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person can be placed in up to eight
different groups.
Once you have a few people entered
Into DFA you can cursor up and down
the list on the main window A selection
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of their details is displayed in a small
window at the bottom, or you can view
their entire entry by pressing return or
double-clicking.
DFA comes with a fairly comprehensive
preference program, along with the
fairly normal window positioning and a
choice of the fonts it uses. You can
change exactly what information is displayed
in both the main address listview
and also the smaller panel listview that
is at the bottom of0FA's window.
A couple of DFA's more unusual features
is that it has been designed with
network use in mind. Therefore, a number
of people can share the same
address book over a network without
any of the usual read/write conflicts.
The other unusual feature is that if you
have a modem attached, and then a
phone connected to your modem, you
can get the computer to phone up a
particular person.
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Author: Jack Pritchard
Workbench:204
Is your life a mess? Never know what you
are meant to be doing next? Always
forgetting about loved ones birthdays,
weddings or bar mitzvah? Well,
epoch Voyager can help you get back on
track.
This is a fully-featured Personal
Information Manager, so if anyone asks
you know what to tell them, Voyager
allows you to store all your coming
appointments, special events, deadlines or
whatever you need reminding about.
The main screen of Voyager is a diary
which allows you to select a specific day
from which you can enter a start time,
an end time, a category, an occasion, a
location and up to nine pages of text.
You can also have a daily planner with
up to 50 lines of text in each entry.
Whenever you run epoch Voyager, it
will check the next seven days to see if
you have any entries in your diary.
Along with the plain diary, it is possible
to add anniversaries so every year you
will be warned of impending birthday or
wedding anniversaries. Along with these
features you can also add simple
reminder messages. By entering a date
and a +- days amount, you can jog your
memory on a daily basis — hopefully
never forgetting some important task.
For a wider view of things, a year
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Amiga Computing
OCTOBER 1995
COVERDISKS
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If you should find your Amiga
Computing CoverDisk damaged or
faulty, please return it to:
17B Plc, TiB House, 11 Edward
Street, Bradford, W. Yorks BIM
7BH.
Please allow 28 days for delivery
planner is provided where every day of
the year is available. Just click on the
appropriate day and all the relevant
entries for that day can be viewed. If
that was not enough for you, there are
two separate address books. It is possible
to search between the address book
and you diary for any coincidences.
Consequently. if you wanted to know
what appointments you have with Fred
Bloggs, there is no problem.
Plag16
Author:
Workbench:2.04
When the Amiga first arrived ten years
ago. its custom sound chips were state
of the art, and even today the sample
quality produced by the Amiga is superior
to the PeeC's basic Sound Blaster
and Ab lib boards.
The fact that other platforms have
realised that people might actually want
their computers to make some sound
has meant that over the last few years a
number of incompatible sample formats
have emerged.
Along with the Amiga's own IFF-8SVX
format there is Wave. Voice. Sun Audio,
Maud, AIFF and not to mention plane
raw sample formats — most of which can
handle 8 or 16-bits, mono or stereo, and
additional sample compression.
Play16 will allow you to play all the
above mentioned sample formats and
more. There are a number of ways to
use Play16, the simplest being to run it
and use the file requester to choose a
sample_ Play16 will then auto detect the
sample type and play it.
There are some more advanced
options available which can only be
accessed from a shell. Two of the more
interesting ones it provides include
direct Maestro Pro output, if you own
such a board, and also that it supports a
new sound driver system called Cyber
Sound.
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