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To heip you find what you want
quickly and easily, this is a cross-
referenced list of all the products
and subjects covered in this
month's Amiga Shopper, You'll find
a detailed index to the many
subjects dealt with in the problem-
solving Amiga Answers section
given on page 23. The page
numbers given are for the first page
of the article in which the subject is
mentioned.
ADI Packages
Adorage
Advertisers' Index
Amiga Answers
Amiga DOS
AMOS
ARexx
Astronomy Programs
Beginner's Amiga DOS
Blitter
C Programming
Chips
ax
Code Clinic
Comms
Competition
Contents
Decision Making
Desktop Publishing
DIY Hardware Repairs
Education
Expansion
Fred Fish
Free Offer
Future World
GVP Genlock
Letters
Mail Order
Memory
MIDI Fault Finding
Music
Mews
Parallax Scrolling
Pro Agnus
Product Locator
Programming 39 F
Public Domain
Reader Ads
Resistor Calculator
String Manipulation
Structured Drawing
Subscriptions
US News
User Groups
Video
122
56
120
23
70
62
99
78
70
39
84
14, 86
73
39
73
122
5
84
41
86
78
14
107
73
7
60
12
89
14
53
53
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WELCOME
| t was TS Eliot who described April as the
I cruellest month for its mixing of memory with
I desire. Wetl, he was wrong - this month we
fulfil your desires by providing a complete
guide to Amiga memory. Not only do we give you
the low-down on just what all the different types of
memory expansion are, but we also review 14
different products to ensure you make the right
purchase for your needs. Let's face it, a half or
single Megabyte of RAM is fine for playing games,
but if you want to get serious then you really do
need more. Turn to our main feature starting on
page 14 to find out how you can get it.
Those of you who own (or are about to buy)
modems are in for a special treat this month.
We've tied up a deal with the people at the
Compulink Information exchange to give you all
free membership. This normally costs £25 plus
VAT, so we're saving you a substantial amount of
money. CIX is a huge electronic bulletin board/
conferencing system where you can engage in
lively debate, get advice on problems and talk to
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of how to get your CIX for free are on page 73.
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DISHING UP THE FISH
There are thousands of Amiga programs which are
available for little more than the price of a disk.
There are also many T many more which you can try
out before you buy. Each mouth in Public Domain
World we examine the best of these programs and
explain how to get hold of them.
This month we look again at the latest batch of
programs from the world famous Fred Fish
collection, and carry alarming news about its
possible demise. Public Domain World or
School's out for summer?
as we call it this month, starts on page 107.
As you've come to
expect, we're also
carrying a whole load of
reviews, including an
in-depth look at Art
Expression, a
structured drawing
program that should
offer some stiff
competition to industry-
standard Mac
illustration packages.
Sadly, the Amiga world has taken a couple of
blows this month, with the huge dealer chain
Future World calling in the administrators and Fred
Ffsh threatening to close down his public domain
library. Read the full stories on pages 7 and 107.
I hope you enjoy the issue!
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INSIDE THIS ISSUE
News 7
Future World goes into administration PLUS Commodore
UK issues writ against ex-Managing Director
Talking Shop 1 2
Thoughts on the Amiga's piece in the future of computing
Total Recoil
14
The definitive guide to Random Access Memory on the
Amiga - what it is, and what to buy. If you're looking to
expand your system, turn here first
Amiga Answers 23
Our panel of experts devote their incredible brain-power to
solving your technical problems
Code Clinic 39
This month Toby Simpson fixes the bugs in a utility to
calculateblitterparameters
Desktop Publishing 41
Jeff Walker gives an anything but sketchy review of Art
Expression, Soft Logik's new structured drawing package
PLUS a look at a budget laser printer from Panasonic
Music 53
In which Paul 0 vera a offers some handy advice for
tracking down and eliminating MIDI misdemeanours
Video 56
Reviewed this month - Adorage, a special effects
package; G-Lock, GVP's genlock; and WTS's Pro Agnus
Chip RAM upgrade kit
AMOS Action
62
News of the first ever AMOS Pro update disk and an
explanation of how to produce parallax scrolling screens
PLUS answers to all your AMOS programming problems
AmignDOS
Beginners rejoice! Mark Smiddy explains the basics of
AmigaDOS PLUS a script for calculating resistor values
fH5*Comms 73
Save yourself nearly £30 by taking advantage of free
membership to CIX r the bulletin board and conferencfng
system where you can find the Amiga Shopper writers
Education
78
Wilf Rees turns his attention skywards and looks at two
programs of use to amateur astronomers
Reader Ads
83
The bustling marketplace of second-hand Amiga kit
C Programming 84
Professional games writer Toby Simpson explains how
decisions are made in C
DIY Hardware Repairs 86
How do you know if your chips are cooked? Wilf Rees Is
your man with the fr^iog-paTi screwdriver
Mail Order
89
It's your chance to pick up some tasty gear at special
Amiga Shopper prices
Subscriptions
95
Don't leave yourself open to disappointment - guarantee
the next twelve issues of your favourite magazine
ARexx
99
Jason Hoi born shows how to manipulate strings with the
latest addition to the collection of Amiga languages
User Groups
Amiga users of the world unite!
104
Public Domain World
107
A look through the latest, and possibly the last, In the
gargantuan Fred Fish Collection. Can it be true that
he's thinking of scaling down his operation?
70 Product Locator
116
Our at-a-glance guide lists and explains how to get at the
best in low-cost and no-cost software
Competition 122
Those wonderful folk at Euro press have donated 15 bags
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AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 24 « APRIL 1993
AMIGA SHOPPER
Issue 24 April 1993
Editor: Cliff Ramshaw
Art Editor: Diana Taylor
Production Editor: Dave Green
Staff Writer: Gus Chandler
Consultant Editors: Jeff Walker,
Mark Smiddy, Ian Wrigley
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Promotions Manager:
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Publisher: Stuart Anderton
Group Publishing Director:
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Cover illustration by Henri Bujko of
Alternative Image
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New Citizens
Swift 240
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Advanced 24 pin printer, (Swift 24E
replacement). Prione for a data sheet
"optional colour. Prtce with cable & paper
240 Mono
240C Colour
£245
£265
Swift 200
24pin Colour*
Enhanced 24pin printer, (Swift 224
replacement,) Phone for a data sheet
* optional colour. Price with cable & pj
£195
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200 Mono
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Citizen's Print Manager
These advanced printer drivers transform
colour printout's to loser type quality
Version 1 {224 & 24E) £5
Version 2 {Swift series 2) £10
Drivers 1 12 price if bought with a printer
Printer Drivers
Canon B>10e/ex. , £5
Deskjet 500 Colour £10
Deskjet 500
HP 300dpi InkJet printer. Laser
quality at dot matrix price.
3 year warranty. noon
With cable & paper LO^U
Deskjet Colour
300dpi colour Inkjet printer.
Colour laser quality at 1 /1 0 of the cost,
3 year warranty. r A + n
With cable & paper £419
New
HP
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300dpi colour Inkjet printer.
Colour laser quality, with colour
and black cartridges resklent.
3 year warranty. C R O Q
With cable & paper
Printer Packs
AM printers are supplied with a printer pack
consisting of printer paper and a connection
cable. _ , .
Free of charge
A stand is £5.00 extra (with a printer)
Type Through
Protective Covers
A5O0 A500+ A600 & A1 200
(Please state model) £17,50
Printer Dust Covers
most types in stock
from £4.70
New Prices
GVP Series 2
forASOO Hard Disks
40Mb Hard Disk £299
80Mb Hard Disk £369
120Mb Hard Disk £459
40Mb A530 Combo £645
80Mb A530 Combo £739
for A1 500
40Mb Hard Disk £275
80Mb Hard Disk £319
1 20Mb Hard Disk £395
Controller (no disk) £1 34
GVP ram £29 per 1Mb
Ram Upgrades
A500 1Mram + Clock £24.90
A500 1 Mram no clock ......... £19.90
A500+ 1Mram + clock £39.90
A600 1Mram +dock £49.90
Citizen ProCM
14* Super High res. Multisync
Colour monitor, dot pitch 0,26mm r
suitable for A3000 or A4000
with cable
£349
Commodore
1 084ST
As 1 084$ D only includes stand
£185
with cable
£180
without cable
Floppy Drives
Cumana CAX354
£49.90
1M external
While stocks last
Commodore
A 1011 1M external
While stocks last
£48
Roctec/Zappo
All Amiga* A5G0-A1 200
1 M external drive £49.90
New
Amiga A1200
5x faster, Workbench v3, 2M ram.
Custom graphics - 256K colours from
16.7mi, to , £35g
Amiga A4000
25MHz 6Mram
Wb 3 120Mb Hd
£2089
Amiga A600
Standard A 600 single floppy
£255 £249
with game
without software
Amiga 600SD
(D. Paint 111 Grand Prix. Putty, Pushover)
Wild Weird
& Wicked
£289
Citizen 120D +
with cable
& paper
£109
All Citizen printers have
2 year warran ty
Canon BJ-10ex
360dpi Inkjet printer
with cable & paper
£199
Citizen Swift 9
with cable
& paper
Mono £155
Colour £179
Star SJ-48
360dpi Inkjet printer
with cable & paper
£199
Panasonic
KXP1 1 23
Probably the best 24pin mono
printer available. With cable & paper
£169
Star LC100
Spin colour with cable & paper
New
£159
Panasonic/Epson
KXP1170 9pin ,„ ... 134
KXP1124i 24pin 215
KXP2180 Spin Colour .... 189
KXP21 23 24pin Colour... 229
Epson LX400 9pin 119
Epson LQ570 24pin 265
Prices include VAT cable fit paper
Naksha Scanner
New
with touch up r< f\Q
software L I V/O
Naksha Mouse
for Atari ST & Amiga
with house Si mat
£21.50
Squik Mouse
for Atari $T & Amiga £1 3.90
Star
LC20 Mono 9pin 119
LC2O0 Colour Spin ....... 179
LC2420 Mono 24pin 185
LC24100 Mono 24pin ....175
LC24200 Colour 24pin 259
Prices include VAT cabte & paper
Kickstart Upgrades
Commodore 2.04 full upgrade 79.00
Kickstart ROM only v2.04 41.50
Kickstart ROM only v 1.3 29.00
Phoenix rom sharer . 24.95
Keyb'd operated rom sharer 24.96
VXL30 25MHz Accelerator .,239,00
Fatter Angus custom chip ...,37.50
True Mouse
for Atari ST & Amiga £15, 90
Happy Mouse
for Atari ST & Amiga £ 1 4 - 90
Commodore
1 084SD
14* Stereo Colour Monitor.
Dot pitch 0,42mm. Medium Res.
£179 £175
with cable without cable
Prices valid white stock Easts
Amiga 600HD
I20M Hd, Trivial P. F Epic, Rome, Fusho"}
£359
Epic Pack
Philips CM8833 mk2
UK. 240V £215 WTth raWo
+ game £211 without cable
If gam a not required reduce above
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Price valid for current stock only
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50x 3.5" DS/DD 135tpi 32.30
1 00x3.5" DS/DD 1 35tpi 59.93
250x3, 5 ' DS/DD 1 35tpi 141 .00
Ikx 3.5" DS/DD 135tpi 540,50
Accessories
3M Joystick/Mouse lead .... 3.75
A500 Printer cable 7.95
Modulator/Disk Extension ..... 1 0.95
2 3 way Plug or socket 2.95
A500 Dust Cover 4,70
Mouse Mat (thick soft type) .. 4.95
Mouse House 2.95
1M internal 3.5" drive 49.00
A500 replacement PSU 39.00
A5 90 replacement PSU ....... 49,00
Rocgen Plus - Genlock + .. 129.00
Disc Wallet for 32 disks 7.95
DISKETTES
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(lifetime warranty)
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I0x 3.5" DS/DD 136tpi 5.95
50x 3,5" DS/DD 135tpi 21.86
100x3.5" DS/DD 1 35tpi 39 60
250x3,5" DS/DD 1 35tpi 94.88
Ikx 3.5" DS/DD 135tpi 379,53
40 x 3. 5" Disk box with lock. ..... 5.49
100 x 3.5 H Disk box with lock..,. 7,50
Carriage on 50+ disks £3.53
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NEWS
FLYING GRAPHICS
Effortless animation for tftles and
graphics is possible using
Med iascape's Fligh tpaths ut i I ity, now
available for Deluxe Paint IV. From a
library of 200 moves you can have
your captions loop, spiral and
pirouette before slotting neatly into
place. Flightpaths costs £49.95 (plus
£1.90 p&p) and can be obtained in
the UK from Meridian Software *
0533 863501.
SWIFT 2 DRIVER
Citizen have released a new
Amiga DOS 2.0 printer driver to
support the Swift 2 series of 24-pin
colour dot matrix printers. The driver
retails for £14.10. Citizen « 0753
584111.
SPIKE PROTECTION
Voltage surges (spikes) on the mains
are one of the most common causes
of computer crashes, The Noiseguard
from Schaffner EMC Ltd is a high-
specification two-stage filter designed
to suppress mains spikes- The
Noiseguard can handle any load up to
10A at 250V and costs £57.58.
Schaffner EMC Ltd w 0734 770070.
BACKUP PRO
The latest version (9.92) of the multi-
purpose disc utility package X-Backup
Pro is now available from Siren
Software for £39*99, You can reach
Siren on * 061 724 7572.
MUSIC LIBRARIAN
Music Librarian, a sophisticated new
information management package for
musicians, has just been released by
Applied Research Kernel (also known
as l ARK 1 ). It's primarily aimed at
professional users such as disk
jockeys and music librarians, and
retails at £39.95. For more
information contact ARK on « 0983
551496.
Epson, Ricoh and Xerox laser printers
Epson, Ricoh and Rank Xerox all have
new offerings in the laser printer
arena this month.
From Epson comes the EPL-5200
(as a replacement for the EPL-4300
model) with 300 dots per inch (dpi)
resolution. Priced at £929, it is
driven by a 68000 processor that is
clocked at 16.67 MHz and comes
with 13 scalable and 28 bit-mapped
fonts. The EPL-5200 has a first page
print speed of 19 seconds and you
can expect to get 6000 pages (at 5%
print density) from the toner
cartridge. 1Mb of memory is supplied
and this can be expanded to 5Mb.
The EPL-5200 supports as standard
HP IlISi; FX; GL-2 and LQ emulations.
Epson it 0442 61144
Ricoh has released a 4Mb
version of its LP1200 laser printer.
Selling for £799 (compared to £699
for the 2Mb model) it has an
impressive 400 dpi print resolution
and a rapid first page print speed of
15 seconds. The toner cartridge will
produce 5000 copies (at 5% print
density). Four bit mapped and 6
scalable fonts are provided and
LaserJet III, PCL5 and HP-GL/2
emulations are supported. We tested
the 2Mb version of the LP1200 in our
printer round-up of two issues ago
(February '93) where it scored top
marks. Ricoh printers are distributed
in the UK by Silica Systems s 081
309 1111.
Rank Xerox has two variants of
the same printer, the 4010 II (£869)
and 4010 III (£1,095). Both printers
have 300 dpi resolution and boast a
first page print speed of 34 seconds.
The 4010 II is supplied with 11
resident bit-mapped fonts and 512K
RAM, while the 4010 III has 15 fonts
and 2.5Mb RAM. Both machines can
be upgraded to take 4,5Mb RAM,
Their toner cartridge will produce
1500 copies (at 5% print density). An
on-site warranty is included in the
purchase price of each machine. In
the case of the 4010 II this is for one
year, while the 4010 III is supported
for three. Rank Xerox » 0895
251133.
FUTURE WORLD
PLACED IN ADMINISTRATION
Bedford-based company Future World Computers Ltd has
been placed in administration at the request of its
directors. Future World, which also traded as Dynamite
Computers, ran six shops and a mail order service.
It's believed that many of its customers have
outstanding orders placed with the company. When
asked what a customer 1 s chances are of recovering any
money owed, a spokesperson for the administrators
replied: "Very slim really - we're trying to see what we can
sort out." Future Publishing, the publisher of Amiga
Shopper, is itself owed a substantial sum.
WHAT TO DO
Customers who have not received goods, have received
faulty goods or only partial delivery of their order, are urged
to contact the administrators as soon as possible.
• If you bought your goods via credit card, and the total
cost came to more than £100, then you will be covered by
insurance. Contact the credit card company.
• Some credit card companies also insure claims under
£100 for 90 days following the purchase,
• Otherwise write to the administrators as soon as
possible, outlining your complaint in full.
The administrators are: Pannell Kerr Forster, 159 Gharles
Street, Leicester LEI 1LD w 0533 856611.
The company was placed in administration on January
27th, following an attempt in December to increase the
company's viability by closing
down its mail order operation. At that time
the then-Managing Director Raj Ling left for health
reasons, leaving his partner Kart Morton in charge,
Morton's accountants advised him to put the company
in administration. As a result three of the six retail outlets
have been closed, making four redundancies. A buyer for
the company is currently being sought, with adverts being
placed in the Financial Times, Currently around 40 people
have expressed an interest. Any money gained will go
towards reimbursing creditors and customers expecting
money or goods.
There may be advertisements for Future World or
Dynamite Computers appearing in the press that have not
been cancelled in time, The mail order service is closed
and readers should not respond to such adverts.
Amiga Shopper would like to assure its readers that
the vast majority of the mail order companies advertising
in the magazine are professional and creditable.
Oki extends life of print heads
Oki has launched two 9-pin dot matrix printers
incorporating inteHigent print head technology 1 .
The print heads in these two new printers
sense the thickness of the loaded paper and
automatically adjust to retain the optimum distance
between head and paper. This helps cut down on
print head wear, reducing operating costs. It also
makes the printers ideal for situations in which
different types of stationery, such as letters,
envelopes and forms, are regularly interchanged.
The two models are named the ML520 and the
ML521, the latter being a wide carriage version.
They will print up to 433 characters per second in
draft mode and 81 cps in letter quality. Emulations
supported are Epson FX, Microline and IBM
Proprinter/AGM.
The ML520 costs £499, while the ML521
costs £599. If you'd like more details, Oki can be
contacted on ^ 0753 819819.
AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 24 • APRIL 1993
NEWS
GVP accelerator board
Great Valley Products (perhaps better
Known as GVP') has just released an
accelerator board for the A1200
called the A1230 Turbo.
Priced at £399 the A1230 is
based around a 68030 processor
which is clocked at 40MHz. The
board comes with 1Mb of on board
RAM and also has two SIMM sockets
that will accept 1, 4 or 16Mb SIMMs
- giving a maximum configuration of
32Mb of 60 nanoseconds DRAM. A
socket is also provided for a Floating
Point Unit - when installed this will
give a dramatic speed improvement
for ail those floating point
mathematical operations.
The GVP A 1230 accelerator is
distributed in the UK by Silica
Systems ^ 081 309 1111.
Turbo-charge
your new A1200 with GVP's
A 12 30 processor accelerator
WEMBLEY EXHIBITION CENTRE
7-9 MAY 1993
Details of May s Amiga Format Live show are beginning to
come thick and fast, with several major players in the
Amiga market confirming their attendance.
The show, which takes place at Wembley between the
7th and 9th of May, looks set to be something very
special, with companies such as Commodore, Digita
International, HB Marketing, ICD, Power Computing,
Rombo and Silica Systems ready to exhibit their wares. As
well as the tried and trusted products that have made
these companies' names in the past, many exciting new
launches are also slated to make an appearance, though
the companies are naturally reluctant to spoil the surprise
at this stage by revealing what these may be.
Commodore will of course be there in force. The
show mm
company 1 s National Marketing Manager Dawn Levack said:
"Having discussed the direction to be taken by the show
with Future, we feel that our interests couldn't be in better
hands," - Future (Publishing) being the company behind
both Amiga Format and Amiga Shopper.
As well as having the opportunity to see all the best in
Amiga hardware and software and picking up plenty of
great bargains, you'll also get the opportunity to
participate in a number of special events. These include
the renowned Amiga Answers expert panel, who will be
there to solve your hassles and give advice live; the Amiga
Power games arcade, where you'll get a chance to let off
some steam; and the Sound and Vision Experience* This
latter will be an area in which you will find a sound studio,
a graphics studio and a full scale video production facility.
If you were wondering what your Amiga is capable of, then
look no further.
For more details, including how you can guarantee your
place by booking your ticket in advance, turn to page 102.
Drive controller (or A500
A500 owners who want to take
advantage of the cheaper IDE hard
drives will be interested in
GoldenlMAGE's latest product, Alfa-
Power is an integrated IDE controller
and memory upgrade card.
It is compatible with the A500
and the A500 Plus and will accept up
to 8Mb of memory using 1Mb x 4 Zip
packages, and either two 2.5-inch
hard drives or a single 3.5-inch unit,
A mounting bracket, software and the
necessary IDE cables are provided. A
connector is provided for an external
power supply,
AlfaPower costs £99 without
memory or hard drive, from
Golden! MAGE * 081 3651102,
A1200 realtime clock
Prima Technologies has released a
real-time clock for the A1200.
The company's battery-backed
clock fits internally and works with
AmigaDOS' date and time functions.
It costs £15 from the First Computer
Centre « 0532 319444, and Is
compatible with the Mic robotics
MBX1200 RAM expansion board.
BLIZZARD MEMORY BOARD
German-based company Phase 5 Digital Products has released a Fast RAM
expansion board for the A1200, plus a SCSI controller for the A4000.
The Blizzard 1200/4 memory board is installed in the trapdoor slot of the
A1200 and comes with 4Mb of factory-installed 32-bit zero wait state Fast RAM.
While obviously providing more memory for applications or data, access time is
also significantly faster than for the A1200's built-in memory, so increasing
operating speed,
The Blizzard board has an on board connector that allows a further 4Mb of
Fast RAM to be added by attaching a Blizzard 1200/ADD4 memory module.
Furthermore, the board has a socket for a maths co-processor (68881 or
68382) that will greatly enhance the speed of floating point intensive
operations. The 1200/4 board is available for £249, with the additional 4Mb
expansion module priced at £199.
Phase 5 Digital Products ^ 01049 69 548 1B44.
MARCAM GENLOCK
Ma ream has added an effects box to its 8802 Genlock system. Called the
Marcam Rendale 8802 FMC Genlock and selling at £178, the additional effects
box is used to control the mode in which the Genlock operates.
This means that you can control the balance between the Amiga and video
display - picking either Amiga only, video only or what is termed foreground
mode, in the foreground mode the Amiga background colour will become
transparent, which leaves any Amiga graphics that are not in the background
colour overlaid above the video input
Marcam products are handled by Meridian Software Distribution Ltd. For
more details you can call « 081 543 3500.
TV MODULATOR
REPAIRS
A500 users with broken TV
modulators can now get them
replaced by Trilogic. For £20.99
(which includes postage) Tri logic will
repair or exchange the defective unit
which then comes with a six month
guarantee. You must send the
damaged modulator with your order -
they're like gold dust and Tri logic
recycle all of them. If you happen to
be sitting on a pile of A500
modulators in any condition then
Trilogic would like to hear from you,
Trilogic also offers a 15-inch
modulator extension lead that
provides a flexible connection
between the Amiga and modulator
enabling the two units to be
separated - so reducing the chance
of the modulator falling out and being
damaged. The extension lead costs
£10.99. Tri logic « 0274 691115.
IMAGES ON T-SHIRTS
For the past eighteen months Studio
101 has been offering Amiga users
the opportunity to have their own
designs printed on to white T-shirts*
This service has now been extended
to printing on black shirts as well. The
printed T-shirts are machine washable
(although you are best advised not to
use washing powders containing
bleaching agents). All that you need to
do is send a disk containing an IFF or
24-bit file of your design which will fit
within the maximum print area of A3,
Prices are £7.99 (child) and
£10.99 (adult) for white T-shirts. Black
T-shirts cost £10.99 (child) and
£15.99 (adult). Contact Studio 101:
101 Sudeley, DosthilS, Tarn worth, B77
1JU. Or ^ 0827 280884 after 6pm.
AVOIDING VOIDING
Worried about voiding the warranty on
your Amiga if you open the machine to
fit a hard drive? Then help is at hand
from those helpful people at Trilogic.
They've arranged with a leading
UK insurance company to offer
owners two or three year warranties
on both computer and drive.
For systems that are worth up to
£600 the cost is £27.99 for two year
cover and £42.99 for three. If your
system is worth between £600 and
£1000 you can get a two year
warranty for £42.99 and three years
for £67.99,
Warranties are only available for
Amigas (and drives) that are less than
a year old and there are certain
restrictions - theft and wilful damage
aren't covered. Neither is cosmetic
damage that doesn't stop the
computer from working. Trilogic ^
0274 691115.
8
AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 24 • APRIL 1993
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Upgrade your A600 or A1200 with a brand new 2.5" internal IDE
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instructions.
Alt New Horizon Hard Drives are sourced from Brand Name I
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New Horizon will collect your machine, fit the drive of your choice
and return your machine by overnight carrier to any mainland UK
address for a fully inclusive price of only £38.50. Offer lasts until
April 20th 1993 only. Phone our Sales Hotline for further details.
A600HD owners - Upgrade to a bigger drive. Phone for
more details. Installing a Hard Drive will invalidate
your Commodore warranty so all computers fitted by us
with a Mew Horizon Drive are covered by our own full
12 month RTB Warranty from date of purchase.
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NEWS
BEGINNERS BOOK
Bruce Smith Books has just released The
Insider Guide to me A1200. The book
provides an excellent introduction to the
A 1200 - its 256 pages are organised into
24 chapters that have been written in an
easily accessible tutorial style,
A valuable and innovative feature is
the 55 'Insider Guide 1 panels. These use
a series of annotated screen shots to
provide a step-by-step guide to the
particular operation being explained.
The insider Guide A1200 is priced at
£14.95 and can be obtained from Bruce
Smith Boohs « 0923 894355.
tniga
11200
Guide
RED NOSE
DAY
Commodore has
produced a special
Comic Relief Amiga
1200 pack to raise
money for this year s
appeal For each of
the 25 r 000 packs
sold, Commodore is
making a £10 donation to Comic Relief.
The A1200 comes bundled with Ocean Software's
specially-written Comtc Relief game Sleepwalker and costs £399.
COMMODORE IN
LEGAL BATTLE
Steve Franklin, ex-Managing Director
of Commodore UK, is one of several
facing a writ from the company
Commodore UK has served a writ
against ex-Managing Director Steve
Franklin, reports trade paper CTW.
The writ also applies to two
former directors and four ex-
employees of FMG, the now defunct
company that undertook
Commodore's repair commitments, as
well as the co-owner of a failed
Commodore re-seller. The writ alleges
that Franklin is responsible for breach
of contract, negligence and wrongful
interference with Commodore's
business. Damages from Franklin are
being claimed.
Solicitors for the defendants have
stated that their clients deny the
charges, and that there is a possibility
of a counter-action.
FMG went bust in October of last
year with debts of £1.8 million. Of
interest to any readers who are
missing equipment that was with the
company at the time of the closure is
the writ s demand of an account of all
the monies received on the sale or
disposal of Commodore's goods.
Video for Sequencer One
Owners of the Sequencer One and Sequencer One Pius music packages will be
interested to learn that Gajits Music Software has now produced a tutorial
video. The video is divided into ten lessons that take the user from basic
principles through to knowing everything that they need to know to record, edit
and arrange their own music. Gajits Music Software v OBI 236 2515.
Silica price cuts
Stop press! GVP has knocked £50 off the price of its best selling hard drive for
the A500 and A500 Plus, the 42Mb HD8+. Priced now at £299, the HDS+ is a
high speed SCSI drive that is fitted externally - so it doesn't invalidate the
Amiga's warranty.
Room is provided in the drive for 8Mb of internal RAM expansion as well as
the addition of seven further SCSI devices, For further details contact Silica
Systems on « 081 309 1111.
Leeds gets new shop
Phoenix, the mail order Amiga suppliers are opening a store dedicated to the
Amiga Sn Leeds,
The shop, to be known as Phoenix Computer World, will cover all aspects of
the Amiga and its wide range of associated peripherals.
So t if you'd like to pop in next time you're in the area, you'll find the new
store at Unit 2, York Towers, York Road, Leeds LS9.
Opalvision updates
Users of Opalvision 24-bit graphics cards will be interested to learn that update
disks are now available in the UK. EM ComputergrapNc is distributing a two
disk set priced at £5.99 (including postage). These disks contain OpalPaint 1.4,
OpatPresents 1.2, OpatHotkey 1.4. OpalAnimUtils 1.4, Opat Library 3.1, all the
new paper types, artist tools, draw modes and the AdPro display module for
Opalvision. EM Computergraphic w 0255 431389,
NEW STAFF WRITER
Director II graphics card
The Director II is a powerful new 32-bit graphics card from Tritec Marketing,
Based around a Texas Instruments TMS 34020 processor (which can be
enhanced by the addition of a TMS 34082 maths co-processor) running at
32MHz, the Director II provides broadcast quality images and is designed
primarily to support users with a need to produce high quality 3D graphics in^
house. Tritec Marketing « 081 991 5591.
A new face joins the AS team this
month - Gus Chandler, who takes up
the illustrious position of Staff Writer.
Gus has had experience with a
wide range of machines - from a
valve-based GEC Elliott SOO to 68000
processor machines - including of
course the Amiga. He has experience
of programming in a variety of
languages and in the early 80s
worked for Centra! TV on a childrens"
computer programme - The Magic
Micro Mission.
Gus says: "I'm looking forward to
working on Amiga Shopper - helping
to make sure that we bring you those
essential tips and techniques to let
you get the most out of the Amiga. "
We've got a
new face on the AS team
- that of Gus Chandler. Hello Gus!
1 ft AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 24 • APRIL 1993
US NEWS
Picture your Amiga
Cowboy as a
mathematician, complete
with white tab coat,
chalk and blackboard, thick glasses
and stetson. The reason for this
radical change of image - a new
program from Parth Galen called
FasTrig. It speeds up program
execution, and,., well, let's hear
what my arithmetical alter-ego T
Professor Fuzzywig, has to say
about It. Take It away. Professor!
a Ah t yes, quite. Hrrumph, now
listen up you lot. There are four
trigonometric functions used in
almost all graphic, video, audio,
simulation and engineering computer
programs. Whichever of these
applications you are constructing,
the sine, cosine, tangent and arc
tangent will probably be vital to the
code you write. And if they are T they
are also a critical bottleneck to your
program execution speed. What can
you do? Learn to live with slow
programs? Or buy an accelerator?
"If you 1 re faced with this
situation, perhaps you should talk to
the folks at Parth Galen- Their new
program, FasTrlg, is a package
designed to replace the conventional
transcendental function library
routines most frequently used by
application programs. FasTrig
consists of a set of four object
modules that allow the rapid
software computation of the sine,
cosine, tangent and arc tangent
trigonometric functions. Object
modules can be linked into
executable tasks. The system is
intended for use by programmers in
code that requires nigh execution
speeds, which means that it will not
increase the speed of an existing
program without first re-coding, re-
compiling and re linking the program.
ETERNAL TRIANGLES
"What's that? You're worried about
compatibility? The object modules
work on any Amiga, and with any of
the floating point libraries you may
be using. All FasTrig modules were
compiled from C or assembly
language code using the SAS-C (or
' Lattice-C ) version 5.10
development system. Object
modules will work when called from
code compiled by other systems, but
source code may have to be edited
before re-compilation if using other
deve lo p ment system s . "
Fuzzywig, you old geezer, you are
a long-winded buc karoo. Why don't
you mosey on over to the saloon and
have a co fd one on me?
"I don't mind if I do. But before I
go, I need to say that the suggested
retail price for FasTrig is $55. The
60-page booklet, Fast Trigonometry
Using Binary Integer Arithmetic can
be purchased separately for $5.50,
Contact Parth Galen, PO Box 482,
Cold Spring, MN 56320, USA »
0101 612 685 8871. ■
Sheesh - Fuzzywig talks faster
than a carpetbagger caught on an
electric fence! OK, back to our more
usual business. If you get tired of
typing or wiggling your mouse, then
this next one might be for you.
A TOUCH OF CLASS
Turn any 13- or 14-inch display into a
touch monitor! MicroTouch Systems
Inc has introduced the QuikPoint
GX140, a plug-and-piay universal
touch screen solution that easily
snaps onto the front of any 13- or
14-inch monitor. The GX140 offers
both quick integration and high touch
performance to developers wanting
to add touch capability to their
multimedia, kiosk, training or other
computerised applications.
The GXl40 1 s controller card can
be fitted on the PC bus, or can
reside in a stand-alone box which
connects to the computer s serial
port. Installation, including the one-
off calibration procedure, requires
less than three minutes (your Amiga
Cowboy's average attention span).
The MicroTouch screen consists
of an all-glass sensor that has a
uniform alternating current ('AC')
electric field spread over its surface.
When a user makes contact with the
sensor, it 'capacitively couples' to
the electric field, drawing current to
the user's finger. This technique is
the most sensitive touch technology
currently available, with a resolution
of 1,024 by 1,024 touch points, It
averages down the entire area of
finger contact to a single point, giving
users pixet-by-pixel control when
touching the screen.
Touch screens are frequently at
the mercy of the environment.
Contaminants such as water, dirt,
dust or grease can degrade the
performance of infra-red and sound-
wave touch screens. But the
MicroTouch capacitative technology
is impervious to these factors (I
could take it on my next cattle drive),
and, unlike pressure-sensing
technologies, the GX140 is not
affected by vibration or jostling.
The GX140 can be obtained
immediately from MicroTouch at a
single unit price of $695. For further
info, contact MicroTouch Systems
lnc t 55 Jonspin Road, Wilmington,
MA 01887, USA « 0101 508 694
9900, fax 0101 508 694 9980.
SEEING IS REMEMBERING
It must be a hardware kinda month:
floptical disk technology is now
available for your Amiga. The DMI
Floptical Disk Drive provides one
answer to the question of ^How can I
back up my hard drive? 71
Each floptical disk looks and
handles like a standard 3.5-inch
floppy, but stores 20Mb of data at a
From touch screens to
floptical disk drives,
Amiga Cowboy Bob
Liddil rounds up all the
latest products from
across the Atlantic
cost of around $1 per meg! The
Floptical Disk Drive requires a
standard SCSI interface and is
compatible with all Amiga
applications, including Ami-Back,
Quarterback, CrossDOS and A-Max.
The DMI Floptical Disk Drive can
be obtained from Digital Micro nics
Inc for $649, You can contact the
company at Digital Mi cronies inc,
2075 Corte del Nogal, Carlsbad, CA
92009, USA tt 0101
619 931 8554, fax
0101 619 931 8516
JOIN THE CLUB
As part of ASDG's
continuing
commitment to the
Amiga community,
user groups can
now receive free
promotional
material directly
from the company.
To receive this
materia f, which
includes video tapes, literature,
badges and other items pertaining to
ASDG's award-winning products, your
Amiga group must be registered with
the country 7 s Commodore sales
company. Officers of Amiga groups
which have registered can then
request to be put on ASDG's mailing
fist, and will receive new literature,
videos and other materials as they
become available.
And why is ASDG doing this?
Well* quite apart from wanting user
groups to share in the excitement
generated by ASDG products, it turns
out that the company President,
Perry Kivolowitz, has been fairly
actrve in user groups himself, and
actually co-founded the second US
Amiga user group. "Having been a
user group president" Mr Kivolowitz
said, "I know how passionately user
group members want to be on the
leading edge of Amiga developments,
I also know how hard it is to get good
quality materials for user group
consumption."
Interested parties can contact
ASDG Incorporated, 925 Stewart
User groups! ASDG would like to
keep you right up to date about
Art Department Professional
Street, Madison, Wl 53713 * 0101
608 273 65S5.
INTO THE SUNSET
Well it's time for me to join Fuzzywig
over at the saloon for a cool pint pot
of ale (that's what he calls a cold
brews ki - he seems to speak a
different language! )♦ So it's whoopee-
tie-yi-yea and so long pardners -
Amiga Cowboy will be back soon! CTi
AMIGA SHOPPER » ISSUE 24 * APRIL 1993
11
Welcome to the Amiga world's liveliest letters
pages - where you get the chance to speak your
mind. So join your host, the editor, Cliff Ramshaw
for some more no-holds barred bantering. All you
have to do to be included is send your missive to:
'Talking Shop', Amiga Shopper, 30 Monmouth St,
Bath BA1 2BW. Get to it!...
TYPOGRAPHIC TALES
After reading through Issue 22 of
Amiga Shopper I've noticed more
errors, or 'typos' as you oaf I them,
than usual. Perhaps this is because
it was David Green's first day as
Production Editor. I refer to the
strange positioning of the picture of
the AS Shareware Disk on page 13,
amid two columns of articles with
nothing whatsoever about the disk;
the repetition of "to let' 7 In the
'Question Of Royalty- on page 41.
The advert for your sister magazine
Amiga Format on page 132 was a
cracker - "o prog ramming
language"; and lastly on page 151
the dot matrix printer LC200 Is 9-
pin not 24. 1 know: picky, picky. Try
docking his pay per mistake: It will
work wonders!
*t>ave*
Hereford
Dock his pay? We've taken Mr Green
out and had him shot.
STARTING MANUALLY
I have had my new A1200 for two
weeks now after having used an
A 500 for the past two years. The
machine Is as good as the reviews
promise but Commodore must learn
to Include manuals for all the
software. The A1200 Users Guide
and Workbench 3.0 Manual are just
not enough - If I hadn't had any
previous experience of the Amiga
operating system I would be
stumped. I must point out that I am
a computer engineer by trade, and I
must say that the Amiga's manuals
are pathetic. 1 have moved to
Workbench 3.0 straight from 1.3
and so have missed the learning
curve* associated with WB2 (or was
the documentation of that
hopelessly inadequate as well?). At
least with WB 1.3 there was a fairly
technical Enhancer Software
manual Including alt the available
commands. As for ARexx - powerful
it may be, but without
documentation it is next to useless*
It shouldn't be left up to the
technical writers in such magazines
as Amiga Shopper and Amiga
Format to de-mystify the software
provided by Commodore. Imagine
the furore If Microsoft started
sending out Windows with no
documentation - the PC community
would be up In arms. However,
since apparently nothing short of
divine intervention can budge
Commodore, we must all be grateful
that such magazines go some way
to filling the obvious need. So, keep
up the good work - I am now
dedicated to scouring your pages to
find out how my machine worksl
Paul Sims
Derbyshire
I couldn't agree more. Commodore's
attitude seems to be that nobody will
use their computers for anything
other than using pre written software.
If you do want to go further, then
you're forced to spend substantial
amounts on manuals, though, to be
fair, a line has to be drawn
somewhere - it's completely
impractical for Commodore to include
complete documentation with every
Amiga sold.
FALSE SCRIPTURES
I would like to voice my concerns
about software houses that use
script files to Install their programs
and other associated files onto a
hard disk. In theory this is an
excellent way to copy programs and
files to the correct place on a hard
disk with the minimum of user
intervention, for a novice this may
be the only way to do It.
However It can and does cause
problems for Amiga users. At
present there are Amiga users out
there using Workbenches 1.2, 1.3,
1.3.2, 1.3.3, 2.0, 2.04, 2.05, 3.0
and the various upgrades In-
between some of these.
Some of these Installation
programs copy files from the C,
Oevs, L and Libs directories of the
program disk and overwrite the
existing flies In those directories
already on the hard disk. In many
cases later versions are supplied
but, by the same token, earlier
versions overwrite later versions
and this is especially true for people
with Workbench 2.04/5 or 3.0
when the new program files are for
WB 1.3. Some tiles are put onto the
hard disk when they are not even
required as a Eater version is already
written Into Kickstart.
We have to remember that there
is still a lot of software in the shops
that was written before the A600,
A1200 or A4000 were bom.
I do not have an answer to the
above, but believe that it needs
some thought from somebody. All I
know is that it has caused problems
for myself and my A40 00/040.
Could it be that it is this that Is
partly responsible for some of the
compatibility problems that occur?
Paul W Hazeltine
Tonbridge
This could well be the case*
Commodore itself seems unable to
get it right. How many owners of
A600s discovered that they had the
wrong version of the diskfont library
on their Workbench disks and were
unable to load Fountain?
A good stop-gap measure, which
I've seen used by some recent public
domain programs, is to include
several different installation scripts.
The user need only click on the script
for his or her version of Workbench.
TO PRAISE, NOT TO BURY
I am writing to defend Commodore's
policy. People still complain about
the A600 being too much like the
A 500, and now claim the A1200's
specification Is not enough because
it does not look as good as the
Falcon's. The A600 Is the saviour of
A 500 owners {with Workbench 2).
Software will be written for the
A600 that A500 owners can use. I
think It Is Important to recognise
that Commodore could have not
bothered with the A600, gone
straight to the A1200 and cut out
the million or so A500 owners - as
Kelly Sumner said, "there Is no way
we're going to allow our user base
to suffer". Thank-you for the A600.
On the subject of the new
Amigas' specification - It has
always been stated that the Amiga
will undergo constant evolution
rather than revolution (witness the
very large incompatibility problems
with the Atari STE and Falcon). We
can be assured that Improved sound
is on the way, otherwise the Paula
chip would have been improved, it Is
also important to realise that the
Amiga's future is assured. Because
the A 6 00 and 1200 have already
sold In large numbers they are now
standard machines. I do not think
we can be sure of Atari's future.
Lastly, I know a lot of people
have said this but it would be nice
to see the new DSP arrive in a blaze
of glory in the A2400 (which 1 think
will be the true Falcon opponent).
Richard Grassam
Scarborough
An interesting assessment. I'm sure
that Kelly will be pleased to read it.
YOU WIN
I bet you won't print this letter...
You're right.
BOUQUET OF BLESSINGS
1 have an idea for occasional
inclusion in future Issues: all too
often readers write In recounting
grim experiences In dealing with
suppliers. How about a 'bouquets 1
column Instead, then perhaps the
baddies might strive to be goodies.
For starters, I offer you Gordon
Harwood Computers. I found myself
in the Alfreton area a couple of
weeks back and went In on the off-
chance that the shop might have a
copy of ProDraw (my local dealer
couldn't find a wholesaler who
handled It). The people In the shop
were unable to help but this didn't
stop them from taking an obvious
Interest In what I get up to on my
set-up, even to the extent of making
it clear that I was welcome to call
in any time - even if only to seek
help and advice.
M David Eccleston
Tamworth
What a smashing idea. In view of
which, I'll print this letter too...
YET MORE PRAISE
Firstly let me thank you and your
staff for an excellent magazine. I
am In my second year of subscribing
to what I consider the best source
of Information about these new-
fangled computers.
AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 24 # APRIL 1993
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ABOUT IT NOW'
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from the trials and tortures of
experience or overcome some mind-
boggling problem through incredible
ingenuity or even sheer tuck? Then
let us know and win yourself a fiver
into the bargain. Write to 7 can larf
about it now\ Amiga Shopper f 30
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FROZEN HORROR
I had recently been working on my
database, and as I don't have a hard
drive I copied my files to RAM for
quicker access, After working for a
time I started to browse through
some of the files on the disk that I
had in the drive and came across
one named 'WB'. I didn't know what
it was so, as I had a utilities
program running that will load just
about anything, I gave it a click. At
this stage I was called away,
When I came back to the
computer and moved the mouse to
switch off the screen blanker, to my
horror all I had was my Workbench
screen. J moved the mouse all over
the place but couldn't find its
pointer. The clock at the top of the
screen was not working and the
date was six months behind. Then I
happen to click the right mouse
button and in a flash the clock and
date were reset and I could see my
database sitting in the background.
Six months ago I had been trying
out a utility that saves snapshots of
screens as IFF files, Yes, you've
guessed it - I had opened a perfect
copy of a Workbench screen.
I learned two things from this
experience: save regularly to disk
and title files more explicitly!
John W Baxter
Hull
I am writing to you to praise
from the rooftops Meed mo re Gables
of Liverpool. I have recently
purchased a device from another of
your advertisers and, on requesting
some technical information,
discovered that the company's
helpline was non-existent. However,
Meedmore not only supplied the
cables I needed, but also gave
answers to all my queries in terms
that even I could understand.
I would also like to thank Mark
Smiddy for his advice which enabled
me to sort out the supplier of my
equipment, which turned out to be
incompatible with my A1200.
Keep up the good work.
WE Tumbull
Liverpool
should be discussing the nature and
requirements of software for these
fields and producing interactive
multimedia titles of our own rather
than looking over our shoulders.
Interactive multimedia is not about
CD - it is the communication of
information, ideas, entertainment or
argument! whether it's 600Mb or
600K. We must concentrate on a
public domain bursting with titles
before we can claim the industry as
our own.
Valan Chan
West Midlands
1 think you've made some very
interesting and valid points, Valan. I
hope you manage to encourage
some exciting debate.
i at a certain market, being aware as
I was of the other books which were
! coming out at the same time.
Mastering Amiga AMOS fits into
this scheme of things. It isn't a
manual for the program, none of the
books on AMOS are and there's no
I need for them to be. Mastering
Amiga AMOS is a companion
volume to the manual for a very
specific market, that is to say
people who can't do it yet, those
green programmers Jason talked
about, it's not a book about
learning Basic, or about every single
aspect of the AMOS programming
language. It's a book for beginners
who already have a manual for the
program, but need a bit of
embellishment to help them get
their beads around some of the
basic concepts. It's for people who
are just starting down the
programming road and I think a fair
review would have pointed this out
in the same way that you would
point out that a program is too
elementary for the experienced user
or too complex for a beginner.
If "the greenest AMOS
programmers will probably find the
subject matter somewhat obvious"
then who are the people who write
In to Jason's AMOS Answers
column? In the same issue as the
review, we have one person asking
about addressing the parallel port, a
query about AMOS TOME, a piece
on RAMOS... all very elementary
stuff, and all the same sort of topics
which in the review on my book
were beneath his contempt. In the
same issue Jason covers the
'Spack' command for compressing
IFF screens in his monthly
beginner's guide. This topic is
covered in my book too and In much
the same way. Why is my way bad
and his way good? Perhaps the
j 'ultimate book on AMOS' which he
talks about is one that he has In
preparation? I wonder.
In any event this is not the kind
of off-base reporting I expect,
especially from a magazine of Amiga
Shopper's stature.
Phil South
Somerset
Jason Hoiborn writes: In the light of
what you've said, Phil, I've taken
another long, hard look at Mastering
Amiga AMOS - and I'm afraid I still
stand by every point raised within the
original review.
Let's start with the coverage of
HAM mode. I hardly think that the
two sentences Mastering Amiga
AMOS gives to the subject can be
deemed sufficient coverage. If you
think you can adequately explain
such a complex screen mode in two
lines, you're a better man than I am!
Other examples spring to mind.
Take dual playfield displays, for
example - although you did include a
demo listing, there's virtually no
explanation whatsoever of this very
complex screen mode. If you feel
that beginners would get too bogged
down, then perhaps you shouldn't
have mentioned dual playfield mode
in the first place! Considering the
book was carefully' aimed at
beginners, it just leaves them in the
dark time and time again.
The review was certainly not
written in an attempt to ensure sales
of a book that I am supposedly
writing. If this was the case, surely J
would also slam other AMOS books
in a similar manner? As regular
readers will know, I've whole-
heartedly recommended publications
such as Stephen Hill's Amiga Game
Maker's Manuai on several
occasions. Sorry Phil, but I still stand
by my review. fFi
Now, we don't normally print letters
praising us, but in this case, since
the compliments are spread between
us and Meedmore, we'll let it go [
THE WAY AHEAD
As a graphic designer hoping to use
the Amiga to deveJop interactive
multimedia I am encouraged by the
A1200 and the recent disclosures
concerning the AAA chip set. Some
of your readers seem to take a
narrow view of the future and
overlook the fact that home
computers are nearing the limits of
human visual and audio perception.
When we have 24-bit graphics and
16-bit sound as standard there is
little more to go after besides faster
Multimedia applications - should we be
concentrating on what the Amiga does best?
processors- There will soon be
several platforms with this
capability and the only major
advantage will be the processors
they use and the operating systems
they run. People will not choose
between machines, hut between
systems such as WlndowsNT, UNIX
or PowerOS - and the processors
they use, such as the DEC Alpha
Chip, Intel's Pentam or the
IBM/ Motorola/ Apple PowerPC. This
is where the next battle will take
place - judging from Intel's recent
ad campaign it's hotting up already.
The hardware is good now and
will get better, but we still need
that piece of software which has
the ability to create or dominate an
Industry. The Amiga's industry
should be desktop video and
desktop multimedia production. We
A COMPLAINT...
I've just read Jason Hoi born s review
of Mastering Amiga AMOS (from
Bruce Smith Books) in the March
issue T and thought you might be
interested in my right to reply, being
the author of the book.
The review is out and so that's
the end of it as far as the public Js
concerned, but for the record I'd
like to make a few points about the
review as I thought it was a bit
harsh. Naturally the review is Mr
Hoiborn' s personal view, and there's
not much I can do to influence that,
but I think he might just have
missed the point of what the book
is actually for, hence this little note.
In the meat of the review he
says that the hook
doesn't go into enough
detail for beginners. He
gives an example that
the book doesn't tell
you how to open a HAM
screen. It does in fact,
on page 92. This Is an
extraordinary
inaccuracy considering
the accusations levelled
at the book in the
review about lack of
attention to detail.
In stark contradiction to the
comment about lack of depth he
states later on that the chapter on
mathematical functions and vectors
went Into too much depth and that
it was boring. Naturally to a
programmer who knows all about
vectors and how to simulate the
motion of a ping pong ball In five
lines of code the retelling of such
things In detail could seem a little
boring, but to a beginner this is new
and useful information.
I agree with the point that there
isn't a mention of every command in
the AMOS language in this book,
but the book was never meant to be
a complete manual for AMOS, and
that was the intention clearly stated
in the Preface.
The book was carefully pitched
AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 24 » APRIL 1 99Z
MEMORY
Compared to the motor car,
domestic cooker and
many other consumer
Items that we take for
granted these days, the home
computer is still in its infancy.
Little more than thirteen years
ago, about the closest most of us
ever got to a computer was a
chunky pocket calculator. But in
this short stretch of time home
computers have advanced In leaps
and bounds. Chunky black and
white displays have changed to
almost photographic full colour
images, while the plaintive beeps
and whistles that amazed early
computer fans are thankfully heard
no more,
However, all this progress has
come at a price - more sophisticated
"5K was once
considered an
extravagantly
huge amount...
computers means more
sophisticated programs, which in
turn make greater demands of the
hardware. Back in the days when
ZXSls and VIC-20s roamed the
Earth, 5K was once considered an
extravagantly huge amount of
memory. Remember the old
Commodore 64 TV adverts?
In some cases,
expansion memory is a necessity
rather than a luxury. Vista Pro 2
won't even run in less than 3Mb!
Commodore was so chuffed with its
new machine's then-massive 64 K
RAM that the company went to great
lengths to compare the C64's
memory to that of an elephant (an
elephant dressed in boxer shorts, to
be more precise!}. Then along came
the Commodore 128 with a mighty
128K - while the 128 proved to be
more of a dinosaur than an elephant,
its development proved that the
accent was definitely on more
powerful computers with more and
more memory.
RAISING THE STAKES
Even the Amiga started its life with
very little memory - the basic A1000
came with just 256K, which was
barely enough to run Workbench, let
alone anything else. Since then, the
As any Amiga user worth
their salt will tell you. the
Amiga's memory Is split
Into two main areas -
Chip RAM and Fast RAM.
The distinction arises
because Chip RAM I*
very special - it's the
only area of memory
that can be accessed by
the Amiga's custom chips. Without
Chip RAM, Paula, Agnus and Denise
{and their AGA counterparts) would
be unable to bring you the
scintillating sound effects and
continuing development of the
Amiga's hardware and the arrival of
advanced software such as DPaint 4
has gradually forced Commodore to
increase the amount of memory in a
basic Amiga to a minimum of 1Mb
(four times that of the original
A1000!). With the release of the
A 1200, its faster processor and
more powerful graphics chips.
Commodore has upped the ante still
further by fitting the machine with
2Mb. A few years back, that sod: of
memory capacity would have been
considered colossally excessive!
But times change - these days
even 2Mb isn't nearly enough if you
use your Amiga seriously, Although a
2Mb machine will happily run virtually
all games and quite a few serious
applications, the increased burden
colourful graphics that have become
the Amiga's trademark.
Virtual iy every program you run
on your Amiga makes use of Chip
RAM - if you run a game, for
example, then all its graphics and
sounds need to be stored in Chip
RAM if they are to be accessible to
the Amiga's custom chips. But it's
not just 'entertainment 1 software that
can cause problems. Programs which
you might have expected to be rather
less obvious memory guzzlers also
need Chip RAM - when you run a
serious' application such as a word
processor or even a spreadsheet,
Chip RAM will automatically be used
to store the program s screen
display. About the only programs that
imposed by those new AGA' screen
modes can quickly eat up lots of
RAM, Think about it - if you open up
a 1280 by 512 screen in HAM-8
"...ffiaf's almost a
megabyte gone
before you've
even started"
mode (which uses 8 bitplanes}, it
alone will swallow up over 650K of
valuable memory. Run Workbench as
well and that's almost a megabyte
gone before you've even started.
JARGON BUSTERS • JARGON BUSTERS • JARGON BUSTERS
Auto conflg - A very clever system
built into the Amiga's operating
system that allows the machine
to automatically recognise the
presence of extra RAM.
Bit - The smallest measure of
memory capacity is the bit. A bit
can contain either a 0 or a 1. It
stands for Binary digiT.
Byte - A byte consists of either 8
bits or 2 nybbles, depending
upon how you look at it,
Chip RAM - Chip RAM is an area of
memory inside the Amiga that is
used by the Amiga's custom
chips to hold graphics and sound
data. If this data is held in any
other part of the Amiga's RAM,
the custom chips will not be able
to access it. Most Ami gas offer
1Mb of Chip RAM, but newer
models offer double this,
allowing you to produce bigger
and more colourful pictures and
I o nger sou n d samples.
DRAM - Dynamic RAM. DRAM chips
are the most popular type of
RAM chip used on the Amiga.
Available in a number of different
sizes ranging from 32K to 512K t
DRAM chips provide a cheap and
effective method of expanding
your Amiga's memory.
Fast RAM - The opposite of Chip
RAM is Fast RAM T an area of
memory that is used exclusively
by the Amiga's central processor.
Because the custom chips don't
have access to it. the processor
is able to access it at full speed
(hence the 'Fast' tag). It is in this
area of memory where programs
are stored.
Kilobyte - Expressed in 'K\ a
kilobyte is 1024 bytes.
Long word - 32 bits, 2 words, 4
bytes or 8 nybbles.
Megabyte - A megabyte (Mb) is
1024 kilobytes.
Nanosecond - The speed of memory
chips is measured in
nanoseconds. As a general rule,
the lower the nanosecond rating,
the faster the chip,
Ny table - Next up on the memory
capacity scale from the 'bit' is
the nybble. It consists of 4 bits.
RAM - Random Access Memory.
RAM acts as a sort of workspace
that your computer uses to store
programs and data on a
temporary basis.
ROM - Read Only Memory. Inside
your Amiga is a ROM chip that
contains the Amiga's operating
system. As its name suggests,
ROM memory can only be read,
not written to.
SIMM - An acronym for 'Single In-line
Memory Module', SIMM chips
are becoming increasingly
popular because of their ease of
fitting and relatively low price.
You don't buy SIMM chips
individually - because SIMM
chips are surface mounted,
they're sold in groups of eight on
a PCB board. This then forms
what is commonly known as a
'SIMM module'.
Slow RAM - Also known as 'Slow
Fast RAM', this is an area of
memory populated by A500 RAM
expansions that fit to the
trapdoor connector.
Word - 16 bits, 4 nybbles or 2 bytes.
A 16-bit processor such as the
Amiga's 68000 is capable of
reading whole word values.
ZIP - Short for 'Zig-Zag In-line
Package". ZIP chips are simply
higher capacity DRAM chips
except for the fact that they are a
different shape. Instead of
having a line of pin connectors
along each side, ZIP chips stand
one edge and have all their
connectors along one side.
AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 24 # APRIL 199a
MEMORY
don't require Chip RAM are CLI-based
utilities, but even then the Shell
window from which they are run must
be stored somewhere in Chip RAM for
Denise to be able to redraw the
screen display*
BUILT-IN LIMITS
Early Amigas allowed a maximum of
512K of Chip RAM. This was OK for
games and less memory-intensive
programs, but these days 1 or even
2Mb of Chip RAM is pretty much
standard. The new A120Q, for
example, comes complete with a fuE!
2Mb of Chip RAM. The A600 and
A500 Plus machines can also
address 2Mb of Chip memory, but an
additional trapdoor expansion is
required. Unfortunately for A2000 and
A 1500 owners, Chip RAM on those
machines is normally restricted to a
maximum of just 1Mb, although they
too can be persuaded to recognise
2Mb of Chip RAM when fitted with a
board such as the Pro Agnus from
WTS Electronics.
Multitasking can be a wonderful
thing, but it's also the fastest way to
fill up Chip RAM. Because each and
every program that you run eats up
Chip RAM, the more programs you
run, the faster Chip RAM is used up.
Attempt to run programs that open
colourful high resolution screens or
play sampled sounds and you'll find
that your Chip RAM gets used up
faster than your monthly pay cheque.
computing circles, this is more or
less the same as asking: how long is
a piece of string? Put simply, the
amount of memory that you add to
your Amiga will directly affect the
performance of your machine - the
more you add, the more you can do.
Even if you add something like 4Mb
to your system, you can bet that
there will come a day when you'll
wish you had more.
Of course the other factor you'll
have to take into account will be the
price- So, to help you make that
important buying decision, here's a
rough guide to the performance that
you'll get from the full range of
memory capacities. Note that these
figures ail include 1Mb of system
• 4Mb: Almost all serious
applications will load and run
satisfactorily, though trying to
multitask two or more of them
together will still cause memory
problems. Working with 24-bit
images also becomes possible,
although you'll undoubtedly start to
feel the pinch when using them in
heavyweight image processing and
desktop publishing applications*
• 6Mb: As any truly serious Amiga
user will tell you, 6Mb is definitely
the recommended minimum if you
want to get an idea of what the
Amiga is really capable of.
Multitasking becomes genuinely
useful as several related applications
Even an Amiga A600 with the
standard ECS chip set can get
through memory quickly if you try to
run memory guzzling applications
such as ProPage or Imagine.
Most 'ordinary' computers aren't
particularly plagued by a lack of
memory, but the very nature of the
Amiga's multitasking operating
system means that the
RAM requirements of
even the simplest of
programs can be
compounded when
several tasks are
running simultaneously.
Although most programs
will multitask on a basic
1Mb Amiga, you can
achieve real power
computing by adding more
memory to your system.
For example, with
several megabytes of RAM
under your Amiga bonnet,
several high level
applications can be run
together and even integrated
through ARexx. Imagine being v ~~"
able to run ProPage, Art Department
Pro and ProDraw, together with the
ability to exchange files through
ARexx without ever having to swap
between them. ARexx on an
expanded machine really does
become a very powerful beast -
ProPage, for example, can
completely control ADPro through
ARexx, extending its image
processing abilities immeasurably,
MEMORY MASTER
Of course the solution to all this lies
in a RAM expansion, a plug-in
module which extends the
If there's one thing an Amiga
always seems to need, it's more
memory, Jason Holborn explains
what you should be looking for in
a new RAM expansion
PCMCIA cards slot into the side
of your Amiga - a quick and
relatively cheap method of enlarging
the memory of an A600 or A1200
Amiga's memory to allow bigger and
more sophisticated tasks to be
performed, Most of us realise that a
RAM expansion would be beneficial,
but the same old question still pops
up: how much memory do I need? In
memory, which means that "1Mb' on
this chart is equivalent to zero
expansion RAM.
• 1Mb: Virtually all games will run
fine and most serious applications
\ will run when no other tasks are
I running. But virtually all memory-
& intensive graphics and sound
E| programs will be severally held
back - DPaint, tor example, will
got decidedly shirty if you attempt
to use the 'spare' screen when
in 16-colour high resolution mode.
Some programs, notably Art
Department Professional and
ProPage 4, will not even load*
• 2Mb: Programs such as Deluxe
Paint 4 (the 'AGA' version) will run
comfortably, but animation will still
be rather limited. Reliable single
tasking also becomes possible.
Although many heavyweight
packages will load OK, most witl be
severely restricted.
can be run concurrently, allowing you
to share data between them.
• 9Mb: For the ultimate in Amiga
computing, 9Mb is the sort of
memory capacity that dreams are
made of - and the most you can
"9Mb is the sort of
memory capacity
that dreams are
made of"
usually fit to a standard machine.
Multitasking several applications is
easy even when working on sound
samples and complex graphics
simultaneously. In particular, ray
tracing and solid modelling programs
become very usable.
AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 24 • APRIL 1993
15
MEMORY
ENHANCING AGNUS
Now you can double your custom
chip memory with the Pro Agnus
Do you find your A500 or A1500
regularly running out of Chip RAM?
Do you look on enviously at all those
A600, A500 Pius and A120O
owners who have a whacking
\ great 2Mb of Chip RAM at
\ their disposal?
\ Well, you need drool no
\ longer - WTS Electronics
xfk ( wmcn can be reached on
' \ « 0582 491949) has the
"\ answer in the form of the
v Pro Agnus card. This is
\ a daughterboard
A upgrade for the A500,
\ A1500 or A2000 that
adds a 2Mb Agnus
chip (and an extra
abyte of Chip RAM!) to your
machine - and all for the very
reasonable pr:ce of just £139.
For the full run-down on installing
and using the Pro Agnus board, you
should turn to page 60 of this very
issue, where you'll find Gary
White! ey reviewing it as part of this
month's Video column,
THAT BIT BETTER...
With the advent of true 32-bit Amigas
such as the A4000 and the new
A1200, not to mention the
increasing popularity of processor
accelerators, there's an extra
consideration to be made when
buying a RAM expansion for your
machine. Up until the A1200 and
A4000 were released, all Amigas
were '16-bit' - in other words, they
handled all data in chunks of two
bytes. With 32-bit processors now
the norm, the 16-bit RAM chips used
in conventional RAM expansions no
longer make the grade. Although they
will work with 32-bit Amigas, their
presence produces a 'bottleneck'
that will slow even the fastest
processor accelerator down to a
veritable crawl.
If you want your A1200 t A4000
or indeed any Amiga fitted with a
processor accelerator to run at full
pelt, then you must buy 32-bit RAM
chips. Now, expanding the memory
of an A4000 is very easy indeed
because it comes as standard with
slots to accept industry standard 32-
bit SIMM modufes.
However, expanding the A 1200
with 32-bit RAM is slightly more
complicated because a separate 32-
bit RAM card must be bought*
Several companies have announced
A 1200 RAM expansions, but - to
date - only a single manufacturer
has been able to deliver the goods.
And even then, expanding an A1200
is not cheap.
"a bottleneck that
will slow even the
fastest processor
down to a crawl"
CREDIT WHERE IT'S DUE
Another expansion option available
to A600 and A1200 owners is a
credit card -sized PCMCIA memory
expansion. For any of you who are
still wondering what that little slot on
the left-hand side of your machine
does, PCMCIA is a wonderful idea
that aims to make memory cards and
other expansion devices standard
across a whole range of different
machines (which includes other
makes and models of computers-
not just Amigas!).
PCMCIA, which stands for
"Personal Computer Memory Card
International Association', is a brave
attempt at a new expansion standard
which has been adopted across a
wide range of personal computers.
Although designed specifically for
RAM expansions, PCMCIA is also
capabie of a lot more - there are
already rumours that several leading
Amiga manufacturers are working on
PCMCIA-based hard drives, sound
samplers and modems.
GET SMART
Existing PCMCIA memory cards come
in two masn forms - D-RAM' cards
and 'S-RAIVT cards, D RAM cards are
by far the most common, simply
because there is a greater demand
for them, A D-RAM card is, in fact,
just another form of memory
expansion and they are available in
either 2 or 4Mb sizes. A1200 users
should be careful though - while a
PCMCIA expansion is perfectly suited
to the A600, it's not ideal for the
A1200 simply because all PCMCIA
expansions are 16-bit memory only,
As the A1200 is a true 32-bit
machine, connecting a PCMCIA
memory card to your machine will not
allow it to run at its full speed.
T h e o ther f o rm of P C M C I A
memory expansion is the S-RAM card
or - to give it a better name - the
'smart card'. Smart cards aren't
strictly RAM expansions because the
Amiga treats them as a storage
device like a hard disk (device CCO:).
However, they do have the advantage
of being non-volatile - that is, they
retain their contents even when your
Amiga is switched off, thanks to a
battery that keeps the RAM chips
charged. We won't be covering S-
RAM cards in this feature, but it is
still important that you are aware of
the differences between them and D-
RAM cards.
CHIP SHOP
To the uninitiated, a RAM chip may
be just be a RAM chip, but It's
important that you realise what
different types of memory circuit are
available if you are to make the
right buying decision. This becomes
particularly Important If you buy a
RAM expansion board that has
space for further expansion.
Say, for example, you buy an
8Mb board which is populated to
2Mb, if you decide at a later date
that you want to expand it further,
you need to know the exact type of
chip that is required. RAM
expansions come in different sizes,
so they cannot be mixed. The speed
of a RAM chip is important too - the
lower the nanosecond rating, the
faster the chip. The speed rating of
the chips you require will be stated in
the RAM expansion's manual, so do
check this before buying.
The pricing of RAM chips is also
very important. Although a particular
RAM expansion may seem an
attractive proposition when you first
buy it, it could all go horribly wrong if
you discover later on that your new
acquisition will cost an arm and a leg
to populate. Here's a quick rundown
of the most commonly used chip
types on the market and their
approximate prices. It's important to
remember that RAM chip prices are
still very volatile, so don't be
surprised if prices suddenly drop or -
worst still - shoot up.
• 256 x 1 DRAM (cheap!): Up until
a couple of years back, the 256 x 1
DRAM (Dynamic RAM) chip definitely
ruled the roost. Although very cheap,
their limited capacity (32K) meant
that RAM expansion boards had to
be huge, just because you needed
sixteen of these for every 512K of
memory. Most early A500 trapdoor
expansions used this chip, but these
days they have become less popular
- you won t even see them on the
Amiga motherboard.
• 256 x 4 DRAM (£55 per Mb}:
Nowadays the 256 x 4 DRAM chip is
far more common than its
predecessor, and can be found in
both the Amiga itself and most RAM
expansions. Each chip offers 128K of
memory t so only 4 of them are
needed for each 512K bank. You'll
find this chip used in quite a few
hard drives that offer memory
expansion capabilities - the A590,
for example.
• ZIP (£40): These 256K x 4 chips
are just starting to come into
common usage on larger expansions
thanks to their high capacity. Each
chip offers 128K of storage. A larger
capacity 1Mb x 4 ZIP is also available
enabling large RAM capacities to be
fitted into a minimal amount of
space. ZIP chips are used extensively
within the A3 000 and various third-
party RAM expansions such as the
SupraRAM 500RX.
• SIMM (£50 per 1Mb x a Module):
As far as memory chips are
concerned, SIMMs (Single In-line
Memory Modules) are definitely
where it's at. Not only are they used
as standard on the Amiga 4000, but
many third-party large capacity RAM
expansions use them in preference
to ZIP chips. One big advantage of
SIMM modules is their ease of fitting
- instead of having to carefully fit
each and even/ chip in their holders,
SIMM modules have several chips on
a tiny card which simply slots into
place. Plus, the chips in a SIMM
module are surface mounted, so they
are therefore a lot more reliable than
normal RAM chips,
SIMMs are available in a variety
of different sizes, ranging from the
basic 1 Mb x 8 SIMM (giving 1Mb of
storage) to the high capacity 4 Mb x
9 SIMM (4Mb). Both types of SIMM
module are used extensively by
Commodore and Nexus.
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* Use Windows 3 on your Amiga!
Golden Gate 386sx £399,95
Golden Gate 486slc £699.95
MONITOR
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This monitor switch
box for the vortex
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automatically
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should be
displayed.
Monitor
Master £99.95
INTERACTIVE VIDEO SYSTEMS
ACCELERATOR
Speed, control and expansion in one 25MHz
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yfeCTOR
• Socketted 68EC030
* Includes high speed SCSI interface
• Expandable to 32MB RAM
* 8MB RAM and hard drive can be
used under 68000 mode
Vector 2000
25MHz Accelerator £599,95
HARD DRIVE
CONTROLLERS
Here are two fast and cost-effective
controllers for your Amiga,
TRUMPCARD 500 AT
■ IDE interface
• Expandable to 8MB RAM
• For Amiga 500/500+
Trumpcard AT £149.95
GrandSlam!2000
• For Amiga 2000
• High-speed SCSI
interface
- Includes extra
parallel port
- Expandable to 8MB RAM
GrandSlam! 2000 £179.95
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MEMORY
Commodore may have pulled the plug on the
A 500, but third-party hardware vendors continue
to cater for the machine with a vast array of
memory add-ons. A500 RAM expansions come in
two main flavours - trapdoor expansions and
mm
You too could push
your ASQO's memory
to its limits - if you
play your cards right!
external bus connector expansions. All trapdoor
expansions are what are known as 'Slow RAM'
expansions. In other words, any hoard fitted to
the A 500 via the trapdoor expansion will not offer
the same memory speed performance obtainable
from true Fast RAM cards fitted to the bus
connector. This speed difference Isn't all that
noticeable! though - Fast RAM cards run about
15% faster.
Quite a few manufacturers now offer large
capacity RAM expansions that hold as much as
4Mb on a single trapdoor expansion, but you
should be aware that these boards require you to
fit jump' connectors inside the Amiga which will
inevitably void your warranty. But if your machine is
past its warranty date, these may well be worth
considering - although it is stili recommended that
the boards are fitted by an experienced engineer.
PC501
TRAPDOOR EXPANSIONS
£29.95 Power Computing
■ 0234 843388
Surely there are very few users of the
original 1.2 and 1.3-based A5Q0s
who haven't already upgraded their
machines from the basic 512 K to
1Mb of RAM? If you're one of those
poor unfortunates still living in the
stone age, then Power Computing's
board could be for you. In true
Commodore A501 fashion, the PC
501 board connects to the Amiga via
the trapdoor pert on the machine's
underside. Unlike the original A501,
Power's board uses the now
obligatory 256K x 4 DRAMs which
help to keep the board's size and
power drain down to a minimum*
Unlike most A500 512K RAM
expansions, the PC 501 doesn't have
a hardware-based disable switch.
Instead, you are supplied with a
£35*95 Power Computing
n 0234 843388
Power Computing has also extended
the PC501 to cater for A500 Plus
owners, coming up with a brand-new
product in the shape of the PC501+.
For just an extra £6, the PC 501+
provides double the capacity of its
little brother, the PC501.
Once again, Power has opted for
the 256 x 4 DRAM. Surprisingly
(considering that it uses four extra
RAM chips), the PC501+ is actually
smaller than its predecessor. This is
partly thanks to a much neater board
design and the absence of the
battery-backed clock facility {which
would be unnecessary as the A500
Plus has this built in as standard).
It's a very, very neat little board that
actually looks quite attractive too (if
such a thing is possible!).
When connected to an A500
Plus, the PC501+ provides an extra
ADD501
£21.00 Ashcom
* 0530 41 1485
Ashcom's answer to the PC 501s of
this world is the ADD501, a A500
half-megabyte RAM expansion card
that doubles the machine's system
memory to a full megabyte. Virtually
\ identical in specification, Ashcom's
1 card is half the size of the PC501. It
too offers a low-drain 4-chip design
complete with a battery-backed clock,
but this time the RAM disable
function is hardware-based.
I'm not quite convinced by
trapdoor RAM switches - if you need
to disable the ADD501, you'll have to
switch off and disconnect all the
cables attached to the machine in
order to reach it. I'm not criticising
the ADD501 for this - locating the
trapdoor connector on the underside
of the machine was a stupid idea in
the first place! That said, I think
Ashcom should have thought about
prorm aso /
£19.00 WTS Electronics
ir0582 491949
It may not look particularly stunning,
but WTS have done very nicely thank-
you out of their ProRAM A5G1 card
for the A500,
Unlike the rest of the half-
megabyte RAM cards on test here,
the expansion board from WTS
Electronics uses the rather aged
256k x 1 DRAM chips that
Commodore used in the original
A500 machines. Because of this, the
board is quite large in order to
accommodate its 16 RAM chips.
So, the technology used in this
expansion may not be particularly
leading edge 1 stuff, but - on the
other hand - no-one can doubt that
the card does its job admirably.
As you'd expect, the ProRAM
card alsoaddsa battery-backed
clock facility using the same Oki
clock chip used in virtually all Amiga
software-based switch program which
stays resident even after resetting
your A50Q. If you want to get all that
extra memory back again, you'll need
to turn your A500 off for a couple of
seconds. The PC501 also comes
with a battery-backed clock facility,
so it's a pretty complete little board
for the price. In all, the PC501 is a
well designed little expansion that
offers good value for money.
Overall
megabyte of Chip RAM, making
heavily graphic-intensive applications
such as ProPage and DPaint run that
bit better. However, the PC 5 01+
really comes into its own when used
on a machine fitted with Fast RAM -
with 2Mb of Chip RAM fitted to your
Plus, multitasking becomes a
veritable joy. If you've got an A500
Plus, then this little beauty should be
at the top of your shopping list.
Overall
taking the same software-based
approach as Power.
Gripes aside, the Ashcom
ADD501 is a no-nonsense half-
megabyte RAM expansion that gets
the job done. If you can do without
the battery-backed clock, it's
avai lable for just £19 T which is a
hefty £11 cheaper than Power's
card. Even the clock card is still £9
cheaper! Highly recommended.
Overall
RAM expansions. A RAM disable
switch is also fitted as standard, but
it too suffers from the inconvenient
location that plagues all hardware-
based switches.
Taking its low price into account,
ProRAM has to be viewed as nothing
short of a real bargain. To think that
A 500 half-megabyte RAM expansions
cost over £100 little more than a
couple of years back!
Overall
18
AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 24 • APRIL 1993
MEMORY
ADDAX
POWER tlllB BOARD
BUS PORT EXPANSIONS
£125-285 Ashcom
0530 411485
A trapdoor expansion can only take
an A500 so far - you need a bus
connector expansion if you want to
go beyond the 2Mb limit.
One of the cheapest 8Mb bus
connector RAM expansions on the
market is Ashcom's excellent AddAx
board. Uniike some expansions, the
AddAx is very small and unobtrusive,
blending beautifully into the curves of
the A 500. It also offers a pass-
through connector, so you can still
use your hard disk with it connected.
AddAx manages to squeeze into
such a tiny box thanks to Its use of
high-capacity, low-drain ZIP chips.
These also allow the standard Amiga
power supply to power the unit, so no
external power supply unit is
required. But you may start to
encounter problems if other
expansion hardware is connected* so
a higher rated power supply may still
be a worthwhile investment. Even if
you buy the 2Mb version (£125), ft
can be expanded at a later date
simply by fitting your own ZIP chips.
Following in the footsteps of
Ashcom's 512K expansion, the
AddAx board really is something
special It's well designed, cheap
and it works well - what more could
you ask for?
£109-289 Power Computing
n 0234 843388
If you're looking for a RAM expansion
that's well designed and built like a
tank, then look no further. Using the
same high capacity 1Mb x 4 ZIP
chips as the Ashcom
board, the Power
board can be
expanded from the
basic 2Mb to a full
8Mb for a similar price. Although the
board is initially cheaper to buy than
the AddAx, the price rises above that
of the AddAx if you buy the version
fitted with a full 8Mb of RAM.
Like the AddAx T the Power board
also comes as standard with a bus
connector pass-through, though its
flat design looks rather odd when
wedged between a hard disk and the
A 500. Power assures me that a new
slimline version that looks more like
the AddAx will be available soon at
no extra cost. Manufactured from the
same sturdy cream-coloured metal,
this new slimline board gets my vote
for sheer strength alone.
There's very little to separate the
Power board from AddAx, but I must
admit that I would go for the Power
board due to its better quality of
manufacture and initially cheaper
price tag. If you're in the market for a
high capacity RAM expansion, then
Power Computing's 8Mb board is
very good indeed.
With the demise of the A 500, some still consider
the A600 as something of a poor alternative - just
take a look back at our Talking Shop pages of a
few months ago if you need to remind yourself of
the mixed reception the new spec received.
Who was it who said that the A600 was
underpowered? Using its PCMCIA and
trapdoor slot with these RAM add-ons, you
can realise the full potential of your machine!
Although large capacity RAM expansions for the
machine are still few and far between, it's still
possible to expand an A600 all the way up to an
impressive 6Mb of RAM via the machine's PCMCIA
and trapdoor slots.
Like the A500 Plus, the A600 can also handle
up to 2Mb of Chip RAM, so a 1Mb trapdoor
expansion should be right at the top of your
shopping list even if you think you'll need more
than just a basic 2Mb on board.
AX601
AMITEK 600
TRAPDOOR EXPANSIONS
£44.95 Ashcom
o 0530 411485
Ashcom has stormed the A600
market with a vengeance with the
launch of the AX6Q1, an offering for
A600 owners who need that bit more
Chip RAM.
The AX601 may not look
particularly high-tech, but its
specification is second to none.
Once again, it offers a full megabyte
of extra Chip RAM and a battery-
backed clock, something that
Commodore very stupidly left out of
the basic A6O0.
The board that we were sent
seemed to have seen better days,
but the overall quality of design and
manufacture was pretty good. Having
said that, It did seem that whoever
put ours together had been perhaps
a little over-generous with the solder!
Unlike Power Computing 1 s PC601
(reviewed below), the AX601 does
offer a very handy RAM disable
switch- But, once again, you'll need
to switch off your machine, pull out
all the cables and flick your machine
over onto its back to reach it
The only thing that really lets the
AX601 down is its price - at £7 more
than its main rival, the AX601 is
quite expensive. Personally, l T d
rather buy a ProRAM card and pocket
the extra seven quid.
£44.95 Silica Systems
■a- 081 309 1111
I would hazard a guess that Silica
Systems must be well and truly
chuffed with the AmiTek range of
A600 products. Not only was AmiTek
one of the first companies to
produce a PCMCIA credit-card
memory expansion for the machine
(as discussed in the introduction to
this round-up}, but it just happens to
do a very nice line in A600 trapdoor
expansions too.
The AmiTek 600 card is a neat
little board that looks and performs
in a very similar manner to Power
Computing's PC601 (reviewed just
over the page). Indeed, if it weren't
for the slightly greener shade of PCB,
one could be forgiven for mistaking
the AmiTek card for a Power
Computing product.
Like the rest of the competiiion,
the AmiTek card uses the same
256 K x 4 DRAM integrated circuits
and also offers a battery backed-
clock. And once again, there's no
RAM disable switch which I
personally find darned annoying.
Come on guys! If A500 owners can
have disable switches, why can't
A600 owners? Even one of those
irritating under-the-computer trapdoor
ones would be something!
The lack of a disable option
wouldn t be so bad if the A500 Plus
expansions weren't so much cheaper
than their A600 equivalents. Oh well,
I guess I'm just hard to please!
Overall
AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 24 • APRIL 1993
MEMORY
PRORAM A601
£38.00 WTS Electronics
» 0582 491949
The WTS A500 RAM expansion may
not be the most exciting board on the
market, but in my opinion its A600
RAM expansion is a far more
impressive beast.
Sased around the now
obligatory 256K x 4 DRAMs
used in virtually every A500
and A600 trapdoor expansion
under the sun, the ProRAM A601
boasts the same quality of design
and manufacture as its main rival,
Power Computing's PC601.
One big advantage of the ProRAM
card over Power's card ts that its
RAM chips aren't soldered directly
onto the board, so - in the unlikely
event that a RAM chip should give up
the ghost the very minute that your
guarantee expires - individual RAM
chips can easily be replaced without
you having to resort to the dreaded
soldering iron.
£39.95 Power Computing
^ 0234 843388
Power Computing does it again! Not
content with having already snapped
up some pretty mean ratings for their
A500 RAM expansions, the lads (and
lasses!) at Power Computing bring
you the PC601, a spiffing little 1Mb
RAM expansion that you can pop
straight into your A600 for a very
reasonable £40.
Using the same 256K x 4 DRAM
chips as its A5QO counterpart the
PC601 is a neat little board that fits
perfectly snugly onto the A600 H s
trapdoor connector.
As you'd expect, it too offers a
battery-backed clock facility t although
sadly lacking from the board is any
form of RAM disable option. Well, fair
enough, I suppose it could be argued
that 2Mb of Chip RAM is unlikely to
trip up very much software, but it still
would have been nice to have had
Once again, the ProRAM card
offers a battery-backed clock,
aithough it too doesn T t offer any form
of RAM disable option, something
that I feel both Power Computing and
WTS should look into - if only to
protect A600 owners from the taunts
of those with A500s!
But at £2 cheaper than the
PC601, my money's definitely on this
little beauty. If you own a 1Mb A600,
then get this board,
Overall
the option available - just in case
your favourite game or PD title fails
flat on its face when it runs into
something it isn't quite expecting*
Gripes aside though, the PC601
is a elegant little board that is well
worth investigating. It may not be the
cheapest option available, but then
who's going to worry about the odd
pound or two when a board's as well
designed as this?
Overall
A 1500/2000
These high-specification
Amigas are by far the
easiest to expand - thanks
to the mark of 'Zorro*
If 'expandability' is a II- important to
you, then the A1500 and A 2000
Amigas are the perfect machines to
own. Due to their modular design
and more than generous expansion
space, they can be expanded above
and beyond their basic 1Mb
specification with ease.
What's more T both machines are
capable of taking extra RAM
internally via expansion cards that
connect to the machines using their
Zorro II slots. Many cards come
populated with a minimum of 2Mb of
RAM - more can easily be added by
purchasing more chips. Most A 1500
and A2000 RAM boards use either
high capacity 1Mb x 4 DRAMs or
1Mb x 8 SIMM modules, which can
both be bought reasonably cheaply.
A20S6
You might expect great things from
the company that gave us the Amiga
in the first place, but Commodore
has never been renowned for its
peripherals! The A2058 isn't a bad
little board, but it is starting to
show its age, especially compared
with the sort of 'do it all' combo-
cards that have made GVP very rich.
Specification-wise, the A2058 is
a no-nonsense product that gets the
job done but little else. Like the Aries
2000 card reviewed below, the
A2058 comes as standard with 2Mb
of RAM ready to plug in and go.
Fitting the card is pretty
straightforward - open up your Amiga
1500 or 2000, locate a spare Zorro
slot and drop the card in. It really is
that simple. Then, thanks to the
wonders of the Amiga's Auto-Config
hardware, the Amiga automatically
ARIES A2000
£129-249 Power Computing
* 0234 843388
Unlike most of Power Computing's
\ fine range of expansions, this
1 offering for A1500 owners Is
v actually produced by Integrated
\ Memory Products, an American
hardware manufacturer.
The Aries 2000 is a full-
length Zorro II board that comes as
standard with 2Mb of RAM (or fully
populated to 8Mb for £249). Extra
\
memory (up to 8Mb) can be added in
2Mb increments using commonly
available 1Mb x l DRAM chips rated
at a rather slow 120 nanoseconds.
Each time extra banks of RAM are
added, jumpers on the board must
be set to allow the Amiga to
recognise the extra memory.
In many ways, the Aries board is
very similar to Commodore's own
A2088. Indeed, it offers the same
expansion possibilities and even
uses the same RAM chips. However,
one thing that can be said about the
takes advantage of the extra Fast
RAM provided by the card.
The A2058 is a full-length card
that stretches all the way across your
machine - take it from me, this is
hardly VLSI (Very Large Scale
integration)! Extra memory can be
added in 2Mb increments using
standard 1 Mb x 1 DRAMs, so the
board can be upgraded for a fairly
reasonable price (about £50 per Mb).
Overall
••••
Aries board is that its quality of
manufacture is certainly better than
Commodore's offering.
The price also makes it a very
attractive proposition if you already
own a hard disk and therefore don't
require the extra bits and pieces
offered by GVP s kit. To sum up, the
Aries card is a nice no-frills add-on
that gets the job done for a sensible
price, Once again, Power Computing
sets the standard!
Overall
20
AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 24 • APRIL 1993
MEMORY
GVP HD8+
£149 Silica Systems
^ 081 309 1111
With GVP dominating virtually every
area of Amiga expansion, you'd be a
fool not to check out the options on
offer down at Great Valley
Products before
handing over your
hard-earned cash*
GVP's main A1500
memory expansion
is the HD8+, which does a whole lot
more besides increasing your RAM.
For starters, if you don't already
own a hard disk controller, then the
HDS+ can also be used to drive any
standard SCSI hard disk. A hard drive
can be mounted directly onto the
card, leaving those vital drive bays
clear for further expansion. And,
because the HD8+ offers all this on
a single card, a further Zorro slot is
left free by not having to fit a
separate SCSI controller.
Although the basic HD8+ doesn't
come with any RAM as standard (this
should be taken into consideration
when comparing it with other
products), it can handle up to 8Mb
of Fast RAM using standard 1Mb x
8 SIMM modules at a cost of
around £50 per Module (each
module offers 1Mb). Although
the GVP card is initially
expensive, you get what you pay
for. If you don't already own a
hard disk, then the GVP HD8+
is the only choice - in the long run,
you'll save yourself a fot of money!
1 200 OPTIONS
With Its massive 2Mb of memory as standard,
the A12QO certainly Isn't starved for RAM. But
try to use It for any form of serious work, and
you'll soon come to realise that a RAM
expansion is definitely required.
We had hoped to bring all you A12GQ owners
a round-up of the current state of the ait in A1200
expansions, but - time being our worst enemy -
all the A1200 boards that we chased up either
failed to arrive in time or simply weren't ready for
review, It seems that the A 1200 is such a new
machine that hardware vendors are still hard at
work on the next generation of RAM expansions.
MORE THAN JUST A MEMORY
Several well-known RAM expansion manufacturers
were able to confirm that 32-bit A1200 RAM
expansions are waiting in the wings. What has
become apparent is that very few of the boards
that will be released over the coming months are
just RAM expansions - nearly all the A1200 RAM
expansions that we were told about offered some
form of extra expansion capability.
Take GVP's new range of A1200 expansions,
for example. GVP is currently working on two new
expansion boards for the A1200 - an A1230 and
the Fang' board. The A1230 not only provides
space for up to 32Mb (yes, 32]) of 32 bit RAM,
2Mb of RAM Isn't enough for
what you want to do with your A1200?
Fortunately there's plenty of expansion options
but it also comes as standard with a 40 MHz
68030 processor accelerator with provision for a
maths co-processor. GVP has based the A1230
around its existing A530 board for the A5Q0,
although no hard drive interface is included. How
much for all this power? How does £399 with
4Mb of 32-bit RAM installed grab you?
On the other hand, the k Fang' board offers up
to 8Mb of 32-bit RAM, a SCSI hard drive interface
(let s face it, the A 1200 needs it!) and space for
fitting a maths co-processor. Once again, GVP is
looking at a price of around £399 for this little
bundle of fun, For more details, contact Silica
Systems on ^ 081 309 1111.
SPEED FIEND
But if you just can t wait for GVP's expansion
boards, then you may be interested in the new
MBX1200 board from MicroBotics. The MBX1200
connects to the A1200 internally via the
machine's 150-pin edge connector and offers up
to 8Mb of 32-bit expansion using commonly
available SIMM modules.
It also has space for fitting either a 68881 or
68882 maths co-processor, speeding up math
intensive applications by a factor of eight. Fitted
with a 14.2 MHz 68881 and no expansion RAM,
the MBX1200 retails for around £120 while a
faster 68882 board can be picked up for just £60
more. Contact Calculus on ^ 0532 319444 or the
First Computer Centre on * 0532 319444.
If you're quite happy with the A1200 s 68020
processor then you may well be interested in a
new A1200 RAM expansion from Power
Computing. According to Power, work is
progressing on a £200 RAM expansion for the
A1200 that can be expanded to 8Mb and can also
take a maths co-processor. Although the exact
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£21
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512K
512K
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ProRAM A501
£19
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512K
512K
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AddAx
£125
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8Mb
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Power 8Mb
£109
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Type
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Max. Size
Chip Type
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£44.95
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1Mb
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£38
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PC601
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A1500 / A2000
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Supplier
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£149
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8Mb
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AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 24 # APRIL 1993
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5719 Gary..,., £ 10.50
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That's the task we have set ourselves in giving you the best
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can cope with any technical questions you can throw at them. If
they don't already know the answer to your problem, they will find it
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We are prepared to deal with any problem you have with the
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Each panellist will be dealing with queries in their own specialist
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Below Is a list of areas of expertise. It's a list that we will add to
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subjects not mentioned here.
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Name:
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Your machine:
ASOO Q A500 Plus □ A600 □ A1000 Q A1200 □
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Approximate age of machine: _
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1.2 Q 1.3 □ 1.3.2 □ 2.x Q 3.0 Q
PCB revision (If known). Do not take your machine apart just to look
for this!
Total memory fitted (see AVAIL in Shell for 1.3 Workbench)
Chip memory available (see AVAIL in Shell)
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Details of any other hardware which could help us to answer your question:
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AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 24 # APRIL 1993
NO PROBLEM!
Welcome again folks to Amiga Answers, the
section of the magazine where we endeavour to
straighten out your hassles with that wonderful
but occasionally stubborn machine, the Amiga.
Every month we devote more space and apply
more resources than any other Amiga magazine
to solving your problems, We receive something
like 100 queries a week, so the service is
obviously appreciated.
It's my job to co-ordinate the whole thing:
sotting through the questions and sending them
off to the relevant chappies for the kind of in-
depth answers you've come to expect; and
compiling them Into the lovingly crafted pages
which you see before you.
I call on a variety of expertise to make sure
you get the answers you need, which is why
Amiga Answers is so successful. There's Mark
Smlddy, Industry guru, Amiga DOS-tamer and
business applications wizard; Jeff Walker,
probably the most knowledgeable Amiga desktop
publisher there is; and Jason Holbom, long-time
AMOS explorer and PD sampler, as well as good
all-rounder (or should that be all round good
guy?); and Toby Simpson, lead programmer for
Millennium and accelerator expert.
If It's a question about video, 111 pass It on
to Gary Whlteley, our professional videographer
for whom the word 'genlock' means 'mixing
Amiga graphics with video for magical results*
and for whom the word 'snipwirral' means nothing.
Programming queries are dealt with by Paul
Overaa, who's not afraid to code in any
language, and who doubles as a MIDI maestro to
solve your sequencing slip-ups.
Our hardware guru is Jolyon Ralph. This man
knows just about everything about disks, both
hard and floppy, and what he doesn't know about
memory he's probably forgotten. Communication
breakdowns are flxed-up by Dave Winder, while
general Amiga queries are dealt with by the
indefatigable Wllf Rees - ail in all, a formidable
team. Let's face It, if we can't answer your
question, It's probably one of the Mysteries of
the Universe.
This month we give advice on buying tape
streamers and emulators, the best way to
perform cross-development, how to track down
font errors, and much much more. Toby
Simpson's Code Clinic on page 39 deals with a C
program to calculate blttter parameters.
Keep sending us those problems - the
solutions are just around the comer,
Cheers,
TRACE ONI
f"7 II I have an Amiga 500
r± Plus which Is
equipped with a
MlCrobOtiCS VXL-30
accelerator and 4Mb RAM. I use It
mainly for ray tracing with Imagine
1.1. After reading about this topic
fn your magazine, I have a number
of questions:
a) Is It possible to upgrade from
Imagine 1.1 to Imagine 2 In the UK
without paying the full £2697 Or do
I have to send off to the US and
splash out more on International
Money Orders and all that?
b) Is there a 68040 processor
for the Amiga 500 Plus? 1 hear
rumours that one Is available, but
I've never seen anything reviewed or
advertised In the magazines.
Since I use my Amiga to take
the delights of ray tracing into
youth clubs, portability Is very
Important. For this reason I find the
new Amiga 1200 very Interesting
and might purchase one when this
wretched recession ceases. Which
brings me to:
c) Will the A1200, Its screen
resolutions, its expansion and any
24-bit boards talk to Imagine?
d) Will a 30 package based on
radlosfty techniques (which can
render diffused lighting, soft
shadows and such like) ever be
available on the Amiga?
Finally, the kids seem to really
enjoy what I do and using the
accelerator a quarter-screen Image
can be rendered pretty quickly.
When everyone Is happy I render the
scene up full screen at home and
take It back for viewing the next
week. But as you say, Imagine Is
comparatively heavy going.
Humphrey Reader
Weston-Super-Ma re
The first thing I should say is "Well
done" to you Mr Reader - keep up
the good work in taking your Amiga
images to the masses.
a) The UK importer of imagine.
Digital Multimedia Services
(previously known as Computech),
says that upgrades from Imagine
vl.l to Imagine v2 are available for
around £80, but Sow demand (and
minimum ordering quotas imposed
by Impulse, who produces imagine)
means that the company won't be
doing any upgrades until there is a
reasonable number waiting to be
done. The good news is that with
imagine 3 due out sometime soon
(but only available as an upgrade
from version 2) ft should be possible
to bulk all the orders together and
get you sorted out. Call DMS on «
0702 206165 for more details.
b) Yes, the Mercury card from
Progressive Peripherals and
Software, which is the only one E am
aware of. See the advertisements in
Amiga Shopper for more details.
c) Imagine will only display
directly to Impulse's own Firecracker
board (which is NTSC only) at the
moment, However, the rendered
images can be displayed by any
suitable IFF display device. HAM -8 is
not yet supported by Imagine, though
no doubt it will be in its next
incarnation. If you need this mode, a
program such as ASDG'S Art
Department can do all the converting
for you,
d) I don't know of any in
production (which doesn't
necessarily mean there won't be).
JARGON BUSTING • JARGON BUSTING
Accelerator board - a device which either Includes a central processor like
the Amiga's, or a more advanced one In the same range, but operating
at a higher speed, An accelerator is useful for calculation-intensive
applications, such as 3D rendering.
RAM - Random Access Memory is used to store programs while they are
being executed. All data that the programs operate on is also stored in
RAM. Whereas ROM retains its contents forever, the contents of RAM
are lost when the power is switched off.
24-bit graphics - normally, the Amiga uses between one and five bits
(binary digits) to store the colour of each pixel (picture element) of a
display. This means that between two and 32 colours can be displayed.
Hardware add-ons are now becoming available which use 24 bits per
pixel, giving a possible 16.7 million colours.
but it would be nice. The main
problem will be speed - as the
calculations needed will be massive
- so there may never be a large
enough market to justify the
development. Like everything else,
time will tell. GW
KEYBOARD CORNER
I have a very simple
1 problem. I'd like to
shift the bulk of my
computer equipment
away from my desktop, leaving
nothing more than a keyboard and a
screen. As I own an A 500, 1 will
obviously need an external
keyboard. I know that Checkmate
produces such an item for £70, but
this is rather expensive. Is there an
adaptor available that will allow me
to connect an A2000 keyboard to
an A500?
Also, I plan to upgrade my
system in the future, but l T m not
overly keen on buying the A1200
simply because It seems to me that
the machine is simply more of the
same, What are the chances of
Commodore releasing a new mid*
range machine?
David Powell
War I Ingham
Surrey
Checkmate still produces its external
keyboard kit for the A500 but, as you
say, it's a little expensive.
Unfortunately, no one else actually
produces such a kit, especially not in
the form of an interface that would
continued on page 2?
AMIGA SHOPPER • I55UE 24 # APRIL 1993
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'land includes 2DMB
I HARD DRIVE the
I excellent value Software
titles: Deluxe Paint 111 «
Trivial Pursuit • Epic ■
I Myth* Roma
A goo zitio+20 mo nam oriw ...£439.99
(both include the shove detailed software)
A 890 The stand-alone A 600 is compact, semi
portable, fully featured and can lie purchased in
the following configurations: fiftlA Ail
a soo.. £279.99
A 600 2Mb .£314.99
AMIGA 1500
2,04 Workbench Includes: Deluxe Paint 3, Platinum Works,
Home Accounts, Toki, Puzznic, x Erf, Amiga Format Book
and Joystick
amioa 1500 immmn £479.99
aimga 1500 + 52 mo nam anvo.£689.99
A 500+ II 1 1 M ' H '1 1 1 A
A PHOENIX HAM module ||lllj JlliiJ A
can expand your chip RAM ■[ I ■ > ■
up to 2 Mb by using the BBJar S, ft
1 rap door expansion port. I
Extra RAM is necessary to Hil " jfa? r" fflpHfl
unleash the incredible WmmSKmmmmw'^
graphics caps-bilrties of your Amiga. AIJ our boards carry a
full 2 year no quibble replacement guerantee. It's never
been cheaper to upgrade!
i Mb Fully Doouiated ham noam £34.99
1 Mb unpopulated 6AM board... £16.99
YzMbiiK. cinch ..£29.99
A 600
pnoeniH pa BHi-Doouiaien-iMD £44.99
PhoBnlH PA GDt-unDDpuiared-OMD £24.99
PA S02B 2 Mb PCMCIA card... £129.99
PA 6020 AMD PCMCIA card £199.99
AMIGA CUSTOM CHIPS
Hick flllf 2.14 ROM h«
Hlelilirt 1.1 BtN,
REN Sutler Oenl&e,
.136.11
£27.91 Falter nm wrai^U*,! I
£29 99 m hzn ■ JO -6 1
AMIGA CUSTOM CHIPS
4 MB 1 • ( MJ SUM) £09 M 1 R» K A [-Ml 01 *E2l.6f
1 MR 1 1 1- SO) simm .£29.09 zra 1 1 i-m 2» "QUI
25 AR R I (-01) IIMH...S1M& 1 MR A 1 DIAM £3.61
2AM X A HUM £3.99 TBi frto rt 1*r1 Mi ri OtM
These chips cover practically every popular
memory expansion or Hard Drive system on the
market for the Amiga ie. GVP, SUPRA,
MICRDBDTICS, COMMODORE
HARD DRIVES
GVP IMPACT SERIES II Herd Drives, the fattest Hard
Drive/Cnntraliar for the Amiga Features Game Switch,
external SCSI port, F A A ASTRO M SCSI Driver, GVP's
custom VLSI chip and internal RAM expansion up to 8 meg!
Units use nigh specification fast-access QUANTUM Hard
Drives coming with 2 yr- guarantee.
500/500+
A500-HB0 + A2 Mb , £299.99
A500-HDB+ 80 MB £379.99
A500-HDB+ 120 Mb £469.99
A500-HD8 + 213 MB ..£564.99
A960-HD6 conlroliap only £179.99
1500/2000
series II Ham disk comroilep/HAm cam ... .£122. 99
sarin n 42 Mb Hard dish and Mm cart. ..-£284.99
Series II B6 Ma Hard Disk aal lAHl card £3 29. 9 9
series il m ton Hard disk ari unto cam....£4Q6.99
iarlts II 71D Mi Hard DIsK aal RAM card. ..£544,99
EKTHfl MEmORV-Onlv £29.99 nop Mh.
500/500+
GVP Combination Accelerators & Herd
Drives-The Dltimaie expansion product for
the Amiga 500!
A5ID CDMM OQMHZ + 02TI1& Hard IHMU £657,99
A53D oamal 406112 + aoiflb Hard Drlua JE743 J9
A5io camtii 4061Hz + tsntiD iurd onve £644.99
A53D ComDI 40RIKZ + 213010 Hard unit £929.99
co-Processor £219.99
1500/2000
eup 6-Ftrta oao-ssntHz + imd £474.99
6UP 6-F0m 030-40MH7 + 4MD JE757.99
HUP 0-Forco 030-50MHZ + IMD,.. £1136.99
6VP0-F0rn04t-33R1rtZ + 4Mb. £1419.99
gup accelerator ram
1Mb simm-32 en B6 nanosecoftos £65.99
4MbSlmm-32 Bit ee nanosocomia;.,,. £162.99
1 1 in 1 1 — »
All Monnors an supplied mtn 8 FREE canto
for connection to icur Amiga.
PHILIPS 6833MH It mm £224.99
Colour Stereo Monitor now including 'Lotus
Turbo Challenge', and 1 years on-site warranty.
COMMODORE 10M STL... enssr £199.99
Brand new high quality Monitor with built in Tilt
Yf Swivel monitor stand
GPMMOD0RE 194i £394.99
MONITOR AGCESS0RIES-
14" oust covers.... £4.99
14" Tilt & swivel stand £13.99
Anti-Glare inter screen.... £19.99
A4 enpy Homer ..£12.99
A 570 CD-ROM
This Amiga essential heralds the dawn of
multi-media-suitable lor A500/A500+ /A570,
Phoenix price £299.99
PRINTERS
PHOENIX PRINTER PACK
Supplied with ALL printers containing 1,8m std.
printer cable, printer ribbons/cartridge and 250
sheets of paper absolutely FREE
m i e
m
LC-100 colour.... aw/ £164.99
9 PIN colour printer with paper parking, aight fonts and
electronic DIP switches.
ICZ4-100 mw £186.99
24 PIN with cam pressed data mads, 16 K buffer and 10 I otter
quality fonls r (with Star printer driver orih/f.
lc-20 ..£132.99
lg-zoo colour £199.99
LC24-20 £199.99
LC2a-2oo Mont £219.99
U24-200 colour £279.99
H824-2&0 colour... £ 379.99
SJae Bubbiojet mmm £219.99
Star printers come with one year warranty.
CITIZEN! CITIZEN! CITIZEN
sum 240 colour ....£264.99
stunt 240 mono £254.99
sum 200 Colour £214.99
sum zoo Mono £187.99
sum s colour.. £169.99
Citizen printers come with 2 year warranty,
mg* HEWLETT T/ifjM HEWLETT
iXi PACKARD Iffil PACKARD
Dflskioi-ssoc mnmm mm £534.99
3CD dpi laser quality output + sharp blacks and 16 million
colours available ■ six built in type faces-4 scalable •
improved media handling * several paper sizes * FOUR
TIMES FASTER than previous H P. Deskjet range.
DssHioi 500 ..£329.99
DosKjei-soo colour. £424.99
HP printers come with 3 year warranty.
hp DiacK irk cartrmjiB £24.99
HP colour Ink cartridge ....£29.99
AUTO SHEET FEEDERS
STAR LC20 £57.99
STAR LG200 £59.96
STAR LC24-200..... £62.99
STAR LG24-20 £62.99
LASER PRINTERS
STAR LASER JET MK III £724.99
STAR LS-5
5 Pages per m-inute< 1 years I
on site maintenance!
warranty end 14 resident)
fonts
STAR LS-5EK £734.99
5 Pages par minuted 1 years en site maintenance warranty
enhanced control logic board 14 resident fonts (eight
scalable}.
star ls-stt £954.99
As above but with 3S postscript fonts and 2Mb of memory
(expandable to eight.
BUBBLE JET
Canon Cation
can qn dj toex £209.99
Upgraded version of BJlOe, the worlds biggest selling
portable inkjet printer.
CAH0H DJ 20 £319.99
More Features than the BJlO, includes Auto sheet feeder.
Top selling -Highly Recommended
canon dj 200 nrnr £349.99
Feature include: 300 dpi. ■ Mm 80 page Auto sheet feeder »
minimum 3 pages per minute SUPER VALUE!
cation dj 300....... £374.99
B0 column bubble jet provides laser quality output
CAH0H DJ 330 £499.99
136 column bubblejet
canon DubMejot cartridges.. £17.99
bj TOoH Auloshoet iBBdor £49.99
PRINTER ACCESSORIES
We have a large range of high quality
printer accessories for all the printers we
set! including: dust covers from £2.99 • Ink
cartridges from £13.99 • Mono ribbons
from £3 50 • Colour ribbons from £7.99 *
Printer stands from £7.99
MICE &
T'RftCK BAILS
9
Roctec mouse £13.99
GOLDEN IMAGE
mega mouse. £12.99
{Has just received 90% Amiga Format Gold Award}
optical mouse £29.99
High precision pointing device.
crystal TracKbaii £37.99
infrarBd-Gardlots-mause £47.99
4 Recharge able top selling innovation.)
uotlcal Pen mouse,.... £39.99
High Quality 8mm mouse mats ..£3.99
auto mouse/JoysticK Switch .£15.99
Don't damage your Amiga's ports {This device
saves wear and tear makes switchover FAST, and
does NOT require power unlike many others.
SGAWItERS
Powerful image processing tools for
the office or the home environment
POUIER-iHlBKS lltlliC 100-400 dpi . 64
Grayscales Thruport to printer - FREE Editing software.
Power Scanner v3.0.. £109.99
Includes FREE upgraded editing software.
Power scanner colour £234.99
bolder imAOE-NiRiscianef series
Features: 400 dpi ■ 256-Greyscale * Touch up and
Mergs ir software.
Alfascan .. £124.99
All as can Plus £149.99
Allascan OCR unc oct soiRtipn £279.99
Don't confuse these quality disks with trtfn
available. 3.5" 100% certified error free 70%
include FREE Ewgh quality Phoenix labels.
10 £4.09 201
26... JT2.99 500..-.. £174.99
SB .. £22.99 750. £259.99
100 £39.99 1000.. .£339.99
DUSdTI BPanQBI] DISKS- High performance media from
the experts-box 10 with labels and FREE 10 Cap plastic
storage box
10 £5.99 mo....... .£52.98
50 £26.99 5B0 £249.99
1000 Phoenix disk Laneis £9.99
DISK DRIVES
All drives feature super slim design, enable-
disable switch, ttiru port and come with a 1 year
replacement guarantee!
Phoenix Deluxe Drive £09,99
Roe lac RacMte... £94.99
This famous drive has now been upgraded to include
Antic tick and Virus Checker
Dish head cleaner .£3.99
UIDE0
SGALA S00 .
sgala Profession
Big Alternative
Broadcast Tiller 2 .
font racR 1 for i
Ml
TV!
TV Tent Pro ..
ACCOUNTING
Personal Finance.,
Arena Accounts ...
amiga music
lechnoturho-souDd.™ £zn2? £29.99
stereo sampler .....£29.99
Combines ease of use with state of the art analogue to
digital conversion technology. (inc. FREE sample editing
software +audio lead) mmm
Pro-Midi 2 interface ........£24 J9
This fully featured professional quality midi interface is
very flexible giving semi-patch bay facilities. It has five
ports in r out, thru and two swrtchable out/thru. iinc. FREE
midi lead)
GUP Digital sound studio £44.99
High quality sound sampler foe ell Amiga Campuiars
Amiga Music Made Easy- Only from Phoenix!
CDDiroi centre. £34.99
Heavy duty construction, rubber edging,
perfect colour match, makes an ideal
workstation for the A500/A500+ A 600
control centre now available.
Phaanh stereo speakers.. £37.99
Superb sound and excellent dynamics. These two-
way stereo Hi-Fi speakers are an Amiga standard-
Excellent companions on any (faming soiree!
DATA SWITCHES- 1 25 JIB I If It)
2 way HM9
3 way , .117.99
4 mil.... .. £19.99
STAR AGE:
so capacity bark £11.99
ISO Capacity rosso 119.99
disk box to cao £1.99
DISK DON 25 Cap £2.99
dish Don so Can i £4.99
disk box 100 cap.... £9.99
TffilMr
SB*
mouse/Jovstlch switch £13.99
Don't damage your Amiga's ports'This device sav&s
wear and tEar makes switchover FAST, and does NOT
require power unlike many others.
comouter/uiflfto Scan switch £19.99
Flip between Video/computEr signals at the push of a button.
PHoenlK Stereo speakers £29.99
Superb sound and excellent dynamics These two-
way stererj Hi-Fi speakers are an Amiga standard-
Excellent companions an any gaming $oiree!
LEADS & GABLES
Midi-Midi in. ...£3.99 moduiaior sict...£9.99
mai-Hidi sm..,.£4.99 imm-Scirt 19.99
Midi-nidi 5n....£5.99 AMin-aasaMHii£9.99
DISK Drive BU...19.99 WiMc* long ait.ifl.99
m d u sa/JDystlc H Btl..... » £4.19
mi u se/JD if stick miner £4 . 9 9
'serial/modem mm ..£9.99
'Amloa-Multfeync rrom£9.99
'flmiga-micrnuriec.
* AniiJ-cpc aeiitar.. £9.99
^mipa-ROB/TV... £9.99
*scsi Cain variais £9.99
primer i.sm £5.99 printer 2.Dm no £7.99
Home Accounts 2 ™
system S 143J
CasMooh Combo £57.1
NEW TITLES-STOP PRESS..HEW TITLES
API Exprassion £131.19
Clarity IS.. £197.99
video Master ...» 152.99
Pageslream Bussiness forms .£29.99
fflorpli PUS 1149.99
image master £129.99
pig Alternative scroller v2.8... £59.91
amiDacK «2.0 .£42.99
tdcodo Soond Turbo...... £29.99
System It...... . ..£49.99
Deluxe Paini 4.5 tm £19.99
HlCHMf n.i JI2.II
WORD PROCESSING/ PTP
Kindujorns a 138.99
Final Copy 2 ^5 tmwtllM
Final copir sou iddis wm available ....POA
Professional Pane 3 ../^t;? £129.99
PagEsIrfjam U2.2 1126.99
paieslrean Font pacR 1 144.99
Pen Pal 1.4..... mmwsi tt £39,99
Hoi Links JE52.99
weriiionn u 2.e £72.99
..159.19
INTEGRATED PACKAGES
earn disc ohicb 2 ..,
MULTI-MEDIA
.„ [77*71? £39.99
UTILITIES
lattice C v6 171*71! £214.99
A-TalK 3 .....144.19
CrOSS DOS US (lie, emi PC Emlilir). £29.99
DlsMmasiar 2 193.99
na& 2 Dos ........129.99
nous nirectflpy v4.0 £49.99
Hcopy £33.99
Quarter Back £45.99
Quarter BacK foots us 5 MB 99
DATABASE
snparnase pre 4 £164.99
Superbase Pers 2 iM?M*mi £39.99
uiDi-nmiQA 12 mS7 £79.99 FRflCTftL AND SPECIAL FK
Ainu nn Race Trace itjw £93.99
rocoeh Pius kits. 99 Deluxe paint 4 163.99
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PHOENIX ROM SHARERS
Heuooard ROM Sharer ..£29.99
standard rom snarer .£24.99
Rev 3.5 ROM Sharer £27.90
1.3 rbm «... JE27.90
2.0 rom J34.99
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READERS ANNOUNCEMENT
T RILOGIC >
If you have fitted a HARD DRIVE In to your AMIGA 600 or 1200, contact TRILOGIC
who can provide Warranties covering both computer & d rive
usually voided by having drive fitted.
* REPLACES COMMODORE'S WARRANTY
* COVERS ALL REPAIRS - WHETHER FROM BREAKDOWN OR ACCIDENTS
* BOTH COMPUTER & HARD DRIVE ARE COVERED.
* COMPUTER NEED NOT HAVE BEEN SUPPLIED BY US.
* COVER AVAILABLE EVEN WHERE DRIVE IS DIY FITTED.
* COMPUTER MUST BE LESS THAN 12MONTHS OLD
* UNDERWRITTEN BY LEADING UK INSURANCE COMPANY
* VERY FEW EXCLUSIONS:-**** m vAi/'rn a inieoancfl work: wtfut dam tKsft cosm *k dam ag* not dfaclhg functionality.
* DONT GAMBLE ON NEVER HAVING ANYTHING GO WRONG ■ you can expect to pay well over E45 for any Amiga repair
* LOW COST: Coyer available for: 2yrs or 3yrs * Total vaJue
COMPUTERS UPTO £600 in value A £27,99 £42.99 including
Interna] hard
drive.
COMPUTERS FROM £601 to £1000 in value A £42.99 £67.99
AMIGA 600 & 1200 2.5" IDE DRIVES: -
20MEG £119.99 80MEG £249.99
40MEG £169.99 120MEG £369.99
60M EG £199.99 170MEG POA
Price includes cable & vat. Carrier del £5.50.
Simple to fit - no soldering.
We can arrange collection of your Amiga if
you are not local. Fitting charge £15.00
IDE cable available separately £9.99 + £1p&p.
FORMATTED
& READY TO
USE
FREE
FITTING IF
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AMIGA 1200s
WITH DRIVES-
FITTED irtc 2YR
WARRANTY
1200/60 £599.99
1200/80 £649.99
1200/120 £769.99
Carriage £7.50
HOW TO APPLY.
Simply send payment,
(made payable to TRILOGIC)
with proof of purchase of
computer & drive + your name
& address.
Payment accepted by Cheque/PO/
ACCESS/VISA/SWITCH/AM EX.
Forward details & payment to:-
TRILOGIC,
UNIT 1,
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OR
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HARDWARE
A600 + Joystick + Mouse Mat ..£294.00
A600 , £289,00
A1500 & Software . £565.00
1084S Monitor . £199.00
GVP series % Hard drive 52 Meg £350.00
1 Meg sims £28.00
Phone for 2000 & 3000 prices.
ACCESSORIES
Amiga Int drive...
Cumana Ext drive „
Zydec Ext drive ,
51 SK upgrade with dock
512K upgrade no clock
1 .5 Meg upgrade with clock...
1 Meg Amiga plus upgrade
8 Meg fast ram, 4 Meg populated
....£49.00
...£56.00
....£51.00
..£2350
. £19.00
....£79.00
£37.00
£169.00
PRINTERS
Star LC-20
Star LC 24-10 ...
STAR LC1 00 Colour TJEWV
Star LC200 Colour
IStar LC-24-2Q0 Colour.
.£133.00
.£199.00
.£169.00
£194.00
.£274.00
JOYSTICKS
Quickshot II
Python Micro Switched ..
Speedking Autofire
Competition Pro Extra
Mini Competition Pro
Maverick Autofire
Zipstick Autofire
Intruder
Aviator Flight Sim
^Jet Fighter
....£6.50
....£8.00
£10,50
..EViy 50
X1350
X12.95
£1295
£2150
£23.50
£12.99
DISKS with labels
Unbranded Bulk 100% Certified
3.5" DSDD 37peach
3.5" Rainbow 44p each
3.5" DSHD 55p each
5.25" DSDD £8p each
Branded Di$k$
3 5 H DSDD 50p each
3.5" Labels per roll of 1,000 £6.50
3.5" Tractor feed per 1,000 £8-50
Please phone for bul k purchase discounts
STORAGE BOXES
10 capacity £0.95
NEW 200 Cap box stackable/lockable £1 6.50
50 capacity lockabte £3.95
100 capacity lockable £4.50
80 cap Ban* stackable/lockable £8 50
150 cap Posso stackable/lockable £1 5.00
250 cap stackable/lockable £1 8.99
Most of the above available in 3.5" and 5,25"
LOOK! LOOK! LOOK!
TRACTOR FEED DISK LABELS
500 plain white labels & software to print
your own professional labels
Only £9.95
SPECIAL OFFER
1000 labels with software £1 3 + 50
MISCELLANEOUS
Mousehouse £1.60
Mouse Mat £2.50
Disk Drive Cleaner .,,.£1.80
Amiga Dust Cover £3.50
Monitor Dust Cover £3.50
Mouse/Joystick Auto Shift £12.50
Amiga Light Pen & Software £32.00
Optical Mouse £32.00
Squik Mouse , £12.99
Naksha Mouse & Accessories £22.00
Zy-Fi Amplifier & Speakers ,......£37.95
Thumb & Finger Trackerball £19.99
Crystal Trackball , „ £32.00
Action Replay Mark III £57.00
Techno Sound Turbo Sampler........... .,.£32,00
2 Piece Printer Stand with tray £5 70
Midi Master £26.00
Wordworth 1.1 £77.50
Till/Turn Monitor Stand £8.50
Orders by phone or post to:
DIRECT COMPUTER SUPPLIES
0782-311471 Anytime
0782 - 642497 9am - 5.30pm week
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54 Spring Road,
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Stoke-on-Trent,
Staffs ST3 2PX
Prices include VAT
Postage please add £3.30
We accept cheques/
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allow you to connect up and use an
A2000 keyboard (come on all you
hardware developers, get to it!). The
main problem with such an upgrade
would be that the Amiga 2000
keyboard doesn't come cheap.
I recently had to buy a keyboard for
my Amiga 2000 and I was shocked
to learn that their price had recently
doubled from a very reasonable £40
to an eye-popping £80. Add to this
the price of an interface (if such an
item existed) and you'd be paying
over £100 for the privilege of an
external keyboard. JH
EMULATE IT!
As part of an
engineering course I
have to complete a
module on micro-
. Upon reading the small
print I discovered the hardware
required would be an IBM
compatible computer with 512K and
Turbo Pascal 5, Is It possible to
adapt my A 500 Plus to complete
these requirements or should I just
scrounge the loan of a PC?
CJ Hudson
Trundra Isle
Shetland
On the software side you should just
be able to get away with a PC
emulator - one of the recent
software-based ones should be able
to do the job (albeit a little slowly), A
better option would be a hardware
emulator such as AT-Once or the
KCS Power PC board. In any case,
you should also check whether Turbo
Pascal has other requirements, like a
hard disk,
The crunch may come if you need
to use some PC hardware - such as
the internal 8-bit expansion ports. If
this is the case your A500 would not
do the job and you would have to
blag a real PC for the duration. MS
DEVELOPING WORLD
I consider myself a
very competent
68000 assembly
programmer, but feel
restricted in developing on a single
machine. I have, however, recently
acquired a fairly high spec PC and
would like to use this as my
development machine, My question
then concerns the cross-assembler.
I have heard of a couple; SNASM
and PDS68Q9Q. Could you tell me
which is the best, how much they
cost, and where I can get them? I
mostly program games.
Mark Nixon
Caldmore
Walsall
This is a tough one. Not because I
don't know anything about SNASM or
PDS- we have both in the office for
development work. The thing is, both
products are expensive {SNASM, for
example is £2500) and currently
make programming legal games
software very difficult The SNASM kit
is actually some software, a cross-
assembler and a special SCSI
system to link the PC to the Amiga
(through the expansion connector).
If you've developed on the
Amiga, quite why you'd want to
subject yourself to working on a PC is
beyond me E The advantage of cross
development using SNASM and such
like is the control over debugging you
have. An alternative, for half the
price, is to buy a high spec A300Q,
and develop on that. You can then
assemble to disk or use networking
hardware to run off the other one -
which is how I develop games on the
Amiga. That way I get all the
advantages of the Amiga's
multitasking operating system. It's a
sort of half-cross-development and
it's a lot cheaper than SNASM, But if
you're still interested in finding out
more about SNASM, call Cross
Products on tr 0532 429814. TS
JARGON BUSTING • JARGON BUSTING
Assembly language - is written as a series of short words known as
'mnemonics' - these are translated directly into numbers for direct
processing by the computer's micro-processor.
Emulator - either hardware or software that enables programs written for
another machine to be used on the Amiga. The emulator is transparent
to the programs running under it.
Genlock - a way of slaving one video source (say, an Amiga) to another
(video tape, for example) in order to synchronise their signals. This wtl!
allow stable wipes, mixes and other effects including overlay between
the two sources.
PC - IBM PC-compatible computer based on one of the Intel 8067 or SOxxx
series CPUs, and with similar hardware /software configuration.
Printer driver - a program that sits in-between any applications program
producing output and the printer. It converts any codes describing text
and graphics format into a form suitable for a specific printer.
DISAPPEARING DISKS?
HOn various occasions when I insert a disk in dfO: the disk
drive light comes on (as normal), the drive clicks a few
times, the drive Eight goes out and then everything reverts
back to the Workbench screen! Sometimes f have to insert
the disk several times before it will load. The drive seems to recognise a
disk has been Inserted but fails to load.
Do I require a new drive?
A Beales, Bures, Suffolk
I'm afraid the prospects don't sound all that good. What's more, disk drives
are usually difficult, and often impossible to repair - for the price of a visit to
a repair centre you can just buy a new internal drive which will satisfactorily
replace the existing unit. IR
MOVING ON UP
I have recently been
toying with the idea
of buying an Amiga
computer ever since
handing over my Sinclair Spectrum
128+ 2 A to my son. As my finances
are limited, I was originally going to
purchase an A500 Plus. We have
seen this has now been superseded
by the A600. 1 have two problems:
a) With my Spectrum 128+ 2 A I
was able to run a Fujitsu M3328B
printer directly out of the printer
port. I have no manuals with the
printer due to It being surplus BT
equipment. If I purchase an A600
will this work or will I have to alter
the DIP switches inside? And which
driver would it use?
b) As I can't afford to buy a
monitor at present, I intend to use
an Hitachi CPT 1646 colour TV
which has a switch able RGB/TV
facility as standard, The socket on
the TV end Is a 7-pin DIN type. I
have enclosed the connections for
the monitor side. Will this work on
an Amiga?
PC French
Basingstoke
Hants
A wise decision! An Amiga is a good
buy, whatever the model* although I
personally would recommend the
A 1200 for maximum price-
performance value, depending of
course upon what you want to use it
for. So f with that out of the way, let's
take your questions one by-one now;
a) Check the connector on the
Fujitsu printer. If the socket is a
Centronics 36-way connector (about
5cm wide, 1.5cm high and wedge-
shaped, with a long slot in the
centre), then the printer is
compatible with all Amigas. All that is
required is a suitable cable, available
from most Commodore dealers.
b) After contacting Hitachi (i*
081 849 2000), I was told that the
Hitachi 1646 Colour TV has an
Analogue RGB input So it will work
with all Amigas, although a lead will
have to be constructed to match up
the particular connections, WR
SCREEN DEBUT
Over the past two
| years I have become
very Interested in
home video and in
that time I have purchased a fair
amount of video equipment, most of
which Is S-VHS compatible, I now
wish to make my home productions
to a more professional standard -
but purely as a hobby which Is of
use to my family and close friends.
My problem is that I am not a
computer buff. 1 have found your
magazine invaluable In learning
through lay terms more than I have
comprehended from any other
magazine in the marketplace - I
now subscribe to Amiga Shopper -
and I've decided that it would be
nice to have an Amiga to assist
with graphics, titling, and so on.
However, I find the whole matter
rather confusing - when I go to the
Amiga shop I am confident of the
product I want to buy {probably an
Amiga 1500 with 4Mb of RAM), but
when I mention to the salesman
that I want to interface It with video
then the whole conversation seems
to go downhill and usually ends up
with "Go and see the video shop,
they should be able to help".
When I arrive at the video shop I
am informed that the Panasonic
AVE-5 mixer that I am considering
buying does not need a genlock. I
then enquire as to what titling
facilities can be used and find that
the systems available are very
basic, even though some cost
nearly £200. After that it's downhill
all the way.
Therefore could I enlist your
opinion as to what equipment I need
to make successful home videos, at
a budget reflecting the standard of
equipment I already have? I think I
need an Amiga 1500 with 4Mb of
RAM and a 40Mb hard disk, a
multisync monitor, a genlock, a
Roc Key and a Panasonic AVE-5
video mixer. Software would likely
be Broadcast Titter 2 and Deluxe
Paint IV, But what do you think?
1 would be grateful if you could
provide a diagram of how to connect
AMIGA SHOPPER » ISSUE 24 • APRIL 1993
all these various bits and pieces
together because there are
umpteen ways of plugging leads
into my equipment and l T m not
always sure if I am doing it
correctly. Also, in the future I may
well want to use my Amiga for word
processing and similar business-
type uses, so If there is anything
else you think I need, please don't
hesitate to let me know.
KG Brown
Clare
Suffolk
It's a difficult time to be advising folk
what kind of Amiga equipment to be
buying for video use. With the new
Amigas available my inclination is to
point you towards them because they
offer much more for the graphics
user, as well as more speed and
stability. But the A4000 is likely to
be outside your price range and the
A1200 has to have a hard drive and
extra memory added to really make it
applicable to your needs. And then
there is the real possibility of buying
an Amiga 3000 at knock-down
prices. Or picking up a well-equipped
A2000 or 1500 second-hand. I told
you it was difficult, didn't I?
Stili, you asked for specific
advice, and that's what we're here
for. I suppose if I had to make the
choice I'd probably have to choose
the Amiga 1200 r expand Its memory
by adding at least 4Mb RAM and
install the largest hard drive I could
afford. A good dealer should be able
to advise you on this. Although you
don't strictly need a multisync
monitor, one of these will help to
keep your eyeballs steady if you
don't like the interlace jitters, though
remember that you'll need to check
your work on a video monitor as well
- which won t be a problem as the
A1200 has composite, RFand RGB
video outputs.
Forget the chroma-keyer for now
and concentrate on buying a good
genlock, perhaps a GST Go Ed or
Electronic Design YC genlock - and
expect to pay at least £400. While
chroma-keying is interesting, it's
certainly not an essential piece of
startup kit and, like the RocGen,
cannot handle S-VHS.
To do your video mixing you'll
still need a mixer, so the AVE-5 may
well suit your purposes. Take its
output to the genlock and you can
overlay graphics and still do effects
behind the Amiga images,
For graphics software there isn't
yet a lot of choice, as titles are only
just starting to appear which support
the new graphics modes. I've heard
that an AA chip version (for the new
chip set in the A 1200 and A4000) of
Broadcast Idler is ready, but I have
no more details. A revamped Deluxe
Paint should also be available by the
time you read this, as should
JARGON BUSTING • JARGON BUSTING
Compugraphic fonts - rather than a simple bit-mapped image of each
character, which grows more jagged with magnification, a Compugraphic
font represents the shape of each character within the font as a
mathematical equation of the outline. Consequently, as the magnitude
of the character is varied in printing, no information is lost and the
re suit always looks smooth.
Hard drive - like a floppy drive, but much bigger and faster. Also, the disk
cannot be removed, so once the hard drive has been filled, it's either
time to delete excess files or get another one,
PostScript - A powerful mathematical language used to describe graphics
and text images to compatible printers. Because it does not rely on a
pixel system, objects so described can be scaled and rotated without
distortion or loss of detail.
Brit Hence, touted as being the new
paint champion. But only time will
tell, so the moral here is either to
wait a while, or test before you buy.
Don't forget to add Scaia to your
shopping list too, as it can add
another dimension to your work, And
get hold of some good typefaces too
- a set of Agfa Compugraphic fonts
can be very useful, as can some of
the PD font sets.
I'm sorry I can't really advise you
on how to connect everything
together, since I have no idea what
equipment you will be buying. But
don't worry, it really isn't too difficult
- most of the items can only be
connected in one way.
For business use you'll likely
require a printer, and (obviously)
some business software. But as you
don't mention your business
aspirations I can't really take it any
further. Rest assured, when you want
the right stuff, you'll be able to find it
- unless it involves chicken sexing,
nuclear power or something really
obscure. GW
POSTSCRIPT POSER
Having wasted
months trying to print
: a full A4 page from
my B2000 to a HP
Laserjet III, I gave up and Installed
another 2Mb of memory and a
Jetpage PostScript cartridge in the
LaserJet. The B2000 and the printer
now both have 3Mb.
Now, out putting as PostScript
whenever possible from Excellence!
3.0 and Professional Page 2.1 has
solved most of my problems.
Trying to make some money
from DTP - leaflet s T mailshots,
manuals and so on - I bought
CG Fonts Vol 1 from George
Thompson Services to add some
Interesting fonts to Professional
Page. When I include downloadable
fonts in the PostScript output
{having installed everything in the
right place}, the printer appears to
process the data correctly but falls
to produce any output, simply
returning to its 'ready" status,
Outputting to a file shows that
the correct 'forrtname.psfont' file
from the C6Fonts:PS directory is
Included. Knowing that
downloadable fonts are removed
from printer memory after use by
Professional Page, I sent the
'fontname.psfont' file to the printer
using the CLI then used
Professional Page without including
downloadable fonts. I got the same
result - nothing, that is.
George Thompson Services
informs me that these fonts were
tested by Jeff Walker, 'the DTP
guru man' r , and work correctly. It
was suggested that I should
upgrade the LaserJet to 4Mb. Surely
this shouldn't be necessary just to
produce a simple A4 page using
only a single 'softfont'?
CPI, who make Jetpage,
guarantee Adobe Type 1 and Type 3
(.psfont) softfont compatibility.
The disappearance of output
also occurs if I send an EPS file
(170K), produced by Touch-Up 1.04,
to the Laserjet directly via the CLI
or as part of a page from
Professional Pago 2.1.
BE Matthews
Walsall
WMids
I certainly tested some of the Type 3
typefaces on the GTS disks, but not
all of them. The ones I tested worked
fine on a laser printer that contained
a standard version of Adobe
PostScript, as opposed to a third-
party implementation. I've even used
one or two in documents that have
been printed on an Imagesetter,
Normally, if a particular typeface
is not available to the PostScript
printer, the text set in that typeface
gets printed in a default typeface,
normally Courier, When a PostScript
printer doesnt print and returns to
its 'ready' state, this is normally
caused by PostScript crashing and
resetting the printer - just like
programs on the Amiga can crash
and reset the computer. This is
usually because PostScript has run
out of memory.
But as you say, 3Mb is plenty for
an A4 page and just one softfont,
providing the softfont isn't massively
and enormously complicated, which
none of the Type 3 typefaces on the
GTS disks are.
Try a little test. Create a tiny little
PostScript page - say, business card
size - make sure the 4 PostScript
Output Specs' in "Alter Current Page 1
are set to the small size, and use
the softfont to type a few words-
Then output that to the PostScript
printer, including downloadable
fonts. If it prints OK, then it looks
like there is a memory problem that
another 1Mb may cure; if it doesn't
print, then either the Jetpage
PostScript cartridge is not completely
Type 3 compatible, or the Type 3
typefaces on the GTS disks (which
were created with the FontManager
program that comes with
Professional Page 3.0} are faulty.
If you had told me the exact
typeface you are having trouble with,
I could have tested it for you, But you
didn't, so 1 can't So I picked one of
the typefaces from Vol 1 at random
{UpperEastSide) and output that as
PostScript to the SaxonScript
Professional Po stSc ri pt i nte rprete r ,
and it worked perfectly. I'm pretty
sure that the Type 3 data is OK,
So it's either not enough memory
in the printer, or the Jetpage
PostScript cartridge is not as
compatible as it claims to be.
The EPSF output from those early
versions of Touch-Up is not the full
shilling, which is probably why the
Save EPSF option is missing from
later versions. We're up to version
3.02 now, by the way. JW
TRANSPLANT SURGERY
r k Tl I have an A500 Plus
A with a GVP Series 2
hard disk and various
other bits and pieces.
While I think it is an excellent
machine, there are one or two
drawbacks. I do a lot of writing and
I find the A500 keyboard
particularly awful. I understand that
there Is a company thai
manufacturers an adaptor that
allows you to connect a PC
keyboard to the Amiga.
Now I'd like to buy one of these
but - to save space on my already
crowded desk - It would be really
useful if I could transplant my A 500
into a PC box along with the hard
drive, second disk drive and
keyboard adaptor, then sit my
monitor on top of the box.
As far as I'm aware, these
boxes are pretty cheap - I
remember reading a letter In Amiga
Shopper from a reader who had
already carried out the transplant
operation that I described. Is there
any chance of producing a DIY
project within the magazine?
AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 24 * APRIL 1993
Finally, Is It likely that the new
AG A chip set and Workbench 3.0
will be released for the A500?
William H udders
Roundhay
Leeds
A couple of interfaces are available
for the Amiga that will enable you to
connect and use a PC keyboard.
Unfortunately, these are only
available for the CDTV and any Amiga
that has an external keyboard. Even
If you were to successfully modify the
A 500 so that the interface could be
used, there's not a great deal of
point to the exercise.
I was forced to use a PC
keyboard on my Amiga 2000 quite
recently and I have to admit that it
was not a pleasant experience. For a
start, the Amiga relies heavily on
those special Amiga A' keys which
the standard PC keyboard layout
doesn't offer. Although a PC
keyboard is fine for straight text
processing, try using it for any other
form of keyboard entry and you'll find
it sadly lacking.
The other alternative is to treat
yourself to Checkmate Digital's
keyboard conversion kit (it costs
approximately £60) which moves the
ASOO's existing keyboard out of the
A500 box and into a steel keyboard
enclosure. It's rather clunky, but it
does work. As discussed in the
second of this month's questions
(see 'Keyboard Corner', page 25),
I'm surprised that no one has yet
come up with an interface which
allows A500 users to connect and
use an Amiga 2000 keyboard,
As for the case conversion, I see
no reason why the ASOO's innards
couldn't be transplanted into a PC
case, but you may have to mess
around with a lot of connector
extensions to get the ASOO's
connectors to fit into the holes
provided in the PC casing. A DIY case
conversion kit project wouldn't
actually be a bad idea for a feature
within the magazine - HI certainly
suggest it to our illustrious editor,
Cliff (consider it suggested -Ed).
Although Commodore claims that
it has approached several third- party
vendors to encourage them to
produce an upgrade that will allow
'standard' Amigas to use the new
AGA chip set, I personally don't think
that such an upgrade will see the
light of day. The new chip set is
based around 32-bit technology, so
squeezing it into a 16-bit A500 isn't
going to be easy (if at all possible).
There's good news on the
Workbench 3.0 front though -
although Workbench 3,0 is written
specifically for the new chip set.
Commodore has just launched
Workbench 2.1, a version of 3.0 that
will happily work on standard
Kickstart 2.04-based Amigas. JH
BRANCH LIBRARY
No matter what I do I
cannot get Fountain
to work. Every time I
try to open the
program I get a message: Cannot
open diskfont library V37". I
understand from some instructions
it is necessary to change the LIBS:
assignment, but I have tried this to
no avail. Can you please explain In
plain English what I should do?
EJ Storey
Barking
Essex
This is quite a common problem and
seems to stem from the fact that
some copies of the Workbench 2
disks were sent out with the wrong
version of diskfontJIbrary. This is a
collection of routines for handling
fonts stored on disk (as opposed to
the two in ROM). Two versions
should be supplied with Workbench
2: version 36 on the Workbench disk
and version 37 on the Amiga Fonts 2
disk. In either case these files are
stored in a drawer marked LIBS.
To check which one you have you
need to open a Shell and place
Workbench 2 in your interna! drive
and AmigaFontsS in the external
drive. Now enter the following
commands (Shell's output is also
shown - you only enter the line after
the '!>' prompt):
1 > vers ION LIBS : d i skfont . J
library FILE
Workbench2 : Libs /diskfont * J
library 36.1
1 >VERSI ON DF 1 : LIBS /di skfont . J
library FILE
AmigaFonts2 : Libs /diskf oat . J
library 37.58
(Don't try typing in the J* symbol
- it's just there to show you where
commands go over the end of a line).
The output from your machine may
look slightly different, but the part we
are interested in here is the number.
This is split into two parts; the
version number and revision number.
Let's say it reads 37.58 (as it does
in our example). This means version
37 and revision 58. The version
number is the important part and
that must be 37 or higher for
Fountain to work. If the
diskf ont.library is version 37 on your
AmigaFonts2 disk, you are part way
there already: if not, you'll have to
find a friend (or dealer) who has one.
When you get hoid of the right
disk, pop it in the external drive, put
Workbench in the internal drive, open
a Shell and enter this:
COPY DFl:Libs/disk#? LIBSi
and Fountain will suddenly start
to work like magic. MS
SYMBOLIC LOGIC
IJB I am doing an Open
University maths
dosed course and I
want to use my
Amiga and Panasonic KXP-1124
printer to write out tutor-marked
assignments.
However I need to use special
mathematical symbols, which are
not Included in the standard fonts, I
use TransWrite predominantly, but
realise that E may need to get
another word processor.
Keith Irving
Lyneham
Wiltshire
It sounds like Wordworth 2 will be
right up your street - it comes with
no less than four mathematical
symbol Compugraphic (outline)
typefaces. JW
MISLEADING INFO?
I recently purchased
a GVP A530, with an
80Mb Hard Disk. I
am very pleased with
it, but have a few questions:
a) Syslnfo tells me that the boot
priority of my Hard Disk Is -10. Is
4-
WIDEN YOUR REPERTOIRE
I'm using Sequencer One for most of my MIDI requirements
but I would like to have some software which will allow me
to store a dump of the sounds from my Roland D10 (via
SysEx Messages) anil of course put them back so that I can
have a larger bank of sounds to play with, rd also like a sound editor
program. Do you know of anything which may help?
Rob Darke, Whiteoross, Hereford
Since you need both a patch librarian and a patch editor one solution would
be to opt for Dr Ts XOR. H h s expensive but since it is a generic editor
librarian package that supports, and will continue to support, all major
synth s and synth modules, it may turn out to be the most viable option in the
long run.
Another possibility is to use separate package s< For example, you could
use something like the Bars & Pipes 'Patch Me ister' as the librarian and a
dedicated patch editor program (Dr T markets a series of patch editors
including ones for the D-iO). PAO
there any way of changing this to
shorten the startup delay?
b) Syslnfo also informs me that
the MMU in the 68030 is not
active. Do \ have an MMU?
c) I would like to upgrade to
1Mb of Chip RAM. Syslnfo (again!)
tells me that 1 have an ECS Pal
Agnus. My computer is fitted with
an original Commodore A 501 RAM
expansion. How should I upgrade?
d) Is there any way of installing
F-19 Stealth Fighter on my hard
disk? When I insert Disk A in dfO:
Work Bench tells me its structure is
corrupt and to use DiskDoctor to
correct it.
I'd also like to congratulate GVP
on how easy it was to Install my
A530 - it really Is simplicity Itself 1
Richard Munro
Charterhouse
Surrey
a) 'Boot Priority' has nothing to do
with the length of time the boot
takes. This is the order in which the
Kickstart will check drives before
booting off them. You will also
observe that dfO: has a higher
priority than your hard disk - this is
why if you reset with a floppy in the
drive then it will run the floppy rather
than the hard disk. The startup
delays depend on the drive setup
time - some drives need a lot of time
to accelerate to speed and perform
various tests*
b) No r you do not have an MMU.
The MMU is a Memory Management
Unit and is very useful for
p ro g ra m m e rs a s a d e b u gg ing toot.
c) In theory it should be very easy
to upgrade to 1Mb of chip RAM, but
without knowing your A500's board
revision I can't tell you just how easy
this would be! Speak to your local
deafer or one of the advertisers in
Amiga Shopper - they should be able
to help you out.
d) No, I'm afraid. It is a non-
standard disk format, and this sort of
f o r ii at i 1 1 n ot i n sta II onto a h a rd
disk* More and more modem games
are able to install on hard disks now,
so watch out for them. TS
MIX AND MATCH
[A
I have a GVP Impact
II 52Mb hard drive.
Can I add a 1Mb x 8
SIMM chip in the
drive to give me an extra megabyte
of fast memory? Also, will this
memory help speed up Wordworth
as it sometimes becomes slow and I
can type faster than It? Plus, would
I need a monitor to see the
Wordworth text clearly (some fonts
are unreadable on my TV)? What is
disk fragmentation , and does It slow
down disk access?
In Deluxe Paint Iff, can I draw a
background picture then add
another IFF picture into that from
AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 24 • APRIL 1 9P3
Powerscan? If I draw a background I
load Powerscan IFF which erases
the current background. Do J have
to use the brushes or something?
Finally, can the Canon BJ-lOex
be upgraded to colour?
Hassan All
Mile End
London
You can use your 1Mb x 8 SIMM in
your GVP hard disk, but you will need
to add two - one on its own will not
work. Buy a second 1Mb x S SIMM -
it should cost less than £30. Make
sure it is the same speed as the
SIMM you already have - read out
the number on the chip to your
supplier and they will be able to find
a matching SIMM for you.
Adding this Fast RAM will make
Wordworth run faster, anything up to
30% faster than normal- Doing any
serious Amiga work on a television
set can be painful, so 3 would
definitely suggest getting a monitor if
finances allow.
Disk fragmentation on hard disks
is where files are split up on the hard
disk and stored as small pieces,
rather than being stored together in
one large lump. This usually happens
when the disk is nearly full and there
is not enough room to store each file
in one large piece on the disk. It
slows down file access because the
hard drive heads have to move
around the disk a lot to load each
piece of the file. To get rid of
fragmentation back up your hard
disk, and reformat using the
AmigaDOS command:
sy a : sy stem/ format drive dhO i J
name HardDisk noicons quink
You do not need to use your hard
disk setup disk. Next, restore your
backup. As the backup is restored
each file is written back in one piece,
and this gets rid of fragmentation.
There are public domain utilities that
claim to eliminate hard disk
fragmentation, but personally I'd
never trust any public domain utility
with my hard drive data!
There are several ways to add a
picture onto a background in Deluxe
Paint III. Possibly the easiest is to
draw your background and then load
the other picture as a brush.
The Canon BJ-lOex is a
bubblejet, which uses ink cartridges,
Coloured cartridges are available, but
only one can be used at a time. JR
MAKE THAT CALL
□ I have several
questions about the
'public domain',
which I hope you can
answer for me.
a) I have read your pages about
public domain software, and
understand that It Is possible to
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download programs from a bulletin
board. How exactly do I do this?
b) Can you suggest any bulletin
boards and their phone numbers?
c) Do you have to leave some
programs of your own on the
bulletin board, and how do you go
about doing this?
d) How would I go about setting
up a public domain library, as I've
heard that anyone can do this?
e) Is my ICL 2426D modem
: suitable for this purpose?
f) Is it possible to print pictures
□f parts of games and, if so, how?
Ian Buckley
Stockport
Cheshire
a) To download PD programs from a
bulletin board you need a 'modem'*
This is a device that plugs into your
telephone socket and the serial port
on your Amiga. You also need some
suitable software. I use NComm
which is an excellent shareware
package. This means that if you like
! it then you send an appropriate sum
I to the author.
You also need, depending upon
your age and disposition, the
permission of the owner of the
phone, as bills somehow tend to
escalate when you get into computer
communications (or 'comms 1 as it is
usually known). Phoning a board is
as easy as entering the required
digits into a requester box,
b) Here is a list of some popular
UK bulletin boards and their
telephone numbers:
c) No, but you can if you wish.
However, the temptation to stick any
old rubbish onto the board is rather
high, so use considerable restraint,
and remember, the copyright laws
apply to bulletin boards just as much
as they do elsewhere.
d) Public domain software is
freely available to anyone, and can
be readily copied. To start your own
library, all you need is loads of PD
programs and the time to organise
yourself. However, there are cautions
and pitfalls- Advertising costs a lot of
money, and you may not sell any of
the programmes at a profit - you
may only request a fee for postage,
disks, handling and so on. Many PD
houses began by advertising in the
small adverts in the pages of Amiga
Shopper, and developed from there. I
wish you luck, but don't expect to
become rich from it.
e) Your ICL 2426D will work fine.
f) Your last question is unrelated
to the others, but there are a few
ways to do what you ask. The first
and most important point is whether
the game you want to grab an image
from is multitasking. To find this out,
perform this simple test: can you pull
down the screen to reveal the
Workbench screen?
If you can do this, then the task
is fairly simple - all you need is a
simple screen grabber such as
Screen X. This is a PD package
which does the job of screen
grabbing very well. The program
loads itself into RAM and, while
resident, will enable you to grab any
current image in your game. This can
be saved to RAM as an IFF file, and
then printed out via DPaint, or any
other suitable package, Another
package which performs the same
task is Grabbit, but this is not PD.
If the software does not
multitask, which I'm afraid is usually
the case, then the problem is much
greater. Working as a journalist I
constantly need this facility, and
along with most of my colleagues, I
use Date Is Action Replay cartridge.
This will grab a screen from anything
thrown at it. One small point,
however, is that it does not always
include any sprites which may be in
the image. WR
JARGON BUSTING • JARGON BUSTING
Digitiser - a device which takes the analogue information from a source
such as a video camera and converts it to digital screen information for
use by a computer.
IFF - Interchange File Format is a means by which data from different
graphics or sound sampling programs are saved in a compatible way, It
allows data to be exchanged between programs very easily.
Modem - a device which connects to the Amiga's serial port and converts
computer signals into a suitable format for transmission along a phone
line. Likewise, it will convert incoming signals back into a form the
computer can recognise. External modems will work with any micro
computer, although it is possible to buy Amiga- specific cards to plug into
the A1500, A2000, A3000 and A4QG0, thus keeping the serial port free
for something else.
REACH FOR THE STARS
I have just bought a
Star SJ-48 printer.
Does Star make a
specific driver for it,
and which setting from Preferences
(1.3) would give the best results? Is
it possible to upgrade It to colour?
Which printer driver should I select
from introCAD?
Colin Paine
Bognor Regis
W Sussex
Star recommends a driver called
Star24Plus, which should be
available from your Star dealer. If
not, phone Star and ask; the
number's in your manual.
Density 7 and Grey Scale 1 is
the best graphics resolution (360 by
360 dpi), and these are really the
only things in Printer Profs you need
to touch. For IntroCAD select an
Epson 24-pin compatible driven
Finally, no it's not possible to
upgrade the SMS to colour. JW
THREE INTO TWO
I have two Amigas -
an old 1.3 A SCO with
1Mb Chip and 1Mb
RAM and a new
A1200 with 2Mb Chip RAM and a
60Mb Internal hard drive. I have
three questions to ask:
a) I have obtained an Olympus
VX-303 camera to use with my Vldl-
Amlga 12. The camera normally
connects to a video recorder using
a 10- way plug. Could you fell me
which pin is for the video output and
its earth , as well as the 12V pin?
b) Is the HAM-E mode on the
Vldl-Amiga 12 compatible with any
mode on the new A1200?
c) If I bought a modem from
America would it be compatible
with our phone connectors or would
I have to fit a new connector?
Chris Mallard
Chesslngton
Surrey
a) The folks at Olympus tell me that
this camera was discontinued about
six years ago, but that it cost over
£2000 when new and had a good
lens system, so if it is in good
condition you should be OK.
However, they couldn't directly lay
their hands on the pin information
you require, as the service manuals
weren't at hand. But they would like
to help and suggest that you write,
giving details of your problem, to
Robert Smith at Olympus, 28
Honduras Street, London EC1Y OTX
(« 071 541 4440) and he will do his
best to sort it out
b) Not as far as I know, but there
is EREG mode which is for using 256
colours with the AGA chips.
continued on poge 37
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49 95
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1995
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29.95
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69.95
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NAKSHA UPGRADE MOUSE
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A2000 Hard Cards
GVP Series 2 HD
■ Up to 8Mb SIMM RAM on board
■ Supports external SCSI devices
■ HMHz SCSI controller
Bare
£129
40MB .
. £249
80MB ,
, £319
160MB
£449
200MB. £5-49
Bare SCSI Hard Drive
■ SCSI or IDE 3.5"
1 Gigabyte HD
■ Internal Hard Drive
■A1500/A2000
1GB Hard Drive ....£999
Power Board
■ New RAM board from Power
■ A1500/A2000 RAM board
2MB £99
4MB ., .£149
8MB £239
Macintosh Emulator
AMax-il Plus £299
jMac ROM Chips required]
Commodore Amiga
■ Amiga 4000 includes
■ 68040 micro processor
■ 25MHz clock speed
■ 16,8 million colour palatte
■ Display up to 256,000 colours on screen
■ Built-in 3.5" high density disk drive
Amiga 4000 & 120MB HD £2099
Amiga 3000 & 52MB HD £1299
Amiga 3000 & 1 05MB HD £1 499
Amiga 3000T 100MB HD 5MB RAM £1999
Amiga 3000T 200 MB HD 5MB RAM £2499
Amiga Accessories
A2300 Genlock £57
A2065 Ethernet £245
A2232 Serial Card £104
A2320 Display Enhancer £163
Opal Vision
■ 24-bit graphic card (hjj if!
■ 16.8 million colours available hJ-^
■ Equipped with 1.5MB of display RAM
■ Opal Paint 24-brt painting
■Opal Presents
■ King of Karate
OpalVision , ,£699
More information available
OpalVision roaster chip available soon
Monitors
Other Monitors
Commodore 1084S „ £199
Commodore 1960 TRI-SYNC £479
NEC Multisync 4FG £549
ICD Flicker Fixer
Flicker Free Video 2
■ Stop that annoying flicker
■ Fits internally in the A500
■ Multi-sync monitor required
Flicker Free Video 2 ....£199
Music
• The complete musi c kit f o r the Amiga
■ Includes:
■ Music Kit package
■ Real Time Sound II
■ Over 32 special efffects
■Can work with MIDI instruments
■ Digital Studio III
■ Midi interface
■ Stereo sound digitiser
■ Stereo speakers
■ All leads & software
The Music Pack £69,95
Speakers only £15.95
Midi interface ♦ £1 5.95
Optical Hard Drive
■ Manufactured by Power Computing
■ 128MB on one optical disk
■ Read and write optical disks
■ 40ms running speed
■ Built-in power supply
■ High power cooling fan
■ 25- way and 50-way SCSI ports
■ Thru port built-in
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■ Compatible with major SCSI controllers
128MB optical drive (Internal) £729
128MB optical drive (External) £999
128MB 3.5 P optical disk £39.95 each
SCSI controller card
forA1500/A2000 , £129
(Compatible with Amiga, PC, and Mac. A SCSI
controller is required on the Amiga and PC)
Miscellaneous
Impact Vision 24-bit +VIU-S .,£1499
Impact Vision 24-bit +VIU-CL £1899
Impact Vision adaptor .£49.95
G-Lock Genlock, ...£349
Image Effects , £299
CineMORPH , £99
Phone Pak Fax £339
I 0 Extender £149
030 Autochange kit £39
AT Autoboot Eprom kit £59
FastROM Series 2 £29
ROM Share , £19.95
ROM Share A6Q0 £29
ROM Share A600inc, vU. £55
Accelerator
GVP G-Force
■ 68030 accelerator board
■ 68882 Maths co-processor
25MHz 1MB RAM £499
40MHz4MB RAM £759
50MHz 4MB RAM £1099
Hard drive mount kit £35
68040 Fusion 40 inc. 4MB £999
68040 Pro-Peripherals inc. 4MB ....£999
1MB xdSIMM £25
SIMM 32x4MB-60 £179
SIMM 32 x 1MB-G0 £59
30MB ,...£199
160MB... , £329
200MB , £499
(Suitable for GVP G-Force, GVP HD or Nexus HC}
Other sizes of HD available, please call
Philips CM8833 Mk2
■ With cable
■ Available with Lotus Turbo Challenge 2
■ On-site maintenance
CM8833 Mk2
£239
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Scanners
"If your in the market for a
hand scanner then forget the
rest and get Powerscan"
Amiga Format July 1992
Power Scanner v3_0
■ 100-400 DPI scanning resolutions
■ 64 greyscales
■Thru port for printer
* Award winning editing, image manipu-
lation & scanning software
Power Scanner v3.0 £115
Power Scanner Colour £239
Epson GT-6500
m 600 DPI Colour flatbed scanner
■ 24-bit colour
■ Software included
GT-6500 inc. Powerscan v3,0 £799
GT-6500 inc. ASDG Software £899
Transparency Adaptor Unit £499
Document Feeder ,....£399
Epson GT-8000
■ BOO DPI colour flatbed scanner
■ 24-bit colour
■ A4 reading area
■ Software included
■ Amazing scan quality
GT-8000 inc. ASDG Software £1 199
Upgrade Offers
If you consider your scanner system to
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happily upgrade your software and inter-
face. (Power Scanner is compatible with
most scanning heads)
v3.0 Upgrade (inc. interface) £49.95
v3.0 Software upgrade for PowerScanner
users (send SAE) £15
Tho Amiga can only display 16 greyscales
Floppy Drives
'This drive contains more gad-
gets than Batman's utility belt"
Amiga Computing Feb1992
PC3SOB Power Drive
■ Award winning drive manufactured by
Power Computing
■ Super slim design
■ Anti-click (Cures that annoying click)
■ Virus blocker (Prevents viruses)
* Built-in backup hardware
PC880B with Blitz Amiga £60
PC880B with Blitz & XCopy £75
PC880B (Cyclone compatible)* £65
PC880B in black case £65
'This drive is only available to registered ovvners of XCopy
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PC8B1 A500 Internal drive .£45.00
PC882 A2000 Internal drive £45.00
Dual Drive
■ Two high quality disk drives built into
one compact unit
■Same features as PC880B
Dual drive ..£125
Blitz Amiga
■ Backup disks at lightning speeds
■ Stops all external drives from clicking
* Contains anti-virus from being written
into the bootblocker
Blitz Amiga £20
Floptical Disk Drive
■ Stores 20MB on one W disk
■ Cost effective mass storage unit
■ Can be used as a 1,44MB floppy with
Amiga DOS and AMAX
■ AMAX compatible with DM1 Mac driver
■ Packs an entire back-up onto one
floppy
■ Additional disks available
■ Internal version for A1 500/2000/3000
■ External version for A500
■ SCSI Interface required
Internal A2000 kit ... £289
Internal A3000 kit .£289
External A500 kit.... . £389
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A600 Memory Cards
1MB RAM with clock £39.95
1MB RAM without clock £34.95
PC501+ RAM Card
Our RAM board is designed especially
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memory to 2MB of chip RAM, Plug-in and
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3MB Power Board
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2MB £109 4MB £169 8MB £289
1 X4Z1P chips . £14.95
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jKickstart 1,3 arid above, not compatible with A5G0+)
(Your Amiga needs to be opened, this may affect your warranty}
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j512K RAM most b& 4 chip rype or not exceeding 9cm in length!
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■ 51 2K RAM expansion with clock & free
software (A500+ compatible)
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c) In all likelihood you would have
to supply a connector yourself, but
you could always check first. Even
some modems bought in the UK
need new connectors - such as the
SupraFaxModem. You may also need
a power transformer for your planned
buy. Unless you're there in person,
you may be better off buying from a
UK supplier, since at least it will be
easier to sort out any problems
should anything go wrong. GW
OPEN WITH CARE
I recently invested in
a GVP 52Mb hard
disk for my Amiga
and was impressed
by the remarkable increase in speed
it afforded when loading programs
such as DPaint, Wordworth and
Maxiplan. However, although
loading the Maxiplan application
takes very little time, saving and
loading worksheets is not
noticeably faster than using a floppy
disk. Why?
Renato Mozzachiodi
Burnslde
Glasgow
Ah, the 65 million dollar question.
The time taken to transfer
information from a mass storage
medium to memory is directly related
to the speed of the transfer
hardware, So, since the hardware
controlling a hard disk is
considerably faster than that of a
floppy disk, the data gets into
memory faster. However, the speed
at which an application processes
the data is controlled by software.
If the software can process data
faster the storage media can retrieve
it, you will notice an increase in
speed when you accelerate the mass
storage media. Typically this applies
to applications which merely buffer
the majority of information in RAM
while loading and process it later:
word processors for instance.
Conversely, if the application
processes the data while it is being
received, the transfer speed is
affected by the speed of the software
- and this is the case with Maxiplan.
If you were to accelerate your Amiga
by 300400%, you would notice the
improvement as Maxiplan should
then be able to process the data
faster than It can be retrieved from
hard disk. And the same is true for
saving data too. MS
Ah
ONE-OCTAVE OCTAMED?
I have OctaMED 4
but my samples,
obtained from cover
disk and PD sources,
cover a very limited note range -
one octave above middle C. Is there
any way to extend these?
D Cuss el
Margate
Kent
You seem to feel that you are are
limited to a fixed single octave range
when using 1-octave IFF samples
with OctaMED - this is not true. Are
you, for example, aware that there
are OctaMED gadgets which can
change the note range of all,
including 1-octave, samples? Ranges
can be further extended by obtaining,
or by creating yourself, either 3-
octave or 5-octave IFF samples.
Editors like AudiomasterwlW, for
example, let you read in a 1-octave
sample and re-store it as a 3- or 5-
octave IFF file. PAO
SLIPPED DISKS
n —
When Workbench is
loaded up in my
internal drive and
Extras is inserted
into the external drive on my 1.3-
based A 500, the Workbench
doesn't always recognise the disk
and simply displays a disk icon
CD-ROM NEEDS CD-RAM
Having owned two Amigas in the past 18 months the CDTV
seemed the ideal upgrade so I went for it. The problem is I
can't find a stockist anywhere who sells extra memory
which doesn't invalidate your warranty. I have also tried
everywhere for a wired mouse or joystick that plugs into the CDTV. Are
there any available, and where from?
J Murphy-Callaghan, Longton. Staffs
The only way to add extra Fast memory to the CDTV is by internal expansions
which fit into the Agnus or 68000 chip sockets. Because there is no official
way to expand memory, if your CDTV goes wrong for some unconnected
reason then repair companies may turn a blind eye to the broken warranty
sticker, but if you blow up your CDTV while fitting the RAM expansions it's
your own fault. Get the RAM fitted by a reputable supplier, ask them for a
signed statement that they fitted it, and you shouldn't have any problems
with your warranty.
The Brickette will be available shortly (hopefully by the time you read
this), and allows a mouse and joystick to be connected to the CDTV. JR
JARGON BUSTING • JARGON BUSTING
CD-ROM - Compact Disc Read Only Memory is the latest technology in
storage devices. A CD can hold over 600Mb of data, compared to
around 100Mb for a hard disk and SSOK for a floppy disk. The big
disadvantage is that users cannot store information on a CD, only
retrieve it T but this doesn't stop CD from being a potentially
revolutionary medium*
Kicks tart - the most basic and central part of the Amiga's operating
system. These days it is held in ROM, so that it is immediately present
when the machine is switched on,
ROM - Read Only Memory is used to store essential programs, such as
Kickstart and many of the library routines. These do not have to be re-
loaded each time the Amiga is switched on because ROM retains its
contents without power,
ROM sharer - a device which will hold more than one ROM (the chip in which
Kickstart is stored) and enable the user to choose which version to use.
Sample - a digital representation of a sound. A sample can be sent through
a digital to analogue converter and be heard as sound. Changing the
sample's playback speed changes the pitch of the sound.
labelled 'DF1:BAD'. If these disks
are then copied and they are used in
place of the originals, all Is fine.
Also, If I then put the offending
disks Into the internal drive, they
are recognised Instantly- What's
going wrong?
Simon Edgley
Luton
Beds
It sounds to me like your external
drive is in need of a well-earned
service. The troubles you mention
could be caused by any one of
several problems ranging from dirty
heads to head alignment. My advice
to you would be to take the drive
along to your nearest service centre
and ask them to sort it out* Although
it is theoretically possible to realign
and even clean the heads yourself, I
wouldn't advise It. JH
SHARE YOUR 1 200
For the past two
V years I have used an
AS0 ° with a °*5Mb
bW Jm I expansion for DTP,
word processing and some games, I
am now considering upgrading to an
A1200 but have a few queries:
a) Is it possible to fit a ROM
sharer to the A1200 that will take
ail three versions of Kickstart: 1.3,
2.04 and 3.0?
If so, where can I get hold of
one and will it solve many
incompatibility problems?
b) Is it better to add 2Mb of 32-
bit or 16-bit memory, and what Is
the difference?
c) Would It be worth having a
68881 or 68882 FPU fitted?
d) Would the A670 CD-ROM
drive, or any other A600 peripherals
work on the A1200?
Mr SJ Mo ran
Edith Weston
Oakham
a) No - you can't do it. Kickstart
2.04 and Kickstart 1.3 will not work
with the AGA chip set which means
you would run into serious problems
if you tried something like this. In
addition, there is no space inside the
A1200 that would allow such a
monstrosity to be fitted, and more
importantly, the ROMs in the A1200
are 32-bit, and there are two of
them. Conventional 16-bit ROMS
won't fit - you'd have to fit A3000
ROMs, and these would fail with the
AGA chips.
b) You can only add 16-bit
memory through the PCMCIA port on
the A1200. 32 bit memory is always
recommended, as it is approximately
twice as fast. This is because the
computer can operate on four bytes
of memory at once as opposed to
only two in 16-bit systems,
c) It depends on what you are
doing. The FPU speeds up floating
point operations. DTP programs will
benefit, as will art work, design, and
CAD applications - such as Re$l 3D,
VistaPro and so forth,
d) No-one knows yet. Anything
that connects to the PCMCIA port on
the A600 will work fine on the
A1200, and vice-versa T as PCMCIA is
an industry standard. TS
A REAL WASHOUT?
On purchasing 10
diskettes from a mail
order company, I also
received a 'disk head
cleaner' free. The manufacturer
recommended that it is used at
least once a day.
Do you agree, or Is It advisable
not to use this at all? The type they
sent me is the sort that uses a fluid
in conjunction with a special disk
with a felt-type insert.
A Gill
Beighton
Sheffield
A
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AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 24 ft APRIL 1993
MOM.
Now, not everyone will agree with me
on this one, but my advice is to keep
this sort of thing as a very last
resort. I have over 50 assorted
drives in my IT suite at work, and in
six years I have never cleaned one of
them. They are used continuously
throughout the day, and continue to
function 0K f despite general abuse,
regular knocks and occasional
spillages of coffee. WR
PRINT ON A BUDGET
I have a Canon BJ-
lOex printer, Deluxe
Paint III and
Wordworth 1.1.
I want to produce a printout that
contains high quality text and
music-related clip art.
As money is tight, can you
suggest any PD or shareware disks?
Proportional, outline (scalable)
typefaces and images would be
nice, though not essential.
FD O'Brien
Merseyside
The versions of Wordworth and
Deluxe Paint you are using do not
work with Compugraphic outline
typefaces, and neither works with
scalable images, or structured
drawings in other words. Both utilise
low resolution (75 dpi) bitmap
graphics and bitmap fonts.
Wordworth 2 and Deluxe Paint
4,1 support Compugraphic
typefaces t but if you want to use
structured drawings you'll need
something like PageStream,
Professional Page or Professional
Draw, all of which support scalable
typefaces and graphics.
There's no PD or shareware
solution from the program point of
view, but there are stacks of libraries
and small graphics companies
peddling scalable typefaces and clip
art. Check out the adverts! JW
FLICKERING GENLOCK
My main interest is
using Deluxe Paint
IV, particularly for
animation. My
problem is that I have recently
purchased a RocGen Plus genlock
to use with my Amiga 500 Plus. The
genlock produces a very noticeable
flicker and also a colour shift. 1
might learn to live with the latter,
but not the former. I'm using lo-res
mode, by the way.
People who know more than I
do (which isn't difficult, as I passed
my sell-by : date some years ago)
tell me that this is par for the
course. Do you agree? If so, can you
suggest another genlock which will
give more acceptable results? If
not. Is there anything which I can
do to Improve the present setup?
Mr B Haslam
Drum burgh
Nr Carlisle
The colour shift doesn't sound
exactly right, but the flicker isn't
necessarily the genlock's fault.
Flickering is an inherent part of the
Amiga's output, though it's usually
not something which affects video
unless very thin, high contrast,
horizontal lines are included in the
graphics, I'd also advise you to work
in Interlace mode, if you can, as this
can help as well.
As for the colour smearing, I
presume you mean a horizontal shift
which results in a furry edge on
vertical edges, particularly on bright
reds and full blues. Part of the
problem is that video equipment
(especially at this levef) doesn't like
strong colours. The obvious cure is
to tone any really bright hues down
slightly and learn to live with it. If this
doesn't solve the problem complain
to the supplier of the genlock, as it
may not be correctly set up. When I
JARGON BUSTING • JARGON BUSTING
Chip RAM ~ the area of the Amiga's memory directly accessible by the
custom graphics and sound chips. Originally a maximum of 512K, newer
machines fitted with the fatter Agnus graphics chip can access 1Mb,
enabling smoother animations and more screens to be displayed at
once. The new A12O0 comes with an Agnus chip capable of addressing
2Mb of Chip RAM,
Flicker fixer - a device that removes the flicker from the Amiga's interlace
mode and the visible scan lines in the non-inter! ace mode. Interlace
mode is the Amiga's way of doubling the vertical screen resolution, but
normally by effectively halving the screen update rate and creating a
noticeable flicker.
Genlock - a way of slaving one video source to another in order to
synchronise their signals. This will allow stable wipes, mixes and other
effects including overlay between the two sources.
Partition - part of a hard drive separated off from the rest. As far as
Workbench, Amiga DOS and the rest of the world is concerned, a
partition is a disk in its own right. Speed problems do come to the fore
when you try to copy data between two partitions on the same drive.
reviewed the RocGen Plus last year I
managed to improve its output by
fiddling around inside it (though I
don't recommend you do this}, so
maybe you have a duff one. GW
SPEEDY CONCERNS
r~7 * a) If I buy GVPs
A AS30 processor
_j accelerator/ hard
^ drive combination,
can 1 still use the hard drive when
the accelerator is disabled using
the 6S000 fall back mode?
b) Will the GVP 68030
accelerator speed up DTP programs
such as PageStream or will they
simply run at the same speed as
they do on a 68000-based machine?
c) Does the Amiga 3000 have a
68000 fall back mode? Does it also
have a built-in flicker fixer?
d) Is there a package available
for the Amiga that will allow me to
create my own outline fonts in
Compugraphic format?
e) Can I use fonts from other
DTP programs within PageStream?
And can I use PageStream fonts in
other DTP programs?
f } When I try to print a page
from PageStream at 360 dpi, I get
an 'out of memory' message. What
type of RAM (Fast or Chip) do I
need to solve this problem?
g) How do I install other printer
drivers into PageStream?
h) Are high density disk drives
(1.76Mb) capable of reading
standard 880 K Amiga floppies?
I) I know that the Amiga can
handle up to four drives. Is the hard
drive counted as one of these four?
j) When you partition a hard
drive, are the partitions treated as
separate drives or as an extension
to DHO:?
Theofilos Gints
Macedonia
Greece
a) Although the processor
accelerator and hard drive controller
are on the same card, they are still
effectively separate. So, you can
continue to use the hard drive even
when running in 68000 mode.
b) It certainly will. Running a DTP
program on an accelerated Amiga will
give you faster screen redraws r
faster processing of text and
graphics - faster everything in fact. A
processor card is particularly useful
if you own a DTP program that uses
outline fonts.
c) The Amiga 3000 does not
have a 68000 fall back mode but it
does have a flicker fixer built in as
standard (it's called the "Display
Enhancer 1 ). Note that you II need a
multisync or VGA monitor to take
advantage of this,
d) Unfortunately, there aren't any
font editing programs available for
the Amiga that can produce
Compugraphic outline fonts. But I'm
sure it's only a matter of time before
someone comes up with the goods,
Take my advice - keep an eye on
Gold Disk...
e) The only type of outline fonts
that can be used with both ProPage
and PageStream are Adobe Type 1
fonts. Even then, ProPage cannot
handle these fonts unless they have
first been converted to
Compugraphic format using Gold
Disk's Font Manager program.
f) Any RAM expansion will solve
your printing problems, provided that
it is bfg enough. My guess would be
that you need at least an extra 2Mb.
g) The printer drivers used by
PageStream aren't the same as the
printer drivers used by the Amiga
Workbench. PageStream uses its
own custom printer drivers which are
specifically written to work with the
program. If you have managed to
obtain these, just copy them into
PageStream 's Printers' drawer and
then select 'Setup Printer" from
within the program.
h) In general, yes.
i) This maximum of four drives
does not include hard drives.
j) As far as Amiga DOS is
concerned, each partition on a hard
drive Is totally separate and
therefore has its own device name
(DH0: r DHl: r DH2: and so on). JH
IT'S ALL ON TAPE
At present I back up
my hard disk using
Quarterback VS.
However, this takes
over 20 disks and an awfully long
time. I am thinking of buying a tape
streamer and have seen some
advertised in PC magazines for
around £150-£200. Could 1
purchase one of these and connect
it into the SCSI port on my hard
drive? Would I need a controller of
any sort? The tape streamers I have
seen are: Wangtek 3040F/P and
Colorado Jumbo DJ10. If neither of
these are suitable, could you
recommend one?
Robin Davey
Billet icay
Essex
Most Amiga SCSI controllers can
support tape streamers (your GVP
controller certainly can) but you will
require a SCSI one. Most cheap PC
models either have a dedicated (non-
SCSI) controller card or connect to
the floppy disk controller. Neither
type will work with your Amiga. You
will need a true SCSJ tape streamer,
and these are not cheap. A 250Mb
SCSI model will cost between £350
and £500, rising to over £1500 for a
8Gb SCSI DAT device.
Once you've got your tape
streamer, Quarterback 5 will support
the tape drive directly. JR
AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 24 • APRIL 1 993
JARGON BUSTING • JARGON BUSTING
Program: BlitSize Language: C
Purpose: To generate programmer information for
the Slitter
Author: D Harris, Swanage, Dorset
■ his month, for the first time,
^^^^ we are dealing with a C
program. The program is
^ called BlitSize and is a smaff
utility written by an assembly
language programmer to display
b litter information on the screen. As
an aside, this is a very good example
of the "right language for the right
job". The programmer is obviously
writing programs that make heavy
use of the b litter - probably games,
which are written in 68000 assembly
language for speed. This simple
utility, however, was quicker to write
in C, and by doing so, the
programmer saved himself a fair
amount of time and effort.
The blitter requires a fair amount
of 'magic numbers 1 to operate, and
one of these is the 'biit size'. This
value is generated from the width
and height of t h e o bj ec l to b e p I a c c d
onto the screen, and is the cause of
large piles of paper on programmers'
desks. D Harris' program attempts to
automate all of this using just one
window-based application, thus
reducing the chance of human error.
The program (shown working in
the picture) actually works fine, apart
from one small visual fault. Once the
X and V values had been typed into
the two string gadgets, then the
correct blitter size and other
information would be generated. If
the user then moved a window over
the b I it size window and away again,
two of the values would be horribly
corrupted with strange characters.
The program, however, never
crashed, nor did it cause any of
Commodore's debugging tools, such
as Enforcer, to complain.
1 Biit&Efc
Enforcer - An essential tool for all serious developers, with one small catch:
you need an MMU (Memory Management Unit) to use it. MM Us are
standard in the 68030 and 68040 (though not the cheaper 6S030EC),
and are optional on the 68020. Enforcer traps and shows you any illegal
memory operations that you may make. In C this is very useful, as one
of the most common faults is referring to an incorrect pointer variable.
Blitter - An Amiga chip which copies areas of memory from one place to
another very quickly. It has other functions too, such as drawing lines t
but its primary use is moving graphics data to and from the screen.
User Interface - The part of a program seen and operated by the user. This
includes the buttons, menus and windows of a program. If the user
interface is difficult to use, then the user gets a negative first
impression of what could be a very powerful and well-written program.
fcUdth |4B Height [48
BLTSIZ
PLANE
Hft/HOD
30*82
76
t ft /MOD 36
flu it
BlitSize provides all the Information
you'd like to know about the Blitter
INSTANT DIAGNOSIS
The cause of this was quite simple,
and an easy mistake to make in C.
The program has two string
variables, size_string and
plane string, which store the values
that will be printed in the appropriate
boxes on the screen. These variables
were declared inside the function
which printed them. After the values
had been printed, the function
returned to the main loop.
Unfortunately, this meant that
the memory in which the two strings
were stored became free, and was
rapidly overwritten by other
functions in the program.
This was fine, until the
Workbench wanted to
refresh the window oft or it
had been covered by
another window. It then
tooked at these two
memory locations and
printed what it found there,
now meaningless data, on
the screen.
The solution is just as simple: all
you need to do is move the two
variable declarations for size_strlng
and plane_string to outside the
function which prints them. This
makes them global declarations
rather than local ones, The memory
for them now does not become free
until the program itself is closed.
The working routine is shown in
the listing immediately below, it is
not the complete program source
code - at around 80K, that would be
too large to print here,
GHOST WRITING
The original program was interesting
from one particular point of view. It's
the first I have seen (other than my
own programs), that uses the
Commodore application ToolMaker to
develop the user interface, Around
80% of the full application was not
written by the author at all, but was
in fact generated for him by
Tool Maker. Using this handy program
the author was first able to design
the layout for the buttons and
window for his interface. ToolMaker
then wrote an entire program for him
that opened the window, created the
buttons, and then quitted. All that
then needed to be written was a
small amount of extra code, about
90% of which is in the routine below.
Neat eh? I guess that the program
took around 30 minutes to write from
start to finish, including the creation
of the buttons and windows.
If you're interested in finding out
more about these wonderful time-
saving programs, contact
Commodore at the address given on
page 85 of this issue. TS ©
BLITSIZE LISTING: THE SOURCE CODE
char size_string[1263 ;
Char plane_string[128] ;
BOOL Window_BL ITS I ZE_C5ADQETTJP (struct TMData *TMData, struct
IntuiMessage *imsg)
{
switch( { (struct Gadget * ) imsg->XAddreBs ) ->GadgetID)
lo_mod = 40 - (x_width*2);
hi_inod = 60 - (x_width*2 ) t
planesize = (x_width*2)*yjheight;
blitsize = { (y_height & Dx3ff)*64)
+ (x_width & 0x3 f) ;
{
case ID_QUIT:
return TRUE;
break ;
/* Quit */
case Id_width: /* width */
x_width = ((struct Stringlnfo *> gadget _WIDTH-
> Spec ial Info ) - > Long In t ;
x_width = x_width/ 16;
Ac tivateGadge t ( gadget_HE IOHT , windcw BL ITSIZE , NULL ) ;
break;
case ID HEIGHT : /* Height */
y_height = ((struct Stringlnfo * ) gadge t_HElGHT-
> Spec iallnfo ) - > Longlnt ;
/* Display the new information */
GT_S e t Gadget At t rs ( gadge t_LRMDD , window__BL ITSI ZE , NULL ,
GTHM_Nuniber, lo_Hiod, TAG_DQNE);
GT_SetGadget Attr s ( gadget_HKMQD , window BLITSI SE , NULL ,
GTNM_Number, hi_mod, TAG DONE ) ;
aprintftpl ane_s t ring , " $%Q 4x " , pi ane size);
aprintf ( size_string , " $%04x" , blitsize ) ;
GT_Se t Gadge t At tr s ( gadget_PLANE , windowBLITS I ZE , NULL ,
GTTX_Text, plane_str ing , TAGDONE ) ;
GT_SetGadgetAt tr s ( gadget_BLTS IZE , window_BL its I ZE r NULL T
GTTX_Text , s i ze_str ing , TAG_DGNE ) ;
Act ivat eGadge t ( gadget_WIDTH , window_BLl TS I ZE , NULL ) ;
break;
}
return (FALSE) ;
AMIGA SHOPPER # ISSUE 24 • APRIL 1 993
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that a Macintosh artist would look
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for the Mac!"
The first attempt was Aegis
Draw, which never really made it in
this country, although ft was popular
in the States and is still widely used
in Europe, though mainly for
computer aided design rather than
for desktop publishing.
The package that most UK
illustrators use on the Amiga is ^
Pro Draw,
Art Expression
enables you to define
both the size of the page and the
size of your work area, enabling you
to have a sizeable 'art board' to
which you can temporarily 'pin'
drawings until you want them
simply because it is the most widely
available. The latest version (3.0) is
very powerful considering its
inexpensive price tag, but it will only
run from hard drive, so those on a
tight budget cannot afford it.
ProVector promised to be 'the'
illustrator for the Amiga, but it ended
up falling short in the profess tonal
features department, and has a
quirky user interface that is often
more of a hindrance than a help. But
at least a PostScript module is
available, albeit at extra cost, so that
standard Encapsulated PostScript
files can be imported, edited and
exported, making it possible to bring
work files home at nights and
weekends from your office Mac or
PC, continue to work on them on
your Amiga, then take them back to
work to load back into the Mac or
PC. But ProVector is expensive and
does take some getting used to.
ESTABLISHED STANDARDS
The cheapest Amiga structured
drawing package is Expert Draw, It
lacks powerful features, so it can't
really be classed as an 'illustrator',
but it runs quite quickly, so is more
usable on a unaccelerated machine.
Expert Draw is to structured drawing
what PageSetter 3 is to DTP - an
inexpensive, easy-to-learn
introduction to the subject.
I don't think there are many
professionals who would argue with
me saying that the industry standard
structured drawing package is Adobe
Illustrator on the Macintosh.
Because of this, the format in which
Adobe Illustrator files are saved - a
variation of PostScript - has also
become a standard, probably as
popular a standard as Encapsulated
PostScript (EPS) format.
A professional Amiga structured
drawing package needs to support
Adobe Illustrator and/or
EPS file formats for two
reasons: first, so that
, files are portable across
i machines and packages;
second, because there
is a wealth of clip art
available in those
formats, thus opening
the door to part-time
artists who know
l enough to able to
, alter someone
else's work to
create a 'new'
drawing, but are
not yet quite skilled enough to
draw something from scratch.
Pro Draw, which employs its own
'clip' format for drawings, will import
and export EPS, but will not display
or allow you to edit the drawings, and
can only print them to PostScript
devices. ProVector by default uses
the Amiga standard IFF-DR2D
drawing format, but its PostScript
module will import and export EPS
images, display them and let you edit
them freely. But it does not directly
support PostScript Type 1 typefaces,
nor Adobe Illustrator format.
So, there is a little hole in the
market. Or rather, there was.
FILER FACTS
An illustrator is a natural partner to a
desktop publishing program, so it
was an obvious progression for Soft-
Logfk, the PageStream peopfe H to
develop Art Expression.
PageStream has been able to
import EPS and Adobe illustrator file
formats for some time, but although
you are able to edit Adobe illustrator
drawings that have been imported
into PageStream, on-screen colour
handling is not good and there is no
way to save them except as
PageStream documents.
The portability of the files Art
Expression exports may be the major
factor when deciding to buy it or not.
The files it creates have to be
compatible with other DTP software
you are using - on the Amiga
certainly, and possibly on a PC or a
Mac as well.
By default Art Expression saves
documents in Encapsulated
PostScript format. These can be
imported into any package that
supports EPS, on any computer.
As a test I ran some complex
Art Expression documents
through the SaxonScript
Professional PostScript
interpreter, and they printed fine.
PageStream imported and printed
continued on page 45
Aligning
objects with each
other couldn't be simpler..
From the people who brought you
PageStream comes Art Expression
- a top-flight professional
illustrator program* Jeff Walker
draws his own conclusions
Art Expression's colour
support Is good, and
works in almost
exactly the same way
as rival package Pro .
Draw, using colour
dithering to
approximate
thousands of
colours on-screen
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PostScript Import module of
ProVector also accepted them
happily, all of this being proof
enough for me that Art Expression
files are indeed EPS format. However
Art Expression cannot import and
display EPS files created with other
packages; it'll import them, but you
get the infamous cross ed-out
rectangle that can be scaled and
rotated and saved as part of another
EPS file, and can only printed to a
PostScript device,
Gold Disk s Pro Page 3 and Pro
Draw 3 also accepted Art Expression
documents as EPS files, but when
sent to a PostScript device some of
the shades printed incorrectly, and
one area that had been blended
came out as a single shade of grey. I
can't say for sure, but considering
that packages from three other
companies handled them correctly,
this would appear to be a bug or a
badly-implemented routine in Gold
Disk's PostScript output
FURTHER FORMATS
Art Expression pages, drawings,
groups of drawings, or any part of a
drawing, can be exported in two
other standard file formats, DR2D or
ilfustrator88.
DR2D Is the Commodore-adopted
Interchange File Format (IFF)
standard for structured drawings - as
I LB M is to Amiga bitmaps and SSVX
is to Amiga sound samples, so DR2D
is to Amiga structured drawings. Any
Amiga package that imports
structured drawings should, in a
perfect world, be able to import
DR2D; but alas, the Gold Disk DTP
products - Pro Page, Pro Draw and
PageSetter - support only Gold
Disk s clip' format as produced by
Pro Draw.
!llustrator88 is a file format
saved by Adobe Illustrator* Its an old
version of the file format, so certain
structured drawing features of the
latest versions of Adobe Illustrator
(3.X/4) are not supported. This will
cause problems with importing
certain types of graphics, and is one
reason why Gold Disk prefers to stick
to its own 'clip' format. Soft-Logik
says that it is working on illustrator
3.x/4 format for both Art Expression
and PageStream and will switch to it
in the future.
The DR2D file format is itself
quite limited - another reason why
Gold Disk prefers to stick to its own
'clip' format - and Soft-Logik is
currently working to propose a new
DR2D standard that will have every
feature handled by PostScript.
A TOUCH OF PAINT
Drawings can also be exported as
IFRLBM files should you feel the
need to import your work into a
normal bitmap painting program, like
Deluxe Paint for example. It's
possible to turn the bitmap back into
a structured drawing afterwards by
using the 'Trace' feature of the
supplied BME utility (BitMap Editor),
but you will always sacrifice quality in
doing so- I II be telling you more
HPS
■ ■ ■ B ■ ■
Compugraphic and PostScript
formats. (This is actually the
FontDesigner program from BSC in
Germany that I was wittering on
about here some months ago.)
Words are placed on the page by
means of a requester that allows you
to select the
typeface and
the point size,
which may be
asymmetrically
scaled. Any size
from (1 Dipt to
183,000pt can
be specified.
The text
which is to be
placed on the
page is typed
into a small
gadget. Up to
Above: Warping objects into shapes
is one of Art Expression's most
powerful features. At a higher
magnification you would see that
the pattern is all there in the circle
Right: Text can be warped into any
shape, just as objects can
about auto-tracing bitmaps a little
later in the review.
WORDS AS WELL
The typeface format supported is
PostScript Type 1. Period.
Soft-Logik' s 'Reviewer's Notes'
point out that Art Expression is a
PostScript illustration program, so
supporting the Comp ugraph i c
typeface format is not sensible, I
guess they were worried that some
people might be concerned that the
program does not support the Amiga
scalable typeface standard, but I for
one am in complete agreement with
the Type 1 standpoint because
PostScript is the desktop publishing
industry standard, and this must
take precedence,
The full package of the 'Classic
35" PostScript typefaces is provided
with Art Expression - that is, the 35
typefaces that many PostScript laser
printers have built-in - and these
may also be used with PageStream
or any other package that supports
the PostScript Type 1 format*
THE RIGHT TYPE
The FontManager utility that comes
with Pro Page, Pro Draw and
PageSetter will happily convert these
typefaces to Gold Disk's
Compugraphic format; and Fountain
can then install them as Amiga
Compugraphic format should you
want to use them with any program
that supports Compugraphic
typefaces. Soft-Logik will be
releasing a package called
TypeSmithr a typeface editor that will
be able to convert between
I
WARP
127 characters can be entered, but
they all have to be on one line, if
several lines of text are required you
will have to enter and place them
separately. This is the way rival
package Pro Draw used to do it,
although even that old
version of the program had
some control codes to
force carriage returns;
these days, no doubt in
response to requests
from users, Pro Draw
allows you to type text
directly on to the page
in much the same way
PageStream does.
Soft-Logik is
perhaps guilty of
double standards
here - on one hand
the company makes
a big noise about
the way text can be typed directly
on to a PageStream page, which is
one of the features that PageStream
users adore, yet on the other hand it
says that a single line of up to 127
characters should be sufficient for
most illustration applications.
Yeah, OK, it "should be". But if it
isn't tough,
Text is handled in two ways. After
placing it on the page it remains a
text object that can be edited by
using that requester again. Handles
around the edge of the bounding box
enable you to scale the text by hand,
plus you can flip and rotate it After
scaling, rotating and flipping the text
remains completely editable, even to
the point of changing the typeface.
ONE-WAY CONVERSION
If you want to do anything more
drastic to the text, a special effect
like skewing or blending for example,
then the text object first has to be
converted to a graphic. Now, once it
is a graphic, you can't convert it back
to a text object, and there are good
reasons why you may want It to
remain a text object. You see, as a
text object it gets saved in the file as
a string of text and instructions as to
what typeface to use, in what size,
colour and so on. So when the
illustration is imported the typeface
information is
retrieved
separately from
disk. The result is
perfect Type 1
typefaces,
But as a
graphic it will
almost certainly
contain merged
paths - every
letter that has a
'hole' in it
somewhere, A P Q
0 R for example, is
composed of
merged paths, To
put it another way, it is a 'compound
object'. And lliustrator88 format
does not support compound objects,
so graphics with holes in them will
import without the holes.
DR2D format does support
compound objects, but this format is
not portable to another make
of computer.
Merging the
paths of a rectangle and an
ellipse creates a compound object
with a hole In It that can become a
frame for or "Read My Lips"
As Soft-Logik has pointed out to
me, this is a file format problem that
is not entirely in its developers' own
hands to solve. When they've
implemented the newer Illustrator
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3 x/4 format, the specification for
which was only released just as Art
Expression itself was being released,
it will no longer be a concern. For the
moment, any illustration that
contains compound objects is best
saved as an Art Expression EPS file if
it Is to be re-importeel into Art
Expression, or exported as IFF-DR2D
if it is to be imported into
PageStream. The latest PageStream
DR2D import module (2*1.9) handles
Art Expression DR2D files perfectly,
earlier versions of the DR2D module
may not import everything entirely
properly.
Giving text a gradient fill
is a slightly complex task of
creating a compound object mask
to place over a blended area. The
manual describes the technique
quite well, and a little
experimentation will go a lung way
Some readers may feel that
another solution would perhaps have
been to implement Gold Disk's clip'
format, but again this is not portable
across different makes of computer,
and, as Gold Disk has never
released the clip' specification,
support for that fife format will of
necessity have to be reverse
engineered, and therefore be
somewhat imperfect. PageStream,
for example, imports most Pro Draw
clips, but sometimes screws up
when you try to edit and/or
manipulate them.
A UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE
A better Amiga-specific solution is an
enhanced I FF-DR2D format, which,
as I mentioned earlier, Soft-Logik is
proposing.
One further solution would be to
implement a full-blooded
interpretation of PostScript, thus
allowing EPS files to be imported,
displayed and edited, but this is a
very time-consuming and memory-
hungry operation. Those readers who
are calling for displayable and
editable EPS files in DTP software
are not living in the real world. If the
Amiga ever gets itself a PostScript
screen display (like MeXT machines),
perhaps we'!! be in business, but
even then, for reasons of speed, this
is only going to be practicable with at
least a 68040 processor.
TOOLED UP FOR ACTION
Feature-wise Art Expression has all
the usual illustrator tools for drawing
and editing lines, boxes, ellipses and
paths. Points can be easily added to
paths, or deleted, split or joined.
If you are not used to the way
illustration programs work, you are
bound to find the technique difficult
at first. Like all skills,
it requires practice,
but Art Expression is
no more difficult to
master than any
other illustrator.
Tfie program
was designed and
developed by Scott
Anthony, an
accomplished San
Francisco artist,
which means that
the needs of
l artists have been
considered at
every step in its
creation. Well,
that's what it
says in my 'Reviewer's Notes', but
what it actually means is that the
needs of Scott Anthony and his
mates have been considered at every
step. I'm not complaining, merely
pointing out that there is more than
one way to skin a cat - any argument
about which way is better is simply a
matter of personal preference.
There's not a lot wrong with the
way Art Expression does things. Most
operations work the way you expect
them to, and the user interface has
been designed so thai beginners can
use buttons and requesters and the
on-line help, and experienced users
can crack on by using the many
keyboard short-cuts.
However, there is no built-in
macro support, and ARexx is not
supported either, so creating
automated time-saving, customised
drawing operations is not possible.
This omission will only be of concern
to technically minded users, and
perhaps Soft-Logik left it out so as
not to frighten off beginners who
might be blinded by the appliance of
science. Nevertheless, to 'power
users' the omission of ARexx support
is almost unforgivable these days.
Full control over colour definition
fs provided in either the CMYK or
RGB colour systems. Sliders can be
set by mouse t or you can enter exact
percentages. A million slightly
different colours are possibie, but
obviously you cannot display all of
them, so Art Expression dithers the
colours so that thousands can be
approximated on screen. They won t
look like this when printed, but the
point of the exercise is so you can
differentiate between colours on-
screen. Professionals will almost
certainly be entering exact CMYK
percentages from a colour chart, so
there's no absolute need to see an
exact colour on-screen. Colour
palettes can be saved separately,
allowing you to build up databases of
different CMYK colour charts.
Although Art Expression works on
the 1200 and 4000, it does not yet
take advantage of the new AG A
screen modes, so the on-screen
colour palette is limited to 16
colours, and all possible dither
patterns of those colours.
FILLING THEM IN
Percentage fills or 'tints' are
supported. For example, selecting
the colour Red and specifying 50%
results in a shade of pink. Shades of
grey can be similarly created by
specifying percentages of solid
black. Neither the ffivstratorSS nor
the DR2D file format supports
percentage fills, so each tint gets
written out as a separate colour, and
will be imported as something odd
like 'UnnamedF7000000\ This state
of affairs will (once again) be sorted
out in the latest lifustrator and/or
newly proposed DR2D file formats.
Many special effects are
possible using the toots provided in
the "Effects' menu. Paths can be
merged to create compound objects,
the most obvious use of which is to
create objects with see-through
'holes' in them. Objects or groups of
objects can be skewed and flipped,
or rotated to any angle; a Transform
feature enables you to duplicate,
scale and rotate an object or group
any number of times.
It doesn't do gradient fills.
Instead Art Expression has a 'Blend 1
feature - while it is possibie to
reproduce any gradient effect (and
more) using blends, the masking
technique takes a little getting used
to and can be a bit fiddly at times.
Once again, the main reason for Art
Expression implementing blends
instead of gradient fills is that the
Illustrator and DR2D formats don t
support gradient fills.
(Pro Draw and Pro Page users
may by now have realised why Gold
Disk invented, and sticks to, its own
"clip' format.)
A DISTORTED VIEW
Perspective or distortion effects are
achieved by 'filling' a shape with an
object, a technique called 'warping 1 -
If you've ever used the 'Wrap'
feature in Deluxe Paint, you'll know
exactly what I mean. For instance,
it's possible to draw a circle and
then warp some text into the circle
so that it looks like it has been
wrapped around a hemisphere.
Objects, as well as text, can be
warped into any shape you like.
However I've had mixed results
warping groups of objects.
Sometimes it works, sometimes it
doesn't. The pattern seems to be
that the more complex the drawing,
the less chance that warp will work.
A little undocumented feature there
for Soft-Logik to work on.
But all things considered, Art
Expression's drawing tools are well
up to the job, with options to flatten
and smooth paths, and to join two
points together - useful features that
are lacking in Pro Draw. There's even
an automatic pie chart creator.
The auto-trace feature of BME {Art Expression's Bitmap Editor) may come in handy for creating structured
versions of simple bitmap clip art, but don't expect perfect results - there's always a loss in quality
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Earlier I mentioned the auto-trace
feature, which is able to turn a
bitmapped graphic into a structured
drawing. This facility is provided as
part of the BME program - the
BitMap Editor that also comes with
Hotlinks Editions. It'll trace any
bitmap, no matter how many colours
it contains or how complex it is, but
in practice it is only sensible to trace
simple pictures with few colours,
Various options give you control
over the accuracy of the trace, but
you shouldn't expect great results,
even at the highest accuracy.
Converting a bitmap to vectors Is an
inexact science. It takes time, and
the results are almost always not
worth the wait, You may find it useful
while you are learning how to draw
using Art Expression.
The trace facility is the only
reason BME is included with Art
Expression, although you may afso
find it handy for cropping bitmaps for
later use in PageStream.
A CHOICE OF OUTPUT
Art Expression
handles printing
via Preferences in
the norma! Amiga
way. There are no
program-specific
printer drivers, a la
PageStream. Also
there is no print
set-up required
within Art
Expression itself,
apart from the
option of specifying
which part of the
page to print, as
opposed to the
whole page. All printer settings are
selected v i a Wo r kb e n c h P r i nte r a n d
Pr i n te rGf x pref e re nee s ,
Now, I had problems printing to
Preferences with version 1.00 of Art
Expression - the output was too
large and the aspect ratio was
wrong. Soft- Logi k sent me version
1.01, which supposedly fixed this
bug, but now my 500, 2000 and
3000 all crash when attempting to
print via Preferences from Art
Expression. Soft-Logik says that
some five per cent of users have
reported that this happens with
1.01; the rest seem to be fine.
Although at first this Preferences
printing problem may seem severe, I
see Art Expression being used by two
kinds of users - professionals who
will be more concerned with
PostScript output, and PageStream
users who will be more concerned
with being able to export their
drawings and import them into
PageStream, Neither kind of user
absolutely requires Art Expression to
print to Preferences printers, so the
problem can be worked around until
Soft-Logik sorts it out.
Version 1.02 should be released
by the time you read this, and
everyone who returns the registration
card will get a free upgrade to 1.02,
along with a Bonus Disk containing
seven more PostScript typefaces,
Let's hope the printing bug is quickly
tracked down and stamped on.
Art Expression naturally gives you
full control over PostScript output,
which can be to 5ER:, PAR:, disk or
another named device.
Four-colour separations
are possible; screen angles
and frequencies can be
adjusted in 0.0001
degree/lpl increments:
page scale, negative,
emulsion down and
crop/ registration
marks can all be
selected. There's no
rotation gadget, so
you M l have to do
frequencies, separations, and some
of the limitations and known pitfalls
of PostScript.
MANUAL ASSISTANCE
There are three manuals provided
with the package. The two Art
Expression manuals are spiral
bound, so they fold flat easily, and
they are extremely well written. The
Lessons' manual gently introduces
you to the subject, and takes you
through three projects of progressive
difficulty. The final section of this
manual is a 'cookbook 1 of
example
Art Expression's PostScript output
options are fairly comprehensive,
and good enough for most needs
The separations are saved in one
file, and there's no option to save
each separately.
Mechanical or 'spot' colour
separations are also catered for.
The manual goes into some
detail about PostScript printing,
explaining about resident fonts,
downloaded fonts, screen angles and
Wheeee.
. aB along the curve
Text can be quickly aligned with
any path or curve
Magnification is
adjustable from 25% to
3200%, with several preset zoom
levels, just like in PageStream, Note
the 'Outline Mode* menu entry,
which saves having to wait for line
weights to draw and shapes to ftll
drawings with a step-by-step guide to
how each drawing was created.
After working your way through
the 'Lessons' manual you are ready
to dip into the main 'User' manual,
which is overflowing with examples of
every feature from drawing a line to
masking a compound object in order
to create a blend. Structured drawing
is made a lot easier to learn thanks
to the effort Soft-Logik has put into
the manuals.
The third manual is the one for
BME, although the documentation for
the auto-trace feature come in an 8-
page loose-leaf addendum.
Art Expression is
certainly a competent
illustration program
and makes a good
companion to
PageStream. An extra
program is supplied
that will convert Pro
Draw 'clips' into 1FF-
DR2D format, so
unhappy Pro Draw
users , If there are
any, will be able
change brands
without too much
pain. But keep in
mind that the DR2D format doesn't
support some of the advanced 'clip'
./.I,
format features - gradient fills and
percentage fills being the most
notable - so not all Pro Draw clips
will convert properly.
LUCK OF THE DRAW?
If it's a question of choosing
between Pro Draw and Art
Expression, the deciding factor will
probably be whether you are using a
Gold Disk or Soft-Logik DTP package
in conjunction with it. PageStream
users will feel much more at home
with Art Expression, Pro Page users
are certainly better off with Pro Draw.
If Adobe Illustrator compatibility is
important to you, Art Expression is
your only choice.
Art Expression is by no means
?ir-fzgj perfect, but it's early days yet
" : 0 It shows great promise and is
light years better than the first
version of Pro Draw was. The
program will get better and better,
no doubt about it, and has every
chance of quickly taking over from
Pro Draw as the stock illustration
program for the Amiga. CD
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Art Expression
Ease of Use • • • • O
The interface is well designed. It both
helps the beginner and enables the expert
to crack on more quickly.
Features • • • O O
There's plenty in there, but lots of room
for improvement with regard to AGA
support, better export file formats, and
some sort of macro system.
Documentation • • • • O
Superb manuals. One or two areas could
perhaps do with more explanation, but
then Soft-Logik would run the risk of
blinding beginners with science.
Price Value IftOO
With Pro Draw 3 now selling at a
discounted price of around £70, Art
Expression is twice as expensive. But then
you do get 35 PostScript Type 1 typefaces
thrown in, a package that would normally
cost you more than £100 on its own]
Overall rating ••#00
Every bit as good as Pro Draw in Its own
way. There are things each package can
do that the other can't, but the deciding
factor is probably that 'twice as much r
price tag. OuchE
AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 24 • APRIL 1993
DESKTOP PUBLISHING
Lasers
to stun
Thought you couldn't afford a
laser printer? Well, think again!
Jeff Walker counts the cost of
hooking Panasonic's budget-
priced KX-P4410 up to his Amiga
A laser printer is a laser
printer is a laser printer,
isn't it? Well, at least
that's the impression
you're left with if you believe
everything you read in the adverts,
But there are subtle differences
that make some laser printers better
than others. Not just in the speed t
typefaces, resolution and
accessories departments 1 but also in
actual print quality, which depends
upon the drum, toner and print
mechanism itself.
That's why, for laser printers that
on the face of it seem fairly similar,
prices can range from about £500 to
£2000 or more.
The Panasonic KX-P4410 is a
low-priced laser printer. While its
recommended retail price (£992)
appears quite high, its actual 'street
pnce r is much less - just under
£500 - putting it well and truly in the
'budget' class of laser printers.
It comes with 512K of internal
memory, which is fine for your basic
word processing needs, using the
printer's internal typefaces. But if
you want to desktop publish or print
graphics on to A4 pages, you'll need
at 'least another megabyte of
memory. The RAM motherboard fitted
with 1Mb of memory will cost about
£130, and further memory modules
(the board will take up to 4Mb)
should cost about £30 per
megabyte. Thanks to the drowning
pound, RAM prices are fluctuating all
over the place at the moment, so it's
difficult to be precise. And it pays to
shop around; I rang several
suppliers. The highest I was quoted
for KX-P4410 memory was £153 for
the motherboard and first megabyte,
and a whopping £120 for each
subsequent megabyte,
BUILT-IN BENEFITS
The internal typefaces are good old
fixed-width Courier and the
proportional Century - normal, bold
and italic versions of both. Courier
can be printed in 6 point, 7.2pt, Spt,
lOpt and 12pt 5 although the three
small sizes don't have a bold style
and the smallest doesn't have italics
either. Century (normal, italic and
bold) comes in lOpt only.
Although the KX-P4410 has a
Hewlett-Packard LaserJet HP
emulation, there are no HP typefaces
provided, so in this mode everything
gets printed in the default typeface,
Courier. In Panasonic LP mode,
which is essentially HP IIP emulation
with a few extras, you can get at all
sizes and styles of both Century and
Courier I tested it without a problem
in text-only mode with Protext 5.5
and that program s KX-P4420 driver.
I With Wordworth 2 and the standard
EpsonQ printer driver it worked fine
in text-only mode except that I kept
getting a blank page before and after
the actual page of text.
For printing graphics you can
leave it in Panasonic LP mode and
use the HP_LaserJet driver. Top
resolution is 300 dots per inch. As
well as the obvious art programs
{Deluxe Paint for example), graphics
For text or graphics
printing, laser quality Is now well
within the reach of the home user
printing includes any application that
prints using Amiga bitmap fonts,
Compugraphic typefaces or any other
kind of scalable outline' typeface.
Printing graphics and scalable text
takes longer than text-only ('printer
font') printouts, and waits of
between 15 and 30 minutes per
page, or longer, will not be unusual
for output from programs such as
PageStream T PageSetter, Pro Page,
Wordworth, Final Copy and the like.
How long it takes to print a page
depends on how many different
scalable typefaces and point sizes
have to be calculated.
And don't forget that you'll need
a 1Mb printer memory upgrade to be
able to print A4 pages from this type
of program.
The KX-P4410 is not a PostScript
laser printer, and there is no
PostScript upgrade that can be fitted
at a later date. If PostScript is
important to you, it might be wiser to
plump for a laser printer that can
have a PostScript 'card' fitted should
you decide you want it.
RUNNING COSTS
Once a page has been "imaged' by
the KX-P4410 it can be duplicated
any number of times at a rate of five
pages per minute > The cassette
holds about 100 pages of normal
thickness paper and can take A4< US
Letter, US Legal and Executive size
sheets. A number of standard sized
envelopes can also be fed in via the
cassette, or it'll take a fair number of
standard sheets of laser printer
labels (including a lot of Avery ones)
and some makes of 3M and Scotch
overhead projection film.
Apart from printing media there
is the cost of three other kinds of
consumables' to bear in mind - the
printer toner, the drum and the
developer unit.
FEATURES CHART • FEATURES CHART • FEATURES CHART • FEATURES CHART
Model
KX-P4410
Supplier
Panasonic
Memory
512K
Expanded
4.5Mb
DPI
300
Speed
5 ppm
Typefaces
2
Emulations: HP LaserJet IIP, Diablo 630, Epson FX-86e/800, IBM Proprinter II, Panasonic KX-P1180.
The toner lasts for about 3,000
'normal' printouts {pages of text,
that is); for heavy graphics printing
that couid drop to as few as 1,000
printouts or less, depending on how
dark your pictures are. There's a
print densfty dial on the side of the
printer that enables you to control
how much toner is being used. Toner
refills cost about £20.
The drum will have to be
replaced on average every 12,000
normal printouts; that currently costs
about £70. The developer unit will
last for 90,000 normal printouts, at
which time it ll cost you about £80
(at current prices) to replace it.
I SPY WITH MY DPI
Print quality is not the best you'll
ever see from a laser printer, but
then this is a budget' model so you
can't expect the earth. Text printouts
are fine, using either the internal
typefaces or scalable typefaces.
You'd be hard pushed to tell the KX-
P44i0's text output from that of any
other 300 dpi laser printer. Graphics
output, however, which depends on
dither patterns to simulate colours
and shades of grey, is a bit coarse,
and this is because the dots of toner
that it puts on the page are a little
on the large size compared to some
higher quality lasers.
That's not to say the graphics
output is bad - far from it. I'm merely
pointing out that it is possible to get
better output, even at 300 dpi,
provided you are prepared to pay a
little more. The KX-P4430 model for
example, which costs about £300
more (at street prices), has a feature
called Satinprint' that enhances the
output. Comparing the KX-P4410 h s
graphics output with a friend" s Epson
EPL-7500 300 dpi output makes the
Panasonic look poor. But then the
EPL-7500 does cost twice as much
as the KX-P4410!
ooooooooo
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AS 50 REPLACEMENT PSU ........
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( AMIGA SERVICE DEPT
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Includes parts i labour, excludes psu, disk
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A520 HDDULATOR RPPAIfi ....... £19,99 NEW
REPLACE INTERNAL DRIVE 169.99 inc drive
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FIT HAftD DRIVE TO 600/ 1200 .. £15.00
Add £\Q for sanedsy turnaround (by prior
arrangement only}* 'vhere spare parts
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£21,99
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£31.95
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MASTERING AMIGA DOS V0L1 ... £21.95
MASTERING AMIGA DOS U0L 2 .. £19.95
MASTERING bJORFBEHCM 2 £19.95
MASTERING AMIGA C .......... £19.95
MASTERING AMIGA PRINTERS ... £19,95
MASTERING AMIGA ASSEMBLER . . £24.95
MA5TERING AMIGA SYSTEM , £29.95
MASTRRIMC AMIGA AMDS £19.95
HASTERINQ AMIGA ARE XX 7
HASTBRlHCi AMIGA - BEGINNERS £19.95
MOO INSIDER GUIDE ....... £ 1 4 .95
A12D0 INSIDER GUTDE dhir ntMjti
WITH ISJ6T
OF TWCSE
BOOKS
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C PGR BEGINNERS ..........
DTSK WIVES INS I UK i OtfT .
DOS INSIDE i OUT .........
DESKTOP VIDEO
GRAPHICS INSIDE i OUT ....
MAKING MUSIC OH THE AMIGA
US IMG AREXX ON THE AMIGA .
USER INTERFACE MANUAL
HARDWARE REF MANUAL
ROM KERNEL REF MANUALS - EJ
BEUDDRfi AkTOA VXD B0 A
Covsrsi Workbench 2; Icons „ Sereetv, ^kbench menus; . r , .. .... . , ^
dlskformstting I duplicating] tfeing Preferences f Adding RMIN AMI&A M At. A7JNE*
memory! Adding periphersls - digitisers H genlocks; Using IN STOCK
CLI } Changing the Startup sequence etc etc - SOmins long, PLUS SOME BACK ISSUES,
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9HV1 /10t4 MONITOR £0-99
SHIFT 9 j LC200 PRIHTER £6.99
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BACKUP UTILITIES
X COPY PRO NEW £34,99
Latest version - oosrjLiil.ii with
NEW K>. 2 Autmtio Cyclone external
drive adaptor. Highly successful.
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KHX ACADEMT SHOPPDI HASRT " £14,99
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LETS SPELL SERIES ........... £16,99
LIHKWORD LANGUAGES £21.99
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MATHS TALE (5~1 lYRS) ........ £19.99
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THINGS TO DO WITH. .
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., £16.99
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toAmj'ga f no additonal Midi hi tr rlnt?i*
reg 'df t other Nidi instruments. * 100
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the Amiga which customises the 1 esnons
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CRASY CARS III £19.99
CURSE OP EHCHANTIA £25.99
CYTRON £22,99
DARK SEED £26.99
EYE OF THE BEHOLDER II £26.49
FINAL PLIGHT £19.99
FIRE I ICE £19.99
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F1S STRIKE EAGLE II £25.99
F19 £21.99
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GQ6LIIIHS Z E21.99
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LEGEND OP KYRAMDIA £25.99
LEEDS UNITED CHAMPIONS E1S.99
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LURE OF THE TEMPTRESS ...... £21.99
JAGUAR XJ220 £18.99
JOHN BARNES FOOTBALL £18.99
LOTUS TURBO 1 £16,99
MONKEY ISLAND 2 £76.99
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RAMPART £18.99
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RED ZONE . E1S.99
ROAD RASH ..... E18.99
ROBOSPORT .......... ....... . £21.99
SABRE TEAM E1S.99
SENSIBLE SOCCER 92/93 E1S.99
SIR ANT E25.99 TOf
SIM EARTH .............. £25.99
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ADORAGE E67.99
AMI AJ.IGfMKNjr E4?,99
AMII8ST NETWORK SYSTEM ...... ES4.99
AHAS 2 £49.99
AMOS ... E14.99
AMOS - EASY £22.99
. AHOS JO £?i.99
AMOS COMPILER , £?tt.99
- AMOS PROFESSIONAL - I^EV . . . . £45.99
AREXX VI. 1 £14.99
ART DEFT FRO save £2<f £179.99
ART EXPRESSIONS MM 1154-99
AUDITION 4 . ............. £37.99
ATJOIOMASTER 4 £59.99
AUDIO ENGINEER 2 », El«5.99
BARS f, PIPES PROFESSIONAL .. £224.99
RfiOADCAST TiTLER 2 L169-99
BROADCAST TILTER SUPERHIRES C 299 . 99
BROADCAST TITLER FONTS ..... £99.99
CAN DO V2 NEW VERSfOlf £99.99
CASH BOOK CONTRLR/FIHAL A/CS £54.99
CROSS DOS V5 inc PC emulator £22.99
DAY BY DAY £77.99
DELUXE PATNT *,13 DOWN. £64.99
DELUXE FAINT 4AGA WW F £"?4.99
DELUXE MUSIC £49.99
DELUXE VIDEO J £69.99
DEVFAC 3 - new version £51.99
DO CALC ., 129.99
DIRECTORY OPUS V« NEW ...... £49.99
DISK MASTER 2 E49.99
DOS TO DOS E29,99
DR T l S KCS LEVEL II £729.99
E TYPE £24.99
EXPERT DRAW E49.99
EXPERT 4D JNR £35.99
EASY AMDS £74.99
EXCELLENCE 2 £59-99
EXOTIC CARS FOR IMAGINE .... £34.99
FINAL COPY 2 LATEST VrnWOI £69.99
FLOW ,„....,.. .. £59.99
G8 ROUTE PLUS - PRICE DOW . £J9.99
GAI.LERY - «■* AWTAflASK £59.99
COLD DISK OFFICE 2 mmV. va . £94.99
GOLD DISK OFFTCB PONT PK ... £34.99
HIGH SPEED PASCAL E69.99
HESOPT BASIC v2 HPW £74.99
HI SOFT BASIC EXTENSIONS NEW £19.99
MC44E ACCOUNTS 2 £39.99
HOME BASE £24.99
HOTLIHKS £49.99
H0TLINK.5 EDITIONS HEW £69.99
HYFERBOOK ............ £44.99
IMAGINE! 2 £189.99
IMAGINE OBJECTS DISK £94.99
IKAGEHASTER - NEW PRICE £129.99
INIROCAD PLUS £74,99
KINDWORDS 3 . , H/A
LATTICE C V& /SAS C NEW ... £229.99
MACRO 68 QOO ASSEMBLER EJ9.99
HAILS HOT FLUS £37.99
HA5TERSOUND £34.99
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HORPH PLUS £149,99
OR LIHt PLATINUM ........... £34.99
PAGESTRAM 7-2 £149.99
PAGE STREAM FONT PACKS £41.99
PAGESTRBAH BUSINESS FORMS .. £34.99
PENPAL BACK IN STOCK ,. £15.99
PERSONAL FINANCE MAHG+ £39.99
PERFECT SOUND ►,....* E&7.99
PROFESSIONAL CALC .......... E139 .99
PRO0ATA 1,2 £69,99
PROFESSIONAL PAGE 3 NOW . £139.99
110 FOinS FOR PROPAGE £1D9.99
PROTEXT 5.52 £59.99
PROWRIIE v 3.3 - NEW VERSIOH £59.99
QUARTERBACK 5 L44 .99
QUARTERBACK TOOLS £49.99
OuARTET E37.99
SCALA 500 .................. E74.99
SCAEA PROFESSIONAL E199.99
SCULPT JDXX £109.99
SCULP ANIMATE 4D JNR ....... £94,99
SOUNDHASTER £99.99
STEREO MASTER £29-99
SUFEftJAM £74.99
SUPERHASE PROP 4 LOW PRICE . £U9.99
SUPERPLAN £69.99
SYSTEM 3e £57.99
TECHN06OUND £29.99
TITRBOPRINT PRO V2 NOW ONLY £35.99
TURBOTEXT E47.99
VIDECMASTER £59.99
WORDWORTH 2 - NTW VERSION . E84.99
XCAD 2000 PRU1P Dt*W .. £99,99
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GFA BASIC £9.99
DELUXE FA IHT II ., £9.99
INFOFILE DATABASE £9.99
ORGANISE £29.99
MAXIPLAN V4 £39-99
MUSIC X £36.99
SUPERBASP. PERSONAL LJ9.99
THE WORKS 119.99
XCOPY PRO - PREVIOUS VERSION INC
HKl CYCLONE ADAPTOR - ...... £27.99
SILENT SERVICE 2 £25.99
SHADOW OP THE BEAST III ..... £21.99
STREET FIGHTER II ,. £19.99
STRIKER E1R.99
SHUTTLE E22.99
SWORD OF HONOUR [IB .99
THE MANAGER L13.99
TROOALERS E 1 B . 99
VIKINGS £25.99
WIZKID £19,99
WING COMMANDER £25.99
WWP HRESTLEHANIA £18.99
WWF 2 £18.99
2O0L £18.99
TOOL 1200 £19.99
C OMPILVI |£»N?>
BIG BOX 2-10 GAMES ... £72.99
CARTOON COLLECTICM £17.99
COMBAT CLASSICS «... £21.99
DREAM TEAM E18.99
PANTASTIC WORLDS £26.99
PLIGHT COMMAND £18.99
FOOTBALL CRAZY .............. £18.99
INTELLIGENT STRATEGY GAMES .. Elfl.99
LEMHI IIGS TWIN PACE £22 .99
MEGA SPORTS £18,99
QUEST 1 GLORY ., , £22.99
SIM CITY i POPULOUS E2I .99
SUFERFIGHTER £18.99
SOOL FACK £29.99
MEQADRlVt * 7C wAMBS AVAILABLE 10
ORDEKAT DISCOUNT PRICES,
iblf to Cl»*l>«e nillnwt notice (nainly dgt 10 PUnufairtTircri^iupptien price irKf***ei). HOE
• . 'Any c4 vt\cm del 1 with 11* r»auHfl>, If Jpcu «re not •■tisti«1 m;h \tm icrrice j C *i
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AMIGA 600
WILD, WEIRD &
WICKED '
AMIGA 6O0HD
1 EPIC 1 PACK '
20 OR 40MEG
> HOUSE
> lMEQ RAM
> 3.5" DISK DRIVE
> BUILT-IN TV
MODULATOR
> QRXMO PRIX.
SPECIAL
OFFERS ON
ALL AHIGAS
PHONE FOR
LATEST PRICE
3-5" DISK DRIVE
lOHBO BARD DRIVE
2
IH TV
PRICES INC VAT EXCEPT WHERE STATED
SALES: 0274 - 691115
Deal with iw with uurtf idonoe - over 9
y^flrB ut 1st ClflSF serv Lrrr amiib you
FLUB
> TRIVIAL PURSUITS
> EPIC
> MTTH
> IMEG RAM
> 3,5" DISK DRIVE
> BUILT- IH TV
MODULATOR
FOR LATEST LOW PRICE
AMIGA 600 WITH
HARD DRIVE FITTED
A600 60MEG HD
A600 SOMEG HD £549.99
A600 120MEG £669.99
R*«dy f inputted t Workbench installed - juat
plug-in l> switch on- {You may netid to install
ol hoi Wnrktmneh disks yourself as required)
AMIGA 1500 £519-99
WITH HCHt ACCOOKTSr THE WORKS? ELF; TOK1 f PUSNIC
ADD £359,99 FOR 13DMEC SCSI HARD DRIVE
ZOOL PACK < ONLY £19*99
(Wo rdproc at ior )
TOTAL VALUE
rrp £25.49 WXTI
rrp £25.99 JLHT
rrp £25.99 XMI0A
rep £49, 99
£127.56
Sav* ot« £200!
(rrp £2466,33)
Brief ppec:
* *»040 2SBHi
PRINTERS
£184.99
CITIZEN SHIFT 9 COLOUR ONLY
9pin; I'Ji^jti draft, 4flcr« m<} pi m Liny speed. 4 built-in
fonts, Frietiirfi 4 tractor feeds. Paper park. Low coat ribbons ►
2 year warranty* Epson t IBM Proprinter emulations . Dow noise
level. 3?I RAM UPGRADE tli ,99
CITIZEN SHIFT 240C COLOUR 1 2 84. 99
CITIZEN SHIFT 240 MONO C 249, 9 9
24 pin; 240cpe droit * SO cps latter quality print speed. 9
fonts, 2 sr-elflble fonts. Paper parking j push t pull tractor
feed, friction te«d. Epson LQS7Q, MIC P20 fc IBM emulation* .
Ultra low noiae level r +■ quiet mode lot 1 *rv<Sn lower noise. 2
year warranty, I7.tr, RAH EXPANSION £J2,99
7^REE\|
STARTER
PACK
HITS ALL
CJTIWIf
PRINTERS,
IHCLtWES
OWL I
£209.99
£244,99
CABLE? AMIGA
DRIVE* DISK
C 250
(appro*)
SHEETS Or
t PAPER j
CITIHft SMI rT 2 00 SUPERS MODEL
CITIIEW SWIFT 200 COLOUR
24 pin: 240qw draft 4 80 cps letter quality print spamd. Nine Letter quality
fonts* 2 scalable letter quality fonts. Paper parting , push t pull tractor feed,
friction feed. Epson LQ570, NEC P20 I IBM Proprinter? 4ms amulationa. 2 year
warranty 128F HAH EXPANSION 02.99
C mZEN P>RODOT 24 PROFESS (ONA L Pfl INTER £259. 90
21 Pin 60 Column; 5 fonts; Epson , lbm t Vcc omul aLionu ; 360x360 dpi graphics
printing r 16K buffer* colour Torsien (2MJ*
C!TEEN PftOJET INKJET LASEfl QUAUTY PRINT OT-W INC VAT
300dpi Laser quality 50 nozzle IWt jet printer. Fast 4 very quiet, IGOcps draft
4 240 cps letter quality print speed. Three letter quality fonts + optional Ttint
cards. HP Deskjet Plus emulation* Optional lZBR t ?5tik ™m cattfa. 100 sheet
automatic feeder- Ink cartridges - (1 3^99
Pour pager par Minute;
SEIKO SUA Of 10« hudgmt LASER PRINTER £559. 99 inc v*t
P Laserjet UP emwl at inn; 1DQ x i{10 DPI; lyr on aite
Pdltacript Tarei&n with 2m+q tzmm £849.99 inc wm.t _
RICOH LP120O LAJtER PRINTER £799-99 inc rat
6 pages / Minute; PCL"> wil.h mailable fonts; up to 440dpi resolution {300 standard ,
400 requires extra 2meg ran); 2meg ran as standard! straight pr*^ path;
resolution i:n hancement ; flash ron for downloading new tiravarn; IC card slot for
flash roas; aerial 4 parallel ports I 1 yr on-*itc warranty.
STAR SJ48 64 ItOtZLE IKK JET PRIKTER £22 4,99 IMC VAT
LOOcps 10 mode; 360dpi graphics) 2 resident fonts; Epson Uj, t£H Proprinter I NEC
graphics emulations; 28k buffer, Optional Micad battery for portnhlr IN,
HP DESKJET 550C COLOUR IflK JET £54 9.99 INC VAT
OLIVETTI JP350S INK JET (mono) E 34 9. 99 INC VAT
STAR LASER 4 4PPM POSTSCRIPT C 1059. 99 INC VAT
MEMORY UPG RADES AVAI LABLE.
AMIGA 500 HARD DRIVES
DOWN
1184-99
£299.99
t 385, 99
ES75,99
[119,99
E2»S.94
£ 114 .99
C'P nm FOB A500 4 500> - HO DRIVE
OtP SERIES II HDB+ 42 Hog for A500
GVP SERIES II HD8+ 80 Haq for ASOO
CVF SERIES II HD8+ 120meg for A500 - now only
WP SERIES II H08+ 210mtg for A500 - now only
The HDfl series II oin nrjeept either 1 or 2 or 4,
OR two, I hwij i;jjmn'i .
O/P SERIES U HCB for A150D/7000 - HO DRTVR
CVP SERTES I I ltd * 42neg for A1&90/2000
CT^r SERIES ir HCB < BOmeg for A15O0/2O0Q
GVP SERIES 1 1 HC8 + 120n»ij for Al5O0/?oDd - now only £409 .99
GVP SCRIES II HCB + 210wg for Al 500/ 2000 - now only £559.99
The ftc 8 Sfrifm JT cart aceept upto S, Jmeg x9 Sijnms in 2 meg
steps.
qVP A110 CCHiOS ALSO AVAILABLE - PLEASE ASK FOR DISCOUNT PRICE
1HEG •* SlmS FOR CUT DftTVPS t!2.99
4HEC XS S7H4S FOR CVP DRIVES EU9.99
4«h:c: 32H[T StMMii J** A53D .. tl69.99
EMULATORS & ACCELERATORS
KCS POWER PC CARO v4.S FOR AHICA 500 4 500 PLUS
M. Dua if required ....... b .
KCE POWER PC EMULATOR CARD POH AMICA t>00
AH](1A 15DD/7QO0 KCS ADAPTOR
VORTEX AT OMLTI PLUS 2B6 PC EMULATOR FOR A500
WP PC286 PC EMULATOR CARD FOR SERIES II HARD DRIVES
GOLDEN GATE 386SX PC CARD FOR Al 500/2000
GOLDEN GATE 486SX PC CARD FOR Al 5 00/2000
OPTIONAL DRIVE CONTROLLER CHIP FOR GULDEN GATK
I IT SO JS 75X25 CO-PROCESSOR FOR GOI-DEN CXTF.
SOLID STATE LEISURE ACCELERATORS - 13HIT FROM
BLIZZARD TURBO/ MEMORY B6A.W> FOR. A500 /500f
rj-POR.ee 03O/?5Hlt^ FOR A 1 500/ 2000 others available
1149^99
£19.99
lb?. 99
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£219.99
El 89,99
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£749-99
£ 14 .19
£89.99
£169,99
£209.99
t479.99
OPEN SUNDAY
10-4PM
AMIGA 1200
ASTOUNDING SPEC:
68020 32BIT Cpu
14.19MHz CLOCK SPEED
2 MEG RAM
1.5" FLOPPY DRIVE
16MILLION COLOUR CAPABILITY
BUILT-IN TV MODULATOR
WORKBENCH 3, MOUSE £ PSU
32 BIT EXPANSION PORT
NOW ALSO AVAILABLE
WITH HARD DRIVES
INSTALLED FROM £499-99
HARD DRIVE FITTING SERVICE*
JUST
WET-- COLLECT (YWPOTF.R FROM YOU BY CARRIER
FIT DRIVE L TEST
CAREFULLY REPACKAGE COMPUTER
RETURN COMPUTER TO If 00 BY OVERNlCJhl CARRIER
FITTING SERVICE WITH WARRAMT? ITCLUOEQ:
Uptu £600 in value! 3y»E4S.99; 3yna E59,99
Upto £1000 in value: 2yra £49.99> Jyr* 179.99
HE HILL ALSO FORMAT t FIT DRIVES SUPPLIED BY TOO - JUST ADD
ilO TO ABOVE PRICES.
■ Prices: apply to UV mainland "xc: Scottiah nighlandB< pleaae
enquire for other areas.
FAST HARD DRIVES FOR
YOUR AMIGA 600 & 1200.
20MEG:
4QMEG:*
60MEG
S0MEG
I20MEG
PRICES
FROM
UNDER
£120
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As a communications
system MIDI is pretty
much trouble free. But
snags can arise from
time to time and, particularly for
beginners, it can be difficult to
figure out what's gone wrong. You
might, for Instance, have connected
up a couple of leads the wrong way
around, or are perhaps using a MIDI
lead that Is broken inside. On the
other hand, your synth, due to the
way It has been set up, may not be
transmitting the messages that you
think it is.
The key to solving most MIDI
problems is to go about it in a
methodical way: ask yourself which
faults could fit the known facts, and
then try to find ways of eliminating
each one from your investigations. If
you tackle these things from the data
source and trace your way
along in a logical
fashion, it
usually doesn't
take more than a
few minutes to
come up with the
right answers. For
sequencer-
transmitted data you
might start at the
Amiga end of the set-
up. This usually poses
the question: how can
you tell whether the
Amiga's serial port is
transmitting anything? An
indicator light on the MIDI
interface can provide a
useful clue. If not, perhaps
your synth has a light which
flashes as data is received.
As with most things, a bit
of common sense goes a long
way in MIDI fault-finding. Of
course, it does pay to start by
considering those things which,
from past experience, seem
likely candidates. If, say, your
synthesiser triggers the
sequencer when you are recording
but on replay data does not come
back to your synth, then there is a
good chance that either the lead
connecting your interface's MIDI OUT
to your synthesiser's MIDI IN is
faulty, or that your synth is set to a
channel number which is different to
that which the sequencer is
transmitting on.
FOLLOW THE LEAD
So, your first instinct should always
be to check these obvious things
first, making sure that the correct
MIDI sockets have been used, and
also that the connectors have been
properly pushed in. If the connectors
on the lead look OK then you should,
having eliminated all other
alternatives, be led to the conclusion
that the lead probably has an
internal break in it somewhere. So, a
reasonable next step would be to
swap the suspect lead for another
one. The object of this exercise is to
prove (by eliminating the fault) that
the connecting lead was to blame, or
to prove that the fault lies elsewhere
(by showing that changing leads
made no difference).
FURTHER DIAGNOSIS
These common sense arguments wit I
usually lead you to the right
conclusions very quickly, but
sometimes a problem may not be
quite so easy to solve, You may find
yourself using particular types of
MIDI messages which appear to be
having no effect - in this case you
often need to be able to determine
whether the appropriate
messages
are being
transmitted in the first place.
Now if you know a bit of BASIC, C or
some other computer language, it is
actually quite easy to write your own
MID! diagnostic programs for
identifying the various message
types being passed through the MIDI
system. Of course, the trouble with
this is that you cannot use your
Amiga as a diagnostic tool while
using it as a sequencer at the same
time - because the Amiga only has
one serial port.
Now, you could get another
Amiga for this - but a far cheaper
solution would be a separate MIDI
diagnostic device that you can use at
the same time as your Amiga
sequencer. The one I use is called
the MA36 and it is made by a
company called Stud to Master, which
is probably best known for its audio
mixing desks.
The MA36 is not a new device
but it is still not particularly well-
known outside serious MIDI circles.
And from the letters I get about MIDI
fault-finding it is ciear that a lot of
MIDI users could benefit from a
device like this - I can tell you quite
truthfully that I've been using my unit
almost daily for years. It's as
invaluable today as it was when I
first bought it - lf f as a new MIDI
user, you were to ask me what I
considered the most important first
MIDI extra to add to a basic MIDI set
up - I'd say an MA36,
VERY ILLUMINATING
After an introduction like that, you
should rightly be curious about this
messages and displays the results
on a set of LEDs situated on its front
panel. The right-hand side of the
MA36 display is a bank of channel
indicators - these enable you to tell
immediately what MIDI channels are
being used. The left-hand side of the
display provides detai ls of the
message types being received, so if,
for instance, you want to know
whether the MIDI data that is
supposed to be going into your
synthesiser is really there, you just
take the lead out of your
synthesiser's MIDI IN terminal, and
plug it into the MA36. If the data is
there you'll instantly see what
messages are being transmitted and
any associated channel numbers,
To be honest there is very little
else one can say about the MA36 -
except that it is one of those
delightful little boxes that you don't
need to be a genius to use!
Conducting
an inquiry
Thereof nothing more annoying
than a misbehaving MIDI
message, Paul Overaa talks
you through the process of
tracking down those elusive
musical misdemeanors
The MA36 Analyser from
StudloMaster is a brilliant
MIDI fault-finding tool
gadget, so here are some details.
The MA36 measures about 7 cm by
12 cm by 3 cm, has an on/off
switch, can be powered by a battery
or mains adaptor, and, most
important of all, has two MIDI
sockets: MIDI IN and MIDI THRU.
As MIDI data passes through the
unit the MA36 identifies the
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for yourself!
AMIGA SHOPPER 9 ISSUE 24 U APRIL 1993
MUSIC
A lot of musically-minded
new Amiga owners have
Joined us over the past
few months, and some
will doubtless be looking for help
within these pages. Since it's been
a while since we last looked at the
fundamentals of MIDI, now seems a
good time to provide a whirlwind
tour of some of the basic terms and
to explain what they all mean.
Dr T f s KCS package
is just one MIDI sequencer that is
well thought of in Amiga circles
First then, let's look at why MIDI
evolved in the first pi ace, In the early
days of electronic music it was far
from easy to link different pieces of
musical equipment together. This
was because many manufacturers
created and used their own
workable, but almost totally
incompatible, communications
arrangements. The solution, namely
the development of the single
'Musical Instrument Digital Interface'
standard that we now call MIDI,
solved the majority of those earlier
incompatibility problems.
So, MIDI is a communications
system specially designed to allow
musical equipment from any number
of different manufacturers to talk r to
each other using digital messages.
Among other things, MIDI has
encouraged the development and
use of a piece of software known as
the "sequencer'. On the Amiga this is
simply a computer program that is
able to read, store, edit and replay
the messages generated when MIDI
instruments are played. Nowadays
this software is commonplace and
there are many established Amiga
programs to choose from.
Not only has sequencing
made life easier for the serious
and experienced
musician, but it has
also opened the
floodgates for everyone
else. It is no
exaggeration to say
that MIDI sequencers
have made it possible
for anyone with the
slightest ear for music
sound good!
THE BASIC
EQUIPMENT
, Assuming you
already have an
Amiga computer
you will need three
other things to get started in MIDI
sequencing: a MIDI interface, a
keyboard synthesiser and a
sequencer program. You may also
need one or two connecting leads if
they were not supplied with your
which plug into the Amiga's serial
port, thereby providing the computer
with the right physical connections
and signal characteristics needed for
linking up MIDI equipment. MIDI
interfaces cost from
All MIDI sequencers offer
sophisticated control functions
around £20 upwards, depending on
the facilities provided.
Sequencers vary enormously in
the options they provide but all will
let you record, play back and edit
MIDI data. You will, for example, be
able to add and delete notes, cut
Binary
1111 1000
1111 1010
1111 1100
Hexadecimal
F8
FA
FC
Decimal
248
250
252
Name
Timing Clock
Start
Stop
Three example status bytes - note that they all have bit 7 set to *1\
status byte
lOOlnnnn
note pitch
Okkkkkkk
note on velocity
Ovwvwv
These three bytes show how a single MIDI note is transmitted.
synthesiser or MIDI interface. These
are called MIDI leads and can be
purchased for a few pounds from
almost all computer shops.
You 1 II find plenty of MIDI
interfaces advertised within the
pages of Amiga Shopper, They are
quite simple pieces of hardware
and paste fragments of music,
change key, and improve the timing
of the music you record, this last
facility via the 'quantisation' options.
Many sequencers adopt a tape
recorder style approach - the
analogy is a good one because, in
concept, a sequencer is very much
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DIN connector - A plug/socket system found in many
pieces of audio equipment (cassette tape machines,
for instance, often have DIN plug connections).
Expander - A common name for a synthesiser sound
module that contains the sound generating circuitry
of a synthesiser without any keyboard- These can be
used in conjunction with a normal synthesiser to add
to (or, in other words, 'expand') the number of
sounds it can make.
Hex - Abbreviation for 'hexadecimal', the base 16
numbering system which expresses numbers using
the digits 0-9 together with the letters A-F.
Pitch - The frequency of a musical note. Bass notes
have Sow frequencies and are low in pitch. Piano
keyboard notes increase in pitch and frequency as
you go from left to right across the keyboard.
Serial transfer - A method of transmitting information as
a stream of bits sent one after the other.
Synth - Abbreviation for 'synthesiser'.
like a multi-track tape recorder. The
main difference is that digital data is
stored rather than audio sounds.
Whichever sequencer you choose
there should be an
introductory tutorial in the
manual and you should
read, and work through,
that material at the
earliest opportunity.
SYNTHETIC
MATERIALS
Synthesisers are
electronic Instruments'
which can create
musical tones by
generating (or
'synth esising'),
sound waves. They
can mimic other
instruments such as pianos,
organs, trumpets or drums, so by
owning j ust one synthesiser you will
be able to create an almost infinite
variety of different sounds.
The good news here is that even
the cheapest synth models can
sound good, though one thing you
will not get with a low-priced
synthesiser is a keyboard which can
sense how hard the keys have been
pressed. Notes will simply be 'on' or
l off but this is something you must
learn to live with, unless you spend a
lot of money on a touch sensitive 4
keyboard. For general MIDI work
synthesisers need to be polyphonic -
in other words, able to play many
notes at once. It Es also useful for
the synthesiser to be multi-timbral,
which means that it is able to play
more than one type of sound at the
same time.
Incidentally, a number of synths
(mainly those designed for home and
non-professional use) have amplifiers
and speakers built in. However,
many synthesisers do not and
therefore have to be connected to a
separate amplifier or speaker system
in order to produce audibie sounds.
For in-home low- volume use you can
often avoid further expense by just
using your home stereo system.
Nowadays you can get not just
keyboard synthesisers but also guitar
synths^ drum pads and a number of
other 'MIDI input' devices.
Nevertheless, most people tend to
use keyboards for the bulk of their
MIDI sequencing work, whether they
are keyboard literate or not. If you
have never played a piano or other
keyboard before, don't panic - it is
not necessary to become technically
competent (unless of course you
want to become so). You only need
to learn enough to find your way
around the piano-style keyboard.
WHAT'S THAT DIN?
All MIDI synthesisers have at least
two 5-pin DIN sockets. The one
marked 'MIDI IN' is where the synth
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receives its MIDI data, and the one
marked 'MIDI OUT 1 is where data is
transmitted from. Sometimes you'll
also find a MIDI THRU' socket - this
provides a duplicate of whatever is
being received at the IN terminal. Not
all MIDI equipment will understand
every different type of MIDI message,
nor will every piece of equipment
transmit every type of message.
However, this doesn't usually cause
much in the way of problems
provided you are aware of the
me s sages y o u r p a rt ic u I a r eq u i pm e nt
can send and understand.
PLUGGING AWAY
Unking together a three-piece Amiga
sequencer, synthesiser, and
interface MIDI system is usually very
easy. First, attach your MIDI interface
to the Amiga's serial port D
connector. Connect the MIDI OUT of
the synthesiser to the MIDI IN of the
MIDI interface with one MID! lead -
this will be the lead that, via the
interface, carries data from the
synthesiser to the sequencer
program, Then link the MIDI OUT of
the MIDI interface to the MIDI IN
terminal of the synthesiser, using the
second lead - it is this lead that
carries information from the
sequencer back to the synthesiser,
Switch on T load your sequencer
program as per the instructions given
in the manual, and you'll be ready to
start making music.
By the way, there are a few
budget synthesisers which have MIDI
terminals but which were not really
designed for anything other than
stand-alone use. Some, such as the
Yamaha PSS 790 and PSS 590
models* exhibit a non-standard trait
of echoing (re-transmitting) all
received MIDI data through their MIDI
OUT terminal, which can be
unnerving if you are not expecting it.
Some Amiga sequencers, including
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fix for this. So, if you own such a
synthesiser you will be able to use it
quite happily - provided you choose
your sequencer software carefully,
ACROSS THE CHANNEL
If you are new to computers and
music then using MIDI can be a little
traumatic, particularly when you are
just starting out. However, there's no
doubt that things will make more
sense if you know a little more about
how MIDI actually works. The MIDI
standard allows there to be sixteen
separate channels. These are
encoded within a special class of
MIDI messages, which are (perhaps
unsurprisingly) known as 'Channel
messages'. By setting each MIDI
instrument to a different channel it's
possible for them to be selective
about the messages they respond to.
At the highest level MIDI
recognises a whole range of other,
more general, system messages
(known as Real Time', 'Common',
and System Exclusive' messages).
In all cases the MIDI information is
sent using the digital equivalent of
an 8-bit binary number called a
'byte\ MIDI messages themselves
consist of one or more bytes that
can be regarded as being sent one
after the other. The first byte, called
the H status' byte, is always very
important because ft defines the type
of message being sent. Any trailing
bytes of a message, if they exist, are
known as 'data' bytes.
So T how does MIDI distinguish
between status bytes and data
bytes? it uses the uppermost bit of
each byte - status bytes always have
the high bit {bit 7) set, so these
numbers can range from decimal
12S to decimal 255 (10000000
binary to 11111111 binary). Data
bytes are therefore restricted to
values ranging from decimal 0 to
decimal 127 (00000000 binary to
01111111 binary).
For instance, Real Time
messages are all just one byte long -
so the status byte is the message
itself, Some example definitions are
shown in the table immediately
opposite on the facing page.
MESSAGE RECEIVED*,,
As an example of a typical channel
message here are some details of
the one that is used to turn notes
on, Three pieces of information are
usually sent when you press a note
on a MIDI keyboard - the 'note on'
status byte, the 'key number' (which
represents the note s pitch), and a
'note on velocity' byte. This latter
value represents the speed at which
the note was struck. Keyboards
without touch sensitivity usually
transmit a velocity value of 64 for all
notes played.
There are a great many other
MIDI messages available including a
whole range of general and
sounding. There is even a set of
mode control messages which define
a unit's response to MIDI voice
messages. On top of this, custom
messages known as 'System
Exclusive' (or 'Sysex') messages are
also available. With these only the
outside of the
information
packet is fixed -
the internal
contents are
specified by
whoever created
the message in
the first place.
So, now that
we know how
MIDI messages
are put together,
one question still
remains: when do
these messages
get transmitted?
Adjusting a control knob or pressing
a note on the keyboard will usually
what is going on as you play.
Sequencers are not at all interested
in the sounds being made - just the
MIDI messages. These can then be
stored, manipulated, and re-
transmitted, according to the rules
outlined in the MIDI standard.
Tf
Many MIDI editing functions can
be operated via the mouse
Mastering
The Musical Instrument Digital
Interface has revolutionised
computer music-making. Paul
Overaa explains its 'ins' and
'outs' - and its 'throughs'
99999
I !
Midi Chnlt
The MIDI editing screens of some sequencers can look quite spectacular
specialised controller messages. It
is, for example, possible to connect
or disconnect a synthesiser keyboard
from its sound generator circuits by
using certain local control
commands. A channel-specific panic
button' message is also available
that cancels all notes currently
cause streams of number-based
messages to be transmitted at the
MIDI OUT terminal.
SEQUENCE OF EVENTS
When you connect a sequencer into
a MIDI system it is able to 'read' all
of these MIDI messages and 'record'
It is not worth looking in detail at
all the messages defined in the MIDI
specification, as many of them will
make little sense until you've had
some hands-on experience with your
own equipment. The important thing
to remember is that whenever you
press a key on a keyboard, select a
program setting, or whatever, then
your actions may well be translated
into a MIDI message, I say 'may be'
because the MIDI standard does not
exactly specify what transmission or
reception facilities a particular piece
of equipment should have. Nor does
it specify the extent to which
individual pieces of MIDI equipment
should implement all the various
possible MIDI facilities. These can,
and often do, vary enormously from
synthesiser to synthesiser. You'll
just have to try them and see! ©
AMIGA SHOPPER * ISSUE 24 * APRIL 1993
VIDEO
What does the name
Adorage mean to
you? Not a lot f I
would suspect.
What if I tell you that the ADO part
is an acronym? Still doesn't ring a
bell? OK then, let me spell it out...
ADO was a term originally used
to describe an early video effects
device manufactured by Ampex - the
initials stand for Ampex Digital
Opticals', What it did was manipulate
a video image to provide effects such
as stretching, compression and so
on - effects which may seem crude
by today' s standards but which were
nevertheless a huge breakthrough
around 10 years ago when the
hardware was first unveiled. Now T in
the 1990s, we have processing
power many magnitudes above these
early machines and even the Amiga
has been recruited to flip and shatter
images all over the place. Hence
Adorage, a new software product
"Adorage was first
developed.,,
for a professional
TV studio"
developed by German company
Pro DAD t published by HS&Y and
distributed here by Micro-PACE UK.
Now, Adorage isn't the first
program to do special effects on
images - Aegis's AniMagic program
has been around for several years
and has proved that Amiga images
can be spun and peeled just like any
other, though with the penalty of long
processing times and not entirely
smooth playback. Nevertheless,
AniMagic was a flexible and usabie
program, if a little difficult to get to
grips with at first.
But that's the past, now it s back
to the present and Adorage. The thin
manual tells us that Adorage was
first developed as a custom program
for a professional TV studio to
Behind this simple user interface
lurks a host of features
provide fast processing of effects
and smooth, fast playback using its
own Super Smooth Animation (SSA)
format - which is at present
incompatible with any other software,
except the included Player utility.
However, you can save the images
as a sequence of IFF files which can
then be loaded into Deluxe Paint IV,
and played as an animation - though
the playback is noticeably jerkier
than when using SSA format.
HIGHLY EFFECTIVE
Setting the program up and using it
is pretty straightforward. First locate
your images - but
bear in mind that
Adorage will refuse
to use them unless
they are interlaced.
HAM, 24-bit and
HAM-8 are also
rejected, so you're
pretty limited in your
choice of input*
Fortunately, Adorage
does handle
overscan OK t so all
is not entirety lost.
And, although
Adorage can have both foreground
and background pictures in an
animation, they must have the same
resolution and, for the sake of image
integrity, identical colour palettes.
Next you must decide what effect
to use - from a choice of fourteen
main categories each with multiple
subchoices - and you're pretty much
in business. Adorage will then
ADORAGE EFFECTS
Here's a quick spin through
Adorage f s effects selection. And
remember « all of the effects
described have more than one {and
often many) variations.
9 Logo Diamond - a variety of
effects based on revealing and
concealing an image in
rectangular sections.
• Blinds - vertical and horizontal
'Venetian Blinds', with between
two and five slats each.
• Splinters - breaks the image into
variously-sized, shifting,
rectangular chunks.
© Fire - segments of the image fly
around in an explosion-like effect.
• Wild Diamond - uses random
squares (not in fact diamonds,
despite its name} to buikJ up a
screen picture.
• Spin - a set of circular wiping
effects which build images up
using wedges.
• Pixetlse - gradually reveals the
image from a chunky version of
itself by making the 'pixels 1
progressively smaller.
• Peel - simulates the effect of a
turning page. This effect is
available in either left- or right-
hand motion.
• Lines - uses horizontal or vertical
lines to build up the image.
A Pieces - a series of effects which
compress and expand images, or
build them up from several sliding
chunks.
# Scroll - scrolls the pfcture in from
all corners and edges of the
screen, with the additional choice
of bounce or deceleration.
# Windows - six wipes based on
rectangles.
• Wave - distort the images into a
wavelike transition onto screen
from any edge.
• Wind - splits the image into
small rectangles and 'blows' it
around the screen in four
different variations.
calculate the animation and store it
ready for playback. The first surprise
is how quickly an animation can be
rendered, although obviously this Es
governed by the type and length of
effect chosen, as well as the image
complexity and the speed of the
Amiga. The second surprise is that
SSA format really is smooth, both in
motion and visually, though obviously
how smooth the motion is depends
on the memory configuration of your
Amiga and the size of the animation,
since SSA anims are played back
from RAM,
The smoothness is obtained by
drawing the sequence of animation
frames as 'Half Frames' - which
might be best described as the
equivalent of one 'field' of video (you
might remember that two fields make
a standard frame 1 ). This results in
animations with less jagged edges
than normal, and with better
compression than regular Anim OP5
format files. Effects can be timed in
seconds or Half Frames, and can be
varied in length by adjusting the
program parameters.
BACK AND FORWARDS
But it doesn't stop there. One of the
nicer features of Adorage is its ability
to tag onto the last animation
sequence and seamlessly attach a
new one. This is where the In/Out'
gadgets come into their own, making
ft easy to reverse the motion of an
effect. This facilitates transitions
such as 'fly in' or explode out',
which can produce some very nice
sequences. Complicated
presentations can then be
accomplished by chaining several
sequences together.
AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 24 • APRIL 1993
VIDEO
This flexibility also allows the
selective deletion of separate
sections of the animation and the
possibility of changing the playback
speed of individual elements within a
sequence - something which is not
possible with, say, Deluxe Paint
An image can be clipped and only
the selected part affected, with the
added ability to move the effect
centre to a new screen position, And
each time a new sequence Is added
the last parameters can be re-used,
or new ones defined if required. This
repetition is very useful where the
same effects are used on a number
of images and saves a lot of setting-
up time.
STICK TO THE SCRIPTS
Another useful feature of Adorage is
its script function - which saves only
Adding a page-turning affect to your logo Is no problem with Adorage
All the rage
scripts together can produce a
complicated animation sequence
many megabytes long from files
which might otherwise take up less
than 500K P including images.
Scripts are also quite flexible,
since they can be modified after
loading to manipulate images other
than the ones they were designed to
control. So it might well be possible
to build a bank of custom effects 1
The Adorage package promises
smooth animations and
spectacular special effects, Gary
Whiteley prepares to be amazed
the details of one effects sequence,
each containing up to two effects.
This doesn't sound very exciting, but
for storage purposes it can be a
"only a script is
stored, rather than
a fully-rendered
animation"
huge space saver, since only a script
is stored, rather than a fully-rendered
animation. Of course, the animation
has to be re-rendered after loading
the script, so time could be a factor,
but - as ever - preparation is the
key. Chaining several individual
which can be called on as required,
modifying the image to fit the need.
LACK OF VARIETY
While there's no doubting that
Adorage can perform some clever
tricks and is generally fast, smooth,
stable and easy to use, it's a shame
that the images it uses have to be
limited to interlaced, non-HAM, IFFs.
A shame because this places
restrictions on output quality and
limits the applications of the program
- even including HAM would have
ooooooooo
SHOPPING LIST
Adorage .
by ProDAD/HS&Y
Distributed in UK by:
Mkro-PACEUKLtd, Unit 10,
Perth Trading Estate,
Perth Ave, V
Slough, SL1 4XX
w 0753 551 M
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Adorage will run on any Amiga with at least 1Mb of RAM and a hard disk.
3Mb ram (or more) and an accelerator are recommended, A genlock will
also be required for superimposing graphics over video.
been handy. Hopefully a later version
will have HAM-8 support.
Although there is quite a bit of
flexibility to Adorage I found some of
the effects to be a bit samey T but the
animation building and script
functions are very helpful. A little
more variety would be nice, possibly
in the form of a few user-
custom isable effects.
CHECKOUT
Adorage
Documentation if iOO
Slim and adequate, if sometimes oddly
worded and presented, which reflects its
German origins.
Features • • • • O
Repetitive effects but flexible or the
manipulation side.
Ease of use ••#•,.
Very easy to use.
Speed • • • • •
The processing and replay of SSA
animations is probably the fastest and
smoothest achieved on the Amiga,
Price Value
Perhaps a little high.
Overall rating ••••o
Obviously of limited appeal - video and
animation users looking for new effects
should check it out if they don't mind
interlaced, non-HAM, non-AG A images.
AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 24 # APRIL 1993
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VIDEO
With Y/C, composite
video, audio
connections and
software capabilities
Including AG A graphics and ARexx
support, G VP's new G-Lock would
appear to be priced as the ideal tool
for videomakers needing a good
quality, well-specified genlock. Let's
take a look and see if this is true.
Audio 1 j [ALdioZ [MhTui
Setup 1 1 [Setup 2 I Setup 9
The basic G-Lock control panels,
used for adjusting the parameters of
the video and audio signals
GETTING STARTED
G-Lock has an RGB connector at
each end, two composite video
inputs, two audio inputs, one (mono)
audio and one composite video
output and Y/C video in and out. It
has no knobs or buttons. CVBS and
Y/C inputs should not be connected
at the same time, though
all the outputs can be
used at once.
Connection is straightforward -
RGB from the Amiga, RGB to the
Amiga monitor, video and audio in,
video and audio out and a flying
cable to the joystick port. The G-Lock
takes all its power from the Amiga
and has no option for an externa]
PSU, which could place restrictions
on the use of other peripherals with
A500/A600 machines.
Couplings complete, I
booted up, fully
expecting to see a
gen locked image over
video. No way Jose!
The G-Lock isn't your
average genlock - it
requires a little extra to
get it going. So if s time
to run the software. From
floppy or hard drive the
procedure is the same -
activate the program called
GL and then be amazed as
nothing happens other than a
requester asking you to reboot or
cancel. That's right - it's necessary
to reboot the Amiga before G-Lock
will run, something which may
become a major irritant to the
average Amiga videographer without
a hard drive.
At last, we're ready to roll. Well
no, not quite. One final reload of the
GL software and up pops a control
panel. Clicking on the appropriate
source button locks in the video and
finally we can start work. Even if the
genlock isnt being used for video
work a video signal should still be
supplied, since the output quality
using the G-Lock 's interna! sync is
rather poor, Again, this might prove
inconvenient for some
people.
Two of the
'Advanced 1 control panels,
where more serious tweaks
can be made to the video signal
TAKING CONTROL
If the host Amiga has an AG A chip
set or ECS Denise then six different
control paneis are available, if not
there are only five. The basic two -
which are the default panels -
control video and audio respectively.
As you can see from the illustration,
the video panel has sliders to adjust
brightness, contrast, colour and
saturation, as well as buttons for
determining which output mix is sent
to the video recorder (from Amiga,
picture
The WIS Pro Agnus card
gives you 2Mb of Chip RAM
- for under £750. Gary
Whiteley puts it to the test
WTS's Pro Agnus Is a
plug-in card which can bring the
Chip RAM of Amiga 500, 1500 and
2000 models up to a mighty 2Mb
I had been contemplating upgrading
my Amiga 2000 to 2Mb of Chip RAM
for some time, and had almost
succumbed to buying a DKB
MegaChip. But then I saw WTS's
advert in Amiga Shopper for its 2Mb
Pro Agnus upgrade card - British
made and t at
£139, around
£60 cheaper
than the main
MegaChip competition.
What really swung me was that I
was fed up with not being able to
paint on a full hi-res screen with my
OpalVision card. Plus, multitasking
with DPaint was eating up a Jittle too
much vital graphics memory for my
liking. So, I plumped for the WTS.
Opening the box, I was initially
startled to find that three trailing
wires were soldered to the small
green circuit board which held the
2Mb Super Agnus and an extra
megabyte of Chip memory. I was
startled because these wires aren't
shown or mentioned in the adverts,
and neither is the need for a little
soldering, Still, nothing ventured, as
they say.,,
MAJOR SURGERY
The method of installation for an
Amiga 2000 (or 1500) first involves
taking the cover off the computer,
removing the power supply, and any
cards or other additions which may
impede installing the Pro Agnus card.
Then the first nasty part: pulling the
1Mb Agnus chip from its socket on
the Amiga's motherboard. Now, Tve
heard a few horror stories about
damage occurring at this stage,
(sockets being cracked and such
like) and I was extremely cautious as
external, overlay or inverse) and
which video input (from CVBS 1,
CVBS 2 and Y/C) to select. The
audio panel is simpler, with volume*
treble and bass controls. In addition,
both panels carry buttons which can
quickly change the setup parameters
by loading Preset values from disk.
However, you can't make real-
time control adjustments while
genlocking as the control panel has
to be on-screen - not an attractive
prospect during a video edit
The remaining control panels are
the 'Advanced' ones. The first two
are for adjusting some of the more
esoteric val ues of the video signal
via the Processing Amp built into
G-Lock. Small tweaks can be made
here in an attempt to get the best
out of your video signal.
The fourth advanced menu Is
probably the most important for
AG A/ ECS owners, as it lets you
determine either the bitplane T or the
actual colour which is used to key
the video through. Contrary to what
the manual implies, G-Lock does not
chroma key', Instead it keys
graphics over a selected colour,
rather than video over selected
graphics colours.
With no hardware controls, all
attempts at special effects have to
be done using ARexx commands. So T
you could use G-Lock as an
automatic colour splitter for digitisers
which have ARexx ports, or to fade to
black on one composite video source
I contemplated this part of the
proceedings. To avoid any damage
from static electricity I wore an
earthing wristband attached to a
central heating pipe. \ also wrapped
a large elastic band tightly around
the outside of the square Agnus
socket in the hope that it would add
a little extra strength to the fragile-
looking plastic item from which I was
about to prise the original Agnus.
Heart pumping wildly, I took a
small jeweller's screwdriver and very
carefully started levering the chip
from its socket - a little at a time on
opposite corners while trying to hold
the socket together. I used a
screwdriver because a chip-puller
isn't provided with the card, though I
gather that they aren't always that
handy in any case. After about two
minutes of gentle coaxing the Agnus
popped out and Tm glad to report
that no untoward damage had
occurred. The next thing to do was
plug the new circuit card into the
empty socket - probably the easiest
part of the whole process.
While I had been removing the
Agnus my soldering iron had been
warming up. The three trailing leads
had to be connected to the legs of a
couple of chips, including the 68000
CPU. Now, this worried me a bit I
£Q AMIGA SHOPPER * ISSUE 24 • APRIL 1993
VIDEO
and then fade up to the other.
However, it doesn't appear to be
possible to cross-fade between video
and graphics, which is quite an
important omission on a unit of this
cost. Mind you, the extensive use of
hot keys makes flipping between
different genlock modes and screens
quite easy, as long as you keep track
of where you are.
PICTURE PROBLEMS
Genlocking over composite video
produced quite smeary colours,
especially with the stronger reds and
blues - which invariably cause
trouble anyway - though Y/C
naturally fared somewhat better. A
worse problem is that G-Lock can't
handle fast tape searching and drops
the signal completely - a situation
which won't enamour it to those who
use just one monitor for viewing both
their source video and graphics.
I also had a lot of problems
using G-Lock with a G VP-accelerated
Amiga 2000. The manual claims that
this is due to a shortcoming of
Amiga DOS 2,0 when rebooting
accelerated machines, but surely
GVP could have at least got its own
act together here!
My other major gripe was that G-
Lock refuses to work with an
OpalVision-equipped Amiga (only the
complete removal of the Opal
hardware can overcome this), Now
this probably isn't GVP's fault, but
it's worth knowing about. C0
ooooooooo
SHOPPING LIST
G-Lock £349
By GVP
Distributed in the UK by:
Silica Systems,
1-4 The Mews r
Hatherley Road,
Sidcup,
Kent,
DA14 4DX
^ 081 309 1111
CHECKOUT
G-Lock
Documentation • • • • O
Good and generally informative.
Features • • • Q O
Scores well for inputs/outputs and
software controls for video, but poorly for
lack of graphics mixing control beyond key
on/ off and inverse.
Quality • • • • O
Reasonably good overall quality, so long
as the input video signal is up to scratch.
Suitable up to semi-pro use, at best.
Price Value •••CO
A little expensive, considering its lack of
external controls, Amiga/video fading and
unprofessional Phono connectors, but still
well-priced for a Y/C genlock.
Overall rating • • • •
Not a particularly outstanding genlock, but
certainly not the worst I've seen either.
Box of tricks
A consumer genlock is
the latest addition to
GVP's highly-respected
product range, Gary
Whiteley takes a peek at
the G-Lock
mean, soldering inside the machine
you make your living from isn't a
pleasant thought. Still, it was too
late to chicken out. Then I
remembered that I had one of those
spring loaded clips, as used in test
probes, lying around somewhere. So
I found it and fixed it to the wire
assigned for the CPU connection.
Then, after verifying the naming
convention for chip legs, I took a
Chinagraph pencil fa soft wax pencil
used for marking film) and counted
around the 6S000 chip until I found
pin 48. The flimsy instruction sheet
could make finding it a littie clearer,
though it s not too hard if you have
access to some basic electronics
handbooks.
So, instead of soldering onto the
CPU T I clipped the wire on. The other
two wires needed connecting to a
chip toward the rear of the Amiga, I
had no more spare clips, so here I
carefully soldered a couple of short
wire tags to the designated pins,
taking care not to linger too long with
the soldering iron lest I cooked either
the chip or motherboard. I then
soldered the remaining wires into
piece.
Actually, all went well and I soon
had the Amiga reassembled and
rigged up ready to go. Anticipating
success, I booted up. All looked fine.
I had two megabytes of Chip RAM
and ail its attendant advantages - no
more running out of display memory,
faster anim playback, smoother
scrolling displays, larger brush
pickups and bigger screen sizes. I
was happy.
TRIPLE TROUBLE
But only for a whiie. An intermittent
fault appeared which caused small
lines to appear randomly on any
graphics screens, spoiling any work I
was doing. I got a replacement - but
it crashed consistently in hi res mode
as a result of the extra Chip memory
being wrongly assembled. A third
replacement wouldn't work at all.
Finally WTS fitted yet another Pro
Agnus on its premises and I'm glad
to say that this time all worked
correctly. Perhaps I was really
unlucky, as the folks at WTS said
that they had never experienced
problems like this before.
WTS has since implemented a
policy of fitting the units for free
(excluding postage costs), so,
considering the delicate nature of the
operation, 1 would strongly advise you
to take advantage of the offer if you
don't mind losing your Amiga for a
few days.
A WORD OF CAUTION
There's no doubting the advantages
that Pro Agnus brings, but there is a
consideration you should bear in
mind before parting with your cash. It
is known that Pro Agnus won't work
alongside either Commodore 2630
cards or KCS A500 trapdoor
expansions.
There may well be other
configurations that will cause
problems, so before buying it's
probably best to check with WTS
first, and obtain written confirmation,
that Pro Agnus is compatible with
your particular system*
Two megabytes of Chip RAM are
a boon to the serious videographer,
so 1 imagine lots of you are
contemplating this expansion. All I
would advise is: get WTS to fit it!
OOCJOOOOOO
SHOPPING LIST
Pro Agnus 2Mb £139
From: WTS Electronics,
(haul End Lane,
Luton,
Beds LU4 8EZ
^ 0582 491949
CHECKOUT
Pro Agnus
Documentation • • • O O
To the point, and usabie, but more graphic
instruction on counting the chip pins
would be helpful,
Installation •••.GO
If you're happy doing your own fitting then
it's not such a difficult job - if you have
the right tools and temperament.
Otherwise it r s wiser to have it done for
you, especially now that WTS will do it for
free. The provision of spring clips instead
of having to solder would help
considerably.
Compatibility • • • • •
I had no trouble with any of the software I
regularly use - but I don't play games so I
can't comment on problems which might
occur there. Pro Agnus is transparent to
the system, so it's there every time you
boot up.
Price Value • • • • •
The price is very competitive.
Overall rating • •••o
Assuming you don't have any of the
trouble I did, then I would say that the
WT5 Pro Agnus represents good value. It
can be fitted to the A5O0. A1500 and
A2000 Amigas.
AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 24 • APRIL 1993
AMOS
I'd like to start this month by
quashing once and for all
some unusual rumours about
AMOS which have been
floating around various bulletin
boards over the past month or so.
These rumours, spread by certain
persons who shall remain nameless,
claim that AMOS Professional has
some serious bugs In it, a claim
which anyone who has used the
package will know is quite simply
not true.
One example of such a rumour
came from a user on the bulletin
board '01 For Amiga'. He claimed
that the serial extension in AMOS
Professional had so many bugs that
it didn't even work properly, OK, the
serial extension has had its
problems in the past, but Richard
Vanner at Europress has assured me
that it's now working perfectly.
have now been removed. And even if
further bugs do rear their ugly heads,
the chances of most users ever
encountering them is minimal. IVe
been pushing AMOS Pro to its
absolute limits for months now, and I
can safely say that f ve never even
seen 99% of the bugs that the
update removes]
DON'T PANIC
The moral of this story is a simple
one - if you think that you have
found a bug in AMOS, don't scream
your head off about it. This serves
only to scare other potential AMOS
users who - if they suddenly decide
that perhaps AMOS isn't worth
buying after all - will be robbed of
the rare computing experience that is
AMOS programming. Instead, check
thoroughly that the J bug + you have
found is actually what you think it is
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all the details on paper and post it to
Richard Vanner at Europress
Software. If the bug hasn't already
been addressed, he can pass on the
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should waste no time in getting hold
of the AMOS Pro update disk
details to Francois Lionet, who can
correct the bug for the next release
of AMOS. At the end of the day r we
will all end up with a better product!
PRO GOES INTUITION
Many users - including myself - have
been crying out for Intuition support
within AMOS for
AMOS has been criticised for its lack of support for Intuition, but all this
could change with the forthcoming release of an Intuition extension
Certainly in my (extensive)
experience of using the serial
extension, I've never discovered
anything amiss.
Apparently, there has only ever
been one real problem with the serial
extension, and this was on the
original update disk when the serial
extension was ffrst launched. Even
then, this wasn't a problem with the
extension itself, but with the version
of the Workbench 'serial. device'
driver included on the disk.
"In many ways,
AMOS Professional
is quite
exceptional"
In many ways, AMOS
Professional is quite exceptional -
considering its sheer size and
complexity, the amount of bugs that
the latest update disk removes
(more on this later) is minuscule. I'm
not trying to say that this update
nails every bug, but I'm sure most
(you'd be surprised how many people
think they've found a 'bog' that in
fact turns out to be a documented
feature of AMOS!). If you're still sure
that you've found something that
shouldn't be there, then write down
years now. At last,
it seems that
Europress has
finally bowed to
public pressure
with the news that
work has started
on an extension
that will allow
AMOS Pro users to
code applications
that take full advantage of the
Amiga's windowing environment
"Many users.,, have
been crying out for
Intuition support.,
for years now"
Many would-be applications
programmers have criticised AMOS
for its lack of Intuition support,
correctly pointing out that serious
applications must
run under Intuition
for them to be
acceptable as
commercial
products. Although
AMOS Pro will
multitask, its
hardware-based
screen handling
unfortunately
doesn't support
Intuition's multiple
screens option,
which allows several
screens to be
opened and
arranged from the
" Workbench.
When Europress finally launches
the extension, it will make AMOS Pro
a very attractive proposition for
applications programming, thanks to
its powerful 'Interface' language.
This allows complex user interfaces
to be created and managed under
interrupt (look out for a
comprehensive tutorial on AMOS
Pro's Interface language coming up
next month!).
Europress
" ■ - : ' would like to stress
that the extension
is still in the very
early stages of
development, so
don't expect to see
it on sale for a
couple of months
yet. Rest assured
that as soon as it
is released, I will
be bringing you a full review within
these pages.
AMOS ANSWERS
Having trouble with AMOS? Are your interface
routines not responding? Is your soundtrack silent?
Are your bobs refusing to budge? Whatever the
problem, Jason Holborn is here to sort it out
BOULDER BASH
I am writing an 'Asteroids' style
game on my Amiga 500 using Easy
AMOS. It is being written for my
GCSE Computer Studies project. I
am a bit stuck, so can you please
helpT Could you possibly give me a
couple of routines that will handle
the following:
a) Screen wrap-around. When
the ship disappears off one side of
the screen, I want It to reappear on
the opposite side.
b) Acceleration. When the player
pushes the Joystick In a particular
direction, the ship starts to slowly
accelerate.
c) Bob movement. How do I
make the ship move in the direction
that ft Is currently pointing?
Rhydian Lewis
Dursley, Glos
Well Rhydian, I'm afraid I don't really
have the space to publish complete
listings of the routines that you need,
and, since it's for your GCSE, you
should be probably writing the code
yourself anyway! However,. I can give
you some general guidelines that
should put you on the right lines.
Let's start with the screen wrap-
around routine. This is actually very
easy indeed to do. All you need to do
AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 24 • APRIL 19*3
AMOS
"the new 'test'
function runs
between 30 to
40% faster"
AMOS PRO UPDATED
Also no doubt in response to your
calls and letters, Europress has
released the first of many update
disks for AMOS Pro. As well as the
usual bug fixes, the update adds a
coupie of very useful features to
AMOS Professional. Although
Europress admits
that this is still
quite a minimal
update (support
for the new AG A
chip set screen
modes won't be
implemented until
the next one), the
enhancements
that the update
offers are well
worth having. You can obtain the
update from any good PD supplier,
Here's a quick run-down of all that's
on offer:
• 1200 Compatibility. Many users
encountered problems running AMOS
Pro from the Workbench on an Am iga
A1200. Although AMOS Pro loaded
fine when booted from its own disk,
AMOS Pro has now been fixed so
that it will run from Workbench
without problems, therefore making
the package usable on a hard disk-
based system*
• AMOS Pro file selector. The
AMOS Pro file selector was
considerably better than the original,
but Europress has enhanced it still
further with the addition of a couple
of extra features. For starters, the
file requester now fully multitasks,
so you can happily type in a filename
whilst the requester is scanning the
directory of a disk.
The 'Store 1 slider has been
enhanced too. No longer does it
is keep track of the X and Y co-
ordinates of the player's ship. When
either co-ordinate reaches a
maximum or minimum level, then it is
reset to the opposite figure.
Say, for example, the ship moved
off the screen to the right. The co-
ordinate would therefore be greater
than 320 (the width of a low
resolution screen), When this
happens, you would reset this co-
ordinate to 0 + To make this look more
convincing, it s probably a good idea
to open a screen larger than the
current viewmode will allow and then
limit the display to 320 by 256 (for a
PAL system) using the 4 Screen
Display' command.
Next we have your acceleration
routine. This is pretty simple too. You
just need a variable that defines the
speed of the player 1 s ship. When the
ship first starts moving in a particular
direction, set the speed variable to 1.
If the player then continues to push
simply display a random selection of
directories. Now, when you click on
the 'Store' gadget, you get a far
more helpful list of the directories
currently stored. You can then select
the one that you'd like to view,
simply by clicking on its entry. The
AMOS right mouse button trick has
been restored too -
^^^^^^^^ when you click the
right mouse button,
AMOS Pro will
display a device list.
Click again and you'll
get an 'Assign' list.
Click a third time
and you ll be
transported right
back to the original
directory listing.
The way filenames are entered
into the fife requester has also been
tidied up considerably. Instead of
having to split the full filename down
into a separate path and filename,
you can enter the full filename
complete with path information and
AMOS Pro will automatically split the
string down into the appropriate path
and filename strings. Another useful
extra is the addition of a very helpful
'file finder' facility, This marks any
files within the current directory that
fit a given wildcard combination.
• Improved text reader. If you'd like
to add a hypertext-based help system
to your own programs r you can do so
with the new, improved text reader
program. This can now handle text
files containing hypertext information
(see the section on AMOS Pro s
Interface Hypertext facilities for more
details), therefore making your help
files much more, well, helpful!
• Turbo-charged testing. The AMOS
Pro 'Test Program' facility has been
totally recoded to make it
considerably leaner and meaner.
According to AMOS programmer
Francois Lionet, the new test'
function runs between 30 to 40%
faster on a 68000-based Amiga,
And t as you might expect, on an
accelerated Amiga, the overall speed
is even more impressive. Although
you won't notice a great deal of
difference on smaller programs, the
speed increase will be more than
evident on larger projects.
# Configurable default screen-
Bored of the red lowres screen?
You'd prefer Workbench grey, Hires
interlaced and overscanned? No
problem - just set it to your heart's
desire using the new options in the
Interpreter Config.A MOS program.
• Improved monitor. Debugging a
program that continuously calls the
same procedure can be very, very
boring especially if you
1
Jason Holborn brings you all the
news on the latest AMOS
developments, including the very
first AMOS Pro update disk
Screen wrap-around, acceleration
and bobs: the three vital ingredients
of the classic Asteroids game
the joystick in that direction, increase
the speed variable by 1 until you
reach a maximum speed of, say, 5.
This speed variable would then be
used to dictate how
many pixels the bob
moves during every
frame. It really
couldn't be easier.
Finally, bob
movement. Once
again, the best way
of handling this is
to have a variable
that keeps track of
the direction that
the ship is pointing
in. I'd advise you to
limit the number of
directions to a
maximum of eight -
north, south, south-
east, north-east north-west, and so
on. You can then use the value held
within this variable to calculate which
direction the ship should move in. I
hope this helps!
continued on poge 64
are sure that the procedure in
question works fine. To make the
process of debugging such programs
considerably faster, the AMOS Pro
Monitor will no longer single step
through a closed procedure. Instead,
it will perform the closed procedure
at full speed and then return to
single step mode when the
procedure call returns you to the
main program. This feature is
particularly useful as it allows you to
isolate sections of code for
debugging. If you only want to debug
a particular procedure, you could
'close' all other procedures so that
the Monitor will ignore them.
YOUR PAGE NEEDS YOU!
By the time you read this, the first
few entries for my 'Your Page Needs
You 1 competition should have started
to arrive and E hope to print the best
'Star Field' and 'Infinite Bob' routines
in next month's issue. Keep those
entries coming and look out for more
coding problems next monthl
AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 24 • APRIL 1993
63
GAMES
PROGRAMMING
LISTING 1 • LISTING 1 • LISTING 1
PMMLM SCROLLING
Early last year we took a pretty in-
depth look at the art of scrolling
screens and their use in arcade
games such as the classic
Defender. As you may or may not
remember, the 4 dummy T game that
we based all this theory en had just
a single screen that scrolled at a
rate of 4 pixels per second in either
The Parallax Effect
different speeds. This technique is
called Parallax scrolling 1 .
Parallax scrolling is a very
simple, yet very effective, scrolling
technique that attempts to emulate
the way we see moving objects in the
real world. As your physics teacher
no doubt tried to drum into you back
in your school days, objects that are
moving at the same
speed will appear to
move past us at
different rates
depending upon how
far away we are from
them. If an object is
close to us, then it
will appear to move
past us at high
speed. If, on the
other hand, the
same object was to
move past us at a
greater distance, it
would appear to
move slowly. To
paraphrase Einstein,
it's all relative.
■ *** Parallatx Scrolling Demo 1
i *** using three Screens
1 *** Set up Amal instructions
A$= w Let X = 0: Let Rl — Q 11
A$=A$+ W A: Let Rl = Rl+1 "
A$=A$+" If Rl < 320 Jump B r "
A$-A$+" Let Rl = 0 "
A$-A$+"B: Pause ; Let X - Rl "
A$=A$+" Juirp A "
B$=" Let X = 0: Let Rl = 0 ■
B$=B$+"C: Let Rl = Rl+2 "
B$=B$+" If Rl < 320 Jump D ■
B$=B$+" Let Rl = 0 "
B$=B$+ ,T D; Pause ; Let X = Rl "
B$=B$+" Jump C "
* *** Main Program
Screen Open 0, 640, 19Q,32,Lowres
Flash Off : Curs Off
Screen Diaplay 0,128,50,320,240
Load Iff "SOURCE : BACK. IFF"
Screen Open 1 , 640, 40,16, Lowres
Flash Off ; Curs Off
Screen Display 1,128,237,320,
Load Iff "SOURCE: MID. IFF"
Screen Copy 1,0, 0,320,40 To 1,320,0
Screen Open 2, 640,20, 16, Lowres
Flash Off : Curs Off
Screen Display 2,128,274,320,
Load Iff 11 SOURCE: FORE. IFF"
Screen Copy 2,0,0,320,20 To 2,320,0
Channel 0 To Screen Offset 1
Channel 1 To Screen Offset 2
Amal 0, A$ : Amal 1,B$
Amal On
Wait Key
Even If they are moving at the same
speed, objects will appear to move
past us at different rates depending
upon the viewing distance
direction. If you managed to get the
code up and running for yourself ,
then I'm sure you'll agree that the
results looked highly impressive.
While our spaceship stayed in the
centre of the screen, the
background graphics scrolled past
smoothly under the expert control of
the Amiga's hardware scrolling
facility.
However, times change and
these days this sort of scrolling
backdrop is decidedly old hat. If
you're the proud owner of a game
like Star Ray or even Dave Jones'
rather aged (but still brilliant) hit
Menace, then you may have noticed
that the scrolling employed by these
games gives a far greater illusion of
depth. This is achieved by scrolling
certain sections of the screen at
AMOS ANSWERS (continued)
continued f rum page 63
CHEAT BUSTER
I am nearing completion of a board
game to which I would like add the
ability to load and save the current
positions, so that players can
continue playing over a period of
time. At the moment I am using a
simple sequential file to save the
contents of the different arrays and
variables, but the only problem with
this solution Is that it makes the file
easy to edit if the player should
wish to cheat.
Can you think of another
method that would make the file
unreadable to unauthorised users?
Jim Campoy
Brentford, Middlesex
I think the best way to tackle this
problem would be to use some form
of encryption. This could be handled
by a procedure which is catted each
time a variable needed encoding.
The encryption method is up to you.
Ycu could, for example, convert all
characters to ASCII values and then
add a given value to them. For
numbers, why not convert them to
characters? You'll obviously need to
keep very careful control over the file
format, but encryption will do the job.
BACK TO BASICS
I do not yet own an Amiga, but I
have read your magazine since the
very first issue and very much enjoy
it, especially the AMOS pages.
My problem Is that even though
your AMOS column has taught me
everything I know about AMOS, I'd
HELP! I NEED A H0LB0RN
Each month our AMOS genius in residence (yes, that's you, Jason - Ed.)
. answers your AMOS-f elated problems within these very pages. So if there's
any aspect of AMOS that is troubling you, no matter how large or small,
; get your letters off to Jason Hoi bom. Amiga Shopper, Future Publishing
•' Ltd, 30 Monmouth Street, Bath, Avon BA1 2NA.
AMIGA SHOPPER O ISSUE 24 • APRIL 1993
AMOS
LI
SCROLL FACTOR
We can emu fate this natural
phenomenon within games programs
by scrolling sections of the screen at
different speeds - a technique that
has been used to great effect within
many high speed arcade games. In
AMOS we're
quite spoilt for
choice, as this
language allows
us to achieve
pretty much the
same effect
using a variety
of different
techniques.
Possibly the
easiest method
of getting a
parallax
scrolling effect
is to use the
AMOS hardware
scrolling facility.
But, as any
experienced
AMOS programmer will know,
hardware scrolling is restricted to
scrolling whole screens only. This is
best demonstrated by the 'dummy'
shoot 'em up game that we
concentrated on last time around.
So, how do we achieve a parallax
effect using hardware scrolling? Well,
the solution is to split the viewing
area into several individual screens*
each of which can be scrolled
independently of the other.
FIELDS OF VIEW
Starting from the top of the screen,
we would open a large bitmap that
contained the background graphics in
the far distance (stars, planets, and
so on). Then below this we could
open up another screen that
contained another set of background
graphics. This time, though, the
like to learn even more so that when
I do finally buy an Amiga and AMOS,
I will be able to get stuck in straight
away. Can you therefore please tell
me where I could buy the AMOS
manual and any other books that will
help me?
P Law
Chesterfield, Derbyshire
Without wanting to sound immodest,
by far the best way to get hold of
AMOS and its associated
paraphernalia is through the mail
order pages of Amiga Shopper and
our sister magazine Amiga Format
Turn to page 89 to find out more!
As for books, the only two AMOS-
related tomes that I've seen are
Mastering Amiga AMOS from BSB
(see the review in last month's
issue I) and the brilliant Amiga Game
Maker's Manual from Sigma
Publishing. Both should be available
from your local bookstore.
graphics would scroll at a slow rate
(1 pixel per frame t for example).
Next, we need another screen
containing the foreground graphics
(those closest to us). Once again,
this screen would also scroll, but at
a slightly faster rate {2 pixels per
screen l 11 pixel per frame!
suiitENZ iz pixels per frame!
A quick and easy method of
producing a parallax effect: scrolling
three or more separate screens at
different rates under AMAL
frame). If you then combine these
three screens and scrolled the last
two, a primitive sort of parallax effect
could be achieved.
However, there are two problems
with this approach. Because we're
using three separate screens, a
visible line can be seen between
each. It's therefore a good idea to
restrict the colours used at the top
and bottom of each of these screens
to darker shades that blend in with
the black dividing line that the Amiga
produces. Secondly, any bobs that
you use are restricted to a single
screen, so it's a good idea to make
sure that the main play area (or
areas) are big enough to distract the
player's attention from this otherwise
rather serious limitation.
As an example of this parallax
effect in action, have a go at the
straightforward example program
shown in Listing 1. As you can see
from the start of the program, the
process of scrolling the last two
screens is handled by Ama1 f
therefore leaving AMOS to get on
with the more important task of
running your game. The program
requires three IFF picture files to
work - One 32-colour backdrop
image (stars and planets and such)
and two 16-colour images for the
screens that are scrolled.
IT'S PLAYTIME
Potentially the most powerful method
of producing a parallax scrolling
effect is the 'Dual Playfield*
command. This enables you to
overlay one screen on top of another
to create a dual playfield display.
What s more, the background colour
of the screen in front is 'masked
out', allowing the graphics displayed
on the second screen to show
through the gaps.
This may sound like just what we
need, but the bad news is that dual
playfield displays also have their
limitations. One is the number of
colours that each screen can use.
Because you're effectively combining
two screens into one. the Amiga's
hardware only allows a maximum of
sixteen colours to be displayed on
each in low resolution (this drops
down to eight in medium and high
resolution screen modes). What's
more, both screens must be of
exactly the same resolution. You
cannot, thereto re t have a medium
resolution screen displayed on top of
a low resolution screen.
However, because we're
effectively working with two
independent screens, the two
screens that you use don't have to
be the same size. You could, for
example, have one that is 320 pixels
wide and another that is 640 pixels
wide. As long as both are opened in
XOWRES' or 'HIRES 1 mode, AMOS is
kept happy.
Problems do occur when scrolling
a dual playfield display though,
especially when using the 'Screen
Offset' command. Even opening a
dual playfield display can produce
weird effects, so don't think that
you've done something wrong if your
dual playfield display produces weird
results. Listing 2 demonstrates how
easy this function is to use, so give it
a try and see!
LISTING 2 • LISTING 2 • LISTING 2
i ##* Parallax Demo 1
i *** UBes Dual Playfield Mode
Screen Open 0, 640,70, 4, Lowres
Screen Open 1, 640, 70,4, Lowres
Screen Display 0,128,150,320,70
Screen Display 1, 128, 150,320,70
Wait Vbl
Dual Playfield 0,1
i *** Tjoad in 2x 320 by 70 2 -colour bitmaps
1 *** and then copy them into tn© second half
i *** of the screen.
* Screen 0 : Load Iff " SOURCE : FORE . IFF ■
Screen Copy 0,0, 0,320,70 To 0,320,0
■Screen 1 : Load Iff "SOURCE! BACK, IFF"
Screen Copy 1,0,0,320,70 To 1,320,0
X1=0 : X2^0
Repeat
X1=X1-1
X2-X2+1
Wait Vbl
Screen Offset 0,X1,0
Screen Offset 1,X2,Q
If XI =0 Then Xl=320
If X2=320 Then X2=0
Until Inkey$o w "
Screen Close 0
Screen Close 1
NEXT MONTH
Next month's AMOS Action section will be even more exciting than this
month's (assuming that such a state of affairs is actually possible). Not
only will I be bringing you a comprehensive tutorial on how to use AMOS
Pro's Interface language, but you can also look forward to more of the
exciting news and features that have made AMOS Action such a big
favourite with AMOS users worldwide. So, I'll bid you farewell until next
time, and remind you to keep on programming with AMOS - it's the tops!
AMIGA SHOPPER # ISSUE 24 • APRIL 1993
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AMIGADOS
If you're quite new to the
Amiga, you may well be
wondering what lies beyond
the confines of the Workbench:
In other words, what is this
mysterious thing called
'Amiga DOS'? Workbench is central
to the Amiga's function - but
there's a wealth of software out in
the public domain {as demonstrated
by our regular 'Software for Free'
feature) which is just not designed
to work from Workbench.
It is possible to get limited
access to such software (in
Workbench 2 and higher) by
selecting 'Show Air from the menu,
and double-clicking the program's
icon, but many programs require
parameters and, unless you know
what those are, you're often no
better off* Mastering at least the
rudiments of the Shell is of
paramount importance if you are to
get the most satisfaction from using
your machine. Over the next couple
of months, l h m therefore going right
back to basics, with no apologies for
any experienced Amiga DO Ssers who
had to start at the beginning too.
(They'll find a special Expert's
section at the bottom of this page.)
WHOSE COMMAND
LINE IS IT ANYWAY?
Amiga DOS is based around a
command line interpreter. Many
computer owners will have never
encountered anything quite like this
before, as 'graphic interfaces' have
become the accepted method of
communicating with a machine. Even
some programming languages are
largely based around graphic
displays nowadays.
However, it is often easier and
faster to communicate your exact
intentions by spelling out exactly
what you want to do. With this power
comes responsibility and, just as
careless talk costs lives, a slight
error in the written command can
spell potential disaster.
So, before doing anything, make
a copy of your working Workbench
disk (the one you made when you got
the machine). Keep this copy disk for
on which version of Workbench you
are using. If you have Workbench 2
or higher, you might prefer to 'Leave
Out 1 this icon and 'Snapshot 1 it on
the main Workbench screen for
convenient access.
FIRST PRINCIPLES
The origins of the name 'Shell' are
as vague as an insanity plea, but in
essence it is really just an enhanced
command line processor. So, the key
JARGON BUSTING • JARGON BUSTING
Construct - This is a wild bit of jargon that crops up all the time, and is a
contraction of the phrase: control structure. A control structure is
anything which affects the flow of a program, and therefore include
things like loops and decisions. The beginning of a control structure is
catted an 'opening 1 and the ending is a 'closure 1 . Therefore we can both
'open' and 'close' a construct - easy isn't it?
DOS - An acronym standing for Disk (or Device) Operating System'.
tinkering with Amiga DOS commands
until you feel at home with the
system and what it is capable of.
Always use your original disks as
masters and keep at least one set of
everyday working disks. In that way,
you won t accidentally damage a
usable Workbench disk and end up
virtually unable to use your machine.
Now place the copy of your
working Workbench disk in the
internal drive and reset the machine
- you can do this using either the
power switch or, preferably, the reset
combination Ctrl- Amiga- Amiga.
When the Workbench screen
appears, open the Workbench disk
and locate the icon marked 'Shell' -
it could be in the main window or the
drawer marked 'System', depending
question here is this: what exactly is
a 'command line' - and why does it
need processing?
To answer this, you have to think
in fairly simple terms: computers,
after all, are quite dumb animals.
The Shell works with command lines
- instructions. Consider what you
might say to a puppy in training:
"Sit!", "Fetch!" or "Not on the
rug,..". A command line is just a
sentence and the language is
AmigaDOS, The command-line
processor breaks your sentence into
little chunks and passes it to
AmigaDOS - so punctuation is very
important here.
At a more technical level, what
really happens is this: the Shell
reads the first word of the sentence
m
A
S» START HERE!
and assumes that it is the
command, Any words after that are
handled by the command program -
the so-called 'arguments' you will
read about. Some commands need
no arguments, others require
several, and more still can have
optional ones. So, a short summary
of command fine components would
look something like this:
Command: What to do.
Arguments: What to do it with.
Options: How to do it.
G i ve n this k n o w ledge y o u can
consider how you might ask
someone to make a cup of tea:
>Put the kettle on.
to which they may repiy:
>You expect ME to get into THAT?
Certain aspects of AmigaDOS are
context sensitive, or t in Other words,
some commands take their
arguments by implication and guess
what you mean. This remarkably
useful facility isn't anything like as
complex as it sounds, as the
previous example proves. Here, the
instruction PUT (ON) can mean
either 'wear 1 or switch' - depending
on the context in which it was
offered, More importantly, this
simple sentence demonstrates
command line parsing in action.
The verb Tut' could have been
an AmigaDOS command, while 'the 1
is similar to an AmigaDOS keyword
with the argument noun Kettle 1 . 'On 1
is directly analogous to an
AmigaDOS command line switch. In
of each colour code on the three
bands (the value for 'tolerance 1 is
optional) and AmigaDOS works out
the resistance.
You can, of course, enter the full
name of any colour - but this
If you've ever dabbled in the
world of electronics, you'll know
that one of the most tricky things
to get to grips with is the resistor
colour code. Resistors are
manufactured using a set of
'preferred values', which are marked
on the body of the component using
coloured bands. This month's script
will decode any given set of colours
and return the component's value.
The script Is designed to handle
three-band resistors, and can
recognise values across the range
of 0.01 Ohms to 990M, with
tolerances from 0.1 to 20 per cent.
Even if electronics is not your
thing, this script makes use of some
obscure, but powerful, features
found in AmigaDOS versions 2 and
above. Not everybody knows about
these , but they can be surprisingly
useful. Just take a look at Step 23
and the description of what it does,
and you'll see what I mean.
ENTERING THE DATA FILE
As well as the usual script, this
month you will also need to enter a
special data file. Each line consists
of a number, two spaces, a special
string, one or more padding spaces,
a colour, one or more padding
spaces and the to Sera nee. The grid at
the top is provided as a guide and
need not be entered (it doesn't affect
the script one bit). Incidentally, tlie
traditional tolerance band for 20 per
If the data file isn't entered properly,
then the calculated resistances
won't be correct either
cent tolerance is Salmon or Pink.
You may like to adapt the data file to
include this if you work with old
radios, TVs or other appliances.
Using 'Rescalc' is very simple;
you simply enter the first few letters
requires more effort. For instance:
1>RESCALC Black Brown Red
is the same as:
1>RESGALC Bl Br Re
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AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 24 # APRIL 1993
A M I G A D O S
Amiga DOS jargon, this command's
synopsis would read;
PUT [THE=<ltem>] [ON]
The item could be any kitchen
implement: Kettle, Dishwasher, or
whatever. The command s template
would look like this:
PUT THE/K, ON/S
Don't worry too much if none of
this means much to you at this stage
- you'll soon pick it up.
A lot of this series concentrates
on AmigaDOS command scripts, also
known as programs'. These may
sound complicated too, but in fact a
script is merely a sequence of
AmigaDOS commands. Let's say you
had a script called MAKE which was
designed to make tea or coffee.
Let's also assume that the command
PUT was actually more powerful and
had another option, IN, like this:
PUT [THE=<item>]
[IN=<container>] [ON]
and the program has the arguments:
MAKE <DRINK> [MILK] [SUGAR]
Now we have the following
pseudo-code for the MAKE script,
(The angle brackets show
where a value will be substituted
from the command line.)
DRINK/A. MILK/S, SUGAR/S
PUT the Kettle ON
PUT the <DRINK> In CUP
PUT the <MILK> In CUP
PUT the <SUGAR> In CUP
HOW IT WORKS
1. Defines the argument template for
this script. Note that the tolerance
setting is optional.
2-3. Redefine bra and ket to my
favourite values.
4. Sets a default value for the
tolerance band. This is optional and
does not need to be entered when
the script is executed.
5. Sets the global environmental
variable, OK P to 0.
6. Locates the first colour code in
the colourcodes file and stores the
entire line in the global variable F.
Note use of the nonum option to
suppress line numbers. For instance,
if the first colour was Brown, the
variable would contain:
1 $A$B**0R Brown 1%
7. Takes the local variable RC and
adds it to the global OK. RC is a
PUT the <WATER> in CUP
SAY "<DRlNK> T s made!"
This code is not very dissimilar
from a real AmigaDOS command
script. AEthough the commands are
made up, many real scripts look just
like this - provided you know what
the commands do, you can read
many of them just as easily,
A PRACTICAL SESSION
Now, double-click on the 'Shell 1 icon
- an operation usually referred to as
'opening a Shell". Notice that
there's an arrow at the top of the
screen - this is called a prompt, and
since the default prompt varies from
system-to-system, I have adopted a
very simple one for this series. When
you are required to enter something,
the prompt {it may read "l.SYS>" on
your system) is shown as;
1>
It goes almost without saying
that when you are typing En
commands there is no need to enter
this prompt as well.
To get you started, here's an
AmigaDOS command you have used
many times without even realising it:
LIST. In its most basic context LIST
is the AmigaDOS version of opening
a drawer and looking at the contents
inside. Enter this now:
1>LIST
Did you press Return at the end
of the line? That's the big stab-like
key at the right-hand side of the
keyboard, If you have any model of
Amiga except the A600, you can
private AmigaDOS process variable
which can be read from but not
written to; in fact, it's the return
code from the last command: 0, 5,
13. The first character of the line
held in F is read and stored in A*
This is the number represented by
the first colour code. For instance,
Brown^l. {Unlike Steps 9 and ll f a
press the Enter key on the numeric
pad instead. If everything goes
according to plan your disk drive will
start up and a long list of information
will start rolling up the screen. Wait
until the listing stops and enter the
command again, like this:
l>list
Notice any difference? There
shouldn't be any - AmigaDOS is not
repeat of Step 7 fs not used here.
Don't worry - the reasons for this will
be explained shortly.)
14. The first character held in S is
read and stored in B. This is the
second colour band.
15. A special string is read from the
line held in M, based on the
case sensitive', and does not make
any distinction between capital and
lower-case (small) letters.
More importantly here,
AmigaDOS is being context sensitive
with respect to this command. You
have clearly asked it to list
something, but have not been
explicit regarding what you wanted a
list of. When you first open a Shell
from AmigaDOS you are at the root of
a tree - the same as if you had just
multiplier. For instance if the
multiplier is Yellow, the variable gets:
$A$B**0K.
17. If the number held in A is equal
to 0, control continues at Step IS,
otherwise it jumps to 19.
18, A is reset to an empty string.
conMnufid over the page
10 or 20. The significance of this
operation {which is not possible in
AmigaDOS 1.3) will be seen later.
S* Locates the second colour code
and stores the line in the global
variable S.
9. See Step 7.
10. Finds the multiplier and sends
that to the global M.
11. See Step 7.
12. Finally gets the (optional)
tolerance colour and stores that in
the global variable T.
16. Finally, the tolerance band colour
is used to determine the tolerance
string. This final value is
stored in D.
Herez we are ""^-^-^
editing the main program
during the latter development phase
Whether you're a beginner, an
expert, or somewhere in-
between, there's something for
you in this month's AmigaDOS
column. Mark Smiddy explains
AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 24 • APRIL 1993
AMIGAD OS
opened the Workbench disk (The
drawers on your Workbench disk are
called 'directories' in AmigaDOS and
each Workbench drawer has an
Amiga DOS directory associated with
it - but not the other way around.)
By entering LIST in this way you
have listed the contents of the
current directory. Amiga DOS has a
command to show and change the
current directory which is also
context sensitive. If you give the
command on its own, it returns the
current directory; if you supply a valid
directory name, AmigaDOS will start
pointing to that directory. Try this:
1>€D
Workbench :
The name returned by CD will be
the name of your Workbench disk -
not necessarily the one shown here.
Now try this:
1>CD C
1>UST
On some systems the prompt will
change to reflect the change: just
ignore that for now. This time you get
a long list of different names - that's
because you have now entered the
AmigaDOS command directory. Wait
for the listing to finish and start it
again, only this time press the space
bar as the top of the list reaches the
window. This pauses the listing -
press the backspace key to start it
again. If you look carefully at the list
of files you will notice LIST in among
them. It's tricky to spot, as this
listing is all mixed up - to get a
sorted list T use the following instead;
1>DXR
The Workbench disk you start the
machine from also has a special
name, SYS:, (Note the use of a colon
after the name - this means
something to AmigaDOS and must
be entered where required.) So, you
can always get back to where you
started by entering this:
1>CD sys:
The context sensitivity of
AmigaDOS commands means you
often have to specify exactly what
you mean, For instance, if you want
to get a listing of just the directories
in the current directory, you have to
tell AmigaDOS to:
1>DIR dies
Alternatively, you could just get a
list of the files by entering:
1>DIK FIIiES
However, entering both options
is the same as entering none at all -
DIRS and FILES means directories
IP
dWFJfiVJt hJ^t *****
Resistance is
useful! Here you can see
the resistor calculator in action
and files. There goes that context
sensitivity again. Try itl
So how do you know which
command to use and where? Well,
the simple answer is that there Is no
better teacher than experience.
However, few people could ever
expect to learn every command
inside out, so to avoid having to look
in a manual every five minutes,
AmigaDOS provides a useful aide-
memoire. Enter this:
1>dir ?
and, hey presto, AmigaDOS spits out
all the options available for that
command. At this stage you probably
won't have the first idea what any of
those mean, but you might like to try
experimenting with them to see what
happens. Provided
you always work on a copy of
your working Workbench disk -
nothing you do can possibly cause
any harm* Alternativeiy, you might
like to try entering and using this
month's 'expert' script. To enter the
script proper and its associated data
file you need to type this:
1>ED S : RESCALC
eventually followed by:
1>ED S:Colourcodee
Press Esc and X to finish editing
and the following to start the script:
1>EXECUTE S: RESCALC Brown J
Black Red CD
continued front the preceding pdge
19. Closes the if...endif construct
opened at 17,
20. Checks if the value held in OK is
equal to 0 and if it is ( control jumps
to Step 22. As promised, all can now
be revealed about this variable. As
you may recall, OK is initialised to 0
at the start of the program and in
Steps 7 P 9 and 11 the return code
from the previous command is added
to it. This return code is generated by
search and will be 0 provided that
the colour supplied can be found in
the file coloureodes.
if the colour is not found then a
warn condition (RC=5) is generated
and added to OK. At this point the
value in OK indicates if one or more
colours were missing - thus avoiding
testing for the warn condition in three
separate places, it could be done in
this other way, but it slows the script
down unnecessarily. The tolerance
setting is not included (it would have
been at Step 13) because the
parameter is optional,
21. Displays an error message to
explain the colour code was not valid.
22. If control reaches here from 21 r
it jumps to 24, otherwise it continues
at 23.
23. Of all the things I have done with
AmigaDOS this has got to be among
the most bizarre, so do bear with me
while I explain.
This deceptively simpfe line
actually does several jobs in one fell
swoop, and eventually ends up
printing out the resistor's value. The
embedded echo statement is
executed as the line is displayed
because it is enclosed in reverse
apostrophes (*).
You can see this in action with
the following example:
ECHO "The date is: 'date" "
However, in our resistor
calculator script, echo is also
retrieving the value of a second
variable 0. The contents of C are the
special string described above for the
multiplier, so they might be
something like $A$B**0K.
Now, since this string contains
items which are variables in their own
right, their contents are displayed
instead! Two asterix characters
provide non-printing space between
the variables and the remainder of
the string, which would otherwise
confuse the variable parser. In other
words, if A=4 and B-7 then:
ECHO $c
gives the desired result:
470K
24. Rounds off the script by closing
the If... else.. .end If construct opened
in Step 20.
LISTING • LISTING • LISTING • LISTING • LISTING
1. .key First/a, Second/a, Multiplier/a, Tolerance
2. .bra {
3. .ket }
4. .def tolerance "x"
5. setenv OK 0
6. search >EHV:F s : colourcodes {first} nonum
7. eval $RC+$OK to ENV:OK
8. search >WV*S b : colour codes {second} nonum
9* eval $RC+$0K to ENV;OK
10. search >ENV:M s : colourcodes {multiplier} nonum
11. eval SRC+SOK to BNVsOK
12. search >ENV:T a : colourcodes {tolerance} nonum
13. echo >envtA "$F M f irst-1 len=l
14. echo >env:B n $S" first^l len=l
15. echo >env:C ,r $M n first=3 len=9
16. echo >env:D "ST 1 " first=20
17. if val $A EQ 0
IB . setenv k ""
19. andif
20. if val $OK NOT EQ 0
21. echo "Unknown code: {First} {second}
{Multiplier} ■
22. else
23 . echo "Resistor is:
24 . endif
x echo $c* ($D) "
Si Colour codes - numbers MUST be entered
V V
$A$B**R Black
$A$B+*0R Brown
5a**jc$b Red
$ A$B* *K Orange
SA$B**QK Yellow
$A**M$B Green
$A$B**0M Blue
$A$B**00MViolet
$A$B Grey
$A$B white
$A**R$B Gold
0R$A$B Silver
?????? None
V
????%
1%
2%
????%
?? ? ?%
0.5%
0.25%
0.1%
????%
????%
5%
10%
20%
AMIGA SHOPPER » ISSUE 24 • APRIL 1 993
CIX stands for the
Compullnk Information
exchange. It also stands
for the biggest, busiest,
and best computer conferencing
system In the UK. CIX enables you
to hold conversations without the
usual constraints you would find in
the real world - constraints such as
lime, distance, or whatever. This
means you can join in a
conversation on any subject that
Interests you, at any time of day or
night, from anywhere in the world,
and with any number of other
people. Using CIX, I could ask a
question on a very specialised
subject, and receive answers from
people I would never otherwise
meet. It's a gateway into a virtual
community, a voyage by computer
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think It's great.
But that
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you to send
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anywhere in the
world. It is also
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binary files (programs
and such like) to other
CIX users using the
Binary Mail' feature,
Talking of files, CIX has over 50
Gigabytes of on-line storage (yes,
that's 50 Gigabytes) from which you
can download files. Unlike most
bulletin board systems, there are no
restrictions on the number of
downloads you can make. Many files
appear on CIX before anywhere else
(by virtue of the authors being CIX
users) and are sometimes exclusive
to the system.
If you read my article in Amiga
Shopper issue 22 (and if not then
where were you?), you will know that
CIX also now has a full Internet
gateway, which you can make use of
for no extra charge. This gives you
access to the hundreds of thousands
of sites around the world that are
connected to the Internet,
And, to top it all, you can send a
fax from CIX just as easily as
sending a mail message, I have used
this facility on many occasions, and
very useful it is too.
TALK IS CHEAP
Of course, there is a price to be paid
for all these services, but thanks to
CIX and Amiga Shopper, you can now
become a registered CIX user for
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OK, so let's assume that you've
just become a member of CIX T and
are now wondering just what to do
next. Well, you could do worse than
to take some advice from a guy who
posted over 50,000 messages on
CIX last year - me, Dave Winder,
perhaps better known on CIX as
'Wavey Davey'. Ready now everybody
- let's follow the Wavey Davey Guide!
ON AND OFF AGAIN
We'll deal with the most important
things first, and probably the most
important of all is looking after your
bank account. Even though Amiga
Shopper has already saved you £25,
CIX still costs money to use (see the
box over the page for details of
charges), To save
money,
The Nicola OLR in action,
reading the amiga' conference,
sending mail to waspy@cix, and checking up
on all the current participants of the 'amiga' conference
0gf yQygfl
i
The Lucy OLR in
action. It seems someone is
trying to find out all about me,..
both in terms of on-line charges and
the phone bill, you need some
method of being able to connect to
CIX, grab everything you want T
download it and then do all the time-
consuming stuff such as reading and
replying off-iine. Is this asking too
much? Not at all What you need is
an h Qff-Line Reader', hereafter known
as an OLR. There are two main OLRs
available for the Amiga, so get
yourself one of them. In fact, for
starters I would advise you to get
both and see which you prefer, as
these things tend to be a very
personal choice.
The first of the super OLRs for
the Amiga is called 'Nicola' and was
written by Richard Harrison
(tricky@cix). This is the one I use and
you can get it as nicolalha from the
nicola conference, in the files topic.
The second is called Lucy' and
was written by Amiga Shopper's very
o w n p rag ra m m i ng g u rt i T o by S i m pso n
(toby@>cix). You should be able to get
this from the lucy.olr conference on
CIX, although I cannot give you the
filename as it has not been officially
released as I am writing this column.
Toby assured me that it would be
available by the time you read this.
This month, a very
special offer: free
registration to the CIX
conferencing system, Dave Winder
shows how to make the most of
this amazing opportunity
Both of these programs will save
you a lot of money, and I really mean
that So take your Uncle Wavey 's
advice and make sure you download
them straight away. Not sure how to
download a file? Don't worry - all will
be explained,
YOU MAY CONFER
CIX operates by being divided into
'conferences', each of which
represents an area of interest. In
this example I will be using the
'amiga' conference. Each conference
is then further divided into areas of
more specific interest, Known as
'topics'. In CIX shorthand the
"3listings' topic of the amiga'
conference would be written as
'amiga/3listings\ The '3' prefix on
the listings' topic merely denotes
that there have been two other
listings topics which have been filled
to capacity with Amiga program files.
To join a conference you use the join
command from the main prompt So
to join the 'amiga 1 conference you
would type Join amiga.
When first joining conferences
you will find that you will
automatically get a lot of old
messages. This is because there is
a default which gives you the last
100 messages in each topic of each
conference you join. Thts can be
rather excessive, especially when
you are just starting to dip your toes
in the water. If you are using one of
the OLRs then you can easily reset
this default from within the program.
For example, using Nicola you would
just alter the 'auto recent messages 1
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COMMS
box in the 'crx settings' section of
preferences. You can also do this
while on-line by altering your profile.
If you are not going to be using an
OLR then mail me at CIX, and I'll
explain the procedure.
NO CIX - NO COMMENT
If you are reading a message and
want to reply to it then you will need
the comment command. Just type
comment after reading the text, and
Whichever method you are using, you
will need to type a full stop V on a
separate line to let CIX know you
have finished, then type send at the
action' prompt.
Some topics contains files -
4 amiga/3listings\ for instance. Just
type flist and a listing of all files will
pop up on your screen, all ready for
you to download.
As an example of downloading
files I will tell you how to get hold of
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Connection rates: off-peak peak monthly minimum
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Fax machine billing: UK
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European
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extra pages 45p
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£1.75 first page
extra pages £1,25
Peak time is Monday - Friday, 08:00 to 17:00.
It is the logon time that determines whether a call is peak or cheap.
(All prices are excluding VAT).
you will be prompted to [eave a
message of your own. By
commenting, your message will be
marked as being in response to that
particular message, thus making it
easier to follow the flow of a
conversation (known as a thread' in
CIX terms). If you have something to
say which isn't connected to another
message, use the say command
instead.
FREE
the off-line reader program Nicola
(but rt could just as easily be Lucy}.
First of all you will need to join the
nicola' conference, and when asked
which topic you want reply files. By
the way, you can use the switch
command while within a conference
to change topics. Now you should be
in nicola/fiJes so type flist to display
the files listing. The file you want is
called nicoiaJha, so to download it
you should use the file
download command
Ml, which tells CIX you want a file.
Type fell nlcola.lha to start
downloading the OLR. Once the file
is downloaded you will need to
unarchive it, which you can do using
the LhA program, as provided on last
month's Amiga Shopper cover disk.
So, by now you should be able to
join conferences, post messages,
and download files. Something else
you will want to do, no doubt, is post
confidential mail messages. Wavey s
Guide will show you how, and as a
test you could send some mail to
me, letting me know you have taken
up the Amiga Shopper offer and have
arrived safely.
CATCHING THE POST
At the main prompt, you must first
type mail to get into the mail system.
Then type send, which will generate a
prompt asking who you want to send
the mail to. in this example it is me,
so respond with dwrndera* You will
then be asked for a subject title - I
would suggest Amiga Shopper 1 .
Then type in your message, and
when you are finished type a full stop
V on a new line.
If you type status at the mail
prompt you will be shown the
contents of both your 'in r and out'
baskets. The fact you have sent mail
should be shown here - you will see
who you sent the mail to as well as
the mail number, the date and the
subject. There wil) also be a full stop
showing that the mail has been sent
but not read. As soon as I have read
it this full stop will change to an J R\
If you are sending mail to someone
outside CIX there is no way of
knowing if it has been read or not
from within CIX, and the full stop will
be replaced with an X.
JOINING UP
There's a wide choice of conferences
on CIX, but the following are bound
to be of particular interest to you.
Join the amigashopper 1 conference
and you will be able to leave
feedback for us about the magazine,
send us letters, and of course speak
to our Editor, Cliff. Also make sure
you join the 'amiga* conference for
everything you need to know about
the Amiga - and more. All the
experts are there , including most of
the Amiga Shopper Answers Panel,
along with hundreds of free files for
you to download.
To find out what else you may
want to join, you need to look at the
conference list. To do this first make
sure you have set your comms
software to 'capture' (so you can
read it off-line) and then type show
all at the main prompt. You will be
shown many pages listing all the
public conferences on CIX, together
with a short description of each.
Don't worry if you find this ail a
bit confusing - you will soon get
accustomed to it. And remember that
I am here to help - just send me
mail on CIX and I will help with your
problems wherever possible. Hi aiso
be covering CIX- related matters in a
regular section of this column,
including interesting conf ere nces ,
internet use, and much more. So
watch this spacei CD
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talking telephone
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screen has all the lines you'll need
To take advantage of this special
offer, follow these instructions:
Set the parameters in your
communications software to 8 data
bits, no parity, 1 stop bit (^8N1). Set
your modem to the fastest speed it
will support - CJX supports speeds
up to v32bis.
Dial CIX on * 081 390 1244,
Once you're connected to CIX follow
the prompts you are given, as
follows. Note that words in bold (like
this: wibbie) are the responses you
should type in.
The first prompt you will see is
'login' to which you respond cix. This
will result in the welcome screen
appearing, as shown in the picture.
You will then see the following
prompt: "Nickname? (Enter 'new* for
new user)" - to which you respond
new. Next will follow several pages of
useful information, including details
of on-line charges. It is a good idea
to get your comms software to
capture the registration process to
disk so you can read it all later at
your leisure. Eventually you will be
asked for your name, which you
should enter.
The next thing that happens is
that you will be toid a nickname has
been generated for you. This takes
the form of your initial followed by
your surname. So, for example t
Harold Abbish would get a nickname
of 'habbish'. If you want your own
nickname, then answer NO when
asked if this is acceptable, and enter
whatever you fancy.
The second most important part
comes next - a password. Your
password will need to be between
four and eight characters long, and is
case sensitive, so "magnus" will not
be the same as 'MAGNUS", Choose
a password that is not obvious, and
make sure you can remember it
without having to write it down, You
want to keep your account secure,
after all.
After your address and phone
number, you wili be asked for a credit
card number. This is how you are
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A500 EXTERNAL RAM UNIT
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k Very low power consumption
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Fitting is very simple indeed, and requires no soldering or
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AMIGA 1200
KickStart/Workbench 3.0 ■ Fast 68020 processor ■ AGA chipset * M * 1 * B
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MlT'T'i'l L^l ■ "it A >1 n M | 600 with our easy to fit upgrades. IZOIVlD tODy.UU
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PHILIPS 15" TV/MONITOR
With its dedicated monitor input, this model
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convenience of remote control Teletext TV -
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CO>1Q HO including VAT f
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Add-on herd drive for AS90 external cased unit with power supply
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V ID 1-1 2 Amiga video thgitiser package inc VI Dl -Chrome
Amiga 500 Oust Cover
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.£ 6.95
£ 110.00
£ 4.95
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EDUCATION
F
| orty-two, as we all know; is
the ultimate answer to the
meaning of life, the universe
and everything, and the
super-computer which deduced this
answer must have been (or is it 'will
be'?) a future Amiga. And how, you
may ask, do 1 know this?
Simple! Just count up the
number of letters in the word
Amiga, and multiply it by
the number
Here Is a magnificent
example of how Voyager can
demonstrate the path of the deep
space probe Giotto as it moves
through the orbits of the inner
planets of our solar system, and
continues on to meet the outer
bodies. This whole scene animates,
showing the flight path of Giotto,
and its eventual encounter with
H alley's Comet
of fetters in the name of the CPU
manufacturer. Add the number of
people who got an Atari ST this
Christmas - and what do you get?
Moving swiftly from the realms of
science fiction to science fact, many
schools are now taking advantage of
technological facilities which would
have been inconceivabfe 20 years
ago. I know of schools which are
linked to meteorological satellites,
enabling them to download weather
maps and offer forecasts to local
radio and TV stations. Many schools
also have telescopes, and the
investigation of the cosmos is rapidly
becoming a significant part of the
Science Curriculum.
SMALL STEPS,
OR GIANT LEAPS?
Voyager and Distant Suns are two
Amiga packages primarily intended to
help you explore the universe. They
offer broadly similar facilities, but
each has particular attributes which
make it special.
This month I want to take you
through the two programs, and show
how you can expand on their
features to develop a greater
understanding of outer space , as
well as learning a little more about
the versatility of your Amiga.
DISTANT SUNS
Distant Suns comes in a beautifully
presented package containing three
disks and a manual. If you are to
obtain the best results, the system
requirements will be rather steep. A
standard 68000-based A 500 with
1Mb will run the program, but it is
tediously slow - to enjoy Distant
Suns to the full requfres a faster
processor, and in particular, a
maths co-processor, it can be
installed on a hard disk,
though I found the process
awkward and the information
unclear - until I found an
addendum inside the box
explaining the procedure.
The manual contains
loads of m formation on
elementary astronomy,
and I found myself
reading the whole thing
cover to cover before E
even looked at the
disks. Now that is a
first! I was particularty pleased
to see ARexx support, enabling quick
and simple access to macro scripts
and calls.
On loadrng, Distant Suns
presents you with a 180-degree vista
of the night sky. The first thing to do
is set the vista to your own locality.
Thts is done by entering the latitude
and longitude co-ordinates for
wherever you happen to live. Once
this is done T there in all its glory is
the view that you can see tonight -
or indeed on any night, as a time and
date feature allows access to future
and past scenarios.
Two modes are offered to work
in: Planetarium mode, and Local Co-
ordinate mode. The former is the
default mode, and by far faster, but
the second mode, as described
earlier, does show your own view of
the sky, and makes the package so
much more relevant,
STAR PERFORMANCE
Constellations can be switched on
and off, giving both the names and
outline drawings of the shapes.
"Deep sky', or non-stellar objects
outside our solar system can be
also be indicated,
including star
clusters, galaxies
and nebulae.
'Field of View' <
allows the user to
choose the angle of sky
seen at any time, from 3
to ISO degrees, and
'Landscape' will draw an
artificial horizon which can
be customised to match
your own night-time view.
Lookdown' displays a
view of the solar system from
above. The planets are
subdivided into three
categories: inner, middle, and outer,
and the their respective orbits can be
advanced to show juxtapositions.
The 'Move' and Search' options
allow movement to any chosen
location, or to any desired object,
whiie 'Viewpoint' emulates the visual
perspective of a space traveller,
ail owing you to watch the view as you
travel outwards from the Earth and
look back at the solar system.
Several other menus add further
features such as 'Earth Shadow',
Skylight Twinkle' and 'Star Trails'.
SPACE TRAVEL
The feature I like best about Distant
Suns is the 'Anims' option. Here, a
requester enables you to create
frames which can demonstrate
anything from a lunar eclipse to a
journey from Pluto to Saturn. A
You could easily put together a
complete multimedia presentation
using these programs and
AmlgaVision, and then leave it
running for other people to
appreciate your handiwork
collection of IFF images on the third
disk allows you to include some fairly
spectacular graphics digitised from
real shots in space,
VOYAGER
Quite different in its graphical
interface, and frankly rather superior,
Voyager is a much more friendly
package than Distant Suns. Again, it
consists of three disks, and a
manual packed with stacks of
information for any budding Patrick
Moore, This time I installed the
software 1 and before I knew it an
hour had passed as I happily traced
the route of assorted comets, space-
probes and moons.
Voyager is very easy to use, and
the ability to analyse the effects of
time and distance is handled in a
sensible and practical way. All of the
features available in Distant Suns
are present - with the exception of
ARexx. One particular feature I like in
Voyager, and a boon to journalists, is
the facility for saving IFF
screens of the current
event directly from the
pull-down menus. This
particular feature,
together with the ARexx
support in Distant
Suns, Is what gave me
the idea for taking the
two packages further.
GETTING YOUR
ACT TOGETHER
One of the best
features of the Amiga is
that you can often use
several packages together to
produce a result greater than the
sum of the contributing parts.
So r what we have here are two
brilliant packages, and I find myself
thinking: "What can I do to get the
most out of both of them, and take
the combined information further?"
The answer lies in using another
package to combine their qualities,
ector Solutions
Where is 0225? What Is
the STD code for Bath? Who knows?
Sector's STD Index program does
i often find It fascinating to look
through the smaller advertisements
In Amiga Shopper, to see the
beginnings of companies which
could turn into major organisations.
There are some real gems to be
found in these pages - It was in
these ads that I found Switchsoft,
and the Impressive range of
'Control' equipment which we
featured in a couple of Education
articles last year.
My most recent discovery in this
area came when I noticed an advert
for Sector Software. This company
sells a number of products, two of
which I thought were worth drawing to
your attention.
First up: STD index. This is a
database which enables you to
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Below: An example of the hi res pictures available with Distant Suns. These
are digitised images taken from real photographs supplied by NASA - Just the
ticket for a presentation on the Apollo moon missions. You could even load
this image into DPaint IV, grab It as a brush, and, using the [+] and [-] keys,
create an animation of the approaching moon. For the very best results, add
a little digitised music from Hoist, and put it all together with AmigaVision
Stand by for lift-off! Wilf Rees
journeys into space with two
astronomy programs, and then
comes down to earth with Sector
Software's budget product range
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and thus introduce another
dimension to the equation- My
choice was to use AmtgaVlsion.
Combining AmigaVision and
Distant Suns to create an interactive
presentation that anyone could enjoy
is the ideal basis for producing a
highly imaginative project. One
impressive example which springs to
mind would be a simple point-and-
click Interface showing the history of
Halley's Comet. You could create a
presentation based on this subject
which first introduces background 1
information on comets, saying what
they are, what they are made ot and
so on.
AmigaVision could then address
Distant Suns through the ARexx port
to show the path of a particular
comet in relation to other celestial
bodies. Zooming in t panning, and all
other built-in features could be
controlled by ARexx to depict the
nature of a comet's behaviour
amongst our solar neighbourhood.
Following this (after a fancy fade or
wipe!) there could be a few pictures
of famous comets that can be seen
from Earth, with a little bit of
information regarding each one.
WHERE'S HALLEY?
Later, an animation could be
displayed using Voyager, explaining
how the space probe Giotto'
intersected Hal ley s Comet. Further
information could be displayed on
this topic, showing all the necessary
procedures involved in sending out a
mission like Giotto. A little
background information to reinforce
the significance of Halley's Comet
could also be useful - 1066, William
the Conqueror, and all that.
All this interesting information
could be compiled using AmigaVision
identify British Telecom telephone
codes and/or cities or towns, simply
by either entering the unknown STD
code, or by entering the name of the
location. This can be very useful if,
for example, only a telephone
number is given in an advert, and you
want to know the approximate
geographical location.
THE MISSING LINK?
it is becoming increasingly common
to see students using notepad
computers in schools, either as a
means of recording data, or as a
diary or calculator, Sadly, In the
absence of an Amiga portable, it's
not always straightforward to transfer
data from one of these notepads to
a 4 proper' computer, like the Amiga
most right-thinking teachers keep on
their desks,
To this end, Sector Software
sells a 288 to Amiga link. The Z8S is
an A4-sized portable, and weighs
Product
Distant Suns
Voyager
into an intuitive point-and-click
interface, enabling users to see what
they want to see at the touch of a
button. As the Distant Suns manual
suggests: "You may create a new
interface using a combination of
AmigaVision and a touch screen for a
museum exhibit."
Presentations can be put
together which stretch mufti media
programs to their limits. For example,
an animation could be created
showing the path of the Saturn V
rocket to the moon and back, with all
the various stages of the mission
supported by sampled sounds of
radio messages and digitised
pictures of the Apollo lander craft.
The sky really is the limit! CD
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about 2 lbs. Originally the brainchild
of Sir Clive Sinclair, it has been
around for a few years now - you
sometimes see Z88s being sold off
cheaply in electronics stores.
However, the design has stood the
test of time - the recent Amstrad NC-
100 notepad is a close relation. I
use a ZS8 regularly, and indeed am
writing this article on it right now*
In the past I have had to dump
down any work done on the Z88 to
PC, and then transfer it across to my
Amiga. This link could be a
tremendous asset for people like
me t and certainly for students who
have their own Amiga at home.
The package comes complete
with the hardware link, software and
manual, A special lead connects
between the serial port of the Amiga
and the 9-pin port on the side of the
ZS8. The software is so easy to use
that I had no need to even look at
the manual - once the 788 was set
for 'Import/Export' mode, the
software in the Amiga recognised
this* and registered Receiving'*
Data transfer is not particularly
fast, sending 1500 words in about
10 seconds, but the quality of
transfer is faultless. Text arrives as
ASCII characters, all ready to be
imported straight into a word
processor or DTP program,
This is a neat piece of kit which
does everything it says it will. I would
recommend it to anyone who wishes
to extend the capabilities of their
equipment, as it will give a new
dimension to the ability of their
hardware to share information.
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AMIGA SHOPPER # ISSUE 24 « APRIL 1 993
C PROGRAMMING
True or false? In this month's
programming tutorial, Toby
Simpson goes right back to
basics and explains the art of
making decisions in C
'Sh
|g n the last thrilling Installment
I we discussed perhaps one of
I the most difficult concepts of
I C programming, the pointer. If
you recall, a pointer is a special
variable type which, rather than
actually holding a value, holds a
pointer to the memory location
where that value is stored.
This month, we're back-stepping
a little and looking at some of the
fundamental workings of C. You'll
need to be familiar with these before
you can sit down and write your first
top-selling application.
We'll start with the if statement.
A programming language consists of
three fundamental processes:
sequence, decision and iteration.
Sequence is going from one step to
another, decision is saying If <a
condition> occurs, do <something>".
iteratton is the same as repetition,
and involves doing something a
number of times.
Every programming language
must have the facilities for all of
these steps- We've already dealt
with sequence and iteration, by
writing some simple programs and
using the while command. So now
let us discuss decisions. The format
LISTING 1 • LISTING 1 • LISTING 1
/* Program to input a string, and test to see if it meets
certain conditions, snowing the use of the if statement. */
# include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h> /* Include string functions */
void main (void)
{
char test_sntring[256] ;
int length;
printf ("Enter a string beginning with a Z and more than 4
in length . \n tp } ;
scanf ( "%&" , test_string) ;
/* Get the length of the string by calling strienU */
length ■ strlen(test_string) ;
/* Shew a message if you entered nothing */
if (J length) printf ("You entered nothing \n" > ;
/* Show a message if it was only just bigger than 4 chars
*/
if (length == 5) printf ("String was 5. You could have made
it longerVn" ) ;
/* If the length is 2 or 4, show a message */
if ({length ™ 2) II (length ==4)) printf ("It was a 2 or
a 4, not good enough I'm af raid\n") ;
/* Check if it was right/ if so, show it otherwise show an
appropriate message */
if ({length > 4) && (test_string[0] == 'Z'})
printf { "Well done An");
else
printf ("You failed. Your string was %ld long and
started with a %c , \n" , length, test . .string [0] ) ;
}
of the if command in C is like this:
if (a condition is true) do
something
For a start, let us get our definition
of J true r together. What C does is
evaluate what is present between
the two brackets after the If
statement (this is the 'expression').
That result will either be zero, or not
zero. If it is zero, the result is said to
be 'false', while a non-zero result is
'true'. Take this simple example;
if (2==2) printf ("Hello J
worldVn") ;
If the expression is evaluated to
'true' then it prints Hello World 1 on
the screen- In this case, 2 does
equal 2, so the result is true and the
string is printed- If we'd said:
if (2==5) printf ("Hello J
WorldXn");
then no string would have been
Through the gates of logic
Inside your computer are millions of
tiny electronic gates. These gates
are responsible for every operation
the computer carries out, but work
according to very simple principles.
In essence, logic' gates (as they
are called) open to let Information
through if a given set of conditions
becomes true.
For example, the 'and 1 gate has
two inputs and one output If both
the inputs are binary l t or on, then
the output is 1, or + true\ For any
other combination of inputs, the
output is 0, 'false'.
The 'nand' gate is a 'not ! and\
and quite simply J nots' the output of
the H and' gate. This means that
putting a 1 and a 1 on both inputs
provides a 0 output {'false'), and any
other combination gives a !♦ In C you
have the option of using these basic
building blocks, and others to
achieve what you want. For instance,
the 'and' operator is &, and just like
the '-' operator, there is a double
version called &&. Take a look at this
code example;
if { ( counter
5) && J
LISTING 2 • LISTING 2 • LISTING 2
/* Demonstration of the switch statement */
fine rude <stdio.it>
#include < string. h> /* Include string functions */
void main (void)
{
int teet_number;
test_number = 0;
printf ("Enter a number from 1 to 4\n");
scanf ( , &test_mimber) ;
/* Depending on the value , perform an action */
switch ( t est_number )
{
case 1;
printf ("This is the one condition\n" ) ;
break;
case 2:
printf ( "Two oh yes . \n" ) ;
break;
case 3;
print f ( "Three three \n" ) ;
break;
case 4:
printf ( "This was the four 1 \n" ) ;
break;
/* This is done if no other conditions are fulfilled */
default :
printf < "You didn't enter a number from 1 to 4\n");
break;
>
AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 24 • APRIL 1993
C PROGRAMMING
printed. This is because 2 does not
equal 5 P and the expression
evaluates to 'false 1 .
It's at this point I'm going to
introduce the logical 'not' operator,
represented in C by the exclamation
mark character, T. Mow, this may
sound complicated, but it's not. The
not' function is a single, simple
logical operation - it turns binary Is
into Os and vice-versa. Basically, if
you apply a 'not 1 operator to a false 1
value t you get 'true', and so on, The
silicon chips inside your computer
are full of small logic gates, each
performing a logical operation such
as 'not'. See the table below for
more information if you're interested.
So, let's re-write the last line we
EQUALITY AND ASSIGNMENT: MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS
One of the most common and difficult-to-trace bugs in
C programs is a confusion of the equality operator '=='
and the assignment operator '='. Although they look
similar, they mean very different things. It Is easier to
understand if you learn to 'read' them at an early stage.
When you're looking at something you've typed, road
as "becomes" and '==' as 'is equal to". When you
come across a line you T re not sure of, read It to
yourself in this way, and all should become clear.
Let's try it now, with the following bugged line:
if { counter ■ a_var iable ) printf ( "Hi\n" ) ;
This is potentially dangerous, What we're trying to
say is: if the two variables counter and a_variable are
the same, then do something. What we're actually doing
is putting the contents of a_variable in counter. This
would cause all sorts of nasty bugs. Reading it out loud
gives: If (counter becomes a_varlable) print Hi." If you
replace the '=' with '-=', then it correctly reads "If
(counter is equal to a_variable) print HL J '
The problem with other languages, particularly
BASIC, is that they make no differentiation between the
two operations, which do totally different things. This
teaches bad programming, which turns into confusion
and longer learning periods when the user tries to
understand the difference. To be honest, C does not
help by using a single equals sign and a double one,
making it easy to mistype them. Other languages, Pascal
for instance, do this better.
( anotner_counter ==6)) J
'and'
'nand'
printf ( "Hi\n" ) ;
A
B
Q
Q
0
0
0
l
C evaluates the expression like
0
1
0
1
this. Assume that counter does equaf
1
0
0
1
5, and another_counter does equal
1
1
1
0
6. Both the sub-expressions in
brackets will evaluate to 'true'. Then
'or'
'nor'
we simply say If ( true' and 'true')
A
B
Q
Q
evaluates to 'true', print Hi",
0
0
0
1
Languages like BASIC do this with
0
1
1
0
the 'and' and k or' statements, You
1
0
1
0
may have never realised what they
1
1
1
0
actually do, but now you know. Below
are the 'truth tables' for some of the
The 'nand' gate is of particular
common functions, 'and', 'nand', 'or'
interest to electronic engineers as it
and 'nor'. Each of these four
is the basic logic building block. It's
examples have two inputs (A and B)
the simplest to build, and can be
and one output. (Q).
used easily to make al
of the others.
did with a small change:
if (12^5) printf ( "Hello J
WorldNn" ) ;
This time the string 'Hello World 7
would have been printed. What has
happened is that 2==5 was
evaluated to be equal to zero
( false'), and then we inverted it
(using not'}, and it became true 1 .
You may not have seen the point of
all this just yet, so let's bring back
something we have talked about
before, the string. Last month, we
saw how to call functions and deal
with the result, by opening a library
and calling a function from it. So,
this time, let s write a small program
to input a string and show some
messages, depending on its length
and content. The program appears in
Listing 1, on the left.
This example shows a number of
if statements in action, and uses the
'and' and 'or' operators, && and II.
See the box above on 'logic gate'
operations for more information
about these two. It also shows uses
of 'not 1 which we have already
discussed, and introduces the else
statement for the first time. The else
part of the If command only gets
executed if the other bit does not -
in other words, if the expression
evaluates to 'false', then the else bit
is run. It's a good way of reducing
the number of if commands in a
program and making you code much
more readable.
What happens if you want to
execute more than one statement
after an If command? The following
won't work:
If (length — 5) printf ("It J
was 5\n">;
printf ("Oh yes it J
certainly was . \n" ) ;
printf (" This is a right J
mess An") ;
printf ("This won't work J
as you expect \n" ) *
else
printf ("It w&S not 5");
The compiler won't compile this. Only
the first printf, on the same line as
the if statement,
will be carried out if
the expression
length ==5
evaluates to 'true'.
If you want to
execute groups of
instructions using
if, then you must
enclose them
within curly
brackets. This
means that something like the above
example could be corrected like this:
if
(length
<
printf { '
length =
}
'Hi\n'
. 10;
"k programming
language consists of
three fundamental
processes"
WHAT TO INCLUDE
Include' files are essential. These files contain all the function definitions
and declarations that you will need En order to write C programs.
Unfortunately, unless you have bought a commercial C compiler, such as
545 C 6,1, then you almost certainly won't have the necessary files. In
order to follow this series you are going to have to obtain the Includes if you
have not already done so.
To get the latest Commodore include files, send a cheque for £25, made
payable to Commodore Business Machines, to:
Sharon McGuffie, Commodore Business Machines (UK) , Commodore House,
The Switchback, Gardener Rd, Maidenhead, Berks SL6 7XA
and ask for the 'Native Developer's Toolkit 1 . The toolkit is a four disk set
comprising the include files for both assembly language and C, for Workbench
2. These work just fine on both 1.3 and 3,0, It also has the 'autodocs' on
disk, which describe every single function in the Amiga's operating system,
plus example code, utilities, linker libraries and all sorts of other goodies.
If you're serious about Amiga programming, you should also ask about
becoming a registered developer, and you will have further information sent to
you about that.
printf ("It was not 5\n") ;
This is quite important, as we're
going to be seeing a whole lot more
of these curly brackets over the next
couple of articles.
This leads us on to an alternative
way of taking decisions. Imagine you
have written a program that has a
window with ten buttons in it. When a
^^^^^^^^^ button is pressed,
you have a small
routine which
returns a value
from 0 to 9 in a
variable. You then
want to do a
different thing for
each button. With
what we already
know, this can be
done fairly easily,
by using ten if statements. However,
C has a much better way of doing
this sort of thing: the switch and
case statements. Let's write another
program which accepts a number
from 1 to 4, and does a different
thing for each possible entry - as
shown in Listing 2, on the left,
There are a number of things to
be said about this program. First, we
have the switch statement itself.
This indicates what we are using as
our test number. Then for each case
we wish to address r we need one
case statement followed by the value
we're interested in, followed by a
colon. Then we can have as many
commands as we want, followed by a
break. There is a special 'case' too,
called default. This is executed if
none of the other cases occurred*
This month we've talked about
decision making in C. Next month,
we'll be looking at the for and do
statements, and then we'll go on to
talk about structures. After that well
be ready to write our own Amiga
utility, so stay tuned!
AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 24 • APRIL 1993
DIY REPAIRS
■ ast month we looked at the
range of Amiga peripheral
repairs that you can safely
IM^H attempt at home, But
someday it may become obvious
that something is sadly wrong with
the old Amiga itself, in which case
the thought of a steep professional
repair bill can be quite daunting.
However, you shouldn't despair,
because help is now at hand. This
month we are going to be looking at
the Amiga's internal workings, and
examining a number of useful tests
and repairs that you can do yourself
in this area. Again, as in last
month's column, I will be
concentrating mainly on the Amiga
500, although most of the repairs
and techniques will apply to other
machines in the range.
appear in the 'Technical Addendum'
at the end of this series.)
A successful initialisation is
identified by three factors: the power
light goes on; the Kickstart logo
appears; and the disk drive starts
clicking. If any one of these is
absent, then you should suspect an
internal fault. As with the power
supply, you can eliminate the
monitor and associated leads as
possible sources of the fault by
trying them on a friend 1 s computer,
DOWN AND OUT
Now, before surgery can commence,
there are still a few alternatives we
should check before opening up our
patient. These are:
4. Switch off the power. Remove any
Sidecar hard drive. Put the power
back on, and reboot If the Amiga
initialises, then the hard drive,
expansion bus, or internal ICs may
be faulty.
GOING IN
Having done all the preliminary tests,
we are now fairly confident that the
fault lies within the machine itself.
Often the nature of the fault can be
traced back to what you were doing
with the machine just before it gave
up the ghost. I will deal with this in
the third article, which will include a
flow chart for identifying certain
problems, but T for now, we are faced
with surgery*
The Amiga 500 is a very robust
and well-built machine - dismantling
The 'thumbs test*. This is the
first test an engineer carries out, In order to
make sure all the ICs are firmly In place
Thermal testing is not a precise means of determining a
fault, but experienced engineers can use this technique
to seek out unusual hot-spots on an I C
FOLLOW THE ORDER
As we saw last month, if your Amiga
is dead to the world then the very
first thing to check is the power
supply. But if you've checked this
(it's best to try it with someone
else's A500 to make absolutely
sure) and you still have no joy, then
this is what is referred to as Failed
Initialisation'. When the Amiga is
switched on, it goes through a series
of internal checks before the
Kickstart logo appears. These
checks are identified by a series of
coloured screens, and they check the
internal configurations of things like
the keyboard, RAM, and ROM, (The
actual colours and functions will
1. Switch off the power. Ensure that
the pins on the power supply plug
are straight, and that the plug is
pushed firmly home. Switch the
power back on, and reboot*
2. Switch off the power, and remove
any trapdoor memory expansion.
Power up again, and reboot. If the
Amiga initialises, either the edge
connector or the expansion is faulty,
3. Switch off the power, and remove
any printer leads, Put the power back
on, and reboot If the Amiga
initialises, you may have a faulty
printer, lead, port t or internal
integrated circuit ('IC T ),
it requires the collection of tools I
mentioned in the first article. You'll
also need two electrical
screwdrivers, and a pair of long-
nosed pliers. Before we begin, do be
sensible, and make sure you have a
working area that's appropriate for
the handling of your computer's
delicate insides.
If it s the dining room table,
don't start 15 minutes before a meal
is about to be served* Similarly,
forget the oil-smeared, dimly-lit
workbench in the garage, surrounded
by rusty nails and solidified open
paint tins. You will need a well-lit
large, flat surface, preferably with a
clean cloth over the area, and a
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DOCBlODD
THE INSIDE GUIDE
1. Monitor connector.
12.
Even CIA 8520.
2. Parallel port.
13.
Edge connector.
3. Serial port.
14.
Paula 8364.
4. External drive port.
15.
Gary U5.
5. Stereo sound output,
16.
Revision data.
6. Joystick port.
17,
68000 CPU UL
7. Mouse/Joystick port.
18.
Agnus 8370,
8. Power Input.
19.
Data path.
9. Internal floppy port,
20.
Kickstart ROM U500.
10. Odd CIA 8520 I/O.
21.
RAM chips.
11. Denise 8362.
22.
Expansion connector.
couple of containers for holding
screws and the like.
POINT OF NO RETURN
Right, we are ready. Pick up the
Amiga, and turn it upside down.
Along the front you will see two silver
screws and an oval sticker marked,
Warranty Sea! 1 . If your machine is
less than a year old, stop now and
take the Amiga back to your dealer,
who will fix it for free. Once this seal
is broken, your warranty is void, so
be warned.
To get the case open, the three
screws at the front of the machine
will need to be removed. Here, you
may find that you are one of the
unlucky ones who bought an Amiga
during Commodore's 'awkward'
period. Instead of the usual Philips
cross-head screws 1 some Amigas
have star' screws, and this is where
the electrical screwdriver comes in. It
is possible to take them out with an
ordinary screwdriver, but it is not
easy - I suggest you replace the tot
with simple self-tapping screws of
the same size.
Once these screws are removed,
we move to the rear of the machine.
Again there are three screws, of
which the centre one is covered by
the warranty seal. Remove these,
and this completes the initial
separation of the A500 case. The
top half will now lift off to reveal the
innards. To separate the two halves
requires quite a bit of force, so don't
be too cautious in giving the job a
little muscle.
The keyboard assembly can now
be removed. To do this, follow the 8-
cable harness from the assembly to
the centre aperture in the metal
screen. Just above the point where
the cables enter the plug is a cable
clamp. Grasp the clamp between two
fingers, and gently ease the plug off
the connecting pins on the
motherboard, using a left-to-right
rocking movement. There are four
retaining lugs moulded into the base
of the Amiga case, Lift the keyboard
up and away, and it should come
clear of the main unit.
RADIATION SCREEN
A tin-plate metal screen covers the
motherboard. This is intended to
meet the strict US radio emission
regulations, and will be the next
thing that we remove. First, take out
the two Philips screws at the front of
the screen. Just behind the
expansion bus you'll find two further
screws. On removing these, a
protection plate is released. Put this
plate to one side, making sure you
remember how it was originally fitted.
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of the screen, you will see four 'fold-
over' metal plates. These need to be
lifted to the vertical position. Now
the top of the screen can be gently
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D I Y RE PA I R S
lifted out, and placed to one side.
The main motherboard of your Amiga
will now be visible, and fault-finding
can commence.
THUMBS DOWN
The first test we carry out is the
thumbs test'. Simple but often
surprisingly effective, this involves
going around all of the plug-in
integrated circuits (also known as
'lC's) t and, with a thumb on each
end, applying sufficient pressure to
ensure the IC is firmly located into its
holder. You should of course also
make a quick visual inspection to
check that all of the pins are
correctly inserted into the
appropriate hole, and not bent or
missing the slot.
Now identify the 7-pin connector
which takes the keyboard plug. Slip
the keyboard behind the retaining
lugs on the base of the case, and
replace the keyboard plug, ensuring
the plug is correctly covering all of
the pins, Orientation of the plug, as
is the case with most connectors ,
can often be determined by looking
at the way the cable naturally lies. If
you are in doubt, the black cable
goes to the left-hand side. The power
supplied to your Amiga from the
power supply is only low voltage, so
we can safely reconnect the monitor,
mouse and power supply. Switch on.
If initialisation occurs, then the
problem is solved, if not, then it's on
to the next test.
THE HEAT IS ON
The next routine is a thermal test
occasionally referred to as the
'melted finger' syndrome. While this
is not an extremely accurate test, it
can often be a very good indicator of
a chip's general health. The basic
principle is that all ICs generate heat
to some degree or another.
Processors in particular get pretty
hot - sometimes hot enough to burn.
This is why you will often find
miniature fans fitted over the top of
CPUs, especially in add-ons like
accelerator cards.
To carry out this test, switch on
the Amiga, and leave it for a couple
of minutes to warm up. After a few
minutes, the ICs will have warmed up
and their temperatures should have
stabilised. Using the tip of a finger,
move over all of the surface of each
IC in turn, feeling for any hot spots,
Keep repeating this process over
several minutes.
What you are looking for is any IC
which does not stabilise, but
continues to increase in temperature
in a localised region. If this occurs,
you shouid strongly suspect that this
component is faulty. You then have
two options: either ask a friend if you
can try his or her IC in your machine,
or go out and buy the component as
a direct replacement.
The procedures I have described
here will enable the average user to
have a go at the main non-
initialisation tests. The principal iCs
to check are: the 68000 processor,
the Kickstart ROM, Agnus, Paula,
Dentse and Gary, as shown in the
diagram on the facing page, If you
have gone through all these tests,
made suitable replacements, and
initialisation still does not occur,
then I'm afraid that you have more or
less run out of options. It may be
that one of the smaller components
on the motherboard is faulty, or that
the motherboard itself has a fault, in
which case, you are better off
seeking help from your dealer
PROBLEMS AT
POST-INITIALISATION
You may find that your Amiga is
getting past the initialisation stage,
but once the Workbench logo is
loaded from ROM, specific problems
may appear after this. Let us begin
with by far the most common
Cutaway View of Assembly
LOCATION OF CASE SELF TAPPING SCREWS*
^LOCATION OF RADIATION SCREEN SCREWS
Removing the screws which hold together the case and the radiation shield
will void your warranty. If your Amiga has star centre' screws, It's more
convenient to replace them with ordinary self-tapping screws of the same size
problem that appears at this stage,
and the repair needed for between
40% to 60% of all Amiga faults. The
two little culprits are the ICs known
as the CIA 8520s. If you seek out
the Component Reference picture in
the first article, you will be able to
identify them quite easily. The
function of these two little beauties
is to deal with the parallel port
connector, joystick/ mouse
connectors, front panel LED, internal
control lines, keyboard, serial port,
floppy drives, and internal timing.
SERVES YOU RIGHT!
If most people followed the
instructions printed in the User
Guide, these components wouldn't
suffer half the damage that they do.
Unfortunately, and 1 am as guilty of
this as anyone, short-cuts often
prevail. The User Guide clearly
indicates that when connecting
external devices, the Amiga should
always be switched off. So, every
time you think about plugging in a
printer lead, or connecting a modem,
or even a mouse, you run the risk of
blowing one of the 8520s,
it 's your turn to operates Irs the
second part of his Do-lt-Yourself
repairs guide, Wilf Rees shows
how to check and replace your
Amiga's internal components
Have you ever run into the fault
where the mouse will only work in
one axis, and refuses to travel the
other way? Even a new mouse
doesn't cure the problem. This fault
arises surprisingly often, and can be
prevented simply by foi lowing the
Instructions in the manual. Under
these circumstances, the response
of the mouse is a fair indication that
one of the two 8520s has blown. The
test to check if this Is the case is
quite simple. Swap the two ICs
around, and see If the other mouse
axis is now functioning.
GIVE IT A TRY
There is no earthly reason why these
checks and repairs should be beyond
the abilities of any practically-minded
Amiga owner. So, don't be afraid to
have a go - if the worst comes to the
worst, you can always and dig out
your old VIC-20 from the attic! ©
NEXT MONTH
In the third part of this series, we will be looking at floppy drive leads and
routine overhauls, I hope that so far you have found the knowledge of how^
to tackle your own repairs useful, but more irni^jrtantty, I hope the neejf.
never arises to use it!
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Over the last couple of
months or so we've
covered some pretty
heavyweight topics.
Decision making, loops, conditional
loops, procedures and arguments -
to name but a few. But, so far, our
A Re xx scripts haven't actually done
very much. In order to make our
scripts a little more useful, we'll
now move onto the subject of string
manipulation or - for the more
poetic among you - how to do
things with strings.
In general, the ARexx command
set is quite minimal when compared
to other languages, but string
manipulation is one area where
ARexx really shines. Whether you
need to extract words from a string,
strip leading or trailing characters or
search for every occurrence of a word
within a string, you'll find ARexx more
than man for the job. Compared to
the rather limited string manipulation
commands offered by BASIC, ARexx
is a veritable power house.
WORD POWER
ARexx provides a whole string
{pardon the pun) of functions that
allow you to work on strings on a
word-for-word basis. These functions
Del word: As its name seems to
strangely suggest, the Del word ()
function deletes words from a string.
It gives you pretty extensive control
over which words and how many are
deleted from a string. It needs to be
passed three parameters - the
variable name of the source string,
the position of the first word to be
deleted within that string and the
number of words to be deleted. Say,
for example, you had a string called
nochance containing four words
Jason Ho I born For President' and
you (perhaps understandably) wished
to delete the last two words. You
Find: Now here's a powerful function.
The ftndO function searches through
a string for the first occurrence of a
substring (a single word, if you like)
contained within the source string
that you feed it. This could be useful
if you need to get string data from a
file on a conditional basis - say, for
example, you only wanted those
entries that had the word 'sausage'
in them.
The find function requires two
parameters - the name of the
variable containing the source string
and the variable containing the
substring (or, for more direct results,
position = J
f ind{ sour cest ring, ■ Jason 1 )
In this particular example, the find()
function would look for the first
occurrence of the substring 'Jason'
within a string called source string If
it was found, the position of the
substring within the source string is
written into the integer variable
position . If the string isn't found,
then position will contain 0,
Subword: Here's another potentially
powerful function, Subword allows
you to extract a given number of
LISTING • LISTING • LISTING
String functions demo
* /
say "Enter a string"
pull string
count = words ( string }
say "There axe" count "words in that string"
do a = 1 to count
length - wordlength ( st ring , a )
say "Word" a "is" length "characters long"
end
say "Enter a word that is in the string"
pull word
position = find (string, word)
if position -= 0 then
say "That word is at position" position
else do
say "It's not in the string!"
end
exit
Jason Holborn shows you how to
pull your strings apart put them
back together and a whole lot
more besides. Be warned -
no string is safel
can be particularly useful when
processing sequential files. Say you
had two sequential files containing
information that you'd like to
combine into a single file* These
functions would enable you to cut out
the information that you required
from those two files without having
to worry about the length of
individual entries. You would just tell
ARexx which words you were
interested in within the two files and
it would then handle the nitty gritty of
extracting the words in question.
Not convinced? OK, let's take a
look at the functions available, and
111 explain what each one does.
would therefore call the DelwordO
function using the following line:
result = J
delword (nochance , 3,2)
This would tell ARexx to delete
two words from the string nochance,
starting at word three. The resulting
string ('Jason Holborn ) would then
be stored into the variable 'result 1 for
further work. Note that virtually all of
the string functions that we ll be
covering don't work directly on the
source string, so our source string
('Jason Holborn For President') is
thankfully left intact.
The ARexx FmdQ function
attempts to locate the first
occurrence of a word within a string
the substring itself). The position of
the substring within the string is then
written back into the variable defined
before the function call.
As always, remember that these
functions work on a 'word for word'
basis, so the position returned by
the find function is specified in terms
of whole words. A returned value of
'2, for example, means that the
substring is the second word within
the source string.
words from a source string,
therefore providing a more flexible
alternative to ARexx' s delwordO
function. It requires three parameters
- the source string name, trie start
position where word extraction is to
start and the number of words that
you'd like to extract Here's the
subword() function in action,
result =
subword ( sourc estr ing , 3,2)
AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 24 • APRIL 1993
In this example, the subword()
function would extract two words
starting at the third word within a
string called sourcestring. The
resulting two words are then stored
in a variable called result.
If you just need to extract a
single word, then a considerably
easier solution would be to use the
ARexx word() function which, as the
When it comes to counting words
and letters, this month's sample
ARexx script has got it all sewn up!
name suggests, extracts single
words from strings, All you need to
do is to tell the function the name of
the source string and the position of
the word within the string, and the
word() function then extracts that
word. For example, result =
word (sourcestring, 2) would extract
the second word from sourcestring
and store it in result. Clever eh?
Wordindex: A slightly different
version of the findf) function is the
wordindex() function that, instead of
returning the position of a substring
in terms of words, returns the
location of the substring as a
character position. Say, for example,
you wanted to know
where within the string
sourcestring the
second word started
as a character
position. All you'd
have to do is to pass
the wordindexO
function the name of
the source string and
the position of the
word that you're
interested in. To make things a little
clearer, here's an example.
charpos = wordindex ( ' Hello J
There Matey ',2)
This example wouid return a value of
7. Starting from the first character in
the string, the wordindexO function
counts along until it gets to the first
character of the second word (in this
case There') and then returns the
position of this first character.
Word length: An extension to the
wordindexO function, this works in a
very similar manner to the TEN()'
function in BASIC. However, it's
considerably more flexible - instead
of being restricted to returning just
the entire length of a string (you can
do this in ARexx using the length()
function), the wordlengthO function
can return the length (in characters)
of a single word within a string. The
syntax of the wordlengthO function
is pretty simple - all it needs is the
name of the variable containing the
string and the position of the word
that you're interested in. Once again,
here's an example:
length = wordlength ( ' Jason J
Holborn is great 1 , 2 )
The above example would return the
length of the second word (in this
case, a fine surname) as an integer
value which is then stored in the
variable length. Can you guess what
the result would be? Yep - 7.
Words; Regular readers of ARexx For
Ail will remember this function from a
couple of months back What it does
it to tell you how many words there
are in a string. This can be
particularly useful when you need to
split a sentence up into individual
words, and its syntax couidn't be
simpler. All it needs is the name of
the variable containing the string and
that's it. The number of words within
that string is then passed back as an
integer value.
Clearly, many of these functions
are fairly self-explanatory to use - by
all means try them in your own
scripts and see. Or T if you're not
feeling too adventurous, try this
month's example script (on the
preceding page) for starters! ©
NEXT MONTH • NEXT MONTH
Phew! What a lot of commands we've covered this, time around. With all
this theory out of the way, next month's issue is the one to watch out for -
because then we'll be opening files, writing things to them, reading from
them and a whole lot more besides. See you then!
Can't get enough of ARexx string
manipulation? Then here's some
extra functions for you to try!
Compress: Removes a fist of
characters from the source string.
For example, result = compress
( 'ABCDEVBC') wouid tell ARexx to
remove all occurrences of the
characters 'B' and 'C from the string
ABCDE', 7\DE' wouid then be written
into the variable result. The
compressO function can be very
powerful indeed. Say, for example,
you had a list of filenames that all
ended with \BAS\ Providing the
filenames themselves didn't contain
any of these four characters, you
could use the compressO function to
strip away the extension.
Delstr: Deletes a specified number
of characters from a source string. It
needs three parameters - the usual
source string name followed by the
number of characters to be deleted
and where within the string the
deletion process is to begin. The
syntax is: result = delstr
[sourcestring, start, numberofchars).
Insert: The opposite to the delstrQ
function is the insert 0 function
which, not surprisingly, can be used
to insert one string anywhere within
another. Its syntax is slightly more
complicated - instead of just a single
variable name, inserto also requires
the name of the variable containing
the string to be inserted, followed by
a value denoting where insertion
should start (as expressed in terms
of characters - for example, the 5th
character along) and the number of
characters (although this is optional).
The syntax is: result = Insert
(sourcestring. ins ertst ring, start,
length T pad). If you specify a length
value greater than the total number
of characters In insertstrlng, insert
will automatically pad
out the remaining
characters either with
spaces (the default)
or with the character
you define in the pad
parameter - handy for
text formatting.
Overlay: This works in a very similar
manner to the 'overwrite' feature
offered by most word processors.
Overlay takes a string and literally
places it on top of the characters
already in the source string,
effective ty removing them, It requires
five parameters - the source string
name, the name of the string to be
overlaid, the start position, the
number of characters to be overlaid
and T once again, a pad character. If
the number of characters you specify
is greater than the number of
characters in the overlay string, the
overlayO function will pad out the
string in the same way as the
insertO function. Here's its syntax:
result = overiay( sourcestring,
overlaystring, length, start, pad).
Strip: The strlp() function does just
what you'd expect.,, it strips
characters or, to be more precise, it
strips leading or trailing characters
from any string- What's more, it can
a J so be used to strip every
occurrence of a particular character
(or list of characters) from a string,
making it a very powerful command
indeed. The syntax of stripf) looks
like this: result = strip{ sourcestring,
mode, list). The sourcestring
parameter is pretty obvious, but the
optional mode parameter is worth
discussing. Because strlp() can work
in three modes, you have to tell it
which you would like to use by
specifying either T or 'L' - which
strip trailing and leading characters
respectively. To make things more
complicated, the mode parameter
can also be 'B* which will strip both
leading and trailing characters. If you
leave this blank, the stripO function
will simply strip out all occurrences
of a given character list.
The list parameter simply tells
the strip(> function which characters
you would like to have removed. If,
for example, you had a string that
started with four hash ('#') symbols ,
you could strip them away by setting
the mode to 'L' (for leading) and then
specifying the hash character in the
list parameter. No problem!
Upper: A very simple and (dare I say
it?) self-explanatory function that
does basically the same job as
BASIC'S 'UPPERS' command and C r s
'StruprO' function. The syntax is
similar too - just a single parameter
needs to be fed to the function with
the result written back to the variable
defined at the start of the function
call. For those of you that really need
it, using upper() looks like this:
result = upper{ sourcestring).
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interact with seafarers ashore on Amigas.
Contact CDR K Qsei, GN Ships Refit Office, 51
Rue de la Bretonniere. 50105 Cherbourg, France.
* 33 33225447
Marksman {Trojan Phazer user group) Contact
David Green, 6? Thicket Drive, Maltby,
Rotherham, S Yorkshire S66 7 LB Promotes use
of the Trojan Phazer, swaps PD and own
programs, disk magazine
Masters of Raster AMOS coding. DPaint,
tutoriais, ray tracing, open to other suggestions.
Meets Bournemouth Grammar School, Weds
evenings, Sunday pm. Free membership.
Contact Chris James, 10 Mavis Road,
Charminster. Bournemouth. Dorset v 0202
510161
Mystery Game Swapping Send a game and
receive a mystery one back, Deborah Tuliy, 08
Lime Court, Pendleton, Salford, Gtr Manchester
M 6 5 EG
N ireland Amiga User Contact Stephen Hamer,
98 Crebilly Rd, Ballymena, Co Antrim BT42 4DS
Disk based mag £2,50 per issue. Free PD, SAE
for further info
New Hall Amiga Users Club Games, graphics,
music, Workbench programming. Meets 7pm
every Tuesday, New Hall Social Club, 104 Bury
Rd, DawtenstalL Membership £5 per year, under
16s not allowed, Contact Bill Grundy, 115 Stanley
St, Accrington, Lancashire «■ 0254 3B5365
Numero Uno PD, snapping, competitions, pen
pals. £3.50/year. Contact Dillon Eyre, 21 BurstaEl
Hill, Bridlington, N Humberside Y016 5NP
Pascal Programmers Group Disk-based
newsletter for Highspeed Pascal users. Free
membership. Contact Colin Yamall, 93
Manchester Rd, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 2JQ
Pennine Amiga Club 26 Spencer Street, Keighley,
West Yorkshire 8D21 2BU, Free membership,
free advice and a newsletter. Contact Neville
Armstrong for more info * 0535 609263
Perth and District Amateur Computer Society
For further information contact Alastair
MacPherson 137 Glasgow Rd, Perth. Meetings
third Tuesday in every month, 8pm. General
advice, talks, Amiga PD. Membership £6 or free
for under 16s
Pete's PD PD from onry £1 per dish. Send 50p
for disk catalogue to Peter Garrett, Chestnut
Cottage, White Lion Road, Amersham, Bucks HPT
9JR
Phoenix Demo Coders, musicians, artists and
designers making the best demos. Free
membership. Contact Frank, 45 Hall Road,
Chadwell Heath, Romford, Essex, RM6 4U » 081
597 4661
Public Domain Exchange Demos, music, utilities,
animation. Annual fee £8 Contact D McLeish, 26
Taunton Ave, Leigh, Lanes WN7 5PT
Public Domain User Group Swaps PD. provides
advice. SAE to 12 Oxford Rd, Guildford, Surrey
PUG Contact S Jackson * 0446 772331
Whrtebeam Cottage, Trerhyngyll, Cowbridge, S
Glamorgan Cheap PD library, swap hints, reviews,
articles etc. Send an SAE for further details
Quality Amiga PD Only £1,20 per disk. Bend SAE
for free catalogue to John MacLeod, 4 Worcester
Avenue, Grimsby, South Humberside DN34 5EY
Redburn Computer User Group Contact Paul
Armstrong ^ 0294 56003, 12 Highfleld St,
Kilwinning, Ayrshire KA13 7BISL Meetings at the
Red burn Community Centre, Dickson Drive, Irvine.
Group meets every second Wednesday from 5
Aug 92, 6.45 - 9.30pm. Help, ideas, PD and
shareware, graphics and business. Membership
75p per meeting; £7 per year
Rye Computer Club Swap/meet at the Rye
Community Centre, For info contact Oliver
Campion, 71 The Mint, Rye, E Sussex TN 31 7DP
it 0797 222876
Shieldsoft PO at Wilmar Lodge, 13 Churton Rd.
Rhyl, CLwyd.LLia 3NB. Write for more
information. Basic programming help. Advice on
the CLI and AMOS. Disks from only 50p to SOp.
Membership free » 0745 343044
Sherlock PO Quarterly disk mag, help and advice
for beginners, 50 p per disk. A Doyle, 44 Milton
Street, Warren point, Co Down, N Ireland
Shropshire Amiga Link Advice, monthly disk mag,
PD. Free membership. Contact N Cockayne, 2
Dodmoor Grange, Randlay, Telford, Shropshire
TF3 2AW n 0952 591376
Stttfngbourne Co-op Demos, tutorials, lectures.
£5/year. Meetings Mondays 6-9pm at Mall
beneath Regis Suite. Contact Andy, Unit 2, The
Mall, 121-127 East Street, Sittingboume, Kent
ME10 4AQ n 0795 842608
Slim Agnus 115 Brocks Drive, North Cheam,
Sutton, Surrey SM3 9UW, Group meets the last
Thursday of every month. PD library, BBS, advice
from Amiga experts. Contact Philip WorreJ.
Software Cfty Swapping, competitions, club
magazine. Membership £8. Contact N Richards, 9
Hollis Close, Manor Estate Farm, Rawmarsh,
Rotherham, S Vorks S62 7L# or » 0709 526092
Software Exchange Club Free help and advice.
Contact Michael Lacey, fern's Post Office,
Enniscorthy, County Wexford. Republic of Ireland
Software Exchange Service 13 Boumville Lane,
Stirchley, Birmingham, West Midlands B30 2JY.
For more info » Michael Pun 021-459 7576
South 16 Amiga/ ST User Group Bi-monthly disk
based mag, discounts available from local stores,
free advice and extensive PD library. £12/year.
For more info send SAE to PO Box 16 r
Southampton, S09 7AU
Southend Team Music, PD. Free membership.
Contact Scotty, 52 Prince Avenue, Southend-on-
Sea, Essex SS2 6NN « 0102 333974
Seuthport Amiga Users Advice, friendly evenings
Mondays at 8pm. No charge, discounts from local
store. For info contact Michael Mitch am, 5
Easdale Drive, Ainsdale, South port, Merseyside »
0704 79936
South Wales Club Newsletter, PD library, free
newsletter, programs, help and advice. For more
info contact 0 Allen 53 West Avenue, Trecenydd,
Caerphilly CFB 2SF
Steel PD, cheats, Ideas, music, art,
programming, hardware mods. Free membership
(postal only}. Contact James Whitehead, 33
Middle Cliffe, Drive Crowedge, Sheffield S30 5HB
The Amiga Studio Friendly, helpful advice for
serious users of the Amiga. Monthly newsletter,
PD library, free loan of equipment to members,
bar. Meets 7pm Thursdays, Mitchells Club, Scotia
Road, TunstalL Contact Dave Rose » 0732
815589
Twilight Advice on hardware and software, Fred
Fish PD. Free membership, disks 50p each.
Contact 13 Mavis Court, Ravens Close, London
NW9 5BH
UK Subs The Hanger BBS, trading post for PD
files, swapping. Free membership. Contact Diddy
/ ArkliMht « 0525 37 5518
Unique Styles Derek at 15 Montgomery Rd,
Highbrooms, Tunbridge Wells, Kent « 0892
518319. By post only. For Amiga artists,
programmers/musicians. Free membership
Video Editing Club Invites DTV users for titling
and editing. Quarterly magazine, send SAE for
details to Danny Fisher,3A Thombridge Road. Iver
Heath, Bucks SLO OPU
Video Visuals Exclusively for video producers, PD
library, genlocking, digitising, quarterly disk
magazine. Membership £10 per year. Contact
Chris Brown. 4 Lavender Close, Witham, Esses
CMS 2VG
Wardray Hem Consortium User group for Amiga
and possibly others. Membership fees to be
discussed and incurred. PO library to be set up.
Also Hern connection - worldwide contacts
wanted. SAE and disk to WardCon info, (AS)
Warren Hardy, 21 Stockfield Ave, Fenham,
Newcastle upon Tyne NE5 2DK
Warpdflve Help-line, PD library, bi-monthly disk
mgg, free drinks, competitions and infosheet,
£15 per year. Contact B Scales 110 Burton Ave,
Balby. Doncaster DN4 8BB tr 0302 859715
WCSPSAI Help available. PD disk of your choice
and newsletter every month. PD at £1.
Membership £25. For further info contact A
Jamieson * 0749 677609
Willow PD Free advice, disks only 90p each. Free
membership. Contact Willow PD, 2 Longbridge
Close, Sherfield-on-Loddon, Basingstoke, Hants
RG27 ODQ ■ 0256 8S2654
Worldwide PO Over 2,300 disks held, telephone
for free cat disk now. BFG personnel only.
Contact Dave White. Berliner Str 39, 4030
Ptatingen 1, Germany v 02102 499729
Wrexham District Computer Club PD, library,
equipment loan. lOp to join, 50p to get in.
Meetings at the Memorial Hall. Wrexham every
Thursday, 7-10pm. Contact Paul Evans, 3 Ffordd
Elfed, Rhosnesi r Wrexham , Clwyd LL12 7LLI
Zymurgy General Amiga computing. Free
membership. For further info contact A Carr, 39
Sewlkirk Rd, Ipswich. Suffolk IP4 3JB « 0473
725241
AMIGA SHOPPER t ISSUE 24 • APRIL 1 993
NBS PUBLIC DOMAIN (AS1)
1 CHAIN LANE
NEWPORT, I.W.
PO30 5QA
NBS is a member of UPD (United PD Suppliers) and PSD (Professional Standards of PD
Distribution). If you are looking for quality, reliability, and speed of delivery - Phone Now!
CENTRAL LICENCE WARE REGISTER
A selection of the best from the CLR collection. All titles £3,50 unless otherwise stated,
TYPING TUTOR (ref CLU 03) Our best selling title. Structured lessons, Finger positions, etc.
ACHORD (ref CLE 05) Popular guitar chord tutor and guitar tuner.
FASTFRET (ref CLE 15) Scale tutor to develop dexterity and flexibility for the budding lend guitarist.
TC. DINOSAURS (ref CLE 01) Popular picture and information educational disk set {2 disks, £4.50)
TC. GEOLOGY (ref CLE 02) Volcanoes, Earthquakes, etc. The interesting bits! (2 disks, £4,50)
TC, SOLAR SYSTEM (ref CLE 03) Earth ond our neighbours. Super NASA pics. (3 disks, £4.99)
NIGHTSKY (ref CLE OS) Detailed mop of the sky from anywhere on earth, with stai and ploner names.
ALPHAGRAPH (ref CLU 04) Block, Pie, Une, Scatter, etc. Super graph display system.
SUPERSOUND 3 (ref CLU 06) Sound sample manipulator. Adfust speed, echo, edit, and more.
TORDF1NDER PLUS (ref CLU 08) Helps solve crosswords, anagrams etc . Large dictionary { 2 disks, £4 .5 0) ,
POWER ACCOUNTS (ref CLU 10) Easy to use bank account program. Keep track of your spending I
DRAGON TILES (ref CLG 08) Best ever Mob Jong titles gome. Many levels, best selling game.
BULLDOZER BOB (ref CLG 12) Great for puzzlers. Similar to Zeus. Dozens of brain teasing levels.
PARADOX (ref CLG 13) Another great thinking puzzle. Dozens of levels. Nice graphics,
PUBLIC DOMAIN SOFTWARE
The best of PD Software including: Fish, Tflag, Amos PD, Eric Schwartz, Steve Packer and
Tobias Richier Animations . Music, Demos, Games, Utility software, almost 100 clipart disks, all
copied on TDK or Sakura branded disks. For our complete catalogue please send stamped, self
adHressed envelope to the above address.
TY GAMES
PG048 HOLY GRAILTaxt
PG 124
PGQ79
PG 205
PG177
PG 183
PG190
PG 198
PG 200
BUSINESS / UTIL
PB 020 TEXTENGINEWoidpronasnj
PRINTED DRIVERS Loads
AMI BASE PRO Database
CAPTI0NAT0R Video titier
THE MONEY PROGRAM Cash
HAMWB PC picture converter
HARD-DRIVE UTILITIES
MESSY-SID R/W PC disks
SUPERKIUEItS Virus Special
LYAPUN0V Amazing fractal gen
PC TASK PC emulator
PU 245-56 C MANUAL 112 disks)
PU 086/7 NORTH C Language (2 disks}
PU 230
PB 021
PU 215
PB03Q
PU 063
PU064
PU080
PO 117
PU 263
PU 205
TOTAL WAR Excellent Risk
SEALANCf Submarine sim.
SOCCER CARDS Patience gome
HE LLZ0NE Super Shoot "em
CATAC0MBE Graphic adventure
TOP SECRET Good platform
AIRPORT ATC game
ALL ROUNDER Cricket game
FUNPACimO 36 Overt DO PD gomes
on 3i bisks i (Disk 1, wb 1 .3 only}
ASSASSINS GAME COMPILATIONS 1 TO 43
Well presented definitive collection!
New demos for the A 1200 now coming in! Phone for latest details.
Public Domain Disk Prices:
1 to 5 disks £2.00 each Postage/Packing .50p per order,
6 to 25 disks £125 each TDK or Sakura branded disk used tor all
26 or more only £0.99 each PD ond Lkenceware
Please make cheque/PO payable to NBS. Phone orders (Access & Visa) welcome,
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1. Preriiacker V.3 Pi I ipdalaj
2, Hard Drive UtUilies (2) (P)
3- Opticorn VZ.2 (NCom V2 etc) (P)
4. Sid (P)
6. Cheat Library V 1.2 (P)
7, PC TASV1.fr (P)
&. Astronomy Pack 1 (4) tP}
9. Term V2.4 (21 (WS2-n)
10. Amateur Radio 1-25 {25) (P)
11. C Manuals V3 (12) (P)
12NcinhC VI. 3 (2) (P)
13. Perm Che^k plus (P)
14. Free Copy vf,6 (P)
15 D Copy V3 (NP)
1 6. Rattle Copy V5 Pro {P)
1 7. Pacman Copier ( P)
18- Virus Checker V6.20 (P)
19- Sysinlo V3.71 (P) (Latest!)
20. Boot* V5.22 (WB2 + )
21. Spectrum Emulator/12 Games fP)
22. A64 Emulator V2 (2) (P)
23. A.G4 Game ri sk 1
24. Super Kickstart. A3000 only"
25. Kick 1.3 Emulator (WB2 + )
26 Action Replay V1 .5 (P)
27. Rippers Dtsk (P)
26. Education Pack 1 (5) (Pi
29. Madonna's Sex Book <3] (PI
30. Diskmastar V3.2 (NP) '
31 . IGPUG Primer UtMs (2) (P)
32. Print Masler 2 (2) (P)
33. AdliDO V5 (New Update) fP)
34. PC Unities (2)
35. 300 Business Letters (P)
36. A 1200 Classic Sixs (2) (WS3+)
37. Learn & Play {2) (P)
38. Sicry Land 2 (P>
39. Meet V3.20 (P)
40 Kids Edi,c:a:.nn tf) ;Pi
41 . Assassins MefjadOOt (P)
42. Assassins Multi Visions, (P)
43. Assassins Handy Tools 3 (P)
44. Battle Cars 2 (Pi
45. Super Pacman 92+ (P)
46. Deluxe Pacman Vl.la(P)
47. Gatga 5*2+ {P)
48. Doody (P)
49. Card Games (2) (P)
50. Fighting Warriors (New) fP)
51. A50O+ 21 Games (P)
52- Assassins Games t-35 (35) (P)
53- Game Galore 1-9 {9) (P)
54. Agarron Program Disk 1
55. ^uper Skoda challenge
56. Lacfa 2000 (NP)
57. Popeye LCD Games (P)
56, Defender (P)
50, Tennis Game 1 Meg (P)
30, E-type 2 (P)
51 . Game Disk Alpha (Pj
62. Pipeline 2 (Pj
63. Issue 14
64. LSD Total Kaqs (2) f P)
65. LSD Jesus on E (21 (20) (P)
66. Love & Anarcny (Pj
67. Ram Jam Demo (2) (P)
68. E.S. Juggler 3 (3 Meg) (P)
69- Techno Trance 3 {NP)
70- Hardwired Demo (2) (P)
71. State 01 The Art (P)
72. Legend Dance Disk (P)
73. Mack Slides how 1992 fP)
74. Kefrens Multimsn 2 (P)
75. SCSI Tester Vl.ib (P)
73. Mr Wonderful I Art Disks (7) (P)
77. Lasl Will & Testament f P)
70. Exotic nipper V'1 .99 (Pj
79. Hackers « Hacking (P)
80. Express Catalogue Disk {2} (P)
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All PD. Is 99 p per disk.
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Bag (1-631, Fred-Fish M-
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Amiga-64-Link
I Links CG4 peripherals to Amiga parallel port
i C64 Nqf , required
Connects C64 printers to the Amiga
• Supports MPS, DPS, VIC, Star, Brother, Seikosha & Citizen printers
• Graphics output on dot-m atrix printers • Wo rks with all software
Transfers C64 disk files to the Amiga
• File transfer programs • Read/Write text, binary & program files
Standard ^mi-64-Unk" £35,25 Prices include VAT and delivery
Budget Ami-64-Unk" £23.50 Budget stops mufti-tasking during printing
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All disks work
with the A1200!
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Anglia
PD
(1) = LASER PRINTED Catalogue Disk (Pj
INSTRUCTIONS onlv 7Up - Includes a
AVAIL AB LE ! supe rb Scene ry
JUST ADD 50p! Generator! *
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HOME MANAGEMENT PACK 3 DISKS fP) £3.15
Calendar, Mortgage, Spfaadsfteet Grammar, Mileage, Wortd Time,
fllx^set. Chequebook Database, Typing Tutor, r^pewito;
Grocery, Lot Maker, Home Banking.
CLIPART PACKS 1, QOft 3 EACH PACK = 5 DISKS £5,25
3 different pads of 5 disks, afi M of the very best cbpart for
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FONTS PACK 1 OK 2 EACH PACK = 5 DISKS £5.25
2 different pads ofS disks, pack 1 contains- Publisher fonts,
vbfkhjs fonts, fonts disk 9, Cosmopobtan fonts, JCargc fonts (hods
of gre$l fonts for ORw.Tf efcr.J 1 (P)
ANGLIA COLOUR FONTS PACK f ORS (P) 5 DISKS £5.25
5 ojsJcs- full of ongrna! colour fonts produced here at flfigfa. Trvtre
are 16 colour fonts- not cut and paste' They arc produced in the
same way asttechisei font supplied with DPamt and the Kara
range of commercial fonts! They are typed stmshttnfndwvtk
wtftOpaintandTVText,
ANGLIA CLIPART PACK (P) (HEW) . . 5 DISKS £5 .25
fXandnewlFT dipatt produced ty /i^tarioa* of figlt qusffly anti-aHased
tfF.rci^gey including fr3fs, desgs. okd*, nOd arwate, people and cfwcteiz
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EDUCATION PACK1 (P) 5 DISKS £5 55
German, $<cbe, Geotime, fJraw?kft £vOhikH), Cbuds, fowjla, fljffoil,
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betf 4?/Ws tnd cs mcrtd^e 'rahe for iXonrO.
ASTRONOMY PACK fP) 4 DISKS £4.20
7>ii's superb pack now includes: Star Chart, Amigazer, Total
Concepts, Atfrnrxxny, Gravity Well. GrovSim, Orb/!. P!a\ie1and
Fast facts on the solar system.
PRINTER USER PACK 2 (P) (NEW) 4 DISKS £4.20
A corriptetery new collection of proQi&mS to netp you get tne best
out of your printer! Includes frskprint V3.gt (Dtsk SatxlsX
MCMaster (Cassette- covers), Prmtftles, JBSPool, Ewpmt
(EnveicpesX f^ew Print (Ategtns - Headers Footers etc) andmOK.
SIMULATIONS PACK (P) 5 DISKS (Not A12D0) £5.25
AOS the PD Stmuiations in one pack Metro, K'tng Oil, titAe,
tmpenum, Sealance, Truckm, DC 10, Conquest Insiders Club, Air
Warrior
DISK EXPERT PACK (P) 5 DISKS £5.25
If you want to learn more about your Am\ga, get thrs pact 1 ' - You'll
be a disk expert in no timet Includes tower PtxAer (Easy file
compacter), Sid (Brilliant CD fleplacement Tootl), Sconnvmia
(Change any Icon in seconds), Ffxtdisk, Viruschecker V5.3, D-Copy
(Cooks, Repairs, Formats and snore), CLl Tutorial (AS yov need to
know) and BOB other MMtafl
*C- PROGRAMMERS PACK (P) 6 DISKS £6 30
A complete X' language and superb instructior\ ntoHuai vrovide
ail you need to /cam the 'C' Idrtguage., includes Nbi* C (S crtstay
and the C Manual (4 dists)
MED V3.21 MUSIC PACK (P) 4 DISKS £4 20
MED is wkiety recognised as the best music package, PD or
omerwisell This pack contains V3.S?T, the latest version complete
v/lth loads of digital samples, j disk kill of MED music scores or\d
some great MED rnustc \o load and play* Listen to what your
machine is capable off
500+ CLASSIC GAMES PACK (P) 5 DISKS £5 25
An incredible collection of superb commercial quality arcade
games! Hours of fun for both kids and adults. Includes.- Defender,
Gataxians, Scramble, Missile Command, Pic-Man, fji-ptanes, Dripl,
Space irwaders, Asteroids, Breakout, Tetns + more*.
CARD + BOARD GAMES 2 (P) 4 DISKS £4,20
Another outstanding cottezijon! Jff very good Thmlong' Games?-
Chess VB, Backgammon, Blackbox, Towers, Pipe, Trtrg, Maze,
Comect4, Dominoes, Draughts, Othello, Go Moku, Dragon Tiles,
Klondike, Canfield, Mastermind, Wordsearch, Hangman, Pontoon
andmanymoK.
PUZZLES PACK 3 (P) 3 DISKS £3.15
d brand new graphical puzzle games, all brilliant fy done,
guaranteed to keep you pSayingi-. Astndo,Flag Catcher, HolheDo,
Quadnx, Paragon, Technoban
HARD DISK PACK 2 (P) ,3 DISKS £3. 1 5
Grtf coflecfai d trie Satet haxSdtsk [Xikdes wWes HQcM (nvm.i nvkv).
ti!envn±r (directory etc), a backup (superb!), ajpcntdr (password protect
every ifcwe, (muse and totoara^i, dtsV opfrrTuzp. ccpter ■uttjt irrfer gpd
morel
SHOOT "EM UP PACK (P) 5 DISKS . £5.25
The finest blasting Barnes in PD! Includes.- GategaVB. ftevenge,
Intruder Alert, Blizzard, Tom Cat, Moonbase and Hetlzone
MATHS REFLEX PACK (P) (NEW) ... ..2 DISKS £2.10
forages S tcaJLiT A superb-*®? \o mpcti* tax natfer. Includes additiori,
v.iktarticr, (nuitiphrabnn, dnticn, fractions and a^eb a Afso .nctjdes a fm
mmorygamt.
HOME BUSINESS PACK f P) 4 DISKS £4 20
Designed especially far/Kwcaflers In business soltvaie, this packcaitains a
database (BBax). spreadsheet, accounts jwckge and Wordpnxessv fQERi
Aii&xriuuedMed 1B,.5QQ YfordspeHing cheder and* ypWdsBiste
HOME BUSINESS MANUAL ■ P: £2.99
flpptox 50 page proftsswo^pryuedr^^
the bz$imeis business pack, bcludes a specialty Yr^m guided tnt skTkyi
that tates kxi tirough tf» major featnes of each program and ensures fat you
can ise each program wilfi cenhdenct!
SINGLE DISKS AT ONLV £ 1 .051
BUSINESS
B3S1 (P)AmigafDK (English Desk Top PirbH^iing)
B399 (P) 600 fltisrhess tetters (Superb! - Ready to use)
8333 (f>) Ambase Piofessicfial 9 (Now PDS - Super database)
B33S (P) forms unlimited ( Design invoices etc, oukckSy)
B339(P) 0) A-Graph (Produce Bar + Line Graphs easify!)
B3$7(P)Q) letf Engine V3 4 (sretf kx&rq v*jrdp(ocz55&)
B34B (P)(Newf) Wordpower (Great spell checker with
crossword and anagram solving tool)
B344 (P)(NEW)The Money Program (Very nice accounts package)
UTILITIES
(P) Cli Tutohai (beam all about it)
0437 (P) (J) D Copy V?(Now an cwi better disk copier!)
U478 (P) Typing Tutor (Newt Great features )
V& SO Vkuschecter V6. 19 (P)(The latest -for the plus too!)
U496 (P) MessyskS (Beads and writes PC disks)
U40Q4 (P) Now updated for the new pools rules'
U4Q09 (P) Amiga Tutorial (A begmners manual on disk, superb!)
U40S9 (P) Opticomms £ (Includes ncomm V2)
U4QS5 (P) PC'oAmiga (Transfer Hies and much more - superb)
U40B7 (P) (f-ISW) inschpt (The finest video titier yet seen ■
incredible features - very professional)
U40B3 (P) Printer Drivers (Over 100 - Meet St* * Citizen
models including colour and HP500CI)
U4099 (P) Degrade (Turn WB2 into 3 ■ lets you load those.
problem programs')
U403G (P) ("MfW; Virus Z (kilts all knovm germs!)
U403T (P) (NEW) Twilight Zone {Excellent screen blanker with
6 modules!)
U403? (P) (N£W) See-Pix (Make the colours you print out
exactiy like the colours on screenf)
U4Q33 (P) (NEW) Lyapunovxi (Creates wetrd pictures - try
Metallic Sci-Ft!)
GAMES
G601Q (P)A£(X)+ Games (£1 Games for the Plus')
G6027 (P)(f) LoMan Superb ultirnat^achtnt^
graphics ■ hordes of monsters' (f^EW)
G6D35 (P) (NEW) tdaktris (Superb "Columns' game!)
G6036 (P) (I) (NEW) Total War (Perfect wjtct of The tosk. board
game)
G6G42 (P) (NEW) Super Pacman 92 (Easily commercial
standardi)
G604KP) Dr Mario (Ihe classic console game)
(36048 (P) Act of War (Substanbai Arcxde Actenture - Like laser
Squad!)
G6049(P) Neighbours (2 disks (B. 10). Nave an adventure m
Ramsey Street!)
G6050 (P) (NEW) Yacht C(0*ssic five chce game - new version)
G605 1 (P) (NEW) Bridge (The futl card game - special A T200
version included!!)
G60S£ (P) Wbrdsearch £ (9 good versions wtih loads of puzzles)
G6033 (P)Cybernetjx(TtebestPD game by far -like Defender!)
CHILDRENS
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work (or do anything else) at regular Intervals - thanks to Fish disk 771
As regular readers will
know, I frequently look
at the latest disks from
Fred Fish - a man who
has made it his mission to collate
Amiga PD and shareware, and
distribute it around the world.
Indeed, this month we have disks
771 to 790 under scrutiny -
supplied by those nice people at
Anglia PD. Unfortunately, however,
it seems uncertain how long the
Fred Fish collection will continue in
its present form.
Reproduced here ^^m*^^^*
is a message
which Fred himself
has E-malled
around the world:
"Over the last
couple of years,
I've noticed a trend
where fewer and
fewer people are
on my direct
subscriber list, This last year has
seen a particularly sharp decrease,
from about an average of 75
subscribers to the current low of 41.
That's right, there are only 41 people
or organisations in the whole world
that receive disks directly from me
as of January 17, 1993, with about
half of them being outside the USA.
"During this last year, the
amount of time I have had available
to spend constructing disks, doing
accounting, and otherwise managing
the library has also dropped sharply,
so that more than ever I depend
"It seems uncertain
how long the Fred
Fish collection will
continue
upon using outside help for things
like sorting the submitted material,
creating prototype disks which t then
use for constructing the final disks,
and doing the actual duplication,
packaging, and shipping of the disks,
t cannot expect these people to work
for nothing, so I have been paying
them reasonable compensation for
their time out of the ever-dwindling
subscription income.
"It has reached the point where
sometime in the next month or two I
will make a
—m**^^^^ decision about
whether or not to
shut down the
library, since if
there are
insufficient
incoming funds to
meet the operating
costs as well as
pay for an
occasional perk like
a trip to an Amiga show once or
twice a year, or some new hardware
toy, there is little incentive to
continue spending 20-30 hours a
month running it
"If you are in a position to
influence a club, computer store, or
other Amiga-related organisation to
maintain a direct subscription for
new disks, and thus help fund
continued maintenance of the library,
and are interested in seeing the
library continue to grow, I'd urge you
to consider doing what you can to
help push the number of direct
mm
ff®ff free
In this month's round-up of
budget-priced programs, Ian
Wrigley tests fifteen of the best
new disks around* Plus the latest
PD news: could this really be the
end of the line for Fred Fish?
BEGINNERS
What is PD?
BEGINNERS
START HERE license ware,
PD is a general
term which many people
Incorrectly use to refer to all freely-
distributable software. In fact, PD
{which stands for Public Domain)
software is only one branch of this
area; the other main one is
shareware.
Essentially, PD software may
be copied and used by anyone,
although some authors place
restrictions such as not allowing a
PD library to charge more than a
certain amount for the disk.
Shareware, on the other hand,
should be treated more like
commercial software. Although
you are allowed to copy and pass
around shareware programs, if you
like one then you should pay the
requested fee to the author - It's
normally around £15 or less, and
often entitles you to an upgraded
version or a printed manual Paying
your shareware fees encourages
software authors to write more
programs - and if they don't, the
Amiga scene will be a poorer
place. Don't think that you're
paying money for nothing, either -
often hundreds or even thousands
of hours of work have gone into
creating a program, and it's only
right that the programmer receives
some reward for his or her work.
The third branch of software
that we cover here is called
This is a form of
shareware which is licensed to one
(or more) PD libraries. In essence,
when you buy a licenseware
program you are buying shareware
and paying the license fee at the
same time. For this reason, you
should treat any licenseware that
you buy exactly as you would treat
a piece of full-price commercial
software - don't pass it around to
your friends. You've only bought
the right to use it yourself.
Can I pass other people copies?
Yes - that's the way that PD
reaches a wider audience. Just
make sure that you have followed
the author's requirements for
distribution. These are normally
things like not charging mere than
a certain amount for the disk, or
that you make sure that all the
original documentation is included
on the disk.
You can also pass on
shareware - but not any registered
copies of programs, If, when you
pay your shareware fee, the author
sends you an improved version of
the program, then be careful not to
give that out. Only pass on
unregistered shareware.
You should not, of course, pass
on licenseware - it should be
treated in the same way as
registered shareware.
RATING THE PROGRAMS
Just to be awkward, I rate the software that I review in two different ways,
depending on what it is. Disk magazines, collections of clip art and the
like are given a 'value for money' rating, since you're essentially paying for
one thing, or group of things, on the disk.
Single programs which appear in a collection of others, or programs
which We downloaded from bulletin boards, are given a 'program rating',
which reflects how good i think they are, taking into account usability,
b u g- p roof n ess, my own particular (or should that be peculiar?) tastes and
so on- Both ratings are out of a maximum possible 10.
AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 24 • APRIL 19*3
subscribers back up to more
reasonable levels. Thanks.
' Fred Fish, 1835 E Belmont
Drive, Tempe, AZ 852S4 P USA.
Phone 602^91-0048/
It would be a real shame if Fred
was forced to close down his library
- he's done so much good
for the Amiga
at any time as the program sits in
the background.
Finally, the source code - in C -
is included, so if you T re a budding
programmer you can
Ml
community in terms of making sure
that shareware and PD rs widely
distributed. If you're a member of a
user group - or even a PD library - I
urge you to think about whether your
organisation could subscribe, rather
than getting disks second-hand, That
way you'll get all the latest PD as
soon as it appears - and you'll help
make sure that the Fred Fish library
lives on.
Well, it's in your hands. In the
meantime, let's take a look at just
fifteen good reasons why Fred Fish
should continue...
AUTOSAVE
Fish disk 771
This is a simple little program which
has one task in life - to call an
ARexx script at regular intervals. The
author, Michael Warner, wrote it to
implement an auto-save feature,
although it could be used for
"You can set it to
execute the script
every 1,5, 15 or
60 minutes"
whatever you want. Basically, to use
it you must write your ARexx script
(what do you mean, you can't
program in ARexx - haven't you been
following our tutorial series?}, and
use the icon too I types to specify
where your script is saved. You can
set it to execute the script every 1,
5, 15 or 60 minutes - a window
allows you to switch between these
Kurve 2.001 is a fast and
easy-to-use function plotting program
for helping out with maths homework]
reverse-engineer this to see how
Michael has written AutoSave to use
and interrupt the timer device.
To sum up: if you can program in
ARexx, and you have an ARexx-
compatible program, AutoSave is a
neat and efficient way of getting that
program to automatically save your
work for you.
Program rating 8/10
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First !
Street/No. ;
ZIP/K:
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Birthday;
Phone:
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even seem to have problems when
you give it unpleasant curves to deal
with - if the area comes out as
Infinity', the program doesn't crash,
but merely reports that it's
*+++++++*.
Other data which you can get
from a curve includes any zero
points, turning points and maxima
and minima. For further customising,
the maximum and
minimum values of
x can be set, as can
things like the
colours used for the
graph, the screen
mode, and so on.
The program will
only accept one
variable - x - but it
has a reasonable
range of built-in
mathematical functions which can be
accessed, including the standard
trigonometric ones like sin, cos, tan,
and their inverses, plus sinh, cosh
and tanh, exp, sqr, and more.
All in all, this will be a great
program for any matns students who
want to check their results, and is
ideal for anyone who needs to plot
mathematical curves but who
doesn't have the time or patience
(or T like me, the ability to draw a
smooth curve or use one of those
bendy ruler things properly!). My only
criticism is that in the English
documentation, Henning says that
because Kurve is so easy and
faster version for machines with a
maths co-processor.
Program rating 9/10
DFADDRESS
Fish disk 781
Yes, DFAddress is another address
book utility - even though the
introductory
ideal for anyone
who needs to plot
mathematical
curves.
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DFAddress claims that it's "not just another address book utility". But apart
from a couple of Interesting features, that's all it looks like to me
KURVE 2.001
Fish disk 778
Kurve is a function plotting tool
written by Henning Rink - German
authors seem to abound this month.
It's fast, and easy to use - but it's
also rather powerful. Just give the
program a mathematical function,
and it will plot the graph for you. But
that's not all it does - it will also, on
request, plot the first and second
differentials of the function, and will
numerically integrate the function to
provide a reasonable estimation of
the area under the curve, It doesn't
intuitive to handle, I wrote only a
short documentation. If you want
more info about the program refer to
the [German documentation], which
includes a complete description of all
program features. "
Fine, but if you don't read
German ycu may find yourself
puzzling over some aspects. Still,
despite that this program is one
which will soon become popular with
any Amiga-using scientists and
mathematicians out there. Its speed
alone sets it streets ahead of the
competition. And if you send the
author DM20, he'll send you an even
documentation
says that it's
"NOT just another
address utility/
However, the
program does
have a couple of
interesting
features which
may make it worth
a look if you're
still searching for the perfect 'little
black book' program.
First, the program is actually a
commodity, so it can run in the
background and be invoked by a hot-
key. Second, it can display an
address in two different ways; one
contains just the name, town, phone
and E-mail addresses of a record,
the other shows the full details. This
is probably reasonable in that often
you only want a person's phone
number, but displaying three E-mail
addresses and not the fax number? I
suspect that the author, Dirk
Federlein, lives in a far more
electronic world than most of the
rest of us!
Creating new records is easy,
although the format is a little odd:
there's a field called 'address' which
seems to have no use, only one line
for the street address (so things like
'Unit 11/Gibbon Business Estate'
are tricky to enter) and the postcode
comes before the city name. There's
a field for the person's birthday, but
only one line for comments. And so
on - not at all flexible enough, really.
The program does have a couple
of interesting - although not
particularly useful - options, such as
the ability to dial the phone number
via a modem connected to the
Amiga's serial port (does anyone
actually use this facility in address
books?), and the option to auto-enter
data into any of the fields (so if, for
instance, almost all your contacts
lived in Aberdeen you could have that
automatically entered, and then edit
it only when necessary).
The search features are probably
some of the most sophisticated I've
come across - you can exclude as
well as include specified patterns,
for instance - but to be honest all
you're ever likely to want to do is find
a person's record quickly - not do
convoluted, Unix-style searches of
your address database.
continued on poge 1 1 0
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inoXides Abridge. EtO|>ers. DA & AnimTods
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Sdgrapriics. TWsdsfcfs just wfurlyou need.
JX V87f
the Ulmale sound mating program. fciods ol Teasures and it's easy to use.
JX V6K) GOLF SCORES Vli4 It Will ■ JX V770 ACCOUNT MASTER v2 0
record each round you play. Slore it,
make up an eclectic score NEWf
. 'lli-Tii £mns v.^iiren Account program
J&V773 WBV2.04 WlNDOWBENCH
UX V61I FOOTBALL LEAGUE EDITOR vl.O Excellent Workbench replace'
vl.l Want lo update ytur learns league
position as Ihe results come in Nol fifiDO
JX V620 ASR1CE v3 2 LVcud Analysis
A full featured progrom tor electric circuit
JX V421 ED WORD V2. 2 is olulfy
ir^' J*i \rtr#n 'rwvii trrinuufm I rdlJ ' ' Word processor
* \U V*24 m COPIER V2.0 ifi rppv
■pocked with wdeo 4 Genlock utilities
if V41S VIDEO SCREENS ■ 1 Back
gnxind pidures for vxjeo produdion
AmlgoDos, Inde* Nfcble modes,
search made fit special paran
JX V427 DPAINT FONTS No 3 T-3
inq irack C" -r-x, ■ . ideo :«'■ rnlleclicrs
1 JX V518 IMAGE LAB -h.S program is
' ike a mini Art DiPT. Tm*s On Top
Otes fades colourba^sSt gray bar,
IJX VS19 VIDEO; STILLSTORE Used
10 crenle m& Ihe shoulder qrapl' ■: :■•
JX VAB7 VIDEO WIPES A cat«1ion of
|IFF Brushs & bccka^oufid groohi; effects
JX V693 HARLEQUIN VIDEO ART &
FONT DISKS A video prtdl-dtn v-'i-h
cxcoileni hackqrounds &, Ftnts t3)
jx vbib INSCRIPT vU FrabrawrJw
titles. Indudes Tully edilcDk- lex' enlrv. IFF
»CS OS Dark ;|ro..>r.:js <: ' _li JfiS.
JX V829 VIDEO PRODUCTION 3-4
I his is iho aiesi collecriL^ of rhe New
Ivideo relaled utihtes. Excellent (2J
JX V668 GENETATED ART E>.COllor.l
cr. lint hor of back ground pictures.
JX VS74 VIDEO TTTLER PRODUCTION
Utilities Itr generating video Trties.
JX L27 VIDEO TEXTURES Like B'OCk
martle. GacxWork, RoL;gtilce. Marble,
Tiles Water ripples & Wood. £3.50
JX FFP10 FLETCHE.R FONTS A hree
disk pock of ^0 - iOO taint 16 colour
Video Fonts. Includes tem plates £9 *
IW'I,'- ' ILIITTTTTT^—
JX VI 6 THE AQUARIUM f ums your
srr«e i uiro u'i Oyecotchirn Fish tank
JX PRINT STUDIO Excellent far
itmg graphic pidures or jus_r_tc.xi.
with any IFF Painring I DTP Program
V63S IScM EMULATOR vl.05 Is
a C&A Colour IBM-PC Cmutalor widen to
run on any Amiga, Shareware version
JX V*47 HACKS A sefection of WB
Hacks that have been reviewed in CU
J V«48 TITAN ICS CRUNCHER vl .0
Duncher wilh help & various prtled
modes includes speed changes
JX V6S9 COMPUTER DIAGNOSTICS
v9^ Is ihere a problem vyiih your
computer! Then whal is it.
JX V660 HOME MANAGER This is o
greol aH In one address book with on
nventory database & To-do llsl
JX V46T VERTEX Allows you to are*
id objects wiih-o^r using 'he X, Y & Z
views. Loads Sculpl 3dW ft Turbo Silver,
j V662 DCOPY v3.0 PRO Vou
select Ihe speed ot Ihe did: drive. Copy
mnries Dos. Ntocopy, Ver & safecopy
JX V666 MODELLING OBJECTS (2)
Contains over 20 vector ottjeds in
image formal Perfed wilhDistV661
JX Vi78 DRAW MAP v4-l P) fOU
can gerverofe w^rld mops m detoJ.
JX 2Mb. JX 1 2Mb or JX 1Mb
JX V68 1 GAME TAMER v2.2 Get a hold
af that exlra hard gome & Cheat.
J V683 SUPER LOCK vl.01 Seal
lyour drsks / Hard drives lor your eye's
. only Prelects wilh a Password
, J MASTER VIRUS KILLER Vir . JX V6 94 f q m T c HARACTER E D \tOU
lecker & KMur, Wt^Escellenl options.
I : J V2 1 5 DrSKMASTER v3. 2 Copies
I l : As from u'ie disk "c onoi'ie--
B JXV262 DUPLICATION & BACKUP
I Super Duper.Turha copy. Sanity copy
^ifl. PCopy. Four new disk copiers.
15 JX V277 FORTRAN-77 vl.3c Oom-
ni!or l"iker Js run rime sL:pyort libs.
IJX V27° CROSSWORD CREATOR
Creates crosswords. LPDATEDVEI5SICN.
- JX V284 MCAD PROGRAM The
■ Obiect 61 cv/ ng Program ie C A D.
I jx V29S NORTHC vt3 Tne Complete
. C language wrih oil files needed (2]
■jjX V301 EYE Of THE BEHOLDER The
I ""f Book w.- n . Vops Slru'ea^ fl. ioldion
. jx V323 ANALTICALC SPREAD
I SHEET T-ie best spread shcti. 421
■ UX V3B2 AMIGA PUNT PROGRAM
KPredid which horse will win the race
I I JX V33* SPECTRUM EMULATOR
jDota Disk 1- The Advenlure Classics
I JX V350 BUSINESS CARD MAKER
' besiqn yaur own Business cards
I" JX ^36ri 400 BUSINESS LETTERS
lover 600 Standard Business letters
jX V390 DESK tOP PUBLISHING
IaExlro fealures Texl & Graphics fditors
j JX V392 AMICASH BAN KIN TiiebeSl
menl Tor all WB v2 Oi* Users t2)
JX V777 VOICE CU v5.2 ^he Idea is 1o
conlral Ihe CU/Shell wilh your own voice.
JX V77B RAYS HAM v4.0 Complex
Ray iraclng package.ZWUrj (J)
j)f V782 FORMS Create, Edit, Draw
Colour & print your own forms
JX V7S3 PROGRAMMING TOOLBOX
Wtany programs to help in your develop-
merrreflorisLmasl C but same in bosicl
JX V7S4 AREXX (2) Two disks which
contain Arexx programs & examples
jx V786 PASCAL dlskconlains
e*erythiiTg needed lo program in Pascal.
-•: !.. :ies ci»<. bW-Jd ovA^t v & m»i e
JX V7B7 PROGRAMMER TOOLS
GadToote lo design your user inferloce to
your own programs using all of Amiga
X)5 2 5+5 new leorlures. Also RegToofs
JX V790 AN|WlAT!ON UTLS Includes
CyroUlilsfor sphrtng, combining, and
creaiing orwnalicrts Trom IFF picture tiles
JX V791 DIRECTORY ults includes Hne
HCfe& Documenl R*e. Lock your dalo
tiles wvlh 0 passworded incriplion.
:jX V952 X-8ENCH vT.O The complete
scJulion to ihe oil round replacement
Workbench. ConlansDegiader. Lost
Hope, View, Virus Checker v6 59, Power
packer, DCopyZ APrel ond Boollntro
JX V954 WHOM it) [3] An excellent
database whKh covers Sdar Trek The
Nexl generolion. Classic Trek. $lor
cops The priMjner. Blake 7 & Tripods
JX V557 TACKS vl,2 Is o catfedion
of utilities 10 help you create your
own self bocning animation disks.
JX V95S CLUB" LEAGUE Is a . I ly
1ho1 wiH allows you 10 edri and keep
Irack ol your divisons/leaggue s.'ols.
JX V959 AMIGA E A specific
compNler. E is a powerful and llexible
procedural prog/amming languboe
JX V960 ClfO vl.O Inpfemenlation
or u new experimental Pascal like
language Includes Complier+Source
JX V961 CPK vl.O Will render a spece
fling representations of atoms in mole
cules. Handles 3dimensionol spheres.
JS V962 SUPER KILLERS v3 0 (2)
Contains all the laiesl Virus Killers Irte
BatlXvS.230, vl vl.05, VCvO 20. V2
v2 30 and VT v2.4B. Now on 2 Disks.
JX V97& WB V2 .04 UTILITIES * The
next oo*edion of WB v2.04+ ulilities,
JX V977 FILE & HD No S-A AnOlher'
excellent colted af HD utilities (2]
JX V*78 NCOMM v3,0 Is a coi nm
unications program based on Comm
vV34 witti fols of very nice enhance-
ments. Hos new functions ovtr '-2 U
REGISTERED VERSIONS
JX THE COMPLETE AA4 PACKAGE
v2.0 WMh interface & Full ComericaJ
software. Trur s^rs. disks from your
original 64 drive This is o Full regersl-
ed version ol 1he Software £44.99
JX X-SmCH By Jeff Tullm prints oui a
pidure In the form of 0 cross sitich
pattern lor embroidering. £16.99
ERIC SCHWARTS
JX 1700 ANTI- LEMMINS [2) 2Mb
JX 2133 GULF WflF! CONFLICT 2Cl.
JX 2307 AMY AT THE MOVIES II (41
JX 2311 AMt"V9 WALKER II [2] 3Mb
JX 23 B4 AMY AT THE BEACH (21 3Mb
JX 2477 AMYWALKS
JX 247B UNSPORTING 2Mb
. IX 2500 THE 5KY PI
lyou must remove coloured liles
JX 2447 COINDROP Fruil Machine
simulotorwrlh various gamble modes.
J 2448 CRAZY SUE Another hrsl
Jrcrie cute school girl platformjiame.
Ji 2450 SMASH TV - THE RlP OFF
Simu'ai 10 'he original orcode machine.
IWirh neat grapgics & sound.
JX 2400' AMOS FRUIT MACHINE II
As near as possible to Ihe fruil
machine found in Pubs & Arcades.
JX 2482 DESCENDER Is a clone of
the classic arcade game Tempest
complete with vectorized graphics.
JX 24B3 INTRUDER is a Mulli level
Berserk clone with smooth graphics.
JX 2*B4 CATACOMB vU A graphical
advcnluro gamesel an a small islccd in
Ihe middle ol the \oro ol EXOJilA. NEW
JX 2435 IRON CLADS ! LMh! Jpddelo
Itie e:vLL- Of' Slra'eqic War Game W
JX 2491 1EGEND OF LOTHIAN vl 02 is
an advenlure game if. II ie veil
JX 2494 HUNCHBACK This feO
conversion ol the old classic game.
.JX 2498 AMOS CRICKET Excelled
arcade crtkel simulator wih graphics.
JK 2534 BATTLE CARS II Get behnd
1he wtieel ol 0 tieavly corned cor cs you race
roLnd courses 2 payers wMh the ccmpL+er link
JX 2S35 SUPER PACK MAN 92 INs is
Ihe besi Pack man to dole with super
smooth scrolling & excelled graphics.
All The Clip Art packs are 99- 100% Fun & noiv
fealure 0 slideshow option & Workbench friendly I
JX CA1 (5] Sparls. Flags. Anirnols, cartoons.
Humorous, Xmas. Jewish, bnrders, Hollo ween,
valentines, eyss. alptiabels, hards, zotioc. cars
JX CA2 {5| ,Men, womoi^ifjyrninaled A to Z, arrows, I
stors.explosorirs, humorous, carloons. paioling hands. I
JX CA3 [5> r rjil. herhs. ,Veo". A/rcws. Special 'Ocossicns. I
VegeloWes.KfcheriJ1enci:s.Cups.Cik]ss A't Deco. 6f eaklKis.
JX CAS [5) ChrisTas Pocko.'era & 201h century
from father chnslmosto borders lo trees & borders.
JX CA6 (2] Mythological Monsters an excellenl
pock of creatures from all over the world Japan,
Europe, India, North America, S.America ect.
JX CA7 (2) Pictures ol ihe most popular flowers,
plus arrangemts.silohuclf cs,!lcwers in vases.
JX V707 SCALEABUE CUP ART Completely new
scoieahleQip pictures ; or Pro Draw rFStorniot
JX V6B9 WALT DISNEY JX V419 VIZ
JX V«64 PRO DRAW JX V421 CARriELD
:",OUEJX V4W BEATRIX POTTER ]
: JX ATOS KUNGON D7 JX 1060 STAR TREK *;
iCRUISER ires larpedoes TNG This game is by
while passing by WCC-lflMTenv A Mc Inlosh. vt.47 1
JX AT10 ENTERPRtCES JX 1Q81 THE UTLTlMATE 1
Leaves the Slar station STAR TREK (2] Game r
dock. NCC 1701-A The by itaias Richter. Now |
classic original Ariim w=lh English
JXAT22APF*OACHrMO instrLcriCIS.
ME55ELS, Animotion. Binary JX 2222 STAR TFEK
jFlighl Wireframe THE NEXT
JX 2613 DUAL A 2 plow* game where [ j£ AT23 STflR ^ GENERATION this is the |
youconttol ormoored tanks & rockets.
JX 2614 TETREN tS a 1 C*r 2 player
Ttttis game 2 plover is Head 2 Head
j* 2615 WAR Sfrosegy war game in
which you conlral u ieef ol soace ocfi
iET MANEUVER NCC- lu'esl aun qome based an|
1940Ftvover fteTHG 12^
JX AT33 THE PROBE II J 2501 STAR THEK [2\
Anm . 6RID OF PREY Game / Jimbt Barrier
. JX AT34 LEAVING SPACE Arr.or r. v lM'O
JX 2617 GOLOEN OLDIES 2 : Croak. 0fnc ^ DOCKING, JX 2S0S STAR TREK
Ewreilent 1 or 1 player version c F'onner ATTACK MODE, Bird ol Oome by E ric Gustalson I
MoumMon, vesnr d\ pxiLkiViun. Bl- p rqi , Scou , hi „ ir a |j DC k US Inpon 1Mb & S3]
Planes, This is Ihe most adckir>e gomes
we hewe played here 2 pkryer only. Trali-
Blazer, C.VJ& 6- Cdssic. Scambfe. j — ■ ■ -":r -y ■ t a " fir, * 1
tie 4*4fi np MARIO •• -lr l ir - '-'"i--ri- rtroqrair- wii"i I l. "n l-T kvnnrrand By PD-Sofl
JX 2620 DR.MARIO A^^glrtTM gpg^ fORmjLA ^ ^ ^ ^
DEJA vu software €4 99
JX LP35 T-TECORAW Tfie besl Drawing
like gome where you move u«^ u , cu — - iSjui*™4i««Bi»r
pills down Ihe screen. 3 in a row go's mar- ug -T,c-.i_gn me on ihe Arnlgo. BEST SE LUr*3
JX 2621 ETERNAL ROME Slartttie
mosl powerful and highly recommended
programs v^hkti ore oesigned 1o make
: . .iiHillosksvirluallycbsalele.
jX V794 GRINDER A complete graphic
conversion package 1hat supports GIF,
jPeg, Alori S1 INeachrcme / Degasl PCX,
rorgo, IFF, Ham-E and IFF Formal pics.
I JX V797 EASY AMOS PROGS E2J
domain source code kir vse with Easy Amos.
JX V799 ADVENCED UTlLsSeiNel t
ParNet, Conned 2 Amigo & share resour-
ces via Ihe serial i Pordlel ports Mymeiw
Puts fTHnus on your Workbench screen.
JX V30O ARCHIVE RS IL This disk is
packed vtfh Ihe latest Archivers to dole.
jX V401 100 PRO PAGE FONTS Theses
lonls are for ose wilh Pro Page & have be
Checked wirh ihe fonr cnn-verls program
which comes with Pro Paqe3.
JSV806 W6v2 04 UTILfTES |2) This
is the our second double disk colledion
of WBv2.0^4 utilities fXA tote advantage
vi.O, Also conitms other utilities.
i jx V66S ASTRO PRO ASTROLOGY pi ihe NfW friochines capabilities
Best Aslrokwy prog on Ihe Amiga ov lor JK V809 MEGA CHEATS v2.1 h
jx V686 multidos vi.12 ' ■ disk ccmtoins ihe very latesl cheats.
JX V611 ELECTROCAD vl.42 &
drives con tten read 720k IBM Disks -,-,- , ,,„
JX ViQJs MAGNETIC PAGES Vl .30
>eaf» disk besed rrwgojires wfh riaptrcs
j J® V6W> WB V2-04 uTILITES til Tr i stf
comains Ihe programs Ihat should hove beai
Lvilt 'fib 2.04*. they Irie hi odrantooe of the
many NEW topabiilies ftal ae avaikiale.
KJX V692 RACE RATER tfl A Prot/om lor
oeootewho wani ."fo otwut tiuri.e rcces
JX V696 POST VI, 7 PodSafpl mlerpreSer
wNcfi implemeris tte Atiobe iongmsge. ARP
JX V69B AGRAPH v2.0 Brings Ihe
PROTOTPER Another Updated on the
Electronics drawing Programs.
JX V812 CANON This dbfc contains
pTinler Drivers & Canon Stuck), Gives
better print output lor ony v pin printer
JX VB14 PC TASK vl.11 is a software
PC Emulator Allows you lo run the
maprity of ffiM software with NO addit-
ional hardware. CGA Colour MEW UPDATE
JX VB1S HUE & HD MANAGEMENT
2 ; DirWorkvl.62 File CtDier MegaD
Another NEW Updale on an excellent
Parkin program Itial I nave ever used i J)f y704 AMOS COMPILER vLS4
V394 Ch&MESTETICS v2.14
jfl, w D7D Huiwrn ti.v oi ii iya 11 ic ™ iu" ■ t y^'^ — ■ — ■ — ■■■^""■»-
workd a cheap draw Bar. line. Area & P« iFJIe copier likelho NEW DiskMosler
chart productio-v oresenia' tfi prngram Pro I ir) ifs Operations. Also conlams
JX V700 PERM CHECK rjesgned to tAe |oods ol olher prograniis lo h^P^ rrtl
chore cut of checking pian-s lor winning ines
JX V701 STRATA vi.O Is a tardscape
generarling prog. Allows prinling Irom
any angle, position or mognilicalion.
JX V702 EASY RAMOS FOR EASY
AMOS Update for Easy Amos user's.
JX V703 AMOS UPDATER DISK vl .34
A major update ro Ihe software, Directty
uOdoie AMOS iiislalled on a hard disc
Fma.rai r l'ial d'C L -..j. Tioiet u a-* uSu -C;
!hf ralohe moael Uddatec 1his Month
JX V401 WINDOWBENCH vT.O £2)
An excellent Workbench 1 replace-
ment / Upgrade Tor oti WBvl.3 users.
JX V413 WORKSTATION Nul <J'
mother WB clone, irsa collecKcn ol
Second AMOS Compiler Update.
JX V705 MED V3.21 fXfflM uCxlOle
lo ihe lomous muSiC program Med
JX V710 AREJtX TUTORIAL Iodides
severd sarple Are« scnpls & sample progs.
ASea cones EnM m nl WB «2 044 disks
jx V711 UNIX Contains a wmbng
demo ol Minix,, A Unix workaliVe
V817 ASOQ PLUS EMULATOR As
it sounds will lei vl.3 / Vl 2 owners
run WB v2.0^+ soflworevwlh oui ony
need to purchase lo WB v2.0+ chips
VG-19 ICOMAUTHOR vl.06 Hepoce-
■nentrbrlCOCidirJ.O. It can Irgnsform IFF or
arushes into resoed 2-6(Plane brushes cr
ten fifes Cnal moldi Ihe WB yZ.W-f colours.
JX V820 BBBSS v5.7 5t jd 8andi1
buBelin Board System fKires indude up to
99 tile libraries, interface to exfca devices
JX U&21 SNOOPDOS Wl.5 Monitors
AmigaOcs colls & allows you to see whal
jbfary, devices, lonls are required.
J® V822 AElACKUPv3.77 A hard
dme backup program lhai fealures. multi-
drive suppod. fufbackup. compression
JX VB23 POWEHPIAYER vM Very poww-
172 ICON TOOL KJT JUSl oboul
every tool you could possibfy imogifte
JX V873 UGFC vil UliWies that will
help you translate between Amiga
Graphics and other computers,
JX VB75 SPACE Here oie uliities lo help
ran slucfy denlDy Ihe Stars & cdesliol nhjeds
JX V676 SYSTEM v4,l checks, tesl
and reporls on your computers Memory
JX V87* BEAT 03S MODULES For
use wilh OclaMED includes a Player
JX VB82 MAGNUM ^1.4 Another
excellent Disk Magazine Creator,
j* VOB-B TRONl CAD vi.O The besl
Cad / Drowning program tor your
Amiga, Various power functions
j© V696 TOOLMANAGER V2.0 Itdldes
Ite abilfy to odd menu hems tolhe J x Took
menu acWWJicmsardcidWtfdows,
JX V397 OCTAMED v4.0 iave
disabled version ol Ihe tul featured
OclaMED Pro the commercial prodod.
JX VB99 ABACKUPv^.OAPowvertd
backup utility ihat may be used lor Hard
Drive backup &. file Archiving.
JS V9D0 BOOTJQB vi.O Indude
lundora lo store, nstoll viftv or execute any
boolblrxk Con sow as exefliloble dies.
J6V901 RM vLO InlroMaker k> Creole
youownlnlros Fealures IFF import
J© V902 iC GRAPH vl.l Demoverson
of Ihe srioreware Itto. Con show data os bar.
ine. piarves, slock, bijdts. Id ond 3d ect.
Oulpufe n EPS. 3d g», AjMisOrww ani IFF.
jX V903 UEDiT v4.0" (3] Word
ftocessar with learn modes. Online
Help. A leach Mode, copy & paste.
This is Now the Complete program
JX V921 COMPUORAPHIC FONTS
loose's loni?. wi wtTfc wilh DPamt \< 1,
ProPage. Poigestteam, Pogesetter and
Workbench V2 04+. Aboul 30 Fonts [3]
JX V924 PLOT MAP vQ,65 An exlra
for use wilh draw map v^ 0 or v4.1
JX V925 SLAUGHTER CHEATS
Another selection al Hacks & Cheols
□X V92B THE LITTLE OFFICE: Oneol
Ihe besl disks al the presenl time
JX V936 LETTERS & BOILERPLATE
tWore Storidard letters lor you to use
os your own or cut & pause.
JX V939 ANIM PB vl.2 Will show
loog sequences of animations or
pictures fromo memory or disk.
JX V942 SCREEN BLANKERS A disk
packed with various screen blankors.
JX V?43 LYAPUNOVIA vl-0 A fftrtd-
boggingly colourful program thai makes
pictures from o rnolbemcjlicol torrmufa.
JX V945 PROPAGE 3 ENHANCER
Contains over 40 Denies for use wilh
ProPage 3.0, indudrg useful ones like
Moke Pie Chert & others. Includes
structured diparl lor unique borders!
J© V946 SYSTEM OPTIMIZER
KCommodtfy gives you memory melers,
mouse/keyboard enhancements. RE org
will opfimiie hard and floppy disks lor
big speed increase HDlViem 2 meg ot
hard drive space for virtual memory.
JX V947 GNU PLOT h a command
driven interactive (undion ptoller. Creates
stunning pknVgraphs of mofriemctlicol
functions. ReqHDSi unpacks to 1.6Mb
JX V946 INTUITION BASED BENCH
marks A greai padcapje wfh all the
popular benchmarks including Sieve.
DhryslooG, Savage, IMath & Matin.
JX VV49 TESTS Coruains all of Ihe
ctossic speed tests and system checks
we could lind. Includes CPU Speed. A lull
featured system diagnostic tool & more.
JX V950 GAME CONSTRUCTION
ADLis a programming language and
-time ermorimenr designed (or Ihe
convenient wriihg of advenlure games
JX V951 PROTECTION is a COllecl-
ion of uliilies aimed to prated your
dolo. Password protects outobooing
1073 TETHtS ORIGINALThi? is the
closesl game lo the original tetris
jx 1420 DTRtS il you wont aT or 2
player Tetris tbis has 10 be 1 of them
IX 15*1 TRiTWtS Contains 1 player,
_ player & 3 Payer game options.
J T747 UAMATRON GAME 2001
By Jeff Minter & on excefcnt production
JX 174* SCRAMBLE I
Remember that old classic game
JX 1870 PATIENCPS Play vS Ihe
computer or another human player.
JX 1977 POM POM GUNNER ? io:v
down the incoming world war il air
plones in this Operorllon Wolf game
J 201 B JETMAN Another Spectrum
classic converted to the omiga. Il's
JelPak with all ihe original sounds.
JX 2022 SEA LANCE fhe lirsl Silenl
Service type sub war game on PD
JX 2054 ATIC ATAC A rend.HOfi o'
\\-f. :p rnH '•. ••: '. ;i "C-i Spectrum even, Crib Master, Klondike, Black-
■ JX LP47 DIRTY CASH vl.06 Hqs been ha led as [
Ihe best fruit Machine Simulator avoilible
JX LP70 PAINTBOX Is a very nice kiddies paint-
ing package wiihlo ready drawn pidures.
JX LP72 MONSTER ISLAND Is a role playing
game 1or chilaren who love 1he monsrers
romon Empire irom 3ZBC. Build fleets,
ormies &send l?vem into botlle.
JX 2622 DONKEY KONG Original
platltrm gome in which vou musl
comrol a lankon a mission lo lescuc
haslages m this superb Amiga origional
is easy to use with L'11 mslrudions Excellent.
: JX LP75 VIDEO LAB vl.l Here is a cheep, bui
t 2676 AMI
vS 1.4 Loots ol ^ Rr Y useable alternative 1o a gun lock PZDOl
2162 BATTLE OF BRfTlAN WAR
OAME 2 Strolegy war games.
JX 2164 DUNGEON ON NADROJ
This is Ihe besl Dungeons & Dragons
Public domain type game. Load Wb
JX 2220 STRATEGIC GAMES PernO!
Rome, Lords of Hosts. In Moonshine.
JX 2221 MIND GAMES 21 of Ihe
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J 22 24 SWORD OF THE WARLOCK A
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1he populor versions of Pontoon
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professionally presented selection af
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JX 2279 SUB ATTACK vl.O Conttol
the torpedoes & sink ihe enemy ships
as Iheysail past. LANDMINE,
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^CAMELS By Jed Minler Tt R rideoJ a
lite lime wilh motonl camels
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an exceBenl ptoifomn game.
JX 2411 TOTAL WAR The board
game RISK as reviewed in AF.
JX 2432 GOLDEN OLBfES Gulugo.
Oatexians. Space invaders, Asler-
lods Batty & fWissle Command.
JX 2436 DRAGON TILES v2.5
Mohjgng is o ancient chesegomewheie
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jx LP96 POWERTEXT Very good WPwiih a buirl
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;p track ol _ ulu ]
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SSSraSlSsirU LPT25 LYNX FILE COPIER Is specif.cally for
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new feoMes like better graphics, larger
dungeons. On screen updoles. overview
of ihe dungon's map & toads more.
JX 2710 CLASH Of THE EMPIRES v2,l
Straleg»cal War Game By T.A.Sear
Shoebury's wor Gaming Club (2|
UX 2712 ACT OF WAR Siroular in
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You control o learn or special troops.
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player version al the Classic Cartridge game
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amnga computer. Ewellenl fun far all
JX 2811 WIZZ WAR Theshool em up
with lireballs not lire power. Take the
wijard through various Unknown Lands
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ihe classic svolergy games Very popular
JX 2B23 GRAND PRIX MANAGER
the first type of Grand Prix Managem-
ent on Amiga. Creator What Nol A60O
JX 2825 ALL ROUNDER Cricket
game simulation wilh graphics.
JX 2626 TALISMAN Citadel
Miniatures dworts in a shock horror
game done in ihe besr possible ^iHle 121
JX2342 CRAZY SUE II
Ihe nil time besl setting PD Game.
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JX 2651 AMERICAN FOOTBALL
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contPnued from pog-e 1 08
On the whole, unfortunately,
DFAddress just isnt that good. It's a
shareware program, and for DM15
(plus overseas postage) you get a
'keyfile' which marks the program as
registered and
four preset pointers are provided -
the standard clock with one or two
animated hands, an hourglass and
the Workbench 1.3 *Zzz r bubble - but
you can create your own
cursors or
IS
Fish disk 773
If you're a Unix user, Is wilJ be
familiar to you: It's a directory listing
utility similar to, although much more
powerful than, the Amiga's W
command, This version, written by
Loren Rittle, is based on Justin
McCormick's earlier Amiga 1$ utility,
and includes a large number of
enhancements and bug-fixes.
You can use the program as a
direct replacement for 'dir'; it can be
placed in your k c:' directory and
made resident if you require. To give
you some idea of the command's
versatility, some of the options
include; list all entries; show
file notes; sort by extension; long
listing; sort by date; display entries
across a line; format output; ignore
BusyPointer allows
you to create animated 'busy'
cursors - far more interesting than
the Amiga's boring static watch face
means that you can save
preferences, choose the location of
your address file and the like- Out
there are better, more flexible
programs of this type knocking
around. Its benefits, such as fields
for E-mail addresses and the ability
to invoke it with a hot-key, don't
outweigh the disadvantages of an
inflexible format and a feeling of
unwieldiness about the whole thing.
Program rating 6/10
NICKPREFS
Fish disk 780
This is an enhancement to
Workbench 2.0's IPrefs which adds
three new preferences: WBPicture,
BusyPointer and
Floppy. WBPicture i^^^mmmm^^
allows you to
select any IFF
picture to replace
the original
Workbench
pattern;
BusyPointer allows
you to edit the
cursor which will
be displayed when
a program is working; and Floppy can
be used to suppress the empty drive
clicking noise and also to mess
about with step, settle and calibrate
timings (don't try this at home, kids).
All three Prefs controllers are
easy and clear to use, and all three
are well worth having. It's nice to see
a Workbench screen with a picture
instead of the normal grey pattern,
and BusyPointer is really very neat;
Also part of the NickPrefs collection on Fish disk 780: WBPicture, one of
three new Preferences managers to liven up your Workbench
"ffiese ore ffiree
neat additions to
the basic
Workbench"
load IFF brushes or Animbrushes if
you prefer.
I'm less convinced about Floppy;
sure, stopping the drive clicking is
nice, but being able to alter scary
things like drive timings isn't
something that I think is a good
thing. On the other hand, one of the
adjustable parameters is the
maximum number of times that the
drive will attempt to read data from a
disk before it returns an error, so if
you're having
m^^^^^^^ trouble reading a
slightly corrupt disk,
it's worth increasing
this value for a last-
ditch attempt to get
at your data.
Similarly, if you
decrease this value
from its normal 10 f
you'll be warned far
sooner if a disk is
getting less reliable. The author
claims to be using a setting for this
of zero, which means that the drive
will only try to read the data once,
with no problems.
All in all, these are three neat
additions to the basic Workbench
Preferences drawer, and they'll
certainly be staying on my hard drive.
Program ( s ) rating .9/10
files corresponding to a given
pattern; show full pathnames; and,
finally, list recursively. What more
could you possibly ask for?
Unix fans will already have their
chequebooks out in an attempt to
make their Amiga look more like the
box at work. To be honest, the rest
of us probably won't use a tenth of
the features available with Is - but
they're there if you want them, and
the program's only 12K in size.
There's even a special '030 version
included if you need it.
Program rating .....7/10
EXTRA COMMANDS
Fish disk 774
Talking of commands written to
replace or augment those supplied
with AmigaDOS, Torsten Poulin has
written a range of extra commands
for anyone using AmigaDOS 2.04
(unfortunately they won't work on
earlier systems). Like the is utility
reviewed above, these too are mainly
based on Unix commands.
Torsten 's documentation says
that these new commands should be
considered as beta versions, since
he hasn't had time to fix all the
bugs, but he documents any
problems that he's come across,
and many of the commands are
useful enough that you can live with
the occasional glitch. Here's a brief
run-down of the utilities that are on
the disk:
• Common. Reads two files and
produces a three-column output:
lines which only appear in the first
file, lines only in the second file
and lines in both files.
• Concat Concatenates (joins) two
or more files together,
• Count Counts lines, words and
characters in specified files.
• DirTree. Displays disk directories
and sub-directories on-screen in a
graphical format.
• Head. Prints out the first few lines
of specified files - useful if you're
not sure which of a number of fries
is the one you want.
• Lower. Executes a command line
at a specified priority - for use
when you're multitasking programs
or commands.
• Split Splits a file into separate
parts - either giving each part a
specified number of characters, or
splitting the file into a
predetermined number of parts,
• Tee. Er... according to the
documentation, this ' transcribes
the default input to the default
output and makes copies in the
files specified by the TO option."
Work it out if you can!
"It seems that more
and more extra CU
commands are
ff
appearing now
• Timecom. Executes a command
line and then prints the time taken
to perform that execution.
• Unique. Reports repeated lines in
a file.
These are all, to a greater or
lesser extent useful commands, and
Torsten is to be congratulated for
writing them. He includes full source
code for each command, so you can
modify them if you happen to have
the inclination, and asks only that
you send him bug reports and
comments on the code*
It seems that more and more
extra CLI commands are appearing
now, and the Amiga's CLI is
becoming more and more powerful
as a result. This selection certainly
adds a number of useful features,
and can be highly recommended.
Program(s) rating.
9/10
continual on page 112
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TWILIGHTZONE
Fish disk 782
If you like screen savers, you must
get hold of a copy of TwilightZone, a
free modular screen blanker written
by Rarner Koppler. It's the nearest
thing to the popular Mac Screensaver
After Dark that I've seen, and it really
is quite excellent
Two versions of the program
come on the disk, one for OS 1.3
users and one for those of us with
fn the 'never blank 1 corner will make
sure that your screen display isn't
interrupted. There is also, of course,
an option to engage the screen
blanker after a set amount of time
when no action has taken place.
You can specify when the blanker
"wakes up' - there are choices for
moving the mouse, hitting a key or
inserting a disk, or any combination
of these. Finally, a 'Show' button
demonstrates the selected blanking
module without you having to close
the Control Panel. Once running, the
Control Panel can be brought up by
o| TitfiUghtZong Control Panel
1S»
Blanker nodules
ftvantgarde.tz
BUcfcBUnh.tz
FireHorx.tz
Lissajous. tz
RasterBars.tz
SitipleBlank
Blank now corner Blank never corner
lUssajous.tz
J Top Left
C Sottoh Left
J Top flight
J Botton Right
Sleep delay
J Top Left
J Button Left
J Top Right
(~ Botton Right
I I nin (
JJ
When to wake _| House event _J Keyboard event _j Disk event
About ,
Show
Use
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feave your computer on for a
considerable length of time t turn your
monitor brightness down or switch it
off altogether. However, I'm prepared
to make an exception for
TwilightZone - which is an
exceptional program, and comes
highly recommended.
Program rating 10/10
LYAPUNOVIA
Fish disk 784
Lyapunov space is a mathematical
space named, according to author
Jesper Juul, after Russian
mathematician Aleksandr M
Lyapunov. "If the Mandelbrot set is
the most complex object in
mathematics/' says Juul, "Lyapunov
space must be
The TwilightZone control panel: at last, a really good screen saver for the
Amiga - and, to top it all. it's absolutely free!
OS 2.04 (or presumably higher,
though I couldn't test this). Although
version 2.0 isn't yet a commodity,
the author says that he's going to
implement this as soon as possible.
Installation is a simple matter of
copying the fifes to your hard disk (or
startup floppy). There is an auto-
install icon supplied, but it wouldn't
work on my Amiga. Still, all you have
to do is copy one library to your LIBS:
directory and the main program plus
modules to your hard disk, so it isn't
too much of a problem.
The idea of the program is that
you can choose from a variety of
different 'modules 1 to use when your
screen blanks, This selection is done
from a 'control panel' which
demonstrates that Rainer has
borrowed ideas from the Mac T s user
interface in general, and modular
"You can choose
from a variety of
different 'modules'
pressing the Right-Amiga, Right-
shift, Escape key combination.
The supplied modules are
reasonable, and one in particular -
Lissajous - is quite stunning. This
displays a number of coloured,
"the juiciest, spiciest
and most
outrageous object
ever found,,"
the juiciest,
spiciest and
most outrageous
object ever found
within numbers."
He then goes on
to describe
(roughly) what
Lyapunov space
actually is, and
what its
differences and similarities to the
Mandelbrot and Julia sets are.
The program itself, as you'd
expect, generates images in this
space. It does so fairly quickly,
although obviously
that depends on
the complexity of
the image and
number of colours
that you want to
use, and will allow
you to zoom In and
out from an image.
There's support for
up to 32 colours
and several
some idea of just how different and
exciting Lypunov space is,
This program is shareware - the
author requests $15 or DM25. If
you're interested in the odder
aspects of mathematics and stuff,
this should be a small price to pay
for what is, I believe, the first Amiga
program to explore this particular
subset of maths- It certainly makes a
change from all those bloody
Mandelbrot programs!
Program rating 9/10
EGOMOUSE
Fish disk 778
This is a hack by BJ Lehahn which
makes your mouse pointer turn
towards the direction that you move
your mouse. Move it
^^^^^^^ down the screen and
the pointer turns
downwards. Move it
to the right and the
cursor turns right.,
you get the idea.
According to
Fred Fish's contents
list, this is a popular
hack on the
Macintosh: well, it's
not something I've come across on
that machine - and for good reason.
It's incredibly irritating after the first
wow, that's cute' reaction - for
some reason it makes accurately
clicking on objects far more difficult
than usual Still, it works, and some
people may find it fun - just not me.
Program rating 3/10
WFILE
Fish disk 776
If you find yourself passing Amiga
word processor files over to people
using PCs, or if you receive lots of PC
fo use.
Mac screensavers in particular, The
names of the supplied modules are
displayed in a scrolling window -just
click on one to select it. There are
options for J blank now 1 and blank
never' corners of the screen - just
move the mouse to the 'blank now'
corner and the screen blanker will
cut in automatically, while putting it
Part of Lyapunov space - the
program's author calls this one
'spider 1 ... and on the right: 'metal'
shaded balls bouncing around the
screen in a variety of shapes.
The manual for TwilightZone
includes a section on how to write
your own add-in modules. You'll need
to be adept at assembly language
programming to do this t but hopefully
this means well see the release of a
number of extra modules in the near
future from other programmers as
well as Rainer.
There are those (normally
including me) who say that screen
savers are a waste of time and
processing power - if you 1 re going to
different pre-set palettes, which are
editable. The palettes can also be
set to cycle, which shows off the
images to startling effect.
A number of sample sets of co-
ordinates are supplied, along with a
couple of IFF images - which are
shown here. They should give you
(or Mac, or even Unix) files which you
want to use on your Amiga, WFife
could be the answer to your prayers.
The problem with word processor
files from other computer systems is
that there are often extraneous
characters in the file - for example,
you may find that there is a carriage
AMIGA SHOPPER # ISSUE 24 • APRIL 1 993
PUBUyftUUN
return character at the end of each
fine, which you have to strip out in
order for your word processor to wrap
lines correctly. Or perhaps, rather
than tabs, the other system has put
in eight spaces instead. Unless you
have a utility which corrects this sort
of thing, you can sometimes find
yourself spending hours correcting
the problems; WHIe is just the utility
to prevent this.
WFiie is invoked from the Shell,
and offers the following options:
• Expand tabs to multiple spaces*
• Shrink multiple spaces to a tab,
• Map a character (such as a foreign
letter) to another one.
• Add or strip carriage return codes
from the end of each line.
• Concatenate lines.
The options are invoked and
controlled by the use of parameters
following the l wfile' command.
However, there are six 'templates 3
already built in to the program, for
things such as Amiga to IBM, Amiga
to Unix and Unix to IBM conversion.
Furthermore, you can create a plain
text file with controlling parameters
of your own choosing, and then tell
WFiie to use that file as a template.
Once you've got the hang of the
parameters - they are all explained
in the doc file
provided, butthe
author's German
to English
translation
sometimes
makes the
descriptions a
little hard to
follow - WHteW\\\
save you loads of
time, It's certainly
worth checking out.
Program rating 7/10
MACRO 1.0
Fish disk 7S6
This is another example of a small,
useful program that performs a
simple task with no fuss. Author
Piero Filippin has written this small
macro recording and playback
program for anyone whose favourite
word processor, comms package or
whatever doesn't have a built-in
macro recorder. Once run from the
Shell it creates a tiny title bar to
remind you that it's there, and
leaves you to get on with your work.
To record keypresses (up to 1,000),
hit Left-Shift, Left-Alt, Control [.
When you've finished typing, hit the
same key combination but with the
closing square bracket, ]. Then to
insert those characters just place the
cursor wherever you want (including
in a different window) and hit Left-
Shift, Left-Alt, Control I. And that's
1 Audible & Visible fllarn
^1 Check Resident Vectors
I Check Menory For Viruses
j/J Check Hunks On Startup
V.I Check Drives On Startup
j Install Faked SnoopDos
Report Gust on Booth locks
V I Detect Disk Changes
Vl Requesters Follow Mouse
Menory & Vector Check Repeat
Check Crunched Files
Handle Viruses Rutonat teal ly
Delay (2 to 129 seconds)
Skip Subdirectories
J Create File Report
Use
Save
Keep those nasty viruses at bay with Lemsip... er, I mean VirusZ of course
"every Amiga
owner should have
at least one anti-
virus program"
all there is to it. The program doesn't
insert the characters incredibly fast,
but it works and doesn't seem to
cause any crashes. The only
complaint ! have is that it doesn't
seem possible to quit the program
without re-booting,
Program rating 7/10
VIRUSZ
Fish disk 786
Viruses are a fact of life, and every
Amiga owner should have at least
one anti-virus program. It's only when
your machine
becomes infected and
you lose months of
work that you realise
just what you'd like to
do to the people who
write these vicious
little programs, but
until you actually get
in a room alone with a
big stick and one of
these cretins, a
program like VirusZ is probably the
best you can do.
This release (2.27) recognises
196 bootblock viruses, 316 custom
booth locks and 76 file viruses. Note,
though, that by the time you read
this the program may have been
updated to a later version - this will
happen if any new viruses are
discovered. So your best bet is to get
hold of the program from a user
group or PD library and specify that
you need the latest version - not
necessarily the version on this disk*
However, you certainly should receive
at least version 2.27 - complain if
it's any earlier that that because it
may miss newer viruses.
The program sits in the
background, and checks every disk
that's inserted to see if it has a
bootblock virus. It also scans
memory when it's loaded to make
sure that there are no viruses
resident. This check is repeated at
regular intervals - the default is
every 10 seconds. There are other,
more sophisticated options also
available, and the upshot is that if
you've got an infected disk or
program, VirusZ should catch it
before it has time to do anything
really nasty to your data.
VirusZ is shareware: the author,
Georg Hormann, requests that you
send him DM10. As he says, at the
moment he's spent more than he's
received, so paying your fee will go a
good way to ensuring that he keeps
updating what is considered to be
one of the better virus checkers.
Program rating .
~rri nmgaaneu.
DefaultStack was, this is the utility
for you. It like me, you're perfectly
happy remaining ignorant about
these facts, pass on...
Program rating 1/10 or 10/10
{depending on how curious you are
about the Shell's internal workings!)
VIEWTEK
Fish disk 787
There are plenty of picture viewers
around, but ViewteK a freeware
program from Thomas Krehbiel, has
iew Shell process 5
5, Ran &isk:> qc
Shell/CLI data
Ran Disk!
18
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FRLSE
5 Jan Bisk:>
QC: Everything you wanted to know about the Shell but were afraid to ask?
QC
Fish disk 788
There is presumably a reason for this
CLI command - I just can T t think of
one right now. QC Is a PD utility by
Chris Vandierendonck which displays
"V/ewfek... also
supports GIFs and
even JPEG-encoded
files"
information about your Shell such as
its process number, current directory
and promptt FAILAT level and so on,
If you've ever found yourself
wondering just what size that
rather more features than most. Not
only will it display the usual IFF and
ANIM files, but it also supports GIFs
and even JPEG-encoded files. A full
feature list reads something like this:
• Supports 24-bit ILBMs.
• Shows most GIF-format images.
• Shows most JFIFformat JPEG
images*
• Shows most ANIM Op-5 format
animations, with support for
different palettes for each frame-
• Supports SHAM, CTBL and PCHG .
• Supports all ECS/AG A display
modes,
The disk also includes a
stripped -down version of the program
which doesn't support GIFs or JPEG
images, for those who are tight on
disk space, and a version which
supports true 24-bit display on GVPs
Impact Vision 24 board.
AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 24 » APRIL 1 993
WHERE TO GET IT
There are two main ways to get hold of Amiga PD and shareware: from a bulletin
board or from a PD library.
The advantage of using a bulletin board is that often the latest software is
uploaded as soon as it's available. On the down side, you need a modem to
connect, and you'll have to pay phone charges (and sometimes a connection fee
to the bulletin board as wetl).
There are a growing number of bulletin boards with a wide range of Amiga
software available for download. Check out 01-for Amiga (071 377 1358) and
the Cheam Amiga Bulletin Board ( 081 644 8714}, Another good option is
Joining CIX (the Compullnk Information exchange), which not only has Amiga
software but also contains conference and file areas on a wide range of
subjects. Many of the Amiga Shopper writers have accounts on CIX. so you can
get first-hand advice on your problems, too. For more details, call CIX on 081
390 8446 (voice) or 081 390 1255 (modem).
If you don't want to use a bulletin board, the other way to get PD software
is from a PD house. Many advertise in Amiga Shopper, and you'll find a
comprehensive list of names and addresses at the end of this article. Expect to
pay between 99 p and about £2.50 per disk - there's often a discount if you buy
in bulk, too. As for the difference between the companies which charge 99p and
those which charge £2.50 - well, try both types. There are brilliant, totally
professional PD houses which charge less than a quid, and there are totally
incompetent (dis) organ is at ions which charge more than twice that.
The program can be run from the
Workbench or Shell, and boots with a
Requester from which you can select
the file to view. If the program
doesn't think that the file is a
legitimate image, it will just return
you to the
Requester - a
message telling
you that there was
a problem with the
file would have
been a bit nicer.
But really,
there's no better
option - this is
one of the most
comprehensive file
viewers available. Now if it just
supported PowerPacker im ages . . .
Program rating 9/10
QMOUSE
Fish disk 789
In QMouse '$ 3,000 or so bytes
author Dan Babcock has managed to
"just about
everything you
might want to do
with a mouse"
cram just about everything you might
want to do with a mouse. It supports
things such as automatic window
activation after Amlga-M and Amiga-
N, mouse acceleration, clicking
windows to the front or back when
you hit both mouse
buttons at once,
and 'SunMouse'
(activates the
window under the
mouse pointer).
There are also
some extra features
such as TopCLI',
which creates a
new Shell on
demand.
You'll probably find that you
don't use many of these features at
all, but QMouse is worth getting
even if you only use a couple. The
advantage of having all the functions
in one program is that there's far
less danger of crashes due to
programs clashing with each other.
Program rating „ 9/10
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BUSINESS SOFTWARE
Library
Disk
Type
Issue
Rating
V261
Word processor
1
****
Digitz
277
Word processor
13
+ * *
WnrHWri tfht
rL/oOTl
V28
Word processor
13
* * * +
Digitz
Utl27?
Spell checker
13
****
ruwtii i^pj idlJ
rrea nsn
542
Grab screen text as ASCII file
8
+ + *+■+
UEdif
AmlgaNuts
1162
Text editor
8
****
HI n US-
Office Choice
U173
Combine text with graphics
8
**
nllllDaBV rlU -j
Amiga Nuts
Powerful database
9
****
Fred Fish
285
Ideas processor like Row
10
4 * £ *
NpwPDT
149
Printer drivers for PageStream
ID
****
P n cf p- Kf> a iti Frt i"i 1 c
Di.y;lz
149
Fonts for PageStream
10
^ * * * *
EasyBan ker
GTS
Home2
Home finance program
10
* * **
HomeHelp
GTS
Homel
Computerised grocery lists
10
****
MMan
GTS
Home2
Inventory list management
10
■kit*
MultiPlot
Fred Fish
467
Data graphing program
7
****
Power Planner
Deja Vu
License ware
Diary /telephone book
15
** +
Power Base
Deja Vu
Licenseware
Database
15
Cruise word
PD Majlk
Word processor
16
**
Ami Cash
PS Soft
V630
Home accounts
16
**.+
Home Manager
POSoft
V660
Personal organiser
16
*****
Word Power
Deja Vu
Licenseware
Spell checker
17
* it * *
WSate
Aoglla PD
U401S
Pop up Workbench database
IB
* *
PowerText
Deja Vu
Licenseware
Word processor
18
Account Master
Various
Home accounts program
IS
****
AmigaDex
PD Soft
V757
Pop up address bock
19
*#* **
Will&Testa merit
PD Soft
V706
Template for wills
19
*****
Forms Really Unlimited
PD Soft
V782
Create your own business forms
21
*
Phllo
Start ronics
N/A
Databases for beginners
21
*
Atbl
Fred Fish
Rsh 746
Unlx-lfke table formatting utility
22
****
PaperBackl
Fred Fish
Rsh 749
Create printed booklets with ease
22
*****
Epoch
NBS
U726
Pop up address book and calendar
22
*+
BuddBase 1
Deja Vu
L/28
Powerful database program
22
*****
JCGraph Demo
Fred Fish
Fish 760
Demo of shareware graph program
23
*+***.
Stock Control 1.0
Deja Vu
L/lil
Powerful stock control utility
23
****
MUSIC UTILITIES
Nutcracker Suite
17- Bit Software
N/A
Tchaikovsky 1 s Nutcracker suite
21
****
COW Player
Fred Fish
Fish 759
Play Audio CDs from WB on A570
23
*****
MED 3-11
ArnigaNuts
973
Sound Tracker
1
Module Processor
Amiga Nuts
864
Convert modules to executable
1
***
Rippers Disk
ITBtt
1055
Rip modules from memory
5
* + **
Sound Ed
Fred Fish
466
Sample editor
5
****
Module Master
TBAG
58
Play modules in various formats
9
*.*«*
Kl Editor
Fred Fish
332
Patch editor for Hawaii Kl
10
*****
CZED
Fred Fish
223
Patch editor for Casio synths
10
*****
Desktop Harp
Various
Collection of tunes
IS
*****
EMULATORS
IBEM
VimsFree
14S5
PC compatibles
3
A64
AmigaNuts
1030
Commodore 64
3
*****
ST Emulator
Digitz
Utll49
Atari ST
15
* + *
QL Emulator
AmigaNuts
1030
Sinclair QL
3
***
ZX Emulator
AmigaNuts
1030
ZX Spectrum
3
VARIOUS UTILITIES
Word Find er-Pius
Virus Free PD
Licenseware
Crossword puzzle solver
21
****
File & HD Utils 3
PD Soft
V815
Various file and hard disk utilities
21
* * * #
Findlt
Fred Rsh
Fish 731
Search for named files on any disk
22
****
Fontviewer
Fred Fish
Rsh 732
Keep track of ail your bitmapped fonts
22
*-=***
Megad 2.0
Fred Rsh
Fish 736
Brilliant SlD-like directory utility
22
*****
CFX
Fred Fish
Rsh 750
File type identifier
22
*****
Pools Tools
NBS
U725
Pools predictor
22
***
Boot Logo
Fred Fish
Rsh 754
Display picture during boot up
23
****
PopUpMenu
Fred Fish
Fish 756
Modified Workbench menus
23
****
GeoTime
Fred Rsh
Rsh 7 58
World Time Zone Display
23
*
ABackUp
Fred Rsh
Fish 759
Hard Disk backup utility
23
****
| ^ AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 24 • APRIL T 993
ARestaure
Fred Fish
Rsh 760
Restore deleted files
23
■+ ^ #
Bootlob
Fred Fish
Fish 760
Store game bootblacks on disk
23
S-Text
Fred Rsh
Rsh 760
Create stand-alone text files!
23
Assassins Handy Tools
Aardvark PD
11186-188
Three disks of handy utilities
23
A-Gene
AmigaNuts
933
Genealogy program
1
Commartd.COM
17Blt
866
CLI commands in RAM
2
MessySID 2
PDSoft
V490
Access PC disks with ease
13
Elements
Fred Rsh
593
Periodic table of elements
13
Cass 14
Fred Rsh
579
Make your own cassette covers
13
Badger
Fred Fish
548
Event scheduler
13
School "TimeTable
AmigaNuts
1100
Generate school timetables
5
Arq
CIX Download
-
improved system requesters
8
LC24-200 Fonts
MBS
L503
Fonts for Star printers
8
Menu Runner
AmigaNuts
1024
Run programs from menu
8
ButExchange
Fred Fish
494
Reverse mouse buttons
9
DeafLab
Fred Rsh
494
Sign language utility
9
PWKeys
Fred Fish
494
Manipulate windows with hotkeys
9
Input Lock
Fred Fish
494
Turn off mouse and keyboard
9
Run Me
AmigaNuts
1186
Run programs from menu
9
H£ 4 £ A
Hard Drive Special
GTS
Collection of hard drive utils
9
ScreenMOD
TBAG
58
Modify screens and windows
9
Words 3
AmigaNuts
—
Solve anagrams
9
ClockTick
TSAG
58
2.0-llke dock mouse pointer
9
FileSearch
Fred Fish
531
Find files on a hard disk
11
*****
Format Li
Fred Rsh
535
Replacement disk formatter
11
Power Packer Uttls
Fred Fish
542
Utilities for PowerPacker
11
LabelMaker
Fred Rsh
548
Create disk labels
11
ToolsDemon
Fred Fish
561
Run programs for 2.0 Tools menu
11
Rler
Fred Rsh
562
SID clone for Workbench 2,0
11
AWP
Fred Fish
554
Animate WB2.0 clock pointer
11
RMBShift
Fred Rsh
547
Select multiple icons
11
Smart Icon
Fred Fish
316
Iconifies windows
10
Rash Disk
GTS
Utils2
Disk optimiser
10
Snap 1.4
Fred Fish
326
Grab screen text into clipboard
10
Sysinfo
Fred Fish
571
System information program
11
*****
MKSLens
Fred Fish
574
Magnify area of screen
11
Font Manager
Digit!
149
Manage your bitmap fonts
10
* ***
Recover
Digltz
149
Rescue files from corrupt disks
10
Track Display
GTS
Utilsl
Shows position of drive heads
10
■+:+■- +
FastDiskll
GTS
Utllsl
Disk optimiser
10
***
Rle Master
GTS
Utilsl
Binary file editor
10
$****.
DlskSpeed
GTS
Utllsl
Disk drive benchmark program
ID
Formatter
GTS
Utilsl
Replacement disk formatter
10
SetNoClick
GTS
utiiai
Turn off annoying drive click
10
** *
DevRen
GTS
Utilsl
Rename devices including DFO
10
* * # *
LockDevice *
GTS
Utilsl
Better Amiga DOS 'lock' command
10
Label Print
Fred Fish
227
Disk label printer
10
Banner
TBAG
52
Print huge banners
10
* * * *
Avail Mem
Fred Fish
285
Graphical memory monitor
10
OCopy
AmigaNuts
700
Disk copier
10
* ##*
MessyDOS
NBS
U619
Read and write PC disks
6
Master Virus Killer
AmigaNuts
971
Virus killer
1
Im pi Oder
Fred Rsh
422
File compressor
7
ARTM
17Brt
1274
System monitor
7
Rle and HD management
PD Soft
V573
Hard drive utilities
15
Sid 2
1TBit
Directory utility
16
Rle and HD management 2
PD Soft
V575
More hard drive utilities
16
Outline fonts
George Thompson
-
For Pro P age and PageStream
16
Electronic baby book
PD Soft
V658
Record your baby's details
16
Astro 22
PDSoft
VS85
Astrology program
17
Touch typing tutor
MBS
CLU03
Teach yourself touch typing
17
Magnetic Pages
PD Soft
V688
Create your own disk magazine
17
HAM Radio
Aardvark PD
-
HAM radio utilities
IS
MegaStatlon
Five Star PD
U195
More CU commands
18
C Commands
PD Soft
V5S6
Even more CLI commands
18
***
Morse Tutor
Deja Vu
1 1 ni
Teach yourself Morse Code
19
*■***•*•
Mini* Demo
PD Soft
V711
Demo of Unix-like OS
19
*****
Printer Drivers
PD Soft
V724
Star and Canon printer drivers
19
*****
Icon Mania
PD Soft
V730
Lots of new icons
19
**
Anti-Virus
Soft Expression
U155
Kill those viruses
19
** * * *
CG Fonts
PDSoft
V713
Lots of Com pu graphic fonts
19
+ ***
X-Stltch
Deja Vu
License ware
Pics to knitting patterns
19
+ ** +
Distance
Deja Vu
Licenseware
HAM radio utility
20
****
Main Event
Soft Expression
U149
Event scheduler
20
#***
Disk Manager 2
Various
Disk cataloguing program
20
****
VCR Tape Filer
Fred Fish
721
Organise your video collection
20
***
AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 24 • APRIL 1 993
AniMan
Fred Fish
722
Voice control your Amiga
20
***
DIskMate
Fred Fish
723
Disk copier
20
*****
BackUp
Fred Fish
724
Hard disk back-up utility
20
* * *.* *
HAMLab 2 Demo
Fred Fish
726
Powerful image processor
20
*****
COMMS UTILITIES
LHA 1.11
Fred Fish
593
Archiving utility
13
* # # *
Phone Line Watcher
TBAG
56
Keep track of phone bill
9
****
Term 1,8A
Fred Fish
534
Terminal Program for WQ2.0
11
NComm
17Bit
1275
Terminal Program
7
****
BBBBS
Fred Fish
729
Bulletin Board System
20
+ * * *.
PROGRAMMING UTILITIES
GadToo! Box
Fred Fish
Fish 731
Create Intuition font ends
22
*****
JCaic
Fred Fish
Fish 742
Brilliant Shell-based calculator
22
JVlegaEd
Fred Fish
Fish 743
Powerful text editor
22
*****
Stripit
Fred Fish
Fish 750
Strip comments from ascii source code
22
****
DICE
Fred Fish
443
C Compiler
3
*****
Copper Master
AmigaNuts
1083
Generate Copper Lists
5
***
BRef
Fred Fish
494
BASIC cross referencing utility
9
****
Power Logo
EdLib
24
Enhanced Logo Interpreter
9
***
MIDI Library
Fred Fish
227
Program MIDI applications
9
* + * * *
PCQ Pascal
AmigaNuts
1113
Pascal compiler
6
****
NortttC
AmigaNuts
1112
C Compiler
0
****
Acc Assembler
AmigaNuts
Fast Assembler
6
*****
Remm and Rams
Deja Vu
Licenseware
Map editor and scroller utilities
17
***
Frac
AmigaNuts
1251
Adventure game creator
IS
***#
Map Editor
AmigaNuts
Map editor for AMOS
19
****
DPU
Fred Fish
721
Hex disk and file editor
20
* ** *
GRAPHICS UTILITIES
DPalnt Tutorial
Soft Express
U1S0
Comprehensive DPalnt tutorial
22
*****
CM Demo
Fred Fish
Fish 757
Demo Of ASDG's CineMorph
23
*.**
SpectraPalnt
Slipped Disk
19
Paint package
3
****
Deluxe Draw
Slipped Disk
18
Paint package
3
AMOS Paint
Deja Vu
83
Paint package
3
***
HAMLab
AmigaNuts
1149
Image processing
3
**
3DFont
tjm
1007
Text to Sculpt Object
3
***
SkyPaint
TBAG
37
Text-based graphics
3
***
SlideShow Kit
VirusFree
1465
Create your own slideshows
3
****
Mandel Mountains
Softville
751
Creates 3D Mandelbrots
5
3D Objects Disk 1
AmigaNuts
Collection of Sculpt Objects
8
+***
PictSaver
Fred Fish
543
Grab screens in IF Format
9
Mt * ** *
LandBulld
AmigaNuts
1190
Fractal landscape generator
9
**
Video Text Displayer
AmigaNuts
1199
Basic text scroller
9
***
Converters
lTBtt
1221
Image conversion tools
9
***
Vector Designer
AmigaNuts
Vector graphics designer
9
**
Plasma
Fred Fish
573
Fast fractals program
11
***
BezSurf 2
Fred Fish
315
Create shaded 3D objects
10
***
DrawMap
Fred Fish
315
Generate maps of the world
10
***
Sprite Designer
AmigaNuts
1102
Create animated sprites
6
**
ImageLab
PDSoft
V518
Image processing program
12
****
Desktop video pack 2
Anglia PD
Various DTV utilities inc titler
17
FracScape
Various
Fractal landscape generator
18
*****
EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE
WarBook
Asgard Software
Freeware
History of World War 2
21
***
ChemBaiance
Fred Fish
Fish 759
Balance chemical equations
23
****
Leam&Play
Riverdene
Mis637
Maths /Reflex /Logic
5
****
Simon
Deja Vu
APD135
Reflex/Memory
5
* * *
Space Maths
Deja Vu
APD135
Maths
5
****
Touchstones
Deja Vu
LP DUB
Logic
5
****
Shapes
Riverdene
GAM907
Maths/Logic
5
*** *
Quingo
Deja Vu
LPD21
3 l Ws
5
***
Treasure Search
Deja Vu
APD2
Maths/Logic
5
***
JlgMania
Deja Vu
LPD13
Maths/ Logic
5
#***
Speli4Fun
AmigaNuts
1146
Spelling
9
* * **
Maths4Fun
AmigaNuts
1146
Maths
9
****
XTables
AmigaNuts
1146
Maths
9
Runes
DTP
05125
Mystic runes explained
IS
***
4 Stroke Engine
PD Soft
V738
Demonstrates 4 stroke engine
19
****
Complete Bible
PD Soft
V715-717
Complete Bible on three disks
19
****
Constellations
Astronomy News
Info on stellar constellations
20
***
Maths Reflex
Anglia PD
0728
Test your maths
20
****
FOR SUPPLIER INFORMATION ON ALL THE PRODUCTS LISTED ABOVE SEE UK PD HOUSES PAGE 114
AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 24 • APRIL 1993
CITIZEN PRINTERS
FROM SILICA SYSTEMS
• FREE DELIVERY
Mem Day - Anyvtfiere in ;he UK mainland
• FREE STARTER KIT • FREE HELPLINE
• WINDOWS S.1
Free Windows 3 t driver with Sorter Kit
Worth E57.56 - Wi1h Citizen dot nwtrix
printers from Silica
Technical support Ivfilplirw open during
orfee hours
• 2 YEAR WARRANTY •FREE COLOUR K/T
(including tne dot main* printer heady
With every Switt 3
FREE STARTER KIT INCLUDES.
* WDIsk with Amig3 Print
Manager (see right}
* 3^" Disk with Windows 3, 1 Driver
* 1.8 Metre Parallel Primer Cam
* 2Q8 Sheets of Continuous Paper
* 100 Continuous Tractor Feed
Address Labels
» 5 Continuous Envelopes on
Tractor Feed
AMIGA PHINT MANAGER V2.01
For taster prinlng from your Amiga, win ceare r
rraefs nrr ror b iinrarr: cdnnrs. Avalabfe 'tk
of etiarga as pal of Ifis Sfica Printer Slate* K*.
* Image Seeing
* Cctotr Separation
* ReducK'HiHnate Baling
£49
KIT
VALUE
CITIZEN
PRINTERS
WITH 2 YEAR WARRANTY
RETURN THE COUPON FOR YOUR FREE COPY OF SILICAS
NEW CITIZEN CATALOGUE
PERIPHERALS & ACCESSORIES
STAN D OFF ER
PRINTER NOT,
INCLUDED
CITIZEN
PRINTER
STAND
For Swift 9, 24, 246,200,
240 and 224 Printers
• Helps keep pace with Citizen
Printer's powerful paper handling
• Robust & Durable Construction
• Saves space md protects
continuous stationery from dust and
damage
• Conioattbte with bottom and rear
feed operation
£19
+VAT= £22.33 - PRA I24Z
SHEET FEEDERS
PflA1?D0 12C1D £71.36
PflA 1215 l24W22*SwflftW EBB.7D
PflA 12ZB l24W22*Swtft^ E42.DD
SERIAL INTERFACES
PflA 1139 1200* £56.45
PflA 1209 Swirt»9tf124W224l £32.25
pflA 1709 mttmm £26.33
32K MEMORY EXPN
PRA 1753 1 imZAISm 2* £1 3,1 0
PRINTER STAND
PRAt242 1Z4&224/5wt1*24 £22.33
PRA 1274 SvJilt 9W24X £30.66
ORIGINAL RIBBONS
RIB 3520 i 200.'Swifr9 Black £2-91
RIB 3949 Swift 9k Black ...£7.15
RIB 3924 1240/Swifl 24 Black £4.70
RIB 3936 224.M 9/24 Colour £15.63
RIB 3243 Single Strike £3.61
RIB 3343 PWaMiilti Strike £3.61
COLOUR KITS
PRA 1236 224fl**9G4e/2DQfi4fl._, £35.25
PRA 1240 Swift to/24x — „ £35.25
PN4S ACCESSORIES
PRA 1143 PW8 Battery £46.70
PM1168 WHS Cable Ban £29.37
PRA 1 162 PH4aCarAdaplor E16.B0
• Citizen Swift 200 - 24 pin - 80 column
• 27006$ SDascpih 216 cps Draft, 72cps LQ
• 8K Printer Buffer mw} *6 LQ Fonts
• Parallel Interface
• Graphics Resolution: 360 x 360 dpi
• Epson. IBM, & NEC P20 Emulations
• Quarter Printing and Auto Set facility
• Ultra Quiet Mode -43tf8(A}
• Colour Option Available
• FREE Silica Printer Starter Kit
SWIFT 200
RHP Ezeg
StUCA STAHTEflKIT £45
TOTAL VALUE: £318
SAVING: £139
SILICA PRICE: £179
£179
*VAT=£21 0.33 -PRI 2490
* Citizen 1200* - 9 pin
* 144cps Draft, 30cps NLQ
* 4K Printer Buffer + 2 Fonts
* Parallel or Serial interface
* Graphics Resolution: 240 x 240dpi
* Epson and IBM Emulation
* Pull tractor & bottom feed
a FREE Silica Printer Starter Kit
The Citizen 1200 prinl+ir luniks supplied wth a
parallel interface as standard If ym require a serial
interlace instead, pWase state ref: PHI 2125 when
placing your order with SHioa.
CITIZEN 12GD+
HHP £199
SILICA STARTER KIT... £43
TOTAL VALUE: E24&
SAVING; £133
SIUCAPRICE; £115
£115
WATdi135.13- PRI 2120
Citizen Switt 24G/24QC -24 pin -SO col
3Q0cps SO / tSoO, 240 Cos tfolt SOCpS LQ
8k Printer Butter ■ fvknwtlrwn
9 LQ Fonts * 2 Scalable Fonts ia-ttys)
font Cartridge Slot - for pluo in 'style' touts
Pl.'.V.'Vl .'■i.'-!. . f .Jl.T?
Graphics Resolution: 360 x 360dpi
Epson . IBM, NEC P20 & CEL fmrfete
Quarter Printing Facility
Aoto Set Facility ■ Bi-directkmt Iff,
Aoto Etmtativn Detection
Command Vise IV front Control Panel
Uti!aQaietVode-43fiB(A)
Colour Printing Standard - Switt 240c.
Coiour Printing Optional - Switt 240
FREE Sifca Printer Starter Kit
SWIFT 240
HHP „ £333
BTJUtTERj KIT . U%
TOTAL VALVE:
SAWtG: C149
SILtCAPfitCt: DM
£239
4VAT=£23083 • PR) 2560
SWIFT 240C COLOUR
HFJP SS9
STAHTSB KIT, JK
TOTAL VALUE- l*U
SAVINS. :1 ?■
silica mee tasa
£259
+VAT=E30453'PPJS571
• Citizen Swift 9-9 pin- 80 cot
• 192cps Draft, 48cps NLQ
• 8K Printer Buffer
• 3 Fonts
• Parallel Interface
• Graphics Res: 240 x240dpi
• Epson and IBM Emulation
• Proportional Spacing
• FREE Colour Kit
m FREE Silica Printer Starter Kit
SWIFT 9
RHP _ E199
COLOUR KIT £38
SILICA STARTER KIT... £49
JOTAt VALUE: 22SS
SAVING; £127
StUGAffllCE; £159
£159
+VAT=£l66.a3. ■ PRI 2209
* Citizen Swift 24x- 24 pin - 136 col
* 192cp5 Draft. 64cps NLQ
* SK Printer Buffer + 4 Fonts
* Parallel Interface
* Gripfucs Resolution* 360 x 360dpi
* E-pson. IBM and iVFC P6 Emulation
* Colour Option Available
* FREE Silica Printer Starter Kit
HUM SttflTEHMT tA9
TOTAL VALUt. EM
saving- reaa
SILICA fWCC: S2»
£299
-WT=EWH-P»»T4
• Citizen PfiAB Notebook Pnnter
• Non-impact Printing on Plain Paper
• 53cps LQ - 4K Suffer + 2 Fonts
• Bear and Bottom Paper Loading:
• Parallel Interface
9 Graphics Pes: 360 x 360Upi
• ipsrj?. IBM, NECP6 & OtWi FmMon
• Power Mams. Battery or Gar Adaptor
TOTAL VAiVF- E325
SiOCA PflUCfr E1»
£199
* Citizen Profit - inkfel - 80 col
9 360cps Draft 1flkp$ NLQ
• 50 Honk Ht3d ■ WMspfftoiMWBW
# BK Printer Buffer + 3 Fonts
9 Optional MP Compatible Font cants
9 Parallel Interface
9 Graphics Res: 3Wx3Wdpi
9 HP Deskjet plus emulation
rrp tm
TOTAL VALUE: I49fi
Slt tCA PRICE: E145
£345
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Befora you decide when to buy your new printer, we sucjgesi you think very carefuliy about WHERE you
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require additional peripherals and accessories, or help and advice. And, wilt the company you buy from
contact you with details of new products? At Silica Systems, we ensuro mar you will have nothing to
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BUYING ADVICE
FOR SHOPPERS
Whether buying over the phone or at a heal store,
here's our advice on how to get what you want
BUYING IN PERSON
• Where possible, always test any
software and hardware in the shop
before taking it home, to make sure
that it works properly.
• Make sure you have all the
necessary leads, manuals or other
accessories you need.
• Don't forget to keep your receipt.
BUYING BY PHONE
• Be as clear as possible when
stating what you want to buy. Make
sure you confirm all the technical
details of what you are buying. Some
things to bear in mtnd are version
numbers, memory requirements,
other required hardware or software
and compatibility with your particular
model of Amiga (that Is, make sure
you know which version of Kickstart
you have).
• Check the price you are asked to
pay, and make sure that it's the
same as the price advertised.
• Check that what you are ordering
as actually in stock.
• Check when and how the article
will be delivered, and that any extra
charges are as stated on the advert.
• Make a note of the date and time
when you order the product.
BUYING BY POST
As with buying by phone, you should
clearly state exactly what It is you
are buying, at what price (refer to the
magazine, page and issue number
where it's advertised) and give any
relevant information about your
system set-up where necessary. You
should also make sure you keep
copies of ail correspondence both to
and from the company concerned.
MAKING RETURNS
Whichever method you buy by t you
are entitled to return a product if it
fa iEs to meet any one of the following
three criteria:
A CHECK LIST FOR
MAIL ORDER BUYING
1 Make sure you know exactly what you want. Draw up a checklist of the
specifications you are looking for and what you want it to be able to do.
Check with the suppliers that their product matches your list,
2 Will the product you have In mind work with your existing set-up, and
anything else you are planning to buy?
3 Can you see a demonstration? Many products are on display at computer
shows around the country.
4 Are there any hidden extras? Does It need 1Mb to run, or a hard disk?
5 What technical support Is provided by the supplier? Does the
manufacturer offer after-sales advice? Check before you buy.
6 Check the guarantee terms. How long is the free warranty? What does It
offer?
7 Draw up a list of these details and make them a condition of your order.
8 Check the price and delivery details when you order, and make a note of
them.
9 Note down when you placed the order and who you spoke to.
1 0 When it arrives, check everything carefully- if anything is missing, don't
use the product at all - contact the supplier. If it doesn't work, make the
obvious checks such as the fuse. If It still doesn't work don't try to fix It -
contact the supplier.
• The goods must be of
'merchantable qualfty'.
• The goods must be 'as described',
• The goods must be fit for the
purpose for which they were sold.
If they fail to satisfy any or all of the
criteria, then you are then entitfed to;
• Return them for a refund.
• Receive compensation for part of
the value,
• Get a replacement or free repair
When returning anything, ensure that
you have proof of purchase and that
you return the item as soon as
possible after receiving it. For this
reason it is important that you check
the hardware or software as soon as
it is delivered to make sure
everything you ordered is there and
works as it is supposed to.
HOW TO PAY
Paying by credit card is the most
sensible way, whether buying in
person, by post or on the phone,
because you may be able to claim
the money from the credit card
company even if the firm you ordered
from has gone bust or refuses to
help sort out your problem.
Otherwise, you should pay by
crossed cheque or postal order -
never send coins or notes through
the mail
GETTING REPAIRS
Always check the conditions of the
guarantee, and servicing and
replacement policy, so that you know
what level of support to expect-
Always fill in and return warranty
cards as soon as possible, and
make sure that you are aware of all
the conditions contained in the
guarantee.
BUYING PD
Even though PD software is relatively
inexpensive, you should still apply
the guidelines set out above, making
sure that you confirm ail orders as
clearly as possible.
Shopping around is stilt
important when buying PD because
different houses charge different
prices for the same disks. There is
no set pricing structure for disks, but
bear in mind that PD houses are, in
theory, supposed to be non-profit
making operations.
ADVERTISERS INDEX
1st Computer Centre
(Leeds) 42,43
16 Bit Centre 82
Anglia PD ... ,106
Arnor ........... ,A4
Artworks 40
BCS 49
Commonside Hardware
Services 22
Coombe Valley Software. ..40
Delta Pi... .....22
Digita
Internationa! IFC, OBC
Direct Computer
Supplies ....28
Dr Soft Ill
Evesham Micros 76, 77
Express PD 106
Grapevine Group 22
Graphic Assembly 40
Harwoods 66-69, IBC
Hobbyte 58, 59
Kingsway. 75
Kosmos Software 40
LCL , 40
Micro Mania 36
Micro Pace {UK).. 17, 101
MJC Supplies ...33
NBS 106
New Horizon Computers ....9
Omega Projects 88
PDSoft..... 109
Phoenix 26, 27
Phoenix Services 111
Power Computing 34, 35
Power Point
Communications .,.75
Selectafont 40
Silica
Systems .,.,.,95, 97, 119, 121
Softstore ...75
Software Demons 4
Switchsoft ....111
The Computer
Workshop 75
Trilogic .............28, 50, 51
Ursa Software 75
Weserve 6
WTS Electronics ..80, 81, 111
York Electronics 106
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can then be mounted on to the
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£799
£1099
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HARD CARDS
FOR THE AMIGA 1500 & 2000
* Factory installed Hard Drives
* 0,30, 120,213, &42Qm
options
• On-boarti memory sockets
• Add up to 6 SCSI devices
£129
The Impact II HC8 hard cards are the
equivalent of the HDB+ hard drive, but for the
1500 and 2000 models. They are some of the
fastest hard drives available, and incorporate
an unpopulated 8m c RAM expansion.
0Mb
40Mb
80 Mb
120Mb
213Mb
£299
£349
£429
£579
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NEW GVP C ATALOGUE
MilWIiI^IAIdni < VIDEO GENLOCK
FOR ALL AMIGAS
• 8-bit stereo sampler
• Pings into parallel port
• MIDI support for song input
• Extensive editing features
For the semi-professional and audio
hobbyist a high quality 8-bit stereo
sound sampler that connects into the
parallel port on any Amiga 500, 600,
1500, 2000 or 3000 computer.
Combined with one ol the fastest, most
powerful and easy-to-use sound and
music editing programs available.
Includes 4-track soundtracker file
compatible sequencer.
£39.95
Ref: MUS2500
FOR ALL AMIGAS
• 2x Composite Video, 1 x S-VHS inputs
• RGB Composite video & S-VHS
outputs available simultaneously
• Sound mixer, 2 mono inputs and i
output
• Fuf! software controi via control panel,
hotkeys and/or ARexx
GVP's G-lock genlock is a true
price/performance breakthrough. The
G-lock genlock works with all Amiga
computers and even supports the new
Chroma Key modes of the ECS/AA chip
set. It Is me only choice for the mid-
range Amiga video enthusiast
Ref:
VID2500
£349
PLUG-IN HARD DRIVES
FROM ONLY
PLUG-IN HARD DRIVE amiga soo/soo™
The A500-HD8+ provides the ultimate in hard disk
performance, memory expansion and future
expandability for the Amiga 500. It incorporates the
same VLSI custom chip and FaaaST ROM SCSI driver
which are used in GVP's Series II SCSI/RAM
controllers for the A1 500/2000. As a result the A500
HD8+ offers unbeatable hard disk performance. The
easy-access Autoboot/Game Switch allows the hard
disk to be disabled, ensuring compatibility with the few
games that will not work with a hard disk.
Every A500-HD8+ incorporates the latest in hard disk
technology with a factory installed and formatted 1"
high, low power, 3%" SCSI hard disk, offering
storage capacities up to 213Mb,
The A500-HD8+ also offers the ultimate in
expandability. Additional SCSI peripherals can
be attached to the external SCSI port. Up to 8Mb
of internal Fast RAM expansion can be
installed using state-of-the-art SIMM memory
modules. The unique internal Mini-Slot allows
for future expansion. Every A500-HDS+ has
its own dedicated power supply, ensuring
that the Amiga 500 power supply will not
be overloaded and an internal fan to
prevent the unit from overheating.
WHAT THE PRESS SAY...
'Supeih bt/ild, excellent aesthetics and blinding
speed mob ihh the best A500 hard dim" -
AMIGA SHOPPER
'GW downs this is the fastest hard drive in the
worid and none of our tests could prove that
wrong ... Untouchabk M choke'
AMIGA SHOPPER
MODEL
42Mb
80Mb
120Mb
213Mb
HD8+
HARD DRIVE
£299*
Ffal: HAR 064fl
£399
Ref; HAR 08-95
£499,,
Hal: HAfi C9Z2
£599
Ref: HA.R Ofctt
HD8+ HARD DRIVE
|A530 J
A53Q HO & ACCELERATOR
HARD DRIVE
SCSI t\m 3RIW
SD, m 120 A Z1SMU WtflSIDKS
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ULTRA FAST ACCESS
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ACCELERATOR
■UMHz 6M30EC CPU
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OPTIONAL MUZ MATHS Ca-PROCESSQ^
RUMS AT 12.1 MIPS W-r >.V.
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HAHLMAHF SUPPORT TO MAP KIMSTAfil 'IIU
12-# WIDE f AST HAM FOR FASTER uFrRmTuh
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RAM BOARD
II ? TO 5MB OF B Gil 9-bit FAST RAH
!E OR 9-stWlDE SMM&- 1 20ns Ofl QUICKER]
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OPTO 8Mb OFM-rjirWIOE FAST RAM
132-brl ttflK SIMMS - GOra}
1Mb PuFUUTFP
OTHER FEATURES
'CUT-OFF' FDR 10D'j GAME COMPATIBILITY
SCSI CtiHTRDLLER FOR (IP TO 7 DEVICES
VLSI CUSTOM CHIP
FubST ROM SCSI DRIVER
IDENTICAL COLOUR t STYLING TO THE ASM
BUILT-IN fAN TO PREVENT OVERHEATING
DEDICATED POWER SUPPLY
■Mltfl-SLDTFOfl FUTURE EXPANSES
-;:
HEMCYMU MEDIA SUPPORT
DIRECT MEMDHT ACCESS |b MAI STYLE
FOR ULTIMATE PERFCfl^ANCE
EASY-TO-USE SOFTWARE
2 YEAR WARRANTY
PLUG-IN HARD DRIVE + ACCELERATOR amigasoo/soo,
The GVP A530 incorporates Hib same 60030EC
processor tound in most of the new GVP G-FurDe
accelerator range, as wefl as. using the same VLSI
custom chip and FamST ROM SCSI drtver 1hat is
used in GVP's Series It $CSL/RAM cceilrDllBrS tor
Die A1 50*2000.
It alsD incofpoiales Eh* Motorola 63O30£C
processor running at a bfstwing 40MHz end She
laiesl in hard disk techndcxjy with a factory
installed and lormaited I" high, law power. 31-f
SCSI hard dh> ol'ci -vj sioi-ag* cajwrcitiea vp la
213Mb. Additional SCSI peripherals can be
attached to Ihe external SCSI port. Up to 8Mb ol
3£-bi1 wide Fast RAM expansion can be • si.a
using slate-ol-trie-an SIMM memofY module& |.1 Mb
supplied as standard! A 6FJ8H2 mains co-processor
ran also be added Id Ihe unit 10 boost 1he
machine's math cafculeLtons. Every GYP A530 has
its own dedicated power supply .
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94% AMIGA FORMAT &'SZ
PLUG-IN HARD DRIVE & ACCELERATOR OPTIONS
MODEL
•12v,
80 v:
12 Oi*
21 3l. : -
A530 COMBO
HARD DRIVE
t ft ACCi.L'
£699s
Rer: HAR umz
£799 is
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£899rr
Piif HAR L>374
£999:
R*r. HAR D9fl3 J
PC EMULATOR
PLUG-IN OPTION FOR « A53Q
• 16MHz£>S286 process>:r
■ 237 Maths Co- Processor sodost
• 512Ko1PC(WL1rJustheuseirfAniic ) anA\1
• Supports Hercules. CGA. EGA/VGA (mofio-
dvome^ and T31 00 video modes
• Runs MS-DOS and upwards) plus
thousands of other PC programs
This pewsHj 266 wwlaUK modils
STTFfy t*J$* ""to f* IwiHW of the
GVP HD&+ or A530 (wflKWl IfwaMfllrg
te warintf) II has M aoees? v> ttv
Amiga's resoutiss ant afws yM <w
PC and Aniga fn)gr*ifis 9l ihe snw
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£149
Rer: EMU0SW3
ALL PRICES INCLUDE VAT - DELIVERY IS FREE OF CHARGE IN THE UK MAINLAND
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Thanks to those nice people at Europress Software
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This month we've teamed up
with Europress Software to
bring you bundles of the
latest educational software.
The 40/ and Fun School series of
programs are designed to make
learning a doddle on the Amiga
The Fun School programs are
aimed at the youngest users and
include Merlin 's Maths, Spelling Fair
and Paint and Create. All are simple
to use and incorporate eye-catching
graphics and rewarding sequences to
help make learning easy and fun.
For the eleven to fifteen year-old
there are the packages ADI Maths,
English and French which feature a
jolly little extra-terrestrial chappie,
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congratulations and encouragement
as they learn.
Each of the fifteen prize winners
THE CHALLENGE O THE CHALLENGE
will get a program of their choice
1. Which of ADI's extra-terrestrial
b) 8.25
(worth £25 99) along with a gift bag
chums had to 'phone home'?
c) 6.75
stuffed with badges f pencils and
a) Superman
other goodies.
b) ET
3. The word meaning a place
To enter, just write the answers
c) Dr Who
where you can stay' is spelt:
to the three questions In the panel
a) Accomodation
on a postcard (or back of a sealed
2. What Is the value of V 56.25?
b) Accommodation
envelope) and send it to:
a) 7.S
c) Acommodation
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29 Monmouth Street
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The closing date is April 5. One entry
per household please, otherwise
well get cross. Please state if you
would rather your name is not
included on a mailing list IB
The Champions!
The lucky winner in our 'Fax of Life' competition from the February issue of
Amiga Shopper is: Mrs A Curtis of Chudleigh in Devon - who'll be receiving
a top-of-the-range Supra Fax Modem V32bis worth £269.99.
The runner-up was Chris Hay den of Oak wood in London - his prize is
the SupraFaxPlus modem, priced at £139,99
Prizes will be winging their way to both readers very soon - courtesy of
the First Computer Centre. Our congratulations to both winners.
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IN NEXT MONTH'S FACT-PACKED ISSUE
# Choose a word processor. We present the sequel to our
most popular round-up ever, in which we examine in detail
the latest in Amiga word processing technology. If you Ye
intending to buy one of these beasties, then you can't
afford to miss next month's ish.
# The cover disk returns! Another melange of the very latest
and best in public domain and shareware gets packed into
the Amiga Shopper Shareware Collection Volume III.
# Legal advice for your mail order worries in Amiga Advocate.
Plus: regular columns on Amiga Answers, public domain,
video, AmigaDOS, desktop publishing, programming,
education, music, chaos, comms and much more
»» On sa/e hesiay f April 6 »»
AMIGA SHOPPER * ISSUE 24 * APRIL 1 993
HE FINAL WORD
...in Word Processing with Perfect Printing
rom the makers of Pen Pal comes a
brand new, unique WYSIWYG Word
Processing package, that's simply the
only choice for those who demand the
| most from their Amiga.
Final Copy II is not only the Amiga's most powerful
Word Processor with every feature you'd expect
- plus many more found normally in DTP packages -
but also the only Word Processor that gives superb
scaleable outline fonts ftum wry Amiga - even 13*&
Imagine outputting to your printers highest resolution,
with almost Postscript™ laser perfection - no matter
which printer you may have. Even with a simpL
nine pin dot matrix you'll get perfect
printing* from Final Copy's
20 smooth outline typefaces
that are included!
ution,
natter [A
from ScWawt foe
Wth its powrfu! new features, there's no better Word Processor/Publisher
jbr your Amiga. You'll quickly realise tite benefits tvfiich were once the exclusive
presene qfthe Macintosh** and other high end publishing systems.
% printer with normal Word Processor
With multiple newspaper
style columns and integrated
drawing tools - for boxes, borders,
squares, lines at any angle, ovals, circles,
arrows etc., plus colour text, along with many
other formatting tools - your documents will look
and read just as you want them to.
Final Copy II includes a 1 10,000 word British-
English Collins Proximity Spelling Detector &
Corrector, to help typing errors become a thing of
the past, along with an 826,000 synonym
Thesaurus, for that extra inspiration.
Final Copy II is so easy to leam and use, that
i you'll become an accomplished author in no
1 time at all - but if you need extra help you're
not on your own as our support hotline is there
for all UK version users. Look out tor the UK
logo on the box[
i
Worn Processor ^ j^^"™^^
...rinaltopyll
X •/ Only £99.95
ompatible with..
FROM ALL. GOOD SOFTWARE DRAINERS
Amiga- A5G0/600/60GHD/ 15 00/2000/3000.
System requirements... min. of 1Mb, RAM and two Floppies
or a Hard Disk Drive [A6GGHD requires at least 1.5Mb].
*Anv Workbench supported ensphk printer, colour or mono,
including.. Citizen I20D, 124D, 224, Swift 9/24, 200/240;
Star LCI a 20, 300, 24-200, and XB Series; Canon BJlOex;
HP Ink/Paimjer; Postscript™ devices and many more.
inal Copy II encompasses a whole range of other advanced features, here's just a selection:
♦ Uses the latest Workbench 2 Style interface on all Amigas ♦ On screen command ribbon controls (format your
document with the simple touch of a button) ♦ 25% to 400% editable page reduction and magnmcation command ^ ^
♦ Title page, master pages & style sheets ♦ Right/left pages with binding offset ♦ Open multiple
documents ♦ Fast mouse document panning and zoom/un-zoom ♦ External and internal mail
rade Distribution by..
♦ Centresoft/IBD ♦ HB Marketing ♦ Leisuresoft ♦
♦ Meridian Distribution 4 SDL/Prodis ♦
Dealers... Please call Harwoods for your supply nf Leaflets
and kiciiision in the list of stockists we provide to customers.
United Kingdom version imported <£ supported bv„,
GORDON
Gordon Hiiiwood Computer* * New Sued * Alliuori
Derbyshire >DE55 7DP - Telephone: 0773 8367E1
merging4Ciit,copy andpaste^Searchandreplace^Onscreenmatlis^ Auto-hyphenation ^ *^h^ft *
♦ Import, resize and crop IFF, HAM and 24Bit ILBM graphics and auto-flow text c ^
around them ♦ Text over graphics ♦ Outline fonts on all Amiga screens, and any ^ q\)^ % ^
non-Postscript™orPostscript™compatibleprmter^4pointupto300point ^ ^r0. y c
[over 4" high] smooth text printing ♦ Text leading and spacing
controls ♦ Condensed and expanded characters ♦ Positive
and negative obliquing ♦ Background printing,
allowing simultaneous editing & printing of two
or more documents ♦ Fast proof printing
facility ♦ Comprehensive range of
additional attractive font
volumes available.
B.&O.B.
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The Digita range***
Home Ac counts 2
advj.ru «
Home Accounts, which is
limited only b
com pu \ e r . So ph i st i cat*
iics. and special options such as V AT
and loan calculation radii 5
£54.99
System 3
mm
Home Accounts
£29.99
DGColc
This fast simple spreadshe
different parts of Ihe spreadsheet at the same
£39,99
Moilihot Ply*
Animated labels
and di
andn £49.99
DOBom
£49.99
Day-6y-0ay
£29.99
Personal Tax Plan tier
liability allowing ,
£49.99
* t y p e
'Tax
Asa
6-Typ«
and envelopes. £39.99
Invoking and Statement , £59.99
System 3e
£79.99
Caihbook Controller
program will automatically
£59.99
Final Accounts
£39.99
Cash bo ok Combo
4
Wordworth
£129,99
The Digita range is available for Commodore Amiga,
Atari ST and IBM PC unless stated otherwise, and every
program comes with a seven day money-back guarantee.
The only way to really appreciate Digita software is to
use it. Phone 0395 270273 for more information, or wnte
to Digita, FREEPOST. Exmoufrh EX8 2YZ. All prices
include VAT, postage and packaging.
HGITA
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