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Kitchener (519) 742-9821; Obys Amiga Computing. Sudbury (705) 673-8520; Software Zone, Brampton (416) 79) 6500; Thornhill Computers, Thomhill (4)6) 886-2494; Wrathborne Software. London (5L9) 457-3714 Quebec Software House, Montreal (514) 374- 3614; Soft Wares, Montreal (5 14) 737- 5865 Saskatchewani Memory 1 -hk' Computers. SatkttOOfl {306) 242-4000 SO ADVANCED IT EVEN CREATES YOUR PAGES FOR YOU! If Press Our N^M Select Page Gero From The Menu 7: n Simply Choose From a Variety of tomated Layouts or Other Furu Like Envelope i m... i .-i * *. « i b «j mj Addressing and More... PROFESSO d In No Time You Have a Quick Sessional Layout Designed to Your Specifications , or an Automatic Table From Your Spreadsheet , or a Mail Merge From Your Database , or an Addressed and Printed Envelope,' or... PAGE ssional Page 3*0* Genie option and ustom professional \lly address and print Introducing GENIE, more thakv ^ggg t reasons* With Genie you don't haveJ^h^j pro to design like one. 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New Features: ■ Page Genies: 6 different styles of Automatic Page Genera- don, including newsletters* ads, flyers , brochures, more.* * Function Genies: over 25 time saver Genies like Automatic Envelope Addressing, Automatic Table Creation, Automatic Mail Merge, Drop Caps, Small Caps & Super/Sub Script, Automatic Grid Creation, Pop Up Units Converter, HotLink to Art Department Pro, and many more/ • Total Programmabiliry: Using over 300 ARexx com- mands you can take complete control of Professional Page,* • Type 1 font support for access to thousands of high quality fonts • Undo for correcting mistakes • New Color Separation Algorithms with improved undercolor removal ' 5 New AGFA Compugraphic Scalable Typefaces ' Type sizes in ,125 point increments ■ Professional Draw Hot link so you can instantly link to Professional Draw, edit your drawings or clip art, and send them right backi"** ■ New text impott filters for Pro- Write, QuickWritc, Excellence k Auto-tiling for printing large pages Now's the time! Even if you've never done desktop publishing before, you can with Professional Page 3.0 and our exclusive Page Genies. And power users will delight in the sophisticated array of Function Genies that speed your work like never before. Plus you get the benefits of 5 new typefaces, improved color separations, Type 1 font support, and more. So what are you waiting for? Step up to the most advanced desktop publish- ing package for the Amiga. See your dealer today or call us at: 1 -41 6-602-4000 And you get Purchase Protection: If you purchase Professional Page 2.1 between January 1 and March 31, 1992, you'll receive version 3.0 free.** UPGRADES: Registered owners, call for information on upgrading to 3,0. GOLD DISK It Couldn't Be Easier. Circle 154 on Reader Service card. 'Gerties require ARexx. ARexx (ornes wrrfi Workbench 2.0 or con be purchased separately. "Jufl send in your deled sol« reteipf with your regbtraticn cord. * "Hoi link requires Professional Draw 3.0 {available soon], ftofwsionol Pogt is l r egrslered irooWtwrk of GoV Ohk Int. All ether produth mentioned* ore frodemorks of Their rwpedtw owner*, Spedfiratiore ore subject to change without rwrke. HINKALL'040 ACCELERATORS ARE THE SAME? THINK AGAIN! As a high power Amiga 3000/3000T user you need a 68040 accelerator board for one reason . . . and one reason only. ..SPEED! And once you know what makes one 68040 accelerator better than another, the only board you'll want is the G-FORCE 040 from GVP. WATCH OUT FOR SLOW DRAM BOTTLENECKS Yes } all 68040 CPU's are created equal hut this doesn't mean that all accelerator boards allow your A3000 to make the [lost of the 68040 CPU's incredible performance. The A3000 was designed to work with low-cost, 80ns DRAM (memory) tech- nology. As a result, anytime the '040 CPU accesses the A3000 motherboard, memory lots of CPU wait-states are introduced and all the reasons you bought your accelerator literally come to a screeching halt! Not true for the G-FORCE 040... SOLUTION: THE G FORCE 040s FAST, 40ns, ON BOARD DRAM To eliminate this memory access bottle- neck, we designed a special 1MB, 32-bit wide, non-multiplexed, SIMM module using 40ns DRAMs (yes, forty nano- seconds!]. This revolutionary memory module allows the G-FORCE 040 to be populated with up to 8MB of state-of-the- art, high performance, orvboard DRAM. Think of this as a giant 8MB cache which lets the '040 CPU race along at the top performance speeds you paid for. SHOP SMART: COMPARE THESE G-FORCE 040 SPECS TO ANY OTHER U40 ACCELERATOR ^ 68040 CPU running at 28Mhz provid- ing 22 MIPS and 375 MFLOPS! NOTE: The 68040 incorporates a CPU, MMU, FPU and separate 4KB data and instruction caches on a single chip. ^ to 8MB of onboard, 40ns, non-multiplexed, DRAM. Fully auto-configured, user-install- able SIMM modules lets you expand your A3000 to 24MB! ► DRAM controller design fully supports the 68040 CPU's burst memory access mode, ^ Full DMA (Direct Memory Access) to/from the on-board DRAM by any A3000 peripheral |e.g: the A3000's built- in hard disk controller). ► Asynchronous design allows the 68040 to run at clock speeds independent of the A3000 motherboard speed. Allows easy upgrade to 33Mhz 68040 (over 25.3 MIPS!) when available from Motorola. ^ Hardware support for allowing V2.0 Kickstart ROM to be copied into and mirrored by the high performance on- board DRAM. Its like caching the entire operating system! ^ Software switchable 68030 "fallback" mode for full backward compatibility with the A3000's native 68030 CPU. ► Incorporates GVP's proven quality, experience and leadership in Amiga accelerator products. TRY A RAM DISK PERFORMANCE TEST AM) SS FOR Y0URSBJ HOW THE G-FORCE 040 OUT PERFORMS THE COMPETITION Ask your dealer to run any ''RAM disk" per- formance test and see the G-FORCE 040's amazing powers in action. So now that you know the facts, order your G-FORCE 040 today. After all, the only reason why you need an '040 accel- erator is SPEED 1 . G-FORCE / Up to 8MB of high speed (40ns) DRAM Motorola 68048 CPU running at 28 Mhz A300O "CPU slot connector SEE US AT Dealers Circle 1 69 on Reader Service card, world of. commodore AMIGA HEW YORK CITY • APRIL 24-26, 1992 Consumer* Circle 170 on Reader Service card GREAT VALLEY PRODUCTS INC. 600 Clark Avenue, King of Prussia, PA 1 9406 For more information or your nearest GVP dealer, call today. Dealer inquiries welcome. Tel. (215) 337-8770 • FAX (215) 337-9922 G -Force 040 rs a registered trademark of Great Vafiey Products inc. Amiga Is a rog, isle rod trademark of Commodore- Amiga, [no. 6 1991 Great Valley Products Inc, CONTENTS VOLUME 8, NUMBER 5, MAY 1992 FEATURES Amiga Output as Art By Joel Hagen. . 2 8 How you translate your computer im- ages into finished artwork can be the crucial difference between mundane re- productions and gallery-quality works. Here are several creative techniques to help make your physical output suitable for exhibition. Dusting for "Prints" By Dave Johnson jJ Don't let your search Tor the right printer wind up in the "unsolved mysteries" file. Use this guide to take the investigative legwork out of finding what different kinds of printer technologies have to offer in terms of capability, performance, and value. DTP-ING WITH THE ENEMY? By Eyo Sama . , 37 Relax: Neither von nor Julia Roberts will suffer murder or mayhem by engaging in a little cross-platform cooperation in die area of DTP. Learn to incorporate the best elements of Ami gas, Macs and PCs, and you may just wind up with a compet- itive, full-service publishing operation. ARTICLES A Brand-New Bench: Part II By Sheldon Leemon . • • • 42 New feamies of the 2.0 operating system are making some applications programs more powerful, flexible, and easy to use — as you will see in Fart II of our series on "Getting the Most from Workbench 2.0." COLUMNS Chief Concerns By Doug Barney ... 6 Using a computer to monitor Wall St. trading from a cell may not be good rehab for Michael Milken, but the editor shows that some "insiders" are putting Amigas to constructive use all the same. Accent on Graphics By Joel Hagen 48 Joel takes you "trekking' 1 in outer space this month with some paint-program tricks for whipping tip animated star- fields and spinning asteroids faster than you can say "Star ship Enterprise." Getting what you do on your computer out oj your computer in quality fashion is paramount, Thais why our features this month stress tech- tuques far obtaining top-notch output, tips on buying printers, and practical advice on setting up desktop-publishing operations. Whether youfo preparing artwork for exhibition or producing a job for a client, you 11 find our ''Amiga Output" special will help you get the best results possible. Video Suite By Mark Swain 50 One of the simpler— and less expen- sive — ways to achieve a crispy luminance clip in your video post-production work is to create a "traveling matte." DEPARTMENTS Overscan 8 News, new products, and more — from all over the Amiga community. Help Key 80 Memberships are free and service is available here at Lou's "Triple A" — where you get Advice, Assistance, and Action whenever your .Amiga hits the breakdown lane, AW Product Information 84 lb contact the developer of any product mentioned in this issue of AmigaWorld, consult our all-in-one "Manufacturers*/ Distributors' Addresses" list. The Last Word . . The readers write back. 112 REVIEWS Imagine (impulse) and RealSD Professional Turbo 1.41 (Acttva / Programs Plus & Video) ..18 Major facelifts for two multipurpose 3-D graphics packages pay off with highly successful results, DSS8; Digital Sound Studio (GVP) 20 High-quality audio digitizer/sample- editor combo with some sequencing capability thrown in. MegaChip 2000/500, Multi- Start II, and SecureKey (DKB Software) . . 74 Three nifty boards that offer sensible solutions to increasing chip RAM, pro- viding multiple Kickstart ROMs, and ensuring data security, respectively. MEDIAShOW (Gold Disk) 7 5 Low-cost multimedia system for video production work. Voyager (Carina) 76 "The Dynamic Sky Simulator' makes your Amiga a mini-planetarium. Notebook (Black Belt) 90 Free-form text/graphics idea organizer GAMES CRIB NOTES By Peter Olafson ... 3 6 Slick tricks from the top tipster in the gaming game. Red Baron (Dynamix/ Sierra) 56 Highly realistic, authentically detailed flight simulator from the Great War. . . BIRDS OF PREY (Electronic Arts) 56 ...But ifWWl biplanes are too slow For you, try this fast-paced Cold War model BATTLE ISLE (UB1 Soft /Electronic Arts) and FlRETEAM 2200 (Sim Systems/ RAW Entertainment) 38 Two sci-H war games, one winner. THUNDERHAWK (Virgin Games) 60 Hi-tech helicopter hijinks with arcade, strategy, and role-playing elements. Corporation (Virgin Games) 62 Challenging role-playing adventure. COVER PHOTOGRAPH BY ED JUDICE AMIGA II. LUSTRATION BY CELESTE LAZAROU WA1 S \ I AmigaWorld 3 THE FINAL WORD IN MM EXPANSION FOR THEA2000 The best things come in small packages! The smallest and j most compact 8MB RAM Expansion board for the A2000. Once again GVP proves to be the technology leader. mi MB of r factory installed ► memory. SIMM sockets for up to 6MB user installed memory modules. (Shown here ► fully populated) GVP's VLSI custom chip allows dramatic decrease in number of parts required. Features: t/ 2MB of factory installed RAM, expandable to 8MB, V All memory is fully Auto-Configured. V Also supports a 6MB configuration for maximum memory utilization for Commodore's A2088/2286 "bridgeboard" users. V Uses easy-to-install, industry standard, SIMM memory modules. No more bent pins or incorrectly inserted DRAM chips! V GVP's state-of-the-art VLSI technology has reduced an 8MB RAM expansion board to a "half-card"! Lower parts count also means highest possible reliability and life expectancy. GREAT VALLEY PRODUCTS INC 600 Clark Avenue, King of Prussia, PA 19406 For more information or your nearest GVP dealer, call today. Dealer inquiries welcome. Tel. (215) 337-8770 • FAX (215) 337-9922 Amiga is a registered trace mark of Commodore-Amiga, Inc. Dealers Circle 21 on Reader Service card. Consumers Circle 22 on Reader Service card. AmigaWorld Dale Strang, Publisher Douglas Barney, Editor-in-Chief Daniel Sullivan, Executive Editor Swain Pratt, Managing Editor BARBARA GEFVERT, Senior Editor LOUIS R. WALLACE, Senior Editor, Technology Linda Barrett Laflamme, Review Editor Gene Brawn, Joel Hagen, David X McClellan, PETER OlAFSON, Contributing Editors HOWARD G. HAPP, Art Director LAURA Johnson, Assistant Art Director Ann Dillon, Designer Debra A. 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HaNSHAW, Director of Operations LISA LaFLEUR, Business & Operations Manager MARY McCOLE, Presidents Assistant KENNETH BlAKEMAN, Associate Publisher, Ancillary Products LYNN Lagasse, Video Products Manager CHRIS CoNROY, Technical Director, Video Products TlM WALSH, Ancillary Products Manager LlNDA RUTH, Single Copy Sales Director W T 1LL1AM M. BOYER, Director of Credit Sales tf Collections AmignWurltl (ISSN 0835-2390) is an independent journal not connected with Commodore Business Machines. Inc. A miga It hrldis published monthly by TechMedia Publishing, Inc.. an [DG Company. NO him St,. IVu-ilximugh. Ml o:i4:>s I v Militcrjptioo rale i* 129.97, one year; $46.00, two years $64.00, three years, f ianada $38.97 (US. funds), one year only, Mexico $38.97. foreign Surface $49*97, foreign Airmail $8-197 (piepaviiunt is n.-quire<l on Foreign Surface and Airmail Subscriptions in IS. fundi drawn on IS bank). All Foreign rates are one-year only 5econd*clas3 postage paid ai fcterborough, Nil. and at additional mailing ol- Bces, Phone: 603*924-0100, Entire contents copyright 1992 by TechMedia Publishing, Inc. No part of this publication may be printed or otherwise reproduced without written permisston Irani the publisher. Postmaster: Send address changes id.lm^dlwM. Subscription Services. HO Box 58804, Boulder, ( ( i 80322-8804. National}) distributed by Kable News Co., Amiga- Wttdfl makes even ctloit in asMiie the accuracy of ailicles. listings and circuits published in the ma$jpxme*AinigaHfnid assumes no responsibUit) Foi damages due to errors or omissions. *liOf?£ ^A QIC FB ( n# GVP-^ ilow ADD 286 «PC/AT' r COMPATIBILITY TO YOURA500 IN A "SNAP" WITHOUT VOIDING THE WARRANTY ON YOUR A5001 GUP'S SERIES II A500-HD8+ NOW FEATURES AN OPTIONAL, PLUG-IN, 16MHZPC286 EMULATOR MODULE! Not only have we added a PC286 emulator option to our best selling A500 hard drive subsystem but our Series H™ A500-HD8+ units are now equipped exclusively with Quantum™ hard drives offering the fastest access times and data transfer rates, unique disk caching and the highest reliability [MTBF] rating in the industry. Coupled with our world acclaimed DMA SCSI controller, everything from loading software to saving files is so much faster that you finally have the time to enjoy the fun and productivity that you bought your A500 for in the first place. THE MAGIC BEHIND BVP's SERIES II A500-HD8+ HARD DRIVE MUSCLE Check out these unequalled features: i Choice of factory-installed 50, 120 or 240MB Quantum SCSI hard drives. Provides storage space of 56, 130 or 260 floppy disks! ► Game Switch for disabling the hard drive allowing compatibility with those few badly behaved games which don't like hard drives! ^ A2000™ Hard Drive Performance. The A500HD8+ uses the same Custom DMA VLSI Chip and FAAASTROM technologies as our top-selling, high performance, Series U™ A2000 SCSI controllers. ► Up to 8MB of User-Installable Internal FAST RAM expansion (SIMMs). ► External SCSI port for connecting additional SCSI Peripherals such as Tape Drives, CD- ROM drives, etc, ► Unique Internal "Mini-Slot" Expansion Connector and Fan for Cool, Reliable Operation. ► Includes Dedicated Power Supply ensuring that your A5Q0 power supply is not overloaded la MUST for adherence to Commodore specs). PLUS, now we offer something NO OTHER HARD DRIVE SUBSYSTEM can, an optional plug-in 16Mhz 286 "PC" Emulator! THE MAGIC OF THE GUP/PG28G EMULATOR OPENS MICROSOFT WINDOWS — AND MORE. Our new GVP/PC286 emulator module is the first A500 peripheral specifically designed to be plugged into our unique internal "Mini-Slot". Unlike other 286 PC emulators, this one fits right inside your A5O0HD8* housing! So installation is a snap and there's no need to open and dismantle your A500™ and run the risk of VOIDING YOUR Computer's WARRANTY. In fact your warranty worries are over, because the A500-HD8+ as well as the optional GVP/PC286 emulator module are now warranted for 2 FULL YEARS!! The GVP/PC286 "Mini-Slot 7 ' module features: • Runs MS-DOS [V3.2 or up), Microsoft Windows™ and literally thousands of PC applications. NOTE: MS-DOS Operating system is NOT Included. • I6Mhz 80286 CPU. Up to 15 times faster than IBM's original PC! • Complete Hercules™, CGA, EGA/VGA (monochrome) and T3100 video emulations. MS-DOS applications can use the ASOO's™ built-in parallel and serial ports transparently. • Use the ASOO's floppy drive(s) to read/write MS-DOS floppies. • Let's your A500 run MS-DOS and SEE US AT world of . co mm odore AMIGA NEW YORK CfTY • APRI L 24-26 . 1 992 AmigaDOS Applications Concurrently!! •512KB of On- board Memory (RAM) for exclusive use by MS-DOS. Transparent access to the A500's memory for MS-DOS applications requiring more than 512KB V of memory! • Socket for optional 80C2S7 (CMOS) Floating Point Unit. PLUS, your Series n A500-HD8+ matches your Amiga™ 500's good looks line-for-line and curve-for-curve. So. , . Be Smart, before you buy anyone else's A500™ hard drive or RAM expansion system, ask the question: ''Does It Have a Mini-Slot"? Why settle for anything less? GVP/PC286 MODULE 512KB RAM 80286 CPU Mini-slot connector Optional 80C287 FPU GREAT VALLEY PRODUCTS INC, 600 Clark Avenue, King of Prussia, PA 1 9406 For more information or your nearest GVP dealer, call today. Dealer inquiries welcome. Tel. (215) 337-8770 • FAX (215) 337-9922 Dealers Circle 23 on Reader Service card. Consumers Circle 24 on Reader Service card. id tmdwwk orf CommodOf»-Annj». ire C 1 Ml Grwi viltoy Praductt Inc. CHIEF CONCERNS A personal computer can create a degree of freedom even within prison walls. Amigas on the Inside SOME WHO ARE sentenced to a long stretch in prison have a bleak outlook. Life on die inside is lull of drudgery, fear, and anger. And when they get out, it's usually more of the same. Others, however, learn new skills, write books, act — anything to prepare themselves For a productive return to society. Brad Perron is currently serving a life sentence at the Warkworth Institu- tion in Campbell ford, Ontario. He hopes to be released in 1994, at the age of 47. If he does get out, Permit He blew $900 on his computer, giving up the chance to get a color TV, stereo, or fancy clothes. He has never regretted it. shouldn't have to flip burgers at the local Big Boy; instead, he will become involved in making video, thanks to countless hours spent using the Amiga. When Permit bought his A500 in 1988, inmates were allowed to pur- chase only SI 000 worth of personal property. He blew S900 on his comput- er, giving up the chance to get a color TV, stereo, or fancy clothes. He has never regretted it. After Permit's first major software purchase— Byte by Byte's Sculpt .Ani- mate 3-D — he was off and ray tracing. He also picked up Electronic Arts' DPaint II, and, with the help of his pal Wayne Boden, started broadcasting a schedule of the videos to be shown throughout the prison. They began by creating six screens, but after various other prison groups wanted in, their work outgrew the paltry memory of the standard A500. An extra 5 1 2K took care of that prob- lem, at least for a while. Now the system is punched up with a CAT 42MB Series II hard drive, an extra 2MB of RAM, and an accelerator. And Brad and Wayne have moved up to scripting with Right Answers' The Director. The current Director application they have built presents a requester that allows the user to select a title animation or a title screen. It then automatically reads a list of videos from ASCII and displays it on the chosen screen. The Director also reads in advertisements from an in lb. data hie and places them within a screen that's created from DPaint III or New- Tek's Digi-Paint 3. All this now runs in hi -res overscan, thanks to Perron's one- megabyte Fatter Agnus chip. This work got Permit more inter- ested in video, and $99 later he be- came the owner of a Mimetics' AmiGen, which he now uses to enhance videos that are shot by various prison groups. Permit says that one of his biggest challenges is interesting the 25 or so other Warkworth A500 owners in ad- vanced uses of the Amiga. But an as- sortment of top-notch games keeps this group fairly well occupied, he reports. Warkworth prison officials recently upped the amount of money inmates can spend on personal possessions, so Permit is thinking ahead. On his agen- da are the 2.0 operating system and a digitizer. Perron's greatest Amiga dream, though, is to own a system that includes a NewTck Video Toaster. Permit is now trying to convince officials to scrap plans for an expensive PC-based video system, and instead to let him do a more complete job with a couple of ABOOOs. Sounds like a good idea to me. Time To Program FOUR OR FIVE years back, I corre- sponded a bit with a David Duhaime, a prisoner at the Washington State Re- formatory, and I'd guess he's still there. This guy was obsessed with program- ming, but, making only $26.40 per month, he lacked the money for a decent software library. I sent him every Microsoft language I had at the time. To me, they took up shelf space. To him, it was like a gift from God. At the time, Duhaime claimed that Washington State Relormatoiy was the only house of correction in the US that allowed inmates to own a PC. Like many near-sighted corporations, the prison had strict standards as to what could be used. Unfortunately, it had to be an IBM compatible, and no mo- dems were allowed. I'm not sure if they allow Amigas yet. Personal computers, even IBM com- patibles, have the power to change lives. There is no certainty about it, but in the case of prisoners, it is a chance for a new start. Each one can decide what he wants the computer to do. Sonic may become financial wizards, or programmers, or designers. And these skills, rather than prison garb or a regrettable past, form the identity of the person at the keyboard. An .Amiga computer system is espe- cially well suited for rehabilitation. It is cheap and powerful, and can easily tap into creative powers. It can reward hours of effort with a beautiful anima- tion, a stunning graphic, or a multime- dia mindblower that makes you proud. The Amiga may not be able to save the whales or patch the hole in the ozone, but it might make a difference in one mans life, ■ 6 Mm 1992 Our new G-Force 030 Combo board for the A2000 is truly in a class of its own and has no equaf. it's equiva- lent to four expan- sion boards in a single slot! With its WO Central Processor and 68882 Floating Point Processor (both running at a clock speed of up to SOMhz), 4 to 16MB RAM and on-board DMA SCSI Controller, the G-Force 030 Combo gives you more performance and con- trol for the money than any other single board out there. G-FDRCE 030 COMBO THE MUST HAVE A20D0 ADD-ON Give your Amiga a massive memory boost... Make your Amiga faster than a speeding bullet,.. Use your Amiga with virtually every and any SCSI device on the market — from CD-ROM drives, to Magneto- Optical and tape-based storage devices... Get all the storage capacity and perfor- mance of the latest SCSI hard drives — with our optional hard drive mounting bracket you can even turn it into a 240MB Quantum Hard-Disk-Card... Save lots of time working with desktop publishing, animation, ray tracing and modeling programs... Speed up all your New Tek Video Toaster^ applications, A perfect match... Plus, the G-Force 030 Combo plugs into your A2000's CPU slot, leaving all your normal expansions slots open and tree for other uses! or40MHzV30... 32-Bit RAM EXPANSION... DMA SCSI CONTROLLER... HARD-DISK-CARD & MORE... ITS ACOMPIEIE SYSTEM ON A SINGLE BOARD It's no wonder we say the G-FORCE 030 Combo is the Must Have Add-on for your A2000. IT'S A COMPLETE SYSTBVI ON A SINGLE BOARD Just look what you get from this workhorse, powerhouse: • 50Mhz 68030 or 40Mhz 68EC030 CPU, Whichever one you choose your A2000 will out-perform even the latest A3000 systems. • 50Mhz or 40Mhz 68882 FPU, math pro- cessor. • 4MB of high performance, 60ns, 32- bit wide RAM expansion. User up- gradeable to 16MB with easy- to -install 4MB SIMM modules. • High Performance, Auto-booting, DMA SCSI controller which can DMA directly to/from the full 16MB range of 32-bit wide RAM — just like the A3000! • SCSI connectors for connecting both internal and external SCSI peripherals. • Hardware support for mapping the A2000 Kickstart ROM into the high- speed 32-bit wide on-board RAM. It's like caching the entire operating system! • Icon-based, Software Switehable, 68000 Fallback mode. • Converts to Hard-Disk-Card with Optional Hard Drive Mounting bracket. 6-F0RCE 030-50/4 with optional "Hard-Disk-Card" Conversion Kit COMBO Dealers Circle 25 on Reader Service card. SEE US AT world of. commodore AMIGA N EW YORK CITY • APRIL 24-26, 1 WZ AND FOR THE MUST HAVE OF ALL HARD DISK CARDS... Our optional "Hard-Disk-Card" Conversion Kit turns your G-Force 030 Combo board into a Hard-Disk-Card — the drive mounts directly on the Combo board itself — even saving you a periph- eral bay! For real price/performance ask your dealer about our factory installed 120MB or 240MB Quantum hard drive bundles - look for our seal! Not only do you get a great price but with our new two-year warranty, you will get the piece of mind you deserve. GREAT VALLEY PRODUCTS INC. 600 Clark Avenue, King of Prussia, PA 1 9406 For more information or your nearest GVP dealer, call today. Dealer inquiries welcome. Tel. (215) 337-8770 • FAX (215) 337-9922 G-Force 03Q s a registered trademark tf Great Valley Product Inc. Amiga Is a registered iradsmark of Commodore -Amiga, Inc. All airier trademarks are the property oi their respective owners, ffl 1991 Great Valley Products Inc. Consumers Circle 26 on Reader Service card. OVERSCAN A/ews, A/ew Products and Networks AmiEXPO Long Beach: High Seas, Low Attendance LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA— The rains that flooded Southern California rcased in time for the opening of Ami- EXPO, held February 1-1-16 on hoard the Queen Mary, which is now perma- nently docked in Long Beach, Unfortunately, the rain returned with a vengeance on Saturday, keeping many would-be attendees nestled in their homes. Disappointing also was the low vendor turnout, apparently the result of a glut of Amiga shows and conflict be- tween competing show groups unable to agree on a coordinated show schedule. Among the missing were Commodore. GVR Progressive Peripherals, Impulse, and myriad others. NewTek had a very small presence as part of the Bread Box Toaster magazine (RS# 120) booth. Image-processing kingpin ASDG was there, though, with an especially unique "exhibit." The linn curtained itself off from the crowd and con due tea 1 a three- day focus-group session, questioning cus- tomers about what should be added to Art Department Professional. I did get a quick demo of ASDG's new program, Fred, a terrific system for batch process- ing frames. Fred allows you to easily add Toaster-style effects to single-frame re- corded animations. ASDG is also work- ing on motion blurring for digital video. (RS# 121.) Greater Access I unfortunately missed the hottest prod- uct of the show. INOVAtronics 11 cw in the UK-based designer of its HiQ A500 Tower, who set up the product late in the show. According to INOVAtronics, the HiQs video slot can run 68040 acceler- ators and New Tck's Video loaster. This S699 product could he a boon to A500 owners eager to use the latest and great- est A2000 peripherals. INOVAtronics also popped out CanDo 1.6, which adds game-port support, pro- portional sliders, and more ARexx func- tionality (RS# 122.) Digital Processing Systems drew raves (I sure gave it one) with its new DPS Per- sonal V-Scope. For S955, it gives you a waveform monitor and vectorscope on one card. With a standard composite video monitor, you can have a full-screen waveform or vectorscope, or view them both on a single screen. (RS# 123.) Gold Disk, which reported brisk busi- ness, highlighted Professional Page 3.0, which should be shipping by the time this issue hits the stands. The new ver- sion automates many layout tasks and supports Adobe Type 1 fonts. (RS# 124.) If you have a Commodore A263Q ac- celerator, CSA promises to double your speed with the $699 Rocket Launcher. This product replaces the standard 25- MHz '030 with a 50-MHz version. The firm also showed a new generation of its popular MegaMidget Racer. (RS# 125.) Supra pulled in crowds witii its range of fax modems, priced from SI 99.95 to 5399.95. (RS# 126.) Bugs and All Rimik displayed its Beetle Mouse, a $49.95, 320-dpi replacement mouse. Hie two-button device looks a bit bug- like, comes in a variety of bold colors, and includes an extra long cord. Remix Continued on p. 14. About Faces The good news: AmlgaDOS 2.0 supports Intellifont scalable typefaces. The bad news: Only three fonts are included. The best news: Agfa Corporation now offers 15 scal- able font packages for the Amiga, plus many more individual volumes (four typefaces each, $99). The word-processing and desk- top-publishing series is composed of Styles Unlimited (25 typefaces, $199), Laser Type (35 faces, $199), Office Communications, Bulletins/Newsletters, Presentations, and Publications Packs (1 2 faces and S1 59 each), and Amiga Starter and Amiga Companion Packs (four faces and $69 each). For projects that need an artistic flair, check out the five- volume decorative series (six typefaces and SI 29 per volume} or the Amiga Decorative Starter Pack (four faces, S69). Video Unlim- ited (SI 99) includes 25 typefaces optimized for video work. With a total of 250 designs in Agfa's Intellifont library, you won't run out of choices quickly. (RS# 110.) CG Times Italic CG Times Bold CG Triumvirate Bold CG Triumvirate Condensed Put a good face on it with the Amiga Starter Pack. The PC Connection For more Bridge board speed, consider the 80386 20-MHz Bridgeboard En- hancer ($449) from ATOP. The Bridge- board Enhancer is a small module that replaces the 80286 chip of the A2286 AT Bridgeboard without cutting or solder- ing. It works witli an 80287 math chip and promises a Norton processor speed oi near 20.7. (RS# 112.) For better Bridgeboard relations, check out the Ambassador ($79.95) from Consultron. Based on the compa- ny's CrossDOS software, the Ambassador allows you to access Amiga-connected floppy drives as MS-DOS drives and boasts it will provide faster access to data Continued on p. 14, To contact the vendors of products mentioned, see the "Manufacturers'/Distributors' Addresses" list on p. 84, 8 May 1992 The Next Generation In Backup Software Quarterback 5.0 - © 1992 Central Coast Software a | Quarterback Backup in progress. Pause Rbort SDFB: Writing m 0F1; Not available ODF2; Ready B0F3: Ready Completed: 4% F i I es : Bytes : Tagged : 25 178,560 Fi les: Bytes: 559 4,599,613 S* Backup started Feb aSysten2.0 raC 3 RddBuf f ers 3 Arc 2) flss i gn 3 nVa i I 3 B i ndDr i vers 3 Break 2] Change TaskPr i Zl ConCI ip 3 Copy 3 CPU 3 Date 3 Delete 3Dir 3 D t skChange 3 DtskDoctor 3 DiskSalv 3 Ed 3 Edit 3 Eva I 2| Execute ~h Fi lenote 3 IconX 3 Info 3 Insta I I D IPref s 11, 1992 at 18:55:02 fiH */ |EI|g] 1* • Tfte /a statf backup and archiving program on the Amiga! [ Supports up to four floppy drives for backup and restore f New integrated streaming tape support New "compression" option for backups Optional password protection, with encryption, for data security Full tape control for retention, erase and rewinding New "interrogator, " retrieves device information from SCSI devices Capable of complete, subdirectory-only, or selected-files backup and restore Improved wild card and pattern matching, for fast and easy selective archiving Restores all date and time stamps, Hie notes, and protection bits on files and directories Supports both hard and soft links Full macro and AREXX support Full Workbench 2,0 compatibility Improved user interface, with Workbench 2,0 style "3-D" appearance Many more features! Thousands of people rely on Quarterback for their backup and archival needs. Now, with Quarterback 5.0, there is even more reason to do so. Greater speed, even more features, and proven reliability. And a new "3-D" user interface puts these powerful capabilities at your finger tips. With features like these, it is no wonder that Quarterback is the best selling backup program for the Amiga. Would you trust your data with anything less? Central Coast Software .4 Division Of New Horizons Software, Inc. 206 Wild Basin Road, Suite 109, Austin, Texas 78746 (512) 328-6650 • FAX (512) 328-1925 Quarterback & a trademark of New Horizons Software, Inc. Circle 65 on Reader Service card. V E R S C A N Who's Who Helper Tired of hunting through a mess of tiny note papers looking for that phone number you had just a minute ago? The Contact {Cansuftron, $59.95) address and phone database can help you tidy up. Called by a configurable hot- key, Contact lets you create, edit, and access multiple phonebooks. Need an address for a letter? Call it up in Contact, tell the program to type it into your text window, finish your letter, and then configure Contact to print a label for the envelope. Contact can store up to two telephone numbers for each address and can dial ei- ther one if you have an autodial modem. Contact's ARexx interface lets you cus- tomize the program even further. As a bonus, CalcKey, a hot-key-accessible calcu- lator, is also included for standard, scientific, and programming math. (RS# 107.) Curves Ahead Technical Tools offers 3-D modelers a new twist and enhanced convenience with Lissa ($35), a Lissajous curve gen- erator for Imagine and Turbo Silver. Lissa generates Lissajous path objects that you can, for example, use as flight paths or as backbones of extruded ob- jects. You control these paths via a win- dow on Workbench or an ARexx script. (RS# 104.) Programmer's Toolbox Want an easier way to define structures in C? IntuiGen 1.0 (/. Miller & Associ- ates, $34.95) generates definitions for NewScreen, NewWmdow, Menu, Menu- Item, IntuiText, and Gadget (Boolean, string, and proportional) structures. The WYSIWYG interlaces load-and-save fea- tures let you alter code later. (RS# 101.) Composed of 1 1 command-line utili- ties, Quma Software 's QVCS (Quma Version Control System) automatically tracks your source and binary files through development, saving the differ- ences between various revisions in a sin- gle file. The lock-file protection lets you use multitasking QVCS (§99) on net- worked systems, and for multi-developer projects, QVCS coordinates accesses and updates to shared modules. Need to backtrack? Hie program re- trieves previous file versions and supports journaling. Other hand)' features include an editable message file that defines the Con tin ued on p. 14. Occasionally, a piece of Amiga software worthy of becoming folk- ballad material appears in the public domain. These programs are usually small yet remarkable utilities that make life easier in one way or another. Such is the case with MultiDOS, a 34 K pro- gram by Kjell Didriksen that qualifies as the handiest Amiga/ MS-DOS converter of all lime. An earlier Amiga- to- MS-DOS conversion program, CrossDOS ($39.95, Consultron), first ap- peared several years ago. It won the respect of many, including me. CrossDOS alone elevated me from ordinary computer geek to "nice-guy" status in the ey es 1 A m Xga I Vo rid S ales a n d Marketing staffers who often need Amiga files convened to MS-DOS format. I knew the practicality and pit- hills nsMiciaied wiili conversion programs, and CrossDOS allowed me to perfect the art of making PC files Amiga-compatible and vice-versa. I learned to overcome quirks in its behavior, I download- ed software updates as ihey ap- pealed infrequently on the nets, and I convinced myself that the program was all 1 would ever need for MS-DOS conversion. ON-LINE SCAN By Tim Walsh But MultiDOS, the PD alter- native to CrossDOS, puts the commercial program to shame. With MulitDOS, there's no secret sleight-of-hand tricks to learn, no semi-secret updates to down- load, and virtually no documen- tation needed in order to use the program. You simply decom- press the software by using the Arc utility and copy one file to your I: directory, another to devs;, and a couple more to your System director); Then you're in business. Unlike early versions of Cross - DOS that sputtered to a halt un- der Amiga DOS 2.04, you can turn MultiDOS on and off with the CLI/Sheli commands PC- MountAll and PCKillAU, respec- tively. Furthermore, you can for- mal low-density MS-DOS disks on an}' Amiga floppy device with the command PCFormat. (You can safely shorten the commands by renaming them or by adding a line such as Alias PC PCMount- AIl to your Shell-Startup.) After several months of heavy use, I have yet to see MultiDOS crash, and it remains bulletproof to the operating system under just about any conditions. Even if you do not have access to a PC-compatible, I recom- mend this file for future refer- ence. GEnie users can look up file number 13661 in library 33, and you can find it in the CompuServe AmigaTech library # 1 1 as filename MLDOS1.LHA. On Portal, the program is file number 90 in the Amiga area "File Libraries/Mi sc Stuff." You can also find MultiDOS on BIX under the name MUITIDOS- .LZH in the Amiga.listings area, A Bid for BIX Speaking of BIX, Byte maga- zine's telecommunication arm was recently acquired by Gener- al Yideotext Corporation. To learn more about this sale, I posed some questions to BIX. The responses I received were surprisingly upbeat. According to BIX's Amiga Editor, Joanne Dow, you can expect to see bet- ter organization and new help- line operators. Sometime in the near future, BIX will probably move to a new location, which could mean in- creased access capability from Tymnet. In turn, BIX would be able to handle as many as 500 users at a time, rather than die current capacity of 140. The move could result in a 24 -hour interruption of service, but all cxrepi i he most infrequent users should have plenty of warning, as BIX will try to notify sub- scribers well in advance of any down time. Dow also noted that BIX will remain the BYTE Information Exchange, with heavy BYTE participation. So, fellow BIX users, set your minds at ease. In these dismal economic times, positive business news is in short supply. That emphasizes Dow's upbeat prognosis: "I am excited by the prospects for BIX and BIX's future, including signifi- cant growth. It appears this has the distinct possibility of being a singularly good thing for BIX," BIX One Phoenix Mill Lane Peterborough, NH 03458 800/227-2983 CompuServe PO Box 20212 Columbus, OH 43220 614/457-0802 800/848-8199 CEnie 401 N. Washington St. Rockville, MD 20850 800/638-9636 Portal Communications 20863 Stevens Creek Blvd. Suite 200 Cupertino, CA 95014 408/973-9111 C W May 1992 OU'LL BUY IMPACT VISION 2U FOR ONE VIDEO NEED AND FIND YOU NEED IT FOR EVERYTHING VIDEO Introducing the IMPACT VISION 24 from GVP The All-in-One Video Peripheral for the A3000 and A2000 if you're into video, IMPACT ViSION-24 is truly a dream come true for your A3000 orA20Q0. it is the first multi- function peripheral specifically designed for the A3QQQ's video expansion slot With the optional A200Q genlock slot adaptor kit, it also perfectly comple- ments and enhances the A200Q. Check out these features, all packed on a single Amiga " expansion board! [W ► Separate Composite and Component Video [?. . ■ (RGB-f Sync) Genlocks. - - !", ■ RGB genlock operates *< FT in the digital domain, for digitally perfect production studio quality mixing: no color bleeding, no ghosting, no artifacts . . .! ► 15MB frame Buffer. Display 24-bit, 16 million color images on your Amiga monitor. On a multi-sync monitor, you can even display 16 million color images in non-interlaced mode! ► Realtime framegrabber/Wgitfeer. Freeze, grab and store [in standard 4096 or 16 million color IFF format] any frame from a ''live" incoming RGB video source. Optional "RGB splitter" required to grab incoming composite or 5-VHS video. ► flWcer-amJnator, Duplicates and enhances the A3000's display enhancer circuitry. It even de- interlaces live external video! A must for any A2000 owner. Ask about our A2000 "genlock slot trade-up" program (in case your genlock slot is already used by something less exciting!) ► Simultaneous Component Video (RGB) Out, Composite Video Out and s-vhs Video Out. Now, anything you can see on your Amiga monitor can be recorded on video tape, Consumers Circle 27 on Reader Service card. including animations, ray-traced 24-bit images and more! ► Pfctupe-h-PictuPB (PIP) Display. Freeze, resize, rescale and/or reposition live incom- ing RGB video just like any workbench window at the double click of a mouse or the pressing of a "hot key". With a multi- sync all this can even be in rock steady de-interlaced mode. Unique "reverse-PIP" feature, even allows you to place a fully functional Amiga workbench (or other application) screen as a SCALE- ABLE | shrunk down!) and re-positionable window over full-screen live video. ► To make sure you can take full and immediate advantage of every feature of your new Impact Vision 24 video-station, we even include the following software with every unit: • Caigarr -fl/24. An exclusive version of the leading broadcast quality, 3-D modelling and rendering program. Use your imagination to model 3D, 16 million color, scenes. Use your digitized video images as textures to wrap around any object! The mind is the limit! • SCALA Trtfing. Easy-to-leam, video titling package complete with lots of special fonts and exciting special transition effects. Turn your Amiga into a character generator. • Ml«OTAm TW -W24. A 2D, 16 million color paint program that lets you have fun 4 • press a | configurable) "hot key" to acti- vate any feature. At GVP, we wanted to make a major impact on the use of the A30G0/2000 by profes- sional video enthusiasts. With the Impact Vision-24 we have! For more information on how the impact Vision 24 can have a major impact on your video productions, call us at 215-337-8770. • •••••••••• impaa VBiim^7 creating or manipulating any 16 million color, 24-bit image, • Control Panel. Provides full software control over all Impact Vision-24's numer- ous features. Use your mouse or simply Dealers Circle 28 on Reader Service card, GREAT VALLEY PRODUCTS, INC, 600 Clark Ave., King of Prussia, PA 19406 For more information or your nearest GVP deafer, call today* Dealer inquiries welcome. Tel. (215) 337-8770 • FAX (215) 337-9922 Amiga is a registered trademark of Commodore-Amiga, Inc. OVER S C A K Island Unrest It's 1995, and you're in charge of an American tank platoon. Can you rid Yama Yama's five islands of the North-Korean- backed, disaffected Soviet communists? The sequel to Team Yankee, Pacific Islands {Emptre/ReadySoft, 549.95) tests your strategic prowess through more than 30 battles, each with multiple objectives. Only after all five strategically important islands are liberated can you call yourself a winner. (RS# 108.) Experience the not-so-distant future of tank warfare in Pacific Islands. Inside Sync Is there no more room for another black box in your video studio? Very well, just plug your time-base corrector into one of" your Amiga's slots instead. Compatible with composite and SA'I IS systems, the TBCard (/.Den, $995) promises a broadcast-quality signal, in- finite-window lime-base correction and synchronization from any video source, and a bandwidth of 5.5 MHz. For an ad- ditional SI !15, you can purchase thcTB- Card/1 R-7 combination. The TR-7 is a remote box that gives you control of p roc-amp functions, field and frame freezes, and svstem-tiniing controls. (RS# 111.) Graphics To Go Have you a need for ready-made graphics and special effects for wedding videos? An- imattes: Wedding Series (39.95, Electric Crayon Studios) is a point- and- click collec- tion of self-running graphic routines offered on three disks. You can use the routines straight out of the package or customize them in an IFF paint program, utilizing the included modification tutorial as a guide. (RS# 105.) Encore, Encore! They're back! The Lost Treasures of Infocom, a collection of 20 favorite by- gone text and graphic adventures, is now available from Activision Studios, For about SI 00, you'll receive all five Zorks, the mysteries Ballyhoo, Dead- line, Mooumist, Suspect, and Witness; the science fiction games Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Planetfall, Star- cross, Station fall, and Suspended; the fantasies Enchanter, Sorcerer, and Spell- breaker; Infidel, iu which you must find the great lost pyramid of Egypt, and the creepy Lurking Horror. (RS# 1 0(5.) SIMply Learning Suppose you were given the choice of learning addition by drill or by playing a game such as cribbage? That's an easy choice — and studies show that students learn and understand much more when they are having fun. In her article "Simulations and Adventure Games in Computer Assisted Language Learning" (Simulation & Gaming, Dec. 1990), Macey Taylor reports on a wide variety of games usage in both direct in- struction and teacher training. She found that "...students in communicative classes have tended to progress more rapidly, scor- ing higher on our level tests. ..than their counterparts in more traditional courses." Taylor uses Sim City (among other pro- grams), and cites the wealth of educational possibilities it allows. These include site re- search, map making, planning and budget making (using spreadsheet and database programs), and writing. In fact, teachers at all levels, from elemen- tary school to college, from vocational schools to literacy and English as a Second Language instruction, are applying this con- cept with Amigas. With the help of simula- tions like Sim City (Maxix) and Balance of Power (Software Toolworks), students learn not only city planning and international re- lations, but also language and writing skills, math, traditional sciences and social stud- ies. These and other simulations offer a wealth of possibilities for instruction and practice. Scott Horan, teacher and proprietor of Mr. Horan's Computer Lab, a large Amiga establishment in Louisville, Kentucky, uses and installs Amiga educational systems around the South. In addition to simula- tions, he recommends Lemmings, especial- ly in CDTV format, as "a great problem-solv- ing game for classrooms." "It's a microworld for higher-order think- ing skills," he explains. "CDTV decentralizes the classroom. If the teacher is going to be the guide on the side instead of a sage on OVERHEARD Commodore wants to pay you $500! If you purchase an Amiga 3000-25/50 or 3000- 25/ 1 000 before April 30, Commodore will give you a $500 rebate. You may either ap- ply it to your purchase immediately or re- ceive a check from Commodore. For lull details, call SOU iili-AMICA. the stage, CDTV is the perfect tool." Many commercial and public-domain games and simulations can be customized using one of the multimedia authoring lan- guages such as AmigaVision, CanDo, or The Director. The tools are readily available; it's up to teachers to use them to spark the creativity and imagination that students at all levels bring to the learning experience. — Michael Hanish Video Flippers NORTH MANITOU ISLAND, Michi- gan — In the tradition of legendary ex- plorer Jacques Cousieau, scientists from Michigan-based Great Lakes Visual Re- search (GLVR) took the plunge off the coast of Lake Michigan's North Manitoti Island. Using a Sony video camera housed in a specially-made casing, these fresh-water explorers surveyed and recorded a visit to the sunken Alva Bradley, lost nearly 1 00 years ago. According lo GLVR's Harley Seeley, who coordinated the expedition, an A2000 equipped with a GYP accelerator Continued on p. 14. 12 Max 1992 Bh> Soars the tare My*. yiotf/l 00 WHO ZONE \tts With the most powerful, comprehensive 8-bit , J t ^wjVjthhU*' I Digital Sound Package to ever orchestrate an Amiga it H&*' £ofiff°g?.i «/ i Digital Sound Studio The Affordable Answer to Your Audio Dreams Record, Edit, Compose . . . With a high-quality stereo sound sampler, A fast, powerful, easy-to-use sound editor, And a self-contained 44rack sequencer. For all the sound effects and music you could ever imagine. ► Record sound samples from any source, including voices, noise, and pre-recorded instruments, to create your own instruments and effects. ► Edit sounds quickly in real time. Add effects like reverb and echo, run sounds backward, alter wave forms, cut and paste sound segments, create loops, eliminate pops and scratches. ► Compose easily using the DSS 4- track sequencer and your Amiga or MIDI keyboard. Draw from up to 31 instruments at a time, in up to four octaves with 8 different variable effects. Mix and modify sounds in real time as you compose, through direct interface with the sound editor. DSS Stretches the outer limits of 8-bit sound • Create your own 4- track, self- play- ing musical compositions, • Make soundtracks for home video, animation or visual presentations complete with voice-over, sound effects and music. • Analyze voice patterns and stereo separation. • Analyze graphic equalization of real-time sound. • Remove "pops" from old phonograph recordings. • Create custom instruments and sound effects by collecting and/or modifying pre-recorded instruments, voice, or sounds from any source, and use them in your own compositions. • Save your sound and music to disk or send it out via modem for replay on any Amiga. Check out these unparalleled features V Amiga DOS 2.0 compatible; written in assembly language. V Multi- tasking operation. V 68020 and 68030 compatible. V Comprehensive tutorial manual helps even beginners get started right away V Intuit ion- based graphic interface makes operation easy. V MDDI-in capability. V Direct interface between sequencer and editor. V Hold 31 sound samples in memory at once — all shown on screen so they are easy to manipulate. V Effects and processing capabilities include echo, mix, filter, re-sample, sound data inversion, playing sounds backwards, loops, fade-in/fade-out and more. V Manipulate sound samples in real time, as you listen. V Create sampled instruments with 1, 3 and 5 octaves. V HIFI recording for highest quality playback. */ Controls for faster/slower playback and filtering high frequencies during playback. V Load and save samples, songs and instruments in multiple formats. V Multiple effects for each note, • Stereo and monophonic operation. Also convert mono to stereo or separate stereo. V Auto-piaying music modules. V Real-time oscilloscope and spectrum analysis. V Real-time reverberation. 1/ Graphic editing of wave forms through easy-to-use functions, including zoom in/out and precision controls for position, frequency and amplitude. V Draw sound waves freehand using the mouse. V Direct editing of individual sample numeric values. V Maximum recording speed of 51,000 samples/second in stereo. V Savable Preference settings. V Saves in IFF, SONIX or RAW formats. V Compatible with SoundTracker, NoiseTraeker and SoundFX modules. GREAT VALLEY PRODUCTS INC. 600 Clark Avenue, King Off Prussia, PA 19406 For more information or your nearest GVP dealer, call today. Dealer inquiries welcome. Tel. (215) 337-8770 • FAX (215) 337-9922 Consumers Circle 29 on Reader Service card Dealers Circle 30 on Reader Service card. Amiga is a registered trademark of Commodore-Aniiga, inc. V E R S C A N AmiEXPO, from p. 8. is also planning a series of Amiga CD- ROM products, including a public-do- main software collection, clip art, and a picture disc. Each disc is expected to sell for S79.95. (RS# 127.) Going back to the future, the GEnie telecommunications service is planning to introduce an on-line interactive Ami- ga "magazine** thai will eventually in- clude sound, graphics, and animation. (RS# 128.) Mach Universe entered the 3-D object fray with the $49.95 Big Rig, a tractor- trailer object set that's compatible with LightWave 3D. The truck can be easily animated, with headlights, blinkers, rear view mirror, and 18 moving wheels. (RS# 129.) Besides wowing us with its Resolver graphics board, Digital Micronics of- fered a 20MB, 3.5-inch floppy drive. Yes, floppy! The firm claims an average access time of 65MB per second, which equals the performance of many hard drives sold only a few years ago. Prices range from S549 for an internal unit to 3749 for an A500 version that includes a SCSI controller. (RS# 130.) In the Can, a European titling-and-ef- fects product, has crossed the Atlantic and is selling for S99 from Visual FX. (RS# 131.) Finally, promoior AmiEXPO (RS# 132) announced its move into the desk- top-video market with its first such show, Desktop Video '92, scheduled for May 21-23 at the Hyatt Regency, San Francis- co Airport. It has also scheduled another AmiEXPO fur October 2-4 at the Mar- riott Marquis in New York City. — Doug Barney PC Connection, from p. 8. from the Bridgeboard if you use Consul- tron-style PC virtual hard-drive parti- tions. In addition, with the Ambassador you can access Bridgeboard -created vir- tual partitions and most real MS-DOS hard-drive partitions connected to the Amiga. (RS# 113.) A Bridgeboard alternative for the A500, ATonce-Plus (Vortex/MicroPace, $448) features a 16-MHz CMOS 80286 processor and 5 1 2K of RAM, plus a sock- et for an optional 80C287-12 math co- processor. Tested under MS-DOS ver- sions 3.2 to 5.0 and DR-DOS 5.0 and 6.0, the board runs unrestrictedly in Protect- ed mode (Windows 3.0 and Lotus 123 are supported, however) and offers 640K of memory for DOS functions. In machines with one meg or more of RAM, ATonce Plus lets you either install additional program memory or a RAM disk. For its display, the board emulates 16-color CGA mode, one EGA/VGA monochrome graphics mode, and the Hercules, Olivetti, and Toshiba T3 1 00 graphics cards. While you can use the .Amiga's serial port as COM1 or COM2 with the card, the parallel port maps to LPT1. Sound and a real-time clock round out the features list. (RS# 1 14.) For PC-XT emulation without hard- ware, Consultron's CrossPC is the an- swer. This software emulator is bundled with an upgrade of Cross DOS in Cross- DOS version 5.0 Plus. Requiring one megabyte of RAM and version 3.0 or higher of MS-DOS, CrossPC emulates CGA or monochrome video modes and can access standard Amiga floppy drives, an MS-DOS partition on an Amiga hard disk, and the Amiga's parallel, serial, and mouse ports. The other half of the team, CrossDOS 5.0 now supports L44MB high-density disks and the 20MB MS- DOS floptical disk format Associated utilities, error-recovery techniques, and the user interface were revamped, as well. For example, the for- mat and disk-copv commands now oper- ate on both MS-DOS and AmigaDOS disks. .As a new product, CrossDOS ver- sion 5.0 Plus is available for S59.95; as an upgrade, the cost is $20 and an original CrossDOS disk. Consul tron also sells MS-DOS 5.0 for $90. <RS# 1 15.) Video Flippers, from p. 12. and a Video Toaster (NewTek) made the underwater imaging easy and effective. Normally, it takes a lot of work, both in the field and in post-production — possibly up to two years — to establish records like these. With the Amiga set- up, Seeley said, image acquisition can be done rapidly and with good resolu- tion. The system allowed Seeley to ac- complish both his goals: charting un- derwater preserves and furthering the concept of a rapid-deployment, mobile system that is consumer-oriented and inexpensive. "You don't need to be a computer sci- entist to use this system, " Seeley ex- plained. "(Its) major advantage is that the available software allows you to adjust the contrast and change the scale (of im- ages)." Avocational archaeologists will be interested to know that the entire setup costs less than SI 0,000. — Rick Broida Add More Than Four Users of Commodore's A2630 accelera- tor can now have more 32-bit room to ma- neuver in, thanks to the DKB 2632 [DKB Software). The DKB 2632 is a 32- bit mem- ory-expansion board that installs on the A2630. While it comes populated with four ($699.95) or eight megabytes, you can ex- pand the board up to 112 megabytes in in- crements of 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, or 32 megs using JEDEC-standard 32-bit-wide SIMM mod- ules. Because this RAM uses 32-bit address space instead of autoconfig space, you can install it and still use an AT Bridgeboard with more than six megs of fast RAM, The DKB 2632 is also 2.0-compatible and is backed by a one-year warranty. (RS# 109.) The DKB 2632 offers up to 112MB of 32- bit RAM to A2630 owners. Toolbox, from /;. 1(1 message strings used by QVCS utilities, a file-compare utility for binary and ASCII files, accidental-deletion protection, and the ability to automatically expand key words. (RS# 102.) If debugging your SAS/C code is a big : ger concern than cataloging it, consider Mu Id Trace 1.0 [AltoFirmo. Software. $89), a multitasking debugger housed in a link library; With it, you may open sep- arate trace windows for each program or task running, pause and step through in- dividual tasks, and change a program's or task's execution speed. MuItiTrace supplies feedback on tbese tasks in several nays: It displays messages and variables in trace windows with print f syntax, displays hex dumps of memory or string data, and lets you re- strict trace reporting to specific function- call levels. The included MakeTrace util- ity creates header files and generates C- function prototypes. (RS# 103.) ■ 14 May 1992 USB? M-AHD DRIVE-ING HARD TO STAY THAT WAY! Only GVP Factory Installed 42000 HC8+/52Q, 105Q or 200 SCSI Hard Disk + RAM Boards have a track record this good— over 20,000 satisfied Amiga?® users and now a 2-Year Warranty! Don't waste your valuable time or money building a SCSI + RAM Controller from parts . . . 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GVP Custom VLSI Chip GVP Factory Installed Seal it Ask your dealer about Syquest 44MB or 80MB removable hard drives for use with any GVP SCSI Controller. Special factory-bundled configurations are now available. GREAT VALLEY PRODUCTS INC. 600 Clark Avenue, King of Prussia, PA 19406 For more information or your nearest GVP dealer, call today. Dealer inquiries welcome. Tel. (215) 337-8770 • FAX (215) 337-9922 Dealers Circle 155 on Reader Service card. Consumers Circle 156 on Service card. £ 1991 Gr#«l Vmllty Pfofluctt <f>c k ol CammoOari-AiiiBa I r-c AW Shucks! We correct our errors. Item: Due to problems in the fact- checking process, our Special Issue on Video & Animation contained several errors regarding Impulse's Firecracker board and Imagine soft- ware. In the chart on p. 82, the fol- lowing corrections regarding Fire- cracker 24 apply: The list price is SI 000: its maximum resolution is 1024 by 482. not 708 by 480, as stat- ed: and it is not available in PAL. With regard to Imagine 2.0, a number of errors were made in our 3-D software features chart on pages 1 10-1 1 1. First ofalk Imagine sup- ports solid spheres, has full 3-D spline control, handles full 3-D re- mapping and conformation, and includes full extrusion and spin capabilities. Regarding the category of Polygon Divides, Imagine has triangle frac- ture, and, under Slice Operation, it has full Slicing. The program also has full grouping of Hierarchical Objects Sets and includes a full im- plementation of Key Positions. With respect to Time Envelopes, Imagine directly equates this to frame numbers and time notation in its Stage and Action editors. Imagine can render in a variety of ways not covered in the chart, includ- ing Wireframe, color and black and white, solid color and black and white, Sean line, and Full Trace. The program's maximum resolu- tion is 32,000 by 32,000, it fully supports Diffuse Map and Phong Shading, and it supports Full Glass and Index of Refraction. The product does not map Arums to objects, nor does it directly sup- port Single-Frame Controllers. It also does not support Foreground Pics or Autialias Maps. Item: The Amiga Profile on p. (58 of our Special Issue incorrectly implied that Derek Grime was the creator of the show "Clarissa Explains It All." "Clarissa" is, in fact, the creation of Mitchell Rriegman. Derek, along with his fellow animator/writer, Tim Burns, was involved only to the ex- tent of providing the Amiga anima- tions for last season's episodes. Kern: Gene Brawn's February tutorial article on D Paint IV (p. 24) contained an error that made his project #1 impossible to reproduce, two of the three picture files were misnamed. The images identified in the article as Godz.ah and LoohingUp.ab are, in fact, Codz&flerLah anil LookingUpMiwiu respectively. Gene regrets to say that he used the former names in his work files and then neglected to correct the discrepancy in the final version of the article. Hem: In the March issue, our Manu- facturers' Addresses list (p. 89) con- tained errors in the entry for IM- AGETECTS, Not only should the firm's name be all uppercase, but the correct street address is 7200 Bol- linger RcL Suite 802. ■ The TBCard/TR-7 combination offers a hardware alternative to software control, allowing you to stay in your primary desk- top video software and have full control of the TBCard Time Base Corrector. CORPORATION I. DEN Videotronics Corporation 9620 Chesapeake Drive ■ San Diego, C A 92123 Eastern Regional Office (203) 827-8900 1-800-374-IDEN ■ TBCard plugs into any desktop video system — Amiga or PC based ■ Convenient hardware control on your desktop — freeze, video level, chroma level, setup, hue and system timing ■ Component processing that provides high resolution Circle 195 on Reader Service card 16 May 1992 Experience The Rwver Of PrcAVrite 3.2 (Racing Attire Optional) Test Drive The Best- Selling Amiga® Word Processor. 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Imagine 2.0 Impulse Real3D Professional Turbo 1.4.1 Activa International/ Programs Plus & Video A pair of professionals. By Steven Blaize SOPHISTICATED COMPUTER ART and animation arc becoming more popular with the release of movies such as Terminator 2 and music videos like Michael Jackson's "Black or White." As the awareness and demand rises, so do the expectations. This trend is very apparent in the Amiga market, where the quality levels expected and tech- niques used by artists are growing daily New versions of two 3-D programs have definitely kept pace with this demand for higher quality and more techniques. Imagine 2.0 ($450, Im- pulse) and Real3D Professional Turbo 1.4.1 ($499, Activa International/Pro- grams Plus & Video) are two top con- tenders in the 3-D arena. Because both these fine programs are updates of earlier versions, I will concentrate on highlighting the new additions and significant functions of each, rather than cataloging every feature. Mature Productivity; Imagine 2.0 Released at the end of last year, Imag- ine 2.0 is a maturing 3-D graphics package. Thanks to its reasonable cost, excellent functionality, and top-notch renderings, Imagine (originally the follow-up to the popular Turbo Silver) lias built a large following. You won't be disappointed by version 2.0, with its additional features, new manual, and easier ways to be productive within your 3-D world. Imagine is one program divided into seven editor areas. New in 2.0, the Preferences Editor lets you directly edit and customize your preferences. With it, you can add to the bottom of the other editors user-customized gadgets (buttons) that control frequently used functions. This speeds up productivity. With the Forms Editor, you create organic or symmetrical objects, while with the Detail Editor, you build new objects, modify Forms objects, and assign all stir (ace characteristics to objects. Flie Stage Editor lets you set object and camera placement, lighting, and viewing perspective. In the Action Edi- tor, you specify movements, global pa- rameters, and, if you are animating, key eels and special effects over time. A potential time-saver, the Cycle Editor lets you create repeating or hierarchical movements for objects. The classic ex- ample is walking: If you create the Cycle movement for one full step, you can then repeat this cycle in the Action Edi- tor over an assigned time period. Finally, the Project Editor generates animations and controls rendering selections, such as resolution and format. In the Forms Editor, you begin with a sphere that is cut into slices, the shapes of which you then alter to create your object. The 2.0 addition of key slices was critical in making this editor useful. Instead of shaping every single slice, you can specify one or more key- slices, alter' their shapes, and let Imag- ine provide smooth interpolation be- tween them. Consider an automobile body with a ridge that runs only from the front door to die back fender: If you cut the body into cross-sections from front to back, the first section (grill area) would be a rectangle, and the section that starts at To locate the vendors of products reviewed, see the "Man uf a cturersV Distributors' Add resses" list on p. 84. the door would be a rectangle with ridges on either side. Designate this section a key slice, and Imagine will produce a smooth ridge down the length of the car. Want to check the results? The Forms, Detail, Cycle, and Stage Editors now have Quick Render options that let you render directly in the editors without having to set up all of the staging and lights — another welcome productivity enhancement. The Detail Editor's improvements will make many people happy. Now, when you convert an IFF file to an object, you are asked whether or not you want faces on the object. You can also type in text using standard Amiga fonts and have it converted to a 3-D object. This alone will save a great deal of time, although the conversion is not as powerful and flexible as that offered by dedicated programs such as Pixel 3D 2.0 (Axiom Software). In the past, getting brush (IFF pic- ture) wraps and texture wraps in exact- ly the right place was possible, but difficult. Now, Imagine automatically gives yoti a default position and texture parameters. You can still customize these, but you will at least be assured of a good starting point. Version 2.0 of- fers several new textures to wrap, as well. Checks2, Pattella, and Waves bring the number of textures to 14. Another important attribute-en- hancement addition is Fog Length. Now, any object can have fog proper- ties (in any of the 16.7 million colors), and global fog has been added to the Action Editor. Spline paths have also been included for object extrusions, and Conform to Path has been added. Also new to the Detail Editor is the ability to define subobjects — -a group of faces within an object. Now you can selectively apply any of the Brush or Texture Maps (four each) to just a subobject, making decals very easy to produce. You can also use subobjects to selectively control Phong shading. Objects in Imagine are composed of 18 May 1992 triangles, and the program uses Phong shading to help smooth the surfaces of rounded areas. Prior to 2.0, achieving sharp edges on one part of the object and smooth ones on another was al- most impossible. Now you can define the points that will not have Phong shading, while the rest of the object is smoothed out. New to Imagine 1.1's Detail Editor was Quick Draw, which changes the objects in your display to simple bounding boxes. Phis is very helpful when you have complex objects, be- cause Imagine can update you!" display much more quickly if it draws only a bounding box in place of a point-filled object. In version 2.0, Quick Draw was added to the Stage Editor, as well. Now you can load your complex objects, and then turn on Quick Draw for faster manipulations. Your Perspective View is always updated with the proper display. In 2.0, the Action Editor is basically the same as in earlier versions, with the addition of a Sort function from the menu for your objects and a second F/X action line. F/X, one of my favorite features in this program, now includes Boing, Explode, Fireworks, Flash, Grow, Ripple, Rotate, and Tumble, You can even apply two different effects on an object at the same time. You can also have a global backdrop picture, as I did with the clouds in Figure 1 . The Cycle Editor is relatively un- changed, as is the Projects Editor. From the latter, however, you can now output directly to DC! A 7 format. The last area to cover is the docu- mentation. The reputation for produc- ing inadequate manuals has always haunted Impulse. The company has developed outstanding products, but has accompanied them with lackluster documentation, The manual for Imag- ine 2.0 is definitely a complete rewrite. It takes a different and unusual ap- proach, in that you arc expected to read it from start to finish. It reads like a story about creating with Imagine. The sparse index — locat- Flgure 1. Imagine 2.0 lets you use global backdrop pictures, such as these clouds. ed before the single tutorial — and other appendices do not really direct you to specific subjects, however, but rather send you to pages where the phrases are mentioned. The misspell- ings and comments such as "Ask Zack For More Here" indicate that the man- ual was a little rushed. However, the program is more thoroughly covered than in previous versions. Should you need it, technical support is available free of charge. Powerful Flexibility: Reajl3D Professional Turbo 1.4.1 Real3D Professional Turbo, while not the new kid on the block, is one of the newest professional-level 3-D programs for the Amiga. Version 1.4.1 makes it a definite contender for your considera- tion. Real 3D takes a very different approach with its interface and object creation, but, once mastered, the tech- niques produce outstanding results, with options not always found in other 3-D programs. "Hie program has three basic working areas' the Editor, Wire, and Solid. The Editor is your object-creation and stag- ing area for a specific frame. The Wire area lets you move about your space and Figure 2. Real3D's free-form modeling mode gives you commands for bending, joining, and twisting objects in 24 ways. record animation movements for your objects. Finally, the Solid (or Render) area controls the quality, format, and resolution of your rendered images. When I looked at the first release of this program, I was impressed with both the speed and quality of the ren- derings, but found object creation and animation seriously hampered. Version 1.4.1 has improved both immensely. It employs a hierarchical structure for object creation. For example, a chair is made of the legs, the seat, and the back. In turn, it is part of the dining- table set, which is part of the room, and so on. By selecting any group level, you can alter it and all of its related parts. A unique feature is the ability to identify a cost with a specific object. At any time, you can see the cumulative cost at any stage in the construction of your object. When it first appeared, RealSD pro- vided object creation only by means of a few primitives and tools to modify them. Now the program provides a wealth of primitives, along with excel- lent tools such as Lathe, Polygon, Poly- hedron, and Conical Tube. An unusual one is the Pixel tool, which replaces pixels in an IFF picture with a specified i AmigaWorld 19 REVIEWS " YOUR TURN: Imagine 2.0 is a big improvement over previous incarnations, especially in the documentation and interface. Still, the documentation is more of a tutorial than a reference, and, as always, the edit screens are limited to 640x400 resolution, which is frustrating for those of us who typically use overscan screens. Kent Kalnasy Seattle, Washington object. For example, if you drew a title in a paint program, you could replace each pixel with a sphere and build a title composed of balloons. Another tool, Pixel2, creates a mesh over an IFF picture to generate a topo- graphical landscape, with increasing brightness of color indicating increas- ing elevation. This type of object cre- ation is fine for some things; however, many of us want point editing to de- sign custom objects. Version 1.4.1 gives us that, too. Real3D also has some of the most powerful Boolean operators in any 3-D program. You can use these to cut away sections of objects, using any object as the tool for cutting or adding. Best of all, you can use the tool to apply its attributes to the new object. With a gold cylinder, for in- stance, you could drill a gold hole through a wooden ball and even ani- mate the process. The problem with this method of creation is that the two objects are still completely displayed in the Editor and the wireframe view. This can become very confusing with complex objects. A new feature helps: Yoti can now have Real3D "rethink" to provide you with a better wireframe representation. You also have the abili- ty to attach and modify a different wireframe to the object if it will assist your work. The free-form modeling is very powerful, offering 24 ways to bend, join, and twist objects. Tools and primi- tives are available from menus, key- board commands, and icons (see Figure 2). Lights and refractive properties in Real 3D react exactly as they do in the universe; for example, you can create an actual glass lens. Real30 also per- mits you to create custom materials libraries for controlling the surface properties of your objects. A very use- ful feature is the ability to select objects based on color, properties, or name. These can then be altered in one glob- al change. The program now supports 24-bit brush maps, which is very im- portant to many of us. The Solid (render) screen provides many methods for rendering your image, and it gives you controls for automatic lighting, shadow inclusion, refractive depth, and so on. The full ray-traced output takes about the same length of time to render as in other programs, but the results are outstand- ing, You can output your work as an Amiga, 24-bit IFF, or Targa image. Real 3D also supports some full-color display boards, with libraries (such as DCTV) that will be added through the public domain; current libraries in- clude the Harlequin and VD2001 boards. Animation is still a little awkward iti Real3D 1 .4. 1 . The program does support key frames, and it allows movement along a spline path. Adding acceleration and deceleration of objects, however, takes a bit of work. In addition, the method used for key frames is to "Expose" a frame to certain positions. If you want to change an object in that frame, you must first "De- Expose' 1 it. The manual is well written; the in- formation, however, is sparse, and a lot about the program is presumed to be intuitive. For example, adding primi- tives requires different steps to define the starting points, diameters, and so on, but these are never explained. Furthermore, the reference section is far from a thorough explanation of each of the commands. Overall, though, I feel the manual provides coverage that's adequate to get you started. While it was developed by The Netherlands' Activa International, ReaI3 D Professional Turbo is support- ed by Programs Plus 8c Video in North America via telephone or BBS, if you need technical help. The Best Fit for the Job If you are a 3-D artist, you should consider adding one or both of these programs to your toolbox. Neither is a clear winner over the other, as each offers features the other does not. While Imagine excels at point editing and is a much better animator, Real 3D offers unique Boolean functions, more output options, and somewhat better- looking output quality. Both Imagine 2.0 and Real 3D Professional Turbo 1 .4. 1 are very well suited to produce professional results, so you can't very well go wrong. DSS8: Digital Sound Studio Great Valley Products Edit sounds or capture your own. By Steve Quinzi A COMBINATION SOFTWARE and hardware package, DSS8: Digital Sound Studio (Great Valley Products, SI 25) utilizes the Amiga's internal audio capabilities to provide an envi- ronment for stereo sampling, sample editing, and sequencing .Amiga- specif- ic sounds. When DSS boots, it opens with a system- in form at ion screen that displays details about your current system, such as the version of DSS that you're run- ning, the microprocessor that you have, and the amount of available chip and fast RAM. Click twice, and this screen becomes the DSS samples list, although you can summon the system informa- tion display at any time by selecting Info from the Project menu. Try a Sample The samples list consists of SI slots into which samples can be loaded. Digital Sound Studio's sample editor gives you precise control over your sound. Obviously, the number of samples you can actually have at one time is limited by the amount of available RAM. To the left of each sample in the list is a small box indicating if the sample is stereo, less than 128K, and currently residing in chip or fast RAM (more about this later). Arrows at the bottom of the screen let you move tip and down the sample list. To work with a sample, you must first select it with a mouse click, The box at the base of the screen displays the name of the selected sample, its cur- rent frequency (in bytes per second), +- 20 May 1992 BRAG, IUST FACTS! 1WWP jgSJg: 2E Soft Wood, b\c PjO. Box 50173 Fhoenix, ArUono S5076 Dear I'eopie; Hello' I recently punch and your new 1.3 verd on of final Copp end wait to congratulate you on a {lnepB- $ram. E-™- o nee o friend of mine bought Rnol Copy a few months ago, I ha vis been snvlsuj of th* areoi pint- outs he wes getting. One thing 1 noticed about your pro- gram , hpwe?**", was that taat on the screen wot often diffi- cult toroo,! 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It comes with a 1 1 6,000 word spelling detector and corrector, 470.000 synonym thesaurus with definitions, 35 outline typefaces, multiple newspaper style final «G % Final Copy iVpriPw^ foriJKAjni.w ■sfir"<h. Best output of any Amiga word processor! columns, IFF graphic support including 24 bit ILBMs, real-time text flow around graphics, 12 bit-plane color printing; typographic controls, ARexx port, and true WYSIWYG PostScript® printing. As one of our customers said, "You don't have to be a rocket scientist to see Final Copy has the best printing of any Amiga word processor." Comparison Chart Outline Fonts Included Crop Graphics Load Simple HAM graphic Thesaurus Synonyms Speller Words Snaking Columns Graphic Text Flow Automatic Hyphenation Final Copy 1.3 35 Yes 3.5 sec. 470.000 1 1 6.000 1-6 Yes Yes Pro Write 3.2® No 1 min 20 sec 300,000 100,000 1-5 No No Comparison Chart Price Frame Graphics 24 Bit ILBM Support Thes. with Definitions Page Views Print 1 pg. Document ARexx Use Amiga Clipboard Final Copy 1 .3 S99.95 Yes Yes Yes 25-400% 53 sec. Yes Yes ProWritc3.2® SI 74.95 No No No No 2 min 5 sec Yes No $9995 VISA MASTER & CARD 1-800-247-8314 Sofi tWoo d, Inc. Circle 48 on Reader Service card. and its original frequency The multi- function slider at the left can vary either the sound's volume or frequency. To hear the current sample, just click the speaker icon in the I oner- left cor- ner of the screen. DSS offers some interesting features for changing samples from mono to stereo and vice versa: Create Stereo combines two mono samples to form a single stereo sample, while Divide Stereo separates the right and left channels of a stereo sample to individual mono sam- R K V I E W S pies. Convert to Stereo contrives stereo by duplicating a mono sample and assigning the two samples to left and right channels of a stereo sample (this is actually not stereo but "multi-mono"). Convert to Mono sums the two sides of a stereo sample to mono. Double click on any sample, and you enter DSS's Sample Edit mode, where the waveform is displayed graphically. If the sample is stereo, both waveforms appear. The Edit menu offers the usual cut, copy, and paste, while the Swap We're Sticking Our Faces Into Other People's Business AMIGA |COMPANIONFACK$69 | ! 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We've made it easy to get started by creating more than a dozen Amiga font packs from the Agfa Compugraphic library of more than 250 typefaces. Prices start at just $69. For more information, see your software dealer, or call U8Q0-424-TYPE. Imellifoni i J trademark of Miles, Inc. AGFA and the Agfa Rhombus are refti trademarks ,<t Agta-Gevaert, .V a registered trademark and AmigaDOS is a ti Commodore-Arnica Inc. temarks arc the property of rheir respective owners. AGFA Channels command produces some nice stereo "ping-pong" effects. Most of the editing features require that you define a range before using them. The obvious way to do this is by highlighting the desired area of the waveform with the mouse, but you can also use the position markers. These are moved with an array of buttons called the position-adjustment arrows (resembling a tape recorder's transport control), which let you place the mark- ers with precision. However, you still must use the mouse to highlight the area between the markers. .Another way to define a range is by selecting Auto Range from the Edit menu; from there, you can highlight cither the entire waveform or just the on-screen part. The box next to the speaker icon now makes sense; it oilers three options for playback — the entire sample, whatever is on the screen, or the selected range. A readout to the left of this box gives the size of each option. The Process menu's functions are also designed to work within a speci- fied range. The first option here, Back- ward, plays the selected range in re- verse. Inverse changes every amplitude value within a range to its inverse (for example, 1 becomes -1). The waveform sounds the same, though it is now 180 degrees out of phase from the original; if you play the two waveforms together, they cancel each other out. Set to Zero sets all amplitude values within the specified range to zero, which is useful for inserting periods of silence into a waveform. Ramp Volume creates percentage changes in amplitude from the begin- ning to the end of a range, For exam- ple, setting the start value to 1 OGVt and the end value to zero produces a fade- out. You can use Ramp Volume to produce uniform level changes, as well, by setting the start and end val- ues the same (a value above 100% increases the overall level, below 100% decreases it). Echo repeats a range to create an echo effect; you can control the echo rate, rate of decay, and the number of echoes (limited by the length of the sample). With the Mix feature, you can merge a range with whatever is current- ly in the RAM buffer, and you can re- sample a range to a different (presum- ably lower) sample rate to consen'e memory. Clicking the loop button in the control panel at the right of the screen activates the loop mode. To specify the section you wish to repeat, place the +■ Circle 51 on Reader Service card. 22 May 1992 Welcome to the Future. Soft-Logik would like to congratulate Gold Disk on adding features to Pro Page / j \ 3.0. Of course, it still doesn't compare to ^ ±\ PageStream 2.2, the Experts' Choice. cho^J Q Congratulations, Gold Disk, on adding improved typographic precision and an Undo option to Professional Page 3.0. Of course, PageStream has had Undo since version 1.0 and its type scaling is still 12.5 times more precise. The five new AGFA Com pug rap hie fonts included in ProPage 3.0 bring your total to 7, still short of the 10 we give our users. Were sure ProPage users will appreciate the new Pro Write and Excel- lence text import filters; PageStream users have been enjoying them for years. And the tiling feature you ve added in 3.0 will allow your users to make those banners and posters PageStream users have been pasting on walls everywhere. The most impressive feature in 3.0 has to be the links to Pro Draw and Article Editor. Your "hotlinking" feature is a closed and proprietary system. Our HotLmks is a standard protocol which any company can support. Of course, this isn't really a fair comparison, because ProPage s links cannot match HotLinks automatic data transfer, real- time multiple edition updating, and edition management utilities. Cool Programs for a Hot Computer Soft-Logik Publishing is proud to announce HotLinks Editions. Hot- Links Editions combines BME, PageLiner and HotLinks into an affordable package. BME is a bitmap editor for touching up pictures and photographs. PageLiner is a feature-laden text processor with spell checking and formatting tags. HotLinks is the new Amiga standard for data exchange. Multitasking is Cool, but HotLinks is Hot HotLinks takes Amiga multitasking into the future. An open standard available to all companies, it allows you to exchange text, graphics and other data between applications in real-time. Imagine having all copies of your cor- porate logo updated automatically in your PageStream document when you make changes in BME. PageStream doesn't even have to be loaded. The next time you load a document containing a copy of the logo, HotLinks will update it automatically. This might be the future, but it's available now. PageStream 2.2 is just $299.95. HotLinks Editions is $99.95. If you would like your other software to be HotLinks compatible, just ask its publishers. We'll help them include HotLinks in their next release. PageStream 2.2 and HotLinks Editions are //^publishing solution. HotLinks » DEFORESTATIONS* 'nam . r, ; ., mm t 1 I ■ 1 ou I ■ ) to f \- Lo i 1 k Puhl<»hni9 la pl»**pf Jo «nn«„jir* lh,| P*»|Tr for ^*fl- * .-..;■. 1«' FtitilrtOT 2.2 ( lkt».r y ri-.ii.,. ■ t ,. ■-.,!_.- I'Piktvr tuhi uhLnt prtaran f»r r.fur.j luCFOI-t for foslSinpf iff I .nd J funis, tminir *p»Mf Iril.llifarU mi] Ull Lmj It's null Tofit Fiinil . »u#n b* OKirljj. edited printed lo n»n-Pailitnpl »*iettre«« h*» underjene tne «*v ID iftt*rrii- hi ■ Its pesi tri this version fpr h>il. *nfl Rol.nd C»«1 fi*. *H9 been kn proved: c SJtler* "llit 1 "" t" en For II Mordrertect , 1fjM, n n,'(-j,.nt. PCX iH r.tor fornit ten PageLiner HotLinks Soft-Logik Publishing Corporation £__\ We give you the tools to dream. 800-829-8608 PageStream, BME and PageLiner are registered trademarks or trademarks of Soft-Logik Publishing Corporation. The HotLmks name is reserved for use on the Amiga for software compatible with the HotLinks standard set by Soft-Logik Publishing. Compugraphte is a registered trademark of AGFA Compugraphic, Amiga is a registered trademark of Commodore Business Machines. Professional Page. Professional Draw and Article Editor are registered trademarks of Gold Disk Inc. Circle 46 on Reader Service card. REVIEWS loop markers with the mouse, and then fine-tune them with the position- adjustment arrows. One readout below the lower-left corner of the waveform display gives the loop marker's posi- tion (expressed in time or by address), while another indicates the instanta- neous amplitude at each position (useful for searching for points of zero crossing). If you need to tweak a waveform, switch to maximum magnification and activate Draw mode. Here vou can use the mouse to make repairs. There are three drawing options: free drawing (hold down the left mouse button), straight -line drawing (hold down both buttons), and value entry (use the two arrows by the amplitude readout to enter a precise amplitude value at every position). You can capture fresh samples, as well. First, plug the supplied audio digitizer into the parallel port (after turning off the Amiga), and then click the Sampler button to activate sample 'OURAMIGA COULD DREAM IT WOULD DREAM INVISTAPRO2.0. FOR PROFESSIONAL QUALITY LANDSCAPE ARTISTRY VISTAPRO 2.0 IS UNPARALLELED VI STAPRO 2.0 FEATURES Roads and buildings! • Most complete final image control of any landscape simulator, • Most advanced color pallette • Virtual trees, stars, rivers, lakes, snow • Basic animator, Direct 24-bit output • Parts of Mars, Yosemite, Mt St, Helens, Crater Lake, fractal scapes, and more! VISTAPRO 2,0 INCLUDES SPECIAL COUPONS FOR MAKE PATH AND TERRAFORM MAKE PATH Advanced Animation Utility which allows complex animation with VistaproZO! TERRAFORM Landscape Editor which allows users to modify an existing Vistapro 20 landscape or create new ones! $25 EACH WITH COUPONS Circle 58 on Reader Service card. capture mode. (The DSS digitizer is a well-made, attractive black box with two RCA audio-input jacks, each one equipped with an attenuator knob and an overload light.) The first screen to open lets you set various parameters. Here, you select the input (right, left, or stereo), choose one of three scales of oscilloscope displays or the spectral analyzer (an animated bar graph showing frequency ranges) to monitor incoming signals, set the sample length, rate, period, and root note, and you're ready to record- Click the monitor button, and the incoming waveform is displayed ac- cording to your choice. You can also adjust the display's resolution to take advantage of the power of accelerated Amigas. Once the digitizer levels are properly set, click the record button to digitize the waveform. While the pro- gram offers a real-time reverb function that can be encoded upon the sample on input, I don't see the point in it. In my opinion, reverb is much more useful as an after-the-fact processing function. Make Tracks The sequencer portion of DSS, the Tracker, works exclusively with Amiga sounds, specifically those that are load- ed into the DSS samples list. For the Tracker to use a sound, it must be mono, less than 128K (256E if it con- tains a loop), and resident in chip RAM. The Edit menu's Transfer to Chip command moves sounds for you, but you need to keep track of vour available RAM. The Trackers four tracks correspond to the Amiga's four audio channels. Above each is an on/olT switch, or you can use two switches in the control panel at the right of the screen to toggle the left and right audio outputs independently (the outer tracks are assigned to the left side and the inner to the right). Two small readouts with adjustment arrows can set the volume of each individual sound, as well as that of the entire mix. To enter data into the Tracker, high- light the track onto which you want to record, select the appropriate sound, and type notes from the Amiga's QW- ERTY keyboard, A small keyboard icon on the left toggles the range of the keyboard from the upper two octaves to the lower two octaves to accommodate a four-octave range. You can also enter notes from a MIDI keyboard — the program's only MIDI aspect, by the way. This setup was apparently designed for moderate- i 24 May 1992 ■ The world's best modeler us- ing virtual reality technology for direct real time manipulation of 3D objects in full perspective ■ Single Point Editor, full hierar- chies, Primitives, Extruder, Mir- ror, Slice and Sweep tools ■ Photorealistic full color tenderer with texture mapping, en- vironment mapping, shadows, transparency, Gouraud, Phong, Metal and Environmental shaders ■ Four levels of antialiasing, with separate antialiasing of textures, unlimited number of lights, in- cluding Global, Local and Direc- tional lights ■ 20 to 50 times faster than ray tracing programs ■ Full color output to HAM, HAME and DCTV frame buffers ■ Interactive spline based ani- mation with real time preview ■ Fully compatible with Videoscape, LightWave and Sculpt 4D object formats ■ Runs on all Amiga models (2Mb memory required) ■ Support for 68030/040 accel- erators ■ Full implementation of Caligari Broadcast 2.0 technology. REALITY i i v OCTREE SOFTWARE 311 W 43 St. Suite 901 New York, NY 10036 Tel . 212. 262 3116 F a x 2 12.2624081 The products mentioned above are registered trademarks of the following companies: Caligari 2/Octree Software, Inc.; Amiga/Commodore Business Machines; DCTV/Di«ital Creations; HAM-E/Black Belt Systems, Inc.; Videoscape/Aegis; LightWave/Newtek; Sculpt 4D/Byte by Byte. Circle 52 on Reader Service card. R E V I E \Y S ly slow (step time) note entry, evi- denced by the fact that rapid noodling from a MIDI keyboard will produce some crazy, but not permanent, results. The Tracker takes the building-block approach to song construction; You have a maximum of 1 28 "blocks" to work with, each consisting of 64 events. Then* is no provision for measures or time signatures; in fact, there is little reference to musical fundamentals at all. [f this disturbs you, you could make up a chart mapping event numbers to measure and beat numbers. Given an eighth-note subdivision for example, a block would be eight measures in length (at 4/4 time), and the downbeats would tail on event numbers 1, 9, 17, and so on, while in a sixteenth-note subdivi- sion, a block would be four measures in length, with downbeats on event num- bers 1,17, 33, and 49. Of course, you have to adjust the tempo accordingly. Not surprisingly, the Tracker has a very nonstandard means of setting tempo — a scale from 1 to 15, with 15 AMIGA NOW FLYING OVER LATIN AMERICA Vommodore International has awarded Creative Equipment International, "CEI", rights to distribute all Amigas to Latin American and Caribbean countries. CEI has established an initial dealer network and is now signing up additional dealers in this lucrative market. Other products included in this network are GVP, SUPRA, PROGRESSIVE PERIPHERALS, RGB and others. Many PAL versions of video boards and genlocks are available through the CEI dealer network. Interested computer and video dealers in these countries can call Creative Equipment International at the number below. V/VA AMIGA/ Se habla espanoi CREATIVE EQUIPMENT INTERNATIONAL Falamos portugues 6864 West Fiagler Street * Miami, Florida 33144 (305) 266-2800 FAX (305) 261-2544 Circle 8 on Reader Service card. being the slowest. You assemble blocks into a song by arranging a sequence of positions, assigning a block to each position. For example, assigning block 1 to positions 1 and 2, and block 2 to position 3 would result in block 1 play- ing twice, followed by block 2. If you need a block that is shorter than 64 events, there is a provision to jump out of a block at any point. As far as global editing goes, you can cut, copy, and paste either tracks or blocks. Microscopic editing is limited to using the delete key to erase individ- ual notes, while the Fill Track com- mand places single notes at specified intervals in a track. Two transpose functions, called Note Up and Note Down, move a track, a block, or the entire song up or down a half step. The Tracker also oilers a few "effects" such as Pitch up, Pitch Down, and Shazam (a rapid up-and-down pitch change). These are applied to individu- al notes with the degree of effectiveness expressed in hex. When a song is complete, you can save it as a song (solely note data), a module (both notes and instruments), or a run module (a stand-alone module that plays, without DSS, from an icon or the CLI). You can also save your instru- ment setup independently from the song. While the sample editor can save sounds in either IFF, Sonix, or Raw format, the Tracker is limited to IFF. Applause, but Not a Standing Ovation With respect to its strength as a pro- gram, DSS gets high marks. It is smooth, easy to use, and intelligently laid out. The sampler and sample editor portions get the job done nicely, and I got some excellent results using GVP's audio digitizer. The Tracker, however, is a different story. I would have been impressed by it seven or eight years ago, but today, with so many good music products on the Amiga market, it's hard to believe that a commercial program includes such a primitive sequencer. Ii basic musical parameters and MIDI imple- mentation are not important to you, the Tracker should suit you fine; other- wise use DSS for sampling and get a real sequencer. (Editor's note: Just before press time, GVP informal us that if has upgraded DSS8. Software sliders have replaced the digitizer's gain ad just me tit knobs, hut the package has acquired a low- pass filler, and you can nozv make a software choice be- tween line and microphone impedance,) Continued on p. 74. 26 May 1992 ORK Beamed down to the planet Ixion from the Legion Ship, Cisskei, aspiringCaptain Ku-Kabul has to face the dangers and tests i< .illy placed on this planet in order to provehimselfworthyofLeadership. Failing any of the tests will end his career as a Legion-Command Officer. , . permanently! Togivehimafightingchance, Ku-Kabul is fitted with twi n laser ca n nons and ref uelable jet boosters. Usinghrainsand brawn he must find, collect and use objects to solve the many perplexing puzzles and defeat the hordes ot mighty enemiesthat infest thisdeadlyarena. 3 -layer pa ral lax scroll i ng, arcade-speed action and powerful FXcombine with total -gameplay add ict ion to br i ngyou the experience that is Ork! Areyou Ork enough? Screen Shots from the Amiga version. HNhTSi, ■ I ■HI AGONY Pit your magical powers against an equal but opposite mystical force. Use your sorcery and fighting skills to battle through six graph ically - excellent levels, each infested with nordes of beaut ifully-ani mated conjured-up creatures. Pick up potions and spells to help your valiant struggle to find the secret of Cosmic Strength. Experience four layers of incredibly-smooth parallax scrolling, animated backdrops, a massive play area, hundreds of on-screen colours, unbelievable gameplay and an exorbitant sound track all expertly mixed together and skilfully cast to bring you a spellbinding brew of computer gaming action. Experience Agony with no pain! Screen Shots from the Amiga version. i 49 §yy*S3^l : $ ^*±*£S& . W-- v)^l Pp 1 ^, ■^\ / rt»3fc ^ PWl ^^' ! % %HS&- j m |t' • " p^ j ^m cr - 1 PSYGNOSIS P^ wr «*% 29 Saint Mary's Court, Brookline, MA 02146 |F l ttllEE3.t3 m . Telephone: (617) 731-3553 A*- ^ - i 1 Fax: (617)731-8379 ^^"jtfS it ^l^ t - '*rJ^H MkfT.S* F ^ Circle 62 on Reader Service card. '•■.'.":-'•'.' ■ .- ~ ■■'■ = ■■ : .... : 28 Mm 1992 II II STRATEDBYJOELHAGEN Paying careful attention to the physical output of your Amiga images — through creative photography, printing, and mixed- media techniques — can reward you handsomely with results that are gallery -quality and suitable for exhibition. By Joel Hagen One of the most frustrating challenges facing the computer artist is that of translating electronic images into some form suitable for exhibition. While I feel that both the computer and video are strong new media to create and exhibit artwork, for the purpose of this discussion let us dispense with elec- tronic media and focus on "hard" display for exhibition purposes. Unfortunately, ordinary printer output has a mechanical quality to it, typically lacking the richness that characterizes the "feel" of traditional media, the "quality of surface" that vi ewers perceive at a conscious or unconscious level, For computer art to succeed in a com- petitive gallery setting, that quality must somehow be brought to the physical image that is framed and hung. This article will discuss a variety of methods toward that end- Let me say at the outset that I have no idea whether or not some of the printing proce- dures 1 will discuss here violate manufacturers' recommendations. Before trying any of these ideas, you might be well advised to check on such matters for yourself. Three main output problems confront the computer artist. The first is die quality and appearance of the material. Does the ink and paper, for example, have a physical character diat is as interesting as that of traditional media? The second is scale. How can the artist break the constraints of HV-xI 1 printouts? The third problem is quality' of image translation. How effectively can the original colors, nuances, and resolution of die computet image be trans- lated into a "hard" medium? (To locate vendors of the products mentioned, see the list on p. 84.) Photography Because the computer image is composed of dots of colored light, photography can be one of the most accurate means of reproducing that image. You can get fairly good results by shooting the screen with a 35mm camera. Use a long lens, if possible, to eliminate dis- tortion. Shoot exposures of a quarter-second or more to reduce the effect of video scan. For better results, send your disk to an image service for slides or prints of your artwork. Photographic prints can be blown up to any practical size, and they have an established history and legitimacy as a medium. For photographic prints of Amiga images, the best solution is probably the Polaroid CI3000 61m recorder (S4495), which uses^4rf Department Professional as its interface (AD Pro 2, S299; CI3000 Driver, $200; ASDG). This device cables directly to the parallel port ►■ Amiga World 29 ACCENT \ I T P L T T I - A R T of your Amiga, A variety of camera backs can be at- tached to it for capturing slides, negatives, Polaroid prints, and so on. The CI 3 000 is capable of imaging on 35mm film at a resolution of up to 2048x1366 in a color space of 16 million colors. Images are produced on film by digitally controlling a light beam through an internal CRT. The film is ex- posed through red, green, and blue filters. The AD Pro interface includes controls for calibration, exposure, and color balance. Even if your Amiga is not equipped to display large 24-bit images, they can be rendered by a variety of software or created by compositing in AD Pro's 24 -bit color space. These images can be directly exposed to film in the CI 3000 with excellent results. Large photographic prints made from 2048x1366 24- bit images are exhibition quality. Multiple-Pass Printing The most widely available method of getting a comput- er image onto hard media is via a printer. There are Figure 1. A full-page, multiple-pass print. Repeated passes through an HP PaintJet build up the final image. HL-$Z9. Figure 2. You should print a series of test strips— like these of astro- naut John Glenn — before committing to a final PaintJet printout. high -end color printers such as the Iris that can do a remarkable job of duplicating high-resolution 24-bit screen images onto poster-size glossy paper at about $60 per print. While these printers are beyond the reach of most artists as far as experimentation goes, they also have, to my mind, the limitation of being loo slick. The print looks like a commercial poster Such re- sults can be rather sterile in the realm of fine art. For color prints, I prefer the look and feel of ink-jet output. Creatively handled, an HP PaintJet (SI 395, Hewlett- Packard) can produce a more interesting surface, in my opinion, than printers costing ten times as much. Most of the trick in imparting a good look to the ink- jet surface is to do multiple passes (see Figure 1 for an example). The ink becomes dense and fills in any faint lines left by the print head. To print multiple-pass im- ages, make a mark in the tractor-feed margin with which you can later reregister the paper. Use the u set top of form" button and print the image once; then roll it back to the mark and print it a second time. You will see a beautiful velvet quality emerge thai is lacking in a single pass. Black, violet, red, yellow, teal blue, and all the "peacock" colors render well in this technique. A favorite trick of mine is to do a couple of passes as described, and then use a yellow extraction of the image as a final pass to warm the print up. Similarly, you can experiment with using more than one screen image to build up a hard print. Try laying down a base of vivid color and then overlaying a darker, more de- tailed image. Earthy colors emerge that are impossible to achieve in a single-step print. If you find the image getting too dark after multiple passes, lighten it first in AD Pro, PIXmate ($69.95, Pro- gressive Peripherals), or some other image-processing software. I i'md that A I) Pro gives me the most powerful control over preprint image adjustment. Experiment with brightness, contrast, and gamma adjustment to produce a light version of your image. Save this and build up a hard print in the PaintJet, layer by layer. Perhaps the most important concept in working with a printer is to think of the machine itself as your artistic tool. If you focus your thinking on the screen, you are likely to fall short of a quality hard image. The printer is the tool laying down the ink, so think of it as your brush. Use the screen only to adjust the image toward an effective printout. That screen image may ultimately bear little resemblance to the final print. Prior to committing to a full printout, print a test strip, adjust the screen image, and then print another test. Figure 2 shows such a series of image tests from a PaintJet. There is no need to waste an entire sheet of paper and a lot of ink for a test; simply repeat a rep- resentative strip until you arrive at a pleasing result. Before starting any print, run a diagnostic on the printer to ensure the best quality. With the HP PaintJet, turn the printer off, hold down the form-feed button, turn the printer on, and then release the button. The printer will produce a black bar followed by yellow, cyan, and magenta bars as shown in Figure 3. If these bars are perfectly solid, a good print will re- sult. Often, as in Figure 3, certain jets will be clogged, leaving a white line in the print. Beneath the solid col- or bars in the diagnostic are rows of black and colored lines. Failed jets show up clearly here because each line represents one jet. In Figure 3, for example, one black and one cyan jet are not printing. The effect of this fail- 30 May 1992 ACCENT N OUTPUT I - A R T lire is seen as white lines in the image strip above the diagnostic Follow the printer guidelines to reprime and clean each cartridge. PostScript Laser Options If you have access to a laser printer, PostScript printing is a powerful opportunity, I have used 300-dpi Post- Script images straight out of the Amiga for the illus- trations to the Dr. Bones series of paperback science-fic- tion books. Higher-resolution I Jnotronic printouts aie even better Even so, for exhibition purposes, straight laser output is a bit sterile. What 1 enjoy doing, how- eve i*, is layering a PostScript printout over a built-up PaintJet print (see Figure 4 for an example). The warm, solid "graphite black" of laser ink is a smooth comple- ment to the velvet colors of the PaintJet. I use AD Pro, PageStream (v2.2, S299.95, Soft-Logik), Professional Page (v2.1, $395, Gold Disk), or Saxon Publisher (vl .2, $395, Saxon Industries) as my interfaces to PostScript printing. These programs allow you to si/.e and position a PostScript image on the page so that it matches the position of the underlying image. Don't rely nil a sheet-fed printer, however, lo give you legist tat ion as tight as you would expect from tractor feed. I like the laser printer s ability to create halftones via PostScript. For my work. I use a Silentwriter 2 Model 90 PostScript laser printer ($2495, NEC Techriologies). If I layer a halftone of an image over a PaintJet color field, the underlying colors show through the dot pat- terns, creating subtle effects and details- The dot pat- terns of the color print and the halftone can, however, interfere with each other to cause a "moire" effect. This is sometimes interesting, but can be objectionable. Experimenting with ordered and F-S dithering in Printer Preferences at the color stage can affect the moire interference. Also. AD Pro 2 has a new Saver fea- ture called Prefp rimer that can enhance the output of a printer like the PaintJet. Printing via Prerprinter not only produces better ink coverage and more subtle dithering, but allows effective printout of 24-bit color images. The dithering from a 24-bit Prefprinter image is so tight and diffuse that I can overlay a PostScript halftone with no moire effect. You can also tiy Prefprinter to lay black over a color image. Experiment with the Density settings to get the best results from your printer Floyd dithering at den- sity 1 has fairly large dots, widely and diffusely spaced. Density 4 or 5 produces small dots in a tight pattern. On my laser printer in HP emulation mode, I get fine results from density 4 with the Gamma raised to 36, Gamma adjustment can make or break a high-density Prefprinter image. I get heller grayscale fidelity with the laser in Prefprinter density 4, Gamma 36, than with a PostScript printout. With desktop-publishing software, you can take ad- vantage of the high resolution of object-oriented shapes and drawings. You can create these directly in the publishing software or in a drawing package. Di- agonal or curved lines print without "j aggies" at the resolution of the printer. Ibis has a much better look than does a printed bitmap line with its blocky pixels. Interesting combinations can thus be created by building up a color field with an HP PaintJet and then overlaying linework with a laser printer driven by a program like PageStream, Professional Page, or Saxon Publisher. In fact, publishing software can do a fine job of printing object-oriented lines and shapes with ink- jet or even dot -matrix printers. Different papers can produce more interesting print. I find that gray char- coal paper looks very good with laser ink. Printing Multiple-Page Images The ideas discussed thus far are pretty much limited to single-page prints. It is possible, however; to print an Amiga image at virtually any size by spreading that image over multiple pages. ADPro's Prefprinter and Deluxe PhotoLab's Posters program arc good tools with which to explore this process. (PhotoLab is no longer sold separately but is available as part of Elec- tronic Arts' DeluxeVideo III, $149.95.) I am very impressed with Prefprinter s interface and controls. You can experiment with size, style, print density, and other factors with ease. Each printed im- age section must be trimmed and the group mounted to another surface for display. Unfortunately, the dis- play looks like a lot of sheets of typewriter paper glued together. The multiple-page technique, however, really comes into its own for exhibition when the scale of the fin- ished mosaic is quite large. A cleanly mounted ten-foot M £ RAM/RCK OK ::mxx;.:c ; G33342 Figure 3. Before starting to print your image, run a diagnostic test on the PaintJet to ensure that all jets are functioning properly* Figure 4. This composite is the result of layering a PostScript laser printout over a built-up PaintJet print. AmigaWorld 31 A C G E N T \ U T P I T : 1 - A R T image is impressive, no matter what the material lim- itations. A few large mosaics can set a mood, or act to pull viewers through an exhibition hall. AD Pro version 2. 1.0 adds eight new dithering methods to Prefprinier for some interesting options. There are two new halftone dithers that optimize color mixing, plus four line dithers and a "brick' 1 dither. These are particularly suited to doing very large mosaics. For greater image clarity, try using one of AD Pro's sharpening convolu- Figure 5. The author next to his Shepherd/Glenn mixed-media cre- ations at the Yuri Gagarin exhibition in Yalta. Photo by Beth Avary. lions on the image prior to printing the mosaic. You may find thai Prefprinier with Floyd dither at den- sity I is a good choice lor medium-scale mosaics of 10 to 20 sheets. Forveiy laige mosaics, I lalftone A or 11 at a low density may give die best results. It is possible to create more polished works using the same technique by emphasizing rather than concealing the individual mosaic: elements. For example, if each tile is carefully trimmed, then affixed to an interesting surface with attention paid to leaving visible gaps, the arrangement and value composition of the tiles and gaps takes on an esthetic significance beyond that of the image alone. In a 1991 collaboration with British artist Arthur Gilbert, we reduced an image of Cosmonaut Gagarin to three gray levels and then printed it as a 99-sheet mosaic. The printout, using Posters with its "smooth- ing" option, took about -10 hours on my Kpson dot-ma- trix printer. Those 99 sheets were sent to 99 astronom- ical artists all over the world. Each artist used his or her repealed signature as texture to completely fill the gray areas of their chunk of the image. Each artist then mailed the finished sheet to the .All Artist's Union in Moscow so that the huge installation could be assem- bled at the opening of the exhibition celebrating the 30th anniversary of Gagarin's space flight. In this case, the concept outweighed the limitations of the material. Additionally, the personalization of each tile by the artists took the finished piece beyond the realm of a simple printout. Mixed-Media Experiments The signatures of the artists on the Gagarin mosaic brings us to my favorite realm as a computer artist, that of mixed media, lb an extent, we have touched on the idea in discussing laser ink over color, but the Amiga artist can explore even greater opportunities by adding paint, graphite, and collage to the output of the com- puter printer. Two of my paintings in the Gagarin exhibition be- gan life on the Amiga. Wanting to create stark, docu- mentary paintings to contrast with the more expres- sionistic Soviet styles, I began with two scenes from our early space program. I reworked images of Alan Shep- ard and John Glenn in Deluxe Paint (DPaint IV, SI 79.95, Electronic Arts), simplifying composition, us- ing fiery colors, and breaking up forms into solid shapes. When the painting was finished, the images were printed as multiple pages on an HP PaintJet. The test strip already mentioned (Figure 2) shows some of the color experiments that were tried on the Glenn image prior to final output. The printouts were planned to lit masouite panels cut to the maximum size allowed by the airlines that look us into the former Soviet Union. White glue diluted in water was brushed over the entire surface of the untem- pered masonite. Each trimmed strip of PaintJet tractor paper was dipped in water, then carefully positioned. Failure to wet the prints first causes them to buckle on contact with the glue. Wet paper is also easy to slide around for accurate positioning. Diluted acrylic gel medium was brushed over the entire surface. When each panel dried, the paper had shrunk slight- ly, leaving small gaps between the strips. These gaps were filled with patching plaster. When dry, the entire surface was sanded and sponged flat One more coat of gel medium sealed and smoothed the surface. When that was dry, each panel was painted in acrylics, using the PaintJet mosaic as a sketch. A final coal of matte var- nish completed ihe paintings. Figure o shows the fin- ished paintings hanging at the show's premiere in Yalta. To experiment with enhancing a printout, try attack- ing it with your favorite medium such as pencil, conte, or ink. A good first project might be touching up a col- or print with a soft pencil. You can enhance the subtlety of shading, autialias lines, and add new elements to the image. The touch of the human hand immediately elevates the perception of the piece. Another technique I like is collage. Use the com- puter and printer to create image elements that arc- cut, torn, and reassembled to create a final image. I use spray mount on torn pieces of printout to mount them on illustration board. I like to go into this with oils or acrylics to pull together a composition such as the Mercury collage that is the opening illustration of this article. The wonderful thing about mixed media is that it fully integrates the computer and printer into the stu- dio. The artist must then maintain enough common sense to know when to use a $2500 computer and when to use a 25-cent pencil Having the mental flex- ibility to mix these tools freely can produce some pow- erful work. ■ Joel Hagen is the author o/"AW'u 'Accent on Graphics" col- umn and a contributing editor to the magazine. His credits include work in art, astronomy, science fiction, and software development. Write to him cfo Amiga World Editorial, 80 Elm SL f Peterborough, NH 03458, 32 May 1992 Dusting for Prints Need some clues on how to track down the right printer to suit your needs ? Our hands-on guide reveals the different kinds of printers available, the up-front and hidden costs involved, and the performance you can expect SKARCHING FOR THE right printer am be mysterious business. Finding evi- dence is not so hard, but can you be sure you have the whole story? A friend tes- tifies that the model he bought is the perfect solution- — but are his needs the same as yours? Some prints you Vc examined point to a particular model — but can you get acceptable quality for substantially less money? Or will you give up options yon need by spending less? As if the situation were not complicated enough, much of what you knew about printers three years ago is now obsolete. That's because today you can afford printers that you could dien only dream about. Lets do a little sleuthing to define i By Dave Johnson ILLUSTRATE) BY KATIIERINF MAHONKY Amiga World 33 A C C E N T \ Li T I 1 I T 2 — PRINTERS the cost and performance differences and determine your best bet. For information on fingering the right printer driver to work with your chosen output device. TheN CO] America's c r NOTES fROM TI1C LITTER BOX. itiuiiitiiii CDITOBIAL by Newt This month like to talk about a pre that my older cousins ] been having, Pmtalki TheN CO! America's < r NOTES fieOfi Tltt LITTER BOX- tittifimii EDITORIAL by Newt This month like to talk about a pre that my older cousins J been having, Fmtalki The same PageStream file output using a Hewlett-Packard LaserJet IIP ($1295 retail) at 300 dpi (top], an HP DeskJet ($995) at 300 dpi (bottom), and a Star NX- 1000 color dot-matrix ($379) at 240 x 72 (opposite page). see the sidebar "Riper Drive." (To locate vendors of the products mentioned sec the ik ManufactnrersVDistrihutors' Ad- dresses" list on p, 84,) Very Fine Print Perhaps the biggest news of last year was the plunge in black-and-white laser printer prices to a floor of $700. (Color laser printers are still very expensive, starting at about $6000.) The main advantage of a laser printer is its 300-dpi (dots per inch) output, an essential feature for professional appearance of copy. Another benefit is its deep, rich, black output — much darker and more uniform than you can gel with either ink-jet or dot-matrix printers. A laser is both quick and quiet (you can print while listening to Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" and never hear it running). The slowest lasers start at four ppm {pages per minute) in letter-quality mode and lake only a few minutes to print a graphics-laden sheet. A laser printer uses inosi of thai time to build a picture of the page in its own memory, however, and tints can kick out additional copies nearly instantaneously. Because a laser (sometimes called a page printer) must build the entire page in memory before printing any of it, the printer needs enough RAM of its own. That means about 1.5MB to generate a page of graphics — such as a full sheet of Deluxe Runt graphics or a Page- Stream document. Although most laser printers come with only 512K, thai is changing; you can now find bar- gain machines with 1.5 or 2MB standard. Be sure you know what you are buying and that you consider the cost of necessary additional memory. Don't be frightened by list prices for RAM, though; while it may list for $400 per megabyte, street prices are closer to SI 00. All laser printers use some sort of page-description language to control output. While most lower-price lasers use a version of Hewlett-Packard's Printer Con- trol Language (PCL), ;* more flexible control method is Adobe Systems* PostScript. (For details on the pre- cision PostScript allows, see the "Why PostScript?" sidebar to the article "Power to the People," Sep. '91, p. 23.) Many Amiga programs, PageStream and Pro- fessional Page included, make it easy to avoid Post- Script, as they output excellent quality to nonPost- Script printers, (See the sidebar "Amiga Software and Lasers." Sep. '91, p. 26.) If the software you use supports PostScript and you want to use it, you should expect to spend a few hun- dred dollars more for your printer. (A software-based PostScript interpreter allows you to print PostScript- defined output to an ordinary printer, but it is slow and memory-intensive.) If you think you will eventu- ally need PostScript, but not right away, you might consider a laser (such as Hewlett-Packard s LaserJet IIP or LaserJet III) that is upgradable to PostScript via an expansion cartridge. Then, you can wait to pur- chase the expansion cartridges, which are available from the printer's manufacturer or a third-party de- veloper such as Pacific Page. The additional memory thai you installed for printing graphics will be essential lor driving that PostScript cartridge, as well. Resist die temptation to buy the cheapest laser you can find without testing it. Some (such as Okidatas OL-400-series machines) generate unsightly banding when printing graphics, although they are perfectly good for other tasks. You can encounter significant ?■/ Mm 1992 A i) c i; \ T \ OUTPUT: 2- PRINTERS quality differences in sending the same iile to different printers. The Jet Set If you want laser-like output but do not want to pay laser prices, a black-and-white ink-jet printer may be just what you need. For $">()() or less, the ink-jet pro- duces wonderful output as high as :Vu() dpi. Unlike the laser printer's toner cartridge, which ren- ders pages by allowing the laser to "burn" the ink off the roller and onto the paper, ink- jet printers feed from a vial of ink that fires at the paper through several dozen tiny nozzles. The ink is designed to dry almost instantly on contact with paper, though some printers rely on special clay-based paper to aid ink adhesion. It is a good idea to find out what kind of paper works best with the ink-jet you are considering before you buy. Some paper stock is costly. Paper type is also im- portant for obtaining the highest quality of output. Primers (and inks) designed for clay paper will invari- ably generate binned hardcopy on ordinary paper, so use the best paper you can afford if you want to get sharp, laser-like output. Printing time is one more consideration for ink-jets: 15 to 30 minutes or more per page is average. And because ink- jets are not "page primers," even copy lakes the same amount of time to print. Ink jets are pleasantly quiet, however. As long as you can find color can ridges for the black- and-white ink-jet you choose, you can tise a color-sep- aration process (as most desktop-publishing software allows) to print in full color by making numerous passes on the same page with inks of different colors. It is a time-consuming process that's susceptible to pa- per-alignment errors, but the results are often breath- taking. You can get color cartridges for various ink-jets from Such companies as InkMat, Jet Technology, and Software Sensations. For moie convenient but still affordable color output, ink- jets are still your best choice. Hewlett-Packard's PaintJet ($995) is the best-known of these low-cost color printers. It can offer very rich color saturation (depend- ing on exactly what you are printing) with all the tradi- tional characteristics of its black-and-white counterparts. Color printing involves some special considerations because, while "printing" to your Amiga's monitor is a subtract ive process, printing to paper is additive. On screen, a pixel with red, green, and blue elements all pegged at 15 appears white. Now imagine mixing equal quantities of those colors on paper. Quite the opposite of white, no? That incongruity often makes it tricky for a printer to accurate!) render on paper what you see on the screen. Because of the special problems involved in color printing, I recommend you try a color printer before you buy — or at least purchase it front a store with a reasonable return policy. Do not settle for the demo prints that the sales people are all loo happy to show you in the store. Those demos are optimized to show off the machine's best color-rendition abilities, and they rarely involve the colorful and detailed graphics the Amiga can output. Matty of the sales people who demonstrate these printers think eight-color exploded pie charts are pretty amazing, and they may have no concept of how you plan to use the machine. Until recently, if you wanted a color ink-jet, you were pretty much limited to 180 dpi. While that resolution may be acceptable, it forced many people who were weighing color at 1 80 dpi versus black and white at 300 dpi to stay away from ink-jets. With the recent intro- duction of the Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 500 Color, 300-dpi color now retails for $995. This is a printer to be reckoned with, hut it is not per- fect. Instead of four colors, the DeskJet Color uses three, which results in less-ihan-ideal color accuracy in some images. Because there is no black ink when print- ing in the color mode, the printer uses all of the other inks to reproduce black tones. This means that black does not saturate well, and the DeskJet goes through ink even more quickly than other ink-jets. Although Commodore has not yet released a driver for this print- er, Creative Focus sells one called Super_DJC, Dots the Way It Is The "Old Faithfuls" of the industry, dot-matrix print- ers have been around forever and are best sellers be- cause of their versatility, low price tags, and negligible maintenance costs. These clavs. the battle lines are drawn firmly between the 9- and 24-pin varieties. The i The IS COj America's < r NOTES EROM THE UTTER BOX- EDITORIAL by Newt This month like to talk about a pre that my older cousins! been having. I'm talki AmigaWorld 35 A C C K \ T N I! T P D T 2-PRINTERS 9-pin type is probably the cheapest printer you can buy (starting at approximately $150 for black-and- white and SI 90 (or color), but you pay in terms of lim- ited resolution. Though 9-pin printers can provide densities up to about 240 dpi, there are two serious limitations to driv- ing dot-matrix al resolutions that high. First, there oc- curs a phenomenon called banding: very noticeable stripes of ink appear across the page. Also, the image can become very muddy and indistinct, particularly when priming in color. Happily, dot-matrix printers generally support enough densities so that von can find a useful one for every type of printing task. With 24-pin printers, you can usually print in high resolution (around 300 dpi) without resorting to mul- tiple passes — at a still-reasonable cost (S200 and up). The result is pages that are reasonably free of smearing and banding. Both 9- and 24-pin printers come in color and black- and-white versions. II* you do have a color printer, you can conserve the somewhat more expensive color rib- bons by buying black ribbons to use for black-and- white-only tasks. Paper Drive The issue of printer drivers is of- ten a source of confusion, it's an important topic, too, because without a driver you cannot send output from your computer to a printer. It is a good idea to settle on a driver before actually purchasing a printer, and find- ing the right one is not as com- plicated as it may seem. Your Workbench Extras disk contains drivers for nearly every popular printer. These are named for easy Identification. For example, the driver labeled HP DeskJet is optimized to work with Hewlett-Packard's line of DeskJet printers. Be- ware, though: if you choose a printer that has just come out on the market, an older driver may not get top performance out of it — or even be able to run it. HP's new DeskJet 500 Color printer is an example. Although, as mentioned in the article, Commodore has not yet released a driver for the color DeskJet, Creative Focus sells one called SuperDJC. There are several other such develop- ers — including Glass Canvas Productions, ACDA, Micro Pro> grams, and T yen on Technolo- gies — that sell custom drivers. You can also find drivers on BBSs and networks, as well as in the Fred Fish collection of public-domain software. (Add any driver to the Printers drawer in your Devs directory.) If you do not find a custom- built driver for a printer you want, be sure to check your printer's manual for a list of em- ulation modes. Many manuals list alternatives in the order in which they work best. As a last resort, you can use the Generic printer driver that's found on the Extras disk, although it will probably not be able to output styles (such as bold and italics) or graphics. — DJ Printing speed is one of the most hotly advertised features of dot-matrix primers. The fastest can kick out about 200 characters per second (cps) in draft mode and around 7'> in near-letler-cjuality (NTQ) mode. The slowest ones drag along at about 25 cps. Dot -matrix primers have been around Cor so long that it is hard to find a truly bad one. Because they are so inherently noisy, however keep an ear out for those that have good sound insulation. Dot -matrix are the only printers that come in wide-carriage configurations for handling special printing tasks like large spread- sheets. While a wide-carriage unit might make life eas- ier lor you, there's no sense paying extra for such a fea- ture if you never need to print wide stock. Hidden Costs When you shop for a primer, remember that the three- digit figure on your charge card is not the end of it. Maintenance costs tend to add up, particularly if you print in volume. Laser printers require replacement toner cartridges, which cost between $50 and $150 dol- lars and are usually good for a few thousand copies. Ink-jet cartridges run about $30 or less, but they are good for only a few hundred sheets. Dot-matrix print- ers require only ribbons, which cost less than S10 and provide acceptable saturation for a hundred pages or so. (Once a ribbon is too worn to tise for official corre- spondence, it can have a long and fruitful life printing draft and in-house copies.) Do not underestimate the long-term cost of special paper, either. Clay-based stock for some ink-jets is rather costly, and using plain paper diminishes the quality of your output. Laser paper is more expensive than ordinary stock, but it comes in many grades, and you can experiment on your own to find a happy medium. Using poor grades of paper in a laser can seriously shorten its life- span, so choose carefully. Some laser paper lias a de- cidedly evil finish, ecologically speaking. If you are so inclined, their are several sources for recycled laser stock, including Earth Care Paper, which will be happy to send you samples. Though paper capacity is not a concern for dot- ma- trix printers, which run with tractor-feed paper or print one loose sheet at a time, keep in mind that both laser and ink-jet printers vary widely in the size of the paper tray. You may not need 250-sheet capac- ity now, but think ahead to be sure that a 50-slieet tray won't drive you insane later on. Many printers are de- signed to optionally accommodate one or more large- capacity trays. Also, while most printers accept envelopes one at a time, some can handle multiple envelopes. And if you wish to produce overhead transparencies, make sure the printer is capable of producing them. This is not a given by any means, particularly with color printers. A printer is a long-term investment. If a laser is what you really need, do not settle for an ink-jet. If a dot- matrix is sufficient for your needs, think seriously about buying a 24-pin machine instead of a 9-pin, Whatever your output goals, buy the best printer you can afford and keep the future in mind. ■ Dave Johnson authored the booh The Desktop Studio: Multimedia with the Amiga, in addition to several reviews and articles for Amiga magazines. ?6 May 1992 DTP-ing WITH THE ENEMYQ Providing competitive, full-service desktop publishing to your clients requires cross-platform cooperation. Here's how to incorporate Amiga, Mac, and PCfoimats into one DTP setup. s Amiga users, we want to do every- thing on our machines just because others try to tell us we can't. Unfor- tunately, Amiga desktop publishers find themselves in a world dominat- ed by Macs and PCs. Although I will always bran- dish my Amiga sword, I think it may be lime to use a different strategy to further die Amiga crusade. A mulliplatform desktop-publishing settip allows selective use of the best features of the Amiga, the Macintosh, and the PC. The Macintosh leads the field with its excellent 24 -I) it image enhancement and painting pack- ages. Other strengths of the Mac are its well-fea- tured illustration programs and its multitude of printer-control and calibration utilities. (Macin- tosh utilities can calibrate the density and color ac- curacy of imagesetters, as well as manage memory and hard-disk-resident printer fonts.) Because the PC is so widely used for word pro- cessing, most text files you receive from clients are apt to be in MS-DOS format. Also, Windows 3.0 has greatly increased the ease of use over DOS- based systems, and there are now some excellent > BY EYO SAMA ILLUSTRATED BY BARTON STABLER Amiga World 37 ACCENT \ OUTPUT: 3 — D T P 24-bit painting programs (such as .Aldus' PhotoStyler) that are good alternatives to Mac-based software cost- ing twice as much. The Amiga, on the other hand, is perfect for jobs re- quiring 3-D ray-traced imagery, fast layout and design work, and the integrating of data from multiple plat- forms into one project. So, given the different strengths and varying capa- bilities of the three platforms, how can you incorporate the best elements of each into your DTP setup? I will start by outlining what you can do with a limited bud- get and take you through to an explanation of how you can set up the ultimate networked desktop-publishing operation, (lb locate vendors of the products mentioned, see the "Manufacturers) 'Distributors' Addresses" 'list on p. 84.) Fitting In While good desktop-publishing software enables Ami- ga users to produce professional-quality typesetting and color-separated design and output, the Amiga is relatively unknown in the DTP world. Therefore, most output bureaus that supply printing, scanning, and im- age setting do not offer those services directly to Amiga users. How can you cope in this environment? First, make even' effort to introduce your local ser- vice bureau to the .Amiga. Show them the machine's ca- pabilities and how, through networking and other methods, they can integrate it into their present setup. Perhaps you can demonstrate that many m the area re- quire the service, or that the bureau's purchase of an .Amiga is a prerequisite for obtaining your business. If you cannot get direct Amiga services, then you must be able to read and write the formats these service centers do support. 'Hiere are several programs that en- able the .Amiga to read and write both PC- and Mac- format disks. Consul Iron's CrossDOS (S3 9. 95), for in- stance, allows your Amiga to read 7 2 OK and 5. 2 5- inch 360K MS-DOS disks. ReadySofts AMax II (S249.95), plus a Mac disk drive and Macintosh ROMs, not only lets you read and write 800 K Macintosh-format disks, but also lets you run some Macintosh software. Unfortunately. AMax II does not work in color, so you cannot benefit from the displays of 8- or 24-bit soft- ware. Central Coast/New Horizons 9 Mac-2-Dos ($349.95, including a Mac-compatible floppy drive) simply lets you read/write 800K Mac floppies. (See *' Royal Opportunities," Sep. '91, p. 40, and "Forging the PC Link/* Dec. '91 . p. 51 , for more information on these packages.) The program 1 often tise to read and write MS-DOS disks is Kjell H. Didriksen's MultiDOS. Unlike Cross- DOS, MuitiDOS allows you to access MS-DOS disks with the same drive names you use for your Amiga disks. Whether you have an Amiga or MS-DOS disk in any drive, any programs you use on your Amiga will auto- matically recognise the disk. Incredibly, this commer- cial-quality program is in the public domain. You can find it in the Fred Fish library as well as on BBSs. Unfortunately, because Commodore has not added higher-capacity floppy-disk drives to all Amigas, there seems generally to be no way to take advantage of the 1.44MB floppies that are standard on both the Mac THE ULTIMATE SETUP Mission: To set up a desktop system that would be capable of handling entire publishing projects (from the design stage through sending the files to print) and accepting designs, images, and text files from clients using various comput- er systems- Thanks to networking — and to excel- lent new Amiga networking software — I accomplished this mission. At the core of the system I devised were three Ami- ga 3000s, three IBM PS/2s, a Macintosh Ilci, a Mac SE, and a 33-MHz 386 PC- compatible file server running Novell Netware in dedicated mode. Attached to the file server was a 600MB SCSI hard drive, accessible by all the computers on the network. Be- cause Novell Netware does not allow partitions larger than 256MBs, I divid- ed the drive into three partitions. On the A3000s, all running Oxxi's ACS, the partitions show up as three drive icons on the Workbench screen. The Mac SE hosted a 9600-baud mo- dem, which we employed to receive clients' PostScript, image, and text files, whether Amiga, Mac, or PC based. When stored on the network hard drive, these files were accessible from all the computers. I attached a Sharp JX-450 300-dpi 24-bit color scanner to an A3000 run- ning ASDG's Art Department Profes- sional ($299) to handle most of the scanning. To the file server, I attached a 300-dpi QMS PostScript laser printer (used primarily for proofing), and a 2400-dpi Compugraphic 9800 image- setter (used to produce final films and high-resolution paper work). All the computers on the network can simultaneously send files to be printed on either printer. The way the Netware queues work is yen 1 useful for schedul- ing print jobs of different priorities. You can set up Novell's Netware to have sev- eral printing queues; files sent to be printed are spooled to the file server's hard disk and output to the appropriate printers in the order received. You can even have multiple queues serving one printer. We have express and slow queues; files in the slow queue are sent to the laser printer only if the express queue is emptv. Netware has several safety and se- curity options that protect your data, including full control over file and di- rectory access and support for disk mirroring and duplexing. With the help of an uninterruptible power supply, the file server can, upon detecting any pow- er loss, automatically log off users and safely power down the network. Ready, Set Setting up the Novell Netware file serv- er was an adventure; Novell's software conies on more than 30 disks, and the manuals are encyclopedic. The first chore was to get the 386 PC to run with- out any interrupt, DMA, or memory conflicts. Unlike the advanced bus de- sign of the Amiga, PC boards do not auto-configure; you must configure them separately by juggling several jumpers. We had to install a SCSI con- troller in addition to Arcnet, Ethernet, I/O, and VGA cards. Thankfully, setting up the PC client software was easy. hS May 1992 ACCENT N U T P I T : 3 - D T P and PC. (With Cross DOS and a high -density Com- modore floppy — now shipping with the A3 000 — you can read 1.44 MB PC disks.) Both MultiDOS and Cross DOS, however claim to be able to read and write to MS-DOS-formatted hard-disk drives. (I have not tried this feature, but it surely is intriguing.) This brings me to the best method of integrating Amigas, Macs, and PCs: networking. Net Gain Just a year ago, networking was a foreign concept to most Amiga users. Although it is still in its infancy for the Amiga, we now have a few options for constructing networks. By the time you read this, Oxxts Amiga Client Soft- ware (ACS) for Novell Netware (starting at $199) should be available. Novell Netware, one of the most widely used networking systems on the PC, is the only one I know of that allows networking between Amiga, PC, Macintosh, NeXT, and Unix systems. To use ACS, you must connect your Amiga — via an Arcnet or Eth- ernet card— to a PC running the Novell server software. Oxxi's software allows your Amiga to print to any de- vice that is attached to the file server (the PC), which automatically spools printing requests from any com- puter on the network. Any fixed or removable hard disk attached to the file server appears on the Amiga Workbench as if it were a local drive, and it is accessible through all Amiga software. Such drives also appear on the Macintosh desktop and on other computers at- tached to the network. Commodore recently released it NFS (Network File System) Client Software ($199), which allows you to add Amigas equipped with Ethernet cards to a network served by a Unix NFS file server, (NFS is the network- ing system used by Sun Microsystems 1 computers and many other Unix-based systems.) According to Com- modore, it is possible to use the NFS software to attach Amigas to a PC server running Novell Netware 386 with an NFS module, although I suspect that an NFS server must also be involved. Progressive Peripherals' DoubleTalk (S450-S500) AppleTalk board allows Amigas to network between each other using the peer-to-peer networking software provided. It also lets the Amigas link into an existing AppleTalk network, enabling them to share files with Macs and print to the AppleTalk ports of laser printers connected to the network. While AppleTalk is slow compared to Ethernet- or even Arcnet-based systems, it is also much less costly, because you do not need a separate file server to run the DoubleTalk network. Net Sets In the sidebar "The Ulumate Setup," I describe the op- timum system for a desktop-publishing venture. Al- though I think it is the ideal solution for working effi- ciently to handle whatever your client gives you, the setup is also quite expensive. If you do not have the budget to install and maintain such a system — or if you want to begin on a smaller scale — then you can use just parts of the system. *- The installation of the Macintosh Netware software was also simple. One annoying limitation of the Macintosh. however, is its inability to run both Ap- pleTalk and EtherTalk at the same time. This meant that we could not bridge the network between Netware and Ap- pleTalk unless we installed an Ap- pleTalk card on the file server, which would increase the server's work load. The Amiga client software is not only easy to set up, but also offers the most elegant and complete interface of the three systems. Oxxi's very thorough ACS includes most of the utilities you need to manage and control the net- work. These have the same functional- ity as the PC-version utilities, but the ease of use of Amiga software. You can set director)' and file restrictions for in- dividuals, groups, or all users, and you can even restrict access times, You can view and modify the printing queues and use the included hard-disk back- up program to back up the network drive — including both the resource and data forks of Macintosh files. (I often use this feature to transfer resource forks from the Mac to the Amiga; it lets me avoid first having to convert the Mac files to macbinary format.) A mes- sage facility lets Amiga users send mes- sages to other network users. Access to the network drive from the Amiga is very fast, even using Arcnet cards. In fact, I found it faster than some .Amiga peer-to-peer networks op- erating with Ethernet. How It Works To demonstrate how the system works, 1 will describe the execution of a typical project — creating a full -color brochure for a client. We received the WordPerfect-format text by modem on the Mac SE, which automatically saved it to the network drive. We edited and formatted the text on one of the PS/2 machines using WordPerfect. We scanned the color pictures into an Amiga 3000 and saved them to the net- work drive in either TIFF or TGA for- mat. From there, we loaded the pictures into die Macintosh Ilci (equipped with a 24-bit graphics card) running Adobe's PhotoShop. We used PhotoShop to modify* and color-correct the images and to do photo montage and other special effects (which I would like to be able to do on the Amiga!). We saved the finished images to the network drive, and from there loaded them into Gold Disk's Professional Page on an A3 000. After color separating the images on the Amiga, we sent them to the printing queue serving the imagesetter. Mean- while, we downloaded extra Adobe Type 1 fonts (which the brochure re- quired) to the imagesetter using the Macintosh. Finally, we shipped the im- agesetter-produced film to the printer. With the network, we were able to use components created on any of the three machines with layout and illustration software on any of the other machines. For example, we converted fonts and Adobe Illustrator files from the Mac for use on the Amiga, and we typeset Ami- ga-generated text with PageMaker run- ning Windows 3.0 on the PCs. — ES □ AmigaWorld 39 A c c i: \ T X L T P L T I) T P If, for example, you do not have an in-house image- setter, you can save your huge, color-separated PostScript (lies to removable hard disks and send them to an output service. Another option is to compress your files with such public-domain utilities as ARC, ZIP, and LHARC, some of which have counterparts on the Mac and PC. You may be surprised how large a compression factor you can obtain with PostScript files. Faster than compressing is backing up files with something like QuarterBack ($69.95, Central Coast/New Horizons) and restoring them to the hard disk of your service bureau's Amiga. If you have Amigas, Macs, and PCs, but cannot af- ford a network, you can connect the computers via se- rial cables and use terminal software to transfer files. Set the machines to the highest baud rate available and use a protocol such as ZModem to transfer the files. With ZModem, you do not have to bother naming die files at your destination, but keep in mind when send- ing PC files lhal ihe file-naming conventions of that system demand a name of not more than eight char- acters, plus a three-character extension. Serial connec- tion is a slow transfer method and should be used only if you cannot fit the compressed files onto a floppy disk (which happens often if you deal with color separations and 24 -bit images). Using one DoubleTalk card, an Amiga, a Macintosh, and an Apple lalk laser printer, you can set up the be- ginnings of a larger system. This setup lets you use the Amiga for layout and design work, and for creating 24- bit ray- traced images that you can then transfer to the Mac, taking advantage of its 24-bit image-editing fa- cilities and printer control. Von can construct a similar system with an Amiga and a PC. You could attach a high-capacity removable drive to each machine and use MuldDOS or CrossDOS to read and write files direcdy from your Amiga applications onto MS-DOS-formatted cartridges. By using Aldus Photo- Styler on the PC for your 24-bit editing needs, and Pro- fessional Page, PageStream, or Saxon Publisher on the Amiga, you'd have a fairly capable system. If possible, try to purchase a color scanner that you can tise on your Amiga, Mac, or PC, depending on your software preferences. With the Mac and PC, you can edit the files immediately after you scan them. With the Amiga, on the other hand, you have the ad- vantage of scanning much faster than on the other systems. If you need to scan numerous pictures with- out major editing, the Amiga will save you time. Then, yoti can transfer to other machines any files that need editing. As you can see, it is possible to successfully integrate the .Amiga into an environment involving other com- puter platforms. It's not a question of "fight or switch"; it's simply a matter of joining forces to best serve the customer... and to make things easier for yourself. ■ Aye; Sama was editor and publisher of the former Ami go Times, a full-color magazitte created entirely on the Amiga. He currently works as a consultant , author, and developer. And the Winner Is. . . 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Kifcatons s-b^c; :: ranp ,v fowl no! ce Attention Progressive 040/2000 Accelerator Users: Call for upgrade information. \ \ Al rrsd£rr.art^_ad0iow!edcjed. P'oducj specifications Progressive Peripherals & Software • 464 Kalamath St. • Denver, CO 80204 « Phone (303) 825-4144 • Fax (303) 893-6938 \ Crrcte 150 on Reader Service card. rn A Brand-New GETTING THE MOST FROM WORKBENCH 2.0-PART II THE VISIBLE DIFFERENCES between Kickstart 2.0 and 1.3 are like the very large tip of an even more gigantic iceberg: While just a cursory look reveals that much has changed, even greater, more significant differences lie hidden beneath the surface- These hidden changes in 2.0 take the form of new programming tools and operating-system routines that give programmers more flexibility than ever in creating powerful and easy-to-use programs. And while the visible changes in the operating envi- ronment are easy to spot, the effect of the new programming tools is apparent only when they result in new features in applications software . Until recently, 2.0 was available only on the A3000, so few commercial pro- grams have added such "2.0-only" features. Now that 2,0 is an option for all Amigas, and will soon become standard equipment, more and more programs will be adding these ad- vanced features. Let's take a look, then, at what the new programming features mean to the current 2.0 own- er, and also what we can expect in the near future. (To locate vendors of the prod- ucts mentioned, see the "Manufacturers' /Dis- tributors' Addresses" list on p t 84.) Emphasis on "Applications" Among the more widely- used programming en- hancements to 2.0 are the calls that provide appli- cations with access to the Workbench and its icons. These calls let programs create new objects known as Applcons, AppWindows, and App- Menus, Applcons are icons that appear in the Workbench window. Although they look like normal icons, they don't necessarily act like them. The program that creates an Applcon is notified whenever the user double-clicks on the icon or drags another More than simply enhancing Workbench operations alone, new 2,0 features will also make many applications programs more powerful, flexible and easy to use. By Sheldon Leemon ILLUSTRATED BY KENNETH McMILLAN AmigaWortd 43 WORKBENCH - P A R T ] I icon on top of it; it is then up to the program to decide what to do next. Version 3.2 of Pro Write ($175, New Horizons), for example, opens an Applcon that's called "Pro Write Deposit." When yon double-click on this icon, it brings the ProWrite screen or window to the front and activates it. When you drop the icon for a text file on it, however, it loads that text file into ProWrite. oj ToolManager: HotKey-rcommand help |i& Active Tools: 16 Shell SuperDuper Quarterback NewZap QED Print Files GraphicDump Kew Tool 1 A V Top | UP 1 Ddvh | Bottom | ! |Kev Tool fl«i I Edit | Remove 1 SriabLe | KotKeys | t*:ck On | Dock H/v| Save | Hide j Disable) Dock Off| Quit | a>1 Figure 1. Stephan Becker's Tool Manager lets you take advantage of 2.0 f s new "App" features. AppMenu support allows you to add your own applications to the Workbench Tools menu. Applcon support allows you to put your own icons on the Workbench window. From the screen above, you can print a file or show a graphic by dragging its Icon to the appropriate Workbench icon. The dock window at the bot- tom of the screen (which lets you launch a program by clicking on its icon) is also an AppWindow, so you can load a data file into a program by dtagging its icon to the picture of the program. n|PSK Public Screen Tool 1 *& Open New Screen Workbench P r oWr ite PSK_S or een Close Soreen Move To Screen Make Default Refresh X*±st C\ Shanghai On CI PopPubScreen Off Quit |PSK_Screen |PSK relocated. * ''riiw* t 1 . 4 r*T o t vn . 4 nW o 1 1 ' - » lit 1 t it »«--.. info fc a r- * u f» - tnf o _ :•: i *» o t si . 4 nf o 5CU * i lit i «■ * „ * n <= *» D|Calc |P|g j » o 1 G 1 9 1 cnl cei si & 1 * i /I s i 3 i - i - i ummsuxB <dir> Figure 2. With Steve Tlbbett's PublicScreenX, you can create public screens and "shanghai" Workbench applications to them. Here, the PSX Screen Manager, a Shell window, and the Calculator have all been opened on a low-res, interlaced public screen. The third way in which a program can make its mark on the Workbench is through the use of AppMenus. Phis new facility allows a program to insert one or more menu items on the Workbench Tools menu. AppMenus have spawned a large number of freely-distributable tool-menu man- agers, including AddTools, ToolsX, and Tool- Menu, all of which allow you to list your favorite programs as menu items and to start them right from the Workbench menu. My favorite, though, is Stefan Becker's Tool- Manager (Fred Fish #551), which uses all three of the "App" features (see Figure 1). Its configuration window uses an AppWindow, so you can add pro- grams to the menu bar simply by dragging their icons onto the list. It also lets you create an App- lcon for any program. This means, for instance, that you can make an Applcon out of the Print- Files program and print an}- text by dragging its icon over the picture of the printer. Using Recolor, you can change the colors of mul- tiple icons by shift-selecting them and choosing a menu item, instead of dragging them all to the App- Window, When you run ProWrite 3.2, for example, n adds an item to the menu bar that lets you Rip di- rect ly to the ProWrite screen. Going Public One new 2.0 feature that you will probably hear a lot more about in the future is the "public screen." Kick- start 1 .3 allows for only two types of screens, the Work- bench screen and custom screens. Many different pro- grams can open their windows on the Workbench screen at the same lime, but they all have to accepi the graphics mode, resolution, and number of colors of that screen. Custom screens let the program choose the mode, resolution, and number of colors — but only one program can open its windows on that screen. Kickstarl 2*0 introduces a new type of screen, the public screen, that extends the usefulness of custom screens beyond such limitations. You can use public screens like custom screens that allow other applica- tions to open "visitor" windows on them. Visitor win- dows might include such utilities as color-palette ad- 44 May 1992 W R K B K IV C II 2 . - P A R T 1 I justers, magnifier windows, clipboard managers, or any one of a dozen other "parasite" programs. You can also use public screens to create multiple Workbench screens. By setting a special "Shanghai" Hag, you can force Workbench applications to open instead on your public screen (hence the term "shanghai," as in "force or trick into captivity"). Not many applications use public screens as yet. Pro Write 3.2 does open a public screen named "PrbWrite," and you can also get the program to open on a named public screen by adding a ToolType to the program icon. The best way to experiment with public screens is to pick up a copy of Steve Tibbett's Public- ScreenX program (Fred Fish #483). It allows you to open new public screens of varying modes and resolu- tions, and then to "shanghai" Workbench applications to those screens (see Figure 2). Kickstart 2.0 also provides some new shared pro- grain libraries that make it easier for developers to follow the recommended Amiga style guidelines. Al- (hough these libraries may not result in many new applications-program features, they should make some of the standard features more common and their implementation more uniform. For example, the ASL library makes it easier to use the standard file and font requesters. 'The result is that nearly all of the Workbench programs — includ- ing the Preference editors, IconEdit, the More L'til- ity, and even Ed, the CLI text editor — present file re- questers that allow the user to select the file to save or load. Some programs, such as Pro Write 3.2, even allow you to substitute the standard AS I. file re- quester for their own. Another new shared library, the Gad'IboIs libra jy, makes it simple to create sophisticated gadgets and menus that respond appropriately when the user changes the default system font to something other than Topaz 8, Art Department Professional 2 ($299, ASDG) uses these tools to create a chooser window thai allows 2.0 users to select multiple-choice options from a list, rather than toggling through them one at a time (see Figure 3). Devices for Your Desires Some of the familiar AmigaDOS devices have been en- hanced for the 2.0 release. The console device is now font -independent. This means you can employ just about any font with applications that use a console window for text display, such as the Shell and the sys- tem text editors. New console windows wait for a click on the close gadget, which makes them much more useful for displaying the output of CLI-only programs that you can now run from the new Workbench. The clipboard device, which was designed so you could exchange IFF text and graphics data between ap- plications, has been enhanced to be more suitable for that purpose. Console windows now use the clipboard for copy-and-paste operations, which makes it possible to copy text from a Shell window into an Ed edit win- dow (see Figure 4, top) or into the window of any other application — such as Final Copy (S99.95, Softwood) or the freely distributable TurboText and VLT — that uses the clipboard for cut-and-paste procedures. I hope oth- er programs will follow suit, thus helping to expand the clipboard into an exchange medium that supports dy- namic updating. I Save j npply_Map Blur Colorize ! Convolve Crop„Inage Crop_V isua I ] DCTV Def ine_Px i_flspect IDelnterlace ! Dynanic_ftange Co lor_To_Gray Connands Save Replc ReDisplay Separate about Exit MRU F^? Screen Controls Hi Res 'Overscan NTSC I Lace lOscan Figure 3. When you run ASDG's Art Department Professional 2 from Kickstart 2.0, the program presents you with a chooser window In- stead of making you toggle through multiple-choice options. Another AmigaDOS device receiving a facelift in 2.0 is the narrator feature, which you use to produce synthesized speech. The new narrator speech model is more complex than the old one, providing many more controls thai allow you to produce more inter- esting and natural-sounding speech. These include an enthusiasm control that makes the voice sound more or less "excited," a perturb control that can make the voice i4 shaky/ ! and an articulation control that lets you adjust the speech from sharp ami de- liberate to slurred. Other controls allow you to make the speech sound th roa tier or more nasal, or even to change the way vow- els are pronounced in order to create regional accents. The only program that currently allows you to experi- ment with these narrative improvements, however, is the freely-distributable SpeechToy2 by Chris Dcmiris (see Figure 4, bottom). ^ Amiga World 45 W R R B E X C H P \ R T I I The Compugraphic outline-font technology 7 in- troduced in Workbench 2.0 mainly provides support lor screen fonts, bin the technology will certainly produce soil ware thai provides smooth-looking text of almost any size. ProWrite 8.2 is the first program to use the Corapu- graphic system- 1 out support for printing, but others are sure to follow suit — particularly as Com- modore enhances its program- ming support. Another font change users will be happy to see is thai the system now recognizes Col- orFonts, such as the popular Kara Fonts (Kara Computer Graphics), which provide tex- tured or metallic-looking char- acters. DeluxePaint IV ($ 1 79.95, Electronic Art a) users will no longer have to run the ColorFonls support program in order to make use of these fonts. Hardware Helpers Finally, 2.0 provides software support for a wide variety of optional hardware. Programs can open custom screens in Productivity or SuperHires modes on ma- chines thai have K(,S (Enhanced Chip Set) Agnus and Denise chips. So far, Pro Write 3.2 is the only piece of productivity software to take advantage of this option. On the video side — which is what SuperHires was de- signed for — Broadcast Titler 2 ($389.95, InnoVision Technology) is the first program we are aware of to sup- port that mode's 1472x480 display. The ECS chip set also oilers new genlock modes that allow you to replace color registers other than zero with video, but so far we have not seen any soft- ware developed to control this nvw capability. Even ML. _ f <ji n-ii , inf a rounUin. info S*tn*p. info* o| Spft^hToyZ tfwttan ft, 11 by Chrt* »«iirU_ *P**k*r Qt Both I S*X g| fUt» | tt«l# PlM.*wr*l| titr 15* S«l *4 fcitth 11B i_ F-riuri ft J Enthus 32 m Ftftdj • _ FMOJ ft r3Mi ft _l _J .(1rl.ii B tt2Mj » rcifui, ft Artie !•• flVft.u-. ft nrsi^s • tent X -J £*ntph»n 01 rY | fttrfWLTtj yg>*i Figure 4. Enhanced 2.0 support for the clipboard device makes it possible to copy a directory listing from a Shell window and paste it to the Ed text editor (top). Similarly, additional support for the narrator device will allow you to use such programs as Chris D em iris' Speech - toy 2.0 to try out new synthesized speech options (bottom). if you do not have the ECS Denise chip, the ECS Ag- nus allows you to switch from NTSC (the I'S display standard) to PAL (the European standard) under software control; most 1084 or multiscan mon- itors can be adjusted to display cither for- mat correctly. It is possible to control the Work- bench screen from the Screen Mode Preference editor, but it is up to the individual applications to control their custom screens. AD Pro 2 will open a PAL screen if you request that dis- play mode, and the freely-dis- tributable AmigaToPAL and AmigaToNTSC programs by Nico Francois {Fred Fish #57:")) will "trick" any application into opening its custom screen in the desired mode. This makes it much easier to use European software in the US, and vice versa. Kicksiart 2.0 also provides support for the 68040 processor, the fastest chip in the Motorola 68000 family. As this processor becomes more common, 2.0 will help Amiga users to run their programs faster than ever before. Much More To Come While we have already begun to see the appear- ance of software with features that would not be pos- sible without 2.(rs programming support, there are manv new, powerful functions that are still untapped. For example, Intuition now pros ides support for Menu Help, a feature by which the user can receive an explanation of a program option by holding down the Help key while selecting the menu item for that option. While there are not many programs using Menu Help yet, it is likely to become a widespread feature in the future. Another relatively unexplored attribute is 2.0's support for scrolling screens that are larger than the display. Such screens would let desktop-publishing applications update a whole page at a time, rather than building a small pari of the display based on which portion is currently showing. This feature re- quires a lot of chip memory; but makes it quite easy to build and display large bitmaps such as those re- quired for a fax program. A further "hidden" capability of 2A) is support for co- operative record locking, which prevents (wo users from changing the same portion of a database simul- taneously This should inspire the llrst true networking applications for the .Amiga. So, although 2.0 has been a long time coining for most of us, it will still be some time before its full im- pact is felt. Only in the weeks and months ahead will Amiga users really discover all of the ways in which it can improve both our operating environment and our applications. ■ Sheldon Lt>e man. a well-respected authority on virtually even aspect of the Amiga, is currently writing a hook on Workbench 2 for Compute! Books. 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ACCENT ON MTlJilW #39 ♦ A continuing series of tips, techniques, and tricks for creating more imaginative Amiga graphics. By Joel Hagen Starfields and Asteroids THE ANIMATED STARFIELDS wc see as tlie "Enterprise" plies the spaceways may not be astronomically plausible, but they sure look great, This month's "Accent" outlines sonic easy tricks to get you up \o warp 7 without busting your asteroid. Seeing Stars To try the animated star field, work in DeluxePaint (Electronic Arts) in a 32-color mode. Set up a palette with a smooth sequence comprising all 16 gray levels from black to white. Establish thai as range I. If you arc- using D Paint IV, make sure thai the range begins on the first position of the Range bar and that each succes- sive position is filled with the next gray value in the sequence as shown in the illustration accompanying this column. On screen, sci up the black sky — which can be anything from a full overscan black screen to a black win- dow in an imaginary control panel. Next, select the straight-line tool with the right mouse button. This brings up the Spacing requester. If you are new to DPaint, this is one of (he most under- used features of the program, and the starfield is a greal first exercise in which to try it out. The Spacing requester has four options: N Total, Every Nth Dot, Air- brush, and Continuous. The last of these is the default selection, and it simply draws in a continuous unbroken line with the current brush. Remember that the Spacing requester aliens all the line tools except dotted and free- hand. Vour settings will apply to straight or cuived lines, unfilled circles, rectangles, ellipses, and polygons. Of the other options. Airbrush draws the line with the current brush, using the airbrush at its current spray dia- meter. Every Nth Dot draws a line by placing one copy of die current brush at regular intervals along the path of the line. You define the interval by entering a number in the requester. N Total places a defined number of copies of' the brush along the path of the line. If you enter 8 and draw a line, eight brushes will be evenly spaced along that line no matter how long or short it is. For this exercise, select N Total and enter 1 f>, the number of colors from our range. As a test, select white from the range as a foreground color and draw a straight line with a single-pixel brush. You should see a line of 16 dots. Now select Cycle from the Mode menu, and draw a straight line again. This time you should see a sequence of evenly spaced dots ranging from black to white as shown in the illustration. Undo or erase the test lines and select Frames Set # from the Anim menu. For reasons that will become apparent, I find it most effective to create a num- ber of frames greater than N Total that has no divisor in common with N lb- tal. Try 25 frames. On frame 1, position the single- pixel brush roughly in the center of the sky, hold down the Animpainting key, drag a line to the edge of the sky, and release the mouse button. You should see stars painted one by one on 16 successive frames, black in the "distant" center and growing bright at the edge. If the stars start white and grow darker, return to the Range tool and reverse the range. Hit the 4 key to loop the animation, and you will see a convincing anima- tion of a star zooming out of the distance past your screen. Now build up multiple stars by re- pealing the line from the center toward different points at the edge of the screen. Do not return to frame 1 for each line; simply begin on any frame you end up on. Because you made the frame count an odd number greater than N Total, each slat begins moving on a different frame, adding to the 48 May 1992 Create your own "Star Trek" special effects with these simple DPaint animation techniques. natural feci of the animation. After making ten or twenty star paths, hit the 4 key to see the result. The feeling of motion is quite convincing, en- hanced by til e growing brilliance of the stars as they near the viewing plane. And Now for a Different Spin . . . This animation can stand alone or provide a backdrop for other objects, titles, or animbrushes. It serves as a great background for a ray-traced spacecraft or rotating planet. One of my favorite things to add to a starfield is an asteroid with compound rotation. The illustration shows the stages in- volved in creating such an object, for more detail on making a spinning planet, consult my planet-building article ("Around the World in 80 Frames," Oct. '91, p. 39) or read the tutorial on page 177 of the DPaint IV manual. This project is a more complex ex- tension of that idea. Bi icily, create a map of the surface of the asteroid that is two squares wide, 100x200, 80x160, or whatever, lb paint craters, I use the airbrush in Shade mode, with a range like the one shown in the illustration. Set up 25 blank frames to match the frame count of the starfield animation. Use the Move requester to move the map across the screen an x-axis dis- tance equal to the map width. Repeat that move with the map following itself to make a smooth, seamless scroll. Using Animbrusli/Pickup, grab exactly half of the area of the moving map — one square. To create the compound tumbling effect, clear the animation frames and draw a rough -con ton red, tilled -free- hand asteroid shape in a solid color, like the red shape in the illustration. Pick it up as a brush and, with the Move requester, rotate it 360 degrees on the z-axis over 25 frames. Now set the Fill Type to Wrap and select Anim- brush/Use. Mold down the Animpaint- ing key and execute an Anim-Fill on the rotating shape with the map anim- brush. Note that Anim-Fills are possi- ble only with DPaint version 3.21 or higher. Play the loop to see the aster- oid in motion. The illustration shows three succes- sive frames out of 25. The eye is fooled by the detail of the rotating map into seeing a rough, solid object rotating on its y-axis. Unless your shape was ex- tremely irregular, the /-axis rotation is no longer noticeable. Plant this aster- oid in your starfield for an interesting effect, or use the Move requester to add a motion path guaranteed to make any Trekker duck! ■ Joel Hagen's credits include work in art, astronomy, science fiction,, and software development. Write to him at 10512 Sawyer, Oakdale, CA 9536 L Please include a stamped, self-addressed envelope for a reply. "Asteroid and Stars" (above) shows color ranges and the stages in creating an animated starfield and an asteroid that uses compound rotation. AmigaWortd 49 Crispy Clips with Traveling Mattes With all the 24 -bit advancements of the past year, who'd have thought that a simple black-and-white graphic would be your ticket to high-end video effects ? By Mark Swain ONE OF THE tricks to using comput- er imagery in video post-production is mastering the crispy luminance clip. This means to cleanly paste a comput- er graphic (title, image, animation) over another video source. Yes, a gen- lock accomplishes this task, but not with a luminance key. Genlocks simply remove color register zero and replace it with another video source, thus limit- ing a genlock to the .Amiga's basic resolutions and color palettes. When you use 24-bit graphics or single-framed (24-bit) animations over live video, they become video sources, not computer sources. In cases like this, the basic Amiga genlock will not work; you need a luminance keying device, which removes either the brightest or the darkest part of a video source. So, with a graphic containing while text on a The cleanly composited space and space-sta- tion scene created from Fig- ures 1 , 2, and 3. black background, you could replace the black or white with another video source. The problem in luminance keying arises when the graphic to be keyed lias both light and dark properties. For example, take a 3-D ball that is lit with a spotlight on the upper-right side. The rendered 3-D ball would contain a very bright spot on the upper right, but be very dark on the lower left, making it nearly impossible to achieve the crispy edge or luminance dip that you need lor the production, The solution is to tise a traveling matte. Also known as alpha channels, key-holes, stencils, and matte fills, traveling mattes serve one very useful purpose — crispy luminance keys. A traveling matte works by using a black- and-white silhouette of the computer imagety to cut a hole in the back- ground video source. You 111! the hole with the detailed version of the graph- ic. The final result is a cleanly compos- ited image that gives the overlayed graphic crisp edges. Crispy Matte Creations The first step in creating the traveling- matte effect is to generate the graphics to be over laved. You can use a 2-D or 3-D graphics package, but always keep the background plate in mind. When placing your images, determine whai works best with the background video. Animations that need to match live- action background movements can be troublesome. Consider; for example, the combination of a live-action back- ground of a distant purple planet and a few stars (created by panning a camera over a painting or photograph) and a 3-D space station that orbits the myste- rious planet. The background pans from the right, leaving the planet in the screen's lower-left corner, and the space-station animation should match this motion as closely as possible. To accomplish this, grab two or three frames of the background at different stages of the live footage to tise as a reference in the animation package. If you use the reference frames as back- grounds for key-frame positions of the animation, you can easily place the space-station object in the proper per- spective and location. Once you set the key frames, surfaces, and lights, and save the scene, remove the backgrounds and render the space station on solid black. Finally, single-frame the anima- tion to videotape, You can create a traveling matte for a 3-D environment by simply rrrodi lying *■ 50 May 1992 All photographs me of actual DCTV screens. Now Available in PAL The Future Is Here! 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DCTV (Digital Composite Television) is a revolutionary new compressed video display and digitizing system for the Amiga. Using the Amiga as a com- pressed video buffer, DCTV creates a full color composite video display with all the color and resolution of television. Cirde 16 on Reader Service card. VIDEO SUITE your finished 3-D scene. First, remove all texture maps or surface details that you added to the original animation. Then change each of die surface colors to white (255 in each of the RGB sliders). The matte should contain only black and white, so you must turn off the object's shading. Of the three basic ways to do this, choose the one that works best for your 3-D animation program; Method I: Remove all lights from the scene. In LightWave (NewTek), change the first light's intensity to zero. Next, increase Ambient light to 100 percent. Method 2: Remove all lights, as above. Turn on LightWave's Luminous func- tion or Imagined (Impulse) Bright function for all surfaces. The Luminous and Bright functions cause the object always to be the surface color, white. Method 3: Change the Diffuse value for all surfaces to zero percent. Then turn on the Luminous or the Bright function as described above. Finally, make sure the animation will be rendering on a black background. With the changes complete, test-render a few frames to make sure you get a crisp black-and-white traveling matte. Now, render it, save all frames, and single- frame the traveling matte to tape. Edit Points With your three video-tape sources in hand, head to the editing room to as- semble them into a composited anima- tion. To accomplish a traveling matte in which all three video sources are live or moving (as in our example), you need a video-tape recorder for each source, another to record the final composite, and a switcher. Your first step is to con- nect the \TRs and switcher. Start with source A, the background, on the pro- gram bus. To cut the hole in the back- ground source, input source B, the traveling matte, to the external keying portion of the switcher. Feed the final source, the detailed 3-1) animation, into the matte-fill section of the switcher. Editing all of these sources is fairly easy. Using a computerized editor that controls all four VTRs, you do little more than synchronize the traveling matte, the animation, and the back- ground. The alignment of the matte and the animation must be frame- accurate, however, or you'll Hub the effect. In the final result, the traveling matte cuts a hole in the background that the detailed animation then fills. This example, with four VTRs, is, of course, an extreme case. One way to cut down on the amount of equipment is to use a D2 recorder or a digital disk recorder (DDR). D2 recorders have the ability to record and play at the same time: You could play the background on the D2 and record the final com- posited video over the original back- ground. The obvious problem with this method is that you erase the master background video source. DDRs are similar beasts: You could record the background to side A of the disc: and the final composited video to side B. This method has the advantage of not erasing anything in the process. A third way to cut down the number of high- ticket items required is to make one or two of the sources still. For exam- ple, you could freeze the background on a still store or time-base corrector and composite it with an animated traveling matte. Or, the matte could be a still logo over a live background. .Another ultra high-end method is to composite with a DDR and a Video Toaster (NeuTek). DDRs are very ex- pensive (S30-180K), but if one is within your reach, this is a nifty compositing idea. The recorder accepts both video- source and alpha-channel (traveling matte) input The Toaster can otitput two signals— program and preview Thus, if the program bus outputs an animation frame, and the preview bus outputs the matte, then you can com- posite the computer imagery veiy clean- ly with a background video source on the DDR. This method also eliminates the need to single-frame both the ani- mation and the traveling matte before compositing. The process composites and single-frames all of the imagery in a single pass — no VTRs and no editing. The process is very manual, however. You must load each frame of the ani- mation and the traveling matte, and operate the recorder manually. The only way to automate this process is to save all of the frames (animation and matte) in LightWave as framestores and to sequentially load them into the Toaster's switcher, using a clever ARexx script. The script should allow you to load the next frames into the correct busses by pressing a key, leaving only the DDR on manual operation. Crispy Toaster Cups The Video Toaster is (he perfect device for demonstrating the effects of a simple traveling matte. First, create the image and the matte in LightWave. Start by entering LightWave with a click of the 3- D button in the Toaster's switcher. Next, select the Object menu and load the urn from die phonebook. The default posi- tions of the object and camera are fine, but you should adjust the light. Move it to the urn's far left or right, creating a dramatic effect, with one side of the urn lit and the other dim. Next, select the Camera menu and turn off Overscan, switch on Letterbox, and select the Anti alias rendering mode. If you wish, you can alter the surface characteristics of the urn before rendering. The final step in LightWave is to click the render button and wait. When the urn is finished, return to the Scene menu and click Enter Switcher. *- Figure 1. The space background plate, which is set on the Video Toaster's program bus. Figure 2. The overlay image of the space station, which is set on the Video Toast- er's overlay bus or the key-fill portion of most switchers. Figure 3. The black-and-white traveling matte of the space station, which is set on the Toaster's preview bus or the external-key portion of most switchers. 52 May 1992 Go From Musical mess iRNiGHT Success VJ1TH The „oild of music* you" '">< • "Ke'toSeKd j : i chords. >ki*ji.»lW : \ sgggasss s withS rS- s "vo»St - a multi-voiced music ™ . ntsatonce*N°addi : you can invent and edit yo u • effects using Super) am- » V : Sound editor. lfy ouownanyMiDKom e s - T&U1 directly into BAlS^c ' * bi iramsatonce! ^ SuperJAM! comes com Piete with everything vo U ' : P«no. bass. gS 3r f as : to create , „. 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To use the matte effect, load the image of the urn to DV1 and the matte image to DV2. Instead of using live video for this project (which takes too much time), enter the Preferences menu and select Video Snow as the back- ground generator. Return to the switch- er and select bank D of the effects grid. The Toaster effect that makes the travel- ing matte possible is the Art Card crou- ton (the keyhole icon). This effect ac- cepts three video sources, the back- ground plate on the program bus, the sou ice image on the overlay bus, and the traveling matte on the preview bus. To set up the project, select the Art Card effect, set the preview bus to DV2, the program bus to BKG (Background — or Live Video if you wish), and Overlay to DVT. Next, click on the scissors icon to select luminance keying for black. Finally, set the clip level under the scis- sors icon. The best level that I obtained was between 30 and 45 (depends on image luminance). Once tweaked to perfection, die urn is cleanly clipped over the video-snow background. More Marvelous Mattes You can use crispy Toaster clips for a number of other sensational special effects. One of the most obvious matte effects is to generate black-and-white text with the character generator or LightWave, and then fill it with a video- source or graphic texture. You could also try painting the matte in Toaster- Paint or other 24 -bit paint programs. For example, suppose that in your next feature video, a scene calls for the back window of your home to overlook an oceanside vista — but you live in the Midwest. No problem for the Toaster matte: First lock down the camera and frame the window scene. Freeze- frame the scene and save it as a frames tore. Load the window scene into Toaster- Paint and paint the glass parts of the window a solid white. Next, remove everything in the scene but the freshly painted glass. The final result in Toast- er Paint shoti Id be a black-and-white matte, with the white parts in the exact positions of the glass panes of the window in the live-action scene. Return to the switcher and set up the Art Card effect as described above, with the window matte on the preview bus. The final step is to find video footage of an ocean vista and set the clip. Your prop- erty value just skyrocketed! ■ Mark Swam is a California-based freelance writer who does video post-production and computer animation. Write to him c/o Amiga World Editorial 80 Elm St., Peter- borough, NH 03458. Get Even More From Your DeluxePaint™ IV With the DeluxePaint IV Video Guide, you will be taken through many of D Paint's features in- cluding the new Menu Structure, Metamorphosis, HAM color mode, the new Gradients and Cycle requesters, the advanced Palette Mixer and much, much more! Many examples are shown in any easy to follow, step-by-step fashion. 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Works with loads of programs!! • AUTOFIRE MANAGER From the Action Replay III preference screen you can now set up autofire From to 100%, •Just imagine continuous fire power? Joystick 1 and 2 are set separately tor that extra advantage! ^^fa IMPHOVED RAM EXPANSION SUPPORT. ^^g^^^M Now many more external Ram Expansions will work with all s^M^^ipP* Action Replay III commands. \mf^^^ • DJSKCODER ^S^ r With the new "Dlskcoder" option you can now 'tag' your disks with a unique code that will prevent the disk from being loaded by anyone else. Tagged* disks will only reload when you enter the code. Very useful for security. ^^L SET MAP . ^^0Qy^ allows you to Load/Save/Edit a Key map. #fljp • PREFERENCES ^^dfJP Action Replay III now has screen colour preferences with menu setup. Customise ^^^ your screens to suit your taste. Very simple to use. • DISK MONITOR Invaluable disk monitor - displays disk Information in easy to understand format. Full modify/save options. ^^jfV IMPROVED PRINTER SUPPORT - ^^•^^k including compressed/small character command. W*\^i^ • DOS COMMANDS M|^^^ Now you have a selection of DOS commands available at all times • DIR, FORMAT, COPY, DEVICE, etc. _^^/k FILE REQUESTOR * ^^ff^fc if you enter a command without a filename, then a file ^^\3J^^ requestor is displayed. \j/^^ • DISK COPY Disk Copy at the press of a button ■ faster than Dos Copy. No need to load Workbench - available at all times, ^^/L PLUS IMPROVED DEBUGGER COMMANDS - ^fntl including Mem Watch Points and Trace. ^^\^yP^ • BOOT SELECTOR U|»^ Either DFO or DFt can be selected as the boot drive when working with Amiga Dos disks. Very useful to be able lo boot from your external drive. PLUS A MACHINE CODE FREEZER MONITOR WITH EVEN MORE POWER!! 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CUSTOMER SERVICES FAX (407) 788 7015 •ADO S4.00 SHIPPING AND HANDLING {St 0.00 CANADA MEXICO* ALL GOODS SHIPPED ZnODAY AIR UPS WE ACCEPT MASTERCARD VISA CHECKS MONEY ORDERS or COD's (ADD S2) ORDERS NORMALLY DESPATCHED WITrtN 4£Hri. ■ PLEASE MAKE CHECKS/MONEY ORDERS PAYABLE TO "COAST TO COAST Circle 178 on Reader Semce card G A M E PRESERVE must choose among 12 mission types at four diffi- culty levels. And, naturally, you pick a plane. Most Might simula- tors have only a handful of* craft to select from. Birds of Prey lias 27 Allied and 13 Soviet choices, including the 747 passenger liner, the C-130 prop-driven trans- port, the F-11J swing-wing fighter-bomber, and the experimental X-29. You can take a B-52H strategic bomber aloft, launch the X- 15 rocket plane that's under its wing, and then fly that test-plane-as-missile into near space. Unfortunately, all these planes have the same cock- pit, but the\- perform with notable differences in flight, and that's the important thing, (The specs are hud out in detail, boih in the program and in the last 66 pages of the excellent 188- page manual.) So how does it fly? Well, I suspect that, at the higher detail levels, BOP would benefit from being played on a faster machine. But the frame rate is acceptable on an unaccelerated A500, and your Hawk ML 6(5 — the British trainer that serves as the default craft— begins to zip a bit once that setting is reduced. That's no great loss, ei- ther, as the designers — Jez "Start xliclei " Sail's Argonaut Software — haven't gone out of their way to incorporate much surface detail, (There are, however, some lovely dithered skies and sunrises!) And BOP's invigorating Forty planes await your command. sense of speed doesn't rely simply on frame rate. Con- sider the fly-by feature used when on autopilot— your plane approaching the screen like a bat out of hell. to the accompaniment of the most thunderous engine sounds I've ever heard in a (light simulator. In addition, Disk 1 of BOP has an astonishing introduc- tory animation, whose speed and smoothness recall the demo for Psygnosis's furth- coming CDTV title, Planet- side. Disk 2, however, is also bootable, so you can run the program without the intro. Nice touch! The plane controls and information screens are also slick. The results of each key press are clearly reported on screen. The program also has its share of oddities and rough patches. If you switch to side view when climbing, the plane appears to be descending. BOP's save- and-load pilot screen is slow. The hard-disk installation script doesn't work as adver- tised. (Electronic Arts has indicated that Argonaut plans to produce a bug-fix revision.) Actually, I don't share the most frequent coin plaint I've heard— that the computer- controlled rivals aren't ag- gressive enough. For me — an experienced but nol-very- good Amiga pilot — they were just lough enough. Besides, this is more of a Hying game than a fighting game, and I loved zipping from one modest battle to the next, Even after four years of work, BOP is not the ulti- mate Amiga flight simulator. Sony; that is still to come. So forget what you've heard, and start over. Give Birds of Prey a chance. It's fast and it's fun. I think you'll like it. Battle Isle; FlRETEAM 2200 By Neil Randall The only similarity between Battle Isle {UBI Soft/Elec- tronic Arts, $49.95) and Fire- team 2000 (Sim Systems/ RAW, $49.95) is that they're both science-fiction war games. In operation, quality, and enjoyment, they're com- pleted dissimilar. The enjoy- ment, unfortunately, derives from only one. First off, let me get a gripe out of the way. Battle Isle is much too similar for com- fort to a game called Mili- tary Madness, a 1989 Tur- boCirafx-16 game from Hudson Soft. With that said, 1 must also insist that Battle Isle is an extremely strong game. It * Back in the February issue, I told you how to get around the dragon at the bottom of the dungeon — a nasty customer— but not the old wizard Mordamir who follows him. {And he's much worse, as you've probably guessed by now.) I know, I know, you set out to save Mor- damir. But hey, life goes on, people change and you look at things a lit- tle differently eight levels down when your old master steals your protection against the dragon and stands across the chasm sending lightning bolts at you. Don't lose your cool. Like your encounter with the dragon, this re- quires timing and the right equip- ment. Your statue spells can handle the lightning, and when Mordy switches tactics to Sonic Blast, use Sonic Protection. Hell then come back to lightning again, and you should be left with one statue to fend off the spectre he sends against you — almost done now. You don't need to attack him. Just in- voke the Magnetic Hands spell to remove his defense (the amulet}, and let the dragon do his worst. * I Get Mail Dept,: By the way, thanks to everyone who wrote to let me know about the story branch in The Secret of Monkey Island [Lu- casfilm, S 59.9 5) that grows when you sink your ship with the native sculpture. No, it doesn't really affect anything, and, yes, it's worth trying for the fun of it. Dan Collier, of Lake Wales, Flori- da, also filled me in on another scene 1 hadn't come across. It's ap- parently triggered if you steal the vase from the governor's mansion before completing the other two missions assigned by the Three Im- portant-Looking Pirates. Dan indi- cates that if you get the meat from the kitchen at the Scumm Bar and the petal from the maze and then go directly to the mansion, the Gov and Guybrush have "quite a love scene" when Guy comes out of the water. Sheesh. Sounds like an Ob- session commercial, Where that's saved-game file? Thanks, Dan! By the way, you've probably no- ticed that I'm not dealing much with specific reader questions in print anymore (or even promising to answer 'em), I occasionally get mail like some people get fire- wood — "oh, just stack it up behind the house, Mr. Postman" — and Continued on p. 6L 58 May 1992 ■- iiMi ^"^THf^CoMPUTER Game HtRT £ BLOUSE CO Solnv To RESIDENTIAL* *«i ^ HILL STREET BLUES is the most honored series in the history of television with the stunning accomplishment of 26 Emmy Awards and numerous other international awards. Now you can finally play the computer game in this re-created computer simulated city of Hill Street. You take on the role of "Captain Frank Furillo" and by deploying the police officers under your control, you solve and control the crime rate. With help from nine of the most famous characters from the TV series, you can interact with up to nine crime incidents simultaneously, ranging from muggers to bank robbers, drug pushers and murder- ers. So "REMEMBER, LETS BE CAREFUL OUT THERE!" @^D Digitized Pictures and Sounds From The TV Series ©NOP Fantastic 256 Color VGA 3-D Graphics O*© Intelligent City System Complete With Traffic Lights, Subways, Trains, And Over 300 Different Vehicles © >: -@ Over 400 Male and Female Pedestrians With Individual Characteristics. Some Nice, Some Nasty. Amiga screens shown. Pictures of the actual TV series have been used with permission from MTM Production. Available for A500, A1000, A2000, A2500, A3000 and other computer formats. Retail Price: $39.95. Visit your software retailer or call toll-free 1-800-783-8023 to order. ^Software 1916 Twisting Lane Wesley Chapel, Florida 33543 (813)973-7733 G A M E PRESERVE completely dispenses with the unwieldy interfaces too often found on computer war games, offering instead a slick, joystick-only system of movement and combat, and even such niceties as repairs, information gather- ing, and strategic viewing. Those who regularly play SSI -style war games will find Battle Isle lacking some options, but in the end, these options aren't really missed at all. In Battle Isle, you are in control of one force while your opponent or the com- puter controls the other. Your goal in each mission is either to destroy all enemy forces or — and this is more fun — to capture the oppos- ing headquarters building. You play through a series of 32 missions, and you have to win each one in turn to progress to the next. Appar- ently there are two bonus missions as well, but I'm stuck in mission #22 and have yet to see them. UBI Soft promises add-on mis- sions as well. The strength of the sys- tem of missions is that it effortlessly succeeds in intro- ducing you to an ever- in- creasing complexity. Each mission takes place on a unique map, and most of them include a type of unit that you have neither con- Test your tactics in Battle Isle. trolled nor opposed hereto- fore. As you move through a mission, you gradually learn how to fight with the new elements of your land, air, and naval forces, until, in the final missions, you must concern yourself with all of them at once. The game itself is entirely joystick-controlled. Each map is divided into hexagons, and the joystick moves the cursor from one hexagon to anoth- er. When the cursor is on a hexagon containing an ene- my piece, you can find out what it is, but not much more. When it's on one of your own units, you can perform one of several ac- tions. By holding down the firebutton and moving the joystick up, down, left, and right, the cursor icon changes to signify 1 each possi- bility. When you finally have the icon you need, release the button to perform the action. One final strength of the game is that each stage of Battle Isle plays quickly and equally well against the computer or a human oppo- nent. This is a superb late- night strategy game, with a very worthwhile system. You'll want to install this one on your hard disk. Everything Battle Isle does right, Fireteam 2200 seems to do wrong. First of all, the main battle display offers some of the worst graphics to appear on an Amiga game. Not only are they unattractive, they're also counter-productive. Figuring out where your units are is tough enough; trying to decipher which way they're facing and what kind of terrain they're in is next to impossible. The game's interface isn't much better. Its keyboard - only control is both unwel- come and downright diffi- cult to use, and it takes an inordinate amount of time to learn how to perform crucial actions. Moreover, the computer updates the battlefield every six seconds, and during the updates (which themselves take a few seconds), you will find your- self hitting the keyboard futilely. What is good is the game's premise and wealth of detail. Only the most dedicated gamers (who have one megabyte of RAM) are going to bother playing this thing for long, however, and then only if financial restraints mean they can buy no new games for a long while. Fireteam 2200 would be marginally acceptable on an old IBM-PC; on an Amiga, it's not worth the effort it takes to load it. Thunderhawk By Jeff James You lake the controls of a high-tech helicopter gun- ship for some frantic target- busting action in Thunder- hawk (Virgin Games, $49.99). You're not just any average helicopter jockey, however; you're an agent for MER- LIN, a secret military orga- nization commissioned by the United Nations. Your job is to fly to world hot spots and bring the irksome troublemakers to justice in this engaging mixture of arcade, role- playing, and strategic elements. You start in the common room. From this location you can fly a flight simulator, view your combat awards, save and load games, or be briefed on your forthcoming mission. The war room supplies the strategic ele- ment: You have six theaters of war to choose from, in- cluding the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Central America. In the briefing room you're warned about the threats that you ma)' meet in the combat area, usually consisting of SAMs, MIGs, and antiaircraft fire. Complete with a flicker- ing black-and-white film of die target area and a curmud- geonly commanding officer, the briefings are a nice realis- tic touch, Next, you select your weaponry, then take off from your airbase, which is usual- ly near the target. In the air, Thunderhawk is a marvel. The frame rate is easily one of the fastest I've seen on the .Amiga, with the land- scape smoothly gliding under your craft. Granted, most of the landscape is rather bare (usually only a few hills, buildings, and such), but it's still a joy to fly over it. Controls are simple: All the flying, target, and weapon selection is done with the mouse, while the *■ 60 May 1992 THIS OPPONENT IS PROGRAMMED TO BE CHALLENGING. If you think youVe good at games, then let's have some real fun. When youVe online with GEnie^ Multi-Player Games, you're playing real people, in real time. 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For sample printout of all fonts, send $3.00 n-« iaiow MnrlU 1035 Guerrero, San Francisco, CA, 94110 One Way media telephone m 824-8774 GAME P R E S B R V K toggling of night vision and your electronic counter measures (HUM) equipment (chaff, jammers, flares) is controlled by a handful of keys. Thunderhawk has managed to cut back on the overwhelming multitude of keyboard commands that you usually find in many simulators, and this makes for a lean and quick playing experience. After you've pummeled your target into oblivion and limped back to base, you're given the rundown on how well your mission went. Then you're back to the briefing room for your next mission, filled with more challenges and dan- ger. This format roughly continues until youVe ac- complished the missions in all six theaters, earning awards and promotions in the process. I had no end of trouble getting this game to work on my A3000. 1 could only load it when running Kicks tart 1.3, and even then it was prone to strange behavior, such as an unresponsive mouse and scrambled game screens. It did work fine on other Amiga models run- ning AmigaDOS 1.3, al- though it did seem to have problems with the new T Ami- gaDOS 2.04 ROMs found in A500s and A20()0s. Ha ixl -drive installation isn't supported, and the disks are copy protected with disk-based and manual- oriented schemes. The re- quester for saving and load- ing games is another sore spot, seeming rather cum- bersome and awkward to use. Finally, the lengthy opening animation cannot be bypassed — every time you reboot Thunderhawk, you must sit through it. If it sounds as though 1 have mixed feelings towards Thunderhawk, I do. The fast frame rate, simple controls, and well-done briefing sequences are a joy to experience, and the sound is exceptionally well done. Unfortunately, it seems that Thunderhawk was rushed across the At- lantic (it was programmed by Core Design of the U.K.) without thorough testing on North American Amiga hardware. If you have a fairly un- complicated setup (no A300Q, no AmigaDOS 2.0. no hard disk), Thunderhawk could be a blast. As matters stand, it shows a great deal of promise that is unfortu- nately frustrated by a cum- bersome implementation. Corporation By Jeff James A magnificent mixture of a Dungeon-Master-style inter- face with a futuristic, hi-tech game world, Corporation (Virgin Games, S49.99) offers a challenging diver- sion from the hackneyed role-playing norm of ogres and hit-points. In the hard-edged world of the 21 st Century, the malevolent Universal Cyber- netics Corporation (UCC) has begun illegal genetic experiments to create the ultimate killing machine. As a Zodiac agent, you must enter the IB-level headquar- ters of the UCC and return with evidence to prove the research is taking place. Before embarking on your mission, you select a charac- ter from the two robots and four humans (two male and two female) available. You can outfit yourself with an impressive array of equip- ment: five handguns, four 62 May 1992 Circle 159 on Reader Service card. COMPUTER ANIMATION FR >$ 1 49. OCT A OO -1__U.I_(_U.L ,^C7VqJ v(( W V fe For local distributor details Tel: (44) 506 46660 • Take 2 Is compatible with any Amiga. • Supports 2 t 4, 8, 16, 32 and Ham colour modes. • Load and Save IFF Images or D- Paint Anims. • Uses traditional animators Dope sheet layout. Up to 4 levels of animation and 4 channels of sound. Playback at 24 or 25 frames per second. (Real Time) Further manipulate your image within any popular art package • Add "Vidi-Amtga" or The "Complete Colour Solution" to digitise yo drawings or images directly from within Take 2, This will allow you draw with a pencil, its easier than a mouse. . : U-L_L^_^L^_ ~J ur to J _^_L^L_L.l1; -I APPLICATIONS • Traditional animation. • Storyboards • Product presentations. • Home line tester. • Cartoon Productions, both visual and sound. Take 2 is a must for computer artists and enthusiasts of any age. It wilt cater for both amateur and professional applications. So get the most out of your computer and open up your imagination to Take 2. CONTENTS • Comprehensive and easy to folio • Disks • Sample sounds and animations, • Animators Peg Bar (to hold your paper into p< line drawn animations for you to get s AVAILABLE ROMBO PRODUCT AD LIVINGSTON SCO o (0506) 4666 COMMODORE — AMIGA • These Images have been drawn with a pencil, digitised then coloured using D. Paint 3. Fly with the best. Scenery Animator 2*0 Scenery Animator is a 3-D landscape rendering and animation program. You can fly through real- world landscapes from US Geological Surveys (Yosemite and the Grand Canyon included), or explore imaginary fractal landscapes like the one shown above, "...I highly recommend this piece of software. Scenery Animator is a versatile, powerful, and extremely satisfying program that will bring you many hours of enjoyment." Amiga World, December 1991 Scenery Animator 2,0 feature^; * Realistic 3-D trees, clouds, lakes, oceans, and snow * Infinite fractal landscapes * Automatic camera banking * Gradient sky shading * Built-in animation system * 24-bit color and DCTV support * Requires 2 megabytes See it at your local dealer today! Natural Graphics P.O. Box 1963, RockJin CA 95677 Phone (916) 624-1436 Circle 179 en Reader Service card Attention Foreign Computer Stores/ Magazine Dealers You have a large technical audience that speaks English and is in need of the kind of microcomputer information that TechMedia provides, Provide your audience with the magazines they need and make money at the same time. For details on selling AmigaWorld and RUN contact: Linda Greenblatt World Wide Media 115 East 23rd St. New York, NY 10010 (212)420-0588 Telex: 798269 GAME PRESERVE armor types, grenades, power packs, bombs, lock- picks, a backpack computer, a jctpack, and a plethora of other hi-tech gadgetry. Corporation's approach to movement is ingenious; instead of clicking on sepa- rate buttons to move your character, a combined move- ment square allows quick and direct movement Click in the center of the square to stop, at the top to go forward, at the bottom to go backwards, and at the sides to slide sideways. The far- ther you click from the cen- ter of the square, the faster you move. A central view screen showing the action is flanked by two humanoid outlines that display your character's health and your equipment's status. At the bottom of the screen are the controls to click for object manipulation and movement. Graphics are well done, especially the fluid, animat- ed movement of your adver- saries. Monsters don't simply appear or lurch toward you in the jerky gait of a looping animation. Using a method called "bitmap scaling," beasties that move toward you gradually become larger and more distinct, eventually filling your screen with hos- tility. All sons of background sound effects add to the spooky atmosphere. Gam ep I ay is decidedly arduous; within moments of my arrival at UCC head- quarters, I was beset by a horde of energy-spitting robotic spiders. In addition to the bestiary of robotic and artificial life forms that impede your progress, secu- rity cameras, pressure plates, infra-red warning devices, and dozens of other futuris- tic traps and pitfalls are waiting for you. For help, you can access such devices as compute]' terminals, elevator controls, and securi- ty access panels. Corporation requires only 512K of RAM to operate, and although it isn't hard- disk installable, games can be saved to disk. The excel- lent introductory animation refused to work on an A3 000, but the game itself ran fine. With its crisp pre- sentation, challenging gameplay, and intuitive interface, Corporation is a role-playing experience not to be missed. Fmm p. 58. there's a very wide range to the questions therein. Questions about games released when the Amiga had 64K and a cassette drive (just kidding). Questions about things I've already answered — twice. So, I've decided to focus on a current game or two in the hope of helping as many folks as possible at one time. If there's something you'd like to see covered in this fashion, write and say so. If I can, I'll do it. (I've had a few votes for The Immortal and The Jetsons already.) If I can't. ..well, I can always use more firewood (grin). 64 Mm /992 I've also been getting the occa- sional letter from folks who are evi- dentiy playing illegal copies of games. (They're asking questions that either concern copy protection or that indicate they don't have the docs,) Naughty naughty. Coinciden- tally, all these questions have exact- ly the same answer: Put the pirated disk in dfO:, select it with the mouse and choose "initialize" from the Workbench menu. Your computer will solve the problem for you. 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A3000-1V24.. $ 1879°° A20Q0-IV24 Adapter .J49 00 A500 HD+ The Series A500 HD8 + uses the same technologies of it's powerful A2000 cousins and additional features like: Exclusive Game Switch, Fast RAM Expansion up to 8MB, External SCSI Port, Free dedicated universal power supply! New PC286 Module (Optional PC286 AT compatibility. 16Mhz 286 board which plugs inside hard disk unit) s 399 M A500-HD+/52Q (Quantum 52Mb Hard disk).. .......... s 499°° A500-HD+/12QQ (Quantum 120Mb Hard disk). $ 649°° A5O0-HD+/24OQ (Quantum 240Mb Hard disk) $ 899°° Prices Effective April 1,1992 Cirete 13 on Reader Setvice card. REVIEWS From p. 26. MegaChip 2000/500 MultiStart II SecureKey DKB Software Add flexibility and security to your system. By Michael Hanish LONG LRTl THE entrepreneurial spirit! DKB Software has recognized three needs of Amiga users and filled them with effective, simple, and inex- pensive hardware solutions. Solution #1: MegaChip 2000/500 Until the release of the Enhanced Chip Set (ECS), the maximum amount of chip RAM (the section of memory used for graphics and sound processing) available to Amiga 2000 and 500 own- ers was 512K. With the ECS Agnus installed, A2000s and A500s can access one megabyte of chip RAM, but they still lag behind the A3000, which, with its special circuitry and ECS Agnus, can access two megs of chip RAM and manipulate more and hunger graphics and sound files. The MegaChip 2000/500 ($299,95) evens the score. A daughterboard that plugs into your A2000*S or A50G's Agnus socket, the MegaChip 2000/500 gives you up to two megs of chip RAM. Tlie board comes populated with one meg of mem- ory, but you must supply the A3000 two- meg ECS Agnus chip to drive it. Installing MegaChip is most definite- ly not for the faint of heart, (Being somewhat of a hardware wimp, I enlist- ed the help of an authorized service person. Plus, opening the case yourself voids your warranty.) Believe the manu- al when it says removing the original Agnus from your motherboard witnout the proper chip-pulling tool is next to impossible. It is all too easy to destroy the socket by trying to pry the chip out. Not having the correct tool, we removed the chip by stripping the machine down to the motherboard, removing it, and gently pushing the chip out from below. Tli is works, but is not recommended. Details of the rest of the installation vary according to the model and configura- tion of your Agnus. Follow the steps that are thoroughly described and clearly illustrated in the manual, then double-check your work before reassembling the machine. When you reboot your upgraded Ami- ga, open a Shell and type AVAIL. I! you were successful the amount of available chip RAM listed should be slightly over the two- meg mark. In operation, MegaChip is complete- ly transparent, except that it gives you more space to perform graphic- and audio-intensive operations. With it. you can have up to ten megs of RAM in- stead of the previous limit of nine. The MegaChip board was recently redesigned into a smaller size, both for easier installation and greater compati- bility with a wider variety of add-on boards and configurations. It works llawlesslv under Workbench 1.3 and 2.0. Without doubt, this is one of the MegaChip gives your A2000/A500 two megs of Chip RAM. best and simplest hardware improve- ments you can make to your system's performance. Solution #2: MultiStart II While many users want the power and flexibility of the 2.0 operating system, they also need 1.8 to run favorite older programs or games that break under 2.0. MultiStart II ($59.95, without ROMs) lets vou install and use both 1.3 and 2.0 in A2000s and A500s. Your choice of the default ROM lor booting is determined by a simple jumper placement or by which ROM you insert in which socket. Installation requires removing the old ROM from the motherboard, in- serting it and the new ROM in Multi- Start II, and working the daughter- board into the motherboard's socket. All the options and other installation details are thoroughly covered in the manual. Be careful, however, of two problem spots: Fi rst, the pins on the MultiStart II board seem fragile, so seesaw them carefully into the ROM f YOUR TURN: Installation of the MultiStart II card on my ASOO's Rev 6a motherboard was a bit more demanding than I anticipated. The orig- inal MS board I received worked on a Rev 5 or lower. 'The DKB service tech was very helpful, and the new board arrived promptly. Unfortunately, the installation manual was not updated, and no adden- dum was included. After following the original instructions and receiving a blank, fuzzy screen at boot-up, I eventually dis- covered that the board had to be config- ured for A2000 operation, not set for the A500. I have had no problems, since. The board works great. JeffCrystal Houghton Lake, Michigan socket. Second, the installation, as with MegaChip, involves attaching a clip to a particular pin on the Gary chip. In the version I used, the clip's wire is about two inches too short to make a neat run attachment; it's a tight fit in an A2000, but it reaches. DKB says it has lengthened the wire by about an inch on the newer models. Make sure to check all your work before reassem- bling the machine. \ b run with the option of using either operating system, you must modify your hard-disk layout and startup-sequence. (The manual clearly covers both alter- ations. ) Basically, die default system stays where it is on Workbench, and the sec- ond system resides in a drawer. The new startup-sequence checks to see which ROM is active, makes the proper assign- ments, and executes the appropriate startup-sequence, Changing systems is as simple as holding down the Control and Amiga keys for five to six seconds. I have never had a problem rein n in g MultiStart II, and I recommend it highly if you need to access both operating systems. Solution #3: SecureKey Need to lock up your data? SecureKey (S 1 24.95), a card" for the A2000 or A3000, lets you boot only after you enter a password. The board slides simply into one of the 100-pin slots, an easy and well-documented installation. When vou power up the computer, you are confronted with a screen asking for the password. The first time you boot, you enter your new password, verify it, and pro- ceed. After that, on each power up or warm boot, you have three tries to get 74 May 1992 R E V I E \\ S it right, after which you are denied access. To try again, reboot. You can change the password at any time; just enter the old one, and then its replace- ment. One word of caution: Make sure you have a record of the password in case you forget. There is no way to recover it from the card, but registered owners can get a new key from DKB. This board, like DKB's others, works flawlessly and transparently. All three boards are simple and elegant hardware solutions to system needs, doing exactly what they promise. DKB's technical support will be there for you if you have any prob- lems, but you probably won't. I highly recommend these three products. MediaShow Gold Disk Put it all on the line. By Greg Morris IF YOU LONG to do multimedia stints but face budget restrictions, Media Show ($129.95) from Gold Disk is worth a look. With this scaled-down version of ShowMaker (Gold Disk), you can combine pictures, animations, music, and sound effects for complete video productions without complex— and expensive — equipment. As in its full- featured brother, Media- Show's heart is the scene window, which displays a timeline containing the video, title, music, and sound- effects tracks. The timeline, in conjunc- tion with other event-parameter win- dows, lets you not only coordinate events, but also specify effects, fonts, and other options. For example, to display some previ- ously digitized video or Amiga-gener- ated graphics, you add a video event to the timeline: Simply click on the track labeled "Video" and drag the mouse pointer to the point in time where you want your video event to end. Once you release the mouse button, a re- quester appears asking you to select the file for this event — either a picture or animation file, as there is no sup- port for incoming live video. Next, a video-event window displays informa- tion such as the resolution of the pic- ture, how much memory it tises, and a reduced version of the image. Addi- tional video-event options include several wiping effects, and, for ani- mations, the speed of playback. If you want to overlay titles on top of video events, simply add a title track into the scene window in the same manner as the video track. You can select type style and size, as well as what effect, color, and motion to apply to the text. Once you make your selec- tions, you can enter several lines of text directly into the title-event window. The Preview option lets you see how your current selection will look when the entire production is played. If you don t like what you see, it is very easy to modify it and try again. The Sound of Music In addition to pictures and titles, you can add music files (IFF SMUS) to the timeline in the music track. When you select this track, the music-event window appear, allowing you to specify the tempos, looping options, and locations of the instruments used. Unfortunately, you must specify where the instrument files are located every- time you add new music, even if the instruments are al- ways in the same place. It would be nice to have some kind of default option for locating instrument files. You can add sound files to any one of the four specific outputs found in the scene window. There are tracks labeled LI, L2, Rl, and R2 for the two left and right audio channels, respectively. Once you have made all your selec- tions, click on the Play button and experience either your entire produc- tion or just a portion of it. During the testing of this feature, however, the image movement was a little jerky at times in some of the display updates on my three-megabyte, unaccelerated Amiga 2000 (no disk access was in- volved, either). This problem could be solved with an accelerated machine, a solution I support for professional use. Another drawback for profession- als is the inability of the program to control video recorders, which is a strength of t he more expensive Show- Maker. You can, however, record your presentation to videotape by using a standard genlock. Editing a production is very easy to do. You can highlight events and copy, delete, or shift them in time, much as you would perform cut-and-paste oper- ations in a word processor. There are three ways of editing: You can move one event in time and not affect any other events; move a particular event on a track so that all the other events are adjusted accordingly in time; or move all tracks as a group. Additional- ly, if the mouse pointer is not specific enough, you can adjust starting and ending times more accurately through special gadgets on the scene window. Even though entering information on the scene window was easy, the response to my mouse selections was a bit sluggish on my unaccelerated ma- chine, especially when I was dragging the mouse pointer along the timeline while adding or editing an event. There is also a delay before a produc- tion begins while the program preloads several picture and sound files into memoiy. Even performing a minor change to the production causes the program to load every thing into mem- ory again, even the files that you did not update. This adds a lot of time when you're trying to make adjust- ments. What's more, there is no undo option, so once you make a change, there is no turning back. There were a couple of other unusu- al things that I noticed with version 1.11 of MediaShow. Just after loading a saved production, I saw that on the Edit menu the selected edit-mode option doesn't always match the event window's edit-mode box. Once you load your production, however, select- ing a different edit mode {through either the menu or event window) keeps the two synchronized. Don't Believe Everything You Read As far as the user manual is concerned, the on-disk ReadMe file explains that several changes were made in the soft- ware since the manual was printed. There is some resulting confusion, be- cause most of the pictures in the manu- al showing the scene and event windows do not match what you see on the screen. I hope future manuals will more accurately reflect what you see on the screen. Other than these outdated pictures, the manual does a good job of explaining how to install and use the program. It takes you step by step through creating a production, and it is augmented by on-disk tutorials. As an added bonus, Gold Disk in- cludes two separate programs called Paint and Music. These provide you with the basic tools needed to create picture and sound files for use in the MediaShow program. These programs do not contain the elaborate features offered in other well-known drawing and music programs, but they work if you have no alternatives, MediaShow is a very easy-to-use program for creating sequenced video productions for display on your .Amiga. The learning curve is minimal, and you will be very quickly on your way. * AmigaWorld 75 REVIEWS However, because of the hick of smoothness in some of ihe video dis- plays and the sluggish response during timeline manipulation, the program doesn't live up to its full potential on a stock Amiga. For home productions and other small projects, by all means consider MediaShow; but for profes- sional use, I would look elsewhere. Voyager, the Dynamic Sky Simulator Carina Software A good tool to complement your telescope. By Gene Hamm IF YOU YE EVER wanted to view an eclipse without going blind or watch the stars all night without freezing to death, then Voyager, the Dynamic Sky Simulator (SI 24.95, Carina Software) is the program for you. A friend of Voyager lets you see such sky figures as the Bull, the Hunter, and the Twins. mine had to go to Baja Mexico to see stars as clearly as Voyager shows them. It's like having a planetarium on your Amiga. You can gaze at the stars and planets as they would appear from any location on the Earth or in space, and you can go fonvard or backward in time to see how the universe changes over millennia. You can even look at the Big Dipper from such a remote point in lime or space that it doesn't Where Do You Go for Help When You're the Expert? BIX - the Online Service for People Who Know Amiga! • Get quick answers to tough coding questions • Interact with other Amiga developers • Download source code, utilities, and other programs for the Amiga • Keep up with the latest Amiga developments • Send and receive private e-mail with binary attachments • Chat with other Amiga users in real time You can become a BIX subscriber today for only $13 per month! Choose from 2 affordable usage plans, and enjoy local access from over 600 locations throughout the continental U.S. Join BIX Today! 1. Via modem, dial 1-800-225-4129 2. At the "login:" prompt, enter K bix" 3. 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If you want to see the stars from your backyard, you can custom design the horizon to imitate your immediate surroundings. For realism, you can make the ground opaque, or, to see through the Earth, you can make it transparent. You can fix on one star and track it all night, or fix on the horizon and watch the sky rotate around you. Con- trol buttons turn on displays of planets, stars, deep sky objects (galaxies and so on), outlines of constellations, and grid lines. These can be viewed separately or all at once. The more thai is displayed, the more your machine slows down, but the speed ai which pictures are shown is still remarkably fast. If you find an especially interesting screen, you can print it, and in doing so you can save wear and tear on your ribbon or toner cartridge by reversing the colors to output black stars on a white sky. It's All How You Look At It You have a choice of four view modes for seeing the whole known universe at once. The Star Atlas view shows it in the form of a flat map, while the Local view adapts the Star Atlas view to dis- play the universe as it would appear from your local position on Earth. In the Full view, the universe resembles a mural that scrolls horizontally in an endless loop, as if it were going past your car window. The Celestial Sphere view is a fish-eye 180-degree display of one-half of the sky, and this is the most COSmically mind-blowing panorama in the Voyager program. I'm sure the programmers intended you to feel as though you were inside a dome, but because concave and convex are per- ceived subjectively, I feel I am outside Continued on p. 88. 76 May 1992 PREMIER PRODUCTS of the month goldenIMAGE ® RAM Expansion 4 MB RAM for Amiga 500 Attractive Case Simply Plugs into Side Expansion Port. Comes with 2 MB already installed! 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Could you give me some advice? Can I do both with a low- budget syste?n? R, Fleming USMCA A: Actually, both digitizers (DCTV and Digi-View) will work. Digi-View, when combined with Digi-Paint, allows you to digitize images and then edit and composite them in the Digi-Paint HAM paint program. DCTV also lets you digitize images, and it comes with an even better paint program, called DCTV Faint, as well as other utilities. In addition, DCTV has several signifi- cant advantages over Digi-View. The most important is that it can output a high-quality composite video signal that gives you more colors and higher resolution then the normal .Amiga display. -And you can use it to play animations in real time that take ad- vantage o^ the additional colors and resolution. Both are good, but if 1 were forced to choose between the two, I would pick DCTV. AmigaBasic/2.0 Incompatibility Q: / have installed Amiga DOS 2.04 on my A2000. It is equipped with the GVP 68030 accelerator card, a hard disk and several megs of RAM. I have tried to use Amiga- Basic, but with even simple commands like INPUT, the screen blinks black when the By Louis R. Wallace program is run, and then nothing else happens. Is there a problem with the GVP 68030 card and Amiga Basic? Or is there something wrong with my computer? J, Watson LaVerne, Calif A: The answer is elementary, my dear Watson. It is neither your GVP acceler- ator nor your computer. The culprit is AmigaBasic itself. AmigaBasic does not, repeat, does not, work properly under AmigaDOS 2.0. There are a number of other problems and bugs besides the one you report, and CATS (Commodore Applications and Techni- cal Support) confirms that AmigaBasic is not .AmigaDOS 2.0-compatible. Fur- thermore, at this time there are no plans for Microsoft to upgrade the language to be 2.0-compliant, I here are, however, other Basic-like languages available that can fill the void left by AmigaBasic. Examples are AMOS, HiSoft Basic. AmigaVision and The Director. HiSoft is quite .Amiga- Basic-compatible, and both AMOS and The Director could be used to re- create even better versions of just about any AmigaBasic program. And if you already know Basic, you will End that learning to write programs with .AmigaVision is quite easy. Speeding It Up Q: / am considering the purchase of a 68020 accelerator for my stock Amiga 2000. What would be the best coprocessor to go with it: a 68881 or 68882? The use will be to speed up 3-D rendering some- what. Are there any resulting hardware or software conflicts with this upgrade? X Mitchell Cupertino, Calif A: There are always some compatibility problems when using accelerators. Games are the biggest culprit, as they often use "illegal" tricks and techniques to wring every bit of performance out of the machine, and they frequently have copy-protection schemes that break down on processors other then the 68000. However, Commodore has long had programming guidelines available that, if followed, usually allow software to work property on any pro- cessor. Luckily, most companies have followed those rules, so the vast majori- ty of software works just fine on acceler- ated machines. However I must advise you to skip the 68020 card unless you are getting an exceptionally good deal on the hard- ware. When compared to the perfor- mance of today's 68030 and 68040 technology, the 68020 is not very cost effective. There are very good buys available on 25-MHz 68030 cards for the A2000, as well as on 40- and 50- MHz 68030 cards. And there are now several high-performance 68040 hoards for the A2000 that are even faster As an added incentive, these 68030 and 68040 cards allow you to exceed the A2000's original nine-megabyte memo- ry limitation, a very important factor for 3-D designers and animators. As for which math coprocessor to get, F d definitely go for the 68882. ll is significantly faster than the 68881, resulting in faster 3-D renderings. Update For those 3-D animators interested in checking out the Studio BBS men* tinned in the Feb. *92 Help Key, be advised thai the telephone number was changed in earlv March. The new number is 817/557-211 !.■ 80 May 1992 1.. HE ONLY I 16MHz '288 IBM PC/AT I EMULATOR THAT WORKS. I WITH BOTH I THEA500AND I THEA2 III If you want your Amiga 500, 500+ or WOO to be able to run software programs that were originally written for the IBM PC, GVP and Vortex have the perfect solution— the ATonce-Plus PC/AT emulator board. But before you buy any emulator here are a few key facts you should know . . . ► FACT: Albnce-PLUS is the only PC emulator board with a powerful 16 -bit 80286 CPU running at the blazing clockspeed of 16Mhz. ► FACT: ATonce-PLUS has a Norton Speed Index of 16, so you know it's amazingly fast at loading, manipulat- ing and storing data. ► TOT: Albnce-PLUS comes with its own 512KB of RAM and allows the Amiga's memory to be (transparently] allocated to MS-DOS applications requiring more than 512KB of mem- ory. Amiga FAST RAM can even be used as extended memory! ► FACT: ATonce-PLUS can take full ad- vantage of the 80286 CPU's protected mode and allows MS Windows to run in ''standard" mode. This is not possible with other emulators using 8-bit wide bus CPU's. ► FACT: ATonce-PLUS operates under Amiga DOS, so you can run AmigaDQS and MS-DOS applications concurrently! ► FACT: ATonce-PLUS supports Hercules, CGA, EGA/VGA (mono- chrome), AT&T 6300 (640x400) and T3100 video emulations. ► FACT: ATonce-PLUS makes 1000's of new software programs available to Amiga 500, 500+ and 2000 users. ► BUT: ATonce-PLUS allows MS-DOS applications to use the Amiga's hard- disk, floppy disks, serial port, parallel port, mouse, sound and Real-time Clock. It even emulates a PC's CMOS RAM for system Setup parameters! ► FACT: Albnce-PLUS allows the Amiga's built-in floppy drives to be used to read and write MS-DOS compatible floppy disks. ► FACT: ATonce-PLUS has a socket for installing an optional 80C287 math processor (FPU) for even faster number crunching. ► FACT: ATonce-PLUS is compatible with MS-DOS V3.2 or later. Also com patible with latest versions of DR- DOS. NOTE: ATonce-PLUS requires the MS-DOS or DR-DOS operating system, which is not included. ITHTHE VORTEX ATonce-PLUS', YOUR AMIGA* CAN RUN MS WINDOWS™ AND VIRTUALLY ANYTHING AN ISM PC CAN... ANDD0ITAT16MHZ! Now that you know the FACTS about PC emulator boards, you know that ATonce- PLUS is your most logical choice. For more information on ATonce-PLUS —now distributed exclusively by GVP— contact your local GVP dealer, Circle 52 on Reader Service card. GREAT VALLEY PRODUCTS INC 600 Clark Avenue, King of Prussia, PA 19406 For more information or your nearest GVP dealer, call today. Dealer inquiries welcome, Tel. 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Clicking on the big arrow buttons rotates the stars left. right, up, and down around the sun. If you activate the Trail bullous before you click on the arrows, the stars leave a visible path behind them as they move. The Planet Gallery views individual planets up close, although the only detailed planet is the Earth (after alt, we've explored it the most). Click the Time buttons to animate a planet for- ward or backward in time. Viewing Saturn in this manner, (or example, reveals the wobble in its rings, The Day-Night map displays the Earth laid out flat with the light and dark areas appearing as a horizontally stretched vin-yang symbol. Activating the day cycle animates the shadow across the map through the course of 24 hours. (Check this before you make -YOUR TURN: While not as visually striking as Distant Suns (Virtual Realities Laboratories), Voy- ager makes up the difference with out- standing accuracy and professional fea- tures. Especially useful is the ability to measure angular separation. Hen* at tin* Abratns Planetarium, I tise Voyager to plot accurate maps and Distant Suns lo create beautiful star fields for video. Doug Murphy East Lansing, Michigan an international call, so you don't wake someone up and get sworn at in a foreign language.) When you activate the year cycle, the moving shadow drifts downward and then back up, so you can graphically see why they say the nights are six mouths long at the poles. For more information on our night- time neighbor, consult the moon map, THE MIND'S EYE A COMPUTER ANIMATION ODYSSEY MIRAMAR A compelling look ui the creation of the universe by the world's top computer animation artists, with music composed by James Reynolds. Forty minutes of visually powerful imagery from over 300 of the leading talents in the Held. Only $19.95 ORDER SOW! 1-800-824-S499 or mail io: TECHME DIA VIDEO PO Box 2 1 5 ] . Salisbury. MD 2 1 802 i;MCMXC Mirjrrur Image*. Inc. !.P. jig 6E2ME which shows all the moon's craters. Just click on a crater to see its name or number, longitude, latitude, and diam- eter. If simply viewing the moon at 80- times magnification isn't close enough, then you can look back the Earth from the point of view of the moon. You can even see the moon's shadow pass over the Earth. For a more wonder- filled and less scientific view of the sky; you can super- impose mythological sky figures, such as Orion and the Big Bear (Big Dip- per) on their appropriate constella- tions. The 12 zodiac figures are includ- ed, as well. For those with an astrologi- cal bent. Conjunction Search finds dates when planets line up, as well as the times of eclipses and full moons, which could be useful in making per- sonalized star charts. (An enterprising astrologer could make a lot of money using Voyager.) Usually I prefer to create mv own explorations rather than watch demos, but Voyager has several great ones — Halley's Comet, several nice eclipses, a few satellites, and sunset in Hawaii — that you can customize. The Hawaii demo shows the sky growing dark as the sun goes down in the west, then lets you turn around and watch the sun rise again in the east. Cosmic Rifts Although I recommend Voyager as a fine educational tool for school or home study, it could be better Taking a lesson from Broderbund's Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?, which includes a world atlas, the Voy- ager manual should include at least a glossary of astronomical terms for those of us who thought a Messier Object was simply worse than a messy object. The Image Sampler disk is fttll of incredibly beautiful digitized astronom- ical pit olographs, approaching the picture quality of the National Geo- graphic. The manual recommends thai you view them in DeluxePaint, but this is an ordeal, because every time you load a picture, you must change the screen size. All the pictures should be the same size, or at least grouped by sizes in separate drawers. (One remedy is to use another viewing program.) I have saved the biggest annoyance for last: When you try to save a screen as an IFF file, it saves the requester on top of the screen — so much for load- ing a sequence into DeluxePaint III and creating an ANIM. The people at Carina Software's friendly help line told me the}' had received several *■ 88 Mm 1992 TO ORDER CALL 800-544-6599 MON.-FRI. 9-6, SAT. 9-3 CST CODS welcome! 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By Dave Johnson "ECOLOGICALLY FRIENDLY paper- work for the Amiga," proclaims the packaging. While vague, it is as apt a description as any of Black Belt Sys- tems' Notebook ($39.95). In somewhat more concrete let ins, I describe Notebook as a free- form idea organizer that allows yon to combine text, [FF graphics, and structured drawing doodles in a package that mimics the concept of n lined, three- hole notebook. Notebook opens on a high-resolu- tion, interlaced screen. The right side contains a variety of control icons, while the rest of the screen displays the actual workspace — an authentic-look- ing version of the notebook you proba- hlv used in high school. Digital Doodling To begin a new notebook, simply click on the icon that adds pages to the n YOUR TURN: At a street price of $25. Notebook is great. I like the fact that you can draw and write on a page. Most ofmy thinking is clone by drawing How charts. Tom Miller Casper, Wvoming Organize your thoughts, IFF files, and structured graphics in Notebook. initially empty document. You can control ihc appearance of each page and add or delete sheets at any time. Do you need lined, graph-ruled, or blank pages? With or without binder holes or a vertical rule? Grid snap may be enabled even when the paper is not in "graph" mode. Notebook accepts text in two ways. You can begin typing anywhere on the page or import ASCII text onto the *- Call now: 1-800-824-5499 VOL. I: $19.95 VOL. H: $24.95 [MasterCard m 1 D1/C0VER- for the best in animation! VOL. I & n SET ONLY $34.95! Also available from your local Amiga dealer. Act now on this limited offer from TechMedia Video and see the most innovative creations using Sculpt-Animate 4-D, Lightwave 3-D. Turbo Silver, Imagine, Deluxe Paint 111 AND MORE! A dazzling collection of exciting and inspiring animations you won't want tomiss! CALL TODAY ! YES! 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Amiga 3000 series computers set the standard for multimedia platforms, with true 32-bit architecture for demanding video and graphics applications. The A3000-25/100 features a 100M hard drive and 5M RAM. The A3000-25/50 has a 50M hard drive and 2M RAM. All Amiga 3000s feature four-voice, two- channel sound, thousands of displayable colors, AmigaVision* (which lets you control graphics and video simultaneously), on-site service* and convenient leasing terms. For more information, call 1-800-66- AMIGA. Or see your participating authorized Commodore-Amiga dealer before April 30th. (Terms may vary in Canada. Call 1-800-661-AMIGA.) a C s Commodore 1 AMIGA ■Q 1 W2 G>ntrtodo« Bumk ss Macbna, Inc Commodore and (be Connadon: logo ant regsod trademarks o: CorcrjcdorE EletrcriG Ltd Amiga ts a regstntd todemark of &mnwd0rc*Amip. Inc Not did vmh my other promotiora] ofo *Avtikbfe on qraems putchastd in she L'5 through an auhorud Cotiraodore-Amiga dealer Circle 9 on Reader Service card. R E V I i; w s page. If text flows beyond the current page, Notebook adds pages as necessary until all of the text has been ren- dered. Notebook lets you type with any nonproportional system font, so you aren't restricted to basic topaz or a single typeface. If, perchance, you write something that is particularly important, consider highlighting it. Notebook oilers four marker colors for highlighting text and other objects. To spice up your pages, you can import graphics of any standard Amiga IFF format into your notebook. Hie program converts the image to a dithered, four-shade grayscale and renders it on the page in a box you draw with the mouse. The conversion and scaling is fairly snappy, and the final result usually looks surprisingly good. What use would a notebook be if you couldn't draw in it? A full complement of drawing tools allows you to add rectan- gles, circles, lines, freehand shapes, and the like. You can Leave them unfilled, or you can fill them with any of 36 dithered colors. One of the nicest aspects of Notebook is that all of these components are treated as structured objects. Thus, you may later move, resize, or change the color of anything you draw, as well as combine it into a group with other objects. In addition, you can move objects in front of or behind others. Tabbing Around Now that you've stored some data in your notebook, you probably uaul to be able to hud it quickly and easily. Note- book carries the analogy of its paper cousin to the logical extreme: For easy access, you can mark pages by placing paperclips anywhere on them. You can then add or delete these at any time, and you can skip directly to clipped pages at a single click. In addition, you can add labeled and color- coded tabs to page margins. Clicking on a tab takes you instantly to that page. Overall, Black Belt has put as much though! into navigation as into actual page creation. Putting a Notebook on Paper Of course, there may come a time when you want to break a notebook out of its digital confines: that is, print it. Note- book lets you print notebooks by the page, section, or entire document. Output is scaled up so that each notebook page becomes 8 V-jXl 1 inches, rather than the size of the smaller, on-screen replica. Unfortunately, output is Notebook's Achilles heel. De- spite the fact that drawing elements are structured objects, they do not render at your printer's highest resolution. Rather, they look like bigger and jaggier versions of what you see on the screen. Text, too, gets (he short end of the resolution stick. ( )n the other hand. Notebook prints aren't quite what you (1 pass out at a board meeting: Notebook is a personal idea processor, and the printouts are meant to be personal as well. Regrettably, the output quality probably ensures thai they'll stay that way. What is the bottom line for Notebook? It is an innovative product that just about everyone who owns a computer can llnd at least six good uses for. It is the sort of program that causes you to say, "Why hasn't anyone done this before?" Thanks to its speed, fluid interface, and a plethora of other little conveniences, you'll ("md yourself using it often. Re- member that Notebook always runs on an interlaced screen, so a display enhancer is just about essential. 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Airy spcc&i nenvxy requrMErts ore no 600 BUSINESS LETTERS A147 Contracts, tetters, allsorts induded in text form lor import to your word processori A-GENIE A073 Good genealogy program - trace your family history, keep track of where your roots realty are 1Mb ADVENTURE SOLUTIONS A001 2 disks of great adventure solutions! A must-have for adventure hair- pullers (2) AIR WARRIOR A002 Right simulation program - funi ALGORYTHMS A199 MIDI program for synthetic music creation - give your creativity a Boost and enhance your MIDI ALL NEW STAR TREK A003 Tobias Renters great new version of this classic - all the rage in the UK now (2) A075 One of the best Amiga databases AMIBASE PROFESSIONAL A153 A superb database system AM ICASH A072 Brand new bank management program - easy to use and a great way to put your Amiga to useful work! AMOK A186 Your robot is trapped in a strange world (1Mb) AMOS ASTEROIDS A185 Four versions on this disk of the arcade game, guaranteed to give endless zapping fun AMOS BINGO/CRACK THE CODE A183 2 popular games on this disk - bingo lovers will want to stay home - plus extras AMOS MULTIPAINT A164 Another good AMOS paint program AMOS PAINT A165 Nice paint package with 2-64 colors AMOSAGRAM A190 An anagram solving game - great fun! ANALYTICALC A076 Definitive spreadsheet type utility (2) ANIMATED POINTER PACK A074 Disk full of cute animated pointers - this one will keep you busy for hours trying them out ANTEP & SLOT CARS A004 Graphic role-playing and car game - great fun with appeal for all your family members ANTI LEMMINGS A156 Power animation - fantastic (2) (2Mb) APIDYA A005 Good demo of great new game - recommended for stunning enjoyment and graphic finery! ARCADIA A1 63 A nice version of the breakout" game ART OF MED A202 Disk full of more MED music scores ASI LABEL PRINTERS A077 All the best label programs on one disk ASSASSINS AUDIO MAGIC A203 Collection of soundtrackers and rippers - great hacking AT THE MOVES A157 Anim from Schwartz featuring Amy squirrel (1.5Mb) ATIC ATAC A006 British Spectrum game conversion AUTOMATED LIGHT A158 Great battlestar galactica type animation - must get (4) (3Mb) BALLOONACY A170 Good version of the classic "bomber 1 game BEATRIX POTTER A152 Beautiful dip art converted Irom the PC - extremely popular in the UK BIORHYTHMS & STARCHART A078 Check biorhythms and chart the stars! A better program of its type - check it out BLACK BELT A181 Chop the btocks in this marte! arts game BLACKJACK A007 A good version of the classic card KaFj®t© rT THE PROFESSIONALS' CHOICE FOR SUPPLY OF THE WORLD'S FINEST P.D. AND SHAREWARE. CHECK OUT OUR PRICES 1-9 disks - $5.50 ea. 10-1 9 disks- $4.50 ea. 19+ disks- $3.50 ea/ 'Special Offer! We will ship 5 top quality 3.5" blanks, p re-formatted for the Amiga, with every 10 titles! BLACKJACK TRAINER A192 A good tutor for this ever popular game - improve your odds Tor the real table play! At 93 Get Herbert back home to his village! BUCK ROGERS A00S Great shoot-em-up from the C64 days - an interesting, fun and absorbing proggy, this one! BUSINESS CARD MAKER A079 Make your own with this useful utility, and save time and money at the printers BUSY BEE A154 Cute anim of a freaky bee - looks almost wooden! High in the UK animation charts just now(1Mb) BUZZED A 159 Great animation of wasp crashing into things - you'll need the extra memory though, but GREAT! (3) (3Mb) C-LIGHT RAY TRACER A080 Commercial ray tracing package is now PD - a fascinating graphics utility - great results CASSETTE LABELER A188 Great utility for tape collections CASTLE OF DOOM A009 Easy graphic adventure - good for beginners and cunningly addictive for the veteran hacker CHEMESTHETICS A081 Chemistry program for molecule display - the marvels of mother nature unfolded before you! CHET SOLACE UTILS A082 26 utilities on this disk CHINESE CHECKERS A010 Computer version of the boardgame classic - always great for family fun C LI PART A083 8 disks of some of the best clip art around - you will NOT be disappointed with this set (8) COLOSSUS & WORLD A011 Two great adventures from Software Distillery - highly recommended to you adventurers COUNTACH A084 3 disks of various and useful clip art (3) CROSSFIRE A169 Good kids' game - keep them occupied for ages. What a great remedy for Nintendo boredom! CROSSWORD COMPILER A012 A quality puzzle creator and editor - if you like crosswords this will give you pleasure! ER BASIC COMPILER A085 Speed up those BASIC programs, and free yourself from interpreter constraints DARKSTAFF A013 Spectrum-emulated text adventure game DARKSTAR UTILITIES A086 Another disk full of utilities for all - you won't want to be without this disk in your collection DART ANIMATION A155 Dart passing through an egg animation - you have to see it fo believe it Very over- easy! DATABASE MASTER A178 Good database for extra memory, and has sophisticated features you'd expect to find (1Mb) DATING GAME A160 Schwartz classic animation (2) (3.5Mb) DBW A087 A good ray tracing program complete with some nice pictures - snows the graphics power of Ami! DEMOLISHER UTILITIES A088 168 useful utilities - something for alii DEMOLITION MISSION A176 Another good version of the classic 'bomber' game - very playable DESKBENCH A089 Nice alternative workbench, icons etc. This is a really neat program! (3) DESKTOP PUBLISHER A090 From Germany now in English translation -a MUST HAVEf DIRECT ACTION A091 A useful utility for editing animation sequences, loads of features DOPE INTROMAKER A092 Make you own intros wtth this utility DRAGON'S CAVE A014 Nee dungeon type game with good graphics - you may spend hours! DUNGEON DELVER A179 Roam around mazes, collect keys etc. (2) DYNAMrTE DICK A168 Intriguing little game done in AMOS -good DYNAMrTE FONTS I A093 Excellent fonts for use in DPaint etc. Add these to your collection now! DYNAMITE FONTS II A094 Very popular fonts disk - stacks of IFF fonts - a veritable treasure trove for you artists EDUCATION SET A095 5 disks packed with good educational programs, with something to interest everyone in the family (5) ENSIGNIA MAZE A017 This game allows 4 simultaneous views of maze, and gives a good insight into 3D creations ETERNAL ROME & DOMINOES A016 Two good and stimulating games, get this if you're interested in history! PR E-FOR MATTED 3.5" DISKS *o have ewer 30,000 blanks in our -"--n on blank disks and Not us. We will sdl EXILE FONTS A096 More excellent IFF fonts for DPaint FAMILY HISTORY DATABASE A172 Very good genealogy program, keep track of your ancestors and origins (1Mb) FLASHBIER A018 Boulderdash type game with 200+ levels FLEXIBASE DATABASE A097 An excellent, easy to use database system with flexible layout options and features FONTS & RAM MANAGER A098 Lots of fonts plus a software RAM switch - a very useful utility for A500 users FONTS & SURFACES A099 Lots of useful fonts, brushes etc. for DPaint, plus rich textures and backdrops for you to use FORMS REALLY UNLIMITED A162 Great forms designer program - must have - GREAT for both home and office FRAfsmC FREDDIE A019 Classic platform game with good music - we just couldn't stop playing this frustrator FRUIT MACHINE A196 Good simulation of this gambler's favorite, you can have the fun without losing the dough! GALACTIC FOOD FIGHT A020 Fight your way through ice cream & fruit! A popular game in Europe at the moment GENESIS DEMO A100 Superb fractal generator - very good GRAPHICS CONVERTERS A149 Convert graphics, format PC disks etc. An absolute essential for transferring art formats GRAPHICS UTILITIES A102 Useful, graphics oriented programs which will assist you in the manipulation of your art GROWTH A021 Really good game in which you aim for the brain! Stimulate your own brain cells with this nifty escapade! HACK A022 Good text adventure in the Infocom tradition HAMLAB A103 Convert VGA PC pctures to Amiga HAM with this utility - opens up a true wealth of pro- created artwork HANGMAN A1 94 Good, fun version with word editor HARD DRIVE UTILS A1 04 A must have for hard drive owners HOLLYWOOD TRIVIA A023 Loads of questions in this good trivia game - so you think you know your entertainers huh?! HOLY GRAIL A024 One of the best text adventures around HYPERBALL A195 Latest version of woodenball, an excellent game that will keep you burning the midnight oil and soma... " ; A 105 Loads of programs for icon creation with many icons! Great for hackers, or enhancing your system ICONS A106 This disk is just crammed full of varied & useful icons - redesign the way your workbench looks srvi fpf^ls IFF SAMPLES A204 Great samples from the Kawai K1 digital synthesizer, ready for play on your Amiga - breathtaking! IMPLODER A107 A very good crunching program - ver^ efficient in terms of time and file size. Great for telecomms INTERFERON PRO A108 Create protection bootblocks against viruses - we may see Michelangelo on the Ami soon - prepare! JAMCRACKER A205 4 channel chip music sequencer - handles samples also. Get this one with A204 above JAZZBENCH A 109 An alternative workbench preferred by many, another disk that will change the way your Ami JETMAN A025 A British classic conversion of Jetpac JR-COMM 1.2 A110 The definitive modem software - must have! This is the one that we use and is VERY powerful KARATE WORM A198 Very nice platform game, jumping over worms etc! Keep the kids (or yourself) amused for hours! KAWAI K1 A210 Editor/librarian for MIDI users with K1 KAWAI K4 A21 1 Editotfibrarian for MIDI users with K4 KILLER CARS A026 A good car game with filled vector graphics, fun and intriguing to see this clever graphics style KING JAMES BIBLE A111 Old and New Testament and text reader. In ASCII format so you may import to your files (4) LAMER GAME A027 Similar to Operation Wolf, shoot- em-up LANGUAGES DISK A112 Forth, Modula 2, X-Usp and Logo LARN A028 Anolher well- respected text adventure game LASERZONE A030 Good old C64 classic arcade game LAST HOPE A1 48 Priceless when you've just erased a valuable file! We define this one as an essential addition! LEAPING LARRY A031 Platform game done in AMOS LEARN & PLAY A029 Great fun for the kids on two disks (2) LETTRIX A032 Good puzzle game with a fun Tetris flavour LORE OF CONQUEST A033 Space trading game, dungeons & dragons style, with an addictive theme - enjoy! M-C AD A1 1 3 Computer aided design - good quality (1Mb) MACVIEW. DRAW, ROTATE A114 Three good graphics programs - unusual, but useful for designers, etc.! MARBLE SLIDE A034 Puzzle game in which you build up slides, and frustrate yourself in the process. Fun though MASTER OF THE TOWN A035 Shoot the signposts in this one, and sharpen up your wits and grease your keyboard.... MED 3.2 A200 Latest verson of this superb music sequencer - great! A rea) must-have for budding Ami musicians MED MUSIC DISK A201 Some nice MED music on this disk MESSY-SID A115 Easy to use PC-AMIGA file transfer program, very high in the UK popularity charts, this one MIDI DISK A206 Lots of useful utilities for MIDI MIDNIGHT THIEF A067 A great text adventure for hackers MISSILE COMMAND A177 Good version of the ever popular classic arcade, a hit on the UK BBC micro when it appeared MISSION X A070 Shoot-em-up type arcade game with excellent graphics - well, we think you'll like it anyway fylOBED All 6 A good bob and sprite editor for programmers MYSTIX HARDWARE MODS A117 Documents disk for hardware modifications - interesting and curious contents NAPOLEONIC WAR SIMULATOR A036 A good strategy game with a requirement for a good, strategkal battle plan NCOMM A118 Latest version of this excellent comms program NESTOR CARD GAME A037 A novel treat for card freaks NETHACK A038 A very popular D&D style game (2) NO MAN'S LAND A039 High-tech war games in shoot* em-up style - requires nimble fingers and less of the strategy! NOISETR ACKER A207 Music sequencer with loads of functions - if youVe into music on the Ami then try this out NORTH C* At 19 The complete 'C compiler by Steve Hawtin - another major seller across the pond - excellent vaJue (2) NU GAME A040 Shoot-em-up game with good graphics - quite difficult and certain to trigger your ludest profanities PAIR IT A 167 Match the cards to make a pair - easy card game for the easily amused, or just to pass time! (1Mb) PC EMULATOR A120 Needs MSDOS to run, gives CGA graphics output. An interesting disk for experimentation... PENDLE EUROPA MEGAUTILITIES A121 A superb collection of 200+ utils, hotfoot from the darkest depths of Europe PETER'S QUEST A041 Rescue the maiden in this fun platform game, but don't give up too easily. Persevere for a good endf PIXIE KINGDOM A180 Another dungeon style game of quality and frustrating design - can you beat the enemies? (2) POM POM GUNNER A042 Latest version of this Beachead clone, popular now both here and in Europe * get it and enjoy! PRINTER DRIVER GENERATOR A122 Design your own drivers PROPERTY MARKET A043 Become a millionaire before you retire at 65! Donald Trump uses it for his deejsbn-making OBASE A123 Good database system, easy to use, with full searching facilities - great for both beginners and old hands QUICK BENCH A124 Another alternative workbench system, very clever? We love evaluating these - as much fun as games R-DRAW A182 Another well laid out drawing package RAINBOW WARRIOR A164 Paint with coppers and save them out! We don't mean British policemen, programmers will know! RAPHAEL'S REVENGE A044 Mutant Turtle game done in SEUCK - give the kids a Turtje treat with this shoot- em-up! RAZOR A125 Graphics rippers, vims killers, disksarv, powerpacker - for the more experienced Amiga user, this one RETURN TO EARTH A045 Space trading game in classic UK 'Elite' vein - another popular game in the UK on the BBC RE VERS) + SNAKES & LADDERS A166 Two well- known and popular games for kids of all ages - snakes=chutes in the US RIM DATABASE A126 Comprehensive relational database - powerful, with the ability to cross-reference data files RINGS OF ZON A046 Absorbing adventure and strategy game ■ what more can we say about good adventures'? ROBOCOP A015 A shoot-em-up (language may offend) ROT A127 A simple but very popular 3D drawing package SCOPE 114 A128 Structured clip art for PPage, PSlream etc. SCOPE 115 A129 More structured and useful clip art SCUM HATERS A048 Shoot-em-up done in SEUCK by Brazzle Atkins - the title does fair justice to the blot" SEALANCE A049 A submarine strategy game - quite sophisticated - good II A051 this one! Another favourite with our English cousins just now (1 Mb) TILE TRIAL A174 Solve the sliding puzzle within the time limit! TOMCAT A065 Good quality vertical scroll arcade game TREASURE SEARCH A161 Find the buried treasure in this fun game- another good program on our recommended list TV GRAPHICS A136 Superb DPaint backdrops and some great fonts - get this if you're into Toasters and video etc.! (2) U EDIT A 137 Another great shareware wordprocessor ULTIMATE CARD GAMES A068 Cribbage, Hearts, Bluemoon, Patience and Solitaire should be enough to keep you busy ULTIMATE ICON DJSK Iconmaster, FISH 'n' CHIPS! : 4^ We have the entire Fred Fish collection in inventory -disks 1-590. up to SHOOT Our price for the Fish collection is just $2.50 per disk - or we can supply your choice of 20 disks on one of the new 'flopticals' for just S79.95. We have rare European collections available; please request our catalog which contains full details of all the Ami disks worth collecting! PROGRAMMERS WANTED! We are URGENTLY looking for highest quality softvw>«> fof our new Ami commercial publishing company. Wo pay very and continuing royalty payments, and seek to publish both in mo US and Europe. Ptoaso send us (or ask us for a) non-disclosure agreement so that wb may evaluate your wort confidentially. ._ SERENE Follow SERENE UP below SERENE SHOOT UP A050 Another quality game for fire button freaks! SEVEN TILES A047 Superb futuresports speedbaJI type game SHAPES A187 Very intriguing, mind- boggling puzzle game SIMON & SPACE MATHS A173 Two good educational programs here - recommended SIMPSONS GAME A052 A vertical scroll game done in SEUCK SNAKE IN THE GRASS A197 Collect mushrooms and toadstools! SOMETHING FOR NOTHING A130 Full of video utils, fonts etc, although you'll have to pay us the cost of the disk! (2) SOZOBAN C" A131 Another popular 'C programming environment, great for learning this powerful language SPANISH TUTOR A175 Gooef language learning program STIMULATOR At32 Run Atari ST software on your Amiga - needs 2 drives - very useful if you have access to ST progs! ST-80 BEAST SAMPLES A208 Pan flute sounds from Beast, Beast II. Some of the best Psygnosis sounds created to date STAR TREK NEXT GENERATION A053 Strategy game in Hires, needs 1Mb, but well worth the extra memory! STAR TREK THE SHOOT-EM-UP A054 The classic done in SEUCK, and a pleasant change from Trekkie 'simulations' STORYLAND A071 Two very good kids' games, great fun SUPER SKODA CHALLENGE A066 Nice new car racing game SUPER WORKBENCH A134 Yet another alternative workbench! Fascinating how programmers spend their time! SUPERKILLERS A133 Kills 190 viruses stone dead TAROT II A1 50 Read the cards - great version (2) TENNIS A055 An excellent tennis game, needs 1Mb TEXT ENGINE A151 Another good quality word processor TEXT PLUS A 135 One of the best word processors, includes spell check and numerous extra fadities for the exoerienced THE EVIL DEAD A056 Blast the ghoufes in this crazy game THE INSIDERS' CLUB A058 Good stock market game - see how far you get! Gives you an insight into the markets... THE JAR A057 Very ntoe littlejump and run game THE WOODEN BALL A171 Great shareware game, get We know that some chips are currently a tittle difficult to find; try us for availability:- Super Denise Fatter Agnus Super Agnus 2.04 Upgrade Static Zips FPU Math Go's A500 + 512Kb Others -Calif A138 tconmeister, Icontab, icons etc. Everything you need for icon creation ULTRAPAINT A139 A nice paint package cr IFF pictures VECTOR DESIGNER A140 A comprehensive but difficult to use program! Persevere and discover structured drawings VIDEO APPLICATIONS A141 Assorted programs for genlock & video applications - must have this (2) VISICALC SPREADSHEET A 142 Easy to use spreadsheet based on VC WAR OF THE FOUR A191 A good shareware graphical adventure game - hours of amusement here WASTELANDS A069 Superb new 3D vector game - you MUST get this one! Absolutely superb! WATER MINES A059 Good Boulderdash style game WET BEAVER GAMES A060 Version of the old Pong game WINDOWSBENCH M43 A Windo wsSWorkbe nch2 lookalike, very nice! Spruce up your Ami (2) WIZARD'S DOMAIN A189 Nicely done graphical adventure game WIZZYS QUEST A062 Great arcade game from Germany WONDERSOFT GAMES A061 Golf, Congi, Missile, Trillon, Windmill etc. Gotta gettit! WORDWRITE WORDPROCESSOR A145 Comprehensive, with spelling checker, and all the full- blown features of some commercials WORKBENCH HACKS A144 Loads of amusing fun with these hacks! This is another definitive musRiave disk - funny stuff YAMAHA DX7 VOICE FILER A209 Librarian program YELP! A063 Nice little painter type game with surprises! ZEUS A064 A very intriguing block puzzle game ZX SPECTRUM EMULATOR A146 For the Sinclair {Timex) with sound! The Spectrum was the UK's most popular at one time RED SECTOR DEMO MAKER B001 Ever wanted to have the means to create your own power demos? Try this one! (1Mb) MEGA CLIP ART I B002 This 10 disk set contains pictures for DPaint, ready to load Pagesetter art, over 30 screens of IFF alphabets, Animals, Anatomy, Buildings, Cartoon people and animals, Holidays, flags, flowers etc, Music, School, Signs, Titles, Logos, Headings, Teddy Bears. Vintage cars, bikes (10) MEGA CLIP ART II B003 This set of 9 disks includes Occasions, Transport, Signs, Electrical, Architecture, Frutt, Vegetables, Kitchen, Men, Women, Boys, Girls, Babies, Anatomy, People, 52 different Alphabets, Arrows, Borders, Stars, Humor, Cars, Sports Trade, Art Deoo, Headings (9) FONTS GALORE I B004 Cosmopolitan: Rangers, Peignet, Avant Guard, Aldous, Gertie etc. Beautiful stuff in this set FONTS GALORE II BOOS Fancy: Hollywood, Park Avenue, Broadway. Camelot. Courier, HAM;.... FONTS GALORE III B006 Publishers: Helvetica, Akashi, Andover. Bookman, Boxie. Times FONTS GALORE IV B007 Vanous: Unusual, Videofonts, Large & small fonts, utlities and more..... FONTS GALOTIE V B008 Ripped: Fonts, logos from demos! Incorporate them into your own works! $3 DEFINITIVE CATALOG! YES, WE CHARGE FOR IT - WHEN YOU GET IT YOU'LL SEE WHY. QUALITY PRINTED CATALOG INCLUDES OUR OWN LISTING. TBAG, AMOS, FAUG. SMAUG, SCOPE. 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Data {ffTelekammunikatian, Digital/ Varhlen, Ijohata Natverkf IAN, Lotus, Macworld, Maxi Data, Mihodatorn, Sven- ska PC World, Unix, Wnulm^s; SWITIERLAND 1 ^ Com- puteruiorht Schweiz, Macworld Schweiz; TAIWAN'S Com- pulerworld Taiwan, PC World Taiwan; THAILAND'S Thai Com putenvorld, TURKEY'S Compulerworld, PC World; UNITED KINGDOM'S Lotus, Macworld; UNITED STATES' AmigaWorld, CIO, Computer Buy- ers World, Computer-world, Digital N civs, Electronic News, Federal Computer Week, GamePro, IDG Books, inCkter/ A+, hijoWorld, Lotus, Maavarld, MFC World, Network World, NeXTWORLD, PC Games, PC Letter, PC World, Portable Office, Publish!, RUN, SunWorld; VENE- ZUELA'S Computerworld Venezuela, Microcomputer- world Venezuela; YUGOSLAVIA'S Moj Mikro. 96 May 1992 ANIMATORS! Win the Ultimate A3000 System!! Now, in its third year, the AmigaWorld Animation contest tests the boundaries and imaginations of some of the best animators! We're looking for 2D and 3D animations that will roll your socks down! State-of-the-art style and technique is the theme this year. All you have to do is submit your most awesome anima- tion. If you're our grand prize winner you win a fully loaded Amiga 3000. Even if you don't win the grand prize, we may include it on The AmigaWorld Animation Video Volume HI (along with the best of all the other submissions). If we use your animation on the tape we'll give you $100! How can you lose? The Ultimate Amiga 3000 System - $12,500 Value Amiga 3000 with 100-MB Hard Drive (S4150) and Amiga 1950 Multisync Monitor (S695) from Commodore; G-Force 040 Accelerator ($2799) and fmpactVision-24 Video Graphics Board{$2199) from Great Valley Products; The Personal Single Frame Animation Controller ($425) from Nucleus Electronics; Caligari Broadcast 2.1 3-D Rendering Software ($1995) from Octree Software; VistaPro 2,0 {$99. 95), MakePath ($25) and Terraform ($25), from Virtual Reality Labs; Animation Station ($49.95) from Progressive Peripherals. 2nd Prize The International Package - $4700 Value Harlequin 2000 32-Bit Frame Buffer from The Amiga Centre Scotland ($2100); TVPaint from TecSoft, France ($1500); V-Lab digitizer from MacroSystem, Germany (S450) Will Vinton's 3-D Animation from Cineplay (S499); VistaPro 2.0 ($99.95), MakePath ($25) and Terraform ($25), from Virtual Reality Labs; Animation Station (S49.95) from Progressive Peripherals. 3rd Prize $1100 Value DCTV from Digital Creations ($495); 3-D Pro 2.0 from Progressive Peripherals ($399); VistaPro 2.0 ($99.95), MakePath (S25) and Terraform ($25), from Virtual Reality Labs; Animation Station ($49.95) from Progressive Peripherals. Also: Prizes for the next 10 winning animators: Best 25 Public Domain Video/Graphics disks from Devware ($99); Diskmaster graphics utility from Progressive Peripherals ($49-95); Professional 3-D Object Library from AmigaWorld ($89.95). Disk-based animations should be easily installable and playable on a hard drive, and should include the appropriate player software. Animations can also be submitted on a professional videotape format such as 3/4", Hi-8 or S-VHS, Tape submissions must include a VHS copy, plus enough material on disk to be proof that the animations are Amiga generated. Submissions should also include full details on what hardware and software products were used to create them. Your animation must be three minutes or less. Please include your name, address and phone number. The animations submitted must be your original work, and by submitting them, you are granting Amiga- World permission to use and distribute the work with our videotape. Deadline for submissions is October 15, 1992. Tim Walsh, c/o Animation Video Contest 80 Elm Street Peterborough, NH 03458 t Recognize The Famous Computer In This Ho. Or The Value. You'd never know the amazing things this black box can do just by looking at it. Not only does CDTV 8 play your audio CDs but it can bring words, music and pictures to life on your television. CDTV simply connects to your TV and stereo and through its ingenious marriage of computer audio and video technologies lets you play with a new generation of interactive CDs, CDTV is based on the Amiga* and if you buy the CDTV/P system before June 30th it comes with AmigaDos! a keyboard, floppy drive, mouse, Grolier's Electronic Encyclopedia 1 ? Lemmings 1 ? 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AMIGA PC (MOTHER) BOARD Now forthe first time, and only atGrapevine, purchase a new A500 or A2000 PC motherboard at prices lower than an Amiga dealer pays' Each "board" is populated (all chips), tested and has a 90 day warranty. PAL format is also available. A500/A2000 PC BOARD PURCHASE *A500 PCB contains all chips $189.95 *A2000 PCB includes the 1.3 ROM. 8372A 1 meg Agnus and Super Denise chip 8373 $529.95 A500/A2000 BOARD EXCHANGE PROGRAM Stop paying expensive repair costs. Send us your broken motherboard for an exchange price that can't be beat. Also ask about our exchange upgrade packages. All boards received are subject to inspection. NO dealers. *A500 PCB Exchange (populated & tested).. $124.95 * A2000 PCB Exchange (populated & tested, includes "Final Test" diagnostic diskette) $274.95 Serving the Commodore/Amiga community for 12 years AMIGA EMERGENCY STARTUP KIT Stop sending out your Amiga for repairs. Save a lot of time and money by repairing your own computer in a simple manner. Our kit includes all you need. All chips provided in the kit are direct socket plug-ins and do not require soldering. Originally "blister" packaged for government PXs worldwide and now available to the general public. Total cost savings tar exceeds purchasing chips on an individual basis. 23 different symptoms (faulty parts) wilh their remedies are layed out. KIT CONTAINS: Two S520A CIA Chips, 8362 half Bright Denise. 8370 Agnus Chip, 5719 Gary Chip. PLCC Chip Puller, Fuse. Basic Schematic, Amiga Diagnostician Booklet and Special Test Diskette with the following tests: Keyboard, Hi Res. half Bright, Double Suffered Animation, Mouse & Agnus Tests. (12 diagnostic tests in all). A S210.20 value for $99.50 (Above kit with 8373 Super Denise....... $109.95) MONTHLY SPECIALS • McCOY (PLCC) Agnus chip puller. Commodore price $29.95. Our price $14.95 • REJUVENATOR II A1000 Upgrade. Second version allows 2MB of chip RAM. Surpasses A2000 specs. Contains 2MB Agnus, 8373 Super Denise, 2MB RAM, 1.3 ROM and "Final Test" diagnostic software. No soldering $599.95 • AMIGA A500 KEYBOARD: Unit is new, exact replacement with 90 day warranty.. $59.95 • 8520 CIA CHIP - The most problematic chip in the Amiga computer. Controls 12 major functions $11. 95 2 lor $10.95 each • GVP-G-Fofce 030 Combo 40/4. Comes with 68030, 68882. SCSI controller and 4 megs installed. Very limited quantity $1079.95 • GVP-SIMM 32-4 Mb/60 for above $219,95 • GVP-SIMM 32-1 Mb/60 (for above) $84.95 AMIGA UPGRADE CHIPS Fatter Agnus (1 and 2 Meg} See above 8362 Denise ft Bright ..$23.95 8364 Paula ..........123,95 8373 New Super Denise - $42.95 9375 S59.S5 5719 Gary ch.p $12.95 8520A CIA chip Controls 12 major functions • S1 1,95 13 Kickstart ROM. „„ $27,95 2 ROM only NTSC/PAL (does not include kil) ., $47,95 2 Enhancer ROM Kit *AS213 Includes 4 floppy disks. 1,000 page operalion manual & ROM INTSC/PAL) $87.50 2 ROM Upgrade Kit WAS2 14 for A3000 only $45,50 2 A2620/ A2630 ROM Upgrade Kit $34.95 A20OO Keyboard ..$89.95 AMIGA POWER SUPPLIES 200 Watt " Big Foot" A500 Universal Switching Power Supply with fan and external cabling for hard disks, etc. An absol uie must for those adding on more memory/ peripherals (eg Prima} .$83.95 A2000 P/S (3d party manuf ) 200 watt/Ian Simple plug-in .. $109.95 MEMORY EXPANSION 1x4/80 SC Zip lor A3000... $21.95 U1/80 W.69 1x1/100 • $4.69 4164/20 pull $-29 27128/27256 Eprom $3.85 256x1 (guaranteed pull) ,. $1.08 256x4/100 all ICD. GVP. etc $5.25 256x4/80 ......$5.20 1x8/80 SIMM $38.95 4x8/80 SIMM $147.95 HP User Memory (il/IID. HP. & HPIIt) 2 Megs/4 Megs $137.95/$197.95 A2630 Expansion Board (DKB 2632) Allows you to expand up to 112 megabytes $839,95 Flicker Fixer by Microway (NTSC or PAL) $227.95 Phoenix A1000 Upgrade See ad on facing page GVP-SIMM 32-4Mb/60 (for Combo 40) $219.95 GVP-SIMM 32- 1 Mb/60 (for Combo 40) $84.95 MISCELLANEOUS PRODUCTS Pritiler Port Adapter (runs any CBM printer to PC) $29.95 Video Crisper. Makes your Amiga display sharp/vmd colors. No soldering, Realty works! ....$44.95 Dr. Ami (Free Spirit). Memory & hard disk diagnostic program. Scans all system /expansion memory. Locates defective chips & bad memory location $29.35 AMI Alignment System (Free Spirit). Precision disk alignment/ performance package $28,50 68000 SERIES Math Go's CPUs 68881 l2Mhz ....$36,50 68000 8 Mhz DIP pkg „. $14.95 16 Mh* ,,.......$62.50 20 Mhz S45.95 25 Mhz ....$99.95 68862 20 Mhl $79.95 25Mhz $208.95 33 Mhz $249.95 50 Mhz $347.95 DKB PRODUCTS 16 Mhz OIP pkg.S27.95 68010 8/10 Mhz Dip ... $15.95 68020 16 Mhz „ .$69.95 20 Mhz... $94.95 33 Mhz. $194.95 68030 25 Mhz,. .$249.95 33 Mhz $269.95 50 Mhz $287.50 MegAChip 2000™ With 2 Meg Agnus Chip Included 2 MB ot Chip RAM for A50O/20O0 Sizable Rebate on 1 Meg Agnus Always In Stock! Now Available tor the Amiga 508 STOP RUNNING OUT OF CHIP RAM If you use your Amiga for Desktop Video. 3D Rendering & Animation, Multimedia or Desktop Publishing, then you need the MegAChip 2000. Fully compatible with Workbench 20, the ECS Denise chip. GVP's and Commodore's 68030 accelerators Why upgrade to 1 meg of RAM when you can have the same high tech 2 meg chip RAMas the A3000? Includet FREE Rockwell chip puller (a necessity). Final Test diagnostic Agnus diskette program (see Diagnostics section) and 2 meg Agnus ,.. -. $299.99 J^^ Buy the MegAChip trom us and we'll give you _^^m j^P the new 6373 Super Denise (ECS) lor $34,95 '^■1 The DKB 2632™ Memory Expander for A2630 Accelerator This unique board was designed tor the Amiga A2S00/030 or A2630 accelerator card owner that currently has a powerful system but is limited by the amounl of 32Bit RAM that can be installed. Any one that uses this Amiga system for videographics, animation, rendering, publishing, or audio digitizing will benefit from the ability to install additional 32Bil Fast RAM 4 Megs of 32Btt RAM installed on board and expandable to 1 1 2 megabytes $592,50 Insider 11 T " 1.5 Megs m Your At 000 Allows Ai 000 owners to add up to 15 meg ol Fast RAM internally. User expandable in 51 2K increments using 256K x 4 Drams, Includes battery backed clock calendar. Simple installation. No soldering required. Compatible with the KwikStart It and most processor accelerators . $176.50 With 1.5 meg - - $237.95 KwikStait H™ Utilize IS and 2.0 ROMS Allows At 000 owners to install 1,3 and 2 Kickstart ROMS and switch between thern. Upgrade to the latest operating system and still be compatible with software that requires Kickstart 1.3 , ......$59.95 MultiStart II™ Switch between ROMs Allows A5O0/ 2000 owners to install Kickstart 1 .3 and 2.0 and switch between them with the keyboard. Can also install a third ROM. A sizable percentage of present software will be incompatible with the new 2.0. This simple device allows you to be compatible with aW your software. No external wires or switches required. BONUS: Buy the MultiStart from us and get the 1.3 ROM for $24.95...,. $62,95 SEND FOR OUR 9.6ESTMon-Fri PRICES SUBJECT TO CHANGE We Ship Worldwide 3 Chestnut Street, Suffern, New York 10901 Customer Service Une: (9 1 4} 36S- 4242 into national Order Line: (9 1 A\ 357 - 2424 Fa* : |9 1 4} 35 7 -6243 W$ hsma totniic cmiog with tiara to lind Amga tttms. ii uadgrnmhi and toflpj iot ICQ «mj OKQ <u« fiwn frw nnwnifB cocnpmm mid oro mih> uso-a "■■' >•-:<- v. I . i' i. - t .--i . ■■-■ •■- ; Order Line Only 1-800-292-7445 giftterpd tnnJpmarfc ol CornmcKttxr Bumwm MacrrtnW Corp Tbe GRAPEVINE GROUP Inc. ff^^S THEICD IVafc^ ADVANTAGE AdSCSI 2000, Hard drive interface with unmatched speed and flexibility , $97.50 AdSCSI 2080. Hard drive interface with up to 8 megs of FAST HAM ..$164.50 Each meg of memory add $38.95 AdSpeed. Best overall performance of any accelerator in its price range .S177.95 Flicker Free Video. Eliminates interface flicker for any Amiga computer $244,50 Ad RAM 510. Just released for the new A500 PLUS- Take your Amiga 500 PLUS up to 2MB of fast RAM. Includes RAM and battery $77,50 AdRAM 510f for A500 PLUS {no ram) ..$43.95 AdRAM 540. Add up to 4 megs of RAM internally in your Amiga 500 with 1 meg ..,.$127.95 with 2 meg .,..$162.95 Each additional meg of memory add $38,95 AdRAM 2080. 8 meg internally in your 2000/2500 ..$97.50 Each meg of memory acid „,..„...... .....$35.00 AdIOE. Smallest Amiga hard drive interface made. For IDE (AT) drives IDE 44 Kit (for 2.5" hard drive) . $117,50 IDE 40 (for 3.5" hard drive) (includes controller & cable) ,. $92.50 IDE 40 Kit (includes Shuflle Board) ..$134.50 Novia 201 The smallest hard drive and interface in the world for your A500. Fits internally $239.95 Novia 40i ....$369.95 Novia 60i .$587.50 Novia 85i $714.00 Prima 52L 3.5" IDE drive internally in your 500, 1000, 2000 ....$358.95 Prima 105i $542.00 Shuffle Board. Reroutes DFO: to the external floppy connector. Boot from an external floppy for A500/1000 $27.95 SPRING SPECIALS Unique 1.3-2.0 ROM Selector Electronic ROM Selector Switch by Global Upgrades, Inc. allows for compatibility of ALL your software. Automatically switch between 1.3 or 2.0 ROM from your keyboard or mouse. Does not overlap the 68000 chip, which means complete compatibility with AdSpeed or Mega Midget Racer, Simple plug in, no soldering, Lowest priced electronic switch available. Instructions included $44.50 © EXPENSIVE REPAIR COSTS If your Amiga 500/1500/2000 shows the following symptoms, you may need a replacement of the most problematic (IC) chip in your Amiga, the 8520A Areas affected by either of the two 8520A chips are: Centronics port, RS232 port, joy stick pod. mouse port, drive LED. drive motor, blank screen, green screen, boot and external drive problems, (None of the above? See our Amiga Diagnostician.) The 8520A is a simple plug in. No soldering, 8520A $11.95 (2 for $10.95 each) McCOY (PLCC) AGNUS CHIP PULLER This «s an exact copy of the Burndy chip extractor that Commodore sells for $29.95. It is essential for removing the Agnus chip, Our price. , „ $14.95 SUPER DENISE 8373 UPGRADE New 8373 ECS Super Denise chip adds new screen modes: productivity mode for flicker free display and enhanced picture, superhi-res mode for ultrasharp video titling (1280x200 pixels). scan mode and new genlock mode allowing greater flexibility. (This is the same chip used in the A3000.) Comes with Super Denise installation diskette with full diagnostics. This chip is an absolute must with the 2.0 and is the latest of the Enhanced Chip Set...... , $42,95 ALL COMMODORE CHIPS & PARTS AVAILABLE 3 Chestnut Street, Suffern, New York 10901 Cusfcrser Serves {9m 366-4242 (Mwrtfbonal Qrfer Line. (914J 357-W24 Fax 014J 357-6243 Order Line Only 1-800-292-7445 A1000 UPGRADE by Phoenix Microtechnologies Within minutes transform your A lOOO into a powerful new Amiga and eliminate compatibility problems forever! Introducing the Phoenix AlOOO replacement motherboard, Features: • 2Mb RAM on board configured as 2Mb chip RAM. Uses the same 8372B 2 meg Agnus chip as the Amiga 3000 ■ SCSI controller on board supports Rigid Disk Block system • Mounting kit for hard drive included • Can be utilized as a complete stand-alone computer • Multiple switch-selectable Kickstart ROMs (Vl,3 supplied. Fully 2.0 compatible) • Select external drive as DF0 • A2000 video slot and expansion slot • 8373 new ECS Super Denise upgrade available for a few dollars more • 8Mb internal Phoenix RAM expansion (optional) • Easy solderless installation • 68881/68882 math co- processor socket • Use your original AlOOO peripherals • Send for complete literature and specifications • For SI 2 we will send you the complete installation/ instruction booklet, refundable with purchase • 12 month warranty DISTRIBUTORS in the U.S., Canada and Australia: The Grapevine Group 3 Chestnut St., Suttern, New York 10901 (USA) 800-292-7445 / (914) 357 -£424 ■ Fax: (914) 357-6243 IT Tech Box 467, Bushell Par* SK, Canada SOH ONO Voice or Fax (306} 691-Q520 Phoenix Microtechnologies South Australia Circle 20 on Reader Service card. $5.95 ea. 1-9 Disks $4.95* ea. 10-24 Disks I Exclusively serving the Amiga since 1985 $3.95* ea. 25+ Disks *Anti-Virus free on all orders of 15 or more disks! Public Domain Librar y Guarantee We believe so strongly in our product that we offer a full lifetime, complete satisfaction guarantee. No questions asked. We have been the official Public Domain Library of all the best Amiga magazines. Find out why these magazines choose us! Each of our disks are jam packed with only the best programs. The first two letters on each disk indi- cate the orientation of the disk: WB# general interest - most programs can be run from the workbench, FD# games and entertainment. VO# are video related programs/utilities and DD# advanced requires thorough knowl- edge of AmigaDOS. Thanks to our extensive arsenai of anti-virus software, ALL of our software is virus free! Featured Disk QTl: The A64 Package - A very complete Commodore 64 emulator. Supports any CPU and is fully compatable with WB2.0. This version includes a speciaf adaptor that will allow you to connect your 64"s 1541 disk drive to your parallel port of your Amiga for total emulation. Two disk set. counts as two. Special price $49.95 - including hardware. New Disks V07: StarTrek Objects - Contains me USS Reliant. MCC-1701D (the Enterprise from Star Trek:TNG) and a Ferengi Marauder ship As ai added bonus, contains a fully detailed Porsche 91 1 and Apache Attack Helicopter. V06: Modelling Objects ■ Contains 20 vector objects in Imagine format. These are perfect for use with V05 or your favorite 3D modelling program. Includes Amiga 3000. space station S many more! VOS: Modelling - Vertex allows you to create 3-D objects without using the abstract X. Y and 2 views. Loads, saves and converts between Sculpl- 3DVJD, Turbo Silver. Imagine. Ug hi Wave. GEO and Wavefront formats MagicTween win metamorphasize any two pictures by automatically animate the 'in-between* frames, V04: Video & Anlm - Video_DB will catalog all of your videotapes. Slate Is a sharp graphic of a slate for your productions. Cyroutiis splits, makes and gives into about ANIMs RTAP lets you play large ANtMs on small memory machines, V03: Image UtUs - let VideoTootsOnTap let you tap mio the video power of your Amiga for fades, cotor and greybars as well as a plethora of other inde- spensabie video functions. TitleGen will do professional crawlsrg titles. JPEG converts JPEG<->24-bil IFF with amazing compression. ImageLab performs spedal effect on IFFs. V02; Slillstore - UserJ to create the "over the shoulder graphic inserts ala the 1 1 :00 news, V01: Graphics - Picbase will let you view and track ALL of your IFF pictures over a of those floppies 1 Freepaint is a Deluie-Paint workalike. Agraph is a powerful utility to produce snazzy graphs . FD77: Arcade S«riM - Galaga^ is a done of the arcade game of the same name with several gameplay enhancements- with smoOQOth. sharp graphics. it's better than the ongional 1 Pharaohs Curse is a done Of the ongional C64 dassrc. Diplomacy is a beautifully computerized version of the Avalon Hill board game-conquer or be conquered! Galaga requires imeg chip memo- ry/Fat Agnus. FD76: Catacomb - is a full graphic adventure game with beautiful graphics and a very slick icon/mouse driven interface. FD75: Arcade Series Descender is a clone of the classic arcade game "Tempest"; complete with vectorized graphics. Tanx is the classic battle of trajectories and inertia between two tanks— incredibly well done' Search is a maze game unlike any other— induded is a level editor too (Tan* requires i meg chip memory- Fat Agnus) FD74: Arcade Series - HmgWar is an "Outer Limits' clone with vectorized graphics. MotherLode is a "Lode Runner clone with 50 levels! In BlitzTanks. they're coming at you from all directions!! Call in air strikes and use your heavy artit'ery to survrve! FD73: Arcade Series Intruder Alert 1 is a MULTI-level 'Berserk" done. Features smooth gameplay. great graphics & digitized sound f x. FD72: Sword of the Warlock - This is a demo version of a great public domain graphic dungeon adventure game. The adventure spans three diskettes and allows two players to go adventuring. The game has a Bards Tale feel to it Three disk set, counts as 2, Requires 1 meg of RAM and 2 floppy drives or HD FD71A&B: Star Trek: TNG Trivia Chotlenge ■ So you thnk you know The Next Generation, huh** Complete with fantastic sampled sounds and digitiied images, this game even looks and sounds like a genuine Star Trek terminal! VERY tnorough and complete' Counts as 2 disks. FD70: SpaceGames Contains Am.Go ds. >fina!lyi< an Asteroids game that lakes advantage of the Amiga— totally configurable with great sound and grpahics. In Cosmostruction the object of the game is for each Cosmostruction team to acquire the most pomts while construction energy ducts between the space station and planetoids. FD69: Mf ndGames Had enough of shoot-em up games'? Relax and let these 21 games exercise your mind instead of your wrist. FD68: Potpourri - Eternal Rome is a strategic simulation of the Roman Empire including military, diplomatic, political, economic and social factors. Lord of Hosts is a board strategy game for 2 players In Moonshine, you've got to get the hootch across the State line— a great rolling, scrolling driving game' FD67: Arcade Includes Liama'.ron a well-done Robotron clone Hate is a 'terrific* commercial grade Zax<on clone wi|h multiple levels'wQrlds and smooth diagonal scrolling... a 10! FD64: Games Wiziy's Quest - a 'great" SO level game with great graphics. Cubes - a 3 -dimensional Tetns type game (rotate and move in 3 dimensions}. Husker Du - Colors and pattern rather than shape in this Tetns-esque game; 5 screens and 3 levels of difficulty. Requires Fat Agnus (1 Meg Df Chip) FD62: PomPom Gunner. An extremely smooth and well done World War II gunner simulation Requires 1 megabyte of memory. WBt12: Productivity. 'Business - Stock Analysis allows automated down- loading ol stock data with full analysis capabilities (requires modem). SubSlore will allow you to log magazines and articles with full search scan punt capabilities. WBttl: Cellular Automa Straight from the pages of the January 1990 issue of Scientific American, this electronic model will allow you to s.mj'ate cellular circuits WB110: Electronic Baby Book - Immortalize your children on your Amiga! Tracks everytn ng about your newborn — first steps, words, tooth, birthdays, X-rrras, friends, etc— even space J or a digitized photo 1 WB109: VerseWSse - Display, search and output Th© New Testament to texi dies or your printer, WB108: OciaMED • This breakthrough program doubles your Amiga's sound capabiM.es from 4 channels to an ear-popping 8 channels! All the renound editing capabilities of MED plus ^ more channelsl If you thought your Amiga sounded good before. .. you aint heard nuthm yet 1 WB107A4B: Educational - Drawmap is a program that generates represen- tations such as hem:spherical views, and orbital views o! the Earth s surface, complete with national bouncanes Screens can be printed or saved to disk as standard IFF files. Full user-configurabie online help facility. 68020+ ver- sion induded. 2 disk set, counts as 1 ' WB10S: Home Manager • This is a great all-in-one address book with an autodiaier'notepad-to-do list-appointment scheduler/home inventory database and phone number dialer WB1Q5A&B: Workbench 2.0 Extras #2 - See the lop right of page 2 for more info on these priceless utilities to make Workbench 2.0 fly" WB104: GrabBag Q&A Trivia (requires Amiga Vision) is a trivia game for 12 players... add your own questions to customize the difficulty level 1 Syslnfo is great for telling you how fast slow, your computer is, whal boards are installed, chipsets, etc. ArmGazer will plot stars in the heaven from any position on earth complete with magnitudes and constellat-on identification, WB103: Music Contains 12 'great* Soundtracker MED music MODuleS— complete with programmable'shuffle player, ..8 bit audio never sourced so hot 1 Two disk set cojnts as two. DD84; Proteus BBS - Ttiis disk contains the full-blown version of the Proteus BBS software. Totally configurable & ultimately powerful. Requires a hard-drive. ARexx and at least a meg of memory. DD83: IBM - Not one, bul TWO IBM emulators that will allow the running of MS-DOS software with Amiga programs! 1 ! Comes complete with programs to turn your Amiga lloppy drives into 720K IBM compatible drives. DD8Z: Unix - Contains a working demo of Minix - a Uni* workalike. Mini* is system call cornpatable with V7 of Unix Fun Disks FD5: Tactical Games • BttflHun • a Civil war battle game, Metro you play the role of a city planner. Bui id w.seiy and your system will be a success, but poor planning will lead to disaster and financial ruin. Very very habit forming FD6: GAMES! - Thts disk is chock full of games including. Checkers, Clue, Gold - A new sl-de the pieces puzzle, Jeopard - An enhanced version of R<sk, Rush Hour ■ Surprisingly addicting, and SpaceWar - Best described as a cross between Combat-Tanks and asteroids, FD7: Pacrnan - This disk contains several pacman type games including: PacMan87, MazMan and Zonix, FD9: Morla This has great graphic controls, multiple spells, similar to Lam and Hack, Play time several weeks 1 FD10: HackLlte A dungeon adventure game. Constde-ed a must-have das- Sic This is the second release Of this game on the Amiga. Great graphic interface. Play time several weeks i FD11: Las Vegas and Card Games ■ Las Vegas Craps - The best Las Vegas Craps simulation every wntten for any computer. Contains extensive HELP features, Also Thirty-One, VideoPoker and more. FD12A ( FD12B: Star Trek, The Game This is by far the best Star Trek game ever written for any computer, It features mouse control, good graph- ics, digitized sound effects and great gameplay, Counts as 2 disks. Req. 1 Mo and two drives (or hd). FD13: Board Games - contains multiplayer Monopoly, Dominoes, Paranocs, and Others, FD14; Dungeon Master Hints and Arcade Games DM maps, spells, item location, ano runts and more, also on this disk. Hoail - an arkanoid 'freak out type game, Tnx - a 0»x type dore FD17: Educational Games ■ Fhlj disk Includes several games for thi younger merr.oe'S including geog-aphy, math, scence. and word games, als mc- udes Wnee' of Fortune. FD20: Tactical Games - MechForce(3 72): A game that simulates comba between two or more giant, robot-like machines. Simple words can"' begin ti give you the feel cf piloting a 30 - 40 foot tall, fire breathing, earth shakim colossus that obeys your every whim, FD26:Arcade Games - Ma-ble slide is a commercial quality game — simifg to a Lucas game named Pipe Dreams, excellent playabiiity and entertainmen Mutants— a small version ol the same arcade game SuperBreakout is i Pong.Arkanoids type game, FD27: Arcade Games ■ This disk is loaded with some great games Include? Raceorama a great racing car game with ten different courses. M niBlasf helicopter gunship type clone. Shark m the same class as trcger, an SBreakout the original breakout with more FD29: Shool'em up's - WWII ■ you re the pilot of a WWII pane flying througi enemy territory, you've Just been spotted, good luck on you mission, SpKiller try and penetrate enemy lines with this game, and Retaliator - another grea game. FD31: Games! - Air Traffic Control a good ATC simulation game, Biac Jack Lab - a lull featured set of card games, ChessTel - play chess with you friend in distant and remote places with this game and a modem, labyrnth - , wolf done text adventure game (like an mlocc-m game), and MouseTrap ■ a 3 maze game F032: Flight Simulator ■ An instrumeni flight simulator for a DCU FD33: Arcade Games • Ftreddy a mano brokers type of game, Gi>rb is a tai get practice game, PipeLme a German interpretation of Pipe Dreams, Tron light cycies version, and wefrowdS a wonderful version of asteroids with a hilar ious twist FD3S: Omega (v 1.3} - A new outstanding dungeon and outdoors adventuri game m a similar vein as hack, rouge, and mona. Th.s version is consider ably faster and oette- that all previous versions. Play time several weeks c months. FD37A&B:Tactical Games - Empire 12. 2w) This great game comes highl recommended. With a fuis-graphic front end. FD38: Games - Chbbage Master - A great cribbage game and lutor, Spade a well done card came, ChineseChectofS - A computer version ol ihis das sic. Puzz - a slide piece puzzle game and construction set, FD39A&B: Star Trek. The Mew Generation - This is a, completely dHfenr version of Star Trek than that found on FD12. This one was created by th< German author Tobias Now with English instructions Excellent'!! Counts a two disks. flequ'res5i2k FD44; Game - Mechfight ts an out of this world role-playing adventure con- parable to hack and moria. The setting, interplanetary colonies and spac stanons. In your quest to explore the world, take t me out to liberate bad guy of their most vaiuabie possessions, engage In a mortal combat or two again; robots and alien fife forms, pick up a new Amiga 9000. Most of all, don't forge to slay alive... F049iChaos Cheats - This disk contains an everything you wanled to kftcfl about cheat se! 'or Chaos Strikes Back, including full maps, spels. objec locations, super characters and more. FO50; Submarine Game - Sealance. one and a half years in the making, thi is an outstano ng sjtrnar ne tactical game. Commercial quality, highly rec om mended FD52: Classics Games PetersQuest a well done Mano brothers type c game, Jymbc a two player missile command done, and Vstank a tank com mancer game FD53: Great Arcade ■ On this disk is a wonderful implementation of the eve popular classic arcade game Defender. Also contain Air Race a WWII flyim ace arcade game, and Psycoblast new creation >dea game. FD56: Arcade - Includes SpaceWar HueyRaid is a welt done helicopte arcade game. Power Pong's a great expanded pong game. FDS7: Arcade Games - Includes 2 truly commercial quality game; MegaBall, an Arkanoid-ish game, features S musical scores, multple level and addicting gameplay, Gravity Attack is a psychedelic trip through sever* different worlds— each dstmcily different. FD58: GAMES! - IncluOes Stemschlag, a great Tetns clone from German with music. SCombat: simulate battle between up to 40 players & monster Imperium Romanum: Battle up to 4 players far control ol the Mediterranea m this Risk-esque game. FD59: Game Potpourri - Xenon III is an almost exact done of the commei oal game of the same name, a great shootemup. Crossword will take lists c words S. automatically generate word 'search puzzles for any Epson compa able printer. FD60: Games - In Nebula, race over a 3d world to destroy enemy installs tions. Interferon; a great Dr. Mario c!one. Enigma; is it a gameor a puzzle FD61 : Games - Solitaire; great graphics, plays two versions Klide; an intei esiing piece of eye candy. Extreme Violence. 2 player kill or beWled gam* YATC. A Tetris done with Arttficai Intelligence, Genesis, create realistic 3 fractal worlds, Workbench Disks WB4;Telecommumnlcatlon - This disk contains several excellent pd conr mumcation programs designed to get you on line quickly and easily. Acces, (1.42) - A very nice ANSI term program based on Comm vl.34. but with lh addition of transfer protocols, Comm [1 .34) - Last version of one of the be: public domain communications programs ever made on the Atnig* Handshake (2.1 2ai Handshake is a Full featured VT52/1 00/1 02/22 WBS: Fonts #1- Several fonts (35) for the Amiga, also included are liv PageStream fonis.and ShowFonf a font display program WB6: Fonts #2 ShowFonti^ .0) This program al'ows you to quickly an painfessty view all 256 characters in a typical font. Large AmsgaDos syste' fonts (many up to 5€ptsl WB7: Clip Art - This disk ts loaded with black and wh.te clip art. A includes, trees, watches, tools, US and State maps, and mori WB9: Icons - Truly a multitude of various types and kinds, Also include iconMiester. IconLab, and others great utilities to help generate icom WB10: Virus Killers - The latest and best VirusX(4,0), Kv(2 1). an ZeroVirus III. WBit: Business - Clerk(4.0), finally a lull featured business accounting Pi program for the small to medium company. Includes receivables, payables end of month and uch more. WBt2: Disk Utilities ■ This great disk rs oaded with wonderful utilities ft everything including making disk labels, disk cataloging, disk optimizing, dis and file recovery archive and organizing, and ail sorts of file manipulation. must have 1 WB13: Printer Drivers and Generator over 70 different drivers, and these don't do if, with PrtDrvGen you can make your own. W815: Business This disk contains a spreadsheet, a database. project/time management program and financial analysis (stocks WB16: Business - This dsk contains an inventory manager, a loan anatysi program, a great calendar/scheduler, a rclodex program, and pennywise good "Cash Book* accounting lor home or office. WB18: WordText Processors - This disk contains the best editor; Indudes.TextPlus (v2.2e) a full featured word processor, Dme(vf.35) a gre; programmers editor with strong macro features JexED(v2,8} an enhance Emacs type editor, and a spell checker. VB20: General Interest DiskSalv V1.42 a disk recovery program lor all imiga We sysloim. FixDisk VI .0 another lile recovery program with leatures JiskSalv doesn't have, 3DLook gives a 30 appearance to your WorkBench, Jlean VI, 01 a program to defragment memory. Tracer ■ trace any part ol \n image. VB2Z: Fonts #3 Several more great fonis. These, like the other font disks York great with Dpamt and WYSIWYG word processors. VB23: Graphics and Plotting ■ Plot (20b) a three dirrensional mathemati- :al function plotter. Can plot any user defined function, BezSurf2 - produce twesome pictures of objects one could lurn on a lathe. Can also map iff ■nage files onto any surface that H can draw. Now compatible with most 3D lackages, and VScreen ■ makes a virtual screen anywhere, great for DTP' VB25;Educatlonel On this disk are two programs that can generate maps if differing types, World Data Base uses the CIA's data base to generate fetailed maps ol any entered user global coordinates. Also Paradox a great demonstration of Albert Einstein General Theory of Relativity. VB26: Disk Utilities #2 MrBackup. KwickBackup ■ two wesl done utilities to io harddisk and floppy disk backups, FileMast - a binary file editor. abe-pnmer ■ Disk label printer with very powerful features. VB27: Naget - 26 Patrick Magei pictures ol beautiful women. VB29: Graphics and Sound This disk has several different Mandelbrot /pe programs for generating stunning graphics. Induces. Man delWoun tains a realistic terrain generator, Fracgen - generated recursive fractals from tser input, Mandelbrot and Tmandei - two last mandelbrot generators, also /tostra ■ the best IFF display program to date, will display ALL IFF's including )ynam«c HAM, and Sound - a great IFF sound player, will play anything, Try his disk' VB33;Clrcult Board Design - several terrific routines lor the electronic nthusiast. Including PCBlool - a circuit board design tool. LogicLab - circuit 3gic taster, and Mead (t 26} a well done new release of this PD CAD pro- iram. ROW comes with predrawn common circuit components for insertion ito schemalics. KAt)3 12 ' Blank Diskettes DSDD 10 for S8.20 (.82 cents ea) 25 for $17.25 (.69 cents ea) 50 for $31.50 (.63 cents ca) 100 for $61.00 (.61 cents ea) VB34: Utilities ■ Several well done utilities, some will require moderate nowledge of a CLI or Shell tor setup. Chatter Box - this one will pJay any iser defied sound after any event (le. disk insert, mouse click, disk emoval.. ). . Artm - The Amiga real time monitor, gives you full control of the feiga OS. very powerful program,, Helper - help program to make learning be CLI eaS'er. and more 1 VB35: 3D Graphics ■ Tns disk contains several neat programs to use with our 3d modeling ray tracing programs 3dFonts - Full vector font set for use nth 3d orcgrams, FontMaker - make 3d fonts trom any system font. *ake3DShape - create 3d shapes trom any image, DumptolFf ■ create 3d immations preserves pallet, and Worid3d - a demo program of a front end qt usewthDKBReid--" VB36: Graphics ■ On this disk are several programs to create stunning iraphical images including, MPath ■ creates swirling gaJaxy images, Roses - .reduce an unlimited number o* variations ot images that a symmetrically fenitar to a rose. SimGen - display those spectacular images as part of your YDfkbenek screen, and RaySharJe - a very good raytracing program, create .:„- own beau! 'ui 2d graph c rnode l .'. :■- - s Dfie VB37; Educational Educational games and puzzles that cover math, leography. soeiiing, and books Ages 6 ■ 15 VB3S: Plotting and Graphics Plotxy is the most powerful foil featured dotting package. Used by many colleges and untversities. A welcome addi- on io our Ittirary 1 Highly recommended Plans ■ a incredibly well done Computer A (Jed Drafting program, very full featured. Tesseiator - a program bat helps generates fantastic looking, recursive M.C. Ecsher type pictures VB39: Musfc Injuitracker is a German offering of an exquisitely well done irogram "hat allows you to play music on your Amiga with CD like controls e's you str.p out music trom you- favorite games or others and include them 1 your m jsic library, VB40: Music - CD on a disk", SO m nutes of modem music on this well pre- ented collection. Requires 2 drives or HD, VB41: Music MED an incredibly well done, full featured music ediior Create your own stunning music directly on your the Amiga. Similar to »Dj"idT-.-icker but better Very powerful easy to use program, Version 3.20. *h>ch is compatable with W82,(R VB43: Business - This d>$k contains Analyt Caic - probably the most pow- rtul spreadsheet program on the Amiga. A Igll featured spreadsheet with nany features expected in a commercial package, Requires 1 .2 MB of mem- ory' V846: Clip Art ■ High Res clip art with the following molifs • embellishments borders, dodads ,...), people, and transports iot VB47: Clip Art - HighRes clip art with the following motifs - hair, dratling. ummer. animals and macfood. VB48: Clip Art - HighRes cdp art with the following mot ts - Holidays, music, nedicaL and misc. VB49ABC:AnEmation Sampler - On th<s three disk sampler set (counts as vo disksi are some ol the best animations that have been created over the ist three years. Several examples Of 'Movie" type animations some with pectacular raytraced reality (coolroby, watch, spigot and egg). Also several uropean style or "Demo' animation with incredible graphics and outssandmg lectromc music (akniight, copersine, doc, dps20t0, impact, and iogodemo) hese truy show oft the creative edge ol an Amiga' VB50: Animation ■ Seven ol the best european style animations or Demos', including - scientific 451. subway (a U,S, entrant, also our favorite), unnde, thrstdemo, tnight. waves, and woow, VB53: Graphics ■ Raytracing programs generate absolutely stunning real- ise looking planes, rockets, buildings..,, and surreal images often consisting f highly polished spheres and oojects. C- Light is the most powerful EASY- O-USE c) it's kind we have seen to date. This is easily better, and more full ;alured, than similar commercial programs cost-rig in the hundreds of dol- irs. Also, sMovie ■ a lull featured video text tiller similar to ProVideo, broadcast Titler, Great video scrolling, wipes, Special eftects, and more... YB54: Printing - This disk contains several routines to help w.in the chore I printing, Includes Gothic - Finally a Banner printer tor the PD 1 Print Studio i well implemented all-purpose printer-utility with a very comlortabfe graphic neriace and many advanced features. Lila - with ease, print ASCII files to a PstScript printer, and many more, in355: Application XCopylll - a full featured disk copier, make backups of opy protec-ed disks RoadRoute - find the quickest route trom one city to notner. highway description included. Diary - a diary program like "Dougy I award MD", Ca! ■ a calendar program. Magman ■ a database tailored to laintam records on articles and publications. ifB57: Animation - This disk has several "Demo' style animations, "iciuding, Bhtter, LoMy, Sun5, vertigo, vortex, and xenmorph. In959; Business ■ contains a great, very full teatured slock market techm- al analysis and tracking program, also an appointment calendar, and mote. Circle 14 on Reader Service card. WBG1: Intermediate Utilities - Includes programs to help to drasticaly decrease flicker m interlace and hires modes {antiflick}, an Atan-st emula- tor, an eprom programmer, turn your amiga into an esght channel digital data analyzer or ocilioscope. and more, WB62: Midi Utilities - Several useful midi ulihties including, programs to transfer to and from several music programs to midi, a midi sysex handler, a midi recorder with timebase.. display midi info, file sequence player, and a few scores. WB63: Disk Utilities #3 ■ Several highly recommended programs to aid in removing duplicate files from your hard drive, performing file backups. Binary editmg, fast formatting, file recovery, disk track recovery, and forced DISK VALIDATION of corrupt disks. WB66; tcons #2- Lot s of neat icons. Also, several wonderful prog-ams that to let you crease your own icons, modify and manipulate icons and info struc- tures WB69: Music Utilities several good pities <or Ine Amiga music enthusiast includes, Noisetracker ■ a great music creation program, Sonix2MOD ■ con- verts sonix to .mod ties which then can be used by noisetracker, saundtrak- er, and MED. SpeakerSim - a speaker design tool demo. Wondersound is an additive harmomc mstrumeni design tool with a separate envelope design window and 16 relative harmonic strength and phase angle controls. WB69: Music - This disk has over 90 minutes of classical and modern elec- tronic musx for you Amiga. WB7Q: Desk Top Pub - Atcp ■ transfer Macintosh screen fonts. Mac or IBM format AFM metric f les, to Amiga screen fonts and PPage metric f=!es, With th-5 program, open the door to the libraries of Adobe and PostSc-ip: 'orts' Calendar - month templates m PageStream lorm. Post - a full featured postscript file display and print utii.ty, WB75; Music over 100 instruments tiles f.mst) and sample sound files (.ss) tor your music programs WB76: Applications ■ This disk contains Slichery ■ a often requested knit t*ng design program, Lotto ■ a rather complete lottery tracking and preo^ct.or utility. SSS ■ this screen capture program can grab almost any screen mclud- ■ r.g games, Today a personal calender. Tarot - fortune teller, and Grammar ■ grammar checker. WB79: Home & Business Accounting incudes Ckoacct the most com pfete checkbook accounting program going, LCDCalc - this well done calcu- lator has a very large display and operates from the keyboard or mouse, Mileage master - monitor your automobile mileage wiih this mileage log, Grammar - a grammar checker, and Worfcftme - find out what time it is m up to 50 gioba! cities. WBat: Great Applications ■ Data£asy a very easy to use, database pro- gram Dont let the ease ot use tool you, this is a very full featured database program including fu I printer control tor address labels and mail me-ge app i- canons Also includes, Type Tut a good typing tutor, RLC a lull leatured label printer. Banner, a multifont banner maker, and Budget a home accounting m a program. Highly recommended. WB82: Animations ■ Four full length, we! done "movie" style animations Including. Coyote, Jugglerll. GhostPool, and Mechant 2 d sfcs, cz^t.s as * WB&3: Computer Art - this disk has some of the best Amiga generated computer art mat we have collected m tne past 5 years, WB85: Graphics - Contains several programs for manipulating 24 Bit color images (ham-el and a rather nice Iff Image processing package. WB86: AmigaVlslon - Contains the Centurion Press, An Arrvga newspaper by Lou Wallace WB88ABC: The Complete Bible - A three disk set. with the entire text of the New Testament and Old Testament -King James version Great M utilities. Three disk set, counts as three. WB90: Rippers, Strippers and Beats For tne Amiga music entnusiast. ttrs disk contains many programs designed stnp music from your favorite games and programs. Music can then be p ! ayed with your favorite Pd Music pro- gram. Also contains Drums, a very nice drum machine This disk requires some knowledge of tie CLI WB93: Workbench Extras *2 This osk contains the utilities that Commodore should lave shipped with the Amiga: VirusX4.Q. Snap. FixDisk (recover corrupt de eted files). Disk Optimizer (floppy & hard) Machlli (screen blanker, hotkey, mouse acceL macro, clock utility), GOMF (a guru- busterjand PnnrSt^d o WB95: Checkbook Accountant 2.1 - This is deiimiely commercial grade, we ve seen many checkbook programs and this is absolutely the oest. Full budgeting, transaction recording and report generation WB96: Dupers - Contains Xcopylll & Nib which w< I backup copyorptected programs. FreeCopy removes copy protection from several programs, and SuperDuper will crank-out fast Arr:gaDOS copies. WB9Jk Business - Includes BBasell a nice, powerful database; BizCaic— a personal or mortgage loan calculator with amortization capacities, Lcop— a flowchart maker. Formmaker - design professional forms on your Eoson LQ- 2500 compatible pnmer, WB99: Lifestyles ■ Includes AGene — lamily tree program that tracks up to 6G3 people mamaces etc Landscape is a CAD program tb create gardens /landscapes Loom simulates an 8 harness loom; experiment with pattern design m an instant feedback environment. W8100: CallgariPRODemo - Cant afford $3,000- to see if the granddaddy of 3D rendering software is for you? Ho buill-m save function, requires 68020* WB101: Chemesthetlcs • is a program that displays molecules as a calotte model. This kind of display contains a certain esthetic attitude, even exiremely poisonous molecules li<e nicotine and dioxine look quite nice. WO102: Telecommunications ■ Contains the programs NComm 2.0 and VT100-29B. Zmodem protocols. XPR protocol support, full VT100 emula- tion. NComm s script language is so powerful ii comes with a scrpt file tha; creates a full-featured BBS system. Dev Disks DD45: AREXX Programs - This disk contains several useful arexx programs and examples. PopCLM - The latest of a must have utility, It's Here! Release 2.04 of Amiga DOS for the A500/A2GOO!!! Includes ROMs, disks and full documenta- tion. ReqLtires installation. $95.00 YVBI05A&B: Workbench 2 J Extras #2 IThia «ct contain* (he programs i m ihouJd have been included with WB2 lthc$c pow-erlut utilities take lull advantage ui tint; fn<ui> Jihar arc available in Workbench 2.0. I Tool NkmHjicr ■ d wondfrtul uiili[> to odd program* 10 >^»r TOfiL hki jcrcne a collection «it icons on the vtorktH-iuh io c^sih launch irfiiucntly Ium'J programs.«and miich, omdi mmc! A iruc tmurt hove uiiiit) M" \ irus Che ■Ll^ 1-V I ■ It"1-Hl III JIWUI >■> Pi3fKIIUp >i:.im\-i. I Icon - Enhances Wori;ncnch r s "Shn^ All" to display ov Ifor diticTcni tjfpiM of Ilk- (text, iFF^. >muc codes, iit lp]c^.etL.'^ JFoni Editor - Crcatc/cdii t>itmap fonts with foil color -suppnrtf .Scrt-cn llbnkiTN - -iln l"r:wt<il-. .r.d iplnvr>.! No more norm;: black bcwol [Colorful, trtterestmg and highly hypnotic cffcciN! llti-qui'stcr 1'iihaiucrv ■ no nunc Stale Tlca'a: ln«rt Volume" rajuesiers— I these are Jiitnolcd requesters for ali q( the system's requesters. JCPUBHI speeds up ioxi displays lor owner? ol 68021H CPU** • Sate Reboot - adds .* safe way !o reboot yourcompcter._can cre-ur- r-.Jn~ (disk vaJidaik*n errorh! Two disk set, counts as two. 3 program m, Pascal. ware and PCO '1 0) zcc(t.O) front end. DD47: Pascal ■ This dsk contans everything n Includes A68k (1.2) 68000 assembier. BinK lin a modest Pascal sub-set c: D049: C Compiler ■ contains zc(I.Oi) full) A6Sk(t 2) assembler. Blink linker. DD50: ARexx #2 ■ a must have set of tutorials on ARexx and severa useful examples and utilities lor ARexx development. DD51 : Circuit Analysts - Aspce (2 31 A full featured program for electric cir- cuit analysis. DDS2: Scientific ■ Includes Elements - an incredibly well done periodic table program witfi source. Scientific plotting - over 60Ck of Lattice C sc^ce routines that can be included in your own programs, DD54: Compression - This disk is loaded with all of Me best file compres- sion programs and aids for tne Am:ga, Many of the programs can be used by the new user. Includes Arc, Lharc, IJiwarp. Pkax. PowerPacker a must have by ail. Zp. Warp, and Zoo. Also (FFcrunch an excellent compression for IFF files. DOSS: ARP - On this disk you will find the complete ArpRe'30 release including the full user docs, tne full Developers guide. ARP is the official AmigaDOS Resource Project (ARP) release t-3. ARP makes many improvements to AmigaDOS and makes your system eas er to use from the CLI. DD57: Advanced Utilities - Wsh - like Cross-dos, copies f.les to and from MS-DOS. Pal-NTSC - cor-vert any pal program ta NTSC and vice versa. Also several utilities that improve your stanup-sequence. plus 25 more programs. DD62: Basic and Xscheme - Cursor - a fu'l featured Ami^a 3as -z cz—z. er sbasc and ftext - several wonderful routines to help in basic programers, and Xscheme - an interpreted object oriented language. DD6G: Programming ToolBoi - Many programs to help in your develop- ment efforts (most for C some for basse) Includes programs to generate requesters, an ir-aedibte spntemaker toolbox, to great y aid compiling, con- vert DPamt brushes to C structures, a great library manager, and many more wonderful time savers' DD69:Advanced Utilities ■ SerNet and ParNel ■ Connect two Amiga s and share resources, MemMonitor - Similar to WFrag bJt greatly improved. Selector - put menus on your workbench screen, and more. DD71A4B:C Compiler Tr s dsk contains DICE. Matthew Dillons full fea- tured, powerful C compiler and environment system. 2 Disks, counts as 2- DD72: VT Emulators - Contains tnree powerful full featured VT emulators, with many advanced features irciudmg Kemnit. Xmodem and Tektronix pro- tocols VaxTerm, VLT. and more. DD77: Fortran • Conta ns a full featured FORTRAN77 environmental devel- opment system. Also contains E^Asm a strongly macro dependent 68000 assembler. DD78: Menus S System Enhancements - Several neat programs to aid m launching programs trom special icons (Next computer style), adding WoflVBench menus and more Also contains many useful programs to deter- mine operation system configuration, memory usage, oad and many other important utilizations DD79ABCD: Amiga C Tutorial - This is the most comprehensive C lan- guage. Amiga orientated set of tutorials available. Includes full working examples, source csde and an mceciO'e se; d* ^sso-.s, he ucec a^e ?l: o £CL=s ens and examples of every topic on Amiga programming, -t tis+ set. counts as 3. DD8Q: VFont System - A font rendering system that extends the Amiga so that it wi I be able :o use vectorized outline fonts. Fast rendering, rotating, and sizing For use m your own programs' DD61: ARexx Tutorial - Includes several sample Arexx scripts and sample programs Also includes APig; a library that gives you access to Intuition from within Arexx scripts Dealer inquiries and submissions welcome. Please send me the following disks: Enter disk ID (Example: DD17, FD12, WB10) cc# Signature . Name Total disks © S ea. = S Disk based catalog ($2.50) = S Anti-Virus (S19.95) = S Kao Blank Disks # = $ CA Residents add 7.75% sales tax = $ Foreign Shipping = $ Handling = $ 3.00 Totat Due = $ .i:xp Address . 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ChartMaster — a graphing tool that allows you to generate and save different graphs in IFF format, Graph3D lets you visualize complex data in 3-D and save the results. gtructGen fets you create gadgets, text, bitmaps and window structures and the program will automagically write the "C" source code for you. Label Maker is a very easy to use, full featured label printer. DoubleFrint fascilitates printing of text files on both sides of paper. TSP6: CNpart Stack & White and colorful clipan; for a variety of needs including desktop publishing/video. People, holiday related, school items, scrolls, food, mon- sters, fish, lobsters, symbols and lots more. TSP7: 3D Vector Objects #2 Books, Early American telephone, barrels, gun. spaceships, lamps, trombone, bugle, skateboard. Lego-Rover, remote control, glider and atrplane. Al? objects in Sculpt format. TSP6: 3D Vector Objects #1 Lamp, mirror, bed, chair, fire hydrant, lamp post, street tamp, street sign, traffic light, cannon, cannon supplies, rose, fork, spoon, knife and plate. AH objects in Sculpt format. TSP5: Games 3 QrQgsQ j remit is a one or two-player action/logic game that requires fast reflexes. WordSearch will allow you to generate your own word- search puzzles. In DrugBusters you rid the streets of cigarettes, alcohol, pills and needles. In C' n £P you try to get five X's in a row before your opponent. Colo.rLogic is an excellent MasierMind type game. TSP4: Games 2 Dyno-Wars— a strategic checker-style game. Kooties — assemble a bug before the computer beats you to it. BlockBuster is a colorful, well done Tetris-lype game. Warrior is a fun shoot em-up adven- ture game. MicroMan is a graphic maze game played with a joystick. Battle the computer's armies to take over the planet in Circe. TSP3: Games 1 C r yst a l Caverns is a clone of the arcade game— colorful, complex graphic adventure game. Dot2Dot is an adaptation of the classic 2-player connect-tne-dot game. PizzaDeliveryMan has you run- ning through the streets to get those pies to your cus- tomers. TinyBall is the world's smallest baseball game. Surround-Cy cles is a high-speed arcade game, based on the light cycle races from the Disney movie Tron, TSP2: Sounds Animai sounds, musical instruments and many, many more— 43 sound samples in ail TSP1: Maps of USA, Canada and Europe Hi-Res IFF brushes of all 50 US States, 10 Canadian Provinces and countries in Europe. Each map has a 3D extrusion effect with cast shadow. TC33: Measured is an incm^TET^jsefui utility triat wTTf convert' any type of measurement to another DiskLabeler is a database designed for storing and printing 3." disk labels. Jewels is a Tetris-esque game of action and strategy. Switch is a fun board- game. Gfxclip per will allow you to grab any screen and save it as an IFF picture. Softball Manag er is a database for storing stats for softbatl — any number of leagues may be tracked, WBExec allows you to execute CLI commands from within the Workbench. Several Clipan images are also included, TC32: Computer CQlorinflBooK is a delightful program for chil- dren of all ages— -comes with 15 pages of pictures to color again and again, ListmakerJ ets you make, edit, combine and print lists of words — great for those spelling tests! Moresmooth 1 scrolls text files smoothly on the screen and allows easy printing. Pocket Billiards lets you choose from several of the most popular poo! games with realistic action, textu r e allows you to create, manip- ulate and save (in standard IFF format) realistic fractal textured surfaces. Elaoue. is a monster maze game. Also includes Screen Fader. Snow bench, and FlipBench. TC31 : Calendar Publisher is a professional-caliber calendar maker that is customizable. CrossCircuit is a 1 or 2 player action/logic game that calls for fast reflexes and thinking. A£S is a much-needed printer utility. Pizza Delivery Msn is a maze game where you deliver pies in your neighborhood, Multiplayer is a single program that will let you see IFF pictures/brushes or playback IFF sound samples. Also includes RAMgauge, 3-D vec- tor objects and Hi-Res IFF brushes of maps and flags of European countries. TC26: Word S earch Mahfir lets you create word-search puzzles. TimeCalc is useful for anyone who has to calculate hours and minutes {great for adding up times of CD's to make tapes!) Drug busters is a fun game where you get rid of cigarettes, booze, pills and needles. Wordfmder lets you search binary or text files for a particular word or siring (good for getting hints in your adventure games!), KevClick will add a small audible click to your keys and MouseClick will do the same for the mouse but- tons. Sea war is a game between the Allied Navy and the Empire Fleet. Plus Early American 3-D vector objects, digitized sound effects, and a directory program. TC25: RcrBEnTolFF captures your screen to an IFF file. Pop Colors lets you change the colors of your Workbench screen. Warrior is a fun shoot 'em-up/adventure game for one or two play- ers. Kaleidoscope is a line drawing program Blockbusters is a game where you get rid of blocks by pushing matching blocks into them Amidemo will show-off your Amigas ability to do solid-poly- gon animations. Microscope lets you examine memory at any location. Also includes Hi-Res IFF brushes of all 50 states and 10 Canadian provinces, nine digitized sounds and two small disk utilities and printer utility. TC24: TableMaker is a tool lor effortlessly building numerical tables, Kooties is a fun game where you have to assemble a bug before the computer beats you to it. H ypertext lets you put links in a text file to other text, graphics, sound, animation, ARexx and other applications. Ihs LMe Black Book is a wonderfully useful telephone and address book. QoIqi Lagi£ is a MasterMind-type game. Also includes several disk and memory utilities — and some animal sound effects to lop it off. TC23: Wherels lets you quickly and painlessly find a misplaced file on your drive Select creates a "window from which you~ca~n run your favorite programs, MatheMagic lets you find the day of the week for any date in the century, also lets you enter statistical data to be analyzed, graphs data, and solves linear algebraic equations. 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Ami. ..Alignment $29 AmiBack $49 AMOS $62 Are xx on Amisa $27 ArexxVl.5 $32 AudioMaster IV $65 BEST Business v3 SI 29 Barney Bear (anv) $22 Bible Search v I j $69 C SanDiego (any) $33 CrossDOS v4.0 $26 DataTax *9l $49 Disk master v2 $44 Distant Suns v4.0 $59 Doctor Ami.. $25 DOS-2-DOS $35 Excel lence v2.0 $99 Family Tree $49 Final Copv $59 GVPDSS $99 HomeFront v2,0 $59 Math Vision $129 MaxiPlan Plus $59 Metascope $62 Office $129 Opus $39 PenPal $89 Perfect Sound 3. 1 $65 PHASAR v4.06 $59 ProCalc $179 Proper G rammer $59 Prowrite v3.2 $99 Quarterback Tools $53 Quarterback v4.3 $43 Recipe Fax v2.0 $32 SAS/Lattice C v5 J $199 Sound Master $129 Study ware SAT or GRE $32 Super Jam! $89 Superbase V4.0 $259 TREXXProvl.O S89 Visionary $59 WordPerfect v4. 1.11 $169 World Atlas 2.5 $39 ...and many more! RAM (Memorv) *Add $l29jbrcompt*te external setup *+Add SiOOfor external setup Ail of your applications will appreciate more memory! We can explain your options and help you add memory efficiently. ASQQ 512KB 1MB MB SMB. 501-typc S39 $-- $-- ""$- Baseboard $129 $149 $189 $-- SupraRAM RX $-- $139 $229 $599 A 1 000 LMB 1.5MB 2MB 8MB Dataflyer (with case) S~ Insider 2 $239 $259 2MB A2000 QMB 8-up! Supra Data fiver CAP ' A3QIH) S109 5119 S99 S119 4MB S179 S199 SI 89 SI 89 .SMB. $289 $499 $-- $- Sialic Column Zip S229 $399 ProRAM $559 $729 \ tsa Super Drnue, I MB/2MB Agm $249 $379 S269 $399 $279 $399 5279 $449 $799 $1059 8520, Dlppj, Zip's. SIMM's SPEED (Accelerators) 68030, 68040, MMU. EC, math co's, memory, combo boards, MHz... let us help you through the maze to experience the satisfaction of the right choice for your needs! Adspeed $189 Combo 68030 25MHz $649 Combo 68030 40MHz $ 1 , 1 99 PC/MAC Just for those MS DOS and Mac fans! 286 Bridgcboard AT $459 AtOnce Plus S299 GVP PC286 module S369 Amax-II S159 Amax-II Plus Scall Mac ROMs -r Drive $429 INPUT Simplify your work. From new mouses to scanners, always use an input device that matches your needs. Don't know what these products do? Call us and we'll be glad to explain. Amtrac Trackball $68 Bar Pro Wand Package $659 Boing Optical Mouse $89 Champ (Logitech4ike) Mouse $35 Cordless Mouse $79 Epson ES-300C Scanner $ U 99 Hand Scannersrtxfe* Parting at > $179 GI Mouse $36 G ravis J oy stick $39 Keyboards Scall Sharp JX 1 00 Color Scanner $559 Sharp JX320 Color Scanner $ 1 .259 SketchMaster 12x12 $459 Wiz Draw Tablet $259 Combo 68030 50MHz 51,549 MegaMidget O30EC25Mhz $399 MegaMidget 68030 25MHz with 68882 $499 MegaMidget 68030 33MHz wiih 68882 $599 Progressive 040/2000 $1,649 VXL30 40MHzEC $479 Zeus 68040 Combo Seal! A3000 GForce 68040 $2,099 Mercury 68040 S2.159 Progressive 040 A3000 $1,499 a A500 A2000 Toaster Systems Call the H r i wnl I BBS at (215) 683-7499 Complete catalog on-line! 1-800-766-5757 We Sell Coijnplet^ Systerhs VIDEO (Hardware) Create, The technology is expanding so rapidly, you can merge computer, video and still images in ways never before imagined. And we can help you select ■ the proper tools. AmiLink Junior Scall BCD2000A SFC S799 CBM2320 Display Board $249 Color Splitter $119 DCTV $399 DM I Resolvcrs as low as $999 DPS Personal TBC v2.0 $839 DPS Personal V-Scope $799 DPS Personal TBC230 $1 ,729 Firecracker 2400 $829 Frame Grabber $4)9 GVP Impactvision $1,899 GRAPHICS (Software) Produce perfection. In print, on screen, and in video, your work is a reflection of you, and it must be as you visualize it. Make it so. The tools you need are here today. Art Department Pro v2.0 $ 1 79 Broadcast Tiller II $229 Caligari V2.0 $259 CanDovl.5 $89 Deluxe Paint IV $115 Digi-View McdiaStation $159 Disney $79 Draw 4D Pro $219 Fractal Pro v5.0 $99 Imagine $129 Imagine v2.0 $269 ImerFont $79 Pagcsiream 2.2 $179 Call for fonts, textures, video tapes, conversion utilities and more! Kitchen Sync Dual TBC Minigen Panasonic AG 1960 Panasonic & Sony Panasonic 1410 Camera RGB Splitter Rambrandt SFC/Personal Supergen Video Blender Video Master VideoToaster v2.0 Pelican Press Pixel 3D v2.2 Pixmate Presentation Master Pru Draw v2.0 Professional Page 2. 1 Pro Video Post Real 3D Turbo Pro ScapeMaker v2.0 Scenery Animator Showmaker TV Text Pro Texture Citv Pro Vista Pro v2.0 A1000 Expand your Arnica 1000 Add memory, storage, speed, or all three with these exciting expansion products. Wc support your A 1000! Adspeed $189 CBM 1 300 Genlock $59 DataFlyer case & SCSI $229 DataFlyer 2MB package $289 Fastrak case & SCSI " $289 Insider 11(1 -5MB) $259 Kevboard $119 Kwikstart fl $69 MegaMidget Racer 25mhz $399 Phoenix Board $850 Rejuvenator w/1 MB Agnus $419 Rejuvenator w/2MB Agnus $469 FLOPPIES Eliminate disk-swappers* cramp! Add another floppy make life easier. A500 or A2000 3 5" internal $85 A3000 3.5" internal S99 Roctec Ultralite 33" $94 Bool Drive Selector $29 Bodeaa Bav Kit $99 Disks 25-fW* 35" $19 $59 S79 S45 S179 S129 $179 $169 $299 $29 $59 S229 S99 Scall $59 DISPLAY Ease your eyes It shouldn't hurl 10 look al your monitor. Whatever your needs, composite through multisean, call us. CBMl084SSiereo $299 CBM 1950 Multisean $569 DiamondScan AUM 1391A $569 DiamondScan 20L $2,199 NFC MultiSync 3FGX $699 Sonv 1304 $669 Flicker Free Video $259 Flicker Fixer $259 AM standard and custom cables ...Knowledgable Sales Consultants. ..In-House Technical Staff... roduct Descriptions On-Line... Complete Disk-Based Catalog SYQUEST Re moveable- media Hard Drives. Perfect for backups. animations and DTP 44MB 5.25" Internal $349 88MB 5.25" Internal $469 External - We II add a ease, SCSI cable, and setup for just S 129 1 please sjed fy the SCSI c™™i ler you own I Cartridges — Call lor prices! BOOKS & TAPES AmigaDOS Inside am] Qui w/disk AmigaDOS Manual 3rd edition Amiga Primer VHS Animation Video Vol. ! VHS IX-sklop Video Power jagine Companion | Hot Rod Your Amiga VHS Imagine Guided Tour VHS l-'sins ARcw Video Tidier VHS Mega-Midget Racer The upgradable alternative from CSA | I (you're going to imest in an accelerator, why lock yourself into a non-upgradable 'solution".' The Mega-Midget gives you the option 10 upgrade with: A2D-33MH/. 68030 using tlie same board A2O-50MK/. 6KK8J/2 using the ssUnc bond A Up to 8MB of 32-bil RAM (while fmantainln^ all 9MB of your existing system RAM!i AUp to 2MB of Fast, sialic ,i2-hii RAM (for the ROM Kcrmil, and super-fast screen updates.) MegsrMkfget RucerniDjs in the A50Q, A2000and AIQOO | «call on the A 1000), and is c omp ati ble with ih; Toaster, DTP programs, ray-tracing packages, and all Other 68030-awipatibfc: software. Prices starting at $399 Many irtherconrjguramnRv JvailaMe, Call for detail* New Video Products Ami Link Jr. — Cuts -only editor for use uTFtitnre Video products. DPS Personal V-Scope -- An internal card with both waveform tin nit tor and vectorseopc. TREXX Pro - Script generator for tlie Video Toaster. Texture City - Collection of textures in HAM,DCTV or 24-bit | Video Toaster 2.0 software! Addison -Wesley ROM Kernai manuals (2.04) Libraries, Devices, Hardware, Includes, j and Intuition Style Guide BfliWALL Solid Products and Solid Support Professional Page 2.1 I Powerful, Easy to Use, DesktopTuhlishing! I ■ Landscape priming on dot | matrix and laser printers! » Up to 2X faster than ZO • Interactive on-line help disk ■ Built-in Word Processor & .Spell checker! ,n$179 BRIWALL\t Choice for our in-house DTP needs! Get all 5 for $99! $169. EOl • Coin pic I e Video Editing System for everyone with a camcorder. VCR and an Amiga! • Quickly and easily catalog and t-'dit the best moments from yiHi r video tapes! • Includes hardware to control most camcorders and VCR's! iD)JiOB Innovative solutions to your needs I Megachip Expanding your Amiga just isn't complete until you've expanded your | graphics capacity to 2MB of chip RAM! You need Megachip to get it into your 500 or '20(H) (sorry 2'000's). Megachip 2000 or 500 complete with the 2MB Agnus - $309 Kwikstart/Multistart You want to get that 2.04 ROM, but.. .what about the stuff that doesn't work? Or you want your 1000 to autotowi off (he hurddrivc. DKB offers the solution. An casy-to-install board that allows you to switch easily between 1 3 and 2.0. KwiksUiri A 1 000 - $69 Multistat! A2000 or A500 <v5) - $69 Cad for prices on i.3 ami 2.0 ROM packages Insider II The A 1 000 is not forgotten! Upto L5MB of internal fast RAM with a battery-backed clock & calendar. Insider II W/L5MR- $259 The Best Quality at the Best Price Common question— What hard drive system can I. an average consumer afford? Solution! Dutaflyer w/52MB Quantum (no we don't recommend a 20MB drive) And no... you are not giving up quality for price. Sec article in February 1992 Amiga World . Dataflver w/52MB Quantum hard drive A500-$399 A1000-$479 A2000-S349 Add S ! 89 for memory board w/2MB Dataflver A 1000 memory packages as low as $289! AH Dataflver SCSI and Memory bomxis are A200O compatible. Talk about upgrodeabilityt t Technical expertise to help you make the right decision. Buying the right product isn't easy. We don't just take your order; we work with you to match your needs with the right products. With over 6 years of experience in this business, we have the technical expertise to make solid recommendations. 2, Pretested products to help ensure that your purchase works. Our in-house, trained technicians pre- test memory boards, hard drives and many other products before they leave our door. 3, Satisfaction guarantee. Buying mail order can be intimidating but " we make it easy and safe. We guarantee that if your purchase doesn't run on your system, we'll help you work with the manufacturer until you are satisfied. Our personal services help you pick the right product and get it running on your system quickly. Don't get caught in the 'Delivery Charge' trap! If you comparison shop, always ask for the 'delivered price' of the item you want to order. You'll find our prices are real, and our shipping charges are fair, There is so much we want to tell you, and so little room in this ad. Just call us! Get our Catalog-On-A-Dtsk, packed full of info. Free with every order! Se hahla Espanol! VIDEO TOASTER PACKAGES We build them from the ground up, I iesi them, and install the software to| suit your needs. Fully warranted. Sample Toaster Systems Starter Package $4,199 I 030 25MHz Bask Package S4.799 I 03025MHz Enhanced Packase $4,999 030 40MHz Pru Package $3,659 | 030 40Mhz Enhanced Pro Pack S6.099 040 28MHz Basic Package $5,999 040 28MH/ Super Pro Pack $9,799 Newtek * GVP * IVS * CSA * CBM * Progressive Peripherals} § * DPS * Syquest * Quantum Let us help you put it all together | Call for Toaster Package literature ROCTEC GREAT PRODUCTS AT LOW PRICES! Ultralite Slimline Drive $94 Tliis drive is absolutely uorceous!! Ultralite (24 ounces), Ullmslim (7/8" high). ultra-quiet, with pass-thru. Comes in either Amiga hiege or black (real classy.) Roc Hard Why limit yourself to a single drive format? The Roe Hard allows you to connect to 2 DDE ( ! AT*) hard drives to your A50Q, and with the SCSI option, up to 7 SCSI hard drives as well! There's also room for 8MB of expansion RAM, a game switch, and a quiet fan cooling unit. RoeHard AT drive system $259 RocHard SCSI option $45 k.,ill Uh ilfne and men**} tcnilguotirir* 1-800-766-57571 (USA and CANADA) Outside USA: (215) 683-5661 Tech Support (215) 683-5699 Customer Service (21 5)683-5433 FAX (21 5) 683-8567 | J Any Visa and MasterCard accepted with NO surcharge J Hardware shipping charges vary depending on weight and value. J Software shipping charges are $5.00 per total order via UPS ground to anywhere in the continental USA J All orders over $300 are insured at customer's expense, J We prosecute credit card fraud to the fullest extent of the law! _I All returns require an RA#. Please caff before returning anything! Federal Express® Charges for all orders under 20 pounds 2nd Day Delivery $13 Next Day Delivery $17 DHL Canadian and Overseas customers are shipped DHL Rates as low as $15 to Canada! BRIWALL P.O. Box 129/58 Noble St, Kutztown, PA 19530 Order lines are open 24 hours (Briwallians are in 9-8EST)| Store hours:Monday - Friday 9AM-6PM, Saturday 10AM-2PM School and corporate purchase orders are welcome. We specialize in overseas orders I t Reader Service < THE LAST WORD Kudos, complaints, comments, concerns, and contributions from our readers. Russia Calling US The development of market econo- my in Russia needs help of western civilization. And the most efficient help would he economic collaboration in high technologies. 1 would be most grateful should you publish the follow- ing invitation to joint hi-tech project. I represent a Russian firm. Delta Popolam. Its personnel is highly quali- fied in software design, system engi- neering, and videoproduction. The firm has a broad experience in market- ing of hi-tech goods and services in Rtissia and the resi of the former Sovi- et Union, One of the projects in work is development of Russian version of the program DeluxePaim III. We are planning to organize in Moscow an Amiga demonstration cen- ter—a videoproduction house with accent on 3-D graphics and animation. The company is also interested in distribution of Amiga computers, pe- ripherals and software. For these pur- poses, we are searching for a foreign partner for a joint venture. The part- ner could make a contribution in the form of equipment. The primary out- put could he just above 530.000 to $40,000. Problems connected with repatriation of profits are solvable. More details on this project are avail- able upon request Any advice will be also gratefully accepted. Guennady Matveyev Delta Popolam Tverskaya UL, 15-126 103009 MOSCOW, Russia The Last Word On WordPerfect I am very tired of hearing how disap- pointed everyone is that WordPerfect will not be updated For the Amiga. I have had the misfortune of having to use WordPerfect (v. 5.1) on the PC and, to a lesser extent, on the Amiga, and I can tell you the loss is insignificant. The program is exceptionally difficult to learn on the PC — -just ask anyone who has tried. Moreover, the graphics support is either nonexistent or pathet- ic in both cases. My suggestion is to forget WordPerfect and gel something like Pro Write for die Amiga. G.U. Graham III Loup City, Nebraska The Dealer Advantage Recently, I almost became a "com- puter widower" when my Amiga 2000 was struck by lightning, leaving it, as I haven't had this much fun with a computer since I had my Commodore 64. well as niv printer and possibly my Sou}' 20-inch, virtually useless. What made it worse was that my unit had a Bridgeboard. a hard drive, and three megs of RAM. I sent the unit to my authorized Amiga dealer, the Vidcom Center in Texarkaua. Morris Allen, the owner, confirmed the damage, but pointed out a fact that made my day, namely, that my homeowners insurance would probably cover the cost. He was abso- lutely right. Mr. Allen provided me with a new system and even customized it to match the old system. My point is that, although you may save a few bucks by going through a mail-order company, it can never ser- vice your needs or equipment the way an authorized dealer can. Stephen Franklin Bossier City, Louisiana AmigaMath I very much enjoyed reading "The Scientific Amiga" in your December issue, especially the piece about the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and its use of the Amiga version of Maple V, the computer algebra system from Waterloo Maple Software. The Mathe- matics Department here at the State University of New York at Albany was a primary beta tester for that version, and we have been using Maple in our Amiga classroom for nearly two years. Our settip is rather unusual in that we use a specially designed Computer Classroom (utilizing A2000hds and A2500s), with the entire course meet- ing there. Students simultaneously interact (in real time) witii their com- puter, with the instructor at the black- board, with the instructor's computer, and with fellow students. It is a remark- ably exciting environment for learning, and it has changed the way we teach mathematics. We offer a full range of classes, from elementary calculus for non-math majors to upper-division courses in algebra and analysis. Herbert L Brown Mathematics DepL, SUN)\ Albany, New York Happy Switch I have recently purchased an Amiga f>00 system after ten years of owning MS-DOS machines, I was really getting tired of playing catch-up with the MS- DOS community, continually having to add to my system to meet new software requirements. I finallv learned that the 386-SX 16-MHz system is the new entry-level PC system. That was it! Now I have my A50D, and I haven't had this much fun with a computer since I had my Commodore 64! IBM PC owners should have the kind of support from other users that I have seen in my area lor the Amiga, Marc Chiarello Oconomou m 3 Wisconsin 112 May 1992 YOUHEA PROGRAMMER ALREADY. BOTYOU PROBABLY DONT KNOWITYET. Object Oriented Program Construction for Regular Ordinary People. hilc you weren't watching, we turned you and the rest of the world's Amiga users into programmers. With CanDo's intuitive interface and simple but powerful toolkit, ordinary people all over the country have been creating stand-atone utilities, data bases, word processors, vertical market applications, animated multimedia presentations, and all sorts of games. Experienced programmers (many of them not ordinary at all) have been prototyping applications in CanDo for the sake of expediency and finding as often as not that there's little left to do when they get through. We get rave letters every day. Give us a call. We'll read you some. Better yet, just say the word and we'll send you a nice low cost sample of the whole CanDo package. mWAtronhsJnt. $4W Greenville Avenue Suite 2Ci9B Dallas, Texas 75231 2J4 J40-4WI FA AV 2N 34&-8514 Trademarks: Amiga: Commodore-Amiga, Inc. INOVAtronics, CanDo: Inovatronics, tnc Crc'e 75 on Reader Service card TEST DRIVE CAND01.5 ■*"* FOR JUST 10 BUCKS. With CanDo You Can Do Just About V/SA Give us your address and $10 and we'll send two disks and a CanDo manual by return mail You'll have created a program before David Let term an goes off. Get a fresh look at what your Amiga is capable of. *Buy CanDo later and we'll give you yoursawbuck hack. New Video Toaster System 2.0 - New Effects, Ray Tracing, and even better Character Generator. Video Toaster System 2.0: 9 essential tools you need if you're using your Amiga for video or graphics. 4 Input Production Switcher Toaster System 2.0 includes organic switcher transitions like tire, smoke, clouds, pouring liquid and breaking glass. Powerful positionable effects for over-the-shoulder insets, soft-edge wipes and wild KikiFX' like you've never imagined. 24-bit Broadcast Paint ToasterPaint is the only true broadcast-quality NTSC paint system for the Amiga, System 2.0 brings new features including improved auto-scrolling and direct import of images from the Toaster's frame grabber. Luminance Key Much more than just simple weatherman over a map, Toaster" keying lets you do luminance fade transitions, or combine tv/o live sources using a third source as a key and even key-based digital trails. Digital Video Effects Real-time digital video effects on live video at 60 fps. From flip, spin and tumble all the way to amazing perspective warping effects and even incredible sphere and cube mapping in real-time, 3D Animation- Lightwave 3D 2.0 offers over 150 new features including blazing rendering speed, multiple morph targets, 3008 x 1920 resolution and true ray-tracing! 2.0 makes modeling a joy with new tools like bend, twist, taper, skin and magnet. Color Processing Control of color effects from the switcher and 20 new default effects make ChromaFX faster and more powerful. Now combine effects and color cycle with new organic switcher transitions for incredible new possibilities. 35ns Character Generator 16 million color 35ns broadcast text with over 100 high-quality, anti-aliased type-faces. System 2.0 also features faster loading of pages, •framest ores for backgrounds, improved keying and text tile import. Dual Frame Buffers Hold two high-resolution 16 million color video frames in perfect YIQ-encoded RS-170A network quality. System 2.0 brings you enhanced hue matching, even faster loading, and framestore file compression to save disk space. Still Store/Frame Grabber Freeze flawless broadcast resolution images instantly from any color camera, laserdisc or even cable TV with better color reproduction, faster loading, and powerful new field and frame saving options. Free Toaster Video Tape We can't show you the power and quality of the new Video Toaster in a magaiine ad. 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