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Consider, for example, the extreme mea- sures taken to advertise Doom, where bags of offal were sent to the media. It shocked and even horrified, but it achieved its desired effect It got the game plenty of publicity and as the phrase goes: 'Any publicity is good publicity'- This little stunt would not get ignored and thrown in the bin along with the other countless press releases jaded journal- ists receive on a Monday morning.

And to some extent, its easy to see why software publishers want to resort to such tactics- The games market has seen rapid change - it's no longer an area reserved for spotty teenagers shut away in darkened rooms playing RPGs. These people are being rapidly replaced by 'cool' exec types looking for a way to unwind. Twenty-something, upwardly mobiles who are being told that it's acceptable, even fashionable, to want the lat- est gorefest computer game. So the _ffl,rri| industry had to reappraise its position and gear the market more towards this new generation of gamesplayers with fashionable adverts. And fashionable at the moment equals shock tactics.

So along come the ads men with their lat- est project, a 3-D shoot-em-up, 'Blood, guns massacre hell - the revenge', and they choose to advertise it with pictures of Dunblane. It's shocking isn't it? Fortunately this is not going to happen because it crosses the line of any sane person's moral values, but where do the ads men draw the line? Pictures of a woman hanging herself because she was sick of foot- ball was considered an appropriate-way to advertise a football game. So too were the images used to promote Command and

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Conquer, one of which depicted Hitler with the caption: 'It's a great feeling'. Why is this more acceptable than a picture of Thomas Hamilton? Maybe because it will upset less people or because they think it is less rele- vant to the generation they are talking to? Who knows? It's a matter that is concerning the Advertising Standards Authority too. ELSPA (the European Leisure Software Publisher's Association) backed the ASA up with a plea for the industry to take a more responsible approach. Whether this will be heeded is down to the publishers, but if they fail to toe the line they could see the Government tak- ing action and imposing restrictions.

This could have harmful effects on an industry which is already under the watchful eye of the media and cautious parents. If the trend continues, people could clamp down on what their children buy just on the basis of the advertising campaign. And although the market has changed to see more gamesplay- ers over the age of 18, a vast percentage are still minors whose buying decisions lie with a

guardian. The danger is that although you've managed to generate some publicity for a game, ifs at the cost of offending people so much that they don't want your product any- way.

The games industry is a fun market, and we wouldn't want it any other way, but if all outsiders can see are tasteless adverts, what kind of message are we giving? A shocking advert at the moment would be one that stressed how good the gameplay is! Nobody is saying that advertising campaigns will be any easier if this responsible approach is undertaken, but it could show that, like its gamesplayers, the industry has grown up too.

Tina Hackett

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• Audio CD player software allows you to play your audio CDs.

• Unlike most other CD ROM drive systems the Ultra CD ROM drive does not cause long delays when booting up.

The interface simply plugs onto the 44 pin IDF. connector inside the computer (still allows a 2.5" or 3.5' internal hard drive to be used as well!) and provides a connector in the blanking pM6 at the rear ol the A1200 next to the mouse socket. This can be installed by anyone in 5 minutes!

All cables, instructions, interface, etc., included as well as a 12 month warranty and full technical support.

Please call for further details

Amiga Web Browsers Released

□ ne of the two commercial Amiga World Wide Web Browsers has official- ly started shipping, the other is being advertised but is not yet on the market

AmiTrix of Canada have released AWeb-ll for the Amiga. It fully supports the HTML 2

standard and some of the Netscape "enhanced" commands. The software retails for USS45, and includes some HTML tools, including the popular HTML-Heaven Web authoring software.

HiSoft of the UK have not yet released their IBrowse web browser, which has been an international cod- ing effort. Demo versions continue to be available, awaiting the sales of the product

To order AWeb-ll, contact AmiTrix or your local Amiga dealer. AmiTrix: ++403-929-84 59, salesi9amitrix.com.

EJlympic Amiga Impact

Atlanta, perhaps best known worldwide for hosting the Summer Olympics and best known in the Amiga community for housing the highly active Amiga Atlanta user group, couldn't keep sports and Amigas separate.

A bold statement was made by a number of Amiga companies as they donated six Amiga 4000Ts, decked to the gills, to the Olympic broadcast booth, where they act as online video edit- ing systems, The computers housed full Video Toaster/Flyer systems donated by Newtek as well as products from Virtual Reality Productions, Anti-Gravity Products, MicroPace and DPS QuikPak, the Am.ga 4000T manufacturer and distributor for North America, provided the com- puters. r

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ew Wonder Deal

Wonder Computers International continues to rebuild its distribution network. After months of discussion. Wonder has completed an agreement with ACT of Germany to supply and service the Apollo line of Amiga expansion cards for the North American market Apollo provides a full range of products, recently and most notably 040 and 060 cards for the A1200 and A3000/A40O0, as well as the world's only 020 accelerator for the Amiga 600.

Further to this, Wonder has agreed with OTM to supply OTM's line of Amiga games to North America. OTM hit the Amiga scene last year with virtual Karting and has offered a number of products since. New titles are already in the works.

Alongside OTM's games, Wonder will also carry XP8, the recent Stardust/Asteroids clone. Contact Wonder Computers at 613-721-1993.

□ EW CD 32 TITLE RELEASED

Bigg Wolf, until recently a computer and video retailer, has decided to try its hand at publishing on the Amiga. Final Gate, a new CD32 title boasting FMV-quality graphics, has been released and will be shown at Montreal's Amiga Convention '96.

for purchasing information (both end-user and dealer), contact Bigg Wolf at ++30I-933-5030.

Qmiga Convention '96

The first week in August brought on Canada's first major Amiga-only expo of the year, and the biggest so far of 1996 for North America. The Montreal Amiga Convention, independently orga- nized, drew together users, dealers, and developers from across the continent to meet, exchange ideas and no doubt fire a few questions to VIScorp's attending representatives, VP of Business Development David Rosen and Communications Manager Jason Compton.

Also anticipated was a strong presence from National Amiga, the Canadian-based Amiga reta.ler which does the bulk of its business online-so much success that their retail area was expected to be among the largest at the show. Wonder Computers International and its distri- bution division will show off their newly introduced products for the North American market.

Dale Larson and Al Mackey of I AM are expected to be present, as they were last year to address the public in the many seminars offered at AC A more detailed report may follow in a future issue.

Later in the year, the World of Amiga Toronto is expected to be held. Plans are also underwav for Gateway '97 in St Louis for early February 1997

by Katherine Nelso

APITAL PUNISHMENT

Expected at Amiga Convention '96 is the final release demo of ClickBOOM's Capital Punishment, which the Toronto- based game development company has announced will be available on Friday the 13th of September.

ClickBOOM first started making waves in the Amiga game market last December, when the first CP demos were made public at the World of Amiga Toronto. Now, one of the most impressive beat-em-up games in recent memory is finally ready for release.

Alexander Petrovic, manager of ClickBOOM, has decided to self-publish the title after discussing the product with a number of Amiga games houses. To help promote the title, the company is offering a free Capital Punishment T-shirt for all pre-orders of the game, which cost UKP25.

ClickBOOM can be reached at PxL Computers, ClickBOOM, 1270 Finch Ave. West. Unit 13, M3J 2G4 Toronto, Canada.

indEYE

liyama

Geodesic Designs of Atlanta has taken advantage of the Olympic focus to announce that the MindEYE will hit the market shortly. Based on the MindLight of the late 80s, the: MindEYE is compatible with all Amigas, and is a small device that plugs into the joystick port It "listens" to either the room around it or a microphone feed and turns the sound through geodesic math transformations into sometimes interesting, sometimes bizarre video displays (AGA enhanced when avail- able) on the Amiga screen. For DJ and video-wall scenarios, the device is quite popular.

Mark Adams of Geodesic used the Amiga Atlanta 10th Anniversary of last January to test the waters of the reintroduced I MindLight. The demonstration was well- received. The MindEYE has a suggested retail price of USS595. MindLight users can upgrade for SI 95.

Contact Geodesic Designs at ++770-822- 0566, 770-338-B874 fax, markadams® geod.com e-mail. The MindEYE Web site is at http://www.mindeye.com/

OCTOBER 1996

I YAM A CUTS PRICES

liyama. the leading computer monitor man- ufacturer, announced a 5% price reduction on its Vision Master 17 colour monitor, liyama's price reductions are due to the improved Yen/Sterling exchange rate and cost reductions at the factories.

Consumers will now be able to make a £10 saving on the Vision Master 17 high specification 17" monitor. This means you will be able to purchase it (or £529 + VAT Only the 17" monitors will be reduced, but all Vision Master monitors come with a 3 year warranty. For further details telephone liyama at (44) - (0) 1438 74 54 82

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inal Writer

Following on from the piece in the USA News last month regarding Final Writer 5, please note that you should use the contact number corresponding to your country (or nearest). Harwood can be reached from the UK on 01773 836781. For the US this is 602 431 1461.

OMPUCENTER CRI M EFIG HTER

Computacenter, one of the countries top IT solutions providers, is launching a business advi- sory service to help combat crime on the Internet

Martin Hellawell from Computacenter commented, 'Firms connecting to the Internet or setting up Intranet networks need to reconcile easy system access with the protection of internal networks. Around 85** of the Times 1000 companies are either linked up to, or are considering linking upto the Internet. However, if there is one main stumbling block to the widespread adoption of linking up to the Internet by corporates it is the question of security." According to the 1996 Audit Commission, a preventable security breach on average costs a British Firm £16,000.

To help prevent these expensive abuses of the Internet, Computacenter has implemented a widespread research programme which will determine what aspects of computer security are the most vulnerable security loopholes in networks^nd operating systems, as well as the com- panies most at risk. The results of this will be available later this year.

By Tina Hackett & Hugh Poynton

MICA HEAVEN

A new computer store has opened in Northampton which claims to stock the largest selection of Amiga games in the country. Direct Software aims to cater for all the Amiga owners in the country who have found that other games stores don't stock a great variety.

As well as the hundreds of titles in stock. Direct Software will try to get any title requested, no matter how old or obscure. They also operate a mail order service.

The store is also in contact with new soft- ware houses and will stock games currently only available through mail order, such as BMP's Reality and Space Fighter. Direct Software is also in the process of making its own game using fully rendered animation intros, clips and real film footage.

Direct Software are running a competi- tion to decide the name of their new outlet. A copy of Team I7's Killing Grounds is up for grabs so if you have any imaginative ideas for the store's name, write to Direct Software, 166 Birchfield Road East, Northampton, Northants NN3 2HF or phone 01604 722499.

QJlympic image

A revolutionary new imaging centre at the Olympic Games in Atlanta, is being used to capture and dispatch images to picture desks across the world.

Kodak, the world-wide sponsors of the games, have established a 20 work- station Imaging centre that allows the press to scan and transmit images to anywhere in the world over ISDN lines.

Everything photographers need to do is located in the 20,000 square foot centre. As Mike Tette, manager of the Kodak Olympic programme said: "Everything photographers need to do the job is located in one place. They can shoot for three or four hours at the venues, bring back the film for pro- cessing, edit H, scan the image, enhance it in the Adobe Photoshop software, output the image on a thermal printer, ColorEdge copier or Photo CD disc and send rt anywhere in the world..."

The centre, staffed by 175 lab technicians and Kodak representatives processes an estimated 10,000 rolls of film a day.

Amiga Compuiinc

OCTOBER 1996

irtual Atlanta

To get the latest coverage of the Olympic games have a look at CompuServe's new ser- vice which aims to bring the latest results from Atlanta. From the main menu (CO ATL- GAMES) you can access news«reports from contributors such as Sports Illustrated, Time and USA Today.

You can find out the latest scores and even chat with other CompuServe members about the games. Martin Turner, CompuServe's UK general manager commented, "We built this area using the latest open standards technol- ogy, demonstrating our ability to deliver time- ly, easy-to-use services both to CompuServe users and those on the Web at large."

More news from CompuServe is their announcement of a new UK network which offers speeds of 28,800bps and 57,600bps for the price of a local call. This new 'super network' which offers ISDN access has been simplified which four numbers to choose from.

Martin Turner said, "We have promised our 350,000 UK members a service that would be fast and very effiaent and now we are delivering it.* More information is available for members on 0800 000400. To join you can call 0800 000200.

NYBODY

for Sunday School

If you're an Amiga user and you live in the Wigan or West Lanes area why not while away those boring Sunday afternoons at the Amiga User Croup at St Thomas The Martyr School Hall, Highgate Road, Up Holland, Lanes?

Learn about graphics, hardware, musk, networking and programming and take advantage of the huge choice of free soft- ware available. Admission is E2 and refresh- ments are available.

Their new contact number is either Stephen on 01695 625063, or Simon on 01257 402201.

ROTECT THE INNOCENT

ULCAN UPDATE

News from Vulcan Software this month is that a Web site is in the offing which will keep you up-to-date with the latest game developments, hints and tips and previews. They will also be releasing Tiny Troops - that very promising game that was original- ly in the hands of Mindscape. They can be reached at 0)705 670269.

The Internet has been a cause for concern to parents so children's charity NCH Action lor Children will be bringing out a guide at the Live '96 show.

The leaflet will give parents advice on topics such as pornography on the Internet safeguards that parents can install and the dangers posed by Bulletin Boards. There's also advice on how parents can access the educational sites for their children in a safe way.

Caroline Abrahams, principal policy officer at NCH Action For Children said, "We're not saying don't let your children use the Internet, we're saying make sure that they use il safely. The Net can be a fascinating learning ground for people of all ages but it's up to parents to ensure that the information is suitable lor their child, particularly when it comes to pornography and chat lines."

The leaflet can be obtained at Live which runs from 25-29 September at Earl's Coun London or alternatively by writing to: Information Department, NCH Action For Children 85 Highbury Park, London, N5 IUD.

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Apologies to anybody who has been trying to contact HiQ • we put in their old contact numb* in our review. They can be reached at (UK) 01525 21 1327

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LAUNCH

VTEC Industry Europe has been appointed the European importer and distributor of the new Panasonic TAB SIMM memory. The TAB SIMM memory has a number of new innovations which make the product unique.

In response to the increased theft of memory products, each Panasonic TAB will be marked with a serial number and product code to enable easy tracing of stolen goods. Another feature of the TAB is the metal shielding which improves reliability and protects the memory from electrostatic discharge. The memory module is compatible with every moth- erboard on the market and VTEC offers a lifetime warranty with next day replacemenL

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VERY REDESIGNS

Check out Hint* and tlpa from the nmw Vulcan Software web site

Avery Office Accessories, part of the Avery Dennison Corporation, has revealed its new redesigned range of computer furniture which includes computer and printer stands and VDU trolleys. The new range is softer and more elegant, combining strength and stability with a lightweight design that enables the furniture to be moved easily and safely.

According to Jan Perry, Marketing Communications Manager: The new design reflects the increased emphasis on design and appearance in the office of today. Crucially, though, it incor- porates a high degree of flexibility, ensuring it will remain compatible with the fast developing demands of office technology.*

Qki Dokey I

Oki Systems have just launched four new dot ' matrix printers. The nine-pin ML3320 (narrow column width) and the ML3321 (wide col- umn width) are ideal for speed processing high volume data and word processing appli- cations. Print speed is 435 characters per sec- ond in super-draft mode at 12 characters per inch. Other speeds include 387 cps, 290 cps and 73 cps.

The 24-pin options, the ML3390 and' ML339I, are available as narrow and wide! carriages and can print at up to 360 cps in utility mode and at 120 cps in letter quality mode (at 12 cpi).

Amiga Computinc

OCTOBER 1996

SCOM FILE FOR BANKRUPTCY

Escom AC have announced that they will be filing for bankruptcy. The news comes after months of troubles for the company who reported losses of US$1 18 million in 1995 and suffered poor Christmas sales. Manfred Schmitt, the companies general manager resigned and they sold off their Amiga Technologies subsidiary to VIScorp - only a year after they had bought the compa- ny.

The 1000 UK workers have been totd that the UK unit will have to close whilst the division in the Netherlands is thought to have been sold off through a management buyout

As far as the future of Amiga Technologies goes, VIScorp will finally take control of AT on August 19. Until then, it is understood that the business will be run with the approval of the bankruptcy trustee Hembach.

□

LITTERSOFT LATEST

Blittersoft have announced that they are now an authorised PHASE 5 main dealer. Blittersoft will now be supplying the full range of Phase 5 products which includes CyberStorm MKII 060- 50MHz - 649.95, CyberStorm MKII 040EC-40 - 379.95, Blizzard 1 260 50MHz - 579.95, Blizzard I240EC-Tower board - 279.95 and the SCSI- 1 1 for Blizzard 1260-99,95,

More news is their announcement of the CyberVision 64/3D which will be released in September. Phase 5 digital products will release this new generation graphics board, the CyberVision64/3D at a very competitive price. Designed for use as either a Zorro-ll or Zorro-lll board it will work in all Amiga 2000, 3000 and 4000(T) series models as well as with tower modifications of Amiga 1200 series models equipped with Zorro-ll backplanes. The new board will have the Vlrge graphics chip with 3D capabilities which is produced by S3. The chip can do complex 3D functions in hardware, like shaded and textured surfaces with trilinear filtering as well as shading and fog- ging for example.

A new Picasso graphics card will also be released in September, called Picasso IV. The board is fully Zorro 11/111 auto sensing, with features such as 64-bit Gnus Logic 5446 Chip. Max Pixelclock 135 MHz, and Flicker fixer on-board. It also has video on Workbench - a scalable live video window on Workbench.

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Millenium

Everyone is looking forward to that big party when we move into the next mil- lennium - that is everyone except those who may be affected by their computer not recognising the fact that it is the year 2000.

Basically, computers have only been programmed to recognise dates up till then and the new date could cause mas- sive problems. So recently, the British Standards Institution got together to decide if their department, DISC, should have a role in resolving the problem.

They met up with IT specialists from major UK companies who agreed that awareness of the millennium problem needs to be raised.

DISC plan to develop a Code of Practice which defines the term "Millennium compliance" and will set out guidelines for establishing compli- ance for vendors and users. It was also decided that all British Standards involv ing the representation of dates in IT sys- tems should be updated to reflect the need for greater discipline and accuracy in applying them.

Qops

In last month's Photogenics review, Neil Mohr got too big for his boots and said Photogenics uses Class Act gadgets - oops, sorry, it doesn't. It has only been included on the CD so that you can use AWeb. Incidentally, current owners of Photogenics 2 might like to know that there is an update available. Contact Almathera for more details on 0181-687 0040.

URA SHAKES THINGS UP

Aura Distribution Services announced this month that the Aura Interactor virtual reality backpack will available in the UK from September onwards. The Aura Interactor was released in the US a year ago and so far 1 .4 million people have bought the device. It's now available in the UK for the price of £69.99

The Aura Interactor is, basically, a pack which straps on to your back and allows you to feel the sound from a computer game.

II works on the concept that low bass noises are mostly felt rather than heard. The Interactor responds to the bass sound effects of a film or video game and actually allow you to feel the rumble of explosions, crashes or punches. As well as seeing and hearing the action, you can also feel it

The Aura Interactor is compatible with any games machine or television which has a headphone socket or audio output For more information phone: 0171-331 5100.

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Amiga Computing

OCTOBER 1996

Extracting CoverDisk files

Before you even think of putting the cover disks anywhere near your computer, you should make sure you write protect them. This is done by moving the black tab m the top comer of the disk so you can see through the hole. You cannot then damage your disks in any way. There is also no rea- son why the cover disks need to be written to, so even if the computer asks you to write enable the disks, don't do itl

To extract any single archrve. simply dou- ble-click its kon and follow the on-screen instructions, H you want to quickly extract the program to RAM, select the NOVICE level on the welcome screen, press pro- ceed once on the current screen, then again on the next The program can then be found in your RAM disk. Normally most programs need further installing, so read the documents on how to do this.

Hard Drive Users

Hard drive users do not have to boot with the first disk, but you must make sure you have the Amiga's Installer program in your C drawer. To make sure your hard drive has the correct files in place, double-click on the SetupHD icon This will check if you have the Installer program. If not it will copy it across - don't worry, rt will not write over any existing files.

All you hard drive owners will lind MultiExtract very useful. It is a separate method of extracting the cover disk files. It allows you to extract a number of files in one go, to your hard disk or RAM

When you run MultiExtract, you will be presented with a number of check boxes, each representing one of the programs on that cover disk, lust de-seled all the pro- grams you do not want extracting, then press proceed. All the selected programs can now miraculously be found in the selected destination.

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Installing ArtEffect

If you can use the normal Amiga Computing installer, you should have no problems getting ArtEffect up and running. You should extract ArtEffect straight onto your hard drive, as once done it can be run almost straight away.

Before you do run the program you will need to double-click the installer icon in the ArtEffect drawer. This copies a library across and will set up an assign that ArtEffect needs. Once you have done this you will be able to run the program with no problems. People with only 2Mb of Ram can use ArtEffect, but they will have to use a 16-colour screen and make do with only a fraction! of the program's power.

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Just when it was getting to the stage where it seemed like a truly new program was never going to be released for the Amiga, and we would be stuck with the ever increasing updates of Wordworth and Final Writer, bang! An all-new art program appears on the scene.

From the same people who produced StormC, ArtEffect unites painting and image processing under a particularly productive user interface. When the program was in development, emphasis was placed on pro- viding productive functions which are quick and simple to use. So, beginners and profes- sionals alike are well catered for.

ArtEffect is not 'just another' graphics pro- gram for the Amiga. Neither is it oriented towards the current 'standard' Amiga pro- grams, but rather to classic image processing programs such as Photoshop and creative painting packages such as Fractal Painter.

The proven concepts and ideas of these classic programs have been merged with the uncontested advantages of the Amiga, and you can see the results for yourself.

Particularly important are the functions that allow you to select certain areas of an image for processing. Of course some Filters are applied to the entire image, but when dealing with touching up images, it is neces- sary to select a particular area. So, one can retouch a scanned photo in a specific area without affecting the rest of the picture.

ArtEffect offers more than 30 different

effects with countless options. All effects are used in the same way, and they all have the same user interface. Each function has a pre- view window in which the effect is applied to i an image section. The preview area can be zoomed in and out and a progress bar shows; how much of the operation has been com-' pleted.

While many of the Amiga's normal bitmap paint programs only allow painting in a single1 colour, ArtEffect gives you access to a full range of natural paint toots that allow you to simulate paintbrush, crayon, airbrush, chalk, coal and oil colours.

To do a good job of simulating all these drawing tools, ArtEffect offers many controls for the mode, opacity, intensity, density, roughness, form etc With this, everything from the transparency of water colour to the harsh look of chalk can be simulated excel- lently. ArtEffect goes one step further and' even offers you the ability to paint on different materials, such as canvas, wood, stone, mar- ble etc.

The properties of the three basic tools - stencil, brush and airbrush - can be complete- ly redefined. The form, intensity, density, roughness, transparency, opacity, pressure sensitivity (only on graphic tablets) and Fade Out can be adjusted freely. With all these properties, natural drawing tools can be sim- ulated very well, and without any fringes. The properties of these tools are stored in the brush manager.

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- ArtEffect is a pure 24-bit art package. All operations and manipulations are carried out in the highest possible quality

- All functions in ArtEffect are very fast Some time-critical filters are even optimised for high- er processors

■ ArtEffect can display multiple views of the same picture

- A special light table allows pictures to be overlayed

- A special perspective tool supports the creation of perspective drawings

- Further important features are: Zoom, Pipette (for colour selection) Lasso (for freeform selections), Colour Interpolator and Undo function

- ArtEffect offers many loaders/savers (IFF, JPEG, TIFF, GIF, PNG, BMP), and also the Amiga Datatypes and the new 24-bit datatype

- ArtEffect offers an efficient 24-brt printer driver that uses the standard Workbench drivers. There is additional support for TurboPnnt and Studio

- ArtEffect supports the graphic tablet Wacom ArtPad 11 (a special driver is needed!). With the graphic tablet, all drawing modes become pressure sensitive. This is very important for natural drawing

- ArtEffect can be extended externally by a flexible Plug-In interface, which allows third party companies to offer new functions. There is also a special GUI for these Plug-Ins, so pro- gramming them is very easy

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One of the powerful features of ArtEffect is its stencil function. This is sort of an amalgama- tion of Photoshop's magic wand and Photogenic's paint layer. In Photoshop the magic wand allows you to select areas of a picture that contain similar shades of colour, so when you apply an effect it is only applied to the selected area.

ArtEffect lets you have this quick area selection but instead of using Photoshop's basic outline it gives you the ability to direct- ly 'paint on' this stencil layer, in a similar way to Photogenic.

As both methods are combined, it makes for an incredibly easy way of selecting areas that you do not want to be affected by one of ArtEffect's processes. Or, by using the invert, you can mark the area you want to be affect- ed then select invert masking off the rest of the picture.

To give you even more control there are extra menu items that allow you to expand or reduce the size of the masked- off area. On top of this there is a feather com- mand that will 'fade in' the edges of the stencil to any background graphics or effect applied over it

The colour selection loot allows you to del in e the stencil by picking specific colours

DISK 2

Author Adam Ciardnski

Workbench 2.04

Anyone who's heard of disk doubler will know about the basics behind DeepX. It is a program that runs in the background and waits for programs to load or save files, When they do, it com- presses and decompresses them, so saving up to 50% disk space (normally you can expect to save on average 30%).

DeepX is a commodity that will run cjuielly in the background, watching programs and files. If you want DeepX to watch a program, run the program and select it from the list of tasks. You can now select what type of compression the program's files should be crunched with. You can also choose not to have saved files compressed. DeepX allows you to choose files by a direc- tory path and with pattern matching, making it even more flexible.

As it uses the standard XPK compression libraries, there are a huge number of compressors available, and for each program you can choose an individual compressor.

Flmmible and emmy to set up and use, DeepX will help you save disk space

Amiga Computing

OCTOBER 1996

MacWB

Author: Daniel Balster

Workbench 5.0

Well. I gave in to temptation, again. For some reason I just like all these stupid hacks that change the way your Workbench looks. This latest one will give all your Workbench win- dows a Mac-style look, but the/re about 10 times as fast as a real Mac window.

To get MacWB running you need to copy the Chicago font into your fonts drawer, copy the MacWB command to your C drawer and add the line:

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AppAssign

Author: Doguet Emmanuel

Workbench 2.04

Assigns are a constant pain in the rear tor Amiga users- The situation has got a little better with the good old Installer setting them up in the user startup, but there is always going to be a time when a program is going to need one.

AppAssign is a little program that makes assigns a little easier to sort out The current assigns can be listed and removed, and new assigns can be made either using a file requester or dropping a drawer or program icon into AppAssign's window.

Making your lllo easier, AppAmmlgn sorfs out those (roub/esome assigns

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You never seem to have enough memory, and even with the recent drop in the price of Simms, adding extra memory is not going to be cheap. What you need is vir- tual memory. This is when the operating system 'fools' programs into using hard drive space as actual memo- ry. What actually happens is that using the MMU found on the full versions of the 030, 040 and 050 chips, pages of memory can be swapped between the hard drive and your real memory whenever a program accesses it.

Virtual memory is a lot slower than real memory, as the pages have to be moved off the hard drive, but some memory is better than no memory. There are MUI and Bgui ver- sions of the preference program, so one of those should suit you needs.

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What, another card game? Well yes, but this one is a real good looker. If you have ever wanted a decent playing patience game, this one will suit you down to the ground. Based on all the card games you

get on the PC and Mac, Deluxe Solitaire aims to look every bit as good and play just as well. Co on, give it a go, and if you do not know the rules, ask someone.

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Amiga Computing

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Workbench 2.04

Magic Menus have been around for a long while now, and nothing new has been added. But if you are looking for something that can provide a little moie in the way of functions. Popper could be what you want As well as giving you the normal new pop-up menus that Magic Menu provided. Popper has the extra feature of tear-off menus. So, if you regularly need to access the

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Window menu on Workbench, press the right mouse button, select the menu and press the left button. The menu will now stay on the Workbench and a window bar will appear on top of it. allowing you to drag it around, push it to the back and close it when you like. If you want to update a window, select it and then the update menu selection.

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Workbench 3.0

The Amiga's operating system has loads of nice features. It does have a nice trashcan, but it's not very good having one on each separate partition. We've had replacement trashcans in the past, but this one is the best so far.

From a single Appicon you can happily delete and retrieve all your files. It will move all the files off to the trashcan directory and remember their original location if you want to retrieve them at a later date. It also has automatic trash handling • if the drive becomes full it will start to remove files from the trashcan directory, giving you more space.

On Go

Author: Tak Tang

Workbench 2. 04

Windows 95 has started something of a fad on the Amiga, with a number of people putting out their own version of the PC start bar. Well, On Go is another similar attempt at copying it, but it has a number of differences from all the other current start bars.

What makes On Co special is that along with the normal program launcher and the fact it is a full commodity, it implements 'vir- tual screens'. This lets you have multiple Workbench screens, even though it appears you only have one. On these screens you can have different windows open and flick between the different Workbench screens. Which is nice. Currently, to configure On Co you have to manually edit the config file, but this is fairly straightforward.

Author: Oxyron

Workbench 2.04

The horror of renaming hundred., of files! Well alnght this might not be something you come up against every day, but for peo- ple who deal with large 'animations and have many similarly named files with num- ber extensions, this is a distinct possibility, RenameIt is a program to help you get around this nasty situation. It allows you to rename multiple files in vanous different ways. Primarily rt allows you to aKer the suf- fix and prefix of file names.

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This is a set of specialised libraries that was written so as many different compression libraries and crunchers could be supported by one single library, thus allowing programmers to support alt different types of compressor without needing to know anything about them.

MBPress

Author: Steve Anderson

Workbench 2.04

To go along with the AmigaCuide medical this month, MBPress is a tiny program that is used to detect what combination of mouse but- tons are being pressed. By holding down one of the mouse buttons at bootup, you can select a different startup sequence

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NetConnect promises even easier net access for Amiga users. Neil iviohr takes a sneak preview

. . I,n the recent boom in media

m ' M m COve,age °* the ln'emel it seems 1 I # everyone is slapping together all- ^^*W in-one Internet access packages - first Amiga Technologies with their Surfer pack and most recently HiSoft's Net & Web. NetConnect is hoping to surpass both these products by offering simplified configuration and setup along with the latest versions of the most popular Internet pro- grams.

The first thing that will strike you about NetConnect IS the toolbar front end, from which all the configuration and programs are accessed. The toolbar is very reminiscent of the docks used by ToolManager and is setup •n a similar fashion, allowing variable rows and columns of either icons or text buttons.

Anyone who has had a look at Miami will be glad to know that NetConnect has 'borrowed' the simple setup front end used to configure all the aspects of logging on to your Internet provider.

NetConnect will simplify this even beyond what Miami offers by maintaining a list of Internet providers and their details, so making the initial setup a matter of selecting which country you live in, your provider and the local PoP you will be using. Currently the NetConnect database covers a 140 providers in 30 different countries, 40 of which are British.

Once this is done you are left with having to enter your own specific user details such as user name and password. As with Miami there

a ,af8e " of modems which, if it includes yours, will handle the modem initialisation automatically.

So NetConnect gives you a good program launcher and set up interface but what else does it offer? Well for starters you will be get- ting AmiTCP 4.3, the latest veision of the ubiq-

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One of the completely new programs that comes with NetConnect is PowerMail. Written by the author of MetaTool, a Mime compliant mailer, PowerMail is the next generation version of the original software

Taking advantage of all the new features introduced m MUI 3 PowerMail's interface is fully drag and drop allowing you to move mail attachments to the clip board between mails and save them off to disk. Another sp-n off s that rf you multtselect a bunch of mails and drag them over to the address book all the email addresses of the people who sent these mails will auto- matically be added to the address book.

Any included images will be displayed in-line with the received mail and similarly images can be dragged over into mails and will be automatically decoded as part of the mail using the installed Datatypes.

own specific TCP stack and could cause com patibility problems with some software.

There will also be the latest version o AmFTP - m my opinion the best FTP program around - along with AmlRC, again one of the best IRC clients available for any compute? Both these programs should be getting an updated interface for the NetConnect release making them even easier to use.

Web support will come in the form of Vbyager vl.l. This is not going to be as com- plete as vbyager NG which will support every- thing that NetScape does, but it will add tables and possibly animated Crf support This means the majority of Web sites will be perfectly dis- played. Additional programs such as AmTelNet and mFmger both look good and are not pro- vided for currently by the other Net packages.

Due to the heavy use of MUI - well all the programs use MUI - the latest version will be bundled with NetConnect This version will be 3.5 and has many more bug fixes along with even more speed increases and new pop up menus. r r

Currently NetConnect looks an excellent all- in-one package with a lot of thought having gone into it With the final version all the pro- grams will be installed from a single installer that will also initially set up your account and provider details letting you get linked up and on-line as soon as possible.

With the simple configuration GUI the lull version of Am.TCP 4.3 and the all-in-one icon dnven front end. NetConnect does looks good and should be out soon.

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Oou've got to hand it to them. Not only does Softwood continue to light tooth and nail lor domina- tion of the Amiga applications market, it even has the gall to take on Mr Gates himself. Yes, Final Writer is about to challenge Microsoft's monolithic Word in a bid to make a serious dent in the lucrative world of PC word processing.

But belore you bombard Softwood with letters of protest at their treacherous betray- al of the Amiga, take a moment to look at Final Writer 5. You might just be surprised.

Far from releasing an old product with a few tweaks to milk a dying market, Softwood has actually put Final Writer thtough one of the most substantial over- hauls it's had in a while. With- over 24 enhancements since release 4, this looks like the product of a company that remains very serious about Amiga-based develop- ment

But first the basics (the majority of you who've heard this all before should skip the

next two paragraphs). Final Writer has vied for the position of top Amiga word proces- sor for years, and with good reason. A WYSI- WYG product, it was one of the first to fea- ture a user-friendly GUI complete with neat control icons and point-and- click requesters. In other words, it doesn't just work well, it looks good too.

Final Writer includes basic draw- ing toots to enhance and illustrate the content of your doc- uments. More importantly, it's laster when it comes to manipulating, formatting and

restructuring lengthy sections of text than j atch-rival Digita Wordworth - and that afterl all is what a good WP is about

Now on to the refinements introduced { with release 5. First up, Final Writer now; includes a new Auto Correct facility. As the! name suggests, this will instantly corredB your regular typos - thus teh will miracu*B lously reappear as the, for example.

It's also possible to use this feature to automate repetitive phrases and lengthy names. If, for example, you were creating a tutorial for Final Writer 5, you could add anl Auto Correct item to change fwS to Final\ Writer Release 5. Then whenever you typedB fwS the program would correct it to pro-B duce Final Writer Release 5. More useful than it initially sounds, believe it or not.

Auto Correct will also capitalise the first j letter of sentences and correct two initial* capitals in a sentence.

Release 5 now allows you to create doc- [ uments using a template. The 'New fromk Template' option doesn't just open yourl document it updates the dates and times in 1 the document and leaves the name set as Untitled. So what? This means you can't ' accidentally save a newly modified version of the document on top of your template, making it perfect lor protecting and using t templates for regularly used letterheads and 1 forms.

Swapping between regularly used docu- 1 ment formats is also made easier by a new option allowing you to save sets of style j sheets and assign them to documents. In | practice, this means you can have templates for different business letters, invoices, personal correspondence and so on, allowing you quickly to develop regularly needed document types.

Possibly the single most important inno- vation for serious WP users, however, will be the introduction of full featured, industri- al strength RTF import and export filters. RTF is vital for users want-

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Tables are independent objects you can position anywhere. They are vital for documents where you need to present numerical data in a manageable and visually effective form - so much so that once you have them, you wonder how you did without them.

Still, better late than never, and Softwood have now done an excellent job by introducing an extremely versatile tables generator. The 'Tables Preferences' requester is a powerful tool, with all the options you're likely to need.

The 'text flow' option allows you to have the document's body text flow around the left of right of the table, or over the top of the table. A 'distance' option tells Final Writer how much space to leave between the table and the text flowing around it, while if you type in a title for your table in the 'Title' area, the table's title will be appended to the spe- cial Table of Illustrations section.

Tables can be customised with 16 background colours (useful for contrast- ing different columns or rows of data) and different thicknesses for the lines that divide the table up.

It's as simple as it sounds - and that's how it should be.

Following in tho «t»p» of Wordworth. Final Writer now includea mnd aulo-comct facility

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OCTOBER 1996

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Despite troublesome times in the Amiga market, both Digita and Softwood have continued to develop their products and release regular updates of their highly regarded word processors. The truth is, though, some previous product updates have been disappointing; expecting pow- erful new features, we have instead been presented with small refinements that are useful but uninspiring. It's therefore heartening to see an

ing to swap text documents between differ- ent WPs, and different platforms as well.

This means that you will be able to take a half-finished document from the PC at work and load it into Final Writer on your Amigas at home to fin- ish it off. Then, provid- ing you save it in RTF format, you can take the finished document and reload it on to the work PC the next day. (The same procedure will work with Apple Macs, and between all sorts of different WPs providing they support the RTF format).

Softwood have realised how increas- ingly important this feature will be and have ensured it complies with the latest RTF specifications. Furthermore, they've even made certain that RTF hies using future specifications will load without problems. Even interchanging files with fonts that are non-existent on the Amiga (a common occurrence) is not a problem; Final Writer 5 will simply replace an unrecognised font with a preset Amiga font

Other major enhancements include a high-calibre tables generator and an HTML export option for WWW pages (see our box outs). Improved data support for imported graphics is a boon as well, allowing you to import GIF, JPEG, BMP and other image file formats directly into a document.

Otherwise there are numerous small but useful tweakings to the WP*s functionality, revealing a company that's in touch and prepared to respond to its customers

Final Writer 5 is a big enough step forward to ensure that Softwood this time deserves an unquali- fied recommendation. Excellent.

Amiga product undergo a serious and sub- stantial update that brings it up to speed with the sort of modern WP functionality we should expect

It's even better to see it retaining an extremely affordable price tag for the home user.

Final Writer 5 is a big enough step for- ward to ensure that Softwood this time deserves an unqualified recommendation. Excellent.

requests. For example. Softwood had made the 'Open Font' requester available from the Type Specs' requester in Release 4. Thanks to requests from users, however, they've now made the 'Font' requester accessible direct- ly from a menu item.

Again in response to cus- tomer requests, Release 5 also allows you to save sets of pref- erences and assign them to a document This means you can save the current prefer- ences using any

name you wish.

Release 5 continues to enhance Final Writer capabilities for text manipulation too. In previous issues, re-arranging copy was a messy matter of manual cutting and past- ing. Now, all sections can be arranged using the 'A/range Sections' requester.

With the release of the surfer pack, more Amiga users are at last getting connected to the Internet - only to find that many sites use software applets that don't support their machines. Oh well...

Softwood's pro-active development of an on-line customer support sen/ice for Amiga owners is therefore particularly welcome. From July 1996, customers will be able to publish their own page on the Personal Web Site of Softwood's Server for 12 months. This facility, combined with the established Amiga News forum, should hopefully grow to become an invaluable

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And here's the link with Final Writer. To participate, users are invited to send infor- mation for their home pages as a Final Writer document along with any other links and graphics - then Softwood promise to do the rest. You will be given the opportu- nity to update this information once a year.

A year's subscription to this service will cost you £35 - not too high a price for your own section of the Net, we think.

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0iren Software have been busy this month. Not only have they just released the Apollo Accelerators, but also this range of 'Ultra' CD- ROM Drives. Three variations are available to suit your needs and pocket and these are differentiated by their speed. The drives are available as either a four speed, six speed or an eight speed and are identical in all but this aspect. For the purpose of this review, we looked at the eight speed.

The range are all ATAPI/IDE external dri- ves and come mounted in sturdy metal enclosures. What you get with each is a complete package that gets you up and run- ning with your new CD-ROM drive in a rela- tively quick time. The drives plug onto the 44 pin IDE connector inside the computer and with the supplied software and cables you can configure your Amiga to support the AIAPl drive.

Depending on your workstation, you have the option of storing the CD-ROM drive either on its base or on its side. This is pos- sible thanks to a simple but innovative fea- ture of clips which hold the CD in position

when in use. Unfortunately, a potential worry would be that if you are right handed then you may find the cables limiting the amount of room you have to manoeuvre your mouse. Although the cables are long enough to stretch across to the other side they are rather taut and interfere slightly with the keyboard. This potential problem can be eliminated however, by the ability to turn the drive onto its side which also gives you more storage space on your desk.

Siren have put quite a lot of thought into this product and have even provided a fea- ture which will please those that are envi- ronmentally friendly. That is when the CD- ROM is not in use, it recognises this and shuts to a low power consumption mode.

The drive also comes in handy as audio CD player. This means you can plug the device into your stereo through the audio output connectors and listen to a few of your favourite CD's. As you'd expect there is a headphone jack located on the front of the machine so you can listen to CD-ROMs with- out disturbing the whole office or house.

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Vou must then remove the hard drive and plug the sup- plied cable into the Amigas IDE interface. If you have a two 7 ' drive you wrll need to plug this into the second con- nection, if you have a three and a half, you use the three and a half inch. With me so far? You will then need to

controlled via the control at the front Otherwise control for the drive is via an onscreen bar which lets you slide the vol- ume up or down. This can be shrunk into the title bar to keep your desktop as unclut- tered as possible. Some may have preferred this if it was a commodity, however. The supplied software, IDE-fix, also acts as a CD32 emulator and allows the majority of CD32 titles to be used.

Although the drive is quite noisy in oper- ation, it has an extremely fast accessing time as you'd expect from an eight speed. Siren are onto a winner with this collection of Ultra CD-ROM drives and it's great to see such a complete package which means you can get started without having to worry about purchasing additional parts. It's also good to have a device which leaves your other slots free for other uses. This option is considerably cheaper than purchasing a SCSI CD drive. Think about your needs though before you buy - if you can afford the eight or six speed, you will get extremely fast drives, although their four speed option may suffice for many Amiga owners needs.

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I Jason C reviews Fargo's new colour printer

Of you're old-school, the term 'printer' evokes mental images of noisy dot-matrix affairs which generated letters and envelopes (if you were lucky), with grainy, functional text If you're new-school, the term 'printer' evokes mental images of whirring laser and inkjet print- ers which turn out fancy let- terhead and smooth fonts. So the conventional wisdom goes.

At Fargo, printers aren't for agendas or schedules or bor- ing letters in black and white. They're for colour, and lots of it Fargo's Primera line sets standards for high-end professional applications, and is a favourite of computer dealers looking to con- vince people that computers are indispensi- ble tools.

Fargo has now taken its experience and put it in a consumer-level product. The FotoFUN ts a physically unimpressive device, a small white breadbin with only a couple of buttons and a slot on the front to make any difference. But inside is a dye-sublimation printer capable of turning out full-colour pho- tographic-style prints of your favourite com- puter pictures in just about two minutes.

There are a number of techniques that can be used to get colour onto paper. The FotoFUN's dye-sublimation uses heat and a special cellophane-like ribbon to create living colours on a 4" x 6" piece of photographic paper specially supplied by Fargo. Each rib- bon comes with 36 pieces of photo paper, and lasts just long enough to complete the

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The printer connects to the Amiga through the parallel port There is an Amiga driver for the printer but, unfortunately, it is not shipped with the product Instead, a program must be obtained from Fargo and paired with the special driver keyfile from the included PC driver disk. This is not exactly convenient, but it is worth the effort Once your driver is prop- erly installed, you can use a GUI interface to set certain preferences of the printer, such as the darkness of the final print and whether or not you want a dear protective layer added to the final photo. That taken care of, it is then ready for your images.

As mentioned before, the printer can han-

dle 4" x 6" photo paper. To crop (make suit- able for printing) a computer image can be frustrating sometimes. However, I recom- mend ImageFX because it also includes an expanded driver for the FotoFUN printer in version 2.6. If you don't have ImageFX 2.6, you can simply copy or save IFF images to the FotoFUN device created by the driver.

Each print sent through the FotoFUN takes about two minutes and costs roughly SI for the customer, who has to buy ribbons and prints together for 36 individual cameras. This is a fairly expensive way to get photo-quality colour images, but the convenience of doing it from your home shouldn't be under-esti- mated.

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What's the printer good for? Well, if you have a scanner and want to alter images and re-pnnt them, spending a little time in ImageFX or another image processing program and then outputting to the FotoFUN would be a good way to work. If you're a PhotoCD buff, you can use the FotoFUN to get 'hard cop/ of some of your favourite pic- tures. Then there's the FotoMug kit which allows you to create coflee mugs with any picture on them by baking a FotoFUN pnnt onto a specially coated mug. It's actually fairly inexpensive to do and takes only 15 minutes in the oven. Or, if you're a postcard buff, Fargo can provide you with special postcard print paper so you can create your own message.

The FotoFUN isn't for everyone - it's pretty much a one-track mind device. However, rfs a neat device and cer- tainly worth a look if you think you might need colour printing for your archives, presentations, or business.

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It's been a bumper postbag this month for Ezra Surf, with letters pouring in from all corners of the world.

Many different subjects, from budget games to faster processors, have provoked you into putting pen to

paper, so take a moment to peruse what your fellow readers think 0MICADOS - ALIVE AND KICKING

As a dedicated fan of 'Amiga Computing' and things Amiga, it is interesting to both read and hear about other people's point of view, partic- ularly our friends across the water, as they invariably see things differently from 'us'.

Several of your correspondents had some interesting and sometimes valid viewpoints, but I am not letting them get away with some of the points made. To make things easy, I'll list the ones I disagree with in more or less the order in which they appeared in 'Postbag1.

'Dying but not Dead? - 1 can see the logic of his reasoning, but it totally ignores the vast number of people world-wide who like AmigaDOS and wouldn't give up their Amiga whatever happened as far as other formats were concerned. Furthermore, most of 'us' are ready, willing and able to spend money to get what they want out of their Amiga, which leads me nicely on to the next point

The Americans are talking crap when they want an upmarket machine for nowt, as we say in Yorkshire, and in saying thai a cheap machine would certainly sell in America. Which planet do they live on? Several of the American PC makers are planning to Rood the European market with what I would describe as 'downmarket PCs' - the equivalent of 486/586 pre-Pentiums, because they cannot sell them over there in the saturated market!

Like most people our side of the water, I came to the Amiga when I acquired, quite late on, an Amiga 500. It was a brilliant games machine, and although much better made than the later 600 and 1200, its design limitations tfid not lend itself as well to expansion as the 1200. Being entirely fair to the 1200, it was never realfy designed as a big box Amiga; that slot was filled by Amiga with the 4000. As an aside, I am still kicking myself for not taking out a loan to buy the second-hand 4000 that I could have had for just over El 000 after Commodore went bust But it is no use crying over spilt milk now, because at the time I could- n't afford it Subsequently I spent considerably more than that upgrading my 1 200 to where it is at now: Seagate 1.1 Gig hard drive inside. Blizzard 1230/4 accelerator and SCSI board and

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outlet with a 16Mb SIMM giving me 18 Mb RAM. ft is, I suppose, still technically a stand- alone machine, in that I could if I wished take it to another place and run it fairly easily, but in practice I have it connected to a Hit) Powerstation - ft has on-board my CD-ROM, separate stereo speakers and room to add sev- eral other things to the SCSI chain if I wish. It provides power for my Project II printer and I use my Zip drive for back-up.

Alright, it has cost me dose to the price of a quite reasonable PC, but I chose the Amiga because I prefer it to the PC and it does almost everything I ask of it That it cannot yet do is entirely down to my lack of expertise, not AmigaDOS!

When Escom bought out what was left of Commodore you will remember I wrote saying that I thought Escom was a disaster. When I heard that VIScorp was taking over from Escom, I felt considerable relief. At last, here was a firm, as I understood it, with limit- ed resources, but which knew what it wanted the Amiga for. Hopefully it would even be prepared to license the technology and carry it forward

This is already happening. Phase 5, who made my Blizzard board, has already announced that the new PowerPC is in development, and that it will be backwardry compatible with AmigaDos 3.0+! Similarly, John Smith has joined the new PIOS company together with several other Amtga afi- cionados like Dave Haynie and Andy Finkel, and will be developing a computer based on the PowerPC with an operating system 'similar to the Amiga OS' - quotes courtesy of this month's Amiga Computing!

If I had either a 500 or 600, 1 wouldn't be looking to go over to a PC I should be snapping up one of the many 1200 bargains to be cur- rently had - in our local paper the other day there was a 1200 with hard drive and a Commodore monitor for just over £200!

Your prize letter this month was well aimed at the games companies, and I would only add that it is a shame somebody doesn't start trans- ferring some of the older Amiga games over to a budget-priced CD-ROM, like the ones current- ly available on PC at around EIZ99. 1 am sure

tho Amiga

Cot something you need to get off your chest? /ant to share some handy hints with other readers? Simply put pen to paper and write to Ezra Surf's Postbag, Amiga Computing, IDC Media, Media House, Adlington Park, Macclesfield, Cheshire, SKW 4NP, There's £50 up for grabs for our star letter.

there is a ready market - I for one would jump at the chance of buying several of the classics on a CD. Think of all the hassle it would save trying to install games on your hard drive.

That's enough rabbiting from me for now, although I don't promise not to bring you some more in the bright Amiga future!

Ian Aisbitt, North Yorkshire

Ah, a regular contributor to our postbag, I see. You mention the availability of second- hand Amigas and I think this is definitely a small but significant step foiward, at least for tile time being. This provides a very cheap way of buying an entry level comput- er and then upgrading it to suit your needs. The only problem with this is that the num- ber of people opting for second-hand machines won't be recorded, hence develop- ment companies won't see an increase in Amiga owners - until they start buying new hardware and software.

A budget CD-Rom sounds like an excel- lent idea. I'm sure many Amiga owners who either missed the game first time round or don't want to have to mess around installing disks would snap them up. As far as we know, no plans are on the cards - apart from the usual budget releases on disk. But who knows? Some nice big publisher out there might take notice of our humble column—

Amiga Computing

OCTOBER 1996

S EDITION PROBLEMS

first off I would like to say you have an out- standing publication and it has made my turmoil over the death of Amiga World here in the US extremely bearable. Okay, now that I've buttered you up with accolades, here is a complaint (you knew one was coming)..

Delivery of Amiga Computing US edition here in the States is extremely slow, and always late with regard to any pertinent information in your magazine. I was looking forward to purchasing StormC at the special Amiga Computing reader price, but unfor- tunately the offer expired May 29 and I did not receive my magazine until May 30! I don't know how publications in the UK are scheduled, but here in the US all next month magazines are sent out before the end of the previous month.

In this way readers receive the May edi- tion before May has turned into June Is mail really that bad? Over 30 days? I assumed since Amiga Computing was an IDG publication that the US edition was

printed here in the US. Am I wrong? Amiga World was also an IDC property but it was always on lime. Thank you for your time.

James Vigliotti, USA

Oo not fear. We have sorted this out and apologise for the problems you've had in the past The way it will work in the future (from this magazine onwards) is that everyone - including our American sub- scribers - will receive an International edition. This is because Amiga Computing and Amiga Computing US have merged to produce an even stronger title.

The advantage for you is that you will get the magazine at the same time as our UK readers. Plus, you get a bigger maga- zine both in terms of editorial content and actual size (English A4). So hopefully this will keep readers on both sides of the pond happy as we strive to bring you the latest news and developments from the Amiga world.

Our US subscribers will no longer receive a specific US edition. Amiga Computing and Amiga Computing US have merged to produce e stronqer magatine

QWANT IT ALL

Why can't we have it all? Ever since the late Jay Miner and Amiga, Inc. developed our beloved machine, it has been looked on as a computer that has always been years ahead of its time. My personal view is that the Amiga operating system is fast and efficient, and the system architecture is still envied by many computer developers who try to mimic its functions with system boards and chips (ie video, audio, and I/O). But the one thing that has been a great disappointment for the Amiga is its processor, the heart of the machine.

I do not understand why the fastest processors ever created have still not been incorporated into the Amiga (ie PowerPC or DEC). IBM users are now playing games on 133 MHz Pentium Ultimate Gaming PCs. These processors are 20+ times faster- than the average 030-based Amiga. Serious Amiga users like myself (A 1200, 66060, 16Mb RAM) are forced to incorporate IBM compatible DECs, MIPS, and Pentium Pro workstations into our work areas.

What I believe many Amiga users want rs an Amiga, with its powerful operating system and custom chip set, combined with a processor that runs around 300 MIPS (million instructions per second), all in one box- Amiga third-party developers have believed this, but for some unknown reason it has always been the corporate owners of the Amiga who have seen differently.

The Amiga community is unique in that it can easily stand alone in this vast computer industry. VIScorp, with proper planning, industry Co-operation and development, could be the only computer company with direct products in three of the now top com- puter areas: gaming (CD32), personal com- puter workstations (A! 200, A4000T), and

cable set-top boxes (ED). Amiga Computing, I love your magazine and your world support for the Amiga. Keep up the excellent work.

LeRoy Parham, Jr., Clinton, MD USA

Glad you like the magazine. I agree that what the Amiga needs is a faster processor - if ifs to compete with these 100 and 133 MHz Pentiums, it's essential. People seem quite content to shell out £1,500 for a machine that they want to word process with and play games on. However, the

The CD32 wee blighted by the feci thai there wma little J CD32- specific software '

Amiga community is still strong, and it's amazing to see the wealth of support still around for the machine. We hope that VIScorp will use this to its advantage and exploit the fact that it could have top prod- ucts in certain areas (ie personal computer workstations, set-top boxes).

I'd disagree with you that the CD32 can stand alone as a direct product in the games market It's too late for it now, part- ly due to the fact there were no CD32-spe- cilic games, but mainly because it's been superseded by the likes of the PlayStation and the Saturn

VlScorp's plans for the set-top box do look promising, though, and with things such as networked gaming, the Amiga could take off in this area. It's not VIScorp we have to con- vince that the Amiga is a good machine, it's those who don't even know that there is an option available beyond buying the atest PC

First your

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ETTER FROM THE LAND OF THE VIKING

First I would like to say congratulations on your growing readership. Before 1995 I almost never bought your magazine. In fact I only have three from before 95. Now I buy Amiga Computing every month. I espe- cially like your reviews of serious soft ware and the news and reviews of different companies who use the Amiga. Why haven't you covered Phase 5 and MacroSystems yet?

Second, t would say that t don't like your game reviews. Not because of your writing but because of the bad games you review. I believe that you should only review games with extremely good graphics or gameplay. A good exam- ple of a game with graphics is Breathless, and for good gameplay, Sensible Soccer gets my first place. The others are mostly junk. When some PC friends of mine look at the games section in my Amiga Computing (and all the other Amiga mags) they all wonder if the magazines are from the end of the '80's. The Amiga games these days don't exactly strengthen the Amiga's posi- tion in the home computer market.

Every second month or so there are some Amiga users from the UK who com- plain about the price of Amiga Computing. Next time you even think of complaining about the price, remember that all the Norwegian readers, including myself, pay £8 for Amiga Computing with a smile on our faces.

I would also like to encourage all Amiga owners to buy as much software and hard- ware for your Amiga as possible. About two-and-a-half years ago I bought my Amiga 4000/030 bundled with ScalaMM210, a 260Mb hard drive, 10Mb of RAM and the VLab Y/C card for 23000 Norwegian krones (that's about £2300). And, after I got a job last year, I have bought CyberStorm060, CyberVision 64 (4Mb ver- sion), 540Mb hard drive, 1.3 Cb hard drive, two 4Mb RAM chips, one BMb RAM chip, MicroVitec 1438, Oktagon SCSI-2 controller, ZIP drive, Photogenics 2 and Cinema 4D v2.l. And I haven't finished buying yet! You may think that I am rich because I have bought all this, but I'm not. I only earn about £180 a month and take small jobs when I have time - last summer I earned £400 by writing procedures on my A4000I In the short time I have had my A4000 I have spent £2500!

Finally, I would like to encourage all the readers of Amiga Computing to save up some money so we - all the Amiga users - can buy the PowerPC Amigas that Phase 5 is making for 1997. But don't forget to buy Amiga products in the meantime. Phase 5 and MacroSystems seem to be the only hardware-related firms who really do some- thing with the Amiga these days. New Amigas should have at least an 040, not a slow 030 which seems to be the processor chosen by AT for the 'Walker'.

Also, the current price of the A4000T is way too high. Who wants to buy technology

from 1992 for more than £2000? I surely wouldn't have paid that much for a machine that old if I were to buy a new computer today. The only reason for me staying with the Amiga today is the OS and the real Plug and Play. The only OS which can almost compete with AmigaDOS is System 7 on the Mac but the software on the Mac is extremely expensive compared to software on the Amiga.

What should the future Amigas be like? Take a look at Phase 5's Internet pages and read the configurations for the Power PC Amigas. This is the kind of Amiga system I would gladly pay for in 1997. If 1600 xl200 pixels at 24-bit colour depth and a refresh rate of 72Hz seems too good to be true, check out Phase 5 on the Internet.

To all Amiga users: Keep on supporting the Amiga. It is the only computer with a user-friendly approach and has the fastest and best written OS on the Earth today. Any comments?...

Ole Haugland, Norway

I'm glad you have seen the error of your ways and decided to buy the magazine monthly. And at £8 - well, Amiga Computing is priceless isn't it? Who can put a value on all the helpful reviews, previews and tutorials we have? It saves you money in the long run because you only buy the products that are worth- while. Anyway, enough of this blatant self-promotion.

To address your other points. Firstly, we will be featuring MacroSystems and Phase 5's current projects in the very near future. We would not neglect such important issues but we want to make sure we can give you proper, in-depth articles on them.

Secondly, I agree with your comments about the Amiga games market However, I'd like to point out that we do try our best to review the better games rather than fill the section with useless titles that nobody would buy, but with the current situation it gets harder and harder to fill System. It sometimes

More good-looking games like Breathless are needed il the Amiga is lo be (alien seriously as a games platform again

becomes necessary to show some of the less than perfect titles Just to give you an idea of what is available. Despite this, we are far less guilty than other magazines of taking up pages with these kind of games. Instead, we leave it in Andy Maddock's capable hands to find other ways of filling the section. For example, we bring you helpful cheat modes or fea- tures on games companies, which I'm sure our readers find more interesting than reviews of poor games.

Also, what you say about the A4000's is true - only real enthusiasts will want to purchase the machines at these prices. You're very enthusiastic about what Phase 5 will have to offer in the future. We too hope that it can revitalise the market with the impressive PowerPC project.

If you prefer, you can send us our letter via Email. Simply point your mailer to: ESP@acomp.demon.co.uk. You could even send it in on a disk - it makes our lives easier too. Someone has to type this lot in you know!

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QlTS AND BATS

^ I have recently had nr.,? 01 two problems with my computer and I would be /J immensely grateful if you could help out.

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

J mV hard disk, but I cannot get it back on the main Workbench background screen. I have tried Snapshot All from the Workbench menu bar, but it does not seem to work. Could my Magic Workbench be anything to do with this?

1 1 read that SCSI hard drives are supposed to be faster than the IDE equivalent Your review said that my Seagate drive is IDE, but Sysinfo says that it is SCSI. Why is this?

I When reading the speed of my hard drive using Sysinfo with my Blizzard 1230 disabled, the transfer rate is always between 1.4Mb and 1.5Mb per second. But when I use the Blizzard, cur- rently with no Ram, these figures drop to just above 1 .2Mb. Will this change when I get more memory? Has this anything to do with the low speed ratings you gave it in your review? I used to have the Blizzard 1220 accelerator and the speed was 2.5Mb per second.

Craig Humphries, Fosdyke

i 1. If you want an icon to stay put on the Workbench and reappear in the same

P'ace eacn l'me Vou reboot your machine, you need to use the Leave out JT~ option in the icon menu. The easiest way of using this is to select the / j k icon you want 'left our on the Workbench and press the right Amiga and L keys. The reason this works as opposed to just dragging the icon onto the Workbench is because the Leave out function creates an extra file called .backdrop, in which there is a list of the files that should be left out Each time Workbench starts, it reads this file - that is on the root of each drive - and will place any file found listed in there out on the Workbench.

2. Generally it is taken that a good SCSI 2 hard drive and controller will produce better results than an equiva- lent IDE drive. Good transfer rates for an IDE drive will be around 2-3Mb/s, while a fast SCSI 2 controller, such as the one found on the G-Force accelerator, will produce results at double this speed. The speed you get back does rely greatly on the speed of the con trailer, processor and the hard drive itself.

Before the A600 and A1200 came out, IDE drives on the Amiga were fairly rare, with SCSI controllers and hard drives much more in favour, mainly due to the extra flexibility of the SCSI interface. Because of this, Amiga software was written with SCSI controllers in mind. So, when the A600 and A120O came out it was decided to make things more compatible. The internal IDE interface would therefore appear to software as though it was a SCSI interface, thus enabling software to access the IDE drives while being unaware of the different interface.

3. Why have you bought an accelerator without any memory? Without extra memory you will only get a fraction of the extra speed of which your new processor is capable. You are tight in thinking that getting fast memory will cure the transfer rate problem. The probable cause of the drop in transfer speed when you use the Blizzard board over the A1200's built-in processor is that it cannot transfer data as fast to chip memory.

0600 SQUIRRE

I need some technical help with installing a ^ ) squirrel SCSI interface and a Reno Portable ^ drive to an A60O. I have installed the j Squirrel software several times using differ- ent configurations but the CD-ROM icon will not show on the screen.

I have changed devices and unit numbers on the tool types of the CDO DOS driver. I have also tried a different CD-ROM drive and a second mother board without success. I finally sent the Squirrel back to the company to check it out

1. Do you know of anyone who has been able to set up an A600 with a CD-ROM drive via the Squirrel

2. Can a CD-ROM be connected up to the paral- lel port using the SCSI cable that comes with the

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sort you out and send you on your way with a cheery wave

drive?

3. If so can the Squirrel software be modified for a parallel port usage or do I need other software?

Anthony Whiteman, New York As far as I know the Squirrel should work fine with either the A600 or the A1200, but it does seem strange that you are having so much trouble getting your Amiga to recognise the CD-ROM drive as the Squirrel install software is very straight forward to use.

Normally the most common reason for a PC- Slot device not working is that some of the pins on the interface have become bent out of shape. This is easily done if you try to insert an Inter-

face at a slight angle as the end pins can end up being pushed down out of the way. If you get a jewellers screw drive and a torch with a tittle bit of care you can realign these pins.

Other than that the best way to see if the SCSI Interface is working Is to use SCSImounter which comes with the Squirrel. If when the CD-ROM Is connected SCSI mounter just returns errors then there is definitely something wrong with the interface.

To answer your last two questions there is no way you can get the Squirrel software to work with the parallel port It is theoretically possible to use the parallel port but It would be so slow there would be little point.

Amiga Computing

OCTOBER 1996

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HE HARD WAY

I purchased a Syquesl EZ13S drive j and an Oktagon SCSI card from J Casteiner at THE computer show at

J the Novatel hotel and had a lot of problems in getting my Amiga 4000/030 to recognise it It was all very hit- and-miss.

During one of the times when it 'hit", like a Person Rapidly Approaching Termination Time or PRATT for short, I inadvertently for- matted my internal hard disk using the Oktagon preference program. And yes, you've guessed, it the only back-ups t had were of my Workbench partition. Oh woe is me. and thrice woe at that!

However, as it only took a few seconds to format, I am assuming that all it did was a quick format. So, whilst all the files and draw- ers are there, on boot-up the system cannot find the various partitions.

I have tried DiskSalv 2 extensively, but I find that file names do not correspond to the actual contents of the file. At present, and with many thanks to Darren at Casteiner, I am using the EZ drive as a second hard drive until such time as I can get my old partitions back, or at worst have to re-format it.

Now the burning question: Can you help me get the system to 'find' these partitions? Is it possible that using DiskSalv I have man- aged to mess things up good and proper? And finally, yes I will be making regular back- ups in the future, especially as I can fit my 120Mb hard drive onto one EZ-Drive cartage. Let this be a lesson to the 'I can't be both- ered, I haven't got the time, it won't happen to me, I'll do it tomorrow1 brigade. Be both- ered, make the time, it will happen to you and tomorrow never comes. It is always too late!

S Mallbn, Bast Sussex

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There is nothing worse than accidentally formatting your drive. On the whole, DiskSalv does a good job of recovering deleted files, and there are two approaches to using it in your situation:

Vou can use DiskSalv's unformat func- tion. This will try to resurrect your hard drive in its original state with all your files where they were to begin with. Unfortunately, it has the best chance of suc- cess if you have not used the hard drive since the format as any writes to it would have disturbed the original files and DiskSalv will not be able to do as good a job.

The second way is to use the undelete function. This will scan the formatted partition and make a note of every file header it finds. You can then choose which files you want DiskSalv to try and recover. I would think this last option would be your best bet as you will be able to try and undelete as many files as you can from your hard drive onto your EZ drive. Other than this there is not much left you can do.

I suppose the main rea- son that people don't bother properly backing up their hard drives is lazi- ness. The first time you back-up your entire hard drive can take a good while, even for a small-ish

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drive, but once it is done, next time you will only have to deal with the new files. Therefore the amount of time you have lo wait is only a fraction of what you would think.

In fact you don't really have to wail around at all. As the Amiga multi-tasks you can have you back-up program run- ning on a low task priority in the back- ground while you get on and do some- thing else. Also, if you have a large pro- gram such as Final Writer, all you really need to back-up are any document files. In this way, if you do lose the copy on your hard drive, you can just re-install Final Writer then restore your documents from your back-up.

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Questions questions

I am a computer programmer who is rela- ^ J tively new to the Amiga computer. My J brother gave me his old Amiga when he bought himself a new one, and I have J found a lot of things I like about the Amiga compared with the PCs I use every day at my work.

My Amiga is an A500 with a 1 20Mb hard drive and 9Mb of Ram. I would like to develop software for the Amiga but I find the manuals I have dry, boring and difficult to read and understand. Also, they do not really address the question I have about the Amiga. As I find you do a pretty good job of explaining the Amiga to those who write to you, I am listing the questions I have:

1 . Why don't most Amigas use SVGA monitors with none-interlaced screens?

2. What is a DMA?

5. Why can the Amiga multi-task while a PC can- not?

4. What is it that allows the Amiga to have such terrific handling of bitmap colours when compared to a PC I have to work on PCs at work and I find that if I look at a bitmap image dose up, colours like orange are just a bunch of red and yellow dots, whereas on my Amiga, orange is orange with a nearly infinite number ol shades and hues.

5. What are you talking about when you refer to the future Amigas new custom chipsets? Have these new chips been developed, or are you referring to existing chips that could be incorporated into the new Amiga? If ihese chips exist what are they and what are they used in now?

6. If the future Amigas use a standardised chipset, does that mean it could use the graphics cards and sound cards of the PC? What would that do to the colours the Amiga displays now?

7. Why does the Amiga have a different method of writing to floppy disks than PCs? What is the possi- bility that the new Amigas will use the new floppy dri- ves developed by 3M that can pack 120Mb of data on their 5.5" floppies?

8. The Workbench looks so plain with all the draw- ers the same and even/thing different shades of grey. I am used to having lots of colour and many different icons on the PC, and I would like to change the colour scheme and icons on the Workbench. Is there anything out there that would help me do that?

Ken Haigh, St Jacob fJSA \y 1 . Well, for any AGA Amiga or big box

' y . Amiga with a graphics card, there Is

> f*. no real 'eason why they cannot use

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an SVGA monitor and high resolution

none-interlaced screens. Traditionally, however, the Amiga main display has been either PAL or NTSC, which are the standard TV displays used in Europe, America, Japan and Australia. Because of this, most Amiga software is geared towards these display modes and there is no real incentive for people to use VGA monitors.

2. DMA refers to the ability of a device or chip to access the computer's memory independently of the processor, and stands for Direct Memory Access. A device that can perform DMA has the advantage of freeing up processor time, but there is the possible problem that it can stop the processor from accessing memory. One thing that made the Amiga special when it originally came out was that all its custom chips could perform DMA, and so work independently of the proces- sor.

3, The Amiga can multi-task due to its operating system. When ever you run a program, the oper- ating system add this to its list of all programs running, and when it asks for processor time, the operating system will 'share out' the total proces- sor time between all the programs that request rt With the advent of Windows 95 the PC can now multi-task, even though the system requirements

Amiga Computing

OCTOBER 1996