Amiga Computing - Commodore Is Awesome

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A MEGABYTE OF SUPER SOFTWARE 

GREAT DEMOS! G R E A T M IM ES! 

• Trained Assassin: have you S Model Universe: Create your 

the skill to su-vive the test? ve ry own solar system. 

• Raider: Can you defy gravity S DisaChecker/DiskSalv: No 

in your wandering spaceship? m o re corrupt disc problems. 

To load: Switch on and insert disc 

Full instructions are in the August issue o f Amiga Computing A 

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4 AM I (;A COM PUTING Au g u st 1989 

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8 LATEST NEWS 

Hot news from the US on Kickstart 

version 1.4. the Amiga 3000 and new 

add-ons. Plessey to build a mini- 

Amiga. Plus full show report. 

AMIGA ARCA I )E 

14FUTURE 

FORECASTS 

The latest gossip from the top 

software houses. Jeff Walker gets the 

inside info from Coktel Vision. 

Hewson. Ntirrorsoft and friends. 

UNDER THE 

WORKBENCH 

Setting up a hard drive need not be 

complicated. David Foster turns Prep. 

high cyl and partition from jargon to 

understandable English. 

'COVER DISC 

48CRAMMED INTO 

A MEGABYTE 

Details of the two playable demos 

squeezed onto the best cover disc you 

have ever seen. Plus how to use the 

great PD utilities which will save you 

from disc disaster blues. Instructions 

on how you can earn up to ELMO by 

contributing with the first ever all 

Amiga give-away. Don't just dream 

load up the disc and give it some 

stick. 

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SS PROJECT 

PLANNER 

Knowing who is free to work on a 

project makes planning very much 

easier. Now there is a program which 

should automate the process. 

GREAT DEMOS! 

PUBIACJIOMAIN 

FAT ANGUS'S 

SWEET PD 

What does Fred Fish look like? Who 

supplies the best PD programs? 

Where can you get a free club plug? 

Why. follow Fat Angus and find out. 

GREAT UTILITIES! 

• Trained Assassin: Have you • Model Universe: Create your 

• the skill to survive the test? ve ry own solar system. 

Raider: Can you defy gravity • D isk 

in CheckeriDiskSaly: 

your wandering spaceship? more corrupt disc problems. 

N To oload: 

Switch on and insert disc 

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Full instructions are in the August issue o f Amiga Computing

HARDWARE 

7 SPEED UP 

BOARD 

The animate-turbo board uses the 

advanced 68020 processor. so how 

come it can make your Amiga run 

slower? John Kennedy explains. 

NAFFWARE 

1 WORD DISASTER PROCESSING 

The golden turkey of the month. 

Software which is so bad ills funny. 

DJ Walker-Morgan is the unlucky 

naffware reviewer who gives it 7%. 

HARDWARE 

4 IDEAL HARD DRIVE 40 MEG 

Super quick, it auto-boots under 

Kickstart 1.2 and stores twice as 

much as the Commodore unit. No 

wonder Jeff Walker bought his. 

COMPETMON 

WIN SIX 

HARD DRIVES 

Ideal Hardware are really nice people. 

so nice they have given us six 40 meg 

hard discs to give to you. Prizes 

worth well over £3.000. 

ART 

PRODRAW NEEDS 

PATIENCE 

If you are not happy with the hard 

copy from your art program then 

some software from Gold Disk will 

cure the low resolution blues. 

FEATURE 

77SPOTTING 

THE VIRUS 

How do you know if you've got one? 

Can they survive switching off? If you 

want to prevent an infected boot 

block check the guide to safe saving. 

AMIGABASIC 

THE MODEL 

UNIVERSE 

It has taken Pioneer 10 over 17 years 

to explore the solar system. You and 

your Amiga can do it in an evening 

with Alastair Scott's help. 

GAME 

KILLER 

Suffering from joystick jitters? Do you 

spend more time looking at the 

loading screen than zapping the 

sprites? Dr Tennant has the cure. 

LETTERS 

1 YOUR RIGHT 

TO WRITE 

Re-inventing shareware, your views 

on games and some regular help for 

curing problems if you have one of 

the 1.041,000 Amigas in the world. 

Trained Assassin 

Page 30 

• Trained Assassin — why it was 

chosen for the disc. 

• Joe Barbara plays 3D pool — join 

the cue to play. 

• Welcome to the Powerdrome. 

Top speed racing action. 

• R-Type may not be the best but 

sets the standard. 

• On the Rampage with a monster 

hit from Activision. 

• Infocom cracks the graphics 

• C O N T E N T S E 

R-TYPe 

Page 28 

barrier with Zork Zero. 

• Squared-eyed Ocean runs the 

Gauntlet, a TV terror. 

• Take Elite, remove the good bits 

and call it STAG 

• Balance of Power. Would Bush 

press the red button? 

• Ferrari FlOs add 200mph 

glamour to Crazy Cars 

• Vindicators ST authentically 

reproduced by Domark. 

• Take a walk on the Dark Side. 

More Freescape 3D fun. 

• Demonware puts some evil 

colours behind centipede. 

• Tom and Jerry may be cute but 

they fail at gameplay. 

August 1989 AM I GA COM PUTING 5

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venue for a Christmas shopping spree for vou, the Commo- 

dore Amiga user. 

More than 100 of the 250 stands will be selling Amiga 

products, making it the biggest Commodore event of all time 

and Commodore themselves will also have a feature stand. 

For three days in November, Computer Shopper will 

transform London's Alexandra Palace into the world's 

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The choice of Amiga products will never have been 

greater — nor will the number of special offers. 

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A/38

New hardware 

on way 

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1 I shaping up to be an 

amazing workstation. Based 

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on the fast 68030 processor, 

E it will still be Amiga- 

Acompatible 

but unlike the 

mA2500 

it will not have a 

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68000. 

This means any program 

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which does not run on a 

a 68020/68030 machine - 

3something 

which uses self- 

0modyfying 

code - will not 

0work 

on an Amiga 3000. 

The machine is in the early 

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stages of development, so 

iideas 

such as individual 

sserial 

numbers in each 

machine now being discussed 

may not make it to 

the final release. 

A stepping stone between 

the A2500 and A3000 will be 

the A2630. This is the Commodore 

68030 card which 

runs about 10 times faster 

than a standard Amiga. 

Based on the A2620 card it 

will take up to 4 meg of ram 

with more on an additional 

daughter board. Its designer, 

Dave Haynie, says it is a far 

more advanced system than 

other '030 cards which use 

the high level of compatibility 

between the '020 

and '030 but fail to take 

advantage of the bigger chip. 

The A590 is a better hard 

drive than the A2090 so the 

A2090 is being upgraded 

with the 2091 which has the 

high quality DMA/SCSI 

interface and can take 2 meg 

of ram. 

Only one new product 

looms for the A500, and that 

needs other computers. The 

A560 and A2060 are network 

cards which allow 

Amigas to be linked, not just 

to each other. but to PCs. 

Macs and other ARCNET 

systems. 

Distributor 

closes down 

C OFTWARE distributor 

1,3 Brown Wagh Direct of 2 

Hazlitt Mews, Hazlitt Road, 

London has ceased trading. 

Amiga Computing has been 

asked to advise readers that 

no further orders are being 

fulfilled. 

AMIGA SCENE 

Stores go for games 

A can now reap the 

Mbenefits 

of a High Street vote 

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of confidence in 16 bit leisure 

software. W.H.Smith 

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has trebled its commitment 

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to Amiga games and Boots is 

gto 

double stocks. 

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we do well, and the 16 bit 

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market is the way things are 

going", said computer buyer 

s for Smiths Sean Willis. "We 

pare 

intending to put 16 bit 

linto 

a lot of the smaller stores 

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that do not stock it at the 

moment 

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decision, the number of 

rSmiths 

outlets with Amiga 

sgames 

has risen from 43 to 

118. Over at Boots, software 

buyer Rose Graham told 

Amiga Computing that its 

decision will not only 

increase the variety of Amiga 

titles in its main store but 

will also boost the number of 

stockists. 

At present 240 Boots stores 

take software but the 

emphasis is on 8 bit. Only 70 

take 16 bit and this will 

rocket to more than 120. 

"It is just a matter of 

timing", said the spokeswoman. 

"Boots decided that 

having stocked 16 bit for 

some time, now was the time 

to increase this. We have got 

to keep up with market 

changes". 

Don't believe 

all you read.. 

W anything to boast 

about H - shut up. Unless you 

are E desperate. then shout so 

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loud about something which 

is mundane that people will 

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believe you have something 

ospecial. 

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exclusive review of Commo- 

o 

dore's super new A2500 read 

it very carefully. You will 

nfind 

that the machine is an 

'A2000 

with Commodore's 

t A2620 processor card, a 

hmachine 

Amiga Computing 

reviewed last March. 

a 

And if you see a review of 

vKickstart 

1.4 don't believe it, 

ethe 

software isn't finished. 

Amiga Computing had the 

first full report in April. Now 

we can spill the beans on 

some of the newest features. 

Kickstart 1.4 is a very different 

beast to 1.3. While the 

changes between 1.2 and 1.3 

meant that some badly written 

programs still worked by 

dint of good fortune, with 1.4 

they will go belly-up. 

The differences are 

worthwhile. For a start it 

looks a lot better with 

improved designs of icons 

and drawers. Workbench 

and CLI are better integrated 

which will hopefully help to 

de-mystify CLI for new 

users. 

The Arexx programming 

language, included as standard, 

allows multi-tasking 

programs to be linked. So 

from inside your word 

processor you can send a file 

to the DTP program which 

will then spool a file to disc. 

It's the kind of command 

language invented for big 

systems which are only 

useful on micros as powerful 

as the Amiga. 

While some of the 

improvements are useful, 

one is essential. This is 

support for the Enhanced 

Chip Set. With ECS fitted, an 

Amiga can use 1 meg of chip 

ram and display a flickerfree 

640 x 512 image 

although this will need an 

Turn to Page 8 Po- 

Ponters to 

the greys 

W out from Commodore 

Athat 

people buying grey 

Rimports 

of its Amiga 500 

could find themselves out on 

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a limb. 

I Aware that machines are 

Nbeing 

imported from Hol- 

Gland 

and sold cheap. Com- 

S modore is taking action 

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against dealers found to be 

stocking the rogue machines. 

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It will also refuse to carry out 

vwarranty 

work. 

e A spokesman for CBM's 

gtechnical 

support depart- 

o 

ment told Amiga Computing 

there are a number of ways 

n 

to recognise such imports. 

e All A500s from the UK 

have bar codes both on the 

machine and on the packaging 

if they have come from 

Commodore in the last 18 

months. The power supply 

on machines from Holland 

may be 220V rather than 

240V. 

Unless documents are 

being translated or forged, 

the machines could have a 

Dutch manual and would 

not have the 12 month UK 

warranty which goes with all 

Commodore machines. 

"If users ring up with 

technical questions, they will 

still be helped because it is 

very difficult to link them to 

the grey imports", said the 

spokesman. "Because of the 

absence of the UK warranty, 

no support will be given on 

that. Commodore is aware 

that there is a problem and is 

doing everything possible to 

stamp it out". 

No go area 

S OFTWARE discs will soon cassettes bear and an 

anti-piracy logo which is the 

latest move by FAST, the 

Federation Against Software 

Theft. 

Being designed by software 

house Psygnosis, it is 

likely to be based on the 

well-known red circle and 

diagonal line symbol for 

prohibition. 

It is hoped that when the 

logo is finished, publishers 

will be persuaded to use it on 

their software as a warning 

against copying. 


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Amiga 2000 smooths 

those cartoon capers 

W cartoon character 

Hchases 

his adversary round 

Ethe 

screen, its quite likely 

that his movements have 

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been coordinated by an 

yAmiga 

2000. 

o A system based around the 

uAmiga 

2000 is now speeding 

r up the production of 

cartoons, making life easier 

f 

for the animators and 

a 

improving end results. 

v Called the Chromocolour 

oLine 

Tester, it has been 

udeveloped 

by Chromocolour 

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Animation Supplies and 

Equipment (0I-636 2103) 

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which provided all the anim- 

tation 

kit used in Who 

eFramed 

Roger Rabbit. 

Rolf Harris built his recent 

Cartoon Club television programme 

around it and plans 

to use it for another series. 

Steven Speilberg is using it 

for his sequel to An 

American Tale, a host of top 

film companies have bought 

it and even the giant Disney 

FIlled a n im a t io n 

corporation is poised for a 

massive order. 

It has also been found that 

teaching animation to children 

with the line tester can 

prompt computer literacy 

and improve other aspects of 

education, particularly for 

those %vith learning difficulties. 

This has been proved 

by Stan Hayward, creator of 

Henry's Cat, who has used it 

in a Kilburn school with dramatic 

results. 

'rhe line tester teams up a 

video camera, digitiser and 

the Amiga 2000 to shoot 

animation sequences and 

play them quickly so timing 

can be adjusted and movements 

plotted before acetates 

are painted. 

At present the top professional 

system costs E10.000 

but there are plans to 

develop a E2,000 version 

for education and to make 

a system based on the 

Amiga 500 for the deomestic 

market. 

Communications partners David Bromley, sales director. and 

David Underwood. Isle' Met managing director. with Derek 

Meakin. chairman of MicroLink. 

M being planned for 

MicroLink, A 

the rapidlygrowing 

J electronic mail 

service. It vi1l leave Telecom 

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Gold and enter into a partnership 

R with a new telecom- 

cmunications 

giant, Istel met. 

h Istel bet is a partnership 

of a two major international 

names in the field of data 

communications, 

n 

Istel and 

Bell 

g 

Canada Enterprises. 

e "We have long been faced 

with s restrictions that have 

prevented a us developing the 

service in the way we know 

our 

r 

subscribers would like", 

said e MicroLink chairman 

Derek Meakin. "We feel that 

the time has come to break 

away from Telecom Gold 

New role 

for MicroLink 

and open new doors. 

"l'he result will be a considerable 

expansion of 

services available to anyone 

with a computer, a modem 

and a telephone". 

Many of the present facilities 

offered by MicroLink 

%'ill be improved and the 

new service will also include 

news, sport and weather, a 

cornprehensive financial section. 

plus on-line shopping. 

Computer conferencing — 

a service long requested by 

MicroLink subscribers will 

also be introduced. 

Waiting for Kickstart 1.4 

expensive, multi-sync monitor. 

The Fat Agnus chip, which 

gives more elbow room to 

chip ram. is currently being 

fitted to new A2000s. A 

batch of 500s went on sale in 

Germany with 1 meg chips 

but that was a mistake at the 

factory. 

The Fast File System. 

which has won friends in the 

hard drive-owning community 

has now come to 

floppies. 

It will speed up disc access 

2 to 2.5 times. Old format 

discs can still be read, writ- 

ten and created, hut this is 

the area in which Amiga 

Computing suspects most 

things will fail to work. 

Intuition now features 

auto-scrolling, custom gadgets 

and new string gadgets. 

which will lead to better 

requesters and a special kind 

of window which is character 

mapped. Currently all 

text on an Amiga screen is 

plotted a pixel at a time. The 

new mode plots whole 

characters at a time, which 

should be very much faster. 

Major changes have taken 

place with Preferences. At 

the moment the Preferences 

program writes out a file

D LESSEY is making 

Amigas smaller. The 

aerospace company is 

working on the next generation 

of in-flight entertainment. 

Instead of trying to 

watch a film with all the rude 

bits taken out over seat backs 

in the half-dark and wishing 

the chap in 271) would shut 

his blind, you can play with 

an Amiga. 

The system will build an 

Amiga into every seat with a 

small LCD screen set into the 

back of the seat in front. The 

passenger will be able to 

watch the film on this screen 

or play games. All the 

A DEAL 1 million now set mark to top has the 

been signed between FIB 

Marketing (089-544 4433) 

and audio visual firm OEC 

under which HB is supplying 

genlocks and other 

Amiga peripherals for use 

with OEC's audio visual 

presenter Teleslide. It is also 

to give advisory support on 

use of the Amiga, which controls 

this latest product. 

'"I'he initial agreement was 

worth over E500,000 but 

since then it has risen closer 

to El million", said Julian 

Swallow of H13. "It is an 

ongoing relationship which 

will bring us even more 

business and obviously we 

are over the moon. We have 

had two arid a half years 

experience in both hardware 

and software for the Amiga 

called System-configuration. 

With 1.4 the file will not only 

be written by Preferences but 

will be expandable from 

other programs. 

The changes involved with 

Kickstart 1.4 are so major 

that the release must be a 

long way away. 

Workbench 1.3 took more 

than a year to be released 

from the first announcements. 

You can get a prerelease 

version of 1.4 if you 

buy the E1,700 Moniterm big 

screen, but for ordinary 

users not only is it not finished 

it is probably too 

buggy to be worth rushing 

into. 

Airborne 

gameplay 

Amigas will be networked so 

passengers can order duty 

free goods, reserve hotel 

rooms and through a link to 

the planes flight computer 

see where they are. 

To produce this system 

Plessey is doing a lot of 

development work on the 

Amiga, some of which may 

filter down to the ordinary 

Amiga user. We want to play 

a multi-user fl ight sim 

against 200 other passengers. 

Business 

is booming 

and this is now paying off'. 

HB is shortly to extend its 

range of Amiga-related 

products with the Amiga 

Virus Protection Toolbox 

developed by Abacus in 

America. 

— 

book l and software", said Jim 

Oldfield of Abacus. "The 

book 

h 

describes t h e 

phenomenon 

e 

and the measures 

p you can take to protect 

your a computer system from 

the 

c 

harmful effects of a virus 

and the software hunts down 

k 

suspicious programs". 

aWith 

HB awaiting stocks 

from g America, the UK price 

has e not yet been fixed. It sells 

for 

c 

S59.95 in the US. 

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ZCL into 

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education 

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DISTRIBUTOR n ZCL (0543 

1..P s 414817) has become one 

of Commodore's authorised 

a 

educational distributors to 

the trade. 

David Cheetham, ZCL's 

national account manager 

for Commodore products. 

said: "We are already one of 

the biggest leisure suppliers 

in the country and we are on 

target for the business 

market having taken on 

Commodore's PC and Amiga 

2000s two months ago. A 

move into the education 

market seemed like a natural 

progression". 

Amiga in class at Tivetshall l'rimary School 

• A M I G A S C E N E • 

Schoolroom Amigas 

collect top marks 

N way through its nine 

omonth 

preliminary stage, 

w Commodores Primary 

t 

Project is bringing some 

startling results in schools. 

w 

It was launched in January 

o to assess the potential of the 

tAmiga 

500/2000 for teaching 

hin 

primary schools. 

i The pilot project started 

with schools in Somerset, 

r 

Norfolk. Humberside, 

dBerkshire 

and Cheshire 

s being supplied with Amiga 

o500s 

by Commodore. They 

also received suitable word 

f 

processing software. 

t 

Impact on classrooms has 

hbeen 

notable according to 

ethe 

supervisor of the project, 

Wiesia Okon, of Commodore's 

education division. 

"I have found that children 

are expressing themselves 

through the computer 

on a number of levels, as 

well as actually doing 

something such as painting 

on the Amiga. There is 

always a lot of talking and 

discussion going on - 

amund 

the machine", he said. 

"The stimulus that the 

Amiga can give to encourage 

group work fits in well with 

the IT philosophy of primary 

education. The computer 

enhances and complements 

the work already clone by 

teachers and pupils in the 

classroom". 

Surprised by his pupils' 

reaction to the Amiga was 

Richard Adams. a teacher at 

Holway Community Junior 

School. 

"All the children have 

been extremely enthusiastic", 

he said. "Children 

with quite severe learning 

difficulties are suddenly on 

an exciting par with their 

peers. So far the Amiga 500 

has brought out qualities in 

some children that I did not 

know existed". 

The salmi effects were 

noticed by Ian Hollingsworth, 

headmaster of 

Tivetshall County Primary 

School in Norfolk. 

"I have found the children 

to be less inhibited than 

adults in their use of the 

computer" he said. "The 

Amiga's mouse has made it 

very accessible for pupils 

with the art package Deluxe- 

Paint II creating a discussion 

point for lessons". 

Findings of the exercise 

will be used by Commodore 

to make the Amiga compatible 

with everyday teaching 

practices as part of the company's 

ongoing assault on 

the education market. 


• A M I G A S C E N E • 

W memory. it was the Pet 

Show. H With the popularity of 

E 

the 64k machine it became 

the Commodore Show. Per- 

N 

haps the 13th Commodore 

Show 1 should have been 

called 6 the Amiga Show. 

k Downstairs bore a 

wresemblance 

to a Far Eastern 

street market as masses 

a 

bartered for everything from 

El s mouse holders to E650 

a A2000s. Shows have always 

lbeen 

a good place to buy 

o 

blank discs. At the Novotel 

t 70p each bought good quality 

double sided discs if you 

o 

shopped around. 

f Whatever your interest or 

budget there was something 

to be picked up. Power 

Computing was doing some 

good deals on its range of 

hard drives which offer 

super fast Quantum units as 

an option. 

The 25Mhz 68030 cards 

which should speed up an 

Amiga tenfold spent the 

show stuck in customs. Even 

I dug into my pocket to buy a 

1.3 ram. 

C OMMODORE announced an entire itself new 

range of merchandise, which 

in non - salesmanspeak 

means gifts with the Commodore 

logo - from a Commodore 

teddy to key rings and 

mugs. In true computer company 

fashion the wallets 

were not yet available. No 

doubt they are still writing 

the manual. 

Still, if you really want to 

snuggle up with a little teddy 

contact Commodore on 0628 

770088. In all other respects 

the Commodore stand was a 

disappointment. No machines 

with the Enhanced Chip Set, 

no hi-res A2024 monitors 

(the Commodore version of 

the Moniterm reviewed last 

April). 

The nearest anything got 

to being new was the A590, 

reviewed last month. This 

succeeded in frustrating me 

since they are not on sale yet 

and I want to buy one. 

The show saw the public 

announcement of the Amiga 

Computing cover disc, 

which led to a rush for subscriptions 

at the old price. If 

you filled in a survey form to 

tell us what you want on the 

to ..1.%liCA COMPUTING August 1989 

Bargain hunters' 

delight 

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corn purer 5how 

Simon Rockman reporting 

Commodore will sell you something MIMI to snuggle 

up to - no, not an A500 power supply 

Bargains galore tar shout visitors 

disc, thanks. If not send us a 

letter - we'd love to know. 

Thanks to Fred Fish and 

some like-minded followers, 

the Amiga has more, and 

better organised, public 

domain software than any 

other modern computer. A 

sign of this is the flourishing 

club run by 17 Bit Software. 

This was one of the busiest 

stands as Amigaphiles 

queued to see what was new 

and fi ll gaps in their PD 

collection. 

Two products from ASAP 

had a low-key launch. The 

Amidrive was shown. hut 

having only just gone into 

production was not for sale. 

The first shipment had been 

sent to people with outstanding 

orders. 

Aminet. which is a lowcost 

network developed for 

use in schools, was the 

second ASAP product to 

make its debut. 

Hi Tension is classed by 

Commodore as a VAR, 

which stands for Value 

Added Reseller, and sells 

Amigos as part of a package 

by adding its own custom 

add-ons. Demonstrated at 

the show was an incredibly 

powerful video card capable 

of animating a 1024 x 1024 

pixel display in colour. For 

more details contact Hi 

Tension on 0252 344454. If 

your pocket is not too deep 

have a look at its 16 colour 

desktop utility. Icon Paint. 

While the Amiga leads the 

field in many areas it lags 

behind in one, accounting 

software. Equinox Business 

Systems aims to fill this gap 

with Small Business 

Accounts, a comprehensive 

package with balance sheet, 

profit and loss, budgets, 

VAT, a full audit trail and 

quick ways of checking profitablity. 

There are extra modules 

for more advanced users and 

a E30 personal version for 

controlling day-to-day 

finances. For more details 

contact Equinox on 01-729 

0990 

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- was Amiga Centre Scotland 

which always has inter- 

1 

esting hits and bobs. Among 

H 

them was a high resolution 

E 24 bit colour graphics card 

mrunning 

through the PC 

oBridgeboard 

to display 

Sculpt Animate 4D images. 

s 

They were of television qua- 

t 

lity and "only took about 15 

ehours 

to render on an '030 

xmachine". 

Make that over a 

cweek 

(just calculating) on a 

standard Amiga. 

i 

Amiga Centre Scotland 

talso 

had Digiworks on sale 

ifor 

the first time and a new 

nstatic 

ram board which 

g retains its memory even 

when the Amiga is switched 

s 

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tfrom 

the ram disc. No price 

ahas 

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I was really impressed by 

b e 

Rob Munday's Hologram. 

Produced at the Royal 

College of Art where Rob is a 

lecturer, it gave a 3D view of 

an image from Sculpt 3D. 

The fi rst ever home 

computer-produced hologram. 

it kvill be very important 

as this technique will 

lead to colour holography. 

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T HIS release month of the sees third the film 

in the Indiana Jones series, 

and along with it the Lucasfilm 

computer game tie-in. 

Details are thin on the 

ground just now - US Gold is 

keeping quiet until its big 

release at Stringfellows, a 

night club so famous they 

don't bother putting the 

address on the invites. 

However. it seems Indiana 

Jones and the Last Crusade 

will have you scrambling 

across a rumbling circus 

train, battling against savage 

rats, playing a human fly on d 

:granite castle walls.- all inf 

an attempt to track down the 

elusive Holy Grail. 

Following the all-format 

arcqjr game, Lucasfilm will 

be releasing a 16 bit only 

enture based on the same 

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Au g u st 1989 

Ime is on their side s 

Q XFORD Digital Enterprises 

has spent the past 

year researching techniques 

fot generating highly realistic 

animation on the Amiga. 

The upshot is a combination 

of high frame rates with 

video-generated images of 

animation positions. 

The first game to use this 

new technique will be Time, 

an animated role-playing 

journey which takes you 

through the ages. 

It starts at some time in the 

future in the gallery of a 

satellite orbiting the earth - a 

futuristic Madame Tussaud's 

filled with statues of very 

famous and very dead 

people. 

Your quest in Time will 

take you back through the 

ages to meet the folk these 

waxworks were modelled 

from, people like Julius 

Caesar, Merlin and Leonardo 

Da Vinci. 

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sniggering 

SEX Vixens from Outer 

Space was released last 

year amid a wave of 

smutty sniggers. It was an 

adventure with graphics 

about a colony of beautiful 

sex-starved female 

clones from the planet 

Mon do. 

Coming soon from Free 

Spirit Software o f 

Kutztown. USA. is a 

sequel, Planet of Lust. It 

will once again star Brad 

Stallion as captain of the 

spaceship Big Thruster. 

In a tacky plot featuring 

Dr. Dildo and Princess 

Orgasma, your mission 

will be to destroy a force 

field around the planet 

Erotica. 

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playing 10 areas, which themselves 

will contain 10 hori- 

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characters will act independently 

of the player, transferring 

objects and shifting 

alliances as the game progresses. 

Techniques borrowed 

from the cinema - like fast 

cuts from long-shots to closeups 

- promise to bring the 

game to life like none before. 

ODE is developing the 

flagship version of the game 

on the Amiga. It will be 

released in the autumn on 

the Empire label.

All the latest news on 

the games software scene 

Active goes for world domination 

S OUTH London public 

relations company Active 

Sales & Marketing has added 

Bethesda Software o f 

Maryland. USA, to its growing 

list of international 

clients. 

Bethesda's first release 

with Active is Wayne 

Gretzky Hockey — a 

misleading title if you don't 

know he is an American ice 

hockey hero. 

The game features 

digitised fights, animated 

penalty calls and an instant 

replay feature. You can control 

any player, coach from 

the bench or sit back and 

watch the computer control 

both teams. 

Detailed 3D graphics 

highlight the intricate 

stickwork and skating of 

each player on the ice, while 

the alternative view from 

above is the perfect vantage 

point from which to appreciate 

the game's offensive and 

defensive strategies. 

Wayne Gretzky Hockey 

has been voted best sports 

simulation of the year by the 

American Software Publishers 

Association. It's 

release ira the States caused 

The Washington Post to 

write: "...it could be the best 

sports simulation yet". 

Out in the UK now, it costs 

E24.99 and we'll be taking a 

timeout half way through the 

third period to give it a full 

appraisal next month. 

On the continent, Active 

represents the UK interests 

of French labels Coktel 

Vision and Tomahawk. plus 

the German games house 

EAS. Until this month EAS 

had been building itself 

quite a reputation for 

excellent graphics and 

absorbing gameplay. Then it 

released Stag, which has 

scored an all-lime low of 11 

per cent in this month's 

Arcade. 

This will inevitably affect 

the reception of its next few 

releases — Roll-Out, Wangler 

and Black Magic. But 

Kayden Garth. a D&D type 

game, should go a long way 

towards putting EAS hack 

on the map. 

Kayden Garth is the name 

of a prisoner detention 

planet, only the prisoners 

have escaped their chains 

and you've been given the 

job of putting down the 

rebellion. 

The game contains 30 

dungeons to explore and features 

some marvellous 3D 

and bird's-eye view 

graphics. EAS estimates 

there is 60 hours of playtime 

in Kayden Garth, which is 

out now priced E19.95. 

Active also does the PR 

and sales in the UK for the 

Impressions label, the first 

release on which, Raider, is 

featured on our cover disc 

this month. 

The follow-up to Raider is 

Chariots of Wrath, a game 

which has caused the mighty 

Mirrorsoft to question its 

ancestry. Apparently the 

screenshots Active distributed 

bear a resemblance 

to MirrorSoft's big summer 

release, Xenon 

The screenshots w e 

received were so badly 

blurred and over exposed 

that they resembled nothing 

more than a bad accident. 

Chariots of Wrath is being 

hyped as an arcade epic — 

"the most amazing shoot- 

'em-up yet for the Amiga" it 

says here. 

Written by the team 

responsible for Sidewinder 

II, it features in excess of 300 

combinations of weapons 

and seven totally different 

game types. 

Some of the meanest and 

ugliest end-of-level aliens yet 

are promised, all of whom 

will be trying to prevent you 

rescuing the inevitable 

captured princess. 

It should be in the shops 

by the time you read this, 

priced E24.99. Watch these 

pages to see if it's all just 

hype. 

Not even jetsetter Robert 

Stallibrass, the driving force 

behind Active Sales. can do 

anything about a Paris traffic 

jam 

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F RENCH games label 

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well and truly set on 1992. 

Not satisfied with being part 

of one of the top three houses 

in France, Tomahawk is 

ready to invade Britain and 

Europe in a big way. 

The label was launched 

earlier this year as a sister to 

Coktel Vision, which has 

already had a taste of the discerning 

British with the 

success of Freedom (80%, 

AmC Februmy 1989) and the 

failure of 20,000 Leagues 

under the Sea (15%. AmC 

March 1989). 

You'll remember Tomahawk's 

fi rst release, 

Emmanuelle. It sank like a 

brick, scoring 3 7 "/o in the 

June issue. But it served its 

purpose in getting the 

Tomahawk brand name 

known. 

Sensational publicity stunt 

over and done with. Tomahawk 

has announced its 

release schedule for the 

coming months. And it's 

looking good. 

Already in your shops is 

African Raiders, a game 

which the company 

modestly understates as a 

"simulation of driving". 

It's a whole lot more than 

that. Have you ever played a 

driving game and wished 

you could whizz off in any 

direction under the sun? 

Well now you can. 

African Raiders is a race 

from Tunis to Dakar across 

the burning sands of the 

western Sahara. There is a 

track — for those who want to 

follow it — marked out with 

oil drums, but it takes a 

winding course and sticking 

to it isn't going to get you 

home first. 

The game comes with a 

-1frican Raiders. Inst action and good gameplay 

poster which also serves as 

an accurate map. Within it's 

limits you can travel in any 

direction you like. Not just 

north, south, east and west, 

but right around the 360 

degrees of the compass. 

You can even reverse. In 

fact situations crop up 

regularly where going 

backwards is the only way 

forwards. 

Leaping and bounding off 

the beaten track at more than 

200 kph has its hazards. 

Great herds of camels 

sleeping behind rocks 

inhabit some areas. Other 

districts are littered with 

bones — last year's models, 

says Tomahawk. 

Quicksand is all over the 

place. Which is where your 

selectable two-wheel or fourwheel 

drive comes in handy. 

Doesn't help much in the 

graveyard though, where the 

rusting wrecks of unsuccessful 

competitors — bikes, 

buggies and jeeps — stick up 

out of the dunes like 

tombstones and stop you in 

much the same way as do the 

camels. 

All the hazards are marked 

clearly on the map. Careful 

drivers will avoid them. 

Explorers and burn-it-up 

merchants will deliberately 

seek them out. 

Tomahawk boss Roland Oskian 

has a wink and a smile for the 

hard-to-please British 

It's fast, it's fun and it's in 

the shops now priced at 

E19.99. We'll have a full 

review next month. 

Hot on the heels of African 

Raiders will be The Legend 

of Djel, a point-and-click 

adventure featuring 30 superbly 

drawn screens. Set in 

the Middle Ages, you live in 

one of four imaginary kingdoms, 

all of which are suffering 

from different 

problems due to circumstances 

under the control of 

neighbouring lands. 

Your mission is to rescue a 

sorcerer's daughter — represented 

on-screen by a (nontacky) 

rendition of the 

graphics artist's girlfriend — 

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and collect the bits and 

pieces which will bring 

health and prosperity to the 

four kingdoms once more. 

Enroute you will have to 

solve some fiendish puzzles 

and have the weirdest shootout 

you've ever seen. 

The Legend of Die! will 

come on two, maybe three, 

discs and will cost E24.99. 

Still under construction 

when we went to France 

recently to investigate the 

Tomahawk phenomenon is 

ESS Hermes. This game will 

put you in full control of the 

European space shuttle right 

down to working out your 

flight path, and will give you 

a choice of various missions. 

On the flying front you can 

try landing, atmosphere reentry 

or special manoeuvres, 

after which you can turn 

your hand to running a satellite 

park or setting up an 

orbital space station. 

In the re-entry sequence, 

the only animated part of the 

game we were able to see - 

running on a PC of all things 

- you are presented with a 

3D representation. of the sky 

ahead viewed from behind 

your craft (like Afterburner). 

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sent us details of The 

Hound of Shadow, which 

has a plot that sounds a bit 

like this. 

According to EA it is a 

role-playing adventure game 

with an underlying supernatural 

theme. Using 

Eldritch Games's special 

Timeline role-gaming system 

it shares the feel of the 

Cthulu Mythos which was 

developed by the author H. 

P. Lovecraft. 

You create a character 

based on one of six professors 

with different options for 

sex, nationality and 

proficiency in more than 50 

skills. Set in the sepia tone of 

Chris Elliott and Dick Edwards 

of Eldritch Games on the trail 

of The Hound of Shadow (It's 

behind you.) 

The game is a tribute to the 

Big Bug films of the 1950s 

and is set in the isolated 

community of Lizard Breath, 

Arizona. One day a meteor 

strikes nearby and mysterious 

events and disappearances 

start to plague the 

town. 

You are cast as a young 

scientist determined to get to 

the mid '20s, this is an historically 

accurate detective 

game. 

the bottom of the affair. In 

doing so you will risk your 

life as you face creatures 

spawned from the supernatural. 

Cinemaware claims it is 

the biggest arcade strategy 

contest ever created on a personal 

computer. 

Now where have we heard 

that before? 

The Hound of Shadow is 

scheduled for release late 

September, price E24.99.

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Battle Valley from Hewson. 

The programming team, 

known as Creative Thought, 

did. In fact they enjoyed the 

game so much they wrote 

their own version for the 

Amiga. 

Hewson, being suitably 

impressed, sorted out some 

whizzo music and bought 

the program from them. 

The plot is simple: 

winning is not. The world is 

almost devoid of missiles 

and people can live in peace 

— except that a gang of 

terrorists has made off with 

the last two missiles and is 

threatening to unleash them 

on world capitals. 

The missiles are hidden 

behind well-defended bases 

in the desert of Battle Valley 

and can be captured using a 

tank. Unfortunately the tank 

can't cross bridges which 

have been blown up by the 

Battle Valley from Hewson 

features three levels of 

wonderful parallax scrolling 

Photon Paint you will know 

that HAM leads to slow 

sprites and furry edges. 

Imageworks has cracked 

the problem to produce 

DDT, named after the CP/M 

utility Dynamic Debugging 

Tool. The result is an amazingly 

colourful game with 

some incredibly detailed 

objects. 

Hewson backs private enterprise 

terrorists. 

You need to repair the 

crossings and take out defences 

using a helicopter gunship. 

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arcade-style action game. 

You take the role of Prince 

Edred the Brave, heir 

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Pacilla. Your father, Edelred 

the Good, has been poisoned 

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red dragon Olisos, paddle a 

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falling stalactites, defeat the 

huge demon jibba, and 

dodge Zandor's spells. 

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have to dodge more mighty 

dragons as you fl y high 

above the clouds on your 

victorious journey home. 

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1 RLANDO is famed for Frakl, 

k his cutesy Beeb game which 

was ever so badly ported to the C64 

by Statesoft. His is also the name 

behind a number of quite brilliant 

Acornsoft titles. Now Orlando has 

discovered the Amiga, and has 

ported his 3D Pool game from the 

Archimedes and ST. 

This is a pool game like no other. It 

aims to simulate the game from the 

position of a player. The big 0 says 

this is the reason you can't see the 

table from directly overhead. 

Even if you stood on the table - 

before the manager kicked you out - 

you wouldn't get a proper overhead 

view. You would see your feet and 

the light would get in the way. 

So what you get is what you see a 

player's eye view of the table. Except 

there is no cue. The white ball is fired 

along the player's line of sight with 

top-spin and bottom-spin relying on 

the viewing angle. Side-spin is 

selected from an icon at the top of the 

screen. 

Although you move around the 

table, the lack of a floor sometimes 

makes it feel as though you are 

staying still and throwing the table 

around. 

The mouse mechanism takes some 

getting used to. Since both 3D Pool 

and Virus started their respective 

lives on the Archimedes, it might be 

something to do with Acorn programmers 

being able to cope with 

sensitive mice. 

Pool is a short game, which makes 

it more exciting than snooker. Even 

so. 3D Pool heightens the competition 

by providing a number of 

computer-generated opponents who 

play at different strengths. 

You can either practice against an 

individual or take part in a tournament 

in which the players are drawn 

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at random. The final is played against 

Maltese Joe Barbara. 

Once you have proved you are the 

hottest cueman to have laid hands on 

a mouse you can have a go at the trick 

shots. These display numbers for the 

angles involved and have you trying 

to puzzle over how to get balls into 

the right pockets. After you have 

solved the 19 tricks you can set up 

your own using an editor. 

From the initial title screen which 

was digitised using SuperPic right 

pockets this big, who needs a handbag? 

here in the Amiga Computing office - 

to the roar of the crowd as you defeat 

Mr Joe, 3D Pool is great. It is playable, 

slick and technically brilliant. 

Fully Amigaised to use sampled 

sound, a 256 line PAL display and 

blitter routines, the result is better 

than the ST. But then why else did 

you buy an Amiga? Simon Rockman 

3D Pool 

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G designers an infinite amount of 

Itime, 

coffee and money, and it's easy 

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make a completely original computer 

game. If the coffee's a problem 

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Centipede and add some of the ideas 

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Evil Garden. 

n The box is the first main hazard: 

inot 

merely is it huge. silver and diffi- 

tcult 

to open. but it has Beware of 

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Demonware writ large in red all over 

it. Somehow I think this is meant to 

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be a threat rather than a warning. 

• mThe 

plot: You, a successful mer- 

ocenary. 

have the job of clearing a 

ugarden 

planet of mushrooms, alien 

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centipedes and other beasties. 

Centipedes are relatively innocuous; 

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bits you have shot off them 

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The spider usually haunts its 1,veb 

under the score panel, but once in a 

while it comes out to bounce around 

and drop mines. 

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Jerry, the funniest double-act ever, 

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cartoons, which at a generous assess- 

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eadventures 

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still manage to be funny at the 

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EVIL GARDEN 

and drop the occasional bomb on 

you. 

This plot will be familiar to both of 

the Millipede fans, Atari's less successful 

Centipede sequel. What is 

new is the pumpkin, which gives 

bonus weaponry when shot. 

The standard issue peashooter-ona- 

stick can be upgraded, with a little 

luck, to a shielded turret with bouncing 

bullets and an orbiting follower. 

As in Arkanoid, extra lives and a 

doorway to the next level can be got 

by picking up pumpkin remains. 

Not surprisingly there is the standard 

issue mystery prize, which is 

often a feature which stops you 

shooting quickly. In the Equally Nice 

department is the little pill which 

turns all the mushrooms into 

centipedes. The screen becomes full 

of the beasties, all heading your way. 

Every so often you get a bonus 

screen which has a huge Audrey II 

type plant spitting things at you. Hit 

it often enough and it's biggus bonus 

time. Apart from that, there's nothing 

really new. Nothing new apart from a 

full PAL screen, chock full of fast 

moving (small) sprites. 

Two, three or four players? No 

problem. Two players simultaneously? 

Likewise. All this and 1 

meg enhancements too. 

A useful few minutes can be spent 

reading the manual while the game 

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Downhill all the way 

such as it is, takes place in various 

places about the house that are linked 

.by Jerry's mouseholes. 

The aim is to guide Jerry through. 

rooms, over shelves and furniture, 

devouring as much cheese as possible 

within the time limit of 500 

seconds. Tom is in hot pursuit and 

for every time he catches Jerry you 

lose 30 seconds. Jerry risks losing a 

lot more. 

You can fight back by dropping 

books, bananas, bowling bails and 

other sundry items of cartoon 

mayhem on Tom and, when all else 

fails. you can escape down the 

nearest mousehole. 

While inside the mousehole you 

have to dodge a series of explosive 

obstacles and traps at high speed, 

accompanied by a soundtrack that 

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it's only pausing between loading 

sessions. 

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Alter about 30 seconds or so it all 

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good and the graphics aren't bad. 

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1 

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C ,1, put the cars back on the track for 

you O when you were playing Scalextric? 

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around tracks resembling the NI25 of 

the future. 

The track features bumps, bends, 

flyovers, tunnels. chicanes and, just 

when you thought it was getting 

mean, worse things which I won't 

Built by EA. driven by Tree Progs 

even attempt to describe. It's more 

fun finding out for yourself. 

The track is a kind of channel with 

banked sides, divided into equal chequered 

sections to give the sensation 

of speed as they flash past. They also 

serve as roadsigns. 

If the embankment is coloured red 

and white there is a bend ahead, if 

the top of a tunnel is yellow and 

black then it is curving down 

There are seven different tracks, 

each with its own set of interesting 

features which need a different style 

of driving to negotiate. 

Hazards to watch out for are 

storms — complete with excellent 

lightning which impedes your 

engines unless you stop off in the pits 

for a change of filters — and the other 

drivers. 

You have four opponents, each in a 

different kind of ship. who will all try 

to hassle you. Collisions are quite 

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you to copy it for this purpose. 

If the unfortunate should happen 

and you prang a wing or, worse still, 

the nosecone, you can pop into the 

robopits for a speedy repair. Here 

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After a short briefing you can 

decide whether or not you want to be 

chicken and call in sick. If you do 

choose to accept the mission. you 

have the opportunity to become a 

hero, earn medals and probably get 

killed in action. 

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increase the collective, put out the cat 

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response . time and it is recommended 

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sharp bend — good use of the blitter 

which suggests the programmer did 

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lap races around a four-way scrolling 

landscape. 

In the corner of the screen a small 

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annoy you — it rather cunningly bears 

little or no resemblance to the actual 

playing area. 

The computer controls the two 

other competitors in the race. You 

cannot play directly against your 

friend, and all events are scored by 

the time you took to finish. During 

the race the other computer players. 

whether boats. hovercrafts or cars. 

simply refuse to let you pass. 

If you should bump into them, you 

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Trying to steer your player around 

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had been in the TV show. 

If you win, or least not come last. 

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you are really unlucky you will win 

all three and take part in another 

series. 

Graphically Run the Gauntlet is 

quite good. With digitised static displays 

plus passable landscapes and 

sprites. good use has been made of 

the Amiga hardware. Your little boat 

will even leave a shimmering wake 

as it vainly attempts to take part in 

the race. 

However, the music must be the 

worst I have heard. A tedious little 

sampled ditty plays over and over 

and over again. Even the point when 

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blended together, so it sounds exactly 

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you are going to have. Martin Shaw, 

if you remember, was the one with 

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a TV series banned because 

of excessive violence. His idea of fun 

is, therefore, to be treated with 

suspicion. 

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the misfortune to play. How Ocean 

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to all the puzzles. 

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sailed through the first two levels of 

the arcade version. 

Friends in the arcade were well 

impressed. This reveals two things 

about the conversion. First, the 

timing and feel are spot on. Second, 

the Amiga version is much harder 

than the coin-op with standard settings. 

Increased difficulty is no bad thing. 

At 20p a go there is a strong disincentive 

to practice. If you've shelled 

out 100 times the amount and then all 

the games are free, you'll play until 

your fire button finger is sore. Then 

you will play some more. 

The programmers clearly know 

and love the Amiga. The game oozes 

slickness. Graphics are not quite up 

to the money-munching original but 

they are pretty close. 

Speed does not seem to be affected 

by swarms of encroaching aliens, the 

massive end-of-level guardians nor 

your unleashing megatonnes of death 

by building up loads of weapons. 

Pick up a shield, ripple lasers, side 

firing lasers, seeking missile and 

some side shields and no enemy 

poses a real threat. But if your finger 

slips on the sweaty trigger and you 

lose a life at a crucial moment, it is 

still playable. 

Dedicated garners will argue that if 

you lose extra weapons early you 

might as well give up and go back to 

the start. This takes some patience 

because you have six credits and the 

temptation is to use them regardless 

of tactics. 

A well-programmed conversion of 

one of the best games in the arcades 

is the most you can hope for. The 

music doesn't grate. neither is it 

great, but the result is spot on. 

Denaris may be a better game for 

its deviation from the original, but 

R-type is the benchmark by which 

other games of this ilk must be 

judged. 

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stage in their life watched a film 

and wished they could be the hero. 

Well if your hero is the same as mine, 

Godzilla in The Beast That Ate Tokyo 

(biw 1949), your hour has come. 

Rampage puts von in the role of 

one of three towering monsters: a 

giant King Kong type, a vastly over- 

' sized werewolf or the old favourite 

Godzilla. What is your objective? 

Simple — smash, maim, kill, destroy, 

obliterate • 

Each scene begins with our 

assembled heroes on the pavement 

outside some suspiciously fragile. 

looking buildings. Do what comes 

naturally. If you find it hard to get 

motivated into all this antihumanitarian 

destruction, think of 

what destruction on this scale will do 

to all the estate agents and insurance 

salesmen. 

When the place is completely 

decimated you move on to the next 

town — of which there are 738, all the 

way from Peoria to the dark side of 

the moon. 

In an effort to prevent you from 

turning the civilized world into a 

Beirut lookalike the Army has pos- 

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vantage points from where they 

assault our metamorphic monsters. 

King Kong will have more to deal 

with than a few pathetic biplanes this 

time as a few helicopter-gunships 

enter the fray, straffing wildly. 

Later tanks appear with more 

advanced firepower, which can 

cause a fair amount of pain judging 

by the expression of the stricken 

beast. 

Each hit you take may not inflict 

much damage, but it all adds up. The 

only way you can make up for this is 

by eating regularly. What do you eat? 

Well, as you are climbing the sides of 

buildings, smashing as you go. you 

may notice that some kind people 

have left out some food, milk, toast or 

even their goldfish for you. 

If they haven't, that's OK because 

you can always eat the people and 

have a few choppers for dessert. 

Up to three people can play at a 

Hey. Ham what's your pet monkey doing on the roof? Well. they told roe it weren't allowed in the flat 

time, though using the keyboard is 

verging on the impossible. If the 

players are not friends, you will be 

pleased to know the monsters can 

beat each other up as well as the 

buildings. 

There is not much by way of a plot, 

it's just mindless destruction, which 

is perhaps is more honest than many 

games on the market that try to dress 

up violence, destruction and general 

bad behaviour as being brave and 

noble as long as there is a cause to be 

championed. 

There is no "fight the good fight" 

here unless you're in the Animal 

Rights Militia. There is a small 

amount of romance though. Occasionally 

a girl will appear in one of 

the windows. She can be rescued for 

extra points. You can eat her 

afterwards, of course. 

Graphically the game is very pretty 

and the animation of the monsters is 

excellent, from the defiant growl and 

shake of the fist to the way they cover 

their eyes when they fall off a 

building. 

Sound is adequately supported. 

There are some nice stereo effects 

with the toppling buildings and a satisfying 

chomping noise when the 

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initials on the screen in a (possibly) 

rather dodgy Hestablishment. 

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while we dig Wout 

some more cash to 

lspend 

on the home computer conver- 

ision. 

which we batter away at for a 

ffew 

days. 

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All we get to keep is our initials on 

the screen and a very short-lived hit 

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of adrenalin. The other parties 

s involved get our money in large 

mquantities. 

Who gets the better deal? 

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he asks in a concerned Channel 4 

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consumer programme kind of a way. 

Because conversions cost pub. 

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lishing houses a lot of money, 

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points from popular games and 

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a completely flimsy to the point 

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in a skip... 

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some good honest hype, more money 

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Currently, Digital Magic Software 

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or MIS to those who want to sound 

sin 

with them — are doing with arcade 

games what Frankenstein did with 

dead bits, although with a slight difference. 

Frank took the best bits but 

kind of spoiled them all when joining 

them together. DMS takes good 

ideas, stitches them together with 

good coding and the joins are nowhere 

to be seen. 

DNIS, to use another tedious analogy, 

are the Classic Car restorers of 

the computer entertainment world. 

Trained Assassin has got more 

arcade elements to it than a fan heater 

on Brighton Pier. On the lowest level 

it's a scrolling shoot-'em-up with 

add-on weapons: no chocolate 

watches awarded for originality. 

It's got five levels. "Zz zz zz," 

comes the reply. It's got a tiny plot, 

all about destroying King Rhizoflagellates 

and creatures "whose 

touches are fatal". %Vith one mighty, 

apathetic accord, humanity manages 

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impressive sounding. is it? But read 

on. 

There's a fair amount of money in 

the trained assassin business: there's 

equally as much in the untrained 

assassin business, but it goes to the 

next of kin. There would certainly 

need to be big cash involved to face 

King Rhizoflagellates's hordes of 

nasty things, all of them with more 

kick than an uprated onion bhaji. 

The standard weapon deals quite 

adequately with the first few waves. 

but things very soon get out of hand. 

You'll need the laser and the 

orbiting-buddy weapon to even think 

of getting rid of them. 

Each stage can be learnt: in fact it's 

vital to do so because some bits are 

dead ends and you get crushed by the 

relentlessly scrolling scenery. There 

isn't as much scenery as you'd expect 

in an arcade machine, but there's 

certainly enough to get in the way. 

The first level has slightly futuristic 

bits all over the place. like a 

simplified R-Type. It's fairly predictable 

once you learn where to go and 

what not to do and ends with a fairly 

The killing lirib 

traditional Big Nasty Dragon. It 

serves as a good %'arm up for the rest 

of the game and has enough initial 

wow-value to keep any gonzo 

arcadist happy. 

The second level scrolls down the 

way. which causes some problems 

because your main weapon shoots 

horizontally. It has bubbly scenery, 

not dissimilar to Starquake, the old B 

bit Bubble Bus classic. It is extraordinarily 

difficult, far more so than the 

third level, and could spoil the 

-if 

you can't suss what to do. 

Level three has a desert-cum- 

game 

ancient Egyptian feel to it, but has the 

added twist of seemingly solid scenery, 

which can only be got past once 

shot. 

It's a good level, loads of traps for 

the unwary and just as many for the 

fully clued-up. It scrolls horizontally 

but, unusually, from left to right. 

Level four isn't for the weak of 

stomach, nor those who have eaten 

within the previous hour. It's got 

flying eyeballs, leaping protozoa, and 

tracker tumours. This has got to be 

one of the most tasteless levels of a 

computer game I have ever seen, but 

is a difficult blast because the scenery 

moves upwards. Me. I nearly lost my 

lunch. 

The final level is everything a final 

level should be: excruciatingly difficult, 

but with features learnt from 

previous levels. It is uncomfortably 

similar to R-Type and more difficult 

than all the other levels put together. 

When you cop it — notice the 

"when". not "if' - you get put back 

to the very start of the level; a pest. 

but you should have learnt what you 

did wrong and will be able to avoid it 

next time. 

The team of Burt on coding. Derrett 

and Law on graphics. and Harris on 

sound has made Trained Assassin a 

very fine game. Better, even, than the 

last DNIS offering. Scorpion. 

Everything moves quickly and 

smoothly without fuss or flicker. 

The presentation is much better 

than in Scorpion, with a very nice 

Tim White illustration on the box. 

poster and title screen. The effects. 

although loud and atmospheric. 

aren't much more than OK. The same 

cannot be said for the title tune. 

which even manages to sound good 

through headphones. 

I appreciate that rather onedimensional 

scrolling shoot;em-ups 

may' not be everyone's pot of Darjeeling. 

but Trained Assassin appeals 

to me. 

It doesn't say anything new, but it 

is of a standard that could probably 

survive unaltered in a real arcade. As 

good as the Amiga is, few games 

could manage that. Stewart C. Russell

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The bin's too good for it 

PPAREN'TLY in the year 2567 

Earth gets destroyed. A big 

shame. Some survivors, who 

presumably had been out walking 

the dog at the time, decide to set up a 

trading company. They plan to 

exploit the alien worlds, all of which 

have less sense of economics than 

Nigel Lawson. With a small cargo 

ship they ply the spaceways trying to 

con anything they meet. 

This is the plot to Stag. It seems a 

little familiar, right? It sounds a little 

like Elite, doesn't it? There is a subtle 

difference though. Elite was good. It 

had animation. It had gameplay. 

Above all, it was fun. Stag, on the 

other hand, is pathetic. 

It has been semi-converted from a 

German game. I say semi-converted 

because it is only partly translated 

into English. A few 

things have been 

left out. Like 

grammar. And sense. 

It doesn't really 

matter — you don't 

have to understand 

it to realise 

how terrible it all is. 

Another stunning 

concept is that the 

game is completely 

mouse driven. In 

itself not very original, 

but the underlying 

philosophy of making 

it completely impossible 

to do anything 

without having 

to make 67 factorial 

button presses and 

generally work the 

ball off your mouse is. 

I expect EAS will be bringing out a 

mouse-only text adventure next. Or 

perhaps a word processor where you 

choose your next phrase from one of 

8.000 icons. 

Trading means haggling with 

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of goods. When I say haggle I mean it 

in a strange new sense of the word 

where you tell the other bloke his 

price is way out and he tells you to go 

away. Not much scope for 

Thatcherite entrepreneurial acumen 

there. 

You are not given information 

about any of the other planets, so it's 

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the stuff when you get there. Oddly. 

the entire galaxy lives on a diet of 

milk and alcohol. Perhaps they listen 

to too much late 70's rock music. 

The space flight sequence is the 

best part. This does not mean it is 

32 AM / GA COM PUTING Au g u st 1989 

good, it's just better than the rest. 

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majestically through stardust 

panoramas? No. It flies though 

squares. Or space-streets as EAS 

would have it. 

It's very reminiscent of Mastertronic's 

Chase, which can only be 

bad news. If the ship hits the sides it 

loses shields and eventually disintegrates. 

Amazing. 

Sometimes pirates attack your 

ship. You will know when this happens 

because you will suddenly stop 

flying through squares and some text 

will appear telling you that some 

pirates are attacking your ship. Just 

as well. You would never work it out 

otherwise. Some small blobs appear 

on the screen. They get bigger. You 

die. 

Amazingly EAS has password 

protected this offering. Perhaps the 

company reckon software pirates are 

as stupid as the ones in the game. If 

anyone is doing a bit of shady 

dealing here it is EAS trying to 

offload this lack-lustre effort for 

twice the price of the original Elite. 

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click of an icon. 

A well written manual takes you 

from clumsy amateur to world psychopath 

in gentle stages. One or two 

can play, with the option to be the 

American Eagle or the Soviet Bear. 

'rhe computer is a good opponent. 

There is no blood, gore or offensive 

language: no smutty pictures or 

blood curdling screams. This program 

looks at the academic side of 

war and peace and reacts well to 

player input. 

The initial simple settings guide 

you through a predetermined set of 

moves to show what effect different 

decisions will have. After this you get 

to try out the various menu options. 

A wrong decision could accelerate 

you to Defcon I and the chance to 

wipe out the entire planet. 

If perchance you do cause thermonuclear 

global conflict, a simple text 

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very handy for keeping clear of

BALANCE OF POWER 

screen tartly informs you that there 

will be no animated mushroom 

clouds. There are no rewards for 

failure. 

I can't stop playing Balance of 

Power. What started as a few 

decisions about whether to drop 

troops or dollars somewhere has 

escalated to form a habit. The further 

I get. the more I want to do. 

There is always something new 

around the corner and the inclusion 

of 80 countries, all reacting independently, 

means that there is no chance 

you will exhaust the possibilities. If 

you get stuck, a crisis advisory 

service appears at decision time and 

gives you a clue as to which way to 

turn. 

You start in 1989 with a reasonably 

stable planet. If you can maintain 

stability the game can last eight 

years, after which the winner will be 

the side with the most prestige. I've 

played solid for 14 hours and 

couldn't last longer than three years. 

Then again, I always was quick on 

the button. 

To help you to decide whether to 

give a country aid in cash or troops, a 

screen lists the political persuasions, 

stability and stuff like that. If you are 

playing as the good ol' US of A and 

you give too much help to neutral 

Sweden, uncle Gorby gets a tidgy bit 

miffed and puts you in a precarious 

position. Ouch. 

started at the beginners' level and 

worked through intermediate and 

expert. As I went up each level and 

the amount of factors that the pro- 

honest policemen, 1% 

, exception to the speed limit being 

ho exceeded take by 145 mph. 

The FBI has rigged the engine to 

e x t r e m e 

explode if you don't make the 

checkpoint in the set time. 

The engine also happens to 

explode if you hit anything — car, 

lamp-post, bollard or travel too fast 

for too long off the road. 

And that's all there is to it. 

CC2 is difficult and very frustrating. 

It must be the only game to 

give a car inertia — it becomes very 

easy to spin uncontrollably at high 

speed. 

What Titus hasn't put into the 

, 

Let's not beat about the Bush 

gram used got more complex, the 

results I got began to mirror history. 

There's nothing like a bit of realism, 

so I got out the history books 

and looked up a couple of the more 

delicate diplomatic situations from 

the 'sixties, when the Bear and the 

Eagle were at each other's ambassadors. 

couldn't hope to simulate them 

accurately, but the basics were there. 

Using the world as a threedimensional 

chess board, I made the 

USA moves to see how the USSR 

would react. 

I then reversed the roles and 

played the USSR. As both superpowers 

had blamed each other for 

the initiative in the 'sixties, it was 

Watch out for the China crisis 

One to steer clear of 

handling is the natural way steering 

wheels return to their centre position. 

don't know how Titus can keep a 

straight face when it claims that the 

screenshots on the box are the same 

as the graphics in the game. They're 

not, they are re-touched saved 

screens, not ones from the game. 

With the handling of an elderly 

2CV, the sound of a sewing machine, 

and graphics which wouldn't be 

noteworthy on the machine which 

starts with an S and ends with a T. 

Crazy Cars II will appeal to 

somebody I'm sure. Possibly one for 

a connoisseur of the truly mediocre. 

Stewart C. Russell 

interesting to note that the only way 

to get a similar result was to cast the 

USA in the role of aggressor. Tut-tut. 

President Johnson. And you said it 

was them. 

In the levels up to expert the game 

takes the rather simplistic us-andthem 

stance. It only calculates the 

reactions of the two main powers and 

anything else brought into direct 

action. 

In the final multipolar level Balance 

of Power gets closest to reality 

with the computer calculating the 

reactions and decisions of all 80 

countries. 

In fact it's quite uncanny. The 

results at this level were accurate 

enough to write a newspaper article 

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close to actual events, perhaps we 

should send Bush and Gorby an 

Amiga each and let them get on with 

thermonuclear war in the comfort of 

their own palaces. Keith G. Pomfret

Dark Side 

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Your mission is to dest 

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down the countdown to the time of 

firing. 

As soon as you see an ECD, shoot 

it. If it is in a line of others it will 

re-charge immediately, so the devices 

aside it must be destroyed first. Other 

things to worry about are the Plexors, 

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back to Your ship. The best ones to 

get are the Increase Shot Range 

()kens, which allow you to take out 

hings before they do the same to 

mu. 

As with the arcade original, these 

okens are cumulative, so it's rolaively 

easy to upgrade your tank to 

omething fairly intense. Some Smart 

Shots can come in handy. especially 

when things are getting out of hand. 

Once through to the top level your 

ask is to destroy the control centre, 

which can be a valuable source of 

bonus bits if you don't mess up and 

get trashed with the rest of the centre. 

If you choose to play this the 

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environment 

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Come back then and enter a 

building which houses stores of 

shield and fuel materials. Getting into 

the building is easy since the demo 

mode shows you how to do it. 

Although it feels like you're 

driving a tank, you are actually in a 

spacesuit and can look up and down. 

tilt-the angle of perspective, even 

fire-up your jet pack. The trouble 

with these movements is that they are 

all the right things appearing at the 

right time. The sound is exceedingly 

faithful to the arcade as long as you 

are used to hearing it through several 

layers of old socks. It's fuzzy and 

frankly it stinks. 

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appearing. 

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fast, sideways movement is very slow 

and jerky. Considering that only 

around half of the screen is being 

used, this is disappointing. 

The jet pack activated, take to the 

sky — or what passes for one — and 

zoom into the buildings, down the 

corridors and round the construc- 

_ Thst*s it. This is the end. There is no more 

desired effec 

Hnimni, they p 

200 line screen for 

too. And that desired oiled, dear 

readers, is to make the Amiga con 

version a quick job after the ST 

The program 

problems. 

Don't get me 

an exceedingly playable game that 

slopped me toying with Daleks for a 

The graphics are good, it's just 

lions 

While some situations are familiar 

— corridors in buildings and surface 

features outdoors, for example — 

some of the features indoors are very 

strange and infuse a sense of 

something completely alien. Very 

unwelcome to the eye. Plus it's difficult 

to figure out what is what. 

The sound effects are goodish, but 

there aren't enough of them. You'll 

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plexar destroying Evath every 

you blow your mission impossib 

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challenging and worthy addition 

the Freescape stable. It is slow 

thought provoking and will certai 

be welcomed by devotees of the 

arcade adventure. But be warned 

isn't everyone's cup of tea. 

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Under the 

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or three pages in Appendix A of the 

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Workbench 1.3 manual cover hard 

Setting up a hard disc can be very confusing 

as you juggle file systems, formats and 

manuals. David Foster shows the path to take 

disc installation after a fashion. 

on to floppy because the process of follows certain rules. You will find 

One of the drawbacks of the A2090 installing the HS destroys all data. that sample entries are already 

hard disc controller and the Fast 

Understanding the procedure 

included which need altering or 

Filing System (HS) is that the whole carried out by AmigaDos to initialise duplicating to suit. 

disc cannot be formatted as a HS the hard disc for use might make 

Just making entries in Mountlist 

disc because the A2090 automatically things clearer later on. AmigaDos does nothing and you have to mount 

attempts to mount the first disc 

automatically mounts the floppy as the drive with the Mount command, 

partition as an old tiling system 

IWO:, because BindDrivers, one of the using the name of the drive involved. 

(OP'S). This has been fixed with many command lines in Startup-Sequence. Mount FS1: would mount the drive 

of the more recent interfaces such as has built in drivers for DFO: and, if a defined as FS1; in Mountlist. You can 

the Commodore A590. 

hard disc is present, it attempts to use Mount commands from the CU, 

The solution is to partition the drive mount a hard drive called DHO: as a but would normally put them into the 

into two logical drives, the first of 

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standard hard drive. 

If you add any further drives, or 

Startup-Sequence. 

Once mounted, the drive is ready 

drive, called DHO: the other formatted partition the hard drive into a number for use, but its icon is not displayed 

as an FE'S drive. 'Ihe procedure is of logical drives, you must tell 

until the drive has been accessed with 

quite straightforward, or it would be AmigaDos that you have done so. a command. Just Cl) and the drive 

if you didn't have to dig the 

This is done by making entries in name is sufficient. 

information out of two or three 

Mountlist and then mounting the 

Make copies of the Workbench 1.3 

different places. 

drive. 

disc and HDInstall disc — never use 

If your hard disc is already 

Mountlist is a text file and may be the originals — then switch off and 

formatted and contains any data the edited with El), or any Ascii text re-boot the computer from the copy of 

first thing you should do is back it up editor. The layout of the entries 

Workbench 1.3. Make a copy of the 

38 AMIGA COMPUTING August Mg

Mountlist file in the Deys directory of 

the Workbench disc with a different 

name so that if you get things wrong 

it is only a second's work to copy it 

over the messed up one and start 

again. You are now ready to begin the 

real task. 

Insert the copy of HDInstall into the 

floppy drive and click on the disc 

icon, then double click on the Install 

icon to load the program. The first 

thing you get is a warning about the 

procedure completely clearing the 

hard disc of existing data. 

p to continue. The program Ivill 

Lcheck 

Mountlist and copy the hard 

Udisc 

driver and other files on to the 

CWorkbench 

disc. There is a final 

K chance to escape just before the 

uprogram 

does anything more than 

p copy the necessary files on to the 

Workbench disc. 

c 

You are then asked whether you are 

o 

using a SCSI hard disc. In most cases 

u 

the answer is No unless you have 

specifically 

r 

requested such a drive 

and a the program then asks whether 

the g first ST506 drive should be 

e Prepped. Answer Yes. The purpose of 

aPrep 

is to specify the type of drive 

and n its specifications. It must be run 

to d prepare the hard drive. 

s A list of drive types appears for you 

to e select the one vou are using. 

Things 

l 

are not always as obvious as 

they seem. My drive is an Epson 

e 

ST506 type, but the Epson entry in 

c 

the list was for a SCSI drive. If you 

are 

t 

unsure, check with your dealer. If 

your Y drive is not on the list select 

option e 0 for a User Defined drive and 

answer s the questions. 

The first few questions are about 

the drive's specification. If none came 

with the drive you might have to ring 

the supplier to check. I did so, to 

check that mine was, in fact, a bog 

standard one of the type used by 

many IBM PC computers, with four 

heads. 615 cylinders and 17 sectors 

per track. The required answers to the 

questions are shown in Figure I. 

You are next asked for the last 

cylinder being used by the first 

partition of the drive. AmigaDos takes 

cylinders 0 and 1 for its own 

purposes, which means that the 

lowest cylinder of the first partition 

starts at 2. 

AmigaDos automatically installs the 

first partition as DHO: All that Prep 

needs to know is where the first 

partition ends. Prep already knows 

that it starts at cylinder 2. I decided to 

UrXhAe•i 

New CL I t a sk 3 

First t im e h a rd d isk in st a lla t io n . 

Warning: t h is p ro ce d u re w ill cle a r yo u r h a rd d isk. 

Your An ig a m u st b e re b o o t e d a t t h e co n clu sio n . 

Do yo u wa n t t o co n t in u e ? (Pre ss RETURN t o e xit ) y 

Checking yo u r M o u n t L ist . 

Copying h d d isk d rive r in t o yo u r Exp a n sio n d ra o e r. 

RAm D I SH :H a rd D isk/ h d d isk..co yie d 

RAN D I SH :H a rd D isk/ h d d isk.in f o ..co p ie d 

Copying Pre p comnand in t o yo u r C d ire ct o ry. 

Loading d rive r 

Mounting h a rd d isk a n d in it ia lizin g h a rd d isk 

Is t h is a SCSI h a rd d isk 7 n 

Can't ca n ce l d h B 

PREP t h e fi rst ST-5 8 6 d rive (D H 8 :) ? (All in f o o n D I A: w ill b e e ra se d ) y 

Device PESO: a lre a d y n o u n t e d 

PREP Ve rsio n 3 3 .1 9 

Drive t yp e s: 

0) USER DEFINED 

I) Ge n e ric 2 h e a d 10M8 (ST5 8 6 ) 

2) Ge n e ric 4 h e a d 18M8 (5 1 5 8 6 ) 

3) Ep so n HMD-726A ( S C S I ) 

4) M in iScrib e 3425/8425 (ST5 8 6 ) 

5) M in iScrib e 3658 (ST5 8 6 ) 

6) M in iScrib e 8425S (SC SI ) 

7) Quantum Q280 ( S C S I ) 

8) Ro d in e RO 6 5 2 ( S C S I ) 

9) Se a g a te S1225 (S1 5 8 6 ) 

10) Se a g a te S1251 (ST5 8 6 ) 

11) Se a g a te ST138N ( S C S I ) 

12) Se a g a te ST157N ( S C S I ) 

13) Se a g a te S1225N ( S C S I ) 

14) Se a g a t e S1251N ( S C S I ) 

Select d rive t yp e [ 6 ] : 0 

Number o f h e a d s 1 4 1 : 4 

Nunber o f cylin d e rs : 6 1 5 

Nunber o f se ct o rs p e r t ra ck 1 1 7 1 : 1 7 

Write p re -co n y cylin d e r (6 1 5 1 : 6 1 1 

Do yo u wa n t t h e h e a d s p a rke d a u t o n a t ica lly a f t e r 

3 se co n d s o f in a ct ivit y 7 CY/N1 : N 

Last cylin d e r u se d b y fi rst p a rt it io n 

(range 2 t o (d e f a u lt )) (6 1 4 1 : 3 

Nunher o f AnigaDOS se ct o r b u f f e rs (3 8 1 : 3 8 

Would yo u like t o n a rk a n y b lo cks o n t h e d isk a s b a d ? (Y/ N 1 N 

Continuing w ill d e st ro y a n y in f o rn a t io n o n t h e 

entire p h ysica l d e vice , a n d t h e syst e n w ill h a ve t o b e re b o o t e d . 

Do yo u w ish t o p ro ce e d ? (Y/ N ) : y 

PREP co m p le t e . Re b o o t t h e syst e n b e f o re u sin g t h is d rive . 

Then Fo rm a t 0 8 : 

Fil; on' I: Installing a cylinder OHO: partition from start to finish 

make partition one — DHO: — as small 

as possible. 

The 1.3 manual suggests that you 

might like to make DHO: large enough 

to hold the contents of a Workbench 

disc, primarily so that you can re-boot 

from the recoverable ram drive RAD: 

if you have enough memory for all 

the required files. This process also 

requires many of the Workbench files 

to be present on DHO:. 

I chose not to make use of this 

feature, so gave OHO: only two 

cylinders — 68k. the minimum 

permitted — and subsequently 

installed Workbench on the FFS 

drive. 

The final question requires a little 

explanation. Often when a hard disc 

is produced parts are not quite up to 

standard. You need to tell the 

program where they are so that those 

parts of the disc can be marked 

unavailable. There is usually a list 

stuck to the disc. 

You have a final opportunity to 

abort the procedure. or continue to 

Prep the disc. Prep creates the device 

• P R O G R A M M I N G • 

RESO: which consists of tracks 0 and 

I. used by AmigaDos for its own 

purposes and not available to you. 

If you make changes to the settings 

in Mountlist for the device RESO: you 

must re-run Prep before you can 

mount or format the hard disc 

successfully. 

Now re-boot the computer again, 

load Mountlist into a text editor and 

check that the entries for RESO: are 

correct. Check that the Unit entry is 1 

for a first hard drive of the ST-506 

type and that Surfaces — the number 

of heads — and BlocksPerTrack match 

those for your drive. Don't make any 

other changes but check that LowCyl 

and HighCyl are 0 and 1 respectively. 

Look through the Mountlist file; 

you should find an example entry for 

a device called FAST: You can 

change its name to anything you 

want. I chose FS1:. 

The majority of the entries should 

be the same as those for RESO:, but 

you must change the LowCvl and 



4 

Two types of drive are commonly used with the Amiga. SCSI and 

ST506 types may both he used with the Amiga 2090 and 2090A 

controllers, but only the ST506 drives are normally supplied by 

Commodore. This is not true of some third party supplies, so check 

which you have before setting up. It is assumed in this article that you 

will be installing an ST506 drive. The software installation is 

essentially the same for both types, with the following differences: 

ST506 SCSI Description 

RESO: 

Unit=1 

DUO: 

RES2: 

Itnit=3 

1)I-12: 

Device name for cylinders 0 and I, used by 

A migaDos 

Used in MountList RESO: and FFS partition 

definitions. 

Drive name for first partition of first hard 

drive. 

Further partitions may be called whatever name you choose to give 

them in Mountlist. 

IlighCyl values to suit the size of your 

partitions. In my case, as DHO: is 

using cylinders 2 and 3, the entry for 

LowCyl needed changing to 4 and 

I lighCvl to 611. as I wanted to use the 

rest of the drive as one partition. 

If you want more than one partition 

in addition to DHO:, set HighCyl to 

the value you want for the top of the 

first H.'S partition, then copy the 

whole entry for FAST: and change 

LowCyl for the new entry to start at 

the next higher cylinder and the top 

with the highest cylinder you want 

iind so on until you have created the 

number of partitions you want and • 

used up all the cylinder. Don't forget 

to give the second entry a different 

name from the first, by changing 

FAST: to something else, say FS2: 

Mountlist can then be saved and it 

is time to format the different 

partitions. This can only be done 

from the CU. DHO: will have been 

mounted automatically when you rebooted 

the computer, so you can just 

type: 

FORMAT DRIVE OHO: NAME MyName 

Once DUO: is formatted it is time to 

format the other partitions. Before you 

can do this you must mount each 

d ri ve. Enter: 

MOUNT FS1: 

or whatever description you gave the 

entry in Mounthst, and follow this 

FORMAT DRIVE FS1: NAME MyName2 FFS 

Don't forget to add the FFS to the 

end of the command this time, so that 

40 AAWACOMP/J71VG August1989 

the partition will be formatted as a 

FastFileSystem drive. Repeat the 

procedure of mounting and 

formatting for any further partitions 

you have created. 

You are almost finished now, and 

you should find that if you type: 

CD FS1: 

the new drive responds to other 

commands such as Info or Dir. If 

everything is OK make changes to 

Startup-Sequence so the new drives 

will automatically be mounted every 

time you boot the computer. 

Now copy the Workbench files 

from floppy to your hard disc as some 

of them xvill be required when you 

boot up. 

In the S directory of your floppy 

you will find a file called Startup- 

Sequence.hd. This is the one you 

need, and its name must be changed 

to Startup-Sequence. Delete the 

original Startup-Sequence file on the 

floppy as you won't need it again and 

rename Startup-Sequence.hd to 

Startup-Sequence. 

Load the new Startup-Sequence file 

into ED and find the BindDrivers 

command. Insert lines after 

BindDrivers, the new Mount 

commands for each partition - except 

the first - DHO:. Further down the file 

you will see a line assigning SYS to 

DHO:. You should change DHO: to the 

name you have given the drive 

partition which now contains 

Workbench. 

Save the file and you will then be 

able to reset the computer and boot 

from the floppy drive. You can make 

improvements by editing the Startup- 

Sequence files on the floppy and hard 

discs. 

Startup-Sequence on the floppy 

uses an Assign >NIL: DHO: EXISTS 

line. This checks to see whether the 

drive is present. We know it is, so 

comment out the line with a semicolon 

and also the If Not Warn line 

and all the lines from and including 

Else to the end of the file. 

Now load the Startup-Sequence file 

on the hard disc and comment out the 

BindDrivers line, as the command has 

already been issued from the floppy 

disc. You might as well change the 

SYS:System/SetMap usal line to read 

SYS:System/SetMap gb, so that the 

keys do what you expect. 

As a little extra bonus. I also 

include the following line 

immediately before the EndCLI line at 

the end of the file: 

NewShell - 

NEWC 

ON: 

This provides a small CLI window 

in 

440/1 

the lower right corner of the 

screen, 

50/20 

on top of the Workbench 

screen, so that I can either use the 

0/50/ 

mouse or issue CLI commands 

Shell• 

directly from the small window. 

Guide to setting up 

1. Back up any existing data on the 

hard disc to floppy, for possible 

later restoration. 

2. Make working copies of 

Workbench 1.3 and HDInstall 

discs. 

3. Run the Install program, found 

on the HDInstall disc. 

a). Select option 0 from the list 

of hard drives. 

b). Answer questions about 

number of heads, cylinders, and 

so on, according to the drive 

you are using. 

c). Specify last cylinder number 

of first partition. 

d). Select default for AmigaDos 

buffers. 

e). Mark bad blocks, if any. 

• fl. Complete Install procedure. 

4. Re-boot computer. 

5. Check Mountlist file for correct 

entries and adjust to suit your 

drive if necessary. Add new entries 

for partitions. 

6. Format DHO: 

7. Mount and format each further 

drive partition, according to the 

names you gave them. 

8, Copy required files on to hard 

drive. 

9. Alter Startup-Sequence as 

necessary.

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Steve Rackley looks at Project Master 

and comes up with a cheaper solution 

D wondered about the usefulness 

of U management tools. Do they serve a 

Rpurpose 

beyond keeping managers 

busy I and giving them something to 

justify N expensive hardware on their 

desks? 

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concurrent, o so that if you have 

sufficient m resources the steps can be 

carried e out simultaneously. 

n The system calculates total time 

taken, t total costs and resources. It can 

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which must be finished before the 

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as a whole can proceed any 

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becomes available, for example how 

long 

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a step took or how much a 

certain f resource actually cost — often 

nothing t like the estimate — the system 

updates e its totals and revises the 

overall n timescale to take account of 

late or early (ha ha!) completion of 

the tasks. It's this copious re-entry of 

data that makes a project management 

system's data entry facilities so 

critical, 

Project Master's features include the 

ability to produce time, cost and 

resource charts giving a graphical 

representation of the duration and 

cost of each task, with statistics such 

as critical and maximum paths, 

progress and cumulative costs 

including percentages of estimates. 

I keeping everything up to date is 

almost N as bad. Project Master works 

Ihappily 

with incomplete data, giving 

you T as much information as it can 

from I the input provided, but that is 

Ano 

excuse for the poor design of the 

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data entry stage. 

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Charts can be printed and plain 

reports produced. Resource charts are 

a 

an easy way to highlight idle 

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resources or show up overlap caused 

by 

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allocating the same workers to two 

econcurrent 

tasks. Project Master 

ndoesn't 

warn of this sort of thing 

tautomatically 

— it allowed me to 

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allocate one person to three 

concurrent tasks, spending all of his 

working week on each of them. 

Compared to similar offerings on 

the PC, Project Master doesn't seem to 

offer anything special, but does lack 

some features found on more 

expensive products, such as the 

ability to specify the extent of a 

resource's availability. 

I'm not a project manager, but I 

know a man who is. In his opinion 

perhaps the single most important 

feature of his expensive PC software 

is its ability to set up a "resource 

pool", which is independent from any 

project and includes individual 

calendars. 

When holidays are booked, they are 

entered and reflected in all future 

calculations. The lack of such features 

relegates Project Master to the 

amateur scale, which in turn casts 

doubt upon its entire worth. 

I work in a large office where 

several software projects are always 

under way at once. Although most of 

the managers have tried tools such as 

August 1989 AAI1GA COMPUTING 45

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1this, they generally give up on them 

as being more trouble than they're 

worth. An exception is one colleague 

who is using a package costing 

around E1 .000 to control several large 

interrelated projects involving dozens 

of people and other factors over a 

two-year period. I'd hate to try that 

with Project Master. 

If this kind of software is to earn its 

keep. it has to be easy to use. I'm 

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afraid Project Master just isn't. 

although it seems so at fi rst sight. It's 

very well presented. it inulti-tasks 

beautifully. and it is fairly well 

documented. But this type of software 

stands or falls on its ease of input. 

Project Master falls. Dates must be 

input with separating hyphens. 

Rates of pay can only be given as a 

whole number of pounds or dollars 

per hour, which could give some 

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amateur scale, which 

in turn casts doubt 

upon its entire worth 

project. I found that going back to 

look at a previous task in the middle 

of entering a new one lost half the 

data in the new task. 

I've got a better project 

management aid. It's called pencil 

and paper. 

EPORT CARD 

Project M a st e r 

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$195 

EASE OF USE[111111111111111 

Input is of great importance. and it just 

isn't up to a professional standard. 

SPEED 

Really needs a hard disc. Hardly the 

software's fault, but still relevant. 

VALUE 111111111E11111 

As these things go. it's reasonably 

priced, but its quality reflects this. 

While any attempt to produce Amiga 

software aimed at corporates is 

laudable, this is a disappointment. 

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DIGITAL Magic Software 

has pulled off a real coup. Its 

first two games releases have 

won Amiga Computing 

Excellence awards. And 

when we first saw Trained 

Assassin, we knew we 

wanted this game for our 

debut cover disc. 

The folks at Digital Magic 

Software chose to give you 

level four, the Chasm of 

Skulls. It's got flying 

eyeballs, leaping protozoa 

To load Trained Assassit 

switch on your Amiga 

pop the cover disc into 

DFO:, wait a few seconds 

for the Workbench then 

double click on the CD001 

icon. When the disc 

window has opened, 

double click on the 

Trained Assassin icon. 

and tracker tumours — a level 

not for the weak of stomach. 

Even our most hardened 

games reviewer almost lost 

• h i s lunch. 

Shoot the eyeballs for 

oft points before they jump out 

of their sockets. Pick up the 

extra weapons, but watch 

3111 for the relentless scroling 

— you might get 

;quashed. 

As a budding assassin you 

need to know how to make 

the most of the weapons. The 

attract mode screen describes 

some of them. It also 

advises you to press Help for 

extra descriptions. Don't 

bother, the second page isn't 

included in this version. 

All the weapons autofire. 

There is no need to set the

switch on your joystick, just 

hold down the fire button. 

You can't turn and shoot. 

This is so you can flee and 

fire. 

Remember to let go of the 

trigger if you want to flip 

round or shoot in another 

direction. Once you have 

some of the more powerful 

weapons, the way you are 

facing becomes very 

important. 

If you need to take a trip to 

the bathroom or rest an 

aching index finger, hit the 

Del key to pause. If you are 

doing so badly you are 

ashamed of the score, press 

Esc to quit. 

Because of the way the 

program has been 

compressed to save space on 

the disc, you may have problems 

loading it on an 

unexpanded 512k machine if 

you have a second drive 

plugged in or ilyou have run 

another program first. The 

remedy is simple: Switch off, 

unplug any memory hungry 

peripherals, switch on and 

try again. 

ME 

WHOLE GAME 

THE trouble with playing 

one level of Trained 

Assassin is that half-anhour 

later you want to 

play another. Don't panic! 

We've thought of that. 

So sure are we that 

you'll want more of this 

mindless mayhem which 

scored 15/15 for gameplay 

that we've got our 

mail order boys and girls 

to stock up on the full 

version. 

And as a special treat 

for Amiga Computing 

readers, we're knocking a 

fiver off the the retail 

price, which means you 

can pick up this coin-op 

quality game for under 

EDI Check out Page 52 

for full details. 

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DislcSalv is run from a 

C.1,1 or Shell and in the 

simplest case is used very 

much Disl(Copy. 

DISKSALV is a program 

designed by Dave Haynie of 

Commodore US to salvage 

any files and directories from 

a damaged AmigaDos file 

system device — hard or 

floppy — to a good one. 

This is version 1.40 — the 

very latest update which 

works with the AmigaDos 

Fast File System (EFS). It 

fixes all the bugs found in 

previous versions. 

To recover files from a bad 

disc in DR): and restore them 

to a good disk in DFI: you 

would type: 

disksatv FROM die: TO el: 

The FROM and TO key 

words are optional if the 

input and output devices are 

kept in that order. In use, 

DiskSalv will immediately 

print to the screen the detail 

shown in Figure 

At this point, pressing 

Return will start the recovery 

process, pressing N followed 

• IF you are not a subscriber 

and your disc does 

not work, please send it 

to: Direct Disc Supplies 

Ltd. Dept Amiga 

Computing, Unit 19. 

Teddington Business 

Park, Station Road. Teddington, 

TW11 911Q. You 

will be sent a new disc. 

DiskSalv 

DiskSalv V1.40 Copyright (c) 1989 by Dave Haynie 

Salvage FROM Device DFO: TO Path DF1: 

DEVICE 

UNIT 

HEADS 

LOCYL 

LOBLOCK . 

RESERVED . 

ROOT BLOCK . 

Scan Range: START 

Should I continue (Y) 

trackdisk.devIce (DFO:) 

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Figure I: The first step to a healthy. disc 

by Return will abort. 

There are quite a few 

options in DiskSalv that %yin 

modify in various ways tile 

recovery action, including 

ASK, which allows the disc 

salvage to proceed interactively 

instead of automatically. 

You will be 

prompted at each file or 

directory. 

Entering Y will recover 

that file or move into that 

directory. A reply of N will 

skip that item. Replying ? 

will list all the valid options. 

• IF you subscribe to 

Amiga Computing and 

your disc has been 

damaged in the post, 

please send it to: Database 

Direct, Amiga Cover Disc, 

FREEPOST, Ellesmere 

Port, South Wirral L65 

3E13. You will be sent a 

new disc. 

2, STOP 1759, Expecting Standard FlleSystem 

Typing A will recover 

everything left at the current 

directory level, U will skip 

everything left at the current 

directory level and Q will 

quit the program completely. 

Full details of the program 

the options and the error 

messages are included on 

the disc in the file Disk- 

Salv.doc. Double-click on 

the icon and read the documentation 

before using the 

program for the first time. 

• IF you damage your 

disc — for instance if the 

dog has chewed it or your 

mum has washed it — you 

can get a new one by 

sending E1.50 to: Direct 

Disc Supplies Ltd making 

your cheque or postal 

order payable to Direct 

Disc Supplies Ltd. 

Now turn to next page 

.•lugust 1989 C O M P U T I N G 4.)

games ever released on 8 

machines was Thrust. Fa 

graphics c e d 

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Many 

himself playing through the 

• night, battling bravely 

against the seemingly impossible 

forces of gravity and 

strategically _ placed , gun 

To load: Raider boot up 

the cover disc, open 

CD001 and double-click 

on the Raider icon. 

eys 

joystick or mou 

_bother, the keybo 

ly sena! 

Thrust 

Fire 

Shield/tractor 

Rotate left 

Rotate right 

Pause 

Right shift 

Return 

Spacebar 

DO you often copy software 

on to floppies to take home 

from work or for archival 

purposes? Every once in a 

while, do you fi nd that 

something has been written 

incorrectly to disc? Are you 

sick and tired of this? You 

are? Then you need Disk- 

Checker. 

This program, based on 

DiskSalv and written by C. 

Harald Koch of Toronto earlier 

this year, will read every 

sector on a hard or floppy 

disc, reporting any read 


X 

,and go straight e more 

difficult second level. We'll 

leave you to discover the 

identity of that four letter 

word for yourselves. 

ou use thrust, your 

creases. The amount 

e on board is shown 

at bo f t , t 

the tw niers— 

can be ga en by pi 

the blue capsules wi 

tractor beam. This • 

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be a capsul , 

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DiskChecker 

errors found. To check a disc 

type: 

DISKCHECKER 

This program runs from a 

CU or Shell. To check a 

disc type: DiskChecker 

loptionl 

where device-name is the 

name of a disc device — 

IWO:, FFO:, DHO:, RAD:, 

and so on. 

DiskChecker will print 

statistics about the device 

and then read through each 

sector on the disc. It will 

report any errors encountered 

by error number. 

In addition, if the error is a 

valid Trackdisk.Device error, 

the program will print a 

descriptive error message. 

There are two options: -q 

(a hyphen followed by lower 

Y. 

fuel. 

On the right- and side o 

the status panel, the mid 

light (green) remains 

as long as fuel capsu 

available on the c 

planet. 

The bottom, orange light 

remains lit while the end-oflevel 

bonus is still available. 

If you successfully 

complete the first level the 

password to the second will 

given to you. 

The mission consists of 

collecting green cogs which 

are hidden from you at the 

start of each level by a cunning 

cloaking device. 

Let gravity do all the work 

— only use fuel when you 

have to. You should rarely 

have to thrust downwards. 

Don't shoot the fuel 

capsules, but blast away at 

everything else — ammo is 

free. Be careful not to get too 

close to somtthing you are 

shooting. You will die if you 

are caught in the explosion. 

To shoot a difficult gun 

emplacement, drift into its 

line with your shield on and 

blast away. 

Once you have blasted all 

the bases, the top light of the 

three — blue — will be lit letting 

you know that the cog's 

cloaking device has been deactivated. 

You must hunt down the 

cog, collect it with your frac 

% r beam and thrust aw 

m the planet to finis 

el. Pressing Esc in 

case Q) performs the check 

quietly and only reports 

errors encountered. 

The second option, -v (a 

hyphen followed by lowercase 

V) performs the check 

verbosely displaying data 

about every sector checked. 

So to check a disc quietly in 

the internal drive, type: 

diskchecker - 

q d f 0 : 

The program will abort if

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Because of th 

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to squeeze more n7 a 

on to the disc, A5 . 

with no extra memory 

experience diffi cul 

running it if a second 

drive is fined or if Imo& 

program has been run bef - 

Raider, lithe program ha 

with a blank screen rem 

e disc, switch off, wait 

onds and • • 

T H E 

WHOLE GAME 

After completing this 

demonstration version of 

Raider, you'll want to get 

your hands on the real 

thing — the other 38 levels 

which scored 15/15 for 

graphics and caused our 

reviewer to comment: 

"The graphics used to 

define the various planets 

and moons are wonderfully 

drawn and 

smoothly scrolled in all 

directions. Every new 

landscape is a joy to look 

at and explore". 

Never fear, mail order is 

here. Turn to page 52 to 

read full details of how to 

get hold of Raider for just 

E14.95. 

you type Ctrl-C or Ctrl-D. 

DiskChecker tries to make 

certain sanity checks about 

devices. It will not let you 

check CON:, for example. 

However, these checks are 

far from perfect. You will 

crash your machine if you 

try to check SER:, PAR: or 

PRT:. Make sure the device 

statistics printed look 

reasonable before proceeding. 

DiskChecker does what it 

says, and %yin only check 

discs, not Amiga devices. 

van o 1 El 000 1 

up t 

WE are looking for original contributions 

for the Amiga Computing 

cover disc. If you think something you 

have written or drawn is good enough 

to share with everybody else who reads 

the magazine, send it along and we will 

have a look. If we like what we see, it 

could earn you up to ELME 

Please let us know if your submission 

needs any files from the 

Workbench disc. Programs which use 

the Amiga's built-in speech can be particularly 

greedy in this respect. 

If your program is clickable from 

Workbench, feel free to design an 

original icon. In fact, we'll pay small 

amounts for good icons, even if there is 

Name 

Address 

no program attached. But don't make 

them too big. And please use the standard 

Workbench colours. 

Bear in mind that a program which 

does not run on a 5 

. have to be exceptionally good to make 

12k 

it on to the disc. 

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Please 

a c h 

enclose 

i n e 

this coupon, or a 

photocopy of it, with your submission. 

wInclude o a ufile l on the disc with full 

ddocumentation, 

your name, address, 

phone number and a few details about 

you and your kit. Don't forget to 

duplicate on the disc label the program 

name, your name, address and phone 

number. If you want your disc back, 

enclose the correct amount in stamps. 

Age years 

Daytime phone a f t e r . . . . a m 

Evening phone a f t e r . . . . p m 

Submission name 

Submission size b y t e s in total 

NOTE: We will accept submissions up to 500k in total length, including 

documentation. But the shorter your submission, the better chance it stands 

of getting on to the disc. If it is a 'compiled program, include all the source 

code, but do not count this in the size of the submission. 

Write a brief description of your submission below. If it consists of more 

than one file, describe what each file is for. Attach an extra sheet of paper to 

this form if necessary: 

Sign this declaration: 

The stuff on this disc is mine. I didn't nick it off someone else. It hasn't been 

published before and I haven't submitted it elsewhere because I want 

Amiga Computing to publish it. 

Signed D a t e 

Post your submission to: Jeff Walker, Amiga Computing, North House, 

, 78-84 Ongar Road, Brentwood, CM15 9BG. 

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Send for the full version of the great games on this 

month's Amiga Computing cover disc — and SAVE EMI! 

This blockbuster combines the best 

features of some of the most popular games 

ever to have appeared on the Amiga. 

It features five action-packed levels with 

different varieties of scrolling and 

gameplay, with the fifth level guaranteed 

to raise your joystick's temperature by a 

few degrees (if not your own). 

"Trained Assassin is of a standard that 

could probably survive unaltered in a real 

arcade — few games 

could manage that."— 

Stewart Russell, 

Amiga Computing. 

RRP E24.95 

Our Price 

719.95 

Skill and determination are the qualities 

you'll need in vast amounts if you're 

going to fully master this game. 

Your mission consists of collecting 

pods by hovering above them and 

switching on your tractor beam, 

but all the time you have to take 

into account the effects of intertia 

and gravity, controlling your ship 

as smoothly as possible — to avoid 

colliding with the planet below. 

"The graphics are wonderfully 

drawn and smoothly scrolled in all 

directions. Every landscape is a 

joy to look at and 

explore.., delicate, 

addictive gameplay." 

— John Kennedy, 

Amiga Computing. 

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Money for 

)thing 

Pssst, want a free plug for your 

PD club? Fat Angus's fourth 

floor office is the best 

place to find one 

Y guru is busy meditating but 

while he was away doing 

grinding-halts to my machine 1 

received a package from a cheeky 

chap who reckons he can Find his 

way into Amiga Computing on the 

merits of his work. A cunning ploy to 

slip past the armed guard in the 

lobby. abseil up the stairwell and 

arrive at Angus's linen cupboard in 

the fourth floor washroom. 

David French, or David French 

Software as he prefers to be known, is 

one of the growing band of speedboat 

drivers who realise that at the age of 

13 there is more to life than 

modelling life jackets. 

Swapping throttle and surf for 

Amiga and mouse, he's tied Up his 

powerboat and left the swell of the 

ocean for the smell of the keyboard. 

Not content with sending me discs 

which make good drinks coasters, he 

sent me a swatch of newsletters 

wrought from his own fair nine pins. 

Taking the discs in reverse order 

(scsid eht) there's a collection of virus 

killers, including the very useful 

VirusX and the pretty but not too 

delicate Blizzard. With the Prat 

Quotient on the increase, it's not 

enough to set the write-protect tab on 

the disc. Everyone must have some 

sort of virus protection. 

The disc autoboots to a choice 

screen. It's here that I may fall out 

with young French. He's included 

that damn awful progette that makes 

the screen undulate as if you're 

looking through rippling water. It's 

OK for a minute or so but there's no 

room for it on a serious collection of 

virus fettlers. 

The second disc is a collection of 

PD utilities, 600k of them trawled 

from other discs and assembled as a 

sort of general purpose disc dabbler's 

toolkit. 

Hiding on the third and penultimate 

coaster is a wee beastie by the name 

of Diskmaker. Frenchie describes this 

as "a minor utility by myself that runs 

from Dos and prepares discs for 

booting". At present this only works 

for rich people, but a version for 

single drives is imminent. 

The final disc will have to wait 

until another day for its international 

debut because I've used one hot cup 

too many on it and it's gone to that 

great random access in the sky. The 

newsletters are informative hints and 

tips written in a zingy and easy to 

read style. Their style and content 

leads me to believe that we'll be 

hearing more from David French. 

M Angus's award for turning 

Aout 

the largest amount of quality PD 

Rthe 

quickest. I can't remember 

Twhether 

I've burbled about 17 Bit 

IDisc 

323 before, but even if I have, 

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it's got to be worth another 

paragraph. 

Remember when digitised in 

first appeared on the Amiga and we 

all went Pheeeeewwwwww corrrrrrr 

bl****** h**** and all that? Nowadays 

it all sounds similar, uses the same 

samples and has that infuriating 

electronic drumkit that Kraftwerk 

threw out in the 'seventies. 

17 Bit 323 uses all those predictable 

digitised delights that are apt to make 

us yawn but young Sixsmith. the 

Programmer/Compiler, has welded 

them together in a rather pleasant six 

minute rendition of something by 

Vangelis. The accompanying 

slideshow is simple but effective. The 

overall effect is slightly stunning. 

Arghhhh. I've done it again. 

Slightly stunning. As you read this, 

think of the poor old sub editor, 

whose job it is to remove nonsensical 

drivel such as "slightly stunning" 

from this article. I'm sure that as he 

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across the countryside 

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rescuing damsels in distress. 

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wizards r1 

and the Knights of the 

Round ak 

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adventure vn 

yet. Lancelot consists of 

three ei 

interlinked adventures, spanning 

the 

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complete saga from the foundation 

of the Order to its finest hour — the quest for 

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Holy Grail. 

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Guide Lancelot through his many exploits at 

Camelot, cs 

battle with wayward knights, and win the 

love 

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through the centuries is now yours — and you'll need all 

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your strength, wit and valour to achieve your goal. 

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Inside every box there's a detailed guide to 

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playing Level 9 adventures, a background story to 

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arrived at it he drooled with 

anticipation and pulled out the blue 

pencil. Alas for him. I've gone on to 

tell you what he should do. 

If you're reading this and there isn't 

a reference to "slightly stunning" two 

paragraphs back, then the sub editor 

has deleted it without reading the rest 

of this. Have him taken out and shot. 

The Starship Enterprise leaving the 

spacedock demo on 17 Bit 329 has 

lost some of its sparkle, which brings 

me to a valid point. If I'd wanted a 

machine that gave me pretty pictures 

and sound, I'd have bought a video 

recorder. For a couple of hundred 

pounds it will run animation and 

sound for four hours. I mean, its nice 

to see the Amiga stretched to its 

capabilities. but if a film company 

were to put four shots of the 

Enterprise leaving a dock in space on 

a video, we'd consign it to the bin. 

Mind you. I got a buzz from 

watching Arthur Fairclough (three 

doors up the hill on the left) drop his 

jaw in amazement and head off to the 

local paper to put in the following 

classified ad: FOR SALE. Atari STFM. 

Only 2 weeks old. Still in box. 

Unwanted gift 

That's all very well, and at least it 

got Arthur a decent computer, but I 

still feel that demos of' this sort have 

to be looked on as a consumable that 

may only be watched a few times and 

then either consigned to the disc box 

or reformatted. 

F advice in the Basic series last 

Omonth, 

I decided to look to the 

Lchocolate 

digestive as an alternative 

Ldata 

storage medium. But although 

Oit's 

a good standby, the constraints of 

Wa 

single sided 178k format is too 

I 

restricting for my purposes. So I 

N 

delved deeper. 

I've found that chocolate Hob Nobs 

G 

will format to about 440k, but again 

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they are only single sided. My finest 

o 

result was to use a Burton's Wagon 

hWheel 

as a 20 meg removable hard 

n disc, taking advantage of the alternate 

Klayers 

of chocolate, marshmallow and 

ebiscuit 

to distinguish the different 

nplattens. 

Only problem there is that it 

nneeds 

to be kept cool or your 

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Fred records a gold fish disc 

programs all run together. 

Less of the frivolity and back to the 

serious stuff. 

Public domain software is arriving 

so thick and fast that it would need a 

magazine all to itself to cover 

everything. It is easy to keep on 

looking for the new stuff and forget 

the old, so every month I'm going to 

blow off the cobwebs and tackle a 

couple of golden oldies. 

And where better to start than with 

a goldfish. There are two ways to get 

a goldfish — win one at a fairground 

or send Fred Fish some money. I 

chose the latter, and for a mere five 

I IS dollars each plus live dollars 

postage. Fred sent me some goldfish. 

Goldfish discs are selected popular 

goodies from the Fish collection put 

on to a compilation disc. On the 

original discs Fred usually includes 

the source code but on the goldfish 

you get just the program and 

documentation. 

This saves a lot of space and makes 

for a disc absolutely crammed with 

buckets of programs. The 

documentation has a note saying 

which Fish disc has the original and 

therefore the source code, thus 

making a reasonable compromise. 

First into the deep fat fryer was 

Goldfish 1, a collection of games and 

things. It has the ever present Triclops 

and Gravity liYars plus a directory 

called Cutestuff which contains a few 

of those silly little progettes that make 

Workbench misbehave. 

There is the one that tilts the 

screen, the other one that makes the 

windows bounce around the screen 

and a nasty little varmint that causes 

the screen to become like a slightly 

out of tune TV with a snowy effect. 

Goldfish 2 is a tidge more serious 

with C-Shell and a few other straight 

faced programs. There are a couple of 

PD comms utilities as well. but 

despite its permanent frown, its still 

good value. 

Sitting next to a portion of chips is 

Goldfish 3 with its zillions of neatly 

ordered utility progs. SunMouse, 

DiskSalv. IconType, ID Handler 

DropShadow and about umpteen 

more make this () ne a contender for 

the most crowded disc of the year. 

You can read more about DiskSalv on 

the cover disc pages because we've 

given you the latest version on the 

front cover this month. 

y boxes. And if Datameg of 

Canada O succeeds, each one of those 

Rwill 

have a universal socket 

connector. K Undergoing trials in 

Ontario S at present. the connector is a 

simple H addition to any pavphone 

allowing I direct connection to a 

modem. 

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Designed by Mick Saunders. it was 

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college house where the only line was 

a payphone. No more installations 

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7modifications 

to it. 

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9to 

download from his favourite PD 

4bulletin 

boards. His cousin Eileen 

3 brought a diagram home to the UK. 

and t with some changes to voltage it 

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West Yorkshire since April. The price 

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could do the other 7.942 boxes and 

still have enough left to buy an 

Amiga. a good monitor and some 

software. 

Good old Vic West. the Calor Gas 

Man. He came round with yet another 

pearl of wisdom last week. "I won't 

come in," he said. With all these 

viruses about, you can't be too 

careful" 

"It's OK. we haven't been ill." I 

said. 

"No, no, not you," he whispered. 

"It's your computer I'm worried 

about. I wouldn't want my BBC Micro 

to catch anything off your Amiga." 

Still. I suppose I can't expect any 

more from a guy who says that the 

BBC implementation of Elite is the 

best. 

Importers beware. As well as 

rumours of a new tax on software 

any program you import from abroad 

attracts vat at the standard rate of 15 

per cent. I was leafing through some 

Stateside mags and saw what looked 

to be a bargain. 

After I'd added postage both ways, 

the price of packaging. the loss of 

funds in the exchange rate and the 

dreaded vat, it would have cost me 

E16 more and taken a month longer 

to get. The Romans used to say caveat 

emptor. For the benefit of those who 

only use living languages it means: 

Buyer beware. 

This column wouldn't be complete 

without a word about quilted 

anoraks. I was taken to task for my 

shoddy treatment of train spotters last 

month. One reader invited me to 

stand on the end of the platform with 

a bunch of his friends and savour the 

delights of waiting for 1)200, the first 

of the English Electric type 4s. to 

steam past. 

"How can a Diesel steam past?" I 

asked. 

"Don't be pedantic," I was told by 

David French Software. Gateacre. 

Devon Road, Salcombe. TO8 8HQ. 

(Tel 0548 842965). 

Fred Fish, 1346 West lath Place, 

Tempe, Arizona 85281, USA. (Tel 

0101 602 894 6881). 

17 Bit Software, PO Box 97, 

Wakefield, lArF1 1XX. (Tel 0924 

366982). 

Trevor. He's one of Ralph's friends. 

Sheeshl Three and a half hours 

waiting in a Nor Easterly gale to be 

told by a leering BR employee that it 

was diverted by the Settle-Carlisle line 

and was now cosy and warm in 

Palmadie shed. 

Still, Ralph's mum's homemade 

vegetable soup from the thermos 

made up for the cold and all those 

quilted anoraks. I never saw anyone 

wear one with the pixie hood up 

before. 

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compatible. T The least powerful 

member O in the family is the 68008, as 

used R in the QL. This was hampered 

by O an 8 bit address bus and only 

really took off in the control 

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pIt 

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memory. If it can, the operation is 

much faster, since no external 

accessing has to be carried out. 

The 68020 goes one step further 

because it is a 32 bit processor. This 

sounds wonderful until you realise 

that the processor needs two cycles of 

the 7.16MHz clock to read the data 

from the Amiga's 16 bit ram into its 

registers. The Animate Turbo Board 

counters this problem by upping the 

clock rate to a whoppingly fast 

14MHz. 

Unfortunately — isn't there always 

an unfortunately? — the rest of the 

custom chips in the Amiga will still 

chug along at 7MHz, limited by the 

speed the processor can get the 

operating system data from the roms. 

The nett result is that when you 

INHARDWARE• 

switch the computer on you won't 

notice the difference. 

The other important chip which 

you can fit to the Animate Turbo 

Board is the 68881 maths coprocessor. 

This shares the data and 

addresses buses with the processor 

and whenever it sees a maths 

instruction go by it says: "Hold on. 

can do that one!" and tells the 

processor the answer. Because it 

works at the upped cycle rate of 

14MHz, the chip is very fast. The coprocessor 

is now supported in the 

libraries supplied with the latest (1.3) 

version of Workbench, which means 

any C or assembler programs you 

write can take full advantage. 

Fitting the board on an A500 first 

involves removing the outer case and 

waving bye-bye to the warranty. The 

Undercover 

operation 

John Kennedy lifts the lid on a 68020 for the A500 

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FLOATING POINT 68020/68881 68000 

10000 functions 

256000 functions 

4.7 secs 

48 secs 

17.5 secs 

150 secs 

SAVAGE TEST 68020/68881 68000 

2500 iterations 0.46 secs 59.6 secs 

SIEVE TEST 68020/68881 68000 

100 iterations 27.2 secs 45.72 secs 

WHETSTONE TEST 35.82 secs 

Timings o f the d e rn o n stra tio n so f t wa re — a ll ve ry im p re ssive , I 'm su re 

outer case is held in place with half-adozen 

small screws with Allen key 

heads. These are easily removed with 

a pair of long-nosed pliers - or the 

correct official Commodore tool - and 

the case lifts off to reveal the large 

metal RF shield. More screws hold 

this in place. Removing the shield 

will allow access to the unsuspecting 

68000. 

Taking out a large chip is always a 

heart-in-the mouth process, especially 

as the first time it is removed the fit is 

very tight, causing that horrible noise 

which sounds like something very 

valuable being slowly broken. 

Once the 68000 is removed the new 

board can be inserted into the vacant 

socket. This is where the first 

problem becomes apparent because 

pressing the board home can displace 

a small capacitor mounted nearby. In 

my case it didn't break off, although it 

was a very close thing. The second 

problem comes to light after the 

board is fitted - there is no longer 

room for the metal shielding, leaving 

no choice but to reassemble the 

computer without it. 

Powering up revealed a black 

MODE 68020/68881 68000 Speed-up 

Painting 12.4 secs 25.1 secs 202.4% 

Scanline 

painting 34.3 secs 62.2 secs 181.3% 

Snapshot 903.2 secs 2416.6 secs 267.6% 

Some real results using the board with Sculpt Animate 411 The 

times are those taken to produce a full image of a coffee cup 

58 AM / Gil COM PLINNG Au g u st 1989 

213.06 secs 

screen. This was a tense moment. A 

thorough investigation traced the 

problem to the power supply plug 

which had not been inserted properly 

into the socket. 

S disc of software which 

demonstrates U 

the speed of the new 

system. P These timings are reproduced 

in P Figure I, while Figure II shows the 

times L taken to produce a ray-traced 

coffee I cup with Sculpt Animate 4a 

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Using the board from AmigaBasic 

reveals some interesting results. Of 

D 

four programs written for testing 

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purposes, dealing with floating point 

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operations, integer operations, string 

operations 

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and graphics, only the 

floating h point program showed any 

signs t of a speed increase, and then 

only h a touch faster. If the programs 

were e compiled with Hisoft Basic, 

which b uses the 1.3 maths libraries, 

the 

o 

difference would have been 

greater. a AmigaBasic uses its own 

routines 

r 

which ignore the 68881 

(curse you Microsoft). 

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Other programs actually ran slower 

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by a very small amount, probably due 

s 

a 

to the increase in processing speed 

being absorbed by the need to access 

ram twice as often. Other accelerator 

boards solve this problem by 

supplying a healthy quantity of 32 hit 

ram - usually at least 2 meg. This is 

why other accelerator boards cost 

several times as much as the Animate 

Turbo Board. 

A very worrying point is that some 

software, including LED Storm, will 

not run with the 68020 processor in 

place. Fitting the board is definitely 

something you want to do as little as 

possible. Haying to remove it to run 

certain programs is a serious no-no. It 

is academic whether this was caused 

bv illegal code on the part of the 

programmer or as a consequence of 

the internal ram cache of the 68020 - 

the software did not run and needed 

the 68000 refitting before it would. 

W a heavily maths-dependant 

Hpiece 

of programming is needed, this 

Eboard 

will do the job nicely. When 

N using software such as Sculpt 

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speed increase is considerable. 

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using AmigaBasic 

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the program will usually run slightly 

slower than if it was using the good 

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old 68000. Programs must make 

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special use of the maths libraries to 

ieffect 

any speed increase. 

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nmyself 

the Animate Turbo Board is 

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oworthwhile. 

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A very worrying point is that some 

software, typically a good game, will 

not run with the 68020 in place. 

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Supplied with the board is a disc of 

software which demonstrates the speed 

of the new system. 

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new maths libraries to effect any 

increase in speed. 

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journalism. 

' Luckily for me the Vortex System 

, 2000 has a lot to offer over and above 

the features of your bog standard 

Amiga hard drive. For a start, it's not 

—just for the Amiga. It comes in two 

, bits — the 40 meg drive, a stylish greywhite 

metal box about 9in square by 

2.5in deep, and something called a 

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Tif thi Sirs' " - --hird4lrit_414 

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the VUrtex developed Amiga BIOS 

feltmputers . 

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- ranies compatibles plus of course, on ; this box of tricks will do what 

a u t 

r 

* the ; module for both the A500 and _1000. 4 Commodore says can't be done: it 

intrft- 

TP 

Before you get excited, this d esn't o 

.:ilin'Sc 

4t will bautoboot 

from Kickstart 1.2. and 

Mean you can remove your for atted oKickstart o t 1.3. It will also autoboot 

aS 

hrteider 

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Amiga Skslem 2000 hard drive, attach ffrom a a Workbench 1.3 FastFileSystem 

l2 

_it 

Id the Personality Module on our 

ul 

cpartition. i l With a typical StartuplMPC 

and immediately start ntadi g and loSequence 

i t i you can expect to be up 

ao 

writing to it. You have to refor at it rpand 

running in under 10 seconds. 

bd 

first, losing all your data. 

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al 

le 

But it does mean that if you a ecide . 

fe 

to change your computer syste , a 

el 

r 

tried and trusted hard drive is j st a M To autoboot from KS1.2, 

f3E195 

Personality Module away. It's . Iabout 

look of memory needs to be 

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probably a feature we loyal A igans a Rreserved 

for the system. With the four 

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from 1 Kickstart11/2 or/ 

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much elbow room on a vanilla A50,0. 

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on what you are doing in 

youuStartup-Sequence. you'll•only 

have about 200.000 bytes free after 

l loading, Workbench — nowhere near 

enough to do any serious computing, 

l If you have a KS1.3 machine, the 

System 2000 doesn't need that lbok 

t so you're left with around 300k free, 

which is perhaps just enough to run 

one application. Multi-tasking? Unless 

hthey 

are very small programs, forget 

it. 

a So you're going to need more 

memory, which — as long as you have 

t the cash — isn't a problem. 512k in the 

A500 trapdoor will do to start with. 

i It's what I used to review the system. 

If you want to fit more, the 

Personality Module has a through 

t 

connector on to Ivhich you can push 

a 2 meg expansion. 

Having been brought up like a 

goad boy to believe that it was • 

imPossible for a hard drive to 

autoboot from KS1.2, I was interested 

in finding out how Vortex had 

worked this miracle. The West 

•German cohipanr4s insistent that it 

hasn't broken any rules, "We've 

patched Workbench," is the official 

line: And indeed, below the 14 

Cominegore et al bumpf on the 

supplied Workbench disc is Vortex's 

own copyright message. • 

Commodore technoboffins have 

their own theories as to how the 

System 2000 works. Randell Jesup. 

programmer of the A590's 

HDToolbox, reckons that "drives 

which autoboot under KS1.2 take 

advantage of the diagnostic vector 

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used . 

for production. It works. hut is nut 

recortunendeil t e s ill genenit". 

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confirm that it (toes work. to 

tact 

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it works very xvell. Over a period 

of t two months the System 2000 has 

do no me proud. It has not fallen 

h 

down and I have yet to find a 

program 

e 

that wOn'irun•with the hard 

drive m plugged in. 

a This doesn't mean every program 

ever c written is' goingto run. although 

Vortex h says that if any software does 

not i work with tile Personality Module 

attached, n it's because that software is 

breaking e the rules, not the System 

2000. 

s 

Nevertheless an option is at this 

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moment being added to cut out the 

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Opening up the Personality Module reveals the AMOS chip which drives the System 2000 

hard drive on boot-up. Holding down 

the left mouse button while the 

system is initialising will prevent the 

Personality Module from activating. 

This has been included so that users 

who are short on ram will be able to 

run their larger programs without 

having to remove hardware from the 

expansion port. A little thought goes a 

long way. 

The software is good stuff, although 

if you're not a meddler you'll have 

little use for anything except the 

public domain hard disc backup 

program. This is because Ideal 

Hardware of Surrey, Vortex's 

distributor in this country, supplies 

the System 2000 ready formatted and 

partitioned with the contents of the 

Workbench 1.3 already copied across. 

It really is a case of plug it in, switch 

on, and go. 

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The non-standard hard drive port has twen developed 

by Vortex to give high data transfer rates 

problem if you are short of space. A 

sturdy cable runs between the 

Personality Module and the hard 

drive, but it is only a couple of feet in 

length. Much longer and the drive 

would suffer read/write errors. This 

means the drive unit has to be 

positioned either directly to the left of 

or behind and to the left of your 

A500. 

I have one of those split level tables 

that has a shelf above the main table 

on which to plonk a monitor. The 

System 2000's lead is just long 

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I'm a meddler. I like turning knobs, 

pushing buttons and typing 

commands just to see what happens. 

The first thing I do when I get my 

hands on a hard drive is fiddle with 

the partitions. Usually it's a real pain, 

even when you know what you're 

doing. Vortex has made altering the 

System 2000's default partitioning 

dead simple. 

You run a program on the 

installation disc called Part. It 

presents you with some information 

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I 

-

on how the partitions are currently set 

up, and then asks five questions 

about how you want your new first 

partition to look. It gives intelligent 

defaults. The only question you need 

to think about is length. The figure 

right shows my responses to set up a 

single 40 meg partition — all 803 

cylinders under one roof. 

Following the partitioning process, 

which is over in seconds, you have to 

format them — or it in my case. This 

involves re-booting from the 

Workbench disc, opening a Shell and 

using the normal AmigaDos Format 

command specifying the EFS option 

to get the FastFileSystem format and 

QUICK so you don't have to wait an 

hour for playtime. 

All that's left to do is copy the 

entire contents of the Vortex 

Workbench disc over to the hard 

drive and away you go. Literally five 

minutes after starting the process it's 

finished and done with. Painless, 

M making the setting-up process 

even o more user-friendly. It is being 

re-written r to be totally icon driven. 

Ideal e Hardware says the new software 

should g be ready about September. 

You o will be able to upgrade if you 

buy 

o 

a system with the old software. 

d 

One of the things you normally 

have to do when setting up a hard 

n 

drive is add the partition details to the 

e 

Mountlist file in the Devs: directory. 

Not 

w 

with the System 2000 you don't. 

It s comes with a file called Vmountlist 

which : the system reads along with 

Mountlist V on startup. Neat. 

o But to make roses smell sweet you 

generally r need a bit of quality dung. 

The t System 2000 has a real stinker. 

There e are two ports on the Personality 

Module, x the back one for plugging 

the 

i 

System 2000 into,, the front one 

originally intended for piggy-backing 

s 

another hard drive. But the ports are 

not SCSI, and the piggy-back option 

isn't available. 

The front port instead serves as the 

correct hole to plug the lead into if 

you are fitting the unit to an A1,000. 

So if you're looking to stack up a 

couple of hundred megs of hard 

storage, you'll have to look elsewhere. 

German manuals rarely translate 

well into English, and the one I got 

with the System 2000 is no exception. 

Because of the excellent software, 

however, the manual was only 

needed to convince me I was pressing 

PART for System 2000 on the .Commodore Amiga 

ic) 1988/89 vortex Computersysteme GmbH 

The harddisk has 4 heads, 26 sectors per track and 803 cylinders 

and has a capacity of 40.8 MB 

Existing partitions: 

1.Partit1on: 

2.Partition: 

3.Partition: 

4.Partition: 

Please enter new partition data 

Abort entry with 

Taking over the defaults with 

The fi rst Partition should beginn with cylinder 1, 

the lower cylinders are reserved for the harddisk and 

partition data !! 

One cylinder equals a capacity of 52.0 )(Byte 

Startcylinder: 1 

Length: 8 0 2 

Log. Name: D H O 

Name: H a r d 0 

FastRileSystem? y 

Startcylinder: End 

System 2000 Ins 




the correct keys at the correct times. 

Not to worry though, it has been rewritten 

to make more sense. 

In a way this is a shame, because 

there are a couple of screamers in the 

original. I may have the only hard 

drive in the world which has a 

backside. 

T of the manual is an appendix 

containing a C listings and details of 

how l to call the Vortex driver from 

your k own software. Techies will need 

this, i because instead of using the 

Amiga's n Trackdisc. Device this hard 

drive g is driven by the System 2000's 

custom Vortex.Device. The associated 

o 

.1-I and .1 files are on the installation 

disc. 

f 

b This kind of documentation is a bit 

heavy 

a 

for me, but no doubt 

programmers c 

will be glad of it and 

will k understand every word. 

s In use the System 2000 has a good 

feel i to it. It's quick and solidly built. I 

liked d it. In fact 1 like it so much I 

bought e it. Pingpong dor technik and 

all that. 

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Length . 200 

FastFileSystem 

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Length . 200 



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Plug it in, switch it on and away you 

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and fun — to change things if you're a 

born meddler. 

SOFTWARE 

Extremely user friendly. .4 Jot of 

thought has gone into it and it is being 

continually upgraded. The addition of a 

PD backup utility is a nice thought. 

SPEED 

Hard drives are getting quicker all the 

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WB1.3 FastFileSystem partition makes 

this the one to beat for speed. 

VALUE 

Although almost 1200 more than the 

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with Deluxe Paint — and other 

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It is time your Amiga was 

given a present, and the ideal 

thing is a hard disc. The System 

2000 drive from Ideal Hardware 

is an amazing unit. It autoboots 

under both 1.2 and 1.3 Kickstart, 

runs incredibly quickly and 

stores 40 meg of data. Supplied 

complete with the easiest to use 

utilities Amiga Computing has 

seen, the System 2000 has 

proved popular with many of 

Britain's leading software 

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If you went into a shop and 

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disqualified. 

(3) Employees of Database Publications or their 

associated companies may not enter. 

(4) The editor's decision is final. 

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1. Ideal Hardware import and 

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(A) Surrey 

(9) Manchester 

(C) Glasgow 

2. The System 2000 uses a special 

device which allows the 

drive to be used with different 

computers. What is this 

device called? 

(A) A SCSI interface 

(ff) A Personality Module 

(C) Disc support unit 

3. The hard disc, sometimes 

called a Winchester, was 

invented by 

(A) Charles Babbage 

(13) IBM 

(C) Sir Clive Sinclair 

4. The System 2000 was 

designed by a company called 

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Vortex in? 

(A) Germany 

(B) England 

(C) Canada 

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(A) Vmountlist 

(B) Startup-Sequence 

(C) Narrator.device 

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you've a quality publication to 

J n. Just imagine if your Amiga 

uComputing 

was full of grainy 

Apictures. 

What do you mean, it's like 

Gthat 

already? If it was, nobody would 

Gtake 

it seriously, or at least no more 

Eseriously 

than it's taken now. So the 

Ddifficulty 

of producing computer 

N 

artwork is in eliminating the inherent 

pixellation. 

E 

Graphics on the Amiga are great as 

S 

far as they go, which admittedly is a 

S 

fair old distance. Like 99 per cent of 

wall 

known computers, Amy uses 

oraster 

scan graphics, allowing a large 

nnumber 

of colours in a high 

'resolution 

with a low memory 

t overhead. This produces lovely on- 

dscreen 

effects, but when magnified 

o they can appear blocky. Unless you 

w 

use some very cunning smoothing 

techniques, lines will appear jagged 

h 

when output to a printer. 

e 

In much the same way as the old 

Asteroids 

n 

machine worked, objects 

can be defined on screen by a series 

of points. No matter how much they 

rotate or enlarge, they keep their 

smoothness. This is not strictly 

ike 

watch! 

pain 

dry 

possible on the Amiga, not unless 

someone has produced an advanced 

vector scan graphics system for us 

and hasn't said anything. With 

Professional Draw though, it's the 

output that is important. 

ProDraw lives on two discs and is 

accompanied by a 128 page manual. 

It needs a meg and one drive 

minimum. The program disc is 

virtually a full Workbench 1.3 

distribution disc, complete with all 

the improved printer drivers. 

0 uTpur is either to a 

Preferences graphics printer or 

to a PostScript page printer. 

PostScript, which was developed over 

there by Adobe Systems, is a method 

of describing objects on a page for 

typesetting. Rather than being a 

control code based system, it is an 

English type language. Mid-range 

laser printers speak it, as do vastly 

expensive Linotronic 2400 dpi 

machines. If you feel the urge for a 

Linotronic coming on, you'll need 

another couple of mortgages first — 70 

biggies might buy you one, cable 

extra. 

Hiding behind an outrageously 

large icon is the 270k main program. 

Default display mode is interlaced, so 

either change it pronto or don the 

Polaroids to cut down the painful 

flicker. The default mode is also the 

most memory hungry because all 

pictures are shown as wysiwyg in 

colour. The menu bar allows this to 

be changed, plus the defaults can be 

reset using Info's Tool Types once 

you've decided which settings suit 

you. 

The right-hand side of the screen 

contains all the tools and gadgets that 

ProDraw has to offer. Initially it may 

seem quite limiting that there are only 

six drawing and six editing tools, but 

each is very versatile. 

The Pen tool creates bezier curves 

and straight lines. Beziers are defined 

by two points and an initial curve 

gradient, consequently a low drain on 

ram. They are initially a real pain to 

get right because their formation isn't 

naturally intuitive, but the smooth 

curves produced once they have been 

mastered are worth any amount of 

What would you draw with an art program 

that offers the finest quality your printer can 

deliver? Stewart C. Russell drew a blank

cursing. 

The Text tool can produce two 

fonts, Times and Univers, from 24 

point (third of an inch) to 144 point 

(two inch) at any angle. Each 

character is built up from a series of 

beziers, so a full set takes up well 

over look — very tight on a one meg 

system. 

Gold Disk really intends ProDraw 

to be a companion program to its 

Professional Page DTP package, 

which handles fonts quite a bit better. 

Still, the two typestyles are very plain, 

and something like Gothic would 

have been nice to see. 

T pretty much what you'd expect 

from H their icons — Ellipse, Rectangle 

and R Rectangular Grid. The final tool, 

Freehand E Bezier, is a boon for people 

who E can't draw curves smoothly. It 

takes o a curve traced by the pointer 

and 

f 

smooths it according to the 

number of direction changes made. 

t 

This tool, when coupled with 

h 

ProDraw's ability to import bitmaps 

as 

e 

tracing templates, allows artistic 

no-hopers t like me to produce 

bearable o artwork. 

o The bitmap is converted from a 

lmultiplane, 

multicolour image into a 

four s grey-scaled representation the 

pwidth 

of the page. ProDraw doesn't 

seem r to keep a copy of this reduced 

form o in ram on a one meg machine, 

so zooms cause very lengthy recalc 

d 

periods. Sometimes the wait can seem 

u 

so long that AmigaDos 1.6 will be 

released 

c 

by the time it's finished, 

especially e with a 32-colour bitmap. 

Stick to two-colour or four-colour 

bitmaps and all is sweetness and 

light. Nearly. 

T immensely powerful, 

occasionally H 

at a price. Object- 

E described graphics take up a lot of 

space, s so many thousands of 

relatively i simple calculations need to 

take x place after every movement. 

e Objects, or groups of objects, can 

d 

be resized using a fairly speedy 

process. If colour wysiwyg mode is 

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selected the screen is redrawn a 

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couple of times, slowing affairs 

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take place about a point. 

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A ',lima') imported from a fractal scenery generator 

Default 

display 

mode is 

interlaced, 

so either 

change it 

pronto or 

don the 

Polaroids 

to cut 

down the 

painful 

flicker 

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1 

If there are many points - as in a font 

character - the process is irritatingly, 

though understandably, slow. 

By far the most powerful editing 

tool is Distortion. A selected group of 

objects is enclosed in a rectangle, 

which can be stretched and bent as 

much as you want. A gentle touch of 

the spacebar sets the Distort algorithm 

churning into motion. Depending on 

what mode you're using, whether 

there's a bitmap template visible and 

the number and complexity of the 

objects, this process can be almost 

instant or can take two to three 

minutes. 'I'his is had if you decide 

that you need to tweak it a bit more - 

another two-minute wait ensues. 

The manual makes no mention of 

the amount of calculation that is 

going on in every edit. A little 

paragraph would certainly not go 

amiss to the effect that the user might 

be a little more sympathetic to the 

developer's plight. But ProDraw is 

touted as a professional package, and 

in that respect should live up to it. 

Even moving the Null pointer - the 

basic system pointer - about the 

screen produces momentary Zzzzs. 

ProDraw needs its manual since so 

many of the commands are not 

immediately obvious. There is a good 

tutorial section and a very good 

condensed reference section in the 

back for advanced users who can't 

quite remember how to access the 

more obscure commands. Most of the 

menu bar commands can be accessed 

using Ctrl+key or Alt-i-key 

combinations, so muriphobes are well 

catered for. 

G all the features in the world but 

can R be spoiled by an appalling front 

end. A ProDraw uses the standard 

Intuition P environment to a laudable 

degree H and the manual gives a very 

good I description of each of the tools 

and 

C 

gadgets. It might take a couple of 

extended sessions to get it working 

S 

properly, but all the cursing and 

p 

head-scratching will be worthwhile. 

a 

One thing a professional package 

cshould 

not do is Guru - sometimes 

kProDraw 

runs out of ram and gives a 

acustom 

recoverable alert, sometimes it 

gmeditates 

for no adequately explained 

ereason. 

s A major crime in the manual is that 

mit 

doesn't tell you about the online 

a 

context sensitive help. This function, 

y 

h 

• G R A P H I C S • 

PROFESSIONAL 

DRAW 

accessed via the Help key, will 

produce a useful screen of the options 

currently open to the user and a brief 

summary of what each does. You'll 

still need the manual, but it will save 

shifting the pile of floppies which 

forms over every open computer 

manual. 

Will ProDraw allow the artistically 

inept to produce fabulous pictures? 

The short answer has to be no. In the 

same way a word processor does not 

instantly bestow on the user the 

literary skills of a great author, 

ProDraw won't put you in the 

Salvador Dab league. 

The program has extensive support 

for clip art. Unfortunately only three 

This dump was produced 

by a 24 pin Epson LQ-500 

GOLD DISK 

The Text tool can produce Times and Univers from 24 up to 144 point 

clips come with the package, so 

unless Gold Disk produces some clip 

art discs, it's build-your-own time. 

This is easy enough to do, but a little 

more help would be appreciated. 

Friends could be won and people 

influenced if Gold Disk expanded 

this, and the fonts, section, 

ProDraw's most notable feature - 

and the one which will sell it - is that 

all illustrations are saved in 

Encapsulated PostScript Format 

(EPSF). Many - 

real" programs talk EPSF, such as Aldus 

pPagemaker u b l i and s Xerox Ventura 

h 

Publisher, 

i n g 

neither of which have hit 

the Amiga. PostScript handles colour 

separation if your printer can, but it 

will be of more use to those with a 

phototypesetter. 

Colours can be described using rgb 

values or by yellow magenta cyan 

(ymc, as used in printing) which can 

either appear as a close 

approximation of rgb or can be set to 

the user's preference. This allows 

colours which are similar to be 

discernably different on the screen. 

Little touches like this show that 

useful research went into the 

planning. 

If a printer can produce graphics, 

ProDraw will probably support it. It 

has the full complement of 

Preferences 1.3 printer drivers plus all 

1ugust I 989 AMIGA COMPUTING 73

• G R A P H I C S E 

the smoothing and dithering 

parameters. Since my Linotronic 300 

with raster processor and furry dice is 

in for repair (cough) I had to make do 

with my trusted though not altogether 

fast Amstrad DMP2000 Epson 

compatible. 

Results were as good as can be 

expected, and it certainly didn't hang 

around. This speed increase is 

effected by ProDraw splitting the 

image into horizontal strips. 

translating from objects to bitmaps 

and outputting the results via a 

standard driver. The only slight glitch 

here is that ProDraw doesn't always 

calculate the number of strips 

correctly. So if it says five strips, 

sometimes it really means six. This in 

no way impairs the output, but is a 

little disconcerting. 


I was very forgiving I'd put all 

ProDraw's faults down to the fact that 

the copy reviewed here is v1.0. Gold 

Disk claims unlimited telephone 

support and a newsletter, but the 

economics of supplying them from 

Ontario to the UK are likely to shy 

away all but very rich people. 

The program would certainly 

benefit from at least two or three 

megabytes of ram and possibly a coprocessor 

to speed up calculations. 

Currently it runs at well under the 

speed of the behemoth AutoCAD on 

the utterly pedestrian PC. Those who 

know how quickly AutoCAD redraws 

the screen will feel a homecoming 

with ProDraw. 

It will happily import and export 

pages from and to Gold Disk's 

ProPage, but only versions greater 

than or equal to 1.2 because earlier 

ones don't support EPSF. The Amiga 

has yet to gain full acceptance with 

the DTP crowd, who currently seem 

rather besotted with Macs. 

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package could become a serious 

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postage. Datel sampler sounds off, but a magic box sill 

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make the Amiga sound much better. E-type - the typewriter 

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shows its colours. A listing in C to scan a disc for 14 

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pictures. Dragon's Lair review and play tips. Programming 

functions in Basic. What went on at the Developers' 

Conference in Germany. Max the Hacks shows how to win at 

Rocket Ranger, Roger Rabbit, Out Run and Elite. Jez San 

puts the official Commodore speed-up board through its 

paces. 

contender and really merit its 

"Professional" title. In its current 

form, despite the relatively low price. 

ProDraw is just too slow. 

REPORT CARD 

Professional D ra w 

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Good results need practice and lots of 

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help. Capable of professional quality 

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SPEED 

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Professional by name and by output 

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• V I R U S E S • 

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When this message appears on an Amiga's 

monitor you know that the virus epidemic 

has infected you too. Russell Wallace 

traces its history and dissassembles the 

mystery within the micro 

towards independent computer 

systems. Of course, the purpose of 

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viruses, it's to tell you how they work 

and how to make sure they don't on 

your system. 

The SCA virus was the first to 

appear on the Amiga, indeed among 

the first to appear anywhere. It is 

located on the boot block — sectors 0 

and 1 of a disc — containing up to ik 

of code which is executed on boot-up 

before the Amiga does anything else, 

including execute the Startup- 

Sequence. 

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practical use except for copy 

protection systems, but it's a great 

hiding place for viruses. 

When you Install a disc you write 

some standard code to this block 

the virus overwrites boot code that is 

being used for something like loading 

a game, which will make the disc 

unusable. 

The SCA virus is pretty feeble by 

today's standards. It deliberately 

announces its presence and it only 

infects discs you boot from rather 

than every disc you put in the drive. 

Even when it's in memory and has 

control of the Amiga, it does nothing 

to stop you inspecting discs and 

killing the copies of it you find. 

It can even be vaccinated against by 

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a fragment of the virus code on the 

boot block to make SCA think the 

disc is already infected so it will not 

write itself to it. 

The Byte Bandit virus is the next 

step up the evolutionary ladder. It has 

none of the above deficiencies. The 

only way to kill it is to turn the power 

off and on again. This is bad for the 

Amiga's electronics, but extreme 

measures are needed here. Leave the 

machine to cool off for about 20 

seconds before turning it back on, 

boot from a guaranteed clean disc 

and Install every infected disc. 

Like many modern viruses, Byte 

Bandit causes deliberate damage. 

When it first came out I instigated a 

policy of inspecting the boot block of 

every disc I got, looking for 

suspicious text. 

About a week ago a virus got past 

my defences and infected five discs 

before I noticed it interfering with the 

system's operation. I tracked it down, 

disassembled it and named it the YH 

virus after one of the intelligible 

pieces of Ascii in its code. 

Everyone else seems to be calling it 

the DASA virus after the other piece 

of intelligible Ascii in its code. OK, 

now I know that DASA and YH are 

suspicious text, but this sort of thing 

renders the old technique ineffective. 

So what can you do? 

Nowadays you should examine the 

boot block with a sector editor — there 

are many in the public domain and I 

use SmartDisk. If the boot block 

corresponds byte for byte with an 

Installed disc — check the first 40 

bytes and ignore the checksum in the 

second group of four — it's OK. If it's 

a recognisable virus take appropriate 

action. Otherwise boot it. If 

something like a title screen appears 

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• Due to the huge spread of sizes of 

their orbits, all nine planets cannot be 

displayed onscreen at once. Pressing I 

displays the inner planets — Mercury, 

Venus, Earth and Mars, Pressing 0 

displays the outer planets — Jupiter, 

Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. 

• The date is typed in in the form 

dd,mm,yyyy. For example: 15,6.1989. 

• The planets are displayed using 

"snapshots" separated by the step 

time. Use values of 3 to 10 days for 

the inner planets and anything more 

than 50 days for the outer planets. 

Once these parameters are entered 

the screen clears, the Sun is drawn in 

the centre of the screen and the 

planets begin their gravitational waltz, 

which only ends when you press the 

Escape key. 

A small diagram of Earths position 

relative to the Sun appears 

simultaneously at the top left of the 

screen — useful for when you are 

studying the outer planets. The 

current date is continuously updated. 

it appears in red at the top right of the 

screen. 

Holding down the left mouse 

button displays a window with the 

name of each planet visible, its 

angular displacement and its distance 

from the Sun in astronomical units: 

One astronomical unit (AU) is the 

average radius of the Earth's orbit, or 

roughly 93 million miles. Releasing 

the button removes the window and 

lets the show go on. Finally, Right- 

Amiga-S freezes the program until 

you press another key, and Right 

Amiga-fullstop returns you to 

AmigaBasic. 

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and T you will see many interesting 

features, U the swifter inner planets 

overtaking D the slower outer ones, the 

elliptical Y rather than circular shape of 

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Mercury h and Pluto and Pluto crossing 

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re-crossing Neptune's orbit. Try 

dates around 1999 for an example. 

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Earth 

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the n planets were when Aunt Madge 

and e Galileo were born and when the 

planets t are all in a line so you can 

hide s in the coal bunker before 

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My main programming problem 

was how to display the planets 

without making you have to type in a 

gigantic program or causing the 

crashes AmigaBasic is prone to. 

Calculating the planets' positions is 

easy, and the program is quite simple 

in structure. One unexpected problem 

was that there is no built-in constant 

PI, unlike most other Basics, so I 

defined the variable pi=4*ATN(1) as 

an exact equivalent in the Params 

subroutine. 

I ruled out bobs and sprites. There 

are nine planets, and typing in line 

after line of numbers representing 

each graphic would not be very 

appealing. Anyway, Orrery uses 16 

colours in lo-res, whereas 

ObjectEditor uses four colour med-res 

and is meant for graphics much larger 

than the ones I needed. 

I thought about using GET and PUT 

to pick up and display the graphics. 

This seemed quite promising because 

these commands are fast and give 

smooth animation. But they are 

poorly error-trapped. A typing 

mistake resulting in PUT being used 

with a non-existent array or a position 

off the screen would mean a Guru. 

My chosen method is the most 

satisfactory and needs the least 

typing. The subroutine Put.planet 

draws a small filled circle of 

appropriate size and colour to 

represent the planet and adds a few 

details — continents for Earth, the 

Great Red Spot on Jupiter and a white 

ring for Saturn. It also stores the 

screen coordinates of' the image in the 

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arrays cpc() and . 

gy(). of the program O n the planets' new 

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p a s 

is drawn. subroutine Clear.planet 

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wipes the old one by drawing a black 

box over it. As there are no 

calculations between these two steps, 

the movement appears reasonably 

smooth. 

Why not wipe the image simply by 

redrawing it in black, you may ask. 

Well, the Amiga's CIRCLE command 

is slow — you can see the separation 

between unfilled and filled circles 

even with the small ones used in the 

program — but drawing a box, filled 

or unfilled, is extremely fast. 

J I draws the Earth-Sun picture 

using . only three boxes — two for the 

bodies. O preceded by a black one 

which O completely wipes the previous 

picture. K It is so fast there is not the 

slightest a trace of flicker, despite the 

crude 

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method of clearing the area. 

It may seem awkward not being 

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redefined character sets when writing 

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program for someone else to type 

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points. o patterns, areas and ingenuity 

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' The Model Universe 

• By Alastair Scott 

(c)1989 Amiga Computing 

Start: 

SCREEN 1,320,200,4,1:WINDOW 1,'Orrery•„30,1 

DEFINT x-z:DEFDBL a-a 

DEF FNrange(k)=k-360*INT(k/360) 

PALETTE 0,0,0,0:PALETTE 1,.5,.5,.5:PALETTE 2,0,0,1 

PALETTE 3,0,.72,.88:PALETTE 4,0,.56,.2:PALETTE 5,0,.8,0 

PALETTE 6,1,0,0:PALETTE 7,1,1,0:PALETTE 8,1,.52,0 

PALETTE 9,1,1,1:PALETTE 10,.7,.7,.7 

GOSUB Params 

FOR phi=0 TO 2*pi STEP pi/6 

LINE(150,92)-(150+4*COS(phi),92+4*SIN(phi)),7 

NEXT phi 

COLOR 2:LOCATE 8,2:PRINT'Earth• 

COLOR 10:LOCATE 23,1 

PRINT Press button for data or Esc to restart', 

LINE(10,10)-(50,50),2,b 

WHILE INKEYSCHRS(27) 

FOR z=to TO hi 

ecc=el:(2,4) 

an1=FNrange(.985647332=*julday/ett(2,1)) 

an2=radian*(anl-felt(z,2)-elt(z,3)) 

psi=FNrange(anl.felt(z,2).1.twodeg*ecc*SIN(an2)) 

phi=radian*(psi-elt(z,3)) 

rad=elt(z,5)*(1-ecc*ecc)/(1+ecc*COS(phi)) 

rad(z)=rad 

psi(z)=psi 

px(z)=150 

4. py(2)=92-scale*rad*SIN(psi*radian) 

NEXT z 

GOSUB 

scale*rad 

Date:GOSUB Small:IF MOUSE(0)THEN GOSUB Info 

FOR *COS(psi 

z=lo TO hi:GOSUB Clear.planet:GOSUB Put.planet:NEXT z 

WEND 

RUN 

jutday=juldayi-stime:jutian=jutiamstime 

*radian) 

provisions in AmigaBasic for gadgets 

and input fields without resorting to 

libraries (curse you, MicroSoft) the 

program could have looked more 

professional. 

Windows are useful though: 

Small: 

an1=FNrange(.985637094p*juiday) 

an2=radian*(an1-3.76286301#) 

phi=FNrange(an1+98.83354-ftwodeg*.016718*SIN(an2)) 

LINE(11,11)-(49,49),0,bf:LINE(29,29)-(31,31),7,bf 

LINE(30+16*COS(phi*radian),30-16*SIN(phi*radian))-STEP(1,1),4,bf 

RETURN 

Info: 

WINDOW 2,Information,(20,40)-(210,90),16,1 

FOR a=to TO hi 

COLOR 10 

templateS=" \ \ 04 

-PRINT 

USING tempLateS;planetS(a),psi(a),rad(a) 

NEXT a 

WHILE 

+CHRS(176)+" 

MOUSE(0):WEND:WINDOW CLOSE 2:RETURN 

# * . # # A U 

Put. planet: " 

x=px(z):y=py(z) 

CIRCLE(x,y),cir(z),cot(z)„,1:PAINT(x,y),coL(z) 

IF z=3 THEN GOSUB Earth 

IF z=5 THEN GOSUB Jupiter 

IF z=6 THEN GOSUB Saturn 

ox(z)=x:Ay(z)=y:RETURN 

Earth: 

LINE(x-1,y-1)-(x-1,y+1),4:LINE(x+1,y)-(x+1,y+1),4:RETURN 

Jupiter: 

LINE(x-2,y+2)-(x-1,y+1),6,bf:RETURN 


WINDOW 1 is the main one and 

WINDOW 2 is the smaller one which 

displays the orbit parameters. It 

vanishes without disrupting the area 

it overprints. How many other Basics 

could do that? 

Saturn: 

LINE(x-4,y)-(0 

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Clear.planet: 

4,y), 

x=ox(z):y=my(z):LINE(x-4,y-4)-(x+4,y+4),0,bf:RETURN 

9:RETURN 

Pa rams: 

RESTORE Planets 

FOR an TO 9:READ planetS(a) 

tpi=4*ATN(1):radian=pi/180:twodeg=2/radian 

cot(a) 

COLOR 9:PRINT:PRINT SPC(6)Inner or outer planets? "; 

ptS= 

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which is read purely by clicking the mouse on the drawings or texts. Variables may be 

used to control the flow of narrative or record progress made. Talespin itself is entirely 

mouse-driven and very user-friendly, requiring no programming skills for its use. It 

includes an art package as well as importing Neochrome, Degas or I FF picture files 

and also imports ST-Replay or Amiga A. M.A.S. created Digitised Sound. The use of 

sound is optional. Its facilities include giving full details of disk space usage, location 

of all pages referring to any particular page, drawing, sound or variable, completely 

interactive development allowing changes to any part of a title at any time, the copying 

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development mode. 

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The manual comes as a complete Tutorial with a scaled down version of "The Grail" 

adventure and also a comprehensive reference guide. 

TALESPIN COMMANDS AVAILABLE 

*choose/create title *Save position *load position *Select driver/ folder *auto start 

*demo program *help *drawing define *page define *sound define *variable define 

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to be as good as he is 

to the hotel barman you should say 

"gamble" to get further in the game. 

When you join the first poker game 

don't quit. Try to win by getting more 

than S1,000. In the second game it is 

harder to win, so just play 40 hands 

without running out of money. 

When asked if you talk business 

answer "yes" and follow the man up 

to the top floor. Before entering the 

apartment use Ctrl-D to call your 

backup. Always check the car's 

wheels before leaving base by using 

the Check Car command. And if you 

are attacked by bikers use the 

nightstick which is inside the car. 

Thanks. Stephen. 

At the end of his letter Stephen says 

he is having trouble with Guild of 

Thieves, so it is lucky that Darren Self 

has written in from Berkshire with 

some tips. One of Stephen's problems 

is crossing the coloured squares. The 

solution is to follow the rainbow 

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from attract mode, hold down Help 

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page and type SCRAP 28. The single 

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The screen will flash once. You now 

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Pressing Fl-F10 will slow the game 

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jump levels. 

Scorpion was the rave game in the

June issue. It may be good, it may 

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MY interests lie in the field of art and 

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shuffling because everything fits on to 

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WOULD it be possible to connect the 

Plotmate A3M plotter I am using with 

an Archimedes in school for GCSE 

technical drawing to my Amiga A500 

for use with programs such as Aegis 

Draw 2000? 

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Gwynedd. 

There should be no problem using 

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Draw 2000. Have a look at X-Cad 

Designer. 

Some programs are deliberately 

fixed so that they will only work on a 

PAL or NTSC system, not both. 

Buying a Commodore monitor will 

not solve the problem. 

The best solution is for your friend 

to wait until he gets to Canada and 

buy everything out there, Check any 

software bought here carefully. 

Sounds better 

ONE small piece of knowledge has 

escaped the entire Amiga population. 

The Amiga possesses an audio filter. 

This amazing piece of hardware can 

be switched off unless you have an 

A1000 and you get all your treble 

back. It is very simple to do, and can 

be achieved by the following machine 

code instructions: 

BHT *111,Sbfeill Power light off, filter off or... 

BUR elli,Sbfeill Power Light on, filter on. or.— 

BPI.SBI,Sbfeill Toggle state of filter 

Will all software developers please 

take note. 

Please plug my bulletin board: If 

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698867. It runs on a Beeb at the 

moment, but I have almost finished a 

new package written in 68000 for the 

Amiga. 

One last point. Our group (The 

TMB Dev.Corp) is currently working 

on a new game for the Amiga. We 

need original music rather 

desperately. If you think you can 

help, get in touch with us. 

Toby Simpson 

Spixworth, Norwich. 

Hi praise 

WELL, what can I say! I am 29 years 

old, and for a very long time now I 

have had an addiction for computer 

games. It is all very well being able to 

beat the highest score on the games in 

the pub, but when you come down to 

realise how much money you have 

spent at the end of the evening, it 

hurts. 

I very soon came to the opinion 

that the Amiga was by far the best 

value for money. I have read all the 

magazines that are going around for 

it. I am not creeping by saying this 

(oh yes you are — ed) but your 

magazine leaves all the others 

standing. 

Your games reviews could not be 

bettered; in fact I won't buy a game 

unless I have heard what you have 

got to say about it in the first place. 

When you show screen shots they are 

very clear images. 

I bought my computer originally 

just to play games, and to save myself 

a lot of money. Because of your 

magazine, I am now interested in 

expanding my Amiga and learning 

how to program it myself. 

Now I can get down to why I 

originally started to write this letter. I 

am that enthralled by your magazine 

that I would like to be able to boast 

about having the full collection on my 

bookshelf. 

I have numbers 5,7.8,9,10,11 and 

would very much like to know if it is 

possible to obtain the copies I am 

missing. Also, do you supply a binder 

to keep them in mint condition? If so, 

please let me know the price as soon 

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New Milton, Hants. 

We suppose you want a freebie? Well, 

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which is on 051 

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found it impossible to alter the pitch 

and speed of the computer's voice. I 

have tried every possible combination 

of inputs in the phoneme window, all 

to no avail. The manual talks about 

changing all parameters together — 

but how? 

Mr P Ambrose, 

Southampton. 

The obvious thing to do when using 

Say by clicking on the icon is to type 

into the phoneme window the string 

you want to have read followed by 

the option. This is wrong on both 

counts. You should type the option 

followed by the string into the input 

window. Click it in first. 

Clickable scripts 

UNDERSTANDING CLI makes using 

the Amiga very much easier. I've 

written several batch files to do 

various tasks. To access them I have 

to go into CLI and Execute them. 

I thought it would be a good idea, 

however, to create an icon for the task 

and be able to run it from Workbench 

without needing to open CU. 

Unfortunately, all I know how to do 

is edit an icon using ICONED, which 

is no good. Could you please supply 

me with a solution if one is available? 

Many thanks. 

Martin Lea, 

Lancs. 

Once again the solution is in the 

public domain. Get a copy of Fish 

disc 65 which contains the ICONX 

program. This will help you create 

icons for all sorts of programs. 

Stop frame 

CONGRATULATIONS on such a 

superb magazine. The Amiga is a 

brilliant computer and deserves such 

support. The main thing I use my 

A500 for is art and design. I would be 

92 AM I GA COM PUTING August 1989 

grateful if you could supply me with 

details on digitising pictures — video 

digitising and so on. I am most 

interested in this field and would 

welcome your response. 

C. Hoper, 

Portsmouth. 

Digi View Gold produces the best 

digitising results — a full colour image 

using filters. It costs L'150 excluding 

the black and white camera. It is 

available from HB Marketing on 0895 

443333. DigiPic and SuperPic from 

Precision (01-330 7166) grab frames 

faster. DigiPic was reviewed in our 

June 1988 issue. 

Misleading adverts 

SURELY you check adverts before 

publishing them in your magazine, if 

so, why don't you notice errors like 

"comes with Kickstart 1.5" What? 

jumpstart 1.4 is around and available 

if you're a registered developer, 1.5 is 

still "erm, we're thinking about it". 

It is either their name for their own 

product. if so it shouldn't be allowed 

as it misleads people, or a typo — but 

the same error has appeared in two 

magazines. Just a tiny little bit of 

checking would eliminate that sort of 

thing. 

Martyn Oakley, 

Surrey. 

Ads are checked to make sure they 

are legal, decent, honest and truthful. 

They are not checked for stupid ftv. 

The editorial department and 

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separately. This is good because it 

removes any likelihood of us saying 

that Wizzo Games' latest is also the 

greatest just because the ad 

department have their eyes on 

Wizzo's budget. 

Any company which advertises 

things it doesn't have hurts itself 

- the in end by ruining its reputation. 

Only the best 

WHY review totally useless games? 

Please, in future, only review games 

that we want to buy. If it is a waste of 

disc space we don't want to know. 

Why don't you make a list of all the 

amazing games we ought to buy? 

Here's a couple of mini reviews to 

start you off... 

POPULOUS: Brilliant. Everyone 

ought to have it. Granted, it's ported, 

but that's a small price to pay for 

such an addictive game. Takes on a 

whole new meaning when played 

over the serial port — friends become 

immortal enemies in seconds. 

But watch out, if the game gets 

mega-complex it collapses over the 

serial port and won't continue. It 

seems that if your cable is high 

quality you may be OK. 

INTERCEPTOR: Classic. 

SUPER HANG ON: Amazing nonported 

game. Great fun with the builtin 

cheat mode using the machine gun 

on the front. 

PACMANIA: Really shows off the 

Amiga's 

. play it next to the ST version. 

abil 

Good points.., yes, there are some. 

The paper you print your magazine 

itie 

on is very nice. Most posh! Nice logo 

s. on the front, good use of colours. A 

Fsense 

of humour (I hope). 

o No, really, your reviews are good, 

and on the whole accurate. The news 

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perfect! 

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S. Palmer, 

Luton. 

Photon Paint only works with hi-res 

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