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EDITORIAL onathan Potter says he won't carry on. Games publishers say it's the reason they've dropped the Amiga. Big Amiga names like ASDG. Gold Disk, New Horizons and Digital Creations have all dropped below the horizon for one reason or another. It's not necessarily all connected with piracy, but it has to be said that piracy on the Amiga is rife. Sometimes people use piracy as an excuse because the only way they can get to see a piece of software in these Amiga shop-free days is to get a dodgy copy of it from a friend. This is particularly true of serious software - shops are pretty much guaranteed to be able to sell a E25 game. but a piece of software retailing at E250? They aren't likely to want to take the chance it doesn't sell. The software companies can get around this to some extent by making more demo versions of their software, limited time versions, save disabled versions. versions where you can only use a tiny area of the screen. It would help people make the decision to buy and would probably result in increased revenue for the companyThey will, of course, still have the problem of ensuring a wide distribution of these demo versions, but with magazines panting for new material and the Internet becoming ever more popular, only the insular of companies will find themselves with difficulties. But the area hit hardest Is certainly games. People rip games off left, right and centre_ It's not just an Amiga phenomenon - every week in the leisure computing trade mag CTW, some company or other is claiming they have lost millions of dollars (billions in some cases) in revenue owing to pira-y. This is sometimes because a pirated •sion of a game is In some way improved, giving the player endless lives or the ability to install the game onto a hard drive, and I may be in a tiny minority, but I won't buy a game that won't take advantage of extra RAM, processor power or additional floppy drives. I'm also not keen on games that don't install on a hard drive. Perhaps its about The 111 - te am EDITOR Patil Austin CIRCULATION DIRECTOR D a vid Wrem DEPUTY EDITOR Ben Vost ART EDITOR Tym Leckey COMMERCIAL DIRECTOPI De nise Wright NEWS EDITOR Adam PhiIlipi DISTRIBUTION C OM AG (01SISI 444055 COVERDISK EDITOR PRODUCTION EDITOR Neil Mohr Judith Chapman SUBSCRIPTION GI SI •I SI 29Si GAMES EDITOR Tina Hackett STAFF WRITERS Andrew Maddock Member of the Audit Bureau& 0111111110•15 Gareth Lofthftse Dave Cusick ABC( 33,546 ADVERTISING MANAGER Simon Lees AD SALES AD SALES AD PRODUCTION Jane Normington Si Horsefieid Barbara Newell ix , Published D by IDG Meda Meda House, e M ilton Park. MARKETING MANAGER MARKETING ASSISTANT PRODUCTION MANAGER SYSTEMS MANAGER Oat Mawddey Victoria Quinn-Harkin Sandra Childs David Stewart Macclesfield c SK 10 4NP Tel: 1 01621 818E:3 9 Fax 1 01625 85CI52 4 Thp final NB • Amiga Computing OCTOBER 1995 If lommodore 178517Y — killed the limigo, perhap5 pirarq will Bell 1105t 1011lf5 dt all Mel Mole dangerou5 problem time games companies looked to the somewhat higher end of the market. After all, who's more likely to buy a game - a person who actively expands their Amiga and is willing to spend money on it, or someone whose only investment has been a joystick? Escom need to have a concrete software strategy in place. It's all very well getting the hardware back in place, but without companies like ASDG and LucasArts back in the fold, serious and games users of the Amiga may as well give up now and get that Mac or PC. Perhaps, like Microsoft, Escom need to have an in-house software team creating new word processors, games and image processing packages. They could afford to get the best programmers out there, particularly those in the public domain and shareware fields, and really bring some quality software back onto our beloved platform. Added revenue from software sales could help to bolster R&D budgets, pushing the Amiga back towards the forefront of computer technology - where it belongs and was ten years ago. We are getting faster base level machines with a greater capacity for RAM, and hard drives CHAIRMAN Richa rd Hease MANAGING DIRECTOR la ir Bloomfield We regret Amigo Computing cannot offer technical help on a personal basis either by telephone or in writing. All reader erbqunes should be submitted to the address in this panel for possible *lit-Aims Amiga Computing a ar independent pubkcooan and Commodore Minns Machines lid are not responsitie for airy of the erodes in this asue or for an of the epos ions expressed. 4199S IDG Media No material may be reproduced in whole or in part without written permispon While every care is taken, the pidolishen cannot be held legally reponsible for any errors in anicies. listings or advertisements • are becoming more and more commo place, but there are no staggerin advances in the graphics, sound operating system technology that powe the Amiga. The operating system could definite stand a little more game-friendliness. you give programmers the tool5_ the need to rapidly scroll screens, pl..,s/ ba animations, or manipulate bobs In th OS, publishing houses wouldn't need reinvent the wheel with every game th write. This won't improve the situation a vis piracy, but it might attract some the game publishers back from other plat forms where these things are, or will soo be. taken for granted. So who is this Jonathan Potter? He the guy that spent the last four year developing Directory Opus, only to thre len to give it all up because his softwa is available from every pirate BBS in world. IDG NEW \IEDIA For ski yams Amigo Computing has been the leading magazine for Amiga trodaniasts, As a key member of the IDG conwnumitations group, Amigo Computing promism to inform, educate and entertain its readers each month with die most dedicated coverage oldie Amiga available, 12 mug subscription i44.11 pig, CHO (EECI 104.9t (We ill Ongoing quarterly direct M ot ill1,91 (UK oniy) Printed and bound by Duncan Webb °fleet (Maidstone) Ltd
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This real time, PALSECAM-NTSC, 24-Bit colour frame grabber/digitiser has slashed the price of image grabbing on the Amiga, and at the same time has received rave reviews for its ease of use and excellent quality results. ProGrab Plusn't is now S-VHS compatible too! ProGrabrm has received honours from just about every Amiga magazine! And... with ProGrae you needn't be an expert in Amiga Video Technology either... A simple 3 stage operation ensures the right results - Real Time, after time. I NWith both VHS and S-V141 o w c o m 1 Addees& p a tl iio • Daytime Phone 1 bt — lu a computersd i e rPhase nosh mey ( l1 erbe C 1• riaVI,,,r/ irriiti o i1i 4 ) u 1 n ,,,.,,,, It WAILS eliStriellorr • pi STAGE Expiry Date.. I 1 I I hfi ue No (Swhch C 111•••••al r Aiitid-any video source with S-VHS Of COmpOS1Ec uutpuZ. This Lould be your camcorder. TV with KARI Output, satellite receiver domestic VCR/player or standard TV signal passing through your VCR/player the choice is yours. STAGE 2... 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