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REGULARS
What's new
If it's happening, its here Four pages packed 7
with the very latest Amiga news
Beginner's Guide: CU
Stovio Kennedy s beginner's guide to the 4 3
Amigos operating system continues
Public Domain
Paul Austin's monthly free for ail. The best
Public Domain and shareware showcased
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THE GAMES ZONE
rrie ..„e.ction of Amiga Con putmg that takes having
fun seriously is bursting at the seams with many new
features The official Amiga chart, percentage scores
and the ultimate
accolade - The ACJ
award Get your
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FEATURES
Tower of Babel
Linking easy with a Psion our CoverDisk Organiser giveaway to your Amiga is 1 4
Modem operandi
Eddie proves McKenaricles price is no guide look to at performance
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Getting the message
8 5 Scala both as isn't Eddie a titer, McKendrick nor is Ito slide reveois show, It's 6 5
Thrifty titler
Paul Austin looks at possibly the best value 6 9
nigh quality titling software available
The WorkStation
If you have ever cursed the Amiga
Workbench, this is an otter you Just can't miss ....70
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Amiga Computing 5

Five years to the month after Protext version I was
launched Arnor ore pleased to present version 5, on enormous leap
forward in both ease of use and performance.
Protext 5.0 introduces a completely integrated system of pull down menus
ond dialogue boxes. The menus are among the mony operations that may now
be carried out with either the mouse or the keyboard. Protext really does give
you the best of both worlds.
Protext 5.0 handles printer fonts flexibly and accurately. You can make full use
of any number of proportional printer fonts, mix them freely within any line,
centre them in headers, use automatically formatted footnotes. And Protext
correctly formats your text as you type it, no matter how many font changes
you use, showing you line and page breaks exactly as they will be printed.
Protext 5.0 is still the fastest word processor around. Even though we have
made all these major improvements we have taken great care to ensure that
text editing is as fast as ever. The menus work smoothly and quickly even
with high resolution displays. But of course, you can use Protext's efficient set
of commands and keys just as before and 5.0 remains compatible with all
earlier versions from 1.0 onwards.
Protext 5.0 is a worthy successor to version 4, which was described as "the
best word processor at any price", "the best text processor on the Amiga"
and "the most powerful word processor on the Atari ST" (AUI, ST/Amiga
Format, ST User).
Protext 5.0 heralds a new era of multi-lingual European software, in time for
1992 and the opening up of Eastern Europe. Protext may be used in at least
27 different languages and has 10
different notional keyboard layouts
built in (phis the capability to . define
your own symbols and
keyboard layouts).
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with mouse or keyboard. Amiga version
folows Intuition guidelines,
Enhanced printing capabilties supports multiple proportional fonts; mixing of
diferent font sizes on the same line: proportional formating whilst editing; side
margin, headers and footers independent of main text font. Tabs, decimal tabs and
centre labs. Extensive range of printer drivers supplied,
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A Graphics mode support on PC alows use in virtually any text or graphics mode
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of contents output.
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Spelling checker features completely new 110,000+ word Colins dictionary with very
fast phonetic lookup. Anagrams and find word patern. Foreign language didionories
(German, Swedish available now, others to follow).
:f Many other enhancements including multi-line footnotes and endnotes; automatic
timed save; add column or row of figures: indent labs; find word at cursor: 40 column
mode support; sentence operations; inter- paragraph spore; much improved expression
evaluator; self incrementing variables, Roman numerals; newspaper-style column
printing; file sorting utility with special options for names and addresses; revised monad
plus new tutorial guide.
And don't forget Protext still includes background printing; box manipulation,
macro recording; exec Files; headers and footers: find and replace; mail merging;
undelete, file conversion utility, configuration program; auto reformating; on screen
help; time and dote, typewriter mode: line drawing; disc utilities.
Protext 5.0 may be purchase(' from any good computer shop or directly from Amor, Upgrades from earlier versions
are only available from Arnor and the original discs should be returned with your order
PC Amiga ST/IT Archimedes
Protext 5.0 £149.95 E149.95 E149.95
Upgrade from v4•2 E60 E60 E60
From earlier versions £75 E15 EFS
Pr °text 4.2 99.95 £99.95 [99.95
Prodato 1.1 £19.95 E19.95 [79 95 9
Notes
Protect 5.0 requires at least 640k of memory on all machines
Piotext 4,2 requires at least 5121( of memory on all machines
Prodato requires 1MB of memory on the Amigo
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Amiga
Computer
of the year?
TOP computer publications in both
Greece and Italy have named the
Amiga 500 as their choice for
Home Computer of the Year in the
European Computer Leisure
Awards 1991. They have also
chosen Amiga Vision a s
Multimedia Package of the Year.
Now in their second year. the
awards are being run in COniUnC-
lion with the European Computer
Tiede Show to be held at London's
Business Design Centre from April
14 to 16.
This year, Amigo ComputMg is
one of the offi cial UK sponsors of
the awards and we have now
made our nominations in the
Amiga categories, Nominated for
Best Art Package is Disney
Software's Animation Studio; Best
Music Package, Gajlt's Sequencer
One, Best Home Education
Pockage, Fun School 3; Best Home
Productivity Package, Protext 5
from Amor; and Most Innovative
Peripheral. Newteles Video Toaster.
Our nominations will Join those
from top magazines in nine
European countries to go forward
for the fi nal Judging at the
European Computer Trode Show
with a gettering presentation night
at London's top night spot The
Hippodrome on April 14.
Budget trio
launched
THREE Mies are to receive the bud-
get treatment on Digital Inte-
gration's Action Sixteen label.
Previously issued at full price.
Sherman M4. Kult and North &
South will each sell for E7.99.
Sherman M4 is Loriciers tank
simulation featuring World War
battles, authentic tanks and
weaponry and Kuit is infogrames
Amiga helps Gulf effort?
STAFF Sergeant Waugh, of 58
Battery, 12 AD Regiment, Royal
ArtiNery. Is a happy man.
He's written to us from the Gulf
where, among other things of
course, he's apparently man-
aged to continue a relationship
with his trusty Amiga.
In a letter dated March 12,
written in Kuwait. he expresses his
thanks to Page One Public
Domain who recently sent some
clip art disks to him in the Gulf at
his request, -
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All this, and a successful con-
clusion to the war for the Allies,
SSgt Waugh (we haven't dis-
covered his first name yet - we'd
like him to get in touch with more
Information about the Amiga s
precise role in the Gulf) adds:
The disks ore very good and
great value for money, and I
would recommend them to any-
one who requires clip art. -
Take a bow, Public Domain.
WHAT'S
icon-driven adventure which chal-
lenges players to solve puzzles in
The Five Ordeals
Also a former Infogrames hit,
North & South Is set in the
American Civil War featuring
battles on a variety of different
levels and scenarios. Action
Sixteen ore on 0276 684959,
Perfectly satisfied
WHILE 199D saw the recession start
to bite for many companies,
WordPerfect report that their total
UK sales lost year were 73 per cent
up on 1989.
The WordPerfect Corporation
achieved sales of $452 million for
1990 - an increase of 61 per cent
on 1989. Since 1979. sales have
now passed the one billion dollar
mark
'Alio 'Allo - French
buy Palace
PALACE Software has gone continental,
Paris-based Leisure
Holding, which owns French
games publisher Titus, has bought
the entire entertainment software
division of the Palace fi lm and
video organisation for an undisclosed
sum,
No immediate changes are
planned at Palace Software.
which publishes titles such as
Dragon's Breath and International
3D Tennis.
There are no plans for a merger
with Titus, best known in Britain tor
games like Crazy Cars.
Palace Group managing direc-
tor Chris Crab says the software
division needed more specifi c
direction than could be given by
Palace, which is concentrating on
the expansion of the movie and
TV production areas.
CDTV set to break
the sound barrier
AMIGA C o m p u t in g h a s h a d co n -
firmation from Commodore UK
that their long awaited multimedia
system, CDTV. will be offi -
cially launched at the end of
AO.
CDTV h a s b e e n vict im o f
numerous prelaunch delays and
Using frisk loa f 0:ind bere is)1 0 got into gss French mood - Poloce Sottwor• stott
Amiga C omputing 7

WHAT'S
• industry speculation. It would now
appear that Commodore are
ready to bring their fl edgling multi-
media product to the market,
The price point has been a
matter of intense speculation over
the last six months, All CBM's tight-
lipped public relations company
were prepared to concede was
that the unit would weigh in with a
sub-c.,600 tag Other Industry
sources have hinted at £399 as a
probable price.
Commodore spokesman
Andrew Ball also confi rmed that a
CDTV externol drive for the A500
will be available soon. The unit,
referred to internally at CBM as the
A690, is expected to be available
at the end of May.
The most recent demonstration
of the CDTVrs capability was on
the BBC's Tomorrows World
science programme last month.
A new sound encoding tech-
nique developed by Roland,
called RSS (Roland Sound Stage)
was used during the mix-down of
the Xenon II Megoblosr sound-
track. performed by Bomb the
Bass.
Both Poland and Commodore
claim that RSS gives the impression
of aural three dimensionality. RSS
places Individual tracks of sound
around the kstener making sounds
appear wider.
The major strength of the system
is that it does not require any addi-
tional hardware to be purchased.
Two standard Hi-Fi speakers are
sufficient.
Making movies
Amiga style
TURNING on Amiga into the ulti-
mate movie making machine is
the aim of Kailash Arnbwani, presi-
dent of Toronto-based software
developers Gold Disk, with the aid
of their multimedia sequencer
MediaShow,
Aimed specifically at Amiga 500
owners bent on creating presenta-
tions and desktop video produc-
tions. MediaShow allows them to
combine animations. graphics,
8 Amiga C omputing
music and sound effects. It also
runs on 1000, 2000 or 3000
machines and needs at least 1Mb
of ram.
'The easy-to-use timeline inter-
face arid our patented multitask-
ing engine makes creating long-
running presentations and movies
a reality for every level of Amiga
user,
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Needing no additional hard-
sa
ware. MediaShow supports fl ies
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from A most point, 3-D rendering,
animation m and music programs
and b sound digitisers. It is Workbench
w 2.0 compatible.
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press UK distributors HB Marketing
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(0753 686000) said delivery was
Imminent but the price hod not
been fi xed. Gold Disk have
announced a launch price of
S129.95.
Lamont lament
THOSE of you who managed to
wrench yourselves away from
important things like working and
playing on your Amiga to listen to
The Budget news on March 19 will
know that the dreaded VAT has
been ir
cent - from Apnl 1. As you'll oppreciate,
creas this Is entirely due to circumstances
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beyond our control.
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take 5 account of the change in this
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creations from The Amiga will
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Gallery feature is missing from this
issue of Amigo Computing
The good news for AC's ad
appreciation society is that Gallery
is taking a one-month break only. It
WI return in the June issue in all its
colourful, bit-mapped glory.
A tablet for
the mice
GRAPHICS input specialists IDS-
Numonics (0254 676921) have
launched a new low-budget oddi-
tion to their GrophicMaster series
of digitiser tablets aimed at Amiga
users.
Claimed to be far better than a
mouse, it offers 1000opi resolution.
absolute accuracy to 0.025 cm
and an output rote of 160 pps
making It ideal for DIP, CAD/CAM.
3-D modelling and paint software.
Nurnonlas GIOPhica
GraphicMaster costs E1B5 for a 12
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has a choice of tour button
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puck
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or pen stylus with two switch-
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for £75 but comes with Amiga
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driver and cabling free.
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defi nable origin, metric/
imperial a units, non-volatile memo-
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of another new move from
Contriver ((Y273602622).
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free Tee she printed with this logo
to customers who buy their Five in
One or Multi DPI mice.
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One Mouse missed the deadline
to take Its place with the rest in
the rodent roundup in the March
Issue, but nevertheless it's well
worth a look.
The Contriver is a cute crea-
ture that stands up well against
the opposition for both styling
and smoothness, the excellent
ergonomic design making it a
pleasure to use for bng periods. If
you've ever had to hover over
Wrth very low power consumption,
it is run through the R8232 Interface
Beastly good news
WHEN the people of Portsmouth
go for a dip in the town's new
Pyramid Leisure Pool they can now
enjoy live and recorded broad-
casts, advertisements and public
announcements on a huge video
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new How may tractors for your Amiga? 1
D• wall affectionately known as the
Beast. the little beauty which controls
the beast behind the scenes is
on Amiga 500 running limeLite
software from Future Software
Systems (0628 24318).
The Picbloc wall was installed by
Electrosonic and is controlled
either by direct Input from the
Amigas keyboard or by an opero-
tor generated schedule.
Through LimeLlte staff can
decide the time, the frequency
and length and even the date
when messages or announce-
ments will appear, then leave
things to the Amiga fi tted with a
hard disk drive,
Beating up the
opposition
CLAIMING to hove producedthe
ultimate compilation. Virgin
Games (071- 727 8070) soy their
new offering Fists of Fury includes
the cream of the beat-'em-ups.
For f.24•99. customers get Ninia
Warriors, Double Dragon II - The
Revenge, Shinobt and Dynomite
Dux.
X-clusive new
games weekly
IN ERACTIVL Publishing, the people
behind some of Britain's biggest
computer magazines including
Amigo Computing, ate on the
verge of launching a new weekly
title designed to cater exclusively
for games enthusiasts.
Gomes-X Is set to be the biggest
ever computer entertainment
publication launch in the UK. Over
a quarter of a million copies of the
preview issue are being distributed.
The news-stand launch is
backed up with a massive promo-
tional campaign which includes
extensive TV advertising and wide
distribution of the preview issue.
The publishers claim Games-X is
0 new concept in computer mag-
azines. combining 'lifestyles
- f e a -
tures with the most in-depth
games coverage available.
Take a look at the preview ISSUe
COMMODORE are making
Inroads into the growing market
of Eastern Europe. and playing a
leading role in this drive Is
American Gregory Koler. the
product marketing manager of
Commodore Electronics.
His efforts are recognised as
one of the the main reasons for
the company's sales increase of
25 per cent lost year,
Outlining his successful brand
of marketing expertise directly
related to good customer ser-
vice. Koier gave an insight into
Eastern Europe at the Computer
Arena conference held in
Marbella,
The going is not always easy,
with lack of cash hampering the
developing Eastern bloc and
leading to such bizarre sugges-
tions as bartering tractors for
computers, but Koler's experi-
ence is winning through.
He's a high flier, or so part of his
career would suggest, since he
bundled with Amiga Computing
arid make up your own mind. The
first Games-X proper Nts the streets
on 26 Aprid 1991.
Screen Gems gets
1 meg boost
COMMODORE UK are heading off
the recession by adding yet more
volue to their top selling Amigo
'Screen Gems buncne.
For the first time, the company Is
selling the A500 with one
megabyte of memory whilst retain-
ing the attractive £399 price point.
The extra half meg is supplied in
Gregor)
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aspent r 10 years leading the mar-
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hketing i and cabin services pro-
ggrammes h for Qantas Airways in
flAustraNa.
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of Commodore International,
he is now responsible for interna-
tional marketing programs In oil
the form of Commodore's A501
trap-door ram expansion which
normally retails at £99
The offer commenced on May
1st and runs unl the end of June.
When asked about the prospect
of a 1 meg Amigo becoming the
standard entry level machine.
Commodore spokesman Andrew
Ball was reserved, pointing out that
the unexpanded A500 would still
be on sale through the life of the
promotion.
The Screen Gems package
comprises an A500, modulator,
Shadow of the Beast II, Days of
Thunder. Nightbreed. Back to the
Future II and Deluxe Point
the countries not covered by
marketing subsidiaries - Finland,
Turkey, Greece, Malta. Eastern
Europe, Middle East. the Gulf,
Africa. Pakistan and India.
We work closety with our mar-
keting partners to ensure that riot
only is the most up-to-date prod-
uct always available, but that
there is an infrastructure of anci-
lary serviceS Such as servicing,
education and software sup-
port', he said
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locations
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Waving a
24-pin lure
IN a move aimed at luring nine pin
printer users onto 24 pin machines,
Citizen (0895 72621) have cut the
price of their entry level 124D 24
pin printer by 11 per cent. An 80
column model offering speeds of
120 cps in draft and 40 cps in letter
quality. It now costs i:249.
Mice and Scanners
PANDAAL Marketing (0234 855666)
are now offering Amiga owners a
new mouse and handheld scan-
ner.
The DAATAscan Pro Is a
Mitsubishi scanner running on
DAATAscan software offering
105mm scanning width, 100. 200.
300 and 400 dpi resolution and
choice of either block and white
or three dither patterns represent-
ing 64 grey scales.
Other features include contrast
contol, real-time scanning display,
zoom and pixel perfect editing.
crop, reSue, rotate, fl ip and invert
images and full printer support,
A clipboard facility allows
selectable cut, copy and paste
and the scanner also supports the
IF file format. Price, £199.99
The DAATAmouse can be used
with both the Amiga and Atari ST,
being converted between the two ).
Amiga Computing I

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3.• machines by a slider switch
beneath the mouse. Offering 280
dol. It features two rnicroswitched
buttons with a claimed lifetime of
one million cycles and on anti-stat-
ic lightweight ball which can be
removed for cleaning. Price.
£39.99.
High quality from
portable printer
THE new MT730/735 portable print-
er from Mannesmann-Tally uses
thermal technology to print what
is claimed to be high quality text
Manneenan Tatty - porta ble printing
and graphics at a resolution of 300
x 300 dol.
It has1MB RAM as standard and
features H-P Laserjet and Desieet,
IBM Proprinter X24 and Epson LQ
850 emulations. Fonts are Corpora,
Maths. Swiss and Timor.
Princing may vary, but as an
example. Action Computer
Supplies of Wembley are retaling it
ot 1.684
Pricey Prestel
BRITISH Telecom has dramatically
restructured charges for its view
data information service. Presto'.
The first increase In tariffs since
1988 is a significant one. In o letter
to all Presto] subscribers 13T point
out that infl ation has risen 20 per
cent since the last Prestel price
increase.
Residential off-peak time
Charges cie being increased some
10 times higher than infl ation with
a 200 per cent increase from ip a
minute to 3p a minute. BT claim
this increase is to bring charges
more in be with costs.
The standing charge for Prestel
also increases, to £20 a quarter.
12 Amiga C omputing
The revamped pricing is signifi -
cantty better news for members of
the Micronet closed user group.
The quarterly charge increases to
E30 a quarter but off-peak time
charges ore scrapped.
In effect BT have provided two
different pricing packages for their
viewdata service.
Subscribers can opt to pay E20
a quarter and £1.80 an hour in off-
peak time charges for access to
Presto! Only. Alternatively a
Micronet subscription at £30 a
quarter will provide greater access
to the system, with the added
benefi t of no off-peak charges
Kevin Smith. Micronet marketing
manager commented Our more
canny users will notice how
favourably the costs compare
against rival services, once usage
goes past one hour a month'
The message is simple, if you ore
a Prestel subscriber who currently
pays more than £10 a month in
time charges, upgrade to
Micronet and avoid being caught
by a rather expensive British
Telecom April foots joke.
Share a printer
A NEW device from Micro Control
Systems (0602 391201) allows four
computers to shore the same printer.
The Simple-4-Swttch is mailable
in both serial and parallel versions
and con be used either automati-
cally Or manually.
Based on the MCS Simple-2-
Switch, it enters automatic mode
when first turned on. When data
comes from a computer if locks on
and passes it to the printer.
If Other users try to print while
the device is busy their data is
frozen until the printer becomes
available.
Simple-4-Switch works with all
kinds of printers and plotters. Price.
E129.
Billiards AD 3,000
PLAYING 1101Mal billiards con be
hard enough but imagine the
complexity of futuristic billiards on
on eight-sided table_ Amiga own-
ers won't hove to use their imogi-
nation for long thanks to French
games house infogrames (071-738
8199).
Due soon is Billiards 3D. a simula-
tion which includes American
pool. French pool and Fantasy
13illiards on an octagonal table.
If that isn't enough. there are
two different sets of rules for each
game and they all come in either
2D or 3D. For one or two players.
Billiards 3D re-creates the atmo-
sphere of a billiard hall in which
one player CCM vie with any of five
computer opponents willing to bet
thousands of dollars on one game.
Games can be saved and
resumed and the mouse-con-
trolled program allows a fun range
of well-simulated trick shots. Written
for infogrames by Spirit Bonanza,
Billiards 3D will be available for
Amiga 500, 1000 and 2003 and will
cost E24.99.
Mighty Mo joins
Motormouth
RENEGADE hove now taken to
the small screen. Magic Pockets.
the 131tmap Brothers' offering due
to be launched this summer,
Is being used for the phone-In
game section of popular Saturday
morning TV programme Motormouth.
With The Bitmap Kid, quickly
rechristened Mighty Mo for the
programme, the game has been
simplifi ed for television and is
voice- activated by young viewers
who ring In. First payers of the TV
version were presenters Andy
Crane and Steve Johnson and the
series will last for nine weeks.
When Magic Pockets is
launched by Renegade (071
-9214)
it will feature music from the
48 walking eyelashes herself - Betty
1Boo
One more round
ACCOLADE (071-738 1376) have
released their latest Jack Nicklaus
accessory disc. Called Great
Courses of the US Open it includes
the challenges of Pebble Beach.
Oakmont Country Club and
Ballusrol Golf Club,
Compatible with both Jack
Nicklaus Greatest 18 Holes of
Major Championship Golf and
Jack Nicklaus' Unlimited Golf and
Course Design, Prlce1 1.99.
Masterly touch in chess programming
WHEN you have ranked as an
International Master in the com-
petitive world of chess and you
also have an interest In comput-
ing, an obvious outlet is to write
Chess programs.
Chris Whittington has both
these attributes and has put
them to good use through his
company CP Software and Its
publishing subsidiary Oxford
Softworts (099382 3463).
With 20 chess programs under
his belt. Chris achieved his greatest
success to date when his lat-
est offering recently took the title
World Personal Computer Blitz
Chess Champion.
Running on an enhanced
Amiga, the program Chess
Champion 2175X claimed its
impressive victory at the World
Microcomputer C h e s s
Championship held in Lyon,
France,
Running alongside the World
Championships for human chess
players featuring top Russian
stars, the computer programs
played off against each other,
the only human involvement
being to transmit each move
between the different machines.
Blitz chess is played in the
usual way except that all the
moves have to be completed in
10 minutes. so allowing many
games to be played in a short
space of time.
'Blitz chess is particularly chal-
lenging as moves have to be
made very quickly indeed'. said
Chris. 'Accuracy of calculation,
Chess knowledge and speed are
all of prime importance and this
result is a great measure of the
programs performance.'
In his years of competitive
chess Chris reached a level only
surpossed by the International
Grand Master grading, but gave
up competitions 20 years ago.
If you want to be realty good
at chess you hove to play it all
the time: he said, 'I stopped
playing because it was taking up
too much time when I hod Other
things to do'.
He started CP Software eight
years ago and has progressively
enhanced his programs.
'I used to be able to beat
them but it doesn•1 work like that
any longer,* he said. 'The com-
puter thinks further ahead.
Through the program, it Carries
out relatively simple evaluations
many hundreds of thousands of
times and quite complex con-
cepts emerge.•
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using a Psion Organiser. to
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d
desperate for more storage space,
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brought s the PsiOn Comms-Link
package n to connect the pocket
maestro ' to a PC. but there has previously
t been no easy way out for
the
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Amiga owner.
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will find a program on this month's
l Amigo Computing coverdisk
called o Psionlink which will enable
you n to transfer tiles to and from the
Amiga g and Organiser with ease
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Link is still required to provide the
h
hardware
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connection and the
Psion n COMMUNCOhOnS software aS
well as the conversion of Psion's
non
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problem, because if you're serious
rd
about s connecting your Organiser
to e the outside world. the Cornms-
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Why use a special program? You
p
might think that with a Comms-Link
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pock t it would be easy to transfer
files t to the Amigo with the help of a
standard o comms program, but
you'd s be wrong.
t
The high occurrence of spurious
a
characters you get as a result of a
n
straight transfer makes this exercise
-
barely worthwhile, so a program to
iron Out the bugs soon becomes
more than welcome
If such a program is to be worth
the effort put into coding ft, howev-
er, it must do more than just allow
for file transfer and conversion. For
this reason. Psionlink will perform
several extra functions.
It will, for Instance, direcity read
and edit files, and automatically
convert a Psion Data File into whot
is known as an ASCII-delimited file
on the Amigo. These ore perfect
for direct Importation Into
SuperBase or any other Amiga
database
the major problem with PSiOnLirit4
was the inclusion of protocols, most
notably Psion's own protocol for
which there is no available docu-
mentation I decided to pursue this
and to include the same three pro-
tocols used in the Comms-Link's
own software - none, X-Modern.
and Psion. The -
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speek in tongues to a Psion Organiser,
and with a straight face, too
Tower of
Babel
what comes througn tne sera' port
is what you get in your tile. X•
Modem and Psionlink, however.
ore a bit trickier.
The X-Modem protocol works by
splitting the fi le to be sent into o
series of 128 byte Nooks. It numbers
these consecutively and transmits
them along with a checksum (a
special number derived from
adding all the bytes
together), which
the
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Review
receiving machine uses to check
whether the data has arrived
intact if It hos been corrupted. the
transmitting machine is informed
and fresh attempts ore made to
successfully transmit the data until
It arrives in an uncorrupted state.
The Psion protocol was the real
toughie. As mentioned, there is no
published data on its structure,
and Psion were Initially reluc-
tant to furnish the relevant
details. This is a most Impor-
tant aspect of
the pro•
gram, however, and I persevered
until they were kind enough to give
me what I needed. After all, with a
third party already producing the
equivalent ST program, there's no
reason why the some facility
shouldn't be available on the
Amiga
The Psion protocol allows tor say
eral extremely useful extra features.
You can, for example, transfer
accidentally deleted flies from the
Organiser's DeloPacks to a new
host, and can transfer password
protected Notepods without first
having to de-protect them.
More usefulty, rt allowS the trans-
fer of OPL oblect code to and from
the Amigo so that Orgonser pro-
grams can be developed In the
much larger and friendlier environ-
ment of the Amigo
For programmers looking to
develop software for the Orgcrniser,
the advantages offered by not
having to ruin one's eyesight and
patience squinting at the dimrnu
tive Psion screen cannot be under-
estimated, The chance to use a
decent Amigo text editor when
coding is also a great boon.
For those not interested in programming,
the link allows for the
saving of invaluable data to fl oppy
disk for future use, and relieves the
burden o n over
-DataPock&
populated
Shareware
Unfortunately. I spent so much time
trying to scrounge the protocol
details out of Psion and sweated so
long and hard when oclucily pro-
gramming PsIonlink, the pro-
gram on your May
coverdisk is a
demo version only.
The full version.
including Psion pro-
tocol and my own file
editor, Is available if
you get in touch at the
actdress included in the
disk reodmecomms file.
On a fi nal note, I am
currently working on a
developer program which
Should make it possible for
users to write, test, debug,
arid compile OK programs on
the Amigo then bundle them
as a complete Data Pock that
will auto-boot Itself into the
Organiser's lop level menu.
Look out for more about this
future issues of Amigo Computing

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The Don Bluth e pic ga mes ba se d on the c
onlonuing adventures of DIM the Dont ha ve °note d the MOSI impressive e xa mple of animation sold a s compute ' entertammenr
aution to Western civilisa-
p tion to come from °cross
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describing the cortoon industry,
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especially If you're a GBK (Great
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Computing l
staff
y Animation is now beginning to
hit t the micro market with a
vengeance, h
so it Is fortunate for
e
those of us with a love of moving
g
pictures that the Amiga is eminent-
r
ly
e
well qualified as a machine on
which a to produce home-grown
cartoons. t
eThe
Amy's abilities in this
deportment s seem at lost to
be
t
on the verge of profes-
c
sional recognition. with a
o
variety
n
of commercial
animation t studios
either n exploring the
possibilities - offered
by the Amiga, or
already using It in
the production
chciti, /
Of these,
the n a m e
Cosgrove
Hall Productions
stands head and shoulders
above the rest.
,
Cosgrove Hall have been mak-
ing cartoons since 1976. when
Mark Hall and Brion Cosgrove set
up shop with six staff in a convert-
ed warehouse. Since then. anima-
tions such as Wdnd In The Wdidows
and The BFG have helped them
win four BAFTA awards and an
EMMY. and the company has
grown to 130 people, fi ling out a
plush custom studio building Just
south of Manchester.
Meanwhile, Cosgrove Hall's
bread and butter productions.
Dongermouse and Count Duckulo
1 8 Amiga C omputing
have been delighting children and
GBKs for the best part of a
decade. Against a background of
almost total U.S. domination,
Cosgrove Hall and a handful of
Other studios have produced car-
toons of a distinctly British fl avour,
offering a refreshing riposte to the
sort of one-way transatlantic traffic
Which has seen 'Masters Of The
Mega-Blasters' clones come to
dominate our tellies.
Cost-efficient
Enough of the banner waving,
what about the Amiga?
Cosgrove Hall ore one
of the fi rst
British stu-
dios to look
seriously at
the use or
computers not
only for the
control of cam-
eras but for the
production o f
graphics and the
development of
.• characters cis
well
In their search tar
a cost-effi cient system
offering quality animation
at a decent price they alighted,
not surprisingly, on the Amiga. and
It was this decision which sent us
scurrying up the Mo to see how
they were using our favourite
machine.
We spoke to Phil Atack, the man
With the job of assessing the
AmIga's potential, and asked him
what he thought. 'We're looking
Into using the Amigo for line test-
ing,' he told us, hurriedly pushing
F29 Retaliator under a pile of
papers, 'but we're having difficulty
owl
Aringm
with the image resolution.' Line
to life. Normally, a line test would
testing is the animator's jargon for Involve a 5e11e5 of drawings done
rough sketch, and is the first step in manuoNy then fi lmed one at a time
the process Tof bringing characters until the animators had a simple
to loons
u
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Amiga
Computing's
big kiddies,
Stevie Kennedy and
Paul
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Austin, take a
look at animated
Agnuses.
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attractively priced than anything
previously
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equipment,
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at work on
Cosgrove
Hall's newest
cartoon,
Victor and
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we arrived.
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pencil-sketched cartoon on video
This is a time-consuming procedure,
and diffi cult to experiment
with.
Lining them up
Using on Amigo, however, line
testers such as Phil can produce a
full line test without recourse to
video, changing as many aspects
sequence showed Hugo smoothly
animated for a fragment of
speech, and amply demonstrated
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tablet for sketching. The addition of
a tablet could quite easily dispense
altogether with the video camera
at the line testing stage. leaving
the line tester to sketch straight
onto the Amiga.
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of it as they please before passing
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the newly released Wait Disney
At this stage the Amiga falls
short of requirements, We end that
Animation Studio (TAS) and his eyes
lit up. The general reaction was
computer graphics can't achieve
the resolution we get with ink and
acetate', said Phil, This isn't a slight
on the Amiga, however, as no
other micro tits the bill either.
that although not up to the sob of
creating professional cartoons, TAS
Is a much cheaper tool. ideal for
the animator experimenting at
home or for training beginners, 'We
need the four level animation and
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Amiga 2000 with hard drive and
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Cor, chief!
We were more than a little reluc-
tant to terminate our day out at
Cosgrove HoII, and refused to
leave without on armful or sou-
venirs and a posed photo with Igor
Ond Duckuia himself. After all, the
Amiga is at heart a fun machine.
and to see It put to good use by
the company which has brought
so much enjoyment through Its cartoons
was a most welcome treat,
It our Amy is capable of service
at the professional level and with
such an Illustrious crew of anima-
tors, then there's surety some hope
ror those of us at the mere amateur
level who'll be diving with glee into
The Animation Studio.
Paper to pixel
In the world of computer anima-
tion there are two distinct routes
employed to create the moving
pictures we all know and love. Your
approach to the subject is usually
determined by your bockground.
whether it lies either in the hand
draw approach of the illustrator or
the digital trickery of the artistic
techno-lunkle.
The average Amiga enthusiast
will no doubt be more at home
with the conventional Amiga envi-
ronment or the paint package,
with imagery being provided from
the somewhat less than subtle
touch of the various processing
toot employed. not least of which
Is the rather dunky Amigo mouse.
The second approach Is a more
traditional one combining the
hard-earned skills of the conven-
tional Illustrator along with the pro-
tut t r i e s
: I Pla ins t litche Lbe
Chroma-Coiour s digitize option shows its pmtessional touch
Walt Disney isn't the first company to attempt a del-
looted low-end Amiga animation package - it's just
The latest and most successful. There hove been sev-
, eral previous offerings, including Antic Software's
Zoetrope package,
This suffered originally from being low-refs NTSC
only, and utilising Its own picture format, but was a
hint of what we might expect from the Amiga
Since we reviewed Zoetrope in the April 1989
issue, there has been a dearth of animation pack-
ages with the notable exception of DPoint III
Programs such as Animagic and Fantavision have
tried to raise an eyebrow, but none have been suffi-
ciently feature-packed to become a mainstream
k: rival for the al-conquering DPaint
D i t
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What has been missing from nearly all previous
Ark.
animation programs has been an approach which
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cessing power of the computer It's
this approach which Chroma-
Colour's Softoons is designed to
exploit, combining the two talents
with the aid of video digitising
The biggest complaint from free
hand artists when confronted wtth
computerisation Is the prospect of
using a mouse. This is a defi nite non
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comfortable with
follows along similar lines to that token by the prates-
sional animator. Zoetrope was stuffed with special
effects, such as fades. wipes and shatters, which you
could apply to your graphics, but none of these
were of any particular use.
Clever though they may be. such effects are real-
ly only useful it your animation is designed for a pro-
fessional presentation rather than a cartoon.
Zoetrope was too crude for the former and unsuit-
able for the loiter.
starter with most animators. As a
result on alternative method is
required arid it's here that the digi-
tiser comes into its own, importing
hand drown cels direct from the
Zoetrope was and remains an excellent program
In a technical sense, especially when you remember ;
its age. However, it is also the best example of on
early Amigo package which. white being dreamily
put together, was dismally defi cient In its apprecia-
tion of just which market It was supposed to be
aimed at.
chromo-Colour is
more fle xible in use, if
more difficult
paper to the line-tester for editing,
composition and of course playback.
Its fair to say Sottoons is the
answer to on animator's needs
rather than that of the Amiga
enthusiast hoping to dabble in a
touch of the Dtsneys. As a re,sult of
the specialised approached and
the consequent limit for potential
sales the Softoons system is not for
the fi nancially toot hearted with a
stoning price of £630 for the software
alone.
If you were to go the whole hog
and invest in the complete system
Of cameras, rostrum stands and
monitors it would add up to just
under £3,000. As I said, It's not
aimed at the amateur.
The system comes in two distinct
formats, either on A500 version
which is designed to suit the needs
of an animator working from home,
or the more advanced and expen-
sive Amiga 2000-based system
designed specifically for studio use.
The principle ckfference between
the two systems is the number of
available levels of animation. The
A500 version only manages one
level similar to that of TAS, whereas
the studio version is capable of up
to tots level combinations.
This basically means that al the
elements of the animation pro-
duced on the A500 system must be
drawn arid shot onto a single cel,
the studio alternative being capa-
ble of combining lout individual
drawings onto the some exposure
sheet to form the finished cel. Each
element joins with the rest but still
retains its individuality for editing
purposes.
To be realistic, the price of the
Amiga C omputing 2 1

studo version complete with all the
hardware is strictly for the pros. As a
result I'll be concentrating on the
slightly more affordable A500 ver-
sion which might still be within the
reach of the affluent enthusiast.
The do's and don'ts
Perhaps a more accurate heading
might read who/ you can do. and
what you can't. With the Softoons
system you can import block and
white line tests, compile sequences
and oust, improve, and generally
test out your creations prior to
spending heaps of cash on the
phenomenally expensive process
of creating full colour animations
Softoons in effect is an anima-
tion utility rather than a stand.
alone package like TAS.
The idea is to speed up the process
for a pro. As a result there's no
paint package available, no inter-
nal editing and no colours.
Softoons talents are devoted pure-
ly to digitising and running hand
drawn imoges, and this as you
might expect it does well, but cer-
tainly not cheaply.
Flip through
The standard set-up will support up
to 200 individual drawings within
the machine. Considering the
frame rate on certain animations
this is not exactly impressive, but
with the addition of some extra
memory things would become a lit-
tle more acceptable.
The number of drawings
shouldn't be contused with the
number of frames used. It's quite
common for an animation to use
the some drawing on several
frames depending on the effects
required
Once you've cap-
tured a drawing
with the digitiser it
can be played
instantly or cycled
with the other
frames in the
sequence This
can be done at any
rate between and
99 frames per second
The frame rate
can b e
ocljust-
puling
Cel 3 of
The OfigirKil lino
animation
showing the
oniOn skin e ffe ct
In use, the a bility
lo see the Iasi
three eels is a n
Invaluable a id
to e ve n duff
animators like us
pri N WT MP .1 K4 ar3T3 -rga LOLA
ed as the al
-feature
when composing a
oration
sequence. When you're happy
r u t
with your creations they can be
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saved to disk or copied direct to
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video
h e l
p If fyou're u l slightly nervous about
Dan Silva's DPaint program, especially in its third
incarnation, has been one of the prime movers in The
world of Amiga animation for several years, and
there are many who owe It a debt of gratitude.
DPaint III established the now accepted ANN for-
mat and spread the gospel of Amiga movies to the
wider audience through myriad PD demos and, in a
very important way, boosted the success of the
iga as a whole.
Its animated brushes were a revolution in Amiga
grophics techniques which ore only now being
incorporated Into
•
other packages such
as Spectracolor
Animations thus creat-
ed could be saved in IF
or ANIM format and played
back using Electronic Arts'
Play routine.
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Since then, the prolitero-
'ion of stand alone PD
ANIM player programs
hos allowed omateur ani-
motors t o
pass their pro-
Definining the Instiet
before importing the
•-• background is a
simple matte, of
clickingonthe
colours to be
m a s k e d citHere,
1111 the dogs body
• colours a long with
the bla ck of Its
Outline ha ve be e n
Fl included
The final anenation,
comple te with
bock wound. shows
how the whole ca n
be gre a te r than the
sumoftheparts
using the system don't worry. Those
thoughtful folks at Chroma-Colour
will tend a helping hand at a doily
training rate of only E250 per day.
It's obvious from the frightening
price list that both Chrorna-Colour
systems are aimed fi rmly at the
The DPaint contribution
commercial marker, but if you're a
red enthusiast who needs to digi-
tise his handy work it's the only
dedicated equipment around.
Cheap alternative
If like me your bottom lip wilt stilt be
trembling at the prospect of
spending all your hard earned
cash on Soft oar
-There
is an alternative method to
is, get your d r y freehand skills into the
y
Amiga,
o u
and
r
as a result your onlms -
e y e s
look out for our review of graphics
.
tablets soon
Walt Disney
Animation Studio
We tried arid we tried and we
tried, but we found nothing that
comes close to The Animation
Studio in the home animation mar
ket. Chrcena-Colour is on expensive
alternative for the professional mar-
ket, but for cartoon-loving Joseph
Public harbounng a secret desire to
bring Tom & Jerry to Me on the
Amigo there's no real choice,
Disney, as you might expect, has
written TAS entirely from the viewpoint
of an animator. From start to
finish. emphasis is placed solely on
producing cartoons, such that
although not of professional stan-
dards, TAS engenders a profession-
al feel which carries beginner
grams around freely, and although sound isn't
catered for. programs such as Movie will put anims
through their paces at a very respectable frame
rate.
The major drawback when animating with DPaint
Is that It was designed primargy as a paint program.
Animation is possible, but it Is obviously an added
extro rather then the progorn's ran d'etre For this
reason. DPaint loses out boldly when compared to
The Animation Studio, but that's not surprising.
For those who wont a paint package first, and a
dabble in animation as a bit of fun on the side.
DPaint is still a very attractive buy. and should contin-
ue to provide animations for the ever expanding
public domain demo libraries
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along with It rather than leaving
them stranded.
The main disk contains two programs,
PencN Test and Ink & Paint,
The first of these is the line tester
and it is here that any arvirnation
begins its Nfe.
The user progresses from rough
sketch to fi nished line-art anima-
tion, then loads the whole thing
into Ink & Paint for the application
of colour. The overwhelming
And I be t you thought wa lking wa s e a sy
Impression during all this Is IAS's
extreme ease of use
Let's face It - how many of us
can draw'? Not us. Disney, howev-
er. doesn't simply leave the begin-
ner to get on with it
To take as much of the pain as
possible out of cartoon production,
there is a Nbrary of sample anima-
tions on the program disk and a
second disk packed to the gunnels
with clips from actual Disney ani•
motions.
The library animations can be
used In the user's own productions
and loaded Into ink & Paint for
colouring. The Morgue disk
containing the Disney clips, nowev-
Real Things
Representing one of the few commercial attempts to spread the anima-
tion word, RGB Studios' Peal Things series Is aimed at providing the
beginner with the tools he or she needs to begin producing original
work.
The series consists of three packages. Birds. Horses. and Humans, ail of
which contain a diskful of DPaint anims
and a manual. The latter sets out to dis
pense advice on all aspects of aran
brushes. Including their creation, devel-
opment, and editing. and goes on to
give hints on bockgrounds and so forth.
Each disk contains a large number of
good quality animation sequences
which the beginner can use in anima-
tions or as a guide to the techniques of,
for example, making a horse run without
making it look Nke a table having a fit,
•
The Demo-Reel is a good
example of the overoM
query of the Disney
product This excellent
Donald Duck a nimation
was put together by watt
Disney artists spe cia lty for
The Animation Studio
and is a s good a n
advettnement a s you
can ge t for it pote ntia l
er. is prolecteici by copyright and
the animations cannot be tam-
pered with
It you wont to create Britain's
answer to Mickey Mouse you're
going to have to put in a certain
amount of world
The Pencil Test part of the pack-
age will be fameor to anyone who
has used DPaint, as It sports very
similar menus and all the usual
drawing gadgets.
Circles, boxes ond eiipses, fi ned
or unfiNed, ore all there, as are
the more advanced brush and
airbrush facilities. This isn't Just
on ordinary drawing program.
however, and it has several fea•
None of this Is particularty radical
or new: the DPoint manual pro-
vides a simiar guide to using °RIM 1
brushes, and the animotions
themselves
a•—••
are relative-
ly simple.
tures designed to make animating
as easy as possible.
Knows his onions
There Is a variable zoom option,
and a group of eel manipulation
devices for copying eels to and
from a buffer, cutting them out or
inserting them anywhere In the
sequence,
By for the most specific options,
however, and those which set
Pencil Test apart, are the three at
the bottom of the toolbox gadget
Oar
The two arrow gadgets are used
to fl ip back and forth through the
sequence of cels at the click of a
mouse button. They ore useful
when the user wants to travel
through a relatively srnall number
of cats, but they really come into
their own when they make It possible
to see the 'onion skin• effect at
Its best,
'Onion skin' Is a term and an
effect dating from the earliest days
of animation when eels were
drawn on a series of semi-transpar-
ent layers of paper,
By 'looking through' these layers,
the animator
- outlines c o u of l d the previous three ceis
dor so, i s and c thus achieve a much
e r n
better appreciation of how the
t h
e movement was developing.
d The Animation Studio sim-
iulates
this effect so
m
What unique about the Real Things series is that it is
only sustained attempt to °Moot beginners to Amiga
motion we've seen since DPaint's remarkable poten
was first realised.
If you're desperate to the point of fi nancial profl iga
Peal Things at E20 a throw is one way to build up an instant
animafi on Nbrary. If, on the other hand, you don't bst set-
ting fi re to tanners among your hobbies. try the public
domain when looking for animated inspiration. Real Things
is good but not that good.
Amiga C omputing 2 5

that the beginner can fl ip forward
without losing sight of the preced-
ing three cals, all of which are visi-
ble as progressively fainter grey
outlines. The effect is simple but
Invaluable, and alone is facility
enough to place The Animation
Studio high on my shopping let.
The bottom left hand gadget is
a simple player which flips through
the existing sequence cot by cel
a loop to make testing the anima-
tion as easy as possible.
It simply doubles up for on
option available via a pull-down
menu, but its Inclusion on the tool-
box bar is an indication of the
thought which hos been put into
this package's design.
Decent exposure
The last gadget, on the bottom
right hand corner, takes the user to
what the pros call the 'exposure
sheet",
This section of the program simu-
lates the real life exposure sheet
you will fi nd at the heart of all car-
toon productions.
It Is used to keep track of hm-
ings, frame rates and events such
as music, speech, and special
effects. The exposure sheet Is not
an optionol extra - if you're serious
about putting decent cartoons
together you must use this tech-
nique.
Disney's exposure sheet IS one of
the trickier parts of the program. To
use it properly, the user has to master
a dozen or so commands and
their syntax. These allow .SMUS
(Sonix) format music scores to be
played, paused, faded out, and
generally mucked about with,
Unfortunately, flexibility is limited
by The insistence on Sonix generat-
ed music scores, but this Is partly
offset by the acceptance of any
JFF sample as a special effect
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Pentoid come s to life on pope ( in Was e a rly a rtists cha ra cte r sheet
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Product information
Watt Disneys Animation Studio is
a product of the Wall Disney
Company
Available: Now
Supplier: Entertainment
International (0268)
541126
Price: £99.95
Softoons Personal Line-Tester and
Chroma-Colour Animation Line-
Tester are products of the
Chromo-Colour company
Available
- Supplier: Chroma-Colour
N o w Animation Supplies &
Equipment Ltd (081)
675 8422
Price: F r o m 9)630 for soft-
ware alone to SA.000
for software. A2000.
Camera, lights. and
rostrum equipment,
(iSFX). Musical scores and samples,
once decided upon, can be
tweaked in a number of ways. The
syntax of the 'SEX command allows
the user to choose sample play-
back speeds, which channel it will
play through, whether or riot it will
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This is the sot ot civil:icie r sheet you should ohvoys (develop to give a cha ra cte r
SOM. ere D e los his is committe d to cokuisod. Cosgrove Ha ll stiike s again!
be in stereo, and the number of
times It WI loop.
The !SCORE command can be
used to fade a tune out and set Its
tempo. and peripheral commands
such as !TEMPO, !VOLUME, and
!NOTE offer occasional control of
any sounds or scores presently
being played. Altogether, the
exposure sheet is on indespensabie
port of the animation process. and
The Animation Studio would have
been incomplete without It.
Ink blots
Once the pencii animation is com-
plete and the user is satisfied that
the exposure sheet is arranged cor-
rectly, the data is stored on cksk for
later importation to the second
part of the main program. Ink a
Paint, for the fi nd touches.
This is the weakest chink in
Disney's armour, because it's not
really a paint program at all There
ore up to 32 colours available,
more with dithering, but the only
painting facilities available are a
couple of fi ll and line-drawing
options for touching up any 'leaks'
which threaten to let a colour spill
out of its allotted area.
The idea is that the animation is
already complete and merely
requires colouring, but It would
have been nice to have hod a few
more options even at this late
stage.
That grumble aside, the ink &
Paint program does everything
required of it wIth little fuss. Its best
feature is the ability to use a 'frisker
so that backgrounds can be slotted
in behind the animation with-
out overwriting any of your hard
sweat and tears.
Friskets work by specifying which
colours cannot be overwritten, so
all you need do is pull down the
frisket option, click on the colours
you've used in your animation,
then import your IFF background
behind the relevant cels.
You can load different back-
grounds for afferent eels, so there's
no reason for bland backdrops.
The major problem with the back-
grounds is that they can only be
static - there's no multi-level ani-
mation such as that found on the
more expensive Chroma-Colour
configurations.
This reinforces the apparent
Disney ethos that demands all ani-
mation details be finalised before
Ink & Paint is used, but there's no
great difficulty in this.
If the user plans ahead using a
storyboard and organises the ani-
mation before starting, the finished
product will be better thought out
and more efficiently reached.
Disney's emphasis on their own
methods and the insistence on a
structured approach are in the last
analysis a help rather than a hin-
drance to the beginner.
Conclusion
Amiga animation is on the up and
up - there's no doubt about that.
With the wide availability of DPaint
onimations, and the appearance
of a new low-end dedicated pack-
age in the shape of Walt Disney's
Animation Studio, the home mar-
ket could be said to be buoyant.
In the professional sector, too.
the Amiga is establishing Itself as an
excellent machine for line-testers
and animators alike.
The Chroma-Colour software.
though expensive, has proved its
ability to meet the demands of an
expanding user base, and should
continue to bring the Amiga much
deserved credit in this new sector,
With success apparent in both
areas. the Amiga can only contin-
ue to improve its standing as the
only home micro which is both
great fun and a truly serious buy.
• All C osgrove H a ll cha ra cte rs.
Including Count Duckulo e nd Dangermouse.
ore copyright 1991 Cosgrove
Hall Productions
We would sire to take this oopoituolty
to tha nk Phil Ata ck. Willa rd I
klitchisn, Chris Philips, C ome t Wilson.
and a ll a t Cosgrove H a l lOr ite la help.
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hundred well worn notes
would not hove allowed
you to gather much speed in the
communications race. For that sort
of money most comms freaks
would have been delighted to pick
up on acoustic coupler type
modem with very low speeds and
even lower rehability.
These days though your money
goes a lot further both in terms of
modern speed and features.
Which modem you need
depends very much on what you
want to achieve. The occasional
call to a local BBS service won't
warrant a super speedy modem.
On the other hand the cost sav-
ing offered by high data transfer
rates will be welcome if you are a
frequent caller to the US.
EuroLink
r ElitaLink modem is a perfect
illustration of how comms hard-
ware has become more afford-
able of late. Your hard eorned1:264
delivers a unit which allows com-
munication at a respectable 2400
baud
Like each of the modems
featured In this overview it is entire-
ly software controlled. This means
that rather than pressing buttons
on the front panel to confi gure the
unit. all tweaking is done over the
keyboard via a software com•
mond set
The EuroLink is fully Hayes com-
patible. This Is a red boon for any-
one wanting to dabble in comms
without learning the detailed ins
and outs of modem control before
going online.
Popular public domain pack-
ages for the Amiga including
NComm. JRComm and Supedext
come pre-confi gured for use with
Hayes compatible decks.
Plug in and go is the order of the
day. The modem also includes
Price
Manufacturer:
Telephone:
For:
Against:
Verdict:
30 Amiga C omputing
EuroLlnk
E263.35
Eurolink
0625 878888
Very good value
Hayes Compatible
No power switch
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some useful help screens for those
not content to go with a standard
package
In an effort to provide on all
round package. EuroLink have
bundled a tree subscription to
CompuServe into the price. this is
a truly massive information system
of American origin. On it you will
find messages. news and over
30.000 public domain programs.
Having said a l l that.
CompuServe is not the most user
friendly of places and although
your membership is free, the usage
charges soon mount up.
CompuServe is far too extensive to
do justice to In this article and we
will be covering the service in its
own right at a later date.
As well as getting cheaper.
modems have got smaller and sim-
Modem
The Eurollnk is on ideal modem for anyone wanting to
dabble with comms without having to re-mortgage
their Amiga
pier to use over the years. At first
glance the EuroLink is nothing more
than a stimline plastic brick with six
lights on the front and no switches
to play with. At second glance It as
much the some. Gone are the
days of twiddling dials. setting DIP
switches and pressing buttons to
get online.
the tuncfi on of each light on the
EuroLink Is clearly indicated by
diagonal labels on the front panel.
This commonsense approach to
labelling is most unusual. The bulk
of modem manufacturers usually
insist on using confusing two letter
abbreviations rather than plain
English.
The Eurolink has indicotors for
power, connecting. responding.
transmitting. receiving and auto
answer made Rear panel ports are
provided for power. telephone and
comections.
The only notable omission is that
of a power switch. Removing the
power lead is the only way to give
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Hi-Tec EC2400
If the EuroLink modem can be con-
sidered ideal for the beginner, the
Hi-Tec EC2400 deluxe is well suited
to people wanting to upgrade
from aged manual modems
Like the EuroLink, it is a 2400
baud Hayes compatible unit. The
HI-Tec normally weighs in at f.399
but it is cutentty on offer to Amigo
Computing readers at E299.
What you get tor your extra out-
lay is a slightly more robust case.
mote kghts and the MNP error cor-
rection and data compression systems.
Let's tackle each of these areas
in turn, The chassis is a very robust
o
plastic design which is Only let
down by a flimsy front panel mand
two inexcusably tacky go-faster
stripes down the side. The unit
sports a positively psychedelic col-
m
lection of 11 lights giving informa
non on everything from the current
connection status to active speed
Cosmetics aside, the most
impoctant additional feature of the
EC 2400 is the provision of the two
MNP systems. MNP is a three letter
acronym for Mictocom Networking
Protocol. The HI-Tec comes with
two different types of MNP.
C
MNP Level 4 is an error correc-
tion protocol designed to ensure
sore transport of data even if
phonelines are bad, MNP Level 5
On the other hand is a data com-
pression protocol. This is used to
speed up data transmission from
point to point.
With MNP 5 it is possible to
achieve a data transfer rate
increase of almost 100 per cent,
meaning that the EC 2400 has a
maximum throughput of 4800
baud. MNP Is only of any relevance
to you if the services you call support
it. Prestel for example does not
although most Other commercial
services do.
One major plus, where the EC
wins hands down over the other
modems on test, is the provision of
a power switch on the front panel.
It is reassuring to have a means
of hard reset within easy reach,
ideal for situations where the
modem is semi enclosed and the
bock panel is tricky to get to. The
HI-Tec doesn't crash, but some-
times a power-off is the easiest way
to reset a line after a tailed connection,
The EC 2400 does not look as
mass
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Hi-Tec Modems Ltd
0733 897333
MNP protocols
Front mounted power switch
Unattractive styling
The HI-Tec EC 2400 deluxe should be a senous con-
•
tender for your attention it you are looking to upgrade
from an existing slower modem. The provision of MNP Is
a real bonus, but only if the services you want to use
support rt.
level of presentation offered by the
other three contenders. Don't get
me wrong, Me EC 2400 is a positive
Volkswagen build
-Tec's
design boys lust need to
quality
apply a little more in the way of
w i s e .
cosmetic surgery before it will look
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Hayes 9600 +Quad
Just as Hoover have mode a name
tot t h e m se lve s in vOCu t irrt cle a n e rs,
Hayes hove been at the leading
edge with moderns since the
emergence of the technology.
With that sort of introduction you
would be justifi ed in thinking that
the Hayes Smartmodem 9600+
Quad might be something special.
Depending on what you want to
do with comms, you could be right
As the name suggests the Hayes
is a 9600 boud modern. We it is. as
long as you are talking to another
compatible 9600 baud modem
Otherwise the +Quad tagged on
to the end of the name is of more
significance to you.
Quaa relates to the ability to
transmit and receive data using
four universally recognised COT
modulation standards. You will be
iess Mon surprised to know That The
highest speed available with these
is 2400 baud (V 22 bib), The others
are 300 (V 21). 1200 (V 22) and
1275 (V 23) respectively.
Hayes are a key player in the
corporate commits sector, in prac-
tice, fi nding another 9600 baud
modem at the end Of a residential-
ly run bulletin board could prove to
be a little on the tricky side.
This means that to all intent and
purpose you have to assume that
Me bulk Of your calls will ochieve
2400 baud connections. With the
provision of MNP the data through-
put is increased to a respectable
480) baud.
The story doesn't stop there. By
use of special protocols it is
possible to achieve a nippy data
transfer rate of 19.200 baud. This
relies on another Hayes modem
being at The other end of the link.
All of these additional features
invariably mean increased com-
plexity in confi guration The Hayes
goes some way to resolving poten-
tial setup heartache by incorporat-
ing intelligent feature negotiation
software,
Theoretically the Srnartmodern
will automatically establish the
highest speed of connection possi-
ble. The practice is not entirely silky
smooth, but confi guration is significantly
easier than It would be with-
out the artificial intelligence.
The most striking attribute of the
Hayes Is its construction. In com-
plete contrast to the other plastic
units, it lives in a smart robust metal
box. The usual compliment of sta-
tus lights is provided, as is a power
switch on the back panel, There is
no question that if build quality is
important to you, this is your ideal
modem_
In line with it distincfiy corporate
price tog of 1,1r19, the Hayes 9603
provides a wide range of facilities
geared to the more serious corrirris
buff. The most notable of these is
Amiga Computing 37

X25 PAD. The letters PAD stand for
Packet Assembler/ Disassembler.
Using PAD it is possible to have
virtual rather than physical connections_
This means that with a
single modem you can be linked to
more than one online service.
In simple terms a PAD knk works
by taking the information from
each virtual connection estab-
lished (the packets) and assem-
bling them into a single data
stream tot transmission. This stream
is cleassembled at each end of the
link.
PAD has very specifi c applications
and most residential users
hove difficulty fi nding a justification
for connecting to one online service
never mind several simul-
taneously.
Hayes moderns are not cheap. I
don't think if is 100 per cent fair to
say that all you are paying for is the
name, nor is It fair to say you get
what you pay for in terms of fea-
tures genuinely useful to the home
user.
The V-Series Srnartmodem 9600
+Quad has a very specific appeal
to corporate communicators.
Price:
Manufacturer
Telephone:
For
There isn't a great deal to sell it to
home hackers though.
the other large market for high
end modems is bulletin board
sysops. I-byes are now promoting
their entire range to this infl uential
bunch by offering a more than
generous 50 per cent discount.
To qualify for this saving, the bul-
letin board concerned must carry
a promotional message for Hayes
modems. The sysop scheme should
go some way to getting more units
Hayes 9600 +Quad
El .148 85
Hayes Microcomputer Products, Inc
081 848 1858
9600 baud
PAD
Against: Expensive
Excellent build quality
Requires some confi guration
Verdict t h e Hayes 9600 +Quad is an excellent modem for seri-
32 Amiga C omputing
Price:
Manufacturer:
Telephone:
For:
Against:
Verdict:
ous comms users. I would be inclined to soy that it
was overkill for domestic users and the Mirocom HST
DS modem revtowed next is a more reoistic proposi-
tion for Sysops It PAD and reliability are important to
you then Hayes is the natural choice,
a d
Miracom Courier HST
User friendly
Na telephone through-port
It you Intend to take comms seriously and money is no
object, this is the modem for you B8S Sysops should
leap at the chance to pick up one of these units at
50% discount. It will be a very long time before a bet-
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Miracom Courier
We wrap up our look at moderns
with the Mitacom Courier HST DS.
This deck combines most of the
features found in the Hayes with
one yen
, ture, HST - an acronym for High
impo Speed Technology. Using the
rtan
t
Miracom it is possible to achieve a
data transfer rate of 14.4k. There
are ciiite a few HSts doing sterling
service at the front end of numer-
ous bulletin boards up and down
the country_
HST is a proprietary protocol
designed by Miracorrfs American
parent company US Robotics
Each of the other modems we
have looked at use the elderly
CCM V standards for data transfer
Talking of the V standards brings
me to the other acronym In the
Mitt:loco
-that
the Courier is a dual standard
1's modem.
w o r
This represents a best of both
d y
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worlds
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tocol is supported side by side with
the widely accepted slower V standards.
If fi rst impressions last, I have
been sold on the Courier. Despite
the unit's immense sophistication,
getting online was just a simple
matter of plugging in a couple of
cables and clicking on my
JRComm icon,
Miracom must be commended
for the user friendliness of the entire
Courier package. the manual is
clear, concise arid easy to foNow,
The built•in help screens and com-
mand summaries are convenient
to access. The level of user support
even extends as far as printing a
complete command summary on
The base of the M sized unit, there
Is no excuse for not having the
Information you need close to
hand If you are the proud owner of
a Courier.
On the face of it the Miracorn
does everything that the Hayes
does and more for around the
same price. The only feature the
Hayes can boast over the Miracom
Is PAD, The won't be a great loss for
most users.
This is an Ideal modem for
bulletin board sysops. The automat
,lc support of both widely used
communications standards (V and
HST) means that the Courier is
happy to answer the phone and
talk to a wider range of moderns
than any other in Its doss.
Miracom offer a Sysop price
scheme similar to the Hayes one
making these excellent modems
availoble at virtually give-away
prices to established bulletin boards
The only niggling curiosity is that
Mitocom hove not seen fit to pro-
vide a telephone socket on the
back of the Courier. This means
that if you wish to share a line for
voice and data the purchase of a
socket doubler Is a pre-requisite.
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first of all you must make a bock-
Up copy of the coverdisk. To do
this, boot-up with your copy of
Workbench, then double click on
the Workbench disk icon, followed
by the Shell or CLI icon.
Now type;
11111COP1 FM Ora ; TO DFO:
or. If you have an extra disk drive.
put a blank, formatted disk in
DF1: and type:
1i1ECOPY Fla il OFO: Ta On:
Follow the on-screen prompts
until the copying procedure has
ended, then put your original disk
away in a safe place. Now switch
off the machine and waft for 30
seconds before re-booting with
the copy. Wait until the
CoverDisk17 icon appears, double
click on it and away you go.
That's all you need do to make
a straight copy of the entire disk.
However, you may also want to
to copy IFICkviduoi programs from
ore very small in memory
terms compared to their sam-
pled COUSIOS.
Sample Editor
With the Inclusion of this feature
MED has become something
more than Just one of the better
Soundtrocker clones The sample
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your copy ot tne coven:1
, separate disk. In this case ensure
5k that tyou o fully a understand which
related Res need to go with It
For example, all of the document
files on the disk reauire that
the text editor PPmore is in the
current disks C: directory. Therefore.
If you copy the does to a
new disk you will also have to
copy PPmore to the new C. directory
before you can read them.
Some of the smaller docs will
not have been crunched, so for
these you need only change the
tool types on the icon's Info
screen to reflect whichever text
editor you do have on the new
disk.
As a general rule, you should
carefully read the documentation
for any program you copy
from disk to disk
This can save a great deal of
messing about and can help you
avoid all those infutiat . error ,
messages!
editor transforms MED into a program
rivalling commercial products
like t h e
Audiomosteriengineer
packages - and all for a
couple of quid.
MED can now control
sampling from within
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Last month's coverdisk brought
you Hunter for ripping samples
out of memory. Now we offer The
Graphics Ripper to do the same
lob on your favourite piccies.
demos, or games backdrops.
Although not as easy to use as
Hunter, TGP is not too difficult to
get to grips with, It works on a
similar basis as Hunter in that It
relies on the Amiga not to wipe
memory after a warm restart.
Although some commercial
games will do this to prevent
hocking and precisely the sort of
graphics grabbing TGR is
designed for, most leave enough
around in memory to rip out
You're not doing °milting Illegal
if you rip graphics from PD
demos, and if you grab screens
from commercial games simply
to look at and mess about with
on your own, there's no harm
done. Just don't try to make
money Out of
To begin ripping, boot up with
your favourite demo or game
and wart till you're sure the best
graphics are in memory, then reboot.
it would be best to transfer
TGR to a bare bootable disk -
you can make one of these with
Auto-Script - for this purpose as
you ensure that memory is disturbed
as lithe as possible by the
re-boot.
Once TGR Is up and running,
you will find a selection of search
controls relating to memory posjtion.
bltplane manipulation, and
colour control.
The ins and Outs of these can
Author: Peter Edwards
•
be found in the comprehensive
on-disk documentation, but for
fast results. Just click on the FIND
button at the bottom of the
screen and move the mouse to
scroll through graphics memory.
If all is wee you should at least
be able to spot some Workbench
graphics, Including icons and
scroll bars. You should come
across the graphics you're interested
In If you persevere -
remember that the PL I to PL6
controls relate to the six brpiones
and ore expressed in hexadecimal.
For owners ot 512K Amigos, this
means the area of concern Is up
to memory location $80000. For
owners of machines with I Mb
chip RAM, such as A2000s and
converted A500s. this Is location
$100000. Don't bother to search
beyond these locations - graphics
memory won't be found In
the areas not directly accessed
by the custom chips.
When you find the graphics
you want TGP will save them to
disk as IFF files - but beware of
screen freezes. If the mouse
seems to freeze while saving, the
program has run into a problem
such as a write-protected or full
disk.
To release the mouse pointer
press the left Amiga key and B at
the same time. This is one of the
program's quirks, but one you'll
hove to live with it if you wont to
rip graphics without resorting to
the expense of a commercial
cartridge gadget.
Amiga Computing 3 5

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just couldn't stop playing. Its
excellent sound and graphics pro-
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deceptively simple gameplay is
sure to keep you playing for hours.
The game Is so colourful It takes
up about 400k of chip RAM, so if
you own a standard A500 be sure
to run It with as few windows open
as possible.
If you have problems, and the
game runs out of memory, the
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startup-sequence using CIRLD
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use Everything in
this section smacks
of Audiomaster on
which it was apparently modelled.
Indeed, MED is now so good that
you need never leave the pro-
gram. You can sample in MED. edit
the samples, and fi nally compose
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Conclusion
MED 3.00 Is the best music program
available ii PD for the Amiga -
as simple as that The new feature
are excellent, and substantially II
odd to the program's appeal.
Unfortunately constraints of
space meant we could not bring
you all the MED 3_00 hies, We hod
to leave out the programmer's
notes, demos, and most of the
samples on the new disk, so if yo..1
want these and the all important
source code get in touch with Ray
at Amiganuts United PD on (0703
7851580).
Don't forget that although the
author. Teito Kinnunen, has
retrained from making MED share
ware or going commercial, he is still
not averse to receiving the odd
fiver In the post. You'll fi nd his
address in the documentation on
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LandScape is a garden gener-
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Britain before cutting a single sod.
This is one of the most novel
uses we've seen an Amiga put to
for some time. and It's a neat
and Interesting utility for even
non-gardeners_
The program loads to a black
screen with just a menu bar at
the top. By accessing the fi rst
From pla n vie w to pseudo 3 0
simulated garden, LandScape
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LandScape
Author: Steve Goddard
menu and selecting NEW. the
second menu's garden building
options become available.
From here you simply point
and click with the mouse until the
garden boundary, lawn, path,
ond areas of earth ore set out,
then go on to odd plants.
The list of plants available isn't
huge and merely offers general
types, but as the program alms to
give Just a guide to how the gar-
den will appear this isn't really a
drawback.
It Is important at this stage to
bear hn mind the garden's dimen-
sions as chosen at the start of the
procedure. If you try putting a
medium sized fir in a small garden
There won't be much room left
for a washing line missusi
When the design process is fin-
ished the garden Is drawn from
whatever viewpoint you select,
This can take qtite some time, as
everything is mathematically calculated
to look as close to real
life as possible.
However, if you're prepared to
go away and have a quick
cuppa. the results on screen
when you get back can be
extremely pleasing. The drawing
algorithms have obviously been
carefully worked out.
The fi nished garden can now
be saved to disk as on IFF file and
touched up in DPaint if you like.
There are only two omissions
which damage the program -
water and stone. We would have
liked to have seen a pond/cas-
code design feature and a way
of Incorporating walls into the
garden, but these are the only
motor moans
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that we read the steady stream
of letters from Amiga users des-
perate to download fi les from
their pocket pal.
A couple of months later than
planned, we can at lost bring
you Doves article and software
on the process
YOU apparently
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tinued
respiration
on
your day-
so many of
put
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It is a compact and easy to
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file. Including those already
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The main prompt for its inclu-
sion on this month•s disk is the
incredible length of MEDs docu-
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ckrectories_
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PsionLink
Author: DaVe Westwood
ony tile transfer through the
Psionprets file which you'll find in
the Psionlink drawer.
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rote and so on and must be pre-
sent In the same directory as
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Another restriction Is that the
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resides MUST be called 'Psion:', In
other words, you must assign it as
a logical device name
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coverdisk, we've included
an ASSIGN statement In
the startup-sequence which
ISSIGN
Pslorts
ST
:LITILITIES/PGIONLINKt
to-day list
Apart from this, tna only
of priorities.
resini tion for the use of
Now the
The program is that you
Comms_link
mu st own a Peon
program allows
goner with the PC
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i
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Author: Moo Francois
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This isn't exactly a new program,
problem , just i copy the PPType
and anyone with a recent drawer to your c Workbench disk
release of Nico's excellent
Powerpacker utility will already
have PPType. However, for the
and use it earn
h
there.
f
The program i can accept your
own tab setting, t and will print
majority of readers we suspect headers containing s the file name
that PPType. being a realtively and page number. As we said. It
looks in Workbench prefs for print-
er type arid page length arid
width, so you have more Or less
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prints out
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through CU parameters or by set-
ting the tool types of the ton on
the file to be printed.
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printing.
The most fl exible way of using
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AmigaDOS as an operating system.
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but may not have realised its true
o
potential.
u
foNowing last month's column, you
should find little difficulty here,
Startup-sequences are typicolly
y To do tNs, you'll hove to begin simple scripts executed one com-
to e think of it as a crude programmand at a time from start to finish.
ming f language, and when you use so they usually don't contain any
script o or botch files this is exactly of the more advanced options
what l It becomes,
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dissected last month. Is the fi rst
w
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open to script file writers.
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look at the sort of trickery one can
d
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You'll notice from using Auto-Script That It uses text effects other than
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s
The standard type and colour. These special effects are accessible
sthrough
commands within ECHO statements in the form •
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1 = bold text
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italicised text
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7 = inverted text
30 • text colour 0 (blue)
31 = text colour 1 (white)
33 text colour 3 (orange)
41 background colour I (white)
43 = background colour 3 (orange)
Stevie Kennedy
finds he has
batches in his
belfry
PA R T 3
Learningthi
cript
script file most users encounter, and
32 text colour 2 (black)
40 = background colour 0 (blue)
42 = background colour 2 (black)
For example. It you type ECHO -
Computing•elOm' •ellmtet3m•et4m•e[
you will get 'Amiga Computing' In bold, underlined,
3 2black m A mitalics, i g aand
text will be switched back to normal.
.1 .•••••
BEGINNERS
GUIDE
Indulge in when using script files
and examine some of the more
complex tasks they can perform.
Pointer power
The script file we'll use as on exam-
ple. Auto-Script, is listed here and is
present on your coverdisk com-
plete with Its own icon. It you dick
once on this icon and use the
Workbench INFO option, you will
see that Its default tool type is set
to ICONX.
This is the routine wtich. If called
as a default tool type, opens a CLI
wI
nturning
it into a crude program
dexecutable
from Workbench.
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If you choose to write a script file
w
a
of your own, it should be simple
nenough
to copy and rename the
d on for use with your new scnot.
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ulighted
thismonth are the IF ELSE
n ENDIF group. ASK. LAB. and SKIP.
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By examining Auto-Script and fol-
t
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lowing what It does, you should be
e
able to use these commands in
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own script files with little has-
csle.
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of the most important commands
p
you might use In a script file. tt is the
t
f
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ISOMERS l —
GUIDE e
,
most common way of testing for
conditions, variables, and program
parometers, and as such is one of
The essential building blocks of any
script. It has the syntax;
(Condition)
Wiled/
ELSE
(Actin?)
MI;
This construction will be familiar
to BASIC programmers, but may
confuse beginners. When encoun-
tered in a script fi le, the IF command
looks to see if the condition
Is satisfied, It so. the Action] series
of commands Is carried out, then
execution skips to ENDIF
If the condition is NOT satisfied,
the ELSE command forces execu-
tion of the Action2 sequence
instead. The ELSE part is optional.
but Its use renders the whole a lot
more fl exible With no ELSE state-
ment, the execution of the script
file would simply jump to the first
command after ENDIF
The first line of the script concerns
vanables and/or command
parameters. The .key van l line sim-
ply tells the Amiga that there is one
program parameter coiled vonl
which will be passed to It. Normally.
If this isn't done in the EXECUTE
Amiga C omputing 4 3

command using the form EXECUTE
, the
command in question assumes a
null entry.
Auto-Script doesn't utilise true
variables - well cover those next
month - but It does require certain
yokes to be passed to it in answer
to ASK commands. This command
has the syntax
ASK "

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with Is own
bmiTior with
:e of using
Aries within
essential If
1 to be car-
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atiOn when
n IF to the
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puzzler, L you must guide a little
bouncing L ball through screen after
screen S of arcade action,
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zones, starting at the very begin.
fling of time Itself and then on
through to the present day and
the future.
Each screen consists of a num-
ber of platforms which you must
bounce around, collecting arti-
facts as you go.
These Increase your score, but
the object you're really after is the
Where's Me bioornin .It? Coilleci the key and It will aPPsoll
progress to the next screen. As
ever, there are obstacles to dodge
and traps to avoid, but our little
exit key - once collected, an exit rubber friend is not without help. which douse burning platforms,
will appear which wiN allow you to No sireee, for tools ore dotted Keys which allow passage through
progress to the next screen As around the screen which will certain walls and hammers that do
POP UP
the some job as the keys. but In a
Guaranteed to bowl you over!
slightly more direct way (who
needs a skeleton key when you've
got a 25Ib sledgehammer!)
Sounds easy doesn't It? But,
take it from me, things get harder_
much harder. Later in the game
you'll encounter bouncy platforms.
sticky platforms. angled platforms -
in fact, just about any type of platform
you can think of, all of which
Publisher: Infogrames Price' E19.99
You re in M e prehistonc a ge
and some pa rticula rly nasty
iodic ing prehistoric goldfish
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help him overcome his little problems.
These include water drops
are designed exclusively to hinder
your progress.
The moto you ploy this oiorno
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this screen
could prove to
be hot stuff it
you don? a void
those fire ba lls
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the more you will become deter-
mined to beat R.
The controls ore great and
apart from a deathly dull menu
screen, Pop Up is on addictive Hite
number. Defi nitely one for your
software collection,
David Johnson
FINAL JUDGEMENT
Graphics
Clean, well defi ned and
colourful, but not too adven-
turous. Nevertheless, Pop
Up's graphics work well.
I Sound
going. Boing. Soing. What'
else do you expect from a
bouncy ball game? Apart
from a few appropriate spot
effects, there's very little 11
worth mentioning - there
isn't even a tunel
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Bo master and work well. Ths
puzzles are enough to maks
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cousin, Flintheart Glomgold
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They're
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the stars of a quacking
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m to old Scrooge and his equally
tight o cousin Flintheart, money is
everything, n
Put simply. they're the
kind
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of characters who would sell
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their
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grandmothers if they thought
an o easy profit could be made.
e And to prove how fi nancially
astute s they realty are. a challenge
has n been set - whoever collects
the ' most money In under 30 days
wins t the coveted title of 'Duck Of
The Year' In that illustrious publica-
tion. Dime Magazine.
So the scene is set. Duck against
Duck, a battle where everything
goes (for the right price, that
Is). You play the part of old
)1), Scrooge McDuck - a bad
. 1 egg on the outside, but
a nice old
Publisher: Disney Software Price: uE24.99
Relaxing the M cn u ck w a y
chop on the Qnsode.
With the aid of his nephews
Huey. Dewey and Louie. old
McDuck must grab his Indiana
Jones hat and whip and go in
search of treasure. He'll find himself
lost In a network of caves, swinging
from vines In the Amazon jungle
and climbing mountains In search
of treasure.
Each of these little
excursions takes the
form of a separate sub
game which has to be
completed If McDuck is to
add to his already
bulging coffers.
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attraction soon pales. Things are
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load than actually playing It!
Although Duck Tales is undoubt-
edly aimed at a fairly young audi-
ence, It has the makings of a great
game. Unfortunately, it's rust far too
repetitive to be worth more Mon a
passing glance. It's a shame that
the programmers didn't spend as
much time on the gameplay as
they did on the graphicsi if they
had, then Duck Tales would have
been a stunntng piece of software.
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Some pretty decent tunes
accompany play, but what
really makes the game shine
are the numerous speech
samples and effects that
really give it that fun Disney
feel.
Gameplay
- DuckTales reminds me of
some of the very early
Cinemaware games - they
had great graphics, superb
sound, but gameplay was
practically nonexistent.
Unfortunately, Duck Tales
shares this problem. Sure, it
looks good, but the game-
play is simply too repetitive
to make it the kind of game
you'll come back to.
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I LIVE THE GREATEST ADVENTURE OF YOUR CHILDHOO
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FIVE ON A
TREASURE ISLAND
Enid Blyton's much loved characters come alive in this faithful version
of the best selling book.Using the "Worldscape" adventure system
you can play any of the children as they solve the mystery of
the Treasure Island. Featuring a powerful text parser and many
graphical locations, this is a game for the young
and the young-at-heart
AVAILABLE SOON FOR
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STAR
Fancy yourself
CONTROL
as a Saviour of the Universe...?
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Graphics -
Although the graphics are
generally small, they zip
around tht screen without a
Judder in sight. On the
whole, presentation is good.
Publisher: Accolade Price: E24.99
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Nothing worth writing home
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about, but It's functional
Gameolay
enough. However, each ship
has its own victory tune,
which is quite a nice touch.
ta.
FREE STEWS
Great, The controls are welt
laid out and easy to master.
The gamtplay Is far from
original, but who carts whtn
It's so addictive?
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Captain Kirks, there's
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bow. l Do not fret, II isn't another Stor
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Trek game - which is good
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because 'I dunna think I could
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take b any more captain.'
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tinkling a No. This struggle is Slor against C ontrol -a
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a futuristic battle where all is
t:con•
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army of various space vehicles
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can save the known universe from
u
a wcruel,
evil empire. Wall a mkiute
... o haven't I heard that story
somewhere u
before?
l Never mind Strap your plasma
bolt
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shooter to your waist, put your
b
genuine Imitation leather hover
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boots on and tilt your space hel-
mets 'cos this is gonna be one hel•
1INCI due l.
Star Corikol is the latest offering
from those old reliable Accolade
boys and its good . vep good.
Its also big so its for one meg
Amigos only I'm afrakl.
It's set in the distant future with
two legions of seven space ships
locked in deadly combat. The
Alliance - figriters for truth, Justice
and liberty for all - and the evil
Hierarchy, the scourge of the universe.
Boo. Hiss
Gameplay-wise, Star Control
reminds me of on old arcade
game I used to play in my wild
and reckless youth, called Space
Battle. In that game, two space
ships flew around the screen blast-
ing each other and avoiding a
planet slap bang lit the centre
Sounds pretty simple I know, but
Accolade's offering goes a lot fur-
ther than this archaic game -
there's a certain amount of strate-
gy In there too.
The game offers a few different
scenarios just to stop it getting bor-
ing. For starters, you can practice
at a one-to-one level with any of
the ships gn offer. This is highly
recommended as each ship has
different characteristics Including
speed, weaponry and shields plus
- as on added bonus - each of the
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ship has
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ships has a special move or trick
up its sleeve.
Once you think that you'll be
more than lust laser fodder for
some gala dribbling alien, then its
time to move on to Meele. This
option cuts out all that technical
strategy stuff (that comes later)
and puts you head to head with
to.
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Build you empire throughout the universe
AFIL
your opposing fleet as you light to
the death across a space field.
Oh, and be careful not to crash
into the planets which hove a
gravitational pull - this could leave
you a sitting duck.
If the tactical side of your nature
Is lusting for more you can move
on to the full game options. There
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and even an option to create your
own, but they all work around the
same principle.
A moving star map with you at
the bottom and your opponent at
the top is laid out and each or the
armies ships move from planet to
planet, colonising and fortifying
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bloody battle which will se e only one
surAvor. Pla ye r 2 score s a dire ct Pill.
but the ba lle t not ove r ye t
them as they go. Movement is lim-
ited to the planets immediately
surrounding the one you are on
and not all planets lead where you
think. It's a bit like trying to read a
British Rail timetable at first, but
you'll soon get the hang of DI
Once you've sussed out all the
different options, you'll find Star
Control to be a source of many
hours of computer entertainment.
Irs obvious that a lot of thought
has gone into Star Control, making
this a game waith checking out.
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puzzle o game with a difference -
put t simply. you'll be puzzled why
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You control Max. a lovesick, but
smiling o blob with a few wisps of
hair w and some feet poking out of
his e bottom.
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An everyday story of lovesick blobs...
Publisher: Digital Distribution Price: E24.99
_And he m it Is In a ll Its glory - tootle mode N ow where did I put my glosses
pie enough - you must guide Max
through fi fty levels of puzzling
arcade action until he is fi nally
reunited with the love of his life„
It yours getting bored, then you con cre a te your own screens with the built
-
in @ O d o r
Mini (who,
like Max,
Is also a
blob).
Each
level is
complet-
ed by col-
lecting love
hearts that ore
scattered around
the play area, Once
you've collected them
oll, a quick peck on Mini's
cheek will send you on to the
next level
Unfortunately, the floors of each
level are rather slippery, so once
Max starts to move, he can only
stop by colliding with another
object (a Lott like my car, really).
To make things a little easier
however, many of the levels fea-
ture 'helping stones' that con be
strategically positioned to help
Graphics
Deliberately small, but quite
colourful. The game could
have benefited from a bit of
animation here and there,
just to make it visually more
Interesting.
Sound
If you're Into popular music,
then you'll love the Power's 1 .
theme tune which Is a very
well done adaptation of
Snap's chart storming single,
'The Power'. Unfortunately,
sound effects aren't quite up
to the sa me sta nda rd.
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The Power's simplicity is per.
haps its downfall - there's
,
j.
.td- ut
Personally, I'd rather
,watch sh
paint dry.
t e
nr
Max
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collect all the hearts. These
helping t stones come in three
flavours eo
- Red. Green and Blue.
Problem nk
is though, you have to be
careful
oe
when moving two together,
ue
because certain combinations
gp
will couse the stones to be
h y
destroyed vo
au
Once you've completed all 50
screens, ri
there's a built-In level editor
in
which will let you produce you
own et
screens These can be saved
te
out onto standard AmloaDOS for-
y r
mat disks, so there's no reason why
ie
ns
you shouldn't be able
t
to swap screens
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with your friends.
The Power is
quite a fun little
game, but t
doesn't quite hove
that certain some-
thing that would make
it special. As it is, you'd
probably have more fun
watching PowerGen shares
crash,
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packages a like Broadcast Titter and Within each event it is possible
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Installing the system is a docidle,
although it should be pointed out
look at Home tiller on Page 69 of
this issue.
Scala has the rather grand remit
of being a presentation system.
Before diving into the mechanics of
the package it makes sense to look
at practical applications for It.
You ore more likely to see the
output of Scala in a board room or
shopping centre than an edit suite.
Presentation systems merge graph-
ics with text to produce pleasant
looking information displays. These
systems convey anything from flight
=vats at airports to the latest profit
cmd loss statistics for a multi-nation-
al company
Visual impact
The Scala package allows presentations
to be formed from three
components; backgrounds, text
and symbols. These elements
come together to form -
pages* Information, o f
Complete display sequences
are built up by using Scabs beau-
tifully simple presentation manager
to wipe between these pages.
that the more modestly endowed
Amiaas could run Into trouble. In
order to use the package to Its full
potential a hard disk is required.
The manual cites this as recom-
mended rather than essential but
bearing in mind the entire pack-
age comes on no fewer than nine
floppies it should be taken as a
very strong recommendation,
Scala extensively utilises the
Amigos High-Res graphics mode,
so stacks of memory is also
prerequisite. Two megabytes of
ram Is enough to keep Scala
happy, although It wouldn't com-
plain if more was thrown at it
Scabs backgrounds are high
resolution IFF riles, The package is
supplied vitth a varied collection of
excedent quality Images.
Everything from artistic abstracts
to cloud and seascapes are pro-
vided on fi ve disks cram packed
with art-library material.
if even after browsing through
the supplied images you can't find
something that fits your application
it is possible to generate your Own
backgrounds, The standard range
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tweaked, dropping in bar charts
and graphs where required for
example.
Scala uses standard Amiga
fonts, although those supplied are
significantly better than the by now
Immortal Topaz. Seventeen font
families are bundled with the sys-
tem. A wide range of authentic
adaptations of popular display
faces are provided including
Futuna, Gill, Garamond and
Hetvetica
If you are particulady desperate
to utilise a font that doesn't cramp
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your style It is Just a simple if tedious
matter of digging out a PD font
editor, or dare I suggest even
Commodores FED Armed with
such a tool anyone has the poten-
tial to be a fully fl edged Scala font
foundry
As well GS fonts, the package is
geared up to handle k Pictograms".
These ate graphic symbols rather
than characters. Standard sym-
bols supplied with the art-library
Include arrows, disabled logos. toi-
let and utility symbols. This gives
some clue to the typical applica-
fions of the package.
I could not argue if you insisted
that a pictogram of a gents toilet
symbol is not a great deal of use
for the overage wedding video. It
is however useful in public places
like shopping and leisure centres.
The next time you are directed to a
convenience by a monitor, it could
well be Scala at the heart of the
machine
Again. If you can't fi nd a pic-
togram that takes your fancy it is a
straightforward ;ob to create your
own, providing you have the time
and a decent ort package.
External input
Sado has no built in provision far
creating pictograms or back-
grounds Instead it relies on Import-
ing IF formal files
Backgrounds can be any stan-
dard IFF screen and pictograms
usually start their life off as Deluxe
Paint brushes. As well as static
backgrounds. Scala will also cope
happily with DPaint III animations
A requirement for Deluxe Point III
popped up time and time again
during a cursory test drive of the
package It would be fair to say
that in order to take full advantage
of Scala. DPaint is a virtual necessl-
It's not only The graphic element
of your presentations that can be
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current font size dictates. The word
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with Scala. the system associates
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The interactive aspects of Scala
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faced with beginners on a budget
Protext Is more expensive than
you might fi nd comfortable, and
isn't the ideal easy-learner pro-
gram.
Kindwords, on the other hand, is
abysmally slow and only rust about
wcfks on a machine with less than
the full megabyte. Indeed, the only
way to use the latter and remain
sane is to fit your Amiga with 2Mb
RAM and an 030 cord!
For gliite a while, then, there has
existed a potentially lucrative gap
in the WordpioceSsing market
which only Amor. by releasing
Protext 5 and creating the condi-
tions for price cuts on Protext 4.3,
has come close to exploiting.
Companies in the U.S, however,
appear to have grown wise to this
and Quick Write is the first quality
low-end wordprocessing package
to hit our shores as a result
The program has an obvious
parentage, coming as it does from
the same New Horizons stable as
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if you've ever used Excellence.
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The program Is an attempt to ftt
a fully specifi ed wordprocesor
complete with spell-checker not
only into 512K but onto a single
floppy as wet The happy child of
such a wedding of compactness
and usability, it It worked, would be
a program with immense appeal
to the A500 owner. So does it work?
On loading, QuickWrite has the
Immediate visual appeal of the
American wordprocessors already
mentioned, and certainly looks
more professional than the rather
chunky KindWords. The screen
opens as a hi-res window which
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documents open into their own re-
sizable windows
In this way multiple document
editing is possible, but as the pro-
gram is designed for systems with
limited memory this otherwise desirable
function has a limited use in
QuickWrite.
If you're one of those people
who is drawn to the hst of 'features'
normally found on the back of the
packoging, you'll initially be
impressed by larickWrila However.
there's not a great deal there that
you can't find in most other WP's.
QuickWrite is up to the usual
spec, but it doesn't break any new
ground. What it does break is the
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price/performance barrier repre-
sented by better but more expen-
sive programs such as Protext 5,
and the inferior but generally
cheaper KiedWords.
Spell it out
The spelling checker is the pack-
age's most impressive feature. Not
only Is It actually on the same disk
as the main program, but it con-
tains a usable 50.000 words and
can be added to as the user's
requirements dictate.
KindWords scores o v e r
QuickWrite by recognising 90,000
words, but to use it on lengthy doc-
uments you need more than 512K.
and to describe it as sluggish would
be an understatement.
The QuickWrtte dictionary, while
smaller, Is considerabty faster, and
can be speeded up even more If
loaded Into PAM, Using it thus will
take up a full 120K so there may
not be enough space it your docu-
ment is lengthy or your Amiga is
unexpended.
The disk, however, contains a
RAMStart program which will open
the RAM disk if it hasn't appeared
during start-up, and transferring The
dictionary to ti Is co simple matter of
dragging Its icon to the RAM disk
window.
The spell-checker searches
through the text from start to finish
rather than utilising the more intelli•
gent aparooch taken by Protext's
Collins/Proximity Linguibase This
scans and then sorts the whole text
into alphabetical order before
checking it through, and con be
very smooth in operation.
QuickWrite's start-to-fi nish
method is less complex. but seems
to be slower in checking, and cer-
tainly takes longer when changing
or looking up a word.
Another minor point ks that the
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tionary means its suggestions for
misspelt words tall far short of
Thesaurus standards. In fact, it will
Often fail to fi nd an alternative for
words you could be forgiven for
thinking are fairly common.
On the whole, though, it is fast
and simple enough to do the job.
In time, the user dictionary would
no doubt fill up to the point where
the main dictiorary's shortfallings
would be mostly offset, and only
those with large vocabularies or
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limiting to start with.
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Is the term for a keypress (such as a
function key) or combination of
keypresses which has been pre-
defi ned to stand for a sequence of
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more up-market pockages, but
with the addition of the APEXX
multi-task communications lan-
guage. QuickVVrite can defi ne ten
macros.
This addition should not be
understated - macros ore more
than just a gimmick and can cut
out a great deal of tedious typing.
For instance. Macro 1 might be
defi ned to reformat on entire para-
graph. Indent it. and fully justify it at
the stroke of a key. Many users will
find similarly routine operations
which can be rendered less painful
in this way. lending QuickWrite
much more professional touch.
Unfortuncrtely, it is only the more
ambitious user who will take
advantage of the macros, as their
use requires a bit of thought. In
contrast with some low-end pro-
grams, where defi ning a macro is
simply a case of starting the
'recorder' and carrying out the
sequence of keystrokes you desire
to be defi ned, QuickWrite uses its
own macro 'language'.
This is more powerful and flexible
than the simple recorder method.
The usual options
are a va ila ble in
their usual form -
nothing to write
home about,
but Is much more diffi cult to use
and, even though well document-
ed by the manual, Is likely to scare
off more than a few beginners.
No Wordprocessor can be
judged solely by its on-screen abili-
ties. They are, after all, intended to
produce hard copy at the end of
the day. and (;)uickWitte manages
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frequently crashes If a problem
occurs during printing, QuickWitte
copes well with large printing tasks,
The mall merge facility is con-
trolled by only four simple rules to
defi ne how a merge list should
look.
It allows the user to choose
which records (such as individual
addresses) are merged, so that let-
ters may be sent to one portion of
a long list, rather than the whole lot
as demanded by KindWords's mail
merge.
Files with a smile
File handling es cameo Out by way
of a Moc-ish fi le requester, which
most Amiga users will rind painfully
slow.
To jump from one drive to the
next when searching for a file, one
has to click on a 'drives gadget to
go through them one at a time.
On a hard drive-based Mac.
with Its uncluttered desk top, this is
fine, but on an Amiga sporting only
floppies it con cause unnecessary
rises in blood pressure. I would
have welcomed an ARP fi le
requestor or even a standard
AmigoDOS one, which shows you
how bad QuickWrite's can get.
The saving grace in this depart-
ment is the option to save directly
In Professional Page as well as standard
Quick Write and ASCII format
For users of Gold Disk's DIP
package, the ability to import text
files with no extraneous control
codes or annoying carriage returns
is a positive boon, and will greatly
enhance QuickWrite's appeal to
That particular market
Conclusion
On the whole. QuickWrite is a wel-
come addition to the cheaper end
of the Wordprocessor market At
first glance. It Is more expensive
than KindWords and is missing a
thesaurus and the ability to import
graphics files.
On further investigation, however,
one can quickly discern a powerful,
tightly coded and memory
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package which should be
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or working with only one drive
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and fl exible Amigo OK it sounds
good. but what exoctly can It do?
In short. ADPro is a collection of
image processing tools which join
forces to create and manipulate
high quality images. The various
elements ore combined under a
very smooth and stylish front end
which makes complex image con-
versions as simple as clicking on an
icon
Perhaps the most common use
for ADPro's assets will be rts format
conversion facilities. In Order to
swap an image from one format to
the another ADPro uses external
programs to load and save
images.
As a result ADPro can be
extended to read or write new or
alternative formats by simply
adding additional modules.
If you are an artistic soul ADPro
rendering abilities might be more
to your taste. The program can
load up any image data and then
render the results in any Amiga
video format.
ASDG's rendering techniques
the animation world and if you are
after high quality quickly it's a godsend.
While we're on the subject of
rendering and ray tracing. ADPro's
abilities also stretch to rendering
and enhancing images created
with ray tracing software.
Why render images with ADPto
rather than the software on which
It was created? Quite simply.
ADPro will render 24 bit planes bet-
ter and faster than the parent pro-
grams themselves!
Perhaps the hottest property In
Amiga graphics has to be the
Imminent release of 24-bit colour.
The AmIgan art world Is waiting
with sweaty palms for the release
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Both these products seem
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result the need for external soft-
ware support whether it be render-
ing or conversion will soon become
big business. ADPro has no prob-
lems handling 24 bit planes or the
power it will unleash oeto the print-
ed page. not to mention the world
of DTV.
If you've ever hod dealings with
commercial publishing you'll be
familiar with the need for colour
separations, which as the name
suggests is the process by which
the vorious colour elements of an
Image are divided ready for a
colour print run.
ADPro can be used as the
source of such separations in both
12 or 24 bit planes, The subsequent
print quality of images processed in
this way are excellent, and easily
on a par wtth the Mac equivalent.
If your print requirements are
slightly more unusual the software
can still cater for your needs. Say
you needed to render Images for
heat transfer on to materials such
as cotton. ADPro can provide a
suitable stencil.
If your dreS5 sense is sagnity more
extravagant you could use the
packages separation skills to produce
films for three or four colour
silk screening.
TAD or ADPro
The Art Department. or TAD as it's
more commonly known. is the pre-
decessor to ADPro and is still readily
available from most suppliers. Both
products are targeted at roughly
the some area of the market, with
each varying in abilities and price.
TAD is described as ASDG's entry
level processing system. while
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limited It might well be worth look-
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Perhaps one of the most impres-
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basically means that ADPro can be
used for generalised format conversion.
This new ability also allows you to
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output, as well as a display tool for
the Output of scanners, frame
buffers and so on.
Many of the Image processing
functions built into TAD have been
re-worked, and are now run-time
loadable. These modules are
known as operators, and due to
the run-time design ASDG can
release additional operators as the
need appears. This should hopeful-
ly negate the need for future
expensive upgrades.
Another asset which TAD did not
offer is true colour composelon. This
allows you to actually edit 24 bit
plane images even it you don't
have a 24 bit display board or
paint program
ARexc is very well supported by
ADPro, so if you're into batch, bulk.
or network applications your
dreams may well be answered by
ADPro's skills in automated image
processing.
Last but not least in the list of
added attractions is the option to
choose between standard Amiga
palette or the enhanced palette
mode which yields higher quality
images if you want to display your
wares on IBM compatible VGA
and Super-VGA displays as well as
the Commodore Hi-Pes Graphics
Adapter.
ADPro is, In effect, on umbrella
under which several elements
combine to perform there various
skills. The external components of
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headings Loaders. Savers and
Operators,
Loaders
Loader is a generic term for pro-
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Savers
Savers as the name suggests, do
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Like Loaders. Savers also have
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buffer. As a result the transferred
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ADPro is firmly in the software for
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requires y the loss or an cirri, a leg,
and e a few other fi nancial body bits
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So if your fi nances are slightly
red faced DKBTrace could be an
excellent alternative to spending
heaps of cash on a commercial
product.
This complete ray tracer sup-
ports arbitrary quadric surfaces,
which when translated means
spheres, ellipsoids, cones. cylinders,
planes and so on. Various shading
models are also available, plus
refl ection, refraction, marble,
wood, and many other familiar ray
tracing favourites.
it also has special case code to
handle spheres, planes, triangles,
and smooth triangles, If you use
these special primiltves• the render-
ing times can be reduced quite a
bit when compared with general
quadrics,
Version 2.0 Includes the source
code written In C. The whole thing
hos being bundled together on to
one disk by the author, David K.
Buck.
If you're the lucky owner of a
68020 or 68030 system with a 68881
or 68882 math co-processor you'll
find a completely separate version
of the software on the disk
designed rust for you and your muscular
machine.
As well as the program itself a
whole range of utilities added to
the package perform various
weird and wonderful tricks of the
trace.
Dump to IFF will convert the raw
24 bit data from the ray tracer files
Paul Austin lends
a helping hand to
pick the best PD
from the rest
into Hi-res HAM images The colour
palette used for the first Image can
then be used with the others.
This is particularly useful for animations
as the entire series of
frames can be forced to use the
same colour palette.
Dump21GB can convert the raw
24 bit output files of the ray tracer
into three separate dump files for
the ability to separate colour Is
redly useful.
Scuipt2DKB, the next of the
extras, will convert a Sculpt-
Animate 3D scene fi le into
DKBTrace format, At the moment
smoothed triangles ore not sup-
ported and the only information
directly converted concerns the
polygons, colours and textures,
red, green and blue. This might Light sources, viewpoints, other
seem rather pointless to most peo- aspects are ignored but once the
ple, but it you're
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Parma34y the best boashe blaster in the business.
always add these as required from
DKB.
If you're already familiar with
DKB in Its earlier forms a document
included describes the conver-
sions required to use data fi les
from 1,2 with the new improved
2.0.
As you can see from the screen
shots, excellent results are possible.
They're not perhaps the quakty of
some commercial creations, but
considering the price difference
this Is a very impressive package
Indeed.
A beginner would be well
advised to give the Instructions a
good read, as ray tracing is not
the sirnpiest of subjects and takes
a little time to master,
In order to squash all the good-
ies on to one disk most of the ele-
ments have been archived and as
a result need to be un-archived
On to a separate disk. I'd recom-
mend at leost 1 meg or more it
you're really interested In serious
production,
MVK V2.0
Is your machine sneezing, shiver-
ing, and chewing up disks like
Strepsils? if so it's sure to be suffer-
ing form the curse of modern
computing, viral infection.
Fortunately for every idiot with a
sick sense of humour there seems
to be a knight in shinning armour
waiting to leap to our defence
and combat the bacterial beast-
Stefan Ossowski is a fine exam-
ple of a later day Lancelot. with
his computing equivalent of a
condom, Master virus Kier V2,0.
MVK is capable of spotting up
to 105 viruses. on impressive fi gure
and considerably more than
many of its counterparts. It will
86 Amiga C omputing
detect both the fi le and boot
block varieties and happily put
them to the sword, whether they
be on a fl oppy or hard drive.
The software does hove one
drawback, or advantage de-
pending on your point of view. It
will not run as a background task
like Kill Do Virus or Zerovirus its
competitors. Both of these sit on
the menu bar and automatically
check memory and disks as they
are inserted.
The advantage of background
checking is that nothing should slip
through the net, as both KDVIII
and Zerovirus can be run from the
startup-sequence and remain
active constantly.
The disadvantages arise if you
According to the dm Wonder-
Sound is an addictive harmonic
Instrument design tool which
allows you to create new sounds
by manipulating envelopes, hat.
MONO strengths and phase
angles. These can then be save
for use with other music utilities.
I wasn't convinced with claims
of instant addiction. Trial and error
with a large helping of patient
experimentation would be c
more accurate description.
The main revision to eari
releases , is that all processed
ei
sound is passed through o low-
pass fitter, which lessens the high
pitch distortion or aliasing which
plagued Wondersound in the
past
The sounds created are rather
basic and reminiscent of those
produced with processing software
on the Commodore 64 But
if you're a patient soul with an
urge to create new sounds
WonderSound could be for you.
regularly use disks with custom
boot blocks or software which
afters vectors. If you do, you'll soon
become thoroughly sick of can-
celling the alert warnings which
are activated every time you
insert a non-standard disk, even
though you know it to be harmless.
In their defence both KDVIII and
Zerovirus both can be taught to
recognise new boot blocks, so it is
possible to subdue their enthusi-
asm when checking regularly used
disks which you know to be safe.
With MVK it's best to check any
incoming disks and then immedi-
ately wnte protect theca That way
you can be sure they're sore, and
once protected they won't
require any further attention. If you
need to leave disks writable a
background virus killer might be a
better choice
Master Virus Killer is available
from' NBS, 132 Gunville
Newport. I.W., P030 5LH or tram
the good old Arniganuts united at
169 Dale Valley rd. Holybrook,
Southhampton, SO1 60X.
Posh pointers
Any programmer with a passion
for pointers could take a look at
Fred Fish 446 and its collection of
normal and sleeping mouse point-
ers which you can combine with
your own creations. As well as
pointers there's a whole range or
extra goodies available, so check
it out
Both disks, along with rest of the
latest Fish disks, are available from
Softville PD services on 0705
266509. or you could write to
Softville at: Unit 5, Stratfi eld Park.
Electra Avenue, Waterlooville.
Hants P07 7XN.
PD playtime
The award for best disk for this
month has to go to number 903 in
the Amiganuts United collection
It's a compilation of four excetent
games bundled on to one disk.
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and is excellent value for money.
JEOPARD: First of the tab tour
Involves a favourite subject with
many a game designer - world
domination. The action takes
place on a large map of the world
spread across the screen in glori-
ously flickering Hi- res.
Jeopard is The name, and dam-
motion's the game, with two to
eight players taking part. Each
battles against the next to con-
quer each others territories and
finally rule the world The outcome
is determined by a combination of
clever planning and on element
of luck provided by the roll of the
dice,
This is very similar to the well
established board game Risk.
which has long been available in
the High Street, and more recently
as a commercial release on the
Amiga. amongst others
Gameplay is In generally very
Impressive. The only real problem
lies with the screen format, If you
don't ownt a flicker fixture the Infa-
mous Hi-res fl icker can be a real
strain on the eyes.
MIGA MIND: this is the Amiga ver-
sion of another smash hit,
Mastermind. it is a popular subject
In the PD and as a result several
versions ore available. This is per-
haps not the prettiest one, never-
theless it ploys perfectly and Is
useful as a Workbench toy.
Miga Mind is basically a logic
game In which you pit your wits
against the computer and its hidden
code.
You must attempt to decipher
__IIIKANSI
This is one of the utlis, and as the
name suggests will turn any two
colour low-res IFF picture Into
ANSI text which can then be
played on any ANSI compatible
terminal,
rhis could be very handy tar
the code before your limited
opportunities run out and your
Amigo once again reminds you
who's the boss.
PIPELINE: if you're more of an
arcade fan, the graphics and
game play of Fipe/ine will be more
to your taste, being root too dissimi-
lar to Pipe Mania, Even so the
undercurrent of logic still fl ows
Through to Pipeline, and if you are
addicted to Titris and Weflits you'll
certainly love Pipeline.
The Idea Is to create a route by
which the oil can fl ow from A to B.
On the left of the screen ore five
pieces of a pipeline. You con con-
trol the cursor position with a joy-
stick, and as you press the fi re
demos or perhaps disk introduc
ASOG's TAD or Art Dept Pro
are perfect for converting virtually
any picture into a low-res one
bitplane two color image which
can then be fed to IFF2ANSI for
conversion,
50k0Syky• a simode but sple ndidly a ddictive logic cha lle nge .
A slighttly flicke ring version of the fa milia r boa rd ga me risk
button tile piece on the bottom of
the pile of five Is ploced in the cur-
rent cursor-position, The tour
remaining pieces fall one position
and a new (random) piece will
appear at the top.
After a while black gold starts to
flow, so you've got to get the pipe
in place pretty quickly even on
the early levels. Bonus points are
awarded for complex connec-
tions which all add points towards
the ultimate goal or entering the
I've stott•O so ill fi nkto. Ihe •vet popular challenge of Mostefroilld.
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SOKOSKY: This is perhaps my
favourite offering on the disk.
Sokosky is an ingenious puzzle
game which Involves a logical
challenge combined with very
attractive graphics
The idea is to move numerous
rubies around the playing area
until they cover predetermined
points on the board This may
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t Just thinking about it brings the
memories e fl ooding back. Back
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a home computer/ Then of
course there was colour - If
your computer could deploy
more than the standard
green on black, then it was
looked upon as a pretty
advanced piece of kit/ As
for sound, the odd digital
bleep was about 05
sophisticated as things
got.
Thankfully, those
days are long gone.
Now we're playing
web a computer that
has thousands of
colours and the
kind of sound
copabilities
that would have
put a synthesiser to sharne
just a few years bock Even on the
base machine, it offers almost ten
limes the amount of RAM available
on the most famous 8-bit of them
all, the evergreen Commodore
C64
Despite all this extro power, the
Amiga is still held bock in its basic
incarnation, Fact is, a single fl oppy
disk and 512k of memory just isn't
enough unless you're happy to
play the odd game (you'll even
find that some games won't work
under the very basic spec).
Radical changes
The key to getting the roost from
your Amigo Is to expand it - that is.
to add extra bits and pieces that
will increase your machine's capa-
bilities, You're probably already
aware of such things as RAM
expansions, external fl oppy drives
and hard drives, but there's so
much more to expansion than
these toidy limited pieces of equip-
ment There's a vast range of more
obscure devices that you can plug
Into your Amiga to push its power
further than you'd previously ever
thought possible - how does net-
working grab you?
Then of course there's such
things as touch sensitive screens,
24-bit graphics cards, light pens.
tape streamers, video processors
and a whole host of Other won•
drous devices. Never has a single
computer offered such a wide vari-
ety of expansion possibilities!
You'll be surprised what a differ-
ence a little bit of expansion
hardware can
make t o
your system.
Even if you
add just a half
meg R A M
expansion and a
second fl oppy,
you'll fi nd your
Amiga to be o
much faster and
smoother computer
to work with.
When you start
adding things like Nord
drives and processor
accelerators, the differ-
ence is astounding! Even
a fairly meagre amount of
expansion will totally trans-
form your Amiga - just ask
anyone who has already
taken the plunge'
In this and next months
Issue of Amiga Computing we are
providing you with what we think is
the most comprehensive guide to
expanding your Amigo ever writ-
ten. This isn't a buyer's guide, so
don't expect to fi nd details of
every hard drive and every RAM
expansion available for the Amiga,
Instead we'll be highlighting the
kind of Options available to you
(and perhaps we'. point you in the
right direction when it comes to
making the right buying decision)
Its then up to you to fi nd the
appropriate equipment - a quick
scan through the acts within Amiga
Computing will usually be all that is
needed.
Flexible friend
Choosing what hardware to buy is
entirely up to you, but there are a
couple of extra bits and pieces that
a basic Amiga 5110 is crying out for.
so these are a good place to start.
If you play clot of games, then an
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and deliver
Thinking about expanding your Amiga?
If so, then let Jason Holborn detail the
options available
external fl oppy disk drive should be
your first purchase - quite a few
more recent games come on two,
sometimes even three diskettes, so
you can save yourself a lot of the
hassles associated with constant
diskswapping with an outlay of little
more than £50.
If you use your Amiga seriously.
then an extra drive will prove to be
an absolute must, especially if
you're a CU hacker. ArnkjoDOS is
totally transformed by the oodition
of on extra drive - Indeed, it's
almost friendly! (OK. perhaps I
shouldn't go quite that far).
Once you've strapped on on
external drive, your next purchase
should undoubtedly be a ram
exponsior
Most A500 users go for a half
meg upgrade, but It's worth going
for a larger board test for the extra
room It creates - you may think a
megabyte sounds like a lot of
memory, but you'd be surprised
how quickly the Amiga will use It
upi A half meg tom card con be
picked up for as little as 4'25 these
days. so there's no excuse for not
taking the plunge.
The vast majority of games don't
really need the extra ram. but
more and more developers ore
producing games that do take
advantage of expulsion memory.
This usually takes the form of a
few extra sampled effects, better
music and perhaps even a few
extra game options. Some games
actually require at least a
megabyte to run (Dungeon Master,
for example), and it seems certain
that many more will be released in
the future.
Screen scene
Once you've got these two basic
add-ons. your Amiga will be a far
more useable system, but that's no
reason to stop there, A worthwhile
upgrade for anyone who uses their
Amiga for anything other than
games is a
colour monitor.
Commodore's
own 1084 pro-
vides a pretty
decent deploy.
but it Is rather
expensive for
what It has to
offer, The Amigo
boasts both ana-
log and digital
RGB output, so
there's a very
goad chance
Amiga computing 97

just about any colour monitor can
be wired up (although its best to
get a qualifi ed electrician to do
the neccessary work).
Mousey matters
The Amigo is very heavily mousebased.
but that doesn't mean that
you have to stick with the mouse
supplied with your computer. There
are a fair number of alternatives
available that wHi do exactly the
same job without the
problems assool- --
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Commodores
rodent (clogging
rollers etc).
Indeed, some ore
octualty a much bet-
ter bet than a mouse
because they have been
specifically designed with 0
particulor application in
mind.
One such application that
has earned more than Its fair
share of attention is that of Amiga
graphics, As a result, Amiga artists
are positively spoilt for choice
when it comes to choosing on
alternative input device. By for the
most popular is the touch tablet,
which is basically a fl at.
pressure sensi-
tive pod.
Most touch
tablets also come
complete with some kind
of pen or stylus, which is used to
'draw onto the pad. What's so
great about these tablets is that
you can place a piece of paper
on top of the pad and literally
trace artwork directly into your
Amigo.
Another alternative is the light
pen, which is a device which
allows you to draw by pressing the
pen directly against your monitor
screen.
This has the advantage of being
closer to the conventional pen and
paper than any other device. but
they tend to be rather low resolu-
tion. Whilst they•re great for the
kids. they're for from ideal if you're
after high precision equipment.
Another disadvantage of the
mouse is the amount of free space
that it requires on your desktop. A
better bet is perhaps the trackball,
which is basically and upside-down
mouse. Like the mouse, the tracker-
ball uses a roiterball but. unlike the
mouse, you move the bold directly
98 Amiga C omputing
with your fi ngers. Apart from the
obvious benefi ts for gaming
(Marble Madness is great with a
trackerballt), these are ideal for
musicians use their Amigos live,
Moving still further away from
the mouse is the Touch Screen, a
device which is still very much In Its
Infancy on the Amiga. You've
probably seen them used on 'point
of soles systems - instead of hav-
ing to click on gadgets with the
mouse, you simply press your finger
against the screen to select the
gadget your require.
These are perhaps
rather too specialist at the
moment, but they'll
prove to be an all-
important weapon in
the Amigo's multimedia
arsenal.
\ Finally, a
company in the
States hove lust
released a bar
-- code reading system for
the Amiga which allows you to
assign different AmigaDOS commands
to bacodes.
You con create your own bar-
codes using the bundled software
and then dump them Out onto
paper. Its far from toeing
an alternative
to the
mouse,
but just think
what a pose it would
be to operate your Amigo in
this fashianl
Sound advice
If you're interested in ail things
musical, then there's a healthy
selection of associated gadgets
and widgets that will fuel your inter-
est First among these Is the sound
sampler, which will allow you to
'digitise' a sound from just obout
any audio source (CD players,
walkmans etc) and then edit it on
your Amiga
At the moment, oll Amiga sound
samplers are 8-bit devices, but sev-
eral comparues have announced
their intention to produce studio
quality 16-bit samplers which will
make the Amiga a viable attema-
five to dedicated samplers such as
those produced by industry heavy-
weights Akal arid Roland.
Samplers con be alot of fun. but
they also have a serious use. If you
enjoy tinkering with music pack-
ages such as Soule] Tracker. Deluxe
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Visual delights
Whether you're into DIP. animation or just art for art's soke, a video
digitiser is a worth while investment. A video digitiser is a great way or
obtaining quality artwork without having to mess around with DPaint,
Even for the more talented users amongst you, a video digitiser will
allow you to get the artwork you need in a fraction of the time it
would take if you tried knocking it up yourself.
Amigo video digitisers basically come WI two flavours - realtime
colour and not so reatfi me colour (sorry). With a teatime colour digi-
tiser, you can grab colour Images directly from a composite video
source. These are undoubtedly the ideal choice, but you can
expect to pay through the nose for such a device.
A more affordable solution is a digitiser like Rombo's VIDI Amigo
Although it will grab images in realtime, they are mono only. If you
wish to grab in colour from a pre-recorded video source, you'll need
to invest in a RGB splitter, a clever little device that splits a composite
video signal into its red, green and blue components. Unforktiately,
the source tape has to be paused during digitising. which can cause
problems if your pause facility produces anything short of a rock
steady display.
For grabbing In colour from a 'live' video source, cheaper digitis-
ers use a system of red, green and blue coloured perspex fitters that
must be held infront of your video camera. DigiView mode this
rather quirky method of cligttiseig famous, but It can be a real pain in
good lighting.
Scanners are also a great way of obtaining artwork. Until quite
recently, they tended to be ITIOno only. but it's now possible to pick
up a full colour scanner for just E600 (the Sharp Jk-100). This very
clever device is used extensively on Amigo Computing to grab
many of the images within these pages. so there's no greater recommendation
than that!
Music or even Music-X, you can use
a sampler to grab instrument sam-
ples from your favourite records.
If you're lucky enough to own a
synthesiser. then your next pur-
chase should undoubtedly be a
MIDI interface. MIDI interfaces are
very cheap little devices, but they
can totally transform your music
setup. With the right software, a
MIDI Interface will allow you to
directly control a network of MIDI-
compatible musical instruments
Speed freak
The Amiga is far from being a
slouch where raw processing
speed Is concerned, but there are
still times when things slow down to
an almost unbearable rate
You'll notice this especially if you
use your Amiga for heavily proces-
sor intensive applications such as
CAD. DIP and ray tracing, but most
applications would oiso benefi t
from an extra spurt of speed,
The solution lies In a processor
accelerator card, which basically
replaces the central processor
inside your Amiga with a much
faster unit. To make things really
burn, most processor accelerators
also provide space for a maths co
processor, a dedicated number-
crunching chip that can outrun
even the fastest processor.
Most processor accelerators ore
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68020 or the '030 processors with
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processors, although some cheap-
er processor accelerators use a
taster version of the standard 68000
(AdSpeed, for exampie).
Installing a processor acceiefa-
tar is only half the equation, how-
ever. It you wont to make the most
of your new acquisition then it's
worthwhile fi tting your Amiga with
high speed 32-bit ram.
32-bit ram chips allow both the
'020 and '030 processors to run at
full speed (both as true 32-bit pro-
cessors). Once again, you'll fi nd
that the vost majority of '020 and
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Memory loss
I recently purchased an A502 512Kb RAM
expansion board at the 16-bit show in
January It has a battery backed up clock
and a switch. but I cannot get it to work. The
extra memory seems not to want to be used,
Con you help?
M Arthur, Leighton Buzzard
Try booting with the switch in both positions,
and if you still don't get the extra memory,
give the board a good shove.
Its often the case that a new Amigo's trap-
door interface can be extremely stiff, and
many people ate nervous of applying too
much brute force to their expansion boards,
Make sure the board is pushed in as much as
possible
If the Amiga persists in thinking it'sa half
meg machine, return the board to the retailer
or manufacturer for replacement
Tony revisited
Your response to Tony Williams. a 'Confused
Upgradee in the March Interactive Rescue
column, stated that an Amiga 2C00 hard disk
always requires a small AmigaDOS partition to
mount the Fast File System(FFS).
This IS just not the case I suggest you run
Fixdisk 1.2 as supplied on your own coverdisk
on a A2091-40 and you will see the following
info deployed
1100: Sandier ; S(Sieffirics
The confusion perhaps arises from the fcicf
that Commodore's original A2090 hard drive
Controller didn't auto-boot. requiring a floppy
to start the boot and then mount it.
The Improved A2090/A. however, WILL
auto-boot under Kickstart 1.3.
As both the A2090 and A2090/A were avail-
able before the introduction of US, they
required the Amiga to boot into a standard
ArnigaDOS file system partition before mount-
ing a FFS partition,
In response to the FFS, third party manufac-
turers began to introduce SCSI controllers
which would auto-boot and auto-mount
directly into a FFS partition.
These controllers did not require a standard
ArnigaDOS partition to be mounted first, and
allowed ail disk space to be formatted under
FFS.
The A2091 does not require any mountlist
entry or any details in the expansion drawer,
as under Kickstart 1.3 on Automount flag is
stored on the first two cylinders a
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Gordon MacKinnon. Belfast
It's a lair cop! Yes, our reply to Tony's letter
wasn't what it should've been. You know how
it is - Friday afternoon, dog's lust died, gas bill
pending, five or six black coffees too many.
Sigh.
As for FixDisk, it has the annoying habit of
identifying all hard drives with the (FFS) label. I
have a hard drive which is entirely formatted
in the standard AmigoDOS filing system, and
FixDisk insists on calling it 0 FFS device. Bit of a
bug there, methinks,
Oh. and by the way - the problem with the
recoverable RAM drive and RAD: on machines
with a Fatter Agnus and 1Mb of RAM is cured
when you use the 1Mb RAM patch option.
Change the SETPATCH In your startupsequence
to SETPATCH-r and RRD: should work
as well as before. I'm just off to clean the WC
with this toothbrush the Ed just gave me..
Not an A590 fan?
I would like to know of any Maretwore project
which I could use to disable my A590 hard
drive so that any long sessions of game playing
the drive isn't active Naturally it would be
handy If the extra RAM was still accessible.
With the drive connected the Amiga won't
power up it the drive transformer is switched
Oft so the only option is to unplug the drive-
from the computer, thus adding wear and tear
to the edge connector
The drive can be stopped from auto-boot-
ing by use of lee rear DIP switch, but I would
like to have total silence.
_Fr
T N Wells, Ipswich
One way of silencing your A590 is to run it with
the cover off, thus allowing you to disconnect
the fan while keeping the drive cool.
With the cover off, you could also com-
pletely disable the drive by disconnecting the
ribbon cable between il and the mother-
board.
This might sound dangerous, but we've hod
it recommended as an option by someone
whose A590 has seldom been used fully
CD
Printer ut of puff?
Computer cracking up?
We are here to help!
Write to Amiga Computing,
Europa House, Adlington Park, Macclesfield SK10 4NP
cased As you say elsewhere in the letter that
your warranty has expired, you wouldn't be
risking financial ruin by giving it a try.
You might like to try putting a plastic guard
over the top of the open drive, leaving
enough airway to cool It while stopping hands
straying into It.
I had a quick look at garden•style wire
mesh with thick plastic coating, which bends
easily into a strong 'fireguard'.
With this firmly glued to the A590, or hooked
under the base, your drive is if anything safer
than in its original plastic case - except for the
dreoded coffee menace, of course.
Another method of stopping an auto-boot
while retaining all the extra RAM is to buy a
switc noble Kickstart 11/1,3 from AmigaDirect
on 0E11-891 6704,
With this you could start up in Kick start from
which your drive won't auto-boot, and still
have access to the extra 2Mb. You can
always MOUNT the drive afterwards if you
want it or re-boot with the Kickstart switched
to 1,3
A3000 inquiries
Please give me some answers on tee A3000 os
extracting technical help from Commodore
seems to be all but impossible, Here goes...
• is it true that the Fast File System can be
used on floppies under Workbench 2,07
• What do all the parameters for the CPU
command do?
• Kickstart 2,0 Is currently loaded into Fast
RAM, OCCupying0.5Mb. but will apparently be
available on ROM at a later date. With tricks
like fast 32-bit RAM and ROM shadowing,
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would the ROM upgrade be faster or more efficient?
• It Fast RAM is expanded to 4Mb. Con the
existing 1Mb selpped with the macnine be
moved across to Chip RAM?
• What's the deference between DIP and ZIP
chips, and what is Static Column Memory?
• Can bridgebeards such as the A2088
designed for the 82000 be fitted to the A3000?
In answer to your questions
Robin Harley, Shoreham-by-Sea
• Yes, the Fast File System WILL work with fl op-
pies under Workbench 2.0. Yum. yurn,
• The CPU command has parameters to con-
trol the management of the 68030's on-board
data and memory caches, the enabling of
burst mode, the copying of ROM based
Kickstarts into Fast RAM, and a check on the
Floating Point Unit used.
To list them all here would take up too much
space, so ail I can do is recommend Mastering
AmigaDOS 2, by Bruce Smith and Mork Smiddy,
which contains the best guide to Workbench
2.0 rye seen so far. The publisher, Bruce Smith
Books, can be reached at (0727) 41243.
• The best performance is gained by copying
Kickstart into 32-bit memory, so you might as
well stick to hard drive-based Kickstart. which
also has the advantage of being easier to
upgrade.
• Yes, you can move thal 1Mb over,
• ZIP stands for ZigZag Wine Packet. DIP
stands for Dual InNne Packet. DIP chips ore the
traditional style RAM chips with pins on either
side. ZIP chips have all their pins on one edge
and stand up vertically, thus saving space on
the motherboard
If you closely examine our piccies of the
CSA Mega Midget Racer in last month's cover
story you'll see that the Mega Memory board
on the right contains a row of ZIP chips looking
rather like a row of dominoes (except they
don't have white spots and a row of dominoes
couldn't store 2Mb RAM).
• A5 to the bridgeboards, theoretically yes.
although the 5.25" drive would have to be
mounted externally or replaced with on internal
3.5" drive.
The A3000 has two AT-compatible bus slots
and should be OK with a bridgeboard, though
we haven't teed it ourselves
Drive glutton
nave an A500 with A590 and extra 2Mb. A
few monies ago I bought a Fujitsu 86Mb hard
drive from Althamera Systems and have hod it
installed in my A590 casing. It's a nice fast drive
arid has given me no problems.
However, my old A590 mechanism is now
not in use. is It possible to connect this internally/externally
to my A500? I am a glutton for disk
space.
Glutton's not the wordl You mean you've fi lled
up the 86Mb already?
Seriously, though, you don't have too many
options open. As tar as I know, there are no
third party A590 cases avoilable, so you might
1 0 2 Amiga C omputing
Peter Coils, Walsall
Loan Ranger v Desperate Dan
I bought my Amiga in mid December aria
hove been delighted with It, Unfortunately, I
hove been operating with a portable television
until recently I was loaned a monitor. This is
where my dilemma started.
The monitor is re Commodore Ranger 15. seri-
al number 716470, port number 8800-15. It has
two inputs, a 9-pin D-type connector labelled
PG B TIL, and a 15-pin labelled RGB Analog.
I wish to use the analog input, but have
been unable to fi nd anyone who can supply
me with a ready made lead or give me the
wiring details for one I'm desperately in need
of some help.
Daniel Burns, Thundersley
The monitor in question is a 15' multisync
designed for use with a fl icker fi xer or A2320
display enhancer card, and as such is not nor-
mally connected to a standard Amiga video
connector
. A2320 cards cost about £287 these days and
can be had at this price from several ot our
advertisers. Try Calco Software on 081-546
7256. You should fi nd little trouble in fi nding a
have to beg Commodore for one_ The power
supply is part number 312639-02 (250V/74W),
and you'd have to use a similarly rated unit if
you didn't buy the CBM offering. With a power
supply you might try rigging up a casing of
your own, but I wouldn't recommend it.
The best third-party option is perhaps the
A1500 unit. With the A590 mounting kit and
DUC board you can re-box your A500 and
then mount your A590 Internally.
If you think the extra storage would be worth
the prohibitive expense contact A1500 Ltd on
071-637 2281
Transplanting graphics
I would like to put the Amiga'5 brilliant graphics
on an Archimedes (A what? - Ed) to utilise
laser arid inieet printers at school.
I hove been told by my IT teacher that oil I
need do is change a disk to PC format and out-
put the IFF files to that The Archimedes. using a
PC emulator, will then be able to display them.
However, occorcting to the PC Format does
on the Extras 1.2 disk. I need a 5.25' fl oppy
drive which I do not have. Is there a 3.5' disk
PC formatter available onywhere?
Andrew Skerty, Salisbury
If you don't have o Commodore A1020 5.25"
floppy, you can use a PDPC program such as
MessyDos. or go for something like CrossDos.
which is a commercial product.
Either will write to the Amigo's own 3.5"
drives as if they were PC drives, and will formal
3.5" disks to PC format, which should be use-
able with an Archimedes running its own PC
disk reoding software.
CrossDos is available from several of our
advertisers, including ARK on 0983 79496. and
MessyDos is available from all decent
Kilibraries Just make sure your IT teacher has
suitable off-the-shelf lead for this connection.
If you insist on using the Ranger without a
flicker fixer - and this is a waste of a multisync
monitor - you'll have to make one of your own.
Fortunately the Ranger 15
brother, - will sync all the way down to the
15.6KHz , u nvideo l i k e output frequency obtained from
the
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multi-sync monitors will only output at frequencies
above 30Klie
You'll find the pin-outs for the Ranger's 15-pin
socket on page 15 of the monitor's manual,
and the pin-outs for the Amiga video socket on
page A-6 of the user's manual.
As far as we can see the pin connections
from Amiga to monitor are 3 to 1, 4 to 3, 5 to 5,
11 to 13 AND 14, 12 to 15. Then 16 up to and
Including 20 should be joined and go to 2. 4. 6,
and 7 on the Ranger.
Before you attempt this, ask yourself whether
It's worth wasting a multisync monitor on a non-
interlaced standard Amiga output.
If there's any hope of keeping the thing on a
long term basis, run out immediately and buy a
flicker fixert
a utility which allows the Archimedes to read
and convert Amigo !FE files to a format it can
display.
Breakdown
I am using an A500 with extra 512Kb memory
and a Pace Unmet Intelligent Modem. I am
using Access software with the baud rate set
at 300, panty at 0, data length 8 bits, stop bits
I, and all other settings I have left at default
(although I have experimented with different
settings).
I am trying to access various bulletin boards
whose numbers I have obtained from your
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Video in the January issue of
Amigo Computing.
Although the article discussed
most of the options for getting into
desktop video, quite a few of you
still seemed unsure about the kind
of software and hardware to go
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To he you sort it all Out, here's
a quick run down of what I consid-
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THE GENLOCK With so many now
available choosing a genlock is
probably the most diffi cult buying
decision you're likely to encounter.
Which you pick depends entirely
upon the video formats you have
at your disposal. If you have noth-
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dard VHS decks there's little point
In paying out for a S-VHS compati-
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upgrading your decks at a future
date
Similorty, if you have access to
higher resolution video devices, a
standard composite genlock will
not take advantage of the higher
picture quality these decks deliver.
The cheapest geniock available
is MiniGen from ASAP. but I
wouldn't really recommend It to
anyone unless they are completely
poverty shicken. If you can afford
it. It's well worth
OPoint 3 ts giooi toi pioducing
spending a few pounds more on g
unit which will almost certainly pro-
duce higher quality results. Worth
checking out is the Rendaie 8802
which offers near broadcast quality
for around E263.
THE SOFTWARE Once again, the
software you choose depends
entirely upon your particular needs,
If you just wont to odd titles to your
home videos of granny at the
beach. all you need is a titling
package.
A good one is the Big
Alternative Scroller. which Is avail-
able from Alternative Imoge on
3533 440341. For just £50 you get 20
high resolution fonts which can be
smoothly scrolled about the
screen. It's not in the same league
as the likes of Broadcast Tiller 2. but
then it is considerably cheaper!
If I had to choose just two pack-
ages for my desktop video work
they would undoubtedly have to
be EA's Deluxe Paint 3 and Zurna's
TV Text Professional,
TV Text allows you to produce
stunning titles from standard Amigo
bltmapped fonts. while DPaint Is
great for producing logos and
other artwork.
Not only that, but tts powerful
animation focilties allow you to
produce all manner of flash effects
including spinning logos and the
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ACTing up again!
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more), thep you're in for a pleasant
surprise. They've just launched a
feature-packed audio/video
effects processor which offers unri-
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just Catchl S350. rtiol homed the AV13.
the unit was ()Outlay designed with
Camcorder owners in d
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it'll prove to be just os u t o
Amiga video enthusiasts. • s
what it has to offer:
COMPATIBILITY: Whether y r e
using rwo home VHS recorders or
the latest 11I8 decks, the AVP-MK3
built with the future in mind. It is tuily
compatible with VHS, VHSC, 8mm,
BETA. U-MATIC, S-VHS, S-VHSC and
Hift.
If you're using S-VHS, S-VHSC or
H18. the AVP-MK3 allows you to
take full advantage of the high
defi nition settings, then edit on to a
standard VCR. therefore allowing
for the highest possible results from
your video setup. As a result,
there's no need to suffer loss of picture
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can benefit from useful files used by the
C Brigade — Margaret Stanger tells you how
Lucky C programmers U5e
T h the e story Amiga so far •include fi les
to interpret the system data struc-
tures. It may not be generally
known that these goodies are atso
available to Assembler program-
mers after only a very little extra
hassle.
Now read on
Before a Window is opened a
parameter block - or struc-
ture - named New
Window is created for
It and stashed
away In mem-
ory.
Th e
variables
in a struc-
ture ore
always in a
standard Order, the offset of the
BlockPen (say) from the base
Window address Is always the
some:
Window on the
world
STRUCTDREET) Nedindov,0
WORD ow_LeftEdge
WORD tu_TopEOON
WORD nu_Vidth
WORD ou_Neight
OTTE ou_DetailPen
OTTE ou_litockPeo
ULONG nu_IDCMPftags
LONG ow_Flags
APTI oujirstGadget
PIN ou_Checkilari
APTI tu_Titie
APTR ou_Screen
PIP no_litNap
WORD roc_Nimilititk
WORD no_Nimlieigilt
WORD no_Nmsitidtb
WORD nvisslielmbt
WORD nm_Type
LABEL no_SIZE
The structure member
nw_BlockPen gives its offset from
the base address of the
NewWindow structure. The
tive addressing:
colour or the BlocirPen -
I hate capital letters
In the middle of a
word! - could be
changed to 3 (say)
usang Assembler's rela-
lea Thelempindou0D
soya.b 13,owilocaPeratin
• •-• oemo n
th • •••
SON
In theory
There is a disc file available
with details of all the intu-
ition structures, together with
the numerical value of any
flags used.
This fi le, intuttion/intultion.l, can
be included in the source code by
a statement at the beginning of
the code. There is a small file called
execitypes.1 that is included first to
interpret the structures in the other
include files. It tells us that a BYTE
Increases the offset by one byte.
and a WORD by two bytes and so
on.
INCLUDE "esecitypes.i"
INCLUDE "imtuition/imtuition.r
That would hove been too easy.
In practice
Unfortunately my assembler used
on an A500 did not have enough-
workspace for the necessary
Include/intuition fie. so I picked out
the structures and fl ags I needed
and added them to the source
code
I included -
the execiex
computer could make sense of
the
eci
reference to MP_SIGBIT in the
-
Window's UserPort.
s o
t h
MADE •elicitypea.1*
INCLUDE a t'eseciesec.i'
I did not need the details of the
Screen or NewScreen structures 0$ I
was not referring to any of the
structure members. I did need the
data itself', with the correct values
to open the screen,
theleoScreen:
dc.0 0 ;LeftEdge
dc.0 0 ;TopEdge
dc,u 320 ;Widtb
dc.0 200 ;Weilist
dc.0 3 ;Ikon
dc.b 1 Oetaitho
dc.b 3 gilociPen
dc.w 0 ;display lodes
dc.v CUSP:IMMO ;screeo Type
dcd 0 ;pointer to custom font
structure
dc.t screentitle ;pointer to
screen tWe
dc.1 D ;pointer to screen
dc,t
;pointer to custom bittap
I needed the data for the
NewWindow, and the data struc-
tures for Window and NewWindow.
For the computer to interpret these
I had to explain the flogs to it
; 11CDP flip used
CLOSEWINDOW equ $00000200
V mdov I legs used
DINDOWSII IR% equ $0001
V1100016 e u $0002
VINDOWIEPTH •qu $0004
1111100PCL05E COU $0008
SUMMIT equ $0010
;NO-Screen flog used
CUSIONSCREED equ $0001
Any structures or flogs could be
defi ned In the source code or in
header files as long as space per-
mits. There is room for creabvtlyi
The include flies directory was
added to the path:
assign INCLUDE:
Lattice_C.0.5:Assembler_Headers
and the option T was used during
the assembly,
elm -ifisseabler_NemdePS/ demo
blink demo.o to demo library
Up and running
The easiest way to open a screen is
to use the intuition Library routine
OpenScreen, with a pointer to a
NewScreen structure (short') which
contains some of the values and
pointers for the screen,
mope .1 intui t on be se
tjsr
_LI011otoScreeniaol fermi
dO,custoastreen
ed
abort
I used the same New Window
structure for each of the three win-
dows.and changed the details
slightly once I had the oddress of
each Windowstructure
Eta TheNeuWinduw
odO,nu_Screenie01
o0 jsr _LOOpenWindouls41 •ove,t
dO,thisoindow
m o v e d
beg abort
The system flags are set for most
of the system gadgets. and intuition
takes care of their activtties.
The IDCMP CLOSEWINDOW fl og
is deactivated on the second
imaginatively named window, the
title Is changed and the window is
slowly moved down.
The third window is opened.
modifi ed and moved in a similar
way. These windows can all be
dragged. sized and mode active.
The program only exits when the
first window is closed with Its close
gadget.
The program uses a few of the
routines from the Intuition library,
but many more ore available,
in the CODECLINIC directory of
the March Amiga Comuting support
disc I have Included a list of
intuition librar
yone
I have listed the input input
,
registers, output (where applica-
routine
ble) and a short description,
s .
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look up many of the program's
major features without the hassle of
flicking through a manual which Is
certainly a good idea
Key disk protection
Unlike most sequencers these days.
Studio 24 is copy protected. In true
DrI fashion, this takes the form of a
key disk system which requires the
original program disk to be inserted
every time the program is loaded.
even it you Install it on a hard disk! I
think such a system is a real pain.
but there you have it
Once loaded, you'll be greeted
by the first of Studio 24's two
screens. It contains the now familiar
tape transport controls Mat run as
a strip of gadgets along the bottom
of the screen.
These are pretty bog standard -
Play. Record. Fast Forward, Rewind
and so on. but surprisingly there Is
no Pause button, which is a strange
omission.
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specificcdlif for chords.
When you record chords on to
this trac, . Studio 24 will recogn se
and display them complete with
their correct name - C Sharp Moor
or wherever. If you're not too hot
with chords, the chord track also
allows you to enter them with a sin-
gle mouse click
Track 24 is a Melody Track which
can contain Only monophonic
sequences, I can't see any real
point in having it when any one ot
the first 22 could do the job equarty
well.
Most of Studio 24's operations
are pretty standard, but one fea-
ture that is worth mentioning Is
sequence editing. Studio 24 uses a
score-based editor which displays
your sequences in The traditional
form of minims, crotchets and quavers.
You can edit existing sequences
by moving back and forth through
the sequence using the cursor keys.
You can add notes, delete them,
change the arch and duration of
o selected note and even tie
notes.
Sounds great so far, but for One
major problem - Studio 24 will only
allow you to edit a monophonic
line of notes, not chords. if your
sequence contains chords, the
exit° notes that make them up are
split into their own individual sub-
tracks, or voices as Studio 24 calls
them. Far from perfect. I'm sure
youl agree.
Song editing is even worse. MoSt
sequencers now use some form of
graphical attangement system, but
you'll find no such luxuries within
Studio 24. No sire?. Instead It uses a
rather nett non-graphical system
which is not only afficutt to use, but
also rather inflexible. As a result,
you may well want to stick to the
conventional linear method of
song composition.
Notably missing from Studio 24 is
support for internal Amiga samples.
As we all know, the Amiga can
produce some pretty stonking
sounds itself, so it's not exactly
unreasonable to expect your
sequencer to support them. As it
you're restricted in your music mak-
ing to those sounds that can be
produced by your MIDI setup.
Sound investment?
Studio 24 definitely shows promise,
but it unfortunately fails to deliver
the kind of sequencing power and
ease of use you'd expect from a
product at this price.
It's got a few nice features -
editing and its unique chord track
spring to mind - but in the end It
cannot hope to compete against
such industry hard hitters as Music-X
and Master Tracks Pro.
If Digigram sold Studio 24 at
something like £50 I could see It
doing well. Unfortunately, there are
just too many other sequencing
systems around that are both
cheaper and tar more powerful. As
It is, Studio 24 Is overpriced and
underpowered.
This and the entire range of
Digigram Music software Is
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on 0734 794941. Other products
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Hanging on to his sanity by a
thread, our comms guru Fast Eddie
hears echoes down the line
hied comrrts and not taken
S to it, and they will tell you it
is
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expensive, time consuming and
boring.
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but there is a certain
addictive o attraction to the comms
habit, a
n Most people's first encounter
with y communications tends to be
withdrawing
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cash dispenser I guess we have all
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stood w In the rain, waiting for the
banks h head offi ce computer to
finish o calculating the IQ of 1,000 PE
teachers, h before gleefully advising
us
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that we can't have any money
because
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of a 'Technical Fault'
Do not despair! You could well
find that directly connecting your
Amiga to the telephone network is
a much more effi cient way to
empty your bank account
Message bases
So what is on offer? By and large.
The most common services around
the world are bulletin boards. These
are computers set up specifi cally
for other computers to call and
exchange Information,
Common topics to be found
online are comms, programming,
sci-fl. television, motoring, religion
and 'adult material', I can't elabo-
rate on the latter. otherwise AC
would be on the top she next to
Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy, but
you can use your imogination.
The information online is gener-
ally split into two categories - mes-
sage bases and file areas,
A message base Is, in simple
terms, a series of comments input
by users of the board related to a
particular topic. For example a
base called Red Dwarf would be
the ideal place to muse over how
much you preferred Holly when she
was a man, or how badly treated
poor old Kryten is.
Depending on how advanced
the Elas software is, message bases
can be anything from a simple
series of sequential messages to a
complex web of sub-threads which
can be read or skipped at will.
It is possAole to browse message
bases by following menu options
on screen. Input of messages is usu-
ally via a simple text editor built into
the board.
There ore two different types of
message bases on larger boards:
local ones and the net variety. The
trendy term for a message base is
echo, so If you read someone tak-
ing about an Amiga echo they
mean a message area, not some
acoustic phenomenon or a local
newspaper serving the elderly
inhabitants of quaint seaside town
Amiga-on-Seamoss.
Local messages are exclusive to
the board you are logged on to,
whereas net echoes go all over the
world. So if you proclaim your love
for Lister in a net echo, the comrns
global village will be asking "What
the heck is Red Dwarf 7' In no
time.
Net echoes are transmitted
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An Amiga 3000 is lost a phone ca ll a wa y
worldwide via an elaborate series
of telephone calls. Each night whiie
the world sleeps, automatic 'net-
ware is busy collecting and for-
warding messages to each board
in the network, Indeed some of the
Inter-net handshaking is positively
masonic at times
Netmall is an exciting concept,
allowing communication with people
all over the world for the cost of
a local call, It's riot in real time, but
Is still much faster than writing.
referred to as snail mail by those
with a passion for Jargon.
FOR Alb.
An Interesting point to remem-
ber Is that you don't always hove
to be logged on to a board in
order to read and reply to mes-
sages. B e r equipped boards
Often off ec the ability to compress
unread messages into a single the
for you td download beta
ging oft
Using salecial offl ine read -
ware. it is possible to decompress,
read and reply to messages. Ater
keying in replies, the °Mine reocer
software Compresses them into a
packet for uploading the next time
you logon.
When the board receives the
packet from you It unorchives all
your prepared messages and posts
them to 'he relevant people and
echoes 'his type of message reed-
ing is known as blinking, It makes a
great deal of sense, saving you
phone tme and allowing Other
callers to get on to the board.
File AraOS are libraries of com-
puter programs stored on the EBs
for Its callet5 to download andlin,
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Again, these programs can be
about anything and everything,
Files are downloaded using protocols.
These are universal transfer
standards designed to allow reli-
able exchange of data between
two points,
A wide choice of protocols are
mailable. By for the most common
these days are Xmoclem and
Zmodem. The newer the protocol.
the faster your data transfer will be.
The main thing to remember
about protocols is that they have
to match at eoch end of the link. It
is no good attempting to initiate a
file transfer if your comms software,
or the board, doesn't support the
protocol you ore trying to use. The
g-
motto with BBs is most certainly
"give and take',
It's ail very well to phone a few
bulletin boards, read the messages
and download any files you fancy,
but sooner or later you will be
expected to contribute. Not fi nan-
cially, but with a little time and
effort.
Message bases aren't really
much good Without messages. so It
Is up to the boores callers to fi ll
them up, Similarly, File areas are
pretty pointless If they are devoid
or files. For this reason most boards
insist that you upload a fi le for
every few you download.
After sampling a few boards, It Is
more than likely that you will con-
sider staffing one yourself, I have to
be honest and admit that I am by
and large unimpressed with the
standard of most non-commercial
BBs running in the UK
The tile areas tend to consist of a
selection of dog-eared PD and
shareware programs, while the
message bases are more often
than not just a total waste Of lime
Smaller boards
There ore exceptions, of course. A
good large scale setup is London-
based 01 For Amiga Tony Miller is
the dedicated sysop of this excel-
lent multi-line service. That evasive
beast the Amiga 3030 is at the core
running Dialog BBS software.
You con have a taste by calling
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Smaller, single line boards
shouldn't be overlooked either as
they form the backbone of the BBS
community around the world. If
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475549 (8/N/1) Steve is running
Speed on a PC with Wildcati BBS
software.
With the possible exception of
Dialog. which I have not had a
chance to use from the sysop side.
most Amiga BBS host software is
dreadful That may seem a sweep-
ing generalisation. but I have yet to
see any package which offers the
level of sophistication and ease of
use presented by Wildcat'
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treatment and looks at interlaced mode
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one C of the little beastles you can
see D just how versatile this language
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write multimedia applications now
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what will they be doing in another
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six months?
i While on the subject ot educa-
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software. Gary Symons, who
n wrote the AMOS assembler, is cur-
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rently working on a secret project
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for Mandarin.
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I don't know exactly what It wil
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turn out like, but the ST version Is
pretty good and could re-defi ne
The standards for learning tools on
all micros.
I would have loved to bring you
a preview of the compiler this
month, unfortunately Francois
Uonet is adding some extra fea-
tures so you will have to wait until
next time.
I have been speaking to
Francois and he says that when
programs are compiled they will
retain all of the multi-tasking capa-
bilities of AMOS. Sounds great.
huh'
Lastly on the news front. TOME
(the TOtal Mop Editor) is now com-
plete. The fi nal package will be
available from mid-March. and the
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lt must be good,
Seriously though, tt is an excel-
lent product and deserves the sw-
port of all programmers, not just
AMOS ones. You can find out more
about TOME by writing to the
AMOS club (the address came
with AMOS).
Now on with the programming
In the last issue we looked at fl ip-
ping BOBs. I hope you all saw and
understood what I was going on
about 'cos I'm gonna start off this
column with examples of fl ipping
SPRITES.
First we must load a SPRITE bank
from the AMOS extras disk, so stick
It in the drive and press escape to
go to direct mode.
Load:
"AMOLESTRAS:SPAIT(.600,SPACE/SNIP1.ABS"
OK. now let's clear the screen
and do some SPRITES. Flash off :
Curs Off : Cts D Get Sprite Palette
Sprite 1,200,1%1
There are two ways to fl ip this
imoge. The first is quite complicat-
ed and involves using BOBs. so I
think we will skip that for the time
being.
The second method is to flip the
Image inside the bank using the
Paste Bob command.
To do this we must use the
Hrev/Vrev in the some way as we
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Simple. Isn't it? And now we
have a reversed image which we
can move around if we wonted to,
and there is no need to touch the
Paste Bob command ever again
(well, not unless you wanted to flip
It once again)
Anyway, that's the SPRITE5 over
and done with.
Now now about taking a look
at the very latest version of AMOS
1,23 specifically Interlaced mode.
For those of you who don't know
too many technical details about
the Amigo, interlacing is a method
of doubling the amount of informa
lion which can be displayed verti-
cally on the screen.
There is a limit to the amount of
Information which can be shown
on a normal monitor because they
ate actually too slowl
So to double the amount of stuff
that can be shown the Amiga
takes a single screen and passes
the Information to the monitor in
two sweeps, each encompassing
every other line.
So for the first sweep lines 3, 5,
7, 9. 10. 11. 13 etc. ate shown. fol-
lowed by lines 2. 4. 6, 8, 10, 12, INs
Is the reason you get a flicker when
In Interlaced mode - incidentally
the flicker is almost non-existent on
NISC machines 'cos they work
faster. That is simplifying things a
little, but true principle is sound.
If you are lucky enough to own
a Flicker Fixer or an A3000 the
Amiga could de-interlace the
screens and pass them to the mon-
itor in one go
Untortunately you need a very
expensive multi-sync monitor to
cope with those sorts of speeds, so
you can see that interlacing is a bit
of a compromise between resolu-
tion and quality (and migraines).
OK. to see what difference there
Is to our display when compared to
a normal screen, go to direct
mode and type:
Screen Open 0,321420D,16,Aoures
'AMIGA COMPUTING"
Right. now that we have a normal
sized default screen let's com-
pare it to an interlaced one'
Screen Open D,320,200,16, LAcedeboores
"AMIGA COUNTING"
You will see that I have changed
the last parameter t o
Laced+Lowies. which tells AMOS
that we wont a lowres Interlaced
screen. You will also notice that the
same number of vertical lines as
the first screen are being displayed
in half the space. Also check the
flicker,
Now one problem with this
mode is that when you set up a sin-
gle Interlaced screen all other
screens which you may be display-
ing are automatically -
switched
into interlaced mode These are
-not
true Interlaced screens - they
just flicker tot the hell Of it!
You can display some excellent
quality pictures in this mode, so do
make use of it. But don't even think
about doing a game in interlaced.
It's just too slow.
Something which you might like
to dwell on is that perhaps in the
future FrOnC0115 Uonet will include a
facility to use some of the new
screen modes thought up by com-
panies such as Newtek. the people
who make the fabo digitisers.
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Beam up with Margaret
Stanger and take a
viewport into C
toned software to produce
L ast Intuition month windows Code Clinic and con•
screens, but it is possible to create
a display using some routines from
the graphics library known as
graphics primitives,
This system gives you more
freedom, more control. and a
little more hassle.it
would be possible
to write whole
books on the sub-
ject of how the dis-
play system works,
so I have tried to summarise it
as best I can. You will fi nd all
the bits I missed out in the ROM
Kemal Manual- Libraries and
Devices.
The Amiga coprocessor - or
copper - produces its video dis-
plays on IV screens or moni-
tors using raster display
te
The
ture consists of a
series of horizontal
lines stacked on top
of each other.
Changes can be mode plc-
to the display when the
beam is going from left to right as it
is turned off on the flyback, When
the beam reaches the bottom
right hand corner of the screen it
flies back to the top left hand corner.
In a multitasking environment
each program can have direct
control over the copper and ther-
fore over the whole display or
View.
The View can be divided Into
one or more viewports, each of
which Is the equivalent of on
intuition screen. Each viewport has
its own display resolutions, colours
and special features. Unlike
Intuition screens they can all be dis-
played at once.
Because of hardware limitations,
segments of differing display
modes ore confi ned to horizontal
stripes that extend across the com-
plete width of the screen.Each
vlewport completes a horizontal
segment. and they are separated
from each other by at least one
blank line.
Images are created by drawing
Into a computer memory area so
that the system can retrieve the
data for the display.The system
software allows you to defi ne linear
memory as rectangular regions
called bit planes.
It Is necessary to tell the system
the dimensions and ioco-
tion of these bitplanes.
This is a pain but there is
the advan-
tage of keep-
ing several
displays i n
memory at the
same time,
The colour of each pixel
is related to the value of
one or more data bits in
memory. To create multicoloured
images, the system must be told
how many bit are required per
pixel.
In my first Viewporffbiue), I have
used eight colours and three bit-
planes, and the system retrieves
one data bit from each bitplane.
For each pixel data bits in the
same horizontal and vertical posi-
tion ore combined by the system
to create a binary value which
determines the display color for
that pixel.
The system uses a structure
called a bitmap which con-
tains the height, width and
which is I
mand in
first vie
Each
default v
eters are
Each
Rosinfo s
taining
sect using the
mond GetColorMap which will
allocate space for a colourtnaP
and retum a pointer to
and linked t
ort Is initalised
arid Its own p
d later
art ne
bitmap
plane in ation,
the view has d p
fields the • T o y
0 pointer the R next Rasinto..
which ha
bilmap.
The pi
a
pointer to the
s
i
n in memory c e
larger MI f e screen imag y
creating o op larger than e
siiewport area. c The Rasinfo
o
tie position hastleffset3 a display
n for to the the r e
t
plete picture. In this example e
a
bitpianes are
i
the same size cs e
viewports and n the offsets are
Left to Itself s the system will
default colours. There is a
se
The ccdourmap has a pointe0 to
the coloorroap's colourtable, and
the desired colours can be copied
frit° this data structure.
Each bltmap Is initallsed
depth of the bitplanes and
,
where they are in
.
r e q u i r e d
memory.
i
wicith,height
The display is
created from a set
of instructions in
the view structure.
s
i
n
g
I
n
i
and depth as
Inputs. The command
Alloc-
Paster is used to
Height how ffi ltly video lines
t
Width
B
320 pixels in low res, 640 in high res
i
Next pointer to the next Vewport
t
s; EXIALPF for two separately controlled M playfields
PFBA the second playfield atakes
precedence
HIRES more precise horizontally p WO pixels)
LACE interlaced display mode w HAM hold and
modify colours
i
SPRITES
VP-HIDE
t
hardware sprites
h
Obscures the viewport
t
ColortAop nos a pointer to the colour fable hof
up to 32 colours. Three
bitplanes would use colour, registers e 0-7, five bitplanes reg-
1111111,
isters 0-31. Dual playfielcis of three bhplanes each would
Rosinfo
use registers 0-7 for the first playfield and 8-1
. ond.
5 pointer for to the t hPasinto e stucture. s e c -
allocate each bitplane and the
returned e pointers are linked to the
btmop.
Now that all the data structures
are complete the command
MakeVPort asks the system to
make a set of display instruc-
ViewPort.
tions - or copper list -
from the structures in
the Viewport. This has to
be done for each
The command MrgCop
merges these copper lists into a
single instruction list. LoadView
turns on direct memory access
(DMA) and the display will be
shown on the screen. Any fl icker
can be reduced by waiting for the
beam to reach the top of the
ftame.
Each ccea can have its own set
of drawing instructions, or RastPort
structure. InitRastPort puts in default
values and when the RastPort has
been linked to Its bitmap it is possi-
ble to use the Graphics Library
drawing commands.
The listed program first saves the
address of the old view using the
gb-ActiView offset from the graph-
icsbase. The view is initalised and
three viewports produced.
The first viewport is 48 lines high
with eight blue colours and three
bitplanes. The second Is 100 lines
high with dual red and grey play-
fields, The third viewport is 48 lines
high with 32 green colours and 5
bltplanes.
The drawing routines have been
used to produce a series of rectan-
gles on the screen. In the second
viewport the grey piayfl eld Is domi-
nant except for transparant areas
of colour zero.
There is a short delay before the
first eight colours of each viewport
are cycled, and another delay
before the program releases the
allocated memory, replaces the
old View, and exits.
The support disc Includes the
source and object code for this
program and a list of documented
routines from the graphics library,
• NEXT MONTH: Scroll routines
mode routine.
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Money for nothing?
How. it you ore riot allowed to sett PEI disks. do
the various PD companies survive? How can
they afford to advertise in your magazine and
send people glossy catalogues?
Are all these things accounted for In the
-
Can e anyone start o Pt) service or is there some
kind x of licence?
p
Finally why have you stopped putting in the
e
marks for games that you review'?
n
s Keep up the good work, your magazine is
97 e per cent
s
Paul, Cumbria
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PD a Libraries should not exist to make a profit
r
but it is reasonable to expect a small sur-
e
charge for any disks ordered, to cover
a
postage, , deplication time, administration and
the l like.
i As libraries get bigger they can make
economies, k
buying disks, envelopes and even
postage e in bulk. This somehmes leads to a little
slush
t
fund, which can be blown on extrava-
h
gances
e
like wages and even the odd odvert or
two.
w
a You don't need a licence to set up a PD
library, g lust a lot of time and energy to do it
Proem* e
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We fold our games reviewers that they
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could have their ioyshcks back if they started
O
putting
f
scores on again - seems to do the trick,
s
t Free for all
a
I fthink
that free software should be free
Everyone f talks about wonderful PD software
e
saying that its free, but everywhere you look
t
someone
c
Is selling it for around 9.3 a disk.
. I think this Is very wrong. To change this,
myself ? and a few friends have decided to run
a public domain club which will supply PD for
nothing
J Duncan, Kent
It's a very nice Idea, something for nothing.
However, you will have significant expenses to
consider. Where, for example are you going to
find money for disks and posioge?
PO software should be free, that doesn't
mean that the media and handling Is. £3 a disk
Is a lad on the pricey side though, so shop
around.
Better still, call a bulletin board and the only
cost Involved could be a local phone call. If
you are serious about being a PD supplier.
maybe you should consider starting a board.
Limited edition
I was torn between upgrading my Amiga 500
Into an A1500 expansion box with a hard disk
or exchanging my Amiga 500 for
Commodore Amiga 1500.
After talking at some length to a
Commodore representative, I was told that the
Al 500 was a brand new machine, idealy suit-
ed for games and business use,
On arriving home and unpacking the sys-
Write to Ezra Surf, Amiga Computing, Europa House, Adlington Park,
tem, I find on the bock an A2000 label. It
would appear that all Commodore hove done
is rebadge an Amiga 2000 and put in a second
disk drive.
They have called it almost the same as on
expansion unit developed by a third party to
ensure confusion. Have they done this
because they could not think of casing an
A500 in such a professional way?
I have since returned my Amiga 1500/2000.
and purchased an A1500 limited expansion
system, with which I am very happy.
Lorraine FOrlia, Middlesex
You are correct in asserting that the Amiga
1500 is a rebadged dual fl oppy 2000
Commodore have never really claimed otherwise,
The 1500 package is Ideally suited for
games and business use. Al £999 including
colour monitor, it is the bargain of the decade
so far.
The third party A1500 allows you to separate
the Amiga keyboard and main processor box,
but you don't have the advantage of several
expansion siots and an up-rated power supply
unit.
Most people are actually pleased to find
that they have bought a 2000 in disguise. You
though obviously feel you hove been conned
by Commodore.
The A1500 was a logical name for CBM to
Choose for the package, ills after all In-
between the 500 and the 2000, and the A1000
has been and gone. A1500 sounds more like a
Commodore name to me than a third party
one.
I hope you and your A1500 limited expan-
sion have many happy hours together - it too,
is a worthwhile product in its own light
Arresting reading
I've just been into the shop which sells your
magazine As I was glancing through it I decid-
ed I wanted it I searched through my pockets
and realised I didn't have enough money to
buy It, so I stole it,
When I got home I put the disk into my paid
for computer and gasped! Tremendous'
incrediblel
The mag and disk are excellent value for
money. The trouble is my family won't let me
on the computer. Now I'm wondering where I
con get c2.95 for the next Issue.
I shall hove to stop the kids' spending
money for my next issue. Keep up the good
work. And for obvious reasons please don't
print my real name.
Bill Sykes, Bradford.
I assume you realise that if the barcode on the
front cover isn't scanned by your newsagent, a
rattier curious virus is let loose on your system?
II systematically causes you to form an
addiction to the magazine which is so powerful
that you can't help but subscribe
Seriously though, Amiga Computing is not
Amiga computing 1
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public domaini If you did steal us, please
don't try It again.
It Is only a matter of time before you get
caught and then it will be more than fi nding
£2.95 you will have to worry about.
Play the game
I read with anger The letter by Chris Webb In
issue 29 of Amiga Computing concerning his
views on the software industry.
Although everyone is entitled to their own
opinion. I think Mr Webb was totally unfair in
his assessment that 99.9 per cent of Amiga
games are trash.
True, there is and always will be some rub-
bish on the market, but he has obviously riot
experienced the delights of the classics like
Dungeon Master. Gettysburg and Power
Monger.
It he has played 999 per cent of all games
on the market he is either very rich or a soft-
ware pirate Therefore. I can only assume he is
commenting on games he has never seen
before, let alone played, and thus has no
dear idea of what he is talking about
Stuart Hardy, Sheffield
You don't have to play a game to get on Idea
of whether you will like it Of not.
Some people simply detest games. For
these demented creatures, even the most
technically stunning release will fall to raise
the slightest tingle of emotion in their trigger
ringer.
Of course not all Amiga games are trash It
they were people wouldn't be able to tell the
Amiga apart from that ST things/.
Excellent review
I enjoyed your review of the wonderful
Excellence! wordprocessing program in The
March issue. Your praise of it was well earned,
but one part of the review was misleading.
You criticise the lock of on overtype facile?,
welch you say is missing from the program. In
fact this is not the case as by simply highlight-
ing the text that you wish to overtype and
then entering the new text, the program
replaces The old with the new.
It must be just about The best worciproces-
sor available on the Amiga and readers
shouldn't be put off by the price. there are
some very good mall order deals available.
The only trouble that I have with it is that I
spend time exploring its capabilities that I
should be using for wreirig
D M Fieldhouse, Liverpool
The process of highlighting a text block with
the mouse and then replacing it by typing in
new text isn't strictly speaking an overtype
mode. For example, anyone who uses a
wordprocessor for long periods of time and
who requires speed above all else, the use of
the mouse is a no-no.
When using Protest, for instance, I confi gure
It to Overwrite mode instead of Insert. That
way If I make a mistake in typing, which I
often do and which I usually notice as It's
120 Amiga Computing
Snail mail mouse
I am writing to you to tell my woeful story
about a Naksha mouse.
It all began when I ordered the little
chap from a mail order company called
Microsmart. This was In about November.
1990.
By January this year I had not received
the product, nor any message from the
company, so I wrote to them expressing my
annoyance, and asking them what had
happened.
I tried to contact them by telephone, but
all I got was their ansaphone. Finally. I wrote
them another letter. The result'? Nothing.
What can I do apart from fume with the
POO( quality of the mouse that I got with my
Amiga 500 which I bought a year ago.
Yours feeling peeved, to put it mildly
. lain Chambers, Peterborough.
Yours is just one of many mall order gripes I
receive in the postbag every month.
Although we do our best to ensure that
each of our odvertisers is honest, legal and
decent, we cannot really check out the service
offered on an individual basis.
I gave Microsmart a quick ring to see
what the problem was with your order. They
told me that your rodent started scurrying it
way to Peterborough the day before you
called.
Your original order 'tom November last
year apparently got a little lost in the pre-
Christmas stampede, for which they are
sorry.
You have every right to be a bit peeved,
but hopefully similar things won't happen
again. Hope you think the mouse was worth
the watt.
done. I can type straight over the top alit with-
out having to delete or resort to the mouse.
I'm glad you liked the review, and we did,
as you say, conclude that Excellence 2,0 is
one of the best on the market. As tor the price.
we quote the IMP as It would be unfair to a
product to quote the cheapest price we could
find. Hope you continue to enjoy exploring you
wordprocessoes power (and buying our mog •
Ed).
Fair shares all round
I know you regularly print such statements. but
I'd like to make a point about shareware.
Always pay for any shareware you end up
keeping and using. If you don't, the people
who write It will have to find some other way to
make a living and won t be able to update
their programs, or create new ones.
You may save a bit in the short term, but
you'll lose in the end and end up paying for
software you may never use because there
are no good shareware alternatives available.
The UK has a poor reputation for this. Come
on fellow Brits. let's show the Yanks that we're
just as honest as they are.
Finally.i know that you manage to pock as
much quality into your slimmer mog as your
biggest rival, but my latest copy has pages 67
through 101 missing. Con you help?
Bill Dawson, Southampton.
I can't agree more on what you ore saying
about shareware.
Yes we do print letters like yours regularly,
but it is always worth reminding people to put
their money where their mouse is.
I am sure most people intend to cough up
for the software. but never quite gel around to
it. There is no excuse for not going to the bank
and sorting out a money order tomorrow, so
do it people!
As lot the mystery of the missing pages, I
wonder it Bill Sykes uses the same newsagent
as you?
Stealing an entire magazine is utterly
pedestrian compared to the style and nerve
required to make Ott with lust the pages of
interest.
Consider the missing pages in the post. I
might even send a complete magazine.
Trojan Trauma?
I recently purchased a copy of Amiga
Computing issue ed. On the CoverDisk was a
program called •Kill Da Virus'. I installed this
program on al my bootable disks.
Since doing this I have had nothing but
trouble with a virus called 'Smiley Cancer'
which turns the mouse pointer into a face and
has corrupted much of my public domain.
It seems to me that The only place this virus
could have come from is your CoverDisk as I
have had no trouble of this kind before, I
would like to know if you hove received any
other complaints of this nature.
I will not be buying your magazine again
until this matter is sorted out, If I do not hear
from you I wil have to write to another magazine.
Ian Similan, Sheffield.
The Amigo Computing CoverDisk was not the
source of the virus you are afflicted with,
Our erstwhile disk editor. Stevie Kennedy
assures me that the AC disks are so clean you
could eat your dinner off them.
We are nol a virus carrier Any allegation
that our magazine distributes these anti-social
beasties will, quite rightly, be taken very seri-
ously by our readers.
It is important to be sure of your facts before
Initiating such grave rumours,

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