, either from
ithe Workbench n or by typing its name at a Shel win-
t
dow, on AmigaDOS loading routine is brought into
reion.
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The first thing that happens is that a header block
ois
read and the space for a hunk table, used during
r the loading operations, is alocated Immediately after
tesis,
appropriate amounts of memory for the various
hcode,
data and bss luninihalised spacer hunks present
in the load file ore alocated, with the hunk con
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tnts being read into the ac
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separate memory alocations for the various
e
uired hunks are made, the hunk information basicaly just
dgels loaded i into any suitable memory area Mot is
m e m o r y
scm:viable
(with the loading routine performing any
b l o c k s .
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address relocation calculations and creating
My segment code links that may be required(
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Pogrom segments produced in this way are linked
skigeohor
using on arrangement known as a 'seglist'
scmd the i original DOS routine for scatter loading o
oprogram
into memory_ loadSegl), for example will
ncreate
just such a list, and return a pointer to it, if the
s load is successful, At some stage, of course, any pro.
gram loaded by this routine will need to be removed
a
horn memory and the routine used to perform this
roperation
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INTO MEMORY
The use of the LoaciSegji routine itself is easy. Load a pointer to the filename into
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a convenient way of doing this will be e to sstore e the pointer in memory and test the
zero flag after the move has been completed like this:
erne. L eD,steitst_p
beq.s .error
preserve EN. pointer for unfolding
Having got the seglist equivalent of a load file safely into memory, the DOS library
provides routines, including one coiled CreateProc(), which allows the code to be
brought to life as a separate process. There are, however, other uses for the loading
routines - you can, for example, pass files containing just image data structures
through the conventional assemble/link stages, producing graphics data that can be
scatter loaded. When it comes to using functions like intuition's Drcrwimage() and so
on you do, however, need to be able to locate the start of the real data within each
segment.
Individual segments which make up a seglist are tied together by means of pointers
(lICPE pointers) with a NULL value signifying the end of the seglist chain. If we
then take the starting BPTR seglist pointer provided by a routine such as LoaciSegt),
left shift it by two bit positions and add 4, we end with on address that is the start of
the real segment information. Here's a typical piece of example code for scatter
loading a load file into memory and locating the entry point of the first segment:
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next month.
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preserve BCPL pointer for unloading
el points to tntry point
and segfist creation is concerned that's basically it - the
care of all the difficult stuff. The next thing to do is take a
be used and, needless to say, this part of the story comes
SEGLIST POINTERS
AmigaDOS has its roots in cm operahr
system called Tripos, much of which wo'
written in a language called BCPI
Amigo coders in general do not have to
worry about BCPL except for the fact
that it uses a form of long word addressing
based on the normal 680x0-style
memory addresses divided by four. lf,
therefore, an Amiga DOS function is specified
as returning a BPTR, i.e. a BCPLtype
pointer, you have to multiply that
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If an AmigaDOS function returns a
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function will also expect a BPTR as well.
This being so, it's usually best to store
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Paul Overaa explains
how AlRexxis
de-bugging facilities
an be used to
find errors in scripts
ebugging and testing con be one of the
most time-consuming stages of any software
development, and ARexx scripts
ore, of course, no exception to this. The
use of proper structured design techniques, modular
programming, topdown development and so on
titips, but it will not eliminate all the problems. No
Tatter how conscientious a programmer you ore,
some mistakes are bound to be made.
Sometimes problems will be due to simple syntax
!tors caused by, say, a basic misunderstanding of
ow a statement should be written, or a dyslexic
slip at the keyboard - inadvertently writing Uppre(l
when you meant Upper( for example, or writing a
s
ebecause
you didn't hit the shift key at the right time.
mSuch
mistakes ore usually considered harmless
because they are easily found and therefore easily
i orrected.
- ARexx is very good in this respect and not
conly
will it identify most errors but you con be fairly
oSure
that any ARexx program which gets to a
l noble stage is going to be nigh on 100 per cent
ontacticaly
correct.
If, whilst developing a script, you get past the
n
ol syntax error stage and your program seems
wrun
in some fashion, then often you will be home
hnd
dry. Occasionally, however, things will go
e ong - o program may run to a point arid then for
n a obvious reason moy lust fail to behave as
expected. It's at this stage that we enter the realm
y
debugging proper and one of the most important
o
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u ble trace facilities.
mARexx
supports two basic modes of tracing:
e sly, there is the normal Or 'non-interactive ' troc•
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viewed Secondly, there is on 'interactive' mode
n
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t °gram and interact with it as the trace proceeds
ttea
sidin or sterr if available'. It is possible to look
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weven
type in instructions which are subsequently
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BACKGROUND This mode is the same as OFF except for the fact that the TS
support program con not override it.
COMMANDS A l l command clauses ore traced before being sent to the external
host. Any non- zero return codes are also displayed.
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statements.
Default tracing mode. Similar to the ERRORS mode except that on
error ceiling value (set using the OPTIONS FAILAT instruction
Form) is used to determine whether or not an error trace should
be generated.
Tracing is turned off by this option although this situation can be
overridden by ARexx's TS program.
Traces the results of every expression that is evaluated.
Similar to ALL but it is a parse-only scan so the program does not
ac•ually get exerL tod.
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THE TRACE INSTRUCTION
The syntax of this instruction takes the
general form—
TRACE [ symbol I stringS I I [VALUE] expression]]
which means that three basic forms of
the instruction exist, namely:
TRACE symbol
TRACE string$
TRACE [VALUE] expression
where the symbol, string or expression
must either represent (or reduce to) a
positive or negative integer, or be one of
the options (or a single letter abbreviation)
shown in table 1. Negative numeric
values, incidentally, indicate a 'suppression
count', which turns ARexx's tracing
off for a given number of clauses. A positive
value given during interactive tracing
indicates that a number of interactive
'pauses for input' are to be skipped
over.
The trace output itself can be sent to
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itself); to a file associated with a
standard error (stderr) file handle (this
can of course be another console window);
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to this file handle, or have opened the
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through the standard output channel
(stdoutl. The benefit of having trace
information sent through a separate
channel is simple - it avoids having
trace output and normal program output
intermixed at the same window.
Of course, what we need now is a few
examples of these facilities in action to
drive home the ideas. Needless to say
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some people really
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ving in a virtual
ity
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t amazes me sometimes the gap that can
appear between reality and the fevered
overblown prattlings of some computer journalists.
If you were to believe everything you were
listen to, we should all be living in this amazing
e called Cyberspace, zooming at break neck
eed down Magically raytraced tunnels, and
rid bizarre abstroct worlds - all presented with
hits that would shame top-of-the-range Silicon
hit machines. Not that you would have time to
and admire such a drool-inducing scene as you
be having cyber sex with hundreds of luscious,
ling, ready and waiting sex vixens, from all
ners of the globe.
Sounds good to me - I cannot wait to get a slice
that cake. Unfortunately, the reality is a little more
to Earth, Let's face it, you're lucky if you can
the NetScope page in under five seconds, but it
ms that many people, when talking about the
ternet, live in this possibly hallucinogenically•
ed fantasy future.
The icing on the cake came when watching a cer-
'n British computer games show, and one guy
altered the words: "Ill just download this movie" and
Lamm, a QuickTime movie of Drudge Dread instantly
appears. Apart from sending me into fits of laughter
and swearing profusely, this sort of misleading action
is exactly what is going to drive people away from
using the Internet.
When actually asked how long it would take to
download that movie, the journalist admitted it could
take quarter of an hour for leased line users, and at
least 45 minutes for normal home users. So what he
IBROWSE AVAILABLE
Well a demo at least. The much awaited and talked
about Web browser, iBrowse, has finally hit the
streets. The final program will be a commercial product
so only an early tut-down alpha version is available
for you to test for 28 days. Point AMosoic at
http://www.omnipresence.comlibrowsel for all the
, latest lOrowse information, and the latest demo.
Even though illrowse has taken a bit of a beating
on IBC, my early impressions ore very encouraging
Allowing multiple network connections, igrowse co,
asynchronously load graphics for the current Web
page. Even this cut-down version that only allows a
maximum four, network connections is downloading
pages as fast as NetScape, and the final version
allows up to ten connections. Along with a
large improvement in windows scrolling and the fact it
does not lock up when downloading information
illrowse is set to be the premier Amigo Web browser.
But hang on, what is this I hear about Amiga
Technologies talking to NetScope? This could get
b!ik Fantasy
'44 Net
was showing you was not a true representation of
what you would look ot on the Web.
All right, I hear you cry, I have just spent the last
couple of paragraphs slogging off the Internet, so
what good is it?
You wont to find Out the latest on the Galileo
probe. When it was approaching Jupiter, NASA
had up-to-the minute position data of exactly when it
would reach the Jovian atmosphere. Have you seen
the PAWS portable Amiga? Why not check it out at
Blittersoft'S new Web page.
This is what makes the Internet so useful - infor-
mation. A great example of this was when I was trying
to find anything said by Amiga Technologies at
the Toaster Expo. My first port of coil was the
Amigo IRC channel. From here you can talk to any.
one around the world in real time. Having found out
that the Power Amiga would be using the MPCO04,
I thought it may be useful to find something out
about it. Fite up your Web browser, go to ony one
of the available search engines - tycos being my
choice -and you quickly end up with a good selection
of links to IBM and Motorola's Web pages.
The Internet and all the related services it provides
ore a great resource, and perhaps in the
future some of the things will come to pass Silicon
graphics have produced a virtual web language
which allows you to explore a three dimensional
space over the Internet. I think many people may
need to take a reality check, because it is fine for us
with leased lines and free phone calls, but the public,
the people who will make or break this thing, do
not have these.
Omnipresence International
This is i8lOW11•• The little tights in the bottom right show
the sta tus of the tour simulta ne ous ne twork conne ctions
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cluonum
http://www.amiga.de/
Amiga Technologies - home of the Amiga. the
new Amiga Technologies home page is now up
and running in English. Find out all the latest
news about the Amigo. Plenty of good information,
including speech transcripts from Cologne
and the Toaster Expo.
http://power.globalnews.comippchom
chtm
PowerPC News - the PowerPC News home
page. A bi-weekly look at the PowerPC world,
possibly of interest as the Amiga has had a
couple of mentions recently.
hisp://www.mat.comiSPS/PowerPC/
Motorola PPC HomePage - Motorola's PowerPC
home page. You want to know anything about
the PowerPC processor you can find it here.
http://www.chips.ibm.com/productstp
pe/index.html
IBM PPC - the IBM PPC home page, more
info on the PowerPC processor. IBM tend to
concentrate on the future PPC range
http://www.uroulette.com:8000/
URoulette - Fancy adding a bit of spice into
your life, then try URouLette This will transport
you to a random Web sight. and where you will
stop nobody knows
http://wwwiam.aam/
Intangible Assets Manufacturing - home of IAM.
Find out about all their latest products and
more.IAM hove lots of Amiga networking expe.
rionce and is the home of the best disk salvage
program DiskSolv
http://www.mag-net..co.uk/8soft
BlittetSoh - find out about all BlitterSoft s newest
product range, including the yet to be released
PAWs portable Amigo kits, for the
A600,A1 200 and A4000,
http://www.team I 7.co.uki
The Wonderful Team 17 Web Site! -and it is.
Read about all Team Its latest projects,
and try them out to Find out about Worms and
AB3D special addition, looks damn good
http://www.cs.colostate.edubArellingistnartfarm.html
SavvySearch - a multi-search engine searcher.
Increase your chance of finding a useful Web
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cy with your layout, particularly if it distracts
eye from searching through the list of items for
that matches your customers requirements
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colour or a bolder typeface. The third example.
single item ads, are the ones with the most design
potential. You can do practically anything and
sometimes this freedom can be disconcerting. The
most important thing is to avoid the 'boxy' look
that a lot of adverts produced on the Amigo
achieve effortlessly. If you are only advertising
one product, you can afford to spend the time
and effort in order to make your ad look a bit spedal.
Beware of using too many colours or typestyles.
I know it has been said before, but it is a
basic rule of layout that you shouldn't make your
design too busy
. There are ads in Amigo Computing (I won't
mention any names] that are incredibly hord to
garner any information from because they have
colours running riot over the layout and text that is
too hard to read. This is not the approach to take.
First of all, sit back with a cup of tea or a whisky
and plan out your page lor spread) on a piece of
paper, just sketching in where you want things to
go. Make a list of items that you want on the
page, phone and fax numbers, e
-price
information, delivery detoils and so on. If
moil you take credit cards, find the relevant images for
those you accept and if you can't find any, try the
addresses,
magazine your od will appear in - they will
almost certainly have some. Of course, if you ore
producing the magazine your ad will appear in,
then you'll just have to draw some for yourself in
DPaint or, preferably, ProDrow
. Bear in mind the differences between mono and
colour artwork il you are producing on ad that will
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presented. Corned
numbers need to be
Inner and a simple form
showing costs should be
included
appear in someone 1 else's magazine, and make
sure you speak to the magazines art department
wel in advance about deadlines if you propose to
send them art Amigo DIP file for output Most nag.
ozines have never heard of ProPage or
PageStream, so will be suspicious of joking on a file
From one of these packages. The problems continue
For the Amigo DIP'er as neither ProPage nor
PageStream produce files that are even remotely
compatible with OuarkXPress or PogeMaker.
Probably your best bet if you are dealing with a
large magazine is to lay out your ad as you want
it and then send the pictures. logos, etc. to the
magazine along with a printout 'preferably in
colour' of your ad for the art deportment to work
from ond lay out in the DIP package of their
choice.
Well continue with some of the themes that can
be used for your adverts next month and go into
more depth on the topic, but until then, be cool
PAGE STREAM
PROGRESS
Not much this month. A haven t heard
from Soft-Logik for a while and there's
been no news on 3.0i, so J can only
assume that no news is good news and
they are busy beavering away on it even
as I write this month's column. More
news as soon as I get it.
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HI South shows you
ow to emulate
ore arcade game
chniques using the
of so cheesy Amos
logs, eh? I bet you don't think about them
or give them a second thought, do you?
You don't have the slightest idea what I'm
talking about, do you? Well, o flog, for
the purposes of this discourse, is a vanwhich
is set to indicate to a program that a
in state exists So when the flog is set, some.
ng has happened that the program should know
, and more importantly doesn't need to check
again. Until, that is, the state changes, in which
se the flag is changed and the program then
s checking for that state again. Confused?
y iers use on example.
In arcade games, you fire a bullet from your
ship/loser/whatever. The program checks the
buton and if its on it activates and moves a
sprite across the screen away from the gun, ii
let the sound effect of the gun going off, and
ks the bullet across the screen until it hits
ing.
So you make o loop to check for the button on
joystick being pressed. Simple enough, yes?
el, the first thing you notice when you write a
ine like this from scratch is that when you press
Duton the loop checking for the button press
round about 50 times a second, so when you
t you get a horrible staccato buzzing noise
the bullet doesn't ocivaly leave or the buzzing
se stop) until you've released the button.
The buzzing noise is the bullet sound, the bong,
lig played many times over and over very fast,
reason the bullet doesn't leave the barrel is that
skirts its journey every time the button is sensed to
ir the down position. So how do you moke the
If you ca re fully
hallow Phil South's If Tire(I) And MISSFLAI4 Then Sol Ploy 1
instructions you will NISSFLASal : Ildb 2,SX,S1,2 : NIzSX : NY.SY
soon ha y. ships If 1I55ILIG=1 Then Add OX,S : Bob 2,10,17,2 : If
shooting trom lb. hip
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ton press once and only once? Now you're
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FEBRUARY 1996
Nol with
a bullet
OVER TO YOU
Why not send me your examples of Hags, and interesting uses to which they can be
put. Making a process easier, showing the program that states have changed, even
some interesting flip-flop effects (('II be going into those another time) - anything
really as long as it's about 10 lines of code or less and it Mcludes a flag or two. I'm
particularly interested in graphic elleas, but timing and more mundane task are
acceptable. Perhaps there is on interface problem you can solve with these flags?
Look into it. I'll look at the best in a month or two. In the meantime see you
next month for another arcade game routine which you'll find handy when you
design your own version of an arcade classic.
getting the idea You use a flog Take the following
example:
If firt(l) Then Sao Play 1 : lob 2,SI,STa
MPH : POW
Add O0,5 : lob 2,
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That's simple enough Sense the joystick, make a
bang [in this case a nice sample], then move the
sprite Iwo pixels at a time from the barrel to the
edge of the screen in a straight line. If it gets 100
pixels away from the ship without hitting something
it gets turned off. But this routine suffers from
buzzing and no bulets. The better way of doing it
is:
In this version, when the button is pressed the flag
•
•
MISSFLAG is set from 0 to 1. In the next line the missile
is moved only if MISSFLAG is still 1. Until the missile
moves 100 pixels away from the barrel, the flag is
stil set, so the fire button is dead. You only fire one
shot. When the first missile vanishes [you could
explode it, but in this case it just vanishes), you con
then shoot another. Obviously, you could vary the timing
so that you can add a multiple shot, perhaps, or
make it a second (or 50/50ths of a second' or even
half a second between shots, enabling the player to
get his finger off the button.
This is an extremely useful technique and one
which answers a lot of those questions you ask, like
'how do you do that? Nine times Out of ten the
answer is either flogs, subroutines or vectors. A side
benefit of using flogs in your Amos programming is
that these techniques ore used quite a lot in the worlds
of C and assembly programming. So as and when
you move on to those languages, as you might in the
course of time, you will be prepared for at least one
cool trick.
WRITE STUFF
If you have any other Amos programs or
queries about Amos, please write to the
usual address, which is: Phil South, Amos
Column, Amiga Computing, Media House,
Adlington Park, Macclesfield SKI° ANP.
Please send routines on an Amiga disk
with notes on how the program works
on paper, not as text files on the disk.
,Make the routines short enough to
appear in print, i.e. no more than about
30-40 lines of code and, if possible,
make them use no external graphics, or
if they can't be used without them then
be sure to provide them on the disk in
native f FF formal, and the same goes for
sound files. Follow these guidelines and
you'll be sure of making me a happy
man if nothing else.
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migo users ore soon going to be introduced,
initially via mail order advertisements,
to a company coiled Tangent
NOM Music Design and a compoct disc land
tri cassette] album called Everybody's Girlfriend.
What has this to do with the Amiga music scene?
Quite a lot - you see the three partners of Tangent
Music ore none other than Edward Fermor, Richard
'Knox... and David Pleasance who, as you'll oil
doubtless know, was Managing Director of
Commodore Business Machines UK until Escom
GmBH purchased the worldwide ossets of the
Commodore group and the UK branch hod to
close
What you probably will not know is that David
Pleasance is also o musician, a guitarist in fact,
ith a particular passion for Flomenco. He's hod
his own Flamenco dance company, has studied guibr
in Spain, and has appeared in concert, cabaret
and on TV, supporting people like John Farnham
and Gallagher and Lyle
Amiga is actually Spanish for girlfriend and the
Everybody's Girlfriend album is then essentially a
celebration in music of Pen years of the Amigo, with
the 14 tracks being inspired by the Amigo, recorded
using Amigos, and written and produced by
people who know the Amigo.
This first album provides o chance to hear something
of the musical talents of David Pleasance.
Everybody's Girlfriend was in foci David's brainchild,
with the initial planning of the project beginning
around November of 1994. Recording, which
did not start until September of last year, has been
carried out using Amigos running the Blue Ribbon
Soundworks Bars & Pipes sequencer, and the
Sunrise Studio 16 B-trock, 16-bit digital recording
I've been one of the few reviewers lucky
enough to get a sneak preview of the tracks on
Ph. Everybody's Girlfriend album, it's quite an
Impressive mixed bog with the music and
lyrics for all except four of the tracks
being attributed to a band called 'Passion',
who turn out to be Tangent's Ed Firmer and
Richard Knox, both of whom are established
session players. Ed also has lots of TV and
video work under his belt and in 1993, for
instance, accompanied the renowned deaf percussionist
Evelyn Glennie on a world tour.
Richard, a singer/songwriter/keyboard player,
has played and recorded both in the UK and
the States and, as well as various TV appearances,
also has a number of film credits to his
name.
'chard Knox does a good job with the main
vocals on half a dozen of the tracks, although
there is a particularly good raunchy number
called 'Lay You Down' which features P
Philips and Angie Brown on vocals. You'll also
find an interesting raw blues track, and a fe'w
instrumentals including an excellent David
Pleasance Flamenco track 'Para Mi Amiga
(Homage to Jay Miner)'. You might like to
know, incidentally, that David's personal
favourites from the album are the pop song
Don't Let Me Fall, the love song called Roses,
and an instrumental track. Infinity!
should think that the fact that David
Pleasance is both executive producer on the
Everybody's Girlfriend album, and one of the
musicians, is going to be enough in itself to
make this offering a bit of a collectors' item
amongst Amigo owners. When you add to this
The sound
of music?
system. When it comes to professional recording,
however, not even Amigos con work in total isolation
and, needless to soy. Tangent's 32 channel,
24-track digital recording studio also has its fair
share of other hi-tech equipment scattered around.
There's a Soundcraft DC2000 fully automated
desk, and Iwo Tascam DA88 recorders which link
to the Amigo-based Sunrise Studio 16 system.
Everything gets mastered to a Toscam
DA30 MKII DAT which can then be
recorded to a Morantz DD82 DCC, a
Sony ICK6115, ond to Phillips recordable
CD (which is linked incidentally to
on Amiga 300011. If you also odd the
massive assortment of outboard effects,
sound modules and samplers, including
a Roland JV1080, Roland 5760 and a
Korg Wavestation SR, Genelec monitors
in the control room, Spirit Absolute 2s in
the studio and so on, then it's hordly surprising
that things sound good.
There is, incidentally.
also a small
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4000/030 running Bars & Pipes where many of the
ideas for the new Tangent MI.J3iC album storied life.
This in itself should be of interest because this latter
type of setup is typical of that which can be found
in the home studios of many
Amiga-based musicians.
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what can be done music-wise with on Amiga
sequencer, I suspect Tangent Music are going
to be onto a sure-fire winner with this new
project!
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Steve White explains
how you can
make your object
brushes dance to
your tune
ples of picture design, backdrops and
S special effects. This month, and for the
Illl o next few issues, we will be looking at
animation f principles and specific techniques
applicable to animation,
a
Obviously, drawing single images is a lot less
painless r than creating an animation, but most
reputable w art packages include a plethora of differ
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hell of a lot easier, and quicker, than that on
Isoper. t o Unfortunately, understanding the techniques
con take a while and even then, opplying
fv
them correctly can prove a recurring nightmare.
So ue
for simplicity's sake, I won't be going into the
Nth ns
dimension to explain these functions but will
provide ct
simple techniques with results so that you
have ti u o head start for your own experimentation.
od
Just as with a single image, it is vitally important
that you put your animation down on paper
First
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in the form of storyboards_ Storyboords are
smal s e roughs of the key elements, scenes and
camera td
angles within an animation. You don't
need ht
to draw in detail, just enough so that you
personaly ah
understand what it is you're planning
and how it works.
t e
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OPTIONS
The a
next thing to do is work out what animated
effects ks
ore included and the best options for rendering
e i (drawing) them, To pinpoint certain
aspects ac
I will be referring to the animation shown
here in the screenshots. The techniques explained
np
can be employed in many different ways ond
with ir
any animation, not just the one I have
supplied. mi
an
At the computer, the first thing to do is to design
all tcthe
objects that will make up your completed
onim i
(short for animation). Although lilt more
appealing to aduolly design as you go, I can guarantee
o-
you'll eventually wish you hadn't. Create all
the n objects and save them independently with
suitable o filenames, If you end up with a lot of
objects n and they're not properly labelled, you
end a up wasting precious time and freaking Out
regularly.
c
With the boring bits out of the way you
con then simply click ,
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eu r o
When zooming objects in you'll quickly reah that the
, t
that make up the object turn 'blocky' as they are magnified.
dThere
- is a way around this which entails drawing the original
object at its largest size. You can then set the animation position
to the last frame in the zoom and render the brush zooming
Out, but with the animation running backwards and with
a positive value in the End z position.
Both D e luxe Pa int
and Brillia nce fe a ture
a compre he nsive lot
Of a nima tion
functions, Good
brush ma nipula tion is
fi a t forspe e d
and fle xibinty
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Twist and
turn it!
you'l feel happier, and more confident, spending
time getting the finished animation accurate.
Both Deluxe Point and Brilliance have powerful
Move functions They allow you to set the initial
start position of the brush, the end position, os well
as any rotations you want to occur throughout the
procedure. There are three important values for
both position and rotation and these are labelled x,
y and z The x and y are the easiest to explain and
understand. With x you con move your brush in the
horizontal (left and right) and y allows you to move
the brush in the vertical (up and down). If you are
moving clouds or a ship you would use the x position,
and to move a lift or a helicopter you would
use y.
Z is a different matter altogether. If you can
imagine a line travelling straight through the centre
of your screen, you will have discovered the z axis
When you realise that z moves brushes
closer and farther away it is easier to visualise this
imaginary line. The position of a brush hos two
uses - for moving objects or for camera pans. 11
you move a car off screen horn a standstil then it
will be clearly obvious that the abject has itself
moved. However, if you move an entire scene off
screen then it will appear that the camera has in
fact moved (panned' rather than the scene. The
Building a n
animation is
a re la tive ly
painless
procedure if
you stick to
the trie d a nd
tested
methods_
Ignore theme
methods a nd
you're in
trouble
same principle also applies to z. You con appear to
move an object closer or farther away but by moving
the entire scene you give the impression that the
camera is zooming in or out. Sorry to go on about x,
y and z, but they need to be understood if you
are maximise your potential with computer-aided
animation.
X, y and z also feature with rotation as well as
position. Using rotation you can turn your brush in
every angle while the brush is being moved through
the position axis settings. Rotation is more difficult to
grasp than position but if you can imagine the x, y
and z position lines on your screen, rotation simply
rotates the brush around the corresponding axis, like
an apple skewered on a stick. I hove supplied a
screensho indicating the position and rotation axis,
so if you still can't quite grasp the idea take a look
at it.
This picture should ittustra te to you the
m, y, a position a nd rota tion tine s using
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some helpful
advice for
would-be Amiga
DIVers
lion over the last few months, ond hinted
S at some of the ways you con use fonts for
iSIM
video titling. I thought it might be a good
n.deo
to go over the basics of video titling hard-
cware,
what you need, how it's connected together
e Ond what you might achieve with a basic setup.
I
I'll keep it as simple as possible for those of you
with the yearning, but not yet the knowledge, to
'
add graphics and titles to your own videos, such
vat
holiday films, weddings and family events.
e 1 you have an Amiga with its own colour video
goutput
(such as the Amiga 1200) then you olready
ihove
a machine with which you con do simple
vIdling
and graphics to video. You probably realise
ethat
you can use either the RF or video outputs to
n display your Amigo programs on a suitable TV,
ybut
did you know that you can also use them to
orecord
the output from your Amiga to video? The
u
simplest way is to connect the Al200's RE output
to the aerial input on your VCR, and then monitor
a
it via your TV in the usual way whilst you record
l or prepare graphics, though the picture quality
l won't be morvellous.
t
hCROSSOVERS
aAdd
another VCR in place of the Amigo and you
t con copy sections of your production across and
f make an edit from your original video footage,
ocutting
out all the worst ports. If you want to odd a
ntitle
or graphic simply reconnect the Amigo to the
record VCR (the one you're editing onto), use your
t
favourite point or titling software to make your
i
graphics, and then record them. The quality of the
nedits
you'll gel with such a system will be rather
f hit and miss, since there's no way to control the
ooccuracy
of the cuts, so 'glitches are likely to
r occur, but for almost no outlay (provided you can
mgel
your hands on two VCRs, one of which could
a
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In addition to its overlay functions, the advantage of using a
genlork is that you don't have to keep reconnecting equipment,
since it can output either Amiga graphics, incoming
video, or a combination of both, so if you just want to edit
picture only simply switch the genlock's output to Video
Only.
However, a genii:KJ( still won't cure glitchy edits, since it
affect the way that two (unsynchronised) VCRs relate
,
a,
qect ce
either split second accuracy or perfectly clean edits.
•:Iember h m that you're working on the cheap, so bear this in
leind ow
before you get depressed wondering why your CI000
fcollobled-logether
th
video edit suite can't compare to a E10000
Pro•SVHS or E30000+ litetaCam system.
hi
ec
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ws
Titling for
beginners
A A
be a camcorder) and a TV or two (a second TV is
useful for cueing up the playback VCR, though not
totally essential) you can at leost experiment with
video titling from your Amiga.
Incidentally, if your VCR has a composite video
input in addition to the standard RF you'd be better
advised to use it if possible, since the quality
will be better than RE. IF your video has a SCART
connector you can always buy a suitable set of
leads to connect from the Al200's phono video
output to your VCR's SCART socket.
Owners of most other Amigos won't have it so
easy. Inexplicably, for such.° DTV-friendly
machine, most of the other Amigos in circulation
don't have an RF or colour video output, so you'll
have to add one in the form of either a modulator,
genlock or encoder card, depending on your
needs, your budget and the type of Amiga you
have,
Each of these devices connects to the Amiga's
ROB port and convert the Amigo's native RGB
signal to one ot more forms of video signal,
For instance RE, composite video, or SVHS.
Genlocks allow computer graphics to be
'keyed' over background video, enabling text or
graphics to be superimposed directly on top of
video pictures. In simple terms, this means that
wherever the background colour (palette Colour
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behind the graphics, though some genlocks permit
other colours to be used os their background key
colour,
Modulators and encoders simply convert RG8 to
video and cannot usually provide any superimposition
or other genlock functions. They are usually
used to take the Amiga's display to a TV or moni•
tor, or to provide a video signol for recording
and/or further manipulation. Note that on encoder
will generally provide a higher quality output than
a modulator, since they are built with video in
mind, rather than TV display.
If you hadn't olready realised it, you'll also
need two VCRs if you want to use a genlack. One
VCR provides playback for the source video, which
in turn is needed to 'genlock' (in other words, synchronise)
the Amigo's display timing to that of the
incoming video signal, while the second VCR is
necessary to record the composited graphics and
source video from the genlock's output.
CONTACT
POINT
You can e-mail Gary Whiteley as
drgaz@cix.compulink.co.uk

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Paul Austin explores
the on-line offerings
for the 3D
enthusiast
e
about everything of note when it comes tolighiWove
the Amiga on-line experience consists of
on-line.
y Aminet and not much else However,
Needless to say you're free to browse the finer
a4
t h e reality is very different Take a trip
s
points of the Tomahawk ftp archive, but in addition
u to The Amiga HomePage and you'll soon
you're given the option to link up with various other
crealise
there's a lot more on offer to Amiga folk
othan
the world's biggest PD and Shareware LightWave contacts
erdme,
u
l For 3D fans specifically the real heart and soul WaveRider
http://tomehawk
d the web has to be the Tomahawk site which can
owelch.jhu.edui
Newtek
d
http://www.newtek.corn
te accessed in all its glory via the web courtesy of
b
Engulf & devour
hltp://is.eunerch/People/old/bome.htrni
WaveRider Homepage
Digital Dream
e
hitp://uptown.tumpoke.net/H/Herbert/
From here the casual browser gets occess to a Imaginative Systems htip://199,234.150.15/
ruly f massive collection of models, textures, images, Long Island Media Group
hints, o tips and just about everything imaginable for The New Graphics BBS hitp://www.grapkics.rent.comi/
u
hard-core r LightWave fans.
Side FX
hitpliwww2.hunierlink.net.au/-ddribi
g Thanks to some thoughtful page design Electron Dreams:
ftp://ftp.pd.org:/pub/edreoms/lw
WaveRide. i con be used as a jump point to just
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n THE IMAGINE ANGLE
r
f
Although o perhaps not offering the technical excellence of Last but not least in our on-line extrav-
WoveRider, r Ian Smith's Homepage certainly does its bit for aganza comes the good old Real 3D.
Imagine t users on both the Amigo and PC.
Basically the format is a familiar one,
hThanks
to Ian's efforts as a Shareware author, Imagine with the best cjump point being offered
fans can download a very respectable collection of add-ons,
i
by the Official Real 3D Homepage.
textures and utilities, with notables being Ian's own
creations
n
From here you can hot fink to a vari-
which include a collection of nine algorithmic ety of sites. However, be warned - this
textures k and a variety of support programs, including a is a media rich site which demands a
texture i interface and assorted file conversion tools.
fairly quick connection. Leaving aside
nAdd
to that an excellent sub-page entitled 'The big List of an assortment eof sexy graphics and
Imagine g Tools' and you arrive at an invaluable resource for commercial plugs for the software, the
Imagine t fans on both Amiga and PC. Split into two cate- real highlights come from a sub-page
gories, h 'The Big List' offers a collection of texture sets and creatively entitled 'Other.' From here
add-one a plus an impressive range of even more format conversion
t tools allowing object transfers between Imagine,
Light Wave and Real 3D.
Real 3D contacts
Imagine contacts
Conny's corner
Imagine mailing list
Dare 2 Imagine
httpl/www.is.kiruna. se/--cio/
h ttp://www . is. ki ru no se/-clo/rt-iml,html
httplivAvw,is.kiruna. seb-cio/faq7/main.html
http://wvAv,is, kitu no %ef-cio/d2i/moin.html
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The
invisible
r
REAL 3D
Amiga 3D oriented hp sites, and even the odd
gopher site gets a mention and potential hoilink.
Obviously models and modelling add-ons avail.
able from the hp site or at the top of most people's
shopping list, And true to form WaveRider offers a
concise and friendly means of listing and
subsequently accessing the goodies on offer via a
excelent hot linked nide*.
To odd even more user friendliness to the
WaveRider experience the site is about to implement
a Java oriented on-line preview of the models
available from the archives.
Soon anyone kitted out with a suitable Java cormpliont
browser will be able to audition the models
on offer actually on the site, prior to committing to
what can often be a very sizeable download. If
you're in the market for lots of lightWave freebies
WaveRider is simply too good to ignore.
you can link up with the various
resources floating around in the electronic
ethos. Needless to say, given the
inherent complexity of the package,
joining the mailing list is a particularly
wise move.
Aside from the Real 3D specific stuff.
the official site also boasts an impressive
collection of links to more general
3D-related web resources, all of which
ore well worth a visit regardless of the
allegiance to a particular package or
platform.
Real 3D Homepoge http
MSA Real3D Homepage -http://www.msassoc,co.jp/msaiereal3d.html
Real 3D Activa
// http://wwwwin.netk-reol3di
Essmoomott ww
-The
sites, resources and URLs spotlighted w.r in this column are by no means the whole story when it comes to
xtirsommos
Amigo-related 3D on the web. Having ealsaid
that, they should offer a useful introduction to what's on offer,
smintomrai
When you've got the time, be sure 3d• to check out the assorted contacts panels - they'll all lead you to even
more sites software and assorted
rlinessama
gre goodies. Have fun
al.h
nimmis,
/
A de mo downloa d
that prove s the re 's
more to the Amiga
on-line e xpe rie nce
than bucke t loa ds of
e d sha re wa re
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