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spotty teenagers shut away in darkened 

rooms playing RPGs. These people are being 

rapidly replaced by 'cool' exec types looking 

for a way to unwind. Twenty-something, 

upwardly mobiles who are being told that it's 

acceptable, even fashionable, to want the latest 

gore-fest computer game. So the 

industry had to reappraise its position 

and gear the market more towards this 

new generation of gamesplayers with 

fashionable adverts. And fashionable at the 

moment equals shock tactics. 

So along come the ads men with their latest 

project, a 3-D shoot-em-up, 'Blood, guns 

massacre hell - the revenge', and they choose 

to advertise it with pictures of Dunblane. Its 

shocking isn't it? Fortunately this is not going 

to happen because it crosses the line of any 

sane person's moral values, but where do the 

ads men draw the line? Pictures of a woman 

hanging herself because she was sick of football 

was considered an appropriate way to 

advertise a football game. So too were the 

images used to promote Command and 

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Conquer, one of which depicted Hitler with 

the caption: 'It's a great feeling'. Why is this 

more acceptable than a picture of Thomas 

Hamilton? Maybe because it will upset less 

people or because they think it is less relevant 

to the generation they are talking to? 

Who knows? 

Its a matter that is concerning the 

Advertising Standards Authority too. 

ELSPA (the European Leisure 

Software Publisher's Association) 

- backed the ASA up with a plea for the 

industry to take a more responsible 

approach. Whether this will be heeded is 

down to the publishers, but if they fail to toe 

the line they could see the Government taking 

action and imposing restrictions. 

This could have harmful effects on an 

industry which is already under the watchful 

eye of the media and cautious parents. If the 

trend continues, people could clamp down 

on what their children buy just on the basis of 

the advertising campaign. And although the 

market has changed to see more gamesplayers 

over the age of 18, a vast percentage are 

still minors whose buying decisions lie with a 

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The games industry is a fun market, and 

we wouldn't want it any other way, but if all 

outsiders can see are tasteless adverts, what 

kind of message are we giving? A shocking 

advert at the moment would be one that 

stressed how good the gameplay is! Nobody 

is saying that advertising campaigns will be 

any easier if this responsible approach is 

undertaken, but it could show that, like its 

gamesplayers, the industry has grown up too. 

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AmiTrix of Canada have released AWeb-II 

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which has been an international coding 

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To order AWeb-II, contact AmiTrix or 

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OLYMPIC AMIGA IMPACT 

Atlanta, perhaps best known worldwide for hosting the Summer Olympics and best known in 

the Amiga community for housing the highly active Amiga Atlanta user group, couldn't keep 

sports and Amigas separate. 

A bold statement was made by a number of Amiga companies as they donated six Amiga 

4000Ts, decked to the gills, to the Olympic broadcast booth, where they act as online video editing 

systems. The computers housed full Video Toaster/Flyer systems donated by Newtek, as well 

as products from Virtual Beaky Productions, Anti-Gravity Products, MicroPace, and DPS. 

QuikPak, the Amiga 4000T manufacturer and distributor for North America, provided the cornputers_ 

al LW WONDER DEAL 

Wonder Computers International continues to rebuild its distribution network After months of 

discussion, Wonder has completed an agreement with ACT of Germany to supply and service the 

Apollo line of Amiga expansion cards for the North American market. 

Apollo provides a full range of products, recently and most notably 040 and 060 cards for the 

Al200 and A3000/A4000, as well as the world's only 020 accelerator for the Amiga 600. 

Further to this, Wonder has agreed with OTM to supply OTM's line of Amiga games to North 

America. OTM hit the Amiga scene last year with Virtual garting and has offered a number of 

products since. New titles are already in the works. 

Alongside OTM's games, Wonder will also carry XP8, the recent Stardust/Asteroids clone. 

Contact Wonder Computers at 613•721-1993. 

MEW CD32 TITLE RELEASED 

Bigg Wolf. until recently a computer and video retailer, has decided to try its hand at publishing 

on the Amiga. Final Gate, a new CD32 title boasting FMV-quality graphics, has been released 

and will be shown at Montreal's Amiga Convention '96. 

For purchasing information (both end-user and dealer). contact Bigg Wolf at ++301-933-5030. 

MICA CONVENTION : 

The first week in August brought on Canada's first major Amiga-only expo of the year, and the 

biggest 96 so far of 1996 for North America, The Montreal Amiga Convention, independently organized, 

drew together users, dealers, and developers from across the continent to meet, exchange 

ideas, and no doubt fire a few questions to VIScorp's attending representatives, VP of Business 

Development David Rosen and Communications Manager Jason Compton. 

Also anticipated was a strong presence from National Arniga, the Canadian-based Amiga 

retailer which does the bulk of its business online—so much success that their retail area was 

expected to be among the largest at the show. Wonder Computers International and its distribution 

division will show off their newly introduced products for the North American market 

Dale Larson and Al Mackey of IAM are expected to be present, as they were last year, to 

address 

future issue. 

the public in the many seminars offered at AC. A more detailed report may follow in a 

Later in the year, the World of Amiga Toronto is expected to be held. Plans are also underway 

for Gateway '97 in St Louis for early February 1997. 

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Expected at Amiga Convention '96 is the final release demo 

of ClickBOOM's Capital Punishment, which the Torontobased 

game development company has announced will be 

available on Friday the 13th of September. 

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ClickBOOM first started making waves in the Amiga game b17": 

market " Ifdlast 

December, when the first CP demos were made 

• public at the World of Amiga Toronto. Now, one of the most 

impressive beat-em-up games in recent memory is finally 

ready for release. 

Alexander Petrovic, manager of ClickBOOM, has decided 

to self-publish the title after discussing the product with a 

number of Amiga games houses. To help promote the title, 

the company is offering a free Capital Punishment T-shirt for 

all pre-orders of the game, which cost UKP25. 

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MindEVE is compatible with all Arnim, an i 

is a small device that plugs into the joystic d 

port. It listens to either the room aroun e 

it or a microphone feed and turns the soun s 

through geodesic math transformations int p 

sometimes interesting, sometimes bizarr 

video displays (AGA enhanced when avail - 

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video-wall scenarios, the device is quite 

used ti 

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Mark Adams of Geodesic used the Amiga station 

Atlanta 10th Anniversary of last January to 

test the waters of the reintroduced Evei 

MindLight. The demonstration was well 

received. The MindEYE has a suggested- 

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liyama, the leading computer monitor manufacturer, 

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liyama's price reductions are due to the 

improved Yen/Sterling exchange rate and 

cost reductions at the factories. 

Consumers will now be able to make a 

EIO saving on the Vision Master 17 high 

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Only the 17" monitors will be reduced, but 

all Vision Master monitors come with a 3 

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OMPUCENTER 

CRIMEFIGHTER Jr% 

Computacenter, one of the countries top IT solutions providers, is launching a business advisory 

service to help combat crime on the Internet, 

Martin Hellawell from Computacenter commented, 

'Firms connecting to the Internet or setting up Intranet networks need to reconcile easy system 

access with the protection of internal networks. Around 85% of the Times 1000 companies are 

either linked up to, or are considering linking upto the Internet. However, if there is one main 

stumbling block to the widespread adoption of linking up to the Internet by corporates it is the 

question of security' According to the 1996 Audit Commission, a preventable security breach 

on average costs a British Firm E16,000. 

To help prevent these expensive abuses of the Internet, Computacenter has implemented a 

widespread research programme which will determine what aspects of computer security are 

the most vulnerable security loopholes in networks _and operating systems, as well as the companies 

most at risk. The results of this will be available later this year. 

LYMPIC IMAGE 

!NAL WRITER a c 

Following on from the piece in tthe USA t 

News last month regarding Final Writer 

S. please note that you should &use 

the 

contact number corresponding to your 

country (or nearest). Harwood can be 

reached from the UK on 01773 836781. 

For the US this is 602 431 1461. 

A revolutionary new imaging centre at the Olympic Games in Atlanta, is being 

used to capture and dispatch images to picture desks across the world. 

Kodak, the world-wide sponsors of the games, have established a 20 workstation 

Imaging centre that allows the press to scan and transmit images to 

anywhere in the world over ISDN lines. 

Everything photographers need to do is located in the 20,000 square foot 

centre. As Mike Tette, manager of the Kodak Olympic programme said: 

'Everything photographers need to do the job is located in one place_ They 

can shoot for three or four hours at the venues, bring back the film for pro- 

cring, edit it, scan the image, enhance it in the Adobe Photoshop software, 

output the image on a thermal printer, ColorEdge copier or Photo CD disc and 

send it anrNhere in the world...". 

The centre, staffed by 175 lab technicians and Kodak representatives 

processes an estimated 10,000 rolls of film a day. 

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OCTOBER 1 

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A nev.. computer store has opened in 

Northampton which claims to stock the 

largest selection of Amiga games in the 

country. Direct Software aims to cater for all 

the Amiga owners in the country who have 

found that other games stores don't stock a 

great variety. 

As well as the hundreds of titles in stock, 

Direct Software will try to get any title 

requested, no matter how old or obscure. 

They also operate a mail order service. 

The store is also in contact with new software 

houses and will stock games currently 

only available through mail order, such as 

BMP's Reality and Space Fighter. Direct 

Software is also in the process of making its 

own game using fully rendered animation 

intros, clips and real film footage. 

Direct Software are running a competition 

to decide the name of their new outlet. 

A copy of Team I7's Killing Grounds is up 

for grabs so if you have any imaginative 

ideas for the store's name, write to Direct 

Software, 166 Birchfield Road East, 

Northampton, Northants NN3 21-IF or 

phone 01604 722499. 

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To get the latest coverage of the Olympic 

games have a look at CompuServe's new service 

which aims to bring the latest results 

from Atlanta. From the main menu (GO AIL- 

GAMES) you can access newsgreports from 

contributors such as Sports Illustrated, Time 

and USA Today. 

You can find out the latest scores and even 

chat with other CompuServe members about 

the games. Martin Turner, CompuServe's UK 

general manager commented, 'We built this 

area using the latest open standards technology, 

demonstrating our ability to deliver timely, 

easy-to-use services both to CompuServe 

users and those on the Web at large' 

More news from CompuServe is their 

announcement of a new UK network which 

offers speeds of 28,800bps and 57,600bps 

for the price of a local call. This new 'super 

network' which offers ISDN access has been 

simplified which four numbers to choose 

from. 

Martin Turner said, We have promised our 

350,000 UK members a service that would 

be fast and very efficient and now we are 

delivering it' More information is avallable 

for members on 0800 000400. To join you 

can call 0800 000200. 

A NYBODY 

FOR SUNDAY 

SCHOOL 

If you're an Amiga user and you live in the 

Wigan or West Lancs area why not while 

away those boring Sunday afternoons at the 

Amiga User Group at St Thomas The Martyr 

School Hall, Highgate Road, Up Holland, 

Lancs? 

Learn about graphics, hardware, music, 

networking and programming and take 

advantage of the huge choice of free software 

available. Admission is E2 and refreshments 

are available. 

Their new contact number is either 

Stephen on 01695 625063, or Simon on 

01257 402201. 

ULCAN 

UPDATE 

News from Vulcan Software this month is 

that a Web site is in the offing which will 

keep you up-to-date with the latest game 

developments, hints and tips and previews. 

They will also be releasing Tiny Troops - 

that very promising game that was originally 

in the hands of Mindscape. They can be 

reached at 01705 670269. 

Chock out hints a nd tips from the ne w 

Vulcan Softwa re we b site 


C)CIOBER 1996 • 

ROTECT THE INNOCENT 

• Internet has been a cause for concern to parents so children; charity NCH Acti• 

or Children will be bringing out a guide at the Live '96 show. 

The leaflet will give parents advice on topics such as pornography on the Intern 

feguards that parents can install and the dangers posed by Bulletin Boards, There' 

Iso advice on how parents can access the educational sites for their children in a sat 

ay. 

Caroline Abrahams, principal policy officer at NCH Action For Children said, "We're 

ying don't let your children use the Internet, we're saying make sure that they use 

afely. The Net can be a fascinating learning ground for people of all ages but it's up I 

arents to ensure that the information is suitable for their child, particularly when 

omes to pornography and chat lines:' 

The leaflet can be obtained at Live which runs from 25-29 September at Earl's Cou 

ondon or alternatively by writing to: Information Department, NCH Action For Childr 

;5 Highbury Park, London, NS IUD. 

IQ INFO 

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Apologies to anybody who has been trying to contact Hi0 - we put 

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in our review, They can be reached at (UK) 01525 211327 

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VTEC Industry Europe has been appointed the European importer and distributor of the new 

Panasonic TAB SIMM memory. The TAB SIMM memory has a number of new innovations 

which make the product unique. 

In response to the increased theft of memory products, each Panasonic TAB will be 

marked with a serial number and product code to enable easy tracing of stolen goods. 

Another feature of the TAB is the metal shielding which improves reliability and protects the 

memory from electrostatic discharge. The memory module is compatible with every motherboard 

on the market and VTEC offers a lifetime warranty with next day replacement 

A 

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LAUNCH 

VERY REDESIGNS 

Avery Office Accessories, part of the Avery Dennison Corporation, has revealed its new 

redesigned range of computer furniture which includes computer and printer stands and VDU 

trolleys. The new range is softer and more elegant, combining strength and stability with a 

lightweight design that enables the furniture to be moved easily and safely. 

According to Jan Perry, Marketing Communications Manager: 'The new design reflects the 

increased emphasis on design and appearance in the office of today. Crucially, though, it incorporates 

a high degree of flexibility, ensuring it will remain compatible with the fast developing 

demands of office technology. 

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Oki Systems have just launched four new dot 

matrix printers. The nine-pin ML3320 (narrow 

column width) and the ML3321 (wide column 

width) are ideal for speed processing 

high volume data and word processing applications. 

Print speed is 435 characters per second 

in super-draft mode at 12 characters per 

inch Other speeds include 387 cps, 290 cps 

and 73 cps. 

The 24•pin options, the ML.3390 and 

ML3391, are available as narrow and wide 

carriages and can print at up to 360 cps in 

utility mode and at 120 cps in letter quality 

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SCOM FILE FOR BANKRUPTCY 

Escom AG have announced that they will be tiling for bankruptcy. the news comes after months 

of troubles for the company who reported losses of USS118 million in 1995 and suffered poor 

Christmas sales. Manfred Schmitt, the companies general manager resigned and they sold off 

their Amiga Technologies subsidiary to VIScorp - only a year after they had bought the company. 

The 1000 UK workers have been told that the UK unit will have to dose whilst the division in 

the Netherlands is thought to have been sold off through a management buyout 

As far as the future of Amiga Technologies goes, VIScorp will finally take control of AT on 

August 19. Until then, it is understood that the business will be run with the approval of the 

bankruptcy trustee Hembach. 

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Blittersoft have announced that they are now an authorised PHASE 5 main dealer. Blittersoft will 

now be supplying the full range of Phase 5 products which includes CyberStorm MKII 060- 

50MHz - 649.95, CyberStorm MKII 040EC-40 379.95, Blivard 1260 50MHz - 579.95, Blizzard 

1240EC-Tower board - 279.95 and the SCSI-II for Blizzard 1260-99.95. 

1 More news is their announcement of the CyberVision 64/3D which will be released in 

September. Phase 5 digital products will release this new 

generation graphics board, the CyberVision64/3D 

at a very competitive price. Designed for use as 

either a Zorro-II or Zorro-Ill board it will 

work in all Amiga 2000, 3000 and 

4000(T) series models as well as with 

tower modifications of Amiga 1200 

• 

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inovations 

kB will be 

backplanes, The new board will 

have the Virge graphics chip with 

3D capabilities which is produced 

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A new Picasso graphics card will 

also be released in September, called 1r 

Picasso IV The board is fully Zan° II/III 

auto sensing, with features such as 64-bit 

Cirrus Logic 5446 Chip, Max Pixeldock 135 

ed its new MHz, and Flicker fixer on-board. It also has Video on 

ls and VDU 

Arty with a 

Workbench - a scalable live video window on Workbench. 

A URA SHAKES 

THINGS UP 

Aura Distribution Services announced this month that the Aura 

interactor virtual reality backpack will available in the UK from 

September onwards. The Aura Interactor was released in the US 

a year ago and so far 1.4 million people have bought the device. 

Ifs now available in the UK for the price of E69.99 

The Aura Interactor is, basically, a pack which straps on to 

your back and allows you to feel the sound from a computer 

game. 

' works on the concept that low bass noises are mostly felt 

rather than heard. The Interactor responds to the bass sound 

effects of a film or . 

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not recognising the fact that it is the year 

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Basically, computers have only been 

programmed to recognise dates up till 

then and the new date could cause massive 

problems. So recently, the British 

Standards Institution got together to 

decide if their department. DISC, should 

have a role in resolving the problem. 

They met up with IT specialists from 

major UK companies who agreed that 

awareness of the millennium problem 

needs to be raised. 

DISC plan to develop a Code of 

Practice which defines the term 

"Millennium compliance" and will set 

out guidelines for establishing compliance 

for vendors and users. It was also 

ing the representation of dates in IT systems 

should be updated to reflect the 

need for greater discipline and accuracy 

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COVERDISK FILES 

Before you even think of putting the cover 

disks anywhere near your computer, you 

should make sure you write protect them. 

This is done by moving the black tab in the 

top comer of the disk so you can see 

through the hole. You cannot then damage 

your disks in any way. There is also no reason 

why the cover disks need to be written 

to, so even if the computer asks you to 

write enable the disks. don't do id 

To extract any single archive, simply double-dick 

its icon and follow the on-screen 

instructions. If you want to quickly extract 

the program to RAM, select the NOVICE 

level on the welcome screen, press proceed 

once on the current screen, then 

again on the next. The program can then be 

found in your RAM disk. Normally most 

programs need further installing, so read 

the documents on how to do this. 

Hard Drive Users 

Hard drive users do not have to boot with 

the first disk, but you must make sure you 

have the Arniga's Installer program in your 

C drawer. To make sure your hard drive has 

the correct files in place, double-click on 

the SetupHO icon. This will check if you 

have the Installer program. If not it will 

copy it across - don't worry, it will not write 

over any existing files. 

All you hard drive owners will find 

MultiExtract very useful. It is a separate 

method of extracting the cover disk files. It 

allows you to extract a number of files in 

• go, to your hard disk or RAM. 

- When you run MultiExtract, you will be 

presented with a number of check boxes, 

each representing one of the programs on 

that cover disk. Just deselect all the programs 

you do not want extracting, then 

press proceed. All the selected programs 

can now miraculously be found in the 

selected destination. 

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OCTOBER 9.9e)• 

INSTALLING ARTEFFECT 

If you can use the normal Amiga Computing installer, you should have no problems getting 

ArtEffect up and running. You should extract ArtEffect straight onto your hard drive, as once 

done it can be run almost straight away. 

Before you do run the program you will need to double-crick the installer icon in the ArtEffect 

drawer. This copies a library across and will set up an assign that ArtEffect needs, Once you have 

done this you will be able to run the program with no problems. People with only 2Mb of Ran 

can use ArtEffect, but they will have to use a 16-colour screen and make do with only a fraction 

of the program's power. 

Just when it was getting to the stage where it 

seemed like a truly new program was never 

going to be released for the Amiga, and we 

would be stuck with the ever increasing 

updates of Wordworth and Final Writer, bang! 

An all-new art program appears on the 

scene. 

From the same people who produced 

StormC, ArtEffect unites painting and image 

processing under a particularly productive 

user interface. When the program was in 

development, emphasis was placed on providing 

productive functions which are quick 

and simple to use. So, beginners and professionals 

alike are well catered for. 

ArtEffect is not 'just another' graphics program 

for the Amiga. Neither is it oriented 

towards the current 'standard' Amiga programs, 

but rather to classic image processing 

programs such as Photoshop and creative 

painting packages such as Fractal Painter. 

The proven concepts and ideas of these 

classic programs have been merged with the 

uncontested advantages of the Amiga, and 

you can see the results for yourself. 

Particularly important are the functions 

that allow you to select certain areas of an 

image for processing. Of course some filters 

are applied to the entire image, but when 

dealing with touching up images, it is necessary 

to select a particular area. So, one can 

retouch a scanned photo in a specific area 

without affecting the rest of the picture. 

ArtEffect offers more than 30 different 

ARTEFFECT 

Author: Haage and Partner 

Workbench 3.0 

effects with countless options. All effects are 

used in the same way, and they all have the 

same user interface. Each function has a preview 

window in which the effect is applied to 

an image section. The preview area can be 

zoomed in and out and a progress bar shoves 

how much of the operation has been cam. 

pl etecr 

While many of the Arniga's normal bitmap 

paint programs only allow painting in a single 

colour. ArtErfect gives you access to a full 

range of natural paint tools that allow you to 

simulate paintbrush, crayon, airbrush, chalk. 

coal and oil colours. 

To do a good job of simulating all these 

drawing tools, ArtEffect offers many controls 

for the mode, opacity, intensity, density. 

roughness, form etc. With this, everything 

from the transparency of water colour to the 

harsh look of chalk can be simulated excellently. 

ArtEffect goes one step further andt 

even offers you the ability to paint on different 

materials, such as canvas, wood, stone, marble 

etc. 

The properties of the three basic tools - 

stencil, brush and airbrush can be completely 

redefined, The form, intensity, density, 

roughness, transparency, opacity, pressure 

sensitivity (only on graphic tablets) and Fade 

Out can be adjusted freely. With all these 

properties, natural drawing tools can be simulated 

very well, and without any fringes. The 

properties of these tools are stored in the 

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selections), Colour Interpolator and Undo function 

ArtEffed offers many loaders/savers (IFF, JPEG, TIFF, GIF, PNG, BMP), and also the Amiga 4 

Datatypes and the new 24-bit datatype 

- ArtEffect offers an efficient 24-bit printer driver that uses the standard Workbench drivers. 

There is additional support for TurboPrint and Studio 

- ArtEffect supports the graphic tablet Wacom ArtPad II (a special driver is needed!). With 

the graphic tablet, all drawing modes become pressure sensitive_ This is very important for 

natural drawing 

- ArtEffect can be extended externally by a flexible Plug•In interface, which allows third party 

companies to offer new functions. There is also a special GUI for these Plug-Ins, so pro- 

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Anyone who's heard of disk doubler will know about the basics behind DeepX. It is a program 

that runs in the background and waits for programs to load or save files. When they do, it compresses 

and decompresses them, so saving up to 50% disk space (normally you can expect to 

save on average 30%). 

OeepX is a commodity that will run 3ituietly in the background, watching programs and files. 

If you want DeepX to watch a program, run the program and select it from the list of tasks. You 

can now select what type of compression the program's files should be crunched with. You can 

also choose not to have saved files compressed. DeepX allows you to choose files by a directory 

path and with pattern matching, making it even more flexible. 

As it uses the standard XPK compression libraries, there are a huge number of compressors 

available, and for each program you can choose an individual compressor. 


OCTOBER 1996 

STENCIL 

One of the powerful features of ArtEffect is its 

stencil function. This is sort of an amalgamation 

of Photoshop's magic wand and 

Photogenic's paint layer. In Photoshop the 

magic wand allows you to select areas of a 

picture that contain similar shades of colour, 

so when you apply an effect it is only applied 

to the selected area 

ArtEffect lets you have this quick area 

selection but instead of using Photoshop's 

basic outline it gives you the ability to directly 

'paint on' this stencil layer, in a similar way 

to Photogenic. 

As both methods are combined, it makes 

for an incredibly easy way of selecting areas 

that you do not want to be affected by one of 

ArtEffect's processes. Or, by using the invert, 

you can mark the area you want to be affected 

then select invert masking off the rest of 

the picture. 

To give you even more 

control there are extra 

menu items that allow 

you to expand or reduce 

the sire of the maskedoff 

area. On top of this 

there is a feather command 

that will 'fade in' 

the edges of the stencil 

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Well, I gave in to temptation, again. For some 

reason I just like all these stupid hacks that 

change the way your Workbench looks. This 

latest one will give all your Workbench windows 

a Mac-style look, but thelere about 10 

times as fast as a real Mac window_ 

To get MacWB running you need to copy 

the Chicago font into your fonts drawer, copy 

the MacWB command to you C drawer and 

add the line: 

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Workbench 104 

A MMU processor 

You never seem to have 

enough memory, and even 

with the recent drop in the 

price of Simms, adding extra 

memory is not going to be 

cheap_ What you need is virtual 

memory. This is when 

the operating system fools' 

programs into using hard 

drive space as actual memory, 

What actually happens is 

that using the MMU found 

on the full versions of the 

030, 040 and 060 chips, 1 

pages of memory can be 

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real memory whenever a program accesses it. 

Virtual memory is a lot slower than real 

memory, as the pages have to be moved off 

the hard drive, but some memory is better 

than no memory. There are MUI and Bgui versions 

of the preference program, so one of 

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APPASSIGN 

Author: Doguet Emmanuel 


Assigns are a constant pain in the rear for Amiga users_ The situation has got a little better 

with the good old Installer setting them up in the user startup, but there is always going to 

be a time when a program is going to need one. 

AppAssign is a little program that makes assigns a little easier to sort out The current 

assigns can be listed and removed, and new assigns can be made either using a file 

requester or dropping a drawer or program icon into AppAssign's window. 

Making your fi lo easier, AppAssign 

sorts out those troublesome assigns 

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What, another card game? Well yes, but 

this one is a real good looker. If you have 

ever wanted a decent playing patience 

game, this one will suit you down to the 

ground. Based on all the card games you 

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provide a little more in the way of functions, 

Popper could be what you want. As well as 

giving you the normal new pop-up menus 

that Magic Menu provided, Popper has the 

extra feature of tear-off menus. 

So, if you regularly need to access the 

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Author: Oxyroo 


horror of renaming hundred:, of files. 

Well alright, this might not be something 

you come up against every day, but for people 

who deal with large 'animations and 

have many similarly named files with number 

extensions, this is a distinct possibility. 

Renamelt is a program to help you get 

around this nasty situation, It allows yob to 

rename multiple files in various different 

ways. Primarily it allows you to alter the sul- 

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month, MBPress is a tiny program that is used 

to detect what combination of mouse but- 

tons are being pressed. By holding down one 

of the mouse buttons at bootup, you can 

select a different startup sequence. 

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TRASH MAN 

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Workbench 3.0 

The Amiga's operating system has loads of 

nice features. It does have a nice trashcan, 

but it's not very good having one on each 

separate partition. We've had replacement 

trashcans in the past, but this one is the best 

so far. 

From a single Appicon you can happily 

delete and retrieve all your files. It will move 

all the files off to the trashcan directory and 

remember their original location if you want 

to retrieve them at a later date_ It also has 

automatic trash handling - if the drive 

becomes full it will start to remove files from 

the trashcan directory, giving you more space. 

Author: Tak Tang 


Windows 95 has started something of a fad 

on the Amiga, with a number of people 

putting out their own version of the PC start 

bar. Well, On Go is another similar attempt at 

copying it. but it has a number of differences 

from all the other current start bars. 

What makes On Go special is that along 

with the normal program launcher and the 

fact it is a lull commodity, it implements 'virtual 

screens'. This lets you have multiple 

, Workbench screens, even though it appears 

you only have one. On these screens you can 

have different windows open and flick 

between the different Workbench screens. 

Which is nice. Currently, to configure On Go 

you have to manually edit the config file, but 

this is fairly straightforward. 

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Amiga users. Neil Mohr takes a sneak preview 

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coverage of the Internet it seems 

everyone is slapping together all- 

- in-one Internet access packages - 

first Amiga Technologies with 

their Surfer pack and most recently FliSoft's 

Net & Web. NetConnect is hoping to surpass 

both these products by offering simplified 

configuration and setup along with the latest 

versions of the most popular Internet programs. 

The first thing that will strike you about 

NetConnect is the toolbar front end, from 

which all the configuration and programs are 

accessed. The toolbar is very reminiscent of 

the docks used by ToolManager and is setup 

in a similar fashion, allowing variable rows 

and columns of either icons or text buttons_ 

Anyone who has had a look at Miami will be 

glad to know that NetConnect has 'borrowed' 

the simple setup front end 0'Sed to configure 

all the aspects of logging on to your Internet 

provider. 

NetConnect will simplify this even beyond 

what Miami offers by maintaining a list of 

Internet providers and their details, so making 

the initial setup a matter of selecting which 

country you live in, your provider and the local 

Pop you will be using. Currently the 

tsktConnect database covers a MO providers 

in 30 different countries, 40 of which are 

British. 

Once this is done you are left with having to 

enter your own specific user details such as 

user name and password. As with Miami there 

is a large list of modems which, if it includes 

yours, will handle the modem initialisation 

automatically. 

So NetConnect gives you a good program 

launcher and set up interface but what else 

does it offer? Well for starters you will be getting 

ArniTCP 4,3, the latest version of the ubiq- 

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make We b browsing a n e a sy ta sk 

uitous TCP/IP stack which has quite a few 

advancements over previous versions, generally 

making it far easier to configure and setup. 

This is an advantage over Miami which uses its 

OWERMAIL 

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NetConnect is PowerMail. Written by the author of 

Metal 

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in a MUI 3 PowerMairs interface is fully drag and drop, 

allowing M i you to move mail attachments to the clip 

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patibility problems with some software. 

There will also be the latest version 

ArriFTP - in my opinion the best FP program 

around - along with AmIRC, again one of the 

best IRC clients available for any computer. 

Both these programs should be getting an 

updated interlace for the NetConnect release 

making them even easier to use 

Web support will come in the form of 

Voyager v11. This is not going to be as complete 

as Voyager NC which will support everything 

that NetScape does, but it will add tables 

and possibly animated Cif support. This means 

the majority of Web sites will be perfectly displayed. 

Additional programs such as AmTelNet 

and mFinger both look good and are not provided 

for currently by the other Net packages. 

Due to the heavy use of MI - well all the 

programs use MUI - the latest version will be 

bundled with NetConnea This version will be 

3.5 and has many more bug fixes along with 

even more speed increases and new pop up 

menus. 

Currently NetConnect looks an excellent allin-one 

package with a lot of thought having 

gone into it. With the final version all the programs 

will be installed from a single installer 

that will also initially set up your account and 

provider details letting you get linked up and 

on-line as soon as possible. 

With the simple configuration GUI, the full 

version of AmiTCP 4_3 and the all-in-one icon 

driven front end, NetConnect does looks good 

and should be out soon. 

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of the Amiga, take a moment to look at 

at 

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t Far from releasing an old product with a 

r o few tweaks to milk a dying market, 

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h athrough 

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, 

next two paragraphs). Final Writer has vied 

for the position of top Amiga word processor 

for years, and with good reason. A WYSI- 

WYG product, it was one of the first to feature 

a user-friendly GUI complete with 

neat control icons and point-andclick 

requesters. In other 

words, it doesn't just 

work well, it looks good 

too. 

Final Writer 

includes basic drawing 

tools to enhance 

and illustrate the 

content ol your documents. 

More importantly, it's faster when it 

comes to manipulating, formatting and 

OOP OF THE TABLE 

It's been a long time coming, but at last 

Final Writer 5 allows you to create and 

incorporate tables into your documents. 

Tables are independent objects you 

can position anywhere. They are vital for 

documents where you need to present 

numerical data in a manageable and 

visually effective form - so much so that 

once you have them, you wonder how 

you did without them. 

Still, better late than never, and 

i Softwood have now done an excellent 

job by introducing an extremely versatile 

tables generator. The 'Tables 

Preferences' requester is a powerful 

tool, with all the options you're likely to 

need. 

restructuring lengthy sections of text thar 

arch-rival Digita Wordworth - and that afte• 

all is what a good WP is about. El 

Now on to the refinements introciucec 

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with release 5. First up, Final Writer nos'. 

includes a new Auto Correct facility. Ss the 

name suggests, this will instantly alorreo 

your regular typos - thus teh will m 

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names_ If, for example, you were crea ting a 

tutorial for Final Writer 5, you could add 

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Writer Release 5. Then whenever you typed 

pre 

use 

tw5 the program would correct it ti3 

pro- 

duce Final Writer Release 5. More useful 

than it initially sounds, believe it or nlot 

Auto Correct will also capitalise th e first 

letter of sentences and correct two initial 

capitals in a sentence. 

Release 5 now allows you to creat e d0Cuments 

using a template. The 'NevJ 

from 

Template' option doesn't just oper your 

document it updates the dates and times 

the document and leaves the name set as 

Untitled. So what? This means yot.1 

can't 

accidentally save a newly modified . 

of the document on top of your ter, 

nplate, 

making it perfect for protecting anceusing' 

templates for regularly used letterhea rds 

and 

forms. 

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docul 

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option allowing you to save sets n 

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sheets and assign them to documi!nts. 

In 

practice, thi5 means you can have ternplates 

for different business letters, irwoices. 

personal correspondence and so 

on, allowing you quickly 

to 

develop regularly needed 

document types. 

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most important innovation 

for serious 1NP 

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have the document's body text flow 

around the left of right of the table, or 

over the top of the table_ A 'distance' 

option tells Final Writer how much space 

to leave between the table and the text 

flowing around it, while if you type in a 

title for your table in the 'Title' area, the 

table's title will be appended to the spe• 

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Tables can be customised with 16 1 

background colours (useful for ontrasting 

different columns or rows of data) 

and different thicknesses for the lines 

that divide the table up. 

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LIIRST TO THE FINISH '11 

Despite troublesome times in the Amiga 

1market, both Digita and Softwood have 

continued to develop their products and 

release regular updates of their highly 

regarded word processors. The truth is, 

though, some previous product updates 

have been disappointing; expecting powerful 

new features, we have instead been 

presented with small refinements that are 

useful but uninspiring. 

It's therefore heartening to see an 

ing to swap text documents between different 

WPs, and different platforms as well. 

This means that you will be able to take 

a half-finished document from the PC at 

work and load it into 

Final Writer on your 

Arnigas at home to finish 

it off. Then, providing 

you save it in RIF 

format, you can take 

the finished document 

and reload it on to the 

work PC the next day. 

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will work with Apple 

Macs, and between all 

sorts of different WPs 

providing they support 

the RTI format). 

Softwood have 

realised how increas- 

ingly important this feature will be and have 

ensured it complies with the latest RIF 

specifications. Furthermore, they've even 

made certain that RTF files using future 

specifications will load without problems. 

Even interchanging files with fonts that are 

non-existent on the Amiga (a common 

occurrence) is not a problem; Final Writer 5 

will simply replace an unrecognised font 

with a preset Amiga font. 

Other major enhancements include a 

high-calibre tables generator and an HTML 

export option for WVVW pages (see our box 

outs). Improved data support for imported 

graphics is a boon as well, allowing you to 

import GT JPEG, BMP and other image file 

formats directly into a document. 

Otherwise there are numerous 4,311 but 

useful tweakings to the WP''s functionality, 

revealing a company that's in touch and 

prepared to respond to its customers 

Final Writer 5 is a big 

enough step forward to 

ensure that Softwood this 

time deserves an unqualified 

recommendation. 

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Final Writer 5 is a big enough step forward 

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requests. For example, Softwood had made 

the 'Open Font' requester available from the 

'Type Specs' requester in Release 4. Thanks 

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Release 5 continues to enhance Final 

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In previous issues, re-arranging copy was a 

messy matter of manual cutting and pasting. 

Now, all sections can be arranged using 

the 'Arrange Sections' requester. 

With the release of the surfer pack, more 

Amiga users are at last getting connected to 

the Internet - only to find that many sites 

use software applets that don't support 

their machines. Oh well... 

Softwood's pro-active development of an 

on-line customer support service for Amiga 

owners is therefore particularly welcome. 

From July 1996, customers will be able to 

publish their own page on the Personal 

Web Site of Softwood's Server for 12 

months. This facility, combined with the 

established Amiga News forum, should 

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month. Not only have they just 

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but also this range of 'Ultra' CD- 

ROM Drives. Three variations are available to 

suit your needs and pocket and these are 

differentiated by their speed. The drives are 

available as either a four speed, six speed or 

an eight speed and are identical in all but 

this aspect. For the purpose of this review, 

we looked at the eight speed. 

The range are all ATAPI/IDE external drives 

and come mounted in sturdy metal 

enclosures_ What you get with each is a 

complete package that gets you up and running 

with your new CD-ROM drive in a relatively 

quick time. The drives plug onto the 44 

pin IDE connector inside the computer and 

with the supplied software and cables you 

can configure your Amiga to support the 

ATAPI drive. 

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IDE connector and if there is a hard drive, disconnect the 

cable that connect the hard drive to the IDE connector. 

You must then remove the hard drive and plug the supplied 

cable into the Amigas IDE interface If you have a two 

2 drive you will need to plug this into the second connection, 

if you have a three and a half, you use the three 

and a half inch_ With me so far? You will then need to 

when in use. Unfortunately, a potential 

worry would be that if you are right handed 

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amount of room you have to manoeuvre 

your mouse. Although the cables are long 

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Siren have put quite a lot of thought into 

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shuts to a low power consumption mode. 

The drive also comes in handy as audio 

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device into your stereo through the audio 

output connectors and listen to a few of 

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disturbing the whole office or house. 

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and means it leaves the PCMOA and other ports free. It 

also ensures full compatibility with memory expansions 

and accelerators. However, it's worth mentioning that this 

procedure is not as convenient as using the Squirrel interface 

and a SCSI CD drive. 


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controlled via the control at the front. 

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as possible. Some may have preferred 

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SCSI CD drive_ Think about your needs 

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reviews Fargo's 

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'printer' evokes mental images of 

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sit. 

Fargo's Primera line sets standards for 

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pictures in just about two minutes. 

m There are a number of techniques that can 

be used to get colour onto paper. The 

FotoFUN's dye-sublimation uses heat and a 

special cellophane-like ribbon to create living 

colours on a 4" x 6" piece of photographic 

paper specially supplied by Fargo. Each ribbon 

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set. There are no user-serviceable moving 

parts in the inside of the printer. The FotoFUN 

is a somewhat unusual printer in that it is not 

set up to accept a wide variety of media. Most 

printers, be they dot matrix, laser, or inkjet 

can accept different paper of different 

colours, along with envelopes and other 

paper products, but the FotoFUN exists solely 

to transfer photos and images from your 

computer onto film-type glossy paper. 

The printer connects to the Amiga through 

the parallel port. There is an Amiga driver for 

the printer but, unfortunately, it is not 

shipped with the product_ Instead, a program 

must be obtained from Fargo and paired with 

the special driver keyfile from the included PC 

driver disk. This is not exactly convenient, but 

it is worth the effort Once your driver is properly 

installed, you can use a GUI interface to 

set certain preferences of the printer, such as 

the darkness of the final print and whether or 

not you want a clear protective layer added to 

the final photo. That taken care of, it is then 

ready for your images. 

As mentioned before, the printer can han- 

What's the printer good for? Well, if you have a scanner and want to alter images and re-print them, spending a 

little time in ImageR or another image processing program and then outputting to the FotoFUN would be a good 

way to work. If you're a PhotoCD buff, you can use the FotoFUN to get 'hard copy' of some of your favourite pictures. 

Then there's the FotoMug kit, which allows you to create coffee mugs with any picture on them by baking 

a FotoFUN print onto a specially coated mug. It's actually fairly inexpensive to do and takes only 15 minutes in 

the oven. Or, if you're a postcard buff, Fargo can provide you with special postcard print paper so you can create 

your own message. 

The FotoFUN isn't for everyone — it's pretty much a one-track mind device. However, it's a neat device and certainly 

worth a look if you think you might need colour printing for your archives, presentations, or business. 


sTOBER 1 996 

die 4 x 6' photo paper. To crop (make suitable 

for printing) a computer image can be 

frustrating sometimes. However, I recommend 

ImageFX because it also includes an 

expanded driver for the FotoFUN printer in 

version 2.6. If you don't have ImageFX 2.6, 

you can simply copy or save IFF images to the 

FotoRIN device created by the driver_ 

Each print sent through the FotoFLIN takes 

about two minutes and costs roughly SI for 

the customer, who has to buy ribbons and 

prints together for 36 individual cameras. This 

is a fairly expensive way to get photo-quality 

colour images, but the convenience of doing 

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It's been a bumper postbag this month 

for Ezra Surf, with letters pouring 

in from all corners of the world. 

Many different subjects, from 

budget games to faster processors, 

have provoked you into putting pen to 

paper, so take a moment to peruse what your fellow readers 

IGADOS — ALIVE AND KICKING 

As a dedicated fan of 'Amiga Computing' and 

things Amiga, it is interesting to both read and 

hear about other people's point of view, particularly 

our friends across the water, as they 

invariably see things differently from 'us'. 

Several of your correspondents had some 

interesting and sometimes valid viewpoints, but 

I am not letting them get away with some of 

the points made To make things easy, I'll list 

the ones I disagree with in more or less the 

order in which they appeared in 'Postbag'. 

'Dying but not Dead?' - I can see the logic of 

his reasoning, but it totally ignores the vast 

riumber of people world-wide who like 

AmigaDOS and wouldn't give up their Amiga 

whatever happened as far as other formats 

were concerned. Furthermore, most of 'us' are 

ready, willing and able to spend money to get 

what they want Out of their Amiga, which leads 

me nicely on to the next point 

The Americans are talking crap when they 

want an upmarket machine 

for nowt as we say in 

Yorkshire, and in saying that 

a cheap machine would 

certainly sell in America. 

Which planet do they live 

on? Several of the American 

PC makers are planning to 

flood the European market 

with what I would describe as 'downmarket 

PCs' - the equivalent of 486/586 pre-Pentiums, 

because they cannot sell them over there in the 

saturated market! 

Like most people our side of the water, I 

came to the Amiga when I acquired, quite late 

on, an Amiga 500. lt was a brilliant games 

machine, and although much better made than 

the later 600 and 1200, its design limitations 

cfid not lend itself as well to expansion as the 

1200. Being entirely fair to the 1200, it was 

never really designed as a big box Amiga; that 

slot was filled by Amiga with the 4000. As an 

aside, I am still kicking myself for not taking out 

a loan to buy the second-hand 4000 that I 

could have had for just over E1000 after 

Commodore went bust But it is no use crying 

over spilt milk now, because at the time I couldn't 

afford it. Subsequently I spent considerably 

more than that upgrading my 1200 to where it 

is at now: Seagate 1.1 Gig hard drive inside, 

Blizzard 1230/4 accelerator and SCSI board and 

Pl s 

Companias Ws* PI OS 

holvorsua a brighta r 

future for the Amiga 

outlet with a 16Mb SIMP.1 giving me 18 Mb 

RAM. It is, I suppose, still technically a standalone 

machine, in that I could if I wished take it 

to another place and run it fairly easily, but in 

practice I have it connected to a HQ 

Powerstation - it has on-board my CD-ROM, 

separate stereo speakers and room to add several 

other things to the SCSI chain if 1 wish. It 

provides power for my Project II printer and I 

use my Zip drive for back-up. 

Alright, it has cost me dose to the price of a 

quite reasonable PC, but I chose the Amiga 

because I prefer it to the PC and it does almost 

everything I ask of it. That it cannot yet do is 

entirely down to my lack of expertise, not 

AmigaDOS! 

Wien Escom bought out what was left of 

Commodore you will remember I wrote saying 

that I thought Escom was a disaster. When I 

heard that VIScorp was taking over from Escom, 

I felt considerable relief. At last, here was a firm, 

as I understood it, with limited 

resources, but which 

knew what it wanted the 

Amiga for. Hopefully it would 

even be prepared to license 

the technology and carry it 

forward. 

This is already happening. 

Phase 5, who made my 

Blizzard board, has already announced that the 

new PowerPC is in development, and that it will 

be backwardly compatible with Amiga Dos 3.0+1 

Similarly John Smith has joined the new PIOS 

company together with several other Amiga aficionados 

like Dave Haynie and Andy Finkel, and 

will be developing a computer based on the 

PowerPC with an operating system 'similar to 

the Amiga OS' - quotes courtesy of this month's 

Amiga Computing! 

If I had either a 500 or 600, I wouldn't be 

looking to go over to a PC.1 should be snapping 

up one of the many 1200 bargains to be currently 

had - in our local paper the other day 

there was a 1200 with hard drive and a 

Commodore monitor for just over E200! 

Your prize letter this month was well aimed 

at the games companies, and I would only add 

that it is a shame somebody doesn't start transferring 

some of the older Amiga games over to 

a budget-priced CD-ROM, like the ones currently 

available on PC at around E12.99. I am sure 


OCTOBER 1996 

think 

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Got something 

you need to get 

off your chest? 

Want to share some 

handy hints with other readers? 

Simply put pen to paper and write to 

Ezra Surf's Postbag, Amiga 

Computing, IDG Media, Media House, 

Adlington Park, Macclesfield, 

Cheshire, SKID 4NP There's ESO up 

for grabs for our star letter. 

there is a ready market - 1 for one would jump 

at the chance of buying several of the classics 

on a CD. Think of all the hassle it would save 

trying to install games on your hard drive. 

That's enough rabbiting from me for now, 

although I don't promise not to bring you some 

more in the bright Amiga future! 

Ian Aisbitt, North Yorkshire 

Ali, a regular contributor to our postbag. I 

see. You mention the availability of secondhand 

Amigas and I think this is definitely a 

small but significant step forward, at least 

for the time being. This provides a very 

cheap way of buying an entry level computer 

and then upgrading it to suit your needs. 

The only problem with this is that the number 

of people opting for second-hand 

machines won't be recorded, hence development 

companies won't see an increase in 

Amiga owners - until they start buying new 

hardware and software. 

A budget CD-Rom sounds like an excellent 

idea. I'm sure many Amiga owners who 

either missed the game first time round or 

don't want to have to mess around installing 

disks would snap them up. Asfar as we 

know, no plans are on the cards - apart from 

the usual budget releases on disk. But who 

knows? Some nice big publisher out there 

might take notice of our humble column_ 

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First off I would like to say you have an outstanding 

publication and it has made my 

turmoil over the death of Amiga World here 

in the US extremely bearable. Okay, now 

that I've buttered you up with accolades, 

here is a complaint (you knew one was 

coming)_.. 

Delivery of Amiga Computing US edition 

here in the States is extremely slow, and 

always late with regard to any pertinent 

information in your magazine. I was looking 

forward to purchasing StormC at the special 

Amiga Computing reader price, but unfou 

tunately the offer expired May 29 and I did 

not receive my magazine until May 30! I 

don't know how publications in the UK are 

scheduled, but here in the US all next 

month magazines are sent out before the 

end of the previous month, 

in this way readers receive the May edition 

before May has turned into June. Is 

mail really that bad? Over 30 days? I 

assumed since Amiga Computing was an 

IDG publication that the US edition was 

WANT IT ALL 

Why can't we have it all? Ever since the late 

Jay Miner and Amiga, Inc. developed our 

beloved machine, it has been looked on as a 

computer that has always been years ahead 

of its time. My personal view is that the Amiga 

operating system is fast and efficient, and the 

system architecture is still envied by many 

computer developers who try to mimic its 

functions with system boards and chips (ie 

video, audio, and I/O). But the one thing that 

has been a great disappointment for the 

Amiga is its processor, the heart of the 

machine. 

I do not understand why the fastest 

processors ever created have still not been 

incorporated into the Amiga (ie PowerPC or 

DEC). IBM users are now playing games on 

133 MHz Pentium Ultimate Gaming PCs. 

These processors are 20+ times liftr• than 

the average 030-based Amiga_ Serious Amiga 

users like myself (Al200, 68060, 18Mb RAM) 

are forced to incorporate IBM compatible 

DECs, MIPS, and Pentium Pro workstations 

into our work areas. 

What I believe many Amiga users want is 

an Amiga, with its powerful operating system 

and custom chip set, combined with a 

processor that runs around 300 MIPS (million 

instructions per second), all in one box. 

Amiga third-party developers have believed 

this, but for some unknown reason it has 

always been the corporate owners of the 

Amiga who have seen differently. 

The Amiga community is unique in that it 

can easily stand alone in this vast computer 

industry. VIScorp, with proper planning, 

industry co-operation and development, 

could be the only computer company with 

direct products in three of the now top computer 

areas: gaming (CD32), personal computer 

workstations (Al200, A4000T), and 

printed here in the US. 

World was also an IDG 

always on time. 

Am I wrong? Amiga 

property but it was 

Thank you for your time 

James Vigliotti, USA 

Do not fear. We have sorted this out and 

apologise for the problems you've had in 

the past. The way it will work in the future 

(from this magazine onwards) is that 

everyone - including our American subscribers 

- will receive an International 

edition. This is because Amiga Computing 

and Amiga Computing US have merged to 

produce an even stronger title. 

The advantage for you is that you will 

get the magazine at the same time as our 

UK readers. Plus, you get a bigger magazine 

both in terms of editorial content and 

actual size (English A4). So hopefully this 

will keep readers on both sides of the 

pond happy as we strive to bring you the 

latest news and developments from the 

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I love your magazine and your world 

support for the Amiga. Keep up the excellent 

work. 

LeRoy Parham, Jr., Clinton, MD USA 

Glad you like the magazine. I agree that 

what the Amiga needs is a faster processor 

- if it's to compete with these 100 and 133 

MHz Pentiums, it's essential. People seem 

quite content to shell out E1,500 for a 

machine that they want to word process 

with and play games on. However, the 

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Amiga community is still strong, and it's 

amazing to see the wealth of support still 

around for the machine. We hope that 

VIScorp will use this to its advantage and 

exploit the fact that it could have top products 

in certain areas (ie personal computer 

workstations, set-top boxes). 

I'd disagree with you that the CD32 can 

stand alone as a direct product in the 

games market. It's too late for it now, partly 

due to the fad there were no CO32-specific 

games, but mainly because it's been 

superseded by the likes of the PlayStation 

and the Saturn. 

V1Scorp's plans for the set-top box do 

look promising, though, and with things 

such as networked gaming, the 

Amiga could take off in this area. 

It's not viScorp we have to convince 

that the Amiga is a good 

machine, it's those who don't 

even know that there is an option 

available beyond buying the 

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LIETTER FROM THE LAND OF THE V I K I N G I 

First I would like to say congratulations on 

your growing readership. Before 1995 I 

almost never bought your magazine. In fact 

I only have three from before 95. Now I buy 

Amiga Computing every month. I especially 

like your reviews of serious software 

and the news and reviews of 

different companies who use the 

Amiga. Why haven't you covered 

Phase 5 and MacroSystems yet? 

Second, I would say that I don't 

like your game reviews_ Not because 

of your writing but because of the bad 

games you review. I believe that you 

should only review games with extremely 

good graphics or gameplay. A good example 

of a game with graphics is Breathless, 

and for good gameplay, Sensible Soccer 

gets my first place. The others are mostly 

junk. When some PC friends of mine look at 

the games section in my Amiga Computing 

(and all the other Amiga mags) they all 

wonder if the magazines are from the end 

of the 110's. The Amiga games these days 

don't exactly strengthen the Amiga's position 

in the home computer market. 

Every second month or so there are 

some Amiga users from the UK who complain 

about the price of Amiga Computing. 

Next time you even think of complaining 

about the price, remember that all the 

Norwegian readers, including myself, pay E8 

for Amiga Computing with a smile on our 

laces. 

I would also like to encourage all Amiga 

owners to buy as much software and hardware 

for your Amiga as possible. About 

two-and-a-half years ago I bought my 

Amiga 4000/030 bundled with 

ScalaMM210, a 260Mb hard drive, 10Mb of 

RAM and the VLab Y/C card for 23000 

Norwegian krones (that's about E2300). 

And, after I got a job last year, I have bought 

CyberStorm060, CyberVision 64 (4Mb version), 

540Mb hard drive, 1.3 Gb hard drive, 

two 4Mb RAM chips, one 8Salb RAM chip, 

MicroVitec 1438, Oktagon SCSI-2 controller, 

ZIP drive, Photogenics 2 and Cinema 4D 

v2.1. And I haven't finished buying yet! You 

may think that I am rich because I have 

bought all this, but I'm not. I only earn 

about E180 a month and take small jobs 

when I have time - last summer I earned 

E400 by writing procedures on my A4000! 

In the short time I have had my A4000 I 

have spent E2500! 

Finally, I would like to encourage all the 

readers of Amiga Computing to save up 

some money so we - all the Amiga users - 

can buy the PowerPC Amigas that Phase 5 

is making for 1997. But don't forget to buy 

Amiga products in the meantime. Phase 5 

and MacroSystems seem to be the only 

hardware-related firms who really do something 

with the Amiga these days. New 

Amigas should have at least an 040, not a 

slow 030 which seems to be the processor 

chosen by AT for the 'Walker', 

Also, the current price of the A4000T is 

way too high. Who wants to buy technology 

from 1992 for 

more than E2000? I surely 

wouldn't have paid that much for a 

machine that old if I were to buy a new 

computer today. The only reason for me 

staying with the Amiga today is the OS and 

the real Plug and Play. The only OS which 

can almost compete with AmigaDOS is 

System 7 on the Mac, but the software on 

the Mac is extremely expensive compared 

to software on the Amiga. 

What should the future Amigas be like? 

Take a look at Phase 5's Internet pages and 

read the configurations for the Power PC 

Amigas. This is the kind of Amiga system I 

would gladly pay for in 1997. If 1600 xI200 

pixels at 24-bit colour depth and a refresh 

rate of 72Hz seems too good to be true, 

check out Phase 5 on the Internet. 

To all Amiga users: Keep on supporting 

the Amiga. It is the only computer with a 

user-friendly approach and has the fastest 

and best written OS on the Earth today. Any 

comments?... 

Ole Haugland, Norway 

I'm glad you have seen the error of your 

ways and decided to buy the magazine 

monthly. And at - well, Amiga 

- 

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a value on all the helpful reviews, 

opreviews 

and tutorials we have? It saves 

myou 

money in the long run because you 

ponly 

buy the products that are worth- 

u 

while, Anyway, enough of this blatant 

self-promotion. 

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To address your other points. Firstly, 

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we will be featuring MacroSystems and 

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5's current projects in the very 

g near future. We would not neglect such 

iimportant 

issues but we want to make 

s sure we can give you proper, in-depth 

particles 

on them. 

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iabout 

the Amiga games market. However, 

cI'd 

like to point out that we do try our 

ebest 

to review the better games rather 

than fill the section with useless titles 

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OC1O8ER 1996 

More good-looking ga me s ilk. Bre a thle ss 

are ne e de d if the Amiga is to be ta ke n 

se riously a s a ga me s pla tform a ga in 

becomes necessary to show some of the 

less than perfect titles just to give you an 

idea of what is available. Despite this, we 

are far less guilty than other magazines 

of taking up pages with these kind of 

games. Instead, we leave it in Andy 

Maddock's capable hands to find other 

ways of filling the section. For example, 

we bring you helpful cheat modes or features 

on games companies, which I'm 

sure our readers find more interesting 

than reviews of poor games. 

Also, what you say about the A4000's 

is true - only real enthusiasts will want 

to purchase the machines at these 

prices. You're very enthusiastic 

about what Phase 5 will have to 

offer in the future. We too 

hope that it can revitalise 

the market with the 

impressive PowerPC 

project. 

If you prefer, 

you can send us 

our letter via Email. 

Simply point your mailer to: 

ESPEacomp.demon.co.uk. You could 

even send it in on a disk - it makes 

our lives easier too. Someone has 

to type this lot in you know! 

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I have recently had one or two problems with my computer and I would be 

immensely grateful if you could help out. 

1. The other day I dropped the shell icon into the Workbench partition of 

II my hard disk, but I cannot get it back on the main Workbench background 

screen. I have tried Snapshot All from the Workbench menu bar, but it does not 

seem to work Could my Magic Workbench be anything to do with this? 

, 2. I read that SCSI hard drives are supposed to be faster than the IDE equivalent Your 

! review said that my Seagate drive is IDE, but Sysinfo says that it is SCSI. Why is this? 

3. When reading the speed of my hard drive using Sysinfo with my Blizzard 1230 disabled, the 

transfer rate is always between 1.4Mb and I.5Mb per second. But when I use the Blizzard, cur. 

rently with no Ram, these figures drop to just above 1.2Mb. Will this change when I get more 

memory? klas this anything to do with the low speed ratings you gave it in your review? I used 

to have the Blizzard 1220 accelerator and the speed was 2_5Mb per second. 

Craig Hump/Ines, Fosdyke 

I. If you want an icon to stay put on the Workbench and reappear in the same 

place each time you reboot your machine, you need to use the Leave out 

option in the icon menu. The easiest way of using this is to select the 

• icon you want 'left out' on the Workbench and press the right 

Amiga and L keys. The reason this works as opposed to just 

dragging the icon onto the Workbench is because the Leave out function 

creates an extra file called _backdrop, in which there is a list of 

the files that should be left out. Each time Workbench 

starts, it reads this file - that is on the root of each 

drive - and will place any file found listed in there 

out on the Workbench. 

2, Generally it is taken that a good 

SCSI 2 hard drive and controller will 

produce better results than an equivalent 

IDE drive. Good transfer rates for an 

IDE drive will be around 2-3Mb/s, while a 

fast SCSI 2 controller, such as the one found 

on the C-Force accelerator, will produce 

results at double this speed. The speed you get 

back does rely greatly on the speed of the controller, 

processor and the hard drive itself. 

Before the A600 and Al200 came out, IDE drives 

on the Amiga were fairly rare, with SCSI controllers 

and hard drives much more in favour, mainly due to the 

extra flexibility of the SCSI interface. Because of this, 

Amiga software was written with SCSI controllers in mind. 

So, when the A600 and Al200 came out it was decided to 

make things more compatible. The internal IDE interface 

would therefore appear to software as though it was a SCSI 

Interface, thus enabling software to access the IDE drives while 

being unaware of the different interface. 

3. Why have you bought an accelerator without any memory? 

Without extra memory you will only get a fraction of the extra speed 

of which your new processor is capable. You are right in thinking that 

getting fast memory will cure the transfer rate problem. The probable 

cause of the drop in transfer speed when you use the Blizzard board over 

the AI200's built-in processor is that it cannot transfer data as fast to chip 

memory. 

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600 SQUIRREL 

, I need some technical help with installing a 

) squirrel SCSI interface and a Reno Portable 

drive to an A600. I have installed the 

• ent configurations but the CD-ROM icon will 

' not show on the screen. 

S I have changed devices and unit numbers on the 

qtool 

types of the CDO DOS driver. I have also tried a 

different CD-ROM drive and a second mother board 

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without success. I finally sent the Squirrel back to 

the company to check it out 

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1. Do you know of anyone who has been able to 

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set up an A600 with a CD-ROM drive via the Squirrel 

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2. Can a CD-ROM be connected up to the paral- 

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3. If so can the Squirrel software be modified for a 

parallel port usage or do I need other software? 

Anthony Whiteman, New York 

As far as I know the Squirrel should 

work fine with either the A600 or 

the MOO, but it does seem strange 

\ that you are having so much trouble 

getting your Amiga to recognise the 

CD-ROM drive as the Squirrel install software is 

very straight forward to use. 

Normally the most common reason for a PC- 

Slot device not working is that some of the pins 

on the interface have become bent out of shape. 

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face at a slight angle as the end pins can end 

up being pushed down out of the way. If you 

get a jewellers screw drive and a torch with a 

little bit of care you can realign these pins. 

Other than that the best way to see if the 

SCSI interface is working is to use 

SCSImounter which comes with the Squirrel. If 

when the CD-ROM is connected SCSI mounter 

just returns errors then there is definitely 

something wrong with the interface. 

To answer your last two questions there is 

no way you can get the Squirrel software to 

work with the parallel port It is theoretically 

possible to use the parallel port, but it would 

be so slow there would be little point. 

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I purchased a Syquest EZ135 drive 

tol 

Gasteiner at THE computer show at 

the Novatel hotel and had a lot of 

an 

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4000/030 

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to recognise it. It was all very hitand-miss. 

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n During one of the times when it 'hit', like a 

Person O Rapidly Approaching Termination 

Time k or PRATT for short, I inadvertently formatted 

t my internal hard disk using the 

Oktagon a preference program. And yes, you've 

guessed, g it the only back-ups I had were of 

my oWorkbench 

partition. Oh woe is me, and 

thrice woe at that! 

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However, as it only took a few seconds to 

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format. I am assuming that all it did was a 

quick 

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format. So, whilst all the files and drawers 

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are there, on boot-up the system cannot 

find I the various partitions. 

cI 

have tried DiskSalv 2 extensively, but I 

find a that file names do not correspond to the 

actual r contents of the file. At present, and 

with d many thanks to Darren at Gasteiner, I 

am fusing 

the EZ drive as a second hard drive 

until r such time as I can get my old partitions 

back, 

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or at worst have to re-format it. 

mNow 

the burning question: Can you help 

me get the system to 'find' these partitions? 

Is it possible that using DiskSalv I have managed 

to mess things up good and proper? 

And finally, yes I will be making regular backups 

in the future, especially as I can fit my 

120Mb hard drive onto one EL-Drive cartage. 

Let this be a lesson to the 'I can't be bothered, 

I haven't got the time, it won't happen 

to me, I'll do it tomorrow' brigade. Be bothered, 

make the time, it will happen to you 

and tomorrow never comes. It is always too 

late! 

S Ma/lion, East Sussex 

Q 

am a computer programmer who is relatively 

new to the Amiga computer. My 

brother gave me his old ,Amiga when he 

bought himself a new one, and I have 

...I found a lot of things I like about the Amiga 

compared with the PCs I use every day at my work. 

My Amiga is an A500 with a 120Mb hard drive and 

9Mb of Ram. I would like to develop software for the 

Amiga but I find the manuals I have dry, boring and 

difficult to read and understand. AJso, they do not 

really address the question I have about the Amiga. 

As I find you do a pretty good job of explaining the 

Amiga to those who write to you, I am listing the 

questions I have: 

1. Why don't most Amigas use SVGA monitors with 

none-interlaced screens? 

2. What is a DMA? 

3, Why can the Amiga multi-task while a PC cannot? 

4. What is it that allows the Amiga to have such 

terrific handling of bitmap colours when compared to 

a PC? I have to work on PCs at work and I find that if 

I look at a bitmap image close up, colours like orange 

are just a bunch of red and yellow dots, whereas on 

my Amiga, orange is orange with a nearly infinite 

number of shades and hues. 

There is nothing worse than 

I accidentally formatting your 

hard drive. On the whole, 

/ DiskSalv does a good job of 

recovering deleted files, and 

there are two approaches to using it in your 

situation: 

You can use DiskSahls unformat function. 

This will try to resurrect your hard 

drive in its original state with all your files 

where they were to begin with. 

Unfortunately, it has the best chance of success 

if you have not used the hard drive 

since the format, as any writes to it would 

have disturbed the original files and 

DiskSalv will not be able to do as good a 

job. 

The second way is to use the undelete 

function. This will scan the 

formatted partition and 

make a note of every file 

header it finds. You can 

then choose which files 

you want DiskSalv to try 

and recover. I would think 

this last option would be 

your best bet, as you will 

be able to try and 

undelete as many files as 

you can from your hard 

drive onto your El drive. 

Other than this there is 

not much left you can do. 

I suppose the main reason 

that people don't 

bother properly backing 

up their hard drives is laziness. 

The first time you 

back-up your entire hard 

drive can take a good 

while, even for a small-ish 

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around at all. As the Amiga multi-tasks 

you can have you back-up program run• 

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ground while you get on and do something 

else. Also, if you have a large program 

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sound cards of the PC? What . would that do to the 

colours the Amiga displays now? 2 

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different method of 

writing to floppy disks than PCs? D What is the possibility 

that the new Amigas will use 9 the new floppy drives 

developed by 3M that can pack C 120Mb of data on 

their 3.5 floppies? 

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8. The Workbench looks so plain with all the drawers 

the same and everything different shades of grey. 

I am used to having lots of colour and many different 

icons on the PC, and I would like to change the 

colour scheme and icons on the Workbench. Is there 

anything out there that would help me do that? 

Ken Haigh, St. Jacob USA 

\o- 1 . Well, for any AGA Amiga or big box 

Amiga with a graphics card, there is 

no real reason why they cannot use 

an SVGA monitor and high resolution 

none-interlaced screens. Traditionally, however. 

the Amiga main display has been either PAL or 

NTSC, which are the standard TV displays used in 

Europe, America, Japan and Australia. Because of 

this, most Amiga software is geared towards 

these display modes and there is no real incentive 

for people to use VGA monitors. 

2. DMA refers to the ability of a device or chip to 

access the computer's memory independently of 

the processor, and stands for Direct Memory 

Access. A device that can perform DMA has the 

advantage of freeing up processor time, but there 

is the possible problem that it can stop the 

processor from accessing memory. One thing that 

made the Amiga special when it originally came 

out was that all its custom chips could perform 

DMA, and so work independently of the processor. 

3. The Amiga can multi-task due to its operating 

system. When ever you run a program, the operating 

system add this to its list of all programs 

running, and when it asks for processor time, the 

operating system will 'share out' the total processor 

time between all the programs that request it 

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I have recently purchased a Commodore IP3300 colour printer to 

go with my Amiga 600. However, I do not know which printer driver 

to use when using Wordworth v1.2, as there isn't one listed for 

j this model and any I have tried result in the printer going berserk/ 

Could you please help? 

D Burdey, County Durham 

I suppose you could be excused from thinking a Commodore 

printer would work with an ex-Commodore product, but 

you should never really buy any hardware unless you 

know you have the correct software to use it 

The worst offenders for this type of thing are printers. 

Unless you know you have a correct printer driver, the 

chances are the printer is not going to work. And if it is not one of the 

well known makes, you are asking for trouble. 

As for getting the printer to work, I have to say things do not look too 

hopeful. Most printers come with Epson compatibility, which may allow 

you to print out using black and white output and grey scale graphics. 

But unless you can get a specific printer driver you will not be able to use 

the colour side of the printer at all. Sorry. 

MO FONTS 

I have an Amiga 600 with an extra 1Mb of 

) Epson FX-100 printer. My problem is not 

m1 

being able to use the fonts. I can display 

e and use them on-screen, but cannot get 

any to print out other than the default type. 

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I have installed the printer as per the book and 

that appears 

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to be satisfactory. Using Shell I can display 

rany 

font I want by typing 'setfont name size 

prop'. yThis 

then displays the named font. If I then 

type , 'copy * to Ft followed by a message, this only 

copies p to the printer in Topaz. 

What l am I doing wrong? Also, trying to use 

Fountain, u I get a message 'unable to open 

disklontlibrani s Cricking OK leaves me with no further 

moves a to make. I have a feeling that I should be 

putting n a tool type in somewhere. Or is there some- 

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4. I think 

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you will find any picture displayed on a 

monitor n or TV is made up of tiny red, green and 

blue adots, 

How visible they are depends on what 

is being l displayed, the display itself and the 

screen d resolution. Essentially, the display of the 

PC and r Amiga are the same. 

S. Basically, i all the current Amigas use what is 

known v as a custom chipset This refers to the fact 

that the e display, sound and other parts of the 

Amiga aare 

handled by chips unique to the Amiga. 

When 

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the Amiga originally appeared 10 years ago, 

these chips were what made the Amiga so much 

more 

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powerful than any thing else at that time. 

Because a of this, certain Amiga owners have a 

fanatical n belief that any new Amiga absolutely 

must have a new custom chipset otherwise it is 

not really an Amiga. 

Time moves on and now huge corporations 

have large teams of engineers with huge budgets 

developing graphics and sound cards for the PC. 

Anybody now hoping to develop a new chipset 

would have to compete against these companies. 

Basically, the time and effort required is just not 

worth it. It is far more effective to buy cheap, offthe-shelf 

components and spend your time and 

thing else I should have done? I would appreciate a little 

help and advice. 

C E Bally, Surrey 

You seem to be getting a little confused 

with how the computer handles 

what appears on the screen 

\ and how this data gets to your printer. 

In the Shell it does not matter in 

what font the text appears, as the only data being 

sent to the printer is the ASCII characters you are 

typing. 

Low end printers will generate printouts in two 

ways. One is by using 'built-in' printer fonts. Most 

printers have a couple of sets of printer fonts that 

can be used, but the output you get is still basically 

what a typewriter would give you. 

The other way is by printing a 'bitmap' passed to 

Th. nowicon syste m doe s a much ba tte r job of 

•aloctIng icon colours 

money on developing the system software. 

6. If a new Amiga is developed with an operating 

system that has been designed to have retargetable 

graphics and sound, it could take advantage 

of the standard PC graphics and sound cards. 

This would mean the Amiga could have lightning 

fast 1024 x 760 resolution displays in 24bit. 

Doesn't sound too bad, does it? 

7. The Amiga has a custom disk drive controller 

that allows quite a lot of control over the drive 

read write heads, and is one reason why the 

Amiga can fit 160k more onto a single DO disk 

than a PC disk The problem now is that this con- 

Do you have a problem? Do you sometimes find 

yourself poised over your Amiga with axe in hand, spouting 

profanity at the stubborn refusal of your software or 

hardware to behave in the correct manner? 

Well, calm down and swap the axe for pen 

and paper, jot down your problems, along with 

a description of your Amiga setup, and send it off to 

Amiga Computing Advice Service, IDCI Media, Media 

House, Adlington Park, Macclesfield SKIM 4INP. Alternatively 

you can e-mail us at ACAS@acomp.demon.co.uk 


OL TOBER 1996 

it from the computer. This bitmap has to be generated 

by a program such as Wordworth. This 

takes all the fancy fonts and graphics you have 

laid out and generates the bitmap at the correct 

resolution for your printer. The only way you can 

do what you want is to either use a paint program 

or word processor; the Shell will only ever 

output plain ASCII. 

The problem you are having with Fountain is 

caused because it needs a more recent version 

of the diskfont library that is found in your libs 

drawer. 

If you have Workbench 2.04 or higher you 

should have the correct version. It could be that 

you do not have any version on the disk you are 

using, and in this case you should copy the 

original from your Workbench disk. 

troller chip is very slow - it cannot even use normal 

double-speed HD drives. As a result, it is likely 

that a future Amiga will have a more traditional 

PC-style 1.4Mb HD drive. 

I doubt it would be feasible to use the 3M drives, 

as the only real reason to have a floppy drive 

is to swap data between machines, and as very 

few other computers would have these there 

would be little point. You could actually argue 

that a base Amiga would not even need a floppy 

drive if it had a hard drive and CD-ROM. 

B. The standard, four-colour icon set is rather 

bland to say the least Over the last few years a 

number of different icon sets have popped up trying 

to make the Workbench a bit brighter, but the 

main one that has stuck is Magic Workbench. 

These icons are based on eight colours, tend to 

have a stony look and are favoured by us 

Europeans. 

A more recent alternative has appeared called 

'newicons'. This combines both a new icon set 

design and a new icon system that properly 

remaps the icon colours to your current screen 

display and allows much more colourful icons to 

be used. Personally, I find the icons look a little 

childish, but Americans do seem to prefer them. 

35

36 

haven't yet noticed, Public 

Sector now has a Web presence 

O in a small corner of my own site 

F- 

simply follow the Software link from Amiga 

oComputing's 

homepage. At the Public 

r Sector page you'll find alphabetical lists by 

tcategory 

of every program I've reviewed 

hsince 

I took over the column in Issue 79, e- 

omail 

addresses or links to the Web pages of 

s 

various PD Libraries, and quicklinks to 

Aminet Allnwino vnti to dnwninad the rele- 

e 

vant archives. I'll endeavour to keep the site 

I 

as up-to-date as possible, and constructive 

ncriticism 

is welcomed. 

t For readers who are not connected to the 

eInternet. 

just a reminder not to be dismayed 

rwhen 

programs are listed as available from 

nAminet, 

because most PD libraries will prob- 

eably 

have the programs in stock by the time 

t you read this. If all else fails, don't forget that 

u 

several libraries offer Aminet download ser- 

svices 

too - try Your Choice for instance. 

e 

r 

s 

w 

h 

o 

Dave Cusick once more deliberates, cogitates and indeed digests 

plentiful helpings of PeeDee pie 

E EDITOR 

Programmed by: Lars Malmborg ' Available from: Aminet 

GEditorr so simple ye t so wonde rful 

AMIN 

Let's face it, MEmacs is horrible. Yes, as text 

editors go, it has a few handy features, but 

they are hidden behind a prehistoric front 

end. The program lacks pretty standard features 

like scroll bars, and doesn't even wrap 

lines around - so in fact if a line is too long it 

is impossible to read the end of it. These features 

become particularly annoying if you regularly 

write script files or use MErnacs as the 

default text editor for an attractive and modern 

E-mail program like YAM or Metatool. 

GEditor will therefore be the answer to 

prayers around the Amiga world. It appears in 

a cute little window of its own, allowing it to 

be run on the same screen as the aforementioned 

E-mail programs_ It uses the all-conquering 

Magic User Interface, and in itself it 

uses very little memory owing to its simplicitY- 

Using GEditor you can incorporate an existing 

ASCII file into your document, cut, copy 

and paste text, and save it out again. The resitable 

window has a scrollbar and all text is automabcally 

word-wrapped. That, in a nutshell, is 

it GEditor does everything that is required of it 

and nothing more. Truly indispensable. 

The AGA M a gic 

disk conta ins 

some supe rb 

pieces of fa nta sy 

artwork a nd a ll 

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colours, ma king 

them ide a l tor 

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A GA MAGIC 

Programmed by: Various 

Available from: KEW=Il Software 

Disk No: U1175 

This is a multi-program disk which, unsurprisingly 

given the title, is designed to make AGA 

Workbenches look nicer. It includes the utilities 

MagicCopper and ColorMagic and a 

selection of AGA backdrops. 

The backdrops are all extremely impressive. 

They are all in the region of 724566 pixels, 

but they use just four colours SO they 

shouldn't chew up too much- memory. With 

the theme of fantasy and featuring stunning 

artwork, they are definitely worth investigating 

if Magic Workbench backdrops are starting 

to look a little tired. 

MagicCopper and ColorMagic should 

between them make it possible to have fancy 

rainbow effects going on in the background 

of these AGA pictures, although I must con 

fess I couldn't get things to work exactly as 

they should. Whether or not you can transform 

your Workbench into a technicoloig 

whirl, this disk is still worthy of attention d 

only for those pictures... 

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A RGUE 0 7 

Programmed by: lborsten Stocksmeier The averdge Amiga Workbench these days is a 

Available from: Aminet p r e t t y impressive site. The vast majority of Amiga 

users now employ their trusty machine in various 

'serious activities and so want everything to be as attractive and user-friendly as possible. This 

accounts for the astonishing popularity of Magic User Interface, and the appearance of programs 

like Argue. Argue's sole vocation in life is to take away the need to use the shell at all, replacing 

command lines with nice MUI interfaces tailored to individual CU programs. 

Easily installed and including several example scripts, Argue is indeed extremely pleasant to 

. use and certainly makes the Workbench a friendlier place. 

Alas, however, Argue is not perfect. The principle problem is that using a MUI interface tends 

to be a lot slower than simply entering a command in the shell once you know the command 

syntax. It's a lot quicker to enter "'ha x foo.lha ram:* than to click on the lhaGUI script and select 

the source file and destination directory using standard file selectors - especially if your Shell is 

enhanced by programs such as KingCON (which adds drag and drop support, scrollbars, and 

command- and file-name completion). 

Secondly, users of ultra-helpful Workbench enhancers like ClassAction (which recognises filetypes 

and presents a list of options accordingly) will encounter difficulties using Argue because 

the latter program relies on script files. Besides, since you can configure ClassAction to offer you 

EIHE 

Programmed by: John Clay 

Available from: Fl Licenceware 

Disk no: F1-142 

irMagic shoui When a few months ago in these very pages I 

)le to have lane cast an inquisitive eye over GRAC (the 

the backgroun CRaphic Adventure Creator) I confidently pre- 

.igh I must cot dicted that within a few months Public Sector 

work exactly a would be submerged beneath a deluge of 

: you can Vara graphic adventures. Frankly, it hasn't hapa 

technicoloi pened - indeed, The Experiment is the first 

v of attention I CRAC adventure AC has received since then. 

However, seeing the quality of this effort it 

surprises me even more that more people 

have not tried their hand at creating their own 

Locasfilm-esque epics. 

The Experiment comes on three disks and 

offers a stimulating challenge for anyone 

who thinks games should involve mental 

exertion. You play Bud Lightning, whose 

space base has been attacked by the evil 

Stingons. Bud must piece together the 

events leading up to the attack, and save 

ORLY STORIES 

Programmed by: Paul Riggs 

Available from: PO libraries, or El from 

Paul Riggs 

ORMIMMIREP R E M O 

This is a curious little offering which I felt was 

worthy of a mention despite the author asking 

in his letter whether I considered it worthy 

of review in the Amiga Format public 

domain pages... 

The idea is that the user enters a few 

words and the program then slots these 

words into one of four preset texts to produce 

the titular Silly Stories. Often the results are 

somewhat non-sensical, but just occasionally 

they can be genuinely funny. 

There is an attractive interface too, and all 

your actions are accompanied by wacky 

a primitive tribe from extinction whilst he's 

about it. 

In adventure games the user interface is 

always a critical ingredient. It the interface is 

unwieldy and longwinded then playing the 

game can become something of a chore. 

Fortunately for The Experiment, and perhaps 

unsurprisingly for a game created with GRAC, 

the interface here is neat and intuitive, leaving 

the player to get on with 

enjoying the experience. The 

graphics are nicely drawn too, 

and though the sound is 

rather sparse things 

are atmospheric 

enough to 

remain 

Reminiscent of the 

Lucastilm wa lk), 

pointy a dve nture s, 

The Expe rime nt will 

give fans of the 

genre ple nty to be 

thinking a bout 

• 

• 

4 

4 

4 

, 

-Ai pi 

4 

Our ve ry own silly ne wspa pe r story 

sound effects. Sets of words can even be 

saved to disk for reloading later. However, the 

program would certainty benefit from a few 

extra texts into which those words could be 

inserted. At present the long term appeal is 

somewhat non-existent because you will 

quickly recognise which words tend to be 

••• 

OW hold of this 

gorgeous Argue 

and you ne e d 

never e nte r 

comple x cont. 

mend line s 

egain 

Th. Exporknont shows just wha t ca n be Achie ve d with a little 

ima gina tion a nd a copy ot the GR a phic Adve nture C re a tor 

111111111111101111. 1111111Milool 

Silly Storie s; good 

tun, tor a bout te n 

minutes 


OCTOBER 1996 

various choices, a command-dependant GUI 

becomes somewhat redundant anyway. 

However, if you don't like ClassAction and 

abhor the Shell then Argue is definitely worth 

a look. It is well implemented, easily configurable 

and visually appealing. 

involving. 

The Experiment costs E5.99 and comes 

highly recommended for adventure fans. If 

you're not sure whether or not it will be your 

cup of hot steaming stuff, a demo is also 

available from Fl licenceware or from 

Aminet 

inserted at given points in the text. 

Still, it might cause a few sniggers 

the first time it is run. 

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38 

ISTEN To THE BAND 

EmpLAY v 1 .2 

Programmed by: Alessandro de 

- Christian Buchner 

Available from: Aminet 

ID2MID 

Programmed by: Simone Riccetti 

Available from: Aminet 

Cast your mind back, if you will, to the late 

1980s. The full force of the economic 

recession was still to be felt. House music 

was rampant In the Chaos. the Six O'Clock 

News still used that tacky filing cabinet 

effect on the opening credits, and the Atari 

ST was the most popular home computer 

in England_ Every recording studio in the 

land owned one too, running Notator and 

using MIDI keyboards to produce all sorts 

of tuneful pieces. 

MIDI of course marched on, and we saw 

the introduction of General MIDI. A GM 

synth could be hooked up to a computer 

and any GM file played through the 

sequencer software could be heard with 

the instruments all playing as intended. 

without preconfiguration. 

As things turned out the Amiga never 

really took off as a MIDI computer. The 

Alan ST designers had rather cunningly 

placed MIDI In and Out sockets on the side 

VERYDAY 

Programmed by: Mathew Wilson 

Available from: KEWeill Software 

Disk No: A1119 

1•11111 

1-mEveryday 

Organiser is (says the blurb) a col- 

olection 

of four programs which are designed 

w to help manage day to day activities. They are, 

Mto 

be specific, Locate, Alarmist, On-Time and 

ETasker. 

All the programs use Magic User 

M 

Interface, making them highly configurable 

O 

and visually pleasing. 

I 

Locate is an address and telephone book 

R 

program. It boasts configurable field names, 

wi 

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into a full sca le 

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of the machine, whereas Amtgas have always 

required an external MIDI interface costing 

around twenty pounds. But if you don't happen 

to have an ST sitting collecting dust in a 

corner somewhere, or a MIDI keyboard and 

interface, until now the vast collections of GM 

files available from music companies and on 

the Internet would have been rather an irrelevance, 

(Moldy enables any 68020+ Amiga to 

emulate a GM keyboard. The I .4Mb archive 

includes a large number of sound samples 

which the computer plays back using a special 

14-bit sound driver, On faster Amiga's. 

such as those fitted with an 040 or greater, 

the sound quality is roughly comparable with 

that obtainable from a CD player (sample 

quality permitting, of course). However, even 

on a standard 020 machine, playing back 

MIDI files at around I Okhz, the output quality 

is respectable enough. 

GMplay does place a fair old strain on your 

processor of course, so 020 owners can't really 

be doing anything much in the meanwhile 

without causing the sound to stop every now 

the facility to dial someone's telephone number 

at the press of a button, and support for 

external 'notes" files under entries. ASCII 

files can be imported and addresses can be 

printed out. 

Alarmist is, unsurprisingly, an alarm program, 

featuring multiple alarms. It is really 

designed to be used alongside On-Time, 

although it can be used separately. On-Time 

displays a calendar on screen and for any 

given date, appointments can be entered into 

a small list. Drag and drop support and a well 

thought-out layout make On-Time a pleasure 

to use. 

Finally, Tasker is designed to help keep 

track of all those annoying jobs that need 

doing. Each task is assigned a priority, one of 

five levels ranging from Lowest to Highest. A 

list of tasks to be completed is then displayed 

with the tasks organised into priority order. 

There's also a Chart option which attempts to 

summarise the information in an easily 

digestible visual format, although as the 

author points out this is still in the experimental 

stage at the moment. The author 

eventually hopes to integrate Tasker's functions 

into On-Time, but for now it works as an 

interesting little stand-alone reminder program. 

and then. However even if you don't have 

a fast processor in your machine, GMplayii 

highly recommended because it opens uc 

a world which hitherto required vast 

amounts of expensive equipment to 

explore fully_ 

On the other hand, if you do have a 

MIDI setup involving your Amiga, but you 

do not have the large amounts of cash 

required to replace a standard MIDI key. 

board with a GM compatible one. Mid2Mid 

offers a solution. This is a command line 

program which strips out GM instrument 

changes and replaces them with ones 

appropriate to your MIDI synth, saving you 

the time and effort which would be 

involved in doing this manually. Mid2Mid 

needs to be configured to your keyboard 

using a simple program included in the 

archive, but once this is achieved, lair 

numbers of files can be converted quickly 

and easily. 

Mid2Mid does have some limitations 

however_ Firstly, it only converts MIDI format 

1 files Whilst these are probably the 

commonest files around there are also format 

0 files out there, and unfortunateh 

you won't be able to use Mici2Mid to 

quickly configure them for your keyboard 

Secondly at the moment there's no Mote 

GUI, although one is promised for the 

future and the command syntax is scarceh 

complicated. In the end then, Mid2Mid 

offers a simple but practical solution to a 

common problem. and as such will appeal 

to many MIDI users. 

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Also included on the disk are a few eta gameplai 

utility programs. The first of these is the col demandi 

pletely useless but highly comical Talk, , weak ITIC 

replacement for the pathetic Say program thr Althot 

used to come with Workbench, which garble sound ar 

in an equally incomprehensible manner. The w 

ill is also wea a MI Time Preferences program t ly, this is 

, replace the standard version, a file encrypts 

called Coder, and a datatype-based soot pI ing ayed t l 

player called Sam. 

Whilst the extra utilities vary drastically t 

usefulness, the organisational programs areal for e E1,10 

well done and the net result is a useful dif r 

which will appeal to anyone who needs a It, a 

tle help keeping track of their business e, s 

social lives. 

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Illeffectively 

Programmed by: David Papworth 

Available from: F1 licenceware 

Disk No: FI-141 

Tetris remains a classic, but in the falling blobs genre 

it no longer rains supreme, at least in my eyes. For 

some time that mantle has been held by a 

MegaDrive cartridge called Doctor Robotnik's Mean 

Bean Machine, which I confess I've spent many an 

hour playing in my time. Tetris has one flaw, in that 

it never had a multiplayer mode. Mean Bean 

Machine, on the other hand, pits you either against 

the computer directly or, far more entertainingly, 

against a friend. 

Mall brings Mean Bean Machine to the Amiga. 

Apart from a couple of presentational differences, it's 

a carbon copy of that superb cartridge. The screen is 

divided into two Tetris-like wells. Pairs of coloured 

P 

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Programmed by: Matthew Cutts 

Available from: Matthew Cutts 

An interesting little game which could fill in a 

few dull moments here and there, Splat is 

described by its author as involving - 

flies, mouse and a tlot hof efinger 

abuse. The objective 

is simply to annihilate flies 

before they deplete your energy 

level. You control an on-screen 

hand with your mouse and the 

gameplay, whilst mentally scarcely 

demanding, is not for those with a 

weak mouse. 

Although the graphics and 

sound are scarcely stunning, and it 

will wear a little thin rather rapidly, 

this is a diverting enough offering 

in the short term. It is best 

played on an Al200 because otherwise 

things can be a little less 

than frenetic. Copies are available 

for ELIO from the author. 

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beans fall downwards, with one flashing bean 

around which the other bean can be rotated. Your 

job is to collect together groups of four beans of the 

same colour, whereupon the group will vanish. 

Whenever a group vanishes, a black bean falls down 

the opponents well, The more groups of four van. 

ish as part of the same move (for instance when 

beans fall from above to form groups after a lower 

group has vanished), the more black beans are 

deposited at once onto the opponent's pile. Black 

beans do not disappear 

when four or more are 

together, only when 

they are adjacent to a 

vanishing group of four 

colours. One player wins 

when the opponent's 

well fills up completely. 

If all this sounds confusing 

(and no doubt it 

does), then rest assured 

that it all makes for one of the 

most engaging strategy puzzle 

games around. it is a truly magnificent game to play 

with friends. On top of the hugely enjoyable two 

player mode there is a tournament option whereby 

up to eight people can participate. There are also 

demonstration and practice modes, three difficulty 

tAttart Game 

1- 

LITTLE BIT YOU 

rt 

I want to hear from you if you have any program, whatever its purpose, which you con- 

or licenceware, if you feel it's of sufficient quality to merit coverage then sad it in a 

jiffy bag or padded envelope and send it in with 

i 

all haste. Although Public Sector 

receives too many submissions to cover them all, I promise ill at least look at your 

work - even if it's yet another Lottery program of Ktondike cardset. It does make my 

job a lot easier though if disks are clearly labelled- Please also include a cover letter 

detailing the disk contents and peke, and giving rsome bask instructions. The magic 

address is: 

sider worthy of review. Whether it wilt be freely distributable public domain, sflayeware 

Dave Cusick.: PD submissions, Amiga Computing, Media HoktSe, 

Adlington Park, Macclesfield, SKID 4NP 

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levels, configurable bean speed and 

starting heights, and a wealth of other 

options. The graphics are superbly slick 

and faithful to the original, with the 

beans looking at one another and 

wobbling entertainingly as they land. 

The music is passable too, and every 

now and then the tempo increases as 

levels reach their climax. 

Outfall is a Licenceware classic, there's no doubt 

about it For 0_99 it would be a foolish individual 

who did not add this to their games collection. In a 

word._ essential. 

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Apollo accelerators 

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irst Power released their Falcon 

040/060 accelerator, then 

Bfitzard in their uncompromising 

style brought out an 060-only 

board and now Apollo have caught up with 

the rest of the field and released their own 

Apollo have taken the same route as the 

Falcon board and gone for a single board 

design, taking advantage of the fact that both 

the 040 and 060 have the same pin layout 

The only difference is the 060 only draws 3.3 

Fitting the 040 version of the board is as 

straightforward as any other Al200 board. If 

you read the Falcon review you would know 

that to fit it you had to open up your Al200 to 

fit a fan. The high power demands of the 040 

processor means it requires extra cooling 

either by using a large heat sync or a fan. 

The Apollo 040 version's solution is to use 

both a small heat sync and a tiny electric fan, 

all glued to the processor and so the unit just 

slots into your Al200 the same as any other 

board. The fan used is very small - a couple of 

centimetres across - but in use the 040 stays 

quiet cool and the fan in conjunction with the 

heat sync does a good job. 

Once slotted in, away you go. The only 

extra thing you may need is the 68040 library. 

This should come with Workbench as standard 

but this may not always be the case. The 

library has replacement routines, mainly to do 

with the 040 math co-processor being slightly 

different from the traditional 030's. 

'jd s41 


OCTOBER /996 

In use the 040 works fine - the one problem 

I did run into was due to lack of power. 

On my Al200 1 have an internal 3.5in IDE 

drive powered off the internal disk drive's 

power supply. This along with the 40Mhz 040 

was just too much for the standard Al200 

power supply. When I switched to a 2.5in 

internal hard drive everything work fine, but if 

you are considering this board this is something 

you should keep in mind. 

Fitting the 060 version is a little more 

involved as before you can start you need to 

install some replacement libraries. Just as the 

040 needs the new 66040.1ibrary the 060 

needs a new library to take care of the differences. 

The new files consist of a replacement 

either B 

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040 library and a new 060 library. 

With the Blizzard board you get quiet a nice 

Installer script that make installing these files 

a breeze. The disk that comes with the Apolo 

does have a AmigaDOS script installer that 

works but is nowhere near as easy to use as 

the normal Amiga installer. 

Along with the new library files you gl-• 7 Irh 

couple of support files. The main prograr 

importance is CPU60 - a supplement for • -RI 

2 

original CPU command and gives you cci A254 

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-over the 060's new system features such .i• • r= 

branch prediction cache, super scalar archirt nE01 

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either B or W, let you quickly set the 060 to be 

either in its worst possible setup or its best. 

Once the software is in place you can fit the 

board and fire up your computer, As the 060 

only draws 3.3 volts you do not have any of 

the power or heating problems associated 

with the 040 even though it is running at 

50Mhz. Due to both boards having the same 

design, a power converter is plugged into the 

board to reduce the voltage, It is not as elegant 

as the Blizzard 060 board but in use it 

works as well. 

There is still the problem with programs 

that use a lot of floating point and to a greater 

extent transcendental maths operations. 

Unfortunately the sort of people who would 

want to buy the 060 accelerator are going to 

be those who would lose out the most 

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where normally the 060 returns speeds three 

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there is a large plug-in chip opposite the 

Simm socket. This means if your Simm is 

much wider than about 22mm you are going 

to have trouble slotting the Simm into place. 

Really this should not be a problem as long as 

the Simm is relatively new as these tend to be 

very streamline. 

The other thing you should consider is that 

the speed of the memory is getting quiet 

important with these extra fast processors. 

Even though 7Ons and even 8Ons Simms will 

work fine you will be best off with 6Ons 

Simms. 

Just as with the Flacon and the Blizzard, the 

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to the underside. This has a set of pins that 

push into an expansion slot and the cable and 

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42 

it is many things to many different 

people. To some a postmodernist 

sculpture is a conceptualist's 

masterpiece, symbolic 

of a world at conflict. To others it's a bunch 

of rusty fin cans. 

So who is right? Does modern art bare 

comparison with the work of old masters 

like Rembrandt, Titian and Turner? Are the 

likes of Damien Hirst redressing the way that 

we perceive art itself? 

As the art elite grow to tolerate more 

bizarre pieces of work, they also begin to 

accept the different means being used to 

create these masterpieces. As new technology 

emerges, it is embraced by forward thinking 

artists as a medium in which they can 

express themselves. This is particularly true 

of computer art, and with its growing popularity 

in the art world, the boundaries that 

were once so wide between computer art 

and more traditional art are narrowing. 

Tony Patrickson is an artist He trained in 

drawing and sculpture but became intrigued 

by computer art. 

He comments, "In many cases where 

there has been opposition or hostility to 

computer-based work from more traditional 

concerns, it seems to have been based on a 

heady mixture of prejudice and lack of 

knowledge. The most dismissive and out-oftouch 

voices seem to be those of certain art 

critics and the usual suspects who like to 

decide for other people about these things". 

He continued, "In contrast there seems a 

genuine curiosity in both artists and audiences 

about what is going on and what it is 

possible to achieve through theSe 

-has 

to be said that most of the negative 

means. arguments trotted I t out were those already 

rehearsed over the use of video or photography". 

Rick Kise also uses the computer for his 

artwork. "I can't say there is 'versus' between 

traditional art and computer art Fine artists 

define themselves as 'oil', 'watercolour', 'pastel' 

and 'graphic' artists, and now there is a 

new classification, 'electronic' artist. It just 

happens to be another medium to work 

with. As to the style of art,. ie abstract or realistic, 

you most definitely have a versus situation, 

one that can never be reconciled." 

To Patrickson, the biggest disadvantage 

shared by computer art and traditional, is 

when a distinction is set up between them. 

He remarks, "To my mind, using computers 

to make art is simply the continuation of 

something which human beings have felt 

compelled to do for at least the last 30,000 

AmIGA COMPUTING 

OC1OBER 1.99•6 

years". 

Okay, but both methods do have advantages 

and disadvantages, and as those who 

practise computer art will tell you, one of the 

main advantages of working on the computer 

is its flexibility. 

Kise comments, "The greatest advantage 

of art on the computer as I see it is the ability 

to experiment without the fear of destroying 

your art. Take a realistic scene and 

change the colours, distort shapes, apply textures 

etc. If it doesn't look good to you, hit 

'undo' and you're back to the start. One original 

artwork saved in the computer translates 

to many new styles and 'new' artworks". 

TiONY PATRICKSON 

"The sort of work I do depends to a large 

extent on the venue or situation in which 

it is going to be exhibited. These have 

ranged from raves, art galleries and live 

events, to CD-ROM and at present a couple 

of Internet-based projects" 

Amiga hardware and software used: 

'The Amiga side of my studio is based 

around an A4000, boosted with a 

Cyberstorm '060 accelerator and 14Mb 

RAM. In terms of day-to-day work, for 

video grabs I use a Vidi-Amiga 24, either 

from tape Or live input from a camera. 

lightwave 3.5 would probably be my 

most widely used item of software. 

"A lot of preparatory work is done with 

a mixture of ADPro and ImageFX, any 

Andrew Powell is an animator and uses 

the Amiga in his work. He shares this view 

'Paper and pencil may not have an 'undo' 

button, but they're quicker to get your Idea 

down. However, computers allow artists to 

get basically instant results and easy effects 

as opposed to the large amount of skA 

required for fine arts. After I have a bunch of 

line drawings loaded into memory, I can 

make the cell painting job as simple as 'clickand-next-frame'. 

And with still art, high-lights 

and low-lights can be flawlessly added using 

a gradient fill." 

Patrickson again: "I don't believe the differences 

between computer-based and tradi- 

batch-processing being handled by FRED. 

Nowadays I tend to rely primarily upon 

the Amiga side for producing the raw 

materials for a project. To take things further, 

particularly for more sophisticated 

multimedia work, means porting material 

across to the Mac to be able to use the 

likes of Photoshop. Premiere, and 

Director. 

'Having Lightwave on the Amiga is fine 

- it's a wonderful tool - but beyond a certain 

point the software and compatibility 

just isn't there for dealing with projects for 

the likes of the World Wide Web and so 

on." 

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tional means of making art are anything 

compared to the similarities. The big distinctions 

occur in terms of the nature and 

extents of techniques involved. In many 

cases it is just as valid (or sometimes better) 

to address a particular question with a video 

camera or a piece of chalk as it is with a 

computer. Where I think computers are dif• 

ferent is in their 'synthetic' nature - being 

based on Turing's idea of the 'Universal com• 

puting machine. With the technology I have 

in my studio I can not just work with photographic 

images, but with sound, clips of 

video, animations and words, either individualy 

or in combination with each other. As 

ICK KISE 

"My style of art is. I would have to say, 

eclectic_ From landscapes to non-objective 

abstract. In 1989 I bought a used 

Amiga 1000 for the purpose of scanning 

photos of my original paintings and drawings 

so I could print my own art prints. In 

1990-91 I was the only one exhibiting 

computer art prints in the Oklahoma City 

area art shows. 

,••• 

- Amiga hardware and software used: 

1 sold my A1000 in '93 after I bought my 

A3000. As an ex-Commodore stock holder 

I'm sad to say that since December '93 

all my commercial work has been done 

on a PC. The A3000 gets used periodically, 

transferring my Amiga paintings to the 

PC, where I convert them to 24 bit and 

repaint them in Adobe Pholoshor 

well as this, it is practical to create things 

which either don't, or couldn't exist in the 

real world:" 

Doran Golan also sees the advantage of 

computer art: "After many years of showing 

work as an expressionist painter, I began 

using the computer in my art in 1984. To 

work on the computer was a natural step in 

the progression of my work, because with 

the computer I could explore a realm of 'Pure 

Abstraction'. To me, the work I create on the 

computer is literally abstract, because it 

'does not exist' as an object in the conventional 

sense as I am working on it. 

In a time of rapid changes in the world, 

the computer seems more suited to express 

the flow of thought and emotion than the 

more static medium of painting. As an analogue 

of the human mind, the computer 

facilitates change and flow, and reflects the 

speeded up tempo of the contemporary 

social environment." 

However, even in the computer art sector, 

there are divisions in audience_ Patrickson 

defines thern as an arts audience and a computer 

user audience: "An arts audience is 

more likely to focus on what the work is 

about. regardless of how little the work has 

pushed the technology out of the ordinary. 

Conversely, a computer user audience can 

too readily succumb to the 'Gee-Whizz' factor 

- that it doesn't matter how dire the work is 

as long as the special effects are okay." 

This, it seems, is the pitfall the electronic 

artist must be wary of • computer art can be 

treated like a gimmick, a special effects novelty 

that becomes outdated as the technology 

becomes passe_ When we first saw 

William Latham's organic artwork in the 

early 90s, for example, most people were 

impressed. Now some believe his work 

was a gimmick that has lost its charm. 

Computer-generated art has yet to pass 

the test of time. 

There is no doubt, however, that 

the computer will be increasingly 

adopted by the serious art establishment. 

Hi-tech special effects for 

their own sake will be shunned, but 

the advantages raised by the electronic 

process are bound to 


OCTOBER 1996 

appeal to a new generation of talented 

artists. 

Ultimately, the key to the computer artist's 

success will be based on long-established 

principles. Like the best artists, the electronic 

painter will focus on the art itself for, as 

John Ruskin, the English art and social critic, 

said, "Fine art is that in which the hand, the 

head and the heart of man go together". 

43

44 

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'My biggest current project is a fully animated feature called 

'Magic'. This film will be a comedy medieval fantasy, with 

overtones of some of my favourite authors, like Terry 

Pratchett, JRR Tolkien, and Monty Python. The story is mostly 

serious, but also has scenes where we just HAD to have a little 

fun. 

*Co-author of the script, and personal friend of mine, Bob 

Milne, came up with a scene where the main characters 

encounter a troop of Vikings on a portage. 

What I'd REALLY like to do is get Terry Pratchett's perrnission 

to work on a cartoon version of his Disc World novels. 

That would really sell!' 

Amiga hardware and software used: use Disney 

Animation Studio for Pencil Test animation, Deluxe Paint 5, 

Brilliance 2.0, Photogenics 1.25 NTSC for clean-up and 

colourisation, and MainActor Pro for final production and 

editing. 

'I know Disney Animation Studio is getting more than a little 

obsolete these days, but it is totally geared for animators 

who recognise the tools it offers. I use it to get the line animation 

done, and then I can move my work to a more 

advanced program. 

"DPaint and Brilliance have always been the most popular 

packages, but Photogenics is a total MUST-HAVE for serious 

artists. For Hardware I use a Tabby Graphics Tablet and the 

trusty GVP G-Lock genlock. Both are great because of their 

affordabilibi, 

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The Amiga is an excellent creative platform and many 

famous artists have benefited from the machine. 

Arguably the most famous was Andy Warhol, who 

1111 

once commented, "The thing I like most about doing 

this kind of art on the Amiga is that it looks like my 

work". Others include Dave Gibbons, the man behind 

1the 

Watchmen comics, and the Aardman Animations 

team. Andrew Powell offers his views on why he 

11 thinks the Amiga has a winning formula: 

"The bottom line would be the price of equipment 

and ease of use. I would need to use a Pentium 130 

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with an Mpeg board and 100 Mb of RAM to get the 

same results I get with my A4000/040 with 113 Mb 

RAM. The fact that the Amiga is so geared for video 

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makes it the most cost effective choice amongst all the 

machines out there. It's also a whole production stu- 

111 dio in-a-box, where I can get 66 Frames Per Second 

(NTSC video) in two to 256 colours on-screen, in High- 

Resolution. 

- Can you give us an idea of how the Amiga helps 

your work? 

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OCTOBER 199c 

OOLS OF THE TRADE 

For a budding artist there are many options 

available for the Amiga which will help you 

achieve your desired effect. These vary 

from the basic paint packages to rendering 

and animation. There are plenty available 

of good quality, but your choice will 

depend on what you want to do with it. 

TVPaint has always proved very popular as 

a professional option, and with a Wacom 

graphics tablet you have an excellent art 

environment in which to produce your 

masterpieces. 

Although expensive in price, the latest 

version, 3.0, proves a desirable option for 

the serious computer user because of the 

many features it offers. These include the 

Big Edit option, which is invaluable to commercial 

artists as it takes away the problem 

of resolution demanding huge amounts of 

memory. This works by defining the size of 

the project, then selecting a scaled area to 

work on. Another aspect which impressed 

was the layers function, which lets you 

view multiple 24-bit images on the same 

1screen whilst still being able to edit them 

independently. You can view layers A, B, or 

C, work on them and view them together. 

TV Paint does require a graphics card to 

work, though. 

One of the older but still superior 

options is Deluxe Paint. It is now up to version 

five and has still kept up with the best 

of them. Deluxe Paint offers the user the 

ability to create pictures and animate. On 

the pictures side it offers realism in that the 

media you wish to paint on can be chosen 

from various oil canvasses to wire mesh. 

The brush types, however, are limited to 

watercolour, felt tip, oil and chalk, For 

Deluxe Paint 5, the airbrush feature was 

completely overhauled and the animation 

option improved to allow you to enter your 

key animation frame at both the beginning 

"I mainly use paper and pencil to get most of the character 

animation done in rough. Let's face it, sketching 

with a pencil and paper is a LOT quicker that trying to 

do the same thing with a mouse or a graphics tablet, 

When the drawings are done, I can scan them using a 

flat-bed scanner, and use the computer for the final 

line and adding colour. 

'Doing animation the traditional way requires 

reams of paper, coloured pencils and acetate sheets, 

not to mention a peg-bar, hi-8 camera, lights, film.. I 

could go on... Really! 

'The Amiga takes the place of some of the really 

expensive stuff and lets me get on with my work without 

totally blowing my budget. Plus, it speeds up the 

process so much that I can do the jobs that would normally 

require three or four other maniacs working 

alongside me. 

"And lets face it, using the Amiga to do artwork is 

actually fun and enjoyable. It's a medium that 

allows an artist to make sharing their work as easy 

as copying a file or dicking a link." 

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and end points of your sequence. .. 

Brilliance 2 is also worth mentioning. 

difficult to get hold of these days, but if 

faster than DPaint and has a proper 24version 

with fast HAM-8 display. 

Almathera's Photogenics is also a hi 

regarded product which provides both 

painting package and image process 

Version two, complete with an overhati 

and new features, was released only 

month. Almathera decided to put this sec 

ond version on CD, making installation ve 

quick and also allowing more room 

example files and a tutorial. To paint it 

Photogenics, you work on an invisible la 

sort of like a protective film over your a 

inal image. This means you can draw Mai 

to your hearts content, and if you're not 

happy with it, you can wipe it without da 

aging the original image. Version two a 

provides plug-ins called Effects, whicli 

allow you to apply an effect in three different 

ways rather than just being able to add 

it to the paint layer. It also has a virtual 

image function which allows you to cut o 

an area of the larger picture and paint on 

separately. 

Image FX has been mentioned in this 

article previously - for many artists, along 

with ADPro, it is the essential image 

processor for the Amiga. Image AC it stil 

being developed for the Amiga and has 

recently received a major new update 

Version 2.6 has many new features, including 

a fire generator, bubble effects and a 

film grain facility. 

If you're feeling inspired after all this, 

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up all 

over the place. They set up over night with little 

more than the original Maxs config of 

crude ANSI screens and the distinct taste synonymous 

with poor quality BBSs. There are 

so many that good Max boards are overshadowed 

and tend to get caught up in the same 

image. Max lacks the power of BBS software 

you pay for on the market nowadays, kind of 

like using Deluxe Paint 2 with Brilliance 2 and 

its power, extras and more polished look, 

should you take to pixel art. 

But what better way to try the waters of 

comms than via a free Public Domain, easyto-use, 

all-in-one package. I'm going to show 

you what's possible with this program and 

the tricks up its sleeve that give a polish, making 

all the difference as to whether new users 

call back. 

After a few months, if you like what being 

a Sysop is all about, you might consider 

upgrading by buying one of the newer BBS 

systems available like Zeus and Xenolink. Or 

you may stick with Max's, A Sysop can make 

his BBS a permanent agenda on his HD, 

going 24 hours, but finds Max's still offers all 

he requires. 

MAX CONFUSION 

Though one of the most easy-to-use BBS systems, 

some parts of Max's and how they link 

together can confuse;; the general under 

standing of how it works taking time to sink 

in. You might well end up reading the manu 

al through by the end of it, but dipping in at 

random is probably how you'll begin. 

Before getting stuck into the secrets and 

ways of improvement behind Max's, we'll 

make sure we're together. We'll assume you 

have a modem, a hard drive, and have experienced 

the comms scene long enough to be 

past the teething troubles of downloading 

files and logging on to BBSs. 

Max's BBS version 1.54 is available to 

download on plenty of BBSs. The 1.54 archive 

is largely to be found containing just the master 

program and none of the manuals and 

assorted bits necessary to go into your BBS 

directory. If this is the case, use. the search 

files option on a B85 to track down version 

1.52 - usually the archive you'll find 

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Thousands of HD files, extensive mail network support, 

multiple on-line CD-ROMs, a 24 hour BBS and preferably 

an extra node is what a user wants from his local 

board when he's after the works to pick and choose 

from. Boards offering much less ore still used, usually 

when it's the only local one or when he gets along with 

the Sysop. 

This, above all, helps in creating a professional B85, 

along with upgrading by buying better software more 

capable of handling the system of mail nets and so on 

you may wish to offer the user. In the end, anyone can 

save up and buy and work on setting up these things, but 

what about a BBS that stands out? It's all in the ANSI. 

Polished, well designed ANSI will set your BBS out 

from the rest - like reading a well presented fact sheet 

Want to be a Sysop? 

Then let us begin. 

Jason Jordache 

'takes you through 

containing everything you need. 

The 1.52 archive of Max's should come 

equipped with a startup-sequence and all the 

drawers necessary for booting from floppy. 

There have been Max's boards run from floppy, 

complete with limited mail network ability 

and a few files in the external drive. A hard 

drive makes sense with a BBS, and not just to 

avoid people feeling sorry for you. With the 


OCTOBER 1 

996 . 

The BPS directory 

on your hard drive 

won't be the 

same, but similar 

with thousands spent on graphic designers compared to 

the original text scribbled on bits of paper. The image, 

how the information looks in its presentation, decides 

the first and continuing impression. If you don't feel 

artistic you need to track down ANSI. To help with this 

there will be fresh ANSI screens - to add to and replace 

the old - that I created for my own BBS for you to build 

upon. 

One night wondered what could be done to make a 

BBS different. Mine evolved into a novelty approach 

based around a medieval castle, Knights and wenches, 

which most appeared to take to instantly. That explains 

the nature of the ANSI you'll find on future coverdisks 

and lets you in on the secret of one potential path to 

success using the themed approach. 

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Part 1 

LL ABOUT 

MAX 

Long ago, everyone was hooked into a 

mail network called MaxNet, built around 

a gathering of Max's BBS Sysops spanning 

all the way - via a link - to Australia. The 

people loved Max and were demanding 

updates. They didn't even mind paying for 

the pleasure. Apparently some guy down 

under had taken over updating Max's 

from the original programmer, Anthony 

Barrett, but the rumour goes that his hard 

drive crashed and all the work for Max's 

was lost. 

The project was never restarted, if 

indeed it began. As far as I know, Max's 

will stay in its current form, the 1994 version 

1.54. I came in at 1.52 where we 

stayed for a while before 1.53 came 

along. This was quickly backed up with 

the release of 1.54, which had a back 

door removed that had been originally 

coded in and known only by Anthony. But 

it's gone now. No system is completely* ft 

safe of course - a hacker finds his way 

into the most well protected area, back 

door or no back door, but there's no greati t 

cause for worry as far as hackers are concerned. 

You never hear reports of hacked 

Max's boards, and Sysops sleep sound at 

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HD, what amounts to a respectable mail and 

file storage area is offered to users, and the 

longer redraw times of ANSI screens and addon 

programs loading from floppy become 

minimal. 

Alternatively, call the PD library 17 Bit 

Software on 01924 366982 to get the latest 

version of Max's, making sure it comes with 

all the files you will need. 

If the 1.52 archive has files all over the 

place, bung them all into one main directory 

called BBS on your HD so you know 

everything is in there. Any files (like FF) in 

Max's C, Devs, L. Fonts and Libs not present 

on the HD partition you boot from, can be 

copied into the relevant drawers-ion the 

boot partition. 

Copy the main "MAXsBBS" program from 

the 1.54 archive into the BBS dir, thus over 

the top of the old Max's program. However, 

the update needs to be converted to use 

the old 1.52 files, There's an archive you 

should find in the Max's support file area on 

BBSs, often named ConAllizx. Containing, 

among others, MAX5Con52-54, it converts 

between data files from established Max's 

versions, so even if you've adjusted an old 

Max's config, it can be revamped to be compatible 

with 1_54. 

Simply run MAXsCon52-54, move to your 

BBS directory and select MAXsBBS.Config 

before clicking the Convert button. It then 

goes through all the data files, changing 

only their headers. Therefore any config 

changes you've saved using an older ver. 

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The last 12 releases of Aminet have, understandably, 

contributed to it becoming one of 

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users who haven't got Internet access have to 

sit back and wait for the next CD so they can 

get their hands on the latest programs. 

Amine( 12, features all the latest uploads 

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In my opinion, version 5 was the release I 

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So what more can I possibly say? With all 

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process involved. 

As far as Utility CDs go, this is pretty much 

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The Index CD by EM Computergraphic is 

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index. It will help you find pictures of a particular 

type without having to desperately 

search from CD to CD just for one picture. 

Here at Amiga Computing, this problem 

arises far too many times. When we need a 

picture to accompany an article, nobody 

knows where to start or which CD to start 

with. In an ideal situation, the Index CD 

should be the perfect solution, but it isn't 

Firstly, the Index CD contains thumbnail 

screens of each director/ from each CD. The 

variety of CDs stretches from Aminet 3-7 to 

specific picture CDs such as Gtx Sensation, 

World of Clipart, Gifs Galore and Cif Galaxy. 

Some of the CDs are based on the PC too, so 

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confused, you don't actually get all these CDs 

for the price. You're already supposed to 

have them in your collection — I'd just like to 

clear that up! 

The problems I came across when using it 

were, firstly, that we only had a couple of 

Aminet CDs left in my bottom drawer, which 

meant it could only search two, so the Index 

CD seemed a bit pointless. Secondly, EMC 

stresses how quickly it is to search through all 

these CDs to find the picture you require, but 

it doesn't even include a search engine, which 

would have been invaluable. I understand 

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which feature a number of artists in alphabetical 

order. In total, there are a whopping 

18000 mods, which works out at nearly 1000 

hours of music, but that's not all. There's also 

25Mb of modules, players, converters and 

utilities to enable you to hear every single one. 

There's only one thought which crosses my 

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Before I get into the html of tables, let's take 

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tag sets many preferences for our 

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(body IncotoreSOODOW Ititelffifff' 

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and Offtff is white. Starting from the left, 

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activated links are set to white. If you want to 

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colour then replace the bgcolor attribute with 

background="igits/back.gir This works just 

like the src='" attribute in the tag. 

One more useful tag is 'font size=value> 

- the values can be from 1 to 7 with 3 being 

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for the Siamese board and the 

other for the SCSI network. 

The ( first steps in installing the Siamese system 

are done on your Amiga. Now, as both 

your 1Amiga 

and PC will be sharing the same 

monitor, you have to make sure the screen 

mode i your Amiga is using works with your 

current monitor. If you do not hal& the luxury 

of a low•syncing multisync you will have to 

set your , Amiga to run in a VGA-compatible 

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is to act as a software-controlled monitor 

only driver, as this works at the magic 31KHz 

horizontal i scan rate of a VGA monitor. 

switcher, so once it is in your PC you route 

the Amiga's video output - using the supplied 

The Siamese board takes up a single ISA 

board r in your PC As I said earlier its main use 

' 

cable • to the Siamese board. The PC's graphics 

card output is also piped into the Siamese 

board, again with a supplied cable, and finally 

you can plug the monitor into the 15-pin 

connector on the Siamese board, 

If you are not familiar with the innards of a 

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PC (like me), the final part to setting up the 

Siamese board could cause a little confusion. 

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Oktagon 2008 

NCR 810 PCI 

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4091 

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board. You then have to connect the Amiga 

Surf Squirrel 

Adaptec 1541 

A4000T Ti 

controller 

and PC serial ports, again using a supplied 

Adaptec 2940 

cable. The serial cable is used to transmit the 

A3000 controller 

mouse, keyboard and other signal between 

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I came across a problem once I had finished 

fitting the Siamese board and was initially 

testing it. Due to the height limitations 

on ISA boards it was impossible for HiQ to fit 

the three 15-pin monitor connectors. 

Because of this the second video connector 

that takes the PC's video output is a round 

connector, Now, depending on your PC, the 

thick, black, plastic covering may stop the 

connector fitting properly and result in the PC 

video signal not being in sync. If this is the 

case all you have to do is cut four or five millimetres 

of this covering away and all will 

work fine again. 

Once that is done the second half of the 

hardware installation involves setting up the 

SCSI network. In theory this should be a simple 

process. At the most basic level it would 

involve plugging an Amiga SCSI controller to 

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be well. 

In practice, SCSI controllers tend to use the 

SCSI ID number seven, so before you can get 

the SCSI network up and running you need to 

change either the PC or Amiga side's ID number. 

Currently, the two PC SCSI cards that HiQ 

guarantees to work do not allow you to 

change their SCSI ID's, so it is left up to the 

Amiga side to do the compromising. Luckily, 

most Amiga controllers do allow you to 

change their ID numbers either by adjusting 

jumpers on their boards or by using software 

such as the A3000 motherboard controller. 

The only major exception is the Surf 

Squirrel, but to get around tins, HiQ includes 

a replacement Squirrel device driver. 

Basicaly, you drop into the DEVS drawer and 

sets the Squirrel's ID to five. All this palava 

with ID numbers does mean that you will 

only be able to use up to six SCSI devices 

instead of the usual seven, but this shouldn't 

worry anyone apart from the teal psycho SCSI 

users. 

Once the SCSI controllers are set up, you 

next need to decide how you want your SCSI 

devices arranged. If you have a large PC box, 

it would be normal to add hard drives or CD- 

ROMs off the internal PC SCSI controller, but 

if you have a big box Amiga there is nothing 

stopping you from using this instead. For 

externally boxed or removable SCSI devices, 

such as a Zip drive, it is possible to connect 

drives 'in-between the SCSI cards. As long as 

none of the SCSI IDs clash and the end of the 

SCSI chain is correctly terminated there 

should be no real problem. 

So, you have the hardware side of the 

Siamese system all set, but this is not going to 

be of much use without the software to back 

it all up. The Siamese software comes on a 

single PC disk along with the CrossDOS 6 

package, which makes mounting the PC dnyes 

just a matter of pointing and clicking. 

Installation of the Amiga software is handled 

by a normal install script, leaving you 

with the simple task of dragging the SiSys 

program to your WBStartUp drawer. On the 

PC side you need to drag a drawer containing 

the Siamese software to the PC's C drive. By 

then dragging links to the SySis *gram to 

the Start button and Startup drawer, you will 

have easy access to the software on the PC 

side. 

The hub of the Siamese software is the 

main Server program, which passes messages 

between the machines over the serial 

cable for all the services that can be running 

on the Siamese system. The main function is 

to watch out for the user requesting the monitor 

switcher to kick in and switch between 

the two machines. On the PC side this is 

done using an Amiga sizing gadget that 

appears on the tool bar. 

On the Amiga side there are a number of 

ways, including the most visible use of the 

Windows 95 button. You can also use the left 

Amiga C combination, and there is an optional 

ARexx port which has commands to give 

you total control over the PC. So, you can 

switch between the Amiga and PC screens 

and launch PC programs all from a single 

ARexx script. 

Other basic functions provided by the server 

include mouse and keyboard sharing that 

allows you to use the Amiga mouse and keyboard 

while using Windows 95, or if you wish 

use the PC mouse and keyboard while using 

the Amiga. An incredibly useful feature is clipboard 

sharing that allows you to cut and 

paste between machines. Another handy 

function will update the Amiga's internal 

clock to match that of the PC's. This is helpful 

if your Amiga does not have a built-in clock. 

The Siamese software is constantly being 

updated, and new additions include 

MountPC. This puts a new disk icon on your 

Workbench called PC. Opening this allows 

you to access all the drives mounted on the 

PC side of things, including floppy and CD drives. 

As this works over the serial lead it is 

nowhere near as fast as the SCSI network, but 

at least you have simple access to the normal 

PC drives not on the SCSI network. 

The preference program has also been 

updated and allows you to alter the serial 

device you want to use. As a result, Surf 

Squirrel owners will be able to take advantage 

of the higher transfer speeds. 

Once you have everything properly set up, 

the Siamese system very quickly becomes 

second nature to use. Flicking between the 

PC and Amiga. screens is just a matter of 

pressing two keys, and sharing files over the 

SCSI network is the same as loading and say- 

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ing any other file. 

The only potential problem here is with the 

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very rarely, as both the Amiga and PC 

have to save to the drive at exactly the same 

time. If you are using decent SCSI cards they 

should arbitrate between themselves for 

access to the drive, so unless you have automatic 

processes running this should not be a 

problem. 

I do have to say that I was a little hesitant 

at first about the idea of the Siamese system, 

but having used it for a few days you do start 

to forget you are using two separate 

machines. If you are put off by the possible 

extra cost of the SCSI network you should 

remember that this is actually not necessary 

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Anyone who has read about programming on 

the Amiga would have come across references 

to certain books and files, particularly 

something known as the native developers' 

kit. This CD is the official developers CD from 

Amiga Technologies and so has all the files 

and references you need. 

One of the most important indusions is 

the native developer kit, This has all the 

'include' files and libraries you need to compile 

your operating system source code with 

either a C compiler or assembler. 

Along with these you also get an 

important section desaibing the 

best way to program for the 

Amiga and to maintain future 

compatibility, 

Other parts of the NDK include 

the documentation for all the 

Arniga's libraries explaining what 

each function does and how you 

should use it. These are just plain 

text files but in a separate section 

the entire 'includes' can be referenced 

in AmigaGuide format 

making for quick access. 

Included as part of the NDK is 

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by Neil Mohr 

The current CD market is awash with clipart 

and font CDs from the likes of Epic and EMC_ 

So any new publishing style CD is going to 

have to offer something more than just 

another bunch of tired old collection of fonts 

and clipart 

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bigger is better and is a whopping four CD 

collection. In reality you can immediately discard 

one of the CDs as it is for BBS users and 

provides lha'ed versions of all the fonts on 

the CD - handy but for a few people. 

Talking of fonts, the CD claims to have 

10,000 of the rascals but really this is something 

of a misnomer as what you have is 

something approaching 300 scalable fonts in 

five different formats - 

Bitmap, DME IntelliFont, 

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make life easier all these 

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On top of these is a 

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along with a collection of 

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there are no preview pktures, 

either on disk or in 

the manual so you will 

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Enforcer an essential debugging tool that 

shows you any badly written programs 

which are accessing parts of the Amiga's 

operating system that they should not be 

touching. 

Possibly of interest but not quite so much 

use nowadays is the complete CD32 developers' 

package that includes full CDXL reference 

material and utilities to 

build CD32 CDs. 

A developers' section on the 

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details what parts of the operating 

system could change in a 

future PowerPC operating system, 

and which functions you are 

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With all these fonts arid graphics it would be 

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In and behold one of the CDs is dedicated to 

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A full installation of TeX is set up 

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layout as is a right pain to setup, but 

if you have ever come across DVI 

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Also on the first CD are 150 

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For beginner programmers, on top of the 

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he macros that we were talking 

about last month consisted of just 

a few lines of code, Whatever needed 

doing was achieved by having 

the various ARexx or program interface commands 

executed either one alter the other or, in 

the case of the last example, by using a loop 

arrangement to have a series of instructions 

repeated a given number of times, This 

approach is fine for small scripts, but as programs 

get larger it becomes increasingly more 

difficult to keep track of what your code is doing 

ilk is written in what is effectively a single block 

of instructions. 

The solution is to break down whatever it is 

you are trying to do into more easily undergandable 

(smaller) tasks, tackle these smaller 

coding jobs in relative isolation, and then finally 

build your script out of these program building 

blocks that you've created. The benefit of this is 

that whilst writing or debugging (trying to fix) 

your scripts, you then only ever have to deal 

with small sections of code at any one time! 

The building blocks that I'm talking about are 

caled ARexx functions, and they are self contained 

pieces of code that, given some information, 

will act on it and return some kind of result 

to you. The easiest way to explain the purpose 

and layout of an ARexx function is to take an 

example: 

1larVoluee: Procedure 

erg width, height, depth 

voluarlddthsheight*deptii 

return rictus! 

This is the definition of a function called 

BoxVolume°. I've placed parenthesis markers 

0 at the end of the name when mentioning it 

because it's normal practice to do so when talking 

about function names (most functions need 

information to work on and, as you'll see shortly, 

these parenthesis markers are needed when 

the function is used). Do notice, however, that 

in the function definition itself the name ends 

with a colon. The PROCEDURE keyword which 

follows the function name is optional but is normally 

included because it tells ARetx that all the 

variables used inside the function should be 

regarded as local, i.e. should be isolated from 

other variables in the script. 

The data items required by a function are 

called the function's 'arguments', and with 

ARexx these are specified using an ARG state- 

Once you have created a function definition, 

using it is easy. If you want the returned 

value to be assigned to a variable you simply 

write the function name on the righthand 

side of an expression, placing the 

argument values you wish to use inside the 

parenthesis (separated by commas) like 

this: 

oybox=liosIolumei44,$). 

On the other hand you can use the returned 

value immediately: 

soy Iolhoiumei2,4,5) 

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More useful info 

for newcomers 

to AlRexx from 

ment which lists the variable names that have 

been chosen to hold the supplied arguments. 

With the example definition, three arguments 

are expected and the variable names chosen 

are width, height and depth_ 

aIm 

mediately after the ARC statement comes 

the AReroi statements that do the real work of 

the function. With BoxVolume() we are just 

multiplying the three function arguments 

together and assigning them to a variable called 

volume. 

The last line of the function definition is a 

RETURN statement and this is important for two 

reasons: Firstly, it signifies the end of the function 

definition. Secondly, the variable or expression 

supplied with this statement determines 

the value that will be returned by the function 

when it is used (in our example this will be the 

current contents of the volume variable). 

Rittnember tha t both of this months 

examples ne e d to be run from the 

Shell using the R X comma nd 

In the first case, the variable mybax would 

be loaded with the value 40 (i.e. 2'45), 

and in the second case the value 40 would 

be displayed. 

Its worth pointing out, incidentally, that 

although, for clarity, the results of multiplying 

the three arguments was assigned to a 

separate variable we could, in the case of 

this simple function, do away with the 

intermediate multiplication statement and 

write the function in this form: 

Bostiotose: Procedure 

arg width, height, depth 

return width*height*depth 


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up 'The price of the box ix' BoxPricetw,h,d,metet,linge,profit) 

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at width, height, depth, metol_price, hinge_price,percentage_profit 

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losPrice: Procedure 

org width, height, depth, oeut_price, hinge_price,percentoge_profit 

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ACKLING SOME PRACTICAL SNAGS 

If you run the testl,rexx script (which you'll find on the 

cover disk), you'll find that it does its job well enough 

in most respects - but there is one minor difficulty in 

that the resulting box price often comes back with too 

many (or too few) significant figures. 

BoxPrice(2,4,2,1.8,0.75,25), for example, produces a 

price of E91.875 when in reality we'd probably want 

to round this up to E91,88. 

Now REXX, the language upon which ARexx is 

based, actually has a built-in Format() function which 

allows the layout of the final character string used to 

represent the number to be modified. ARexx doesn't, 

but it does have plenty of other ready-made (or socalled 

built-in) routines that we can use, including an 

Index() function that allows us to search a text string 

for particular characters or groups of characters. It also 

provides a NUMERIC DIGITS statement that allows us 

to adjust the precision used when performing mathematical 

operations. 

The thing you need to be aware of at this stage is 

that ARexx, when it isn't actually doing calculations on 

P1,0 

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Ifbit 1000001 00 the right shows the improved test2.relis output 

Having sketched out the layout of a simple function, 

' let's take a more realistic example of where a function 

, might be created to do a particular job. Let's suppose 

you work for a company that makes hinged-lid metal 

boxes to order, and that the price of these boxes 

, depends on the amount of metal in any given box plus 

' the cost of the hinges. Its your job to provide quotes 

'for customers, so you want an ARsoi macro that will 

be able to calculate a customer price for any particular 

box. 

What information is going to be needed'? Well the 

dimensions of the box, the price of the metal pet unit 

area and the price of the hinges will be needed to 

work out the cost of making the box. And a profit margin 

will have to be available to calculate the final customer 

price. 

Calculating the surface area of a box is straightforward 

- you just calculate the areas of each side and 

add them together. Having got the total surface area of 

the box, we simply multiply this by the cost of the 

metal per unit area, add on the price of a couple of 

hinges, and scale that price up to account for the profit 

margin_ Here's a function that will do the job; 

Quite a few variables in use I know, but the basic 

guKorice: Procedure 

or width, height, depth, •etet_price, hinge_price, percentage.prefit 

area.2 

, unit_cest.ar eeeee tat_prictePhinge_price 1 h e r - two hinges are used Pi 

(width set[ing_price.unit_cestqlD04percentage_prefit)110° 

return setting_prict 

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depth 

+eidth 

numbers, stores them as a series of characters, much 

like it stores pieces of text Because of this we're able 

to search the selling_price variable used in our 

BoxPrice function and locate the position of its 

decimal point like this. 

Jti 

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Subltacting 1 from the resultant value tells us how 

many digits are in front of the decimal point and 

adding 2 to this produces the numeric precision 

needed to provide two decimal places in an answer. 

Taken together this means that we can make ARexx 

provide 2 decimal place accuracy like this; 

numeric digits dec1eet_point_ppsition401 

setting_pricemetting_priceil 

nuseric digits 9 f reset to nest's defautt wolue sr 

The reason for adding zero to the selling price is 

simple For the new accuracy setting to take effect we 

must perform some kind of mathematical operation 

MORE REALISTIC EXAMPLE 

ran.>rx e s 

hat is the width of the box? 

18 hat is the height of the box? 

5 hat is the depth of the box? 

etai price per unit area? 

2.23 

inge price? 

78 

equired N prof it? 

he price of the box is 972.4928 

an:> 

The testl-res• script in action 

purpose of the statements in each of the steps should 

be reasonably easy to understand. Using the function 

is just going to be a matter of supplying the various 

details when the function is called. For instance, to calculate 

the price of a box 2 ft x 4 ft x 2 ft with metal 

costing E1,8 per square ft, hinges E0.75 each and a 

profit margin of 25 per cent we'd use an expression 

like this: 

;.5 

o 

Now one way of using this function 25 would be to 

write a standalone script that collected ) the various 

details of the box and then called the BoxPrice() function 

to carry out the calculation. The testi .reiot script in 

listing 1 shows how you could do this and notice how 

comment lines written as /* * / have been 

used to separate various parts of the script The ENT 

statement that occurs just before the function definition, 

incidentally, is essential because it tells ARert that 

this is the 'logical end' of the script - without this 

ARexx would carry on executing the script, trying to use 

the statements present in the function as though they 

were part of the main script 

on the number we wish to modify. Adding zero was 

chosen simply because it doesn't change the value of 

the result! 

Another minor hitch that you'd discover with these 

latest modifications is if the selling price calculated by 

the BoxPrice0 function turned out to be a whole 

number - then there wouldn't be a decimal point 

present in the selling price variable. In this case, the 

Index() function would return a value of 0 (indicating 

that a decimal point was not found). There are a 

number of ways to get around this but I'm going to 

use a trick - by adding a small amount to the cakulated 

selling price I'm going to force ARexx to add a 

decimal fraction part to the answer. Needless to say, 

the amount added needs to be small enough not to 

affect the overall result of the calculation and, since 

results are being rounded to the nearest 0.01, I've 

opted to add 0,0001. You can see the modified 

BoxPrice() function in listing 2 and there is a 

test2sexx script on the cover disk that uses this 

improved function. 

A ND FINALLY 

There are all sorts of ways in which our 

newly devised function could be used. 

Suppose, for instance, that you wanted to 

produce a table which showed the prices 

needed to obtain various profit margins on 

boxes of a particular size. Your script could 

collect the dimensions and material costs 

in much the same way as the testi sex* 

program, but could then use a loop to gen- 

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By Andy Maddock 

Hooray, we've finally managea to dig 

out some competition winners after 

months of searching. Remember the 

competition we set about two months 

ago with those eight sets of Pinball 

games? Well, you'll be pleased to know 

every single one of them was nicked 

from our office which means everyone 

who entered will win absolutely nothing. 

No, seriously, we were inundated with 

entries, (I think we counted 10) which is 

quite rare and we can happily 

announce the winners names right now 

along with their tie-breakers. 

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ecently we heard that a brand new, amazing game called Justice, which looks a bit li 

Syndicate, is coming out very soon for the Amiga, 

It requires you to control special law-enforcement 

officers who are ordered to bl 

away any criminals on the spot. However, to spice things up a little, you're allowed t 

use tanks and bazookas among various other military. 

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Hopefully we'll be 

able to give you 

more information on 

maybe with da shing of Syndica te It soon, 

As you ca n se e , Justice looks re ma rka bly 

I lik• Ca nnon Fodde r-, 

Compo Winners (At last) 

Oh, and if you are a winner don't 

expect your prizes to be on the 

doorstep as soon as you read this. 

We've got to find the games. plaster 

them up with packaging. scrawl your 

name and address on them and then 

send them out by 3rd class or something 

ridiculous so they'll get to you 

before the next millennium, so be 

patient' 

Here are Those all-important winners! 

Steven Gurevitz, 

Middlesex 

-I need refuge from my Dad. 

Please help me and send relief,• 

(I'm not entirely sure what he 

means, although I've enclosed 

NSPCC's telephone number) 

No name, or address 

"Because I am a poor, dull person..• 

(This person didn't print their name or 

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would like to write to us with their finished 

tie-breaker, just so we know it's 

you. Men we can send you your prize!) 

Scott Hu9hes, Liverpool 

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number crunching. bonus breaking, 

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(Doh Scott Hughes, you cheeky monkey. 

You provided us with the best entry 

which means you win the some prize as 

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Pete Pointon, Walsall 

"I am a tarnished boll on the pinball 

table of life, - 

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there) 

Mr N Crump, Wrexham 

To give me a break from my sons 

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(We feel you're being a little harsh there 

Mr Crump, but never mind, you still win 

by default as someone else ridiculously 

scrawled on their entry form and we 

found It impossible to figure it out) 

Mr C Cotton, Northants 

"Because I'm a sad old fart who wants 

to re-live his misspent youth in the pinball 

arcades, - 

(Yep, we know.) 

Ian Sherwood, Oxon 

i'm a member of the National Pinball 

Defence League and would ploy them 

until they are ready for release." 

(Right you ore my son) 

Terry Everest, Kent 

'Doubtless you'll cast this hopeless entry 

into the infinite wastes (or bin). But 

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The ECTS is coming up really fast now, and 

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Amiga products on show, The show runs 

from 8th to 10th September and unfortunately 

it's not open to you, the public. 

Although after you have read our indepth 

report in a few months. I can 

guarantee it will feel as if you were really 

there! 

To be honest, the show will be dominated 

by the PC and Playstation 

goodies so er, us lot here will hove a 

top time playing on all the latest console 

and arcade games. No truthfully, 

we'll be too busy hunting down 

all the latest Amiga products from 

companies such as Guildhall 

Leisure, 21st Century Entertainment, 

Acclaim, Gametek, Gremlin 

interactive, Ocean and Time 

Warner, 

You comin' out or wot? 

Do you remember that shoot 'em up by OTM 

Publications and Promotions called Atrophy. 

Well we've just heard news that it's never 

coming out The reason is that it has now been 

Thu s Ian% OOnling oa t. So don't took tor it irt the shoos. 

e Human Enigma 

Oh, hang on, some news has just come in from 

the fax machine as I speak and it's about a 

new game in the pipeline from OTM and it is 

shelved due to contractual problems. Well, at 

least it managed to live up to its name. 

However, do not despair. In its place comes 

an even better horizontal shoot 'em up going 

by the name of Atrocity, and it's planned to 

be even better than Atrophy. We should have 

something on it for you next month..T providing 

OTM don't scrap it two minutes before our 

deadline. 

Atrocity should feature: 

• 6 meg of music 

• 6 Giant levels 

• 5000 frames of animation 

• 60+ Objects on-screen at once 

• 300 colours on screen 

• Intelligent aliens 

• No slow down 

• Multi-layer. parallax scrolling 

entitled Enigma. Ills being developed by a 

team called Centillion Software and looks 

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Kan Fu 

ood platform games hove always 

been a rarity on the Amiga. There was 

once Superfrog. Zool and Fire and Ice. 

Although they weren't particularly 

ground-breaking in any department. 

they were just a. joy to play. Just recently, we've 

had bbsolutely nothing in terms of decent platform 

games. 

However, not for the first time, a brand new software 

company get their chance to put the world 

to rights with their latest release. And if originality 

determines success then Great Effects 

Development could turn out to be outright winners. 

We managed to stumble across the developers 

of Kang-Fu one Friday morning and within a week 

the game was sitting on my desk that's how 

eager they are to broadcast their plans. 

The first obvious thing that struck me was the 

fact it was on CU. The last half-decent game on 

the CD32 I remember was Liftil Divil by Gremlin 

Interactive. So I had to go through the rigmarole of 

finding our CD32 dusting it down and then setting 

off on a quest to find a working power-pack. 

After a good few days of searching I was all set 

to play the one-level demo of the brand new platform 

game, Kong-Fu. 

The developers go behind their label of Great 

Effects Development although you may have 

Won 

heard of them as 'Greed' which looks I.way 

bizarre abbreviation- e x i t . 

You are in control of a Kung-Fu-kicking ko VE 

roc) called Klont, and your job is travel orou u a l 

world rescuing all the baby kangaroos that l e 

sionally get lost. This is quite obviously a co I t 

scenario - especially here in Britain. 

During your quest for success, you will c 

across loads of other insects and objects that 

take delight in stopping you. You will also be 

to pick up various power-ups to give you 

weaponry apart from your trusty left foot. 

In the final game there will be 10 levels 

with their own graphics and enemies. 

My first Impressions were actually quite go 

the main sprite was really chunky and inst 

reminded me of a cross between Sonic 

Hedgehog and Zoo' on the Amiga. Another 

which instantly struck me was the number 

sprites on-screen at once. There seemed like 

dreds, although to be honest, the backgr 

screens tend to merge in giving an impress 

a very busy playing area. 

The main object of a platform game is us 

to get to the end of the level unscathed. Ka 

once again goes against the grain by requin 

you to pick up small kangaroos which talk 

behind you confusing things even more A4 

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xit And when you do get to the exit you will 

ave to baffle against some huge end-of-level 

uardians which are reminiscent of the old cone 

days. 

The final game will feature,. HIRes bitplane 

aphics. thousands of colours on-screen, ft will 

at 50fps. there will be 40 minutes of proper CD 

uality audio and overall around 80Mb worth of 

ato on the CD Itself. We'll have to see if Kong-Fu 

on really live up to platform game standards 

ch as Sonic and Mario across other formats. 

Overall, the graphics seem pretty polished 

th the gameplay to match. However, the ver- 

I played didn't have any sound but I could 

agine the types of sound effects coming from 

e wasps. cockerels and dragons - the opportues 

will be endless. We'll have a full review next 

nth. You can be sure of it. 

Some Cheese Please 

You can contact the Dutch developers to get 

some more information if you wish. I'm sure 

they'll be happy to answer any questions. You 

can reach them on +31 546 817727. So, go On, 

get in touch. 

Baddies 

Dragons 

The dragons don't pose too much of a threat as they just stand 

there with big axe trying to chop the life out of you, Just try to get 

on platform above them 

Flying umbrellas 

The flying brollies will take delight in flying into you, almost 

piercing your body. Well, not quite, but you get the picture 

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You have to be careful around wasps because they will 

manoeuvre in a circular movement giving you little space to 

work in especially when you need to get across a platform 

Cockerels 

The cockerels will just run about making noises which don't seem 

to harm you at all. So, or,.. just ovoid them anyway because 

they're off their heads 

Weird things 

You will undoubtedly encounter many other weird things like 

bendy objects rolling about for no apparent reason. Just thought 

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1irsf of all. to gain loads of cash right 

from the start, all you have to do is 

choose your team as Tranmere 

Rovers and type your name in as 'Mr 

Bulgaria. All you have to do then is 

choose your character as arrogant. Once the 

game begins you will find your bank balance 

has increased by nearly £20 million pounds, 

although some of the players will hate you. 

Typical. 

If you start the game with a pretty small side. 

such as second or third division. you will have an 

absolute nightmare trying to buy players which 

are currently wanted by clubs such as 

Manchester Utd. Newcastle and Blackburn, and 

the chances of getting them are very remote 

unless... 

First of all you need to bid less than the other 

clubs on two occasions. and then on the third 

offer one more pound than every other club 

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(providing you have the money), and you 

secure the player. Okay, so you're still having t 

fork out for decent players, but at least you don' 

have to worry about the competition. 

One of the problems that can occur. espe 

daily during the end of a season. are play 

retirements. This can lose your team a lot of a 

ity. especially if he's one of your top players The 

only way to get around this is to get loads 

money from him so you can just about afford 

replacement. 

When he's about to retire, put the player 

the transfer list and then fine him for no reason 

Now take him off the list and insure him for loa 

of cash. At the start of next season he'll h 

gone, but will have left a huge amount of 

behind him. 

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Will's dream team 

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your team around is this: 

Finally. William Sapsed has included a list of all his favourite buys and even though they souri 

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son (providing you carry out the ritual above), 

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player will have different stats from the old one, 

but his injury proneness and goal scoring ability 

will remain. A must for all retiring strikers! 

Don't be fooled by all the current transfer 

malarkey involving Alan Shearer either. If you 

apply Championship Manager to real-life, you'll 

notice he's about as good as Jason Lee So 

There. I can remember I bought him to partner 

Liverpool's Robbie Fowler (before Stan), and he 

was absolute pants and hardly ever scored. 

Effectively, you should use a 4-2-4 formation, 

with a forward dropping back and a defender 

sitting in front of the back three. All of your players 

should have stamina although as a surprise, 

either at half-time or for a whole game. stick a 

decent defender at the anchor position and 

watch as he bangs in loads of goals. This worked 

especially well when I was Manchester Utd, I 

stuck Steve Bruce there and he ended up being 

top scorer for two seasons! 

You should select your tactics as continental, - 

too. Don't try to be all professional by choosing 4- 

4-2 because it's Inevitable that you'll let loads of 

goals in unless your defence is amazing. Don't be 

afraid of switching to Direct Ball at half-time if IP 

you're a couple of goals down. There's nothing 

to lose. 

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only one you can see Is influence. Even though 

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influence, you will find that the goalkeepers who 

have a high influence will actually be really 

good. 

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from Bristol City is absolutely superb. He was my 

best buy and kept a clean sheet almost every 

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caught up with Richard, artist at 

Silitunna, on the Sillturina Support 

BBS, which I first came across by 

chance a year or so back when the 

am were working on a couple of projects like 

Doom clone called Dentaku 26, and aspiring 

release their first game. Well, they made it, 

nd first off the mark was XTreme Pacing. 

leased through Black Legend in January '96 

o hungry games market, on the whole being 

ell received by the Amiga press. 

unna was set up as a limited company in 

vember 1994. We were however working on it 

fore that, since about June 1994. Our first 

was Den taku 26, we worked on that while 

x completed his University course, After Alex 

Uni (July 1995) we decided that there were 

y too many Doom clones coming out on the 

go, so we shelved it in favour of a karting 

e game - which became XTreme Pacing. 

tunna is a full time occupation for all of us (me, 

x and Mark), financially and it keeps us ticking 

Flowdid XTreme evolve? 

,'erne Pacing started out, as I said, as a karting 

me - until we saw Virtual Kartingt At this point 

decided a more standard wacky car theme 

uld be beffer, and looking back, I definitely 

k it was. The 3D engine was originally chunky 

pper screen, which we changed to proper 

routines and blitter modes. The whole proonly 

took around four months, from concepto 

completion, and we were pretty chuffed 

the end result. 

However, when we released it there were 

ornplaints about certain gameplay problems, 

being The conscientious bunch that we are, 

decided to rectify them. 

For all our XTreme racing GFX, we have our 

t o m, in-house object cutter coded by Mark 

nich appears on the data-disks). The tiles are 

on screens in rows, and the code automat- 

31iy generates chunky versions for use in the 

me, they are simply placed using the editor 

a on the data-disks). 

Talking about restrictions in creating 

ames; - t hnot e too many, generally mainly size for 

fferent things (ie XTreme race tiles 6404 pixels, 

ulderdash 3D textures 128x128 in size, etc.), 

olours - so far everything is 256 colours, with one 

We've got a couple of dodgy looking ..11PEGe they 

said. Cheers guys. Alex and Richard, part of the 

Silitunna team. Alex is the yellow one 

Risky I 

Business 

Gothic City from the XTreme Racing data disk. 

How the graphics are stretched to fit into the layout 

of the game 

or two limits on the palette Oe XTreme - first 16 

colours reserved, lost 16 reserved for colour 

cycling), 

JJ: And for those who try and fail to view the 

graphics on the )(Immo game disk? 

We use Crunch Mania - not to disguise GFX simply 

to crunch them - the GFX start out as UM, 

are then converted to chunky for the game GF)( 

raw for the front-end GFX, and then crunched. 

The object cutter converts all GFX (except tiles) to 

chunky. Tiles, as I said, are automatically converted 

by the code. 

JJ: With you living in Works, Alex in Sheffield, Mark 

In London and Andy in Staffs, do you use modems 

to keep in touch? How often do you guys get 

together personally to work on a project? 

We keep r) touch via e-mail and the BBS for most 

It's the patch 

1Silltunna 

Software sprang 

from nowhere 

with their first 

game XTreme 

Racing. Jason 

Jordache 

chats to the 

Warwickshire 

based team of 

enthusiasts who 

are aiming to 

make it big in 

the games 

industry. 

The problems Richard mentions as regards XTreme d 

'I now available. Along with improved playability and removal of miscellaneous 

rbugs. 

here's some of what's on offer. 

'• 

4 player joystick adapter support 

e'rectifi • All cars now ed handle i differently n to each a other Modified 

f 

• Deathmatch 

r e e 

rules 

p a t c h 

• Weapon explosions now more spectacular 

• All new weapons 

• 5 seconds invulnerability when you are put back on the track after you are killed 

• Option to auto-save best lap limes & screen settings 

• E Z handling - Option for slightly easier control, especially for beginners 

• Utility to merge and view best-laptimes

7r3eatu re 

More artwork from the game 

Slittunna currently consists 

seven people, four of them 

full time members. They 

are on the look out for 

other programmers and 

artists to join the ranks. 

Richard Whitton, oge 22 

Graphics and game design 

richUxtreme.clemon.co.uk 

• 

Uyears 

A-Levels, followed 

sby 

a BTEC in design. I got 

offered a Uni place at 

u 

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adeclined 

due to their poor 

l quality football, Decided I 

sdidn't 

want to do any- 

cthing 

like graphic design 

on paper and had a dab- 

h 

ble on the computer 

oInstead 

Sent a picture to 

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as fast as they claim, thousands of Amiga garners 

would wish this game finished and available 

JJ: What games do you have planned for the 

future? 

We have quite a few projects underway. but I 

can't say too much about them at this stage - 

they are multi-format, some will be appearing on 

and rock music, watch 

early '80s Italian gore flicks 

and anything on the cartoon 

channel and, err do 

lots of shopping 

Alex Amsel, age 21 

Lead programmer 

alexOteeth.demon.comk 

Boffin? Has just graduated 

from Exeter University with 

a degree in Cognitive 

Science, that's Al and psychology. 

However there is 

a darker side to him, he's 

a football lout - supports 

Wolves and gets hammered 

on Banks bitter or 

vodka after matches. 

'I spend most of my 

time watching Wolves EC. 

an English football club - 

have also helped organise 

supporters clubs and so on. 

If not doing that, you will 

find me listening to indie or 

industrial music, or watching 

Monty Python films.' 

Mark Fitt 

Additional coding 

Excellent coder - it was a 

choice between music 

and coding, and coding 

things, and voice 

calls a few times a 

week. It varies the 

amount of time we 

get together - it's less 

now since Alex 

moved to Sheffield - 

currently I'd say 

once/twice a month 

tops. 

won (for now). Tends to 

work the weirdest hours - 

night shifts only - must be 

the London air Can't handle 

his beer despite what 

he might say to the contrary. 

Mark likes to dabble 

with Jungle - in fact, he's a 

total jungle freak these 

days. He's hod a couple of 

pro jungle tracks released 

too, and there's another in 

the pipeline for him 

Andrew Cashmore 

Graphics 

"Our new little fledgling! 

He's a bit of a graphical 

wiz - he's currently heavily 

into The 3D rendering side. 

He's been working with us 

for about the last 2-3 

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games coder.' 

Simon Speight 

Music for name Racing 

Tony Farrel 

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XTreme Pacing 

Ted Bailey 

Testing and ideas 

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rate on is Boulderdash 3D (the title WILL 

changed!), With Amiga PC and Playstcition 

sions under development this is 3D platform 

ing - a Doom style engine, with platform 

gameplay. 

There will be a lot of strategy and t 

involved, and tremendous multi-player sc 

up to eight players. There will be several dill 

level types, such as Hell Caverns, 1-11-tech. 

Urban and Shopping mall. There will also be 

Impressive graphical features too, such as 30 

ture mapped environment, look upld 

crouch/jump; various shading effects. inc 

depth shading and mist effects: animated 

textures and outside areas 

JJ: it can be difficult giving a release date 

project still in development like Boulderdash 

how about a vague release date? 

Lets say 'released by Christmas '96. 

11: Talking about Boulderdash, does this bear 

relation to Dentaku? 

None (code wise), if does however contain cl 

few textures that I had drawn for Dent 

about 50% of them in one form or another, 

one or two Den taku enemies may appear 

there too. 

JJ: I had word from people impressed 

Dentaku's fast 3D engine. How does it corn 

to the current Doom clones available on 

Amiga and are there pions to finish it off? 

It still remains by for the fastest engine or 

and there were some good little graph) 

effects coded that haven't been seen in a 

clones. There are no plans to complete Dent 

- but the code and graphics still live on (no 

out and stuck into other projects). 

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manager e ve r, you ha ve to 

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Terry Venables 

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failed. You won't 

f you want to be the next England 

manager, remember to set your 

nationality to English because you 

will have more chance of getting 

the job. However. do remember 

that other international jobs can be offered 

to you. 

To get the elusive job you must impress the 

chairman almost every season. You must at 

least finish in the top 10 every year, and if you 

fall to manage that then winning a cup will be 

sufficient enough to impress the president of 

your country. If you can achieve the right 

blend of these wins then an international job 

will be offered to you. 

For instance. I started my career with 

Liverpool. I never won the league title and I 

only ever won the league cup once in about 

10 years! It doesn't sound like a good record, 

but I finished in the top 10 every season and 

the team was a finalist in several competitions, 

including those in Europe. 

The Republic of Ireland job was eventually 

offered to me and I took It. Obviously I wanted 

to manage England and I could have waited, 

but no,-. I was too excited and pressed 

'Accept' as soon as possible. 

I was then presented with the horrifying 

prospect of finding 20 good Irish players in the 

entire world - it wasn't an easy task but I still 

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competitions, but as there is a four-year wait 

between them, I had to play a lot of 

absolutely pointless friendlies. At the end of the 

year you will be presented with a nice tour 

somewhere where the opposition is about as 

good as Doncaster. thus allowing you to pick 

up a small, rusty trophy. That always impresses 

The president. 

When I managed to qualify for the World 

Cup, the 'President' of England was impressed 

enough to hand me the job. Blimey, it felt like 

real life. 

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every other England fan dreams of, and that's 

to pick their own England side and take them 

to the World Cup finals. Although it's not 

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Your first lob is to pick 19 players who you will take everywhere. But remember, these con be 

changed at any time, so you don't have to stick with them. 

Your first idea will probably be to fill the team up with English players who ploy for the club 

side you support in real life. Whether it's Blackburn or Bury, that striker will be the first 

choice for your side, but don't do that! Pick the best 11 from the entire world, not from your 

own side! 

Player Position Club Selection reason 

1: Tim Flowers Goalkeeper Blackburn Valued 1.8m 

2: Rob Jones Right Back Liverpool Speed 

3: Stuart Pearce Left Back Notts Forest Tackling 

4: Paul ince Midfielder Inter Milan Tackling passing 

5: Tony Adams Defender Arsenal Heading and tackling 

6: Gary Pa!lister Defender Man Utd Heading, tackling, speed 

7: David Platt Midfielder Arsenal Passing 

8: Paul Gascoigne Midfielder Rangers Passing, speed 

9: Alan Shearer Striker Blackburn Shooting, speed 

10: Les Ferdinand Striker Newcastle Utd Speed, finishing 

11: Steve McMammon Right wing Liverpool Speed 

12: Groeme Le Saux Left back Blackburn Tackling 

13: David Seaman Goalkeeper Arsenal Second most expensive Gk 

14: Robbie Fowler Striker Liverpool Finishing, speed 

15: Stan Collymore Striker Liverpool Shooting, speed 

16: Gareth Southgate Defender Aston Villa Penalties (Hah) 

17: Steve Stone Midfielder Notts Forest Speed, passing 

18: Teddy Sheringham Striker Spurs Heading, finishing 

19: Darren Anderton Right wing Spurs Speed, passing 

• Remember, when a payer gets injured for more than a we ek, drop him completely 

from the selected 20 and replace him with someone fit to gain more ticks. 

My career achievements 

1995/6 - Liverpool 

Premier: Runner up 

Cup: Semi final 

League Cup: Semi final 

EUFA Cup: Quarter final 


Premier: 3rd 

Cup: Finalist 

League Cup: Round 4 

ELIFA Cup: Semi Final 

1997/8 Liverpool 


Cup: Round 3 


EUFA Cup: Semi Final 

1998/9 Liverpool 

Premier: 5th 

Cup: Round 5 

League Cup: Winners 

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Cup: Semi final 


EUFA Cup: Round 1 



Cup: Semi Final 


"Resigned' 

2001/2 - Republic of Ireland 

Group Position: 4th 

World Cup: Not qualified 

Friendlies: Won 3: 

Drawn 1: Lost 1 

2002/3 Republic of Ireland 

World Cup: - 

Euro Tour: Won 2: Drawn 1: Lost 0 

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2007/8 - England 

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f you read the news article in System 

News around two months ago you 

would've caught wind of a brand 

new software construction kit entitled 

Reality. Well already the developers 

have knocked up some games to prove 

what it can do. You may have seen a couple of 

games featured on the front of coverdisks across 

various magazines as BPM Promotions ore insistent 

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Each game isn't really outstanding in quality 

and is certainly not going to set the world on fire 

although if you take a small feature from each 

and maybe put them together mentally you 

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much higher quality than these and possibly 

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All these games were created using the 

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Joker Poker 

A quick way to make loads of cash and get instant 

popularity. Poke r.., the na me of the ga me 

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titles as it sounds like it has connotations of 

This is probably one of the most intriguing of the 

gambling which suits me down to the ground. 

Basically all you have to do is play poker. I'm 

not saying anything else because all I can do is 

explain the rules of the game and I'm certainly 

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Joker Poker is a fine example of what Reality 

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Charlie Chimp! The Great Escape 

Chimp boy Charlie returns to grace the Amiga 

screens once again. And unfortunately it suffers 

from the same problems as the rest. Having 

said that, the graphics do look a little better, 

and that's probably the result of time being 

spent on the game as a whole. 

As you play Charlie Chimp you do begin to 

notice aspects which would be good in other 

games and it shows the quality of software 

Reality has the ability to produce. 

Once again. if a serious Amiga user who saw 

something in the game would take the time to 

Improve graphical/gameplay glitches then a 

commercial product would be a certainty. As 

a standalone version it just doesn't offer 

enough to give Amigo users any value for 

money. 

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Charlie Chimp stars in yet another adventure. 

This time he's after the treasure of 

Tutankahmun. 

The series has obviously been the most popular 

with Amiga users as there have been new 

releases now and again. In my opinion Charlie 

Chimp is right on the edge of becoming a 

standalone full commercial release If more 

time went into the planning and presentation 

it could easily be boxed and put out on the 

shelves on the pretty much redundant Amiga 

games market. 

This release is actually better than the others 

because the graphics seem a tad better and 

the gameplay seems slightly more involved. 

This is a relatively decent game contained in 

the packs which boosts the value for money 

. 

Underwater Capers 

Urn sure everybody will agree that the small sprite 

looks very familiar indeed 

This is the second release in the "capers series, 

only this time you take control of a 'Pinkie" 

lookallke named Seemore Doolittle and your 

job is to rescue your fantastic bird Marion the 

Mermaid while battling your way through 

hordes of underwater aliens, collecting as 

many power-ups as humanly possible. 

The Seemore Doolittle sprite looks like 

Millenium's Pinkie and the collision detection is 

a bit dodgy, although apart from that it's a 

nice little blast 'em up game which with a little 

more though and planning could easily be 

thought of a commercial release, especially in 

today's Amiga games market. 

Wrath of 

Gwendor 

You are Theos the Warrior and your job is to 

rescue your brother from the evil clutches of 

the knight Gwendor. There are eight levels to 

battle through, each one requiring much skill 

to negotiate the nasty snakes among other 

energy-sopping things. 

Not only is Wrath of Gwendor a none stop 

action game, it also contains a puzzle aspect 

whereby the idea is to switch switches and 

use magic potions. 

It's unfortunate that the game doesn't really 

boast quality. The idea is good although It's 

not put it into practice. I suppose If more time 

was taken graphically, it could present a 

challenge and maybe even enter the world 

of PD. As it stands it needs more work. 

Oh dear, the animation is possibly the poorest 

aspect along with the terrible gameplay 

Toyland Capers 

This is the first in the series of the "capers" 

adventures starring Seemore Doolittle in his little 

spaceship type thing in which the idea is to 

blow every toy out of the sky like a mod child. 

Toyland Capers is pretty similar to 

Underwater Capers, although this time you're 

bombing about places like Lego land. Top 

stuff. 

Mersin "Pinkieboy" tripoin' around the 

world of toys. Marvellous innit? 

What's it 

all about? 

All these games are contained 

In a special Reality 

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be able to spend much 

more time and create some 

top quality stuff. Reality 

could be the way forward 

for all budding gamesplayers. 

It will certainly present 

non-programmers a chance 

to pursue their own ideas. 

We should have a review 

of the full package next 

month, so keep your eyes 

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convenient 

getting programs to run with as little of the 

L system software loaded as possible, thus 

MB a leaving the maximum amount of memory 

at syour 

disposal The problem is that it is a little 

luborious t if you have to mess around like this each 

time m you need to run a program. So, this month 

well 

o 

look at a couple of ways in which the memory-saving 

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process can be made easier. 

Both methods involve AmigaDOS scripts and 

different 

t 

ways of circumventing the original startupsequence, 

h 

which is where most of the system softwore 

w that we want to avoid originates. The neatest 

solution e involves one small program called 

MBPress l and a few lines odded to the startupsequence, 

o so get your favourite text editor ready. 

o Using the program Ma Press at the very start of 

your k startup-sequence, it is possible to detect what 

combination e of mouse buttons you are holding 

down. d MBPress is very flexible and will even take 

occouni of three-button mice, but for us, holding 

c 

the 

m 

right mouse button down will be enough. So, 

at the very start of your startup-sequence, you 

should t add these lines. 

h 

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C:ReArtss 

b Stt AMSMER SRE 

a If PASSER El 2 

s Skip quick 

Endlf 

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s This section of AmigaDOS code will check, using 

bMBPress, 

to see if the right mouse button is being 

held down. If it is, the normal startup-sequence will 

e 

be skipped and our new startup wilikle used in its 

h 

place. If now at the end of the startup-sequence 

i 

you add the following lines, we will be olmost 

nfinished. 

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Jib hick 

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Assign titIL: T: QAP1: 

Assign >MIL: CLIPS: RAM: 

Assign AIL: REM S: 

Assign tMIL: PRINTERS: DM:Printers 

Assign tNIL: (MAPS: MS :Struts 

Assign Mt: LOCALE: SYS:LocaIe 

Assign tali.: LIMS: SYSaLasses ADO 

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End(ti )Nit: 

Save, then boot your machine and hold down the 

1 


OCTOBER 1996 

Memory 

matters 

right mouse button. ArnigaDOS will skip the nor• 

mot startup-sequence until it reaches the Quick 

label. It will then execute the new startup, which 

sets all the standard assigns and loads 

Workbench without executing any of the 

WBStartup programs. You may wont to change 

the I and CUPS ossigns to a place on your hard 

drive again to save memory. and the copy command 

is just there for people who hove a RAM 

icon stored in ENVARC. 

Additionally, you may want to add some of the 

following extra commands before the first rename 

command, depending on your needs. 

DEVS:Monitors/NTSE 

DEUS:Monitors/PAL 

E:AddDattTypes REFRESH QUIET 

Run )111L: Execute 5:User-Startup 

The two monitor commands set the proper PAL 

and NTSC screen drivers. The AddDatarype command 

will initiate all your Doc:types if you need 

them, and the last one runs the user-startup. 

Normally you con do this without losing much 

memory, as it is mainly only assigns that are 

stored in it. 

The other method of making memory-saving 

easier is not quiet so neat, but is equally usable. It 

involves making on AmigaDOS script specifically 

tar each program you want to run with the maximum 

memory available. As an example, this is the 

a 

start script I use for Image Engineer. 

assign ens: matt: 

assign 1: files:WI/stir 

t:SetPatcti MET 

cd fiLes:utitslisegeprolie 

'slip it: 

stack 33000 

run it 

Before you could use this script you would have to 

change lines two and four to suit your own needs. 

Line two sets up the temporary directory that 

AmigaDOS uses now and again to store things. 

You could just assign this to RAM, but as we are trying 

to save as much RAM as possible, the hard 

drive would be better. 

The fourth line changes the current directory to 

the one containing Image Engineer. Again you will 

have to change this to wherever you installed Image 

Engineer. The next assign simply assigns the volume 

If to the current directory. 

Now type this into your text editor and save it off 

to your C directory as StortiE You then need to 

type the following in a Shel protect ctstortie +s• 

This adds the script protection bit to the StortlE file, 

teling AmigaDOS that StartIE is a script file not an 

executable program Using this, it you reboot your 

machine holding down bath the mouse buttons and 

select boot with no startupsequence and then type 

StortlE, the AmigaDOS script will execute, and 

Image Engineer will run with as much memory available 

to it as is possible.

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Eliminating global 

variables when 

creating memoryresident 

code, 

with Paul Overca 

Amigo's resident command facility and 

T what you have to do code-wise to make 

hMN 

use of it. Resident programs, as most of 

e you will know, are loaded into memory lust once 

t'usualy 

via the AmigaDOS Resident command), 

and from that point on, the code stays there and 

h 

is, therefore, instantly available for use without 

ehaving 

to be re-loaded. The other benefit is that 

mthe 

scheme is extremely memory-efficient — no 

e matter how many processes uses the command, 

tonly 

one copy of the code is ever really available 

h 

in memory at any one time land this is true even if 

different processes use the command at the same 

i 

time). 

s For code to be made resident in this way it has 

mto 

be pure, i.e. both re-executable and re-entrant, 

oWhat 

this latter term means is that it should be 

npossible, 

whilst the code is already being used by 

t 

one process, for a second process to be able to 

execute that same code without interfering with 

h 

the first use. The necessary safety requirement 

rhere 

is that any process that uses the code should 

eleave 

it in exactly the some state as it found it — 

vand 

the main bug-bears in this respect ore the 

oglobal 

variables being used by the program. 

l 

If, for example, a command has to allocate 

some memory and it stores the pointer returned 

v 

by Alice._Meal() using: 

e 

s Illp. ...., 4,.L "till 

a 

r 

then that pointer would prevent the code being re. 

entrant. Any second process used that occurred 

o 

during the time that the command was already 

uactive 

would result in that pointer location being 

nover-written 

with a new address_ As far ••,. as the first 

d process is concerned, that memory pointer would 

tthen 

be corrupt! 

h 

The idea, then, os far as producing re-entrant 

code goes, is to eliminate All statically defined 

e 

global variables whose values might change on 

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82-e6,-47) preserve registers 

-Varialges_SIZERF(6),a5 

modify frame pointer 

• This is where the 'guts' of your routine would go. 

• Needless to say you would adjust the structure definition 

• to suit the variable types you were interested in storing! 

(a7)+,1?-an restore registers 

Listing Typica l fra me work for cre a ting insta nce -spe cific globa l. 

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that is creased each lime the program is run). One 

handy trick for doing this is to set up a structure 

that represents the variables needed by your pro- 

1 k . 

gram, and then allocate the appropriate variable 

space on the stack using the 6800 link instruction 

that we looked at last month. 

Now, the whole point of using the structure 

macros available in the system headers is that it 

should be possible to use indirect addressing with 

the offsets thot have been produced os displacements 

to access individual voriables, But there is a 

snag connected with using the 680x0's Link/Unlk 

home pointer mechanism when dealing with 

Amiga-style structure access. Suppose, for example, 

we define the following structure to hold the 

local data For a progrom• 

l 

• UVORI sole war Wel 

S ULON; solie_variatitt2 

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LUNE sooe_vatiabie3 

LABEL Roriables_SICEOF 

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This definition produces structure offsets of 0, 

+2, and +6 respectively, but if you try to use these 

sorts of structure definitions to access variables 

stored on the stack via the Link instruction's frame 

pointer register, you'll find it all goes wrong! You 

might think, at this point, that the solution is to use 

the offset values in their negative form, but if you 

play around with the offset values generated by 

these structure definitions you'll find that this 

Why? Because the structure offsets are 

designed to work in conjunction with a low memory 

base address, and this, of course, tells us 

exactly what we need to do to get things in 

order — we alter the register being used as the 

) frame pointer so that it points to the bottom, 

rather thon the top, of the memory area thot has 

been set aside. If, for example, we wonted to 

create the voriables defined by the structure 

described earlier we'd adjust the frame pointer 

like this: 

-0 

Hot 15,0-WeriabIes_SIZEOF space for 

veriob(es 

•1 

1 

tea -Veriables.SIZEOSta5),6 

oodify from pointer 

1 

Remember, incidentally, that this type of frame 

pointer modification needs to be undone before 

the program or routine terminotes — the 680x0 

Unlk instruction will expect the frame pointer register 

to be unchanged (i.e. still pointing to the top of 

the stock home). The easiest way of ensuring this 

is to copy the original contents of the frame pointer 

register at the same time that you preserve any 

of the other registers that are going to be used. 

You might for example start your routine like this! 

r 

- 

giatilts 

- act o2-a6,-(17) p eeeee ve mists 

-Yeriabtes_SIZEOF(a5),15 

1 k ify 6,1-voriablesylEOF frost pointer spice for 

This type oi entry point code then allows the 

normal movem type of routine termination to reset 

the frame pointer to its original value; 

soyss,( (17)+,12-16 

usit 1 5 

rts 

If we put all these ideas together we end up with 

the framework shown in listing 1, and within this 

you'd simply use indirect addressing to access the 

variables. Initiolising some_voriablel to zero for 

instance would be done like this; 

mossal 10,soss_ssrimble1(eSJ 

Next month, incidentally, I'll be giving you a 

runnoble example that shows how all these ideas 

fit into place and explaining how you physicaly 

tell AmigaDOS that the code you've written ,s 

be regarded as 'pure'!

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involves writing these two statements: 

Wait 'WELCOME TO IONS:' 

had 'nhost.seroccess.. 

Notice the %r placed at the end of the text 

string being sent. This is another of Termite's 

control sequences and in this case it has the 

same effect as if you had pressed the Return 

key on your keyboard. Waiting for, and 

responding to, the user id and password 

prompts is just as easy, as you'll see from 

the script shown in listing F. The ku and %p 

characters are expanded to the real user 

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Perhaps, initially, the most useful interface commands 

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system you are conneded to. 

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DOING THINGS THE EASY WAY 

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connections. 

found that your nearest (local call) connection is o 

Mercury 5000 Network number Logging onto 

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and or this point you have to type 'nhost.seraccess-.ukcns', 

after which your connection is confirmed, 

You're then prompted for a host name 

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You can select protocols for uploading and 

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there is a CAPTURE command which allows 

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terminal interaction as you wish. You could, 

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downloads) your e-mail, and then 

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this superb !RC client, then this column is for you. 

Without a doubt, AmIRC is the most powerful and 

configurable program ot its type I've ever seen on 

any machine, but in order to harness its full potential 

you may want to make a few adjustments and 

improvements here and there. 

First of oil, let's take o look at the simpler ways 

of making your life easier. When you're selecting 

your Nicknames, it generally makes sense to keep 

them as similar as possible so people will know 

who you ore. My nickname on IRC is Hedgie, so 

as my reserve nicks I use _Heigie and Hedgie_ so 

that even if some heartless soul swipes my nick, 

friends will be able to recognise me. 

Another advantage of using such similor nicknames 

is that you con easily configure AmIRC to 

alert you whenever somebody uses your name 

Take a peek at the Lists window (which is accessed 

from the Settings menu) under Wise. Click on the 

button to Add A New Hike Pattern, then enter your 

nick in inverted commas Also. odd likely variants 

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be released imminently as Freeware. 

Konnection from Piper Communications is fully 

modular, saving precious memory by only 

loading modules when required. like existing 

front-ends, it ties together everything from 

Web browsers to e-mail programs and 

newsreaders. 

However, Konnection boosts configurable 

menus for launching those programs, and has 

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and on the GUI page, change the colour of highlighted 

text to something that contrasts with ordinary 

text. 

You might also like to add o sound effect using 

the Events page. This way you con happily be 

browsing away in the background and whenever 

someone addresses you, you will be alerted by a 

sampled sound and your attention will quickly be 

drown to the highlighted message on screen. 

Whilst you are on the Events page, it would also 

make sense to add a sound effect and highlighted 

text for Private Messages, or a sample when someone 

new joins the channel so you can keep a look 

out for friends. 

TIME SAVER 

Make use of the Function Keys page to store 

lengthy but frequently used messages, such as the 

location of your home page or the Amigo system 

configuration you are using. This can save a lot of 

typing. There are also some labour-saving devices 

built into the program which ore worth making use 

of, such 05 the URI Grabber !added in version 

1 11, which sends any Web sites people mention 

GONNA GET MYSELF CONNECTED 

Full support for AmiTrack (a handy program 

which allows you to see when people you 

know are connected). It can also launch 

AmiPhone, AmiTalk and AmiSlate and connect 

to a selected user, and it keeps on-fine time 

even when it's not running. In addition to plenty 

more features, it also uses MUI and has a 

drop-dead gorgeous interface. So keep your 

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to your browser to save you the effort of entering 

the URI manualy. 

Finally, as mentioned in issue 100 of Amigo 

Computing, one of the best features of AmIRC is its 

support for ARexx scripts. There ore some scripts 

you absolutely should not be without, and you'll be 

able to get hold of them either on Aminet or by 

asking nicely on certain channels. They are all 

straightforward to inswol, a process which is generally 

explained in accompanying documentation, 

If you use YAM for e-mail then get hold of 

Oliver Campion's YomIRC script which ollows you 

to e-mail people from within AmIRC simply by typing: 

'/mail Hedgie bloh...'. Another handy script 

From the same bloke is FAG, which allows those of 

us who aren't privileged enough to enjoy Channel 

Operator status to create our own Frequently 

Asked Question entries and recoil them with a sirn. 

pie command line for all to see. There ore other 

handy scripts knocking around too, which automat. 

tooth/ greet people you know, grant Op status to 

friends when they enter (if you are a Channel Op 

yourself), and so on. 

A word of warning, though. One script I used to 

use, which automatically accepts any files being 

sent to your machine, can prove a pain at times. If 

same irritating fool decides to Hood the channel 

with DCC send requests you will find yourself flooded 

out and will have to retain the channel. With 

this in mind, rather than employing that particular 

script you would probably be best waiting for 

AmIRC's own version of selective AutoAccepting, 

which at the time of writing is promised, onsongst 

a host of other features, for the forthcoming 

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o should you indeed have any products 

or f enough to warrant a catalogue anyway. 

o Now we have to answer a few cosmetic questions, 

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products 

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and a text description to appear to the right. Text 

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Iwo, w side by side. As you can see this is easy to 

use e for our multimedia program, as we simply 

put ' the text area off to the right of the screen and 

put v text to the window. 

e Windows operate just like text screens so they 

are 

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simple to clear and add new text to. Just put 

a loop into your program which puts the appro- 

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text you want in the window, 

To write to the window simply use the: 

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Purling a picture into the frame is similarly sin 

ple You can either combine two screens with dual 

playfield, or simply reload the whole screen with 

the chosen picture pasted into the slot Personally I 

prefer the latter course as its easier and quicker 

to learn And it's much more effective in code 

terms because oil you do is load another IFF 

screen using one line of code 

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Load Iff "ataapittuta.iff",0 

ANY OTHER BUSINESS 

Anything else you should know about planning 

and making programs? Learn your AtAOS. Either 

read this column on a regular basis, buy a batch 

of back issues or buy a good book on the subject 

, (I believe my Mastering Amiga AMOS is still in 

print!) and try out all the tutorials. 

• Get on to the Internet and share information 

with other AMOS coders. But most of all planning 

is of crucial importance. After all, if you don't 

know what you're planning to do in great detail, 

how are you going to figure out how to write the 

code? 

• Make the program in bits and assemble those 

into the full program. Separate each routine and 

work on it, making it do its own thing properly, 

before you move on to the next thing. Where possible 

make sure you pass the variables to each 

routine using the same variable names, so that 

you can mix and match routines from other pro- 


OCTOBER /996 

And 

finally... 

grams to make new programs in half the time. 

• Try to employ the services of someone who can 

draw to design the interface. I know it sounds a 

bit lame, but I've seen so many programs which 

look like they were designed by a chimp. In fact 

I'm sure some of them were designed by chimps, 

but they are just better coders than they are 

artists. 

Set out your interface clearly, so that anyone 

can see what it does at a glance, and the function 

of each button and menu is obvious. Quirky 

methods of operation are not funny, especially 

when you ore looking for a menu and can't find 

it. And while you are at it, make as few controls 

as possible, and don't spoil people for choice. 

Choose a simple elegant scheme and stick to it. 

There that's all. Good luck, and send me some 

of your multimedia programs so I con see how 

.you're getting on. 

'Finns innalhe 

from the gams 

Fish II, FishAhrt 

due old in 

PSoventbor 1996 

from Ideas Inc. 

whereas the fancy pants method will just burn 

lines upon lines of code. 

So we've taken a program from start to finish 

and while this will not set the world on fire, it's a 

good basic program for multimedia uses. 

Obviously if you have acres of MOD files and 

pictures to show its worthwhile making the program 

on CD ROM (see issue xx for information 

about CD ROM burners) and compiling your 

code so it just runs from an icon on the 

Workbench. 

• Next issue (If be looking at special effects, and 

how you con make your programs drop jaws 

and pop eyes werever they may go. Until then 

ITN! 

WRITE STUFF 

If you have any other AMOS programs ar 

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Amos Column, Amiga Computing, Meats 

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external graphics, or if they can't be used 

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Amiga!

Steve White 

contlinues his 

tutorial, this month 

he looks at adding 

interface gadgets 

elcome to the third instalment of 

the Blitz Basic 2 tutorial. last 

month we started writing the actual 

code for the BOOTIt main program. 

Now we will be adding the interface gadgets 

to the main window and creating a loop to 

check for gadget presses. 

The first thing we need to do is to define the 

gadgets before we actually create the window, 

Last time I demonstrated the various gadgets 

BOOTH will require and labelled them. You can 

see the definitions below for the gadgets and this 

code should be placed directly below the line: 

Let gad9et4=50 

If you wont to check the syntax of each gadget you 

can find them in the manual The basic syntax is 

gadget type, Grtist number, 10 number, x pos, y 

pos, mo 

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in fact godgetid+1. You may remember that the 

variable godgehd is set it) 50 to avoid conflict 

problems with Workbench 2 in which the designers 

pinched ID numbers 1 to 50. 

Using a gadget ID of 1 to 50 is fine on 

Workbench 3 but if you use these numbers on a 

Workbench 2 application it will crash. Therefore, 

our first gadget ID is set to godgetid+ t which 

makes it 51, Subsequent gadgets ore coiled pct. 

getid+2, godgehd+3, gocigetici+4 etc. 

The above code will effectively create eight 

gadgets of the Gadroals class but you won't see 

them immediately Gadgets must be placed after a 

window has been defined. Unlike the old gadgets. 

GadTools ore actually attached to the window with 

the AnachGTbst command. What we need to do 

now is to create a window and then ottoch the 

gadgets. 

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defined gadgets to the window. The first 

number is the gadgets Gaist number (0) and the 

second is the window 10 number (0). Once this 

command is executed the gadgets ore drawn in 

their correct positions in the window. 

The next three lines drawn the borders that give 

the interface that special look. The GIBevelbox 

must be executed after a GIlist has been attached 

to a window. The 0 is the GTbst that the bevelboxes 

belong to - and ID is not required as there is no 

need to reference GTBevelBoxes for content. The 

Rog at the end of the command, SO, tells Blitz 

which way to render the GIBevelBox - $0 for 

raised and $I for recessed 

THE RIGHT EVENT 

Now that the main interface is finished with we 

con then start adding some interactivity to the program, 

This means we have to provide some way 

in which the user can actually select options from 

the interface. We do this using a loop that cantains 

code to test for events such as key presses, 

gadget hits and window events, Underneath the 

interface code enter the following: 

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Forever 

CODE CORRECTIONS 

In lost month's instalment of the Blitz Basic 2 guide there were a 

couple of errors that somehow crept into the demonstrated code. In 

the section titled The Storage Array you will notice that line 5 and 

line 13 have the text @ti before them. Just delete this otherwise 

the program will kick up on error. However, if you are using the 

source code on the disk you will have no problems. 

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a gadget, the Poop registers it and follow any instructions associated with that gadget 

Now although the above code may look complicated 

it is fairly straightforward on closer 

inspection. The first Repeat basically runs the 

main s loop. If an event occurs but it is not one 

we are checking for the loop is continued by the 

Forever command at the end of the loop. 

The next Repeat controls the checking of 

events. After the repeat we wait for on event, 

using WoitEvent, the result of which is stored in 

ev I, The next line keeps looping to the second 

repeat Until ev4200 (a window eventl OR 

ev4400 (a key press] OR ev..540 (a gadget 

hit). If one of these events is received, program 

flow breaks the loop set by the second Repeal 

and continues down the code 

A LITTLE INTERACTION 

Once the loop is set up we can then begin testing 

for specific events. Notice the section of 

code that reads: 

If eviS200 AND EventN1ndiv.0 

Pop Repeat 

Goto endit 

EndIf 

This basically tests ev for $200 window 

event) and then checks that if a window event 

did occur it did so in window ID O. The next line 

is very important • Pop Repeat. In the line below 

Pop Repeat we exit the entire loop and lump, or 

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Gob, a new section of code, in this instance 

caled end it. 

This means that we are prematurely exiting a 

Repeat loop (this is the first Repeat that loops 

with the Forever command). What happens is 

that when a Repeat is executed, the position of 

the program at the time the Repeat was encountered 

is pushed onto the stack. When the 

Forever command is executed this position is 

popped off again and program flows continues 

at this point - in this case this is the first Repeat 

and this is how the loop works. 

Now, because we have exited the Repeat 

Forever loop prematurely we have to forcibly 

pop the position set by the Repeat back off the 

stock, You must always exit loops cleanly and 

that means popping off any positions that have 

previously been popped. Invariably this mews 

Repeat Forever loops, Repeat Until loops (the 

second Repeat type], Gosub Return loops and 

For Next lOOpS. 

If ev does not equal $200, program Row continues 

after the Endif command ond the next set 

of event checks are executed. Using this knowledge 

you con probably moke o fair iudgement 

as to what the other checks ore for, 

Don't worry, I'll explain each check independently 

next month. The code will still not compile 

without errors SO next month I will provide some 

smal code examples on how to moke BOOTIt 

compile with the code so f 

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