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Punters left licking their wounds after dealing 

with the now notorious Luton-based 

WI'S Electronics mail order company can 

take comfort in the raid carried Out on the 

firm by the Bedfordshire fraud squad on 1 

March. While the main target was WTS, 

Total Computer Supplies, based in Hemel 

Hempstead, were also raided because the 

police believe the two firms may be 

connected. 

David Pleece, managing director of VVTS 

and his co-director. Mark Barnby, were 

arrested and company documents seized 

after a staggering 800 complaints were 

made to various governing bodies such as 

the trading standards council and the 

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Thirty Bedfordshire and Luton fraud 

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director, Patricia Dykes. DC Ron Lack, one 

of the key players in the operation, told 

Amiga Computing that the four individuals 

have been released on bail as he and his 

team continue their lengthy breakdown of 

the thousands of documents the case has 

thrown up. The department has been 

snowed under with phone calls from angry 

customers of WTS and he expects this to 

continue 

"People who ordered at Chnstmas usually 

phone a company up afterwards if they 

don't receive their goods. They're fobbed 

off with some excuse and then told they'll 

receive it in a month's time. This doesn't 

happen and come mid-March, beginning of 

April. people start to take serious action 

such as hiring a solicitor" commented Lack. 

The bad news for punters eager for a 

speedy conclusion is that they'll have to be 

patient for the time being while police 

continue their extensive investigations. 

When the German company Escom appeared for the first time last year. not many people 

outside ot its home country had heard of them, With over 200 retail stores in 

Germany and central Europe, the firm has only recently bought retail outlets in 

England. To give an idea of the size and success of the company. Escom is the second 

largest computer manufacturer in Germany and recently. two new shareholders have 

come on board, each allegedly worth BO billion and 15 billion German marks respectively, 

both having major plans to move into interactive media and cable television. 

With this kind of clout and an ex-Commodore chief in Its management. Escom are 

hopefully in a position to offer Amiga users a bright future it their buyout is successful. 

Interesting news has surfaced 

about an Amiga-compatible graphics 

and video workstation called 

the DraCo from German company 

Macrosystem GmbH The makers 

have side-stepped the Amiga 

custom chips by replacing them 

with powerful software and hardware 

combinations. 

Macrosystem believe that any 

The nut gpopration of Amiga5? 

software compatible with the 

Amiga will work on the DraCo such 

as Lightwave. ImageFX and 

AdPro. Also, hardware that doesn't 

rely on the Amiga custom chipset 

should work fine. 

The first machine using this 

technology is planned to be 

unveiled at the NAB show in Las 

Vegas on the a April. with the 

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product going on sale in early summer. 

It'll come in a full-size tower 

with a minimum of 4Mb expandable 

to 128Mb of on-board 72-pin 

SIMMs. A parallel port and triple 

speed CD-ROM drive will also be 

included. After this initial machine. 

a variety of different specced 

models are also being produced to 

suit particular user's needs 

Amiga Computing 

MAY 1995 

GRAPHICS 

Bru5h with di5a5tpr 

The Commodore buyout has been at the 

centre of another shock with Escom. a 

German company that has over 200 

chainstares spread throughout Europe, 

apparently having their bid accepted by 

the liquidator, Franklyn Wilson This, as 

usual, means that the bidding process 

should gel underway in the next four to 

six weeks. 

The revelation came about after 

Escom bought a key Commodore trademark 

from the bankruptcy trustee 

Bernard Hembach of the now defunct 

German subsidiary. This sale went 

through on 16 February despite the US 

bankruptcy court trying to block the sale 

with a temporary restraining order. 

Allegedly, Escom's original intention 

was to use the trademark to produce 

clone machines to fill the hungry Amiga 

market, and that they had no interest in 

the other facets of the defunct 

company. 

The reaction in the Bahamas and 

America was one of fury as the liquidators 

there said that the German liquidator 

had no right to receive the 61.4 million 

paid for the trademark because it belongs 

to CEL. not simply the subsidiary. The 

US iudge wanted to know why Hembrach 

shouldn't be held in civil contempt and a 

situation was created that could have 

derailed the whole proceedings for 

several weeks. 

Hembach has argued that the American 

court has no jurisdichon in the matter, saying 

the logo was owned by the German 

subsidiary, not the parent company, 

Allegedly, David Pleasance, managing 

director and head of the MBO at C=-UK, 

threatened to pull Out if Commodore's 

trademark was not included in the buyout, 

While Pleasance wants to rename the 

company, they, like Escom,are rumoured 

to have intentions for licensing Amiga 

technology to third-party developers, but 

without the trademark — this wouldn't be 

possible. 

Fortunately. Escom have now backed 

down and agreed to buy the remnants of 

Commodore from the Bahamian liquidators, 

with the promise of handing over the 

trademark if their bid should be topped by 

one of their competitors. 

At the moment the liquidators are in 

the process at arranging the day on 

Ate the bidding process will take place. 

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5potlight 

After the success of last year's show, 

Spotlight '95 returns again between the 

10 and 11 of June at the Hammersmith 

Novotel hotel. The exhibition is aimed 

at the more serious end user who. 

while interested in games, wants to get 

more out their machine. 

With the backing of our good selves 

at Amiga Computing, the show is also 

being sponsored by various manufacturers 

and distributors. The organisers, 

Gasteiner Technology, are predicting a 

fourfold increase in size, with a wide 

variety of companies attending. These 

Include Commodore UK. Power 

Computing. HiSolt, First Computer 

Centre, Meridian Software and more. 

For further information on booking. 

give Priscilla Bell a call on 0181-345 

6000. 


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For owners wanting to make the most out of 

their CD32 console. Premier Developments 

have released the Combi-Centre 'workstation' 

for serious multimedia users. Designed to allow 

the CD32. SX1 Expansion, monitor, keyboard, 

disk drive and other peripherals to sit on a 

special shelving unit, the workstation's 

unique feature is the sliding shelf 

which allows easy access to the CD32*s 

loading bay. 

Costing E49.99, phone John 

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Co.rtbi-Centre orit•tation: 

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printer 

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have announced the arrival of their latest 

addition to the dot matrix range, the 

MP-5450. Featuring a 9-pin print head and 

a tactility for printing larger than usual 

sheets, the company claim that the printer 

is capable at 300 characters per second 

and can print in colour if required. 

The price tag attached to the new model 

is a rather substantial E349. While prices 

will drop once in the shops, we haven't 

seen such an expensive recommended 

retail price for a low-end machine in quite 

some time. Let's hope it's something really 

special. 

The company is also releasing the 

Speediet 360 Colour at a more reasonable 

cost of t279. Featuring a colour print head 

with 51 nozzles and the ability to print both 

landscape and portrait orientation, more 

details can be obtained from Seikosha on 

01753 685873_ 

(ampuSerue head5 for the Internet IF 

Taking a major step closer to offering its users the 

Internet via their services, CompuServe have acquired 

SPRY for approximately $100 million in the largest ever 

acquisition in the rapidly growing Internet industry. 

SPRY manufacture the number one selling Internet 

access product as 'Internet in a box.' 

"This move is of tremendous importance to the 

industry and offers outstanding opportunities for 

CompuServe," said Maury Cox, CompuServe President 

and Chief Executive Officer_ it addresses three significant 

opportunities available to CompuServe: Internet 

access from the CompuServe Information Service; the 

creation of future services on the Internet; and the ability 

to assist our corporate network customers in 

accessing the Internet, This acquisition turns us into 

the premier one-stop shop for Net access and 

services." 

The main benefit being touted for the end user is the 

Internet Made Easy feature of SPRY's one-button 

installation of their Internet Mosaic software. Internet 

access will be offered from 140 countries with more 

than 420 points of presence for local dial-up connection. 

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Internet 1 begin5 

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The First Bank of Ontemet, the FB01 for 

short, has announced the initiation of 

transaction processing services for the 

Internet electronic commerce. Purchases 

over the Internet can now be made without 

exposing personal credit card 

. 

I Usually, Internet purchase procedures 

nrequire 

personal credit card information 

fthat 

can be monitored by thousands of 

opeople 

all over the world. It has been 

rknown 

for users to attempt to either 

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decode the credit card information or 

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impersonate the customer in future 

transactions. 

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say the system is sale because access to 

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ATM funds without the possession of 

both the ATM card and the Personal 

Identification Number Is not possible. 

All transactions are handled by the 

bank itself with both customer and supplier 

going directly through it via the use of 

e-mail_ The only downside is that the 

FBOI charges five per cent for every 

transaction, but if this system points the 

way towards a safer security on the 

information highway, perhaps it's a price 

worth paying. 

A complete range of paper and film 

specifically designed to give a quality output 

from inkjet printers has been launched 

by Infotec Supplies. For anyone whose 

used one of the temperamental machines 

they can be very picky about the paper 

they're printing onto. 

Bleeding text and images, paper lams 

and an assortment of other niggling 

details can often make a print out look as 

If it just popped Out of a 9-pin dot matnx 

machine. Bob Milford, head of Infatec's 

Supplies division commented: "Many 

inkjet printer users have expenenced serious 

problems by using paper not 

designed for inkjet printers. We have 

designed the lmagejet range solely for the 

inkjet market, even down to specific 

papers for specific machines, to ensure 

that these problems are eliminated." 

There a variety of paper types in the 

range to suit the needs and wallet of 

users, and a technical line has been set 

up to aid buyers in making the right 

choice for their particular printer. For 

more information, contact Infotec UK on 

0181-207 2700.

Art, darling 

For those that have a little cash stored away for a rainy day and have an avid 

fascination with computer graphics, a trip to the Bit Movie '95 from the 13 to 

; art 

the 17 April could be of interest. Being held at Riccione in Italy. the festival 

covers art derived from the production of computer images, animations and 

musical compositions. 

For more details, contact Carlo Mainardi on 39 541 643016. 

Sit Movie . 

95, ecompte or the WIEMIL 

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shown - True 

Lowe by Bony 

Mood in (ommodorp boort aript 5h011i 

With all the twisting and timing of the dragged Out Commodore situation, three major studios 

in Hollywood are offering substantial amounts of money to buy a script based on the 

bankruptcy proceedings for adaptation to the big screen. The unknown script writer, apparently 

a former MD of Commodore, is selling the rights for the story to the highest bidder. 

Several stars are rumoured to be interested including Omar Sheriff as corporate and 

bridge playing Medhi Ali, Warwick Davies as David Pleasance (famous for his role as lead 

Ewok in Return of the Jedi), Demi Moore as the cruel money-crazed creditor and Sharon 

Stone as the sun tanned liquidator with an attitude, Allegedly. 

You can expect to see this potential Oscar grabber called Delayed come January... 1999. 

Eod5end for inlijpt 

inktet-specifi c 

paper: Blooding 

text may welt 

become a thing 

of tho past 

new5 brief5 

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Stop thp 01P55 

Wired? Connected? Hooked? If you've recently plugged in to the 

Internet then your first port of call has to be Amiga Computing's new 

home page packed with reviews, previews and news 

Reach us by tapping in this URL web address: 

ttltp://wvAv,demon.co. uktamigacompl 

Enjoy and make sure to send us your opinions and views on what you 

see and what you would like to see. Cybersurfs up dudes and 

dui:tette& 

Motion magic 

For non 

-Clips 

is a CD-ROM containing over 8,000 frames of royalty tree stock 

linear footage. Consisting of 20 image sequences that can be used as back- 

egrounds, d i t textures, or reflection maps, these anims can be imported to 

oa wide r s . selection of programs such as Lightwave, Wavemaker, 

DImageFX, 

Hollywood FX, AdPro and more. Look out for our review in 

Tnext 

months Amtga Computing. 

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Printers seem to be the only peripheral that, like modems, never go 

out of fashion, with a constant influx of new models pumping into the 

s 

showrooms Now. Intergex Systems have unveiled their ColourJet 

a 

Master, a thermal inkiet-based pnnter at a reasonable price of E249. 

n 

Offering 300 by 300 dpi in colour and 600 by 300 dpi in colour, the 

printer 

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has a built-in 150 sheet feeder and a duty cycle of up to 2000 

pages 3 a month. 

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After i the success of Envoy, the peer-to-peer networking software, its 

makers, s Intangible Assets Manufacturing, have released the sequel. 

Envoy t 2. Its new features include support of Amiga 2.04 DOS packet 

types, s support for removable media, enhanced reliability and robust 

recovery, , localisation, AmigaGuide documentation and more, For 

users t of the original Envoy, upgrades are available, and anyone interested 

can call Almathera, IAM's UK distributors, on 0181-687 0040. 

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After Lightwave Pro magazine comes the arrival of the latest addition 

b 

to Lightwave extras. Into The Light. This monthly newsletter has tutori- 

o o 

als, new product releases, tips, tricks and business advice for profes- 

r 

sional animators. Subscription charges are $25 for 12 issues and for 

more 

n 

details, e-mail Jose Burgos on IntoLight aol.com. 

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A ofew 

months ago, we featured those homfically talented people at 

Aardman n Animations in our humble pages, While there, we managed 

to scrounge three gWallace 

and Gromit T-shirts from Nick Park and co. 

and set a competition for you, the readers. The results are as follows: 

Jon Glendening, Brighton, Adrian Pang, London and Lucy Marr up in 

sunny Glasgow. Well done, and expect your prize any day soon. 


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Ilmiga World 0115 it quits 

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o l i l almost exactly ten years after the first 

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c l graphics proudly displayed throughout the maga- 

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masterpieces. 

Al one time there were 10 Amiga magazines in 

the US. With the death of Amiga World, due to 

fewer ads and a dropping number of subscribers, 

we're down to one Amiga magazine over here, 

and that hasn't been able to meet its monthly 

publication schedule lately. Luckily, we can still 

A obtain Amiga Computing and lesser UK Amiga 

p magazines, so US users aren't completely out of 

r luck - although we get awfully jealous when we 

i read of how much software and hardware support 

l there is still available on your side of the Pond, 

1 Still, it's sad to see a magazine go that's support- 

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World. 

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here, mind you. There are a number of videooriented 

magazines that still cover our favourite 

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expert advice and a look at some of the latest 

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Pgro mania cdntinue5 

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Pyromania, aptly titled Pyromania 2. Following in the 

footsteps of its predecessor, the special effects compilation 

is made up of 37 Ouicktime movies, 1736 

PICT files representing 16 PICT sequences. and 

three fire loops. The new visual trickery that can be 

incorporated into Lightwave and other packages is 

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All footage was shot on 35mm motion picture film 

and, if it's anything like Its forefather title, should be 

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MAY 1995 

AWN fitifin reports fill the derline 

of the 115 timiga mogaeine 1n1J115try 

The closure 

of Anglia 

World mean. 

only one 

Amiga meg 

left in the US 

computer, as well as on-line publications (such 

as the well-known Amiga Report) and some speciality 

newsletters. One of the best of the latter 

category is Scientific Amigan, Walter Lounsbery's 

Utilities Unlimited's PC emulator for the Emplant 

board, the E5156DX, has finally shipped. 

Unfortunately, it seems that's not a call to rejoice, 

Jim Drew and company seem to have jumped the 

gun on this one, as the current emulation is incomplete 

and problem-plagued. Like the first release of 

the Emplant Mac emulator. compatibility problems 

abound and documentation is minimal_ Drew 

assures me that the problems will be addressed very 

soon with a new revision of the emulator ported from 

the PowerPC version he's been working on - this 

update should be smaller (500K versus 1.4MB) and 

more compatible. 

To UU's credit, though, while the first release of 

the Emplant Mac emulation was a disaster, the current 

revision of the emulator is a fine-tuned, highly 

compatible system that does a great lob running the 

vast majority of Macintosh software. Given time, the 

E586DX emulation will likely be similarly capable. 

The $99.95 module (which requires the Zorro 

based Emplant board, which starts at $279.95) is 

supposed to support the entire Pentium instruction 

set, including protected and virtual modes. The sales 

literature claims the emulation supports MDA, CGA, 

EGA, VGA, and SVGA video modes, sound, hard 

and floppy drives, CD-ROM drives, SCSI devices, 

joysticks, and other PC features. Advertisements 

feature the emulation running Doom II and Windows. 

The emulator that shipped to users in mid-March, 

though, didn't run Doom II or Windows. In fact, as 

this was written (about a week after the E586DX 

release), users on the online networks and Internet 

reported success-only In running DOS, some old 

games, and text-based programs like WordPerfect, 

n etv 

newsletter devoted to research, analysis, design. 

and technical education with Amigas. 

If you want to use your Amiga for more than 

saving Lemmings, you'll enjoy this fascinating 

look at how the Amiga can be used in science. 

Some of the material could easily fit in a dry. 

scholarly journal, but this newsletter also packs 

plenty of interesting opinion and neat ideas on 

new uses for your Amiga. For information, write to 

Scientific Amigan, P.O. 60685, Savannah, GA 

31420-0685 USA; e-mail waltalewellsf.ca.us; or 

call or fax (912) 898-1760. 

PrematurP PE - too soon for 1t5 own good 

Even getting those running was a challenge. though, 

since Utilities Unlimited shippod the product without I 

the BIOS ROM necessary for PC emulation - they 

had problems licensing a BIOS in time for release. 

Drew says he's writing a custom BIOS for the 

E586DX. but in the meantime users need to find a 

real PC to borrow a BIOS chip from, or download 

BIOS images from PC manufacturer bulletin boards 

or from FTP sites such as americanmegalrends.com. 

Also missing from the first release are serial and 

parallel port support, SVGA support (there are no 

drivers for custom Amiga graphics cards), and the 

ability to turn on the full CPU transcription mode that 

promises to make this faster than other PC emulators. 

Many users also reported problems getting 

CD-ROM support to work. 

In short, this product was released before it was 

completed. Given the precipitous state of the US 

Amiga market. UU may have felt pressure to lust get 

it out the door and prove that it was on the way. 

Whatever the reason. the PC Emplant just isn't very 

useful yet. But Jim Drew's track record with the Mac 

emulation suggests he'll get the PC emulation running 

smoothly in short order. It should be in better 

shape by the time you read this. Your best bet is to 

contact UK distributor Blittersoft and see if updated 

software is available. 

The E586DX module is available from Utilities 

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Havasu City, AZ 86403 USA_ Phone (602) 680-9004, 

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rs big. it's clever, but what the hell is 

it? And what exactly will I actually get 

Out of it - apart from the kudos of 

quoting an e-mail address once in a while. 

If you listen to pretentious ramblings of 

media, you'd be quite right to envisage the 

Internet as a pseudo intellectual utopia, where 

access guarantees a near psychedelic experience 

- what a load of old cobblers! 

What it does provide is a means for mere 

mortals to get the one thing which increasingly 

makes the difference between the haves 

and the have cots in the modern world, In 

short, access to information. 

It's obvious from the Amiga Computing mail 

that the average reader is getting just a little 

cheesed off with the seemingdy endless supply 

of mind-boggling acronyms and buzzwords 

that make up this ethereal electronic soup. 

Basically, if you strip away the hype you're 

left with five key areas, each of which boasts 

its own collection of utilities and applications to 

help control and access the information you 

send and receive. 

E-mail 

E-mail and your individual address is the beak 

element in the equation. For example_ ezra 

suds address is ezralitacomp.oremon.cauk. 

and in affect this works just like a virtual PO 

box number. Literally everything ezra sends 

and receives has to quote this unique 

address, and if you've got intemet access, a 

modem, and a phone line, you can send him 

e-mail from anywhere on the planet - but 

please don't. 

Better still, he can dial-in from anywhere, 

quote his password and account details and 

download all the mail sent to him. The actual 

information is constantly maintained and 

Web browsing 

A web browser such as AMosaic 

offers a similar means of filtering 

and navigating the net, however 

Web browsers filter information 

rather than files. 

When you read an Internet article 

you'll invariably come across a 

screen shot of a Web browser. In 

short, browsers are the pretty face of 

the intemet 

Like users. Web pages have their 

The 11( team 

What dop5 it all mean? 

Paul fiustin outs the Internet into oerspertio, with 

a rough guide to Piet fig what all the 11155 k about 

own addresses and all you need to 

do is enter an address into your 

browser and you'll go directly - or at 

least indirectly - to information you 

need. 

For example, if you're interested 

in a new sports car the motor sports 

homepage would seem a logical 

place to start, From there you might 

click on a hypertext button for new 

models, which in turn might have a 

EDITORPaul Austin CIRCULATION DIRECTOR D a vid Wren CHAIRMAN Richa rd Muse 

DEPuTT EDITOR Darren Evam 

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SUBSCRIPTION 0S1-3571961 

We regret Arno Combistmg cannot offer technical help 

PRODUCTION EDITOR Judith Chapman 

STAFF WRITERS jomcha n Maddods 

Member the AWIE Bureau of Craihoorn 

on a persora basis either by telessnone or in writing. All 

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this panel for possible publicroon. 

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JuIrDec 1993 

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reponsible for any errors in articles 

SYSTEMS MANAGER Da vid Stewart 

listings or advenisemene 


MAY 1995 

updated for you by your intemet provider - in 

this case Demon Internet, When ezra next 

logs-on, Demon knows when he last downloaded 

mail and will check the in-basket and 

send anything still pending. 

FTP sites 

In short, an PIP site Is the Internet's name for 

a freely accessible software archive. When 

you log-on to an FTP site you're actually 

directly accessing someone else's hard drive. 

This becomes obvious when you run utils 

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see your directories, and on the other 

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Both offer an automated search facility. Archie 

Pink to a review of the latest Porche, 

and so on... 

That's how the majority of Web 

pages operate - you simply browse 

around for related links until you 

reach the precise information you 

need. And of course, if you find a 

page you'll want to visit regularly, it 

can be added to your hotlist and 

then visited directly whenever you 

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will search for keywords within a list of FTP 

sites and files maintained by your provider, 

whereas Gopher provides a point-and-click 

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an Amiga Guide front-end 

Basically, both provide an invaluable means 

of filtering file information, allowing you to find 

and get what you as quickly as possible. 

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This is where the truly weird and wonderful 

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and in some cases outrageous is definitely the 

order of the day. If you're interested in a particular 

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and even if by some bizarre quirk of fate there 

isn't, you can always start one... 

Newsgroups are probably best described as 

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Confused? So you should be. Basically, when 

you subscribe to a newsgroup you become a 

member of a band of like-minded individuals, 

each of whom automatically receive all the 

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time they elect to get their news. 

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member of then grabs all the new postings 

since your last visit, You can then reply directly 

to another member, comment on a message, 

or post your own messages of files. 

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that can touch the Amiga's powerful capabilities. 

That's why you can find the Amiga 

generating the graphics for such TV series 

as Babylon 5 and Star Trek. 

Because of this obvious strength in the 

graphics department. it's hardly surprising to 

find that there's quite a lot of graphics 

software available for the Amiga 

Most of these packages, you will find, 

tend to be aimed at users of intermediate or 

advanced experience, and the demands of 

such powerful packages also often require 

an Amiga with lots of memory and powerful 

add-ons - which are probably beyond the 

price range of many users. 

Novice to expert 

SmartyPaints is different. however. Its an 

art package that caters for users ranging 

from a young child, right up to intermediate 

level, You may ask how such a wide range 

can be catered for by one art package. and 

the answer lies in the 'smart menu' feature 

which allows you to customise Smart/Paints 

depending on the needs of the user. It can 

also run on Amiga& with a minimum of 1Mb, 

although the more memory you have the 

more screens you can work with. 

SmartyPaints has evolved from early 

1990 where it was available for the Nimbus 

PC as the Borealis trilogy of schools' art programs, 

Borealis Jnr was aimed at infants, 

Borealis was for 7-11 year olds and Borealis 

Gold was for adults. It is thus a natural progression 

from these early concepts and now 

serves all three age groups, thanks to its 

smart menu facility. 

This facility allows the owner to tailor the 

drawing tools icon display according to age 

groups and abilities. SmartyPaints is not 

designed to be immediately used by a small 

child without any adult intervention. 

It initially loads with all menus, icons and 

functions set up for a user with intermediate 

knowledge. It therefore needs to be configured 

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abilities before they are given it. Configuring 

the menus is very simple. To try it out, load 

up SmartyPaints and read the tutorial that 

follows. Once loaded, you will see there are 

many function icons to choose from. In this 

particular mode, all features and tools are 

available for the intermediate user. 

For a small child, you can choose which 

drawing tools should be displayed by altering 

the smart menu If you now click the 

right mouse button you will be taken to the 

drawing screen and as you can see, there 

is a selection of tools and palette icons to 

choose from. 

This is the smart menu and can be 

removed while drawing on the screen by 

clicking again on the right mouse button. 

Another right mouse click will bring it back 

again. Depending on the configuration you 

have set, there will also be a Main menu 

icon button on the far left of the screen. 

Clicking on this will take you back to the 

main menu. 

If you have a small child, so wish to create 

a special 'kids version' of the program, 

you need to decide which tools are 

appropriate for their age, 

Indicators 

Once you have a fist of appropriate tools, 

It may be a good idea to draw a simple layout 

design to indicate which tools will be 

grouped together etc. This needs to be 

done because when you are choosing tools 

to be included in your custom menu, they 

are added from right to left, top to bottom. 

SmartyPaints doesn't allow you to arbitrarily 

remove and replace a single icon from 

within the middle at a fist. 

Once you have a design for your custom 

layeut, it's time to configure SmartyPaints, 

First of all you will have to clear the default 

smart menu, so click on the light blue icon 

marked Clear S Menu. After a brief detay, 

the current smart menu will be displayed in 

blue at the top of the screen. 

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Now that you have a versatile art package at your fingertips, 

why not create some of your own masterpieces and enter our 

great competition? 

All you have to do is send in any number of pictures created 

fat least partially) with SmartyPaints on a standard AmigaDOS 

formatted disk, along with the registration card you receive 

when you buy the SmartyPaints manual (see disk offers). 

There's no age limit, but age will be taken into consideration 

when judging the entries. 

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The winner will receive an Amiga bundle of goodies which include 

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Menu icon button from the smart menu. For 

Availability 

security, you will be asked for a PIN number 

Click on the Main Menu button and we to enter before the function is executed. 

will now add our own buttons to the smart The default PIN number is 1234. but this 

menu. Click on the Stack S. Menu button can be changed to your own personal num- 

and the smart menu will again appear at the ber by clicking on the Change PIN If button. 

top of the menu (minus the buttons you You will be asked to enter your new PIN 

erased earlier). Now, by clicking on any of number twice for confirmation and then the 

the light grey icons you can choose which number will become permanent. Keep a 

functions will be available within the smart note somewhere of the new number so you 

menu. As you click on each function, you don't forget it. 

will see it appear in the smart menu When you have entered the PIN number 

displayed at the top of the screen. 

for the Menu Lock function, go in to the 

Continue adding functions until you are drawing screen with the smart menu and 

satisfied with the list that is going to be you will notice that the Main Menu button 

available for the smart menu, then click Will disappear, preventing your child from 

on Stack S. Menu to finish. If you click the accessing the main menu. SmartyPaints is 

right mouse button now, you will be taken now in 'kid proof mode.' 

to the drawing screen and will see the If at anytime you wish to access the main 

smart menu now contains your custom menu for some reason, a secret 'hot key' 

functions. 

lets you gain access Simply hold down the 

You may now click on the Save Config Help key and the letter M until the main 

menu appears. 

You can now click on Save Config and 

Smartt/Paint 

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There are many more features available in 

SmartyPaints. so to get the most horn this 

versatile and educational program. you 

can send off for the printed SmartyPaints 

manual and disk. The disk contains lots of 

kids clip-art for your child to create their 

own pictures. For details of this special 

offer, turn to page 44 

your SmailyPaints disk will always load 4t 

in *kid mode' (until you alter things of 

course). 

That's it. Now you can customise your 

SmarlyPaints art package for either yourself 

or your little one to play with. 

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ASSESS YOUR NEEDS 

The PC has become such a common 

feature in the workplace you'd be forgiven 

for thinking that starting a business without 

Microsoft's Windows is like deep diving 

without an air supply. Yet these 

machines are expensive; even if you get a 

cheaper (and consequently less reliable) 

make with all the software bundled in, its 

a big financial commitment to take when 

initially testing the 

water for your project's 

viability. 

Whether you start 

out with one of the 

all-in-one packages 

reviewed, or choose 

pricier but more professional 

options like 

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Wordworth 3.1 and 

TurboCale, the Amiga's 

virtues as a machine 

for small business 

should not be overlooked. 

Remember, many business needs can 

be catered for very cheaply: Advertising 

leaflets, business correspondence, 

client 

databases or spreadsheets 

need not always 

be flashy to be effec- 

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tive or efficient. What's 

more, even it your business 

outgrows your 

software's capabilities, 

these packages will 

already have paid for 

themselves within the 

t few months. 

Amiga Compati•g 

MAY 1995 

Europress's Mini-Office carries the distinction 

of being the only truly integrated business 

package of the bunch — the rest are 

really composed of separate programs 

thrown together into a bargain bundle. 

It's also the most comprehensive product 

of the lot, thanks to the fact that it 

included the five most commonly needed 

types of business program, all accessed 

from one main menu. 

The word processor is more capable 

than might be expected at the price. 

There's a 50.000 word dictionary, the 

option to import ASCII text, the basic text 

formatting facilities, and wrap-round text. 

Alongside Digita's Wordworth SE it may 

look rather unsophisticated and lacking in 

advanced features, but it makes a good 

account of itself as part of the overall 

package. 

Databases are an equally indispensible 

pad 

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package to work with when it cornea to 

mwapping between programa 

type of business software, so its gooi 

news that this one is easy to use with a 

the standard sorting functions included. 

less obvious but undoubtedly useful inclu 

sion is the disk utilities program which act 

as a basic file manager so you can keel 

ffiCE 

The main strength of Disc Company's Horne Office Kit has got to be the inclusion 

the highly respected Maxiplan 4. For a long time the unchallenged leader in its fiek 

this feature-packed spreadsheet analyser would still be many Amiga accountant's fir! 

choice. 

Considering the price, Maxiplan is amazingly powerful and flexible. Allowing user 

to create spreadsheets of more than 500 columns and 65,000 rows, and featurin 

extensive linking, analysis and import/export facilities, it is a must for anyone requirin 

advanced lunctions at an affordable price. The availability of Macros to automat 

repetitive tasks is also a definite boon_ 

Maxiplan includes a colour chart creator, which means that as well as crunchin 

numbers it can present your data professionally. This aspect of the software 

admirably simple, as usually you can select a range of data and a type of chart an 

the program will do the rest automatically. 

Kind Words, by comparison, has fared less well with time. Inferior to Digita' 

Wordsworth 1.1 when it came out a 

those years ago, it certainly can't con 

pete with the power of the budge 

WordWorth SE released recently. 

That's not to say it's worthless — 

your word processing needs are basi 

it will probably prove perfectly ad( 

quate• Though it's a bit long in th 

tooth, it does use Digita's Hume 

Interface Protocol. which in Englis 

No one's preleodine spreadsheets are 

*lolling, but at least Maxiplan denvers 

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databases, but at least there are keyboard 

shortcuts as well as menus to work with 

What is appealing is the way data can easily 

be taken from the spreadsheet and 

made into a graph. which in turn can be 

imported into the word processor as part of a 

document. 

Like the Lotus Suite on the PC. Mini Office 

maximises ease of use by maintaining a consistent 

control system through each of the 

sub-programs. The video recorder-style toolbar 

isn't brilliantly successful, but it's 

nonetheless strange that more developers 

haven't attempted a similar approach on the 

Amiga_ 

It has to be said that the package is looking 

slightly dated now, and the inclusion of a 

few new features would not go amiss. The 

Amiga needs an integrated package like this. 

so it's a shame that Europress has not seen 

hi to develop a new update - in my view, 

doing so would justify a higher price. For 

some, however. Mini Office remains a better 

option than other more expensive 

alternatives - and that's despite its age. 

Its ease of use and uniform control system 

should make it attractive to those who 

find some aspects of computing daunting, 

and as an all-rounder there is still nothing 

to beat it at this price. 

The bottom line 

Product: Mini Office 

Price: £59.99 

Supplier: Europress Software 

Tel: 0625 859333 

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means it's easy to control. 

In the printing stakes, kindwords lack of support 

for Postscript fonts is quite a serious flaw, and 

advanced features like auto-correct were but 

dreams back in those days. Still, you get what you 

pay for. 

Infofile makes up the third and final part of the 

Building up a database starts here package, and it turns out to be a rather strange little 

bit defi ning the columns and type• of program. Primarily, ifs a simple database that 

Information with this control panel 

allows even technophobes to knock up information 

records within minutes. Columns and rows 

resized using the mouse 

and, for those daunted by Maxiplan, it 

also includes basic calculation options, 

That's all very dull and handy, but 

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automated slideshow with sound using 

Infofile - especially since this is set up 

using the same database interlace. Why 

wst. 

this was included in the same package 

I'm not sure, but who knows, it might 

prove useful, 

If serious financial analysis is a must 

for your business then Maxiplan 4 

should make you give this package 

more than a cursory glance. Since it's 

available separately for E30, however, 

you may decide not to bother with the 

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MAY 1995 

SOFTWARE 

Digita HUMP Office 

This old chestnut is composed of four programs: 

Home Accounts, Mailshot Plus, DG 

Calc and Day by Day. and costs roughly hall 

as much as the other two packages. 

Digrta's package is the only one to include 

something resembling a diary/personal organiser, 

something that might have given it the 

edge over the other titles. Sadly, l*cl much 

rather stick with writing memos to myself 

because this system is drab in appearance 

and amateurishly implemented. 

Mailshot Plus is a handy little program for 

printing out labels for envelopes with the minimum 

of fuss, and naturally it allows 

for mailmerge with Wordworth. Our copy. 

however, was significantly bugged. 

The Home Accounts manager is the predecessor 

to the recently reviewed Money 

Matters, so it's all about keeping your personal 

finances in order, It doesn't have the latest version's 

pretty icons but it will keep track of all 

those standing orders for you. Alter working 

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this program is supposed to remind you oi 

important dates and appointments, but it'. so 

drab I couldn't be botherod to too* at it 

with Maxiplan, the spreadsheet program in this 

package leaves a lot to be desired for the professional, 

and it's no surprise to find it lacks. 

the power of that benchmark title. 

Nevertheless, it's not quite so limited as if 

looks thanks to the availability of 52 formulae, 

a 'Goto cell' feature, password and cell locking 

Facilities, There's also a feature allowing any •, 

row or column to be held on screen as the. 

spreadsheet scrolls beneath. 

Overall, the package feels outdated, hit and 

miss and unstable on the Al200 we used. It is 

cheap and better targeted for household 

finances/records than the other products: 

reviewed, so it may be worth considering, 

Before spending any money I'd see what alternatives 

were available in the PO libraries first. 

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Price: L'35 

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Tel: 01395 270273 

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Ith the impending launch Of 

Lightwave V4 on the PC, Alpha, 

SGI and of course the Amiga, the 

interest, hype and misinformation surrounding 

this latest revision to the ultimate in 

desktop rendering has already reached 

fever pitch. 

As the first magazine to actually use the 

software, Amiga Computing plans to bring 

you a two-part insider guide to the latest 

updates, stalling with a close inspection of 

the additions to layout. 

Although still in Beta test, this latest revision 

already promises much more than simply 

cross compatibility. Unlike its predecessor, 

version 4 Is by no means a simple face 

lift from a previous incarnation. In fact, even 

on its present tom it promises, and indeed 

delivers the most important change since 

the program's initial launch as a standalone 

PAL compatible. 

At first glance there seems little change 

from version 3.5, but look a little closer and 

you soon discover a whole host of new and 

Improved features lurking behind a seemingly 

insignificant collection of new buttons 

and envelopes. 

To kick things off we'll start with a stroll 

along the control panels. First up is the 

Scene section, which ironically only offers 

one major change - however it's still pretty 

dramatic. 

As you can see, the panel now offers a 

frames per second setting - in addition to an 

end-beeb option. Obviously. an FPS setting 

will make designing for a whole range of 

applications other than just video much 

more straightforward. However, there's an 

even more important underlying change. In 

the past. Lightwave calculated all its animation 

in meters per second. Now that's 

changed, with the introduction of FPS as 

the default measuring system for textural 

animation. 

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here where the first plug-in. entitled Plug-in Oise appears, l which 

in this case offers access for third-party developers to i produce 

add-on displacement programs, automated object manipulation 

and deformation systems, and of course particle animation g 

software. 

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Next-up comes Unseen-by-rays. This again is another major 

innovation, allowing selected objects to be rendered t as nontraced 

elements even though they're part of a ray traced u scene, 

Unseen-by-fog is another newcomer. It does exactly as the 

title suggests, thereby allowing certain objects, backdrops f and 

projection-mapped elements to play an uninhibited part in 

scenes which use the fog effect. 

Rolm 5pecial 

There are major changes across the 

board here, the first being a much 

improved reflection map option which 

Includes Backdrop only, Spherical map. 

ray traced & backdrop, and finally ray 

tracing & Spherical. As you've probably 

guessed. the latter two offer a new and 

much more flexible method ot adding 

realism to object reflections within a 

scene. 

Vet another new addition is an Alpha 

shadow option. This provides an easy 

method of adding shadow from objects to 

real-world elements within prooection 

mapped scenes - 'dancing on the desk 

effects' with added panache. 

Next-up come more plug-in options, 

this time the spotlight falling on plug-in 

textures. As you may already know, 

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hasn't really seen too many changes. In 

fact the only obvious addition is numerical 

input for aspect ratios. For the average 

videographer this isn't exactly earth shattering, 

but for anyone looking to work in film, 

or print, it is something of a godsend. 

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Matures plus the atorious glow button 

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accommodate the new features, none 

have altered dramatically - except the 

Effects/composition panel. This highly 

undervalued aspect of Lightwave has 

seen a dramatic change with an all-new 

layout providing a much clearer indication 

of exactly of what's on offer. Better 

still, there are plans for image processing 

plug-ins - which rumour has it will 

Include a complete plug-in ImageFX 

module. 

Aside from the physical change to the 

composition panel, it also holds some 

new features including foreground dissolve 

with envelope, plus a new high/low 

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The final newcomer in the Surfaces 

section is the long-awaited Glow Effect. 

Courtesy of glow you can add a userdefinable 

aura or incandescence around 

any surface - no need anymore to slap 

lerts flares everywhere if you need to fake 

some radiosity within a scene. Better still, 

Glow offers a means of easily generating 

some very tricky effects, such as realistic 

lasers, neon lighting and so on. 

However be warned - adding 

glow does increase rendering 

times quite dramatically, as a 

separate image processing 

pass is required during render 

to generate the effect. 

A spectacular 

object by Kevin 

Storming proves 

there's more to 

Lightwave than 

amazing a nima tion 

A new look for an old Interface, with new 

fader options and Improved ceiour controls 

colour feature for keying operations. 

The only remaining element is the control 

system for the aforementioned Glow 

Effect. As you can see from the screen 

shot, configuring the new feature isn't 

exactly a tricky business. 

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control 

At the top of the Lights panel sits 

another newbie to the Ligh!wave 

repertoire, namely Global Flare Int. 

Basically. this provides a means of 

ramping all the lens flares in a scene up 

or down automatically. The feature was 

specifically requested by makers of 

SeaQuest DSV to provide an easier method 

of controlling lens flares during power 

out/power ups and explosion sequences. 

Lens flares are another area that's seen 

some major attention, with one of the 

biggest changes being the ability to user 

define Anamorphic distortion. Unfortunately, 

this can't be enveloped at present, but even 

as it stands its pretty useful for generating 

the Star Trek TNG warp effect and other 

spatial anomalies. 

Add to that user-definable streak settings. 

which include the ability to set streak, 

intensity, density and sharpness, and you 

have a fairly comprehensive editing 

environment for all manner of flare effects. 

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of seemingly 

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The image section is unique, because it's the only section not to boast 

any major changes - assuming you don't have access to a Flyer that is. 

Not surprisingly, support for Flyer Clips has been added to the sequential 

image section. However, there's no direct support for the PAR, or any 

other third-party DV system, Plug-ins may appear later 

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On the record 

Perhaps the most notable change in this 

section has to be the option for userdefinable 

fi le naming conventions. 

According to NewTek this has been added 

to make Lightwave files more compatible 

with the filename requirements of other 

packages. I think it's been added to make 

life a little easier for the PC. 

The Only other new arrival is a rather 

mysterious Fader Alpha button, which without 

the aid of a manual remains something 

of a mystery. Best guess is that it's another 

add-on for improved keying during image 

composition. 

Another notable change is improved support 

for third-party graphics cards. 

However, during testing I didn't notice any 

dramatic change with regards to the 

Picasso - although the interface was 

marginally faster when running a 800x600 

display. Unfortunately, the preview option 

flatly refused to play back either wiretrame 

or bounding box anims. Obviously with a 

Beta some bugs are to be expected and 

hopefully this one will be put to the sword 

prior to release. 

No major changes, 

apart from a fresh 

approach to fi le names 

Screamernet 

Unfortunately, power users aren't likely 

to be overjoyed when it comes to 

Network rendering. As it stands there 

appears to be no change to the basic 

ScreamerNet set-up. 

One of the biggest disappointments 

of ScreamerNet in Lightwave 3,5 was 

the lack of batch rendering. Alas that's 

still the case. Lets hope the profusion 

of plug-ins will offer support for some 

sort of batch rendering add 

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on, mean additional b u t expense, 

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At first glance. life on the main layout screen 

seems almost identical to its predecessor. In fact 

the only obvious difference is the change from XY, 

XZ and ZY view buttons to a far more 

comprehensible Front, Top and Side selection. 

However, look a little closer and you'll notice 

what has to be the most important new arrival in 

the entire package. namely the mysterious Goal 

button. Believe it or not, this insignificant little gadget 

is the key to Inverse Kinematics_ Its new, it's 

cool, and best of all it's really easy! 

It's obvious that the arrival of features like 

bones. child bone and auto Key adjust in 3,5 was 

no accident. When these features - especially the 

bone options - are blended with the new found 

kinematic skills you arrive at spectacular end 

results. Unlike many 3D systems. kinematics in 

Lightwave is a dream to use and incredibly simple 

to set up. In the screen shot we've used bones to 

illustrate the technique. but you can use objects in 

exactly the same way. 

Firstly you add the basic elements - which in 

this simple example was just two null objects_ Then 

the four bones were added to the first null object - 

Fidded bonu5 

Although not immediately obvious, kinematics 

also provides a solution for another 

missing link in the Lightwave chain. In 

previous revisions it was impossible to target 

one object to another. However, 

thanks to Inverse Kinematics we finally 

have a solution. Because objectsibones 

don't need to be physically linked to each 

other, or the goal they're tracking, making 

one object 'watch and follow another is 

really easy. 

All you need is a parent, the tracking 

object and a target or goal object_ You 

then parent the tracker and tell it to use 

the target object as its goal. Better still, 

you can target the goal object with as 

many trackers as you want, so, you could 

have every head in a tennis crowd follow 

the ball, or every gun on a ship track the 

incoming attacker, 

Although this may not sound particularly 

revolutionary it's a feature that many 

pro animators have been longing for. In 

fact, for many this will been just as important 

as lull kinematics. • 

A Omuta example of kinematic tracking. 

as the arrows efl ortlessly follow the 

target around the scene 

A painfully sirrtple egotist:4e of Lightwave 

kinematics. But then again. that's the whole 

point? Ira really, realty, easy 

that's where child bone option comes into its own. 

Next the bones were parented four to three, three 

to two and two to one, and finally bone four was 

told to treat the null object number two as its goal. 

From then on it's playtime! You simply grab the 

second null object and move it around - at which 

point all the bones bend in classic kinematic style 

as they attempt to track the goal. I told you it was 

Gtow 

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Could this be the 

first of many 

image processing 

options to plug 

directly into the 

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MAY 1995 

Plug-in motion 

As already mentioned, plug-ins are going to 

play a big part in the future development of 

Lightwave. Nowhere will this be more apparent 

than within the move requester. which 

like its control panel counterparts has its own 

plug-in option. 

From here you can expect the likes of 

WaveMaker, Dynamic Motion Module, 

Power Macros and Impact to make their 

mark with all manner of motion specific addens. 

According to NewTeks' Brad Pettier. a 

number of projects are well under construction, 

including a new module from the 

creators of Sparks which employs particle 

animation to generate realistic fur effects and 

other organic forms. Even NewTO are 

easy! When you've arrived at a pose you like, a 

simple 'key all items' command makes it permanent. 

If you wish you can still move and edit the 

components in the kinematic chain without 

affecting their counterparts. or the basic kinematic 

relationship. 

All things considered it is a near perfect solution. 

The only element missing is the ability to limit the 

movement, or angle of rotation for the various 

elements in the chain. For example, a forearm 

would happily revolve at the elbow and go straight 

through the upper arm and back out the other side. 

NewTek have admitted that kinematics still 

requires development_ and are already working on 

the 'wish list' for the next revision. 

However, even with this minor inconvenience 

the overall implementation is excellent. For example, 

if we replaced null object one with a finger 

object, it would bend and flex just like the real 

thing. Thanks to the bones the object would also 

deform properly - given the necessary polygons. 

Seamless kinematic movement in a matter of 

minutes - impressive, no matter which way you 

look at it. 

getting in on the third•party act by enlistini 

the help of Elastic Reality - formerly knave 

as ASDG. As a result. NewTek will licensi 

the rights to include over 20 ADPro-styk 

loaders and Savers within Lightwave V4_ 

Although not active in the Beta version 

NewTek have already guaranteed that a! 

the aforementioned loaders and savers wi 

be a standard element, and will cater for a 

the major image formats, across a 

platforms. 

And finalq 

Looks familiar, but when the plug-ins 

arrive motion control will probably be 

Ore of the biggest benefactors 

Obviously, with the software still effectively 'under construction' there's still t 

odd feature which isn't exactly firing on all cylinders. However, even as it Man 

,the new Lightwave has the makings of a truly spectacular product. Almost all t 

wish list elements have been included, in addition to a host of new features t 

quite literally put Lightwave on a par with the best that Wavefront. Alias a 

Softimage can offer. And all at a tiny fraction of their asking price. 

Internally there's also very little to complain about_ Lightwave 3.5 scenes, ob • 

and textures all appear to work faultlessly with the latest version. And better s 

there appears to be no problem in porting Lightwave 4 files between formats. 

Basically that's all that space will allow for this month. Next month we'll tali 

close look at the changes to modeller. However, if all goes well, we hope to br 

you the first full review of the complete package, plus another very spe• 

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Fortunately for Easy Ledgers 2. this 

package isn't an example of a jack-ofall-trades, 

master-of-none. Produced by 

0 very small business owner knows 

some of the programmers that created 

utility masterpieces such as Directory 

Opus, this all-in-one accountancy software 

has created something of a stir in 

the accountancy department at ICG simply 

because, on first impressions for the 

price, they've been impressed by the 

value for money on offer here. 

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have a resounding price tag starting from 

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- a fraction of the cost of a PC and now, with 

the arrival of Easy Ledgers 2 at a mere 

e. E29.99, a very viable contender as a 

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the wealth of facilities open to them with 

Easy Ledgers 2. 

The four books are purchases, sales, 

ledgers and jobs. Clicking on one of these 

takes you into their specific sub-directories. 

Sales and purchases are obviously there to 

keep track on all the selling and buying that 

goes on in a thriving company. and invoices 

are easily produced with a few keyboard 

entries. 

The Ledger is vital for detailing credits and 

debits, the Inventory holds all details of stock 

prices and quantities and, finally, the jobs 

icon gives you a breakdown of all work finished, 

in progress or lust simply a quote to a 

potential Customer 

COMPLEX 

It has to be said that while the package is 

easy to use once set-up, actually doing so is 

a complex affair. At the end of the day 

though, it doesn't matter how user-friendly a 

package is - it's going to take time to master 

anything that deals with facts and figures of 

this nature. 

There are masses of nominal codes for 

users to apply their own values to and there's 

little chance of ever actually running out. 

Customer lists, receipts. balances and credit 

card details can all be stored, shown on 

screen, exported to disk to be used on other 

packages, and printed Out to show those 

dreadfully nice people at the Inland Revenue 

when they come aknocking. 

If I have any criticism it would have to be 

the ledger. On most packages, when altering 

the balance you would not be allowed to go 

out of balance at any point without the computer 

telling you so. In Easy Ledgers 2 you 

can do all your readjustments, leave and 

then only be told when you try and move 

into another section that you're in the minus 

figures. 

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enthusiast will have considered in 

one way or another. It may be that 

they're interested in benefiting from the gigabytes 

of sounds, pictures and files available 

on CD-ROM, or they may require a second 

hard drive to supplement their internal HD. 

Equally, they may be attracted to portable 

storage media like Syquest or Flopticals. 

For a long lime there have been plenty of 

high quality add-ons 

available, the 

best of 

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To get an idea of just how much flexibility the Squirrel allows for, here are some of the devices you could be 

adding to your Amiga. 

1. Hard Drives: SCSI is very 

fast, but limitations with the hardware 

mean you won't get the benefits 

of ultra-speedy Hard Drives. 

Nevertheless, that extra space 

could prove invaluable_ 

2- CD Drives: Hi-Soft have their 

own range, but you should be able 

to use any CD-ROM Drive — 

including the latest jukebox disc 

changers ! 

3. Syquest Drives: Highcapacity 

storage media with the 

advantage over your hard drive of 

being portable. 

4: Magneto optical's: Again 

cartridge based. but this media 

uses a laser to readhvrite information. 

Rather a pricey option. 

5: Tape Streamers: Most 

affordable method of backing up 


MAY 1995 

which were SCSI-compatible devices. 

Unfortunately. Al200 and A600 owners had 

no truly affordable way of using SCSI devices, 

which meant their options for expansion were 

severely limited. 

Now, Hi-Soft have produced the Squirrel 

SCSI device as an answer to this problem. 

Named after the famous storage-hungry animal, 

this utilitarian-looking device certainly isn't 

cute, but it could prove invaluable. 

The Squirrel package incorporates the 

device itself. software to run it, plus a couple 

of disks worth of useful PO programs applicable 

to using the product. Mercifully, since 

SCSI chaining isn't always as simple as it may 

appear, Hi-Soft have also Included an 

extremely comprehensive manual 

The hardware itself is very small, consisting 

of a black card connected to a SCSI cable. 

This cable is rather short but that's sensible 

when you realise the total length of the SCSI 

chains cabling shouldn't exceed a certain 

length. 

The Squirrel fits into the otherwise unused 

PCMIA slot on the side of your Amiga. 

Physical connection is a precarious procedure 

because the pins inside your machine are 

extremely delicate, but that's a problem with 

the Amiga hardware rather than the SCSI 

large volumes of data 

6; Printers: Not directly supported 

in the software. but if you 

do have a printer with a SCSI 

interface, connecting it for use 

should be simple, 

7. SCAMS011111 Some scanners 

are also SCSI compatible and 

that makes seven devices for 

starters. 

device. Using me PCMIA slot as the con 

tion port has the benefit of leaving the us 

more valuable trapdoor slot free. 

Unfortunately. the PCMIA interface c 

interfere with some memory expansions us 

the trapdoor. but again that's an Amiga h 

ware problem rather than anything to do 

HI-Soft. At least this connection meth 

avoids the need to open up your Amiga, wh' 

means there's no danger of invalidating 

warranty, 

The PCMIA is supposed to allow for 'pl 

and play', which means you should be able 

plug and unplug the Squirrel whether ye 

Amiga is on or off This could be slightly m 

leading when it comes to attaching the SC 

penpherals, however, since the manual r 

omrnends that the peripherals and the Co 

puler are turned off during the procedure. T 

best advice is to err on the side of caution. 

GUIDELINES 

Setting up a chain of peripherals (SC 

allows up to seven to be attached) will g 

ally be a problem-free process, providi 

some basic rules are followed. RA' each 

device on the chain you must select a differ 

number between nought and six to allow t 

to communicate together without conflict. 

This is rarely a difficult task since virtually 

SCSI devices have little switches on the ba 

allowing adjustments to the ID number to 

made quickly. The only possible problem m 

arise if there's no external switch at all— ho 

ever, there is probably a way of using t 

penpheral even if it means using the device 

the only machine in your chain, 

Termination, on the other hand, can be tril 

more problematic issue. Basically, each enill 

of the chain must be terminated to avoi 

'bounce back' interference. Trouble arises 

for example, an internally terminated device - 

placed in the middle of the chain or one end 

not terminated at all, 

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deal of technical knowledge for granted, so the 

mg-bound manual provided is very comprehensive 

and gives clear explanations of the 

more difficult areas of SCSI chaining. Add to 

that the fact that you will get tree technical support 

for one month after purchase and it 

seems even a patient simpleton will be able to 

overcome problems should they occur, 

Tecchies, and those with the need for 

speed, will be pleased to know that the transfer 

speeds achieved through the Squirrel are 

•iery reasonable - a rate of 1 2 Mb per second 

can be attained on the standard Amiga. The 

box claims that 3 Mblsec is possible on an 

accelerated machine, but unfortunately 1.6Mb 

6[51 2: What and whq ? 

The Al200 and A600 include an IDE interface as it is, so 

you may be wondering what's wrong with this method of 

connecting peripherals? Well. the problem is that the IDE 

interface was originally designed with just hard drives in 

mind and consequently suffers from marked limitations in 

comparison to SCSI, IDE, for example, can only control 

two devices at any one time, whereas the Squirrel can 

handle up to seven. 

SCSI stands for Small Computer System Interface, 

and is an international standard allowing different hardware 

devices to talk to each other. By now, most people 

are aware that SCSI represents the most desirable and 

is closer to the mark at the moment. This is 

not, as some have claimed, the fault of the 

PCMIA slot (which should allow for a transfer 

of 3Mb per second) but rather the fact that 

faster hardware would inevitably prove more 

costly to produce. Despite this limitation, the 

Squirrel will allow for transfers at speeds double 

that of your IDE drive, and for 95 per cent 

of us that will do very nicely indeed. 

HELPING HAND 

That's the hardware pretty much dealt with, 

but of course the software supplied is equally 

important. Installation couldn't be easier, and 

again the manual supplements the 

Commodore installer program with helpful 

advice concerning the questions you will be 

asked during the process. 

Most important is the inclusion of the vital 

software drivers which allow devices to be 

used. This means you should be able to use 

any SCSI CD-ROM drive, for example, which 

is a big bonus since the likes of Pioneer 

or Toshiba only supply driver 

software for PCs and Macs, 

There's no need to mess 

around with the software 

once it's 

• 

PO software is supplied, 

including a number of 

audio players like 

Jut. 

Eryone wanes to get 

into CO born a nd the 

Squirrel gives you the 

biggest range of options 

professional method of impending their computer. 

The difference between SCSI I and SCSI 2 protocols, 

however, may leave people with some confusion and 

uncertainty. Since the Squirrel is a SCSI 2 device, owners 

of peripherals that use the older standard may fear 

compatibility problems. 

Thankfully they need not worry. SCSI 2 is a new standard 

which makes improvements in the speed and 

power of the system, but compatibility was retained with 

the existing SCSI chips. So, even if you do have a SCSI 

1 device, you should have no problems using it with the 

Squirrel. 


MAY 1995 

HARDWARE 

Installed. Every time you plug your Squirrel in 

it will mount and dismount devices on the 

chain automatically. 

For the game players out there, the software 

is even boner thanks to the in-built CD32 

emulator. Until very recently. Al200 users 

who wanted to play CD32 games could only 

do so using a Zappo drive which, while being 

a perfectly good product, suffered from the 

limitation of not being a SCSI unit. 

Now, however. the Squirrel allows you to 

buy any CD-ROM Drive and it will run the 

majority of CO32 titles available. It should be 

remembered, however, that A00 users will 

not have this option available since they lack 

AGA graphics capability. 

As a final bonus, there are also two disks of 

PD software which include a variety of audio 

players so you can use the drive for music 

CDs, When you realise that computer drives 

are often better for audio reproduction than 

the average C D player, thanks to their 

greater accuracy, such additions begin to look 

very handy. There's also a CD to HD sampler 

for users of music editors 

Uerdict 

Considering its potential, this is undeniably 

a very humble, not to mention dull piece of 

equipment to look at. I just hope this 

doesn't prompt any Amiga owners to turn 

the page before they've considered what 

the Squirrel can do for them. 

It's hard to think of any package in the 

Amiga's history that has done so many 

things for such a small amount of money. 

Not only is SCSI now an affordable option 

for Al200/600 users, but it allows them to 

use a huge range of peripherals. 

Add to that the CD32 emulation software 

and the quality of the documentation, and 

this product's exemplary standards become 

clear. Yes, the Squirrel is small and modest 

- but if you ever want your Amiga to evolve, 

do not overtook this product. 

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GRAPHICS 

on par with Lightwave in some 

4 4 1 1 quarters_ he Deluxe Around Paint legend since the is nearly early 

days of the Amiga, the package has grown 

up and finally reached its fifth instalment 

under the protective wing of software giant. 

Electronic Arts. 

Used for the last few years by amateurs 

and professionals alike for picture creating, 

sprite making and animation, its reputation 

in its field has been second to none. Then 

Photogenics happened - while not boasting 

any animation facilities, it's a package that 

offers some extremely powerful image 

manipulation functions at a cut-throat price. 

With Deluxe Paint 5 and its pedigree in 

tow behind it, perhaps the young upstart 

can be put to shame. Well, yes and no... 

Coming on four disks with a rather substantial 

manual weighing in at 337 pages, 

DP5 requires the minimum of installation 

fuss. My initial reaction when booting the 

package up was one of disappointment - 

the interface remains the same, but for a 

few tweaks here and there. I can live with 

this non-development quite happily but the 

main, immediately obvious gripe is the 

same old lack of speed - go up to a 

pop-down menu and it croaks open. 

SLOW DOWN 

Fair enough that in high resolution modes 

you're going to have some slowing down 

but, even on a 4000_ the lack of speed is 

disheartening and easily detracts your 

attention away from some of the program's 

powerful features and upgrades. I couldn't 

help but feel that while there have been 

hest' rounds of ammo tucked into 0P5's 

artistic arsenal, the same cranking code 

that made up DP4 remains and doesn't 

appear to have been touched, even though 

the manual states differently. 

Getting through this disappointment 

though, and flicking to the new features list 

in the manual stops this tide of negativity 

and hope springs forth. There have been 

over 25 enhancements and updates to the 

program, some of which are extremely 

powerful and highly useful. 

True Colour and ARexx support. the 

much needed natural media option, light 

table enhancements, loading animations of 

any size, key frame animation, improved file 

format support that now includes Arum 

Op-8 as well as the old anim 5 format and 

many other facilities. options and fancy bits 

The main muscle 

of DP5's talent is 

animation and, 

whether it be 

brush or camerabased, 

is simple 

and produces 

some highly effective 

results. With 

the arrival of the 

latest version, we 

can show a couple 

of new features 

that deserve 

a mention: 

Set your animation frames at 

the desired antosiM and stamp 

yolar &Veil down. CaHing isp the 

movement!! menu. notice the 

adjust button - the ideal way to 

create beginning and end key 

harries 

balloon 

animation 

Clicking on adjust brings up a 

wirsitreme *satins Of your 

brush_ Wove rotate and 

mattipulate it into the desired 

position and hit enter. The 

opening key frame is set. De 

the aarree with end position... 


MAY 1995 

the newt 

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bin and fik1f5 LIP d MUM 

have been included to create a formidable 

package. 

For those who don't know, Deluxe Paint 

5 has two main halves to it - the picture 

creating on one side and animation on the 

other. Each has always proven to be versatile 

and popular with users. Some of the 

professional companies interviewed by 

Amiga Computing during the last few 

months always quote DP4 as their main 20 

image and animation creator 

The main screen is presented as a drawing 

surface with a list of tools and palettes 

...and hit the draw 

button. The animation is 

produced in front of your 

very eyes. The same 

process Is used to 

cre ate camera 

movement 

down the right-hand side and a 

amount of pull-down menus along the all 

The painting side of the package has oal 

improved upon. Along with the If 

favourites such as smear, blend al 

smooth which are all as effective as heal 

there is now a set of natural media al 

textures. 

PAINTING ON CANVAS 

A series of canvases can be loa 

for example differing oil canvases 

mesh, and varying grades of paper 

can in turn be painted onto with 

different brush styles on offer. While the 

of textures for the canvas may 

substantial and on the whole look 

effective, there's only a paltry amourill 

brush types available - watercolour. chill 

fell tip and oil. 

Despite this, what is on offer works 

and satisfying results can be gleaned wl 

quickly. Remember though that this is MI 

puter graphics. not an exact simulation 

the mediums being emulated - there 

a few cases where the reactions seen 

,screen wouldn't happen on a real unveil 

24-bit graphics card users can rein 

the , new true colour option which enani 

the ' loading, saving and editing

d, and m 

before, 

lia and 

.ded in, 

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ith the 

the list 

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ount of 

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generati 

111[I5iLIP in5truction5 

There's nothing worse than having a 

powerful. flexible product being plopped 

in your lap followed by an illegible, unintelligent 

manual that makes the package 

harder to use if you do decide to read 

Witness Imagine 2 and its appalling 

accompanying paper-wasting literature. 

One of DP5's strong points is its 

mainly well-written manual, Easy to follow 

with a fair sprinkling of tutorials to 

break in the computer graphic virgins. 

Electronic Arts have come up with a 

hefty but not intimidating tome. There 

ate a couple of weak areas that do need 

a little time going through them and a 

few more illustrations here and there 

would have been nice to exemplify some 

of the options that aren't massively clear 

I textual form 

For ARinix users, a full list and 

description of each available command 

is documented and should aid the teamirig 

curve necessary for picking up the 

basics of AmigaDOS 

One of the 11105t welrorne 

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the top. upgrades has to be the 

is been 

oldo airbrush and its romplete 

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24-bit images. This feature is highly useful 

and an absolutely necessary inclusion for 

professional users. One of the most 

'welcome upgrades has to be the airbrush 

arid its complete overhaul. 

Featuring a rather classy look, the new 

version puts the specKly, ST-like ancient 

effort to shame with a smooth spraying 

OkilOft, However, for those who wish to 

remain faithful to the original tool they've 

Probably been using for years, the makers 

have kindly included the old version as well. 

DP5 also includes an ARexx facility for 

engineering the paint package to your exact 

requirements - at last, Through the use of 

an extensive library of commands listed at 

me back of the manual with individual 

descriptions, the user can create the 

recordings of toolbox choices, menu 

choices and mouse and screen interactions 

that can be recalled via the series of 

inables user-definable macros available. 

ing of The more advanced out there can really 

1 

go to town interacting with other programs 

and can create complex scripts to suit their 

needs, The colour side of 0P5 has received 

something of a facelift as well. There's now 

an option to turn the grid around the colour 

cells on and off to do accurate side by side 

colour comparisons, and ROB and HSV 

sliders are shown simultaneously. 

OPTIONS 

Also, there are now true RGB colour 

cells, colour cell extended selections and a 

larger enhanced mixing area for the palette 

maestros among you. One feature that has 

been overlooked and would have benefited 

the program immensely is the lack of image 

processing abilities, for example being able 

to lay a texture over a picture as you can 

with Photogenic& 

There's no emboss, false colour, motion 

blur, displace or other 'paint-on effects' that 

could have pushed DP5 in to the pole 

There are now a wide 

range of textures, 

media and tools to 

choose from. Here is 

a list of some of the 

best and most eyecatching. 

•Heavy boarah at,aks 

The drawing 

screen 

the Sam. a. 

ewer with orgy 

the odd, 

Inconspicuous 

addition 

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spray brush produces 

professions/ toodting results 

m,,,matto ottarbilo 


MAY 1995 

Watrwcotour nets the 

fighter tones used to give 

the investssion of water 

GRAPHICS 

A bugging 155UP 

On several occasions while running 

Deluxe Paint 5, the computer packed in 

and crashed for no apparent reason 

While not devastating by any stretch of 

the imagination, it's a worrying habit, so 

remember to save as frequently as possible 

to avoid losing your work, especially 

belore any major graphics Operation& 

Another area that requires a whinge is 

changing the screen modes — when a 

new resolution is selected the program 

flicks back to Workbench, changes the 

resolution and then moves back into the 

drawing screen. In some cases, though, it 

remained in Workbench and I had to flick 

back manually to Deluxe Paint 5. Not a 

massive complaint but an annoying glitch 

all the same. 

position as the ultimate art tool for professional 

artists, and given a whole new 

dimension to the animation side of the 

package in terms of special effects. 

The omission is surprising considering 

the programmers at Electronic Arts must 

have seen the potential thorn in their side - 

Photogenic& Perhaps they didn't realise, or 

didn't have the time to inject some of the 

ideas into their own product. Maybe in the 

next version? 

Deluxe Paint's strongest side has always 

been animation and it's that principle 

feature that has sold previous versions in 

lorry loads. One new feature outshines all 

the other in DP5: Being able to enter your 

key animation frame at both the beginning 

and end points of your sequence. 

Echoing the user friendliness of 

Lightwave, select either the start or end of 

your anim and click on adjust. A wire frame 

preview of either the beginning or final position 

of your logo, character or whatever 

appears on screen. It can then be 

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The instructions say that to get the most 

out of Deluxe Paint 5, its best to have 

4Mb of RAM or more. The absolute minimum 

you can have is 2Mb of RAM - in aM 

honesty. this simply isn't accurate. When 

using the likes of the camera movement 

option in the animation section with a 

hi-res detailed picture. to even generate 

five frames of movement on a full screen 

image produces a not enough memory' 

message. And that's on a 4000 with 16 

megs of RAM. 

While using higher resolutions is always 

going to eat up the memory, for professional 

uses hi-res is absolutely essential - 

no client is going to fancy watching the 

logo for their new company in low resolution. 

With this in mind. I'd say the absolute 

minimum for animation work is 4Mb, with 

a recommended amount being in the 8 

meg region. 

manipulated. tilted and moved via the 

numeric pad 4 and then, with a press of the 

return key, whatever changes have been 

made are recorded and become the key 

frame for the animation. All numerical inputsare 

automatically updated by the 

computer. 

This approach makes the whole process 

so much easier and removes any frustration 

at having to do it numerically through interfaces. 

Add to this the slow in and out 

options when an animated object comes to 

the end of its path and you have the potential 

for creating some very flowing moving 

images without any hassle. 

For perfectionists out there, once the animation 

has been 'rendered you're able to 

play the piece back and, if your computer 

can't maintain a specified animation rate, a 

speedometer can be called up at any point 

while it's running to provide you with an 

estimated animation rate. A small but useful 

idea. It's now possible to edit, create, load 

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anims to be played direct from the hard 

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One of the most revolutionary ideas to be 

implemented is the camera movement, In 

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move on a screen full of detailed graphics, 

no matter how much memory you have. 

you'll run out - the computer's chip RAM 

can't handle it. Other than these limitations, 

the camera movement is a welcome 

inclusion to DP5's range of features. 

For those wanting to print their tine-tuned + 

results, full printing options are available 

and include an animboard feature - this 

facility allows certain frames to be taken 

from an anim and printed out as a storyboard 

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work. All these features add 

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animators who want a versatile 2D 

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processing tools. Photogenics on 

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but lacks any kind of animation 

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Perhaps some readers are sitting 

there shaking their heads and thinking 

these are two different packages for 

differing purposes. Correct in some 

ways. but if one of the enterprising 

companies involved could create an art 

package that encompasses all of the 

above. we could be looking at something 

exceptional and not just very 

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I am a subscriber to your magazine and was reading the article entitled 'Straw 

pole in January '955 ESP (issue 821. I was interested to read the first line which 

says that Amiga Computing is already available via the Internet. I would like to 

know in what way is it available. What services are currently accessible via the 

Internet and is it possible for me to access software, reviews etc? If so, how? Thanks for a 

great mag. 

Gary Harris 

garyhePion.apana org au 

Now this is what I'd call a timely letter. Although Amiga Computing has long been 

accessible on the Internet via our long-standing CIX account - 

amigacomputingOcix.compulink.co.uk. - we can also be accessed via our 

CompuServe account on 70007, 4734. 

However, as you're obviously well aware, having full Internet access to Amiga 

Computing is what's really called for. And as luck would have it. that's exactly what 

will be available by the time you read this. Amiga Computing is proud to announce 

what we consider to be the best and most Interactive Amiga magazine on the Internet. 

Via our new Amiga Computing Homepage, anyone running a Web browser can fully 

interact with the magazine by mailing directly to ACAS, ESP, System and so on. 

In addition, we'll be providing tasters and even full reviews of the latest hardware 

and software, plus highlights of the forthcoming issue and special Internet subscription 

offers. The only element that won't be available - yet - will be an Amiga 

Computing-specific FTP site. Watch this space. 

To access our URI/Homepage. search for Amiga Computing from any main index. 

Next month we will publish our URL/Homepage address for you so you can access 

the information directly. 

Price breaker? 

I have just bought your January '95 issue 

and was intrigued by the CanDo CoverDisk. 

However, the upgrade schemes are overpriced 

and do not cater for the low-end 

market, I am a student and unable to pay 

the high price, but I would like to team the 

package. Is there any way the manuals 

could be sold separately? 

This will probably generate more profit for 

INOVAtronics, as I doubt the majority of 

users can, or will, upgrade through your 

magazine. Surely this will then apply to the 

Pareto effect of economics - that 80 per cent 

of the potential market will buy 20 per cent of 

their products. If more people wrote into you 

this might happen - you made a similar mistake 

with the Publisher CoverDisk by not 

Catering for the mass market. 

Ryan Morse 

Milton Keynes 

if only it was that simple. Unfortunately. 

you have a rather naive idea of how 

commercial CoverDisk give-aways actually 

operate. Although we can persuade 

a supplier to allow Amiga Computing to 

Cover mount a particular product, we 

have no control whatsoever over the 

price for subsequent upgrades. Neither 

do we take a percentage if readers do 

indeed decide to upgrade. 

In fact, the only part we play In the 

upgrade process is the provision of free 

pagination and design for the actual 

upgrade offer - which again is paid for 

by Amiga Computing. In reality, we 

invariably make a substantial loss on 

the deal, as a supplier will often demand 

payment for the product Itself before 

they'll consider being a part of the initial 

promotion. 

To be honest you're probably right - 

lower cost equals higher profits. But 

alas that's something which is out of 

our hands_ Although we may distribute 

a product as a one-on, copyright and 

commercial decisions remain firmly in 

the hands of the supplier. 

Fitsing the forth 

We have an A500 with a 512k upgrade 

which is connected to an Intagrex Coloriet 

Series 2 printer, If I type anything into the 

15 angboclq there? 

I am writing to you in reference to B A Mills' letter in 

the February '95 issue about a Helm user group. I am 

a Helm user and purchased the program when it was 

released on the strength of two magazine reviews. I 

have had two disk-books reviewed in your magazine 

(History of the World Cup, and First-Aid Essentials) 

which I created with Helm and am currently working 

on a project to do with my job. 

I have tried to get in contact with Eagle Tree 

Software about upgrades as I have found a couple of 

bugs in the version I have (1.44), but with no success. 

I am not even sure If they are still in business. I 

would be grateful if you would include my name on 

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MAY 1995 

LETTERS 

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computer using any program (e.g. 

)

LETTERS 

problem. It sounds like you haven't 

told the machine you want to use 

the Amiga fonts rather than the 

printer's own internal fonts. 

To rectify the problem go to the 

printer set-up screen, which will 

probably appear as a button in 

the print requester. Once there. 

simply alter the settings from use 

printer fonts to use normal or 

internal fonts. The wording may 

vary, but the principle should 

remain the same. 

As for your queries concerning A500 

upgrades, you'll find a feature in the April 

Issue which details a whole range of 

A500-specific accelerators, hard drives 

and RAM expansions which have just 

been released by Power Computing. 

However. I'd strongly suggest you consider 

investing in an Al200, regardless of 

what you decide to do about upgrading 

your A500. It you're looking for long-term 

compatibility, an Al200 is increasingly 

becoming an essential for any dedicated 

Amiga Ian. 

Power to replq 

I refer to your magazine's letters page in 

February '95s issue of Amiga Computing 

concerning a Mr C R Oldham of 

Manchester. 

Mr. Oldham ordered a 200 Watt PSI) 

and a 50mhz FPU from my company in 

August 1994. Power does not and never 

has stocked 200 Watt PSUs and this was a 

genuine error on my sales department side 

whom I can only presume misheard the 

order and sent the wrong product. A refund 

was issued within three weeks and not the 

two months that is stated in this letter. 

As is common with other sellers of computer 

products, we do not issue refunds for 

computer chips or software as this can be 

copied, corrupted or mishandled. We will 

obviously exchange products if there is 

indeed a fault, but this was not the case 

(no fault was found by the company's technicians) 

and that is why a refund was 

I want to submit an article, as well as suggestions for subjects 

I'd be happy to provide articles on. My questions are 

as follows: 

1. Do you accept submissions by e-mail? If so, to what 

address? 

2. If sent snailmail. to which address should I mail 

submissions? 

3. Do you want disks with the text in addition to printed 

copies? 

4.11 so, what format should the text be in (ASCII)? 

5. Do you have any guidelines for submissions? (maximum 

line length, maximum and minimum number of 

words etc...) 

Vidar Horstad 

vidarh tPifi.wo.no 

Okay, first of all we're more than happy to receive 

e-mail submissions. In fact, e-mail is increasingly 

becoming the norm for almost all our freelance 

material. As for Amiga Computing's e-mail address, 

Got 

something to say 

through the pages of AC? 

Ezra Surf is our mailmaii 

dedkated to reading your letters 

and selecting the most interesting 

for publication_ Drop him a feet at: 

Ezra Surfs Postbag Amiga Computing 

Adlington Park. Macclesfield 5K10 4NP 

Remit don? enclose Saadi as Ezra just 

hasn't got enough paper to reply 

personally. He might also have to 

shorten your letters. so don't 

be offended it you end up 

getting the chop. 

aue5tion 

time 

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initially refused - we were unable to 

return the product to Mr Oldham as 

he said he would refuse the item if 

it was sent back to him. However, 

it was decided for customer relations 

to refund this gentleman in 

full, another fact Mr Oldham 

omits to point Out 

I do feel we should have 

been asked about this complaint 

first as it is clear the contents 

of Oldham's letter are 

untrue. Power Computing have a 

customer relations record second 

to none, and unsubstantiated complaints 

like this can give a completely 

wrong impression to a reader. 

I woulct.like to have your comments on 

this matter. 

Tony itinin 

Power Computing Ltd. 

It's pretty obvious that there's been a 

breakdown of communications across 

the board. However, that doesn't 

excuse a lack of professionalism on 

our part. It's true that greater efforts 

should have been made to substantiate 

Mr Oldman's story. 

However, I think even Power would 

agree the angle and tone of the reply to 

Mr Oldman's letter did more to defend 

Power's position and reputation than 

anything else. 

Over recent months Amiga 

Computing has done more to champ 

ion the cause of the consumer than any 

other Amiga title, Obviously. In this 

case more care should have been 

taken, but I do feel we deserve some 

credit for defending the buying public 

In the face of a powerful financial lobby 

of the advertising community, while 

also being willing to except and learn 

from our mistakes. 

friendlti offer 

Having read the article on page 13 of the 

February '95 issue 'Stop Phoning', it 

would appear there are quite a few Amiga 

you'll find a complete list of our assorted e-mail 

addresses in reply to the opening letter in this very 

column. 

If anyone prefers to submit articles by post. it's 

essential it is supplied on disk, and as you sugges 

ted, it's also vital that the file is provided in the ASCII 

file formal. 

However, It doesn't stop there. Any submission 

must also be accompanied with a collection of screen 

grabs and demo Images - where applicable - with on 

average three Images per page. Each of these must 

be accompanied by an appropriate caption. 

As for word count, Amiga Computing usually operates 

on 900 words per page - so multiplying this figure 

will roughly equal the required word count. 

However, it must be stressed that any unsolicited 

editorial will only be paid for if, and only If it appears 

in print. So be wamedl However, if you do fancy your 

chances as a freelancer, please feel free to give it a 

go. Our editor is always open to new ideas. 

A helping ear! 

I have only been using my Amiga 1200 

for a year now and have tried reading 

numerous magazines. Out of all ot them 

I prefer your magazine as it is easy to 

read and you give away some excellent 

disks. 

However. I have encountered problems 

on two of your disks, Easy Amos 

and Artirli Workshop. These, I think. 

could have been cleared up in a matter 

of minutes but instead I have to write in 

with the problem and wait for a reply. 

Why don't you have a Helpline so 

that you could make things easier for 

everyone. This is the only reason I have 

not subscribed to your magazine. 

Please consider this... 

Brian Goodfellow 

Northumberland 

In the past Amiga Computing ran a 

CoverDisk helpline as a permanent 

feature. However, over recent 

months we've been running without 

a full-time CoverDisk editor and 

unfortunately. until this situation is 

resolved I'm afraid the CoverDisk 

helpline will remain inactive. 

However, when a replacement is 

found, rest assured the helpline will 

be reactivated. If anyone out there is 

interested in the job feel free to send 

an application. Please mark your letter 

RE: CoverDisk Editor Application, 

users Out there who would like a copy 

your CoverDisk which contains InfoFile. 

I have the CoverDisk, and if you a 

agreeable am prepared to supply a co 

plate copy of the disk for El to cover 

cost of the floppy, plus post and packa 

ing. I will undertake to supply the copies 

return of post ASAP. 

Mr Johns 

Ox 

If you're interested in Mr Johnson 

offer, address your letters to: Mr 

Johnson. 67 Oakley Road, Chinnor 

Oxon 0X9 4HR 

Printing power 

I am looking for an easy-to-use sprea 

sheet which has good output on a ink 

printer_ Any suggestions ? Nicola! A. Axel 

Nor 

Just the way I like a letter. Short. sw 

and to the point. Although there are 

number of home officeispreadshe 

combinations, my personal favourite 

Maxiplan4. However, I strongly sugg 

you pop back to the contents page a 

take a close look at our home offi 

round-up for a slightly less blase 

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thing in itself, but I reckon people are generally less 

depressed and more inclined to irrational prolonged penods 

ol good temper at this time of year. 

It was, therefore, with a smile on my face that I tore open 

this month's bundle of jiffy bags and spread the contents 

across the desk. Among them, unable to be squeezed into 

the spacially•challonged PD pages. were yet more programs 

whose tale could be produced by rearranging the 

words Winner* and 'Lottery: (Still, only tour this month. so 

things are looking up). 

Also in there, and thoroughly worthy of reviews had they 

not graced these pages but a few issues ago. were new 

versions of two top-quality products: The definitive Thrust 

clone, Roketz, and the cheapest and best image processing 

package around, ImageStudio, which at version 2.0 now 

supports ARexx and can outpace Image FX, But enough of 

my drooling. The question on everyone's lips is: Will any 

the following join them as PDishareware classics? 

50 

Mougum *1 

Edited by: Philip C Swales 

Available from Philip C Swales 

This is the first issue of what, unsurprisingly. 

turns out to be a disk magazine dedicated to 

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MAY 1995 

(Liberman 

Written by: Fabio Bizzetli 

Available from: Freestyle PD 

Here's a novel variation on an old theme. 

Cyberman is essentially Pacman in 

3D, with the action unfolding in full 

first-person glory. The impressively 

smooth and colourful graphics combine 

Meat some of Cyberrrien's enemies 

attractive introductory screens giving way to 

a clear and lengthy index. This high standard 

is maintained in the readable and generally 

well written articles, all of which are neatly 

presented and free from irritating mistakes in 

spelling and grammar. 

As one would expect, a few recent film 

releases are reviewed, including Forrest 

Gump, City Slickers 2. IT, and plenty more. 

But there's a great deal more to this magazine 

than simple reviews. Entertaining features 

on multiscreen cinemas, film censorship 

and TV language cuts, and even 

quizzes on some classic films. 

It is refreshing to find such a professionally 

produced disk magazine covering an area so 

well. The only criticism I would have is that 

many of the articles are perhaps a little brief, 

although on balance this is made up for by 

the wealth of varied features present. The 

editor and contributors have done a marvellous 

job, and future issues of this diskmag 

should certainly be worth looking out for. 

Ouatje 

Produced by: Tragedy 

Available from: Online PD 

Disk No. 0D28 

I know it's pretty racist of me, but I've always 

found the Belgians a strange bunch. For 

example, they build motorways with tight 

bends and steep hills, have two languages 

Beavis end Bullhead in "They're 

not tunny' shocker 

with authentically bleepy sound effects a 

produce a beautifully presented game 

Roaming around the maze of dots are I 

loathsome bunch of computer foes, Thi 

Macintosh apple, the ioypad, the Atari Fig 

symbol, an Acorn. and an Empty Insidi 

badge. Physical contact with these nestles II 

to be avoided at all costs. Fortunately, all 

ever, there are power pills dotted around cal 

maze which temporarily make them vulnerai 

ble. Additionally, it is now possible to lung 

over the nestles or to turn around hallwag 

along a pathway to flee. Nevertt elesa 

avoiding them isn't always easy. 

Cyberman is quite a tricky little crestriug 

and also very addictive. Part of the appel 

may come from the challenge of trying 

relate the 3D action to the conventional 20 

maze map in the top nght-hand comer of tht 

screen, something which can prove harda 

than you might think. This is an atiractrel 

and polished game featuring engrossing 

arcade action, and is the sort of game ttal 

will entertain everybody. 

For the &Pt 30 seconds or so, Zootie actually 

looks M. it might be a fairly normal demo 

and consequently two narrles for most of thou 

cities, and will charge you for using their tot 

lets. Still. I thought, slotting Zootje into thi 

drive. I've probably got the wrong impression 

Fruit 5a1ad 

Written by: S Hayne 

Available from: Cheetah PD 

Typically jolly platform frolics are on offer 

Fruit Salad, complete with compulsory 

ish graphics and tinkly tunes. Basically, 

object of the game is to scuttle and 

around a series of screens filled wi 

objects to collect and flashes to Ewa' 

Once the collectables are, arm, coil; 

the background colours will start to cyc 

producing a rather mad psychedelic elf' • 

A large red arrow will also appear, point 

the way to the next screen. 

While on paper there doesn't seem to • 

a lot to Fruit Salad, in practice it prese 

fairly tough challenge because after o 

the first couple of screens, things start 

get hard. 

Fruit Salad is hardly going to set t 

world on fire, but its not a bad effort 

there are plenty of far worse platform - 

about. The game is available from - 

libraries but it is shareware, so those 

play it are obliged to send the author 

fiver. Registered users receive 

enhanced version of Fruit Salad.

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&Siam are probably perfectly sensible and 

mormal people. Five minutes later I was surer 

Ti, ever that Belgians are a peculiar breed. 

Zootje is a demo, and I won't even attempt 

to guess what the tale means in English. It's 

got decent enough music and graphics but 

to thing is, I can't understand why anybody 

'mould want to put together a two minute 

sequence featuring a heactbanging ostrich. 

Its not all ostriches, however - there is a 

bnet interlude featuring the twosome the 

Radio Times is keen to describe as the 

heavy metal anti-heroes*, Beavis and 

thAthead, I have to say that in all honesty, 

to term I would be keen to describe these 

%PO characters could not possibly be printed 

ati a family magazine, but suffice it to say that 

the aptly named programmers Tragedy have 

usielless pla tform tun by the 

rerriead with Fruit Sa te d 

impe cca ble timing is re quire d during 

Mee Meg. ot F,uU Sa la d - a nd it's 

may the third scre e n 

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got the cult MTV characters to a tee. As a 

consequence, if you're one of the distressingly 

large number of people who wander 

around mindlessly mumbling "Huh huh, 

that's like cool, and stuff then you'll be in 

heaven, 

More sane people might be impressed by 

the animation and crisp sound samples but 

will probably be eager to get back to the 

ostrich, and they won't be disappointed. 

After something at a repeat performance, 

our lone ostrich makes way for a looping animation 

of many things running along while 

the credits scroll up the screen. 

At the end of the day, it's quite well done 

and I'm sure it's very nice if you are into this 

sort of thing. Be warned though; don't expect 

to understand why on earth anybody would 

produce such peculiar 'entertainment.' 

Dead Of [light 

Produced by: Trecision 

Available from: Freestyle PD 

Despite suffering a little from some minor 

translation errors, this Italian murder mystery 

game is a pretty impressive effort, In a manner 

not entirely dissimilar from Delphine's 

Cruise For A Corpse, the plot finds several 

people together in an isolated location - in 

this instance a mountain chalet - where a 

murder has taken place. The victim, by the 

name of Diana, could have been killed by 

any one of the other eight individuals in 

residence. A good helping of pointy-clicky 

Ting bons (lip Art 

Produced by: David Hearne 

Available from: Online PD. Disk No. 0F5 

This selection of cartoon clip art covers themes 

and characters as varied as skateboarding 

ducks and Roadrunner. There are, in total, five 

coloured 

screens and 21 

black and white 

screens, each 

filled with 

plenty of 

pictures. 

The artwork (or it 

could be scannerwork, 

since it doesn't 

Awww, look at the cutesy• mention anywhere 

wootsy erebbits! Screenfuts of 

how the disk was pro- 

similarly twee cartoon charee• 

I.,. are on offer on the Tiny duced) is of a high 

standard throughout, 

Icons Clip Art disk 

Your room, from 

where you commence 

investigations In 

Dead Of Night 

Diana •tands at the 

cha le t window, una wa re 

el the tate that is about 

to be fe ll her, in the brie f 

but impressive introduc• 

tion to Dead Of Night 


MAY 1995 

PD and SHAREWARE Ii 

tEaling - all PO libraries! 

gram, A whatever its purpose, which you consider 

! n worthy of review. Whether it will be 

freely d distributable public domain, shareware 

or i licenceware. if it's of suthcient quality to 

! merit 

n 

coverage then stick it in a jiffy bag or 

padded envelope and send it in with all 

d 

haste. I promise I'll at least look at your 

i 

work. Please clearly label the disk, and • 

v 

include a cover letter supplying a description 

of i the disk contents arid some basic instructions. 

d The address to send the disks to is: 

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detective work is the order of the day here. 

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While the majority of the screen area is 

r 

taken up with a well-drawn depiction of the 

o 

current location, complete with any occupants, 

- 

an inventory is also displayed in a 

strip across the bottom of the screen. 

When the right mouse button is pressed, 

an additional strip containing the options 

Close, Open, Take and Use appears. 

Actions are accomplished by moving the 

pointer to one of these options and releasing 

the button, then left clicking on the 

Some of the characters appear to be 

original, although it has to be said, a fair 

few are famous cartoon stars, which it 

must be said raises a few questions about 

copyright. With this in mind it appears to 

definitely be a case of 'for personal use 

only: 

Still, even in this sort of limited role the 

pictures 

could well be 

worth getting hold 

of. T h e 

coloured 

screens, 

attractive as they are, 

might not really prove 

very useful, but the 

black and white 

screens are certainly 

of sufficient variety and 

quality for use by keen 

desktop publishers. 

Attractive although slightly 

useless, the World Cup 

screen is one attire 

coloured pictures on the 

Tiny Toons disk 

do

object to perform the action, 

Graphics and sound are impressive - particularly 

the sampled sound effects which 

accompany many actions Also, there's 

always plenty of depth in games of this ilk, so 

Dead Of Night is a fairly fine game on all 

Counts. Although I haven't yet reached the 

message telling me that's as tar as I can go, 

this is apparently a demo version. The full 

mority costs US $10 and is available from the 

authors. 

Magoptic FieId5 Tanks 

Produced by: Magnetic Fields 

Available from On Line PD 

Disk No. 0G87 

From the title screen logo it appears this is 

the same Magnetic Fields responsible for 

the hit Lotus games. This might just raise 

expectations a little, although it would hardly 

be fair to expect PD offering Tanks to compare 

with that classic arcade racing series. 

Approach MF Tanks as if it were any other 

PD disk and you'll find it to be a competent 

and enjoyable blaster. 

Controlling your tank via the mouse, the 

obiective is simply to seek out and destroy 

enemy tanks before they do the same to 

you. Hitting the left button fires, whereas the 

right button activates one of your three 

smart bombs, killing all enemies in the area. 

The scanner at the top of the screen is an 

invaluable aid as increasingly large numbers 

of enemy tanks close in. 

The simple line graphics might not look 

too stunning but they contribute to a fast 

and smooth game. In fact, while Tanks is a 

very simplistic affair, it's actually quite entertaining 

for a while. Admittedly, after a bit it 

does start to drag, but it is the sort of thing 

you can whip out every now and again for a 

quick blast. 

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Compiled by: Jonathan Fisher 

Available from. Professional PC 

Disk No. MG02 

Hot on the heels of Mega Disk #1. which featured oodles 

of tiny top-quality games, comes this selection of utilities. 

A couple of these programs will already be favourites of 

Amiga users across the country such as GUlarc, which 

removes a great deal of the tedium from archiving and 

extracting LHA files. There are also plenty of decent 

programs that might not be part of everybody's collection. 

For instance, ARestaure is a file undeletion program, 

the sort of thing you might not fully appreciate the value 

of until that special file bites the dust and there's no backup 

copy to fall back on. Chopper performs the same 

function as JSplit, reviewed elsewhere in these pages, 

with a similarly attractive interface, and Crypt is an excellent 

file protection program ideal for paranoid comms 

butts. 

There's also SystemSpeed, a tiny benchmark program. 

SoftProtect, a way of tricking your machine into 

11=ex 

Slice M os up le tt° 

manageable chunks 

It might actually bet 

called ranks. hut *Mouth 

action is very much the 

name of the game here 

Imagine your worst 

enemy was in that 

exploding tank. Fat from 

provoking aggression. 

computer games can 

relieve it 

with -1Sptit 


MAY 1995 

Pluming iltils *2 

Written by: Various 

Available from: Online PD 

Disk No. 0U84 

A mixed bag of utilities are included on this 

disk, of which the highlight is probably JSplit. 

Imagine for a moment that you want to 

transfer a large file from your friends' hard 

drive to your own - possibly a picture or a 

huge archive. The problem is. it's too big to 

fit on a floppy disk. 

JSplit is designed to deal with this sort of 

situation. It takes a file and basically splits it 

into parts of a specified size. It can then 

rejoin them later, perhaps on another 

machine. It's a simple but good idea and the 

user-friendly interface makes this an 

extremely valuable program to have handy. 

The descriptively named ILMB2ASCII 

converts IFF pictures into text files. As well 

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a whole host of other interesting offerings. And for just 

" 

E1.75 for a total of 26 programs, Mega Disk 2 is also 

very good value, 

as possibly being of use to bulletin board 

operators, this could prove useful for people 

writing Read-Me documents as, for 

example, a logo could be incorporated. 

Games fans struggling with their 

favourites will be particularly interested in 

Frontier Trainer and Skodmarks Edit. These 

allow various settings to be altered, making 

the games slightly easier. 

Among the best of the rest is Sound:lox, 

a competent if slightly limited sound sample 

editor and converter. The small amount of 

documentation provided is in German but 

the interface is hardly difficult to work with 

and overall this isn't a bad effort. In conclusion, 

this is an interesting although scarcely 

essential compilation of utilities. Still, it 

might be worth getting hold of if only for 

JSplit. 1 1 7 

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nyone interested in 3D modelling has, 

at some point, seen a model so well 

made it makes them stop and admire 

the creator's handiwork. Whether it be 

dinosaurs, animated human faces, or cars with 

smooth, flowing lines, there are plenty of examples 

around that make you think 'how did they 

do Mar 

Often, the answer is that they used a 3D digitiser 

to 'scan' a physical object and import its 

vital statistics to a ray tracing package, where 

the model is tidied up before textures and other 

effects are added. Indeed, much of the drudge 

work in modelling can be done by electronic 

sidekicks if you have the sort of production budgets 

enjoyed by Industnal Light and Magic. 

In high-end digitisers used by movie companies, 

a scanning laser beam builds up a picture 

of an object's surface in minute detail before 

passing the data to a Silicon Graphics machine 

for interpretation. The 3D artist can build a 

model in plastic or any other substance, or have 

it built by the traditional model makers who 

brought us the Star Wars designs, then digitise 

it to cut out most of the time-consuming job of 

translating the model to computer graphics. 

PRICE DROP 

For a long time now, small companies and 

enthusiasts have been unable to use this sort of 

technology, but a growing number of American 

manufacturers are releasing smaller, less 

expensive digitisers which are now coming 

down in price - enough for them to be a realistic 

option. One such unit is the Immersion 

Personal Digitiser which, though still not cheap, 

is a powerful tool for any modeller. 

Laser scanning would be tar too expensive, 

so the personal digitiser makes use of a jointed 

arm (much like a robot arm) with a stylus on the 

end. This sits on a bread-board-sized base and 

is connected to the Amiga via a control box and 

serial cable. 

Build quality is as good as you'd expect from 

a device costing this much. The arm itself is 

made of tough, thick plastic with a solid brass 

stylus. and the base board is half an inch thick 

with rubber feet to stop it sliding around. To 

avoid any plug difficulties on either side of the 

Atlantic, the control box uses a standard kettle 

lead connection, and all necessary cabling 

Eand for 'lour bum 

Why not just use splines, or the Forms editor in 

Imagine? I mean, it's not easy to create organic 

shapes, but it can be done. Why spend money on a 

digitiser? Apart from obvious benefits in terms of cutting 

design and modelling time, 3D digitisers make it 

much easier to create a complete model with one continuous 

skin. Until Amiga packages utilise the 'smart 

skin' techniques found in some Silicon Graphics software, 

even fairly simple objects such as a human head 

are difficult to produce without bolting two or more 

objects together, 

Three rough models 

created using the 

dig/tiger. Note tha t the 

human face uses more 

5amplos then the other 

two, and is therefore 

much more eccurate 

1• 

(including a custom serial cable) is supplied_ 

The units Vedisketch software is installed 

in no time and uses ARexx macros to enable 

the digitiser to be controlled directly from 

Lightwave's Modeller. There are several con- 

trol macros, but the most important - Get 

Point - simply passes a position request to 

the digitiser's control unit which replies with a 

three dimensional co-ordinate. A point is then 

created on screen to correspond to the arm's 

position when the macro was invoked. 

Hardly any delay is involved in the process. 

so digitising a long series of points is a simple 

matter of moving the stylus to a new location 

with one hand and hitting the relevant function 

key with the other. The manual suggests 

using F10 for the Get Points macro, but you 

can set this system up any way you like 

Several macros are supplied to ensure 

agreement between the arm and Lightwave's 

internal 3D world. Set Origin, for example, can 

be used to select any point within the arm's 

reach and treat that point as Modellers equivalent 

of co-ordinate 0,0,0. and the Set 

Orientation macro ensures that your digitising 

table is oriented in the same way as the 

N 

the Wjoin 

will usually show, and there's nothing more 

realism-killing I 

than a dirty great line where, for example, 

M the shoulder joins the arm. Putting bones Into an 

object N like this will produce decent animated effects, 

but 

i 

with one continuous object the effect is far more Using tmagine'a Forms e ditor So cre a te orga nic sha pe s is 

convincing. 

one a nswe r, but it ca n be a ve ry time-consuming proce ss 

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bowl, cart be digitised lamter than you could 

model them from scratch 

Modeller environment. The latter becom 

very important because you have an °tail 

which is too big or awkward to digitise in o 

piece. By creating a simple triangle 

Modeller and aligning it with another that y 

create using the digitiser, users can arm 

that the centre of the digitiser's universe 

always in the same Lightwave position. 

With this common frame of reference, 

is much easier to ensure that two parts al 

larger object can be glued together agi 

once they've been digitised. 

I say much easier, but the process still is 

what you'd call a walk in the park. Probal 

the biggest limitation of digitisers such as II 

one is that they have problems with large 

oddly-shaped subjects. 

At full stretch, the tip of Me stylus will rea 

about 55cm from the base of the arm. t 

when you have to loop the arm up and ON 

an object, this reach comes down to atx 

3 

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3one 

of the pre-supplied examples), this me 

cdigitising 

in two or more sections and 

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hassles when the hnished modo 

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accuracy is impressive. When the stylus is 

neid to the subject's surface at a reasonable 

angle, errors are in the order of about half a 

n 

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to reach a difficult spot with the stylus that 

a;cents 

can start to fly around a little. 

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lobject 

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places, though this can be rectified 

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information, and knowledge of the arm's 

'physical 

dimensions, working out the three 

s dimensional position of the stylus tip is a 

orelatively 

simple maths puzzle. 

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real world measurements, so if you are digitis- 

w 

ing a model of a Spitfire which is only 15cm 

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icing you'll have to scale it up to its proper vir- 

etual 

size later on. This should be seen as an 

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advantage rather than a disadvantage, 

ythough, 

as it ensures the hardware Side of the 

oequation 

always knows what it's doing and, 

umore 

importantly. where. 

' Once all lines have been digitised, you 

rshould 

be able to use Modellers Skin feature 

to e create a continuous surface across the 

rsplines, 

or the Patch option if you want more 

control e - though this is a trickier method The 

finished 

a 

model's quality and accuracy are 

affected 

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more by the user's skill at iudging 

where to take sample points and how many 

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samples to take, rather than the 

y 

accuracy of the arm. 

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and t requires a fair 

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amount of patience and practice. The use of 

plasticine (again, a small amount of this is 

supplied) or tape to stick a subject firmly to the 

digitising table is highly recommended, and 

any time spent marking off the grid and thinking 

about the best way to digitise each object 

pays great dividends, 

Be warned that you'll need a steady hand 

to get the most from Immersion - the arm 

moves very freely on its joints and can't be 

positioned 'hands off,' There's an optional foot 

pedal which can be used to leave both hands 

free when sampling points, but I found that 

stomping on this usually caused my hands to 

wobble at exactly the wrong moment, 

Apart from these considerations, there's 

very little to worry about when using 

Immersion, and only those with absolutely no 

dexterity will have any real problems. 

You'd have to be a dedicated and wealthy 

enthusiast to splash out on a 

peripheral such 

MAY 1995 

The supplied macros ifIr kide several to hoip 

with alignment, but it's sliti very tricky when 

digitising an object In two part., then joining it 

Stole liennedii I110lf5 at — 

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Personal Digitiser is a high quality, accurate 

tool which would quickly repay the investment 

through offering increased flexibility and 

cutting down on modelling time. 

It's just a pity we're going to have to send it 

back. 

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3 I used to own an A500 computer 

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of my favourite games was Silent 

Service II, which was installed onto a 

geed drive partition by the programs 

Nen installer program. 

Atter about three months with my 

4500, I eventually had the opportunity to 

e.ay a second hand Al200, which I duly 

of course. I then set about transfer- 

'trig my programs on my A500's drive to 

vas Al200's internal IDE drive using 

3uatterbach, 

I have now finished Silent Service II 

and tried to delete it from my hard drive. 

rave managed to delete all the files in 

rre Silent Service II drawer but when 

ry to delete the drawer itself, I get the 

lirrOr message 'Icon in use.' 

I know a little about Workbench and 

AmigaDOS and realised that there was 

Probably an Assign statement in the 

6seestartup or startup-sequence scripts. 

However, after browsing through these 

Two files with a fine toothcomb, I can't for 

tie life of me find any Assigns relating to 

frie game. How can I get rid of the 

damned Silent Service II icon? 

G. Whittaker, Sussex 

There are a few ways to create 

Assigns for Workbench, 

besides having them directly 

stated in the user-startup or startup. 

sequence scripts. One way is to have a 

completely separate script file containing 

the Assign statements which is 

called from either the user-startup or 

startup-sequence by an Execute command. 

See if you can find any Execute 

Commands and check the files they are 

calling. 

Also, another common method Is to 

have a file in the WBStartup drawer. 

Anything in here is automatically execuled 

when you boot Workbench, and 

your game may well have placed a file 

in there which is creating the Assigns. 

Personal plea 

There were several things I wanted to 

for my Amiga 1200. Unfortunately, wh 

was ready for the Personal Font Ma 

update, I was not able to obtain it as it 

no longer available. Perhaps there e 

someone who has il and no longer has 

any interest in it? Can you help? 

Mr F Fa'lune, Fife 

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the speed at which my Al200 runs and until 

I can afford a 68030 accelerator board, I was 

wondering whether I can simply add a floating 

point unit (FPU) to my Al 200S insides to 

speed things up a little. 

Is there a simple FPU upgrade I can buy? 

I'm quite prepared to do a bit of soldering. 

Also, why are there no 68040 accelerators 

around for the Al200? 

J. Matthews. Gnmsby 

For a start, you need to upgrade 

your memory. Believe it or not, 

merely adding extra Fast RAM to 

your Al200 can significantly speed up 

some software, particularly flight sims. 

This is because Fast RAM is 32-bit memory 

independent of Chip RAM and can be 

accessed very quickly indeed. 

It's not possible to simply fit an FPU to 

your Amiga's insides. Currently, the only 

way to do so is via a memory upgrade 

board which features an FPU socket (of 

which there are many), or through 

installing a processor upgrade board 

such as the many 68030 products 

around. 

Be patient, save up your dosh and buy 

a 68030 upgrade board with FPU slot and 

72-pin SIMM slots (preferably two or 

more). That way you will solve all your 

Al200's speed and memory problems in 

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There are no 68040 accelerators 

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sort of casing with a lead connecting it to 

the Al200's upgrade slot is possible, but 

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D o youhavea problem?Doyousometimes 

find yourself poised over your Amiga with 

axe in hand, spouting profanity at the stubborn 

refusal of your Amiga software or 

hardware to behave properly? 

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us must be a dull person with no lite and few friends. 

and paper, jot down your problems. along A 

Well, • this is not true. Now that I've got that off my chest, can you recommend a good 

with a thorough description of your Amiga 

book 

t 

A on 3D graphics programming? I am keen to create demos and ultimately a game 

setup, and send it off to Amiga Computing Advice Service, IDG 

using 

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n 3D graphics? 

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t likely fashion unconscious, often wearing trainers in conjunction with 

Sim City 2000 and after following the install question5? tcasual 

s trousers and, even more disturbingly. sporting a tank top. 

procedure I tried to play the game. The 

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wear spectacles which have broken and have been taped in the middle 

result was my that Amiga crashed, allegedly 

sand 

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talk in a rather nasal fashion with a tone of voice akin to Terry 

due to the program not accessing the 

Christian v of The Word tame. 

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required libraries (according to a technical 

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guy at Maxis). 

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That is not my problem. The problem now 

large y institutions and took up an entire room, programmers usually had David 

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Is that somehow my startup sequence file 

Bellamy-type b beards and did indeed wear tank tops. 

seems to have been affected and every time 

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They o may well have had no social life because programming a computer in 

I turn on my Al200 I get an ArnigaDOS 

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screen. The only way I can get the 

etedious 

y process. 

Workbench screen to appear is to boot with 

c Today, 

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a Workbench floppy disk installed in DR:. 

ogames 

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with awesome graphics and intros. What would cool films like Terminator 

I have tried to find out how to install 

rbe 

without programmers to create those awesome graphics tools eh? So. not all 

e 

Workbench onto a hard drive but all the 

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shops inform me that unless I am 'up to 

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speed' with AmigaDOS, I will find it difficult - 

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however, they will do it for me for a small 

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Amiga Real-time 3D Graphics by Andrew Tyler and published by Sigma 

remuneration, typically El 6 plus VAT. 

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What I would like to know is: 

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2. Why doesn't Workbench have an install 

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t 

program? 

resident k on your hard drive. The start- drive was already formatted and parti- 

3. What is the best book to instruct a novice 

up-sequence 

a 

t file is actually responsible tioned when you bought it, you should 

on Workbench? 

for b loading 

h 

Workbench, but you can do still have received the Workbench 

4. Having looked at computer languages to 

this o manually yourself. Try typing installation disks as well as a disk for 

a 

learn, I am unable to distinguish between 

Loadwb. u This should set your hard your hard drive with the appropriate 

t 

GFA Basic. Easy Amos, and AmigaDOS. 

drive t into activity, hopefully loading utilities for formatting and partitioning. 

b 

Which will be the best one to get into? 

Workbench. p 

Next, type Endcli to close 

I also find that a 5Mb Workbench par- 

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D. Hargreaves-Turner, Norwich 

the r AmigaDOS screen, revealing tition is way too small. Many programs 

Workbench c 

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sometimes install their own files to this 

You a should now look in the S: drawer system partition during installation. 

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of the startup-sequence, something tem files, so you may soon find pro- 

program worth its salt should have 

like e startup-sequence.bak or similar. grams refusing to install because your 

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made a backup of your startup- 

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sequence file before altering it. Even 

reboot o your Amiga - hopefully, this can get past this problem by using 

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ASSIGNS to re-direct some of 

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as FONTS: to another partition, but It is 

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Workbench 

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is really easy to install a little clumsy and untidy. 

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and h does indeed have its own install 3. There are quite a few books on this 

a 

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publications from Bruce Smith books 

1. I have an Al200 which is frtted with a 4Mb mem- 

' ory expansion board which also features an FPU 

for fitting instructions o 

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rather drink a quart of paint But in case you 

aren't fed up with the whole prospect of having 

to wade through a few more pages of 

coverage on the superinfobahn, l'autoroute 

d'informatique, or the information superhighway, 

here is the article for the Amiga net 

newbie. 

If you've never used the net before, or 

have been struggling along with Amiga NOS, 

too scared to venture into the wild waters of 

AmiTCP 

thing • to bear in mind about this article is we 

tare h going e to be discussing the Internet with 

n relevance to one particular company, 

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alast d month's CoverDisk giveaway. 

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yet, 

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for people trying to get to grips with it. There 

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boxouts on the following pages, so you 

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shouldn't have todo much fatting about to 

get u it lto 

work from scratch. 

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some T tweaking to get the most from it. and 

you h will want to search out some of your 

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come f with it. 

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how to use the Internet, or how to gel files 

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from it, but you will need several files from 

Demon to be able to follow this article 

through to its conclusion. These files are: 

ArniTCP-DISr10.1ha, R10-Updatel .1ha, and 

AmiDislitils.lha. They can all be found on 

Demon's ttp server in the pubfamigaiamitcp- 

/installer directory. 

The first of these files is the actual Demon 

installer for AmiTCP. This works really well 

and you shouldn't have any problems 

installing it. Before you dive back onto the 

net with your new-found AmiTCP-ness, you 

really ought to unpack both of the other two 

files as they contain newer versions of stuff 

in the main archive. 

Now, let's have a took at all the stuff you 

have just installed. In your AmiTCP directory 

you should find a directory called bin, one 

called db and one called usr. There will also 

be several other directories, but these three 

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Here I am informing de mon of the 

la te st ve rsion of AmiTCPfte iptir 

are the most important. The directory called 

bin is so-called because it should contain 

binaries or programs, and if we look 

inside we find it does. 

This is the nexus ol operations for 

AmiTCP, where everything starts 

from. Make sure the following items 

in your bin directory have the 's' 

protect bit set: 

• Link - this is a script to let 

you get online. 

• netstat - an Alaexx program 

giving information about your 

connection. Not immediately 

important. 

• nntotransfer - very important 

This is the script that gets news 

for you from Demon. 

• postnews - again, very important. 

This script lets you write news 

articles or follow up other people's 

articles. 

• startnet - this script must be 

executed before you can do anything 

else. You might have chosen 

for it to be included in your 

user-startup when you installed 

AmiTCP. 

• stopnet - why would you want 

to? 

• SynClock this script synchronises 

your Amiga's clock with 

another machines over the net. 

Especially useful to people who 

don't have a clock on their machines 

and want to download news (as we 

shall see later). 

• talkrequest.rx - not immediately 

important, this script lets you set up an 

AmiTCP talk session 

• telnet - this script lets you use telnet, 

• tin - this is your newsreader script and 

is very important. 

The db directory contains only two scripts 

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Once you are a confirmed netter, you might want to 

put some net-related buttons in your DOpus config. 

One that springs to mind is a button for the Aminet 

Index. You'll have to make sure you always put it in 

the same place, like Text:Index, or something similar_ 

but you can make a button which lust needs a 

command to 'Read Text:Index' and Robert is your 

father's brother. 

You can also set up buttons for uuencoding and 

decoding, although not for compress (well, I 

haven't yet figured a way of doing it - if you have 

then let me know.) For uuencoding you will need 

we are initially interested on - dialscript 

and NewsStamp. You can edit your 

dialscript to change the number of 

retries you wish to perform when trying 

to connect, your modem settings, and 

what number your modem will dial. 

The NewsStamp script merely 

contains the exact date and time you 

last downloaded news. This is 

extremely important. If you go away 

for a couple of days, or go on holiday, 

make sure you check this script before 

you get back on the net - if you don't 

you could be looking at several thousands 

of articles to be downloaded for 

news and an enormous phone bill. 

The way the script reads goes like 

this: 

ritus,demon.co.uk 950305 10l014 

Your news server, year-month-day, hour-min-sec 

On the other hand, the usr directory is a 

real can o' worms. There are files galore in 

here that we might want to change, For 

starters you should see directories named: 

lib. mail, news, spool, and also one named 

after your username, in my case Ben. Let's 

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an 'AmigaDOS' command like this: 

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for uudecoding you need: 

C:euttr (o ) 

and for uudecoding with LHA decompression you can put: 

tiinat u (o) 

Remember to make sure that the flags for output window, 

no filename gotes and cd source are ticked for all 

of these. You might also want to put a button in to allow 

you quick and easy access to your AmITCP directory, 

scandir AmiTCP: for instance 

go into that directory first of all. In it you 

should find a directory called .tin and several 

files all starting with - _newsrc, _signature, 

etc. Come back out and have a look in lib. 

This will contain an aliases file, a Config file 

and a newsgroup file, among others, The 

aliases file is for working with Mail and lets 

you lust type someone's name rather than 

their entire e-mail address. 

VARIABLES 

Config is where all your environment variables 

are set: what your username is, what 

your host is, what tirriezone you are in, etc. 

Lastly, but by no means least, there is the 

newsgroups file, This sets what newsgroups 

nntptransfer goes looking for when you link 

up_ The number at the end of each line is 

the amount of days before the articles in that 

group will be able to be trimmed, so don't 

set it too high otherwise your hard drive will 

soon fill up. Because I am usually on every 

day, I set it for one day for most groups. 

Come back out of lib into the usr directory. 

The mail directory you should see is 

where any mail addressed to you will go, the 

news directory is where all your unbatched 

news articles will go, and the spool directory 

is where any mail or articles you send go 

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As a rule, you shouldn't need to investigate 

these directories in your everyday use 

of AmiTCP. The only time you might want to 

visit the Spool directory is if you have written 

a piece of mail or news you think you 

shouldn't send. For every piece of mail you 

will find three similarly-named tiles. You 

must delete all three otherwise your sendmail 

daemon will get confused. 

Now it's time to get online. The first thing 

to do is actually connect to Demon. By 

now you should have installed AmiTCP 

from the installer, setting your IP address, 

password, host name and modem settings, 

etc. You should also have copied the later 

versions of some of the files from the LHA 

archives I suggested previously. If you 

haven't done this because you haven't 

been able to use FTP, it doesn't matter - 

we will do it now. 

In preparation for full-on, shell-based. 

techie-type Internet access (we'll deal with 

the easier stuff later), you should edit your 

shell-startup script. This can be found in S 

-and you should add the following line to the 

end of it: 

nth nitcp:bin sweent on 

This will prevent you cd'ing to the AmiTCP 

directory all the time because it will make 

AmigaDOS automatically search those 

directories for any commands you might 

type. Next, open a Shell window and only 

type the following command if you don't 

1have Startnet in your user-startup script: 

storm 

Easy so far. Now we want to connect, so 

Don't despair it your mall goes astray at first or you can't 

post articles to newsgroups. It happens to everyone. Try 

to send mail to the technical guys at Demon, succinctly 

explaining your config and problems and I have no doubt 

they will be able to at least help you on your way to finding 

a solution, if not giving you the fix there and then. 

FTP and Mail are without doubt the most important 

(legitimate) uses for the Internet, but if that isn't enough 

you can try Mosaic which gives you access to the World 

Wide Web. - make sure your modem goes at at least 

14.4k for this as it can be very time-consuming. Even 

more time-consuming can be IRC or Internet Relay 

Chat, a sort of global 0891 chatline, 

As far as neliquette is concerned, try to be polite on 

the Internet. If you aren't very good at spelling, there are 

going to be people who pedantically pick on your every 

point of grammar if 

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make sure your modem is switched on and 

ready to roll. Type: 

Two windows should now appear on your 

Workbench screen, one claiming to be 

'AmiTCPIP Log' and the other 'Dialling... 

The dial window will show what is happening 

as you try to connect. If you get an 

engaged tone, then the dialscript will retry 

for as many attempts as you have set. If the 

modem seems to have connected, but the 

dialscript times out, you have two choices. 

You can either reboot your machine (pretty 

drastic and not very nice to have to do if 

you are seriously multitasking) or wait 

until the dialscript has run through all its 

iterations and then type link down. 

However, this probably won't happen. 

What will probably happen is you will connect 

to Demon, your 'Dialling,: window will 

disappear and the 'AmiTCPIP Log' window 

will say that Mailkick has been started. 

Mailkick is the program that sends any mail 

you have written, You are now on the net, 

Right, we are now going to download 

heaps of files. You don't have to download 

all of these programs, indeed you don't 

actually have to download any of them - 

they just make life a lot easier, and in some 

cases, more interesting. Here's my list of 

the best ones to get, and why: 

Very important 

Gui-FTP.tha 

- easier than using nottp, this gives you a file- 

amitcp 

manager-type window for downloading and 

lutils uploading files from filp sites and takes care 

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of logging on, etc. 

uuxt20.1ha 

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K b 

arc people's news articles, etc. 

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compress.lzh: - 

util/arc - 56Kb_ If you see 

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are labelled filename,Z, they are 

compressed. 

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mui23usr.the aminet/devigui - 678Kb. 

Magic e User Interface. This is needed for a 

lot 

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the points you 

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raise. Try to ignore this and don't get into 

what are known as llamewars' over petty matters (leave 

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it for important ones). 

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Don't make your signature more than six lines long it 

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you can help it and don't leave all the text in a reply to an 

article or item of e-mail. Also, it is important to remember 

that ASCII text isn't a very good conductor of emotion, 

so be very careful what you type. You might type something 

'in a sarcastic voice', but the person at the other 

end is going to be unlikely to realise this unless she is 

psychic - in which case, why are you bothering with 

e-mail? 

Use smileys (otherwise known as emotocons) or 

abbreviations such as for grin, etc. In case you are one 

of the four or so people who don't know what a smiley 

it's a set of ASCII characters that look like a face when 

viewed from the side, i.e. :-) or 8(. 

context, AMosaic, 

Mosaic_12 AmiTCP.lha. amitcp/extras - 

194Kb. The only World Wide Web browser 

available for the Amiga at the moment 

There is a newer, beta version al the 

AMosaic home page. Needs MUI 

AMHotlistV1.50.1ha amitcp/extras - 15Kb 

Hotlist for AMosaic, also needs MUI to 

work, 

plink21.11w amitcptutils - 33Kb, Plink is a 

replacement script for linking up and has 

many extra options, 

Not necessary but handy 

AutoSig121he amitcp/utils - 30Kb. Adds 

random signatures to your news postings. 

SynCrol 3.1he. amitcp/utils - 8Kb 

A system clock synchroniser. 

To get these files we are going to have to 

use ftp or file transfer protocol I'm not 

going to explain what file transfer protocol 

actually is. it's beyond the scope of this article 

and there are numerous books on the 

Internet so you should find literature galore 

on it. My recommendations are Ed Krol's 

The Whole Internet, which is available 

direct from Demon, or any of the FAOs you 

find online. 

You should still have your shell window 

open, so type: 

Workbench:3 nettle 

ftp.demon,to.ok 

pefte ito.denn.co.vk 

into it, ncttp is the nearest thing to a userfriendly, 

keyboard-based lip client on the 

Amiga, but I still suggest one of the first 

things you get is GUI-FTP in the list above. 

You should end up with an 'hp> 

and . psome r o mtext p saying t welcome to Demon's 

hp server, You should then 'cd', just like 

normal, to the publamiga directory from 

where you can cd to the directories listed 

above for the files you want to download. 

FTP uses a command called get to 

download the files and Unix (which is what 

nearly all ftp servers are running as an 

operating system) is case-dependant, 

so you will have to get the exact 

spelling for your files. An 

ideal situation would look 

like this: 

Welcome to Demon 

Internet's ttp archive. 

Guest login ok, access 

restrictions apply, 

Logged into disabuse. 

demon.co.uk. 1.5.6 

(September 20, 1993), 

Amiga version 1.2 

(May 3 1994) 

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Non lu. 25 OA:00:DO GAT 199t 

For Demon users to install 

AmiTCP, please download 

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from the installer directory. 

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What's the Aminet? It's a collection 

of files copied to various 

ftp servers around the world. 

Our nearest one is at the 

Once you have got used to fiddling around with ltp. here am some more files you might like to gel: 

Mailmarker.lha, amineticommimall - 12K. This little 

commodity watches for new mail and tells you 

when you have some. tt can watch as many mailboxes 

as you like. 

amineticommlmail - 39K. MUI-based 

email program. Nice and quick to use. 

MUIBuilder21.1ha: aminsitidevigui - 679K. Lets you 

build interfaces for MUI programs and can generate 

code for a number of different compilers 

including Amiga E. 

PGPArni.23a pubiamigaiutilicrypt - 235Kb. 11 

you want your email to be extremely private, then 

use PGP, which is a military-grade encryption 

Imperial College in London, next to the 

Science Museum. Ifs address (and I can 

assure you. you will be typing this one in a 

lot) is 'src.doc.ic.ac.ule 

If you lust want to get MUI right now. 

that's fine, but a good idea would be to 

download the INDEX file in the aminet 

directory. This is a complete listing of all 

files available on Amulet and you can use 

DOpus to search through it for files you 

want to get. Also, there is normally a 

RECENT file which details programs 

uploaded to Aminet in the last seven days - 

if you want to really be up-to-date. The 

INDEX file gets updated weekly. 

If you have already downloaded compress, 

you can download the INDEX.Z 

which should be much smaller To decompress 

it, make a copy of It in RAM:, open a 

shell window and cd to ram: and type: 

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doesn't need or sort 111. You will then 

find that your INDEX2 file has disappeared, 

to be replaced by a fully-formed 

INDEX file which is plain old ASCII text. 

You can now browse through all the files on 

the Aminet without having to be online, pick 

the items you want, get on and retrieve 

them, and get off again in the shortest 

possible time. 

Next is mail and news. They go hand-inhand 

because the articles you send to 

newsgroups are treated lust like normal 

mail at your end of the Internet connection. 

Sending mail couldril be easier. Just load 

the prograrn i n your bin directory and 

hit the mail button By default. Mail will use 

Ed for you to write mail with, but you can 

change it to another text editor. Most Amiga 

users on the Internet lend to use Cygnus 

Ed or Tuttotext, but you can use any nonresident 

text editor you like 

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from Mail, so you don't have to go 

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FEATURE 

Other fun 5tuff 

program. This file can be found at hp.demon.co.uk. 

AmigaElm-v5.1ha: amineticommimail - 352K. The 

latest version of Elm. It can now automatically 

encrypt your malls if you are using 

PGP. tin123.1ha: amineticomminews - 181K. 

Updated version of Tin. Warning! Don't use the 

postnews command that comes with this version, 

stick with the postnews that came with AmITCP (it 

should be 87 bytes In size). 

grapevine-1 33.1ha: pubiamigaiamitcp/extras - 

243Kb. IRC or Internet Relay Chat client. Run your 

phonebills up even taster than 0891 numbers. This 

Is from ttp.demon.co.uk. 

post office the Internet is very unforgiving 

for wrong mail addresses, even down to the 

case of the letters. Once you have got used 

to Mail, you might like to try Elm which is 

also available on Demon's ftp server and is, 

I think, much better. 

News on the other hand, isn't quite so 

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NASA 

Hot Wired 

Demon UK 

Yahoo Search 

IDC HomePage 

Internet Shopping 

Motor Sport 

Music Index 

Coffee ? Homepage 

Kennedy Space Centre 

FBI HomePage 

Lycos Search 

Iconz Nviz 

London Music 

Subway Navigator 

The Whitehouse 

BBC TV 

Power PC HomePage 

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Amiga Homepage 

NewIek 

Ughtwave & Toaster 

Record Labels 

New Butts 

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actually get it. To do this you should type 

'nntptransfer in your open shell window 

when you are online. You will get one of 

two responses for this, either that Demon's 

newsserver is too busy and you should try 

again later, or that you are connected to it. 

By default you will only download news 

for the demon newsgroups dealing with the 

Amiga_ If you want to get stuff other than 

this, you will need to edit your 

ArniTCP:usreibinewsgroups file to include 

the groups you wish to subscnbe to. If you 

don't know what any of the groups are 

called, you will need to download the 

ACTIVE list from Demon's ftp server. This 

contains all the newsgroups available 

through Demon. 

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of news, for instance the 

comp.sys.amiga hierarchy, you can put an 

asterisk as a wildcard as follows; 

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comp.sysamiga and any subordinate ones 

such as comp.sys_amiga.graphies. 

comp.sys.amiga,hardware, a n d 

comp.sys.amiga.marketplace, etc. without 

you having to type them all in by hand. 

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and run nntptransfer successfully, 

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you have downloaded. To do this you 

should run the Tin script in your bin directory. 

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which will probably ask you if you want to 

subscribe to something (the name of the 

first newsgroup you entered in your newsgroups 

file). Hit the 'V key for each question 

to subscribe to those newsgroups. 

You should then get a window with a list 

of the newsgroups you have subscnbed to, 

with numbers by their left-hand side. These 

numbers represent the number of articles in 

each group. To enter a group and start 

reading you use the cursor keys to move up 

and down. and the right arrow key to enter. 

Then you will be at article level, so use the 

up and down cursor keys to move through 

the articles you have to read, and the return 

key to read one. If there is more text than 

will fit in the window, use the down cursor 

key to get to the next bit, and keep using It 

because that will move you to the next article 

in the thread once you have finished 

with the current one 

TWO-SIDED STORY 

A thread is a bit like a conversation in a 

newsgroup. One person starts it off, then 

another replies and so on. Moving through 

the thread ensures you get both sides of 

the story. You can come out of a thread by 

hitting the left arrow key. It you have subscribed 

to a binaries newsgroup you 

are going to want to join together several 

articles. save them as one piece and 

uudecode them. 

Tin can do this easily. If you have four 

articles that are numbered I0/31, [2/31 

and [3/31in the subject line (or title), you 

can ignore the one that says10/31— that's 

just a description of the rest of the articles. 

For the others, make sure the cursor is on 

the [1/3] article and hit the key for 'tag'. 

This will move the cursor down a line and 

put a little number 1 next to the title of the 

[1/3]article. 

It the [2/3] article is next you can hit thel 

key • again and proceed onto the [3/3] article. 

If not, position the cursor on the [2/3] article 

and hit it. Once you have all three with the 

numbers 1, 2 and 3 respectively by their 

titles, you can hit the 's' key for 'save'. You 

Will then be asked what you want to save, 

so you should press the shift key down and 

hit the 't' key again for lagged articles. 

You will then be asked for a filename for 

the files. If they are a split uuencoded file 

you can just type 'temp' as a filename, as 

the individual files are unimportant. If the 

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articles are uuencoded. Tin will let you 

uudecode them by choosing 'u' from the 

next set of options. 

If you have chosen to uudecode the files_ 

Tin will eventually ask you if you want to 

delete post-processed files, to which you 

will be able to happily answer yes. The files 

you have saved will appear in your 

Amitcp:usr/usernamernews directory. 

If you have read an article you want to 

reply to, you have two choices. You can 

choose to reply by e-mail to the author (by 

hitting •r' on the keyboard while reading the 

article), or you can follow up to the newsgroup 

(by hitting 'ft while reading the article). 

This will bring up your text editor containing 

all the text that was in the article 

(which can, and should in some cases. be 

deleted so you don't waste space) to which 

you can reply_ 

Once you have finished typing, you 

should save and exit, and Tin will check 

your article and let you either go back and 

edit it, forget it altogether or post it. When 

you have finished reading your news, you 

can quit Tin by repeatedly hitting the left 

arrow key until the Tin window disappears. 

You might also, at this juncture, want to 

run Trimnews in your bin directory. Eve put 

Trimnews into my tin script so that it asks 

me whether or not I want to trim my news 

articles every time I leave Tin, as follows: 

ksk 'On you mint to Trim Veils now iy0 1 )?' I t 

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Put these lines in before the end of the 

script, but after the line that starts tin.exe. 

There is so much more to discuss but l' 

running out of space here. so you'll have to 

explore mailing lists, batch tip, ping, finger. 

telnet and much more by yourselves. Have 

fun and don't get too frustrated. 

Finally. I'm just going to take a welldeserved 

opportunity to plug my little cont 

bution to making AmiTCP easier to use. It's 

called ArniTCPHelper and gives you a button-based 

interface for connecting to th 

Internet and using ftp and mail, etc. It at • 

gives you menu items to let you edit th 

venous config files I have mentioned in 

course of this article. 

I would also like to thank all those peep 

out there in net land who have helped me to 

the point where I could write this article. I'm 

not going to name them here (I don't wa 

to inflate their egos too much), but the 

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MACS 

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octionally transiate Mac t•xt to or from the Amiga 

Mem lots you view fi les or 

The Finder Manager Os a database program 

Using this utility, information 

memory in either hexadecimal 

which lets you maintain fi letype information 

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heights when trying to gel them to share 

information with ease. 

Of course, there are lots of expensive 

'hardware solutions to making these uncooperative 

beasts talk to one another, such as 

modems and network cards, but when it 

comes to the seemingly simple act of transferring 

the odd file via storage devices such 

as floppy disks, everything collapses into an 

archaic realm of incompatibility. 

Things aren't hopeless however, after all, 

!he Amiga is now on relatively good speaking 

terms with MSDOS PCs, being quite 

capable of reading and writing PC floppy 

disks, thus making the transfer of files quite 

easy between these two computers. 

But, hiding away in its own little world, 

doing its own little thing in its own little way is 

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the Macintosh computer. Apple's little babies 

have always been a breed apart and it's 

when the average Amiga owner attempts to 

try and transfer files between these computers 

that they encounter an unscaleable wall 

with the words No trespassing. Apple 

employees only." 

This is mainly due to the fact that the 

Macintosh hie system is quite complex internally, 

and rightly so. This internal complexity 

is required to provide the end user with what 

is generally believed to be the most powerful, 

yet easy-to-use graphical user interface. 

INSPIRING 

Just look at all the window and icon-driven 

operating systems in use now, such as 

Windows on the PC and even the Amiga's 

Workbench, and you can see where their 

designers got their inspiration from. 

There is a sneaky way to circumvent this 

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wall though. Utilities are available for the Mac 

which enable it to read PC formatted disks. 

So, armed with the fact that an Amiga can format 

a PC disk, courtesy of the 

PCO: device driver found in the DOSDrivers 

drawer within the Devs drawer on most 

Amigas, a working, but potentially lengthy and 

arduous detour can be found around this wall. 

The problem is that in the somewhat questionable 

wisdom of the MSDOS operating 

system developers, they decided that filenames 

need never be more than eight characters 

long with a three letter extender, usually 

denoting filetype. 

This creates a problem when copying files 

between the Amiga and the Mac You see. 

the Amiga can safely handle 25 character filenames 

while the Mac toddles along nicely 

using up to 31. So, you can imagine the 

renaming session you will have to go through 

to get those filenames down to the eight character 

PC limit once on the PC disk, 

PROBLEMS, PROBLEMS 

Of course, you could just let the filenames 

be chopped off at the eighth character automatically 

when they are stored on the PC 

disk, but this has its problems. What, for 

instance, happens when you want to transfer 

300 sequentially named animation files called 

FLYINGLOG0001. FLYINGLOG0002 and so 

on? I'll tell you what – chopping each ot these 

down to the poky PC eight characters gives 

you the filename FLYINGLO_GOO. Which 

means all 300 files will take on this name and 

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hell of a lot of Tile already exists' messages 

will be generated, presenting you with 

the prospect of renaming the whole lot. 

What would be much better is if the Amiga 

could simply be made to read and write Mac 

files lust like it can with PC files. This usually 

meant investing in an expensive Mac emulator, 

like the Emplent. For simple file transfers 

though, it's ever so expensive. 

Well now there's a simple and, above all 

low-cost way to do it Some clever people at 

Consultron have come up with a softwareonly 

utility to allow your Amiga and a Mac to 

get on friendly speaking terms. 

The name of this wonder of wonders is 

CrossMac and with it your Amiga to Mac file 

transfer problems disappear. CrossMac 

allows your Amiga to format, read and 

write Mac-format floppy and hard disks with 

ease. 

Installation is simply a matter of running 

the installer script and once installed it works 

very well indeed, considering the complex 

way a Mac stores files on a disk. There isn't 

even the need for a chunky interface 

when copying files from an AmigaDOS drive 

to a Mac drive, thanks to the fact that 

CrossMac fully integrates itself into the 

Amiga's operating system. 

Much the same way as you get a PCO: 

device driver, which when loaded displays a 

disk icon on Workbench for any PC disks in 

your Amiga drive, CrossMac provides device 

drivers called MACO. MAC1 and so on. 

Copying files from an AmigaDOS disk to a 

Mac disk is then simply a matter of dragging 

the file icon to the Mac disk and vice versa. 

ADDED CONCERNS 

There are a couple of things to boar in 

mind when using the CIA or third-party file 

utilities such as Directory Opus. CrossMac 

makes extensive use of the Comment field 

for an Amiga file in order to store important 

information. 

When dragging fi les for copying 

via Workbench, this field is automatically 

included in the copying process. When using 

CU though, you have to specify this explicitly 

using the COM option. File utilities usually 

have a 'Clone comment option, so check 

your manual on how to set up your software 

to take this step. 

There are also some neat file transfer 

facilities available when your files are traversing 

the Amiga to Mac road, such as the 

ability to recognise MacBinary files, providing 

transparent conversion into the correct type. 

Also available is a filetype database feature 

that automatically embeds the correct filetype 

and creator information for any data 

being copied from your Amiga to a Mac disk, 

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we humble Amiga Computing writers here at IDG Media. All the 

editorial and artwork for our magazines are laid out using 

Macintosh computers. There is thus a constant need to transfer 

both text files and picture files from Amigas to give to our subs 

and art editors, and I have found that CrossMac is ideal for efficient 

trouble-free transfers. 

So if you find yourself wanting a low-cost, efficient and, above 

all, trouble-free method of transferring files between your Amiga 

Mac, Consultron's CrossMac is currently the bees knees. 


MAY 1995 

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Should you fi nd that CrositAtac isn't working as 

It should, the Or Crocalfac diagnostic program 

should shed some Sight on your dilemma 

thereby allowing the Mac operating system to 

Fully recognise the file. 

Probably the most common type of file 

which will be transferred between Mac and 

Amigas will be ASCII text files. CrossMac 

allows for intermediate text translation during 

the tile copying process. This simple text 

translation feature converts some of the 

non-standard, or international. ASCII text 

characters. 

This is activated by simply adding the I 

character to the end of arty file which is being 

read or written, for example: 

Eney ootOeittoule,eit3 to 

CrossMac also allows Amiga owners access 

to Mac-format hard disks and CD•ROMs. 

Two main typos of Mac hard drive are supported. 

Type 1 is termed 'Real' and is a hard 

drive which has been formatted and peelhoned 

with the Mac file system. either by a 

Mac computer or configured so that 

CrossMac may format it. 

This is especially useful when using 

removable media hard drives such as the 

Syquest range, which utilise high capacity 

'cartridges' which can be brought to another 

Mac for data exchange. 

The second type of Mac hard disk is 

termed Simulated. This is essentially a Mac 

hard disk stored on an AmigaDOS partition. 

Such a simulated hard disk takes the form of 

a tile which is a complete 'image' of a Mac 

hard disk. This is generally only useful if you 

plan to share your existing AmigaDOS drive 

as a boot partition for hardware such as 

Emplant. 

A third type of high capacity disk is 

also available when wishing to read Mac 

formatted CD-ROMs. 

To create or access the above drives 

types, CrossMac provides two utilities, 

'ConfigDisk.CrossMAC' for setting up hard 

drives and 'ConfigOiskCDROM' for accessing 

CD-ROMs. I have to admit to being 

somewhat sceptical of CrossMac being able + 

li to provide an Amiga to Mac file transfer capability 

which would remain transparent, as if 

simply using copying between standard 

AmigaDOS disks, but that is exactly what you 

gel. If you have an Amiga with a 1.4Mb floppy 

drive that Is. 

You see. if your main activity will be transferring 

files via floppy disk, CrossMac only 

works without hardware when it is dealing 

with high density 1.4Mb disk drives. For 

those with low density drives, like those 

found in all A500s, A600s and Al200s - in 

As you can see, than. are plenty ot suppon 

programa and utilities lo help make your 

Amiga to Stec tita transfers easy and paone-ao 

other words the Amiga maionty - 

Emplant Mac emulator and its File T 

utility, or Amax drives (not available in 

UK to my knowledge), is required. 

Boo hoo, I hear all you non high-de 

owners crying, that's no use to me then is 

Well. not all is doom and gloom You 

we just happen to have been fooling wet 

neat bit of kit called Squirrel SCSI, a S 

host adapter from HiSoft which lets you 

nect up to seven SCSI devices to your A 

or Al200 via the PCMCIA slot. 

So I decided to check whether Cross 

would happily co-operate with the Squi 

when accessing Mac-format hard drives 

CD-ROMs, And guess what? It did 

admirably. 

One particular scenario involved a M 

only CD 

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hundreds of high resolution 24-bit 

ROM tures. Armed with my Squirrel, I connected 

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CD-ROM into the drive and ran CrossMac' 

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that allowed me to access the 

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simply by dragging them from 

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partition window. I then fired 

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When this runs out, those with 

money can renew it or take out an extended 

warranty from a third•party company, 

However, Joe Public is often left high and 

dry. especially when his five-year old 

workhorse A500 gives up and decides to 

take early retirement. Repairing a faulty, 

ageing Amiga, or one just past its warranty 

via a recognised Commodore dealer 

can be a costly business, with a lot of time 

spent fault finding. 

Frequently, the problem, albeit timeconsuming 

to detect can be quite simple. 

Naturally. this creates a niche for diagnostic 

software and hardware, so the cause of 

the problem can be discovered by the 

owner, in preference to paying an engineer 

to tackle the problem. Often, after 

running the diagnostics, the user may be 

surprised to find that the problem can be 

corrected quite simply by himself, without 

the need to involve a third party. 

Evidently the advantages of these diagnostics 

are quite clear. It allows the user 

to assess the problem with their computer 

before taking steps to correct the fault. In 

black and white, this is a very nice idea 

but there are many different types of diagnostic 

kit that do varying things, and even 

more different types of problems to deal 

with. 

DOUBLE DIAGNOSIS 

72 

Software for diagnosing different problems 

can be roughly categorised into two 

types. The first of these deals with physical 

hardware problems which may occur 

from damage to the computer caused by 

the user. The second deals with the general 

set up of the computer, i.e. if the system 

seems to be behaving correctly. 

with all the add-on devices functioning 

normally. 

Daily use of an Amiga can involve the 

plugging-in and unplugging of expansions. 

a lot of turning on and off, and many diskchanges. 

Inevitably, there will come an 

event when something goes wrong, 

because of a user mistake. The computer 

error may manifest itself in many ways, for 

example printing may not work, or the 

keyboard misbehaves. 

Diagnosing the fault can often involve 

examining the symptoms to find the 

cause, as many problemswill have a 

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common route. One piece of software that 

carries out this job is called ECS 

Diagnostics. which is shareware, by 

Charles Clayton. Although it offers no real 

diagnostic functions and will not detect a 

fault on your computer, it will serve as an 

aid to determining what the problem has 

been caused by. 

The process is simple, and is almost 

like a flow-chart. First it determines the 

area of the problem, and then the particulars. 

The program will then offer an explanation 

to what it thinks is the culprit. 

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For example. the problem may be related 

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mouse may be because the right mouse 

button doesn't work. ECS Diagnostics wi• 

then tell you that the problem is with the 

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Although this soltware functions very 

well lor the purpose it was intended, there 

is much room for enhancement. It it gave 

reasons for how the error was caused, Or 

Printers, modems arid other peripherals failing to work are usually a result of damage to 

the ports on the rear of the computer. Advanced Amiga Analyser by Wilcom offers the 

ability to test for these problems. 

The kit comprises of four •D' type connectors, with LEDs protruding from the plastic 

casing, and a disk containing the software. The idea behind the hardware/software combination 

is to allow testing of all the functions of the I/O ports. 

The normal procedure for testing is to have the Serial, parallel and gameport 'clorigles 

connected to each of the corresponding ports. When the computer is turned on. the LEDs 

will light up to show whether the power pins on each port are supplying a current. The 

software is loaded to display a diagram of the I/O port about to be tested. All the information 

about the port is displayed on the screen, with the description of each pin labelled. 

One click with the mouse on a particular pin on the diagram will reveal more information 

about its use. By clicking on pin 1 of garnepod 1, the program will tell you that it has 

lour uses; for a digital joystick it Is up. on a mouse it is the vertical pulse and so on. 

Information related to system schematics is also given, so having detected a fault with 

the particular pin, the problem can be localised. 

On the same information window, the program states that pin 1 of gameport 1 is 

buffered through 74LS157 chip (1J2, pin 11) and into the 8632 Denise chip (0201). 

I Presumably, upon an error, either of these could be replaced. 

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contains ' 20 different utilities for testing the 

Amiga's g innards and the tests range from 

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compilations under different guises. 

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what appear to be rather crucial 

parts of your Amiga, the information 

it returns is particularly 

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error. The results of each 

test are given by either a 

pass or a fail. If, for 

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the comparative pin is Illuminated on the screen, depicting its function. 

While any of the 'dangles' are attached to the computer, the lest on the corresponding 

1.'0 port may be carried out. These tests carry out multiple data transfers over all of the 

appropriate pins, verifying they ate working correctly. As each test on the ports is carried 

out, the process can be seen visually by the illumination of the pins on the screen. Like 

the gameporl diagram, detailed information about the schematic routing of any of the pins 

on the port is available at the click of a button 

If an error occurs during the testing, an elaborate explanation is given to amend the 

problem. For example, one error that occurred during testing was: 'DTP is not transmitting 

proper signal. Check the trace from serial pin 20 to CIA-B pin 9. Note that it passes 

through the 148-8 (U304). pins 11, 12 and 13 and EM1325. If the trace is OK, replace 

these, ii the problem persists, replace CIA-B (1)301, odd).' 

Obviously, undertaking a task such as this is not for the faint-hearted. but in comparison 

to most of the other diagnostic software reviewed, at least, it offers some information 

on how to repair A fault. If you are experienced with electronics and willing to carry 

out repairs yourself, an Amiga Schematics guide would be necessary to locate the 

troublesome parts. 

The software also facilitates disk and memory checking functions, which both seem to 

work adequately, With enough on-line information to explain any fault. 

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what the 'dangle' should 

look like when fi nished. 

Not. the LEDs 

protruding through the 

plastic casing 


MAY 1995 

FEATURE 

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If you do not wish to splash out on the 

Advanced Amiga Analyser, you can lest 

the output voltages with a meter, or make 

your own dongles with incorporated 

LEDs. The process is simple. 

Using a volt meter, place the negative 

probe on pin 7 of the serial port. Touch 

pin 9 and then pin 10. It all is OK they 

should read -12v and +12v respectively. 

Next, you will need to take readings from 

the parallel port, using pin 

number 17 as a 

ground. Test 

the voltages 

on pins 14 

and 16. Pin 

14 should 

read +5 volts 

Apr and pin 1 6 

should read +5 volts 

a few seconds after boot 

up, as this is the line to let 

peripherals know the Amiga has 

been reset. 

The test for the video port uses pin 20 

as a ground. Testing pin 23 should give a 

+5v reading and both 21 and 22 will give - 

12v and +12v respectively. Finally, both 

gameports use pin number 7 as a 

ground, Probe pin number 8 to give a +5v 

reading on the meter. 

It you are a master of soldering and 

intricate work the push-on dongles may 

be the answer to testing your Amiga. For 

a full set of four dongles you will need 

four 1 Kilo ohm resistors, and 4 220 ohm 

resistors, plus three green LEDs. three 

red and one yellow. These components 

are mounted inside the plastic cases of 

V' type connectors, and four of these. 

including the connectors themselves, will 

be needed: 1 x 25 pin male. 1 x 25 pin 

female, 1 x 23 pin female and I x 9 pin 

female. 

The LEDs can simply be pushed 

through holes drilled in the plastic casing. 

Follow the wiring diagrams for construction 

of the parts. Once constructed, 

these dongles can be used to test the 

power lines from each of the ports. Be 

careful not to plug-in and unplug these 

while the computer is switched on. All of 

the components for the dongles can be 

found at any good electrical/computer 

parts store. May all your diagnosis' be 

good ones! 

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without further information offered. 

The other utilities in the compilation are 

typical offerings for testing your Amiga. You 

can load the workbench 1,3 dock program 

if you wish which will display the correct 

time if everything is working okay. The keyboard, 

disk and joystick tests are perhaps 

the most useful of the three, but are not 

really necessary to determine that something 

does not work with any of these 

devices. 

In general, this is one of the better diagnostic 

compilations_ offering a higher 

degree of stability than its competitors - 

although the usefulness of some of the 

tests is somewhat dubious_ It is also doubtful 

that this compilation can be called a 

'diagnosis' disk, as most of the utilities will 

tell you there is a problem with the part 

tested, but give no further information on 

how to deal with it. 

For example, there is no information 

explaining the fault on your computer if the 

double-buffered, pretty rotating cube test 

does not work. Maybe it is your disk-drive 

having an allergy to blue polygons! 

TESTING, TESTING 

System Exerciser from PD Soft is an 

alternative shareware offering, with tests 

available for both the disk drive and the 

memory. Although both tests seem to function 

well, with errors detected properly, the 

presentation is quite poor, and the disk test 

program actually appears on the Engineer's 

Kit disk] 

Amiga System Checkers Toolbox is an 

alternative compilation from Ground Zero 

and contains some interesting programs for 

testing your system. The package includes 

Amiga Intuition Based Benchmarks (AIBB 

V3) which helps give you a better idea what 

your Amiga is all about, If this is not 

enough_ version 3,24 of Sysinfo is also 

included to divulge further information on 

your machine. 

Apart from these tlic utilities, the rest 

seem rather mundane and thrown together 

in comparison, including a keyboard matrix 

tester and Clock Doctor (which will not even 

see a clock even though there is one there!) 

There is also a joystick tester and various 

other system utilities and monitors. As per 

The allettad10.9 of the 

hiwes test-card on the 

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Whet doom it mean if 

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lime green? 

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disks, and are having problems with them, 

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by John Yeager SCSI Tester will carry out 

a physical test of every sector on your hard 

drive, the SCSI bus in general_ It Is useful 

for determining problems with the SCSI 

cabling and SCSI device driver code, and 

faults present with the SCSI bus and any 

hard drives on it 

INVESTIGATING 

SCSI Tester V2.0 is a well-presented 

program, with an easy-to-use point and 

click interface. AD you have to do is choose 

which SCSI device driver the program is to 

investigate. The drive you choose to examine 

is selected by choosing the appropriate 

values of SCSI ID, Board and LUN. The 

program then scans the SCSI bus and all 

the sectors of the chosen hard disk, All the 

results are displayed in a log file, which 

contains information on all the bad sectors 

found and additional information about the 

specifications of the SCSI Hardware, 

Using Sys Info and other system performance 

monitors is useful if you own an 

accelerator or hard disk. By comparing your 

machine's benchmarks against others, it is 

possible to see what can be altered on your 

system to reach optimum performance_ For 

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over the years, it must be said the overall 

standard has been pretty poor Having 

said that, there is one very notable example, 

namely Desktop Images, a company 

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When it comes to professionalism, presentation 

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Amidst the graphical euphoria that sometimes 

dppears to completely engulf the Amiga, its 

success in the sound department often gels 

Dvertooked. 

At the forefront of this success has been the 

SunRize Industries AD1012 and A0516 directlo-disk 

sampling systems. It's no exaggeration 

!• place both alongside the very best on any 

:omputer platform. As a result. Desktop 

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In the first section, our anchor man and professional 

demonstrator, Tony Shannon. takes 

you through a step-by-step guide to adding a 

complete sound track to a movie trailer. 

During the demo Tony adds sound effects, 

hp synchs vocals from the original rushes and 

narration, as well as a stereo musical backing 

track. After adding and synching samples. 

Tony moves on to the mix down process. 

As mentioned eadier, Ligh!wave and 

Toaster tutorials are what Desktop 

Images are best known for, and in 

an attempt to build on their existing 

success they've now targeted a 

specific, and often lucrative area for 

many commercial animators. 

Flying logos may lack the glamour of 

Babylon5 or RoboCop but they're nevertheless 

the bread and butler that 

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a result, who better to take you through 

the finer points than the maestro of the 

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During Tony's inside guide you're 

shown some interesting tips on how to 

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In short, after Tony's excellent introduction 

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you should be well versed in the Timeline 

Cuelist, Digital Waveform Editor, Automated 

if not days on the job. As well as layout 

hints, Tony also offers some essential 

tips for making the most of modeller 

when creating actual logos and adding 

bevels. However it's back in layout 

where most of the real points are 

scored, with the most valuable information 

being how to produce streak 

effects, the use of null objects and the 

creation of the ubiquitous moving 

sheen effect. 

Being an experienced Lightwave 

user, I must admit to being slightly 

disappointed with the overall content, 

as the majority of the tape will almost 

certainly run over familiar ground for 

anyone who's been using Lightwave 

regularly. 

Having said that, there are some real 

pearls in among the more obvious 

examples - with the most notable 

being the aforementioned moving 

sheen effect. Like most, I've had a 

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Tony does have an easy solution which 

I guarantee will leave many animators 

slapping their foreheads in a 'why didn't 

I think of that' manner 

Like it's counterpart, the tape concludes 

with a separate section, during 

Torus dosing address attention turns, 

rather ironically, to WaveMaker_ 

If you're a regular reader you may 

recall that WaveMaker is a standalone 

Lightwave add-on, designed by Tony, 

in conjunction with Axiom software. For 

those who are unfamiliar with the product, 

WaveMaker is a highly automated 

flying logo generator The irony is that 

WaveMaker largely negates the need 

for any practical modelling and design 

skills when it comes to quality flying 

logo animation. 

Admittedly. WaveMaker couldn't 

replicate the techniques covered in the 

tape, but after Tony's guided tour it's 

very tempting to put your new found 


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the aril latot 117 Well tuition 

for lightulaue and Studio 16 — 

Mixer, Sample List and of course the 

Recorder. To put the icing, or rather the marketing 

on the cake, Tony's efforts are followed 

by a rather brief, but nevertheless 

informative overview by David Scharf. 

During Mr Scharf's section you're taken 

through a basic tutorial on adding ambient 

sound and removing unwanted elements in 

the original rushes. In short, useful but not 

exactly inspiring stuff. 

However, overall, and primarily thanks to 

Tony Shannon, the tape does offer some 

excellent advice and tricks of the trade. I've 

been running Studio16 for quite some time 

and would still be happy to cough-up the 

necessary cash for this kind of essential 

information. Highly recommended. 

knowledge aside and simply invest in a 

copy ot WaveMaker. 

Obviously, there's been some serious 

horse trading when it comes to 

content. Stilt it must be said the overall 

package does deliver the goods, especially 

for those who are either new to 

Lightwave or make their money exclusively 

from corporate and commercial 

animation.

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GRAPHICS 

It might seem odd that a developees 

tool like CanDo should be 

reviewed by a non-programmer like 

me, as opposed to, say. Phil South or Paul 

Overaa. both of whom have had a lot of 

good advice to give over the years when it 

comes to programming. But the thing is, 

that's what CanDo is all about, It gives people 

like me the ability to create standalone 

tools which can be given to anyone. Okay, it 

might not be as fast as a creation in C or 

Assembler, but hey, who cares? I haven't 

had to sit down and wade through heaps of 

technical jargon or Commodore ROM kernel 

manuals just to put a window on an Amiga 

screen. 

CanDo should need no introduction to 

regular readers of Amiga Computing as an 

earlier version of it was given away on the 

January cover disk. If you played around 

with it you now know that CanDo is an application 

developer that lets you build fairly 

complex programs without needing to know 

how to code. 

SCRIPTING 

All you need is a basic understanding of 

scripting very similar to AmigaDOS to create 

Amos-type, custom screen programs, or 

window-based, Workbench-bound tools. 

Well-known programs that have been made 

with CanDo include ProControl, the ADPro 

batch processor, and Sparks, an add-on for 

Lightwave. 

So what does this new version offer by 

way of enhancements? Firstly, the interface 

has, once again, been redesigned. As 

shown in the pictures on these pages, 

instead of there being a static button bar 

there is now a dynamic list of options that 

can be changed to suit your tastes. If. for 

instance, you never program anything that 

needs a joystick, you can either remove the 

joystick option from the list, or simply move 

it to the end. 

This main layer is not the only thing that 

has been changed - most of the individual 

requesters for these tools have been rearranged 

and are now, for the most part, 

more sensibly arranged. The main purpose 

of this re-design seems to be an attempt to 

make CanDo look more professional; rather 

than using chunky buttons designed to 

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of CanDo's amazing orre-utay system 

As from version 3. CanDo no longer supports true standalone 

programs without the user paying extra. If you want to create a 

public domain or shareware program whose registration fee is 

going to be less than $50, you are entitled to distribute the 

CanDo library with your program. This is a similar idea to MUIbased 

programs where a MUlmaster.library is required before 

you can use the program. A 200k overhead might seem excessive 

if you are only using one MUI application, but when you 

have four or five running on your machine, all using the same 

library, It no longer seems such a sacrifice. 

The other advantage is that you don't have to incorporate 

everything into your program itself - the library takes care of all 

those functions - so your program size is small and easy to 

download. Users writing kiosk POI systems or full-on commercial 

applications are required to pay for a runtime or special 

licence version of CanDo. 


MAY 1995 

appeal to those who still run their Amiga's 

on a TV, CanDo 3's interface is a strictly 

hi-res affair, even going as far as to support 

RTG graphics cards like Picasso. But this 

attempt to appear more professional is only 

partially successful. 

Although CanDo is now firmly oriented 

towards 2.x and 3.x development, it does 

not take advantage of all the added facilities 

offered by these versions of the 

Workbench. As an example, although the 

cycle gadget provided by CanDo looks and 

behaves like a normal AmigaDOS cycle 

gadget, the fact that programs like 

CycleToMenu won't work with CanDo-gen- 

°rated cycle gadgets is a bit of a give-away. 

One of my main problems with earlier 

versions of CanDo was the lack of a decent 

script editor. This has still not been 

addressed in version 3. which still has an 

editor that can only cut, copy and paste 

complete lines which first have to be 

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marked (two operations instead of one). My 

main wish for future versions of CanDo 

would be a user-definable, external text 

editor, with the button bar in the CanDo 

editor attached as a separate program 

running on the same screen 

As it stands at the moment, I am having 

to run Turbotext in the background to type 

in my text and then switch back and forth 

between Turbotext and CanDo to use the 

function tools_ This is a real waste of my 

time. 

FIRST AID 

The old-style help has been replaced by 

a large AmigaGuele document detailing all 

commands and !unctions, accessible by 

simply double-clicking on the word in question_ 

However, with this leap towards standardisation, 

one of the more useful facets 

of CanDo's online help has been lost; that 

of being able to insert the correct command

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be a pain, thanks to super button editor. 

template back into your script once you had 

thoroughly researched your topic. 

Hence the arrival of the Lexicon 

Assistant. This lets you use wildcards to set 

limits on which of CanDo's 448 commands 

and functions you wish to sort through. and 

clicking on the two buttons at the bottom of 

the window will either bring the ArnigaGuide 

help document back up or insert the command 

into your script - usually with a helping 

line giving options for that command 

which is commented out of the script so it 

can do no harm. 

As I didn't get a look at version 2 (or 2.5) 

of CanDo, I'm not really in a position to say 

whether the manual has changed since 

then, but it certainly has changed since the 

last version I own (which is 1.5). No more 

the spiralbound glossy manual. Now we 

nave a ring binder containing 634 pages 

packed with closely-typed information, 

along with a separate Tutorials manual. It 

CanDo•s not-too-hot 

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might just be me, but I found a really difficult 

to find what I was looking for in the manual 

as it seemed to be based on the 

AmigaGuide document, 

If you just look up a topic in the index. 

say Documents, it will refer you to a single 

page. not the several I was expecting. This 

page will contain an overview of the 

Document tool and give you page numbers 

to refer to for each command relevant to 

documents in CanDo In my opinion, my old 

version 1 manual dealt with this in a much 

better fashion, grouping all the document 

commands together alphabetically before 

moving onto another topic 

The manual that comes with CanDo 3 

has an overview for each topic near the 

start of the manual and then an alphabetically-sorted 

section of every single 

command - all 448 of them. This means 

that if you aren't exactly sure what you 

to- 

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GRAPHICS 

Script editor t00I5 

This is a list of all the tools available every 

time you enter the script editor. Most at 

them are there to save you trom having to 

type in endless commands to achieve an 

effect, and will automatically enter 

into your script. 

Allexx - this tool looks for any A exii 

ports currently open and lets you talk to 

them. 

Bookmark - this is where you click to add 

a bookmark to the list. 

BrushAnim - this tool lets you load, show 

and edit the path of a biushanim. The 

results are entered Into your script. 

Butter - lets you work with all the butters 

in your application. 

Card - lets you insert various commands 

to do with the cards in your deck. 

Coordinate - this puts a cross hair on 

your interface and when you click, enters 

the co-ordinates into your script. 

CoordinateBox - this works the same 

way, only you draw out a box. The top lefthand 

comer co-ordinates are entered with 

the distances to the opposite corner into 

your script. 

Doe - this lets you run external Amiga programs 

from within your CanDo application. 

Ellects,Brush - this adds transitional 

effects to brushes you are showing in your 

program 

Ettects,Palette - this adds transitions to 

palette changes in your program. 

FileRequester - this brings up a file 

requester in which you can choose a file. 

This filename and its path are then inserted 

into your script. 

Layout - lets you flow text around your 

interface. 

Librarian - this lets you build up a library 

of code modules that you might want to 

use in other areas of your program, or 

even in other programs entirely. 

Objects - this tool lets you insert code into 

your script dealing with the objects (buttons, 

fields, documents. etc.) in your program. 

Paint - this is a simple drawing program 

that lets you draw into your interface. 

CanDo then converts what you have 

drawn into code and inserts it into your 

script. 

Picture - this brings up a file requester to 

let you choose a picture to show. 

Routines - this behaves in the same way 

as the main toolbar version with the added 

benefit that you can directly insert the 

name of the routine into your script. 

Sound - this tool lets you set the volume. 

channel and filename of a sound to be 

played. 

SoundSequence - this is an expanded 

version of the above command allowing 

you to play modules or sequences of individual 

sounds. 

Text - lets you print text into your interface. 

Variable Browser - this brings up a list of 

all the variables in your program and their 

contents so you can insert them intQur 

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new feature5 

Ithere are many updated functions and commands as well as new 

ones In this version of CanDo Below are just a few examples. 

Improved 

Border Requester; Font Requester: Contig CanDo: Document 

Object Tool: Field Object Tool: Menu Object Tool: Proportional 

Object Tool: Timer Object Tool: Screen Definition: Window Editor; 

Window Options. 

New 

Editor Tools: ARexx Buffers: Brush Effects: Palette Effects; 

Librarian Objects: Variable Browser. 

Object Tools: Align Object: BufferManager: LastScript Print; 

Text VariableManager. 

Script Editor: Calculator; Help Menu (now uses AmigaGuide): 

Lexicon Assistant. 

need to know, you have to look in two separate 

places before you are guided to the 

right area, This might not be a problem in a 

40-page manual (you could probably flip to 

the right page anyway, with practice), but in 

this monster it is quite a nuisance. 

The resemblance of the manual to the 

accompanying on-line help is further 

reinforced by the fact that the entry for a 

command in the manual is exactly matched 

by that in the on-line documentation. There 

are no added examples or explanations 

which is a great shame as it can be quite 

frustrating to have to search through all that 

documentation, only to find that the explanation 

you were looking for isn't there - 

only a command template. I think my 

solution is going to be to get some dividers 

for my manual to at least make my 

searching easier. 

BETTER BY DESIGN 

The Tutorial manual is much improved 

over the rather simple examples provided 

with CanDo 1.5. There are complete script 

breakdowns, and the features demonstrated 

are, for the most part, a little more interesting 

and useful than showing a picture of 

a rabbit and a porcupine. They skip over 

certain features, but I think that in all my 

years of trying software tutorials I have 

never found one that explained absolutely 

everything, and I'm aware that other people 

might have different priorities. 

One of the other features that was sorely 

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lacking in my previous version of CanDo 

was support for system file requesters, confirmation 

requesters, and so on. In my old 

copy of CanDo. if I wanted to have a file 

requester for my programs I would actually 

have to make a separate 'deck' (which is 

what CanDo calls the programs it creates) 

that contained the file requester I would 

have to write myself, then call that deck up 

from my original program. 

Well, now CanDo supports calls for ASL 

requesters and allows you to use the 

command AskForResponse, which puts a 

standard Amiga DOS requester on the 

screen, of the 'Are you sure you want to 

quit?' variety. These requesters are proper 

AmigaDOS ones and can have their choices 

selected with the left Amiga-V or -B keyboard 

combinations. If you are using ARC 

then these requesters do pop up in the middle 

of the screen. 

CanDo 3 now has a special effects feature 

which can be used for transitions 

between brushes, palettes or pictures, 

much like that which comes with Scala, and 

which takes exactly as long as you want 

them to - no matter whether you are using 

them on a humble A500 or the fastest 

A4000 going_ In addition to its already good 

brushanim support, this feature will guarantee 

fans who want to further jazz up their 

presentations. 

TUTORIALS 

CanDo's brushanim support is amply 

demonstrated in two of the tutorial scripts 

provided One is one of those practically 

ubiquitous lottery number picker programs, 

but this one is really nice as you can see by 

the picture on the previous page. The balls 

with the numbers on are actually all from 

one brushanim which shows a ball with the 

numbers from 1 to 100 on it. 

CanDo then simply sets the brushanim to 

whichever frame is required to show the 

correct number. Simple and effective. The 

other tutorial is an interactive drive-through 

of an endless city, created by having 

brushanims for moving straight ahead, turning 

left and right and doing a U-turn. 

But I don't want to cast too much of a 

downer on CanDo. It is probably the only 

way I am ever going to be able to produce a 

standalone program which could be run by 

anyone. II is an incredibly powerful program 

which can be used for things from the simplest 

button-based toolbar, through databases 

and spreadsheets to multimedia 

applications 

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tditor tools 

CanDo's complete set of editors include. 

Align Object - lets you neatly arrange the 

elements in your program on a grid basis. 

ARexx - this tool is for defining a script INV 

will occur when your program receives a 

message through its ARsoc( port. 

Bookmark - this comes in very handy wher 

you have a lot of scripts. In the script editor 

one of the first buttons down the right-hano 

side is the Bookmark button. Clocking on the 

makes CanDo take a note of the script you 

are editing_ 

BrushAnim - this is for editing the 

BrushAnims that are going to be used by 

your program. It isn't used as a drawing 

package. 

ButterManager - brings up a requestet 

showing all current buffers and their contents 

and lets you play around with them. 

Button - one of the most used tools. This 

lets you create buttons of all shapes, colours 

and sizes, which can be dragged, singleclicked 

or double-clicked on_ 

Confi gCanDo - basically CanDo Preis 

lets you edit vanous aspects of the CanDo 

interface to suit your tastes. 

Disk - this tool is for the creation of scripts 

when a disk is inserted into a drive or 

removed. 

Document 

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inumeric n c fields o for your program 

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ObjectLayer - this lets you rearrange the 

relative depth of your buttons, fields. etc. 

Print - this will print out your complete deck 

or parts of it, as you like. 

Proportional - lets you create proportions 

gadgets (sliders) for your application. 

RighlMousebutton - you can attach scepts 

to a right mouse button event with this toot. 

Routines - CanDo lets you have routines 

that are independent from the normal scripts 

and this tool lets you access them directly. 

Sound - this lets you attach scripts le 

sounds played in your application. 

SuperDuper - A tool to make copies ce 

buttons. fields, etc. 

SuperMover 

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SOFTWARE 

ou know, I've tried a few database 

programs in my time, but very few of 

them ever seem to attain that fine 

line balance between ease of use and power. 

Mostly you have one end of the scale tipped 

to one side at the detriment of the other To 

easy to use and they often seem to lack any 

real power. Too powerful and they become 

overly cryptic with masses of commands and 

features hidden away within an ominously 

imposing and large manual, that has a page 

count that would make the encyclopaedia 

Brittanica blush. 

Yes, there are very few which can claim to 

maintain their footing between these two 

extremes. Twist 2, from the ever prolific 

HiSoft, is one of them, however. 

Versatility is one of Twist 2's strengths. 

allowing you to organise information easily 

and quickly and to manipulate it using some 

extremely powerful functions and features. 

Any project from a simple card-file-type 

address book or a complete, integrated sales 

system with relations between many other 

database files are easily achieved using 

Twist 2_ 

Creating and using a database generally 

consists of creating fields containing specific 

data which is collected into records and then 

organised into forms. The user can then 

access, search and generally process this 

organised data in many weird and wonderful 

ways using various functions and features 

built into the database. 

A quick scan of the reference section of 

the Twist 2 manual is evidence enough to 

realise you have a comprehensive and powerful 

suite of functions and features at your 

ingertips_ Thanks to the ARexx interface. 

those requiring even more power can turn 

their hand to this programming tool to create 

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read and informative your records look. Twist 2 allows you to easily 

create the look of your database via the Form editor. Using the 

mouse, simply click and drag the various form objects into 

position. sizing them to your requirements. 

These form objects include database Fields, Text for adding 

informative descriptions on the form. Box. which allows you to provide 

a visual indication of grouped Items. Image, to enable you to 

display icons on the form and, more Interestingly. File objects. 

File objects are quite a powerful feature within Twist 2 and allow 

you to use external files thanks to Workbench's Datatypes feature. 

Such external files can Include !FT' pictures, sound samples and 

any other filetype supported by the Datatype. 

Some of these form objects can also have attributes such as 

colour, allowing you to create a visually informative and even 

aesthetically-pleasing database. 


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Using tha report aditor, you can da•ign the way 

in which your data i• formatted in a report Me 

even more features and functions. The basic 

building block of a database is its fields, 

which are specific data elements of a 

specific data type. Twist 2 has four main 

types of data which are text, numbers 

(integer or floating point) or a calendar date. 

The mark of a quality database program is 

In what functions and processes can be 

applied to these fields. Twist 2's real power 

stems from its comprehensive array of functions 

which include statistical, boolean, geometric, 

text string and conditional functions - 

more than enough for most applications. 

CALCULATIONS 

You can assign a mathematical process to 

fields to automatically calculate figures_ For 

example, say your database has a floating 

point field called Value which holds the price 

of a certain product excluding VAT. 

However, you want to be able to include 

VAT should the need arise_ Therefore, you 

assign a field called VAT to be a floating 

point number which can either hold the number 

0, for no VAT or 17.5 for the current rate. 

You would thus edit the Value field to contain 

the expression (Total • (VAT 100)) + 

Total, which will give the full price including 

any VAT if present. Although a somewhat 

simple example. the range of functions and 

possible expressions is almost unlimited_ 

Other field functions that can be applied 

include validation, which ensures the correct 

data is being entered. An example of this 

would be the VAT field. Obviously, the only 

values valid here are either 0 or 17.5. 

To ensure the operator cannot enter any 

incorrect figures, this field could be validated 

using the expression VAT =-0 II VAT 

=17.5_ In English, this expression is essentially 

saying that the VAT field can only have 

the number 0 OR (expressed as the II 

characters) 17.5 in it, and anything else is 

just not on! 

Thankfully, for those who are currently 

scratching their heads at the above expression, 

there is a complete reference section in 

the Twist 2 manual which describes aN toe 

various symbols and mathematical opera 

tors. If, after reading this, I can get the gist cd 

it, anybody can. 

There are also five attributes which Team 

2 can assign to a field. These are Not 

edrtable (pretty self explanatory), Required - 

which means the field must have data 

entered into it, Fixed - meaning once data 

has been entered, no further calculation at 

validation will be performed - Zero - 

empty. forces a field to a zero value if no 

data is present - and the last attribute. Fille_ 

brings up a pop-up list which displays three 

settings. Fixed length. Compressed and 

Virtual, These are very useful when your 

database starts to attain mammoth 

proportions. 

When you save your database, every field 

and record is saved to disk. The default setting 

is Fixed length. which means all parts cd 

every record in the database, whether al 

characters are used or not, are saved to 

disk. If you have quite large text fields, the 

size of the database can rapidly become 

extreme, taking up copious amounts of 

valuable disk space. 

This problem can be avoided by the use 

of the Compressed option. If a field is set to 

compressed it is not stored in the main database 

file but in a second file which contains 

all the other compressed fields that happen 

to be present within the database. The 

obvious drawback, of course, is that the 

information takes a little longer to retrieve 

because Twist 2 can't immediately find it in 

the database file. 

The final setting is Virtual, and no, Twist 2 

doesn't come with a VR headset. The Virtual 

setting stores nothing at all in the database 

file; instead the content of the field is computed 

every time the record is used from the 

calculation attached to the field. 

Fields can also be Indexed, which means 

all values for a field are contained in a separate 

file and can be set to either ascending 

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fields created, it's time to start entering your 

data. Twist 2 can display your fields in one of 

two ways, as a record form or list. A record 

form will display one record at a time whereas 

a list will display multiple records on one 

screen row, with the columns defining the 

Buttons at the top of the screen allow you 

to select whether you wish to Query (or 

search) the database as well as add, edit or 

delete records, Two arrow buttons allow you 

to browse through records one at a time, or 

you can use the arrow keys on your Amiga's 

Keyboard 

GOOD RELATIONS 

Twist 2 is a relational database which 

means you can build relations into your 

database forms. Simpler databases are 

generally termed 'flat-file', which means 

their forms simply consist of the fields within 

the one database file. Using Twist 2 you 

can create fields whose contents can be 

found in another database file. This 

provides for a more powerful and highly 

efficient database structure. 

Relational databases are extremely useful 

in areas such as a sales system, where you 

may have various departments or people 

handling areas such as stock, orders and 

customers. They allow you to create relational 

fields within records and these fields get 

their information from separate database 

hies. 

Its quite possible to have all the information 

to hand in just one big database file, but 

this would obviously be overly complex to 

create, would make searching unnecessarily 

slow and would probably be very cumbersome 

to maintain_ It would be much easier to 

have separate database files which could be 

integrated into each other, and this is exactly 

what relational databases allow. 

A good example of this would be for a mail 

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leaflets on their stock. Obviously, such a 

firm would have separate departments 

dealing with stock control and ordering, as 

well as customer details. 

It is decided that a promotional leaflet is to 

be produced detailing a new range of software 

for the Amiga and this leaflet is to be 

sent off to their customers_ The firm also deal 

in PC and Macintosh software so they will 

not want to target these customers for the 

promotional run. Using Twist 2's relational 

features, a separate database dedicated to 

producing the required information for the 

promotional run could be created, 

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This database would allow the user to 

search the stock database for machinespecific 

software and search the customer 

database for households with the required 

computers, thereby producing the required 

data for the promotional leaflet. Such versatility 

and efficiency would be difficult to 

achieve using a simple flat-file database. 

Because of the demands on the Amiga 

this little powerhouse of a database provides, 

such as support for datatypes, it will 

only work on Arnigas with Workbench 2 or 

above. Although you can probably coax 

Twist 2 to run on a 1Mb floppy-based 

system. you won't be able to do much with 

it. Hence, a hard disk and memory upgrade 

are highly recommended if you are to get 

the best from it. 

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for your Amiga, if you are intent on 

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what the code is supposed to be doing in 

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Db of making an Amiga display 'smooth 

y ;croll' and since it seemed to me this would 

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an ra 

Intuition screen. Before explaining how 

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type of smooth scrolling is actually 

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graphics s A library documentation may have 

seen ut 

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that can be used to produce 

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generated. Io 

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determine the actual colours seen on the 

screen, and it's because a screen's colour 

register number range depends on the 

number of bitplanes being used that the 

colours available with different screen 

types varies. A one bitplane screen can 

only have two colours (corresponding to 

any single bit in the bitplane, being either a 

0 or a 1). two bitplane screens can have 

four colours (each bit from each bitplane is 

combined to produce one of four values 

00, 01, 10, or 11) and so on. 

MEMORY 

Although display bitplanes have to be 

stored in chip memory (because they need 

to be accessible to the custom chips) they 

do not have fixed positions as such. In fact, 

when a screen is opened the bitplanes will 

be allocated in any convenient area of chip 

memory available. 

Needless to say this means the graphics 

system needs to have some way of identifying 

the position of these bitplanes and 

the structure used is called a BitMap_ This 

structure can be found in the graphics/06 

include file and you'll notice from the 

description below that it contains space for 

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TUTORIAL 

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Because the BilMap's bitplane pointers 

define the memory locations used to produce 

the display that appears on your monitor, 

you might expect that, by arranging for 

a display's bitplane pointers to be 

increased by an amount which corresponds 

to the pixel-width of the screen, it would 

be possible to shift the display memory 

downwards by one line. 

Similarly, by decreasing those pointers 

by the same amount the display might be 

expected to shift upwards one line. 

Although very close to the truth, this 

doesn't work because a part of the story is 

still missing. While the BitMap structure 

certainly defines the initial display memory 

being used, the Amiga's graphics coprocessor 

(the 'Copper') which handles the 

display generation doesn't actually collect 

its bitplane information from this source 

Instead it uses copies of the bitplane pointers 

that have been embedded into a sehes 

of instructions called a 'copper list'. 

Once Intuition has opened a screen and 

generated these copper instructions, the 

bitplane pointers held in the BitMap struc• 

hire's are essentially redundant as far as 

the display generation process is concerned. 

The important bitplane pointer 

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TUTORIAL 

values are those in the hardware copper 

list, so if beplane pointer adjustment needs 

to be done quickly, this is the place to do it. 

In short we need to search this list, find 

the instructions which set up the biplane 

pointers at the start of each display frame, 

and alter these. 

To avoid visible display disturbance. it's 

obvious that such adjustments need to be 

made at times when the Copper is not trying 

to read the bitpiane addresses itself. The 

secret here lies in realising that the Copper 

re-initialisation occurs as part of the housekeeping 

that goes on during vertical blanking 

intervals. A number of options are available 

but I'll discuss these when I deal with 

the scroll code itself. 

As you increase (or decrease) a screen's 

bitplane pointers, the effect will be to bring 

new bitplane memory into the visible display 

area. If, therefore, you set up a normal 

sized screen, the result of any bitplane 

pointer adjustment will be to move the 

memory area being used for the real display 

640 pixels wide 

Within the screen data that Intuition sets up there is 

a pointer to a View structure and the first thing we 

need to do is get the address of this using Intuition's 

ViewAddress() function. The result comes back in 

de and can be used immediately, because within the 

View structure there is a field called v_LOFCprList. 

This points to a cprlist structure which provides a 

pointer to the copper list the hardware actually executes. 

The end result is that we identify the sten of 

the required hardware list using this sort of code: 

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List Amm in e t 

Once we've got to this stage a loop needs to be 

used to locate the appropriate bitplane instructions. 

Copper instructions consist of two lb-bit words 

where the first word specifies the instruction type 

and the second specifies a data item. The instruction 

we need to locate is the first of a series of 

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when screen first opens 

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visible when screen opens 


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Listing t TimGoppor tAit se a rching code in its glory! 

outside the memory holding valid screen 

graphics information. This usually means 

that rubbish gets displayed on the screen. 

so the secret is to create an oversized 

display-memory area so that you only ever 

scroll within the bounds of whatever valid 

graphics data you've set up. 

CREATIONS 

As far as screen and window creation is 

concerned, very few changes are needed 

to last month's code The screen's title and 

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instructions that copy bitplane pointer values 

iinto 

the Amiga's bitplane hardware registers. 

n As the hardware registers can only hold 16-brt val- 

tues 

it actually requires a pair of registers, and there- 

e 

fore two separate copper instructions, to store a full 

r 

32-bit memory pointer. It just so happens that the 

first pair of high and low bitplane registers set up in 

Intuition-created copper lists are those of the lowest 

numbered bitplane. conventionally known as 

bitplane 1. 

The corresponding registers, called BPL1PTH 

and SPIAPTL. have absolute addresses of $0080 

and $00e2 above the custom chips base address, 

so what we need is a search loop which moves 

through a hardware copper list two words at a time. 

Riff)lane start 

identified by 

onginal bitplane 

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comparing the first word of each instruction until it 

finds one which starts with Sea 

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title bar will be removed by setting 

SA_Oulet tag to true and, because a 

play window is needed that is free fr 

any of Intuition's system gadgets. I 

going to turn the window into one of 

'invisible' borderless backdrop variety. 

To implement these latter changes I 

the WA_Borderless and WA_Backdroe 

tags to true, add false WA_DepthGadgee 

and WA_CloseGadget tags, and modify 

the window's title and drag bar tags. At 

these lags are defined in the system head 

ers but, as per usual, I'll be defining ir% 

own versions so that those of you withou' 

the official includes can still assemble the 

code. The end result is that you'll fine 

these changed tag definitions incorporate 

into the window's tag list: 

dc.IWA_Dragaer,TALSE 

dc.tiktittediALL 

dc.tdA_Bordertess,TRUE 

dc.t4A_Baccdrop,ILIE 

dc.tilt_DepthGadget, FALSE 

dc.tilA_CloseGadget, FALSE 

Screen and window sizes also have to 

be changed and here I have, somewhat I 

arbitrarily, chosen to use a high-res 640 

pixel wide screen with a height of 600 

lines. The resulting arrangement of the 

screen's bitplanes in memory, relative to 

what you as a viewer would see on you 

monitor, is shown in figure 1. 4 7 0 

, 

When the loop terminates, the first bitplane oriented 

copper instruction has been found, so just add two 

to it so that a0 is pointing to the second word (the 

data word) of the instruction, and then you can store 

the result for future use 

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If we put all these ideas together we end up with 

the code shown in listing 1. Don't worry if some of 

the ideas seem like magic to start with — just concentrate 

on understanding the basis of what we're 

doing. The important thing is that this code fragment 

enables us to find out the whereabouts of the 

instructions which set up those bitplane addresses 

in the copper list Intuition places. The only bad news 

from your point of view is that you now have to wait 

until next month's instalment to see how we make 

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Lightwave really buzz. However, in the big 

bad world of commercial rendering, even 

the Amiga's fastest chip Is a non-starter. 

When a production company needs several 

minutes of broadcast quality graphics 

in a hurry, only the Silicon Graphics 

machines have been able to produce the 

sort of speeds required. The Raptor 

(reviewed in our December '94 issue) 

changed that and gave the Amiga world 

some big guns of its own, and now Cobra 

AXP brings top-end professional 

performance tantalisingly closer. 

You 

lege. - but with Cobra you get 64Mb RAM, a 

1Gb II hard drive, and the DEC Atpha 

processor st running at a whopping 275MHz. 

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mouse. and Windows NT. 

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Cobra t is able to work in partnership with 

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send data to it, and collect the rendered 

images it sends back 

TECHNICAL HITCHES 

It sounds easy, and when everything is 

up and running it is, but getting to this 

stage can be a minor nightmare. To be fair, 

we were testing with a beta copy of the 

Screamer Net software and an alpha test 

copy of the Lightwave engine on the Cobra 

side, and we didn't have the benefit of an 

automatic installation routine you'd find in a 

finished product. When the quirks are 

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A4000 and a Cobra 

would race through it 

in only 2.2 hours, but 

without a batch option, 

overnight rendering 

would waste tit least six 

hours of precious UM. 

The sample t•xtures 

example scene 

renders in 17 minutes 

50 seconds on an 

A4000, and only 1 

minute 41 seconds on 

the Cobra. That's a 

964 per cent 

speed increase! 


MAY 1995 

GRAPHICS 

ironed out, there's no reason to believe 

that the Cobra won't function as a virtual 

plug-in-and-go machine, but for the 

moment the user is faced with a lot of 

messing around with host names and IP 

numbers before the ethernet side of things 

is happy. With full release versions of the 

software, Screamer Net in particular, users 

will hopefully find that this part of the initial 

setup procedure is taken care of behind the 

scenes. 

Once operating, the link between the two 

machines works very reliably and it's possible 

to mess the system around without 

confusing the network. Worry-free handsoff 

reliability is important when you might 

want to leave the machine rendering 

overnight, though this kind of operation 

does expose a few damning weaknesses 

in the Screamer Net software. 

The scenes which make up a complete 

3D animation don't all have to lake hours 

and hours to render, not even with the 

Alpha chip. but Screamer Net is mostly 

manually operated and has no facility for 

batch processing. This means that if a 

large scene is set to render overnight it 

might take only a few hours, after which the 

Cobra and Amiga are sitting idle and using 

Alpha prO(P5501 

When the Digital Equipment 

Corporation (DEC) began work on its 

64-bit Risc chips a few years ago, they 

were only the latest in a long line of 

companies who had trodden the 

reduced instruction set path. By 1992, 

however, the DEC Alpha had been 

recognised by the Guineas Book of 

Records as the world's fastest microprocessor. 

and it gets faster all the 

time. 

Full 64-bit from start to finish, the 

chip is capable of up to two CPU 

instructions per clock cycle, giving the 

Cobra a maximum theoretical performance 

of 550 millions of instructions 

per second (Mips) compared to the 

A4000's 18 Mips. What's more. 

because DEC had just dropped development 

on their failed Prism processor, 

they decided the next family of 

chips would have a 25-year development 

life, which means the current 

chips could end up running at over 

1000 Mips. 

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GRAPHICS 

up electricity for no good reason. 

To set up a scene for use with Screamer 

Net, the user loads it as usual in Layout, 

then brings up the network panel using the 

SN button found in later versions of 

Lightwave. He or she then has to go 

through a ridiculous sequence of initialising 

the Alpha chip (fair enough). clicking on 

buttons to send the scene, object, and 

image data to the Cobra, another to tell it to 

load the scene, and a final button to start 

rendering. 

PREFERED ASPECTS 

Separate buttons are available to send 

just the object, image or scene data across 

in case changes have been made to one of 

these since the scene was last sent to 

Cobra, but though this is useful, a batch 

render option would have been much more 

welcome. With the machinery and software 

at your disposal when using Lightwave on 

the Cobra, it's very frustrating not to be 

able to give the beast a long list of scenes 

and tell it not to bother you until it has finished 

them. ARexx scripts could be used to 

automate things. so why didn't NewTek 

take this option? 

A second complaint is the amount of 

time the Cobra chip sits idle, even dunng 

rendering, while the data is passed 

between the two machines and written to 

disk on the Amiga. For some reason. the 

Screamer Net programmers have made it 

possible to link up to huge machines with 

super-fast chips, massive hard drives, and 

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1, The Screamer Net 

process begins with a click 

on the Ind button, which 

instructs the Amiga to 

search for available 

processors on the 

ethernet connection 

2. Nest, the user uses this 

bank of buttons to send a 

Scene and its objects and 

images to the Cobra. This 

takes less than a minute for 

most scenes 

of c 

In lull operation the Cobra is about 20 times faster than 

the 68040-based A4000. though some of the performance 

is squandered by the networking software. Our 

62 seconds example was based on actual rendering 

time Once the PC and Amiga Lightwave programs 

had finished shuttling data around and writing it to disk, 

this became 111 seconds per frame, a 79 per cent 

slow down. 

Don't get me wrong - Cobra is one mean piece of 

equipment which at the E7,000 price mark blows 

Raptor out of the water and leaves all other desktop 

power stations for dead (it eats Pentiums for breakfast), 

but the fact that it could be a lot faster with more 

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amount of time the Alpha 

chip is forced to sit 

around and wail. The 

yellow line show. prosios. 

for activity, which drops 

to zero for long periods 

between rendering 

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likes are useful when you 

Franc. 

are experimenting with a 

scene, and change just a 

couple of things before 

rendering again 

Waiting for CPUs to fi nish rendertng 

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this hardware only 50 per cent of the time, 

For example, the standard Space 

Fighters scene from the Lightwave samples 

takes between 44 and 70 seconds per 

frame when rendered on a 68040 at medium 

resolution and no anti-aliasing. The 

Cobra is often slower. 

Yes, slower. Data can be passed across 

ethernet connections at megabytes per 

second, but Lightwave takes 40 seconds or 

more to grab the rendered data from the 

Cobra and write it to disk, during which 

time the Alpha chip is doing absolutely 

nothing. 

STAGE FRIGHT 

Lightwave has always been a bit slow off 

the mark when it goes into the integrating 

pixels' and 'writing RGB data to disk' 

stages, but as there's a version of the core 

rendering engine on the Cobra and an 

awful lot of spare space on its hard drive 

and in its 64Mb RAM, you'd think someone 

efficient disk writes on the Amiga Lightwave side is 

something any prospective owner would find as 

frustrating as I did. 

Smaller companies and very wealthy freelance 

graphic artists, however, will see Cobra as a chance to 

join the big leagues without spending hundreds of 

thousands of pounds. Indeed, a suitable summary for 

this product is that you could buy a complete network 

of machines and software for the price of just one 

(slower) Silicon Graphics Indigo and one copy of its 

superb but ludicrously expensive software. 

Think about it. For the cost of a small business loan. 

you could be the next industrial Light and Magic. 

Aduanc 

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this excess capacity into service 

Rendering the frames mentioned above 

on , the Cobra takes between three and 

seconds (lings!), which makes it all - 

more frustrating when the rest of Mir 

process makes this up to 45 seconds pa 

,frame. Until the basic operation c• 

Screamer Net and Lightwave are changed 

to make more use of the Alpha chip, the 

system as it stands is surprisingly 

inefficient. 

With more complex frames which 

require proper ray tracing or more intensive 

calculations, the efficiency of the sys 

tern improves, but there's always at least 

30 seconds per frame lost, and when yot. 

render 300 or more this adds up very 

quickly. Having said that, when you watch 

a frame which would take the A4000 18 

minutes churned out in only 62 seconds by 

the Cobra, it's difficult not to step back ir 

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A release is imminent of their very stylish race-'em-up Turbo Trax 

and work has already started on the AGA version. A pinball game is 

also in progress at the moment and boasts an impressive list of stats 

and features. Due for release in September, this game will have an 

optional split-screen view in multi-ball allowing you to see all balls 

at one time, a highilow-res toggle, triple layered tables and a larger 

LED dot matrix scroll panel. 

It also promises to be very authentic with left/right/up nudge, 

realistic ball motion and collision. Other features will include up to 

four flippers on each table, three balls running at full speed, drop. 

targets, kick backs and new ideas such as whirlpools, magnets, flipup 

ramps and spinners outholes. The game will have over 1000 

frames of LED animation per table, animated balls including lightsourcing 

and larger tables - 320640 all in 256 colours, 

They also have an arcade/adventure coming soon based around 

Robert E. Howards' Hyboria Chronicles, Called Conan the 

Conqueror, the story follows on from Conan the Destroyer. You play 

Conan and find yourself locked underground in a dungeon and it is 

your quest to get the throne back from the evil wizard Kaltotuen. 

It will be viewed from an isometric point and already looks as if it 

will have some very impressive graphics. It's being coded by 

Monoceros Design of Finland and looks set for a June release. 

It is also rumoured that Arcane are working on a Thunderhawkstyle 

helicopter flight sim and we'll be bringing you more news and 

previews on these developments as they happen. 

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Bureau 13 

Gametek are busily working on the Amiga 

version of Bureau 13. It's a high-tech adventure 

based on the paper role-playing-game 

by Richard Tucholka. The scenario takes place 

around a highly classified government 

agency whose aim is to wipe out all forms of 

paranormal and supernatural phenomena. 

You can choose your team from the six available 

such as The Hacker, an expert in computers, 

biophysics and weapons or The 

Vampire, with superhuman powers and the 

ability to morph into mist. The puzzles vary 

depending on your team. 

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There are cricket games galore at the 

moment, especially with Team 17 

working on their latest project, Final 

Over, Arcade Sports Cricket. The game 

is the follow-up to Arcade Pool and 

King Pin and continues their Arcade 

sports series. At another bargain price 

of 112.99, it promises that 'while being 

the most comprehensive game of its 

ilk, it still remains easy to play and 

forever entertaining.' 

It also boasts intricately designed 

arid animated sprites who throw. run. 

Lap it up 

There is a racing game on the 

horizon from Black Legend/ 

Kellion Software called 

Leading Lap. It is a polygon 

racer that has you competing 

in illegal road races. As you 

race through the city you'll 

have to avoid all the other 

traffic and obstacles that get 

in your way. ft also employs a 

'fairness' system so if you're 

very good the computer 

keeps up to your pace, but if 

you're failing miserably the 

cars are put back to your level 

and lap. 

Also from Kellion is a 

rather bizarre puzzler game 

that revolves around Ants - 

strange but true! 

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Aah, look a t the little sprite s - Fina l Ow, 

looks like it will be a very fun game 

catch, bowl and even celebrate. All di 

players have different abilities such a 

individual bowling skills, strength aril 

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Conan the 

Conqueror will 

be a highly 

atmospherk 

title with top 

quality graphks

pace. There are many predefined teams 

ncluding county and national - and if 

these don't suit then you can create your 

own. Realistk sound effects and a detailed 

scoreboard will add authenticity. 

Martyn Brown, Creative Director for 

Team 17 stated: The emphasis is firmly 

on delivering a completely playable, fun 

simulation in the mould of our other 

arcade sports series titles. Final Over certainly 

has plenty of amusing animations 

and all the features that cricket fans 

demand: 

. Final Over is due out for AGA Amigas 

and on CD32 very soon. 

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Another feature to be included is the 

Seesaw Fight where instead of having 

two energy bars, there is only one split 

Into two colours. 

When you hit your opponent his 

colour 1goes down and yours goes 

up, but if he hits you it goes back 

to the middle. This is a fairer 

system and means matches could last 

for ages for two equally-matched 

opponents. A tag team mode will also 

be included, 

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There's always been a bit of a gap in the Amiga market as far as Zelda-style 

games go. That is until now. Binary Emotions are working on a game called The 

Speris Legacy which will be in much the same vein. This comes at a welcome time 

for Team 17, who are publishing the game, because their earlier plans to release 

a similar title on the Amiga, called Witchwood, 1have been shelved. 

You play Cho and have just inherited the throne of Speris off your chum Kale 

(who has just been murdered by his evil brother who wanted the throne for himself). 

Gallus (his bother) is now after your blood and you, being an all round 

good guy, vow to crush Gallus and restore order. You then have to wander 

around the land, solving the puzzles and talking to the other characters. 

From what we've seen from the screenshots it will be a very nice looking 

game, with brightly coloured graphics. The adventure will take you over many 

locations including Sharma City - a place reserved for Royalty -Cow Tree Island - 

an island inhabited by intelligent but mad people and where the cows do their 

business from trees (oh, very nice!) - and Makiah, Garden of O'Talia. Look forward 

to The Speris Legacy early this Summer. 

Thalion have a beat-'em-up in progress 

and as yet it hasn't got a name, but 

things are already looking pretty good 

at this stage. It's more than likely to 

oe CD32-only and is a first effort from 

programmer, Kwok Man. 

There will be 32 fighters in all and 

each will have their own (and easy to 

find) special moves. As well as these, 

there skill be Super Moves which can 

be carried out once your character has 

pulled off a particular combination. 

The Speris Legacy 

The Spans Legacy looks like 

it will be a visua lly bright 

and coiourfui game 

A Zeida-esque game on 

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First impressions 

Impressions, the people behind those rather serious strategy games, have gone 

for a change in direction with their latest venture, Ultimate Soccer Manager. 

Although there are always plenty of management games around, Impressions 

believe this one is going to be different as they have explored three new 

angles. These are match view, development of the ground and stadium, and 

the seedier side to the game! 

The programmers all felt that with some previous management games, the 

actions of the manager, such as changing the formation mid-match, didn't 

really affect the game. They've rectified this with an over head match view system 

which shows how effective your tactics are and how your changes are 

affecting the game. 

The stadium development will also be more detailed, with a full business 

option. The aim is to make your ground as profitable as possible with club 

shops, bars, fast food outlets, training ground and effective access to the 

ground. You will also be responsible for setting club merchandising prices as 

well as the gate prices. Ultimate Soccer Manager will show your empire 

growing from your basic ground to a first class stadium. 

USM has a totally new aspect to it with its dirty tricks elements and will give 

you the opportunity to play underhand! You can rig matches, offer bungs 

to other managers to get the player you want, and bet against your own 

team winning - be warned though, you do run the risk of an investigation 

by the FA. 

Other features will include a Talent Scout Option, Press Conferences, 

Sponsorship and advertising, and Bank Loans. Publishing is by Daze and LISM 

should be available very soon. 

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been more than pleasantly surprised by 

Shadow Fighter. It could go from strength 

to strength after the release of the AGA 

version and finally take the beat-rem-up 

crown away from games like Body Blows 

and Mortal Kombat. Shadow Fighter is, 

quite simply, thumping good fun. 

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The all New World of Lemmings 

Skeleton Krew 

Shadow Fighter 

This is my first musical highlight of 1995 and it's 

all thanks to Core Design who have obviously got 

the intelligence to use someone who is skilled at 

creating original pieces of high quality music that 

belong in the '90's and not the '80's, The graphics 

are very impressive and it's obvious theyve been 

created by someone with a love for science fiction 

films and comic books. 

All Terrain Racing 

On the balance of things it beats its predecessors 

because of a greater long-term incentive. The 

rewards of winning the money, then spending it to 

soup up my motor filled me with a boyish flush of 

satisfaction - and that's the sort of thing to keep a 

player going. It's got the looks, the features and the 

speed to take the chequered flag. Go forth and 

spend your money. 

With all the new releases 

available, you're probably 

wondering which ones to 

spend your hard-earned 

cash on. Well, just take a 

look below-- 

Anyone who played the original game and liked it 

will love to get their hands on a copy of Psygnosis' 

latest offering_ It's what you might call a conglomeration 

of old and new. The old being the original and 

incredibly addictive gaming concept, the new being 

the advances in graphics and sound. These two elements 

combined make for a rip-roaring, actionpacked 

90-level puzzler that just gets better and 

better the more you plav 

Extractors CD32-Rom 

Extractors is graced with some of the best graphics 

I've ever seen for this type of game and is packed 

to the brim with more addictive gameplay than 

you can possibly cope with, There are literally thousands 

of hours of play contained within the game_ 

Fans of Diggers will no doubt be interested in 

Extractors, but I hope Millennium gain a few more 

fans through this release and people don't ignore 

it this time around. 

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A guide to how our revolutionary 

scoring system works... 

Were sure many of you are now familiar with ow 

new storing system, but for those reading Amiga 

Computing for the first time and those who might 

have forgotten exactly how it works, here is our 

guide to the System scoring, err system. 

In our opinion, review scores have lost their context 

as a percentage: some products receiving scones 

which were only a few percentage short of being the 

"perfect game. when in truth they were only 

marginally above average. 

OK, so the scores might seem unnaturally low at 

first, but that's only because other scoring systems 

tend to be on the high side and perhaps not as 

comprehensive or honest as they could be. 

In the long run you'll receive a more concise and 

reader-orientated review that's geared towards the 

consumer. 

0-20 This is given to the lowest of the low 

21-30 An all-round poor game that 

may have a single saving grace 

31410 Just below the average, perhaps 

let down by a few indiscretions. 

41-55 Games of this score are roughly average 

with SO being a perfectly average score. 

56-66 This is an above average game 

and is worth buying. For this reason 

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Name: Fakir 

Nation: Pakistan 

Special moves: Genie hurricane - D; 

Mystery fire - C; Teleport - E; Magic 

carpet - A 

Name: Yarado 

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Special moves: Electric speed E; 

Spirit power - D; Electric body - F; 

Electric splash • J; Spinning arms - G 

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Name: Kury 

Nation: Tibet 

Special moves: Power smash fist - D; 

Body drop - C; Rock roll- G; 

Spinning fire hand -E 

Name; Okura 

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Special moves, Electrics ord - F; 

Spinning blade - C; Thunder power 

-.1; Steel sword - A; Teleport - A

Name: Electra 

Nation: Denmark 

Special moves: Electric body - F; 

Power launch - C; Earth power 

energy - E; Electric boomerang - D; 

Double kick - H; Spinning jump - G 

Name: Toni 

Nation: Italy 

Special moves, Burning uppercut - A, 

Spinning fire E; Flame kick - B, 

Massive uppercut H 

Name: Toshio 

Nation: Japan 

Special moves: Fireball - D; Speed 

dragon - E; Dragon uppercut - H; 

Dragon kick -C; Circle of fire A 

Nation: Germany 

Special moves. Gun fire - D; Power 

fist C; Earthquake fist - A 

Name: Lee then 

Nation China 

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Special moves. Fire hand spring - H, 

Fist of Falling sun -C: Fire fist - D; 

Fury kick -F; Falling nunchaku - A 

Special moves: Liquid silver attack 

D. Melting body - E 

Nation: USA 

Special moves: Kuto kick - A; Fast 

punch - F; Flying power kick - G 

-Kuto fireball - D 

Name: Marx 

Nation: Unknown 

Special moves: Fire hands - A; 

Cutting claws C; Rolling claw clash 

-G; Tiger pounce attack - D; Falling 

angel - I 

Name: Puppaz 

Nation; Taiwan 

Special applications: Bowling Ball; 

Buzzing Saw; Electric Fence Force; 

Flame Thrower; Jack in the Box 

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Nation: Spain 

Special moves: Spinning poweA ,:-;; - 

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Nation: Thailand 

Special moves: Fast tire somersault - 

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than gratuitous blood and gore? Do bloodied 

torsos make your stomach churn? Fear not 

because Gametek have an alternative you 

could even ainvite the Vicar laround to play. Called Brutal 

Paws of Rini, it's still a beat-'em-up, but with a difference. 

Forget ferocious characters that would rip your 

head off as soon as they look as you, and clean up the 

entrails and the headless corpses - there is a new fighting 

game taking to the ring. Already available on the 

consoles, Brutal Paws of Fury is almost ready to hit the 

Amiga and could well steel the hearts of many. 

The premise behind it is a little unusual: It's a 'cartoon' 

martial arts game and certainly promises to be 

original. There are lots of cute creatures all aiming to 

beat each other up (in the nicest possible way, of 

course!) to decide who is worthy of wearing the Belt of 

Heaven - an award which brings great honour. 

This contest is judged by the Dali Llama, who every 

four years goes on a quest to find the world's greatest 

warriors. The fighters are all invited to his peaceful 

island to compete against each other and are judged 

not only on their martial arts skills but also how much of 

the 'warrior spirit' they possess. The winner can then 

claim the coveted Belt of Heaven. Now I say cartoon 

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learnt, the number of victories and losses and 

even the player's name so each password can be 

individualised. 

As you can see from the screenshots, the game is 

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your parents. Gameplay promise to keep the fundamental 

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Kung Fu Bunny 

Motto: To know fear is courage 

A kind and considerate character who gains 

great pleasure from seeing how he has helped 

someone succeed 

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Some moves: Fire Kick, Fire Punch 

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Leon the Lion 

Motto; I have only one judge, the world 

Leon never forgets a debt and will always even 

up the score. 

Some moves: Roar, Lightening Fury 

Ivan Bear 

Motto: You can rest when you're dead 

A down•to•earth character who stands for no 

nonsense and believes any problem can be overcome 

by a bit of common sense 

Some moves: Penjat Silat Mind Throw, Big Belly 

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as old as home computing itself, this 

type of game always attracted a 

hardcore fan base. There were, and 

still are, people who relish the oppor- 

O tunity h. good to old immerse flight themselves snit. A genre in almost completely 

authentic flying experiences - 

people to whom accuracy is more important 

than appearance. 

An equally large number of game players. 

however, found the whole genre deadly dull. 

Ground details were bland and unconvincing. 

There was no sensation of motion, and socalled 

dogfights often boiled down to electronic 

combat with specks on the horizon. Then 

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Experiment, a fact which should remind 

prospective buyers that this is not just a 

flashy visual feast, but rather a very 

serious simulation. 

There are three hi-tech planes to 

choose from: The Eurofighter 2000, the 

Lockheed F-22 or the F-117 Stealth 

Fighter. Each one handles differently and 

possesses different armament capacities. 

Several varying modes allow for different 

levels of action and involvement To 

start with, the arcade mode is a bit of nononsense 

fun that sets the player off 

right in the middle of the action. The 

plain object here is to compete for kills 

against the dock and work your way up 

the hi-score board. 

In preparation for more serious challenges, 

ten training missions must be successfully 

completed. This should give 

players a good introduction to mastering 

the navigation and weapon systems. 

Once players prove themselves to be 

up to the job, they can take on the role 

of pilot flying for the United Nations in a 

large variety of missions. Alternatively, 

they may wish to test their skills against 

all the different flying conditions in the 

simulator mode. 

Combat is realistic yet exciting. You'll 

find it very difficult, for example, to bring 

anything down with a chain gun, but 

tracking MiGs with the right missile isn't 

too tough. 

The copy we had did still have some 

bugs, most of which were minor, One of 

the worst was the Chinook helicopters - 

the models had been imported incorrectly, 

leaving them distorted in design 

DID are aware of these flaws so hopefully 

they will be swiftly corrected. 

IFX is highly configurable, so it's possible 

to mess with various options during 

flight. For example, players can alter how 

strictly the laws of physics are applied to 

their aircraft. 

Similarly, adjustments can be made to 

the level of G-force effects the pilot will 

suffer. Set it to maximum and some players 

will find it too restrictive - any 

manoeuvre seems to have the pilot 

blacking out and breathing heavily. 

TFX came along to make the sceptics sit up and 

think again. Developed originally for the PC it 

featured convincing ground terrain, fluffy 3D 

clouds, satisfying explosions and gorgeous, 

state-of-the-art airborne technology. In short 

here was a sim that looked exciting. 

Now, Digital Image Design have unveiled 

vx for the Amiga. Possibly the most demanding 

piece of software your machine has ever 

had to cope with, we test fly the state-of-theart 

sim to see if the conversion was worth the 

wait. 

Taking a sideways look at the 

night-life before I get down to 

serious business 

Action at the break of dawn: 

The F2.2 swoops Over 

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INTRODUCTMII 

features • whole range of climates. 

including this all too familiar gloom 

The F22 evading incoming missiles - 

remembering to lift the undercarriage 

would have helped 

SOUPEII-up SIM 

Forget the empty, flat landscapes and 

the basic block-like shapes used by some 

flight Sims to represent enemy units, TFX 

was designed to inspire and awe, and 

the words 'if looks could kill' have never 

seemed so apt, 

From the moment the player starts 

the engines up, there are significant differences 

between the look of this game 

and the standard sim fare. The skies in 

TFX have space and depth, and 

once airborne, the player 

has a panoramic view of 

patchwork fi elds or 

detailed cities passing 

beneath them, It is a far 

cry from the blue sky, 

yellow desert simplicity of 

some flying games, 

Missions can take place in 

a range of conditions including 

day, night and dawn flights, and players 

may encounter cloud cover or even 

storm weather accompanied by sheet 

lightning. 

The visual realism gives each mission 

a different flavour. Night-time bombing 

doesn't just mean flying with a blacked. 

out screen - the sky in IFX has a faint, 

gradiated luminescence, while on the 

Mission de tarts are given in • tmospheric brio fi ng scenes 

Having read how demanding TFX is as a piece of software, you may be wondering 

what the minimum amount of kit is to get it running properly. 

The bottom line is that it can be played on a basic Al200 - just about - but you 

will have to turn down the detail to its minimum setting, which means missing 

out on some of the finer touches. Having said that, it still looks better than the 

opposition in most respects. 

If you've got an accelerator things start to get more impressive, and the more 

fast RAM available the better. There's also an FPU version, so if you're lucky 

enough to have an accelerator fitted with a maths co-processor you should be set 

up for a pretty stunning experience. 

Whatever your machine's specifications are, however, one thing must be 

stressed if you want to enjoy playing the game: It needs an analogue joystick. 

While there is an option to use a digital joystick or keyboard, this seriously undermines 

the smoothness of control, especially when flying the planes at high speed 

For whatever reason, the digital controllers can't keep up with the graphics_ 

ground, cities are represented by 

convincing clusters of light. 

Cross over enemy gun installations 

and the air is filled by streams of rising 

light as tracer bullets track onto your aircraft. 

At times it can be breathtakingly 

atmospheric. 

Stormy conditions are gloomy and 

grey, with the most convincing clouds 

seen in any game I've played yet_ As 

you pass into them the view 

outside the window gradually 

mists before becoming 

completely obscured. 

Explosions, special 

effects and fancy camera 

views are offered as a satisfying 

reward for honing 

those flying skills. Physical 

danger is represented by more 

than a flashing warning light in the 

cockpit, as AA guns pump the skies full 

of clouds of shrapnel. 

It may not be politically correct, but 

the kill is what a game like this is ultimately 

about It's rewarding, therefore, 

that explosions are impressive and that 

it's easy to view any victim going down. 

Players can launch missiles and watch 

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When it comes to different views in 

general, TFX i 5 better equipped than 

any rival as far as impressing your 

mates is concerned, One mode allows 

you to look in any direction from the 

cockpit (as opposed to the usual left, 

right and behind view), but the best is 

the fly-by shot which brings your 

fighter swooping impressively towards 

the camera, 

Cockpit detail is high, with all neces 

sary indicators being visible from the 

normal cockpit view. There are three 

screens on which a huge range of 

information displays can be selected, so 

the purists should feel well catered for. 

The important thing to realise, 

unfortunately, is that IFX can only be 

seen in its full glory if played on a fast, 

powerful machine, because basic 

Al200 users will find the screen update 

too slow with the game detail turned 

up high. 

Most players will probably be able 

to play IFX with medium detail. This 

means going without a few frills, such 

as emblems on a fighter's tailwing, but 

on the whole TFX still looks highly 

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For a long time, Microprose were 

the developers the sim fanatics put 

their faith in. One of the first game 

makers to introduce combat missions 

into the genre, their product's 

playability was always strong, even 

when the graphics were rather dull 

Featuring a stealth bomber as 

one of its planes, TFX bears comparison 

with Microprose's Fill-A 

Accuracy levels seem to be pretty 

much the same, but when it comes 

to the graphics department the 

Microprose game is old, and it looks 

it. 

The closest rival technically to 

IFX has got to be Tornado 

Featuring some stunning graphics, 

unprecedented accuracy and involv 

ing campaigns, It remains a very 

impressive game. 

TFX surpasses its predecessor in 

most respects, however, simply 

because it combines even more 

detailed graphics while making 

improvements on the running 

speed. In short, DID have produced 

the best Amiga sirn ever 

Missions are given more authenticity with 

a few extra details sorb as news reports 

'Take on the missions - fight for peace.' 

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TFX was originally designed with the fastest megabuck 

PCs in mind, so there were understandable 

doubts as to whether a conversion was worthwhile 

for the much cheaper, and in some respects less 

powerful AI200. 

So now that it's finally here, what's the verdict? 

DID have pushed the Amiga to the limit in an 

attempt to bring us the best flight sim ever. They 

have undoubtedly done an excellent job, but 

whether or not TX is for you will depend on a 

number of factors. Firstly, the basic Al200 cannot 

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show the game off at anywhere near its best - a 

point worth considering if you're only interested in 

those gorgeous graphics. Even so, with minimum 

detail it still looks good and the real sim fan will find 

plenty of depth and accuracy in the actual gameplay 

to occupy many an early morning. 

The more powerful your Amiga is, however, the 

more impressive IFX becomes, and at its best it 

really can be quite stunning. With a suitably accelerated 

machine, this game has the visual flair and 

excitement to attract fans usually put off by the Simdesigners' 

fetish for complexity. 

It's a shame that only the select few will be able 

Try before you buy 

As has been mentioned elsewhere 

in the review, minor bugs 

cropped up here and there, but 

generally they were no great 

cause for concern, 

More worrying is the fact that 

our copy of TFX did not seem stable 

running on a basic Al200, 

thanks to regular crashing in the 

middle of a game. DID are aware 

of the problems and have made 

assurances that any problems 

will be resolved before the product 

hits the streets. The cautious 

among you, however. may like to 

see it up and running before you 

splash any cash. 

Let's start with the bad point - the music. Imagine you've just bought the 

ultimate flight simulator boasting an unprecedented level of realism and 

excitement, and you're looking with anticipation at the introductory 

screens in preparation for the experience of Tactical Fighter Experiment. 

In come the martial drum sounds sim games use to get you keyed up for 

the mission. So far so good, but as you prepare to arm your fighter with 

the latest deadly hardware, things on the music front start to go ludicrously 

wrong. Enter the noodling tinny noise of a theme played on a 1983 

Casio. 

Not that this matters one iota, but it made me laugh. Otherwise, the 

game's audio is proficiently handled, with plenty of varied effects to flesh 

out the atmosphere for the game. 

A number of voices pipe up with information for the pilot during the 

game, including the girl with the home counties accent at take-off 

("engines °nil and the redneck yank who, when you shoot a plane 

down, tastefully jeers 'toasted bogey!' 

Bay doors, the brakes and landing gears all make a satisfying hydraulic 

groan when activated - small touches maybe, but ones which make the 

game that bit more convincing. 

to play the game in 

its best form, but 

DID can't be blamed 

for pushing the 

Amiga's capabilities 

to the limit. An outstanding 

sim in its 

own rights, there's a lot to recommend it to owners 

of lower-powered machines. 

Problems aside, this game beats its closest rival 

both in detail and in speed. IFX is the best sim on 

the Amiga of all time, and that's a fact unlikely to 

change in a long, long time

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0 the he village game of team cricket or maybe - what even could partaking be nicer on in a warm game summer's yourself? 

Its a nice image, but being in good old England we don't get 

many warm summer's afternoons so what better way to enjoy the 

sport than from the comfort of your armchair in front of the monitor. 

This in mind, it is perhaps rather surprising that there haven't been 

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to mind is Audiogenic's Graham Gouch. But this could all be set to 

change. Team 17 are working on their more arcadey Final Over cricket 

game and now we also have Grandslam's latest contribution. But will 

it really bowl you over? 

GRAPHICS 

I must say I was slightly confused by the 

graphics for Ws Cricket - I mean, when I 

saw the batting or bowling screens I 

was impressed. They are nicely set out, 

the sprites are large and well-animated 

and the stadium is detailed_ But (and 

this is a big but) when the fielding 

screen came up it looked absolutely 

abysmal. The sprites are tiny and very 

basic and took me back to graphics 

from about ten years ago! It just looked 

very strange - like two different games. 

At the beginning, not surprisingly, 

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selection of digitised pictures containing 

cricket memorabilia. This is a very 

nice touch that cricket fans are bound 

to love. The pictures are used throughout 

the game to select your players and 

they give the game a more human 

touch rather than having to choose 

from a lot of facts and figures. You can 

also put in your own images by using a 

paint package. 

The different animated sequences 

that appear throughout the game work 

well, such as Umpire decisions, and 

there's even a rather strange but realistic 

animation of a duck for, you 

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is absolutely dreadful. Once the batsman has hit the 

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move r him to where the ball is probably going to land and 

then he will throw the ball back. This is very fiddly and 

tedious o and it's more a case of guesswork than actual skill. 

The bowling isn't too bad -you get to pick whether you 

want n to bowl the ball around or over the wicket and then 

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bowling w is determined by the player's attribute in the 

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The game has its good points, such as having plenty 

of player stats which should go down well with the 

real cricket buffs, and it is also expandable for future 

add-ons, However, despite some nice graphics, a great 

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latforrners are regular cannon fodder in the 

laser-mounted sights of cynical reviewers. 

Constant complaints of the genre being dead 

and ready for burial are levelled at the software 

houses - yet the platform phenomena keeps rolling 

onwards. 

This particular reviewer doesn't actually have a 

problem with a game style that has been round for the 

last 14 years or so as long as it's done well. Take a look 

at Flashback on the Amiga or Donkey Kong Country on 

the SNES and it's obvious there's still life in the genre 

yet - it just takes a little time, imagination and a fresh 

GRAPHICS 

While effective, Ruffian's visual presenta• 

tion is of a decidedly average quality. The 

main character. Ruffian, while 'packed 

with character', is not exactly the most 

satisfying of sprites to see leaping from 

platform to platform. Like all jump-'emups 

these days, he too has his own little 

routines when left standing still for too 

long - the most memorable one being a 

full-on moonie. 

The other creatures that infest the forest 

are again average, with not much in 

the way of character. The gorillas are 

especially badly drawn and walk round as 

if they have a corn cob stuck in a particularly 

sensitive orifice. Another annoyance 

is that some of the platforms and enemies 

can sometimes blend all too easily in 

to the background. While adding to the 

challenge, it can also lay on the frustration 

in large thick wads as you fall for the 

fourth time down a level and have to 

work your way round again. 

While the multi-directional scrolling is 

of a high quality, the lack of any parallax 

scrolling and the PD-ish look of the 

whole game really doesn't make one 

ache to get further into it on a search for 

graphical delights, but just to turn the 

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genres potential. 

Enter Ruffian then, the latest recruit to the platform- 

ing ranks. Set in a jungle, you take on the unfortunate 

role of Ruffian, a cross between Tanen Mowgii from 

the Jungle Book and Sid the Sexist. The mission is to set 

free a certain amount of pixies caught up in carnivorous 

plants dotted over the scrolling landscape of each 

level. The player achieves this by spitting plant seeds to 

liberate the little fellas and also take out the various 

creatures that festoon the dimbable vegetation. 

Once done, race to the exit to move onto the next 

level Dotted all over the place are jewels. gold cups, 

potions and spells that can be used to progress further 

into the game. And that's pretty much it. 

The various effects that make 

up the atmospheric soundtrack 

of Ruffian are probably 

the game's strongest area. 

The jungle noise of crickets 

clicking in the background is 

complimented by the 

screeches and calls of unseen 

animals- While it's all rather 

cliched, it works well. 

The most novel and perhaps 

gross sound effect is the 

guttural noises of Ruffian as 

he fires a healthful glob of 

flem-covered, bullet-like 

seeds at anything that moves. 

Charming... 

OPINION 

L rap and 

dash through 

the mufti 

scrolling 

levels in the 

search of 

pixies 

At first, it's easy to pass this game off without so much 

as a second glance. unfortunately, for the reviewer, on 

second, third, fourth and fifth intense gazes at the 

screen, it doesn't really get any better. Ruffian can be 

best described as a game that uncomfortably lands 

somewhere between PD and a fully-fledged commercial 

release. 

On its good side, there are a couple of novel elements. 

Firstly there's the spitting of seeds which requires 

aiming Ruffian's head with the left and right keys and 

then releasing the fire button to send the seed hurtling 

on its way to its destination. Then, having to shoot the 

pixies to release them can involve bouncing said seeds 

off walls to reach them - a nice idea. 

The game tries to imitate instead of establish its own 

Another 

platiormer graces the 

Amiga. Adam Phillips goes 

into the jungle to find out if it's any good or 

Ruffian 

simply another lethargic run 'n' jump effort 

On finding the 

little stackers, spit a 

seed to fre e the m 

from ca ptivity 

One of the e ndmfle 

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must be de stroye d to 

reach pre viously 

inaccessible areas 

platforming identity. On your travels, power-ups are 

available which increase firepower, make your jumps 

higher and give other intially tempting bonuses such as a 

magic carpet- End-of-level-like bosses have to be 

destroyed to reach particular points but unfortunately, 

all these usually enticing elements, which probably 

sounded good on paper, seem rather half-hearted and 

simply fail to capture the adrenaline or imagination of 

the player. 

The game is certainly a challenge with its time limits 

and tough goings on through the large areas of each 

level, but the whole experience leaves you with an 

empty feeling of having seen and done this all before 

Not a platformer I on recommend, unfortunately - perhaps 

those cynical reviewers were right after all.

miga platformers have always 

been rather hit and miss when it 

comes to quality in comparison 

to their console counterparts. People have said good things 

about games like Zool or Superfrog, but good as they were. I 

found them to be pale reflections of the best Sega and Nintendo 

rivals. 

Now this jaded genre has a newcomer designed by Flair Software. 

Featuring a rabbit remarkably similar to the one in Disney's Alice in 

Wonderland. Whizz is slightly unusual in that it's an isometric adventure 

- in other words, a platformer in 3D. 

The story behind Whizz is simple, you'll be surprised to hear. Our 

rapidly rotating rabbit is being chased by his adversary Ratty in a balloon 

around the mystical world, leading to adventures set on levels like 

the Green Grassed Castle or the South Sea Beaches. 

Disembarking from his aerial transport. Whizz sets off on each level in 

a race against time, frantically seeking a variety of collectables needed 

to complete his mission. If the sands of time run out before he succeeds. 

however, Ratty will catch him up and finish him off. 

SOUND 

Sadly this game's sound. 

track is more likely to irritate 

than give Whizz 

appeal. It's the sort of sonic 

sewage we've been listening 

to on computer games 

since the mid-'80s, and 

frankly I'd rather play with 

the sound turned off than 

suffer it all over again. 

If old ideas are going to 

get rehashed, developers 

should at least attempt to 

perfect them. To me, the 

humdrum nature of the 

sound effects in Whizz give 

it away as a half-hearted 

affair. 

GRAPHICS 

Whirl is hardly going to turn heads as far as 

its looks go, but it's not too bad. The isometric 

view is an unusual touch in this type of 

game, the main character is likeable enough, 

and the general effect is cheerfully colourful. 

Details have been added to give Whizz a 

dream-like appearance. For example, the first 

level appears to be set high up in the sky, 

with the ocean visible miles below the action. 

Then there's the Indoor World of Gamesville, 

a bizarre land of puzzles featuring giant cards 

that again would look perfectly at home in a 

INTRODUCTION 

Our rabbit spins to shatter the oce door 

1 

Lewis Carroll adventure. Unfortunately there 

are a fair few drawbacks as well. The monsters 

are at best unimpressive and at worst 

ineptly designed - the bouncing tubes, for 

example, shouldn't really have made it off 

the drawing board. 

There are various features to visually 

reward the player_ Hopping onto some buttons 

will launch bonus scoring rockets, doors 

shatter when approached using the correct 

device, and as in the Nintendo Mario series, 

there are power-up mushrooms to be consumed. 

Why these platform programmers are 

fixated by magic mushrooms I 

couldn't say. 

Whiza has to race through each land 

because his arch enemy is a lwa ys in puesuit 

Flair Software are hack 

hoping their latest game 

will inject some new life 

into the platform genre. 

Gareth tolthouse takes 

Whizz for a whirl 

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Okay, I'm a bit tired of platformers, so the likelihood of me 

being stunned into silent awe by Whizz was rather unlikely. 

Nevertheless, I was hoping for some entertaining puzzles 

and a few fresh twists on an old idea. 

Whizz does feature the odd interesting innovation, but 

unfortunately they are not successfully pulled off. Take the 

isometric view, for example. This device has worked well in 

a lot of games since Knightlore on the Spectrum, but try to 

zip round in Whizz and things get frustrating. The problem 

is that Whizz is about a race against time, and the traditional 

Sonic Hedgehog view seems better suited to that sort 

of challenge. 

The way players are supposed to spin the rabbit into 

enemies to kill them is another example of either a singular 

lack of imagination or effort on the developer's part. 

Added to that is the fact that it's tough from the outset 

and you have to go right back to the level's beginning - 

factors which won't help to win new friends for the genre. 

For those who've had enough of the usual platform fare 

to last a lifetime, my advice is to give Whizz a wide berth. 

Then again, my advice for those who do like the genre is to 

give it a miss in the hope that something half professional 

might come along.

INTRODUCTION 

are really building a reputation for 

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software 

company. 

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Acid 

the 

Softw 

moment. 

Just a few months ago they released the 

superb Guardian, a 3D isometric shoot-'em• 

up. then followed Roadkill, a stunning overhead 

racer. 

This time they are once again concentrating 

their efforts on another racer - one that has a 

hard act to follow if it wants to live up to the 

reputation of its predecessor. Yes, it's the 

sequel to their highly acclaimed race-'em-up, 

Skidmarks and has many new features. There 

are new cars, caravan towing and new 

tracks a-plenty, but with all the current 

racers around can it still stand up to the 

competition? 

Fun race-'em-ups are undergoing a bit of a revival 

of late. We've had Team 17's ATR which scored a 

healthy 89 per cent, and was packed with playability 

thanks to being able to win money to soup 

up your car. ATR also had some very nice looking, 

varied tracks with tunnels and oil slicks on the 

road, and although there were only three cars 

they all handled significantly different, However, 

in Skidmarks 2 it actually feels more competitive 

and the rough and tumble approach works well as 

you all scramble to the finish. 

Skidmarks 2 will also have to watch its back 

from the new competition, Arcane's racer Turbo 

Trax, which also looks very promising. 

Another fun racer that springs to mind is Micro 

Machines - the tabletop matchbox car game that 

had you racing around school desks and kitchen 

tables. Although Skidmarks 2 is set in 'proper' surroundings, 

it does remind me of Micro machines 

in it's chaotic, fun and cutesy approach_ 

This time round, Skids' 2 has a lot of advantages 

over its rivals with its many options, multiplayer 

features and many screen modes. It also has 

millions of cars to choose from - where else can 

you race cows towing caravans?! 

She cars look robrivt and as though they will 

stand up to the rough and tumble garner:day 

Yes, I t's cows towing caravans - you can 

see why the y're ca lle d Acid Softwa re 

All the drHe re nt backdrops look good and are va rie d 

There a re sortie ve ry windy tra cks and you'll 

have to think a bout whe re you're going 

GRAPHICS 

The original Skidrriarks was never the most graphically 

high-tech of racing games but was definitely 

one of the most appealing. It gave the genre a 

whole new slant with a real fun, almost cute, look 

to it with Its miniature matchbox•type cars. 

Skidmarks 2 has kept this same approach and made 

it even better. 

As stated before, there are the vehicles from the 

original plus others, including the option to race 

some cows and tow caravans! This all looks terrific 

and adds a very humorous touch. The different cars 

are all fantastic, from the VVVs to the Midget, and 

there is even the option to change their colours 

And we 're oft - ge t re a dy to burn rubber. 

Oh no, boy racer mode se tting in again 

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from the blues and greens to a fluorescent tone. 

There are many more tracks included this time 

with a variety of different settings. There's an icy 

terrain, a desert, and a Grand Prix circuit among 

others, and each works really well with bright 

colourful backdrops and plenty of detail. Miniature 

spectators fit in with the cute style, and other additions 

such as signs and advertising hoardings look 

good. 

A lot of the graphics have been designed with 

the gameplay in mind, for example, textured tracks 

and ramps have been included to provide a more 

challenging race, but they also look good - especially 

when the cars leap up into the air over the 

bumps! 

75% 

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Joystick e rr, I wa sn't ready, the y'vo cheated etc. 

triple-screen mode a nd it's time to gra b some 

friends for a ,,,ad dash a round the tra ck 

Skidmarks 

Tina Hackett dons her helmet and 

leathers and gears up to review the 

i sequel to Skidmarks. Damon Hill 

eat you heart out! 

TIlid' KLEMM 

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thent's a quick foupd of Pong 

to ka yo you occuptod while the 

game loa ds - but the Interface 

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bumps or 

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provide 

variety 

PLAYABILITY 

mwl E-1 I A 1 a I 

Playability is what Super Skidmarks is 

all about. It's a pure race-'em-up, 

there's no doubt about that, and 

whereas other racing games penalise 

you for bumping into other cars, this 

one actively encourages itl You burn 

off from the starting line in true 'boy 

racer' style, nudge other cars into the 

barriers, skilfully steer around the 

bends and negotiate the ramps. And 

what great fun it is too! 

Unfortunately, there isn't a feature 

where you can collect bonuses or win 

money to upgrade your car which 

would have provided more longevity 

to the one-player games. However, the 

Championship mode does compensate 

in some way as it provides some kind 

of long-term objective and gives more 

of a purpose to the proceedings. 

Where the game really shines, 

though, is through the multi-player 

mode. Extra players can make use of 

Keyboard controls or the joystick adaptor 

and it's definitely worthwhile dragging 

a few friends into the 

proceedings to experience all the 

thrills and spills_ 

There are plenty of different tracks 

available now to test even the most 

experienced racer. Twelve new ones 

have been included, plus the game is 

compatible with the original 12. Each 

has a variety of challenges from the 

simple figure of eight tracks to complex, 

windy courses with hairpin bends 

and ramps or bumps you will need to 

leap over in true rally style. A lot of the 

tracks have arrows showing you where 

to go but it still takes a lot of practice 

to learn where you are going, how to 

master the corners and the like. 

Control of the game is either via the 

keyboard or the joystick. The accelerator 

on the joystick is implemented by 

pushing forward or by pressing fire, 

and the keyboard controls are either 

through the arrow or control keys. 

Both work equally well and a lot is 

down to which you think is easier. 

Skids 2 caters for both the experts 

and those new to the game because 

you can change how the car handles. 

For example, as well as the usual 

Classic you can choose Slippery which 

makes the car totally difficult to handle, 

or Pedal Car which gives you a 

chance to practice - and if you haven't 

played it before you're going to need 

it! 

The trick is to treat the vehicles like 

Rally cars and try to slide them round 

the tracks rather than steer them 

around. And it's recommended you 

don't take your finger off the 

accelerator button! 

Oh and while you wait for the disks 

to load you can have a game of Pang - 

a nice, novel touch that saves you 

sitting around doing nothing.

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EIMIAS 

Super Skidmarks 2 has plenty of extra features this time, 

including the ability to customise your own vehicles. By 

using Imagine 2 you can render your cars and add them 

to the game. 

Add Software are going to be releasing their 

SkidMarks Racer magazine for fans of the game which 

will inform players of new tracks and upgrades. It will 

also run competitions such as designing trackside details 

and a car modelling competition. A GrandPrix registration 

section will let readers contact each other to organise 

race meetings and through a BM, schedule playoffs. 

The game is hard disk installable but Acid feel that 

because of Piracy problems they have not yet made the 

track disks installable. However, they are hoping that 

with the first issue of their magazine they will be 

including a Track Disk Install utility. 

The multi-player aspect of the game is brilliant and the 

game supports four joystick adapters which connect two 

extra joysticks via the parallel port - the manual even 

contains instructions on how to build such a device. 

Skidmarks 2 also has improved comms support for 

local and remote linking, so if you have a Modem you 

can link to other players and race over the phone lines. 

Another nice addition is the different screen modes 

available. There's Hi (on an AGA machine) and to-res 

(low gives you a large, closer view of the cars) or if two or 

three players are taking part then the screen splits either 

two or three ways. A Shared screen mode is also available 

for four-player team racing. 

AGA owners can also race up to eight cars at once and 

if your machine has more than 1Mb of memory, you will 

be able to race more than one type of car in one race and 

listen to the option screen music. Talking of sound, it is 

also possible to replace audio samples in the six drawer 

with your own. 

OPINION 

This is one hell of a race-'em-up it has to be said 

.0kay, so it just relies on the racing part and has no 

(11bnuses or upgrades to strive for, but it's great fun, 

especially when you have two or more players. It 

works really well in bringing Out the competitive 

edge in you and with all the different tracks it pro- 

.•,;s a challenge. The many different championships 

Wad variety too. 

The extra cars you get this time round are a great 

aspect. Some are just there for novelty value, such as 

the cows, but with - 

a lighthearted 

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The d if f e re n t screen m odes a re a g re a t ttrea 

The game starts with a loud rock tune which 

gets you in the mood for some serious racing. 

It's not the kind of tune you'd like to sit 

and listen to but it does fit in with the feel of 

the game. 

In the actual game itself you do get some 

very good authentic racing noises. You are 

given a countdown bleep before each race, 

your engine roars into life, there's a clash of 

bumpers as the cars fight for pole position 

and tyres screech as you spin around the next 

comes across really well. The VWs and Minis look good 

too - they're cute and fanatics of these vehicles will 

love having the opportunity to race around in their 

favourite cars. 

Caravan towing is more than just a novelty too 

because it is very tricky trying to race around the tracks 

with these cumbersome vehicles strapped to the back. 

Graphics are not particularly advanced but they 

look colourful and fun, which definitely fits in with 

the feel of the game. The options screens could do 

with some work on them though - they didn't look 

particularly good and were fiddly to operate. It didn't 

look exactly polished and I would like to have seen 

something more user-friendly and a bit more 

The dinky spectators fi t in with the fun feet of the game 

bend. This all conjures up the competitive 

racing spirit in you and has you tearing 

round the circuits like a thing possessed. 

A quirky addition is the horn - you can 

activate this by pulling back on thejoystick 

or left and right keys together. This is great 

when you are right behind someone and you 

can let rip with the horn before sneakily 

overtaking them on the inside. 

Music kicks in again on the options 

screens and it's adequate enough and fits in, 

but as I say, you won't want to listen to it for 

long. 

attractive to look at. There 

were a few minor 

glitches and bugs along s.. 

the way but I can't say 

they happened all that G o L D 

often or were particularly 

noticeable - they A W A R 

certainly don't detract 

from what is a thoroughly 

enjoyable game. 

This is one of the most playable and fun race-'emups 

around and with the vast amount of new features 

added it's certainly worth a look, even if you 

have the original. 

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memory will be 

able t o race 

different cars 

against each 

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INTRODUCTION 

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exciting leagues in the world - Italy. a 

Nil lisk Milli: Yes 

Championship Manager Italia '95 

Cootrol: Mum 

has full details on players in Serie l 

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Domark exciting have taken their Championship 

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Graphics are mainly table-based, l so it is 

tManagement h game and given it an Italian 

essential these are clearly set-out. 

Fortunately, Championship Manager l 

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has always been nicely presented with plenty of bright, 

flavour. Tina Hackett has a taste of the action 

colourful screens and an easy-to-access icon system. There's a 

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background screen, showing a footballer, which can be 

changed, along with the background colour - it's really just a 

novelty aspect but does add some variety. The match is viewed with a series of bars 

showing the performance of each teams defence, midfield and attack, and gives a 

running commentary. This doesn't look as good as some of the matches in other 

games but it still keeps the essential excitement. 

Championship Manager won't blow you away with super high-tech visuals but 

as management games have never really been under too close a scrutiny with 

regards to graphics anyway, as long as they work well enough it doesn't matter 

too much. The emphasis in the game is on good old-fashioned playability, but then 

again it may look slightly dated against the latest Premier Manager. 

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PLAYABILITY 

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OPINION 70% 

There's a great deal to get to grips with in 

Championship Manager_ It is a very in-depth 

simulation but is still a great deal of fun and 

remains as addictive as hell! There are plenty 

of up-to-date stat3 available to ensure you 

pick a winning team. 

You can send your scout to look for new 

players and give specific instructions on the 

type of player you want and you have all 

the other tasks to keep an eye on too, 

whether it be player fitness or arranging 

friendlies. 

As this is the Italian version you get to 

play in the Italian League which simulates 

Serie A and Serie B. In Serie A, 18 teams play 

each other twice (home and away). Serie 

has 20 teams, who again play each other 

twice. You also get to play in the Italian Cup 

(La Coppa Italia), This starts with 32 teams 

with two from Serie A, 20 from Serie B and 

10 from Serie C_ The second round takes the 

16 winners of the first round plus 16 from 

Serie A until it gets down to two for the 

final You can also take part in the European 

Cup, the UEFA cup, the Cup Winners Cup 

and the Anglo-Italian Cup, so there's absolutely 

loads to keep you occupied. 

One thing to remember about this Italian 

game is that the playing style varies enor• 

mously. Teams in Serie A and Serie B have a 

more continental style, with a far more tactical 

element such as testing each other's 

strengths and weaknesses, and it leaves you 

with the dilemma of whether to bring your 

knowledge of English football into the 

game or adopt their style - so even experts 

have a new challenge! 

85 

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Okay, the game is still basically the 

original Championship Manager, so it 

keeps the great addictive playability of 

the first, but if you've played its predecessor 

to death then whether you buy it 

or not will depend on how much you 4 

want to have a version with the Italian 

League. Saying that though, it will provide a 

new challenge and it's great to see a different slant 

on the genre rather than just the English League. 

There's going to be a great deal of competition around soon for 

football management games and although this isn't as modern or 

stacked full of new ideas, it sticks to its routes and remains as playable 

as ever. This is still one of the most realistic and stats-packed management 

games around, and if you've not experienced the joys of this title 

before or you want to try your hand at the Italian League, it's 

definitely worth giving this a try.

eads of sweat roll down your body, 

trepidation delays each step you 

take, and terror grips your heart in 

its icy grasp. Killer droids and 

beasts of voracious appetite stalk 

the cramped, dimly lit corridors of 

this desolate cargo freighter; the invasion 

force of an alien race committed to the 

extermination of humanity. Strewn through 

Ang 

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Visually unimpressive games can sometimes conceal 

gameplay of a surprisingly high calibre - just look at 

Tetris, for example. Sadly, there's no redemption for 

Angst in this department either. 

Fighting aliens in claustrophobic corridors could 

be great, but there's zero skill involved and the 

whole experience is completely unconvincing. Add 

to that the tragic nature of the graphics and you 

should get a picture of how unsatisfying it all is. 

I've managed 

to fi n a l a f t e r 

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searching 

INTRODUCTION 1 4 1 

the dark halls is evidence of the beasts passage; 

corpses litter the grated deck and the 

sweet smell of blood is strong in the air," 

This is how Angst is introduced in the 

manual - now why do I feel an anticlimax 

coming on? 

the in t ro d u ct io n se ts 

the sta ndard for 

what's to follow 

Canadian software developers Rave 

may be new, but they show high 

ambitions. Gareth Lolthouse finds 

out if they can pull it off 

Straight Into the achon on the fi rst level with an 

attack f ro m th e ra n d o m ly appearing p o d 

There are supposed to be puzzle levels included as a 

break from the action, but my only experience of 

this was wandering around empty corridors, opening 

door after door and finding the odd key pass. I 

daresay there's more to it later on, but I think I did 

well to persevere for a couple of hours. 

Unbelievably. Angst won't work with a 1Mb Amiga 

because the program requires another 512k of RAM 

to run. Other peculiarities include the fact that it can 

muititasic the benefits of which are unclear to me 

This game has been previewed elsewhere as some 

SOUND 

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This is a bit better. True. tne 

unsatisfying, but at least there's 

some sampled speech and the doorways 

open with a suitable noise. When you're 

being attacked by the pods there's a passable 

electric sizzling and the dinosaur monsters 

let loose a strangulated roar when 

killed. 

However, you needn't expect any in-game 

music to increase the tension as you wander 

from dead end to dead end. 

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Set on a spaceship designed using Lightwave 

and featuring aliens developed in Imagine, the 

graphics for Angst could have benefited from 

two of the Amiga's finest creative packages 

Why then, does it look only slightly more 

colourful than your average database program? 

Why are those lightwave-rendered 

walls generally so blank and featureless? 

There are only five critters (sic) to fight 

within the game, and the ones I've seen are 

none too impressive. The first level features 

the pathetic pods with pincers, while later 

there are dinosaur monsters that could make 

the creatures in Deathrnask look threatening_ 

Considering the lack of detail in the game, 

you'd think you could at least view the action 

through a decent sized window, but in Angst, 

three quarters of the scepn ken up by the 

A body on the third debit -pe rha ps 

they die d of boredom 

control panel. There's not much excuse for 

this, because some of the icons there are just 

space wasters. 

A lot of time is spent wandering around 

mazes, so the inclusion of a mapping device it 

a perfectly good idea. Unfortunately, this is so 

tiny as to be almost useless It also updates 

very slowly, a problem Rave software say arises 

from the 'primitive radio wave technology' 

your character is using - hands up 

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kind of Doom variant, but you only have to look at 

the screen shots to see how ridiculous that comparison 

is. If anything, it's more like the ancient 

Dungeon Master, only with inferior graphics and 

gameplay. 

I'm sorry to stick the boot in on a game that has 

probably taken a lot of work, but it should not have 

been put out as a full priced commercial release. 

Angst means anxiety - presumably for the makers, 

because this game's about as exciting as a walk in a 

multi-storey car park. 

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Bre e ding Baldies will mean your e nergy Heigh-ho haigh-ho, it's off to work Traps a nd pe rils a bound- Selecting the ha nd icon will a llow 

bar gets replenished more rapidly - but 

beware ove rpopula tion Can be a proble m 

we go! The Ba ldie s manufa cturing 

weapons of mass de struction 

you can even drown 

galdies in the sea 

players to pick up a nd place the 

takties with point a nd click ck ease 

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his month seems to be one of extremes, with the ultra detailed sim accuracy 

of IFX at one end of the pole and the pure adrenaline-kicking 

action of Skidmarks at the other. Both are excellent, but it has to be said 

that the first can seem so serious as to be po-faced, 

while the other is fun but hardly involving enough 

to tie you up gaming for days on end, 

Fortunately, gameplayers looking for fun and a small 

dose of mental stimulation won't have to hold their breath 

for too long. Developed by newcomers Creative Edge, 

Baldies is shaping up well to enter the exclusive top 

drawer reserved for classic games like Populous and 

Lemmings. 

The Baldies may look completely harmless, but beneath 

their placid exterior it turns out they're a right old bunch 

of vicious, conniving creatures. The graphics are sweet and 

bright, but this game is about nothing short of tribal 

warfare. 

Players will lead a band of Baldies through quirkilythemed 

worlds, their object being to collect materials, 

strategically invent devices and kill off the enemy tribes 

The a tte ntion to de ta il is obviously highly 

impre ssive with diffe re nt type s of Ba ldie s 

exhibiting diffe mt cha ra cte ristics 

Just some of those 

pleasant little 

Inventions you 

can tinke r with - 

traps, mine s a nd 

firehead bombs 

will give you a 

good sta rt 

Life is tough 

when you've 

got no ha ir - 

here one 

Rattly 

disappears 

into a hola 

le ft by.. pla nt 

pit trap, while 

two others 

are victims Of 

the spring 

they'll inevitably encounter, Needless to say, however, the opposition is not going 

to take it lying down. 

The game is controlled from a god-like position. To get started players will have 

to build houses for their Baldies and then find the right balance between collecting, 

inventing and breeding - yes, that's right, breeding, because no matter how 

unsavoury the at of baidy procreation may be, the bigger the tribe the more 

you'll be able to accomplish. 

Our press release warns that this game is not to be compared to Lemmings or 

Settlers, but Baldies is going to appeal to fans of strategy games with arcade 

front-ends. There are also similarities to old favourites like Populous, Sim City and 

particularly Megalomania, but thankfully Creative Edge have injected large 

amounts of creativity and humour to give the title an original flavour, 

Though Baldies will be a strategy game, the designers 

have concentrated their efforts on making it easy to control 

and get in to. In fact, any task that took more than two 

clicks on the mouse was abandoned in order to make sure 

the game was quick and easy to play. 

There are going to be a number of different types of 

Baldy to control, ranging from workers and soldiers to scientists 

and giants. Each will have their own characteristics - 

some will have a nap when they're bored, while others will 

take shelter under trees when it rains. 

Many actions taken by the player will be rewarded graphically. 

Drop a firehead bomb on your enemy, for example, 

and they'll run screaming and waving their arms in a torturous 

blaze of flame. It all sounds very pleasant. 

A huge range of weird and wonderful inventions have 

been included in the game, though in the interests of playa• 

bility they're introduced a few at a time as you progress

A number of tribe s ge t together, but 

Ers ha rdly happy fa milie s - just look 

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the devastated buiidings 

&tidie s I n the fore ground have a minor 

altercation, while a mine furthe r beck 

will le a d to some gory visua ls 

from level to level. Mines and fox traps are some of the first ones players will use, 

and they come in a variety of sizes to inflict varying levels of destruction. 

If it's as good as it sounds at this stage, Baldies could be one of the few gaming 

experiences that will actually have you laughing. Mad inventions like exploding 

cows can be dropped on enemy houses or left on timers so that they blow up in 

fields. As you might expect, the consequences for any nearby fialdies will be gory. 

CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER 

Cars will later become available, allowing players to mow down the enemy, 

while helicopters will take the murderous heroes to the air. Stranger still is the 

rabbit invention: Drop one of these on your house and you'll increase the Baldies 

rate of breeding. 

By dabbling about on each level, players will begin to pick up strategies, and 

the more cruel and cunning the better. One tactic is to place a foxtrap outside 

your enemy's doorway, then drop a skunk on top of the house. This will have the 

effect of stinking the Baldies out, and of course as they come charging through 

Houses must be built before inve nting can begin • I've managed to reach the emtie stage already 

Though this Is a stra te gic game with a kit of depth, the makers 

have trie d to make it as simple to contr& as possible . Here the 

hand icon is use d to pick up a nd move members of your team 

el* es 

the door there'll be yet another 

unpleasant fate awaiting them. 

Players have to think strategically 

about how they extend 

their houses as well. Building a 

garage, for example, will allow 

your scientist to invent the 

car, and if you want that helicopter 

then you'll have to erect 

a castle. 

A lot of additional touches 

have been added for the sake of 

pure entertainment. There are 

Baldies who will snatch fish as 

they leap out of the sea, while a 

rather more seedy slaphead can 

be caught urinating on-screen. 

Players will have the opportunity 

to vent their malice over a 

variety of themed levels, many 

of which have already been 

designed. Creative Edge haven't 

yet decided which ones are 

going to appear in the final 

game, but you might find an 

ita ldie s can grow up to e nte r five diffe re nt 

professions, from worke rs a nd soldie rs to 

the more e cce ntric scie ntists 

Antarctic land in which Baldies can die of exposure or a hell level featuring 

demonic housing. 

Naturally, you can go up against computer-controlled tribes, but the option 

to link Amigas and challenge a friend promises an extra level of enjoyment In 

fact, it's this factor that makes it reminiscent of an ancient Spectrum game 

called Spy Versus Spy. Like Baldies, the object of this game was to spring traps 

on your friends, allowing you to savour their expressions as their character helplessly 

exploded, got squashed or frazzled, Bringing this type of sadistic appeal 

into the Populous genre should give Baldies added originality and an addictive 

buzz. 

How well the game turns out remains to be seen, but it's encouraging to see 

the amount of effort gone into designing Baldies for playability. It's often said 

that the best games have simple rules while offering a challenge with depth. 

This is equally true for computer games, and with the strategy element 

combined with an arcade-style method of controlling, the game sounds very 

promising. 

Forget suicidal rodents - the Lemmings series hasn't progressed much since 

it's first incarnation anyway. We'll be giving this game the definitive Amiga 

Computing assessment as soon as possible, but as it stands Baldies could give 

Gametek another winner and make Creative Edge a name to remember. 

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Tuna Hackett dklift when she took a kid at 

Cryo's gorgeous new adventure concept, 

CBMIng to a CI132 near you 51100 

C CD-ROM owners have been somewhat spoilt 

of late, having a wealth of quality adventure 

titles to choose from, while the humble CD32 

owner had to merely look on and drool. But all 

that is set to change because there's an adventure 

coming your way soon that is going to take the 

CO32 by storm. Okay, admittedly it was out on the PC 

CD-ROM first, but a version for the CD32 is well under 

way and if it stays true to its predecessor (which we're 

promised it will - if not better!) we could be about to 

witness a whole new era for the machine that has been 

perceived by some as the underdog. 

Containing 3D rendered graphics and full speech 

throughout, Lost Eden looks to be something totally 

different to anything done on the CD32 before. 

Development is by Cryo - the French team behind KGB 

and the CD version of Frank Herbert's Dune. 

The actual concept is quite unusual for an adventure 

and takes place in a time when dinosaurs and humans 

roam the earth. But the dinosaurs fall into two types: 

The non-violent vegetarians and the blood thirsty 

predator types like the Tyrannosaurs. Moorkus Rex is 

the Tyrannosaurs leader and wants to destroy the 

human race so that he can rule the whole planet. 

Humans hide out in caves but they still fair badly 

against the aggressive attacks. 

One town, however, staves off the Invasions This is 

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the Citadel and is the first 

fortified place of mankind. 

Built by Priam the Builder, 

this fortification has protected 

the Priam dynasty 

from the Tyrannosaurs and 

you, as Adam, must discover 

the secret of the Citadel 

because you will soon have 

to succeed your father, 

Priam the Conqueror. 

Gameplay focuses on wandering 

around the environment, 

picking up clues and 

solving the puzzles. These promise to be fairly straightforward 

and logical rather than those frustratingly 

obscure puzzles found in some adventures. 

There will be a vast amount of different locations to 

explore on your quest. These vary from the dark and 

dingy caves with crumbling skeletons to vast expanses 

of lush countryside. The screenshots (PC CD-Rom) 

shown on these pages will probably give you some idea 

as to how visually stunning the game will be, but you 

really have to see the game in action to fully appreciate 

how good the graphics look. Every attention to detail 

has been paid and will really make a difference to the 

whole presentation. The atmosphere comes across very 

' 

The a nimation of the creatures 

makes them ve ry life like 

strongly and with each of the settings you will feel as if 

you a r e 

actually there. 

The characters are rich and vividly portrayed too. 

Each has a wide range of mannerisms and features that 

create their personalities and backgrounds well. The 

animations are very smooth and life-like, especially 

with the dinosaurs who move realistically - well, as far 

as we know! For example, the bigger dinosaurs actually 

look heavy and cumbersome. 

ENHANCEMENTS 

The music will enhance the game considerably and 

each environment will contain different sound effects 

to reflect the atmosphere. As you walk around, the dramatic 

changes in sound will work well in transporting 

you from each location. 

In the past, even some good adventure games have 

fallen into the trap of being too fiddly to control. Lost 

Eden will resolve this by using an intelligent cursor system. 

You have your normal on•screen icon and as you 

move it around the picture it will change according to 

the appropriate action. For instance, if there is another 

character there you can move the cursor over them and 

it will turn to a 'talk' icon. This will make life easier, 

rather than having to click on the person and then go 

to a separate panel to find the talk icon, 

All the settings, 

both indoor a nd 

out, will be 

packed with 

atmosphere

Another useful feature will be the map system 

which will allow you to move from one place to the 

other simply by clicking on the area you want to go 

to. The icon also lets you move around freely and 

turns to an arrow to show you where you can travel, 

and if you've come to the end of a section it becomes 

a stop symbol - this will save precious time, 

What will really make Lost Eden stand out on the 

CO32 though is the full speech system throughout. As 

you meet with each character they will talk to you 

and impart vital clues. All the characters will have 

their own voices with appropriate accents, and their 

tone of voice will match what they are saying - not 

Team talk 

The team behind Lost Eden are Cryo 

Interactive Entertainment. Established in 

January 1992, they now have a network of 110 

programmers, graphic artists, designers and 

musicians. Cryo has a wide range of different 

ventures and as well as developing for many 

platforms, from the 300 to the SNES, Cryo also 

have connections with film production 

through its parent company, Compagnie des 

Images. 

In 1993 Czyo embarked upon a joint venture 

with 103D, a computer graphics company. and 

Publicis, an advertising agency. The company 

concentrates on the production of digital 

images for feature films, advertising and multimedia. 

Sony Music, L'Oreal, Esselte, France 

Animation and Canal+ are among their clients. 

Cryo have interests in film and television 

and are developing a feature film with Canal+ 

and a TV series using high-end computer 

graphics with Gaumont Television. The company 

also has connections with Dark Horse 

Comics, the number four comic book publisher 

in the USA. 

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like in some speech adventures where the characters 

mumble on in monotone! The actual things they say 

will be useful too and not there for the sake of it. If 

you've heard the information before you can skip it, 

but if you miss anything the information is backed up 

by text underneath. 

Obviously, until we've played the final version we 

can't comment on how the actual gameplay will shape 

up, but it's fair to predict that with the fantastic graphics, 

full speech and an intriguing plot already implemented, 

it has plenty of ingredients 

to ensure one hell of a title, 

Lost Eden will be 

released in the 

very near 

future, so 

look out 

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need to look carefully tor important cluea 

The backdrops are absolutely stunning arid highly detailed 

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This fast-paced shoot-'em-up was a huge success on the CD32 

and thankfully its now been converted to the Al200, so those 

lucky enough to own one can enjoy one of the finest 3D 

blasters on the Amiga. 

Guardian is set in the future in a shrinking universe only a 

few light years in diameter. Different life forms are battling for 

the last resources and it is your job as a 'Guardian' to protect 

the remaining human species In theory the objectives sound 

fairly simple but as 

always, the reality is 

far different. You 

have a nice big 

spacecraft, armed to 

the teeth with 

weapons, and with it 

you must destroy the 

Dronoids - alien craft 

armed with Tritium 

bombs. You track 

them down with 

your scanners and 

choose whether to 

Guardian re a lly looks smooth e ve n 

when the screen becomes cha otic 

Theme Park is now available fcr 

your CD32. Bullfrog's hit bus. 

ness sim, which requires you tt 

build your own amusemen 

,park, has been tweaked 

enhanced and made all that b- 

-nicer 

for the CD version_ Yo, 

tart ! off with your piece of lane 

and can then go on to build rides galore, hire staff 

purchase shops and attractions and everything else that will turn you' 

park in to a success story. 

However, life isn't that easy. There are other, greedier, entrepreneurs trying to lure 

the Joe Public into their parks instead. It's not just a case of building the biggest and 

best attractions either, because being a shrewd businessman comes into it too. Yot, 

have to negotiate salaries, plan your site, and keep an eye on the little people's opinions. 

Luckily they don't keep their thoughts to themselves because a memory bubble 

appears over their heads letting you no if they are hungrytthirstyttired of walking/think 

your park is a con etc. and you can alter your park accordingly. 

Graphics are superb and will make the most hard-hearted go "Aaah." Each ride has 

been well animated and even the little sprites are endearing. The sound effects work 

well too and create the atmosphere of the park, with children laughing in the background 

and music playing for the different rides. 

Three different simulation levels enable you to play the game as simply or as complex 

as you want. Sandbox level is for beginners and you won't have to worry about all 

the finaqcial decisions. The next level brings in some of the managerial aspects where 

you'll have to negotiate with staff and so on, And if you want the proper business simulation 

you can play on Full level, whereby all the finances are down to you and rivals 

can buy shares in your park. 

The differences to the CD version are mainly cosmetic and the intro has been 

improved. Another thing 

PoNlisker: Electronic Arts to note is the use of a CD 

controller rather than a 

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However, this is still a 

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and for a light-hearted, 

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tionally well, giving you full control over 

your spaceship. You can perform backflips which allow you to 

get enemies in your sight, and with the enemies following 

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The 3D polygon graphics still look good and the action is 

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centre - you really do get the satisfying blast-'em-up feel of the 

game. 

The gameplay is fast and frantic and as you progress things 

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it an excellent example of its genre. Al200 owners should 

thank their lucky stars that this is now available and if pure 

blastem-ups are for you, then I'd say this is an 

essential buy. 

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medical 

To make best use of DOpus you should try 

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buttons and title bars, run in a higher 

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most importantly. do some surgery on those 

buttons. 

One of the first things I changed when I got 

my copy of DOpus was the fact that although 

you could copy files to the destination 

GUI: Graphical User Interface. A visually-oriented system allowing 

you to tell a computer what to do by using visuals symbols rather 

than typing in commands. 

HAM: Hold And Modify. An Amiga graphics mode that allows all 

the 4096 colours in an ECS-based Amiga's palette to be displayed 

on screen at once, 

IDE• Integrated Drive Electronics. The other popular hard drive 

standard OE drives don't rend to be as fast as SCSI ones and due 

to lortaDons within the IDE spec, can't go up to sizes as large as 

SCSI. 

IFP Interchange File Format. Although people refer to pictures on 

the Amiga as being IFF, this is not strictly true. IFF is a standard 

developed by Commodore for creating file formats that can be used 

with any machine and any hie type. 

Thus Amiga pictures are actually in the ILBM (qv.) format, IFF 

directory by dragging and dropping them, 

you unpacked LHA archives by doing the 

same thing. Uh-uh No. LHA is a distinct file 

type, so it is really easy to set up a command 

for DOpus to use if you double-dick on it. 

Make the CIKk-M-Clicti function into copy, the 

same as it is fox normal files, and make extract 

a double-click function. 

Following this, lets play around with those 

Copy, Copy As, Move, Move As buttons I like 

the simplicity that single key shortcuts give, 

whereby if you want to copy something you 

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c', and Move V and Move As - 

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this command: the 'Del' key. 

Okay. now were rolling. There are actually 

filetypes set up for more file types than 

DOpus actually has commands for in the 

default configuration, so let's make use Of 

some of those If you own a copy of GPFax, 

you can get DOpus to show all your FAKt 

files - you can also get DOpus to show 24-bit 

pictures on a non-24-bit system by assigning 

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like Viewtek 

There s now a utility you could run from 

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supports those file formats. 

Another ding I don't like about DOpus is 

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Acronym alert - part two: G-P 

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interpretive image format which can make still 24-bit images as 

small as lit 00th of their original size. See also MPEG_ 

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separate chip called the 68851. In a full 68030 not 68ECO301 or 

68040, the MMU is inside the main chip. 

MPEG: Motion Picture Expert Group. A new standard required for 

animations. MPEGs are like a single JPEG image followed by a 

stream of delta images (delta images only store the changes 

between the previous frame and the current frame) interspersed 

with further JPEG images to act as checkpoints 

PCSACIA: Personal Computer Memory Card International 

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MAY 1 995 

Amiga Medical Part 4 

shortcuts. never bother So I P y 

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an assign, say, or a drive that might not be 

on my system all the time, like a CD-ROM or 

ParNET. I make a normal button for it This 

has the added advantage that you can have 

two complementary drives in the same place, 

accessed by clicking either the left or right 

mouse button For instance, I now have a 

button that has Downloads: on one side and 

Uploads: on the other. You can do the same. 

If you are running DOpus on a 

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viewing AmigaGuide documents on the 

same screen? Make a button for this, or 

create a filetype to recognise AmigaGuide 

documents as opposed to plain ASCII text 

files /Have a took at some AmigaGuide 

documents, they always contain the word 

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a lot. Shell-startup, if you use the shell a lot, 

and if you run Parnet quite often, what 

about button. an If you - want to run other programs 

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Keeping a model in tune with the real 

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Unless you have a photographic memory and 

artistic skills to match designing an object off 

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Even in this area. though, starting with a 

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If you draw these blueprints on paper, 

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IFF. Plans for real-world objects can be 

scanned from photographs or grabbed from 

video using one of the many low-cost video 

grabbers such as Vtab or Vali Amiga. and 

once on disk they can be used as a cheat's 

shortcut to accurate modelling. 

We'll look at Imagine 3.0 and Ughtwave 

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the technique used by both programs is very 

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various scans, grabs or &wirings you've 

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digitiser can do it with ease. 

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in terms. and so on - then grab a number of frames from the complete 

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human model is put into the correct postures at the correct ome, and 

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Of the two packages. Imagine works with 

backdrop more accurately because it 

automatically retains pixel aspect ratios, but 

Ughlwave users can edit the image's 

dimensions to compensate if the picture 

comes in looking a little stretched. 

For an example, I've used an American 

jeep modelled in Lightwave. though the 

same process could easily be used in 

Imagine. First, a search through my Old 

videos produced a tape of A Bridge Too F. 

which is ideal because there are zillions of 

jeeps in the movie. 

GRAB ADD SAVE 

Next. VLab was used to grab a shipload of 

images from some of the jeep-laden scenes, 

the images then saved to hard drive as basic 

16-colour greyscale IFFs. After all, you don't 

need to bother with huge 24-bit scans and 

grabs if all you want is an outline to follow 

Some of the grabs were taken with tracing in 

mind, and I took care to capture frames 

when the camera was looking directly at a 

jeep's front or side views. 

Other images were taken with jeeps in 

different positions, distances from the 

camera. arid So on to be used as reference 

It an image isn't a clean. side-on Wow, 

you'll fume to componsais for the 

anglo at which you hese to trace 

Rotoscoping is easy 

your finished animation will look as lifelike as Flashback ever did 

If you have a hand scanner but no digiuser you can look in kbranes 

for books that include sequenced images of people or animals in action 

ltry the photography and natural history secbons), or just pause your 

VCR at the same points you'd normally grab a frame and trace a 

iratcnsbck outline of the position of the persons hmbs Use these as a 

guide or scan in your matchstick drawings and use them as IFF 

backdrops, 

Accuracy is always wont the effort 

The whole grabbing process took about 30 

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model benefi ts becausie 

It M accurate enough for the 

right effi rci without having to be perfect 

of tnose illustrated books that always end up 

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Find one with lots of pictures of the sort of 

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Gaunt - I wish people would send their 

first names, it's much more personal. 

Actually. they ate called procedures or PROCs, as 

that's what they are, and is such they can be 

bolted onto any program The PROCs are 

Shadowtext and Typewriter. the latter being a 

better version of the program included with Amos 

Pro. Both programs work in Arnos Pro and AMOS 

1.3. 

To start off well look at the Typewriter PROC. 

The code is good because it makes a noise if there 

is a letter to type, and if there is a space It remains 

silent, The sample provided is the sound of a 

typewriter key, which could, of course be 

replaced by the sound of a computer keyboard if 

you want to be a bit more modem The font 

could also be changed to make It a useful special 

effect for science fiction films. The proper usage of 

the PROC 

where XI' equals the location on the screen, S is 

the speed the text is typed at, and TS is a string of 

text to be typed. 

First off the initialise screen line is: 

1111 

6. 

and then a sample tol 

S 

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pThis 

refers to the sample of a typewriter key being 

ehit, 

which you must load into bank 3 by hand 

n before you start coding - it will then be saved 

1 

with 

, 

the program. Finatty, before we get into the 

e 

routine 

4 

you turn off all the screen Junk: 

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Remake, 

remodel 

This now means we are starting with a clean 

sheet of paper. 

The text to be typed is fed into the 

procedure. as are the other attributes• 

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set up the length Of the text in your 

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Ming me Inc command to move along to the 

next letter Finally. insert a small wait command 

to delay the characters as they type onto the 

screen: 

Lurking in the shadows 

This Is an interesting routine, nicely coded and you could expand on it in a number of 

ways. For example, create a white drop shadow with no letters la very trendy text 

effect' by making the colour of the letters the same as your background, and making 

the colour of the shadow white or at least a lighter tone of the same colour. Another 

Idea would be to make two shadows, one brighter and one darker than the text, and 

make the text the same colour as the background. Then offset the lighter coksur up 

and left of the text, and the darker colour to the right and below the text. This will 

Text effects are cheap in processing time and easy to create, as long as you are 

creative with the way you display them. You can also animate the effects with a bit of 

judkious coding - for example, you could fade up the has relief effect to make it look 

as though the text is emerging from the surface. Id be interested to see any effects 

Wait P 

Nit I 

And that's it Quick and easy, and a rather good 

effect If I was using it for a film effect Id add a 

random element to the pauses between frames. 

just a little, to simulate the way people type 

Now ro move on to Shadowtese. This creates 

drop shadows on the text on screen. and its a nice 

routine which adds a little bit of pizzazz to game 

programs and any sort of mulurnecka The proper 

usage of the PROC is 

where xy Text position, SC Shadow colour. IC 

Text colour, and of course IS.Your text suing. 

Firstly, round up the usual suspects: 

Screen Opep 0,320,256,4,Lowrel 

Flask Off 

Curs Off : Hide On : Cts 0 : Oaf: 

111111 

111111 

to set up the screen. Then we can feed 11the 

data to 

the PROC: 

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! SMAINVICIIC10,130,1,2,4MOS-P10 veer, your 

;Imes cos. true.1 

their Key : Waft Key : lilt 

This is the same ending as before, with a clear and 

wait so you can see the effect. Now we define the 

PROC 

11111 

1 

The first thing we do in the PROC is to enable JAM 

Pr 

mode via the Gr Writing command 

oc 

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ur 

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Next we set op a loop 

j e 

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For An To 1 

O 

Ink St 

O 

S T 

If 1181 

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the vaiues of X and Y you can increase 

Tthe Cdepth 

and direction of the shadow: 

W , 

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C , 

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1The Cendlif 

and the Text command end the loop and 

, 

IP 

print T the text to the screen 

1 . ] 

led If 

test 3,7,11 

lest i 

Ind hoc 

and it returrri for more, if there rs more. Knot it 

ends the PROC, returning you to the main program 


MAY 1995 

Phil South 

turns his 

atention to a 

[ontribution 

sent in IN an 

add Amos Ian 

Write 

stuff 

If you have an Amos 

question, or a routine 

you'd like to share I 

with the work', then 

please write to Phil 

South, Amos Column, 

Amiga Computing. 

Media House, 

Adhngton Park, 

Macclesfield SKR/ 4NP 

Please send routines 

on an Amiga disk with 

notes on how the 

program works on 

paper. Make the 

routines short (use 

these routines as a 

guide] and reasonably 

independent of any 

graphics and sound 

support files. although 

I will make provision 

for these if necessary 

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his months theme, in a nutsnell, is 

about writing understandable code, 

and while most programmers will 

doubtless have their own ideas on 

what constitutes an easy-to-read program, I 

thought it might be useful to recap on the 

Conventions I use. One thing that is obviously 

helpful is the use of understandable names for 

variables and I tend to use lowercase names. 

adding underscore characters to improve 

readability. 

For example, an Mexx statement which reads: 

iii t_f ligT 

f. se t nit fle e - didif 

lUE .1 

/, has decided to dolt *I 

!s 

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With m function names I capitalise the first letter of 

each y part of the function name - 

CalculateAverageo, m 

GetResponsen and so on. 

ARexx i itself doesn't care about the capitalisation 

(function n names are all treated as upper case 

anyway) d but the above mentioned arrangement 

does , seem to aid readabefity. 

m Above all make sure the name tells you 

something u about what the function does -;t 

may c seem all very clever at the time to create a 

function h called HaveANiceDay() but six months 

later p its likely to be you who's sitting there 

wondering r what on earth It does! 

e ARexx variables are effectively typeless so 

you f don't need to declare variables as hokdino 

enumbers, 

strings and so on Despite this, 

rbelieve 

it is actually very useful to be able to 

r 

imply something about the type of data held in 

ea 

variable from its name. 

d 

You may have noticed that I often add a S 

t 

Suffix to Men variables which are specifically 

o 

used to hold text smngs. I might, for example 

suse 

nameS and address$ to collect name and 

o 

address strings from a user. If. on the other 

m 

hand. I knew that the user input was going to 

e 

be a number then id use variable names like 

t 

value, age, x, or n. 

h 

should point out that in this case these 

i 

'pseudo type' arrangements are not a common 

n 

ARexx convention and internally. ARexx cares 

g 

little about the types of values placed into a 

l 

variable. Nevertheless the convention has 

i 

Served me well and it is one I recommend. 

k 

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With some advanced applications it is also 

: occasionally useful to adopt additional 

conventions. Prefixing global variables with the 

character g_ and suffixing pointer variables 

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constant values like this. 

ESCAPE • 'WA 

By getting into the habit of placing such 

Fair comment 

All Mem( programs have to start with a comment line so there's a good chance there 

will, at least, be a program name at the start of your scripts. But why stop there - 

additional comments can make a world of difference to understanding a program. 

Don't make the mistake. inCidentally, of thinking that comments are just for the 

benefit of other users and that you understand your code well enough not to need 

additional remarks. You may understand your code when you write it. but it 

amazing how code tricks, which seemed perfectly obvious at the time they were 

written, appear to loose their 'inherent obviousness' as time goes on. 

You should not get carried away to the point where you impose unreasonable 

numbers of restrictions on either yourself or anyone else who has to read your code. 

The aim is to adopt a set of coding guidelines which help and are easily usable, and 

luckily, for the most part at least, all that s needed is common-sense coupled to a 

consistent methodical approach! 

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data stored in the variable. l 

t 

Another rule of thumb' i concerns avoiding 

always know where to look for them the 

separation also makes the values easy to change 

the use of absolute Constants n within the bulk of and because symbolic names rather than the 

your program code unfortunately. ARexx 

underlying definitions themselves are used, the 

doesn t provide much direct help in this area program automatically becomes easier to 

but 'pseudo constant' values can still be set up understand. 

This 'trick' is especially useful when dealing 

with control character sequences (this of course 

was what last months instalment was all about' 

but the ideas can also be applied in other areas 

as well. There is. for instance. a good case, 

particularly with larger scripts, for eliminating 

explicit text messages from the bulk of your 

code. If. for example, you Set up this initial error 

message definition 

Indium/ . 'sorry this •ILUS is not 

correct' 

then within the main sections of the program 

the appropnate error message can be displayed 

using: 

say WRONG_ViLin 

Equally important is trie fact mat the message. 

which may actually get used in a number of 

different code areas of the script, is now defined 

in a single place This ensures that any changes 

Co the initial definition results in those 

modifications automatically being used 

throughout the program! 


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eople who don't use comms are often 

mystified by what you can get on the 

Internet and why you should want to 

use it. The common comment is that you must be 

into computers to want to use one, or need to 

know about them to use the Internet. Both 

comments are true in one sense, but nonsense in 

another. 

You don't have to like computers to use them 

for fun and you don't have to know how d game 

works to enjoy playing it. By the same token, if 

you are into something like films, which I arn, 

then you still have something on the Internet 

Delphi and CompuServe which is going to help 

you with your interest. 

For a start there's the big daddy of them all, 

the Cardiff Movie Database. This is a place where 

you can find out almost anything you want to 

know about movies. You can do a word search 

for a Nm title. actor, actress, director or 

cinematographer, or indeed any number of film 

people, and the resultswill be displayed on your 

screen. Not only that - once you have an item on 

the screen, you can click on the names and get a 

list of the other films that person was involved in. 

This is an invaluable cross referencing tool. 

even if you aren't Barry Norman or perhaps you 

are, and if you are then why shouldn't you be?) If 

you're Just into films then this is better than 

hundreds of film books crammed together. 

What's more, if the entry for a film isn't in there 

and you eventually find out what it is, you can 

put it tn. thereby expanding the database. Every 

time you log into it there will be more and more 

titles for you to read, and the informanon is bang 

up to date. 

I typed in Hal Hartley, a US film maker who 

makes quirky low-budget films, and I got all of his 

Ho 'rag far •••• •7• ••••••• 

••••••• 

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films op including the one which was 

on Channel4 a few weeks ago, Simple 

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Men, plus Amateur, which is currently 

on release as we speak and playing to 

packed houses all over the country. 

To use the Cardiff Movie Database, 

simply set your Wet) browser to the 

URL: 

and you're in If you like films 

you have got to add this to 

your menu of favourite 

places. 

I've mentioned the 

Babylon5 Writers Guide 

before, butiliskim that 

again in case anyone 

wasn't paying attention 

The series has Just started 

again on UK TV so if you're 

a fan of this series you can 

get the definitive on-line 

guide to the show by setting 

your browser to. 

Ittp:Iimmv.hyperion.cositutiliarker.h•I 

allowing you access to the files on the series, 

pictures from the HP site and profiles On all the 

actors. If you've ever been watching the program 

and thought who is that under all that make-up. 

the voice is familiar,' then this is the place to find 

Out. 

For example, Andreas ItatSulaS who plays 

Ambassador G'kar, also plays the one aimed 

baddy rn the recent Harrison Ford version of 

The Fuottive. and he is also the Rornulan 

Torrialok in Star Trek: The Next Generation. 

On the Delphi Internet system you 

an we the X-Files stuff as rve said before. 

but you can also go to the 

tioltywood On-Line pages 

which contain the excellent 

publicity photos and 

animations from new films 

released in the US. This 

often means you can see 

a picture from a new 

film long before it ever 

premieres over here. 

Also, you can download 

MA files from the system, 

playable on PC. What good 

is that to me you may ask? 

Well, not too much unless 

you use the MainActor animation 

processor program, which 

means you can translate the 

program from an AVI into an 

Anim file. The pictures and 

sound samples are in OF 

or Jpeg format, and the 

sour ids ale in WAV format, easily convertible into 

Amiga sounds using sound converters like Sound 

Exchange - which is available on CIX. 

At the moment rm busy downloading some 

files from Stargate, a film I've Just seen, and now I 

have one of the best scenes from the selection 

sitting on my Workbench. 

The licilywood On-Line pages are also to be 

found on CompuServe, if you can afford to 

download them that is. I know the costs for 

CompuServe have gone down in recent months, 

but it's still one of the most expensive ways to get 

on-line They do have a number of other movie 

resources but you mainly get Celebrity Pictures 

which can be accessed by typeng GO ARCHIVE 

and go to Library 4, Film TV Stage and Radio, 

Contact point 

If you have any BBSs you'd hke to tell me about or there's 

anything you'd like to find on the Internet but can't, please feel 

free to ask me You can reach me by e-mail at thew locations 

. 

Internet 

C1X 

The Direct Connection 

CompuServe 

Delphi 

philesnouty demon.co.uk 

snooty 

snouty 

100101.1500 

snoutytildelphicom 

or by post to Phil South, Comms Section. Amiga Computing, 

Media House Arlington Park, Macclesfield 91104NP 


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Pro 24 Amiga is actually a rewrite, rather than a 

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get out a spare piece of A4 arid have a good 

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trying to fix start and end points in space. 

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lines, you are then ready to proceed onto the 

design side of things. As a birthday card is the 

simplest example, we will have a look at that first. 

Your page should be divided into four quarters. 

Looking at the piece of paper you nave folded 

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corner for the inside of the card and the bottom 

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The inside of the card has to be upside-down, 

so your best bet is to create your greeting in that 

section of the page the right way up), and once 

you are satisfied that it fits, looks nice, and is 

going to print, you can then select all the items 

in the section, and group them together if 

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necessary, before rotating the whole bunch 

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somewhat more difficult to plan as you will 

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the paper. You will need two pages. both divided 

Into three in the same places lir you have a 

master page facility in the program you are 

using, I would suggest you use that). 

Then you wit need to decide which flap will 

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The illustranom On this page show the two Imges I have clone in PageAream 2 1 tor this sort of 

brixnure The quality of the globe seems shoddy but as It is an EPS graphtc it will print okay. This type 

of three-fold brochure takes a lot more thought, and in this instance was achieved using three copies 

of the clip, one on sections three, four and five, and one on section one - moved so this section had 

the middle of the cyaphsc in It The remainder of the graphIc falls off the tight-hand side of the page 

and also cOverS section stir. 

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hand portron of the graphic has fallen off the left-hand side of the page and the other third is covering 

secOon six. This is why I have covered the whole of section six with a white tKirclecless box to cover up 

the overlapping images 

Play around with these concept- and try your rand at the paper aeroplane idea The techniques 

have explained might prove more protilernatir with one of me 

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four and five, leaving the middle panel on Me 

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One of the nicest examples of continuity in a 

three-fold brochure is where there is a picture on 

the cover (section II which, when opened, 

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perhaps with some more text on it 'section 2), 

which also continues onto the inside of the first 

section 'section 31 When you open the second 

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computing needs. SyOuest is the world leader in 

this technology across computer platforms which 

means that you can transfer work between 

Amiga, Macintosh and PC. with ease. We 

recommend the CrossDOS and CrossMac 

software packages to simplify portability -call for 

pricing. Our drive prices include 1 tree cartridge 

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Twist -2 is the new, friendly, relational database for 

all Amigas. Twists range of power leatur es such 

as its integrated forms designer, its varied 8 

multi-level querying, its Nil 1 rN & relations 

coupled with its un-cluttered, well-designed user 

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Aura otters high performance 1216 

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plus a host of software features. 

software you need together with a cable 

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Ordering Information 

All HiSoft products (see the complete list below) should be available through your favourite Atniga dealer. If 

you nave difficulty in obtaining any title you can order directly from HiSoft - just call us free on 0500 223660, 

armed with your credit or debit card. we will normally despatch within 4 working days or, for an extra ES, by 

guaranteed next day delivery (tor goods in stockl. Alternatively, you can send us a cheque or postal orders. 

All prices include VAT Export orders 

- HISolt call products o r for fyour a Amiga x 

tAura - 121113 o bit sampler - E99.95. Megalosound 8 bit sampler-- £34 95, ProMidi nterface-- 124.95. HoSoft 

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o n3.14 fi• £79 r95, m HiSoft BASIC 2 - 179.95, hirghSpeed Pascal - 199.95, Gamesmrth - £99.95. Termite - 

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SCSI Hard Drives 

270Mb £169, 540Mb 039 

730Mb £279, tGb E479 

Add E60 for externol units 

Hard drives are becoming more and 

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Squirrel) All units can be supplied for you to fit in your 

awn case or pre-installed in one of our professional 

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floppy or from internal IDE hard disk. 

We can supply a feeds. termitletOtS etc_ Please feet tree to 

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Professional game development is made easy with the 

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