Amiga Computing - Commodore Is Awesome

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product that. although it doesn't really
need a whole page's worth of review,
deserves some recognition. The item in
question is Ckisteiner's three button
400dpi mouse.
Looking Just like the onginal Mega
mouse, this one fits nicely into the palm of
your hand and comes equipped with one
more than the usual number of buttons.
But what is the point of having a third
mouse button?
For a start there are actually several
programs that use a third mouse button
including Directory Opus. Hisoft's
DiskMagic, and many other directory
managers. But in addition to these
programs there are a host of PD and
shareware utilities that are either
specifically geared towards using the
middle mouse button, or have middle
mouse button functions built into them.
Some examples that spring to mind
include our CoverDisk item MultiCX which
lets you use the middle mouse button to
cycle screens, which is much easier than
the left Amiga-m combination or going up
to the top-right corner of a big screen.
Most of the other big commodities will
also have some provision for MMB screen
cycling or multi-file selection, where
Instead of having to bold down the shift
key you use a mouse button.
Commodities like YAK have so many
items to configure you could probably do
with a 23 button mouse! Finally, the
Gasteiner three button mouse also comes
with a nice long lead and you cant beat it
for value at only E 12.95.
Also groovy this month is the latest
version of the aforementioned MultiCX.
Virus alert!
It doesn't seem like John Veldthuis
ever sleeps. No sooner have you
got round to downloading v6.56 ol
his superb VirusChecker program,
there's another version out. This
time it's 6.57 and it's angry. Well,
possibly not, but if you want to
ensure that your hard drive is safe
from even the newest viruses then
get this. More than anything, this
release fixes bugs from earlier
versions but it does cover 49
different viruses and their relatives.
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Amiga Computing
OCTOBER 1995
TUTORIAL
Amiga Medical Part 9
and the next program I want to tell you
about. The next program is actually a
patch to the ASI.nbrary that comes with
Workbench 3.0 or 3.1. It won't work if
you have an older version of Workbench,
and the authors haven't tested it with a
processor more humble than a 68020, so
there's no guarantee it will run on a
68000-based machine. This patch gives
added functionality to the three requesters
ASL provides, namely the standard file
requester, the fonts requester arid
screenmode requester.
Changes are made using the provided
Mill-based preferences program and you
can set such things as having the
requesters centred on your mouse, Me
active window or screen, or at the top-left
corner of the active window or screen.
You can also make sure the file requester
puts the directories at the top of the file
list, rather than at the bottom which
always seemed strange to me.
Lastly, but not least, a boot utility was
brought to my attention when trawling
the net for stuff for a CyberVision card
The utility in question is designed to show
a picture instead of that boring black
screen as Workbench loads. The utility is
caned Pic Boot and it handled pretty much
every1FF image I threw at it loading 1024
x 768 images in the blink of an eye.
thanks to the accompanying UnPackilBM
Cool which decompresses 1FF picture files,
making them load a lot faster.
PicBoot is equally at home on an ECS
or AGA machine or on a machine that has
an IZTO graphics card like the CyberVision
or Picasso. It will fade in the picture and
fade it back out once Workbench is
loaded . C . . q •
The bottom line
Product: MegaMouse Plus
Suppler: Gasteiner
Tel: 0181-345 6000
Price: E 12.95