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PRO VIDEO
If you're into serious video, you might want
to check out Pro Video CG I, a character
generation program with several available
styles and sizes of text, individually selectable
character color, shadow and edging, grids, and
animated transitions. It gives you 32K of text
memory. We haven't seen this one, and the
price is said to be pretty high. Find a dealer
and check this one out if you are serious about
it. From JDK Images, 2224 East 86 Street,
Suite 14, Bloomington MN 55420, 612/854-7793.
HARD DISK BACKUP
HardHat is a hard disk backup program that
saves your HD files to floppies. (Not the best
solution, but you've got to do something.) It
lets you back up all or part of your HD, and
provides some kind of data compression to
make it more tolerable. $69.95 plus $3.50
shipping from: Wcstcom Industries, 3386
Floyd, Los Angeles CA 90068.
AMIGA EXPANSION
Pacific Cyprus has three expansion products
for the Amiga. The Xpander II is a 2 slot
expansion box that already has one slot filled
with a 2meg RAM board. The RAM board is a
no-wait-state design and uses 256K DRAM
chips that can be installed in increments of
512KB, 1MB and 2MB. The SCSI
Multifunction Board is for interfacing a
generic SCSI hard disk drive to your Amiga. A
driver program is required on your Workbench
disk. The board also gives you a second
parallel printer port and another RS-232 port,
a battery backed-up clock, and a power supply.
The Modem Board is a 300/1200 baud Hayes
compatible modem on a board. Available
from: Pacific Cypress, 40127 Landing
Parkway, Fremont CA 94538.
DOS-2-DOS
DOS-2-DOS does for the Amiga what Big
Blue Reader does for the C128: lets it read and
copy IBM/PC format files. The latest version
will work with both 5.25" and 3.5" MS-DOS
formats. Besides being able to translate and
copy ASCII files back and forth between both
formats, DOS-2-DOS also lets you get a
DIRectory of MS-DOS diskettes, TYPE ascii
files, and FORMAT MS-DOS disks. You need
at least one external drive to do all this, and of
course that drive must be a 5.25" drive if you
are planning on working with standard IBM
disks. DOS-2-DOS is $55.00 from: Central
Coast Software, 268 Bowie Dr., Los Osos CA
93402, 805/528-4906.
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PUBLIC DOMAIN
If you are sick of buying PD disks only to
find out that 90% of the programs on them are
crap, then you might be interested in Amware's
catalog. For only $5.95 each postpaid, Amware
offers over 40 public domain disks for the
Amiga. Each has been compiled carefully
from only the best public domain offerings.
We've got six of the series here, covering
telecommunications, games, graphics, and
utility programs, and almost without exception
the programs are complete, functional,
professional, and worthwhile. The
Entertainment #2 games disk, for example,
includes Four excellent games, Monopoly,
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Revcrsi, Life, and Clue, as well as several
decent demos. The Graphics #1 disk includes a
screen dump program, an IFF screen-grabber, a
font editor, and the excellent public domain
Macintosh screens converted to
AMIGA via the excellent public
domain conversion ultlily,
MacView-. A Mustilavel
MacView program, which allows you to noc
only view Macintosh Macpaint files (several of
which are included on the disk), but convert
them to Amiga format! (If there was a Nobel
Prize for public domain software, this program
would get our vote.) For $5.95, I don't sec how
you could go wrong. SASE for a catalog.
Amware, PO Box 19474, Jacksonville FL 32245.
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